GRE Group Words, Who are Preparing for pursuing Phd from Engineering or Science Department

GRE Word Groups, Who are Preparing for Pursuing Phd from Engineering or Science Department:

1 . abbreviated communication = abridge, compendium, cursory, curtail, syllabus, synopsis, terse
2 . act quickly = apace, abrupt, headlong, impetuous, precipitate
3 . assist = abet, advocate, ancillary, bolster, corroborate, countenance, espouse, mainstay, munificent, proponent, stalwart, sustenance
4 . bad mood = bilious, dudgeon, irascible, pettish, petulant, pique, querulous, umbrage, waspish
5 . beginner/amateur = dilettante, fledgling, neophyte, novitiate, proselyte, tyro
6 . beginning/young = burgeoning, callow, engender, inchoate, incipient, nascent
7 . biting (as in wit or temperament) = acerbic, acidulous, acrimonious, asperity, caustic, mordacious, mordant, trenchant
8 . bold = audacious, courageous, dauntless
9 . boring = banal, fatuous, hackneyed, insipid, mundane, pedestrian, platitude, prosaic, quotidian, trite
10 . carousal = bacchanalian, debauchery, depraved, dissipated, iniquity, libertine, libidinous, licentious, reprobate, ribald, salacious, sordid, turpitude
11 . changing quickly = capricious, mercurial, volatile
12 . copy = counterpart, emulate, facsimile, factitious, paradigm, precursor, quintessence, simulated, vicarious
13 . criticize/criticism = aspersion, belittle, berate, calumny, castigate, decry, defamation, denounce, deride/derisive, diatribe, disparage, excoriate, gainsay, harangue, impugn, inveigh, lambaste, objurgate, obloquy, opprobrium, pillory, rebuke, remonstrate, reprehend, reprove, revile, tirade, vituperate
14 . death/mourning = bereave, cadaver, defunct, demise, dolorous, elegy, knell, lament, macabre, moribund, obsequies, sepulchral, wraith
15 . denying of self = abnegate, abstain, ascetic, spartan, stoic, temperate
16 . dictatorial = authoritarian, despotic, dogmatic, hegemonic, imperious, peremptory, tyrannical
17 . difficult to understand = abstruse, ambiguous, arcane, bemusing, cryptic, enigmatic, esoteric, inscrutable, obscure, opaque, paradoxical, perplexing, recondite, turbid
18 . disgusting/offensive = defile, fetid, invidious, noisome, odious, putrid, rebarbative
19 . easy to understand = articulate, cogent, eloquent, evident, limpid, lucid, pellucid
20 . eccentric/dissimilar = aberrant, anachronism, anomalous, discrete, eclectic, esoteric, iconoclast
21 . embarrass = abash, chagrin, compunction, contrition, diffidence, expiate, foible, gaucherie, rue
22 . equal = equitable, equity, tantamount
23 . falsehood = apocryphal, canard, chicanery, dissemble, duplicity, equivocate, erroneous, ersatz, fallacious, feigned, guile, mendacious/mendacity, perfidy, prevaricate, specious, spurious
24 . family = conjugal, con-sanguine, distaff, endogamous, filial, fratricide, progenitor, scion
25 . favoring/not impartial = ardor/ardent, doctrinaire, fervid, partisan, tendentious, zealot
26 . forgive = absolve, acquit, exculpate, exonerate, expiate, palliate, redress, vindicate
27 . funny = chortle, droll, facetious, flippant, gibe, jocular, levity, ludicrous, raillery, riposte, simper
28 . gaps/openings = abatement, aperture, fissure, hiatus, interregnum, interstice, lull, orifice, rent, respite, rift
29 . generous/kind = altruistic, beneficent, clement, largess, magnanimous, munificent, philanthropic, unstinting
30 . greedy = avaricious, covetous, mercenary, miserly, penurious, rapacious, venal
31 . hardhearted = asperity, baleful, dour, fell, malevolent, mordant, sardonic, scathing, truculent, vitriolic, vituperation
32 . harmful = baleful, baneful, deleterious, inimical, injurious, insidious, minatory, perfidious, pernicious
33 . harsh-sounding = cacophony, din, dissonant, raucous, strident
34 . hatred = abhorrence, anathema, antagonism, antipathy, detestation, enmity, loathing, malice, odium, rancor
35 . healthy = beneficial, salubrious, salutary
36 . hesitate = dither, oscillate, teeter, vacillate, waver
37 . hostile = antithetic, churlish, curmudgeon, irascible, malevolent, misanthropic, truculent, vindictive
38 . innocent/inexperienced = credulous, gullible, ingenuous, naive, novitiate, tyro
39 . insincere = disingenuous, dissemble, fulsome, ostensible, unctuous
40 . investigate = appraise, ascertain, assay, descry, peruse
41 . lazy/sluggish = indolent, inert, lackadaisical, languid, lassitude, lethargic, phlegmatic, quiescent, slothful, torpid
42 . luck = adventitious, amulet, auspicious, fortuitous, kismet, optimum, portentous, propitiate, propitious, providential, talisman
43 . nag = admonish, cavil, belabor, enjoin, exhort, harangue, hector, martinet, remonstrate, reproof
44 . nasty = fetid, noisome, noxious
45 . not a straight line = askance, awry, careen, carom, circuitous, circumvent, gyrate, labyrinth, meander, oblique, serrated, sidle, sinuous, undulating, vortex
46 . overblown/wordy = bombastic, circumlocution, garrulous, grandiloquent, loquacious, periphrastic, prolix, rhetoric, turgid, verbose
47 . pacify/satisfy = ameliorate, appease, assuage, defer, mitigate, mollify, placate, propitiate, satiate, slake, sooth
48 . pleasent-sounding = euphonious, harmonic, melodious, sonorous
49 . poor = destitute, esurient, impecunious, indigent
50 . praise = acclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, venerate/veneration
51 . predict = augur, auspice, fey, harbinger, portentous, presage, prescient, prognostic
52 . prevent/obstruct = discomfort, encumber, fetter, forfend, hinder, impede, inhibit, occlude
53 . smart/learned = astute, canny, erudite, perspicacious
54 . sorrow = disconsolate, doleful, dolor, elegiac, forlorn, lament, lugubrious, melancholy, morose, plaintive, threnody
55 . stubborn = implacable, inexorable, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, recalcitrant, refractory, renitent, untoward, vexing
56 . terse = compendious, curt, laconic, pithy, succinct, taciturn
57 . time/order/duration = anachronism, antecede, antedate, anterior, archaic, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, fortnight, millennium, penultimate, synchronous, temporal
58 . timid/timidity = craven, diffident, pusillanimous, recreant, timorous, trepidation
59 . truth = candor/candid, fealty, frankness, indisputable, indubitable, legitimate, probity, sincere, veracious, verity
60 . unusual = aberration, anomaly, iconoclast, idiosyncrasy
61 . walking about = ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic
62 . wandering = discursive, expatiate, forage, itinerant, peregrination, peripatetic, sojourn
63 . weaken = adulterate, enervate, exacerbate, inhibit, obviate, stultify, undermine, vitiate
64 . wisdom = adage, aphorism, apothegm, axiom, bromide, dictum, epigram, platitude, sententious, truism
65 . withdrawl/retreat = abeyance, abjure, abnegation, abortive, abrogate, decamp, demur, recant, recidivism, remission, renege, rescind, retrograde










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