GRE Vocabulary Power (12-116)
Vocabulary Cards: 33
- 1.
- causing plague
- tending to cause death
- baneful
- 2.
- decree or command
- grant holy orders
- predestine
- install as a minister, priest, or rabbi
- 3.
- supporter
- voter
- member of a constituency
- component
- 4.
- arsonist
- ADJ: causing fire
- of arson
- 5.
- insert between
- 6.
- unconventional (in an artistic way)
- 7.
- restore to a previous condition or position
- 8.
- hypnotic state
- ecstatic state
- detachment from one's physical surrounding (as in contemplation or daydreaming)
- 9.
- begin and continue (a war)
- 10.
- come to one as a gain
- accumulate over time
- come about by addition
- 11.
- subordinate
- 12.
- anger
- fury
- 13.
- haughtiness
- impudent disrespect
- ADJ. insolent
- 14.
- combination (of two business corporations)
- act of merging
- 15.
- theft
- 16.
- one who hates mankind
- misanthropist
- 17.
- clowning
- 18.
- ancient paper made from stem of papyrus plant
- 19.
- urgent
- warning of disaster
- disastrous
- (of needs and dangers) very great
- 20.
- an assumed name esp. by a criminal (usually to mislead people)
- ADV. alias
- 21.
- path taken by a projectile
- 22.
- hesitate
- weaken in purpose or action
- walk or move unsteadily through weakness
- 23.
- (of a position, esp. in an argument) indefensible
- not able to be maintained
- 24.
- behead
- 25.
- seize
- take possession of (private property) by official order (usu. as a punishment)
- commandeer
- 26.
- not wise
- not expedient
- not politic
- 27.
- impressiveness
- stateliness
- majesty
- 28.
- done or active at night
- 29.
- luxuriate
- take pleasure in warmth
- 30.
- arrange into categories or grades
- divide into marked intervals (for use in measurement)
- 31.
- huge creature
- something of monstrous size or power
- 32.
- wrong
- faulty
- ADV.
- 33.
- keen
- penetrating
- (of the senses) sharp
- quickly perceptive
- brief and severe