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If you’re studying for the Graduate Required Exam (the GRE) here in the USA and worrying about how you will ever remember the definitions to all these words, don’t fret. Because actually, if you’ve played Dungeons & Dragons, you probably know more than you’d think. Words like quaff, axiomatic, scintillating, and eschew. Yeah, no kidding! Let’s take a look…

Listed below are 20 of the 40+ words I found in The Princeton Review’s 2009 publication Cracking the GRE that I already knew. From playing D&D. It suggested if you are already familiar with the words to define them yourself, so I did.

Aberrant: an other-worldly creature. Eg. a beholder or an illithid.

Alchemy: what you need ranks in to make sticks that smoke and vials of liquids that explode.

Ascetic: one who chooses to forsake money in exchange for inherent, magical benefits that are way cooler than anything you could possibly buy. Like Vow of Poverty right?

Augury: something about seeing into the future to make sure you don’t do something stupid.

Axiomatic: a weapon that hurts a lot more when it hits chaotic people.

Dessication: why salt mummies are so scary.

Dirge: a song that brings people back from the dead.

Enervate: to shoot black, negative energy stuff? It’s that stupid broken 4th level wizard spell.

Erudite: it has something to do with psionics. It’s not magic, I know that much.

Eschew: to go without. Eg. I will be eschewing material components after level one thanks to this feat.

Esoteric: the kinds of knowledges bards have.

Fortuitous: the kind of save you must make or die.

Pious: why clerics are magical.

Prescience: knowing what someone is going to do before they do it. Right? Just like that dirty, dirty 8th level spell.

Quaff: what you do to potions when you’re dying.

Sagacious: I remember reading gold dragons were sagacious. So it means either to be immune to fire or really wise.

Scintillating: a really pretty pattern that causes you to either randomly punch your friends or drop unconscious?

Zealot: a cleric who dips into rogue for some sneak attack. Right? Like a Black Flame Zealot?