GRE Exam - Verbal 1

Question 1

Abate

Answer 1

Become less in amount or intensity

Question 2

Chicanery

Answer 2

The use of tricks to deceive someone

Question 3

Disseminate

Answer 3

Cause to become widely known

Question 4

Gainsay

Answer 4

Take exception to

Question 5

Latent

Answer 5

Potentially existing but not presently evident or realized

Question 6

Aberrant

Answer 6

Markedly different from an accepted norm

Question 7

Coagulate

Answer 7

Change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state

Question 8

Dissolution

Answer 8

Separation into component parts

Question 9

Garrulous

Answer 9

Full of trivial conversation

Question 10

Laud

Answer 10

Praise, glorify, or honor

Question 11

Abeyance

Answer 11

Temporary cessation or suspension

Question 12

Coda

Answer 12

The closing section of a musical composition

Question 13

Dissonance

Answer 13

Disagreeable sounds

Question 14

Goad

Answer 14

Stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick

Question 15

Lethargic

Answer 15

Deficient in alertness or activity

Question 16

Abscond

Answer 16

Run away

Question 17

Cogent

Answer 17

Powerfully persuasive

Question 18

Distend

Answer 18

Cause to expand as it by internal pressure

Question 19

Gouge

Answer 19

An impression in a surface, as made by a blow

Question 20

Levee

Answer 20

An embankment built to prevent a river from overflowing

Question 21

Abstemious

Answer 21

Marked by temperance in indulgence

Question 22

Commensurate

Answer 22

Corresponding in size or degree or extent

Question 23

Distill

Answer 23

Undergo condensation

Question 24

Grandiloquent

Answer 24

Lofty in style

Question 25

Levity

Answer 25

A manner lacking seriousness

Question 26

Admonish

Answer 26

Scold or reprimand; take to task

Question 27

Compendium

Answer 27

A publication containing a variety of works

Question 28

Diverge

Answer 28

Move or draw apart

Question 29

Gregarious

Answer 29

Temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others

Question 30

Log

Answer 30

A segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches

Question 31

Adulterate

Answer 31

Make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance

Question 32

Complaisant

Answer 32

Showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

Question 33

Divest

Answer 33

Take away possessions from someone

Question 34

Guileless

Answer 34

Free of deceit

Question 35

Loquacious

Answer 35

Full of trivial conversation

Question 36

Aesthetic

Answer 36

Characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste

Question 37

Compliant

Answer 37

Disposed to act in accordance with someone’s wishes

Question 38

Document

Answer 38

A representation of a person’s thinking with symbolic marks

Question 39

Gullible

Answer 39

Naïve and easily deceived or tricked

Question 40

Lucid

Answer 40

Transparently clear; easily understandable

Question 41

Aggregate

Answer 41

A sum total of many heterogeneous things taken together

Question 42

Conciliatory

Answer 42

Making or willing to make concessions

Question 43

Dogmatic

Answer 43

Pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

Question 44

Harangue

Answer 44

A loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

Question 45

Luminous

Answer 45

Softly bright or radiant

Question 46

Alacrity

Answer 46

Liveliness and eagerness

Question 47

Condone

Answer 47

Excuse, overlook, or make allowances for

Question 48

Dormant

Answer 48

Inactive but capable of becoming active

Question 49

Homogeneous

Answer 49

All of the same or similar kind or nature

Question 50

Magnanimity

Answer 50

Liberality in bestowing gifts