An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the GRE Graduate Record Exam.
GRE Word List-3
| connoisseur | expert in matters of taste |
| conscript | a person compulsorily enrolled for military |
| consecrate | to declare sacred |
| contend | to assert |
| contentious | quarrelsome; causing quarrels |
| contiguous | touching |
| continence | self-control |
| contrite | very sorrowful for a wrong |
| contumacious | disobedient; |
| conundrum | riddle |
| convention | practice widely observed in a group |
| converge | to approach |
| convex | curved outward |
| convivial | sociable |
| convoluted | twisted |
| copious | abundant |
| coquette | woman who flirts |
| cornucopia | horn overflowing with fruit and grain; |
| cosmology | study of the universe as a totality |
| covert | hidden; secret |
| covetous | desiring something owned by another |
| cozen | to mislead by trick or fraud; decieve |
| craven | cowardly |
| credence | acceptance of something as true |
| credo | statement of belief or principle; creed |
| daunt | to discourage; intimidate; dishearten |
| dearth | scarcity |
| debauchery | corruption |
| decorum | proper behavior |
| defame | to malign; harm someone’s reputation |
| default | to fail to act |
| deference | respect; regard for another’s wish |
| defunct | no longer existing |
| delineate | to represent or depict |
| demographic | related to population balance |
| demotic | pertaining to people |
| demur | to express doubt; question or oppose |
| denigrate | to slur someone’s reputation |
| denizen | an inhabitant; a regular visitor |
| denouement | outcome |
| deride | to mock |
| derivative | something derived; unoriginal |
| desiccate | to dry completely |
| desuetude | state of disuse |
| desultory | random; disconnected; rambling |
| deterrent | something that discourages or hinders |
| detraction | the act of taking away |
| diaphanous | transparent; vague; insubstancial |
| diatribe | bitter verbal attack |
| dichotomy | division into two usually contradictory parts |
| diffidence | shyness; lack of confidence |
| diffuse | to spread out |
| digression | act of straying from the main point |
| dirge | funeral hymn |
| disabuse | free from a misconception |
| discerning | perceptive |
| discomfit | to make uneasy; disconcert |
| discordant | not in tune |
| discredit | to dishonor; disgrace |
| discrepancy | difference between |
| discrete | constituing a separate thing; distinct |
| discretion | quality of showing self-restraint in speech or action |
| disingenuous | not candid, crafty |
| disinterested | unpredujiced; objective |
| disjointed | lacking order or coherence; dislocated |
| dismiss | put away from consideration; reject |
| disparage | to belittle |
| disparate | dissimilar |
| dissemble | to pretend; disguise one’s motives |
| disseminate | to spread; scatter; disperse |
| dissident | person who disagrees about beliefs |
| dissolution | disintegration;debauchery |
| dissonance | discord; lack of harmony |
| distend | to expand; swell out |
| distill | extract the essential elements |
| distrait | inattentive; preoccupied |
| diverge | to vary; |
| divest | to strip; deprive; rid |
| divulge | to make known something that is secret |
| doctrinaire | dogmatic; unyielding |
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