GRE Vocabulary Power (5-42)

Vocabulary Cards: 29

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  • 1.
    • analyze (to discover what materials are present)
    • evaluate (soil or ore)
  • 2.
    • lifeless
    • not animate
  • 3.
    • shield
    • protection
    • defense
  • 4.
    • small body revolving around a larger one
  • 5.
    • object of general attention
    • person or thing that is a center of attention
  • 6.
    • core
    • central or vital part
    • whole seed (as of corn)
  • 7.
    • not able to be corrected or repaired
    • impossible to repair
  • 8.
    • frown angrily
    • N: angry frown
  • 9.
    • marked by kindness or consideration
    • kind and compassionate
    • humanitarian
  • 10.
    • petty criticism
    • fault-finding
    • fretful complaining
    • quibble
  • 11.
    • become red in the face (from embarrassment or shame)
    • become red or rosy
  • 12.
    • servile
    • slavishly attentive
    • full of servile compliance
    • sycophantic
  • 13.
    • small bit or fragment
    • discarded waste material
    • V: break into parts for disposal
    • discard as worthless
    • fight
    • quarrel
  • 14.
    • corporation made up of several different companies in diversified fields
    • mass of various material gathered together
    • rock consisting of small stones held together by clay
  • 15.
    • momentum
    • force of a moving body
    • incentive
    • stimulus
    • impulse
    • moving force
  • 16.
    • having to do with citizens
    • not military or religious
    • courteous and polite
  • 17.
    • fate
    • destiny
  • 18.
    • despicable
    • unpleasant
    • disgusting
  • 19.
    • stubbornly wrong
  • 20.
    • indecisive
    • uncertain how to act
    • lacking in resolution
    • weak
  • 21.
    • entreat
    • request earnestly
    • seek to obtain
    • chief law officer
  • 22.
    • refusing to change one's belief
    • stubborn
  • 23.
    • giving pleasure to the senses
    • pertaining to the physical senses
    • operating through the senses
    • sensuous feeling of soft velvet on the skin
  • 24.
    • drink greedily
  • 25.
    • contemporary
    • living at the same time as
    • existing during the same period of time
    • of the same age
  • 26.
    • uproar
    • commotion of a great crowd
    • riot
    • noise
    • ADJ. tumultuous: noisy and disorderly
  • 27.
    • doctrine
    • dogma
  • 28.
    • refusal of any compromise
    • stubbornness
    • ADJ. intransigent: uncompromising
  • 29.
    • (of liquid) pour out in large quantities from a hole
    • make an excessive display of feeling (without true feeling)