Gre AV Group 1

Question 1

abjure

Answer 1

(verb) to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

Question 2

abrogate

Answer 2

(verb) to abolish or annul by authority; to put down

Question 3

abscission

Answer 3

(noun) the act of cutting off or removing

Question 4

acarpous

Answer 4

(adjective) effete; no longer fertile; worn out

Question 5

accretion

Answer 5

(noun) growth; increase by successive addition; building up

Question 6

admonish

Answer 6

(verb) to reprove; to express warning or disapproval

Question 7

adroit

Answer 7

(adjective) adept; dexterous

Question 8

adumbrate

Answer 8

(verb) to foreshadow or intimate, to suggest sketchily; to obscure

Question 9

anodyne

Answer 9

(adjective/noun) soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or comforts

Question 10

antipathy

Answer 10

(noun) aversion; dislike

Question 11

antithetical

Answer 11

(adjective) diametrically opposed; as in antithesis

Question 12

apocryphal

Answer 12

(adjective) of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious

Question 13

apogee

Answer 13

(noun) farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith (antonym: perigee)

Question 14

apostate

Answer 14

(noun) one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

Question 15

apotheosis

Answer 15

(noun) deification; glorification to godliness

Question 16

apposite

Answer 16

(adjective) appropriate; pertinent; relevant; apropos

Question 17

apprise

Answer 17

(verb) to give notice to; to inform

Question 18

arabesque

Answer 18

(noun) a complex, ornate design; also to a dance position

Question 19

arcane

Answer 19

(adjective) mysterious; abstruse; esoteric; knowable only to initiates

Question 20

arrant

Answer 20

(adjective) impudent

Question 21

artless

Answer 21

(adjective) completely without guile; natural; without artificiality

Question 22

ascetic

Answer 22

(noun/adjective) someone practicing self-denial; austere; stark

Question 23

asperity

Answer 23

(noun) severity; rigor; roughness; harshness; acrimony; irritability

Question 24

aspersion

Answer 24

(noun) an act of defamation or maligning; animadversion

Question 25

assay

Answer 25

(noun/verb) an analysis; examination; test; to put to a test

Question 26

asseverate

Answer 26

(verb) to aver; to allege; to assert

Question 27

assiduous

Answer 27

(adjective) diligent; hard-working; sedulous

Question 28

attenuate

Answer 28

(verb) to rarefy; to weaken or make thinner

Question 29

augury

Answer 29

(noun) omen; portent

Question 30

auspice

Answer 30

(noun) protection or support; patronage

Question 31

auspicious

Answer 31

(adjective) favorable; propitious; successful; prosperous

Question 32

aver·

Answer 32

(verb) to affirm; to assert; to prove; to justify; to asseverate

Question 33

baleful

Answer 33

(adjective) sinister; pernicious; ominous

Question 34

bane

Answer 34

(noun) cause of injury; poison; source of harm

Question 35

beatify

Answer 35

(verb) to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly

Question 36

bedizen

Answer 36

(verb) to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; to festoon

Question 37

belie

Answer 37

(verb) to give false impression of to misrepresent

Question 38

bellicose

Answer 38

(adjective) belligerent; pugnacious; warlike

Question 39

bilge

Answer 39

(noun) bulge; the protuberance of a cask

Question 40

blandish

Answer 40

(verb) to toady or fawn

Question 41

blithe

Answer 41

(adjective) carefree; merry

Question 42

boisterous

Answer 42

(adjective) loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint

Question 43

boor

Answer 43

(noun) a rude or insensitive person; lout

Question 44

burnish

Answer 44

(verb) to polish; to rub to a shine

Question 45

byzantine

Answer 45

(adjective) labyrinthine; complex

Question 46

cabal

Answer 46

(noun) a scheme or plot; a group of plotters

Question 47

cachinnate

Answer 47

(verb) to laugh loudly

Question 48

cadge

Answer 48

(verb) to sponge or mooch

Question 49

cajole

Answer 49

(verb) to inveigle, coax, or wheedle

Question 50

calumniate

Answer 50

(verb) to slander; to make a false accusation

Question 51

calumny

Answer 51

(noun) slander; aspersion

Question 52

caparison

Answer 52

(verb) to adorn or bedizen

Question 53

captious

Answer 53

(adjective) calculated to confuse or entrap in argument; hypercritical; caviling

Question 54

caret

Answer 54

(noun) an insertion mark (/\) used by editors and proofreaders

Question 55

cavil

Answer 55

(verb) to find fault without good reason

Question 56

celerity

Answer 56

(noun) speed; alacrity

Question 57

chasten

Answer 57

(verb) to chastise or correct

Question 58

chauvinist

Answer 58

(noun) a blindly devoted patriot