betimes - in good times, early, occasionaly
Sunday, June 8, 2008
GRE Vocabulary - boatswain
boatswain - petty officer on a merchant ship in charge of hull maintenance and related work
GRE Vocabulary - brazier
brazier - container for holding burning coals
brazier - utensil in which food is heated through a wire grill
brazier - one who works with brass
GRE Vocabulary - breech
breech - short pants covering hips and thighs to just below the knees
breech - buttocks
breech - part of firearm behind the barrel
GRE Vocabulary - bridle
bridle - harness - headgear for a horse which restrains or draws back the head and chin of a horse, curb, restraint
GRE Vocabulary - bilge
bilge - stale or worthless remarks and ideas
bilge - bulging part of cask or barrel
bilge - underwater part of a ship between bottom and vertical sides
Friday, June 6, 2008
GRE Vocabulary - cleat
cleat - fitting with two projecting horns on which rope may be fastened
cleat - strip fastened to strengthen the surface
cleat - projecting piece that provides a grip
cleat - shoes equipped with studs on the bottom for providing a firmer grip
GRE Vocabulary - ministration
ministration - act of serving or aiding
ministration - act of performing duties of a cleric
GRE Vocabulary - atropy hypertrophy
atrophy - degeneration, withering away
hypertrophy - excessive growth
atrophy x hypertrophy
GRE Vocabulary - epistemology
epistemology - study of nature, foundation, limits and validity of knowledge
GRE Vocabulary - pucker
pucker - become gathered, contracted and wrinkled
pucker - fold or wrinkle on a normally even surface
pucker - tart flavor that causes lips to pucker
GRE Vocabulary - ensign
ensign - distinguishing token, emblem or badge
ensign - distinctive flag flown on a ship as a sign or nationality
GRE Vocabulary - scotch chock
scotch - put and end to,
scotch - block, hinder, thwart
scotch - cut, gash, wound, score, injure
scotch - a chock to prevent rolling or slipping, to block with a chock
chock - sturdy wedge placed behind the wheel to prevent motion
chock - to close as completely as possible
GRE Vocabulary - table
table - to remove from consideration indefinitely, to shelve
table - to place on the agenda
GRE Vocabulary - strut swagger
strut - swagger, walk proudly and pompously with overconfidence
strut - display in order to impress
strut - structural piece designed to resist longitudinal compression
GRE Vocabulary - wake
wake - all night vigil over a dead body before burial, sometimes accompanied by festivity
wake - track left behind by moving body, aftermath, result, consequence
GRE Vocabulary - volutpuary
voluptuary - person interested in voluptuous things, sensualist, person given to luxury and sensual pleasures
GRE Vocabulary - verdant
verdant - green, leafy,
verdant - inexperienced, unripe in experience or judgment, naive, lacking sophistication
GRE Vocabulary - canny uncanny artful
canny - artful - clever, shrewd, wily, careful, prudent, restrained
uncanny - eerie, mysterious, extraordinary, weird, severe
canny x uncanny
GRE Vocabulary - underpinning
underpinning - system of supports beneath, foundation, basis, human legs(plural)
underpin(v) - to support, strengthen
GRE Vocabulary - threshold
threshold - doorsill, sill, wood or stone placed beneath a door
threshold - place or point of beginning, triggering point
GRE Vocabulary - supine
supine - lying one ones back with face upward, palm facing upward, inclined back, sloping
supine - inactive, inert, passive
supine x prone
GRE Vocabulary - lune
lune - the moon
lune - plane surface (concave) bounded by two intersecting arcs
lune - digon/diangle - wedge shared area on a sphere bounded by two half great circles
GRE Vocabulary - cudgel
cudgel(n) - shorty heavy club
cudgel(v) - to beat or strike as if with a cudgel
GRE Vocabulary - crustacean crustaceous
crustacean - crustaceous - anthropods having a crust like shell
GRE Vocabulary - louse
louse - singular of lice
louse(v) - to remove lice from
louse(adj) - mean or despicable person
GRE Vocabulary - courser
courser - swift or spirited horse, charger
coursing - pursuit of game or other animals by dogs
Thursday, June 5, 2008
GRE Vocabulary - lithotype
lithotype - letterpress printing plate, etched stone from printing, imprint made from it
GRE Vocabulary - coronet
coronet - small crown signifying rank below a sovereign consisting of ornaments fitted on a metal ring
coronet - headband worn by women on formal occasions
coronet - upper margin of horses hoof
GRE Vocabulary - sacral
sacral - related to sacred rites or observances, holy, sacred
sacral - related to sacrum (large triangular bone at the base of spine)
GRE Vocabulary - chattel
chattel - article of movable personal property (non real estate items) , slave, bondsman
GRE Vocabulary - liniment
liniment - liquid or semi liquid preparation used as anodyne or counterirritant
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