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What are the GRE high-frequency words?

High-frequency GRE words are the vocabulary that appears most often across official ETS practice tests and real exams. These tend to be college-level words with nuanced meanings, like 'equivocal,' 'pragmatic,' or 'perfunctory.' Focus your study on curated lists of these recurring words rather than random vocabulary.

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