FLASH CARDS
Oaf Stupid
Obdurate Stubborn
Ordial Severe practice
Ordinal Official , madatory
Orthodox: Traditional
Occlude close,
Occult Secrete
Olfactory Sensible sence
Occidental Artificial language
Oblviate get rid off
Offhand no practice
Ostinate stubborn
Ostretatious Boistrerous
Overbearing Managerial
Omnicient All knowing
Omnipotent All powerful
Omivorous Eating meet and veg
Omnipresent Present everywhere
Outwit Smart
Overwhelming Presumptuious
Outskirts Borders
Outlandish Peculiar
Omenous Furious, threating
Ongry Wicked, angry
Ossyous Related to bone
ossify Lank, bony
Ordious Having some oder
Odyssy Tediuos journey
Ornate Decorate
Ovulate Wavering , clapping
Opus: work
Onus Responsible
Ostentatious showy, flaunt
Orient Adjust
Oriental Arrangements
Opulence wealthy
Opaque Not transperent
Opalscence Layer of colors
Obssession Preoccupied
Obesse Fat
Obstrtician One who is expert in delivey
Oculist One who is expert in eye medicines
Oliarchy Rule by few
Optitrician One who repairs opticles
Ogle Look indirectly
Obfuscate stingy
Outmodish out dated style
Opertunist One who waits for an opertunity
Opertunity chance
Obitual Death notice
Obloguy redicule,
Oploquy Realted to death
Obeince Owing
Obelisk Like a pyramid
Obesity Excessive fat
Objective Goal , secondary meaning is not emotional
Obligatory binding
Oblique slant
Obliterate lit, cause destract
Oblivion forgotten
Oblivious weak minded
Obnoxious furios, wretched
Obscure not clear
Obsequiom Servile
Obsidian Rock from lava
Obselete out dated style
Obtuse futile, useless
Odium oodihogodu, to hate
Odiuous Disgrace, hate
Onerous Burdensome, Onus = responsible
onomatopoeia Using words that imitates the sound that they denote
Onslaught assault
Opiate drug addict, narcoutic
Opprobrium defame
Optimist
Optimum
Orator
optometrits oculist
Orifice small opening
Orthography corerct spelling
Ornithologist study of birds
Oust Expel
Friday, August 28, 2009
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Wordlist 32 !!
1) Natty : Well Dressed
2) Nebulous : Cloudy, not clear
3) Nexus : Joining Point
4) Nib : Pointed, Pen point
5) Natation : Swimming
6) Navigable : Able to pass by a ship
7) Navigate: To sail
8) Negligence ;
9) Negligible:
10) Negate : Deny, nullify
11)Nepotism: Favouritism
12) Neophyte: Beginner
13) Neologism : coining of a new word
14) Nihilist : Nothing = Nihil. Having no trust in GOD
15) Niggard ; Stingy
16) Necro : black magic
17) Nefarious : Naughty
18) Nautical: working at night
19) Nemesis : Revenge
20) Noisome : foul smelling
21) Nauseate : Foul smelling, Noisome
22) Nirvana : heavenly state, enlightenment
23) Nominal : Economical
24) Nomenclature : terminology
25) Nomadic: Wondering
26) Nicety : Precision
27) Nip: Bite
28 )Nettle : ennui, annoy
29) Neder : Down
30) Niggle : Spend time on trivial things
2) Nebulous : Cloudy, not clear
3) Nexus : Joining Point
4) Nib : Pointed, Pen point
5) Natation : Swimming
6) Navigable : Able to pass by a ship
7) Navigate: To sail
8) Negligence ;
9) Negligible:
10) Negate : Deny, nullify
11)Nepotism: Favouritism
12) Neophyte: Beginner
13) Neologism : coining of a new word
14) Nihilist : Nothing = Nihil. Having no trust in GOD
15) Niggard ; Stingy
16) Necro : black magic
17) Nefarious : Naughty
18) Nautical: working at night
19) Nemesis : Revenge
20) Noisome : foul smelling
21) Nauseate : Foul smelling, Noisome
22) Nirvana : heavenly state, enlightenment
23) Nominal : Economical
24) Nomenclature : terminology
25) Nomadic: Wondering
26) Nicety : Precision
27) Nip: Bite
28 )Nettle : ennui, annoy
29) Neder : Down
30) Niggle : Spend time on trivial things
Monday, August 24, 2009
Word list 32
1)Moratorium: TO keep on hold, legal delay in payment
2)Morbid: Unhealthiness
3)Mores: Moral standards
4)Moribund: Dying
5)Mortify: Humiliate
6)Mortician : Undertaker
7)Mote: fleck of dust
8) Muggy : Later drizzle, humid
9)Myriad : Numerous
10)Myopic: Short-sighted
11)Mutability: Ability to move, mobility
12)Muted: maim, silent
13)Munificent : Gracious, generous
14)Nadir: Down to earth
15)Naivety : Innocents
16)Narcissist : Conceited person
17)Narrate: Read out a story, orator
18)Mottled: splash the colour, patched colours
19)Motley: Mixed colours
20)Musky : Aged, Unhealthyness
21)Murky: Dark, gloomy
22)Mountebank: Quack, charlatan
23)muster : confuse, clumsy
24)Multiplicity : Numerous
25)Multilingual : Knowing / Having many languages
26)Mosaic: Tiled designs
27)Motif: Theme
28) Mulct : Fraud
29)Mutinous : Rebellious
30) Multiform : many types
31) Multifarious : working in various ways
32) Mordant : Stinging,
33) Moral : wall painting
34) Muse : Amuse, Ponder
2)Morbid: Unhealthiness
3)Mores: Moral standards
4)Moribund: Dying
5)Mortify: Humiliate
6)Mortician : Undertaker
7)Mote: fleck of dust
8) Muggy : Later drizzle, humid
9)Myriad : Numerous
10)Myopic: Short-sighted
11)Mutability: Ability to move, mobility
12)Muted: maim, silent
13)Munificent : Gracious, generous
14)Nadir: Down to earth
15)Naivety : Innocents
16)Narcissist : Conceited person
17)Narrate: Read out a story, orator
18)Mottled: splash the colour, patched colours
19)Motley: Mixed colours
20)Musky : Aged, Unhealthyness
21)Murky: Dark, gloomy
22)Mountebank: Quack, charlatan
23)muster : confuse, clumsy
24)Multiplicity : Numerous
25)Multilingual : Knowing / Having many languages
26)Mosaic: Tiled designs
27)Motif: Theme
28) Mulct : Fraud
29)Mutinous : Rebellious
30) Multiform : many types
31) Multifarious : working in various ways
32) Mordant : Stinging,
33) Moral : wall painting
34) Muse : Amuse, Ponder
Reading comprehension tips continued !!
Tips 8) When you are asked to apply the sentence from paragraph to other situation or meaning of a sentence then see the context next to it for a clue. Search for the sentence which relates to the context. ]
Tips 9) When asked for continuation or next paragraph after passage, put yourself in place of Author.
Yest I scored 3/3 rt ans in RC
Tips 9) When asked for continuation or next paragraph after passage, put yourself in place of Author.
Yest I scored 3/3 rt ans in RC
Friday, August 21, 2009
RC Tips continued !!
Here we go...
Next tips to solve RC is
2) When you are asked meaning of particular word or phrase, Search for the same or its synonym from Passage. Scan the passage for the word or synonym.
3) When you asked inferences. Don't write a sentence directly from Paragraph. Just go through passage and conclude in your own words. Say if passage conclusion is in which tone possitive , neutral or negative? . Accordingly you eliminate choices and finally make a best of remaining choices.
Next tips to solve RC is
2) When you are asked meaning of particular word or phrase, Search for the same or its synonym from Passage. Scan the passage for the word or synonym.
3) When you asked inferences. Don't write a sentence directly from Paragraph. Just go through passage and conclude in your own words. Say if passage conclusion is in which tone possitive , neutral or negative? . Accordingly you eliminate choices and finally make a best of remaining choices.
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Reading Comprehension tips
Reading Comprehension is a section in GRE exam. We are tested our reading ability using few paragraphs followed by questions. Reading comprehension bestows 20 to 30 % of total GRE score.
RC is usually a nightmare for students. Here are few tips which surely helps to get easy with RC.
1)Author's tone / attitude towards passage
2)Which of the following sentence best summarizes the passage
3)Summary or conclusion that can be drawn from passage
4)From the passage "word" means
5) How author related paragraphs one with two?
6) What are the applications arrived from paragraph
7)
Finally if you are expecting questions before and try to observe possible answers interims you are reading passage.
RC is usually a nightmare for students. Here are few tips which surely helps to get easy with RC.
1)Author's tone / attitude towards passage
2)Which of the following sentence best summarizes the passage
3)Summary or conclusion that can be drawn from passage
4)From the passage "word" means
5) How author related paragraphs one with two?
6) What are the applications arrived from paragraph
7)
Finally if you are expecting questions before and try to observe possible answers interims you are reading passage.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
The waiting game
People who procrastinate usually less happier, wealthier and healthier. Ninety five percent of the people usually procrastinate and remaining make it a habit. People who procrastinate are dormant in nature. We usually postpone important things and suffer long term. If you dwindle on savings then you can't enjoy your old golden age. If you bypass difficulties you delay in reaching goals.
So researches proved that there are several methods to reduce procrastination.We will discuss few important parameters to avoid postponing things and make our life happier, wealthier and healthier long term.
1) Avoid revisiting E mail.
People tend to check their mail very often for twenty minute once. They make that a habit and give preference to it. So keep first things first and do the important things before checking mails repeatedly.
2) Observe and improve yourself
Constant evaluation of your progress and implementing new ideas may work out in a better way. Ultimately you can end up with expected results
3) Reward yourselves.
Every kind of work exact its own inputs may be in the form of rewards, laudatory remarks. So it is vwry important to reward yourselves after constant growth.
4) Enjoy your success.
Most people forget to practice last point. Effective tool which drags us towards success is end result. so if you enjoy, celebrate your success it will be a motive for next dream.
Finally procrastinating things neither fruitful to us nor to others. So practice habit of doing it right now.
So researches proved that there are several methods to reduce procrastination.We will discuss few important parameters to avoid postponing things and make our life happier, wealthier and healthier long term.
1) Avoid revisiting E mail.
People tend to check their mail very often for twenty minute once. They make that a habit and give preference to it. So keep first things first and do the important things before checking mails repeatedly.
2) Observe and improve yourself
Constant evaluation of your progress and implementing new ideas may work out in a better way. Ultimately you can end up with expected results
3) Reward yourselves.
Every kind of work exact its own inputs may be in the form of rewards, laudatory remarks. So it is vwry important to reward yourselves after constant growth.
4) Enjoy your success.
Most people forget to practice last point. Effective tool which drags us towards success is end result. so if you enjoy, celebrate your success it will be a motive for next dream.
Finally procrastinating things neither fruitful to us nor to others. So practice habit of doing it right now.
Words from L
Lineaments = Features of face , lineaments of sincere repentant.
Linger = spread, persists. Mom made stuffed cabbage yesterday but smell lingered till today.
Linguistic = pertaining to language, Tourists have to suffer fewer linguistic problems since English has become universal language
Lionize = treat as a celebrity, She enjoyed being lionized publicly.
Liquidate = Settle debts Company was forced to liquidate before filing bankruptcy.
List = Tilt, Lean Pole listed a little in spite it should be vertical.
Listless = Weak, lacking Zeal . a listless mood
Litany = subsidiary prayer. Tedious complaints. We heard complete litany of her.
Lithe = Flexible
Litigate = Lawsuit
Litotes = Under estimate, Ridicule " Not bad at all"
Livid = Lead like, Burning anger
Loath = Persist, hang back
Loathe = Disgust, a loathsome
Lode = long prevailing ore
Loft = place or room below roof
Log = scheduled tasks
Loiter = Hang over
Loll = Relax
Longevity = Long living
Loom = Grow immense
Lope = gallop slowly slow lope of our horse made us to enjoy superb scenery
Lopsided = unbalanced Heavy rush created lopsided bus
Lounge = Laudatory, loiter
Lout = Lout person, fussy, replant, awkward stupid person, Delivery boy was so lout that we sent back the material
Lucid = Limpid, crystal clear
Lucrative = Profitable
Lucre = Money
Ludicrous = Laughable
Lugubrious = Mournful
Linger = spread, persists. Mom made stuffed cabbage yesterday but smell lingered till today.
Linguistic = pertaining to language, Tourists have to suffer fewer linguistic problems since English has become universal language
Lionize = treat as a celebrity, She enjoyed being lionized publicly.
Liquidate = Settle debts Company was forced to liquidate before filing bankruptcy.
List = Tilt, Lean Pole listed a little in spite it should be vertical.
Listless = Weak, lacking Zeal . a listless mood
Litany = subsidiary prayer. Tedious complaints. We heard complete litany of her.
Lithe = Flexible
Litigate = Lawsuit
Litotes = Under estimate, Ridicule " Not bad at all"
Livid = Lead like, Burning anger
Loath = Persist, hang back
Loathe = Disgust, a loathsome
Lode = long prevailing ore
Loft = place or room below roof
Log = scheduled tasks
Loiter = Hang over
Loll = Relax
Longevity = Long living
Loom = Grow immense
Lope = gallop slowly slow lope of our horse made us to enjoy superb scenery
Lopsided = unbalanced Heavy rush created lopsided bus
Lounge = Laudatory, loiter
Lout = Lout person, fussy, replant, awkward stupid person, Delivery boy was so lout that we sent back the material
Lucid = Limpid, crystal clear
Lucrative = Profitable
Lucre = Money
Ludicrous = Laughable
Lugubrious = Mournful
Thursday, August 6, 2009
words starting from K and L
Kaleidoscope Tube made of color glasses
Ken Knowledge
Kernel Centrel or vital part
Killjoy Person who enjoy other sufferings, or destroys other's joy
Kindly Ignite, start a fire
Kindred related, group
Kinetic Moving element
Kismet Fate
Kleptomaniac Person who has a compulsive desire to steal
Knack trick
Knave Scoundrel
Knead Mix
Kneel go down on own's knee
Knell funeral bell
Knit join together
Knoll Hillock
Knotty Intricate, difficult
Kudos Appreciate
Labile Unstable
Laborious Tedious
Labyrinth Maze
Laceration tear with glasses
Lachrymose tear, cry
Lackadaisical Lazy, lethargic
Lackluster Loosing shine, gleeamyless
Laconic few words
Lag slowly
laggard slowly
lagoon lake seperated from a sea by corals
laity Laymen
Lament Lamentation, express sarrow
Lampoon Ridicule
Ken Knowledge
Kernel Centrel or vital part
Killjoy Person who enjoy other sufferings, or destroys other's joy
Kindly Ignite, start a fire
Kindred related, group
Kinetic Moving element
Kismet Fate
Kleptomaniac Person who has a compulsive desire to steal
Knack trick
Knave Scoundrel
Knead Mix
Kneel go down on own's knee
Knell funeral bell
Knit join together
Knoll Hillock
Knotty Intricate, difficult
Kudos Appreciate
Labile Unstable
Laborious Tedious
Labyrinth Maze
Laceration tear with glasses
Lachrymose tear, cry
Lackadaisical Lazy, lethargic
Lackluster Loosing shine, gleeamyless
Laconic few words
Lag slowly
laggard slowly
lagoon lake seperated from a sea by corals
laity Laymen
Lament Lamentation, express sarrow
Lampoon Ridicule
Words from J
Jab Impunge, Punch with short blows
Jabber Very talktive, garulous, loquacious
Jaded Jaded apetite gives almost sililar to lazy,bore in usage
Jargon Technical terminology, gibberish
Jaundice Go yellow
Jaunt Itenirary, small trip
Jaunty animated, happy person
Jeopardize Danger
Jest Act playfully
Jetsam Things thrown from a ship
Jettison
Jibe agree, gibe,
Jingoist extreamely aggressive
Jocose Joking
Jocular Jest, act playfully
Jocund merry
Jollity Merry
Jostle in a group to push against
Jovial Jolly type
Jubilation Celebration, great joy
Judicious Wise,
Jug
Juggermaut Irresistable crushing force
Jumble Mix up
Juncture Point , Joining point
Jabber Very talktive, garulous, loquacious
Jaded Jaded apetite gives almost sililar to lazy,bore in usage
Jargon Technical terminology, gibberish
Jaundice Go yellow
Jaunt Itenirary, small trip
Jaunty animated, happy person
Jeopardize Danger
Jest Act playfully
Jetsam Things thrown from a ship
Jettison
Jibe agree, gibe,
Jingoist extreamely aggressive
Jocose Joking
Jocular Jest, act playfully
Jocund merry
Jollity Merry
Jostle in a group to push against
Jovial Jolly type
Jubilation Celebration, great joy
Judicious Wise,
Jug
Juggermaut Irresistable crushing force
Jumble Mix up
Juncture Point , Joining point
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