Word Groups (GRE/GMAT/SAT)

BOLD
audacious
courageous
dauntless
CHANGING QUICKLY
capricious
mercurial
volatile
HESITATE
dither
vacillate
oscillate
waver
teeter

TRUTH
candor
candid
indisputable
probity
verity
fealty
indubitable
sincere
frankness
legitimate
veracious

FALSEHOOD
apocryphal
canard
dissemble
duplicity
ACT QUICKLY
apace
erroneous
impetuous
ersatz
abrupt
feigned
precipitate
guile
headlong
mendacity
perfidy
INNOCENT/INEXPERIENCED specious
credulous
spurious
ingenuous
chicanery
novitiate
equivocate
gullible
fallacious
tyro
mendacious
naive
prevaricate
DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND BITING (as in wit or temperament)
abstruse
acerbic
bemusing
acidulous
esoteric
asperity
opaque
caustic
recondite
mordacious
ambiguous
trenchant
arcane
acrimonious
cryptic
mordant
enigmatic
inscrutable
PRAISE

obscure
paradoxical
perplexing
turbid
EASY TO UNDERSTAND
articulate
evident
pellucid
cogent
limpid
eloquent
lucid
SMART/LEARNED
astute
perspicacious
canny
erudite
CRITICIZE/CRITICISM
aspersion
calumny
defamation
diatribe
gainsay
inveigh
objurgate
remonstrate
reprove
vituperate
belittle
castigate
denounce
disparage
harangue
lambaste
opprobrium
rebuke
revile
berate
decry
deride
derisive
excoriate
impugn

acclaim
accolade
aggrandize
encomium
eulogize
extol
fawn
laud/laudatory
venerate
HARMFUL
baleful
inimical
minatory
baneful
injurious
perfidious
deleterious
insidious
pernicious
TIMID/TIMIDITY
craven
recreant
diffident
timorous
pusillanimous
trepidation
BORING
banal
insipid
platitude
trite
fatuous
mundane
prosaic
hackneyed
pedestrian
quotidian
WEAKEN
adulterate
inhibit
undermine
enervate

obloquy
pillory
reprehend
tirade

obviate
vitiate
exacerbate
stultify

CAROUSAL
bacchanalian
iniquity
licentious
salacious
depraved
Iibertine
reprobate
sordid
dissipated
libidinous
ribald
turpitude

Forgive
Absolve
Acquit
Exculpate
Exonerate
Expiate
Palliate
Redress
Vindicate
Greedy
Avaricious
Covetous
Mercenary
Miserly
Penurious
Rapacious
Venal
Withdrawal / Retreat Abeyance
Abjure
Abnegation
Abortive
Abrogate
Decamp
Demur
Recant
Recidivism
Remission
Renege
Rescind
Retrograde