GRE Words Question Preview (ID: 38491)

a) To drink deeply

b) A liteary work that ridicules or critizes a human vice through humor or derision

c) Stillness, motionlessnes, quality of being at rest

d) Thick, Sticky

a) Wary, Cautious, Sparing

b) To question or oppose

c) Greed, esp. for wealth

d) Dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful

a) Incipient

b) Inpecunious

c) Heretical

d) Inveigle

a) Oscillation

b) Penurious

c) Opaque

d) Inert

a) Furtive

b) Caustic

c) Canon

d) Facetious

a) A mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead

b) Composed of elemnts drawn from various sources

c) Soothing, esp. to the skin, making less harsh, mollifying, an agent that softens or smoothes the skin

d) An invalid or incorrect notion, a mistaken belief

a) Marked by stealth, covert, surreptitious

b) Violating accepted dogma or convention

c) An exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech

d) Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

a) Greed, esp. for wealth

b) To make better or more tolerable

c) Harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance, form

d) A substance that accelerates the rate of the chemical reaction without itself changing, a person or thing that causes

a) To lessen in intensity or degree

b) Dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful

c) One who practices rigid self0denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion

d) To make better or more tolerable

a) Preen

b) Supplant

c) Stoic

d) Torpid

a) Urbane

b) Vilify

c) Viscous

d) Ubiquitous

a) A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision

b) Sophisticated, refined, elegant

c) To defame, to characterize harshly

d) To take place of or supersede

a) Lethargic, sluggish, dormant

b) Extremely harmful in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

c) To rot, to decay, and ive off a foul odor

d) Abundant in size, force, or extent, extraordinary

a) Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain

b) To drink deeply

c) To defame, to characterize harshly

d) Awe inspiring

a) Estremely harmful in a way that is not easily seen or noticed

b) Stillness, motionlessness, quality of being at rest

c) To take place of or supersede

d) Awe inspiring, worthy of honor