GRE Vocabulary Power (13-121)

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  • 1.
    • small light sailboat or rowboat
  • 2.
    • cancel
    • revoke (an order)
  • 3.
    • oddity
    • idiosyncrasy
  • 4.
    • blues
    • listlessness(lack of spirit or energy)
    • slack(inactive) period
    • period of stagnation
    • ocean area near the equator where ships cannot move because there is no wind
  • 5.
    • meddlesome
    • excessively pushy in offering one's services
    • overly eager in offering unwanted services or advices
  • 6.
    • steering wheel of a ship
    • position of control
  • 7.
    • calmness of temperament
    • composure
  • 8.
    • happening at last as a result
  • 9.
    • spot
    • blot
  • 10.
    • make rational
    • devise false reasons for (one's behavior)
    • offer an excuse
    • give a plausible reason for an action in place of a true, less admirable ones
  • 11.
    • filled with great surprise or fear
    • horrified
  • 12.
    • hide the real nature of
    • pretend
    • disguise
  • 13.
    • shrink quivering as from fear
    • cringe
  • 14.
    • that must be done
    • critically important
    • expressing command
    • N: something that must be done
    • absolutely necessary
  • 15.
    • praising
    • eulogistic
    • eulogy
  • 16.
    • pamphlet
  • 17.
    • climate
  • 18.
    • miser
    • stingy person
  • 19.
    • marked by great changes in fortune
    • with many changes of fortuene
  • 20.
    • well-bred
    • striving to convey an appearance of refinement
    • elegant
  • 21.
    • mutually agreed on
    • done together by agreement
  • 22.
    • gracious
    • agreeable
    • charming (in a childlike way)
    • engaging
  • 23.
    • crevice
    • crack
  • 24.
    • not identical on both sides of a dividing central line
  • 25.
    • outward decorations
    • ornaments (as an outward sign of rank)
  • 26.
    • sleight(dexterity) of hand
  • 27.
    • benefit
    • something very helpful
    • blessing
  • 28.
    • imitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing
    • work of art openly imitating the works of other artists
  • 29.
    • derived by reasoning
    • derive by reasoning
  • 30.
    • (of something bad) highly conspicuous
    • harshly bright
    • shining intensely and blindingly
  • 31.
    • playful
    • gay
    • prankish
    • frisky
    • merry
  • 32.
    • conventions
    • moral standards
    • moral customs
  • 33.
    • art of effective communication
    • art of using language effectively and persuasively
    • style of speaking or writing
    • grandiloquent language
    • ADJ. rhetorical
  • 34.
    • self-governing