http://www.scribd.

com/doc/36351883/GRE-Top-Word-List ABATE to lessen in intensity or degree

ABERRANT ABJURE ABROGATE ABSCISSION ABSCOND ACCOLADE ACCRETION ACERBIC ACUMEN ADMONISH ADRIOT ADULATION ADULTERATE ADUMBRATE AESTHETIC AGGRANDIZE ALACRITY ALCHEMY ALLOY AMALGAMATE AMELIORATE AMENABLE ANACHRONISM

deviating from the norm to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid to abolish or annul by authority; put down act of cutting off or removing to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide an expression of priase; an award growth, increase by succesive addition, building up having a sour or bitter taste or character quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight to reprove; to express warning or disapproval adept, dexterous excessive praise; intense adoration to reduce purity by combingin with inferior ingredients to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful to increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater eager and enthusiastic willingness a medieval science aimed at transmutation of metals, especially base metals into gold; any magical or wonderful transformation to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior to combine several elements into a whole to make better or more tolerable agreeable; responsive to suggestion something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing

ANATHEMA ANODYNE soothing ANOMALY ANTIPATHY ANTITHETICAL

deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality aversion, dislike diametrically opposed, as in antithesis

APOCRYPHAL APOGEE APOSTATE APOTHEOSIS APPOSITE APPRISE APPROBATION APPROPRIATE ARABESQUE ARCANE ARCHAIC ARDUOUS ARRANT ARREST ARTLESS ASCETIC ASPERITY ASPERSION ASSIDUOUS ASSUAGE ASTRINGENT

of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a cause deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos give notice to, inform an expression of approval or praise to take for one's own use, confiscate complex, ornate design mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort impudent; in every way, being completely such, barefaced, utter to suspend; to engage completely without guile; natural, without artificiality one who practices rigid self-denail, especially as an act of religious devotion severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability an act of defamation or maligning diligent, hard-working to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify having a tightening effect on living tissue; hars; severe

ATTENUATE

to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen AUDACIOUS AUGURY AUGUST AUSPICE AUSPICIOUS AUSTERE AVARICE AVER AXIOM daring and fearless; recklessly bold omen, portent, the reading of omens majestic, venerable protection or support, patronage favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic greed, especially for wealth to state as a fact; to confirm or support a universally recognized principle; a generally

accepted or common saying AXIOMATIC BALEFUL BANE BEATIFY BEDIZEN BELIE BELLICOSE BENT BLANDISH BLITHE BOISTEROUS BOLSTER BOMBASTIC BOOR BROACH BROOK to tolerate, endure, countenance BUCOLIC BURGEON BURNISH BYZANTINE CACOPHONY CADGE CAJOLE CALUMNIATE CANON CAPRICIOUS CARDINAL CARET CASTIGATION CATALYST rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants to grow rapidly or flourish to polish, rub to a shine labrynthine, complex harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance to sponge, beg, or mooch to inveigle, coax, wheedle, sweet-talk to slander, make a false accusation an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable of basic importance or consequence; primary an inserion mark (^) used by editors and proofreaders sever criticism or punishment a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth sinister, pernicious, ominous cause of injury, source of harm; source of persistent frustration to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; festoon, caparison to give a false impression of, to misrepresent belligerent, pugnacious, warlike leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency to coax with flattery, toady or fawn carefree, merry loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint to provide support or reinforcement pompous; grandiloquent a rude or insensitive person; lout; yokel bring up, announce, begin to talk about

CAUSTIC CENSURE CHARY CHASTEN CHAUVINIST CHICANERY CHIMERA CHURLISH COALESCE CODA COGENT appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing COLOR COMMENSURATE COMPLAISANCE CONNOISSEUR CONSEQUENTIAL CONTEMN CONTENTIOUS CONTIGUOUS CONTRITE CONVENTION CONVOLUTED CORRIGIBLE COUNTENANCE COZEN CRAVEN CREDULOUS CULPABLE CYNICISM DAMP

burning or stinging; causing corrosion to criticize severely; to officially rebuke wary; cautious; sparing to chastise or correct; subdue one blindly devoted to a group of which one is a member trickery or subterfuge an illusion; originally, an imaginary fire-breathing she-monster boorish, vulgar, loutish; difficult and intractable to come together; to fuse or unite concluding section to a musical or literary piece, something that concludes or completes

to change as if by dyeing, influence, distort, or gloss over matching, corresponding, or proportionate in degree, size, amount or other property the willingness to comply with the wishes of others an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert pompous, self-important to scorn or despise argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement sharing a border; touching; adjacent regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude complex or complicated capable of being set right, correctable, reparable to approve of or tolerate to deceive, beguile, hoodwink contemptibly fainthearted, pusillanimous, lacking any courage tending to believe too readily; gullible deserving blame an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness to diminish the intensity or check something, such as a sound or feeling

DAUNT DEARTH DEBACLE DECORUM DEMUR DENIGRATE blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage DENOUEMENT DEPRECATE DEPREDATE DERISION DERIVATIVE DESICCATE DESUETUDE DESULTORY DETRACTION DIAPHANOUS DIATRIBE DIDACTIC DIE DIFFIDENT DENIGRATE DENOUEMENT DEPRECATE DEPREDATE DERISION DERIVATIVE DESICCATE DESUETUDE DESULTORY DETRACTION DIAPHANOUS transparent, gauzy

to intimidate or dismay smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; lack rout, fiasco, complete failure politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior to question or oppose

an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot to disparage or belittle to plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment unoriginal, obtained from another source to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull disuse random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose slandering, verbal attack, aspersion transparent, gauzy a harsh denunciation intended to teach or instruct a tool used for shaping reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in selfconfidence blacken, belittle, sully, defame, disparage an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot to disparage or belittle to plunder, pillage, ravage or destroy; to exploit in a predatory manner scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment unoriginal, obtained from another source to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull disuse random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose slandering, verbal attack, aspersion

DIATRIBE DIDACTIC DIE DIFFIDENT DIGRESS DILATORY DILETTANTE DIN DISABUSE DISCOMFIT DISCORDANT DISCRETION DISINTERESTED DISPARAGE DISPARATE DISSEMBLE DISSOLUTION DISTRAIT DIVULGE DOGGEREL DOGMATIC DROSS DULCET DYNAMO EBULLIENCE the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings ECCENTRIC ECLECTIC EDIFYING EFFRONTERY EFFUSIVE EGRESS

a harsh denunciation intended to teach or instruct a tool used for shaping reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in selfconfidence to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent causing delay, procrastinating one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge loud sustained noise to undeceive; to set right to defeat, put down conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions free from self-interest; unbiased to slight or belittle fundamentally distinct or dissimilar to disguise or conceal; to mislead disintegration, looseness in morals distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety to disclose something secret trivial, poorly constructed verse authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated slag, waste or foreign matter, impurity, surface scum melodious, harmonious, mellifluous generator; forceful, energetic person

departing from norms or conventions composed of elements drawn from various sources enlightening, informative extreme boldness; presumptuousness gushing; excessively demonstrative exit

ELEGY ELOQUENT EMOLLIENT EMPIRICAL ENCOMIUM ENDEMIC ENERVATE ENGENDER ENIGMATIC ENNUI ENORMITY EPHEMERAL EPICURE EPISODIC EPITHET EPITOME EQUANIMITY EQUIVOCATE FALLOW untilled, inactive, dormant FATUOUS FAWN FECKLESS FELICITOUS FELL FERVENT FETID FETTER FILIBUSTER FILIGREE FLAG

a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead; any mournful writing or piece of music well-spoken; expressive; articulate soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying based on observation or experiment glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people; restricted to or peculiar to that region; indigenuous to weaken; to reduce in vitality to cause, produce, give rise to mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy excessive wickedness; evilness brief; fleeting, short-lived one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand, sybarite loosely connected, not flowing logically, occurring at intervals disparaging word or phrase embodiment; quinessence composure, self-possesion to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent silly, inanely foolish to flatter or praise excessively ineffectual; irresponsible apt; suitably expressed, well chosen, apropos; delightful a barren or stony hill; an animal's hide greatly emotional or zealous stinking, having a heavy bad smell to shackle, put in chains, restrain intentional obstruction, usually using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action an ornamental work, especially of delicate lacelike patterns; resembling such a pattern to sag or droop, to become spiritless, to decline

FLIP FLORID FLOUT FOMENT FORBEARANCE FORD FORESTALL FORSWEAR FORTUITOUS FRACAS FRACTIOUS FROWARD FULMINATE FURTIVE marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious GAINSAY GAMBOL GARNER GARRULOUS GAUCHE GERMANE GLIB GOSSAMER GRANDILOQUENCE GREGARIOUS GROUSE GUILE GUY HACKNEYED HALCYON HARANGUE HARROW

sarcastic, impertinent flushed with color, ruddy, ornate to demonstrate contempt for to stir up, incite, rouse patience, willingness to wait to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream to act in a way to hinder, exclude or prevent an action; to circumvent or thwart to renounce, disallow, repudiate happening by fortunate accident or chance noisy fight or quarrel, brawl quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, cranky intractable, not willing to yield or comply, stubbornly disobedient to attack loudly or denounce

to deny, dispute, contradict, oppose to skip about playfully,k frolic to gather and save, store up, acquire pointlessly talkative, talking too much crude, awkward, tasteless relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial delicate, insubstantial or tenuous; insincere pompous speech or expression sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people to complain or grumble trickery, duplicity, cunning a rope or cord attached to something as a brace or guide rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage calm and peaceful, prosperous to deliver a loud, pompous speech or tirade to distress, create stress or torment

HEDONISM HEGEMONY HERETICAL HERMETIC HETERODOX HIRSUTE HOMILY HUBRIS arrogant presumption or pride HYPERBOLE ICONOCLAST IDOLATROUS IDYLL IGNOMINIOUS IMBROGLIO IMMINENT IMMUTABLE IMPASSIVE IMPECUNIOUS IMPERIOUS IMPERTURBABLE IMPETUOUS IMPLACABLE IMPORTUNE IMPUGN IMPUNITY IMPUTE INCHOATE INCIPIENT INDEFATIGABLE INDIFFERENT

devotion to pleasurable pursuits, especially pleasures of the senses the consistent dominance or influence of one group, state, or ideology over others violating accepted dogma or convention, unorthodox airtight, impervious to outside influence unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic hairy, shaggy a sermon or morally instructive lecture, a platitude an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions given to intense or excessive devotion to something a carefree, light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode or experience; a literary or musical piece describing such shameful, dishonorable, ignoble, undignified, disgraceful difficult or embarrassing situation about to happen; impending not capable of change revealing no emotion or sensibility lacking funds; without money commanding, masterful, arrogant, domineering, haughty marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement not capable of being appeased or significantly changed to ask incessantly, beg, nag attack or assail verbally, censure, execrate, deny immunity from punishment, penalty or harm to attribute to a cause or source, ascribe, assign as a characteristic in an initial stage, not fully formed beginning to come into being or to become apparent not easily exhaustible, tireless, dogged having no interest or concern, apathetic; showing no bias or prejudice

INDOLENT INELUCTABLE INERT unmoving, lethargic, sluggish, not reactive chemically INFELICITOUS INGENUOUS INHERENT INIMICAL INIMITABLE INIQUITY INNERVATE INNOCUOUS INSCRUTABLE INSENSIBLE INSIPID INSOUCIANT INSULAR INTERDICT INTIMATE INTRACTABLE INTRANSIGENT INTREPID INURED INVEIGH INVEIGLE INVETERATE IRASCIBLE ITINERATE JEJUNE

lazy, listless, torpid certain, inevitable

unfortunate; inappropriate artless, frank and candid, lacking in sophistication ingrained within one's nature, intrinsic, firmly established, essential damaging, harmful, injurious, hostile, unfriendly one of a kind, peerless wickedness, gross injustice to supply with nerves, energize harmless; causing no damage incapable of being discovered or understood unconscious, unresponsive, unaware, unaffected, numb without taste or flavor, lacking in spirit, dull unconcerned, carefree, nonchalant parochial, narrow-minded, like an island prohibit, forbid, ban, halt to imply, suggest or insinuate not easily managed or directed, stubborn, obstinate refusing to compromise steadfast, courageous accustomed to accepting something undesirable to attack verbally, denounce, deprecate to obtain by deception or flattery deep rooted, ingrained, habitual easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts to travel from place to place

vapid, uninteresting; childish, immature; lacking nutrition