++ 50 GRE Cards

Question 1

Effusive

Answer 1

enthusiastically or expressive emotions. They received an effusive welcome

Question 2

Fecund

Answer 2

fertile, fruitful, prolific. The fecund couple had 20 children

Question 3

Fetid

Answer 3

foul smell

Question 4

Desultory

Answer 4

disconnected, jumping from one thing to another. Desultory conversation

Question 5

Desquamate

Answer 5

human skin will desquamate and shed over 14 days

Question 6

Meretricious

Answer 6

gaudy. Meretricious decor

Question 7

Impecunious

Answer 7

poor

Question 8

Precipitate

Answer 8

act quickly

Question 9

Profligate

Answer 9

corrupt, degenerate. Profligate behavior

Question 10

Sedition

Answer 10

behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder

Question 11

Repudiate

Answer 11

reject the validity of

Question 12

Vestige

Answer 12

a trace

Question 13

Factitious

Answer 13

artificially created or developed. Factitious news game.

Question 14

Inveigh

Answer 14

to protest bitterly

Question 15

Objurgate

Answer 15

criticize or castigate loudly

Question 16

Obloquy

Answer 16

strong public criticism. Margaux got a lot of obloquy after her video.

Question 17

Pillory

Answer 17

ridicule publicly. He found himself pilloried by his own party.

Question 18

Remonstrate

Answer 18

harshly argue back.

Question 19

Reprehend

Answer 19

criticize and rebuke. Boomers reprehend the self-centeredness of Gen Z

Question 20

Admonish

Answer 20

friendly warning or counsel. We admonished our portco to calm down on expenses

Question 21

Reprove

Answer 21

(often kindly) correct. He gently reproved my table manners

Question 22

Revile

Answer 22

heavily criticized. Smoking cigarettes is reviled by the public.

Question 23

Reprimand

Answer 23

official rebuke

Question 24

Demise

Answer 24

death (tragic demise), or transfer over something according to law (demising)

Question 25

Dolorous

Answer 25

sorrowful

Question 26

Moribund

Answer 26

at the point of death, dying. The current moribund economy.

Question 27

Obsequies

Answer 27

funeral or burial rite. You can say goodbye at obsequies.

Question 28

Sepulcher-

Answer 28

tomb

Question 29

Abnegate

Answer 29

reject. Abnegate personal responsibility for the accident.

Question 30

Ascetic

Answer 30

practice of severe self discipline. A nun practices a ascetic lifestyle.

Question 31

Despotic

Answer 31

ruling. Despot - ruler.

Question 32

Imperious

Answer 32

marked by arrogant assurance. Bossy. Imperious demands.

Question 33

Peremptory

Answer 33

quick and with authority. Peremptory dismissal.

Question 34

Imperative

Answer 34

quick but more just due to urgency. Imperative decision

Question 35

Bemused

Answer 35

confused

Question 36

Inscrutable

Answer 36

mysterious. Inscrutable smile.

Question 37

Recondite

Answer 37

little known. This book if filled with recondite information. Recondite fact about the origin of the holiday.

Question 38

Obscure

Answer 38

unknown, mysterious

Question 39

Abstruse

Answer 39

difficult to understand

Question 40

Turbid

Answer 40

muddy, turbid water.

Question 41

Turgid

Answer 41

swollen. The flooded stream was turgid and turbid.

Question 42

Invidious

Answer 42

causing envy or animosity. Angel makes invidious distinctions between employees.

Question 43

Odious

Answer 43

unpleasant. Cleaning the bathroom is an odious task.

Question 44

Putrid

Answer 44

rotten

Question 45

Rebarbative

Answer 45

irritating. Rebarbative modern buildings

Question 46

Malodorous

Answer 46

stinking

Question 47

Abash

Answer 47

make someone feel embarrassed

Question 48

Chagrin

Answer 48

feel humiliated (noun and verb) much to his chagrin he wasn’t invited

Question 49

Compunction

Answer 49

remorse, the sting of a guilty conscience

Question 50

Penitent

Answer 50

sorrow for sins. You have to be penitent when you say sorry