GRE Vocabulary

To continue after a pause; a document listing qualifications for a job

Based on theory rather than practice

A regular payment to a retired person; to grant such a payment

Easily damaged; fine and subtle in quality

To shape wood or stone by cutting; to slice cooked meat

A thin pointed implement for sewing or injections; to tease or provoke

To frighten someone; a sudden fright or public panic

A case for documents; a collection of work samples; a minister's responsibilities

To travel back and forth between two places; a vehicle making such trips

A business deal or exchange; the act of conducting business

To save from danger or harm; an act of saving someone

A person or thing with the same role or function as another in a different context

A person who rides; an additional clause in a document

Exact and accurate in every detail

A nutrient such as sugar or starch that provides energy

To identify a disease or problem through analysis

A large printed notice or picture used for advertising or decoration

Freedom from control or oppression; the right to act freely

Firm resolve to achieve a goal; the act of deciding or finding out something

A person who donates money, blood, or organs to help others

A genre of music with improvisation and swing; to make more lively

A Christian minister leading a congregation; to serve as such a minister

Fairness and impartiality; ownership value in a company or property

Appropriate, respectable, and morally acceptable; adequately good

To give official approval or support; to sign the back of a cheque

Responses or comments on work; signal looped back into a system

A range of colours from light; a broad range of related things or ideas

A high level of skill or knowledge in a particular field

A kingdom; a sphere of knowledge or influence

The fundamental laws governing a country; a person's physical makeup

A person who receives something

The skin of a fruit or vegetable; to remove the outer layer

To toss or turn over quickly; a quick rotating movement

A figure of speech implying similarity between two unlike things

Relating to courts of law and the justice system

A thing or organization with a distinct independent existence

Relating to diplomacy; tactful in dealing with people

To reduce to the smallest possible amount; to downplay importance; to collapse a window to an icon

To admit to wrongdoing; to disclose sins to a priest

Relaxed and informal; happening by chance; a temporary worker

The force pulling objects toward the earth; the seriousness of a situation

A purpose or aim; firmly focused on a goal

To separate or cut off from others; to place in quarantine

A detailed list of goods in stock; to make such a list

The size, extent, or importance of something

Nearly vertical in slope; to soak in liquid; a steep slope

Energetic and constantly changing; a driving force or pattern

A mathematical statement that two expressions are equal; treating things as equivalent