GRE Vocabulary Power (8-73)
Vocabulary Cards: 30
- 1.
- person who turns animal hides into leather
- 2.
- indiscriminate
- mixed indiscriminately
- not choosing carefully
- indiscriminate in the choice of sexual partners
- irregular, particularly sexually
- 3.
- inform
- 4.
- division of animals or plants, below a family and above a species
- 5.
- walk lamely
- ADJ: lacking firmness
- weak
- 6.
- profane
- violate the sanctity of
- 7.
- (of a story) widely believed but untrue
- 8.
- person of no importance
- nonexistence
- 9.
- enervate
- stretch out full on ground
- make prostrate
- ADJ: lying face down
- having lost all strength
- 10.
- resistance
- refusal to yield
- ADJ. defiant
- 11.
- fly
- fly or move lightly or quickly
- dart lightly
- pass swiftly by
- 12.
- act or manner of using
- accepted practice
- way in which words are actually used
- 13.
- prevent
- exclude
- make impossible
- eliminate
- 14.
- beauty
- comeliness
- ADJ. pulchritudinous
- 15.
- extend
- lengthen
- draw out
- 16.
- effective
- sound
- logically convincing
- legally acceptable
- 17.
- doing evil
- 18.
- motivated solely by money or gain
- 19.
- disgrace
- 20.
- maze
- 21.
- trick to deceive
- stratagem
- 22.
- harangue
- long angry denunciatory speech
- diatribe
- extended scolding
- denunciation
- 23.
- unspoiled
- remaining in a pure state
- characteristic of earlier times
- primitive
- 24.
- lustful
- 25.
- talent
- 26.
- charge
- spread throughout
- permeate
- 27.
- fast
- rapid
- ephemeral
- 28.
- solemn wonder
- feeling of respect mixed with wonder and fear
- V: fill with awe
- ADJ. awesome
- 29.
- small waterfall
- 30.
- smear (as with paint)
- cover with something sticky
- N: small bit of sticky substance