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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. Lying below; fundamental
tanner
underlying
derelict
miserly
2. Done with speed; quick; N. expedition
scurvy
plasticity
migratory
expeditious
3. Underlying character of a culture - group - etc.; character or ideas peculiar to a specific person - group - or culture; Ex. the company ethos
scavenge
ramification
ethos
avow
4. Brilliant; splendid in appearance; dazzling; glorious
impugn
rampant
leash
resplendent
5. Dissimilar; mixed; not homogeneous; consisting of dissimilar elements or plants
heterogeneous
luminous
putrescent
bulge
6. Binding agreement between two groups or people; compact; V: enter into a covenant; promise
definitive
impede
covenant
damn
7. Embezzle
defalcate
splice
tipple
bard
8. Army unit made up of four or more companies
unassuming
fester
intimate
battalion
9. Watchful; on the alert; watchfully awake; alert to spot danger; N. vigilance
confidential
vigilant
subdue
turbid
10. Wriggle; move from side to side with irregular twisting motions
wiggle
divine
nebulous
insensate
11. Tax of one-tenth (contributed to a church); V: pay a tithe
gruff
dominant
tithe
pretension
12. Make unconscious or numb as by a blow; amaze; astound
subpoena
stun
serendipity
dint
13. Burlesque; act of leaving the ground
takeoff
sordid
gusty
flag
14. Too improbable to be believed; implausible; Ex. far-fetched story
far-fetched
irreconcilable
uninhibited
plenary
15. Frustrate; perplex
boon
baffle
grandiose
gnome
16. Intense sexual desire; intense eagerness; V.
sheathe
lust
tantrum
numismatist
17. Social environment; means of expression; Ex. feel out of one's milieu; Ex. His proper milieu is watercolor.
prototype
milieu
infernal
fertile
18. Seasonings; spices
hide
condiments
verbose
pharisaical
19. Pertaining to soil deposits left by running water
remit
imponderable
gazette
alluvial
20. Fastidious; finicky; easily upset
tenacity
nautical
industrious
fussy
21. Violate (a law); encroach (the right of another person)
precipitous
implausible
infringe
warranty
22. Give; use; refrain from harming; save from experiencing; exempt; Ex. spare me 5 minutes; Ex. Take this money and spare my life; Ex. The emperor was spared the onus; ADJ: kept in reserve; free for other use; unoccupied; Ex. spare time
spare
comely
cynosure
bleak
23. Cause; urge; provoke; provide a cue (for an actor); ADJ: done without delay; done at the right time; punctual; on time; N: reminder or cue
bulwark
salubrious
prompt
recant
24. Gallop slowly
flora
recalcitrant
lope
effervescence
25. Pucker; contract (lips) into wrinkles; N: wallet
equilibrium
groove
accoutre
purse
26. Expressing possibility; latent; N: capacity for growth
aghast
potential
derivation
abase
27. Painting in only one color; ADJ.
dyspeptic
monochrome
finite
avuncular
28. Support; prop up; N. stationary structure to support wall; Ex. flying buttress
holocaust
buttress
exquisite
glamor
29. Of or causing sepsis; putrid; producing putrefaction; N. sepsis: poisoning of part of the body (producing pus)
indite
convene
septic
slight
30. Science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
acoustics
bolster
parley
mordant
31. Intention; purpose; meaning; V: claim; profess; Ex. order which purports to be signed by the general
purport
aboriginal
romp
verbiage
32. Having only one color
ulcer
monochromatic
hale
recast
33. Glass water bottle; decanter
pulmonary
controvert
helm
carafe
34. Article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly
treatise
catastrophe
periphery
enthrall
35. Pertaining to farewell; N: farewell address (esp. at graduation exercises)
clique
valedictory
natty
glib
36. Easily burned; N. CF. combustion
adjacent
combustible
importunate
rasp
37. Indisputable; impossible to dispute; not open to question; unquestionable
progenitor
incontrovertible
apparition
ambrosia
38. Unspoiled; remaining in a pure state; characteristic of earlier times; primitive; Ex. an old book in pristine condition
pristine
unseemly
resolve
slick
39. Free from worries; having no problems
carefree
stem_from
smug
uncanny
40. (of a sound) grate on (eg. nerves); make a harsh noise; have an unpleasant effect; rub with something rough; Ex. The cat's tongue rasped my hand.
bereft
rasp
jollity
ethos
41. Pastoral song; song for several singers without instruments
oblivion
madrigal
augment
compost
42. Clumsy (in social behavior); coarse and uncouth
unkempt
laud
gauche
flinch
43. Desert; abandon; renounce
rotunda
precedent
forsake
purgatory
44. Design composed of one or more initials of a name; V.
venal
subside
dispirited
monogram
45. People of standing(rank or position); people of good family or high social position; class of people just below nobility
forte
accord
unwonted
gentry
46. Ceremonial staff used as a symbol of authority; clublike medieval weapon
fruitful
adversary
truncate
mace
47. Fantastic; comically hideous; strange and unnatural (causing fear or amusement)
skeptic
grotesque
transmute
malicious
48. Thoroughly soaked; dull or stupid as if from drink
fabricate
sodden
germinal
tendentious
49. State of having two opposite qualities
polarity
ambience
purse
ascendancy
50. Teaching; art of education
genuflect
quiver
pedagogy
procrastinate