Kaplan's List of Most Common GRE words
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| Abate | show 🗑
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| Abscond | show 🗑
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| show | To choose not to do something
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| Abyss | show 🗑
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| Adulterate | show 🗑
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| show | To speak in favor of
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| show | Concerning the appreciation of beauty
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| Aggrandize | show 🗑
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| Alleviate | show 🗑
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| show | To combine, mix together
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| show | Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in many ways
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| show | To make better; to improve
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| show | Something out of place in time
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| show | Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
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| show | Deviation from what is normal
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| show | To annoy or provoke to anger
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| Antipathy | show 🗑
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| Apathy | show 🗑
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| Arbitrate | show 🗑
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| Archaic | show 🗑
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| Ardor | show 🗑
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| Articulate | show 🗑
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| Assuage | show 🗑
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| show | To reduce in force or degree; to weaken
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| show | Fearless or daring, bold
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| Austere | show 🗑
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| show | Predictable, cliched, boring
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| Bolster | show 🗑
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| Bombastic | show 🗑
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| show | Harsh, jarring noise
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| Candid | show 🗑
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| Capricious | show 🗑
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| Castigate | show 🗑
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| show | Something that brings about a change in something else
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| Caustic | show 🗑
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| show | great disorder and confusion
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| Chauvinist | show 🗑
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| Chicanery | show 🗑
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| show | convincing and well reasoned
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| Condone | show 🗑
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| show | intricate and complicated
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| show | to provide supporting evidence
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| show | Too trusting, gullible
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| show | Steadily increasing volume, or force
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| Decorum | show 🗑
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| Deference | show 🗑
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| show | To speak of or treat with contempt;to mock
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| show | To dry out thoroughly
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| show | Jumping from one thing to another, disconnected
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| show | An abusive, condemnatory speech
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| Diffident | show 🗑
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| show | To make large, to expand
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| Dilatory | show 🗑
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| Dilettante | show 🗑
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| Dirge | show 🗑
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| show | To set right, to free from error
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| show | To perceive, to recognize
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| Disparate | show 🗑
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| show | To present a false appearance; To disguise one's real intentions or character
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| show | A harsh and disagreeable combination; often of sounds
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| show | A firmly held opinion, often a religious belief
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| Dogmatic | show 🗑
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| show | To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
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| Eclectic | show 🗑
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| show | Effectiveness
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| show | A sorrowful poem or speech
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| Eloquent | show 🗑
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| Emulate | show 🗑
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| Enervate | show 🗑
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| show | to produce,cause or bring about
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| Enigma | show 🗑
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| show | To count, list, or itemize
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| show | Lasting a short time
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| show | To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
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| show | Wandering and unpredictable
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| show | Learned, scholarly, bookish
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| Esoteric | show 🗑
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| Estimable | show 🗑
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| show | Speech in praise of someone
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| Euphemism | show 🗑
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| show | To make worse
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| Exculpate | show 🗑
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| Exigent | show 🗑
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| show | To clear of blame
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| Explicit | show 🗑
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| Fanatical | show 🗑
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| Fawn | show 🗑
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| Fervid | show 🗑
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| Florid | show 🗑
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| show | To arouse or incite
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| Frugality | show 🗑
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| show | Tending to talk alot
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| show | Outgoing, sociable
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| show | Deceit of trickery
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| Gullible | show 🗑
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| Homogeneous | show 🗑
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| show | One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions
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| Imperturbable | show 🗑
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| show | Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected
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| Impetuous | show 🗑
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| Implacable | show 🗑
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| Inchoate | show 🗑
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| Ingenuous | show 🗑
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| show | Hostile, unfriendly
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| Innocuous | show 🗑
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| Insipid | show 🗑
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| show | Uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled
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| show | To overwhelm to cover with water
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| Irascible | show 🗑
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| Laconic | show 🗑
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| show | To express sorrow or grieve
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| Laud | show 🗑
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| Lavish | show 🗑
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| show | Acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner
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| show | Talkative
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| Lucid | show 🗑
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| show | Bright, brilliant, glowing
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| Malinger | show 🗑
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| show | capable of being shaped
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| show | a figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
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| Meticulous | show 🗑
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| Misanthrope | show 🗑
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| show | To soften, or lessen
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| Mollify | show 🗑
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| Monotony | show 🗑
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| show | Lacking sophistication or experience
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| show | hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion
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| show | overly submissive and eager to please
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| show | stubborn, unyielding
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| show | to prevent, to make unnecessary
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| Occlude | show 🗑
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| show | troublesome and oppressive,; burdensome
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| Opaque | show 🗑
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| Opprobrium | show 🗑
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| Ostentation | show 🗑
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| show | A contradiction or dilemma
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| show | model of excellence or perfection
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| Pedant | show 🗑
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| Perfidious | show 🗑
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| Perfunctory | show 🗑
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| Permeate | show 🗑
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| Philanthropy | show 🗑
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| show | to soothe or pacify
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| Plastic | show 🗑
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| show | Excess
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| show | practical as opposed to idealistic
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| show | to throw violently or bring about abruptly lacking deliberation
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| Prevaricate | show 🗑
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| show | fresh and clean; uncorrupted
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| show | lavish, wasteful
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| Proliferate | show 🗑
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| Propitiate | show 🗑
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| show | correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs
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| show | wisdom, caution, or restraint
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| Pungent | show 🗑
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| show | motionless
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| Rarefy | show 🗑
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| show | to reject the validity of
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| Reticent | show 🗑
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| Rhetoric | show 🗑
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| Satiate | show 🗑
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| show | causing sleep or lethargy
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| Specious | show 🗑
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| show | a mark of shame or discredit
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| show | unemotional, lacking sensitivity
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| Sublime | show 🗑
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| Tacit | show 🗑
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| Taciturn | show 🗑
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| show | long harsh speech or verbal attack
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| show | extreme mental of physical sluggishness
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| show | temporary, lasting a brief time
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| show | to sway physically; to be indecisive
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| Venerate | show 🗑
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| show | filled with truth and accuracy
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| Verbose | show 🗑
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| show | to annoy
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| Volatile | show 🗑
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| show | to fluctuate between choices
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| show | acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable
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| show | Passion, excitement
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