GRE Word List
This is a list of approximately 4,800 words commonly used in the GRE.
Today's GRE Word is
flippant
lacking proper respect or seriousness
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| amazon | a member of a race of female warriors of Greek mythology |
| retentive | having the power, property, or capacity of retaining |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| filigree | ornamental work especially of fine wire of gold, silver, or copper applied chiefly to gold and silver surfaces |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| litter | a covered and curtained couch provided with shafts and used for carrying a single passenger |
| hypochondriac | hypochondriacal |
| stamina | the bodily or mental capacity to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity : endurance |