GRE Verbal (I-O)
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- Ignoramus
- an ignorant person
- Illustrious
- famous
- Immure
- to imprison
- Impasse
- blocked path
- Impertinent
- rude
- Impetuous
- quick to act without thinking
- Impious
- not devout in religion
- Impolitic
- unwise
- Imposing
- dignified, grand
- Importune
- to ask repeatedly, beg
- Imprecation
- curse
- Improvident
- without planning, negligent
- Imprudent
- unwise
- Impudent
- arrogant
- Impugn
- to attack verbally
- Incandescent
- shining brightly
- Incarnidine
- blood-red in color
- Incarnate
- having bodily form
- Incendiary
- combustible
- Incommunicado
- lacking a means to communicate
- Incontrovertible
- unquestionable
- Inculcate
- to teach
- Incursion
- sudden invasion
- Indelible
- permanent
- Indigent
- very poor
- Indigant
- angry
- Indomitable
- fearless
- Industry
- diligence, energy
- Infernal
- hellish
- Infirmity
- disease
- Inglorious
- lacking fame
- Ingrate
- ungrateful person
- Ingress
- entrance
- Injunction
- command, order
- Inquest
- investigation
- Insentient
- unfeeling
- Insolent
- insulting
- Insolvent
- bankrupt
- Insular
- isolated, detached
- Insurrection
- rebellion
- Intemperate
- not moderate
- Inter
- to bury
- Internecine
- deadly to both sides
- Interpolate
- to insert
- Interpose
- to insert
- Interregnum
- interval between reigns
- Interstice
- a space between things
- Invective
- verbal abuse
- Inveigh
- protest strongly
- Investiture
- ceremony conferring authority
- Invidious
- likely to provoke ill will
- Irreverent
- disrespectful
- Jettison
- to cast off, throw cargo overboard
- Juggernaut
- huge force destroying everything in its path
- Jurisprudence
- philosophy of law
- Kernel
- innermost part
- Laggard
- dawdler, loafer
- Lambaste
- disapprove angrily
- Lampoon
- attack with satire
- Languid
- lacking energy, indifferent, slow
- Lapidary
- relating to precious stones
- Larder
- place where food is stored
- Largess
- generosity
- Lascivious
- lewd
- Lassitude
- lethargy
- Latitude
- freedom in action
- Leery
- suspicious
- Levity
- humor
- Libertarian
- one who believes in freedom
- Libidinous
- lustful
- License
- freedom to act
- Lien
- right to possess and sell property of a debtor
- Liniment
- medicinal liquid used to ease pains
- Lionize
- to treat as a celebrity
- Lissome
- easily flexed
- Lithe
- graceful, flexible
- Livid
- discolored from a bruise, red with anger
- Low
- to make a sound like a cow
- Macabre
- gruesome
- Machination
- plot or scheme
- Maelstrom
- whirlpool; turmoil
- Magnanimous
- generous
- Magnate
- powerful person
- Mainstay
- chief support
- Malapropism
- humorous misuse of a word
- Malediction
- curse
- Manumission
- release from slavery
- Marginal
- barely sufficient
- Maritime
- relating to the sea
- Martial
- war-like
- Martinet
- strict disciplinarian
- Matrilineal
- tracing ancestry through mother’s line rather than father’s
- Maudlin
- overly sentimental
- Mawkish
- overly sentimental
- Meander
- wander
- Megalith
- huge stone used in prehistoric structures
- Mendacity
- a lie
- Meretricious
- gaudy, falsely attractive
- Metronome
- time keeping device
- Mirth
- laughter
- Miscreant
- one who behaves criminally
- Missive
- note or letter
- Molt
- to shed hair
- Monolith
- a huge block of stone
- Moot
- debatable, previously decided
- Mordacious
- caustic
- Mores
- customs
- Moribund
- dying
- Mote
- small particle
- Motley
- many-colored
- Mottle
- to make with spots
- Munitions
- ammunition
- Necromancy
- black magic
- Nether
- located under or below
- Nettle
- to irritate
- Nicety
- elegant
- Niggardly
- stingy
- Niggling
- trifle
- Nihilism
- belief that existence is meaningless
- Noisome
- stinking
- Non sequitur
- conclusion not following from evidence
- Nonentity
- an insignificant person
- Novitiate
- period of being a novice
- Numismatics
- coin collecting
- Obdurate
- stubborn
- Obeisance
- show of respect
- Objurgate
- scold
- Oblique
- indirect
- Obloquy
- abusive language
- Obsequy
- funeral ceremony
- Obstreperous
- unruly
- Obtuse
- stupid, dull
- Odious
- hateful
- Officious
- too helpful
- Ontology
- theory about the nature of existence
- Opalescent
- displaying colors
- Opine
- to express an opinion
- Opprobrious
- disgraceful
- Oracle
- person who foresees the future and gives and advice
- Ornithologist
- scientist who studies birds
- Orotund
- pompous
- Ouster
- ejection
- Overture
- musical introduction, proposal, offer
- Overweeing
- arrogant
- Overwrought
- agitated overdone