GRE Vocabulary Power (9-86)

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  • 1.
    • act of assuming a human body and human nature
    • one who personifies something
    • personification
  • 2.
    • repay in kind (usually for bad treatment)
  • 3.
    • praise
    • ADJ. laudatory: expressing praise
  • 4.
    • equal in extent
    • of the same size
  • 5.
    • until
    • not yet decided or settled
    • impending
    • PREP. while awaiting
  • 6.
    • limpid(crystal clear)
    • clear in meaning
    • easy to understand
    • transparent
  • 7.
    • hanging
    • suspended
  • 8.
    • unbeliever (with respect to a particular religion)
  • 9.
    • disclaim or disavow
    • retract a previous statement
    • openly confess error
  • 10.
    • split or sever
    • cling to
    • remain faithful to
    • ADJ. cloven
  • 11.
    • one incapacitated(disabled) by a chronic illness
    • ADJ: incapacitated by illness
    • not valid
    • null
    • V: allow to leave (a military force) because of ill-health
  • 12.
    • debauched person
    • dissolute or licentious person
  • 13.
    • sensual
    • of or giving sensual pleasure
    • indulging in sensual pleasures
  • 14.
    • sign of something to come
    • V: announce
    • proclaim
    • messenger
  • 15.
    • propriety
    • orderliness and good taste in manners
    • appropriateness of behavior or conduct
  • 16.
    • terminology(system of specialized words)
    • system of names or naming things
  • 17.
    • not planned
    • impromptu
    • extempore
  • 18.
    • swindle or cheat
    • N: wedgelike tool for cutting
  • 19.
    • like a lion
  • 20.
    • tone down in intensity
    • change the intensity or tone of
    • regulate
    • change from one musical key to another
  • 21.
    • advantage
    • goodness
    • moral excellence
    • good quality
  • 22.
    • baffling
    • evasive
    • not frank
    • hard to grasp, catch, or understand
    • escape the understanding or grasp of
  • 23.
    • funeral director
    • one whose business is to arrange burials
  • 24.
    • leftover food
  • 25.
    • enliven
    • add leaven to
    • cause to rise or grow lighter
    • N: agent, such as yeast, that causes dough to rise (by fermentation)
    • element that lightens or enlivens
  • 26.
    • hard unpleasant work
    • menial work
  • 27.
    • religion practiced chiefly in Haiti
  • 28.
    • begin to grow
    • give off shoots or buds
    • N: new growth on a plant
    • shoot
  • 29.
    • analysis
    • cutting apart in order to examine
  • 30.
    • clever
    • perceptiveness
    • ingenuity
    • delicacy
    • ADJ. subtle: delicate
    • so slight as to be difficult to detect
    • able to make fine distinctions
  • 31.
    • logical formula consisting of a major premise, a minor premise and a conclusion
    • deceptive or specious argument
  • 32.
    • change the appearance of (by marking with different colors)