GRE Vocabulary Power (12-116)

Vocabulary Cards: 33

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  • 1.
    • causing plague
    • tending to cause death
    • baneful
  • 2.
    • decree or command
    • grant holy orders
    • predestine
    • install as a minister, priest, or rabbi
  • 3.
    • supporter
    • voter
    • member of a constituency
    • component
  • 4.
    • arsonist
    • ADJ: causing fire
    • of arson
  • 5.
    • insert between
  • 6.
    • unconventional (in an artistic way)
  • 7.
    • restore to a previous condition or position
  • 8.
    • hypnotic state
    • ecstatic state
    • detachment from one's physical surrounding (as in contemplation or daydreaming)
  • 9.
    • begin and continue (a war)
  • 10.
    • come to one as a gain
    • accumulate over time
    • come about by addition
  • 11.
    • subordinate
  • 12.
    • anger
    • fury
  • 13.
    • haughtiness
    • impudent disrespect
    • ADJ. insolent
  • 14.
    • combination (of two business corporations)
    • act of merging
  • 15.
    • theft
  • 16.
    • one who hates mankind
    • misanthropist
  • 17.
    • clowning
  • 18.
    • ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant
  • 19.
    • urgent
    • warning of disaster
    • disastrous
    • (of needs and dangers) very great
  • 20.
    • an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people)
    • ADV. alias
  • 21.
    • path taken by a projectile
  • 22.
    • hesitate
    • weaken in purpose or action
    • walk or move unsteadily through weakness
  • 23.
    • (of a position, esp. in an argument) indefensible
    • not able to be maintained
  • 24.
    • behead
  • 25.
    • seize
    • take possession of (private property) by official order (usu. as a punishment)
    • commandeer
  • 26.
    • not wise
    • not expedient
    • not politic
  • 27.
    • impressiveness
    • stateliness
    • majesty
  • 28.
    • done or active at night
  • 29.
    • luxuriate
    • take pleasure in warmth
  • 30.
    • arrange into categories or grades
    • divide into marked intervals (for use in measurement)
  • 31.
    • huge creature
    • something of monstrous size or power
  • 32.
    • wrong
    • faulty
    • ADV.
  • 33.
    • keen
    • penetrating
    • (of the senses) sharp
    • quickly perceptive
    • brief and severe