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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. Repentant; N.
disclaim
tardy
smear
penitent
2. Incapable of being pacified; impossible to appease; Ex. implacable enemy
centaur
metallurgical
implacable
vise
3. Slow up; loosen; make or become slack
discursive
desolate
pomposity
slacken
4. Manlike; resembling a human being; N.
sherbet
susceptible
anthropoid
rile
5. Home; V. ADJ. domiciled: having one's domicile; Ex. He is domiciled in Britain.
transmute
virile
domicile
gadfly
6. Proverb; truth pithily stated
sleek
maxim
humor
physiognomy
7. Spot; mark with flecks; N: small mark or spot
fleck
saline
mire
versatile
8. Underwater explosive apparatus; V.
torpedo
vitiate
hermetic
rake
9. Shy (flirtatiously); showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence; modest; coquettish; CF. job offer
indignation
carefree
violate
coy
10. Frown angrily; N: angry frown
precarious
physiological
oratorio
scowl
11. Irreverent
impious
momentous
emboss
mongrel
12. Uncouple; separate; disconnect; stop fighting; OP. engage
disengage
reminiscence
rubric
coeval
13. Pertaining to the moon
lunar
stifle
discredit
unsightly
14. Give a personal guarantee; Ex. I can vouch for his integrity; N. voucher
vouch
lament
awful
coda
15. Long period of time; an age; longest division of geologic time containing two or more eras
imperial
eon(aeon)
consecrate
provision
16. Act of turning aside; pastime; V. divert: turn aside from a course; distract; amuse
renegade
diversion
avalanche
abrogate
17. Decay; V. decompose: decay; break and separate into simple parts
abdicate
circumvent
decomposition
rhapsodize
18. Petition humbly; pray to grant a favor
supplicate
convention
checkered (chequered)
appall
19. Distinct; very noticeable; Ex. pronounced limp
ken
amicable
pronounced
torrent
20. Introduction (to a poem or play)
fundamental
prologue
barrister
carousal
21. Give a slight degree of a color or quality to; N: slight degree of a color or quality; Ex. tinged with grey/jealousy
obstinate
deleterious
expedient
tinge
22. Adorn; ornament; enhance as a story (by adding fictitious details)
embellish
buxom
prop
brisk
23. Reject bluntly; snub; beat back; Ex. She rebuffed his invitation; N.
contagion
rebuff
detraction
prod
24. Adjust or settle by making mutual concessions; endanger the interests or reputation of; put into danger - disrepute - or a dishonorable position; Ex. compromise one's principle; N.
detonation
indices
compromise
silt
25. Filled with excited joy and pride; overjoyed; in high spirits; joyful and proud; Ex. elated crowd; V. elate; N. elation
confidential
audit
elated
amalgamate
26. Feverish
ordain
febrile
deterrent
antiseptic
27. Playful remark or act; V. act or speak playfully
garrulous
persist
sacrilegious
jest
28. Record of descent; lineage; ancestry; study of ancestry
confiscate
demeanor
genealogy
uproar
29. Clearly different from others of the same kind
requiem
forthright
simper
distinctive
30. Slavish; cringing; N. servility
patronize
paramour
servile
apologist
31. Scholar; learned person; CF. savoir: know
simplistic
paragon
savant
discombobulated
32. Blessing
malapropos
arbitrate
senility
benediction
33. Blunt; abrupt; curt; not wanting to waste time being nice
provincial
conducive
brusque
alms
34. Mortuary; place where bodies are kept before burial or cremation
sporadic
rational
morgue
molten
35. File of documents on a subject or person; file; CF. bundle of papers labeled on the back
expenditure
modish
flay
dossier
36. Long loose garment (worn by monks)
frolicsome
frock
humanitarian
spectral
37. Assuage or satisfy (thrust); slake; douse or extinguish; put out; suppress
hereafter
comatose
quench
constraint
38. Hag; ugly old woman
placate
prong
crone
ambidextrous
39. Extremely hungry; voracious
splice
culmination
pontifical
ravenous
40. Tendency to keep together
draconian
esoteric
vagabond
cohesion
41. Small planet
acute
asteroid
graduate
falter
42. Varying from of an element
sallow
compatible
disconcert
isotope
43. Annoy; distress
drip
grotesque
vex
memoir
44. Boorish; clumsy in speech or behavior; outlandish
uncouth
itinerary
discerning
jocular
45. Designed to create ill will or envy; tending to rouse ill will or envy; Ex. invidious comparison
ominous
malfeasance
invidious
flowery
46. Moderation (especially regarding indulgence in alcohol); seriousness
intoxicate
sobriety
perennial
defame
47. Make blind with a sudden intense light; amaze; fill with wonder
augment
dazzle
blue
cavil
48. (of rules) binding; rigid; marked by scarcity of money; Ex. stringent economic conditions
compulsive
septic
stringent
brawl
49. Deriving; origin or source of something; Ex. the derivation of the word
derivation
flagrant
jabber
miasma
50. Nourish; feed; educate; rear; care for while it is growing or developing; foster; cultivate; N: something that nourishes; rearing
nurture
verbatim
peripheral
maternal