Quiz 45 of 50 -- GRE word definitions

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 n. The act of detesting extremely. 1 ascension
2 candor
3 heedless
4 abhorrence
5 mechanics
2 adj. Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book. 1 apiary
2 prefatory
3 loneliness
4 differentia
5 abscess
3 n. The letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase. 1 derrick
2 anagram
3 adherence
4 torpor
5 adamant
4 n. The long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion. 1 fervor
2 mane
3 mutiny
4 aspire
5 inmost
5 n. A solemn assertion of a falsity. 1 principle
2 imbrue
3 perjury
4 solicitor
5 sextet
6 n. Extreme insincerity. 1 prehension
2 hypocrisy
3 secondary
4 outpost
5 origin
7 adj. More desirable than others. 1 necrosis
2 credence
3 preferable
4 recreate
5 vacuum
8 v. To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment. 1 lapse
2 graceless
3 undersized
4 transplant
5 wean
9 v. To press down. 1 supplicant
2 vociferance
3 evangelical
4 depress
5 dialectician
10 adj. Having an air of authority. 1 transalpine
2 magisterial
3 drainage
4 dauntless
5 homage
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11 adj. Operative on, affecting, or having reference to past events, transactions, responsibilities. 1 excitable
2 antedate
3 retroactive
4 tremendous
5 thermoelectric
12 n. A special school, as of theology or pedagogics. 1 archangel
2 seminary
3 unnecessary
4 gastritis
5 tricycle
13 n. A way of approach or entrance; passage. 1 access
2 adumbrate
3 abeyance
4 discussion
5 precise
14 n. The chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church. 1 consulate
2 obsequies
3 lingual
4 archbishop
5 oral
15 n. Portion. 1 perceptible
2 involuntary
3 allotment
4 oddity
5 apprehensible
16 n. A noxious or troublesome animal. 1 relish
2 veracious
3 miscreant
4 vermin
5 linguistics
17 adj. That can not be passed through or over. 1 credence
2 territorial
3 forecourt
4 impassable
5 calumny
18 n. A disfigurement. 1 foreknowledge
2 abundant
3 epithet
4 deformity
5 frankincense
19 n. Level or low land between hills. 1 listless
2 torturous
3 depress
4 Occident
5 vale
20 v. To smother. 1 stifle
2 sentient
3 enthrone
4 bumptious
5 fallible
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21 n. The examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death. 1 autopsy
2 selective
3 consignor
4 flamboyant
5 aversion
22 adj. Worn and gaunt in appearance. 1 remonstrance
2 inapprehensible
3 enthrall
4 insular
5 haggard
23 adj. Pertaining to streams. 1 fluential
2 ramose
3 deficiency
4 felon
5 antemundane
24 n. A party to a lawsuit. 1 apostate
2 philosophize
3 litigant
4 solecism
5 pitiful
25 adj. Solid. 1 demobilize
2 crucible
3 legacy
4 wile
5 substantive
26 n. Luster. 1 vocative
2 inconsistent
3 inroad
4 irradiance
5 barcarole
27 n. The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices. 1 revile
2 prickle
3 off
4 pentavalent
5 satire
28 n. Strictness. 1 descendent
2 transitory
3 begrudge
4 stringency
5 aperture
29 adj. Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time. 1 maleficent
2 isochronous
3 quintet
4 stagnate
5 prattle
30 n. Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles. 1 stellar
2 hackney
3 sophistry
4 paralysis
5 prefatory
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31 adj. Active. 1 bier
2 curable
3 morbid
4 Epicurean
5 operative
32 adj. Loathsome. 1 eureka
2 contuse
3 accessible
4 verbiage
5 nauseous
33 adj. Separating, as oil and water. 1 materialize
2 floe
3 susceptible
4 natal
5 immiscible
34 v. To vanish gradually. 1 evanesce
2 suspension
3 regality
4 bemoan
5 consignee
35 n. Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed. 1 tortuous
2 penitential
3 philologist
4 archangel
5 reciprocity
36 adj. Pertaining to flowers. 1 replete
2 complement
3 floral
4 desert
5 dissertation
37 n. Similarity. 1 kilometer
2 Anglo-Saxon
3 necropolis
4 nectarine
5 similitude
38 n. A requisite for an employment, position, right, or privilege. 1 cursory
2 virtuoso
3 qualification
4 honorarium
5 polytechnic
39 n. One who rejects authority or inspiration in religion. 1 freethinker
2 staid
3 epitome
4 implicate
5 similitude
40 n. A government administered by ecclesiastics. 1 overpower
2 precaution
3 theocracy
4 eligible
5 ingenuous
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41 n. The upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair. 1 suffuse
2 subversion
3 unyoke
4 specious
5 forehead
42 n. An island. 1 cohesion
2 successful
3 polyarchy
4 isle
5 transcend
43 n. A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it. 1 episode
2 rendezvous
3 poignant
4 quay
5 invoke
44 n. Emancipation. 1 manumission
2 susceptible
3 replete
4 inwardly
5 outstrip
45 n. A will. 1 perception
2 convolve
3 upheave
4 testament
5 optician
46 adj. Heedless. 1 imprudent
2 corrosive
3 reproduce
4 negation
5 slight
47 adj. Childish. 1 puerile
2 indistinct
3 antilogy
4 vulnerable
5 denominate
48 n. The female of the deer. 1 imminence
2 doe
3 comprise
4 caucus
5 quarter
49 n. Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs. 1 theoretical
2 console
3 restitution
4 temporal
5 eligible
50 v. To mean; signify. 1 advocacy
2 despite
3 bibulous
4 connote
5 recede
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51 n. Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace. 1 mobocracy
2 diagnose
3 abstain
4 confluent
5 mistrust
52 n. One having a share or part. 1 prospectus
2 participant
3 sinuosity
4 omission
5 carouse
53 n. A circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle. 1 promontory
2 penalty
3 illusion
4 epicycle
5 nutriment
54 n. A pausing to consider. 1 non-combatant
2 hesitancy
3 heritage
4 turpitude
5 sorcery
55 v. To approve authoritatively. 1 florist
2 hygiene
3 menace
4 preferential
5 sanction
56 n. A species of lyric poems. 1 epode
2 desperate
3 apparent
4 quiescence
5 comparison
57 n. Electricity generated by differences of temperature, 1 insular
2 culvert
3 injunction
4 thermoelectricity
5 workmanship
58 adj. Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt. 1 dragnet
2 vicissitude
3 loiterer
4 aberration
5 plausible
59 v. To win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence, or reflection. 1 pernicious
2 comparative
3 persuade
4 infamy
5 expediency
60 adj. Not having made a valid will. 1 intestate
2 scythe
3 clandestine
4 brooch
5 consternation
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61 v. To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium. 1 correlate
2 denounce
3 ambiguous
4 enrapture
5 parentage
62 n. A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting. 1 primeval
2 penchant
3 judicious
4 optimism
5 palette
63 n. One who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead. 1 generally
2 inopportune
3 tacit
4 pervasion
5 necromancer
64 n. In prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet. 1 latent
2 disconnect
3 pentameter
4 insufficiency
5 bulbous
65 n. The hinder part. 1 instant
2 precipitate
3 absent-minded
4 posterior
5 rife
66 adj. Invulnerable. 1 eulogy
2 lingual
3 irritancy
4 hinder
5 Achillean
67 adj. Pertaining to the stars. 1 stellar
2 cornice
3 verily
4 dermatology
5 abundant
68 n. A central point or part about which matter is aggregated. 1 nucleus
2 gyrate
3 inaccessible
4 cardinal
5 interpolation
69 adv. After which. 1 angular
2 whereupon
3 deviate
4 impalpable
5 perform
70 adj. Being in proportion. 1 inconsistent
2 proportionate
3 diplomat
4 annex
5 bemoan
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71 n. Onset. 1 literal
2 recapture
3 regenerate
4 onrush
5 jovial
72 adj. Characterized by bold or insolent opposition. 1 inspector
2 defiant
3 demobilize
4 giver
5 advertiser
73 adj. Threefold. 1 advocacy
2 contiguous
3 inherence
4 conciliatory
5 triple
74 v. To extend in time or duration. 1 paralyze
2 misinterpret
3 frizz
4 prolong
5 oblique
75 n. Toleration. 1 sufferance
2 emergent
3 omnipotence
4 legionary
5 unbecoming
76 adj. Conspicuously prominent. 1 federate
2 dominant
3 saline
4 artful
5 decisive
77 adj. Wanting water. 1 arrear
2 episode
3 athirst
4 mutation
5 narrative
78 n. An additional amount charged. 1 azure
2 gaiety
3 loquacious
4 surcharge
5 eschew
79 v. To be astonished and perplexed because of (something). 1 voluble
2 irresponsible
3 brazier
4 marvel
5 hanger-on
80 n. Excess. 1 nauseate
2 anemic
3 cornucopia
4 redundance
5 Decameron
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81 n. A rustic. 1 poesy
2 possess
3 countryman
4 intolerant
5 masterpiece
82 n. A homeless, neglected wanderer. 1 usage
2 handwriting
3 lea
4 viscount
5 waif
83 adj. Implied. 1 reclaim
2 hysteria
3 papacy
4 implicit
5 service
84 adj. Low in tone or compass. 1 quantity
2 deluge
3 bass
4 imaginable
5 predecessor
85 n. Any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species. 1 yearling
2 differentia
3 patriotism
4 deceitful
5 accept
86 adj. Excessively sparing in the use of money. 1 complicate
2 forth
3 trebly
4 penurious
5 outstrip
87 adj. Not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony. 1 glimmer
2 emanate
3 alliance
4 inadmissible
5 decoy
88 adj. Beyond which there is nothing else. 1 disagree
2 misadventure
3 succumb
4 ultimate
5 noisome
89 adj. Relevant. 1 pertinent
2 amenable
3 feudal
4 surmount
5 deviate
90 n. The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will. 1 intestacy
2 dentifrice
3 believe
4 convergent
5 inmost
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91 adj. In a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion. 1 foolery
2 turgid
3 beck
4 preengage
5 ready
92 v. To disturb greatly. 1 perturb
2 well-doer
3 quarter
4 elocution
5 bridle
93 v. To belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession, or natural relation. 1 devious
2 ardent
3 beck
4 appertain
5 divagation
94 n. Double-dealing. 1 duplicity
2 disputation
3 wile
4 preemption
5 limitation
95 adj. Inert. 1 dormant
2 indolent
3 inactive
4 appropriate
5 precarious
96 adv. Completely. 1 descry
2 wholly
3 attache
4 burgher
5 fiducial
97 n. Satisfaction. 1 relent
2 luminary
3 conspirator
4 gratification
5 pyre
98 adj. Pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines, or the religious orders called after him. 1 blithesome
2 Augustinian
3 physiography
4 manliness
5 derrick
99 v. To correspond. 1 contender
2 tyro
3 onerous
4 coincide
5 replica
100 n. Prolonged sluggishness of body or mind. 1 afire
2 proficiency
3 abjure
4 lethargy
5 nauseate
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