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Words
High Frequency GRE Words
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| evince | show clearly |
| evocative | tending to call up |
| excoriate | scold with biting harshness |
| exegesis | explanation, especially of biblical passage |
| exertion | effort; expenditure of much physical work |
| repercussion | a consequence |
| exorbitant | excessive |
| exorcise | drive out evil spirit |
| expediate | suitable; practical; public |
| expiate | make amend |
| expletive | interjection |
| extort | wring from; get money by threat |
| extradition | surrender prisoner by one state to another |
| extricate | free; disentangle |
| exuberance | overflowing; abundance |
| faze | disconcert; dismay |
| feint | trick; shift; sham blow |
| fervid | ardent |
| ferver | glowing arder; intensity of feeling |
| flair | talent |
| flagrant | conspicuously wicked; blatent; outrageous |
| flay | strip of skin; plunder |
| flounder | struggle and thrash about; proceed clumsily or falter |
| flout | reject; mock |
| flit | flight; dart lightly |
| implacable | not to be appeased |
| titular | having the title of an office without obligation |
| mortify | humiliate; punish the flesh |
| foible | weakness; slight fault |
| foil | contrast |
| foist | insert improperly; palm off |
| inept | not competent |
| timorous | fearful |
| tipple | drink frequently |
| motility | ability to move sponteniously |
| forego | give up; do without |
| forlorn | sad and lonely |
| forsake | desert; abandon; renounce |
| forswear | renounce; abandon |
| foster | rear; encourage |
| frail | weak |
| frantic | wild |
| fraudulent | cheating; deceitful |
| mottled | blotched in coloring |
| fraught | filled |
| frenetic | frenzied; frantic |
| frenzied | madly excited |
| fresco | painting on plaster |
| fret | to be annoyed or vexed |
| frieze | ornamental band on a wall |
| fritter | waste |
| frivolous | lacking in seriousness |
| frolicsome | prankish; gay |
| fugitive | fleeting or transitory |
| gale | windstorm; gust of wind; emotional outburst |
| gall | n. bitterness; nerve; v. annoy; chafe |
| galleon | large sailing ship |
| garbled | mixed up; jumbled; distorted |
| garish | overbright in color |
| gaudy | flashy; showy |
| gaunt | lean and angular; barren |
| gavel | hammerlike tool; mallet |
| gawk | stare foolishly; look in open mouthed awe |
| omnifarious | of all sorts |
| gibberish | nonsense; babbling |
| glaring | highly conspicuous; harshly bright |
| glaze | cover with a thin and shiny surface |
| gloat | express evil satisfaction |
| gloss over | explain away |
| glossy | smooth and shining |
| glower | scowl |
| glut | overstock; fill to excess |
| grapple | wrestle; come to grip with |
| grate | make a harsh noise; have an unpleasent effect; shred |
| gratis | free |
| profligate | wasteful |
| posterity | descendents; those who come after |
| posterior | later in time |
| gratuitous | given freely; unwarrented; uncalled for |
| grievance | a facial distortion to show feeling such as pain, disgust, etc. |
| grisly | ghastly |
| grouse | complain; fuss |
| grovel | crowl or creep on ground |
| primordial | elemental; fundamental |
| primogeniture | state of being first born |
| motley | multicolored; mixed |
| totter | move unsteadily, sway |
| proliferate | to produce by multiplication of parts |
| grudging | unwilling; reluctant; stingy |
| risible | disposed to laugh |
| gruel | thin, liquid porridge |
| gruff | rough manner |
| secede | to separate from |
| seclude | to keep away |
| sequester | to separate from |
| segregate | to separate |
| imperil | put in danger |
| mulct | defraud a person of something |
| subaltern | one below another in rank |
| gusto | enjoyment; enthusiasm |
| haggard | wasted away; gaunt |
| harbor | provide refuge for; hide |
| hysterical | relating to hysteria; funny |
| hardy | sturdy; robust |
| harrowing | agonizing; distressing |
| sardonic | mocking |
| transpire | be revealed; happen |
| hatch | deck opening; lid covering a deck opening |
| muse | ponder |
| transport | strong emotion |
| traumatic | pertaining to emotion caused by violence |
| travesty | comical parody; treatment aimed at making something appear ridicule |
| trenchant | cutting; keen |
| conjunctive | causing union |
| evocative | causing an image |
| pulchritude | state of possessing beauty |
| tribulation | distress suffering |
| wily | full of tricks |
| wary | watchful |
| tremor | trembling; slight quiver |
| trinket | knicknack; bauble |
| discreet | showing good judgement in conduct |
| discrete | separate and distinct |
| incredulous | skeptical; not believing |
| incredible | too extraordinary to be believed |
| ingenious | very smart or brilliant |
| ingenuous | having a frank and open nature |
| apposite | apt, pertinent, appropriate |
| unimpeachable | blameless and examplary |
| sustenance | means of support, food nourishment |
| complacent | self-satisfied |
| complaisant | eager to please; obliging |
| swathe | wrap around; bandage |
| abstemious | sparing in use of food or drinks |
| tumid | swollen; pompous |
| tactile | pertaining to the sense of touch |
| taint | contaminate |
| tempestuous | stormy; impassioned; violent |
| testy | short-tempered |
| thrive | prosper; flourish |
| throng | crowd |
| tribunal | court of justice |
| travail | painful labor |
| trident | three-pronged spear |
| antipathy | a natural dislike or repugnance |
| arcane | obscure; apt; relevant |
| troth | pledge of good faith |
| nemesis | someone seeking revenge |
| unconscionable | excessive |
| articulate (adj) | clear, distinct; expressed with clarity; skillfull with words |
| articulate (v) | to utter clearly and distinctly |
| ascetic (n) | one who leads a simple life of self-denial |
| ascetic (adj) | rigorously abstinent |
| aseptic | germ free |
| aspersion | slanderous statement; a damaging or derogatory criticism |
| assiduous | carefully attentive; industrious |
| phlegmatic | indifferent |
| astringent (n) | a substance that controls bodily tissues |
| turgid | swollen; distended |
| atrophy | to waste away, as from lack of use; to wither |
| attenuate | to make thin or slender; to weaken or dilute |
| mutilate | to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: |
| unobtrusive | inconspicuous; not blatant |
| unbridled | violent |
| baleful | harmful; malign; detrimental |
| uninhibited | unrepressed |
| beneficient | conferring benefits; kindly; doing good |
| bilateral | pertaining to or affecting both sides or two sides; having two sides |
| bombast | pompous speech; pretentious words |
| burgeon | to grow or develop quickly |
| cacophony | a harsh, inharmonious collection of soudns; dissonance |
| cant | insincere or hypocritical statements of high ideals; the jargon of a particular group or occupation |
| caprice | a sudden, unpredictable, or whimsical change |
| catharsis | a purging ort relieving of the body or soul |
| chicanery | trickery or deception |
| churlishness | crude or surly behavior |
| circumlocution | the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea; evasion in speech |
| cloture | the closing or limitation of debate in a legislative body especially by calling for a vote |
| unwieldy | awkward; cumbersome |
| coda | in music, a concluding passage |
| codify | to organize the laws or rules into a systematic collection (code) |
| cogent | to the point; clear; convincing in its clarity and presentation |
| cogitate | to think hard; ponder, meditate |
| cognitive | possessing the power to think or meditate; meditative; capable of perception |
| cognizant | aware of; perceptive |
| coherent | sticking together; connected; logical; consistent |
| cohesion | the act of sticking together |
| comeliness | beauty; attractiveness in appearance or behavior |
| commodious | spacious and convenient; roomy |
| compliant | complying; obeying; yielding |
| connotative | containing associated meanings in addition to the primary one |
| muster | gather assemble |
| contentious | quarrelsome |
| contiguous | touching; or adjoining and close, but not touching |
| contravene | to act contrary to; to oppose or contradict |
| conundrum | a puzzle or riddle |
| converge | to move toward one point (opposite: diverge) |
| coterie | a clique; a group who meets frequently, usually socially |
| mutinous | unruly |
| debacle | disaster; collapse; a rout |
| debilitate | to enfeeble; to wear out |
| decorous | suitable; proper; seemly |
| deleterious | harmful; hurtful; noxious |
| denigrate | to defame; to blacken or sully; to belittlee |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of; to protest against |
| deride | to laugh at with contempt; to mock |
| derision | the act of mocking; ridicule, mockery |
| diatribe | a bitter or abusive speech |
| dichotomy | a division into two parts |
| diffident | timid; lacking self-confidence |
| naivete | quality of being unsophisticated |
| discourse | to converse; to communicate in ordrely fashion |
| discrete | separate; individually distinct; composed of distinct parts |
| disingenuous | not frank or candid; deceivingly simple |
| vagabond | wanderer; tramp |
| disparate | unequal, dissimilar; different |
| disputatious | argumentative; inclined to disputes |
| dissemble | to pretend; to feign; to conceal by pretense |
| dissonance | musical discord; a mingling of inharmonious sounds; nonmusically, disagreement, lack of harmony |
| dissonant | not in harmony; in disagreement |
| ebullience | an overflowing of high spirits; effervescence |
| effervescence | to show liveliness or exhilaration |
| ellipsis | omission of words that would make the meaning clear |
| elucidate | to make clear; to explain |
| emollient | softening or soothing to the skin; having power to soften or relax living tissues |
| incumbent | obligatory; currently holding an office |
| leery | suspicious; cautious |
| enervate | to weaken; to deprive of nerve or strength |
| engender | to bring about; beget; to bring forth |
| ephemeral | very short-lived; lasting only a short time |
| wanton | reckless |
| evanescent | vanishing quickly; dissipating like a vapor |
| exigent | requiring immediate action; urgent, pressing |
| extemporize | to improvise; to make it up as you go along |
| extrapolate | to estimate the value of something beyond the scale; to infer what is unknown from something known |
| facetious | joking in an awkward or improper manner |
| feign | pretend |
| leaven | cause to grow lighter; enliven |
| garrulous | extremely talkative or wordy |
| iconoclast | one who smashes revered images; an attacker of cherished beliefs |
| impassive | showing no emotion |
| imperturbable | calm; not easily excited |
| prognosis | forecast |
| implacable | unwilling to be pacified or appeased |
| parochial | very limited or narrow in scope or outlook; provincial |
| peremptory | leaving no choice |
| incisive | getting to the heart of things; to the point |
| incredulous | skeptical |
| indigenous | native to a region; inborn or innate |
| inept | incompetent; clumsy |
| vicissitude | a change or variation occurring in the course of something |
| interdict | impade; prohibit |
| inherent | part of the essential character; intrinsic |
| insipid | uninteresting, boring, flat, dull |
| relegate | banish |
| intransigent | uncompromising |
| intrepid | fearless, bold |
| irascible | prone to anger |
| refute | disprove |
| heyday | one's prime |
| indigent | poor |
| macerate | to soften by steeping in liquid |
| mortify | humiliate |
| magnanimity | a quality of nobleness of mind, disdaining meanness or revenge |
| vitriolic | caustic |
| impetus | moving force |
| impetuous | violent; hasty |
| impertinent | insolent; rude |
| obdurate | stubborn |
| obsequious | servilely attentive; fawning |
| obviate | to make unnecessary |
| imperious | domineering; haughty |
| mortician | undertaker |
| panegyric | high praise |
| paradigm | model, prototype; pattern |
| impede | hinder; block |
| parsimonious | very frugal; unwilling to spend |
| pedantic | emphasizing minutiae or form in scholarship or teaching |
| penurious | stingy, miserly |
| implacable | not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable |
| petulant | peevish; cranky; rude |
| placate | to appease or pacify |
| impeach | charge with crime in office |
| prevaricate | to speak equivocally or evasively, i.e. to lie |
| subjugate | enslave |
| propensity | an inclination; a natural tendency toward; a liking for |
| putrefaction | a smelly mass that is the decomposition of organic matter |
| putrefy | to decompose; to rot |
| quiescence | state of being at rest or without motion |
| rancor | strong ill will; enmity |
| recalcitrant | stubbornly rebellious |
| recondite | dealing with very profound, difficult, or abstruse subject matter |
| impale | pierce |
| immure | imprison; shut up in confinement |
| immolate | offer as a sacrifice |
| sinews | strength; power; resilience |
| ignominy | deep disgrace; shame or dishonor |
| specious | plausible, but deceptive; apparently, but not actually, true |
| spurious | not genuine, false; bogus |
| ignoble | unworthy; not noble |
| hypercritical | excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical |
| hubris | arrogance;excessive self-conceit |
| hover | hang about; wait nearby |
| hovel | shack; small wretched house |
| hoax | trick; practical joke |
| hoard | stockpile; accumulate for future use |
| heresy | opinion contrary to popular belief |
| hermetic | sealed by fusion so as to make airtight |
| hiatus | gap |
| mordant | biting; sarcastic; stinging |
| suborn | persuade to act unlawfully |
| subpoena | writ summoning a witness to appear |
| subtlety | perceptiveness; ingenuity; delicacy |
| subversive | tending to overthrow |
| suppliant | entreating; beseaching |
| supplicate | petition; humbly; pray to grant a favor |
| tactile | pertaining to the sense of touch |
| taint | contaminate |
| tempestuous | stormy |
| thrive | prosper; flourish |
| thwart | baffle; frustrate |
| titter | nervous laugh |
| totter | move unsteadly |
| tout | publicize; praise excessively |
| tract | pamphelet; a region of indefinite size |
| traduce | expose to slander |
| immolate | offer as a sacrifice |
| immure | to shut in; seclude or confine; imprison |
| incoherent | illogical |
| incriminate | accuse; serve as evidence against |
| indemnify | compensate for loss |
| indignation | anger to an injustice |
| indenture | bind as servent or apprentice to master |
| inebriated | habitually intoxicated; drunk |
| ineluctable | incapable of being evaded; inescapable |
| inexorable | unyielding |
| infidel | unbeliever |
| ingrate | ungrateful person |
| ingratiate | become popular with |
| inhibit | restrain; retard or prevent |
| iniquitous | wicked; immoral; unrighteous |
| inordinate | unrestrained; excessive |
| inquisitor | questioner |
| insidious | treacherous; stealthy |
| insolence | impudent disrespect |
| instigate | urge; start; provoke |
| insubordination | disobedience |
| insurrection | rebellion |
| interdict | prohibit |
| interloper | intruder |
| leniency | mildness; permissiveness |
| levity | lack of seriousness |
| libretto | text of an opera |
| lien | legal claim on a property |
| litany | suplicatory prayer |
| litotes | understatement for emphasis |
| lode | metal bearing vein |
| loom | appear or take shape |
| lurk | stealthily lie in waiting; slink; exist unperceived |
| mace | ceremonial staff; clublike mediaval weapon |
| malady | illness |
| malaise | uneasiness |
| malicious | hateful; spiteful |
| malign | speak evil of; bad mouth |
| malignant | injurious; tending to cause death |
| maul | handle roughly |
| meek | submissive; patient and long suffering |
| meretricious | flashy; tawdry |
| merger | combination |
| zany | crazy; comic |
| wreak | inflict |
| wistful | vague longing; sadly pensive |
| wispy | thin; slight; barely discernible |
| whittle | cut off bits |
| whet | sharpen; stimulate |
| welter | wallow |
| welt | mark from beating or whipping |
| wangle | wiggle out; fake |
| waggish | mischievious; humorous; tricky |
| wake | trail of ship or other object through water |
| waft | move gently by wind or wave |
| waffle | speak equivocally about an issue |
| vitiate | spoil the effect of, make inoperative |
| vintner | maker of wine |
| vertigo | severe dizziness |
| vernal | pertaining to spring season |
| verge | border, edge |
| vent | small opening; a means of exit or escape |
| veneer | thin layer; cover |
| vaunted | boasted; bragged; highly publized |
| vagrant | homeless wanderer; stray random |
| vagary | caprice whim |
| vagabond | wanderer; tramp |
| unwieldy | awkward; cumbersome; unmanageable |
| unrequited | not reciprocated |
| unobtrusive | inconspicuous, unassertive, or reticent |
| unmitigated | unreleaved |
| uninhibited | unrepressed |
| unimpeachable | blameless and exemplary |
| unconscionable | unscrupulous; excessive |
| unbridled | not controlled or restrained; violent |
| turpitude | vile, shameful action; depravity |
| turgid | swollen; distended |
| tumid | swollen; pompous; bombastic |
| troth | pledge of good faith especially in betrothal |
| trinket | knicknack; bauble |
| trident | three-pronged spear |
| tribulation | distress suffering |
| trenchant | cutting; keen |
| totter | move unsteadly as if about to fall |
| transcendent | exceeding ordinary limit |
| transpire | be revealed; happen |
| leniancy | mildness |
| libretto | text of an opera |
| lien | legal claim on a property |
| litotes | understatement for emphasis |
| mace | ceremonial staff; clublike medieval weapon |
| malady | illness |
| malaise | uneasiness; vauge feeling of ill health |
| malicious | hateful; spiteful |
| maul | handle roughly |
| kindred | related; similar in nature |
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