English Vocabulary Flash Cards: GRE Vocabulary Power (2-13)

unregenerate

• making no attempt to change one's bad practices

urgent

• persistent
• compelling immediate action
• pressing
• importunate

precipitate

• hasten
• sudden
• hurl downward
• throw headlong
• cause to happen sooner
• condense and fall as rain or snow
• cause (a solid substance) to be separated from a solution
• ADJ. hasty
• rash
• premature

rarefied

• made less dense (of a gas)

righteous

• just
• morally upright

inroad

• hostile invasion
• advance that lessens the quantity or difficulty of something

perpetrate

• commit an offense
• do (something wrong)

meager

• scanty
• inadequate

swathe

• swath
• wrap around
• bandage

beneficent

• kindly
• doing good

primal

• original
• first in rank or importance
• being first in time

chant

• tune(melody) in which a number of words are sung on the same note
• V: sing (a chant)
• utter (a slogan) in the manner of a chant

succulent

• juicy
• full of juice or sap
• full of richness
• N: succulent plant such as a cactus

rake

• immoral or dissolute person

madrigal

• pastoral song
• song for several singers without instruments

sensitization

• process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance

redoubtable

• formidable
• causing fear

squander

• waste
• spend foolishly

bullion

• gold and silver in the form of bars

impecunious

• without money

secession

• withdrawal

mountebank

• charlatan
• boastful pretender

satire

• form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly

tan

• convert (hide) into leather
• make brown by exposure to the sun

compassion

• sympathy for the suffering of others
• ADJ. compassionate

abject

• (of a condition) wretched
• as low as possible
• lacking pride
• very humble
• showing lack of self-respect

gruel

• thin liquid porridge

tendentious

• biased
• promoting a particular point of view
• having an aim
• designed to further a cause

squash

• crush
• quash
• suppress

misgivings

• doubts

contrived

• artificial
• unnatural and forced
• not spontaneous

postmortem

• autopsy
• ADJ: occurring after death
• of a postmortem

exemplify

• show by example
• furnish an example
• serve as an example of