GRE Easy Vocabulary Words, Randomly Selected
Here are 20 randomly-selected Easy GRE Vocabulary Words*. To see another list of
20 words, refresh this page. Use these words to help you prepare for the verbal
section of the GRE. Your sucess on the GRE analogy and antonym questions hinges
on your the extent of your vocabulary -- the more words that you know, the higher
your score.
However, as with all GRE vocabulary lists, memorizing words is not the best way
to acquire and retain new vocabulary; to do that, you should read extensively. And,
use MyGRETutor's vocabulary tutor to keep track of the words that you have mastered,
and to brush up on those words that you have not.
| Word | Part of Speech | Definition |
| | stigmatize | v | To defame; to denounce; to describe something or somebody scornfully or in bad taste. | | erroneous | adj | Mistaken; wrong; incorrect; faulty. | | communal | adj | In common; public; pertaining or related to a commune; shared among many people. | | graphite | n | A black form of carbon used in pencils. | | chivalrous | adj | Courteous; loyal; faithful; brave. | | maritime | adj | Bordering the sea or a large body of water; related to or referring to something nautical. | | daredevil | n | Someone who takes reckless chances; somebody who seeks thrills; a risk-taker. | | aerate | v | To put air into; to expose to fresh air; to supply with air. | | surplus | n | Being in excess of what is needed. | | psychopathic | adj | Dealing with mental disorder. | | overbearing | adj | Overly pushy; extremely bossy; domineering and arrogant. | | chameleon | n | A lizard that changes color in different situations, usually in an attempt to match the color of the background; an inconsistent person. | | badger | v | To pester; to annoy continually with demands; to ask repeatedly. | | hypercritical | adj | Excessively demanding or suspicious; overly picky. | | orifice | n | An opening; an entrance way to a cave, passage; an opening into the body. | | counterfeit | adj | Forgery; fake. | | metaphor | n | An implied comparison; a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something else indirectly as a means to suggest a similarity. | | ecstasy | n | Rapture; a heightened feeling of joy; an overpowering emotion. | | posture | n | Pose; attitude. | | deem | v | To consider; to judge. |
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*The difficulty of a word is guaged by how many people get it right on the vocabulary
tutor section of MyGRETutor. Easy words are those words whose definition, on average,
is selected by at least 80% of users. Medium words are those words whose definition
is, on average, correctly selected between 40 and 80 percent of the time, and difficult
words are those words whose definition is correctly selected less than 40% of the
time.