GRE_3000_List1

Question 1

abominate

Answer 1

to hate or loathe intensely, abhor
[E] We abominate jokes that make fun of people who have physical disabilities.
[S] despise; detest; execrate; loathe;’
[A] esteem; adore;

Question 2

abstain

Answer 2

to refrain from something by one’s own choice
[E] abstain from smoking
[S] forgo; refrain from
[A] bow to; submit to; succumb to;

Question 3

accost

Answer 3

to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way.
[E] accosted by three gang members.

Question 4

accolade

Answer 4

1 an expression of approval
[E] The director won virtually every accolade that the film world offered.
[S] applause; credit; distinction;
[A] disapprobation;
2 to praise or honor;
[A] excoriate; criticise; reprobate; denigrate; denunciate;

Question 5

adjourn

Answer 5

to suspend a session indefinitely or to another time or place
[E] The meeting adjourned for a week.
[S] prorogate;prorogue; recess; suspend;
[A] convoke;

Question 6

adjunct

Answer 6

something joined or added to another to another thing but not necessarily a part of it
[E] Massage therapy can be used as an adjunct along with the medication.
[S] appendage; appliance; attachment;
[A] essential element;

Question 7

admonish

Answer 7

1 to give advice to
[E] admonish the patient to eat more healthy food
[S] counsel
2 to reprove gently
[E] admonish her for littering
[S] chide; reproach;
[P] admonishment;

Question 8

adulate

Answer 8

to praise too much
[E] incompetent assistants who spend all their time adulating her.
[S] overpraise; belaud;
[A] vituperate;

Question 9

adumbrate

Answer 9

1 to disclose partially or guardedly
[E] adumbrate a plan
[S] revelation
2 to give a slight indication of beforehand
[E] The strife in Bloody Kansas adumbrated the civil war that wold follow.
[S] forerun; harbinger;

Question 10

adventitious

Answer 10

coming from another source and not inherent or innate
[E] Moral considerations are adventitious to the study of art.
[S] alien; supervenient;
[A] constitutional; essential; intrinsic; innate;

Question 11

advert

Answer 11

to call attention
[E] He adverted to the problem in the opening paragraph.
[S] advertent;
[A] inattentive; remiss; heedless; negligent;

Question 12

agog

Answer 12

showing urgent desire or interest
[E] Children were agog over new toys.
[S] avid; ardent; voracious;
[A] apathetic; indifferent; uneager;

Question 13

allegiance

Answer 13

devotion or loyalty to a person, group, or cause
[E] They swore their allegiance to the USA.
[S] commitment; dedication;
[A] inconstancy; perfidiousness; treachery;

Question 14

aloft

Answer 14

in the air especially ; in flight
[E] The balloon stayed aloft for days.
[S] overhead;
[A] grounded;

Question 15

amenity

Answer 15

1 something that conduces to comfort
[E] the amenity of the new surroundings
[S] comfort; convenience;
2 the quality of being pleasant or agreeable
[E] a discussion conducted in perfect amenity
[S] agreeability; harmony; consonance;

Question 16

abject

Answer 16

1 cast down in spirit;
[E] a man made abject by suffering;
[S] spiritless; 
[A] exultant;
2 sunk to or existing in a low state or condition;
[E] abject poverty;
3 expressing or offered in a humble and often ingratiating spirit
[E] abject flattery; an abject apology
[S] base; menial;