GMAT Vocabulary List 12

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1) v. to put money into a fund at fixed intervals

a) soporific
b) succinct
c) amortize
d) repugnant

2) adj. complying; obeying

a) thwart
b) compatible
c) compliant
d) licentious

3) v. to connect or associate with; to accept as a member

a) affiliate
b) antipathy
c) trivial
d) notorious

4) n. the range or limit of one's abilities; rope or chain used to keep a boat from drifting or an animal from wandering

a) ignominious
b) palliate
c) tether
d) welter

5) n. the quality of being agreeable or eager to please

a) abeyance
b) anoint
c) complaisance
d) tawdry

6) n. a constantly quarrelsome woman

a) uncanny
b) pessimism
c) termagant
d) pied

7) n. to determine the quality of a substance.

a) maverick
b) assay
c) rampart
d) condescend

8) v. to organize laws or rules into a systematic collection

a) ostentatious
b) mendacious
c) codify
d) obtrude

9) n. art of taking something for oneself; seizure

a) appease
b) edifice
c) usurpation
d) errant

10) n. something out of place in time (e.g., an airplane in 1492)

a) attenuate
b) august
c) salvage
d) anachronism