Barron's 800-900

Question 1

Winning elections through chicanery

Answer 1

Use of deception to achieve one’s purpose

Question 2

A connoisseur of music/fine wines

Answer 2

An expert judge in matters of taste

Question 3

He quickly disabused me of my fanciful notions

Answer 3

To undeceive; to set right; to persuade someone that an idea or belief is mistaken

Question 4

The movie captured the zeitgeist of the late 1960’s

Answer 4

The defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history

Question 5

He no longer felt any animosity towards her

Answer 5

Strong hostility

Question 6

After 50 years as an apostate, he returned to the faith

Answer 6

A person who renounces a religious/political belief or principle

Question 7

The heat would be insufferable by july

Answer 7

Too extreme to bear; intolerable

Question 8

It was the nadir of his career

Answer 8

The lowest or most unsuccessful point in a situation; opposite to zenith

Question 9

They were treated as social pariahs

Answer 9

An outcast; a person who has been rejected by their society or social group

Question 10

He gave her a lascivious wink

Answer 10

Feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire; lustful

Question 11

She ignored his lecherous gaze

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Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire; lustful

Question 12

Both tried to behave as if nothing untoward happened

Answer 12

Unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient

Question 13

He delivered a light-hearted speech which belied his deep disappointments

Answer 13

Fail to give a true impression of something

Question 14

Epiphany

Answer 14

A moment of sudden and great revelation or realization

Question 15

Stars produce a beautiful luminescence

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Emission of light by a substance that has not been heated

Question 16

Freedom and solitude

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The state or situation of being alone

Question 17

The planets were aligned in syzygy

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A conjunction or opposition, especially with the moon and the sun

Question 18

They drank thesmelves into oblivion

Answer 18

The State of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening around one

Question 19

He intended to stupefy her by making her smoke weed

Answer 19

Make someone unable to think or feel properly

Question 20

Incandescence

Answer 20

Emitting light aa a result of being heated; full of strong emotion; passionate

Question 21

Her face was aquiver with pleasure

Answer 21

Quivering; trembling; The romantic sensations when your partner touches you

Question 22

Hiraeth

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Homesickness for a home you can never return to or never existed in the first place; The Japanese guy from the movie Queen

Question 23

Somnambulist

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Sleepwalks

Question 24

The ineffable beauty of the Himalayas

Answer 24

Too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words

Question 25

His lectures were always soporific

Answer 25

Inducing sleep

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Auspicious time

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Favourable

Question 27

Magnanimous

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Big-hearted; generous

Question 28

He inculpated his friend

Answer 28

Accuse or blame

Question 29

He is highly amenable

Answer 29

Open and responsive to sugggestion; easily persuaded or controlled

Question 30

Food which is compliant with safety regulations

Answer 30

Meeting or in accordance with the rules or standards

Question 31

Amorphous

Answer 31

Shapeless

Question 32

It looked like he wanted to conciliate with his opponents

Answer 32

To make peace with; appease

Question 33

The manager was extremely churlish

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Lacking manners; rude and unpleasant

Question 34

A contentious topic/issue

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Involving heated argument; controversial

Question 35

She had been chary of telling the whole truth

Answer 35

Cautiously reluctant to do something

Question 36

Lethargic

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Slow and sluggish in manner

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Malleable

Answer 37

Capable of being shaped or formed

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Gandhi was venerated as the Father of the nation

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Regard with great respect; revere

Question 39

I vacillated between teaching and journalism

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Waver between different opinions or actions; being indecisive

Question 40

Waver

Answer 40

To oscillate or fluctuate

Question 41

It is a gambit to skip all hard questions in GRE

Answer 41

A move or action in which you risk something initially in the hope of future gain

Question 42

Vinod took umbrage at the prank that his friends played on him

Answer 42

Offense or annoyance

Question 43

It is not easy to get his dander up

Answer 43

To lose one's temper; a feeling of anger

Question 44

He was finding it harder and harder to live with such a tempestuous woman; a tempestuous wind

Answer 44

Characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion; very stormy

Question 45

He was trying to goad her into a fight

Answer 45

Provoke or annoy someone so as to stimulate an action or reaction;

Question 46

He looked very contrite

Answer 46

Feeling remorse or affected by guilt

Question 47

The river water was so pellucid

Answer 47

Translucently clear

Question 48

The mercurial teacher was tough to handle

Answer 48

Highly Moody; temperamental;

Question 49

Redundant

Answer 49

No longer needed or useful; unnecessary; superfluous

Question 50

Avoid asking superfluous information

Answer 50

Unnecessary; especially theough being more than enough

Question 51

Cacophony

Answer 51

A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds

Question 52

One of his little idiosyncrasies was always preferring to be the first in class

Answer 52

A mode of behaviour or way of thought peculiar to an individual

Question 53

Whatever he speaks, it is always pithy

Answer 53

Brief, to the point; brevity

Question 54

He drove his new sports car ostentatiously and got a ticket for speeding

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Pretentious act intended to impress; show off

Question 55

Vociferous

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Loud and vehement

Question 56

Today's sportsmen are well lionized

Answer 56

Give a lot of public attention and treat as a celebrity

Question 57

Rohan's friends considered his coin collecting hobby as a frivolous activity

Answer 57

Trivial; silly

Question 58

Benign

Answer 58

Gentle or kindly

Question 59

Trained lions appear docile in the circus acts

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Compliant; submissive

Question 60

The police suspected chicanery

Answer 60

Deception; trickery

Question 61

Providential

Answer 61

Occuring at a favourable time

Question 62

His argument may now seem obvious and trite

Answer 62

Lacking originality or freshness; dull on account of overuse

Question 63

Succinct

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Brief, to the point; brevity; pithy

Question 64

Tumultuous

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Confused or disorderly

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Recalcitrant

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Disobedient; uncontrollable

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Profound idea

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Very great or intense; thoughtful

Question 67

Everything was a sham

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False; bogus

Question 68

Prodigy

Answer 68

Young person with exceptional qualities and abilities

Question 69

Ascribed to

Answer 69

Regard something as being due to(a cause)

Question 70

He is from the same milieu as his friend

Answer 70

A person's social environment

Question 71

Tenuous links between; a tenuous argument

Answer 71

Very weak; slight; insubstantial

Question 72

Inordinate wealth; he spends inordinate time on the tv

Answer 72

Something that's excessive or goes way beyond the normal limits

Question 73

She cloaked her embarrassment

Answer 73

Hide, cover or disguise(something)

Question 74

Preceded

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Come before something in time

Question 75

Antedated

Answer 75

Come before sonething in date; precede

Question 76

A terse statement

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Abrupt;

Question 77

Quixotic

Answer 77

Extremely idealistic; unrealistic and impractical

Question 78

We were a very demonstrative family

Answer 78

Unrestrained in showing feelings; especially those of affection

Question 79

They accepted the conditions without demur

Answer 79

Raise objections or show reluctance;

Question 80

2 members dissented from the majority

Answer 80

Disagreement; holdibg or expression of opinions at variance with others in common

Question 81

The stigma of bankruptcy

Answer 81

A mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality or person

Question 82

Marginalize

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Treat as insignificant or perpheral

Question 83

Transcend

Answer 83

Go beyond the range or limits of

Question 84

An apposite quotation

Answer 84

Apt; appropriate

Question 85

His variegated talents

Answer 85

Marked by variety

Question 86

The queen regent of Portugal

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Acting monarch; person appointed to administer a state because the monarch is a minor or is absent etc

Question 87

A felicitous feature; a felicitous phrase

Answer 87

Pleasing and fortunate; apt

Question 88

The efforts were unavailing

Answer 88

Achieving little or nothing; ineffective

Question 89

I admire his tenacity

Answer 89

Determination and persistence

Question 90

Hackneyed old sayings

Answer 90

Overused; unoriginal and trite

Question 91

Perennial

Answer 91

Lasting for a long or apparently infinite time

Question 92

Intermittent rain

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Occuring at irregular intervals; sporadic

Question 93

Sprawl

Answer 93

Spread out over a large area in an irregular way

Question 94

Impecunious family

Answer 94

Having little or no money

Question 95

Besieged

Answer 95

Surround and harass; be innundated by a large number of requests or complaints

Question 96

The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement

Answer 96

Formal expression of severe disapproval