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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. Bad-tempered; showing ill-humor; angry
mosaic
fetter
casualty
cross
2. Abnormal or deviant
scheme
corpus
aberrant
judicious
3. Father; become the father of; produce; give rise to
relinquish
drab
beget
comatose
4. Stipulation; condition in an agreement; provision
bedizen
proviso
allude
odium
5. Display of partiality toward a favored person
caliber
complicity
appreciate
favoritism
6. Annoyance and disappointment; vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride)
assimilate
authoritative
chagrin
dermatologist
7. Crafty; double-dealing; of the political doctrine of Machiavelli - which holds that craft and deceit are justified in pursuing political power
cross
cubicle
flag
Machiavellian
8. Mental or physical ability; role; position or duty; ability to accommodate; Ex. in my capacity as president
capacity
construe
buccaneer
enunciate
9. Readily acting in accordance with a rule - order - or the wishes or others; yielding; comforming to requirements
guy
compliant
diverge
slew
10. Dexterity; CF. sleight of hand: legerdemain; quickness of the hands in doing tricks
sleight
tremor
cant
malingerer
11. Traitor who aids invaders; CF. Vidkun Quisling
quisling
satirical
pillory
irreparable
12. Flirt; flirtatious woman; woman who tries to attract the admiration of men without sincere feelings; V.
cantankerous
enterprising
coquette
dire
13. Evasive; not frank; baffling; hard to grasp - catch - or understand; V. elude: escape from; escape the understanding or grasp of; Ex. elude the hunter; Ex. His name eludes me.
attentive
crux
laggard
elusive
14. Poison (of an animal); hatred; Ex. remarks full of venom; ADJ. venomous
raze
slapdash
swamp
venom
15. Varied; greatly diversified; Ex. multifarious activities
chorus
callus
cantata
multifarious
16. Encouraging; exhortive; marked by exhortation; CF. exhort
generality
pass_off
vestige
hortatory
17. Filthy; foul; base; vile; Ex. sordid bed/story
pitfall
molecule
sordid
lopsided
18. Sheer; transparent
indisputable
stipend
conviction
diaphanous
19. Explain away with the intention of deceiving or hiding faults
adroit
vigor
warrant
gloss_over
20. Shrink quivering as from fear; cringe
cower
forebears(forbears)
circumlocution
pinion
21. Frown angrily; N: angry frown
compilation
dazzle
scowl
effulgent
22. Casual and offhand; arrogant; N: knight
cavalier
dart
indite
contest
23. Disfranchise; deprive of a civil right; OP. enfranchise
mediate
disenfranchise
pacify
fritter
24. Obligatory; that must be done
deterrent
quintessence
peccadillo
compulsory
25. Invent or fabricate in a clever way (by improvisation); manage; Ex. contrive to attract his attention
passive
mutter
contrive
sacrilegious
26. Formal praise; encomium; Ex. I don't deserve such panegyrics.
panegyric
somatic
detraction
sonorous
27. Wrong or improper name; incorrect designation
tarnish
oblivious
artful
misnomer
28. Deceptive scheme; clever trick
acrid
infidel
stratagem
paean
29. Small church (in a prison - college - or hospital)
metaphor
sundry
recondite
chapel
30. Shine brightly without a flame (as of eyes or metals); show redness and heat (in the face) after hard work or because of strong feelings; N: light produced by a heated body; brilliance of a color
anneal
glow
idiom
reconcile
31. Deportment; connection
kudos
beatitude
hurtle
bearing
32. Give an indication beforehand; be a sign of (what is coming); portend; prefigure
vicar
proponent
foreshadow
delude
33. Shallow body of water or lake near a sea; lake separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs
lagoon
headstrong
thermal
vicar
34. Someone seeking revenge; source of downfall or ruin; CF. Nemesis
obscure
panache
quiver
nemesis
35. Introductory; of a preface
sepulcher
prefatory
equinox
invective
36. Staff officer assisting the commander; assistant
incorporeal
adjutant
graduated
servile
37. Wandering; V. migrate: move from one region and settle in another; move periodically from one region to another
exorbitant
regal
calculated
migratory
38. Defeat; frustrate; prevent from being successful; thwart; CF. fail
foil
quack
distract
desperado
39. Stir up; disturb
bilk
agitate
pander
prominent
40. Selected passage (written or musical) taken from a longer work; V.
excerpt
leeway
vernal
regime
41. Scrap of cloth; ADJ. ragged: old and torn; seeming unfinished and imperfect; Ex. ragged debut/performance
rag
vernal
chisel
riddle
42. Song of praise or joy; Ex. paeans celebrating the victory
avuncular
paean
guileless
effective
43. Stoical; impassive; unmoved by joy or grief; N. CF. stoicism
rankle
jollity
stoic
furtive
44. Powerful; convincing; persuasive; greatly influential
irrefutable
amicable
remnant
potent
45. Handle roughly; batter; injure by beating; Ex. mauled by his overexcited fans; N: heavy long-handled hammer
blues
antediluvian
arcane
maul
46. Explain
ruminate
expound
parasite
dribble
47. Heap; piled-up mass; embankment; lateral tilting (as of an aircraft in turning); V: pile up; protect with a bank; tilt in turning
mete
bank
slander
imperil
48. Teachings in general; particular principle (religious - legal - etc.) taught; dogma; tenet; ADJ. doctrinal
cringe
doctrine
rhapsodize
unfrock
49. Introduction (to a poem or play)
prologue
leeway
commonwealth
lexicographer
50. Prepare by mixing or combining; make up in concert; devise (something false) so as to deceive; Ex. concoct an elaborate excuse for being late; N. concoction
savor
abrasive
misapprehension
concoct