29
09
2009
Adjectives
1. (adj.) parsimonious, penurious;
- excessively unwilling to spend;
- “parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses”; “lived in a most penurious manner–denying himself every indulgence”;
Comments : No Comments »
Categories : GRE Words
29
09
2009
Adjectives
1. (adj.) ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid, white;
- anemic looking from illness or emotion;
- “a face turned ashen”; “the invalid’s blanched cheeks”; “tried to speak with bloodless lips”; “a face livid with shock”; “lips…livid with the hue of death”; “lips white with terror”; “a face white with rage”;
2. (adj.) ashen;
- made of wood of the ash tree;
tags: gre, sat, word list, word of the day, vocabulary, daily vocabulary, word a day, test preparation, grad school, graduate school, gmat, education, school, english, toefl, study abroad, wordnet
Comments : No Comments »
Categories : SAT Words
29
09
2009
Nouns
1. (n.) audible;
- a football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage;
Adjectives
1. (adj.) audible, hearable;
- heard or perceptible by the ear;
- “he spoke in an audible whisper”;
tags: gre, sat, word list, word of the day, vocabulary, daily vocabulary, word a day, test preparation, grad school, graduate school, gmat, education, school, english, toefl, study abroad, wordnet
Comments : No Comments »
Categories : SAT Words
28
09
2009
Nouns
1. (n.) childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, parturiency, travail;
- concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child;
- “she was in labor for six hours”;
2. (n.) confinement;
- the act of restraining of a person’s liberty by confining them;
3. (n.) confinement;
- the state of being confined;
- “he was held in confinement”;
4. (n.) confinement, restriction;
- the act of keeping something within specified bounds (by force if necessary);
- “the restriction of the infection to a focal area”;
tags: gre, sat, word list, word of the day, vocabulary, daily vocabulary, word a day, test preparation, grad school, graduate school, gmat, education, school, english, toefl, study abroad, wordnet
Comments : No Comments »
Categories : SAT Words
28
09
2009
Nouns
1. (n.) falter, faltering, hesitation, waver;
- the act of pausing uncertainly;
- “there was a hesitation in his speech”;
Verbs
1. (verb) falter, waver;
- be unsure or weak;
- “Their enthusiasm is faltering”;
2. (verb) falter, waver;
- move hesitatingly, as if about to give way;
3. (verb) bumble, falter, stumble;
- walk unsteadily;
- “The drunk man stumbled about”;
4. (verb) bumble, falter, stammer, stutter;
- speak haltingly;
- “The speaker faltered when he saw his opponent enter the room”;
Comments : No Comments »
Categories : GRE Words