Words for GRE (Set 1)

This is a set of 30 words that often appear in GRE Test:

Adulation: appreciation, eulogy
Ameliorate: to improve the condition
Banal: uninspiring, unoriginal, trite
Copious: plenty, abundant
Corroborate: to validate, to give evidence
Debunk: to expose, to show that somebody or something is false
Exacerbate: to worsen, to aggravate
Exonerate: to declare guiltless, to absolve
Flak: criticism
Goad: to irritate or to provoke to stimulate some reaction
Hypochondriac: excessively worried about one's health, illness anxiety
Internecine: mutually harmful
Juxtapose: to put together to show contrast, to place against something
Knell: death bell
Lackadaisical: dull, unenthusiastic
Mollycoddle: to pamper, to pander
Nefarious: immoral, criminal
Obviate: to remove a problem or difficulty, preclude
Pulchritudinous: beautiful
Quotidian: ordinary
Repudiate: to refuse to accept
Salubrious: healthful, good for health
Succinct: brief, concise
Tenacity: determination, resilience
Ubiquitous: found everywhere, widespread
Vociferous: loud and confident
Wheedle: to persuade by flattery, coax, cajole, inveigle
Xenophobia: a dislike or fear of foreign people
Yoke: restriction, a long wooden bar kept on the necks of two animals in order to make them walk together.
Zany: crazy, absurd, eccentric

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