GRE Vocabulary Power (8-72)
單詞卡: 34
- 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