Review of 3500 Master Word List of BARRON

Today I have completed the preliminary review of 3, 500 master word list given in Barron's book. Though I had read them a couple of times, I don't know most of them. Hence I couldn't score good in the last exam. I only knew that the words were GRE words but I used to confuse with the majority of the words. This time I have not only read but written them. On this day, May 23, 2010 I have completed them by writing in my notebooks. Now I need to repeat them, rumminate over them and make them my own words so as to be able to use them freely in different context while writong and while inditing anything in my volition. It started from Abase and ended with Zephyr crossing 50 Word List and 26 alphabets. Some of the alphabets remained very tiresome as they had many words starting with. Some of them were A, B, I, M, N, P , R , S and T. Anyway I have finished them. There are almost no words whose concepts have not been clear. I would like to note a couple of reflections that I made after completing this preliminary review.

1. We need to understand the concept of each new words only then I can remember them, otherwise dry parroting makes no enduring verbal influence in my mind. Learning a new word means getting a new concept for which all of the synonyms can remembered shortly.
2. It would be good to use them in my own sentence but as I have to learn as many words as I can in a day, it becomes difficult to give much time to a single word. To satisfy hastening mind I flick over the words every day.
3. Sometimes I feel why people have made so many words as the primary purpose of a word in language is to work as a means of expressing concept. The language would have been more succint, precise and malleable if the language had only one word for one concept. My embryonic thought mignt be wrong. May be literature composers need more words...
4. The words with pronunciation nuances are very confusing, hence they need extra meticulous focus for deciphering
5. Overindulgence in words has made my mind blunt, I need to hone it by using these discrete in creative contexts
6. Having learnt a majority of these words also I can not take any assurance for secruing good score as exam can befuddle me with entirely different magical composition and analogy of the words.
7. Now I feel more comfortable reading  abstruse and esoteric reading matters. At least I have somethig at the end whether the real GRE is any good for venturing a new scholarly world.
8. Almost half of the words have been typed while practising, and some of them are in this blog for future practice.

I Love My Family

Ranket; an oaf

Once upon a time there was an oaf who lived in a forest. The forest was dense and the beasts were fierce. He used to live by hunting and gathering foods and grains. Some of the foods he ate were leftovers of wild beasts such as whelp and tigers.
The name of that oaf was Ranket. In the past he was the progeny of a man in a village. His childhood was not so obnoxious as his father provided him with good food and shelter and he also fulfilled his filial responsibilities. But one day when Ranket has just returned from his school he saw no one in his house. All the villagers including his parents were eaten by a dianosour. Then he had left his home and prepared a hut on a top of a cliff, supposed not to be trodden by the dianosour. But after years the cliff turned to be a forest and he befriended with wild beasts that could climb the cliff.
Though his chilhood was vivacious most of the events were completely obliterated from his mind. Neither he could remember the obsequy (funeral ceremony) of his slayed father nor the scuffle the villagers had made to dishearten the wild dinosour. Just one thing he could remember was how the bestile reptile devour the flesh of his cattle sitting on the obsidian that came out of the volcanic erruption hundreds of years ago. He also remebers the way the pernicious beast lumbered to the mire down the obsidian.
One day the oaf Ranket had killed a big deer and was preparing to eat the carnal part of his prey. He was removing the blood clot occluded after he impaled the deer's dorsal with his spear. All of a sudden he heard the roar of dinosour. He sprang up and gaped towards the obsidian. Nether of the hammock he saw the same beast that ate all of his villagers including his begetter and beloved mother. The odious creature was lumbering like an elephant. The ominous moment was telling him that a calamity was impending and he must garner courage to escape by circumventing the lifetaking foe. He must find the way out otherwise it was almost certain that he would fall into the orifice such vehement creature.
Instead of staying at his hut which was impregnable as it was on top of the cliff, the oaf jumped from the top of the cliff and died!!!

Happy New Year 2067

Happy New Year!!!

I Love You

I loved you, love you and will love you
Why you don't understand me
What are you trying to do
To this innocent man full of lovely heart
You have come to my life
You will be staying in my life
But why you don't understand me

Years have passed but you know
there have been much misery and resentment
than joys and happiness
you also know why it has happened
you also know why there are tears in you eyes
but why don't you try to soothe them as they are worthless
i have done nothing as such to cause tears in your beautiful eyes

the little flowers lurcing with the breeze of autman
have learnt how to create tears
you have taught them how to
weep without cause
you have taught them how to sob
without getting their heart really hurt

you have travelled a small part of our journey
there are miles to go before we sleep
but you seem to be tired in the middle
the little flowers with their wonderful
short journey have undergone through
miserable part of their journey

there have been rumours outside
we are not going to earn
no house, no car, no rice and no clothes
but i am sure we have been doing the best
a hut is more grandiose than a castle
if the dwellers are happy
why do you make such a fuss

people have earned you know
how they have done
there is more misery, pain and hurts
in their life
you know dear, money comes with pain
stays with pain and fades away with pain

so many people have money but non of them are happy
happiness is not in the castle full of tension
but in the hut of poors where there is tranquility
hut is more precious house if you have
made it with your own toil
i need nothing a beautiful hut
you me, and two little flowers
just two little flowers lurching
in the long route of my journey!!!

Words starting with E

1. Earthy – unrefined or coarse
2. Ebb – reflux of tide, decline; the tide is on the ebb means the tide is going out
3. Ebullience – a boiling over something; showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; exuberance; effervescence
4. Eccentric – unusual, peculiar, going beyond the center; eccentricity – idiosyncrasy
5. Ecclesiastic – a clergyman; related to church
6. Eddy – swirling current of water, air, etc. whirlpool
7. Edict – decree, especially one issued by a sovereign
8. Edify – instruct, or correct morally, enlighten
9. Eerie – causing a feeling of mystery and fear; Dr. Seward felt an eerie silence in Lucy’s room.
10. Efface – face deleted; rub out; we wanted to efface the logo of KU library in the book I had stolen
11. Effectual – efficacy; able to produce desired effect
12. Effeminate (adj.) – a man having feminine traits; opposite of virile; a man like a woman
13. Effervescence – ebullience; exuberance; showing enthusiasm; excitement
14. Effete – lack vigor
15. Effluvium – noxious smell; due to air pollution, we have been experiencing effluvium
16. Effrontery – impudence, shameless boldness, sheer nerve, presumptuousness, impertinence; “When the boss told Frank she was firing him for laziness and insubordination, he had the effrontery to ask her for a letter of recommendation”
17. Effusion – pouring out especially liquids; pouring out of thoughts and feelings in words; “The critics objected to her literary effusion because it was too flowery.”
18. Effusive – ebullient; enthusiastic; demonstrative; overflowing with emotions
19. Egregious – notorious, badly famous
20. Egress – exit, come out; the sun egressed after eclipse
21. Ejaculation – exclamation
22. Elixir (N) – panacea, alchemy
23. Elusive – evasive; baffling; hard to grasp; “an elusive criminal is the one that can’t be captured easily”
24. Elysium – the home of the blessed after death; a place for ideal happiness; utopia
25. Emanate – produce; cornucopia emanated glut of food and drink
26. Embargo – an official order that bans trade with another country; boycott; “an arms embargo”
27. Embark – go on board; to get into a ship or plane; disembark (opposite)
28. Embellish – decorate, ornate; enhance
29. Emboss – to put a raised design or piece of writing on paper, leather, etc.
30. Embroil – to be in difficult situation; “Why should I embroil myself in your internal problems”
31. Embryonic – undeveloped
32. Emend – correct errors to remove mistakes in a piece of writing before it goes to the press
33. Emetic – substance causing vomit
34. Emissary – agent or messenger
35. Emollient – soothing substance, especially for skin
36. Emolument – remuneration, salary
37. Empathy – ability to understand other’s feelings
38. Enamored – paramours are enamored due to clandestine
39. Enclave – territory enclosed with alien lands
40. Encomiastic – praising, eulogistic
41. Encomium – speech or writing that praises somebody or something highly; paean; panegyric
42. Encumber – cumber, cumbersome, burden; the police operation was encumbered due to the crowds or reporters
43. Endemic – epidemic, pandemic; prevailing over a wide range of place or population
44. Enervate - faze; weaken
45. Engross – occupy fully; “after reading few pages of Bram Stoker’s Dracula I plunged into the mystery and finally plunged into the miracle of Count”
46. Enjoin – command, order, forbid
47. Ennui – boredom
48. Enrapture – enchant, to give somebody great pleasure or joy
49. Ensconce – if you are ensconced or ensconce yourself somewhere, you are made or make yourself comfortable and safe in that place or position
50. Ensue – to happen after or as a result of another event; result; follow
51. Entail – require; necessitate; involve; “Building a college level vocabulary will entail some work on your part”
52. Enterprising – full of initiatives
53. Enthrall – enslave; capture
54. Entrance – put into a trance; “Van Helsingr put Mina into a hypnotic trance – she was entranced”
55. Entreat – plead; request; ask earnestly
56. Entrée – entrance; a way in; right or privilege of admission or entry; “He enrolled Lions Club to get an entrée into the circle of aristocrats”
57. Enunciate – pronounce a word or sound clearly; enunciation – pronunciation
58. Epigram – witty thought or saying, usually short; quip
59. Episodic – loosely connected; occurring irregularly; sporadic
60. Epithet – adjective or descriptive phrase that refers to the character or most important quality of somebody or something
61. Epitome – perfect example; cynosure; embodiment
62. Equable – moderate; neither too cold nor too hot
63. Equestrian – horse rider
64. Equine – horse like
65. Equipoise – equilibrium
66. Errant – doing wrong; wandering in search of adventure
67. Escapade – any carefree episode; childish escapade
68. Espionage – spying
69. Espouse – give one’s support to a cause, theory etc. “Gutenberg espoused Chomsky’s theory of Universal Grammar”
70. Essay – make an attempt at; test
71. Estimable – having esteem, power or value
72. Estrange – separated, alienated; cause somebody formerly loving or friendly to become unfriendly; I have never been estranged by my consort”
73. Ethereal – ether is a medicine used to make people sleep; of heaven or spirit
74. Ethnology – study or human kind; type of anthropology
75. Eugenic – pertaining to the improvement of race
76. Euphoria – intense feeling of happiness and pleasant excitement; “The euphoria of SAU was ephemeral”
77. Euthanasia – mercy killing
78. Evanescent – quickly fading; soon disappearing from memory; “evanescent beauty”
79. Evasive – not frank, eluding; not giving direct answer; elusive “elusive criminal is difficult to capture”
80. Evince – to show clearly that you have feeling or quality; “He evinced the feeling of reconciling with his family”
81. Evenhanded – impartial; fair
82. Evocative – pertaining to bring memory to once feeling, “The breeze outside was evocative of natural spring”
83. Exalt – extol, praise; promote; make higher in rank or position
84. Exceptional – objectionable; something that doesn’t follow rule of exceptions is exceptionable or objectionable
85. Excise – (N) tax; (V) expurgates; censure; remove by cutting; “the surgeon excised the tumor”
86. Exculpate – exonerate; clear from blame; acquit “She was exculpated from blame when the real criminal confessed”
87. Execrable – very bad, terrible, diabolical
88. Execrate – curse; express or feel hatred
89. Exegesis – an explanation or critical interpretation of bible
90. Exempt – free from an obligation, duty or payment; not liable
91. Exertion – effort; expenditure of much physical work
92. Exhilarating – invigorating and refreshing; cheering – hilarious
93. Exhort – urge
94. Exigency – emergency; urgent situation
95. Exiguous – very small in amount; scanty; “an exiguous diet”
96. Exodus – departure of many people at one time; “The mass exodus of people to the sea mountains during summer holidays”
97. Exonerate – exculpate; free from blame
98. Exorcise – drive out or expel an evil spirit by prayers or magic; “Van Helsingr tried to exorcise Dracula effect from Mina”
99. Exotic – not native; strange; alien
100. Expatiate – talk at length; elaborate; dilate; expound; exposit; “At this time, please give us a brief resume of your work, we shall permit you to expatiate later”
101. Expatriate – a person who is voluntarily absent from a country or home
102. Expedient – appropriate to a purpose or practical; suitable; politic; “She was guided by what was expedient rather than what was ethical”
103. Expiate – make amends for a sin; “Noble prize was an expiated act”; kings try to expiate their atrocities by performing some acts or charity”

From Disburse to Dyspepsia

1. Disburse – to pay money to somebody from a large amount that has been collected for a purpose; “The disbursement of funds”
2. Disclaim – stating publicly that you have no knowledge of something or that you are not responsible for something; to give up your right to something such as property or title; renounce “He disclaimed any responsibility”.
3. Discomfit – to make somebody feel confused or embarrassed; discomfiture (N); “A good teacher never makes her children feel discomfiture”.
4. Discompose – to disturb somebody and make them feel anxious; disconcert; disturb
5. Discombobulated – discomposed; confused and a little annoyed
6. Disconcert – to make somebody feel anxious, confused or embarrassed; discomfit; “his answer rather discomfited her”
7. Discretion – the freedom of power to decide what should be done in a particular situation; prudence in speech or action; freedom to act on one’s own; “Discretion of Girija”
8. Discursive – a style of writing or speaking moving from one point to another without any strict structures
9. Disdain – contempt; the feeling that somebody is not good enough to deserve your respect or attention
10. Disembark – opposite of embark; to leave a vehicle, especially a ship or an aircraft, at the end of journey; “I disembarked Buddha Air at 5 PM”.
11. Disfigure – deface; to spoil the appearance of a person or thing “the bulging front gum of my mouth has disfigured me”
12. Disgorge – vomit; cause to flow solid
13. Disgruntle – make discontented; the passengers were disgruntled by numerous delays
14. Disingenuous- not ingenuous; not sincere; artful; “Students are required to give ingenuous answers as far as possible”
15. Disinter – unearth a dead body; opposite of inter
16. Disparate – basically different; unrelated
17. Dispassionate – not influenced by emotion; “a dispassionate observer”
18. Dispel – to make something, especially a feeling or belief go away or disappear; “His speech dispelled any fears about his health”
19. Disport – disport yourself means “enjoy yourself” by doing something active.
20. Disquiet – unease; feeling or unhappy or worry
21. Disquisition – a long complicated speech of written report on a particular subject
22. Dissection – to analyze by cutting into parts; “Dracula tried to dissect the dead body of Lucy pretending that he would know the real cause of her death”
23. Dissemble – to hide real feelings or intention often pretending to have different one; disguise; dissimulate
24. Dissent – disagree; opposite of consent; dissenter is the one who disagrees
25. Dissident – rebellious; a person who disagrees with government
26. Dissipate – to gradually become weaker until it disappears; to waste time or money, especially by not planning the best way of using; squander
27. Dissolution – the act of officially ending a marriage, business agreement; dissolve
28. Distend – to swell because of pressure from inside; “starving children with huge distend bellies”; distention of stomach during pregnancy
29. Distraught – extremely upset or anxious so that cannot think clearly
30. Diurnal – opposite or nocturnal
31. Diva – prima donna; a famous woman singer
32. Divest – to remove clothes; to get rid of something; to take something away from somebody or something; “after her illness she was divested of much of her responsibilities”
33. Divulge – reveal; to leak out the secret information; nobody divulged the real identity of Dracula to Jonathan Hacker
34. Docile – quiet and easy to control; obedient; easily managed; a docile child
35. Docket – docket sheet; a list of cases to be dealt with in a particular court; agenda
36. Doddering – senile walking; he was doddering with a help of cane
37. Doff – to take off your hat, especially to show respect to somebody or something
38. Dogged – stubborn; determined
39. Doldrums – the state of feeling sad or depressed; a lack of activity or improvement; stagnation
40. Dole – money paid by the state to unemployed people; alms is the money paid to poor
41. Doleful – mournful;
42. Dolorous – feeling or showing great sadness
43. Domineer – rule over tyrannically (tyrannize)
44. Don – a teacher at the university; the leader of a group of criminals; to put on clothes “he divested sweeter and donned shirts”
45. Dormer – window projecting from roof
46. Dossier – folder of documents on a subject “we have a dossier for filing case against violation of child rights”
47. Dotage – be in your dotage; “the people in Nepal are consigned in their dotage”
48. Dour – not pleasant; not lively; sullen; stubborn “the game became a dour struggling with both men determined to win”
49. Douse – to stop a fire from burning by pouring water over it; plunge into water; drench; extinguish; “Boys doused girls with water balloons”
50. Dowdy – unattractive; not fashionable woman; drab
51. Drab – dull; uninteresting; “she was dressed in drab color
52. Draconian – extremely severe; draconian punishment
53. Dregs – sediment; worthless residue; “a lot of dregs remained after the wine was decanted”
54. Drivel – silly, nonsense; don’t talk drivel
55. Droll – queer and amusing; “he was a popular guest because his droll anecdotes were always entertaining”
56. Drone – ideal person who does no good work; male bee; talk dully; “the chairman droned for an hour; an aircraft droned over head.
57. Dross – waste matter, we can get dross when raw gold is assayed; “many methods have been devised to separate the valuable metal from the dross”
58. Drudgery – menial work, hard labor; work of servant; “Cinderella’s fairy grandmother rescued her from a life of drudgery”
59. Ductile – malleable; flexible; pliable, docile
60. Dulcet – mellifluous; sweet sounding
61. Dupe – someone easily fooled
62. Duress – forcible restraint, especially unlawful; threats or force used to make somebody do something; intimidate; bully
63. Dyspepsia – indigestion

JANAKPUR VISIT

I went to Janakpur on 20 March, 2010 from Buddha Air flght at 9:45 PM. It was of 30 minutes distance. I reached at the Janakpur Airport at 10:30AM. Umesh Mandal from Asaman Nepal received me and took me to the Rama Hotel. As soon as reached Janakpur, I heard the news of the death of Girija Prasad Koirala, the president of Nepali Congress and ex-primeminister of Nepal. At 12:10 he was declared dead.
I tool lunch at Rama Hotel and went to visit Dr. Rajendra Bimal, a linguist or Maithili Language. I talked about the project I was going to carry out. He was so happy to hear so but he wanted to make his own contribution rather than helping to others which I took positively. He has done a comparative study between Nepali and Maithili language morphology. Then we decided that we will carry out the research jointly. He appreciated my concept paper on carrying out the research. Then I went to Rama Hotel and took rest.
Next day, 21st March, I went to the office of Aasman Nepal and visited Nawal Kishor Yadav, the director of the NGO. Then we three-Me, Nawal, Umesh went to visit Bimal sir. We made an oral agreement that the project will be carried out in team. Then from the flight of 4PM I came to Kathmandu.

Some words to know

On Rebuttal
There are many words giveng the meaning argument. One of them is rebuttal which forms from the verb rebut that means refute an opinion. The word contend means to say something is true in an argument. When the argument turns into hot debate and the opposite parties are in the sate of anger then it is called contention. Sometimes, when two parties debate in the form of compitition then it is called rivalry. Another word is fence which is used when you start throwing words to each others.

Disclaim
It's a verb which means to state publicly that you have no knowledge of something or that you are not responsible for something. In this sense its synonym becomes deny. Similarly, the secondary meaning of disclaim is to give up your right to something such as proprty or title. In this sense it analoguous word becomes renounce. 

Convalesce
To spend time getting your health and strength back after illness. She is convalescing at home after her operetion; Doctor had said that the convalescence period for Laxmi would be 18 months.

Discomfit
To make somebody feel confused or embarrassed. The noun form of discomfit is discomfiture. He was clearly taking delight in her discomfiture.
A good teacher never makes her children feel discomfiture.

Discompose
To disturb somebody and make them feel anxious. Synonyms for this is disconcert or disturb. It is also discombobulated, however, the slight nuance is that if one is discombobulated then he is not only confused but also annoyed.

Disconcert
To make somebody feel anxious, confused or embarrassed. His answer rather disconcerted her.

Discretion
The word discretion means freedom of power to decide what should be done in a particular situation. The synonymous phrases are prudence in speech, actions; ability to decide responsibility; and freedom to act on one's own. "I will leave it up to you to use your own discretion. How much to tell terminally ill patients is left to the discretion of the doctor. Nepali Congress leaves the decision of selecting CC members at the discretion of party president."

Discursive
A style of writing or speaking moving from one point to the other without any strict structures. "I remorsed for being discursive in the last meeting."
Synonym: digression, rembling

Disdain
Contempt. The feeling that somebody or something is not good enough to deserve your respect or attention. Disdainful - contemptuous

Disembark
To leave a vehicle, especially a ship or an aircraft, at the end of journery. Go ashorre; upload cargo from a ship. "Before the passengers could disembark they had to pick their passport from the ship's pursure.

Disfigure
To spoil the appereance of a person, thing or place. "Her face was disfigured by a long red scare; Kali's face was disfigured by poto but now the black patch of her face has been completely removed."

Disgorge
Cause or allow a solid substance; To flow or run out or over; vomit.

Disgruntle
Make discontented; "The passangers were disgruntled by numerous delays".

Disingenuous
Not ingenuous; not sincere, especially when you pretend to know less about something than you really do. "It would be disingeneus of me to claim I had never seen it"

Disinter
To dig up something, especially from the dead from the ground. Opposite - inter
Many cadavers intered in different parts of the counter were disintered after democracy"

Disparate
Basically different or unrelated

Dispassionate
Not influenced by emotion. " A dispassionate observer" Synonym - impartial

Dispel
To make something, especially a feeling or belief, go away or disappear. "His speech dispelled any fears about his health". ''  

From Desultory to Disburse

1. Desultory – aimless, haphazard; showing that you have no plan; “desultory meeting”
2. Detraction – petty criticism, carping, slandering, aspersion, “one who detracts is detractor”
3. Detrimental – harmful, or damaging
4. Devise – think, cogitate, plan, cerebrate, invent; “Devise your lesson carefully”
5. Devolve – delegate your duty to your deputy; “when Nepal becomes federal republic powers need to be devolved to provinces”
6. Diabolical – terrible, devilish; extremely bad or pestering; “The traffic was diabolical”
7. Diadem – crown
8. Diaphanous – transparent, sheer; (of cloth) so light and fine that you can almost see through; “her décolleté was enough diaphanous to attract amorous Adonis”.
9. Diffidence – lack of confidence; shyness
10. Dilation – expansion, especially of pupil – verb is dilate
11. Dilettante – dabbler; amateur; a dilettante “let it go in the same way, what matters”– and debutante says, “No, be meticulous, you know, I have just started and I should let the crest of my family fall”.
12. Din – long sound; children were making din while the drum was making clangor
13. Dinghy – a small ship boat – Adjective – dull, not fresh or cheerless
14. Dint – means; effort; “By dint of much hard work you can score a better logogram is GRE”
15. Diorama – a model representing a scene with figures, especially in museum.
16. Dirge – requiem, threnody, lament with music; “Jackson got his dirge”
17. Disabuse – to say somebody that what they think is true is, in fact, not true; correct a false impression; undeceive; “Let me disabuse him first so that we can forge consensus”, said Girija to Nepal.
18. Disaffected – no longer satisfied with your situation, organization, belief, etc. and therefore not loyal to it; when children are disaffected for a long time with your principles they start being disaffected; “I believe conflict is begotten due to long standing disaffection”
19. Disapprobation – disapproval of somebody or something that you think is morally wrong
20. Disarray – disorderly or untidy state; a state of confusion; dismay
21. Disavow – disclaim, deny; to state publicly that you have no knowledge of something or you are not responsible for something or somebody; “they disavowed claims of split in the party”
22. Disburse – to pay money to somebody from a large amount that has been collected for a purpose; “The disbursement of funds”