GRE Word List

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

Today's GRE Word is

exemplify

to show or illustrate by example


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WordMeaning
defaceto mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details
felicitythe quality or state of being happy
digressionthe act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work
miscellanyseparate writings collected in one volume
badgerany of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere
usurythe lending of money with an interest charge for its use
nefariousflagrantly wicked or impious : evil
sublimeto cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state and condense back to solid form
curban edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter
pineany of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals