Subject Verb Agreement

A Subject should always agree with its Subject in number

Eg: The library is very useful for studying

Split Infinitives

Avoid splitting infinitives, i.e. placing a word between to and the verb following

Eg: to quickly go, to cautiously enter (wrong usage)

Participles

Participles should be used with caution. Unrelated participles mess up the meaning of the

Sentence

Eg: Wrong Sentence: Walking along the road a scorpion stung me.

Right Sentence: Walking along the road I was stung by a scorpion

Closing Participles

Expressions like hoping to hear from you soon and looking forward to hearing from you

Instead say:

Eg: I/We hope to hear from you soon.

I/We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Singular Collective Nouns

A singular collective noun always takes a singular verb

Eg: A committee of eight members is to be formed.

Preposition

Avoid ending a sentence with a preposition.

Eg: Is there a book which I can find the information in? (is a wrong usage)

Grammar Tip: remove ‘in’

Either/neither/each/every/any take singular verbs

Eg: Each student was given an identity card

None should be treated as a plural

Eg: None of the applicants are satisfactory

Kind/sort/type are all singular nouns

Eg: This kind of problem was common in the past

That sort of thing is very common

Less/fewer

Less is used for quantity

Fewer is used for number

Eg: Less money should be spent on this project

Fewer than a dozen enquiries have been received

Between/among

Between is used for two things inevitably

Among is used for group

Eg: The rope was pulled between the two poles

Use Shall after I/We in statements expressing simple future tense

In statements expressing determination or intention use Will

Would means ‘if you are willing to’

Should means ‘if you are able to’

Try constructing sentences using these rules. You can share them all here and get them

evaluated by experts.

Wishing you Success!!

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

Here are some common queries that bother students. The questions go with answers in order to help you precisely.

How do I choose a course?

Some students are born with passion for a certain subject. Such students are blessed indeed. But it is no sin if you are not born with such inclination. You have a myriad of disciplines to choose from. You just need to make a choice. What inspires you? Which Subject you feel satisfied delving deeper into? First make basic analyses of these things. Once you have answers to these questions. Look into the aspects that are mentioned below.

Qualifications – Why do I need them?

Qualification is a testimonial that vouches for your skills, the skills that you developed. It shows that you are an industrious person. It also proves your responsibility and commitment towards a career. Any University stipulates certain qualifications as an eligibility condition for admission. Relevant work experience, project work and certain technical skills might also compliment your qualification.

What type of course should I do?

Your motives will choose the best course for your aims and goals. If you are career driven you will need a course relevant to your profession. If you are gregarious then opt for a vocational course.

If you want a career in tailoring or carpentry you need to join a vocational course. If you are basically inclined to researching, teaching then you need to pursue a course in academics. The difference between the two is that in a vocational course you need to do work with hands and work in collaboration with others. Whereas an academic course lets you present arguments, research and analyze.

Which type of study suits me the best?

Do you aspire to work immediately after completion of your studies? Or do you want to delve deeper into the topic that intrigues you? I mean are you interested in researching and things like that. Knowing what you want is very important. You should also check your own suitability to pursue a specific course. For example you can never be a good researcher if you cannot pay attention to details. If you are tied up to responsibilities and are working and still aspire to pursue a course that interests you, you can register in any distance learning course that’s of your choice. Courses that complement your current job and help you understand the field better.

How do I know if it’s a good course?

This is very very important. You need to know the viability of the course you plan to pursue. There is absolutely no use pursuing the course that doesn’t not help you grow career per se. You need to be very judicious while planning a course. And while doing it you should also seek a lot of professional advice. I seriously suggest you to do a small research on the current job market for that particular course, and the future too.

How can I be sure I’m making the right choice?

Be clear of your goal. If you’ve decided on a particular job, get an idea of what’s the job is about and if you’ll like it. Read careers information, buy trade magazines, and speak to people currently working in the job. This research is well worth it. It’s better to take your time rather than do a course that leads to a job you might not really want. You’ll ensure that you don’t waste any time and money.

What I am going to do after the course?

Plan for when you finish. If you are aiming for a particular job, do voluntary work while studying. If you’re doing an English course and want to be a journalist, you could write for the student newspaper or work for the radio. Having a plan will help you make the most of the opportunities that come your way when you’re on the course.

I am sure this blog helps you plan the right University course for a compelling academic career. For any clarification please do contact us. In fact you can leave your comments underneath this blog.

Wishing you all success in abundance!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

(Inspiration drawn from Diana Hopkins and Pauline Cullen)

Let us now ask some fundamental questions to ourselves:

u    Why do you think you have fewer strengths worth celebrating?

• Because everyone has always pointed out your shortcomings – as you do yourself.
• Because you rarely get any positive feedback for a job well done
• Because the things you do well are so familiar to you that you take them for granted.
• Because you have learned to focus only on your mistakes

All these things have definitely pulled down your confidence levels. You might have felt utterly depressed about these things. But let me tell you, you are not bad at all. It’s only that you never considered the strengths you own. But unfortunately all these strengths lie within you dormant because you never took an account of them. Never considered them seriously. You need to evaluate your strengths and perhaps seek some guidance too from a good friend of yours. In s

Audit of strengths:

When have you last done a full audit or stocktaking of your strengths? This is not as easy as it seems because you will have discounted your strengths. It is a task indeed. Because you have started underestimating your strengths, and have grown lazy with all the life processes. You have become a dormant survivor. Try doing these things.

• Find a good listener to help you review everything you have done.
• Others may be more objective about what you can do than you can be.
• Discuss work and non-work projects you have been involved in over the last 2 years.
• Strive to avoid discounting the other person’s attempts to name your strengths

You will now certainly feel your strengths. Once you know them try to focus on them more and more to improve the quality of your life. And to see your score catapult in any exam that you take.

How can you appropriately celebrate your strengths?

• Make a list of your strengths and read it to yourself regularly, adding to it often.
• Praise yourself for what you have achieved. ( Never mind if others do not praise you)
• Compare yourself favorably with peers who have not done what you have done.
• Review your strengths whenever you are feeling defeated.

How does this exercise help your self esteem or confidence? Have you uncovered some strengths you had overlooked? Are you getting better at stressing the positive? If so please do share your experience with us. And please do share the techniques you adopt to identify your strengths. We are waiting anxiously for your response.

Wishing you success!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

• Acrimonious: The word ‘acrimonious’ suggests something that is acrid in taste. Acrid is being bitter and caustic. Acrimonious is usually used to suggest the way in which a speech is made. An acrimonious speech is a bitter, harsh and sarcastic speech. The word is even applicable to written form of communication.
• Scurrilous: A ‘scurrilous’ comment is a deeply vituperative/abusive/biting comment on someone. The word again is used mostly in spoken and written communication.

• Esoteric: Have you read the poems of Metaphysical poets? If you have read then you understand that their poems are full of esoteric allusions. The word ‘esoteric’ means something that is comprehensible only by a select few. A few high frequency synonyms of the word are impenetrable, recondite, mysterious, cryptic and arcane.
• Decadent: Decadent is anything that is immoral in quality. ‘He led a decadent life’…means his life had no morals or he was an immoral person.
• Lugubrious: Lugubrious is a word that suggests sadness and melancholia. A narrative style could be lugubrious. It is something that generates a gloomy and lachrymose environment around.
• Iconoclastic: Icon is a symbol. The root ‘clast’ means to break something. Hence iconoclastic is suggestive of breaking established norms and conventions. I hope the word now settles indelibly in your memory.
• Magniloquent: The root ‘loq’ has got to do with expression. Look at the words eloquent, grandiloquent. They all relate to speech style. ‘Magnum’ again in Greek means great, grand and big. Hence magniloquent is a bombastic, pompous and boastful expression.
• Terse: Terse is an expression that is precise. It is something that is abrupt and accurate
• Fatuous: Fatuous means idiotic, stupid and silly. A fatuous comment is a comment that is ridiculous and dim-witted.
• Incisive: Incisive is sharp. A sharp and that too a razor sharp comment is an incisive comment. An incisive comment can cause an incision on the mind and the soul. An incision is a cut a laceration.

Things that I suggest time and again!!

Act on these words. Passive reading doesn’t help whatsoever!! You have to work on them effectively. Jot them down in a note book, pull out your dictionary from the shelf, look for the meaning, understand the words and use them in sentences. Date all these words rather. Spend some substantial time with them. They are really extraordinary and interesting. Try to recollect many visuals that relate to a specific word from the above list. Believe me, these are the words that keep appearing in GRE’s (Graduate Record Examination) Verbal Ability Section. (Antonyms, Analogies and Sentence Completion).

Some essential GRE Aerobics:

Do not just read but work on these words. Use a notebook to jot them down and a dictionary to understand the meaning and the context better. As I always tell: Utter the words aloud- each word five times!!

Obligatory things to do:

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 high energy and high frequency words will keep you motivated for a lifetime. What you just need to do is to trust their beauty and keep remembering them every now and then. Do get back to us with queries in case you have any.

Wishing you all, success!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

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.

• Didactic: The word didactic is an adjective. Didactic is something that is educational, instructive in purpose. For example: Her poems are didactic. It means that her poems have instructional value. I hope the meaning is now clear.

• Surreptitious: The word surreptitious is an adjective. It means acting in a sly, stealthy, cunning way.

• Banal: Banal means boring. Something that doesn’t trigger interest because we have been exposed to it so many times. A film’s plot could be banal. A story could be banal. Just think of some situations/contexts where this word could rightly fit in.

• Berserk: Berserk is going mad, crazy. The crowd goes berserk seeing a film personality or a pop star.

• Bombastic: Being bombastic is being pompous, showy or grandiloquent. The word also means a speech that is long-winded and verbose. Politicians usually make ‘bombastic’ claims during their election campaigning.

• Culpable: Culpable is being blameworthy. It means an act that deserves to be blamed.

• Denunciatory: The word ‘denunciatory’ is an adjective. It means given to denunciation. Denunciation is admonition, scolding, criticism or accusation.

• Heretical: Heretical is being unorthodox. It is being unconventional or radical. A person who transgresses the rules is a heretic. Can you think of any such person? If you can then form a sentence using the word and share it with us here.

There’s no escape from these words if you want a grand score in GRE. You need to work with these words for a substantial time frame. I strongly recommend you all to read the other blogs on Vocabulary learning in order to memorize all these words even more effectively.

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!!

Techniques that work:

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 high frequency words. In fact you can put the words that you know or don’t know on our forum 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

http://learnwordlist.com/blog/join-your-dream-grad-school-give-yourself-the-analytical-writing-awa-edge-in-gre/

We will now recapitulate what we learned from that blog.

Writer’s Grammar

• There comes a time in every writer’s life when grammar and mechanics become important.
• Concerns such as correct sentence structure, spelling, and mechanics reveal the seriousness with which you took your writing and the creditability with which you wrote.

Logically Organized

• You need to make sure that your paper is logically organized, correctly formatted, clearly on topic, grammatically correct, stylistically sound, and mechanically error free.

Purpose of Communication

• Essay Writing
• Taking a systematic approach to essay writing ensures that you thoroughly develop the necessary skills for a meaningful and well-balanced piece of writing. Practise the following steps outlined here. Examples are provided for better comprehension.
• Preparing:
• What is the general subject?
• What is the specific purpose of the essay?
• Formulate a preliminary thesis statement

Brainstorming

• Write down all the ideas related to your topic, including seemingly bizarre or outlandish ones.
• Allow your thoughts free range – you can include sketches, diagrams, and tables if necessary.

Organizing and Adapting

• Choose the elements relevant to the specific purpose of your essay and arrange them in thematic groups and these in turn in logical steps. Discard those ideas which do not relate to your purpose.
• Adapt the subject to your own sphere of interest and knowledge.

Gather Material

• Information on your subject.
• Quotes, examples that illustrate certain points, references.

Make a logical outline

• Plan the structure of your essay, keeping in mind the main purpose. Your outline will serve as a kind of check-list to consult while you are writing.
• Note the sub-elements under each particular section heading.
• Modify the outline so that it indicates thesis statement, topic sentences and supporting points

Check outline

• Check topic sentences against thesis statement.
• Topic Sentence is the first sentence of a paragraph.
• It is normally a compound and complex sentence.
• It contains more than two ideas.

Topic Sentence

• Topic sentence contains the central idea.
• The central idea of the topic sentence is expanded further in the paragraph.
• Choose the aspect you would like to discuss. Education -
• For example – Sentence on ‘education’
• The present day education scenario offers various branches of study leading to an age of specialization.

Content and Organization

· Paragraph One: Introduces the subject, uses a thesis sentence that mentions the subject and three points that will be developed in the body paragraphs.

· Paragraph Two: Begins with some kind of transition, states the first supporting point, discusses and explains the point with at least two developed examples.

· Paragraph Three: Begins with some kind of transition, states the second supporting point, discusses and explains the point with at least two developed examples.

· Paragraph Four: Begins with some kind of transition, states the third supporting point, discusses and explains the point with at least two developed examples.

· Paragraph Five: Begins with some kind of transition, then rounds out and concludes the essay with some summarizing statements.

Major Errors

· Check for sentence fragments.

· Check for comma splices.

· Check for fused or run-on sentences.

· Check for subject-verb disagreements.

· Check for consistency of point of view; use the same point of view throughout the essay.

That is all about effective writing. Read this blog more than once to thoroughly comprehend all the aspects.

I am now sure that you will do very well in the Analytical Writing Segment. For further queries on the topic kindly communicate with us. You can make all your comments here itself or post some valuable information pertaining to the topic in the forum. I am eagerly awaiting your responses.

Wishing you Success!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

Powerful Techniques that help you remember all the 3500 words of GRE:

These are some proven Vocabulary learning techniques. Research says that many students have benefited from them. We have mentioned these techniques many a time in our blogs. We now feel the need for discussing them here, exclusively! For convenience let us call Vocabulary Technique as VT.

VT 1: Work with the Word

A word is not just something that has to be seen from an examination perspective. You need to work with the word. The word has to become a tool in your hand. You need to apply it at the right time and right situation. You need to get into a relationship with it. Spend some considerable time with it. Only then will it be retained in your memory. Owing to a commitment like this you need to plan your GRE preparation well in advance.

Fact 1: You can never memorize the high frequency GRE words in 1 month’s time. You need a ‘minimum’ 6 month’s time frame.

VT 2: Expand its meaning into a suitable context

A word exists only in context. The beauty of the word is realized in context alone. So whenever you learn/memorize a new word use it in context immediately. Not a single context. Use it in all possible contexts and situations. Paint your imagination deeper and darker. Think where all the word can be applicable. Believe me when you use a word in multiple contexts like these you will never forget it.

Fact 2: ‘Mugging up’ GRE High Frequency words vaguely is a very bad thing to do!

VT 3: Relate it to the person or situation you know

Adjectives are best learned this way. Adjectives generally suggest a person’s trait. When you look at a word like ‘loquacious’, which means ‘talkative’ you can immediately think of a relative/friend/colleague/neighbor who is loquacious. Relate the word to that person and you will never forget it. And whenever you see that person you will instantly remember the word too. Isn’t that great?!

Fact 3: The actual GRE Verbal test has ‘only’ adjectives/nouns/verbs!

VT 4: Share the word with your friends, colleagues

Sharing doubles the knowledge! When you know a word, its context the next best thing is sharing it with your buddies. I strongly suggest until the day of your GRE test organize weekly ‘Vocabulary Review Meets’. During these meets share all the new words that you learned and let your friends share their words with you. This way you will be unendingly adding to your long list of Vocabulary. Great once again! Isn’t it?

Fact 4: Never prepare for GRE in isolation. You will never know where you stand in competition!

VT 5: Try to pronounce the word aloud at least five times

A word’s pronunciation is as important as its meaning. Some words are not pronounced the way they are written. For example consider the word ‘ennui’ which means ‘boredom’. Ennui is pronounced as ‘Onwee’. Now is that not interesting? Keep handy a good dictionary that also suggests pronunciation. When you learn a new word, look at the pronunciation aspect immediately. Jot that down in your notebook in the way you can easily understand it. Talk about pronunciation too during your weekly ‘Vocabulary Review Meets’. This will keep the meets interesting and happening.

Fact 5: Knowing the word Pronunciation is as important as knowing its meaning!

Learning Vocabulary is fun. Do not make it a stressful process. Do not get intimidated looking at the exhaustive word list that is quintessential for your GRE preparation. Practicing the above mentioned techniques will certainly help you memorize many words. A few diligent students have already shared with us some powerful techniques to memorize GRE Vocabulary. You can share your techniques too. Share them here with us. And do leave your valuable comment when you complete reading this blog on Vocabulary Learning.

Wishing you Success!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

• Duress: Duress is a forceful word indeed. It means intimidation, browbeating, coercion. To threat someone for something is duress. Well, a sentence like this helps. She made a confession under duress. It means she did not confess willingly but made a confession when someone forced her to do it. Hope that makes the meaning clear now.

• Stringency: Stringency is strictness, tightness, straightness. Stringency of school, stringency of poverty and stringency of the market are the sentences that help remember the word in context.
• Audacity: Audacity is being bold without paying heed to consequences. The girl’s audacity shocked the audience. A sentence like this would help us remember the word better. Hey can you all come up with a sentence like this and share here?
• Exigency: Exigency is an urgent requirement, it’s a pressing need. ‘The exigencies of metropolitan life’. This is how the word is used in regular conversation. I hope you will never forget a word when used in context like this.
• Zealots: A zealot is a person who shows zeal. Zeal is enthusiasm, fanaticism, passion, fervor. And to tell you the truth all the synonyms of the word mentioned here are equally important for GRE.
• Dudgeon: Dudgeon is a feeling of offense or resentment. A feeling of anger and bitterness. The judges left in high dudgeon. It means the judges left in anger. This makes the word easier to remember.
• Assiduity: Assiduity is diligence, effort and industry. It simply means hard work.
• Impetus: Impetus is a moving force, a stimulus that causes motion. It is something that incites. The approaching deadline gave impetus to the investigation (dictionary.com). Is that clear now?
• Rancor: Rancor is animosity, hatred. It is a deep seated ill will. A feeling of antipathy.

I am sure these words will bring force and pressure to your GRE preparation. I tell you time and again that your GRE preparation is incomplete without these words. So do spend some time trying to know their meanings thoroughly. You can try using them in some sentences to understand their application better.

Do not just read but work on these words. Use a notebook to jot them down and a dictionary to understand the meaning and the context better. A must do! Utter the words aloud- each word five times!!

Vocabulary enhancing techniques:

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

Read this blog more than once to comprehend its essence. Do get back to us with queries in case you have any.

Wishing you all, success!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

I do realize that it’s not lesser than a Herculean task to memorize all these high frequency words. A proper planning for the exam will certainly help us out though. This day I am going to share with you a few secret mantras that will help you catapult your learning potential for the GRE test.

There are a few very important things a student should remember while preparing for GRE. These are the magic formulae without which your GRE gear is incomplete.

GRE Magic Number 1: Know your learning potential

It is very important for a student to know about himself/herself. Am I a fast learner? Do I grasp things quickly? How good is my memory? …are a few basic questions every aspirant should ask himself/herself. Once you get answers to these questions you will get the required morale and confidence to take the exam. If you are a slow learner a substantial time for preparation is highly recommended. Don’t book your examination slot not considering your preparation time.

GRE Magic Number 2: Plan a stepwise preparation

Too many cooks spoil the broth, this saying holds good for your GRE Preparation. If you consider all the segments at a time you will be thoroughly perplexed. Instead, work on one segment at a time. Only then you can prepare completely and rightfully. Don’t set for yourself unrealistic goals. Something like, ‘I am going to learn 20 new words a day!’ It is a target that can never be achieved. And moreover you cannot clog your mind like that.

GRE Magic Number 3: Learn the meaning of word by the root, prefix and suffix

A good hold on prefixes, suffixes and roots certainly helps you to learn better and faster. By knowing the word roots, prefixes and suffixes you can intelligently guess the meanings of the words that are alien to you.

GRE Magic Number 4: Trust the previous GRE Papers

If you can lay hands on the previous GRE Questions, nothing like it! Practicing these model papers will give you the hang of the real exam. The real GRE becomes a cakewalk for you.

GRE Magic Number 5: Believe in auto-suggestions

Research proves the potential of the subconscious. If the Conscious mind is an ant the subconscious is an elephant. You can train your subconscious mind in order to achieve anything you desire. It means that you can train your subconscious mind to crack GRE, get an awesome score! Give yourselves the following auto-suggestions at least 10 times daily, early in the morning:

1. I am a fast learner
2. I am confident

I am sure all these suggestions will certainly help you out in preparing for GRE. Above all magic is the magic of ‘hard work’. A planned preparation and a bit of hard work will certainly help you get an awesome score. Cast away all apprehensions and confusions and prepare diligently for the test.

You can make a comment either here or start a new topic on the forum. You can also post relevant questions there and seek participation.

Awaiting your responses on this.

Wishing you success in abundance!!

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com

• Derision: Derision is a noun and it means a deep form of mockery and ridicule. A very deep one mind it! When you just simper at someone it is not derision. Derision is extreme form of humiliation. Other high frequency synonyms of this word that keep appearing in GRE are Disdain, Ridicule, Contempt, Scorn etc. Well the usage could be “Her crude behavior elicited derision’’. Now you know the meaning of the word. Try framing a few meaningful sentences and share them with us either here or forum.

• Debauchery: Debauchery is extreme form of immorality. It is an extreme form of indulgence in things that give person sensual pleasure. Depravity, Decadence, Dissipation and Dissolution are a few High Frequency Synonyms of the word. Note them all in your book. All the five words are equally important for GRE.

• Intransigence: Intransigence and the related nouns keep appearing in GRE time and again. Intransigence is being overtly stubborn. It is being very obdurate and unyielding. A person who is intransigent says ‘NO’ and sticks to it eternally. Recalcitrance, Obstinacy are the high frequency words associated with the word ‘Intransigence’

• Invective: An invective is a violent denunciation. It’s a severe curse. A violent vituperation. Diatribe, Tirade are the words that mean the same and appear in GRE almost every time.

• Austerity: Austerity is extreme form of non-indulgence. The word is an exact opposite for Debauchery. I am sure now you got it right. Sternness, Asceticism are the other synonyms of the word. Reminder: These words are equally important too.

• Voracity: Voracity is being extremely greedy. Rapacity, Avidity are the associated words. A person can have a ‘voracious appetite’ meaning extreme greed for food. One can also demonstrate a ‘Voracious appetite for words’.

• Wastrel: A wastrel is a spendthrift who has no value for money. He is basically a vagabond and loafer. His extravagance goes out of bounds. I think I have defined wastrel in an extreme form and now the word requires no further explanation. What you need to do is to think if you have stopped by a ‘Wastrel’ in your life? If you have and can contribute to this article by sharing with us, nothing will be valued more.

Work on these words that will impart you unusual power in GRE. It’s an absolute fact that these words keep appearing in GRE exam. Try to recollect many visuals that relate to a specific word from the above list, link them to situations, people that you know. Activate your imagination. When you do all these you will have them recorded permanently in your memory.

Remember Always:

Do not just read but work on these words. Use a notebook to jot them down and a dictionary to understand the meaning and the context better. As I always tell: Utter the words aloud- each word five times!!

Indispensable Tactics and Techniques:

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

You need to read this article more than once to attain unusual power during GRE. Do you know some more words- Nouns (specifically) of unusual power. Please do share them here with us. You can also start posting them in forum. So catch you soon!

Wishing you all a great success in GRE!!

Regards,

Anu Veluri

Manager- learnwordlist.com