GRE Verbal Test: Take a Vocabulary Quiz: Noun

n. a sound defeat; drubbing; slaughter; trouncing; whipping
carapace
debacle
auspices
roving

n. the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; core; center
gist
verdancy
acuity
witticism

n. the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy)
restitution
satire
pastiche
reconnaissance

n. vengeful opponent
luster
nemesis
gadfly
embonpoint

n. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression; extension
hinterlands
caviler
denotation
codicil

n. any organization in which action is obstructed by insistence on unnecessary procedures and red tape
arbour
apparition
opus
bureaucracy

adj. incapable of being placated
rabid
roiling
implacable
inordinate

adj. inconspicuous
unobtrusive
dipped
ludicrous
pragmatic

n. large open car seating four with folding top; tourer
phaeton
decomposition
paleontology
witticism

n. an act of forcible exhalation; snorting
phaeton
ferment
feudatory
huffing