GRE vocabulary, grouped by what the words mean.
Alphabetical word lists are how vocabulary gets published, not how it gets learned. These 10 guides split 1,000 high-value GRE words into themes — character and temperament, knowledge and reasoning, truth and deception — 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, and an example sentence showing the word in context — and every printable PDF adds a memory cue for each word. 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. Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions live on fine distinctions between near-synonyms, and studying a whole theme at once is what builds that discrimination — 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 GRE flashcards drill raw recall, vocabulary practice quizzes the same words, and Text Completion practice puts them back into real GRE sentences. For the full alphabetical reference and interactive study modes, see the GRE vocabulary list.