Quiz 15 of 50 -- GRE word definitions

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 n. One who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness. 1 overlord
2 tactician
3 tribune
4 prattle
5 mountainous
2 v. To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech. 1 gesticulate
2 blaspheme
3 magician
4 inexcusable
5 cranium
3 adj. Smelling sweet and agreeable. 1 redolent
2 control
3 alchemy
4 privilege
5 vaccinate
4 adj. Pertaining to time before the world's creation. 1 detest
2 hackney
3 Calvinize
4 antemundane
5 sympathize
5 n. A drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents. 1 polygamy
2 overseer
3 inadvisable
4 Milky Way
5 melodrama
6 n. One who navigates the air, a balloonist. 1 affable
2 invincible
3 uproot
4 aeronaut
5 monomania
7 adj. Definitely limited or fixed. 1 ductile
2 gradation
3 determinate
4 retrospect
5 inexorable
8 adj. Impenetrable. 1 emulate
2 impervious
3 adjudge
4 squalid
5 whine
9 n. One who doubts any statements. 1 foresail
2 virtuoso
3 percipient
4 skeptic
5 positive
10 adj. Lacking warmth of manner. 1 chancery
2 tilth
3 ineligible
4 sebaceous
5 wintry
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11 v. To lessen or destroy the luster of in any way. 1 tarnish
2 out-of-the-way
3 verity
4 spheroid
5 deleterious
12 adj. Of, or pertaining to, or like a city. 1 urban
2 chattel
3 admittance
4 unconscionable
5 apotheosis
13 n. The science and art of teaching 1 bale
2 pedagogy
3 pioneer
4 benefice
5 diaphanous
14 v. To unclothe. 1 disrobe
2 regent
3 globose
4 navel
5 effeminate
15 adj. Not difficult to do. 1 facile
2 deforest
3 commute
4 vituperable
5 forerun
16 adj. Savage. 1 redolence
2 inhuman
3 decameter
4 islet
5 explicit
17 n. An uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding. 1 enigma
2 stallion
3 orgies
4 mechanics
5 apprehensible
18 adj. Perceptible by sight. 1 visual
2 malignant
3 remonstrate
4 molt
5 gluttonous
19 n. One who or that which is only of temporary existence. 1 transient
2 apparent
3 pleasurable
4 optic
5 course
20 n. Loss of purity or integrity. 1 scrupulous
2 encomium
3 needy
4 corruption
5 comely
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21 n. Any act of saving property. 1 conservatory
2 terminate
3 involuntary
4 homogeneity
5 salvage
22 n. The quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations. 1 resonance
2 preoccupation
3 intellectual
4 extort
5 licit
23 v. To build again or anew. 1 archaism
2 frizz
3 sedate
4 interpreter
5 rebuild
24 n. Displacement by authority from an office or an employment. 1 consumption
2 loot
3 dismissal
4 imaginable
5 repetition
25 n. The act of persuading. 1 imitator
2 descent
3 sapient
4 adulterate
5 suasion
26 v. To evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice. 1 elude
2 onslaught
3 optometry
4 officious
5 aural
27 n. The three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune. 1 creamery
2 trident
3 inaccessible
4 humbug
5 conformable
28 n. A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room. 1 oculist
2 bronchitis
3 alcove
4 assassin
5 misnomer
29 v. To move with a circling or winding motion. 1 staid
2 liege
3 admonition
4 pagan
5 convolve
30 adj. Even-tempered. 1 nondescript
2 commute
3 prescient
4 diatomic
5 sedate
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31 n. A figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other. 1 metaphor
2 livid
3 designate
4 momentum
5 overpass
32 adj. Corporeal. 1 wearisome
2 annihilate
3 overdo
4 bodily
5 epicure
33 adj. Invincible. 1 protagonist
2 mite
3 insuperable
4 putrescent
5 reflection
34 adj. Shameful. 1 obsolete
2 rapt
3 inglorious
4 manumission
5 Spartan
35 n. The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever. 1 syneresis
2 curio
3 brogan
4 transience
5 baffle
36 v. To mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands. 1 refract
2 modulate
3 inmost
4 bedeck
5 knead
37 adj. Candid, frank, or open in character or quality. 1 burnish
2 disrepute
3 microphone
4 man-eater
5 ingenuous
38 n. An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation. 1 sequacious
2 immoral
3 gendarme
4 invidious
5 gyroscope
39 n. Fulfillment. 1 insurgent
2 fruition
3 Briticism
4 bacterium
5 whimsical
40 n. A grotesque imitation. 1 arid
2 travesty
3 foreordination
4 declarative
5 benison
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41 n. The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden. 1 baffle
2 consumption
3 magnet
4 divination
5 virtu
42 adj. Belonging to or suggestive of the spring. 1 incipience
2 vernal
3 recapture
4 domicile
5 litigious
43 v. To stretch out too far. 1 despot
2 imbibe
3 overreach
4 hypercritical
5 emaciate
44 v. To deduce, as from a premise. 1 abbey
2 bemoan
3 quandary
4 queue
5 derive
45 n. The principal portion. 1 regenerate
2 bureau
3 generality
4 separatist
5 artless
46 adj. Prior. 1 enthrone
2 sanctity
3 maleficent
4 replete
5 anterior
47 v. To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body. 1 boycott
2 proselyte
3 secede
4 consonant
5 diplomat
48 adv. Frigidly. 1 illusory
2 icily
3 disrobe
4 alacrity
5 inexhaustible
49 adj. A full and formal style of utterance. 1 impassive
2 urban
3 accomplice
4 declamatory
5 phenomenon
50 v. To cut through or into so as to divide. 1 emporium
2 joggle
3 corruptible
4 intersect
5 vapid
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51 adj. Willing and ready to submit. 1 facial
2 variation
3 amenable
4 compunction
5 hiatus
52 adj. Prevalent. 1 urbanity
2 intension
3 rife
4 opportune
5 preponderant
53 adj. Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety. 1 sanctimonious
2 morose
3 spectator
4 irresistible
5 compressible
54 n. Pertaining to the eye or vision. 1 inquisition
2 optic
3 tercentenary
4 vegetarian
5 rigmarole
55 v. To imbue with life or animation. 1 amplitude
2 indiscriminate
3 galvanize
4 buffoon
5 denominator
56 n. A single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc. 1 baize
2 granular
3 specialize
4 magnitude
5 mendacious
57 n. A person engaged in manufacturing as a business. 1 manufacturer
2 off
3 junction
4 technique
5 remuneration
58 n. A person given to saving and hoarding unduly. 1 estrange
2 interpreter
3 fugacious
4 cohesion
5 miser
59 v. To cut apart or to pieces. 1 encroach
2 antic
3 destitute
4 dissect
5 fungous
60 v. To put into a wrong place. 1 omniscience
2 ingraft
3 despite
4 misplace
5 probe
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61 n. Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies. 1 solvent
2 secession
3 infallible
4 incite
5 postdate
62 n. The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related. 1 exempt
2 macrocosm
3 evanescent
4 centenary
5 convulse
63 n. An ecclesiastical council. 1 synod
2 acme
3 miniature
4 obligate
5 bustle
64 adj. Conspicuous in position, character, or importance. 1 asexual
2 hindrance
3 prominent
4 terrify
5 lattice
65 n. The act of bending. 1 dejection
2 engender
3 flection
4 foreground
5 comprehensive
66 n. A castle or manor-house. 1 procrastination
2 chateau
3 rondo
4 incapacitate
5 interrupt
67 adj. Abundant or superabundant in growth. 1 significance
2 luxuriant
3 auditory
4 bumper
5 parish
68 adj. Incredible. 1 albeit
2 respite
3 deject
4 superintendence
5 fabulous
69 v. To prevent. 1 emphasis
2 anarchy
3 gynecology
4 preclude
5 mallet
70 v. To give a signal to, by nod or gesture. 1 beck
2 ordeal
3 depopulate
4 systematic
5 biped
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71 adj. Easily led or controlled. 1 tractable
2 autopsy
3 infrequent
4 patronymic
5 invidious
72 v. To maltreat. 1 therefor
2 vertigo
3 ardor
4 misuse
5 yearling
73 n. Open robbery, as in war. 1 righteousness
2 clement
3 pillage
4 folk-lore
5 gluttonous
74 adj. Pliable. 1 non-existent
2 descendant
3 elapse
4 insufficient
5 flexible
75 v. To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence. 1 preponderate
2 germinate
3 obtrude
4 ascribe
5 commodity
76 n. A violent issue, especially of passion in an individual. 1 outburst
2 nestling
3 prevalence
4 enlighten
5 delicacy
77 n. An obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel. 1 revelation
2 legislative
3 collusion
4 retrospective
5 embolism
78 v. To repeat again the principal points of. 1 recapitulate
2 unlawful
3 neopaganism
4 symmetry
5 expectancy
79 adj. Having no distinct sexual organs. 1 menagerie
2 repute
3 heinous
4 asexual
5 telescope
80 n. Chivalry. 1 collapse
2 egregious
3 knighthood
4 Antarctic
5 crevice
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 adj. Thoroughly informed. 1 conversant
2 paternal
3 conscript
4 propeller
5 valid
82 adj. Frank. 1 guileless
2 kerchief
3 feint
4 embark
5 bulrush
83 n. A three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument. 1 left-handed
2 consolidate
3 exegesis
4 foreshore
5 tripod
84 n. A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow. 1 Britannia
2 undersized
3 concussion
4 collaborate
5 persist
85 v. To recover. 1 apothecary
2 abut
3 virulence
4 recuperate
5 atheism
86 n. An act or proceeding designed to bring about some event. 1 preparation
2 safeguard
3 dispel
4 predominant
5 counter-claim
87 n. A great Hindu prince. 1 prima
2 optometry
3 intelligible
4 maharaja
5 preestablish
88 n. Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold. 1 conscientious
2 differentia
3 maroon
4 alchemy
5 timbre
89 n. A morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain. 1 bawl
2 transition
3 depreciate
4 inflammation
5 personality
90 adj. Negligent. 1 liquidate
2 midsummer
3 resistive
4 antechamber
5 remiss
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 n. A tree. 1 arbor
2 rudimentary
3 massacre
4 motto
5 exhaustive
92 v. To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to. 1 head foremost
2 frizz
3 recrudescence
4 obsolescent
5 cajolery
93 n. Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds. 1 liking
2 desiccant
3 relinquish
4 abstinence
5 witchcraft
94 n. A connection with a particular nation. 1 nationality
2 fallacious
3 constable
4 jocose
5 millet
95 n. A step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal. 1 judicature
2 noisome
3 accompany
4 rein
5 empower
96 n. A polar projection of the heavens on a chart. 1 planisphere
2 hypnosis
3 inaccurate
4 inquisitive
5 coercion
97 n. Any place of exit. 1 bristle
2 dehydrate
3 clumsy
4 transfer
5 egress
98 n. The killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother. 1 stagnant
2 denote
3 adjutant
4 rapacious
5 matricide
99 v. To catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly. 1 sequence
2 craving
3 seize
4 pervert
5 stationary
100 v. To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life. 1 juvenile
2 boatswain
3 sequester
4 reconnoiter
5 laud
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