GRE Power Vocab - G

Question 1

Gainsay

Answer 1

v. to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose

Question 2

Galvanize

Answer 2

v. to startle into sudden action, stimulate

Question 3

Gambol

Answer 3

v. to skip about playfully, frolic

Question 4

Garner

Answer 4

v. to gather and save, store up, acquire

Question 5

Garrulous

Answer 5

adj. pointlessly talkative, talking too much

Question 6

Gauche

Answer 6

adj. crude, awkward, tasteless

Question 7

Germane

Answer 7

adj. relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter

Question 8

Glib

Answer 8

adj. marked by ease for informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial

Question 9

Gossamer

Answer 9

adj. delicate, insubstantial or tenuous; insincere

Question 10

Grandiloquence

Answer 10

n. pompous speech or expression
for related word, see bombastic

Question 11

Grouse

Answer 11

v. to complain or grumble
pronounced grows

Question 12

Guile

Answer 12

n. trickery, duplicity, cunning

Guileless means naive or free from guile

Beguile means to decieve by guile, or to charm

another related word is gullible, which means able to be beguiled. A person who believes anything he or she is tild would be known as a gullible person.

Question 13

Gregarious

Answer 13

adj. sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people