GRE word list with shortened definitions(in progress)
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- astute
- clever; quick at seeing; to get an advantage
- attenuate
- make thin; weaken; enervate
- augury
- omen; sign
- austere
- severely moral and strict; simple and plain
- aversion
- strong dislike
- asterisk
- the mark *(e.g.. omitted letters)
- atonement
- repayment; death of Jesus
- attune
- bring into harmony
- august
- majestic; venerable
- auxiliary
- helping; supporting
- avid
- eager; greedy
- assuage
- make something(pain, desire) less
- alleviate
- make(pain)easier to bear
- abate
- to lessen or to subside
- abacus
- frame with balls for calculating
- abdication
- giving up control or authority
- aberration
- straying away from what is normal
- abet
- help or encourage someone(in wrong doing)
- abeyance
- suspended action
- abhor
- to hate; to detest
- abide
- to be faithful; to endure
- abjure
- promise or swear to give up
- abraded
- rubbed off or worn away by friction
- abrogate
- repeal or annul by authority
- abscond
- to go away suddenly(to avoid arrest)
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend; obscure
- abut
- border on
- abysmal
- bottomless extreme
- acarpous
- effete; no longer fertile; worn out
- acclaimed
- welcomed with shouts and approval
- accolade
- praise; approval
- accretion
- the growing of separate things into one
- adamant
- kind of stone; inflexible
- admonitory
- containing warning
- adorn
- add beauty; decorate
- adulteration
- making unpure or poorer in quality
- affable
- polite and friendly
- affinity
- close connection or relationship
- aggravate
- make worse; irritate
- agile
- quick and skillfully moving
- agog
- eager; excited
- ail
- trouble; be ill
- alacrity
- eager and cheerful readiness
- alcove
- recess; partially enclosed place
- allegiance
- duty; support; loyalty
- alloy
- to debase by mixing with something inferior
- aloof
- reserved; indifferent
- astringent
- substance that shrinks
- audacious
- daring; foolishly bold; impudent
- avow
- admit; declare openly
- aver
- affirm; assert; prove; justify
- baleful
- harmful; ominous; causing evil
- balk
- obstacle;purposely to get in the way of
- baneful
- causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
- barrage
- artificial obstacle built across a river
- barren
- not good enough; unable to have young ones; without value
- bask
- enjoy warmth and light
- beatify
- to bless; make happy or ascribe a virtue to
- bedizen
- to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
- belabor
- beat hard
- belligerent
- (person, nation) waging war
- benefactor
- person what has given help
- benevolence
- wish or activity in doing good
- benign
- kind and gentle; mild(climate)
- bequest
- arrangement to give something at death
- berate
- scold sharply
- bereft
- rob or dispossess of something(material)
- bewilder
- puzzle; confuse
- bigot
- stubborn,narrow-minded person
- blige
- bulge; the protuberance of a cask
- blandishment
- flattery; coaxing
- blandness
- polite manner; comforting; uninteresting
- blithe
- cheerful;casual;carefree
- bogus
- sham; counterfeit; not genuine
- bolster
- give greatly needed support
- boorish
- crude; offensive; rude
- brash
- hasty; rush; cheeky; saucy
- brass
- yellow metal(mixing copper and zinc)
- breach
- opening; broken; place breaking
- brittle
- easily broken
- broach
- Bring up; announce; begin to talk about
- brook
- to tolerate; endure
- buoyant
- able to float; light-hearted
- burgeon
- grow forth; send out buds
- burnish
- to polish; rub to a shine
- cabal
- a scheme or plot; a group of plotters
- cadge
- to beg; to get by begging
- cajole
- use flattery or deceit to persuade
- calipers
- metal supports attached to the legs; measuring instrument
- calumny
- slander; aspersion
- candid
- frank, straight forward
- cant
- insincere talk;jargon
- cantankerous
- bad-tempered; quarrelsome
- canvass
- discuss thoroughly; sort of touting
- castigate
- to chastise; correct by punishing
- castigation
- severe punishment
- catalyst
- substance that causes speeding up
- caustic
- biting; sarcastic
- censure
- expression of blame or disapproval; a rebuke
- centurion
- leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
- chary
- cautious;wary
- chastened
- corrected; punished
- chastisement
- punishment
- chauvinist
- a blindly devoted patriot
- chicanery
- legal trickery; false argument
- chisel
- steel tool for shaping materials
- churl
- bad-tempered person
- clamor
- shout; complain with a lot of noise
- auspicious
- favorable; successful; prosperous
- bellicose
- belligerent; pugnacious; warlike
- boisterous
- loud;noisy;rough;lacking restraint
- coalescing
- coming together and uniting into one substance
- coeval
- of the same period; coexisting
- commemorate
- keep the memory of
- conceit
- over-high opinion of; too much pride
- congeal
- make or become stiff and solid
- conspicuous
- easily seen; remarkable
- contemn
- to scorn or despise
- conviction
- convincing; firm belief
- correlate
- have a mutual relation
- covetous
- eagerly desirous
- crease
- line made by crushing white line on th ground in cricket
- clientele
- customers
- coax
- get somebody to do something by kindness
- cogent
- strong; convincing
- commodious
- having plenty of space for what is needed
- concilatory
- reconciling; soothing; comforting; mollifying
- conjoin
- to join together
- consternation
- supprise and fear; dismay
- contentious
- argumentative; pugnacious; combative; quarrelsome
- convoluted
- complicated; coiled; twisted
- corroboration
- additional strengthening; evidence
- cower
- crouch; shrink bacck
- credulity
- too great a readinuous to believe things
- clinch
- come to grips; settle conclusively
- cling
- to resist separation
- cognizant
- being fully aware of
- commuter
- person who travels regularly
- concord
- agreement or harmony
- connoisseur
- a person with good judment(e.g in art)
- constrain
- compel
- contiguous
- touching; neighboring; near
- cordial
- warm and sincere
- countenance
-
look (as of hate, love, etc),
expression - coy
- shy or modest(especially of a girl)
- crush
- press; lose shape; subdue; overwhelm
- clot
- half-solid lump formed from liquid
- coda
- passage that completes a piece of music
- colander
- bowl-shaped vessel with many holes to drain off water
- complaisance
- tending to comply; obliging; willingness to please
- concur
- agree in opinion; happen together
- connotation
- suggestion in addition to
- constrict
- make tighter or smaller
- contrite
- filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
- cordon
- line(of police acting as a guard)
- conterfeit
- forgery
- crass
- very great(especially stupidity)
- cryptic
- secret; with a hidden meaning
- cloture
- closing device(in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
- coddle
- treat with care and tenderness
- collusion
- secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
- compunction
- feeling of regret for one's action
- condense
- increase in density ro strength; make laconic
- consequential
- pompous; self important
- consume
- get to the end of
- contumacious
- insubordiinate; rebellious
- cornucopia
- abundant supply
- countervail
- conterbalance
- cravat
- piece of linen worn as a necktie
- cumbersome
- burdensome; heavy and awkward to carry
- coagulation
- change to a thick and solid state
- coerce
- compel; to force; to make obedient
- combustion
- process of burning
- conceal
- hide; keep secret
- condone
- forgive
- console
- give comfort or sympathy to
- consummate
- perfect;make perfect; complete
- conundrum
- a riddle; dilemma; enigma
- corporeal
- physical; of or for the body
- covert
- disguised
- craven
- cowardly
- curmudgeon
- bad-tempered person
- curriculum
- course of study
- cursory
- quick; hurried
- curtail
- make shorter than was planned
- dainty
- pretty; delicate(food); difficult to please
- daunt
- intimidate; make fearful
- dawdler
- person who is slow; waste of time
- dearth
- shortage
- debacle
- a breakup; overthrow; sudden disaster
- decorum
- propriety; properness
- decree
- order given by authority
- defer
- postpone; give way(to show respect);
- deferential
- showing respect
- defiance
- open disobedience or resistance
- delineate
- to portray; depict; sketch out
- deluge
- great flood; heavy rush of water
- demagogue
- person appealing not to reasons
- demur
- to hesitate; raise objections
- denigrate
- blacken; belittle; sully; defame;
- denouement
- an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
- deplete
- use until none remains
- deposition
- dethronement; depositing
- deprave
- make morally bad; corrupt
- deprecate
- protest against; express disapproval of
- dereliction
- deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
- derision
- ridicule; mockery; deriding
- derivative
- unoriginal; obtained from another source
- derogatory
- insulting; tending to damage
- descry
- catch sight of; see something in the distance
- desiccant
- substance used to absorb moisture
- desuetude
- cessation of use; disuse
- desultory
- aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
- deter
- discourage; hinder
- detraction
- slandering; verbal attack; aspersion
- detumescence
- diminishing or lessening of swelling
- deviance
- being different in moral standards(from normal)
- dexterity
- skill(especially in handling)
- diaphanous
- transparent; gauzy
- diatribe
- bitter and violent attack in words
- diffidence
- shyness
- dilate
- speak comprehensively; become wider ; large
- disallow
- refuse to allow or accept as correct
- discern
- see with an effort but clearly
- discomfit
- confuse; embarrass
- disconcert
- upset the self-possession of
- discountenance
- refuse to approve of
- discourse
- speech; lecture
- discredit
- refuse to believe
- discreet
- careful; prudent
- discrete
- individually distinct
- disdain
- look on with contempt
- disencumber
- free from encumbrance
- disheveled
- untidy
- disingenuous
- sophisticated; artful; trying to decieve; cunning
- blatant
- obvious; conspicuous; noisy