GRE Vocabulary Power (1-6)
Vocabulary Cards: 33
- 1.
- not naive
- not candid
- sophisticated
- worldly wise
- OP. ingenuous
- 2.
- trip especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense
- 3.
- devastate
- despoil
- plunder
- 4.
- informal discussion
- conversation
- 5.
- unit of weight for precious stones
- measure of the purity of gold
- 6.
- belief
- 7.
- injure without breaking the skin
- 8.
- time of greatest success or power
- prime
- 9.
- like a spirit or fairy
- unearthly light
- unusually refined
- heavenly
- 10.
- rubbing away
- tending to grind down
- 11.
- strip (as of clothes)
- deprive (as of rights)
- dispossess
- 12.
- exclamation
- abrupt ejection (to discharge sperm)
- 13.
- prevent by taking action in advance
- 14.
- rewarding
- profitable
- (of work) compensating
- well-paid
- pay (someone) for work or trouble
- 15.
- friendship
- peaceful relationship as between nations
- 16.
- effective
- distinct
- expressing ideas clearly
- having clear sounds
- having joints
- V: express thoughts and feeling clearly
- pronounce clearly
- unite by joints
- 17.
- acquire
- allocate
- take possession of for one's own use without permission
- set aside for a particular purpose
- 18.
- sear
- 19.
- good-natured
- cheerful
- merry
- 20.
- eat away
- wear away gradually by abrasion
- 21.
- ecological community together with its environment
- 22.
- prudence
- ability to adjust actions to circumstances
- freedom of action or judgment
- ADJ. discreet
- 23.
- thrifty
- providing for future needs
- displaying foresight
- preparing for emergencies
- OP. improvident
- 24.
- dull
- stuffy
- boringly conservative
- 25.
- long shallow trench made by a plow
- deep wrinkle in the skin
- 26.
- person unduly worried about his health
- worrier without cause about illness
- ADJ. CF. hypochondria: neurosis that one is or is becoming ill
- 27.
- dull and unimaginative
- lacking liveliness
- insipid and flavorless
- 28.
- pointed projecting part
- 29.
- very high
- 30.
- ardent
- zealous
- hot
- 31.
- causing great fear
- unrelenting
- determined in spite of fear
- 32.
- denying the existence of God
- 33.
- small in amount
- minute