Quiz 21 of 50 -- GRE word definitions

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 n. Thought-transference. 1 sociology
2 amicable
3 ogre
4 telepathy
5 sextuple
2 adj. Having no limit or end. 1 cession
2 regent
3 anesthetic
4 interminable
5 intrinsic
3 adj. Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness. 1 insurgence
2 reprieve
3 salient
4 indignant
5 abnormal
4 n. The science of human vocal sounds. 1 complicity
2 phonology
3 objective
4 jubilation
5 non-resident
5 v. To show or prove to be involved in or concerned 1 nude
2 pyromania
3 rancor
4 volant
5 implicate
6 adj. Being more than is needed. 1 warlike
2 superfluous
3 counterbalance
4 disallow
5 expository
7 n. That property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed. 1 elasticity
2 out-of-the-way
3 abnormal
4 retention
5 pudgy
8 n. The shutting up of a town, a frontier, or a line of coast by hostile forces. 1 forcible
2 success
3 blockade
4 conjecture
5 lovable
9 n. A puzzling predicament. 1 quandary
2 materialize
3 facility
4 temerity
5 demonstrator
10 v. To foil or frustrate. 1 stimulate
2 baffle
3 infallible
4 accustom
5 sensuous
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11 v. To cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking. 1 accompanist
2 second-rate
3 perquisite
4 bereave
5 baste
12 n. Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle. 1 ado
2 courtesy
3 demerit
4 integrity
5 complication
13 n. Friendship. 1 disrobe
2 decimal
3 inadvisable
4 emphasis
5 amity
14 n. The art or skill of a workman. 1 oakum
2 preparatory
3 parley
4 workmanship
5 blithe
15 n. An inferior poet. 1 permutation
2 benediction
3 amity
4 accompaniment
5 poetaster
16 n. Any soft, gentle wind. 1 eminent
2 surmise
3 foresee
4 zephyr
5 nunnery
17 n. A thorny shrub much used in England for hedges. 1 hawthorn
2 polar
3 remonstrate
4 taciturn
5 miniature
18 n. A complete or humiliating failure. 1 heartrending
2 precaution
3 immigrant
4 fiasco
5 ludicrous
19 adj. Rich, sweet, and delicious. 1 perfidy
2 exhale
3 judicial
4 capitulate
5 luscious
20 adj. Clandestinely carried on. 1 abdomen
2 obdurate
3 abscission
4 inconsequential
5 underhanded
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 v. To increase in range or scope. 1 entail
2 insistent
3 expand
4 inland
5 polytechnic
22 adj. Connected with the study or cultivation of plants. 1 botanical
2 foist
3 financial
4 globose
5 cabal
23 adj. Marking a difference. 1 knickknack
2 duration
3 dolesome
4 diacritical
5 viceroy
24 n. A religious zealot. 1 wane
2 entwine
3 militate
4 fanatic
5 discreet
25 n. A criminal or depraved person. 1 felon
2 investigator
3 galvanize
4 disengage
5 check
26 adj. Not full-grown. 1 immature
2 pincers
3 absence
4 contort
5 confiscate
27 n. One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner. 1 episode
2 unspeakable
3 legitimacy
4 demonstrator
5 abdomen
28 n. The science of languages, or of the origin, history, and significance of words. 1 linguistics
2 cursive
3 keepsake
4 salutatory
5 solar
29 n. Sanction. 1 nowadays
2 bulbous
3 secant
4 moonbeam
5 approbation
30 adj. Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard. 1 deplore
2 abnormal
3 meliorate
4 statuesque
5 trio
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31 v. To be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil. 1 forebode
2 indefensible
3 generate
4 sibilance
5 contemporaneous
32 adj. Of or pertaining to the act of calling. 1 vocative
2 boisterous
3 demolish
4 oral
5 depression
33 n. Disloyalty. 1 syllabic
2 infidelity
3 mutilate
4 savage
5 confiscate
34 adj. That may be estimated by reckoning. 1 disciple
2 calculable
3 incisor
4 investigator
5 acumen
35 v. To endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote. 1 racy
2 leisure
3 crustacean
4 enfranchise
5 excruciate
36 v. To give the authority of law to. 1 legalize
2 lewd
3 inevitable
4 scoundrel
5 unconscious
37 v. To endow with some quality, gift, or grace, usually spiritual. 1 denominator
2 inadmissible
3 navigable
4 endue
5 reclusory
38 v. To own. 1 instill
2 boisterous
3 possess
4 deport
5 clarion
39 adj. Dishonorable or disgraceful. 1 telephony
2 refute
3 disreputable
4 relish
5 excursion
40 v. To find and declare chargeable with crime. 1 aggregate
2 concord
3 indict
4 perceive
5 grotesque
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41 n. A violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body. 1 convulsion
2 parliament
3 rearrange
4 awry
5 microscope
42 v. To mumble something over and over. 1 patter
2 album
3 supplicate
4 masonry
5 preamble
43 n. One who advocates or practices egoism. 1 decapod
2 unavoidable
3 egoist
4 triplicate
5 juicy
44 n. A captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army. 1 specious
2 centurion
3 expedite
4 chancery
5 cosmic
45 adj. Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head. 1 corpulent
2 giddy
3 requisite
4 rejuvenescence
5 offhand
46 n. Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity. 1 lave
2 solace
3 conduit
4 stratum
5 speculator
47 n. A member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans. 1 superlative
2 pediatrics
3 freemason
4 acquire
5 dissimilar
48 n. The throwing off or back of light, heat, sound, or any form of energy that travels in waves. 1 usurious
2 osculate
3 secretive
4 reflection
5 quantity
49 n. A mechanical, chemical, or pathological agent of inflammation, pain, or tension. 1 monosyllable
2 irritant
3 impugn
4 hernia
5 encyclopedia
50 v. To behead. 1 decapitate
2 postgraduate
3 censorious
4 frantic
5 obsequies
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51 n. A mirror, as of metal, for reflecting light, heat, or sound in a particular direction. 1 usurp
2 exacerbate
3 utmost
4 reflector
5 bequeath
52 n. A microbe. 1 bacterium
2 garrulous
3 dead-heat
4 taciturn
5 transfer
53 adj. Precluding question or appeal. 1 peremptory
2 liniment
3 light-hearted
4 timorous
5 mutilate
54 n. Nothing 1 mystic
2 devise
3 delineate
4 perfidy
5 nil
55 n. The buttocks. 1 somniferous
2 secant
3 nauseous
4 breech
5 instigator
56 adj. Partially conscious. 1 collier
2 semiconscious
3 lingo
4 reparation
5 bitterness
57 v. To dislike or hate with intensity. 1 penchant
2 detest
3 mystification
4 emigrate
5 tolerate
58 v. To come into a country or region from a former habitat. 1 altar
2 immigrate
3 immaculate
4 anode
5 personage
59 v. To disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to. 1 disclaim
2 exonerate
3 writhe
4 furbish
5 eject
60 adj. Offering or offered as an atonement for sin. 1 sacrificial
2 preferment
3 anachronism
4 tenor
5 enormous
Number Question Answer Your answer
61 v. To attack on all sides. 1 beset
2 nonentity
3 interrogate
4 antipodes
5 acclaim
62 n. A small flute. 1 piccolo
2 jugglery
3 pantomime
4 clumsy
5 calorie
63 n. One who or that which takes the place of a predecessor or preceding thing. 1 morality
2 disconsolate
3 preengage
4 successor
5 impute
64 adj. Imperceptible. 1 hosiery
2 head first
3 transalpine
4 retrench
5 insensible
65 n. A number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together. 1 corps
2 defray
3 irresponsible
4 Protestant
5 possible
66 v. To infuse. 1 extradition
2 instill
3 epigram
4 Arthurian
5 left-handed
67 n. The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins. 1 undercharge
2 bridle
3 monitory
4 virtual
5 aeronautics
68 adj. Changeable. 1 hesitant
2 phonetic
3 deity
4 volatile
5 pudgy
69 v. To foreordain. 1 preordain
2 doubly
3 recrudescent
4 passible
5 disarrange
70 n. That which does not accomplish an intended purpose. 1 denote
2 quadrate
3 inefficiency
4 admonition
5 sagacious
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71 adj. Of the nature of betrayal, treachery, or breech of allegiance. 1 gamble
2 authenticity
3 dissolve
4 treasonable
5 adjacency
72 n. A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction. 1 mnemonics
2 pyromania
3 foursome
4 retrogression
5 negation
73 v. To sail quite around. 1 protective
2 palpable
3 gamut
4 constrict
5 circumnavigate
74 n. The constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment. 1 impecunious
2 veto
3 maltreat
4 extinguish
5 unutterable
75 n. The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance. 1 palinode
2 antiquary
3 beatify
4 ennoble
5 retinue
76 n. Conjecture. 1 supposition
2 merciless
3 pillage
4 magnetize
5 symphony
77 v. To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc. 1 assent
2 protagonist
3 trisect
4 molt
5 expect
78 n. One who makes an investigation. 1 regicide
2 artful
3 doubly
4 inquisitor
5 inexorable
79 adj. Thin, but tough and sinewy. 1 gauge
2 precipitate
3 wiry
4 forecourt
5 penetrate
80 v. To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts. 1 carouse
2 parallel
3 doubly
4 variant
5 propitious
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 v. To reach or go beyond. 1 grantor
2 unbiased
3 outreach
4 photometer
5 vindicate
82 v. To renounce (a right or privilege). 1 grandiose
2 nil
3 infrequent
4 abnegate
5 canine
83 n. The act of making amends, as for an injury, loss, or wrong. 1 propagate
2 luminosity
3 reparation
4 platitude
5 conferee
84 n. A defender. 1 forego
2 consumption
3 ravenous
4 protector
5 promenade
85 adj. Enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity. 1 self-respect
2 avarice
3 decrepit
4 idealize
5 extraordinary
86 v. To wet or moisten. 1 account
2 ire
3 deterrent
4 imbrue
5 presumptuous
87 n. Patient endurance or toleration of offenses. 1 accommodate
2 sparse
3 efficacy
4 clangor
5 forbearance
88 adj. Approachable. 1 intermittent
2 accessible
3 subaquatic
4 extempore
5 treachery
89 n. The place where streams meet. 1 dutiable
2 dissatisfy
3 confluence
4 generally
5 Parisian
90 v. To await. 1 dendrology
2 primer
3 vestment
4 bide
5 ultimate
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91 n. A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like. 1 capacious
2 prevalent
3 inimical
4 enormity
5 morale
92 adj. Moving onward quickly and heedlessly. 1 precipitant
2 despondent
3 matrix
4 illogical
5 henchman
93 n. A sorcerer. 1 magician
2 irrigate
3 treacherous
4 propitious
5 aggrandize
94 v. To make a beginning in some occupation or scheme. 1 extremity
2 desert
3 amity
4 extensible
5 embark
95 adj. A published notice of a death. 1 precocious
2 powerless
3 overproduction
4 obituary
5 significant
96 adj. Empty. 1 propulsion
2 inoffensive
3 mnemonics
4 perspicacity
5 vacuous
97 v. To comfort. 1 consecutive
2 resurgent
3 evade
4 cosmography
5 console
98 n. That which may be used to produce light. 1 illuminant
2 conciliate
3 savor
4 illogical
5 boll
99 v. To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment. 1 literacy
2 indigent
3 dun
4 secondary
5 percolator
100 adj. Clumsy. 1 mania
2 complex
3 hypocrisy
4 ungainly
5 antiquate
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