GRE Vocabulary Power (12-113)
Vocabulary Cards: 35
- 1.
- marked with parallel bands
- striped
- grooved
- 2.
- person who has a compulsive desire to steal
- 3.
- distortion
- burlesque
- 4.
- traitor who aids invaders
- 5.
- hit or knock against with force
- 6.
- striking
- effectual
- producing a strong response
- in operation
- in effect
- 7.
- made of bone
- bony
- 8.
- not harmonious
- conflicting
- 9.
- only slightly connected
- not central
- peripheral
- digressing
- showing divergence
- 10.
- question
- inquiry
- 11.
- sermon
- tedious moralizing lecture
- serious warning
- ADJ. homiletic
- 12.
- pertaining to the art of delineating
- vividly described
- 13.
- having the weight of authority
- regarded as providing knowledge that can be trusted
- reliable
- peremptory and dictatorial
- 14.
- someone or something well known for notoriety
- ADJ. proverbial: of a proverb
- widely known
- ADV. proverbially
- adage
- 15.
- medical treatment and care of old age
- 16.
- stipulation
- condition in an agreement
- provision
- 17.
- taking up again
- recommencement
- take or occupy again
- 18.
- spread
- multiply
- increase in number by producing young
- 19.
- strength
- power of endurance
- staying power
- 20.
- voters represented by an elected official
- district so represented
- group of supporters (or constituents)
- 21.
- framework from which a noose is suspended (used for execution by hanging)
- 22.
- waterspout carved in grotesque figures on a building
- 23.
- criticize
- blame
- express strong disapproval
- N: severe criticism
- strong disapproval
- 24.
- boisterous
- noisy and uncontrollable
- 25.
- order
- command
- forbid
- 26.
- swindle
- wool coat of a sheep
- V: shear the fleece from
- rob by a trick
- plunder
- 27.
- tall column tapering(becoming gradually narrower toward the end) and ending in a pyramid
- 28.
- one who has more than one spouse at a time
- 29.
- furthest behind
- farthest to the rear
- 30.
- parched
- sear
- dry
- 31.
- counterfeit
- reproduce fraudulently
- form by heating in a forge and hammering into shape
- move with a sudden increase of speed or power
- N: furnace where metals are heated
- 32.
- odd
- irregular in movement or behavior
- unpredictable
- 33.
- one who supplicates
- ADJ.
- 34.
- inscription in memory of a dead person (as on a tombstone)
- 35.
- pierce with holes
- permeate or spread throughout