GRE Vocabulary Power (11-106)
Vocabulary Cards: 30
- 1.
- countercharges
- 2.
- full of initiative
- showing enterprise
- 3.
- pamper
- coddle
- baby
- indulge excessively
- 4.
- harmful
- causing injury
- 5.
- small speck (esp. of dust)
- 6.
- combativeness
- disposition to fight
- ADJ. pugnacious: (of people) belligerent
- combative in nature
- 7.
- study of humankind
- study of the different races of human beings
- 8.
- repetition
- memorization through repetition without understanding
- 9.
- wasting away
- V: weaken and lose flesh and muscle (through lack of blood or lack of use)
- 10.
- trick which makes someone take action
- practical joke
- 11.
- riddle
- difficult problem
- 12.
- stoical
- without feeling
- expressionless
- imperturbable
- 13.
- stand up against
- resist successfully
- 14.
- predestine
- determine in advance
- settle or decide beforehand
- influence markedly
- 15.
- ancestors
- 16.
- of glass
- pertaining to or resembling glass
- 17.
- severely critical
- 18.
- moderate
- make less severe
- tone down or restrain
- toughen (steel) as by alternate heating and cooling
- 19.
- shallow body of water or lake near a sea
- lake separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs
- 20.
- droop
- grow feeble
- decline in vigor or strength
- ADJ. flagging
- 21.
- man or farmer owning small estate
- middle-class farmer
- 22.
- feeling of exaggerated or unfounded(ungrounded
- baseless) well-being
- feeling of great happiness or well-being (when unreasonable)
- ADJ. euphoriaric
- 23.
- definite
- totally clear
- outspoken
- 24.
- blessing
- 25.
- criticize harshly
- 26.
- quality of being very old
- ancient times
- 27.
- separate
- settle
- solve
- decide
- make a determined decision
- 28.
- diminish
- (of the tide) recede
- lessen
- 29.
- go through or across
- 30.
- amuse