V 50 GRE Cards

Question 1

Effervescent

Answer 1

bubbly

Question 2

Elude

Answer 2

fail to grasp, escape

Question 3

Elusive

Answer 3

hard to pin down. Describing the feeling of falling from the sky during parachuting is elusive.

Question 4

Allude

Answer 4

refer indirectly to

Question 5

Elicit -

Answer 5

call forth. Can elicit feelings of.

Question 6

Artlessness

Answer 6

innocence

Question 7

Contemptuous

Answer 7

scornful

Question 8

Cornucopia

Answer 8

abundant supply

Question 9

Vitriol

Answer 9

abusive language

Question 10

Improvident

Answer 10

not careful

Question 11

Preempt

Answer 11

take place

Question 12

Preemptive

Answer 12

done first

Question 13

Debonair

Answer 13

sophisticated, charming. Debonair behavior

Question 14

Profusion

Answer 14

abundance

Question 15

Morose

Answer 15

gloomy, surly

Question 16

Loath

Answer 16

reluctant

Question 17

Loathe

Answer 17

hate

Question 18

Unnerve

Answer 18

make one lose confidence

Question 19

Histrionic

Answer 19

overly theatrical

Question 20

Buttress

Answer 20

support

Question 21

Corollary

Answer 21

consequence

Question 22

Unseemly

Answer 22

improper. Unseemly manner.

Question 23

Ingenuity

Answer 23

cleverness

Question 24

Disinterested

Answer 24

unbiased

Question 25

Destitute

Answer 25

poor

Question 26

Epigram

Answer 26

witty saying

Question 27

Illustrious

Answer 27

famous

Question 28

Adjudicate

Answer 28

judge

Question 29

Dilapidated

Answer 29

run down

Question 30

Tempestuous

Answer 30

intensely emotional. Tempestuous reltionship. Diego is tempestuous

Question 31

Surreptitiously-

Answer 31

stealthy, secretly. She surreptitiously slipped from the holiday event.

Question 32

Unpropitious

Answer 32

unlikely to be successful. Hiking Kilimanjaro without preparation is an unpropitious task.

Question 33

Halcyon

Answer 33

peaceful

Question 34

Spendthrift

Answer 34

wasteful with money

Question 35

Lacerate

Answer 35

stress deeply, distress, also cut. Anastasia is know for lacerating her subordinates when they make a mistake.

Question 36

Disenfranchised

Answer 36

deprive of votes.

Question 37

Apothegm

Answer 37

short saying. Democracy is the worst except all other tried.

Question 38

Puissant

Answer 38

powerful

Question 39

Solicitude

Answer 39

care for someone or something. Did not appreciate my solicitude.

Question 40

Frustrate

Answer 40

prevent

Question 41

Uncanny

Answer 41

strange

Question 42

Precarious

Answer 42

dangerous. a precarious ladder.

Question 43

Dovetail

Answer 43

fit together

Question 44

Denouement

Answer 44

resolution of a story

Question 45

Conflagration

Answer 45

large fire. Conflagration is common on the west coast.

Question 46

Countermand

Answer 46

reverse an order

Question 47

Incessant

Answer 47

continuing without pause. The incessant sound of the drill.

Question 48

Dispatch

Answer 48

speed, efficiency. She finished her essay with dispatch.

Question 49

Proscribe

Answer 49

ban, condemn. They are proscribed by federal law from owning guns

Question 50

Retiring

Answer 50

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