GRE Vocabulary Power (15-147)

Vocabulary Cards: 29

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  • 1.
    • mar
    • spoil the beauty or perfection of
    • N: flaw or defect (that spoils perfection)
  • 2.
    • evil spirit
    • devil
  • 3.
    • without attention to comfort
    • lacking luxury and comfort
    • sternly disciplined
  • 4.
    • move (a railway train) from one track to another
    • turn aside
    • divert
    • sidetrack
  • 5.
    • expel
    • drive out
    • force out
  • 6.
    • chances
    • probability
    • disagreement
  • 7.
    • either of the correlated things
  • 8.
    • soft and mild (of air)
    • fragrant
  • 9.
    • rhythmical throbbing of arteries
    • brief sudden change in a normally constant quantity
    • V: pulsate
  • 10.
    • poor
    • destitute
  • 11.
    • without guile
    • open and honest
  • 12.
    • clever
    • marked by inventive skill
    • resourceful
  • 13.
    • thin
    • slight
    • barely discernible
  • 14.
    • explanatory
    • serving to explain
    • exhibition
  • 15.
    • universally present
    • ubiquitous
  • 16.
    • pertaining to tailors or tailoring
  • 17.
    • nation governed by the people
    • republic
    • people of a nation
  • 18.
    • food
  • 19.
    • switch (a railroad car) to a siding
    • divert from a main issue
  • 20.
    • sensitive
    • capable of sensation and conscious
    • aware
  • 21.
    • root up
    • uproot
    • destroy completely
  • 22.
    • fickle
    • ability to change in form
    • fickleness
    • ADJ. mutable: able to change
  • 23.
    • minutely attentive (perhaps too much so) to fine points
    • stressing niceties of conduct or form
  • 24.
    • surpass
    • outrun
    • outdo
  • 25.
    • rebellious
    • dissenting (with an opinion, a group, or a government)
  • 26.
    • uneasiness
    • vague feeling of ill health (without any particular pain or appearance of disease)
  • 27.
    • idyllic
    • rural
    • of rural life
    • of a pastor
  • 28.
    • renounce upon oath
  • 29.
    • disable
    • mutilate
    • injure lastingly
    • cripple