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GRE Word Groups
| General Meaning | GRE Words |
|---|---|
| Abbreviated Communication | abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse |
| Act Quickly | abrupt, apace, headlong, impetuous, precipitate |
| Assist | abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance |
| Bad Mood | billious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish |
| Beginner/Amateur | dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro |
| Beginning/Young | burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent |
| Biting (as in wit or temperament) | acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant |
| Bold | audacious, courageous, dauntless |
| Boring | banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite |
| Carousal | bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, tupitude |
| Changing Quickly | capricious, mercurial, volatile |
| Copy | counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, simulate, vicarious |
| Criticize/Criticism | aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defame/defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory |
| Criticize/Criticism (cont.) | rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate |
| Death/Mourning | bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith |
| Denying of Self | abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate |
| Dictatorial | authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic/hegemony, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical |
| Difficult to Understand | abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid |
| Disgusting/Offensive | defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative |
| Easy to Understand | articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
| Eccentric/Dissimilar | aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast |
| Embarrass | abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue |
| Equal | commensurate, equitable, equity, tantamount |
| Falsehood | apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious |
| Family | conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fraternal, fratricide, progenitor, scion, sorority |
| Favoring/Not Impartial | ardent/ardor, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot |
| Forgive/Make Amends | absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate |
| Funny | chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper |
| Gaps/Openings | abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift |
| Generous/Kind | altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting |
| Greedy | avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal |
| Hard-Hearted | asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation |
| Harmful | baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious |
| Harsh-Sounding | cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident |
| Hatred | abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor |
| Healthy | beneficial, salubrious, salutary |
| Hesitate | dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver |
| Hostile | antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive |
| Innocent/Inexperienced | credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro |
| Insincere | disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous |
| Investigate | appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse |
| Lazy/Sluggish | indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid |
| Luck | adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, serendipity, talisman |
| Nag | admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof |
| Nasty | fetid, noisome, noxious |
| Not a Straight Line | askance, awry, careen, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex |
| Overblown/Wordy | bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose |
| Pacify/Satisfy | ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe |
| Pleasant-Sounding | euphonious, harmonious, mellifluous, melodious, sonorous |
| Poor | destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent |
| Praise | acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud, venerate |
| Predict | augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, precursor, presage, prescient, prognosticate |
| Prevent/Obstruct | discomfit, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude |
| Smart/Learned | astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious |
| Sorrow | disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody |
| Stubborn | implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing |
| Terse | compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn |
| Time/Order/Duration | anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal |
| Timid/Timidity | craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation |
| Truth | candor, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity |
| Unusual | aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy |
| Walking About | ambulatory, itinerant, meander, peripatetic |
| Wandering | discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn |
| Weaken | adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate |
| Wisdom | adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism |
| Withdrawal/Retreat | abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde |
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