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GRE Most Used Words
GRE Study Stack
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Anomaly (uh-nom-uh-lee) | A deviation from the common rule, type, arrangement, or form. Abnormal or does not fit. Odd, peculiar, strange condition, situation, or quality. |
| Equivocal (ih-kwiv-uh-kuhl) | Allowing the possibility of several different meanings. Intent to deceive or misguide. Deliberately ambiguous |
| Lucid (loo-sid) | Easily understood. Completely intelligible or comprehensible. Clear explanation or understanding. Shining or bright. Clear. |
| Precipitate (pre-sip-i-teyt) | To hasten the occurrence of something. Bring about prematurely or abruptly. To cast, send, or plunge violently. |
| Assuage (uh-sewyj) | To make milder or less severe. Relieve, ease, mitigate. Appease, satisfy, allay, relieve, soother, calm, or mollify. |
| Desiccate (des-i-keyt) | To dry throughly. Dry up. To preserve by removing moisture. Dehydrate. |
| Erudite (er-yoo-dahyt) | Characterized by great knowledge. Learned or scholarly. Educated, wise, sapient. |
| Opaque (oh-peyk) | Not transparent or translucent. Impenetrable to light. Not shining bright. Dark, dull, unclear, obscure. |
| Prodigal (prod-i-guhl) | Wastefully or recklessly extravagant. Yielding profusely. Lavish. |
| Enigma (uh-nig-muh) | A puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation. Containing hidden midden. |
| Fervid (fur-vid) | Heated or vehement in spirit. Burning, glowing, intensely hot. |
| Placate (plak-eyt) | To appease or pacify, especially by concession or conciliatory gestures. |
| Zeal (zeel) | Fervor for a person, cause, or object. Eager desire or endeavor. Enthusiastic diligence. Ardor. |
| Abstain (ab-steyn) | To hold oneself back voluntarily, especially from something regarded as improper or unhealthy. Refrain from casting one's vote. |
| Audacious (aw-dey-shuhs) | Extremely bold or daring. Recklessly brave. Fearless. Without restriction to poor ideas. Lively, unrestrained, uninhibited. |
| Gullible (guhl-uh-bull) | Easily deceived or cheated. Tricked. |
| Laudable (law-duh-bull) | (Deserving praise. Commendable. Healthy, wholesome, not noxious. |
| Pedant (ped-nt) | Person who makes an excessive or inappropriate display of learning. person who overemphasizes rules or minor details. Person who adheres rigidly to the book knowledge without regard to common sense. |
| Vacillate (vas-uh-leyt) | To waver in mind or opinion. Indecisive or irresolute. To sway unsteadily, waver, totter, or stagger. Oscillate, fluctuate. |
| Adulterate (uh-duhl-tuh-reyt) | To rebase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements. Use cheaper, inferior, less desirable goods in the production of. |
| Capricious (kuh-prish-uhs) | Subject to, led by, or indicative of a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change. Erratic. Fanciful or witty. |
| Engender (en-jen-der) | To produce, cause, or give rise to. Beget, procreate. |
| Homogenous (huh-moj-uh-nuhs) | Corresponding in structure because of common origin. Similar roots. |
| Loquacious (loh-kwey-shuhs) | Talking or tending to talk much or freely. Talkative, chattering, babbling, garrulous. Wordy. |
| Pragmatic (prag-mat-ik) | Pertaining to a practical point of view or practical considerations. Treating historical phenomena with special reference to their causes, antecedent conditions, and results. |
| Volatile (vol-uh-tull) | Evaporating rapidly. Passing off readily in form of vapor. Tending or threatening to break out into open violence, explosive. Changeable, mercurial, flighty. Tending to fluctuate sharply and regularly. Fleeting, transient. |
| Apathy (ap-uh-thee) | Absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement. Lack of interest or concern for things that other find moving or exciting. |
| Corroborate (kuh-rob-uh-reyt) | To make more certain. Confirm. |
| Ephemeral (ih-fem-er-uhl) | Lasting a very short time. Short lived. Lasting but one day. |
| Laconic (luh-kon-ik) | Using few words. Expressing much in few words. Concise. |
| Mitigate (mit-i-geyt) | To lesson in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain. Moderate. Make less severe. Make milder or gentler, mollify, appease, milder. |
| Propriety (pruh-prahy-i-tee) | Conformity to the established standards of good or proper behavior or manners. Appropriateness to the purpose or circumstances. Rightness or justness. |
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