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GRE Vocab
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gre
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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. Indirect or subtle (derogatory) hint; insinuation; Ex. sexual innuendo
maim
innuendo
consequential
fortuitous
2. Tight; strained; tense; ready; OP. slack
fleck
callow
feline
taut
3. Doctor who treats mental diseases
deadlock
conventional
psychiatrist
resurge
4. Designed to create ill will or envy; tending to rouse ill will or envy; Ex. invidious comparison
enclave
bestial
groom
invidious
5. Decree or command; grant holy orders; predestine; install as a minister - priest - or rabbi; N. ordainment; CF. ordination
canine
avocation
ordain
chase
6. Mosaic; inlaid; Ex. tessellated pattern
ineluctable
barterer
tessellated
psyche
7. Pleasant; friendly; in agreement with one's tastes and nature; Ex. congenial weather
hothead
baleful
scale
congenial
8. Explosion
detonation
prurient
dilute
disjunction
9. Bad-tempered complaint; person who keeps complaining; V: complain; grumble
reimburse
exposure
macabre
grouch
10. Deceive; delude
disembark
paste
hoodwink
titillate
11. Powerful; strong; potent; N. puissance: power
fodder
contempt
puissant
obese
12. Brief explanation of words used in the text
contend
brawn
finery
glossary
13. Critical remark; V. animadvert: comment critically with disapproval
expropriate
gentle
animadversion
precipitous
14. (of words or statements) ambiguous; intentionally misleading; (of behavior) questionable; OP. unequivocal
equivocal
diverse
docile
lagoon
15. Quality of pleasing; amulet; action or formula thought to have magical power; spell; V: attract; cast a spell on; bewitch
mongrel
charm
genus
anecdote
16. Good-fellowship; CF. comrade
virus
chore
camaraderie
lag
17. Unoriginal; obtained from another source; Ex. derivative prose style; N.
derivative
torpor
tundra
vouch
18. Insurmountable; unbeatable; Ex. insuperable difficulties
infraction
quarry
perceptive
insuperable
19. Abstruse; not easily understood; profound; secret
exceptionable
recondite
sneak
vagary
20. Shallow body of water or lake near a sea; lake separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs
rotund
lagoon
foresight
clout
21. Raging mad; insane; N. maniac: insane person; CF. mania: disorder of the mind; intense enthusiasm
maniacal
sate
infringe
strew
22. Exclamation; Ex. 'Ouch''
alcove
exodus
enduring
interjection
23. Determination; resolution; firmness of purpose
balm
Epicurean
resolve
fallacious
24. Climb by crawling with difficulties; scramble
clamber
vulnerable
engross
adapt
25. Settle accounts; pay off (a debt); clear up; eliminate; kill or abolish
rider
precipice
pantomime
liquidate
26. Sharp projection from fishhook - arrow - or other object; openly cutting remark
cede
barb
stalemate
vilify
27. Not thick; thinly scattered; scanty
sparse
ecosystem
residual
gustatory
28. Too particular; fussy; difficult to please; too concerned with unimportant details or quality; Ex. finicky about her food
finicky
deluge
lustrous
clapper
29. Decay; fall to a lower level (of morality - civilization - or art); ADJ. decadent
metropolis
insurrection
decadence
feral
30. Disobedience; rebelliousness; ADJ. insubordinate
deride
insubordination
egoism
amorphous
31. Following; attendants
jaundice
retinue
unsullied
guy
32. (of someone) unfriendly; hostile; (of something) harmful; detrimental; CF. enemy
mobile
shackle
inimical
sleazy
33. Yield to; gratify; allow oneself a special pleasure; Ex. indulge one's every whim/a child/in a big cigarette; N. indulgence
concordat
indulge
matrimony
fester
34. Mysterious; set down in an ancient alphabet; N. rune: one of the letters of an alphabet used by ancient Germanic peoples (cut on stone or wood); magic charm
runic
austere
germane
psychosomatic
35. Humiliate by embarassing excessively; shame; punish the flesh; discipline (one's body) by self-denial; Ex. mortified by her blunder; Ex. mortify the flesh; CF. cause to die
grunt
resolve
maculated
mortify
36. Not requited; not reciprocated; Ex. unrequited love
unrequited
hysteria
patronize
alliteration
37. Suffering from indigestion; N. dyspepsia: indigestion; difficulty in digesting food
append
spate
dyspeptic
turncoat
38. Trail of ship or other object through water; path of something that has gone before; Ex. hunger followed in the wake of the war
uninhibited
piecemeal
wake
conifer
39. Irregular; odd; unconventional; whimsical; bizarre; not concentric
engender
memorialize
drone
eccentric
40. Question severely; cook on a grill; broil; N: cooking surface of parallel metal bars
munificent
touchstone
grill
squander
41. Lack of self-confidence or courage
convention
timidity
mellifluous
hygiene
42. Language; manner of speaking; idiom; Ex. in legal/common parlance
allure
apologist
parlance
mural
43. (of the skin) yellowish and unhealthy-looking; sickly in color; Ex. sallow complexion due to jaundice
sallow
inalienable
court
ferocious
44. Discord
privation
dissonance
dichotomy
dereliction
45. Dying; at the point of death; CF. death
moribund
suffocate
manumit
ravel
46. Not noticing; disregarding
colossus
heedless
perversion
eerie
47. Relentless; unyielding; implacable; not capable of being changed by entreaty or efforts; Ex. inexorable price rises
inexorable
untoward
consequential
fetish(fetich)
48. Strip a priest or minister of church authority; unfrock
pulsate
quarry
defrock
seamy
49. Floor made of wood strips inlaid in a mosaic like matter; CF. strip: long narrow piece
personify
apiary
parquet
monumental
50. That cannot be impeached; beyond doubt or question; blameless and exemplary
unimpeachable
soluble
lunatic
presentiment