To do well in the GRE, you need both a wide vocabulary and a deep vocabulary. A good vocabulary is important for the GRE's verbal section. The GRE verbal section includes analogy questions, sentence completion questions, and comprehension questions.
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Tip: Double-click the following GRE words to learn their meaning.
| abidance | ablution | abnegate | abrogate |
| abstruse | accouter | accursed | acerbity |
| adjutant | aeronaut | aerostat | agrarian |
| alacrity | alluvion | ambulate | annalist |
| antedate | antilogy | antiphon | aperture |
| apostasy | apposite | arboreal | asperity |
| assonant | autarchy | benefice | bestride |
| bibulous | braggart | bronchus | cabalism |
| cajolery | captious | chancery | christen |
| clothier | colloquy | conferee | convolve |
| coquette | coxswain | cupidity | dendroid |
| deponent | deviltry | diatomic | didactic |
| dilatory | dissever | distrain | dolesome |
| dolorous | encomium | enervate | entreaty |
| evanesce | exegesis | factious | felicity |
| fiducial | flection | forepeak | foresail |
| fungible | furlough | galvanic | gamester |
| gendarme | genitive | gourmand | hawthorn |
| hibernal | huckster | ichthyic | illumine |
| inchmeal | indicant | indigent | intromit |
| irrigant | jugglery | kerchief | kingling |
| ligneous | littoral | metonymy | monition |
| monitory | monsieur | moonbeam | muleteer |
| necrosis | negligee | neocracy | nihilist |
| obdurate | oratorio | ordnance | osculate |
| palinode | palliate | paramour | paroxysm |
| partible | pellucid | pervious | picayune |
| pitiable | polemics | polyglot | priggish |
| prurient | puissant | quadrate | recreant |
| redolent | requital | ruminant | sapience |
| sardonic | sedulous | seignior | sibilate |
| sidelong | sidereal | sonorous | superadd |
| taciturn | thearchy | tincture | triumvir |
| unctuous | underman | usurious | vincible |
| viscount | vocative | volitive |
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