GRE Word List

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

Today's GRE Word is

espionage

the practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company


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anticlimaxthe usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea
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sonneta fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme
bolstera long pillow or cushion
bawdyboisterously or humorously indecent
codaa concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure
edificebuilding
endemicbelonging or native to a particular people or country
invidiousof an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious
intransigencethe quality or state of being intransigent