Saturday, November 13, 2010

GRE Word : Abdicate

Abdicate

King Edward VIII's desire to marry to marry a commoner , an American divorcee Ms.Wallis Simpson precipitated a national crisis in the UK in 1936.


Edward abdicated his throne voluntarily.


The word abdicate means to quit or to resign , to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility etc.

Friday, November 12, 2010

Flocabulary: The Hip-Hop Approach to Building SAT Vocabulary

Flocabulary is Educational Rap : strings of vocabulary-packed mnemonic devices set over hip-hop music.Now you can sing your way to better SAT and ACT scores!
This CD and WorkBook Package defines 500 SAT-level vocabulary words in 12 songs.

Sample Song Lyric:  The song contains 40-50 SAT words used and defined in the lyric themselves. 

Now this here’s a story for the fellows and ladies,

Sporting pocket protectors and socket inspectors and

Marking their vectors, glasses thick, they’re myopic,

Short-sighted, they can’t see the crumbs on their lips.

They don’t say the word “think,”

They say “ratiocinate.”

They don’t render “repeat,” They say “recapitulate.”

Thursday, November 11, 2010

SAT Vocabulary Lessons 01- 65

SAT Verbal Section contains individual vocabulary lessons, Matching Tests, and Sentence Completion Tests. You may learn 25 words at a time. Please note that the first fifteen lessons contain words that have appeared more than once on the SAT/PSAT tests.


You may click on the  links below to print out  the lessons. (The word list and lessons are all in PDF format.)

Word List - 65 Lessons

Lessons 01-36

Lessons 37-65

GRE Word : Satyr

In the Greek mythology, Satyr is represented as part human, part horse, and sometimes part goatlike men who drank and danced in the train of Dionysus(God of Wine) and chased the nymphs.
 


The term Satyr is a pejorative (having an unpleasant or disparaging connotation). A satyr is one who is lustful in conduct.