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78 Cards in this Set
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Anticipate |
Realize beforehand |
Aticipate in events |
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Polarize |
Cause to vibrate in definite pattern |
Energies |
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Facetious |
Clearly amusing tones |
Face squeeze, amuse someone |
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Overlooked |
Adjective ...not taken into account verb ..watch over |
Look over, look somebodies work over, not considering anything |
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Comprehensive |
Including all or everything |
Broad in scope |
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Improbable |
Not likely to be true |
Doubtful |
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Pervasive |
Spreading / spread throughout |
Spread per person |
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Opaque |
Not clearly understood or expressed |
Glass, doesn't allow transmitting light, radiation, sight |
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Primed |
On the point of / strongly disposed |
Prime factor, one and only factor, on the point |
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Arcane |
Requiring secret/ mysterious knowledge |
To solve arc length needs mysterious knowledge |
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Loudable |
Worthy of high praise |
If u talk loud u praising someone |
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Painstaking |
Adjective : characterized by extreme care n great effort |
Take pain to clear GRE, needs great effort n care |
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Construe |
Make sense/ assign meaning to |
Construct true sense |
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Anoint |
Choose by / as if by intervention |
Annoy someone by being chosen as a leader |
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Disregard |
Give little / no attention |
Regards- interest, opposite to it not paying attention |
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Collude |
An agreement towards Illegal purpose |
Collide with eachother for deceiting |
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Vanquish |
Come out better in competition, race,conflict |
Vanish some one in competition, race,conflict |
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Credence |
Mental attitude that something is believable n should be accepted as true |
Credit goes to him, coz I believe him...my mental attitude |
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Ballooned |
Ride in a hot air balloon |
Balloon rides freely |
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Discrepancy |
Different opinion |
Difference |
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Ambiguity |
More than one interpretation |
Ambiguous nature |
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Vintage |
The time when something was produced |
Winter age he produced |
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Astonishing |
Surprising greatly |
Astrology surprises us greatly |
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Naivete |
Lack of sophistication or worldiness |
Naive - innocent, new to field |
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Vexation |
Anger produced by some annoying irritation |
Vaxination produces anger by annoying irritation |
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Simplemindedness |
Lacking mental capacity n subtlety |
Simple mind....can't handle difficult things |
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Ubiquitous |
Being present everywhere at once |
Universally present everywhere at once |
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Taciturn |
Habitually reserved n uncommunicative |
Taxi turn n come....speaks only few words |
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Solicitous |
Full of anxiety n concern |
Solid nature...full of concern hence nervous n worry..I.e.anxiety |
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Irresolute |
Uncertain how to act or proceed |
Resolute ...get mixed with others....opposite to it....u dunno how to act or proceed with others |
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Fastidious |
Given careful attention to detail, hard to please, excessively concerned with cleanlinesss |
Shankar sir very fast, hard to please him....he expects careful attention to details |
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Aspiration |
A will to succeed |
Positive word....inspire to succeed ...will to succeed |
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Mendacity |
Noun...Tendency to be untruthful |
City full of mentals.....therefore untruthful |
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Prevarication |
Noun...a statement debating from/ preventing from truth |
Verify in advance...hence could not be true at this time....untruthful |
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Baseness |
Lacking higher values |
There s no base..therefore lacking higher values |
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Avarice |
Extremely greed for material wealth |
Avar (our) rice...very greedy |
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Chronological |
Relating or arranged in temporal order |
Logical gates ....temporal....limited by time |
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Secular |
Not concerned with or devoted to religion |
Secure all....therefore not concerned with religion...security is imp |
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Partisan |
Devoted to cause or party |
Party oriented |
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Erudite |
Having or showing profound knowledge |
Elrekated to education ...profound knowledge |
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Insular |
Suggetsing of the isolated life of an island ...private |
Sullu heluvavanu.......isolated from everyone since he s a lier |
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Cosmopolitan |
Growing or occurring in many parts of the world |
Bangalore is a cosmopolitan city since it is growing |
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Imperturbable |
Not easily perturbed...excited or upset ....extreme calm n composure |
Perturb...disturd..opposite to it...very calm |
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Imorudent |
Not wise |
Improper student ...not wise |
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Fortuitous |
Happening by happy chance |
Fortune.....by chance getting happiness |
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Imminent |
Close in time...about to occur |
Immli season about to occur close in time |
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Adorned |
Provided with something intended to increase its beauty or dinstinction |
Odor....perfume odor increases beauty |
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Harmonious |
Musically pleasing |
Good to Harmons |
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Multifaceted |
Many aspects |
Multi face....many aspects |
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Inalienable |
Incapable of being repudiated or transferred to another |
When u align lines, nobody can repudiate lines on court or transfer lines |
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Exigent |
Demanding attention |
Gentleman demands attention |
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Extraneous |
Coming from the outside |
Not considered easily coz its coming from outside |
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erode |
Become ground down or deteriorate |
E..error on ground...therefore ground down |
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Austere |
Practicing great self denial |
Australian people practice great self denial to maintain figure |
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Indefatigable |
Showing sustainable enthusiastic action with unflagging vitality |
Can't defeat him coz he has sustainable enthusiastic nature |
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Defiant |
Boldly resisting authority or an opposing force |
Can't defeat coz he has opposing force....very bold |
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pretentious |
Intended yo attract notice and impress others...tawdry n vulgar |
Pretend....to impress others ...vulgar attitude |
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Penetrate |
Pass into or through...come to understand |
Easy to penetrate..break..understand |
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Cultivated |
Prepared for raising crops by plowing or fertilizing .....not of natural state....for human use |
Can't grow crops naturally |
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Makeshift |
Done or made use of whatever is available |
Shift for whatever is available |
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Propitious |
Favorable circumstances, show sign of success |
Proper proportion of something .....therefore good sign of success |
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Impediment |
Delays action, interferes progress, difficult to progress |
Improper peddling...difficult to move further.....difficult to progress |
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Accomplishment |
Cause to happen |
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Erstwhile |
Belonging to olden time, archaic |
Erst. Old time ...while..time |
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Self-style |
As claimed by and for yourself often without justification |
Your own style....even if not justified |
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Surrogate |
Providing or reciving nurture or parental care though not related by blood or legal ties |
Surround gate...take place of another person |
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Scrutable |
Crital examination |
Screw someone ...examine |
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Unnformative |
Lackadaisical mg information |
Less info |
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Slighted |
Pay no attention |
Pay slight or no attention |
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Overrated |
Make too high an estimate of |
To Rate someone high .....estimate them high |
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Affectation |
A deliberate pretense or exaggerated display |
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Narcissim |
An exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself |
Nancy admire herself |
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Indolence |
Inactivity resulting from a dislike of work |
Indo Asian ppl dislike work hence inactive |
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Outstrip |
Go far ahead of...greater in degree |
Exceed.....strips are out of stock...exceeded the stocks |
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Magnify |
Increase in size or volume or significance ...enlarge beyond biunds |
Increase |
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Delimit |
Mark, draw, set boundaries of something |
Limit |
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Offset |
Beginning |
Make up for |
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Supplant |
Take place or move into the position of |
Suppliment....replace ....take position of another |