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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. Become unsteady and fall down
superannuated
rapacious
topple
collusion
2. Produced by imagination; fanciful; mystical; showing foresight; N: one having foresight; one given to speculative impractical ideas
executive
incongruity
visionary
emblazon
3. Increase gradually (as the moon); grow
sustenance
fruitful
wax
entail
4. Contact that keeps parties in communication; communication between groups; one that maintains communication; go-between; secret love affair; V. liaise: keep a connection
gesticulation
liaison
fresco
credential
5. Propaganda pamphlet (esp. by a religious or political group); expanse of land; region of indefinite size; system of related organs; Ex. digestive tract
freebooter
libertine
dull
tract
6. Having no motion; unchanging; lacking development; N. stasis: stable state
diligence
probe
static
teetotalism
7. Person of no importance; nonexistence
seclusion
tantrum
nonentity
aphorism
8. Outward sign; Ex. a token of our gratitude
peruse
token
malapropism
obdurate
9. Spread randomly; sprinkle; scatter; Ex. flower girl strewing rose petals
polemic
strew
gibberish
chaffing
10. Belittle
arcane
disparage
nourishment
comely
11. Cord used to draw and tie together two opposite edges (as of a shoe); delicate fabric made of fine threads; V: draw together by tying a lace
torpor
lace
inadvertently
subliminal
12. Convert (hide) into leather; make brown by exposure to the sun
tan
commensurate
beget
homely
13. Rise or fly high in the air; Ex. The rocket soared into the sky.
deserts
agenda
soar
affiliation
14. Unsuccessful; fruitless
mite
abortive
breadth
enclave
15. Sheer; transparent
blurt
doggerel
enfranchise
diaphanous
16. Direct vote by all the people
uproar
transitory
referendum
soliloquy
17. Bitter scolding or denunciation; invective; abuse
diatribe
chalice
rancid
egoism
18. Pester; annoy continually with demands; persuade by asking again and again; Ex. The children badgered me into taking them into the cinema; N: a kind of mountain animal
hypothetical
badger
grimace
renege
19. Lacking luster(shine; gloss); dull
recalcitrant
stalwart
exceptionable
lackluster
20. Trick which makes someone take action; practical joke; Ex. hoax mail; V.
charm
recline
snuffle
hoax
21. Open widely; open the mouth wide; stare wonderingly with the mouth open; CF. agape
solicitous
gape
effluvium
tithe
22. Give a bodily form to; incorporate; include
ironic
obnoxious
embody
averse
23. Hypnotize; N. mesmerism; CF. Franz Mesmer
seasoned
fuddle
mesmerize
barrage
24. Utter a deep guttural sound (as a pig does); N.
grunt
stratum
sardonic
nautical
25. Disheveled; uncared for in appearance; not combed; CF. comb
clamber
unkempt
espouse
shack
26. Gather; store up; amass
throes
garner
expostulation
murky
27. Correct a false impression; undeceive; free from a wrong belief
overturn
disabuse
bleak
tonsure
28. Sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing)
proxy
galley
acuity
paranoia
29. Boaster; bragger
lucre
braggart
founder
infer
30. Items of business at a meeting
agenda
tenacious
aphasia
bulk
31. Give up; do without
glare
addiction
fake
forgo(forego)
32. Length of time something lasts
initiate
haphazard
duration
automaton
33. Deceive; delude
virtue
hoodwink
hygiene
promulgate
34. Change position or place; exchange (one thing) for another; change in direction or position; Ex. shift the stolen goods; N. group of workers which takes turns with other groups; working period of such a group
shift
accelerate
advent
trance
35. (of a liquid) having the sediment disturbed; muddy; thick
turbid
fugitive
scrupulous
effete
36. Many in number or kind; numerous; varied
grunt
innovation
manifold
mogul
37. Pommel; beat or pound with fists
pummel
astute
aggrandize
shambles
38. Clever in deceiving; secretive; not telling one's intentions
sly
misnomer
aloof
blare
39. Fly; fly or move lightly or quickly; dart lightly; pass swiftly by; Ex. a bee flitting from flower to flower
esoteric
flit
curator
subaltern
40. Additional object; useful but not essential thing
importune
garnish
prescience
accessory
41. Introduce as a subject; moot; open up
stem
broach
barrister
loquacious
42. Loud or harsh roar or screech; dazzling blaze of light
laceration
blare
sham
malicious
43. Someone who advises insurance companies
misconstrue
cipher
actuary
tractable
44. Call together; Ex. convoke Parliament; N. convocation
aplomb
legislature
eccentric
convoke
45. Father and ruler of a family or tribe
tint
chore
patriarch
sow
46. Violate (a law); encroach (the right of another person)
infringe
wanton
perdition
embezzlement
47. Division into two opposite parts; split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
brag
dichotomy
loquacious
libidinous
48. Distasteful; disagreeable; morally offensive; Ex. unsavory activity/reputation
meticulous
ramify
enterprising
unsavory
49. Resulting from compulsion
transport
compulsive
rationale
molecule
50. Lacking energy or vitality; weary; sluggish; listless
torpedo
nauseate
languid
pellucid