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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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1. Seize another's power or rank (without legal authority); supplant; appropriate; N. usurpation; CF. take for one's own use
usurp
discriminating
terminology
choleric
2. Secret
clandestine
delta
ecstasy
Bacchanalia
3. Recollection; V. reminisce: recollect the past
jurisdiction
cohere
reminiscence
dysentery
4. Drink greedily
renounce
vainglorious
swill
solitude
5. One who is habitually cruel to weaker people; V.
flaccid
bully
rebuttal
proviso
6. Bind as servant or apprentice to master; bind by indenture; N: contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified time (as between an apprentice and his master)
indenture
retentive
hap
checkered (chequered)
7. Waste matter; worthless impurities
dross
sloth
dispirited
illusory
8. Disapproval; condemnation
scraps
disapprobation
halcyon
agnostic
9. Widespread damage; disorder; chaos
barrister
freebooter
havoc
ghastly
10. Harass or trouble from all directions; hem in
unwonted
periphery
beset
fecundity
11. Motivate; activate; cause to act
cabal
warrant
sarcasm
actuate
12. Eyesight; foresight; mental image produced by the imagination; experience of seeing the supernatural
vision
vouch
predetermine
osseous
13. Disentangle; solve
minatory
petrify
plumb
unravel
14. Stupid; Ex. asinine remarks
soar
asinine
hypercritical
barrage
15. Prevent; avoid; turn away (eyes or thought); Ex. An accident was averted by his quick thinking; Ex. She averted her eyes from the terrible sight.
knave
maritime
mincing
avert
16. Spotted
ingrained
voyeur
comprehensive
dappled
17. Pertaining to money
monetary
carillon
ferocious
erode
18. Puzzle; mystery; ADJ. enigmatic: obscure; puzzling
diva
enigma
frock
dys-
19. Wool coat of a sheep; V: shear the fleece from; rob by a trick; swindle; plunder
arduous
anticlimax
forsake
fleece
20. Selected passage (written or musical) taken from a longer work; V.
excerpt
incontinent
maroon
pertinent
21. Weaken (esp. through heat - hunger - illness); enfeeble
trilogy
sultry
ruminate
debilitate
22. Insane
demented
desecrate
acme
crevice
23. Made of inferior material; sham; not genuine; inferior; dishonest; Ex. shoddy goods/trick
manipulate
lurk
shoddy
analogous
24. Substance or rich soil formed by decaying vegetable matter; CF. soil
substantive
humus
snip
lurk
25. Person administering capital punishment
executioner
allege
stint
cavil
26. Living language (as compared to the official language); language spoken in a country or region; natural style; Ex. lapse into the vernacular
mentor
vernacular
frivolous
secrete
27. Plants of a region or era
flora
discompose
loft
anguish
28. Swindle; cheat
convoke
mar
bilk
gorge
29. Somewhat saline
depict
hover
brackish
jibe
30. Drink (alcoholic beverages) frequently; N: alcoholic drink
terrestrial
nimble
halfhearted
tipple
31. Reduce; exhaust
deplete
blare
abysmal
extrapolation
32. Declare openly; N. avowal
oblivion
bemused
succor
avow
33. Block or hinder; baffle; frustrate
thwart
alms
miscellany
horde
34. Stimulate or shock by an electric current; stimulate by shock; shock into action; stir up; coat with rust-resistant zinc by using electricity
appurtenances
labyrinth
giddy
galvanize
35. Cut away; cut out; N: government tax on good produced and used inside a country; N. excision
clairvoyant
ascribe
unintimating
excise
36. Deriving; origin or source of something; Ex. the derivation of the word
derivation
pharisee
ravenous
inured
37. Someone who wastes money; CF. thrift: accumulated wealth
forbearance
spendthrift
check
peccadillo
38. Unwilling; reluctant; stingy(giving reluctantly)
decelerate
grudging
leeway
anomalous
39. Unsatisfied; not soothed
patriarch
unassuaged
obdurate
accessory
40. Outward demonstration; manifesting; indication of the presence of something; Ex. manifestation of his pronounced musical bent
manifestation
scale
implicate
affiliation
41. Likely to change; unstable; Ex. emotionally labile; N. lability
labile
grandiose
boorish
natty
42. Give; deliver; provide; represent in verbal or artistic form; depict; perform; make; translate; Ex. render the song beautifully
render
clot
relinquish
actuary
43. Depravity; baseness; Ex. moral turpitude
epic
prune
pulmonary
turpitude
44. Cast a spell over; captivate completely
kudos
demur
bewitch
lionize
45. Relating to cooking or kitchen
quintessence
levity
absolve
culinary
46. (of colors or surfaces) not bright; cloudy; overcast; boring; (of edge or sound) not sharp; not rapid; sluggish; slow in thinking and understanding; stupid; V.
strew
feign
dull
proliferate
47. Violate; desecrate (something holy); treat unworthily; be profane for; ADJ: secular; nonreligious; irreverent for holy things
profane
vernacular
gape
obloquy
48. Filthy; foul; base; vile; Ex. sordid bed/story
litotes
sordid
disband
fake
49. Very generous in giving; Ex. munificent benefactor; N. munificience
septic
distill
kernel
munificent
50. Loyalty; accuracy
quixotic
devious
resurrect
fidelity