GRE Vocabulary Power (15-147)
Vocabulary Cards: 29
- 1.
- mar
- spoil the beauty or perfection of
- N: flaw or defect (that spoils perfection)
- 2.
- evil spirit
- devil
- 3.
- without attention to comfort
- lacking luxury and comfort
- sternly disciplined
- 4.
- move (a railway train) from one track to another
- turn aside
- divert
- sidetrack
- 5.
- expel
- drive out
- force out
- 6.
- chances
- probability
- disagreement
- 7.
- either of the correlated things
- 8.
- soft and mild (of air)
- fragrant
- 9.
- rhythmical throbbing of arteries
- brief sudden change in a normally constant quantity
- V: pulsate
- 10.
- poor
- destitute
- 11.
- without guile
- open and honest
- 12.
- clever
- marked by inventive skill
- resourceful
- 13.
- thin
- slight
- barely discernible
- 14.
- explanatory
- serving to explain
- exhibition
- 15.
- universally present
- ubiquitous
- 16.
- pertaining to tailors or tailoring
- 17.
- nation governed by the people
- republic
- people of a nation
- 18.
- food
- 19.
- switch (a railroad car) to a siding
- divert from a main issue
- 20.
- sensitive
- capable of sensation and conscious
- aware
- 21.
- root up
- uproot
- destroy completely
- 22.
- fickle
- ability to change in form
- fickleness
- ADJ. mutable: able to change
- 23.
- minutely attentive (perhaps too much so) to fine points
- stressing niceties of conduct or form
- 24.
- surpass
- outrun
- outdo
- 25.
- rebellious
- dissenting (with an opinion, a group, or a government)
- 26.
- uneasiness
- vague feeling of ill health (without any particular pain or appearance of disease)
- 27.
- idyllic
- rural
- of rural life
- of a pastor
- 28.
- renounce upon oath
- 29.
- disable
- mutilate
- injure lastingly
- cripple