Gre AV Group 4

Question 1

inimitable

Answer 1

(adjective) one of a kind; peerless

Question 2

iniquity

Answer 2

(noun) gross injustice; wickedness

Question 3

innervate

Answer 3

(verb) to supply with nerves; to embolden; to energize

Question 4

inscrutable

Answer 4

(adjective) incapable of being discovered or understood

Question 5

insensible

Answer 5

(adjective) unconscious; unresponsive: unaffected; numb

Question 6

insouciant

Answer 6

(adjective) unconcerned; carefree; heedless

Question 7

insular

Answer 7

(adjective) parochial; narrow-minded

Question 8

interdict

Answer 8

(verb) to prohibit; to forbid; to ban; to halt

Question 9

inveigh

Answer 9

(verb) to attack verbally; to denounce; to deprecate

Question 10

inveterate

Answer 10

(adjective) deep-rooted; ingrained; habitual

Question 11

involute

Answer 11

(adjective) intricate; complex; convoluted

Question 12

itinerate

Answer 12

(adjective) to travel from place to place; to peregrinate

Question 13

jejune

Answer 13

(adjective) vapid; uninteresting; immature; puerile

Question 14

jibe

Answer 14

(verb) to agree; to be in accord

Question 15

jocose, jocular

Answer 15

(adjective) humorous; gay; blithe

Question 16

labile

Answer 16

(adjective) readily open to change; unstable

Question 17

lachrymose

Answer 17

(adjective) causing tears; tearful

Question 18

lambaste

Answer 18

(verb) to censure; to excoriate; to berate

Question 19

lassitude

Answer 19

(adjective) listlessness; languor; weariness

Question 20

libertine

Answer 20

(noun) someone unrestrained by morality or convention

Question 21

limn

Answer 21

(verb) to draw; to outline in detail; to delineate; to describe

Question 22

limpid

Answer 22

(adjective) transparent; serene; clear; untroubled; pellucid

Question 23

lubricious

Answer 23

(adjective) lewd; wanton; greasy; slippery

Question 24

luculent

Answer 24

(adjective) easily understood; lucid; clear

Question 25

macerate

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(verb) to waste away; to soften or wear away by excessive fasting or by excessive steeping

Question 26

maculate

Answer 26

(adjective) marked with spots or blotches; besmirched; impure

Question 27

malinger

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(verb) to feign illness to avoid work; to avoid work

Question 28

maunder

Answer 28

(verb) to digress; to meander; to stray from the topic or path

Question 29

mellifluous

Answer 29

(adjective) sweetly flowing, usually used to describe use of words

Question 30

mendicant

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(noun) beggar; supplicant

Question 31

meretricious

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(adjective) cheap; gaudy; tawdry; flashy; showy

Question 32

metamorphose

Answer 32

(verb) to transform; to change utterly

Question 33

mettle

Answer 33

(noun) strength of spirit; courage; stamina

Question 34

mettlesome

Answer 34

(adjective) courageous; high-spirited

Question 35

militate

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(verb) to have weight; to bear on; to argue (against)

Question 36

minatory

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(adjective) menacing: threatening

Question 37

misogynist

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(noun) one who hates women/females

Question 38

multifarious

Answer 38

(adjective) varied; motley; greatly diversified

Question 39

nadir

Answer 39

(noun) low point; perigee

Question 40

natty

Answer 40

(adjective) trimly neat and tidy; smart

Question 41

nexus

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(noun) a connection, tie, or link

Question 42

noisome

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(adjective) offensive, especially to one's sense of smell; fetid

Question 43

nonplused

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(adjective) baffled; in a quandary; at a loss for what to say or do

Question 44

nostrum

Answer 44

(noun) panacea; cure-all; placebo; questionable remedy; palliative

Question 45

nugatory

Answer 45

(adjective) trifling; inconsequential

Question 46

obloquy

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(noun) abusively detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation; calumny

Question 47

obstreperous

Answer 47

(adjective) noisy; loud

Question 48

officious

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(adjective) meddlesome; pushy in one’s services

Question 49

ossified

Answer 49

(adjective) tending to become more rigid; conventional; sterile and reactionary with age;literally, turned into bone

Question 50

literally, turned into bone

Answer 50

ostensible

Question 51

ostensible

Answer 51

(adjective) seeming; appearing as such; professed

Question 52

overweening

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(adjective) presumptuously arrogant; supercilious; o(verb)earing

Question 53

palliate

Answer 53

(verb) to make something appear less serious; to gloss over

Question 54

panegyric

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(noun) formal praise; eulogy; encomium

Question 55

paradigm

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(noun) a model, example, or pattern; exemplar

Question 56

pariah

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(noun) an outcast; a rejected and despised person

Question 57

parry

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(verb) to block; to evade or ward off. as a blow

Question 58

parsimonious

Answer 58

(adjective) cheap; miserly

Question 59

partisan

Answer 59

(adjective)/(noun)

Question 60

paucity

Answer 60

(noun) scarcity; a lacking

Question 61

peccadillo

Answer 61

(noun) a slight offense; literally, a minor sin