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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. Adjust to climate or environment; adapt
skimp
daunt
fusillade
acclimate
2. Subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will; Ex. authoritarian regime/father
consequential
authoritarian
repine
vanguard
3. Very high
acclivity
lofty
tedium
indignation
4. Scanty; inadequate
meager
steadfast
expatiate
notoriety
5. Ceremonial staff used as a symbol of authority; clublike medieval weapon
mace
mirage
fit
cursory
6. Stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court)
contumacious
minute
inexorable
rampant
7. Roundness; sonorousness of speech
minatory
rent
rarefied
rotundity
8. Quick or willing to receive (ideas - suggestions - etc.); Ex. receptive to the proposal
dialectical
obsequy
receptive
growl
9. Doctor who treats ailments of the feet; chiropodist; N. podiatrics
erudite
podiatrist
tantrum
dynamic
10. Blunt; abrupt; curt; not wanting to waste time being nice
heterogeneous
expiate
brusque
career
11. Harass - annoy - torment (by repeated attacks); raid
harry
scorch
wrongheaded
laceration
12. Brief - comprehensive summary; ADJ. compendious
obsessive
compendium
raiment
factitious
13. Law enacted by the legislature
surreptitious
statute
prelude
aptitude
14. Undeveloped; rudimentary; N. embryo: organism in the early stage of development
negligible
embryonic
nourish
sear
15. Whimsical; visionary; imaginary; produced by imagination; Ex. fanciful scheme
sloth
expurgate
impudence
fanciful
16. Prayer for help (used in invoking); calling upon as a reference or support; act of invoking
phlegmatic
invocation
transmute
mime
17. Unfriendliness; hatred; enmity; ADJ. hostile
contempt
verisimilitude
aquiline
hostility
18. Piece of sculpture showing a person's head - shoulders - and upper chest; V: break up; arrest; Ex. crimebuster
foppish
bust
affected
lank
19. Imitate or mimic (a person's behavior or manner)
droop
gingerly
ape
despise
20. Raised platform for speech-making; pulpit
rostrum
dowse
vertex
daze
21. Lustful
recipient
diabolical
opiate
lascivious
22. Go through or across
dignitary
traverse
inconsistency
temperament
23. Be violently disturbed; boil; (of a liquid) move about wildly as if boiling; Ex. The nation was seething with discontent.
seethe
labile
proscenium
hindrance
24. Fret; complain; be annoyed; Ex. repine over the undone work
opalescent
scale
pedestrian
repine
25. Rushing stream; flood; Ex. The rain fell in torrents.
shove
torrent
derivative
mingle
26. Resolve; firmness of purpose; measurement or calculation; decision
oblivious
determination
titter
drastic
27. Strange; mysterious; Ex. uncanny knack
uncanny
precipitate
hallucination
browbeat
28. Diligent; hard-working; N. industry
plausible
purse
industrious
practical
29. Quality of being true; lasting truth or principle; Ex. the verity of his testimony; Ex. one of the eternal verities
vile
accommodate
staccato
verity
30. Waterspout carved in grotesque figures on a building
marked
gargoyle
progenitor
noisome
31. Wordy; N. verbosity
verbose
subservient
capitulate
broil
32. Chief; most important; N: priest; cardinal number: number that shows quantity rather thatn order
fuss:
cardinal
transmute
sleeper
33. Very small object or insect-like creature; small coin
mite
correlate
salvage
terminal
34. Monumental tomb; large stately tomb; CF. Mausolos
filth
suffocate
mausoleum
papyrus
35. Repentant; N.
threat
penitent
circumscribe
natation
36. Underline; emphasize
gall
gestate
sportive
underscore
37. Lacking rhythm or regularity; N. arrhythmia
blithe(blithesome)
gaffe
arrhythmic
sartorial
38. Disloyal; lacking loyality; V. disaffect: cause to lose affection or loyalty
disaffected
collaborate
extrude
dishonor
39. Roll in mud; indulge in; (of a ship) roll in a rough sea; become helpless; Ex. wallow in the mud/luxury
relapse
don
acoustics
wallow
40. Quality of being deeply moving; keenness of emotion; ADJ. poignant: touching; deeply moving; (of sorrow - grief - etc.) painful; keenly distressing to the mind; Ex. poignant memory/anxiety; CF. prick
vacillate
trifle
low
poignancy
41. Keep as precious; cherish
vital
consort
treasure
inebriated
42. Rhythmical throbbing of arteries; brief sudden change in a normally constant quantity; V: pulsate
pulse
conjugal
natation
culprit
43. Yielding to another; ceding
quell
aviary
cession
incline
44. Agree; coincide; happen at the same time
exemplify
prompt
concur
fake
45. Exercising the most influence; high and easily seen; stronger than the other part of a system; not recessive
apoplexy
purse
asperity
dominant
46. Main wooden stem of a tree; human body excluding the head and limbs; torso; prehensile nose of an elephant
interrogate
terse
pivotal
trunk
47. Ancestors
specious
forebears(forbears)
felon
insensible
48. Very wicked
orgy
nefarious
impuissance
misanthrope
49. Loyalty
claustrophobia
hoary
allegiance
adage
50. Control; rule; enjoy a commanding position in; overlook from a height
dominate
bromide
cistern
ostentatious