This is a set of 30 words that often appear in GRE Test:
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
Xenagogue: a tour guide
Yank: to pull quickly, jerk
Zest: a feeling of enthusiasm, zeal
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