An extensive working vocabulary is a prerequisite for test-taking success on the GRE Graduate Record Exam.
GRE word list 2
| Archeology | the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artefacts and other physical remains. |
| Bacchanalian | characterized by or given to drunken revelry. |
| Banal | so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring |
| Banter | the playful and friendly exchange of teasing remarks |
| Bard | a poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition. |
| Bawdy | humorously indecent talk or writing. |
| Beatify | announce the beatification of. |
| Bedizen | dress up or decorate gaudily. |
| Behemoth | a huge or monstrous creature. |
| Belie | fail to fulfil or justify |
| Beneficent | generous or doing good |
| Bifurcate | divide into two branches or forks. |
| Blandishment | a flattering or pleasing statement or action used as a means of gently persuading someone to do something |
| Blasé | unimpressed with or indifferent to something because one has experienced or seen it so often before. |
| Bolster | a long, thick pillow that is placed under other pillows for support. |
| Bombastic | high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated |
| Boorish | rough and bad-mannered; coarse. |
| Bovine | relating to or affecting cattle |
| Brazen | bold and without shame. |
| Broach | raise (a difficult subject) for discussion |
| bucolic | a pastoral poem. |
| burgeon | begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish. |
| burnish | to polish |
| buttress | to reinforce; support |
| cacophonous | unpleasant or harsh-sounding |
| cadge | to beg; sponge |
| callous | thick-skinned; insensitive |
| calumny | false and malicious accusation; slander |
| canard | false; deliberately misleading story |
| canon | an established set of principles; a basis |
| cant | insincere talk |
| cantankerous | irritable; ill-humored |
| capricious | fickle |
| captious | faultfinding; intended to entrap |
| cardinal | of foremost importance |
| carnal | of the flesh or body |
| carping | to find fault; complain |
| cartography | science of making maps |
| caste | any of the hereditary social classes in Hindu society |
| castigation | punishment |
| cataclysm | a violent upheaval that causes great destruction and change |
| catalyst | something that causes change |
| categorical | absolute; without exception |
| caucus | smaller group within an organization |
| causal | involving a cause |
| caustic | burning; stinging; causing corrosion |
| celestial | concerned with sky or heavens; sublime |
| centrifugal | moving away from a center |
| centripetal | moving or directed toward a center |
| champion | to defend or support |
| chasten | to correct by punishment or reproof |
| chicanery | trickery; fraud |
| chivalry | the qualities idealized by knighthood such as bravery and gallantry toward women |
| churlish | rude; boorish |
| circuitous | roundabout |
| clairvoyant | one who can predict the future; psychic |
| clamor | noisy outcry |
| clique | a small, exclusive group |
| cloister | to confine; seclude |
| coagulate | thicken; congeal |
| coalesce | to cause to become one |
| coda | concluding part of a literary or musical composition |
| codify | to systematize |
| cognizant | informed; conscious; aware |
| collage | an assemblage of diverse elements |
| commensurate | proportional |
| compendium | brief, comprehensive summary |
| complacent | self-satisfied |
| complaisant | overly polite; |
| complement | something that completes or makes up a whole |
| compliant | yielding |
| compunction | uneasiness caused by guilt |
| concave | curving inward |
| conciliatory | overcoming distrust or hostility |
| concoct | to invent |
| concomitant | existing concurrently |
| condone | to overlook voluntarily; forgive |
| confound | to baffle; perplex; mix up |
| congenial | similar in tastes and habits |
| conjugal | pertaining to marriage agreement |
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