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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. Pollute
polyglot
contaminate
commodious
credence
2. Belittle
culprit
bid
disparage
slacken
3. Theme; recurrent thematic element in a musical or literary work; single or repeated pattern; figure
uninhibited
motif
parsimony
rasp
4. Sharpen (a tool); N: whetstone for sharpening a tool
advocate
stanch
hone
repine
5. Salary; payment for an office; compensation
trilogy
cadence
impunity
emolument
6. Quality of being provident; divine care; god's care; Providence: god; Ex. It seemed like providence that the doctor happened to be there; ADJ. providential: of divine providence; fortunate
decadence
providence
pithy
endear
7. State of being numerous or multiple; large number; Ex. multiplicity of details; ADJ. multiple: of more than one element
swell
multiplicity
rarefied
spatula
8. Examine and compare in order to verify authenticity; arrange in order (the sheets of a book before they are bound)
horde
collate
reprisal
slipshod
9. Able to float; cheerful and optimistic; N. buoyancy; Ex. buoyancy of wood/water/American market
rubble
saline
buoyant
circuitous
10. Charming; attractive
gentle
dogmatic
engaging
minuscule(miniscule)
11. Drive or hunt out of hiding; hunt with ferrets; drive out (as from a hiding place); expel; uncover or discover by searching; Ex. ferret out the secret; N. small fierce animal which catches rats and rabbits by going into their holes
cohere
amalgamate
festive
ferret
12. Force or push out; thrust out; shape (plastic or metal) by forcing through a die
extrude
sluggish
heterogeneous
kinetic
13. Walk with a heavy step; travel on foot; N: vagrant; one who travels aimlessly about; long walk; sound of heavy walking
tramp
germ
pedestrian
discompose
14. Right or privilege granted by authority; right to vote; license to sell a product in a particular territory
rabble
indignity
lackadaisical
franchise
15. Very harmful; deadly; very destructive; Ex. pernicious effect/anemia
pernicious
conservatory(conservatoire)
refuse
buffet
16. Soften by soaking in liquid; waste away; Ex. macerate powdered wood to make paper
inasmuch_as
actuary
macerate
recreant
17. Furnisher of foodstuffs; caterer; V. purvey: supply (eg. food); furnish; CF. provide
accrue
disgruntle
purveyor
perspicacious
18. Surround
paste
flourish
encircle
tout
19. State of collapse or weakness caused by illness or old age
complacency
unfetter
substantive
decrepitude
20. Invioably sacred; most sacred; inviolable
sacrosanct
equipoise
ratify
seethe
21. Deep regret for wrongdoing; guilt; self-reproach
titanic
chalice
remorse
codify
22. Readily acting in accordance with a rule - order - or the wishes or others; yielding; comforming to requirements
fanfare
compliant
denomination
shackle
23. Keeping watch (during normal sleeping hours); Ex. all-night vigil
vigil
snicker
extrapolation
graphite
24. Having or causing lustful desires and thoughts; arousing immoderate sexual desire
prurient
kinetic
billow
distant
25. Science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
homage
caliber
acoustics
tepid
26. Resorting to help when in trouble; Ex. without recourse to
maraud
swindler
flaunt
recourse
27. Refine; purify; replace (natural urges) with socially acceptable activities; change between a solid state and a gaseous state
halting
sublimate
palliate
relent
28. Farewell or departure
leave-taking
ruminate
ambush
misogamy
29. Incipient; coming into being or existence; Ex. nascent ability in music
nascent
abridge
prize
vociferous
30. Flow in drops or in a thin stream; N.
straggle
blunder
muddle
trickle
31. Massive; impressively large; built as a monument
pore
monumental
partition
illicit
32. Get one's bearings; adjust; make familiar with a situation; orientate
contortions
orient
falsify
varnish
33. Pause; temporary cessation; alcove; secret inner place; Ex. parliament in recess; V. CF. recessive
recess
grudging
archaeology
vigor
34. Lacking interest or effort; lacking purpose or zest; lazy; halfhearted; languid
concession
lackadaisical
visionary
malapropism
35. Regret; lament; mourn; Ex. He will rue the day; N. ADJ. rueful
adverse
rue
secrete
idyll(idyl)
36. Accustom a baby not to nurse; accustom (the young of a mammal) to take nourishment other than by suckling; give up a cherished activity; cause to gradually leave (an interest or habit); Ex. wean oneself from cigarettes
unfaltering
sledge
wean
podiatrist
37. Clear from blame or guilt
exculpate
excerpt
buffoon
disjunction
38. Hold back (the natural expression of); restrain; crush; oppress; Ex. repressed child; Ex. repress a laugh/rebellion
bid
repress
condiments
mandate
39. Social environment; means of expression; Ex. feel out of one's milieu; Ex. His proper milieu is watercolor.
milieu
indicative
apprehend
slur
40. Heat-producing; N. calorie
calorific
malady
stockade
fecundity
41. Step on heavily (so as to crush or extinguish); put an end to; imprint or impress with a mark - design - or seal; shape with a die; characterize; Ex. machine stamping out car bodies; Ex. newspaper stamping him as a liar; N. stamping; implement used t
defect
stamp
civil
incompatible
42. Pertaining to the moon
debonair
defunct
antecedents
lunar
43. Indirect in speech (when something unpleasant must be said); hypocritical; evasive
mealymouthed
definitive
distort
sentinel
44. Frustrate; perplex
smudge
ovoid
baffle
sleight
45. Animal that ruminates; ADJ.
awful
authenticate
scrimmage
ruminant
46. Distortion; burlesque
putrescent
eugenic
amend
caricature
47. Lively
sprightly
testy
cantata
favoritism
48. Deficient in intelligence; very stupid
matriarch
feebleminded
rabid
irrefutable
49. Related to marriage or the wedding ceremony; N. nuptials: wedding ceremony
sullen
lofty
nuptial
hummock
50. Preoccupation with physical comforts and things; excessive regard for worldly concerns (rather than spiritual matters)
seemly
kindred
severity
materialism
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