Letter ‘V’

High Frequency GRE Words

1.    Vacillate (v) – To waver
2.    Vacuous (adj.) – Empty
3.    Vagrant (n) – An idle wanderer
4.    Vainglory {n) – Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity
5.    Valediction (n) -A bidding farewell
6.    Valorous (adj.) – Courageous
7.    Vapid (adj.) – Having lost sparkling quality and flavor
8.    Vassal (n) – A slave or bondman
9.    Vaudeville (n) – A variety show
10.    Venal (adj.) – Mercenary, corrupt
11.    Veneer {n) – Outside show or elegance
12.    Venerable {adj.) – Meriting or commanding high esteem
13.    Veracity (n) – Truthfulness
14.    Verbatim (adv.) – Word for word
15.    Verbiage (n) – Use of many words without necessity
16.    Verbose (adj.) – Wordy
17.    Verily (adv.)-In truth
18.    Vicarious (adj.) – Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another
19.    Vicissitude (n) – A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune
20.    Vie (v) – To contend
21.    Vincible (adj.) – Conquerable
22.    Virulent (adj.) – Exceedingly noxious or deleterious
23.    Vivify (v) – To endue with life
24.    Vociferation (n) – The quality of making a clamor
25.    Votary (adj.) – Consecrated by a vow or promise
26.    Votive (adj.) – Dedicated by a vow

A collection of some tough GRE words

1.    Verve – lively and forceful
2.    Vivacious – lively, exciting,
3.    Voluptuous – attractive; pleasant
4.    Venomous – bitter, angry; poisonous
5.    Vagary – unexpected change
6.    Vapid-dull, uninteresting
7.    Vegetative – unable to know, think, speak or
Improve
8.    Veiled – disguised
9.    Vindictive – upsetting, troublesome
10.    Virulent – extremely bitter, hostile, dangerous
11.    Vitriolic – bitter, painful, distressing
12.    Vituperative – insulting, hateful
13.    Vaunted – undeserved
14.    Verisimilitude – quality of looking true, real
15.    Veritable – rightly named, real
16.    Vestigial – more important
17.    Vintage – best, most typical
18.    Virile – very strong, forceful
19.    Vanguard – involved
20.    Vanquish – defeat completely
21.    Veer-move in a direction
22.    Vehement- very strong feeling, opinion
23.    Vertiginous – very high, steep
24.    Volition – power to take decision

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4 Responses to “V – High Frequency GRE Words”

1. prakash on May 19th, 2009 5:34 am

   how to avoid reduances in sentence comletion

2. AnuVeluri on May 20th, 2009 4:37 am

   Hi Prakash!! what is reduances?…do u mean redundancy?

   Regards,
   Anu

3. Vandana Shah on December 18th, 2009 5:57 pm

   how do i memorize these words daily????and esp.remember them….

4. AnuVeluri on December 29th, 2009 12:14 pm

   Hi Vandana, you should know ur learning potential..your passion for the exam and ur commitment determines this..and if u want a good score in GRE learning these words becomes inevitable..well I have stated quite a few effective leaning methods in our blog segment pls do read them all..

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