Easy (But Important) GRE Words/Vocabulary - Part 1
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1. Conundrum = difficult problem (conundrum of the Kashmir problem/ children solved conundrums)
2. Risible = laughable, hilarious, ridiculous, absurd
3. Carrion = rotting flesh of a dead body
4. Burnish = polish
5. Officious = interfering = meddlesome = excessively pushy enthusiastic in offering help (security people were officious)
6. Misanthrope = someone who hates humankind
7. Ramification = branching out = subdivision (ramification of veins results in capillaries), to ramify = to diversify
8. Primordial = rudimentary = elementary = fundamental = existing at the beginning (of time) (ancient fossils of primordial life forms)
9. Antediluvian = extremely ancient
10. Facetious = flippant = inappropriately humorous (make facetious remarks/flippant remarks about serious matters
11. Rarefied = make less dense (of a gas) (difficult to breathe in rarefied mountain air)
12. Salubrious = salutary = healthy = wholesome = beneficial (Ooty’s salubrious air)
13. lament = grieve (to lament a son’s death) = bemoan
14. Innocuous = harmless (innocuous looking bomb)
15. Rack and ruin = complete destruction
16. Lax = careless (not carefree) (ex: lax security)
17. Precocious = exceptionally smart = ahead of age = advanced in development (noun is precocity)
18. Efficacy = power to produce desired effect
19. Alacrity = avidity = promptitude = lively and cheerful readiness (opposite is “apathy”)
20. Collusion = conspiring in a fraudulent scheme (armed forces were working in collusion with drug traffickers) = conspiracy (negative connotation ALWAYS)
21. Disabuse = persuade someone that an idea is mistaken = enlighten = correct = correct a false impression (he disabused me of my fanciful notions)
22. Deification (to deify) = treating someone like a deity (God), to idolize
23. Resplendent = dazzling, glorious, brilliant
24. Reprobate(noun) = unprincipled person (probity means having integrity, honesty, moral principles)
25. Condone = overlook, forgive, excuse (condone late coming)
26. Expedite (expeditious) = hasten = hurry = quicken = rush (expedite work and thus quickly finish it)
27. Frenetic = frantic = frenzied = wild = fast and energetic (frenetic car chases)
28. Plausible = likely = probable = possible = within the bounds of possibility = believable = acceptable = reasonable (a plausible excuse)
29. Ineluctable = irresistible = unavoidable = inescapable (lovers helpless against ineluctable fate)
30. Mercenary = related to money or gain
31. Provisional = tentative, designed for specific temporary circumstances (provisional merit list)
32. Confound = astonish = startle = baffle and frustrate
33. Polarize = to cause something to divide into 2 opposing groups
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