GRE high frequency words.txt

to subside or to moderate

abnormal or deviant

suspended action

to depart secretly and hide

sparing in eating and drinking temperate

to warn or to scold harshly or to criticize severly

to make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances

artistic

to gather or to accumulate

a cheerful promptness or eagerness

to relieve

to combine or to unite in one body

unclear or doubtful in meaning

the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes

to improve

something or someone misplaced in time

comparable

the absence of a governing body

abnormal or irregular

a firm dislike

lack of caring or indifference

to pacify or to soothe or to relieve

to inform

an approval

hard or strenuous

without deceit or open and honest

practicing self denial or stern

diligent

to ease or lessen pain or satisfy hunger or soothe anger

to make thinner or weaken or to lessen

daring or bold

forbiddingly stern or severely simple and unornamented

self governing

to assert confidently or to declare

commonplace

to contradict or to give a false impression

kindly or doing good

to support or to reinforce

pompous or using inflated language

rude or insensitive

to grow forth or to send out buds

to make shiny by rubbing or to polish

to support or to prop up

discordant or inharmonious

unpredictable or fickle

punishment or severe criticism

an agent that influences the pace of a chemical reaction while it remians unaffected and unchanged, person or thing that causes action

burning or saracastically biting

trickery or deception

to thicken or to congeal or to clot

concluding section of a musical or literary composition, something that summarizes or concludes

convincing

corresponding in extent, degree, amount

a brief or comprehensive summary

trying to please or overly polite or obliging

yielding or conforming to requirements

reconciling or soothing

to overlook or to forgive

to confuse or to puzzle

a person competent to act as a judge of art or a lover of art

a claim or thesis

quarrelsome

feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds

a riddle or a difficult problem

to appoach

coiled around or involved or intricate

cowardly

to intimidate or to frighten

a propriety or oderliness and good taste in manners

a failture ot act

a courteous regard for anothers wish

to portray or to depict or to sketch

to blacken or to soil or to ruin

to ridicule or to make fun of

unoriginal or obtained from another source

to dry up

aimless or haphazard or digressing at random

something that discourages

a bitter scolding

a split or branching into two parts (especially contradicting parts)

shyness

wordy or rambling or spread out

wandering away from the subject

express sorrow with music

to correct a false impression or to undeceive

mentally quick and observant or having insight

not harmonious or conflicting

to defame or destroy confidence in or disbelieve

a lack of consistency or a difference

separate or unconnected or consisting of distinct parts

lakcing genuine candor or insincere

unprejudiced

lacking coherence or separated at the joints

to eliminate from consideration or to reject

to belittle

basicallly difference or unrelated

to disguise or to pretent

to distribute or to spread or to scatter

a disintegration or looseness in morals

discord or opposite of harmony

to expand or to swell out

to purify or to refine or to concentrate

to vary or to go in different directions from the same point

to strip or to deprive

to provide written evidence

opinionated or arbitrary

sleeping or lethargic or latent

someone easily fooled

showing excitement or overflowing with enthusiasm

selective or composed of elements drawn from disparate sources

power to produce desired effect

impudence or shameless boldness or sheer nerve or presumptuousness

poem or song expressing a cry of sorrow

to draw out by discussion

to adorn or to enhance or to ornament

based on experience

to imitate or to rival

prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specfiic area or country

to weaken

to cause or to produce

to increase or to improve

short lived or fleeting

a calmness of temperament or compsure

to lie or to mislead or an attempt to conceal the truth

learned or scholarly

hard to understand or known only to the chosen few

an expression of praise or often on the occasion of someone's death

a mild expression in place of an unpleasant one

to worsen or embitter

to clear from blame

an urgent situation or pressing needs or demand or a state of requiring immediate attention

a projection or a conjecture

joking often inappropriately or humorous

to help bring about or to make less difficult

false or misleading

brainless or inane or foolish or yet smug

trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering or cringing

apt or suitable expressed or well chosen

a flowing ardor or an intensity of feeling

to droop or grow feeble

inexperienced

to reject or to mock or to show contempt for

to stir up or instigate

to prevent by taking action in advance

thrift or economy

useless or hopeless or ineffectual

to deny

loquacious or wordy or talkative

to urge on

to overcharge

pompous or bomastic or using high sounding language

sociable

without deceit

easily deceived

long, passionate and fierce speech

of the same kind

an exaggeration or overstatement

attacking cherished traditions

a worship of idols or excessive admiration

unchangeable

to injure or to hurt

without feeling or imperturbable or stocial

to hinder or block

impervious or not permitting passage through its substance

calm or placid

impenetrable or incapable of being damaged or distressed

incapable of being pacified

understood bu not stated

to burst inward

unintentionally or by oversight or carelessly

recently begun or rudimentary or elementary

a lack of harmony or absurdity

insignificant or unimportant

to introduce something into a larger whole or combine or to unite

uncertain or not clearly fixed or indefinite

poverty

lazy

inactive or lacking power to move

naive and trusting or young or unsophisticated

firmly established by nature or habit

harmless

unconscious or unresponsive

to hint or to imply or to creep in

lacking in flavor or dull

a narrow mindedness or isloation

unruly or stubborn or unyielding

a refusal of any comprise or stubborness

to overwhelm or to flood or to submerge

accustomed or hardened

an abuse (not physical)

irritable or easily angered

uncertain how to act or weak

a plan of a trip

brief and to the point

a languor or a weariness

potential but undeveloped or dormant or hidden

to praise

drowsy, dull

an earthen or stone embarkment to prevent flooding

a lack of seriousness or steadiness

a record of voyage or flight or a record of a day to day activities

talkative

easily understood or clear or intelligible

shining or issuing light

generosity

one who feigns illness to escape duty

capable of being shaped by pounding or impressionable

a rebel or nonconformist

lying or habitually dishonest

a change of form

excessively careful or painstaking or scrupulous

one how hates mankind

to lessen in intensity or moderate or appease

to soothe

ill humored or sullen or melancholy

wordly as opposed to spiritual or everyday

to cancel out or to nullify or to deny

a recent convert or beginner

stubborn

slavishly attentive or servile or flattery

to make unnecessary or to get rid of

to shut or to close

meddlesome or excessively pushy in offering one's services

burdensome

infamy or vilification

to vibrate pendulumlike or to waver

show or pretentious or trying to attract attention

a model of perfection

one sided or prejudiced or commited to a party

pertaining to disease

scarcity

showing off learning or bookish

a strong inclination or liking

a severe poverty or a stinginess

something long lasting

treacherous or disloyal

superficial or not torough or lacking interest or enthusiasm

penetrable or porous or allowing liquids or gas to pass through

spead throughout

calm or not easily diturbed

a devoutness or reverence for god

to pacify or to conciliate

an ability to be molded

a trite remark or a commonplace comment

an excess or an overabundance

to fall sharply

full of pores

practical or concerned with the practical worth or impace of something

an introductory statement

uncertain or risky

rash or remature or hasty or sudden

a forerunner

arrogant or taking liberties

to lie

characteristic of earlier times or primative

an uprightness or incorruptibility

doubtful or unsettled or questionable or perplexing

wasteful or reckless with money

deep or not superficial or complete

tending to prevent the purchase or use of something

to grow rapidly or to spread or to muliply

a natural inclination

to appease

a fitness or a correct conduct

to ostracise or to banish or to outlaw

stinging or sharp in taste or smell or caustic

limited or restricted

a minor objection or complaint

at rest or dormant or temporarily inactive

made less dense of a gas

obstinately stubborn or determined to resist authority or unruly

to disclaim or disavow or to retract a previous statement or to openly confess an error

a hermit or a loner

abstruse or profound or secret

stubborn or unmanageable

to disprove

to banish to an inferior position or delegate or assign

to express disapproval or disappointment

a person hardened in sin or devoid of a sense of decency

to disown or to disavow

to cancel

a determination

a determination or a firmness of purpose

reserved or uncommunicative or inclined to silence

respectful or worshipful

a person celebrated for wisdom

healthful

to approve, ratify

to satisfy fully

to soak thoroughly

to enjoy or have a distinctive flavor, smell or quality

to hide away or cache or to produce and release a substance into an organism

a fragment, generally of pottery

a doubter or a person who suspends judement until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view

worried or concerned

sleep causing or marked by sleepiness

seemingly reasonable but incorrect or misleading often intentionally

a colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism

occuring irregularly

a token of disgrace, brand

to be thrifty, set limits

to make express conditions, specify

dull or impassive

marked with parallel bands, grooved

a pompous walk

a supporting bar

a writ summoning a whitness to appear

to settle down, descend, grow quiet

to establish by evidence, verify, support

to cause to be set aside, replace, make obsolete

a hypothesis, surmise

understood, not put into words

peripheral, only slightly connected, digressing

thing, rare, slim

an extended scolding, denunciation, harangue

a lethargy, sluggishness, dormancy

winding, full of curves

docile, easily managed

a violation of a law, sin

an aggressiveness, ferocity

to waver, fluctuate

to revere

truthful

wordy

practical or workable

sticky or gluey

abusive, scolding

changeable, explosive, evaporating rapidly

justified, authorized

very cautious

a turmoil, bewildering jumble

a capricous, fanciful

a fanatic, person who shows excessive zeal