Gre Group: Easy Word; Confusing Secondary Meaning

Confusing words

1. Amazon (n): female warrior
2. Application (n): diligent attention
3. August (adj): impressive; majestic
   Syn: Majestic, Palatial, Stately, Splendid, Magnificient
   Use: visiting the palace at Versailles, she was impressed by the august surrounding in which she found herself.
4. Buffet (v): slap; batter; knack about
5. Cataract (n): great waterfall
6. Compact (n): agreement, contract
   
7. Cow (v): terrorize; intimidate
   Syn: Bluster, Browbeat, Bully
8. Deed: authoritative paper of land or house
9. Discount (v): disregard; to regard something as unimportant or not true.
   I don’t discount the possibility that I may be wrong.
10. Desert (v): to leave forever
11. Don (v): put on
12. Ejaculation (n): exclamation
13. Entrance (v): put under a spell; carry away with emotions
14. Essay (v): make an attempt at; test
15. Exact (v): require or demand, often forcibly, take
16. Exacting (adj): extremely demanding
17. Flag (v): to loose energy; enervate; droop; sap
18. Forensic (adj): suitable to debate or courts of law: forensic skills
19. Founder (v): fall completely; sink; scuttle
    use: after hitting the submerged iceberg the Titanic started taking in water rapidly and soon founded.
20. Galaxy (n): a collection of brilliant personalities.
    Use: a galaxy of Hollywood stars/ famous intellectuals
21. Guy (n): cable or chain attached to something that needs to be braced or steadied
22. Husband (v): use sparingly; conserve; save
    Use: Husband one’s strength or resources
23. Incense (v): enrage; infuriate
    Use: I feel deeply incensed by/ at the way I have been treated
24. Last (n): a modal shoe
25. Needle: to cause anger
    Antonyms: soothe, pacify
26. Nostrum (n): questionable medicine; i.e. a medicine made by somebody who is not a proper doctor or chemist
    Use: quacks are selling nostrums and cheating poor people
27. Objective (adj): not influenced by emotions; fair
    Use: even though she was his daughter, he tried to be objective about her behavior.
         : an objective report/ account/ assessment
28. Peon(n): landless agricultural worker
29. Pilot: a person who gives direction to the ship
30. Pore (v): study industriously; ponder; scrutinize
    Ranjan spent hours poring over the Maps of Asia
31. Purse(v): pucker; contract into wrinkles
                 : to form one’s mouth into a small tight round shape
    Use: her lips were pursed in disapproval
32. Rifle: to search something hurriedly (in order to steal).
33. School (n): a large number of fish or whale, etc swimming together.
34. Stomach (v): (esp. in negative sentence or questions with can, could etc) to endure something; to tolerate something.
    Use: I left before the end of the film- I couldn’t stomach all the violence in it.
35. Toy: to take something without seriousness