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 BALK?
(A) play
(B) evade
(C) shake
(D) recharge
(E) canonize
2. What is the antonym of BALK?
(A) application
(B) non-participant
(C) communication
(D) expertness
(E) aid
3. What is the synonym of NOVELTY?
(A) something new and unusual
(B) that which comes before
(C) a drastic food shortage
(D) at a different place
(E) the history of words
4. What is the antonym of NOVELTY?
(A) plants
(B) normality
(C) separator
(D) channel
(E) detection
5. What is the synonym of GRATITUDE?
(A) teacher at a university
(B) state of being grateful
(C) formalities, code of behavior
(D) a kind of drink
(E) dangerously unstable and unpredictable
6. What is the antonym of GRATITUDE?
(A) commission
(B) notion
(C) thanklessness
(D) administrator
(E) cloak
7. What is the synonym of EXCURSION?
(A) a short trip with intent to return relatively soon to the point of origin
(B) short-wave ray capable of penetrating solids and producing shadow-photographs of objects inside opaq
(C) an automatic right that a person has by virtue of his status or job
(D) a sewage pipe or channel that takes water or sewage away from a place
(E) is a model of something, or a very clear and typical example of something
8. What is the antonym of EXCURSION?
(A) craftsman
(B) adjustment
(C) possession
(D) singleness
(E) stagnation
9. What is the synonym of APPREHEND?
(A) droughty
(B) playful
(C) comprehend
(D) unrealistic
(E) viewable
10. What is the antonym of APPREHEND?
(A) chase
(B) discharge
(C) spin
(D) lease
(E) release
11. What is the synonym of AVARICE?
(A) excessive greed
(B) an abundance
(C) greater number
(D) excessively showy
(E) too soon
12. What is the antonym of AVARICE?
(A) overweight
(B) incitement
(C) philanthropy
(D) admirable
(E) lobby
13. What is the synonym of PELLUCID?
(A) socially correct
(B) easily understandable
(C) extremely sacred
(D) very powerful
(E) wildly immoral
14. What is the antonym of PELLUCID?
(A) practicable
(B) ambiguous
(C) plentiful
(D) unnatural
(E) unproductive
15. What is the synonym of INVISIBLE?
(A) numerous
(B) revengeful
(C) guarded
(D) zealous
(E) cheerful
16. What is the antonym of INVISIBLE?
(A) fretful
(B) obvious
(C) strange
(D) suitable
(E) dishonourable
17. What is the synonym of TRAVESTY?
(A) an area of a city
(B) small toy with human figure
(C) a hymn for a funeral
(D) an absurd presentation of something
(E) event that occurs by chance
18. What is the antonym of TRAVESTY?
(A) solemnity
(B) dullness
(C) application
(D) city
(E) decision
19. What is the synonym of INCESSANT?
(A) lack of food
(B) continuing without interruption
(C) in large quantities
(D) not lasting long
(E) ready for use
20. What is the antonym of INCESSANT?
(A) fun-loving
(B) inaudible
(C) plentiful
(D) helpless
(E) ceasing
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Answers: 1. B 2. E 3.