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GRE words 5/5
1000 GRE Words Part 1/5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Qualitative | concerned with quality not quantity |
| Quash | reject or void and especially by legal procedure |
| Quench | satisfy by drinking; extinguish (a fire); rapidly cool |
| Querulous | complaining; fretful; peevish; fault-finding |
| Quibble | to argue in a petty manner; to evade the truth by twisting the meaning of words |
| Quiescent | motionless |
| Quirk | a peculiar mannerism |
| Quixotic | overly idealistic; impractical |
| Quotidian | occurring daily; commonplace |
| Raconteur | "witty, skillful storyteller |
| Raiment | clothing or garments |
| Rancor | bitter resentment; long lasting ill will; extreme hatred or strife |
| Rarefy | to make thinner or sparser |
| Rebuke | to sharply criticize |
| Rebut | claim or prove something is false |
| Recalcitrant | stubbornly defiant to authority; resistant |
| Recant | to publicly take back; to deny something previously affirmed |
| Reclusive | avoiding the company of other people; solitary |
| Recompense | to make amends to someone for loss or harm suffered; compensate |
| Rectify | to put right; to remedy |
| Redress | to remedy; to set right |
| Redundant | unnecessary duplication; using too many words to express the same idea |
| Refurbish | renovate and redecorate something and especially a building |
| Regale | to entertain; to delight |
| Regiment | "a permanent unit of an army; rule or government over a person, people, or country |
| Reiterate | "to repeat, often excessively with the intention to emphasize |
| Rejoice | feel or show great joy or delight |
| Rejoiner | response |
| Relegate | to banish or cosign into an inferior condition or position |
| Relentless | mercilessly persistent; unstoppable |
| Remonstrate | to protest; argue against |
| Renaissance | a rebirth; a revival |
| Reparation | compensation for past wrongs or injuries |
| Repast | meal or mealtime |
| Repercussion | a consequence |
| Replete | abundantly supplied; complete |
| Repose | relaxation; leisure |
| Reprisal | retaliation |
| Reproach | to scold and usually in disappointment of blame |
| Repudiate | refuse to accept or be associated with; deny the truth or validity of |
| Requisite | required or necessary; indispensable |
| Requite | to return or repay |
| Resolute | determined; firm; unwavering |
| Restive | "impatient, uneasy, or restless |
| Reticent | not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily; silent |
| Reverberate | (of a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo |
| Rhetoric | effective writing or speaking |
| Ribald | humorous in a vulgar way |
| Rigor | "the quality of being extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate |
| Robust | strong; hardy; vigorous |
| Rococo | very highly ornamented |
| Rogue | a scoundrel |
| Ruminate | to ponder; to contemplate |
| Rustic | rural |
| Sacrilege | Disrespect of the sacred |
| Sacrosanct | extremely sacred; beyond criticism |
| Sagacious | wise; discerning; keen in judgment |
| Salient | prominently conspicuous; obvious; striking |
| Salubrious | healthful |
| Salutary | beneficial; healthful; curative; wholesome |
| Salvage | retrieve or preserve from potential loss or adverse circumstances |
| Sanguine | cheerfully optimistic |
| Sardonic | mocking; scornful; bitterly contemptuous; cynical |
| Satiate | to satisfy fully or overindulge |
| Savior-faire | skilled in social graces; knowledge of what to do and when to do it |
| Scintilla | trace amount |
| Scold | to find fault with angrily |
| Scrupulous | strictly careful; conscientious |
| Secular | worldly; having nothing to do with religion or with or spiritual concerns |
| Sedition | behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state; treason |
| Sensory | pertains to the senses or sensation |
| Sentient | aware; conscious; able to perceive |
| Sequester | to set apart; to seclude or isolate |
| Sequestration | the action of taking legal possession of assets until debt has been paid |
| Seraphic | angelic; sweet |
| Serendipity | the faculty of attracting good fortune; the good fortune itself |
| Servile | "lavishly submissive; characteristic of, proper of, or customary for slaves |
| Shrewd | sharp in practical matters; artful; keen; astute |
| Shunned | "persistently avoid, ignore, or reject someone or something through antipathy or caution |
| Sinecure | a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder status of financial benefit |
| Sketchy | not thorough or detailed |
| Skew | (verb) suddenly change direction or position |
| Slake | to calm down or moderate |
| Sloth | sluggishness; listlessness; dislike of work or exercise |
| Sobriety | abstinence from alcohol |
| Sobriquet | nickname |
| Solace | comfort; relief from emotional pain |
| Solecism | grammatical mistake; blunder in speech |
| Solicitous | anxiously concerned; eager and attentive |
| Sophomoric | over-confident but shallow; intellectually pretentious |
| Soporific | causing sleep or lethargy |
| Spartan | highly self-disciplined; frugal; austere |
| Spate | a torrent; a great quantity; outpouring |
| Spawn | to bring forth; to produce in large number |
| Specious | "superficially plausible, but actually wrong; deceptively attractive; |
| Sporadic | appearing every now and then |
| Sportive | frolicsome; playful |
| Squalor | filth; wretchedness; repulsive conditions |
| Squander | to waste |
| Stagnation | lack of movement; staleness; lack of growth or progress |
| Stasis | a state of static balance or equilibrium; stagnation |
| Staunch | committed; dedicated; steadfast |
| Stentorian | extremely loud |
| Stifle | restrain a reaction or stop oneself acting on an emotion |
| Stigma | a mark of shame or discredit |
| Stigmatize | to brand with disgrace; to label as shameful |
| Stolid | unemotional; lacking sensitivity |
| Strategem | trick designed to deceive an enemy |
| Stratum | a layer or level |
| Stricture | a limitation; a criticism; a constriction |
| Stringent | strict; demanding |
| Strive | make greater efforts to achieve or obtain something |
| Stymie | to thwart; hinder; or block |
| Sublime | exalted; supreme; lofty or grand |
| Subordinate | secondary to; less than |
| Subsequent | coming after something in time; following |
| Substantive | solid; real; having substance |
| Subterfuge | a trick; an evasive pretense; and excuse used to escape something unpleasant or hid something |
| Subtle | not obvious |
| Subversive | undermining; tending to overthrow or cause destruction |
| Succinct | concise; short and to the point |
| Succumb | "fail to resist pressure, temptation, or some other negative force |
| Sully | to tarnish; taint |
| Superfluous | unnecessary; extra; redundant |
| Supplant | to replace (another) by force; to take the place of |
| Supple | flexible; pliant; bending or folding easily without breaking or cracking |
| Surfeit | excessive amount |
| Surly | rude and bad-tempered |
| Surrogate | substitute; something that takes place of something else |
| Swathe | to wrap; to bind |
| Sybarite | a person devoted to pleasure and luxury |
| Sycophant | a self-serving flatterer; yes-man |
| Symbiosis | cooperation; mutual helpfulness |
| Syncopation | temporary irregularity in musical rhythm |
| Synthesis | blending; combination of parts into a whole |
| Tacit | unspoken; implied; understood without being expressed |
| Taciturn | reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little |
| Talon | "claw of an animal, especially a bird of prey |
| Tangential | not especially relevant; superficially connected |
| Tantalize | torment or tease someone with the sight or promise of something that is unobtainable |
| Tantamount | equivalent or equal |
| Tautological | uselessly repetitive |
| Tawdry | "showy but gaudy, cheap, or poor quality |
| Temerity | boldness |
| Tenable | viable; defensible; valid; capably of being successfully argued |
| Tenacious | persistent; stubborn; not letting go |
| Tentative | uncertain; done without confidence; hesitant |
| Terrestrial | earthly; down-to-earth; commonplace |
| Terse | Abrupt |
| Theology | study of religion |
| Thermic | relating to heat |
| Tirade | "long, harsh speech or verbal attack |
| Toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors |
| Tome | "book, usually large and academic |
| Torpid | mentally or physically inactive; lethargic |
| Torpor | sluggishness; apathy; |
| Touchstone | a standard by which to evaluate the worth of something |
| Transient | will be moving soon; just passing through; not staying long |
| Transistory | temporary; lasting a brief time |
| Treacherous | guilty of or involving betrayal or deception |
| Tremor | an involuntary quivering movement |
| Trenchant | "acute, sharp, or incisive; forceful; effective |
| Trepidation | apprehension; nervous trembling; uncertainty |
| Trite | overused; uninteresting do to being so common place |
| Truncate | shorten by cutting off the top or the end |
| Tryst | an appointed meeting especially between lovers |
| Turgid | swollen as from a fluid; bloated |
| Tyro | a beginner or novice |
| Umbrage | offense; resentment |
| Unconscionable | "unscrupulous, shockingly unfair or unjust |
| Unequivocal | absolute; certain |
| Unilateral | "performed by or affecting only one person, group, or country |
| Unremitting | persistent; ceaseless; relentless |
| Untoward | unfortunate; unfavorable |
| Unwitting | Unintentional; unaware; without knowing |
| Upbraid | to scold sharply |
| Usurp | to wrongfully seize; to take and hold by force; illegal |
| Usury | the practice of lending money at exorbitant rates |
| Utilitarian | stressing usefulness; functional |
| Vacillate | to physically sway or be indecisive |
| Valor | great courage in the face of danger-especially in battle |
| Vanity | the quality of being worthless or futile; excessive pride in or admiration of one's appearance or achievements |
| Variegated | varied; marked with different colors |
| Vehemence | showing strong feeling; passionate or intense |
| Vehement | intense; forceful; impassioned |
| Venal | corrupt; open to bribery |
| Venerable | respected because of age |
| Venerate | to regard with great respect; revere |
| Venial | excusable; trivial; unimportant |
| Veracity | refers to qualities and truthfulness; filled with truth and accuracy |
| Verbose | wordy; using or expressed in more words than are needed |
| Verdant | green with vegetation; inexperienced |
| Verisimilitude | the appearance or similarity to truth or reality |
| Vernacular | to speak the common or everyday language |
| VERNAL | related to spring; fresh |
| VESTIGE | a trace; remnant |
| Vex | to annoy; to irritate; to provoke; to puzzle |
| Viable | capable of living |
| Vicissitude | the changed in fortune or circumstances; uncertainties; ups and downs |
| Vigilance | the action or state of keeping careful watch for possible danger or difficulties |
| Vim | vitality and energy |
| Vindicate | "clear someone of blame or suspicion; show or prove to be right, reasonable, or justified |
| Virtuoso | someone with mastery |
| Visceral | "of the gut (literal) such as kidneys, liver intestines |
| Viscous | "thick and adhesive, like a slow-flowing fluid |
| Visionary | a dreamer |
| Vitiate | to pollute; to spoil; corrupt |
| Vituperate | to abuse verbally; berate |
| Volatile | following no predictable pattern; highly unstable; capricious; erratic |
| Volition | the exercise of will or choice |
| Voluble | talkative; fond of talking |
| Voluptuous | "or, relating to, or characterized by luxury or sensual pleasure; curvaceous and sexually attractive (of a woman) |
| Waggish | fond of joking; mischievous; prone to pranks |
| Wan | looking pale and giving the impression of illness or exhaustion; weak; |
| Wanton | undisciplined; unrestrained; reckless |
| Waver | shake with a quivering motion; become unsteady or unreliable; |
| Whimsical | lightly acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable |
| Wile | devious or cunning stratagems employed in manipulating or persuading someone to do what one wants |
| WILY | clever; deceptive |
| Winsome | attractive; charming; pleasing; agreeable |
| Wistful | to feel yearning; to express longing |
| Wizened | shriveled; withered; wrinkled |
| wraith | a ghost or specter; a ghost of a living person seen just before his/her death |
| Xenophobia | a fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers |
| Yoke | to join together |
| Zeal | great energy or enthusiasm in pursuit of a cause or an objective; passion; excitement |
| Zealot | someone passionately devoted to a cause |
| Zenith | the point of culmination; peak |
| Zephry | a gentle breeze; something airy or insubstantial |
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