GRE WORD COLLECTIONBy:
- Eccentric: 1. Out of Centre
2. Very Unusual, different from others
Odd eccentric manner, eccentric dress
- Original: 1. Innovative
2. Old indigenous
3. Introducing something new
Completely original film, original people of the place,
Indigenous culture, Plants, Animals
- Innovate: 1. Introduce something new
- Trifling: 1. Unimportant or of little importance
Syn. Trivial
Trifling matters
Trivial person: a person who focus on unimportant matters
- Sparse: 1. The state of being rare
- Grades into: 1. Unite, Blend, merge well
- Land fast: 1. Land like
- Precarious: 1. Risky
Precarious condition, precarious weather, precarious health, precarious career
2. Factful
9. Orthodox: 1. Traditional(Old opinion)
Orthodox Hindu, Orthodox belief, Orthodox medicine
10. Imperceptible: 1. Impossible to see or notice
11. Perceptible: 1. Easily noticeable
12. Imprecation: 1. Curse
He muttered imprecation.
13. Mutter: 1. To speak under breath
14. Relentless: 1. Constant or continuous
The wind blew relentlessly.
2. very determined or bold
Relentless despot: Tyrant , relentless competitor/enemy/rioter
Relentless nature: harsh: severe
15. Vain: 1. Worthless, futile
Vain attempt or effort
16. Proneto: 1. Likely to (-ve) do or have or suffer from
17. Eminence: 1. Fame or popularity
18. Temperate: 1. Mild
Temperate climate or weather
2. Emotionally calm and controlled
Temperate attitude
3. Moderate
Moderate temp., moderate eater, moderate drinker
19. Notorious: 1. Infamous
Notorious criminal or crime
Notorious question: question very difficult to solve
20.Eminent: 1. professionally famous
An eminent artist
21.Pre-eminent: 1. Extraordinary or greatest or outstanding
A pre-eminent writer
22. Tumult: 1. Confused noise (because of number of people are speaking at the same time)
23. Chaos: 1. Great disorder
24. Tumultuous: 1. Noisy in a confused way
Tumultuous mass of the people/life of the people
25. Provident (+ve): 1. Economical (time, money, energy, resources)
2. Far sighted
He was provident because he made a house at the age of twenty-two.
26. Providential: 1. Luck or favorable
Providential time
27. Dispassionate: 1. Unbiased (+ve), not influenced by emotion
Syn. Impartial
Dispassionate job
28. Invalidate: 1. to prove false
His claims were invalidated. The theory was invalidated.
2. Cancel out
The government decision was invalidated by the court.
29. Obscure: 1. Hide
The sun was obscured bythe cloud.
2. To make something hard to understand by using difficult words or language.
The teacher tries to obscure his lecture.
3.to make unclear
The history was obscure without legends.
30. Plausible: 1. Reasonable or likely to be true, possibly true
31. Entitle: 1. to make title
2. Authorized or to make legally valid.
The Pass entitles you to enter.
32. Superficial: 1. Trifling or trivial
Superficial analysis
33. Wane: 1. gradually decreasing
Waning moon
His energy waned.
2. on the wane (Phrase): decreasing
His popularity is on the wane.
34. Wax: 1. gradually increase
Waxing moon
2. To paint a substance on the surface
3. To remove hair
His anger waxed.The furniture was waxed
4. Wax and wane (phrase): fluctuate
His happiness waxed and waned.
35. Moderate: 1. v. gradually decrease (lessen or subside)
The rain moderated.
2. To lead the discussion
The political issue was moderated by the chairperson.
3. Preside
The priest moderating over the religious discussion (Church)
36. Persist: 1. Continue
2. Continue in spite of difficulties
I persisted my study.
37. Vacillate: 1. Fluctuate (to be undecided) (repeatedly change your desires and opinions)
The decision maker vacillated over the issue.
Syn. Waver
My determination vacillated.
The country’s leaders are still vacillating between confrontation and compromise.
38. Disperse: 1. Scatter
39. Distinctive: 1. Different from another
Distinctive flavor of wine
2. of superior quality
Distinctive African music
40. Strive: 1. Try hard (to achieve something)
2. To struggle against
I am striving against poverty.
41. Grapple: 1. Struggle
I am grappling with problems (to grapple with poverty)
Grappling with death , grapple with poverty/difficulty
42. Compelling: 1. Convincing or persuasive
Compelling argument
2. Strong or forceful (compelling reason)
3. Enticing (com-beauty) , attractive
Compelling scene of sight, compelling dance
43. Comely: 1. physically attractive
A comely girl or woman
44. Dictatedby: 1. Directed by
45. Caprice: 1. Unpredictable nature or changeable nature (-ve)
The staffs are habitual to the caprices of the manager.
Capricious interest, capricious manager, capricious music
Capricious (not following a typical pattern)
46. Obliging: 1. Helpful (+ve)
Obliging neighbors, obliging friends, obliging passer-by
47. Aesthetics: 1. Beauty in arts, literatures
2. Study of beauty
48. Aesthete: 1. a person who loves beauty or finds beauty in arts, literature, books.
49. Galaxy: 1. a group of intellectual people
50. Instinctive: 1. Natural
51. Distrust: 1. Mistrust
52. Veneration: 1. Deep respect(for quality, age, character)
53. Venerate: 1. To feel or have deep respect (somebody or something is great/holy/old)
Mother Teresa was venerated as a saint.
To venerate the temple/leader/priest/tradition/culture
Syn. Revere
54. Indifference: 1. Lack of interest, concern
2. State of being of average standard
Indifferent food items
I am indifferent to their dispute.
55. Suspicion: 1. Doubt
56. Qualms: 1. Doubt
Syn. Misgivings, reservation
I have some misgivings about the teacher’s quality.
I have some misgivings about the service of the hospital.
57. Reckless: 1. Careless (about unpleasant consequence)
He is spending money or time recklessly.
58. Bewilder: 1. To make somebody thoroughly confused or perplexed.
I was bewildered by the lecture.
Bewildering complexity of the English grammar
59. Obfuscate: 1. to confuse deliberately
The teacher tries to obfuscate the students.
60. Addle: 1. Rotten, not fresh
An addled egg
2. To be unable to think clearly (confuse)
Heat addled brain
61. Reception: 1. Greeting or welcoming
2. Formal party
The wedding reception
62. Novelty: 1. Nov (new or original)
2. Originality or newness
3. Inexpensive jewellery
The X-mass tree was illuminated by novelty.
63. Illuminate: 1. to give light (lumen-light)
2. to decorate with light
The house was illuminated on the occasion of matrimonial ceremony.
3. To decorate with golden or silver color
The manuscript was illuminated.
4. Clarify (informal)
The teacher could not illuminate the problem.
64. Chunk: 1. large piece
Chunk of fruits
2. Long span of time
He spent chunk of time on politics.
65. Fructify: 1. to bear fruits
Fructification process
66. Fruition: 1. Achievement (from fruit)
It is my great fruition.
67. Inimitable: 1. That can’t be imitate (unique) (of one kind)
Inimitable style, inimitable arts
68. Dogma: 1. a set of belief or belief followed by a typical group without doubt
Ant:Hersey
69. Dogmatic: 1. following traditional principle without doubt
Ant:Heretical
70. Hersey: 1. Opinion that is contrary to popular belief
71. Dogmatism: 1. Belief in traditional principle
72. Imaginative: 1. Inventive or creative
Imaginative mind
73. Coin: 1. Invent
Newly coined word
74. Caution: 1. Great care in order to avoid danger or risk
2. Warning (to be careful about danger or risk)
His comment has come as caution.
75. Giant: 1. Powerful and impressive person
76. Peripheral: 1. of the surrounding location
The city and its peripheral villages, peripheral job
2. Secondary
My peripheral profession
3. Extraneous
77. Amateur: 1. Non professional
78. Entomologist: 1. A person studies on insects
79. Stigma: 1. Part of flower
2. Token of disgrace
Stigma in character, social stigma
80. Stigmatize: 1. publically criticize
81. Stigmatization: 1. Public criticize (-ve)
The venal politician was stigmatized.
82. Venal: 1. Taking bribe (3';)
83. Marginalize: 1. To make powerless
2. to keep aside (-ve)
Marginalized society
Marginal: 1. Small and not important
84. Lionize: 1. To treat as a celebrity
The football player was lionized.
85. Lionization: 1. Popularity
86. Spotlight: 1. Focus
87. Foreground: 1. To make something or somebody more important or popular
2. Front
The foreground of the photograph
These political leaders are in the foreground.
88. Transcend: 1. To reach beyond your expectation (transcendent, transcendence)
My awareness transcended
Syn. Exceed
89. Groundless: 1. Baseless
Groundless fear, groundless argument , groundless prediction
90. Transgress: (trans-across/ gress-progress) (-ve)
1. to go beyond the limit of morality
He has transgressed the unwritten law of the society.
91. Subaltern: 1. Lower in rank
Subaltern tribes
2. Helping higher rank
92.Leonine: 1. Very courageous
Leonine person
93.Asinine: 1. Stupid
2. Very silly
An asinine person
94.Saturnine: 1. Gloomy or very sad, serious (sullen)
Saturnine face, saturnine occasion, saturnine place
Fig. dark-skinned (swarthy)
Swarthy face
95.Demanding: 1. Giving sincere attention or very careful
A demanding reader
2. Requiring much effort
Demanding work or task
3. Irritating others by demanding something
96.Acerbic: 1. Sour or bitter (-ve)
2. Bitter or angry: acerbic criticism- bitter criticism acerbic debate-angry debate
Acerbic criticism, acerbic remark, acerbic food item
97.Scathe: 1. Hurt or injure (physical or sentimental) (-ve) (scathing: withering)
Scathing remarks
98.Unscathed: 1. adj. not injured or hurt
The soldier got back unscathed from the battle field.
99.Exacting: 1. Very careful
Exacting analysis: very careful and detailed analysis
2. Requiring much effort or time
Exacting job
3. Demanding much effort or time
Exacting manager or boss
100.Copious: 1. Plentiful or abundant
Copious options, copious notes, copious information
There are copious books in the library.
101. Cornucopia: 1. Symbol of abundant
2. Abundant
Cornucopia of questions, cornucopia of information
102. Meticulous: 1. Giving sincere attention or very careful
A meticulous student, a meticulous analysis, a meticulous teaching
Meticulous analysis: very careful and detailed analysis
Syn. Scrupulous
103. Contemporary: 1. A person belonging to the same time (;dsflng)
2. Belonging to the same time (adj.)
3. syn.Modern
A contemporary jazz/music/poetry
104.Coeval: 1. of the same age (eval-age)
2. Having the same date of origin
Coeval people, coeval companies
105.Miser: 1. Stingy person or greedy person (-ve)
Miserliness: greed
106.Stinginess: 1. Syn. Miserliness
107.Diffident: 1. Lack of confident (lacking of self-confidence) (diffidence)
2. Shy
108.Coy: 1. Shy
109.Frugal: 1. Economical
2. syn. Thrifty
3. Provident
110.Frugality: 1. Thrift
2. being economical
111.Liberality: 1. Generosity
2. Giving freedom
112.Misconception: 1. Wrong belief, mistake on belief
113.Frequent: 1. To visit frequently
The café is frequented by the local people.
2. Happening or doing something often
He is frequent visitor to this country.
114.Novice: 1. Beginner
Syn. Tyro
Syn. Neophyte
2. New or lacking experience
115.Convoluted: 1. Coiled (not straight, twisted)
Convoluted path, convoluted talk, convoluted thinking,
Convoluted mind, convoluted structureConvoluted writing: complex writing
116.Mirror: 1. reflect
117. Labyrinth (N): 1. Coiled path
2. Something that is hard to understand
Syn. Maze
The labyrinth of the English grammar.The labyrinth of the legal system
118.Engage: 1. Involve someone’s interest or attention
2. to fight against
3. to start war
119.Disengage: 1. to stop fighting, to give up war
120.Engaging: 1. Very attractive (adj.)
2. Troth (promise for marriage)
3. Betroth (to promise for marriage)
121. Fanciful: 1. having unusual imagination
A fanciful person, fanciful story/tale
2. unusual and attractive
Fanciful architectural design
122.Fancy (noun): 1. Imagination that is unusual
123.Fancier: 1. Breeder or supplier of animals or plants
A dog fancier
124.Vintner (n): 1. Wine maker and/or seller
125.Chimera: 1. a type of Greece mythical being (lion’s head, goat’s body, serpent’s tail)
2. Great imagination that can’t be fulfilled
His goal is only a chimera.
126.Chimerical (adj.): 1. highly imaginary that can’t be fulfilled
Chimerical goal
127.Serpentine: 1. like a snake, bending, meandering or not straight (tortuous)
Serpentine River, serpentine man/person/path/road
2. Very evil
128.Viper (v.): 1. Poisonous snake
2. a harmful person or evil person
129.Consequential: 1. Happening as a consequence
The heavy rainfall and consequential flood
2. Very important
Consequential decision
130.Inconsequential: 1. not important
Inconsequential decision, inconsequential discovery
131.Involved: 1. Complicated, complex (adj.)
Involved theory, involved ideology
The GRE course is more involved than I thought.
132.Tenet (n.): 1. Principle (l;2fGt)
The fundamental tenet, the central tenet
133.Ideology: 1. A set of belief
Capitalist ideology, Ideology of Karl Marx
134.Bigot (n.): 1. A single minded person who can’t tolerate
A religious bigot, a political bigot
135.Fanatic: 1. Zealot
2. A very aggressive person to support the ideas or belief
A religious fanatic, A national zealot
136.Bigotry: 1. Single mindedness that lacks patience or tolerate
137.Zeal: 1. Great enthusiasm
2. Strong belief, zeal in religion
138.Patience: 1. Ability to accept
139.Bovine: 1. Cow like, cattle like
A girl with bovine eye
2. beef
3. slow moving and dull witted (stupid)
140.Ursine: 1. Bear like
141.Vulpine: 1. Fox like
2. disease (-ve)
3. cunning (w't{)
A vulpine person
142.Vixen: 1. Female fox
2. cunning woman
143.Simian: 1. Monkey like
2. simian face
144.Canine: 1. Dog like
145.Feline: 1. Cat like
2. Preferring isolation
Feline person
146.Urbane: 1. Of the city
2. civilized/polite/suave/polished
147.Pastoral: 1. Of the village-pastoral song, pastoral life
2. pastoral scene
3. of the pastor-pastoral responsibilities
4. relating to pasture-pastoral land, pastoral beauty
148.Bucolic: 1. Of the village or countryside, rustic (typical of country or country people)
2. Bucolic scene
149.Maritime: 1. Of the sea
Maritime law, maritime climate
2. Bordering to the sea
Maritime countries, maritime city
150.Idyll: 1. A poem which describes the peaceful and pleasant place
2. peaceful and pleasant feeling
151. Idyllic: 1. Peaceful and pleasant and beautiful
Idyllic Hamlet (small village/town)
152. Abut: 1. Adjoin
My house abuts onto the road.
153. Abutting: 1. Adjoining
China and its abutting countries
Syn. contiguous
154. Ossify: 1. Turn into the bone or harden
The joints have been ossified.
2. Cease developing or be stagnant or rigid
His opinions ossified, the culture/tradition ossified
155.Osseous: 1. Made of bone
156.Stupefy: 1. To make somebody feel thoroughly confused or surprised
(to stun, baffle, or amaze)
The decision stupefied me.
157.Stave: 1. Break in
The engine stove (past)
158.Staveoff: 1. Keep away or remove
The travellers ate fruits to stave off hunger.
To stave off fear/infection/anxiety/hunger
159.Relegate: 1. Demote (demotion), retrograde
The club was relegated.
2. give the responsibility or a work to a person or group
The proposal was relegated to the committee members for discussion.
160.Transmute: 1. Thoroughly change
Syn. Transform
The early criminal transmuted himself into a national hero.
161.Incise: 1. Carve or cut into (in-into, cise-cut)
The surface of the clay pot was incised.The gorge was incised.
162. Lank: 1. Tall or thin
Syn. Lanky, gangling
163.Squat: 1. To seat on heels (6'qm'Ss j:g]_
2. To occupy others property (governmental or private)
3. Short or fat
Squat boy, body, squat tower
165. Brawny: 1. having muscular strength
A brawny weight lifter
Syn. Burly (husky)
166.Brawn: 1. Muscular strength
167.Fair: 1. physically attractive
Syn. comely
168.Meager: 1. Thin or lean
Meager person or animal
2. Insignificant or very little or paltry
Meager salary, meager interest rate
3. of poor quality
Meager books
169.Estimable: 1. Deserving esteem or respect or admiration
Estimable chair person, estimable scholar/ university
170.Heyday: 1. the time in which you feel greatly happy and wealthy or peaceful
171.Tribulation: 1. Great trouble or suffering
Syn. Throes
The tribulations of modern life
172.Tribunal: 1. Court (having authority to deal with particular problem)
The international tribunal
173.Reticent: 1. Un-willing to speak, quiet, reserved, reluctant to express thoughts
He is reticent about his past.
Reticent ruler/regime
174.Chivalry: 1. Bravery (chivalric: very brave)
2. Kindness particular to woman
175.Subsidy: 1. funding by the government or organization
The company was subsidized.
176.Intricacy: 1.complexity
The intricacies of economic policies
177.Ameliorate: 1. to make better or improve (that is bad)
The bad situation was ameliorated
Ant. Aggravate (bad to worse), exacerbate
178.Ascertain: 1. to make sure
2. Find out
It is hard to ascertain the facts.
179.Exacerbate: 1. Worsen (that was already bad)
Syn. Aggravate
The injury has been aggravated.
180.Counterproductive: having the opposite effect to the one which is intended
Increase in taxation would be counterproductive.
181.Overlook: 1. Face
My house overlooks the garden.
2. To ignore as insignificant
To overlook mistakes
182.Renege: 1. Betray (re-back, ege-neg
183.Renegade: 1. A person who betrays (country, political party or person)
2. adj. perfidious (per-non, fid-faith)
Renegade guard of the Indira Gandhi
184.Tiring: 1. Adj. shy/coy
185.Deliver: 1. provide
186.Retreat: 1. Give up or withdraw
The soldiers retreated from war.
2. noun. Inactivity
The project is in retreat.
3. a quitter place
He is in the retreat of the lab.
187.Deliverapromise: 1. To promise
188.Grandiose: 1. Very impressive
Grandiose building, grandiose personality, grandiose plan
2. so great that it is unlikely to complete
Grandiose project (Melamchi), grandiose treaty
189.Anonymous: 1. Having a name that is not publicly known.
Anonymity: 1. Secrecy of name
He requested for anonymity.
190.Thuggery: 1 a violent man, especially a criminal
191. Peer: 1. Look with difficulty or concentration
192. Confront: 1. Meet face to face (face upto a problem)
193. Contort: 1. To become something twisted or make something twisted out of
its natural or normal shape
194. Faze: 1. Unsettle
2. to make somebody feel afraid
Syn. Daunt
Nobody can faze me.
195.Frantic: 1. Hurried or confused
2. widely agitated
196.Bang: 1. Sudden, loud, sharp noise
197.Tirade: 1. A long angry speech
Syn. Diatribe
198.Expletive: 1. A swear word
He dropped the book on his foot and muttered several expletives
under his breath.
199.Flea: 1. A small jumping blood sucking insect
200.Fleamarket: 1. A street market selling second hand goods
201. Consternation: 1. Anxiety or dismay
The announcement of her retirement caused consternations
among tennis fans.
202. Fortify: 1. Strengthen against attack
2. Invigorate or encourage
3. increase the alcoholic content or nutritious value of
203.Collusion: 1. Secrete co-operation or conspiracy in order to deceive
or for illegal purpose.
Collusion between politicians and security personnel to kill the journalist
204.Connive: 1. To let go a criminal or criminal activity
The prison guard connived at the escape of the prisoner (knowingly)
2. Conspire
3. to pretend to be ignorant
205.Adversities: 1. Difficulties or misfortunes
206.Obloquy: 1. Defamation (ob-not, loq-talk)
2. Dishonor
Smoking on public places is matter of obloquy.
207. Redolent: 1. Sweet smelling (+ve)
Redolent food item, redolent wine
2. having strong smell
Redolent spices, redolent herbs
3. evocative (reminding)
The restaurant is redolent of my village.
208.Infamy: 1. State of being notorious (s'Voft)
209.Infamous: 1. Notorious
Infamous criminal or crime
2. very bad or detestable (3[0ff nfUbf])
Infamous weather, infamous surrounding
210.Droll: 1. of odd or amusing qualities
Droll expressions
211. Vapid: 1. Tasteless, dull or uninteresting, unexciting
Vapid song, vapid poem, vapid stories
212. Arid: 1. Hot and dry
Arid climate of deserts, arid days
The trees are wearing a deserted look as the winter set in
2. Uninteresting or dull
Arid movie
213.Amiable: 1. Sweet tempered (am-love or friend), friendly
An amiable person
2. Pleasant
An amiable writing style, amiable story
214.Apocryphal: 1. well known but lacking authenticity (apo-god)
2. Not verified
Apocryphal stories
215.Apocrypha: 1. Religious document or stories lacking authenticity
216.Canon: 1. A set of religious rule
217.Canonical: 1. Very holy
Canonical Bible
2. Authentic because it has been traditionally approved
Canonical method
218.Pubs: 1. a building where people go to drink and meet their friends
219.Odoriferous: 1. Bad smell
2. Carrying smell