GRE - the Hard ones - Part 2
Vocabulary Cards: 25
- 1.
- to slight or belittle
- 2.
- tending to believe too readily
- gullible
- 3.
- a believe that all people are motivated by selfishness
- 4.
- polite behavior
- appropriate conduct
- 5.
- scorn, ridicule
- contemptuous treatment
- 6.
- to dry out or dehydrate
- to make dry or dull
- 7.
- someone with an amateurish interest in art or another subject
- 8.
- having a tightening effect on living tissue
- harsh, severe
- 9.
- Sharing a border
- touching, adjacent
- 10.
- an agreed upon practice or attitude
- 11.
- having a sour or bitter taste or character
- sharp, biting
- 12.
- to increase in intensity, power, influence, prestige
- 13.
- medieval science to transmutate metals into gold
- 14.
- agreeable
- responsive to suggestion
- 15.
- to flatter or praise excessively
- 16.
- to show contempt for
- 17.
- pointlessly talkative
- talking too much
- 18.
- marked by ease or informality
- nonchalant, lacking in depth
- 19.
- to state as a fact
- to declare or assert
- 20.
- something or someone out of place
- 21.
- unyielding, hardhearted, intractable
- 22.
- exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
- 23.
- disgrace, contempt, scorn
- 24.
- teaching or instructing
- 25.
- overly concerned with learning or education
- show-offish about one's knowledge