Fill in the blanks with the correct options that fit the blanks perfectly.

1. Like most ___ hospitals in the country, the district hospital at Balaghat, a small district headquarter town near Jabalpore, India, is ill-equipped to ___ and ___ of patients coming there from villages far and near.

a)      Private, treat, disease

b)      Government, handle, deluge

c)       Charity, admit, group

d)      Big, cure, crowd

2. In what is being considered in ___ circles as a case that will have far-reaching ___, an 11-member bench of the court is hearing the ___ issue of the rights of the minorities to run and administer education institutions in the country.

a)      Political, affects, controversial

b)      Educational, results, important

c)       Social turbulence, communal

d)      Legal, ramifications, contentious Read more…

You have to devise new and innovative ways to learn the GRE words. Agreed that there is nothing innovative about solving these filler sentences with the most appropriate words, but it is amongst the best ways to remember the GRE vocabulary words.

1. Many educators believe that bilingual education has proved to have definite ___ education Read more…

This is a sweet and simple GRE word list quiz which will test your knowledge about some really interesting words that are often used in GRE exam. For the sake of convenience, there are only three options for each question statement. This is done in an attempt to familiarize you with the GRE vocab words. We sincerely hope you enjoy this quiz.

I. Which Word Comes to Mind?

In each of the following, read the statement, then circle the word that comes to mind.

1. You want to rip into your neighbor for his bigoted remarks.

a)      Philanderer

b)       Philippic Read more…

Pick the most effective word from the given words to fill in the blanks to make the sentence meaningfully complete:

1.  The bomb disposal squad detected a landmine _____ by the militants and ____ it in time, thus saving the lives of thousands of innocent people.

a)      Connected, diffused

b)      Placed, detonated

c)       Devised, disabled Read more…

Continuing our GRE word list series, let us talk about some more words and their meanings. The last post was on

GRE Word List Quiz. The questions here are with images which will help you in linking the words with an image which

leads to better retention.

Choose the word that best fits the meaning description

1. ___ are the burial ceremonies, the Funeral rites

a)      Obsequies

b)      Abate

c)       Intercede

d)      Apotheosize

2. One who is habitually short of cash; not that he is broke or poor, just that he does not have enough money or cash.

a)      Impecunious

b)      Pecuniary

c)       Destitute

d)      lavish

3. Something that is offensive and harmful Read more…

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. These numbers are printed below the passage and against each, five words are suggested and one out of those five words fits the blank perfectly. Through this quiz, you will get to be familiar with 40 new GRE words. Come on, one out of five options would be right, but the other four are also words belonging to English Vocabulary and you are expected to know their meaning as well ‼

War-torn Somalia, carved as it is into several autonomous pockets, is fast becoming a ­­_1__ Read more…

1. Winnow: to separate
2. Wraith: an apparition
3. Writhe: to twist and contort oneself in agony
4. Wastrel: spendthrift, one who spends a lot of money
   

   Wraith

5. Abnegation: renunciation, the act of self-denial
6. Wayfarer: traveler Read more…