GRE Word List
This is a list of approximately 4,800 words commonly used in the GRE.
Today's GRE Word is
didactic
designed or intended to teach
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subsequent | following in time, order, or place |
| onslaught | an especially fierce attack |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| confound | to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| sap | the fluid part of a plant |
| ethnology | a branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures |
| ravine | a small narrow steep-sided valley that is larger than a gully and smaller than a canyon and that is usually worn by running water |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |