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GRE verbal word groups
vocab lists for the gre verbal section
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Graduate
12/14/2009

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abatement, interregnum, interstice, rent, respite
Definition
"gaps/openings/breaks"
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clement, munificent
Definition
"generous/kind"
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mercenary, miserly, penurious, venal
Definition
"greedy"
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asperity, baleful, dour, fell, mordant, vituperation
Definition
"hard-hearted"
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baleful, baneful, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
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"harmful"
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salubrious, salutary
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"healthy"
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antithetic, churlish
Definition
"hostile"
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dissemble, fulsome, unctuous
Definition
"insincere"
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adventitious, kismet, propitiate
Definition
"luck"
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cavil, enjoin, hector, martinet, reproof
Definition
"nag"
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careen, carom, sidle
Definition
"not a straight line"
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circumlocution, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, turgid
Definition
"overblown/wordy"
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impecunious, esurient
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"poor"
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augur, fey, prognosticate
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"predict"
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forfend, occlude
Definition
"prevent/obstruct"
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dolo, elgiac, threnody
Definition
"sorrow"
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obdurate, refractory, renitent, untoward
Definition
"stubborn"
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compendious, laconic, taciturn
Definition
"terse"
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craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous
Definition
"timid/timidity"
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probity, fealty
Definition
"truth"
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itinerant, peripatetic
Definition
"walking about"
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expatiate, peregrination, peripatetic
Definition
"wandering"
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apothegm, bromide, epigram, sententious
Definition
"wisdom"
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abeyance, abnegation, abrogate, decamp, demur, recidivism, renege
Definition
"withdrawal/retreat"
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bilious, dudgeon, pettish, pique, umbrage, waspish
Definition
"bad mood"
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novitiate, proselyte, tyro
Definition
"beginner/amateur"
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callow, inchoate, incipient
Definition
"beginning/young"
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acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, mordacious, mordant
Definition
"biting (as in temperament)"
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dissipated, iniquity, libertine, licentious, ribald, salacious, turpitude
Definition
"carousal"
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defunct, dolorous, knell, moribund, obsequies, wraith
Definition
death/mourning
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abstruse, recondite, turbid, bemusing
Definition
"difficult to understand"
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fetid, noisome, rebarbative
Definition
"disgusting/offensive"
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limpid, pellucid
Definition
"easy to understand"
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compunction, foible, gaucherie
Definition
"embarrass"
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apocryphal, dissemble, ersatz, perfidy, prevaricate
Definition
"falsehood"
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consanguine, distaff, endogamous
Definition
"family"
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palliate, redress, vindicate
Definition
"forgive"
Term
raillery, riposte
Definition
"funny"
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