Scholar Den 630 Word List PDF

Scholar Den - 630 Word List with Mnemonics
1-Acme
The highest point of achievement and perfection
Point directly overhead in the sky
Summit
Highest point
When the sun was at its zenith, the glare was not as strong as at sunrise
and sunset.
2-Stark (adj)
Sever, extreme, Complete, Total
Harsh, extremely simple
There is a stark difference between rich and poor class in the whole
world; poor are too much poor, and rich are too much wealthy.
3-Disposition (n)
A person's general or natural mood
Tendency.
Particular type of character
His amiable disposition pleased all who had dealings with him.
4-Archaic (adj)
Belonging to the distant past
From an ancient period in history
No longer used
Belonging to the past
Primitive
Related to ancient times, earlier period.
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The school's archaic computer system predate even floppy disks--it

stored records on tape drives
4-Soporific (adj)
Causing sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

I do not need a sedative when I study GRE words without flashcards.
6-Solicitous
Concerned or anxious (about another person);
Expressing care; very careful; worried; eager to do something.
The employer was very solicitous about the health of her employees as
replacements were difficult to get.
7-Anoint
Consecrate; put oil on (in a religious ceremony).
After Principal raised test score over 60% at his school, it was only a
matter of time before she was anointed superintendent by a fawning
school board.
8-Whimsical
Adjective: Odd, Fanciful; erratic,
Unpredictable.
For PML(n), the PTI slogan of 'New Pakistan' is a fanciful scheme

because it does not consider the facts.
9-Buffer
Noun: Something that shields, absorb shock.
Family and friends provides a buffer against stress, specially the tension
of work load.
10-Slew
Noun: A large number or quantity.
As soon as we switched software packages, we encountered a whole
slew of problems.
11-vintage
Adjective: A period in which something was made or was begun;
Old-fashioned.
I saw a piano of 1845 vintage in the English museum which was very old fashioned
and look like very awkward, as compared to the latest pianos.
12-Distill
verb: Purify; extract the essential elements of.
Water is distilled through a process of vaporization and then condensation.
13-Vituperate
Verb: Criticize harshly; rebuke; verbally abuse
He became more vituperative as he realized that we were not going to
grant him his wish.
14-Prodigal
Adjective: Wasteful; Reckless with money;
Giving abundantly;
Carelessly and foolishly spending money, time, etc.
As a prodigal child Bilawal always spend his allowance the minute he get this.
15-stymie
Verb: Block; hinder; obstacle.
To prevent someone for achieving
Irfan feared that his weakness in comprehension would stymie his success in GRE
exam.
16-Recluse
Noun: Hermit; loner;
marked by withdrawal from society.
He was sick of cities and crowds, so he decided to go live by himself in the woods as a
recluse
17-Prologue
Noun: Introductory part to a novel, book or play etc.
The Great Gatsby's prologue gives some historical background so the main story can
be better understood in context.
18-Stoic
Adjective: Indifferent to pleasure or pain.
Determined not to complain when something bad happens to you.
The doctor called her patient a stoic because he had borne the pain of the
examination without whimpering.
20-Tenuous
adjective:
thin; slim; slender.
India could demonstrate only a tenuous claim to ownership of Kashmir; which is

illegal occupation.
20-Prosaic
Adjective: lacking in imagination; dull and unimaginative.
Lacking interest, imagination and variety
Boring
The prosaic life of a hardworking farmer, who love with his work rather
than his wish of high living standard
21-Surmise
Verb: Guess; infer' think or make an opinion with incomplete information.
I surmise that Bilal will get +320 score in GRE because of his good performance in
the class participation and mocks.
22-Relegate
Verb: put into a lower or worse place;
Banish to an inferior position; delegate;
Assign.
If we relegate these experts to minor posts because of their political persuasions, we
shall lose their valuable services
23-zenith
Noun: Point directly overhead in the sky;
Summit; acme;
Highest point.
When the sun was at its zenith, the glare was not as strong as at sunrise
and sunset.
24-occult
Adjective: mysterious;
Secret; supernatural;
Beyond human comprehension.
The occult rites of the organization were revealed only to its members.
25-Surfeit
Noun: In large number or quantity;
Excess; Overindulgence;
Satiate; feed or supply to excess;
Stuff;
Indulge to excess in anything.
Every Thanksgiving we are surfeited with an overabundance of holiday treats.
26-Pariah (Achooth,shoodher)
A person who is not accepted by social group
Social outcast; a person who is hated and rejected by other people.
I felt like a pariah when I wore the wrong outfit to the dinner party.
27-lampoon
Noun: Ridicule; written attack ridiculing or satirizing a person, group, or
institution.
Geo T.V have had warn many times for mimic the political leaders in lampoon way
28-Spate
Noun: Sudden flood or rush.
With the increase in traffic, there is spate in number of accidents, which are
increasing every year.
29-Pith (khulasa)
Noun: Essence; core; significance or weight.
I enjoy reading essays of Isfhaq Ahmed because they are always
compact and pithy.
30-Ubiquitous
Adjective: Existing everywhere at the same time.
Shahid Afridi's fans are ubiquitous; not only they are from Pakistan, but also they are
from glob even including India.
31-Speculate
verb: Make a guess about; engage in a risky business transaction, gamble.
We don't know what happened in this critical political situation—we can only
speculate about the Pakistan politics.
32-Pious
Adjective: Deeply religious; sincere; earnest; dutiful; devout.
I'm tired of hearing politicians making pious pronouncements about their devotion to
the people.
Mnemonics: It shares a root with 'pure' and 'purity'.
33-Rudimentary
Adjective: Elementary; not developed; crude; relating to the basics.
Before preparation of GRE, one who is from biological background should learn the
rudimentary of math that are much necessary for the advance level preparation of
GRE.
34-volatile
Adjective: changeable; of a quickly changing nature (as of temper); mercurial;
tending to violence; evaporating rapidly.
The political climate today is extremely volatile: no one can predict whether Army
would takeover.
35-Unequivocal
adjective: Unambiguous; plain; clear; obvious.
Imran Khan's answer to Mian Nawaz Sahrif's proposal of attending the I.D.Ps
together was an unequivocal which is absolute "No
36-Aesthetic (Zauq e jamal rakhnay wala)

Adjective: dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful (of a person or
building).
There are practical as well as aesthetic reasons for planting trees in Pakistan; it not
only gives surplus of oxygen needed for human and animal breathing but also it adds
beauty.
37-Sagacious
Adjective: Wise; perceptive; shrewd; having insight.
A sagacious critique of the current social climate in our nation is demeaning by the
wise media group.
38-Affable
Adjective: Easily approachable; easy to talk to; warmly friendly.
Although he held a position of responsibility, he was an affable individual and could
be reached by anyone with a complaint.
39-Savor
verb: Appreciate fully, taste or smell with pleasure; enjoy.
As a parent, it's important to take a step back and really savor the special moments--
those children will grow up sooner than you think.
40-Nuance
Noun: slight difference in meaning or color; subtle distinction (not obvious
difference)
The unskilled eye of the layperson has difficulty in discerning the nuances of color in
the paintings.
41-Stolid
Adjective: dull; not interesting or attractive
Impassive; showing little emotion when strong feelings are expected.
The government responded to the Imran Khan's constant demands, of recounting of
votes, with stolid indifference.
42-Taciturn
adjective: Habitually silent; talking little.
Rizwan's taciturn behaviour in front of Fulbright decision panel has made his
interview awkward and hence the panel has rejected him for the scholarship.
43-Sentient
Adjective: Conscious; experiencing sensation or perceiving with the senses;
aware; sensitive.
A sentient of the danger has posed by the approaching an extremely large, powerful,
and destructive storm in Karachi; high alert has been announced to the people living
near sea
44-Admonish
verb: warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; mildly scold; caution; advise;
remind to do something.
The boss has admonished his employees to change their wicked ways of avoiding
discipline, and has given them an advise to be formal part of this organization.
45-tirade
Noun: long angry denunciatory speech;
Diatribe; bitter,
Abusive criticism or verbal attack.
I hate that politics in which politician trite on the government policies rather than
giving advice or suggestions to change for the betterment.
Tirade is a tiresome criticism or abusive verbal attack; When the tyre along the road
(sounds like tirade) of your car becomes punctured, you got so angry and often use
abusive language for your car.
46-Eclectic
Adjective: selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources;
selecting individual elements from a variety of sources;
Selecting the best.
His style of interior decoration was eclectic: bits and pieces of furnishings from widely
divergent periods, strikingly juxtaposed to create a unique color.
Mnemonics: It sounds like elected; in democratic political system, like USA, people
elect president to administer the country policies.
47-salubrious
Adjective: healthful; conducive to health or well-being; socially desirable.
After spending the entire life in smoking and drinking, the old man has recognised the
necessity of adopting a salubrious lifestyle, that is free from smoking and drinking but
that involves eating fresh fruits and vegetables and juices.s
Mnemonics: It has shared its one root with salary; the day when salary is given to the
employees, it gives them good liveliness and energy that they forgets the too much
struggle they make in other days of the month.
47-slack
Adjective: moving slowly; sluggish;
Inactive; loose; negligent;
Lazy; period of little work.
The summer weather makes slack i work at all companies; because researchers
showed that higher the temperature lead to less worker's efficiency and productivity.
Mnemonics: S-lack = slow + lack of something; so when the workers are slow and the
working condition makes lack of work, this is slack.
48-Render
Verb: give; submit;
Deliver; provide;
Represent in verbal or artistic form;
Depict; perform; make; translate.
The company has rendered services of transportation by contracting with Daewoo
Bus service for its workers, after it got more than 500 workers.
Mnemonics: We use many times the word 'render services', which means to acquire
services for use.
49-hearken
verb: Listen, pay attention to.
The simple lifestyle and anachronistic dress of the Amish hearken back to an earlier
era.
Mnemonics: It has shared its one root with heart; a sound or song that touches your
heart, you always pay attention to it, because it's much attractive for you.
50-Pristine
Adjective: unspoiled; remaining in a pure state;
Characteristic of earlier times; primitive; uncorrupted.
The area at west of Changamanga has been preserved in all its pristine wildness,
seemingly untouched by humans.
Mnemonics: It's sound like philistine; we know the so called Israel is actually has the
original name of philistine; so pristine means pure state or originality.
51-Plausible
Noun: conceivably true; having a show of truth (but open to doubt); believable.
Even though your argument is plausible, I still would like to have more proof.
Mnemonic: It sounds like probable, which means a chance of something; when
something is looks to be true, but may not actually, its probability of truth is high.
52-artless
Adjective: without guile; open and honest.
Many people believe that Imran Khan seems to be an artless politician who,
therefore, can eliminate corruption from Pakistan.
Mnemonics: Don't think of artless as a lack of art--think of it as a lack of art for
deceiving others.
53-quibble
Verb: Rise minor objection or complaint; find faults in petty way.
KPK government has no major complaints to make about its governance, only a few
petty quibbles that are almost too minor to state.
Mnemonics: It sounds like quarrel-able; when the opposition is finding fault or make
unnecessary criticism on the government, it's only made with an intention of quarrel
with the government.
54-Affectation
Noun: Fake behavior (such as in speech or dress).
As I have met personally with the politicians, who are so selfish and arrogant; I'm
annoyed whenever they show too much affectation in their speeches that are enough
to deceive the listeners.
Mnemonic: It has derived from 'affected' which means 'artificial or pretended'; when
someone shows affectation in behavior, that's he shows fake behavior.
55-Predisposed
Adjective: Give an inclination toward (in advance); make susceptible to.
His defence attorney argued that his abusive childhood predisposed him to a life of
crime.
Mnemonics: Predispose = pre (something before); + dispose (willing to do or inclined
to do something).
56-Satiate / sate
Verb: satisfy fully (physical needs such as hunger).
The guests, having eaten until they were satiated, now listened inattentively to the
speakers.
Mnemonics: It has derived from word satisfy; just like satisfy the thirst or hunger.
57-Hackneyed
Adjective: Commonplace; ordinary;
not fresh or original.

The English teacher criticized her story because of its hackneyed and unoriginal plot.
Mnemonics: It shares it's root with 'hackers', who are so common now-a-days.
58-Divest
Verb: Disposes; deprived of something.
Mr. Musharraf was divested of his power to act and could no longer govern.
Mnemonics: When you invest some money, you get some return on it; but when you
get whole loss in your investment, you got divested.
59-volatile
adjective: changeable; of a quickly changing nature (as of temper);
mercurial; tending to violence; evaporating rapidly.

The political climate today is extremely volatile: no one can predict whether Army
would takeover.
Mnemonics: It usually used in chemistry: a volatile substances easily changes states,
from solid to a gas or vapors; such substances are evaporating.
60-Trite
adjective: Commonplace; lacking freshness, effectiveness and originality due to
overuse; cliches.
His frequent use of clichés made his essay trite; that gave him very less score in spite
of using many words.
Mnemonics: It sounds like traditional, which mean something common or ordinary;
In other words it has lack of freshness or newness, because it's now common and
used again and again
61-Antagonize
verb: cause to become an enemy; make hostile or unfriendly.
The comments of Mr. Rana Sana-ullah has agonised the supporters of Dr. Tahir-ul-
Qadri; because they were so abusive even about Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri on the Model
Town incident in which many supporters of Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri have been injured and
few have killed.
Mnemonics: We use many times the word 'render services', which means to acquire
services for use.
62-viable
Adjective: Capable of maintaining life; feasible; practical or workable.
The infant, though prematurely born, is viable and has a good chance to survive.
Mnemonics: It share one root with 'vi' this root attach with a word to make a sense
of lively or spirited like in 'vivid', 'survive', 'revive', 'vivacious' and 'convivial'; all these
words are related to life or live with happiness.
63-inadvertent
Adjective: Unintentional; lack of attention; careless.
She inadvertently omitted two questions on the GRE paper based exam and mis-
marked her answer sheet.
Mnemonics: It shares root with 'advert' which means 'to turn attention to (as in an
advertisement). Thus inadvertent indicates a lack of attention paid.
64-hearken
verb: Listen, pay attention to.
The simple lifestyle and anachronistic dress of the Amish hearken back to an earlier
era.
Mnemonics: It has shared it's one root with heart; a sound or song that touches your
heart, you always pay attention to it, because it's much attractive for you.
65-phony
Adjective: fake; insincere; counterfeit; not genuine.
She's such a phony person, pretending to befriend people and then taking about
them behind their backs.
Mnemonics: Rescue 1122 has complained that they receive more phone calls as fake
as compared to genuine calls.
66-Patronizing
Adjective: to give money or support; believe to be more intelligent or better than
others; to be a frequent or regular customer of.
Experts in a field sometimes appear to patronize people who are less knowledgeable
of the subject.
Mnemonics: It can be use in three different contexts; 1) support something: it

sounds like patriot who is the supporter of his country; 2) arrogant: it sounds like
patriarch who is the head of a family and usually arrogant; 3) customer or user of: It
actually the same in sense as support, because customers are the supporters of a
business.
67-Zeal
Noun: eager enthusiasm (to a cause or ideal).
The students of GMAT and GRE must have great zeal for very high score for getting
admission in top ranked universities.
Mnemonic: Zeal sounds like an Urdu word 'zehrila' which means poisonous; a
poisonous (like concentrated acid or chemical compound work or effort that is too
much and concentrated) work is the work that consecrate on the outcome; it's hard-
work and having great zeal.
68-Posthumous
Adjective: After death (as of child born after father's death or book published after
author's death);
coming or occurring after one's death.
The critics ignored his works during his lifetime; it was only after the posthumous
publication of his last novel that they recognized his great talent.
Mnemonics: It's derived from word post-mortem, which is made after someone's
death.
69-Venerate
Verb: Deserving high respect;
Commanding respect;
Regard with deep respect and awe.
We do not mean to be disrespectful when we refuse to follow the advice of our
venerable leader.
Mnemonics: venerate = we + narrate (narration of some holy book); So we narrate
some verses of holy books that are awesome and demanding high respect.
70-Wary
Adjective: Very cautious; watchful;
on guard against danger.

Be wary of anyone who tells you that 'anyone' can get rich with some special plan or
scheme.
Mnemonics: It shares its root with 'war'. So wary is something related to war; In war
fares one should be cautious and careful.
71-Placate
Verb: pacify; bring peace to; conciliate;
Appease; satisfy or
Calm down (an angry or dissatisfied).
The teacher tried to placate the angry mother whose child has failed in the class,
while the rest of the students in the class has passed successfully.
Mnemonics: It sounds like please; when you are trying to please an angry friend, you
are trying to placate him.
72-Obsequious
Adjective: Servile; full of servile compliance; fawning
Prof. Dr. Amjad Saqib valued people who behaved as if they respected themselves;
nothing irritated her more than an excessively obsequious waiter or a fawning
salesclerk.
Mnemonics: It contains a root of sequence which is following pattern of something;
so when someone is obsequious, he is full of servile compliance or a good follower.
73-Retrospective
Noun: looking back on the past; applying to the past.
It is only when we become retrospective that we can appreciate the tremendous

advances made during this century.
Mnemonic: It contains the root retro- which signify its meaning as 'reverse to
previous, or go back'.
74-Alacrity
Noun: Cheerful promptness without reluctance; speedy willingness.
He demonstrated his eagerness to serve by his alacrity in executing the orders of his
master.
Mnemonic: It sounds like electricity; In Pakistan, during electricity cut, workers are
not willing to do jobs and investors are unwilling to invest; while where there is a
surplus of electricity, inverters are cheerful or speedy willing to invest.
75-Profound
Adjective: Very insightful; deep; not superficial; complete.
Mr. Abid was profoundly disappointed when the project he had worked on for fifteen
years had failed.
Mnemonics: Profound = pro (after something) + found (e.g., I am found of cricket);
so profound must mean something too much insightful or deeply penetration into a
subject.
76-Presumptive
Adjective: Based on inference or assumption; providing reasonable ground for
belief.
"Mian Nawaz Sharif is presumptive winner of the Election 2013" said by Imran Khan,
"because he made huge rigging in this election and consume lot of money to get
illegal votes, even on 30% casting vote, Mian sb has made a victory speech, which
was so ridiculous"
Mnemonics: Presumptive = pre (before time) + assume; Please don't confuse it with
presumptuous, meaning assuming in an arrogant way
77-wily
Adjective: Crafty; cunning; artful.
She is as wily as a fox in avoiding trouble, therefore she is famous as one of the top
most manager.
Mnemonics: One whose mind is sharp enough that he can fulfil his will, or wishes in
younger age, he has wily mind.
78-offset
Verb: Counteract; compensate for;
counterbalance.
Property teas did go up this year, but the hit to our finances was offset by a reduction
in fees paid to our homeowners association.
Mnemonics: It sounds like upset or discouraged; somehing offset is 'set off' against
something else, such as by acting as discourage or counterweight.
79-Unseemly
Adjective: Not proper in behavior; indecent; inappropriate.
After getting in USA with Fulbright Scholarship, Imran has unseemly amounts of
money, received through stipend, on himself, that he couldn't save it for the future.
Mnemonics: It's the opposite of seemly which derived from 'seem' means 'appear';
so seemly means something appearance that is seen; so unseemly should be
something 'not apparently' or 'not appropriate'. When the future is apparent,
whether it's good or bad, it's good thing because we can make it good if it's bad; but
if the future is not apparent, it's ambiguous and hence it's inappropriate.
80-imminent
Adjective: Impending; near at hand; ready to occur.
Faiza was such a last-minute worker that she could never start writing a paper till the
deadline was imminent.
Mnemonics: It sounds like 'aik-minute' ('aik' is an Urdu word meaning 'one'); So
when one minute is remaining before coming a natural disaster, it means it's very
near to occur.
81-Stingy
Adjective: Giving reluctantly; not generous with money; small in size or amount.
In Pakistan, textile firms are too stingy to raise salaries of its workers.
Mnemonics: It sounds like an Urdu word 'tungy' means 'miserly living'; so tungi in
giving money is stinginess.
82-Commensurate
Adjective: Equal in extent; of the same size; proportional.
Your GRE score will be commensurate with your effort in it's preparation; the more
the effort you give, the greater will be your GRE score.
Mnemonics: commensurate = com (come together) + ensurate (to ensure
something); so commensurate = to ensure that the two things are equally
proportionally changing.
83-Nascent
Adjective: Incipient; coming into being or existence; still developing.
If we could identify these revolutionary movements in their nascent state, we would
be able to eliminate serious trouble in later years.
Mnemonics: It sounds like 'nestle' a famous brand. it's logo contains newly born
sparrows in their nest; so nascent means coming into being or existence.
84-Lucid
Adjective: Easily understood; clear; intelligible.
Mnemonics gives the lucid way of learning vocabulary; In this way you can learn
words and remember it in long-run.
Mnemonics: In summers, no-one can prepare for the GRE after drinking lussi (a kind
of cold drink which reduce temperature inside the body, that result to very much
sleep); lucid is the opposite of it, lucid concept is easy to learn.
85-Lassitude
Noun: Listlessness; tiredness' weariness' lazy indifference.
It's so difficult to get anything done in the dead heat of August! I can't seem to shake
my lassitude enough to get out of this hammock, much less study for the GRE.
Mnemonic: In summers, no-one can prepare for the GRE after drinking lassi (a kind
of cold drink which reduce temperature inside the body, that result to very much
sleep); lassitude = lassi (lazy) + tude, so lassitude = laziness or tiredness.
86-Admonish
Verb: Warn or speak to with gentle disapproval; mildly scold; caution; advise; to
tell or urge (someone) to do something.
My physician is always admonishing me to eat more healthy foods especially during
my tough preparation of GRE exam.
Mnemonics: admonish = add + monish (close to punish); so it's basically in addition
to punish. There are better ways in addition to punish a person to change his bad
habits, that is, to advise him or to speak him with mild scold in gentle way.
87-Supersede
verb: Replace, take the position of; cause to be disregarded as void, obsolete or
set aside.
The present constitution of Pakistan has superseded the previous constitutions that
were effective till 1973.
Mnemonics: Super-sede = super (above all) + sede; word super- appears in many
words which means being at the top. So when a new toper comes, it replace the
previous top student in a class.
88-ingrained
Adjective: deeply established; firmly rooted.
Religious observance had been ingrained in him since birth; he could not remember a
time when he didn't pray five times a day.
Mnemonics: It shares its root with 'grain' which is related to using plant parts for
dye; something ingrained is suffused into the very fiber, like dye.
89-torrid
Adjective: (of weather) Very hot; passionate; burning.
In Pakistan, from May to August are torrid months that workers are very tiresome to
work due to very high temperature.
Mnemonics: It sounds close to tornado that destroys everything in its way, so torrid
is also in same way distorting because it's too hot to burn things. In different context
it's meaning is 'passionate about something'. Also the 'torrid zone' is the region of
Earth between the tropics.
90-Outstrip
verb: Exceed; be larger or better than; leave behind.
Since the change in government, out economic condition has outstripped significantly
as compare to previous decade.
Mnemonics: This word contains 'out-' which indicates it's meaning 'beyond limits' or
'exceeding', such as in 'outweigh' and 'outshine'. To out pace is the be faster than; to
outwit or outfox is to be more clever than and to outbrave is to be more brave than.
91-Timorous
Adjective: Fearful; demonstrating fear.
The timorous manner of Bilal betrayed the fear he felt before start of his Official GRE
exam.
Mnemonics: It's similar to timid which means, shy or reserve, because of fear to
discuss or talk due to lack of confidence.
92-Austere
adjective: Without comfort or enjoyment; severely simple and unornamented;
serious.
The graduation speaker delivered an austere message: the economy is bad, and
academic success alone isn't enough to succeed in the job market.
Mnemonics: It sounds like sever; when someone live in sever condition that means
he is living in austerity.
93-Apathy
Noun: lack of caring; indifference; lack of concern or interest in important
matters.
As a firm believer in democratic government, she could not understand the apathy of
people who never bothered to vote.
Mnemonic: apathy = absence of pathy (derived from path, meaning direction or
root); when someone shows absence of his mind in the class lecture, he is showing
apathy, because the path is to comprehend the lecture, but he has lack of concern of
it.
94-kudos
Noun: Praise; honor; congratulations.
Fatima complacently received kudos on his performance in his GRE exam from his
entourage.
Mnemonic: It sounds like 'cute', meaning so beautiful, and 'muqaddas' (Urdu word)
meaning holy.
95-Preempt
Verb: Prevent; take the place of, supplant; take before someone else can.
Hoping to preempt any attempts by the opposition to make educational reform a hot
political issue, Imran Khan set out his own plan in KPK Province to revitalize the public
schools.
Mnemonics: pre-empt = pre (before something) + empt (empty); To prevent the
water shortage before water reservoirs become empty is known as preempt.
96-Advocate
Verb: stick fast; be a devoted follower; loyal.
Mr. Zafar has paid respectful attention to the home schooling movement by meeting
with its advocates and endorsing their cause.
Mnemonics: It shares its root with advice, which means to speak for giving benefit or
help; a personal lawyer is, therefore, also named advocate, because he pleads for a
cause on behalf of his client.
97-Aggregate
verb: Sum; total; gather into a mass or whole; accumulate; add up to.
The aggregate wealth of this country is staggering to the imagination.
Mnemonics: It's same as gross amount; we use aggregate demands and aggregate
sales to describe the total or accumulate the amounts.
98-Adhere
verb: stick fast; be a devoted follower; loyal.
The stamp on the cheque failed to adhere the original stamp, therefore the banker
refused to pay the cash.
Mnemonics: adhere = add + here, means attaching two different kinds of things
together, while cohere is used for the two things of the same kind
99-Sycophant
Noun: Servile flatterer;
boot-licker; yes man;
person who fawn in order to get ahead.
Imran Khan advised the government to stop being a sycophant of America; we are a
sovereign nation, so we should do what's our interest.
Mnemonic: It sounds like psychologist who can make a person to tell everything
what's coming into his mind. This makes others to become fawning of psychologist.
100-officious
adjective: Excessively eager in giving unwanted advice or intruding where one is
not wanted; meddlesome, pushly.
An officious little man, who always telling everyone else how to do their jobs, is
disliked by the workers who better know how to perform their jobs.
Mnemonics: It has come from office; In office setup, everyone is eager to advice
others which is unnecessary; it's one of the obstacle in productivity in our country.
101-Flag
Verb: Get tired; lose enthusiasm; droop;
Grow feeble;
Decline in vigor or strength.
When the opposing hockey team scored its third goal only minutes into the first
period, the home team's spirits flagged.
Mnemonics: In Tom & Jerry cartoon, when Tom gets tired or accept defeat, it shows
a flag which gives sign that he accepted the defeat.
101-vacillate
Verb: waver (in opinion); fluctuate; sway to and fro; be indecisive.
In need a good used car, I was vacillating between the Ford and the Hyundai until a
recommendation from a friend help me decide.
Mnemonics: It sounds a bit like Vaseline; when you vacillate, your decisions are quite
slippery, as though coated in petroleum jelly. It also sounds like oscillate, which is its
synonym.
102-Perfidious
adjective: unmoved or unconcerned by;
having no interest in;
mediocre; neither good nor bad;
not caring, impartial.
The perfidious politician sold out his country's secrets to the enemy in exchange for
money and protection.
Mnemonics: Only 'apna faida sochny wall' is named perfidious which makes sense of
disloyal; to whom no-one can trust.
102-Pretentious
Adjective: Claiming or demanding a position of importance or dignity, esp. when

unjustified;
showing off, creating a deceptive, false show of worth.
The pretentious couple always serves caviar at their parties, even though they
themselves dislike it.
Mnemonics: It shares it's roots with pretend(making a false show of something); So
pretentious means something showy.
103-impartial
Adjective: Not biased; fair.
Fulbright decision panel makes impartial evaluation of the applicant's qualifications,

personal statement, letter of recommendation and GRE score that does not consider
age, gender, or race; even the people living in areas of worst economic conditions are
much encouraged.
Mnemonics: Impartial = Im (impossible or never be) + partial (incomplete, injustice
or unfair); An impartiality in judiciary is the key for have the best judiciary system, as
we see in England.
104-anomaly
Noun: Irregularity; deviation from what is common;
Inconsistency.
While the cosmetics division of of textile industry has many female executives, it's an
anomaly--in the rest of the company, sadly, only 4% of management positions are
filled by women.
Mnemonic: It sounds like abnormally, which is its meaning; the show X-Files was
about the investigation of anomalies.
105-Defamatory
Adjective: reconciling; soothing; win the friendly feeling (by removing anger).
Politics of our country is filled with defamatory languages; opposition tries to defame
the government, while government tries to defame the opposition; in such way there
is no future progress coming.
Mnemonics: defamatory = de (reduce; like in degrade = reduce in grade, value or
reputation) + fame; so when someone's negatively fame a person, he is defaming
him.
106-inasmuch as
Verb: In like manner.
Normally, a student would graduate in four years, but inasmuch as you failed several
courses in your first two semesters, that will now be impossible for you.
Mnemonics: Inasmuch as = the same as; for instance, inasmuch quantity in first
container as in second one; which means both containers have same quantity.
107-canonical
Adjective: conforming to orthodox or recognized rules;
pertaining to the accepted rules or standards.

School boards often start controversies when replacing canonical books like 'ethics' in
the curriculum with modern literature, while many people think students should read
works more relevant to their lives.
Mnemonics: It sounds like qanoonical (according to law); this signify it's meaning as a
body of accepted rules or standards.
108-Fidelity
Noun: loyalty; accuracy.
A dog's fidelity to its owner is one of the reasons why that animal is a favorite
household pet.
Mnemonic: It has driver from Urdu word 'faida' means 'beneficial'; So a loyal helper
is always beneficial.
109-conversant
Adjective: familiar with; having knowledge of.
The lawyer is conversant with all the evidence, whether it's true or fake, because of
his tremendous expertise.
Mnemonics: Conversant = con (together) + versant (e.g., verses of some holy book);
When you come together to study the verses of a holy book, you gets knowledge.
110-Keen
Adjective: (of the senses) sharp; quickly perceptive; intense (of a feeling).
Dogs have a keen sense of smell, therefore it has been considered in airport police for
stoppage of smuggling drugs.
Mnemonics: It drives from 'can' which means 'be able to', when you are mentally
sharp enough you 'can' solve any math high difficulty level question; that shows your
keenness.
111-adverse
Adjective: going against;
opposing; unfavorable; hostile.

Faced by the adverse circumstances from the public Geo T.V PEMRA has compelled it
to close its business.
Mnemonics: Adverse = add (further addition) + inverse (going against); So it's very
harmful or too much opposing; adverse appears in 'adverse criticism'.
112-germane
Adjective: Relevant and appropriate.
The lawyer objected that the testimony being offered was not germane to the case at
hand.
Mnemonics: its sounds like Germany, which is one of suitable country for study or
jobs.
113-incorporate
Verb: Bintroduce something into a larger whole; include; embody; give material
form to.
When a business incorporates, it becomes a separate legal entity.
Mnemonics: It contains the Latin word 'corpus' (body), also corpse (dead body); Also
in Pakistan, very big companies (which are under the definition of a person in
Finance), are known as Corporations, which are bodily form or established as a
person.
114-illiberality
Noun: Narrow-mindedness, strictness or lack of generosity.
Many people hate thinking of Tehrik-e-Talibaan Pakistan because of their illiberality;

people want freedom of wishes and speeches, but T.T.P is against this.
Mnemonic: Illiberality = ill (illegal or against) + liberal (freedom of expression or
wishes).
115-disjointed
Adjective: Diconnected; not coherent; separated.
In politics we have seen, whenever there is a clash of interests, political parties have
disjointed.
Mnemonics: Disjointed = dis (not) + joined (as Indians have joined families, means
they live within same home); similarly, in math, disjointed means having no common
elements, as in 'The set of all odd integers and the set of all even integers are
disjointed, it can seen in van-diagram.
116-disperse
Verb: Spread widely; cause to vanish; scatter.
The police fired tear gas into crowd to disperse the protesters protesting against
government.
Mnemonics: Disperse = dis (against or not) + perse; a thieve snaches the perse of a
lady and go quickly to disappear; that's disperse 'spread widely'.
117-abstain
Verb: refrain; withhold from participation; intentionally not use one's vote.
After considering the effect of alcohol on his athletic performance, he decided to

abstain from drinking while he trained for the race.
Mnemonics: It sounds like absent, which is not present or avoid from present. So
abstain is to avoid or refrain from doing something.
118-abridge
Verb: condense or shorten;
reduce or lessen;
shorten by omitting parts while retaining the main idea.
Audio books are almost always abridged, since few people want to listen to a 200-
hour book.
Mnemonics: It share its root with abbreviate, for instance M.A is an abbreviation of
Master of Arts. A bridge gives a shortest way to pass a river or canal.
119-antipathy
Noun: Dislike or opposition; aversion.
In politics of Pakistan, opposition always antipathy the government, which obstruct

the progress of government; while in developed countries, opposition is only oppose
the government where necessary.
Mnemonic: antipathy = anti (against or opposed to) + pathy (path, way or opinion).
Please don't confuse antipathy with apathy, which means 'indifference, or not
caring'.
120-abjure
Verb: give up on oath or in formal way.
Makhdoom Javaid Hashmi has abjured his allegiance to Mian Nawaz Sharif, by
leaving PMLn and joining PTI.
Mnemonics: Abjure = ab (now) + jure (use in 'hath jury k request karna to stop the
non-sense); so abjure must be to give-up under oath.
121-Compliant
Adjective: Obeying, submissive; following the requirements.
He was compliant and ready to go along with his friends' desires.
Mnemonics: It's derived from 'comply with the wishes of'; a compliant friend is the
best friend, he always keeps company with you.
122-Abhor
Verb: Detest; hate; dislike.
Many Pakistani students abhor reading comprehension section of GRE; because they
abhor to read long passages; for them it's a tiresome work.
Mnemonics: It's also a word of Punjab 'ab hor!' which means 'now more!', If
something is so disliking and it comes again, what you say? 'now more?' It
intolerable.
123-jargon
Noun: language used by special group; technical terminology; gibberish;
nonsensical or incoherent talk.
We tried to understand the jargon of the strange person in the market place but
could not find any basis for comprehension.
Mnemonic: jargon = joking + arguments; when joking arguments (jargon) made in a

court room, by a lawyer, it's unintelligible language used inside the court.
124-indifferent
Adjective: unmoved or unconcerned by; having no interest in; mediocre; neither

good nor bad; not caring, impartial.
Because she felt no desire to marry, she was indifferent to his constant proposals by
her lover.
Mnemonics: indifferent = not different; looks like n ordinary or dull, because the
style of your dress is not different, which has lack of attraction.
125-avid
Adjective: greediness for;
Extremely eager for;
Passionate about; enthusiastic.
Hamid is avid for learning and read everything he could get including novels, articles
or editorials; this helped his comprehension; as a result he got very high score in GRE.
Mnemonics:
In a right angle triangle, the base is the lower side, signifying that it's something
morally low or inferior in value.
126-conciliatory
Adjective: reconciling; soothing; win the friendly feeling (by removing anger).
She was still angry despite his conciliatory words.
Mnemonics: Of course it shares its roots with reconcile which means equate; e.g,
reconciling the current accounting record with the bank statement to check any
error; Similarly National Reconciliation Ordinance (N.R.O) is the made with evil
intention to sooth the angry politicians by saving them in their corruption cases.
127-Aggrandize
Verb: Make greater; increase in power, wealth, rank, or honor.
The history of the past quarter century illustrates how a President (e.g., Bhutto) may
aggrandize his power to act aggressively in international affairs without considering
the wishes of his own political party.
Mnemonics: it's sound like 'aggressively optimize' which is to make greater.
128-Abstain
Verb: refrain; withhold from participation; intentionally not use one's vote.
After considering the effect of alcohol on his athletic performance, he decided to
abstain from drinking while he trained for the race.
Mnemonics: It sounds like absent, which is not present or avoid from present. So
abstain is to avoid or refrain from doing something.
129-alienate
Verb: make unfriendly or hostile; estrange; separate; change the ownership of.
Her attempts to alienate the two friends failed because they had complete faith in
each other.
Mnemonics: It share its root with line; for instance, kids use line in their each page of
homework to separate essay area with the boarder of the page. Also it sounds like
alone, which signify it's meaning as become distant.
130-Delineate
Verb: Mark the outline of; sketch; describe in detail.
I do need the cash, but I'm not signing up for this psychological experiment unless you
delineate what's going to happen.
Mnemonics: It, of course, shares a root with line, which is used for making sketches.
131-spearhead
Verb: Be the leader of.
For many young adults, Imran Khan is the spearhead of Pakistani people, whether he
votes to him or not; but for others, Nawas Sharif, because of his experience and
learning past mistakes, is the spearhead of this nation.
Mnemonics: Spearhead = spear (Shakespeare, a wise person) + head (which gives a

sense of some high rank e.g., head-master).
132-virtual
Adjective: Existing only in the mind or by means of computer network; existing in
essence though not in actual form.
The Web site provides a virtual tour of the stadium with live football match.
Mnemonics: We study in physics that when an object is placed in front of a mirror, it

creates it's virtual image or unreal person. Similarly a virtual memory (RAM) is a slot
that saves data only for temporary basis, on other hand hard-disk is a real memory
because it saves the data actually and permanently.
133-Copious
Adjective: Plentiful.
My professor of project management is so fastidious that she had copious reasons for
rejecting any proposal.
Mnemonics: It's derived from copies, which are in large numbers.
134-base
Adjective: Morally low or bad; contemptible; inferior in value or quality.
In modern era, courts are filled with the cases of such a base crimes that includes the
killing of newly born children.
Mnemonics: In a right angle triangle, the base is the lower side, signifying that it's
something morally low or inferior in value.
135-Metamorphosis
Noun: change of form or shape.
The metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly is typical of many such changes in

animal life.
Mnemonic: Metamorphosis = meta (change) + morph (shape; so the different forms
and structure of organisms are named as metamorphosis.
136-Burgeon
Verb: grow rapidly; grow forth.
In the spring, the plants that burgeon are a promise of the beauty that is to come.
Mnemonics: In Pakistan, Burj Bank is growing rapidly; so burgeon means grow
rapidly.
137-exacerbate
Verb: make worsen; embitter; aggravate.
This latest arrest will exacerbate the already existing discontent of the people and
enrage them.
Mnemonics: It shares its roots with acerbate or acerbic which means bitter or make
harsh.
138-document
Verb: Support with evidence; cite sources in a detailed way.
In GRE Analytical Writing Assessment, when you write an essay with so well
documented examples, it will definitely gives you high score.
Mnemonics: We have heard many times 'create documentary evidence of' esp. in
court or criminal proceedings; so document give an idea of written or physical proof.
139-Dubious
Adjective: Doubtful; questionable.
When the Fulbright application filled with dubious record of qualifications, personal
statement or recommendation letters, it's not considered for review.
Mnemonics: Dubious is related to the Latin word for 'two', perhaps in the sense of
there being two explanations for something--the one presented, and the true one
being hidden.
140-extrapolate
Verb: infer (unknown information) from known information.
Based on their extrapolation from the results of the primaries on Super Tuesday, the
networks predicted that George Bush would be the Republican candidate for the
presidency.
Mnemonics: extrapolate = extra + plotting; which means making inference or
prediction from few information.
141-verbose
Adjective: Wordy.
This article is too verbose; nobody has enough time to read the whole article, so we
must edit it to make it brief and to the point.
Mnemonics: It sounds like wordose 'using plenty of words'; a verbose person is too
much talkative to be tedious for others.
142-Unearth
Verb: Dig up; uncover; expose; discover (facts) by careful searching.
When they unearthed the city, the archeologists found many relics of an ancient
civilization.
Mnemonics: Unearth = un (not or out of) + earth (inside the earth); old people saved
their jewellery in secretly place inside the earth; so unearth means to disclose that
secrete.
143-laquacious
Adjective: Talkative, wordy.
Faiza is very loquacious and can speak on the telephone for hours; that's why she has
seen his career as a customer service representative.
Mnemonics: The root 'low' means 'speech' and also appears in eloquent meaning
'efficient speaker'.
144-makeshift
Adjective: temporary expedient or substitute (in the case of urgent need).
Lost in the woods for over 24 hours, the children were eventually found sleeping
under a makeshift tent made from branches of trees
Mnemonics: In case of war or other trouble situation, refugees make their
equipments and family shift from one place to other for temporary safety; so
makeshift means temporary suitable action.
145-Lull
Noun: Soothe or cause to fall asleep; quiet down.
The continuous reading of vocabulary lulled Bilal to sleep.

Mnemonic: It's sounds like dull, which means boring; when the excitement comes to
an end, it's the start of lull or dull time.
146-garrulous
Adjective: Talkative, wordy; verbose.
Many club members avoided the company of the garrulous junior executive because
his content chatter bored them to tears.
Mnemonics: It adds the sense of going off-topic or being tiresome. Fore, instance, a
very long-winded but informative academic paper would be prolix or verbose, but
not garrulous.
147-deem
Verb: Judge; consider.
You can take the GRE exam when I deem you ready, and not a moment before,' said
the instructor.
Mnemonics: It's sounds like dean, who is the head of faculty and is the judge for any
sort of decision.
148-unprecedented
Adjective: Never before known or seen, without having happened previously; having
no previous example; novel.
There has been an unprecedented changes in New GRE revised General Test, in 2011;
even the score scaling has also been changed, which has never seen before.
Mnemonics: unprecedented = un (not) + precedented (preceding); that makes a
sense of never preceding; in other words never come before.
149-Craven
Adjective: Lacking courage; very cowardly.
When he saw the enemy troops advancing, he had a craven impulse to run for his life.
Mnemonics: Living in the cave(sounds like craven) for since birth, a wild-man has lack
of courage to talk to the people who live in compressed area where people always
talk to each other and have lots of confidence to talk to the high rank official esp.
prime minister.
150-Finesse
Noun: delicate skill.
The finesse and adroitness of the surgeon impressed the observers in the operating
room.
Mnemonic: It sounds like fineness, which means delicateness or appropriateness; so
it's some sort of good skill.
151-hedonist
Noun: Person devoted to pleasure.
A vacation is a fine time to practice hedonism, letting your troubles go and pursuing
massages as though it's your life mission.
Mnemonic: hedonist = seeking whatever comes to mind or whatever seems to be
pleasing the mind.
152-Cartography
Noun: Profession of map-making.
Though not as a profession of cartography, Ahmed was able to construct a map of

the fictional world.
Mnemonic: It sounds like cartoon-grapher; which is the created of cartoons in many

pages in such a way that the sudden flip of each page one-by-one gives the
movement of the cartoon; so cartography is the art of making design about maps.
153-Discrepancy
Noun: Difference or inconsistency; lack of consistency or agreement as between
facts.
The police noticed some discrepancies in his description of the crime and did not
believe him.
Mnemonic: Discrepancy = dis + credulity; when someone gives discrepant
information, you tend to be disbelieve on it, because it's giving against what
information you have already.
154-Ascetic
Adjective: practicing self-denial; avoiding physical pleasures and comforts;.
The wealthy politicians could not understand the ascetic life led by the poor people.
Mnemonics: Please don't confuse ascetic with aesthetic, which means 'pertaining to
beauty or good taste'; it shares it's root with acetic which means bitter or sever; that
signify its meaning as 'leading to a life without pleasure or comfort
155-Maverick
Noun: rebel; nonconformist (in a group).
Most cop movies feature heroes (like chulbul pandey in 'Dabangg' Bollywood movie)
that are maverick police officers, breaking all the rules, blowing things up, and
getting their guns confiscated by the chief--but ultimately saving the day.
Mnemonic: This word sounds very awkward; Maverick must be someone who is
always disagree within a group or society. Just as maverick calf doesn't bear a mark
of ownership, a political maverick doesn't belong to any party.
156-Permeate
Verb: Spread or penetrate throughout; pass through.
The smell of baking bread permeated the kitchen because the smell spreads
everywhere in the kitchen.
Mnemonics: It sounds like permit, which means to allow to pass, e.g., the failed
student was permitted to the next class after his application to the secondary school
principle; so giving or allowing to spread of something is permeate.
157-Artifact
Noun: object made by human, esp. from an earlier times.
The archaeologists dug up countless artefacts, from simple pottery shards and coins
to complex written tablets.
Mnemonic: Artifact = art (manual skill) + fact (factory which signifies 'to make').
158-eulogy
Noun: expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death.
All the eulogies of his friends could not remove the sting of the calumny heaped upon
him by his enemies.
Mnemonic: 'Eu' is a Greek root for 'good' like 'Europe', and logos means 'discourse';
so eulogy is describing good deeds of someone.
159-exponent
Noun: Person who expounds or explains' champion, advocate or representative.
An exponent of clean fuel, he petitioned the state government to commit to replacing

conventional energy with solar and wind energy where possible.
Mnemonic: In math, exponent is the power on an integer; it mean when an integer
has some exponents, it must be expands and multiplied with itself equal to the value
of exponent; So exponent is something expend or explain or some sort of power or

representative.
160-forfeit
Verb: something surrendered as punishment for a crime or breach of contract.
After divorce, husband and wife forfeit all their rights to their ex-life-partner.
Mnemonics: It's somewhat close to defeat in meaning, but difference is when the
team defeated, it struggled hard for victory but didn't achieved it; on other hand,
forfeit means to surrender or accept himself to be defeated without struggling for
victory.
161-implode
Verb: burst inward.
America has a new technology of controlled demolition during which it's entire old
and useless building imploded in a matter of seconds; without any loss of it's nearby
buildings.
Mnemonics: Of course, it's the opposite of explode; which means burst outward.
levity
noun: lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity; lightness of manner.
Stop giggling abd wriggling around in the pew; such levity is improper in courtroom.
Mnemonic: It comes from Latin word for 'lightness' which also gives us elevator,
lever, leaven and levitate (to cause to float, such as in a magic show).
fallacious
adjective: Containing a fallacy, or mistake in logic; logically unsound; deceptive;
illogical.
The reasoning of government representative is fallacious because it leads to a
ridiculous answer.
Mnemonics: It sounds like false; when someone reasoning is false or misleading, it's
fallacious. It's derived from fallacy.
figurative
adjective: not literal but metaphorical; containing many figures of speech (as fancy-
sounding writing).
To lose one's marbles is a figurative expression; if you're told Bilal has lost his
marbles, no one expects you to rush out to buy him a replacement set.
Mnemonics: A figurative as it's root 'figure' describe that it's not a literal; it's only
limited to figures, not a theoretical or reality.
catalyst
noun: Causer of change.
Imran Khan has proud to be a catalyst for reforms in the politics of Pakistan; not
politics is no more abut critics, it's changed to self-evaluation.
Mnemonic: It sounds like anna (blind) a blind governance is called anarchy; that
means there is no government.
discerning
adjective: Mentally quick and observant; having insight; perceptive; able to make good
judgments.
The ships in the harbor were not discernible in the fog.
Mnemonics: Discerning = dis (not) + cerka hua (mind cerka hua); so discerning means
able to perceive or distinguish mentally.
modest
adjective: Humble; simple rather than showy; decent; small, limited.
Modest by nature, she was no braggart, preferring to let her accomplishments speak
for themselves.
Mnemonics: It has derived from moderate, which means to reduce or lessen. A

modest attitude is a moderate one; Similarly a modest outfit is a suitable and decent
dressing rather than a much awkwardly fashionable one.
log
verb: record of a voyage or flight; record of day-today activities.
Lawyers who bill by the hour have to be sure to log all the time they spend on every
client's case.
Mnemonics: Of course, a log ha a root with catalogue which is a complete list of
things; usually arranged systematically.
connoisseur
noun: person competent to act as a judge of art; a lover of an art.
A forthcoming exhibit at the art museum that is eagerly awaited by connoisseurs of

ancient Greek pottery
Mnemonic: Connoisseur comes, through French, from the Latin 'cognoscere',
meaning 'to know', which also gives us cognition.
entitlement
noun: Having the right to certain privileges; believing, sometimes without cause, that
one deserves.
I dislike celebrities who have an arrogant sense of entitlement.
Mnemonic: It originally referred to investing a person with a title, as in "King Khan"
to Sharukh Khan. It can also mean a government benefit, as in "Social Security
payments and other entitlements".
analogous
adjective: comparable; similar.
She called our attention to the things that had been done in an analogous situation
and recommended that we do the same.
Mnemonics: It's derived from analogy, which means similarity; moving through bike
near canal(anal-) is similar to swimming in it, fresh air in the surrounding makes that
analogy.
elevate
verb: Rise, lift up; move up to a higher rank or status.
After a year in doing his job responsibilities, he hoped to be promoted to a more

elevated position.
Mnemonics: We use elevator (which is a lift) to go to high flour without using stairs;
so elevate means uplift. Also in Maths we know the angle of elevation is the upper
angle made by a tree with it's shadow; the angle of depression is the lower angle
made by shadow other than 90 degree.
mollify
verb: Calm or soothe (an angry person); lessen or soften.
We tried to mollify the hysterical child by promising her many gifts.

Mnemonics: Mollify shares a root 'soften' with emollient, which means soothing or
softening remedy (for the skin)
levy
verb: impose (a fine); collect (a payment); impose or collect (a tax).
Crying "No taxation without representation," the colonists demonstrated against

England's power to levy taxes.
Mnemonics: levy = heavy; a tax imposed by government is heavy burden on poor.
autonomous
adjective: Self-governing; independent.
Inter-Services-Intelligence (I.S.I) is an autonomous body of organisation which is

independent of any rules and laws of Pakistan; even Pakistani law it-self has made
this an independent organisation, or above all rules or laws; this autonomy is teasing
to many people who are against Pakistan independence.
Mnemonics: It has root with 'auto' or 'automatic', an automatic machine is
independent of human interventions; it has self-control system.
naive
adjective: Simple and unsophisticated; lacking worldly experience and critical
judgment.
He is naive, simple, and guileless; he cannot be guilty of fraud.
Mnemonics: We know that there are three major defensive forces of Pakistan: Pak
Army, Pak Airforce and Pak Navy (close to naive). The first two are stronger than the
third one; we didn't have our own submarine. So Pak Navy is naive that's it's not
sophisticated as Pak Army and Pak Airforce are
apocryphal
adjective: Of questionable authenticity; false.
The remarks of the government representative about the Model Town incident of
Tahir-ul-Qadri workers was clearly apocryphal; How can be police kill more than 10
people and injure more than 80 people without the government permission?
Mnemonics: apo-cry-phal = apny ap cry to get hal(solution); when someone cry on
something so highly, As indian did in UN, that is a questionable and not authentic.
preamble
noun: Introductory statement, preface.
His early travels were just a preamble to his later adventures.

Mnemonic: Preamble literally means 'walk before'. The root for 'walk' is also found in
amble, which means able to walk.
mores
noun: Customs, manners, or morals of a particular group.
An American in Saudi Arabia should study the culture beforehand so as to avoid

violating deeply conservative cultural mores.
Mnemonic: It's sounds like moral; a moral customs or believe is called mores.
coverage
verb: To move towards a point esp. to the centre; approach; tend to meet; come
together.
Students converged in the parking lot to say goodbye after graduation.
Mnemonics: converge = con (together) + verge (tending to), that means unite; It's
basically opposite of diverge which means break in more than 1 angles, e.g., the
sunlight has diverged the tree into two.
impede
verb: hide; retard or obstruct the progress of; block.
The special prosecutor determined that the Attorney General, though inept, had not
intentionally set out to impede the progress of the investigation.
Mnemonics: Impede contains the root 'per' which mean 'feet', also occurring in
pedestrian or pedal. Impede thus has the sense of shackling the feet, preventing
movement.
likewise
verb: Also, in addition to; similarly; in the same way.
Obama administration (Democratic) is likewise the Bush administration (Republican);

we can't see any change in the system and policy.
Mnemonics: likewise = like (same) + wise (way); so it's meaning 'in same way'. When
someone says 'Nice to meet you' you could say, 'likewise'.
negate
verb: Deny or refute; make void or cause to be ineffective; cancel out; nullify.
Our Political system is that the opposition negates the government in corruption, as a
result government also negate the opposition in their corruption, when opposition
was in government, after that both becomes silence; neither of one defends himself
nor proves the allegation to be false.
Mnemonics: Of course, negate is the same word we use in math, as in "To negate
both sides of the equation, multiply through by -1."
deflect
verb: Turn aside, esp. from a straight course; avoid.
The purpose of a shield is to deflect the attacks through bullets from an enemy.
Mnemonics: It sounds like reflect; when the radiation of sun reflects from a mirror;
this results the radiation to be deflected towards the other side, rather than straight
forward. Also it sounds like different, when a radition suddenly go in different
direction rather than straight forward, it's tend to be deflected.
choronological
adjective: Arranged in order.
I am afraid you've done the assignment wrong--the point of making a timeline is to

put the information in chronological order. You've made an alphabetical-order-line
instead.
Mnemonics: It's derived from chronicle, which means in step by step orderly
arrangement; just like chronicle order or arrangement.
caustic
adjective: burning; corrosive; sarcastically biting; (of remarks) intended to hurt; bitter;
harmful.
The critic's caustic remarks angered the hapless politician who was serving as
Ministry of Water & Electricity in Pakistan.
Mnemonics: We use caustic soda (vinegar) which is harsh in taste when touch with
tongue directly. A caustic remarks that spoken directly to a person is bitting to him.
layperson / layman
noun: a person who is not a professional (e.g, lawyer, doctor or clergyman).
The special terminology developed by some authorities in the field has done more to
confuse laypersons than to enlighten them.
Mnemonic: layperson = laymen; it's an opposite of law-men, which is a professional;
lay means inactive or lay down; so laymen is a person who is inactive as a
professional; In other words "laita hua man" (in Urdu).
counterintuitive
adjective: Against what one would intuitively expect.
Although it seems counterintuitive, for some extreme dieters, eating more can
actually help them to lose weight, since the body is reassured that it is not facing a
period of prolonged starvation.
Mnemonics: counterintuitive = counter (against) + intuitive (biased); so when a
decision is made on bases of facts and evidences, it's not a biased decision; in other
words, it's a counterintuitive.
mundane
adjective: Common; worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday; of the ordinary.
He was concerned only with mundane matters, especially the daily stock market
quotations.
Mnemonics: It's close to man-done; man done his jobs daily; it's an ordinary and
common practice in Pakistan that man do work, for his whole family.
anarchy
noun: Absence of law or government' chaos, disorder.
Once the dictator was assassinated, the country fell into total anarchy, as none of the
opposition groups were strong enough to seize power.
Mnemonic: It sounds like anna (blind) a blind governance is called anarchy; that
means there is no government.
principled
adjective: Having high moral standards.
Donna was only an intern, but she was also quite principled--although she knew it
would kill her shot at a full-time job, she was the one who alerted the authorities
when asked to violate federal law via corrupt accounting practices.
Mnemonics: A principle is a moral rule. And a principal is the headmaster of a school,
and principal a an adjective means first or most important. Thus one can say
something like 'My principal principle is never to lie.
static
adjective: Fixed, not moving or changing; lacking development.
Nothing has changed in our country; things are static here; no progress at all.
Mnemonics: When someone or something remains in a constant state (root of
static), it's static.
juncture
noun: crisis; point in time; joining point; joint; act of joining.
At this critical juncture of our country, let us think carefully before determining the
course we shall follow.
Mnemonic: Junction is the act of joining, or a place where two things meet, esp.
railroad lines or roads. Also a junction is a point that needs extra care while driving a
car or train, so juncture is also a critical point.
landmark
adjective: Object that stands out; very important place or event.
The Civil Right Act of 1964 was a landmark in the battle for equality.
Mnemonics: Landmark = land (area) + mark (spot); a spotted or marked area or even
is landmark; it's something marked by the most significant.
abdicate
verb: give up some position or status.
When Edward VII abdicated the British throne, he surprised the entire world.
Mnemonics: abdicate = ab (away) + dictatorship (status to rule on a nation); so when
someone give away his position as a dictatorship, that shows he's abdicate.
enumerate
verb: list; mention one by one.
You'll not have enough time to enumerate all the steps involving in solving the math
questions during GRE exam; so practice is essential to get answer accurately with
enumerating the each steps to find the answer.
Mnemonics: enumerate = enlist in numbers, e.g, first, second, third and so on.
exhaustive
adjective: Comprehensive; very thorough; accounting for all possibilities.
The Official Guide to GRE revised General Test, provides an exhaustive treatment of
the content of GRE and it's genuine practice questions.
Mnemonics: Please don't confuse this word with exhaust or exhausting, which
means 'having lost one's original power'. It's exhaustive; this because, when
someone work so hard that cause him so tired, but it makes the word so through and
comprehensive.
nevertheless / nonetheless
Adverb: despite of; inspite of.
We are not at all prepared to climb this mountain K2, nonetheless we are going to
try.
Mnemonics: nonetheless = none-the-less; break this word up to examine its
meaning: None-the-less means that the statement you've just made does not
diminish or make less what comes next.
novel
adjective: New, fresh, original.
The computer is no longer a novelty around the office.

Mnemonics: It's famous dialogue in punjabi movies, "navan aya e sonya". It's
newness or original uprising like a hero; so novel means newness.
lavish
adjective: liberal; wasteful; generous or wasteful in giving or using; abundant; profuse;
great.
Although her rich banker boyfriend lavished gifts on her, she didn't want to be with
someone she didn't really love.
Mnemonics: It sounds like lovish; when someone has lovish characteristics, he is
generous, hence he is lavish.
supplicate
verb: Beg, ask or seek in humble way; humble request to grant a favor.
For letter of recommendation, students supplicate their professors to recommend

them for carry-on their higher studies in the relevant field.
Mnemonics: During matric or intermediate, few students do Supplementary exams

on the subjects in which they fail; this supplementary exam is only possible after
sending a form containing humble request to grant a chance.
juncture
noun: crisis; point in time; joining point; joint; act of joining.
At this critical juncture of our country, let us think carefully before determining the
course we shall follow.
Mnemonic: Junction is the act of joining, or a place where two things meet, esp.
railroad lines or roads. Also a junction is a point that needs extra care while driving a
car or train, so juncture is also a critical point.
inherent
adjective: Existing as a permanent, essential quality; firmly established by nature or
habit.
New research seems to support the idea that humans have an inherent sense of
justice--even babies become upset at the upper shows depicting unfairness.
Mnemonics: Inherent = in + here by nature; this means when something is inherent,
it's there naturally; for instance a inherent habit of moving hands while talking.
saturate
verb: soak thoroughly; imbue; charge; fill to capacity.
I simply cannot dissolve any more sugar into this iced tea--it's saturated.
Mnemonics: It's come from the root 'satus' which has derived from satisfy. So when
something is soaked completely it's saturate; similarly in chemistry we used this
word many times; a saturated solution of salt and water has no further capacity to
solve further salt, because it's fully satisfied.
subside
verb: moderate; sink to a lower level; become less active.
The government ha ensured the the flood would soon subside and people will able to
settle to their home safely soon.
Mnemonics: subside = sub (total) + side (take aside); e.g., it is wise to take emotions
aside while making decisions specially in court of law; so subside must be something
to less or moderate.
eclipse
noun: darken; extinguish; outshine.
The new Karachi Stock Market high eclipsed the previous record set in 2005.
Mnemonic: During a solar eclipse, the moon eclipses the Sun
fanciful
adjective: Imaginary; freely imaginative rather than based on reason or reality.
For many people, Kala Bagh dam is a fanciful scheme because it does not consider
the facts.
Mnemonics: It has derived from fancy, which is mostly use in women clothing or
fabrics; e.g., a fancy design or style; so it's some kind of imaginative, like fantastic,
that is, exactly what was imagined.
monotony
noun: sameness leading to boredom; lack of variation; repletion in sound.
He took a clerical job, but soon grew to hate the monotony of his daily routine.
Mnemonic: monotony = mono (single) + tony (derived from tone, belongs to sound);
so when there is same repeated frequency of sound, it's monotony.
abrasive
adjective: rubbing away; causing irritation or annoyance.
Just as abrasive cleaning powders can wear away a shiny finish, abrasive remarks can
wear away a listener's patience.
Mnemonics: It sounds like embarrassive; so when your remarks are so embarrassing,

it must be abrasive remarks.
scant
adjective: inadequate; insufficient; not enough; very small in size or amount.
Imran Khan said in press conference that food is in scant supply in KPK province of
Pakistan, during war against terrorists; It's price increase significantly.
Mnemonics: When a tangent is drawn to the circle, and the distance from its radius
to the line (hypotenuse) is given, It's enough information to solve the question; while
when a secant(close to scant) is drawn to a circle, and the distance of the point to
the radius of circle is given, here information is not sufficient to answer the question.
Also it's very close to sikka (sharp area of a pencil) which is of very smal
obsolete
adjective: old-fashioned; outdated; no longer used; outmoded.
Accustomed to editing his papers on word processors, Ahmed thought typewriters

were too obsoleted for him to use.
Mnemonics: obsolete = ab sale it, meaning now sale it; when something is worthless
for you you sale it on olx.
erratic
adjective: Inconsistent, wandering, having no fixed course; odd; irregular in movement
or behavior; unpredictable.
Investors become anxious when the Karachi Stock Market appears erratic; they want
a consistent progressive return on their investment.
Mnemonics: It has derived from error; when there is no consistency in the
performance, it's erratic or waving, due to some error or perhaps blunders. Please
don't confuse this with 'erotic', which means 'passionate love' or 'sexual love'.
liberal
adjective: Generous; believing in maximum possible individual freedom; tolerant;
open-minded.
Liberal reformera in Pakistan in 2001, pushed for freedom of speech and freedom of
press.
Mnemonics: It's comes from liberty; we have a liberty market in Gulberg; it's name
was suggested so that people can buy things by freedom of their wish or the
freedome of choice(price + taste); whichever they like.
temperance
noun: moderate; restrained; self-controlled; moderate.
Noted for his temperate appetite, he seldom drink alcohals.

Mnemonic: It's derived from temperature; a moderate temperature is most suitable,
or favourable for the growth; so a temperance should be of moderate or self-control.
explicit
adjective: totally clear; definite; outspoken; fully revealed; direct in speech.
Don't just hint around that you're dissatisfied: be explicit about what's bugging you.
Mnemonics: Explicit = explain clearly; when someone says something explicitly, he is
speaking free from emotions or ambiguity.
fanatical
adjective: Excessively devoted, enthusiast, or zealous in an uncritical way; extreme
devotion to a belief or cause.
The leader of the group was held responsible even though he could not control the
fanaticism of his followers.
Mnemonics: It drives from the urdu word fana (a name of bollywood movie of Amir
Khan). It's about excessive love, with a blind girl.
potentate
noun: sovereign; ruler; person of great power.
In Pakistan, almost all potentate has faced imprisonment; it's very embarrassing for
us.
Mnemonic: It shares roots from potential or power; when someone has great
potential to influence his hold on others, he's potentate.
refute
verb: Prove to be false; disprove; prove to be false.
The defense called several respectable witnesses who were able to refute the false
testimony of the prosecution's only witness.
Mnemonics: It's sound like refuse which means 'rejects'. When someone refute some
arguments or judgement, he is going to reject it.
erroneous
adjective: Mistaken, in error; improper, morally incorrect.
I thought my answer was correct, but it was erroneous; it's usually in case of tricky
questions.
Mnemonics: It has clearly derived from 'error' which means 'mistake'.
exacting
adjective: extremely demanding; requiring precious attention..
Day-by-day, electricity is exacting in Pakistan, specially in summer season; because

it's consumption is very high in summer; people start using Air Conditioners that
consume lots of power.
Mnemonics: It has derived from exactly, which means absolutely or completely;
when you demand something, you want to get it 100%, without any compromise.
estimable
adjective: worthy of esteem; admirable; deserving esteem; possible to estimate.
As the first black president of Harvard Law Review, Barack Obama presented an
estimable reuse when he ran for President in 2008.
Mnemonics: It has derived from esteem (self-esteem = self-respect); also it has roots
with estimate which means calculate.
fortify
verb: strong point or special talent in a person's character.
In issue essay of GRE, one has to fortify his stance with relevant examples in order to
receive good score.
Mnemonics: It has derived from 'forte' which means 'strong point or talent'; Did you
watch 'movie 21'? It is about a special talent in a student (genious); the double of 21
is approx. 40 (forte), means very high skill or talent.
divine
verb: perceive intuitively (by or as if by magic); foresee the future.
As an experienced teacher, he makes divine prediction about his students score in

official GRE, while their preparation.
Mnemonics: Of course, divine is most commonly an adjective, meanly 'of or like a
god; heavenly.' I read online reviews of the spa to divine whether it would really be
as divine an experience was advertised.
subjective
adjective: influenced by personal feelings; occurring or taking place within the mind;
unreal.
Your analysis is highly subjective; you have permitted your emotions and your
opinions to color your thinking.
Mnemonics: subjective is some reasoning that based on a subject or personal

emotions or obinios; it's the opposite of objective which means free from bias or
emotions or an independent decision.
empirical
adjective: Based on experience or experimentation; not purely based on theory.
He distrusted hunches and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on

empirical data.
Mnemonics: We read 'empirical formula' of many species in chemistry; it's what
based on experience or experiment by the scientists.
cogent
adjective: convincing; logical.
She presented cogent arguments to the jury; that cleared the judge about his stance.
Mnemonics: Cogent = co (same or together) + gents (guys); In professional setup,
when you see some guys wearing three piece suit.
subside
verb: moderate; sink to a lower level; become less active.
The government ha ensured the the flood would soon subside and people will able to
settle to their home safely soon.
Mnemonics: subside = sub (total) + side (take aside); e.g., it is wise to take emotions
aside while making decisions specially in court of law; so subside must be something
to less or moderate.
remedial
adjective: reparable, correcting a deficient skill.
The economic condition of Pakistan is not so bad, because it's remediable; what we
need is to eliminate corruption and make equal distribution of wealth, after that we
can be categorise as developed countries.
Mnemonics: It has derived from remedy; something which is irremediable cannot be
remediated or repaired.
gist
noun: essence; main point.
I didn't read the whole novel of The Great Gadsby, but I read enough to get the gist
of it.
Mnemonic: If you read enough to get the pith of something, you really deeply
understand it to the ore; if you read enough to get the gist, you probably just
skimmed, and might need to go back later to get more detail.
goosebumps
noun: The bumps created by hairs standing up on the skin in response to cold, fear or
a sudden feeling of excitement.
The detective novel is hard to put down! I've got goosebumps just waiting to find out
what happens next.
Mnemonic: goose sounds like boost, while bumps are some kind of skin disease or
something related to skin; so goosebumps are the standing up of hairs when
someone got excited or feared too much.
efficacy
noun: The quality of being able to produce the intended effect.
The efficacy of your preparation of GRE is depends on your devotion of time and
smart-work to prepare for this exam.
Mnemonic: It has derived from 'effectual', an effectual power is described as efficac
glib
adjective: Fluent (with insincerity or superficiality).
Politicians are usually glib and articulate speakers, this skill help them in their
campaign.
Mnemonics: Mirza Galib(close to glib) was a famous Urdu poet; his poems were very
fluent but these were about the insincerity of the lover.
fleeting
adjective: Fast; rapid; passing quickly; ephemeral.
Good times with girl-friend seems to be fleeting; but bad time during load shedding
seems to be very long.
Mnemonics: It derived from flee = very small flying objects; we know small flying
objects are quick in flying and movements, e.g., sparrows and butterflies.
replete
adjective: Fully filled; filled to the brim or to the point of being stuffed; abundantly
supplied.
This essay is replete with errors--I don't think you even bothered to use spellcheck,
much less carefully edit your work.
Mnemonics: It sounds like repeat; when something comes repeatedly, it's supplied
abundantly.
reap
verb: Harvest, such as by cutting' gather' get as a result of one's effort.
He worked night and day in practicing questions, never stopping to rest, for he knew
he would reap his reward when his family greets him as a hard-worker.
Mnemonics: It sounds like ripe:(of fruit or grain) developed to the point of readiness
for harvesting and eating.
contextualize
verb: Place in context, such as by giving the background or circumstances.
In sentence completion of GRE, contextualise each word one by one and select that
word that gives a sense to the sentence.
Mnemonics: It's derived from the word context = con (together) + text (combination
of words in a sentence); so context is making the words together and think about the
circumstance what the sentence is telling about.
gist
noun: essence; main point.
I didn't read the whole novel of The Great Gadsby, but I read enough to get the gist
of it.
Mnemonic: If you read enough to get the pith of something, you really deeply
understand it to the ore; if you read enough to get the gist, you probably just
skimmed, and might need to go back later to get more detail.
futile
adjective: useless; hopeless; ineffectual.
Why waste your time on futile pursuits on internet? just read the articles that will
help you in your comprehension skill.
Mnemonics: Futile = fu (foul) + tile (shining bricks used in bathroom, kitchen or
ground flour; so when a tile is foul, it's useless or ineffective.
embellish
verb: decorate; adorn; ornament; enhance as a story (by adding fictitious details).
My mother-in-law's stories about her journey from Russia made us laugh because she
embellished the bare facts of her travels with humorous anecdotes.
Mnemonics: In mandirs (worship places of Hindu); a set of bells are hanged to make
a religious tone, which is a decorative style; so embellish means arrange bells to
decorate.
fringe
adjective: edge; on the margin.
Many people like to live on the fringe of Karachi, because they want to enjoy with the
sea water with their kids on evenings .
Mnemonics: You may hear the word fringe benefits; it's used while dealing with
taxes. fringe is basically an edge.
equitable
adjective: fair; impartial.
Pakistan is seeking an equitable solution to Kashmir dispute, one which will be fair
and acceptable to all three parties.
Mnemonics: It drives from equity, which means equal justice or fair; Don't confuse
equitable and equity with equanimity and equanimous; the first set is about equality,
the second set about being even-tempered or calmness of temperament.
ephemeral
adjective: short-lived; fleeting; lasting only a short time.
The mayfly is an ephemeral creature; it hardly lives for couple of hours.

Mnemonics: It's very close to elephant which is now disappearing from the world;
although elephant gets very long live, but its growth and generation is going to
disappearing; so ephemeral means short lived or soon disappearing.
reproach
noun: blame (not angrily but sadly); express disapproval or disappointment.; criticise.
I want my work to be above reproach and without error; because I can't bear any
trouble in future.
Mnemonic: reproach = re (again) + approach (approach to top-management to
complain about somebody); so re-approach means complaining again or blaming
again and again to criticise someone.
elated
adjective: filled with excited joy and pride; overjoyed; in high spirits; joyful and proud.
Grinning from ear to ear, Faisal was clearly elated on his very high score in GRE.
Mnemonics: elated = enjoy + late; In collage days, we usually enjoyed by going to
class very late, it's a chill mol.
articulate
adjective: Using language in a clear, fluent way.
Her articulate presentation of the advertising campaign impressed her employers.

Mnemonics: It's an art to speak clearly, which many people have lack of it; so
articulate is some kind of good skill; a good skill in speaking clearly.
gradation
noun: A process taking place gradually, in stages; series of gradual stages.
Manufacturing a car requires to pass it through gradation of different units.

Mnemonic: In the official transcript of graduate student, specific grade is mentioned
like A, B+, B etc.
chauvinism
noun: blindly devoted patriot; zealous adherent of a group or cause.
A chauvinist cannot recognise any faults in his country, no matter how flagrant the
policies the country may have.
Mnemonic: Don't confuse chauvinism with sexism--a 'male chauvinist' is just one
kind. The original chauvinist was Nicholas Chauvin, a possibly fictional soldier
wounded 17 times while serving in Napoleon's army (he really loved Napoleon).
candid
adjective: Simple, open, sincere or honest.
The candid attitude of Imran Khan has inspired many young individuals to become
like Imran Khan.
Mnemonics: candid = can + did; 'yes you can' is a famous motivational expression
used for Pakistani citizens by Faiz Hassan Syal; in short you can grow economically &
socially well if you become sincere with yourself, which you 'can do'. Also when
something(e.g. quiz is so simple, everyone can do this.
decorous
adjective: Appropriateness in behaviour or manner.
we were asked to be on our most decorous behavior at the formal event.

Mnemonics: it derived from decorate; when your room is decorated on some
wedding, it's appropriate for wedding.
tacit
adjective: understood (without actually being expressed); not put into words.
It has been a part of business law that a customer negotiates with a retailer on the
price; when the both parties finally agreed on some price, then it becomes a tacit
agreement, which doesn't require any written proof.
Mnemonics: It is related to taciturn, which means not talking much or reserved.
counterpoint
noun: Contrasting item, opposite.
After Imran Khan jalsa on Minar-e-Pakistan, news anchors and columnists of Geo &
Co. started making cpunterpoints of Mr. Khan's speech in his jalsa.
Mnemonic: We hear word many times like counter-attack; e.g, I.S.I has countered
the attack by R.A&W and Moosad; but it couldn't be countered by other agencies,
that's its perfection. Also a game named as I.G.I project (counter strike). So counter
means to negate or oppose.
eccentric
adjective: Odd; deviating from normal.
The eccentricity of a planet's orbit is the amount by which it deviates from a perfect
circle.
Mnemonics: eccentric = exclude from centric; when something is deviating from
centre point, it's eccentric.
haven
noun: Harbor; place of refuge; safe place.
The relief workers set up the camp as a haven from persecution.

Mnemonic: It's sounds like heaven, which is a most safe and comfort place.
succeeding
adjective: Coming after or following.
Many people believe that Imran Khan will be succeeding the Nawaz Sharif in the next
election; Because Imran is now believed to be the future Prime Minister.
Mnemonics: When a different person successfully elected in the next election, he
would be succeeding the current Prime Minister.
incentive
noun: Motive; something which encourages one to greater activity, such as reward.
Students who dislike school must be given an incentive to learn.
Mnemonic: We heard this news many times in Pakistan that government has
announced to give incentives to flood effected ares in Pakistan every year; so
incentive means to give support or encourage to live by providing some incentives.
jocular
adjective: Joking or given to joking all the time; jolly, playful.
Do not take my jocular remarks seriously; I want to make you cheerful and laughable,
so don't take it seriously.
Mnemonics: It sounds like jokular which comes from joke, or playful activity.
hierarchy
noun: arrangement by rank or standing; authoritarian body divided into ranks.
It was difficult to step out of one's place in this hierarchy, because the rules are much
strict; if someone want to get out of his place, he needs approval from it's top
hierarchy.
Mnemonic: We heard this word many times in our work life 'management hierarchy';
it's originally the ranked division of some authority.
bygone
adjective: Past; former.
After starting jobs, the time to reminisce about bygone days of graduation with
cheering friends was pretty much all the time.
Mnemonics: bygone = bye + gone; that is saying bye to something or someone that
has gone (past).
gradation
noun: A process taking place gradually, in stages; series of gradual stages.
Manufacturing a car requires to pass it through gradation of different units.
Mnemonic: In the official transcript of graduate student, specific grade is mentioned

like A, B+, B etc.
hodgepodge
noun: Mixture of different kinds of things, jumble.
The exhibition was a hodgepodge of mediocre art, bad art, and really bad art; it was
disliked by many visitors.
Mnemonic: This word itself looks to be jumbled or distorted, it contains different
words ho-dge-po-dge; looks to be funny but it's meaning is the same 'mixture of
different kinds of something'.
synchronous
adjective: Happening at the same time.
We have many examples of scientists in different parts of the world who have made
synchronous discoveries.
Mnemonics: It comes from the word same + chronicle; so when the events occur at
the same rate, it's synchronous.
lackluster
adjective: Joking or given to joking all the time; jolly, playful.
We were disappointed by the lackluster performance of our cricket team in world cup
semi-final.
Mnemonics: Lackluster = lacking + luster(shining); when something lacking lister it's
lacklustre, or dull.
discredit
adjective: Injure the reputation of; destroy confidence in.
The campaign was highly negative in tone; each candidate tried to discredit the
other.
Mnemonics: The root 'cred' means belief; the reverse of belief is disbelief or
discredit.
rustic
adjective: Pertaining to country people; unsophisticated; simple; crude.
For their honeymoon, they eschewed fancy hotels and instead chose a rustic cabin in
the woods.
Mnemonics: In rural areas, people usually rests because there is not as such work or
job. So rustic belongs to rural life.
concede
verb: admit; acknowledge as being true (often reluctantly); yield; grant.
Despite all the evidence Fatima had assembled, Bilal refused to concede that she was
right.
Mnemonics: concede = con (together) + cede (cession = yield or grant); when
someone agree to precede together with you, that means he concedes you.
intractable
adjective: Difficult to control, manage or manipulate; hard to cure.
The horse was intractable and refused to enter the starting gate.
Mnemonics: Tractor is very hard to manage; when something is tractable by you, it's
manageable; otherwise when it's intractable, it's hard to manage.
resolution
noun: Quality of being firmly determined; resolving to do something.
Given the many areas of conflict still awaiting resolution, the outcome of the peace
talks remains problematic.
Mnemonic: We know very well the resolution of Pakistan (1940); It was presented in
front of all participants, who make a unanimous decision to resolve this issue in form
of Independant state named as Pakistan.
corroborate
verb: confirm; support; strengthen.
Unless we find a witness to corroborate your evidence, it will not stand up in court.
Mnemonics: it close to the word collaborate, which means working together to
support each other's objectives.
daunt
verb: Discourage; dishearten; frighten;.
Indian threats can't daunt Pakistan Army; It is ready to face any kind of secrete
attack.
Mnemonics: We heard many times as a childhood; when you disobey your father or
teacher, you face ' wo ap ko daunt-ty hair'.
disingenuous
adjective: Not sincere, not candid; not simple; sophisticated; worldly wise.
Although he was young, his remarks indicated that he was disingenuous.

Mnemonics: disingenuous = dis (not) + ingenuous (in = recently entered + gen =
generatio; simple,young or recently acquired wings); anything which is not
ingenuous is sophisticated; also as it's not simple (simple lover is more loyal and
sincere) so it is insincere.
covert
adjective: Secret, undercover.
The soldier trained to be part of covert operations, moving silently and remaining out
of the enemy's sight.
Mnemonics: In a video game known as I.G.I Project (Covert Strike); we try to kill
opponent soldiers secretly.
sacrosanct
adjective: Sacred, inviolable, above all criticism.
In our house, family dinners were sacrosanct--if being in the school play meant you
would miss dinner.
Mnemonics: From the root of 'sacred' that also occurs in sanctify (make holy) and
sanctuary (sacred place; refuge).
disabuse
verb: Free somebody from erroneous belief.
I will attempt to disabuse you of your impression of my client's guilt; I know he is

innocent.
Mnemonics: You may heard many times some abusive languages by your employer
on your mistake during job. Disabuse is to make something to reverse the abuse.
penchant
noun: Liking or inclination; leaning towards.
He had a strong penchant for sculpture and owned so many statues that his home is
filled with many kinds of these sculptures.
Mnemonic: It comes from a Latin root that gives us pendulum. A person with a
penchant leans towards certain direction.
bygone
adjective: Past; former.
After starting jobs, the time to reminisce about bygone days of graduation with
cheering friends was pretty much all the time.
Mnemonics: bygone = bye + gone; that is saying bye to something or someone that
has gone (past).
consolidate
verb: unite; combine, solidify, make coherent; merge.
After launching the successful operation in waziristan, Pakistan Army has

consolidated their hold on that region.
Mnemonics: consolidate = con(together) + solidate(make it solid); so it signify its
meaning as strengthening.
derivative
adjective: Not original.
Many modern singer's albums are mere disappointment, derivative of several hit
albums from the past legendary.
Mnemonics: When a word is derived from its original roots (e.g., French, Greek or
Latin original root) it's derivative; which is driver from some original source.
cynical
adjective: Thinking the worst of other's motives; bitterly pessimistic.
Few cynical persons doesn't cast their votes to Imran Khan, for they believe he would
make more trouble of this country with his lack of experience; these people never
think the positive side for casting vote to Imran.
Mnemonics: It sounds like signical; when someone suggests that change is a
sign(close to cynical) of something worst; he is cynical, because he always suggests
any change is a sign of something worst.
conversely
verb: In an opposite way; on the other hand.
I am not here to argue that lack of education causes poverty; conversely, I am here to
argue that poverty causes lack of education.
Mnemonics: it looks like in reversely or inversely. ' All Mangoes are sweets' & 'All
sweets are Mangoes.'; here later statement is conversely stated to the former
statement.
spartan
adjective: Very disciplined; frugal, living simply; austere.
Her apartment was so spartan that she couldn't even serve us both soup; she only
had one bowl and one spoon.
Mnemonics: In movie 300, we saw story about ancient Greek spartans; although this
movie wasn't historically accurate, yet it was know that the spartans were fierce
wardiors known for their harsh training methods.
peripheral
adjective: making up an outer boundary or region; not of primary importance.
My main goal is to get into a good grad school; whether i has good fitness facilities is
really a peripheral concern.
Mnemonics: We know peri-meter of a square or rectangle is its out boundary; peri-
pheral is that outer boundary or region which is of not primary importance;
Peripheral vision is what you can see 'our of the corner of your eyes'.
console
verb: Lessen sadness or disappointment.
Bilal was unable to console his disappointment when he was caught with some
helpful materials during his official GRE exam; after that he was banned to attempt
for next GRE for 5 years.
Mnemonics: console = con (together) + sole (sorrow). When someone share his
sadness or sorrow with his friends, it divides the sadness among all friends so that
together with friends the sadness become reduce
partial
adjective: Biased, prejudiced, favouring one over others.
Imran Khan's lawyer was appealing on the ground that the judge was partial to the
federal government for making the prejudiced decision on recounting the votes.
Mnemonics: Of course, partial can also mean 'not complete'. But it's usually used for
tell that something is one-sided; for instance, a partial decision is made by taking
consider of only one party, rather that both of two parties.
egalitarian
adjective: Related to equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social
spheres.
Imran Khan wants egalitarian policies for the equal distribution of wealth among
nation.
Mnemonics: Many people in Pakistan now realising that the Musharraf (whose
voting sign is Eagle) was much better than the governments afterwards; because
government of eagl(APML) Musharraf has provided more equal rights to the
Pakistani than other governments afterward; government of Eagle = egalitarian.
table
verb: Lay aside to discuss later; to postpone discussion.
Let's table our discussion on poor economic development and move on the discussion
of terrorism; the later issue is more sever and one of the major cause of the former
issue.
Mnemonics: In GMAT & SAT exams, tables of 13 to 30 up-to their square are very
important; but most of the students postpone this; they want first the conceptual
topics for preparation, if they have adequate time, they can make ratta of these
tables which are postponed.
placid
adjective: Peaceful, calm.
Bilal attained the placid manner of doing his official GRE exam, because he has well
made his timed practice mocks before his official GRE exam; therefore he got high
score in GRE.
Mnemonics: Placid = place emotions aside, and do task peacefully.
culminate
verb: Reach the highest point or final stage.
A PhD. program generally culminates in a written dissertation and its defines to

committee.
Mnemonics: It has derived from word qalam (nib) in Pakistan; a qalam has the
needle like point where the ink finally ejected to make words on paper; so it's the
final point or highest point.
benign
adjective: kindly; favorable; not malignant (disease); harmless.
The old man was well liked because of his benign attitude toward friend and stranger
alike.
Mnemonics: It contains the root 'been', meaning 'good'. Its antonym is 'malign'
meaning bad; so when something is benign it's beneficial or favorable.
objective
adjective: Factual; related to reality; free from biased or emotions.
We need someone outside the company to give us an objective analysis.

Mnemonics: When a movie is based on some physical objects or facts, it's objective.
it's the opposite of subjective; a subjective decision by a judge is based only on a
subject rather than on physical evidence or objects (objective).
complementary
adjective: Serving to complete something.
GRE test consists of 3 sections; one for essay writing, second for verbal(consisting 2-3
subsections) and third for math(consisting 2-3 subsections); each section serve as
complementary in the GRE exam.
Mnemonics: In any right angle triangle, the sum of all complementary angles (less
than 90 degree) is equal to 90 degree.
crafty
adjective: cleverly deceitful; skilful in deception.
Don't be over confident while attempting the questions that looks to be easy in GRE;
these questions are mostly crafty and tricky.
Mnemonics: The word Air Craft is very common in Air Force; Air Craft is the name
given to fighter jet, which has installed awesome technologies(e.g. stealth
technology) to deceive enemies Radar. Crafty is therefore a skill to deceive others by
way of some tricks.
credulous
adjective: Gullible; trusting to easily or without enough evidence.
Few people are credulous enough to believe such nonsense that Imran Khan will also
start corruption as other politicians do.
Mnemonics: The root 'creed' meaning 'believe' also gives us credit, creed, credo and
accreditation.
constrict
verb: Squeeze, compress; restrict the freedom of.
The declining economy has constricted job opportunities.

Mnemonics: constrict = con (together) + strict (hard or uncompromisable); it gives a
meaning of something restricted.
bogus
adjective: Fake, fraudulent; not authentic; intentionally false.
Ahmed was rejected by the Fulbright decision panel after realising his interview as
bogus; there was not as such clear facts that Ahmed showed in his personal
statements and letter of recommendations.
Mnemonics: It sounds like baqwas; when some report is bogus, its fake; whatever
written in the report is baqwas.
skirt
verb: Border on, lie along the edge of; go around.
They put a protective skirt around the base of the machine, so that this will remain
protected from water erosion.
Mnemonics: This word is related to clothing item skirt, which modern women usually
wear.
convoluted
adjective: Twisted; very complicated.
Your argument is so convoluted that I'm not even able to understand it enough to
start critiquing it.
Mnemonics: convolute = con (together) + volume (space occupied by a body); when
a body or a thing is twisted together to make it jumble; it becomes convoluted.
offhand
adjective: Casual, informal; done without preparation or previous thought.
I was pretty happy with my salary until my coworker mentioned offhandedly that she
was thinking about buying a house new that she made six figures.
Mnemonics: When some work is done on-hand(reverse of offhand) that is made

carefully and after preparation; but when the work is done offhand it will be informal
and without preparation.
buttress
verb: Support, help or encourage.
Imran used his PhD. in Psychology as a buttress against criticism; He has learned and
researched on wide range that how to manage criticism.
Mnemonics: it derived from butter fly; which helps the enhance the beauty of
garden; so buttress means to help or support.
cacophony
noun: Harsh, discordant, or meaningless mixture of sounds.
The sounds of barking dogs and sirens added to the cacophony on the streets at
midnight; I didn't sleep for that reason.
Mnemonic: cacao is a distorted spell of coca (cocacola); phony derived from phone
that related to sounds. A distorted sound is known as cacophony.
abate
verb: Moderate; reduce; diminish.
Her stress over spending so much money on house abated when the real estate
broker told her about the property's 15 year tax abatement.
Mnemonics: Abate comes from an old french word for 'beat, cast down' that also
give us batter (beat severely) and abattoir (slaughterhouse).
appease
verb: pacify, satisfy, relieve.
My mother is so angry she wasn't the first person we called when the baby was born -
- I'm hoping to appease her by spending Eid at her house this year.
Mnemonics: When you try to please someone on his state of anger, you are trying to
appease.
foreshadow
verb: Indicate or suggest beforehand.

The gloomy skies and the sulphurous odours from the mineral springs seemed to
bode evil to those who settled in the area.
Mnemonics: 'Fore' means before -- foreshadow literally comes from the idea that an
object's shadow sometimes arrives before the object does.
disquieting
adjective: disturbing, causing anxiety.
Mr. Amir's lack of emotion at his wife's death was disquieting--so much so, in fact,
that even his own family began to suspect he'd something to do with it.
Mnemonics: Think of disquiet not as the opposite of quiet, but more as an opposite
to quiescent, meaning peaceful and calm.
intelligible
adjective: Able to be understood, clear; comprehensible.
During speech use vocabulary that is intelligible to your audience.
Mnemonics: intelligible comes from intelligent which is ability of mind related to
knowledge; when someone is intelligible, he has enough knowledge to understand
what he is receiving further knowledge or information.
skeptic
adjective: Person inclined to doubting or questioning generally accepted beliefs;
doubter.
In this matter of many allegation against Imran Khan, I am a skeptic; I want proof.
Mnemonics: Don't confuse skeptical and cynical. In GRE Reading Comprehension
passage, an author might be skeptical (a very appropriate attitude for a scientist, for
instance), but would never be cynical.
propriety
noun: Confirming to good manners or appropriate behaviour.
They questioned the propriety of certain investments made by the council; as they
were in doubt whether the high return on investment is highly riskier.
Mnemonic: This word sounds like proper; a properness suggests that it's propriety.
aberrant
adjective: Abnormal, deviant.
The teen's aberrant behaviour made his family suspect that he was using drugs.
Mnemonics: The prefix 'ab' means away -- in this case, away from what's normal.
enigma
noun: Puzzle, mystery, riddle; mysterious or contradictory person.
Despite all attempts to decipher the code, it remained an enigma.
Mnemonic: It's very close to engine; it's very difficult to understand the mechanism
of an engine. Only Mechanical Engineer can understand it's working.
aver
verb: Declare or affirm with confidence.
I wish to aver that I am certain of success after my GRE preparation with too much
practices.
Mnemonics: Aver contains the root 'ver' (truth), which also appears in verity,
veracious, and verisimilitude.
sanction
noun: permission; penalty intended to enforce compliance.
America's sanctions on Cuba mean that it is illegal for Americans to do business with
Cuban companies.
Mnemonic: This word can be very confusing--its two definitions seem to be
opposites. permit and penalise? We have to use context to figure out the meaning--
since the bad meaning (generally 'sanctions', plural) applies to international actions,
most usages of sanction mean 'allow'.
standing
noun: Status, rank or reputation (noun); existing indefinitely, not moveable (adj.).
In England, judiciary is at the highest standing; even the Prime Minister is answerable
to the judiciary when he will asked.
Mnemonic: Standing is the position or status where someone stands; as an adjective,
it may use as longstanding friendship which means long-existing friendship.
alleviate
verb: provide physical relief, as from pain; lessen pain or suffering.
The stimulus package has alleviated the pangs of the Great Recession, but times are
still tough.
Mnemonics: The over-the-counter painkiller 'Alleve' was undoubtedly named with

the word alleviate in mind.
sportive
adjective: Playful, merry, joking around, done in sport rather than intended
seriously.
Ali practiced his GRE mocks in sportive manner, as a result he was stuck with the time
pressure in his actual GRE exam; it's because he didn't take the practice exams
seriously.
Mnemonics: It certainly related to some sports or playful things; please don't
confuse it with supportive which means helpful, which is very different in context.
rife
noun: Happening frequently, abundant; (of something bad) widespread; currently
being reported.
Reports of money laundering and financial corruptions of Pakistani politicians are
rife.
Mnemonic: It's very close to word 'river'-- thus the idea of 'flowing freely'.
dispatch
verb: speed, promptness;send off or deal with in speedy way.
So, you want to be a bike messenger? I need messengers who approach every
delivery with alacrity, care and dispatch -- if the customers wanted their packages to
arrive slowly, they'd use the post office.
Mnemonics: A dispatch can also be a report from a journalist or something delivered
by messenger, or the act of sending a messenger. To dispatch a person can also
mean to execute him or her -- presumably in a speedy manner.
indeterminate
adjective: Not fixed or determined, indefinite; vague; uncertain; not clearly fixed
It is indeterminate that how many students from Pakistan will get admissions in US
universities, for higher education; whole thing is depends on their application profile
as compare to the profiles of the students from the rest of the world.
Mnemonics: indeterminate = not able to be determine because of lack of clearance
or information.
simultaneous
adjective: At the same time.
It is rarely seen in the world that the enemies were just going to attack the Atomic
power plants of Pakistan, but Pakistan Air Force has counter their attack
simultaneously.
Mnemonics: simultaneous sounds like similar occasion; so when the two events
happen simultaneously, both of them happen at the same time. It's usually such a
coincidence
precursor
noun: Something that comes before, something that suggests about something.
We cannot ignore this warning sign--it is clearly a precursor of larger problems to
come.
Mnemonic: The 'cursor' in precursor is the same as in currency--the root means
'rum'. A precursor can be thought of as a 'before-runner, or forerunner (a synonym).
gauche
adjective: clumsy (in social behavior); coarse; awkward.
It is terribly gauche to put ketchup on your steak and then talk with your mouth full
as you eat it. That's the last time I ever bring you to a nice place.
Mnemonics: As a childhood, many children love to eat ghache (close to gauche)
which created many diseases related to stomach; eating ghache is awkward on
coarse.
inconsequential
adjective: lacking worth or importance.
The experimental section in GRE is inconsequential, but it's undeterminable; this
section doesn't contribute to GRE score report.
Mnemonics: inconsequential = not sequential (sequences are the most important
topic of GRE Quant section, as it is always tested in GRE; so not sequential means not
important.
conceivable
adjective: capable of being imagined.
We discussed the question from every conceivable angle; this question may ask on
GRE exam in many ways.
Mnemonics: conceivable = perceivable or imaginable.
heterogeneous
adjective: different in type, incongruous; composed of different types of elements.
Rather than build the wall with plain brick, we used a heterogeneous mixture of
stones --- they are not only different colours, but a variety of sizes are well.
Mnemonics: The Latin root 'gen' means 'birth, produce, race' and appears in
generate, gender, genocide. 'Hetero' means 'different' and appears in heterodox.
Homogeneous(of the same kind is the opposite of heterogeneous.
retort
noun: a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); a
sharp, angry, or witty reply.
On the allegation by the opposition, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke loudly to
make a suitably cutting retort.
Mnemonic: What's a retort? It's a reply that's short. "Why did the monkey fall out of
the tree; please give me a report?" I said "The monkey's dead," with a dry retort.
gawky
adjective: Physically awkward (esp. of a tall skinny person, often used to describe
teenagers).
As a teenager, she thought of herself as gawky and often slouched so as not to seem
so much taller than her peers; of course, now that she's a supermodel, no one thinks
of her as gawky at all.
Mnemonics: The word gawhak is seem to be awkward which is used in better way as
customers. So gawky must be something awkward.
hardy
adjective: bold, brave, capable of withstanding hardship, fatigue, cold, etc.
While the entire family enjoyed the trip to South America, only the hardier members
even attempt to hike to the top Ecuador's tallest volcano.
Mnemonics: Hardy, unsurprisingly, comes from 'harden,' in the sense of 'make
brave.'
pathological
adjective: relating to or caused by disease; relating to compulsive bad behaviour.
She though her skin darkening was simply a result of the sun, but it was actually
pathological, the result of a serious disease.
Mnemonics: It drives from 'pathos' which means disease. Pathological often occurs
as pathological lair. When pathological is used alone to describe a person, meaning is
that the person compulsively lies or hurts others.
tractable
noun: easily managed or controlled; the trait of being easily persuaded; .
After good preparation of GRE, and timed-practice questions, one becomes tractable
with time pressure during GRE exam.
Mnemonic: When a tractor is controllable by you, it is tractable by you; In other way,
anything which can be traced is tractable.
plummet
verb: drop sharply; fall straight down.
During the 1st minute or so of a skydive, the diver plummets towards Earth in free
fall; then, he activates a parachute and floats down at what seems like a relatively
leisurely pace.
Mnemonics: A plummet (or plumb bob) is a weight on the end of a cord. When
something plummets, the idea is that it is falling fast and straight down, as though it
has been weighted.
libertine
noun: morally or sexually unrestrained person; freethinker(regarding religion).
A famed libertine, the sitcom star was constantly in the news for cavorting with
women of dubious occupations and overdosing on drugs often enough to regularly
hold up production of his popular television show.
Mnemonic: Libertine certainly is related to 'liberty'--- think of a libertine as someone
who has a little too much liberty.
overshadows
verb: to make (something) less enjoyable because of sadness, fear, or worry.
The Afridi's outstanding performance in Asian Cup should not overshadow the
achievements of the rest of the team.
Mnemonics: to cast a shadow over something or to make a shadow over something
to hide its importance; that's it's meaning.
charismatic
adjective: possessing an extraordinary ability to attract.
Imran Khan is a charismatic leader; youth in Pakistan are blindly devoted to his voice.
Mnemonics: it derived from cherish which means attractiveness; in other way, it
comes from the word karishma (mystery), so when something is karishma, it is
usually attractive, because it's very strange, not an ordinary.
impair
verb: make worse, weaken.
Playing in a rock band without earplugs with almost certainly impair your hearing
over time.
Mnemonics: Impair = not repairable; so impair is something too worse or weaken to
be repair.
paradigm
noun: model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc.
Far from being atypically bawdy, this limerick is a paradigm of the form -- nearly all
of them rely on off-colour jokes.
Mnemonic: 'Para' means beside. Paradigm comes from two word parts meaning
'beside' and 'show' and combined into 'paradiegma' for 'pattern or example.'
scheming
adjective: concealing crafty designs for advancing your own interest; given to or
involved in making secret and underhand plans.
Indian & Jewish scheming to attach on atomic plant of Pakistan was vanished when
Pakistan Airforce has countered their scheme, by having better plan to defend their
attack.
Mnemonics: We know scheming means planing but remember its negative in sense;
scheming is always perceived as bad, while planning is usually perceive as good.
cherished
verb: to feel or show great love for; keep (a hope or ambition) in one's mind.
Bilal has cherished to math since he was child; for that reason he is very good in
numbers.
Mnemonics: In Pakistan, we use a boot polisher by cherry; this makes an attractive
personality of a person; it higher the chance of being loved by someone; also when
you wear the new brand shows in a party, it reminds your age when you were so
fantastic.
hyperbole
noun: language that describes something as better or worse than it really is.
Oh, come on. Saying 'That movie was so bad it made me puke' was surlily hyperbole. I
strongly doubt that you actually vomited during or following The Back-Up Plan.
Mnemonic: Hyperbole = hyper (extreme, whether good or bad) + bole (speak about
something).
philanthropy
noun: Efforts to improve the well-being of mankind, generally through giving money.
Many wealthy people turn to philanthropy as a way to creat social good, and many
others turn to it as a way to hobnob with the rich and famous.
Mnemonic: 'Phil' means love and 'anthro' means humankind. A misanthropist is a
hater of humankind.
touchstone
noun: a basis for comparison.
The touchstone of GRE score comparison between two countries is the average GRE
score per student taken the exam.
Mnemonic: the word stone shows it must be something related to basis on which
other thing is standing on, whether it's an idea or a thing.
sardonic
adjective: being scornful and mocking in a humorous way.
Now-a-days sardonic News channals are mocking the politicians in a humorous ways;
it creates disrespect for leaders of political parties.
Mnemonic: sardonic = sar ka dard-onic; so it means when sardonic comedian is
mocking the politician, he is the sar ka dard for politician.
thrift
noun: extreme care in spending money; reluctance to spend money.
In young age, everybody like to consume money for fulfilling their wishes; but in older
age, everyone becomes thrifty and tends to save money as much as possible.
Mnemonic: when you are thrift you save money instead of consuming it; but it
increase the chance of being theft (close to thrift); more the thrift, more will be the
chance of theft.
decry
verb: express strong disapproval of; condemn openly.
The opposition decries on government plan to build Kala Bagh Dam; as they believe if
this project will be successful, it would be the political success of the government and
the failur of the opposition.
Mnemonic: decry = the cry; when Indian army killed thousands of Kashmiri, it looks
as if nothing has happened; but when indian faced reaction of this, it cries in front of
United Nation; we all decry this unjustice behaviour of india
incensed
adjective: angered at something unjust or wrong; beond mad; make extremely
angry; outrage.
Mr. Edhi is know for very kind on children; unkindness to children by others incensed
him.
Mnemonic: incense = non-sense (sounds very similar); so it must be showing anger
on something bad or non-sense.
scathing
adjective: very harsh or severe; marked by harshly abusive criticism.
The news anchor launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister for his lack of
deliverance of good governance.
Mnemonics: When police sketch an image of a criminal (most wanted) in a paper and
distribute it among public; it is to inform and alert them that they should have aware
of this man, when see him inform it to police; it's of something harsh in meaning.
temperance
noun: unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice.

His temperence attitue has made him comfortable while in his official GRE test;
therefore he was free from any fear or worry on his exam day.
Mnemonic:it derived from word temper, whish is of two types; a good temper and a
bad temper, which tells some ability like tolerence.
affability
noun: a disposition to be friendly and approachable; easy to talk to.
The affability of Bilal has helped him in his interview with Fulbright scholarship
decision panel; he has spoken with confidence and in friendly manner that the panel
has no other option for the guy but only to select him for the scholarship.
Mnemonic: It derived from word affectuality; when something is affectual, it is
working nicely; e.g. affectual in communication.
desperate
noun: having lost all hopes; violent because of loss of hope.
The decision of Dhaka fall was made on desperate; there was no alternative in which
the two leaders of East Pakistan and West Pakistan could agree.
Mnemonic: desperate = the seprate; the decision of sepration of dhaka (east
Pakistan) was happens when there was no any hope for the unity between nation
between East Pakistan & West Pakistan.
stasis
noun: inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces; having no
motion; unchanging; lacking development.
Pakistan is one of the countries that are economically stasis; there is no indication of
development in near future.
Mnemonic: it sounds like static; a static state is a state of remain same or constant;
so stasis looks to be inactive because of same opposing forces.
dispassionate
adjective: unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice.
The judge should be dispassionate on making judgement about the culprit who may
be a relative of the judge.
Mnemonic: dispassionate = dis (lack of) + passion; So one who is not passionated to
favore someone is its meaning.
Saturnine
adjective: bitter or scornful; showing a ill humor.
Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance; he is not as gloomy as he looks.
Mnemonics: it derived from word saturated; when a solution is saturated, it will not
mix further sugar anymore; so saturnine is something harsh scolding, which can't
show sweetness.
sullen
adjective: used to describe an angry or unhappy person.
His sullen mood is due to the lack of any encouragement from top management he
receives during job.
Mnemonics: when you are suffering form sujan (sullen) on muscles due to playing
after couple of years; it makes you angry and painful.
sanguine
adjective: confidently optimistic and cheerful; hopeful.
Let us not be too sanguine about the outcome when Afridi is send for play on very
tough situation; something could go wrong with his fitness.
Mnemonics: In many Pakistani songs, we heard words like 'apny sang chala' it shows
something optimistic & cheerful expression.
Surge
verb: sudden rise and move, as in waves or billows, like a tsunami wave that engulfs
the land.
The tsunami of Imran Khan has surged when he called for a big jalsa at Minar-e-
Pakistan; it really has disturbed the other political parties.
Mnemonics: It is the overlapping of two words; sur (beautiful sound) + urge
(encourage more and more).
virtual
adjective: being actually such in almost every respect; nearly as described, but not
completely strict definition.
You may have made a virtual friend on an online gaming site, but don't expect that
person to meet you for coffee.
Mnemonics: In virtual university, we can participates in virtual classes at home,
which includes some video lectures; but its not the actually class, as one-on-one
lecture and question-answer sessions.
didacticism
noun: communication that is suitable for or intended to be instructive; teaching
moral principles.
The didactic qualities of his poetry overshadow its literary qualities; the lesson he
teaches is more memorable than the lines.
Mnemonic: didacticism = did + actions; when a teacher advise you that you should
act on these instructions, which you can did; that shows it's something didacticism.
mutinous
adjective: unruly; rebellious.
Mr. Musharraf has considered to be mutinous Army officer on his illegal ride on
democratically elected government in 1999.
Mnemonic: when you mute a speaker of your computer, it sounds off; a dictatorship
brings the voices of people off, because of its violence in nature.
immortality
noun: live forever.
Ambrosia was supposed to give immortality to any human who ate it.
Mnemonic: immortality = impossible to meet with maot (death).
imperil
verb: put in danger.
The financial health of P.I.A, Pakistan Steel Mills and Pakistan Railways was imperiled
political corruption and prejudiced hiring.
Mnemonic: imperil = im-per-ill; when I am (im) persuaded (per) to work during ill (il),
I am putting my-self in danger.
apathy
noun: an absence of emotion or enthusiasm.
Many GRE student have shown a surprising apathy toward first section of GRE exam;
the result is that many students are not able to achieve high score in this section,
because of their lack of interest.
Mnemonic: When you have absence of sympathy for others, due to lack of interest
on others feelings; you have apathy(absence of sympathy).
vindicated
adjective: freed from any question of guilt.
lawyers of Altaf Hussain are trying to vindicate him from scotland yard as well as the
judiciary.
Mnemonics: Vindicated = win + indict; so when someone wins in any indict its
vindicated.
cupidity
noun: extremely greediness for material wealth.
The cupidity of most Pakistani political leaders is responsible for huge corruption
among politicians and bureaucrats.
Mnemonic: It sounds like stupidity; It's the stupidity of our politicians that they focus
on their own living standard rather than that of the nation.
Taxing
adjective: requiring a lot of effort, energy, etc; physically or mentally damaging.
Learning vocabulary without mnemonics is a very taxing workload that is taking a lot
of time to finish.
Mnemonics: Taxes imposed by governments are both physically and mentally
damaging; it's taxing as it require lot of effort to pay.
Dander
noun: a feeling of anger and animosity; lose one's temper.
On the victory of Pakistan cricket team agains Indian team, Indian crowed became
dander; not because of the loss of Indian team, but because of the victory of
Pakistan.
Mnemonic: It sounds like dandruff; when you have too much dandruff, you got anger
on it.
reaffirm
verb: renewed commitment to something, usually verbally; say 'yes' once again.
The arrest of Altaf Hussain, chairman of MQM, has reaffirmed by the scotland yard,
when the people didn't not first believe this arrest.
Mnemonics: It sounds like reconfirm which is its meaning.
vocation
noun: how to do––or what you do for a living; the particular occupation for which
you are trained.
Yasir is a carpenter by vocation, but his hobby is painting.
Mnemonic: Just like vocational institute that gives training of different kinds of skills;
please don't confuse it with vacation, which means holidays.
Malpractice
noun: careless, wrong, or illegal actions by someone.
We should stop malpractice on always criticising the Govt. performance, because it
may discourage the Govt. from doing good things for the nation.
Mnemonic: male is always considered by the wives as untrustworthy, specially when
a male comes home late night; so any word start with mal- will almost always show
something bad; mal-practice should be bad practice, work or action.
maladroit
adjective: not skilful; awkward; bungling.
Imran Khan is unhappy about the maladroit way the matter of so called war against
terrorism has been handled.
Mnemonics: maladroit = map (not good) + adroit (skill); so it means not skilful.
juvenile
adjective: showing lack of maturity; appropriate for children or young people.
She criticised his juvenile behaviour at the party, because she hate anyone acting like
kids.
Mnemonics: When you face joyful days; of-corse when you was kid.
Gambit
noun: action made to produce a future advantage.
The gambit of India in producing many small dams has made Pakistan more tough to
produce further dams because of lack of water supply from India.
Mnemonic: gambit = game + bitter; when a bitter game is played, it is to make the
opponent confuse.
Nettlesome
adjective: easily irritated or annoyed.
Nettlesome regional disputes has caused more partition of each provinces of
Pakistan; Is this a conspiracy?
Mnemonics: Almost all net(close to nettlesome) connections are annoying to its
users because of its dis-connectivity many times a day.
Convergent
adjective: tending to come together from different directions.
The convergent crowed got together at Minar-e-Pakistan in 1940 to pass a historic
resolution; Resolution of Pakistan.
Mnemonics: convergent = con(together) + vergent (mergent or merge); It is the
opposite of divergent.
Diminutive
adjective: very small.
At the start of his political career, Imran Khan had diminutive voters; but after 15
years, he got massive voters; for him, its a political change.
Mnemonics: It derived from diminish, so it must be in very reduced form or small.
belie
verb: contradict; give a false impression; disguise.
The curruptful actions of many current politicians belie their claim to be national
leader.
Mnemonics: belie = become + lie (false speaker).
Exonerate
verb: pronounce not guilty of criminal charges.
In order to start job in gulf countries, one require to show his proof of exoneration
from any criminal act.
Mnemonics: Exonerate = exclude someone from -rate; when a word ends with -rate
it mostly have sense of negative in meaning or something bad.
misnomer
noun: an incorrect or unsuitable name.
All cyber criminal use misnomer to show their false identity.
Mnemonic: Misnomer = Mis- (incorrect) + nomer( close to namer); so incorrect name
I guess.
abstruse
adjective: difficult to understand.
The hand writing of Naeem is so bad that it is abstruse for every reader of essays that
Naeem write.
Mnemonics: Words used in abstract(abstr-use) in a research paper are telling in brief
about the research paper, but it doesn't tells the thorough idea of the paper; so only
reading the abstract will not give clear picture of the paper.
reticent
adjective: reluctant to draw attention to yourself; disinclined to talk; not willing to
tell people about things.
To apply for Fulbright scholarship, one should not be reticent and reserve; you should
speak frankly in the interview with the decision panel of Fulbright.
Mnemonics: when a person retires(close to reticent) from public service, he became
reserved and quite.
Umbrage
noun: a feeling of anger caused by being offended; offence or annoyance.
Imran Khan took umbrage at Judiciary decision of not considering his request of
making recount of only four jurisdictions; he was then given a notice for contempt of
court.
Mnemonic: It has derived from umbrella of rage; umbrella signify shadow or shade,
while rage signify something disliking or that cause anger.
Inadvertently
adjective: without knowledge or intention.
Bilal inadvertently omitted two questions on the examination and mismarked his
answers.
Mnemonics: Advertisement spread knowledge about specific product;

inadvertisingly(inadvertently) is having no knowledge or intention behind some
action.
insatiable
adjective: impossible to satisfy.
There are some students who gets very high score (but not perfect score), yet they
are insatiable with this score, because their wish is to achieve perfect score.
Mnemonics: It looks like in-satisfy-able (not satisfy-able), which is its meaning.
banal
adjective: lacking originality.
Frequent use of ordinary and boring words makes an essay seem banal; this generate
low score in essays.
Mnemonics: When something should be banned, it's banal; So it is fake and not
original.
stolid
adjective: dull; impassive; showing little emotion when strong feelings are expected.
The only thing that Imran Khan is lacking is the stolidity; He should make decisions by
placing emotions aside; this would make him more prudent.
Mnemonics: It's close to solid; which signify its meaning as not following of
emotions, impassive; when some toy remain fix (solid), it is dull for a child who want
playing in water or movable things.
Exacerbate
verb: worsen; aggravate; embitter.
The recent arrest of Altaf Husain, chairman of MQM, has exacerbated his fans.
Mnemonics: exacerbate = ex-(extreme in) + acerbate (acerbic); So it signify its
meaning of making worse.
Audacious
adjective: daring; bold; taking risks.
The audacious speech of Imran Khan against the Judiciary was very risky; He than
faced notices from the judiciary to answer this offence.
Mnemonics: When someone buys a car of audi brand; he makes dare to buy this
expensive car; it's a risky investment.
forthright
adjective: not roundabout; straight forward.
I prefer to solve questions of probabilities in a forthright way; because it's very easy
method and doesn't wast time.
Mnemonics: When someone is forthright; he's being direct, clear and straight-up.
otherworldly
adjective: existing outside of or not in accordance with nature; relating to an
imaginary or spiritual world.
There are couple of modern movie which describes about otherworldly beings live
among us in a parallel universe.
Mnemonics: When something belongs to out of this world, it's from other-worldly;
e.g. aliens, which are not actually by nature; its just a human imagination.
gloating
noun: malicious satisfaction.
As Mr. president gloating over his ill-gotten wealth, how he will satisfy the needs of
the nation.
Mnemonic: It sounds like goat (bakra); who is of-course most of the time immoral
and always seeks some immoral activities; so it must means evil satisfaction.
subversive
adjective: in opposition to a civil authority or government.
TTP has remain subversive for more than a decade against Govt. of Pakistan; because
they it believed that Govt.of Pakistan is a puppet of America; now it start realizing
that Govt. is not puppet.
Mnemonics: sub k khilaaf revertive bona is called subversive; it means opposing to a
high political party or whole Govt.
brash
adjective: offensively bold; confident and aggressive in usually a rude or unpleasant
way.
In Pakistan, due to heavy work when a man comes home late night his wife asks such
brash questions that irritate him further.
Mnemonics: It sounds like what it means: harsh, loud, and maybe a little rude.
groveling
adjective: behave in a servile manner.
Even though we have been defeated in final match of cricket, we do not have to
grovel before our conquerors.
Mnemonics: groveling = grow well or struggle well; when the economy of Pakistan
stuck; govt. do its best to remain it servile; so it's a groveling economy.
respite
noun: time for rest; interval of relief; delay in punishment.
After selected for the Fulbright scholarship, Ahmed got respite time for several weeks.
Mnemonic: Despite of too much load of work, you are feeling respite; so it relates
with a sentence that start with despite of(so close to its sound).
carping
noun: petty criticism; fault-finding; unjustified criticism.
Welcoming constructive criticism, Imran Khan appreciated columnist's comments,
finding them free of carping; while he resent all carping criticism from few columnist
who supported the PML(n) with their columns.
Mnemonic: During car-parking, many persons face petty criticism from the parking
controller.
forlorn
adjective: sad and lonely; marked by hopelessness.
When his lover left him and went with some other guy, Amir became forlorn.
Mnemonics: When someone is alone (sounds close to forlorn); it signify he may have
sad and lonely.
heinous
adjective: hatefully bad.
For jewish, Hitler's heinous crimes will never be forgotten.
Mnemonics: Some people dislike to eat hens (chickens) because of its dosage and
injections of steroids that makes a hen a big look.
cavil
verb: make frivolous objections; find fault unnecessarily.
I respect your sensible criticisms, but I dislike the way you cavil about unimportant
details.
Mnemonics: It sounds like chaval; when your teacher finds fault unnecessarily in you
thesis or assignment, you often prescribe him as chaval (cavil).
intricate
adjective: having many complexly arranged elements; addition of further details or
elaborate.
Big cranes are intricate machine that requires some training to use it properly; that's
why the user of these machine are very few, who have such skills, and hence are
offered huge salary for this work.
Mnemonics: When you enter(looks close to intri-cate) inside a complex cave, and
you still enter more inside; you will finally intricate, because it will be very difficult
for you find a way out of this.
Accolades
noun: award of merit; strong praise and approval .
In Hollywood, an "Oscar" is the highest accolade.
Mnemonic: It looks like accordingly; which signify its meaning as reward or prize
according to best performances.
intransigent
adjective: inflexible; stubborn; refusal of any compromise.
Intransigent behaviour of India regarding Kashmir dispute is irritating Pakistan and
People of Kashmir.
Mnemonics: maximum transections are where flexibility is high; inflexibility in trade
has almost no transections (intransigent).
Doting
adjective: foolishly loving and indulgent; extremely and uncritically fond of someone;
adoring.
She was spoiled outrageously by her doting father, and she got a dotage mind as she
can't see the other outcomes of her decisions.
Mnemonics: doting has two meaning; 1). dot is full-stop; i.e, the full-stop of mind,
which is also called dotage; 2). devoting(very closed to by sound) too much, or loving
extremely.
mercurial
adjective: capricious; quick and changing; fickle.
He was of a mercurial temperament and therefore unpredictable.
Mnemonics: mercury in a thermometer gives different movements under different
places of different temperatures; so mercurial is something capricious
prolific
adjective: intellectually productive; fruitfully abundant.
Fatima is a prolific writer who produced as many as three books a year; its very
worthcoming for Fulbright scholarship.
Mnemonics: It looks like profit, which is fruitful for a person who earn it; please don't
mix this with profligate ( which means destructive or wasteful); as too much profit by
a person is destructive by the other from whom it has earned.
dysphoric
adjective: generalised feeling of unhappy.
A low score in mock test of GRE produce dysphoric state of mind.
Mnemonics: dys- means abnormal; whenever a word start with dys- is must be of
something not good.
remission
noun: cancelation of a debt; a payment of money sent to a person in another place.
The prisoner was given remission by the court for good behaviour well before his
prescribe time for imprisonment.
Mnemonic: It derived from remit (means discharge from indict), more specifically
remittence; money sent from a country to another country.
galling
adjective: causing irritation or annoyance.
Preparation for vocabulary without mnemonics is galling thing for most students.
Mnemonics: gallian (abusive languages) are always irritating educated persons.
fortuitous
adjective: occurring by happy chance; having no cause or apparent cause; having or
showing good luck.
There is no connection between these two events; their timing is entirely fortuitous.
Mnemonics: It has derived from fortune; so it should mean by luck.
culpability
adjective: a state of guilt; blameworthy
The culpability of Raymond Davis was so sever that he should not free from
imprisonment of Pakistan.
Mnemonic: It derived from culprit; that is a person who is guilty of a crime or
offence.
advent
noun: arrival.
The advent of his son's first birthday has lead him to spend more than 50 million
dollars; its a world record.
Mnemonic: It derived from adventure; the arrival of new millennium has introduced
adventurous movies; now-a-days all adventurous movies are successful, because its
the arrival of new era.
alluring
adjective: highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire (mostly immoral).
Allured by the songs of Ashqi movie, many young adults built affairs.
Mnemonics: alluring = all yours; when you are much attractive, then all beauty
around you is yours.
punctiliously
adjective: preciously attentive.
One should punctiliously attempt each questions of GRE in order to get high score;
new GRE test has more tricky questions.
Mnemonics: It has derived from being punctual; a punctual person is so accurate
about the timing and quality of his work.
ominous
adjective: threatening; of an evil omen.

After the GRE preparation, a very low score in mocks is ominous; it suggests a low
score that one will receive in actual GRE exam.
Mnemonics: According to few Islamic books of Hadith, Dajjal (Devil) will come out
from the place of Yaman, near to Oman (close to ominous); so these places are
threatening.
gregarious
adjective: sociable; tending to form a group.
As a gregarious boy Bilal ran up to every person on the playground and wanted to be
their friend.
Mnemonics: gregarious = GRE + groups; many students prefer combine study or
study in groups for GRE practice questions.
engendered
verb: cause or give rise to.
His strong efforts in preparation of GRE has engendered his high score in GRE.
Mnemonic: engender = enhance in generation (gender); so it means produce as a
result.
ebullient
adjective: showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; boiling; joyously
unrestrained.
Fatima sounded ebullient and happy, when she got very high GRE score.
Mnemonics: It's very close to boiling; when something is boiling it's excited highly.
bracing
adjective: giving strength, vigour, or freshness.
A good preparation and practices of mocks of GRE was bracing him; therefore Ahmed
got very high score in GRE.
Mnemonics: when someone embrace Islam, it gives strength and vigour to him.
torpor
noun: lethargic; lazy; inactive.
Because of his torpor in nature and habit in reading the passages, Bilal cannot get
high score in GRE.
Mnemonic: It sounds like tor-phor (depreciate); when something has tor-phor too
much, it becomes inactive and not able to be use; torpid also has same in meaning
which is an adjective.
vociferous
adjective: conspicuously and offensively loud.
The decision to cancel the kerry lugar bill was made over the vociferous objections of
media and some political parties.
Mnemonics: vociferous = voice full; it's meaning is offensively loud.
scrupulous
adjective: diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details.
One way to get perfect score in GRE is to make scrupulous look on each questions
while attempting it.
Mnemonic: scrupulous = scotland yard ki pulous (police); it's famous for diligent
through investigation with careful attention to detail.
circumscribe
verb: limit, restrict or confine.
Verbal score of Bilal in GRE was too low, because he circumscribed his preparation to
only vocabulary; its less tested as compared to comprehension and word usage.
Mnemonic: A circumference is the circular line that is the limit of the circle.
suspect
verb: believe to be guilty; regard as untrustworthy.
In violation of the Pakistan law, the police grilled the suspect for several hours before
reading him his rights.
Mnemonics: it's very close to inspect; police inspector inspect those to whom he
have doubt of guilty of an offence.
protracted
adjective: relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
Even before preparation, Bilal presume that he can get very high score in GRE, but
after the preparation; its not the right way to predict your score, one have to prepare
well and then do much practice for achieving the result.
Mnemonic: When you protect yourself from the causes of dengue virus expansion,
you will be safe from it in very long run; protracted means relatively long in duration.
commensurate
adjective: equal in extent; of the same size.
The two essays each has commensurate time and weightage in GRE score
determination.
Mnemonic: commensurate = common + ensure; which ensures that the two things
are common by sized or extent.
harrowing
adjective: extremely painful.
It is harrowing when Pakistan loss match against india after setting very high target;
obviously it's due to very bad performance by bowlers and fielders.
Mnemonic: When Pakistan team 'harr rhi ho' against india in cricket, it becomes
extremely painful to the whole nation.
politic
adjective: actions seeming sensible and judicious in the circumstances.
It would not be politic to ignore the essay section of GRE; it is the first section that
gives confidence to you for attempting the remaining sections effectively.
Mnemonic: It derived from political; political affairs require sensible and judicious
actions.
presumption
noun: an assumption that is taken for granted
Even before preparation, Bilal presume that he can get very high score in GRE, but
after the preparation; its not the right way to predict your score, one have to prepare
well and then do much practice for achieving the result.
Mnemonic: Making a presumption means assuming something is true or false
without getting all the information necessary for verification.
revelling
verb: gain great pleasure from a situation.
After being accepted by Fulbright scholarship, Hamid start revelling with his family
and friends.
Mnemonic: some people have habits of revealing(sounds like revelling) the secretes
of others, because they feel enjoyment and pleasure by doing so.
ignominious
adjective: deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.
Rigging by returning officers in general election of Pakistan is ignominious for Imran
Khan; he condemn returning officers with sever words.
Mnemonic: Ignominious = ignore + mini (minus); which signify its meaning of making
very shameful.
anglicized
verb: make English in appearance.
French books of history needs to anglicised in order to make it readable by the
general public so that they can understand the history of french.
Mnemonic: Anglina Jolie is an english heroin, so it means make it english.
trample
verb: to cause damage or pain; to treat other rights, wishes, or feelings as worthless.
His hope for getting USA for admission in university was trampled when he got too
low score in GRE to be consider for admission.
Mnemonic: It sounds like temple; when some religious people worship here, it cause
damage in the feelings of people who worship in Mosques or churchs.
cursory
adjective: not paying attention to details.
The C.E.O makes just cursory looks to hundreds of files where he require to sign daily
basis, its because of his expertise.
Mnemonic: the arrow sign in the computer or laptop is called cursor; it's use to just
click on something without providing huge details; so it means be quick without
detail oriented.
prudent
adjective: wise; judicious.
Prudence decision of Mr. Ali to select his future university has revealed his level of
knowledge.
Mnemonic: A prude University is one of the famous university that admit wise
students; so prude has something wise.
affluent
adjective: wealth; abundant.
The affluent practice materials are not enough to get high score in GRE; smart work is
always better than the hard-work.
Mnemonics: fluency it speaking increase the chances of getting admission in US
universities, so if someone what's to be rich, he should be fluent in english; So
affluent is something abundant.
timorousness
noun: fear of the unknown or unfamiliar: fear of making decisions.
One should consult about USA admission & scholarships, with some experts to get
ride of timorousness; by doing so, you will be confident to decide what to do.
Mnemonic: In GRE, when you anxious about time (timorousness); that means you
are fearful from it.
liberate
verb: to give freedom; set free.
Laptops has liberated students and workers from their desks; they can work on it
even during rid in a car.
Mnemonics: Liberty market, a famous know place in Lahore; which allows liberty of
shoppings and food.
prevail
verb: be larger in number, quantity, power, status or importance
The dengue virus has been prevailing in Pakistan; every summer brings large number
of deaths due to this virus.
Mnemonic: It derived from privileged, e.g, privileged class; which means high in
status, rank or power.
faltering
verb: weak.
The surprising decrease in the value of PKR as compare to other currencies is sign of
faltering economy of Pakistan.
Mnemonics: One who is falter, falls due to very old age or born in few days ago.
transitory
adjective: lasting a very short-time.
Life is transitory, but much valuable for deciding (whether heaven or hell) about the
life after death which is never-ending.
Mnemonic: The time requirement for transit of goods is now less with the revolution
of modern era with highways; so transitory is something of short-life or duration.
foiblesh
adjective: small weakness of character or mind.
His lack of quick understanding of the simple concepts shows his foiblesh
methodology of learning.
Mnemonics: foible = feeble which means weakness in mind; e.g, feebleminded.
perspicacious
adjective: having a ready insight into and understanding of things.
Some students develop new short-cuts to solve math questions due to their
perspicacious strength.
Mnemonic: It derived from perception; the right perception of things is
perspicacious.
modicum
noun: a small or moderate amount.
When you awarded Fulbright scholarship, you will have only modicum expense of visa
to bear; all major expenses are covered by the scholarship.
Mnemonic: It looks like moderate, so it's something small or less in amount or
quantity.
Irrevocably
adjective: action that can't be changed or reversed.
Once you wish to check your score in GRE, be careful that once it will appear, it will be
irrevocable for 5 years; it will be remain in your Graduate record test; so be careful to
decide whether to view the score report.
Mnemonic: It sounds like irreversible; vocabulary (vocable) is words we use in daily
life; once a word is expressed, its impossible to get back.
Bravado
noun: confident or brave talk or behaviour that is intended to impress other people.
Umair told his story of Fulbright interview with bravado, that was really appreciated
by the listeners.
Mnemonic: It derived from brave; brave in talking to others, or bold.
Inevitable
adjective: incapable of being avoided or prevented; unable to escape from
For getting Fulbright scholarship, taking GRE is inevitable requirement.
Mnemonic: It sounds like unavoidable; that is its meaning
truculent
adjective: aggressive; showing wildness; harsh
Die-hard lover of cricket becomes truculent and violent after Pakistan cricket team
loss against Indian team.
Mnemonic: it derived from truck, that is very hard and aggressive while running on
the road that all small vehicles tends to remain away from it.
Mawkish
noun: effusively or insincerely emotional.
His mawkish style of crying on his failure was easily seen by his parents, because they
know that he didn't prepare for the test well, but showing his disappointment as if he
was prepared well.
Mnemonic: An indian singer named mukaish, who sings so emotional songs about
insincerity of lover; so it should be someone insincerely emotional.
incorrigible
adjective: seems to be beyond correcting or improving
GRE is a section adoptive test; once you move on to the next section, the questions
that you attempted in previous section is incorrigible.
Mnemonic: It sounds like incorrectable(uncorrectable); that cannot be improved or
corrected.
Unpropitious
adjective: not giving or indicating a good chance of success; unfavourable.
A very low score in GRE mocks shows his unpropitious condition for attempting actual
GRE exam.
Mnemonic: Unpropitious = Un- (not) + propitious (properness); so it's something
unfavourable.
Ineluctable
adjective: incapable of being avoided or prevented; unable to escape from.
GRE & Toelf are ineluctable requirements to apply for Fulbright Scholarship.
Mnemonic: It sounds like inreluctable, which means not able to make it reluctant; So
its something irresistible.
paradoxical
adjective: seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true.
A famous paradoxical statement used by people in business is "you have to spend
money to make money."; it seems to be oppose each other but tactually it's true.
Mnemonic: It looks as if parody, which is not actual style but just a copy of it; so it's
something looks to be a copy of others, but actually it gives true story or style of
others.
integrated
adjective: formed or united into a whole.
Inter-Servises-Intelligence, Military Intelligence and Intelligence Bureau are
integrated into Pakistan Army(the parent unit), the proud of Pakistan.
Mnemonic: When something is made as an integral part of something it's become
integrated.
implacable
adjective: that can't be appease, or sooth.
After very huge disappointment from GRE for getting very low score, Bilal was
implacable to his disappointment.
Mnemonic: it looks like implayable, which means impossible to play or joy with;
when you really offend your best friend and he refuses to play with you any more, he
becomes implacable.
Inexorable
adjective: that can't be stopped or influenced; stubborn.
He is so devoted in his preparation for GRE that his devotion is inexorable by any
incident.
Mnemonic: inexorable = something or someone on which pressure can't be
exerted(exorted).
fickle
adjective: liable to sudden unpredictable change.
The sudden fluctuation of dollars as compared to PKR is fickle; in past couple of
months it showed sudden increase as well as decrease.
Mnemonic: its looks like fiker (worry). When your future is unpredictable, its a thing
of worry for you and your parents.
Commendable
adjective: worthy of high praise; in an admirable manner
The dying hard effort in preparation of GRE in two months was really admirable; he
finally received excellent score on the exam.
Mnemonic: commendable = command-able; person who gives command is of high
rank or authority, that rank is really admirable, because responsible commands in
critical situation is always worthy of high praise.
Halcyon
adjective: very happy and successful.
In these halcyon days, after being selected for Fulbright Scholarship, Ali has busy in
parties by his friends and colleagues.
Mnemonic: it derived from halky, which means very light or less in severeness; in
other words very happy.
Capricious
adjective: changeable.
The prices of necessity products in Pakistan is capricious that shows its weak
economy.
Mnemonic: It derived from price, which are not remains the same; also a soap
named capri soap, which changes the colour of face.
Candid
adjective: truthful and straightforward; frank; simple; unexperienced.
A young girl of 18 in India was candid but created world record of receiving perfect
score in TOEFL.
Mnemonic: Candid = can did; everyone can did because it's simplicity.
bereft
adjective: sorrowful through loss or deprivation; unhappy in love; suffering from
unrequited love.
The bereft student who was not applicable for the Fulbright scholarship, could not
find the way to get admission with scholarship; His financial position was not good
enough to compensate the expenses of university.
Mnemonic: It sounds like be-left, when you left someone it will be so embarrassing.
fractious
adjective: hard to manage or control; easily irritated or annoyed.
In these halcyon days, after being selected for Fulbright Scholarship, Ali has busy in
parties by his friends and colleagues.
Mnemonic: In quant section of GRE, fractions are more difficult to solve as compared
to simple integers; so fractious is something hard to manage.
Mellifluous
adjective: pleasing to the ear.
On the GRE test day, Ali walked up early with the mellifluous swinging of sparrows;
he attempted his test well aggressively with his fresh mind.
Mnemonic: mellifluous= me + like + flow; I like flow of sounds(especially its ups and
downs) when it's sweet.
volubility
adjective: talking a lot in an energetic and rapid way.
The volubility in his expression shows his level of knowledge in the topic.
Mnemonics: it sounds link verbal + volume; therefore it means talking in rapid and
energy.
Contentious
adjective: inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree; involving or likely
to cause controversy.
Mr. justice resented the contentious remarks of the lawyer because these were out of
the legal boundary.
Mnemonic: It derived from contend, which means strongly asserts or argue with
strong dislike; so it must be something to cause controversy.
tangential
adjective: slightly or indirectly related to something : not closely connected to
something
When you argument of issue essay in GRE is tangential to the main point, it will give
less score; a to the point essay is appreciated.
Mnemonic: when tangent is drawn to a circle, it doesn't go inside the circle; so
tangential is something not closely connected, as it does not pass inside (heart of)
the circle.
Deliberation
noun: planning something carefully and intentionally.
Govt. of Punjab has deliberated to eliminate dengue virus, and worked according to
the plan; it got positive results.
Mnemonic: deliberation = the liberation, which comes from liberal, e,g libral arm
forces; these forces do planning carefully to get their objectives.
largesse
noun: generous of spirit; a gift or money given
He relied on the largesse of his friends & relatives after he lost his job.
Mnemonic: it looks as if largeness by heart; that is generous in givings.
rebuttal
noun: the speech act of refuting by offering a contrary contention or argument
The rebuttal conducts of opponent lawyer has made the case of Mr. Musharraf too
long.
Mnemonic: it sounds like refutal; so it must means act of refuting by offering
contrary arguments.
Rankle
verb: make resentful or angry
When Amir got score of less than expected in GRE, he became rankle on his poor
effort.
Mnemonic: when wrinkles appears in your face, you becomes angry, i.e. you become
rankle; wrinkle resulted to rankle.
catering
noun: providing food and services; satisfying the desire.
Many students prepare for GRE & Ielts, to cater their desire to study abroad.
Mnemonic: during marriage ceremonies we use catering to provide foods for our
relatives; so catering means satisfying hunger, or desire etc.
paronomasia
noun: a humorous play on words.
I had a spur of paronomasia to create this video of humorous play.
Mnemonic: paro was the heroin of devdas movie with his massi, which includes very
emotional and humorous dialogues; so these are words use in play.
demean
verb: reduce in worth or character, usually verbally.
Many demean articles about our education system has publishing now-a-days; once
this education system was considered as role-model in asia, now it has lost its value.
Mnemonic: whenever de comes in a word it usually signify reduction; so reduction
from mean is demean; that is to reduce from mean value.
prevarication
noun: a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth.
The reporter of Geo News said that he is extremely sorry for spreading the
prevaricate news of Prime Minister's death in the hospital.
Mnemonic: prevarication = pre (before) + variation (looks like variation). So its
something variation from previous believe or truth.
Folly
verb: the lack of good sense or judgment
If you will not prepare well for GRE, you may do some folly methods to solve
questions.
Mnemonic: it sounds like fouly; so its means lack of good sense.
facile
adjective: expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively.
Facile manner of my teacher has impressed me when I asked questions, and he gave
clear answers effectively.
Mnemonics: it sounds like facilitate; so it means something smooth-spoken or fluent;
by this way one can facilitate his personality.
Debunk
verb: expose as false, exaggerated, worthless.
Geo group had debunked our secrete intelligent spy agency; and hence finally got the
reward of distrust among patriotic people against this media group.
Mnemonic: debunk = the bhonk, which means to reveal false things; in Pakistan we
use words like bhonkna band kro, and tell the true.
Vacillation
noun: indecision in speech or action; wavering
The vacillation in movement shows that Mr. Shakeel is not in good health.
Mnemonic: It looks similar to oscillation, which means move back & forth; So its
something irregular.
scrapped
noun: a small detached piece; to abandon or get rid of as no longer of enough worth
or effectiveness to retain.
During GRE, some scrap papers are given to students, if they would need some ruff
work, they can use these scrap papers.
Mnemonic: When we use scrap papers in GRE, it's of no worth for ETS; so scrapped is
something small fragment or detached piece having no longer worth or
effectiveness.
contumely
noun: insolent or insulting language or treatment.
Mosques should not be exposed as gossips and contumely; its a place of worship, not
for spreading hate among people.
Mnemonic: it sounds like contendly, which signifies its meaning of something rude
and abusive in words or manner.
warped
adjective: bent out of shape.
In iron mills, solid iron is wrapped to form various shapes.
Mnemonic: We heard this word many times in childhood from our teachers; wrap
the papers and make a ship or aeroplane.
dire
adjective: warning of disaster; fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
Govt. neglected the dire prediction of marshal law by some political analyst; when
army take-over the control, political parties started to discussion why we did not
made preliminary steps to stop this after the prediction.
Mnemonic: many dairy forms in Pakistan are using steroids injections to get
maximum milk, this is dangerous; so dire is something filled with danger.
stricture
noun: severe criticism
After disrespect of Geo news about some religious believes, this T.V channel has
faced stricture since then.
Mnemonic: it comes from word strict which is in sever or hard. So its something hard
criticism.
quotidian
adjective: found in the ordinary course of events; of or occurring every day; daily
For students who received high score in verbal section of GRE, they read novels,
articles and news papers as quotidian; even few read two times a day.
Mnemonic: it looks like quote which are not specific to some era or some group of
people; its for ordinary people or about daily life.
irredeemable
adjective: not able to be saved, improved, or corrected.
Bilal has made several irredeemable mistakes in practice of mock tests, that it is very
hard to believe that he will get perfect score in GRE.
Mnemonic: it sounds like irremediable; which means not able to be treated or
relieved from pain or suffering.
espionage
noun: the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
Secret intelligence agency of America (C.I.A) has stopped spaying in Pakistan by using
polio teams; Although it helped US in identifying Usama-bin-Ladin, yet it resulted to
many killings of these polio teams and spreading misconceptions among nation by
Tehrik-e-Talibaan Pakistan.
Mnemonic: it looks very close to spying, which is its actual meaning.
Dogmatism
noun: stubborn and narrow-minded
Mr. Umair has much given to inflexible dogmatism when it came to answer difficult
questions of problem solving.
Mnemonic: it suggests its meaning 'like dogs', a dog who is usually stubborn; in
Pakistan, we use words'kutton ki tarha par gya hai pichy'; its stubborn.
Innocuous
adjective: harmless; not damaging.
In GMAT the first question and in GRE first section is innocuous for having less
difficulty level questions.
Mnemonic: it's very close to innocent, who does not create any damage at all; so
innocuous is something harmless.
weary
noun: exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; loose interest or
bored.
Amir has attempted more than ten times for GRE, after that he got weary for not
getting the desired score at all.
Mnemonic: We are well know with the word of wear and tear, which means
distorted or depreciated; so weary is something.
Decorum
noun: proper in manners and conduct
Discipline requires decorum of ones behaviour and attitude towards rules and
regulations.
Mnemonic: decorum derived from decorate; when a house is decorated for birthday
wish, its appropriate place for it.
inured
noun: made tough by habitual exposure; accustomed of something specially
unpleasant.
After attempting more than ten times for GRE and receiving perfect scores all times;
Ahmed is inured to the GRE.
Mnemonic: it looks like inter; inter-land is land which is familiar to its habitant,
because they are accustom of it.
tentative
adjective: unsettled in mind or opinion; doubtful
Discipline requires decorum of ones behaviour and attitude towards rules and
regulations.
Mnemonic: it derived from tents; In Pakistan when you see tents at somewhere, you
becomes undecided whether its for marriage ceremony or some event of death; so it
means something doubtful or unconfirmed.
complacency
noun: a feeling of being satisfied
The figures of +325 is better, but there are no grounds for complacency in achieving
high score.
Mnemonic: complacency = com (come-together)+ placency (pleasant); so its
something pleasant or satisfied.
relentless
adjective: never-ceasing; tireless; never-ceasing.
Hamza's relentless hard-work has gave him score of GRE higher than required for
admission in desired university.
Mnemonic: it sounds like relax-less; so its something tireless.
diffidence
noun: lack of self-confidence; shyness
Middle class students are more diffidence as compared to elite class; because of their
schooling difference; former class are not given much confidence in their schooling
age.
Mnemonic: diffidence = difficulty in confidence
illicit
adjective: contrary to or forbidden by law.
Using cell-phones during exam is illicit; it is against the law, so you may be punished
according to law, if you do so.
Mnemonic: it looks like ill-humored or illegal, which is something not moral etc;
please don't confuse it with elicit.
morbid
adjective: suggesting the horror of death and decay; suggesting an unhealthy mental
state.
Bilal has a morbid fear of receiving least score in GRE in among his friends.
Mnemonic: morbid = more + bid; so when you lost a bid, you asked for more bid, and
more and so on; the result will loosing again and again, which shows your unhealthy
mental state.
disheveled
adjective: in disarray; extremely disorderly; untidy dress
Without preparation of GRE test, how can a benighted student can receive high
score?
Mnemonic: disheveled = dis-he-well, dis (not) he is well; so its something disorderly
& awkward or untidy in dress or appearance.
riled up
verb: to get excited and angry
After the low score that appear in the screen in practice test of GRE, Bilal railed up
with nervous.
Mnemonic: it looks similar to rail (railway); Railway system in Pakistan has spread too
much hate among the people for ten years, because of its huge deviation of time
schedule and actual timings of arrival and departure.
humdrum
adjective: lacking excitement or variety; boringly monotonous.

The humdrum vice of the old lady was too boring to hear; once it was very popular
when she was young and energetic.
Mnemonic: hum jo drum bajaty hain wo excitement nye karta; because we don't
now how to create music from it; therefore it's boring.
huddled
adjective: crowded or massed together.
There is huddle of GRE test takers when the dead-line of Fulbright scholarship arrives.
Mnemonic: In jalsa of imran khan, there was huge crowd. We faced many hurdles
(looks close to huddle) to approach near imran khan to see him closely; so it means
something of mass together or crowded.
cryptically
adjective: secretly
In reading comprehensions questions in GRE, there are some cryptic words that gives
the answers of the questions asked by ETS.
Mnemonic: it derived from corruptly, which is done secretly; so it means something
secretly or mysterious.
discountenance
verb: refuse to approve; confuse
The discountenance strategy in GMAT is not worked but in GRE it worked very well;
when you can't solve a question with high difficulty level, just skip it in GRE.
Mnemonic: discountenance = dis (not) + countenance (count for); so its something
not count for or refuse to consider.
opaque
adjective: hard to understand or explain; unclear.
The methodology which he use to teach GRE, is opaque; no one has got the point
what he tried to explain.
Mnemonic: When the question question sheets pack (o-paque), before the our
papers; we can't guess what it includes by seeing the packing; So opaque is
something impenetrable or that doesn't reflect light, se that we can see it.
spasmodically
adjective: happening suddenly and briefly at different times in a way that is not
regular
If you write intermittently or spasmodically in essay sections of GRE, you will probably
get low score due to less use of words in well organized manner.
Mnemonic: spasmodically = spaces + mods; so its something that is not consistent.
incessantly
adjective: continuing without stopping
The incessant nature of Shahid Afridi for hitting sixes in every balls, has made him a
hero of Pakistan.
Mnemonic: incessantly = in (not) + cessently (cease means to stop); so its
unstoppable.
invasive
adjective: aggressive attack; gradually intrusive without right or permission.
The invasive appearance of India-Israel in nuclear weapons of Pakistan has alerted
Pakistan Security Intelligent Agencies.
Mnemonic: invasive = invade, which looks as if inward; its entering stealthily inward
for attack.
Choked
verb: stopped up; clogged up
During GRE, do too much practice so that you will not choke during the official test.
Mnemonic: In Pakistan when ever a chowk (choke) comes traffics becomes too slow
to move on; so its a hindrance, which cause traffic to stop short
Conundrum
noun: a difficult problem; puzzle; tricky
New GRE revised general test include more conundrum questions, which are much
tricky and puzzling.
Mnemonic: conundrum = con(together) + undrum ( not allowing drums); In marriage
ceremonies, if we together create pressure to stop this beating drums for having
unpleasant noise, Its too difficult to stop it because of our customs. Now problem is
how to solve this, without creating cruel.
Benightedness
adjective: having no knowledge or education
After doing research about the knowledgeability according to the class of the people
of Pakistan; the benightedness of poor for using computer as compared to elite class.
Mnemonic: benightedness= benightedness(darkness); so darkness in knowledge is
its meaning.
Perturbed
adjective: thrown into a state of agitated confusion
It perturbed Amir, when he heard many students had received very low score in GRE;
so he is very worried about his own.
Mnemonic: Its similar to disturb; when someone disturb you, it agitates you.
Overzealous
adjective: marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion
Because the favourite section of Bilal is quant; he is always overzealous during this
lecture, and asks very important questions to make class more interesting.
Mnemonic: overzealous = over (high) + zealous (exited for or enthusiasm for).
Beatification
noun: a state of supreme happiness
Imran's beatification is marked by his score higher than what he expected; he is so
excited that he is telling this surprise to everyone.
Mnemonic: its similar to beautification; when you heard from others about your
personality as beautiful, it creates happiness in your mood.
Insularity
noun: the state of being isolated or detached
Students of GRE were insular from GMAT in topic of sentence corrections; GRE
students doesn't need to prepare for it.
Mnemonic: it's very similar to insulator, which is reserved from any heat, light or
energy; it doesn't allow these thing to pass through; So it is detached from being
seen for not allowing light.
dilatory
adjective: wasting time
One should prepare for GRE test as early as possible; otherwise it will be dilatory, for
not generating score of above average.
Mnemonic: dilatory= dil (by heart or intentions) + latory (make late); its making
something late or delay.
austerity
noun: a simple and plain quality; avoiding from pleasure and comfort.
The austerity of livings in Thar-parkar is surprising for me; who can an ordinary
human alive under such unpleasant conditions.
Mnemonic: One who left his family to go to austria or australia (looks close to
austerity) for job purpose; he left the pleasure of family discussions and gup-shups.
So austerity is not getting pleasure or comfort.
Concomitant
adjective: following or accompanying as a consequence
High GRE score is concomitant with the hard-work and smart-work.
Mnemonic: concomitant = con(together) + comitant (commitment); it's something
that will be accompanies or always happens together, because they made
commitment together.
salvarion
noun: saving someone or something from harm
Hamid worked very hard in GRE for salvation from low score; as a result he got high
score.
Mnemonic: it's very similar to savation or more specifically, saving; saving from
what?, obviously from something unpleasant.
elegant
adjective: refined and tasteful in appearance or behaviour or style.
she worn elegant finery with shining stars on it; it was awesome to see.
Mnemonic: elegant = e-legant; effective legendary
cynical
adjective: believing the worst of human nature and motives
He never cast vote to any political party for being a cynical believe about politicians.
Mnemonic: looks similar to word sin-ical, which is indication of something, usually
something evil. So cynical is to believe something worst behind human motives.
chic
adjective: elegant and stylish; fashionable style.
she likes to wear chic dress, to get attention from handsome guys.
Mnemonic: In modern songs, we listen few songs with some music like chiky chiky…
which is a new style, so its something very elegant and stylish.
devoid
adjective: completely lacking of something; without something.
The poor people in Thar-parkar in Pakistan are devoid of basic necessities.

Mnemonic: it looks like 'the void'; to make something void is to make it null.
eclectic
adjective: selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas.
The eclectic style of author of 'The Great Gatsby' has made his novel too famous
around the world; his way of writing was so fantastic that one who read this, desires
to read it again.
Mnemonic: It sounds like electic. In national elections, everyone should elect the
best; means to select the best. So its eclectric.
enervate
adjective: to weaken physically, mentally or morally.
The long suffering from paralysis has enervated him; now it can seen clearly weak
bones on his face and hands.
Mnemonic: It looks similar to energy-wast, which means weaken in strength.
germane
adjective: relevant and appropriate.
Use germane examples in you essays in GRE to get high score.

Mnemonic: germane= germany (its an appropriate country to study for Master's and
Phd. for many students).
depletion
noun: reduction in quality or quantity; the act of decreasing something markedly
The depletion in food and shelters in Pakistan is marked by high population growth.
Mnemonic: It looks very close to depreciation which means wear and tear.
unadornate
adjective: not decorated
She wear unadorned dress, because she want herself to be simple and modest.
Mnemonic: unadorned= un (not) + adorn (add ornate, i.e., more decorate); its
something not decorated.
Outbreak
noun: sudden start of something unpleasant
The dengue virus has outbreak in Pakistan since 2013.

Mnemonic: Out is something come out, and break shows something unpleasant.
extraneous
adjective: not important; not essential
In GRE, taking good food for break is extraneous. What's essential is good
preparation before couple of weeks.
Mnemonic: derived from the word external, which means out side; that is irrelevant,
so not important.
belittle
verb: express a negative opinion of
We should stop belittle the Govt., and should change ourself in positive manner.
Mnemonic: belittle= be (make it) + little (less); so it's making other's reputation
reduce.
symphonic
adjective: harmonious in sound.
The symphonic tone of the whole crowed singing the national anthem of Pakistan
was such a great moment for me.
Mnemonic: symphonic= sym(same) + phonic (telephonic: sound). So it's meaning is
same in sound.
assuage
verb: provide physical relief, as from pain.
After long cut of electricity supply, it finally supplied that assuaged the angry people;
because after few minutes of its supply, people forgot their inconvenience.
Mnemonic: It's very close to usage, which means consumption; why you consume
something; probably answer is to get satisfaction; we consume medicine to relieve
pain.
fastidious
adjective: difficult to satisfy; giving careful attention to detail.
The professor is so fastidious that he hardly approve a thesis of his student, because
he is so fastidious about little points including punctuations.
Mnemonic: While driving car very fast, one should be very much careful; so its
something careful attention to detail. Also people who always eat fast-food, they
difficult to please with homemade food. So its also meaning difficult to please or
satisfy.
mimicking
verb: imitation; copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else
When Asif caught during his mimicking the employer in rude way, he got fired from
the job.
Mnemonic: its similar to mono, a special character used in famous drama bulbuly;
many children copy the actions of mono, including her way of walking and speaking.
So its means copying the actions of others.
multifaceted
adjective: having many aspects
In order to do well in quantitative comparison type questions in GRE, one should solve
it through multifaceted analysis.
Mnemonic: Multifaceted = multi (several) + facet (surfaces or appearance). So it
must be something different angle or ways of analysis.
laudable
adjective: deserving huge praise.
Einstein is laudable for his tremendous contribution to modern science.

Mnemonic: One you say something about your father success in his work, you speak
it loudly so that many people can listen about the success story. So loud-able should
mean someone about whom we should speak his success or work loudly. i.e
deserving huge praise.
exigent
adjective: demanding attention; requiring precise accuracy; urgent.
While taking a GRE exam, one should exigent for accuracy and time limit of the test.
Mnemonic: When something approaches close to the limit just close to exit: e.g, limit
of tolerance etc, It requires precious attention by others to avoid this exit the limit.
So its a situation that require very much care and attention.
defiant
adjective: resisting authority or an opposing force
The owner of Geo & Co. is defiant to the interest of Pakistan; as a result he has been
sued by many Pakistani top influential persons.
Mnemonic: It looks similar to deviate, which means turn a side in other way; so it's
something opposing force.
judicious
adjective: exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters; wise.
The judicious strategy to attempt the SAT or GRE test results highest score.
Mnemonic: It derived from judiciary, which include some wise decisions; So it should
be something wise in judgment etc.
doctrinaire
adjective: who has very strong belief and will not change them or accept other's
opinion; unable to compromise the points of doctrine
Mr. chief justice is such a doctrinaire person that he never compromise on the
sentences he makes for terrorists.
Mnemonic: doctrinaire= doctrine (rules that will not change); so doctrinaire is one
who make some decision or believe, that he will never change it.
confounds
verb: confuse; cause to be unable to think clearly
The success of Azam in GRE confounded his classmates, who perceived him as a lazy
student.
Mnemonic: confound= con (together) + found (finding some research). So when
many researchers find something independently; it confounds us to whom should
the credit must be given.
primed
verb: the most active or successful time of a person's life.
As a old man, Mr. Amir can make 1 door from wood in a day; during his primed age,
he made four doors daily.
Mnemonic: Just as prime minister, primed is something or someone having huge
strength or power.
anticipate
verb: to expect before something occurs.
Pakistan Army has anticipated the need of people in flood affected ares; they
supplied all necessities to those people after that accurate anticipation.
Mnemonic: It's very close to estimation, so its something estimated before its arrival.
e.g, Govt. has anticipated the demands of the people regarding sugar need; hence
prepared plan accordingly.
inalienable
adjective: impossible to take away or give up
Once you select to see your score of the GRE, it is inalienable from the result of this
score, that would appear in your record for taking test upto 5 years.
Mnemonic: it's similar to in-alian-able; as alien is some creature outside of this

planet, and are far away from us. so in-alian-able must be something that can't get
away, or give-up.
exculpate
verb: free from blame or punishment
I will present evidence of innocence & honesty of his 10 years of service for this
country that will exculpate my client from such groundless charges.
Mnemonic: exculpate = ex (exclude from) + culpable (blameworthy). So its
something excluded from blame or guilt.
polarized
verb: to separate into opposing groups
The war against terrorism has polarised the nation of Pakistan; one says its our war,
other claim it as the war of other nation imposed on us.
Mnemonic: there are two poles of the earth: north pole and worth pole.So it's mean
dividing into two opposite directions.
uprooting
verb: remove or destroy completely; to make (someone) leave home and move to a
different place.
Taking the job abroad, has uprooted me from my native land; which uprooted my
desire for live with my family.
Mnemonic: when roots of a tree or plant is out of the ground, it becomes destroyed
or removed. Also it is done for the purpose for transfer of trees or plants. So uproot
looks similar to remove completely from native land.
irresolute
noun: uncertain how to act or proceed
After taking two months GRE classes, Naveena is still irresolute whether to appear for
the GRE exam.
Mnemonic: Its similar to unable to making final resolution; so its something not
decided.
supplant
verb: to take the place of (someone or something that is old or no longer used or
accepted)
Old GRE is supplanted by New GRE revised General test, which is more
comprehensive.
Mnemonic: It is derived from supplement (e.g, food supplements); so its something
in replace of something
conscience
noun: a feeling of shame when you do something immoral;built-in sense of what's
right and what's wrong
The thief must have had an attack of conscience, because he returned the wallet with nothing missing
from it.
Mnemonic: conscience= con(together) + science(knowledge); so its something

awareness or realisation of what's right and what's wrong.
vexation
verb: to something that worries or annoys you
The repeated vexations about vocabulary guaranteed that she wouldn't get well
preparation
Mnemonic: As a childhood, whenever you suffered injury,you often used
vex(medicine used on the damaged skin); so its something that annoys you.
avarice
noun: greediness for wealth.
Many politicians are avarice; they don't spend funds to the public, instead they use it
for their savings in swisbanks.
Mnemonic: Its similar an urdu word avaary, which means people who don't do
anything, that are usually, greedy as they are not hard worker.
substantiate
verb: establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts; represent in bodily form
Mr. Zuhaib couldn't substantiated in the court about his innocence; he was sentenced
sever punishment by the jury.
Mnemonic: substantiates = substance, which is something in existence; so
substantiates means give some proof in existential form.
indefatigable
adjective: showing no sign of getting tired; tireless
The student was indefatigable in his effort in preparing for GRE vocabulary daily; this
resulting his high verbal score.
Mnemonic: Indefatigable = not defeatable; When someone is not defeatable by
tiredness, he is indefatigable.
blues
noun: state of depression.
After the loss of Pakistan team against india, the whole nation was in state of blues.
Mnemonic: Whenever you got fever for couple of days, your skin colour changed to
slightly blue. So its something in bad condition.
arcane
adjective: secret; mysterious; known only to the initiated
Many tricky questions of quant were arcane to us but was clear to the one who start
preparation of GRE well before time.
Mnemonic: Only few people know how to use big cranes(looks like arcane). So
arcane is something which is known to only few people. A secrete thing, or a
mystery.
mendacity
noun: the tendency to be untruthful
you need to overcome this deplorable mendacity, or no one will ever believe anything
you say.
Mnemonic: In almost every word, we see the word initiates with Men- is meant to
something bad, disloyal etc; as women believe this about men. so its something
disloyal, untruthful
forestalled
verb: act in advance of
He forestalled critics by offering a defence of the project.

Mnemonic: forestall= fore(before) + stall(start). So forestall means act in advance or
prevent something before it happens.
mitigate
verb: calm down; soothing; moderate; make or become less in force or intensity
Nothing could mitigate his disappointment after getting very low score in GRE.
Mnemonic: Yar mitti pao te ladai mukao. Its famous words of ch. Shujjat Husain.
pedestrian
adjective: ordinary; dull; going on foot; unimaginative
Vocabulary class without mnemonics looks to be pedestrian for the many students,
that’s why they usually don't take part in these classes.
Mnemonic: we know very well what is pedestal fans. So pedestrian is someone who
travel by foot. Also this fan looks to be very awkward, that's why it usually use in
villages, rather than big cities. That shows its another meaning 'boring'.
exigent
adjective: demanding attention; requiring precise accuracy; urgent.
While taking a GRE exam, one should exigent for accuracy and time limit of the test.
Mnemonic: When something approaches close to the limit just close to exit: e.g, limit
of tolerance etc, It requires precious attention by others to avoid this exit the limit.
So its a situation that require very much care and attention.
conceal
verb: prevent from being seen, perceived or discovered; to keep (something) secret
After incidence of Bin-Ladin's dead, media accused the government for concealing the
truth.
Mnemonic: conceal= con(together) + ceal(seal); so its something hide from others.
antiquity
noun: ancient times; very high age.
Mohejo-daro antiquities were discovered in Pakistan; these were belongs to some thousand years ago.
Mnemonic: anties are old aged women, So antiquity must be something very old.
facetious
adjective: joking (often inappropriately); unserious; humorous
Facetious remarks about a classmate are inappropriate at the serious moment when
you got excellent score in GRE but you classmate got very poor score.
Mnemonic: In Pakistant, we usually use in joke as ' apna mu (face) dekh or baat dekh
kya kr rha hai'. So this word seem to mean as joking in humorous way, or laking
seriousness.
construe
verb: explain; interpret;
If I construe your indifference correctly, you are not taking GRE seriously.
Mnemonic: Con means together believe, and true is what we believe as true, which is
under stud. So construe means interpret, but this interpretation may be right or
wrong. When its wrong it will be misconstrue.
imperturbable
adjective: unshakeably calm; placid
Fatima remained imperturbable during her GRE exam, even the last moment before
completion didn't panic her.
Mnemonic: It looks as if indisturbeable, So it means which cannot be stressed or
confused or upset easily.
check
adjective: stop motion; curb or restrain
During lectures on quant section, all students were checked as if they involved
completely in what strategies were given to them.
Mnemonic: We are familiar with the statements like, criminal checked all the places
in the home, but couldn't find the money. But in GRE, check is as if police officer
ordered me 'hands-up'. So he can check my equipments, whether I am a suicider. So
here check means restrained, block or stop motion.
modish
verb: conforming to the current fashion
She always discarded all garments that were no longer modish, as she inclined to
modern design and fashions only.
Mnemonic: It comes from model, which is fashion. So modish is current fashion or

style.
meticulous
adjective: excessively careful
He was meticulous in attempting GRE quant section, never made mistake, which
generated his very high score in this section.
Mnemonic: It looks as if calculus. Which is very care about the accuracy. i.e the exact
value, instead of approximation. So meticulous must be very precise.
brake
noun: to stop
He applied brakes to stop the car when traffic walton signalled to stop.
Mnemonic: It's an easy word which means to stop, but don't confuse it with break
(means cancel)
fiction
noun: imaginative, but not real; a deliberately false or improbable account
Most stories and movies about aliens are fictions that have little or nothing to do
with facts.
Mnemonic: We heard this many times that modern movies are fiction in nature.
which is not real, just imaginative
boon
adjective: blessing; benefit; something very helpful
In addition to preparation, strategies are boon for attempting GRE very well, and best
strategy is to start preparation as early as possible.
Mnemonic: very close to boom boom Afridi. So Boon must mean something
beneficial to specific person. It also means blessing or a desirable state.
apologist
noun: one who writes in defense
Many apologist came to talk-shows and defended the govt. because they were
satisfied by its performance.
Mnemonic: Don't confuse it with apologise (acknowledge faults or failure). When we
break this work we get apo-logi-st. Which looks to be appreciably and logically,
stated. Which means giving favour.
cosmopolitan
noun: a person who has lived in and knows about many different parts of the world
Atif had lived in Paris for a year as an exchange student, he seemed very much the
cosmopolitan to her old classmates
Mnemonic: cosmopolitan= cosmo (cosmic= universal or wider + politan (population).
So it means different kinds of people of the world in a specific area. So a
cosmopolitan can understand and speak different languages.
improbable
adjective: having a probability too low to inspire belief; unrealistic
Getting a score of 260 in GRE is improbable, because one can get this score, if he did
all questions wrongly, whose probability is too low to be true.
Mnemonic: With almost no probability. Or almost impossible.
normative
adjective: pertaining to norms or tradition
The current president of Pakistan has normative behaviour like other presidents, who little appear in
public.
Mnemonic: Something pertaining to norms — something normal or typical — can be

described as normative
partisan
noun: one one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party(with dislike of any others)
Our judicial system consists of partisan judges; in order to be promoted as a judge,

one should have strong relationship with one of strong political party.
Mnemonic: One who is inclined only towards his favourite party.
debased
adjective: degrade; reduce in quality or value
The politician debased himself by lying to the public.

Mnemonic: It looks like 'the base' which means make inferior
Happenstance
noun: coincidental event
It was such a happenstance that the two brothers Hamza and Hamid got exactly
same scores on GRE.
Mnemonic: happening in such a co-incidence is called happenstance.
beholden
adjective: indebted or obligted to; owing thanks;
After getting the Fulbright scholarship, Irfan likes to be beholden to his instructor for
the success.
Mnemonic: Behold = Be + Hold so holding thanks to someone else.
Acumen
noun: ability to judge quickly and well
The business acumen of Mian Mansha helped him to succeed where others had
failed.
Mnemonic: It means accurate men. or wise men. So acumen is wise.
pervasive
adjective: spreading or spread throughout; everywhere
After getting perfect score in GRE, this news was so pervasive everywhere that he
offered admissions from some Pakistani universities as well even before applying.
Mnemonic: Advertisement of pervaaz fan, some years ago, was very famous; under
the title of pervaaz fan ala mayaar, sb se acha shaan dar. Its very famous in those
days, so pervasive means universally known, Or which is everywhere.
flaccid
adjective: lacking firmness; weak;
In GRE, focus more on your flaccid area than strong one, this will help you attain
maximum score.
Mnemonic: It comes from flaw, also the word flabby which means the same thing
weakness or flaws.
submissive
adjective: willing to obey orders; yielding;
Fatima was so submissive to her boss that she did all her best to follow the
instructions to the pen.
Mnemonic: When you submit assignments in time to your lecturer, that means you
are submissive. So submissive means obedient & follower.
Coalesce
verb: combine; fuse
Some top ranked universities coalesced, and formed ivy league.

Mnemonic: comes from coalition, like coalition among political parties. So it means
fusion or combining.
Inscrutability
noun: difficult to understand
The topic of integers & probability in GRE is usually inscrutable for many students,
because these topics are too difficult to understand.
Mnemonic: Questions like inscribed circle or inscribe triangles are always very tough
which is not easy to understand that how to solve it. So inscrutability is something
beyond understanding.
Prescient
adjective: having or showing knowledge of events before they take place.
The prescient GRE instructor was one of the few to see which students were going to
do well on the exam.
Mnemonic: pre means before and scent comes from science. So before knowledge is
spread to others, you know it first. It means you are prescient.
precedence
noun: the condition of being more important; coming or occurring earlier in time
Ali's desire for a perfect GRE score took precedence over any other consideration in
his life.
Mnemonic: Precedence sounds like president. President is a very important person.
Deviously
adjective: willing to lie and trick people.
For Imran Khan, many politicians in parliament are dishonest and devious politician;
when one politician makes allegation against the other politician, also makes
allegation against that politician; no one is there to defend himself, because they are
devious.
Mnemonics: someone who tends to device many plans to deceive others, it is

devious. It also means when a manager device system in a company, so which show
its another meaning manage.
unreceptive
adjective: not receptive; repellent
In modern societies people are unreceptive to dictatorship, because they want

freedom of work.
Mnemonic: In marriage ceremonies, many persons can be seen as receptive, but few
are unreceptive because of their shyness. So unreceptive must means unwelcoming.
supine
adjective: inactive
After the 4.5 hour long GRE exam the Pakistani test takers lay supine on his bed.
Mnemonic: When sup(snack) is in the your tent, you always behave like inactive or
calm. you offer no resistance, in such a way that the snack will go from here as early
as possible. If you tease the sup it will remain there for more time. So supine must
means offering no resistance, or do nothing. So inactive is meaning of it.
Courteous
adjective: marked by respect for and consideration of others; gracious good manners
Asim's teachers in university are helpful and courteous; as he requested for

recommendation letters, they wrote it for him immediately.
Mnemonic: it usually prescribed in courts, so which is good manner. A lawyer &
judge should be in good manner, which they are specially, in deciding the ordinary
cases.
Objurgation
noun: criticising a person harshly
We are objurgating our govt. but not willing to change our self.
Mnemonic: objection in jury is similar to objurgation, so its something harsh criticism
polemical
adjective: aggressive in verbal attack; disputatious
When Sarah arrived home in the middle of the night, her parents launched a
polemical on her for arriving so late..
Mnemonic: Polemical = polio; Polio project is under dispute or controversial by TTP.
Because they are in doubt whether its a conspiracy against Pakistan to reduce its
population. So Polemical must means controversial or disputable.
Illuminate
verb: to make brighter, make clear or easier to understand.
Although GRE is a difficult exam, but by preparing for it you will be able to illumnite
several complex topics and apply to top US program; as a result you will be able to
illuminate your future career.
Mnemonic: Derived from the word luminous (means bright), like luminous stars.
Please don't mix it with eliminate(which means 'to remove completely')
Trifling
adjective: trivial; unimportant
In order to get excellent scores on the GRE, one should practice trivial questions as
well, because in GRE nothing is trifling.
Mnemonic: tariff is tax imposed by govt. on export, which is almost always very low,
to facilitate export. So trifling is something very low in important or not worth
considering.
Eminence
noun: high status; Importance
Many students don't realize the eminence of a good score on the GRE analytical
writing section.
Mnemonic: Emi sounds like Ammi - In Pakistan ammi means mother. And mother is
the most superior in status we believe. so eminence is superior or important.
Notoriety
noun: ill-fame, famous but in a negative fashion
The notoriety of Pakistan as a corrupt state is due to its lack of genuine system of
accountability.
Mnemonic: When a person is known as notorious (close to 'no tolerating'), he is
eventually intolerable by others i.e. disrepute by others.
Orthodox
adjective: traditional
With the introduction of New GRE revised General test, the orthodox approach to
GRE preparation no longer holds; because new GRE focuses on reading prowess
rather than learning vocabulary.
Mnemonic: Orthodox= Or(Ordinary) + thodox(methodology). So orthodox must be
something traditional.
Tumultuous
adjective: noisy & disorder
During the lecture of probability in the GRE class, the whole class became tumultuous
because no student was able to comprehend the difficult concepts of this topic.
Mnemonic: It is derived from 'tum ult ho' in Pakistan. Which means you lack
discipline. So tumultuous must mean unrestrained and disorderly.
Eloquence
noun: expressiveness; persuasive speech
In order to get a good score on the TOEFL and IELTS speaking section, one should
speak with such eloquence that would convince the listener to give you the highest
score.
Mnemonic: Eloquence= e (efficient) + loquence (language). So efficient language.
Precariously
adjective: dangerous
Taking the GRE exam without prior sleep and a sumptuous meal can have precarious
outcomes.
Mnemonic: precarious = pre + car + ious. Pre means before something (like before
preparation) So driving a car before preparation is precarious. Which means
dangerous
Superficiality
noun: lack of depth of knowledge,thought or feeling
Since Ahmad's analytical essay gives only a superficial analysis of the argument, he
only got a 3 out of 6 on the exam.
Mnemonic: Superficial = super (highly) + fictional (imaginative, as fictional movies
and stories). So if something looks very intelligent or smart, but actually its not then
it is superficial.
Underscore
verb: to emphasize
For Ali, who was the topper of LUMS, failure to do well on the GRE underscores the
difficulty of the exam.
Mnemonic: When you underline a word or a sentence, it shows its significance. For
instance, while writing an application, the subject line is underlined or underscores
i.e. it is very important.
Tedious
adjective: lacking in interest
Learning vocabulary is a tedious exercise - therefore instead of learning these

flashcards you should start reading from good websites such as Economist or
Newyork times.
Mnemonic: There are two kinds of bakra in Pakistan. 1) desi bakra that is very
interested by people. and 2) tedi bakra (which is walaiti nasal) which has lacking in
interest. So it means lacking interest. Also the seller of tedi bakra use many boring
words to convince the buyer to buy this. So another meaning of tedious is using or
containing too much words, which are boring.
omniscience
noun: all-knowing
After taking GRE classes, Fatima became omniscient on all basic concepts of the
exam.
Mnemonic: We have a way to send money through UBL omni, its a new science &
knowledge. So omniscience is something all-knowing power. Omni means universal.
Like Omnivorous are those who eat meat as well as herbs. So its all-rounders.
dramatic
adjective: emotional; sudden and extreme
There was a dramatic increase in prices of some vegetables in Pakistan, and people
describe this as govt. failure to administer.
Mnemonic: drama is full of emotions. So dramatic means emotional.
Disparaged
verb: express a negative opinion, belittle others
In the issue essay on the GRE, disparaging the other side of the argument does not
give any credit; its actually waste of precious time & words.
Mnemonic: disparage= display + rage. When you display rage to others you humiliate
or belittle them.
Arduous
adjective: requiring lots of hard work; especially physical effort
Without someone to help you, without a proper teacher, GRE is far too arduous to study for.
Mnemonic: arduous = read it as "hard to do for us"
Cerebral
adjective: involving intelligence rather than emotions, something related to brain
Reading books improves your cerebral activities; hence by reading on a daily basis you are likely
to improve your GRE score.
Mnemonic: Cerebral = CereBRAINal
Sporadically
Adjective: repeating again and again but irregularly and without any predictable pattern
In the last few decades, Karachi has been subjected to sporadic terrorist bombings and political activism
that has caused many people to flee the city.
Mnemonic: Sporadic sounds like periodic – something that is periodic happens time and again.
Entail
Verb: Necessitate or require (something as essential)
Scoring above 320 on the GRE entails studying 5 hours every day for more than 2 months and
learning thousands of new words.
Mnemonic: Tail is a necessary part of the animal, so necessary
Plod
noun: the act of walking with a slow heavy style (as in when you are bored or tired)
After watching the boring 3 hour long film at the cinema, Sarah plodded her way back to the car.
Mnemonic: Plod sounds like IPOD; those who wear ipod walk slowly and heavily.
Intransigent
adjective: stubborn, unwilling to change one's views

The intransigence of both the political parties made it impossible to arrive at a decision
Mnemonic: intransigent = in mean not + transact --> won't do the transaction i.e. stubborn.
Scrupulous
adjective: extremely principled, taking great care and effort in doing something
While preparing for the GRE, Javeria scrupulously wrote all the difficult words on a piece of
paper and made their flash cards.
Mnemonic: Scrupulous sounds like sculpture; while building sculpture the worker has to be very
careful and make a great effort to make it look perfect.
Ingenuous
adjective: innocent and straightforward, artless
Although he looked like a villain, the movie actor still insisted that he can best cast as an ingenuous
sweet young hero.
Mnemonics: Ingenuous sounds like genuine; genuine people are always straightforward and harmless.
Ameliorate
verb: to make better, to improve
Zaid's pain of scoring less on the GRE was ameliorated when he found out that he still qualified for the
Fulbright Scholarship.
Mnemonic: Ameli sounds like Imli; Imli improves the taste of food
Malfeasance
Noun: wrongdoing or an incorrect act by a public official
The excise and taxation department in Pakistan discovered the high ranking officials
malfeasance only after he had fled the country.
Mnemonic: Sounds like MAL (bad) + FEES. Bad fee so it is something of a bribe. So malfeasance
means officials taking bribe or doing a misconduct.
Euphoria
noun: a feeling of extreme excitement and happiness
Ahmad was euphoric after he got an admission at Harvard University with full scholarship.
Mnemonic: You feel extremely excited while listening to the music band Euphoria.
Frantic
adjective: full of fear, anxiety and violent emotions
Frantic to find his son, Athar made friends with two young Pakistani soldiers, who promised to
help him.
Mnemonic: Frantic contains F+Ran+Tic (tic tic time); so if you are getting late for office you will
run frantically to reach on time.
Crestfallen
adjective: dejected, sad and disappointed.
The Pakistani cricket team and the entire nation was crestfallen after Pakistan lost a match that
they were about to win.
Mnemonic: Crest is the top of the hill. So after someone makes an effort and climbs a crest but
then falls down, he feels dejected.
Vindicate
verb: to clear someone from a blame, conspiracy or accusation.
Even taking 10 wickets in a match cannot vindicate Muhammad Asif in the eyes of the Pakistani
public - for he was involved in match fixing and betting invalidates all those wickets.
Mnemonic: Sounds like Win the Case. When you win the case, you are free from all charges and
accusations.
Involved
adjective: something which is very difficult and complicated to understand.
The GRE analytical questions became so involved that the student decided to quit studying and
went to sleep.
Mnemonics: One gets involved with something that is involved (something that is complex)
Humdrum
noun: Boring, monotonous routine
Sameer spent all day doing humdrum tasks for his GRE preparation; learning new words,
reading passages and memorizing mathematical formulas.
Mnemonic: The Pakistani movie HUMDUM was very boring and dull.
Egregious
adjective: extremely bad to such an extent that it becomes shocking
The president's abuse of power was so egregious that even his own family deserted him and
asked the international courts to take action against him.

Mnemonic: Egregious has the word GRE in it; in Pakistan we get shockingly bad grades in GRE.
Intimate
verb: to hint at something
At first the teacher intimated to the GRE student that he was not performing well in the class.
But when the student did not improve his grades, the GRE teacher explicitly told the student
that he was too weak to take the GRE test.
Mnemonics: Intimate contains the word mate. So when you want to mate with someone you
intimate (give a hint)
Strife
noun: severe disagreement & conflict over basic issues
The strife between the two biggest political parties of Pakistan does not seem to resolve
anytime soon.
Mnemonic: Stife sounds like Strike. So you strike someone if you have a bitter fight or conflict.
Auspicious
adjective: favorable, positive
Despite an auspicious start to the match, Pakistan team lost its way later on in the match and
eventually lost it by a big margin.
Mnemonic: Auspicious sounds like suspicious; being suspicious of someone can really be
favorable if you are a detective.
Disinterested
adjective: neutral, not inclined towards any particular side.
The President of the election commission of Pakistan must not be affiliated with any political
party and should only be a disinterested member.
Mnemonics: Not + Interested. The GRE teacher was not interested in the students grades so he
was not bothered about the outcome
Iconoclast
noun: someone who attacks established beliefs or institutions.
Ali is an iconoclast for wearing beach shorts and T-shirt to a formal marriage function.
Mnemonics: Sounds like ICON (hero, ideal) + CLASH; So someone who clashes with icons is an
iconoclast.
Castigate
verb: to criticize severely.
Banks in Pakistan are famous to castigate new fresh employees so harshly that most of them
quit during the first week at work.
Mnemonics: In old days if someone of lower CAST would come to your GATE you would harshly
criticize or punish them.
Prodigal
adjective: one who is wasteful of and reckless with resources.
It is very rare to see movie stars to not live a life of prodigality; most of them live extravagant
lives.
Mnemonics: Sounds like proud girl; proud girl's are always wasting their dad's money.
Impertinent
adjective: insolent, disrespectful, lacking good manners.
After his wallet was stolen, Ahmed found the police inspector's investigation impertinent - he
thought that the police officer was trying to ask him such questions in order to place the blame
for the incident on Ahmed.
Mnemonics: Sounds like Impotent; Impotent people are rude and insolent because they are
frustrated
Mercurial
adjective: (of a person) one who has unpredictable changes in mood and temperament.
Ahmed's mercurial mood was the main reason behind his divorce. At one time he was very polite
and the next moment he was furious for no reason.
Mnemonics: Mercury in a thermometer quickly goes up if a person is sick and quickly comes
down if not sick. So just like mercury going up and down, the mood of a person can be
mercurial
Wanting
adjective: lacking (this is a secondary meaning of want and it means lack of something)
Usage: After 1 month of preparation, Tanveer still felt his GRE preparation was wanting and
therefore he decided to postpone his test.
Mnemonics: You only want something when you lack it (don't have it). So wanting means
lacking
Frugal
adjective: someone who does not spend a lot of money but spends it wisely.
People mistook Ahmed's frugality as a sign of miserliness. However Ahmed was simply careful in
his spending.
Mnemonics: Frugal sounds like Few + Girl. So if you have few girl friends it will be very
economical on your pocket
Amalgam
noun: a mixture of things, items or substances.
His GRE preparation was an amalgam of LSAT, GMAT and SAT; blending the three tests, he was
able to prepare well for the GRE.
Mnemonics: Amalgam sounds like Balgam (in Pakistan) which comes out of our mouth when we
cough. It is a mixture of all sort of weird things :P
Parochial
adjective: narrow minded, short sighted or lacking vision
Fatima could not carry on her relationship with her husband because his thinking was too
parochial. He always complained to Fatima that she should quit her job because females should
only be confined to the four walls of the house.
Mnemonics: Link this with "Paaro" of the Pakistani village whose parents were narrow in their
vision and married Paaro to an old man
Venality
adjective: the state of being prone to corruption, bribery and illegal gifts.
Even cricket, which was once called the gentleman's game, is now susceptible to venality as
many cricketers and umpires have received significant bribery to alter the fate of the matches.
Mnemonic: Venal can be broken down into Ve (We) Nal (Null). We Null meaning no money (0
money). So when one has no money they are easily corruptible
Equivocal
adjective: ambiguous, unclear or confusing. To equivocate is to lie or prevaricate.
The topics that were taught in the class were equivocal - the teacher himself was not sure about
the concepts he was explaining.
Mnemonic: If everyone in a GRE class started speaking in Equal + Voice, then everyone would
be confused of what the other is saying.
Veracious
adjective: honest, truthful

During election period, we believe that our politicians will be veracious; however every time we
are proven wrong.
Mnemonics: This may sound a little silly but here is my mnemonic for Veracious.
VERAcious….VEERA always tells the truth
Ambivalent
adjective: Feeling of mixed or conflicting emotions about something.
Mudassar felt ambivalent about studying for the GRE because he had wanted to do a job but his
parents wanted him to study abroad on USEFP scholarships.
Mnemonic: Ambivalent sounds like ambulance. In an ambulance you have mixed feelings
(Bachey ga ya naheen)
Commensurate
adjective: proportional to in extent, amount or degree.
His salary was commensurate to amount of hard work he did at office.
Mnemonic: Sounds like Common Rate; so your pay is of the same rate as your work.
Laconic
adjective: One who speaks less or uses very few words.
If the GRE teacher were laconic with his lectures, then he could finish the class 30 minutes early.
Mnemonic: Laconic contains the word Lack so lack of words
Aberration
noun: an abnormality, deviation from the normal.
Aberrations in petrol prices in Pakistan have become a daily routine; on any day the prices are
exorbitantly high, the next day back to the previous prices.
Mnemonic: Aberration sounds like abortion which is something not normal
Venerate
verb: to offer great respect.
The GRE student, despite the fact that he never helped any other student, was venerated
amongst his peers for getting perfect scores in his GRE exam.
Mnemonic: Venerate sounds like "Ven we Rate"; When we rate someone higher we treat them
with respect
Amenable
adjective: agreeable, easily persuaded.
Even though Ahmed's boss did not admire him coming late to office, he was generally amenable
and so did not castigate Ahmed for his behavior.
Mnemonic: Amenable sounds like AMAN (peace) + ABLE. So someone who is amenable is
complying and at peace.
Calumny
noun: to falsely attack a person's reputation.
With elections in Pakistan about to begin, all politicians are indulging in calumny against Imran
Khan's political party.
Mnemonic: Calumny sounds like camini (in urdu) which is a harsh remark given to someone.

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The school's archaic computer system predate even floppy disks--it

Causing sleep; sleepy; drowsy.

Expressing care; very careful; worried; eager to do something.

For PML(n), the PTI slogan of 'New Pakistan' is a fanciful scheme

India could demonstrate only a tenuous claim to ownership of Kashmir; which is

Mnemonics: It shares a root with 'pure' and 'purity'.

36-Aesthetic (Zauq e jamal rakhnay wala)

Verb: Rise minor objection or complaint; find faults in petty way.

not fresh or original.

mercurial; tending to violence; evaporating rapidly.

Adjective: Capable of maintaining life; feasible; practical or workable.

Adjective: Unintentional; lack of attention; careless.

Mnemonics: It can be use in three different contexts; 1) support something: it

on guard against danger.

It is only when we become retrospective that we can appreciate the tremendous

Adjective: deeply established; firmly rooted.

Adjective: Claiming or demanding a position of importance or dignity, esp. when

Fulbright decision panel makes impartial evaluation of the applicant's qualifications,

pertaining to the accepted rules or standards.

opposing; unfavorable; hostile.

Many people hate thinking of Tehrik-e-Talibaan Pakistan because of their illiberality;

After considering the effect of alcohol on his athletic performance, he decided to

In politics of Pakistan, opposition always antipathy the government, which obstruct

He was compliant and ready to go along with his friends' desires.

Mnemonic: jargon = joking + arguments; when joking arguments (jargon) made in a

Adjective: unmoved or unconcerned by; having no interest in; mediocre; neither

She was still angry despite his conciliatory words.

Mnemonics: Spearhead = spear (Shakespeare, a wise person) + head (which gives a

Mnemonics: We study in physics that when an object is placed in front of a mirror, it

The metamorphosis of caterpillar to butterfly is typical of many such changes in

The continuous reading of vocabulary lulled Bilal to sleep.

Though not as a profession of cartography, Ahmed was able to construct a map of

Mnemonic: It sounds like cartoon-grapher; which is the created of cartoons in many

An exponent of clean fuel, he petitioned the state government to commit to replacing

of exponent; So exponent is something expend or explain or some sort of power or

Mnemonics: It has derived from moderate, which means to reduce or lessen. A

A forthcoming exhibit at the art museum that is eagerly awaited by connoisseurs of

After a year in doing his job responsibilities, he hoped to be promoted to a more

We tried to mollify the hysterical child by promising her many gifts.

Crying "No taxation without representation," the colonists demonstrated against

Inter-Services-Intelligence (I.S.I) is an autonomous body of organisation which is

His early travels were just a preamble to his later adventures.

An American in Saudi Arabia should study the culture beforehand so as to avoid

Obama administration (Democratic) is likewise the Bush administration (Republican);

I am afraid you've done the assignment wrong--the point of making a timeline is to

The computer is no longer a novelty around the office.

For letter of recommendation, students supplicate their professors to recommend

Mnemonics: During matric or intermediate, few students do Supplementary exams

Mnemonics: It sounds like embarrassive; so when your remarks are so embarrassing,

Accustomed to editing his papers on word processors, Ahmed thought typewriters

Noted for his temperate appetite, he seldom drink alcohals.

Day-by-day, electricity is exacting in Pakistan, specially in summer season; because

As an experienced teacher, he makes divine prediction about his students score in

Mnemonics: subjective is some reasoning that based on a subject or personal

He distrusted hunches and intuitive flashes; he placed his reliance entirely on

The mayfly is an ephemeral creature; it hardly lives for couple of hours.

Her articulate presentation of the advertising campaign impressed her employers.

Manufacturing a car requires to pass it through gradation of different units.

we were asked to be on our most decorous behavior at the formal event.

The relief workers set up the camp as a haven from persecution.

Students who dislike school must be given an incentive to learn.