GRE most common words 2
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- Anomaly
- Deviation from what is normal
- Assuage
- To make something unpleasant less severe
- Enigma
- A puzzle; a mystery
- Equivocate
- To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
- Erudite
- Learned, Scholarly, Bookish
- Fervid
- Intensely emotional; Feverish
- Lucid
- Clear and easily understood
- Opaque
- Impossible to see through; Preventing the passage of light
- Placate
- To soothe or pacify
- Precipitate
- To throw violently or bring about abruptly; Lacking deliberation
- Prodigal
- Lavish; Wasteful
- Zeal
- Passion, Excitement
- Abstain
- To choose not to do something
- Adulterate
- To make impure
- Apathy
- Lack of interest or emotion
- Audacious
- Fearless and Daring
- Capricious
- Changing one's mind quickly and often
- Corroborate
- To provide supporting evidence
- Desiccate
- To dry out thoroughly
- Engender
- To produce, cause, or bring about
- Ephemeral
- Lasting a short time
- Gullible
- Easily Deceived
- Homogenous
- Of a similar kind
- Laconic
- Using few words
- Laudable
- Deserving commendation; Praiseworthy
- Loquacious
- Talkative
- Mitigate
- To soften; To lessen
- Pedant
- Someone who shows off learning
- Pragmatic
- Practical as opposed to idealistic
- Propriety
- Correct behavior; Obedience to rules and customs
- Vacillate
- To sway physically; To be indecisive
- Volatile
- Easily arosed or changable; Lively or explosive
- Advocate
- To speak on favor of
- Antipathy
- Extreme Dislike
- Bolster
- To support; To prop up
- Cacophony
- Harsh, jarring noise
- Deride
- To speak of or treat with contempt; To mock
- Dissonance
- A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds
- Enervate
- To reduce in strength
- Eulogy
- Speech in praise of someone
- Garrulous
- Tending to talk a lot
- Ingenuous
- Showing innocence or childlike simplicity
- Lethargic
- Acting in an indifferent or slow, slugginsh manner
- Malleable
- Capable of being shaped
- Misanthrope
- A person who dislikes other
- Obdurate
- Hardening in feeling; Resistant to persuasion
- Ostentation
- Excessive Showiness
- Paradox
- A contradiction or dilemma
- Philanthropy
- Charity; A desire or effort to promote goodness
- Prevaricate
- To lie or deviate from the thruth
- Venerate
- To respect deeply
- Waver
- To fluctuate between choices