GRE WORDS WITH PICTURES
1. Foible [foi-buh
l] (noun)
l] (noun)Meaning: A small weakness; slight frailty in character
Synonyms: frailty, quirk, crotchet, eccentricity, peculiarity
Antonyms: strength.
Usage:
1. Although, he was a good man but he has a foible due to addiction of liquor.
2. Even the most perfect man will have some foible, otherwise he will become equivalent to god.
3. She was a wit, she was a moralist, she had a profound understanding of the foibles of human nature.
4. Altman is at heart a satirist, and his unrelenting dissection of the foibles of mankind is what gives his movies their punch.
5.She's a vibrant character with so many foibles one can't help but " go along for the ride.
2. Loath [lohth] (adj)
2. Loath [lohth] (adj)
Meaning: Unwilling; reluctant
Synonyms: reluctant, regretful, unwilling,reluctant, disinclined, uneager
Antonyms: approving, for unopposed, willing
Usage:
1. Once people get settled in one particular city, they are expected to be loath to get transferred.
2. Corrupt officials are too loath to do work in stipulated time without any bribe.
3. Talking of lighting, I'm loath to admit that we nearly fused all the lights with a faulty kettle!
4. My brothers left the farm when they came of age, but I stayed a year longer, loath to leave home.
5. Clearly members wanted management but were still loath to give ' management ' any power. 3. Kanban [kahn-bahn] (noun)
Meaning: A method or system of arranging to have parts, raw materials etc. delivered just as they are needed in the manufacturing process
Usage:
1. It can often be cost effective to go to a higher cost supplier who offers kanban deliveries.
2. Most of the companies today are working on kanban model so as to reduce their inventory levels.
3. Kanban is implemented on the production line in order to provide material just in time when it is required.
4. All work should be carried out to a schedule or in response to a kanban signal.
5. All work in kanban areas must be under kanban control, no " squirrel " stores.
4. Magniloquence [mag-nil-uh-kwuhnce] (noun)
nce] (noun)Meaning: the ability to speak in a grand or bombastic style
Synonyms: boastful, bombast, eloquence, grandiloquence,grandiosity,flowery language, fustian, grandiloquence, loftiness, pompousness, pomposity, pretentiousness, rhetoric
Antonyms: conciseness
Usage:
1.The sublime theme and the magniloquence of phraseology has made Milton’s Paradise Lost a master piece.
2.You speak of her with the magniloquence of a poet and the feeling of a troubadour
3. Without his vanity and his magniloquence it is possible that he might never have acquired the sonorous elocution which is so useful and even necessary an instrument in political life.
4. It might have indicated dismissal, magniloquence or implacable fury.
5. However, Johnson's attempt to appease him was a curious specimen of his magniloquence.
5. Turpitude [tur-pi-tood, -tyood] (noun)
Meaning: baseness, depravity
Synonyms: wickedness, immortality, corruption, corruptness, vice, degeneracy, evil, baseness
Antonyms: virtue, honour
Usage:
1. He was sentenced to imprisonment for his act of turpitude.
2. I'm also very worried I may have to tick the ' have you ever engaged in moral turpitude?
3. Have you ever been arrested or convicted for an offense involving moral turpitude?
4. In a kind of torpitude, or sleeping state You might want to check some more here
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