GRE WORDS 557-558

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Click above to get PALPITATE: ■ verb Beat rapidly, pound (about the heart); tremble, quiver, shiver ,Shake with fast, tremulous movements. eg.Her violent feelings palpitated the young woman's heart. Also visit Killthegre.blogspot.com for latest verbal threads

PAN: ■ verb 1. Criticize harshly. 2.Move a video camera from one side to the other to capture a panoramic view. eg. 1.The critics panned the performance. 2.The camera panned across the room.

GRE WORDS 555-556

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Click above to get LUDICROUS: ■ adj. Ridiculous, comical, absurd, laughable .Broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce. eg.It is ludicrous to call a cottage a mansion. Also visit Killthegre.blogspot.com for latest verbal threads LUMINARY: ■ noun A celebrity who is an inspiration to others. eg.He was host to a large gathering of luminaries.

GRE WORDS 553-554

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Click above to get MACERATE: ■ verb 1.To make soft by soaking or steeping in a liquid. 2.To separate into constituents by soaking. 3.To cause to become lean, usually by starvation; emaciate. eg.His winemaker allowed the juice and skins of the white grapes to macerate together overnight before pressing. Also visit Killthegre.blogspot.com for latest verbal threads MESA: ■ noun Land formation with a flat top and steep rock walls (commonly found in the southwest USA and Mexico); flat-topped hill, small plateau (Spanish) eg.The tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water.

GRE WORDS 551-552

NUBILE:
  ■ adj. 
of age or adequate physical development for marriage (regarding girls or young women) eg.Newly separated Ginny Tait arrived in Honeycote at around the same time - with very nubile twin daughters and an awful lot of baggage. 















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NATTY: ■ adj. smart, neat, trim (in appearance or dress);Marked by up-to-date in dress and manners eg.Luckily, and importantly, she also looks natty.

GRE WORDS 549-550

 LUMEN: 

 ■ noun 

Unit for measuring the rate at which light is transmitted (Optics); unit of light energy; Cavity, hollow space (Anatomy, Botany) ; 

  eg.In buying the bulbs,she checked not only their power,but also their brightness ,which is measured in lumen.

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LUXURIANT:

■ adj. abundant; rich; fertile, growing; magnificent; richly ornamented eg. Within a few short years, brown eroded hills have replaced luxuriant forests in many parts of the country.

GRE WORDS 547-548

QUAFF: 
■ verb Drink with large gulps, drink quickly; drink an alcoholic beverage quickly and cheerfully. To drink largely or luxuriously.
■ noun Alcoholic drink that is consumed quickly; instance of drinking a beverage quickly eg.We spent the whole evening quaffing ale.







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LOW: 

■ verb Moo, make a mooing sound (like a cow) ■ noun

Level which is below what is normal; low degree or barometric pressure; something which is low; sound made by a cow, moo. eg.The low of a distant herd was clearly heard by the cowboy.

GRE WORDS 545-546

PANTOMIME: 

  ■ noun 

Mime show, theatrical performance in which one expresses ideas through movement and gestures without speaking ■ verb

Perform a mime show, make a performance in which one expresses ideas through movement and gestures without speaking.

eg.Charlie Chaplin turned pantomime into an art form.



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PALATIAL:
 ■ adj.

magnificent; palace-like. eg. He lives in a palatial home which no one can dream of.

ENGINEER JOKE

REFRESHMENT: Software engineer and his wife Husband - hey dear, I am logged in. Wife - would you like to have some snacks? Husband - hard disk full. Wife - have you brought the saree. Husband - Bad command or file name. Wife - but I told you about it in morning Husband - erroneous syntax, abort, retry, cancel. Wife - OH god! forget it where's your salary. Husband - file in use, read only, try after some time. Wife - at least give me your credit card, I can do some shopping. Husband - sharing violation, access denied. Wife - I made a mistake in marrying you. Husband - data type mismatch. Wife - you are useless. Husband - by default. Wife - who was there with you in the car this morning? Husband - system unstable press ctrl, alt, del to Reboot. Wife - what is the relation between you & your Receptionist? Husband - the only user with write permission. Wife - what is my value in your life? Husband - unknown virus detected. Wife - do you love me or your computer? Husband - Too many parameters. Wife - I will go to my dad's house. Husband - program performed illegal operation, it will Close. Wife - I will leave you forever. Husband - close all programs and log out for another User. Wife - it is worthless talking to you. Husband - shut down the computer. Wife - I am going Husband - Its now safe to turn off your computer

CONTINUING JOKES....

REFRESHMENT: A new boss was hired for a bigshot company. Since the workers there had a slight reputation for being ruthless and wandery, he decided that it was his job to show them all that he wasn't Mr. Fun Guy. So the first day of work, he goes down to the worker offices. He decides to fire the worker who seems the most lackadaisical. He spots a worker just leaning against the wall twiddling his thumbs. "YOU" he yells. Everyone peeps over to watch. "How much money do you make a month" he asks "ohhhh about 200$" the worker says. The boss shoves him 200$ and yells "HERE'S A WEEK'S PAY. NOW GET OUT OF HERE. YOU DON'T WORK HARD AND I DON'T WANT THAT!!!" The worker grabs the money and runs off. He looks around to make sure that everyone gets the point. Next, the boss goes up to the closest employee and asks, "Who was that guy???" and the employee says, "Pizza delivery boy."

STILL THINKING

REFRESHMENT: 1. Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. 2. Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. 3. My wife and I always compromise. I admit I'm wrong and she agrees with me. 4. Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others. 5. Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner. 6. It doesn't matter how often a married man changes his job, he still ends up with the same boss. 7. They call our language the mother tongue because the father seldom gets to speak. 8. Saving is the best thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you. 9. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something. 10. Real friends are the ones who survive transitions between address books.

THINKING A LOT

REFRESHMENT: 1.Regular naps prevent old age... especially if you take them while driving. 2. Having one child makes you a parent; having two makes you a referee. 3. Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband! 4. They said we should all pay our tax with a smile. I tried- but they wanted cash. 5. A child's greatest period of growth is the month after you've purchased new school uniforms. 6. Don't feel bad. A lot of people have no talent. 7. Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without... but whatever you do, you'll regret it later. 8. You can't buy love. . But you pay heavily for it. 9. True friends stab you in the front. 10. Forgiveness is giving up my right to hate you for hurting me.

GRE WORDS 543-544

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Click above to get SERVILE: ■ adjective 1. of a slave or slaves 2. like that of slaves or servants servile employment 3. like or characteristic of a slave; humbly yielding or submissive; cringing; abject 4. Archaic held in slavery; not free Eg. Even today, according to the UN, 200 million people work in servile conditions throughout the globe. Also visit Killthegre.blogspot.com for latest verbal threads RABID: ■ adjective 1. violent; raging 2. fanatic or unreasonably zealous in beliefs, opinions, or pursuits 3. of or having rabies rabidity ra·bid′·ity, rabidness rab′·id·ness noun rabidly rab′·idly adverb

GRE WORDS 541-542

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Click above to get LACHRYMOSE: ■ adjective 1. inclined to shed many tears; tearful 2. causing tears. lachrymosely lach′·ry·mose′ly adverb Eg. Suitably lachrymose pictures of the children affected were used to further illustrate the terrible effect of EU law. Also visit Killthegre.blogspot.com for latest verbal threads MOLLIFY: ■ verb 1. to soothe the temper of; pacify; appease 2. to make less intense, severe, or violent mollified-·fied′, mollifying-·fy′·ing transitive verb mollification mol′·li·fi·ca′·tion noun mollifier mol′·li·fi′er noun Eg. The two players were not so easily mollified.

GRE WORDS 539-540

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Click above to get HIRSUTE: ■ adjective hairy; shaggy; bristly Eg. Forty-five hirsute women were enrolled in the study: 29 were hyperandrogenic and 16 had idiopathic hirsutism. Also visit Killthegre.blogspot.com for latest verbal threads ABATE: ■ Transitive verb 1. to make less in amount, degree, force, etc. 2. to deduct 3. Law to put a stop to (a suit or action), end (a nuisance), etc.; terminate abated abat′·ed, abating abat′·ing Eg. The previous evening there had been a violent storm which had only partly abated by the time that the young explorer left home.

GRE WORDS 537-538

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Click above to get PARQUETRY: ■ noun inlaid woodwork in geometric forms, usually of contrasting woods, used esp. in flooring Eg. The outside of the case is decorated with fielded panels of mahogany veneer surrounded with narrow parquetry stringing and walnut bands. Also visit Killthegre.blogspot.com for latest verbal threads PALLET: ■ noun a small bed or a pad filled as with straw and used directly on the floor Eg. Pallets have to be treated in order to be pest free.