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GRE High Frequency Words Vocab
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1. To stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
digress
commensurate
rigidity
savor
2. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
superfluous
presumption
synthetic
euphemism
3. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
rhetoric
penury
cultivation
volatile
4. Sad - sullen
mundane
morose
infuse
disingenuous
5. To undeceive to set right
disabuse
bent
veneration
denigrate
6. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
equivocal
harangue
exculpate
magnanimity
7. A mild replacement for a harsher or more offensive term
discretion
euphemism
prone
brittle
8. Occurring only occasionally - or in a scattered instances
tortuous
tacit
meticulous
sporadic
9. Inclined to change one'S mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
elegy
catalyst
capricious
irascible
10. To make worse or more severe
aver
exacerbate
corrosion
preempt
11. To flood or overwhelm
laud
equivocal
inundate
validity
12. To coax; persuade - often through the use of flattery or smooth talk
wheedle
proliferate
arbitrary
inchoate
13. Peaceful; calm
tentative
tranquil
veracity
sanction
14. Possessing education - refinement and taste; polished
malevolent
anesthetic
cultured
eulogy
15. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
membrane
provoke
imperturbable
assuage
16. Extreme respect and reverence; worship
equivocate
perfunctory
veneration
imperturbable
17. Truthfulness; honesty
prone
taciturn
perjury
veracity
18. yield; submit; bow
emulate
defer
imperturbable
furtive
19. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
plethora
aver
brevity
malevolent
20. To compel or require; to push one'S views or authority upon others
synthetic
infuse
ensure
impose
21. To abruptly and violently collapse inward
fawn
implode
precursor
blithe
22. Harsh - jarring - discordant sound
penchant
cacophony
porous
aggravate
23. Soundness or truthfulness
validity
pertinent
deference
centrifuge
24. A substance that causes insensibility and removes pain
prodigal
anesthetic
ephemeral
vexation
25. Easily angered
superfluous
condone
repudiate
irascible
26. Ill-timed; unsuitable; inappropriate
implacable
implicit
inopportune
scarce
27. A person or thing that causes change
catalyst
viscous
facilitate
blithe
28. An intense feeling of dislike or disgust
waver
rarefy
burnish
aversion
29. Insincere; lacking in honesty
effrontery
tranquility
laconic
disingenuous
30. Annoyance or irritation
castigation
laud
vexation
spurious
31. To tend toward the same spot or outcome; inclining to join at an intersecting point
impose
converge
caustic
calibrate
32. Full of tiny openings able to absorb fluid or gas; permeable
maverick
porous
perjury
tout
33. Without taste or flavor; lacking in spirits; bland
insipid
penury
irascible
implode
34. To make or become less severe or intense; to moderate
convention
slight
mitigate
anomalous
35. Having or showing often viscious ill-will -spite - hatred
implode
expel
specious
malevolent
36. To moderate or soothe
illusory
bolster
temper
trivial
37. A speech honoring the dead
eulogy
veracity
unfettered
savor
38. Essential for or relating to life; necessary
vital
amalgamate
mundane
pedantic
39. To aid by making easier
endemic
facilitate
extemporaneous
digress
40. To slow delay or hamper
loquacious
retard
derivative
prodigal
41. Moderate; marked by restraint and lack of extremes
superficial
diffuse
temperate
porous
42. Exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
impose
superfluous
superficial
obsequious
43. To list or count off individually
elegy
facetious
correspond
enumerate
44. Belonging to another time; removed from natural chronological context
converge
plasticity
anachronistic
pedantic
45. One who practices rigid self-denial esp in religious devotion
ascetic
frugality
divest
endemic
46. A natural inclination or tendency; penchant
perfunctory
saturate
propensity
intransigent
47. To appease; to calm by making concessions
placate
garrulous
sever
validity
48. Tranquility; peacefulness
fawn
provoke
maverick
serenity
49. Attacking cherished beliefs; heretical; heterodox
temperate
iconoclastic
irascible
plummet
50. One who avoids social contact and lives in seclusion
facilitate
cacophony
impudent
recluse
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