GRE Word List
This is a list of approximately 4,800 words commonly used in the GRE.
Today's GRE Word is
derivation
the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix)
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| aesthetic | of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful |
| ligneous | of or resembling wood |
| 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 |
| upbraid | to criticize severely : find fault with |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| piquant | engagingly provocative |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| generality | the quality or state of being general |
| viand | an item of food |