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GRE WORD GROUPS
Term | Definition |
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Abridge | Abbreviated communication |
Compendium | abbreviated communication |
Cursory | abbreviated communication |
Curtail | abbreviated communication |
Syllabus | abbreviated communication |
Synopsis | abbreviated communication |
Terse | abbreviated communication |
Abrupt | act quickly |
Apace | act quickly |
Headlong | act quickly |
Impetuous | act quickly |
Precipitate | act quickly |
Abet | assist |
Advocate | assist |
Ancillary | assist |
Bolster | assist |
Corroborate | assist |
Countenance | assist |
Espouse | assist |
Mainstay | assist |
Munificent | assist |
Proponent | assist |
Stalwart | assist |
Sustenance | assist |
Bilious | bad mood |
Dudgeon | bad mood |
Irascible | bad mood |
Pettish | bad mood |
Petulant | bad mood |
Pique | bad mood |
Querulous | bad mood |
Umbrage | bad mood |
Waspish | bad mood |
Dilettante | beginner/amateur |
Fledgling | beginner/amateur |
Neophyte | beginner/amateur |
Novitiate | beginner/amateur |
Proselyte | beginner/amateur |
tyro Beginner/amateur | |
burgeoning | beginning/young |
Callow | beginning/young |
Engender | beginning/young |
Inchoate | beginning/young |
Incipient | beginning/young |
Nascent | beginning/young |
Acerbic | biting in wit |
Acidulous | biting in wit |
Acrimonious | biting in wit |
Asperity | biting in wit |
Caustic | biting in wit |
Mordacious | biting and wit |
Mordant | biting and wit |
Trenchant | biting in wit |
Audacious | bold |
Courageous | bold |
Dauntless | bold |
Intrepid | bold |
Banal | boring |
Fatuous | boring |
Hackneyed | boring |
Insipid | boring |
Mundane | boring |
Pedestrian | boring |
Platitude | boring |
Prosaic | boring |
Quotidian | boring |
Trite | boring |
Bacchanalian | carousal |
Debauchery | carousal |
Depraved | carousal |
Dissipated | carousal |
Iniquity | carousal |
Libertine | carousal |
Libidinous | carousal |
Licentious | carousal |
Reprobate | carousal |
Ribald | carousal |
Salacious | carousal |
Sordid | carousal |
Turpitude | carousal |
Capricious | changing quickly |
Mercurial | changing quickly |
Volatile | changing quickly |
Counterpart | copy |
Emulate | copy |
Facsimile | copy |
Factitious | copy |
Paradigm | copy |
Precursor | copy |
Quintessence | copy |
Simulate | copy Vicarious |
Decry | criticize/criticism Disdain/defamation |
deride/derisive | criticize/criticism |
diatribe | criticize /criticism |
Disparage | criticize/criticism |
excoriate | criticize/criticism |
Gainsay | criticize/criticism |
harangue | criticize/criticism |
Impugn | criticize/criticism |
inveigh | criticize/criticism |
lambaste | criticize/criticism |
objurgate | criticize/criticism |
obloquy | criticize/criticism |
opprobrium | criticize/criticism |
pillory | criticize/criticism |
Rebuke | criticize/criticism |
Remonstrate | criticize/criticism |
Reprehend | criticize/criticism |
Reprove | criticize/criticism |
Revile | criticize/criticism |
Bereave | death/mourning |
Cadaver | death/mourning |
Defunct | death/mourning |
Demise | death/mourning |
Dolorous | death/mourning |
Elegy | death/mourning |
Knell | death/mourning |
Lament | death/mourning |
Macabre | death/mourning |
Moribund | death/mourning |
Obsequies | death/mourning |
Sepulchral | death/mourning |
Wraith | death/mourning |
Abnegate | denying of self |
Abstain | denying of self |
Ascetic | denying of self |
Spartan | denying of self |
Stoic | denying of self |
Temperate | denying of self |
Authoritarian | dictatorial |
Despotic | dictatorial |
Dogmatic | dictatorial |
hegemonic /hegemony | dictatorial |
imperious | dictatorial |
peremptory | dictatorial |
tyrannical | dictatorial |
abstruse | hard to understand |
ambiguous | hard to understand |
arcane | hard to understand |
bemusing | hard to understand |
Cryptic | hard to understand |
Enigmatic | hard to understand |
Esoteric | hard to understand |
Inscrutable | hard to understand |
Obscure | hard to understand |
Opaque | hard to understand |
Paradoxical | hard to understand |
Perplexing | hard to understand |
Recondite | hard to understand |
Turbid | hard to understand |
Defile | disgusting/offensive |
Fetid | disgusting/offensive |
Invidious | disgusting/offensive |
Noisome | disgusting/offensive |
Odious | disgusting/offensive |
Putrid | discussing/offensive |
Rebarbative | disgusting/offensive |
Malodorous | disgusting/offensive |
Articulate | easy to understand |
Cogent | easy to understand |
Eloquent | easy-to-understand |
Evident | easy to understand |
Limpid | easy to understand |
Lucid | easy to understand |
Pellucid | easy to understand |
Aberrant | eccentric/dissimilar |
Anachronism | eccentric/dissimilar |
Anomalous | eccentric/dissimilar |
Discrete | eccentric/dissimilar |
Eclectic | eccentric/dissimilar |
Iconoclast | eccentric/dissimilar |
Abash | embarrass |
Chagrin | embarrass |
Compunction | embarrass |
Contrition | embarrass |
Diffidence | embarrass |
Expiate | embarrass |
Foible | embarrass |
Gaucherie | embarrass |
Rue | embarrass |
Equitable | equal |
Equity | equal |
Tantamount | equal |
Apocryphal | falsehood |
Canard | falsehood |
Chicanery | falsehood |
Dissemble | falsehood |
Duplicity | falsehood |
Equivocate | falsehood |
Erroneous | falsehood |
Ersatz | falsehood |
Fallacious | falsehood |
Feigned | falsehood |
Guile | falsehood |
mendacious/mendacity | falsehood |
perfidy | falsehood |
prevaricate | falsehood |
specious | falsehood |
spurious | falsehood |
conjugal | family |
consanguine | family |
distaff | family |
endogamous | family |
filial | family |
fratricide | family |
progenitor | family |
Scion | family |
Ardent/ardor | favoring/not impartial |
Doctrinaire | favoring/not impartial |
Fervid | favoring/not impartial |
Partisan | favoring/not impartial |
Tendentious | favoring/not impartial |
Zealot | favoring/not impartial |
Absolve | forgive/make amends |
Acquit | forgive/make amends |
Ameliorate | forgive/make amends |
Exculpate | forgive/make amends |
Exonerate | forgive/make amends |
Expiate | forgive/make amends |
Palliate | forgive/make amends |
Redress | forgive/make amends |
Vindicate | forgive/make amends |
Chortle | funny |
Droll | funny |
Facetious | funny |
Flippant | funny |
Gibe | funny |
Jocular | funny |
Levity | funny |
Ludicrous | funny |
Raillery | funny |
Riposte | funny |
Abatement | gap/openings |
Aperture | gap/openings |
Fissure | gap/openings |
Hiatus | gaps/openings |
Interregnum | gap/openings |
Interstice | gap/openings |
Lull | gaps/openings |
Orifice | gaps/openings |
Rent | gaps/openings |
Respite | gaps/openings |
Rift | gaps/openings |
Altruistic | generous/kind |
Beneficent | generous/kind |
Clement | generous/kind |
Largess | generous/kind |
Magnanimous | generous/kind |
Munificent | generous/kind |
Philanthropic | generous/kind |
Unstinting | generous/kind |
Avaricious | greedy |
Covetous | greedy |
Mercenary | greedy |
Miserly | greedy |
Penurious | greedy |
Rapacious | greedy |
Venal | greedy |
Asperity | hardhearted |
Baleful | hardhearted |
Dour | hardhearted |
Fell | hardhearted |
Malevolent | hardhearted |
Mordant | hardhearted |
Sardonic | hardhearted |
Scathing | hardhearted |
Truculent | hardhearted |
Vitriolic | hardhearted |
Vituperation | hardhearted |
Baleful | harmful |
Baneful | harmful |
Deleterious | harmful |
Inimical | harmful |
Injurious | harmful |
Insidious | harmful |
Minatory | harmful |
Perfidious | harmful |
Pernicious | harmful |
Cacophony | harsh sounding |
Din | harsh sounding |
Dissonant | harsh sounding |
Raucous | harsh sounding |
Strident | harsh sounding |
Abhorrence | hatred |
Anathema | hatred |
Antagonism | hatred |
Antipathy | hatred |
Detestation | hatred |
Enmity | hatred |
Loathing | hatred |
Malice | hatred |
Odium | hatred |
Rancor | hatred |
Beneficial | healthy |
Salubrious | healthy |
Salutary | healthy |
Dither | hesitate |
Oscillate | hesitate |
Teeter | hesitate |
Vacillate | hesitate |
Waver | hesitate |
Antithetic | hostile |
Churlish | hostile |
Curmudgeon | hostile |
Irascible | hostile |
Malevolent | hostile |
Misanthropic | hostile |
Truculent | hostile |
Vindictive | hostile |
Credulous | innocent/inexperienced |
Gullible | innocent/inexperienced |
Ingenuous | innocent/inexperienced |
Naïve | innocent/inexperienced |
Novitiate | innocent/inexperienced |
Tyro | innocent/inexperienced |
Disingenuous | insincere |
Dissemble | insincere |
Fulsome | insincere |
Ostensible | insincere |
Unctuous | insincere |
Appraise | investigate |
Ascertain | investigate |
Assay | investigate |
Descry | investigate |
Peruse | investigate |
Indolent | lazy/sluggish |
Inert | lazy/sluggish |
Lackadaisical | lazy/sluggish |
Languid | lazy/sluggish |
Lassitude | lazy/sluggish |
Lethargic | lazy/luggage |
Phlegmatic | lazy/sluggish |
Quiescent | Lazy/sluggish |
Slothful | lazy/sluggish |
Torpid | lazy/sluggish |
Adventitious | luck |
Amulet | luck |
Auspicious | luck |
Fortuitous | luck |
Kismet | luck |
Portentous | luck |
Propitious | luck |
Providential | luck |
Talisman | luck |
Admonish | nag |
Belabor | nag |
Cavil | nag |
Enjoin | nag |
Exhort | nag |
Harangue | nag |
Hector | nag |
Martinet | nag |
Remonstrate | nag |
Reproof | nag |
Fetid | nasty |
Noisome | nasty |
Noxious | resting |
Askance | not in a straight line |
Awry | not in a straight line |
Careen | not in a straight line |
Carom | not in the straight-line |
Circuitous | not been a straight line |
Circumvent | not in a straight line |
Gyrate | not in a straight line |
Labyrinth | not in a straight line |
Meander | not in a straight line |
Oblique | not in a straight line |
Serrated | not in a straight line |
Sidle | not in a straight line |
Sinuous | not in a straight line |
Undulating | not in a straight line |
Vortex | not in a straight line |
Bombastic | overblown/wordy |
Circumlocution | overblown/wordy |
Garrulous | overblown/wordy |
Grandiloquent | overblown/wordy |
Loquacious | overblown/wordy |
Periphrastic | Overblown/wordy |
Prolix | overblown/wordy |
Rhetoric | overblown/Wordy |
Turgid | overblown/wordy |
Verbose | overblown/wordy |
Ameliorate | pacify/satisfy |
Appease | pacify/satisfy |
Assuage | pacify/satisfy |
Defer | pacify/satisfy |
Mitigate | pacify/satisfy |
Placate | pacify/satisfy |
Propitiate | pacify/satisfy |
Satiate | pacify/satisfy |
Slake | pacify/satisfy |
Soothe | pacify/satisfy |
Euphonious | pleasant sounding |
Harmonious | pleasant sounding |
Melodious | pleasant sounding |
Sonorous | pleasant sounding |
Destitute | poor |
Impecunious | poor |
Indigent | poor |
Acclaim | praise |
Accolade | praise |
Aggrandize | praise |
Encomium | praise |
Eulogize | praise |
Extol | praise |
Fawn | praise |
Laud/laudatory | praise |
venerate/veneration | praise |
augur | predict |
auspice | predict |
fey | predict |
harbinger | predict |
portentous | predict |
presage | predict |
prescient | predict |
prognosticate | predict |
discomfit | prevent/obstruct |
encumber | prevent/obstruct |
fetter | prevented/obstruct |
forfend | prevent/obstruct |
hinder | prevent/obstruct |
impede | prevent/obstruct |
Inhibit | prevent/obstruct |
Occlude | prevent/obstruct |
Thwart | prevent/obstruct |
Astute | Smart/learned |
Canny | smart/learned |
Erudite | smart/learned |
Perspicacious | smart/learned |
Disconsolate | sorrow |
Doleful | sorrow |
Dolor | sorrow |
Elegiac | sorrow |
Forlorn | sorrow |
Lament | sorrow |
Lugubrious | sorrow |
Melancholy | sorrow |
Plaintive | sorrow |
Threnody | sorrow |
Implacable | stubborn |
Inexorable | stubborn |
Intractable | stubborn |
Intransigent | stubborn |
Obdurate | stubborn |
Obstinate | stubborn |
Recalcitrant | stubborn |
Refractory | stubborn |
Renitent | stubborn |
Untoward | stubborn |
Vexing | stubborn |
Compendious | Abrupt |
Curt | abrupt |
Laconic | abrupt |
Pithy | Abrupt |
Succinct | abrupt |
Taciturn | abrupt |
Anachronism | time/order/duration |
Antecede | time/order/duration |
Antedate | time/order/duration |
Anterior | time/order/duration |
Archaic | time/order/duration |
Diurnal | time/order/duration |
Eon | time/order/duration |
Ephemeral | time/order/duration |
Epoch | time/order/duration |
Fortnight | time/order/duration |
Millennium | time/order/duration |
Penultimate | time/order/duration |
Synchronous | time/order/duration |
Temporal | time/order/duration |
Craven | Shy |
Diffident | shy |
Pusillanimous | shy |
Recreant | shy |
Timorous | shy |
Trepidation | shy |
Candor/candid | truth |
Fealty | truth |
Frankness | truth |
Indisputable | truth |
Indubitable | truth |
Legitimate | truth |
Probity | truth |
Sincere | truth |
Veracious | truth |
Verity | truth |
Aberration | unusual |
Anomaly | unusual |
Iconoclast | unusual |
Idiosyncrasy | unusual |
Ambulatory | wondering |
Discursive | wandering |
Expatiate | wandering |
Forage | wondering |
Itinerant | wondering |
Meander | wandering |
Peregrination | wandering |
Peripatetic | wandering |
Sojourn | wandering |
Adulterate | weaken |
Enervate | weaken |
Exacerbate | weaken |
Inhibit | weaken |
Obviate | weaken |
Stultify | weaken |
Undermine | weaken |
Vitiate weaken | |
Adage | wisdom |
Aphorism | wisdom |
Apothegm | wisdom |
Axiom | wisdom |
Bromide | wisdom |
Dictum | wisdom |
Epigram | wisdom |
Platitude | wisdom |
Sententious | wisdom |
Truism | wisdom |
Abeyance | retreat |
Abjure | retreat |
Abnegation | retreat |
Abortive | retreat |
Abrogate | retreat |
Decamp | retreat |
Demur | retreat |
Recant | retreat |
Recidivism | retreat |
Remission | retreat |
Renege | retreat |
Rescind | retreat |
Retrograde | retreat |