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GRE Vocabulary Words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abate | to lessen in intensity or degree. |
| abatement | a lessening in amount or degree. |
| aberrant | deviating from the norm. |
| abjure | to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid. |
| abrogate | to abolish or annul by authority; put down. |
| abscission | the act of cutting off or removing. |
| abscond | to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide. |
| accolade | an expression of praise; an award. |
| accretion | growth, increase by successive addition, building up. |
| acerbic | having a sour or bitter taste or character. |
| acumen | quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight. |
| admonish | to reprove; to express warning or disapproval. |
| reprove | to scold. |
| admonistion | a warning or a scolding. |
| admonitory | expressing warning or disapproval |
| adroit | adept, dexterous. |
| adept | skilled individual. |
| dexterous | clever. |
| maladroit | clumsy or bungling. |
| adulation | excessive praise; intense adoration. |
| adulterate | to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients. |
| adulteration | the process or effect of adulterating. |
| unadulterated | pure. |
| adumbrate | to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily. |
| aesthetic | dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful. |
| aggrandize | to increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater. |
| alacrity | eager and enthusiastic willingness. |
| alchemy | a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, especially base metals into gold; any magical or wonderful transformation. |
| transmutation | conversion. |
| alchemist | practices or studies alchemy. |
| alloy | to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior. |
| alloy | mixture. |
| unalloyed | pure. |
| amalgamate | to combine several elements into a whole. |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable. |
| amenable | agreeable; responsive to suggestion. |
| anachronism | something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context. |
| anathema | a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing. |
| anodyne | soothing. |
| anodyne | something that assuages or allays pain, or comforts. |
| assuage | alleviate. |
| allay | calms. |
| anomaly | deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality. |
| antipathy | aversion, dislike. |
| antipathetic | a strong aversion. |
| antithetical | diametrically opposed, as in antithesis. |
| diametrically | completely. |
| antithesis | the opposite of something. |
| apocryphal | of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious. |
| spurious | false. |
| apogee | farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith. |
| perigee | the lowest or closest point, or the nadir. |
| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause. |
| apotheosis | deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example. |
| apposite | appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos. |
| apropos | suitable. |
| apprise | give notice to, inform. |
| approbation | an expression of approval or praise. |
| approbate | to approve something officially. |
| appropriate | to take for one's own use, confiscate. |
| arabesque | complex, ornate design. |
| arabesque | a position in ballet. This definition is sometimes used metaphorically in this sense. |
| arcane | mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, known only to initiates. |
| abstruse | hard to understand. |
| esoteric | secret. |
| initiates | membership. |
| arcana | deep secrets |
| archaic | outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time. |
| arduous | strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort. |
| arrant | impudent; in every way, being completely such, bare-faced utter. |
| impudent | offensively bold, lacking modesty. |
| arrest | to suspend; to engage. |
| arresting | holding one's attention. |
| artless | completely without guile; natural, without artificiality. |
| guile | deceitful; cunning. |
| ingenue | a naïve girl or young woman. |
| artful | artificial. |
| ascetic | one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of devotion. |
| ascetic | austere or stark. |
| stark | strict. |
| austere | stern and cold in appearance or manner. |
| asceticism | the adherence to or belief in ascetic practices. |
| asperity | severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability. |
| acrimony | harsh or biting sharpness especially of words, manner, or disposition. |
| aspersion | an act of defamation or maligning. |
| assiduous | diligent, hard-working. |
| assuage | to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify. |
| astringent | having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe. |
| attenuate | to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen. |
| audacious | daring and fearless; recklessly bold. |
| audacity | bold or arrogant disregard of normal restraints. |
| augury | omen, portent, the reading of omens. |
| augur | to predict if it is used as a verb, and the person or thing doing the foretelling it if is used as a noun. |
| august | majestic, venerable. |
| venerable | calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments. |
| bare-faced | shameless; undisguised. |
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