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GRE 2013: High Frequency GRE Words

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List of High Frequency GRE Words for Test Takers of 2013. These are the real GRE words that you see most frequently in the General GRE Realtime Test.

GRE High Frequency Words

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 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 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
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Conundrum riddle; difficult problem Converge approach; tend to meet; come together Convoluted coiled around; involved; intricate Craven cowardly 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 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 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
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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 Exacerbate worsen; embitter Exculpate clear from blame Exigency urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention Extrapolation projection; conjecture 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 Gainsay deny Garrulous loquacious; wordy; talkative Goad urge on Gouge overcharge Grandiloquent pompous; bombastic; using highsounding language Gregarious sociable Guileless without deceit Gullible easily deceived Harangue long, passionate, and vehement speech Homogeneous off the same kind Hyperbole exaggeration; overstatement 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 Incongruity lack of harmony; absurdity
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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 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-today activities Loquacious talkative Lucid easily understood Luminous shining; issuing light 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 Negate cancel out; nullify; deny Neophyte recent convert; beginner 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 Pragmatic practical (as opposed to idealistic); concerned with the practical worth or impact of something Preamble introductory statement Precarious uncertain; risky Precipitate rash; premature; hasty; sudden Precursor forerunner Presumptuous arrogant; taking liberties Prevaricate lie Probity uprightness; incorruptibility Problematic doubtful; unsettled; questionable Prodigal wasteful; reckless with money Profound deep; not superficial; complete Prohibitive tending to prevent the purchase or use of something Proliferate grow rapidly; spread; multiply Propensity natural inclination Propitiate appease Propriety 0 fitness; correct conduct Proscribe ostracize; banish; outlaw Pungent stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic Qualified limited; restricted Quibble - minor objection or complaint Quiescent at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive 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
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Reticent reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence Reverent respectful; worshipful Sage person celebrated for wisdom Salubrious healthful Sanction approve; ratify Satiate satisfy fully Saturate soak thoroughly Savor enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality Secrete hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism Shard fragment, generally of pottery Skeptic doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view Solicitous worried, concerned Soporific sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness 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 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 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 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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