+++50 GRE Cards

Question 1

Repentance

Answer 1

feeling contrite for sins and vowing to do better. To repent is to make up for your sins.

Question 2

Expiate

Answer 2

to make amends for / extinguish guilt

Question 3

Atone

Answer 3

make up for. He offered to take the evening shift to atone for sleeping in.

Question 4

Gaucherie

Answer 4

embarrassing or awkward act. He wants to date younger women, but seems to be ashamed by their gaucheries.

Question 5

Rue

Answer 5

regret. He will rue the day he betrayed me.

Question 6

Fallacious

Answer 6

mistaken

Question 7

Feigned

Answer 7

fake

Question 8

Perfidy

Answer 8

unfaithful or untrustworthy. It was an example of her perfidy

Question 9

Spurious

Answer 9

false. Spurious or authentic recommendations.

Question 10

Conjugal

Answer 10

State of being married. Conjugal happiness after the wedding.

Question 11

Consanguineous

Answer 11

from the same blood, biological (family). He felt as close to his step brothers as his consanguineous brothers.

Question 12

Endogamy

Answer 12

practice of marrying within a certain group or tribe. Endogamous marriage.

Question 13

Exogamous

Answer 13

marriage outside the group

Question 14

Filial

Answer 14

describing relationship between parents and child. Filial love.

Question 15

Sororal

Answer 15

sister like.

Question 16

Progenitor

Answer 16

ancestor.

Question 17

Tendentious

Answer 17

biased. The algorithm will feed you with tendentious news depending on your political views.

Question 18

Acquit

Answer 18

acquitted them from the crime.

Question 19

Absolve

Answer 19

to set freiem from consequences of actions / sins. The judge absolved her from her petty theft.

Question 20

Facetious

Answer 20

jocular

Question 21

Impertinent

Answer 21

rude, not showing proper respect.

Question 22

Contempt

Answer 22

despise, lack of respect.

Question 23

Gibe

Answer 23

a mocking remark

Question 24

Riposte

Answer 24

a quick, clever reply to an insult. Garpenlov taught us to be quick to riposte

Question 25

Aperture

Answer 25

hole. An aperture in the ceiling

Question 26

Fissure

Answer 26

a crack. Fissure in the rock

Question 27

Interstice

Answer 27

small place between objects.

Question 28

Respite

Answer 28

temporary. Respite care

Question 29

Unstinting

Answer 29

not restricting or holding back. Unstinting donations.

Question 30

Avaricious

Answer 30

greedy

Question 31

Covetous

Answer 31

greedy jealous

Question 32

Mercenary

Answer 32

only done for money. He chose investment banking for mercenary reasons.

Question 33

Parsimonious

Answer 33

so frugal it leads to stinginess. The parsimonious couple

Question 34

Penury and penurious

Answer 34

lacking money or stingy frugality

Question 35

Rapacious

Answer 35

aggressively greedy. Rapacious landlords.

Question 36

Venal

Answer 36

open to being bought by someone. Venal policemen.

Question 37

Baleful

Answer 37

wicked

Question 38

Dour

Answer 38

harsh or gloomy

Question 39

Fell

Answer 39

deadly. Fell disease.

Question 40

Sordonic

Answer 40

mocking or cynical. If with irony, then sarcastic

Question 41

Truculent

Answer 41

quarrelsome, belligerent

Question 42

Vitriolic

Answer 42

bitter

Question 43

Baneful

Answer 43

harmful. The baneful effects of envy

Question 44

Inimical

Answer 44

hostile. Inimical response.

Question 45

Insidious

Answer 45

gradually harmful. Insidious problems

Question 46

Sinister

Answer 46

evil. A sinister cult leader.

Question 47

Minatory

Answer 47

threatening. He raised a minatory finger

Question 48

Pernicious

Answer 48

much harmful in a gradual way. Pernicious effects of air pollution.

Question 49

Din

Answer 49

loud continued noise. It was hard to hear anyone over the din at the bar.

Question 50

Ruckus

Answer 50

noisy disturbing event (noun). The raucous party was quite the ruckus.