Cracking the GRE 5

Question 1

List

Answer 1

Verb: to tilt or lean to one side

Question 2

Meet

Answer 2

Adj: fitting, proper

Question 3

Nice

Answer 3

Adj: fastidious, extremely precise

Question 4

Pied

Answer 4

Adj: multicolored

Question 5

Rail

Answer 5

Verb: to complain about bitterly

Question 6

Quail

Answer 6

Verb: to lose courage

Question 7

Qualify

Answer 7

Verb: to limit

Question 8

Tender

Answer 8

Verb: to proffer or offer

Question 9

Wag

Answer 9

Noun: a wit, a joker

Question 10

Abjure

Answer 10

Verb: to renounce or reject, to recant

Question 11

Adumbrate

Answer 11

Verb: to foreshadow or intimate

Question 12

Anathema

Answer 12

Noun: a solemn or ecclesiastical curse, a loathed thing or person

Question 13

Anodyne

Answer 13

Noun/Adj.: soothing, something that soothes

Question 14

Apostate

Answer 14

Noun: one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions.

Question 15

Apotheosis

Answer 15

Noun: deification, glorification of someone or something