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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. Avoid (responsibility - work - etc.); malinger
sumptuous
paradigm
shirk
scenario
2. Native; Ex. plant indigenous to the New World
indigenous
bent
default
purse
3. (of a sound) grate on (eg. nerves); make a harsh noise; have an unpleasant effect; rub with something rough; Ex. The cat's tongue rasped my hand.
rasp
obsidian
adventitious
proponent
4. Fond word or act; expression of affection
endearment
orator
deplore
vigilant
5. Serving to complete something
monastic
progeny
complementary
jocund
6. Story - play - or picture in which characters are used as symbols; fable
inveigle
peremptory
allegory
demagogue
7. Join; unite; OP. uncouple
remit
inclusive
couple
eulogistic
8. Decorate; add a garnish to; decorate (food or drink) with small items such as lemon slices; N.
advent
garnish
appurtenances
surmise
9. Direct quick route
mutter
beeline
actuate
sepulcher
10. Pertaining to the brain or intellect; intellectual rather than emotional; CF. cerebrum
cordial
staccato
cerebral
serpentine
11. Agreeable; pleasing to the taste
palatable
fringe
fete(f^ete)
luxuriate
12. Reparable
vouchsafe
remediable
address
deride
13. Having or causing lustful desires and thoughts; arousing immoderate sexual desire
nostrum
prurient
rou'e
pinnace
14. Hairstyle
azure
coiffure
retrieve
glitter
15. Minutely attentive (perhaps too much so) to fine points; stressing niceties of conduct or form; N. punctilio - punctiliousness: careful attention payed to every small exact detail
punctilious
jocular
penchant
glitter
16. Intention; purpose; meaning; V: claim; profess; Ex. order which purports to be signed by the general
purport
query
fancier
rant
17. Not essential; minor; N: something incidental
incidental
smug
cant
tempestuous
18. Desecrating; profane; N. sacrilege: desecration - misuse - or theft of something sacred
sacrilegious
indiscriminate
duration
maul
19. Ancestors
forebears(forbears)
clandestine
retard
shard
20. Certainty
patina
certitude
luminous
prophetic
21. Lazy
piquant
indolent
deplete
idiom
22. Mismanage; blow
litany
botch
doldrums
muggy
23. Not biased; fair; N. impartiality
aggregate
impartial
throb
endorse
24. Ill luck
mischance
exploit
actuary
facetious
25. Precision; accuracy; minute distinction or difference; Ex. to a nicety: exactly; precisely; Ex. distinguish between niceties
composure
garner
elated
nicety
26. Excessive indulgence of one's own desire
incumbent
pall
self-indulgence
undertaker
27. Inappropriate; ADV.
faction
ascetic
visionary
malapropos
28. Overcome
arable
surmount
stalemate
equivocal
29. Daily domestic task (such as cleaning - cooking - and shopping); unpleasant task
voluble
chore
antipathy
awl
30. Blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group - cause - or sex; ADJ. chauvinistic; CF. chauvinism; Nicolas Chauvin
fugitive
chauvinist
inadvertently
purge
31. Give a bodily form to; incorporate; include
paucity
gruff
mantle
embody
32. Spur; motive; something which encourages one to greater activity
verge
incentive
odoriferous
choleric
33. Cloying sweet; characteristic of sugar or saccharin
astringent
saccharine
galvanize
guffaw
34. Private secret meeting
conclave
rampant
philistine
conformity
35. Servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man; ADJ. sycophantic
affirmation
quiver
sycophant
chronic
36. Apparatus used to maintain balance - ascertain direction - etc.
careen
gyroscope
appreciate
pillage
37. Act of finding oneself in society; orienting
insensate
bust
orientation
verbose
38. Journey; V. peregrinate
adjunct
addle
continence
peregrination
39. Crowd (of people or things); V.
throng
pathetic
crabbed
pliant
40. One guilty of a crime
purported
disengage
culprit
limpid
41. Without guile; open and honest
nourish
cemetery
artless
elegy
42. Capable of grasping or holding (esp. by wrapping around); Ex. prehensile tails
prehensile
embitter
lucre
carnage
43. Clear beef (or meat) soup
bouillon
seamy
parish
transgression
44. System of ideas characteristic of a group or culture
natation
decorous
ideology
apotheosis
45. Influenced by personal feelings; occurring or taking place within the mind; unreal; Ex. subjective sensation of the ghostly presence
intimate
callous
subjective
mollycoddle
46. Strong inclination; strong liking (esp. for something that is disapproved of by other people); Ex. penchant for fast cars
quietude
abominate
gait
penchant
47. Group sharing a common cause or opinion
nausea
abstract
tenancy
camp
48. Large three-masted sailing ship
sycophant
narrative
galleon
credential
49. Those of gentle birth; high social class; refinement; quality of being genteel
prize
gentility
cartographer
necromancy
50. Rudeness without any sense of shame; shameless boldness; presumptousness; nerve; cheek
deface
detached
effrontery
espionage