GMAT Vocabulary Test (20 Questions)

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1.
 adjutant
  n. staff officer assisting the commander; assistant
  adj. showing hard work; taking great care
  n. hostile feeling or intent
  n. extended line of men or fortifications to prevent access or egress
 
2.
 adulation
  n. narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land
  adj. every two years
  n. flattery; admiration
  n. calmness; peace
 
3.
 addendum
  n. inscription in memory of a dead person
  n. harshness; plainness
  n. addition; appendix to book
  v. hesitate
 
4.
 advent
  v. bring upon oneself
  v. approach and speak first to a person
  n. pride, haughtiness
  n. arrival
 
5.
 addle
  adj. drowsy; dull
  n. deceit; duplicity
  v. hint; imply
  v. muddle; drive crazy
 
6.
 actuarial
  n. commotion; riot
  n. soothing or softening remedy
  adj. calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics
  n. thrift; economy
 
7.
 adjuration
  adj. exhausting
  adj. dirty; neglected
  n. member of the working class
  n. solemn urging
 
8.
 adamant
  adj. weighty; unwieldy
  v. equip
  adj. hard, inflexible
  adj. outstanding; superior
 
9.
 adroit
  adj. bantering; joking
  adj. skillful
  v. make less difficult
  n. descendants; future generations
 
10.
 adverse
  v. sparkle; flash
  n. brief explanation of words used in the text
  adj. unfavorable; hostile
  v. echo; resound
 
11.
 adorn
  v. leave to someone by means of a will; hand down
  n. the meat of a deer
  v. decorate
  n. statement that looks false but is actually correct; a contradictory statement
 
12.
 adjunct
  n. hermit
  adj. sleeping; lethargic
  n. something attached to but holding an inferior position
  adj. very important
 
13.
 adulterate
  n. seriousness
  v. make impure by mixing with baser substances
  v. issue forth
  n. confusion; strife
 
14.
 acuity
  n. sharpness
  adj. spread throughout
  n. kinship
  n. poverty, misfortune
 
15.
 adherent
  adj. verbose; drawn out
  n. supporter; follower
  adj. conspicuously wicked
  adj. irreverent
 
16.
 admonish
  n. uprightness
  v. fret; complain
  adj. unorthodox; unconventional
  v. warn; reprove
 
17.
 adventitious
  n. self-control; formal but distant manner
  v. cut away; trim
  adj. fleeting; vanishing
  adj. accidental; casual
 
18.
 acumen
  adj. spotted; stained
  n. prototype; primitive pattern
  n. premonition; foreboding
  n. mental keenness
 
19.
 adversary
  n. opponent; enemy
  adj. imagined; unreal
  n. mass of floating ice
  adj. wasted away; gaunt
 
20.
 adage
  v. wise saying; proverb
  adj. pertaining to the people
  v. follow
  n. accident