GRE supplemental 7

Question 1

munificent

Answer 1

adj. very generous; larger or more generous than usual or expected

Question 2

irresolute

Answer 2

adj. showing or feeling hesitancy; uncertain

Question 3

laconic

Answer 3

adj. using very few words

Question 4

mendacity

Answer 4

n. untruthfulness

Question 5

evanescent

Answer 5

adj. quickly fading or disappearing

Question 6

probate

Answer 6

v. to establish the validity of a will;

n. the official proving of a will; a verified copy of a will with certificate as handed to executors

Question 7

modish

Answer 7

adj. conforming to or following what is currently popular and fashionable

Question 8

bay

Answer 8

v. to bark or howl loudly; shout loudly, typically demanding something

Question 9

recrudesce

Answer 9

v. to break out again; to recur

Question 10

perfidy

Answer 10

n. deceitfulness, untrustworthiness, disloyalty

Question 11

enormity

Answer 11

n. a grave sin or crime; the great scale of something either neutral or perceived as bad or morally wrong

Question 12

peremptory

Answer 12

adj. insisting on immediate attention or obedience; not open to appeal or challenge; final

Question 13

imperious

Answer 13

adj. assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering

Question 14

ignominy

Answer 14

n. public shame or disgrace

Question 15

callow

Answer 15

adj. (esp. of a young person) inexperienced and immature

Question 16

venal

Answer 16

adj. showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery

Question 17

curmudgeon

Answer 17

n. a bad tempered or surly person

Question 18

express

Answer 18

adj. definitely stated, not merely implied

Question 19

sanguine

Answer 19

adj. optimistic or positive

Question 20

puerile

Answer 20

adj. childishly silly and trivial

Question 21

ineffectual

Answer 21

adj. producing no effect;

adj. (of a person) lacking the ability to handle a role or situation

Question 22

epicurean

Answer 22

n. a disciple of Epicurus; a person devoted to sensual enjoyment (esp. food and drink)

Question 23

gourmandize

Answer 23

v. to indulge in good eating; eat greedily

n. act of indulging in or being a connoisseur of good eating

Question 24

skinflint

Answer 24

n. a person who spends as little as possible; a miser

Question 25

epicure

Answer 25

n. a person who takes pleasure in fine food and drink

Question 26

raffish

Answer 26

adj. unconventional and slightly disreputable (esp. in an attractive manner)

Question 27

effusive

Answer 27

adj. expressing (things) in an unrestrained and heartfelt manner

Question 28

pulchritude

Answer 28

n. beauty

Question 29

canniness

Answer 29

n. quality of shrewdness and good judgment (adj. canny)

Question 30

engender

Answer 30

v. cause or give rise to; to beget

Question 31

affronted

Answer 31

v. to offend the modesty or values of;

n. action or remark that causes outrage or offense

Question 32

ablation

Answer 32

n. removal either by surgery or natural causes such as erosion, melting, or evaporation

Question 33

bedizened

Answer 33

adj. dressed up or decorated gaudily

Question 34

caparison

Answer 34

n. an ornamental covering spread over a horse’s saddle or harness

Question 35

extirpate

Answer 35

v. to root out and destroy completely

Question 36

foment

Answer 36

v. to instigate or stir up

Question 37

salacious

Answer 37

adj. lustful, lecherous; treating sexual matters in an indecent way

Question 38

sententious

Answer 38

adj. given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner

Question 39

propitious

Answer 39

adj. favorable; indicating a good chance of success

Question 40

saturnine

Answer 40

adj. slow and gloomy; dark in coloring or gloomy or mysterious

Question 41

lecherous

Answer 41

adj. having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire