GRE Vocabulary Power (2-13)
Vocabulary Cards: 33
- 1.
- making no attempt to change one's bad practices
- 2.
- compelling immediate action
- pressing
- importunate
- persistent
- 3.
- hasten
- 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
- sudden
- 4.
- made less dense (of a gas)
- 5.
- morally upright
- just
- 6.
- hostile invasion
- advance that lessens the quantity or difficulty of something
- 7.
- commit an offense
- do (something wrong)
- 8.
- scanty
- inadequate
- 9.
- swath
- wrap around
- bandage
- 10.
- kindly
- doing good
- 11.
- first in rank or importance
- being first in time
- original
- 12.
- 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
- 13.
- juicy
- full of juice or sap
- full of richness
- N: succulent plant such as a cactus
- 14.
- immoral or dissolute person
- 15.
- pastoral song
- song for several singers without instruments
- 16.
- process of being made sensitive or acutely responsive to an external agent or substance
- 17.
- formidable
- causing fear
- 18.
- waste
- spend foolishly
- 19.
- gold and silver in the form of bars
- 20.
- without money
- 21.
- withdrawal
- 22.
- charlatan
- boastful pretender
- 23.
- form of literature in which irony, sarcasm, and ridicule are employed to attack human vice and folly
- 24.
- convert (hide) into leather
- make brown by exposure to the sun
- 25.
- sympathy for the suffering of others
- ADJ. compassionate
- 26.
- (of a condition) wretched
- as low as possible
- lacking pride
- very humble
- showing lack of self-respect
- 27.
- thin liquid porridge
- 28.
- biased
- promoting a particular point of view
- having an aim
- designed to further a cause
- 29.
- crush
- quash
- suppress
- 30.
- doubts
- 31.
- artificial
- unnatural and forced
- not spontaneous
- 32.
- autopsy
- ADJ: occurring after death
- of a postmortem
- 33.
- show by example
- furnish an example
- serve as an example of