Thursday, September 6, 2012

Gre words and their usages from 1014 practice questions

1- Eviscerate : to take out or remove an organ
 The anicient Egyptians would eviscerate the bodies of the dead as part of the process of mummifying them.

2- entice : attract, lure
Every commercial seemed to be for some tempting snack specially designed to entice me from my diet

3- innocuous : harmless,
Let him drink; it is innocuous

4- barren : unable to have young ones, without value
We won't have any calf from this barren cow

5- verdant : green
the fields are covered with verdant grass

6- desolate : forsake, abandon
The mother desolated her children

7- bountiful : generous
She distributed gifts in a bountiful and gracious manner

8- limpid: clear
There was only one cloud in an otherwise limpid sky

9- misanthrope: one who hates the mankind
We thought the hermit was a misanthrope because he shunned our society

10- Curmudgeonly : ill-humoured

.....................to be continued.........