GRE Vocabulary Test (40 Questions)

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1.
v. pick out; reject
  prolong
  guileless
  cull
  personable
 
2.
n. changing its habitat; wandering
  shrew
  hale
  scurvy
  migrant
 
3.
v. tilt; lean over
  list
  bawdy
  abusive
  carcinogenic
 
4.
v. assent; agree passively
  acquiesce
  evoke
  deplete
  consort
 
5.
adj. bloody
  dissertation
  poseur
  sanguinary
  contest
 
6.
n. arrival
  emetic
  overbearing
  manifesto
  advent
 
7.
n. aversion; dislike
  amass
  foolhardy
  antipathy
  pallid
 
8.
adj. unjustified; groundless
  corporeal
  precursor
  unwarranted
  embellish
 
9.
adj. stuffy; boringly conservative
  braggart
  propinquity
  degenerate
  stodgy
 
10.
adj. petty criticism; fault-finding
  carping
  windfall
  intangible
  decimate
 
11.
n. forecasted course of a disease; prediction
  hindmost
  askance
  prognosis
  unwarranted
 
12.
v. provide scantily; live very economically
  skimp
  lexicographer
  libidinous
  spangle
 
13.
v. shove; bump
  apostate
  luster
  catastrophe
  jostle
 
14.
adj. lead-colored; black and blue
  defeatist
  sectarian
  livid
  canvass
 
15.
v. recede; lessen
  insularity
  latent
  ebb
  regal
 
16.
v. go backwards; degenerate
  egregious
  retrograde
  diligence
  vigor
 
17.
v. call together
  convoke
  placate
  maim
  forsake
 
18.
adv. with a sideways or indirect look
  requite
  askance
  prototype
  indemnify
 
19.
n. wealthy leader
  infantile
  anemia
  tycoon
  supposititious
 
20.
v. multiply; spread
  jargon
  staid
  tribulation
  propagate
 
21.
n. slandering; aspersion
  verge
  detraction
  consonance
  dissection
 
22.
adj. rough-mannered
  gruff
  chary
  detrimental
  paleontology
 
23.
v. stare foolishly; look in open-mouthed awe
  conformity
  trilogy
  militate
  gawk
 
24.
n. fear
  canter
  astral
  unfaltering
  intimidation
 
25.
adj. untidy
  lumen
  digression
  intelligentsia
  disheveled
 
26.
n. trick; practical joke
  alias
  expurgate
  hoax
  hone
 
27.
adj. superfluous; excessively wordy
  welter
  aristocracy
  redundant
  decoy
 
28.
n. wretch; villain
  affluence
  miscreant
  carnal
  contingent
 
29.
v. criticize harshly
  dilemma
  viand
  incoherent
  pan
 
30.
adj. incapable of injury
  paucity
  diverge
  invulnerable
  vortex
 
31.
n. payments make to an ex-spouse after divorce
  bilk
  alimony
  analogy
  amalgamate
 
32.
adj. menacing; deadly
  archaic
  scuttle
  baleful
  ostracize
 
33.
adj. absentminded
  imbalance
  exertion
  distrait
  flair
 
34.
v. fall sharply
  scintillate
  plummet
  seismic
  inconsistency
 
35.
adj. enormously large or extensive
  astronomical
  shimmer
  sinewy
  raucous
 
36.
n. long heroic poem, novel, or similar work of art
  therapeutic
  conducive
  deface
  epic
 
37.
v. offer; extend
  tender
  incidence
  accessory
  travail
 
38.
n. token of disgrace; brand
  cabal
  celerity
  stigma
  natty
 
39.
adj. not naive; sophisticated
  seemly
  mores
  carat
  highly complicated or developed
 
40.
n. the act of anointing with oil
  affiliation
  imbue
  tout
  unction