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GRE - Verb

Card list for GRE test (Verb)

Term	Definition
Abate	to make or become less in amount or intensity
Abjure	to formally reject or give up (as a belief)
Abrogate	to revoke formally
Abscond	to run away usually includes taking something or somebody along
Abstain	to choose not to consume or take part in (particularly something enjoyable)
Adjudicate	to arrive at a judgment or conclusion or serve as a judge in a competition
Admonish	to strongly warn
Adulterate	to make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
Afford	to provide with an opportunity
Aggrandize	to increase in power, reputation or influence
Alleviate	to make easier or relieve the intensity of
Ameliorate	to make something bad better
Antagonize	to provoke the hostility of
Antedate	to come earlier in date or time
Appease	to please someone by doing something desired or giving something demanded
Appropriate	to take something by force
Arrogate	to seize and control without authority
Ascribe	to attribute or credit to
Assail	to attack in speech or writing
Assuage	to make something intense less severe
Attenuate	to weaken or become weaker
Augment	to make greater or improved
Avert	to turn away ; to prevent
Badger	to annoy someone by many comments or questions as to ask someone persistently to do something
Balk	to refuse to comply or do what someone else wants you to do
Banish	to expel from a community or residence
Beg	to assume something is true usually followed by "the question" meaning that you ask a question in which you assume something that hasn't been proven true
Begrudge	to envy someone for possessing or enjoying something ; to give something in a reluctant or unwilling way
Behoove	to be one's duty or obligation
Belie	to contradict or give a false representation
Belittle	to lessen the importance, dignity or reputation of
Bemoan	to express discontent or a strong regret
Besiege	to cause to fell distressed as with questions or requests
Besmirch	to damage the good name and reputation of someone
Betray	to reveal something unintentionally
Bolster	to support and strengthen
Bowdlerize	to edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
Bridle	to put restriction on ; to react with anger or to take offense
Bristle	to react in an offended or angry manner
Brook	to allow something unpleasant to happen or to tolerate someone who behaves unpleasantly
Browbeat	to discourage with threats or a domineering manner
Buck	to resist
Bumble	to act clumsily or awkwardly
Burgeon	to grow rapidly
Buttress	to make stronger or defensible
Capitulate	to surrender usually under agreed conditions
Carp	to persistently raise trivial objections
Castigate	to criticize harshly
Cede	to relinquish possession or control over
Censure	to criticize severely and publicly
Chagrin	to cause to feel shame
Champion	to fight for a cause
Chastise	to criticize harshly
Check	to hold back the growth of something
Chortle	to laugh happily in muffled way
Circumscribe	to limit the size or amount
Circumvent	to try to avoid fulfilling duties
Coalesce	to fuse or cause to grow together
Compound	to make more intense or marked
Concede	to give over something ; to accept defeat ; to admit something
Conciliate	to cause to be more favorably inclined
Condone	to allow something (usually behavior that is considered morally wrong or offensive) to continue
Conflate	to mix together different elements or concepts
Confound	to cause confusion as to mistake one thing for another
Connive	to take part in immoral and unethical plots
Consecrate	to officially make someone or something holy
Construe	to interpret or understand in a particular way
Consummate	to make perfect and complete in every aspect
Contrive	to pull off a scheme or plan in tricky or clever way
Corroborate	to confirm or lend support (in an idea or claim)
Cosset	to treat with excessive indulgence
Countermand	to cancel an order or command especially by giving a new one
Cow	to intimidate
Crescendo	to gradually increase the loudness
Crystallize	to make free from confusion or ambiguity
Culminate	to reach the highest point or final result of something
Debase	to lower the character of someone ; to reduce the value of something (as by adding impurities)
Debunk	to expose as false ideas and claims especially while ridiculing
Decimate	to kill in large numbers
Decry	to express strong disapproval of
Defray	to help pay the cost of (either in part or full)
Degrade	to reduce in worth or character
Deign	to do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
Deliberate	to think about carefully by weighing the pros and cons of an issue
Delineate	to describe in detail
Demean	to cause someone or something to lose dignity or respect
Demur	to show reluctance or disagreement or refusal
Denigrate	to falsely attack good name or reputation of someone
Deride	to treat or speak of with contempt
Derive	to come from ; to obtain or establish something by deduction
Desecrate	to willfully destroy a sacred place ; to remove the consecration from a person or object
Deter	to discourage someone by persuasion
Devolve	to grow worse (devolve into) ; to delegate to another
Differentiate	to be a distinctive feature or trait ; to evolve so as to lead to a new species or develop in a way most suited to the environment (sometimes in positive sense)
Dilate	to clarify the meaning of by adding details
Disabuse	to free somebody from an erroneous belief
Discern	to detect with the sense
Discriminate	to recognize or perceive the difference
Disenfranchise	to prevent someone or group of people from having right to vote
Dispatch	to dispose of rapidly and without delay
Dissemble	to conceal or hide one's true motives usually through deceit
Disseminate	to cause something or someone to become widely known
Dissipate	to disperse or scatter ; to spend money wastefully
Dog	to pursue relentlessly
Dovetail	to tightly fit together as if by means of an interlocking joint
Dupe	to trick or swindle
Edify	to make understand
Eke Out	to make a living with difficulty as with insufficient resources
Elaborate	to explain in more detail
Elicit	to call forth as emotions or responses
Elucidate	to make clearer and easier to understand
Elude	to escape understanding ; to avoid by being quick
Embellish	to make more attractive or beautiful by adding ornament or color
Embroil	to deeply drag someone into difficult situation or course of action
Emulate	to strive to equal or match especially by imitating
Encumber	to hold back
Enervate	to make someone tired or feel weak
Engender	to make exist or give rise to
Enjoin	to direct somebody to do something with authority
Enthrall	to hold the attention entirely
Entice	to get someone to do something through (false or exaggerate) promises
Enumerate	to determine the number or amount of ; to specify individually one by one
Equivocate	to speak vaguely usually with the intention to mislead or deceive
Eradicate	to completely destroy
Err	to make an error
Eschew	to stay away from or stay clear of
Espouse	to adopt or support an idea or cause
Exacerbate	to make worse
Exalt	to praise or glorify
Exasperate	to irritate
Excoriate	to criticize very harshly
Exculpate	to pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
Execrate	to curse and hiss at
Exemplify	to be characteristic of ; to clarify by giving an example
Exhort	to strongly urge on or encourage
Exonerate	to pronounce that someone is not guilty of a criminal charge
Expound	to clarify the meaning by adding details or explanations
Expunge	to eliminate completely
Expurgate	to remove objectionable material
Extenuate	to make a guilt or offense less serious or more forgivable
Extrapolate	to draw from specific cases for more general cases
Fawn	to try to gain favor by extreme flattery
Ferret	to search for something persistently
Fete	to celebrate a person
Finagle	to achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods
Flag	to become less intense or enthusiastic
Fleece	to deceive
Flounder	to behave awkwardly ; to have difficulties
Flummox	to be a mystery or bewildering to
Foment	to try to stir up public opinion
Frustrate	to prevent or hinder of
Gainsay	to contradict or deny
Gall	to irritate
Galvanize	to excite or inspire to action
Gerrymander	to manipulate voting districts in order to favor a particular political party
Glean	to collect information bit by bit
Glut	to supply with an excess of
Goad	to urge on with unpleasant comments
Grovel	to treat someone with too much fear
Guffaw	to laugh loudly and boisterously
Hail	to acclaim or celebrate something enthusiastically
Hamper	to prevent the progress or free movement of
Hamstrung	to make ineffective or powerless
Harangue	to loudly and angrily deliver long pompous speech
Harry	to annoy continually
Hector	to bully or intimidate
Hedge	to limit or qualify a statement and avoid making a direct statement
Hobble	to hold back the progress of something
Hoodwink	to deceive or trick someone
Hound	to pursue relentlessly
Imbibe	to drink or absorb as if drinking ; receive into the mind and retain
Immure	to enclose usually in walls
Impede	to slow the movement or progress as to be a hindrance or obstacle to
Implicate	to convey a meaning ; to indicate in wrongdoing usually a crime
Importune	to beg persistently and urgently
Impugn	to attack as false or wrong
Impute	to attribute or credit something to other things
Incense	to make furious
Indict	to formally charge of a crime or wrong-doing
Ingratiate	to gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts or doing something they like
Intimate	to say or suggest something in an indirect way
Inundate	to flood or overwhelm
Inure	to become accustomed to especially something unpleasant
Irk	to irritate
Jeopardize	to pose a threat to or to put at risk
Juxtapose	to place side by side for contrast
Kowtow	to bow or act in a subservient manner
Lacerate	to distress or deeply hurt the feelings of
Lambaste	to criticize harshly or angrily
Lament	to regret strongly ; to express grief verbally
Lampoon	to ridicule with satire
Languish	to become feeble
Lavish	to bestow with profusion
Lionize	to assign great social importance to
Machinate	to engage in plotting something
Maintain	to assert or state clearly and firmly
Maunder	to wander aimlessly ; to speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Meander	to wander aimlessly
Mesmerize	to hold one’s attention entirely
Misattribute	to erroneously attribute or to falsely ascribe used especially of authorship
Misconstrue	to interpret in the wrong way
Mitigate	to make less severe
Morph	to undergo dramatic change in a seamless and barely noticeable fashion
Mulct	to illegally obtain money by deception
Nettle	to cause annoyance in
Objurgate	to criticize severely
Obscure	to make unclear
Obtain	to be valid or applicable
Obviate	to prevent the occurrence of
Occlude	to block passage through
Ossify	to make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
Ostracize	to exclude from a community or group
Palaver	to speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly
Patronize	to talk to someone in a way that shows that you believe you are more intelligent or better than other people
Perpetuate	to cause to continue
Perturb	to cause to be worried or alarmed
Peruse	to read very carefully
Pillory	to ridicule or expose to public scorn
Pine	to yearn for
Placate	to cause to be more favorably inclined as to make someone less angry
Pontificate	to talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner
Posit	to assume as fact
Precipitate	to cause to happen
Preclude	to prevent from happening or arising
Preempt	to take place or acquire before others can do so
Prevail	to be widespread in a particular area at a particular time ; to prove superior
Prevaricate	to speak in an evasive way
Prognosticate	to make a prediction about the future
Promulgate	to state or announce
Propitiate	to placate or appease
Proscribe	to command against
Proselytize	to convert (someone) to another religion, philosophy or perspective
Quail	to draw back as with fear or pain
Qualify	to limit or make more specific
Quip	to make a witty remark
Rankle	to make someone resentful or irritated
Rebuke	to criticize severely or angrily
Reconcile	to make one thing compatible with another
Refute	to prove that something is false or incorrect
Relegate	to assign to a lower position
Remonstrate	to make objections while pleading
Renege	to fail to fulfill a promise or obligation
Reproach	to express warning or criticism towards
Repudiate	to reject as untrue or unfounded
Rescind	to cancel officially
Resolve	to reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation
Retract	to pull inward or towards a center ; to formally reject or to disavow a formerly held belief
Rile	to cause annoyance in especially by minor irritations
Sanction	to give permission or authority
Satiate	to fully satisfy
Savvy	to understand something
Sententious	to be moralizing usually in a pompous sense
Snub	to refuse to acknowledge outright and bluntly
Spurn	to reject with contempt or a lack of respect
Squander	to spend thoughtlessly
Squelch	to suppress or crush completely
Start	to suddenly move in a particular direction
Stem	to limit or hold back the flow or growth of something
Stultify	to cause one to lose energy and enthusiasm through routine
Stymie	to hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of
Subsume	to include or contain ; to consider
Supplant	to take place or move into the position of
Tarnish	to make dirty or spotty
Tender	to offer up something formally
Thwart	to prevent the efforts or desires of
Tout	to advertise or show off strongly in positive terms
Transmute	to change in form, appearance or nature
Truncate	to reduce the length of something
Undermine	to weaken
Underscore	to give extra weight to
Underwrite	to support financially
Unnerve	to make nervous or upset
Upbraid	to scold or criticize
Vacillate	to repeatedly change opinion or desire
Vanquish	to come out better in a competition, race or conflict
Vaunt	to show off
Venerate	to respect deeply
Vie	to compete for something
Vilify	to spread negative information about
Vindicate	to clear of accusation or blame with supporting arguments or proofs
Vituperate	to spread negative information about ; to criticize harshly
Waver	to be unsure in doing something as to choose between choices
Wax	to gradually increase in size or intensity

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