GRE Word List

Vocabulary for GRE Preparation

A comprehensive collection of GRE vocabulary words with meanings, example sentences, synonyms, and antonyms to help you ace the GRE exam.

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Quotidian (adj)

Daily, Ordinary, as usual task etc

Taking bath is her Quotidian task

Effluvium (n)

Bad odor, an invisible emanation, especially: an offensive exhalation or smell

The effluvia (plural of effluvium) from local sewage treatment plants polluting the river

Polyglot (n)

Person who knows several languages

Akash is a polyglot, he can speak in bengali, hindi, english, spanish, sanskrit language etc.

Emanation (n)

Something which originates or issues from a source

Vaporous emanations wreathe the mill's foundations

Erroneous (adj)

Wrong; incorrect

Employers sometimes make erroneous assumptions

Unctuous (adj)

Oily (literally), excessively flattering

He seemed anxious to please but not in an unctuous way. The salesman is unctuously describing the dress to sell to the customer.

Capricious (adj)

Impulsive, always changing mind

A boy sometimes wants to be a doctor, after sometimes he wants to be police, just few moment later want to become pilot. He changing his mind instantly, He is a Capricious boy

Denigrate (v)

To attack the reputation of: DEFAME | to deny the importance or validity of: BELITTLE

If you "denigrate" someone, you attempt to blacken their reputation.

Related Forms: Denigration (n) | Denigrative (adj) | Denigrator (n) | Denigratory (adj)

Corroborate (v)

To support with evidence or authority: make more certain

Statistical Symphonies: The Market Speaks. The metrics corroborate the narrative of cross-cultural artistry.

Related Forms: Corroboration (n) | Corroborative (adj) | Corroborator (n) | Corroboratory (adj)

Enervate (v, adj)

To reduce or lessen the mental or physical energy or strength

A lifetime of working in dreary jobs had enervated his very soul. The surgery really enervated me for weeks afterwards.

Related Forms: Enervation (n) | Enervatingly (adv)

Refractory (adj)

Resisting to control: stubborn or unmanageable

Refractory players will be ejected from the game

Related Forms: Refractoriness (n) | Refractorily (adv)

Bode (v)

To indicate (something such as future event) by sign or symbol

His leadership skill in class room boded him well in successful political leader

Related Forms: Bide (past)

Esoteric (adj)

Intended to be understood by only a small number of people

Esoteric practices are very common in every religion

Related Forms: Esoterically (adv)

Recondite (adj)

Obscured, deep, esoteric. Very hard or even impossible for ordinary one to understand

Religious doctrine are unnecessarily recondite.

Related Forms: Reconditeness (n) | Reconditely (adv)

Bolster (n, v)

A long pillow or cushion | To support or boost

Any structural object that can support, can be called bolster.

Related Forms: Bolsterer (n)

Dogged (adj)

Having or showing tenacity and grim persistence

"Success required dogged determination"

Imperious (adj)

Characteristic of one of eminent rank or attainments: COMMANDING, DOMINANT

An imperious movie star who thinks she's some sort of goddess

Synonyms: authoritarian, authoritative, autocratic, autocratical, bossy, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, masterful, overbearing, peremptory, tyrannical, tyrannic, tyrannous
Related Forms: Imperiously (adv) | Imperiousness (n)

Outperform (v)

To perform better than

According to current research, girls outperform boys in every stage of education

Proletariat (n)

Working class people regarded collectively

The growth of industrial proletariat reducing compared to previous year

Synonyms: public, people, masses, mob, working class, middle class, common
Antonyms: Upper class, aristocracy, elite
Related Forms: Proletarian (adj, n)

Gorge (v)

To eat greedily | To consume greedily | To partake of something in large amount

Gorging on books | The Ogre Gorging on America

Quaff (v)

To drink (something, especially an alcoholic drink)

He quaffed pint after pint of good Berkshire ale

Synonyms: drink, swallow, gulp

Perversion (n)

Distortion or corruption of the original meaning or state

Declaring a murderer free is the perversion of justice

Synonyms: degradation, depravity, decadence
Antonyms: righteousness

Fiend (n)

An evil spirit or demon

A fiend is a person who has evil plans in their mind

Defiance (n)

Open resistance | Bold disobedience

An act of defiance

Synonyms: resistance, opposition, confrontation, audacity, daring
Antonyms: obedience

Malignant (adj)

Evil in nature or effect | malevolent

In the hands of malignant fate

Synonyms: spiteful, hostile, malevolent, malicious

Remorse (n)

Deep regret or guilt for a wrong committed

They were filled with remorse and shame

Synonyms: contrition, repentance, penitence

Disservice (n)

A harmful action

Government do a disservice by increasing the tax in pandemic period

Synonyms: unkindness, bad turn, disfavour

Eradicate (v)

Destroy completely | put an end to

This disease has been eradicated from the world

Synonyms: get rid of, eliminate, remove

Predicament (n)

A difficult, unpleasant or embarrassing situation

The country's financial predicament is in worst level

Synonyms: difficult situation, awkward situation

Counterproductive (adj)

Having the opposite of the desired effect

Too much technological improvement may have counterproductive effect

Relentless (adj)

Unceasingly intense | harsh or inflexible

The relentless heat of the desert

Atrocity (n)

An extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence and injury

The textbook is full of war atrocities

Synonyms: act of barbarity, act of brutality, act of savagery

Usurp (v)

To seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right

Usurp a throne

Synonyms: take over, seize
Related Forms: Usurpation (n)

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