Gre SYN & ANT of high freq words

abeyance - suspended action

d. suspended action

alacrity - cheerful promptness

a. slowness

alleviate - to relieve

b. worsen

amalgamate - to combine

b. separate

ambiguous - unclear or doubtful in meaning

d. clear

ameliorate - to improve

d. make worse

appease - to pacify or soothe, relieve

• antonym
• a. agitate

attenuate - make thinner, weaker or lessen

c. weaken

audacity - daring, bold

a. boldness

banal - hackneyed, commonplace, trite, lacking orginality

b. trite

bombastic - pompous, using inflated language

b. pompous

boorish - rude, insensitive

b. oafish

capricious - unpredictable, fickle

e. steadfast

castigation - punishment, severe criticism

a. commendation

compliant - yielding, conforming to requirements

• antonym
• d. adamant ( inflexible)

conciliate - reconcile, soothe

• antonym
• d. quarrel

condone - overlook, forgive, give tacit approval, excuse

• synonym
• e. overlook

connoisseur - person competent to act as a judge of art, lover of art

b. lover of art

contentious - quarrelsome

c. quarrelsome

dautness - intimidate, frighten

b. cowardly

decorous - propriety, orderliness and good taste in manners

d. proper

default - failure to act

a. failure to act

denigrate - blacken

b. blacken

diatribe - bitter scolding, invective

c. eulogy

diffidence - shyness

b. boldness

disingenuous - lacking genuine candor, insincere

• synonym
• c. naive

disinterested - unpredjudiced

• antonym
• a. prejudiced

disjointed - lacking coherence, separated at the joints

• antonym
• d.connected

distend - expand, swell out

• synonym
• a. bloat

dogmatic - opinionated, arbitary, doctrinal

• synonym
• e. arbitrary

embellish - adorn, ornament, enhance as a story

d. adorn

ephemeral - short lived, fleeting

e. eternal

equanimity - calmness of temperament, composure

a. agitation

erudite - learned, scholarly

e. ignorant

exculpate - clear from blame

a. blame

fatuous - brainless, inane, foolish, yet smug

• antonym
• d. sensible

fledgling - inexperienced

• synonym
• c. beginning

foment - stir up, instigate

b. instigate

frugality - thrift, economy

e. economy

garrulous - loquacious, wordy, talkative

e. talkative

gregarious - sociable

a. antisocial

gullible - easily decieved

a. incredulous (unable to believe)

hyperbole - exaggeration, overstatement

d. understatment

immutable - unchangeable

• antonym
• b. changing

impair - injure, hurt

• antonym
• c. make worse

impassive - without feeling, imperturbable ( not easily excited), stoical (seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain)


b. demonstrative(given to or marked by the open expression of emotion)

indigent - poverty

c. penurious (not having enough money to pay for necessities)

indolence - lazy

a. sloth

ingenuous - naive and trusting, young, unsophisticated

c. naive

innocuous - harmless

b. not dangerous

insinuate - hint, imply, creep in

b. suggest

insipid - lacking flavor, dull

b. flat

intractable - unruly, stubborn, unyielding

c. unruly

intransigence - refusal to comprise, stubbornness

b. stubbornness

inundate - overwhelm, flood, submerge

e. flood

laconic - brief and to the point

b. verbose

latent - potential but underdeveloped, dormant, hidden

e. obvious

laudatory - praise

c. defamatory (a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions)

lethargic - drowsy, dull

d. invigorating

levity - lack of seriousness or steadiness

e. solemnity (a trait of dignified seriousness)

loquacious - talkative

a. taciturn (habitually reserved and uncommunicative)

malleable - capable of being shaped by pounding, impressionable

• antonym
• a. brittle

meticulous - excessively carefuly, painstaking, scrupulous

d. painstaking

misanthrope - man hater

c. man hater

mollify - soothe

e. appease

mundane - worldly as opposed to spiritual, everyday

e. worldly

negation - cancel out, nullify, deny

c. affirmation

neophyte - recent convert, beginner

a. veteran

obdurate - stubborn

a. yielding

obsequious - slavishly attentive, servile, sycophantic (attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery)

c. supercilious (the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior)

opprobrium - infamy, vilification

e. praise

ostentatious - showy, pretentious, trying to attract attention

b. unassuming (modest)

penchant - strong inclination, liking

c. dislike

penurious - severe poverty, stinginess

c. generous

perfunctory - superficial, not thorough, laking interest, care or enthusiasm

b. thorough

permeable - penetrable, porous, allowing liquids or gas to pass through

d. impenetrable

phlematic - calm, not easily distrubed

a. calm

placate - pacify, conciliate

c. pacify

platitude - trite remark, commonplace statement

d. trite remark

precarious - uncertain, risky

d. hazardous

precipitate - rash, premature, hasty, sudden

c. cautious

presumption - arrogant, talking liberties

e. predatory (living by or given to victimizing others for personal gain)

pristine - characteristic of earlier times, primitive

a. cultivated

probity - uprightness, incorruptibility

c. corruptibility

prodigal - wasteful, reckless with money

b. thrifty

recalcitrant - obstinatley stubborn, determined to resist authority, unruly

• antonym
• e. cooperative

recluse - hermit, loner

• antonym
• c. social person

recondite - abstruse (incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge), profound, secret

• antonym
• b. easily conprehensible

refractory - stubborn, unmanageable

e. unmanageable

repudiate - disown, disavow

d. reject

reticence - reserved, uncommunicative, inclined to silence

d. loquaciousness

revere - respectful, worshipful

b. dishonor

salubrious - healthful

c. miasmic ( of noxious stench from atmospheric pollution)

soporific - sleep causing, makring by sleepiness

• antonym
• d. awakening

tacit - understood, not put into words

• synonym
• a. spoken

tractable - docile, easily managed

a. unmanageable

truculent - aggressiveness, ferocity

c. peaceful

venerate - revere

• synonym
• a. revere

veracious - truthful

• synonym
• d. truthful

viable - practical or workable, capable of maintaining life

• antonym
• a. moribund (being on the point of death; breathing your last)

welter - turmoil, bewildering jumble

e. tumult (a state of commotion and noise and confusion)

zealot - fanatic, person who shows excessive zeal

c. fanatic