GRE Verbal Quiz # GRE/M208

v. parry
(a) avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing; fudge; evade; put off; circumvent; elude
(b) steal goods; loot; reave; strip; rifle; ransack; foray
(c) transform a solid directly into a gas
(d) make believe with the intent to deceive; pretend; affect; dissemble
 
v. burgeon
(a) keep company
(b) grow and flourish
(c) sing by changing register; descant
(d) play boisterously; lark; rollick; skylark; disport; sport
 
v. emancipate
(a) display proudly; show off; ostentate
(b) make a pillaging or destructive raid on (a place), as in wartimes
(c) be appropriate or necessary
(d) free from slavery or servitude
 
v. simulate
(a) speak unfavorably about; traduce; drag through the mud
(b) cry loudly, as of animals; yammer; yowl
(c) be superior or better than some standard; overstep; pass; go past; top
(d) make a pretence of; sham; feign
 
v. secrete
(a) place out of sight
(b) attack with dogs or set dogs upon
(c) leave or give by will after one's death; leave
(d) rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner

v. flourish
(a) restrain
(b) bind a person in service to another for a specified period of time
(c) make more complex, intricate, or richer; elaborate
(d) move or swing back and forth; wave
 
v. smolder
(a) certify; confirm
(b) express or state clearly; vocalize; vocalise
(c) have strong suppressed feelings
(d) stop functioning or cohering as a unit
 
v. contest
(a) declare; insist on
(b) make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation; repugn
(c) release from entanglement of difficulty; disentangle; disencumber
(d) strip the leaves or branches from
 
v. befit
(a) adapt; adjust
(b) avoid dealing with
(c) accord or comport with; beseem
(d) frustrate; balk; prevent someone from succeeding
 
v. lambaste
(a) shower with love
(b) censure severely or angrily; rebuke; rag; reprimand
(c) shift to a clockwise direction
(d) obtain (money, information, etc.) through threat or intimidation