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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. Squabble; minor dispute; minor quarrel
captious
implication
nonsense
spat
2. Bearlike; pertaining to a bear
novice
ursine
foolhardy
coquette
3. Able to be touched; real; concrete; palpable; possible to realize or understand; Ex. tangible proof
embed(imbed)
tundra
tangible
parry
4. Feel or express pity or sympathy for
dismember
cupidity
commiserate
pulverize
5. Assist usually in doing something wrong; encourage
facade(fac{c}ade)
abet
soporific
voyeur
6. Strong point or special talent in a person's character
piecemeal
swear-word
forte
headlong
7. Solemn wonder; feeling of respect mixed with wonder and fear; V: fill with awe; ADJ. awesome
bolster
gainsay
purveyor
awe
8. Metal-bearing vein(long deposit of an ore)
lode
sibylline
authenticate
resplendent
9. Ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant
dyspeptic
synthetic
papyrus
chisel
10. Strikingly bright; shining with intense heat; emitting visible light when heated; Ex. incandescent light bulb; CF. candle
derivative
bacchanalian
incandescent
empathy
11. Tedious wordiness; verbosity; ADJ. prolix: wordy; verbose; diffuse
prolixity
hoodwink
tribune
maim
12. Assume an affected pose; act artificially; N: pose; attitude
posture
coma
bookish
incident
13. (of costs or demands) excessive; exceeding reasonable bounds
politic
languish
exorbitant
cull
14. Social or moral custom; established practice; formal meeting; international agreement
invalid
convention
compatible
encroachment
15. Notoriously bad; notorious; well known for being bad; Ex. infamous behavior; N: infamy: infamous act; evil fame or reputation
satellite
cache
infamous
laborious
16. Pointed projecting part
prong
cognate
reprieve
slur
17. Touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter; please
homespun
cite
wangle
tickle
18. Assemble; gather; accumulate; make (a report or a book) from facts and information found in various places; Ex. compile a dictionary
unguent
repose
compile
concomitant
19. Indirect or subtle (derogatory) hint; insinuation; Ex. sexual innuendo
forthcoming
galleon
innuendo
pedigree
20. Stubbornly wrong
wrongheaded
anonymity
inimical
ensue
21. Emancipate; free from slavery or bondage
oscillate
revile
vernal
manumit
22. Understanding the nature of an event after it has actually happened
enhance
hindsight
compatible
replica
23. Hopelessly sad (at the loss of something)
panegyric
depredation
diatribe
disconsolate
24. Landless agricultural worker; bond servant; menial worker; N. peonage
substantiate
peon
righteous
irrevocable
25. Naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated; candid
canto
undermine
ingenuous
porridge
26. Full of pores; like a sieve
porous
strangle
context
perturb
27. Fear of heights
sinister
egoism
concomitant
acrophobia
28. Fleeting or transitory; lasting only a short time; roving(wandering); running away or fleeing as from the law; N: one who flees; Ex. fugitives at large
impudence
contrive
chastise
fugitive
29. Formal agreement
fictitious
concordat
thematic
fraudulent
30. Plunge into water or liquid; dip; immerse; drench; wet throughly; extinguish; throw water over; dowse
herald
intelligentsia
overweening
douse
31. Temporary encampment; camp without tents; V.
obsidian
bivouac
retrieve
adulterate
32. Anxious; worried; concerned; eager; Ex. solicitous to do something; N. solicitude
equipoise
rhetoric
alluvial
solicitous
33. Dissimilar; mixed; not homogeneous; consisting of dissimilar elements or plants
heterogeneous
spoof
adversity
prestige
34. False; based on a fallacy; misleading; N. fallacy: false idea or notion; false reasoning; Ex. popular fallacy; Ex. fallacy of the argument
ecliptic
fallacious
irreverence
titter
35. Act of providing; something provided; preparatory measure; provisions: necessary supplies (esp. food); stipulation; condition in an agreement; Ex. According to the provisions of the agreement
cognitive
sanguine
provision
rile
36. Mutual; given and received in return; exchangeable; interacting; Ex. reciprocal trade agreement
dregs
reciprocal
juncture
vicar
37. Talk idly; speak foolishly; boast idly
unfledged
prate
notoriety
overt
38. Food of the gods
compound
dubious
perspicuity
ambrosia
39. Blessed; consecrated; Ex. hallowed ground; V. hallow: set apart as holy
belligerent
regimen
acquiesce
hallowed
40. Boldness; nerve; rashness; Ex. temerity to ask for a pay increase after only three day's work
temerity
contusion
stampede
sovereignty
41. Teaching; art of education
furrow
high-flown
unsavory
pedagogy
42. Pamper; coddle; baby; indulge excessively
motley
mollycoddle
lag
reciprocal
43. Hesitant; faltering; not fluent; Ex. halting steps/voice; V. halt: proceed or act with uncertainty; falter; hesitate; waver; stop
ford
pulchritude
halting
subsume
44. Giving pleasure to the senses; pertaining to the physical senses; operating through the senses; sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin
subaltern
adjutant
sensuous
desecrate
45. Irreverent
rebus
plaintive
intimidate
impious
46. Increase in number by producing young; multiply; spread; Ex. Most plants propagate by seed; Ex. newspaper propagating their ideas
waggish
propagate
empathy
promontory
47. Having or causing lustful desires and thoughts; arousing immoderate sexual desire
dissension
prurient
magnitude
dabble
48. Complain; fuss; grumble; grouch; N: plump chickenlike game bird
cornice
conceit
grouse
collation
49. Flow or fall in drops; let saliva flow out slowly from the mouth; move a ball; N.
effulgent
gambit
dribble
brisk
50. Meat-eating; N. carnivore; CF. herbivore
carnivorous
determinate
somnolent
abode