GRE Vocabulary

The art of preparing and enjoying good food; regional cuisine

To be a sign or indication of something

Tending to cause sleep; a sleep-inducing drug

Of direct family descent from parent to child

A feeling of embarrassment, frustration, or defeat

To compensate for loss or protect against liability

A steep cliff or slope formed by erosion or as part of a fortification

A person who constantly boasts; characterized by boasting

To claim or take something without right

Relating to or characterized by pleasure

A professional boxer or fist fighter

Relating to a tomb; gloomy and solemn; deep and hollow in sound

Aggressively defiant or eager to fight

An omen or sign of future events; divination from animal behaviour

Marked with parallel lines or grooves

Resembling an elephant; extremely large and heavy

Resembling a fad; briefly trendy

The most senior or respected member of a group

A morally unrestrained person; dissolute in behaviour

The skill or art of technical or artistic drawing

A sudden heavy rainstorm

To cancel a previous order; an order that reverses a previous one

Devoted to luxury and self-indulgence

Relating to indigestion; irritable

A person with broad and deep knowledge across many fields

To distort or scramble a message; confused speech

The emission of light by a substance heated to a high temperature

A historical instrument for measuring the altitude of stars

Mental decline in old age; excessive fondness

The act of entering; permission or means of entry

To skip or frolic playfully; a playful frolic

The art of skilled public speaking with controlled voice and gesture

A person who advocates or encourages war

Strikingly appropriate and relevant

To carry offspring in the womb; to develop an idea over time

A pain-relieving medicine; inoffensive and unlikely to cause controversy

Relating to or forming a question; a word used to ask a question

Dry and withered; a sequence of ecological communities in succession

The adoption of a cause or idea; a betrothal

Having no physical body or material form

A rude, unmannerly person who lacks social refinement

Very careful and precise about rules and details

Very loud and powerful in voice

To cut with scissors; a single scissor blade

A person who engages in something casually without real expertise.

A state of confusion or mental stupor

To mention or describe in detail; to specify individual cases

Carefully planning and saving for the future