GRE-Mock 3 - Part 5

Question 1

Turbid (adj.)

Answer 1

Turbid water or liquid is muddy and dirty

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Question 2

Fathomless (adj.)

Answer 2

Who would tolerate the loneliness of such fathomless depth?
(Impossible to measure of understand
Fathom = to measure – to understand
Unfathomable = fathomless)

Question 3

Brackish (adj.)

Answer 3

Slightly salty and unpleasant

Question 4

Enervating (adj.)

Answer 4

In the midst of an enervating heat wave in Australia he traveled to Vienna to take the oral part of the exam.
(Causing physical and emotional weakness,
Sucking life out of you
Drain you of vigor)

Question 5

Canny (adj.)

Answer 5

Canny investors will switch banks if they think they are getting a raw deal.
(shrewd)

Question 6

Dispel (v.)

Answer 6

I try to dispel the picture of her collapsing in the street from my mind.
(get rid of something - make something go away)

Question 7

Malefactor (n.)(c.)

Answer 7

If cops don’t act aggressively when they suspect malefactors, crime supposedly will skyrocket.
(someone who does something bad and illegal - criminal)

Question 8

Scapegoat (n.)(c.)

Answer 8

She believed that she was being made a scapegoat for what happened.
(someone who is blamed for a mistake whether she had done it or not.)

Question 9

Resumption (n.)(c.)

Answer 9

The act of resuming something

Question 10

Nomadic (adj.)

Answer 10

The son of an air force pilot, he had a somewhat nomadic childhood.
(Moving from one place to another, itinerant)

Question 11

Sleazy (adj.)

Answer 11

A sleazy private detective, willing to do whatever it takes. No matter how illegal.
(sordid - corrupt - Dishonest)

Question 12

Truncate (v.)

Answer 12

If the list is too long it will be truncated by the computer.
If this version seems too long, a truncated version is also available.
(To make something shorter.)

Question 13

Circuitous (adj.)

Answer 13

Going from one place to another in a way that is longer than the most direct way.

Question 14

Hone (v.)

Answer 14

And he can’t help but think - if he’s ever to become a true artist he has to hone his skills to perfection.
(To improve your skill usually when you are good at it.)

Question 15

Heedless(adj.)

Answer 15

He grabbed the plate with both bare hands, heedless of how it will burn.
He ran down the mountain path, heedless of rocks.
(not paying attention to something, reckless, careless)

Question 16

Proffer (v.)

Answer 16

Poirot proffered him a cigarette.

Proffer a diagnosis.

Question 17

Untrammeled (adj.)

Answer 17

A novel with an implausible storyline, untrammeled by the constraint of realism.
(untethered, not limited.)

Question 18

Appropriation (n.)

Answer 18

Appropriation of oil companies’ assets,
Congress discussed the appropriation of $2 million for improving school buildings.
(غصب
money set aside for a particular purpose)

Question 19

Fungible (adj.)

Answer 19

Exchangeable - interchangeable

Question 20

Reparations (n.)

Answer 20

Offenders must make reparations for their crime through community service.
I’ll beg pardon a thousand times for causing you unhappiness and make reparations by making you augh a thousand times.
(something done or paid in expiation of a wrong (repair)

Question 21

Commandeer (v.)

Answer 21

The local hotel was commandeered for the wounded.
The professor’s tendency to commandeer faculty meetings to promote her agenda, quickly inspired resentment among other faculty members who objected to such appropriation.
(To take someone else’s property for your own use. Especially during a war)

Question 22

impropriety (n.)

Answer 22

Younger Mr. Biden is under investigation for his foreign deals which have been raising eyebrows about ethical improprieties.
(Behavior or action that is wrong or unacceptable according to moral, social and other standards.)

Question 23

Abomination (n.)(c.)

Answer 23

Slavery was an abomination.

Something is extremely offensive or unacceptable

Question 24

Retrograde (adj.)

Answer 24

After all these protests, it would be a retrograde step to abolish the women’s right to vote.
(Backward - going back to a worse state)

Question 25

Hobble (v.)

Answer 25

My heart leaps and then plummets when I see Molly hobble across the dormitory, her nose purple between the strips of medical tape.
The chairman was hobbled by the all-powerful dean.
Hobbled by a fear of risk.
(Walk with a physical impediment
to hamper the actions of someone)

Question 26

Belabor (v.)

Answer 26

I don’t want to belabor the obvious here, but I still think you don’t understand.
She belabored him with his hockey stick every night since then in her dreams.
(1. to express something more than necessary.
2. to beat someone up soundly.)

Question 27

Shun(v.)

Answer 27

Before rising to such enormous fame, she was a shy woman who shunned publicity.
The victims of the disease found themselves shunned by society.
(avoid - eschew)