GRE Verbal Test # GRE/M318

adj. conciliatory
(a) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; double-dealing; duplicitous
(b) distributed or sold illicitly; black-market; contraband; smuggled
(c) intended to placate
(d) not acknowledging the God of Christianity and Judaism and Islam; pagan; ethnic
 
n. smirk
(a) precise detailed study of the surface features of a region
(b) a deceptive maneuver (especially to avoid capture)
(c) a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure
(d) the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner; blandness; smoothness
 
v. mint
(a) stop the flow of a liquid; halt
(b) form by stamping, punching, or printing; strike
(c) speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly; blab; gibber; blabber; gabble
(d) move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound; swosh; swoosh
 
v. chevvy
(a) disarrange or rumple; tangle
(b) annoy continually or chronically; hassle; harry; plague; provoke
(c) defeat thoroughly; mop up; whip; rack up
(d) remove carbon from (an engine); decarburize; decarburise
 
v. acclimate
(a) stick out; project; bulge
(b) detach the affections of
(c) adapt; adjust
(d) move fast; hasten; hie; speed; race; pelt along; rush along

adj. dingy
(a) hasty and without attention to detail; perfunctory
(b) causing dejection; dark; disconsolate; gloomy; grim
(c) attempting to win favor by flattery; sycophantic; toadyish
(d) fulfilling many functions
 
n. bombast
(a) pompous or pretentious talk or writing; rant; claptrap; blah
(b) the trait of being intransigent
(c) repetition of a musical theme
(d) a person who is tricked or swindled
 
n. ratifier
(a) righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
(b) someone who expresses strong approval; indorser
(c) the act of fusing (or melting) together
(d) the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality
 
n. sedative
(a) a worker who holds or is invested with an office
(b) depressant; downer
(c) a flowing together; merging
(d) revelry in drinking; bender; toot; booze-up
 
adj. hunched
(a) having the back and shoulders rounded; round-shouldered; stooped; stooping; crooked
(b) mentally or physically infirm with age; gaga; senile
(c) thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; grimy; grubby; grungy; raunchy
(d) devouring or craving food in great quantities; rapacious; ravening; ravenous; wolfish