[GRE Vocabulary Test]
# What are the meanings of the following words?
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Q.1: delineation
a) destruction
b) portrayal
c) tyranny
d) harm; damage
Q.2: delirium
a) inhabitant of
b) ridicule
c) mental disorder marked by confusion
d) crown
Q.3: demagogue
a) person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people
b) tyranny
c) explosion
d) branching into two parts
Q.4: demolition
a) one who studies the skin and its diseases
b) explosion
c) crown
d) destruction
Q.5: depredation
a) explosion
b) art of debate
c) shyness
d) plundering
Q.6: detergent
a) cleansing agent
b) ruin because of neglect
c) lessening; reduction in size
d) difference; condition of inequality
Q.7: dichotomy
a) aimless follower of the arts; amateur; dabbler
b) denial; disclaiming
c) branching into two parts
d) advice against
Q.8: diminution
a) scattering
b) lessening; reduction in size
c) operatic singer; prima donna
d) stupid person
Q.9: dissection
a) variety; dissimilitude
b) analysis; cutting apart in order to examine
c) sediment; worthless residue
d) oddity; idiosyncrasy
Q.10: doggerel
a) menial work
b) rapture; joy; any overpowering emotion
c) poor verse
d) exclamation
Q.11: ecstasy
a) rapture; joy; any overpowering emotion
b) stealing
c) territory enclosed within an alien land
d) boredom
Q.12: emetic
a) puzzle
b) entrance
c) person who devotes himself to pleasure of the senses
d) substance causing vomiting
Q.13: epicure
a) summary; concise abstract
b) period of equal days and nights; the beginning of Spring and Autumn
c) prank; flighty conduct
d) connoisseur of food and drink
Q.14: escapade
a) prank; flighty conduct
b) departure
c) remonstrance
d) party; clique; dissension
Q.15: extradition
a) excessive zeal
b) an error or slip in manners or behavior
c) surrender of prisoner by one state to another
d) command
Q.16: fervor
a) conclusion
b) glowing ardor
c) small fleet
d) weakness; slight fault
Q.17: fluency
a) strong point of special talent
b) smoothness of speech
c) sudden flood
d) official
Q.18: fruition
a) large sailing ship
b) leather glove
c) bearing of fruit; fulfillment; realization
d) gallows
Q.19: gibbet
a) gallows
b) opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted relig
c) gap; pause
d) large barrel
Q.20: holocaust
a) substance formed by decaying vegetable matter
b) special usage in language
c) misleading vision
d) destruction by fire