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Question 1

Abate

Answer 1

Her stress over spending so much money on a house abated when the real estate broker told her about the property’s 15-year tax abatement.

Question 2

abberation

Answer 2

Her good-temper was an abberation/anomaly, made possible only because she sold a lot yesterday.

Question 3

Acclaim

Answer 3

Tony is enjoying critical acclaim for his thoughtfulness.

Question 4

Accord

Answer 4

His decision to fire her was in accord with the division manager’s opinion.

Question 5

acquisitiveness

Answer 5

Her acquisitiveness resulted in a conflict between her and other staff.

Question 6

Acreage

Answer 6

Austin’s house looks small but it sits on a large property of thousands of acreage.

Question 7

Adhere to/ Adherent of

Answer 7

Mark only adheres to the boss. He is an adherent of ass-kissing

Question 8

Adlib

Answer 8

Eventhough his boss asked him to prepare the speech in advance. He adlibbed. The speech was so horrible that any attendant will receive a pen adlib.

Question 9

Adopt

Answer 9

He adopted my idea for his marketing campaign.

Question 10

advent

Answer 10

Before the advent of the Internet, people usually call the librarian to look up information in the library’s reference section

Question 11

Adverse

Answer 11

Her criticism has adverse effects on her employees’ performance

Question 12

Agency

Answer 12

Agency, also means power or influence, is Dr.Currier’s favorite word :).

Question 13

Aggravate

Answer 13

My doing all the house chores aggravate her messiness and laziness.

Question 14

Altogether

Answer 14

It was an altogether/completely successful marketing campaign.

Question 15

ambivalent

Answer 15

At the beginning, his love was met with an ambivalence from me who were torn between personal happiness and social pressure.

Question 16

Amotize

Answer 16

A mortgage is an amortized debt - spreading the payments out over as long as 30 years is not uncommon.

Question 17

Analogous

Answer 17

Our situation us analogous to one in a case study that I read in business school. Maybe what worked for that company will also work for us.

Question 18

Annex

Answer 18

I found it scary to live in an Annex. I heard lots of ghost stories happen there.

Question 19

Annihilate

Answer 19

Her unhappiness annihilated their marriage.

Question 20

Annul

Answer 20

His citizenship was annulled because he came to the U.S as an illegal immigrant.

Question 21

Anoint

Answer 21

After she successfully completed the GMAT exam, it was only a matter of time before she was anointed the honor recipient of MIT Scholarship.

Question 22

antithetical

Answer 22

His behavior was totally antithetical to the philosophy of the Judiciary board.

Question 23

Apprentice

Answer 23

Jason Belkov had his apprentices pick up veggies from Longwood garden for his 1908 restaurant.

Question 24

arbiter

Answer 24

An arbiter is a judge without his courtroom. In his company, Tony’s an arbiter. At our house, I am one :).

Question 25

Archaic

Answer 25

Some of the products in our inventory are archaic. Unless you are a handy man who like to put stuff together, you can avoid that archaism.

Question 26

aristocracy

Answer 26

There was an aristocracy in my country where the king and his relatives are above everyone else.

Question 27

artifact

Answer 27

My sister’s room is full of the artifacts of modern teenager life: Chinese chick flick books, One Direction posters, and a laptop open to Facebook.

Question 28

ascribe/ascription to

Answer 28

He ascribes his success to luck.

Question 29

Assert

Answer 29

Doug asserted that he tested the system before shipping it to the customer

Question 30

assimilation

Answer 30

Americanization or westernization is a kind of assimilation.

Question 31

attribute to

Answer 31

Vin Diesel attributed the success of the Fast and Furious series to Paul Walker.

Question 32

atypical

Answer 32

She has an atypical personality.