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Beyond Hit Parade -1
GRE Beyond Hit Parade 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alloy | (v) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
| appropriate | (v) to take for one's own use; confiscate |
| arrest | (v) to suspend; to engage; holding one |
| august | (adj) majestic, venerable |
| bent | (n) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency |
| broach | (v) bring up, announce, begin to talk about |
| brook | (v) to tolerate, endure, 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 |
| 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; attempt, experiment |
| exact | (v) to demand, call for; require, 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 |
| ford | (v) to wade across the shallow part of a stream or river |
| grouse | (v) to complain or grumble |
| guy | (n/v) a rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy (think "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 for every last ounce of |
| mince | (v) pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully |
| 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 |
| rail | (v) to complain about bitterly |
| rent | (v/n) torn; past of red/an opeing or a tear caused by such |
| quail | (v) to lose courage; turn frightened |
| qualify | (v) to limit |
| 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 |
| strut | (n) the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
| table | (v) to remove from consideration |
| tender | (v) to proffer or offer |
| waffle | (v) to equivocate; to change one's position |
| wag | (n) wit; joker |
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