GRE Vocabulary Power (3-23)
单词卡: 29
- 1.
- widespread damage
- disorder
- chaos
- 2.
- place for burying the dead
- 3.
- catch sight of (something distant)
- 4.
- excessively or elaborately decorated
- 5.
- antiquated
- belonging to the past
- no longer used
- 6.
- demanding and leaving no choice
- imperative
- 7.
- dead
- no longer in use or existence
- 8.
- flair
- manner of doing things without any difficulty (causing admiration)
- flamboyance
- bunch of feathers (on a helmet)
- 9.
- abnormal or deviant
- 10.
- self-assurance
- calm unworried feeling based on a strong belief in one's abilities
- strong belief in the ability of a person or plan
- trust or faith in a person or thing
- something confided
- secret
- 11.
- act of turning aside
- pastime
- distract
- amuse
- 12.
- hardened
- unfeeling
- without sympathy for the sufferings of others
- unkind
- 13.
- expressiveness
- persuasive speech
- ADJ. eloquent: movingly expressive
- expressing ideas well so that the hearers can be influeneced
- 14.
- pine tree (usu. evergreen)
- cone-bearing tree
- ADJ. coniferous
- 15.
- enjoy
- have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
- N: taste or smell
- distinctive quality
- 16.
- degenerate
- disgrace
- humiliation
- debasement
- degeneration
- reduce (something) in worth
- demote (someone)
- reduce in rank
- 17.
- sycophant
- toady
- animal or plant living on another
- 18.
- connected with birth
- 19.
- instruct
- correct morally
- 20.
- purposely continuing to do something wrong
- stubbornly wrongheaded
- perverted
- directed away from what is right
- wicked and unacceptable
- 21.
- mysterious
- set down in an ancient alphabet
- magic charm
- 22.
- severity
- 23.
- hereditary nobility
- privileged class
- government by nobility
- 24.
- provincial
- narrow in scope or outlook
- related to parishes
- 25.
- based on experience
- 26.
- impetus
- quantity of motion of a moving body
- moving force
- 27.
- having foresight
- fortuneteller
- 28.
- quality of a musical tone produced by a musical instrument (which distinguishes it from others of the same pitch)
- 29.
- indirect or roundabout expression (by using an uncecessarily large number of words esp. when trying to avoid answering a difficu