GRE Vocabulary 5

Question 1

alloy

Answer 1

(v.) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; (unalloyed: pure)

Question 2

appropriate

Answer 2

(v.) to take for one’s own use; to confiscate

Question 3

arrest, arresting

Answer 3

(v., adj.) to suspend; to engage; holding one’s attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait

Question 4

august

Answer 4

(adj.) majestic, venerable

Question 5

bent

Answer 5

(n.) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

Question 6

broach

Answer 6

(v) to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

Question 7

brook

Answer 7

(v.) to tolerate; to endure; to countenace

Question 8

cardinal

Answer 8

(adj.) major, as in cardinal sin

Question 9

chauvinist

Answer 9

(n.) a blindly devoted pariot

Question 10

color

Answer 10

(v.) to change as if by dyeing (i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect - usually the first)

Question 11

consequential

Answer 11

(adj.) pompous, self-important (logically following; important)

Question 12

damp

Answer 12

(v.) to diminish the intensity or check to vibration of a sound

Question 13

die

Answer 13

(n.) a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

Question 14

essay

Answer 14

(v.) to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

Question 15

exact

Answer 15

(v.) to demand; to call for; to require; to take

Question 16

fell

Answer 16

(v.) to cause to fall by striking

Question 17

flag

Answer 17

(v.) to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

Question 18

flip

Answer 18

(adj.) sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant; a flip remark

Question 19

ford

Answer 19

(v.) to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

Question 20

grouse

Answer 20

(v.) to complain or grumble

Question 21

guy

Answer 21

(n.) a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think “guide”

Question 22

intimate

Answer 22

(v.) to imply, suggest, or insinuate

Question 23

list

Answer 23

(v.) to tilt or lean to one side

Question 24

lumber

Answer 24

(v.) to move heavily and clumsily

Question 25

meet

Answer 25

(adj.) fitting, proper

Question 26

milk

Answer 26

(v.) to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

Question 27

mince

Answer 27

(v.) to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize to speak too carefully; to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

Question 28

nice

Answer 28

(adj.) exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

Question 29

obtain

Answer 29

(adj.) to be established, accepted, or customary

Question 30

occult

Answer 30

(adj.) hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

Question 31

pedestrian

Answer 31

(adj.) commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

Question 32

pied

Answer 32

(adj.) multicolored, usually in blotches

Question 33

pine

Answer 33

(v.) to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

Question 34

plastic

Answer 34

(adj.) moldable, pliable, not rigid

Question 35

pluck

Answer 35

(n.) courage, spunk, fortitude

Question 36

prize

Answer 36

(v.) to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

Question 37

rail

Answer 37

(v.) to complain about bitterly

Question 38

rent

Answer 38

(v.) torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such

Question 39

quail

Answer 39

(v.) to lose courage; to turn frightened

Question 40

qualify

Answer 40

(v.) to limit

Question 41

sap

Answer 41

(v.) to enervate or weaken the vitality of

Question 42

sap

Answer 42

(n.) a fool or nitwit

Question 43

scurvy

Answer 43

(adj.) contemptible; despicable

Question 44

singular

Answer 44

(adj.) exceptional, unusual, odd

Question 45

stand

Answer 45

(n.) a group of trees

Question 46

steep

Answer 46

(v.) to saturate or complete soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

Question 47

strut

Answer 47

(n) the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

Question 48

table

Answer 48

(v.) to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

Question 49

tender

Answer 49

(v.) to proffer or offer

Question 50

waffle

Answer 50

(v.) to equivocate; to change one’s position

Question 51

wag

Answer 51

(n.) wit, joker