High Frequency GRE Words – Words of General Value

The last two blogs on GRE High Frequency Words brought us face to face with many interesting words that can actually be used in our day-to-day conversation. This week we will learn a few words, verbs again, of general value. Not to mention they are high frequency GRE Words.

These are the words that you always find in GRE. And when you are working on any previous years’ GRE papers, you wish you knew the meanings of these words. You also feel bad when you do not easily recollect the meanings. Subsequently you start blaming yourself for adopting not-so-effective learning techniques. Don’t you?!

This is an opportunity indeed to research on a few very important words pertaining to GRE Vocabulary and committing them permanently to your memory. I would mention once again that the words we are practicing in these blogs are high frequency words and you will certainly find them in the GRE. You have to be more focused from this blog onwards.

 

This week we are going to memorize a few verbs/words of General Value…not to mention, they are the words which keep appearing on the GRE Exams time and again.

 

• Arrogating: Arrogate is appropriating to oneself without any right. It is a negative verb.

• Vitiate: Vitiate is to impair (damage) the quality of something, make it ineffective.

• Stultified: Stultify is to make or to cause to appear foolish or ridiculous. Eg: Your constant teasing might stultify his performance. That’s the contextual usage of the word.

• Alienate: Alienate is to turn away, make indifferent, and make hostile (means unfriendly) .A word close to another word that you all learned earlier. Remember the word? It is ‘ostracize’. These two verbs are close to each other.

• Aggrieved: Aggrieved is to become hurt, pained and distressed

• Confound: Confound is to confuse, puzzle and to baffle.

• Blighted: Blight is disease. Students of Botany will immediately link the word to the ‘late blight of potato’. However blighted means wrecked, shattered and devastated.

• Denude: Denude is to strip, uncover, make bare. It is like exposing something (a scam, a fraud) with an intention to make it known to one and all.

• Countervail: Countervail is to equal. It is to act or avail against with equal power

• Disdain: Disdain is an act of derision, disrespect or disparagement. ‘Disdainful behavior’, means a behavior that implies disrespect.

Spend a little more time than usual with these words. Most of these words are negative and not used frequently in our regular communication.

We are now due for some pertinent advice:

These words are not for mere reading, they are to be worked on. Use a notebook to jot them down and a dictionary to delve deeper into the meaning. As I always tell: Utter the words aloud- each word five times!!

Wiseman Says:

1. Work with the word.

2. Expand its meaning into a suitable context.

3. Relate it to the person or situation you know.

4. Share the word with your friends, colleagues

5. Try to pronounce the word aloud at least five times

These words are for practice. Please do share with us some more words/verbs of general value that you know. In fact you can put the words that you know or don’t know on our forums and invite diligent students like you for discussion. These interactive forums would further elaborate the meanings of words and commit them to your memory indelibly.

Wishing you all, success!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

(Note: The descriptive meanings of a few above mentioned words have been acquired from dictionary.com)

 

5 Responses to “High Frequency GRE Words – Words of General Value”

1. TOEFL iBT Online on October 11th, 2009 6:04 am

   Thank you, thank you, thank you! I believe that are the best word lists I have came across during my study.

2. AnuVeluri on October 11th, 2009 7:43 am

   Thanks so much, I suggest you also run through our blogs and general word lists that are displayed on the website…

   http://learnwordlist.com/word-list-quiz.html
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   These lists will help you gain a quick access..

   Regards,

3. rahul on September 16th, 2010 11:05 am

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4. Pavan on September 16th, 2010 4:09 pm

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5. shipra on September 17th, 2010 5:20 am

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