[GRE Vocabulary Test]
# What are the meanings of the following words?
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Q.1: educe
a) draw forth; elicit
b) throw into confusion; involve in strife; entangle
c) surround
d) cause; produce
Q.2: efface
a) set free
b) rub out
c) burden
d) occupy fully
Q.3: elicit
a) deck in brilliant colors
b) surround
c) invigorate; make forceful and active
d) draw out by discussion
Q.4: emancipate
a) rival; imitate
b) invigorate; make forceful and active
c) set free
d) enclose; surround
Q.5: emend
a) invigorate; make forceful and active
b) advance; improve
c) correct; correct by a critic
d) show clearly
Q.6: energize
a) please intensely
b) lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
c) show clearly
d) invigorate; make forceful and active
Q.7: ensconce
a) avoid
b) settle comfortably
c) acquit; exculpate
d) weaken mitigate
Q.8: evoke
a) call forth
b) clean; remove offensive parts of a book
c) praise; glorify
d) build; lie
Q.9: expunge
a) cancel; remove
b) build; lie
c) drive or hunt out of hiding
d) flog; whip
Q.10: fabricate
a) honor at a festival
b) build; lie
c) spot
d) rear; encourage
Q.11: flaunt
a) insert improperly; palm off
b) bear fruit
c) deny
d) display ostentatiously
Q.12: fulminate
a) gather; store up
b) cover with a thin and shiny surface
c) thunder; explode
d) raid
Q.13: glut
a) raid
b) offer as a sacrifice
c) overstock; fill to excess
d) disable
Q.14: importune
a) imprison
b) teach
c) charge
d) beg earnestly
Q.15: infringe
a) make whole; combine; make into one unit
b) violate; encroach
c) throw overboard
d) portray; describe vividly
Q.16: languish
a) lose animation; lose strength
b) operate with the hands
c) settle a dispute through the services of an outsider
d) soothe
Q.17: mitigate
a) appease
b) annoy; vex
c) scold; rebuke severely
d) vibrate pendulumlike; waver
Q.18: oscillate
a) cater to the low desires of others
b) vibrate pendulumlike; waver
c) turn to stone
d) pacify; conciliate
Q.19: pommel
a) make impossible; eliminate
b) postpone; delay
c) make known by official proclamation or publication
d) beat
Q.20: protract
a) drink with relish
b) rave; speak bombastically
c) prolong
d) correct