Quiz 6 of 50 -- GRE word definitions

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 v. To remunerate. 1 quiescence
2 mundane
3 compensate
4 adieu
5 payee
2 n. A flirt. 1 fungous
2 coquette
3 medicine
4 transmit
5 banal
3 n. A harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds. 1 brigadier
2 symphony
3 tranquilize
4 encyclopedia
5 respite
4 n. Insinuation. 1 counterfeit
2 duration
3 innuendo
4 upcast
5 tutelar
5 v. To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity. 1 crustaceous
2 azure
3 amity
4 liking
5 cant
6 n. Any work done for the benefit of another. 1 masonry
2 inherent
3 epithet
4 abbot
5 service
7 n. Entrance, or the right or permission to enter. 1 grotto
2 influence
3 admittance
4 intrude
5 abrogate
8 n. Birthright. 1 affix
2 impetuosity
3 heritage
4 overstride
5 planisphere
9 adj. Having an imposing style or effect. 1 grandiose
2 geniality
3 overdose
4 redundance
5 salutation
10 n. The science of poetical forms. 1 enmity
2 prosody
3 pedagogy
4 maze
5 reprehend
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11 adj. Amiable. 1 animalcule
2 demobilize
3 adoration
4 vindicatory
5 lovable
12 v. To conduct or behave (oneself). 1 perspicuous
2 brogan
3 incite
4 tapestry
5 comport
13 n. Anything that gives security or defense. 1 bulwark
2 infamy
3 extricate
4 writhe
5 gluttonous
14 adj. Of unchangeable length or area. 1 myriad
2 impartial
3 importune
4 inextensible
5 corpuscle
15 v. To utter in simple or childish talk. 1 preengage
2 submersion
3 sociable
4 whereupon
5 prattle
16 v. To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling. 1 treasonable
2 contumacy
3 enthuse
4 conceit
5 domicile
17 v. To lament 1 crucible
2 pioneer
3 bellicose
4 bemoan
5 lexicography
18 v. To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter. 1 truthful
2 purport
3 digress
4 culprit
5 acrimony
19 adj. Capable of feeling of suffering. 1 corporate
2 righteousness
3 proverb
4 passible
5 appropriate
20 adj. Capable of being maintained or justified. 1 forego
2 translucent
3 improvident
4 defensible
5 admittance
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 n. Angry or violent difference of opinion. 1 dissension
2 frigid
3 insistent
4 sextuple
5 deposition
22 n. Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc. 1 protocol
2 incoherence
3 gyrate
4 physiocracy
5 regicide
23 n. A command. 1 imply
2 signification
3 assassination
4 positive
5 mandate
24 v. To remove or pass from one country, region, or habitat to another. 1 burgher
2 anemic
3 migrate
4 slothful
5 nutritive
25 n. The act of moving or going downward. 1 devout
2 aurora
3 descent
4 distention
5 gamble
26 n. A comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself. 1 capacious
2 outstrip
3 subtrahend
4 simile
5 lax
27 v. To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence. 1 dogmatize
2 abase
3 navigable
4 felon
5 neo-Darwinsim
28 v. To make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something. 1 dilute
2 partisan
3 credulous
4 tendency
5 errant
29 n. Any overwhelming flood of water. 1 cataclysm
2 credible
3 subjugate
4 festal
5 fishmonger
30 v. To play at courtship with a woman. 1 tercentenary
2 assassinate
3 rupture
4 philander
5 obese
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31 v. To give up using or having. 1 relinquish
2 transference
3 mileage
4 mealy-mouthed
5 trio
32 adj. Mutually involving or implying one another. 1 correlative
2 olfactory
3 convolve
4 taut
5 secondly
33 n. A body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone. 1 exigency
2 magnet
3 infuse
4 sordid
5 misrule
34 n. The science and art of teaching. 1 pedagogics
2 delude
3 element
4 impersonate
5 infest
35 adj. Consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse. 1 kilometer
2 eminence
3 disyllable
4 syllabic
5 readjust
36 n. Savageness. 1 ferocity
2 conscientious
3 interpolation
4 sergeant-major
5 brigand
37 n. A woman's or boy's voice of high range. 1 soprano
2 dishonest
3 liking
4 ubiquitous
5 hoodwink
38 n. One thousand liters. 1 kiloliter
2 ridiculous
3 efficacious
4 missive
5 workmanship
39 n. A chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state. 1 massive
2 stingy
3 narrator
4 protege
5 metropolis
40 n. One who receives a nomination. 1 nominee
2 composure
3 ruth
4 consumptive
5 disciplinary
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41 adj. Capable of being pressed into smaller compass. 1 compressible
2 complaisance
3 armory
4 endue
5 vainglory
42 adj. Antiquated 1 erroneous
2 intermittent
3 immigrant
4 success
5 archaic
43 v. To place, keep, or withdraw from the companionship of others. 1 hereditary
2 explicit
3 alluvion
4 seclude
5 transmission
44 n. An inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town. 1 preparation
2 burgher
3 alleviate
4 allay
5 eradicate
45 v. To misappropriate secretly. 1 embezzle
2 rigmarole
3 insight
4 contumacious
5 portend
46 n. The act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading. 1 synchronism
2 dissuasion
3 frigid
4 subjacent
5 anachronism
47 v. To mix or blend together in a homogeneous body. 1 amalgamate
2 emblazon
3 supernumerary
4 lordling
5 outcast
48 n. Artifice. 1 trickery
2 non-existent
3 masterpiece
4 injunction
5 aboveboard
49 adj. Uncommon. 1 constrict
2 infrequent
3 loneliness
4 zeitgeist
5 visual
50 adj. Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession. 1 laxative
2 conferee
3 divulgence
4 buoyancy
5 amateur
Number Question Answer Your answer
51 n. In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer. 1 insignificant
2 gendarme
3 predicament
4 bungle
5 chronology
52 n. The art of controversy or disputation. 1 polemics
2 domineer
3 manor
4 execrable
5 banal
53 v. To undo or dissolve the connection or association of. 1 infamy
2 disconnect
3 longevity
4 inseparable
5 shrinkage
54 adj. Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water. 1 contusion
2 peninsular
3 mastery
4 commissariat
5 retention
55 n. A physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw. 1 infirmity
2 preoccupy
3 plurality
4 prevaricate
5 isolate
56 n. One among the first to explore a country. 1 depth
2 pioneer
3 alteration
4 mythology
5 loathe
57 n. Fitness for some desirable practical purpose. 1 Anglo-Saxon
2 evidential
3 palatial
4 ruminate
5 utility
58 adj. Violent. 1 exigent
2 scribble
3 extradite
4 forcible
5 acme
59 n. Something that is of short duration. 1 fresco
2 disinfectant
3 salvo
4 metric
5 transience
60 adj. Pertaining to war or military operations. 1 polemics
2 armful
3 martial
4 exhaustion
5 betrothal
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61 n. That which is indispensably requisite to an end desired. 1 convulsion
2 necessity
3 acidify
4 granular
5 suspension
62 n. Intellectual discernment. 1 insight
2 gyroscope
3 incinerate
4 overpower
5 diligence
63 adj. Stingy. 1 necromancer
2 collusion
3 illiberal
4 converge
5 bustle
64 n. The highest point, or summit. 1 regime
2 malaria
3 acme
4 impugn
5 foist
65 adj. Carried on in resistance to aggression. 1 defensive
2 afresh
3 resistive
4 transplant
5 journalize
66 adj. Financial. 1 monetary
2 reconsider
3 triplicity
4 militant
5 unbridled
67 adv. Without intention. 1 subliminal
2 incidentally
3 brevity
4 elude
5 incoherence
68 adj. Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words. 1 inedible
2 petulance
3 luminary
4 actionable
5 avidity
69 n. A conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated. 1 butte
2 irresponsible
3 deciduous
4 liquidate
5 astringent
70 v. To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret. 1 omniscience
2 callow
3 indigence
4 divulge
5 pervasion
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 adj. Trivial. 1 devilry
2 succeed
3 astringent
4 nominal
5 recluse
72 n. Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors. 1 comparable
2 heathenish
3 chagrin
4 recluse
5 pentathlon
73 n. The term during which a thing is held. 1 tenure
2 elucidate
3 transmissible
4 moralist
5 magistracy
74 n. A bold or presumptuous assertion. 1 renunciation
2 obvert
3 allegory
4 pretension
5 deportment
75 n. One having a taste for or interest in special objects. 1 fresco
2 abhorrence
3 epigram
4 exhaustible
5 fancier
76 adj. Notoriously bad. 1 obsolescence
2 analogy
3 mantle
4 gastritis
5 arrant
77 n. The person to whom anything is pledged. 1 pledgee
2 diplomat
3 conjugation
4 mentor
5 amateur
78 v. To strip the covering from. 1 mantle
2 qualification
3 denude
4 rearrange
5 dogma
79 adj. Very repugnant; hateful. 1 paraphrase
2 trio
3 incandescent
4 peccant
5 abhorrent
80 n. The ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship, or stress of any kind without succumbing. 1 corrosive
2 obelisk
3 contributor
4 pastoral
5 endurance
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 n. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases. 1 plumb
2 underlie
3 sonnet
4 commemorate
5 peevish
82 n. One who refuses to believe. 1 disbeliever
2 virtu
3 spectrum
4 prescript
5 determinate
83 n. Earthenware made from baked clay. 1 replete
2 piecemeal
3 mnemonics
4 crockery
5 invincible
84 n. Stay-rope. 1 eliminate
2 acrimonious
3 guy
4 palatial
5 osculate
85 n. Predestination. 1 brusque
2 salacious
3 augment
4 foreordination
5 solicitor
86 v. To add or affix at the end. 1 visual
2 mendacious
3 annex
4 absence
5 imaginary
87 v. To remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body. 1 intolerant
2 eugenic
3 amputate
4 centimeter
5 prominence
88 adv. Gradually. 1 piecemeal
2 sear
3 maintain
4 statuette
5 testimonial
89 v. To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely. 1 superlative
2 malign
3 foreshore
4 overrun
5 bronchitis
90 v. To select or appoint, as by authority. 1 claimant
2 designate
3 triplicity
4 quarrelsome
5 infirmity
Number Question Answer Your answer
91 v. To cause to appear greatly. 1 aggrandize
2 kerchief
3 cosmetic
4 noisy
5 callosity
92 n. The world or universe on a small scale. 1 microcosm
2 patrician
3 rhetoric
4 noisy
5 Iliad
93 n. A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another. 1 homophone
2 tranquility
3 objector
4 meager
5 pandemonium
94 adj. Vivacious. 1 renunciation
2 irreverent
3 sprightly
4 promissory
5 uppermost
95 n. Any strikingly great person or object. 1 invidious
2 corroboration
3 divergent
4 colossus
5 siege
96 v. To make familiar or conversant. 1 incompetent
2 acquaint
3 remiss
4 penalty
5 spectrum
97 n. Equality, as of condition or rank. 1 diaphanous
2 parity
3 obsolescent
4 frolicsome
5 execration
98 v. To make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition. 1 thermoelectric
2 meliorate
3 glutinous
4 systematic
5 consort
99 adj. Capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another. 1 insinuate
2 transferable
3 juxtapose
4 perform
5 accelerate
100 n. A liquid and dry measure of 10 liters. 1 competitive
2 uproot
3 pharmacopoeia
4 mongrel
5 decaliter
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