Top 200 GRE words (A-I)
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- ABATE
- to reduce in amount, degree, or severity
- Abscond
- to leave secretly
- ABSTAIN
- Chose not to do something
- ABYSS
- an extremely deep hole
- ADULTERATE
- to make impure
- ADVOCATE
- speak in favor of
- AESTHETIC
- concerning the appreciation of
- AGGRANDIZE
- to increase in power, influence, and reputation
- ALLEVIATE
- to make more bearable
- AMALGAM
- a mixture, especially of two metals
- AMBIGUOUS
- doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted several ways
- AMELIORATE
- to make better; improve
- ANACHRONISM
- something out of place in time
- ANALOGOUS
- similar or alike
- ANTAGONIZE
- to annoy or prove to anger
- ANTIPATHY
- extreme dislike
- APATHY
- lack of interest or emotion
- ARBITRATE
- to judge a dispute between two opposing parties
- ARCHAIC
- ancient, old-fashioned
- ARDOR
- intense and passionate feeling
- ARTICULATE
- able to speak clearly and expressively
- ASSUAGE
- to make something less severe
- ATTENUATE
- to reduce in force or degree; to weaken
- AUDACIOUS
- fearless and daring
- AUSTERE
- severe or stern in appearance; undecorated
- BANAL
- predictable, cliched, boring
- BOLSTER
- TO SUPPORT; TO PROP UP
- BOMBASTIC
- POMPOUS IN SPEECH
- CACOPHONY
- HARSH, JARRING NOISE
- CANDID
- IMPARTIAL AND HONEST IN SPEECH
- CAPRICIOUS
- CHANGING ONE'S MIND QUICKLY AND OFTEN
- CASTIGATE
- TO PUNISH OR CRITISIZE HARSHLY
- CATALYST
- SOMETHING THAT BRINGS ABOUT CHANGE IN SOMETHING ELSE
- CAUSTIC
- BITING IN WIT
- CHAOS
- GREAT DISORDER OR CONFUSION
- CHAUVINIST
- SOMEONE PREJUDICED IN FAVOR OF ONE GROUP OVER ANOTHER
- CHICANERY
- DECEPTION BY MEANS OF CRAFT OR GUILE
- COGENT
- CONVINCING AND WELL REASONED
- CONDONE
- TO OVERLOOK, PARDON, OR DISREGARD
- CONVOLUTED
- INTIRCATE AND COMPLICATED
- CORROBORATE
- TO PROVIDE SUPPORTING EVIDENCE
- CREDULOUS
- GULLIBLE
- CRESCENDO
- STEADILY INCREASING VOLUME OR FORCE
- DECORUM
- PROPRIETY
- DEFERENCE
- RESPECT, COURTESY
- DERIDE
- TO MOCK
- DERISIVE
- IN A MOCKING MANNER
- DESSICATE
- TO DRY OUT
- DESULTORY
- JUMPING FROM ONE THING TO ANOTHER; DISCONNECTED
- DIATRIBE
- ABUSIVE, CONDEMNATORY SPEECH
- DIFFIDENT
- LACKING SELF-CONFIDENCE
- DILATE
- TO MAKE LARGER; EXPAND
- DILATORY
- INTENDED TO DELAY
- DILETTANTE
- SOMEONE WITH AN AMATEURISH AND SUPERFICIAL INTEREST IN A TOPIC
- DIRGE
- MOURNFUL SPEECH
- DISABUSE
- TO SET RIGHT; TO FREE FROM ERROR
- DISCERN
- TO PERCEIVE; TO RECOGNIZE
- DISPARATE
- FUDAMENTALLY DIFFERENT; ENTIRELY UNLIKE
- DISSEMBLE
- TO PRESENT A FALSE APPEARANCE; TO DISGUISE ONE'S TRUE INTENTIONS OR CHARACTER
- DISSONANCE
- A HARSH AND DISSAGREEABLE COMBINATION, OFTEN SOUNDS
- DOGMA
- FIRMLY HELD OPINION, OFTEN A RELIGIOUS BELIEF
- DOGMATIC
- DICTATORIAL IN ONE'S OPINIONS
- DUPE
- TO DECIEVE
- ECLECTIC
- SELECTING FROM OR MADE UP FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES
- EFFICACY
- EFFECTIVENESS
- ELEGY
- SORROWFUL POEM OR SPEECH
- ELOQUENT
- PERSUASIVE AND MOVING, ESPECIALLY IN SPEECH
- EMULATE
- TO COPY
- ENERVATE
- REDUCE IN STRENGTH
- ENGENDER
- TO PRODUCE, CAUSE, OR BRING ABOUT
- ENIGMA
- A MYSTERY
- ENUMERATE
- TO COUNT, LIST, OR ITEMIZE
- EPHEMERAL
- LASTING A SHORT TIME
- EQUIVOCATE
- TO USE EXPRESSIONS OF DOUBLE MEANING IN ORDER TO MISLEAD
- ERRATIC
- UPREDICTABLE
- ERUDITE
- SCHOLARLY
- ESOTERIC
- KNOWN OR UNDERSTOOD BY ONLY A FEW
- ESTIMABLE
- ADMIRABLE
- EULOGY
- SPEECH IN PRAISE OF SOMEONE
- EUPHEMISM
- USE OF AN INOFFENSIVE WORD OR PHRASE IN PLACE OF A MORE DISTASTEFUL ONE
- EXACERBATE
- MAKE WORSE
- EXCULPATE
- TO CLEAR FROM BLAME
- EXIGENT
- URGENT
- EXONERATE
- TO CLEAR OF BLAME
- EXPLICIT
- CLEARLY STATED OR SHOWN
- FANATICAL
- ACTING EXCESSIVELY ENTHUSIASTIC
- FAWN
- TO GROVEL
- FERVID
- INTENSELY EMOTIONAL
- FLORID
- EXCESSIVELY DECORATED OR EMBELLISHED
- FOMENT
- TO AROUSE OR INCITE
- FRUGALITY
- THRIFTY OR CHEAP
- GARRULOUS
- TALKATIVE
- GUILE
- DECEIT OR TRICKERY
- GULLIBLE
- EASILY DECEIVED
- HOMOGENOUS
- OF A SIMILAR KIND
- ICONOCLAST
- ONE WHO OPPOSES ESTABLISHED BELIEFS, CUSTOMS, AND INSTITUTIONS,
- IMPERTURBABLE
- NOT CAPABLE OF BEING DISTURBED
- IMPERVIOUS
- IMPOSSIBLE TO PENETRATE
- IMPETUOUS
- QUICK TO ACT WITHOUT THINKING
- INCHOATE
- NOT FULLY FORMED; DISORGANIZED
- INGENUOUS
- SHOWING INNOCENCE OF CHILDLIKE SIMPLICITY
- INIMICABLE
- HOSTILE, UNFRIENDLY
- INNOCUOUS
- HARMLESS
- INSIPID
- LACKING INTEREST OR FLAVOR
- INTRANSIGENT
- UNCOMPROMISING
- IRASCIBLE
- EASILY MADE ANGRY