Difficult GRE Words - Group 9

a. tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding

v. make oneself tidy in appearance; feel self-satisfaction

n. sacrificing; giving up; state of having rejected your religious beliefs

n. design or tendency; meaning; import; disguise; covering

n. a literary, dramatic, or cinematic work whose narrative takes place before that of a preexisting work or a sequel

n. something defends from assault or secures safety; defense

n. quality of or possession of agreement with reason

a. presenting favorable circumstances; fortunate; advantageous

n. extreme dislike or aversion; opposition; conflict; resistance, in a physical sense

n. act of pretending or pretension; a false claim or pretext..

a. difficult to work, resistant to treatment, resistant to authority

n. something that bulges out; swelling or tumor on the body

n. something defends from assault or secures safety; defense

v. drive forward; cause to move forward or onward; push

n. resuming; beginning again; recommencement

v. split; tear or split apart or into pieces violently

n. authority on a subject; learned person; expert

a. at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive

a. presenting favorable circumstances; fortunate; advantageous

v. foretell or predict; indicate or warn of in advance

v. split; tear or split apart or into pieces violently

v. give more force or effectiveness to; strengthen; increase the number or amount of

n. authority on a subject; learned person; expert

n. extreme dislike or aversion; opposition; conflict; resistance, in a physical sense

n. sacrificing; giving up; state of having rejected your religious beliefs

n. design or tendency; meaning; import; disguise; covering

n. any species of very large snakes of the genus Python

v. divide into branches or subdivisions; subordinate branchlike parts

n. act of putting something in working order again; act or process of making amends; compensation

v. divide into branches or subdivisions; subordinate branchlike parts

n. person with insane desire to set things on fire

v. drink with relish; swallow hurriedly or greedily

v. drive forward; cause to move forward or onward; push

a. at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive

v. scold harshly; criticize severely

v. grow rapidly; propagate; reproduce

a. tending to discourage; prohibiting; forbidding

a. formidable; arousing fear or awe; worthy of respect or honor

n. clothing; garments; dress; garb; costume

v. drink with relish; swallow hurriedly or greedily