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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. Being in debt; money that should have been paid; work that should have been done
explicit
arrears
visionary
misnomer
2. Daily; commonplace; customary; Ex. quotidian routine
quotidian
queue
skim
weather
3. Very thin candle; gradual decrease in the width of a long object; V. make or become gradually narrower toward one end
taper
dulcet
blandishment
exact
4. Waste material thrown away (as bits of paper scattered untidily); V: cover untidily with scattered litter
inclusive
litter
conception
trickster
5. Unreasonable or capricious; random; tyrannical; Ex. arbitrary ruler
guffaw
circlet
frieze
arbitrary
6. Be widespread; triumph over; gain victory; prevail on: persuade; induce; Ex. Justice has prevailed; Ex. prevail on someone to do something
daub
jubilation
prevail
manifest
7. Swindle; cheat
embezzlement
arcane
bilk
rare
8. Blow in heavy gusts; threaten emptily; bully; speak in a noisy or bullying manner; CF. breeze - gust - gale
distraught
vantage
dote
bluster
9. Raised platform used in preaching (in a church)
stock
coda
pulpit
demur
10. Three-pronged spear
trident
implausible
debase
euphony
11. Calm; impartial; not influenced by personal feelings
inscrutable
infinitesimal
matin'ee(matinee)
dispassionate
12. Absorb; take (food) into the body and digest it; understand (knowledge) completely and be able to use properly; cause to become homogeneous (the people of a country or race in the wasy of behaving or thinking)
assimilate
spartan
drastic
encipher
13. Pass slowly through small openings; ooze; trickle; N. seepage
quell
seep
margin
caustic
14. In a coma; extremely sleepy
multiform
comatose
tarry
Elysium
15. Whirlwind; whirlpool; center of turbulence; predicament into which one is inexorably plunged
collateral
clientele
obligatory
vortex
16. Represent (an inanimate object) as a person; be the embodiment or perfect example of; Ex. She is evil/patience personified; N. personification
personify
indignation
quarry
arbitrary
17. Series of gradual stages; degree in such a progression
gradation
acrophobia
corporeal
sprout
18. Man who is courting a woman
suitor
fell
disproportion
intrepid
19. Become successful (esp. financially); thrive; grow well; Ex. children prospering under his care
prosper
prodigious
indecision
rational
20. Infallibility
inerrancy
prescience
convene
divine
21. Equip; N. accoutrement
frolicsome
belligerent
accoutre
reciprocate
22. Taking pains; showing hard work; taking great care; very careful and through
seduce
muted
compartment
painstaking
23. Fertility; fruitfulness; ADJ. fecund: very productive of crops or young
stanch
casualty
fecundity
gambol
24. Forerunner; predecessor
motility
spawn
annotate
precursor
25. Approve; ratify; N: permission; penalty intended to enforce compliance
hubbub
visage
hoard
sanction
26. Object believed to have spiritual powers; object of excessive attention or reverence; CF. fetishism
bulge
fetish(fetich)
protuberance
lethargic
27. Solemn wonder; feeling of respect mixed with wonder and fear; V: fill with awe; ADJ. awesome
awe
confidential
rotunda
incendiary
28. Properly made and complete; Ex. finished product/performance
finished
diaphanous
pillory
sylvan
29. (of someone old) eccentric; odd; whimsical; bad-tempered; N. crotchet: odd or whimsical notion
engender
fulcrum
base
crotchety
30. (of meat) tough; strong and firm; muscular; N. sinew: tendon; strong cord connecting a muscle to a bone
epitome
sinewy
cosmic
proverb
31. Firm statement that something is certainly true; promise or pledge; certainty; confidence in one's own ability; self-confidence; Ex. In spite of all his assurances - he did not come back; Ex. assurance of his loyalty; Ex. The teacher lacked assurance
prefatory
primogeniture
baroque
assurance
32. Deception; trickery
reverberate
judicious
somnambulist
artifice
33. Not spacious; inconvenient
haggle
philology
grudging
incommodious
34. Impending; near at hand
imminent
dishonor
slew
minutiae
35. Detest; ADJ. loathsome: arousing loathing; offensive; Ex. loathsome smell
loathe
allure
inception
glutinous
36. Belittle
subsume
flounder
disparage
fitful
37. Excessively careful (with great attention to detail); painstaking; scrupulous
muggy
meticulous
downcast
exasperate
38. Something of little importance or value; small amount; Ex. a trifle; V: treat without seriousness; flirt
gusto
novelty
epic
trifle
39. Cause to stop for a period; interrupt; hold in abeyance; defer; hang from above; exclude for a period from a position; Ex. suspended state; Ex. suspend judgment; Ex. suspended from the team; N. suspension
awful
grudging
apiculture
suspend
40. Treat with scorn or contempt
fertile
disdain
ideology
singular
41. Beginner; novice
strangle
disinterested
tyro
bliss
42. Frugality; thrift; economy; agriculture; farming; Ex. animal husbandry; CF. husbandman
missile
husbandry
aristocracy
sundry
43. Book for religious instruction in question-and-answer form; religious instruction by question and answer; V. catechize
aperture
catechism
strangle
amenable
44. Position giving an advantage (such as a strategic point); CF. vantagepoint
vantage
prescience
emanate
prude
45. Forcible restraint - especially unlawfully; coercion by threat; illegal coercion; Ex. a promise made under duress
placid
pulverize
duress
harass
46. Avaricious; desirous of (someone else's possessions); V. covet: desire eagerly (someone else's possessions)
germinal
squeamish
painstaking
covetous
47. Organization for a special purpose; V: establish
galaxy
institute
mountebank
interstice
48. Gruesome; grisly; ghastly; CF. of death
swerve
macabre
intrinsic
expertise
49. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
versatile
hypercritical
fiend
indeterminate
50. That can be permeated; penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through; V. permeate: spread or flow throughout; charge
permeable
polygamist
crave
lithe