GRE Word List

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

Today's GRE Word is

argot

the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group


Random words
WordMeaning
willfulobstinately and often perversely self-willed
nostalgiaa wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
squashto press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush
colossalof, relating to, or resembling a colossus
floutto treat with contemptuous disregard : scorn
dooma law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England
fusionthe act or process of liquefying or rendering plastic by heat
ulcera break in skin or mucous membrane with loss of surface tissue, disintegration and necrosis of epithelial tissue, and often pus
tactfulhaving or showing tact
remissnegligent in the performance of work or duty : careless