GRE Vocabulary Power (5-40)
Vocabulary Cards: 30
- 1.
- good-naturedly ridiculing
- N.V. banter
- joking talk
- 2.
- one who abandons his religious faith or political beliefs
- 3.
- slavish
- cringing
- 4.
- courtesy
- civility
- 5.
- change
- something newly introduced
- introduction of something new
- be creative
- ADJ. innovative
- 6.
- purely spiritual
- theoretical
- without sensual desire
- 7.
- moderate
- let down
- lessen the force of
- restrain
- 8.
- daring
- (of a person) bold
- adventurous
- (of an action) risky
- 9.
- shift
- waver
- rise and fall as if in waves
- change or vary irregularly
- 10.
- energy
- active strength
- ADJ. vigorous
- enthusiasm
- 11.
- widespread
- affecting the majority of people
- N: pandemic disease
- 12.
- complete independence and self-government (of a country)
- supremacy of authority
- power to govern
- 13.
- group of three related works (connected by a shared subject but each complete in itself)
- 14.
- distribute
- prepare and give out (medicines)
- religious system
- official exemption from an obligation or a rule
- 15.
- lie down
- 16.
- worthless impurities
- waste matter
- 17.
- choice
- not compulsory
- left to one's choice
- freedom or power to choose
- something available as a choice
- 18.
- destroy
- 19.
- homeless wanderer
- 20.
- flattery
- admiration that is more than is necessary or deserved
- 21.
- bearlike
- pertaining to a bear
- 22.
- extremely hungry
- voracious
- 23.
- narrow-minded person, uncultured and exclusively interested in material gain
- uncultured person who is indifferent to artistic and cultural values
- member of an ancient people in Palestine
- OP. aesthete
- 24.
- harass or trouble from all directions
- hem in
- 25.
- concrete
- real
- palpable
- able to be touched
- possible to realize or understand
- 26.
- economy
- thrift
- ADJ. frugal: practicing economy
- costing little
- inexpensive
- 27.
- remorse
- strong uneasiness caused by guilt
- 28.
- ecclesiastical
- pertaining to the church
- N: minister
- priest
- cleric
- clergyman
- 29.
- bad-tempered
- irritable
- 30.
- (of a style of art) showing things as they actually appear in real life