GRE Verbal Reasoning: List 6

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. anachronism
    locating something at a time when it couldn't have existed
  2. anomaly
    deviation from the normal or common order, form, or rule
  3. ardor
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  4. articulate
    express or state clearly
  5. cogent
    powerfully persuasive
  6. culpable
    deserving blame or censure as being wrong or injurious
  7. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  8. discordant
    not in agreement or harmony
  9. efficacy
    capacity or power to produce a desired result
  10. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  11. exculpate
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  12. innocuous
    lacking intent or capacity to injure
  13. irascible
    quickly aroused to anger
  14. luminous
    softly bright or radiant
  15. lurid
    glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism
  16. mollify
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  17. obfuscate
    make obscure or unclear
  18. opprobrium
    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  19. paucity
    an insufficient quantity or number
  20. plethora
    extreme excess
  21. recondite
    difficult to understand
  22. stolid
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  23. salubrious
    promoting health
  24. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  25. vitiate
    take away the legal force of or render ineffective
Created on Wed Jan 06 15:36:39 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 06 17:39:46 EST 2021)

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