GRE Verbal Reasoning: List 9

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. austere
    severely simple
  2. acerbic
    harsh or corrosive in tone
  3. attenuate
    become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude
  4. condone
    excuse, overlook, or make allowances for
  5. contrite
    feeling or expressing pain or sorrow
  6. dilatory
    wasting time
  7. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  8. eclectic
    selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
  9. extemporaneous
    with little or no preparation or forethought
  10. fortuitous
    lucky; occurring by happy chance
  11. frugality
    prudence in avoiding waste
  12. guile
    the use of tricks to deceive someone
  13. inimitable
    matchless
  14. magnanimous
    generous and understanding and tolerant
  15. mercurial
    liable to sudden unpredictable change
  16. obviate
    prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening
  17. prevaricate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  18. placate
    cause to be more favorably inclined
  19. prudence
    discretion in practical affairs
  20. propitiate
    make peace with
  21. scrupulous
    characterized by extreme care and great effort
  22. succinct
    briefly giving the gist of something
  23. sanguine
    confidently optimistic and cheerful
  24. torpor
    a state of motor and mental inactivity
  25. voluble
    marked by a ready flow of speech
Created on Wed Jan 06 15:38:09 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 06 18:15:02 EST 2021)

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