diff --git a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv index 0b94b99..9e1b129 100644 --- a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv +++ b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv @@ -734,7 +734,7 @@ e) balking, balky f) refractory, stubborn g) uncontrollable, unmanageable h) u 728 "fecundate" "1. make fertile or productive
2. introduce semen into (a female)" "verb" "archaic use of fecund" "How is the extremely complex human body with its various physical characteristics built up from the nucleus of a fecundated cell, the ovum?" "AMB" "RATMW" 729 "venerate" " to give a high degree of respect; may border on worship, great respect or reverence " "verb" "The Chinese traditionally venerated their ancestors; ancestor worship is merely a popular misnomer for this tradition. (n: veneration, adj: venerable)" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 730 "veracity" " Truth and factual accuracy" "noun" "From Latin root: verax=truth
Voracious describes someone super hungry. . A voracious appetite makes you want to eat a whole cake. Veracious (with an ""e"") means truthful, as in a veracious child who cannot tell a lie. " "The police doubted the veracity of the suspect’s alibi. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" -731 "fulgurate" "1. the act or process of flashing like lightning
2: electrodesiccation" "verb" "Latin: fulgur=lightning" "1. from the fulgurating Milky Way there shot forth streams of light
2. A high-frequency electric current is applied to fulgurate the biological tissue" "AMB" "RATMW" +731 "fulgurate" "1. the act or process of flashing like lightning
2. electrodesiccation" "verb" "Latin: fulgur=lightning" "1. from the fulgurating Milky Way there shot forth streams of light
2. A high-frequency electric current is applied to fulgurate the biological tissue" "AMB" "RATMW" 732 "verbose" "using or containing too many words" "adj. " "Syn: wordy, loquacious, long-winded" "The instructor asked her verbose student make her paper more concise. (n: verbosity)" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 733 "vex" "to annoy; to bother; to perplex; to puzzle; to debate at length:" "verb" " Franklin vexed his brother with his controversial writings. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 734 "vexation" " state of being frustrated, irritated, or concerned. " "noun" "Note that Vexation is both something that causes annoyance AND the state of mind that results from being annoyed.
Syn:annoyance, chafe, irritation, " "In vexation, I watched the neighbor’s dog poop in my yard" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" @@ -820,7 +820,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 812 "wanton" "(of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked" "adj. " "Syn: malicious, malevolent, spiteful" "Over the decades these Christian non-people, without legal or any other sort of protection, have been the victims of wanton discrimination and violence" "Least Difficult" "FT" 813 "whitewash" "Deliberately attempt to conceal unpleasant facts about (a person or organization)" "verb" "Syn: cover up, sweep under the carpet" "Indeed, in trying to whitewash the past, the government may stir up prejudice instead. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 814 "circuitous" "being or taking a roundabout, lengthy course; going round in a circuit; not direct" " adj. " "Latin circuitus = ""a going around. """ "When I lost the directions to the restaurant, I ended up taking a circuitous route that made me late for my own birthday party. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" -815 "whittle" "Reduce something in size, amount, or extent by a gradual series of steps" "verb" "Old English:to cut thin shavings from (something) with a knife
Syn: erode, wear away, diminish" "1. The carver whittled away at a piece of wood.
fig. Democrats had spent a nervous September watching that lead whittle away after Mrs. Clinton’s bout of pneumonia. " "Least Difficult" "FT" +815 "whittle" "Reduce something in size, amount, or extent by a gradual series of steps" "verb" "Old English:to cut thin shavings from (something) with a knife
Syn: erode, wear away, diminish" "1a. The carver whittled away at a piece of wood.
1b. fig. Democrats had spent a nervous September watching that lead whittle away after Mrs. Clinton’s bout of pneumonia. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 816 "winsome" "Attractive or appealing in appearance or character in an open and delightful way" "adj. " "Syn: engaging, charming, winning" "After stealing food off the table, the dog begged for forgiveness by cocking his head and looking at his owner in a winsome manner. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 817 "wizened" "Shriveled or wrinkled with age" "adj. " "Syn: lined, creased, withered" "His son, himself wizened old man, had experienced too much to believe what he had just heard" "Least Difficult" "FT" 818 "wry" "Using or expressing dry, especially mocking, humor" "adj. " "Syn: ironic, sardonic, satirical" "Catherine Merridale is one of the foremost foreign historians of Russia, combining wry insights with deep sympathy for the human beings. " "Least Difficult" "FT" @@ -981,8 +981,8 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 971 "hegemony" " Leadership or dominance, especially by one group over others" "noun" "Greek hegemon ""leader"" or dominance of one city state over the other
Syn: leadership, dominance, dominion" "Yet if the hegemony of the dollar is unstable, its would-be successors are unsuitable.
Feminists complain about the male hegemony of our system" "Most Difficult" "FT" 972 "hermetic" "Insulated or protected from outside influences" "adj. " "Hermes, a Greek god, invented a process of making glass airtight, thus the word hermetic
Syn: airtight, sealed" "North Korea is often called the ""hermetic kingdom""" "Most Difficult" "FT" 973 "heterodox" "not conforming with accepted or orthodox standards or beliefs, often in a religious context. " "adj. " "Greek: heteros, ""the other"" + doxa, ""opinion. ""=>non conforming opinion
Syn: unorthodox, heretical, dissenting" "Among those discriminated against for holding heterodox religious views, the Bahai community continues particularly to suffer. " "Most Difficult" "FT" -974 "congruity" "relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. " " noun" "1: the quality or state of being congruent or congruous
-2: a point of agreement" "2. On closer observation, one found little congruity between her professed religious beliefs and her actual behavior
Syn: common denominator, commonality, correspondence, parallel, resemblance, similarity, similitude" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" +974 "congruity" "1: the quality or state of being congruent or congruous
+2: a point of agreement" " noun" "Syn: common denominator, commonality, correspondence, parallel, resemblance, similarity, similitude" "2. On closer observation, one found little congruity between her professed religious beliefs and her actual behavior" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 975 "conifer" "A tree or shrub bearing cones, normally with needles instead of leaves" " noun" "Latin: conus=cone+ fer=make/bear=> ""cone-bearing, bearing conical fruit""" "Our paved front yard is adorned with a conifer tree" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 976 "idyll" " an extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque episode or scene" "noun" "Syn: perfect time, ideal time, honeymoon" "That might just persuade them to forgive the scriptwriters for the unwelcome disruption to their rural idyll. " "Most Difficult" "FT" 977 "ignoble" "not honorable in character or purpose" "adj. " "ignoble meant not noble in old days, which was not a good thing.
Syn: dishonorable, unworthy, base" "Moreover, by controlling the body he controlled the equally unruly mind, keeping it pure from 'ignoble strife'. " "Most Difficult" "FT" @@ -1827,3 +1827,52 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 1798 "picaresque" "involving clever rogues or adventurers involved in exciting, dangerous endeavours - usually in fictional stories" "adj." "Don't confuse picaresque, ""rascally,"" with its near sound-alike, picturesque, or ""lovely to look at.""" "1a. The situation sets him off on a picaresque journey, the purpose of which becomes clear in the film's end.
1b. “Bullard’s absorbing story … reads like a picaresque novel,” Thomas E. Ricks writes in his latest roundup of military books." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1799 "pied" "having sections or patches of fur or clothing colored differently, usually brightly " "adj." "Syn: motley, multicoloured, particoloured, piebald, spotted, blotchy
pied piper = Rattenfänger auf Deutsch
not to be confused with ""pied""= foot in French (eg. Pied noir=white colonialist settler in Africa)" "1a. A black and white pied horse came by
1b. “He was described as a big brother, a pied piper, a leader and inspiration to youth.”" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1800 "pileous" "covered with hairs especially fine soft ones" "adj." "Latin pilosus ""hairy, shaggy, covered with hair,""
also spelled ""Pilous"" and ""pilose""" "The pilose caterpillar bent its way up the tree branch" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1801 "pinchbeck" "1a. An alloy of zinc and copper used as imitation gold; 1b. A cheap imitation or counterfeit" "noun, adj." "C. Pinchbeck, 18c. London watch- and toy-maker, developed this alloy of 3 or 4 parts copper and 1 of zinc to imitate gold + +" "1a. He didn't believe that a stray Government clerk with a pinchbeck chain and a weak moustache could be a worthy rival.
1b. I was not impressed with his pinchbeck heroism
1bb.I hope you observed how that pinchbeck countess was prepared to tread in her footsteps" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1802 "plumb" "1. exactly vertical
2a. measure the depth of something
2b get to the bottom or root of something
3.completely, in the middle, or generally used as an intensifier" "adj. verb, adv." "plumb=plomb in French=lead (Chem symbol : Pb)
Plumb used as a weight at the end of a line to measure things vertically(Senklot auf D), or measure depth of something (eg. Lake)" "1. the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb
2b. He spent a lot of time plumbing the book's complexities
3. The child fell plumb in the middle of the puddle" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1803 "portent" "1. a sign of something about to happen, an omen
2. marvel, prodigy" "noun" "Latin portentum ""a sign, token, omen; monster, monstrosity,""" "1a. A red sky in the morning can be a portent of a coming storm
1b. We took the four flat tires as a portent we should avoid a road trip
.1c. The youthful crowd clashed with police, who deployed tear gas and pepper spray in a portent of the months of protest that lay ahead.
2. A scout was sent to have a look at this teenage pitcher who was supposed to be the latest portent of the baseball world " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1804 "profligacy" "1. recklessly extravagant
2. shameless immorality" "adj." "Latin prōflīgātus, meaning ""corrupt or dissolute." "1. Both the Fed and the I.M.F. more typically act as brakes on fiscal profligacy
2. Caligula, the Roman emperor best known for his profligacy, sadism, rumored incestuous relationships and unhealthy obsession with a horse, wasn’t exactly handsome." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1805 "prolix" "tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length on unncecessary details." "adj." "Latin : prolixus pro =""forth"" + base of liquere =""to flow""=>""extended,"" literally ""poured out
Syn: wordy, verbose, prolix, diffuse" "1a. A prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know
1b. I find the book by Dickens prolix reading due to its unreasonable and tedious dwelling on details" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1806 "pucker" "1. what happens when something smooth or flat gets folded up into little wrinkles" "verb" "Syn: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle" "1. She puckered her lips
1b. An old scar ran down the right side of his face, giving his cheek an odd, puckered look, like he’d swallowed a lemon." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1807 "pugnacious" "fond of in the habit of fighting" "adj." "Syn: belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, contentious" "1a. The pugnacious little boy constantly talks back to his mother.
1b. Like the pugnacious Mr. Trump, Wallace enjoyed a fight." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1808 "puissance" "strength, power" "noun" "French same word, same meaning" "1a. The president pledged to put the full puissance of the nation into the war effort
1b. The doctrine’s puissance lies in the separation of powers." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1809 "purvey" "to supply (something, such as provisions) usually as a matter of business" "verb" "Same word origin as ""provide"", which generally replaces ""purvey ""today. " "1a. A shop purveying handmade merchandise
1b. Both Otterbox and Lifeproof purvey a plethora of accessories, too" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1810 "quail" "1. small game bird, bigger than a pigeon but smaller than a chicken(Wachtel auf D)
2. lose courage, turn back in fear or pain" "noun, verb" "The bird name comes from the sound it makes
quail as a verb is related to ""quälen"" in German, but has slightly different meaning now being the consequence of ""quälen""" "1. Pen-raised quail are readily available, but they don’t survive well in the wild.
2a. His courage never quailed2b. Webster’s bosses quailed at his orders for $2,500 lasers and other equipment." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1811 "rabble" "noisy group of difficult to control people, crowd the lower classes of populace" "noun" "Syn: proletariat, plebs, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, scum, trash, unwashed" "1a. The police arrived to calm the rabble that crowded the sidewalks after a huge win for the local football team.
1b. And when the Red Army left Afghanistan in February 1989, defeated by a rabble of jihadist guerrillas, that mission was accomplished
1c. Sanders' strategy is is to rally the , rabble and eschew the elite." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1812 "raffish" "1. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness +2. marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness" "adj. " "from raff ""people,"" usually of a lower sort (similar to riff-raff)" "1. Prime Minister Johnson is famous for his shambling manner, a raffish untidiness that extends from his clothes to his personal life.
1b. The Times Square area was never the exclusive preserve of theatergoers, but Broadway culture elevated the neighborhood’s rough and raffish character" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1813 "rebus" "puzzle in which pictures stand for words" "adj. " "A picture of an eye, a heart, and a ewe might be used to say ""I love you."" Isn't that a sweet rebus?" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1814 "recreant" "coward, cowardly" "noun" "Latin: re- to ""reverse"" something, + credere, ""entrust.""=>coward
apostate, deserter, renegrade, craven" "1a. Some provinces had proved recreant and gave up without the slightest resistance.
1b. The victors had only contempt for the recreant enemy soldiers who surrendered without firing a shot
1c. There are always recreant campaign workers who walk out as soon as their candidate began dropping in the polls" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1815 "refulgent" "shining; brilliant" "adj." "French/Latin : re- ""back"" + fulgere ""to shine""=>shine brilliantly, flash back" "The refulgent full moon on a clear autumn night" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1816 "repertoire" "1. A stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform
2. the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation" "noun" "French répertoire, literally ""index, list""" "1. The elderly singer’s concert repertoire consisted mainly of old blues and jazz tunes.
2a. The quarterback was forced to use the entire part of his repertoire to win the game
2b. Before we hired the magician, we asked him to show us a few tricks in his repertoire. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1817 "repine" "1. at be discontented with, to complain
2. to yearn for" "verb" "re=once more + pine (linked to German ""Pein"")= go through pain again= to complain
Syn: complain" "1. Yet why repine where so much is left?
1b. There is no use repining over a love that's been long lost
2. The soldiers repine for their families when they are stationed overseas." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1818 "resort" "1. have recourse to +2. act of turning to for assistance +3. move, travel, or proceed toward some place +4. a hotel located in a resort area" "verb, noun" "French: re- ""again"" + sortir ""go out""=>" "1. The government resorted to rationing meat
2. An appeal to his uncle was his last resort to get him out of his difficult spot
3.
4. Following the Bucks’ decision, the NBA held a meeting at the Walt Disney World resort in Orlando to determine next steps for the season." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1819 "scurvy" "1. a disesase caused by a lack of Vit. C
2. mean; contemptible" "adj." "scurvy is Skurbut in Deutsch, but as the disease is now rare, scurvy can be also be used to mean a low, mean" "2. That was a scurvy trick you played on me !" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1820 "sere" "1. dry and withered
2. make hard and without feeling" "adj. " "1. The desert was edged with sere vegetation
1b. This is the dry side of the island with sere grasslands and free-range goats." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1821 "shunt" "1. a small tube that goes inside the body to drain fluid
2a. Send from one track to another
2b. push something over to someone else, evade discussion" "noun,verb" "Syn1: stint
Syn2: shove, push" "1. an arteriovenus shunt was inserted into his vein
2a. The waggons were shunted to set up new train configurations in preparation for the morning rush. 2b. President Trump abdicated leadership and shunted pandemic response to the states." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1822 "sordid" "1a. Foul and run-down and repulsive
1b. morally degraded
1c. unethical or dishonest
1d. Meanly avaricious and mercenary" "noun" "Latin sordidus ""dirty, filthy, foul, vile, mean, base,""" "1a. The sordid shantytowns of Chennai are difficult to bear for outsiders.
1b. The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils
1c. He ran a sordid political campaign
1d. The sordid avarice of his actions made me feel repulsion all around." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1823 "splenetic" "bad-tempered;irritable" "adj." "Late Latin ""pertaining to the spleen,"" " "1a. The newspaper publisher's splenetic editorials often struck fear into local politicians
1b. Matt was splenetic after his wife left him for another man." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1824 "stentorian" "extremely loud and powerful" "adj." "from Stentor, legendary Greek herald in the Trojan War, whose voice was as loud as 50 men." "1a. During boot camp, we were often awakened by the stentorian voice of our drill sergeant.
1b. The stentorian music was so loud it made my head hurt." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1825 "stipple" "1a. paint, engrave or otherwise empart with dots or specks
1b. Produce a mottled effect
2. with touches of something" "verb" "paint with dots,"" from Dutch stippelen" "1a. They hatch in the spring as wingless, glossy black nymphs with white spots, and pass through several stippled phases before maturing in midsummer.
1b. Martha Ulrich shivered in the harsh February cold, her bare legs stippled with goosebumps

Kenturah Davis’ 2015 self-portrait was made using an ink stippling technique
2. It’s stippled with clever mischief along those lines." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1826 "stygian" "dark; gloomy" "adj." "like Styx, the Greek river of the Underworld" "1a. The stygian blackness of the cave
1b. The entrance to the forest held a stygian quality which sent shivers down my spine." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1827 "supercilious" "disdainful characterized by haughty scorn, behaving in a way that suggests you think that you are superior to others" "adj. " "Syn: proud, arrogant, haughty, lordly," "1a. The supercilious queen was known as “snobby” because of the way she treated her citizens.
1b. He reacted to their breach of etiquette with a supercilious smile" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1828 "suppliant" "to pray, to ask humbly, beseeching" "adj. " "1a. A suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness1b. Nowadays, any man who expects a mild, suppliant attitude from a woman is not likely to find what he is looking for." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1829 "tamp" "tap or drive down by repeated light blows" "adj. " "1a. Before putting the coffee holder into the expresso machine, he tamped the coffee down .
1b. Word of the plan sparked concern Chicago could see the kind of controversial force used to tamp down protests in cities including Portland, Oregon, in recent weeks." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1830 "teetotal" "pledged to total abstinence from intoxicating drink" "adj. " "word formed from total with a reduplication of the initial T- for emphasis, ie. ""T-total""" "Lots of beer is consumed on Return Day, but one of the most convivial participants I saw was the teetotal Biden" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1831 "testy " "feeling easily irritated" "adj. " "1a. Earlier in the hearing, the judge sounded testy when attorneys asked for clarification on technical details of the injunction.
1b. On the phone, Tingley-Hock comes across as a testy fellow, the kind of guy who could get prickly about a missing Oxford comma." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1832 "tout" "1. advertise in strongly positive terms
1b. To show off.
2. In England, a tout is a person who gives advice about gambling. 3. someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit" "verb, noun" "Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Tüten""" "1a. This product was touted as a revolutionary invention1b. Sarah wears tight blouses to tout her full bosom.
“He touts his relationship with the president a lot.
2. The tout asked me 10 Pounds for a racing tip, upon whose payment he informed me that the favourite was seen limping that morning.
3. Ticket touters face increasing credibility issues, as tickets sold inofficially may be forged or have already been scanned for entry." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1833 "travesty" "a cheap mockery, usually of something or someone serious" "noun, verb" "French travesti ""dressed in disguise"", which became ""dressed so as to be made ridiculous, parodied, burlesque""" "1a. The travesty show about international politicians had a tall, skinny man dressed to be chancellor Merkel.
1b. ""The trial was a travesty of justice, that court case that makes a mockery of the system"", said the person who was found guilty.
1c. Yet despite the best of intentions, the virtual consultations set up for me at my hospital have been a travesty because of glitches in technology." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1834 "trencherman" "person who eats a lot" "noun" "1. He sits with his back to the wall, eats like a trencherman and gets acquainted with the waitress." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1835 "trite" "not new" "adj." "Latin tritus ""worn, oft-trodden,"" of language ""much-used, familiar, commonplace,""" "1a. This may sound like a trite answer, but storytelling is just part of being a human being.
1b. Will you stop using those trite clichés?
1c. Although the movie concept was unique, the character dialogue was trite and ruined the picture." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1836 "unencumbered" "easy-going, emotionally care-free, free to move ahead or do as one desires" "verb" "un= ""not""+ in= in + combrus ""barricade, obstacle,"" => not blocked up, hindered, thwarted" "1a. After the broken-down car was moved out of the road, the street was unencumbered and other motorists could drive past.
1b. Camp-life makes me feel fancy-free and unencumbered.1c. With that inheritance, she has been living an unencumbered life" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1837 "untoward" "1a. inappropriate or 1b. not in one's favour
2. difficult to guide, manage, or work with" "adj." "Syn1: improper, indecorous
Syn2: not toward = not going towards one's goal, not going in one's favour" "1a. Janice ignored the holiness of her environment and behaved in an untoward manner in church.
1b.The key to good governance is to recognize untoward influences on decision-making and do whatever it takes to counteract them,” he says.
2. The father tried to reason with the untoward child." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1838 "vagary" "an erratic, unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)" "noun" "generally used in plural form, ie vagaries" "1a. The increasing vagaries of the weather are claimed to be a sign of global warming
21b.. Budgetary self-reliance, they felt, protected the theater from the vagaries of government funding.
1c. His wealth fluctuates with the vagaries of the stock market
1d. The vagaries of the old lady's behaviour never ceased to suprise him." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1839 "veritable" "1. true, not counterfeit or copied" "adj." "French:veritable, ie.verity + -able= ""true, real, truthful""
often used as an intensifier" "1a. The lights on the trees turned the campus into a veritable wonderland
1b. He's a veritable swine
1c. A veritable cornucopia of food" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1840 "virago" "a loud domineering woman, a scold or nag" "noun" "Latin virago ""female warrior, heroine, amazon,""" "1a. Fairy tales that typically portray stepmothers as viragoes
1b. But to caricature Thatcher as either a hectoring virago is to indulge in lazy sexism.
1c. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1841 "vituperate" "curse abuse in words" "verb" "same word root as ""vice""
Syn: berate, abuse, assail, attack" "1a. To vituperate someone is almost as bad as assaulting them physically.
1b. In this last phase of the US election, one can count on negative political ads that vituperate against opponents. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1842 "voluble" "of an individual who speaks easily and often, talkative, never at a loss for words" "Syn: talkative, loquacious, garrulous" "1a. My uncle Bill from Texas is voluble, once he starts talking he just can't stop
1b. She is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations
1c. At the start of the term back in October, the court introduced a new policy intended to trim the justices' own voluble, instincts." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" +1843 "wend" "to go, to proceed" "verb" "same root word as in German : sich wenden" "1a. I wended my way through the crowds
1b. This is just a sampler of the bills b>wending their way through the House, looking for an open door into the Senate." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" diff --git a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx index 1c85d60..f058cba 100644 Binary files a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx and b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx differ diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md index 3ee0128..46b7ef8 100644 --- a/TODO.md +++ b/TODO.md @@ -1,10 +1,15 @@ # Words that should be added/modified -| Word | Occurence | Explanation | -| :---------------- | :-------- | :---------------------- | -| whittle | no.815 | add sub-numbering i.e. (1.a, 1.b) | -| fulgurate | no.731 | meaning: `2:` -> `2.` | -| congruity | no.974 | end of underline missing in example. Also: remove numbering? Synonyms should only be listed in explanation, not example. | +| Word | Occurence | Explanation | +| :---------------- | :-------- | :---------------------- | +| whittle | no.815 | add sub-numbering i.e. (1.a, 1.b) | +| fulgurate | no.731 | meaning: `2:` -> `2.` | +| congruity | no.974 | end of underline missing in example. Also: remove numbering? Synonyms should only be listed in explanation, not example. | +| epicure | no.1339 | fix typos in explanation. | +| espouse | no.1349 | list two different meanings seperately | +| inveigh | no.1778 | add linebreak between meanings, 1st meaning should be called `1a.` | +| lam | no.1780 | corrupt linebreak char in examples | +| | | | ---- diff --git a/deck.json b/deck.json index 567bfe5..4c3d9e3 100644 --- a/deck.json +++ b/deck.json @@ -4347,7 +4347,7 @@ "dirge", "1. funeral or mourning lament.
2. any sad, slow song", "noun", - "In the catholic burial mass, the first answer sung is Psalms v. 9, which begins in Latin: \"Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam (\"Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy sight\"). So, Dirge is a bastardization of first word of Psalm v. 9 and summarizes whole tone, sentence and mass", + "In the catholic burial mass, the first answer sung is Psalms v. 9, which begins in Latin: \"Dirige, Domine, Deus meus, in conspectu tuo viam meam (\"Direct, O Lord, my God, my way in thy sight\"). So, Dirge is a bastardization of first word of Psalm v. 9 and summarizes whole tone, sentence and mass", "Elton John wrote and sang the dirge at Lady Di's funeral.", "357 prevalent GRE words", "Prepscholar" @@ -7909,10 +7909,10 @@ "fields": [ "974", "congruity", - "relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.", - "noun", "1: the quality or state of being congruent or congruous
\n2: a point of agreement", - "2. On closer observation, one found little congruity between her professed religious beliefs and her actual behavior
Syn: common denominator, commonality, correspondence, parallel, resemblance, similarity, similitude", + "noun", + "Syn: common denominator, commonality, correspondence, parallel, resemblance, similarity, similitude", + "2. On closer observation, one found little congruity between her professed religious beliefs and her actual behavior", "1000 Difficult GRE words", "Examword" ], @@ -8469,7 +8469,7 @@ "impudent", "disrespectful", "adj.", - "Latin: im, meaning without, + pudens, meaning shame
Syn: a) impertinent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise, forward. B) flip, insolent, snotty-nosed, disrespectful", + "Latin: im=without + pudens=shame
Syn:impertinent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart, wise, forward, flip, insolent, snotty-nosed, disrespectful", "The boy is an impudent scoundrel who doesn’t seem to respect rules or people", "357 prevalent GRE words", "Prepscholar" @@ -15019,10 +15019,10 @@ "fields": [ "693", "superficial", - "1. only covering the surface
2. concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious;
3. of little substance or significance", + "1. only covering the surface
2. concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious
3. of little substance or significance", "adj.", "Anything superficial has to do with the surface of something", - "1. The car only had superficial damage to its paint.
2. her thinking was superficial and fuzzy, marked by lack of attention or insight.
3. she made a few superficial editorial changes", + "1. The car only had superficial damage to its paint.
2. her thinking was superficial and fuzzy, marked by lack of attention or insight.
3. she made a few superficial editorial changes", "Common GRE", "MSU" ], @@ -16552,7 +16552,7 @@ "Reduce something in size, amount, or extent by a gradual series of steps", "verb", "Old English:to cut thin shavings from (something) with a knife
Syn: erode, wear away, diminish", - "1. The carver whittled away at a piece of wood.
fig. Democrats had spent a nervous September watching that lead whittle away after Mrs. Clinton’s bout of pneumonia.", + "1a. The carver whittled away at a piece of wood.
1b. fig. Democrats had spent a nervous September watching that lead whittle away after Mrs. Clinton’s bout of pneumonia.", "Least Difficult", "FT" ], @@ -25261,7 +25261,7 @@ "fields": [ "731", "fulgurate", - "1. the act or process of flashing like lightning
2: electrodesiccation", + "1. the act or process of flashing like lightning
2. electrodesiccation", "verb", "Latin: fulgur=lightning", "1. from the fulgurating Milky Way there shot forth streams of light
2. A high-frequency electric current is applied to fulgurate the biological tissue", @@ -26865,7 +26865,7 @@ "dissolute", "lacking moral restraint; indulging in sensual pleasures or vices", "adj.", - "
Syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous", + "
Syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, fast, libertine, profligate, riotous
Ant : pure, uncorrupt, uncorrupted", "His father's half sister chose to lead a dissolute lifestyle: she partied all the time, got addicted to heroin, found work too much of an effort and generally wasted her life.", "1000 Difficult GRE words", "Examword" @@ -27388,7 +27388,7 @@ "1. decorate with needlework;
2. add details to", "verb", "", - "1. His uniform vest reads \"sheriff\" in big letters, with his sheriff star shining right above his embroidered name. 2. The fisherman embroidered a story about the 38 inch striped bass he almost caught this morning.", + "1. His uniform vest reads \"sheriff\" in big letters, with his sheriff star shining right above his embroidered name. 2. The fisherman embroidered a story about the 38 inch striped bass he almost caught this morning.", "1000 Difficult GRE words", "Examword" ], @@ -28033,7 +28033,7 @@ "fields": [ "1406", "extrinsic", - "1. external; not essential; extraneous", + "external; not essential; extraneous", "adj.", "
Syn: accidental, adventitious, alien, extraneous, external, foreign, supervenient
Ant: intrinsic", "1a. You have to consider the extrinsic factors in the success of the business.
1b. The feature is extrinsic to the building", @@ -28126,7 +28126,7 @@ "1. A person who helps with religious services
2. a fan or follower of the famous", "noun", "Greek akolouthos: \"follower\"
Sny1: altar boy
Syn2: fan", - "1. When I was a boy, I was an acolyte in the Church.
Likewise, her relationship with Warhol was not that of acolyte but of peer.", + "1. When I was a boy, I was an acolyte in the Church.
2. Likewise, her relationship with Warhol was not that of acolyte but of peer.", "AMB", "Mishima" ], @@ -28339,10 +28339,10 @@ "fields": [ "1440", "formidable", - "1. arousing fear, dread, or alarm
2. ending to inspire awe or wonder", + "1. arousing fear, dread, or alarm
2. tending to inspire awe or wonder", "adj.", "Latin formidare, \"to fear.\"", - "1. Be worried of your formidable opponent, Amelia, because she is one smart cookie.
2. Reaching the top of the mountain without an oxygen tank was a formidable accomplishment", + "1. Be worried of your formidable opponent, Amelia, because she is one smart cookie.
2. Reaching the top of the mountain without an oxygen tank was a formidable accomplishment", "1000 Difficult GRE words", "Examword" ], @@ -28593,7 +28593,7 @@ "gibe", "mock; laugh at with contempt and derision", "verb", - "Sometimes spelt \"jibe\".
yn1 barrack, flout, jeer, scoff", + "Sometimes spelt \"jibe\"
Syn1: barrack, flout, jeer, scoff", "\"Loser! Bonehead!\" the kids shouted, tossing those words and other gibes at the people who offered themselves up to the annual humiliation of the harvest-fest dunk-tank.", "1000 Difficult GRE words", "Examword" @@ -30935,8 +30935,8 @@ "adj.", "Greek akarpos: a=not + karpos=fruitful =>not fruitful", "So clear was the Icelandic air that every slope, every hollow, every acarpous hilltop lay pitilessly revealed to her eyes", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "CXQQ]0sa=-", @@ -30953,8 +30953,8 @@ "noun", "French: slang
Syn: jargon, lingo, patois, slang, vernacular", "1a. Because I am not a medical doctor, I could not understand the argot spoken by my physician and his colleagues.
1b. He has been bombarded by thousands of scathing messages—known as being \"flamed\" in the argot of cyberspace.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "E_EqC3H!Mw", @@ -30971,8 +30971,8 @@ "adj.", "Syn: very, extreme, most, complete, consummate, total, gross, perfect, pure, sodding, staring, stark, thoroughgoing, unadulterated, utter", "1a. He dismissed as arrant nonsense any suggestion that he was dishonest.
I couldn’t believe she was taken in by such arrant deception.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "F-t_*u!1rk", @@ -30989,8 +30989,8 @@ "noun", "Latin: ad \"to\" + spargere \"sprinkle, strew\"=>to sprinkle slander, derogatory criticism", "1a. In order to improve his chances of winning the election, he went about casting aspersions on her integrity
1b.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "sT;Qastringent lotion checked the bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels
2a. Is it astringent and sour or fruity and caramelised?
2b. Her tone is astringent, stripping the memories of any ennobling tragedy or nostalgic fuzz.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "LgXDs!3ZG!", @@ -31025,8 +31025,8 @@ "adj.", "Latin atavus \"ancestor, forefather\"
Syn: throwback
Laut Duden gleicher Def. in Deutsch, wobei dieses Wort heute eher als \"laienhaft\" verstanden wird.", "1a. Our leaders are kneeling before the mob, the atavistic ritual of self-abasement of defeat.
1b. Elvis Presley was an atavistic alcoholic like his mother.
2. The atavistic architectural style reminded him of a long gone era", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "Qx2h;qF7PH", @@ -31043,8 +31043,8 @@ "verb, noun", "", "1. The horse balked at the jump and threw the rider
2. The baseball pitcher feigned that he was starting to throw a pitch and was thus charged with a balk", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "Gck!PLW7xv", @@ -31061,8 +31061,8 @@ "", "used only in written form
Syn: adorn, bedeck, blazon, decorate, do up, doll up, drape, dress, embellish, emblaze, emboss, fancy up, festoon, garnish, glitz (up), grace, ornament", "1a. The minister from Venezuela—the most insignificant government represented, was most bedizened with gold lace, stars, and trumpery of every sort.
1b. He has a habit of stuffing his short hands, bedizened with rings, into his trousers pockets.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "kBT=AM9T2q", @@ -31079,8 +31079,8 @@ "verb", "", "1. He understood what he was saying and told him that there was no need to belabor the point.
1b. He was belabored by his fellow students for not adhering to the latest polically correct post modernist dogma.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "M@;tz9=zaB", @@ -31097,8 +31097,8 @@ "adj.", "bereft differs just from plain mournful or grief-stricken is in its sense of deprivation or lack", "1. The Bruins were bereft of talent when Kelly replaced Jim, whose recruiting left room for improvement
2. His voice remained monotone; his speech soft and bereft of inflection points.
3. She would succumb at age 56, leaving her husband wounded and bereft in his grief.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "lZU%QQB0mY", @@ -31115,8 +31115,8 @@ "noun, adj. verb", "", "1a. I hopped aboard and crawled into the bilge to look, and found the boat is dry inside.
1b. The Coast Guard says it found evidence a fishing boat discharged oil and bilge waste overboard.
2. That magazine prints a lot of bilge about celebrities.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "b`|eJ4EQK<", @@ -31133,8 +31133,8 @@ "adj.", "", "1. Blatant racial and gender discrimination was just about over in the 90's
2. The blatant cacaphonous radios on the beach annoyed the other sunbathers.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "uVLq//&<1e", @@ -31151,8 +31151,8 @@ "adj.", "In Swift's \"Gulliver's Travels\", an imaginary country where everything was on a gigantic scale was \"Brobdingnag\"
Ant. Lilliputian.
Syn: colossal, enormous, gargantuan, gigantesque, gigantic, herculean, huge, humongous, immense, leviathan, massive, monstrous, monumental,titanic, tremendous, vast, walloping, whacking, whopping", "A Brobdingnagian billboard stood at the entrance to the theme park", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "HDn4lR4sp;", @@ -31169,8 +31169,8 @@ "verb", "Brook as a noun is a small stream.", "1a. Marx's view of the historical class struggle permitted no dissent, just as today's rioters brook no dissent from their dogmatic view of systemic racism.
1b. I will brook no arguments that somehow this would be a security nightmare for Apple", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "P(mauI;8Uh", @@ -31187,8 +31187,8 @@ "adj.", "Brummagem is a vulgar pronunciation of Birmingham.
Syn: tawdry, cheap,", "A bilious combination of brummagem melodrama and synthetic seascapes", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "gK*#Up77Z$", @@ -31205,8 +31205,8 @@ "noun", "", "The older woman did not understand the modern cant spoken by her grandchildren", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "ingVa7RG]A", @@ -31223,8 +31223,8 @@ "verb", "", "1a. A team of volunteers is canvassing the city for the Republican Party, going to every house.
1b. In a normal year, many of these households’ information would be collected during census enumerators’ follow-up canvass
2. By the time the three states complete their canvass of votes nearly a month after the election, the nation faces an astonishing result.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "h[rk<~c(P,", @@ -31241,8 +31241,8 @@ "noun", "Same Latin root as \"cavalry\"", "1. It was followed in quick succession by almost 20 vehicles that departed in a long cavalcade.
2. Despite a cavalcade of natural disasters, the country was able to recover", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "P}=(dZn>0S", @@ -31259,8 +31259,8 @@ "verb, noun", "Middle French chicaner = \"to quibble\" or \"to prevent justice,\"", "1. Most get-rich-quick schemes involve more than a smidgen of chicane
2. The Le Mans circuit has chicanes on the frontstretch to slow the cars , forcing the drivers to altenatively swing their steering wheels left and right.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "KKta]~#[NR", @@ -31277,8 +31277,8 @@ "noun", "Same German root as \"Kerl\".
Had various meanings in middle English, : \"man of the common people,\" \"a country man,\" \"husbandman,\" \"free peasant.
Like \"boor\" & \"villain\", it is a word for \"common man\" that became insulting with time.", "1a. But gracious Prince, do not listen to these common people, to these churls.
1b. The grump man is a miserable churl who is rude and surly at all times.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "FFonBGva&Z", @@ -31295,8 +31295,8 @@ "verb", "", "Japan’s economy is heavily reliant on exports, so weak demand in major overseas markets is constraining its growth", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "j{)L:on,nr", @@ -31313,8 +31313,8 @@ "adj,", "Latin : com-=with + tumere \"to swell up\"(some origin as \"tumour\")=>to swell up, be rebellious", "1a. She was warned that her contumacious conduct would not be tolerated.
1b. The judge threatened to charge the contumacious witness with contempt of court", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "PQu7>pzY7g", @@ -31331,8 +31331,8 @@ "verb", "From Latin : sparkle, emit flash of light", "1a. He had a classic car from the 1950s, replete with yards of coruscating chrome
1b. The little mirrors on a disco ball coruscate as the ball twirls, making the dance floor sparkle.1c. His playing coruscated throughout the concert hall
1d. The allegations threaten to curtail a coruscating career.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "lxLXlRz`O:", @@ -31349,8 +31349,8 @@ "adj, verb", "Old French contenance \"demeanor, bearing, conduct,\"", "1a. The photograph showed his somber countenance
1b. He managed to keep his countenance through the ordeal.
2. He was surprised at her countenance of their unsafe amusements", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "m6=,f;;Z1@", @@ -31367,8 +31367,8 @@ "verb", "counter=rebut + vail=value=>rebut or resist with equal force/value", "In order to countervail the storm’s effect of flooding the area, the authorities built levees to hold the waters back.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "H`<6crass.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "tZ%FL%G&S;", @@ -31403,8 +31403,8 @@ "adj.", "From French via Latin: pp of currore= running
Syn: hasty", "1a. He gave the applicant a cursory glance and already turned her down in his mind
1b. Only a cursory inspection of the building was done - resulting in a large under-estimate of the repairs needing to be done.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "r~T$H3&%^K", @@ -31421,8 +31421,8 @@ "adj.", "French déférence, itself from déférer \"to yield, comply\"", "People were always deferential to the military veteran and showed him respect every time he was in uniform.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "BqVeMQ!l0|", @@ -31435,12 +31435,12 @@ "fields": [ "1742", "deposition", - "1. the act of putting something somewhere
2. (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office3. the act of deposing someone
removing a powerful person from a position or office", + "1. the act of putting something somewhere
2. (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office
3. the act of deposing someone
removing a powerful person from a position or office", "noun", "Definitions 1 and 2 stem from the word \"deposit\", ie. Put something down
Definition 3 comes from the word \"depose\".", "1. The deposition of the sediment over centuries eventually led to filling of the lake
2. In a deposition in a separate lawsuit last year, LaPierre acknowledged he did not report any of the NRA-paid expenses as personal income
3. As soon as the people received word of the dictator’s deposition, they ran in the streets and started to celebrate.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "bY8D]=f0l(", @@ -31455,10 +31455,10 @@ "desuetude", "cessation of use, disuse", "noun", - "Latin desuetudo \"disuse\",\"no longer custom\"", + "Latin desuetudo \"disuse\", \"no longer custom\"", "1a. This practice has gradually dropped into desuetude, but now..
1b. In this time period the armour fell into desuetude due to a changing technique of war.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "ggMW]gH.LJ", @@ -31475,8 +31475,8 @@ "noun", "Old French/Latin detraccion \"detraction, disparagement, denigration\"
Syn1: disparagement, belittling, denigration, derogation, deminishment
do not confuse with 'distraction'", "1a. Let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken
1b .Sanders’ supporters answered each of the detractions.
2. it is no detraction from its dignity or prestige", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "xp}puj%T&b", @@ -31493,8 +31493,8 @@ "noun", "", "This leads to a rapid detumescence of the inflamed tissue and a disruption of the pain", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "Fj}UOu:]OZ", @@ -31510,9 +31510,9 @@ "transparent; gauzy", "adj.", "Greek: dia \"through\" + phainesthai \"bring to light, cause to appear, show,\"=>see-through
Syn: cobwebby, filmy, gauze-like, gossamer, see-through, sheer, transparent", - "1a. She went to the Ascot wearing a fancy hat with a diaphanosu veil
1b.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "1a. She went to the Ascot wearing a fancy hat with a diaphanous veil
", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "DJ8c)o}ag!", @@ -31529,8 +31529,8 @@ "noun", "Latin: dis- \"away\" + fidere \"to trust\"=>\"to mistrust, lack confidence,\" but of oneself, ie. Lacking self-confidence", "1a. They asked him to be the team leader, but he expressed diffidence, saying that he didn't think he had enough time to do the job justice, nor did he think he had enough experience.
1b. You shouldn’t be so diffidence about your achievements when you’ve done very well.
1c. But there is also something more meaningful to her seeming diffidence.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "L,<5ZyGeXS", @@ -31547,8 +31547,8 @@ "verb", "dis- \"do the opposite of\" + concerter =align harmonize, bring in agreement=>bring into disarray
Syn: confound, confuse, discomfit, discountenance, embarrass, faze, fluster, mortify, nonplus, rattle", "1a. News of his criminal past has disconcerted even his admirers.
1b. We were disconcerted by the unexpected changes to the program", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "q#/,0(f2v%", @@ -31565,8 +31565,8 @@ "adj.", "distrait is the French word for distracted
Syn:distraught, mentally remote", "1a. I found my cousin distrait, absent, moody, sad, preoccupied, unlike herself.
1b. He grew more and more distrait as hours passed without confirmation that there were survivors of the plane crash", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "kNPh*b)nNQ", @@ -31583,8 +31583,8 @@ "noun", "divest + -iture (as in investiture)", "1a. Divestitures can be legally enforced to break up monopolies.
1b. Excluding the impact from currency and business divestitures, the company recorded a marginal growth in revenue.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "OM,V3X:GYI", @@ -31601,8 +31601,8 @@ "noun", "French: “hardness\", \"hashness\"
Duress is typically used with the word under", "1a. The North Korean suspect signed a confession because he was under duress.
1b. She left Belarus under duress that night for neighboring Lithuania.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "EC9 often used with proposition \"with\" (or \"without\")", "1a. Each panel of Turner’s dress was embroidered with 50,400 crystal eclats and 50,400 white beads.
1b. He delivered his concertos with considerable eclat in different towns of Scotland and England
2. The prince and princess entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "GG!Tg}*$Gk", @@ -31637,8 +31637,8 @@ "noun", "Greek root oikos,= \"house,\" became oikoumenikós= \"the entire world.\"", "1a. Ecumenical prayer services are held at the prison as a way to unite inmates of various Christian faiths.
1b.An ecumenical community meeting included leaders of all of the local churches and was used to bring neighborhood unity.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "Bfse4END0s", @@ -31654,9 +31654,9 @@ "voracious; devouring", "adj.", "Latin: edere \"to eat\"
Syn: esurient, gluttonous, greedy, hoggish, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, swinish, voracious", - "The edacious eater wreaked havoc on the buffet, eating seven plates full and that was just dessert!
1b.Within an hour, edacious vultures left nothing but a heap of bones behind.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "1a. The edacious eater wreaked havoc on the buffet, eating seven plates full and that was just dessert!
1b. Within an hour, edacious vultures left nothing but a heap of bones behind.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "ucTioqt3*[", @@ -31673,8 +31673,8 @@ "adj.", "Effete is a disapproving term
Syn: decadent, decayed, degenerate, overripe, washed-up", "1a. In the US, the stereotype of the rugged Westerner is just as false as the one of the decadent, self-indulgent and useless effete East Coast liberal.
1b. He is an effete quasi-intellectual with no practical skills of any kind.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "CMR-:thY0m", @@ -31690,9 +31690,9 @@ "1. lowest commissioned ranked officer in US Navy/Coast Guard
2. flag/badge often on a ship to show nationality", "noun", "", - "1. One of the women who left the White House joined the Navy is now an ensign
2.Originally flown by feudal warlords, the rising sun symbol was adopted by the Japanese imperial army in 1870 and became the navy ensign in 1889.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "1. One of the women who left the White House joined the Navy is now an ensign
2. Originally flown by feudal warlords, the rising sun symbol was adopted by the Japanese imperial army in 1870 and became the navy ensign in 1889.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "FpKc>nZ.5a", @@ -31709,8 +31709,8 @@ "adj.", "Greek : eu- \"well, good\" + peptos \"cooked, digested\"=> \"having good digestion,\"
Ant: dyspeptic", "2. Our eupeptic colleague was unfazed by our gloomy expressions and dire predictions", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "si4,vMPolitically expedient means something you do to advance yourself politically.", "1a. Given the circumstances he found himself in, it was expedient to express loyalty
1b. When one has political opinions that are not main stream, it is often expedient to not reveal them
1c. The husband found it expedient to let his wife have her way so that he could have his peace.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "G-htgWQ~w~", @@ -31745,8 +31745,8 @@ "adj.", "Latin: ex- \"completely\"+ piare \"propitiate, appease,\" (same root as pious \"faithful, loyal, devout\") =>make amends for, atone for
", "1. That no further expiation of the nation’s past of slavery would be necessary.
2. The Mass celebrates the sacrifice of Christ for the expiation of the original sin of Adam and Eve", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "b*:$!1g`I#", @@ -31759,12 +31759,12 @@ "fields": [ "1760", "fecund", - "1a. fertile 1b. intellectually productive", + "1a. Fertile
1b. intellectually productive", "adj.", "Latin: fecundus= \"fruitful\"", "1a. The Hereford are a fecund breed of cattle
1b. He knew that erasing and correcting were as creatively fecund as the vaunted “first rush of inspiration.”
1b. His contacts to the government were a fecund source of information", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "c.B.G3RbIQ", @@ -31781,8 +31781,8 @@ "verb", "Origin is the use of half-tame ferrets of the weasel family to hunt and kill rats or flush rabbits from burrows. (ferret=Frettchen oder Iltis auf Deutsch)", "1. Every day, she fends off scam artists who call with bogus job offers as they try to ferret out her private information.
1b. Rosen also announced the creation of a new unit to ferret out serious police misconduct", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "IV5:|=eIX`", @@ -31799,8 +31799,8 @@ "verb", "a Fetter is a shackle or chain that is attached to someone’s ankles
now, usually means something has been done to restrain someone’s behavior:", "1a. The prison wardens would fetter the chain gangs who built many of the railroads in the US.
1b. Her position would place new fetters on U.S. economic policy.
1c. We finally managed to fetter our sons’ computer use with bribery.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "L!qdn$Jd4f", @@ -31813,12 +31813,12 @@ "fields": [ "1763", "flak", - "1. criticism; 2. anti-aircraft guns or slick salesman", + "1. criticism
2. anti-aircraft guns
3. slick salesman", "verb", "Flak=Deutsche Fliegerabwehrkanone
as verb, normally used with the word \"taking\"", - "1a. It was notable considering the flak Hillary Clinton took for being a career woman when her husband first stepped into the political arena.
1b. He took a lot of flak from the other kids for his unusual appearance.
2. The spokesperson was a slick flak catcher, who could turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "1a. It was notable considering the flak Hillary Clinton took for being a career woman when her husband first stepped into the political arena.
1b. He took a lot of flak from the other kids for his unusual appearance.
3. The spokesperson was a slick flak catcher, who could turn any criticism to the advantage of their employer", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "ncgK32tT7w", @@ -31835,8 +31835,8 @@ "adj.", "fledged=\"furnished with feathers\", related to old German \"flügge\"
In extended sense, often used in combination with the word \"fully\" or \"full\"", "1. Semel said the birds are considered officially fledged between hatching and day 23.
2a. Netflix is trying to increase its film output and become a full fledged studio in 2020.
2b. After signing up for membership, he is now a fully fledged fan of the Jags", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "d^Ils;Z|uE", @@ -31853,8 +31853,8 @@ "adj.", "From 17cent German \"foppen\", where one apparently made jokes about people who paid too much attention to their clothes.", "Noble men, sullied by femininity, were foppish, wore perfume and sumptuous, bright and frivolous clothes.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "rgm-64x|$L", @@ -31871,8 +31871,8 @@ "verb, noun", "Old English forberan= \"control one's feelings, or tolerate", "1a. He was mad at his best friend, so he forbore from answering his text messages for a while
1b. While Helen is on a diet, she will forbear her craving for sweets.
2. My sister claims to have no interest in her ancestory, but I believe she forbears to learn about her forbears", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "h8a2}Tp3D6", @@ -31885,12 +31885,12 @@ "fields": [ "1767", "forge", - "1. create (something of metal) by hammering\n2. n. furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping\n3. make a copy of with the intent to deceive\n4. move ahead steadily\n5. make something, usually for a specific function", + "1. create (something of metal) by hammering
\n2. n. furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
\n3. make a copy of with the intent to deceive
\n4. move ahead steadily
\n5. make something, usually for a specific function", "verb, noun", "From French forger, via Latin where originates from same word root as \"fabrica\"", "1. Today, travelling blacksmiths forge sets of horseshoes for horseowners.
2. The heat from the forge made the blacksmith's workplace overbearingly hot
3.My father's signature and mine are so similar that the teacher thought I had forged his.
4. He forged ahead, overcoming all barriers as he progressed.
5. Israel and the UAE announced earlier this month that they would normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "f${5Mj#yG,", @@ -31907,8 +31907,8 @@ "adj.", "Old English, where was opposite of \"toward\"", "1a. The froward child refused to listen to her parents and was disobedient most of the time.1b. Tired of dealing with the froward employee, the boss decided to fire him and rid himself of the headache.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "jcJ7/W5+Q@", @@ -31925,8 +31925,8 @@ "noun", "Latin : fulminare = \"act of exploding or detonating\" is now rare in English.
mostly used in plural form", "1a. Republicans, eager to defend the president, amplified the president’s fulminations. against the press.
1b. The fulminations of the angry mob rushing the gates of the castle could be heard inside.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "l6f;/FO#gY", @@ -31942,9 +31942,9 @@ "1. done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed
2. sly
3. obtained underhandedly", "adj.", "Middle French furtif, Latin furtivus \"stolen,\" hence also \"hidden, secret,\"
Syn : surreptitious, sneaky, sly,", - "1a. The inmate made several furtive attempts to escape from prison.
1b. As he walked by, he cast a furtive glance down her cleavage
1c. The cheating student cast a furtive glance at his neighbor's test paper
2. The man had a furtive look about him
3. The sudden advancement was an indication of furtive gains", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "1a. The inmate made several furtive attempts to escape from prison.
1b. As he walked by, he cast a furtive glance down her cleavage
1c. The cheating student cast a furtive glance at his neighbor's test paper
2. The man had a furtive look about him
3. The sudden advancement was an indication of furtive gains", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "u;`NmG.OV;", @@ -31961,8 +31961,8 @@ "adj.", "French/Latin origin, itself named after Fustat, the Egyptian town where this thick cotton cloth originated", "1. Heavily twilled fustian was used to weave thick blankets for the pioneers to take on their journey.
2a. The chess club captain would start each first practise of the season with a fustian reflection on the history of the game, the intellect of a Bobby Fisher, and his own importance as leader of the team
2b. Yossarian was unmoved by the fustian charade of the burial ceremony.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "K;7=]gm@B-", @@ -31978,9 +31978,9 @@ "hairy; shaggy", "adj.", "Latin hirsutus \"rough, shaggy, bristly,", - "1. My grandfather is the most hirsute man I know; he has long hair everywhere! With a jungle of fur on his entire back, arms, shoulders, chest, arms, legs
1b. The botanist examined the bristles of the hirsute leaf under a microscope.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "1. My grandfather is the most hirsute man I know; he has long hair everywhere! With a jungle of fur on his entire back, arms, shoulders, chest, arms, legs, he never gets wet, not even under the shower.
1b. The botanist examined the bristles of the hirsute leaf under a microscope.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "c#7pSCCpPO", @@ -31997,8 +31997,8 @@ "verb, noun", "to perfect a skill is most common use of hone today.", "1&2. He honed all his cutting tools on a whetstone, also called a hone. 3a. The tennis player practices several hours a day to hone her skills.
3b. The biggest difference between Bayern and PSG was on the one hand a team with a honed style, and on the other hand a team still searching for theirs.", - "Grad_Hotline_1300_GRE", - "5_Highest_Level" + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" ], "flags": 0, "guid": "ffrA&Cqk86", @@ -32011,10 +32011,10 @@ "fields": [ "1774", "replete", - "filled to brim or to point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied", + "Filled to brim or to point of being stuffed; abundantly supplied", "adj.", "cousin of replenish", - "1a. The library was replete with bound first editions, and Lucy, a bookworm, was happier there than any place else.
b. The bowl was replete with fruit piled up high above the rim
1c. Along with the video evidence, the foundation published text versions of its reports replete with documentation.", + "1a. The library was replete with bound first editions, and Lucy, a bookworm, was happier there than any place else.
1b. The bowl was replete with fruit piled up high above the rim
1c. Along with the video evidence, the foundation published text versions of its reports replete with documentation.", "1000 Difficult GRE words", "Examword" ], @@ -32022,6 +32022,1248 @@ "guid": "H,Oyp[bP$i", "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1775", + "impervious", + "1. impenetrable (by rain, people or light or missiles etc.).
2. not capable of being affected or disturbed", + "adj.", + "Latin: in- \"not, opposite of\" + pervius \"letting things through, that can be passed through,\"=>does not let things through
Syn:inpenetrability", + "1a. He bought the wax-covered coat as it was impervious to rain
1b. The fluoride based coating made the carpet impervious to rough treatment
2. He was impervious to criticism and continued on his path unabated.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "QFU0YzB^St", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1776", + "implicate", + "1. bring into intimate and incriminating connection
2. to be connected or to be involved in something.", + "verb", + "Latin: in- \"into, in, on, upon\" + plicare \"to fold\"=> implicare= \"to involve, entwine, entangle, embrace,\"", + "1a. He was implicated in a scheme to defraud the government
1b. There was no evidence implicated Bryan other than the fact that he’d been with Anna before she disappeared.
2. Over the following two weeks, the virus that circulated among conference attendees was implicated in at least 35 new illnesses.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "N[VahV1+Je", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1777", + "impugn", + "To assail someone by words or arguments, often for lacking integrity", + "verb", + "French via Latin: in- \"into, in, on, upon\" + pugnare \"to fight\"=>attack by argument,\"", + "1a. How dare you impugn the integrity of our local councilman simply because of a Twitter rumor!
1b. “I would appreciate in the future ... to refrain from impugning the character of our hardworking staff,” said Day
1c. But President Donald Trump and others repeatedly impugn the integrity of the mail-in voting system.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "Qwn-vr$cvn", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1778", + "inveigh", + "1. complain bitterly 1b. speak against in an impassioned manner", + "verb", + "Latin in- + vehere \"to carry.\"", + "1a. Robert F. Kennedy, age 42, was shot and killed two months later after inveighing against the Vietnam War and taking up King’s torch.
1b. Tens of thousands of women also marched through Paris, inveighing against the patriarchy.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "N2m?qpz=Mp", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1779", + "involute", + "1a. especially of petals or leaves in bud; having margins rolled inward. 1b. (of some shells) closely coiled so that the axis is obscured
2. complex", + "adj.", + "Latin involutus \"rolled up, intricate, obscure,\"
stranngely enough convolute, which also means \"complex\"", + "1a. the chambered nautilus is readily identified by its involute seashell
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1b. he was limned by a streetlight
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2b. Aged 32 he is still wonderfully lithe in his movements.
2c. While Corinne has the lithe agile body that would be perfect for gymnastics, she is too tall to manage some of the events.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "ok=G5~8VE[", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1783", + "lucubrate", + "add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing", + "verb", + "Latin lucubratus=\"work at night, work by lamplight,\"", + "He spent a lot of his time lucubrating in various scholarly journals", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "AxJo-upm-T", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1784", + "mettle", + "1. the courage to carry on, one's staying quality 2. quality of temperament or disposition", + "noun", + "orignally, a variant spelling of \"metal\". In the figurative sense, it become the \"stuff of which a person is made, ie. One's physical or moral constitution\"
often used with \"test\" or \"prove\"", + "1a. He proved his mettle in battle
1b. Even though all members of the navy have high levels of fortitude and courage, candidates for Navy Seal training must exhibit far more mettle than average.
1c. I’m eager to prove my mettle as an interim team leader.
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Syn : mediocre, average, OK, not bad", + "1a. The performance was middling at best
1b. It was opportunity for me to inflict my middling Dutch skills on locals.
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1b. This ordinary house that became the mise-en-scène of an extraordinary drama", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "vn{Y!evnOG", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1789", + "nary", + "not any; no;none, not a single", + "adj.", + "alteration of ne'er a, short for never a", + "1a. I must have it back as I have nary other copy
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2. Borussia Dortmund fans were not happy when their old nemesis, Bayern Munich won the cup, again.
1b. Iran, Saudi Arabia’s nemesis, was taking advantage of the region’s turmoil to expand its influence.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "O4O_SiD8Hc", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1791", + "nugatory", + "trifling, worthless, of no value", + "adj.", + "Latin nugatorius \"worthless, trifling, futile,\"", + "1a. Whether this rug is red or green is nugatory to someone who is colorblind
1b. Certainly it would be foolish to discount this risk as nugatory but also to overstate it", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "O^&n.|o?uw", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1792", + "obloquy", + "1. state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
2. abusively; detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation", + "noun", + "Latin: ob \"against\" (see ob-) + loqui \"to speak\"=>evil speaking, slander, calumny, derogatory remarks", + "1.The spy had no choice by to live out his days in the obloquy of one who had betrayed his country
1b. As a result, she became an unwilling media victim who was subjected to obloquy and harassment.
2a. They held to their convictions in the face of obloquy
2b.After 15 years of grinding war with no obvious end in sight, U.S. military operations certainly deserve such obloquy", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "nCp12=wybS", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1793", + "orison", + "prayer", + "noun", + "a poetic, archaic word for prayer
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1b. Cut the palaver and get down to business.
1c.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "sG:#~ get \"through it\" by doing it.
Syn: apathetic, complacent, disinterested, incurious, indifferent, pococurante, unconcerned, uninterested", + "1a. A perfunctory smile and hello
1b. I was shocked when the doctor only gave me a perfunctory examination.
1c. These ersatz referundums have long had perfunctory functions which end in Lukashenko gaining yet another term in office.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "ssC+8S1VxU", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1796", + "peripatetic", + "1a. Wandering; 1b. Someone who moves (house) a lot
2. of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy", + "adj.", + "Greek: peri \"around, about\" + patein \"to walk, tread\"=>to walk, wander around.
Sometimes linked to Aristotle, who used to teach while walking around", + "1a. Peripatetic country preachers
would go from town to town, giving the same sermon to different audiences each Sunday
1b. Dahl is a peripatetic writer based, at the moment, in Brooklyn.
1c. Her work — 16 novels, as well as plays and short stories — is often as peripatetic, as global, as her own life.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "IrF~i$8=tM", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1797", + "petrified", + "1. so extremely afraid so that one cannot move or think anymore
2. converted into stone through a slow process of mineralization", + "adj.", + "Peter=rock, petrified=turn to stone (Deutsch=versteinert)Mat 16:18 \"And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not overcome it.\"", + "1a. Ashley is petrified of flying which is why she plans on travelling by bus to Houston for her nephew’s wedding
1b. She was petrified of speaking in public
2. In the dinosaur section of the museum, you can walk among the petrified remains of the once-glorious creatures.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "z)J4Vr#y3@", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1798", + "picaresque", + "involving clever rogues or adventurers involved in exciting, dangerous endeavours - usually in fictional stories", + "adj.", + "Don't confuse picaresque, \"rascally,\" with its near sound-alike, picturesque, or \"lovely to look at.\"", + "1a. The situation sets him off on a picaresque journey, the purpose of which becomes clear in the film's end.
1b. “Bullard’s absorbing story … reads like a picaresque novel,” Thomas E. Ricks writes in his latest roundup of military books.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "uF,.R>Nxmd", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1799", + "pied", + "having sections or patches of fur or clothing colored differently, usually brightly", + "adj.", + "Syn: motley, multicoloured, particoloured, piebald, spotted, blotchy
pied piper = Rattenfänger auf Deutsch
not to be confused with \"pied\"= foot in French (eg. Pied noir=white colonialist settler in Africa)", + "1a. A black and white pied horse came by
1b. “He was described as a big brother, a pied piper, a leader and inspiration to youth.”", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "rHt?1nl]e/", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1800", + "pileous", + "covered with hairs especially fine soft ones", + "adj.", + "Latin pilosus \"hairy, shaggy, covered with hair,\"
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1b. I was not impressed with his pinchbeck heroism
1bb.I hope you observed how that pinchbeck countess was prepared to tread in her footsteps", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "DX*(qikIBc", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1802", + "plumb", + "1. exactly vertical
2a. measure the depth of something
2b get to the bottom or root of something
3.completely, in the middle, or generally used as an intensifier", + "adj. verb, adv.", + "plumb=plomb in French=lead (Chem symbol : Pb)
Plumb used as a weight at the end of a line to measure things vertically(Senklot auf D), or measure depth of something (eg. Lake)", + "1. the tower of Pisa is far out of plumb
2b. He spent a lot of time plumbing the book's complexities
3. The child fell plumb in the middle of the puddle", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "e4r!Qpk2. marvel, prodigy", + "noun", + "Latin portentum \"a sign, token, omen; monster, monstrosity,\"", + "1a. A red sky in the morning can be a portent of a coming storm
1b. We took the four flat tires as a portent we should avoid a road trip
.1c. The youthful crowd clashed with police, who deployed tear gas and pepper spray in a portent of the months of protest that lay ahead.
2. A scout was sent to have a look at this teenage pitcher who was supposed to be the latest portent of the baseball world", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "qyTCol~7{/", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1804", + "profligacy", + "1. recklessly extravagant
2. shameless immorality", + "adj.", + "Latin prōflīgātus, meaning \"corrupt or dissolute.", + "1. Both the Fed and the I.M.F. more typically act as brakes on fiscal profligacy
2. Caligula, the Roman emperor best known for his profligacy, sadism, rumored incestuous relationships and unhealthy obsession with a horse, wasn’t exactly handsome.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "qXGfy7ORh<", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1805", + "prolix", + "tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length on unncecessary details.", + "adj.", + "Latin : prolixus pro =\"forth\" + base of liquere =\"to flow\"=>\"extended,\" literally \"poured out
Syn: wordy, verbose, prolix, diffuse", + "1a. A prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know
1b. I find the book by Dickens prolix reading due to its unreasonable and tedious dwelling on details", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "p}/5(#c!5L", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1806", + "pucker", + "1. what happens when something smooth or flat gets folded up into little wrinkles", + "verb", + "Syn: crease, crinkle, crisp, ruckle, scrunch, scrunch up, wrinkle", + "1. She puckered her lips
1b. An old scar ran down the right side of his face, giving his cheek an odd, puckered look, like he’d swallowed a lemon.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "m@->AZ>/{f", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1807", + "pugnacious", + "fond of in the habit of fighting", + "adj.", + "Syn: belligerent, bellicose, pugnacious, quarrelsome, contentious", + "1a. The pugnacious little boy constantly talks back to his mother.
1b. Like the pugnacious Mr. Trump, Wallace enjoyed a fight.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "qv&eCe*puissance of the nation into the war effort
1b. The doctrine’s puissance lies in the separation of powers.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "Dpcb/MeU-:", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1809", + "purvey", + "to supply (something, such as provisions) usually as a matter of business", + "verb", + "Same word origin as \"provide\", which generally replaces \"purvey \"today.", + "1a. A shop purveying handmade merchandise
1b. Both Otterbox and Lifeproof purvey a plethora of accessories, too", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "qSXHw?NobI", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1810", + "quail", + "1. small game bird, bigger than a pigeon but smaller than a chicken(Wachtel auf D)
2. lose courage, turn back in fear or pain", + "noun, verb", + "The bird name comes from the sound it makes
quail as a verb is related to \"quälen\" in German, but has slightly different meaning now being the consequence of \"quälen\"", + "1. Pen-raised quail are readily available, but they don’t survive well in the wild.
2a. His courage never quailed2b. Webster’s bosses quailed at his orders for $2,500 lasers and other equipment.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "sh;8zG)Ruv", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1811", + "rabble", + "noisy group of difficult to control people, crowd the lower classes of populace", + "noun", + "Syn: proletariat, plebs, ragtag and bobtail, riffraff, rout, scum, trash, unwashed", + "1a. The police arrived to calm the rabble that crowded the sidewalks after a huge win for the local football team.
1b. And when the Red Army left Afghanistan in February 1989, defeated by a rabble of jihadist guerrillas, that mission was accomplished
1c. Sanders' strategy is is to rally the , rabble and eschew the elite.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "Il,`Dtz)|l", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1812", + "raffish", + "1. marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness\n2. marked by or suggestive of flashy vulgarity or crudeness", + "adj.", + "from raff \"people,\" usually of a lower sort (similar to riff-raff)", + "1. Prime Minister Johnson is famous for his shambling manner, a raffish untidiness that extends from his clothes to his personal life.
1b. The Times Square area was never the exclusive preserve of theatergoers, but Broadway culture elevated the neighborhood’s rough and raffish character", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "OnIj(b/?7n", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1813", + "rebus", + "puzzle in which pictures stand for words", + "adj.", + "", + "A picture of an eye, a heart, and a ewe might be used to say \"I love you.\" Isn't that a sweet rebus?", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "kUPyHt^p]0", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1814", + "recreant", + "coward, cowardly", + "noun", + "Latin: re- to \"reverse\" something, + credere, \"entrust.\"=>coward
apostate, deserter, renegrade, craven", + "1a. Some provinces had proved recreant and gave up without the slightest resistance.
1b. The victors had only contempt for the recreant enemy soldiers who surrendered without firing a shot
1c. There are always recreant campaign workers who walk out as soon as their candidate began dropping in the polls", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "j,_]<,jQ-?", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1815", + "refulgent", + "shining; brilliant", + "adj.", + "French/Latin : re- \"back\" + fulgere \"to shine\"=>shine brilliantly, flash back", + "The refulgent full moon on a clear autumn night", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "tM{n9@e-![", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1816", + "repertoire", + "1. A stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform
2. the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation", + "noun", + "French répertoire, literally \"index, list\"", + "1. The elderly singer’s concert repertoire consisted mainly of old blues and jazz tunes.
2a. The quarterback was forced to use the entire part of his repertoire to win the game
2b. Before we hired the magician, we asked him to show us a few tricks in his repertoire.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "rcYt0{0].)", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1817", + "repine", + "1. at be discontented with, to complain
2. to yearn for", + "verb", + "re=once more + pine (linked to German \"Pein\")= go through pain again= to complain
Syn: complain", + "1. Yet why repine where so much is left?
1b. There is no use repining over a love that's been long lost
2. The soldiers repine for their families when they are stationed overseas.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "v)_A.d0?J7", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1818", + "resort", + "1. have recourse to\n2. act of turning to for assistance\n3. move, travel, or proceed toward some place\n4. a hotel located in a resort area", + "verb, noun", + "French: re- \"again\" + sortir \"go out\"=>", + "1. The government resorted to rationing meat
2. An appeal to his uncle was his last resort to get him out of his difficult spot
3.
4. Following the Bucks’ decision, the NBA held a meeting at the Walt Disney World resort in Orlando to determine next steps for the season.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "NWEJT_ZOv!", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1819", + "scurvy", + "1. a disesase caused by a lack of Vit. C
2. mean; contemptible", + "adj.", + "scurvy is Skurbut in Deutsch, but as the disease is now rare, scurvy can be also be used to mean a low, mean", + "2. That was a scurvy trick you played on me !", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "x:GVPJj)%|", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1820", + "sere", + "1. dry and withered
2. make hard and without feeling", + "adj.", + "", + "1. The desert was edged with sere vegetation
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2a. Send from one track to another
2b. push something over to someone else, evade discussion", + "noun,verb", + "Syn1: stint
Syn2: shove, push", + "1. an arteriovenus shunt was inserted into his vein
2a. The waggons were shunted to set up new train configurations in preparation for the morning rush. 2b. President Trump abdicated leadership and shunted pandemic response to the states.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "xYAE:!<#d<", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1822", + "sordid", + "1a. Foul and run-down and repulsive
1b. morally degraded
1c. unethical or dishonest
1d. Meanly avaricious and mercenary", + "noun", + "Latin sordidus \"dirty, filthy, foul, vile, mean, base,\"", + "1a. The sordid shantytowns of Chennai are difficult to bear for outsiders.
1b. The sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils
1c. He ran a sordid political campaign
1d. The sordid avarice of his actions made me feel repulsion all around.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "kW#0!KWTS3", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1823", + "splenetic", + "bad-tempered;irritable", + "adj.", + "Late Latin \"pertaining to the spleen,\"", + "1a. The newspaper publisher's splenetic editorials often struck fear into local politicians
1b. Matt was splenetic after his wife left him for another man.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "s-R@OoB-i+", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1824", + "stentorian", + "extremely loud and powerful", + "adj.", + "from Stentor, legendary Greek herald in the Trojan War, whose voice was as loud as 50 men.", + "1a. During boot camp, we were often awakened by the stentorian voice of our drill sergeant.
1b. The stentorian music was so loud it made my head hurt.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "eWyCZ%`u8C", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1825", + "stipple", + "1a. paint, engrave or otherwise empart with dots or specks
1b. Produce a mottled effect
2. with touches of something", + "verb", + "paint with dots,\" from Dutch stippelen", + "1a. They hatch in the spring as wingless, glossy black nymphs with white spots, and pass through several stippled phases before maturing in midsummer.
1b. Martha Ulrich shivered in the harsh February cold, her bare legs stippled with goosebumps

Kenturah Davis’ 2015 self-portrait was made using an ink stippling technique
2. It’s stippled with clever mischief along those lines.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "sv,-pOL>ym", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1826", + "stygian", + "dark; gloomy", + "adj.", + "like Styx, the Greek river of the Underworld", + "1a. The stygian blackness of the cave
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2. The tout asked me 10 Pounds for a racing tip, upon whose payment he informed me that the favourite was seen limping that morning.
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1b. \"The trial was a travesty of justice, that court case that makes a mockery of the system\", said the person who was found guilty.
1c. Yet despite the best of intentions, the virtual consultations set up for me at my hospital have been a travesty because of glitches in technology.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "OQuy-qv#qB", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1834", + "trencherman", + "person who eats a lot", + "noun", + "", + "1. He sits with his back to the wall, eats like a trencherman and gets acquainted with the waitress.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "5 Highest Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "gSFb:>Vr>&", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1835", + "trite", + "not new", + "adj.", + "Latin tritus \"worn, oft-trodden,\" of language \"much-used, familiar, commonplace,\"", + "1a. This may sound like a trite answer, but storytelling is just part of being a human being.
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1b. But to caricature Thatcher as either a hectoring virago is to indulge in lazy sexism.
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1b. She is an extremely voluble young woman who engages in soliloquies not conversations
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