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

Law related words in GRE Revised Test

What is law? What it really means to you? Have you ever tried to breach the law? We can define law in different ways. So define as you like but it’s an ultimate truth that, we have to abide with a law.  When I take a survey with various students taking GRE classes by administering the GRE words related with law, most of them (who came from other backgrounds except law) scored very poorly in the survey. So today ubiquitous law words a GRE students must know. Guys, do find where you stand!!!!!! 

1. Arbiter (n): person with power to decide a matter in dispute; judge
   
2. Arbitrate (v): act as judge
   
3. Accomplice (n): Partner in crime
   Quote: Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. (Tom Watson).
4. Bicameral (adj): two chambered, as a legislative body
5. Bequeath (v): leave to someone by means of a will; handdown
6. Codicil (n): supplement to the body of will
7. Conviction (n): judgement that some one is guilty of crime
                          ; strongly held belief