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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. Steadiness of effort; persistent hard work
welt
diligence
germinal
ken
2. Surrender; give up all resistance
stamina
paltry
hew
capitulate
3. Inclined to form factions; causing dissension
levitate
factious
uninhibited
nostalgia
4. Mischievous child (usually a boy); CF. urchin: hedgehog; CF. porcupine: pig with spikes ?; CF. sea urchin
empathy
shun
urchin
porous
5. Skin of an animal
insightful
hide
blandishment
reminiscence
6. Slope; slant; Ex. steep incline
enlist
incline
trident
temperament
7. Absolutely necessary; that must be done; critically important; expressing command; Ex. It is imperative that; N: something that must be done
peccadillo
compulsive
enervate
imperative
8. Associate with; keep company; N: husband or wife (or a ruler)
superannuated
demolition
bugaboo
consort
9. Defamation; utterance of false and malicious statements; V. ADJ. slanderous
stately
clot
leonine
slander
10. Lying below; fundamental
rationalize
underlying
homily
disavowal
11. Make greater; increase in power - wealth - rank - or honor; N. aggrandizement
etymology
diverse
aggrandize
waffle
12. Obligatory; imposed as an obligation; currently holding an office; N: person who holds an office
cartographer
ulcer
decree
incumbent
13. Walk or behave with an over-confident manner
extenuate
swagger
cornice
conjure
14. Able to see differences; discerning; prejudiced; N. discrimination
contiguous
discriminating
skirmish
clarion
15. Renounce under oath; abandon; make a solemn promise to give up; CF. abjure
militia
forswear
contrite
bifurcated
16. Revere; treat with great respect
mnemonic
morbid
venerate
exemplify
17. Of or causing sepsis; putrid; producing putrefaction; N. sepsis: poisoning of part of the body (producing pus)
vigilant
endear
septic
speechless
18. Sharp projection from fishhook - arrow - or other object; openly cutting remark
appreciate
scintilla
explicit
barb
19. Dethrone; remove from office; give a deposition; testify
contortions
depose
substantive
febrile
20. Man who is not a cleric; man who is nonprofessional
concomitant
finale
layman
broach
21. Gigantic statue; person or thing of great size or importance
scuttle
cynosure
dissemble
colossus
22. Sun's corona; halo; bright circle of light
personable
paramour
aureole
arroyo
23. Having a common origin; related linguistically; allied by blood; similar or akin in nature; Ex. cognate languages; N.
chide
cognate
prosperous
subsequent
24. Trusted friend (to whom one tells one's secret)
confidant(confidante)
slither
Elysium
lax
25. Flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; V.
coquette
mincing
complement
missile
26. Give; use; refrain from harming; save from experiencing; exempt; Ex. spare me 5 minutes; Ex. Take this money and spare my life; Ex. The emperor was spared the onus; ADJ: kept in reserve; free for other use; unoccupied; Ex. spare time
simile
shirk
regicide
spare
27. Constituting; system of laws; composition of something; physical makeup or structure of a person; Ex. men with strong constitutions
rationale
precipitate
tanner
constitution
28. Security given for loan; ADJ: secondary; descended from the same person but through different sons or daughters
substantive
catcall
collateral
obsequious
29. Darken; extinguish; outshine; surpass; cause an eclipse
hypochondriac
allegiance
analogous
eclipse
30. Long life; long duration
verdigris
beneficial
incrustation
longevity
31. Ash-colored; deadly pale
coddle
ashen
incrustation
compromise
32. Kingdom; field or sphere; Ex. not within the realms of possibility
realm
blithe(blithesome)
deflect
mutter
33. Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; boiling; N. ebullience; N. ebullition: state of boiling
ebullient
thematic
trim
advert
34. Raised platform for speech-making; pulpit
embellish
rostrum
brevity
bohemian
35. Funeral song; slow mournful piece of music (sung over a dead person)
erratic
prompt
gentle
dirge
36. Easily deceived
velocity
gullible
eugenic
saga
37. Protest; objection; V. remonstrate: say in protest
remonstrate
patronize
reputable
symbiosis
38. Restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words
score
vanguard
paraphrase
navigable
39. Poverty
indigence
rotund
inhibited
legato
40. Greed (for wealth); CF. cupid; CF. Cupid
cupidity
seclusion
hue_and_cry
feint
41. Place or condition of bliss
novice
vituperative
parchment
Elysium
42. (of a body of water) wide and deep enough to allow ships to pass through; (of a ship or aircraft) able to be steered
deterrent
navigable
wangle
apprehensive
43. Stoical; impassive; unmoved by joy or grief; N. CF. stoicism
infantile
stoic
acknowledge
sedate
44. Medieval chemistry
alchemy
precipitous
sublimate
precinct
45. Marshal; draw up in order; arrange in order; clothe splendidly; adorn; N: fine clothes; ordered group; Ex. in battle array
array
insidious
hygiene
scrimmage
46. Sediment in a liquid; lees; worthless residue
dregs
invocation
satyr
virile
47. Whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged
anthropomorphic
vortex
fickle
pert
48. Disease communicator
jubilation
docile
virus
conflagration
49. Ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living
upshot
vampire
suckle
decelerate
50. Work (esp. musical composition); Ex. magnum opus: masterpiece; CF. opera
opus
implacable
rhetoric
run-down