GRE Word Groups

44 important questions on GRE Word Groups

Credulous, Gullible, Ingenuous, Naive, Novitiate, Tyro

INNOCENT/INEXPERIENCED

Articulate, Cogent, Eloquent, Evident, Limpid, Lucid, Pellucid

EASY TO UNDERSTAND

Baleful, Baneful, Deleterious, Inimical, Injurious, Insidious, Minatory, Perfidious, Pernisious

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Craven, Diffident, Pusillanimous, Recreant, Timorous, Trepidation

TIMID/TIMIDITY

Banal, Fatuous, Hackneyed, Insipid, Mundane, Pedestrian, Platitude, Prosaic, Quotidian, Trite

BORING

Abet, Advocate, Ancillary, Bolster, Corroborate, Countenance, Espouse, Mainstay, Munificent, Proponent, Stalwart, Sustenance

ASSIST

Antithetic, Churlish, Curmudgeon, Irascible, Malevolent, Misanthropic, Truculent, Vindictive

HOSTILE

Implacable, Inexorable, Intractable, Intransigent, Obdurate, Obstinate, Recalcitrant, Refractory, Renitent, Untoward, Vexing

STUBBORN

Burgeoning, Callow, Engender, Inchoate, Incipient, Nascent

BEGINNING/YOUNG

Altruistic, Beneficent, Clement, Largess, Magnanimous, Munifiicent, Philanthropic, Unstinting

GENEROUS/KIND

Avaricious, Covetous, Mercenary, Miserly, Penurious, Rapacious, Venal

GREEDY

Compendious, Curt, Laconic, Pithy, Succinct, Taciturn

TERSE/ABRUPT

Bombastic, Circumlocution, Garrulous, Grandiloquent, Loquacious, Periphrastic, Prolix, Rhetoric, Turgid, Verbose

OVERBLOWN/WORDY

Authoritarian, Despotic, Dogmatic, Hegemonic/Hegemony, Imperious, Peremptory, Tyrannical

DICTATORIAL

Abhorrence, Anathema, Antagonism, Antipathy, Detestation, Enmity, Loathing, Malice, Odium, Rancor

HATRED

Dilettant, Fledgling, Neophyte, Novitiate, Proselyte, Tyro

BEGINNER/AMATEUR

Indolent, Inert, Lackadaisical, Languid, Lassitude, Lethargic, Phlegmatic, Quiescent, Slothful, Torpid

LAZY/SLUGGISH

Ameliorate, Appease, Assuage, Defer, Mitigate, Mollify, Placate, Propitiate, satiate, Slake, Soothe

PACIFY/SATISFY

Absolve, Acquit, Exculpate, Exonerate, Expiate, Palliate, Redress, Vindicate

FORGIVE/MAKE AMENDS

Ardent/Ardor, Doctrinaire, Fervid, Partisan, Tendentious, Zealot

FAVORING/NOT IMPARTIAL

Abnegate, Abstain, Ascetic, Spartan, Stoic, Temperate

DENYING OF SELF

Ambulatory, Itinerant, Meander, Peripatetic

WALKING ABOUT

Discomfit, Encumber, Fetter, Forfend, Hinder, Impede, Inhibit, Occlude

PREVENT/OBSTRUCT

Chortle, Droll, Facetious, Flippant, Gibe, Jocular, Levity, Ludicrous, Raillery, Riposte, Simper

FUNNY

Disconsolate, Doleful, Dolor, Elegiac, forlorn, Lament, Lugubrious, Melancholy, Morose, Plaintive, Threnody

SORROW

Defile, Fetid, Invidious, Noisome, Odious, Putrid, Rebarbative

DISGUSTING/OFFENSIVE

Abeyance, Abjure, Abnegation, Abortive, Abrogate, Decamp, Demur, Recant, Recidivism, Remission, Renege, Rescind, Retrograde

WITHDRAWAL/RETREAT

Bereave, Cadaver, Defunct, Demise, Dolorous, Elegy, Knell, Lament, Macabre, Moribund, Obsequies, Sepulchral, Wraith

DEATH/MOURNING

Counterpart, Emulate, Facsimile, Factitious,Paradigm, Precursor, Simulate, Vicarious

COPY

Equitable, Equity, Tantamount

EQUAL

Aberration, Anomaly, Iconoclast, Idiosyncrasy

UNUSUAL

Abatement, Aperture, Fissure, Hiatus, Interregnum, Interstice, Lull, Orifice, Rent, Respite, Rift

GAPS/OPENINGS

Beneficial, Salubrious, Salutary

HEALTHY

Abridge, Compendium, Cursory, Curtail,Syllabus, Synopsis, Terse

ABBREVIATED

Conjugal, Consanguine, Distaff, Endogamous, Filial, Fraternal, Progenitor, Scion

FAMILY

Askance, Awry, Careen, Carom, Circuitous, Circumvent, Gyrate, Labyrinth, Meander, Oblique, Serrated, Sidle, Sinuous, Undulating, Vortex

NOT A STRAIGHT LINE

Appraise, Ascertain, Assay, Descry, Peruse

INVESTIGATE

Anachronism, Antecede, Antedate, Anterior, Archaic, Diurnal, Eon, Ephemeral, Epoch, Fortnight, Millennium, Penultimate, Synchronous, Temporal

TIME/ORDER/DURATION

Bilious, Dudgeon, Irascible, Pettish, Petulant, Pique, Querulous, Umbrage, Waspish

BAD MOOD

Abash, Chagrin, Compunction, Contrition, Diffidence, Expiate, Foible, Gaucherie, Rue

EMBARRASS

Asperity, Baleful, Dour, Fell, Malevolent, Mordant, Sardonic, Scathing, Truculent, Vitriolic, Vituperation

HARD-HEARTED

Fetid, Noisome, Noxious

NASTY

Cacophony, Din, Dissonant, Raucous, Strident

HARSH-SOUNDING

Euphonious, Harmonious, Melodious, Sonorous

PLEASANT-SOUNDING

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