GRE Beyond Vocab Set 1 (Princeton Review) Flashcards
Alloy
To commingle, to debase by mixing with something inferior
Appropriate
To take for one’s own use; to confiscate
Arrest
To suspend, to engage or hold one’s attention
August
Majestic and venerable
Bent
Leaning, inclination, tendency
Broach
To bring up, to announce, to begin to talk about
Brook
To tolerate or endure
Cardinal
Major, as in cardinal sin
Chauvinist
A blindly devoted patriot
Color
To change as if by dyeing (distorting)
Consequential
Pompous, self-important
Damp
To diminish intensity or check the vibration of a sound
Die
A tool used for shaping, as in a tool-and-die shop
Essay
To test or try, to attempt
Exact
To demand, to call for or take action
Fell (v.)
To cause to fall by striking
Fell (adj.)
Inhumanely cruel
Flag
To sag or droop, to decline
Flip
Sarcastic, impertinent, a flip remark
Ford
To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream