GRE High Frequency Words

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1. Abate become less in amount or intensity 34. Autonomous existing as an independent entity
2. Aberrant markedly different from an accepted norm 35. Aver to declare or affirm solemnly and formally
as true
3. Abeyance temporary cessation or suspension
36. Banal repeated too oftenl overfamiliar through
4. Abscond run away
overuse
5. Abstemious marked by temperance in indulgence
37. Belie be in contradiction with
6. Admonish scold or reprimand; take to task
38. Beneficent doing or producing good
7. Adulterate make impure by adding a foreign or inferior
39. Bolster support and strengthen
substance
40. Bombastic ostentatiously lofty in style
8. Aesthetic characterized by an appreciation of beauty of
good taste 41. Boorish ill-mannered and coarse in behavior or
appearance
9. Aggregate a sum total of many heterogeneous things
taken together 42. Burgeon grow and flourish
10. Alacrity liveliness and eagerness 43. Burnish polish and make shiny
11. Alleviate provide physical relief, as from pain 44. Buttress a support usually of stone or brick
12. Amalgamate to bring or combine together or with 45. Cacophonous having an unpleasant sound
something else
46. Capricious determined by chance or impulse rather than
13. Ambiguous having more than one possible meaning by necessity
14. Ambivalence mixed feelings or emtions 47. Castigation determined by chance or impulse rather than
by necessity
15. Ameliorate to make better
48. Catalyst a substance that initiates or accelerates a
16. Anachronism something located at a time
chemical reaction
17. Analogous similar or equivalent in some respects
49. Caustic capable of destroying or eating away by
18. Anarchy a state of lawlessness and disorder chemical action
19. Anomalous deviating from the general or common order 50. Chicanery use of tricks to deceive someone
or type
51. Coagulate change from liquid to a thickened or solid
20. Antipathy a feeling of intense dislike state
21. Apathy an absence of emotion or enthusiam 52. Coda the closing section of a musical composition
22. Appease make peace with 53. Cogent powerfully persuasive
23. Appobation official approval 54. Commenurate corresponding in size or degree
24. Apprise inform somebody of something 55. Compendium a publication containing a variety of works
25. Appropriate suitable for a particular person, place, or 56. Complaisant showing a cheerful willingness to do favors
situation for other
26. Ardous characterized by effort to the point of 57. Compliant disposed to act in accordance with
exhaustion someone's wishes
27. Artless simple and natural; without cunning or deceit 58. Conciliatory making or willing to make concessions
28. Ascetic someone who practices self denial as a 59. Condone excuse, overlook, or make allowances for
spiritual discipline
60. Confound be confusing or perplexing to
29. Assiduous marked by care and persistent effort
61. Connoisseur an expert able to appreciate a field
30. Assuage provide physical relief, as from pain
62. Contention the act of competing as for profit or a prize
31. Attenuate become weaker, in strength, value or
63. Contentious showing an inclination to disagree
magnitude
64. Contrite feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins
32. Audacious disposed to venture or take risks
or offenses
33. Austere of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor
65. Conundrum a diffcult problem
66. Converge be adjacent or come together 100. Dissolution separation into component parts
67. Convoluted rolled longitudinally upon itself 101. Dissonance disagreeable sounds
68. Craven lacking even the rudiments of courage 102. Distend cause to expand as it by internal pressure
abjectly fearful
103. Distill undergo condensation
69. Daunt case to lose courage
104. Diverge move or draw apart
70. Decorum propriety in manners and conduct
105. Divest take away possessions from someone
71. Default an option that is selected automatically
106. Document a representation of a person's thinking with
72. Deference courteous regard for people's feelings symbolic marks
73. Delineate represented accurately or precisely 107. Dogmatic pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as
authoritative
74. Denigrate charge falsely or with malicious intent
108. Dormant inactive but capable of becoming active
75. Deride treat or speak of with contempt
109. Dupe fool or hoax
76. Derivative a compound obtained from another
compound 110. Ebullient joyously unrestrained
77. Desiccate laking vitality or spirit; lifeless 111. Eclectic sealing what seems best of various styles or
ideas
78. Desultory marked by lack of definite plan or regularity
or purpose 112. Efficacy capacity or power to produce a desired effect
79. Deterrent something immaterial that interferes with 113. Effrontery audacious behavior that you have no right to
action or progress
114. Elegy a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
80. Diatribe thunderous verbal attact
115. Elicit call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
81. Dichotomy being twofold
116. Embellish make more attractive, as by adding ornament
82. Diffidence lack self-assurance or color
83. Diffuse spread out; no concentrated in one place 117. Empirical derived from experiment and observation
rather than theory
84. Digression a turning aside
118. Emulate strive to equal or match, especially by
85. Dirge a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial
imitating
to a dead person
119. Endemic native to or confined to a certain region
86. Disabuse free somebody from an erroneous
(inaccurate) belief 120. Enervate weaken mentally or morally
87. Discerning having revealing keen insight and good 121. Engender make children
judgement
122. Enhance increase
88. Discordant not in agreement or harmony
123. Ephemeral anything short-lived, as an insect that lives
89. Discredit the state of being held in low esteem only for a day
90. Discrepancy a difference between conflicting facts or 124. Equanimity steadiness of mind under stress
claims or opinions
125. Equivocate be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
91. Discrete constituting a separate entity or part
126. Erudite having or showing profound knowledge
92. Disingenuous not straightforward or candid
127. Esoteric understandable only by an enlightened inner
93. Disinterested unaffected by concern for one's own welfare circle
94. Disjointed taken apart at the points of connection 128. Eulogy a formal expression of praise for someone who
has died
95. Dismiss stop associating
129. Euphemism an inoffensive expression substituted for an
96. Disparage express a negative opinion of
offensive one
97. Disparate fundamentally different or distinct in quality
130. Exacerbate make worse
or kind
131. Exculpate pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
98. Dissemble behave unnaturally or affectedly
132. Exigency a pressing or urgen situation
99. Disseminate cause to become widely known
133. Extrapolation an inference about the future based on 165. Impermeable preventing especially liquids to pass or
known facts diffuse through
134. Facetious cleverly amusing in tone 166. Imperturbable marked by extreme calm and composure
135. Facilitate make easier 167. Impervious not admitting of passage or capable of
being affected
136. Fallacious containing or based on incorrect reasoning
168. Implacable incapable of being appeased or pacified
137. Fatuous devoid of intelligence
169. Implicit suggested though not directly expressed
138. Fawning attempting to win favor by flattery
170. Implode burst inward
139. Felicitous exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner
or style 171. Inadvertently without knowledge or intention
140. Fervor feelings of great warmth and intensity 172. Inchoate only partly in existence; imperfectly
formed
141. Flag a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive
design 173. Incongruity the quality of disagreeing
142. Fledgling young bird that has just fledged or become 174. Inconsequential lacking worth or importance
capable of flying
175. Incorporate make into a whole or make part of a
143. Flout treat with contemptuous disregard whole
144. Foment try to stir up 176. Indeterminate not fixed or known in advance
145. Forestall keep from happening or arising; make 177. Indigence a state of extreme poverty or destitution
impossible
178. Indolent disinclined to work or exertion
146. Frugality prudence in avoiding waste
179. Inert unable to move or resist motion
147. Futile producing no ressult or effect
180. Ingenuous lacking in sophistication or worldliness
148. Gainsay take exception to
181. Inherent existing as an essential constituent or
149. Garrulous full of trivial conversation characteristic
150. Goad stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick 182. Innocuous not injurious to physical or mental health
151. Gouge an impression in a surface, as made by a 183. Insensible barely able to be perceived
blow
184. Insinuate suggest in an indirect or covert way; give
152. Grandiloquent lofty in style to understand
153. Gregarious temperamentally seeking and enjoying the 185. Insipid lacking interest or significance or impact
company of others
186. Insularity the state of being isolated or detached
154. Guileless free of deceit
187. Intractable difficult to manage or mold
155. Gullible naive and easily deceived or tricked
188. Intransigence stubborn refusal to compromise or
156. Harangue a loud bombastic declamation expressed change
with strong emotion
189. Inundate fill or cover completely, usually with
157. Homogeneous all of the same or similar kind or nature water
158. Hyperbole extravagant exaggeration 190. Inured made tough by habitual exposure
159. Iconoclastic characterized by attack on established 191. Invective abusive language used to express blame
beliefs or censure
160. Idolatry the worship of idols or images that are not 192. Irascible quickly aroused to anger
God
193. Irresolute uncertain how to act or proceed
161. Immutable not subject or susceptible to change or
194. Itinerary an established line of travel or access
variation
195. Laconic brief and to the point
162. Impair make worse or less effective
196. Lassitude a feeling of lack of interest or energy
163. Impassive having or revealing little emotion or
sensibility 197. Latent potentially existing but not presently
evident or realized
164. Impede be a hindrance or obstacle to
198. Laud praise, glorify, or honor 231. Pate liver or meat or fowl finely minced or
ground and variously seasoned
199. Lethargic deficient in alertness or activity
232. Pathological relating to the study of diseases
200. Levee an embankment built to prevent a river
from overflowing 233. Paucity an insufficient quantity or number
201. Levity a manner lacking seriousness 234. Pedantic marked by a narrow focus on or display of
learning
202. Log a segment of the trunk of a tree when
stripped of branches 235. Penchant a strong liking
203. Loquacious full of trivial conversation 236. Penury a state of extreme poverty or destitution
204. Lucid transparently clear; easily understandable 237. Perennial lasting three seasons or more
205. Luminous softly bright or radiant 238. Perfidious tending to betray
206. Magnanimity liberality in bestowing gifts 239. Perfunctory hasty and without attention to detail; not
thorough
207. Malingerer someone shirking duty by feigning illness
or incapacity 240. Permeable allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse
through
208. Malleable capable of being shaped or bent
241. Pervasive spreading or spread throughout
209. Maverick someone who exhibits independence in
thought and action 242. Phlegmatic showing little
210. Mendacious given to lying 243. Piety righteousness by virtue of being pious
211. Metamorphosis striking change in appearance or character 244. Placate cause to be more favorably inclined
or circumstances
245. Plasticity the property of being physically malleable
212. Meticulous marked by precise accordance with details
246. Platitude a trite or obvious remark
213. Misanthrope someone who dislikes people in general
247. Plethora extreme excess
214. Mitigate lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness
248. Plummet drop sharply
or extent of
249. Porous full of vessels or holes
215. Mollify cause to be more favorably inclined
250. Pragmatic concerned with practical matters
216. Morose showing a brooding ill humor
251. Preamble a preliminary introduction to a statute or
217. Mundane found in the ordinary course of events
constitution
218. Negate make ineffective by counterbalancing the
252. Precarious not secure; beset with difficulties
effect of
253. Precipitate bring about abruptly
219. Neophyte any new participant in some activity
254. Precursor something indicating the approach of
220. Obdurate stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
something or someone
221. Obsequious attempting to win favor from influential
255. Presumptuous excessively forward
people by flattery
256. Prevaricate be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
222. Obviate do away with
257. Pristine immaculately clean and unused
223. Occlude block passage through
258. Probity complete and confirmed integrity
224. Officious intrusive in a meddling or offensive
manner 259. Problematic making great mental demands

225. Onerous not easily borne; wearing 260. Prodigal recklessly wasteful

226. Opprobrium a state of extreme dishonor 261. Profound situated at or extending to great depth

227. Oscillate move or swing from side to side regularly 262. Prohibitive tending to discourage, especially of prices

228. Ostentatious intended to attract notice and impress 263. Proliferate grow rapidly
others 264. Propensity a natural inclination
229. Paragon a perfect embodiment of a concept 265. Propitate make peace with
230. Partisan a fervent and even militant proponent of 266. Propriety correct behavior
something
267. Proscribe command against 300. Spectrum a broad range of related objects or values
or qualities
268. Pungent strong and sharp
301. Sporadic recurring in scattered or unpredictable
269. Qualified meeting the proper standards and
instances
requirements for a task
302. Stigma a symbol of disgrace or infamy
270. Quibble evade the truth of a point by raising irrelevant
objections 303. Stint supply sparingly and with restricted
quantities
271. Quiescent being quiet or still or inactive
304. Stipulate make an express demand or provision in an
272. Rarefied of high moral or intellectual value
agreement
273. Recalcitrant stubbornly resistant to authority or control
305. Stolid having or revealing little emotion or
274. Recant formally reject or disavow a formerly held sensibility
belief
306. Striate marked with stripes
275. Recluse one who lives in solitude
307. Strut to walk with a lofty proud gait
276. Recondite difficult to penetrate
308. Subpoena a writ issued to compel the attendance of a
277. Refractory stubbornly resistant to authority or control witness
278. Refute overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof 309. Subside sink to a lower level or form a depression
279. Relegate assign to a lower position 310. Substantiate establish or strengthen as with new evidence
280. Reproach express criticism towards or facts

281. Reprobate a person without moral scruples 311. Supersede take the place or move into the position of

282. Repudiate refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as 312. Supposition the cognitive process of conjecturing
valid 313. Tacit implied by or inferred from actions or
283. Rescind cancel officially statements

284. Resolution a decision to do something or to behave in a 314. Tangential of superficial relevance if any
certain manner 315. Tenuous very thin in gauge or diameter
285. Resolve find a solution or answer 316. Tirade a speech of violent denunciation
286. Reticent reluctant to draw attention to yourself 317. Torper a state of motor and mental inactivity
287. Reverent feeling or showing profound respect or 318. Tortuous marked by repeated turns and bends
veneration
319. Tractable easily managed
288. Sage a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics
320. Transgression the violation of a law or a duty or moral
289. Salubrious promoting health principle
290. Sanction official permission or approval 321. Truculence obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness
291. Satiate fill to satisfaction 322. Unwarranted incapable of being justified or explained
292. Saturate infuse or fill completely 323. Vacillate be undecided about something
293. Savor the taste experience when a savoury 324. Venerate regard with feelings of respect and
condiment is tasted reverence
294. Secrete generate and separate from cells or bodily 325. Veracious habitually speaking the truth
fluids
326. Verbose using or containing too many words
295. Shard a broken piece of a brittle artifact
327. Viable capable of life or normal growth and
296. Skeptic someone who habitually doubts accepted development
beliefs
328. Viscous having a relatively high resistance to flow
297. Solicitous full of anxiety and concern
329. Vituperative marked by harshly abusive criticism
298. Soporific sleep inducing
330. Volatile liable to lead to sudden change or violence
299. Specious plausible but false
331. Wary marked by keen caution and watchful
prudence
332. Welter a confused multitude of things
333. Whimsical determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
334. Zealot a fervent and even militant proponent of something