GRE Quiz

I wanted to puke when I heard the principal's _______ speech about how he could have been a doctor, but chose to work in education.

• garrulous

• garish

• bombastic

I was afraid I would be _______ by my teacher for submitting my homework late.

• castigated

• hampered

• remonstrated

I am sick of this principal's ______ nature--this school is run as a democracy!

• ostentatious

• hedonist

• Machiavellian

To be tired is to be...

• respite

• somnolent

• sanguine

I was appalled at the mother's glaring __________, considering she wore a Prada suit to a children's soccer game.

• ostentation

• vehemence

• proclivity

Teachers are beginning to ______ against the NJ policy that requires them to work in schools during a pandemic.

• bolster

• castigate

• remonstrate

This means "to go back on one's word"

• reverence

• renege

• renascent

This word means "optimistic or positive"

• sanguine

• respite

• arbitrary

This word means: a habit/tendency to do something.

• temerity

• ostentacious

• proclivity

My time teaching is __________, because I now realize my true dream is to own a coffee shop.

• pedantic

• ephemeral

• tangenital