GRE Vocab Words

ADJ: momentary, passing

Synonyms: Brief, episodic, evanescent, fleeting, flitting, fugacious, fugitive, impermanent, temporary, transient, transitory, unenduring

Antonyms:
enduring, eternal, everlasting, interminable, lasting, long, permanent, perpetual

Verb:claim, without justification

Synonyms: accroach, appropriate, assume, comandeer, seize, take, usurp

Antonyms: give, hand over

Noun: slander

Synonym: defamation, lie

Verb: scrape layers off, to censure scathingly

Synonyms: abrade, chafe, flay, peel,, scarify, strip, castigate, lambaste, vituperate

Antonyms: commend, compliment, laud

Verb: to declare not to be true, to make an assertion that is contrary to one made by another

Synyonyms: contradict, disaffirm, disallow, disavow, disown, negate, refute, repudiate

Antonyms: acknowledge, admit, avow, concede

Verb: to express dissatisfaction, pain, or resentment usually tiresomely

Synonyms: carp, caterwaul, fuss, gripe, grouch, grumble, repine, whine

Anyonyms: crow, delight, rejoice

Verb: to express public or formal disapproval of

Synonyms: condemn, denounce, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove

Anyonyms: cite, commend, endorse

Noun: harsh insulting language, the state of having lost the esteem of others

Synonyms: billingsgate, fulmination, invective, scurrility, vitriol, vituperation, discredit, disesteem, reproach, shame

Antonyms: esteem, honor, respect

Noun: a cause of shame, the state of having lost the esteem of others

Synonyms: dishonor, reproach, scandal, discredit, disrepute, obbloquy, reproach, shame

Antonyms: credit, honor, esteem, respect

Adj: marked by harsh insulting language

Synonyms: invective, opprobrious, truculent, vitriolic

Antonyms: moderate, temperate, deferential, discreet, laudatory,

Adj: not using or following good reasoning,
tending or having power to deceive

Synonyms: illegitamte, invalid, irrational, unreasoning, beguiling, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, false, specious

Antonyms: logical, rational, reasonable, sound, forthright, straightforward

Adj: of doubtful authenticity

Synonym: spurious

Noun: a rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature

Synonyms: story, whisper

Verb: to present a false appearance of, to take on a false or deceptive appearance

Synonyms: bluff, counterfeit, fake, pretend, simulate, feign, profess, conceal, disguise, bluff, feint

Adj: being such in appearance only and made with or manufactured from usually cheaper materials

Synonyms: artificial, bogus, factitious, false, faux, imitative, synthetic, simulated

Antonyms: genuine, natural, real