GRE Vocabulary
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Essential vocabulary for the Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE (Graduate Record Examination)
- Abase
- To lower someone in dignity, status, or self-respect, often by humiliating or degrading them.
- Abbess
- The superior of a group of nuns.
- Abbey
- A church associated with a monastery or convent.
- Abbot
- The superior of an abbey of monks.
- Abdicate
- To give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations.
- Abdomen
- The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis.
- Abdominal
- Relating to the belly, the region of the body between the chest and the hips.
- Abduction
- The act of taking someone away by force or deception, especially kidnapping, or more generally the act of carrying something away.
- Abed
- In bed.
- Aberration
- A state or condition markedly different from the norm.
- Abet
- To assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.
- Abeyance
- Temporary cessation or suspension.
- Abhorrence
- A feeling of intense disgust, hatred, or repugnance.
- Abhorrent
- Causing or deserving intense disgust or hatred, repugnant.
- Abidance
- Acting according to certain accepted standards.
- Abject
- Extremely miserable, degraded, hopeless, or contemptible.
- Abjure
- To formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure.
- Able-bodied
- Physically healthy and capable of performing ordinary or demanding physical activity.
- Ablution
- The ritual washing of a priest's hands or of sacred vessels.
- Abnegate
- To deny oneself (something), restrain, particularly from indulging in some pleasure.
- Abnormal
- Not normal, not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm.
- Abominable
- Extremely unpleasant, hateful, morally repugnant, or of very poor quality.
- Abominate
- To hate or detest intensely, especially with a feeling of disgust.
- Abomination
- Something regarded with intense disgust or hatred, especially a vile or morally offensive act.
- Aboriginal
- Relating to the original or earliest known inhabitants of a place, or existing there from the earliest known times.
- Aborigines
- The original or earliest known inhabitants of a region or country.
- Aboveboard
- Open, honest, and free from concealment or deception.
- Abrade
- To wear away, scrape, or roughen a surface by rubbing or friction.
- Abrasion
- A scraped or worn patch of skin, or the wearing away of a surface by rubbing.
- Abridge
- To reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.