Gre Vocab Set 4

Front 1

damp

Back 1

to diminish the intensity; to check the vibration of a sound

Front 2

die

Back 2

a tool used for shaping

Front 3

essay

Back 3

to test; attempt

(The newborn fawn essayed a few wobbly steps.)

Front 4

exact

Back 4

to demand; call for; require

(Even a victorious war exacts a heavy price.)

Front 5

fell

Back 5

to cause to fall by striking

(The lumberjacks felled many trees.)

Front 6

flag

Back 6

to sag or droop; to decline; to become spiritless

(They all noticed her flagging spirits after her dad died.)

Front 7

flip

Back 7

sarcastic; impertinent

(a flip remark)

Front 8

ford

Back 8

to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

Front 9

grouse

Back 9

to complain or grumble

Front 10

guy

Back 10

a rope attached to something as a brace or guide

(to steady or reinforce using a guy.)

Front 11

intimate

Back 11

to imply or suggest

(Are you intimating that I cannot be trusted?)

Front 12

list

Back 12

to tilt or lean to one side

(The ship's broken mast listed helplessly in the wind.)

Front 13

lumber

Back 13

to move heavily and clumsily

Front 14

alloy

Back 14

to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

(unalloyed means pure)

Front 15

appropriate

Back 15

to take for one's own use; to confiscate

Front 16

arrest

Back 16

to suspend; to engage

Front 17

august

Back 17

majestic; venerable

Front 18

bent

Back 18

inclination; proclivity

(He had a naturally artistic bent.)

Front 19

broach

Back 19

to bring up, announce, begin to talk about

Front 20

brook

Back 20

to tolerate, endure

Front 21

cardinal

Back 21

major

(cardinal sin)

Front 22

chauvinist

Back 22

a blindly devoted patriot

Front 23

color

Back 23

to distort; gloss or affect

Front 24

consequential

Back 24

pompous; self-important

Front 25

meet

Back 25

fitting; proper

(It is altogether meet that Jackie Robinson is in the baseball hall of fame.)`

Front 26

milk

Back 26

to exploit

(I milked the position for all it was worth.)

Front 27

mince

Back 27

to pronounce or speak affectedly; euphemize; to speak too carefully

(Don't mince words.)

Front 28

nice

Back 28

fastidious; extremely precise

(He made a nice distinction between the two cases.)

Front 29

obtain

Back 29

to be established, accepted or customary

(Those standards no longer obtain.)

Front 30

occult

Back 30

hidden; concealed; beyond comprehension

Front 31

pedestrian

Back 31

commonplace, trite

Front 32

quotidian

Back 32

pedestrian, trite

Front 33

pied

Back 33

multicolored

Front 34

pluck

Back 34

courage; spunk; fortitude

(Churchill's speeches inspired the pluck of his countrymen during the war.)

Front 35

prize

Back 35

to pry, to press or force with a lever

(The information was prized from him.)

Front 36

rail

Back 36

to complain about bitterly

Front 37

rent

Back 37

torn

(there was a large rent in the fabric)

Front 38

quail

Back 38

to lose courage, to become frightened

Front 39

qualify

Back 39

to limit

(Let me qualify that statement.)

Front 40

sap

Back 40

to weaken

Front 41

scurvy

Back 41

despicable

Front 42

singular

Back 42

exceptional, unusual, odd

(He was singularly well-suited for the job.)

Front 43

stand

Back 43

a group of trees

Front 44

steep

Back 44

to saturate

(She was steeped in esoteric knowledge.)

Front 45

strut

Back 45

the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

Front 46

table

Back 46

to remove from consideration

(They tabled the motion and will consider it again later.)

Front 47

tender

Back 47

to proffer or offer

(He tendered his resignation.)

Front 48

waffle

Back 48

to equivocate; to change one's position.

Front 49

wag

Back 49

wit; joker