GRE Word List
This is a list of approximately 4,800 words commonly used in the GRE.
Today's GRE Word is
buccaneer
any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| valor | strength of mind or spirit that enables a person to encounter danger with firmness : personal bravery |
| dilemma | a usually undesirable or unpleasant choice |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| exhort | to incite by argument or advice : urge strongly |
| mock | to treat with contempt or ridicule : deride |
| discourse | verbal interchange of ideas |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |