+ 50 GRE Words

Question 1

Futility

Answer 1

pointlessness or uselessness

Question 2

Decry

Answer 2

publicly denounce

Question 3

Approbate

Answer 3

approve formally

Question 4

Verisimilitude

Answer 4

the appearance of being true or real

Question 5

Expunged

Answer 5

erase completely (a minor might have their record expunged)

Question 6

Transmuting (transmute)

Answer 6

change in form, nature or substance

Question 7

Contentious

Answer 7

likely to cause an argument, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, belligerent

Question 8

Prognostication

Answer 8

foretell, or prophesy of future event (verb)

Question 9

Splenetic

Answer 9

bad tempered

Question 10

Callous

Answer 10

cruel disregard (callous comments)

Question 11

Fulminate

Answer 11

denounce strongly (fulminated against the evils)

Question 12

Sequester

Answer 12

keep separate

Question 13

Assimilate

Answer 13

absorb or understand. It’s not easy to assimilate into the French culture.

Question 14

Atrophied

Answer 14

withered (muscles had atrophied)

Question 15

Jounced

Answer 15

jump up and down

Question 16

Abhorrence

Answer 16

feeling of repulsion, disgusted loatheing

Question 17

Aboriginal

Answer 17

indigenous

Question 18

Reeled

Answer 18

wavered (reeled out of the bar) or fell back as from a blow (he reeled from the blow)

Question 19

Revered

Answer 19

honored

Question 20

Chastened

Answer 20

the director was somewhat chastened by his recent flops (having a restraining effect on)

Question 21

Ingenious

Answer 21

clever, original, and inventive. “he was ingenious enough to overcome the limited budget” ingenUous - childlike/innocent. InDIGENous - native

Question 22

Apace

Answer 22

swiftly

Question 23

Headlong

Answer 23

rush

Question 24

Abet

Answer 24

assist

Question 25

Ancillary

Answer 25

ancillary services, support or assist

Question 26

Countenance

Answer 26

support, OR facial expression

Question 27

Espouse

Answer 27

support

Question 28

Mainstay

Answer 28

the foundation of, farming is the mainstay of the rural economy

Question 29

Munificent

Answer 29

generous gift

Question 30

Stalwart

Answer 30

hardworking supporte

Question 31

Sustenance

Answer 31

support. Maintained two cows for the sustenance of her family

Question 32

Bilious -

Answer 32

either nauseous, OR bad tempered

Question 33

Pettish

Answer 33

hildishly, bad tempered. She came across as spoiled and pettish

Question 34

Petulant

Answer 34

same as pettish

Question 35

Pique

Answer 35

state of irritation (noun), feel irritated (piqued)

Question 36

Waspish

Answer 36

readily expressing anger or irritation. She had a waspish tongue

Question 37

Proselyte

Answer 37

new believer, neophyte

Question 38

Callow

Answer 38

inexperienced and immature. Earnest and callow undergraduates. Callow first year analysts.

Question 39

Mordacious

Answer 39

sarcastic, biting. Teenagers speak with a mordacious tone to their parents

Question 40

Mordant

Answer 40

biting, critical quality. Mordant sense of humor

Question 41

Trite

Answer 41

boring, lacking originality. This VC pitch seems obvious and trite.

Question 42

Prosaic

Answer 42

full, ordinary. Prosaic day to day concerns.

Question 43

Debauchery

Answer 43

excessive indulgence in sensual and especially sexual pleasures (noun)

Question 44

Dissipated

Answer 44

overindulging in sensual behavior (adj) dissipated behavior

Question 45

Reprobate

Answer 45

unprincipled person. Buried among criminals and reprobates.

Question 46

Salacious

Answer 46

conveying undue or inappropriate interest in sexual matters. Magazines often have a salacious headline.

Question 47

Sordid

Answer 47

below normal standards of human decency and dignity. Painted a sordid picture of bribed and scams

Question 48

Turpitude

Answer 48

wickedness. Moral turpitude

Question 49

Evanescent

Answer 49

ephemeral

Question 50

Effusive

Answer 50

enthusiastically or expressive emotions. They received an effusive welcome