gre common words final

ARCHAIC

Ancient; old-fashioned.

ARDOR

Intense and passionate feeling.

ARTICULATE

Able to speak clearly and expressively.

ASSUAGE

To make something unpleasant less severe.

CACOPHONY

Harsh, jarring noise.

ATTENUATE

To reduce in force or degree; to weaken.

CANDID

Impartial and honest in speech.

AUDACIOUS

Fearless and daring.

AUSTERE

Severe or stern in appearance; undecorated.

BANAL

Predictable, clichéd, boring.

BOLSTER

To support; to prop up.

BOMBASTIC

Pompous in speech and manner.

CAPRICIOUS

Changing one's mind quickly and often.

CASTIGATE

To punish or criticize harshly.

CATALYST

Something that brings about a change in something else.

CAUSTIC

Biting in wit.

CHAOS

Great disorder or confusion.

CHAUVINIST

Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs.

CHICANERY

Deception by means of craft or guile.

COGENT

Convincing and well-reasoned.

CONDONE

To overlook, pardon, or disregard.

CONVOLUTED

Intricate and complicated.

CORROBORATE

To provide supporting evidence.

CREDULOUS

Too trusting; gullible.

CRESCENDO

Steadily increasing volume or force.

DECORUM

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety.

DEFERENCE

Respect, courtesy.

DERIDE

To speak of or treat with contempt; to mock.

DESICCATE

To dry out thoroughly.

DESULTORY

Jumping from one thing to another; disconnected.

DIATRIBE

An abusive, condemnatory speech.

DIFFIDENT

Lacking self-confidence.

DILATE

To make larger; to expand.

DILATORY

Intended to delay.

DILETTANTE

Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic.

DIRGE

A funeral hymn or mournful speech.

DISABUSE

To set right; to free from error.

DISCERN

To perceive; to recognize.

DISPARATE

Fundamentally different; entirely unlike.

DISSEMBLE

To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions.

DISSONANCE

A harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds.

DOGMA

A firmly held opinion, often a religious belief.

ELEGY

A sorrowful poem or speech.

ELOQUENT

Persuasive and moving, especially in speech.

DOGMATIC

Dictatorial in one's opinions.

DUPE

To deceive; a person who is easily deceived.

EMULATE

To copy; to try to equal or excel.

ENERVATE

To reduce in strength.

ENGENDER

To produce, cause, or bring about.

ECLECTIC

Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources.

EFFICACY

Effectiveness.

ENIGMA

A puzzle; a mystery.

ENUMERATE

To count, list, or itemize.

EPHEMERAL

Lasting a short time.

EQUIVOCAL

Open to more than one interpretation; misleading.

EQUIVOCATE

To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead.

ERRATIC

Wandering and unpredictable.

ERUDITE

Learned, scholarly, bookish.

ESOTERIC

Known or understood by only a few.

ESTIMABLE

Admirable.

EULOGY

Speech in praise of someone.

EUPHEMISM

Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one.

EXACERBATE

To make worse.

EXCULPATE

To clear from blame; prove innocent.

EXIGENT

Urgent; requiring immediate action.

EXONERATE

To clear of blame.

EXPLICIT

Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression.

FANATICAL

Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion.

FAWN

To grovel.

FERVID

Intensely emotional; feverish.

FLORID

Excessively decorated or embellished.

FOMENT

To arouse or incite.

FRUGALITY

A tendency to be thrifty or cheap.

GARRULOUS

Tending to talk a lot.

GREGARIOUS

Outgoing, sociable.

GUILE

Deceit or trickery.

GULLIBLE

Easily deceived.

HOMOGENEOUS

Of a similar kind.

INCHOATE

Not fully formed; disorganized.

INGENUOUS

Showing innocence or childlike simplicity.

ICONOCLAST

One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions.

IMPERTURBABLE

Not capable of being disturbed.

IMPERVIOUS

Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected.

INIMICAL

Hostile, unfriendly.

INNOCUOUS

Harmless.

INSIPID

Lacking interest or flavor.

INTRANSIGENT

Uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled.

IMPETUOUS

Quick to act without thinking.

IMPLACABLE

Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful.

INUNDATE

To overwhelm; to cover with water.

IRASCIBLE

Easily made angry.

LACONIC

Using few words.

LAMENT

To express sorrow; to grieve.

LAUD

To give praise; to glorify.

LAVISH

To give unsparingly; extremely generous or extravagant.

LETHARGIC

Acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner.

LOQUACIOUS

Talkative.

LUCID

Clear and easily understood.

LUMINOUS

Bright, brilliant, glowing.

MALINGER

To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill.