GRE Vocabulary

Playful flirtation; a brief casual romantic involvement; idle time-wasting.

A wine merchant or wine maker

Dull, monotonous, and lacking variety

The punctuation mark ('); a rhetorical address to an absent person

Lacking professional skill or polish

Only indirectly related; relating to a tangent

To push outward; to shape by forcing through an opening

To take away private property for public use

A passageway or temporary walkway; make way!

To live together as a couple without being married

Treating serious matters too lightly; frivolity

Generous giving of gifts or money, often ostentatiously

To flick through pages or shuffle cards; a shallow fast-flowing stream

Fortunate, as if arranged by divine providence

A person who bathes or swims

Very thin and nearly transparent

Waste material left after smelting metal; to produce slag

A dissatisfied, rebellious person; feeling discontented

A keyboard instrument that plucks strings, common in Baroque music

To cut into a surface; to carve or engrave

To make someone appear guilty of a crime

Easily bent; readily yielding to influence

A decorative wooden floor; the ground-floor seating in a theatre

To make small improvements to a photo or image; an act of retouching

A scene of noisy chaos and confusion

A person or animal lacking normal pigmentation; having albinism

A noisy, disorderly quarrel or brawl

Lacking purpose, responsibility, or effectiveness

Capable of being split; able to sustain nuclear fission

The husks of grain; worthless material; to tease or banter

Relating to statistical calculation of insurance risks

Lacking caution or good judgment; rash

To cause milk to form clumps; to congeal or spoil

The SI unit of luminous flux; the inner cavity of a tubular organ

To charm or captivate; to deceive using guile

A hobby pursued outside one's main occupation

Too strong to be captured, defeated, or overcome

White or grey with age; very old and overused

To secretly cooperate in wrongdoing; to overlook a fault deliberately

Able to be acquired or achieved

Exclusion from a community or society by general consent

Casually carefree and indifferent; cheerful and lighthearted

A person or machine that harvests crops; a personification of death

To speak or recite in a theatrical, impassioned manner; to protest vehemently

Soft and limp; lacking firmness or energy

A short pastoral poem; a peaceful, carefree experience

A small typing or printing error

A word formed by rearranging the letters of another word