GRE Vocabulary Power (4-34)
Vocabulary Cards: 32
- 1.
- (of something written or painted) still in existence
 
 
- 2.
- not thick
- thinly scattered
- scanty
 
 
- 3.
- formal demand or request
 
 
- 4.
- government by a privileged few
 
 
- 5.
- spying
 
 
- 6.
- implying a cause-and-effect relationship
 
 
- 7.
- soothing application applied to sore and inflamed portions of the body
 
 
- 8.
- make perpetual
- make something last for a long time
- preserve from extinction
 
 
- 9.
- practical person
 
 
- 10.
- one opposed to force
- antimilitarist
- ADJ. N. pacifism: opposition to war as a means of resolving disputes
 
 
- 11.
- suitable for drinking
- drinkable
 
 
- 12.
- (of costs or demands) excessive
- exceeding reasonable bounds
 
 
- 13.
- staying for a short time
- momentary
- N: one that is transient
- temporary
 
 
- 14.
- accumulate
- total
- sum
- ADJ. V: gather into a mass or whole
- add up to
 
 
- 15.
- reservoir or water tank
 
 
- 16.
- glut
- stuff oneself (with food)
 
 
- 17.
- (of a person) unable to express what one really feels
 
 
- 18.
- messenger
 
 
- 19.
- people of standing(rank or position)
- people of good family or high social position
- class of people just below nobility
 
 
- 20.
- tireless
- untiring
- showing no sign of getting tired
 
 
- 21.
- contest in which winners are selected in a drawing of lots
 
 
- 22.
- place of spiritual expiation
- temporary state or place in which the souls must expiate their sins
 
 
- 23.
- (sitting or standing) straight up
- honest
- moral
 
 
- 24.
- plan in advance
 
 
- 25.
- something attached to but holding an inferior position
 
 
- 26.
- official periodical publication
- newspaper
 
 
- 27.
- excessive
- unrestrained
- beyond reasonable limits
 
 
- 28.
- seriousness
- gravity
 
 
- 29.
- important in history
 
 
- 30.
- violent anguish
 
 
- 31.
- written command issued by a court (telling someone to do or not to do something)
 
 
- 32.
- collarbone