GRE Verbal Sample Questions Set N
Categories: GRE (The Graduate Records Examination)
Questions xxviii-xxxviii: Each question below begins with one word written in capital letters. Read the five answer choices that follow and choose the one that most nearly means the opposite of the original word.
Question.xxviii. PRIORY:
A. residence
B. depot
C. rectory
D. convent
E. monastery
Answer: (b)
Question.xxiv. RECREANT:
A. turncoat
B. loyalist
C. apostate
D. craven
E. renegade
Answer: (b)
Question.xxx. OBLITERATE:
A. reinstate
B. obscure
C. efface
D. extirpate
E. excise
Answer: (a)
Question.xxxi. DOGMA:
A. ism
B. tenet
C. doctrine
D. philosophy
E. fact
Answer: (e)
Question.xxxii. SUPERCILIOUS:
A. disdainful
B. diffident
C. haughty
D. prideful
E. stuffy
Answer: (b)
Question.xxxiii. EFFULGENT:
A. leaden
B. beaming
C. radiant
D. brilliant
E. refulgent
Answer: (a)
Question.xxxiv. ABSCOND:
A. escape
B. evade
C. capitulate
D. bolt
E. decamp
Answer: (c)
Question.xxxv. ATTENTUATE:
A. fortify
B. dissipate
C. subvert
D. devitalize
E. diminish
Answer: (a)
Question.xxxvi. DISCORDANT:
A. unresolved
B. dissonant
C. inharmonic
D. disparate
E. symmetrical
Answer: (e)
Question.xxxvii. EXACERBATE:
A. deteriorate
B. acerbate
C. aggravate
D. exasperate
E. mollify
Answer: (e)
Question.xxxviii. GARRULOUS:
A. loquacious
B. diffident
C. prolix
D. blabby
E. forthcoming
Answer: (b)