GRE Vocabulary Power (4-33)
Vocabulary Cards: 34
- 1.
- withholding belief
- skeptical
- showing disbelief
- 2.
- noisy party with a lot of drinking
- 3.
- adhesive
- gluey
- 4.
- honor the memory of
- serve as a memorial to
- 5.
- lacking rhythm or regularity
- 6.
- ghostly
- ghost
- phantom
- 7.
- causing sadness, compassion, pity
- touching
- 8.
- deadly
- 9.
- administrative division of a city
- division in a hospital or prison
- incompetent person placed under the protection of a guardian
- V: guard
- ward off: avert
- 10.
- analogous
- corresponding
- N: parallel line
- person or thing that is parallel (to another)
- similarity
- V: be similar to
- make parallel
- similar
- 11.
- something taken for granted
- the taking over or taking possession of
- 12.
- offering or providing help
- additional or subsidiary
- N: helper
- assistant
- 13.
- pertaining to disease
- 14.
- (of a thick liquid) pass or flow slowly
- N: mud or thick liquid as at the bottom of a river
- 15.
- cause
- produce
- give rise to
- 16.
- song of praise or joy
- 17.
- annoyance and disappointment
- vexation (caused by humiliation or injured pride)
- 18.
- bad-tempered
- showing ill-humor
- angry
- 19.
- neglect of duty
- abandonment
- 20.
- having lost all hope
- despairing
- reckless and violent because of loss of hope or despair
- undertaken as a last resort
- 21.
- behave in a way that attracts (sexual) attention
- deal triflingly with
- N: one (or woman) given to flirting
- ADJ. flirtatious
- 22.
- disease communicator
- 23.
- slow down
- 24.
- stun as with a blow or shock
- bemuse
- benumb
- 25.
- throw overboard (from a ship or plane)
- 26.
- mar
- disfigure
- 27.
- lethargic
- temporarily inactive
- sleeping
- latent
- 28.
- inane
- silly
- smugly and unconsciously foolish
- 29.
- like a fox
- crafty
- 30.
- stupid
- 31.
- throw lightly
- move or lift (the head) with a sudden motion
- flip (a coin) to decide something
- 32.
- chew over and over (mentally or, like cows, physically)
- mull over(ponder)
- 33.
- worn out
- tired or uninterested by surfeit
- fatigued
- surfeited
- wearied
- 34.
- extinguish
- inhibit
- suppress
- smother or suffocate