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Adjectives From Gre Big Book

This document lists 150 adjectives in alphabetical order along with their definitions taken from the GRE Big Book. It provides a wide range of vocabulary words across the alphabet from A to Z covering topics such as emotions, states of being, sizes, and other descriptive words. The adjectives include words like abhorrent, accordant, adroit, affluent, ameliorative, benign, bolstering, courageous, creamy, and zenithal.

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Adjectives From Gre Big Book

This document lists 150 adjectives in alphabetical order along with their definitions taken from the GRE Big Book. It provides a wide range of vocabulary words across the alphabet from A to Z covering topics such as emotions, states of being, sizes, and other descriptive words. The adjectives include words like abhorrent, accordant, adroit, affluent, ameliorative, benign, bolstering, courageous, creamy, and zenithal.

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ADJECTIVES From GRE BIG BOOK

1. Abhor(hate)
2. Abortive(unsuccessful,fruitless)
3. Accord(agreement)
4. Accretion(growth)
5. Acrid(sharp)
6. Actuate(motivate)
7. Adage(proverb)
8. Addle(rotten)
9. Adroit(skillful)
10.Adversity(poverty)
11.Advocate(urge)
12.Affluence(abundance)
13.Allay(calm)
14.Alleviate(relieve)
15.Amalgamate(combine)
16.Amass(collect)
17.Ameliorate(improve)
18.Annals(history)
19.Aperture(opening,hole)
20.Apogee(highest point)
21.Beguile(cheat)
22.Benediction(blessing)
23.Benign(kindly)
24.Bizarre(fantastic)
25.Bolster(support)
26.Caliber(ability)
27.Capitulate(surrender)
28.Comity(courtesy)
29.Corruptible: open to bribery
30.cosmetic: adj. pertaining to the art of
beautifying
31.courageous: adj. brave
32.crass: adj. coarse or thick in nature or structure
33.creamy: adj. resembling
34.crematory: adj. a place for cremating dead
bodies
35.crustaceous: adj. having a crust-like shell
36.culpable: adj. guilty
37.curable: adj. capable of being remedied or
corrected
38.cycloid: adj. like a circle
39.Debonair(friendly)
40.decapod: adj. ten-footed or ten-armed
41.deceitful: adj. fraudulent.
42.decisive: ad. conclusive.
43.declamatory: adj. a full and formal style of
utterance
44.declarative: adj. containing a formal, positive, or
explicit statement or affirmation.
45.decorous: adj. suitable for the occasion or
circumstances.
46.Decorous(proper)
47.defensible: adj. capable of being maintained or
justified.
48.defiant: adj. characterized by bold or insolent
opposition.
49.Defile(pollute)
50.Demise(death)
51.demonstrable: adj. capable of positive proof.
52.demonstrative: adj. inclined to strong exhibition
or expression of feeling or thoughts.
53.dendroid: adj. like a tree.
54.deplorable: adj. contemptible.
55.deponent: adj. laying down.
56.Derelict(abandoned)
57.derisible: adj. open to ridicule.
58.descendent: adj. proceeding downward
59.determinate: adj. definitely limited or fixed.
60.Devout(pious)
61.diabolic: adj. characteristic of the devil.
62.diacritical: adj. marking a difference.
63.diaphanous: adj. transparent.
64.diatomic: adj. containing only two atoms.
65.Diurnal(daily)
66.Epitome(summary)
67.Fain(gladly )
68. gastric: adj. of, pertaining to, or near the stomach.
69. generally: adv. ordinarily.
70. genital: adj. of or pertaining to the animal reproductive
organs.
71. genitive: adj. indicating source, origin, possession, or
the like.
72. gentile: adj. belonging to a people not jewish.
73. globose: adj. spherical.
74. globular: adj. spherical.
75. glutinous: adj. sticky.
76. gluttonous: adj. given to excess in eating.
77. graceless: adj. ungracious.
78. gradient: adj. moving or advancing by steps.
79. habitable: adj. fit to be dwelt in.
80. habitual: adj. according to usual practice.
81. hale: adj. of sound and vigorous health.
82. happy-go-lucky: adj. improvident.
83. hard-hearted: adj. lacking pity or sympathy.
84. heartrending: adj. very depressing.
85. heathenish: adj. irreligious.
86. herbaceous: adj. having the character of a herb.
87. heteromorphic: adj. deviating from the normal form or
standard type.
88. hexangular: adj. having six angles.
89. hexapod: adj. having six feet.
90. hibernian: adj. pertaining to ireland, or its people.
91. hindmost: adj. farthest from the front.
92. hirsute: adj. having a hairy covering.
93. homologous: adj. identical in nature, make-up, or
relation.
94. ichthyic: adj. fish-like.
95. ignominious: adj. shameful.
96. illegal: adj. not according to law.
97. illiberal: adj. stingy.

98.mealy-mouthed: adj. afraid to express facts or


opinions plainly.
99.medial: adj. of or pertaining to the middle.
100. merciful: adj. disposed to pity and forgive.
101. merciless: adj. cruel.
102. mettlesome: adj. having courage or spirit.
103. misanthropic: adj. hating mankind.
104. misty: adj. lacking clearness
105. modish: adj. fashionable.
106. mordacious: adj. biting or giving to biting.
107. mountainous: adj. full of or abounding in
mountains.
108. nameless: adj. having no fame or
reputation.
109. narrow-minded: adj. characterized by
illiberal views or sentiments.
110. nauseous: adj. loathsome.
111. necessary: adj. indispensably requisite or
absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result.
112. neglectful: adj. exhibiting or indicating
omission.
113. neolithic: adj. pertaining to the later stone
age.
114. neural: adj. pertaining to the nerves or
nervous system.
115. neuter: adj. neither masculine nor
feminine.
116. newtonian: adj. of or pertaining to sir
isaac newton, the english philosopher.
117. niggardly: adj. stingy. (no longer
acceptable to use)
118. noiseless: adj. silent.
119. nomad: adj. having no fixed abode.
120. nomic: adj. usual or customary.
121. non-resident: adj. not residing within a
given jurisdiction.
122. norman: adj. of or peculiar to normandy,
in northern france.
123. noticeable: adj. perceptible.
124. nugatory: adj. having no power or force.
125. nutritive: adj. having nutritious
properties.
126. oaken: adj. made of or from oak.
127. observant: adj. quick to notice.
128. Prefatory(introductory)
129. Privy(secret)
130. Prodigious(marvelous)
131. Progenitor(ancestor)
132. Prognosticate(predict)
133. Psyche(soul)
134. Tacit(understood)
135. Tentative(provisional)
136. Tenuous(rare)
137. Tipple(drink)
138. Titanic(gigantic)
139. Transcend(exceed)
140. Transmute(change)
141. Trepidation(fear)
142. Truculent(aggressive)
143. Umbrage(anger)
144. Unctuous(oily)
145. Unfeigned(real,genuine)
146. Untenable(unsupportable)
147. Upshot(outcome)
148. Vacuous(empty)
149. Wont(custom)
150. Zenith(summit)

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