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

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Word Groups

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GRE Word Groups

Updated

2010-09-07T05:34:27Z

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