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GRE VocabularyThe Top 333 High-frequency Word List

that is tested on the GRE
Do you know that the GRE actually focuses on a list of select key words that you
need to know in order to do well on the GRE exam? The GRE Vocab list is finite
our estimates put it as fewer than 1000 - but out of those there are the super
special 333 high-frequency words that keep getting repeated on multiple tests.
We have collated below these handpicked 333 words for your easy reference. So,
start learning!

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Abate v subside or moderate.

Aberrant adj abnormal or deviant
Abeyance n suspended action
Abscond v depart secretly and hide
Abstemious adj sparing in eating and drinking temperate
Admonish v warn; reprove.
Adulterate v make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
Aesthetic artistic dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful
Aggregate v gather; accumulate
Alacrity n cheerful promptness; eagerness
Alleviate v relieve
Amalgamate v combine; unite in one body
Ambiguous adj unclear or doubtful in meaning
Ambivalence n the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
Ameliorate v improve

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Anachronism n something or someone misplaced in time

Analogous adj comparable
Anarchy n absence of governing body; state of disorder
Anomalous adj abnormal; irregular
Antipathy n aversion; dislike
Apathy n - lack of caring; indifference
Appease v pacify or soothe; relieve
Apprise v - inform
Approbation n approval
Appropriate acquire; take possession of for ones own use
Arduous adj hard; strenuous
Artless adj without guile; open and honest
Ascetic adj practicing self-denial; austere
Assiduous adj- diligent
Assuage v ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
Attenuate v make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force, degree)
Audacious adj daring bold
Austere forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
Autonomous self-governing
Aver assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state, formally as a fact

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Banal hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality

Belie contradict; give a false impression
Beneficent kindly; doing good
Bolster support; reinforce
Bombastic pompous; using inflated language
Boorish rude; insensitive
Burgeon grow forth
Burnish make shiny by rubbing; polish
Buttress support; prop up

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Cacophonous discordant; inharmonious

Capricious unpredictable; fickle
Castigation-punishment; severe criticism
Catalyst agent that influences the pace of a chemical reaction while it remains unaffected
and unchanged; person or thing that causes action
Caustic burning; sarcastically biting
Chicanery trickery; deception
Coagulate thicken; congeal; clot
Coda concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that rounds out,
summarizes, or concludes
Cogent convincing
Commensurate corresponding in extent, degree, amount; proportionate
Compendium brief; comprehensive summary
Complaisant trying to please; overly polite; obliging
Compliant yielding; conforming to requirements
Conciliatory reconciling; soothing
Condone overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
Confound confuse; puzzled
Connoisseur person competent to act as a judge of art
Contention claim; thesis
Contentious quarrelsome
Contrite penitent; repentant
Conundrum riddle; difficult problem
Converge approach; tend to meet; come together
Convoluted coiled around; involved; intricate
Craven cowardly

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Daunt intimidate; frighten

Decorum propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
Default failure to act
Deference courteous regard for anothers wish
Delineate portray; depict; sketch
Denigrate blacken
Deride ridicule; make fun of
Derivative; unoriginal; obtained from another source
Desiccate dry up
Desultory aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
Deterrent something that discourage; hindrance
Diatribe bitter scolding; invective
Dichotomy split; branching into two parts (usually contradictory)
Diffidence shyness
Diffuse wordy; rambling; spread out
Digression wandering away from the subject
Dirge lament with music
Disabuse correct a false impression; undeceive
Discerning mentally quick and observant; having insight
Discordant not harmonious; conflicting
Discredit defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve
Discrepancy lack of consistency; difference
Discrete separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
Disingenuous lacking genuine candor; insincere
Disinterested; unprejudiced
Disjointed lacking coherence; separated at the joints
Dismiss eliminate from consideration; reject
Disparage belittle
Disparate basically different; unrelated
Dissemble disguise; pretend
Disseminate distribute; spread; scatter

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Dissolution disintegration; looseness in morals

Dissonance discord; opposite of harmony
Distend expend; swell out
Distill purify; refine; concentrate
Diverge vary; go in different directions from the same point
Divest strip; deprive
Document provide written evidence
Dogmatic opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
Dormant sleeping; lethargic; latent
Dupe someone easily fooled

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Ebullient showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm

Eclectic selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
Efficacy power to produce desired effect
Effrontery impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness
Elegy poem or song expressing lamentation
Elicit draw out by discussion
Embellish adorn; ornament; enhance, as a story
Empirical based on experience
Emulate imitate; rival
Endemic prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country
Enervate weaken
Engender cause; produce
Enhance increase; improve
Ephemeral short-lived; fleeting
Equanimity calmness of temperament; composure
Equivocate lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
Erudite learned; scholarly
Esoteric hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
Eulogy expression of praise, often on the occasion of someones death
Euphemism mild expression in place of an unpleasant one

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130. Exacerbate worsen; embitter

131. Exculpate clear from blame
132. Exigency urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate
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133. Extrapolation projection; conjecture

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Facetious joking (often inappropriately)

Facilitate help bring about; make less difficult
Fallacious false; misleading
Fatuous brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug
Fawning trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering, or cringing
Felicitous apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
Fervor glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
Flag droop; grow feeble
Fledgling inexperienced
Flout reject; mock; show contempt for
Foment stir up; instigate
Forestall prevent by taking action in advance
Frugality thrift, economy
Futile useless; hopeless; ineffectual

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Gainsay deny
Garrulous loquacious; wordy; talkative
Goad urge on

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Gouge overcharge
Grandiloquent pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
Gregarious sociable
Guileless without deceit
Gullible easily deceived

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Harangue long, passionate, and vehement speech

Homogeneous off the same kind
Hyperbole exaggeration; overstatement

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Iconoclastic attacking cherished traditions

Idolatry worship of idols
Immutable unchangeable
Impair injure; hurt
Impassive without feeling; imperturbable; stoical
Impede hinder; block
Impermeable impervious; not permitting passage through its substance
Imperturbable calm placid
Impervious impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
Implacable incapable of being pacified
Implicit understood but not stated
Implode burst inward
Inadvertently unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly
Inchoate recently begun; rudimentary; elementary

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Incongruity lack of harmony; absurdity

Inconsequential insignificant; unimportant
Incorporate introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite
Indeterminate uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
Indigence poverty
Indolent lazy
Inert inactive; lacking power to move
Ingenuous nave and trusting; young; unsophisticated
Inherent firmly established by nature or habit
Innocuous harmless
Insensible unconscious; unresponsive
Insinuate hint; imply; creep in
Insipid lacking in flavor; dull
Insularity narrow-mindedness; isolation
Intractable unruly; stubborn; unyielding
Intransigence refusal of any compromise; stubbornness
Inundate overwhelm; flood; submerge
Inured accustomed; hardened
Invective abuse
Irascible irritable; easily angered
Irresolute uncertain how to act; weak
Itinerary plan of a trip

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Laconic brief and to the point

Lassitude languor; weariness
Latent potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
Laud praise
Lethargic drowsy; dull
Levee earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding
Levity lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity
Log record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities

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Loquacious talkative
Lucid easily understood
Luminous shining; issuing light

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Magnanimity generosity
Malingerer one who feigns illness to escape duty
Malleable capable to being shaped by pounding; impressionable
Maverick rebel; nonconformist
Mendacious lying; habitually dishonest
Metamorphosis change of form
Meticulous excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous
Misanthrope one who hates mankind
Mitigate appease; moderate
Mollify soothe
Morose ill-humored; sullen; melancholy
Mundane worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday

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Negate cancel out; nullify; deny

Neophyte recent convert; beginner

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Obdurate stubborn
Obsequious slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
Obviate make unnecessary; get rid of
Occlude shut; close
Officious meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering ones services
Onerous burdensome
Opprobrium infamy; vilification
Oscillate vibrate pendulumlike; waver
Ostentatious showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention

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Paragon model of perfection

Partisan one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
Pathological pertaining to disease
Paucity scarcity
Pedantic showing off learning; bookish
Penchant strong inclination; liking
Penury severe poverty; stinginess
Perennial something long-lasting
Perfidious treacherous; disloyal
Perfunctory superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, enthusiasm
Permeable penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through
Pervasive spread throughout
Phlegmatic clam; not easily disturbed
Piety devoutness; reverence for God
Placate pacify; conciliate
Plasticity ability to be molded
Platitude trite remark
Plethora excess; overabundance
Plummet fall sharply
Porous full of pores; like a sieve

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249. Pragmatic practical (as opposed to idealistic); concerned with the practical worth or
impact of something
250. Preamble introductory statement
251. Precarious uncertain; risky
252. Precipitate rash; premature; hasty; sudden
253. Precursor forerunner
254. Presumptuous arrogant; taking liberties
255. Prevaricate lie
256. Probity uprightness; incorruptibility
257. Problematic doubtful; unsettled; questionable
258. Prodigal wasteful; reckless with money
259. Profound deep; not superficial; complete
260. Prohibitive tending to prevent the purchase or use of something
261. Proliferate grow rapidly; spread; multiply
262. Propensity natural inclination
263. Propitiate appease
264. Propriety 0 fitness; correct conduct
265. Proscribe ostracize; banish; outlaw
266. Pungent stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic

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Qualified limited; restricted

Quibble - minor objection or complaint
Quiescent at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive

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Rarefied made less dense (of a gas)

Recalcitrant obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly
Recant disclaim of disavow; retract a precious statement
Recluse hermit; loner
Recondite abstruse; profound; secret
Refractory stubborn, unmanageable
Refute disprove
Relegate banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
Reproach express disapproval or disappointment
Reprobate person hardened in sin; devoid of a sense of decency
Repudiate - disown; disavow
Rescind cancel
Resolution determination
Resolve determination; firmness of purpose
Reticent reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
Reverent respectful; worshipful

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287. Salubrious healthful
288. Sanction approve; ratify
289. Satiate satisfy fully
290. Saturate soak thoroughly
291. Savor enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
292. Secrete hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
293. Shard fragment, generally of pottery
294. Skeptic doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence
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295. Solicitous worried, concerned
296. Soporific sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness

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Specious seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentionally)

Spectrum color band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism
Sporadic occurring irregularly
Stigma token of disgrace; brand
Stint be thrifty; set limits
Stipulate make express conditions, specify
Stolid dull; impassive
Striated marked with parallel bands; grooved
Strut pompous walk
Strut supporting bar
Subpoena writ summoning a witness to appear
Subside settle down; descend; grow quiet
Substantiate establish by evidence; verity; support
Supersede cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
Supposition hypothesis; surmise

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Tacit understood; not put into words

Tangential peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing
Tenuous thin; rare; slim
Tirade extended scolding; denunciation; harangue
Torpor lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
Tortuous winding; full of curves
Tractable docile; easily managed
Transgression violation of a law; sin
Truculence aggressiveness; ferocity

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Vacillate waver; fluctuate

Venerate revere
Veracious truthful
Verbose wordy
Viable practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
Viscous sticky, gluey
Vituperative abusive; scolding
Volatile changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly

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Warranted justified; authorized

Wary very cautious
Welter turmoil; bewildering jumble
Whimsical capricious; fanciful
Zealot fanatic; perso who shows excessive zeal (enthusiasm)

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