GRE Vocabulary Power (6-51)
Vocabulary Cards: 34
- 1.
- of or suitable for a palace
- magnificent
- 2.
- remove the sex organs (of a male animal or person)
- 3.
- appearance of truth
- quality of appearing to be true or real
- likelihood
- 4.
- draw
- describe
- outline
- 5.
- resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents
- reversion to an earlier type
- throwback
- ADJ. atavistic
- 6.
- risk
- woo
- attempt to gain
- seek
- behave so as to invite
- attempt to gain the favor of by attention
- 7.
- extremely aggressive and militant patriot
- warlike chauvinist
- 8.
- the smallest particle (one or more atoms) of a substance that has all the properties of that substance
- 9.
- full
- (of power) complete
- fully attended by all qualified members
- 10.
- colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
- broad and continuous range
- 11.
- good-fellowship
- 12.
- glowing ardor
- intensity of feeling
- quality of being fervent or fervid
- zeal
- intense heat
- 13.
- impatiently restless (induced by external coercion or restriction)
- restlessly impatient
- obstinately resisting control
- 14.
- effusively sentimental
- 15.
- sweet sounding
- pleasing to the ear
- melodious
- 16.
- take the place of unfairly
- usurp
- replace
- 17.
- vertebrate animal whose female suckles its young
- 18.
- token
- reminder of the past
- keepsake
- 19.
- endless
- 20.
- female sheep
- 21.
- insane
- 22.
- treatment or situation that causes shame or loss of dignity, respect
- offensive or insulting treatment
- humiliating or degrading treatment
- 23.
- surface texture
- completeness of execution
- 24.
- oversimplified
- 25.
- contemptible
- insignificant
- petty
- trifling
- 26.
- rude, insensitive person
- 27.
- oral
- put into words
- ADJ. verbal: of words
- spoken rather than written
- of a verb
- 28.
- instituting
- (building for the) organization
- established custom, practice, or relationship in a society
- mental hospital
- 29.
- art of representing dances in written symbols
- arrangement of dances
- 30.
- self-satisfaction
- smugness
- ADJ. complacent
- 31.
- felt in one's inner organs
- 32.
- hunt through discarded materials for usable items or food
- search, especially for food
- animal that feeds on refuse and carrion
- 33.
- looking back on the past
- 34.
- zeal
- heat
- passion
- ADJ. ardent