Tuesday, April 20, 2010

GRE VOCAB: SPEECH or/ SPEAK

1. Ventriloquent (n): some one who can make his or her voice seem to come from other person or things.
2. Articulate (adj): fluent and clear in speech

3. Bombast: high sounding language with little meaning.
4. Colloquy (n): informal speech; conversation
5. Colloquial (adj): pertaining to conservation or common speech; informal
6. Drawl (v): speak in a slow, lazy way with prolonged vowel sounds.
(n): a drawling accent

Monday, April 19, 2010

GRE Vocab; some Useful Proverbs for GRE

  1. Better a friendly refusal than an unwilling consent. (Spanish Proverbs )
  2. It is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep harms away from an arrow shot from behind. (Chinese Proverbs)
  3. Epigrams succeed where epics fail. (Persian Proverbs )
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  4. It is foolhardy to climb two trees at once just because one has two feet (African Proverbs)  
  5. A dog won't forsake his master because of his poverty; a son never deserts his mother for her homely appearance. (Chinese Proverbs )

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Improve your GRE Vocab:Words similar to Death

  1. Annihilate (v): destroy utterly, defeat utterly
  2. Cadaver (n): a corpse

  3. Cadaverous (adj): resembling a corpse in being very pale, thin, or bony
  4. Carnage (n): the killing of a large number of people
  5. Carrion (n): rotting flesh of a dead body.
  6. Catacombs (n): a series of underground tunnels used for burying dead people, esp. in ancient Rome.
  7. Cenotaph (n): a monument to someone buried elsewhere, especially a war memorial.
  8. Decapitate (v): cut off the head of.
  9. Decimate (v): kill or destroy a large proportion of; drastically reduce strength of
                        : (in ancient Rome) kill one in every ten of (a group of soldiers) as a punishment for the mutiny of the whole group
  10. Demise (n): the end or failure of something; a person’s death
  11. Defunct (adj): no longer existing or functioning
  12. Dirge (n): a lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite
                  : a mournful song, piece of music, or sound
    Use: the funeral dirge stirred us to tears
  13. Epitaph (n): words written in memory of a person who has died, especially as an inscription on a tombstone.
  14. Euthanasia (n): the painless killing of a patient suffering from an incurable disease or in an irreversible coma
  15. Holocaust (n): destruction or slaughter on a mass scale; destruction by fire
  16. Moribund (n): at the point of death; in terminal decline; lacking vigor
  17. Massacre (n): an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people
                     (v): deliberately and violently kill (a large number of people).
  18. Manslaughter (n): the crime of killing a human being without malice
  19. Mausoleum (n): a building, especially a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs.

  20. Obsequies (P noun): funeral rites
  21. Pyre (n): a heap of combustible material, especially one for burning a corpse as part of a funeral ceremony.
  22. Requiem(n): a mass for the repose of the souls of the dead
                      : a musical composition setting parts of such a mass
  23. Regicide (n): the killing of a king; a person who does this.
  24. Succumb (v): fail to resist (pressure, temptation, etc.)
                        : die from the effect of a disease or injury
  25. Sepulchre (n): a small room or monument cut in rock or built in stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

Friday, April 16, 2010

unique word pair "one word difference in the Middle"

One word different in the middle
  1. veracious vs. voracious
  2. sagacious vs. salacious
  3. verve vs. verse
  4. musky vs. musty/ murky
  5. snub vs. snug/ snob
  6. amble vs. ample
  7. bogus vs. bonus
  8. chafe vs. chase
  9. condole vs. console/ condone
  10. contest vs. context
  11. converge vs. converse
  12. coven vs. cozen

unique word pair"one word substitution in the Middle"

  1. Garish vs. Garnish
    Garish (adj): obtrusively bright and showy
    Garnish (v): decorate or embellish (something, especially food).
                  (n): a small amount of food used to decorate other food
  2. Repel vs. Repeal
    Repel (v): drive or force back or away
                  : be repulsive or distasteful to
    Repeal (v): revoke or annul (a law or Act of Parliament)
               (n): the action of repealing
  3. Dose vs. Douse
    Dose (n): a quantity of a medicine or drug taken at one time
    Douse (v): drench with liquid; extinguish ( a fire or light).
  4. Seer vs. Sheer
    seer (n): a person of supposed supernatural insight who sees visions of the future
    Analogy: SEER: PROPHECY:: sage: wisdom (Defining characteristics)
    sheer (adj): nothing other than; unmitigated: sheer hard work
  5. Chase vs. Chaste
    chase (v): decorate (metal) by engraving or inlaying
    Analogy: EMBROIDER: CLOTH:: chase: metal
    chaste (adj): abstaining from extramarital, or from all, sexual intercourse
                       : without unnecessary ornamentation
  6. Climatic vs Climactic
    Climatic (adj): the general weather conditions prevailing in an area over a long period
                         : a prevailing trend or public attitude: the current economic climate
    Climactic (adj): forming an exciting climax
  7. Congenial vs. Congenital
    congenial (adj): (of a person) pleasing through having qualities or interests similar to one’s own.
                             : suited to one’s taste or inclination
    Congenital (adj): (especially of a disease or abnormality) present from birth
                            : having a particular trait from birth or by established habit. A congenital liar.
  8. Amiable vs. amicable
    amiable (adj): friendly and pleasant in manner
    amicable (adj): characterized by friendliness and absence of discord.