GRE Vocab Pratice Questions

Question 1

Seldom

Answer 1

Rarely; rare

Question 2

Recondite

Answer 2

1. Smth difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend
2. Of , relating to, or dealing with smth little known or obscure
3. Hidden from sight

Question 3

Fecklessness

Answer 3

1. Weak, ineffective (someone). A bit useless
2. Worthless, irresponsible

Question 4

Acquisitiveness

Answer 4

Desire to acquire and possess wealth

Greedy, avaricious

Question 5

Impecunious

Answer 5

Having little to no money

Question 6

Abstruse

Answer 6

Difficult to comprehend
Recondite

Question 7

Hortatory

Answer 7

Trying to strongly encourage or persuade

Question 8

Trifling

Answer 8

Lacking significance

Frivolous, trivial

Question 9

Extant

Answer 9

Still existing

Question 10

Insipid

Answer 10

1. Lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge
2. Lacking taste or savor

Question 11

Serendipitous

Answer 11

Occurring or discoverred by chance in a happy or beneficial way

Fortuitous

Question 12

Prescience

Answer 12

Foreknowledge of events

Prescient=foresight

Question 13

Blemish

Answer 13

Spoiled by a flaw

Question 14

Kindred

Answer 14

Of the same origin, group, family

Question 15

Iconoclasm

Answer 15

The action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs, institutions, or values

Destruction of religious images as heretical

Question 16

Scanty

Answer 16

Less than sufficient in quantity, extent or degree

Question 17

Long winded

Answer 17

Tediously long in speaking or writing

Question 18

Panacea

Answer 18

Cure all

Question 19

Cursory

Answer 19

Rapidly and superficially performed or produced
Hasty
Baclé

Question 20

Perfunctory

Answer 20

Routine based and superficial, almost mechanical and automatic

Question 21

Shrewd

Answer 21

Marked by clever awareness and hardheaded

Has acumen

Question 22

Canny

Answer 22

Clever, shrewd