GRE - Antonyms - Test 1

Choose the word or phrase that is most nearly opposite in meaning to the word in capital letters given.

1. FISSION

A. contrition
B. splitting
C. joining
D. spinning
E. ramification

2. SLIGHT

A. fear
B. praise
C. taper
D. bolster
E. tout

3. CELERITY

A. facility
B. audacity
C. virtuosity
D. vanity
E. dilatoriness

4. SOBER

A. inebriated
B. egalitarian
C. gory
D. morose
E. pied

5. WAN

A. pellucid
B. hoary
C. pallid
D. ruddy
E. steamy

6. AIL

A. ratify
B. contemplate
C. smolder
D. thrive
E. stifle

7. PRONE

A. upright
B. rancid
C. pneumatic
D. purulent
E. slanting

8. PROCLIVITY

A. disinclination
B. distance
C. obloquy
D. sterility
E. secrecy

9. PEERLESS

A. virulent
B. elegant
C. prescient
D. flawed
E. urbane

10. BURY

A. debauch
B. dement
C. disinter
D. embark
E. obviate

11. SAGACIOUS

A. fatuous
B. sanguine
C. judicious
D. wispy
E. saturnine

12. DICHOTOMY

A. disparity
B. equivocation
C. monarchy
D. altercation
E. synthesis

13. VAIN:

A. Wrangle
B. Beneficent
C. Supine
D. Piquant
E. Levee

14. PROFLIGATE:

A. Reproach
B. Slake
C. Chaste
D. Obfuscate
E. Gush

15. RESCIND:

A. Subsume
B. Validate
C. Pertain
D. Obtain
E. Inveigh