GRE Verbal Reasoning: List 1

The GRE Verbal Reasoning Test will test your vocabulary in a variety of different ways. Multiple choice questions will check your understanding of reading comprehension passages. On text completion questions, you will need to identify individual words that best fit in a sentence. On sentence equivalence questions, you will be asked to select two words that have essentially the same meaning and that best complete a sentence. We've collected some of the words that appear most commonly on the GRE Verbal Reasoning Test. Master these words to ensure that you do your best on test day.
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  1. acquiesce
    agree or express agreement
  2. acumen
    shrewdness shown by keen insight
  3. aggrandize
    embellish; increase the scope, power, or importance of
  4. banal
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  5. cacophony
    loud confusing disagreeable sounds
  6. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  7. dissemble
    make believe with the intent to deceive
  8. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  9. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  10. exigent
    demanding immediate attention
  11. facade
    the front of a building
  12. homage
    respectful deference
  13. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  14. laconic
    brief and to the point
  15. monotonous
    tediously repetitious or lacking in variety
  16. morose
    showing a brooding ill humor
  17. obstinate
    refusing to change one's mind or ways; difficult to convince
  18. prolific
    bearing in abundance especially offspring
  19. polemical
    of or involving dispute or controversy
  20. profound
    far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect
  21. sublime
    of high moral or intellectual value
  22. specious
    plausible but false
  23. terse
    brief and to the point
  24. tacit
    implied by or inferred from actions or statements
  25. zeal
    a feeling of strong eagerness
Created on Wed Jan 06 15:34:13 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 06 16:13:02 EST 2021)

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