AEnglish Vocabulary List

GRE Vocabulary Power (13-129)

Vocabulary Cards: 31

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  • 1.
    • formal praise
    • encomium
  • 2.
    • ban on commerce or other activity
  • 3.
    • pertaining to or befitting a son or daughter
  • 4.
    • give shape to
    • make
  • 5.
    • fleeting or transitory
    • lasting only a short time
    • roving(wandering)
    • running away or fleeing as from the law
    • N: one who flees
  • 6.
    • pleasantly merry
    • festive
    • characterized by joviality
    • jovial
    • gay
    • joyous
  • 7.
    • pen name
    • fictitious name assumed by an author
    • ADJ. pseudonymous
  • 8.
    • v. ask or beg earnestly
    • beseech
  • 9.
    • earliest form of an organism
    • seed or bud
    • something that may develop into something larger or more important
    • microbe
  • 10.
    • punish as by beating
    • criticize severely
  • 11.
    • crude dwelling
    • shack
  • 12.
    • meantime
    • ADJ. taking place during an interim
  • 13.
    • explore with a probe or tools
    • N: slender instrument used to explore a wound or body cavity
    • device designed to investigate an unknown region
    • thorough investigation
    • investigate
  • 14.
    • impose (a fine)
    • collect (a payment)
    • impose or collect (a tax)
  • 15.
    • talkative boaster
    • braggart
  • 16.
    • stained
    • spotted
  • 17.
    • sharp
    • bitter (to the taste or smell)
    • bitterly pungent
  • 18.
    • indisputable
    • incontrovertible
    • undeniable
  • 19.
    • storage place for military equipment
  • 20.
    • loose freshness
    • droop
  • 21.
    • practical rule guiding conduct
  • 22.
    • (of something bad) easily perceptible
    • tangible
    • obvious
  • 23.
    • surmise
    • guess
  • 24.
    • diplomatic etiquette
    • ceremony and etiquette observed by diplomats
    • first copy of a treaty before its ratification
  • 25.
    • conceal
    • hide away or cache
    • produce and release a substance into an organism
  • 26.
    • pertaining to drama
    • N: actor or actress
  • 27.
    • material
    • bodily (rather than spiritual)
    • of a bodily form
    • tangible
  • 28.
    • destroy leaves
    • deprive of leaves (by the use of chemicals)
  • 29.
    • outward demonstration
    • manifesting
    • indication of the presence of something
  • 30.
    • payment or expense
    • expending
    • something expended
    • output
  • 31.
    • whim
    • tendency to behave amusingly strangely