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GRE words with pictures

What if you discover something by accident?

And if it is beneficial to you - what would your response be?

ser·en·dip·i·tous

adjective

1) come upon or found by accident
2) of, pertaining to, or suggesting serendipity
3)good; beneficial; favorable: serendipitous weather for ourvacation.

When things don't work out as you want it to, you'll feel frustrated or irritated - isn't it?

Suppose, when you wait in a queue for long hours - you'll feel frustrated or exasperated looking at the length of the line.

ex·as·per·ate
verb (used with object)

to irritate or provoke to a high degree; annoy extremely1)
2) Archaic.to increase the intensity or violence of (disease,pain, feelings, etc.).

Your Words for Today

1. Embark [em-bahrk] (verb)

Meaning: get on transportation object or to begin something

Synonyms:entrain, go aboard ship, launch, leave port,board, commence,

emplane, enter, plunge into, put on board, set about, set out, set sail,

take on board, take ship, start, undertake
Antonyms:disembark, stay

Usage:

1.In November 1915 the regiment embarked for France, real war.

2.On 23rd April, I shall be embarking upon a journey of some 26.2 miles around London.

3.Read this before embarking on a major change that involves a group, business or otherwise.

4.The vast majority of our students go on to university; a few embark directly on a career.

5.Sensing a Government cover-up, he embarks on a quest to uncover the secret of the massacre.

2. Rant [rant] (noun)

Meaning: speak in a loud, angry and forceful way.

Synonyms: tirade, harangue, diatribe, broadside, verbal onslaught, oration, philippic, rhapsody, rhetoric,rodomontade, tirade, vociferation

Antonyms: calm, quiet

Usage:

1. He launched into a rant against the swindler who had duped him.

2. Thought provoking and well argued rant about the lack of attention to basic interoperability in elearning standard implementation.

3. A cool calculated letter is likely to have more impact than a hysterical rant.

4. I just want to rant about how unfair I think the whole situation is.

5. Well it don't actually look like hes playing anything, just ranting on.

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1. Daft [daft, dahft] (adj)

Meaning: Silly; foolish; insane; crazy, scot. merry; playful; frolicsome
Synonyms: absurd, asinine, bedlamite, bonkers, cracked, crackers, daffy, demented, deranged, dopey, flaky*, foolish, fried, giddy, half-baked, idiotic, in the ozone, inane, insane, lunatic, mad, mental*, nuts, nutty, off the wall, out of one's gourd, ridiculous, screwy, silly, simple, touched, unbalanced, unhinged, unsound, wacky, whacko, witless
Antonyms: brainy, bright, intelligent, smart, understanding

Usage:

1. Even though he is quite handsome, he is daft when it comes to talking to girls.

2. In Europe, people behave daftly(adv) when it comes to Soccer.

3. These days, daft ideas can go from the back of the envelope straight into white papers.

4. Either way, it sounds plain daft to me.

5. I remember asking a mate what the song was, and felt pretty daft not knowing!

2. Recalcitrant [ri-kal-si-truhnt] (adj)

Meaning: Refusing to obey authority, custom or regulation; stubbornly defiant; hard to handle or deal wit.

Synonyms: resistant, rebellious, opposed, willful, withstanding, undisciplinable, undisciplined, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, untoward

Antonyms: amenable, obedient, passive, accommodating, agreeing, alike, concordant, correspondent, harmonious, homogeneous, like, obliging, similar

Usage:

1. Officers of East India Company were afraid of facing a recalcitrant person like Bhagat Singh or Chandrashekhar Azad.

2. When the company appointed a young post graduate as the head of marketing, most of the older staff started behaving recalcitrantly(adv) with him.

3. If we do not fulfill a child's demands, he may start showing recalcitrancy(noun) towards us.

4. His struggle to accommodate recalcitrant team members resonated with my experiences coaching 25 years of Oxford Boat Race crews.

5. Some recalcitrant states can claim the dubious honor of having failed to ratify either convention.

3. Beatific [bee-uh-tif-ik] (adj)

Meaning: feeling or expressing blissful happiness or joy.

Synonyms: rapturous, joyful, ecstatic, seraphic, blissful, serene, happy, glad, exalted, angelic

Antonyms: miserable, sorrowful, unhappy

Usage:

1. He is a man of great mettle and does not rest until he meets the goal

2. I don't mean apathy really, they just haven't grasped the mettle yet, never mind.

3. The first two days of the strike tested the mettle of both sides.

4. Among the earliest and most curious forms of amusements in Wales, was that of " trying the mettle " of the young men.

5. Some show more mettle in the face of death, while others become paralyzed from fear.

5. Sumptuous [suhmp-choo-uhs] (adj)

Meaning: splendid and expensive looking

Synonyms: lavish, opulent, luxurious, magnificent, resplendent, gorgeous, splendid, rich, expensive, munificent.

Antonyms: humble, plain, cheap, mean, poor, wanting

Usage:

1. More than the sumptuous spread on the table it was the hostess' geniality which was heart-warming.

2. Although the illustrations are very sumptuous, many of them do not add much to the exposition.

3. Return to the boat for a truly sumptuous local lunch.

4. Enjoy your first week of wedded bliss in the sumptuous surroundings of elegant Scottish country house hotels.

5. The presence of two women, with one man, and a rather sumptuous picnic was regarded as scandalous.

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Your words for today

1. Zealous (zel-uhs) (adj)

Meaning: Full of enthusiasm, passion, eagerness; ardently devoted to a purpose; fervent
Synonyms: enthusiastic, eager, fervid, fervent, intense, passionate, warm.
Antonyms: apathetic, indifferent, lethargic, unenthusiastic, disinterested, idle, indifferent, lazy, quiescent,quiet

Usage:
1. While selecting the marketing head, company looked for the most zealous candidate.
2. If you try zealously (adv) to clear CAT, it is unlikely that you will fail to succeed.
3. Zealousness(noun) is the key to success in today's competitive world.
4. Henry was a forceful and energetic character, a fervent and zealous reformer in the mold of Bernard.
5. The Lord is so zealous for his law, that he will part with it for no man's sake.

2. Innocuous (ih-nok-yoo-uhs) (adj)

Meaning: not harmful or offensive
Synonyms: inoffensive, unobjectionable, unexceptionable, unoffending, harmless, mild, peaceful, gentle, tame
Antonym: obnoxious

Usage:

1. Although it was a seemingly innocuous remark I could discern the insinuation implied in it.
2. These visits may seem quite innocuous, or may involve a sense of adventure or excitement.
3. Offensive material may get through and some perfectly innocuous sites may be blocked.
4. A simple, innocuous, little question: " You do have a working phone line, don't you?
5. One tiny percent sounds so innocuous, whereas £ 8 billion is a colossal sum.

3. Recant [ri-kant] (verb)

Meaning: withdraw a former opinion or belief.
Synonyms: renounce, forswear, disavow, deny, repudiate, abjure, relinquish, abandon
Antonym: reaffirm

Usage:
1. When his disparaging statements were met with loud protests from some sections of society, the leader was forced to recant.
2. He refused to recant what he had said during the disputations.

3. At worst, you may be put to death after much torture if you do not recant your belief in Jesus

4. I wonder if he will also recant his belief that the Nazis invented Unidentified Flying Objects, UFO's.

5. Hill never recanted his Marxism, but the writings of his later years widened considerably beyond their original focus on the English Revolution.

4. Salutary [sal-yuh-ter-ee] (adj)

Meaning: beneficial because of allowing one to learn from experience.
Synonyms: beneficial, advantageous, profitable, productive, helpful, useful, valuable, worthwhile, practical
Antonyms: unwelcome, irrelevant

Usage:

1. The incident was a salutary reminder of the danger involved in flouting the laws of safety.

2. The skin of birch, worn inside the shoes, promotes a perspiration that can prove salutary in various chronic conditions.

3. It is very salutary always to see the other side of the question!

4. The example of the West Coast Main Line upgrade is salutary in this respect, both in terms of cost and coordination.

5. It is salutary to think what £ 1 million would buy 100 years ago.

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