GRE Vocabulary Power (12-115)

Vocabulary Cards: 27

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  • 1.
    • kind in a generous way (to someone less important)
  • 2.
    • board on which painter mixes pigments(coloring matters)
  • 3.
    • decree
    • authoritative order
  • 4.
    • someone easily fooled or deceived
    • V: deceive
  • 5.
    • persuade by praise or false promise
    • coax
    • wheedle
  • 6.
    • preventing infection
    • having a cleansing effect
  • 7.
    • (of light or color) bright and distinct
    • evoking lifelike mental images
  • 8.
    • combine
    • produce by combining
    • make worse by adding to or increasing
    • exacerbate
    • ADJ: consisting of two or more parts
    • N: combination of two or more parts
    • area enclosed by a wall containing a group of buildings
    • increase
  • 9.
    • flexible
    • slender
    • pliant
  • 10.
    • false
    • based on a fallacy
    • misleading
    • false reasoning
  • 11.
    • move or throw suddenly and quickly
  • 12.
    • gift made by a will
    • something handed down from an ancestor
  • 13.
    • ruin
    • condemnation to a severe penalty
    • fate (esp. a tragic or ruinous one)
  • 14.
    • person of high rank or position
  • 15.
    • shine erratically
    • twinkle
    • N: dim or unsteady light
    • faint indication
  • 16.
    • clothing
    • garments
  • 17.
    • put in order
    • guide ceremoniously to the correct place
    • N: military officer
    • official
  • 18.
    • pirate
  • 19.
    • crowd
    • swarm
  • 20.
    • sailing vessel built for great speed
  • 21.
    • excessive interest in one's self
    • belief that one should be interested in one's self rather than in others
    • selfishness
    • ADJ. egoistic, egoistical
  • 22.
    • small ridge on a smooth surface (face or cloth)
  • 23.
    • produce a design in raised relief
    • decorate with a raised design
  • 24.
    • supernatural
    • mysterious
    • beyond human comprehension
    • OP. bare
    • secret
  • 25.
    • accidental transposition of sounds in successive words
  • 26.
    • ill-humored
    • sullen
    • sullenly melancholy
  • 27.
    • make impure or of poorer quality by adding inferior or tainted(contaminated) substances