GRE Vocabulary Power (2-13)

Vocabulary Cards: 33

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  • 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