GRE Verbal (A-C)
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- Abase
- humble, disgrace
- Abeyance
- temporary suppression
- Abject
- miserable, pitiful
- Abut
- to touch
- Accede
- express approval
- Accost
- to approach and speak to someone
- Acquiesce
- to agree, comply quietly
- Adjunct
- something added
- Adumbrate
- to sketch, outline in a shadowy way
- Adventitious
- accidental
- Aerie
- nook or nest built high in the air
- Affected
- pretentious, phony
- Affront
- Aggrieve
- to afflict, distress
- Agrarian
- relating to farming or rural matters
- Allay
- to lessen, ease, or soothe
- Alliteration
- repetition of the beginning sounds of words
- Amortize
- to diminish by installment payments
- Angular
- characterized by sharp angles, lean and gaunt
- Anoint
- to apply oil
- Antedate
- dated prior to the actual occurrence
- Antediluvian
- prehistoric, ancient, beyond measure
- Antepenultimate
- third from last
- Anthropomorphic
- attributing human qualities to non-humans
- Antiquity
- ancient times
- Apace
- done quickly
- Aperture
- an opening or hole
- Aphasia
- inability to speak or use words
- Aphelion
- point in a planet’s orbit that is farthest from the sun
- Aphorism
- short saying
- Aplomb
- poise, confidence
- Apostate
- one who renounces religious faith
- Apocryphal
- not genuine, fictional
- Apothegm
- a short, instructive saying
- Append
- to attach
- Apprise
- to give notice, to inform
- Arbritrary
- depending solely on individual will
- Arboreal
- relating to trees
- Arcane
- secret, obscure
- Archipelago
- large group of islands
- Arrogate
- to demand
- Arsenal
- ammunition storehouse
- Ascribe
- to attribute or assign
- Ashen
- resembling ashes
- Asinine
- lacking judgement
- Askance
- scornfully
- Askew
- crooked, tilted
- Assail
- to attack
- Assent
- express agreement
- Assignation
- appointment for lovers meeting
- Assonance
- resemblance of a sound
- Asunder
- into different parts
- Atone
- make amends for a wrong
- Augury
- prophecy
- Autocrat
- dictator
- Avow
- to state openly
- Awry
- crooked, askew, amiss
- Balk
- to refuse, shirk, prevent
- Balm
- soothing, healing
- Bastion
- fortification, stronghold
- Bay
- to bark
- Belabor
- to insist repeatedly or harp on
- Beleaguer
- to harass, plague
- Belfry
- bell tower
- Belie
- to misrepresent
- Bellow
- to roar, shout
- Bemuse
- to confuse
- Benighted
- unenlightened
- Benison
- blessing
- Bequeath
- to give or leave through will
- Betoken
- to indicate, signify
- Bevy
- group
- Bifurcate
- divide into two parts
- Bilious
- bad-natured
- Bilk
- to cheat
- Billet
- board and lodging for troops
- Blanch
- to pale, take the color out of
- Blight
- to afflict, destroy
- Bluster
- to boast
- Bonhomie
- good-natured geniality
- Boon
- blessing
- Bourgeois
- middle-class
- Brazen
- bold-shameless
- Brigand
- bandit
- Bromide
- a dull commonplace idea
- Brusque
- rough and abrupt in manner
- Buffet
- to strike, hit
- Byway
- a back road
- Cabal
- a secret group seeking to overturn
- Cadence
- rhythmic flow of poetry
- Callous
- think skinned- insensitive
- Callow
- immature, lacking sophistication
- Canard
- a lie
- Canonize
- to declare a person a saint
- Canvass
- to examine thoroughly
- Capitulate
- to submit completely, surrender
- Careen
- to lean to one side
- Carom
- to strike and rebound
- Cast
- copy, replica
- Categorical
- absolute, without exception
- Catholic
- universal
- Caulk
- to make watertight
- Cavalcade
- a procession
- Cavalier
- carefree, happy, without a lordly disdain
- Cavil
- to raise trivial objections
- Cavort
- to frolic, frisk
- Celerity
- quick moving or acting
- Certitude
- assurance, certainty
- Cession
- act of surrendering something
- Chagrin
- shame, embarrassment, humiliation
- Champ
- chew noisily
- Chary
- caution
- Chattel
- piece of personal property
- Cheeky
- lacking prudence or discretion
- Chortle
- to chuckle
- Churlish
- rude
- Circumvent
- to go around, avoid
- Cistern
- tank for rainwater
- Citadel
- fortress or stronghold
- Cleave
- to split
- Clement
- mild
- Cloister
- to confine
- Coddle
- to baby
- Coffer
- strongbox for money
- Cognate
- related, similar, akin
- Cognomen
- family name
- Collateral
- accompanying
- Colloquy
- dialogue
- Collusion
- collaboration
- Comeliness
- physical grace
- Commute
- to change a penalty to a less severe one
- Compendious
- summarizing completely and briefly
- Complacent
- self-satisfied
- Complicity
- knowing partnership in wrongdoing
- Compunctious
- feeling guilty
- Concerto
- musical composition for orchestra and soloist
- Concomitant
- accompanying something
- Conduit
- tube, pipe
- Conflagration
- big, destructive fire
- Confluence
- meeting place
- Congenial
- similar in tastes and habits
- Conglomerate
- collected group of varied things
- Conjugal
- pertaining to marriage
- Consanguineous
- of the same origin
- Consecrate
- to declare sacred
- Consign
- to commit, entrust
- Consonant
- consistent with
- Consummate
- accomplished, perfect
- Continence
- self-control
- Contravene
- to contradict
- Contumacious
- rebellious
- Convalescence
- gradual recovery after an illness
- Convivial
- sociable
- Convoke
- to call together, summon
- Coquette
- woman who flirts
- Corporeal
- having to do with the body
- Cosmography
- science that deals with the universe
- Cosset
- to pamper
- Coterie
- small group of person with a similar purpose
- Countermand
- to annul, cancel
- Countervail
- to counteract
- Coven
- group of witches
- Covert
- hidden, secret
- Cower
- to cringe in fear
- Crass
- crude
- Craven
- cowardly
- Credence
- acceptance of something as true
- Cupidity
- greed
- Cygnet
- young swan