Quiz 26 of 50 -- GRE word definitions

Number Question Answer Your answer
1 adj. Disinclined to conversation. 1 taciturn
2 vitalize
3 galore
4 receivable
5 animadvert
2 adj. Abominable. 1 patriotism
2 brogue
3 unspeakable
4 suspense
5 capillary
3 v. To come in without leave or license. 1 intrude
2 imperceptible
3 treasonable
4 quay
5 selective
4 n. Rational self-esteem. 1 self-respect
2 tenure
3 expedient
4 desist
5 eccentric
5 adj. Careless of or unable to meet responsibilities. 1 puissant
2 cryptogram
3 irresponsible
4 out-and-out
5 impersonal
6 n. That by which anything is transported. 1 conveyance
2 priory
3 juicy
4 convulsion
5 foreign
7 n. Rivulet. 1 poetaster
2 streamlet
3 reducible
4 synopsis
5 congest
8 adv. & adj. On fire, literally or figuratively. 1 afire
2 cat-o-nine-tails
3 irresistible
4 syneresis
5 disquiet
9 n. One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends. 1 involution
2 superadd
3 opportunist
4 vivify
5 conjunction
10 n. An allurer or enticer to evil. 1 invulnerable
2 exemplify
3 tempter
4 immortalize
5 bore
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11 adj. Pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc. 1 service
2 precision
3 compliant
4 extol
5 crustacean
12 v. To discuss. 1 well-to-do
2 expostulate
3 bulrush
4 plagiarism
5 paly
13 n. Cutting and reproachful language. 1 advertiser
2 antedate
3 illogical
4 immature
5 sarcasm
14 adj. Tranquil. 1 pandemic
2 afire
3 peaceful
4 likely
5 effluvium
15 n. Untruthfulness. 1 tentative
2 underrate
3 tipsy
4 counterpart
5 lying
16 v. To refer incidentally, or by suggestion. 1 allude
2 speculator
3 emergent
4 inconceivable
5 concurrent
17 adj. Blameless. 1 guileless
2 impeccable
3 intromit
4 anthracite
5 readily
18 n. One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place. 1 interrupt
2 inimical
3 verbose
4 insurgent
5 pinchers
19 adj. Lying prone, or with the head to the ground. 1 undersized
2 contradiction
3 bight
4 prostrate
5 forte
20 adj. Grasping and representing facts as they are. 1 decent
2 objective
3 generosity
4 refract
5 upheave
Number Question Answer Your answer
21 n. Darwinism as modified and extended by more recent students. 1 peninsular
2 neo-Darwinsim
3 florist
4 bridle
5 service
22 adj. Oily. 1 decalogue
2 fathom
3 competence
4 appall
5 unctuous
23 adj. Having a shriveled face. 1 vociferate
2 glacier
3 vertex
4 wizen-faced
5 editorial
24 n. One skilled in metaphysics. 1 apotheosis
2 martial
3 low-spirited
4 shrinkage
5 metaphysician
25 adj. Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds. 1 waive
2 reinstate
3 askance
4 heterogeneous
5 persevere
26 adj. Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception. 1 boycott
2 subconscious
3 annual
4 evert
5 bountiful
27 n. One who favors the prohibition by law of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages. 1 accommodate
2 inroad
3 prohibitionist
4 despicable
5 belate
28 adj. Genuine. 1 osculate
2 recant
3 sentient
4 stagnant
5 sterling
29 adj. Steadfast. 1 expansion
2 massacre
3 induct
4 paramount
5 immovable
30 v. To separate. 1 ministry
2 icily
3 foresight
4 unyoke
5 execration
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31 n. Rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops. 1 cadence
2 predominate
3 deify
4 catastrophe
5 despot
32 adj. Of or pertaining to plants. 1 vegetal
2 vacuous
3 close-hauled
4 reverent
5 subservience
33 adj. Bloody. 1 vertex
2 accompany
3 trivial
4 inkling
5 sanguinary
34 n. A labyrinth. 1 maze
2 lactation
3 opinion
4 bailiff
5 canon
35 adj. Characterized by great strength or power of endurance. 1 inchoative
2 dramatist
3 subjection
4 invoke
5 robust
36 n. An open structure for temporary shelter. 1 inmost
2 advocate
3 preeminence
4 pavilion
5 stagnant
37 v. In the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt. 1 regimen
2 factious
3 habitant
4 plasticity
5 ante
38 n. Showing increase. 1 grandiloquent
2 luminescence
3 aerostat
4 pact
5 affirmative
39 n. The science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography, and geology. 1 crucible
2 protocol
3 cosmography
4 virulent
5 referrer
40 adj. Unseasonable. 1 untimely
2 triplicity
3 inane
4 misrepresent
5 eschew
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41 v. To break a law. 1 adoration
2 transgress
3 desperate
4 piecemeal
5 ichthyosaurs
42 n. pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum. 1 transplant
2 hemorrhoids
3 expedient
4 precedent
5 perjury
43 v. To inspire with courage, hope, or strength of mind. 1 encourage
2 truculent
3 burnish
4 superadd
5 inlet
44 n. The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions. 1 radiate
2 taxidermy
3 deforest
4 ogre
5 Occident
45 adj. Existing for a short time only. 1 luxuriant
2 mite
3 finite
4 logic
5 transitory
46 v. To make somewhat different. 1 artful
2 liquefy
3 stripling
4 laddie
5 modify
47 n. A practitioner of midwifery. 1 divinity
2 fallow
3 obstetrician
4 obvert
5 monopoly
48 v. To throw into confusion. 1 decorous
2 morale
3 anachronism
4 upturn
5 eject
49 adj. Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree. 1 irradiate
2 abrade
3 postgraduate
4 immutable
5 eureka
50 n. The state of being adjacent. 1 diffidence
2 adjacency
3 predicament
4 misadventure
5 cadaverous
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51 n. Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court. 1 supplicant
2 guinea
3 inherence
4 deposition
5 eulogize
52 n. The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience. 1 complicity
2 quiet
3 repugnance
4 adduce
5 reminiscence
53 n. Insanity. 1 orthopedic
2 mania
3 nit
4 possible
5 annalist
54 adj. having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality. 1 antediluvian
2 irrefragable
3 voluptuous
4 retrace
5 metaphor
55 adj. Of similar nature or qualities. 1 gratify
2 akin
3 supersede
4 adherence
5 maize
56 v. To make payment for. 1 defray
2 ambulance
3 philately
4 Sybarite
5 stealth
57 adj. Destitute of animal life. 1 tacit
2 irreverence
3 opaque
4 acid
5 inanimate
58 adj. Having the character of a beginner. 1 antiphony
2 cantonment
3 tyrannical
4 neophyte
5 incongruous
59 adj. Characteristic of youth. 1 luminescent
2 correlate
3 morale
4 juvenile
5 precedential
60 n. The general science of the universe. 1 luxuriance
2 foible
3 jocose
4 expectancy
5 cosmology
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61 n. A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance. 1 nude
2 rote
3 stipend
4 narrate
5 negotiable
62 v. To prove to be true, exact, or accurate. 1 midwife
2 adjuration
3 verify
4 fumigate
5 repository
63 adj. Having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally. 1 veracity
2 luscious
3 repellent
4 close-hauled
5 stellar
64 n. A brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience. 1 prehension
2 amalgam
3 endue
4 proverb
5 penultimate
65 n. Instinctive knowledge or feeling. 1 filibuster
2 nestle
3 emanate
4 prejudice
5 intuition
66 n. The science of life or living organisms. 1 venerate
2 trivial
3 intercede
4 depositor
5 biology
67 n. The communication of disease from person to person. 1 plebeian
2 contagion
3 superintendence
4 generic
5 indigestion
68 adj. Difficult to accomplish. 1 maharaja
2 formidable
3 preferable
4 sensorium
5 necessity
69 n. The state or period of being a student. 1 discontinuance
2 bauble
3 wile
4 pupilage
5 aver
70 n. Ill will. 1 quintessence
2 sedate
3 malevolence
4 coerce
5 centenary
Number Question Answer Your answer
71 n. A ripple. 1 wavelet
2 insuperable
3 hinder
4 alliance
5 transcend
72 n. A disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily. 1 avalanche
2 educe
3 generosity
4 census
5 excretion
73 adj. Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion. 1 festive
2 allay
3 indignity
4 occurrence
5 ascetic
74 adj. Impartial, as judgment. 1 generalize
2 abnegate
3 able-bodied
4 unbiased
5 profile
75 adj. Aware that one lives, feels, and thinks. 1 indiscreet
2 static
3 inconsistent
4 conscious
5 latish
76 n. A person of expectant temperament. 1 evangelist
2 dishabille
3 dialect
4 immersion
5 futurist
77 adj. Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors. 1 morality
2 presentment
3 Quixotic
4 inaudible
5 putrescent
78 n. A little lord. 1 ruffian
2 prim
3 abrogate
4 lingua
5 lordling
79 n. A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four. 1 polyhedron
2 fondle
3 subconscious
4 surveyor
5 aerostat
80 adj. Accidental, by chance. 1 commitment
2 casual
3 forego
4 telepathy
5 brethren
Number Question Answer Your answer
81 v. To cause to appear less guilty. 1 canary
2 divisible
3 medallion
4 waive
5 palliate
82 n. A fictitious narrative presented as historical, but without any basis of fact. 1 urbanity
2 imitation
3 telephony
4 parricide
5 myth
83 v. To determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid). 1 principality
2 unisonant
3 assess
4 pungent
5 maidenhood
84 n. A mark that mars beauty. 1 blemish
2 rejoin
3 lustrous
4 alder
5 dowry
85 v. To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of. 1 acknowledge
2 disciplinary
3 beneficiary
4 mobocracy
5 supplicate
86 adj. Monetary. 1 octave
2 inconsiderable
3 financial
4 bevel
5 maneuver
87 n. A person who has little understanding. 1 transfigure
2 proctor
3 lexicographer
4 provincial
5 witling
88 v. To contaminate. 1 embolden
2 console
3 enmity
4 vitiate
5 philanthropic
89 adj. Pertaining to the moon. 1 subsist
2 bric-a-brac
3 privity
4 centurion
5 lunar
90 n. A woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth. 1 effete
2 preferment
3 exorcise
4 lactation
5 midwife
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91 n. A condensed form as of a book or play. 1 incipient
2 equity
3 abridgment
4 encore
5 biograph
92 n. A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe. 1 retrospective
2 personnel
3 lucrative
4 infrequent
5 cosmogony
93 n. The sharp striking of one body against another. 1 detract
2 butt
3 myth
4 percussion
5 modulate
94 n. A roguish, mischievous boy. 1 gentile
2 swarthy
3 urchin
4 depositor
5 fugacious
95 n. A person habitually lazy or idle. 1 stagnation
2 dendroid
3 solar
4 magnetize
5 sluggard
96 v. To wave, shake, or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear. 1 consign
2 brandish
3 coagulate
4 forecast
5 epic
97 n. A schoolmaster. 1 disyllable
2 pedagogue
3 perfidy
4 impotent
5 inception
98 n. Accordance with law. 1 mendicant
2 legitimacy
3 fulcrum
4 fictitious
5 pugnacious
99 n. Excessive fatness. 1 vertigo
2 comparative
3 transplant
4 obesity
5 reconsider
100 v. To burst or break asunder. 1 stagy
2 disrupt
3 memorable
4 origin
5 pathos
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