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GRE word groups
Question | Answer |
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abbreviated communications | abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse |
Act Quickly | apace, abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate |
Assist | abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance |
Bad mood | bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish |
Beginner/Amateur | dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro |
Beginning/Young | burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent |
Biting (as in Wit or Temperament) | acerbic, acidulous, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant |
Bold | audacious, courageous, dauntless |
Boring | banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite |
carousal | bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude |
changing quickly | capricious, mercurial, volatile |
copy | counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessences, simulated, vicarious |
criticize/criticism | aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue |
criticize/ criticism | impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate |
death/mourning | bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith |
denying of self | abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate |
dictatorial | authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic (hegemony), imperious, peremptory, tyrannical |
difficult to understand | abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable,obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid |
disgusting/offensive | defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative |
easy to understand | articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid |
eccentric/ dissimilar | aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast |
embarrass | abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue |
equal | equitable, equity, tantamount |
falsehood | apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate specious, spurious |
family | conjugal, consanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion |
favoring/not impartial | ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot |
forgive | absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate |
funny | chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper |
gaps/opening | abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifices, rent, respite, rift |
generous/kind | altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting |
greedy | avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal |
hardhearted | asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordent, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation |
harmful | baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious |
harsh-sounding | cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident |
hatred | abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor |
healthy | beneficial, salubrious, salutary |
hesitate | dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver |
hostile | antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive |
innocent/ inexperienced | credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro |
insincere | disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous |
investigate | appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse, |
lazy/sluggish | indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid |
luck | adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman |
nag | admonish, cavil, belabor, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof |
nasty | fetid, noisome, noxious |
not a straight line | askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex |
overblown/ wordy | bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose |
pacify/satisfy | ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, sooth |
pleasant-sounding | euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous |
poor | destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent |
praise | acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration |
predict | augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate |
prevent/obstruct | discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude |
smart/learned | astute, canny, erudite, perspicuous |
sorrow | disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody |
stubborn | implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing |
terse | compendium, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn |
time/order/duration | anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millenium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal |
timid/timidity | craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation |
truth | candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity |
unusual | aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy |
walking about | ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, |
wandering | discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn |
weaken | adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate |
wisdom | adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism |
withdrawal/ retreat | abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde |