Words From GRE Tests Flashcards

Question

Loquacious

Answer 1

Changeable, fickle, inconsistent

Answer 2

Using few words, succinct, curt, terse.

Answer 3

To make less severe

Answer 4

Conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals

Answer 5

Subject to sudden or unpredictable changes, fickle.

Answer 6

To bury, inearth, inhume

Answer 7

Inspire or permeate with a feeling or quality Synonyms: impregnate, saturate, pervade, permeate

Answer 8

To take or claim something without justification.

Answer 9

To give in on one's demands

Answer 10

Bitter feeligs

Answer 11

The climax or culmination of something

Answer 12

To call into question, to dispute the truth.

Answer 13

A position requiring little or no work but providing financial benefit.

Answer 14

Extremely or unusually small

Answer 15

A person who behaves badly or breaks the law

Answer 16

One that interferes with the affairs of others, often for selfish reasons

Answer 17

Exuberance, enthusiasm.

Answer 18

Not honorable in character or purpose Of humble origin or social status

Answer 19

Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor Synonyms: jocose, jocular

Answer 20

Exceedingly harmful

Answer 21

Loudly or vehemently expressive

Answer 22

Being open and honest

Answer 23

Confused, complicated or embarrassing situation

Answer 24

Self-confidence, poise

Answer 25

Uncommunicative, reserved, saying little Syn: reticent

Answer 26

Causing harm or damage Syn: injurious, noisome, detrimental

Answer 27

Tranquility, calmness

Answer 28

Very distinguished, surpassing all others

Answer 29

Sparkling or shining brightly

Answer 30

To express severe disapproval

Answer 31

A release or discharge from debt or obligation

Answer 32

Easily made angry

Answer 33

Indirect, roundabout

Answer 34

Stubborn, Unwilling or refusing to change one's views

Answer 35

Commonplace, Ordinary or everyday

Answer 36

Inconsistent, out of place, inappropriate.

Answer 37

Having a lack of self control

Answer 38

Not self indulgent Syn: abstinent, temperate, moderate

Answer 39

To complete or perfect

Answer 40

Friendly, good-natured

Answer 41

Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily

Answer 42

Habitual truthfulness

Answer 43

Having strong moral principles.

Answer 44

Resonant, ringing, orotund

Answer 45

Difficult to understand Syn: obscure, recondite, profound

Answer 46

Excessively or ingratiatingly flattering Syn: oleaginous

Answer 47

Sharp and forthright

Answer 48

Biting, acrimonious, mordant, acrid

Answer 49

Government by mob

Answer 50

A government by one person with absolute power

Answer 51

A government in which the power rests with a small group of people

Answer 52

Government by the wealthy

Answer 53

Great in size

Answer 54

Powerful of sound

Answer 55

Appropriately and pleasingly expressed

Answer 56

Writing that explains or sets forth ideas

Answer 57

Considering deeply and thoughtfully.

Answer 58

To relinquish.

Answer 59

To encroach.

Answer 60

Unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with a word that sounds similar.

Answer 61

Lukewarm, showing little enthusiasm

Answer 62

To criticize severely To damage or wear off skin

Answer 63

Bewilderment

Answer 64

Difficult to understand, obscure

Answer 65

Extremely talkative

Answer 66

Extremely talkative

Answer 67

A self-serving, servile flatterer.

Answer 68

A person's presence, manner. Syn: appearance, carriage, countenance, demeanor

Answer 69

Naive, gullible, easily confused.

Answer 70

Depressive

Answer 71

Substitute

Answer 72

To predict

Answer 73

Just beginning

Answer 74

To respect

Answer 75

Generosity, magnanimity.

Answer 76

A mode of behavior or way of thought particular to an individual.

Answer 77

Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something (often having to do with smell)

Answer 78

Penniless.

Answer 79

1. Relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process | 2. On the edges, at a point where things cross.

Answer 80

Fast and unexpected.

Answer 81

Power from twisting

Answer 82

A gaping hole

Answer 83

Something that departs from what is normal.

Answer 84

Ceremonial procession

Answer 85

Dishonesty | Mendacious= dishonest

Answer 86

To renounce

Answer 87

Offense (to take umbrage at)

Answer 88

Belonging to another time

Answer 89

To add to or improve

Answer 90

To make something grander or seem so

Answer 91

To speak abusively

Answer 92

To strike against forcefully

Answer 93

Lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy

Answer 94

To assign or attribute something to someone.

Answer 95

To justify or clear from blame.

Answer 96

Very hard.

Answer 97

Fine or thin.

Answer 98

Easy to break.

Answer 99

Capable of being drawn out or stretched. Of or relating to tension.

Answer 100

Rigorous or severe.

Answer 101

Primitive or from earliest time.

Answer 102

Conforming to an established doctrine.

Answer 103

Of questionable authenticity.

Answer 104

Fashionable.

Answer 105

Rebellious.

Answer 106

Lowbrow, someone who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts.

Answer 107

Being at rest.

Answer 108

Returning to the same points repeatedly.

Answer 109

Vague or unorganized.

Answer 110

No longer in existence.

Answer 111

To put into action.

Answer 112

Perfect embodiment (of)

Answer 113

Highest point

Answer 114

Honest, straight-forward Innocent and unsuspecting.

Answer 115

To speak or write about with great hostility Syn: vituperate

Answer 116

Causing sleep or lethargy.

Answer 117

Concerned with beauty.

Answer 118

Constant effort, diligence.

Answer 119

To make someone look good or give someone credit.

Answer 120

To reduce debt.

Answer 121

To soften something by soaking

Answer 122

To slander or defame

Answer 123

Wandering from place to place

Answer 124

Following on or happening after

Answer 125

Ensuing, occurring after

Answer 126

Not justifiable

Answer 127

Indescribable, unutterable

Answer 128

Awkward, inept

Answer 129

To indoctrinate

Answer 130

Unable to be removed

Answer 131

With great attention to detail and high standards

Answer 132

To howl or moan

Answer 133

A quality invoking pity or sadness

Answer 134

Clever trick, illusion

Answer 135

Tending to obstruct or harm Unfriendly, hostile ("Inimical to our interests")

Answer 136

To formally revoke

Answer 137

Something having a massive and uniform structure; large and character-less

Answer 138

To cause someone to feel drained of energy

Answer 139

To speak or act in an evasive way, to equivocate or evade

Answer 140

To use ambiguous language o avoid telling the truth

Answer 141

To refuse to accept

Answer 142

Found or appearing everywhere, omnipresent

Answer 143

Short-sighted or narrow-minded

Answer 144

Prevalent, widespread

Answer 145

Refusing to be pacified

Answer 146

Fleeting, transitory

Answer 147

To charm, sometimes by deception.

Answer 148

To spread throughout something

Answer 149

To disapprove, protest, reprobate

Answer 150

A sullen mood

Answer 151

Descendant

Answer 152

Rural, idyllic

Answer 153

Succinct, concise, laconic

Answer 154

Antiquated

Answer 155

Childishness

Answer 156

An unusual object

Answer 157

A model or perfect example

Answer 158

Desire to do evil

Answer 159

Bad-smelling

Answer 160

Cruel, caustic

Answer 161

Slanderous

Answer 162

Optimistic