FREE GRE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT BIG GRE VOCAB

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FREE GRE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT BIG GRE VOCAB

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Question 1: mesmerize

Answer:

To hypnotize; enchant.

Question 2: legerdemain

Answer:

Trickery or sleight of hand; chicanery, conjuring.

Question 3: unction

Answer:

A religious or ceremonial anointing; a smug, exaggerated use of language; smarminess.

Question 4: penury

Answer:

Severe poverty; oppressive lack of resources; destitution, impoverishment.

Question 5: accord

Answer:

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action.

Question 6: baneful

Answer:

Causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive.

Question 7: unfledged

Answer:

Immature or inexperienced.

Question 8: petrify

Answer:

To produce rigidness akin to stone; to immobilize with fright.

Question 9: onerous

Answer:

Burdensome; troublesome and oppressive; arduous, difficult, exacting, laborious, trying.

Question 10: accede

Answer:

To give in; to agree or assent to a proposal or a view.

Question 11: explicate

Answer:

To explain meticulously or in great detail; to elucidate; to analyze or interpret.

Question 12: castigate

Answer:

To punish or criticize harshly; admonish, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, upbraid.

Question 13: encomium

Answer:

Warm praise, especially a formal expression of such; tribute, salutation, eulogy, panegyric.

Question 14: upbraid

Answer:

To criticize severely; reprove, rebuke, chide, exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach.

Question 15: servile

Answer:

Of or pertaining to a slave; submissive or slavish.

Question 16: demoniac

Answer:

Of or pertaining to demons; demonic, fiendish; possessed by a demon.

Question 17: annotate

Answer:

To comment; to add critical or explanatory commentary or analysis.

Question 18: ignoble

Answer:

Having low moral standards; not noble in character; lowly; vulgar; common; undignified.

Question 19: lachrymose

Answer:

Pertaining to tears; tearful, weeping.

Question 20: suborn

Answer:

To induce someone to commit an unlawful or malicious act, or to commit perjury.

Question 21: eulogy

Answer:

An oration to honor a deceased person, usually at a funeral; the act of praising, speaking highly, commending; panegyric.

Question 22: thrall

Answer:

One who is enslaved or mind-controlled; the state of being under another's control; enthall.

Question 23: contagion

Answer:

The agent that causes a contagious disease, such as a bacterium or a virus.

Question 24: ruffian

Answer:

A scoundrel, rascal, or unprincipled, deceitful, brutal and unreliable person; rogue; scamp.

Question 25: abominate

Answer:

Detestable, detested, loathsome; to detest, hate, loathe, abhor.

Question 26: writ

Answer:

A written order.

Question 27: loquacious

Answer:

Talkative; effusive, garrulous, verbose.

Question 28: avow

Answer:

To declare openly, boldly, as something believed to be right; to own, acknowledge or confess frankly.