GRE Vocabulary Power (15-142)

Vocabulary Cards: 33

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  • 1.
    • ring of leaves around stem
    • ring
    • circular arrangement
  • 2.
    • lawyer in the lower court of law
  • 3.
    • cause of complaint
    • complaint
  • 4.
    • display ostentatiously
  • 5.
    • insolent
    • without shame
    • bold
    • V: face with bold self-assurance or with unshamed confidence
  • 6.
    • habitually intoxicated
    • drunk
  • 7.
    • aqueduct
    • passageway for fluids
  • 8.
    • excessively exacting
    • too critical (without noticing good qualities)
  • 9.
    • disagreeable
    • distasteful
    • morally offensive
  • 10.
    • treacherous
    • disloyal
  • 11.
    • reproduce
    • duplicate
  • 12.
    • (of behavior) proper
    • appropriate
  • 13.
    • legal claim or right on a property
  • 14.
    • boast
  • 15.
    • poor verse
  • 16.
    • perceptive
    • shrewd
    • having insight
    • wise
  • 17.
    • seeker after position or status
  • 18.
    • highly skilled artist (esp. in music)
  • 19.
    • abandon
    • renounce under oath
    • make a solemn promise to give up
  • 20.
    • violation (of a rule or regulation)
    • breach
  • 21.
    • make or become dull or discolored
  • 22.
    • advantage
    • anything that brings helpl, advantage, or profit
    • money provided by the government to the people
    • fund-raising public entertainment
    • V: receive benefits
    • be beneficial to
    • give benefits
  • 23.
    • periodically shed or cast off hairs or feathers (for replacement by a new growth)
  • 24.
    • deadly
    • evil
    • ominous
    • threatening
    • malignant in intent or effect
    • having a malign influence
    • portending evil
  • 25.
    • be violently disturbed
    • boil
    • (of a liquid) move about wildly as if boiling
  • 26.
    • deadly
    • very harmful
    • very destructive
  • 27.
    • suffering from a disease
    • destroyed
  • 28.
    • obligatory
    • imposed as an obligation
    • currently holding an office
    • N: person who holds an office
  • 29.
    • calmness
    • placidity
    • ADJ. serene
  • 30.
    • paint or draw with dots or short strokes
  • 31.
    • superiority of power, quantity, etc.
    • ADJ. preponderant
  • 32.
    • sour
    • bad-tempered
    • peevish
    • difficult to read as handwriting
  • 33.
    • relapse
    • backslide
    • turn back to
    • return to the former owner