Gre Word Groups

Front 1

abbreviated communication

Back 1

1. abridge
2. compendium
3. cursory
4. curtail
5. syllabus
6. synopsis
7. terse

Front 2

act quickly

Back 2

1. abrupt
2. apace
3. headlong
4. impetuous
5. percipitate

Front 3

assist

Back 3

1. abet
2. advocate
3. ancillary
4. bolster
5. corroborate
6. countenance
7. espouse
8. mainstay
9. munificent
10. proponent
11. stalwart
12. sustenance

Front 4

bad mood

Back 4

1. bilious
2. dudgeon
3. irascible
4. pettish
5. petulant
6. pique
7. querulous
8. umbrage
9. waspish

Front 5

beginner / amateur

Back 5

1. dilettante
2. fledgling
3. neophyte
4. novitiate
5. proselyte
6. tyro

Front 6

beginner / young

Back 6

1. burgeoning
2. callow
3. engender
4. inchoate
5. incipient
6. nascent

Front 7

biting (as in wit or temperament)

Back 7

1. acerbic
2. acidulous
3. acrimonious
4. asperity
5. caustic
6. mordacious
7. mordant
8. trenchant

Front 8

bold

Back 8

1. audacious
2. courageous
3. dauntless

Front 9

boring

Back 9

1. banal
2. fatuous
3. hackneyed
4. insipid
5. mundane
6. pedestrian
7. platitude
8. prosaic
9. quotidian
10. trite

Front 10

carousal

Back 10

1. bacchanalian
2. debauchery
3. depraved
4. dissipated
5. iniquity
6. libertine
7. libidinous
8. licentious
9. reprobate
10. ribald
11. salacious
12. sordid
13. turpitude

Front 11

changing quickly

Back 11

1. capricious
2. mercurial
3. volatile

Front 12

copy

Back 12

1. counterpart
2. emulate
3. facsimile
4. factitious
5. paradigm
6. precursor
7. quintessence
8. simulated
9. vicarious

Front 13

criticize / criticism

Back 13

1. aspersion
2. belittle
3. berate
4. calumny
5. castigate
6. decry
7. defamation
8. denounce
9. deride / derisive
10. diatribe
11. disparage
12. excoriate
13. gainsay
14. harangue
15. impugn
16. inveigh
17. lambaste
18. objurgate
19. obloquy
20. opprobrium
21. pillory
22. rebuke
23. remonstrate
24. reprehend
25. reprove
26. revile
27. tirade
28. vituperate

Front 14

death / mourning

Back 14

1. bereave
2. cadaver
3. defunct
4. demise
5. dolorous
6. elegy
7. knell
8. lament
9. macabre
10. moribund
11. obsequies
12. seplchral
13. wraith

Front 15

denying of self

Back 15

1. abnegate
2. abstain
3. ascetic
4. spartan
5. stoic
6. temperate

Front 16

dictatorial

Back 16

1. authoritarian
2. despotic
3. dogmatic
4. hegemonic / hegemony
5. imperious
6. peremptory
7. tyrannical

Front 17

difficult to understand

Back 17

1. abstruse
2. ambiguous
3. arcane
4. bemusing
5. cryptic
6. enigmatic
7. esoteric
8. inscrutable
9. obscure
10. opaque
11. paradoxical
12. perplexing
13. recondite
14. turbid

Front 18

disgusting / offensive

Back 18

1. defile
2. fetid
3. invidious
4. noisome
5. odious
6. putrid
7. rebarbative

Front 19

easy to understand

Back 19

1. articulate
2. cogent
3. eloquent
4. evident
5. limpid
6. lucid
7. pellucid

Front 20

eccentric / dissimilar

Back 20

1. aberrant
2. anachronism
3. anomalous
4. discrete
5. eclectic
6. esoteric
7. iconoclast

Front 21

embarrass

Back 21

1. abash
2. chagrin
3. compunction
4. contrition
5. diffidence
6. expiate
7. foible
8. gaucherie
9. rue

Front 22

equal

Back 22

1. equitable
2. equity
3. tantamount

Front 23

falsehood

Back 23

1. apocryphal
2. canard
3. chicanery
4. dissemble
5. duplicity
6. equivocate
7. erroneous
8. ersatz
9. fallacious
10. feigned
11. guile
12. mendacious
13. mendacity
14. perfidy
15. prevaricate
16. specious
17. spurious

Front 24

family

Back 24

1. conjugal
2. consanguine
3. distaff
4. endogamous
5. filial
6. fratricide
7. progenitor
8. scion

Front 25

favoring / not impartial

Back 25

1. ardor / ardent
2. doctrinaire
3. fervid
4. partisan
5. tendentious
6. zealot

Front 26

forgive

Back 26

1. absolve
2. acquit
3. exculpate
4. exonerate
5. palliate
6. redress
7. vindicate

Front 27

funny

Back 27

1. chortle
2. droll
3. facetious
4. flippant
5. gibe
6. jocular
7. levity
8. ludicrous
9. raillery
10. riposte
11. simper

Front 28

gaps / openings

Back 28

1. abatement
2. aperture
3. fissure
4. hiatus
5. interregnum
6. interstice
7. lull
8. orifice
9. rent
10. respite
11. rift

Front 29

generous / kind

Back 29

1. altruistic
2. beneficent
3. clement
4. largess
5. magnanimous
6. munificent
7. philanthropic
8. unstinting

Front 30

greedy

Back 30

1. avaricious
2. covetous
3. mercenary
4. miserly
5. penurious
6. rapacious
7. venal

Front 31

hard - hearted

Back 31

1. asperity
2. baleful
3. dour
4. fell
5. malevolent
6. mordant
7. sardonic
8. scathing
9. truculent
10. vitriolic
11. vituperation

Front 32

harmful

Back 32

1. baleful
2. baneful
3. deleterious
4. inimical
5. injurious
6. insidious
7. minatory
8. perfidious
9. pernicious

Front 33

harsh-sounding

Back 33

1. cacophony
2. din
3. dissonant
4. raucous
5. strident

Front 34

hatred

Back 34

1. abhorrence
2. anathema
3. antagonism
4. antipathy
5. detestation
6. enmity
7. loathing
8. malice
9. odium
10. rancor

Front 35

healthy

Back 35

1. beneficial
2. salubrious
3. salutary

Front 36

hesitate

Back 36

1. dither
2. oscillate
3. teeter
4. vacillate
5. waver

Front 37

hostile

Back 37

1. antithetic
2. churlish
3. curmudgeon
4. irascible
5. malevolent
6. misanthropic
7. truculent
8. vindictive

Front 38

innocent / inexperienced

Back 38

1. credulous
2. gullible
3. ingenuous
4. naive
5. novitiate
6. tyro

Front 39

insincere

Back 39

1. disingenuous
2. dissemble
3. fulsome
4. ostensible
5. unctuous

Front 40

investigate

Back 40

1. appraise
2. ascertain
3. assay
4. decry
5. peruse

Front 41

lazy / sluggish

Back 41

1. indolent
2. inert
3. lackadaisical
4. languid
5. lassitude
6. lethargic
7. phlegmatic
8. quiescent
9. slothful
10. torpid

Front 42

luck

Back 42

1. adventitious
2. amulet
3. auspicious
4. fortuitous
5. kismet
6. optimum
7. portentous
8. propitiate
9. propitious
10. providential
11. tailsman

Front 43

nag

Back 43

1. admonish
2. belabor
3. cavil
4. enjoin
5. exhort
6. harangue
7. hector
8. martinet
9. remonstrate
10. reproof

Front 44

nasty

Back 44

1. fetid
2. noisome
3. noxious

Front 45

not a straight line

Back 45

1. askance
2. awry
3. careen
4. carom
5. circuitous
6. circumvent
7. gyrate
8. labyrinth
9. meander
10. oblique
11. serrated
12. sidle
13. sinuous
14. undulating
15. vortex

Front 46

overblown / wordy

Back 46

1. bombastic
2. circumlocution
3. garrulous
4. grandiloquent
5. loquacious
6. periphrastic
7. prolix
8. rhetoric
9. turgid
10. verbose

Front 47

pacify / satisfy

Back 47

1. ameliorate
2. appease
3. assuage
4. defer
5. mitigate
6. mollify
7. placate
8. propitiate
9. satiate
10. slake
11. soothe

Front 48

pleasant - sounding

Back 48

1. euphonious
2. harmonious
3. melodious
4. sonorous

Front 49

poor

Back 49

1. destitute
2. esurient
3. impecunious
4. indigent

Front 50

praise

Back 50

1. acclaim
2. accolade
3. aggrandize
4. encomium
5. eulofize
6. extol
7. fawn
8. laud / laudatory
9. venerate / veneration

Front 51

predict

Back 51

1. augur
2. auspice
3. fey
4. harbinger
5. portentous
6. presage
7. prescient
8. prognosticate

Front 52

prevent / obstruct

Back 52

1. discomfort
2. encumber
3. fetter
4. forfend
5. hinder
6. impede
7. inhibit
8. occlude

Front 53

smart / learned

Back 53

1. astute
2. canny
3. erudite
4. perspicacious

Front 54

sorrow

Back 54

1. disconsolate
2. doleful
3. dolor
4. elegiac
5. forlorn
6. lament
7. lugubrious
8. melancholy
9. morose
10. plaintive
11. threnody

Front 55

stubborn

Back 55

1. implacable
2. inexorable
3. intractable
4. intransigent
5. obdurate
6. obstinate
7. recalcitrant
8. refractory
9. renitent
10. untoward
11. vexing

Front 56

terse

Back 56

1. compendious
2. curt
3. laconic
4. pithy
5. succinct
6. taciturn

Front 57

time / order / duration

Back 57

1. anachronism
2. antecede
3. anterior
4. archaic
5. diurnal
6. eon
7. ephemeral
8. epoch
9. fortnight
10. millennium
11. penultimate
12. synchronous
13. temporal

Front 58

timid / timidity

Back 58

1. craven
2. diffident
3. pusillanimous
4. recreant
5. timorous
6. trepidation

Front 59

truth

Back 59

1. candor / candid
2. fealty
3. frankness
4. indisputable
5. indubitable
6. legitimate
7. probity
8. sincere
9. veracious
10. verity

Front 60

unusual

Back 60

1. aberration
2. anomaly
3. iconoclast
4. idiosyncrasy

Front 61

walking about

Back 61

1. ambulatory
2. itinerant
3. peripatetic

Front 62

wandering

Back 62

1. discursive
2. expatiate
3. forage
4. itinerant
5. peregrination
6. peripatetic
7. sojurn

Front 63

weaken

Back 63

1. adulterate
2. enervate
3. exacerbate
4. inhibit
5. obviate
6. stultify
7. undermine
8. vitiate

Front 64

wisdom

Back 64

1. adage
2. aphorism
3. apothegm
4. axiom
5. bromide
6. dictum
7. epigram
8. platitude
9. sententious
10. truism

Front 65

withdrawal / retreat

Back 65

1. abeyance
2. abjure
3. abnegation
4. abortive
5. abrogate
6. decamp
7. demur
8. recant
9. recidivism
10. remission
11. renege
12. rescind
13. retrograde