Score High RN Comprehensive
1 Tin is a malleable metal: workable, easily shaped, easily wrought; ductile, tractable, plastic,
pliant, flexible.
2 Since young children are malleable, one must be careful what one says in front of them:
impressionable, easily influenced,
Moldable, tractable, teachable, manageable, governable, docile; adaptable, flexible, pliable,
compliant.
Antonyms
1 rigid, stiff, hard, firm; unyielding, inflexible, unbending, inelastic.
2 refractory, intractable, recalcitrant, ungovernable.
Maverick >>>100%correctanswers>>>noun
1 The huge waves weltered throughout the night. The dog weltered happily in the muddy
puddle: roll, toss, heave, and writhe;
Wallow, grovel, and tumble about.
Noun
2 Sort this welter of dirty clothes for the laundry: jumble, mass, heap, mess, pile, hodgepodge.
3 It's hard to hear above the welter of street noises: confusion, tumult, commotion, turmoil,
hubbub, racket, bustle;
Turbulence, storm, tempest.
Whimsical >>>100%correctanswers>>>adjective
1 Jerry is much too whimsical to be a businessman: fanciful, capricious, notional, eccentric,
quixotic; fickle, fitful, inconsistent,
Erratic, changeable, chimerical.
2 Her essay on the care and feeding of husbands is pleasantly whimsical: droll, amusing,
waggish, fanciful, and quaint.
Antonyms
,1 staid, serious, sedate, sober, practical, down-to-earth, pragmatic, matter-of-fact; steady, con
ABATE >>>100%correctanswers>>>Verb
The wind abated after the storm: decrease, diminish, reduce, lessen, subside, decline, fade,
fade away, recede, dwindle, moderate, mitigate, weaken, wane, ebb, curtail, slack, slacken, go
down, lower, fall off, fall away, taper off, lighten, soften, quiet, quell, slow, slow down, slake
off, temper, cool, blunt; ease, relieve, alleviate, assuage, pacify, soothe, allay, mollify, palliate,
dull; dampen, restrain, restrict.
Antonyms
Increase, intensify, magnify, enhance, heighten, aggravate, amplify, grow; multiply, rise, come
up, strengthen, sharpen, heat
Up; quicken, accelerate, hurry, speed, speed up; prolong, extend.
ABERRANT >>>100%correctanswers>>>Adjective
1 The planet's orbit was plainly aberrant: straying, stray, deviating, deviate, wandering, errant,
erring, devious, erratic, rambling, diverging, and divergent.
2 Aberrant behavior led to his confinement: abnormal, irregular, unusual, odd, eccentric,
peculiar, exceptional, weird, queer,curious, singular, strange; unconforming, nonconforming,
anomalous.
Antonyms
1 direct.2 normal.
Abeyance >>>100%correctanswers>>>Noun
The building project will be held in abeyance until spring: postponement, suspension,
intermission, remission, deferral,
Adjournment, discontinuance, inaction, dormancy, latency; pause, delay, cessation,
quiescence, recess, hiatus, waiting
Period, in a holding pattern; in cold storage, on ice, on a back burner.
Antonyms
Continuance, continuation, continuity, ceaselessness.
,Abstemious >>>100%correctanswers>>>adjective
His abstemious habits allowed him few pleasures: abstinent, ascetic, austere, temperate,
continent, no indulgent, teetotal,
Self-denying, sparing, self-disciplined, abstentious.
Antonyms
Self-indulgent, abandoned, undisciplined, uncontrolled, hedonistic, profligate, licentious,
unrestrained, immoderate.
Admonish >>>100%correctanswers>>>verb
1 The captain admonished the guards to be on the alert: warn, caution, put on guard, tip off;
advise, counsel, enjoin.
2 The preacher admonished his congregation for failure to attend weekly services: reprove,
censure, reprimand, rebuke,
Reproach, remonstrate, chide, chasten, scold, upbraid, criticize, take to task, call to account,
rap on the knuckles.
Antonyms
2 praise, compliment, commend.
Adulterate >>>100%correctanswers>>>verb
The ancient Greeks often adulterated their wine with water: contaminate, thin, water, water
down; depreciate, Informal cut.
Esthetic >>>100%correctanswers>>>or aesthetic
Adjective
The course in art history is designed to develop the student's esthetic judgment: appreciative
of beauty, appealing to artistic
Taste, having artistic tastes, artistic; sensitive, discriminating, cultivated, refined, fastidious.
Antonyms
Unaesthetic, unappreciative; insensitive, undiscriminating.
, Aggregate >>>100%correctanswers>>>noun
The final plan was an aggregate of all our ideas: composite, compound, union, combination,
gathering, accumulation,
Collection, amassing, bringing together, summation, mixture, mix, blend, mass,
conglomeration, conglomerate.
Alacrity >>>100%correctanswers>>>noun
1 She answered his call for assist-acne with alacrity: willingness, enthusiasm, eagerness,
fervor, zeal, avidity; alertness,
Promptness, dispatch, readiness.
2 Despite his 80 years, he moved with alacrity: liveliness, briskness, sprightliness; agility,
nimbleness.
Antonyms
1 unwillingness, indifference, unconcern, apathy, impassiveness, reluctance, disinclination;
languor, lethargy, dullness.
2 slowness, sluggishness.
Alleviate >>>100%correctanswers>>>verb
This medication will alleviate the soreness: relieve, ease, allay, assuage; lessen, reduce, abate,
diminish, check, temper,
Lighten, soften, mitigate, mollify; blunt, dull, moderate, slake, slacken, subdue, quit, quench.
Antonyms
Make worse, aggravate, increase, intensify, heighten, enhance, magnify, multiply.
Amalgamate >>>100%correctanswers>>>verb
Silver must be amalgamated with a harder material to make durable jewelry. The two shipping
companies amalgamated into
One: combine, blend, merge, fuse, mix, commingle; unite, unify, join together, consolidate,
coalesce, incorporate, federate,
1 Tin is a malleable metal: workable, easily shaped, easily wrought; ductile, tractable, plastic,
pliant, flexible.
2 Since young children are malleable, one must be careful what one says in front of them:
impressionable, easily influenced,
Moldable, tractable, teachable, manageable, governable, docile; adaptable, flexible, pliable,
compliant.
Antonyms
1 rigid, stiff, hard, firm; unyielding, inflexible, unbending, inelastic.
2 refractory, intractable, recalcitrant, ungovernable.
Maverick >>>100%correctanswers>>>noun
1 The huge waves weltered throughout the night. The dog weltered happily in the muddy
puddle: roll, toss, heave, and writhe;
Wallow, grovel, and tumble about.
Noun
2 Sort this welter of dirty clothes for the laundry: jumble, mass, heap, mess, pile, hodgepodge.
3 It's hard to hear above the welter of street noises: confusion, tumult, commotion, turmoil,
hubbub, racket, bustle;
Turbulence, storm, tempest.
Whimsical >>>100%correctanswers>>>adjective
1 Jerry is much too whimsical to be a businessman: fanciful, capricious, notional, eccentric,
quixotic; fickle, fitful, inconsistent,
Erratic, changeable, chimerical.
2 Her essay on the care and feeding of husbands is pleasantly whimsical: droll, amusing,
waggish, fanciful, and quaint.
Antonyms
,1 staid, serious, sedate, sober, practical, down-to-earth, pragmatic, matter-of-fact; steady, con
ABATE >>>100%correctanswers>>>Verb
The wind abated after the storm: decrease, diminish, reduce, lessen, subside, decline, fade,
fade away, recede, dwindle, moderate, mitigate, weaken, wane, ebb, curtail, slack, slacken, go
down, lower, fall off, fall away, taper off, lighten, soften, quiet, quell, slow, slow down, slake
off, temper, cool, blunt; ease, relieve, alleviate, assuage, pacify, soothe, allay, mollify, palliate,
dull; dampen, restrain, restrict.
Antonyms
Increase, intensify, magnify, enhance, heighten, aggravate, amplify, grow; multiply, rise, come
up, strengthen, sharpen, heat
Up; quicken, accelerate, hurry, speed, speed up; prolong, extend.
ABERRANT >>>100%correctanswers>>>Adjective
1 The planet's orbit was plainly aberrant: straying, stray, deviating, deviate, wandering, errant,
erring, devious, erratic, rambling, diverging, and divergent.
2 Aberrant behavior led to his confinement: abnormal, irregular, unusual, odd, eccentric,
peculiar, exceptional, weird, queer,curious, singular, strange; unconforming, nonconforming,
anomalous.
Antonyms
1 direct.2 normal.
Abeyance >>>100%correctanswers>>>Noun
The building project will be held in abeyance until spring: postponement, suspension,
intermission, remission, deferral,
Adjournment, discontinuance, inaction, dormancy, latency; pause, delay, cessation,
quiescence, recess, hiatus, waiting
Period, in a holding pattern; in cold storage, on ice, on a back burner.
Antonyms
Continuance, continuation, continuity, ceaselessness.
,Abstemious >>>100%correctanswers>>>adjective
His abstemious habits allowed him few pleasures: abstinent, ascetic, austere, temperate,
continent, no indulgent, teetotal,
Self-denying, sparing, self-disciplined, abstentious.
Antonyms
Self-indulgent, abandoned, undisciplined, uncontrolled, hedonistic, profligate, licentious,
unrestrained, immoderate.
Admonish >>>100%correctanswers>>>verb
1 The captain admonished the guards to be on the alert: warn, caution, put on guard, tip off;
advise, counsel, enjoin.
2 The preacher admonished his congregation for failure to attend weekly services: reprove,
censure, reprimand, rebuke,
Reproach, remonstrate, chide, chasten, scold, upbraid, criticize, take to task, call to account,
rap on the knuckles.
Antonyms
2 praise, compliment, commend.
Adulterate >>>100%correctanswers>>>verb
The ancient Greeks often adulterated their wine with water: contaminate, thin, water, water
down; depreciate, Informal cut.
Esthetic >>>100%correctanswers>>>or aesthetic
Adjective
The course in art history is designed to develop the student's esthetic judgment: appreciative
of beauty, appealing to artistic
Taste, having artistic tastes, artistic; sensitive, discriminating, cultivated, refined, fastidious.
Antonyms
Unaesthetic, unappreciative; insensitive, undiscriminating.
, Aggregate >>>100%correctanswers>>>noun
The final plan was an aggregate of all our ideas: composite, compound, union, combination,
gathering, accumulation,
Collection, amassing, bringing together, summation, mixture, mix, blend, mass,
conglomeration, conglomerate.
Alacrity >>>100%correctanswers>>>noun
1 She answered his call for assist-acne with alacrity: willingness, enthusiasm, eagerness,
fervor, zeal, avidity; alertness,
Promptness, dispatch, readiness.
2 Despite his 80 years, he moved with alacrity: liveliness, briskness, sprightliness; agility,
nimbleness.
Antonyms
1 unwillingness, indifference, unconcern, apathy, impassiveness, reluctance, disinclination;
languor, lethargy, dullness.
2 slowness, sluggishness.
Alleviate >>>100%correctanswers>>>verb
This medication will alleviate the soreness: relieve, ease, allay, assuage; lessen, reduce, abate,
diminish, check, temper,
Lighten, soften, mitigate, mollify; blunt, dull, moderate, slake, slacken, subdue, quit, quench.
Antonyms
Make worse, aggravate, increase, intensify, heighten, enhance, magnify, multiply.
Amalgamate >>>100%correctanswers>>>verb
Silver must be amalgamated with a harder material to make durable jewelry. The two shipping
companies amalgamated into
One: combine, blend, merge, fuse, mix, commingle; unite, unify, join together, consolidate,
coalesce, incorporate, federate,
