November - 30th - GRE - Verbal

November - 30th - GRE - Verbal
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November - 30th - GRE - Verbal

WORDS:

1.Stagnant : Not moving or flowing; motionless, inactive;
Synonyms: brackish, dormant, filthy, inert, passive, putrid, sluggish, stale..
Antonyms: active, flowing.

2.Luminary : An object, such as a celestial body, that gives light; a person who is an inspiration to others.
Synonyms: celebrity, dignitary, eminence, leader, notability, personage, worthy .
Antonyms: nobody

3.Malaise : a condition of general bodily weakness or discomfort.
Synonyms: angst, anxiety, debility, decrepitude, depression, despair, doldrums, enervation, feebleness, infirmity, lassitude, melancholy, uneasiness.
Antonyms: healthy, well-being
4.Exculpate: to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame;
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, amnesty, condone, disculpate, dismiss, exonerate, pardon, rationalize, remit, vindicate .
Antonyms: blame, condemn, convict, inculpate, indict, sentence.

5.Majesty : supreme greatness or authority;
Synonyms: Atticism, Ciceronianism, Hellenism, dignity, elegance, eloquence, grandeur, lucidity, neoclassicism, nobility, sobriety, sublimity.
Antonyms: romanticism

6.Abjectness : Being of the most miserable kind;
Synonyms: contemptible, degraded, dejected, deplorable, destitute, downtrodden, fawning, forlorn, groveling, pathetic, squalid, stark, submissive, wretched.
Antonyms: commendable, dignified, esteemed, exalted, honorable.

7.Satiate : to supply with anything to excess; to satisfy to the full.
Synonyms: cloy, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, jade, nauseate, pall, sate, slake, surfeit.
Antonyms: deprive, dissatisfy, starve.

8.Slake : to make less active, vigorous, intense, etc;

9. Exhaustive : tending to exhaust or drain
Synonyms: comprehensive, embracive, encyclopedic, intensive, profound, radical.
Antonyms: cursory, incomplete, perfunctory, shallow, superficial.

10.Appeal : an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.;
Synonyms: adjuration, bid, claim, entreaty, imploration, invocation, overture, recourse, requisition, solicitation, supplication.
Antonyms: refusal, rejection

11.Green :
Synonyms: blooming, bosky, burgeoning, callow, flourishing, foliate, immature, juvenile, pliable, puerile, sprouting, supple, verdant.
Antonyms: old

12. Pelf : informal terms for money;

13.Rapport : relation; connection
Synonyms: affinity, compatibility, concord, empathy, groovy, harmony.

14.Culpable : deserving blame or censure; blameworthy.
Synonyms: amiss, censurable, demeritorious, impeachable, indictable, liable, reprehensible, sinful.
Antonyms: blameless, inculpable, innocent, not guilty.

15.Condemnation : an expression of strong disapproval;
Synonyms: accusation, censure, conviction, damnation, denouncement, denunciation, doom, proscription, reprobation, reproof, stricture.
Antonyms: absolution, approval, praise
16.Whimsy : excessively playful; fanciful; caprice;

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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2007, 12:37:25 AM »

17.Volatile : Tending to vary often or widely;
Synonyms: airy, buoyant, capricious, effervescent, elusive, ephemeral, erratic, fickle, fleeting, frivolous, fugitive, lubricious, resilient, whimsical. Antonyms: calm, stable, steadfast.

18.Irascible : easily provoked to anger; very irritable;
Synonyms: bristly, cantankerous, cranky, feisty, fractious, grouchy, hasty, ireful, ogre, peevish, petulant, querulous, ratty, snappish.

19.Thrifty : careful and diligent in the use of resources;
Synonyms: Scotch, canny, chary, frugal, parsimonious, preserving, prudent, skimpy, sparing.
Antonyms: extravagant, spendthrift, wasteful

20.Miserly :
Synonyms: abject, avaricious, churlish, covetous, illiberal, parsimonious, penurious, screw, sordid, stingy.
Antonyms: extravagant, generous

21.Accolade : any award, honor.
Synonyms: approval, award, badge, decoration, distinction, honor, laurels. Antonyms: criticism.

22.Banquet : a lavish meal; feast.
Synonyms: feast, fete, regale.
Antonyms: light meal, snack.
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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2007, 12:37:58 AM »

ANALOGIES:

1.Fir: Tree

2.Culpable: Condemnation

3.Flexible: bent

4.Censure: denunciation

5.Gully: erosion

6.Banquet: meal

7.Dank: moisture


ISSUE TOPICS:

1.Images are better communicative than language.

2.Imagination is more important than knowledge in professional and academic fields.