GRE Vocabulary Power (1-1)

Vocabulary Cards: 34

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  • 1.
    • standstill resulting from the opposition of two unrelenting forces
    • stalemate
  • 2.
    • crush or grind into very small particles
  • 3.
    • hiding place
  • 4.
    • close relationship
    • emotional closeness
    • harmony
  • 5.
    • take away energy from
    • weaken
  • 6.
    • sign
    • signs
    • indications
  • 7.
    • ability to move spontaneously
    • ADJ. motile: moving spontaneously
  • 8.
    • disobedience
    • rebelliousness
    • ADJ. insubordinate
  • 9.
    • readily acting in accordance with a rule, order, or the wishes or others
    • yielding
    • comforming to requirements
  • 10.
    • legally correct
  • 11.
    • keep away from
    • avoid deliberately
  • 12.
    • diffuse mass of interstellar dust or gas
    • galaxy
  • 13.
    • something of little importance or value
    • V: treat without seriousness
    • flirt
  • 14.
    • bruise
  • 15.
    • easily understood
    • clear
    • intelligible
  • 16.
    • profane
    • make filthy or dirty
    • narrow passage or gorge through mountains
  • 17.
    • hammerlike tool
    • mallet(wooden hammer) used by a presiding officer or an auctioneer
  • 18.
    • security given for loan
    • ADJ: secondary
    • descended from the same person but through different sons or daughters
  • 19.
    • careful
    • prudential
    • cautious
  • 20.
    • outline or silhouette of a thing or human body
    • configuration of steps in a dance
    • to calculate
  • 21.
    • empty
    • lacking
  • 22.
    • lying below
    • fundamental
  • 23.
    • free from chains
    • liberate
  • 24.
    • indecent
    • about sex in a rude funny way
    • obscene
  • 25.
    • hidden sarcasm or satire
    • use of words that seem to mean the opposite of what they actually mean
  • 26.
    • mix together in close association
  • 27.
    • what someone deserves
  • 28.
    • capricious
    • quick and changing
    • containing the element mercury
  • 29.
    • lawyer using questionable methods
    • unscrupulous practioner
  • 30.
    • shine intensely and blindingly
    • stare fixedly and angrily
  • 31.
    • discard
    • sink (a ship) by cutting holes in the hull
    • N: small hatch in a ship's deck or hull
  • 32.
    • disloyal
    • N: disloyal and cowardly person
    • cowardly
  • 33.
    • slavery
    • compulsory labor imposed as a punishment
  • 34.
    • scowl
    • glare
    • look or stare angrily