Kaplan Common GRE Words

Question 1

Abscond

Answer 1

To leave secretly

Question 2

Adulterate

Answer 2

To make impure

Question 3

Aggrandize

Answer 3

To increase in power or reputation

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Ameliorate

Answer 4

To make better, Improve

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Antipathy

Answer 5

Extreme Dislike

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Ardor

Answer 6

Intense and passionate feeling

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Assuage

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To make something less severe

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Austere

Answer 8

Severe or stern in appearance

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Banal

Answer 9

Predictable, Boring

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Cacophony

Answer 10

Harsh, jarring noise

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Capricious

Answer 11

Changing one’s mind quickly and often

Question 12

Castigate

Answer 12

To punish or criticize harshly

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Caustic

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Biting in wit

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Chicanery

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Deception by means of craft or guile

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Cogent

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Convincing and well-reasoned

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Credulous

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Too trusting, gullible

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Deride

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To treat with contempt, To mock

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Desiccate

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To dry out thoroughly

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Diffident

Answer 19

Lacking self confidence

Question 20

Dilatory

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Intended to delay

Question 21

Dilettante

Answer 21

Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in something

Question 22

Dirge

Answer 22

A funeral hymn or mournful speech

Question 23

Disabuse

Answer 23

Set right, To free from error

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Dissemble

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To present a false appearance, To disguise one’s real intentions

Question 25

Elegy

Answer 25

Sorrowful poem or speech

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Enervate

Answer 26

To reduce in strength

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Enumerate

Answer 27

To count, list, or itemize

Question 28

Equivocal

Answer 28

Open to more than one interpretation, Misleading

Question 29

Erudite

Answer 29

Learned, Scholarly, Bookish

Question 30

Estimable

Answer 30

Admirable

Question 31

Euphemism

Answer 31

An inoffensive word used in place of a more offensive one

Question 32

Exculpate

Answer 32

To clear from blame

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Exigent

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Urgent, Requiring immediate action

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Florid

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Excessively decorated or embellished

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Foment

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To arouse or incite

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Garrulous

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Tending to talk alot

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Iconoclast

Answer 37

One who opposes established beliefs, customs, or institutions

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Imperturbable

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Not capable of being disturbed

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Implacable

Answer 39

unable to be calmed down

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Ingenuous

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Showing innocence or childlike simplicity

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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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Irascible

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Easily made angry

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Loquacious

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Talkative

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Misanthrope

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A person who dislikes others

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Obdurate

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Hardened in feeling, Resistant to persuasion

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Opprobrium

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Public disgrace

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Paragon

Answer 48

Model of excellence or perfection

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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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Prevaricate

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To lie or deviate from the truth

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Prodigal

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Lavish, Wasteful

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Propitiate

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To appease

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Quiescent

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Motionless, Quiet

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Specious

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Deceptively attractive, Seemingly plausible but fallacious

Question 56

Stolid

Answer 56

Unemotional, Lacking sensitivity

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Tacit

Answer 57

Done without words

Question 58

Taciturn

Answer 58

Silent, Not talkative

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Torpor

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Extreme mental or physical sluggishness

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Vacillate

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To sway physically, To be indecisive

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Venerate

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To respect deeply

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Veracity

Answer 62

Truthfulness, Accuracy

Question 63

Verbose

Answer 63

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