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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. Taking up again; recommencement; V. resume: begin or take up again; take or occupy again; Ex. Kindly resume your seats.
slew
acclaim
resumption
asinine
2. (of costs or demands) excessive; exceeding reasonable bounds
dissent
exorbitant
appall
ravage
3. Barrier laid down by artillery fire; overwhelming profusion; large number of questions or statements; Ex. a barrage of criticism
tranquillity
barrage
misogamy
jubilation
4. Withdrawal; retreat; time of low economic activity
umbrage
frugality
empirical
recession
5. Warmly friendly; gracious; heartfelt; Ex. cordial welcome
blighted
skulk
scurrilous
cordial
6. Raised platform for speakers or other important people
fanaticism
tangible
problematic
dais
7. Familiar with; having knowledge of
vertebrate
vying
exquisite
conversant
8. Happening by chance; irregular; occasional; informal; showing or feeling little interest; Ex. casual reader/labor/remark
casual
artifacts
venerate
conglomeration
9. Stout; corpulent
portly
epicure
gerrymander
oath
10. Landless agricultural worker; bond servant; menial worker; N. peonage
indignity
adapt
peon
climactic
11. Strip (as of clothes); deprive (as of rights); dispossess; N. divestiture(divestment)
deify
fester
luxuriate
divest
12. Wasting away; V: weaken and lose flesh and muscle (through lack of blood or lack of use)
atrophy
deposition
epistemologist
sage
13. Dig up; unearth; OP. inter
disinter
exertion
awry
integral
14. Dull; impassive; showing little emotion when strong feelings are expected
schematic
stolid
recidivism
metamorphosis
15. Harmful; CF. obnoxious
belated
brevity
noxious
progeny
16. Burden; very worriying problem; mental care; nightmare; male devil; CF. succubus
rankle
incubus
assail
conglomeration
17. Not genuine; N: one that is not genuine; impostor; sham; V: counterfeit; Ex. fake the results of the experiment/the signature
pachyderm
fake
vilify
sleazy
18. Argumentative; fond of argument
quiver
disputatious
laborious
glaze
19. Meat of a deer; CF. cow: beef; CF. pig: pork - ham - bacon; CF. calf: veal; CF. sheep: mutton; CF. lamb: lamb
penology
dross
proclivity
venison
20. Essence; main point; substance
gist
jettison
universal
ethos
21. Support militantly; fight for; N: person who fights for or supports strongly (a principle - movement - person - etc.)
tyranny
ego
codicil
champion
22. Money or property brought by a bride to her husband at marriage
monarchy
dowry
furtive
litigation
23. Self-governing; N. autonomy
exalt
strut
autonomous
vaunted
24. Surmise; guess; V.
conjecture
sidereal
pronounced
bank
25. Money; profit; Ex. filthy lucre
overture
incubate
gangrene
lucre
26. Enclose; place in something; fix firmly in a surrounding mass
embed(imbed)
sustain
jabber
remittance
27. Invent or fabricate in a clever way (by improvisation); manage; Ex. contrive to attract his attention
moribund
stanch
genus
contrive
28. Scold with biting harshness; censure strongly; strip the skin off
figure
enterprise
excoriate
provender
29. Deep; not superficial; complete; Ex. profound thinker/remark/silence/deafness; N. profundity
geriatrics
inquisitor
profound
prot'eg'e
30. (of a story) widely believed but untrue
d'ecollet'e
dyslexia
apocryphal
ooze
31. A set of bells (often in a tower) capable of being played
behemoth
shirk
nugatory
carillon
32. Final; not susceptible to further analysis; fundamental; Ex. The sun is the ultimate source of energy.
verbose
succumb
ultimate
verve
33. (cause to) join the armed forces; obtain (help - sympathy - or support)
surly
enlist
adamant
rapt
34. Arrangement by rank or standing; authoritarian body divided into ranks; body of persons having authority
swill
deputize
vain
hierarchy
35. Brilliant; splendid in appearance; dazzling; glorious
lap
nemesis
stifle
resplendent
36. Of a pole; characterized by opposite extremes; Ex. polar opposites
consistency
crypt
polar
spendthrift
37. Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners; appropriateness of behavior or conduct
incidental
decorum
persist
psychic
38. Close relationship; emotional closeness; harmony
connivance
rapport
pique
connubial
39. Provide for the payment of; undertake the payment of; pay
defray
conversant
idiom
billowing
40. Two-chambered as a legislative body
avid
avalanche
bicameral
stipple
41. Reasoning; act of drawing conclusions from premises; V. ratiocinate: reason logically
vendor
ratiocination
blemish
prevaricate
42. Relating to paradise; blissful
inquisitive
elysian
pique
purchase
43. Engrossed; absorbed; enchanted; Ex. rapt listener
poise
championship
rapt
fashion
44. Expel; drive out; force out; N. ouster: ousting
spate
interminable
execrate
oust
45. Crack; fissure
crevice
coercion
ornithologist
rabid
46. Worsen; aggravate; embitter
complaisant
exhume
adept
exacerbate
47. Enter into; pierce; permeate; see through; grasp the inner significance of; understand
probe
tessellated
penetrate
bureaucracy
48. Throb; beat rapidly; flutter; tremble; Ex. Her heart began to palpitate.
inevitable
palpitate
resentment
rider
49. Holding one's attention; absorbing; engrossing
carat(karat)
extrinsic
affiliation
riveting
50. Excessive zeal; extreme devotion to a belief or cause; N. fanatic; ADJ. fanatic
pert
studied
fanaticism
eloquence