A - High Frequency GRE Words

Letter ‘A’ High Frequency GRE Words



1.Abase (v} - To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.
2.Abdicate (v) - To give up (royal power or the like).
3.Aberration (n) - Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
4.Abet (v) - To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
5.Abhorrent (adj.) - Very repugnant; hateful.
6.Abject (adj.} - Sink to a very low condition.
7.Abjure (v) - To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
8.Abnegate (v) - To renounce (a right or privilege).
9.Abominable (adj.) - Very hateful.
10.Abrasion (n) - That which is rubbed off.
11.Abrogate (v) - To abolish, repeat
12.Absolve (v) - To free from sin of its penalties.
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14.Abstruse (adj.) - Difficult to understand.
15.Abut (v) - To touch at the end or boundary line.
16.Abyss (n) - Bottomless gulf.
17.Accede (v) - To agree.
18.Accomplice (n) - An associate in wrong-doing.
19.Accost (v) - To speak to.

1.Accouter (v) - To dress,
2.Acerbity (n) - Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
3.Achromatic (adj.) - Colorless.
4.Acoustic (adj.) - Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
5.Acquiescence (n) - Passive consent.
6.Acreage(n)- Land, estate
7.Acrid (adj.) - Harshly pungent or bitter,
8.Acrimonious (adj.) - Full of bitterness.
9.Addle (v) - To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
10.Adduce (v) - To bring forward or name for consideration,
11.Adjuration (n) - A vehement appeal.
12.Adjutant (adj.) - Auxiliary.
13.Adroit (adj.) - Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
14.Adumbrate (v) - To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
15.Advert (v) -To refer incidentally.
16.Affable (adj.) - Easy to approach.
17.Affluence (n) - A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
18.Affront (n) - An open insult or indignity.
19.Agglomerate (v) - To pile or heap together.
20.Aggrandize (v) - To cause to appear greatly.
21.Aggressive (adj.) - self assertive, forceful.
22.Aghast (adj.) - Struck with terror and amazement.

A collection of some tough GRE words



1.Accentuate ( verb): to intensify
2.Accolade (noun) : Honor or attribute
3.Abeyance ( noun) : Not in present operation
4.Abound(v): Large in number
5.Abseil ( verb): To slide down
6.Abstemious ( adj) Avoid enjoying too much
7.Accretion (noun) addition to something
8.Accrue (verb) accumulate
9.Acme (noun) height of excellence
10.Affable (adj) genial, pleasant
11.Ambient (adj) the immediate surrounding
12.Acumen (noun): ability to judge
13.Aft ( adv): close to, back
14.Adroit (adj) : quick and skillful
15.Astute (adj): shrewd, incisive
16.Ameliorate (adj): make better or improve
17.Apocryphal (adj): mythical, fictional, untrue
18.Assiduous ( adj) constant, unremitting
19.Apogee(noun) the highest or most distant point
20.Assuage( verb) to make milder or less severe
21.Aplomb ( noun) Poise, assurance
22.Appetence (n) - longing, desire
23.Arrogate (v) - to attribute unjustly to
24.Atrabilious (adj)- ill-tempered
25.Ataraxy (n) - calmness, tranquility
26.Ascesis (n) - the practice of self-discipline
27.Adipose (adj) - characterized by fat
28.Adumbrate (v)- to indicate faintly; to Outline; typify
29.Alopecia (adj)–baldness
30.Amphibology (n) - an ambiguous wording
31.Analeptic (of drugs, etc.)(adj) –restorative
32.Asthenic (adj) - weakened, debilitated
33.Atrabilious (adj)– melancholy
34.Accoutrements (n)- equipment, trappings
35.Adiaphorism (n) - religious or theological indifference
36.Adminicle (n) - a thing that helps
37.Afflatus (n) – inspiration
38.Agora (n)- a place of public assembly, especially the market place
39.Adventitious (adj)- accidental, casual; unexpected
40.Aegis(n) - protection, defense
41.Alembic (n) - a means of refining or extracting
42.Anchorite (n) - a hermit
43.Anfractuosity (n) – intricacy
44.Antinomy (n)-paradox
45.Apiculture (n) - bee-keeping
46.Apodictic (adj) - clearly established; of clear
47.Asseverate (v) - to declare solemnly
48.Astral (adj) - of stars
49.Austral (adj) - southern - self-sufficiency especially as an economic system
50.Autochthons (n) - aboriginals


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