GRE Vocabulary Power (14-131)
Vocabulary Cards: 29
- 1.
- harmonious
- corresponding
- coinciding exactly
- in agreement
- 2.
- something contrived
- machine or apparatus
- clever deceitful plan
- scheme
- 3.
- contaminate
- cause to lose purity
- modify with a trace of something bad
- N: stain
- touch of decay or bad influence
- 4.
- alleged
- claimed
- reputed or rumored
- 5.
- tending to cause death
- highly injurious
- aggressively malevolent
- 6.
- witty thought or saying, usually short
- 7.
- monarch
- sovereign
- 8.
- strong
- violent and severe
- 9.
- explanatory list of symbols on a map
- 10.
- pertinent
- having importance
- referring to the case in hand
- 11.
- substitute
- person or thing used in place of another
- ADJ.
- 12.
- correct a false impression
- undeceive
- free from a wrong belief
- 13.
- queer and amusing
- 14.
- paste of flour and water (eaten when baked)
- 15.
- nominal
- of a title
- in name only
- having the title of an office without the obligations
- 16.
- slow up
- loosen
- make or become slack
- 17.
- fastidious
- easily shocked or sickened by unpleasant things
- 18.
- fringes
- outer borders (as of a city)
- 19.
- keeping watch (during normal sleeping hours)
- 20.
- several
- miscellaneous
- various
- 21.
- place side by side
- 22.
- sad and lonely
- wretched
- desolate
- 23.
- lack of self-confidence or courage
- 24.
- stinginess
- excessive frugality
- ADJ. parsimonious
- 25.
- pirate or plunderer who makes war in order to grow rich
- 26.
- causing nausea
- feeling nausea
- 27.
- dip
- place under water
- go under water
- cover completely (as with water)
- 28.
- story, play, or picture in which characters are used as symbols
- fable
- 29.
- two-chambered as a legislative body