美国大学网站上提供的GRE单词列表

             

debacle violent, sudden breakdown/overthrow

debauchery intemperance, wild living

decorous in good taste, proper

deleterious (baleful) harmful, menacing

despondent desperate, hopeless

dire disastrous, horrible, ill-omened, extreme

dirge chant/song of sorrow/mourning, rites for the dead

disavow deny

disparage detract

disparaging depreciatory, derogatory, detraction

dispassionate passionless, impartial, neutral

divergent differing, deviating

doggerel loose, unskillful verse

dogma (doctrine) authoritative tenet, established opinion

dubious doubtful, questionable

eclectic drawn from many sources

edict decree, mandate, law, writ, command

effluvium escaping gas, noxious vapors

emaciation waste away, become thin/weak

emollient balm, salve, softening, soothing

enigma problem, puzzle, mystery

enmity (animosity) antagonism, hatred, antipathy

epicure one interested in fine foods

epithet descriptive

equivocal ambiguous, intentionally confusing

erratic (eccentric, fitful) inconsistent, unpredictable,aimless, spasmodic, unusual, capricious

erudite scholarly, deeply learned

escrow legal agreement handled by 3rd party until conditions fulfilled

euphemism use of nice words in place of distasteful ones

evanescent vanishing, fading, scarcely perceptible

exigent urgent

exonerate completely free from blame

exorbitant extravagant, immoderate

exploit milk, drain, exhaust

exposition (explication) setting forth meaning, explanation

extol celebrate, glorify [antonym - lambaste]

extricate loosen, release [antonym - intricate]

exuberant extremely joyful, vigorous, profuse in growth