GMAT vocabulary, grouped by what the words mean.
GMAT vocabulary is narrower and more targeted than GRE vocabulary — the exam doesn't quiz definitions, but its dense business and science passages assume you know these words on sight. These 10 guides split 550 of them into themes — argument and evidence, data and measurement, logic and decisions — so each study session covers words that reinforce each other instead of words that merely start with the same letter.
Every entry carries its part of speech, a plain-English definition, an example sentence showing the word in context, and a memory cue. Open a theme to read its full word list on this site, or download the PDF and print it.
How to use them
Pick one theme per study session rather than working front to back. GMAT Verbal Reasoning and Data Insights passages compress a lot of meaning into few words — an unfamiliar term in a Critical Reasoning stem or a data-heavy prompt costs time you don't have. Studying a whole theme at once builds recognition: you learn not just what each word means, but how it differs from its neighbors. Come back to the themes you found hardest a few days later; spacing the repeats is what moves words into long-term memory.
When a theme feels solid, test it. The GMAT flashcards drill the same words with self-grading flip cards, and Verbal practice puts them back into real GMAT questions. For the full free-materials picture, see free GMAT practice.