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GRE Word Groups
Kaplan's Word Groups
65
Language - English
Graduate
09/14/2014

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Term
Abbreviated Communication
Definition
abridge
compendium
cursory
curtail
syllabus
synopsis
terse
Term
Act Quickly
Definition
abrupt
apace
headlong
impetuous
precipitate
Term
Assist
Definition
abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster. corroborate. countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, susteneance
Term
Bad Mood
Definition
bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
Term
Beginner/Amateur
Definition
dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
Term
Beginning/Young
Definition
burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
Term
Biting (as wit or temperament)
Definition
acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant
Term
Bold
Definition
audacious, courageous, dauntless
Term
Boring
Definition
banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite
Term
Carousal
Definition
bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude
Term
Changing Quickly
Definition
capricious, mercurial, volatile
Term
Copy
Definition
counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious
Term
Criticize/Criticism
Definition
aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce,deride/dericive, diatribe, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, obloquy,opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, triade, revile, vituperate
Term
Death/Mourning
Definition
bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament. macabrie. moribund. obsequies, sepulchral, wraith
Term
Denyling to Self
Definition
abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
Term
Dictatorial
Definition
authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
Term
Difficult to Understand
Definition
abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid
Term
Disgusting/ Offensive
Definition
defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
Term
Easy to Understand
Definition
articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid. pellucid
Term
Eccentric/Dissimilar
Definition
aberrant, anachronism, anamalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric,iconoclast
Term
Embarrass
Definition
Abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
Term
Equal
Definition
equity, tantamount
Term
Falsehood
Definition
apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious
Term
Family
Definition
conjugal, consanguine, distaff, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion
Term
Favoring/Not Impartial
Definition
Ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
Term
Forgive
Definition
absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
Term
Funny
Definition
chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
Term
Gaps/Openings
Definition
abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
Term
Generous/Kind
Definition
altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
Term
Greedy
Definition
avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
Term
Hard-hearted
Definition
asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic
Term
Harmful
Definition
baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
Term
Harsh-Sounding
Definition
cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
Term
Hatred
Definition
abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
Term
Healthy
Definition
beneficial, salubrious, salutary
Term
Hesitate
Definition
dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
Term
Hostile
Definition
antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
Term
Innocent/Inexperienced
Definition
credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
Term
Insincere
Definition
disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
Term
Investigate
Definition
appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
Term
Lazy/Sluggish
Definition
indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
Term
Luck
Definition
adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
Term
Nag
Definition
admonish, belabor, cavil, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
Term
Nasty
Definition
fetid, noisome, noxious
Term
Not a Straight Line
Definition
askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex
Term
Overblown/Wordy
Definition
bombastic, garrulous,grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
Term
Pacify/Satisfy
Definition
ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, soothe
Term
Pleasant-sounding
Definition
euphonious, harmonious, melodious, sonorous
Term
Poor
Definition
destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent
Term
Praise
Definition
acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn. laud/laudatory, venerate
Term
Predict
Definition
augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognosticate
Term
Prevent/Obstruct
Definition
discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude
Term
Smart/Learned
Definition
astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
Term
Sorrow
Definition
disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
Term
Stubborn
Definition
implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
Term
Terse
Definition
compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
Term
Time/Order/Duration
Definition
anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
Term
Timid/Timidity
Definition
craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation,
Term
Truth
Definition
candor, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious
Term
Unusual
Definition
aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosynrasy
Term
Walking About
Definition
ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
Term
Wandering
Definition
discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
Term
Weaken
Definition
adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
Term
Wisdom
Definition
adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
Term
Withdrawal/Retreat
Definition
abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde
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