GRE Vocabulary Power (5-48)
Vocabulary Cards: 34
- 1.
- deserving high respect
- commanding respect
- 2.
- bear witness
- testify
- 3.
- not fully worked out or developed
- provisional
- experimental
- uncertain
- not definite or positive
- hesitant
- 4.
- enjoy
- savor
- N: enjoyment
- zest
- 5.
- swelling out in waves
- surging
- 6.
- word or phrase characteristically used to describe a person or thing
- descriptive phrase to characterize a person (often contemptous)
- 7.
- predecessor
- forerunner
- 8.
- concluding section of a musical or literary composition
- 9.
- piebald
- variegated(many-colored)
- multicolored
- 10.
- frenzy
- great anger and excitement
- 11.
- weaken gradually
- sap
- dig a mine beneath
- 12.
- the West
- 13.
- kingdom
- field or sphere
- 14.
- assemble
- call to meet
- come together
- 15.
- face courageously
- 16.
- hollow
- curved inwards
- OP. convex
- 17.
- seclusion
- state of being alone
- ADJ. solitary: existing or living alone (esp. by choice)
- remote or secluded
- single
- sole
- 18.
- beyond reproach
- blameless
- impeccable
- 19.
- spiteful
- disposed to revenge
- vengeful
- out for revenge
- intended to cause harm
- malicious
- 20.
- strict
- hard and unbending
- stiff and unyielding
- fixed in behavior or views
- rigorous
- 21.
- openmouthed
- 22.
- nearness
- ADJ. proximate
- 23.
- similarity
- feeling of kinship
- 24.
- stop or check flow of blood
- 25.
- entreating
- beseeching
- 26.
- mixture of decaying organic matter used as fertilizer
- V: put or make compost
- 27.
- pertaining to farewell
- N: farewell address (esp. at graduation exercises)
- 28.
- harass, annoy, torment (by repeated attacks)
- raid
- 29.
- erratic
- contradictory
- state of being self-contradictory
- lack of uniformity or steadiness
- ADJ. inconsistent: displaying a lack of consistency
- incompatible
- 30.
- giving off an odor
- 31.
- recover
- regain
- put right
- find and bring in
- 32.
- (of weather) warm and damp
- 33.
- boisterous laughter
- 34.
- frustrate
- perplex