Top 10 GRE Words

Question 1

Alacrity (noun)

Answer 1

An eager willingness to do something

Question 2

Prosaic (adj.)

Answer 2

Dull and lacking imagination

A good mnemonic: prose is the opposite of poetry. And where poetry, ideally, bursts force with imagination, prose (think of text-book writing) , lacks imagination. Hence, prose-aic

Question 3

Veracity (noun)

Answer 3

Truthful

do not confuse with voracity which means full of hunger

Question 4

Paucity (noun)

Answer 4

Lack of something

Question 5

Maintain (verb)

Answer 5

To assert

Question 6

Contrite (adj)

Answer 6

To be remorseful

*in this case the prefix con- does not mean with *

Question 7

Laconic (adj)

Answer 7

Say very few words

*batman, the laconic cape crusader

Question 8

Disparate (adj.)

Answer 8

when two things are fundamentally different

Question 9

egregious (adj.)

Answer 9

standing out in a bad way

Question 10

Innocuous (adj.)

Answer 10

harmless; doesnt produce any ill effects

Question 11

Candid (adj.)

Answer 11

honest and straightforward

Question 12

Erratic (Adj.)

Answer 12

1. unpredictable, wildly
2. strange and unconventional

Question 13

Bleak (adj.)

Answer 13

very depressing take on life

Question 14

profuse (adj.)

Answer 14

abundance

Question 15

I wonder how I will behave once I start my career. Will I slow down and stay an average employee, or I am going to behave with ________ ?

Answer 15

Alacrity (noun) - eagerness to do something

Question 16

Many people are not fans of _______ literature. Even though they can be snooze, they can provide loads of fun facts.

Answer 16

prosaic (prose - aic ) - dull and lacking imagination

Question 17

_______ leaders are vulnerable to enemy slander but the truth always prevails.

Answer 17

Veracious (veracity) - truthful

**Becareful not to confuse the adj. form of veracity, veracious with vOracious, meaning full of hunger. **

Question 18

I am living off credit cards because of the ________ in funds.

Answer 18

paucity - lack of something

Question 19

i am feeling ______ from the way i behaved with my exes. I failed my value system and did not behave like a man when placed in the situation. In the end, I hurt people in ways that is not nice.

Answer 19

contrite
** con- is the prefix of with BUT in this case contrite does NOT mean con- (with) -trite, instead contrite means to be remorseful**

Question 20

the ______ cape crusader, Batman!

Answer 20

laconic - very few words to say

Question 21

math and english are __________ subjects, focusing on different set of skills.

Answer 21

disparate - two things are fundamentally different

Question 22

the _________ farm animals are great to have around children.

Answer 22

innocuous - harmless, doesnt produce any ill effects