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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
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Incapable of being pacified; impossible to appease; Ex. implacable enemy
piquant
scale
fathom
implacable
2. Faultless
protean
impeccable
vitriolic
paean
3. Make rational; devise false reasons for (one's behavior); offer an excuse; give a plausible reason for an action in place of a true - less admirable ones; N. rationalization
cordial
rationalize
deadpan
rakish
4. (of land) plowed but not sowed (to improve the quality); uncultivated
agnostic
beholden
fallow
sledge
5. Habitually silent; talking little
imprecation
decorous
taciturn
personable
6. Short story of an amusing or interesting event
slander
molt(moult)
megalomania
anecdote
7. Formation of infantry carrying overlapping shields and long spears; group of men packed together (for attack or defense)
melee
phalanx
proponent
cherubic
8. Be suited to; be incumbent upon; be right and necessary; Ex. It behooves one to do.
behoove(behove)
perfidious
perdition
brittle
9. Swayed by sentiment; appealing to the sentiments
sentimental
spoonerism
abnegation
eclectic
10. Attract; employ; hire; pledge oneself; confront; fight; enter into confliction; interlock; lock together; participate; N. engagement: agreement to marry; arrangement to meet someone or to do something; battle
peerless
engage
sullen
disport
11. Subordinate possessions; something added to a more important thing
homogeneous
presume
appurtenances
avalanche
12. Generous gift (given to people who do not have enough)
espionage
cow
largess
indigence
13. Quibble; make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily
predator
harass
pediatrician
cavil
14. Resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; reversion to an earlier type; throwback; ADJ. atavistic
disaffected
atavism
rectitude
scanty
15. Present but not yet noticeable or active; dormant; hidden; N. latency; CF. potential
ardor
latent
fractious
potent
16. Loud continous noise; continuous demand or complaint made by a large number of people; V: make a clamor; express (a demand) continually and loudly; ADJ. clamorous
clamor
morgue
leonine
eccentricity
17. Talk at length; speak or write in detail
expatiate
interstice
quiescent
excoriate
18. Terms used in a science or art; study of nomenclature
paean
terminology
reproach
boost
19. Formal demand or request; Ex. requisition for more computing equipment; V.
requisition
deign
epicure
protract
20. Reservoir or water tank
emboss
corrode
droop
cistern
21. Intelligent; quick and energetic; fashionable; Ex. smart pace/restaurant; V: cause or feel a sharp pain; N: smarting pain
circuit
smart
prude
contortions
22. Accidental transposition of sounds in successive words; Ex. 'Let me sew you to your sheet'' for 'Let me show you to your seat''; CF. William Spooner
spoonerism
contortions
perforate
autonomous
23. Decorate; add a garnish to; decorate (food or drink) with small items such as lemon slices; N.
sere
garnish
invoke
evoke
24. Someone who advises insurance companies
fashion
posture
actuary
gentility
25. Mixture of decaying organic matter used as fertilizer; V: put or make compost
compost
arcane
churlish
foul
26. Reply; retort; comeback; V. rejoin: say in reply
dispassionate
quaff
rejoinder
covetous
27. Given freely; unwarranted; uncalled for; done without good reason; Ex. gratuitous comment
anneal
avarice
fallow
gratuitous
28. Moral correctness; moral uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment
asylum
hygiene
temerity
rectitude
29. Wild drunken revelry; unrestrained indulgence in an activity; Ex. orgy of shopping
phenomena
underhand(underhanded)
nugatory
orgy
30. Storehouse for grain
larceny
granary
stilted
groove
31. Delicate; very finely made; extremely beautiful; Ex. exquisite piece of jewelry
exquisite
impiety
meticulous
dispense
32. Announce; proclaim a doctrine or law; make known by official publication
promulgate
seine
untenable
perceptive
33. Stronghold; something seen as a source of protection; Ex. the last bastion of male chauvinism
facetious
melee
calligraphy
bastion
34. Offensive; disagreeable; Ex. obnoxious smell
flowery
crevice
obnoxious
valid
35. Grouch; spoilsport; one who intentionally spoils the pleasure of others
killjoy
throng
vigilante
contend
36. Small waterfall
cascade
plummet
stipple
slur
37. (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments
descry
fringe
rolling
atone
38. Of a margin; barely within a limit; Ex. marginal effect/writing ability
marginal
irrefutable
lurid
rip
39. Cook by direct heat; N.
broil
nugatory
itinerant
tantrum
40. Sullen; gloomy; stubborn
dour
groove
chapel
fit
41. Connection
nexus
inquisitive
rou'e
totter
42. Resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult; Ex. take umbrage at his rudeness
tiller
umbrage
jetsam
arrhythmic
43. Stupid; Ex. asinine remarks
willowy
asinine
steadfast
inebriate
44. Sleep throughout the winter; N. hibernation
hibernate
pedigree
prurient
uninhibited
45. Red or white cell in the blood
exhilarating
nutrient
corpuscle
repellent
46. Like an emperor; related to an empire; CF. imperialism
imperial
sheaf
wrongheaded
monochrome
47. Agreeable; pleasing to the taste
daub
vehement
philology
palatable
48. Harmony; accord
rapt
concord
distinct
substantial
49. Stretching; condition of being stretched; mental strain; strained relationship between groups or people
tension
rotund
colloquy
mitigate
50. Organization for a special purpose; V: establish
institute
offhand
constituency
tantamount