Gre AV Group 3

Question 1

equipoise

Answer 1

(noun) equal distribution of weight; equilibrium

Question 2

errant

Answer 2

(adjective) traveling; itinerant; peripatetic

Question 3

eschew

Answer 3

(verb) to shun or avoid

Question 4

estimable

Answer 4

(adjective) worthy; formidable

Question 5

evince

Answer 5

(verb) to show dearly; to indicate

Question 6

excoriate

Answer 6

(verb) to censure scathingly; to upbraid

Question 7

exegesis

Answer 7

(noun) critical examination; explication

Question 8

exemplar

Answer 8

(noun) typical or standard specimen; paradigm; model

Question 9

expatiate

Answer 9

(verb) to descant; to discourse; to discuss or write about at length

Question 10

expiate

Answer 10

(verb) to atone or make amends for

Question 11

expostulate

Answer 11

(verb) to argue earnestly to dissuade, correct, or protest

Question 12

expurgate

Answer 12

(verb) to remove obscenity; to purify; to censor

Question 13

exscind

Answer 13

(verb) to cut out or extirpate

Question 14

extant

Answer 14

(adjective) existing; not destroyed or lost

Question 15

extirpate

Answer 15

(verb) to destroy; to exterminate; to cut out; to exscind

Question 16

fallow

Answer 16

(adjective) untilled; inactive; dormant

Question 17

fatuous

Answer 17

(adjective) silly; inanely foolish

Question 18

feckless

Answer 18

(adjective) ineffectual; irresponsible

Question 19

felicitous

Answer 19

(adjective) apt; suitably expressed; well-chosen; apropos

Question 20

fetid

Answer 20

(adjective) stinking; smelly; malodorous

Question 21

fetter

Answer 21

(verb) to shackle; to put in chains

Question 22

filigree

Answer 22

(noun) an ornamental work, especially of delicate lacelike patterns

Question 23

florid

Answer 23

(adjective) flowery; ruddy; ornate

Question 24

foment

Answer 24

(verb) to incite; to rouse

Question 25

forbearance

Answer 25

(noun) patience; willingness to wait

Question 26

forestall

Answer 26

(verb) to act in a way to hinder; to exclude or prevent an action; to avert

Question 27

forswear

Answer 27

(verb) to renounce; to disallow; to repudiate

Question 28

fracas

Answer 28

(noun) noisy quarrel; imbroglio; brawl

Question 29

fractious

Answer 29

(adjective) quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly; refractory; irritable

Question 30

frieze

Answer 30

(noun) a semi-sculptural, raised-surface ornamental facade to a building

Question 31

froward

Answer 31

(adjective) intractable; not willing to yield or comply; recalcitrant

Question 32

gainsay

Answer 32

(verb) to deny, dispute, contradict, to oppose

Question 33

gambol

Answer 33

(verb) to skip about playfully

Question 34

garner

Answer 34

(verb) to gather and save; to store up

Question 35

gauche

Answer 35

(adjective) crude; awkward; tasteless

Question 36

gossamer

Answer 36

(adjective) delicate; insubstantial or tenuous; insincere

Question 37

guile

Answer 37

(noun) artfulness; trickery; chicanery; duplicity

Question 38

hallow

Answer 38

(verb) to make holy; to consecrate

Question 39

harrow

Answer 39

(verb) to distress; to create stress; to torment

Question 40

heretical

Answer 40

(adjective) unorthodox; iconoclastic; dissenting from established dogma

Question 41

hermetic

Answer 41

(adjective) sealed by fusion; airtight

Question 42

heterodox

Answer 42

(adjective) unorthodox; heretical; iconoclastic

Question 43

hirsute

Answer 43

(adjective) hairy; shaggy

Question 44

homiletics

Answer 44

(noun) the art of preaching

Question 45

homily

Answer 45

(noun) a sermon or morally instructive lecture

Question 46

iconoclastic

Answer 46

(adjective) attacking cherished belief; heretical; heterodox

Question 47

idyll

Answer 47

(noun) a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode; ma literary or musical piece describing such

Question 48

ignominious

Answer 48

(adjective) shameful; dishonorable; ignoble; undignified

Question 49

imbroglio

Answer 49

(noun) difficult or embarrassing situation

Question 50

impassive

Answer 50

(adjective) expressionless; stoic; stolid; unsusceptible to emotion; apathetic; phlegmatic

Question 51

imperious

Answer 51

(adjective) commanding; masterful; arrogant; domineering; haughty

Question 52

importune

Answer 52

(verb) to ask incessantly; to beg; to nag

Question 53

impugn

Answer 53

(verb) to attack or assail (verb)ally; to censure; to execrate

Question 54

impute

Answer 54

(verb) to attribute to a cause or source; to ascribe

Question 55

indefatigable

Answer 55

(adjective) doggedness; tirelessness

Question 56

indolent

Answer 56

(adjective) lazy; listless; torpid

Question 57

ineluctable

Answer 57

(adjective) certain; inevitable

Question 58

ingenuous

Answer 58

(adjective) guileless; trusting; naive; credulous

Question 59

inherent

Answer 59

(adjective) ingrained within one’s nature; intrinsic; innate; firmly established

Question 60

inimical

Answer 60

(adjective) hostile; adverse; unfriendly