Skip to content
GREMockTests
GRE vocabulary

exigency

nounCommon GRE wordMore E words

an urgent need or demand arising from a pressing situation

Start a free GRE mock test 39 minutes · free · instant score
In a sentence

Exigency in a sentence

Here is an example sentence showing exigency in a sentence.

The exigencies of war forced the government to ration food.

Synonyms
urgencyemergencynecessity
Antonyms

None listed.

Quick GRE check

Question 1 of 3

3 questions, about 2 minutes. How would you do on the real test?

Verbal · Text Completion

The novelist's late style is admired precisely for its blank: every superfluous phrase has been pared away, leaving prose of startling economy.

Select the word that best completes the sentence.

Common questions

Questions about “exigency”

Exigency (noun) means an urgent need or demand arising from a pressing situation
Here is exigency used in an example sentence: "The exigencies of war forced the government to ration food."
Common synonyms for exigency include urgency, emergency, necessity.
Exigency is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

See these words the way the GRE tests them.

Take the free 39-minute GRE Quick Mock Test and meet words like this inside real Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions, with a worked solution for every answer.