Answer the following questions to check your English vocabulary skill for the GRE Exam. (The correct answers are given at the bottom of the questions) 1. What is the synonym of GRIEVOUS? (A) unforgiving (B) tragic (C) meritorious (D) unapproachable (E) grumpy 2. What is the antonym of GRIEVOUS? (A) partnerless (B) penurious (C) teachable (D) pleasant (E) livable 3. What is the synonym of EXACERBATE? (A) make more satisfactory (B) bring into harmony (C) increase in intensity (D) squeeze together, reduce (E) enlarge or increase 4. What is the antonym of EXACERBATE? (A) ingest (B) invite (C) inscribe (D) pacify (E) relate 5. What is the synonym of MOMENTOUS? (A) moving in a random (B) conspicuously and offensively loud (C) highly important or significant (D) characterizing or affecting al (E) overly emotional and sad 6. What is the antonym of MOMENTOUS? (A) unseen (B) unrealistic (C) bright (D) unimportant (E) comparative 7. What is the synonym of DIVINATION? (A) imaginative creation (B) clever conjecture (C) total confusion (D) general people (E) lacking motion 8. What is the antonym of DIVINATION? 9. What is the synonym of SUGGEST? (A) resist (B) allure (C) involve (D) confront (E) recommend 10. What is the antonym of SUGGEST? (A) deal (with) (B) hope for (C) play around (D) make beautiful (E) disapprove of 11. What is the synonym of MATRIARCH? (A) compartment (B) dame (C) barbarity (D) partisanship (E) inapplicability 12. What is the antonym of MATRIARCH? (A) transportability (B) friendship (C) ridiculousness (D) intensity (E) patriarchy 13. What is the synonym of ACUTE? (A) dissident (B) sharp (C) hilarious (D) tawdry (E) malapropos 14. What is the antonym of ACUTE? (A) high-hat (B) remarkable (C) blunt (D) civic (E) unparalleled 15. What is the synonym of OPTIMISM? (A) inequality as in rank, amount, quality, etc. (B) a person or thing that causes change (C) tendency to expect the best possible outcome (D) faculty through which to know external world (E) a route between divisions in a building 16. What is the antonym of OPTIMISM? (A) distinctness (B) honourability (C) compression (D) sadness (E) serviceableness 17. What is the synonym of FORMIDABLE? (A) short (B) sinless (C) stable (D) difficult (E) slight 18. What is the antonym of FORMIDABLE? (A) alike (B) explosive (C) pessimistic (D) expressionless (E) calming 19. What is the synonym of COGENT? (A) preoccupied (B) hypnotized (C) melodic (D) persuasive (E) consequential 20. What is the antonym of COGENT? (A) closest (B) uncommunicative (C) ineffective (D) accurate (E) religiousness ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Answers: 1. B 2. D 3. C 4. D 5. C 6. D 7. B 9. E 10. E 11. B 12. E 13. B 14. C 15. C 16. D 17. D 18. E 19. D 20. C