Ultimate GMAT Vocabulary (essential) Questions with Detailed Answers
distend - Answer: swell from or as if from internal pressure
countervail - Answer: oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions
convoke - Answer: call together
expurgate - Answer: edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
nugatory - Answer: of no real value
forswear - Answer: formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
congeal - Answer: become gelatinous
petrify - Answer: cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
burgeon - Answer: grow and flourish
fulmination - Answer: thunderous verbal attack 1 / 4
emaciate - Answer: cause to grow thin or weak
imperviousness - Answer: the quality of being impenetrable (by people or light or missiles etc.) perspicacity - Answer: the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions
requite - Answer: make repayment for or return something
abstemious - Answer: sparing in consumption of especially food and drink
lionize - Answer: assign great social importance to
discountenance - Answer: look with disfavor on
disconcert - Answer: cause to lose one's composure
adulterate - Answer: corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
ebullience - Answer: overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval
gainsay - Answer: take exception to
pusillanimous - Answer: lacking in courage and manly strength and resolution
opaqueness - Answer: incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
detraction - Answer: a petty disparagement 2 / 4
minatory - Answer: threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments
overweening - Answer: unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings
malapropism - Answer: the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar
meretricious - Answer: based on pretense
disinter - Answer: dig up for reburial or for medical investigation
insularity - Answer: the state of being isolated or detached
effrontery - Answer: audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
exculpate - Answer: pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
homiletics - Answer: the art of preaching
opprobrious - Answer: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
garble - Answer: make false by mutilation or addition
purvey - Answer: supply with provisions
grandiloquent - Answer: puffed up with vanity
peccadillo - Answer: a petty misdeed
enthral - Answer: hold spellbound 3 / 4
dawdler - Answer: someone who takes more time than necessary
pungency - Answer: a strong odor or taste property
gaucherie - Answer: a socially awkward or tactless act
fluster - Answer: cause to be nervous or upset
imprecation - Answer: the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult)
punctilious - Answer: marked by precise accordance with details
disproof - Answer: the act of determining that something is false
blandishment - Answer: flattery intended to persuade
inveigh - Answer: complain bitterly
nonplused - Answer: filled with bewilderment
manacle - Answer: shackle that consists of a metal loop that can be locked around the wrist
penurious - Answer: not having enough money to pay for necessities
ossify - Answer: make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
desuetude - Answer: a state of inactivity or disuse
- / 4