GRE Vocabulary Power (1-9)
Vocabulary Cards: 30
- 1.
- sleepwalker
- 2.
- vote against (an applicant)
- ostracize
- N: negative vote
- 3.
- talk idly
- speak foolishly
- boast idly
- 4.
- equality
- close resemblance
- 5.
- survey of enemy by soldiers
- reconnoitering
- 6.
- rude
- bad-tempered
- cross
- 7.
- temporary expedient or substitute (in the case of urgent need)
- 8.
- ruin
- plant disease
- V: infect with blight
- destroy
- 9.
- nerve
- rudeness without any sense of shame
- shameless boldness
- presumptousness
- cheek
- 10.
- gracious
- warmly friendly
- heartfelt
- 11.
- accustom a baby not to nurse
- accustom (the young of a mammal) to take nourishment other than by suckling
- give up a cherished activity
- cause to gradually leave (an interest or habit)
- 12.
- set apart for a particular purpose
- assign
- 13.
- showy
- giving a momentary brilliance
- gaudy
- 14.
- person competent to act as a judge of art, etc. (whose judgments are respected)
- a lover of an art
- 15.
- distasteful (because excessive)
- excessively sweet or sentimental
- 16.
- bending of a ray of light
- 17.
- not pertaining to church matters or religion
- temporal
- worldly
- 18.
- act or state of separation
- disunity
- 19.
- temporary platform for workers (to work at heights above the ground)
- bracing framework
- platform for execution
- 20.
- exhausting
- 21.
- wriggle
- move from side to side with irregular twisting motions
- 22.
- of a member of the cat family
- 23.
- adjoining
- neighboring
- close by
- 24.
- bring upon oneself
- 25.
- shallow
- not deep
- not thorough
- trivial
- of the surface
- 26.
- inner excitement or exuberance
- showing high spirits
- emitting bubbles forming inside
- bubbling from fermentation or carbonation
- ADJ. effervescent
- 27.
- one's opinion of oneself
- self-esteem
- 28.
- optimistic
- cheerful
- hopeful
- of the color of blood
- red
- 29.
- live in a monotonous way (without interests or activity)
- 30.
- heavenly