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Words for GRE (Set 3)

 


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

Austere: extremely simple, plain, without decoration

Besmirch: to damage reputation, to make dirty, sully, tarnish, stain

Behemoth: an extremely large and powerful organisation

Clandestine: secretly done, stealthy, surreptitious, furtive, covert

Disseminate: spread widely, propagate, disperse, circulate

Effervescent: full of energy, excited, enthusiastic, vivacious, bubbly, sparkling

Fastidious: very careful about accuracy and perfection, punctilious, meticulous

Gargantuan: very big, enormous, elephantine

Harbinger: sign, signal, indication, herald

Idiosyncrasy: an unusual way of behaving, peculiarity, eccentricity

Jingoist: an extreme nationalist, bellicose, chauvinist

Kindred: kin, family, related

Licentious: lacking moral discipline, dissolute, debauched, degenerate

Mercenary: money minded, grasping, acquisitive, avaricious, covetous

Nonchalant: unconcerned, indifferent, insouciant

Obeisance: humble respect, homage, adoration, reverence, veneration

Pulverize: to crush, to destroy, to grind, to pound, to crumble

Predilection: preference, liking, fondness, penchant

Quixotic: unrealistic and impracticable, fanciful, chimerical

Recidivist: a habitual offender, backslider, perpetrator

Sacrosanct: very important, too special to be changed, sacred, inviolable

Surmise: guess, conjecture

Terse: too short, blunt, abrupt, curt, laconic, pithy

Transcend: to go beyond the usual limits, rise above, outdo, eclipse, overstep

Umbrage: annoyance or displeasure because of insult, resentment

Vicarious: indirectly experienced while reading, listening or watching someone else, feeling through imagination, indirect

Wither: to become weaker, to dry, to disappear

Xenagoguea tour guide

Yank: to pull quickly, jerk

Zest: a feeling of enthusiasm, zeal


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