Quizlet GRE_word_list_200_1

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  1. abase: "To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade."
  2. abbess: The lady superior of a nunnery.
  3. abbey: The group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns.
  4. abbot: The superior of a community of monks.
  5. abdicate: To give up (royal power or the like).
  6. abdomen: "In mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly."
  7. abdominal: "Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen."
  8. abduction: "A carrying away of a person against his will, or illegally."
  9. abed: In bed; on a bed.
  10. aberration: "Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course."
  11. abet: "To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense)."
  12. abeyance: A state of suspension or temporary inaction.
  13. abhorrence: The act of detesting extremely.
  14. abhorrent: Very repugnant; hateful.
  15. abidance: An abiding.
  16. abject: Sunk to a low condition.
  17. abjure: "To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath."
  18. able-bodied: Competent for physical service.
  19. ablution: "A washing or cleansing, especially of the body."
  20. abnegate: To renounce (a right or privilege).
  21. abnormal: Not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard.
  22. abominable: Very hateful.
  23. abominate: To hate violently.
  24. abomination: A very detestable act or practice.
  25. aboriginal: Primitive; unsophisticated.
  26. aborigines: The original of earliest known inhabitants of a country.
  27. aboveboard adv. &: "Without concealment, fraud, or trickery."
  28. abrade: To wear away the surface or some part of by friction.
  29. abrasion: That which is rubbed off.
  30. abridge: "To make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles."
  31. abridgment: A condensed form as of a book or play.
  32. abrogate: "To abolish, repeal."
  33. abrupt: "Beginning, ending, or changing suddenly or with a break."
  34. abscess: A Collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body.
  35. abscission: "The act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation."
  36. abscond: "To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest."
  37. absence: The fact of not being present or available.
  38. absent-minded: Lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business.
  39. absolution: "Forgiveness, or passing over of offenses."
  40. absolve: To free from sin or its penalties.
  41. absorb: "To drink in or suck up, as a sponge absorbs water."
  42. absorption: The act or process of absorbing.
  43. abstain: To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
  44. abstemious: "Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food."
  45. abstinence: Self denial.
  46. abstruse: Dealing with matters difficult to be understood.
  47. absurd: Inconsistent with reason or common sense.
  48. abundant: Plentiful.
  49. abusive: Employing harsh words or ill treatment.
  50. abut: To touch at the end or boundary line.
  51. abyss: Bottomless gulf.
  52. academic: "Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university."
  53. academician: "A member of an academy of literature, art, or science."
  54. academy: Any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught.
  55. accede: To agree.
  56. accelerate: To move faster.
  57. accept: To take when offered.
  58. access: A way of approach or entrance; passage.
  59. accessible: Approachable.
  60. accession: "Induction or elevation, as to dignity, office, or government."
  61. accessory: A person or thing that aids the principal agent.
  62. acclaim: To utter with a shout.
  63. accommodate: To furnish something as a kindness or favor.
  64. accompaniment: "A subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part."
  65. accompanist: One who or that which accompanies.
  66. accompany: "To go with, or be associated with, as a companion."
  67. accomplice: An associate in wrong-doing.
  68. accomplish: To bring to pass.
  69. accordion: A portable free-reed musical instrument.
  70. accost: To speak to.
  71. account: "A record or statement of receipts and expenditures, or of business transactions."
  72. accouter: To dress.
  73. accredit: To give credit or authority to.
  74. accumulate: To become greater in quantity or number.
  75. accuracy: Exactness.
  76. accurate: Conforming exactly to truth or to a standard.
  77. accursed: "Doomed to evil, misery, or misfortune."
  78. accusation: "A charge of crime, misdemeanor, or error."
  79. accusatory: "Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation."
  80. accuse: "To charge with wrong doing, misconduct, or error."
  81. accustom: To make familiar by use.
  82. acerbity: "Sourness, with bitterness and astringency."
  83. acetate: A salt of acetic acid.
  84. acetic: "Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of vinegar."
  85. ache: To be in pain or distress.
  86. Achillean: Invulnerable.
  87. achromatic: "Colorless,"
  88. acid: A sour substance.
  89. acidify: To change into acid.
  90. acknowledge: To recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of.
  91. acknowledgment: Recognition.
  92. acme: "The highest point, or summit."
  93. acoustic: Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
  94. acquaint: To make familiar or conversant.
  95. acquiesce: To comply; submit.
  96. acquiescence: Passive consent.
  97. acquire: To get as one's own.
  98. acquisition: "Anything gained, or made one's own, usually by effort or labor."
  99. acquit: "To free or clear, as from accusation."
  100. acquittal: A discharge from accusation by judicial action.
  101. acquittance: "Release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility."
  102. acreage: "Quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land."
  103. acrid: Harshly pungent or bitter.
  104. acrimonious: Full of bitterness.
  105. acrimony: Sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper.
  106. actionable: "Affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words."
  107. actuality: Any reality.
  108. actuary: "An officer, as of an insurance company, who calculates and states the risks and premiums."
  109. actuate: To move or incite to action.
  110. acumen: "Quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination."
  111. acute: Having fine and penetrating discernment.
  112. adamant: Any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability.
  113. addendum: "Something added, or to be added."
  114. addle: To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
  115. adduce: To bring forward or name for consideration.
  116. adhere: To stick fast or together.
  117. adherence: Attachment.
  118. adherent: Clinging or sticking fast.
  119. adhesion: The state of being attached or joined.
  120. adieu: Good-by; farewell.
  121. adjacency: The state of being adjacent.
  122. adjacent: That which is near or bordering upon.
  123. adjudge: To award or bestow by formal decision.
  124. adjunct: "Something joined to or connected with another thing, but holding a subordinate place."
  125. adjuration: A vehement appeal.
  126. adjutant: Auxiliary.
  127. administrator: One who manages affairs of any kind.
  128. admissible: Having the right or privilege of entry.
  129. admittance: "Entrance, or the right or permission to enter."
  130. admonish: To warn of a fault.
  131. admonition: Gentle reproof.
  132. ado: unnecessary activity or ceremony.
  133. adoration: Profound devotion.
  134. adroit: Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
  135. adulterant: An adulterating substance.
  136. adulterate: To make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients.
  137. adumbrate: To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
  138. advent: "The coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage."
  139. adverse: Opposing or opposed.
  140. adversity: Misfortune.
  141. advert: To refer incidentally.
  142. advertiser: "One who advertises, especially in newspapers."
  143. advisory: Not mandatory.
  144. advocacy: The act of pleading a cause.
  145. advocate: "One who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court."
  146. aerial: "Of, pertaining to, or like the air."
  147. aeronaut: "One who navigates the air, a balloonist."
  148. aeronautics: the art or practice of flying aircraft
  149. aerostat: A balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air.
  150. aerostatics: "The branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties."
  151. affable: Easy to approach.
  152. affect: To act upon
  153. affectation: A studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt.
  154. affiliate: Some auxiliary person or thing.
  155. affirmative: Answering yes; to a question at issue.
  156. affix: To fasten.
  157. affluence: A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
  158. affront: An open insult or indignity.
  159. afire adv. &: "On fire, literally or figuratively."
  160. afoot: In progress.
  161. aforesaid: Said in a preceding part or before.
  162. afresh: "Once more, after rest or interval."
  163. afterthought: A thought that comes later than its appropriate or expected time.
  164. agglomerate: To pile or heap together.
  165. aggrandize: To cause to appear greatly.
  166. aggravate: "To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome."
  167. aggravation: "The fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime , offense, misfortune, etc."
  168. aggregate: "The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something."
  169. aggress: To make the first attack.
  170. aggression: An unprovoked attack.
  171. aggrieve: To give grief or sorrow to.
  172. aghast: Struck with terror and amazement.
  173. agile: "Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally."
  174. agitate: To move or excite (the feelings or thoughts).
  175. agrarian: "Pertaining to land, especially agricultural land."
  176. aide-de-camp: An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
  177. ailment: Slight sickness.
  178. airy: "Delicate, ethereal."
  179. akin: Of similar nature or qualities.
  180. alabaster: A white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum.
  181. alacrity: Cheerful willingness.
  182. albeit: Even though.
  183. albino: "A person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris."
  184. album: A book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like.
  185. alchemy: "Chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold."
  186. alcohol: "A volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste."
  187. alcoholism: A condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages.
  188. alcove: A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.
  189. alder: "Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family."
  190. alderman: "A member of a municipal legislative body, who usually exercises also certain judicial functions."
  191. aldermanship: "The dignity, condition, office, or term of office of an alderman."
  192. alias: An assumed name.
  193. alien: One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
  194. alienable: "Capable of being aliened or alienated, as lands."
  195. alienate: To cause to turn away.
  196. alienation: Estrangement.
  197. aliment: That which nourishes.
  198. alkali: "Anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc."
  199. allay: To calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; mitigate.
  200. allege: "To assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court."