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
   

GRE Group: Word related with SEX

1. Amorous (adj): openly showing or feeling love; relating to sexual love.
   Use: love them and leave them, is the motto of the amorous boys.
   
2. Platonic: (of love or a friendship between two people) close and deep but not sexual.
   a platonic relationship
3. Chaste (adj): not having sex except with the person to whom one is married.
   Use: to ensure that his bride would stay chaste while he is off to the wars, the crusader had her fitted with a chastity belt.
                       : Not having had sex with anyone; pure, virgin.
4. Celibate (adj): not married, esp. for religious reasons.
                        : Not having sexual relation
   use: she decided to adopt a celibate lifestyle.
   Celibacy (n): the state of not being married or of not having sexual relationships; esp. for a long time.
   Use: catholic priests take a vow of celibacy.
   Quote: Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures (Samuel Johnson).
   

GRE Vocab; words related with fire

1. Arson (n): the deliberate criminal act of setting fire to a house or other buildings.
   Arsonist (n): a person who commits arson
2. Combustible (adj): that can catch fire and burn easily
   Use: all combustible material should be keep in safe containers
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Conflagration (n): a great fire that destroys a lot of property etc.
4. Flammable (adj): easily catching fire; that can burn easily
   Inflammable (adj): that can very easily catch fire and burn
   Nonflammable (adj): not catching fire easily
5. Flint (n): a very hard grey stone that can produce a spark of fire when struck against steel.
   Use: the layer of rock contains a lot of flint.
        : prehistoric flint tools
6. Ignite (v): to start of burn or make something start to burn
   Use: petrol ignites very easily
7. Incendiary (adj): designed to set buildings, etc on fire
   Use: an incendiary bomb/ device/ attack
   Incendiary (n): a bomb that causes a fire
8. Inferno (n): a large dangerous fire that is out of control
   Use: within minutes the shop was a blazing/ raging/ roaring inferno
   Smolder (v): to burn slowly without flame
9. Use: a cigarette smoldering in the ashtray
        : she smoldered with jealousy
        : smoldering heart (Nepali: Mutu Jali Rahe6)
10. Pyromania (n): a mental illness that causes a strong desire to set fire to things
    use: he is suffering from Pyromania
    Pyromanic (n): a person who suffers from pyromania
11. Pyre(n): a large pile of wood for burning a dead body as part of a funeral ceremony
    Use: a funeral pyre
12. Pall (n): a cloth spread over a coffin
               : a dark or heavy covering
    Use: a pall of smoke hung over the town

Gre vocab: Confusing Words

1. Appropriate (v): to take something for one’s use, especially without permission or illegally
   Use: he was accused of appropriating club funds
2. Redress (n): remedy; compensation
   Use: redress an injustice/ a grievance
         : redress the damage done
3. Redoubtable (adj): formidable; deserving to be feared and respected
   Use: a redoubtable opponent/ fighter
   
4. Shaving (n): very thin piece; esp. of wood
   Use: the floor of the carpenter’s shop was covered with food shaving
   

Improve your GRE Vocabulary:Act of cutting

Cutting is a part and parcel of our life. Everyday, we cut vegetables, fruits etc, obviously we don’t cut others head (decapitate), but a single word ‘cut’ can not represent all acts of cutting appropriately. So presenting you, different types/ styles of cutting today, which are better represented by these specialized GRE words.

1. Abscission (n): removal by cutting of , as in surgery; separation
2. Amputate (v): cut off part of body; prune
3. Decapitate (v): be head
4. Dissection (n): analysis; cutting part in order to examine
5. Dismember (v): cut into small parts
6. Excise (n): cut away; cut out
7. Hack (v): to cut something or somebody with rough heavy blows
8. Hew (v): cut into pieces with an ox or sword
9. Incision (n): a surgical cut made in skin or flesh
                     : the action or process of cutting into something.
   Lancet (n): small surgical tools for making incisions
   Suture (n): stitches sewn to hold the cut edges of a wound or incision; material used in sewing.
   Use: surgeons will remove the sutures as soon as the wound heals.
10. Mince (v): to cut food, esp. meat, into very small pieces in a machine with revolving blades
                     : walk in affected manner with short, quick steps and swinging hips
11. Prune (v): cut away; trim
12. Truncate (v): to make something shorter by cutting off the top or end.
    Use: a truncated pyramid
          : they published my article in truncated form
13. Whittle (v): pare; cut off bits