GRE Vocabulary

Childishly irritable or sulky

A loosely coiled bundle of yarn or thread

Having great learning and knowledge; a highly scholarly person

The quality of not allowing light through; being hard to understand

Knives, forks, spoons and other eating utensils

Relieving symptoms without curing; a medicine that eases pain or discomfort

A fighter in ancient Rome who fought in public arenas for entertainment

Harsh, abusive language used to attack someone

A person indifferent or hostile to art and culture; lacking cultural appreciation

Unwillingness or inability to believe something

An opening or hole, especially a natural opening in the body

To give someone false or misleading information

A swinging horizontal bar suspended by two ropes, used by circus acrobats

Extremely hot and dry; intensely passionate

Relating to or befitting a son or daughter; showing filial respect

The angle between magnetic and true north; a celestial body's angular distance from the equator; a refusal

Having patches of two or more colors, especially black and white

To treat something sacred with disrespect or irreverence

An inferior artificial substitute; being a poor imitation of something genuine

A very small or inadequate amount of money

Foolish, silly, or crazy.

Unpleasantly excessive, especially in sweetness or sentiment

Relating to the later Stone Age; hopelessly outdated

To trap or lure into a snare or difficult situation

Fine floating cobwebs or delicate fabric; extremely light and thin

Covered with spines or thorns; troublesome or difficult

Statues collectively; the art of making statues

The state of being timid; lack of courage or confidence

To make something inactive or no longer effective

Unexpected and unfavourable; improper

To be necessary or appropriate for someone to do

A secret code or coded message; the digit zero; a person of no importance

A substance used to kill or prevent the growth of fungi

To produce sweat through the skin

To carry out a task incompetently; a blunder or botched action

A small spiny mammal that rolls into a ball when threatened

Great joy and triumphant rejoicing

A prehistoric rock carving or drawing

A formal, ceremonial public speech

A reduction in costs, spending, or staff

Calmness and composure, especially under stress

Excessive patriotism or belief in one's group's superiority

A fine white stone used for carving; white and smooth like alabaster

To add explanatory notes to a text

The text or script of an opera or musical drama

To challenge the truth or validity of something

The tall tower of a mosque used for the call to prayer

To strongly criticize; to scrape off skin