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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. Desert; abandon; renounce
felon
dappled
epitaph
forsake
2. Partnership; league; union of separate political parties
paltry
discernible
coalition
florescence
3. Nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero; secret code; V.
pedantic
expos'e
cipher
carcinogenic
4. Opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed; action made to produce a future advantage
solitude
gambit
oscillate
luxuriant
5. Hugeness (in a bad sense); excessive wickedness; Ex. enormity of the crime; ADJ. enormous
enormity
slither
smelt
consonance
6. Not shiny; matte; having a dull finish; N: flat piece of material used as a floor covering; V.
chronic
acidulous
mat
pinnace
7. Promoting a particular point of view; biased; having an aim; designed to further a cause; Ex. tendentious rather than truth-seeking; CF. tend: move in a certain direction
obsequious
tendentious
aseptic
list
8. Lack of proportion (between the parts); ADJ. disproportionate
vise
headstrong
disproportion
jocular
9. Speech or writing with no meaning; foolish behavior or language; Ex. make (a) nonsense of: spoil; cause to fail
metallurgical
excise
flush
nonsense
10. Satisfy fully (physical needs such as hunger); sate; N. satiety: condition of being satiated
immune
jetsam
trappings
satiate
11. Take apart; disassemble
dismantle
ineluctable
slight
energize
12. Division of a long poem
bogus
despondent
airy
canto
13. Defile; soil; tarnish; Ex. sully one's hands in menial labor
sully
deplore
gloss_over
constituency
14. Damaged; disfigured; V. mar: spoil; disfigure
kernel
marred
malleable
askew
15. Crush or grind into very small particles
pulverize
resuscitate
pugnacity
title
16. Complicated situation (as in a play); painful or complex misunderstanding (as in a play); entanglement; confused mass (as of papers); V. embroil
prop
cartographer
inception
imbroglio
17. Entire range
gamut
trinket
ulterior
savor
18. Salary; payment for an office; compensation
excise
cower
emolument
cumulative
19. Providing nourishment
calculated
nutritious
abysmal
gavel
20. Excessively or elaborately decorated
ornate
adorn
solecism
dysentery
21. Having the weight of authority; regarded as providing knowledge that can be trusted; reliable; peremptory and dictatorial; Ex. authoritative dictionary/manner; CF. definitive
authoritative
pronounced
consanguineous(consanguine)
ostracize
22. Subordinate possessions; something added to a more important thing
compound
mollify
appurtenances
improvise
23. Moral correctness; moral uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment
peccadillo
rectitude
snicker
inconsequential
24. Charmingly carefree; simple and happy; Ex. idyllic scene
quandary
idyllic
composure
mar
25. Self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence; voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions; ADJ. continent
plight
continence
definitive
commiserate
26. Strangle; regulate the speed of with a throttle; N: valve that regulates the flow; CF. throat ?
conciliatory
taut
throttle
elaboration
27. Striking one object against another sharply; Ex. percussion instrument; N: striking together of two bodies; sound caused by percussion
percussion
gestate
affront
immure
28. Poor verse
concave
vying
doggerel
liability
29. Moderate; make less severe; tone down or restrain; toughen (steel) as by alternate heating and cooling
naivet'e(naivety)
accretion
temper
ornate
30. One who studies reptiles; CF. herpetology: branch of zoology that deals with reptiles and amphibians
nausea
quizzical
sheathe
herpetologist
31. Hasty and careless; haphazard; sloppy(carelessly done)
blithe(blithesome)
diversion
slapdash
bullion
32. Rate of occurrence; particular occurrence; Ex. high incidence of infant mortality
fetish(fetich)
incidence
foray
comely
33. Conceivably true; having a show of truth but open to doubt; specious
scuffle
plausible
exigency
breadth
34. Unbecoming; not proper in behavior; indecent; Ex. leave with unseemly haste
ungainly
prone
prolong
unseemly
35. Complain or whine tearfully; run at the nose; snuffle; Ex. Don't come back sniveling to me.
snivel
fusion
sybarite
cursory
36. Violent whirlpool; violent or tublent situation; CF. stream
unimpeachable
maelstrom
divulge
prevaricate
37. Place for burying the dead
cemetery
base
therapeutic
recalcitrant
38. Lacking in imagination; dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact(concerned with facts - not imagination or feelings); factual; CF. prose
pert
prosaic
remorse
encroachment
39. Come or bring together; call up or summon (forces - vital powers - etc.); revive or recuperate (after illness or difficulty); N: act of rallying; mass gathering
self-indulgence
anthropologist
rally
comity
40. Contending; CF. vie
incubate
scuttle
ruminant
vying
41. Chief; most important; N: priest; cardinal number: number that shows quantity rather thatn order
buttress
servile
cardinal
redress
42. Remove water from; dry out
dysentery
dehydrate
repugnance
baroque
43. Chief; first; Ex. archbishop
arch-
bogus
shed
perspicuous
44. Pollute
irascible
numismatist
contaminate
revelry
45. Doing evil; N. maleficience
indigenous
maleficient
paleontology
leash
46. Sleep throughout the winter; N. hibernation
belittle
prodigal
hibernate
masquerade
47. Combine; fuse; N. coalescence
coalesce
sporadic
propulsive
nicety
48. Ponder at length; N: source of inspiration (esp. of a poet)
muse
posture
matriarch
pilfer
49. Ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living
macabre
wake
totem
vampire
50. Sorrowful; N. dolor
dolorous
mode
osseous
fit