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Subjects : gre, english, vocabulary, bvat
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Female sheep






2. Separate; part; CF. asunder






3. Pertaining to tailors or tailoring; Ex. a man of great sartorial elegance; CF. sartor: tailor






4. Causing nausea; feeling nausea






5. Ill-humored; sullen; sullenly melancholy






6. Leap or spring; limit or confine; constitute the limit of; Ex. bounded by Canada; N: leap or jumping; boundary; ADJ: certain; having a duty to do something (legally or morally); confined by bonds; Ex. We are bound to be late; Ex. I am bound to say my






7. Permanent; impossible to dissolve or disintegrate






8. So small - trifling - or unimportant as to be easily disregarded






9. Religious group; unit in a system; name or designation; CF. denominator: common trait or characteristic






10. Contradict; oppose; violate (a rule - law - or custom); N. contravention






11. Make blind with a sudden intense light; amaze; fill with wonder






12. Wasteful; reckless with money; profuse; Ex. a mind prodigal of ideas; N. prodigality






13. Change the appearance of (by marking with different colors)






14. Rough-mannered; (of a voice) rough; hoarse






15. (of someone old) eccentric; odd; whimsical; bad-tempered; N. crotchet: odd or whimsical notion






16. Explain; make clear; clarify; enlighten; CF. lucid






17. Underline; emphasize






18. Gross lewdness; lustfulness; ADJ. lecherous; N. lecher: lecherous man






19. Tickle; excite pleasantly; Ex. not to titillate the audience but to enlighten it






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






21. Curved; hooked; of or like an eagle; Ex. aquiline nose






22. Severity; Ex. rigors of the Russian winter






23. Question closely; cross-examine; cross-question






24. Annoy; exasperate; chafe; N: skin sore caused by rubbing (as on the skin of a horse); exasperation






25. (of an animal) not domestic; wild






26. Display of partiality toward a favored person






27. Waste matter; worthless impurities






28. Crude dwelling; shack






29. Cause; produce; create






30. Rankle; produce irritation or resentment; (of a cut or wound) generate pus or rot; Ex. His insult festered in my mind for days.






31. Pierce; put a hole through






32. One incapacitated(disabled) by a chronic illness; ADJ: incapacitated by illness; not valid; null; V: allow to leave (a military force) because of ill-health






33. Illicit lover






34. Freedom from narrow limitations






35. Unoriginal; obtained from another source; Ex. derivative prose style; N.






36. Based on experience; of or acquired through practice (rather than theory); useful; Ex. practical man






37. Man employed to take care of horses; V: make neat and trim; clean and brush (an animal)






38. Laugh (at); mock; ridicule; Ex. scoff at their threats






39. Causing great fear; unrelenting; determined in spite of fear; Ex. grim smile






40. Hasten; make go faster






41. Yellowed; prejudiced (envious - hostile - or resentful) from long and disappointing experience of human affairs; Ex. with a jaundiced eye






42. Courteous; faithful; brave; N. chivalry






43. Make lively or spirited; animate






44. Protruding knot on a tree; V.






45. Scientific student of birds; N. ornithology: scientific study of birds






46. Becoming putrid; putrefying






47. Person convicted of a grave crime; CF. felony: serious crime






48. Picture made of small colorful inlaid tiles; ADJ.






49. Ridicule; N: written attack ridiculing or satirizing a person - group - or institution






50. Seeker after position or status