GRE High-Frequency Words in Context

Though she had planned to ___the student for his supposed truculence, his ____ expression made her wonder about the verity of the other student's accusation.

• condone; ambiguous

• admonish; guileless

• disparage; irascible

• exculpate; levity

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

The ____ and uniform design--white, sleek, and marble--revealed the owner's ___ for simple, striking, ____ magnificence.

• fatuous; contention; grandiloquent

• pristine; stigma; soporific

• audacious; zeal; eclectic

• homogeneous; penchant; austere

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

In the wake of scandal, the politician sought to ____ any rumors of his ____ past.

• bolster; desultory

• attenuate; reprobate

• impede; beneficent

• repudiate; artless

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

Politeness often dictates that we couch the truth in _____.

• euphemism

• apathy

• sanction

• frugality

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5A

The _____ points scored by the athlete in the 2017 season were a(n) _____ compared to his record-breaking 2018 performance.

• commensurate; abatement

• aggregate; paucity

• ostentatious; paragon

• immutable; anomaly

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

The students knew punctilious Mrs. P would follow her ___ in spite of any ____ developments during the extent of the field trip.

• diatribe; intractable

• memorandum; superseding

• itinerary; prohibitive

• decorum; garrulous

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

The school board decision to freeze teacher salaries for the third year in a row was the ____ to strike, but fear of unemployment ____ full participation, and therefore, meaningful impact.

• catalyst; forestalled

• precursor; diverged

• resolution; flouted

• warrant; disabused

Tags

CCSS.L.4.5

CCSS.L.5.5

She wrinkled her nose at the _____ maple syrup_____ her breakfast pancake which she preferred to eat with just butter.

• aesthetic; mitigating

• innocuous; inundating

• luminous; venerating

• viscous; adulterating

Seeing the delicious fruit basket, Jason snapped up an orange and a banana with ____, pleased to have his mid-morning snack well in hand.

• alacrity

• indigence

• reticence

• impassivity

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

On the hot, muggy day, heat-stricken construction workers were struck with ___ and not even the shouting of their site manager could ____ an energetic response.

• exigency; vacillate

• efficacy; tractable

• lassitude; elicit

• welter; appease

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4