Thesaurus of GRE® words!

[Jayashree]

hi guys!!

I have been learning the GRE word list from various sources and I found that many of the words are synonymous to one another. So, I just composed my own thesaurus of the GRE word list and wanted to share with all those who are finding difficult to learn new words.

Here is a list of thesaurus of only the GRE words.
THESAURUS

1. Abhorrent, abominable, detestable, execrable, loathsome, obnoxious, repellent, repugnant, odious, heinous, disgusting
2. Abandon, renounce, maroon, leave in the lurch, forfeit, disown, waive, ditch, abdicate, jilt, forsake, abjure, disown, repudiate
3. Abnormal, aberrant, anomalous, bizarre, eccentric, freak, idiosyncratic, queer, wayward
4. Scurrilous, calumnious, libelous, opprobrious
5. Libel, calumny, defamation, denigration, misrepresentation, obloquy, slander, aspersion, vilification, malign, traduce, smear, besmirch, tarnish, imputation, vituperation, defile
6. Abundant, bountiful, copious, luxuriant, rampant
7. Abuse, assault, execration, invective, vituperation, affront, berate, castigate, inveigh, odium
8. Acclaim, applaud, extol, commend, kudos, laud, eulogize, ovation, esteem, plaudits, acquiescence, endorsement, mandate, ratification
9. Accusations, impeachment, allegation, summons, indictment
10. Acquit, absolve, exonerate, vindicate
11. Bounty, largesse, munificence, philanthropy
12. Commendable, absolve, exemplary, laudable, meritorious, honorable
13. Contemptible, despicable, detestable, disgraceful, loathsome, odious, ignominious, dishonorable, discreditable
14. Condemnable, reprehensible, deplorable
15. Censure, condemnation, culpability, reprimand, recrimination, reproach, denounce
16. Aggressive, antagonistic, bellicose, belligerent, pugnacious, warlike, fractious, quarrelsome, contentious, litigious, militant
17. Irascible, petulant, peevish, dyspeptic, cantankerous, irritable, bilious
18. Agreement, accord, conformity, consensus, harmony, unanimity, compact, treaty, covenant, truce, pact
19. Approbate, comply, accent, concur, approve, acquiesce, concede, accord
20. Alleviate, abate, allay, ameliorate, assuage, mitigate, slake, subdue, temper, relieve, mollify, appease, conciliate, placate, gruntle
21. Alliance, affiliation, coalition, concordat, compact, confederation, consortium
22. Allure, attract, beguile, decoy, entice, lure, magnetize
23. Mitigate, palliate, extenuate
24. Coax, wheedle, inveigle, cajole
25. Amiable, affable, amicable, genial
26. Amorous, carnal, enamored, erotic, lustful, lecherous, licentious, salacious, lascivious, libidinous, lewd, prurient, lubricious, bawdy, erotic
27. Ancient, antediluvian, antiquated, archaic, outmoded, pass?, primordial
28. Animosity, acerbity, acrimony, animus, antagonism, antipathy, asperity, malevolence, rancor, vindictiveness, enmity, malice
29. Anonymous, incognito, pseudonymn
30. Phlegmatic, sluggish, languid, indolent, listless, lackadaisical
31. Apathy, lassitude, lethargy, debility, languor
32. Apex, acme, apogee, zenith, crest, culmination, summit, pinnacle
33. Apologetic, contrite, penitent, remorseful, rueful
34. Apprentice, novice, tyro, greenhorn
35. Appropriate, apposite, apropos, apt, befitting, felicitous, opportune, pertinent, seasonable, seemly
36. Arbitrary, autocratic, despotic, imperious, tyrannical, totalitarian
37. Arbitrary, capricious, whimsical, erratic, eccentric, mercurial, quirky
38. Ardent, zealous, fervent, impassioned, passionate
39. Arduous, grueling, laborious, herculean, onerous
40. Altercation, bickering, clash, dispute, feud, squabble, wrangle, quibble, carp, cavil
41. Arrogant, cavalier, haughty, impudent, supercilious, swaggering, presumptuous, snobbish, condescending, insolent
42. Articulate, eloquent, glib, lucid
43. Asperity, abrasiveness, acerbity, acidity, acrimony, churlishness, irascibility, rancor
44. Atrocious, heinous
45. Augury, premonition, forewarning, portent, foreboding, bode, foreshadow, presentiment
46. Ascetic, austere, Spartan, self-denying
47. Frugal, parsimonious, stingy,
48. Banal, clich?d, commonplace, hackneyed, humdrum, platitudinous, stereotyped, trivial, trite
49. Banish, exile, expel, rusticate, outlaw, oust, expatriate, deport
50. Banter, badinage, chaffing, repartee
51. Barbarian, boor
52. Barrage, fusillade, onslaught, bombardment, assault
53. Barrier, embankment, rampart, bulwark, blockade, fortification, palisade
54. Beget, procreate, father
55. Bell, carillon, knell
56. Bemuse, befuddle, bewilder, stupefy, confound, daze, flummox, muddle, mystify
57. Benevolent, altruistic, beneficent, benign, compassionate, philanthropic
58. Berserk, frenzied, frenetic, demented, deranged, maniacal
59. Bizarre, eccentric, freakish, grotesque, outlandish, weird, idiosyncratic
60. Beseech, implore, importune, entreat, supplicate
61. Besiege, beleaguer, pester, badger
62. Bewitch, captivate, enrapture, enchant, enthrall, entrance, mesmerize, ensnare, endear, engaging
63. Biased, bigoted, chauvinistic, jaundiced, partisan, tendentious, patriotic, jingoistic, sectarian
64. Genealogy, lineage, pedigree, race
65. Blasphemous, impious, irreverent, profane, sacrilegious
66. Blatant, barefaced, flagrant, conspicuous, shameless
67. Blaze, conflagration, holocaust, carnage, massacre
68. Boastful, vainglorious, bragging, conceited
69. Boisterous, obstreperous, rowdy, uproarious
70. Burlesque, caricature, travesty, lampoon, parody, sham, pastiche
71. Circuitous, devious, labyrinthine, meandering, oblique, rambling, tortuous, serpentine
72. Dainty, squeamish, fastidious, meticulous
73. Dappled, pied, motley, speckled, variegated
74. Dawdle, dally, loiter
75. Dexterous, agile, nimble, deft, adroit, lithe, limber
76. Devilish, demoniac, diabolic, fiendish, infernal
77. Dingy, murky, drab, seedy, dowdy
78. Discordant, cacophonous, clashing, dissonant, incongruous
79. Dormant, comatose, quiescent, latent, torpid
80. Ephemeral, fugitive, evanescent, fleeting
81. Etiquette, civility, protocol, decorum
82. Exuberant, ebullient, effervescent, vivacious, exultant
83. Fashionable, modish, vogue, contemporary, trendy
84. Flirt, coquette, philanderer
85. Gaunt, emaciated, cadaverous, lanky, haggard
86. Grandiloquent, bombastic, melodramatic, pompous, rhetorical
87. Heresy, unorthodox, heterodox, iconoclast, pagan
88. Hoodwink, cozen, deceive, dupe, hoax
89. Impromptu, extemporized, offhand
90. Impregnable, impenetrable, invincible, unconquerable
91. Insidious, deceptive, treacherous, surreptitious, furtive
92. Lament, dirge, elegy, requiem
93. Melancholy, lugubrious, disconsolate, despondent, somber, dejected, plaintive, lamenting, doleful
94. Paraphernalia, appurtenance, accessories
95. Perfunctory, cursory
96. Pestilence, blight, pandemic, plague, contagion, epidemic
97. Pillage, depredation, marauding, plunder, despoil, ransack, ravage, devastate
98. Prevaricate, tergiversate, equivocate, evasive, elusive
99. Profuse, exuberant, prolific, lavish, abundant
100. Profound, erudite, esoteric, recondite
101. Suspicious, apprehensive, skeptical, dubious, incredulous, wary
102. Sycophantic, flattering, servile
103. Therapeutic, curative, salubrious
104. Tumult, pandemonium, turmoil, chaos, commotion, turbulence, uproar
105. Virtuoso, maestro, prodigy
106. Voracious, ravenous, rapacious, insatiable, avid

Please feel free to acknowledge my effort. I would be delighted to know if this were of any help to you.

If any of you come accross some more thesaurus of words that come in the GRE, feel free to add them to this list.

Good Luck
Enjoy reading!!

Jayashree

[Crusader]

Thanks jayashree.. I found it really helpful..

[Sunguy17]

Hi,
"Just Fabulous!". This is what i have thought after seeing your thesarus.Thanks very much and also iam little bit surprised to find benevolent people these days.

Iam sitting for GRE this dec 28 2005.Iam confused over
the exact procedure to apply to univ throught GRE
Can u help me?

Once again thanks.
Bye.

[Jayashree]

hi sunguy

I am glad that you liked it. As for the admission part, i myself dont know much right now. Anywyas, I am giving my GRE on the 11th of the next month. Soonafter I shall be aplying for the universities. I shall then telll you how I proceeded. But if you arent aware, let me tell you that you can apply to 5 universities of your choice soonafter you take the test, for free. (I mean the fee is included in the exam fee itself :wink: ) So do some research on what courses you want and which colleges will be best suited. I shall tell you later about my admission details. ok

Good Luck!
Jayashree

[ud]

Hi jayashree

your thesarus hepled me a lot to revise my vocab.

You have your exam on 11 th of next month and i have on 12th of next month. I am facing problam in vocab section can u tell me how are u preparing for your vocab section. generally how much u score on your model tests.

UD

[Jayashree]

hi ud

i am glad that you liked my work.

as far as vocabs are concerned, they are like pills. If you dont work on it daily, it is of no use. So, the best way to prepare for vocabs is practice, practice and just practice. and hey....try to take as many antonym questions as possible (they are more effective than the synonyms).

this link might help u with this
http://www.vyomworld.com/gre/antonym.asp?start=0

Dont worry about the score as the best way to get high scores is to be through with vocabs....so that reduces your job a lot!! (almost 3 entire sections is based soley on vocabs). I am telling this from my personal experience.......i used to score 400-430s initially but as i gradualy picked up vocabs, my scores began to drastically improve. Now i am easily getting 550+ (inspite of poor performance in RCs).

So, just focus on vocabs (especially during the last days) and the scores will automatically get higher :D

All the very best !!

Jayashree

[Deepti]

Hi Jayashree..
Nice work. Very helpful. Thank you :)

[Guest]

Hi jayashree,
These words grouped together really help a lot. thanks a lot. My friends and I do a similar thing, we create word families, its very useful.. i am still preparing for my GRE, how did u do , what was your score

[Daiana]

very good and helpful
thanks

[Just2LetUknow]

Despite 3 months of solid vocabulary studying, I had two antonym questions with key words I've never seen before :x :x
Pinion and Furrow. I felt I got robbed though getting them right would have probably increased my score by 20 points. What the @83i! Good luck.

[Rafiq]

Hello jayashree
You have done some tremendous work. Its really a very big thank you.

[Abhi_Ofdoon]

Hi Jayshree....

This was a really good effert by u. It's really appreciable.

[Praveen Kulkarni]

Hi
This is wonderful !!
You know what !! I wrote a blog ( in minglebox.com) on the day I posted this comment.
Having given my GRE on December 12, 2007, I had this inkling to tell others and help them in building vocabulary by using the method that I had learnt to appreciate.
After posting my blog, I was just trying to verify if my blog would come up in Google search.
Then, I came across your blog. What a coincidence !!
I felt really good to know that someone else had the same epiphany like me.
But I feel bad that I didn't see your blog while preparing for my GRE. Had I come across this then, I would have done much better in the Verbal section.

[Jayashree]

Hey guys, i'm returning to this forum after so many years and thats mainly because of you gre aspirants' thankyou messages. I've been getting thankyou mails till date for this post. I literally have no idea this would help so many people (more than I thought). I am very happy about that.

I have been getting requests to blog about my gre preparation from a lot of people. So I have just started to blog a few things I did for my test. You might be interested in checking it out sometime, in case you feel lost with your test preparation. I am planning to share all my resources there. So keep visiting it to get the updates.

Here's the link:
www.gremyway.blogspot.com

Feel free to post your comments!

And good luck with your exam :)