[GRE Vocabulary Test]
# What are the meanings of the following words?
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Q.1: restitution
a) severity
b) reparation; indemnification
c) Scandinavian myth; any legend
d) collector and disposer of refuse; animal that devours carrion
Q.2: reticence
a) white frost
b) fragments
c) reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to be silent
d) division; split
Q.3: retraction
a) withdrawal
b) Scandinavian myth; any legend
c) scholar
d) offspring
Q.4: reverie
a) trick; stratagem
b) scholar
c) division; split
d) daydream; musing
Q.5: rigor
a) scholar
b) shred; least bit
c) menial kitchen worker
d) severity
Q.6: rubble
a) fragments
b) net for catching fish
c) tomb
d) bundle of stalks of grain; any bundle of things tied together
Q.7: savoir faire
a) old age; feeblemindedness of old age
b) division; partition; separation
c) tact; poise; sophistication
d) well-paid position with little responsibility
Q.8: secession
a) flavored dessert ice
b) withdrawal
c) lazy person
d) point at which the sun is farthest from the equator
Q.9: shambles
a) soberness
b) slaughterhouse; scene of carnage
c) small metallic piece sewn to clothing for ornamentation
d) pay for services
Q.10: sluggard
a) law
b) person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain
c) lazy person
d) nicety; cunning; guile; delicacy
Q.11: statute
a) law
b) act of finding the total; summary
c) watching; guarding
d) boredom; weariness
Q.12: subterfuge
a) fit of petulance; caprice
b) doctrine; dogma
c) government of a community by religious leaders
d) pretense; evasion
Q.13: temerity
a) extended scolding; denunciation
b) physical features of a region
c) calmness; peace
d) boldness; rashness
Q.14: tome
a) large volume
b) tax levied by a ruler; mark of respect
c) pledge of good faith especially in betrothal
d) state of violent agitation
Q.15: tribute
a) depravity
b) resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult
c) tax levied by a ruler; mark of respect
d) forerunners; advance forces
Q.16: unanimity
a) thin layer; cover
b) complete agreement
c) trace; remains
d) poisonous snake
Q.17: vertigo
a) face; appearance
b) dizziness
c) custom; habitual procedure
d) wandering or staying away; in optics, failure of rays to focus
Q.18: wont
a) warning
b) written statement made under oath
c) custom; habitual procedure
d) an error involving time in a story
Q.19: agronomist
a) scientist engaged in the management of land
b) workshop; studio
c) incarnation
d) state of being deprived of something valuable or beloved
Q.20: bassoon
a) glass water bottle; decanter
b) one of the hereditary classes in Hindu society
c) private meeting of members of a party to select officers or determine
d) reed instrument of the woodwind family