Friday, March 1, 2013

Money People: Common gre Word related with Money

Every day we go to the restaurants/ pubs/ cafe with friends or relatives. No matter, it’s a cocktail party, or a collation (light meal) or a lavish dinner you savored, you have to pay the bills. I hope, you are not in a mood to swindle, or bilk (to pay partially inorder to cheat) today, but do haggle (hya dai, beer lai pani 200 lagaidine?? Ali milaunus na!!) yaar. Who pay the bill usually, you or yours frens? Based on the behavior you and your friends displayed while paying the bill, let’s know which falls into which category.

  1. Niggardly (adj): meanly stingy; parsimonious
  2. Profligate (adj): dissipated; wasteful; wildly immoral
                            : using money or resources in a way that wastes them; extravagant

Friday, February 22, 2013

Build your vocabulary for new GRE with easy to remember phrase

In this blogpost i am writing some very easy to remember phrase. In each phrase i have written the description of the words, their meanings.
I have also added synonyms so that these things can be valuable to solve Sentence Equivalence Questions in New GRE. I have bold the "GRE WORD". in each phrase.
  1. Cognitive dissonance
  2. A complaisant ally
  3. Conciliatory statements
  4. Conjugal harmony/ happiness
  5. Contumacious defendant
  6. Convivial atmosphere

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Improve your GRE Vocabulary with these GRE Mneomonics


In this gre blog post, i am presenting some of the gre mneomonics which i have collected and utilized to remember the gre words during my study period. You can enjoy the reading these words. If you also have made some mneomonics, which will help to remember particular gre word easily, you are heartily requsted to share the mneomonics.
Please send the mneomonics as a comment below, which i will be putting in the new post and this can help all of us.

  1. Zenith (n): Point directly overhead in the sky; summit
    Mnemonics: remember Zenith as the opposite of beneath
  2. Yeoman (n): a man owing small estate; middle-class farmer.
    Mneomonic: yeo man ta mero Nepali ho………. (Most of the Nepalese are middle class farmer, so the meaning of yeo man”
  3. Waggish(adj):mischievous; humorous; tricky
    Mneomonic:  majak garera vagis

  4. Abridge (v): Condense or shorten
    Mneomonic: a+bridge, bridges are meant to reduce the gap between something… so abridging something means reducing  or shortening something.

Friday, November 30, 2012

Sentence Equivalence Questions Set One


Sentence Equivalence questions consist of a single sentence, one blank, and six answer choices. These questions require you to select two of the answer choices. You receive no credit for partially correct answers.

Sample Sentence Equivalence Questions
Directions: Select the two answer choices that, when used to complete the sentence, fit the meaning of the sentence as a whole and produce completed sentences that are alike in meaning.

1.  Although it does contain some pioneering ideas, one would hardly characterize the work as __________.

A. orthodox
B. eccentric
C. original
D. trifling
E. conventional
F. innovative
Answer: C and F

Monday, May 28, 2012

Words with similar meanings with Explicit




Explicit: clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression

In problem based learning, ground intervention ground rules make explicit expectations for how group members will treat each other in their interpersonal interactions.

Related Words
Explicable: Capable of being explained
Explicate: To give a detailed explanation
Words with similar meanings with Explicit
  1. Candid
  2. Frank
  3. Straightforward
  4. Unequivocal