Word Groups GRE
Terms
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- Abbreviated Communitcation
- abridge,compendium,cursory,curtail,syllabus,synopsis,terse
- Act Quickly
- apace,abrupt,headlong,impetuous,precipitate
- Assist
- abet,advocate,ancillary,bolster,corroborate,countenance,espouse,mainstay,nunificent,proponent,stalwart,sustenance
- bad mood
- bilious,dudgeon,irascible,pettish,petulant,pique,querulous,umbrage,waspish
- beginner/amateur
- dilettante,fledging,neophyte,novitiate,proselyte,tyro
- beginning/young
- burgeoning,callow,engender,inchoate,incipient,nascent
- biting (wit/temperment)
- acerbic,acidulous,acrimonious,asperity,causitc,mordacious,mordant,trenchant
- bold
- audacious,courageous,dauntless
- boring
- anal,fatuous,hackneyed,insipid,mundane,pedestrian,paltitude,prosaic,quotidian,trite
- changing quickly
- capricious,mercurial,volatile
- copy
- counterpart,emulate,facsimile,factitious,paradigm,precursor,quintessence,simulated,vicarious
- criticize a-g
- aspersion,belittle,berate,calumny,castiget,decry,defamation,denounce,deride, diatribe,disparage,excoriate,gainsay
- criticize h-v
- harangue,immpugn,inveigh,lambaste,ojurgate,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
- dictorial
- authoritarian,despotic,dogmatic,hegemonic,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
- absh,chagrin,compunction,contrition,diffidence,expiate,foible,gaucherie,rue
- equal
- equitable,equity,tantamount
- falsehood
- apocryphal,canard,chicanery,dissemble,duplicity,quivocate,erroneous,ersataz,fallacious,feigned,guile,mendacious,perfidy,prevaricate,specious,spurious
- family
- conjugal,consanguine,distaff,endogamous,filial,fratricide,progenitor,scion
- favoring/not impartial
- ardor,doctrinaire,fervid,partisan,tendentious,zealot
- forgive
- absolve,acquite,exulpate,exonerate,expiate,palliate,redress,vindicate
- funny
- chortle,droll,facetious,flippant,gibe,jocular,levity,ludicrous,raillery,riposte,simper
- gaps/openings
- abatement,aperture,fissure,hiatus,inttergnum,interstice, lull,orifice,rent,respite,rift
- generous/kind
- altruistis,beneficent,clement,largess,magnamimous,numificent,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
- 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,curmudgeoun,irascible,malevolent,misanthropic,truculent,vindictive
- innocent/inexperienced
- credulous,gullible,ingenuous,naive,noviate,tyro
- insincere
- disingenuous,dissemble,fulsome,ostensible,unctuous
- investigate
- appraise,ascertain,assay,descry,peruse
- lazy/sluggish
- indolent,inert,lackadaisical,languid,lassitude,lethargic,phlegmatic,quiescent,slothful,torpid
- luck
- adventitious,amulet,auspicious,fortuitous,kismet,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,ciruitous,circumvent,gyrate,labyrinth,meander,oblique,serrated,sidle,sinuous,undulating,vortex
- overblown/wordy
- bombastic,circumlocution,garrulous,grandiloquent,loquacious,periphrastic,prolix,rhetoric,turgid,verbose
- pacify/satisfy
- amerliorate,appease,assuage,defer,mitigate,molligy,placate,propitiate,satiate,slake,sooth
- pleasant sounding
- euphonious,harmonious,melodious,sonorous
- poor
- destitute,esurient,impecunious,indigent
- praise
- acclain,accolade,aggrandize,encomium,eulogize,extol,fawn,laud,venerate
- predict
- augur,auspice,fey,harbinger,portentous,presage,prescient,prognosticate
- prevent/obstrut
- discomfort,encumber,fetter,forfend,hinder,impede,inhibit,occlude
- smart/learned
- astute,canny,erudite,perspicacious
- sorrow
- disconsolate,doleful,dolor,elegiac,forlorn,lament,lugubrious,melancholy,renitent,untoward,vexing
- terse
- compedious,curt,laonic,pithy,succinct,taciturn
- time/order/duration
- anachronism,antecede,antedate,anterior,archaic,ddiurnal,eon,ephemeral,epoch,fortnight,millennium,penultimate,synchronous,temporal
- timid/timidity
- craven,diffident,pusillanimous,recreant,timorous,trepidation
- truth
- candor,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,recidvism,remission,renege,recind,retrograde