GRE Vocabulary V (Princeton Review)

• verb: to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior
• unalloyed means pure

verb: to take for one's own use; to confiscate

verb/adj: to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention: as in arrested adolescence, an arresting portrait

adj: majestic, venerable

noun: leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency

verb: to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about

verb: to tolerate; to endure; to countenance

adj: major, as in cardinal sin

noun: a blindly devoted patriot

verb: to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect (usually the first)

• adj: pompous, self-important
• (primary definitions are: logically following; important)

verb: to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound

noun: a tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop

verb: to test or try; to attempt; to experiment

verb: to demand; to call for; to require; to take

• verb: to cause to fall by striking
• adj: inhumanely cruel

verb: to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline

adj: sarcastic, impertinent, as in flippant: a flip remark

verb: to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

verb: to complain or grumble

noun: a rope, cord, or cable attached to something as a brace or guide; to steady or reinforce using a guy: think guide

verb: to imply, suggest, or insinuate

verb: to tilt or lean to one side

verb: to move heavily and clumsily

adj: fitting, proper

verb: to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of

verb: to pronounce or speak affectedly; to euphemize, to speak too carefully. Also, to take tiny steps; to tiptoe

adj: exacting, fastidious, extremely precise

adj: to be established, accepted, or customary

adj: hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension

adj: commonplace, trite, unremarkable, quotidian

adj: multicolored, usually in blotches

verb: to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn

adj: moldable; pliable, not rigid

noun: courage, spunk, fortitude

verb: to pry, to press or force with a lever; something taken by force, spoils

verb: to complain about bitterly

verb: torn (past tense of rend); an opening or tear caused by such

verb: to lose courage; to turn frightened

verb: to limit

verb: to enervate or weaken the vitality of

adj: contemptible, despicable

adj: exceptional, unusual, odd

noun: a group of trees

verb: to saturate or completely soak, as in to let a tea bag steep

noun: the supporting structural cross-part of a wing

verb: to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration

verb: to proffer or offer

verb: to equivocate; to change one's position

noun: wit, joker