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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. Be annoyed or vexed; Ex. fret over your poor grades; N: irritation of mind; ADJ. fretful
opiate
fret
admonish
supple
2. Prayer for help (used in invoking); calling upon as a reference or support; act of invoking
collected
bacchanal
luminous
invocation
3. Large quantity or number; Ex. slew of errands left
putrefy
iniquitous
slew
posture
4. Something that relieves pain; oily liquid with a pleasant smell from trees
potpourri
deflect
balm
sanctuary
5. Hasty and careless; haphazard; sloppy(carelessly done)
slapdash
friction
brackish
chronicle
6. Trip especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense
malefactor
junket
fraudulent
confound
7. Laugh (at); mock; ridicule; Ex. scoff at their threats
dapper
psychopathic
scoff
eccentricity
8. Capable of using either hand with equal ease
vitreous
affiliation
ambidextrous
marginal
9. Decide; settle; solve; separate; make a determined decision; N. resolution
resolve
promontory
corporeal
hive
10. Cloying sweet; characteristic of sugar or saccharin
amble
sojourn
saccharine
prepossessing
11. Die or kill from lack of air; suppress
luxuriate
suffocate
breadth
apropos
12. Lustful
transcendental
lascivious
fiend
residual
13. Destroy completely; Ex. raze the city to the ground
autopsy
sullen
bungle
raze
14. Compulsive habitual need
titular
mite
addiction
theoretical
15. Prohibit; ostracize; banish; outlaw
proscribe
knack
induct
placate
16. Disturb greatly
perturb
debonair
rolling
ford
17. Arsonist; ADJ: causing fire; of arson; Ex. incendiary bomb
edify
mountebank
incendiary
creep
18. Former occupant of a post
unexceptionable
harrowing
raconteur
predecessor
19. Esoteric; secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated; Ex. arcane ritual; Ex. arcane process closed to the uninitiated listener
swerve
arcane
smattering
therapeutic
20. Bodily (rather than spiritual); of a bodily form; material; tangible
refuse
corporeal
lassitude
bicker
21. Small speck (esp. of dust)
lag
hive
mote
morbid
22. Come together; assemble; call to meet; Ex. convene the council
convene
unkempt
replicate
emanate
23. Repulsive to the sight; ugly; repugnant; Ex. hideous face/scream
hideous
stately
calamity
purveyor
24. Reply; retort; comeback; V. rejoin: say in reply
rejoinder
recumbent
refectory
maudlin
25. Knowledge; ADJ. cognizant; having knowledge; aware
deserts
cognizance
facilitate
imperative
26. Slavish; cringing; N. servility
servile
conciliatory
dispatch
prowess
27. Blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully; speak in a noisy or bullying manner; CF. breeze - gust - gale
bluster
smolder
sonorous
bump
28. Driving forward; N. propulsion
propulsive
flighty
incline
checkered (chequered)
29. Feign; pretend to: claim to possess; make pretensions to; Ex. I don't pretend to much expertise; N. pretense
pretend
nauseous
guy
provenance
30. Harmony; agreement
refulgent
carnage
dais
consonance
31. Oblige or help someone; adjust or bring into harmony; adapt; make enough space for; ADJ. accommodative; CF. accomodating: helpful and obliging
accommodate
pragmatic
tread
formidable
32. Pretentiousness; claim (without foundation); Ex. I make no pretensions to skill as an artist.
wastrel
dialectical
pretension
repel
33. Retort; quick clever reply; return to former status
accommodate
neologism
comeback
consonant
34. Stubbornly wrong
deciduous
faze
insatiable
wrongheaded
35. Ostentatious; showy; pompous; making unjustified claims; overambitious; Ex. pretentious films that claim to be art
vanguard
chary
pretentious
rendezvous
36. Ugly; unpleasant to look at
prattle
unsightly
abhor
alliteration
37. Steering wheel of a ship; position of control
emollient
atrocity
helm
disjointed
38. Soak; saturate; Ex. steep the fabric in the dye bath; ADJ: precipitous
procurement
steep
dissipate
thespian
39. A place where bees are kept
apiary
scapegoat
realm
solicitor
40. Artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful (of a person or building); CF. aesthete; CF. aesthetics
engaging
aesthetic
tawdry
Occident
41. Frown angrily; N: angry frown
scowl
barefaced
optional
negligence
42. Deep disgrace; shame or dishonor; ADJ. ignominious; Ex. ignominous defeat
anticlimax
ignominy
scintilla
grill
43. Disagreement of opinions causing strife within a group
jostle
impregnate
disengage
dissension
44. Use a divining rod to search for underground water or minerals
politic
buffoon
dowse
gouge
45. Ruler in a monarchy; ADJ: (of a country) independent and self-governing; having supreme power; supreme; excellent
comeuppance
sovereign
communal
comprise
46. Short simple story teaching a moral
affable
dexterous
submissive
parable
47. Long and thin; Ex. Lank - gaunt - Abraham Lincoln
indeterminate
arcane
lank
reminiscence
48. Of or suffering rabies; like a fanatic; extremely zealous; furious; CF. rabies: hydrophobia
rabid
endorse
levitate
artisan
49. Return of part of a payment; discount; V.
forsake
biennial
rebate
encroachment
50. Stormy; violent; impassioned; N. tempest: violent storm
dereliction
averse
meretricious
tempestuous