[GRE Vocabulary Test]

# What are the meanings of the following words?

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Q.1: obliquity
a) slander; disgrace; infamy	b) departure from right principle; perversity
c) maker and seller of eyeglasses	d) mouthlike opening; small opening
Q.2: oblivion
a) fixed idea; continued brooding	b) vicious assault
c) forgetfulness	d) scientific student of birds
Q.3: obsession
a) fixed idea; continued brooding	b) maker and seller of eyeglasses
c) dramatic poem set to music	d) song of praise or joy
Q.4: onomatopoeia
a) sleep producer; deadener of pain	b) dramatic poem set to music
c) scientific student of birds	d) words formed in imitation of natural sounds
Q.5: optometrist
a) dramatic poem set to music	b) one opposed to force; antimilitarist
c) board on which painter mixes pigments	d) one who fits glasses to remedy visual defects
Q.6: ornithologist
a) scientific student of birds	b) cure-all; remedy for all diseases
c) comprehensive view; unobstructed view in all directions	d) model of perfection
Q.7: panacea
a) formal praise	b) short, simple story teaching a moral
c) cure-all; remedy for all diseases	d) social outcast
Q.8: paradox
a) state of being parallel; similarity	b) statement that looks false but is actually correct
c) conference	d) upstart; newly rich person
Q.9: parlance
a) humorous imitation; travesty	b) language; idiom
c) person who murders his father; murder of a father	d) expert in children's diseases
Q.10: patricide
a) scarcity	b) stolen property; money or wealth in a contemptuous sense
c) person who murders his father; murder of a father	d) outer boundary
Q.11: penury
a) extreme poverty	b) false testimony while under oath
c) reading	d) lover of mankind; doer of good
Q.12: perversity
a) small bottle	b) face
c) a small allowance or wage	d) stubborn maintenance of a wrong cause
Q.13: plethora
a) pedestal; raised platform	b) descendants; future generations
c) dose of liquid	d) excess; overabundance
Q.14: precedent
a) something preceding in time	b) premonition; foreboding
c) long snout; nose	d) forecasted course of a disease; prediction
Q.15: prognosis
a) natural inclination	b) diplomatic etiquette
c) forecasted course of a disease; prediction	d) a doctor who treats mental diseases
Q.16: pulchritude
a) furnisher of foodstuffs; caterer	b) misgivings
c) beauty; comeliness	d) person wearing tattered clothes
Q.17: ramification
a) reconciliation	b) withdrawal; retreat
c) branching out; subdivision	d) remedy; compensation
Q.18: refectory
a) boat or yacht race	b) pertinence; reference to the case in hand
c) meeting place	d) dinning hall
Q.19: repository
a) severe disapproval	b) storehouse
c) reserve; uncommunicativeness; inclination to be silent	d) daydream; musing
Q.20: rigor
a) severity	b) Scandinavian myth; any legend
c) scholar	d) offspring