Top 500 GRE Vocab Words

abase

abate

abdicate

aberrant

abeyance

abjure

abscond

abstain

abstemious

abyss

accretion

acidulous

acme

adulterate

advocate

aerie

aesthetic

affected

aggrandize

alacrity

alleviate

amalgamate

ambiguous

ameliorate

amortize

amulet

anachronism

analgesia

analogous

anodyne

anomaly

antagonize

antipathy

apathy

apocryphal

apostate

approbation

arbitrary

arbitrate

archaic

ardor

arrogate

articulate

assail

assuage

attenuate

audacious

augury

august

austere

axiom

banal

belfry

bevy

bifurcate

bilk

blight

blithe

bolster

bombastic

bonhomie

boor

burgeon

burnish

cabal

cacophony

calumny

canard

candid

capricious

cartography

castigate

catalyst

catholic

caustic

chaos

chauvinist

chicanery

circumspect

cloying

coalesce

coffer

cogent

collusion

condone

connoisseur

contrite

contumacious

convoluted

corroborate

cosset

coterie

craven

credulous

crescendo

cupidity

curmudgeon

debutante

declivity

decorous

decorum

deface

deference

deleterious

demagogue

demur

deride

desiccate

desultory

diaphanous

diatribe

dictum

diffident

dilate

dilatory

dilettante

dirge

disabuse

discern

disparate

dissemble

dissonance

distaff

distend

dither

diurnal

divine

doctrinaire

dogma

dogmatic

droll

dupe

dyspeptic

ebullient

eclectic

edify

efficacy

effigy

effrontery

elegy

eloquent

embellish

emulate

encomium

endemic

enervate

engender

enigma

enumerate

ephemeral

epicure

equivocate

erratic

ersatz

erudite

eschew

esoteric

estimable

ethos

eulogy

euphemism

euphony

exacerbate

exculpate

exigent

exonerate

explicit

exponent

expurgate

fallow

fanatical

fatuous

fawn

fecund

fervid

fetid

flag

florid

foment

ford

forestall

fortuitous

fractious

frenetic

frugality

furtive

gambol

garner

garrulous

gestation

glib

glower

gradation

gregarious

grievous

grovel

guile

gullible

hapless

hegemony

hermetic

heterogeneous

hoary

homogeneous

husband

hyperbole

iconoclast

idiosyncrasy

ignoble

imbue

impasse

impecunious

imperturbable

impervious

impetuous

impious

implacable

imprecation

impugn

incarnadine

inchoate

inculcate

indolent

inexorable

ingenuous

ingrate

ingratiate

inimical

iniquity

innocuous

inquest

insipid

insurrection

inter

interregnum

intractable

intransigent

intrepid

inundate

inure

invective

investiture

invidious

irascible

itinerant

jargon

jettison

jingoism

jocular

judicious

juncture

keen

kindle

kinetic

knell

kudos

lachrymose

laconic

lament

lampoon

languid

lapidary

larceny

largess

lassitude

latent

laud

lavish

leery

legerdemain

lethargic

levity

liberal

libertine

licentious

limpid

lionize

lissome

listless

livid

loquacious

lucid

lugubrious

lumber

luminous

machination

maelstrom

magnate

malediction

malinger

malleable

mannered

mar

martinet

maudlin

mendacious

mendicant

mercurial

meretricious

metaphor

meticulous

militate

mirth

misanthrope

missive

mitigate

mollify

molt

monastic

monotony

mores

multifarious

myopic

nadir

naive

nascent

neologism

neophyte

nettle

noisome

nominal

nuance

numismatics

obdurate

oblique

obsequious

obstinate

obviate

occlude

officious

onerous

opaque

opine

opprobrium

orotund

ossify

ostensible

ostentation

overwrought

palatial

palliate

pallid

panache

panegyric

panoply

paradox

paragon

pare

pariah

parley

parry

pastiche

pathogenic

peccadillo

pedant

pejorative

penury

peregrinate

perfidious

perfunctory

peripatetic

permeate

perspicacious

pervade

phalanx

philanthropy

philistine

phlegmatic

pithy

placate

plastic

plebeian

plethora

plucky

polemic

politic

polyglot

posit

potentate

pragmatic

prattle

precipitate

precis

prescient

prevaricate

pristine

probity

proclivity

prodigal

profligate

proliferate

propitiate

propriety

prudence

puerile

pugilism

pulchritude

pungent

pusillanimous

querulous

quiescent

quixotic

quotidian

raconteur

rarefy

redress

rejoinder

repast

replete

repose

repudiate

requite

restive

reticent

rhetoric

ribald

rococo

rustic

sacrosanct

sagacious

salient

salubrious

sanguine

sardonic

satiate

scintilla

sedition

sentient

seraphic

sinecure

slake

sobriquet

solecism

soporific

spartan

specious

sportive

stasis

stentorian

stigma

stolid

stratagem

sublime

sully

supplant

surfeit

surly

sybarite

sycophant

symbiosis

syncopation

tacit

taciturn

talon

tangential

tawdry

terrestrial

tirade

toady

tome

torpor

transitory

trenchant

turgid

tyro

umbrage

unconscionable

unequivocal

upbraid

usury

vacillate

variegated

venerable

venerate

veracity

verbose

verdant

vernal

vestige

vex

vicissitude

vim

viscous

vituperate

volatile

voluble

wan

wanton

waver

whimsical

wily

winsome

wizened

wraith

xenophobia

yoke

zeal

zealot

zenith

zephyr