iv GRE Cards

Question 1

Parochial

Answer 1

narrow-minded

Question 2

Precipitous

Answer 2

hasty

Question 3

Perfidy

Answer 3

lowest circle in Dante’s inferno we’re for those who has practices perfidy (betrayal)

Question 4

Gossamer

Answer 4

delicate. The gossamer wings of a butterfly

Question 5

Virulent

Answer 5

very bitter, very poisonous. The virulent look on his face made me certain he’d say something mean

Question 6

Viruliferous

Answer 6

containing a virus

Question 7

Avocation

Answer 7

something done in addition to the principal job

Question 8

Convoke

Answer 8

call together

Question 9

Vociferous

Answer 9

vehement shouting or calling out. vociferous cries of protest and outrage.

Question 10

Volition

Answer 10

free of choice, of own will. The product has the capacity to generate revenue on its own volition

Question 11

Voracious

Answer 11

eating or absorbing everything. Victor had a voracious appetite growing up

Question 12

Pertinacious

Answer 12

stubborn

Question 13

Contort

Answer 13

to twist. He contorted his face into a grimace of pain

Question 14

Torque

Answer 14

twisting force

Question 15

Protract

Answer 15

prolong. He protracted the process

Question 16

Transgress

Answer 16

go over bounds of moral code

Question 17

Ulterior

Answer 17

beyond what us immediately stated. Could there be an ulterior motive

Question 18

Adumbrate

Answer 18

to outline partially (adumbrate a plan), or to foreshadow lightly (the social unrest that adumbrated the French Revolution)

Question 19

Penumbra

Answer 19

the space outside the perfect shadow but still in partial illumination

Question 20

Usurp

Answer 20

to seize and hold without right. To usurp a throne

Question 21

Convalescent-

Answer 21

recovering strength from sickness or injury. I am convalescing from my muscle injury.

Question 22

Valediction

Answer 22

say farewell

Question 23

Adventitious

Answer 23

accidental

Question 24

Aver

Answer 24

to affirm, declare to be true. He averred that he was innocent

Question 25

Senescent

Answer 25

getting old (adjective). wrinkles are a part of the normal senescence that is happening in a person's body

Question 26

Insensate

Answer 26

without feeling or sensitivity. The belief that god is present in all even insensate objects

Question 27

Insentient

Answer 27

incapble of feeling. Animals are not insentient

Question 28

Sentinel

Answer 28

a guard that stands watch

Question 29

Sinuous

Answer 29

moving in a wavy or bending manner. The river follows a sinuous trail

Question 30

Soliloquize

Answer 30

talk to oneself

Question 31

Solipsism

Answer 31

the belief that the only thing that can be known is one self

Question 32

Dissolute

Answer 32

indifferent to moral restraints, unrestrained. A dissolute, drunken lifestyle

Question 33

Soluble

Answer 33

capable of being dissolved or liquified

Question 34

Somnambulist

Answer 34

sleep walker

Question 35

Somniferous

Answer 35

sleep inducing

Question 36

Somniloquist

Answer 36

sleep talker

Question 37

Somnolent

Answer 37

sleepy, drowsy - good way. The somnolent hum of bees in summer grass

Question 38

Sophism

Answer 38

superficially appealing but fallacious argument

Question 39

Perspicacious

Answer 39

keen mental perception and understanding

Question 40

Apostasy

Answer 40

renunciation of an object of one’s previous loyalty. He was an apostate o the church

Question 41

Destitute

Answer 41

without means of substance. the charity cares for destitute children

Question 42

Astringent

Answer 42

causing to tighten, or stringent taste

Question 43

Dissuade

Answer 43

to advise against (opposite of persuade)

Question 44

Suave

Answer 44

smooth

Question 45

Subterfuge

Answer 45

act of lying or otherwise trick to escape a bad consequence

Question 46

Supercilious

Answer 46

arrogant, condescending, behaving as if better than someone. Devin is very supercilious

Question 47

Contiguous

Answer 47

sharing a boundary, directly touching. Contiguous vineyards in Italy

Question 48

Tactile

Answer 48

touchable. The keyboard has good tactile feedback

Question 49

Risible

Answer 49

causing laughter. The suggestion was downright risible

Question 50

Rubicund

Answer 50

reddish