Learning tough English words for
GRE & CAT: 10 Revolutionary
Ways for full proof learning
By
S. Joshi
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Jan 2011
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Contents of Plan
• Existing Problems
• Scientific base and backing of the concept
• Introduction to the 10 pointer for learning
words
• Applicability for various individuals
• Application with examples
• Conclusion
• Future scopes and developments
Introduction to the Problem
• Human minds inherent capability to memorize
is limited due to many factors
• Mind tends to forget things when stress
• Multiple revision of the words is needed
• Words accurate meaning tough to learn, only
a shade is remembered
• Limitation of human mind as it creates
negative emotions hindering development
Applicability
• Depends on individual
• Some news freak will learn words applicable in
news well
• Some other would prefer using
images.google.com
• Some prefer using them in facebook tag lines
• Documentaries “The Brain Our Universe Within
Episode”
• Barrons 4000 words, Nova 4000 words, Arun
Sharma CAT 4000 words, GMAT 1500 words
Science of Memorization
• Brain uses threads to capture information
• The more threat we give the brain the higher
chances it that the information is retained
• Revision makes the ties stronger
• Therefore it is advisable to give brain many
threads to retain the word
10 Pointer technique
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Thesaurus / category using Encarta dictionary (install)
Roots, which are mostly from roman, Greek, Latin, italic, Spanish,
etc
3. Mnemonics mnemonicdictionary.com
4. Image for reach word images.google.com
5. Recent news of each word to increase your general knowledge as
well, using news news.google.com
6. Hindi word for the same / Hebrew word using shabdkosh.com
7. XXX linkages
8. Linking of word to your friend or known person
9. Tag line of the word which you can use to your face book
facebook.com, twitter or orkut
10. Linking word to Games and Spirituality and more interesting
11. Tone Guessing (Arpit’s Guest Lecture)
Thesaurus / category using Encarta dictionary
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Grouping words in vast category
Examples of big category
Ranking of categorize
Various ways to categorize like music, kitchen,
party, subjects etc
covert = secret, clandestine, underground,
concealed, hidden, furtive, undercover,
surreptitious, veiled, hush-hush (informal)
rapture: ecstasy, euphoria, bliss, delight, joy,
heaven, elation
Purge: elimination, removal, eradication,
expulsion
vindictive= spiteful, malicious, mean, cruel,
hurtful, nasty, unkind, malevolent
Unforgiving: unforgiving, revengeful,
rancorous, vengeful, implacable (formal),
resentful, ruthless, merciless, pitiless, bitter
Roots, which are mostly from Roman,
Greek, Latin, italic etc
• Most of words are derived from Greek and
Roman mythologies which lays the foundation of
modern world
• Example of Prefix: be = over, thoroughly bedaub =
smear, befuddle is to confuse somebody; olig =
few oligarchy = government by few
• Idyll= experience of serene happiness [Late 16th
century. Via Latin idyllium "pastoral poem" <
Greek eidullion "small picture" < eidos "form"]
Where did these roots come from
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All these roots comes from Europe
Greek is a over two thousand
Romans are around 500 years old
Greek Gods
Milton's text like Paradise lost
Trojan War
vigilant = [15th century. < Latin vigilant-, present participle of vigilare "keep awake" <
vigil "awake, alert"]
Mnemonics mnemonicdictionary.com
• This works sometimes
1. Example: Panegyric = (Tag: ) pane(pain) + gyric (lyrics) = If
someone takes pain and writes lyrics then he will get PRAISED!!!
2. (Tag: ) palpable..divide it like..PALP(SOUNDS LIKE
PULP)+ABLE.....after touching the PULP of fruit ITS OBVIOUS THAT
every one would be ABLE TO PERCEIVE whether THE FRUIT is fresh
or not.
3. Disquisition= its like dis +quisition(means question)......when
someone questions u.......u need to give explanations...EX:enquiry...
4. Hireling = (Tag: hire - ing) When you hire a person, he works only
for money.
5. Imbecile = (Tag: ) sounds like IMBALANCE....a person having
imbalance in his mind is a stupid person....
Image for reach word
images.google.com
blizzard
tarantula
Image for reach word
images.google.com
nugget
grimace
dove (symbol of peace)
splice
morsel
Recent news using news
news.google.com
• Recent news of each word to increase your
general knowledge as well, using news
news.google.com
• This will increase your knowledge about
economics and other areas
Hindi word for the same / Hebrew
word using shabdkosh.com
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Panegyric = v गण
ु गाथा, गण
ु गान (m)
Throttle= टें टुआ दबाना, गला घोंटना
Tonsure = मण्
ु डन, मुंडु डत भाग
Ordain = विधिित ् पादरी बनाना
Ordnance= तोपखाना (m)
Motif = नमूना (m)
XXX
• Not recommended
Facebook or Orkut or Twitter
• Tag line of the word which you can use to your
face book facebook.com
• Use facebook notes to add the tag lines for
future revision
Linking of word to your friend or
known person
• Link to someone whom you know
Tone
• How is it sounding?
Examples of Otiose
• Otiose: Latin otiosus "at leisure, idle"
• Category: futile, ineffectual, useless,
impractical, ineffective, hopeless
News item:
Duffy, as it may be otiose to relate, is a
singer from Wales. Her first album sold a
considerable number of copies. Her second
finds her in tandem with ...
Mnemonics for otiose(Tag: ) O T use...of
trivial use i.e useless....
Horde
• Category: crowd, throng, mass, gang, group,
pack (dogs), flock, multitude, host
• Mid-16th century. Directly or via French and
German < Polish horda < Turkish ordu "camp,
army“]
(Tag: ) well it sounds like herd......which we know is a
term used for a group , so for a crowd of people , its
horde
Archipelago
• 1. islands: a group or chain of islands (often
used in place names)
• 2. sea with islands: an area of sea with many
islands
• द्िीप-समह
ू (Hindi)
Tutelage
• instruction, guidance, teaching, coaching,
expert hand, wing
• [Early 17th century. < Latin tutela
"guardianship" < tut-, past participle of tueri
"watch over"]
• सुंरक्षण (m) सुंरक्षता
(Mnemonics ) TUTELAGE, concentrate on the
first part of the word TUTE meaning a kind of
TUTOR, who KEEPS A WATCH ON YOU, a
GUARDIAN.
Shades
• Parable vs Fable vs Allegory
• Shades of difference
Spirituality Words
• The best treatise on how to follow your dharma is the
Mahabharata... It's the best case-study world can ever have on
dharma..
• .This story was the last one before kalyuga began....Don't repine,
this life gives u infinite options being a human to be as powerful as
God...
• Peroration of all this talk is that only God Shiv can take you out of
these pains. Maya tries to somehow peddle & tout you to get in the
mayajaal
• Lord Ram's name is the only parapet you have on earth
• Jejune life is worthless without God's name chant
• Your only hospice is God.Empyrean is bhakta-people's company I
am just a vassal of God.... and will do so in-spite of all the events
that occurs his life will end in a silhouette unless you take God's
path. Don't take interlude as your old karmas aren't taking any
intermezzo to get to you
Spiritual application Part 2
• You can anything in gratis but not friendship of bhakta
peopleYour gamin(homeless child) soul requires to parked at
God's house
• Don't have a excursive journey of life, settle at some point to do
bhakti in interregnum
• Each soul gets a human body in kalyuga is the reason of this
canailleDon't get in solving the complexities of this insuperable
life
• Penitentiary life
• Don't let age win you, you cannot do good in the state of
decrepit Eclat is still far away in another dimension
• Don't grouch or grumble, its your own karmas that controls
events of your lifeI am not in homiletics...
• Don't worry about interlopers
• Ujjain is the best anchorite
• The appellation your get are more imp than your name
Used in Games
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Words used in games
Best games for words
Warcraft
Age of Mythology
Dunegen Nights
601 words you needs to know
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About the book
Categories using genre
Same language words
Like all words on Greek Gods
All words from war based people
Style of learning
Use Wiki
• Example of wiki
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_gait
The song with most GRE Word
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7W8ClwhCU
• James Blunt: Out of my Mind
Youtube Series
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Roots
Category
601 Words list
High Freq
Spiritual Application
Images
Read better and faster
Video series for tougher words 1-5
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http://freegregmatclass.com/words/gre_vl1/GRE_vocab_online_class.html
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http://freegregmatclass.com/words/gre_vl2/GRE_vocab_online_class.html
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http://freegregmatclass.com/words/gre_vl3/GRE_vocab_online_class.html
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http://freegregmatclass.com/words/gre_vl4/GRE_vocab_online_class.html
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http://freegregmatclass.com/words/gre_vl5/GRE_vocab_online_class.html
References
• 600 words you need to know
• GRE Barron’s & Nova (roots & prefix)
• Arun Sharma CAT verbal (different language)
Conclusion
• Methodologies to learn words has been
explored in much details
• Example and application are shown
• Books in this regard are covered
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