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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. Redden; blush; flow suddenly and abundantly; wash out by a rapid brief flow of water; N: reddish tinge; blush; brief rush; rush of strong feeling; Ex. flush of pride; ADJ: having surfaces in the same plane; even; blushing
lewd
flush
harangue
cloister
2. Face; appearance
dilemma
dogmatic
visage
cadet
3. Medicine to induce sleep or deaden pain; something that relieves emotions or causes inaction; sleep-producing drug containing opium
dulcet
opiate
frivolous
concentric
4. Unconquerable
invincible
momentous
diabolical
notable
5. State of being numerous or multiple; large number; Ex. multiplicity of details; ADJ. multiple: of more than one element
deciduous
commensurate
cloying
multiplicity
6. Seriousness; gravity
resignation
solemnity
sibling
avid
7. Naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated; candid
levitate
decomposition
ingenuous
tessellated
8. Medical condition in which the skin - the white part of the eyes - etc. turn yellow; V: affect with jaundice; affect with prejudice - envy - or hostility; bias
jaundice
onslaught
alliteration
veto
9. Treatment or situation that causes shame or loss of dignity - respect; offensive or insulting treatment; humiliating or degrading treatment; Ex. I suffered the indignity of having to say that in front of them.
indignity
pernicious
carcinogenic
jargon
10. Ability; quality; diameter of the inside of a round cylinder; Ex. work of very high caliber
caliber
noisome
bulwark
morbid
11. Strike the palms of the hands together with a sudden explosive sound; come together suddenly with a sharp sound; put or send promptly; Ex. clap the thief in jail; N: clapping; loud or explosive sound; CF. applause
browbeat
enunciate
vapid
clap
12. Murder of a king or queen
regicide
apparent
overture
amble
13. Loss of memory
tardy
inception
amnesia
depravity
14. Abuse
preclude
quell
invective
makeshift
15. One incapacitated(disabled) by a chronic illness; ADJ: incapacitated by illness; not valid; null; V: allow to leave (a military force) because of ill-health
invalid
evince
impropriety
foul
16. Ceremonious quality; ceremonious adherence to rules; something done just for form's sake; Ex. mere formality
formality
tint
retinue
adage
17. Illusive; deceptive; not real
ameliorate
resuscitate
illusory
stamina
18. Something - such as a monument or holiday - intended to honor the memory of a person or event; ADJ: commemorative
devious
lush
memorial
aggrandize
19. Enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit
disaffected
heterodox
abyss
lope
20. Denounce; utter censure or invective; Ex. inveigh against the evils of drink
inveigh
outgoing
latent
inviolable
21. Make (a bill) into law
cryptic
homily
enact
azure
22. Feasible
orient
practicable
viscid
clandestine
23. Arrangement of masts and sails; V: equip (a ship) with rigging; ADJ. rigging: ropes that hold up a ship's sails
healthy
retinue
rig
carapace
24. Restate a passage in one's own words while retaining thought of author; N: restatement of a text in other words
dissertation
taper
fodder
paraphrase
25. Weaken; destroy; make invalid; nullify
divine
savant
slaughter
invalidate
26. Dependent on something uncertain or in the future; conditional; happening by chance; accidental; N: a group of soldiers - ships to a larger force; CF. contingency: future event that may or may not occur; possibility; Ex. prepare for every contingency
probity
pensive
contingent
reconcile
27. Of this earth; terrestrial; worldly; not divine; possible; Ex. no earthly reason
extrude
earthly
nonplus
pique
28. Serious; solemn; not drunken; abstemious or temperate; V: make or become sober
din
sober
obeisance
inordinate
29. Stop or check flow of blood; Ex. stanch the gushing wound
resound
stanch
dire
amend
30. Equip; N. accoutrement
swathe
agrarian
accoutre
perverse
31. Imaginary; non-existent; purposely invented to deceive; untrue; Ex. fictitious name/boyfriend; CF. fictional
ramshackle
homespun
ancestry
fictitious
32. Deliberately planned; likely
calculated
solitude
finish
cantankerous
33. Leftover food
indigent
scraps
institutionalize
bogus
34. Deportment; connection
infraction
bearing
invalidate
sphinx-like
35. Enthusiasm (as in artistic performance or composition); liveliness; vigor
verve
deciduous
eccentric
malleable
36. Incipient; coming into being or existence; Ex. nascent ability in music
irretrievable
battalion
complementary
nascent
37. Admit fresh air into to replace stale air
ordain
ventilate
tenuous
pugnacity
38. Weaken; take away energy from
plaster
transcendental
euphony
enervate
39. Not able to be pierced or entered; beyond understanding; impossible to understand; Ex. impenetrable mystery
incorporate
salient
impenetrable
derivation
40. Cause; produce; create
recalcitrant
covetous
apprehend
generate
41. Accustomed; hardened; Ex. inured to the Alaskan cold; V. inure: make used to something undesirable; harden; CF. unfeeling
repulsion
inured
peon
recital
42. Flat plain of mud or sand between branches of a river
palimpsest
prefigure
delta
postmortem
43. Shout of disapproval or displeasure (made at the theater or a sports match); boo; V.
loath
catcall
largess
regiment
44. Dismay; shock deeply
sluggard
appall
mar
translucent
45. Put into effect; enforce; carry out; supply with tools; Ex. implement the plan/suggestion; N: tool or instrument
incidental
kleptomaniac
implement
credulity
46. Chatter idly or foolishly; make continuous sounds like water running gently over rounded stone; N.
skimp
contingent
babble
ravenous
47. Enjoy; have a distinctive flavor - smell - or quality; N: taste or smell; distinctive quality
spurn
savor
trek
commonwealth
48. Lending money at illegal high rates of interest
fumble
narcissist
usury
moodiness
49. Devoted to the pleasures of the sense; carnal; voluptuous; Ex. sensual woman/curves/lips
expunge
hierarchy
psychiatrist
sensual
50. Gather; store up; amass
garner
voluptuous
beatitude
anoint