GRE List 16
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- hallmark
- characteristic trait, feature
- hallow
- sanctify, make holy
- ham-handed
- lacking grace, maladroit
- hamstring
- make ineffective, cripple, hamstrung by guilt
- hangdog
- sad, dejected
- hankering
-
desire
!= odium (lack of desire) - haphazard
- lack of direction, random
- harangue
- orate, bloviate, perorate, tirade, lecture
- harass syn
- raid, forray, harry, maraud
- harbinger
- presage, herald, forshadow
- harness
-
utilize
harness the computers potential - haunt
-
come to mind continually
haunt*familiar = harass*irratate - headlong
-
lacking calmness, hasty
!=deliberate - hearken
- hark, hear, heed
- hedonism
- doctrine that happiness is the key to life
- hegemony
- influence over others
- hew
- conform to
- herald
- give notice of
- heresy
- unorthodoxy, doctrine contrary to church dogma
- hermetic
- having to do with the occult sciences
- herpetologist
-
deals with reptiles
chameleon*herpetologist = salmon*ichthylogist - hidebound
- inflexible character
- hie
- to go quickly
- histrionic
- relating to actors, acting, of theater
- hoard
- miser*hoard = dandy*preen = sycophant*fawn = pundit*opine
- hoary
-
extremely old
antedilluvian, ancient - paragon
- model of excellence
- hodgepodge
- medley, potpourri, gallimaufry
- gallimaufry
- motley assortment of things, farrago
- homily
- lecture w/moral theme
- parable
- story w/moral theme, allegory, fable, apologue
- hone
- make more acute
- hortative
- exhort
- horticulture
- of flowers
- hovel
- shack, bucolic house
- spoke
- support wheel joining the hub to rim
- hubris
- exaggerated pride
- plebeian
- one of common people
- supplicant
- one who prays humbley to God
- husbandry
- control of financial resources, thrift, prudent, frugal
- husk
- not vital part
- pithy
- concise and full of meaning