14 July 2008

yesterday i bought a study guide for the gre and plan to take it sometime late august. i got about 50 pages in or so through the study guide and became impatient and decided to test how well i would do on the "easy" verbal test. i missed 5 out of 20. :/

however 3 of those were because i forgot that i was supposed to look for antonyms on certain questions and not synonyms so i dont feel so bad about it.

one word i had no idea what it meant, although i thought i did, was centrifuge. its... like something that is used to separate two things. anyway thats not what im going to ... wait... ok so in order to help expand my vocab i am going to 1. read through this synonym dictionary that i have that has lots of lesser known words in it. its actually pretty cool, i looked through it the other day. overall im not too concerned with the math because, eh, im not concerned. im pretty decent at math, especially when it comes to logic type hooha so im going to focus more on my vocab. but still study math. since... i really havent pushed my brain in the realms of mathamatics in quite some time.

ANYWAY HERE ARE... SOME WORDS... HMM.. hmm im going to look up some words. these are from site that has 100 words you should know for some reason.

acquiesce - VERB - to agree without protesting
alaracity - NOUN - eagerness, speed
arcane - ADJECTIVE - secret, obscure
avarice - NOUN - excessive greed
brusque - ADJECTIVE - short, abrupt
candor - NOUN - honesty, frankness
chide - VERB - to voice disapproval
clandestine - ADJECTIVE - secret
connive - VERB - to plot, scheme
decry - VERB - to criticize openly
demure - ADJECTIVE - quietly, modest, reserved
despot - NOUN - one who had total power and rules brutally
erudite - ADJECTIVE - learned
extol - VERB - to praise
impudent - ADJECTIVE - casually rude, insolent, impertinent
indolent - ADJECTIVE - lazy
insular - ADJECTIVE - tight knit, separated and narrow-minded



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