diff --git a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv index 12f7428..532dc45 100644 --- a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv +++ b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.csv @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ 43 "abnegation" "1. repudiation; the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief
2. self-sacrifice; renouncing your own interests in favor of interests of others" " noun" "Latin: ab ""off, away from"" + negare ""to deny
Syn: 1. denial
2. self-denial, self renunciation" "1. abnegation of the Holy Trinity by agnostics
2. If you wish to be a monk, you must not have a problem with the abnegation of worldly possessions" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" 44 "ambrosial" "extremely pleasing to the senses, divine (as related to the gods) or delicious (n: ambrosia)" "adj. " "The garden with its ambrosial and exotic blossoms and fruit trees is a place for relaxation and privacy" "Common GRE" "MSU" 45 "ameliorate" "make better" "verb" " French, latin: améliore" "Longer breaks significantly ameliorated the working conditions in the factory. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" -46 "amenable" "1a. Someone/something who is open to do something or have done to them
1b. easily convinced or persuaded
2. liable to answer to a higher authority" "adj. " " French, latin: ad + mener (= to lead (F), to drive cattle (Latin)
Syn: obedient, docile, tractable,
amenable suggests a willingness to yield or cooperate because of a desire to be agreeable or because of a natural open-mindedness" "1a(i). Peter's friend wanted to try sky diving and Peter was amenable to the idea, so 2 days later Peter was jumping out of a plane. 1a(ii). The tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment
1a(iii).“This region seems to be really amenable to finding dual professional careers,” Shaver said
2. The president is amenable to the constitutional court. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" +46 "amenable" "1a. Someone/something who is open to do something or have done to them
1b. easily convinced or persuaded
2. liable to answer to a higher authority" "adj. " " French, latin: ad + mener (= to lead (F), to drive cattle (Latin)
Syn: obedient, docile, tractable,
amenable suggests a willingness to yield or cooperate because of a desire to be agreeable or because of a natural open-mindedness" "1a(i). Peter's friend wanted to try sky diving and Peter was amenable to the idea, so 2 days later Peter was jumping out of a plane.
1a(ii). The tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment
1a(iii). “This region seems to be really amenable to finding dual professional careers,” Shaver said
2. The president is amenable to the constitutional court. " "357 prevalent GRE words" "Prepscholar" 47 "amphi
" "round
" "Greek/Latin root" "amphitheater
amphibian
" "Greek/Latin " "MSU" 48 "-an, ian" "native of, pertaining to " "adj. , noun" "American
Martian
antediluvian " "Suffix" "MSU" 49 "abrade" "1. wear away by friction; scrape;
2. erode" " verb" "
Syn 1: scour.
2. wear-away, corrade, rub-off" "1. Using sandpaper, John was able to abrade the rough edges of the wood into a smooth finish.
2. The constant battering of the waves abraded the coastline away" "1000 Difficult GRE words" "Examword" @@ -1829,7 +1829,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 1800 "pileous" "covered with hairs especially fine soft ones" "adj." "Latin pilosus ""hairy, shaggy, covered with hair""
also spelled ""Pilous"" and ""pilose""" "The pilose caterpillar bent its way up the tree branch" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "5 Highest Level" 1801 "pinchbeck" "1a. An alloy of zinc and copper used as imitation gold
1b. A cheap imitation or counterfeit" "noun, adj." "C. Pinchbeck, 18c. London watch- and toy-maker, developed this alloy of 3 or 4 parts copper and 1 of zinc to imitate gold -" "1a. He didn't believe that a stray Government clerk with a pinchbeck chain and a weak moustache could be a worthy rival.
1b(i). 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" +" "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" 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" @@ -1894,7 +1894,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 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" "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" +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 kept an 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" 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" @@ -1905,7 +1905,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 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. adj. 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" +1874 "bandy" "1. 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. adj. 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" @@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 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 (i). 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.”
1b (ii). The orchestra was sometimes wan but at other points gorgeously full." "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(i). 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.”
1b(ii). The orchestra was sometimes wan but at other points gorgeously full." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "4 High 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" 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" 1901 "ail" "to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to." "verb" "Ail is used when referring to non-specific illnesses.
The verb ail is used for things that are metaphorically unwell or unhealthy" "1a. His back has been ailing him.
1b. But as the ailing economy contracted even more, officials desperate to stimulate business lifted some of the lockdown restrictions
1c. The family includes their daughter, and his ailing mother, whom Dan visits weekly." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" @@ -1958,20 +1958,20 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 1924 "tonic" "Anything (especially medicine) that helps one feel better, something giving strength or energy" "noun, adj. verb" "Greek,: Tonikus=tension" "1a. Coca Cola was originally marketed as a tonic — back when it is said to have contained cocaine as well as loads of caffeine
1b. in New England they call sodas tonics
1c. A day hiking in the Austrian Alps was a tonic for him" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1925 "writ" "1. A legal document issued by a court or judicial officer, commanding the recipient to do something- sometimes also called a ""writ of mandamus""
2. If one thing is another thing ""writ large"", it is similar to it but larger or more obvious: " "noun" "Old English writ ""something written, piece of writing""" "1. He ordered Judge Sullivan to respond within 10 days to the petition for a writ of mandamus filed by the former National Security Advisor
2. My colleague and I shared a glance at the immense sadness of it all, the sorrow writ large on his face." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "1 Lowest Level" 1926 "aloof" "reserved; indifferent, antisocial, at a distance" "adj. " "Loof (now ""luff"") is the windward side of a ship. Smart sailors wanting to avoid a hazard on the leeward side would give the order, ""A loof!"" From this command we get the idea of steering clear of something (or someone)." "1a. The aloof princess stood in a corner
1b. And even though cats have the reputation of being aloof, don't forget daily playtime, Wang says.
1c. At home, Macron is still battling a critical, if not outright hostile, French public generally unconvinced by his at times arrogant, aloof and imperious style." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" -1927 "apprehensive" "1. fear, anxious feeling about future
2. quick to understand, discenering" "adj. " "Syn: fearful, afraid, " "1a. Many adults who do not think twice about the risks of driving an automobile are apprehensive about flying.
1b. The education minister said that while he understood some parents were apprehensive, it was in children's best interests to get back to school.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" +1927 "apprehensive" "1. fear, anxious feeling about future
2. quick to understand, discerning" "adj. " "Syn: fearful, afraid, " "1a. Many adults who do not think twice about the risks of driving an automobile are apprehensive about flying.
1b. The education minister said that while he understood some parents were apprehensive, it was in children's best interests to get back to school.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1928 "arabesque" "a graceful, Arabian design usually seen in metal, ceramic, or stone that resembles vines and leaves" "adj. " "Italian: Arabo ""Arab"" with reference to Moorish architecture." "1. The arabesque stone monument was crafted with graceful, intricate designs.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1929 "astute" "mentally sharp or clever, often combined with shrewdness" "adj. " "Syn: shrewd, sagacious, perspicacious" "1a. The astute businessman was able to quickly assess the market and make the best buying decision.
1b. Not very astute of you running around with a sharp knife." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1930 "concord" "agreement or harmony" "adj. " "Old French concorde (12c.) ""concord, harmony, agreement, treaty,""" "1a. The concord was the name of the ultrasonic plane built in harmonious co-operation between France and the UK, yet they could not agree on how to spell ""concord(e)""
1b.“I think our findings actually concord with them,” he says.”
1c. But the family was not a place of total concord." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1931 "dawdler" "person who is slow or wastes time" "noun" "Syn: delay, procrastinate, lag, loiter, dawdle, dally" "1a. Hurry up! There's no time to dawdle.
1b. Come home immediately after school, and don't dawdle." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1932 "entangle" "1. to snarl, intertwine with, or get caught in
2. to involve in a perplexing or troublesome situation " "verb" "en + Gleicher Wortstamm wie ""Tang"" , seaweed, which could snarl one up. " "1a. Too often, dolphins entangle themselves in large fishing nets meant to catch tuna or swordfish.
2a. A journalist and a political aide become entangled in a larger-than-life scandal.
2b. The young runaway gradually became entangled in a web of lies " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1933 "enthral" "capture; attract and hold by charm, beauty, or excellence; hold in bondage or subjection" " verb" "Latin: en- ""make, put in"" + thrall ""drallen"" in Deutsch=> encapture
Syn: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, ravish, transport" "For years these master magicians have been enthralling audiences with their astounding illusions" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" -1934 "exuberance" "the quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness" "adj. " "French: exubérance""an overflowing,"" " "1a. Something about the youthful exuberance of children is contagious.
1b. Their exuberance over the new discovery was short-lived when the inventors found out that a prototype was already being patented by their rival company." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" +1934 "exuberance" "cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness" "adj. " "French: exubérance""an overflowing,"" " "1a. Something about the youthful exuberance of children is contagious.
1b. Their exuberance over the new discovery was short-lived when the inventors found out that a prototype was already being patented by their rival company." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1935 "felon" "anyone who's been convicted of a serious crime" "noun" "Old French; felon ""evil-doer, scoundrel, traitor, rebel, oath-breaker, the Devil""" "1a. Karmo is charged with being a felon in possession of a firearm, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
1b. A political crusade launched and funded by the family of murder victim Keith Harrington fueled a California law requiring felons to add their DNA to a databank used to hunt criminals." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1936 "feud" "a long-standing fight, often between two families, clans or groups" "verb" "Deutsch : Fehde" "1a. The two professors have been feuding for years.
1b. Trump last year called Baltimore “a disgusting, rat- and rodent-infested mess” when he was feuding with a congressman from the city.
1c. There is a long standing feud between mine and my cousin’s families, which is why neither of us will attend the other family’s weddings." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1937 "floe" "a sheet of floating ice" "noun" "Deutsch: Eisscholle" "1a. A floe can vary in size from small to giant, but they differ from icebergs in their relative lack of depth.
1b. Trapped in sea-ice for over 10 months, his Endurance ship drifted around the Weddell Sea until ultimately it was crushed by the floes and dropped to the deep." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1938 "impending" " about to happen; expected ;imminent;" "adj. " "1a. When I refused to pay the fake fortuneteller, she warned me of impending doom in my future.
1b. As soon as the boss arrived, the workers became silent and waited for the impending announcement about layoffs. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1939 "imperative" "urgent; essential" "adj. " "Imperative is from Latin imperare, ""to command,"" and its original use was for a verb form expressing a command: ""Do it!"" is an imperative sentence. The word is still used that way, but it's more commonly applied to something so pressing it cannot be put off
Syn: Imperative has more immediate force than pressing but less than urgent." "1a. As nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative.
1b. If you’re serious about getting healthy, it’s imperative that you follow a healthy lifestyle, make the right food choices, and exercise regularly.
" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" -1940 "indulge" "1a. to yield to the desire of;gratify; give way to satisfy; allow oneself
1b. to give free rein to, to take unrestrained pleasure in. " "verb" "1. please indulge me while I review the topics we covered yesterday.
1b. It's my birthday. I'm going to indulge myself and eat whatever I want to eat.
2b. The museum is an excellent place to let children indulge their curiosity about dinosaurs." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" +1940 "indulge" "1a. to yield to the desire of;gratify; give way to satisfy; allow oneself
1b. to give free rein to, to take unrestrained pleasure in. " "verb" "1a(i). please indulge me while I review the topics we covered yesterday.
1a(ii). It's my birthday. I'm going to indulge myself and eat whatever I want to eat.
1b. The museum is an excellent place to let children indulge their curiosity about dinosaurs." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1941 "miser" "person who loves wealth and spends little" "noun" " Latin miser : miserable person, wretch," "1a. Despite his incredible wealth, the family patriarch was a infamous miser, who kept his fortune in a charitable trust to avoid taxes, but gave little if anything to charity.
1b. My uncle is a miser who complains about having to pay for anything.
1c. Dagobert Duck is a well-known miser" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1942 "nonchalant" "relaxed and calm in a way that shows you do not care or are not worried about anything" "adj. " "Latin : non- ""not"" + calēre ""to be warm.""=> ie. To be cool in the modern sense" "1a. I was nonchalant about the refinery, but then Alexa was mentioning things like asthma. And I’m like, ‘Check.’
1b. Not all the tourists were nonchalant about following health restrictions and indeed wore their masks and regulalry washed their hands.
1c. South Koreans are famously nonchalant about North Korean nuclear weapons, knowing that they are too close to North Korea to be bombed without affecting the North." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1943 "ostracism" "shut out from society refuse to meet talk" " Greek ostrakismos : A legal political method among the ancient Athenians by which men deemed dangerous to the liberties of the people or embarrassing to the state were banished for 10 years by public vote." "1a. A student at a Baptist school faces ostracism and demonization after becoming pregnant.
1b. A letter written by 153 prominent intellectuals and published by Harper’s Magazine denouncing today’s “intolerant climate” and the ”vogue for public shaming and ostracism"" was another welcome sign of a growing backlash." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" @@ -1986,3 +1986,23 @@ Fairies are often depicted wearing a gossamer or tattered clothes" "Least 1952 "tassel" "bunch of threads" "noun" "1a. In the U.S. it's traditional for a student to move the Graduation cap tassel from one side to the other at the end of the graduation ceremony.
1b. I noticed that this was a fancy place because of the tassels along the edges of fancy drapery . " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1953 "variegate" "To make something more irregular, especially its color." "verb" " Late Latin variegatus ""made of various sorts or colors""
Syn: motley, vary" "1a. But this particular plant was also variegated, or exhibiting different colors, which was something he’d never seen before.
1b. Such weight upon Europe would stunt her natural development as a variegated but harmonious whole." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" 1954 "voluptuous" "1. A woman who is attractive, well-figured and curvy (i.e. not model thin), often with a large bosom
2. Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses" "adj. " "Syn1: bosomy, busty, buxom, curvaceous, curvy, full-bosomed, sonsie, sonsy, stacked, well-endowed
Syn2: epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary" "1a. Marilyn Monroe was known for her voluptuous figure.
2a. Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence
2b. Their voluptuous arrangements balance pillowy blooms like oversized white anemones with smaller, denser varieties such as fuzzy yellow forsythias and cuplike hellebores" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "2 Low Level" +1955 "admonitory" "1a. expressing reproof or reproach especially as a corrective
1b. serving to warn" "adj. " "Latin : same root admonish=""to scold or reprimand.""" "1a(i). When I say something inappropriate, my mother gives me an admonitory stare.
1a(ii). If your piano teacher always finds fault with your playing, she is consistently admonitory.
1b. Admonitory articles abound around Halloween, warning parents of the hazards of trick-or-treating" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1956 "ardor" "An intense passion and fervor, often associated with love, a cause or a club" "noun" "same root as word ""ardent""(eg. Ardent supporter)
Syn: fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire" "1a. He spoke with great ardor, giving it his all.
1b. They were imbued with a revolutionary ardor1c. While Jane enjoyed spending time with John, she did not return the ardor he felt for her." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1957 "ascertain" "to find out something with certainty, generally through some from of self-effort (eg. Experimentation, calculation, investigation, survey, study)" "verb" "Latin : a- ""to"" + certain ""sure, assured"" =>to make sure, to make assured.
Syn: determine, find out, check, learn, see, watch, assure, check, control, ensure" "1a. He logged onto his e-banking account to ascertain how much money he had on his account.
1b. Armed with data from these fossils, scientists used mathematical methods to ascertain the size and proportions of the megalodons.
1c. " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1958 "auspicious" "a favorable situation or set of conditions." "adj. " "Syn: bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat" "1a. The low unemployment figures were an auspicious beginning for the campaign.
1b. Due to the model changes at year-end, everybody knows the end of the year is an auspicious time to buy a car!
1c. With an auspicious start, the Jamaican runner was first off the block." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1959 "baneful" "causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive" "adj. " "Old English bana ""killer, slayer, murderer, a worker of death""
Syn: pernicious, baneful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental
Mnemonic: Think of B(ad) + painful => i.e. it is destructive and harmful to us. " "1a. The legislation could have a baneful effect on the poor.
1b. We are mired in a baneful pandemic unlike anything endured for a century, parsing our lives into 14-day increments of health and survival — or not.
1c. If not cooked properly, the fish can be baneful to humans." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1960 "beatify" "1. make blessedly happy
2. declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood" "verb" "Latin beātificāre: ""making happy""" "1. In song, he projects a beatified ambivalence that turns mixed feelings into a state of grace
2. The cardinal was beatified in 2010 by Pope Benedict in an open-air Mass in his home city of Birmingham after the first miracle was recognised." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1961 "clinch" ">" "verb" "English: from ""clench"" fix securely (a driven nail) by bending and beating it back,""
Syn: " "1a. The Senate must work quickly and together in order to clinch the budget deal to avoid a government shutdown.
1b. His home run clinched the victory.
1c. Dad went by ferry to Newcastel and was able to clinch a deal
2. The girder was clinched into the wall" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1962 "coeval" "of the same period; coexisting" "adj. " "Latin: com ""with, together"" + aevum ""an age""=>""having the same age, having lived for an equal period,""
Syn:contemporary, synchronous, simultaneous, coincident" "1a. He died at 94, his life nearly coeval with the 20th century.
1b. The two stars thought to be coeval because they have nearly the same mass and brightness " "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1963 "conduce" "To lead, to bring about, be conducive to" "verb" "Latin: com ""with, together"" + ducere ""to lead""=>to lead" "1a. Last week, Turkey also announced it would be conducing a firing exercise in the eastern Mediterranean this Monday and Tuesday.
1b. The researchers who conduced the new study say they are the first to study PET’s structure and effect." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1964 "covetous" "displaying greed for another individual’s belongings" "adj. " "Syn: greedy, acquisitive, grasping, avaricious" "1a. The advertising industry’s goal is to make you covetous of the things that other people have
1b. The sister was jealous of her brother's success and covetous of his possessions
1c. He looked at his boss's new car with covetous eyes." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1965 "deprave" "to corrupt; make morally bad" "verb" "French: depraver ""to pervert; accuse""
Use the verb deprave as a more dramatic synonym for corrupt" "1a. The author and columnist described the thieves as ""depraved and despicable"" and ""inhuman"".
1b. That reflects a more “depraved” state of mind than firing back wildly, after you’ve been shot at." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1966 "disheveled" "disordered clothing or hair; in disarray; extremely disorderly" "adj. " "French: des- ""apart"" + chevel ""hair,""=>without dressed hair" "1a. His wrinkled suit gave him a disheveled appearance.
1b. Most people look a bit, well, disheveled after weeks of lockdowns.
1c. Trump — looking disheveled, enraged, shrunken and sad — arrived back in Washington later that Saturday evening." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1967 "ebullience" "a state of energetic happiness marked by both joy and enthusiasm" "adj." "Latin: ebullientem, which ebullience comes from, literally means ""boiling over." "1a. At the birthday party, the ebullience of the excited children could be heard through their giggles and laughs.
1b. People were drawn to Dr. Breen for her magnetic personality and ebullience.
1c. Of course, many risks still remain for the market despite all its ebullience." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1968 "equipoise" "equal distribution of weight equilibrium" "adj. " """equipoise"" is a really fancy way to say ""balance"" or ""equilibrium""
equipoise is simply equi, = ""equal,"" + ""poise."" Equal poise: a balance of weight, forces or interests. " "1a. Losing her equipoise seemed to always be a problem as her inner ear infection worsened without treatment.
1b. It requires an emotional equipoise, a blend of relaxation and concentration, stamina leavened by cheerfulness." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1969 "feckless" "1a. generally ineffectual and incompetent
1b. not fit to assume responsibility" "adj. " "Scottish shortened form of effect (n.), + -less.=>without effect" "1a(i). The husband had many feckless attempts to repair the plumbing himself, but failed.
1a(ii) A well-intentioned but feckless response to the rise in school violence
1b. She can't rely on her feckless son." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1970 "festoon" "a decorative chain or strip hanging between two points" "noun" "Italian festone, literally ""a festive ornament,"" apparently from festa ""celebration, feast,""" "1a. The public buildings were festooned for the holiday
1b. The properties around Mr. English’s house were festooned with no trespassing signs.
1c. Outside, the coop is festooned with pink and white artificial flowers, like a wedding cake." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1971 "finagle" "get out of something using devious methods" "verb" "Finagle is a word with a usually negative connotation." "1a. He wasn't prepared for the maths test at school, so he finagled a re-test by feigning to be sick.
1b. Let me look at my schedule and see if I can't finagle a visit to the museum
1c. He finagled his way into the concert." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1972 "heinous" "odious (of crime)" "adj. " "Same word root as ""haine"" in French, which means ""hate""" "1a. Mitchell later directed law enforcement to their bodies after confessing to the heinous killings.
1b. On appeal, the sentence was lengthened in 2012 to life in prison for his “shocking and heinous"" crimes against the Cambodian people." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1973 "highbrow" "(person) with superior tastes or higher intelligence" "noun" """person of superior intellect and taste,"" from high (adj.) + brow (n.).
Ant: lowbrow" "1a. Highbrow events such as the ballet or opera are often subsidized by the state.
1b. Guests at her elegant dinner parties are a mix of the city's highbrow and captains of industry" "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" +1974 "inane" "silly; senseless" "adj. " "Latin inanitas ""emptiness, empty space,""
Syn: stupid, vacuous, ridiculous, pointless." "1a. When my sisters and I get together, we tend to do inane things like dressing up as cartoon characters.
1b. It’s an unsettling simulation of living in a state that denies basic facts and perpetuates the most inane claims." "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE" "3 Mid Level" diff --git a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx index ef5198e..c9d374e 100644 Binary files a/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx and b/GRE-Vocab_trainer.xlsx differ diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md index f5e05fd..8586efa 100644 --- a/TODO.md +++ b/TODO.md @@ -1,15 +1,7 @@ :# Words that should be added/modified -| Word | Occurence | Explanation | -| :---------------- | :-------- | :---------------------- | -| apprehensive | 1927 | `discenering` -> `discerning` | -| exuberance | 1934 | remove circular definition | -| expostulate | 1863 | 1a. example sentence is grammatically incorrect | -| amenable | 46 | end of underline missing in 1a(i). linebreak missing after 1a(i). | -| indulge | 1940 | meaning 1b. should probably be numbered as 2. -> example 2b. should be example 2 | -| pinchbeck | 1801 | `1b(ii).` -> `1b(ii). ` | -| bandy | 1874 | numbering missing for 1st meaning | -| wan | 1898 | `1b (i).` -> `ib(i).` (same for `1b(ii).`) | +| Word | Occurence | Explanation | +| :---------------- | :-------- | :---------------------- | ---- diff --git a/deck.json b/deck.json index b3411f9..9d01a18 100644 --- a/deck.json +++ b/deck.json @@ -1000,7 +1000,7 @@ "1a. Someone/something who is open to do something or have done to them
1b. easily convinced or persuaded
2. liable to answer to a higher authority", "adj.", "French, latin: ad + mener (= to lead (F), to drive cattle (Latin)
Syn: obedient, docile, tractable,
amenable suggests a willingness to yield or cooperate because of a desire to be agreeable or because of a natural open-mindedness", - "1a(i). Peter's friend wanted to try sky diving and Peter was amenable to the idea, so 2 days later Peter was jumping out of a plane. 1a(ii). The tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment
1a(iii).“This region seems to be really amenable to finding dual professional careers,” Shaver said
2. The president is amenable to the constitutional court.", + "1a(i). Peter's friend wanted to try sky diving and Peter was amenable to the idea, so 2 days later Peter was jumping out of a plane.
1a(ii). The tumor was not amenable to surgical treatment
1a(iii). “This region seems to be really amenable to finding dual professional careers,” Shaver said
2. The president is amenable to the constitutional court.", "357 prevalent GRE words", "Prepscholar" ], @@ -32490,7 +32490,7 @@ "1a. An alloy of zinc and copper used as imitation gold
1b. A cheap imitation or counterfeit", "noun, adj.", "C. Pinchbeck, 18c. London watch- and toy-maker, developed this alloy of 3 or 4 parts copper and 1 of zinc to imitate gold", - "1a. He didn't believe that a stray Government clerk with a pinchbeck chain and a weak moustache could be a worthy rival.
1b(i). 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", + "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" ], @@ -33624,7 +33624,7 @@ "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.", + "1a. Although she tried not to expostulate about her daughter’s vegan diet, she still kept an 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" ], @@ -33819,7 +33819,7 @@ "fields": [ "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. adj. bandy-legged=bow-legged", + "1. 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. adj. 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.", @@ -34254,7 +34254,7 @@ "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 (i). 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.”
1b (ii). The orchestra was sometimes wan but at other points gorgeously full.", + "1a. A wan smile.
1b(i). 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.”
1b(ii). The orchestra was sometimes wan but at other points gorgeously full.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "4 High Level" ], @@ -34773,7 +34773,7 @@ "fields": [ "1927", "apprehensive", - "1. fear, anxious feeling about future
2. quick to understand, discenering", + "1. fear, anxious feeling about future
2. quick to understand, discerning", "adj.", "Syn: fearful, afraid,", "1a. Many adults who do not think twice about the risks of driving an automobile are apprehensive about flying.
1b. The education minister said that while he understood some parents were apprehensive, it was in children's best interests to get back to school.
", @@ -34899,7 +34899,7 @@ "fields": [ "1934", "exuberance", - "the quality of being exuberant; cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness", + "cheerful or vigorous enthusiasm; liveliness", "adj.", "French: exubérance\"an overflowing,\"", "1a. Something about the youthful exuberance of children is contagious.
1b. Their exuberance over the new discovery was short-lived when the inventors found out that a prototype was already being patented by their rival company.", @@ -35010,7 +35010,7 @@ "1a. to yield to the desire of;gratify; give way to satisfy; allow oneself
1b. to give free rein to, to take unrestrained pleasure in.", "verb", "", - "1. please indulge me while I review the topics we covered yesterday.
1b. It's my birthday. I'm going to indulge myself and eat whatever I want to eat.
2b. The museum is an excellent place to let children indulge their curiosity about dinosaurs.", + "1a(i). please indulge me while I review the topics we covered yesterday.
1a(ii). It's my birthday. I'm going to indulge myself and eat whatever I want to eat.
1b. The museum is an excellent place to let children indulge their curiosity about dinosaurs.", "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", "2 Low Level" ], @@ -35270,6 +35270,366 @@ "guid": "cc0NY&np1b. serving to warn", + "adj.", + "Latin : same root admonish=\"to scold or reprimand.\"", + "1a(i). When I say something inappropriate, my mother gives me an admonitory stare.
1a(ii). If your piano teacher always finds fault with your playing, she is consistently admonitory.
1b. Admonitory articles abound around Halloween, warning parents of the hazards of trick-or-treating", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "MT2}CV%zo.", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1956", + "ardor", + "An intense passion and fervor, often associated with love, a cause or a club", + "noun", + "same root as word \"ardent\"(eg. Ardent supporter)
Syn: fervency, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire", + "1a. He spoke with great ardor, giving it his all.
1b. They were imbued with a revolutionary ardor1c. While Jane enjoyed spending time with John, she did not return the ardor he felt for her.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "AhNYppOd<|", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1957", + "ascertain", + "to find out something with certainty, generally through some from of self-effort (eg. Experimentation, calculation, investigation, survey, study)", + "verb", + "Latin : a- \"to\" + certain \"sure, assured\" =>to make sure, to make assured.
Syn: determine, find out, check, learn, see, watch, assure, check, control, ensure", + "1a. He logged onto his e-banking account to ascertain how much money he had on his account.
1b. Armed with data from these fossils, scientists used mathematical methods to ascertain the size and proportions of the megalodons.
1c.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "lzm4;F?IJn", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1958", + "auspicious", + "a favorable situation or set of conditions.", + "adj.", + "Syn: bright, encouraging, fair, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat", + "1a. The low unemployment figures were an auspicious beginning for the campaign.
1b. Due to the model changes at year-end, everybody knows the end of the year is an auspicious time to buy a car!
1c. With an auspicious start, the Jamaican runner was first off the block.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "M;X?Syn: pernicious, baneful, noxious, deleterious, detrimental
Mnemonic: Think of B(ad) + painful => i.e. it is destructive and harmful to us.", + "1a. The legislation could have a baneful effect on the poor.
1b. We are mired in a baneful pandemic unlike anything endured for a century, parsing our lives into 14-day increments of health and survival — or not.
1c. If not cooked properly, the fish can be baneful to humans.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "jcF^%ck}%t", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1960", + "beatify", + "1. make blessedly happy
2. declare (a dead person) to be blessed; the first step of achieving sainthood", + "verb", + "Latin beātificāre: \"making happy\"", + "1. In song, he projects a beatified ambivalence that turns mixed feelings into a state of grace
2. The cardinal was beatified in 2010 by Pope Benedict in an open-air Mass in his home city of Birmingham after the first miracle was recognised.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "P=:(_o|!w/", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1961", + "clinch", + ">", + "verb", + "English: from \"clench\" fix securely (a driven nail) by bending and beating it back,\"
Syn:", + "1a. The Senate must work quickly and together in order to clinch the budget deal to avoid a government shutdown.
1b. His home run clinched the victory.
1c. Dad went by ferry to Newcastel and was able to clinch a deal
2. The girder was clinched into the wall", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "Fuhs3WS5#%", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1962", + "coeval", + "of the same period; coexisting", + "adj.", + "Latin: com \"with, together\" + aevum \"an age\"=>\"having the same age, having lived for an equal period,\"
Syn:contemporary, synchronous, simultaneous, coincident", + "1a. He died at 94, his life nearly coeval with the 20th century.
1b. The two stars thought to be coeval because they have nearly the same mass and brightness", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "wA{}HAr?)E", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1963", + "conduce", + "To lead, to bring about, be conducive to", + "verb", + "Latin: com \"with, together\" + ducere \"to lead\"=>to lead", + "1a. Last week, Turkey also announced it would be conducing a firing exercise in the eastern Mediterranean this Monday and Tuesday.
1b. The researchers who conduced the new study say they are the first to study PET’s structure and effect.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "Hw]p0HKW33", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1964", + "covetous", + "displaying greed for another individual’s belongings", + "adj.", + "Syn: greedy, acquisitive, grasping, avaricious", + "1a. The advertising industry’s goal is to make you covetous of the things that other people have
1b. The sister was jealous of her brother's success and covetous of his possessions
1c. He looked at his boss's new car with covetous eyes.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "P(|uz5KaM,", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1965", + "deprave", + "to corrupt; make morally bad", + "verb", + "French: depraver \"to pervert; accuse\"
Use the verb deprave as a more dramatic synonym for corrupt", + "1a. The author and columnist described the thieves as \"depraved and despicable\" and \"inhuman\".
1b. That reflects a more “depraved” state of mind than firing back wildly, after you’ve been shot at.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "r2?3iq4:z:", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1966", + "disheveled", + "disordered clothing or hair; in disarray; extremely disorderly", + "adj.", + "French: des- \"apart\" + chevel \"hair,\"=>without dressed hair", + "1a. His wrinkled suit gave him a disheveled appearance.
1b. Most people look a bit, well, disheveled after weeks of lockdowns.
1c. Trump — looking disheveled, enraged, shrunken and sad — arrived back in Washington later that Saturday evening.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "u+FuR:9APF", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1967", + "ebullience", + "a state of energetic happiness marked by both joy and enthusiasm", + "adj.", + "Latin: ebullientem, which ebullience comes from, literally means \"boiling over.", + "1a. At the birthday party, the ebullience of the excited children could be heard through their giggles and laughs.
1b. People were drawn to Dr. Breen for her magnetic personality and ebullience.
1c. Of course, many risks still remain for the market despite all its ebullience.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "ikr-FTu|]F", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1968", + "equipoise", + "equal distribution of weight equilibrium", + "adj.", + "\"equipoise\" is a really fancy way to say \"balance\" or \"equilibrium\"
equipoise is simply equi, = \"equal,\" + \"poise.\" Equal poise: a balance of weight, forces or interests.", + "1a. Losing her equipoise seemed to always be a problem as her inner ear infection worsened without treatment.
1b. It requires an emotional equipoise, a blend of relaxation and concentration, stamina leavened by cheerfulness.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "nny6&[8A]?", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1969", + "feckless", + "1a. generally ineffectual and incompetent
1b. not fit to assume responsibility", + "adj.", + "Scottish shortened form of effect (n.), + -less.=>without effect", + "1a(i). The husband had many feckless attempts to repair the plumbing himself, but failed.
1a(ii) A well-intentioned but feckless response to the rise in school violence
1b. She can't rely on her feckless son.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "gq(CQhp37!", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1970", + "festoon", + "a decorative chain or strip hanging between two points", + "noun", + "Italian festone, literally \"a festive ornament,\" apparently from festa \"celebration, feast,\"", + "1a. The public buildings were festooned for the holiday
1b. The properties around Mr. English’s house were festooned with no trespassing signs.
1c. Outside, the coop is festooned with pink and white artificial flowers, like a wedding cake.", + "Grad Hotline 1300 GRE", + "3 Mid Level" + ], + "flags": 0, + "guid": "U(J8>/]bi", + "note_model_uuid": "868688d2-a7fe-11ea-8360-9cb6d013a4a3", + "tags": [] + }, + { + "__type__": "Note", + "data": "", + "fields": [ + "1971", + "finagle", + "get out of something using devious methods", + "verb", + "Finagle is a word with a usually negative connotation.", + "1a. He wasn't prepared for the maths test at school, so he finagled a re-test by feigning to be sick.
1b. Let me look at my schedule and see if I can't finagle a visit to the museum
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