Difficult GRE Words - Group 5

a. extensive; significant; having a wide range, influence, or effect

a. foolish or silly, especially in self-satisfied way

a. feverish; intense emotion or activity

a. not real or genuine; pretended; counterfeit; insincere; false

n. trick; any distracting or deceptive maneuver

a. apt; suitably expressed; well chosen

n. conversion of sugar to carbon dioxide and alcohol by yeast; state of being in high activity or commotion

n. savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty

a. unpleasant-smelling; having offensive smell; stinking

n. muscular twitching involving individual muscle fibers acting without coordination

v. move uneasily one way and the other; behave or move nervously or restlessly

a. restless; uneasy; nervous and unable to relax

n. small ornamental statuette; small molded or sculptured figure

n. fine thread or fiber; thin wire; threadlike structure within light bulb

v. steal, especially in a small, sly way; take from another on a petty scale, as by violation of trust

a. having or assuming relationship of child or offspring to parent

a. covered or smeared with filth; disgustingly dirty; very unpleasant or disagreeable

a. insisting capriciously on getting just what one wants; difficult to please; fussy

n. fixed foundation; established base; region of the air; sky or heavens; the most remote of the celestial spheres

n. business or practice of catching fish; fishing; a place for catching fish; the right to take fish at a certain place