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Word List for GRE: Words starting with A-C
by Oleg Smirnov - 10101 reads, based on 5 votes
abacus -
- frame with balls for calculating
abate
- to lessen to subside
abdication
- giving up control authority
aberration
- straying away from what is normal
abet
- help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
abeyance
- suspended action
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Word List for GRE: Words starting with D-E
by Oleg Smirnov - 4644 reads, 0 votes
dainty
- pretty/delicate (food)/difficult to please
daunt
- intimidate make fearful
dawdler
- person who is slow waste of time
dearth
- shortage
debacle
- a break-up overthrow sudden disaster
decorum
- propriety proper ness
decree
- order given by authority
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Word List for GRE: Words starting with F-H
by Oleg Smirnov - 3918 reads, 0 votes
facetious
- humorous funny jocular
facile
- easily done
fallacious
- based on error
falter
- waver/move in an uncertain manner
fatuous
- without sense foolish self-satisfaction
fawn
- young deer try to win somebody's favour
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Word List for GRE: Words starting with I-K
by Oleg Smirnov - 4531 reads, 0 votes
iconoclast
- person who attacks popular beliefs
idiosyncrasy
- personal mannerism
idolatry
- excessive admiration of
idyll
- a carefree episode or experience
ignoble
- dishonourable common undignified
ignominious
- shameful dishonourable undignified disgraceful
illicit
- unlawful forbidden
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Word List for GRE: Words starting with L-O
by Oleg Smirnov - 3720 reads, 0 votes
labyrinthine
- to entangle the state of affairs
lachrymose
- causing tears tearful
lacklustre
- (of eyes) dull
lament
- show feel great sorrow
lassitude
- weariness tiredness
latent
- present but not yet active developed or visible
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Word List for GRE: Words starting with P-Q
by Oleg Smirnov - 3169 reads, 0 votes
paean
- song of praise or triumph
palate
- roof of the mouth sense of taste
palatial
- magnificent
palliate
- lessen the severity of
palpability
- can be felt touched understood
palpitate
- tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
panegyric
- formal praise eulogy
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Word List for GRE: Words starting with R
by Oleg Smirnov - 3327 reads, based on 1 vote
rabble
- mob crowd the lower classes of populace
raconteur
- person who tells anecdotes
raffish
- low vulgar base tawdry
ramify
- to be divided or subdivided to branch out
rancorous
- feeling bitterness spitefulness
rant
- use extravagant language
rapacious
- greedy (esp. for money)
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Word List for GRE: Words starting with S
by Oleg Smirnov - 3705 reads, 0 votes
sagacious
- having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
salacious
- obscene
salubrious
- healthful
salutary
- remedial wholesome causing improvement
sanctimony
- self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
sanction
- approval (by authority) penalty
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Word List for GRE: Words starting with T-Z
by Oleg Smirnov - 3354 reads, based on 2 votes
taciturn
- untalkative silent
tadpole
- form of a frog when it leaves the egg
talon
- claw of a bird of prey
tamp
- tap or drive down by repeated light blows
tamper
- interfere with
tangential
- suddenly changeable
tarnished
- lost brightness
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