GMAT Vocabulary Test (40 Questions)

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1.
adj. shriveled; withered
  arbitrary
  curb
  symmetry
  wizened
 
2.
n. disapproval
  despotism
  disapprobation
  hackneyed
  stipend
 
3.
v. to build or establish; to instruct and improve the mind
  edify
  amiable
  fecund
  heed
 
4.
v. to agree without protest
  solubility
  acquiesce
  perpetual
  exemplary
 
5.
adj. silent; reserved
  wry
  placate
  susceptible
  reticent
 
6.
v. to overspread
  suffuse
  contusion
  subtlety
  complacent
 
7.
n. a binding and solemn agreement
  covenant
  phobia
  lascivious
  decadence
 
8.
n. difference in form, character, or degree
  jeopardy
  inundate
  disparity
  diffuse
 
9.
v. search thoroughly
  indigenous
  facilitate
  rummage
  splenetic
 
10.
v. to huddle and tremble
  rudimentary
  cower
  insularity
  exigent
 
11.
v. to put money into a fund at fixed intervals
  soporific
  succinct
  amortize
  repugnant
 
12.
adj. complying; obeying
  thwart
  compatible
  compliant
  licentious
 
13.
v. to connect or associate with; to accept as a member
  affiliate
  antipathy
  trivial
  notorious
 
14.
n. the range or limit of one's abilities; rope or chain used to keep a boat from drifting or an animal from wandering
  ignominious
  palliate
  tether
  welter
 
15.
n. the quality of being agreeable or eager to please
  abeyance
  anoint
  complaisance
  tawdry
 
16.
n. a constantly quarrelsome woman
  uncanny
  pessimism
  termagant
  pied
 
17.
n. to determine the quality of a substance.
  maverick
  assay
  rampart
  condescend
 
18.
v. to organize laws or rules into a systematic collection
  ostentatious
  mendacious
  codify
  obtrude
 
19.
n. art of taking something for oneself; seizure
  appease
  edifice
  usurpation
  errant
 
20.
n. something out of place in time (e.g., an airplane in 1492)
  attenuate
  august
  salvage
  anachronism
 
21.
n. relatives and acquaintances
  impetuous
  arbitrary
  kith
  guise
 
22.
adj. fierce, savage, cruel
  acclaim
  truculent
  itinerary
  effeminate
 
23.
adj. stubborn
  glib
  obstinate
  impassive
  sordid
 
24.
adj. tiresome; ordinary
  deplete
  phobia
  prosaic
  truculent
 
25.
v. ask for; call upon
  undermine
  jester
  salubrious
  invoke
 
26.
v. to plead in favor of
  salvage
  effusive
  advocate
  diverse
 
27.
adj. lustful; wicked
  ribald
  lewd
  raucous
  luxuriant
 
28.
v. to combine
  conjoin
  apathy
  demur
  licentious
 
29.
n. an unworldly young woman
  cabal
  ingenue
  mercurial
  innocuous
 
30.
adj. resisting authority
  relinquish
  contumacious
  ingenuous
  duplicity
 
31.
v. to dominate or enslave
  subjugate
  embarkation
  approbatory
  confluence
 
32.
adj. dazzling and shining
  resplendent
  perfunctory
  usury
  dissent
 
33.
adj. passionate; intense
  ambivalent
  blatant
  fervent
  ossify
 
34.
adj. resting
  gullible
  recumbent
  chicanery
  raze
 
35.
v. to act indecisively
  nefariousness
  dither
  bombast
  glutton
 
36.
v. to hinder or obstruct
  stymie
  novel
  benefactor
  agrarian
 
37.
n. unlimited authority
  zealot
  superlative
  disperse
  carte blanche
 
38.
n. an admirer of the fine arts; a dabbler
  haphazard
  propinquity
  hapless
  dilettante
 
39.
n. the basis for an argument
  premise
  limber
  deign
  destitute
 
40.
v. to punish; discipline
  inclined
  chastise
  parse
  execute