GRE - Antonyms - Test 8

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

1. DEPRECATE

A. entrench
B. insinuate
C. moderate
D. lionize
E. assay

2. DISTANCE

A. confederation
B. girth
C. moiety
D. propinquity
E. heading

3. LIMPID

A. pellucid
B. momentous
C. tonal
D. pronate
E. turbid

4. DIVERT

A. evict
B. bore
C. quell
D. raze
E. regale

5. DISINGENUITY

A. disgrace
B. craftiness
C. raillery
D. artlessness
E. ambiguity

6. DISCOMFIT

A. ensnare
B. conflate
C. gorge
D. adapt to
E. put at ease

7. BURLESQUE

A. pantomime
B. tragedy
C. stanza
D. musical
E. rhetoric

8. PERILOUS

A. safe
B. truncated
C. bucolic
D. treacherous
E. smooth

9. STOMACH

A. inter
B. placate
C. repudiate
D. decant
E. eviscerate

10. RESTRAINT

A. patience
B. tolerance
C. empathy
D. ebullience
E. awareness

11. UNWITTING

A. fallow
B. deliberate
C. relentless
D. touting
E. pedantic

12. GUILE:

A. Fraudulence
B. Impertinent
C. Miscreant
D. Veracity .
E. Palatial

13. PERTINACITY:

A. Nostrum
B. Meticulousness
C. Tractability
D. Interdict
E. Heed

14. OBTUSE:

A. Flounder
B. Infuse
C. Acute
D. Dense
E. Onerous

15. FERVENT:

A. Phlegmatic
B. Grandiloquent
C. Ineffable
D. Mince
E. Pellucid