GRE_3000_List8

Question 1

dogged

Answer 1

1 continuing despite difficulties.
[E] gain respect through her dogged determination
[S] insistent; pertinacious;
[A] easily discouraged;
2 sticking to an opinion
[E] Your dogged adherence to a really lame argument in embarrassing.
[S] adamant; mulish; obdurate; ossified;
[A] acquiescent; amenable; pliant;

Question 2

doldrums

Answer 2

1 a state or period of inactivity, stagnation;
[E] August is a time of doldrums for many enterprises.
[S] abeyance; dormancy; moratorium;
[A] continuation;
2 a state or spell of low spirits.
[E] The team had been in the doldrums ever since losing the championship.
[S] dejection; melancholy;
[A] bliss; exuberance; rapture;

Question 3

dolt

Answer 3

a stupid person
[E] What a dolt I have been.
[S] idiot; fool; moron; simpleton
[A] illuminati; 
[P] doltish;

Question 4

domicile

Answer 4

1 a residence
[E] an alternative domicile in emergency
[S] habitation; abode;
2 to establish in or provide with a domicile
[E] The university domiciles students in a variety of buildings in and around its urban campus.
[S] bestow; accommodate;
[A] banish; expel;

Question 5

doodle

Answer 5

1 to scribble aimlessly
[E] I often doodle when I am on the phone.
[S] mess around
2 to spend time in aimlessly activity
[E] I plan to spend the entire vacation just doodling.
[S] dawdle; trifle;

Question 6

douse

Answer 6

1 to put out 
[E] douse a fire with water 
[S] quench; extinguish; 
[A] kindle; ignite;
2 to make wet
[E] The heavy rain thoroughly doused the tourists.
[S] deluge; soak;
[A] dehydrate; desiccate; parsh

Question 7

doyen

Answer 7

1 a person considered to be knowledgeable;
[E] a doyen in the industry
[S] authority; expert; master;
[A] amateur; layman; tyro; novice; neophyte; rookie; fledgling;
2 the senior member of a group;
[E] He’s the doyen of the admission committee, and his opinion has considerable weight.
[S] senior;
[A] junior;

Question 8

draconian

Answer 8

exceedingly harsh
[E] abolish a draconian legal code
[S] rigid; stringent;
[A] lenient;

Question 9

drawl

Answer 9

to speak slowly
[E] The old woman were drawling on and on.
[S] prolong; protract;
[A] drivel; gibber;

Question 10

droll

Answer 10

amusingly odd
[E] a droll man with strong dialect
[S] farcical; uproarious; whimsical;
[A] lame;
[P] drollness;

Question 11

drone

Answer 11

1 to talk in monotonous tone
[E] droning bees
[S] hum, buzz,
2 a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion
[E] hear the drone of a helicopter overhead
[S] burr; whir;
3 to spend time doing nothing
[E] Instead of getting a job, he preferred to drone and live off his parents.
[S] dally; dawdle;

Question 12

ductile

Answer 12

1 malleable;
[E] Gold is a kind of ductile metal
[S] malleable; moldable;
[A] inflexible; 
2 easily influenced
[E] a ductile personality
[S] pliant; supple;
[A] adamant; intractable;

Question 13

dulcet

Answer 13

pleasing to hear
[E] dulcet tones from harps and flutes
[S] mellifluous; euphonic;
[A] cacophonous; grating;

Question 14

duplicity

Answer 14

deliberate deceptiveness
[E] accidentally reveal their duplicity
[S] artifice; deceit; craft; fraudulence;
[A] honesty; sincerity;

Question 15

dyspeptic

Answer 15

1 bad- tempered
[E] The sultry day make us dyspeptic.
[S] cantankerous; irascible;
[A] amiable;
2 pertaining to, subject to or suffering from dyspepsia
[P] dyspepsia

Question 16

eavesdrop

Answer 16

to listen secretly to the private conversation of others
[E] eavesdrop on the conversation
[S] overhear

Question 17

ebullient

Answer 17

enthusiastic
[E] The ebullient dancers left a deep impression on us.
[S] effervescent; 
[A] torpid;
[P] ebullience;

Question 18

effervesce

Answer 18

1 to bubble as gas escapes
[E] effervesce with bubbles
[S] bubble; foam
2 to show high spirits or animation
[E] effervesce over the news of victory
[S] jubilate;
[A] grieve
[P] effervescent; effervescence;

Question 19

effete

Answer 19

1 depleted of vitality
[E] an effete monarchy
[S] debilitated; decadent; depleted;
[A] hale; 
[P] effetely;
2 lacking strength of will
[E] The government is too effete to take out the powerful special interests that really ruin the state.
[S] frail; invertebrate;
[A] firm; hard; strong;

Question 20

doff

Answer 20

to take off; remove
[E] The blazing sun soon had the men doffing their jackets.
[S] put off;
[A] don; put on;

Question 21

effluvium

Answer 21

1 an offensive smell
[E] Repulsive effluvia made us vomit.
[S] malodor; stink; stench
[A] fragrance; aroma; 
[P]   effluvial
2 a by-product especially in the form of waste
[E] With nothing but effluvia obtained, researchers decided to abandon this method.
[S] dross; trash

Question 22

effrontery

Answer 22

flagrant disregard of courtesy
[E] The man has the effrontery to insult his father.
[S] audacity; brazenness;
[A] decorum; courtesy;

Question 23

effulgent

Answer 23

shining brilliantly; resplendent; 
[E] an effulgent sunset on the Atlantic
[S] bright; beaming; glorious; luminous; splendid; 
[A] dim; murky; 
[P] effulgence;

Question 24

egalitarian

Answer 24

affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil right for all people;
[E] the egalitarian principle guiding his endeavor
[S] disinterested;
[A] inequitable; discriminating;
[P] egalitarianism

Question 25

elate

Answer 25

to fill with joy or pride
[E] The phenomenal sales record elated him.
[S] excite; exhilarate; inspire;
[P] elated; elation

Question 26

eleemosynary

Answer 26

charity
[E] an eleemosynary foundation funded by Bill Gates
[S] benevolent; philanthropic;
[A] parsimonious;

Question 27

elegy

Answer 27

a song expressing sorrow
[E] a moving elegy played at the funeral
[S] dirge; lamentation; requiem
[A] ode

Question 28

elliptical

Answer 28

1 obscurity
[E] give an elliptical response to the inquiry
[S] ambiguous; arcane; cryptic; enigmatic; 
[A] explicit;
2 ellipse;
[S] oval; ovate
[A] circular; round;
[P] ellipse

Question 29

emaciate

Answer 29

1 to cause to lose flesh so as to become very thin
[E] become emaciated by long illness
[A] fatten; invigorate;
[P] emaciation;
2 to make feeble;
[E] His hesitation emanciated the force of his argument.
[S] droop; flag; sag;

Question 30

emboss

Answer 30

to raise the surface of into bosses; especially to ornament with raised work
[E] embossed with a design of Shanghai skyline
[S] adorn; bedeck; blazon; garnish;
[A] flatten; efface;

Question 31

emollient

Answer 31

making less intense or harsh
[E] soothe us in our grieves with emollient words
[S] appeasing; assuaging; mollifying; mitigating;
[A] aggravating;

Question 32

enamel

Answer 32

1 to give a glossy or brilliant surface to
[S] glaze; varnish;
[A] efface;
2 a adorn with a brightly colored surface
[S] adorn; decorate;
[A] disfigure;

Question 33

encomium

Answer 33

praise
[E] receive encomium from literary critics
[S] accolade; applause; panegyric; salutation; tribute;
[A] criticism; abuse; vituperation;

Question 34

enervate

Answer 34

1 to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of
[E] His constitution was very enervated by lustful lifestyle;
[S] debilitate; enfeeble;
[A] fortify; invigorate; vitalize;
[P] enervation;
2 to deprive of emotional or intellectual vitality
[E] A lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul.
[S] dampen; deaden; petrify;
[A] brace; energize; enliven;

Question 35

ennui

Answer 35

listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interests
[E] The kind of ennui comes from having too much time on one’s hands and too little will to find something productive to do.
[S] doldrums; tedium;
[A] energy

Question 36

ensemble

Answer 36

a work for two or more vocalists or instruments
[E] The actor performed an ensemble piece;
[A] solo

Question 37

ensconce

Answer 37

1 to settle securely or comfortable;
[E] ensconce oneself in a new job.
[S] install; nestle; 
[A] dislodge;
2 to put in a hiding place 
[E] ensconce the spare house key in a place where no thief would think to look
[S] bury; conceal
[A] exhibit