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GRE vocab

Vocabulary Cards: 60

kelly
kelly
  • 1.
    • mysterious
    • magical
  • 2.
    • perceptive
    • wise
    • having sound judgment
  • 3.
    • obscene
  • 4.
    • prominent
    • conspicuous
    • relevant
    • protuding
  • 5.
    • wholesome
    • causing improvement
    • favoriable to health
  • 6.
    • self-rightous
  • 7.
    • optimistic
    • cheerful
    • confident
  • 8.
    • to surfeit
    • to overindulge
  • 9.
    • dark
    • morose
    • sullen
    • gloomy
  • 10.
    • a large net dragged to catch fish
  • 11.
    • like a seed
    • constituting a source
    • originative
  • 12.
    • aphoristic or moralistic
    • epigrammatic
    • tending to moralize excessively
  • 13.
    • astral
    • relating to stars or constellations
  • 14.
    • to smirk
    • a silly smile
  • 15.
    • position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
  • 16.
    • serpentine
    • winding
    • undulating
  • 17.
    • to satisfy or quench
  • 18.
    • dull
    • unimaginative
    • soaked or drenched
  • 19.
    • to weld, fuse, or join
  • 20.
    • fallacious reasoning
    • faulty logic
  • 21.
    • affected
    • bombastic
    • self-assured though immature
    • lacking maturity
  • 22.
    • bad-tempered
    • irritable
  • 23.
    • extremely loud aqnd powerful
  • 24.
    • to restrain
    • to be sparing or frugal
  • 25.
    • striped
    • grooved
    • banded
  • 26.
    • dark
    • gloomy
  • 27.
    • assistance
    • relief in time of distress
  • 28.
    • miscellaneous
    • various
    • separate
  • 29.
    • haughty
    • disdainful
    • arrogant
  • 30.
    • prone
    • mentally or morally slack
    • literally, lying on one's back
  • 31.
    • mendicant
    • beggar
  • 32.
    • to plug
    • to drive in or down by a series of blows
  • 33.
    • a repetition
    • a redundancy
  • 34.
    • cheap
    • showy
    • gaudy
    • meretricious
    • tacky
  • 35.
    • biased
    • showing marked tendencies
  • 36.
    • timid
    • fearful
    • diffident
  • 37.
    • sycophant
    • flatter
  • 38.
    • passionate
    • ardent
    • scorching
  • 39.
    • obedient
    • docile
    • easily led
  • 40.
    • caricature
    • parody
    • mockery
  • 41.
    • swollen
  • 42.
    • muddy
    • roiled
    • clouded to the point of being opaque
  • 43.
    • tumid
    • swollen
    • bombastic
    • thick
    • pompous
  • 44.
    • novice
    • greenhorn
    • rank amateur
  • 45.
    • pique
    • resentment
    • offense
  • 46.
    • to fluctuate
    • to move in a wavelike fashion
  • 47.
    • unruly
    • unseemly
    • perverse
  • 48.
    • to scold
    • to rebuke
    • to chastise
    • to sensure
  • 49.
    • the practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest
  • 50.
    • to brag or boast
  • 51.
    • mercenary
    • capable of being bought or bribed
    • purchasable
  • 52.
    • to revere
    • to worship
  • 53.
    • appearance of truth or reality
  • 54.
    • authentic
    • honest-to-goodness
  • 55.
    • a loud, domineering woman
    • a scold or nag
  • 56.
    • to spoil
    • to pervert
    • to debase
    • to make ineffective
  • 57.
    • fluency
    • verbosity
    • easy use of spoken language
  • 58.
    • to cause to move as if by a light breeze
  • 59.
    • to writhe
    • to toss about about
    • to be in turmoil
  • 60.
    • to walk
    • to go
    • to proceed