This is a set of 30 words that often appear in GRE Test:
Badinage: friendly joking, banter, jest, raillery
Camouflage: to blend with the surroundings to dodge an enemy, to conceal or to disguise
Cynosure: a centre of attraction
Didactic: designed to teach, pedagogic, educational
Disparate: varying, diverse, heterogeneous
Egalitarian: thinking that all people are equal, equitable, classless
Frivolous: not serious, silly, flippant, facetious, inane
Gregarious: living in the group, sociable, convivial, affable
Hyperbole: extreme and unbelievable statement, overstatement
Innocuous: causing no harm, innocent, harmless, inoffensive
Jettison: to throw, to discard
Kleptomaniac: one who has a strong desire to steal, pilferer
Lachrymose: tearful, crying, teary, melancholic, poignant
Moribund: dying, fading, waning, atrophying
Nihilist: one who rejects all moral and religious beliefs, agnostic, anarchist
Obsequious: excessively obedient, servile, fawning, sycophantic, unctuous
Precocious: showing maturity at an early age
Profligate: wasteful, extravagant
Quagmire: a very difficult and complicated situation
Reticent: silent, reserved, demure
Salacious: containing sexual details, obscene, prurient
Soporific: inducing sleep, somnolent, somniferous
Trepidation: nervousness, worry, anxiety
Undulate: to move up and down like waves, flicker, fluctuate
Vindicate: to prove, to justify
Wrath: extreme anger
Xerophyte: a plant which needs very less water
Yore: former times, long ago
Zealot: one who has strong beliefs in religion, politics etc., fanatic
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