GRE Vocabulary EFGH
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- Ebullient
- Showing excitement, overflowing with enthusiam
- Eclectic
- Selective
- Efficacy
- power to produce desired effect
- Effontory
- Shameless boldness
- Elegy
- poem or song expressing lamentation
- Elicit
- draw out by discussion
- Embellish
- adorn, ornament, enhance
- Empirical
- based on experience
- Emulate
- Imitate, rival
- Endemic
- prevailing among a specific group of people
- Enervate
- weaken
- Engender
- cause, produce
- Enhance
- improve, increase
- Ephemeral
- short-lived, fleeting
- Equanimity
- calmness of temperament, composure
- Equivocate
- lie, mislead
- Erudite
- learned, scholarly
- Esoteric
- hard to understand, known only to few
- Eulogy
- expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death
- Euphemism
- mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
- Exacerbate
- worsen, embitter
- Exculpate
- clear from blame
- Exigency
- urgent situation
- Extrapolation
- projection, conjecture
- Facetious
- joking, humorous
- Facilitate
- help bring about
- Fallacious
- false, misleading
- Fatuous
- foolish, inane
- Fawning
- courting favour by clinging and flattering
- Felicitous
- apt, suitably expressed
- Fervor
- glowing ardor, intensity of feeling
- Flag
- droop, grow feeble
- Fledling
- inexperienced
- Flout
- Reject, mock
- Foment
- stir up, instigate
- Forestall
- prevent by taking action in advance
- Frugality
- thrift, economy
- Futile
- useless, hopeless
- Gainsay
- deny
- Garrulous
- loquacious, talkative
- Goad
- urge on
- Gouge
- overcharge
- Grandiloquent
- pompous, bombastic, using high sounding language
- Gregarious
- sociable
- Guileless
- without deceit
- Gullible
- easily deceived
- Harangue
- long, passionate, vehement speech, criticise
- Homogeneous
- of the same kind
- Hyperbole
- exaggeration, overstatement