Test: Real GRE Word List Original - 20 Questions

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  1. estranged
  2. s tickle
  3. n cauterize
  4. adventitious
  5. n glaze
  1. a cover with a thin and shiny surface; apply a glaze to; N: thin, smooth, shiny coating (as for pottery); Ex. unglazed pottery
  2. b separated; alienated; V. estrange: alienate (people in a family); N. estrangement
  3. c touch (the body) lightly so as to cause laughter; please
  4. d accidental; casual; happening by chance
  5. e burn (a wound or snakebite, etc.) with hot iron or caustic substance to stop bleeding and prevent infection

5 Multiple Choice Questions

  1. wind or turn in its course; follow a winding or turning course; move aimlessly and idly
  2. openmouthed
  3. formal praise; encomium; Ex. I don't deserve such panegyrics.
  4. elementary; not developed; crude; N. rudiment: fundamental element or principle; Ex. rudiments of the language
  5. block or hinder; baffle; frustrate

5 True/False Question

  1. psychiatrist → clergyman attached to a chapel

          

  2. cloying → distasteful (because excessive); excessively sweet or sentimental; V. cloy: become unpleasant through too much sweetness or excess

          

  3. cringe → shrink back as if in fear; cower

          

  4. s tend → have a tendency; take care of; minister; serve at; apply one's attention; attend

          

  5. dilute → make (a liquid) less concentrated; reduce in strength; Ex. dilute the influence of the president

          

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