Quiz 19 of 50 -- GRE word definitions

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 n. Any prediction or foretelling. 1 desultory
2 prophecy
3 indefensible
4 quarrelsome
5 cosmogony
2 n. The lowest or deepest female voice or part. 1 maharaja
2 elicit
3 reformer
4 cauterize
5 alto
3 n. Womanishness. 1 tincture
2 effeminacy
3 stifle
4 bray
5 affix
4 v. To make explanatory or critical notes on or upon. 1 corroboration
2 clairvoyance
3 annotate
4 defiant
5 meliorate
5 v. To restore. 1 self-respect
2 decapod
3 editorial
4 reestablish
5 infamy
6 v. To keep sacred. 1 renovate
2 embark
3 enshrine
4 acerbity
5 imitation
7 n. A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese. 1 synopsis
2 archdeacon
3 lingo
4 excusable
5 actuary
8 adj. Benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect. 1 benignant
2 imply
3 forgo
4 delude
5 fixture
9 adj. Superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number, or degree. 1 prostrate
2 necropolis
3 salvage
4 chastise
5 predominant
10 n. Passion for getting and keeping riches. 1 symphony
2 able-bodied
3 offhand
4 presentment
5 avarice
Number Question Answer Your answer
11 n. Any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification, or the like. 1 vicissitude
2 inconsequential
3 judiciary
4 broadcast
5 probation
12 n. A court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics. 1 inquisition
2 excess
3 minion
4 distention
5 subservient
13 n. Particular conduct or administration of affairs. 1 knighthood
2 irreligious
3 jurisprudence
4 regime
5 dignitary
14 adj. Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action. 1 foreigner
2 impotent
3 amateur
4 pluperfect
5 sublingual
15 n. Forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others. 1 literal
2 importation
3 superlative
4 tolerance
5 ordinal
16 n. A habitual lawbreaker. 1 agglomerate
2 outlaw
3 emancipate
4 philology
5 lawgiver
17 n. A divulging. 1 frowzy
2 divulgence
3 bestial
4 stratagem
5 contingent
18 v. To bring together or give fixed shape to. 1 squatter
2 inflexible
3 surcharge
4 wampum
5 crystallize
19 n. An annual allowance, payment, or income. 1 gladden
2 annuity
3 irrelevant
4 demonstrator
5 retrograde
20 v. To produce irritation or festering. 1 tutelar
2 bask
3 rankle
4 punctual
5 symphony
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 v. To adjust cozily in snug quarters. 1 abstain
2 nestle
3 typical
4 divisor
5 potential
22 adj. Having or determined by right angles. 1 playful
2 flue
3 orthogonal
4 auburn
5 perfumery
23 n. Lack of or deficiency in experience. 1 inexperience
2 garrulous
3 partible
4 mania
5 pavilion
24 n. A bad name or character. 1 transalpine
2 scuttle
3 genealogist
4 giver
5 disrepute
25 v. To draw general inferences. 1 ingraft
2 generalize
3 supplicant
4 mannerism
5 parley
26 v. To make satisfaction or amends for. 1 anagram
2 ogre
3 keepsake
4 proscription
5 expiate
27 n. The division of society on artificial grounds. 1 temerity
2 caste
3 convolution
4 barring
5 perambulate
28 n. A very lascivious person. 1 amphitheater
2 bodice
3 subservient
4 satyr
5 percipient
29 adj. Of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing. 1 auditory
2 metropolitan
3 declension
4 benefactor
5 inanimate
30 n. Immensity. 1 parallel
2 proportionate
3 conversion
4 nauseate
5 enormity
Number Question Answer Your answer
31 v. To endue with life. 1 misogyny
2 vivify
3 occult
4 swarthy
5 regnant
32 v. To be in pain or distress. 1 deprave
2 undersell
3 indistinct
4 quadrate
5 ache
33 n. A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose. 1 disburse
2 ordination
3 collusion
4 secondary
5 scintilla
34 n. A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body. 1 cosmopolitanism
2 pyre
3 collective
4 keepsake
5 sentence
35 adj. Good and kind of heart. 1 privy
2 benign
3 covert
4 melodrama
5 navel
36 adj. Having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease. 1 indiscriminate
2 ambidextrous
3 divergent
4 photometry
5 strait
37 n. A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government. 1 nuisance
2 defensive
3 exorbitant
4 junta
5 ominous
38 n. Hindrance. 1 laud
2 obstruction
3 Pantheon
4 comport
5 infirm
39 n. The lady superior of a nunnery. 1 ally
2 immutable
3 spinster
4 abbess
5 necrosis
40 v. To capture again. 1 recapture
2 sergeant
3 personal
4 efficacy
5 external
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41 n. The act of deciding. 1 sacrilegious
2 determination
3 sufficiency
4 decent
5 frequency
42 adj. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar. 1 acetic
2 eminence
3 interlude
4 incidentally
5 fungible
43 n. The art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones. 1 masonry
2 contingent
3 reaction
4 fruition
5 cataclysm
44 n. The act of reversing the order or changing the place of. 1 transposition
2 pervert
3 superficial
4 dehydrate
5 append
45 adj. Sticky. 1 glacial
2 Occident
3 preparation
4 cant
5 glutinous
46 n. An agreeable odor. 1 huckster
2 aroma
3 reprisal
4 hypocrisy
5 habitant
47 n. A coming between. 1 freemason
2 interposition
3 exhaustible
4 alternative
5 queue
48 adj. Showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation. 1 impermissible
2 buffoonery
3 legitimate
4 irritable
5 fluctuate
49 n. A subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc. 1 separatist
2 aliment
3 conformance
4 lexicographer
5 boatswain
50 adj. Laughable and contemptible. 1 ludicrous
2 elegy
3 decapitate
4 ridiculous
5 consonant
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 adj. Characterized by agreeableness of sound. 1 halcyon
2 apposite
3 corollary
4 dragnet
5 euphonious
52 adj. Implanted by nature. 1 pungency
2 belligerent
3 inborn
4 dissipate
5 affable
53 adj. Having two parts. 1 fraudulence
2 odoriferous
3 receivable
4 duplex
5 feudal
54 n. An official. 1 abstinence
2 cursive
3 monogram
4 functionary
5 introversion
55 adj. Having a crust-like shell. 1 crustaceous
2 pedigree
3 evanesce
4 defensible
5 bigamist
56 v. To heat to excess. 1 bombardier
2 superheat
3 olive-branch
4 abnegate
5 gamester
57 n. A character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name. 1 delectation
2 clarify
3 monogram
4 profiteer
5 deliquesce
58 v. To chide or rebuke for a fault. 1 annotate
2 reprimand
3 premonition
4 expulsion
5 ambiguous
59 adj. That can not be described. 1 indescribable
2 peremptory
3 auxiliary
4 constituent
5 perturb
60 adj. Not appropriate, suitable, or becoming. 1 aggress
2 improper
3 characteristic
4 antitoxin
5 seclusion
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61 n. Violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith. 1 inland
2 riddance
3 impracticable
4 treachery
5 alteration
62 n. An earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach. 1 pungent
2 intrigue
3 absence
4 aspiration
5 sinister
63 v. To follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking. 1 retrace
2 excess
3 blaspheme
4 mentor
5 lascivious
64 v. To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness. 1 remodel
2 placate
3 insuperable
4 punctilious
5 entreaty
65 adj. Observant of ritual. 1 persiflage
2 jugglery
3 ceremonious
4 foreordain
5 indulgent
66 adj. Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food. 1 divulgence
2 illuminant
3 rebellious
4 abstemious
5 banal
67 n. A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province. 1 demagogue
2 pedal
3 viceroy
4 outrigger
5 salience
68 n. An umpire. 1 inroad
2 arbitrate
3 gyroscope
4 referee
5 panegyric
69 n. A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies. 1 distinction
2 monogamy
3 vendition
4 glimmer
5 peter
70 n. The change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender. 1 formidable
2 indolent
3 declension
4 dilate
5 aversion
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 adj. Much smaller than reality or that the normal size. 1 irresistible
2 botanical
3 brigadier
4 heathenish
5 miniature
72 n. The middle of the summer. 1 spinous
2 resistance
3 protract
4 prospectus
5 midsummer
73 adj. Assuming too much. 1 presumptuous
2 conformity
3 contuse
4 pretension
5 foreordain
74 adj. Containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory. 1 prodigious
2 moderator
3 cosmology
4 corpuscle
5 populous
75 n. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church. 1 papacy
2 corroboration
3 maritime
4 interposition
5 philanthropy
76 n. One who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests. 1 assignee
2 privy
3 unnatural
4 obdurate
5 comparison
77 v. To cut off or take away, as a part of something. 1 corporal
2 boll
3 defalcate
4 disobedient
5 punitive
78 v. To insert. 1 intromit
2 manliness
3 Elizabethan
4 admonish
5 scuttle
79 n. A spirit of charitable leniency. 1 bellicose
2 toleration
3 augur
4 naval
5 deviltry
80 v. To overcome by force of will. 1 balsam
2 exhaustive
3 doubly
4 adjuration
5 surmount
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 v. To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome. 1 edify
2 overhang
3 aggravate
4 terminal
5 brine
82 n. Beginning. 1 braze
2 ubiquitous
3 efficiency
4 collaborate
5 incipience
83 adj. Vague. 1 indistinct
2 maleficent
3 mitigate
4 alienable
5 acme
84 adj. A place for cremating dead bodies. 1 cynicism
2 puerile
3 crematory
4 hypotenuse
5 regnant
85 n. An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner. 1 alacrity
2 discolor
3 protocol
4 immutable
5 complication
86 v. To hold to the fulfillment of duty. 1 reassure
2 incompetent
3 obligate
4 inefficiency
5 disparity
87 n. The comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space. 1 illusive
2 frequency
3 writing
4 vincible
5 absent-minded
88 adj. Having great fluency in speaking. 1 material
2 belligerent
3 homonym
4 anagram
5 voluble
89 adj. Inapplicable. 1 gratuity
2 equity
3 retract
4 intelligence
5 irrelevant
90 v. To slander. 1 disown
2 cereal
3 committal
4 defame
5 allusion
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 adj. Having or marking equality of temperature. 1 preoccupy
2 convalescence
3 cosmopolitan
4 quintet
5 isothermal
92 adj. Ghastly and sensational. 1 fraudulence
2 carnage
3 immoral
4 contradictory
5 lurid
93 n. Malicious mischief. 1 Artesian well
2 insensible
3 deceitful
4 characteristic
5 devilry
94 n. A person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells. 1 outreach
2 assonance
3 bombardier
4 loch
5 pyrotechnic
95 n. A disclaimer of intentional error or offense. 1 apology
2 hypercritical
3 chasten
4 tyranny
5 illiterate
96 n. A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline. 1 perennial
2 bromine
3 heartrending
4 indigestible
5 denomination
97 n. A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery. 1 offhand
2 ostentation
3 lever
4 micrometer
5 banal
98 adj. Pertaining to marriage, marital rights, or married persons. 1 conjugal
2 perspicacious
3 extradition
4 radical
5 foreign
99 n. The neglect or omission of a legal requirement. 1 fetus
2 surround
3 default
4 vicissitude
5 modification
100 n. One who gives, in any sense. 1 interim
2 treachery
3 indigence
4 noisome
5 giver
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