GRE Vocabulary

A microscopic organism, especially a harmful bacterium

Having agreed to marry; busy or occupied; deeply involved

Calm, peaceful, and untroubled

A sudden strong rush of wind; to blow in gusts

Soft, light, and covered with fluff

Strict and severe in manner; the rear of a ship

The medical study of disease causes and effects; an abnormal condition

Unable to coexist or function together; conflicting

To say something suddenly without thinking; an abrupt outburst

Excessively proud of oneself; producing no result; futile

A subatomic particle with no charge found in the atomic nucleus

The act of seizing something; attractive or charming

To dig out or hollow something; to uncover by digging

To enter or involve oneself without permission or welcome

Relating to the brain; intellectual rather than emotional

Balanced correspondence of form on either side of a dividing line

Of or relating to this world, not heaven

Existing from birth; natural and inborn

To join or come together again after separation

To decode a cipher or secret message; to make out something difficult to read or understand

Serving as an ideal model worthy of imitation

Broken into pieces; emotionally devastated or extremely tired

To use up or significantly reduce a resource

Deliberately unreasonable or contrary; morally wrong

Relating to sound or hearing; not electrically amplified; sound properties of a space

A word with the same ending sound as another; to have matching sounds

Similar or comparable to something else in certain respects

A large Roman army unit; a vast number of people or things

A manner or style of walking or moving

A faint or brief flash of light; to shine softly

A religious or political group that has broken away from a larger body

Easily broken or snapped; a hard nut-and-sugar candy

Highly skilled; an expert

A sudden raid or attack; a brief venture into a new area

A rotational twisting force

A regular partial payment; one episode of a serial

To cause something to happen suddenly; a solid formed in a solution; done hastily

The means of maintaining life at a basic level

To take away a number or amount from another

To feed and support growth; to encourage or foster

Excessive, uncontrollable emotion or excitement

A heavy outpouring of gunfire or criticism (n.); to overwhelm with such (v.)

A large corporation of diverse companies; a mixed mass; to combine into one group

To protect by preventing transfer of heat, electricity, or sound; to isolate

A spy or skilled worker; functioning effectively; most significant

A collection of literary works by various authors

A mark left by pressing; to stamp or fix firmly in the mind

A device that projects images or video onto a screen