Gre Barron List 27 - 28 (Words I Don't Know)

Front 1

INVETERATE

Back 1

deep-rooted, habitual

Front 2

INVIDIOUS

Back 2

1. unpleasant, awkward, Eg: put in an invidious position
2. unfair (comparison)

Front 3

INVOCATIONK

Back 3

su cau khan

Front 4

INVOKE

Back 4

1. cite, appeal to
2. summon

Front 5

IOTA

Back 5

small amount

Eg: To make an iota of difference

Front 6

IRATE

Back 6

angry, furious, enraged, fuming,seeting, livid >< calm, contented

Front 7

IRIDESCENT

Back 7

opalescent

Eg: Children loves blowing bubbles because they are intrigued by the iridescent of their colors

Front 8

IRKSOME

Back 8

irritating, annoying

Eg: The irksome of the babbling on T.V really disturbed my concentration

Front 9

IRREPROACHABLE

Back 9

faunt less, REPROACH = disaproval

Front 10

IRRESOLUTE

Back 10

wavering, uncertan

Eg: Although I still love him, I was irresolute how I should react about what has happend btw us

Front 11

IRRESOLUTE

Back 11

wavering, uncertain how to act

Eg: In a way, I still love him, yet I was irresolute on what I should do next about this whole thing

Front 12

IRREVOCABLE

Back 12

not able to change, unalterable, irreversable

Eg: I wonder if now is too late and whether or not things have become irrevocable

Front 13

ISOTOPE

Back 13

varrying forms of an element

Front 14

ISTHMUS

Back 14

a strip of land with water on both sides

Eg: I would love to spend my honeymoon at an isthmus, a place where you can find 2 beatiful beaches on both sides

Front 15

JABBER

Back 15

chatter rapidly but with not sense

Eg: Sometimes I find my self jabbering infront of the cool guys. I guess I was being too contrived

Front 16

JAUNDICED

Back 16

1. yellowish
2. bitter, resentful
Eg: a jaundiced world view

Front 17

JOSTLE

Back 17

bumping into each others, like in a crowd

eg: During the upcoming Celebrations in hanoi, the streets will be filled with pedestrians jostling against each other

Front 18

JUGGERNAUT

Back 18

irresistable crushing force

Eg:the juggernaut of war, Chien tranh hy sinh mu quang)

Front 19

JUNKET

Back 19

trip taken for pleasure by an official at public expense

Front 20

JUNTA

Back 20

cabal, grou of people politicaly joined

Front 21

KILLJOY

Back 21

spoilsport, nguoi lam mat vui/pha dam

Front 22

KINDRED

Back 22

related, similar, kin

Front 23

KNAVE

Back 23

untrustworthy, dishonest person

Front 24

KNEAD

Back 24

1. make, dough bread
2. massage

Eg: I love the feeling of someone kneading my back

Front 25

KNELL

Back 25

sound, tolling of a bell, especially funeral bell

Front 26

KNIT

Back 26

1. unite, come together
2. knit one's eyebrow (concentration frown)

Front 27

KNOLL

Back 27

a small hill
Eg: My "so-called" perfect wold

Front 28

LABILE

Back 28

likely to change, unstable

Front 29

LACERATION

Back 29

tear, deeply cut,

Eg:

Front 30

LACHRYMOSE

Back 30

tearrful or given weeping

Front 31

LACKADAISICAL

Back 31

lacking purpose, half-hearted
LETHARGIC, APATHETIC, LISTLESS, LUKEWARM,BLASE >< enthusiastic

Front 32

LACKLUSTER

Back 32

uninspired, dull, bland, dead, insipid, vapid, monotonous, dreary, tedious

Front 33

LAGGARD

Back 33

dwadler, staggler, lingerer, sluggards, lazybones

Front 34

LAITY

Back 34

ordinary people >< clergy, nguoi the tuc >< gioi tang lu

Front 35

LAMBASTE

Back 35

criticize harshly, chastise, berate, rebute, fulminate

Eg: after her daughter unwanted pregancy, Palin was lambasted in all media for champion a theory which her own kindred betray

Front 36

LANCET

Back 36

small surgical knife

Front 37

LANGUID

Back 37

1.weary, sluggish, listless,
2. relaxed

Front 38

LANGUISH

Back 38

lack vitality, weaken, detriorate, grow weak and feeble, wither, droop, wilt ><thrive, flourish

Front 39

LANGUOR

Back 39

state of feeling unpleasant or inertia

lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, torpor,

Front 40

LANK

Back 40

long, limp and straigt, thin

Front 41

LAP

Back 41

use a tougue to get liquid

Eg: The cat was lapping in a saucer of milk

Front 42

LARCENY

Back 42

theft (or personal property)

Front 43

LARDER

Back 43

a room, large cupboard for storing food

Eg: In my dream house, I would love to have a big, well-equipped kitchen with a larder to store all kinds of spices and ingredients for my special recipes

Front 44

LARGESS

Back 44

genorsity in bestowing money for others

EG:given with great largess

Front 45

LASCIVIOUS

Back 45

revealling an over sexual desire

Eg; a lascivious wink, a lascivious joke is considered an defiled act in a muslim culture

Front 46

LATENT

Back 46

hidden, existing but not yet concealed

EG: He always thinks that he has a latent ability yet, it is still waiting to be discovered and nurtured

Front 47

LATERAL

Back 47

sideway, coming from the side

lateral think = unorthodox, creative/inventive thinking

Front 48

LATITUDE

Back 48

freedom for narrow limitations

Eg: When it comes to choosing my career path, I have almost certain latitude

Front 49

LAVISH

Back 49

1. generous, abundant
2.luxurious,coslyopulent

>< meager, frugal, scant

Front 50

LAX

Back 50

not sufficiently rich or severe
>< strict
Eg: To me, school that are lax toward student behaviours is not a good one

Front 51

LEAVEN

Back 51

cause to rise or grow lighter, enleaven

As bread dough is leavened, it puggs up, expanding in volume

Front 52

LECHERY

Back 52

LEWDNESS, LUSFULLNESS
tính dâm đãng, dâm tục

Front 53

LECTERN

Back 53

reading desk

Front 54

LEERY

Back 54

suspicious, cautious

Front 55

LEEWAY

Back 55

room to move, margin

Eg: Please create a little leeway for me to go through

Front 56

LEGERDEMAIN

Back 56

sleight of hand
trick, do magic with the swiftness of hand moving

Eg: Duc...

Front 57

LENIENCY

Back 57

mildness, permissiveness

tính hiền hậu, nhân hậu, khoan dung

Front 58

LEONINE

Back 58

like a lion

Front 59

LEVEE

Back 59

đê

Front 60

LEVITATE

Back 60

float in the mean (magical means)

Front 61

LEVITY

Back 61

>< GRAVITY

= Lack of seriousness

Front 62

LEVY

Back 62

impose a fine
collect a payment
Eg: to levy taxes

Front 63

LEWD

Back 63

LUSTFUL

Front 64

LEXICOGRAPHER

Back 64

COMPILER OF DICTIONARY

Front 65

LEXICON

Back 65

dictionary

Front 66

LIABILITY

Back 66

drawbacks, debts

Front 67

LIBERTINE

Back 67

DEBAUCHED person, roue

Eg: Don't think you can ever change a person libertine, it is their blood

Front 68

LIBIDINOUS

Back 68

lustful

Front 69

LIBIDO

Back 69

sexual desire, dục tính

Front 70

LIBRETTO

Back 70

text of an opera

Front 71

LICENTIOUS

Back 71

Lewd, lasvicious

Front 72

LIEN

Back 72

legal claim on property (quyền giữ đồ thế nợ)

Front 73

LIGNEOUS

Back 73

like wood

Front 74

LILLIPUTIAN

Back 74

extremely small

Front 75

LIMN

Back 75

draw, outline, describe

Front 76

LIMBER

Back 76

flexible

Front 77

LIMPID

Back 77

LUCID, trong veo

Front 78

LINEAGE

Back 78

descent, ancestry

Front 79

LIONIZE

Back 79

treat as a celebrity

Front 80

LIST

Back 80

tilt, lean over

Front 81

LITANY

Back 81

kinh cầu nguyện

Front 82

LITHEf

Back 82

flexible, supple

Mềm mại, yểu điệu, thướt tha

Front 83

LITIGATION

Back 83

LAWSUIT

Eg: this can be settle, do resort to litigation

Front 84

LITOTES

Back 84

understatement for emphasis

Front 85

LIVID

Back 85

tím tái, xám xít, tái mét

Front 86

LOATH

Back 86

reluctant, disinclined

Front 87

LODE

Back 87

mạch nhỏ bằng metal

Front 88

LOITER

Back 88

hang around, linger

Eg: sometimes I like to loiter on the streets at night, though I am fully aware that it can be unsafe :|

Front 89

LOLL

Back 89

lounge about

Eg:sometimes, I just enjoy lolling around doing nothing

Front 90

LOOM

Back 90

hiện ra lờ mờ

Eg: the view dimly loom from afar and we can descry the little houses and the old pine trees on the knoll