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Subjects : gre, english, vocabulary, bvat
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Desert; abandon; renounce






2. Partnership; league; union of separate political parties






3. Nonentity; worthless person or thing; zero; secret code; V.






4. Opening in chess in which a piece is sacrificed; action made to produce a future advantage






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






6. Not shiny; matte; having a dull finish; N: flat piece of material used as a floor covering; V.






7. Promoting a particular point of view; biased; having an aim; designed to further a cause; Ex. tendentious rather than truth-seeking; CF. tend: move in a certain direction






8. Lack of proportion (between the parts); ADJ. disproportionate






9. Speech or writing with no meaning; foolish behavior or language; Ex. make (a) nonsense of: spoil; cause to fail






10. Satisfy fully (physical needs such as hunger); sate; N. satiety: condition of being satiated






11. Take apart; disassemble






12. Division of a long poem






13. Defile; soil; tarnish; Ex. sully one's hands in menial labor






14. Damaged; disfigured; V. mar: spoil; disfigure






15. Crush or grind into very small particles






16. Complicated situation (as in a play); painful or complex misunderstanding (as in a play); entanglement; confused mass (as of papers); V. embroil






17. Entire range






18. Salary; payment for an office; compensation






19. Providing nourishment






20. Excessively or elaborately decorated






21. Having the weight of authority; regarded as providing knowledge that can be trusted; reliable; peremptory and dictatorial; Ex. authoritative dictionary/manner; CF. definitive






22. Subordinate possessions; something added to a more important thing






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






24. Charmingly carefree; simple and happy; Ex. idyllic scene






25. Self-restraint; sexual chastity; sexual abstinence; voluntary control over bladder and bowel functions; ADJ. continent






26. Strangle; regulate the speed of with a throttle; N: valve that regulates the flow; CF. throat ?






27. Striking one object against another sharply; Ex. percussion instrument; N: striking together of two bodies; sound caused by percussion






28. Poor verse






29. Moderate; make less severe; tone down or restrain; toughen (steel) as by alternate heating and cooling






30. One who studies reptiles; CF. herpetology: branch of zoology that deals with reptiles and amphibians






31. Hasty and careless; haphazard; sloppy(carelessly done)






32. Rate of occurrence; particular occurrence; Ex. high incidence of infant mortality






33. Conceivably true; having a show of truth but open to doubt; specious






34. Unbecoming; not proper in behavior; indecent; Ex. leave with unseemly haste






35. Complain or whine tearfully; run at the nose; snuffle; Ex. Don't come back sniveling to me.






36. Violent whirlpool; violent or tublent situation; CF. stream






37. Place for burying the dead






38. Lacking in imagination; dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact(concerned with facts - not imagination or feelings); factual; CF. prose






39. Come or bring together; call up or summon (forces - vital powers - etc.); revive or recuperate (after illness or difficulty); N: act of rallying; mass gathering






40. Contending; CF. vie






41. Chief; most important; N: priest; cardinal number: number that shows quantity rather thatn order






42. Remove water from; dry out






43. Chief; first; Ex. archbishop






44. Pollute






45. Doing evil; N. maleficience






46. Sleep throughout the winter; N. hibernation






47. Combine; fuse; N. coalescence






48. Ponder at length; N: source of inspiration (esp. of a poet)






49. Ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living






50. Sorrowful; N. dolor