ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 15th)
1. Peripheral
2. Integral
3. Novelty
4. Gadfly
5. Periphery
6. Fetter
7. Extol
8. Glee
9. Succinct
10. Iconoclast
11. Garrulous
12. Cryptic
13. Redolent
14. Slothful
15. Zephyr
16. Seasoned
17. Digression
18. Taciturn
19. Embezzlement
20. Exotic
21. Malicious
22. Delay
23. Beleaguered
24. Assertive
Analogies:
1. Accidental: Incidental
2. Beleaguered: Assertive
3. School: Education
Issue Topic:
1. The study of history places too much emphasis on individuals. The most significant events and trends in history were mad; possible not by the famous few, but by groups of people whose identities have long been forgotten.
Argument Topic:
1. The following appeared in an editorial in the Mason City newspaper.
"At present, Mason City residents seldom use the nearby Mason River for any kind of recreational activity, even though surveys of the region's residents consistently rank water sports (swimming, fishing, and boating) as a favorite form of recreation. Since there have been complaints about the quality of the water in the river, residents must be avoiding the river because they think that it is not clean enough. But that situation is about to change: the agency responsible for rivers in our region has announced plans to clean up Mason River. Therefore, recreational use of the river is likely to increase, so the Mason City council will need to increase its budget for improvements to the publicly owned lands along the Mason River."
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 14th)
1. Diaphanous
2. Encomium
3. Periphery
4. Sojourn
5. Deplore
6. Wallow
7. Defame
8. Lugubrious
9. Mellifluous
10. Exude
11. Banal
12. Ludicrous
13. Restive
14. Signal
15. Compendium
16. Rivalry
17. Skirt
18. Reliquary
19. Slant
20. Fleeting
21. Guffaw
Analogies:
1. Fleeting: Pass
2. Guffaw: Amusement
Issue Topic:
1. Scholars should not worry about contribution to society and rather should concentrate on pursuing their individual goals.
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 13th)
1. Convoke(v): to call together; summon to meet or assemble; to cause to assemble in a meeting.
Synonyms: to summon; assemble; convene; cite, gather, meet, muster, request.
2. Hasten(v): to move or act with haste; proceed with haste; hurry; accelerate; to speed up; act or move at high speed; cause to occur rapidly.
Synonyms: accelerate, advance, barrel, bolt, dart, drive, expedite, fleet, gallop, hie, hurry, precipitate, precipitate press, press, push, quicken, race, run, rush, scamper, scurry, speed, trot, urge, whisk.
3. Limpid(adj): clear, transparent; completely calm; without distress or worry; Characterized by transparent clearness; easily intelligible; clear; Calm and untroubled; clear and bright; easily understandable.
Synonyms: Clear; transparent; pellucid; lucid; pure; crystal; translucent; bright; comprehensible, crystalline, distinct, lucid, pellucid, pure, serene, translucent, transparent, untroubled.
4. Sapient(adj): having or showing great wisdom or sound judgment; acutely insightful and wise; sage; discerning; often in irony or contempt.
Synonyms: discerning, intelligent, knowing, knowledgeable, learned, sagacious, sage, wise.
5. Teddy(n): plaything consisting of a child's toy bear (usually plush and stuffed with soft materials); a male given name; a female given name; a teddy bear.
6. Dale(n): a valley, esp. a broad valley; a male or female given name; an open river valley (in a hilly area); a low place between hills; a vale or valley; a trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump.
Synonyms: dell, dene, dingle, glen, ravine, spout, trough, vale, valley.
7. Jejune(adj): without interest or significance; dull; insipid; immature; childish; lacking knowledge or experience; uninformed;deficient or lacking in nutritive value; not interesting; dull.
Synonyms: arid, banal, barren, bland, childish, dull, empty, flat, immature, inane, innocuous, insipid, juvenile, meager, sterile, trite, unexciting, vapid.
8. Plangent(adj): resounding loudly, esp. with a plaintive sound, as a bell; Loud and resounding; Expressing or suggesting sadness; plaintive.
Synonyms: mellow, orotund, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, sonorous, vibrant.
9. Stand(v): (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet; to rise to one's feet ; to stop or remain motionless or steady on the feet; to remain firm or steadfast; to continue in force or remain valid; to remain still, stationary, or unused; to face or encounter; Synonyms: abide, stomach, bear up, endure, hold up.
Issue Topic:
1. We are not teaching students how to contribute in society
(It is something like that)
Argument Topic:
1. The following appeared in a newspaper feature story.
"At the small, non-profit hospital in the town of Saluda, the average length of a patient's stay is two days; at the large, for-profit hospital in the near by city of Megaville, the average patient's stay is six days.Also, the cure rate among patients in the Saluda hospital is about twice that of the Megaville hospital. The Saluda hospital has more employees per patient than the hospital in Megaville and there are few complaints about service at the local hospital.Such data indicate that treatment in smaller, non-profit hospitals is more economical and of better quality than treatment in larger, for profit hospitals".
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 10th)
1. Friated
2. Mind
3. Vicissitude
4. Prosaic
5. Tessellated
6. Reel
7. Perspicacious
8. Timorous
9. Flagging
10. Ambrosia
11. Burnish
12. Lackluster
13. Contentious
14. Querrulous
Analogies:
1. Wood: Carpenter
2. Burnish: Lackluster
3. Contentious: Querrulous
Issue Topic:
1. A Work of art like song, literature, sculpture or movie is given merit only if it is understandable to the people.
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 9th)
1. Cement
2. Zealous
3. Desecrat
4. Vacillatory
5. Diaphanous
6. Estimable
7. Shoveled
8. Signal
9. Gossamer
10. Firial
11. Deprecation
12. Prosaic
13. Trecharant
14. Hasten
15. Dogged
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 8th)
1. Vicissitude(n): a change or variation occurring in the course of something; regular change or succession of one state or thing to another; the quality of being changeable; One of the sudden or unexpected changes or shifts often encountered in one's life, activities, or surroundings.
Synonyms: alteration, change, difficulty, diversity, mutability, mutation, reversal, shift, switch, variation, variety.
2. Propitious(adj): presenting favorable conditions; indicative of favor; auspicious; favorably inclined; Kindly; gracious; likely to result in or show signs of success.
Synonyms: advantageous, auspicious, beneficial, benign, encouraging, favorable, friendly, gracious, helpful, opportune, promising, prosperous, rosy, timely.
3. Hasten(v): to move or act swiftly; to cause to hurry; to speed up; accelerate; speed up the progress of; facilitate; cause to occur rapidly; to drive or urge forward; to push on.
Synonyms: accelerate, advance, barrel, bolt, dart, drive, expedite, fleet, gallop, hie, hurry, precipitate, precipitate press, push, quicken, race, run, rush, scamper, scurry, speed, trot, urge, whisk.
4. Minutiae(n): small or trifling matters; Usually, minutiae. precise details.
Synonyms: details, ins and outs, items, odds and ends, particulars, trivia.
5. Dogged(adj): persistent in effort; damned; confounded; stubbornly tenacious; to track or trail persistently; To hold or fasten with a mechanical device; obstinately determined.
Synonyms: adamant, determined, headstrong, insistent, mulish, obstinate, persevering, persistent, staunch, steadfast, stubborn, tenacious, unshakable, unyielding.
6. Commotion(n): A condition of turbulent motion; An agitated disturbance; political or social disturbance; confused movement.
Synonyms: agitation, bouleversement, brouhaha, bustle, clamor, clatter, convulsion, flap, flare, flourish, fluster, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hurly-burly, mutiny, pandemonium, perturbation, pother, racket, revolt, riot, tempest, todo, tumult, turmoil, upheaval, uproar.
7. Addendum(n): a thing to be added; an addition; an appendix to a book; Something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book.
8. Puckish(adj): mischievous; impish; naughtily or annoyingly playful
Synonyms: impish, mischievous, mysterious, naughty, playful, wicked.
9. Impecunious(adj): having little or no money; penniless; poor, not having enough money to pay for necessities
Synonyms: broke, destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, penniless, poverty-stricken.
Issue Topic:
1. It is primarily through formal education that a culture tries to perpetuate the ideas it favors and discredit the ideas it fears.
2. It is often necessary, even desirable, for political leaders to withhold information from the public.
Argument Topic:
1. The following appeared in an article in a magazine for writers
"A recent study showed that in describing a typical day's conversation, people make an average of 23 references to watching television and only 1 reference to reading fiction. This result suggests that, compared with the television industry, the publishing and bookselling industries are likely to decline in profitability. Therefore, people who wish to have careers as writers should acquire training and experience in writing for television rather than for print media."
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 7th)
1. Assuage(v): To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe; To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example); To pacify or calm; provide physical relief, as from pain; cause to be more favorably inclined.
Synonyms: alleviate, lessen, abate, appease, comfort, diminish, ease, fill, lull, mitigate, modify, mollify, quiet, reduce, relieve, salve, slake, soften, solace, soothe, sweeten, tranquilize.
Antonyms: intensify.
2. Exculpate(v): to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame.
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, amnesty, clear, dismiss, excuse, exonerate, forgive, free, pardon, release, vindicate.
3. Callous(adj): made hard; hardened; insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic, Emotionally hardened; unfeeling. <
Synonyms: adamant, anesthetic, apathetic, brawny, horny, impertinent, indurative, inexorable, obdurate, stubborn, torpid.
4. Stoic(adj): One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain; seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
Synonyms: detached, dispassionate, impassive, imperturbable, patient, philosophic, phlegmatic, resolute, spartan, stolid, unconcerned, undemonstrative, unflappable, unruffled.
5. Ponderous(adj): Having great weight; unwieldy from weight or bulk; lacking grace or fluency.
Synonyms: heavy, boring, dreary, plodding, tedious, awkward, bulky, cumbersome, dull, hefty, humdrum, massive, monotonous.
Antonyms: lively, exciting.
6. Timorous(adj) : full of fear; fearful.
Synonyms: abashed, aghast, anxious, apprehensive, blanched, cowed, daunted, dismayed, intimidated, panic-stricken, perplexed, perturbed, rattled, spooked.
Antonyms: bold, courageous, valiant
7. Ineluctable(adj): incapable of being evaded; inescapable; Not to be avoided or escaped.
Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, certain, doomed, indubitable, inescapable, inevitable, sure, unavoidable, unevadable.
8. Pulsatile(adj): Undergoing pulsation; vibrating; Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.
9. Intimidate(v): fill with fear; to force into or deter from some action by inducing fear; to compel or deter by or as if by threats; make timid or fearful.
Synonyms: abash, badger, bludgeon, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, coerce, cow, daunt, denounce, dishearten, dominate, dragoon, faze, frighten, hector, overawe, ride, scare, swagger, terrorize, threaten.
Antonyms: calm, encourage.
Analogies:
1. Ineluctable: Avoid
2. Approach: Intimidate
Issue Topic:
1. The study of history is done only on few famous persons. The great achievements of the so called famous is actually achieved by groups of people who have been long forgotten.
Argument Topic:
1. The Residents of the Mason city make no recreational use of the Mason river that is nearer to the city. Eventhough the state survey done, quotes that water sports(swimming, fishing, boating) as the favourites among the people. There are complaints that the river is been polluted and hence the people might be staying away from it. The situation is about to change as the state government has decided to purify the Mason river and hence the recreational use of river is about to rise. The Mason city council should increase the budget to develop the city-owned lands across the river.
(similar to this)
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 6th)
1. Diaphanous(adj): very sheer and light; almost completely transparent ; Characterized by delicacy of form.
Synonyms: airy, clear, delicate, fine, flimsy, gauzy, gossamer, insubstantial, lucid, sheer, transparent, vague.
2. Spartan(adj): sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere; Rigorously self-disciplined or self-restrained, brave; undaunted.
3. Discordant(adj): being at variance; disagreeing;harsh; Not being in accord; conflicting; not in agreement or harmony.
Synonyms: dissonant; incongruous; Discordant; discrepant.
4. Perspicacious(adj): having keen mental perception and understanding; having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted; acutely insightful and wise; having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.
Synonyms: acute, alert, astute, clearheaded, discerning, observant, perceptive, savvy, shrewd, wise.
Antonyms: dull, stupid.
5. Erudite(adj): characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly.
Synonyms educated, knowledgeable; wise, sapient
6. Commensurate(adj): having the same measure; of equal extent or duration; corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree; proportionate; adequate; measurable by a common standard.
Synonyms: adequate, appropriate, balanced, corresponding, equal, equivalent, even, parallel, proportional, square.
7. Friated(adj): easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbling.
Synonyms: fragile, frangible, brittle.
8. Lurk(v): to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; to exist unperceived or unsuspected
Synonyms: creep, crouch, prowl, skulk, slink, sneak.
9. Trenchant(adj): incisive or keen; vigorous; effective; energetic; clearly or sharply defined.
Synonyms: acerbic, acidulous, acute, astringent, caustic, crisp, emphatic, incisive, piquant, scathing, sententious, tart, unequivocal, vigorous.
Antonyms: kind, nice.
10. Symphony(n): harmony of sounds; anything characterized by a harmonious combination of elements, esp. an effective combination of colors; agreement; concord.
11. Garrulous(adj): excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner; wordy or diffuse.
Synonyms: prating, babbling; verbose, prolix, loquacious.
Antonyms: reticent, uncommunicative, taciturn, close-mouthed.
12. Din(n): a loud, confused noise; a continued loud or tumultuous sound; noisy clamor; the act of making a noisy disturbance.
Synonyms: babble, clamor, clangor, clatter, commotion, confusion, hubbub, instill, loud, pandemonium, racket, rattle, riot, steven, tumult, turmoil, uproar.
Issue Topic:
1. It is the artist, and not the critic that gives something valuable to the society.
2. The surest indicator of a great nation is not the achievements of its rulers, artists, or scientists, but the general welfare of all its people.
Argument Topic:
1. The vice president for human resources at Climpson Industries sent the following recommendation to the company's president. "In an effort to improve our employees' productivity, we should implement electronic monitoring of employees' Internet use from their workstations. Employees who use the Internet from their workstations need to be identified and punished if we are to reduce the number of work hours spent on personal or recreational activities, such as shopping or playing games. By installing software to detect employees' Internet use on company computers, we can prevent employees from wasting time, foster a better work ethic at Climpson, and improve our overall profits."
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 3rd)
1. Stentorian(adj): very loud or powerful in sound; extremely loud; Of or pertaining to a stentor; extremely loud; powerful.
Synonyms: blaring, loud, orotund, resounding, sonorous.
2. Offbeat(adj): differing from the usual or expected; unconventional; Not conforming to an ordinary type or pattern; informal terms.
Synonyms: bizarre, different, eccentric, odd, peculiar, strange, unique, unusual, weird.
3. Precarious(adj): Dangerously lacking in security or stability; dependent on circumstances beyond one's control; uncertain; unstable; insecure; dependent on the will or pleasure of another; having insufficient, little, or no foundation; exposed to or involving danger; dangerous.
Synonyms: unsure, unsteady, doubtful, dubious, unreliable, undependable, hazardous, groundless, baseless, unfounded, chancy, insecure, perilous, risky, rocky, tricky, unassured, unwarranted.
Antonyms: secure, reliable, safe, well-founded.
4. Nefarious(adj): extremely wicked ; abominable; Infamous by way of being extremely wicked.
Synonyms: atrocious, base, corrupt, depraved, despicable, detestable, evil, flagitious, gross, heinous, horrible, infamous, miscreant, rank, rotten, sinful, treacherous, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, execrable.
Antonyms: good, honest.
5. Perspicacious(adj): having keen mental perception and understanding; having or showing penetrating mental discernment; clear-sighted; acutely insightful and wise; having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.
Synonyms: perceptive, acute, shrewd, penetrating.
Antonyms: dull, stupid.
6. Serried(adj): pressed together or compacted, as soldiers in rows; crowded together especially in rows; dense.
7. Skullduggery(n): Crafty deception or trickery or an instance of it; verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way .
Synonyms: chicanery, crafty, trickery.
8. Transitory(adj): Existing or lasting only a short time; brief; short-lived; temporary; not lasting, enduring, permanent.
Synonyms: ephemeral, evanescent, fleet, fleeting, fugacious, fugitive, momentary, passing, temporal, transient.
Antonyms: permanent.
9. Mirth(n): amusement or laughter; gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter.
Synonyms: amusement, cheerfulness, delight, festivity, frivolity, fun, gaiety, gayety, gladness, glee, happiness, hilarity, jocularity, jollity, joyousness, levity, merriment, playfulness, pleasure, spleen.
Antonyms: gloom
10. Vile(adj): wretchedly bad; highly offensive, unpleasant, or objectionable; repulsive or disgusting, morally debased, depraved, poor; wretched, of little value or account.
Synonyms: repellent, vicious, evil, iniquitous, vulgar, obscene, contemptible, trivial, trifling.
Antonyms: good, elevated.
11. Saunter(v): a leisurely walk or stroll; a leisurely pace; walk leisurely and with no apparent aim.
Synonyms: To loiter; linger; stroll; wander, amble, ramble, meander, dally, dawdle, delay, drift, frank, gigot, idle, lag, lounge, mosey, promenade, roam, rove, ruminate, sashay, straggle, stray.
12. Overhaul(v): to make necessary repairs on; restore to serviceable condition; to investigate or examine thoroughly for repair or revision; to gain upon, catch up with, or overtake, as in a race.
Synonyms: doctor, examine, mend, rebuild, recondition, redo, renovate, repair, restore, revamp.
Analogies:
1. Saunter: walk
2. Overhaul: Revision
Argument Topic:
1. The following is a recommendation from the business manager of Monarch Books.
"Monarch Books should open a cafe in its store to attract more customers and better compete with Regal Books, which recently opened a cafe. Monarch, which has been in business at the same location for more than twenty years, has a large customer following because it is known for its wide selection of books on all subjects. Opening the cafe would clearly attract more customers. The cafe would require relatively little space. Space could be made for the cafe by discontinuing the children's book section, which will likely become less popular given that the last national census indicated a significant decline in the percent of the population who are under age ten."
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 2nd)
1. Diaphanous
2. Spartan
3. Quaff
4. Beleaguered
5. Blatant
6. Quell
7. Stentorian
8. Unseemly
9. Offbeat
10. Mulish
11. Persuaded
Analogies:
1. Quaff: Sip
2. Mulish: Persuaded
Issue Topic:
1. An effective political leader doesn't speak da truth always. Honesty is a useful virtue for an effective politician.
ORKUT VERBAL DATABASE (Till Oct 1st)
1. Clarion
2. Tangibility
3. Commensurate
4. Quaff
5. Friated
6. Havoc
7. Transparent
8. Deplore
9. Emulations
10. Exemplar
11. Obscure
12. Unseemly
13. Hasten
14. Stentorian
15. Spiny
16. Sententious
17. Jaundice
18. Immutable
19. Spurious
20. Procrastinate
21. Avowal
22. Surly
23. Hasten
24. Stentorian
25. Spiny
26. Nefarious
27. Obscure
28. Disparity
29. Tepid
30. Oblivious
31. Nice
Analogies:
1. Malfunction: Failsafe
2. Quaff: Sip
3. Alloy: Pure
Issue Topic:
1. The profound thinkers and highly creative artists are always out of place with their time and society.
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