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Beyond Hit Parade -1
GRE Beyond Hit Parade 1
Question | Answer |
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alloy | (v) to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
appropriate | (v) to take for one's own use; confiscate |
arrest | (v) to suspend; to engage; holding one |
august | (adj) majestic, venerable |
bent | (n) leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency |
broach | (v) bring up, announce, begin to talk about |
brook | (v) to tolerate, endure, countenance |
cardinal | (adj) major |
chauvinist | (n) a blindly devoted patriot |
color | (v) to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss or affect |
consequential | (adj) pompous, self-important (primary definitions are: logically following; important) |
damp | (v) to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound |
die | (n) a tool used for shaping |
essay | (v) to test or try; attempt, experiment |
exact | (v) to demand, call for; require, take |
fell | (v) to cause to fall by striking |
fell | (adj) inhumanly cruel |
flag | (v) to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline |
flip | (adj) sarcastic, impertinent |
ford | (v) to wade across the shallow part of a stream or river |
grouse | (v) to complain or grumble |
guy | (n/v) a rope, cord or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy (think "guide") |
intimate | (v) to imply, suggest or insinuate |
list | (v) to tilt or lean to one side |
lumber | (v) to move heavily and clumsily |
meet | (adj) fitting, proper |
milk | (v) to exploit, to squeeze for every last ounce of |
mince | (v) pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak too carefully |
nice | (adj) exacting, fastidious, extremely precise |
obtain | (adj) to be established, accepted, or customary |
occult | (adj) hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension |
pedestrian | (adj) commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian |
pied | (adj) multicolored, usually in blotches |
pine | (v) to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
plastic | (adj) moldable, pliable, not rigid |
pluck | (n) courage, spunk, fortitude |
prize | (v) to pry; to press or force with a lever |
rail | (v) to complain about bitterly |
rent | (v/n) torn; past of red/an opeing or a tear caused by such |
quail | (v) to lose courage; turn frightened |
qualify | (v) to limit |
sap | (n) a fool or nitwit |
scurvy | (adj) contemptible, despicable |
singular | (adj) exceptional, unusual, odd |
stand | (n) a group of trees |
steep | (v) to saturate or completely soak |
strut | (n) the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
table | (v) to remove from consideration |
tender | (v) to proffer or offer |
waffle | (v) to equivocate; to change one's position |
wag | (n) wit; joker |