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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. Anxious; worried; concerned; eager; Ex. solicitous to do something; N. solicitude
pseudonym
solicitous
senility
cursory
2. Weaken (esp. through heat - hunger - illness); enfeeble
debilitate
perspicuity
anthropomorphic
grapple
3. Entice; attract; tempt
doff
allure
solitude
comeuppance
4. Questionable; (of something) causing doubt; (of someone) filled with doubt; N. dubiety
dubious
burlesque
shrewd
cognitive
5. Small bit or fragment; discarded waste material; fight; Ex. a scrap of paper/cloth; V: break into parts for disposal; discard as worthless; fight; quarrel
scrap
bland
subdue
lackluster
6. Not planned; impromptu; extempore
plasticity
extemporaneous
speck
respite
7. Eerie; strange; unnatural
weird
beseech
naivet'e(naivety)
substantial
8. Something fit to be eaten
don
blanch
comestible
plausible
9. Command; arbitrary order; Ex. presidential fiat; CF. let it be done
tribune
trickster
terrestrial
fiat
10. Very small quantity
iota
impalpable
lineage
disgorge
11. Chief; first; Ex. archbishop
solvent
arch-
indolent
finesse
12. Wealthy and powerful businessperson; wealthy leader; magnate; Ex. business tycoon
podiatrist
copious
tycoon
illuminate
13. Grand suggesting great expense; lavish; rich; Ex. sumptuous feast
expunge
sullen
transmute
sumptuous
14. Soothing application applied to sore and inflamed portions of the body
poultice
interloper
recumbent
defeatist
15. Freeze; coagulate
amicable
replica
congeal
rectitude
16. Great mass of falling snow and ice
simulate
privy
imprecation
avalanche
17. Bleach; whiten; make white or pale
expeditious
cantankerous
naivet'e(naivety)
blanch
18. (of a liquid) having the sediment disturbed; muddy; thick
desperate
turbid
kneel
homogeneous
19. Be a sign of; foreshadow
prefigure
treatise
lechery
palliate
20. Soil; defile; make dirty
dys-
besmirch
aloft
residue
21. Luxuriate; take pleasure in warmth
bask
crinkle
dilapidated
doddering
22. Spiritual rebirth; Ex. regeneration of the prisoners; V. regenerate: give or obtain new life; reform spiritually
militant
discernible
regeneration
unconscionable
23. Harmonious; in agreement; N.
inadvertently
convulsion
consonant
penance
24. Infringe; encroach; influence; touch; collide with; Ex. The effects are impinging on every aspect of our lives.
impinge
headfirst
erotic
char
25. Belief that events are determined by forces or fates beyond one's control; ADJ. fatalistic; CF. fatal: causing death
historical
fatalism
outrage
ostensible
26. Practicing self-denial; avoiding physical pleasures and comforts; austere; Ex. ascetic life of Buddhist monks; N. asceticism
caucus
ascetic
iconoclastic
compendium
27. Person who does things too quickly without thinking; ADJ. hotheaded
quaint
hothead
quadruped
verge
28. Red or white cell in the blood
exalt
obscure
corpuscle
halcyon
29. Plunder; sack; Ex. despoil the village
self-indulgence
threat
dismantle
despoil
30. Large wave of water; a great swell or surge (of smoke); V: surge - swell - roll in billows
torpor
pertinacious
billow
import
31. Distinct; very noticeable; Ex. pronounced limp
pronounced
hue_and_cry
taciturn
amok(amuck)
32. Dull; impassive; showing little emotion when strong feelings are expected
promontory
duress
aberrant
stolid
33. Lacking in spirit or energy; languid
listless
whine
advocacy
quagmire
34. Make (a piece of needlework) by looping thread with a hooked needle; N. CF. crotchet
crochet
glossary
sound
replica
35. Fashionable; conforming to the current fashion
modish
proclivity
intractable
plight
36. Boxer; CF. pugilism: boxing
tan
zest
pugilist
dazzle
37. Lift by pushing up from below; increase; raise; N: push upward; increase
boost
libido
indisputable
solvent
38. Condition of being unable to feel pain
conscientious
charlatan
draw
analgesia
39. Derived by reasoning; V. deduce: infer; derive by reasoning
subterfuge
autocratic
deducible
consecrate
40. Please; satisfy; Ex. gratify a desire
gratify
baleful
quash
supposition
41. Substantial; essential; pertaining to the substance; substantial; considerable; Ex. substantive issues
contraband
satyr
prolong
substantive
42. Flexible; limber; pliant
supple
convoke
masquerade
acrid
43. Argue about prices (in an attempt to bargain)
haggle
traduce
masticate
sterile
44. Break (a law); defile; desecrate; assault sexually; Ex. violate graves
violate
bland
flippant
sedulous
45. Gradual intrusion; Ex. I resent all these encroachments on my valuable time; V. encroach: take another's possessions or right gradually or stealthily; intrude; Ex. encroach on/upon
cathartic
destitute
encroachment
scrap
46. Lack of premeditation; naturalness; freedom from constraint; ADJ. spontaneous: self-generated; unpremeditated; happening without being planned
exuberance
bait
talisman
spontaneity
47. Club; heavy-headed weapon; V.
bludgeon
eminent
hoodwink
garbled
48. Pacify; bring peace to; conciliate; appease
placate
dehydrate
skiff
molecule
49. Make perpetual; make something last for a long time; preserve from extinction; N. perpetuity
quarantine
tantrum
perpetuate
transmute
50. Comparison of one thing with another - using the word like or as
log
vernal
simile
martyr