[GRE Vocabulary Test]
# What are the meanings of the following words?
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Q.1: elicit
a) throw into confusion; involve in strife; entangle
b) burden
c) draw out by discussion
d) settle comfortably
Q.2: elucidate
a) correct; correct by a critic
b) provide with some quality; endow
c) cause; produce
d) explain; enlighten
Q.3: emancipate
a) surround
b) set free
c) advance; improve
d) lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
Q.4: embroil
a) throw into confusion; involve in strife; entangle
b) advance; improve
c) capture; enslave
d) show clearly
Q.5: encumber
a) burden
b) enclose; surround
c) avoid
d) urge
Q.6: engross
a) lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
b) occupy fully
c) urge
d) cancel; remove
Q.7: equivocate
a) clear from blame
b) talk at length
c) clean; remove offensive parts of a book
d) lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
Q.8: exhort
a) clean; remove offensive parts of a book
b) wring from; get money by threats, etc.
c) urge
d) generate pus
Q.9: extirpate
a) build; lie
b) generate pus
c) root up
d) spot
Q.10: ferret
a) thresh grain by hand; strike or slap
b) reject; mock
c) stir up; instigate
d) drive or hunt out of hiding
Q.11: flout
a) bear fruit
b) reject; mock
c) gather; store up
d) gather leavings
Q.12: gambol
a) skip; leap playfully
b) urge on
c) break up ground after plowing; torture
d) offer as a sacrifice
Q.13: gouge
a) tear out
b) beg earnestly
c) doubt; challenge; gainsay
d) hatch; scheme
Q.14: impugn
a) teach
b) doubt; challenge; gainsay
c) prohibit; restrain
d) hint
Q.15: insinuate
a) overflow; flood
b) mangle; tear
c) wash
d) hint; imply
Q.16: liquidate
a) operate with the hands
b) commemorate
c) settle accounts; clear up
d) defraud a person of something
Q.17: mortify
a) annoy; vex
b) destroy completely
c) humiliate; punish the flesh
d) throb; flutter
Q.18: palliate
a) pass through; spread
b) make love lightly; flirt
c) restrain
d) ease pain; make less guilty of offensive
Q.19: prattle
a) postpone; delay
b) babble
c) dismiss parliament; end officially
d) throb
Q.20: purge
a) clean by removing impurities; to clear of charges
b) repudiate; withdraw previous statement
c) make friendly after quarrel; correct inconsistencies
d) restore to proper condition