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Top 100 GRE Vocabulary Words with Definitions
These are the most frequently tested GRE words. Master these to significantly boost your Verbal score.
- Aberrant
- Departing from the accepted standard; abnormal
- Abscond
- To leave hurriedly and secretly, typically to escape
- Acerbic
- Sharp and forthright; harsh in temper or tone
- Acrimony
- Bitterness or ill feeling in speech or manner
- Admonish
- To warn or reprimand firmly but not harshly
- Aesthetic
- Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty
- Alacrity
- Brisk and cheerful readiness to do something
- Ambiguous
- Open to more than one interpretation; unclear
- Ameliorate
- To make something bad or unsatisfactory better
- Anachronism
- Something belonging to a period other than the one in which it exists
- Anomaly
- Something that deviates from what is standard or expected
- Antipathy
- A deep-seated feeling of dislike or aversion
- Apathy
- Lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern
- Arduous
- Involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult
- Ascetic
- Characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention
- Audacious
- Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks
- Austerity
- Sternness or severity of manner; extreme plainness
- Avarice
- Extreme greed for wealth or material gain
- Bolster
- To support, strengthen, or prop up
- Bombastic
- High-sounding but with little meaning; inflated
- Cacophony
- A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
- Capricious
- Given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood
- Castigate
- To reprimand someone severely; to criticize harshly
- Candor
- The quality of being open and honest in expression
- Cogent
- Clear, logical, and convincing in argument
- Commensurate
- Corresponding in size, degree, or extent
- Convoluted
- Extremely complex and difficult to follow
- Corroborate
- To confirm or give support to a statement or theory
- Cynical
- Believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest
- Dearth
- A scarcity or lack of something
- Decorum
- Behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety
- Delineate
- To describe or portray something precisely
- Desiccate
- To remove moisture from; to dry out thoroughly
- Didactic
- Intended to teach, particularly in a moralistic way
- Disparate
- Essentially different in kind; not able to be compared
- Dogmatic
- Inclined to lay down principles as undeniable truths
- Ebullient
- Cheerful and full of energy; enthusiastic
- Efficacy
- The ability to produce a desired or intended result
- Egregious
- Outstandingly bad; shocking in a negative way
- Eloquent
- Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing
- Emulate
- To match or surpass by imitation
- Endemic
- Native to or restricted to a certain place
- Enervate
- To cause someone to feel drained of energy
- Enigma
- A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand
- Ephemeral
- Lasting for a very short time; transitory
- Equivocal
- Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous
- Erudite
- Having or showing great knowledge or learning
- Esoteric
- Intended for or understood by only a small group
- Exacerbate
- To make a problem or situation worse
- Fastidious
- Very attentive to detail; meticulous about accuracy
- Fervent
- Having or displaying passionate intensity
- Garrulous
- Excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters
- Gregarious
- Fond of company; sociable and outgoing
- Hackneyed
- Lacking significance through overuse; unoriginal
- Iconoclast
- A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
- Impervious
- Not allowing fluid to pass through; unable to be affected
- Inchoate
- Just begun and so not fully formed or developed
- Ingenuous
- Innocent and unsuspecting; candid
- Insipid
- Lacking flavor, vigor, or interest; dull
- Intransigent
- Unwilling or refusing to change one's views
- Laconic
- Using very few words; concise to the point of seeming rude
- Lethargic
- Affected by lethargy; sluggish and apathetic
- Loquacious
- Tending to talk a great deal; talkative
- Lucid
- Expressed clearly; easy to understand
- Magnanimous
- Very generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival
- Meticulous
- Showing great attention to detail; very careful
- Misanthrope
- A person who dislikes humankind and avoids society
- Mollify
- To appease the anger or anxiety of someone
- Mundane
- Lacking interest or excitement; dull and ordinary
- Nonchalant
- Feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed
- Obdurate
- Stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course
- Obsequious
- Obedient or attentive to an excessive degree
- Onerous
- Involving an amount of effort that is oppressively burdensome
- Ostentatious
- Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display
- Paradigm
- A typical example or pattern of something; a model
- Paradox
- A seemingly contradictory statement that may be true
- Parsimonious
- Unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy
- Pedantic
- Excessively concerned with minor details or rules
- Perfunctory
- Carried out with minimum effort or reflection
- Pernicious
- Having a harmful effect, especially in a gradual way
- Phlegmatic
- Having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition
- Placate
- To make someone less angry or hostile; to calm
- Pragmatic
- Dealing with things sensibly and realistically
- Precipitate
- To cause something to happen suddenly or prematurely
- Prevaricate
- To speak or act in an evasive way; to be deliberately vague
- Profligate
- Recklessly extravagant or wasteful
- Prolific
- Producing much fruit, foliage, or offspring; highly productive
- Prosaic
- Having the style of prose; lacking imagination; dull
- Querulous
- Complaining in a petulant or whining manner
- Recalcitrant
- Having an obstinately uncooperative attitude
- Reticent
- Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily
- Sagacious
- Having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgment
- Sanguine
- Optimistic or positive, especially in a difficult situation
- Soporific
- Tending to induce drowsiness or sleep
- Spurious
- Not being what it purports to be; false or fake
- Superfluous
- Unnecessary, especially through being more than enough
- Taciturn
- Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little
- Tenacious
- Tending to keep a firm hold; persistent and determined
- Ubiquitous
- Present, appearing, or found everywhere
- Vacillate
- To alternate or waver between different opinions or actions
- Verbose
- Using or expressed in more words than are needed
- Voracious
- Wanting or devouring great quantities; very eager
- Zealous
- Having or showing great energy or enthusiasm