GRE Daily Vocabulary: Day 3 – Essential Words for Non-Native Speakers

Day 3 of GRE Daily Vocabulary focuses on expanding your high-frequency word bank and testing comprehension through short exercises.

Words to Learn:

1. Prodigal – wasteful, lavish

2. Reticent – reserved, quiet

3. Vindicate – to clear from blame

4. Opaque – unclear, hard to understand

5. Anomaly – something unusual or unexpected

Text Completion Questions:

1. The teenager’s _______ spending worried his parents.

2. She remained _______ during the meeting, sharing little about her plans.

3. The evidence served to _______ the accused of all charges.

Sentence Equivalence Questions:

4. The instructions were _______ and confusing for the new students.

(A) opaque (B) clear (C) transparent (D) ambiguous (E) puzzling (F) understandable)

5. Discovering a blue lobster was an _______ in the scientist’s research.

(A) anomaly (B) routine (C) exception (D) standard (E) irregularity (F) normalcy)

Practice more with our GRE Verbal Practice Test PDF for Non-Native English Speakers: Download PDF
Find all our Mini Vocabulary Quizzes here: GRE Daily Vocabulary Mini-Quizzes

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