May - 9 - GRE Verbal Que

Today’s Words:

1. Affinity (n): A natural attraction, liking, or feeling of kinship.
Synonyms: partiality, fondness; sympathy, leaning, bent; similarity, compatibility.
Antonyms: dislike, aversion, dissimilarity, disparity


2. Invigorate (v): to give vigor to; fill with life and energy; energize; heighten or intensify.


3. Prolong (v): to lengthen out in time; extend the duration of; cause to continue longer; to lengthen in duration; to lengthen in extent.
Synonyms: draw out, elongate, extend, prolongate, protract, spin, stretch.
Antonyms: abbreviate


4. Appease (v): to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment;to satisfy or relieve.
Synonyms: to allay, or relieve; assuage; pacify; soothe; conciliate, dulcify, mollify, placate, propitiate.


5. Repose (n): The act of resting or the state of being at rest; peace; calm, tranquillity.


6. Elucidate (v): to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; make clear and (more) comprehensible; to provide clarification; explain



7. Stoical (adj): impassive; characterized by a calm
Synonyms: imperturbable, cool, indifferent.
Antonyms: sympathetic, warm, demonstrative, effusive.


8. Rescind (v): to abrogate; annul; revoke; repeal; to invalidate (an act, measure, etc.) by a later action or a higher authority.
Synonyms: nullify; retract, withdraw; countermand, repeal, veto.



9. Maverick (n): someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action.
Synonyms: nonconformist, independent, loner.


10. Saunter (v): to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll; a leisurely walk (n).
Synonyms: amble, ramble, meander.


11. Wary(adj): watchful; being on one's guard against danger
Synonyms: alert, vigilant, guarded, circumspect, prudent.


12. Gulled (v): To deceive or cheat.




Analogies:

1. Conductor: score

2. Saunter: walk

3. Wary: gulled

4. He: she



Issue Topic:

1. The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people.