P – High Frequency GRE Words

Letter ‘P’

High Frequency GRE Words

1.    Pagan (n) – A worshiper of false gods
2.    Palatial (adj.) – Magnificent
3.    Palliate (v) – To cause to appear less guilty
4.    Palpable (n) – perceptible by feeling or touch
5.    Panacea (n) – A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases
6.    Pandemic (adj.) – Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease
7.    Pandemonium (n) – A fiendish or riotous uproar.
8.    Parity (n) – Equality, as of condition or rank
9.    Parsimonious (adj.) – Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money
10.    Patter (v) – To mumble something over and over
11.    Paucity (n) – Fewness
12.    Pecuniary (adj.) – Consisting of money
13.    Peevish (adj.) – Petulant, (irritable)
14.    Pellucid (adj.} – Translucent
15.    Penchant (n) – A bias in favor of something
16.    Penitence (n) – Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone
17.    Penurious (adj.) – Excessively sparing in the use of money
18.    Percolate (v)-To filter
19.    Perfidy (n) – Treachery
20.    Perfunctory (adj.) – Half-hearted
21.    Perjure (v) – To swear falsely to
22.    Pernicious (adj.) – Tending to kill or hurt
23.    Persiflage (n) – Banter
24.    Perspicuous (adj.) – Lucid
25.    Phlegmatic (adj.) – Not easily roused to feeling or action
26.    Picayune (adj.) – Of small value
27.    Pique (v) – To excite a slight degree of anger in
28.    Placate (v) – To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness
29.    Plagiarism (n) – The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one’s own
30.    Plenitude (n) – Abundance
31.    Poignant (adj.) – Severely painful or acute to the spirit
32.    Prattle (v) – To utter in simple or childish talk
33.    Precarious (adj.) – Perilous
34.    Preclude (v) – To prevent
35.    Preponderate (v) – To exceed in influence or power
36.    Preposterous (adj.) – Utterly ridiculous or absurd
37.    Prerogative (adj.) – Having superior rank or precedence
38.    Prevaricate (v) – To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention
39.    Priggish (adj.) – Conceited
40.    Prodigious (adj.) – Extraordinary
41.    Puerile (adj.) – Childish
42.    Pugnacious (adj.) – Quarrelsome

A collection of some tough GRE words

1.    Phantasmagorical – very strange                                 -
2.    Pilfer- steal
3.    Piquant – pleasant, tasteful
4.    Plush – very smart, comfortable, though
expensive
5.    Pristine – extremely clean
6.    Propitious – likely to succeed
7.    Pernicious – harmful or dangerous
8.    Perturbed- worried
9.    Pestilential – causing disease
10.    Petard – harm
11.    Petite-small but not fat
12.    Petrified – extremely frightened
13.    Piqued – annoyed
14.    Plagiarize – use or copy
15.    Plaintive – sad
16.    Plangent – sad
17.    Plebeian – unsophisticated
18.    Poignant – deeply affecting
19.    Portentous – excessive
20.    Precarious – uncontrollable
21.    Predicament- unpleasant situation
22.    Preposterous – extremely unreasonable.
foolish
23.    Prodigious – very large, impressive
24.    Profane – disrespectful, irreligious
25.    Protracted – unpleasant
26.    Pudgy-fat and unattractive
27.    Puerile-silly, childish
28.    Putrid – very unpleasant
29.    Pliant – influenced, controlled
30.    Pallid – pale and unattractive
31.    Pettifogging – unimportant
32.    Petulant- childish, unreasonably angry
33.    Puckish – tricky
34.    Parlous – bad or dangerous relation
35.    Pedantic – too concerned
36.    Pensive – thoughtful
37.    Perfunctory – weak and careless
38.    Peripatetic – not stationary and always on the
move
39.    Perjured – false
40.    Pervasive – present
41.    Pittance – small amount
42.    Platonic – affectionate (not physical)
43.    Plausible – true or valid
44.    Plumy – very upper class
45.    Plutocrat – powerful
46.    Polemical – very strong
47.    Ponderous – serious
48.    Precocious -very clever, mature, good
49.    Proscribed – forbidden
50.    Prosthetic-artificial
51.    Prudish – easily shocked
52.    Pugnacious – ready to quarrel
53.    Perspicacious – showing great insight
54.    Pertinacious – continuing to do difficult things
55.    Philistine – a person who doesn’t care about
or understand literature, art, music etc.
56.    Phlegmatic – calm, unexcited
57.    Piebald-black and white
58.    Placatory – stop feeling angry
59.    Portend – indicate a coming event
60.    Pabulum – food for the mind                         /
61.    Paladin – a knight or a champion
62.    Palpebral- of the eye lids     .
63.    Pasquinade – a satire in a public place
64.    Pelf-money, wealth
65.    Pentad-group of five
66.    Peroration – to sum up, conclude
67.    Petroglyph – a rock carving
68.    Pontine – of bridges
69.    Potamic – of reverse
70.    Prescient – force act
71.    Prestidigitation – conjuring
72.    Prosthesis -an artificial part of a body
73.    Pullulate – to bud, sprout, swarm, abound

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28 Responses to “P – High Frequency GRE Words”

ramya on August 2nd, 2009 5:51 am

hello sir my exam is on sep 23 plz help me in preparing 4 quants in which topic i have 2 b thorough plz solve this problem sir if the sum of n diff +ve integers is <100 wat is greatest possible value of n
ramya on August 2nd, 2009 5:53 am

this is very helpful 2 us sir u have done a very gud job sir
AnuVeluri on August 4th, 2009 12:25 pm

Thanks Ramya..all the best for ur exam!!
OPONG on September 10th, 2009 2:10 am

please, sir, i am resolute to do well in both the quantitative and the verbal apsect of the GRE, but my fear is the analytical writing apect of the EXAM. would that necessarily count if i refuse to tackle that section during the test day? would i still get admission or assistantship into grad school? please, i need graphic explanation with regard to its sway.
AnuVeluri on September 10th, 2009 9:51 am

Dear Opong, you cannot do away with Analytical Writing segment , it is one of the most important segments of the exam. In fact some good Universities value ur score in the AWA. Opong if AWA is ur weakness make it ur strength..
opong on September 11th, 2009 10:50 am

thanks a lot for your advice. Not that i totally fear the analytical segment, but some of the issue prompts are abstract that sometimes i don’t even have the slightest idea about it.

please, help me overcome this hurdles in the GRE; God will bless you.
AnuVeluri on September 12th, 2009 11:03 am

Dear Opong, follow our GRE series blog…we will shortly comment on the analytical section too..you have to work hard on AWA if u are not very comfortable with it. Opong there is no shortcut to success…practice a lot..
anshul on October 6th, 2009 5:12 pm

why do they give so difficult words that are not generally spoken..do they speak all these words in their country………….
AnuVeluri on October 7th, 2009 2:03 pm

Yes Anshul you are right..these words are the words spoken in the campuses of US..that’s the reason you are tested..lest you should never feel embarrassed at any juncture of your stay there..
Admin on October 12th, 2009 5:42 pm

anshul,

GRE is not test of English.. but it is more like a IQ test..

If you see TOEFL.. there are not many difficult words..
ogunleye olountobi peter on December 21st, 2009 2:30 pm

hi,i we love to like to have a iq test pls put me trust.
AnuVeluri on December 29th, 2009 12:10 pm

Hi Peter, we are online trainers for GRE..we dont conduct any IQ test as of now..u can take all the GRE tests available on the site though..
Stephen on January 18th, 2010 7:20 am

Wonderful work you are doing. Keep it UP!
AnuVeluri on January 18th, 2010 10:18 am

Thanks Stephen..are u planning to take GRE?
Sheauly on January 20th, 2010 1:44 pm

Pylon means?
AnuVeluri on January 21st, 2010 7:37 am

Pylon is a marking post or tower for guiding aviators…a tall tower like thing..
bekolo calvin epie on March 26th, 2010 10:59 am

i live in cameroon, how do i get registered for the GRE exam and where is my testing site?
AnuVeluri on March 29th, 2010 6:16 am

Hi Bekolo..u can js log into the official website of GRE http://www.ets.org to find that out..I will give you a more specific link shortly..
James on April 12th, 2010 12:53 am

i have a little problem in using these news words in my speeches,subsequently i begin to forget the meaning of these words
shipra on May 5th, 2010 6:08 am

hii james

plzz go through http://learnwordlist.com/blog/.Get back with feedback
ramya on November 30th, 2010 4:04 am

hello mam/sir,
My exam is on dec 17th, 2010. am totally confused with my gre work. Pls tell me how shld i utilize these 15 days. Becoz gre score is must to me.

regards,
ramya
shipra on November 30th, 2010 4:57 am

Thanks for your comment Ramya, you are indeed very close to exam just devote yourself for revision, and keep practicing those areas where you are lacking..
Tilahun B on June 9th, 2011 3:13 pm

I plan to take GRE exam. But i don’t know what i am going to do. Pls inform me what shoud be expected from me. Thank u!
shipra on June 13th, 2011 4:43 am

Tilahun, GRE is for graduate program in US, kindly visit ETS.org for more details and courses.
Lennon Craig on July 22nd, 2011 4:00 pm

Sir, Thanks for the GRE wordlist but Please let me know what is my requairement
shipra on July 26th, 2011 5:13 am

These word list are for revised GRE craig.
otter on August 31st, 2011 11:11 am

Potamic – of reverse. Shouldn’t that be ‘rivers’? There are a few other definitions which are highly suspect.
shipra on September 1st, 2011 4:30 am

Thanks for your comment otter, we’ll fix it soon..