WordSmart for New GRE (Main words)

ARTLESS

completely without guile; natural, without artificiality

ARABESQUE

complex, ornate design/A ballet dancer in an arabesque position is familiar — many ballets include arabesques or arabesques penchée, when the ballerina's legs are at an angle greater than ninety degrees. Another kind of arabesque is a graceful design originally found in Islamic art and later in European art and design. This kind of arabesque resembles vines and leaves, rendered in metal, ceramic, or stone. The word arabesque comes from the Italian Arabo, or "Arab," used to describe Moorish architecture.///A sinewy man in black shorts performed a slow, smooth arabesque, then broke into fast-moving dance steps.

AUDACIOUS

daring and fearless; recklessly bold

AESTHETIC

dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful///"an aesthetic person" শিল্পরুচিসম্মত///"the aesthetic faculties"/"aesthetic feeling"//he illustrations made the book an aesthetic success"

CAPRICIOUS

inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable

BYZANTINE

labyrinthine, complex/(adj) highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious/the Byzantine tax structure////Britain's Byzantine, murky planning system makes housing supply unresponsive to demand.///

APATHY

lack of interest or feeling

BENT

leaning, inclination, proclivity, tendency/If you have a knack or aptitude for doing something, you can say you have a bent for it. Perhaps you have a bent for woodworking, creating fabulous desserts, or writing poetry, you are good at it.

BOISTEROUS

loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint

AUGUST

majestic, venerable//The kickoff concert will feature the august bassist Ron Carter with his Golden Striker Trio, in collaboration with the painter and poet Danny Simmons.///Duranty wrote in that august newspaper that there was no famine: "Conditions are bad, but there is no famine"//

CANON

////Don't confuse it with cannon with two n's, the big gun that shoots bowling-size balls at the enemy./////নৈতিক আদর্শ//Canon is all about authoritative standards—for literature, sainthood, or behavior. ./an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature/canons of polite society"/Historically, the women who have been the great painters of the canon have very often have been the wives or daughters of supportive men.

AUSTERE

/The adjective austere is used to describe something or someone stern or without any decoration. You wouldn't want someone to describe you or your home as austere.Austere is not usually a positive word because it means that a person or a thing isn't pleasurable. For example, if you go on an austere diet, it's likely you wouldn't ever get to have candy. ////The effect is simultaneously austere and luxurious, minimalist and opulent, a combination of the ancient and the modern, meditations on accumulation and transience.////The troops live in typically austere military barracks, hanging their laundry out the windows to dry in the hot air.////

BOOR

A boor is a crude, rude person. Boors lack sophistication and manners.///I wasn't going to be a boor and instruct a dinner-party host on how to reduce his or her trash.

BANE..............dark night rises bane

Mne: ban marsi///cause of injury, source of harm; source of persistent frustration/The noun bane refers to anything that is a cause of harm, ruin, or death. //Cost and timing have been the banes of the French nuclear industry in recent years.///nemesis

BROACH

Monemonics: BROACH sounds like Brochure. So a Brochure is always is used to INTRODUCE or we can remember it as Brochure is to OPEN.///Let's say you want to go on vacation with a friend and you ask your dad because he is more likely to say yes. He will probably tell you that he will broach the subject with your mom and let you know. In a less common (and older) usage of broach, if you put a hole in something in order to get out what's inside you broach it. The piercing tool you use is also called a broach. Think of piercing someone with your idea the next time you broach a touchy issue.///Finally, Saint broached the subject that he had come to discuss.///

ARRANT

The word arrant intensifies. কুখ্যাতAn arrant criminal is one heck of a criminal. Arrant nonsense is total nonsense. Do you struggle for adequate superlatives? If so, you might want to add arrant to your arsenal. It can be used to add emphasis to other words, most often negative words. Arrant rudeness is extreme rudeness. Arrant hypocrisy is very hypocritical. An arrant liar is a world-class liar. Arrant has a meaning similar to complete or utter. Like other intensifiers, arrant turns up the volume on another word./impudent; in every way, being completely such, bare-faced, utter

ALCHEMY

a magical or wonderful transformation; a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into gold/If your favorite but perpetually losing team picks up a couple of new players and the result is suddenly an unbeatable combo, that's alchemy — any seemingly magical act involving the combining of elements into something new.

ANATHEMA

a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing/Originally the term anathema comes from the Catholic practice of denouncing a particular individual or idea that was antithetical to the Catholic Church. If done to a person, it excommunicated them, meaning they could no longer partake in the church's sacraments (with presumably pretty poor consequences for the soul.) That's a lot worse than kryptonite./ ANA-THEMA..against the concept...hence it is disliked and disapproved/he is an anathema to me///অভিশপ্ত বস্তু////Ko's playfulness overrides her poise in the moments that are anathema to people in the production truck///

CATALYST

a substance hat accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change

AXIOM

a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying/An axiom is a statement that everyone believes is true,///Especially in biotech and diagnostics companies, you have to follow the scientific axiom of trust the data and nothing else.///American Pharoah had already demonstrated the truth of that axiom.

ABSCISSION

act of cutting off or removing/Abscission means the cutting off or removal of something, like an unsightly mole on the chin.///The abscission process leaves behind the primary cilium and any signaling systems localized to the cilium.///It was apparent that this early freeze came before the abscission layers were formed in the leaf bases or growth matured.

ADROIT

adept, dexterous

AMENABLE

agreeable; responsive to suggestion

AVER

allege/to state as fact; to confirm or support/To aver is to declare something is true or to state. ///Speaking after Clinton, O'Malley averred that the Paris attacks showed the need for "new thinking, fresh approaches and new leadership.

ASPERSION

an act of defamation or maligning/ কুত্সা//কলঙ্ক///Mne: Sounds like ass-person, if you defame someone you make them look like an ass. ///in the 19th century any reference to female sexuality was considered a vile aspersion/it is difficult for a woman to understand a man's sensitivity to any slur on his virility/Sounds like ass-person, if you defame someone you make them look like an ass.////But as any feminist who has commented on the 2016 election could tell you, such nasty aspersions have been par for the course.

APPROBATION

an expression of approval or praise

ACCOLADE

an expression of praise; an award

CARET

an insertion mark (^) used by editors and proofreaders/A caret is a little mark that looks like a line drawing of a roof. You use a caret when you're editing a text, to show where something should be inserted. The word caret comes into English in the 17th century — from the Latin word "is lacking." It was originally used to indicate corrections to the typesetter, and it's not surprising that the word appears when printing presses were in full swing. Don't confuse this caret with its homonyms — the karat that measures the purity of gold, or the carat that tells you the weight of your diamonds, or the carrot that's a crunchy orange vegetable

APPOSITE

appropriate, pertinent, relevant, apropos/ প্রাসঙ্গিক//যথোপযুক্ত///Something apposite is fitting or relevant. It is apposite that radio stations play Christmas carols on Christmas Eve, and that your tax accountant takes vacation after April 15th.///The direction, by the Mint's artistic director, Jonathan Bank, is appealing and apposite.

ANTIPATHY

aversion, dislike

BELLICOSE

belligerent, pugnacious, warlike///Iমারমুখো//if you walk into a high school where you know no one, find the toughest looking girl in the halls and tell her she's ugly, them's fighting words. Or bellicose ones. Bellicose means eager for war./"bellicose young officers"////But the contenders who hold or held high office are offering little more than bellicose rhetoric and overblown pledges of toughness.

BLANDISH

blank dish .....verb) NOUN: BLANDISHMENT///চাটুবাক্য দ্বারা ভোলান///praise somewhat dishonestly/to coax with flattery, toady or fawn/vulano/Held like an umpire's chest protector, a "newsboy" blandishes a copy of The Daily Worker, the Communist Party's publication.

CAUSTIC

burning or stinging; causing corrosion

ALACRITY

cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness; eager and enthusiastic willingness/Someone with alacrity shows cheerful willingness and eager behavior, like a kid whose mother has told him he can buy anything in a candy store. While the noun alacrity normally refers to someone's peppy behavior, it can also describe a certain mood or tempo of a musical composition, indicating how the music should be played. Alacrity comes from the Latin alacritas, and the Italian musical term allegro is a near relation./One who does each activity ( crity = kriti in hindi) according to 'Alarm' has 'Alacrity'.

APOTHEOSIS

deification, glorification to godliness, the perfect example/Theos means god(you can remember it by THE O.S means the operating sytem that control's our live's must be god)AAP+THEOSis....aperson saying to another that aap toh god ho.....apotheosis...../Hidden in the middle of apotheosis you'll find the Greek theos, meaning god. (Theology, the study of religion, has the same root.) Combine theos with apo "from" and you get a person, place, or thing that is so out-of-this-world amazing that it seems as if it's "from God." It's divine. You could make the assertion that Leonardo da Vinci was the apotheosis of genius and that the Mona Lisa is the apotheosis of all his paintings.

ABERRANT

deviating from the norm

ANOMALY

deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality/// অস্বাভাবিকতা//But despite all the progress that's being made, Oscar Villareal's story is not an anomaly//My song is an anomaly because it's not really from the time covered by the new Ork set."

ANTITHETICAL

diametrically opposed, as in antithesis; sharply contrasted in character or purpose/Something is antithetical when it is in complete and utter opposition to the character of something. If you're a vegetarian, eating giant T-bone steaks is antithetical to your beliefs. You'll find that antithetical is a useful word when you're trying to express an extreme contrast. If someone is trying to convince you to do something you don't believe in, or to allow an organization you're involved with to adopt measures you are strongly against, you can use antithetical. You go out to vote because sitting out of the voting process is antithetical to what you believe in. If you find that your club wants to adopt exclusive measures when it is supposed to be open, you'll tell them that that's antithetical to the club's purpose.///Such behavior is antithetical to our values and goals as an institution.

ASSIDUOUS

diligent, hard-working

ADULATION

excessive praise; intense adoration

APOGEE

farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith//As the apogee of all that is British and institutional and proper, Her Majesty serves as a useful target.//

BENIGN

favorable, harmless/"the benign ruler of millions"/a benign smile" "the benign sky" "the benign influence of pure air"

AUSPICIOUS

favorable, propitious, successful, prosperous,hopeful/Use the adjective auspicious for a favorable situation or set of conditions. If you start a marathon by falling flat on your face, that's not an auspicious start. If something seems likely to bring success — either because it creates favorable conditions or you just consider it a lucky sign — label it auspicious. The word is related to auspice, "a divine omen," an old word with a colorful history. In Latin, an auspex was a person who observed the flight of birds to predict things about the future. Luckily, you no longer have to be a bird-watching fortune-teller to guess whether something is auspicious or not.

APPRISE

give notice to, inform///During the week, he apprised Mattingly of the situation.///

AVARICE

greed, especially for wealth//But the drama started long before any acts of auricular avarice.

ACCRETION

growth, increase by successive addition, building up/The process of increasing can be called accretion. Although you may say that stalactites "grow" from the ceilings of caves, they actually form from an accretion of limestone and other minerals. So what's the difference between an addition and an accretion? //The company estimates about 60 cents of adjusted earnings per share accretion in the first full year after closing the transaction

CACOPHONY

harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance

ACERBIC

having a sour or bitter taste or character

ASTRINGENT.....think pungent

having tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe/(noun) a drug that causes contraction of body tissues and canals/You know that vinegar-like liquid teens put on their faces in order to tighten their pores and dry up their pimples? That's astringent. An astringent personality, on the other hand, is perceived as bitter and perhaps even a bit toxic. Astringent may be a lifesaver for an acne-prone teen, but when the term is used as an adjective and applied to you personally, it's less positive. Since astringents are acid-based, an astringent personality can also be corrosive. If someone is prone to biting sarcasm and cynicism, he probably has an astringent view of the world.

ADUMBRATE

mne : a damn brief//to foreshadow vaguely, intimate, suggest, or outline sketchily/verb) describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of/ A+DUMB+REPRESENTATION=ADUMBRATION...imagine a dumb is giving you a representation...how will he do it???....represent in outline,indicate faintly..////We can expect senior personnel in the days ahead to respond to questions about the price by adumbrating the Xbox One's virtues at some length.//

APOSTATE

mne : opor state///betrayer///one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions, a betrayer of a apostate has a religious or political tone to it, so someone might call you "a political apostate" if you ran for office as a Republican during one election and then ran as a Democrat in the following election.////The campaign marked the embrace of an extreme sectarian worldview that labeled Shiites as apostates./////not faithful to religion or party or cause/ apostate can be thought of as 'opposite state'.. That is changing to the opposite state, and not loyal to his current state.///ধর্মত্যাগী///স্বধর্মত্যাগী///

BROOK

mne: book is such a thing u hv to tolerate as long u live///to tolerate, endure, countenance/I cannot brook his constant criticism/A brook is a small stream, as in "burbling brook./think book its really a matter of endurance to read a book.

ARCANE

mysterious, abstruse, esoteric, knowable only to initiates/Something arcane is understood or known by only a few people. Almost everyone knows the basics of baseball, but only an elite few possess the arcane knowledge of its history that marks the true fan. A near synonym is esoteric, as in remote information or knowledge. Experts in academic fields often show off the depth of their knowledge by mentioning some arcane and esoteric fact as if it was common for everyone to know. The origin of arcane is Latin arcānus "secret, closed," from arca "a chest, box." Arcana (singular arcanum) are pieces of mysterious knowledge or information.

CARDINAL

of basic importance or consequence; primary/IIn all cases, cardinal means central or essential. It's a cardinal principle that you use it to describe words of behavior like rule or sin. In the Church, cardinals form the central governing body, and in math the cardinal numbers (one, two, three) are the numbers you learn and use first.

APOCRYPHAL

of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious/ Cripitic???//সন্দেহজনক///cry phal/Apocryphal Hypocritical (of false appearance of virtue)/Today, any dubious or unverifiable story may be dismissed as apocryphal. If it can't be verified, it is seen as not real, true or authentic. ///The following is possibly apocryphal, but when the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

AUGURY

omen, portent, the reading of omens/পূর্বাভাসIn fact, not every augury is an ill omen, as the common phrase "augurs well for the future" suggests, but more often than not, it seems, an augury is a sign that the future will be none too rosy. Auguries are signs of what's to come, and it's wise not to ignore them.///

ASCETIC

one who practices rigid self-denial, especially as an act of religious devotion///A journey through a world of severe altruism and ascetic selflessnes///

ARCHAIC

outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive time

BOMBASTIC

pompous; grandiloquent

AUSPICE

protection or support, patronage, prishthoposhokota/The work is set to arrive at the Apollo Theater in New York, under the auspices of Gotham Chamber Opera, next year.

ACUMEN

quick, keen, or accurate knowledge, judgement or insight//সূক্ষ্মদর্শিতা///n a statement released by the team, Friedman praised Roberts' baseball acumen and personality, calling him both a "baseball man" and "people person."

BUCOLIC

rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants/a pleasant bucolic scene/sounds like boikalik..wonderful evening////He spent his childhood bouncing from his grandparents' home in Colorado to boarding school and to the bucolic vineyard./////

ABROGATE

send him abroad as we abjure him//to abolish or annul by authority; put down/ //খারিজ করা///বাতিল করা//North Korea abrogated the agreement when it felt able to do so, and has gone on to test nuclear weapons./And if we look away from their destruction, we abrogate our duty to preserve them for future generations//

CASTIGATION

severe criticism or punishment

ASPERITY

severity, rigor; roughness, harshness; acrimony, irritability/Asperity is the harsh tone or behavior people exhibit when they're angry, impatient, or just miserable. When your supervisor's "Late again!" greeting causes your entire future to pass before your eyes, he is speaking with asperity. The harshness that asperity implies can also apply to conditions, like "the asperities of life in a bomb shelter." Or even more literally to surfaces, like "the asperity of an unfinished edge." But, most often, you will see asperity used in reference to grumpy human beings.

BALEFUL

sinister, pernicious, ominous/baleful look/baleful news/বিপর্যয়কর/অশুভ/অলক্ষুণে/হিংসাপরায়ণ

ANACHRONISM

something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context/An anachronism is something that doesn't fit its time period, like if you say you'll "dial" your smartphone. Anachronism comes from the Greek roots ana- which means "against" and chron- which means "time." Together they represent a situation in which something happens that should not because it belongs to another time period. You see anachronisms all the time in the movies — they occur when you see a jet fly over a Civil War battle! Or knights jousting over a maiden during the time of Shakespeare!

CARNALITY

something relating to the body or flesh/feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness/the arousal of feelings of sexual desire///The apostles evinced no interest in any form of carnality.///

ANODYNE

soothing

BLITHE

spoke with blithe ignorance of the true situation"/"/হাসিখুশি///আমুদে///was loved for her blithe spirit" Synonyms unconcerned/The adjective blithe used to mean happy and carefree, but over time it's acquired a new understanding of someone who isn't paying attention the way they should./carefree, merry///Cousins is trying to tread the middle ground, neither panicking nor being too blithe about what's at stake Sunday.

ARDUOUS

strenuous, taxing, requiring significant effort//দু:সাধ্য///দুরূহ///Hollande's difficult task became even more arduous after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday.//

AMBIVALENCE

the quality of having opposing ideas or feelings///দোটানা//বিরোধ

CAUSALITY

the relationship between cause and effect/causality Thesaurus Causality is the connection between a cause and its result or consequence. It is sometimes hard to figure out the causality of a stomach ache — it could be due to something you ate, or just a result of stress. You'll often find the word causality in scholarly or academic writing. Medical researchers might talk about the causality of various diseases, and a sociologist might study the causality of a childhood in poverty on future trouble in school. This noun comes from the adjective causal, "acting as a cause," from a Latin root, causa, or "cause."

BEDIZEN

to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner; festoon, caparison/Bedizen means to decorate yourself or something else to the max — in an over-the-top flashy style. Picture big jewels and gold bling.

ADVOCATE

to argue for or support a cause

BEATIFY

to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to; to regard as saintly

AMALGAMATE

to combine several elements into a whole

ALLOY

to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

ABSCOND

to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide//he conclusions from their talks said EU states should detain migrants who may abscond before they are deported.///

ASSUAGE

to ease or lesson; to appease or pacify

ARTICULATE

to enunciate or pronounce clearly; to express oneself clearly

BELIE

to give a false impression of, to misrepresent/To belie means to contradict. If you are 93 but look like you are 53, then your young looks belie your age.

BURGEON

to grow rapidly or flourish/The burgeoning administration""The burgeoning population///There he returned to drawing, and by the 1950s he was experimenting with the burgeoning medium of serialized comics.///

AGGRANDIZE

to increase in intensity, power, or prestige; to make appear greater/If you are a window washer, but you refer to yourself as a "vista enhancement specialist," then you are aggrandizing your job title — that is, making it sound greater than it is./ If you are making yourself seem greater, then people may say you are "self-aggrandizing

CAJOLE

to inveigle, coax, wheedle, sweet-talk///ভুলান//

ANTAGONIZE

to irritate or cause hostility

ABATE

to lessen in intensity or degree

AMELIORATE

to make better or more tolerable

BURNISH

to polish, rub to a shine

BOLSTER

to provide support or reinforcement

ATTENUATE

to rarefy, weaken or make thinner, lessen

ADULTERATE

to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

ABSTAIN

to refrain from an activity; choose not to consume/If you abstain from something, you restrain yourself from consuming it. People usually abstain from things that are considered vices — like drinking alcohol or eating chocolate./refrain////His advice to patients is to abstain from obsessively monitoring their blood pressure.

ABJURE

to renounce or reject solemnly; to recant/resile/retract/renounce/forswear/; to avoid; formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief usually under pressure/Abjure is a more dramatic way to declare your rejection of something you once felt or believed.You can abjure a religious faith, you can abjure your love of another person, and you can abjure the practice of using excessive force in interrogation./memonics:Abjure think it like injure. so once you are injured you will give up. so abjure means give up/abjure ~ ab (away) + jure (jury). He abjured (rejected, moved away from) her earlier statements in front of jury.

ADMONISH

to reprove; to express warning or disapproval//তিরস্কার করা

CALUMNIATE

to slander, make a false accusation/To calumniate is to make a false accusation against someone or spread lies about how awful they are. Don't calumniate your rival in the race for class president, because when the truth comes out, you'll be the bad guy. The courts would say to calumniate is to slander. Everyone else would just say it's mean. Calumniate is just a fancier way of saying "lie" — but specifically lying to tarnish someone's reputation. If your sister says you purposely broke a vase and you didn't, she calumniates you. If you get in trouble in class, you could calumniate to the principal about your teacher being a wretched mess — but the other students might speak up and prove you wrong.

CADGE

to sponge, beg, or mooch/To cadge is to plead or beg for something. A hungry child might cadge an extra cookie from her dad while he's baking./////////I gave three packs to a bug on R who was forever cadging cigarettes and also had an incredible body odor problem./////// When you cadge something, you wheedle or plead for it, manipulating someone into giving it to you. If you forget your lunch, you might have to cadge parts of your friend's meal, and if you don't have change for a parking meter, you might try to cadge some from a person walking by. Since the early 1800s, to cadge has meant "to beg," and while its origin is uncertain, it may come from cadger, "itinerant dealer" or "peddler."/But sometimes, when all else fails, flights end up being cadged from frankly unsavoury jet-owners.

ARREST

to suspend; to engage

APPROPRIATE

to take for one's own use, confiscate

AMBIGUITY

uncertainty in meaning