GRE Vocabulary Power (7-65)
Vocabulary Cards: 34
- 1.
- attractive
- 2.
- make (a lawyer) leave the bar or the legal profession
- 3.
- justified
- authorized
- 4.
- unpleasant high sharp sound
- shriek
- 5.
- point of moon's orbit when it is nearest the earth
- 6.
- cultivate
- nourish
- feed
- educate
- rear
- care for while it is growing or developing
- foster
- N: something that nourishes
- rearing
- 7.
- bundle of stalks of grain
- any bundle of things tied together
- 8.
- linger
- delay in starting or going
- dawdle
- 9.
- (of a fault or sin) forgivable
- trivial
- 10.
- tender sorrow
- pity
- quality in art or literature that produces these feelings
- 11.
- person or thing excess of what is necessary
- extra
- ADJ: additional to the usual or necessary number
- 12.
- annoy
- exasperate
- chafe
- N: skin sore caused by rubbing (as on the skin of a horse)
- exasperation
- 13.
- emancipate
- free from slavery or bondage
- 14.
- subside or moderate
- 15.
- large wave of water
- a great swell or surge (of smoke)
- V: surge, swell, roll in billows
- 16.
- above
- foremost in importance
- supreme
- 17.
- plan of a trip
- record of a trip
- 18.
- change position or place
- exchange (one thing) for another
- change in direction or position
- working period of such a group
- 19.
- N: split
- 20.
- sharpness (of mind or senses of sight or hearing)
- 21.
- work at in a nonserious fashion
- splash around
- move noisily in a liquid
- 22.
- flat mass of floating ice
- 23.
- the chance occurrence, at the same time, of two or more seemingly connected events
- be in agreement
- 24.
- separate
- unconnected
- 25.
- cut or knock down (a tree or a person)
- bring down (with a missile)
- 26.
- various
- differing in some characteristics (from each other)
- dissimilitude
- lack of resemblance
- 27.
- standards used in judging
- 28.
- egg-shaped
- 29.
- clumsy (in social behavior)
- coarse and uncouth
- 30.
- search thoroughly
- pillage (going through a place)
- 31.
- beat with a whip or flail
- defeat utterly
- talk about thoroughly in order to find the answer
- move wildly or violently
- 32.
- varying from of an element
- 33.
- gourmet
- connoisseur of food and drink
- ADJ. epicurean
- 34.
- profound
- obscure
- difficult to understand