Princeton Review GRE Vocab Exam-
Graded A+
abate - correct answers-to lessen in intensity or degree
Aberrant - correct answers-Deviating from the norm.
abjure - correct answers-to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
Abscond - correct answers-To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide.
accolade - correct answers-an expression of praise
acerbic - correct answers-having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting
acumen - correct answers-keen, accurate judgment or insight
adulation - correct answers-excessive praise; intense adoration
adulterate - correct answers-to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
adumbrate - correct answers-to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline
sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
aesthetic - correct answers-dealing, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
aggrandize - correct answers-to increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige
Alacrity - correct answers-Eager and enthusiastic willingness.
alchemy - correct answers-a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals,
esp. base metals into gold
alloy - correct answers-to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior.
Unalloyed - pure
amalgamate - correct answers-to combine several elements into a whole
ameliorate - correct answers-to make better or more tolerable
amenable - correct answers-agreeable; responsive to suggestion
,anachronism - correct answers-something or someone out of place in terms of historical
or chronological context
anathema - correct answers-a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or
thoroughly loathed person or thing
anodyne - correct answers-soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or
comforts
Anomaly - correct answers-deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality.
apogee - correct answers-farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
apostate - correct answers-one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
apotheosis - correct answers-deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example;
a model of excellence or perfection
Approbation - correct answers-an expression of approval or praise
appropriate - correct answers-to take for one's own use; to confiscate
archaic - correct answers-outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive,
time
Arduous - correct answers-strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort
arrest, arresting - correct answers-to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention
ascetic - correct answers-one who pratices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious
devotion
asperity - correct answers-severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
asseverate - correct answers-to aver, allege, assert
assiduous - correct answers-diligent, hard-working, sedulous
Assuage - correct answers-to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
astringent - correct answers-having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe;
something with a tightening effect on tissue
Audacious - correct answers-daring and fearless; recklessly bold
, augury - correct answers-omen, portent
august - correct answers-majestic, venerable
Austere - correct answers-without adornment; bare; severly simple; ascetic; harsh in
manner of temperament
avarice - correct answers-greed, esp. for wealth
aver - correct answers-to state as a fact; to declare or assert
axiom - correct answers-a universally recognized principle
Axiomatic - correct answers-taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
bellicose - correct answers-belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
bent - correct answers-leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
bolster - correct answers-to provide support or reinforcement
bombastic - correct answers-pompous; grandiloquent
broach - correct answers-to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about
brook - correct answers-To put up with something or someone unpleasant
bucolic - correct answers-rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their
inhabitants
burgeon - correct answers-to grow rapidly or flourish
cacophony - correct answers-harsh, jarrring, discordant sound; dissonance
calumniate - correct answers-to slander, to make a false accusation
calumny - correct answers-slander, aspersion
canon - correct answers-an establisehd set of principles or code of laws, often religious
in nature
Canonical - correct answers-following or in agreement with accepted, traditional
standards
Capricious - correct answers-inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic,
unpredictable
Graded A+
abate - correct answers-to lessen in intensity or degree
Aberrant - correct answers-Deviating from the norm.
abjure - correct answers-to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid
Abscond - correct answers-To depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide.
accolade - correct answers-an expression of praise
acerbic - correct answers-having a sour or bitter taste or character; sharp; biting
acumen - correct answers-keen, accurate judgment or insight
adulation - correct answers-excessive praise; intense adoration
adulterate - correct answers-to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
adumbrate - correct answers-to foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline
sketchily; to obscure or overshadow
aesthetic - correct answers-dealing, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful
aggrandize - correct answers-to increase in intensity, power, influence, or prestige
Alacrity - correct answers-Eager and enthusiastic willingness.
alchemy - correct answers-a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals,
esp. base metals into gold
alloy - correct answers-to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior.
Unalloyed - pure
amalgamate - correct answers-to combine several elements into a whole
ameliorate - correct answers-to make better or more tolerable
amenable - correct answers-agreeable; responsive to suggestion
,anachronism - correct answers-something or someone out of place in terms of historical
or chronological context
anathema - correct answers-a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or
thoroughly loathed person or thing
anodyne - correct answers-soothing; something that assuages or allays pain or
comforts
Anomaly - correct answers-deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality.
apogee - correct answers-farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith
apostate - correct answers-one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
apotheosis - correct answers-deification; glorification to godliness; an exalted example;
a model of excellence or perfection
Approbation - correct answers-an expression of approval or praise
appropriate - correct answers-to take for one's own use; to confiscate
archaic - correct answers-outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive,
time
Arduous - correct answers-strenuous, taxing; requiring significant effort
arrest, arresting - correct answers-to suspend; to engage; holding one's attention
ascetic - correct answers-one who pratices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious
devotion
asperity - correct answers-severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability
asseverate - correct answers-to aver, allege, assert
assiduous - correct answers-diligent, hard-working, sedulous
Assuage - correct answers-to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
astringent - correct answers-having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe;
something with a tightening effect on tissue
Audacious - correct answers-daring and fearless; recklessly bold
, augury - correct answers-omen, portent
august - correct answers-majestic, venerable
Austere - correct answers-without adornment; bare; severly simple; ascetic; harsh in
manner of temperament
avarice - correct answers-greed, esp. for wealth
aver - correct answers-to state as a fact; to declare or assert
axiom - correct answers-a universally recognized principle
Axiomatic - correct answers-taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
bellicose - correct answers-belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
bent - correct answers-leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency
bolster - correct answers-to provide support or reinforcement
bombastic - correct answers-pompous; grandiloquent
broach - correct answers-to bring up; to announce; to begin to talk about
brook - correct answers-To put up with something or someone unpleasant
bucolic - correct answers-rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their
inhabitants
burgeon - correct answers-to grow rapidly or flourish
cacophony - correct answers-harsh, jarrring, discordant sound; dissonance
calumniate - correct answers-to slander, to make a false accusation
calumny - correct answers-slander, aspersion
canon - correct answers-an establisehd set of principles or code of laws, often religious
in nature
Canonical - correct answers-following or in agreement with accepted, traditional
standards
Capricious - correct answers-inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic,
unpredictable
