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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Unrepressed; free in behavior and feelings
lull
uninhibited
concur
rebuttal
2. Green coating or patina on copper which has been exposed to the weather
verdigris
beseech
agenda
redoubtable
3. Mental keenness; sharpness of judgment; ability to judge quickly and well; Ex. business acumen
functionary
insatiable
acumen
facilitate
4. Right or privilege granted by authority; right to vote; license to sell a product in a particular territory
vibrant
pry
franchise
mammal
5. Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; boiling; N. ebullience; N. ebullition: state of boiling
barefaced
academic
panoramic
ebullient
6. Monarch; sovereign
protocol
potentate
febrile
palpitate
7. Psychic and emotional energy or urges behind human activity; sexual desire
scaffold
seamy
collation
libido
8. In good condition; showing good judgment or good sense; thorough; complete; Ex. sound mind/investment/training
pejorative
melee
sound
toxic
9. Felt in one's inner organs; N. viscera: internal body organs; CF. eviscerate
doctrine
forthright
vulpine
visceral
10. Dismay; shock deeply
voyeur
censor
slink
appall
11. Fear of heights
sanguine
agape
acrophobia
veer
12. Clothing or equipment for a special purpose; Ex. cowboy outfit
elliptical
outfit
nihilist
virulent
13. Condition or period of flowering
brim
florescence
metropolis
swarthy
14. Disagree
institution
bar
pathological
dissent
15. Powerful; strong; potent; N. puissance: power
innate
puissant
articulate
impecunious
16. Stubbornly wrong
genuflect
miniature
veritable
wrongheaded
17. Annoying; tedious; V. irk: annoy
plait
irksome
incumbent
convex
18. Reluctant; unwilling; disinclined; Ex. Romeo and Juliet were both loath for him to go.
loath
foray
legend
murmur
19. Hard; strenuous; Ex. arduous work
arduous
swear-word
countermand
carnal
20. Ceremonial staff used as a symbol of authority; clublike medieval weapon
nuptial
unfledged
mace
shuffle
21. (of a boat) turn over
makeshift
capsize
maroon
jubilation
22. Skin disease (on the face)
droop
ventral
acne
oblivion
23. Walk with a heavy step; travel on foot; N: vagrant; one who travels aimlessly about; long walk; sound of heavy walking
tramp
impugn
proletarian
drip
24. Evident; easily seen or understood; appearing as such; Ex. apparent improvement
mawkish
apparent
prototype
gradation
25. Vice; tool for holding work in place; clamping device
vise
glossary
gibberish
torpor
26. Unmoved or unconcerned by; having no interest in; mediocre; neither good nor bad
molecule
wallow
indifferent
plumber
27. Hanging down from something; pending; N: ornament (hanging from a necklace etc.)
tend
victuals
pendant(pendent)
slink
28. Utensil with perforated bottom used for straining
sepulcher
colander
flit
impinge
29. Driving forward; N. propulsion
facetious
propulsive
subordinate
anonymity
30. Outstanding; superior
aptitude
dilatory
immaculate
preeminent
31. Medieval chemistry
dulcet
alchemy
commonwealth
rancor
32. Having an odor
odorous
quisling
doze
oblivious
33. Error; stupid mistake
imprecation
trance
blunder
amenable
34. Shy (flirtatiously); showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence; modest; coquettish; CF. job offer
gravity
suture
coy
impetus
35. Meager; insufficient
foreboding
scanty
epicure
finesse
36. (of a skin or complexion) dark; dusky; Ex. swarthy Italian ?
swarthy
speck
regimen
Epicurean
37. Small representative world; world in miniature; Ex. microcosm of English society
irretrievable
microcosm
tryst
grouse
38. Play and jump about happily; frisk; Ex. frolicking young lambs
charlatan
speck
bust
frolic
39. Reply; retort; comeback; V. rejoin: say in reply
plebiscite
rejoinder
introvert
progenitor
40. Vessel in which substances are crushed with a pestle
mortar
patina
drudge
contentious
41. Confuse; puzzle
confound
entity
verisimilitude
trilogy
42. Pretense of ignorance of something wrong; assistance; permission to offend; V. connive: feign ignorance (of a wrong); cooperate secretly in an illegal action; conspire
connivance
expatiate
bludgeon
malapropism
43. Explain; make clear; clarify; enlighten; CF. lucid
elucidate
nondescript
fractious
steep
44. Calamity ; disaster
volition
catastrophe
liability
appall
45. One who writes in defense of a cause or institution; N. apologia
trajectory
propellant(propellent)
satyr
apologist
46. Slow gallop; V. CF. trot
canter
decorum
jettison
anguish
47. Daydream; abstracted musing
reverie
fester
marital
errant
48. Darken; extinguish; outshine; surpass; cause an eclipse
growl
eclipse
ubiquitous
rubble
49. Injure; hurt; damage
champion
hackneyed
impair
orient
50. Capture; enslave; captivate; hold the complete attention of (as if magic); hold spellbound
furrow
loath
prance
enthrall