GMAT practice test: Improve Your Vocabulary: Noun

n. roundabout or indirect way of speaking; verbosity
eradication
circumlocution
pedagogue
spendthrift

v. to rip or pull from; to split with violence; to disturb with a sharp noise; to tear
emanate
codify
discriminate
rend

adj. transparent; intelligible; lucid; clear; understandable
miscreant
pellucid
rabid
erratic

v. to separate (a sentence or word) into parts and describe the function of each
foist
cavil
trek
parse

n. striking one object against another; rapping
percussion
circumlocution
abnegation
equinox

v. to babble while speaking
disperse
plumb
dissemble
prattle

v. to foretell something; to portend
diverge
condone
bode
subsume

adj. happening every two years
painstaking
biennial
synthetic
indulgent

n. ability to speak well
subtlety
eloquence
itinerary
authoritarian

n. anything which creates a situation in which change can occur
parity
quiescence
diminutive
catalyst