GRE Word List
This is a list of approximately 4,800 words commonly used in the GRE.
Today's GRE Word is
contention
a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| obsidian | a dark natural glass formed by the cooling of molten lava |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| lope | an easy natural gait of a horse resembling a canter |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| importune | to press or urge with troublesome persistence |
| bourgeois | of, relating to, or characteristic of the social middle class |
| bard | a tribal poet-singer skilled in composing and reciting verses on heroes and their deeds |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| prim | to give a prim or demure expression to |