Flashcards: GRE : Beyond the Hit Parade : Secondary Meanings
All 44 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 alloy (verb) | to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
| appropriate (verb) | to take for one's own use; confiscate |
| arrest (verb) | to suspend; to engage; to hold one's attention |
| august (adjective) | majestic; venerable |
| bent (noun) | leaning; inclination; proclivity; tendency |
| broach (verb) | to bring up or announce; to begin to talk about |
| brook (verb) | to tolerate, endure, or countenance |
| cardinal (adjective) | of great importance |
| color (verb) | to change as if by dyeing, i.e., to distort, gloss, or affect |
| damp (verb) | to diminish the intensity or check the vibration of a sound, etc. |
| die (noun) | a part of a machine that punches shaped holes or cuts |
| essay (verb) | to test or try; to attempt or experiment |
| exact (verb) | to demand, call for, require or take |
| flag (verb) | to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
| flip (adjective) | sarcastic, impertinent |
| ford (verb) | to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
| grouse (verb) | to complain or grumble |
| guy (noun) | a cord or cable used to steady or guide some-thing |
| intimate (verb) | to imply, suggest, or insinuate |
| list (verb) | to tilt or lean to one side |
| lumber (verb) | to move heavily and clumsily |
| milk (verb) | to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
| mince (verb) | to pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully; also, to take tiny steps or tiptoe |
| nice (adjective) | exacting; fastidious; extremely, even excessively, precise |
| obtain (verb) | to be established, accepted, or customary |
| occult (adjective) | hidden; concealed; beyond comprehension |
| pedestrian (adjective) | commonplace; trite; unremarkable; quotidian |
| pied (adjective) | multicolored, usually in blotches or patches |
| pine (verb) | to lose vigor (as through grief); to yearn |
| plastic (adjective) | moldable; pliable; not rigid |
| prize (verb/noun) | to pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils |
| rail (verb) | to complain about bitterly |
| rent (adjective/noun) | torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such |
| quail (verb) | to lose courage; to become frightened |
| qualify (verb) | to limit |
| sap (verb) | to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
| scurvy (adjective) | contemptible; despicable |
| singular (adjective) | exceptional; unusual; odd |
| steep (verb) | to saturate or completely soak |
| strut (noun) | the supporting structural cross-part of a wing |
| table (verb) | to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
| tender (verb) | to proffer or offer; to give |
| waffle (verb) | to equivocate; to change one's position |
| wag (noun) | wit; joker |
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