GRE Verbals

GRE WORDS
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Words in Context

Criticize/Criticism
Aspersion
Belittle
Berate
Calumny
Castigate
Chastise
Decry
Defamation
Deride/Derisive
Derogate
Diatribe
Disparage
Excoriate
Gainsay
Harangue
Impugn
Inveigh
Lambaste
Obloquy
Objurgate
Opprobrium
Oppugn
Pillory
Rebuke
Remonstrate
Reprehend
Reprove
Revile
Peruse
Vituperate

Concept of Falsehood
Fallacious
Erroneous -Incorrect
Mendacious -Lying
Apocryphal
Guile
Dissemble
Duplicity
Mendacity
Equivocate
Equivocation
Prevaricate
Prevarication
Specious
Spurious
Ersatz

Annoy
Aggravate
Irk
Irritate
Perturb
Vex, Vexatious

Beginner
Acolyte
neophyte
Novice
Proselyte - A new convert to a religion
Tyro

Foul
Festering
Fetid
Fulsome
Invidious
Noisome

Difficult to understand
Abstruse
Arcane
Enigmatic
Esoteric
inscrutable
Obscure
Opaque
Rarefied
Recondite
Turbid

Debauched/Debauchery
Bacchanalism
Depraved
Dissipated - Profligate
Iniquity
Libertine
Libidinous
Licentious
Reprobate
Ribald
Salacious
Sordid
Turpitude

Praise
Accolade
Aggrandize
Encomium
Eulogize
Extol
Laud/Laudatory
Venerate/Veneration

Biting(as in wit or temperament)
Acerbic
Acidulous
Acrimonius
Asperity
Caustic
Mordant
Mordacious
Trenchant

Render Useless/Weaken
Enervate
Obviate
Stultify
Undermine
Vitiate

HARMFUL
Baleful
Baneful
Deleterious
Inimical
Injurious
Insidious
Minatory
Perfidious
Pernicious

TIMID/TIMIDITY(Lacking Self-confidence)
Craven
Diffident
Pusillanimous
Recreant
Timorous
Trepidation

STUBBORN
Froward
Implacable
Inexorable
Intractable
Intransigent
Obdurate
Obstinate
Pertinacious
Recalcitrant
Refractory
Renitent
Untoward

BEGINNING/YOUNG
Burgeoning
Callow
Inchoate
Incipient
Nascent

OVERBLOWN/WORDY
Bombastic
Circumlocution
Garrulous
Grandiloquent
Loquacious
Periphrastic
prolix
Turgid

Hostile/one who is in hostile (Not friendly)
Antithetic
Churlish
Churmudgeon
Irascible
Malevolent
Misanthropic
Truculent
Vindictive

Cliched/Boring
Banal
Fatuous
Hackneyed
Insipid
Mundane
Pedestrian
Platitude
Prosaic
Quotidian
Trite


Facile - Easily achieved or done
Squander -Waste
Precipitous -Rash
Sublime -High or noble
Transient -Temporary
Etrenal -Permanent
Countenance-Appprove
Raffish -Vulgar.