GRE Word Groups 2
Terms
undefined, object
copy deck
- abbreviated communication
- abridge, compendium, cursory,curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse
- act quickly
- apace, abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
- assist or assistance
- bet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance
- bad mood
- bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
- beginner/amateur
- dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
- beginning/young
- burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
- biting (as in wit or temperament)
- acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant
- bold
- audacious, courageous, dauntless
- boring
- banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite
- carousal
- bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude
- changing quickly
- capricious, mercurial, volatile
- copy
- counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious
- criticize/criticism
- aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denojnce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate
- death/mourning
- bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith
- denying of self
- abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
- dictatorial
- authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic (hegemony), imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
- difficult to understand
- abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid
- disgusting/offensive
- defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
- easy to understand
- articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
- eccentric/dissimilar
- aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, iconoclast, discrete, eclectic, esoteric
- embarrass
- abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
- equal
- equitable, equity, tantamount
- falsehood
- apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erronieous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, fuile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious
- family
- conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion
- favoring/not partial
- ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
- forgive
- absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
- funny
- chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
- gaps/openings
- abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
- generous/kind
- altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
- greedy
- avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
- hardhearted
- asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
- harmful
- baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
- harsh-sounding
- assonance, cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
- hatred
- abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
- healthy
- beneficial, salubrious, salutary
- hesitate
- dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
- hostile
- antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
- innocent/inexperienced
- credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
- insincere
- disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
- investigate
- apraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
- lazy/sluggish
- indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
- luck
- adventitious, amulet, asupicious, fortuitous, kismet, nemesis, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
- nag
- admonish, cavil, belabor, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
- nasty
- fetid, noisome, noxious
- not a straight line
- askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvewnt, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex
- overblown/wordy
- bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetroic, turgid, verbose
- pacify/satisfy
- ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, sooth
- pleasant-sounding
- euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
- poor
- destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent
- praise
- acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
- predict
- augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
- prevent/obstruct
- discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude
- smart/learned
- astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
- sorrow
- disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
- stubborn
- implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
- terse
- compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
- time/order/duration
- anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
- timid/timidity
- craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
- truth
- candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
- unusual
- aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
- walking about
- ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
- wandering
- discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
- weaken
- adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
- wisdom
- adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
- withdrawl/retreat
- abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde
- a
- without
- ab/abs
- off, away from, apart, down
- ac/acr
- sharp, bitter
- act/ag
- to do; to drive, to force; to lead
- ad/al
- to, toward, near
- al/ali/alter (alternative)
- other, another
- am (enamored)
- love
- amb (ambient)
- to go; to walk
- ambi/amph (ambiguous)
- both, more than one, around
- anim (equanimity)
- of the life, mind, soul, spirit
- annui (annuity)/enni (perennial)
- year
- ante (antecedent)
- before
- anthro (anthropocentric)/andr (androgen)
- man, human
- anti (antipodal)
- against
- apo (apogee)
- away
- arch/archi/archy (archenemy)
- chief, principal, ruler
- auto (autocrat)
- self
- be (bemoan)
- to be; to have a particular quality; to exist
- bel/bell (antebellum)
- war
- ben/bon (benevolent)
- good
- bi (bilateral)
- twice, double
- cad/cid (recidivist)
- to fall; to happend by chance
- cant/cent/chant (incantation)
- to sing
- cap/cip/cept (precept)
- to take; to get
- cap/capit/cipit (precipitate)
- head, headlong
- card/cord/cour (discord)
- heart
- carn (incarnation)
- flesh
- cast/chast (castigate)
- cut
- ced/ceed/cess (incessant)
- to go; to yield; to stop
- centr (concentric)
- center