GRE Vocabulary Power (5-47)
Vocabulary Cards: 29
- 1.
- tool for mashing or grinding substances in a hard bowl or mortar
- 2.
- hang about/around
- stand idly about
- linger
- 3.
- winding
- twisting
- of or like a serpent
- 4.
- estimate value of
- 5.
- act of finding oneself in society
- orienting
- 6.
- outward sign
- 7.
- science of sound
- quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in
- 8.
- capable of being stretched
- of tension
- 9.
- self-imposed punishment for sin
- 10.
- rise or fly high in the air
- 11.
- provisions
- food
- 12.
- arousing strong dislike
- hateful(causing hatred)
- vile
- 13.
- restrained
- moderate
- self-controlled
- moderate in respect to temperature
- abstinence of alcoholic drinks
- 14.
- suggested or implied meaning of an expression
- 15.
- feign
- pretend
- fake
- ADJ: not genuine
- N: something that is not what it appears
- pretense
- impostor
- 16.
- coarse
- unrefined
- of earth
- OP. ethereal
- 17.
- suspended action
- 18.
- 14-line poetic verse form with a fixed rhyme pattern
- 19.
- essence
- main point
- substance
- 20.
- complete
- deep
- not superficial
- 21.
- tendency to disbelief
- 22.
- difference
- lack of consistency or agreement as between facts
- 23.
- musical repetition
- repeating of a piece of music
- repeat performance
- recurrent action
- 24.
- foreshadow
- portend
- 25.
- negligent
- careless about a duty
- 26.
- vinegary
- 27.
- pertaining to the aurora borealis
- 28.
- trouble or worry over trifles
- make nervous
- pay too much attention to
- N: needless concern or worry (about a trivial thing)
- anxious nervous condition
- display of attention
- 29.
- soothe an angry person