An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the GRE Graduate Record Exam.
GRE word list
fidelity | loyalty; exact correspondence |
filibuster | use of obstructive tactics in a legislature to block passage of a law |
finesse | to handle with a deceptive or evasive strategy; |
fissure | crevice |
flag | to droop; grow weak |
fledging | beginner; novice |
flora | plants of a region or era |
florid | ruddy; reddish; flowery |
flourish | en embellishment or ornamentation |
flout | to treat scornfully |
flux | flowing; a continuous moving |
foment | to incite; arouse |
forbearance | patience |
forestall | to prevent; delay |
formidable | menacing; threatening |
forswear | renounce; repudiate |
founder | to sink; fail; colapse |
fracas | a loud quarrel; brawl |
fractious | quarrelsome; unruly; rebellious |
fresco | a painting done on plaster |
frieze | ornamental band on a wall |
froward | stubbornly contrary; obstinately disobedient |
frugality | thrift |
fulminate | to attack loudly; denounce |
fulsome | so excessive as to be disgusting |
fusion | union; synthesis |
futile | ineffective; useless; fruitless |
gainsay | to deny; dispute; oppose |
gambol | to frolic; leap playfully |
garrulous | very talkative; wordy |
gauche | coarse and uncouth; clumsy |
geniality | cheerfulness; kindliness; sociability |
gerrymander | to divide an area into voting districts in a way that favors a political party |
glib | fluent in an insincere way; offhand |
goad | to prod; urge on |
gossamer | sheer; light and delicate; like cobwebs |
gouge | to tear out; scoop out; overcharge |
grandiloquent | pompous; bombastic |
gregarious | outgoing; sociable |
grouse | to complain |
guileless | free of cunning or deceit; artless |
guise | outward appearance; false appearance |
gullible | easily deceived |
gustatory | affecting the sense of taste |
halcyon | calm and peaceful |
hallowed | holy; sacred |
harangue | long, pompous speech; tirade |
harrowing | extremely distressing; terrifying |
herbivorous | an animal that feeds mainly on plants |
hermetic | tighly sealed; magical |
heterodox | not widely accepted |
hieroglyphics | a system of writing in which pictorial symbols represent meanings or sounds |
hirsute | covered with hair |
histrionic | relating to exaggerated emotional behavior calculated for effect |
homeostasis | automatic maintenance by an organism in balance with itself |
homily | sermon; tedious moralizing lecture |
homogeneous | composed of identical parts |
hyperbole | purposeful exaggeration for effect |
iconoclastic | attacking cherished traditions |
idolatry | idol worship; blind or excessive devotion |
igneous | produced by fire; volcanic |
imbroglio | complicated situation; an entanglement |
immutable | inchangeable |
impair | to damage; injure |
impassive | showing no emotion |
impecunious | poor; having no money |
impede | to hinder; block |
impermeable | impossible to permeate |
imperturbable | not easily disturbed |
impervious | incapable of being affected |
impinge | to strike; encroach |
implacable | inflexible |
implausible | unlikely; unbelievable |
implicit | implied; understood but not stated |
implode | collapse inward violently |
imprecation | curse; damnation |
impute | to attribute the fault to |
inadvertently | carelessly; unintentionally |
incarnate | having bodily form |
inchoate | imperfectely formed or formulated |
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