GRE Vocabulary Power (13-121)
単語カード: 34
- 1.
- small light sailboat or rowboat
- 2.
- cancel
- revoke (an order)
- 3.
- oddity
- idiosyncrasy
- 4.
- blues
- listlessness(lack of spirit or energy)
- slack(inactive) period
- period of stagnation
- ocean area near the equator where ships cannot move because there is no wind
- 5.
- meddlesome
- excessively pushy in offering one's services
- overly eager in offering unwanted services or advices
- 6.
- steering wheel of a ship
- position of control
- 7.
- calmness of temperament
- composure
- 8.
- happening at last as a result
- 9.
- spot
- blot
- 10.
- make rational
- devise false reasons for (one's behavior)
- offer an excuse
- give a plausible reason for an action in place of a true, less admirable ones
- 11.
- filled with great surprise or fear
- horrified
- 12.
- hide the real nature of
- pretend
- disguise
- 13.
- shrink quivering as from fear
- cringe
- 14.
- that must be done
- critically important
- expressing command
- N: something that must be done
- absolutely necessary
- 15.
- praising
- eulogistic
- eulogy
- 16.
- pamphlet
- 17.
- climate
- 18.
- miser
- stingy person
- 19.
- marked by great changes in fortune
- with many changes of fortuene
- 20.
- well-bred
- striving to convey an appearance of refinement
- elegant
- 21.
- mutually agreed on
- done together by agreement
- 22.
- gracious
- agreeable
- charming (in a childlike way)
- engaging
- 23.
- crevice
- crack
- 24.
- not identical on both sides of a dividing central line
- 25.
- outward decorations
- ornaments (as an outward sign of rank)
- 26.
- sleight(dexterity) of hand
- 27.
- benefit
- something very helpful
- blessing
- 28.
- imitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing
- work of art openly imitating the works of other artists
- 29.
- derived by reasoning
- derive by reasoning
- 30.
- (of something bad) highly conspicuous
- harshly bright
- shining intensely and blindingly
- 31.
- playful
- gay
- prankish
- frisky
- merry
- 32.
- conventions
- moral standards
- moral customs
- 33.
- art of effective communication
- art of using language effectively and persuasively
- style of speaking or writing
- grandiloquent language
- ADJ. rhetorical
- 34.
- self-governing