April - 22 - GRE Verbal Que

Today’s Words:

1.Garbled(v) : to confuse unintentionally or ignorantly; jumble; to make unfair or misleading selections from or arrangement of (fact, statements, writings, etc.)


2.Confession(n): The act or process of confessing.; Something confessed, especially disclosure of one's sins to a priest for absolution; a public declaration of your faith
Synonyms: avowal; admission; acknowledgment


3.Succumb(v): to give way to superior force;to give way to superior force; To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in.
Synonyms: submit, accede, surrender.


4.Surfeit(n): excess; an excessive amount; excess or overindulgence in eating or drinking.
Synonyms: superabundance, superfluity, stuff, gorge.
Antonyms: lack


5. Laconic(adj): using few words; expressing much in few words; concise
Synonyms: brief, pithy, terse; succinct.
Antonyms: voluble.


6. Rotundity(n): the condition or quality of roundness or plumpness, as of an object or person; fullness, as in tone or speech


7. Benediction(n): an utterance of good wishes; a blessing, an invocation of divine blessing


8. Ablution(n): a cleansing with water or other liquid; a washing of the hands, body, etc.


9. Glutton(n): A person who eats or consumes immoderate amounts of food and drink; a person with a remarkably great desire or capacity for something;


10. Quaint(adj): having an old-fashioned attractiveness or charm; strange, peculiar, or unusual in an interesting, pleasing, or amusing way.
Synonyms: antiquated, archaic, curious, uncommon
Antonyms: ordinary.


11.Magniloquent(adj): speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful; Lofty and extravagant in speech; grandiloquent.


12.Dust jacket(n): A removable paper cover used to protect the binding of a book.


13. Apocryphal(adj): of doubtful authorship or authenticity; Of questionable authorship or authenticity; Of questionable authorship or authenticity


14. Authenticity(n): The quality or condition of being authentic, trustworthy, or genuine
Synonyms: genuineness, realness, truthfulness, validity


15. Recant(v): to withdraw or disavow a statement, opinion, etc.; retract.



Analogies:


1.Dust jacket: books

2.Apocryphal: authenticity

3.Recant : spend

4.Glasses: vision




Issue Topic:

1.There are two types of laws: just and unjust. Every individual in a society has a responsibility to obey just laws and, even more importantly, to disobey and resist unjust laws.