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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. Fantastic; comically hideous; strange and unnatural (causing fear or amusement)
tan
vociferous
maroon
grotesque
2. Large wave of water; a great swell or surge (of smoke); V: surge - swell - roll in billows
transitory
troth
upshot
billow
3. Separate; part; CF. asunder
regent
sunder
natty
engaging
4. Attacking cherished traditions; N. iconoclast: one who attacks traditional ideas; one who destroys sacred images
incarnation
iconoclastic
analgesia
gull
5. Pertaining to disease; N. pathology: study of disease
filial
schematic
extol
pathological
6. Curative; N. therapy
coquette
penumbra
chassis
therapeutic
7. Collarbone
commodious
transpire
clavicle
orifice
8. Disparage; depreciate
macerate
founder
sinister
belittle
9. Closed circular line around an area; circumference; regularly repeated journey from place to place
circuit
culinary
ordain
antiseptic
10. Large in quantity; generous; Ex. handsome reward
handsome
confine
suborn
demolition
11. Slave; bondage; slavery; Ex. Her beauty held him in thrall; CF. enthrall
reprisal
sophisticated
gravity
thrall
12. Story-teller; one who tells stories with wit and skill
raconteur
fortuitous
imperturbable
complement
13. Speak violently or excitedly; rave; talk excitedly showing anger; scold; make a grandiloquent speech; Ex. The priest ranted about the devil.
solder
thrall
libido
rant
14. Repay; pay back
rustic
reimburse
jingoist
sluice
15. Faithless lover; flirt
inept
check
soporific
philanderer
16. Exaggeration; overstatement; ADJ. hyperbolic: of hyperbole; of a hyperbola
filch
hypothetical
serpentine
hyperbole
17. Happiness; appropriateness (of a remark - choice - etc.); quality of being felicitous
felicity
violate
righteous
crypt
18. Scold with biting harshness; censure strongly; strip the skin off
dwindle
sever
engaging
excoriate
19. Desert; abandon; renounce
camp
veneer
forsake
versatile
20. Rubbing away; tending to grind down
toll
orator
abrasive
archaeology
21. Bully; intimidate
superfluous
paramount
browbeat
marrow
22. Width; extent
breadth
pallid
unfledged
prate
23. Strong; vigorous
effulgent
amble
robust
prescience
24. Excessive interest in one's self; belief that one should be interested in one's self rather than in others; selfishness; ADJ. egoistic - egoistical
healthy
linger
egoism
prude
25. Kind in a generous way (to someone less important)
delineate
reek
gracious
homeostasis
26. Occurring irregularly; intermittent
hue_and_cry
sporadic
jetsam
vent
27. Sudden sharp turn or twist; startling twist; caprice; idiosyncrasy; peculiarity of behavior; Ex. by a quirk of fate
repertoire
fluster
quirk
quandary
28. Stale (in odor or taste); spoiled by age; CF. moist
combustible
musty
straggle
lexicographer
29. Disrepute; ill fame
notoriety
abash
trough
effervescence
30. Blessing; benefit; something very helpful
boon
pestle
forthcoming
accord
31. Doubts
misgivings
bivouac
regeneration
dermatologist
32. Ceremonial staff used as a symbol of authority; clublike medieval weapon
soar
mace
pristine
secrete
33. Yield to; gratify; allow oneself a special pleasure; Ex. indulge one's every whim/a child/in a big cigarette; N. indulgence
parity
plebeian
indulge
dais
34. Ornament richly (a shield or flag); N. emblazonment
cadence
recast
conclusive
emblazon
35. Features especially of the face; distinctive shape or contour of the face; CF. line
lineaments
ambrosia
intellect
charm
36. Dig up; unearth; OP. inter
sway
bereft
beeline
disinter
37. Seniority by birth; state of being the first-born child; right of the eldest child (to inherit the entire property of one or both parents)
bestial
primogeniture
idolatry
limbo
38. Plot outline; screenplay(script for a movie); opera libretto; outline of possible future events
nirvana
feign
scenario
homily
39. Fond of books and reading
bookish
precipitous
inimitable
dissolution
40. Accidental; casual; happening by chance
affable
discernible
adventitious
juxtapose
41. Keeping watch (during normal sleeping hours); Ex. all-night vigil
comatose
vigil
glimmer
rejoinder
42. Shove; bump; push against (someone) rather roughly; Ex. jostled by the crowds
domicile
superimpose
elysian
jostle
43. Entreating; beseeching; N.
genuflect
suppliant
comport
pandemic
44. Infinite; limitless
dribble
mishap
illimitable
pediatrician
45. Worldly wise and urbane; refined; complex; N. sophistication; V. sophisticate
gobble
confide
mesmerize
sophisticated
46. Flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; V.
coquette
funereal
coddle
bid
47. Harmful; causing injury
disquietude
apex
injurious
indignation
48. Unsuccessful; fruitless
trident
dour
thrive
abortive
49. Analysis; cutting apart in order to examine
dissection
ellipsis
prodigy
pacifist
50. False; counterfeit; forged; illogical; Ex. spurious arguments
avantgarde
spurious
benison
pry