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GRE- Week 1.2
1-49 Words- Synonyms
| What is a synonym for-? | Synonym |
|---|---|
| inchoate | Related Words first, formative, inaugural, inchoative, initial, original; elementary, embryonic, fundamental, rudimentary; formless, incoherent; introductory, preliminary, preparatory; crude, primitive, rude |
| obdurate | 1. Synonyms affectless, callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive 2. Synonyms adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, hard, hardened, hardheaded |
| amalgamate | Synonyms amalgamate, combine, comingle, commingle, commix, composite, concrete, conflate, fuse, homogenize, immingle, immix, incorporate, integrate, interfuse, intermingle, intermix, meld, merge, mingle, mix |
| effrontery | Synonyms audaciousness, audacity, brashness, brass, brassiness, brazenness, cheek, cheekiness, chutzpah (also chutzpa or hutzpah or hutzpa), crust, face, gall, nerve, nerviness, pertness, presumption, presumptuousness, sauce, sauciness, temerity |
| rarefy | purify, refine |
| diatribe | Synonyms diatribe, harangue, jeremiad, philippic, rant Related Words assault, attack, broadside, invective, lambasting, lashing, tongue-lashing, vituperation; berating, chewing out, rebuke, reprimand |
| precipitate (adj) | Synonyms cursory, drive-by, flying, gadarene, headlong, helter-skelter, hurried, overhasty, pell-mell, precipitate, precipitous, rash, rushed |
| precipitate (n) | 1. Synonyms aftereffect, aftermath, backwash, child, conclusion, consequence, 2. Synonyms aftereffect, aftermath, backwash, child, conclusion, consequence, |
| precipitate (v) | Synonyms pour, precipitate, storm |
| disabuse | Synonyms disabuse, disenchant, undeceive Related Words sophisticate; advise, apprise, clue (in), fill in, wise (up); debunk, expose, refute, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask; disclose, divulge, spill, tell, unveil |
| aver | 1. Synonyms affirm, allege, assert, aver, avouch, avow, contend, declare, insist, maintain, profess, protest, purport, warrant 2. Synonyms affirm, aver, avouch, avow, declare, guarantee, lay down, profess |
| bolster | 1. Synonyms bear, bolster, brace, buttress, carry, prop (up), shore (up), stay, sustain, undergird, underpin, uphold 2. Synonyms back, bolster, buttress, corroborate, reinforce Related Words confirm, establish, prove, verify |
| undermine | weaken, injure |
| deliberate (adj) | 1. Synonyms advised, calculated, considered, knowing, measured, reasoned, studied, thoughtful, thought-out, weighed 2. Synonyms conscious, deliberate, intended, knowing, purposeful, purposive, set, voluntary, willed, willful (or wilful), witting |
| deliberate (v) | Synonyms chew over, cogitate, consider, contemplate, debate, deliberate, entertain, eye, kick around, meditate, mull (over), perpend, pore (over), question, revolve, ruminate, study, think (about or over), turn, weigh, wrestle (with) |
| assuage | 1. Synonyms allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, mitigate, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe 2. Synonyms assuage, quench, sate, satiate, slake 3. Synonyms appease, assuage, conciliate, disarm, gentle, mollify, placate, propitiate |
| laconic | 1. Synonyms aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, 2. Synonyms closemouthed, dumb, laconic, reserved, reticent, taciturn, tight-lipped, uncommunicative |
| lucid | 1. Synonyms beaming, bedazzling, brilliant, candescent, clear, dazzling, effulgent 2. Synonyms balanced, clearheaded, compos mentis, lucid, normal, right, stable 3. Synonyms apparent, clear-cut |
| enervate | 1. Synonyms castrate, damp, dampen, deaden, desiccate, devitalize, enervate, geld, lobotomize, petrify 2. Synonyms debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, prostrate, sap, soften, tire, waste |
| morose | Synonyms black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, |
| eulogy | Synonyms accolade, citation, commendation, dithyramb, eulogium, eulogy, homage, hymn, paean, panegyric, salutation, tribute Related Words award, decoration, dedication, honor, prize; acclaim, acclamation, laudation; applause |
| placate | Synonyms appease, assuage, conciliate, disarm, gentle, mollify, placate, propitiate Related Words calm, comfort, console, content, hush, quiet, soothe, tranquilize (also tranquillize); endear (to), ingratiate; delight, gladden, gratify, please; adulate, |
| antagonism | Synonyms animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, bad blood, bitterness, gall, grudge, hostility, jaundice, rancor |
| skeptical | 1. Synonyms disbelieving, distrustful, doubting, incredulous, mistrustful, negativistic, questioning, show-me, suspecting, suspicious, unbelieving 2. Synonyms distrustful, dubious, hinky [slang], mistrustful, skeptical, suspicious, trustless, uncertain, |
| intrepid | Synonyms bold, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, gutsy, gutty, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, manful, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, undauntable, undaunted, valiant, valorous |
| mollify | 1. Synonyms appease, assuage, conciliate, disarm, gentle, mollify, placate, propitiate 2. Synonyms allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, mitigate, mollify, palliate, relieve, soothe |
| anomalous | 1. Synonyms aberrant, aberrated, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, especial, exceeding, extraordinaire, extraordinary, freak, odd, peculiar 2. Synonyms aberrant, aberrational, abnormal, anomalous, atypical, deviate, devious, irregular, unnatural, untypica |
| mundane | 1. Synonyms everyday, nitty-gritty, prosaic, terrestrial, workaday 2. Synonyms carnal, earthborn, earthbound, fleshly, material, mundane, sublunary, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, worldly |
| quotidian | 1. Synonyms common or garden [chiefly British], commonplace, everyday, familiar, frequent, garden-variety, household, ordinary, quotidian, routine, ubiquitous, usual 2. Synonyms day-to-day, diurnal, quotidian |
| burgeon | 1. Synonyms accelerate, accumulate, appreciate, balloon, boom, build up, burgeon (also bourgeon), climb, enlarge, escalate, expand, gain, mount, multiply, mushroom, proliferate, rise, roll up, snowball, spread, swell, wax 2. flourish, prosper 3. blo |
| sap (n) | 1. Synonyms beans, bounce, brio, dash, drive 2. Synonyms chump, gull, mug [chiefly British], patsy, pigeon, pushover, sap, soft touch, sucker, tool 3. bat, baton, billy, billy club, bludgeon, cane 4. fitness, healthiness, heartiness, |
| sap (v) | Synonyms debilitate, devitalize, enervate, enfeeble, etiolate, prostrate, sap, soften, tire, waste |
| occult | 1. Synonyms arcane, cryptic, deep, enigmatic (also enigmatical), impenetrable, inscrutable, mystic, occult, uncanny 2. Synonyms ambiguous, arcane, cryptic, dark, deep, Delphic, double-edged 3. Synonyms magic, magical, numinous, occult, weird |
| gainsay | 1. Synonyms contradict, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disclaim, disconfirm, disown, gainsay, negate, negative, refute, reject, repudiate 2. Synonyms disagree (with), gainsay |
| pith | Synonyms bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, nucleus, pith, pivot, point, root, sum |
| gist | Synonyms bottom line, bull's-eye, centerpiece, core, essence, gist, heart, kernel, keynote, meat, meat and potatoes, net, nub, nubbin, nucleus, pith, pivot, point, root, sum |
| hackneyed (adj) | Synonyms banal, cliché (also cliche), clichéd, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney, hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stereotyped, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
| hackneyed (v) | Synonyms overexpose, overuse, stereotype, vulgarize |
| corroborate | 1. Synonyms argue, attest, authenticate, bear out, certify, corroborate, substantiate, support, validate, verify, vindicate 2. Synonyms back, bolster, buttress, corroborate, reinforce (also reenforce), shore (up), substantiate |
| plasticity | Synonyms malleability Related Words adaptability; ductility, pliability, pliableness, pliancy, pliantness, suppleness; elasticity, flexibility, limberness, resilience, workability, workableness |
| ebullience | liveliness, excitedness |
| plethora | 1. Synonyms abundance, cornucopia, feast, plenitude, plentitude, plethora, superabundance, wealth 2. Synonyms bellyful, fat, overabundance, overage, overflow, overkill, overmuch, overplus, oversupply, plethora, plus, redundancy, superabundance, superfl |
| artless | 1. Synonyms artless, genuine, honest, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or na{iuml}ve), natural, real, simple, sincere, true, unaffected, unpretending, unpretentious 2. Synonyms artless, clumsy, crude, jerry-built, jerry-rigged, jury-rigged, rough, rough-an |
| artifice | 1. Synonyms artifice, device, dodge, fetch, 2. artfulness, artifice, caginess (also cageyness), canniness, craft, 3. adeptness, adroitness, art, artfulness, artifice, artistry, cleverness 4. cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, crooke |
| din (n) | Synonyms babel, blare, bluster, bowwow, brawl, bruit [archaic], cacophony, chatter, clamor, clangor, decibel(s), din, discordance, katzenjammer, racket, rattle, roar |
| din (v) | chime, din, iterate, rehearse, reiterate |
| precarious | lacking stability, unstable |
| default | Synonyms default, delinquency, dereliction, misprision, neglect, negligence, nonfeasance, oversight Related Words carelessness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency, laxity |
| tortuous | Synonyms bending, crazy, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, devious, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, twisted, twisting, winding, windy Related Words zigzag, zigzagging; circling, coiled, coiling, corkscrew, looping, spiral, spiraling (or spiralling) |
| tenuous | thin, lacking substance |
| profuse | Synonyms copious, galore, gushing, lavish, riotous Related Words abounding, abundant, ample, bounteous, bountiful, liberal, plenteous, plentiful; extravagant, luxuriant; fat, fecund, fertile; free, munificent, openhanded, unsparing, unstinting; excessive |
| propitiate | Synonyms appease, assuage, conciliate, disarm, gentle, mollify, placate, propitiate Related Words calm, comfort, console, content, hush, quiet, soothe, tranquilize (also tranquillize); endear (to), ingratiate; delight, gladden, gratify, please; adulate, |
| zenith | Synonyms acme, apex, apogee, capstone, climax, crescendo, crest, crown, culmination, head, high noon, high tide, high-water mark, meridian, ne plus ultra, noon, noontime, peak, pinnacle, sum, summit, tip-top, top, zenith Related Words bloom, blossom, flo |
| desiccate | Synonyms castrate, damp, dampen, deaden, desiccate, devitalize, enervate, geld, lobotomize, petrify Related Words burn out, debilitate, do in, drain, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, sap, tucker (out), undermine, weaken, wear, wear out; daunt, demoralize, dis |
| veneration | giving profound respect, respecting |
Created by:
Paulina Sosa
on 2012-07-21