Manhattan GRE exam 4

Question 1

Dally

Answer 1

Dawdle, Have a casual or sexual liaison with

Question 2

Promulgate

Answer 2

Promote or make widely known(an idea or cause)

Question 3

Expeditious

Answer 3

Done with speed and efficiency

Question 4

Dank

Answer 4

Unpleasantly damp and cold

Question 5

Whence

Answer 5

Where

Question 6

Suffused

Answer 6

Gradually spread through or over

Question 7

Conjure

Answer 7

1) Cause(a spirit or ghost) to appear by means of a magic ritual
2) Implore someone to do something

Question 8

Reprehensible

Answer 8

Deserving censure or condemnation

Question 9

Recidivism

Answer 9

The tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend

Question 10

Abdication

Answer 10

Resignation, failure to fulfil a responsibility or duty

Question 11

Abase

Answer 11

Behave in a way that belittle or degrade someone

Question 12

Apprise

Answer 12

Inform or tell someone

Question 13

Extol

Answer 13

Praise enthusiastically

Question 14

Tardy

Answer 14

Late, sluggish

Question 15

Bedlam

Answer 15

A scene of uproar and confusion

Question 16

Ostracize

Answer 16

Exclude from a society or group, banish from a country by people’s vole

Question 17

Indict

Answer 17

Formally accuse of a charge of a crime

Question 18

Feral

Answer 18

In a wild state, especially after escape from captivity or domestication

Question 19

Stentorian

Answer 19

(of a person’s voice) loud and powerful

Question 20

Untoward

Answer 20

Unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient

Question 21

Appraisal

Answer 21

An act of assessing something or someone

Question 22

Abnegation

Answer 22

The action of renouncing or rejecting something

Question 23

Celerity

Answer 23

Swiftness of movement

Question 24

Exalts

Answer 24

1) Think or speak very highly of someone or something
2) Raise to a higher rank or position

Question 25

Palliate

Answer 25

1) Make(disease or its symptoms) less severe without removing the cause 2) Disguise the seriousness of an offence

Question 26

Incensed

Answer 26

Angry or enraged

Question 27

Melancholic

Answer 27

Sad and depressed

Question 28

Despoil

Answer 28

Steal or violently remove valuable possessions from, plunder

Question 29

Hallow

Answer 29

Honor as holy

Question 30

Propound

Answer 30

Put forward an idea or theory for consideration of others

Question 31

Prevalent

Answer 31

Widespread in a particular area or at a particular time

Question 32

Licentious

Answer 32

Immoral in their sexual behavior

Question 33

Revel

Answer 33

Enjoy oneself in a lively and noisy way, especially drinking and dancing

Question 34

Antics

Answer 34

Foolish, outrageous or amusing behavior

Question 35

Jocular

Answer 35

Humorous or playful

Question 36

Devious

Answer 36

Showing a skill by using underhand tactics to achieve goals, longer or not direct route

Question 37

Refractory

Answer 37

Stubborn or unmanageable, resistant to process or stimulus

Question 38

Forlorn

Answer 38

1) Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely 2) (Endeavour) Unlikely to succeed or be fulfilled

Question 39

Autonomous

Answer 39

Independent

Question 40

Staid

Answer 40

Sedate, respectable and unadventurous

Question 41

Waggish

Answer 41

Humorous in a playful, mischievous or facetious manner