GRE commonly used words
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- venerate
- To regard with respect
- contrition
- Sincere remorse for wrongdoing; repentance
- mercurial
- Quick & changeable in temperament; volatile
- limn
-
1. To describe
2. To depict by painting or drawing - cordon
- A line of people or ships around an area to guard it.
- sextant
- A navigational instrument
- caliper
- An instrument used to measure thickness and distance
- burgeon
- To grow or blossom
- occult
-
1. Relating to supernatural forces
2. Available only to the initiate; secret - ennui
- A feeling of weariness and disgust; tedium
- indignant
- Feeling wrath
- aegis
- Sponsorship; protection
- auspice
- Patronage, assistance or protection ; a sign or omen (as in prophecy)
- aver
- To declare true
- pique
- To wound the pride of; to sting; to stimulate
- solicitous
- Eager to obtain something desirable
- assuage
- to calm
- precipitate
- To throw violently or bring about abruptly
- erudite
- Learned, scholarly, bookish
- oscillate
- to waver
- vacillate
- to sway from side to side
- vagrant
- a wanderer
- irenic
- promoting peace
- vociferous
- blatant; noisy
- querulous
- expressing complaints
- laconic
- using few words
- taciturn
- not talkative; quiet
- panegyric
- elaborate praise
- solecism
- violation of etiquette
- incandescence
- emission of visible light; glow
- refulgent
- shining radiantly
- mountebank
- a quack in medicine
- jermiad
- a complaint; a prophecy of doom
- permonish
- to forewarn
- acumen
- quickness; insight
- mollify
- to calm
- dolor
- sorrow; grief
- rue
- to feel regret
- cauterize
- to burn or sear; to callous
- inscrutable
- difficult to understand
- intransigent
- stubborn; difficult to sway
- contravening
- to oppose
- arduous
- demanding great effort
- maladroit
- inept
- gregarious
- sociable
- abstruse
- difficult to understand; ambiguous
- despoiling
- to deprive of something valuable
- polemic
- controversial argument
- emit
- to give or send out
- broach
- to bring up (a topic)
- diverstiture
- the sale of a corporate division
- noisome
- harmful; dangerous
- amalgamate
- to combine
- incursion
- an invasion
- hapless
- unlucky
- sedulous
- perservering
- insularity
- isolated
- prevarication
- to stray from the truth
- amortize
- to write off as an expenditure
- emaciation
- to become very thing
- minatory
- threatening
- lambaste
- to scold or beat harshly
- extol
- to praise highly
- turpitude
- a corrupt act
- philistine
- lacking knowledge
- aesthete
- having an excessive appeciation of art/beauty
- odium
- strong dislike
- pragmatic
- practical
- disparate
- distinct or different
- fortuitous
- happening by accident or chance
- tacit
- not spoken; implied
- saccharin
- very sweet
- dross
- waste or impure matter
- assay
- analyzed
- derelection
- neglect
- fracas
- noisy fight
- harrow
- to break up; to plunder
- hackneyed
- overfamiliar
- sodden
- thoroughly saturated
- gainsay
- to oppose
- jaunty
- self-confident
- intrepid
- fearless
- fecund
- intellectual productivity; frutiful
- raze
- to level; to demolish
- remunerate
- to compensate for
- iota
- very small amount
- improvident
- not providing for the future; thriftles
- plucky
- showing courage
- reclusive
- seeking isolation
- impetus
- an impulse
- duplicity
- deliberate deceptiveness in speech
- winnow
- to scatter