Mundane: After an exciting weekend, Monday is just another mundane day.

Meaning:
common, ordinary. Synonyms: banal, commonplace, normal, prosaic, routine, workaday,
workday, worldly Antonyms: exciting, extraordinary, supernatural, wonderful

Melee Mnemonic: remember as “MELA” . In general we found large crowd in mela,

usually our friends group got jumbled and confused their way around in large crowd.
Melee = Confusion; turmoil; jumble Usage: the rush-hour melee. Synonyms: broil, clash,
disorder, dispute, feud, fracas, fray, rhubarb, ruckus, scuffle, squabble, tumult, uproar,
wrangle Antonyms: peace

Word of the Day: Tranquility

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Tranquility People use tranquilizer to catch tiger. Usage: A feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of
tension or worry. Synonyms: calmness, dispassion, doldrums, hush, impassivity, lull, patience, peace,
peace of mind, rest, restraint, serenity, silence, stillness, stoicism Antonyms: agitation, anger, madness,
storminess, terror, turbulence, violence

Word of the Day: Vain

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vain vain resembles pain. A person who is full of self-admiration(vain) is a pain in the ass. vain==pain.
Meaning : full of self-admiration; conceited; without result; unsuccessful; N. vanity Synonyms: egoistic,
haughty, inflated, narcissistic, ostentatious, overweening, proud, swaggering, vainglorious Antonyms:
modest

Word of the Day: Enervate

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Enervate Loosing energy when your nerve get tired. Usage: The luxury which enervates and destroys
nations. Synonyms: debilitate, fatigue, incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary
Notes: energize means to cause to be alert or to invigorate while enervate means to weaken mentally or
morally enervate means ‘drain energy or vigor from’ (from Latin [...]

Picture Word of the Day: Morbid

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Morbid MORBID = MORTAL (deadly) + BITE (like of an insect) –> a deadly bite is unhealthy and disease
related. Usage: His morbid fascination with horror films. Synonyms: aberrant, abnormal, ailing, brooding,
dark, deadly, depressed, despondent, diseased, dreadful, frightful, gruesome, hideous, horrid, infected,
irascible, macabre, malignant, melancholy, monstrous, pessimistic, saturnine, sick, somber, sullen,
unhealthy, unnatural, [...]

Word Family of the Day: Criticism

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Word Family of the Day: Criticism Animadversion Aspersion Belittle Berate Calumny Captious Carping
Castigate Decry Defamation Deride/ derisive Diatribe Disparage Excoriate Fulmination Gainsay Harangue
Impugn Inveigh Lambaste Obloquy Objurgate Opprobrium Pillory Rebuke Remonstrate Reprehend Reprove
Revile Vituperate

Word of the Day: Impecunious

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Impecunious im–> means not pecun –> penny So impecunious means no penny or litte money. Usage:
When I was an impecunious student, I eked out my meager means by offering private tuition in elementary
mathematics. I would not rely on any court keeping an successful but impecunious claimant out of its money
simply because litigation [...]

Word of the Day: Mortify

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Mortify think ek moti ladki ek patli ladki se haar jaye then moti ladki will feel humiliated ,ashamed mortify
means humiliate ,ashamed. Meaning: to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one’s pride or self-respect.
Usage: He was mortified when she slapped him. Synonyms: abase, abash, affront, annoy, belittle, deflate,
deny, disappoint, discipline, discomfit, disgrace, [...]

GRE word of the Day: Leeway (n)

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Leeway (n) Lee+way=leeway… Lee jean gives very less leeway to move around the waist. So leeway
means freedom to do something. (Courtesy: brazilian-fashion.com) Meaning: >> a margin of freedom or
variation, as of activity, time, or expenditure; latitude >> an allowable margin of freedom or variation
(Courtesy: honewatson.com ) >>a permissible difference; allowing some freedom [...]
Labyrinth means something as complex as Jalebi
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Labyrinth Mnemonics * (Tag: ) in that LAB the way is not straight like margins in RIN soap but complex like
jalebi labyrinth > lady + rin > A lady so desperate 2 find Rin in a supermarket, she finds d huge supermarket
like a ‘maze’! maze * (noun) complex system of paths or tunnels [...]

Obfuscate means make something fussy

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Obfuscate Mnemonic: fus in the word fussy. Obfuscate means make something fussy => difficult to
understand Meaning: >> Obfuscate means make something fussy. >> To make sth less clear and more
difficult to understand. >> Obfuscation is the concealment of meaning in communication, making it confusing
and harder to interpret. Synonyms: batten, conceal, darken, eclipse, [...]

Emancipate – Set free; To set free from the power of another;

to liberate
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Emancipate – Set free; To set free from the power of another; to liberate

Word of the Day: Meander

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Meander Meander = To walk around without direction, wander aimlessly. Mnemonic: Remember as “MEN
wander”.Some men are usually forget their career goals and wandering around girls aimlessly. Usage:
vagabonds meandering through life. Synonyms: drift, extravagant, gallivant, roam, rove, stray, stroll, traipse,
twine, twist, vagabond, wind Antonyms: decide, guide, set, straighten

Word of the Day: Flotilla

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Flotilla Mnemonic: Flotilla are fleet of ships those flow in water. Meaning: A fleet of small craft. Usage: “Now
[the limousine service] has a flotilla of about 150 cars, more than 200 uniformed chauffeurs” (People).
Synonyms: armada, vessels, warships, argosy Note: A flotilla is usually composed of a homogeneous group
of the same class of [...]
Word of the Day: Travesty
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Travesty An exaggerated or grotesque imitation, such as a parody of a literary work. Usage: a travesty of
justice Synonyms: burlesque, caricature, lampoonery, mimicry, mockery, parody, perversion, satire
Antonyms: seriousness

Word of the Day: Haughty

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Haughty Hot heroins shows a lot for haughtiness (arrogance). Usage: a haughty look a haughty young
woman Synonyms: bossy, clamorous, despotic, doctrinaire, dogmatic, domineering, egotistic, firm,
imperative, imperious, oppressive, overbearing, peremptory, pompous, proud, stern, totalitarian, unrestricted
Antonyms: democratic, passive, humble, unpretentious, unassuming

Word of the Day: Mettle

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Metal have a lot of mettle to defend from attack that is why people use arsenal made from metal.

Alberta student makes it to final round of big U.S. spelling bee

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WASHINGTON (CP) – How do you spell s-u-c-c-e-s-s? Being the only Canadian to make it so far at the
prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee. Finola Hackett, a 14-year-old eighth grader from Tofield, Alta,,
was one of the final five students competing Thursday for the top prize of the competition, worth more than
$40,000 US. She [...]

GRE Word of the Day : Slake (V)

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Slake (V) When camel, which is going through desert, finds a lake. What will it do? Just drink the water,
which takes its thirst away. (Courtesy: life.umd.edu) Slake: to drink so that you no longer feel thirsty; to
satisfy your desire. …hmmmm camel slaking his desire, but you !! ( Courtesy:camelphotos.com ) E.g.: >>
Greedy [...]
Latitude is very broad, so broadmindedness
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Latitude: latitude-north south distance from equator. latitude is very broad, so broadmindedness. Meaning:
freedom from narrow restrictions; freedom of action, opinion, etc.: He allowed his children a fair amount of
latitude. Synonyms: indulgence, laxity, Antonyms: limitation

1000 GRE Reading Comprehension with Detailed Answer

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methods and practice for quickly and dramatically improving your Reading Comprehension skills. Using a
self-paced approach that moves from basic questions to more difficult ones, 1000 Reading Comprehension
Questions teaches you to successfully prepare for all the different types [...]

Word of the Day: Nebulous

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Nebulous mnemonic: socho agar tumhari ankhon mein nimbu ka ras pad jaye to tumhe clear nahi dikhe ga.
So nebulous means not clear, blurred. Usage: a nebulous recollection of the meeting. Synonyms: hazy,
misty, murky, shadowy, shapeless, uncertain, unclear, unformed, vague Antonyms: apparent, definite, plain

Latest ETS words

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occult ruthless immurity palpitate petulent denunciation lax emanate revulsion allure respletance aversion
pedestrine eqivocate modicum lucinious:chaste cambast intricate insolent Desire Concade Substantial
Hauteur Quip-taunt Germaid Amazea Foil Oviel Mendacity Inocolate Evert Orthodox Intemidate Plausible
Crroud Concord Recouncle Fanatic Flamboyant Medley Voracious Larden Propiate Quizzical Nurture
Adament

How to cultivate the habit of reading

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‘Reading is a habit to be developed by oneself and it cannot be taught by teachers,’ said Richard R Day,
professor, Department of Second Language studies, University of Hawaii. He was speaking at a seminar
jointly organised by English Language Teachers Association of India (ELTAI) and Office of Public Affairs US
Consulate General in South [...]

Lassi is considered as sleep inducing so lassitude !

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lassitude frm lassi–a north indian drink. lassi is considered as sleep inducing. lassitude—lack of
energy,weakness Synonyms: aloofness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterest, dispassion, disregard,
dullness, emotionlessness, halfheartedness, heedlessness, insouciance, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness,
passiveness, passivity, unconcern, unresponsiveness Antonyms: care, concern, feeling, interest, sensitivity,
sympathy, warmth