GRE Verbal Vocabulary | Word Power | Mnemonics

This lecture explains five words that start with the letter a: abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, and abdicate, with definitions and example sentences to aid memorization.

Explore five b-words from GRE verbal vocab—babble, badger, baffle, bait, and baddies—with mnemonics, meanings (chatterbox, persuade by repetition, perplex, harass or lure, vulgar), and usage hints for exam prep.

Discover five common 'c' words: cash (a hiding place), cacophony (unpleasant noises), cadence (rhythmic rise and fall), catch-all (persuading with false promises or cajole), and calamity (disaster).

Explore five key d-words—dappled, dapper, dauntless, dazzle, and deadlock—alongside their meanings: two ideas or feelings, neat and trim, fearless, shining, and a standstill.

discover five essential e-words for GRE verbal mastery—earthly, eccentric, eclectic, eclipse, and edifying—with concise meanings and usage cues drawn from the lecture.

Explore five key f-words: facet, facilitate, faction, fact, and farce, and learn their meanings and example sentences. Use the provided examples to improve GRE verbal vocabulary.

Master five g words: gaffe, gainsay, gall, galvanize, and gambit, through mnemonic cues and usage in exam-style sentences to strengthen GRE verbal vocabulary.

Explore five essential h-words—hackneyed, haggle, hail, hallucination, and hampered—through definitions and example sentences that reinforce correct usage in GRE verbal contexts.

Explore five important i words (iconoclastic, idolatry, igneous, idiosyncrasy, ideology) through mnemonics to improve text completion and sentence usage in verbal practice.

Explore five common j words used in jury context, including jabber, jaded, jargon, and jeopardize, with example sentences that illustrate rapid chatter, fatigue, specialized language, and endangerment.

This lecture covers key GRE verbal words starting with k, including cardinal, kernel, kingdom, kindle, and kinetic, with concise definitions and example sentences illustrating their meanings.

Explore key words beginning with l used in the jihadi context, including laborious, lackluster, laconic, and lagging, with mnemonics, sample sentences, and exam-focused practice.

Master a set of m-words—magnate, magnet, magnitude, makeshift, maladroit, melody, and malady—through clear mnemonics that link their meanings to everyday contexts.

Explore key n words—not (the lowest point), narrative (to tell a story), nascent (coming into existence), and natty/neatly (well dressed)—with example sentences.

Explore words with the letter o in GRE verbal vocabulary, including obdurate, obese, obfuscate, and objective, with in-context usage and clear links to their meanings.

Explore four p-words used in jihadi contexts—pacifying, painstaking, palatable, and pals—through mnemonic cues and example sentences.

Explore key q-words from GRE verbal vocabulary, including quality, quaint, qualify, quantity, and quandary. Learn mnemonics and contextual usage to remember and apply these terms effectively.

Learn words starting with r, including rabble (noisy crowd), raffle (lottery), rag (imperfect or dirty), and rail (missed train), with mnemonic links to help recall.

Explore words starting with s, including saccharin, sacrosanct, sadistic, and sagacious, with example sentences to aid recall in jihadi contexts.

Explore four t-words from GRE verbal vocabulary—tacit, taciturn, tact, and take off—with their meanings: tacit (implied), taciturn (silent), tact (skill in dealing with people), take off (to leave the ground).

Learn four high-frequency u-words—ubiquitous, ultimatum, umbrage, unaccountable—through mnemonics and usage sentences to strengthen your GRE verbal skills.

Explore key words starting with v such as vacillate, meaning to waver, and vagary, describing capricious happenings; relate vain to not gaining, to reinforce verbal mastery.

Explore words from w to z in GRE verbal vocabulary, including baffling, xenophobia, yielded to pressure, zeal, and seal, with mnemonics and usage to boost confidence and scores.

Discover five key words used in jihadi context—lamppost (critiquing), gregarious (socially active), a Greek yes (opposite of gregarious), entrenched (firmly established), calumny (defamatory ill speaking)—with mnemonics and example sentences.