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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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1. Scholarly article
archaic
ferret
tutelary
monograph
2. Place where different trees and shrubs are studied and exhibited
pore
arboretum
chasm
aureole
3. Patiently submissiveness; statement that one is quitting a job; ADJ. resigned: acquiescent
spatula
amulet
resignation
mammal
4. Feverish
pied
febrile
affirmation
exotic
5. Severe and adverse criticism; critical comments; limit or restriction
countenance
maladroit
stricture
collusion
6. Plundering; destruction
sedentary
carrion
depredation
immobility
7. On or relating to the earth
galley
amenities
terrestrial
myopic
8. Recover; put right; find and bring in; regain; Ex. retrieve the situation
timorous
retrieve
somnolent
plummet
9. Railing in a courtroom; legal profession; vertical line dividing a staff into equal measures; Ex. prisoner at the bar; V: shut in or out with bars; forbid; exclude; CF. barrister
pundit
bar
tardy
gnarl
10. Element that is a creature's natural environment; nutrient setting in which microorganisms are cultivated; appropriate occupation or means of expression; channel of communication; compromise; middle position between extremes; intervening substance th
salvage
medium
distant
aviary
11. Division into two opposite parts; split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
skiff
ameliorate
outgoing
dichotomy
12. Neatly or smartly dressed; dapper; smart; Ex. natty dresser
natty
title
disgruntle
odoriferous
13. Wetland; marsh; V: flood; overwhelm; drench in with liquid
ambulatory
oaf
entrance
swamp
14. Disrepute; ill fame
impermeable
inundate
notoriety
aspire
15. Monumental tomb; large stately tomb; CF. Mausolos
chorus
mausoleum
lagoon
practicable
16. Graze; feed on growing grass; skim or glance at casually
parquet
browse
fritter
premonition
17. Bearing of fruit; fulfillment; realization; Ex. come to/be brought to fruition
constitution
entrepreneur
gusty
fruition
18. Having human form or characteristics
anthropomorphic
junta
concave
irretrievable
19. Push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude; impose (oneself or one's ideas) on others; butt in; stick out or extrude; thrust out; Ex. obtrude A on B; ADJ. obtrusive; N. obtrusion; CF. unobtrusive
sinister
emblazon
capacity
obtrude
20. Mar the appearance of; spoil
disfigure
slack
compulsive
vise
21. Bad-tempered; showing ill-humor; angry
drivel
cross
expedite
copious
22. Timely; well-chosen
insularity
debut
opportune
aristocracy
23. Sun's corona; halo; bright circle of light
perforate
matrimony
rotunda
aureole
24. Advantage; anything that brings helpl - advantage - or profit; money provided by the government to the people; fund-raising public entertainment; Ex. unemployment benefit; V: receive benefits; be beneficial to; give benefits
surreptitious
wade
benefit
sow
25. Tending or leaning toward; bent; V. incline: slant; dispose; be disposed; tend
blasphemy
inclined
upbraid
vigilant
26. Laugh quietly
chuckle
consolidation
Epicurean
argot
27. Beastlike; brutal; inhuman; very cruel
bestial
rile
dull
expostulation
28. Active strength; energy; enthusiasm; ADJ. vigorous
vigor
sardonic
warp
daze
29. Wandering away from the subject; V. digress
rooster
perversion
crochet
digression
30. Items of business at a meeting
precedent
volition
agenda
browse
31. Pretense (of strength); deception; high cliff; ADJ: rough but good-natured
cavalcade
fumble
compendium
bluff
32. Delusion; false idea; false perception of objects with a compelling sense of their reality; objects so perceived; V. hallucinate; ADJ. hallucinatory
hallucination
controvert
apocryphal
mortify
33. Place under water; dip; go under water; cover completely (as with water); Ex. submerged in work
rapture
ambush
submerge
takeoff
34. Cheerful and pleased with life; lighthearted; animated; easy and carefree; dapper in appearance; Ex. jaunty person/hat
emulate
bar
jaunty
bully
35. Manlike; resembling a human being; N.
anthropoid
contingent
jostle
luminous
36. Having a very fine bore; resembling a hair; fine and slender; Ex. capillary attraction; N: very fine hairlike tube; CF. capillarity
osseous
soluble
imposture
capillary
37. Sharpen (a tool); N: whetstone for sharpening a tool
ovoid
hone
gist
scenario
38. Swindle or cheat; N: wedgelike tool for cutting
barrister
macabre
chisel
natal
39. (of meat) tough; strong and firm; muscular; N. sinew: tendon; strong cord connecting a muscle to a bone
pan
rife
sinewy
mendacious
40. Supply; allotted amount of work; assigned portion of work; limitation; Ex. two-year stint in the army; Ex. without stint
undulating
facile
stint
snicker
41. Protruding part; swelling of a surface; Ex. The apple made a bulge in his pocket; V: swell outward; protrude
infringe
requisite
apex
bulge
42. Quantity of motion of a moving body; impetus; moving force
momentum
crone
marsupial
novice
43. Complain bitterly; scold; rant; Ex. the weaker railing against injustices
acknowledge
rail
blues
clangor
44. Unit of weight for precious stones; measure of the purity of gold
standstill
carat(karat)
enduring
downcast
45. Agreeable; pleasing to the taste
palatable
dilate
cantankerous
bungle
46. Greatness (in size or extent); extent
lumen
unfledged
magnitude
dregs
47. Rising above others; high; lofty; distinguished; Ex. eminent position
vying
jurisprudence
appurtenances
eminent
48. Hard and unbending; stiff and unyielding; fixed in behavior or views; strict; rigorous; Ex. rigid rule
token
rigid
proclivity
adverse
49. Hopelessly sad (at the loss of something)
disconsolate
temperament
minion
gruff
50. Clear from blame or guilt
exculpate
agitate
virulent
mendicant