GRE Vocabulary Power (7-69)

Vocabulary Cards: 26

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  • 1.
    • pertaining to the organs or sense of touch
  • 2.
    • government ruled by old people
  • 3.
    • unharmed
  • 4.
    • brief, comprehensive summary
    • ADJ. compendious
  • 5.
    • unsuccessful
    • fruitless
  • 6.
    • monumental tomb
    • large stately tomb
  • 7.
    • swayed by sentiment
    • appealing to the sentiments
  • 8.
    • vibrate pendulumlike
    • waver
  • 9.
    • impending
    • near at hand
  • 10.
    • rider on horseback
    • ADJ.
  • 11.
    • pretending to be virtuous
    • deceiving
  • 12.
    • evildoer
    • criminal
  • 13.
    • satisfy to the full
    • satisfy to excess
    • cloy
  • 14.
    • overbright in color
    • unpleasantly bright
    • gaudy
  • 15.
    • arrangement of parts so that balance is obtained
    • congruity
    • ADJ. symmetrical
  • 16.
    • disease passed on by the bite of an infected animal (causing madness and death)
  • 17.
    • half-human, half-bestial being in the court of Dionysus (resembling a goat), portrayed as wanton(unrestrained) and cunning
    • lecher
  • 18.
    • substance or rich soil formed by decaying vegetable matter
  • 19.
    • cut away
    • trim
  • 20.
    • easily seen
    • open for the public to read
    • of or protected by a patent
    • obvious
  • 21.
    • compelling
    • strong desire that is difficult to control
    • irresistible impulse
  • 22.
    • designed to create ill will or envy
    • tending to rouse ill will or envy
  • 23.
    • broad comedy
    • mockery
    • humorous play full of silly things happening
    • ADJ. farcical
  • 24.
    • indirect
    • slanting (deviating from the perpendicular or from a straight line)
  • 25.
    • formal agreement
  • 26.
    • entangle
    • throw into confusion
    • involve in strife, dispute, or quarrel