Quiz 23 of 50 -- GRE word definitions

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 v. To abridge. 1 percolate
2 foppery
3 condense
4 contradiction
5 amplitude
2 n. A minute particle of matter. 1 persuadable
2 corpuscle
3 origin
4 unanimity
5 tercentenary
3 n. A place in which goods are stored. 1 repository
2 queue
3 nonpareil
4 incompatible
5 tenure
4 v. To waste away in flesh. 1 stringent
2 emaciate
3 nutriment
4 ostracize
5 exhume
5 v. To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem. 1 vie
2 emancipate
3 gratuity
4 deficient
5 adumbrate
6 adj. Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements. 1 malevolent
2 motley
3 oratorio
4 contusion
5 crustacean
7 adj. Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir. 1 landholder
2 remiss
3 packet
4 galvanize
5 choral
8 n. A declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty. 1 Canaanite
2 protocol
3 influence
4 by-law
5 peerage
9 n. A fiendish or riotous uproar. 1 disunion
2 righteousness
3 opportunity
4 pandemonium
5 betide
10 adj. Lying on the back. 1 matrix
2 cat-o-nine-tails
3 hydroelectric
4 modulate
5 supine
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11 v. To make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law. 1 Christ
2 theism
3 centimeter
4 grief
5 apprehend
12 n. Close or confidential friendship. 1 intimacy
2 untoward
3 fluential
4 transcend
5 bountiful
13 n. Discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel. 1 magnificence
2 hemorrhage
3 timorous
4 dignitary
5 soluble
14 n. The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order. 1 giver
2 philologist
3 writhe
4 arrangement
5 morality
15 v. To vanquish an established ruler or government. 1 distillation
2 perceive
3 mongrel
4 overthrow
5 alacrity
16 n. One who is acquainted with several languages. 1 delude
2 autobiography
3 linguist
4 constellation
5 syndicate
17 adj. Capable of being adjusted or harmonized. 1 out-and-out
2 linguistics
3 reconcilable
4 conferee
5 wiry
18 adj. Wretched. 1 stratagem
2 pitiful
3 anonymous
4 pamphlet
5 revelation
19 adj. Having the power of choice. 1 implicit
2 cacophony
3 eradicate
4 selective
5 persuadable
20 v. To have an earnest desire, wish, or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained. 1 rejuvenate
2 facility
3 investigator
4 imaginable
5 aspire
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21 v. To restore to a former state, station, or authority. 1 grantee
2 panic
3 reinstate
4 buoyancy
5 prehensible
22 adj. Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned. 1 efflorescence
2 grotesque
3 employee
4 quietus
5 drachma
23 n. A group of three persons of things. 1 separatist
2 illuminant
3 successor
4 horde
5 triad
24 n. the art or practice of flying aircraft 1 moderation
2 aeronautics
3 miter
4 acquittal
5 retrench
25 v. To confuse or becloud, especially with or as with drink. 1 indomitable
2 enormity
3 muddle
4 expansion
5 presumptuous
26 v. To inoculate with vaccine virus or virus of cowpox. 1 weal
2 luminescence
3 occult
4 dendrology
5 vaccinate
27 adj. Having little or no book-learning. 1 peevish
2 illiterate
3 replica
4 narrate
5 incentive
28 v. To act upon 1 affect
2 discountenance
3 ligament
4 enormity
5 transitory
29 n. Evil conduct, small crime. 1 blatant
2 technique
3 superintend
4 illuminant
5 misdemeanor
30 n. One of a pair of like things. 1 defer
2 naturally
3 altar
4 doublet
5 concerto
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 v. To make more easy. 1 neophyte
2 prescription
3 emulate
4 facilitate
5 arrangement
32 v. To take, demand, or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds. 1 aerostat
2 hazard
3 biography
4 incontrovertible
5 arrogate
33 adj. Stimulating to thought or reflection. 1 skiff
2 suggestive
3 dissolute
4 bellicose
5 cession
34 v. To make less complex or difficult. 1 dominance
2 simplify
3 dissentient
4 allotment
5 mania
35 adj. Cognizable. 1 encamp
2 annalist
3 perceptible
4 technique
5 benign
36 n. The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests. 1 misbehavior
2 subservience
3 separatist
4 demented
5 recur
37 n. Something that branches off from the parent stock. 1 loathe
2 enthrone
3 insufficiency
4 cantonment
5 offshoot
38 v. To keep under restraint or control. 1 plenitude
2 tolerance
3 repress
4 egotist
5 bereave
39 n. Politeness. 1 effect
2 obstruction
3 alderman
4 bomb
5 complaisance
40 n. An associate in professional employment. 1 yearling
2 possessor
3 juncture
4 inveterate
5 colleague
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41 n. Biblical exposition or interpretation. 1 exegesis
2 percolate
3 outrageous
4 invariable
5 isochronous
42 v. To assign a definite thing or part to a certain person. 1 bursar
2 monomania
3 legislative
4 fabricate
5 allot
43 n. Word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas". 1 humbug
2 quarto
3 proscribe
4 epithet
5 chronometer
44 n. Self-conceit. 1 access
2 well-bred
3 egotism
4 aurora
5 winsome
45 v. To perceive by taste or smell. 1 hoard
2 savor
3 satirize
4 exorbitance
5 foist
46 n. Any religious ceremonial. 1 liberalism
2 satiate
3 ministration
4 similar
5 collusion
47 n. As much as can be or is usually put into the or exercise. 1 possessive
2 grievous
3 mouthful
4 scarcity
5 incidence
48 adj. Showing or feeling envy. 1 malcontent
2 telephony
3 peerless
4 invidious
5 excellence
49 n. The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges. 1 inadvisable
2 salutatory
3 kingship
4 abut
5 agrarian
50 n. Extreme misery or unhappiness. 1 despite
2 haggard
3 pamphlet
4 wretchedness
5 selective
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51 n. Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose. 1 multiplicity
2 undue
3 overlord
4 perversion
5 oblique
52 adj. Talkative. 1 liqueur
2 dissent
3 volant
4 famish
5 loquacious
53 adj. of or pertaining to the sense of smell. 1 penultimate
2 adjacency
3 olfactory
4 solecism
5 retrench
54 n. Acridity, as to the taste. 1 valedictory
2 wield
3 cosmos
4 bitterness
5 providential
55 v. To continue striving in spite of discouragements. 1 ordinal
2 emphasize
3 persevere
4 pompous
5 judicature
56 n. A mixing or changing the order of things. 1 therefor
2 shuffle
3 travesty
4 legible
5 metric
57 adj. Prankish. 1 sibilance
2 frolicsome
3 semblance
4 transitory
5 incomparable
58 n. The business of making sales and purchases for a commission; a broker. 1 readjust
2 efflorescent
3 brokerage
4 sociable
5 inadmissible
59 adj. Pertaining to the beginning or early times. 1 episode
2 interlude
3 primitive
4 wane
5 Pan-American
60 v. To palm off. 1 preexistence
2 foist
3 migrant
4 energetic
5 torpor
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61 n. Change from one state or position to another, or from one form to another. 1 complex
2 oratory
3 preestablish
4 unanimous
5 conversion
62 n. A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein. 1 jubilation
2 lode
3 acknowledge
4 intrinsic
5 huckster
63 n. That which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration. 1 raptorial
2 spinous
3 propel
4 corrosive
5 scruple
64 adj. Pertaining to ships. 1 dissuade
2 naval
3 sinuosity
4 pristine
5 trinity
65 n. A member of an academy of literature, art, or science. 1 obligate
2 impute
3 unanimous
4 academician
5 bedlam
66 n. The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings. 1 dissolution
2 denote
3 massacre
4 impropriety
5 terrify
67 adj. Belonging to, situated in, or derived from another country. 1 leviathan
2 appease
3 frizz
4 foreign
5 deviate
68 adj. Characterized by illiberal views or sentiments. 1 narrow-minded
2 paternal
3 descry
4 lying
5 studious
69 n. A member of a degraded class; a social outcast. 1 retaliate
2 abstinence
3 depression
4 Pariah
5 gratuitous
70 adj. Not mandatory. 1 pedestal
2 auricular
3 tractable
4 dissect
5 advisory
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71 n. Flood. 1 halcyon
2 inundation
3 abject
4 endear
5 chronometer
72 n. The process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind. 1 solicitude
2 instance
3 fidelity
4 accompaniment
5 reproduction
73 v. To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner. 1 transfusible
2 reluctance
3 rapid
4 nautical
5 dramatize
74 adj. Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it. 1 oblong
2 condolence
3 Antarctic
4 presage
5 coronation
75 n. Harangue. 1 tirade
2 acquittal
3 prim
4 landlord
5 caitiff
76 n. Subtle contrivance used to gain a point. 1 antiphony
2 intemperance
3 finesse
4 poetic
5 subordinate
77 v. To live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties. 1 inglorious
2 ulterior
3 impute
4 vegetate
5 repressible
78 n. One who makes a claim or demand, as of right. 1 disenfranchise
2 claimant
3 superintend
4 precedence
5 depositor
79 v. To entice to surrender chastity. 1 felony
2 seduce
3 quietus
4 arrant
5 ultramundane
80 v. To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated. 1 secretary
2 ruminate
3 Pariah
4 nettle
5 resistive
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81 n. Any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object. 1 outcast
2 hanger-on
3 tactics
4 effervescent
5 coercion
82 v. To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty. 1 obligatory
2 riddance
3 obviate
4 curio
5 negligent
83 n. A faint trace of color. 1 irreparable
2 fungus
3 tinge
4 olfactory
5 tolerance
84 n. One who denies the existence of God. 1 dilatory
2 fungous
3 monogamy
4 infidel
5 partisan
85 n. A concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness. 1 polyhedron
2 calculus
3 prospectus
4 attest
5 gourd
86 v. To destroy thoroughly. 1 monotone
2 akin
3 semiconscious
4 prostrate
5 eradicate
87 v. To equip with less than the full complement of men. 1 plenipotentiary
2 underman
3 similitude
4 jeopardize
5 preamble
88 adj. Portentous. 1 officious
2 ominous
3 luminescent
4 consort
5 indigestible
89 v. To fill with high or cheerful spirits. 1 exhilarate
2 entwine
3 prophecy
4 quarto
5 unwieldy
90 n. That part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds. 1 impregnable
2 grievance
3 depress
4 globose
5 forecastle
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91 adj. Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style. 1 species
2 interact
3 abstemious
4 grandiloquent
5 norm
92 v. To drive away by or as by scattering in different directions. 1 absolve
2 winsome
3 exemplar
4 complacence
5 dispel
93 n. Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity. 1 inflammation
2 catastrophe
3 sinuous
4 crevice
5 contributor
94 v. To be opposite in opinion. 1 warlike
2 disagree
3 prurient
4 crevice
5 mordacious
95 n. A single occurrence or happening of a given kind. 1 supramundane
2 salacious
3 instance
4 intension
5 tolerate
96 adj. Insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography. 1 purport
2 foursome
3 Christendom
4 dishonest
5 underexposed
97 adj. Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another. 1 vicarious
2 Narcissus
3 retrograde
4 entirety
5 implausible
98 n. A French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir. 1 monsieur
2 hereditary
3 armory
4 irascible
5 colossus
99 n. Lawful power or right to exercise official authority. 1 advocacy
2 sonata
3 Milky Way
4 savor
5 jurisdiction
100 n. Absolute government. 1 counterfeit
2 autocracy
3 ingraft
4 municipality
5 psychic
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