GRE Vocabulary

At a rapidly accelerating rate

The most essential or critical point of a matter

The words of a song; relating to expressive, songlike poetry

A person who advocates the absence of government and authority

To make more lively or interesting

A swarming grasshopper highly destructive to crops

Taking pleasure in causing pain or humiliation to others

To strongly urge or advise someone to do something

Characterized by charitable giving and concern for human welfare

Able to float; cheerful and lively; (of markets) active and rising

A legal judgment of not guilty

To free someone from false beliefs or illusions; the state of disenchantment

An outline of topics covered in a course

A young male horse; an inexperienced young person

Disgusting dirt; moral corruption or obscene content

To cater to base desires; a person who procures for others

Feeling quiet sadness and longing

Marked with irregular patches of different colours

Extremely light, delicate, and otherworldly; heavenly

Fearless and brave in the face of danger

To gradually intrude on someone's rights or territory

A hinged tool used to grip and pick up objects

Having or relating to a wide, sweeping view

To cleverly plan or devise something

Feeling or causing nausea; squeamish or uneasy

A false published statement damaging someone's reputation; to defame in writing

A form of an element with the same atomic number but different mass number

A long narrow crack in rock or tissue; to split open

Showing a patronizing attitude of superiority toward others

To encourage or assist someone in wrongdoing

Horrifyingly repellent and gruesome

A pig; a contemptible person

Hard to please; overly concerned with petty details

A central pin or shaft for rotation; a key person or thing; to turn or shift direction

A ghost or apparition; something illusory or fictitious

To administer a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease

A vague feeling of physical or mental discomfort and unease

Knotty and twisted, especially from age

Harmful or poisonous

A simultaneous burst of shots or words; to hit a ball before it bounces

No longer active or in existence; deceased

The oval nut of an oak tree

A person who has suddenly gained wealth or power but is arrogant or socially unaccepted

Involving great effort or difficulty; burdensome

An archenemy or agent of someone's downfall; just retribution

Established as a norm; placed in or dependent on an institution

To destroy completely

Making great demands; requiring great care or precision