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GRE Vocab
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gre
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english
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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. Hermit; loner; ADJ. reclusive
sedate
philology
contiguous
recluse
2. An act of yielding; conceding; something conceded; point - right - etc. given unwillingly; privilege of maintaining a business in a certain place; Ex. oil concessions in the North sea; CF. concessionaire
concession
impassable
debilitate
facet
3. Incriminate; involve incriminatingly; show to be involved (in a crime); Ex. implicate someone in the crime
swagger
despoil
canvass
implicate
4. Fluent (with insincerity or superficiality); facile; slick
glib
sadistic
mawkish
sedentary
5. Substance causing vomiting; ADJ.
anecdote
emetic
primal
ferret
6. Discomposed; confused
indulge
preeminent
discombobulated
herald
7. Size or volume (esp. when very large); main part; Ex. The bulk of the work has already been done; ADJ. bulky: having great size
bulk
pantomime
transition
gaffe
8. Revoke; annul
clavicle
repeal
impregnate
impute
9. Violent; hasty; rash; impulsive; without careful thought; Ex. impetuous decision
analogous
impetuous
indecisive
infamous
10. Goblet; consecrated cup
despoil
fell
introvert
chalice
11. Liberal; wasteful; generous or wasteful in giving or using; abundant; profuse; great; Ex. decorated lavishly; V. give in abundance
pseudonym
bestow
stupor
lavish
12. Ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant
sagacious
papyrus
vying
magisterial
13. Period of ideal or peak condition; earliest or beginning stage; Ex. in the prime of life; Ex. prime of the year(spring); ADJ: first in importance or rank; first; V: make ready; prepare
dirge
prime
indulgent
cow
14. Causing deep feelings of wonder - joy - respect - etc.; exalted; noble and uplifting; utter
lexicographer
sublime
flotsam
hem
15. Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
foreboding
temporal
desultory
shoddy
16. Willingness to take new ventures; initiative; business organization; plan (that is difficult or daring); Ex. their latest enterprise to sail round the world in a small boat
stereotype
bard
enterprise
germinate
17. Run away secretly with the intention of getting married
macerate
elope
errant
opportune
18. (of a thick liquid) pass or flow slowly; N: mud or thick liquid as at the bottom of a river
ooze
headstrong
languor
grunt
19. Correct a false impression; undeceive; free from a wrong belief
spoilsport
floe
exempt
disabuse
20. Self-evident truth; something assumed without proof; V: assume the truth of (as a basis of an argument)
adversity
rankle
misadventure
postulate
21. Speed
reverie
hovel
velocity
fracas
22. Burn the surface of; char or burn; brand; parch; cause (a plant) to wither
ethos
bigotry
matrimony
sear
23. Commit an offense; do (something wrong)
synoptic
turpitude
regatta
perpetrate
24. Increase in size or effect; expand; broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger; Ex. amplify one's remarks with a graph
nautical
amplify
piety
sherbet
25. Send to a person or place for sale; deliver officially; entrust; put into the care of another; set apart (for a special purpose); N. consignment; CF. consignor - consignee
subsistence
bound
abet
consign
26. Advantage; anything that brings helpl - advantage - or profit; money provided by the government to the people; fund-raising public entertainment; Ex. unemployment benefit; V: receive benefits; be beneficial to; give benefits
gnome
benefit
realm
autopsy
27. Twisting force; force producing rotation
breach
torque
exquisite
panegyric
28. Operate with one's hands; control or play upon (people - forces - etc.) artfully; maneuver; Ex. how to manipulate publicity and men; ADJ. manipulative
gobble
discriminating
manipulate
spoonerism
29. Related to a school; not practical or directly useful
monogram
academic
conjure
staid
30. Society ruled by the wealthy
plutocracy
momentous
pillory
thematic
31. 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.
submerge
sound
remission
sporadic
32. Ability to be molded; ADJ. plastic: capable of being shaped or molded; Ex. plastic material such as clay
shuffle
tendentious
plasticity
sanguinary
33. Doing evil; N. maleficience
premeditate
maleficient
raze
erroneous
34. Weakness
infirmity
stanch
shackle
commemorate
35. Rub out; remove the surface of
lode
efface
frolicsome
pedagogy
36. Convincing
cogent
soothsayer
fertile
internecine
37. Relating to the art of debate; mutual or reciprocal; Ex. dialectical situation; N. dialectic: art of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
agape
dialectical
atrophy
suavity
38. Playful remark or act; V. act or speak playfully
apiary
vital
jest
bolt
39. Inner excitement or exuberance; showing high spirits; emitting bubbles forming inside; bubbling from fermentation or carbonation; ADJ. effervescent; V. effervesce
mitigate
expatriate
effervescence
brag
40. Bizzare; peculiar; unconventional
practicable
outlandish
trite
dormer
41. Half asleep; drowsy; N. somnolence
somnolent
maelstrom
taunt
pastry
42. Walk with a heavy step; travel on foot; N: vagrant; one who travels aimlessly about; long walk; sound of heavy walking
tramp
solicit
amenable
gambit
43. Swamp gas; heavy vaporous atmosphere often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence; noxious atmosphere or influence
malapropos
ungainly
miasma
punitive
44. Quack; pretender to knowledge (esp. in medicine)
berserk
charlatan
credence
talon
45. Person of high rank or position
apologist
noisome
dignitary
consanguineous(consanguine)
46. State of being undecided; anxiety or apprehension resulting from uncertainty
suspense
hygiene
acumen
flora
47. Expose to slander
traduce
ordeal
purchase
wan
48. Worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal
extort
mealymouthed
desiccate
secular
49. Charlatan; boastful pretender
mountebank
fret
knack
facile
50. Disagree
imprudent
grievance
virtual
dissent