Improve Your Vocabulary - An effective way...!!!!

[ajeeshnair]

What else is necessary to build a strong vocabulary than the following.....

1. A good dictionary (With pronunciation, Usage and root word)

(Suggested - Oxford Advance Learner's Dictionary or Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary)

2. An efficient vocabulary trainer (I've read only "Word Power Made Easy" by Norman Lewis. Any other books....???)

3. Insatiable passion for words..... (Don't leave an unknown word which comes across you...)

4. Dedication

what else...?????

[ganja]

old issues of readers digest magzine.,.all have 20 words ...its a really worth going thru them.. also word power by readers digest..think they out with n annual issue every year

[ikm_version1]

gr8 job ppl.keeep up da gud work.pardon my spellin's!!..............lolz

[banjara_harry_bechara]

hey ajeesh first of all thanx for the software but i m facing a problem the Sat lists are opening in Notepad and every thing is in jumbled form plus the top of the page shows "[HEADER]
Category=SAT
Description=Word List No. 01
PrimaryField=1
SecondaryField=2
GroupField=3
TagField=4
[DATA]"
now i m not able to understand anything as the list has got all mixed up
what shud i do??

[ajeeshnair]

dear harry,

i doubt i can help you in this technical issue...

if you face any pblm, pls try to download it again and use again...

bye

me

[ajeeshnair]

There are some egregious mistakes in these sentences...

Find where the mistake is......????


1. According to me "Procrastination is like a credit card. It's a great fun. Untill we get the bill !"

2. I ordered a desert after my dinner.

3. Insipid Susan seems to be disinterested in the party.

4. The terrorists tried to mitigate against the peace process.

5. The venial policeman was not ready to leave the biker who committed a venal offense.

6. He received atrophy and a certificate for his excellence.

7. Doctor said that the patient is in encomium. There is no way to epicure this stage.

8. See the student! He is hardly working to reach the ascendancy in his class.

9. The audience was bemused by the excellent performance of the comedian.

10. Super sales man Rohit is capacious to achieve this target.


try posting your answer....

esp. if you can place some better words suitable for the context...

keep posting ....!!

bye

me

[ajeeshnair]

Ans:

1. According to me - not used . Better expression would be "In my opinion...." or "I think..."

2. desert - a barren land (pronounce like - dezert)
dessert - sweet course of a meal (pronounce like - dizurt)

3. disinterested - unbiased
uninterested - not interested; indifferent

4. mitigate - make less intense or severe
militate - have a substantial effect

5. venal - corrupt
venial - pardonable

6. atrophy - emaciation (not emancipation -which means free from retraint)
a trophy must be the replacement.

7. encomium - a formal praise
epicure - gourmet, a person with refined tastes esp. in food.
gourmand - is one who eats a lot (voracious, gluttonous, ravenous)

8. working hard - positive usage
hardly working - negative

9. bemused - confused; bewildered
amused is better

10. capacious - spacious; roomy

[whocarez]

NiCE POST Ajeesh!! KEEP them Coming :P

[ajeeshnair]

where is the mistake...????

1. Have an exuberant and rupturous New Year..!!!

2. Raja Harischandra was known for his voracity.

3. Decorous Balu is known for his ribald head.

4. M. Schum is fastidious than Montoyo in that race.

5. He acquiesced to the proposal after a great commotion.

6. These are copious ! All are copied from the original.

7. Last decadence was excellent for the company. The whole ten years company was nourishing in all aspects.

8. The criminals were expatiated to Andaman Islands earlier.

[ajeeshnair]

Ans:

1. rapturous - great pleassure or enthusiasm
rupturous - burst

2. voracious - gluttonous, ravenous
veracious - truthful by nature

3. decorous - dignified behaviour
ribald - disrespectively humorous; obscene

4. fastidious - meticulous; punctillious (doesn't have any connection with fast (not fastness, which means stronghold)

5. No one can acquiesce (silently agree) with a commotion (noisy disturbance)

6. copious - abundance (no relation with copy)

7. decadence - moral or cultural decline (its not decade)

8. expatiate - to elaborate
expatriate - to exile; to banish
expiate - to make amends for; atone