GRE Word List

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

Today's GRE Word is

masticate

to grind or crush (food) with or as if with the teeth : chew


Random words
WordMeaning
nostalgiaa wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition
disbandto break up the organization of : dissolve
tarryto delay or be tardy in acting or doing
mediumsomething in a middle position
etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
implyto express indirectly
mischiefa specific injury or damage attributed to a particular agent
solventable to pay all legal debts
gentryupper or ruling class : aristocracy
obloquya strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language