GRE Vocabulary Quiz
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- 1.Palpability
- A.
Can be felt touched, understood
- B.
Commonplace trite unremarkable
- C.
Boldness brashness intrepidness
- D.
Timorous
- 2.Torpid
- A.
Muddy having the sediment stirred up
- B.
Twisting force causing rotation
- C.
Sleeping sluggish lethargic dormant
- D.
Bending twisting
- 3.Pulchritude
- A.
Extreme poverty
- B.
Great wealth
- C.
Laziness
- D.
Physical beauty; comeliness.
- 4.Sedulous
- A.
Persevering
- B.
Incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government
- C.
Willing to believe or trust too readily, esp. without proper or adequate evidence; gullible
- D.
A space in which a spectator or patron may sit; accommodation for sitting, as in a theater or stadium.
- 5.Syllogism
- A.
A representation of an abstract or spiritual meaning through concrete or material forms; figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another
- B.
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”
- C.
An extremely subtle, sophisticated, or deceptive argument.
- D.
One or more written letters or characters representing more or less exactly such an element of speech
- 6.Clear, transparent, or pellucid, as water, crystal, or air
- A.
Acarpous
- B.
Limpid
- C.
Dainty
- D.
Desuetude
- E.
Sylph
- 7.A repetition a redundancy
- A.
Dulcet
- B.
Jejune
- C.
Tautology
- D.
Oneirism
- 8.Keenness of mental perception and understanding; discernment; penetration.
- A.
Stygian
- B.
Abundant/lavish
- C.
Salubrious
- D.
Perspicacity
- 9.Excessively ornate swollen or bloated
- A.
Turgid
- B.
Turbid
- C.
Truculent
- D.
Tortuous
- 10.To relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; ALLEVIATETo try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses, apologies, etc.; extenuate.
- A.
Palpable
- B.
Heed
- C.
Ebullience
- D.
Palliate
- 11.Doff
- A.
Cheat, make a fool of
- B.
Tempt or persuade
- C.
To throw off; get rid of.
- D.
Banal, everyday
- 12.Potentate
- A.
A smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
- B.
Person who lives alone and avoids people
- C.
A person who fights with the fists; a boxer, usually a professional.
- D.
A person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler.
- 13.Motile
- A.
Agreeably pungent stimulating
- B.
(Biology) Moving or capable of moving spontaneously
- C.
Diseased, unhealthy
- D.
Varied motley, greatly diversified
- 14.protean
- A.
Pure, faultless
- B.
Complex
- C.
Readily assuming different forms or characters; extremely variable.
- D.
Very great number
- 15.Bumptious
- A.
Offensively self-assertive
- B.
Incapable of being placated, unpleasable
- C.
Large, of great weight
- D.
Without sense, foolish.
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- A.
Imprudent
- B.
Apparently good or right though lacking real merit; superficially pleasing or plausible.
- C.
Bad-tempered/quarrelsome
- D.
Much too high or great
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