GRE Vocabulary Power (13-125)
Vocabulary Cards: 34
- 1.
- beat with or as if with a flail
- move wildly
- thresh grain by hand
- strike or slap
- toss about
- N: threshing tool consisting of a stick swinging from the end of a long handle
- 2.
- person who keeps bees
- 3.
- assist usually in doing something wrong
- encourage
- 4.
- narrow
- pertaining to a province
- limited in outlook
- unsophisticated
- 5.
- dry up
- 6.
- outmoded
- no longer used
- 7.
- become less severe
- give in(surrender)
- ADJ. relentless: unyielding
- continuously severe
- 8.
- impartial
- calm
- not influenced by personal feelings
- 9.
- walk through a substance, such as water, that impedes movement
- 10.
- gift for finding valuable things by accident
- accidental good fortune or luck
- 11.
- division into factions (esp. within a religious body)
- split
- 12.
- boat or yacht race
- 13.
- place over something else
- 14.
- make unconscious or numb as by a blow
- astound
- amaze
- 15.
- smart
- neatly or smartly dressed
- dapper
- 16.
- speak evil of
- slander
- 17.
- in a coma
- extremely sleepy
- 18.
- cable or chain attached to something that needs to be braced or steadied
- 19.
- one who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life
- 20.
- talk at length
- speak or write in detail
- 21.
- yearly allowance
- 22.
- weakness of mind
- state of being an imbecile
- fool
- 23.
- plot
- systematic plan
- clever dishonest plan
- orderly arrangement of elements
- V: contrive a scheme
- 24.
- examine closely and critically
- 25.
- pass into or through
- penetrate or enter (an organization) sneakily
- 26.
- flashy
- tawdry
- attractive on the surface but of no real value
- 27.
- not central
- of a periphery
- marginal
- outer
- of minor importance
- 28.
- division of a poem (composed of two or more lines)
- 29.
- forerunners
- foremost position of an army
- advance forces
- foremost position in a trend or movement
- 30.
- every two years
- 31.
- vanishing
- fleeting
- soon disappearing
- 32.
- punish by placing in a wooden frame or pillory
- subject or expose to criticism and ridicule
- 33.
- one that achieves unexpected success
- something originally of little value or importance that in time becomes very valuable
- 34.
- death notice (esp. in a newspaper)
- ADJ.