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
| Acknowledge: Declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of |
| They sent me a postcard acknowledging my request. |
| Artefact: A man-made object taken as a whole |
| He loved collecting artifacts. |
| Bizarre: Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual |
| The book he was reading was really bizarre. |
| Decade: A period of 10 years |
| The palace was repaired after decades. |
| Dispersed: To cause to separate and go in different directions |
| The police dispersed the crowd. |
| Neutralize: Make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of |
| Her gaiety and optimism neutralizes his gloom. |
| Phenomenon: A remarkable development |
| Magnetic attraction is an interesting phenomenon. |
| Potential: Expected to become or be; in prospect |
| We are aware of the potential dangers. |
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Level 2: Let’s take it up a notch
| Analogous: Similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar |
| The paddle of a whale and the fin of a fish are analogous. |
| Compensatory: Serving for compensation; making amends |
| The management had a liberal compensatory policy for the staff. |
| Cumulative: Increasing by successive addition |
| This drug has a cumulative effect. |
| Escalation: To increase, enlarge, or intensify. |
| Higher wages caused an escalation in the budgetary allowance. |
| Gamut: A complete extent or range |
| The old man’s face went through a whole gamut of expressions, from rage to contentment. |
| Heterogeneous: Consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature |
| The society today is very heterogeneous. |
| Inanimate: Not endowed with life |
| A rock is an inanimate object. |
| Indifference: Unbiased impartial unconcern |
| It was heart-rending to see his callous indifferent attitude towards his son. |
| Introspective: Given to examining own sensory and perceptual experiences |
| He is terribly introspective and shy. |
| Maladjusted: Poorly adjusted to demands and stresses of daily living |
| He sometimes teaches in a school for maladjusted children. |
| Mandate: A document giving an official instruction or command |
| The union already has a mandate to go strike and disrupt the functioning of the factory. |
| Mortality: The ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year |
| Africa’s infant mortality rate is very high. |
| Neurotic: Characteristic of or affected by neurosis |
| She was almost neurotic about being followed. |
| Prelude: Something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows |
| The threats are now seen as a prelude to last year’s uprising. |
| Prohibition: A decree that prohibits something |
| The laws of prohibition are very strict in some states. |
| Susceptible: yielding readily to or capable of |
| He was unusually susceptible to flattery. |
| Taboo: Excluded from use or mention |
| Freedom of speech was taboo in their house. |
Level 3: Time to be a master
| Anthropologist: A social scientist who specializes in anthropology |
| Anthropology is a difficult science and anthropologists are a rare breed of scientists. |
| Catastrophe: An event resulting in great loss and misfortune |
| The food was cold, the guests came late, and the whole dinner was a catastrophe. |
| Chimerical: Produced by a wildly fanciful imagination |
| We all dream of our own chimerical paradise. |
| Delude: Be false to; be dishonest with |
| Fraudulent ads deluded the customers into sending money. |
| Enunciate: Express or state clearly |
| She enunciated each word slowly and carefully. |
| Fetish: Excessive or irrational devotion to some activity |
| She made a fetish for cleanliness. |
| Imperative: Requiring attention or action |
| It was imperative that he finished the job in hand before starting the new one. |
| Imprudent: Lacking wise self-restraint |
| His imprudent remarks cost him his job. |
| Inordinate: Beyond normal limits |
| They spent an inordinate amount of time talking about immaterial things. |
| Irascible: Quickly aroused to anger |
| He had an irascible temper. |
| Palliate: Lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of |
| He tried unsuccessfully to palliate the widespread discontent. |
| Pedagogue: Someone who educates young people |
| His grandfather was a born pedagogue. |
| Perpetuate: Cause to continue or prevail |
| The new library will perpetuate the founder’s love for learning. |
| Perspicacious: Acutely insightful and wise |
| He is too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument. |
| Recondite: Not easily understood |
| His poems are recondite in subject matter. |
Vocabulary Preparation Series
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