GRE word clusters

Question 1

2 for willingness to lie –> two words speak evasively –> move between two opinions

Answer 1

mendacity, perfidy –> prevaricate, equivocate –> vacillate

Question 2

5 words for highest point –> 1 word for second highest –> 1 for lowest point

Answer 2

apogee, zenith, apex, summit, pinnacle –> penultimate –> nadir

Question 3

two words for fake or phoney –> one word for genuine

Answer 3

spurious, erstatz –> veritable

Question 4

6 words for shy / saying little –> 6 for sociable talkative

Answer 4

diffident, demure, artless, reticent, laconic, retiring –> garrulous, logorrhea, loquacity, prolixity, gregarious, expansive

Question 5

4 words for meagerness or lack vs 3 very generous/forgiving

Answer 5

Exiguity, paucity, deprivation parsimonious –> magnanimous, beneficent, unstinting

Question 6

4 words for diligent

Answer 6

sedulous, punctilious, scrupulous, assiduous

Question 7

3 words for understandable –> 6 for little known

Answer 7

pellucid, limpid, cogent –> recondite, abstruse, arcane, esoteric, turbid, opaque

Question 8

3 words for short saying –> 5 long rant / tirade

Answer 8

apothegm, aphorism, maxim –> harangue, polemic, admonishment, broadside, invective

Question 9

2 words for swindle/trick/extort

Answer 9

mulct, fleece

Question 10

factious vs fractious

Answer 10

characterized by internal dispute vs irritable

Question 11

3 word for changeable –> 2 words for habitual or unlikely to change

Answer 11

protean, mercurial, capricious –< inveterate, entrenched

Question 12

4 words for sad/somber –> 2 words for happy/cheerful

Answer 12

funereal, doleful, saturnine, lugubrious –> ebulilent, sanguine

Question 13

6 for lacking significance due to overuse or boring

Answer 13

hackneyed, trite, cliche, banal, prosaic, quotidian

Question 14

5 for lacking foresight or excessivly wasteful

Answer 14

improvident, profligate, imprudent, prodigal, spendthrift

Question 15

4 for harmful

Answer 15

pernicious, deleterious, noxious, malevolent

Question 16

3 for greed for money or possession

Answer 16

cupidity, rapaciousness, avarice

Question 17

2 for prone to fighting –> 1 for agreeable

Answer 17

belligerent, truculent –> amiable

Question 18

3 for beginning/amateur –> 3 for expert

Answer 18

Tyro, dillitente, –> pundit

Question 19

3 for bad mood, offence, or annoyence

Answer 19

umbrage, querelous, petulant

Question 20

3 for vulgar or depraved

Answer 20

ribald, turpitude, reprobate

Question 21

7 for crtiicize or critixism

Answer 21

aspersion, castigate, disparage, exoriate, gainsay, impugn, pillory

Question 22

offensive/disgusting

Answer 22

fetid, invidious, noisome

Question 23

one for increase –> 2 for decrease / weaken

Answer 23

wax -» wan, wane

Question 24

3 for express strong disapproval

Answer 24

censure, pejorative, reprove

Question 25

blind or excessive optimism

Answer 25

Polyannahish, Panglossian,

Question 26

2 for childish and immature

Answer 26

puerile, jejune

Question 27

corrupt or taking bribes

Answer 27

malfeasance, venality

Question 28

2 for wealthy –> 2 for poor

Answer 28

affluent, –> indigent, insolvent

Question 29

2 words for unbiased or neutral

Answer 29

disinterested

Question 30

2 words for stubborn

Answer 30

obstreperous, refactory