Kaplan GRE Word Groups
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65 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abbreviated communication | 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, 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, 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, con-sanguine, 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 |
| hardhearted | 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, 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 |
| pleasent-sounding | euphonious, harmonic, 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, prognostic |
| 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 |
| withdrawl/retreat | abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde |
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