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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. Combine; fuse; N. coalescence
coalesce
migratory
loom
chaffing
2. Going beyond what is right; excessively forward; arrogant; taking liberties
mottled
prepossessing
presumptuous
distraught
3. Lustful
glaring
upshot
titillate
lewd
4. Atrocious; wicked; hatefully bad; Ex. heinous crime
epitaph
heinous
soar
pharisee
5. Crowd (of people or things); V.
throng
icon(ikon)
tacit
dormer
6. (sitting or standing) straight up; honest; moral
falsify
rivulet
debut
upright
7. Mixture as of metals; something added that lowers in value or purity; V: mix; make less pure; lower in value or quality; spoil; CF. unalloyed: not in mixture with other maetals; pure; complete; unqualified; Ex. unalloyed happiness
alimony
rubble
centrifuge
alloy
8. Psychic and emotional energy or urges behind human activity; sexual desire
libido
condescend
bohemian
imperil
9. Slow moving tree-dwelling mammal; laziness; ADJ. slothful: lazy; indolent
hydrophobia
attenuate
sloth
scotch
10. Deep regret for wrongdoing; guilt; self-reproach
mammal
turpitude
fatalism
remorse
11. Bending of a ray of light
plumb
refraction
carnivorous
pander
12. Restraint; compulsion; repression of feelings; reticence; V. constrain: hold back; restrain; compel; oblige; confine forcibly; imprison
imperative
gambol
constraint
cumbersome
13. Complete; V.
novice
icon(ikon)
consummate
alloy
14. With reference to; regarding; Ex. remarks apropos (of) the present situation; ADJ. ADV.
apropos
decry
troth
dys-
15. Shine with a flickering light; glimmer intermittently; Ex. The moonlight shimmered on the water; N.
facade(fac{c}ade)
clown
shimmer
hermitage
16. Of time; not lasting forever; limited by time; temporary; secular; worldly
temporal
consort
respiration
felicitous
17. Announce; proclaim; utter or speak - especially distinctly; pronounce clearly; articulate; Ex. This theory was first enunciated by him.
iridescent
emissary
enunciate
hone
18. Change position or place; exchange (one thing) for another; change in direction or position; Ex. shift the stolen goods; N. group of workers which takes turns with other groups; working period of such a group
temporal
ciliated
choir
shift
19. Make amends for (a sin)
expiate
drab
belligerent
tortuous
20. Absence of governing body; state of disorder
sustenance
anarchy
jocular
sect
21. (cause to) join the armed forces; obtain (help - sympathy - or support)
enlist
noisome
mendicant
implicit
22. Steal (things of small value)
fabricate
vilify
filch
acclivity
23. Composed (with no excitement); grave; V: administer a sedative to; CF. sedative
sedate
dilute
impeccable
backslide
24. Scatter; drive away; cause to vanish
heedless
purported
gangrene
dispel
25. Aqueduct; passageway for fluids
frail
toady
conduit
gesticulation
26. Sore place appearing on the skin inside or outside the body; Ex. stomach ulcer; ADJ. ulcerous; V. ulcerate
ulcer
obituary
terminology
convene
27. Needlessly repetitious; Ex. ``It was visible to the eye''; N. tautology: needless repetition of the same sense; statement that is always true
tautological
calorific
clipper
conscript
28. Diplomatic etiquette; ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats; first copy of a treaty before its ratification; Ex. Protocol demands that the queen meet him at the airport.
protocol
chimerical
curator
incorporate
29. Baffle or confuse by a difficult problem; ponder over a problem in an effort to solve; clarify or solve by reasoning; Ex. puzzle out the answer; N.
verbose
tact
puzzle
comprehensive
30. Inconspicuous; not blatant
paradigm
unobtrusive
dour
pedestrian
31. Admit; acknowledge as being true (often reluctantly); yield; grant; Ex. concede a goal
labyrinth
gloat
concede
dishearten
32. Brief - comprehensive summary; ADJ. compendious
compendium
maverick
tremor
doze
33. Unfortunate accident
nonchalance
chagrin
gargantuan
mishap
34. (esp. of a girl or young woman) impertinent; forward; trim; jaunty; Ex. pert young miss/hat
pert
transcendent
omniscient
obtrude
35. Extremely demanding; Ex. exacting standard of safety
exacting
deciduous
rapt
psyche
36. Despicable; unpleasant; disgusting; Ex. vile slander
buffoonery
poise
notch
vile
37. Narrow in scope or outlook; provincial; related to parishes
momentum
parochial
eugenic
apposite
38. Servile flatterer; yes man; sycophant; V: be a toady to; fawn
toady
inverse
sedition
executioner
39. Supply; allotted amount of work; assigned portion of work; limitation; Ex. two-year stint in the army; Ex. without stint
mash
stint
repose
transport
40. (of a part of the body) swollen; distended; bombastic; pompous
tumid
vassal
recite
disarray
41. Renounce upon oath
anneal
resurge
abjure
flagrant
42. Burn the surface of; char or burn; brand; parch; cause (a plant) to wither
consistency
simper
sear
phalanx
43. Boredom; weariness; ADJ. tedious
tedium
oculist
emaciated
decree
44. Unconscious; unresponsive; insensitive; unaware; imperceptible; Ex. insensible of his danger/to pain; Ex. insensible change; CF. not the opposite of sensible
optician
cognitive
insensible
pediatrician
45. Features especially of the face; distinctive shape or contour of the face; CF. line
chapel
flora
lineaments
promiscuous
46. Honesty; uprightness; wholeness; state of being whole and undivided; completeness
tatter
integrity
resumption
mundane
47. Disapproval; condemnation
disapprobation
hireling
leaven
beleaguer
48. Supporter; backer; opposite of opponent
mundane
predilection
dissemble
proponent
49. Undeveloped; rudimentary; N. embryo: organism in the early stage of development
politic
pique
slake
embryonic
50. Move (a railway train) from one track to another; turn aside; divert; sidetrack; Ex. shunt traffic around an accident; N.
runic
phlegmatic
intermediary
shunt