Essential Words for the GRE (Barron's Essential Words)
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Comments: Test takers preparing to take the GRE (Graduate Record Exam) must command a high-level vocabulary to achieve a high score. This book is designed to teach the definitions of 800 words often appearing on the GRE while also familiarizing test takers with how the words are generally used in context. The book opens with a pretest that serves as a diagnostic, then presents the word list with extensive sentence-completion exercises. A following chapter discusses and analyzes essential word roots. The book concludes with a detailed post-test. Answers are given for all exercises and for all questions in the post-test..
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series (July 1, 2007).
Author: Philip Geer.
Supporting Link: http://www.flashcardexchange.com/flashcards/view/505315.
Isbn: 9780764135644.
Created: 01/15/2010
Modified: 01/15/2010
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(part 1) (30 words)
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion, accrue, adamant, adjunct, admonish, adulterate, aesthetic, affected, affinity, aggrandize, aggregate, alacrity, alchemy, allay, alleviate, alloy, allure, amalgamate, ambiguous
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(part 2) (31 words)
ambivalence, ambrosia, ameliorate, amenable, amenity, amulet, anachronism, analgesic, analogous, anarchy, anodyne, anomalous, antecedent, antediluvian, antipathy, apathy, apex, apogee, apothegm, appease, appellation, apposite, apprise, approbation, appropriate, apropos, arabesque, archeology, ardor, arduous, argot
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(part 3) (31 words)
arrest, artifact, artless, ascetic, asperity, aspersion, assiduous, assuage, astringent, asylum, atavism, attenuate, audacious, austere, autonomous, avarice, aver, avocation, avuncular, axiomatic, bacchanalian, banal, banter, bard, bawdy, beatify, bedizen, behemoth, belie, beneficent, bifurcate
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(part 4) (31 words)
blandishment, bolster, bombastic, boorish, bovine, brazen, broach, bucolic, burgeon, burnish, buttress, cacophonous, cadge, callous, calumny, canard, canon, cant, cantankerous, capricious, captious, cardinal, carnal, carping, cartography, caste, castigation, cataclysm, catalyst, categorical, caucus
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(part 5) (31 words)
causal, caustic, celestial, centrifugal, centripetal, champion, chasten, chicanery, chivalry, circuitous, clairvoyant, clamor, clique, cloister, coagulate, coalesce, coda, codify, cognizant, collage, commensurate, compendium, complacent, complaisant, complement, compliant, compunction, concave, conciliatory, concoct, concomitant
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(part 6) (31 words)
condone, confound, congenial, conjugal, connoisseur, conscript, consecrate, contend, contentious, contiguous, continence, contrite, contumacious, conundrum, convention, converge, convex, convivial, convoluted, copious, coquette, cornucopia, cosmology, covert, covetous, cozen, craven, credence, credo, daunt, dearth
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(part 7) (31 words)
debauchery, decorum, defame, default, deference, defunct, delineate, demographic, demotic, demur, denigrate, denizen, denouement, deride, derivative, desiccate, desuetude, desultory, deterrent, detraction, diaphanous, diatribe, dichotomy, diffidence, diffuse, digression, dirge, disabuse, discerning, discomfit, discordant
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(part 8) (31 words)
discredit, discrepancy, discrete, discretion, disingenuous, disinterested, disjointed, dismiss, disparage, disparate, dissemble, disseminate, dissident, dissolution, dissonance, distend, distill, distrait, diverge, divest, divulge, doctrinaire, document, doggerel, dogmatic, dormant, dross, dupe, ebullient, eclectic, effervescence
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(part 9) (31 words)
effete, efficacy, effrontery, egoism, egotistical, elegy, elicit, elixir, elysian, emaciated, embellish, emollient, empirical, emulate, encomium, endemic, enervate, engender, enhance, entomology, enunciate, ethnocentric, etiology, etymology, eugenics, eulogy, euphemism, euphoria, euthanasia, evince, evocative
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(part 10) (31 words)
exacerbate, exact, exculpate, execrable, exhort, exigency, existential, exorcise, expatiate, expatriate, facetious, expiate, explicate, expository, extant, extemporaneous, extirpate, extraneous, extrapolation, extrinsic, ephemeral, epistemology, equable, equanimity, equivocate, errant, erudite, esoteric, essay, estimable, facilitate
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(part 11) (31 words)
factotum, fallacious, fallow, fatuous, fauna, fawning, felicitous, feral, fervor, fetid, fetter, fiat, fidelity, filibuster, finesse, fissure, flag, fledgling, flora, florid, flourish, flout, flux, foment, forbearance, forestall, formidable, forswear, founder, fracas, fractious
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(part 12) (31 words)
fresco, frieze, froward, frugality, fulminate, fulsome, fusion, futile, gainsay, gambol, garrulous, gauche, geniality, gerrymander, glib, goad, gossamer, gouge, grandiloquent, gregarious, grouse, guileless, guise, gullible, gustatory, halcyon, hallowed, harangue, harrowing, herbivorous, hermetic
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(part 13) (31 words)
heterodox, hieroglyphics, hirsute, histrionic, homeostasis, homily, homogeneous, hyperbole, iconoclastic, idolatry, igneous, imbroglio, immutable, impair, impassive, impecunious, impede, impermeable, imperturbable, impervious, impinge, implacable, implausible, implicit, implode, imprecation, impute, inadvertently, incarnate, inchoate, incongruity
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(part 14) (31 words)
inconsequential, incorporate, incursion, indeterminate, indigence, indolent, ineluctable, inert, ingenuous, inherent, innocuous, insensible, insinuate, insipid, insouciant, insularity, insuperable, intangible, interdict, internecine, interpolate, interregnum, intimate, intractable, intransigence, introspective, inundate, inured, invective, inveigh, inveigle
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(part 15) (31 words)
inveterate, invidious, irascible, irresolute, itinerant, itinerary, jaundiced, jibe, jocose, juggernaut, junta, juxtapose, kudos, labile, laconic, lambaste, lascivious, lassitude, latent, laud, lethargic, levee, levity, liberal, libertine, libido, lilliputian, limn, limpid, linguistic, litany
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(part 16) (31 words)
literati, litigation, log, loquacious, lucid, lucre, luminous, lustrous, machiavellian, machinations, maelstrom, magnanimity, malign, malinger, malleable, maverick, megalomania, menagerie, mendacious, mendicant, meretricious, mesmerize, metamorphosis, metaphysics, meteorological, meticulous, mettle, mettlesome, microcosm, militate, minatory
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(part 17) (31 words)
minuscule, minutia, misanthrope, miscellany, miscreant, misogynist, mitigate, mnemonic, modicum, mollify, monolithic, morose, motley, multifarious, mundane, necromancy, negate, neologism, neophyte, nexus, nonplussed, nostalgia, nostrum, nugatory, obdurate, obsequious, obsequy, obviate, occlude, occult, odyssey
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(part 18) (23 words)
officious, olfactory, oligarchy, onerous, onomatopoeia, opprobrium, ornithologist, oscillate, ostentatious, overweening, paean, paleontology, pallid, panegyric, paragon, partisan, pathological, patois, paucity, pedantic, pellucid, penchant, exorcize