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Sunday, May 18, 2008

GRE Vocabulary - callipygian

callipygian - having beautifully proportioned buttocks

GRE Vocabulary - infallibility

infallibility - inerrability

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 - stupor

stupor - dullness, lethargy, daze, torpor

GRE Vocabulary - technography

technography - study of arts and crafts with respect to their ethnic distribution and historic development

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

physiocracy - government based on the doctrine of supremacy of natural laws and power of nature, doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth

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 - poetaster

poetaster - inferior poet

GRE Vocabulary - raptorial predaceous


raptorial - predaceous - adapted to seizing of prey

GRE Vocabulary - subacid

subacid - somewhat acrimonious, slightly sour/sharp or acidic

GRE Vocabulary - refringency refractivity refringent


refringency - refractivity - refringent - having the power to refract/ bend light ray at an angle as it passes from one medium to other

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 - soprano

soprano - highest singing voice

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 - thoroughbred


thoroughbred - purebred, bred from the best in breed, thoroughly trained, skilled or educated

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 - delude

delude - deceive, cheat

GRE Vocabulary - megalith


megalith - very large ancient stones used as a monument or a building block alone or with other stones utilizing a interlocking mechanism without the use of mortar or cement

GRE Vocabulary - fluster

fluster - make nervous, confuse, upset, make tipsy, discompose

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

GRE Vocabulary - dock

dock - to curtail, to abridge, to cut short, subject to a deduction, to penalize by depriving of a ordinary benefit

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

GRE Vocabulary - sylph

sylph - slender, graceful woman