GRE Vocabulary Power (3-23)

单词卡: 29

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  • 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