GRE Vocabulary Power (6-56)
Vocabulary Cards: 38
- 1.
- object believed to have spiritual powers
- object of excessive attention or reverence
- 2.
- twisting force
- force producing rotation
- 3.
- concerning trade or merchants
- 4.
- commotion(noisy and excited activity)
- unrest (of a political kind)
- undergo fermentation
- cause (a state of trouble)
- agitation
- 5.
- that cannot be impeached
- beyond doubt or question
- blameless and exemplary
- 6.
- warm
- pertaining to heat
- producing heat
- N: rising current of warm air
- 7.
- platitude
- chemical compound used to calm excitement
- 8.
- reading desk or stand for a public speaker
- 9.
- blessed
- consecrated
- 10.
- deprived of (someone beloved through death)
- 11.
- fear of heights
- 12.
- scarcity
- 13.
- representation of words in the form of pictures or symbols
- puzzle in which pictures or letters stand for words
- 14.
- make unnecessary
- get rid of
- 15.
- understand
- include
- 16.
- infallibility
- 17.
- move furtively and secretly
- 18.
- hit quickly with the flat part of the hand
- 19.
- waster
- profligate
- 20.
- stick together
- 21.
- hide
- give protection (by giving food and shelter)
- provide a refuge for
- keep in mind (thoughts or feelings)
- N: place of shelter
- refuge
- 22.
- systematic
- 23.
- pertaining to the brain or intellect
- intellectual rather than emotional
- 24.
- storehouse
- 25.
- introductory
- of a preface
- 26.
- having an odor
- 27.
- royal
- of a monarch
- 28.
- steadily loyal
- unswerving
- steady
- 29.
- tranquillity
- calmness
- 30.
- gather
- assemble (troops)
- 31.
- ridicule
- N: written attack ridiculing or satirizing a person, group, or institution
- 32.
- formal essay
- treatise
- 33.
- profound
- abstruse
- not easily understood
- secret
- 34.
- go down on one's knee(s)
- 35.
- spoilsport
- grouch
- one who intentionally spoils the pleasure of others
- 36.
- deliberate
- thoughtful
- calculated
- carefully contrived
- unspontaneous
- 37.
- charge
- ascribe
- attribute
- 38.
- shorten
- reduce