GRE Verbal Reasoning: List 10

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. adulterate
    make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  2. amalgamate
    bring or combine together or with something else
  3. ameliorate
    make better
  4. convoluted
    highly complex or intricate
  5. circumspect
    careful to consider potential consequences and avoid risk
  6. dissonance
    disagreeable sounds
  7. discern
    perceive, recognize, or detect
  8. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
  9. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  10. exacerbate
    make worse
  11. gregarious
    temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others
  12. inundate
    overwhelm or fill quickly beyond capacity
  13. impugn
    attack as false or wrong
  14. lethargic
    deficient in alertness or activity
  15. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  16. lucid
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  17. perspicacious
    mentally acute or penetratingly discerning
  18. philanthropic
    of or relating to charitable giving
  19. perfidious
    tending to betray
  20. pedantic
    marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning
  21. pellucid
    transparently clear; easily understandable
  22. reticent
    not inclined to talk or provide information
  23. rhetoric
    using language effectively to please or persuade
  24. untenable
    incapable of being defended or justified
  25. urbane
    showing a high degree of refinement
Created on Wed Jan 06 15:38:41 EST 2021 (updated Wed Jan 06 18:21:15 EST 2021)

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