[GRE Vocabulary Test]
# What are the meanings of the following words?
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Q.1: conciliate
a) pacify; win over
b) pollute
c) oppose with arguments; contradict
d) shrink quivering, as from fear
Q.2: concoct
a) dedicate; sanctify
b) prepare by combining; make up in concert
c) assemble
d) pick out; reject
Q.3: condole
a) explain; interpret
b) oppose with arguments; contradict
c) confirm
d) express sympathetic sorrow
Q.4: congeal
a) contradict; infringe on
b) confirm
c) freeze; coagulate
d) loiter; waste time
Q.5: contaminate
a) confirm
b) dress; treat leather; seek favor
c) pollute
d) pour off gently
Q.6: convoke
a) shorten; reduce
b) reduce to lower state
c) pour off gently
d) call together
Q.7: curtail
a) weaken; enfeeble
b) shorten; reduce
c) erase; strike out
d) remove hair
Q.8: decant
a) pour off gently
b) portray
c) bring (forces, arguments, etc.) into effective action
d) catch sight of
Q.9: demean
a) degrade; humiliate
b) catch sight of
c) scorn
d) disown; renounce claim to
Q.10: descant
a) turn away from
b) discuss fully
c) make discontented
d) scatter like seeds
Q.11: discomfit
a) amuse
b) squander
c) vary; go in different directions from the same point
d) put to rout; defeat; disconcert
Q.12: dissuade
a) instruct; correct morally
b) draw out by discussion
c) advise against
d) rival; imitate
Q.13: emanate
a) rival; imitate
b) invigorate; make forceful and active
c) issue forth
d) enclose; surround
Q.14: engross
a) lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
b) call forth
c) urge
d) occupy fully
Q.15: exhume
a) weaken mitigate
b) dig out of the ground; remove from a grave
c) build; lie
d) honor at a festival
Q.16: feign
a) pretend
b) spot
c) insert improperly; palm off
d) thwart; defeat
Q.17: fritter
a) waste
b) speak foolishly
c) gather leavings
d) tear out
Q.18: gorge
a) saturate; fill
b) stuff oneself
c) compose on the spur of the moment
d) accuse
Q.19: incriminate
a) write; compose
b) hint; imply
c) bury
d) accuse
Q.20: jettison
a) settle accounts; clear up
b) mutilate; injure
c) throw overboard
d) work against