GRE Word List
This is a list of approximately 4,800 words commonly used in the GRE.
Today's GRE Word is
smelt
any of a family (Osmeridae) of small bony fishes that closely resemble the trouts in general structure, live along coasts and ascend rivers to spawn or are landlocked, and have delicate oily flesh with a distinctive odor and taste
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| impel | to urge or drive forward or on by or as if by the exertion of strong moral pressure : force |
| obnoxious | odiously or disgustingly objectionable : highly offensive |
| coddle | to cook (something, such as eggs) in liquid slowly and gently just below the boiling point |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| pecuniary | consisting of or measured in money |
| allegiance | the obligation of a feudal vassal to his liege lord |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| terse | using few words : devoid of superfluity |
| quixotic | foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals |