GRE Verbal Reasoning: List 8

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. audacious
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  2. auspicious
    indicating favorable circumstances and good luck
  3. assiduous
    marked by care and persistent effort
  4. candid
    characterized by directness in manner or speech
  5. canonical
    conforming to orthodox or recognized rules
  6. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  7. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  8. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  9. enumerate
    specify individually
  10. explicit
    precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable
  11. grandiloquent
    puffed up with vanity
  12. impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
  13. ignoble
    dishonorable in character or purpose
  14. intractable
    difficult to manage or mold
  15. monolithic
    characterized by rigidity and total uniformity
  16. myopic
    lacking foresight or scope
  17. prosaic
    not challenging; dull and lacking excitement
  18. prolix
    tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at length
  19. perfunctory
    hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough
  20. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  21. ruminate
    reflect deeply on a subject
  22. repudiate
    refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid
  23. sycophant
    a person who tries to please someone to gain an advantage
  24. vilify
    spread negative information about
  25. vex
    disturb, especially by minor irritations
Created on Wed Jan 06 15:37:37 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 06 18:06:50 EST 2021)

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