GRE Vocabulary Power (10-94)

单词卡: 28

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  • 1.
    • story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio)
  • 2.
    • final outcome
    • final development of the plot of a play or other literary work
    • the end of a story when everything is explained
  • 3.
    • shrill, trumpetlike sound
    • kind of trumpet used in former times
  • 4.
    • stretching
    • condition of being stretched
    • mental strain
    • strained relationship between groups or people
  • 5.
    • (of land) plowed but not sowed (to improve the quality)
    • uncultivated
  • 6.
    • typical
    • ordinary
    • not nuclear
  • 7.
    • make (a liquid) less concentrated
    • reduce in strength
  • 8.
    • situation that requires a choice between equally unfavorable options
    • problem
    • choice of two unsatisfactory alternatives
  • 9.
    • sudden sharp feeling of pain
  • 10.
    • soul
    • mind
  • 11.
    • group of people who share some common quality
    • armed band
    • a group of between 300 and 600 soldiers under one commander (in the ancient Rome)
  • 12.
    • cause to appear by magic
    • summon (a devil or a spirit) by magical power
    • practice magic (esp. by very quick movement of the hands)
    • evoke
    • conjure up: bring into the mind
  • 13.
    • machine that separates substances by whirling them
  • 14.
    • push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude
    • impose (oneself or one's ideas) on others
    • butt in
    • stick out or extrude
    • thrust out
    • ADJ. obtrusive
  • 15.
    • delicate
    • oversensitive
    • easily offended
    • irasible
    • needing delicate handling
  • 16.
    • payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce
  • 17.
    • insane
  • 18.
    • pertaining to soil deposits left by running water
  • 19.
    • support placed under or against something
  • 20.
    • dull
    • unwieldy
    • having great weight
    • weighty
    • lacking lightness
  • 21.
    • express condolences
  • 22.
    • question closely
    • cross-examine
    • cross-question
  • 23.
    • take in food or drink with one's tongue
    • splash gently
    • N: front area from the waist to the knees of a seated person
  • 24.
    • mix
    • work dough
    • mix and work into a uniform mass (with the hands)
  • 25.
    • nonsense
    • foolishness
    • V: talk nonsense
  • 26.
    • trace
    • minute amount
    • shred
    • least bit
  • 27.
    • powerful person
  • 28.
    • agree
    • be in harmony with
    • gibe