GRE Verbal Reasoning: List 5

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. ambiguous
    open to two or more interpretations
  2. ambivalent
    uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
  3. approbation
    official recognition or commendation
  4. belligerent
    characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight
  5. capricious
    determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity
  6. castigate
    censure severely
  7. demur
    politely refuse or take exception to
  8. ennui
    the feeling of being bored by something tedious
  9. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  10. erratic
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  11. fulminate
    criticize severely
  12. intransigent
    impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason
  13. impassive
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  14. laud
    praise, glorify, or honor
  15. milieu
    the environmental condition
  16. naive
    marked by or showing unaffected simplicity
  17. nascent
    being born or beginning
  18. nonplussed
    filled with bewilderment
  19. precipitate
    bring about abruptly
  20. pique
    a sudden outburst of anger
  21. permeate
    spread or diffuse through
  22. solicitous
    full of anxiety and concern
  23. vapid
    lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  24. verbose
    using or containing too many words
  25. veracity
    unwillingness to tell lies
Created on Wed Jan 06 15:36:10 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 06 17:24:41 EST 2021)

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