GRE Vocabulary Power (5-49)
Vocabulary Cards: 28
- 1.
- delicate
- fastidious
- delicately beautiful
- not easy to please
- 2.
- brighten
- clear up or make understandable
- enlighten
- enable to understand
- 3.
- judicial branch of government
- 4.
- untimely
- inappropriate or ill-timed
- poorly chosen
- 5.
- reject bluntly
- snub
- beat back
- 6.
- shyness
- lack of self-confidence
- timidity
- ADJ. diffident
- 7.
- abstaining from sexual intercourse
- unmarried
- 8.
- concise
- aphoristic
- pithy
- terse
- 9.
- having a sawtoothed edge
- 10.
- contract into wrinkles
- grow together
- join together closely
- make (a fabric or garment) by interwining yarn or thread
- 11.
- conducive to health or well-being
- socially desirable
- healthful
- 12.
- correct
- set right
- 13.
- bland
- oily
- insincerely suave
- 14.
- (of beliefs) against accepted opinion
- unorthodox
- unconventional
- 15.
- unmoved or unconcerned by
- having no interest in
- neither good nor bad
- mediocre
- 16.
- neutral
- refusing commitment to a particular opinion
- unpledged
- undecided
- 17.
- advanced in development
- 18.
- superior
- outstanding
- 19.
- turn to stone
- cause to become stonelike
- stun or paralyze
- 20.
- having a backbone or spinal column
- N: group of animals having a segmented spinal column
- 21.
- ability to identify with another's feelings, ideas, etc.
- identification with and understanding of another's feelings
- 22.
- collect (gradually, in a very large amount)
- 23.
- talking to oneself (esp. in a play)
- long speech by one person (often monopolizing a conversation)
- 24.
- hard
- inflexible
- 25.
- turn over
- capsize
- topple
- 26.
- supernatural
- beyond what is normal in nature
- 27.
- unavoidable
- 28.
- stubborn
- holding tenaciously to an action
- persistent