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GRE High Frequency WordsOctober 8, 2012 By Sivabalan T.

Barron's GRE 17th Edition High Freq Words

1.

become less in amount or intensity

2.

the use of tricks to deceive someone

3.

cause to become widely known

4.

take exception to

5.

potentially existing but not presently evident or realized

6.

markedly different from an accepted norm

7.

change from a liquid to a thickened or solid state

8.

separation into component parts

9.

abate

chicanery

disseminate

gainsay

latent

aberrant

coagulate

dissolution

garrulous

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full of trivial conversation

10.

praise, glorify, or honor

11.

temporary cessation or suspension

12.

the closing section of a musical composition

13.

disagreeable sounds

14.

stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick

15.

deficient in alertness or activity

16.

run away

17.

powerfully persuasive

18.

cause to expand as it by internal pressure

19.

an impression in a surface, as made by a blow

laud

abeyance

coda

dissonance

goad

lethargic

abscond

cogent

distend

gouge

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20.

an embankment built to prevent a river from overflowing

21.

marked by temperance in indulgence

22.

corresponding in size or degree or extent

23.

undergo condensation

24.

lofty in style

25.

a manner lacking seriousness

26.

take to task

27.

a publication containing a variety of works

28.

move or draw apart

29.

temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others

30.

levee

abstemious

commensurate

distill

grandiloquent

levity

admonish

compendium

diverge

gregarious

log

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a segment of the trunk of a tree when stripped of branches

31.

make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance

32.

showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

33.

take away possessions from someone

34.

free of deceit

35.

full of trivial conversation

36.

characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste

37.

disposed to act in accordance with someone's wishes

38.

a representation of a person's thinking with symbolic marks

39.

naive and easily deceived or tricked

40.

transparently clear; easily understandable

adulterate

complaisant

divest

guileless

loquacious

aesthetic

compliant

document

gullible

lucid

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41.

a sum total of many heterogeneous things taken together

42.

making or willing to make concessions

43.

pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

44.

a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion

45.

softly bright or radiant

46.

liveliness and eagerness

47.

excuse, overlook, or make allowances for

48.

inactive but capable of becoming active

49.

all of the same or similar kind or nature

50.

liberality in bestowing gifts

51.

aggregate

conciliatory

dogmatic

harangue

luminous

alacrity

condone

dormant

homogeneous

magnanimity

alleviate

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provide physical relief, as from pain

52.

be confusing or perplexing to

53.

fool or hoax

54.

extravagant exaggeration

55.

someone shirking duty by feigning illness or incapacity

56.

to bring or combine together or with something else

57.

an expert able to appreciate a field

58.

joyously unrestrained

59.

characterized by attack on established beliefs

60.

capable of being shaped or bent

61.

having more than one possible meaning

confound

dupe

hyperbole

malingerer

amalgamate

connoisseur

ebullient

iconoclastic

malleable

ambiguous

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62.

the act of competing as for profit or a prize

63.

selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas

64.

the worship of idols or images that are not God

65.

someone who exhibits independence in thought and action

66.

mixed feelings or emotions

67.

showing an inclination to disagree

68.

capacity or power to produce a desired effect

69.

not subject or susceptible to change or variation

70.

given to lying

71.

to make better

72.

contention

eclectic

idolatry

maverick

ambivalence

contentious

efficacy

immutable

mendacious

ameliorate

contrite

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feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

73.

audacious behavior that you have no right to

74.

make worse or less effective

75.

striking change in appearance or character or circumstances

76.

something located at a time when it could not have existed

77.

a difficult problem

78.

a mournful poem; a lament for the dead

79.

having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

80.

marked by precise accordance with details

81.

similar or equivalent in some respects

82.

be adjacent or come together

effrontery

impair

metamorphosis

anachronism

conundrum

elegy

impassive

meticulous

analogous

converge

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83.

call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response

84.

be a hindrance or obstacle to

85.

someone who dislikes people in general

86.

a state of lawlessness and disorder

87.

rolled longitudinally upon itself

88.

make more attractive, as by adding ornament or color

89.

preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through

90.

lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

91.

deviating from the general or common order or type

92.

lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful

93.

elicit

impede

misanthrope

anarchy

convoluted

embellish

impermeable

mitigate

anomalous

craven

empirical

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derived from experiment and observation rather than theory

94.

marked by extreme calm and composure

95.

cause to be more favorably inclined

96.

a feeling of intense dislike

97.

cause to lose courage

98.

strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

99.

not admitting of passage or capable of being affected

100.

showing a brooding ill humor

101.

an absence of emotion or enthusiasm

102.

propriety in manners and conduct

103.

native to or confined to a certain region

imperturbable

mollify

antipathy

daunt

emulate

impervious

morose

apathy

decorum

endemic

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104.

incapable of being placated

105.

found in the ordinary course of events

106.

make peace with

107.

an option that is selected automatically

108.

weaken mentally or morally

109.

implied though not directly expressed

110.

make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

111.

inform somebody of something

112.

courteous regard for people's feelings

113.

make children

114.

implacable

mundane

appease

default

enervate

implicit

negate

apprise

deference

engender

implode

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burst inward

115.

any new participant in some activity

116.

official approval

117.

represented accurately or precisely

118.

increase

119.

without knowledge or intention

120.

stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing

121.

suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc

122.

charge falsely or with malicious intent

123.

anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day

124.

only partly in existence; imperfectly formed

neophyte

approbation

delineate

enhance

inadvertently

obdurate

appropriate

denigrate

ephemeral

inchoate

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125.

attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery

126.

characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion

127.

treat or speak of with contempt

128.

steadiness of mind under stress

129.

the quality of disagreeing

130.

do away with

131.

simple and natural; without cunning or deceit

132.

a compound obtained from another compound

133.

be deliberately ambiguous or unclear

134.

lacking worth or importance

135.

obsequious

arduous

deride

equanimity

incongruity

obviate

artless

derivative

equivocate

inconsequential

occlude

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block passage through

136.

someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

137.

lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless

138.

having or showing profound knowledge

139.

make into a whole or make part of a whole

140.

intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

141.

marked by care and persistent effort

142.

marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose

143.

understandable only by an enlightened inner circle

144.

not fixed or known in advance

145.

not easily borne; wearing

ascetic

desiccate

erudite

incorporate

officious

assiduous

desultory

esoteric

indeterminate

onerous

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146.

provide physical relief, as from pain

147.

something immaterial that interferes with action or progress

148.

a formal expression of praise for someone who has died

149.

a state of extreme poverty or destitution

150.

a state of extreme dishonor

151.

become weaker, in strength, value, or magnitude

152.

thunderous verbal attack

153.

an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one

154.

disinclined to work or exertion

155.

move or swing from side to side regularly

156.

assuage

deterrent

eulogy

indigence

opprobrium

attenuate

diatribe

euphemism

indolent

oscillate

audacious

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disposed to venture or take risks

157.

being twofold

158.

make worse

159.

unable to move or resist motion

160.

intended to attract notice and impress others

161.

of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor

162.

lack of self-assurance

163.

pronounce not guilty of criminal charges

164.

liver or meat or fowl finely minced or ground and variously seasoned

165.

lacking in sophistication or worldliness

166.

a perfect embodiment of a concept

dichotomy

exacerbate

inert

ostentatious

austere

diffidence

exculpate

pate

ingenuous

paragon

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167.

existing as an independent entity

168.

spread out; not concentrated in one place

169.

a pressing or urgent situation

170.

existing as an essential constituent or characteristic

171.

a fervent and even militant proponent of something

172.

to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true

173.

a turning aside

174.

an inference about the future based on known facts

175.

not injurious to physical or mental health

176.

relating to the study of diseases

177.

autonomous

diffuse

exigency

inherent

partisan

aver

digression

extrapolation

innocuous

pathological

banal

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repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

178.

a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person

179.

cleverly amusing in tone

180.

barely able to be perceived

181.

an insufficient quantity or number

182.

be in contradiction with

183.

free somebody from an erroneous belief

184.

make easier

185.

give to understand

186.

marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning

187.

doing or producing good

dirge

facetious

insensible

paucity

belie

disabuse

facilitate

insinuate

pedantic

beneficent

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188.

having or revealing keen insight and good judgment

189.

containing or based on incorrect reasoning

190.

lacking interest or significance or impact

191.

a strong liking

192.

support and strengthen

193.

not in agreement or harmony

194.

devoid of intelligence

195.

the state of being isolated or detached

196.

a state of extreme poverty or destitution

197.

ostentatiously lofty in style

198.

discerning

fallacious

insipid

penchant

bolster

discordant

fatuous

insularity

penury

bombastic

discredit

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the state of being held in low esteem

199.

attempting to win favor by flattery

200.

difficult to manage or mold

201.

lasting three seasons or more

202.

ill-mannered and coarse in behavior or appearance

203.

a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

204.

exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style

205.

stubbornly refusing to compromise

206.

tending to betray

207.

grow and flourish

208.

constituting a separate entity or part

fawning

intractable

perennial

boorish

discrepancy

felicitous

intransigence

perfidious

burgeon

discrete

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209.

feelings of great warmth and intensity

210.

fill or cover completely, usually with water

211.

hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough

212.

polish and make shiny

213.

not straightforward or candid

214.

a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design

215.

made tough by habitual exposure

216.

allowing fluids or gases to pass or diffuse through

217.

a support usually of stone or brick

218.

unaffected by concern for one's own welfare

219.

fervor

inundate

perfunctory

burnish

disingenuous

flag

inured

permeable

buttress

disinterested

fledgling

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young bird that has just fledged or become capable of flying

220.

abusive language used to express blame or censure

221.

spreading or spread throughout

222.

having an unpleasant sound

223.

taken apart at the points of connection

224.

treat with contemptuous disregard

225.

quickly aroused to anger

226.

showing little emotion

227.

determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity

228.

stop associating with

229.

try to stir up

invective

pervasive

cacophonous

disjointed

flout

irascible

phlegmatic

capricious

dismiss

foment

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230.

uncertain how to act or proceed

231.

righteousness by virtue of being pious

232.

verbal punishment

233.

express a negative opinion of

234.

keep from happening or arising; make impossible

235.

an established line of travel or access

236.

cause to be more favorably inclined

237.

substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction

238.

fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind

239.

prudence in avoiding waste

240.

irresolute

piety

castigation

disparage

forestall

itinerary

placate

catalyst

disparate

frugality

laconic

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brief and to the point

241.

the property of being physically malleable

242.

capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action

243.

behave unnaturally or affectedly

244.

producing no result or effect

245.

a feeling of lack of interest or energy

246.

a trite or obvious remark

247.

extreme excess

248.

make peace with

249.

cancel officially

250.

recurring in scattered or unpredictable instances

plasticity

caustic

dissemble

futile

lassitude

platitude

plethora

propitiate

rescind

sporadic

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251.

easily managed

252.

drop sharply

253.

correct behavior

254.

a decision to do something or to behave in a certain manner

255.

a symbol of disgrace or infamy

256.

the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle

257.

full of vessels or holes

258.

command against

259.

find a solution or answer

260.

supply sparingly and with restricted quantities

261.

tractable

plummet

propriety

resolution

stigma

transgression

porous

proscribe

resolve

stint

truculence

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obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness

262.

concerned with practical matters

263.

strong and sharp

264.

reluctant to draw attention to yourself

265.

make an express demand or provision in an agreement

266.

be undecided about something

267.

a preliminary introduction to a statute or constitution

268.

meeting the proper standards and requirements for a task

269.

feeling or showing profound respect or veneration

270.

having or revealing little emotion or sensibility

271.

regard with feelings of respect and reverence

pragmatic

pungent

reticent

stipulate

vacillate

preamble

qualified

reverent

stolid

venerate

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272.

not secure; beset with difficulties

273.

evade the truth of a point by raising irrelevant objections

274.

a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics

275.

marked with stripes

276.

habitually speaking the truth

277.

bring about abruptly

278.

being quiet or still or inactive

279.

promoting health

280.

to walk with a lofty proud gait

281.

using or containing too many words

282.

precarious

quibble

sage

striate

veracious

precipitate

quiescent

salubrious

strut

verbose

precursor

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something indicating the approach of something or someone

283.

of high moral or intellectual value

284.

official permission or approval

285.

a writ issued to compel the attendance of a witness

286.

capable of life or normal growth and development

287.

excessively forward

288.

stubbornly resistant to authority or control

289.

fill to satisfaction

290.

sink to a lower level or form a depression

291.

having a relatively high resistance to flow

292.

be deliberately ambiguous or unclear

rarefied

sanction

subpoena

viable

presumptuous

recalcitrant

satiate

subside

viscous

prevaricate

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293.

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief

294.

infuse or fill completely

295.

establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts

296.

marked by harshly abusive criticism

297.

immaculately clean and unused

298.

one who lives in solitude

299.

the taste experience when a savoury condiment is tasted

300.

take the place or move into the position of

301.

substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to vapor

302.

complete and confirmed integrity

303.

recant

saturate

substantiate

vituperative

pristine

recluse

savor

supersede

volatile

probity

recondite

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difficult to penetrate

304.

generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids

305.

the cognitive process of conjecturing

306.

incapable of being justified or explained

307.

making great mental demands

308.

stubbornly resistant to authority or control

309.

a broken piece of a brittle artifact

310.

implied by or inferred from actions or statements

311.

marked by keen caution and watchful prudence

312.

recklessly wasteful

313.

overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof

secrete

supposition

unwarranted

problematic

refractory

shard

tacit

wary

prodigal

refute

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314.

someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs

315.

of superficial relevance if any

316.

a confused multitude of things

317.

situated at or extending to great depth

318.

assign to a lower position

319.

full of anxiety and concern

320.

very thin in gauge or diameter

321.

determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity

322.

tending to discourage, especially of prices

323.

express criticism towards

324.

skeptic

tangential

welter

profound

relegate

solicitous

tenuous

whimsical

prohibitive

reproach

soporific

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sleep inducing

325.

a speech of violent denunciation

326.

a fervent and even militant proponent of something

327.

grow rapidly

328.

a person without moral scruples

329.

plausible but false

330.

a state of motor and mental inactivity

331.

a natural inclination

332.

refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid

333.

a broad range of related objects or values or qualities

334.

marked by repeated turns and bends

tirade

zealot

proliferate

reprobate

specious

torpor

propensity

repudiate

spectrum

tortuous

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