diff --git a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv index fc9cf8c..dd5fbe3 100644 --- a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv +++ b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ 5 "ac" "sharp
bitter" "Greek/Latin root" "Greek: be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce.
SUBFORMS ARE
akros = at the end, at the top, outermost; consummate, excellent
akis= sharp point
akros= at the farthest point, highest, outermost
akantha= thorn
akme=summit, edge
oxys=sharp, bitter" "Acute=sharp, severe
Acerbic=sour or astringent in taste
Acrid=unpleasantly sharp or bitter
Acidic=something that is sour
Acrimony-bitter animosity
acrylic (liquid originally found in onions that make eyes tear)" "Root words" "Aristotle" 6 "aberrant" "markedly different from an accepted norm" "adj. " " Latin lit. & fig. ,: ab =""off, away "" + errare=""to wander, stray"""". Meaning= to wonder off and fig. ""deviation the normal type" "With this aberrant mindset there is little chance of success in ethical business, so some choose crooked ways to earn their keep. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 7 "aberration" "a departure from what is normal, usual, or expected" "noun" "Latin lit. & fig. ,: ab =""off, away "" + errare=""to wander, stray"""". Meaning= to wonder off and fig. ""deviation the normal type" "The unexpected results were a statistical aberration" "Least Difficult" "FT" -8 "abjure" " to reject or renounce" "verb" " Latin abiurare ""deny on oath"" ab ""off, away "" (see ab-) + iurare ""to swear,




Syn: relinquish, reject, disavow" "Since 1986 he has been asking candidates for public office to sign his Taxpayer Protection Pledge, in which they abjure tax increases of any sort forever. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" +8 "abjure" " to reject or renounce" "verb" " Latin abiurare ""deny on oath"" ab ""off, away "" (see ab-) + iurare ""to swear,


Syn: relinquish, reject, disavow" "Since 1986 he has been asking candidates for public office to sign his Taxpayer Protection Pledge, in which they abjure tax increases of any sort forever. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 9 "-able, -ible" "able, can do " "adj. , verb" "capable
agreeable
visible " "Suffix" "MSU" 10 "abreast" "Up to date with the latest news, ideas, or information" "adj. " "Syn: in touch with, plugged into" "These daily updates were designed to help readers keep abreast of the market" "Least Difficult" "FT" 11 "evince" "to show or express clearly or to make plain, often something hidden -usually a feeling" "verb" "evince has same wood root as ""evict""
Syn: express, show" "1a. Despite the shock of receiving such news, she was observed to evince no particular emotion at all.
1b. John was never able to evince even a pretense of interest during his economics class. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ 210 "desiccate" "1. to dry out completely
2. to suck out the vitality and passion" "verb" " de- ""thoroughly"" (see de-) + siccare ""to dry""
Not the spelling, with double ""c""" "1. One should use sliced fruits within one day as the insides quickly desiccate.
2. The professional soccer player became desiccated after being in a car accident that left him in a coma. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 211 "desultory" "marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm" "adj. " "French: de:-about + sultor(sauter)-jump=>jump about
Deutsch: 1. )halbherzig ODER
2. )herumspringend" "1. )The bronze medal winner managed a desultory smile.
2. )The students were confused by the teacher’s desultory lecture which seemed to have no real foc" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 212 "detachment" " objectivity or aloofness, devoid of interest or feelings" "noun" " French détachement (17c. ), détacher (see detach). Meanin""that which is detached"", also in a military sense.
Deutsch: Ablösun" "The woman’s air of detachment made the police question her involvement in her husband’s de" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" -213 "determinant" " a strong factor in an outcome" "noun" "Latin: de= ""off"" + terminare ""to mark the end or boundary
Deutsch: Bestimmungsfaktor" "The key determinant for social security deductions are the conditions at year end +213 "determinant" " a strong factor in an outcome" "noun" "Latin: de= ""off"" + terminare ""to mark the end or boundary
Deutsch: Bestimmungsfaktor" "The key determinant for social security deductions are the conditions at year end " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 214 "di" "two
double " "Greek/Latin root" "deductions are the conditions on 31 December of the tax period or at the end of the tax liability. " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 215 "dia" "across
through " "Greek/Latin root" "diagonal
dialectic
dialogue
diagnosis " "Greek/Latin " "MSU" @@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ 238 "disregard" " to ignore or pay no attention to" "verb" "dis= away + regard=look at" "If you disregard the red light at an intersection you are not only breaking the law but also endangering your life" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 239 "apiary" "place where bees and beehives are kept, especially where bees are raised for their honey" " noun" "Syn:beehouse" "Although he spent many hours daily in the apiary, he was seldom stung by a bee. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 240 "dissemble" " to mislead or conceal the truth, esp. with respect to one’s motives. to conceal one's real motive, to feign" "verb" " Latin dissimulare ""make unlike, conceal, disguise"" dis- ""completely"" (see dis-) + simulare ""to make like, imitate, copy, " "Rather than answer the reporter’s questions directly, the politician chose to mislead and dissembled his responses" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" -241 "dissemble
disassemble" "Disassemble is to take something apart, like an old car motor, but dissemble is sneaky — it means to hide your true self, to lie to misrepresent oneself - like the guy who said he was a mechanic but had never actually seen a motor, much less put one back togethe" "adj. , verb" "dis= reverse +assemble+collect in one place=> take aprt

dis=not + semble=appear=>not true representation" "the word is that these are Chinese actors who have been hired to resemble and dissemble North Korean fans. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" +241 "dissemble
disassemble" "Disassemble is to take something apart, like an old car motor, but dissemble is sneaky — it means to hide your true self, to lie to misrepresent oneself - like the guy who said he was a mechanic but had never actually seen a motor, much less put one back togethe" "adj. , verb" "dis= reverse +assemble+collect in one place=> take aprt
dis=not + semble=appear=>not true representation" "the word is that these are Chinese actors who have been hired to resemble and dissemble North Korean fans. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" 242 "disseminate" " to spread widely (esp. information)" "verb" "Latin: dis- ""in every direction"" (see dis-) + seminare ""to plant, propagate"" from semen (genitive seminis) ""seed""" "The pollen will disseminate into the region by Thursday, causing further burdens for allergy sufferers. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 243 "dissonance" "disagreeable sounds, a clash between two elements that don’t blend well, a lack of harmony or agreement, " "noun" "Latin: dissonantem""differ in sound"", ie lack of harmony" "The school board’s meeting lasted for hours due to the length debate fueled by dissonance among opinion" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 244 "diverge" " to split apart, esp. a road or path" "verb" "Laitin: assimilated form of dis- ""apart"" + vergere ""to bend, turn, tend toward""
opposite of converge" "Knowing that everyone would diverge after graduation, she was worried that she would not see her friends anymore. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" @@ -347,7 +347,7 @@ 345 "flag" "1. n. banner.
2. v. to wane or weaken" "noun, verb" "2. Bedeutung als Verb kommt vom gleichen germanischen Wortstamm wie ""flattern""" "2. When the runner's strength begins to flag, she walks for a few minutes, then gradually increases her speed. " "Homonym" "MSU" 346 "flail" "flail means to wave around wildly or in an extended sense: Flounder; struggle uselessly" "verb" "Latin word flagellum, which is a whip
Syn: thrash, thresh, squirm" "The man stranded on the deserted island flailed his arms in the air to get the passing by ship captain’s attention. " "Least Difficult" "FT" 347 "flaunt
flout" "flaunt is to display brazenly or pretentiously whereas flout is to to show an obvious disregard or disrespect for; to treat contemptuously" "verb" "Flaunt is to show off, but flout is to ignore the rules. Rebels do both — they flaunt their new pink motorcycles by popping a wheelie, and flout the law by running a red ligh" "He came into the Church, flaunting his riches with his designer clothes, flouting all rules by dancing on the altar. " "Easily confused words" "MSU" -348 "fledgling" "1. a baby bird;
2. an inexperienced person; inexperienced. " "adj. , noun" "Same German word root as ""Flügel"", d. h. get wings
. Also implies potential to improve" "1. The fledgling storks start to leave the nest about 2 months after hatching.
2. Jill is a fledgling skater who must work on her turns more. " "Common GRE" "MSU" +348 "fledgling" "1. a baby bird;
2. an inexperienced person; inexperienced. " "adj. , noun" "Same German word root as ""Flügel"", d. h. get wings.
Also implies potential to improve" "1. The fledgling storks start to leave the nest about 2 months after hatching.
2. Jill is a fledgling skater who must work on her turns more. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 349 "aseptic" "preventing infection; having cleansing effect" " adj. " "Greek: a-=not + septic= “characterized by putrefaction""(ie. Rotting of flesh)=>sterile" "Nurses stored the unused sterile syringes in aseptic containers for future use. " "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 350 "floundering" "struggling:" "adj. " "Dutch/German roots ""flattern""" " We tried to save the floundering business. " "Common GRE" "MSU" 351 "fluctuate" " to shift without apparent pattern" "verb" "Each day, the price of gold will fluctuate on the market" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ 376 "assent" "express agreement to what is alleged or proposed; accept" " verb" "Syn: accede, acquiesce
Ant:dissent" "1a. “The Maestro assented to the request for an encore”
1b. He nodded his head in assent" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 377 "guileless" "honest; straightforward (n: guilelessness)" "adj. " "The peasant's simple guileless comments made for refereshing talk" "Common GRE" "MSU" 378 "hack" "1. v. to chop.
2. n. a bad or unoriginal writer. " "verb" "1. He hacked a path through the jungle with his panga
2. Even though he worked for the New York Times, he always felt like a hack. " "Homonym" "MSU" -379 "hackneyed" "overused, so overused as to have become uninteresting, repeated too often, cliché, trite, bana" "adj. " "Named after London Borough of Hackney where small horses were let out for hire, so figuratively: ""used many times over that it has become uninteresting""" "Too often used by young girls, the word “like” has become hackneyed" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" +379 "hackneyed" "overused, so overused as to have become uninteresting, repeated too often, cliché, trite, banal" "adj. " "Named after London Borough of Hackney where small horses were let out for hire, so figuratively: ""used many times over that it has become uninteresting""" "Too often used by young girls, the word “like” has become hackneyed" "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 380 "assimilate" "to make similar, to incorporate or absorb into" " verb" "Latin: ad ""to"" + simulare ""make similar"" " "The USA country assimilates immigrants very quickly" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 381 "harangue" "a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion" "noun" "Syn: tirade, diatribe, rant
Deutsch: Moralpredigt, Tirade" "State-run China Central Television (CCTV) has broadcast harsh criticisms of some multinationals, including an absurd harangue over Starbucks’ prices. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 382 "headlong" "headfirst; impulsive; hasty. impulsively; hastily; without forethought:" "adj. " " They rushed headlong into marriage. " "Common GRE" "MSU" @@ -873,7 +873,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 865 "fetid" "smelling extremely unpleasant" "adj. " "Latin origin.
Donkey's bridge: ""the feet did stink.
""Syn: stinking, smelly, foul-smelling" "The fetid smog that settled on Beijing in January 2013 could join the ranks of these game-changing environmental disruptions. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 866 "florid" "using unusual words or complicated rhetorical constructions. flushed with a rosy color, as in complexion; very ornate and flowery: ""florid prose. """ "adj. " "Latin floridus ""flowery, in bloom
Syn: extravagant, grandiloquent" "A victorious Governor Jerry Brown, his voice gruffer, his pate sparer and his metaphors more florid than during his first stint in office. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 867 "flout" "Openly disregard" "verb" "Old English origing: play the flute
Syn: defy, refuse to obey, go against" "He flouted the law and the concept of civilian safety by making a concerted effort to jaywalk every time he crossed a street" "Medium Difficult" "FT" -868 "foible" " a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character" "noun" "Same root word origin as ""feeble"", coming from French: faible=weakness
. Syn: idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, peculiarity" "The elder Bongo had among other foibles, a liking to show off his pet tiger to guests" "Medium Difficult" "FT" +868 "foible" " a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character" "noun" "Same root word origin as ""feeble"", coming from French: faible=weakness.
Syn: idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, peculiarity" "The elder Bongo had among other foibles, a liking to show off his pet tiger to guests" "Medium Difficult" "FT" 869 "dole" "1. give out in small portions; distribute sparingly
2. money paid by the government to the unemployed" " verb" "Gleicher Wortstamm als ""teilen"" in Deutsch" "1. Once a week the priest would do his rounds and dole out food to the needy
2. Though he is receiving unemployment, Gary wants to find a job so he can get off the dole immediately" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 870 "frenetic" "Fast and energetic in a rather wild and uncontrolled way" "adj. " "Latin phreneticus, meaning “delirious. ” ic=nature of, like
Syn: frantic, wild, frenzied" "He scurried around the kitchen frenetically trying to cook a last-minute dinner for 30 of his closest friends. " "Medium Difficult" "FT" 871 "gall" "1. Bold, impudent behavior
2. bile from the gall-bladder
3. a skin sore caused by chafing" "noun" "Note this is the Noun. as a verb it often has the meaning of ""to irritate"" as in 3)
Syn: insolence, nerve, audacity" "1. With enough gall and entrepreneurial spirit, it suggests, anyone can end up driving a Porsche and living in a marble-floored luxury apartment.
2. The gallbladder stores digestive juices made in the liver
3. The ill-fitting saddle chafed the horse's skin and caused a parinful gall" "Medium Difficult" "FT" @@ -1756,7 +1756,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 1733 "churl" "bad-tempered person" "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" 1734 "constrain" "hold back, restrict" "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" 1735 "contumacious" "insubordinate, rebellious" "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" -1736 "coruscate" "sparkle" "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" +1736 "coruscate" "sparkle" "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" 1737 "countenance" "1. the appearance conveyed by a person's face, thus also their composure - often understood to be calm
2. to favor or approve of" "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" 1738 "countervail" "to counter something with equal force so as to succesffully offset or mitigate its effect" "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" 1739 "crass" "stupid, vulgar, insensitive, without refinement or sensitivity; gross." "adj," "ähnlich (aber nicht identisch) wie ""Krass"" auf Deutsch" "While you don't have to wear black to a funeral, but showing up in clown pants is simply crass." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" @@ -1796,7 +1796,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 1769 "fulmination" "bitter protest, thunderous verbal attack, act of thundering forth denunciations" "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" 1770 "furtive" "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" 1771 "fustian" "1. heavy cloth woven from cotton
2. bombastic, overblown, pretentious speech or writing" "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" -1772 "hirsute" "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, 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" +1772 "hirsute" "hairy; shaggy" "adj." "Latin hirsutus ""rough, shaggy, bristly," "1a. 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" 1773 "hone" "1. stone used for sharpening tools
2. to sharpen a knife
3. refine or make more perfect or effective" "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" 1774 "replete" "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.
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" 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" @@ -1831,7 +1831,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least " "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). I was not impressed with his pinchbeck heroism
1b(ii).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" +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" "1a. 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" @@ -1860,7 +1860,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 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 forgiveness
1b. 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" +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" @@ -1874,36 +1874,61 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 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." "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" +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 wending their way through the House, looking for an open door into the Senate." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1844 "premonition" "an intense feeling something is about to occur, generally a negative event" "noun" "Syn: foreboding, presage, presentiment, prognostication" "1a. In her dream she had a premonition that her cat would get run over by the fire-brigade in the driveway, just after they had saved it from being stuck up the large garden tree.
1b. She had a premonition that he would call. " "AMB" "internet" 1845 "belligerent" "1. inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness
2. waging war" "adj." "from bellum ""war""" "1a. Trump responded by dialing up belligerent rhetoric, threatening North Korea with “fire and fury” and nicknaming North Korean leader the “little rocket man.”
1b. My brother was always belligerent and ready to fight.
2. With 50 Mio dead, WW1 was thought to be the war that would end all wars amongst belligerent nations. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1846 "benison" "blessing" "noun" " Old French beneison, beneiçon ""blessing, benediction""
Syn: blessing, benediction
same word root as ""benefit""" "During the harbor festival the parish priest, the Benedictin monk, Benny Benson offered a benison for the local fishermen
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1847 "broach" "1. v. bring up a topic for discussion
2. n. a decorative pin worn by women
3.v. to break the surface from below" "verb, noun" "verb, Old French brochier, ""to spur, to penetrate""
noun, broche : ""pointed instrument,"" " "1a. I needed to find the right moment to broach the topic of his smelly feet with him
1b. He called a team meeting to openly broach the subject
of claims by the Indian employees that there were ghosts in the hotel Welgelgen
2. My mother had a lovely broach with a large letter ""P"" (for Paulette) which she were on her lapel
3. the whale broached the surface and the crowd on the boat cheered" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1846 "benison" "blessing" "noun" " Old French beneison, beneiçon ""blessing, benediction""
Syn: blessing, benediction
same word root as ""benefit""" "During the harbor festival the parish priest, the Benedictin monk, Benny Benson offered a benison for the local fishermen" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1847 "broach" "1. v. bring up a topic for discussion
2. n. a decorative pin worn by women
3.v. to break the surface from below" "verb, noun" "verb, Old French brochier, ""to spur, to penetrate""
noun, broche : ""pointed instrument"" " "1a. I needed to find the right moment to broach the topic of his smelly feet with him
1b. He called a team meeting to openly broach the subject
of claims by the Indian employees that there were ghosts in hotel Welgelgen
2. My mother had a lovely broach with a large letter ""P"" (for Paulette) which she were on her lapel
3. The whale broached the surface and the crowd on the boat cheered" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1848 "cabal" "1a. a scheme or plot
1b. a group of plotters
2. to scheme or plot (especially a political plot)" "noun, verb" "Hebrew, cabbala, Jewish tradition of interpreting texts. Cabbala is often regarded as a secret and mystical practice and, as such, the word took on the additional meaning of “secret behavior.”
Syn: plot, intrigue, machination, conspiracy" "1a. Ramsay denied being part of the Coronavirus cabal and said he was disgusted by such theories
1b. Qanon is convinced that Donald Trump is secretly fighting a cabal of child-sex predators that includes prominent Democrats, Hollywood elites and “deep state” allies." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1849 "congeal" "make or become stiff and solid" "verb" "French congeler= ""to freeze"", ie. Solidify what one is freezing" "1a. She wanted to wash the frying pan before the bacon fat had a chance to congeal.
1b. The way his patients’ blood congealed reminded him of highly contagious diseases" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1850 "contemn" "to scorn or despise" "verb" "Syn: despise, disdain, scorn" "Using an alias, the online bully likes to contemn and vilify those he doesn’t like with internet insults." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1851 "curmudgeon" "a grumpy, ill-tempered old man" "noun" "Syn: complainer, crosspatch, fusser, griper, grouch, grouser, grumbler, grump, sourpuss, whiner" "1a. The establishment and the elites don't want the curmudgeon socialist Bernie Sanders to run away with the nomination." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1852 "defalcate" "to embezzle or misappropriate funds for oneself" "verb" "Syn: embezzle, malversate, misappropriate, peculate" "After noticing numerous unpermitted withdrawals from the company’s account, the board fired the accountant who had defalcated the company’s money." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1853 "deprecate" "1. express strong disapproval of; deplore, protest against;
2a. Belittle
2b. Self-deprecate= downplay one's own achievements" "verb" "Syn: bad-mouth, belittle, decry, denigrate, derogate, dis (also diss) [slang], dismiss, disparage, play down, poor-mouth, talk down, trash, vilipend" "1. Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground,” said Douglass.<2br>2. I can only speak 5 languages, she said, self deprecatingly" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1853 "deprecate" "1. express strong disapproval of; deplore, protest against;
2a. Belittle
2b. Self-deprecate= downplay one's own achievements" "verb" "Syn: bad-mouth, belittle, decry, denigrate, derogate, dis (also diss) [slang], dismiss, disparage, play down, poor-mouth, talk down, trash, vilipend" "1. ""Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground,” said Douglass.
2. I can only speak 5 languages, she said, self deprecatingly" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1854 "desiccant" "substance used to absorb moisture" "noun" "Latin: de- ""thoroughly"" (see de-) + siccare ""to dry""=> to dry thoroughly" "Many consumer goods sent from Asia to Europe have small tea-bag-sized white bags of dessicant included in the packaging so as to prevent direct and indirect moisture damage. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1855 "discountenance" "1a. Look with disfavour on
1b. discourage by showing one's disapproval " "verb" "
Syn: deprecate, disapprove (of), disesteem, disfavor, dislike, frown upon, mislike, reprove, tut-tut (over or about)" "1a. In Darwin's times, there were social philosophers who discountenanced all programs for helping the needy, claiming that society should encourage the survival of the fittest
1b. At that his jaw dropped a little, and he stared at me utterly discountenanced that I should be so plain with him." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1856 "dolt" "stupid person" "noun" "Syn: airhead, birdbrain, cretin, dimwit, dodo, dork , dumbhead, dummkopf, dunce, goof, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, jackass, moron, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numbskull, oaf, simpleton, thickhead, turkey" "1a. What a dolt I've been !
1b. The illiterate dolt was from a well-educated family but refused to learn to read or write himself." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1857 "dulcet" "1a. Sweet to the senses, generally pleasing or agreeable
1b. melodious; harmonious" "adj. " "Latin dulcis=""sweet to the senses,"" especially of taste, also ""melodious, harmonious.
Think of ""dolce Vita"" =sweet/good life" "1a(i). A dulcet smile

1a(ii). The most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches
1b. Last night I fell asleep listening to the dulcet sounds of soft jazz." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1858 "effluvia" "a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) (negative connotation)" "noun" "Latin, plural of effluvium ""a flowing out, an outlet,""" "1a. Since the effluvium. seeping out of the tire factory's chimney was invisible, park officials took months to realize fumes were killing hundreds of birds.
1b. It has now been observed that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1856 "dolt" "stupid person" "noun" "Syn: airhead, birdbrain, cretin, dimwit, dodo, dork , dumbhead, dummkopf, dunce, goof, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, jackass, moron, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numbskull, oaf, simpleton, thickhead, turkey" "1a. What a dolt1b. I've been !
1c. The illiterate dolt was from a well-educated family but refused to learn to read or write himself." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1857 "dulcet" "1a. Sweet to the senses, generally pleasing or agreeable
1b. melodious; harmonious" "adj. " "Latin dulcis=""sweet to the senses"" especially of taste, also ""melodious, harmonious.
Think of ""dolce Vita"" =sweet/good life" "1a(i). A dulcet smile
1a(ii). The most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches
1b. Last night I fell asleep listening to the dulcet sounds of soft jazz." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1858 "effluvia" "a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) (negative connotation)" "noun" "Latin, plural of effluvium ""a flowing out, an outlet""" "1a. Since the effluvium seeping out of the tire factory's chimney was invisible, park officials took months to realize fumes were killing hundreds of birds.
1b. It has now been observed that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1859 "encumbrance" "1a. Burden
1b. things that get on the way of
2. a claim (such as a mortgage) against property" "noun" "Latin incombrare= ""barricade or obstacle.""" "1a. Without the encumbrance of a heavy backpack, I could sprint along the trail.
1b. His thick knitted mittens were an encumbrance to dial his cell phone, so he took them off.
2. He wanted to make sure that the corporation's properties were free from all encumbrances before paying the full price for the company." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1860 "entreat" "1a. to plead with, especially in order to persuade
1b. To ask urgently" "verb" "Syn: beg, entreat, beseech, implore, supplicate, adjure, importune" "1a. He entreated his boss for another chance
1b. I entreat you to help me.
1c. She began her letter by entreating me to forgive the belatedness of her reply" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1861 "epicurean" "devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment), especially concerning food or comfort" "adj. " "Follower of the philosophical system of Epicurus, greek philosopher who taught that what is pleasurable is morally good
Syn: luxurious, voluptuous, hedonistic, bon vivant(noun)" "1a. The Los Angeles Food and Wine Festival is a five-day epicurean showcase that takes place in August.
1b. It took the decimation of the lobster population and the discovery of a new type of customer to elevate the animal to epicurean treat." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1862 "excoriation" "1. severe criticism
2. an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off" "Latin: ex, off, + corium, meaning skin=> removing skin
Syn1: denouncement, denunciation
Syn2: abrasion, scrape, scratch" "1. The senator’s plans for guaranteeing health coverage, and his excorciations
of the wealth of the richest Americans are now embedded in the Democratic Party’s platform.
2. I fell off my father's recumbent bike and ended up with a large excorciation
on my lower left arm. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1863 "expostulate" "argue strongly against someone doing something" "verb" "Latin: ex ""from"" (see ex-) + postulare ""to demand""=>to demand urgently from" "Although she tried not to expostulate about her daughter’s vegan diet, she still keep my eye on what food was stocked in the pantry.
He expostulated loudly with his borher to prevent him from jumping into a pile of leaves from the roof top." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1862 "excoriation" "1. severe criticism
2. an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off" "Latin: ex, off, + corium, meaning skin=> removing skin
Syn1: denouncement, denunciation
Syn2: abrasion, scrape, scratch" "1. The senator’s plans for guaranteeing health coverage, and his excorciations of the wealth of the richest Americans are now embedded in the Democratic Party’s platform.
2. I fell off my father's recumbent bike and ended up with a large excorciation on my lower left arm. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1863 "expostulate" "argue strongly against someone doing something" "verb" "Latin: ex ""from"" (see ex-) + postulare ""to demand""=>to demand urgently from" "1a. Although she tried not to expostulate about her daughter’s vegan diet, she still keep my eye on what food was stocked in the pantry
1b. He expostulated loudly with his brother to prevent him from jumping into a pile of leaves from the roof top." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1864 "exscind" "to cut out, to cut away" "verb" "Latin exscindere, from ex- + scindere to cut, tear" "He wishes to exscind the experience from his memory" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1865 "extempore" "impromptu, done without preparation or thought" "Latin: ex ""out of"" + tempore ""time""=>out of time (to prepare)
often used for speeches held without a teleprompter" "1a. When transcribed, Mr Trump’s extempore speeches are unusually jumbled.
1b. Dr. King’s ""I have a dream"" extempore speech was not memorized, but from the heart.
1c.Having forgotten to prepare a lecture for today’s class, the teacher taught an extempore lesson she came up with on the spot. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1865 "extempore" "impromptu, done without preparation or thought" "Latin: ex ""out of"" + tempore ""time""=>out of time (to prepare)
often used for speeches held without a teleprompter" "1a. When transcribed, Mr Trump’s extempore speeches are unusually jumbled.
1b. Dr. King’s ""I have a dream"" extempore speech was not memorized, but from the heart
1c. Having forgotten to prepare a lecture for today’s class, the teacher taught an extempore lesson she came up with on the spot. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1866 "extricable" "that can be freed" "
Syn: clear, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, free, liberate, release, untangle" "A few facts only of any interest are extricable." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1867 "fagged" "too tired" "adj. " "Syn: dog-tired, exhausted, fatigued, played out, spent, washed-out, worn out, worn-out" "1a. I've noticed for the last few days you looked fagged and worried.
1b. After my 10th exam in 15 days, I was totally fagged, and needed a break. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1868 "finical" "too fussy about food clothing etc." "adj. " "Syn: finicky, choosy, dainty, delicate, demanding, exacting, fastidious, fussy, nice, picky" "She said to herself that this was no time or place for finical delicacy." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1869 "ford" "1a. cross a river where it's shallow
1b. shallow place in a river (to cross)" "noun, verb" "Deutsch : Furt- (wie viele Namen von Städten in Deutschland an Flüssen enden) " "1a. Prevailing myth in the US about Baveria: Everyone wears dirndls and lederhosen, and they climb every mountain and ford every stream.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1870 "hubris" "an excess of confidence, arrogant; pride" "adj. " "Greek: hybris: ""excessive pride, violating the bounds set for humans""" "1a. He acknowledged that he made mistakes, chalking them up to youthful hubris .
1b. Meritocratic hubris and the resentment it provokes are at the heart of the populist backlash against elites." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1870 "hubris" "an excess of confidence, arrogant; pride" "adj. " "Greek: hybris: ""excessive pride, violating the bounds set for humans""" "1a. He acknowledged that he made mistakes, chalking them up to youthful hubris.
1b. Meritocratic hubris and the resentment it provokes are at the heart of the populist backlash against elites." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1871 "imbroglio" "complicated and embarrassing situation, generally interpersonal" "noun" "similar too to ""embroil""" "1a. The scholars on the field trip found themselves in an imbroglio when two teachers began to fight over a woman, and the third had incessant diarrhea.
1b. He declined to identify the associate, saying he didn’t want to drag the individual into the current imbroglio." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1872 "ineluctable" "impossible to avoid, certain; inevitable" "adj. " "1a. So many women try to fight the ineluctable aging process by having cosmetic surgery.
1b. When the governor refused to halt the execution, the prisoner realized his fate was ineluctable
1c. The marxist came to the ineluctable conclusion that this problem, like every problem in the world, was all the white, male, capitalist's fault. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" 1873 "jejune" "insubstantial, dull, immature, no content" "adj. " "Latin jejunus= “fasting,” so, figuratively something is empty — devoid of intellectual nourishment." "1a. The jejune diets of the very poor are driven more by ignorance than by lack of money.
1b. Another moralizing tale filled with jejune platitudes
2. She made empty, jejune remarks about life and art. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1874 "bandy" "toss many ideas around without focusing on just one. ; discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
2. To bat, (eg. a ball) to and fro
3. ajd. bandy-legged=bow-legged" "verb, adj. " "1a. We bandy around around these difficult questions.
1b. In the area I live now, 'get a Filipino' is bandied around so easily when referring to getting a nanny. 1c. The epithet “data are the new oil” gets bandied about thoughtlessly and improperly these days.
3. When he wore shorts, his bandy-legs were visible to all." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" -1875 "victual" "anything that can be eaten" "noun" "Late Latin victualia ""provisions,""
in plural form, i.e. victuals, it means food .
Syn: provisions" "1a. The rebel blockade deprived the town of victuals.
1b. The British navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown
1c. There's a fine line between WASP victuals and white-trash cuisine. " "AMB" "internet" +1874 "bandy" "toss many ideas around without focusing on just one. ; discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
2. To bat, (eg. a ball) to and fro
3. ajd. bandy-legged=bow-legged" "verb, adj. " "1a. We bandy around around these difficult questions.
1b. In the area I live now, 'get a Filipino' is bandied around so easily when referring to getting a nanny.
1c. The epithet “data are the new oil” gets bandied about thoughtlessly and improperly these days.
3. When he wore shorts, his bandy-legs were visible to all." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1875 "victual" "anything that can be eaten" "noun" "Late Latin victualia ""provisions""
in plural form, i.e. victuals, it means food .
Syn: provisions" "1a. The rebel blockade deprived the town of victuals.
1b. The British navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown
1c. There's a fine line between WASP victuals and white-trash cuisine. " "AMB" "internet" +1876 "aleck" "obnoxiously conceited person who considers himself smarter than others," "noun" "1a. My son Alex is smart, but he is not a smart aleck
1b. I phoned him and asked him what he was doing, and the smart aleck answered that he was talking to me on the phone. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1877 "kibosh" "block, halt, stop" "noun" "normally used in the sentence ""put the kibosh on""" "1a. After realizing that the newly hired butler had a background in stealing, the rich homeowner put the kibosh on his employment immediately.
1b. Inevitably, though, another recession will come putting the kibosh on job and income growth" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1878 "labyrinthine" "1a. twisting or winding in a maze-like manner
1b. to entangle the state of affairs
1c. Linked to the inner ear" "adj" "labyrynth + ine =adjectival word-forming element
intricate, involved" "1a. Given the safety requirements and protocols, the setup for the graduation was labyrinthine.
1b. tThe labyrinthine politics of Central Europe left us totally befuddled.
1c. If a student wants help, the process may seem labyrinthine." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1879 "macerate" "1. make or become soft by soaking in water
2. to grow thin and weak" "verb" "from Latin" "1a. To provide wine with color, red grapes are crushed and macerated with their skins.
1b. For maximum effect, he macerates his fruit in brandy for several days, then folds it into just enough white pound-cake batter to bind it all together." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1880 "malinger" "to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty" "verb" "French : mal=bad, linger=lie around" "1a. His boss suspected him of malingering because of his frequent absences from work.
1b. Anyone frequently absent from work on Mondays and Fridays will eventually raise suspicions of malingering " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1881 "molt" "lose hair/feathers before new growing" "verb" "from Latin mutare ""to change"", i.e. same word root as ""mutate'" "1a. Birds molt once or twice a year, but my father seems to have been molting for 25 years.
1b. Snakes molt as they grow, shedding the old skin and growing a larger new skin.
1c. A crab molts its shell as it grows large" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1882 "moot" "1a. of no importance
1b. open to discussion or debate; doubtful
2. hypothetical case study of a court case for law students to practise" "adj. " """ge-moot"" was originally a court of law in England, which eventually lost its legal powers, the remnants of which ended up being a debating club for law students to practise law cases. So, whatever they discused and argured in these moot courts was irrelevant.
Syn: arguable, debatable, disputable, doubtable, negotiable, questionable" "1a(i). If your basketball team loses by 40 points, the bad call by the official in the first quarter is moot.
1a(ii). That became moot after Davidson told the court the parties agreed to resolve the case without a trial.
2. The law students committee was responsible for organising the weekly moot" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1883 "mulct" "1. To punish by a fine
2. to deprive (someone) of something, as by fraud, extortion, etc." "verb" "Latin mulctare: ""to punish by a fine or forfeiture""
Syn2: swindle
today, the 2nd meaning is more common" "1. Any contravention of the edict shall entail a mulct of one hundred marks, one half payable to the fisc and one half to the party injured.2a. The unethical reporter managed to mulct $500,000 from the corrupt police department.
2b. He tried to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1884 "numismatist" "collector and student of money, in particular of coins" " noun" "Syn: stingy, close, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly" "Paper notes and coins will be valued only by collectors and numismatists." "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" +1885 "penurious" "1. marked by or suffering from penury
2. stingy" "adj. " "Latin: Latin penuria ""want, need; scarcity""+ious=in want, needy, poverty-stricken""" "1. In Beijing, where foreign diplomats are penurious and government officials prefer Chinese restaurants, there were three distinguished Western eateries..
2a. “Warren Buffett would approve of our overhead philosophy,” he added, referring to the famously penurious investor.
2b. The penurious nicotine levels proved frustrating and costly for South Korean vapers." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1886 "perspicacity" "The ability to notice and understand things that are not obvious and draw the right conclusions." "noun" "Latin perspicax ""sharp-sighted, having the power of seeing through
Syn: shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious, astute
reminds me od ""perspex"", the clear plastic" "1a. Because Warren Buffet is known for his perspicacity, many people wait to follow his stock-buying trends.
1b. I started a company to resell their product, and we owe our eventual success far more to luck and perseverance than to visionary perspicacity," "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1887 "propitiatory" "intended to reconcile or appease; having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation" "adj." "Syn: appeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peacemaking, placating, placatory" "1a. He sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture
1b. And this redemption consists in the ""propitiatory sacrifice” which Christ offered in shedding His blood—a sacrifice wherein we participate “through faith.”
1c. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1888 "rancorous" "feeling bitterness; spitefulness" "adj. " "Latin: rancere= ""to stink."" This in turn led to rancorem, ""bitterness or rancidness""
Syn: acrid, acrimonious, bitter, embittered, hard, resentful, sore" "1a. While most dogs are friendly and sweet, they can become rancorous if they are treated very poorly.
1b. Daniels, the country-rock legend turned rancorous Fox News commentator, died in July at 83 after suffering a stroke.
1c. China on Friday ordered the United States to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu in an increasingly rancorous diplomatic conflict." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1889 "rubicund" "bearing skin that is pink or red in color; red and healthy" "adj. " "Latin: Latin rubicundus
Same word root as colour ""ruby""
Syn: blooming, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, ruddy, sanguine" "1a. The sunburn made his face rubicund in appearance
1b. The typical, model santa always has rubicund cheeks.
1c. He was described in his Daily Telegraph obituary as a liberal-minded MP with a demeanour described as ""plump, balding and rubicund""." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1890 "seminal" "Like a seed, so original, so groundbreaking and awesome that it will influence everything that comes after it." "adj. " "Old French seminal : ""of seed or semen"" " "1a. Newton’s laws are seminal in the field of physics.
1b. Ms. Allen was renowned for her seminal work in optimizing the creation of computer software programs.
1c. Until the seminal discoveries by the two Nobel laureates, progress into clinical development was modest." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1891 "skiff" "small boat" "noun" "Gleicher Wortstamm als ""Schiff"".
Originally, a small boat of a ship" "1. The fisherman hoped that the small skiff
would be able to hold all of the fish he caught.
1b. McCrory started fishing salmon when he was 12, using a skiff
to haul nets filled with salmon with his father." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1892 "somatic" "of the body" "adj. " "Latin : Soma=body
psychosomatic, = a physical condition or illness caused by the mind rather than a virus or a sprain" "1a. Somatic symptoms like headaches and fatigue generally resolve themselves quickly.
1b. In the meantime, we should continue to move forward with gene therapy of somatic cells." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1893 "subsume" "1a. To contain or include
1b. consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle" "verb" "Latin sub ""under"" + sumere ""to take, obtain, buy""=>to take under" "1a. This new version of XL subsumes the previous one
1b. Red, green, and yellow are subsumed under the term ""color""
2. Games and team sports are subsumed under the classification of “recreation” " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1894 "sully" "1. to be stained or discredited
2. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone" "verb" " French souiller ""to soil""" "1a. While our pool was clean yesterday, it has since been sullied thanks to all the dirt and leaves blown in by a storm.
1b. A bribery scandal surfaced in 1998 that sullied the Salt Lake City Winter Games." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1895 "tautology" "1. a repetition, a redundancy
2. Logic. A statement that is always true" "noun" "Latin: tautologia: to=""the""+ auto=""same"" + logos =saying""=> ""representation of the same thing in other words""" "1a. The phrase ""a beginner who has just started"" is a tautology. 1b. To say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology.
2. ""It will snow tomorrow, or it will not snow tomorrow"" is a logical tautology because it is inherently true. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1896 "vacillation" "1. being uncertain, hesitating, constantly change your opinion.
2. swinging back and forth physically." "adj. " "Latin pp of vacillare ""sway to and fro, waver, hesitate, be untrustworthy,""
Syn: faltering, fence-sitting, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, pause, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, wavering, wobbling " "1a. The president was soundly criticized for his vacillation before responding to the crisis " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1897 "vacuity" "1a. the absence of matter
1b. a region that is devoid of matter
1c. total lack of meaning or ideas" "noun" "abstract noun derived from the adjective vacuous, which means ""like or of a vacuum""" "1a. First, after years of appalling ineptitude and moral vacuity under Corbyn’s catastrophic leadership, Britain’s opposition will be led by a credible alternative prime minister whose competence, professionalism, and patriotism are unquestioned..
1c. Even for a White House that regularly sets new records in implausible vacuity. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1898 "wan" "1a. looking ill, not bright
1b. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness" "adj." "Perhaps related to ""wane."" (like wax and wane)
Syn: ashen, sickly, blanched, cadaverous, pale, paled, pallid" "1a. A wan smile.
1b. Unlike the textile worker, who brought to mind wan images of a young woman or “a sickly child,” steelworkers were often portrayed “as intensely masculine, often bare-chested, with muscles rippling.”
2. The orchestra was sometimes wan but at other points gorgeously full." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" +1900 "mephitic" "resembling mephtis, a noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalation, especially from the earth" "adj. " "from Latin mephitis" "1a. That mephitic swamp still produces the odd belch.
1b. These moments of reckoning—in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous—are important to heed." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1899 "wile" "1. noun. A trick
2. Verb. To lure by or as if by a magic spell" "noun, verb" "Syn1 (Noun): artifice, dodge, gambit, gimmick, jig, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick
Syn2 (verb): allure, beguile, bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, magnetize
noun often used in the plural form" "1a. She had to use all of her wiles to convince her guests to stay for dinner
1b. It took both wile and cajolery to talk him into it " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High Level" diff --git a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx index c534f08..bbbcc9a 100644 Binary files a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx and b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx differ diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md index 978f84d..170d562 100644 --- a/TODO.md +++ b/TODO.md @@ -1,16 +1,7 @@ :# Words that should be added/modified -| Word | Occurence | Explanation | -| :---------------- | :-------- | :---------------------- | -| hirsute | 1772 | `1.` -> `1a.` | -| dulcet | 1857 | remove one of the two linebreaks between 1a(i). and 1a(ii). in example | -| effluvia | 1858 | remove period in the middle of the first example sentence | -| exposulate | 1863 | add numbering to examples | -| hackneyed | 379 | meaning cuts off mid-word | -| extempore | 1865 | `1c.` -> `1.c ` | -| determinant | 213 | end of bold delimiter missing in example | -| coruscate | 1736 | add linebreak between 1b. and 1c. | -| bandy | 1874 | add linebreak between 1b. & 1c. | +| Word | Occurence | Explanation | +| :---------------- | :-------- | :---------------------- | ---- diff --git a/deck.json b/deck.json index 482baea..ad3245b 100644 --- a/deck.json +++ b/deck.json @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ "abjure", "to reject or renounce", "verb", - "Latin abiurare \"deny on oath\" ab \"off, away \" (see ab-) + iurare \"to swear,




Syn: relinquish, reject, disavow", + "Latin abiurare \"deny on oath\" ab \"off, away \" (see ab-) + iurare \"to swear,


Syn: relinquish, reject, disavow", "Since 1986 he has been asking candidates for public office to sign his Taxpayer Protection Pledge, in which they abjure tax increases of any sort forever.", "357 prevalent GRE words", "Prepscholar" @@ -4114,7 +4114,7 @@ "a strong factor in an outcome", "noun", "Latin: de= \"off\" + terminare \"to mark the end or boundary
Deutsch: Bestimmungsfaktor", - "The key determinant for social security deductions are the conditions at year end", + "The key determinant for social security deductions are the conditions at year end", "357 prevalent GRE words", "Prepscholar" ], @@ -4617,7 +4617,7 @@ "dissemble
disassemble", "Disassemble is to take something apart, like an old car motor, but dissemble is sneaky — it means to hide your true self, to lie to misrepresent oneself - like the guy who said he was a mechanic but had never actually seen a motor, much less put one back togethe", "adj. , verb", - "dis= reverse +assemble+collect in one place=> take aprt

dis=not + semble=appear=>not true representation", + "dis= reverse +assemble+collect in one place=> take aprt
dis=not + semble=appear=>not true representation", "the word is that these are Chinese actors who have been hired to resemble and dissemble North Korean fans.", "Easily confused words", "MSU" @@ -6795,7 +6795,7 @@ "fledgling", "1. a baby bird;
2. an inexperienced person; inexperienced.", "adj. , noun", - "Same German word root as \"Flügel\", d. h. get wings
. Also implies potential to improve", + "Same German word root as \"Flügel\", d. h. get wings.
Also implies potential to improve", "1. The fledgling storks start to leave the nest about 2 months after hatching.
2. Jill is a fledgling skater who must work on her turns more.", "Common GRE", "MSU" @@ -6903,7 +6903,7 @@ "foible", "a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone’s character", "noun", - "Same root word origin as \"feeble\", coming from French: faible=weakness
. Syn: idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, peculiarity", + "Same root word origin as \"feeble\", coming from French: faible=weakness.
Syn: idiosyncrasy, eccentricity, peculiarity", "The elder Bongo had among other foibles, a liking to show off his pet tiger to guests", "Medium Difficult", "FT" @@ -7675,7 +7675,7 @@ "fields": [ "379", "hackneyed", - "overused, so overused as to have become uninteresting, repeated too often, cliché, trite, bana", + "overused, so overused as to have become uninteresting, repeated too often, cliché, trite, banal", "adj.", "Named after London Borough of Hackney where small horses were let out for hire, so figuratively: \"used many times over that it has become uninteresting\"", "Too often used by young girls, the word “like” has become hackneyed", @@ -31330,7 +31330,7 @@ "sparkle", "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.", + "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" ], @@ -31978,7 +31978,7 @@ "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, he never gets wet, not even under the shower.
1b. The botanist examined the bristles of the hirsute leaf under a microscope.", + "1a. 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" ], @@ -32518,7 +32518,7 @@ "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", + "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" ], @@ -32986,7 +32986,7 @@ "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.", + "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" ], @@ -33238,7 +33238,7 @@ "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.", + "1a. I wended my way through the crowds
1b. This is just a sampler of the bills wending their way through the House, looking for an open door into the Senate.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "5 Highest Level" ], @@ -33292,7 +33292,7 @@ "blessing", "noun", "Old French beneison, beneiçon \"blessing, benediction\"
Syn: blessing, benediction
same word root as \"benefit\"", - "During the harbor festival the parish priest, the Benedictin monk, Benny Benson offered a benison for the local fishermen
", + "During the harbor festival the parish priest, the Benedictin monk, Benny Benson offered a benison for the local fishermen", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33309,8 +33309,8 @@ "broach", "1. v. bring up a topic for discussion
2. n. a decorative pin worn by women
3.v. to break the surface from below", "verb, noun", - "verb, Old French brochier, \"to spur, to penetrate\"
noun, broche : \"pointed instrument,\"", - "1a. I needed to find the right moment to broach the topic of his smelly feet with him
1b. He called a team meeting to openly broach the subject
of claims by the Indian employees that there were ghosts in the hotel Welgelgen
2. My mother had a lovely broach with a large letter \"P\" (for Paulette) which she were on her lapel
3. the whale broached the surface and the crowd on the boat cheered", + "verb, Old French brochier, \"to spur, to penetrate\"
noun, broche : \"pointed instrument\"", + "1a. I needed to find the right moment to broach the topic of his smelly feet with him
1b. He called a team meeting to openly broach the subject
of claims by the Indian employees that there were ghosts in hotel Welgelgen
2. My mother had a lovely broach with a large letter \"P\" (for Paulette) which she were on her lapel
3. The whale broached the surface and the crowd on the boat cheered", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33418,7 +33418,7 @@ "1. express strong disapproval of; deplore, protest against;
2a. Belittle
2b. Self-deprecate= downplay one's own achievements", "verb", "Syn: bad-mouth, belittle, decry, denigrate, derogate, dis (also diss) [slang], dismiss, disparage, play down, poor-mouth, talk down, trash, vilipend", - "1. Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground,” said Douglass.<2br>2. I can only speak 5 languages, she said, self deprecatingly", + "1. \"Those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground,” said Douglass.
2. I can only speak 5 languages, she said, self deprecatingly", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33490,7 +33490,7 @@ "stupid person", "noun", "Syn: airhead, birdbrain, cretin, dimwit, dodo, dork , dumbhead, dummkopf, dunce, goof, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, jackass, moron, nincompoop, nitwit, noodle, numbskull, oaf, simpleton, thickhead, turkey", - "1a. What a dolt I've been !
1b. The illiterate dolt was from a well-educated family but refused to learn to read or write himself.", + "1a. What a dolt1b. I've been !
1c. The illiterate dolt was from a well-educated family but refused to learn to read or write himself.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33507,8 +33507,8 @@ "dulcet", "1a. Sweet to the senses, generally pleasing or agreeable
1b. melodious; harmonious", "adj.", - "Latin dulcis=\"sweet to the senses,\" especially of taste, also \"melodious, harmonious.
Think of \"dolce Vita\" =sweet/good life", - "1a(i). A dulcet smile

1a(ii). The most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches
1b. Last night I fell asleep listening to the dulcet sounds of soft jazz.", + "Latin dulcis=\"sweet to the senses\" especially of taste, also \"melodious, harmonious.
Think of \"dolce Vita\" =sweet/good life", + "1a(i). A dulcet smile
1a(ii). The most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches
1b. Last night I fell asleep listening to the dulcet sounds of soft jazz.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33525,8 +33525,8 @@ "effluvia", "a foul-smelling outflow or vapor (especially a gaseous waste) (negative connotation)", "noun", - "Latin, plural of effluvium \"a flowing out, an outlet,\"", - "1a. Since the effluvium. seeping out of the tire factory's chimney was invisible, park officials took months to realize fumes were killing hundreds of birds.
1b. It has now been observed that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia.", + "Latin, plural of effluvium \"a flowing out, an outlet\"", + "1a. Since the effluvium seeping out of the tire factory's chimney was invisible, park officials took months to realize fumes were killing hundreds of birds.
1b. It has now been observed that the swearing lexicon now draws less from religion and more from body effluvia.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33598,7 +33598,7 @@ "1. severe criticism
2. an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off", "", "Latin: ex, off, + corium, meaning skin=> removing skin
Syn1: denouncement, denunciation
Syn2: abrasion, scrape, scratch", - "1. The senator’s plans for guaranteeing health coverage, and his excorciations
of the wealth of the richest Americans are now embedded in the Democratic Party’s platform.
2. I fell off my father's recumbent bike and ended up with a large excorciation
on my lower left arm.", + "1. The senator’s plans for guaranteeing health coverage, and his excorciations of the wealth of the richest Americans are now embedded in the Democratic Party’s platform.
2. I fell off my father's recumbent bike and ended up with a large excorciation on my lower left arm.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33616,7 +33616,7 @@ "argue strongly against someone doing something", "verb", "Latin: ex \"from\" (see ex-) + postulare \"to demand\"=>to demand urgently from", - "Although she tried not to expostulate about her daughter’s vegan diet, she still keep my eye on what food was stocked in the pantry.
He expostulated loudly with his borher to prevent him from jumping into a pile of leaves from the roof top.", + "1a. Although she tried not to expostulate about her daughter’s vegan diet, she still keep my eye on what food was stocked in the pantry
1b. He expostulated loudly with his brother to prevent him from jumping into a pile of leaves from the roof top.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33652,7 +33652,7 @@ "impromptu, done without preparation or thought", "", "Latin: ex \"out of\" + tempore \"time\"=>out of time (to prepare)
often used for speeches held without a teleprompter", - "1a. When transcribed, Mr Trump’s extempore speeches are unusually jumbled.
1b. Dr. King’s \"I have a dream\" extempore speech was not memorized, but from the heart.
1c.Having forgotten to prepare a lecture for today’s class, the teacher taught an extempore lesson she came up with on the spot.", + "1a. When transcribed, Mr Trump’s extempore speeches are unusually jumbled.
1b. Dr. King’s \"I have a dream\" extempore speech was not memorized, but from the heart
1c. Having forgotten to prepare a lecture for today’s class, the teacher taught an extempore lesson she came up with on the spot.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33742,7 +33742,7 @@ "an excess of confidence, arrogant; pride", "adj.", "Greek: hybris: \"excessive pride, violating the bounds set for humans\"", - "1a. He acknowledged that he made mistakes, chalking them up to youthful hubris .
1b. Meritocratic hubris and the resentment it provokes are at the heart of the populist backlash against elites.", + "1a. He acknowledged that he made mistakes, chalking them up to youthful hubris.
1b. Meritocratic hubris and the resentment it provokes are at the heart of the populist backlash against elites.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33814,7 +33814,7 @@ "toss many ideas around without focusing on just one. ; discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly
2. To bat, (eg. a ball) to and fro
3. ajd. bandy-legged=bow-legged", "verb, adj.", "", - "1a. We bandy around around these difficult questions.
1b. In the area I live now, 'get a Filipino' is bandied around so easily when referring to getting a nanny. 1c. The epithet “data are the new oil” gets bandied about thoughtlessly and improperly these days.
3. When he wore shorts, his bandy-legs were visible to all.", + "1a. We bandy around around these difficult questions.
1b. In the area I live now, 'get a Filipino' is bandied around so easily when referring to getting a nanny.
1c. The epithet “data are the new oil” gets bandied about thoughtlessly and improperly these days.
3. When he wore shorts, his bandy-legs were visible to all.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -33831,7 +33831,7 @@ "victual", "anything that can be eaten", "noun", - "Late Latin victualia \"provisions,\"
in plural form, i.e. victuals, it means food .
Syn: provisions", + "Late Latin victualia \"provisions\"
in plural form, i.e. victuals, it means food .
Syn: provisions", "1a. The rebel blockade deprived the town of victuals.
1b. The British navy was usually equipped, clothed and victualled by the Crown
1c. There's a fine line between WASP victuals and white-trash cuisine.", "AMB", "internet" @@ -33840,6 +33840,456 @@ "guid": "n5kXyk4#ZL", "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1876", + "aleck", + "obnoxiously conceited person who considers himself smarter than others,", + "noun", + "", + "1a. My son Alex is smart, but he is not a smart aleck
1b. I phoned him and asked him what he was doing, and the smart aleck answered that he was talking to me on the phone.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "jdCG|JthgR", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1877", + "kibosh", + "block, halt, stop", + "noun", + "normally used in the sentence \"put the kibosh on\"", + "1a. After realizing that the newly hired butler had a background in stealing, the rich homeowner put the kibosh on his employment immediately.
1b. Inevitably, though, another recession will come putting the kibosh on job and income growth", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "elF9ay=sG4", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1878", + "labyrinthine", + "1a. twisting or winding in a maze-like manner
1b. to entangle the state of affairs
1c. Linked to the inner ear", + "adj", + "labyrynth + ine =adjectival word-forming element
intricate, involved", + "1a. Given the safety requirements and protocols, the setup for the graduation was labyrinthine.
1b. tThe labyrinthine politics of Central Europe left us totally befuddled.
1c. If a student wants help, the process may seem labyrinthine.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "N#$D0&I.I6", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1879", + "macerate", + "1. make or become soft by soaking in water
2. to grow thin and weak", + "verb", + "from Latin", + "1a. To provide wine with color, red grapes are crushed and macerated with their skins.
1b. For maximum effect, he macerates his fruit in brandy for several days, then folds it into just enough white pound-cake batter to bind it all together.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "buKie>8=PM", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1880", + "malinger", + "to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty", + "verb", + "French : mal=bad, linger=lie around", + "1a. His boss suspected him of malingering because of his frequent absences from work.
1b. Anyone frequently absent from work on Mondays and Fridays will eventually raise suspicions of malingering", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "D-%#PMP1])", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1881", + "molt", + "lose hair/feathers before new growing", + "verb", + "from Latin mutare \"to change\", i.e. same word root as \"mutate'", + "1a. Birds molt once or twice a year, but my father seems to have been molting for 25 years.
1b. Snakes molt as they grow, shedding the old skin and growing a larger new skin.
1c. A crab molts its shell as it grows large", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "i> 1b. open to discussion or debate; doubtful
2. hypothetical case study of a court case for law students to practise", + "adj.", + "\"ge-moot\" was originally a court of law in England, which eventually lost its legal powers, the remnants of which ended up being a debating club for law students to practise law cases. So, whatever they discused and argured in these moot courts was irrelevant.
Syn: arguable, debatable, disputable, doubtable, negotiable, questionable", + "1a(i). If your basketball team loses by 40 points, the bad call by the official in the first quarter is moot.
1a(ii). That became moot after Davidson told the court the parties agreed to resolve the case without a trial.
2. The law students committee was responsible for organising the weekly moot", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "F{#_k/x$-Z", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1883", + "mulct", + "1. To punish by a fine
2. to deprive (someone) of something, as by fraud, extortion, etc.", + "verb", + "Latin mulctare: \"to punish by a fine or forfeiture\"
Syn2: swindle
today, the 2nd meaning is more common", + "1. Any contravention of the edict shall entail a mulct of one hundred marks, one half payable to the fisc and one half to the party injured.2a. The unethical reporter managed to mulct $500,000 from the corrupt police department.
2b. He tried to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "B{_.D{W:~?", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1884", + "numismatist", + "collector and student of money, in particular of coins", + "noun", + "Syn: stingy, close, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, miserly", + "Paper notes and coins will be valued only by collectors and numismatists.", + "1000 Difficult GRE words", + "Examword" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "MH~22YO^-u", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1885", + "penurious", + "1. marked by or suffering from penury
2. stingy", + "adj.", + "Latin: Latin penuria \"want, need; scarcity\"+ious=in want, needy, poverty-stricken\"", + "1. In Beijing, where foreign diplomats are penurious and government officials prefer Chinese restaurants, there were three distinguished Western eateries..
2a. “Warren Buffett would approve of our overhead philosophy,” he added, referring to the famously penurious investor.
2b. The penurious nicotine levels proved frustrating and costly for South Korean vapers.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "gjti>&|_+6", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1886", + "perspicacity", + "The ability to notice and understand things that are not obvious and draw the right conclusions.", + "noun", + "Latin perspicax \"sharp-sighted, having the power of seeing through
Syn: shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious, astute
reminds me od \"perspex\", the clear plastic", + "1a. Because Warren Buffet is known for his perspicacity, many people wait to follow his stock-buying trends.
1b. I started a company to resell their product, and we owe our eventual success far more to luck and perseverance than to visionary perspicacity,", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "C+U70CfV|.", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1887", + "propitiatory", + "intended to reconcile or appease; having power to atone for or offered by way of expiation or propitiation", + "adj.", + "Syn: appeasing, conciliating, conciliatory, disarming, mollifying, pacific, pacifying, peacemaking, placating, placatory", + "1a. He sent flowers as a propitiatory gesture
1b. And this redemption consists in the \"propitiatory sacrifice” which Christ offered in shedding His blood—a sacrifice wherein we participate “through faith.”
1c.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "DZQJ+TdW$r", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1888", + "rancorous", + "feeling bitterness; spitefulness", + "adj.", + "Latin: rancere= \"to stink.\" This in turn led to rancorem, \"bitterness or rancidness\"
Syn: acrid, acrimonious, bitter, embittered, hard, resentful, sore", + "1a. While most dogs are friendly and sweet, they can become rancorous if they are treated very poorly.
1b. Daniels, the country-rock legend turned rancorous Fox News commentator, died in July at 83 after suffering a stroke.
1c. China on Friday ordered the United States to close its consulate in the western city of Chengdu in an increasingly rancorous diplomatic conflict.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "MgGE69}YXr", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1889", + "rubicund", + "bearing skin that is pink or red in color; red and healthy", + "adj.", + "Latin: Latin rubicundus
Same word root as colour \"ruby\"
Syn: blooming, flush, full-blooded, glowing, red, rosy, ruddy, sanguine", + "1a. The sunburn made his face rubicund in appearance
1b. The typical, model santa always has rubicund cheeks.
1c. He was described in his Daily Telegraph obituary as a liberal-minded MP with a demeanour described as \"plump, balding and rubicund\".", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "JUjzjH?dGX", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1890", + "seminal", + "Like a seed, so original, so groundbreaking and awesome that it will influence everything that comes after it.", + "adj.", + "Old French seminal : \"of seed or semen\"", + "1a. Newton’s laws are seminal in the field of physics.
1b. Ms. Allen was renowned for her seminal work in optimizing the creation of computer software programs.
1c. Until the seminal discoveries by the two Nobel laureates, progress into clinical development was modest.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "ib/JCLp#IN", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1891", + "skiff", + "small boat", + "noun", + "Gleicher Wortstamm als \"Schiff\".
Originally, a small boat of a ship", + "1. The fisherman hoped that the small skiff
would be able to hold all of the fish he caught.
1b. McCrory started fishing salmon when he was 12, using a skiff
to haul nets filled with salmon with his father.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "Ku/A=IxWKk", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1892", + "somatic", + "of the body", + "adj.", + "Latin : Soma=body
psychosomatic, = a physical condition or illness caused by the mind rather than a virus or a sprain", + "1a. Somatic symptoms like headaches and fatigue generally resolve themselves quickly.
1b. In the meantime, we should continue to move forward with gene therapy of somatic cells.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "Ja)#X>bnr.", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1893", + "subsume", + "1a. To contain or include
1b. consider (an instance of something) as part of a general rule or principle", + "verb", + "Latin sub \"under\" + sumere \"to take, obtain, buy\"=>to take under", + "1a. This new version of XL subsumes the previous one
1b. Red, green, and yellow are subsumed under the term \"color\"
2. Games and team sports are subsumed under the classification of “recreation”", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "Kq/pX>A-)/", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1894", + "sully", + "1. to be stained or discredited
2. charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone", + "verb", + "French souiller \"to soil\"", + "1a. While our pool was clean yesterday, it has since been sullied thanks to all the dirt and leaves blown in by a storm.
1b. A bribery scandal surfaced in 1998 that sullied the Salt Lake City Winter Games.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "HmFy,I],Ts", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1895", + "tautology", + "1. a repetition, a redundancy
2. Logic. A statement that is always true", + "noun", + "Latin: tautologia: to=\"the\"+ auto=\"same\" + logos =saying\"=> \"representation of the same thing in other words\"", + "1a. The phrase \"a beginner who has just started\" is a tautology. 1b. To say that something is `adequate enough' is a tautology.
2. \"It will snow tomorrow, or it will not snow tomorrow\" is a logical tautology because it is inherently true.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "ku@)Op,lu.", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1896", + "vacillation", + "1. being uncertain, hesitating, constantly change your opinion.
2. swinging back and forth physically.", + "adj.", + "Latin pp of vacillare \"sway to and fro, waver, hesitate, be untrustworthy,\"
Syn: faltering, fence-sitting, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, pause, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, wavering, wobbling", + "1a. The president was soundly criticized for his vacillation before responding to the crisis", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "sn|vH{[c^n", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1897", + "vacuity", + "1a. the absence of matter
1b. a region that is devoid of matter
1c. total lack of meaning or ideas", + "noun", + "abstract noun derived from the adjective vacuous, which means \"like or of a vacuum\"", + "1a. First, after years of appalling ineptitude and moral vacuity under Corbyn’s catastrophic leadership, Britain’s opposition will be led by a credible alternative prime minister whose competence, professionalism, and patriotism are unquestioned..
1c. Even for a White House that regularly sets new records in implausible vacuity.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "p>jyj8*$fY", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1898", + "wan", + "1a. looking ill, not bright
1b. lacking vitality as from weariness or illness or unhappiness", + "adj.", + "Perhaps related to \"wane.\" (like wax and wane)
Syn: ashen, sickly, blanched, cadaverous, pale, paled, pallid", + "1a. A wan smile.
1b. Unlike the textile worker, who brought to mind wan images of a young woman or “a sickly child,” steelworkers were often portrayed “as intensely masculine, often bare-chested, with muscles rippling.”
2. The orchestra was sometimes wan but at other points gorgeously full.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "i%D#EI9)k-", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1900", + "mephitic", + "resembling mephtis, a noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalation, especially from the earth", + "adj.", + "from Latin mephitis", + "1a. That mephitic swamp still produces the odd belch.
1b. These moments of reckoning—in which something that once felt exciting begins to seem noxious, mephitic, dangerous—are important to heed.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "BJ[@Ic0w3}", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1899", + "wile", + "1. noun. A trick
2. Verb. To lure by or as if by a magic spell", + "noun, verb", + "Syn1 (Noun): artifice, dodge, gambit, gimmick, jig, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, trick
Syn2 (verb): allure, beguile, bewitch, captivate, charm, enchant, magnetize
noun often used in the plural form", + "1a. She had to use all of her wiles to convince her guests to stay for dinner
1b. It took both wile and cajolery to talk him into it", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "4 High Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "Jkem@t){A1", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] } ] } \ No newline at end of file