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GRE_5
GRE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alloy (v) | to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
| unalloyed (adj) | pure |
| appropriate (v) | to take for one's own use; to confiscate |
| arrest (v); arresting (adj) | to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention |
| august (adj) | majestic, venerable |
| bent (n) | leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency |
| broach (v) | to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about |
| brook (v) | to tolerate; to endure; to countenance |
| cardinal (adj) | major |
| chauvinist (n) | a blindly devoted patriot |
| color (v) | to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first) |
| consequential (adj) | pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important) |
| damp (v) | to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
| die (n) | a tool used for shaping |
| essay (v) | to test or try; to attempt; to experiment |
| exact (v) | to demand; to call for; to require; to take |
| fell (v) | to cause to fall by striking |
| fell (adj) | inhumanly cruel |
| flag (v) | to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
| flip (adj) | sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant; a flip remark |
| ford (v) | to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
| grouse (v) | to complain or grumble |
| guy (n) | a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide |
| intimate (v) | to imply, suggest, or insinuate |
| list (v) | to tilt or lean to one side |
| lumber (v) | to move heavily and clumsily |
| meet (adj) | fitting, proper |
| milk (v) | to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
| mince (v) | to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe |
| nice (adj) | exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
| obtain (adj) | to be established, accepted, or customary |
| occult (adj) | hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
| pedestrian (adj) | commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
| pied (adj) | multicolored, usually in blotches |
| pine (v) | to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
| plastic (adj) | moldable, pliable, not rigid |
| pluck (n) | courage, spunk, fortitude |
| prize (v) | to pry, to press or force with a lever; something; something taken by force; spoils |
| rail (v) | to complain about bitterly |
| rent (v) | torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such |
| quail (v) | to lose courage; to turn frightened |
| qualify (v) | to limit |
| sap (v) | to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
| sap (n) | a fool or nitwit |
| scurvy (adj) | contemptible, despicable |
| singular (adj) | exceptional, unusual, odd |
| stand (n) | a group of trees |
| steep (v) | to saturate or completely soak (as in a tea bag) |
| strut (n) | the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
| table (v) | to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
| tender (v) | to proffer or offer |
| waffle (v) | equivocate; to change one's position |
| wag (n) | wit, joker |
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Nicolekr
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