GRE Word Groups

Question 1

What category? aspersion, decry, diatribe, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, objurgate, obloquy, pillory, remonstrate, vituperate

Answer 1

Criticism

Question 2

What category? canard, chicanery, dissemble, ersatz, mendacity, perfidy, spurious, prevaricate

Answer 2

Falsehood

Question 3

What category? acrimonious, asperity, mordacious, mordant, trenchant

Answer 3

biting (as in wit or temperament)

Question 4

What category? callow, engender, inchoate

Answer 4

Beginning/Creating/Young

Question 5

What category? dilettante, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro

Answer 5

Beginner/Amateur

Question 6

What category? bilious, dudgeon, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, waspish

Answer 6

Bad mood

Question 7

What category? countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, stalwart

Answer 7

Assist/Support

Question 8

What category? fatuous, prosaic, quotidian, trite

Answer 8

Boring

Question 9

What category? bacchanalian, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, reprobate, ribald, turpitude

Answer 9

Carousal (drunken feast, revelry)

Question 10

What category? factitious, quintessence, vicarious

Answer 10

Copy

Factitious - artificially created or developed (artificial, bogus, specious)