Quiz 41 of 50 -- GRE word definitions

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 adj. Extending or passing across a continent. 1 requiem
2 hale
3 transcontinental
4 presentient
5 conversant
2 v. To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner. 1 carouse
2 pentathlon
3 discomfit
4 contingency
5 minimize
3 adj. Prudent. 1 suspension
2 irrational
3 expatriate
4 apprehend
5 judicious
4 adj. Of a material nature; physical. 1 neocracy
2 theocrasy
3 acquit
4 corporeal
5 statute
5 adj. Over-cautious. 1 predecessor
2 alleviate
3 meticulous
4 decoy
5 rankle
6 n. Spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity. 1 incompetent
2 facility
3 plutocracy
4 defraud
5 brotherhood
7 n. A discharge from accusation by judicial action. 1 solvent
2 devious
3 nutritive
4 reliance
5 acquittal
8 n. The quality of being grand or admirably great. 1 grandeur
2 contravene
3 foresail
4 modernity
5 tack
9 v. To throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like. 1 opaque
2 quarter
3 dismount
4 refract
5 penury
10 adj. Full of zeal and fervor. 1 biology
2 alleviate
3 enthusiastic
4 luxuriant
5 dolesome
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11 n. Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone. 1 penitence
2 penalty
3 needlework
4 inseparable
5 counterpart
12 adj. Recently hatched. 1 angular
2 advent
3 assailant
4 nestling
5 tempter
13 n. Anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning. 1 wintry
2 eatable
3 meddlesome
4 abrade
5 cryptogram
14 adj. Laying down. 1 lunacy
2 deponent
3 acquisition
4 vacuum
5 fraudulent
15 adj. Poor. 1 inborn
2 indigent
3 conceit
4 perturbation
5 Christendom
16 n. Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen. 1 spontaneous
2 abdominal
3 absurd
4 prepossession
5 morose
17 n. Carriage of the body in going. 1 gesticulate
2 brimstone
3 pseudonym
4 gait
5 retrench
18 v. To make the date of any writing later than the real date. 1 postdate
2 reparation
3 misogamy
4 sepulcher
5 reticent
19 n. A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept. 1 muddle
2 reservoir
3 purport
4 apex
5 fungible
20 v. To smear over, as with something oily or sticky. 1 pulmonary
2 bedaub
3 callosity
4 Bowdlerize
5 landmark
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 n. Compensation. 1 remuneration
2 ramose
3 sophisticate
4 contraposition
5 preexist
22 v. To make light by fermentation, as dough. 1 luminous
2 mythology
3 amour
4 covenant
5 leaven
23 adj. Concordant in sound. 1 unbearable
2 harmonious
3 obese
4 embolism
5 legible
24 n. A house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc. 1 counting-house
2 grievance
3 negligible
4 exigency
5 authentic
25 adj. Having the power to sway the will of another. 1 overreach
2 influential
3 telltale
4 onrush
5 nil
26 n. A brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel. 1 query
2 hydromechanics
3 truthful
4 indigestible
5 fez
27 adj. Juicy. 1 automaton
2 succumb
3 composure
4 lexicographer
5 succulent
28 v. To turn away or aside. 1 cursory
2 comprehensible
3 antilogy
4 avert
5 element
29 n. A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances. 1 edify
2 abhorrence
3 refractory
4 absent-minded
5 mnemonics
30 n. Transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring. 1 heredity
2 awry
3 encyclopedia
4 compute
5 convalescence
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31 adj. Ardent in feeling. 1 subacid
2 doe
3 postscript
4 ulterior
5 fervent
32 adj. Roomy. 1 momentum
2 capacious
3 conceit
4 obstruct
5 violator
33 n. Absence of harmoniousness. 1 psychic
2 rote
3 auricle
4 discord
5 optic
34 n. A force of men. 1 adjunct
2 reciprocate
3 financier
4 expeditious
5 posse
35 v. To leap beyond. 1 complement
2 predict
3 relegate
4 overleap
5 estimable
36 n. That which separates anything into distinct parts. 1 partition
2 maritime
3 regalia
4 fresco
5 dissipate
37 n. An ancestor. 1 fluential
2 forefather
3 prescient
4 unavoidable
5 shrinkage
38 n. One abandoned to depravity and sin. 1 proficiency
2 reprobate
3 sensation
4 idealize
5 scrupulous
39 adj. Being in a middle place or degree or between extremes. 1 intermediate
2 allude
3 perfidy
4 minimize
5 sacrilege
40 v. To invest with sovereign power. 1 eureka
2 occupant
3 enthrone
4 rivulet
5 dentifrice
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41 n. Great cruelty or reckless wickedness. 1 wizen
2 rapine
3 inspector
4 accuse
5 atrocity
42 v. To subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection. 1 petulance
2 sedulous
3 fumigate
4 countryman
5 persecution
43 adj. Green with vegetation. 1 unsophisticated
2 obsolete
3 lune
4 verdant
5 non-combatant
44 adj. Pertaining to the face. 1 cadence
2 facial
3 collusion
4 foist
5 wavelet
45 adj. Occurring or existing before birth. 1 receptive
2 elasticity
3 antenatal
4 souvenir
5 turpitude
46 adj. Pertaining to electricity developed water or steam. 1 arrogate
2 faulty
3 deleterious
4 hydroelectric
5 adroit
47 v. To dig out of the earth (what has been buried). 1 antiquate
2 dyne
3 prediction
4 midwife
5 exhume
48 n. The branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man. 1 precede
2 archaeology
3 endemic
4 conspire
5 misbehave
49 n. Extreme poisonousness. 1 affront
2 cynicism
3 influence
4 virulence
5 Darwinism
50 v. To kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person. 1 assassinate
2 invalidate
3 tenacious
4 suggestible
5 luminous
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51 n. The system of doctrine taught by John Calvin. 1 herbarium
2 fondle
3 Calvinism
4 infidelity
5 veracity
52 n. Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners. 1 supplicant
2 impersuadable
3 emancipate
4 tyranny
5 Gordian knot
53 n. A consequence. 1 anticyclone
2 wittingly
3 effect
4 bronchus
5 subtend
54 adj. Prescribed as a rule or model. 1 assent
2 prescript
3 chaos
4 hydrodynamics
5 pillory
55 n. One's ancestors collectively. 1 annotate
2 adjutant
3 tercentenary
4 ancestry
5 inflexible
56 adj. That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably. 1 insatiable
2 abscond
3 portend
4 evade
5 ligature
57 n. Verbal controversy. 1 sedentary
2 obtrusive
3 transmute
4 curtsy
5 disputation
58 adj. Expressing an engagement to pay. 1 alleviate
2 inure
3 promissory
4 heresy
5 premature
59 n. A probability. 1 beseech
2 preparatory
3 likelihood
4 ambidextrous
5 faction
60 adj. Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving. 1 despondent
2 propeller
3 personage
4 advertiser
5 stolid
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61 adj. Having a light, pert, trifling disposition. 1 reflectible
2 retrospective
3 lieu
4 flippant
5 improvident
62 adv. Into notice or view. 1 forth
2 tractable
3 possess
4 corpulent
5 progeny
63 adj. Pertaining to the nature of sound. 1 conciliatory
2 phonic
3 discontinuance
4 supposition
5 prodigal
64 v. To be superior or distinguished. 1 surety
2 believe
3 excel
4 lax
5 surmise
65 v. To multiply by four. 1 laudable
2 machinist
3 transcontinental
4 undersized
5 quadruple
66 n. One who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views. 1 wantonness
2 encompass
3 monition
4 pusillanimous
5 extremist
67 n. Difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment. 1 efface
2 indigestion
3 plutocracy
4 reparation
5 aspiration
68 adj. Capable of repair. 1 despair
2 reparable
3 arbitrate
4 inglorious
5 discreet
69 v. To impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of. 1 subtend
2 disavow
3 disfigure
4 typify
5 longevity
70 n. The highest point, as of a mountain. 1 significance
2 gratification
3 apex
4 ballad
5 inextensible
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71 n. A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual. 1 negotiable
2 tantalize
3 martial
4 idiosyncrasy
5 disciple
72 n. Determination of the distinctive nature of a disease. 1 dwindle
2 vitalize
3 rightful
4 diagnosis
5 deponent
73 adj. Open to bribery. 1 corruptible
2 novice
3 indigenous
4 agile
5 effrontery
74 adj. Free from care. 1 degrade
2 light-hearted
3 occult
4 bemoan
5 salvo
75 n. A return to or toward some former state or condition. 1 pare
2 faulty
3 concede
4 reversion
5 positive
76 adj. Lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon. 1 vertical
2 fledgling
3 alienate
4 forby
5 reckless
77 n. An elementary reading-book for children. 1 insatiable
2 overtone
3 primer
4 equanimity
5 repellent
78 n. A rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation. 1 nectar
2 calculable
3 embolism
4 pincers
5 landscape
79 n. A substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties. 1 amorous
2 vacillate
3 nuisance
4 medicine
5 drainage
80 n. A way or passage out. 1 encore
2 addle
3 rapt
4 undervalue
5 exit
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81 adj. Unendurable. 1 discursive
2 craving
3 unbearable
4 nucleus
5 infringe
82 v. To cause to cease temporarily. 1 resuscitate
2 vignette
3 deject
4 intermit
5 imperil
83 adj. Having to do with what is preliminary. 1 overproduction
2 locative
3 album
4 vindicate
5 preparatory
84 adj. Mercenary, corrupt. 1 exuberance
2 venal
3 penance
4 pedagogy
5 distrain
85 n. An intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering. 1 maidenhood
2 recreate
3 purgatory
4 omission
5 consecutive
86 v. To suffer extremity of hunger or thirst. 1 repository
2 famish
3 missal
4 advocacy
5 proxy
87 n. A melon, pumpkin, squash, or some similar fruit having a hard rind. 1 nondescript
2 persuade
3 repository
4 erratic
5 gourd
88 adj. Coming or acquired from some origin. 1 derivative
2 curable
3 barring
4 zeitgeist
5 imperfectible
89 n. A branch of the olive-tree, as an emblem of peace. 1 olive-branch
2 statecraft
3 labyrinth
4 emaciate
5 prim
90 n. Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc. 1 opportunity
2 waif
3 derisible
4 alkali
5 sapient
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91 v. To walk for amusement or exercise. 1 massacre
2 vendor
3 bombard
4 fortitude
5 promenade
92 adj. Intelligible. 1 antislavery
2 recruit
3 comprehensible
4 catastrophe
5 bureau
93 v. To disfigure. 1 somnolence
2 circumference
3 operative
4 analogous
5 mutilate
94 adj. Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual. 1 bursar
2 myth
3 antenatal
4 impotent
5 invective
95 v. To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone. 1 macadamize
2 evolution
3 accession
4 terminate
5 epicycloid
96 n. The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery. 1 cathode
2 wintry
3 repugnant
4 alchemy
5 relent
97 adj. Indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs. 1 locative
2 writing
3 outcast
4 stifle
5 deplore
98 adj. Not connected with what precedes. 1 innuendo
2 apparent
3 ensnare
4 desultory
5 reconsider
99 n. A mediator. 1 battalion
2 correlate
3 intercessor
4 gyroscope
5 functionary
100 n. The act of ending or concluding. 1 impugn
2 syllable
3 immutable
4 termination
5 distend
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