Set: 52 Most Common GRE Words (Top 12)
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All 12 Terms
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Anomaly | (n) The condition of being abnormal: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, deviance, deviancy, deviation, irregularity, preternaturalness, unnaturalness |
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Assuage | (v) To make less severe or more bearable: allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, lessen, lighten, mitigate, palliate, relieve |
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Enigma | (n) Anything that arouses curiosity or perplexes because it is unexplained, inexplicable, or secret: conundrum, mystery, perplexity, puzzle, puzzler, riddle |
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Equivocal | (n) Liable to more than one interpretation: ambiguous, cloudy, inexplicit, nebulous, obscure, uncertain, unclear, vague |
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Erudite | (adj) Having or showing profound knowledge and scholarship: learned, lettered, scholarly, wise |
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Fervid | (adj) Fired with intense feeling: ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid. |
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Lucid | (adj) Mentally healthy: compos mentis, rational, sane. Idioms: all there, in one's right mind, of sound mind. Admitting light so that objects beyond can be seen: clear, crystal clear, crystalline, limpid, pellucid, see-through, translucent, transparent |
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Opaque | (adj) Impenetrable by light; neither transparent nor translucent |
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Placate | (v) To ease the anger or agitation of: appease, assuage, calm (down), conciliate, dulcify, gentle, mollify, pacify, propitiate, soften, soothe, sweeten |
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Precipitate | (adj) Characterized by unthinking boldness and haste: brash, foolhardy, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hotheaded, ill-considered, impetuous, improvident, impulsive, incautious, madcap, precipitant, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, unconsidered |
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Prodigal | (adj) Characterized by excessive or imprudent spending: extravagant, lavish, profligate, profuse, spendthrift, wasteful. |
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Zeal | (n) Passionate devotion to or interest in a cause or subject, for example: ardor, enthusiasm, fervor, fire, passion, zealousness |
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Most Missed Words
- Placate → (v) To ease the anger or agitation of: appease, assuage, calm (down), conciliate, dulcify, gentle, mollify, pacify, propitiate, soften, soothe, sweeten - 13 misses
- Assuage → (v) To make less severe or more bearable: allay, alleviate, comfort, ease, lessen, lighten, mitigate, palliate, relieve - 10 misses
- Equivocal → (n) Liable to more than one interpretation: ambiguous, cloudy, inexplicit, nebulous, obscure, uncertain, unclear, vague - 10 misses
- Precipitate → (adj) Characterized by unthinking boldness and haste: brash, foolhardy, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, hotheaded, ill-considered, impetuous, improvident, impulsive, incautious, madcap, precipitant, rash, reckless, slapdash, temerarious, unconsidered - 10 misses
- Fervid → (adj) Fired with intense feeling: ardent, blazing, burning, dithyrambic, fervent, fiery, flaming, glowing, heated, hot-blooded, impassioned, passionate, perfervid, red-hot, scorching, torrid. - 7 misses
- Anomaly → (n) The condition of being abnormal: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, deviance, deviancy, deviation, irregularity, preternaturalness, unnaturalness - 5 misses
- Enigma → (n) Anything that arouses curiosity or perplexes because it is unexplained, inexplicable, or secret: conundrum, mystery, perplexity, puzzle, puzzler, riddle - 5 misses