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GRE Verbal Quiz # GRE/M176

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v. stash
(a) take pleasure in a taste or odor; enjoy; delight in
(b) engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; riot
(c) save up as for future use; cache; lay away; hive up; squirrel away
(d) reduce the speed of
 
v. haggle
(a) move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling); wriggle; squirm; twist
(b) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster
(c) make up something artificial or untrue; cook up; make up; invent
(d) declare; insist on
 
v. assail
(a) issue an order
(b) become feeble
(c) attack in speech or writing
(d) undergo necrosis; mortify; sphacelate
 
v. improvise
(a) emit a soft flickering light
(b) take the place of
(c) be about; lounge; loaf; hang around; mill around
(d) manage in a makeshift way
 
v. delve
(a) take exception to; except
(b) turn up, loosen, or remove earth; cut into; turn over
(c) perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; pull
(d) conceal; hide; cover

 

v. bungle
(a) cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; moult; slough
(b) subsist on a meager allowance; skimp
(c) run easily
(d) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
 
v. pine
(a) align oneself with a group or a way of thinking
(b) wait in hiding to attack; bushwhack; waylay; lurk; lie in wait
(c) have a desire for something or someone who is not present; yen; languish
(d) leave someone who needs or counts on you; desolate; desert
 
adj. clairvoyant
(a) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; manifest; plain; unmistakable
(b) outgoing; sociable
(c) foreseeing the future; second-sighted
(d) small and remote and insignificant; pokey; poky
 
v. faint
(a) meet; assemble
(b) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain; swoon; pass out
(c) dispose or incline or entice to
(d) get the meaning of something; comprehend; savvy; dig; grasp; compass; apprehend
 
v. wreak
(a) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; play
(b) break apart or in two, using violence
(c) breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; heave
(d) sit on (eggs); cover

v. stash (c) save up as for future use; cache; lay away; hive up; squirrel away
v. haggle (b) wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); chaffer; huckster
v. assail (c) attack in speech or writing
v. improvise (d) manage in a makeshift way
v. delve (b) turn up, loosen, or remove earth; cut into; turn over
v. bungle (d) spoil by behaving clumsily or foolishly
v. pine (c) have a desire for something or someone who is not present; yen; languish
adj. clairvoyant (c) foreseeing the future; second-sighted
v. faint (b) pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain; swoon; pass out
v. wreak (a) cause to happen or to occur as a consequence; play


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