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
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| bolster | a long pillow or cushion |
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| coda | a concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure |
| edifice | building |
| endemic | belonging or native to a particular people or country |
| invidious | of an unpleasant or objectionable nature : obnoxious |
| intransigence | the quality or state of being intransigent |