[GRE Vocabulary Test]
# What are the meanings of the following words?
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Q.1: propagate
a) stretch out full on ground
b) clean by removing impurities; to clear of charges
c) multiply; spread
d) plunder; despoil
Q.2: propitiate
a) prolong
b) steal
c) put down; quiet
d) appease
Q.3: prorogue
a) throb
b) dismiss parliament; end officially
c) rave; speak bombastically
d) summarize
Q.4: protract
a) prolong
b) rave; speak bombastically
c) destroy completely
d) correct
Q.5: purloin
a) steal
b) repudiate; withdraw previous statement
c) make friendly after quarrel; correct inconsistencies
d) restore to proper condition
Q.6: rant
a) summarize
b) rave; speak bombastically
c) restore to proper condition
d) abandon
Q.7: reciprocate
a) entertain
b) make young again
c) savor; enjoy
d) repay in kind
Q.8: reimburse
a) savor; enjoy
b) abandon; discontinue; disown; repudiate
c) repay
d) repay in kind usually for bad treatment
Q.9: render
a) disown; disavow
b) repay in kind usually for bad treatment
c) deliver; provide; represent
d) satisfy to the full; cloy
Q.10: retaliate
a) ransack; thoroughly search
b) surfeit; satisfy fully
c) have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
d) repay in kind usually for bad treatment
Q.11: saturate
a) be disturbed; boil
b) soak
c) move furtively and secretly
d) check flow of blood
Q.12: skimp
a) provide scantily; live very economically
b) conquer; bring under control
c) spread over
d) cloy; overfeed
Q.13: suffuse
a) spread over
b) tease; torture with disappointment
c) strangle
d) exceed; surpass
Q.14: thwart
a) copy
b) baffle; frustrate
c) scold; reproach
d) express; utter
Q.15: veer
a) slander
b) give up temporarily; yield
c) sharpen; stimulate
d) change in direction
Q.16: abut
a) reduce brittleness and improve toughness by heating and cooling
b) disparage; depreciate
c) border upon; adjoin
d) correct a false impression; undeceive
Q.17: denigrate
a) worsen; embitter
b) hesitate; shrink
c) blacken
d) mortgage; pledge as security
Q.18: hypothecate
a) attribute; ascribe
b) weaken; destroy
c) talk incoherently; utter drivel
d) mortgage; pledge as security
Q.19: ramify
a) cause to appear foolish or inconsistent
b) divide into branches or subdivisions
c) lower: humiliate
d) loathe: hate
Q.20: abrogate
a) equip
b) abolish
c) warn: reprove
d) make hostile: separate