English Vocabulary Flash Cards: Gre - the Hard ones - Part 6

Quaff

• to drink deeply

Grandiloquence

• pompous speech or expression

Germane

• relevant to the subject at hand

Iconoclast

• one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

Equivocate

• to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

Solicitous

• concerned and attentive, eager

Plangent

• loud reverberating and often melancholy

Austere

• without adornment, bare, severely simple, ascetic

Contentious

• argumentative, quarrelsome, causing controversey or disagreement

1/20

• 5%

1/10

• 10%

1/8

• 12.5%

1/6

• 12 2/3%

1/5

• 20%

1/4

• 25%

1/3

• 33 1/3%

1/2

• 50%

4/5

• 80%

3/5

• 60%

2/5

• 40%

5/8

• 62 1/2%