GRE Word List

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

Today's GRE Word is

topography

the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations


Random words
WordMeaning
knella stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster)
bacchanalorgy
idyllicpleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity
inanelacking significance, meaning, or point : silly
nauseouscausing nausea or disgust : nauseating
retroactiveextending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past
rotundmarked by roundness : rounded
elaborationplanned or carried out with great care
cadavera dead body
tremora trembling or shaking usually from physical weakness, emotional stress, or disease