GRE Vocabulary Power (2-11)
Vocabulary Cards: 31
- 1.
- private meeting of a group of people in a political party to select officers or determine policy
- 2.
- morally pure
- virginal
- abstaining from illicit sexual acts
- modest
- simple (of a style of writing)
- not highly decorated
- austere
- 3.
- support
- act superior toward
- treat in a condescending manner
- be a customer of
- regular customer
- 4.
- lottery
- V: award as a prize in a raffle
- 5.
- having no motion
- unchanging
- lacking development
- 6.
- said or done in jest or playfully
- marked by joking
- 7.
- a place where bees are kept
- 8.
- be next to
- 9.
- violent scoundrel
- bully
- 10.
- fear of being locked in
- 11.
- having a pale or sickly color
- pallid
- 12.
- discordant
- inharmonious
- 13.
- imagination (of a whimsical or fantastic nature)
- capricious liking
- V: imagine
- be fond of
- ADJ. decorative
- elaborate
- 14.
- playful remark or act
- 15.
- stoppage
- 16.
- excessive self-conceit
- arrogance
- 17.
- having a sharp biting taste
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- causing sharp pain to the body or mind
- filled with resentment, disappointment, or other unpleasant feelings
- 18.
- surround
- include
- 19.
- swearword
- curse
- 20.
- relationship by birth
- kinship
- 21.
- entirely acceptable
- not offering any basis for criticism
- 22.
- name
- title
- 23.
- speed
- rapidity
- 24.
- charming
- attractive
- 25.
- claw of bird
- 26.
- swing from side to side
- influence (someone) to change one's opinion
- 27.
- skill or sensitivity in dealing with people without causing offence
- 28.
- plait
- interweave strands or lengths of
- make by weaving strands together
- N: braided segment (as of hair)
- 29.
- more than needed or demanded
- superfluous
- 30.
- candid
- blunt
- 31.
- nimbleness
- ability to move quickly