Top GRE Words

Question 0

Abscond

Answer 0

To leave secretly

Question 1

Abate

Answer 1

To reduce in amount, degree or severity.

Verb

Question 2

Aggrandize

Answer 2

To increase in power, influence, and reputation

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Amalgamate

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To combine; to mix together

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Ameliorate

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To make better; to improve

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Anachronism

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Something out of place in time

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Analogous

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Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to

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Anomaly

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Deviation from what is normal

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Antipathy

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Extreme dislike

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Arbitrate

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To judge a dispute between two opposing parties

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Ardor

Answer 10

Intense and passionate feeling

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Assuage

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To make something unpleasant less severe

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Attenuate

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To reduce in force or degree; to weaken

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Banal

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Predictable, cliched, boring

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Bombastic

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Pompous in speech and manner

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Cacophony

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Harsh, jarring noise

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Capricious

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Changing one’s mind quickly and often

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Caustic

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Biting in wit

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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile

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Cogent

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Convincing and well reasoned

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Corroborate

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To provide supporting evidence

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Credulous

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Too trusting; gullible

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Deference

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Respect: courtesy

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Deride

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To speak of or treat with contempt: to mock

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Desiccate

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To dry out thoroughly

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Desultory

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Jumping from one thing to another

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Diatribe

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An abusive, condemnatory speech

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Diffident

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Lacking self confidence

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Dilatory

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Intended to delay

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Dilettante

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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

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Dirge

Answer 30

A funeral hymn or mournful speech

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Disabuse

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To set free; to free from error

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Disparate

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Fundamentally different; entirely unlike

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Dissemble

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To present a false appearance; to disguise one' steal intention or character

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Dissonance

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A harsh or disagreeable combination, often of sounds

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Dogma

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A firmly held opinion, often a religious belief

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Dogmatic

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Dictatorial in one's opinion

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Efficacy

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Effectiveness

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Elegy

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A sorrowful poem or speech

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Enervate

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To reduce in strength

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Engender

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To produce, cause, or bring about

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Enigma

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A puzzle; a mystery

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Enumerate

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To count, list, or itemize

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Ephemeral

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Lasting a short time

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Equivocate

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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

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Estimable

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Admirable

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Euphemism

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Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one

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Exacerbate

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To make worse

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Exculpate

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To clear from blame; prove innocent

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Exigent

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Urgent; requiring immediate action

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Fawn

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To grovel

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Fervid

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Intensely emotional; feverish

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Florid

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Excessively decorated or embellished

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Foment

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To arouse or incite

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Garrulous

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Tending to talk a lot

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Gregarious

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Outgoing, sociable

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Guile

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Deceit or trickery

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Iconoclast

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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions

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Imperturbable

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Not capable of being disturbed

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Impervious

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Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected

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Malinger

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To evade responsibility be pretending to be ill

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Mitigate

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To soften; to lessen

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Mollify

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To calm or make less severe

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Obdurate

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Hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion Adjective

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Obsequious

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Overly submissive and eager to please

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Obstinate

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Stubborn, unyielding

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Obviate

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To prevent; to make unnecessary

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Occlude

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To stop up; to prevent the passage of

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Onerous

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Troublesome and oppressive; burdensome

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Paragon

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Model of excellence or perfection

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Pedant

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Someone who shows off learning

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Perfidious

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Willing to betray one's trust

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Perfunctory

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Done in a routine way; indifferent

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Plastic

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Able to be molded, altered, or bent

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Precipitate

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To throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation

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Prevaricate

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To lie or deviate from the truth

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Prodigal

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Lavish, wasteful

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Propriate

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To conciliate; to appease

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Propriety

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Correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs

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Quiescent

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Motionless

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Rarefy

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To make thinner or sparser

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Repudiate

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To reject the validity of

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Reticent

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Silent, reserved

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Satiate

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To satisfy fully or overindulge

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Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

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Stolid

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Unemotional; lacking sensitivity

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Tacit

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Done without using words

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Taciturn

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Silent, not talkative

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Torpor

Answer 90

Extreme mental or physical sluggishness

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Vacillate

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To sway physically; to be indecisive

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Venerate

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To respect deeply

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Veracity

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Filled with truth and accuracy

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Vex

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To annoy