GRE Practice

Question 1

Enamored

Answer 1

In love with

Question 2

Taken aback

Answer 2

Surprised

Question 3

Beseech

Answer 3

If you are requesting something and want to sound a little old fashioned. Say I beseech you.

Question 4

Flustered

Answer 4

Lose your cool.
Embarrassed, agitated

Question 5

Ineluctable

Answer 5

Impossible to avoid

Question 6

Invidious

Answer 6

Resentful, discriminatory/ envious

Question 7

Plangent

Answer 7

Loud and resounding

Question 8

Negatory

Answer 8

Of no value / no real value / worthless

Question 9

Contentious

Fiercely contested

Answer 9

An issue that make people argue / or a person who likes to argue or fight.

Question 10

Denouement

Answer 10

Outcome of a complex sequence of event.
A final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work.

Question 11

Invidious

Answer 11

Causing envy.

Ineluctable - inevitable

Question 12

Insatiable

Answer 12

Hard to satisfy - insatiable appetite

Question 13

Sweet tooth

Answer 13

Liking to eat sweet tasting foods

Question 14

Predilection

Answer 14

Strong liking.
Preference toward something.

Question 15

Affinity

Answer 15

Natural liking of someone or something.

Question 16

Odium

Answer 16

Hate couples with disgust

Question 17

Sanguine

Answer 17

Confidently optimistic

Or reb blood color.

Question 18

Choleric

Answer 18

Characterized by anger

Question 19

Testy

Answer 19

Easily irritable

Question 20

Temperament

Answer 20

Usual mood

Question 21

Physiognomy

Answer 21

Facial features

Question 22

Humor - can be used to mean personality

Question 23

Augury

Answer 23

A sign of something to come.

Superstitious

Question 24

Temper

Answer 24

Temper expectations- use can use it to indicate that someone should reduce expectations and be realistic about what’s possible.

Question 25

flabbergasted

Answer 25

Greatly surprised

Question 26

Coffer

Question 27

Shame

Answer 27

It’s a painful emotion caused by consciousness of guilt.

Question 28

Shame

Answer 28

Disgrace
Abase
Disrepute

My intention was not to abase the comedian.

Question 29

Replenish

Answer 29

Fill sth up again.

Question 30

Nudge in the right direction

Answer 30

Prod against something gently.

Question 31

Undecided and uncertain situation

Answer 31

In a limbo

Question 32

Delight

Answer 32

To cause pleasure;

Children are particular good at expressing delight in night things.