GRE Vocabulary Power (14-136)
Vocabulary Cards: 41
- 1.
- deserving reverence
- N: priest
- 2.
- very fat
- 3.
- cowlike
- placid and dull
- slow-thinking
- calm
- 4.
- military unit
- V: subject to strict order
- 5.
- stupid
- empty
- lacking in ideas
- inane
- 6.
- turn aside
- turn away from a straight course
- 7.
- public records
- place where public records are kept
- 8.
- amount produced
- crop
- income on investment
- profit obtained from an investment
- V: produce
- give in
- surrender
- 9.
- real being
- 10.
- extremely poor
- lacking means of subsistence
- devoid
- utterly lacking
- 11.
- serious and sedate
- sober
- 12.
- discerning
- able to see differences
- prejudiced
- 13.
- hide
- retard or obstruct the progress of
- block
- 14.
- secret recess or vault usually used for burial
- underground room (under a church)
- 15.
- signify
- indicate
- be a sign of
- 16.
- very small quantity
- 17.
- overregulated administrative system marked by red tape
- ADJ. bureaucratic
- 18.
- feign
- imitate
- 19.
- physician specializing in children's diseases
- 20.
- addition of details
- intricacy
- 21.
- faithful
- brave
- courteous
- 22.
- person administering capital punishment
- 23.
- target of a hunt
- victim
- V: hunt and eat as prey
- victimize
- 24.
- (of a person) suffer from oppressive heat
- be oppressed by heat
- 25.
- work or appoint as a deputy
- 26.
- size or volume (esp. when very large)
- main part
- ADJ. bulky: having great size
- 27.
- radiating
- departing from the center
- 28.
- petition humbly
- pray to grant a favor
- 29.
- persuade
- lead to do something
- bring about
- 30.
- essence
- core or marrow
- spongelike substance in the center of stems
- substance
- 31.
- support
- prop up
- 32.
- not able to be erased
- 33.
- text of an opera or oratorio
- 34.
- economical
- careful about money
- 35.
- renovate
- make clean, bright, or fresh (make new) again
- make bright by polishing
- 36.
- relating to the highest point
- 37.
- lasting
- last
- surviving
- remain alive (in spite of difficulties)
- survive
- 38.
- idiom
- language
- manner of speaking
- 39.
- move, give, or take in a quiet, stealthy way
- N: one who sneaks
- ADJ. sneaky
- 40.
- joking (often inappropriately)
- unserious
- humorous
- 41.
- annoying
- tedious