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Subjects : gre, english, vocabulary, bvat
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Postponement or cancelation of a punishment; temporary stay; V: postpone or cancel the punishment of






2. Harmful






3. Agonizing; distressing; traumatic; V. harrow: break up and level (soil) with a harrow; inflict great distress on; agonize; N: farming machine to break up the earth






4. Pompous walk; V: walk in a self-important manner






5. Calculating; pertaining to insurance statistics






6. Bitterness of feeling; nerve; effrontery; CF. gall bladder






7. Walk or behave with an over-confident manner






8. Spacious






9. Forerunners; foremost position of an army; advance forces; foremost position in a trend or movement; CF. rearguard






10. Travel; journey; V: make a long difficult journey






11. Peeping Tom; person who derives sexual gratification from observing the sexual acts of others






12. Renounce; give up (position - right - or responsibility)






13. Rotate swiftly; make (thread) by twisting (cotton - wool - etc.); N.






14. Unruly; rebellious; Ex. mutinous teenagers; N. mutiny: open rebellion; CF. mutineer






15. Display ostentatiously; Ex. ``Honey - if you've got it - flaunt it !''






16. Release or discharge through a vent; express (esp. unfairly); utter; Ex. He vented his wrath on his family.






17. Strict disciplinarian; person who demands total obedience to rules and orders; CF. Jean Martinet






18. Color; aspect; Ex. opinions of every hue






19. Denial; disclaiming; repudiating; disowning; V. disavow; CF. disclaim






20. Pithy - compact saying






21. Something that causes a substance in a chemical solution to separate out in solid form; OP. solvent






22. Rendering; translation; artistic interpretation of a song - etc






23. Compulsive habitual need






24. Steadiness of effort; persistent hard work






25. Given to(having a tendency of) joking






26. Strategem to gain an advantage; tactic; Ex. management ploy






27. Alleged; claimed; reputed or rumored; Ex. purported Satanists






28. State of depression or melancholy; style of slow - mournful music (evolved from southern Black American songs)






29. Church dignitary; priest of high position in the church (esp. bishop)






30. Remove (fleece or hair) by cutting; remove the hair or fleece from; cut with or as if with shears; N: shears; pair of scissors






31. Whim; sudden change of mind without any real cause






32. Prototype; primitive pattern






33. Fantastic; comically hideous; strange and unnatural (causing fear or amusement)






34. Apparent; appearing as such; professed(pretended); pretended; Ex. ostensible purpose of the expedition






35. Money; profit; Ex. filthy lucre






36. Huge; enormous; gigantic; CF. the hero of Gargantua and Pantagruel






37. State confidently; declare as true






38. Look at amorously; make eyes at; Ex. old men ogling young girls






39. Difficult to please; squeamish; fussy; finicky






40. Boasting






41. Introduction (to a poem or play)






42. Pertaining to money






43. Mixture






44. Confusion; turmoil; confused mass; bewildering jumble; Ex. welter of data






45. Impending; near at hand






46. Stick together






47. Talkative boaster; braggart






48. Slow gallop; V. CF. trot






49. Shorten; reduce






50. Moral correctness; moral uprightness; moral virtue; correctness of judgment