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Top 5 Basic GRE Words

Innocuous

Candid

Erratic

Bleak

Profuse

Common Words that Students Always Get WrongExtant

Contentious

Auspicious

Enervate

Equivocate

Ambivalent

Sedulous

Tricky Easy GRE Words with Multiple Meanings

Stem

Blinkered

Check

Checkered

Raft

Involved

Retiring

Expansive

Moment

Base

Imbibe

Inundate

Scintillating

Benighted

Galvanize

Hedge

Flush

Fell

Arch

Beg

Tender

Intimate

Wanting

Becoming

Start

Fleece

Telling

Wax

Check

Qualify

Commonly Confused Sets

Miserly vs. Frugal

Prevaricate vs. Variance

Histrionic vs. History

Demur vs. Demure

Beatific vs. Beautiful

Perfunctory vs. Preemptive vs. Peremptory

Indigent vs. Indigenous vs. Indignant

Errant vs. Arrant vs. Errand vs. Err

Artless vs. Artful vs. Artifice

Expurgate vs. Expunge

Censure vs. Censor

Ponderous vs. Imponderable

Interesting (and International) Word Origins

Around the World

Kowtow

Powwow

Junta

Imbroglio

Juggernaut

Schadenfreude

Amuck

Pariah

Nabob

Bwana

Zeitgeist

French Words

Sangfroid

Parvenu

Demur

Arriviste

Melee

Lagniappe

Picayune

Eponyms

Mesmerize

Gerrymander

Hector

Pollyannaish

Chauvinist

Pyrrhic

Kafkaesque

Quixotic

Maudlin

Panglossian

Malapropism

Quisling

Byzantine

Galvanize

Words with Strange Origins

Supercilious

Protean

Sartorial

Saturnine

Mercurial

Themed ListsVocab from Within

Jaundice

Jejune

Bilious

Choleric

Sanguine

People You Wouldnt Want To Meet

Martinet

Curmudgeon

Misanthrope

Reprobate

Virago

Religious Words

Cardinal

Syncretic

Ecclesiastical

Parochial

Catholic

Anathema

Desecrate

Apostasy

Sanctimonious

Iconoclast

Words from Political ScandalsMalfeasance

Lascivious

Embroiled

Venality

Prevaricate

Turpitude