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December 31, 2008

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Pop Quiz: Back to the Land - Pop Quiz! Which words are related to farming, the woods, or the out-of-doors? Make your list, then click “more.” SYLVAN CAVALIER PASTORAL AGOG ARCADIAN BUCOLIC DEMOTIC AGRARIAN ARABLE CALUMNIOUS Sylvan, pastoral, arcadian, bucolic, agrarian, and arable are all words related to farming or the outdoors. Manhattan GRE’s blog is written by one of our real-live GRE instructors. She teaches in New York. To learn about Manhattan GRE’s [...]
Three-Letter Words: Wan - Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive. Who doesn’t see PAN : REVIEW and metaphorically scratch his or her head, or wonder what, exactly, a “nib” or a “gin” is on its own? Welcome to Three-Letter Words. A few of them might make you want to deploy some [...]
Visual Dictionary: Torpid - Welcome to Visual Dictionary, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures. Feeling torpid? If you are lacking energy, such as after a big meal on a hot day, you could refer to yourself as torpid, listless, lethargic, or enervated. If you are lazy all of the time, you could refer to yourself [...]