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GRE Vocabulary # GRE/M373

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n. arbour
(a) unwillingness to tell lies
(b) a framework that supports climbing plants; bower; pergola
(c) someone in love with themselves
(d) a health professional trained in the art of preparing and dispensing drugs; chemist; pill pusher; pill roller
 
n. larder
(a) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; buttery
(b) voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge
(c) someone who drives a taxi for a living; cabdriver; cabman; hack driver; hack-driver; livery driver
(d) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age); debility; feebleness; frailness; valetudinarianism
 
adj. adventitious
(a) occurring at or forming an end or termination; last; terminal
(b) dull and slow-moving and stolid
(c) associated by chance and not an integral part
(d) not capable of sin
 
n. converse
(a) soft lump or unevenness in a yarn; burl
(b) a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men; vamp; vamper; minx; tease; prickteaser
(c) any red eruption of the skin; efflorescence; skin rash
(d) a proposition obtained by conversion
 
n. sophistication
(a) postponement; delay
(b) falsification by the use of sophistry
(c) a person who exercises control over workers; gaffer; boss
(d) a parallelogram with four equal sides; diamond

 

adj. brazen
(a) not friendly
(b) transformed from a liquid into a soft semisolid or solid mass; grumous; grumose
(c) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)
(d) stale and unclean smelling; frowsty
 
n. strut
(a) a political system governed by old men
(b) solitude; singularity; uniqueness
(c) a specialist in care for the feet
(d) pompous walk; supporting bar
 
adj. pastoral
(a) reflecting light; lustrous; sheeny; shiny; shining
(b) not expedient; unwise
(c) tending to promote physical well-being
(d) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
 
n. residue
(a) someone chosen to judge and decide a disputed issue; umpire
(b) something left after other parts have been taken away; residual; residuum; rest
(c) the intolerance and prejudice
(d) the action of bruising
 
v. worst
(a) establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; substantiate; support; affirm
(b) express or state clearly; vocalize; vocalise
(c) defeat thoroughly; mop up; whip; rack up
(d) make a pretence of; sham; feign

n. arbour (b) a framework that supports climbing plants; bower; pergola
n. larder (a) a small storeroom for storing foods or wines; buttery
adj. adventitious (c) associated by chance and not an integral part
n. converse (d) a proposition obtained by conversion
n. sophistication (b) falsification by the use of sophistry
adj. brazen (c) made of or resembling brass (as in color or hardness)
n. strut (d) pompous walk; supporting bar
adj. pastoral (d) (used with regard to idealized country life) idyllically rustic
n. residue (b) something left after other parts have been taken away; residual; residuum; rest
v. worst (c) defeat thoroughly; mop up; whip; rack up


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