GRE Vocabulary Power (9-86)
Vocabulary Cards: 32
- 1.
- act of assuming a human body and human nature
- one who personifies something
- personification
- 2.
- repay in kind (usually for bad treatment)
- 3.
- praise
- ADJ. laudatory: expressing praise
- 4.
- equal in extent
- of the same size
- 5.
- until
- not yet decided or settled
- impending
- PREP. while awaiting
- 6.
- limpid(crystal clear)
- clear in meaning
- easy to understand
- transparent
- 7.
- hanging
- suspended
- 8.
- unbeliever (with respect to a particular religion)
- 9.
- disclaim or disavow
- retract a previous statement
- openly confess error
- 10.
- split or sever
- cling to
- remain faithful to
- ADJ. cloven
- 11.
- one incapacitated(disabled) by a chronic illness
- ADJ: incapacitated by illness
- not valid
- null
- V: allow to leave (a military force) because of ill-health
- 12.
- debauched person
- dissolute or licentious person
- 13.
- sensual
- of or giving sensual pleasure
- indulging in sensual pleasures
- 14.
- sign of something to come
- V: announce
- proclaim
- messenger
- 15.
- propriety
- orderliness and good taste in manners
- appropriateness of behavior or conduct
- 16.
- terminology(system of specialized words)
- system of names or naming things
- 17.
- not planned
- impromptu
- extempore
- 18.
- swindle or cheat
- N: wedgelike tool for cutting
- 19.
- like a lion
- 20.
- tone down in intensity
- change the intensity or tone of
- regulate
- change from one musical key to another
- 21.
- advantage
- goodness
- moral excellence
- good quality
- 22.
- baffling
- evasive
- not frank
- hard to grasp, catch, or understand
- escape the understanding or grasp of
- 23.
- funeral director
- one whose business is to arrange burials
- 24.
- leftover food
- 25.
- enliven
- add leaven to
- cause to rise or grow lighter
- N: agent, such as yeast, that causes dough to rise (by fermentation)
- element that lightens or enlivens
- 26.
- hard unpleasant work
- menial work
- 27.
- religion practiced chiefly in Haiti
- 28.
- begin to grow
- give off shoots or buds
- N: new growth on a plant
- shoot
- 29.
- analysis
- cutting apart in order to examine
- 30.
- clever
- perceptiveness
- ingenuity
- delicacy
- ADJ. subtle: delicate
- so slight as to be difficult to detect
- able to make fine distinctions
- 31.
- logical formula consisting of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion
- deceptive or specious argument
- 32.
- change the appearance of (by marking with different colors)