GRE Word List

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

Today's GRE Word is

cavalier

marked by or given to offhand and often disdainful (see disdain


Random words
WordMeaning
slewa large number
vignettea picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper
corrugatedhaving corrugations
histrionicdeliberately affected : overly dramatic or emotional : theatrical
asymmetrichaving two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical
portlydignified
perturbto cause to be worried or upset : disquiet
smughighly self-satisfied
oligarchygovernment by the few
crevicea narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure