gre word list 2

Nataliya S. (United States of America)
100 words 0 learners

Learn words with Flashcards and other activities

Definition First
Print Flashcards

Other learning activities

Answer a few questions about each word. Use this to prep for your next quiz! Compete with other teams in real time to see who answers the most questions correctly! Test your spelling acumen. Read the definition, listen to the word and try spelling it!

Teaching tools

Create and assign quizzes to your students to test their vocabulary. Assign learning activities including Practice, Vocabulary Jams and Spelling Bees to your students, and monitor their progress in real-time.

Full list of words from this list:

words only definitions & notes
  1. acerbic
    sour or bitter in taste
  2. acute
    ending in a sharp point
  3. adagio
    slowly
  4. addle
    mix up or confuse
  5. adherent
    someone who believes and helps to spread a doctrine
  6. amnesty
    a warrant granting release from punishment for an offense
  7. aspiring
    desiring or striving for recognition or advancement
  8. beget
    have children
  9. bland
    lacking taste or flavor or tang
  10. brevity
    the attribute of being short or fleeting
  11. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  12. chary
    characterized by great caution
  13. chicanery
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  14. chronic
    long-lasting or characterized by long suffering
  15. circuitous
    deviating from a straight course
  16. circumscribe
    draw a geometric figure around another figure
  17. circumvent
    surround so as to force to give up
  18. clandestine
    conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods
  19. clemency
    leniency and compassion shown toward offenders
  20. cloying
    overly sweet
  21. coalesce
    fuse or cause to come together
  22. coerce
    cause to do through pressure or necessity
  23. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  24. cognition
    the psychological result of perception and reasoning
  25. coherent
    marked by an orderly and consistent relation of parts
  26. coiffure
    the arrangement of the hair
  27. collusion
    secret agreement
  28. comestible
    suitable for use as food
  29. compendium
    a publication containing a variety of works
  30. complicity
    guilt as a confederate in a crime or offense
  31. concise
    expressing much in few words
  32. concord
    a harmonious state of things and of their properties
  33. cornucopia
    a horn filled with fruit and grain symbolizing prosperity
  34. crucible
    a vessel used for high temperature chemical reactions
  35. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  36. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
  37. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  38. enigma
    something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained
  39. ensue
    take place or happen afterward or as a result
  40. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  41. epicurean
    devoted to pleasure
  42. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  43. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
  44. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  45. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  46. eulogy
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died
  47. euphony
    any pleasing and harmonious sounds
  48. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  49. fungible
    freely exchangeable for something of like nature
  50. hubbub
    loud confused noise from many sources
  51. inane
    devoid of intelligence
  52. inerrant
    not liable to error
  53. inherit
    receive from a predecessor
  54. malleable
    capable of being shaped or bent
  55. obdurate
    stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing
  56. patron
    someone who supports or champions something
  57. pervade
    spread or diffuse through
  58. portray
    represent, as in a work of art
  59. precise
    sharply exact or accurate or delimited
  60. rapacious
    living by preying on other animals
  61. rapacity
    reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
  62. saccharine
    overly sweet
  63. scofflaw
    one who habitually ignores the law and does not answer court summonses
  64. sinuous
    curved or curving in and out
  65. spurious
    plausible but false
  66. symbiosis
    the relation between two interdependent species of organisms
  67. verbosity
    an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
  68. vocation
    the particular occupation for which you are trained
  69. ruminate
    reflect deeply on a subject
  70. fringe
    an ornamental border of short lengths of hanging threads
  71. predate
    be earlier in time; go back further
  72. conceit
    the trait of being unduly vain
  73. render
    give or supply
  74. herbivorous
    feeding only on plants
  75. pallid
    pale, as of a person's complexion
  76. imperiousness
    the trait of being imperious and overbearing
  77. perspicacity
    the ability to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
  78. permeability
    the property of something that can be pervaded by a liquid
  79. vapidity
    the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
  80. piquancy
    a tart, spicy quality
  81. carnal
    of or relating to the body or flesh
  82. elated
    exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits
  83. polemicist
    a writer who argues in opposition to others
  84. diminish
    decrease in size, extent, or range
    make smaller
  85. docile
    easily handled or managed
    obedient, easy to lead
    "docile child"
  86. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
    distance, separation - dis + parity
  87. wanton
    a lewd or immoral person
    random, thoughtless "wanton spending" "wanton destruction"
  88. cosmopolitan
    composed of people from many parts of the world
    worldly
    cosmo=universe
    polis=city, state, society
  89. exude
    release in drops or small quantities
  90. catalyst
    substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction
  91. catharsis
    purging the body to stimulate evacuation of the bowels
    purification by release
  92. stature
    the height of a standing person
  93. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
    mechanical
    per= through function=motion, action
    going throug the motions
    "perfunctory thanks"
  94. perjury
    criminal offense of making false statements under oath
  95. bovine
    any of various wild or domestic cattle
    cow-like

    compare: equine (horse) feline (cat) canine (dog)
    ursine (bear)
  96. bravado
    a swaggering show of courage
  97. stipulate
    make an express demand or provision in an agreement
  98. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  99. peevish
    easily irritated or annoyed
  100. penchant
    a strong liking or preference
Created on Tue Dec 01 17:48:10 EST 2009 (updated Thu Jan 07 11:47:15 EST 2010)

Sign up now (it’s free!)

Whether you’re a teacher or a learner, Vocabulary.com can put you or your class on the path to systematic vocabulary improvement.