GRE Word Group - A
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- ameliorate
- alleviate, amend, help, improve, lighten, meliorate, mitigate, relieve, step up, upgrade
- ardor
- avidity, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, feeling, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, heat, hot pants, intensity, jazz*, keenness, oomph*, passion, pep talk*, spirit, turn on*, vehemence, verve, warmth, weakness*, zeal, zest, zing
- abyss
- abysm, chasm, crevasse, depth, fissure, gorge, gulf, hole, pit, void
- anachronism
- antedate, metachronism, misdate, misplacement, postdate, prolepsis, solecism
- arbitrate
- adjudge, adjudicate, adjust, conciliate, decide, determine, interpose, intervene, judge, mediate, meet halfway, negotiate, parley, pass judgment, placate, play ball*, reconcile, referee, settle, smooth, soothe, step in, straighten out, trade off, umpire
- anomaly
- aberration, abnormality, departure, deviation, eccentricity, exception, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity, unconformity
- abstain
- abjure, abnegate, avoid, cease, constrain, curb, decline, deny oneself, do without, eschew, evade, fast, forbear, forgo, give up, keep from, pass, pass up, quit, refrain, refuse, renounce, shun, sit out, spurn, starve, stop, withhold
- antagonize
- alienate, anger, annoy, counteract, estrange, insult, irritate, neutralize, offend, repel, struggle, work against
- amalgamate
- admix, alloy, ally, coalesce, combine, come together, compound, consolidate, fuse, incorporate, integrate, interface, intermix, join together, meld, merge, mingle, network, pool, team up*, tie in, tie up*, unite
- alleviate
- allay, assuage, ease, lessen, lighten, mitigate, mollify, pacify, soft-pedal*
- apathy
- aloofness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard, dullness, emotionlessness, halfheartedness, heedlessness, indifference, insensibility, insensitivity, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, passiveness, passivity, stoicism, unconcern, unresponsiveness
- abscond
- blow, break, breeze, cut out, decamp, disappear, duck out, escape, fade away, flee, get, lam, leave, make off, powder, pull out, quit, run away, run off, scram, skedaddle, skip, skip out, slip away, sneak away, split, steal away, take off, vamoose
- articulate
- clear, coherent, comprehensible, definite, distinct, eloquent, expressive, fluent, intelligible, lucid, meaningful, understandable, well-spoken
- archaic
- ancient, antiquated, antique, bygone, obsolete, old-fashioned, olden, outmoded, passé, primitive, superannuated
- austere
- ascetic, astringent, cold, earnest, exacting, forbidding, formal, grave, grim, hard, harsh, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, rigid, rigorous, serious, sober, solemn, somber, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, unfeeling, unrelenting
- assuage
- allay, alleviate, appease, calm, compose, conciliate, cool*, ease, fill, lessen, lighten, lull, make nice*, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, quench, quiet, relieve, sate, satisfy, soften, still, surfeit, sweeten, temper, tranquilize
- ambiguous
- cryptic, doubtful, dubious, enigmatic, enigmatical, equivocal, inconclusive, indefinite, indeterminate, inexplicit, obscure, opaque, puzzling, questionable, tenebrous, uncertain, unclear, unintelligible, vague
- antipathy
- abhorrence, allergy, animosity, animus, antagonism, aversion, avoidance, bad blood*, contrariety, dislike, dispathy, distaste, enmity, escape, eschewal, evasion, hate, hatred, hostility, ill will, incompatibility, loathing, no use, opposition, rancor, repellency, repugnance, repulsion
- analogous
- akin, alike, comparable, consonant, convertible, correspondent, corresponding, equivalent, homologous, interchangeable, kindred, like, parallel, related, resembling, undifferentiated, uniform
- abate
- allay, cool, decline, decrease, die away, diminish, dull, dwindle, ebb, lay back*, lessen, let up, mellow out*, moderate, quell, recede, reduce, slack off, slacken, slow, subdue, subside, taper, taper off, unlax*, wane, weaken
- aggrandize
- acclaim, applaud, augment, ballyhoo, beef up*, boost, commend, dignify, distinguish, enlarge, ennoble, expand, extend, glorify, heighten, hike, hike up*, honor, hype, increase, intensify, jack up*, jump, magnify, multiply, parlay, praise
- advocate
- advance, advise, argue for, back, bless, bolster, boost*, brace up*, build up, campaign for, champion, countenance, defend, encourage, favor, further, go for, go with, hold with, justify, plead for, plug*, plump for*, press for, promote, propose, push, recommend, root for*, say so*, side, speak for, spread around*, stump for*, support, thump for, tout, uphold, urge, vindicate
- audacious
- adventurous, aweless, ballsy, bold, brassy, brave, cheeky*, courageous, daredevil, daring, dauntless, enterprising, fearless, foolhardy, gutty*, intrepid, nervy, rash, resolute, risky, unafraid, uncurbed, undaunted, ungoverned, valiant, venturesome
- adulterate
- alloy, amalgamate, attenuate, blend, cheapen, commingle, contaminate, cook, corrupt, cut*, defile, degrade, denature, depreciate, deteriorate, devalue, dilute, dissolve, doctor*, doctor up*, falsify, impair, infiltrate, intermix, lace*, make impure, minge, mix, needle, phony up*, plant*, pollute, shave*, spike*, taint, thin, transfuse, vitiate, water, water down*, weaken
- aesthetic
- artful, artistic, creative, esthetic, gorgeous, inventive
- attenuate
- abate, constrict, contract, cripple, debilitate, deflate, disable, dissipate, enfeeble, extenuate, lessen, mitigate, sap, shrink, thin, undermine