GRE Vocabulary Power (5-43)

Vocabulary Cards: 30

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  • 1.
    • not applicable
    • unrelated
  • 2.
    • skill (esp. with one's hands)
    • skill in deceiving people
    • guile
    • ADJ. crafty: cleverly deceitful
    • cunning
  • 3.
    • (of weather) hot or scorching
    • passionate
  • 4.
    • prevailing style
    • current fashion
    • manner
    • way of doing something
  • 5.
    • plants of a region or era
  • 6.
    • untarnished
  • 7.
    • pitiless
    • merciless
    • cruel
  • 8.
    • causing deep feelings of wonder, joy, respect, etc.
    • exalted
    • noble and uplifting
    • utter
  • 9.
    • that which accompanies
    • ADJ: existing or happening together with something else
  • 10.
    • (of a sound) echoing
    • resounding(sounding loudly)
    • deep and full in sound
    • producing resonance
  • 11.
    • send out of the country
    • behave
  • 12.
    • dying
    • at the point of death
  • 13.
    • put through a sieve to separate fine from coarse particles
    • sort or examine carefully
  • 14.
    • harass
    • tease
    • torment
    • N: food or other lure used to catch fish or trap animals
  • 15.
    • pretense (of strength)
    • high cliff
    • ADJ: rough but good-natured
    • deception
  • 16.
    • support (a claim) with evidence
    • establish with evidence
    • verify
  • 17.
    • depravity
    • baseness
  • 18.
    • cruel
    • fiendish
    • devil
  • 19.
    • insightful
    • showing a good ability at perceiving and understanding
    • of perception
    • wise
    • aware
  • 20.
    • conformity in fulfilling requirements
    • readiness to yield
    • disposition to yield to others
  • 21.
    • division of a city for election or police purposes
    • precincts: space that surrounds a building
  • 22.
    • distinctive part of the faces (as the eyes or mouth)
    • features: overall appearance of the face
    • prominent or distinctive quality
    • prominent article
    • film
    • V: make prominent
  • 23.
    • ordinary
    • undistinctive
    • ordinary-looking
  • 24.
    • fastidious
    • finicky
    • easily upset
  • 25.
    • marked by formality
    • extremely formal and polite
  • 26.
    • long narrow container for feeding farm animals
    • lowest point (of a wave, business cycle, etc.)
    • long narrow depression as between waves
  • 27.
    • acme
    • peak
    • highest point
  • 28.
    • protective
    • pertaining to a guardianship
  • 29.
    • exhaust
    • reduce
  • 30.
    • businessperson (who assumes the risk of a business venture)
    • contractor
    • ADJ. entrepreneurial