GRE Words in Groups
The following lists contain a lot of common GRE words grouped together by meaning. Make flashcards from these lists and look over your cards a few times a week from now until the day of the test. Look over the word group lists once or twice a week for 30 seconds every week until the test. If you don't have much time until the exam date, look over your lists more frequently. Then, by the day of the test, you should have a rough idea of what most of the words on your lists mean.
Note: The categories in which these words are listed are general and should not be interpreted as the exact definitions of the words.
Abbreviated Communication
- abridge
- compendium
- cursory
- curtail
- syllabus
- synopsis
- terse
Act Quickly
- abrupt
- apace
- 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
- acrimonious
- 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
- quintessence
- simulated
- vicarious
Criticize/Criticism
- aspersion
- belittle
- berate
- calumny
- castigate
- decry
- defamation
- denounce
- deride/derisive
- diatribe
- disparage
- excoriate
- gainsay
- harangue
- 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/Openings
- abatement
- aperture
- fissure
- hiatus
- interregnum
- interstice
- lull
- orifice
- rent
- respite
- rift
Generous/Kind
- altruistic
- beneficent
- clement
- largess
- magnanimous
- munificent
- philanthropic
- unstinting
Greedy
- avaricious
- covetous
- mercenary
- miserly
- penurious
- rapacious
- venal
Hard-hearted
- asperity
- baleful
- dour
- fell
- malevolent
- mordant
- 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
- lassitude
- lethargic
- phlegmatic
- quiescent
- slothful
- torpid
Luck
- adventitious
- amulet
- auspicious
- fortuitous
- kismet
- optimum
- portentous
- propitiate
- propitious
- providential
- talisman
Nag
- admonish
- belabor
- cavil
- 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
- soothe
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
- perspicacious
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
- compendious
- curt
- laconic
- pithy
- succinct
- taciturn
Time/Order/Duration
- anachronism
- antecede
- antedate
- anterior
- archaic
- diurnal
- eon
- ephemeral
- epoch
- fortnight
- millennium
- 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
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