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GRE Verbal Reasoning: List 3

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. analogous
    similar or equivalent in some respects
  2. antipathy
    a feeling of intense dislike
  3. apathy
    an absence of emotion or enthusiasm
  4. bolster
    support and strengthen
  5. complaisance
    a tendency to try to please or yield to the will of others
  6. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  7. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  8. eccentric
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  9. evanescent
    short-lived; tending to vanish or disappear
  10. fervid
    characterized by intense emotion
  11. florid
    elaborately or excessively ornamented
  12. hackneyed
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  13. homogeneous
    all of the same or similar kind or nature
  14. iconoclast
    someone who attacks cherished ideas or institutions
  15. malleable
    capable of being shaped or bent
  16. misanthrope
    someone who dislikes people in general
  17. profligate
    recklessly wasteful
  18. pragmatic
    concerned with practical matters
  19. pernicious
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
  20. recalcitrant
    stubbornly resistant to authority or control
  21. redundant
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  22. sardonic
    disdainfully or ironically humorous
  23. trite
    repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
  24. taciturn
    habitually reserved and uncommunicative
  25. vociferous
    conspicuously and offensively loud
Created on Wed Jan 06 15:34:54 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 06 16:46:55 EST 2021)

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