Top 5 Basic GRE

Words
Innocuous
Candid
Erratic
Bleak
Profuse

Common Words that

Students Always Get
Wrong
Extant
Contentious
Auspicious
Enervate
Equivocate
Ambivalent

Sedulous

Tricky Easy GRE Words

with Multiple Meanings
Stem
Blinkered
Check
Checkered

Raft
Involved
Retiring
Expansive
Moment
Base
Imbibe

Inundate
Scintillating
Benighted
Galvanize
Hedge
Flush
Fell

Arch
Beg
Tender
Intimate
Wanting
Becoming
Start

Fleece
Telling
Wax
Check
Qualify

Commonly Confused Sets

Miserly vs. Frugal

Prevaricate vs. Variance
Histrionic vs. History
Demur vs. Demure
Beatific vs. Beautiful

Perfunctory vs. Preemptive vs.

Peremptory

Indigent vs. Indigenous vs.

Indignant

Errant vs. Arrant vs. Errand vs. Err

Artless vs. Artful vs. Artifice

Expurgate vs. Expunge

Censure vs. Censor

Ponderous vs. Imponderable

Interesting (and
International) Word
Origins
Around the World
Kowtow

Powwow
Junta
Imbroglio

Juggernaut
Schadenfreude

Amuck

Pariah
Nabob
Bwana
Zeitgeist

French Words
Sangfroid

Parvenu
Demur
Arriviste
Melee

Lagniappe

Picayune

Eponyms

Mesmerize
Gerrymander
Hector
Pollyannaish

Chauvinist

Pyrrhic

Kafkaesque

Quixotic

Maudlin

Panglossian

Malapropism

Quisling

Byzantine

Galvanize

Words with Strange

Origins
Supercilious
Protean

Sartorial

Saturnine

Mercurial

Themed Lists
Vocab from Within
Jaundice

Jejune

Bilious

Choleric
Sanguine

People You Wouldnt Want

To Meet

Martinet

Curmudgeon
Misanthrope
Reprobate

Virago

Religious Words

Cardinal

Syncretic

Ecclesiastical
Parochial

Catholic

Anathema

Desecrate

Apostasy

Sanctimonious

Iconoclast

Words from Political

Scandals
Malfeasance
Lascivious
Embroiled
Venality
Prevaricate

Turpitude