Advanced Vocabulary Words
Challenging vocabulary primarily tested on the GRE. These sophisticated words distinguish high scorers and are essential for graduate-level reading and Text Completion questions.
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Retribution or punishment deserved for wrongdoing.
To seize or take control of something, especially for military or official use.
A religious rule or moral directive, especially one of the Ten Commandments in the Bible.
The beginning of something; also, a ceremony marking the end of an academic program.
Worthy of praise or approval.
Corresponding in size, degree, or extent; proportional.
To express sympathy or sadness about someone else's misfortune.
An expression of sympathy with someone who is suffering.
Sympathetic concern for the suffering or misfortune of others.
Showing kindness and concern for others who are suffering.
A feeling of contentment that often prevents awareness of potential dangers or problems.
Willing to please or agreeable, often to an excessive degree.
The act of obeying a rule, request, or law, or conforming to a standard.
Meeting rules or standards; willing to conform to requests or rules.
Made up of various distinct elements; a mixture.
A strong uncontrollable urge to do something; the state of being forced to do something.
Resulting from or relating to an irresistible urge; often difficult to control.
A disadvantage or drawback; also, short for confidence trick or a person involved in deception.
Ostentatiously proud of oneself; vain or egotistical.
Intended to placate or restore goodwill; making or willing to make concessions.
A mixture of various ingredients; a bizarre or fanciful plan or story.
A traumatic brain injury caused by a violent blow or shaking of the head.
To appear to treat someone as inferior; to act in a patronizing manner.
An attitude of superiority or patronizing behavior toward others.
A hostile or argumentative meeting or situation between opposing parties.
An assembly of people for religious worship, or any gathering of individuals.
Corresponding in character or type, or geometrically identical in shape and size.
Relating to the relationship between a married couple.
To cause something to appear unexpectedly or as if by magic; to evoke or summon mentally.
A greenhouse for growing and displaying plants, or a school specializing in music or drama.
To send or hand over something to a person or place, often for sale or safekeeping.
Comfort given in times of distress or disappointment.
To combine or unite into a more effective or coherent whole.
A person who takes part in a conspiracy with others.
To secretly plan or act with others to do something harmful or illegal.
To struggle or compete to overcome something; to assert or maintain in argument.
Causing or likely to cause disagreement or argument.
The ability to control the excretion of urine and feces. Also used to mean self-restraint, particula...
Dependent on certain conditions; not guaranteed.
Deliberately created in a way that seems artificial or insincere.
To dispute or argue against a claim or idea.
A bruise caused by a blow that ruptures blood vessels without breaking the skin.
A confusing or difficult problem that is hard to solve.
To recover from illness, injury, or surgery.
To come together or assemble for a formal or official purpose.
Capable of being changed in form, function, or character; often used to describe a car with a roof t...
To call together to a meeting or assembly, especially an official or formal one.
Extremely complex and difficult to follow; intricately coiled or twisted.
A group of vehicles traveling together for safety, often with military or police protection.
A violent, involuntary muscular contraction; a sudden upheaval or disturbance.
A woman who flirts habitually without serious intentions.
A line of people or barriers enclosing an area for security or control.
A symbol of abundance, often represented as a horn overflowing with food; a large supply of somethin...
Old-fashioned or tacky in a way that is unintentionally funny; clichéd.
A direct consequence or result that follows from a theorem or fact.
The ceremony of crowning a monarch, marking their formal accession to the throne.
Belonging to or representing a large company or group; collective as a whole.
A large collection of written or spoken texts used for linguistic analysis; a body of evidence or ma...
A fenced enclosure for confining livestock; to gather and confine people or animals.
A statistical relationship between two variables where changes in one are associated with changes in...