GRE 333 Words
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- incongruity
- lack of harmony; absurdity
- propriety
- fitness; correct conduct
- welter
- turmoil; bewildering jumble
- loquacious
- talkative
- pathological
- pertaining to disease
- reproach
- express disapproval or disappointment
- emulate
- imitate; rival
- abeyance
- suspended action
- desiccate
- dry up
- veracious
- truthful
- mendacious
- lying; habitually dishonest
- discredit
- defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve
- appropriate
- acquire; take possession of for one's own use
- latent
- potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
- complaisant
- trying to please; overly polite; obliging
- boorish
- rude; insensitive
- permeable
- penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
- aggregate
- gather; accumulate
- levee
- earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding
- cacophonous
- discordant; inharmonious
- flag
- droop; grow feeble
- coagulate
- thicken; congeal; clot
- caustic
- burning; sarcastically biting
- catalyst
- agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction, development, or change
- volatile
- changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly
- tacit
- understood; not put into words
- supposition
- hypothesis; surmise
- torpor
- lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
- reticent
- reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
- piety
- devoutness; reverence for God
- facilitate
- help bring about; make less difficult
- pervasive
- spread throughout
- prohibitive
- inclined to prevent or forbid
- resolution
- determination
- laud
- praise
- intractable
- unruly; stubborn; unyielding
- itinerary
- plan of a trip
- wary
- very cautious
- secrete
- hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
- dissemble
- disguise; pretend
- vacillate
- waver; fluctuate
- beneficent
- kindly; doing good
- probity
- uprightness; incorruptibility
- disabuse
- correct a false impression; undeceive
- striated
- marked with parallel bands; grooved
- stigma
- token of disgrace; brand
- extrapolation
- projection; superfluous
- relegate
- banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
- misanthrope
- one who hates mankind
- burnish
- make shiny by rubbing; polish
- ebullient
- showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm
- contention
- claim; thesis
- digression
- wandering away from the subject
- amalgamate
- combine; unite in one body
- contentious
- quarrelsome
- enervate
- weaken
- dirge
- lament with music
- resolve
- determination; firmness of purpose
- invective
- abuse
- exigency
- urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention
- strut
- pompous walk
- elegy
- poem or song expressing lamentation
- log
- record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities
- obsequious
- slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
- artless
- without guile; open and honest
- warranted
- justified; authorized
- aberrant
- abnormal or deviant
- intransigence
- refusal of any compromise; stubbornness
- equivocate
- lie, mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
- craven
- cowardly
- condone
- overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
- dissonance
- discord; opposite of harmony
- refute
- disprove
- diffidence
- shyness
- fawning
- trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering or cringing
- inured
- accustomed; hardened
- anomalous
- abnormal; irregular
- gainsay
- deny
- recluse
- hermit; loner
- officious
- meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services
- satiate
- satisfy fully
- alacrity
- cheerful promptness; eagerness
- disingenuous
- lacking genuine candor; insincere
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial; austere
- inadvertently
- unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly
- tractable
- docile; easily managed
- substantiate
- establish by evidence; verify; support
- irresolute
- uncertain how to act; weak
- solicious
- worried, concerned
- subpoena
- writ summoning a witness to appear
- castigation
- punishment; severe criticism
- savor
- enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
- stolid
- dull; impassive
- compliant
- yielding; conforming to requirements
- fallacious
- false; misleading
- enhance
- increase; improve
- impair
- injure; hurt
- grandiloquent
- pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
- desultory
- aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
- euphemism
- mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
- tortuous
- winding; full of curves
- paucity
- scarcity
- confound
- confuse; puzzle
- alleviate
- relieve
- precipitate
- rash; premature; hasty; sudden
- metamorphosis
- change of form
- transgression
- violation of a law; sin
- connoisseur
- person competent to act as a judge of art, etc.; a lover of an art
- abate
- subside or moderate
- morose
- ill-humored; sullen; melancholy
- maverick
- rebel; nonconformist
- denigrate
- blacken
- obdurate
- stubborn
- quibble
- minor objection or complaint
- penury
- severe poverty; stinginess
- innocuous
- harmless
- disseminate
- distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds)
- discrepancy
- lack of consistency; difference
- capricious
- unpredictable; fickle
- delineate
- portray; depict; sketch
- phlegmatic
- calm; not easily disturbed
- specious
- seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional)
- implode
- burst inward
- proliferate
- grow rapidly; spread; multiply
- malleable
- capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable
- gouge
- overcharge
- homogenous
- of the same kind
- discerning
- mentally quick and observant; having insight
- impermeable
- impervious; not permitting passage through its substance
- deference
- courteous regard for another's wish
- impervious
- impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
- frugality
- thrift; economy
- insinuate
- hint; imply; creep in
- bolster
- support; reinforce
- dupe
- someone easily fooled
- diffuse
- wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas)
- insipid
- lacking in flavor; dull
- iconoclast
- attacking cherished traditions
- viable
- practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
- ostentatious
- showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
- penchant
- strong inclination; liking
- fatuous
- brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug
- meticulous
- excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous
- placate
- pacify; conciliate
- impassive
- without feeling; imperturbable; stoical
- assuage
- ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
- recant
- disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error
- endemic
- prevailing among a specific group of people or an area
- pungent
- stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
- austere
- forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
- gregarious
- sociable
- precarious
- uncertain; risky
- eulogy
- expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death
- fervor
- glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
- recalcitrant
- obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly
- harangue
- long, passionate, and vehement speech
- salubrious
- healthful
- bombastic
- pompous; using inflated language
- saturate
- soak thoroughly
- porous
- full of pores; like a sieve
- embellish
- adorn; ornament; enhance, as a story
- incorporate
- introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite
- dismiss
- eliminate from consideration; reject
- contrite
- penitent
- skeptic
- doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view
- inert
- inactive; lacking power to move
- distill
- purify; refine; concentrate
- engender
- cause; produce
- qualified
- limited; restricted
- diverge
- vary; go in different directions from the same point
- supersede
- cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
- imperturbable
- calm; placid
- propensity
- natural inclination
- cogent
- convincing
- conundrum
- riddle; difficult problem
- plasticity
- ability to be molded
- strut
- supporting bar
- disjointed
- lacking coherence
- truculence
- aggressiveness; ferocity
- levity
- lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity
- attenuate
- make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force, degree)
- reprobate
- person hardened by sin, devoid of a sense of decency
- mitigate
- lessen in intensity; moderate; appease
- decorum
- propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
- lucid
- easily understood; clear; intelligible
- fledgling
- inexperienced
- compendium
- brief, comprehensive summary
- preamble
- introductory statement
- discordant
- not harmonious; conflicting
- discrete
- separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
- aesthetic
- artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful
- gullible
- easily deceived
- propitiate
- appease
- flout
- reject; mock; show contempt for
- partisan
- one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
- stint
- be thrifty; set limits
- idolatry
- worship of idols; excessive admiration
- laconic
- brief and to the point
- opprobium
- infamy; vilification
- efficacy
- power to produce desired effect
- foment
- stir up; instigate
- analogous
- comparable
- viscous
- sticky, gluey
- derivative
- unoriginal; obtained from another source
- obviate
- make unnecessary; get rid of
- assiduous
- diligent
- tirade
- extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
- inherent
- firmly established by nature or habit
- arduous
- hard; strenuous
- sage
- person celebrated for wisdom
- insularity
- narrow-mindedness; isolation
- rescind
- cancel
- tenuous
- thin; rare; slim
- problematic
- doubtful; unsettled; questionable; perplexing
- dogmatic
- opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
- perfidious
- treacherous; disloyal
- convoluted
- coiled around; involved; intricate
- anachronism
- something or someone misplaced in time
- shard
- fragment; generally of pottery
- esoteric
- hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
- disparate
- basically different; unrelated
- coda
- concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that summarizes
- banal
- hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
- refractory
- stubborn; unmanageable
- divest
- strip; deprive
- pedantic
- showing off learning; bookish
- felicitous
- apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
- stipulate
- make express conditions, specify
- empirical
- base on experience
- recondite
- abstruse; profound; secret
- whimsical
- capricious; fanciful
- soporific
- sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness
- onerous
- burdensome
- sanction
- approve; ratify
- reverent
- respectful; worshipful
- subside
- settle down; descend; grow quiet
- implacable
- incapable of being pacified
- deterrent
- something that discourages; hindrance
- garrulous
- loquacious; wordy; talkative
- anarchy
- absence of governing body; state of disorder
- approbation
- approval
- daunt
- intimidate; frighten
- abscond
- depart secretly and hide
- paragon
- model of perfection
- lassitude
- languor; weariness
- magnanimity
- generosity
- disinterested
- unprejudiced
- inundate
- overwhelm; flood; submerge
- exculpate
- clear from blame
- profound
- deep; not superficial; complete
- inchoate
- recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
- negate
- cancel out; nullify; deny
- zealot
- fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal
- chicanery
- trickery; deception
- apathy
- lack of caring; indifference
- hyperbole
- exaggeration; overstatement
- indeterminate
- uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
- apprise
- inform
- abstemious
- sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
- pragmatic
- practical (as opposed to idealistic)
- ephemeral
- short-lived; fleeting
- dissolution
- disintegration; looseness in morals
- dichotomy
- split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)
- erudite
- learned; scholarly
- precursor
- forerunner; harbinger
- sporadic
- occurring irregularly
- audacious
- daring; bold
- pristine
- characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled
- irascible
- irritable; easily angered
- futile
- useless; hopeless; ineffectual
- default
- failure to act
- commensurate
- corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc.; proportionate
- malingerer
- one who feigns illness to escape duty
- perennial
- something long-lasting
- insensible
- unconscious; unresponsive
- ambiguous
- unclear or doubtful in meaning
- aver
- assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact
- forestall
- prevent by taking action in advance
- adulterate
- make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
- presumptuous
- arrogant; taking liberties
- verbose
- wordy
- mundane
- worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday
- facetious
- joking (often inappropriately); humorous
- venerate
- revere
- vituperative
- abusive; scolding
- impede
- hinder, block
- quiescent
- at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
- proscribe
- ostracize; banish; outlaw
- buttress
- support; prop up
- immutable
- unchangeable
- plummet
- fall sharply
- distend
- expand; swell out
- admonish
- warn; reprove
- belie
- contradict; give a false impression
- diatribe
- bitter scolding; invective
- spectrum
- colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
- occlude
- shut; close
- platitude
- trite remark; commonplace statement
- exacerbate
- worsen; embitter
- inconsequential
- insignificant; unimportant
- prodigal
- wasteful; reckless with money
- guileless
- without deceit
- appease
- pacify or soothe; relieve
- eclectic
- selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
- rarefied
- made less dense (of a gas)
- goad
- urge on
- indolent
- lazy
- document
- provide written evidence
- perfunctory
- superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm
- mollify
- soothe
- burgeon
- grow forth; send out buds
- implicit
- understood but not stated
- ambivalence
- the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
- deride
- ridicule; make fun of
- converge
- approach; tend to meet; come together
- oscillate
- vibrate pendulumlike; waver
- disparage
- belittle
- luminous
- shining; issuing light
- plethora
- excess; overabundance
- indigence
- poverty
- ingenuous
- naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated
- effrontery
- impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness
- equanimity
- calmness of temperament; composure
- lethargic
- drowsy; dull
- tangential
- peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
- elicit
- draw out by discussion
- neophyte
- recent convert; beginner
- antipathy
- aversion; dislike
- dormant
- sleeping; lethargic; latent
- conciliatory
- reconciling; soothing
- ameliorate
- improve
- repudiate
- disown; disavow
- prevaricate
- lie