GRE - Antonyms - Test 16

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

1. PROTRACTED

A. expeditious
B. extenuated
C. egalitarian
D. temporal
E. engendered

2. IMPLEMENT

A. establish
B. rescind
C. fabricate
D. placate
E. draft

3. PAUCITY

A. glut
B. sufficiency
C. artifice
D. precinct
E. intricacy

4. PUGNACIOUS

A. avaricious
B. bellicose
C. docile
D. persnickety
E. demeaning

5. CAUSTIC

A. inept
B. lurid
C. treacly
D. putative
E. tawdry

6. ELLIPSIS

A. solecism
B. tautology
C. eradication
D. epistaxis
E. deception

7. DRAIN

A. perturb
B. mitigate
C. inundate
D. mislay
E. moisten

8. STASIS

A. panacea
B. quietude
C. fluctuation
D. redress
E. rejoinder

9. AFFLUENCE

A. indigence
B. stridency
C. mischance
D. remuneration
E. repentance

10. STEADFAST

A. psychotic
B. radical
C. recalcitrant
D. perfidious
E. redundant

11. NEBULOUS

A. histrionic
B. dissolute
C. resplendent
D. firm
E. monastic

12. LABORED

A. nuanced
B. jejune
C. fluent
D. amusing
E. gratis

13. NATIVE

A. endemic
B. exotic
C. sophisticated
D. rustic
E. elegant

14. TRIFLING:

A. Appreciable
B. Nugatory
C. Veer
D. Salutary
E. Sedulous

15. INCHOATE:

A. Gist
B. Incipient
C. Lope
D. Completed
E. Mulish