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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
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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. Tendency to disbelief
rhetoric
oligarchy
droll
incredulity
2. Wind or turn in its course; follow a winding or turning course; move aimlessly and idly
chide
hummock
congeal
meander
3. Prohibit; forbid; N.
ken
interdict
chagrin
adorn
4. Indirect or subtle (derogatory) hint; insinuation; Ex. sexual innuendo
consequential
acclimate
innuendo
felicity
5. Lure; persuade to do (something wrong); attract; tempt
antipathy
entice
spat
reserve
6. Wander aimlessly (physically or mentally); digress
humid
contentious
lull
ramble
7. Causing plague; tending to cause death; baneful; N. pestilence: fatal epidemic disease (esp. bubonic plague)
depredation
pestilential(pestilent)
scale
lunar
8. Flavored dessert ice
sherbet
ratify
stock
slew
9. Distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds)
impropriety
derision
jaunty
disseminate
10. Storehouse
drivel
Elysium
despondent
repository
11. Dark; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; CF. shadow
weird
reverberate
somber
replete
12. Speech or writing with no meaning; foolish behavior or language; Ex. make (a) nonsense of: spoil; cause to fail
verdant
latitude
censor
nonsense
13. Narrow space between things
interstice
embrace
traduce
stately
14. Having no previous example; novel; unparalleled
trifling
disputatious
unprecedented
sear
15. Gather; assemble (troops); Ex. muster up one's strength for the ordeal; N.
muster
transmute
scrutinize
hatch
16. Mental disorder marked by confusion; uncontrolled excitement; ADJ. delirious
annihilate
delirium
nefarious
spectrum
17. Occurring irregularly; intermittent
sporadic
precarious
ciliated
confidential
18. Move furtively; ADJ. slinky: stealthy; furtive; sneaky (as in ambush)
skirmish
slink
sear
enigma
19. Inner excitement or exuberance; showing high spirits; emitting bubbles forming inside; bubbling from fermentation or carbonation; ADJ. effervescent; V. effervesce
canter
forthright
intransigence
effervescence
20. Enclose; surround; N. environs: surrounding area (as of a city)
causal
fulminate
environ
eulogistic
21. Instituting; (building for the) organization; established custom - practice - or relationship in a society; mental hospital; Ex. institution of marriage
flora
predispose
rational
institution
22. Sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals; N: sound of a bell; fixed tax or charge
denomination
toll
brackish
argot
23. Trip especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense
junket
necromancy
implore
termination
24. Absence of contradictions; uniformity; degree of thickness or firmness; Ex. consistency of thick cream; CF. viscous
consistency
peripatetic
wallow
emanate
25. Chances; probability; disagreement; Ex. The odds are that it will rain. Ex. at odds with
rustle
odds
vacillate
irony
26. Bully; intimidate
riveting
defoliate
browbeat
cleft
27. Inclined to; likely to (suffer); prostrate; lying with the front downward; Ex. prone to disease/make mistakes; Ex. accident-prone
indignity
quixotic
prone
leery
28. Fitful; periodic; of or like a spasm; N. spasm: sudden involuntary muscular contraction; sudden burst of energy or emotion
oblivion
nostalgia
spasmodic
mauve
29. One part at a time; gradually; in stages; Ex. read a novel piecemeal
mite
piecemeal
clamor
inclement
30. Isolation of a person - place - or ship to prevent spread of infection; V: isolate in quarantine
anecdote
waif
quarantine
austere
31. Position giving an advantage (such as a strategic point); CF. vantagepoint
grim
pulmonary
vantage
neologism
32. Energetic; vigorously active
gouge
dynamic
paste
glean
33. Windy
orifice
gusty
whelp
ingratiate
34. Green crust on old bronze works or copper; tone slowly taken by varnished painting
usury
salubrious
patina
dispassionate
35. Shameless and noticeable; blatant; bold; unconcealed; having no covering on the face; Ex. barefaced lie
humane
beneficial
barefaced
queer
36. Gold and silver in the form of bars
mauve
breach
constituency
bullion
37. Behavior; bearing
variegated
archaic
demeanor
mollify
38. Building (of imposing size)
dissimulate
spectral
derision
edifice
39. Clothe; N: clothing; array; apparel
libido
scurvy
rider
attire
40. Achieve by cleverness or trick; wiggle out; fake; Ex. She tried to wangle an invitation to the party.
wangle
subversive
consonance
patriarch
41. Dormant; temporarily inactive; at rest; N. quiescence
atavism
ejaculation
unfetter
quiescent
42. Conducive to mental or physical health; healthful
vitiate
skiff
wholesome
holster
43. Congeal; thicken; clot; N. coagulant
toss
coagulate
foible
negligible
44. Picture made of small colorful inlaid tiles; ADJ.
gloat
mosaic
arable
recurrent
45. Rude; insensitive
seamy
frenzied
terminology
boorish
46. Diligent
rarefied
assiduous
distill
spartan
47. Close relationship; emotional closeness; harmony
brook
atavism
rapport
couple
48. Spiritual rebirth; Ex. regeneration of the prisoners; V. regenerate: give or obtain new life; reform spiritually
morose
glacial
regeneration
astral
49. Medical treatment and care of old age
pacifist
geriatrics
deft
bemoan
50. Depart secretly and hide
trunk
parody
abscond
inflated