MAT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATED 2024/2025 | GRADED A+

abash - CORRECT ANSWERS to embarras (disconcert, discomfit, faze, mortify) abate - CORRECT ANSWERS to decrease, reduce (dwindle, ebb, recede, flag, wane) aberration - CORRECT ANSWERS something different from the usual (anomaly, irregularity, abnormality, deviation) abet - CORRECT ANSWERS to aid, act as accomplice (help, succor, assist) abject - CORRECT ANSWERS miserable, pititful (pathetic, lamentable, sorry) abridge - CORRECT ANSWERS to condense, shorten (abbreviate, cut, prune) abscond - CORRECT ANSWERS to depart secretly (flee, decamp, fly, bolt) abstemious - CORRECT ANSWERS marked by restraint, especially in the consumption of food or alcohol (moderate, temperate, sparing) abstinent - CORRECT ANSWERS abstaining (forbearing, refraining, ascetic) accede - CORRECT ANSWERS to express approval; agree to (assent, acquiesce, consent, concur) MAT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | LATEST UPDATED 2024/2025 | GRADED A+ accolade - CORRECT ANSWERS priase, distinction (praise, acclaim, approbation, commendation, kudos) accretion - CORRECT ANSWERS growth in size or increase in amount (buildup, accumulation, accrual) accurue - CORRECT ANSWERS to accumulate, grow by additions (augment, enlarge, expand, burgeon, wax) acerbic - CORRECT ANSWERS bitter, sharp in taste or temper (tart, biting, caustic, cutting) acme - CORRECT ANSWERS highest point, summit (apex, crown, peak, pinnacle, zenith) a - CORRECT ANSWERS without ab/abs - CORRECT ANSWERS off, away from, apart, down ac/acr - CORRECT ANSWERS sharp, bitter act/ag - CORRECT ANSWERS to do, to drive, to force, to lead ad/al - CORRECT ANSWERS to, toward, near al/ali/alter - CORRECT ANSWERS other, another am - CORRECT ANSWERS love amb - CORRECT ANSWERS to go, to walk amb/amph - CORRECT ANSWERS both, more than one, around anim - CORRECT ANSWERS of the life, mind, soul, spirit annui/enni - CORRECT ANSWERS year ante - CORRECT ANSWERS before anthro/andr - CORRECT ANSWERS man, human anti - CORRECT ANSWERS against apo - CORRECT ANSWERS away arch/archi/archy - CORRECT ANSWERS chief, principal, ruler auto - CORRECT ANSWERS self be - CORRECT ANSWERS to be, to have a particular quality, to exist bel/bell - CORRECT ANSWERS war acronym - CORRECT ANSWERS a word made up of the first letters of other words it describes adjective - CORRECT ANSWERS a word that serves as a modifier of a noun to denote a quality of the thing named adverb - CORRECT ANSWERS a word serving as a modifier of a verb, an adjective, another adverb a preposition, etc., which often but not always ends in an --ly alliteration - CORRECT ANSWERS repetition of the same sound beginning several words in dequence anagram - CORRECT ANSWERS a word that is formed when the letters of a word or phrase are rearranged article - CORRECT ANSWERS one of a small set of words or affixes used with nouns to limit or give definiteness to the application conjuction - CORRECT ANSWERS a word that joins together sentences, clauses, phrases, or words. There are two kidn of conjuctions: coordinating conjuctions (and/or/but...) and subordinating (although, because....) consonance - CORRECT ANSWERS recurrence or repetition of consonats, especially at the end of stressed syllables without the similar correspondence or vowels. alology - CORRECT ANSWERS algae anthropology - CORRECT ANSWERS human beings apiology - CORRECT ANSWERS bees archeology - CORRECT ANSWERS remains of past human life and activities axiology - CORRECT ANSWERS values adn value judbements bacteriology - CORRECT ANSWERS bacteria biology - CORRECT ANSWERS life and living organisms cartology - CORRECT ANSWERS map and mapmaking cetology - CORRECT ANSWERS whales conchology - CORRECT ANSWERS shells cosmology - CORRECT ANSWERS nature and origins of the universe cryptology - CORRECT ANSWERS codes and ciphers cytology - CORRECT ANSWERS cells and functions deontology - CORRECT ANSWERS ethics enology - CORRECT ANSWERS wines and wine making entomology - CORRECT ANSWERS insects epistemology - CORRECT ANSWERS the nature, grounds, and limits of knowledge eschatology - CORRECT ANSWERS the end of the world ethology - CORRECT ANSWERS animal behavior in the wild etiology - CORRECT ANSWERS causes of phenomena etymology - CORRECT ANSWERS the origins of words geology - CORRECT ANSWERS the earth and its history gerontology - CORRECT ANSWERS aging and problems of the aged graphology - CORRECT ANSWERS handwritting hagiology - CORRECT ANSWERS saints and revered persons herpetology - CORRECT ANSWERS reptiles and amphibians hippology - CORRECT ANSWERS horses histology - CORRECT ANSWERS living tissue horology - CORRECT ANSWERS measurement of time hydrology - CORRECT ANSWERS water a posteriori - CORRECT ANSWERS based on inductive reasoning a priori - CORRECT ANSWERS based on deductive reasoning ad hoc - CORRECT ANSWERS for a specific purpose alter ego - CORRECT ANSWERS a second self amicus curiae - CORRECT ANSWERS friend of the court alga - CORRECT ANSWERS algae (p) alunma - CORRECT ANSWERS alumnae (p) alumnus - CORRECT ANSWERS alumni (p) analysis - CORRECT ANSWERS analyses (p) antenna - CORRECT ANSWERS antennae (p) allegory - CORRECT ANSWERS written peices in which ideas or morals are respresented by individual characters or things allusion - CORRECT ANSWERS a reference within an artistic work to another artistic work antagonist - CORRECT ANSWERS in a literary work, the character whose actions oppose those of the hero Aeschylus (535-456 BCE) - CORRECT ANSWERS ancient Greek dramatist speicialized in tragedies, among them Promethus Bound Aesop (620-560 BCE) - CORRECT ANSWERS ancient Greek fabulist whose allegorical fables have inspired many writers Aligheri, Dante () - CORRECT ANSWERS Early REN Italian writer is called the father of modern literature (Divine Comedy) Anderson, Sherwood () - CORRECT ANSWERS American short-story writer whose most famous collection is Winesburg, Ohio Austen, Jane () - CORRECT ANSWERS 19th century English author whose novels include Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Emma Aphrodite - CORRECT ANSWERS Greek goddess of love (Venus) Apollo - CORRECT ANSWERS Greek sun god. (Apollo) Ares - CORRECT ANSWERS Greek god of war (Mars) Atehna - CORRECT ANSWERS Greek warrior goddess of wisdom (Minerva) apostate - CORRECT ANSWERS one who abandons his or her religious loyalty apostle - CORRECT ANSWERS one of an authoratative New Testament group sent forth by Christ to preach the gospel