gre flashcards 6 Manhattan

Question 1

afford

Answer 1

provide or supply (an opportunity or facility)

Question 2

credulity

Answer 2

easily persuaded; gullible;

a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true.

Question 3

credence

Answer 3

belief

Question 4

elude

Answer 4

escape from or avoid (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.; evade

escape from or avoid in a skillful way

Question 5

taxing

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tiring

Question 6

precipitate

Answer 6

hastily done

Question 7

lacerate

Answer 7

distress deeply; criticize forcefully or severely;

lacerate - lazer - cut karna

Question 8

gaffe

Answer 8

social blunder

socially embarrassing moment; blunder; eg “in my first few months at work I made some real gaffes”

Question 9

trepidation

Answer 9

a feeling of fear or anxiety about something that may happen.

Question 10

intrepid

Answer 10

fearless

Question 11

aghast

Answer 11

filled with horror or shock

Question 12

expatriate

Answer 12

a person who lives outside their native country

Question 13

repatriate

Answer 13

send (someone) back to their own country

Question 14

emigrant

Answer 14

a person who leaves their country to settle permanently in another

Emigrate means to leave one location, such as one’s native country or region, to live in another. Immigrate means to move into a non-native country or region to live.

Question 15

lascivious

Answer 15

sexually perverted

Question 16

embodied

Answer 16

be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling)., kuut kuut ke bhara hua

Question 17

indemnify

Answer 17

reimburse ;compensate

indemnify
• make secure against damage or loss; compensate for damage or loss; CF. make uninjured
Mnemonics:
• look for the word-“demn” which can be connected to “demon”..so what does demon do? it destroys property..
IN(not)+demni+fy= correct what the demon inside you has done..make amends for it.

Question 18

actuarial

Answer 18

risk manager

An actuary is a business professional who deals with the measurement and management of risk and uncertainty.

Question 19

mercenary

Answer 19

oppo. of golddigger; primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics.

Question 20

lackey

Answer 20

sycophant

a servant, especially a liveried footman or manservant..verb -behave in a servile way towards (someone).

Question 21

improvident

Answer 21

not having or showing foresight; spendthrift or thoughtless

Question 22

dissolute

Answer 22

(of a person or a way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures.

Question 23

listlessly

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anemic

characterized by a lack of energy or interest; feckless; languid, lazy

Question 24

catharsis

Answer 24

music is a means of catharsis for me;

MN - detox in extreme cases; the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.

Question 25

purgation

Answer 25

purification or cleansing

Question 26

coda

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a concluding event, remark, or section.(like dance, music, theatre, or anything)
“his new novel is a kind of coda to his previous books”

eg twinkle twinkle little star mein last para ka twinkle twinkle little star CODA hai

Question 27

homily

Answer 27

MN - gyaan about how someone should behave

a piece of spoken or written advice about how someone should behave:; basically a priest delivers his homily

Question 28

emblematic of

Answer 28

representative types; symbolic

Question 29

maudlin

Answer 29

overly sentimental

Question 30

coltish

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energetic but awkward in one’s movement or behavior
captain HOLT
horse ka bachcha

Question 31

tremulous

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shaking or quivering slightly; trembling ; unsteady;

“Barbara’s voice was tremulous” ; timid; nervous.

Question 32

beguiled

Answer 32

charm or enchant (someone) often in a deceptive way;
MN - deceive someone by alluring them

ginny and georgia mei georgia was a beguiling person

Question 33

chary of

Answer 33

wary; cautious of

eg “she had been chary of telling the whole truth”; heedful

Question 34

heedful

Answer 34

aware of and attentive to

Question 35

harbinger

Answer 35

1. LH44
2. PRESAGES

one that initiates a major change; 2. something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come.; something like ‘presages’

Question 36

sentries

Answer 36

soldier watchman

Question 37

recanted

Answer 37

recant the offer;
disavow, renounce, abjure

; openly confess error.
Mnemonics: : RE (again) + CANT (cannot) = “I have told you this AGAIN and AGAIN, it CANNOT be done, it has been REJECTED.”

Question 38

heralded

Answer 38

PRESAGES

eg “the band have been heralded as the great hope for the nineties”; basically same as presages

Question 39

ostracize

Answer 39

: (verb) avoid speaking to or dealing with
Mnemonic (Tag: splitting this gives something like Aus + tere . Its like in australia are strict with Racial abuse.
Harbahjan said tere ***ki, thats a racial abuse a) Austere

MN - EXCLUDE

Question 40

omnipotent

Answer 40

having great power and influence

Question 41

incendiaries

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(of a device or attack) designed to cause fires

Question 42

consanguines

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of the same blood or origin specifically

Question 43

sanguine

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blood red color; optimistic

Question 44

deification

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is when a person is treated like a god

Question 45

excoriation

Answer 45

criticize (someone ) severely;

2. damage or remove part of the surface of (the skin).

Question 46

apotheosis

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the highest point in the development of something; a culmination or climax.;2 the elevation of someone to divine status.

MN - highest point; god

Question 47

obloquies

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calumny

Question 48

pedantry

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excessive concern with minor details or rules

dogmatism; overscrupulousness

Question 49

parsimony

Answer 49

miserliness

Question 50

niggardly

Answer 50

miser

Question 51

pulchritude

Answer 51

physical beauty or attractiveness