GRE Vocabulary Power (14-133)
Vocabulary Cards: 29
- 1.
- patiently submissiveness
- statement that one is quitting a job
- ADJ. resigned: acquiescent
- 2.
- taking for one's own use in violation of trust
- stealing (of money placed in one's care)
- 3.
- commonplace statement
- ADJ. platitudinous
- trite remark
- 4.
- bend the knee as in worship
- 5.
- argue about prices (in an attempt to bargain)
- 6.
- detestation
- quality of being odious
- hatefulness
- disrepute (resulting from hateful conduct)
- 7.
- raised platform for speech-making
- pulpit
- 8.
- V: emit a strong foul odor
- stench
- 9.
- trader
- exchange good for other goods rather than money
- 10.
- arouse to action
- goad
- motivate
- induce to exist
- 11.
- violent
- uncontrolled
- 12.
- disgust
- strong dislike
- loathing
- ADJ. repugnant: arousing disgust
- repulsive
- 13.
- combine
- take part in a conspiracy
- (of events) work together
- 14.
- ill luck
- 15.
- walk with a heavy step
- travel on foot
- N: vagrant
- one who travels aimlessly about
- long walk
- sound of heavy walking
- 16.
- struggle and thrash about
- proceed clumsily or falter (as in water, mud, snow, etc.)
- proceed in confusion
- 17.
- unchangeable
- 18.
- pertaining to the body
- bodily
- physical
- 19.
- person interested mostly in external objects and actions
- 20.
- (of men) friendly, charming, and fashionably dressed
- aiming to please
- 21.
- small (often rural) community whose members share work and income
- V: exchange thoughts or feelings
- 22.
- outward appearance
- costume
- 23.
- direct quick route
- 24.
- great hardship or affliction
- misfortune
- calamitous event
- 25.
- make known
- grant a share of
- 26.
- expression whose meaning as a whole differs from the meanings of its individual words
- distinctive style (of expression)
- ADJ. idiomatic
- 27.
- make coins
- invent or fabricate (a word or phrase)
- 28.
- significant
- self-important
- consequent
- following as a result
- 29.
- superintendent
- manager (in charge of a museum or a library)