GRE Vocabulary Power (1-1)
Vocabulary Cards: 34
- 1.
- standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces
- stalemate
- 2.
- crush or grind into very small particles
- 3.
- hiding place
- 4.
- close relationship
- emotional closeness
- harmony
- 5.
- take away energy from
- weaken
- 6.
- sign
- signs
- indications
- 7.
- ability to move spontaneously
- ADJ. motile: moving spontaneously
- 8.
- disobedience
- rebelliousness
- ADJ. insubordinate
- 9.
- readily acting in accordance with a rule, order, or the wishes or others
- yielding
- comforming to requirements
- 10.
- legally correct
- 11.
- keep away from
- avoid deliberately
- 12.
- diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas
- galaxy
- 13.
- something of little importance or value
- V: treat without seriousness
- flirt
- 14.
- bruise
- 15.
- easily understood
- clear
- intelligible
- 16.
- profane
- make filthy or dirty
- narrow passage or gorge through mountains
- 17.
- hammerlike tool
- mallet(wooden hammer) used by a presiding officer or an auctioneer
- 18.
- security given for loan
- ADJ: secondary
- descended from the same person but through different sons or daughters
- 19.
- careful
- prudential
- cautious
- 20.
- outline or silhouette of a thing or human body
- configuration of steps in a dance
- to calculate
- 21.
- empty
- lacking
- 22.
- lying below
- fundamental
- 23.
- free from chains
- liberate
- 24.
- indecent
- about sex in a rude funny way
- obscene
- 25.
- hidden sarcasm or satire
- use of words that seem to mean the opposite of what they actually mean
- 26.
- mix together in close association
- 27.
- what someone deserves
- 28.
- capricious
- quick and changing
- containing the element mercury
- 29.
- lawyer using questionable methods
- unscrupulous practioner
- 30.
- shine intensely and blindingly
- stare fixedly and angrily
- 31.
- discard
- sink (a ship) by cutting holes in the hull
- N: small hatch in a ship's deck or hull
- 32.
- disloyal
- N: disloyal and cowardly person
- cowardly
- 33.
- slavery
- compulsory labor imposed as a punishment
- 34.
- scowl
- glare
- look or stare angrily