GRE Vocabulary Power (8-72)

单词卡: 34

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  • 1.
    • group of closely located islands
  • 2.
    • story
    • related to telling a story
    • N: narrated account
  • 3.
    • with identity concealed
    • using an assumed name
    • ADJ.
  • 4.
    • pure
    • thin and transparent
    • very steep
  • 5.
    • tell in confidence (to a person one trusts)
    • be confident about
  • 6.
    • related to population balance
  • 7.
    • speak evil of
    • bad-mouth(criticize spitefully)
    • ADJ: harmful
    • defame
  • 8.
    • not able to be perceived by touch
    • vague
  • 9.
    • ordeal
    • distress
    • suffering
    • trial
  • 10.
    • corpulent
    • fragrant
    • total
    • clearly wrong
    • (of people's behavior) coarse
    • V: earn as a total amount
    • N: 12 dozens
  • 11.
    • decay of body tissue caused by insufficient blood supply (usually following injury)
    • ADJ. gangrenous
  • 12.
    • belief that events are determined by forces or fates beyond one's control
    • ADJ. fatalistic
  • 13.
    • diminish
    • undermine the foundations of (a fortification)
    • weaken
  • 14.
    • part that forms the end
    • railroad or bus station
    • ADJ. forming an end
    • ending in death
    • fatal
  • 15.
    • deep disgrace
    • shame or dishonor
    • ADJ. ignominious
  • 16.
    • enough
    • spacious
    • abundance
    • abundant
    • large in size
    • largeness of space
  • 17.
    • consecrate
    • put oil on (in a religious ceremony)
  • 18.
    • determination
    • resoluteness
    • ADJ. resolute: firm or determined in purpose
  • 19.
    • profitable
    • producing wealth
  • 20.
    • decay
    • break and separate into simple parts
  • 21.
    • grow rapidly
    • grow forth
    • send out buds
  • 22.
    • mass of material sticking together
  • 23.
    • celebratory
    • relating to a feast or festival
    • joyous
  • 24.
    • make or become black by burning
    • reduce or be reduced to carbon or charcoal(black substance made by burning wood) by incomplete combustion
  • 25.
    • endowed with flesh
    • invested with bodily form
    • personified
    • V: give bodily form to
    • embody
  • 26.
    • support on which a lever rests or pivots
  • 27.
    • decorate with needlework
    • ornament (a story) with fancy or fictitious details
    • embellish
  • 28.
    • rebellion
    • uprising
  • 29.
    • crowd (of people or things)
  • 30.
    • state of reacting readily to appeals, orders, etc.
    • ADJ. responsive: readily reacting
  • 31.
    • haphazard
    • without definite purpose, plan, or aim
  • 32.
    • manlike
    • resembling a human being
  • 33.
    • mitigate
    • weaken
    • lessen the seriousness of (bad behavior)
  • 34.
    • small piece or mark