GRE Vocabulary Power (9-88)
Vocabulary Cards: 30
- 1.
- announce
- proclaim a doctrine or law
- make known by official publication
- 2.
- speak violently or excitedly
- rave
- talk excitedly showing anger
- scold
- make a grandiloquent speech
- 3.
- powerlessness
- feebleness
- 4.
- imitation of a real object used as a substitute
- effigy
- 5.
- dig into (to get stone)
- N: mine
- 6.
- vice
- tool for holding work in place
- clamping device
- 7.
- solemn curse
- someone or something regarded as a curse
- 8.
- bloody
- with much bloodshed
- 9.
- lustful
- 10.
- drink of the gods
- sweet liquid collected by bees
- 11.
- curative
- 12.
- maker of a will
- 13.
- drawback
- handicap
- debts
- obligation
- condition of being liable
- ADJ. liable: likely
- responsible (for paying)
- responsibility
- 14.
- unrepressed
- free in behavior and feelings
- 15.
- disagree
- 16.
- stray or fall behind (a main group)
- spread out in a scattered group
- 17.
- formless
- lacking shape or definition
- 18.
- in a bad condition
- falling to pieces
- ruined because of neglect
- 19.
- large kettle
- 20.
- confuse thoroughly
- 21.
- very small
- unimportant
- small-minded
- petty-minded
- trivial
- 22.
- tyrant
- harsh, authoritarian ruler
- 23.
- act of extreme violence or viciousness
- resentful anger
- V: commit an outrage on
- produce anger in
- ADJ. outrageous: offensive
- 24.
- very unrefined
- grossly insensible
- crude and undiscriminating
- 25.
- charlatan
- impostor
- 26.
- damp
- unpleasantly wet
- 27.
- capricious
- not serious
- inconstant
- frivolous
- 28.
- detestable
- extremely unpleasant
- 29.
- illegitimate child
- 30.
- impertinence
- insolence