GRE Words

Question 0

Anachronism

Answer 0

Something out of place in time

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Question 1

Amalgamate

Answer 1

To combine

To mix together

Question 2

Ardor

Answer 2

Intense and passionate feeling

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Banal

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Predictable

Cliched

Boring

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Bombastic

Answer 4

Pompous in speech and manner

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Capricious

Answer 5

Changing one’s mind quickly and often

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Question 6

Castigate

Answer 6

To punish or criticize harshly

Question 7

Chicanery

Answer 7

Deception by means of craft or guile

Question 8

Cogent

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Convincing

Well reasoned

Question 9

Convoluted

Answer 9

Intricate

Complicated

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Desultory

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Jumping from one thing to another

Disconnected

Question 11

Diatribe

Answer 11

An abusive, condemnatory speech

Question 12

Diffident

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Lacking self-confidence

Question 13

Dilatory

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Intended to delay

Question 14

Dilettante

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Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

Question 15

Dissemble

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To present a false appearance

To disguise one’s real intentions or character

Question 16

Enervate

Answer 16

To reduce in strength

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Engender

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Produce

Cause

Bring about

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Enumerate

Answer 18

Count

List

Itemize

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Equivocate

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To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

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Erudite

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Learned

Scholarly

Bookish

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Exculpate

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Clear from blame

Prove innocent

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Foment

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Arouse

Incite

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Guile

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Deceit

Trickery

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Iconoclast

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One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions

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Impetuous

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Quick to act without thinking

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Inchoate

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Not fully formed

Disorganized

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Inimical

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Hostile

Unfriendly

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Insipid

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Lacking interest or flavor

Blah

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Intransigent

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Uncompromising

Refusing to be reconciled

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Inundate

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Overwhelm

Cover with water

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Irascible

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Made angry easily

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Malinger

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To skip out on responsibility by pretending to be ill

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Misanthrope

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A person who dislikes others

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Obsequious

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Overly submissive

Eager to please

(Uriah Heep)

Question 36

Obviate

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Prevent

Make unnecessary

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Onerous

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Troublesome

Oppressive

Burdensome

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Ostentation

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Excessive showiness

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Pedant

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Someone who shows off learning

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Perfidious

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Willing to betray one’s trust

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Perfunctory

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Done in a routine way

Indifferent

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Prodigal

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Lavish

Wasteful

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Proliferate

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Increase in number quickly

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Propitiate

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Conciliate

Appease

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Quiescent

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Motionless

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Repudiate

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Reject the validity of

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Reticent

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Silent

Reserveed

Question 49

Soporific

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Causing sleep or lethargy

Question 50

Specious

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Deceptively attractive

Seemingly plausible but fallacious

Question 51

Stolid

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Unemotional

Lacking sensitivity

Question 52

Sublime

Answer 52

Lofty

Grand

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Tacit

Answer 53

Done without using words

Question 54

Taciturn

Answer 54

Silent

Not talkative