Showing posts with label GRE Verbal Reasoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label GRE Verbal Reasoning. Show all posts

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

Monday, April 2, 2012

GRE Revised General Test: Verbal Reasoning Question Types

The GRE Verbal Reasoning section of the GRE revised General Test contains three types of questions:
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Text Completion
  • Sentence Equivalence
Reading Comprehension questions appear in sets; Text Completion and Sentence Equivalence questions are independent.

Reading Comprehension Questions

There are three types of Reading Comprehension questions:

Multiple-choice QuestionsSelect One Answer Choice: These are the traditional multiple-choice questions with five answer choices of which you must select one.

Saturday, March 20, 2010

GRE Word: Pilfer: Meaning, Synonyms and use in a sentence

Pilfer means Steal (typically things of relatively little value)
The synonyms of Pilfer are: 
filch - steal - purloin - lift - pinch - thieve - prig