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GRE Vocab
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gre
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english
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vocabulary
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bvat
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Pertaining to the woods or the country
grotto
sylvan
brackish
ratify
2. Every two years
biennial
brawl
esteem
dissonance
3. Having or causing lustful desires and thoughts; arousing immoderate sexual desire
impeach
prurient
Bacchanalia
magnanimity
4. Outside edge especially of a round surface; perimeter; Ex. periphery of the town
periphery
polity
contagion
threadbare
5. Neglect of duty; abandonment
dereliction
interpolate
energize
distract
6. Evil spirit; devil
expeditious
encomiastic
gamut
fiend
7. Having the odor of musk; N. musk: odorous substance secreted by an Asian deer
generic
hindsight
conventional
musky
8. Physician specializing in delivery(assisting in giving birth) of babies; N. obstetrics; CF. midwife
dumbfound(dumfound)
consummate
rank
obstetrician
9. Corrupt morally; seduce from virtue; N. debauchery: wild behavior (with sex and alcohol)
debauch
circumscribe
effrontery
chorus
10. Unlikely occurrence; stroke of fortune; accidental stroke of good luck; ADJ. fluky
insuperable
fluke
plump
azure
11. Pertaining to cultivation of gardens; N. horticulture: science or art of cultivating fruits - vegetables - or ornamental plants; CF. agriculture: science or art of farming or growing crops
horticultural
amorphous
regime
capacity
12. Ordinary; dull; unimaginative(lacking in imagination); going on foot; Ex. pedestrian prose; N.
livid
pedestrian
chasten
devoid
13. Chief; most important; N: priest; cardinal number: number that shows quantity rather thatn order
penitent
cardinal
smudge
irremediable
14. Suitable for servants; lowly; mean; N: someone who does menial work (esp. servant in a house)
exemplify
progenitor
churlish
menial
15. Unfortunate; luckless
hapless
demur
intransigence
ineluctable
16. Restrain; prohibit; retard or prevent; N. inhibition
resurrect
baroque
inhibit
distinct
17. Division of a city for election or police purposes; precincts: space that surrounds a building; Ex. precincts of the college
precinct
abusive
expound
privy
18. Illegal
tribulation
illicit
apiarist
capsize
19. Wet thoroughly; ADJ. bedraggled: draggled
opprobrium
austere
bedraggle
ravine
20. Touchy; peevish; ill-tempered
hibernal
petulant
legend
reprieve
21. Distribute; prepare and give out (medicines); N. dispensation: dispensing; religious system; official exemption from an obligation or a rule
dispense
crest
credence
trek
22. Commence; go on board a boat; begin a journey
regal
diverge
hypochondriac
embark
23. Demanding and leaving no choice; imperative; Ex. peremptory decree/knock
circumspect
peremptory
peruse
cohere
24. Sharpness; roughness; severity (of temper or weather); Ex. asperities of a Russian winter
graze
surfeit
conifer
asperity
25. Beyond reproach; blameless; impeccable; Ex. irreproachable conduct
manacle
irreproachable
doff
unruly
26. Estimate value of; N. appraisal
appraise
deluge
sovereignty
totem
27. Distance around something; circumference
incorrigible
incarcerate
girth
bandy
28. Old-fashioned; past the prime
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29. Swamp gas; heavy vaporous atmosphere often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence; noxious atmosphere or influence
miasma
prohibitive
comeback
benefit
30. Fitness; quality of being proper; correct conduct; conformity to prevailing customs and usages; CF. proprietor - proprietary
propriety
vie
noxious
prosody
31. Unification; process of becoming firmer or stronger; V. consolidate: merge; strengthen
profusion
defray
consolidation
anarchy
32. Abundant; growing healthily and in large amounts; excessively ornate; rich and splendid; fertile; Ex. luxuriant forests/prose; CF. luxurious - luxuriate
surreptitious
titular
roster
luxuriant
33. Pertaining to the art of delineating; vividly described
graphic
insuperable
scoff
clot
34. Tiny; weak; insignificant
despise
rabble
fake
puny
35. Circular building or hall covered with a dome
passive
repress
rotunda
gentry
36. Belief that events are determined by forces or fates beyond one's control; ADJ. fatalistic; CF. fatal: causing death
grouse
tardy
fatalism
prodigious
37. Transform; change; convert to something different
cantankerous
obloquy
despondent
transmute
38. Shine brightly without a flame (as of eyes or metals); show redness and heat (in the face) after hard work or because of strong feelings; N: light produced by a heated body; brilliance of a color
glow
accoutre
trance
transcribe
39. Clever in deceiving; sly; N: cleverness in deceiving; deceit
lance
smattering
verbose
cunning
40. Boastful; pompous
feline
dismiss
orator
magniloquent
41. Determined; stubborn; stubbornly persevering; tenacious; Ex. Inspector Javert's dogged pursuit of Jean Valjean
sadistic
antipathy
ape
dogged
42. Serving to assist; subordinate; secondary; of a subsidy; N.
subsidiary
munificent
practicable
vicissitude
43. Designed to create ill will or envy; tending to rouse ill will or envy; Ex. invidious comparison
seine
oust
animated
invidious
44. Wakefulness; inability to sleep
don
insomnia
desperado
arbiter
45. Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
illuminate
condone
epistemologist
raze
46. Agitation; commotion(noisy and excited activity); unrest (of a political kind); V. produce by fermentation; undergo fermentation; cause (a state of trouble)
obsequy
infirmity
entice
ferment
47. Narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land
waver
penology
sturdy
isthmus
48. Put an end to forcibly; subdue; stifle; overwhelm; inhibit the expression of; check; prevent from being published or made public; Ex. suppress a smile; Ex. suppress the magazine/truth
baffle
gustatory
suppress
precipitate
49. Evidence concerning one's authority; written proof of a person's position; Ex. The new ambassador presented his credentials to the court.
somnolent
credential
dyspeptic
iconoclastic
50. Lack of self-confidence or courage
atrophy
timidity
litigation
penitent