GRE Vocabulary Power (4-30)
Vocabulary Cards: 29
- 1.
- study of insects
- 2.
- generous gift (given to people who do not have enough)
- 3.
- endure
- tolerate
- N: small stream
- 4.
- efficiency or conciseness in using something
- thrifty management of resources
- 5.
- doctor who treats mental diseases
- 6.
- having a very fine bore
- resembling a hair
- fine and slender
- N: very fine hairlike tube
- 7.
- defraud a person of something
- swindle
- 8.
- eating away by chemicals or disease
- (of language) fierce
- 9.
- state of depression or melancholy
- style of slow, mournful music (evolved from southern Black American songs)
- 10.
- possibility
- accidental
- happening by chance
- dependent on something uncertain or in the future
- conditional
- N: a group of soldiers, ships to a larger force
- 11.
- servile
- behaving like a slave
- obsequious
- subordinate
- 12.
- impossible to estimate
- (apprec) invaluable
- of immeasurable worth
- 13.
- insert improperly
- impose upon another by coercion
- palm off
- pass off as genuine or worthy
- 14.
- disfranchise
- deprive of a civil right
- OP. enfranchise
- 15.
- having a common center
- 16.
- washing
- 17.
- excess
- overabundance
- 18.
- breaking of contract or duty
- fissure or gap
- opening
- 19.
- insubordination
- conduct or language inciting rebellion
- rebellion
- resistance to authority
- ADJ. seditious
- 20.
- squeamish
- experiencing nausea
- nauseated
- easily nauseated
- 21.
- odd
- bad-tempered
- whimsical
- (of someone old) eccentric
- 22.
- delicate
- of very fine quality
- 23.
- from which it is impossible to get free
- that cannot be untied
- 24.
- weird
- causing fear because strange
- 25.
- without an equal
- single in kind
- 26.
- blood feud (esp. between two families)
- 27.
- showy
- pretentious
- trying to attract attention
- 28.
- something that nourishes
- food
- 29.
- introduction
- introductory performance or event
- forerunner