Quiz 36 of 50 -- GRE word definitions

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 adj. Continuing though the year or through many years. 1 perennial
2 sophistical
3 actuate
4 courser
5 soprano
2 adj. Lacking color or brilliancy. 1 diplomatic
2 paly
3 minion
4 pall
5 reconstruct
3 n. Pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others. 1 prescriptible
2 bleak
3 actuate
4 adjudge
5 insolence
4 n. A symbol. 1 diabolic
2 satiric
3 emblem
4 causal
5 nefarious
5 n. Boundless or immeasurable extension or duration. 1 infinity
2 debase
3 benignant
4 palsy
5 illegal
6 n. Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state. 1 precedential
2 sedition
3 barring
4 unanimous
5 superabundance
7 adv. Blindly. 1 edible
2 aerial
3 darkling
4 delusion
5 catholicity
8 n. An instrument having two jaws working on a pivot. 1 deficiency
2 multiplicity
3 pinchers
4 indivisible
5 resistant
9 v. To acquire a distinct and separate character. 1 virile
2 differentiate
3 asexual
4 barograph
5 efficacy
10 n. A condition of perfect agreement and accord. 1 pertinacious
2 unison
3 eulogize
4 pedant
5 permanence
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11 adj. Raving. 1 misinterpret
2 delirious
3 catholicity
4 illegitimate
5 warlike
12 adj. Ready to be led. 1 sequacious
2 well-doer
3 valid
4 leisure
5 salutatory
13 n. A list of persons who have died in a certain place or time. 1 candid
2 precocious
3 paramount
4 machinery
5 necrology
14 n. A fit of nausea. 1 qualm
2 biography
3 joggle
4 entrails
5 shrewd
15 n. A person with whom another confers. 1 conferee
2 volitive
3 ubiquitous
4 academy
5 militant
16 n. A coming to stopping-place or destination. 1 commingle
2 inference
3 ossify
4 arrival
5 significant
17 adj. Untrustworthy. 1 desultory
2 dishonest
3 trio
4 prevalence
5 piece
18 n. Revision. 1 impermissible
2 enthusiastic
3 revisal
4 absolve
5 append
19 n. A happening. 1 practicable
2 mitigate
3 specialty
4 retrospect
5 occurrence
20 adj. Fear-inspiring. 1 idiom
2 complex
3 forebode
4 grisly
5 fiducial
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21 n. The theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self. 1 monologue
2 equitable
3 outride
4 heterogeneity
5 egoism
22 adj. Tending to prevent or relieve non-inflammatory spasmodic affections. 1 antispasmodic
2 biped
3 polytheism
4 pretension
5 luminary
23 n. A rival. 1 thearchy
2 denude
3 competitor
4 leaflet
5 beneficent
24 v. To attach at the beginning. 1 viola
2 theology
3 pulmonary
4 absurd
5 prefix
25 n. A band of six singers or players. 1 felicitate
2 edict
3 vitalize
4 paleontology
5 sextet
26 adj. Recurring every seven years. 1 loathe
2 septennial
3 syllabus
4 irresistible
5 proximately
27 n. A prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse, or performance. 1 provident
2 exorbitant
3 sentence
4 azalea
5 prologue
28 v. To cause to deteriorate or to move backward. 1 obviate
2 retrograde
3 garnish
4 expressive
5 preservation
29 adj. Consecrated by a vow or promise. 1 gastritis
2 indiscreet
3 votary
4 utilitarianism
5 saponaceous
30 adj. Habitual. 1 sensual
2 inveterate
3 redundant
4 desist
5 fledgling
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31 n. a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted. 1 efface
2 man-eater
3 emeritus
4 bleak
5 caricature
32 v. To make a hole or holes through. 1 presentient
2 breach
3 obsequies
4 perforate
5 nuance
33 v. To contend angrily or zealously in words. 1 precursor
2 votary
3 advocacy
4 interpreter
5 altercate
34 adv. Merrily. 1 gaily
2 successor
3 inexplicable
4 despair
5 paraphernalia
35 n. A figurine. 1 lifetime
2 perspiration
3 statuette
4 telepathy
5 lucid
36 v. To cover or fill the surface of. 1 suffuse
2 enigma
3 consonant
4 perfumery
5 phonetic
37 adj. Burdensome or oppressive. 1 onerous
2 truculence
3 tribune
4 mislay
5 waistcoat
38 adj. Having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others. 1 sequester
2 desist
3 sympathetic
4 bilingual
5 pantheism
39 n. An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena. 1 possessive
2 ostracize
3 faulty
4 receivable
5 amphitheater
40 adj. Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others. 1 exempt
2 egress
3 liquefy
4 sequester
5 inscribe
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41 v. To set free or release from bondage. 1 liberate
2 forby
3 animate
4 subservience
5 expostulate
42 v. To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding. 1 tenure
2 excel
3 Briticism
4 repine
5 empower
43 n. A burial-place. 1 metropolitan
2 sepulcher
3 stagnation
4 paramount
5 condolence
44 adj. Adapted to or characterized by minute observation. 1 quantity
2 lexicon
3 arbitrate
4 waistcoat
5 microscopic
45 adj. Easily deceived. 1 credulous
2 antiphon
3 penetrate
4 venial
5 metric
46 n. Vacillation. 1 access
2 refract
3 capillary
4 hesitation
5 retrospect
47 v. To disencumber. 1 acquisition
2 disburden
3 domineer
4 provincial
5 expostulate
48 n. Insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling. 1 apathy
2 bureau
3 transferable
4 inquire
5 unavoidable
49 adj. Pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance. 1 insidious
2 advocacy
3 lingual
4 inceptive
5 sinister
50 adj. Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge. 1 omniscient
2 recover
3 circumference
4 insurgence
5 respondent
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51 adj. Excessively hot. 1 equivocal
2 torrid
3 exorbitance
4 acoustic
5 album
52 adv. Immediately. 1 proximately
2 perhaps
3 rhetoric
4 massacre
5 immovable
53 adj. Offensive from excess of praise or commendation. 1 indivertible
2 botanical
3 subjection
4 fulsome
5 corrosion
54 n. The outer skin. 1 epidermis
2 Nemesis
3 gourd
4 distensible
5 perceptible
55 n. One who works for wages or a salary. 1 meander
2 rife
3 hiatus
4 employee
5 regalia
56 n. Wickedness. 1 atheism
2 glacial
3 recruit
4 globular
5 perversity
57 v. To make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard. 1 cosmogony
2 gauge
3 conjugate
4 idealize
5 underman
58 n. Proclamation. 1 recover
2 annunciation
3 valedictorian
4 aver
5 warlike
59 adj. Not accomplishing an intended purpose. 1 semicivilized
2 excel
3 lax
4 maltreat
5 inefficient
60 v. To award or bestow by formal decision. 1 dilute
2 overtone
3 desert
4 adjudge
5 contradiction
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61 n. Harsh or malignant oppression. 1 lexicographer
2 leonine
3 impious
4 edict
5 persecution
62 adj. Having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat. 1 fanciless
2 literacy
3 naval
4 exterior
5 buoyant
63 adj. Not moved or affected by feeling. 1 despair
2 impassible
3 divagation
4 perception
5 parlor
64 v. To filter. 1 percolate
2 cycloid
3 gaseous
4 interminable
5 foreshore
65 n. Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages. 1 intercession
2 relapse
3 bureau
4 accessory
5 perquisite
66 n. Possession or continuance of being. 1 fiducial
2 stagnant
3 macadamize
4 existence
5 irascible
67 n. One who makes dictionaries. 1 kimono
2 teem
3 interrogate
4 enmity
5 lexicographer
68 n. A court opening directly from the street. 1 lacerate
2 instigate
3 inventive
4 aversion
5 forecourt
69 adj. Pertaining to the administration of justice. 1 conspire
2 nucleus
3 judicial
4 perennial
5 patrimony
70 n. A round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton. 1 unicellular
2 believe
3 boll
4 glimpse
5 kinsfolk
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71 adj. Distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter. 1 anxious
2 colloquy
3 renunciation
4 inference
5 exhale
72 adj. Showing watchfulness, caution, or careful consideration. 1 subsist
2 trinity
3 circumspect
4 opinion
5 disillusion
73 v. To give up (royal power or the like). 1 aggression
2 abdicate
3 incident
4 venison
5 gamester
74 adj. Having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor. 1 deleterious
2 repute
3 garrulous
4 baritone
5 fraternal
75 n. Government by a supreme deity. 1 arbiter
2 undergarment
3 thearchy
4 protoplasm
5 ally
76 n. Liability to be broken or destroyed. 1 proficient
2 frailty
3 commodity
4 protocol
5 tapestry
77 adj. Of wide extent or frequent occurrence. 1 pious
2 principality
3 commotion
4 corruption
5 prevalent
78 n. An impediment. 1 noisome
2 ultramundane
3 compress
4 idealize
5 trammel
79 adj. Created or formed by the imagination. 1 fictitious
2 peddle
3 emphasis
4 norm
5 broadcast
80 n. A length of 1,000 meters. 1 specie
2 invoke
3 kilometer
4 anthology
5 patriotism
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81 adj. Possessing wisdom. 1 improper
2 perversion
3 predominant
4 malediction
5 sapiential
82 adj. Having fine and penetrating discernment. 1 drowsy
2 acute
3 sordid
4 enthrall
5 barring
83 adj. Rapid and superficial. 1 cursory
2 tranquilize
3 telephony
4 deplore
5 voracious
84 n. Relative proportion and harmony. 1 hypocrite
2 symmetry
3 momentary
4 inadequate
5 exposition
85 adj. Wicked in the extreme. 1 borough
2 embody
3 presage
4 nefarious
5 derelict
86 adj. Doubtful. 1 rampart
2 illiterate
3 massacre
4 dubious
5 alienation
87 v. To mention, for the first time. 1 paucity
2 broach
3 implausible
4 mitigate
5 desperate
88 v. To force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally. 1 verily
2 repel
3 requital
4 sequacious
5 archangel
89 n. A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase. 1 noticeable
2 advocacy
3 solecism
4 pedestal
5 sensation
90 n. The branch of medicine that relates to mental disease. 1 interminable
2 truculent
3 psychiatry
4 viola
5 accede
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91 adj. White or glowing with heat. 1 diphthong
2 intrusion
3 incipience
4 incandescent
5 misogyny
92 n. A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning. 1 pedant
2 apparent
3 manufacturer
4 maltreat
5 excruciate
93 n. A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc. 1 contemptuous
2 respondent
3 puissant
4 ferocity
5 frigidarium
94 adj. Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety. 1 ashen
2 aliment
3 vigilant
4 moderation
5 aviary
95 n. A distinctive feature. 1 impermissible
2 confer
3 characteristic
4 man-trap
5 anonymous
96 n. The landed estate of a lord or nobleman. 1 catholicity
2 incipience
3 azure
4 manor
5 freethinker
97 adj. Consisting of four. 1 annalist
2 foursome
3 prate
4 impliable
5 lapse
98 v. To take when offered. 1 massive
2 accept
3 despair
4 fervid
5 preoccupation
99 adv. According to the usual order of things. 1 dictum
2 naturally
3 misdemeanor
4 overseer
5 bulrush
100 n. An unlucky accident. 1 insidious
2 preoccupation
3 misadventure
4 irk
5 forfend
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