GRE Master Wordlist: 1535 Words for Verbal Mastery

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2. ABASE - APLOMB

abase .......... abscission

abscond .......... accord

accost .......... acuity

acumen .......... advocate

aerie .......... allegory

alleviate .......... amphitheater

amplify .......... annotate

annuity .......... antipathy

antithesis .......... aplomb

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3. APOCALYPTIC - BEMUSED

apocalyptic .......... appraise

apprehensive .......... archetype

archives .......... asinine

askance .......... atavism

atheistic .......... austere

authenticate .......... baleful

ballast .......... bate

bauble .......... belittle

bellicose .......... bemused

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4. BENEDICTION - CENTAUR

benediction .......... bicameral

bicker .......... bludgeon

blurt .......... braggadocio

brandish .......... bulwark

bungle .......... caliber

callow .......... carcinogenic

careen .......... catharsis

caucus .......... centaur

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5. CENTRIFUGE - CONCOMITANT

centrifuge .......... chase

chassis .......... ciliated

cipher .......... clarion

claustrophobia .......... coda

coddle .......... collage

collate .......... compact

compelling .......... comprise

compromise .......... concomitant

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6. CONCORD - DENIGRATE

concord .......... confluence

conformity .......... consensus

consequential .......... contraband

contrite .......... corroborate

coterie .......... crypt

cuisine .......... debilitate

debunk .......... defoliate

defrock .......... denigrate

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7. DENOUEMENT - EPISTEMOLOGIST

denouement .......... detonation

detrimental .......... diorama

dirge .......... disparage

disparate .......... dolt

dossier .......... ecologist

efface .......... elliptical

eloquence .......... encroachment

endemic .......... eon

epaulet .......... epistemologist

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8. EPITAPH - GAWK

epitaph .......... eugenic

eulogy .......... exiguous

exonerate .......... facetious

facsimile .......... fictitious

figurative .......... flux

foible .......... fraudulent

frenetic .......... furtive

fusillade .......... garrulity

garrulous .......... gawk

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9. GENEALOGY - IMPOLITIC

genealogy .......... glacial

glean .......... gruel

guffaw .......... harangue

harbinger .......... heterogeneous

hew .......... hubbub

hue .......... ideology

idiosyncratic .......... impassive

impeccable .......... implicit

implode .......... impolitic

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10. IMPORTUNE - LEGERDEMAIN

importune .......... incessant

inchoate .......... increment

incrustation .......... inerrancy

inexorable .......... insalubrious

insensate .......... interregnum

intersperse .......... irreconcilable

irrepressible .......... labile

lachrymose .......... legerdemain

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11. LETHARGIC - NOCTURNAL

lethargic .......... longevity

loquacious .......... maim

malapropism .......... matriarch

matrix .......... meteoric

metropolis .......... misogynist

mitigate .......... morose

mortify .......... nebulous

necromancy .......... nip

nirvana .......... nocturnal

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12. NOISOME - PLAUDITORY

noisome .......... noxious

numismatist .......... odoriferous

oligarchy .......... orthography

osseous .......... palliate

panache .......... patina

patois .......... perception

peregrination .......... philanderer

philanthropist .......... plauditory

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13. PLEBEIAN - REPUDIATE

plebeian .......... pragmatic

preamble .......... prescience

prevaricate .......... proliferate

prologue .......... proxy

prune .......... quarantine

queasy .......... ravenous

realm .......... reiterate

relegate .......... repudiate

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14. REQUIEM - SLEW

requiem .......... retraction

retrieve .......... roseate

rostrum .......... salacious

salubrious .......... schism

scourge .......... seminary

sensitization .......... sheaf

sheathe .......... skulk

slake .......... slew

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15. SLOUGH - TENSILE

slough .......... solstice

somatic .......... sporadic

spurious .......... stipulate

stockade .......... suborn

subpoena .......... supercilious

superfluous .......... swindler

sybarite .......... tarry

taut .......... tensile

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16. TEPID - VISCOUS

tepid .......... tipple

tirade .......... touchstone

tractable .......... tremulous

tribunal .......... unconscionable

unctuous .......... unprecedented

unrequited .......... variegated

vehement .......... versatile

vertigo .......... viscous

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17. VITIATE - ZEPHYR

vitiate .......... wanton

warble .......... wrath

writhe .......... zephyr

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GRE Master Wordlist: 1535 Words for Verbal Mastery by Vibrant Publishers is a handy manual for all those readers who are preparing for their GRE exam and need to master the GRE vocabulary. The book has 1535 essential words, an easy pronunciation guide, synonyms and antonyms, parts of speech, sample sentences, and a definitive guide to essential vocabulary for GRE. This manual is a good tool to master the new GRE vocabulary in a reasonably short span of time and will help the GRE aspirants to get a good score. This book has everything in it that will make the GRE aspirants ace their verbal mastery test without much difficulty.

This book is a good way to prepare the vocabulary for a GRE test, and the aspirants need not learn thousands of words, but just the essential 1535 words listed in the book. Learning the words reflected in the book is the best way for GRE aspirants to get the perfect score by building their vocabulary and topping the verbal reasoning section. For all those readers who are planning to write their GRE exam, this book is a good one to own to achieve success. The presentation of the topic is also simple, organized, and easy to follow and that makes the learning process effective. 
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This is an excellent collection of vocabulary words not only for the GRE but for life in general. They are words you run into in journalism, fiction, while listening to the news—it’s a great preparatory book.
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I really liked this book. It is helpful when getting ready for college entrance exams, but is also good to learn new words everyday. I recommend this book!
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This practical textbook/vocabulary builder/study guide for the GRE is excellent. Each of the 1535 essential words have its pronunciation, parts of speech, synonyms, antonyms, plus a sentence using the word in context. There are tests in the book as well as online practice tests. Plus there are answer 'keys' for each word's practice tests. Overall, I found this to give me a substantial grasp of the targeted vocabulary word as well as ways to decipher which words I need to practice more.
-- Linda Gill
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GRE Master Wordlist: 1535 Words for Verbal Mastery is a compact guide for test-prep skill-building. The book contains helpful hints and testing exercises in an easy-to-grasp format. The book is organized in a clear, concise way that would enable a very busy student to focus on chunks of text in a brief span of time. The editorial team advises students to incorporate the words featured into dinner conversation-- a convenient way to build skill for a lifetime, and not just for an academic test.
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The GRE Master Wordlist is a straightforward, alphabetical term list with simple pronunciation information, part of speech, synonym(s), antonym(s) if applicable, and finally, the usage of the word in a sentence. The book is divided into 16 word lists so that it is not overwhelming to work your way through the 1,535 terms. At the end of each word list/section, you are rewarded for your studies with three quizzes: selecting synonyms (multiple-choice), selecting antonyms (multiple-choice), and a fill-in-the-blank (sentence) exercise. These three quizzes cover only 20-22 of the 100 words you just studied. As we all learn language and retain it through different means and channels, this particular learning style (working through a large list of terms at a time) can be useful, especially when studying for an exam. By increasing your own vocabulary, you will have “more words to choose from” in the written portions of the exam, for example. Having a larger vocabulary helps with the verbal reasoning section of the GRE in terms of the text completion, sentence equivalence, and reading comprehension tests. A richer vocabulary also makes it easier to incorporate vocabulary terms that are new to you in your own everyday communication. I compared the wordlist in this edition to similar GRE test preparation vocabulary lists and found a greater than 50% commonality among the lists.
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Very good book. I especially like the "How to Get the Most Out of this Book" section. It gives several good tips on how to learn these vocab words faster and explains why to even try to expand your vocabulary. The layout is extremely easy to use (even as an eBook) with clear formatting differences between entry words, synonyms & antonyms, and exercises. The checkup exercises included after each chapter are very helpful too! For those who want extra practice, even more self-test exercises are available on vibrantpublisher's website. If you're gonna read this book, be prepared to take your time and think deep because a lot of these vocabulary words may be unfamiliar. But by following their guidelines for learning them, you'll be expanding your vocabulary in no time!
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The 7th Edition of GRE Master Wordlist: 1535 Words for Verbal Mastery is a wonderfully thorough prep, not only for students who need to pass a vocabulary GRE exam, but also for anyone wanting to brush up on their use of vocabulary words. Many of the words listed are useful in today's English language. There are however, several challenging. and maybe not as well-known words, that will help students broaden their vocabulary knowledge. What I think is most helpful, are the sentence examples that demonstrate how each word can be used in everyday language. What I think would be most fun, are the study suggestions to try out under the heading "Have fun with the words as you make them your own!"
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