Cracking the GRE: Beyond the Hit Parade 1
Terms
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- alloy (v)
- to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior; unalloyed = pure
- appropriate (v)
- to take for one's own use, confiscate
- arrest, arresting (v/adj)
- to suspend; holding one's attention
- august (adj)
- majestic, venerable
- bent (n)
- leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
- broach (v)
- bring up, announce, begin to talk about
- brook (v)
- to tolerate, endure, countenance
- cardinal (adj)
- major (cardinal sin)
- chauvinist (n)
- blindly devoted patriot
- color (v)
- to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first)
- consequential (adj)
- pompous, self-important (primary definition: logically following, important)
- damp (v)
- to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound
- die (n)
- a tool used for shaping, "tool-and-die shop"
- essay (v)
- to test or try; attempt, experiment
- exact (v)
- to demand, call for, require, take
- fell (v)
- to cause to fall by striking
- fell (adj)
- inhumanly cruel ("Fell beasts...")
- flag (v)
- to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline
- flip (adj)
- sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark
- ford (v)
- to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream
- grouse (v)
- to complain or grumble
- guy (n/v)
- rope/cord/cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to reinforce using a guide
- intimate (v)
- to imply, sugest, or insinuate
- list (v)
- to tilt or lean to one side
- lumber (v)
- to move heavily and clumsily
- meet (adj)
- fitting, proper
- milk (v)
- to exploit, to squeeze every last ounce of
- mince (v)
- pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize, speak to carefully; also to take tiny steps, tiptoe
- nice (adj)
- exacting, fastidious, extremely precise
- obtain (asj)
- to be established, accepted or customary
- occult (adj)
- hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
- pedestrian (adj)
- commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian
- pied (adj)
- multicolored, usually in blotches
- pine (v)
- to lose vigor (as thru grief); to yearn
- plastic (adj)
- moldable, pliable, not rigid
- pluck (n)
- courage, spunk, fortitude
- prize (v)
- to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils
- rail (v)
- to complain about bitterly
- rent (v/n)
- torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such
- quail (v)
- to lose courage, turn frightened
- qualify (v)
- to limit
- sap (v)
- to enervate or weaken the vitality of
- sap (n)
- a fool or nitwit
- scurvy (adj)
- contemptible, despicable
- singular (adj)
- exceptional, unusual, odd
- stand (n)
- group of trees
- steep (v)
- to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep ("Steeped in tradition...")
- strut (n)
- the supporting structural cross-part of a wing
- table (v)
- to remove from consideration
- tender (v)
- to proffer or offer
- waffle (v)
- to equivocate, to change one's position
- wag (n)
- wit, joker