GRE Vocabulary Power (10-94)
単語カード: 28
- 1.
- story set to music to be sung by a chorus (shorter than an oratorio)
- 2.
- final outcome
- final development of the plot of a play or other literary work
- the end of a story when everything is explained
- 3.
- shrill, trumpetlike sound
- kind of trumpet used in former times
- 4.
- stretching
- condition of being stretched
- mental strain
- strained relationship between groups or people
- 5.
- (of land) plowed but not sowed (to improve the quality)
- uncultivated
- 6.
- typical
- ordinary
- not nuclear
- 7.
- make (a liquid) less concentrated
- reduce in strength
- 8.
- situation that requires a choice between equally unfavorable options
- problem
- choice of two unsatisfactory alternatives
- 9.
- sudden sharp feeling of pain
- 10.
- soul
- mind
- 11.
- group of people who share some common quality
- armed band
- a group of between 300 and 600 soldiers under one commander (in the ancient Rome)
- 12.
- cause to appear by magic
- summon (a devil or a spirit) by magical power
- practice magic (esp. by very quick movement of the hands)
- evoke
- conjure up: bring into the mind
- 13.
- machine that separates substances by whirling them
- 14.
- push (oneself or one's ideas) forward or intrude
- impose (oneself or one's ideas) on others
- butt in
- stick out or extrude
- thrust out
- ADJ. obtrusive
- 15.
- delicate
- oversensitive
- easily offended
- irasible
- needing delicate handling
- 16.
- payments made regularly to an ex-spouse after divorce
- 17.
- insane
- 18.
- pertaining to soil deposits left by running water
- 19.
- support placed under or against something
- 20.
- dull
- unwieldy
- having great weight
- weighty
- lacking lightness
- 21.
- express condolences
- 22.
- question closely
- cross-examine
- cross-question
- 23.
- take in food or drink with one's tongue
- splash gently
- N: front area from the waist to the knees of a seated person
- 24.
- mix
- work dough
- mix and work into a uniform mass (with the hands)
- 25.
- nonsense
- foolishness
- V: talk nonsense
- 26.
- trace
- minute amount
- shred
- least bit
- 27.
- powerful person
- 28.
- agree
- be in harmony with
- gibe