Gradutate Record Exam

Directions

Choose the answer key corresponding to the word with a meaning most nearly opposite to the meaning of word in capital letters.

1. VOLUBLE

A. capacious
B. involuntary
C. discursive
D. taciturn
E. tender

2. FISSION

A. contrition
B. splitting
C. joining
D. spinning
E. ramification

3. PAINSTAKING

A. perfunctory
B. soothing
C. meticulous
D. mellifluous
E. routine

4. SUSPECT

A. indubitable
B. doubtful
C. indomitable
D. persistent
E. knowledgeable

5. PROTRACTED

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

6. IMPLEMENT

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

7. SMOTHER

A. coddle
B. swathe
C. mire
D. perpetuate
E. stoke

8. PAUCITY

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

9. AVOUCH

A. dilate
B. conserve
C. defer
D. ingest
E. recant

10. PREDILECTION

A. disinclination
B. vocation
C. jubilee
D. disturbance
E. estrangement

11. PUGNACIOUS

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

12. CLEMENT

A. fervid
B. harsh
C. feisty
D. sibilant
E. invasive

13. PROVIDENCE

A. prodigality
B. inundation
C. fatality
D. profundity
E. antipathy

14. HIDEBOUND

A. raucous
B. rational
C. covetous
D. penitent
E. innovative

15. SLIGHT

A. fear
B. praise
C. taper
D. bolster
E. tout

16. FEASIBLE

A. plausible
B. pernicious
C. rudimentary
D. impracticable
E. tendentious

17. PLATITUDE

A. common feeling
B. exciting event
C. original expression
D. modern approach
E. contemporary saying

18. XENOPHOBIC

A. moribund
B. broadminded
C. querulous
D. congenial
E. unafraid

19. PERVASIVE

A. limpid
B. jarring
C. scarce
D. irregular
E. proactive

20. ABRASIVE

A. morose
B. captious
C. glaucous
D. complaisant
E. fatuous