Gre Top 200

Front 1

to reduce in amount, degree, or severity

Back 1

abate

Hint 1

As the hurricane's force *****, the winds dropped and the sea became calm.

Front 2

to leave secretly

Back 2

abscond

Hint 2

The patron ***** from the restaurant without paying his bill by sneaking out the back door.

Front 3

to choose not to do something

Back 3

abstain

Hint 3

During Lent, practicing Catholics ***** from eating meat.

Front 4

an extremely deep hole

Back 4

abyss

Hint 4

The submarine dove into the ***** to chart the previously unseen depths.

Front 5

to make impure

Back 5

adulterate

Hint 5

The restaurateur made his ketchup last longer by ***** it with water.

Front 6

to speak in favor of

Back 6

advocate

Hint 6

The vegetarian *** a diet containing no meat.

Front 7

concerning the appreciation of beauty

Back 7

aesthetic

Hint 7

Followers of the ****** Movement regarded the pursuit of beauty as the only true purpose of ast.

Front 8

to increase in power, influence, and reputation

Back 8

aggrandize

Hint 8

The supervisor sought to ****** himself by claiming that the achievements of his staff were actually his own.

Front 9

to make more bearable

Back 9

alleviate

Hint 9

Taking aspirin helps to **** a headache.

Front 10

to combine, to mix together

Back 10

amalgamate

Hint 10

Giant Industries ***** with Mega Products to form Giant-Mega Products Incorporated.

Front 11

doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted several ways

Back 11

ambiguous

(ambiguity - the quality of being ambiguous)

Hint 11

cloudy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, nebulous, indeterminate, obscure, unclear, vague

Front 12

to make better, to improve

Back 12

ameliorate

Hint 12

amend, better, improve, pacify, upgrade

Front 13

something out of place in time

Back 13

anachronism

Hint 13

archaism, incongruity

Front 14

similar or alike in some way, equivalent to

Back 14

analogous

Hint 14

alike, comparable, corresponding, equivalent, homogeneous, paralell, similar

Front 15

deviation from what is normal

Back 15

anomaly

Hint 15

aberrance, aberration, abnormality, deviance, deviation, irregularity, preternaturalness

Front 16

to annoy or provoke to anger

Back 16

antagonize

Hint 16

clash, conflict, incite, irritate, oppose, pester, provoke, vex

Front 17

extreme dislike

Back 17

antipathy

Hint 17

animosity, animus, antagonism, aversion, enmity, hostility, repellence

Front 18

lack of interest or emotion

Back 18

apathy

Hint 18

coolness, disinterest, disregard, impassivity, indifference, insensivility, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, phlegm, stolidity, unconcern, unresponsiveness

Front 19

to judge a dispute between two opposing parties

Back 19

arbitrate

Hint 19

adjudge, adjudicate, decide, determine, judge, moderate, referee, rule

Front 20

ancient, old-fashioned

Back 20

archaic

Hint 20

ancient, antediluvian, antique, bygone, dated, dowdy, fusty, obsolete, old-fashioned, outdated, outmoded, passe, prehistorix, stale, superannuated, superseded, vintage

Front 21

intense and passionate feeling

Back 21

ardor

Hint 21

devotion, enthusiasn, fervency, fervidity, fervidness, fervor, fire, passion, zeal, zealousness

Front 22

able to speak clearly and expressively

Back 22

articulate

Hint 22

eloquent, expressive, fluent, lucid, silver-tongued, smooth-spoken

Front 23

to make something unpleasant less severe

Back 23

assuage

Hint 23

allay, alleviate, appease, comfort, conciliate, ease, lighten, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, relieve, soothe, sweeten

Front 24

to reduce in force or degree, to weaken

Back 24

attenuate

Hint 24

debilitate, devitalize, dilute, enervate, enfeeble, rarefy, sap, thin, undermine, undo, unnerve, water, weaken

Front 25

fearless and daring

Back 25

audacious

Hint 25

adventuresome, aggressive, assertive, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, game, heroic, intrepid, mettlesome, plucky, stout, stouthearted

Front 26

to reduce in force or degree, to weaken

Back 26

attenuate

Hint 26

debilitate, devitalize, dilute, enervate, enfeeble, rarefy, sap, thin, undermine, undo, unnerve, water, weaken

Front 27

fearless and daring

Back 27

audacious

Hint 27

adventuresome, aggressive, assertive, bold, brave, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, game, heroic, intrepid, mettlesome, plucky, stout, stouthearted, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, venturous

Front 28

severe or stern in appearance, undecorated

Back 28

austere

Hint 28

bleak, dour, grim, hard, harsh, severe

Front 29

predictable, cliched, boring

Back 29

banal

Hint 29

bland, bromidic, cliched, commonplace, fatuous, hackneyed, innocuous, insipid, jejune, musty, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, shopworn, stale, stereotypic, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, vapid, worn-out

Front 30

to support, to prop up

Back 30

bolster

Hint 30

brace, buttress, prop, support, sustain, underpin, uphold

Front 31

pompous in speech and manner

Back 31

bombastic

Hint 31

bloated, declamatory, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, magniloquent, orotund, pretentious, rhetorical, self-important

Front 32

harsh, jarring noise

Back 32

cacophony

Hint 32

discord, chaos, disharmony, noise, clamor, din

Front 33

impartial and honest in speech

Back 33

candid

Hint 33

direct, forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere, straight, straightforward, undisguised

Front 34

changing one's mind quickly and often

Back 34

capricious

Hint 34

arbitrary, chance changeable, erratic, fickle, inconstant, mercurial, random, whimsical, willful

Front 35

to punish or criticize harshly

Back 35

castigate

Hint 35

admonish, chastise, chide, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, tax, upbraid

Front 36

something that brings about a change in something else

Back 36

catalyst

Front 37

biting in wit

Back 37

caustic

Hint 37

acerbic, biting, mordant, trenchant

Front 38

great disorder or confusion

Back 38

chaos

Hint 38

clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, jumble, mess, muddle, scramble, snarl, topsy-turviness, turmoil

Front 39

someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs

Back 39

chauvinist

Hint 39

partisan

Front 40

deception by means of craft or guile

Back 40

chicanery

Hint 40

artifice, conniving, craftiness, deception, deviousness, misrepresentation, pettifoggery, shadiness, sneakiness, sophistry, subterfuge, underhandedness

Front 41

convincing and well reasoned

Back 41

cogent

Hint 41

convincing, persuasive, solid, sound, telling, valid

Front 42

to overlook, pardon, or disregard

Back 42

condone

Hint 42

exculpate, excuse, pardon, remit

Front 43

intricate and complicated

Back 43

convoluted

Hint 43

byzantine, complex, wlaborate, intricate, knotty, labyrinthine, perplexing, tangled

Front 44

to provise supporting evidence

Back 44

corroborate

Hint 44

authenticate, back, bear out, buttress, confirm, substantiate, validate, verify