GRE Vocabulary Power (3-20)
Vocabulary Cards: 41
- 1.
- clearly different
- clearly noticed
- 2.
- sweet sound
- ADJ. euphonious
- 3.
- clothing or equipment for a special purpose
- 4.
- make shiny by rubbing
- polish
- 5.
- lead astray by deception
- wheedle(cajole)
- deceive
- 6.
- turn upside down or inside out
- reverse the position or condition of
- 7.
- large city
- 8.
- not to be taken away
- nontransferable
- 9.
- depart
- swerve
- turn away from (a principle, norm)
- move away from an accepted standard
- diverge
- 10.
- blatant
- conspicuously wicked, bad, or offensive
- outrageous
- 11.
- hateful
- spiteful
- expressing malice
- spite
- 12.
- entertain
- 13.
- decisive
- ending all debate
- 14.
- in essence
- existing in essence though not in actual form
- for practical purposes
- 15.
- place in something
- fix firmly in a surrounding mass
- enclose
- 16.
- illogical
- unintelligible
- muddled
- unable to express one's thoughts in an orderly manner
- lacking cohesion
- not coherent
- 17.
- settle comfortably
- place comfortably (in a secure place)
- 18.
- growth
- growth or increase in size by gradual addition
- increase by natural growth
- increase
- 19.
- peak
- pinnacle
- highest point
- 20.
- someone who eats too much
- ADJ. gluttonous: given to gluttony
- greedy
- 21.
- one who is habitually cruel to weaker people
- 22.
- one who harvests grain
- harvest a crop
- 23.
- thorough
- broad
- including a lot or everything
- inclusive
- 24.
- mischievous child (usually a boy)
- 25.
- imagined
- unreal
- 26.
- prejudiced
- one-sided
- committed to a party (with dislike of any others)
- N: strong supporter of a party
- guerrilla
- 27.
- submit
- give in respectfully
- delay till later
- exempt temporarily
- 28.
- free from an entanglement or difficulty
- disentangle
- 29.
- area in the care of a single priest and served by one main church
- 30.
- belittle
- lessen in value
- represent as of little value
- 31.
- made for practical use only (without decoration)
- functioning
- 32.
- full of pores
- like a sieve
- 33.
- provide for the payment of
- undertake the payment of
- pay
- 34.
- modest
- shy (flirtatiously)
- showing a (pretended) lack of self-confidence
- coquettish
- 35.
- uncertain
- not clearly fixed
- indefinite
- 36.
- pale purple
- 37.
- record of a voyage or flight
- record of day-to-day activities
- section of a trunk
- 38.
- black form of carbon used in lead pencils
- 39.
- heat-producing
- 40.
- earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding
- 41.
- filth
- degradation
- sordid
- condition of being squalid
- dirty neglected state
- ADJ. squalid: dirty
- morally repulsive