TOP GRE Words Flashcards
anomaly
Synonyms: abnormality; irregularity; aberration; abnormity
assuage
Synonyms: soothe; appease; allay; pacify; mitigate; calm; ameliorate; defer; mollify; placate; propitiate; satiate; slake
enigma
Synonyms: riddle; puzzle; conundrum; mystery
equivocal
Synonyms: ambiguous; doubtful; dubious; questionable; uncertain
erudite
Synonyms: learned;scholarly; lettered; wise
fervid
Synonyms: ardent; fervent; hot; fiery; passionate; flaming
lucid
Synonyms: clear; bright;pellucid; plain; perspicuous
opaque
Synonyms: dull; obscure; opacity; abstruse; ambiguous; arcane; bemusing; cryptic; enigmatic; esoteric; inscrutable; paradoxical; perplexing; confound; recondite; turbid
placate
Synonyms: appease; pacify; soothe; propitiate; mollify
precipitate
Synonyms: accelerate; quicken; expedite; abrupt; apace; headlong; impetuous
prodigal
Synonyms: lavish; profuse; extravagant; wasteful; spendthrift; spender
zeal
Synonyms: ardor; fervor; enthusiasm
abstain
Synonyms: refrain; abnegate; ascetic; spartan; stoic; temperate; deny
audacious
Synonyms: bold; daring; hardy; impudent; brave; courageous; dauntless
desiccate
Synonyms: dry; parch; wither
gullible
Synonyms: credulous; naive; trustful; ingenuous; novitiate; tyro
laudable
Synonyms: praiseworthy;extol; accolade, acclaim; aggrandize; encomium; eulogize; fawn; venerate
pedant
Synonyms: prig; stickler; meticulous
vacillate
Synonyms: waver; hesitate; oscillate; fluctuate; dither; teeter
adulterate
Synonyms: falsify; counterfeit; forge; fake; debase
capricious
Synonyms: whimsical; fickle; volatile; mercurial; unpredictible
engender
Synonyms: generate; produce; cause; beget; create; originate
homogenous
Synonyms: uniform; similar
loquacious
Synonyms: talkative; garrulous; voluble; bombastic; circumlocution; grandiloquent; periphrastic; prolix; rhetoric; turgid; verbose
