6a
GRE vocab
Vocabulary Cards: 60
- 1.
- mysterious
- magical
- 2.
- perceptive
- wise
- having sound judgment
- 3.
- obscene
- 4.
- prominent
- conspicuous
- relevant
- protuding
- 5.
- wholesome
- causing improvement
- favoriable to health
- 6.
- self-rightous
- 7.
- optimistic
- cheerful
- confident
- 8.
- to surfeit
- to overindulge
- 9.
- dark
- morose
- sullen
- gloomy
- 10.
- a large net dragged to catch fish
- 11.
- like a seed
- constituting a source
- originative
- 12.
- aphoristic or moralistic
- epigrammatic
- tending to moralize excessively
- 13.
- astral
- relating to stars or constellations
- 14.
- to smirk
- a silly smile
- 15.
- position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income
- 16.
- serpentine
- winding
- undulating
- 17.
- to satisfy or quench
- 18.
- dull
- unimaginative
- soaked or drenched
- 19.
- to weld, fuse, or join
- 20.
- fallacious reasoning
- faulty logic
- 21.
- affected
- bombastic
- self-assured though immature
- lacking maturity
- 22.
- bad-tempered
- irritable
- 23.
- extremely loud aqnd powerful
- 24.
- to restrain
- to be sparing or frugal
- 25.
- striped
- grooved
- banded
- 26.
- dark
- gloomy
- 27.
- assistance
- relief in time of distress
- 28.
- miscellaneous
- various
- separate
- 29.
- haughty
- disdainful
- arrogant
- 30.
- prone
- mentally or morally slack
- literally, lying on one's back
- 31.
- mendicant
- beggar
- 32.
- to plug
- to drive in or down by a series of blows
- 33.
- a repetition
- a redundancy
- 34.
- cheap
- showy
- gaudy
- meretricious
- tacky
- 35.
- biased
- showing marked tendencies
- 36.
- timid
- fearful
- diffident
- 37.
- sycophant
- flatter
- 38.
- passionate
- ardent
- scorching
- 39.
- obedient
- docile
- easily led
- 40.
- caricature
- parody
- mockery
- 41.
- swollen
- 42.
- muddy
- roiled
- clouded to the point of being opaque
- 43.
- tumid
- swollen
- bombastic
- thick
- pompous
- 44.
- novice
- greenhorn
- rank amateur
- 45.
- pique
- resentment
- offense
- 46.
- to fluctuate
- to move in a wavelike fashion
- 47.
- unruly
- unseemly
- perverse
- 48.
- to scold
- to rebuke
- to chastise
- to sensure
- 49.
- the practice of charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest
- 50.
- to brag or boast
- 51.
- mercenary
- capable of being bought or bribed
- purchasable
- 52.
- to revere
- to worship
- 53.
- appearance of truth or reality
- 54.
- authentic
- honest-to-goodness
- 55.
- a loud, domineering woman
- a scold or nag
- 56.
- to spoil
- to pervert
- to debase
- to make ineffective
- 57.
- fluency
- verbosity
- easy use of spoken language
- 58.
- to cause to move as if by a light breeze
- 59.
- to writhe
- to toss about about
- to be in turmoil
- 60.
- to walk
- to go
- to proceed