GRE Basic Vocabulary with accurate meanings, rated A+

GRE Basic Vocabulary with accurate meanings, rated A+ abscond - ✔✔depart secretly and hide adversity - ✔✔a state of misfortune or affliction aggravate - ✔✔make worse arduous - ✔✔difficult to accomplish b ...

GRE Basic Vocabulary with accurate meanings, rated A+ abscond - ✔✔depart secretly and hide adversity - ✔✔a state of misfortune or affliction aggravate - ✔✔make worse arduous - ✔✔difficult to accomplish belie - ✔✔to contradict, to give a false impression bombast - ✔✔pompous or pretentious talk or writing castigation - ✔✔punishment; severe criticism or disapproval censure - ✔✔harsh criticism or disapproval coercive - ✔✔serving or intended to compel by force or authority condemn - ✔✔express strong disapproval of conspire - ✔✔engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together covert - ✔✔secret or hidden cower - ✔✔To crouch or shrink away from in fear or shame denigrate - ✔✔to attack the reputation of; to speak ill of denounce - ✔✔to accuse or condemn or openly or formally or brand as disgraceful derision - ✔✔the act of deriding or treating with contempt diatribe - ✔✔a bitter and prolonged verbal attack discomfit - ✔✔cause to lose one's composure disingenuous - ✔✔not straightforward; crafty dissemble - ✔✔hide under a false appearance exacerbate - ✔✔make worse fraud - ✔✔something intended to deceive furtive - ✔✔marked by quiet and caution and secrecy impudent - ✔✔marked by casual disrespect inopportune - ✔✔coming at a bad time; not appropriate irascible - ✔✔quickly aroused to anger malevolent - ✔✔wishing or appearing to wish evil to others martial - ✔✔suggesting war or military life misanthrope - ✔✔someone who dislikes people in general morose - ✔✔showing a brooding ill humor obsequious - ✔✔attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery obstinate - ✔✔persist stubbornly onerous - ✔✔troubling; burdensome pedantic - ✔✔marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects perjury - ✔✔criminal offense of making false statements under oath recalcitrant - ✔✔stubbornly disobedient, resisting authority secrete - ✔✔generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids spurious - ✔✔plausible but false tirade - ✔✔a long, angry speech, usually very critical vexation - ✔✔something or someone that causes anxiety amalgamate - ✔✔to bring or combine together or with something else assuage - ✔✔to make easier or milder, relieve; to quiet, calm; to put an end to, appease, satisfy, quench bolster - ✔✔support and strengthen burgeon - ✔✔grow and flourish buttress - ✔✔(v.) to support, prop up, strengthen; (n.) a supporting structure capricious - ✔✔impulsive and unpredictable catalyst - ✔✔something that causes an important event to happen caustic - ✔✔harsh or corrosive in tone centrifuge - ✔✔an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension converge - ✔✔move or draw together at a certain location conversion - ✔✔the act of changing from one use or function or purpose to another corrosion - ✔✔a state of deterioration in metals caused by oxidation or chemical action decibel - ✔✔unit of measurement for the loudness of sounds distill - ✔✔remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation divest - ✔✔reduce or dispose of enervate - ✔✔weaken mentally or morally ephemeral - ✔✔enduring a very short time eradicate - ✔✔destroy completely, as if down to the roots expel - ✔✔force to leave or move out extend - ✔✔span an interval of distance, space or time facilitate - ✔✔make easier incubation - ✔✔maintaining something at the most favorable temperature for its development intransigent - ✔✔not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course inundate - ✔✔fill or cover completely, usually with water lackluster - ✔✔lacking brilliance or vitality lethargic - ✔✔deficient in alertness or activity luminous - ✔✔softly bright or radiant obviate - ✔✔prevent the occurrence of pervasive - ✔✔spreading throughout placate - ✔✔to appease, soothe, pacify plod - ✔✔walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud plummet - ✔✔drop sharply precipitate - ✔✔bring about abruptly propagate - ✔✔transmit or cause to broaden or spread prune - ✔✔weed out unwanted or unnecessary things rarefy - ✔✔to make or become thin, less dense; to refine rectify - ✔✔make right or correct retard - ✔✔cause to move more slowly or operate at a slower rate saturate - ✔✔infuse or fill completely sever - ✔✔cut off from a whole tentative - ✔✔under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon vigor - ✔✔active strength of body or mind viscous - ✔✔having a gelatinous or gluey quality, lacking in easy movement or fluidity vitality - ✔✔an energetic style volatile - ✔✔liable to lead to sudden change or violence waver - ✔✔the act of pausing uncertainly aberrant - ✔✔markedly different from an accepted norm ambiguous - ✔✔having more than one possible meaning anomalous - ✔✔deviating from the general or common order or type anomaly - ✔✔deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule archaic - ✔✔so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period commensurate - ✔✔corresponding in size or degree or extent conspicuous - ✔✔obvious to the eye or mind derivative - ✔✔unoriginal; derived from another source deviance - ✔✔a state or condition markedly different from the norm deviation - ✔✔departure or wandering away from the accepted standard discrete - ✔✔constituting a separate entity or part diffuse - ✔✔spread out digress - ✔✔wander from a direct or straight course discordant - ✔✔not in agreement or harmony disinterest - ✔✔lack of bias or involvement; impartiality; (ed) uninvolved; free from self-interest dispersed - ✔✔distributed or spread over a considerable extent eccentric - ✔✔conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual