Baron's GRE high frequency words
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188 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abate | subside or moderate |
| aberrant | abnormal or deviant |
| anachronism | something or someone misplaced in time |
| admonish | warn; reprove |
| adulterate | to make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances |
| ambiguous | unclear or doubtful in meaning |
| ambivalence | the state of having conflicting or contradicting emotional attitudes |
| abeyance | suspended in action |
| abscond | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
| alacrity | cheerful promptness; eagerness |
| alleviate | relieve |
| assuage | to ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) |
| attenuate | make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force or degree) |
| audacious | daring; bold |
| austere | forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented |
| artless | without guile; open and honest |
| ascetic | practicing self-denial; austere |
| assiduous | diligent |
| amalgamate | combine; unite in one body |
| appease | pacify or soothe; relieve |
| apprise | inform |
| approbation | approval |
| appropriate | acquire; to possessions of for one's own use |
| arduous | hard; strenuous |
| aesthetic | artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful |
| aggregate | gather; accumulate |
| autonomous | self governing |
| analogous | comparable |
| anomalous | abnormal; irregular |
| anarchy | lack of governing body; state of disorder |
| aver | assert confidently; as use in law, state formally as a fact |
| antipathy | aversion; dislike |
| apathy | lack of caring; indifference |
| ameliorate | improve |
| banal | hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality |
| belie | contradict; give a false impression |
| beneficent | kindly; doing good |
| bolster | support; reinforce |
| bombastic | pompous; using inflated languages |
| boorish | rude; insensitive |
| burgeon | to grow forth; send out buds |
| burnish | make shiny by rubbing polish |
| buttress | support; prop up |
| cacophonous | discordant; inharmonious |
| capricious | unpredictable; fickle |
| castigation | punishment; severe criticism |
| catalyst | agent that influences the pace of a chemical reaction while remain unchanged; person or thing that causes action |
| caustic | burning; sarcastically biting |
| chicanery | trickery; deception |
| coagulate | thicken; congeal; clot |
| coda | concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that rounds out, summarizes or conclude |
| cogent | convincing |
| commensurate | corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc.; proportionate |
| compendium | brief, comprehensive summary |
| complaisant | trying to please; overly polite; obliging |
| compliant | yielding; conforming to requirements |
| conciliatory | reconciling; soothing |
| condone | overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse |
| confound | confuse; puzzle |
| connoisseur | a person competent to act as a judge of art, etc.; a lover of an art |
| contention | claim; thesis |
| contrite | regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
| conundrum | riddle; difficult problem |
| converge | approach; tend to meet; come together |
| convoluted | coiled around; involved; intricate |
| craven | cowardly |
| daunt | intimidate; frighten |
| decorum | propriety; orderliness and good taste in manner |
| default | failure to act |
| deference | courteous regard to another's wish |
| delineate | portray; depict; sketch |
| denigrate | blacken |
| deride | ridicule; make fun of |
| derivative | unoriginal; obtained from another source |
| desiccate | dry up |
| desultory | aimless; haphazard; digressing at random |
| deterrent | something that discourage; hindrance |
| diatribe | bitter scolding; invective |
| dichotomy | split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones) |
| diffidence | shyness |
| diffuse | wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas) |
| digression | wandering away from the subject |
| dirge | lament with music |
| disabuse | correct a false impression; undeceive |
| discerning | mentally quick and observant; having insight |
| discordant | not harmonious; conflicting |
| discredit | defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve |
| discrepancy | lack of consistency |
| discrete | separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts |
| disingenuous | lacking genuine candor; insincere |
| disinterested | unprejudiced |
| disjointed | lacking coherence; separated at the joints |
| dismiss | eliminate from consideration; reject |
| disparage | belittle |
| disparate | basically different; unrelated |
| dissemble | disguise; pretend |
| disseminate | distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds) |
| dissolution | disintegration; looseness in morals |
| dissonance | discord; opposite of harmony |
| distend | expend; swell out |
| distill | purify; refine; concentrate |
| diverge | vary; go in different directions from the same point |
| divest | strip; deprive |
| document | provide written evidence |
| dogmatic | opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal |
| dormant | sleeping; lethargic; latent |
| dupe | someone easily fooled |
| ebullient | showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm |
| eclectic | selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources |
| efficacy | power to produce desired effect |
| effrontery | impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness |
| elegy | poem or song expressing lamentation |
| elicit | draw out by discussion |
| embellish | adorn; ornament; enhance, as a story |
| empirical | based on experience |
| emulate | imitate; rival |
| endemic | prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country |
| enervate | weaken |
| engender | cause; produce |
| enhance | increase; improve |
| ephemeral | short-lived; fleeting |
| equanimity | calmness of temperament; composure |
| equivocate | lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth |
| erudite | learned; scholarly |
| esoteric | hard to understand; known only to the chosen few |
| eulogy | expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death |
| euphemism | mild expression in place of an unpleasant one |
| exacerbate | worsen; embitter |
| exculpate | clear from blame |
| exigency | urgent situation; pressing needs or demand; state of requiring immediate attention |
| extrapolation | projection; conjecture |
| facetious | joking (often inappropriately); humorous |
| fallacious | false; misleading |
| fatuous | brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug |
| fawning | trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering, or cringing |
| felicitous | apt; suitably expressed; well chosen |
| fervor | glowing ardor; intensity of feeling |
| flag | droop; grow feeble |
| fledgling | inexperienced |
| flout | reject; mock; show contempt for |
| foment | stir up, instigate |
| forestall | prevent by taking action in advance |
| frugality | thrift; economy |
| goad | urge on |
| gouge | tear out; overcharge |
| gainsay | deny |
| garrulous | loquacious; wordy; talkative |
| futile | useless; hopeless; ineffectual |
| grandiloquent | pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding languages |
| gregarious | sociable |
| guileless | without deceit |
| gullible | easily deceived |
| harangue | long, passionate and vehement speech |
| homogeneous | of the same kind |
| hyperbole | exaggeration; overrstatement |
| iconoclastic | attacking cherish tradition |
| idolatry | worship of idols; excessive admiration |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| impair | injure; hurt |
| impassive | without feeling; imperturbable; stoical |
| impede | hinder; block |
| impermeable | impervious; not permitting passage through its passage |
| imperturbable | calm placid |
| impervious | impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed |
| inadvertently | unintentionally |
| inchoate | recently begun; rudimentary; elementary |
| incongruity | lack of harmony; absurdity |
| inconsequential | insignificant; unimportant |
| incorporate | introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite |
| indeterminate | uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite |
| indigence | poverty |
| indolent | lazy |
| inert | inactive |
| ingenuous | naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated |
| inherent | firmly established by native or habit |
| innocuous | harmless |
| insensible | unconscious; unresponsive |
| insinuate | hint; imply; creep in |
| insipid | lacking in flavor; dull |
| insularity | narrow-mindedness; isolation |
| intractable | unruly; stubborn; unyielding |
| intransigence | refusal of any compromise; stubbornness |
| inundate | overwhelm; flood; submerge |
| inured | accustomed; hardened |
| invective | abusive |
| irascible | irritable; easily angered |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act; weak |
| itinerary | plan of a trip |
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