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GRE Vocab
Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abridge | Abbreviated communication |
| Abate | to reduce in the amount, degree, or severity |
| Abscond | to leave secretly |
| Abstain | to choose not to do something |
| Abyss | and extremely deep hole |
| Adulterate | to make impure |
| Advocate | to speak in favor of |
| Aesthetic | concerning the appreciation of beauty |
| Aggrandize | to increase in power, influence, and reputation |
| Alleviate | to make more bearable |
| Amalgamate | to combine; to mixed together |
| Ambiguous | doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted several different ways |
| Ameliorate | to make better; to improve |
| Anachronism | something out of place in time |
| Analogous | similar or alike in some way; equivalent to |
| Anomaly | deviation from what is normal |
| Antagonize | to annoy or provoked to anger |
| Antipathy | extreme dislike |
| Apathy | lack of interest or emotion |
| Arbitrate | to judge a dispute between two opposing parties |
| Ardor | intense and passionate feeling |
| Articulate | able to speak clearly and expressively |
| Assuage | to make something unpleasant less severe |
| Attenuate | to reduce in force or degree; to weaken |
| Audacious | fearless and daring |
| Austere | severe or stern in appearance; undecorated |
| Banal | predictable; clichéd; boring |
| Bolster | to support; to prop up |
| Bombastic | pompous in speech and manner |
| Cacophony | harsh, jarring noise |
| Candid | impartial and honest and speech |
| Capricious | changing one's mind quickly and often |
| Castigate | to punish or criticize harshly |
| Catalyst | something that brings about a change in something else |
| Caustic | biting in wit |
| Chaos | great disorder or confusion |
| Chauvinist | someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which one belongs |
| Chicanery | deception by means of craft or guile |
| Cogent | convincing and well reasoned |
| Condone | to overlook, pardon, or disregard |
| Convoluted | intricate and complicated |
| Corroborate | to provide supporting evidence |
| Credulous | too trusting; gullible |
| Crescendo | steadily increasing volume or force |
| Decorum | appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety |
| Deference | respect; courtesy |
| Deride | to speak or treat with contempt; to mock |
| Desiccate | to dry out thoroughly |
| Desultory | jumping from one thing to another; disconnected |
| Diatribe | |
| Diffident | lacking self-confidence |
| Dilate | to make larger; to expand |
| Dilatory | intended to delay |
| Dilettante | Someone within amateurish and superficial interest in the topic |
| Dirge | a funeral hymn or mournful speech |
| Disabuse | to set right; two free from error |
| Discern | to perceive; to recognize |
| Disparate | fundamentally different; entirely unalike |
| Dissemble | and to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character |
| Dissonance | the harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds |
| Dogma | hey firmly held opinion, often a religious belief |
| Dogmatic | dictatorial in one's opinion |
| Dupe | to deceive; a person who is easily deceived |
| Eclectic | selecting from or made up from a variety of sources |
| Efficacy | effectiveness |
| Elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech |
| Eloquent | persuasive and moving, especially in speech |
| Emulate | to copy; to try to equal or Excel |
| Enervate | to reduce and strength |
| Engender | to produce, cause, or bring about |
| Enigma | a puzzle; mystery |
| Enumerate | to count, list, or itemize |
| Ephemeral | lasting a short time |
| Equivocate | to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
| Erratic | wondering and unpredictable |
| Erudite | learned; scholarly; bookish |
| Esoteric | known or understood by only a few |
| Estimable | admirable |
| Eulogy | speech in praise of someone |
| Euphemism | use of them inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more dissed tasteful one |
| Exacerbate | to make worse |
| Exculpate | to clear from Blame; to improve innocent |
| Exigent | urgent; requiring immediate action |
| Exonerate | to clear from blame |
| Explicit | clearly stated or shown; forthright and expression |
| Fanatical | acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion |
| Fawn | to grovel |
| Fervid | Intensely emotional; feverish |
| Florid | excessively decorated or embellished |
| Foment | to arouse or incite |
| Frugality | a tendency to be thrifty or cheap |
| Garrulous | tending to talk a lot |
| Gregarious | outgoing; sociable |
| Guile | deceit or trickery |
| Gullible | easily deceived |
| Homogenous | of a similar kind |
| Iconoclast | one who opposes established beliefs, customs, institutions |
| Imperturbable | not capable of being disturbed |
| Impervious | impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected |
| Impetuous | quick to act without thinking |
| Implacable | unable to be calmed down or made peaceful |
| Inchoate | not fully formed a; disorganized |
| Ingenuous | showing it in a sentence or childlike simplicity |
| Inimical | hostile, unfriendly |
| Innocuous | harmless |
| Insipid | lacking interest or flavor |
| Intransigent | uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled |
| Inundate | to overwhelm; to cover with water |
| Irascible | easily made angry |
| Laconic | using keywords |
| Lament | to express sorrow; to grieve |
| Laud | to give praise; and to glorify |
| Lavish | to give up on sparingly; extremely generous or extravagant |
| Lethargic | acting in and in different or slow, sluggish manner |
| Loquacious | talkative |
| Lucid | clear and easily understood |
| Luminous | bright; brilliant; glowing |
| Malinger | to invade responsibility by pretending to be ill |
| Malleable | capable of being shaped |
| Metaphor | a figure speech comparing two different things; a symbol |
| Meticulous | extremely careful about details |
| Misanthrope | person who dislikes others |
| Mitigate | to soften; it to lesson |
| Mollify | to calm or make less severe |
| Monotony | lack of variation |
| Naïve | lacking sophistication or experience |
| Obdurate | hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion |
| Obsequious | overly submissive and eager to please |
| Obstinate | stubborn; unyielding |
| Obviate | to prevent; to make unnecessary |
| Occlude | to stop up; to prevent the passage of |
| Onerous | troublesome and oppressive; burdensome |
| Opaque | impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light |
| Opprobrium | public disgrace |
| Ostentation | excessive showiness |
| Paradox | a contradiction or dilemma |
| Paragon | a model of excellence or perfection |
| Pedant | someone who shows off learning |
| Perfidious | willing to betray one's trust |
| Perfunctory | done in a routine way; in different |
| Permeate | to penetrate |
| Philanthropy | charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness |
| Placate | to soothe or pacify |
| Plastic | able to be molded, altered, or bent |
| Plethora | excess |
| Pragmatic | practical, as opposed to a idealistic |
| Precipitate | to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation |
| Prevaricate | to lie or deviate from the truth |
| Pristine | fresh and clean; uncorrupted |
| Prodigal | lavish; wasteful |
| Proliferate | to increase in number quickly |
| Propitiate | to conciliate; to appease |
| Propriety | correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs |
| Prudence | wisdom, caution, or restraint |
| Pungent | sharp and irritating to the senses |
| Quiescent | motionless |
| Rarefy | to make thinner or sparser |
| Repudiate | to reject the validity of |
| Reticent | silent; reserved |
| Rhetoric | effective writing or speaking |
| Satiate | To satisfy fully or overindulge |
| Soporific | causing sleep or lethargy |
| Specious | deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious |
| Stigma | and Mark of shame or discredit |
| Stolid | unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
| Sublime | lofty or grand |
| Tacit | done without using words |
| Taciturn | silent, not talkative |
| Tirade | long, harsh speech or verbal attack |
| Torpor | extreme mental and physical sluggishness |
| Transitory | temporary; lasting a brief time |
| Vacillate | to sway physically; to be indecisive |
| Venerate | to respect deeply |
| Veracity | filled with truth and accuracy |
| Verbose | wordy |
| Vex | to annoy |
| Volatile | easily aroused or changeable; lightly or explosive |
| Waver | to fluctuate between choices |
| Whimsical | acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable |
| Zeal | passion; excitement |
| Agonistic | one who believes the existence of God is not provable |
| Anomaly | and irregularity |
| Apathy | lack of interest or a motion |
| Abdicate | to announce or relinquish a throne |
| Abduct | take away my force |
| Abhor | to hate, detest |
| Abject | cast down; degraded |
| Abstinence | forbearance from any indulgence of appetite |
| Abstract | conceived apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances |
| Abstruse | hard to understand; secret, hidden |
| Acerbic | sour or a stringent in taste; harsh in temper |
| Acrimonious | caustic comments stinging, or bigger in nature |
| Acumen | mental sharpness; quickness of wit |
| Acute | sharp at the end; ending in a point |
| Litigate | to make the object of a lawsuit |
| Pedagogue | a teacher |
| Prodigal | wasteful or recklessly and extravagant |
| Synagogue | a gathering of congregation of Jews for the purpose of religious worship |
| Accede | to yield to a demand it; to enter office |
| Alibi | the defense by an accused person that he was verifiable he elsewhere at the time of the crime which he is charged |
| Allegory | is figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another |
| Altruist | person unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others |
| Amateur | it person who engages in an activity for pleasure rather than financial or professional gain |
| Amatory | of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking |
| Amiable | having or showing a agreeable personal qualities |
| Amicable | characterized by Exhibiting Goodwill |
| Amity | friendship; peaceful harmony |
| Amorous | inclined to love, especially sexual love |
| Enamored | inflamed with love; charmed; captivated |
| Inamorata | a female lover |
| Ambient | moving around freely; circulating |
| Ambiguous | open to various interpretations |
| Perambulator | one who makes a tour of inspection on foot |
| Preamble | an introductory statement |
| Animosity | the feeling of ill will or enmity |
| Equanimity | mental or emotional stability, especially under tension |
| Magnanimous | generous in forgiving an insult or injury |
| Unanimous | of one mind; incomplete accord |
| Annals | and record of events, especially a yearly record |
| Annuity | as specified income payable at stated intervals |
| Perennial | lasting for an indefinite amount of time |
| Antebellum | before the war |
| Antecedent | existing, being, or going before |
| Antedate | proceed in time |
| Antediluvian | belonging to the. Before the biblical flood; a very old or old-fashioned |
| Android | robot; mechanical man |
| Anthropocentric | regarding humanity as the central fact of the universe |
| Misanthrope | one who hates humans or humanity |
| Philanderer | one who carries on flirtations |
| Antipathy | aversion |
| Antipodal | on the opposite side of the globe |
| Apocalypse | revelation, discovery, disclosure |
| Apocryphal | of doubtful authorship or authenticity |
| Apogee | the highest or most distant point |
| Apostasy | a total desertion of one's religion, principles, party, cause, etc. |
| Aqueduct | channel for transporting water |
| Anarchy | estate or society without government or law |
| Archenemy | chief enemy |
| Oligarchy | estate or society ruled by a select group |
| Ardent | burning; fierce; passionate. |
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