GRE Word List
This is a list of approximately 4,800 words commonly used in the GRE.
Today's GRE Word is
flashy
lacking in substance or flavor : insipid
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| appellation | an identifying name or title : designation |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| psyche | a princess loved by Cupid |
| distant | separated in space : away |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| topple | to fall from or as if from being top-heavy |