GRE Vocabulary Power (9-83)
Vocabulary Cards: 23
- 1.
- abandon
- give up (by formal announcement)
- disown
- repudiate
- 2.
- unalterable
- irreversible
- impossible to revoke
- 3.
- intelligent
- quick and energetic
- fashionable
- V: cause or feel a sharp pain
- N: smarting pain
- 4.
- urge
- provoke
- incite
- start
- 5.
- uninterrupted
- unceasing
- 6.
- feverish
- 7.
- fall or let fall in drops
- shed drops
- N: action or sound of falling in drops
- liquid that falls in drops
- 8.
- behavior (of children) causing trouble with no serious harm
- harm
- ADJ. mischievous: causing mischief
- playfully troublesome
- damage
- 9.
- delicate ornamental lacelike metalwork
- 10.
- ornamental horizontal band on a wall
- 11.
- burden
- very worriying problem
- mental care
- nightmare
- male devil
- 12.
- make liquids murky by stirring up sediment
- disturb
- 13.
- authoritative and weighty statement (made by a judge in court)
- maxim
- saying
- 14.
- merriment
- laughter
- 15.
- devoted to the pleasures of the sense
- carnal
- voluptuous
- 16.
- things thrown from a ship (to lighten the ship)
- 17.
- natural consequence (which naturally follows from something else)
- 18.
- exaggerated
- enlarged (with air or gas)
- pompous
- 19.
- collection of wild animals on exhibition
- zoo
- 20.
- make thin
- weaken
- 21.
- caustic
- sarcastic
- sharp to the taste
- acid-tasting
- 22.
- man who is courting a woman
- 23.
- fake
- achieve by cleverness or trick
- wiggle out