GRE Vocabulary Power (14-137)
Vocabulary Cards: 33
- 1.
- very important
- 2.
- beastlike
- brutal
- inhuman
- very cruel
- 3.
- posion
- cause of ruin
- ADJ. baneful: harmful
- poisonous
- 4.
- heavier or larger on one side than the other
- 5.
- have a tendency
- take care of
- minister
- serve at
- apply one's attention
- attend
- 6.
- resulting from compulsion
- 7.
- enormous chasm
- vast bottomless pit
- 8.
- serving as a model
- model
- outstanding
- 9.
- trusted friend (to whom one tells one's secret)
- 10.
- most
- vague statement
- general statement which is not detailed
- quality of being general
- greater part
- 11.
- overstock
- fill beyond capacity (with food)
- fill to excess
- N: oversupply
- 12.
- tear apart
- split
- 13.
- cheat
- hoodwink
- swindle
- 14.
- agreeable
- having a pleasing appearance
- attractive
- 15.
- noisy quarrel
- 16.
- make invalid
- nullify
- destroy
- weaken
- 17.
- counterfeit
- not authentic
- intentionally false
- 18.
- word for word
- in the same words
- repeating the actual words exactly
- 19.
- abrupt
- concise
- pithy
- 20.
- genuine
- real
- 21.
- official or legal permission
- latitude of action or speech
- excessive freedom that causes harm or damage
- 22.
- fenced enclosure for animals
- confining space
- V: confine in a pen
- enclose
- 23.
- make amends for
- pay for
- 24.
- long heroic poem, novel, or similar work of art (celebrating the feats of a hero)
- ADJ: (of stories or events) resembling an epic
- grand
- 25.
- announce
- proclaim
- articulate
- pronounce clearly
- utter or speak, especially distinctly
- 26.
- pardon (allowed by government to political criminals)
- 27.
- drink with zest
- drink with relish(zest
- hearty enjoyment)
- 28.
- grandiloquent, pompous speech
- 29.
- eliminate
- settle accounts
- pay off (a debt)
- clear up
- kill or abolish
- 30.
- amendment or clause added to a legislative bill
- 31.
- cancel
- put an end to
- 32.
- hairs on back and neck, especially of a dog
- 33.
- drive to take action
- drive or force onward
- urge to action