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GRE Vocab
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bvat
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1. Gully; narrow channel formed by rainwater
advert
submissive
arroyo
blight
2. Discourage
dishearten
grimace
surreptitious
braid
3. Ostentatious; showy; pompous; making unjustified claims; overambitious; Ex. pretentious films that claim to be art
repel
judicious
pretentious
optimist
4. Mysterious; set down in an ancient alphabet; N. rune: one of the letters of an alphabet used by ancient Germanic peoples (cut on stone or wood); magic charm
disclaim
runic
dyspeptic
subdue
5. Not frank; trying to hide the truth; eluding; evading; V. evade: avoid (a duty or responsibility) or escape from by deceit
earthy
layman
evasive
confidential
6. Closed circular line around an area; circumference; regularly repeated journey from place to place
circuit
husbandry
escapade
retort
7. Allowing much freedom; lenient; Ex. permissive society
waffle
incriminate
permissive
insalubrious
8. Yield (title or territory) to (esp. after losing a war); surrender formally; N. cession
unbridled
cede
prod
dishonor
9. Please intensely; fill with rapture and delight
affliction
acuity
infirmity
enrapture
10. Story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio)
parlance
vertex
cantata
ecliptic
11. Walk lamely; ADJ: lacking firmness; weak
limp
impetuous
riveting
exempt
12. Only slightly connected; not central; peripheral; digressing; showing divergence; CF. tangent
aspirant
impute
tangential
collate
13. Narrow opening in a large mass; break in a friendly relation; Ex. through a rift in the clouds; OP. reconcilation
mendicant
malapropism
apotheosis
rift
14. Flexible; limber; pliant
supple
equestrian
encumber
exempt
15. Middle class; selfishly materialistic; too interested in material possessions
annals
intermediary
bourgeois
astringent
16. Unworthy; not noble; dishonorable; Ex. ignoble deed
actuary
clandestine
ignoble
sway
17. Fantastic; violently contrasting; noticeably odd; strikingly unconventional
promulgate
bizarre
upshot
draconian
18. Additional object; useful but not essential thing
accessory
carnal
antithesis
frock
19. Extremely severe; Ex. draconian punishment; CF. Draco: Athenian politician
draconian
precarious
adapt
abnegation
20. Model of perfection; Ex. paragon of virtue
brusque
inter
paragon
potentate
21. Clear beef (or meat) soup
papyrus
bouillon
carat(karat)
ethnic
22. Suckle; take care of (as a nurse); bear in mind; Ex. nursing mother; Ex. nurse a hope/grudge against someone
hinterlands
torrid
latitude
nurse
23. Blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully; speak in a noisy or bullying manner; CF. breeze - gust - gale
bluster
importune
irreproachable
berserk
24. Connected with birth; CF. prenatal; CF. postnatal
natal
oculist
baleful
insolence
25. Pardon (allowed by government to political criminals)
enterprise
outfit
amnesty
commonplace
26. Prankish; gay; playful; merry; frisky
ceremonious
confidence
frolicsome
lechery
27. Irritate; fester; annoy
rankle
smother
log
dilatory
28. Negligent; (of someone) neglectful of duty; (of something) deserted by an owner; abandoned; N: abandoned property; homeless or vagrant person
bombastic
venturesome
feral
derelict
29. Power to produce desired effect; ADJ. efficacious: effectual
efficacy
waft
blemish
disband
30. Of a theme; relating to a unifying motif or idea
thematic
bigot
rakish
gravity
31. Something - such as a monument or holiday - intended to honor the memory of a person or event; ADJ: commemorative
fleck
memorial
maculated
captious
32. Fear; nervous apprehension
trepidation
dissent
pugnacity
temerity
33. Diplomatic etiquette; ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats; first copy of a treaty before its ratification; Ex. Protocol demands that the queen meet him at the airport.
extirpate
vision
protocol
paramour
34. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party (with dislike of any others); N: strong supporter of a party; guerrilla
dispirited
partisan
indoctrinate
chaplain
35. (of someone old) eccentric; odd; whimsical; bad-tempered; N. crotchet: odd or whimsical notion
pusillanimous
intimidate
crotchety
ford
36. Long narrow channel made in a surface to guide the movement of something; Ex. groove of the record
droll
assay
groove
talon
37. Unintelligible; muddled; unable to express one's thoughts in an orderly manner; illogical; lacking cohesion; not coherent
congruent
digression
incoherent
discourse
38. Stray or fall behind (a main group); spread out in a scattered group; Ex. straggling marathon racer; Ex. straggling branch
remission
academic
nostrum
straggle
39. One regarded as embodying a set image or type; fixed and unvarying representation; standardized mental picture often reflecting prejudice; Ex. stereotype of the happy slave; V: make a stereotype of; represent by a stereotype; Ex. It is wrong to stere
chivalrous
reprise
stereotype
edict
40. One who fits glasses to remedy visual defects
reputable
optometrist
indefatigable
insurgent
41. Thoroughly soaked; dull or stupid as if from drink
sodden
decree
nib
plutocracy
42. Wasted away; gaunt; Ex. haggard faces of the rescued miners
ignite
helm
haggard
quarantine
43. Iridescent; lustrous; like an opal; N. opalescence
mirth
problematic
opalescent
dowse
44. Not essential; irrelevant; superfluous; external; coming from the outside; Ex. extraneous details/noise/to the subject
obloquy
pestilential(pestilent)
extraneous
opiate
45. Servile dependent; obsequious follower
slack
compassion
minion
inasmuch_as
46. Bear fruit; produce fruit
jocular
fructify
askew
impiety
47. Brother or sister
sibling
hindrance
devolve
blasphemy
48. Group of three related works (connected by a shared subject but each complete in itself)
cloying
lascivious
trilogy
treasure
49. (of a person) fat and round
defalcate
weary
rotund
lumen
50. Dig into (to get stone); N: mine
quarry
missile
deadlock
resound
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