GRE Vocabulary Power (5-44)
Vocabulary Cards: 34
- 1.
- carpenter's tool for smoothing and leveling wood
- 2.
- length of time something lasts
- 3.
- salary
- payment for an office
- compensation
- 4.
- send (something) spinning, often into the air, by striking with a light quick blow
- turn over
- 5.
- invigorating and refreshing
- cheering
- 6.
- wrath
- angry
- 7.
- cherished
- make beloved
- ADJ. dear: loved
- high-priced
- 8.
- metric
- written in the form of poetry
- 9.
- pertaining to money
- 10.
- lazy
- lacking substance
- useless
- not working
- not employed or busy
- without purpose
- baseless
- not based on truth
- 11.
- yellowed
- prejudiced (envious, hostile, or resentful) from long and disappointing experience of human affairs
- 12.
- whirlwind
- whirlpool
- center of turbulence
- predicament into which one is inexorably plunged
- 13.
- hag
- ugly old woman
- 14.
- abdominal
- 15.
- call forth (memory or feeling)
- 16.
- box for bees
- V: cause to go in a hive
- 17.
- strong wall built for defense
- earthwork or other strong defense
- person who defends
- 18.
- design composed of one or more initials of a name
- 19.
- doubtful
- questionable
- causing a problem
- open to doubt
- unsettled
- 20.
- storehouse for grain
- 21.
- offensive
- detest
- ADJ. loathsome: arousing loathing
- 22.
- stale (in odor or taste)
- spoiled by age
- 23.
- slake
- assuage or satisfy (thrust)
- douse or extinguish
- put out
- suppress
- 24.
- echo repeatedly
- resound
- 25.
- event
- event that causes a crisis
- 26.
- wandering
- move periodically from one region to another
- 27.
- restricted
- modify
- limited
- 28.
- obscurity
- condition of being completely forgotten
- forgetfulness
- 29.
- thoroughly soaked
- dull or stupid as if from drink
- 30.
- encouraging
- exhortive
- marked by exhortation
- 31.
- use
- give
- refrain from harming
- save from experiencing
- exempt
- ADJ: kept in reserve
- free for other use
- unoccupied
- 32.
- walking about from place to place (to work)
- moving
- 33.
- prescribed course of diet or exercise
- prescribed diet and habits
- 34.
- concise
- agreement
- contract
- firm
- ADJ: tightly packed
- brief