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GRE Vocab
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gre
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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. Wrongdoing; misconduct (by a public official)
malfeasance
coercion
squash
perversion
2. Liberal; wasteful; generous or wasteful in giving or using; abundant; profuse; great; Ex. decorated lavishly; V. give in abundance
lavish
alchemy
hoodwink
creep
3. Mix in a confused way
urgent
panegyric
jumble
canto
4. Of a title; in name only; nominal; having the title of an office without the obligations; Ex. titular head of the company
titular
ratiocination
lush
transgression
5. Stretch out full on ground; make prostrate; enervate; Ex. prostrating illness; ADJ: lying face down; having lost all strength
cognate
prostrate
founder
misconduct
6. Evil; malignant in intent or effect; deadly; having a malign influence; portending evil; ominous; threatening; Ex. baleful look
baleful
luminous
alias
morgue
7. Ill-humored; irritable
cantankerous
preclude
denizen
procrastinate
8. Moved by sexual love; loving; of sexual love; Ex. amorous advances
amorous
caustic
jaundiced
halcyon
9. Compelling immediate action; pressing; persistent; importunate; Ex. urgent in his demands
tome
apostate
taint
urgent
10. Advance in rank; advance; help to flourish; advocate; help actively in forming; publicize or popularize; Ex. Milk promotes health; Ex. promote a match/bill; Ex. promote a new product
viable
levy
nonplus
promote
11. Sudden disastrous downfall or defeat; complete disaster
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12. Limit; independent variable; Ex. parameters of the problem; Ex. within the parameters of the budget
satirical
plebeian
reaper
parameter
13. Make stupid or confused as with alcholic drink; N. in a fuddle: confused
hive
bestow
verbalize
fuddle
14. Cheater
aesthetic
nautical
swindler
cliché
15. Disconnected; lacking coherence; V. disjoint: disconnect; disjoin
generate
graduate
disjointed
obsequious
16. Malleable; pliable; (of metals) easily pulled into shape; flexible; (of someone) easily influenced or controlled
behemoth
ductile
standstill
jocular
17. Bind as servant or apprentice to master; bind by indenture; N: contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified time (as between an apprentice and his master)
degradation
indenture
taxonomist
adventitious
18. Path taken by a projectile; Ex. trajectory of a bullet
promontory
reciprocal
trajectory
nepotism
19. Pantomime(act without dialogue); mimicry; mimer; V: mimic; pantomime
sequester
mime
iconoclastic
soluble
20. Vicious assault; fierce attack; Ex. unexpected onslaught of the enemy
mulct
sportive
onslaught
sibylline
21. Release or discharge through a vent; express (esp. unfairly); utter; Ex. He vented his wrath on his family.
incense
gloat
vent
brandish
22. Holding tenaciously to an action; stubborn; persistent
polemic
pulsate
pertinacious
convoluted
23. Pertaining to tailors or tailoring; Ex. a man of great sartorial elegance; CF. sartor: tailor
token
sartorial
conventional
season
24. Murder of a king or queen
amnesia
heedless
regicide
rabies
25. Wrong; faulty; Ex. something amiss; ADV.
dauntless
scurrilous
amiss
palpitate
26. Set right; correct; CF. rect-: right
simplistic
ethereal
rectify
macerate
27. Meanly stingy; parsimonious; N. niggard: stingy person
inept
feral
niggardly
carat(karat)
28. Terrorize; intimidate
gullible
grate
cow
provender
29. Protruding part; swelling of a surface; Ex. The apple made a bulge in his pocket; V: swell outward; protrude
headstrong
bulge
nocturnal
disgorge
30. Start; beginning
speechless
inception
Occident
torrent
31. Ability to move spontaneously; ADJ. motile: moving spontaneously
noisome
maxim
corrode
motility
32. Slow-thinking stupid person; CF. dull
appease
coy
dolt
warren
33. Suffering from indigestion; sick from having too much bile; irritable; easily irritated
knoll
gist
regeneration
bilious
34. Move faster
centrifuge
accelerate
treasure
accommodate
35. Eating both plant and animal food; devouring everything
jabber
futile
fundamental
omnivorous
36. Refutation; response with contrary evidence; V. rebut: refute; disprove
rebuttal
multilingual
persist
subpoena
37. Wooden; impassive; with no show of feeling; with an expressionless face
solicitor
deadpan
immutable
retrieve
38. Imprison
incarcerate
exacerbate
allude
matriarch
39. Intention; purpose; meaning; V: claim; profess; Ex. order which purports to be signed by the general
subterfuge
purport
paraphernalia
reverberate
40. Not compulsory; left to one's choice; N. option: act of choosing; choice; freedom or power to choose; something available as a choice; Ex. have no option; Ex. two options
ancestry
chagrin
optional
celestial
41. Excessive indulgence of one's own desire
linguistic
amoral
spatula
self-indulgence
42. State of being partial; inclination; favorable bias; special fondness; preference
eulogy
mannered
effrontery
partiality
43. Artificial channel for water; drain crossing under a road
indoctrinate
synthesis
accretion
culvert
44. Shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match); boo; V.
matrimony
thespian
cede
catcall
45. Excessively submissive or devoted to one's wife; CF. uxor: wife
awl
incandescent
savant
uxorious
46. Modest; Ex. the champion's unassuming manner
unassuming
spartan
seasonal
maniacal
47. Division of a city for election or police purposes; precincts: space that surrounds a building; Ex. precincts of the college
phenomena
bereavement
precinct
vernal
48. Person who is kept as a prisoner by an enemy so that the other side will do what the enemy demands
aureole
vituperative
hostage
unguent
49. Partly transparent
impute
translucent
semblance
recess
50. Decide; settle; solve; separate; make a determined decision; N. resolution
resolve
sphinx-like
stratagem
gossamer