GRE Frequently Used Words
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- abacus
- frames with balls for calculating
- abate
- to lessen in intensity or degree
- abdication
- to relinquish (power or responsibility) formally
- aberration
- straying away/different from what is normal
- abet
- to approve, encourage, and support; urge and help on
- abeyance
- condition of being temporarily set aside; suspension
- abhor
- to hate, to detest
- abide
- be faithful, to endure
- abjure
- to renounce under oath, forswear
- abraded
- to wear down or rub away by friction
- abrogate
- repeal or annul by authority
- abscond
- to leave quickly and secretly (to avoid arrest)
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend obscure
- abut
- to touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent
- abysmal
- bottomless extreeme
- acclaimed
- to praise enthusiastically and often publicly; applaud
- accolade
- praise, approval
- accretion
- increase in size by gradual external addition, fusion
- acumen
- quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight
- adamant
- impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding
- admonitory
- containing warning
- adorn
- to add beauty, decorate
- adulation
- excessive praising and intense adoration
- adulteration
- making impure poor in quality, to corrupt
- aesthetic
- of or concerning the appreciate of beauty or good taste
- affable
- polite and friendly
- affinity
- close connection and relationship
- aggrandize
- to make larger or greater in power
- aggravate
- make worse, irritate
- agile
- active, quick-moving
- agog
- full of keen anticipation or excitement; eager
- ail
- to feel ill or have pain
- alacrity
- eager and cheerful readiness
- alchemy
- a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals
- alcove
- a recess or partially enclose place
- allegiance
- duty to, support, loyalty
- alleviate
- make (pain) easier to bear
- alloy
- to debase by mixing with something inferioer
- aloof
- reserved, indifferent
- amalgamate
- mix, to combine several elements into a whole
- ambidextrous
- able to use the left hand or the right hand equally well
- ambiguous
- doubtful, uncertain
- ambivalent
- characterized by a minute of opposite feelings or attitudes
- ameliorate
- improve, make better or more tolerable
- amenable
- agreeable; responsive to suggestion
- amortize
- end (a debt) by setting aside money, repay
- anachronism
- something chronologically out of order
- anguish
- severe suffering
- animosity
- strong dislike
- anomalous
- irregular, deviating from the norm
- antidote
- medicine used against a poison or a disease
- antipathy
- dislike, hostility, extreme opposition or aversion
- antithetical
- being in diametrical opposition
- apartheid
- brutal racial discrimination