GRE Vocabulary Power (3-26)
Vocabulary Cards: 36
- 1.
- condition or period of flowering
- 2.
- taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax)
- (of a law) having effect on the past as well as the future
- 3.
- something that discourages or deters
- 4.
- adjust to climate or environment
- adapt
- 5.
- join
- unite
- OP. uncouple
- 6.
- tight
- strained
- tense
- ready
- OP. slack
- 7.
- intentionally hidden
- beyond what is evident
- situated beyond
- unstated and often questionable
- 8.
- circular building or hall covered with a dome
- 9.
- nervous or excited
- extremely agitated
- hysterical
- wrought-up
- 10.
- Peeping Tom
- person who derives sexual gratification from observing the sexual acts of others
- 11.
- enthusiasm (as in artistic performance or composition)
- liveliness
- vigor
- 12.
- become popular with
- bring (oneself) in favor of another
- 13.
- acting without dialogue
- 14.
- into parts
- apart
- 15.
- generator for producing electricity
- energetic person
- 16.
- invulnerable
- impossible to capture or enter by force
- 17.
- strikingly bright
- shining with intense heat
- emitting visible light when heated
- 18.
- small boat
- 19.
- wild drunken revelry
- unrestrained indulgence in an activity
- 20.
- deny
- 21.
- braid
- interwine
- interweave strands or lengths of
- make by weaving strands together
- N: braided length as of hair o fabric
- 22.
- agent (sent on a mission to represent another)
- messenger
- 23.
- coarsely insulting
- physically harmful
- 24.
- repeal
- annul
- cancel (a law, decision, or agreement)
- 25.
- highly excited
- intensely curious
- 26.
- run away secretly with the intention of getting married
- 27.
- producing motion
- of motion
- 28.
- be cautious (of)
- 29.
- respectable
- having a good reputation
- 30.
- absurd
- completely unreasonable
- ridiculous
- 31.
- (of someone) having insight
- penetrating
- astute
- 32.
- tube in which patterns made by the reflection in mirrors of colored pieces of glass, etc. produce interesting symmetrical effect
- series of changing events
- 33.
- extinct flying reptile
- 34.
- moral correctness
- moral uprightness
- moral virtue
- correctness of judgment
- 35.
- certainty
- self-confidence
- firm statement that something is certainly true
- promise or pledge
- confidence in one's own ability
- 36.
- line (of waiting people or vehicles)