An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the GRE Graduate Record Exam.
GRE word list 4
| document | to provide with written evidence to support |
| doggerel | poor verse |
| dogmatic | stating opinions without proof |
| dormant | inactive |
| dross | waste; worthless matter |
| dupe | to deceive; trick |
| ebullient | exhilarated; overly enthusiastic |
| eclectic | selecting from various sources |
| effervescence | state of high spirits or liveliness |
| effete | depleted of vitality; overrefined; decadent |
| efficacy | effectiveness; efficiency |
| effrontery | shameless boldness; presumptuousness |
| egoism | self-centeredness |
| egotistical | excessively self-centered; conceited |
| elegy | poem or song expressing lamentation |
| elicit | to provoke; draw out |
| elixir | a sustance believed to have the power to cure ills |
| Elysian | delightful; blissful |
| emaciated | thin and wasted |
| embellish | to adorn; enhance |
| emollient | soothing; mollifying |
| empirical | derived from observation or experiment |
| emulate | to imitate; copy |
| encomium | a formal expression of praise |
| endemic | inherent; belonging to an area |
| enervate | to weaken |
| engender | to cause; produce |
| enhance | to increase; improve |
| entomology | the scientific study of insects |
| enunciate | to pronounce clearly |
| ephemeral | short-lived; fleeting |
| epistemology | branch of philosophy tha texamines the nature of knowledge |
| equable | steady; unvarying; serene |
| equanimity | composure; calmness |
| equivocate | intentionally use vague language |
| errant | mistaken; |
| erudite | learned; scholarly |
| esoteric | hard to understand; known only to a few |
| essay | to make an attempt; subject to a test |
| estimable | admirable; possible to estimate |
| ethnocentric | based on the attitude tha one’s group issuperior |
| etiology | causes or origins |
| etymology | origin an history of a word |
| eugenics | study of factors that influence the hereditary qualities of the human raceand ways to improve those qualities |
| eulogy | high praise to a death person |
| euphemism | use of agreeable or inoffensive language in place of offensive language |
| euphoria | feeling of extreme happiness |
| euthanasia | mercy killing |
| evince | to show plainly; be an indication of |
| evocative | tending to call to mind or produce a reaction |
| exacerbate | to aggravate; make worse |
| exact | to force the payment of |
| exculpate | to clear of blame; vindicate |
| execrable | detertable; abhorrent |
| exhort | to urge by strong appeals |
| exigency | crisis; urgent requirements |
| existential | having to do with existence |
| exorcise | to expel evil spirits |
| expatiate | to speak or write at length |
| expatriate | to send into exile |
| expiate | to atone for |
| explicate | to explain;interpret;clarify |
| expository | explanatory |
| extant | in existence; not lost |
| extemporaneous | unrehearsed |
| extirpate | to root up; to destroy |
| extraneous | not essencial |
| extrapolation | the act of estimation by projecting known information |
| extrinsic | not inherent of essential |
| facetious | homorous |
| facilitate | to make less difficult |
| factotum | a person who does all sorts of work |
| fallacious | based on a false idea or fact; misleading |
| fallow | plowed but not sowed |
| fatuous | foolishly self-satisfied |
| fauna | animals of a period o region |
| fawning | seeking flavor by flattering |
| felicitous | suitable expressed; wee-chose; appropiate |
| feral | existing in a wild or untamed state |
| fervor | warmth and intensity of emotion |
| fetid | having a bad smell |
| fetter | to bind; confine |
| fiat | arbitray order; authorization |
| fidelity | loyalty; exact correspondence |
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