Free GRE Words # GRE/M285

v. barf
(a) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; palaver; blarney; coax; sweet-talk
(b) harass with persistent criticism or carping; razz; rag; cod
(c) come into rough contact with while moving
(d) purge; cast; sick; chuck; honk; hrow up
 
n. avocation
(a) a person skilled in testing for defects of vision in order to prescribe corrective glasses
(b) an auxiliary activity; hobby; pursuit; sideline; spare-time activity
(c) seeing ahead; farsightedness; prospicience
(d) playing a set of bells that are (usually) hung in a tower
 
adj. squat
(a) having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
(b) suggesting the operation of supernatural influences; uncanny; unearthly
(c) slow; inactive; lethargic
(d) having a low center of gravity
 
n. genealogy
(a) the study or investigation of ancestry and family history
(b) dense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes; bush
(c) the dead body of a human being; corpse; stiff; clay; remains
(d) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that objects or events that are near to one another are perceived as belonging together as a unit
 
v. pussyfoot
(a) go stealthily or furtively; creep
(b) form or shape by forcing through an opening
(c) bear the expenses of
(d) appear very large or occupy a commanding position; predominate

n. ragamuffin
(a) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin
(b) an excited state of agitation; fuss; tizzy; flap
(c) an infant considered in relation to its nanny; suckling
(d) stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance; rakishness
 
n. sedateness
(a) the back side of the neck; nucha
(b) the branch of zoology that studies fishes
(c) a trait of dignified seriousness; solemnity; solemness
(d) favorable; beneficent
 
v. reave
(a) cause to move faster; speed up
(b) shorten
(c) steal goods; loot; strip; rifle; ransack; pillage; foray
(d) make radioactive by adding radioactive material
 
v. cajole
(a) divide unfairly and to one's advantage
(b) excrete or evacuate (someone's bowels or body)
(c) be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information; tergiversate; prevaricate; palter
(d) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; blarney; coax; inveigle
 
adj. squishy
(a) used of riotously drunken merrymaking; carousing; orgiastic
(b) having a curiously intricate quality
(c) capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are; viable; workable
(d) easily squashed; spongelike