GRE

Question 1

Benevolent

Answer 1

1a. Marked by or Disposed to doing good

B. Organized for the purpose of doing good

2. Marked by our suggestive of goodwill

Question 2

Quagmire

Answer 2

1. Soft miry land that shakes out yields under the foot.

2. A difficult, precarious, or entrapping position: PREDICAMENT

Question 3

Cogency

Answer 3

The quality of being clear, logical, and convincing; lucidity

Question 4

Speculative

Answer 4

1. Engaged in, expressing, or based on conjecture rather than knowledge
2. (Of an investment) involving a high risk of loss
3. (Of a business venture) undertaken on the chance of success, without a Preexisting contract.

Question 5

Rite

Answer 5

noun
1a. A prescribed form or manner goverining the words or actions for a ceremony
B. The ceremonial practices of a church or group of churches

2. A ceremonial act or action
3. A division of the Christian church using a distinctive liturgy

Question 6

Penitent

Answer 6

Feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses: REPENTANT

Noun

1. A person who repents of sin
2. A person under church censure but admitted to penance or reconciliation especially under the direction of a confessor

Question 7

Intersperse

Interspersed; interspersing

Answer 7

Verb
Transitive verb
1 : to insert at intervals among other things
2 : to place something at intervals in or among

Question 8

Converse, conversed, conversing

Answer 8

Verb
Intransitive verb
1 : to exchange thoughts and opinions in speech: TALK
2 : archaic
A : to have acquaintance or familiarity
B : to become occupied or engaged

Noun (1)
1 dated: CONVERSATION
2 Archaic : social interaction

Noun (2)
: something reversed in order, relation, or action: such as
A : a theorem formed by interchanging the hypothesis and conclusion of a given theorem
B : a proposition obtained by interchange of the subject and predict of a given proposition

Adjective
1 : reversed in order, relation, or action
2 : being a logical or mathematical converse

Question 9

Sage

Answer 9

NOUN
1a :a European perennial mint (Salvia officinalis) with grayish-green aromatic leaves used especially in flavoring meats
Broadly: SALVIA

1B :the fresh or dried leaves of sage

2 :SAGEBRUSH

3 :a light grayish green

Question 10

Pungent

Answer 10

Adjective
1 :sharply painful

2 :having a stiff and sharp point

3a :marked by a sharp incisive quality: CAUSTIC
3B :being sharp and to the point

4a :causing a sharp or irritating sensation
Especially :ACRID
4b :having an intense flavor or odor

Question 11

Bucolic

Answer 11

Adjective
1 :of or relating to shepherds of herdsmen :PASTORAL

2a :relating to or typically of rural life
2b :IDYLLIC

Question 12

Modular
Modularity NOUN
Modularly ADVERB

Answer 12

Adjective
1 :of, relating to, or based on a module or a modulus
2 :constructed with standardized units or dimensions for flexibility and variety in use

Question 13

Wadi

Answer 13

Noun
1 :the bed or valley of a stream in regions of southwestern Asia and Northern Africa that is usually dry except during the rainy season and that often forms an oasis :GULLY, WASH

2 :a shallow usually sharply defined depression in a depression in a desert region

Question 14

Reins

Answer 14

Plural noun
1a :KIDNEYS
1b :the region of the kidneys :LOINS

2 :the seat of the feelings or passions

Question 15

Berates

Berated; berating; berates

Answer 15

Transitive verb

:to scold or condemn vehemently and at length

Question 16

Alas

Answer 16

Interjection

-used to express unhappiness, pity, or concern