X 50 GRE Cards

Question 1

Russet

Answer 1

brown-red color (like a potato)

Question 2

Execrable

Answer 2

detestable. Execrable crimes

Question 3

Sacrilege

Answer 3

violation of anything sacred

Question 4

Sage

Answer 4

wise Wise person (pundit). Or sage words (adjective)

Question 5

Sapient

Answer 5

wise

Question 6

Savant

Answer 6

learned person

Question 7

Insolent

Answer 7

rude or disrespectful

Question 8

Salutary

Answer 8

healthful

Question 9

Sanguinary

Answer 9

bloodthirsty

Question 10

Conscription

Answer 10

draft to military

Question 11

Sedition

Answer 11

rebellion or discontent against government

Question 12

Sequester

Answer 12

remove or withdraw to solitude or retirement

Question 13

Non sequitur

Answer 13

conclusion that does not follow from the premise

Question 14

Assiduous

Answer 14

showing great care and judgement

Question 15

Dissident

Answer 15

disagreeing

Question 16

Disport

Answer 16

to divert or amuse

Question 17

Deportment

Answer 17

conduct, behavior

Question 18

Posterior

Answer 18

situated at the rear

Question 19

Posterity

Answer 19

future generations

Question 20

Potable

Answer 20

drinkable

Question 21

Precocious

Answer 21

unusually advanced mentally

Question 22

Primeval

Answer 22

ancient

Question 23

propound

Answer 23

set forth for consideration

Question 24

Proselytize

Answer 24

attempt to recruit or convert

Question 25

Provident

Answer 25

foresight

Question 26

Protozoan

Answer 26

belong to a group of single called animals which came before advanced animals

Question 27

Compunction

Answer 27

feeling of uneasy from doing wrong

Question 28

Pyrosis

Answer 28

heartburn

Question 29

Quaternary

Answer 29

the forth in a series, the number four

Question 30

Perquisite

Answer 30

a gratuity, a tip

Question 31

Acquiesce

Answer 31

to comply, give in

Question 32

Deracinate

Answer 32

to uproot

Question 33

Regicide

Answer 33

killing a king

Question 34

Pauper

Answer 34

a person without any personal means of support

Question 35

Paucity

Answer 35

a smallness of quantity

Question 36

Impecunious

Answer 36

having no money

Question 37

Peculation

Answer 37

embezzlement

Question 38

Pecuniary

Answer 38

relating to money

Question 39

Antipodes

Answer 39

places diametrically opposite east other on the globe

Question 40

Penitent

Answer 40

contrite

Question 41

Pertinacious

Answer 41

persistent

Question 42

Philatelist

Answer 42

collects postage stamps

Question 43

Philology

Answer 43

study of texts

Question 44

Plenitude

Answer 44

fullness or abundance

Question 45

Supplicants

Answer 45

to make humble an earnest

Question 46

Polyandry

Answer 46

many husbands (polygamy = many wives)

Question 47

Nautical

Answer 47

relating to sailing or sailors

Question 48

Obfuscate

Answer 48

darken

Question 49

Omnibus

Answer 49

collection of other work by same author. an omnibus of her first trilogy

Question 50

Ossuary

Answer 50

a place where bones are kept