List of 100 difficult words that appear most frequently in GRE Sl.No.
Word
Meaning
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.
Equivocal/Equivocate/Equivocation Tractable (Intractable) Placate (Implacable) Miser Engender Dogma(tic)(tism(tist) Garrulous (Garrulity) Homogeneous (Homogenize) Laconic Quiescence (Quiescent) Anomalous Venerate (ion) Assuage Misanthrope (-ic) Digress(ive)
16. 17. 18.
Corroborate (ion) Buttress Antipathy
19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.
Disabuse Feigned (Unfeigned) Banal(ity) Desiccate (ion) Diatribe Pedant(ic)(ry) Guile(less) Eulogy (-ize) Fawn(ing) Aberrant/aberration Heresy/Heretic(al)
30. 31. 32.
Obdurate Prevaricate(-ion) Embellish(ment)
33.
Pragmatic/Pragmatism
34.
Precipitate
Ambiguous, open to two interpretations Obedient, yielding To soothe or pacify Person who is extremely stingy To produce, cause, bring out Rigidly fixed in opinion, opinionated Very talkative Composed of identical parts Using few words Inactivity, stillness Irregular or deviating from the norm To respect To make less severe, ease, relieve Person who hates human beings To turn aside; to stray from the main point To confirm, verify To reinforce or support Dislike, hostility, extreme opposition or aversion To free from error or misconception Pretended Trite and overly commom To dry completely, dehydrate Bitter verbal attack Uninspired, boring academic Trickery, deception High praise, often in public To flatter excessively, seek the favor of Different from the usual or normal An act opposed to established religious orthodoxy Stubborn To lie, evade the truth To ornament; make attractive with decoration or details; add details to a statement Practical, moved by facts rather than abstract ideals To cause to happen; to throw down from a height
35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
Proximity Profundity Adulterate Sanction Ameliorate (-ion) Anachronism/Anachronistic
41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48.
Vindictive Propitiate Aver Burgeon(-ing) Commensurate Mitigate/Mitigation Culpability Spacious(ness)
49. 50. 51. 52.
Turpitude Diffident/Diffidence Repudiate Discrete
53.
Obviate
54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67.
Dissemble Implacable Emulate Complaisance/Complaisant Enervate Latency Erudite (ition) Espouse Florid(ness) Occlude Harangue Hieroglyph(ic) Iconoclast Impervious
68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74.
Efficacy/Efficacious Inchoate Loquacity/loquacious Irascible (-ility) Ephemeral Laudable (-tory) Insipid
Nearness Depth (usually depth of thought) To corrupt or make impure Permission, support; law; penalty To make better, improve Something chronologically inapporapriate Spiteful, vengeful, unforgiving To win over, appease To declare to be true, affirm To sprout or flourish Proportional To soften, or make milder Guilt, responsibility for wrong Having a false appearance of truth; showy Inherent baseness, depravity Shy, lacking confidence To reject as having no authority Individually distinct; consisting of unconnected elements To make unnecessary; to anticipate and prevent To pretend, disguise one’s motives Inflexible, incapable of being pleased To copy, imitate Disposition to please or comply To weaken, sap strength from The condition of being present but hidden Learned, scholarly To support or advocate, to marry Gaudy, extremely ornate, ruddy, flushed To shut, block A ranting writing or speech, lecture Pictorial character One who attacks traditional beliefs Impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected Effectiveness, efficiency Imperfectly formed or formulated Talkative Easily angered Momentary, transient, fleeting Deserving of praise Bland, lacking flavour; lacking
75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84.
Magnanimity/Magnanimous Precarious(ly) Endemic Mollify Rarefy/Rarefaction Disinterest(ed)(edness) Foster Perennial Malevolent Defer(ence)
85. 86. 87. 88. 89. 90. 91. 92. 93. 94. 95. 96.
Precursory(y) Lucid Probity Abscond Propensity Audacious Wheedle Prudent Mundane Diffuse Aggrandize Decimate
97. 98. 99. 100.
Succinct Enigma(tic) Unfettered Ascetic
excitement Generosity Uncertain Belonging to a particular area; inherent To calm or make less severe To make thinner, purer, or more refined Unbiased; not interested To nourish, cultivate, promote Present throughout the years; persistent Ill-willed; causing evil or harm to others To show respect or politeness in a submissive way Forerunner, predecessor Clear and easily understood Honesty, high-mindedness To depart secretly and hide Inclination, tendency Bold, daring, fearless To influence or entice by flattery Careful, cautious Worldly; commonplace Widely spread out To make larger or greater in power To reduce drastically; to destroy a large part of Terse, brief, concise A puzzle, something inexplicable Free, unrestrained Self-denying, abstinent, austere
