Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Vocabulary

Word List 01 – Synonyms

1. Abase
Verb - behave in a way that belittles or degrades (someone).
I watched my colleagues abasing themselves before the board of trustees.
Correct: e
Humiliate

2. Aberration
Noun - a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected, typically an unwelcome one.
They described the outbreak of violence in the area as an aberration.
Correct: a
Deviation

3. Abet
Verb - encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular to commit a crime.
he was not guilty of murder but was guilty of aiding and abetting others.
Correct: c
Encourage

4. Abeyance
Noun - a state of temporary disuse or suspension.
Matters were held in abeyance pending further enquiries.
Correct: d,
Suspended action

5. Abjure
Verb - solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim).
MPs were urged to abjure their Jacobite allegiance.
B
Renounce

6. Ablution
Noun - an act of washing oneself.
The women performed their ablutions.
Correct: e,
Washing
7. Abnegation
Noun - the action of renouncing or rejecting something.
Abnegation of political power.
Correct: c
Self-Denial

8. Aborigine
Noun - a person, animal, or plant that has been in a country or region from earliest times.
the aborigines had no immunity against the raft of diseases brought by the invaders
correct: a,
First design

9. Abortive
Adjective- failing to produce the intended result.
The rebel officers who led the abortive coup were shot.
Correct: a,
Unsuccessful

10. Abstinence
Noun - the practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something, typically alcohol or sex.
I started drinking again after six years of abstinence.
Correct: a,
Restrained eating or drinking

11. Abstruse
Adjective - difficult to understand; obscure.
An abstruse philosophical inquiry.
Correct: a,
Profound

12. Abut
Verb - (Of a building or an area of land) be next to or have a common boundary with.
Gardens abutting Great Prescott Street.
Verb - Touch or lean on.
Masonry may crumble where a roof abuts it.
Correct: e,
Adjoin

13. Abysmal
Adjective - extremely bad; appalling.
The quality of her work is abysmal.
Correct: a,
Bottomless

14. Accede
Verb - agree to a demand, request, or treaty.
The authorities did not accede to the strikers' demands.
Verb - assume an office or position.
Elizabeth, I acceded to the throne in 1558.
Correct: d,
Consent

15. Acclivity
Noun - an upward slope.

Word List 02 – Antonyms

16. Adulation
Noun - excessive admiration or praise.
He found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans.

17. Advocate
Noun - a person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy.
He was an untiring advocate of economic reform.

18. Affable
adjective - friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.
An affable and agreeable companion.
19. Affected
Adjective - influenced or touched by an external factor.
Affected areas.
- artificial, pretentious, and designed to impress.
The gesture appeared both affected and stagy.

20. Affluence
Noun - the state of having a great deal of money; wealth.
A sign of our growing affluence.

21. Agility
Noun - ability to move quickly and easily.
Though he was without formal training as dancer or athlete, his physical agility was
inexhaustible.
- ability to think and understand quickly.
Games teach hand–eye coordination, mental agility, and alertness.

22. Alacrity
Noun - brisk and cheerful readiness.
She accepted the invitation with alacrity.

23. Alleviate
Verb - make (suffering, deficiency, or a problem) less severe.
He couldn't prevent her pain, only alleviate it.

24. Allure
Noun - the quality of being powerfully and mysteriously attractive or fascinating.
People for whom gold holds no allure.

25. Aloof
Adjective - not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant.
They were courteous but faintly aloof.

26. Amalgamate
Verb - combine or unite to form one organization or structure.
He amalgamated his company with another.
27. Ambiguous
Adjective - open to more than one interpretation; not having one obvious meaning.
Ambiguous phrases.
The election result was ambiguous.

28. Amble
Verb - walk or move at a slow, relaxed pace.
They ambled along the riverbank.

29. Ambulatory
Adjective - relating to or adapted for walking.
Continuous ambulatory dialysis.
- (Of a patient) able to walk about; ambulant. movable; mobile.
An ambulatory ophthalmic service.
Noun - a place for walking, especially an aisle or cloister in a church or monastery.
The front arch of the old ambulatory.

30. Ameliorate
Verb - make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.
The reform did much to ameliorate living standards.

Word List 03 – Antonyms

31. Amicable

32. Amoral

33. Amorphous

34. Amplify

35. Analogous

36. Anathematize

37. Anemic

38. Animated

39. Animus

40. Anomaly

41. Anonymous

42. Antediluvian

43. Antipathy

44. Antithesis

45. Aphasia
 Word List 04 -Synonyms and Antonyms
46. Appease

47. Apposite

48. Apprehend

49. Aptitude

50. Aquiline

51. Archaic

52. Ardor

53. Array

54. Arroyo

55. Artifice

56. Artisan

57. Ascertain

58. Asperity

59. Assuage

60. Asteroid
 Word List 05 - Synonyms
61. Astute

62. Atrocity

63. Atrophy

64. Attenuate

65. Atypical

66. Audacity

67. Augment

68. Auxiliary

69. Avarice

70. Avert

71. Awry

72. Baleful

73. Balmy

74. Banal

75. Baneful

Word List 06 – Antonyms

76. Baroque

77. Beatific

78. Belittle

79. Bellicose

80. Benign

81. Benison

82. Berate

83. Bestial

84. Bigotry

85. Bizarre

86. Blanch

87. Bland

88. Blasé

89. Bleak

90. Blithe

Word List 07 – Synonyms

91. Boisterous

92. Bombastic

93. Boorish

94. Bouillon

95. Brackish

96. Braggadocio

97. Brazen

98. Brindled

99. Brochure

100. Bucolic

101. Buxom

102. Cache

103. Cacophony

104. Callow

105. Candid
 Word List 08 – Antonyms

106. Capacious

107. Capricious

108. Captious

109. Carnal

110. Carnivorous

111. Carping

112. Castigation

113. Categorical

114. Catholic

115. Celerity

116. Celibate

117. Censure

118. Centrifugal

119. Cessation

120. Chaffing

Word List 09 – Synonyms

121. Chaste

122. Chide

123. Chimerical

124. Choleric

125. Churlish

126. Ciliated

127. Circuitous

128. Cite

129. Clandestine

130. Claustrophobia

131. Cleft

132. Cliché

133. Coerce

134. Cognizance

135. Cohere

Word List 10 – Synonyms and Antonyms

136. Collation
137. Colloquial
138. Colloquy
139. Comatose

140. Combustible

141. Comely

142. Commiserate

143. Commodious

144. Complaint

145. Conciliate

146. Concoct

147. Condone

148. Confiscate

149. Conformity

150. Congenital

Word List 26 – Synonyms

376. Ingenious
Adjective - (Of a person) clever, original, and inventive.
He was ingenious enough to overcome the limited budget.
 Naive

377. Inimical
Adjective - tending to obstruct or harm.
The policy was inimical to Britain's real interests.
 Antagonistic
Adjective - showing or feeling active opposition or hostility towards someone or something.
An antagonistic group of eyewitnesses.
378. Innocuous
Adjective - not harmful or offensive.
It was an innocuous question.
 Not Dangerous

379. Insinuate
Verb - suggest or hint (something bad) in an indirect and unpleasant way.
He was insinuating that I had no self-control.

Slide (oneself or a thing) slowly and smoothly into a particular place.

I insinuated my shoulder in the gap.
 Suggest

380. Insipid
Adjective - lacking flavor; weak or tasteless.
Mugs of insipid coffee.

Lacking vigor or interest.

Many artists continued to churn out insipid, shallow works.
 Flat

381. Integrate
Verb - combine (one thing) with another to form a whole.
Transport planning should be integrated with energy policy.

Come into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution.

She was anxious to integrate well into her husband's family.

Desegregate (a school, area, etc.), especially racially.

The protest forced the bus companies to integrate the buses.
 Tolerate

382. Inter
Verb - place (a corpse) in a grave or tomb, typically with funeral rites.
He was interred with the military honors due to him.
 Bury

383. Interdict
Prohibit or forbid (something).
Society will never interdict sex.
 Prohibit

384. Intermittent
Adjective - occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady.
Intermittent rain.
 Occasional

385. Interactable
able to be interacted with.
an interactable object, for example in a computer game.
 Unruly
Adjective - disorderly and disruptive and not amenable to discipline or control.
A group of unruly children.

386. Intransigence
Noun - refusal to change one's views or to agree about something.
He often appeared angry and frustrated by the intransigence of both sides.
 Stubbornness

387. Intrepid
Adjective - fearless; adventurous (often used for rhetorical or humorous effect).
Our intrepid reporter.
 Courageous
Word List 27 – Antonyms

388. Irksome
Adjective - irritating; annoying.
An irksome journey.

389. Irrelevant
Adjective - not connected with or relevant to something.
An irrelevant comment.

390. Irreparable
Adjective - (Of an injury or loss) impossible to rectify or repair.
They were doing irreparable damage to my heart and lungs.

391. Irreverent
Adjective - showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously.

392. Jaded
Adjective - bored or lacking enthusiasm, typically after having had too much of something.
Meals to tempt the most jaded appetites.
393. Jaundiced
Adjective - affected by jaundice, in particular unnaturally yellow in complexion - affected by
bitterness, resentment, or cynicism.
They looked on politicians with a jaundiced eye.

394. Jaunty
Adjective - having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner.
There was no mistaking that jaunty walk.

395. Jeopardy
Noun - danger of loss, harm, or failure.
The whole peace process is in jeopardy.

396. Jettison
Verb - throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship.
Six aircraft jettisoned their loads in the sea.

Abandon or discard (someone or something that is no longer wanted).

The scheme was jettisoned.

397. Jocular
Adjective - fond of or characterized by joking; humorous or playful.
She sounded in a jocular mood.

398. Judicious
Adjective - having, showing, or done with good judgement or sense.
The judicious use of public investment.

399. Kindle
Verb - set (something) on fire.

Arouse or inspire (an emotion or feeling).

A love of art was kindled in me.

(Of an emotion) be aroused.

She hesitated, suspicion kindling within her.
Become impassioned or excited.
The young man kindled at once.

400. Lachrymose
Adjective - tearful or given to weeping.
She was pink-eyed and lachrymose.

401. Lackadaisical
Adjective - lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy.
a lackadaisical defense left Spurs adrift in the second half.

402. Laconic
Adjective - (Of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words.
His laconic reply suggested a lack of interest in the topic.
 Word List 28 – Antonyms
403. Latent

404. Lavish

405. Laudatory

406. Lax

407. Lechery

408. Lethargic

409. Levity

410. Lilliputian

411. Limpid

412. Lithe

413. Livid

414. Loath

415. Loquacious
Word List 29 – Synonyms and Antonyms
416. Lugubrious

417. Lurid

418. Macabre

419. Magniloquent

420. Magnitude

421. Maladroit

422. Malediction

423. Malefactor

424. Malevolent
425. Malign

426. Malleable

427. Maniacal

428. Manifest

429. Manumit

430. Martial
Word List 30 – Synonyms
431. Mawkish

432. Mediocre

433. Melee

434. Mellifluous

435. Menial

436. Mentor

437. Mesmerize

438. Meticulous

439. Miasma

440. Militant

441. Minion

442. Mirage

443. Misanthrope

444. Mischance

445. Misdemeanor
Word List 30 – Synonyms
446. Modish
447. Mollify

448. Monetary

449. Moratorium

450. Mordant

451. Moribund

452. Motley

453. Muggy

454. Mulct

455. Multilingual

456. Mundane

457. Munificent

458. Musty

459. Myopic

460. Nascent
Word List 32 – Antonyms
461. Nebulous

462. Nefarious

463. Negation

464. Neophyte

465. Niggardly

466. Nocturnal

467. Noisome

468. Notorious

469. Obdurate
470. Obese

471. Objective

472. Obligatory

473. Obloquy

474. Obsequious

475. Obsession
Word List 33 – Antonyms
476. Obsolete

477. Obstreperous

478. Obtuse

479. Odious

480. Odium

481. Omnipotent

482. Omniscient

483. Opiate

484. Opportune

485. Opportunist

486. Opprobrium

487. Optimum

488. Ostentatious

489. Overweening
Word List 34 – Synonyms and Antonyms
490. Pean

491. Pallet
492. Palliate

493. Pandemonium

494. Panegyric

495. Parable

496. Paradox

497. Paramour

498. Paranoia

499. Pariah

500. Parity

501. Parsimonious

502. Partiality

503. Passe

504. Pastiche
Word List 35 – Antonyms
505. Pejorative

506. Pellucid

507. Penchant

508. Penurious

509. Perfunctory

510. Perigee

511. Peripatetic

512. Permeable

513. Pernicious

514. Perpetual
515. Perspicuity

516. Pert

517. Pertinacious

518. Pertinent

519. Petulant