GRE Kaplan Word Groups
Terms
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- abbreviated Communication
- abridge, compendium, cursory, syllabus, synopsis, terse
- Act Quickly
- apace, abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
- Assist
- abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance
- Bad Mood
- bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
- Beginner
- dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, poselyte, tyro
- Beginning
- burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
- Biting
- acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant
- Bold
- audacious, courageous, dauntless
- Boring
- banal,fatuous,hackneyed,insipid,mundane,pedestrian,platitude,prosaic,quotidian, trite
- Carousal
- bacchanalian, debauchery, deprave,iniquity,libertine,libidinous,licentious,reprobate,ribald,slacious,sordid,turpitude
- Changing Quickly
- capricious, mercurial, volatile
- Copy
- counterpart,emulate,facsimilefactitious,paradigm,precursor,quintessence,simulated,vicarious
- Criticize
- aspersion,belittle,berate, calumny,castigate,decry,defamation,denounce,deride,diatribe,disparage,escoriate,gainsay
- Death/Mourning
- bereave,cadaver,defunct,demise,dolorous,elegy,knell,lament,macabre,moribundkobesequies,sepulchral,wrath
- Denying of Self
- abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
- Dictatorial
- authoritarian, depsotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
- Difficult to Understand
- abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite
- Disgusting/Offensive
- defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
- Easy to understand
- articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
- Eccentric/Dissimilar
- aberrant, anachronism, anomalouw, iconoclast, discrete, eclectic, esoteric
- Embarrass
- abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
- Equal
- equitable, equity, tantamount
- Falsehood
- apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious
- Family
- conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion
- Favoring
- ardor, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
- Forgive
- absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
- Funny
- chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
- Gaps
- abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
- Generous
- altruistic, beneficient, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
- Greedy
- avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
- Hardhearted
- asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, sdathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
- Harmful
- baleful,baneful,deleterious, inmical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
- Harsh-Sounding
- cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
- Hatred
- abhorrence,anathema,antagonism,antipathy,detestation,enmity,loathing,malice,odium,rancor
- Healthy
- beneficial, salubrious, salutary
- Hesitate
- dither, oscillate,teeter,vacillate,waver
- Hostile
- antithetic,churlish,curmudgeon,irascible,malevolent,misanthropic, truculent,vindictive
- Innocent
- credulous, gullible, ingenious, naive, novitiate, tyro
- Insincere
- disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
- Investigate
- appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
- Lazy
- indolent,inert,lackadaisical, languid,lassitude,lethargic, phlegmatic,quiescent, slothful, torpid
- Luck
- aventitious,amulet,auspicious,fortuitous,kismet,optimum,portentous,propitiate, propitious, providential
- Nag
- admonish,cavil,belabor,enjoin,exhort,harangue,hector,martinet,remonstrate,reproof
- Nasty
- fetid, noisome, noxious
- Not a Straight Line
- askance,awry,careen,carom,circuitous,circumvent,gyrate,labyrinth, meander,oblique, serrated, sidle, sinious, undulating, vortex
- Overblown
- bombastic,circumlocution,garrulous,grandiloquent,loquacious,prolix,rhetoric,turgid,verbose
- Pacify
- ameliorate, appease,assuage,defer.mitigate,mollify,placate,propitiate,satiate,slake,sooth
- Pleasant-Sounding
- euphonious,harmonious,melodious,sonprous
- Poor
- destitute, esurient,impecunious, indigent
- Praise
- acclaim,accolade,aggrandize,encomium,eulogize,extol,fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
- Predict
- augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
- Prevent
- discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impde, inhibit, occlude
- Smart
- astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
- Sorrow
- disconsolate,doleful,dolor,elagiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
- Stubborn
- implacable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
- Terse
- compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
- Time
- anachronism,antecede, antedate,anterior,archaic, diurnal,eon,ephermal,epoch,fortnight,millenium,penultimate
- Truth
- candor, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
- unusual
- aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
- Walking About
- ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
- Wandering
- discrusive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
- Weaken
- adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
- Wisdom
- adage,aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
- Withdrawal
- abeyance,abjure,abnegation, abortive,abrogate,decamp, demur,recant,recidivism,remission,renege,rescind,retrograde
- Time/Order/Duration
- anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millenium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
- Timid/Timidity
- craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation