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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Ability to foretell the future; knowledge of actions before they occur; ADJ. prescient
prescience
cite
amorphous
perverse
2. Humorous; mischievous; tricky
perpetrate
waggish
toss
transmute
3. Charming; attractive
hyperbole
engaging
cornice
contusion
4. Outside edge especially of a round surface; perimeter; Ex. periphery of the town
proclivity
periphery
frustrate
judiciary
5. Place of safety; refuge; harbor; Ex. tax haven
callus
minion
languish
haven
6. Fitness; quality of being proper; correct conduct; conformity to prevailing customs and usages; CF. proprietor - proprietary
propriety
ample
euthanasia
repulse
7. Double-dealing; hypocrisy; being dishonest and deceitful; ADJ. duplicitous
impede
perspicacious
rake
duplicity
8. Causing nausea; feeling nausea
valor
reverent
nauseous
fluted
9. 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
humane
capacity
mangy
shift
10. Unattractive
chimerical
interminable
sophomoric
unprepossessing
11. Hairs on back and neck - especially of a dog; Ex. make someone's hackles rise
occlude
promontory
rejuvenate
hackles
12. Temporary moderation (of disease symptoms); remitting of a debt or punishment; cancelation of a debt; pardon; Ex. The disease went into remission; Ex. Christians pray for the remission of sins.
eminent
remission
cryptic
maelstrom
13. Compose on the spur of the moment
babble
improvise
stratagem
intermittent
14. Going against; opposing; unfavorable; hostile
facet
manifold
musty
adverse
15. Stingy; mean
quibble
miserly
blasé
lionize
16. Cowardly; lacking courage; fainthearted
bludgeon
pusillanimous
prefigure
delusive
17. Unworthy; not noble; dishonorable; Ex. ignoble deed
tact
ignoble
rag
discernible
18. Insignificant; unimportant
pious
pinch
quarry
inconsequential
19. Hateful; spiteful; expressing malice; N. malice: desire to harm others; spite
malicious
list
billowing
apprehend
20. Severe dizziness; giddiness
vertigo
moodiness
penumbra
mosaic
21. Make greater; increase in power - wealth - rank - or honor; N. aggrandizement
cremate
reputable
idle
aggrandize
22. Shake or move unsteadily; sway as if about to fall
aver
immolate
rally
totter
23. Small cavern
minion
grotto
abominable
checkered (chequered)
24. Needlessly repetitious; Ex. ``It was visible to the eye''; N. tautology: needless repetition of the same sense; statement that is always true
tautological
adverse
posthumous
monogram
25. Seemingly plausible but fallacious reasoning; sophism
tread
sophistry
knotty
vulgar
26. Book for religious instruction in question-and-answer form; religious instruction by question and answer; V. catechize
catechism
ghastly
platitude
transient
27. Release or discharge through a vent; express (esp. unfairly); utter; Ex. He vented his wrath on his family.
vent
gaffe
immure
provision
28. State of having two opposite qualities
loiter
inter
polarity
clairvoyant
29. Determination; resoluteness; ADJ. resolute: firm or determined in purpose
resolution
excoriate
list
oust
30. Disposition to be lenient in deciding punishments; mildness as of the weather; ADJ. clement
tether
furor
ostentatious
clemency
31. Surround with armed forces; harass (with requests); annoy continually
molten
besiege
hibernal
hindsight
32. One who installs and repairs pipes and plumbing(pipes)
virulent
refractory
sodden
plumber
33. Come between; interfere; Ex. intervened to prevent a fight; N. intervention
euphoria
dutiful(duteous)
chant
intervene
34. Meanly stingy; parsimonious; N. niggard: stingy person
spawn
malefactor
niggardly
vagabond
35. Preoccupation with physical comforts and things; excessive regard for worldly concerns (rather than spiritual matters)
levitate
travail
materialism
char
36. Natural consequence (which naturally follows from something else)
corollary
mendacious
rummage
interrogate
37. Blessing; benefit; something very helpful
smudge
boon
superimpose
jaunt
38. Frustrate; perplex
ensconce
babble
baffle
embark
39. Vague; hazy; cloudy; of a nebula; Ex. nebulous proposal
bovine
euphony
nebulous
fractious
40. Firmness; persistence
feasible
shade
tenacity
gape
41. Diagram of the positions of stars at a given moment (eg. of a person's birth) used by astrologers
parallelism
sprightly
horoscope
impregnable
42. Give in respectfully; submit; delay till later; exempt temporarily; N. deferment; CF. show respect - comply with - courteous
domineer
bookish
defer
pell-mell
43. Greatness (in size or extent); extent
dappled
magnitude
quaff
sententious
44. Choosing of a lot or card
suffragist
draw
wean
bombardment
45. One who commits sabotage; destroyer of property; N. sabotage: destruction of property (usually carried out secretly)
saboteur
optional
habituate
feasible
46. Home; V. ADJ. domiciled: having one's domicile; Ex. He is domiciled in Britain.
domicile
blasé
doctrine
panacea
47. Defeat; frustrate; prevent from being successful; thwart; CF. fail
bountiful
sully
foil
arch-
48. Entreat; request earnestly; seek to obtain; Ex. solicit votes; CF. solicitor: one who solicits; chief law officer
solicit
mammoth
incident
autopsy
49. Contest in which winners are selected in a drawing of lots
balk
spoonerism
squash
lottery
50. Shining; brilliant; Ex. lustrous hair
circumspect
lustrous
recidivism
blues