GRE Vocabulary Power (12-113)

Vocabulary Cards: 35

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  • 1.
    • marked with parallel bands
    • striped
    • grooved
  • 2.
    • person who has a compulsive desire to steal
  • 3.
    • distortion
    • burlesque
  • 4.
    • traitor who aids invaders
  • 5.
    • hit or knock against with force
  • 6.
    • striking
    • effectual
    • producing a strong response
    • in operation
    • in effect
  • 7.
    • made of bone
    • bony
  • 8.
    • not harmonious
    • conflicting
  • 9.
    • only slightly connected
    • not central
    • peripheral
    • digressing
    • showing divergence
  • 10.
    • question
    • inquiry
  • 11.
    • sermon
    • tedious moralizing lecture
    • serious warning
    • ADJ. homiletic
  • 12.
    • pertaining to the art of delineating
    • vividly described
  • 13.
    • having the weight of authority
    • regarded as providing knowledge that can be trusted
    • reliable
    • peremptory and dictatorial
  • 14.
    • someone or something well known for notoriety
    • ADJ. proverbial: of a proverb
    • widely known
    • ADV. proverbially
    • adage
  • 15.
    • medical treatment and care of old age
  • 16.
    • stipulation
    • condition in an agreement
    • provision
  • 17.
    • taking up again
    • recommencement
    • take or occupy again
  • 18.
    • spread
    • multiply
    • increase in number by producing young
  • 19.
    • strength
    • power of endurance
    • staying power
  • 20.
    • voters represented by an elected official
    • district so represented
    • group of supporters (or constituents)
  • 21.
    • framework from which a noose is suspended (used for execution by hanging)
  • 22.
    • waterspout carved in grotesque figures on a building
  • 23.
    • criticize
    • blame
    • express strong disapproval
    • N: severe criticism
    • strong disapproval
  • 24.
    • boisterous
    • noisy and uncontrollable
  • 25.
    • order
    • command
    • forbid
  • 26.
    • swindle
    • wool coat of a sheep
    • V: shear the fleece from
    • rob by a trick
    • plunder
  • 27.
    • tall column tapering(becoming gradually narrower toward the end) and ending in a pyramid
  • 28.
    • one who has more than one spouse at a time
  • 29.
    • furthest behind
    • farthest to the rear
  • 30.
    • parched
    • sear
    • dry
  • 31.
    • counterfeit
    • reproduce fraudulently
    • form by heating in a forge and hammering into shape
    • move with a sudden increase of speed or power
    • N: furnace where metals are heated
  • 32.
    • odd
    • irregular in movement or behavior
    • unpredictable
  • 33.
    • one who supplicates
    • ADJ.
  • 34.
    • inscription in memory of a dead person (as on a tombstone)
  • 35.
    • pierce with holes
    • permeate or spread throughout