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Subjects : gre, english, vocabulary, bvat
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. In feudalism - one who held land of a superior lord; subordinate or dependent






2. Dig; search deeply; investigate






3. Of air; high in the air; lofty; immaterial; unreal






4. Friendship; peaceful relationship as between nations






5. Peaceful; politely friendly; not quarrelsome; Ex. amicable settlement






6. Convenient features that helps to make life pleasant; social courtesies






7. Person having administrative authority; one branch of government executing laws; ADJ: relating to executing






8. Acting without dialogue; V.






9. Fearful; timid; demonstrating fear






10. Pardon (allowed by government to political criminals)






11. Offensive in odor or flavor






12. Wasteful (of money); dissipated; wildly immoral; dissolute; N: profligate person; N. profligacy






13. Hugeness (in a bad sense); excessive wickedness; Ex. enormity of the crime; ADJ. enormous






14. Stupid person; clown






15. Judgment that someone is guilty of a crime; strongly held belief






16. Respectful; worshipful; V. revere: regard with reverence; N. reverence: profound respect






17. Insult to one's dignity; snub; V: treat as if of small importance; insult; snub; ADJ. small in size; of small importance






18. Something - such as a monument or holiday - intended to honor the memory of a person or event; ADJ: commemorative






19. Former occupant of a post






20. (of a person) bold; adventurous; daring; (of an action) risky






21. Revoke; annul






22. Gift made by a will; something handed down from an ancestor






23. Unable to compromise about points of doctrine; dogmatic; unyielding; marked by inflexible attachment to a doctrine without regard to its practical difficulties






24. Nearness (in space or relationship); proximity; kinship






25. Practice of abstaining totally from alcoholic drinks; N. teetotaler;; ADJ. teetotal; CF. T + total






26. (of people or their behavior) respectful; obedient (filled with a sense of duty)






27. Father; become the father of; produce; give rise to






28. Significance; importance; meaning






29. Pertaining to the improvement of race; N. eugenics: study of hereditary improvement of the human race






30. Swirling current of water - air - etc.; V.






31. Bar; forbid; exclude; Ex. debarred from jury services






32. Think up; invent; plan; bequeath; N: bequest






33. Violate; desecrate (something holy); treat unworthily; be profane for; ADJ: secular; nonreligious; irreverent for holy things






34. Good-natured; merry; cheerful






35. Outward sign; Ex. a token of our gratitude






36. Army unit made up of four or more companies






37. Absorb; take (food) into the body and digest it; understand (knowledge) completely and be able to use properly; cause to become homogeneous (the people of a country or race in the wasy of behaving or thinking)






38. Disease passed on by the bite of an infected animal (causing madness and death)






39. Serious and sedate; sober; Ex. staid during the funeral ceremony






40. Suggested or implied meaning of an expression; V. connote






41. Causing insensitivity to pain; N.






42. Crown






43. Immature; half-baked; like a sophomore






44. One who supplicates; ADJ.






45. Pertaining to language






46. Cancel out; nullify; cause to have no effect; deny; N. negation






47. Dissenting (with an opinion - a group - or a government); rebellious; N.






48. Bruise






49. Kindly; favorable; not malignant (disease); Ex. benign tumor






50. Inborn