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GRE Vocabulary List – 500 Advanced Words

abjure
abrogate
abscission
acarpous
accession
accolade
accretion
acerbic
acumen
adroit
adulation
adumbrate
advent
affective
agape
agglutination
aggrandize
alacrity
alloy
amity
anachronistic
anathema
anodyne
apex
apocryphal
apogee
apostate
apotheosis
apposite
approbation
appropriate
arabesque
arrant
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artless
ascetic
asperity
aspersion
assay
asseverate
assiduous
astringent
attenuate
attrition
augury
august
auspice
auspicious
avarice
axiomatic
baleful
banal
bane
beatify
bedizen
beget
bent
bilge
blandish
blithe
brook
byzantine
cabal
cachinnate
cacophony
cadge
cajole
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calumniate
calumny
canard
canon
canonical
caparison
capitulate
captious
caret
caterwauling
cavil
celerity
chagrin
chasten
chicanery
chide
chimera
choleric
churlish
cleave
coda
coeval
collusion
comely
conflate
consonant
consummate
contemn
contumacious
coterie
coterminous
countenance
cozen
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craven
cupidity
decorous
defalcate
demagogue
demur
denouement
deposition
deprecate
depredate
descant
descry
desiccate
desuetude
desultory
diaphanous
didactic
diffident
dilatory
dirge
disaffect
discomfit
discursive
distention
distrait
doggerel
dogmatic
dolorous
dross
dulcet
ebullience
edacious
edifying
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effluvia
effrontery
effusive
egregious
egress
elegy
emollient
encomium
endemic
enormity
epicure
epithet
eponymous
equanimity
equipoise
erudite
eschew
esoteric
essay
euphony
evince
exact
excoriate
exegesis
exhort
expatiate
expiate
exposition
expostulate
expound
expurgate
exscind
extant
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extirpate
extol
facile
fallow
fatuous
feckless
felicitous
fetid
filigree
florid
foment
ford
fracas
fractious
frieze
froward
fulminate
fulsome
gainsay
gambit
gambol
garrulous
gauche
gauntlet
gawkishness
germane
gnostic
gossamer
grandiloquence
gratuitous
gravitas
gregarious
grouse
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guile
guy
hackneyed
hallow
harangue
harrow
hectoring
hedonism
hermetic
heterodox
hirsute
homiletics
homily
hubris
iconoclastic
idyll
ignoble
ignominious
imbroglio
immutable
imperious
impiety
importune
imprimatur
impugn
impute
incandescent
inchoate
ineffable
ineluctable
ingenuous
inimical
inimitable
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iniquity
innervate
inscrutable
insensible
insouciant
interdict
invective
inveigh
inveterate
involute
jejune
jocose
labile
lachrymose
laconic
lambaste
languorous
largess
lascivious
lassitude
laud
levee
levity
libertine
limn
limpid
list
loquacious
lubricious
luculent
lugubrious
lumber
luminary
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macerate
maculate
magnanimity
malinger
maunder
maxim
mellifluous
mendacity
mendicant
mercurial
meretricious
mettle
militate
minatory
mince
misogynist
mordant
moribund
multifarious
munificence
nadir
nascent
natty
nebulous
neologism
neophyte
nexus
nice
noisome
nostrum
noxious
nugatory
obloquy
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obstreperous
occult
officious
opprobrium
oscillation
ossified
ostensible
overweening
paean
palliate
panacea
panache
pandemic
panegyric
pariah
parry
parsimonious
paucity
peccadillo
pedestrian
pellucid
peregrination
peremptory
perfidy
perfunctory
perigee
peripatetic
pernicious
peroration
petrous
philistine
phlegmatic
picaresque
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pied
pillory
piquant
pique
pithy
plaintive
plangent
platonic
pliant
plumb
polemical
portentous
poseur
prate
prattle
precept
precis
predilection
preen
prevaricate
privation
prize
probity
prodigious
profligate
prolific
prolix
propinquity
propitiate
prosaic
proscribe
provident
puerile
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pugnacious
puissance
pulchritude
pullulation
punctilious
pundit
pusillanimous
putrefy
quaff
quail
quay
querulous
quiescence
quixotic
quotidian
raffish
rail
ramify
rampart
rancorous
rapacious
rebus
recant
recidivism
recondite
reconnoiter
recreant
rectitude
recumbent
redolent
redoubtable
refractory
regale
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rent
repine
replete
reprobate
reprove
ribald
rubicund
runic
sagacious
salacious
salubrious
sanatorium
sanctimony
sanguine
sartorial
satiate
saturnine
scurrilous
scurvy
sedulous
seine
seminal
sententious
sepulchral
sidereal
simper
sinecure
sinuous
slake
sodden
solder
solicitous
sophistry
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sophomoric
soporific
soubriquet
splenetic
stanch
steep
stentorian
stoic
striated
strident
strut
stupefy
stygian
stymie
succor
supercilious
supine
suppliant
supplicant
surfeit
sycophant
table
tamp
tawdry
tendentious
tetchy
timorous
toady
tonicity
torpid
torrid
tortuous
tractable
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truculent
tumid
turbid
turgid
turpitude
tyro
ubiquitous
umbrage
uncouth
undulate
unfeigned
untenable
untoward
upbraid
urbane
usury
vacuous
variegated
vaunt
venal
venerate
veneration
verdant
verisimilitude
vernacular
vestige
virago
virulent
vitiate
vitriolic
vituperate
volubility
wag
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wax
welter
wend
wheedle
wizened

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