callipygian - having beautifully proportioned buttocks
Sunday, May 18, 2008
GRE Vocabulary - inanition
inanition - empty, exhausted condition, lack of vitality
GRE Vocabulary - archaize
archaize - give a archaic quality to , use archaisms
GRE Vocabulary - weal
weal - sound, healthy, prosperous state; well being,
weal - welt, raised ridge of flesh as a mark of beating
GRE Vocabulary - yearling
yearling - animal (racehorse) between 1 and 2 years of age
GRE Vocabulary - votive
votive - dedicated by a vow
votive - expressing a wish, desire or vow
GRE Vocabulary - synod
synod - ecclesiastical governing or advisory council
GRE Vocabulary - vassal
vassal - a bondman, slave, subordinate or dependent
vassal - feudal tenant, person under the protection of feudal lord to whom he has vowed homage and fealty
GRE Vocabulary - undersell
undersell - to sell articles cheaper than
undersell - to present with little or insufficient enthusiasm
GRE Vocabulary - specie
specie - coin, currency,
specie - of the same form or kind
Plural - species
Saturday, May 17, 2008
GRE Vocabulary - witling
witling - person with little or no understanding, a would be wit, person with little wit, one who aspires to be witty
GRE Vocabulary - technography
GRE Vocabulary - subjacent
subjacent - located beneath, underlying
subjacent - located at a lower level, but not directly beneath
GRE Vocabulary - pantheism
pantheism - doctrine of belief and toleration of worship of all Gods
pantheism - doctrine that equates God with the forces and phenomenon of nature and universe
GRE Vocabulary - underwrite
underwrite - to agree, give consent, subscribe or agree to
underwrite - to assume financial liability in insurance policy
underwrite - to guarantee financial support, sponsor, subsidize, insure
GRE Vocabulary - tempter
tempter - one who allures, seduces or charms
GRE Vocabulary - physiocracy
GRE Vocabulary - sterling
sterling - having a fixed standard of purity, of the highest quality, genuine
Friday, May 16, 2008
GRE Vocabulary - ostentate
ostentate - to display proudly, display in ostentatious manner, pretentiously
GRE Vocabulary - angular angulate
angular - sharp cornered, lean, gaunt, having prominent bone structure, stiff in manner
angulate(adj) - having angles, angular
angulate(v) - make or become angular
angulation - making of angles or sharp bends, measurement of angles,
angulation - angles between bones at joints
GRE Vocabulary - stripling
stripling - adolescent youth, juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity
GRE Vocabulary - subacid
subacid - somewhat acrimonious, slightly sour/sharp or acidic
GRE Vocabulary - refringency refractivity refringent
Thursday, May 15, 2008
GRE Vocabulary - triumvir
triumvir - one men of the ruling body of three
GRE Vocabulary - stagy
stagy - theatrical, marked by pretense or artificiality
GRE Vocabulary - sequacious
sequacious - subservient, tractable, intellectually servile
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
GRE Vocabulary - piteous
piteous - arousing pity or compassion, miserly, pathetic
GRE Vocabulary - philander
philander - to have illegal extramarital affair with a woman or many women, to womenize
GRE Vocabulary - superadd
superadd - to add, in a way that compounds the effect, to augment by an extra amountt
GRE Vocabulary - spinous
spinous - resembling spines, spiny, having spines or thorns,
spinous - difficult or unpleasant to handle, full with difficulties and obstacles
GRE Vocabulary - sapid
sapid - having flavor, pleasing to the mind
GRE Vocabulary - valedictorian
valedictorian - student having highest rank who delivers the valedictory address
valediction - pertaining to farewell
GRE Vocabulary - sophistry sophism
sophistry - subtly deceptive reasoning
sophism - argument apparently correct but actually invalid
GRE Vocabulary - undercharge
undercharge - to charge too little to a person
undercharge - to load a firearm with insufficient charge
GRE Vocabulary - undeceive
undeceive - free from deception, illusion or error, correct a wrong impression/understanding
GRE Vocabulary - soothsayer
soothsayer - person who claims to be prognosticator
GRE Vocabulary - megalith
GRE Vocabulary - fluster
fluster - make nervous, confuse, upset, make tipsy, discompose
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
GRE Vocabulary - dock
GRE Vocabulary - subtrahend minuend
minuend − subtrahend = difference
subtrahend - that which is to be subtracted
minuend - number from which subtrahend is to be subtracted
GRE Vocabulary - treasonable
treasonable - marked by treason, betrayal, treachery
GRE Vocabulary - underhanded
underhanded - carried out slyly or secretly
underhanded - not honest or aboveboard, marked by chicanery or deception