GRE Word List

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

Today's GRE Word is

sanction

a formal decree


Random words
WordMeaning
alleviaterelieve
optometrista specialist licensed to practice optometry compare ophthalmologist
amnestythe act of an authority (such as a government) by which pardon is granted to a large group of individuals
stampedea wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals
lagone that lags or is last
rightfuljust
genesisthe origin or coming into being of something
squatto cause (oneself) to crouch or sit on the ground
debunkto expose the sham (see sham
spoonerisma transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil)