Difficult GRE Words - Group 2

n. one who makes maps or charts

v. criticize severely; punish; revise or make corrections to publication

n. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; deluge or overflowing of water

v. increase the status of something rapidly; shoot forth or launch

n. disease of the eye causing its opacity and, unless treated, leading to blindness

a. absolute; having no exception; of using category or categories

v. make watertight by filling in cracks

v. criticise for petty or frivolous reasons; raise trivial objections

v. yield or formally resign and surrender to another

n. swiftness of action or motion; speed

a. critical; addicted to censure; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners; implying or expressing censure

a. radiating; departing from the center

a. tending toward center; moving or directed toward center or axis

a. intellectual rather than emotional

n. act of cerebrating; thinking, mental activity

n. yielding to another; ceding or surrendering

n. anxiety caused by humiliation or injured pride; disappointment

a. cautious; sparing or restrained about giving

v. rid of excess; refine or purify; correct by punishment or reproof

v. punish, as by beating; criticize severely; rebuke