GRE Word List

This is a list of approximately 4,800 words commonly used in the GRE.

Today's GRE Word is

makeshift

a usually crude and temporary expedient : substitute


Random words
WordMeaning
pell-mellin mingled confusion or disorder
hyperboleextravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones")
maelstroma powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius
slickhaving a smooth surface : slippery
tatterto make ragged
asunderinto parts
credencemental acceptance as true or real
corrugatedhaving corrugations
vanguardthe forefront of an action or movement
flagany of various monocotyledonous plants with long ensiform leaves: such as