[GRE Vocabulary Test]

# What are the meanings of the following words?

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Q.1: rationalization
a) stone coffin, often highly decorated	b) bringing into conformity with reason
c) state of growing old	d) defamation; utterance o false and malicious statements
Q.2: recidivism
a) small body revolving around a larger one	b) quackery; superficial information
c) habitual return to crime	d) untidy or slovenly person
Q.3: recusant
a) person who refuses to comply	b) state of growing old
c) warm, sultry wind blown Africa to southern Europe	d) artificial channel for directing or controlling the flow of water
Q.4: residue
a) long, tiresome harangue	b) warm, sultry wind blown Africa to southern Europe
c) untidy or slovenly person	d) remainder; balance
Q.5: sarcophagus
a) warm, sultry wind blown Africa to southern Europe	b) dexterity
c) nickname	d) stone coffin, often highly decorated
Q.6: sciolism
a) quackery; superficial information	b) teacher of philosophy; quibbler; employer of fallacious reasoning
c) sudden flood	d) froth; foam
Q.7: skeptic
a) sleep producer	b) pillaging; depredation
c) doubter	d) stitches sewn to hold the cut edges of a wound or incision
Q.8: solace
a) deadlock	b) comfort in trouble
c) arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained; congruity	d) unnecessary repetition; pleonasm
Q.9: spoonerism
a) claw of bird	b) accidental transposition of sounds in successive words
c) evasion; fickleness	d) miracle worker; magician
Q.10: symmetry
a) terms used in a science or art	b) wisdom in divine things
c) arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained; congruity	d) syrup obtained in refining sugar
Q.11: terminology
a) terms used in a science or art	b) eight-line stanza
c) rolling, treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America	d) imaginary land with perfect social and political system
Q.12: trajectory
a) act of seizing power and rank of another	b) ghostly being that sucks the blood of the living
c) act of dissecting living animals	d) path taken by a projectile
Q.13: valance
a) man owning small estate; middle-class farmer	b) washing
c) sharp upslope of a hill	d) short drapery hanging above window frame
Q.14: abeyance
a) suspended action	b) compulsive, habitual need
c) foreshadowing: outlining	d) abundance: wealth
Q.15: addiction
a) collection: heap	b) medieval chemistry
c) compulsive, habitual need	d) food of the gods
Q.16: alias
a) pardon	b) an assumed name
c) condition in which blood lacks red corpuscles	d) yearly allowance
Q.17: andirons
a) letdown in thought or emotion	b) metal supports in a fireplace for cooking utensils or logs
c) poise	d) deification; glorification
Q.18: aplomb
a) a person with power to decide a dispute; judge	b) heat; passion; zeal
c) poise	d) slanderous remark
Q.19: artifice
a) deception; trickery	b) omen; prophecy
c) mechanism which imitates actions of humans	d) large, bright-colored handkerchief
Q.20: avarice
a) gift giver; patron	b) temporary encampment
c) clear beef soup	d) greediness for wealth