GRE Exam
Word Power
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abate: to lessen to subside
abdication: giving up control authority
aberration: straying away from what is normal
abet: help/encourage smb (in doing wrong)
abeyance: suspended action
abhor: to hate to detest
abide: be faithful to endure
abjure: promise or swear to give up
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baleful: harmful ominous causing evil
balk: obstacle purposely to get on 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 in: enjoy warmth and light
beatify: to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
bedizen: to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
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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
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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
decry: disapprove of
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earthenware: dishes made of baked clay
ebullience: exuberance outburst of feeling
ebullient: overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
ecumenical: representing the whole Christian world
edacious: voracious devouring
eddy: circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
edible: fit to be eaten/not poisonous
effete: infertile worn out weak
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facetious: humorous funny jocular
facile: easily done
fagged: too tired, exhausted
fallacious: based on error
falter: waver/move in an uncertain manner
fatuous: without sense foolish self-satisfaction
fawn: young deer try to win smb's favor
feckless: lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
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gainsay: to deny to oppose
garble: make unfair selection from facts
garner: to gather and save to store up
garrulity: talkativeness
garrulous: too talkative
gaucherie: socially awkward tactless behavior
germane: relevant pertinent to
gist: the point general sense
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hack: cut roughly hired horse
halcyon: calm and peaceful
hallow: to make holy consecrate
harangue: a long passionate speech
harbinger: something or smb that foretells the coming of
harrow: to distress create stress or torment
haughty: arrogant conceited
heed: attention/give notice to
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iconoclast: person who attacks popular beliefs
idiosyncrasy: personal mannerism
idolatry: excessive admiration of
idyll: a carefree episode or experience
ignoble: dishonorable common undignified
ignominious: shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
illicit: unlawful forbidden
imbroglio: complicated and embarrassing situation
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jabber: talk excitedly utter rapidly
jagged: notched, rough
jibe: gibe make fun of
jocular: meant as a joke
judicious: sound in judgment wise
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labyrinthine: to entangle the state of affairs
lachrymose: causing tears tearful
lackluster: (of eyes) dull
lament: show feel great sorrow
lassitude: weariness tiredness
latent: present but not yet active developed or visible
laudatory: expressing or giving praise
lavish: giving or producing freely liberally or generously
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macabre: gruesome suggesting death
macerate: make or become soft by soaking in water
machination: plot scheme (esp. evil)
maladroit: tactless clumsy
malapropism: misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
malevolence: wishing to do evil
malign: injurious speak ill of smb tell lie
malinger: to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
malleable: yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
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nadir: lowest weakest point
nascent: coming into existence emerging
nebulous: cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
negligent: taking too little care
neophyte: person who has been converted to a belief
nexus: a connection tie or link
nibble: show some inclination to accept (an offer)
noisome: offensive disgusting (smell)
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obdurate: hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
obfuscate: to darken make obscure muddle
oblivious: unaware having no memory
obloquy: abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
obsequious: too eager to obey or serve
obstreperous: noisy loud
obtain: to be established accepted or customary
obtrusive: projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
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paean: song of praise or triumph
palate: roof of the mouth sense of taste
palatial: magnificent
palliate: lessen the severity of
palpability: can be felt touched understood
palpitate: tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
panegyric: formal praise eulogy
paradigm: a model example or pattern
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quack: person dishonestly claiming to something
quaff: drink deeply
quail: lose courage turn frightened
qualm: feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
quandary: state of doubt or perplexity
quell: suppress subdue
quibble: try to avoid by sophistication
quiescence: state of being passive/motionless
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rabble: mob crowd the lower classes of populace
raconteur: person who tells anecdotes
raffish: low vulgar base tawdry
ramify: to be divided or subdivided to branch out
rancorous: feeling bitterness spitefulness
rant: use extravagant language
rapacious: greedy (esp for money)
rarefy: to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
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sagacious: having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
salacious: obscene
salubrious: healthful
salutary: remedial wholesome causing improvement
sanctimony: self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
sanction: approval (by authority) penalty
sanguine: cheerful confident optimistic
sanity: health of mind soundness of judgment
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taciturn: untalkative silent
tadpole: form of a frog when it leaves the egg
talon: claw of a bird of prey
tamp: tap or drive down by repeated light blows
tamper: interfere with
tangential: suddenly changeable
tarnished: lost brightness
tassel: bunch of threads
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ubiquitous: present everywhere
ulterior: situated beyond
umbrage: offense resentment
uncouth: rough awkward
underbid: make a lower bid then smb else
undermine: weaken gradually at the base make something under
undulate: to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
unearth: discover and bring to light
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vacillation: being uncertain hesitating
vagary: strange act or idea
vain: without use result conceited
valiant: brave
valorous: brave
vanquish: conquer
variegate: To mark with different shade or colors
veer: change direction
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waffle: talk vaguely and without much result
waft: scent waving movement carry lightly through
wag: merry person
warmonger: person who stirs up war
warrant: authority written order guarantee
wean: to turn away (from a habit)
yarn: tale story fibers for knitting
The Graduate Record Examination or GRE is a standardized test that is an admissions requirement for many graduate schools principally in the United States, but also in other English speaking countries. Created and administered by the Educational Testing Service (or ETS), the exam is primarily focused on testing abstract thinking skills in the areas of math, vocabulary, and analytical writing. The GRE is typically a computer-based exam that is administered by select qualified testing centers; however, paper-based exams are offered in areas of the world that lack the technological requirements.
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