Gre List 30

Front 1

schism

Back 1

discord, disharmony

Front 2

scintillate

Back 2

throw off as a spark

Front 3

scion

Back 3

descendant

Front 4

scission

Back 4

division or split

Front 5

scotch

Back 5

hinger, thwart

Front 6

scourge

Back 6

1. whip
2. cause great trouble, or suffering

Front 7

scrappy

Back 7

quarrelsome, belligerent

Front 8

scrawl

Back 8

write or draw hastily, awkwardly

Front 9

scrutable

Back 9

comprehensible

Front 10

scuff

Back 10

become scratched, roughened

Front 11

scurrilous

Back 11

using coarse language containing slander, invective, truculent, vituperative

Front 12

truculent

Back 12

aggressively self-assertive

Front 13

scurvy

Back 13

disgustingly mean, comtemptible, beggarly (meagre and ungenerous), cheap, despicable

Front 14

scythe

Back 14

tool used for cutting crops
2. move through or penetrate rapidly and forcefully

Front 15

seamy

Back 15

degraded, sordid

Front 16

secular

Back 16

1. not religious
2. economic trend
3. occurring once every century or long period
4. denoting slow changes in motion of sun or planets

Front 17

sedulous

Back 17

assiduous, diligent in application or pursuit

Front 18

seemly

Back 18

proper, appropriate

Front 19

seine

Back 19

fish net

Front 20

seminary

Back 20

training college for priests or rabbis

Front 21

sentinel

Back 21

guard whose job is to stand and keep watch
2. thing that actss as indicator of presence of disease

Front 22

septic

Back 22

infected, suppurating, putrid

Front 23

sepulchral

Back 23

relating to tomb
2. gloomy, dismal, lugubrious

Front 24

sequela

Back 24

condition which is the consequence of a previous disease or injury

Front 25

sequestrate

Back 25

1. take legal possession of assets until debt repaid, declare bankrupt, legally place in hands of trustee for division among creditors
2. take forcible possession of, confiscate

Front 26

seraph

Back 26

angel of highest order

Front 27

sere

Back 27

dried and withered

Front 28

serfdom

Back 28

agricultural labourer who was tied to working on his lord's estate

Front 29

serpentine

Back 29

like serpent, winding, twisty
seroentine election rules, complicated

Front 30

serrate

Back 30

notched or toothed on the edge, jagged peaks and serrate ridges

Front 31

serried

Back 31

standing close together (people)

Front 32

shackle

Back 32

deprive of freesom especially of action by means of restrictions or handicaps, getter, impede, hamper

Front 33

shard

Back 33

piece of pottery

Front 34

shiftless

Back 34

lacking in ambition or incentive, lazy

Front 35

shirk

Back 35

avoid, malinger

Front 36

shoal

Back 36

shallow

Front 37

shopworn

Back 37

trite, cliche, hackneyed, stale, timeworn

Front 38

shrewd

Back 38

clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen

Front 39

shun

Back 39

avoid

Front 40

sidestep

Back 40

avoid, bypass (person or issue)

Front 41

simper

Back 41

smile in silly manner, smirk

Front 42

simpleton

Back 42

foolish or gullible person

Front 43

sinecure

Back 43

well-paid position w/little responsibility

Front 44

sinew

Back 44

solid resilient strength, chief supporting force

Front 45

singe

Back 45

burn lightly

Front 46

sinuous

Back 46

winding, intricate, flexuous, serpentine

Front 47

skirmish

Back 47

minor fight in war

Front 48

slake

Back 48

1. quench (thirst), satisfy (a desire,

Front 49

slew

Back 49

large number

Front 50

slight

Back 50

trivial, scanty
not sturdy
treat with disdain, neglect, discount

Front 51

sling

Back 51

he had to keep his broken arm in a sling

Front 52

slink

Back 52

sneak, creep, gumshoe

Front 53

slipshod

Back 53

careless, slovenly

Front 54

slovenly

Back 54

untidy, careless work habits