Tuesday, March 23, 2010

GRE Vocab; bevy

Bevy (n): a large group of people or things.

GRE Vocab; voracious


Voracious (adj): wanting or devouring great quantities of food
                         : very eager or enthusiastic in one’s approach
                            a voracious reader 

GRE Vocab; herbivore, carnivore


Herbivore (n): an animal that feeds on plants
Carnivore (n): an animal that feeds on flesh
Analogy: LION: CARNIVORE:: shark: scavenger (Defining Characteristic)

GRE Vocab; gormandize


Gormandize (v): eat good food, especially to excess
                     (n): appreciation or consumption of good food

GRE Vocab;glutton


Glutton (n): an excessively greedy eater
                  : a person who is very fond of something
 i.e he’s glutton for poetry
continuously similarly gluttony is eating continuously)