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GRE Vocab
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gre
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bvat
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Not literal but metaphorical; using a figure(impression) of speech
quintessence
figurative
quietude
inconsistency
2. Undeveloped; rudimentary; N. embryo: organism in the early stage of development
embryonic
supernumerary
brochure
catharsis
3. Stick out; jut; project; Ex. protruding teeth
exclaim
pluck
protrude
converge
4. Travel about selling (wares); CF. foot
discord
galvanic
doldrums
peddle
5. Steal things of small value; filch; snitch
lap
turmoil
solvent
pilfer
6. Extremely small; CF. Lilliput in Gulliver's Travels
knit
lilliputian
prop
domicile
7. Breathing; exhalation; ADJ. respiratory
accoutre
chide
brandish
respiration
8. Small light sailboat or rowboat
consensus
abscond
refectory
skiff
9. Protruding knot on a tree; V.
creed
compunction
disparate
gnarl
10. Oily; bland; insincerely suave
unctuous
malignant
inter
gangrene
11. Food; provisions; V. victual: provide with food
revert
interpolate
menagerie
victuals
12. Pirate
refulgent
buccaneer
commandeer
pummel
13. Believing that pleasure is good and suffering is bad and should be avoided; N.
smart
sultry
Epicurean
travail
14. Begin formally; install in office; induct into office by a formal ceremony; N. inauguration; ADJ. inaugural
catapult
inaugurate
scuttle
anticlimax
15. Person of prominence or influence; powerful or influential person (in business or industry); Ex. oil magnate
countenance
brittle
exult
magnate
16. Small boat (often ship's boat)
dinghy
invulnerable
irrelevant
culprit
17. Of an oracle; prophetic; uttered as if with divine authority; mysterious or ambiguous; hard to understand; N. oracle: wiser person; prophecy made by an oracle
oracular
fallow
methodical
boorish
18. Lacking luster(shine; gloss); dull
lackluster
insipid
tome
comity
19. Mix together; jumble; move (something) from one place to another; slide (the feet) along the ground while walking; Ex. shuffle papers from one pile to another; N.
loath
shuffle
ploy
resolve
20. Person who cheats people
roster
sporadic
bellicose
trickster
21. Beginner; novice
personable
tyro
blight
drone
22. Paste that hardens to a smooth solid and is used for coating walls; V.
contusion
historical
reimburse
plaster
23. First in rank or importance; being first in time; original; Ex. man's primal innocence
sparse
diabolical
enigma
primal
24. Legal official of high rank; CF. chancellery(chancellory): position of a chancellor
collage
chancellor
concerted
draconian
25. Without feeling; lacking sense; foolish
missile
insensate
recluse
turbid
26. Abnormal; irregular
anomalous
aquiline
disgorge
disapprobation
27. Lurch; sway from side to side; move with irregular swinging movement; stagger
careen
leaven
impersonal
curtail
28. Line of ancestors; ancestry; lineage; ADJ. (of an animal) descended from of a chosen family; Ex. pedigree dog; CF. crane's foot
nullify
brag
pedigree
refectory
29. Totally clear; definite; outspoken
flit
temper
explicit
vacuous
30. Deprived of (someone beloved through death)
bereaved
sumptuous
insensible
beleaguer
31. Punishing; Ex. punitive measures
plump
punitive
bluff
gruesome
32. Heterogeneous mixture; medley; mixture of dried flower petals a pot (to give a pleasant smell to a room)
slovenly
homily
perfidious
potpourri
33. Inattentive or unmindful; unaware; wholly absorbed; forgetful(having the habit of forgetting)
oblivious
vernal
perpetual
leave-taking
34. Decorate; add a garnish to; decorate (food or drink) with small items such as lemon slices; N.
garnish
insidious
cohere
stagnant
35. Tear or cut to pieces; mutilate or disfigure; Ex. badly mangled bodies
draught
scowl
mangle
litotes
36. Adjust or settle by making mutual concessions; endanger the interests or reputation of; put into danger - disrepute - or a dishonorable position; Ex. compromise one's principle; N.
compromise
mass
reprobation
arcade
37. Roman outer robe
draft
premonition
onomatopoeia
toga
38. Small cavern
emissary
bromide
predator
grotto
39. Many in number or kind; numerous; varied
manifold
lurk
estranged
disjointed
40. Use of force to get someone to object; compelling; V. coerce
sovereign
ovation
coercion
fiasco
41. Lying on back; passive; inactive; Ex. The defeated pugilist lay supine; Ex. supine acceptance of the decision
supine
delusive
comatose
deport
42. Implying a cause-and-effect relationship; N. causality
causal
humanitarian
transient
obstetrician
43. Noble; aristocratic; N: person of high rank; aristocrat; CF. member of the governing classes in ancient Rome; CF. plebian
monumental
terminus
soothsayer
patrician
44. Remedy to counteract a poison or disease; Ex. antidote to the economic troubles
bugaboo
abhor
antidote
impassioned
45. Point of moon's orbit when it is nearest the earth; CF. apogee
titter
perigee
alcove
decrepit
46. Pretentiousness; claim (without foundation); Ex. I make no pretensions to skill as an artist.
pretension
preamble
carillon
ravel
47. Not native; from another part of the world; strange; intriguingly unusual; Ex. exotic flower/dress
exotic
gaudy
surrogate
spoonerism
48. Waver (in opinion); fluctuate; sway to and fro; N. vacillation
reciprocal
vacillate
squeamish
fiend
49. Having minute hairs; CF. cilium; CF. cilia: eyelash
ciliated
graduate
collage
nonentity
50. Degrade; reduce in quality or value; degenerate; lower in esteem; disgrace; N. debasement
debase
waft
premonition
career