Mastering GRE vocabulary is not easy because the majority of these words are highly abstract and not very frequently-used. GRE vocabulary flashcards that are available in the market, even Kaplan GRE vocabulary, mainly lack effective illustrations and contextualization.
A perfect way to learn and digest GRE vocabulary is to learn them in authentic or real context, and not out of context. At LELB Society, we have included 500 GRE vocabulary flashcards, accessible to our students at the bottom of this page. These 500 advanced words have been selected from authentic contexts, namely books, film scripts, magazines, websites, plays, poems, and the like. All these 500 vocabulary items come with definitions, synonyms, antonyms, parts of speech, collocations, and the like to expand your vocabulary learning experience.
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It is important to note that all these 500 GRE vocabulary flashcards are designed and edited by Dr. Mohammad Hossein Hariri Asl, the creator and chief administrator at LELB Society, and he has just borrowed the individual words from Kaplan GRE vocabulary items, one of the most reliable GRE vocabulary resources. In other words, the definitions, examples, synonyms, antonyms, illustrations, etc. are totally original.
Apart from 500 GRE flashcards found below, our students at LELB Society can access thousands of other advanced vocabulary items in real context with images selected from best-selling vocabulary books, including 504 Absolutely Essential Words, 1100 Words You Need to Know and 601 Words You Need to Know to Pass Your Exam. All these words are carefully illustrated and semantically organized around topics. Our students can also select any word or text and listen to the selected text on demand to perfect their listening comprehension.
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Distaff Side 1100 Words /ˈdɪstɑ:f/ – saɪd/ (noun & idiom) the female side of a family, the female members of a group, women’s side of a family, mother’s side of a family, womanly, feminine During Atticus’s closing remarks of the Tom Robinson trial, Atticus brings up Thomas Jefferson’s quote regarding equality among all men and…
Perspicacious 1100 Words You Need Perspicacious 1100 Words You Need /ˌpɜː.spɪˈkeɪ.ʃəs/ (adj) quick in noticing and understanding things accurately, perceptive, astute, insightful, wise, sagacious, smart, clear-sighted, highbrow, sharp, shrewd, ingenious A born naturalist (“She even collected owl pellets. And she took them apart”), Kimmy eagerly shares her knowledge about dinosaurs and fossils on a trip…
Palliate 1100 Words You Need Palliate 1100 Words You Need /’pa-lē-ˌāt/ (verb) Watch this video on YouTube to alleviate the symptoms of a disease without curing it, mitigate the intensity of something, make better, cure, treat, soothe, pacify, relieve, remedy, ameliorate To palliate is to relieve the symptoms and suffering caused by cancer and other…
Demur 1100 Words You Need Demur 1100 Words You Need /dɪˈmɜːʳ/ (noun & verb) Verb: to show disapproval or disagreement to do something, express refusal to do something, object something, show reluctance, balk, protest, raise objection, express doubts, doubt, hesitate, disagree Noun: hesitation, doubt, objection, complaint, disagreement A demurrer is a pleading in a lawsuit…
Desultory 1100 Words You Need /ˈdes.əl.tər.i/ (adj) passing from one thing to another aimlessly and cursorily, fleeting, cursory, superficial, random, aimless, casual, haphazard, unfocused, indiscriminate Wellman left Captain Bottolfsen and his marooned sailors on Waldenoya and returned to his polar party on Martensoya in May. By this time the summer sun had warmed the pack ice into a wet…
Obsequious 1100 Words You Need Obsequious 1100 Words You Need /əbˈsiːkwɪəs/ (adj) extremely eager to please or obey others, submissive, obedient, servile, seeking favor, fawning, sycophantic, flattering, compliant, deferential There is a difference between being self-disciplined and being obedient or obsequious. The intent of completing an act varies from a self-disciplined child and one who…
Lugubrious 1100 Words You Need /luːˈguː.bri.əs/ (adj) sad and depressed, morose, gloomy, mournful, melancholic, somber, doleful, miserable, cheerless, wretched, dismal, downbeat, depressing No such consideration can excuse my difficulty with “lugubrious.” I do recall when I first saw that one. A classmate in high school wrote in my yearbook “The vicissitudes of life are very…
Maudlin 1100 Words You Need Maudlin 1100 Words You Need /ˈmɔːd.lɪn/ (adj) overemotional and sentimental, tearfully sentimental, feeling sad, self-pitying, weepy, tearful, moody, delicate, touchy: She began to busy herself with getting dinner ready. Staring out the window, her mind drifting as she peeled potatoes. She looked at what she had and grabbed a couple…
Trenchant 1100 Words You Need Trenchant 1100 Words You Need /ˈtren.tʃənt/ (adj) expressed in a direct and incisive manner, expressing strong criticism and forceful opinions, straightforward, candid, to the point, cutting, sharp, biting, acerbic, severe, penetrating, forthright, caustic In April 1989 a trenchant critic of Roger Douglas’s economic policies, Jim Anderton, resigned from the Labour…
Vicissitudes 1100 Words You Need Vicissitudes 1100 Words You Need /vɪˈsɪs.ɪ.tjuːdz/ (noun) all the changes and problems that make a situation even worse, difficulties, hardships, predicaments, variations, ups and downs, fluctuations, deviations: “Today is another day! Yesterday is gone but not its memories. There were so many things we expected yesterday which did not happen…