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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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1. Outward appearance; guise; Ex. We called in the troops to bring a/some semblance of order to the city.
subside
semblance
burnish
pert
2. Struggle; compete; assert earnestly; state strongly
nomadic
hireling
contend
dysentery
3. End; V. terminate
equinox
termination
dispassionate
bestow
4. Cowlike; placid and dull; slow-thinking; calm
bovine
realm
overturn
renown
5. Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday; of the ordinary; Ex. mundane existence; CF. world
mundane
throng
ogle
careen
6. Begin and continue (a war)
wage
squeamish
expurgate
exhilarating
7. Vary; go in different directions from the same point; ADJ. divergent: differing; deviating
partial
diverge
hilarity
tyro
8. Not identical on both sides of a dividing central line
spangle
meager
asymmetric
list
9. Kindly; favorable; not malignant (disease); Ex. benign tumor
benign
ken
officious
inveigh
10. Person concerned with the interrelationship between living organisms and their environment; person concerned with the detrimental effects of human civilization on the environment; CF. ecology
ecologist
scurrilous
hereafter
unconscionable
11. Deriving; origin or source of something; Ex. the derivation of the word
scheme
viper
bristling
derivation
12. Transparent; limpid(crystal clear); clear in meaning; easy to understand
pellucid
backslide
correlation
growl
13. Boisterous merrymaking; V. revel: engage boisterous festivities; enjoy greatly; N: boisterous festivity or celebration
oligarchy
niggle
revelry
malodorous
14. Speak with involuntarily pauses or repetitions
murky
stammer
surreptitious
transitory
15. Not spacious; inconvenient
censorious
epithet
addle
incommodious
16. Items of business at a meeting
agenda
finite
polarity
loathe
17. Flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; V.
antiquated
recrimination
coquette
qualify
18. Confusion; turmoil; confused mass; bewildering jumble; Ex. welter of data
subsidiary
derogatory
queasy
welter
19. Energetic; vigorously active
dynamic
truncate
opulence
accommodate
20. Twistings; distortions; V. contort: twist violently out of shape; CF. contortionist
contortions
brandish
foresight
propriety
21. Put into effect; enforce; carry out; supply with tools; Ex. implement the plan/suggestion; N: tool or instrument
unassailable
implement
gourmand
matrix
22. Deprived of (something valuable); lacking
disavowal
bereft
stockade
strident
23. Interdependent relationship (between groups - species) often mutually beneficial; ADJ. symbiotic; CF. together + life
wag
muggy
symbiosis
belittle
24. Contrast; direct opposite of or to; ADJ. antithetic or antithetical
dissolution
antithesis
trinket
altercation
25. Living at the same time as; existing during the same period of time; contemporary; of the same age
coeval
hazy
relevant
tipple
26. Convincing
memorial
cogent
ejaculation
malediction
27. (of music) played smoothly
paranoia
enigma
legato
rarefied
28. Dying; at the point of death; CF. death
outgoing
imperious
moribund
idolatry
29. Blues; listlessness(lack of spirit or energy); slack(inactive) period; period of stagnation; ocean area near the equator where ships cannot move because there is no wind; Ex. in the doldrums
doldrums
providence
fugitive
wax
30. Narrow-mindedness; isolation; ADJ. insular: of an island; isolated; narrow-minded; CF. peninsula
insularity
anarchist
gust
lineaments
31. Neat; skillful
stump
garnish
ominous
deft
32. Partial shadow (in an eclipse); CF. almost shadow
peccadillo
flourish
penumbra
hew
33. Deceptive; likely to delude; misleading; raising vain hopes; Ex. delusive promises
Elysium
proximity
delusive
plump
34. Tax of one-tenth (contributed to a church); V: pay a tithe
polyglot
tithe
plummet
refuse
35. Cause to sprout; sprout
germinate
sinewy
slap
furtive
36. Making up for; repaying
stalemate
oblique
compensatory
garbled
37. With identity concealed; using an assumed name; ADJ.
apocryphal
militia
incognito
bourgeois
38. Reveal; N. disclosure
disquietude
topography
disclose
controvert
39. Moderation or self-control; controlling force; restriction
irremediable
restraint
strut
shoddy
40. Make unfriendly or hostile; estrange; separate; change the ownership of
optometrist
alienate
toady
outlook
41. Subordinate
subaltern
undulating
quisling
percussion
42. Real being
toga
suavity
entity
sordid
43. Outward demonstration; manifesting; indication of the presence of something; Ex. manifestation of his pronounced musical bent
calamity
manifestation
cohesion
obsessive
44. Bravery; courage; strength of mind
stilted
fortitude
microcosm
glacial
45. (of a dress) having a low-cut neckline; CF. d'ecolletage: low neckline (on a dress)
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46. Flexible; supple; CF. limber
mannerism
fathom
azure
lithe
47. Flexible; easily influenced; yielding; adaptable
chaplain
pliable
gallows
gingerly
48. Thing that completes another; things very much alike; thing that has the same purpose in a different system
Occident
blighted
counterpart
imbalance
49. Astonish (making dumb); ADJ. dumbfounded - dumfounded - dumbstruck
prosody
filigree
affront
dumbfound(dumfound)
50. Contest in which winners are selected in a drawing of lots
lottery
vitriolic
elusive
potion