GRE Vocabulary
GRE Vocabulary
GRE Vocabulary
WORD GROUPS
1. BOLD: audacious, courageous, & dauntless
2. HESITATE: dither, waver, vacillate, oscillate, & teeter
3. ACT QUICKLY: impetuous, precipitate, head-long, apace & abrupt.
4. INNOCENT/INEXPERIENCED: tyro, naiveté, gullible, naïve, novice, ingenuous, & credulous.
5. CHANGE QUICKLY: volatile, capricious, & mercurial.
6. DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND: abstruse, perplexing, esoteric, arcane, enigmatic, opaque,
paradoxical, obscure, bemusing, cryptic, recondite, turbid, & inscrutable.
7. EASY TO UNDERSTAND: pellucid, limpid, cogent, articulate, eloquent, lucid, & evident.
8. SMART/LEARNED: astute, canny, erudite, & perspicacious.
9. CRITICIZE/CRITICISM: aspersion, calumny, defamation, diatribe, gainsay, inveigh,
objurgate, remonstrate, reprove, vituperate, belittle, castigate, denounce, disparage, harangue,
lambaste, opprobrium, revile, berate, decry, deride, derisive, excoriate, impugn, obloquy, pillory,
reprehend, & tirade.
10. CAROUSAL: bacchanalian, iniquity, licentious, salacious, depraved, libertine, reprobate,
sordid, dissipating, libidinous, ribald, & turpitude.
11. TRUTH: indisputable, candor, candid, probity, verity, fealty, indubitable, sincere, frankness,
legitimate, & veracious.
12. FALSEHOOD: apocryphal, dissemble, erroneous, feigned, mendacity, specious, canard,
duplicity, ersatz, guile, perfidy, specious, chicanery, equivocate, fallacious, mendacity, &
prevaricate.
13. BITING (as in wit or temperament): acerbic, asperity, mordacious, acidulous, caustic,
trenchant, acrimonious, & mordant.
14. PRAISE: acclaim, encomium, fawn, accolade, eulogize, laud/laudatory, aggrandize, extol, &
venerate.
15. HARMFUL: baleful, inimical, minatory, baleful, injurious, perfidious, deleterious, insidious, &
pernicious.
16. TIMID/TIMIDITY: craven, recreant, diffident, timorous, pusillanimous, & trepidation.
17. BORING: banal, insipid, platitude, trite, fatuous, mundane, prosaic, hackneyed, pedestrian,
& quotidian.
18. WEAKEN: adulterate, inhibit, undermine, enervate, obviate, vitiate, exacerbate, & stultify.
19. ASSIST: abet, bolster, espouse, proponent, advocate, corroborate, mainstay, stalwart,
ancillary, countenance, munificent, & sustenance.
20. HOSTILE: antithetic, irascible, truculent, churlish, malevolent, vindictive, curmudgeon, &
misanthropic.
21. STUBBORN: implacable, intransigent, recalcitrant, untoward, inexorable, obdurate,
refractory, vexing, intractable, obstinate, & renitent.
22. BEGINNING/YOUNG: burgeoning, inchoate, callow, incipient, & nascent.
23. GENEROUS/KIND: altruistic, magnanimous, philanthropic, largess, unstinting, clement,
munificent, & beneficent.
24. GREEDY: avaricious, miserly, rapacious, covetous, penurious, mercenary, & venal.
25. TERSE: compendious, pithy, curt, succinct, laconic, & taciturn.
26. DICTATORIAL: dogmatic, hegemony, peremptory, authoritarian, dogmatic, tyrannical,
despotic, & imperious.
NONCHALANT (adjective): Having an air of easy unconcern or indifference (COOL).