gre 7

Question 1

boon

Answer 1

a thing that is helpful or beneficial: the route will be a boon to many travellers.

Question 2

substantiate

Answer 2

provide evidence to support or prove the truth of: they had found nothing to substantiate the allegations.

Question 3

precedence

Answer 3

he condition of being considered more important than someone or something else; priority in importance, order, or rank: his desire for power soon took precedence over any other consideration.

Question 4

omniscience

Answer 4

knowing everything: a third-person omniscient narrator.

Question 5

benign

Answer 5

gentle and kind: his benign but firm manner.

Question 6

discontinuity

Answer 6

the state of having intervals or gaps; lack of continuity: there is no significant discontinuity between modern and primitive societies.

Question 7

inept

Answer 7

having or showing no skill; clumsy: the referee’s inept handling of the match.

Question 8

equivocation

Answer 8

the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication: I say this without equivocation.

Question 9

interminable

Answer 9

endless or apparently endless (often used hyperbolically): we got bogged down in interminable discussions.

Question 10

precarious

Answer 10

not securely held or in position; dangerously likely to fall or collapse: a precarious ladder.

Question 11

copious

Answer 11

abundant in supply or quantity: she took copious notes.

Question 12

forgo

Answer 12

do without, go without, give up, waive, renounce, surrender, disa

Question 13

bungling

Answer 13

arry out (a task) clumsily or incompetently: she had bungled every attempt to help | (as adj. bungled) : a bungled bank raid.

Question 14

supine

Answer 14

(of a person) lying face upwards .

Question 15

forestall

Answer 15

• technical having the front or ventral part upwards.

Question 16

evasive

Answer 16

• (of the hand) with the palm upwards.

Question 17

diffuse

Answer 17

2 failing to act or protest as a result of moral weakness or indolence: the government was supine in the face of racial injustice.

Question 18

arcane

Answer 18

understood by few; mysterious or secret: arcane procedures for electing people.

Question 19

impudence

Answer 19

impertinence, insolence, effrontery, cheek, audacity, temerity, brazenness, shamelessness, immodesty, pertness; presumption, presumptuousness, disrespect, insubordination, irreverence,

Question 20

venal

Answer 20

showing or motivated by susceptibility to bribery; corrupt: local customs officers are notoriously venal | their generosity had been at least partly venal.

Question 21

brazen

Answer 21

bold and without shame: he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance | a brazen hussy.

Question 22

nettles

Answer 22

a herbaceous plant which has jagged leaves covered with stinging hairs.

Question 23

objurgation

Answer 23

rebuke severely; scold. the old man objurgated his son.

Question 24

portentous

Answer 24

or like a portent; of momentous significance: this portentous year in Canadian history.
• done in a pompously or overly solemn manner so as to impress: the author’s portentous moralizings.

Question 25

elusive

Answer 25

difficult to find, catch, or achieve: success will become ever more elusive. • difficult to remember: the elusive thought he had had moments before.