GRE Vocabulary Power (1-6)

Vocabulary Cards: 33

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  • 1.
    • not naive
    • not candid
    • sophisticated
    • worldly wise
    • OP. ingenuous
  • 2.
    • trip especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense
  • 3.
    • devastate
    • despoil
    • plunder
  • 4.
    • informal discussion
    • conversation
  • 5.
    • unit of weight for precious stones
    • measure of the purity of gold
  • 6.
    • belief
  • 7.
    • injure without breaking the skin
  • 8.
    • time of greatest success or power
    • prime
  • 9.
    • like a spirit or fairy
    • unearthly light
    • unusually refined
    • heavenly
  • 10.
    • rubbing away
    • tending to grind down
  • 11.
    • strip (as of clothes)
    • deprive (as of rights)
    • dispossess
  • 12.
    • exclamation
    • abrupt ejection (to discharge sperm)
  • 13.
    • prevent by taking action in advance
  • 14.
    • rewarding
    • profitable
    • (of work) compensating
    • well-paid
    • pay (someone) for work or trouble
  • 15.
    • friendship
    • peaceful relationship as between nations
  • 16.
    • effective
    • distinct
    • expressing ideas clearly
    • having clear sounds
    • having joints
    • V: express thoughts and feeling clearly
    • pronounce clearly
    • unite by joints
  • 17.
    • acquire
    • allocate
    • take possession of for one's own use without permission
    • set aside for a particular purpose
  • 18.
    • sear
  • 19.
    • good-natured
    • cheerful
    • merry
  • 20.
    • eat away
    • wear away gradually by abrasion
  • 21.
    • ecological community together with its environment
  • 22.
    • prudence
    • ability to adjust actions to circumstances
    • freedom of action or judgment
    • ADJ. discreet
  • 23.
    • thrifty
    • providing for future needs
    • displaying foresight
    • preparing for emergencies
    • OP. improvident
  • 24.
    • dull
    • stuffy
    • boringly conservative
  • 25.
    • long shallow trench made by a plow
    • deep wrinkle in the skin
  • 26.
    • person unduly worried about his health
    • worrier without cause about illness
    • ADJ. CF. hypochondria: neurosis that one is or is becoming ill
  • 27.
    • dull and unimaginative
    • lacking liveliness
    • insipid and flavorless
  • 28.
    • pointed projecting part
  • 29.
    • very high
  • 30.
    • ardent
    • zealous
    • hot
  • 31.
    • causing great fear
    • unrelenting
    • determined in spite of fear
  • 32.
    • denying the existence of God
  • 33.
    • small in amount
    • minute