- abate: subside or moderate
- aberrant: abnormal or deviant
- abeyance: suspended action
- abscond: depart secretly and hide
- abstemious: sparing in eating/drinking; temperate
- admonish: warn
- adulterate: make impure by adding inferiour substances
- aesthetic: artistic
- aggregate: gather
- alacrity: eagerness
- alleviate: relieve
- amalgamate: combine
- ambiguous: unclear in meaning
- ambivalence: conflicting emotional attitudes
- ameliorate: improve
- anachronism: misplaced in time
- analogous: comparable
- anarchy: state of disorder
- anomalous: abnormal
- antipathy: dislike; aversion
- apathy: lack of caring
- appease: pacify
- apprise: inform
- approbation: approval
- appropriate: acquire
- arduous: hard
- artless: without guile; open and honest
- ascetic: practicing self-denial; austere
- assiduous: diligent
- assuage: ease or lesson; satisfy hunger; soothe anger
- attenuate: make tinner; weaken; lessen
- audacious: daring
- austere: stern
- autonomous: self-governing
- aver: assert confidently or declare; law term
- banal: commonplace; trite
- belie: contradict
- beneficent: kindly; doing good
- bolster: support
- bombastic: pompous
- boorish: rude
- burgeon: go forth; send out buds
- burnish: polish
- buttress: support
- cacophonous: inharmonious
- capricious: unpredictable
- castignation: punishment
- catalyst: influences chemical reaction
- caustic: burning; biting
- chicanery: deception
- coagulate: congeal
- coda: end of music or literary composition; concludes
- cogent: convincing
- commensurate: proportionate
- compendium: brief
- complaint: yielding
- complaisant: trying to please
- conciliatory: reconciling
- condone: forgive
- confound: confuse
- connoisseur: competent to act as judge
- contention: claim
- contentious: quarrelsome
- contrite: penitent
- conundrum: riddle
- converge: approach
- convoluted: intricate
- craven: cowardly
- daunt: intimidate
- decorum: good taste in manners
- default: failure to act
- deference: courteous regard for another's wish
- delineate: portray
- denigrate: blacken
- deride: ridicule
- derivative: unoriginal; from other source
- desiccate: dry up
- desultory: aimless
- deterrent: discourages
- diatribe: bitter scolding
- dichotomy: split in two
- diffidence: shyness
- diffuse: wordy; spread out
- digression: wandering away from the subject
- dirge: lament with music
- disabuse: correct a false impression
- discerning: mentally quick and observant
- discordant: conflicting
- discredit: defame
- discrepancy: difference
- discrete: separate, unconnected
- disingenuous: insincere
- disjointed: lacking coherence
- disparage: belittle
- disparate: unrelated
- dissemble: disguise; pretend
- dissolution: looseness in morals
- dissonance: opposite of harmony
- distend: swell out
- distill: purify
- diverge: go in different ways
- divest: strip; deprive
- document: provide written evidence
- dogmatic: opinionated
- dormant: sleeping
- dupe: easily fooled
- ebullient: showing excitement
- eclectic: selective; different sources
- efficacy: power to produce desired effect
- effrontery: shameless boldness
- elegy: poem or song in lamentation
- elicit: drawn out by discussion
- embellish: enhance
- empirical: based on experience
- emulate: imitate
- endemic: prevailing amoung a group of people in an area
- enervate: weaken
- engender: cause
- ephemeral: short-lived
- eqivocate: lie
- eqphemism: mild expression rather than unplesant one
- equanimity: calmness of temperment
- erudite: learned; scholarly
- esoteric: hard to understand
- eulogy: expression of praise; funeral
- exacerbate: worsen
- exculpate: clear from blame
- exigency: urgent situation
- extrapolation: projection
- facetious: joking
- fatuous: brainless
- fawning: trying to please by flattery
- felicitous: apt
- fervor: intensity of feeling
- flag: droop; grow feeble
- flout: reject
- forestall: prevent taking action in advance
- forment: stir up
- gainsay: deny
- garrulous: wordy
- goad: urge on
- gouge: overcharge
- grandiloquent: using high sounding language
- gregarious: sociable
- guileless: without deceit
- harrangue: long speech
- iconoclastic: attacking cherished traditions
- immutable: unchangeable
- impair: hurt
- impassive: without feeling
- imperturbable: calm
- implacable: not capable of being pacified
- implode: burst inward
- inchorate: recently begun
- incongruity: lack of harmony; absurdity
- indigence: poverty
- indolent: lazy
- inert: inactive
- ingenuous: `naive and trusting
- inherent: firmly est. by nature or habit
- insensible: unconscious
- insipid: lack flavor; dull
- insularity: narrow-minded; isolation
- intractable: unruly; stubborn
- intransigence: refusal of any compromise
- inundate: overwhelm
- inured: accustomed
- invective: abuse
- irascile: irritable
- irresolute: uncertain how to act; weak
- laconic: brief and to the point
- lassitude: weariness; languor
- latent: potential but undevloped
- laud: praise
- levity: lack of seriousness
- loquacious: talkative
- lucid: easy to understand
- magnanimity: generously
- malingere: fakes illness to escape duty
- malleable: capable of being shaped; impressionable
- maverick: rebel
- mendacious: lying
- misanthrope: one who hates mankind
- mitigate: moderate
- mollify: soothe
- morose: sullen
- neophyte: recent convert; beginner
- obdurate: stubborn
- obsequious: slavishly attentive
- obviate: make unecessary
- occlude: shut; close
- officious: meddlesome
- onerous: burdensome
- opprobrium: infamy; villification
- partisan: one-sided; commited to a party
- pathological: pertaining to disease
- paucity: scarcity
- pedantic: showing off learning; bookish
- penury: severe poverty
- perennial: long-lasting
- perfidious: treacherous; disloyal
- perfunctory: superficial
- permeable: porous; allow liquids/gas to pass through
- phlegmatic: calm
- piety: devoutness
- plasticity: ability to be molded
- platitude: trite remark
- precipitate: rash; premature
- prevaricate: lie
- pristine: unspoiled
- probity: uprightnes
- prodigal: wasteful
- proliferate: grow rapidly
- propitiate: appease
- propriety: correct conduct
- proscribe: banish; outlaw
- pungent: sharp in taste or smell
- quiescent: at rest
- rallacious: false; misleading
- rarefied: made less dense (gas)
- recalcitrant: determined to resist authority
- recondite: profound; secret
- refractory: stubborn
- refute: disprove
- relegate: banish to inferior position
- reproach: express disapproval
- reprobate: person hardened in sin; no decency
- repudiate: disown
- rescind: cancel
- reticent: reserved; inclined to silence
- salubrious: healthful
- satiate: satisfy fully
- solicitous: worried
- soporific: sleep-causing
- specious: seeming reasonable but incorrect
- stint: thrifty; set limits
- stolid: dull
- striated: parallel bands; grooved
- strut: supporting bar
- supersede: cause to be set aside
- supposition: hypothesis
- tacit: understood but not put in words
- tangential: only slightly connected
- torpor: sluggishness
- tractable: docile
- truculence: aggressiveness
- vacillate: waver; fluctuate
- venerate: revere
- veracious: truthful
- viable: workable
- viscous: skicky, gluey
- vituperative: abusive; scolding
- welter: turmoil
GRE High Frequency Words