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Subjects : gre, english, vocabulary, bvat
Instructions:
  • 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. Hiding place; V.






2. Be violently disturbed; boil; (of a liquid) move about wildly as if boiling; Ex. The nation was seething with discontent.






3. Belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naivet'e; ADJ. credulous






4. Equal in extent; of the same size






5. Unshakably calm; placid






6. Discipline; punish in order to correct; CF. castigate






7. Dry up






8. Produced by imagination; fanciful; mystical; showing foresight; N: one having foresight; one given to speculative impractical ideas






9. Small ornamental statuette(very small statue)






10. Any ulcerous sore; ulcer; any evil; CF. cancer






11. Boasting






12. Pause; temporary cessation; alcove; secret inner place; Ex. parliament in recess; V. CF. recessive






13. Solidly uniform; unchangeable; unyielding; N. monolith: large block of stone






14. False testimony while under oath; V. perjure oneself: testify falsely under oath






15. Dissolve; disperse; (of a group) break up and separate; Ex. The club has disbanded.






16. Assist (someone in difficulty); aid; comfort; N.






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






18. Huge






19. Relieve (pain)






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






21. Person entitled to benefits or proceeds of an insurance policy or will






22. Pithy - compact saying






23. Willing to obey orders; yielding; timid






24. Direct financial aid by government - etc.; V. subsidize: assist with a subsidy






25. Stealthily lie in waiting; slink; exist unperceived






26. Letdown in thought or emotion; something unexciting - ordinary - or disappointing coming after something important or exciting






27. Rudeness without any sense of shame; shameless boldness; presumptousness; nerve; cheek






28. Woman who rules a family or larger social group






29. Lively or animated; sprightly






30. Conventions; moral standards; moral customs






31. Expose to slander






32. Walk; trample; N: grooved face of a tire; horizontal part of a step






33. Blunt; abrupt; curt; not wanting to waste time being nice






34. Not active; acted upon; receiving an action without acting in return; accepting without resistance






35. Copy






36. Blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group - cause - or sex; ADJ. chauvinistic; CF. chauvinism; Nicolas Chauvin






37. Violent uncontrollable shaking movement (caused by illness); V. convulse; ADJ. convulsive






38. Make or become putrid; N. putrefaction






39. Narrow opening in a large mass; break in a friendly relation; Ex. through a rift in the clouds; OP. reconcilation






40. Signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index






41. Book of literary selections by various authors; CF. omnibus






42. Superiority of power - quantity - etc.; V. preponderate: be greater in power - weight - or importance; ADJ. preponderant






43. Severely critical






44. Proper (in behavior - conduct - or appearance)






45. Tilt (as of a ship); lean over (to one side)






46. Sediment deposited by running water (at the entrance to a harbor or by a bend in a river)






47. Protruding knot on a tree; V.






48. Strip (as of clothes); deprive (as of rights); dispossess; N. divestiture(divestment)






49. Restraint; compulsion; repression of feelings; reticence; V. constrain: hold back; restrain; compel; oblige; confine forcibly; imprison






50. Metal-bearing vein(long deposit of an ore)