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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. Giving off an odor
static
bound
outskirts
odoriferous
2. Maze
pedigree
labyrinth
panoramic
quip
3. Concise and meaningful; substantial; meaty
expansive
mode
oligarchy
pithy
4. (place or scene of) complete disorder or ruin; wreck; mess; Ex. After the hurricane - the coast was a shambles.
cleave
shambles
reparation
tenancy
5. Impervious; not permitting passage through its substance; impossible to permeate
meticulous
chronic
impermeable
receptive
6. (of a person) having reason; (of ideas) based on reason; logical
rational
fringe
harass
carapace
7. Incriminate; involve incriminatingly; show to be involved (in a crime); Ex. implicate someone in the crime
tension
intolerant
bombast
implicate
8. Of hidden meaning and spiritual power; Ex. mystic ceremonies; N. CF. mysticism
mat
antagonism
psychic
mystic
9. Set right; correct; CF. rect-: right
obstreperous
cerebration
rectify
gale
10. Belittle
rile
quisling
disparage
blight
11. Linger; delay in starting or going; dawdle
propitiate
munificent
penology
tarry
12. Capable of being stretched; of tension; Ex. tensile rubber
exploit
tawdry
beget
tensile
13. Relapse; backslide; turn back to; return to the former owner; N. reversion
expeditious
revert
innuendo
surfeit
14. Unsuccessful; fruitless
unearthly
voluptuous
bloated
abortive
15. Increase in size or effect; expand; broaden or clarify by expanding; intensify; make stronger; Ex. amplify one's remarks with a graph
cosmic
amplify
litotes
execrate
16. Walk with a heavy step; travel on foot; N: vagrant; one who travels aimlessly about; long walk; sound of heavy walking
roil
bloated
tramp
rou'e
17. Marked by kindness or consideration; kind and compassionate; humanitarian
foppish
humane
inflated
demented
18. Moral correctness; moral uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment
gnome
retrench
rectitude
career
19. Color; aspect; Ex. opinions of every hue
phlegmatic
bid
recant
hue
20. Marked with parallel bands; striped; grooved; Ex. striated rocks; V. striate; N. stria: thin groove or line
prolong
striated
militant
standstill
21. Superfluous; more than needed or demanded
dotage
tribute
rift
supererogatory
22. Delicate ornamental lacelike metalwork
nautical
filigree
append
impugn
23. Deceive; delude
hoodwink
azure
depose
rebuke
24. Logically convincing; sound; legally acceptable; effective; Ex. valid reasoning/passport
valid
lavish
psychosis
melancholy
25. Be cautious (of)
chapel
foppish
beware
tendentious
26. Highly successful action or sudden attack; coup(s) d''etat; CF. coup de gr^ace: deathblow or shot which kills
coup
rebuff
provocative
burnish
27. Act stupidly; play the fool; N.
clown
frugality
wheedle
braggart
28. Shine erratically; twinkle; N: dim or unsteady light; faint indication; Ex. glimmer of hope
spurn
glimmer
slag
maul
29. Chew
masticate
loll
factious
embitter
30. Manlike; resembling a human being; N.
exegesis
arid
waft
anthropoid
31. Disloyal; lacking loyality; V. disaffect: cause to lose affection or loyalty
polygamist
disaffected
mantle
arrears
32. Not requited; not reciprocated; Ex. unrequited love
superfluous
semblance
unrequited
indices
33. Particular variety of art or literature
genre
slipshod
felicitous
sequester
34. Correct spelling; CF. ortho-: straight; correct; Ex. orthodontics
hurl
orthography
mangle
posture
35. Shining; brilliant; Ex. lustrous hair
prolixity
lustrous
intractable
conviction
36. (of a word or remark) apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
vindicate
token
spatial
felicitous
37. Direct financial aid by government - etc.; V. subsidize: assist with a subsidy
discursive
blue
subsidy
pass_off
38. Stubborn and disobedient; resisting authority (esp. disobedient to an order made by a court)
default
bastion
contumacious
hindsight
39. On or relating to the earth
bargain
haphazard
mingle
terrestrial
40. Merriment; laughter
frieze
felon
incarnate
mirth
41. Report; record (in chronological order)
insidious
chronicle
haphazard
siren
42. Female sheep
pundit
ewe
atrophy
patronize
43. Hermit; loner; ADJ. reclusive
marked
partition
pronounced
recluse
44. Pithy - compact saying
veracious
apothegm(apophthegm)
capitulate
imbalance
45. Harmless
culpable
imperturbable
innocuous
mountebank
46. Death
deference
deadlock
demise
dogged
47. Casual; done without prior thought or preparation
amphibian
offhand
leonine
appropriate
48. Oddity; idiosyncrasy
regale
replicate
eccentricity
histrionic
49. Goblet; consecrated cup
chalice
shunt
belabor
grate
50. Providing nourishment
disembark
pithy
nutritious
bog