List of 100 difficult words that appear most frequently in GRE

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Word

Meaning

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Equivocal/Equivocate/Equivocation
Tractable (Intractable)
Placate (Implacable)
Miser
Engender
Dogma(tic)(tism(tist)
Garrulous (Garrulity)
Homogeneous (Homogenize)
Laconic
Quiescence (Quiescent)
Anomalous
Venerate (ion)
Assuage
Misanthrope (-ic)
Digress(ive)

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Corroborate (ion)
Buttress
Antipathy

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Disabuse
Feigned (Unfeigned)
Banal(ity)
Desiccate (ion)
Diatribe
Pedant(ic)(ry)
Guile(less)
Eulogy (-ize)
Fawn(ing)
Aberrant/aberration
Heresy/Heretic(al)

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Obdurate
Prevaricate(-ion)
Embellish(ment)

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Pragmatic/Pragmatism

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Precipitate

Ambiguous, open to two interpretations

Obedient, yielding
To soothe or pacify
Person who is extremely stingy
To produce, cause, bring out
Rigidly fixed in opinion, opinionated
Very talkative
Composed of identical parts
Using few words
Inactivity, stillness
Irregular or deviating from the norm
To respect
To make less severe, ease, relieve
Person who hates human beings
To turn aside; to stray from the main
point
To confirm, verify
To reinforce or support
Dislike, hostility, extreme opposition or
aversion
To free from error or misconception
Pretended
Trite and overly commom
To dry completely, dehydrate
Bitter verbal attack
Uninspired, boring academic
Trickery, deception
High praise, often in public
To flatter excessively, seek the favor of
Different from the usual or normal
An act opposed to established religious
orthodoxy
Stubborn
To lie, evade the truth
To ornament; make attractive with
decoration or details; add details to a
statement
Practical, moved by facts rather than
abstract ideals
To cause to happen; to throw down from
a height

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Proximity
Profundity
Adulterate
Sanction
Ameliorate (-ion)
Anachronism/Anachronistic

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Vindictive
Propitiate
Aver
Burgeon(-ing)
Commensurate
Mitigate/Mitigation
Culpability
Spacious(ness)

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Turpitude
Diffident/Diffidence
Repudiate
Discrete

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Obviate

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Dissemble
Implacable
Emulate
Complaisance/Complaisant
Enervate
Latency
Erudite (ition)
Espouse
Florid(ness)
Occlude
Harangue
Hieroglyph(ic)
Iconoclast
Impervious

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Efficacy/Efficacious
Inchoate
Loquacity/loquacious
Irascible (-ility)
Ephemeral
Laudable (-tory)
Insipid

Nearness
Depth (usually depth of thought)
To corrupt or make impure
Permission, support; law; penalty
To make better, improve
Something
chronologically
inapporapriate
Spiteful, vengeful, unforgiving
To win over, appease
To declare to be true, affirm
To sprout or flourish
Proportional
To soften, or make milder
Guilt, responsibility for wrong
Having a false appearance of truth;
showy
Inherent baseness, depravity
Shy, lacking confidence
To reject as having no authority
Individually distinct; consisting of
unconnected elements
To make unnecessary; to anticipate and
prevent
To pretend, disguise ones motives
Inflexible, incapable of being pleased
To copy, imitate
Disposition to please or comply
To weaken, sap strength from
The condition of being present but hidden
Learned, scholarly
To support or advocate, to marry
Gaudy, extremely ornate, ruddy, flushed
To shut, block
A ranting writing or speech, lecture
Pictorial character
One who attacks traditional beliefs
Impossible to penetrate; incapable of
being affected
Effectiveness, efficiency
Imperfectly formed or formulated
Talkative
Easily angered
Momentary, transient, fleeting
Deserving of praise
Bland,
lacking
flavour;
lacking

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Magnanimity/Magnanimous
Precarious(ly)
Endemic
Mollify
Rarefy/Rarefaction
Disinterest(ed)(edness)
Foster
Perennial
Malevolent
Defer(ence)

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Precursory(y)
Lucid
Probity
Abscond
Propensity
Audacious
Wheedle
Prudent
Mundane
Diffuse
Aggrandize
Decimate

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Succinct
Enigma(tic)
Unfettered
Ascetic

excitement
Generosity
Uncertain
Belonging to a particular area; inherent
To calm or make less severe
To make thinner, purer, or more refined
Unbiased; not interested
To nourish, cultivate, promote
Present throughout the years; persistent
Ill-willed; causing evil or harm to others
To show respect or politeness in a
submissive way
Forerunner, predecessor
Clear and easily understood
Honesty, high-mindedness
To depart secretly and hide
Inclination, tendency
Bold, daring, fearless
To influence or entice by flattery
Careful, cautious
Worldly; commonplace
Widely spread out
To make larger or greater in power
To reduce drastically; to destroy a large
part of
Terse, brief, concise
A puzzle, something inexplicable
Free, unrestrained
Self-denying, abstinent, austere