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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Curious; suggesting puzzlement (without saying); questioning; teasing; mocking; bantering; Ex. quizzical glance
debauch
reprobate
conformity
quizzical
2. Of the law and its administration; CF. judicial: of courts of law; CF. judiciary
viper
juridical
jocular
paraphernalia
3. (of a person) suffer from oppressive heat; be oppressed by heat
sophistry
disenfranchise
carnivorous
swelter
4. Of the production of electricity by the action of an acid on a metal; having the effect of an electric shock; Ex. galvanic cell; galvanic effect; CF. Luigi Galvani
opalescent
galvanic
whine
badger
5. Fixed portion; V: distribute as rations
ration
guile
chapel
affected
6. Machine that separates substances by whirling them
centrifuge
distinctive
tutelary
salubrious
7. Without guile; open and honest
medley
artless
mangle
ventriloquist
8. Leather pistol case (that hangs on a belt around the waist)
disarray
plait
holster
bohemian
9. Hugeness (in a bad sense); excessive wickedness; Ex. enormity of the crime; ADJ. enormous
agnostic
sinecure
remunerative
enormity
10. Pertaining to the woods or the country
ardor
compartment
sylvan
craven
11. Start; beginning
authenticate
oath
presentiment
inception
12. Phrase repeated throughout a song or poem
hedonist
frenzied
effeminate
chorus
13. Fleeting; vanishing; soon disappearing; V. evanesce
evanescent
debilitate
bookish
incriminate
14. Arrogant; presumptuous
flotsam
grovel
overweening
cache
15. Remove (forcibly); force out of a position; Ex. dislodge the food caught in his throat; CF. lodge
outstrip
satiate
flail
dislodge
16. Meantime; Ex. in the interim; ADJ. taking place during an interim; Ex. interim paper
fecundity
appraise
bluster
interim
17. (of a story) widely believed but untrue
punctilious
foresight
apocryphal
satellite
18. Make secret plans; plot; arouse the curiosity of; N: secret scheme; plot; secret love affair
intrigue
gestate
charm
belligerent
19. Guarantee; assurance by seller
warranty
circuit
predetermine
rotundity
20. Go backwards; recede; degenerate; deteriorate; ADJ.
coalesce
ignoble
gratuity
retrograde
21. Youthful; immature; inexperienced
compute
marshal
hieroglyphic
callow
22. In confusion; disorderly; Ex. dash pell-mell
pell-mell
vantage
jostle
welter
23. With reference to; regarding; Ex. remarks apropos (of) the present situation; ADJ. ADV.
nauseous
apropos
hortatory
significant
24. Put on; OP. doff
don
posture
heckler
tertiary
25. Something taken for granted; the taking over or taking possession of; Ex. her assumption of power; V. assume
histrionic
niggle
assumption
vagrant
26. Quantity of motion of a moving body; impetus; moving force
surly
momentum
embed(imbed)
wane
27. Small ridge on a smooth surface (face or cloth); V.
atavism
fathomless
autopsy
wrinkle
28. Self-satisfaction; smugness; ADJ. complacent
prodigy
complacency
incense
besiege
29. Immediate insight; power of knowing without reasoning; ADJ. intuitive; V. intuit: know by intuition
intuition
loiter
patrician
clavicle
30. Set off; start
corpus
heckler
trigger
perquisite(perk)
31. Laughable; ridiculous; trifling
hypnosis
omnipresent
ludicrous
discomfit
32. Offensive in odor or flavor
rank
disseminate
serrated
skulk
33. Of or suitable for a palace; magnificent
palatial
irreparable
tribunal
revelry
34. State of being stupefied; state of apathy; daze; lack of awareness
stupor
loft
discrepancy
imply
35. Expressing a meaning; important; Ex. significant smile; N. significance: importance; meaning; V. signify: denote; mean; signal; make known; matter; be significant
turgid
significant
bridle
compensatory
36. Crystal clear
litany
genus
limpid
docket
37. One incapacitated(disabled) by a chronic illness; ADJ: incapacitated by illness; not valid; null; V: allow to leave (a military force) because of ill-health
invalid
amicable
bewitch
expedient
38. Female fox; ill-tempered woman; CF. shrew
cataclysm
onus
vixen
innocuous
39. Having a sharp or acid taste; acid; tart; bad-tempered; V.
stratagem
extenuate
sour
verisimilitude
40. Strong; vigorous
carnage
robust
asylum
affiliation
41. Terms used in a science or art; study of nomenclature
abdicate
terminology
disarray
curb
42. Noticeable; targeted for vengeance or attack; Ex. marked improvement/man
notch
prognosis
Epicurean
marked
43. Meal; feast; banquet
inhibited
atrocity
gazette
repast
44. Having no equal; incomparable
desultory
peerless
equivocate
saline
45. Brawl; fight; V: wear away or unravel by rubbing; have loose threads developing; cause to become worn out (a person's temper or nerves); CF. rub
quiver
expeditious
trivia
fray
46. Become popular with; bring (oneself) in favor of another; Ex. ingratiate himself with the boss
ingratiate
pedagogy
euphemism
facet
47. Fluent; talkative; glib; N. volubility
obdurate
voluble
irreconcilable
congeal
48. Clever in deceiving; sly; N: cleverness in deceiving; deceit
elegy
cunning
ecstasy
travail
49. Devoted to the pleasures of the sense; carnal; voluptuous; Ex. sensual woman/curves/lips
ecosystem
culinary
sensual
eerie
50. Humbleness of spirit
impervious
humility
chore
adulterate