A good vocabulary is crucial to acing Verbal section in GRE, CAT, SAT and other such exams. In this series of articles, we have compiled 1000 words that frequently feature in competitive exams.Spread over 25 lists of 40 words, these lists offer you a chance to learn the most essential English words.
Each word in the list is accompanied with its meaning and followed by a usage example. The words are categorized on three levels: 1, 2 and 3, according to the degree of difficulty. Go through the word lists and strengthen your vocabulary database.
Level 1: Let’s get warmed up
| Adherent: Someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another |
| The vote for educational reform pleased the adherents. |
| Adversary: Someone who offers opposition |
| His political adversaries were creating problems for him. |
| Atypical: Not representative of a group, class, or type |
| The economy of the province was atypical because it was so small. |
| Compatible: Able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination |
| His deeds were not compatible with his ideology. |
| Eradicate: Destroy completely, as if down to the roots |
| Their goal was to eradicate poverty. |
| Exploit: Use or manipulate to one's advantage |
| The landlord exploited the farmers to his own advantage. |
| Irrational: Not consistent with or using reason |
| They behaved in such a bizarre and irrational manner. |
| Obese: Excessively fat |
| Obese people tend to have higher blood pressure than lean ones. |
| Pathetic: A state of extreme sadness |
| The extremely shabby condition of the room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic. |
| Serenity: A disposition free from stress or emotion |
| She had a wonderful feeling of peace and serenity after reaching her own home. |
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Level 2: Let’s take it up a notch
| Accrue: Grow by addition |
| Interest accrues on the loan taken by an individual. |
| Apathy: An absence of emotion or enthusiasm |
| His apathy towards his work was painful to see. |
| Avarice: Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth |
| He paid six month’s rent in advance to satisfy his landlord’s avarice. |
| Banal: Repeated too often; over familiar through overuse |
| The text is banal. |
| Bliss: A state of extreme happiness |
| It was a beautiful scene of domestic bliss. |
| Cacophony: Loud, confusing, disagreeable sounds |
| The whole place erupted in a cacophony of sounds as soon as the winner was announced. |
| Fracas: Noisy quarrel |
| Many people were injured in the ensuing fracas. |
| Impede: Be a hindrance or obstacle to |
| Fallen rocks are impeding the work of the rescue workers. |
| Infallible: Incapable of failure or error |
| She had an infallible eye for style. |
| Nondescript: Lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting |
| They lived in a nondescript building. |
| Sedate: Characterized by dignity and propriety |
| We set off again at a more sedate pace. |
| Wane: Grow smaller |
| The sliver of a waning moon was high in the sky. |
Level 3: Time to be a master
| Bedlam: A state of extreme confusion and disorder |
| He is causing bedlam at the hotel. |
| Dilettante: Showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish |
| The sailing elite considered him a rank amateur, a dilettante. |
| Disgruntled: In a state of sulky dissatisfaction |
| The disgruntled priest did not deliver his sermon properly. |
| Exhort: Spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts |
| Mahatma Gandhi exhorted his listeners to turn away from violence. |
| Garrulous: Full of trivial conversation |
| He gave a garrulous speech. |
| Glabrous: Having no hair or similar growth. |
| The doctor has a glabrous scalp. |
| Gusto: Vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment |
| The aria was sung with great gusto. |
| Inebriated: Fill with sublime emotion |
| He was inebriated with his phenomenal success. |
| Insatiable: Impossible to satisfy |
| He had an insatiable desire for adventure. |
| Lithe: Moving and bending with ease |
| She was a lithe ballet dancer and could bend herself almost 360 degrees on the dance floor. |
| Moribund: Not growing or changing; without force or vitality |
| They had a moribund way of life, always confined in the 4 walls of their house. |
| Nadir: An extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything |
| That period was the nadir of his presidency. |
| Panacea: Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists |
| Western aid will not be a panacea for all the country’s problems. |
| Pique: A sudden outburst of anger |
| In a fit of pique he threw down his bag. |
| Platitude: A trite or obvious remark |
| Politicians normally spout the same old platitudes. |
| Propinquity: Closeness, proximity. |
| The propinquity of God can be felt by pious souls. |
| Rescind: Cancel officially |
| The court took one moment to rescind the illegal lease. |
| Revere: Love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess |
| People either revere politicians or hate them. |
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