GRE Verbal Word List
Following is a list of Top 175 New GRE Verbal world list. I will be adding more GRE words to the list. Use this along with other high frequency GRE Verbal word list to get high score in Verbal section in GRE.
Some of the techniques that you can use to memorize the GRE words includes
- New GRE Verbal Flash Cards
- Brute Force memorizing (if you are good at it)
- Derive words using suffix
- Using root words
- Associate words to pictures
- Using sentences
Follow which method is easy for you to memorize GRE Verbal word list. Barrons GRE books is standard for world lists. It has 50 word list for a total of 3000 words. Some students have scored high in GRE without studying all the word lists.
New GRE Verbal Word List
| New GRE Words | Meaning |
|---|---|
| diatribe | a bitter abusive denunciation. |
| encomium | a formal eulogy or speech of praise |
| conflagration | a great fire |
| breach | a lapse, gap or break, as in a fortress wall. To break or break through.ex: Unfortunately, the club members never forgot his breach of etiquette. |
| fathom | a measure of length (six feet) used in nautical settings. to penetrate to the depths of something in order to understand it: “I couldn’t fathom her reasoning on that issue.” |
| anachronism | a person or artifact appearing after its own time or out of chronological order (adj: anachronistic) |
| peccadillo | a small sin or fault |
| eulogy | a spoken or written tribute to the deceased (v. eulogize) |
| savant | a very knowledgeable person; a genius |
| panegyric | a writing or speech in praise of a person or thing |
| tractable | ability to be easily managed or controlled: “Her mother wished she were more tractable.” (n: tractability) |
| equivocal | ambiguous; unclear; subject to more than one interpretation — often intentionally so: “Republicans complained that Bill Clinton’s answers were equivocal.” (v. equivocate) |
| improvidence | an absence of foresight; a failure to provide for future needs or events: “Their improvidence resulted in the loss of their home.” |
| catalyst | an agent of change (adj: catalytic; v. catalyze) |
| tirade (diatribe) | an angry speech: “His tirade had gone on long enough.” |
| antediluvian | ancient; outmoded; (literally,before the flood) |
| Pulchritudinous | beautiful (n: pulchritude) |
| tyro | beginner; person lacking experience in a specific endeavor: “They easily took advantage of the tyro.” |
| deprecation | belittlement. (v. deprecate) |
| disparaging | belittling (n: disparagement. v. disparage) |
| dispassionate | calm; objective; unbiased |
| caustic | capable of dissolving by chemical action; highly critical: “His caustic remarks spoiled the mood of the party.” |
| sanguine | cheerful; confident: “Her sanguine attitude put everyone at ease.”(Sangfroid (noun) is a related French word meaning unflappability. Literally, it means cold blood) |
| lucid | clear; translucent: “He made a lucid argument to support his theory.” |
| ingenious | clever: “She developed an ingenious method for testing her hypothesis.”(n: ingenuity) |
| precipice | cliff with a vertical or nearly vertical face; a dangerous place from which one is likely to fall; metaphorically, a very risky circumstance |
| imperious | commanding |
| banal | commonplace or trite (n: banality) |
| pragmatic | concerned with facts; practical, as opposed to highly principled or traditional: “His pragmatic approach often offended idealists.” (n: pragmatism) |
| pusillanimous | cowardly, timid, or irresolute; petty: “The pusillanimous leader soon lost the respect of his people.” |
| craven | cowardly; a coward |
| voracious | craving or devouring large quantities of food, drink, or other things. She is a voracious reader. |
| chicanery | deception by trickery |
| Word | Definitions, Other Forms, and Examples |
| perfidious | deliberately treacherous; dishonest (n: perfidy) |
| turpitude | depravity; baseness: “Mr. Castor was fired for moral turpitude.” |
| culpable | deserving of blame (n: culpability) |
| aberrant | deviating from normal or correct. |
| sedulous | diligent; persevering; persistent: “Her sedulous devotion to overcoming her background impressed many.” (n: sedulous; sedulousness; adv. sedulously) |
| petulant | easily or frequently annoyed, especially over trivial matters; childishly irritable |
| efficacy | effectiveness; capability to produce a desired effect |
| vacuous | empty; without contents; without ideas or intelligence:: “She flashed a vacuous smile.” |
| zeal | enthusiastic devotion to a cause, ideal, or goal (n: zealot; zealotry. adj: zealous) |
| exorbitant | exceeding customary or normal limits, esp. in quantity or price: “The cab fare was exorbitant.” |
| plethora | excessively large quantity; overabundance: “We received a plethora of applications for the position.” |
| temperate | exercising moderation and self-denial; calm or mild (n: temperance) |
| volatile | explosive; fickle (n: volatility). |
| audacious | extremely bold; fearless, especially said of human behavior (n: audacity) |
| wretched | extremely pitiful or unfortunate (n: wretch) |
| ambrosial | extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia) |
| gossamer | fine cobweb on foliage; fine gauzy fabric; very fine: “She wore a gossamer robe.” |
| florid | flushed with a rosy color, as in complexion; very ornate and flowery: “florid prose.” |
| explicit | fully and clearly expressed |
| magnanimity | generosity and nobility. (adj: magnanimous) |
| leviathan | giant whale, therefore, something very large |
| venerate | great respect or reverence: “The Chinese traditionally venerated their ancestors; ancestor worship is merely a popular misnomer for this tradition.” (n: veneration, adj: venerable) |
| taciturn | habitually untalkative or silent (n: taciturnity) |
| obdurate | hardened against influence or feeling; intractable. |
| noisome | harmful, offensive, destructive: “The noisome odor of the dump carried for miles.” |
| innocuous | harmless; having no adverse affect; not likely to provoke strong emotion |
| saturnine | having a gloomy or morose temperament |
| sagacious | having a sharp or powerful intellect or discernment. (n: sagacity). |
| headlong | headfirst; impulsive; hasty. impulsively; hastily; without forethought: “They rushed headlong into marriage.” |
| ponderous | heavy; massive; awkward; dull: “A ponderous book is better than a sleeping pill.” |
| fervid, fervent | highly emotional; hot: “The partisans displayed a fervent patriotism.” (n: fervor) |
| guileless | honest; straightforward (n: guilelessness) |
| antipathy | hostility toward, objection, or aversion to |
| caprice | impulse (adj: capricious) |
| inchoate | in an initial or early stage; incomplete; disorganized: “The act of writing forces one to clarify inchoate thoughts.” |
| extant | in existence, still existing: The only extant representative of that species.” |
| quiescence | inactivity; stillness; dormancy (adj: quiescent) |
| misnomer | incorrect name or word for something |
| implication | insinuation or connotation (v. implicate) |
| esoteric | intended for or understood by only a few: “The esoteric discussion confused some people.” (n: esoterica) |
| dearth | lack, scarcity: “The prosecutor complained about the dearth of concrete evidence against the suspect.” |
| diffident | lacking self-confidence, modest (n: diffidence) |
| insipid | lacking zest or excitement; dull |
| ephemeral | lasting for only a brief time, fleeting (n: ephemera) |
| malevolent | malicious; evil; having or showing ill will: “Some early American colonists saw the wilderness as malevolent and sought to control it.” |
| incorrigible | not capable of being corrected: “The school board finally decided the James was incorrigible and expelled him from school.” |
| phlegmatic | not easily excited; cool; sluggish |
| opaque | not transparent or transluscent; dense; difficult to comprehend, as inopaque reasoning |
| insensible | numb; unconscious: “Wayne was rendered insensible by a blow to the head.” unfeeling; insensitive: “They were insensible to the suffering of others.: |
| corporeal | of or having to do with material, as opposed to spiritual; tangible. (In older writings, corporeal could be a synonym for corporal. This usage is no longer common) |
| insular | of or pertaining to an island, thus, excessively exclusive: “Newcomers found it difficult to make friends in the insular community.” |
| corporal | of the body: “corporal punishment.” a non-commissioned officer ranked between a sergeant and a private. |
| iconoclast | one who attacks traditional ideas or institutions or one who destroys sacred images (adj: iconoclastic) |
| misanthrope | one who hates people: “He was a true misanthrope and hated even himself.” |
| misogynist | one who hates women |
| superficial | only covering the surface: “A superficial treatment of the topic was all they wanted.” |
| anomalous | peculiar; unique, contrary to the norm (n: anomaly) |
| impecunious | penniless; poor |
| indelible | permanent; unerasable; strong: “The Queen made an indelible impression on her subjects.” |
| bombast | pompous speech (adj: bombastic) |
| laudable | praiseworthy; commendable (v. laud) |
| latent | present or potential but not evident or active (n: latency) |
| endemic | prevalent in or native to a certain region, locality, or people: “The disease was endemic to the region.” Don’t confuse this word with epidemic. |
| irascible | prone to outbursts of temper, easily angered |
| enigma | puzzle; mystery: “Math is an enigma to me.” (adj: enigmatic) |
| prodigal | rashly wasteful: “Americans’ prodigal devotion to the automobile is unique.” |
| plastic | related to being shaped or molded; capable of being molded. (n: plasticity n: plastic) |
| dogmatic | relying upon doctrine or dogma, as opposed to evidence |
| erudite | scholarly; displaying deep intensive learning. (n: erudition) |
| specious | seemingly true but really false; deceptively convincing or attractive: “Her argument, though specious, was readily accepted by many.” |
| eclectic | selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources: “Many modern decorators prefer an eclectic style.” (n: eclecticism) |
| pedantic | showing a narrow concern for rules or formal book learning; making an excessive display of one’s own learning: “We quickly tired of his pedantic conversation.” (n: pedant, pedantry). |
| homogenous | similar in nature or kind; uniform: “a homogeneous society.” |
| guile | skillful deceit: “He was well known for his guile.” (v. bequile; adj: beguiling. Note, however, that these two words have an additional meaning: to charm (v.) or charming (adj:), while the word guile does not generally have any such positive connotations) |
| viscous | slow moving; highly resistant to flow: “Heintz commercials imply that their catsup is more viscous than others’.” (n: viscosity) |
| emollient | softening; something that softens |
| precursor | something (or someone) that precedes another: “The assassination of the Archduke was a precursor to the war.” |
| blandishment | speech or action intended to coax someone into doing something |
| floundering | struggling: “We tried to save the floundering business.” |
| dogged | stubborn or determined: “Her dogged pursuit of the degree eventually paid off.” |
| intransigent | stubborn; immovable; unwilling to change: “She was so intransigent we finally gave up trying to convince her.” (n: intransigence) |
| deference | submission or courteous yielding: “He held his tongue in deference to his father.” (n: deferential. v. defer) |
| loquacious | talkative |
| philanthropy | tendency or action for the benefit of others, as in donating money or property to a charitable organization |
| reproof | the act of censuring, scolding, or rebuking. (v. reprove). |
| depredation | the act of preying upon or plundering: “The depredations of the invaders demoralized the population.” |
| effluent | the quality of flowing out. something that flows out, such as a stream from a river (n: effluence) |
| vex | to annoy; to bother; to perplex; to puzzle; to debate at length: “Franklin vexed his brother with his controversial writings.” |
| placate | to calm or reduce anger by making concessions: “The professor tried to placate his students by postponing the exam.” |
| castigate | to chastise or criticize severely |
| occlude | to close or shut off; to obstruct (n: occlusion) |
| dissemble | to conceal one’s real motive, to feign |
| propitiate | to conciliate; to appease: “They made sacrifices to propitiate angry gods.” |
| aver | to declare |
| infer | to deduce: “New genetic evidence led some zoologists to infer that the red wolf is actually a hybrid of the coyote and the gray wolf.” |
| exculpate | to demonstrate or prove to be blameless: “The evidence tended to exculpate the defendant.”(adj: exculpatory) |
| desiccate | to dry out thoroughly (adj: desiccated) |
| precipitate | to fall; to fall downward suddenly and dramatically; to bring about or hasten the occurrence of something: “Old World diseases precipitated a massive decline in the American Indian population.” |
| disabuse | to free a person from falsehood or error: “We had to disabuse her of the notion that she was invited.” |
| cadge | to get something by taking advantage of someone |
| feign | to give false appearance or impression: “He feigned illness to avoid going to school.” (adj: feigned) |
| engender | to give rise to, to propagate, to cause: “His slip of the tounge engendered much laughter.” |
| burgeon | to grow or flourish; a bud or new growth (adj: burgeoning ) |
| waver | to hesitate or to tremble |
| inhibit | to hold back, prohibit, forbid, or restrain (n: inhibition, adj: inhibited) |
| exacerbate | to increase the bitterness or violence of; to aggravate: “The decision to fortify the border exacerbated tensions.” |
| abscond | to leave secretly and hide, often to avoid the law. |
| descry | to make clear, to say |
| aggrandize | to make greater, to increase, thus, to exaggerate. |
| mitigate | to make less forceful; to become more moderate; to make less harsh or undesirable: “He was trying to mitigate the damage he had done.” (n: mitigation) |
| assuage | to make less severe; to appease or satisfy |
| rarefy | to make or become thin; to purify or refine (n: rarefaction, adj: rarefied) |
| obviate | to prevent by anticipatory measures; to make unnecessary: |
| rescind | to repeal or annul |
| sate | to satisfy fully or to excess |
| fawn | to seek favor or attention; to act subserviently (n, adj: fawning) |
| arbitrate | to settle a dispute by impulse (n: arbitration) |
| depict | to show, create a picture of. |
| advocate | to speak, plead, or argue for a cause, or in another’s behalf. (n) — one who advocates. |
| prevaricate | to stray away from or evade the truth: “When we asked him what his intentions were, he prevaricated.”(n: prevarication; prevaricator) |
| corroborate | to strengthen or support: “The witness corroborted his story.” (n: corroboration) |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel (n: emulation) |
| imply | to suggest indirectly; to entail: “She implied she didn’t believe his story.” (n: implication) |
| buttress | to support. a support |
| amalgamate | to unite or mix. (n) — amalgamation. |
| enervate | to weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: “The heatenervated everyone.” |
| ossified | turned to bone; hardened like bone; Inflexible: “The ossified culture failed to adapt to new economic conditions and died out.” |
| tortuous | twisted; excessively complicated: “Despite public complaints, tax laws and forms have become increasingly tortuous.” Note: Don’t confuse this with torturous. |
| barefaced | unconcealed, shameless, or brazen |
| ineffable | inexpressible in words; unspeakable |
| hapless | unfortunate |
| ingenuous | unsophisticated; artless; straightforward; candid: “Wilson’s ingenuous response to the controversial calmed the suspicious listeners.” |
| tacit | unspoken: “Katie and carmella had a tacit agreement that they would not mention the dented fender to their parents.” |
| laconic | using few words; terse: “a laconic reply.” |
| ambiguous | vague; subject to more than one interpretation |
| garrulous | verbose; talkative; rambling: “We tried to avoid our garrulous neighbor.” |
| attenuate | weaken (adj: attenuated) |
| lugubrious | weighty, mournful, or gloomy, especially to an excessive degree: “Jake’s lugubrious monologues depressed his friends.” |
| nefarious | wicked, evil: “a nefarious plot.” |
| complaisant | willingly compliant or accepting of the status quo (n: complaisance) |
| verbose | wordy: “The instructor asked her verbose student make her paper more concise.” (n: verbosity) |
New GRE doesn’t have synonyms and antonyms section, but tough new words will appear in reading comprehension.
Don’t take New GRE without studying for New GRE Words.
Above New GRE Verbal word list should give an idea about new GRE words.
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Is the pattern of GRE changed? If yes, can you please give me detailed explaination of changed pattern via email.
i,ve downloaded & read your e books. I hope they will help me. Thank you…
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Pls, benefit me with latest update on GRE computer based exams on january 2011, does Gre still test analogies, antonyms in verbal
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