I stumbled on a great typo last night. “Staff in the lobby were wondering around…”
Wandering around is an aimless waste of time.
Wondering around, though, that sounds useful.
Wondering why this product is the way it is, wondering how you can make the lobby more welcoming, wondering if your best customers are happily sharing your ideas with others… So many things worth wondering about, so few people actually taking the time to do it.
Wondering around is the act of inquiring with generous spirit.
Dear Achievers,
You will be acquiesce to my contention that if anyone wish to score 1400+ in GRE, S/he need to cram those 4000-5000 odd words. There are numerous global educational body those are working on GRE prep.
From various various resources we compiled “TOP 18 GRE Famous Words” . Hope you will enjoy it and yes do not forget to leave your feeling in comment box.
List for TOP 18 GRE Famous Words goes here.
BUCOLIC
TRAVESTY
GAUNTLET
SAP
ENIGMA
FLOTILLA
BETE NOIRE
SURCEASE
EQUIVOCAL
VITUPERATE
SUB ROSA
OFFICIANT
SYCOPHANT
METTLE
DIPSOMANIAC
PLACATE
TROGLODYTE
PRECIPITATE
Notes:
carries with it some sense of harm; misuse refers to an incorrect use that may not lead to harm
to misuse is to use something wrongly, to abuse is to misuse something so badly that you damage it
Repine:
repine imagine pine tree has grapes and catwants to get that but she is unsucessful and thus frets and complains aroundthus repine is to complain , fret.
Mnemonic: quite similar in meaning to refuse.
Meaning — disprove
Mnemonic — quite similar in meaning to refuse.
deny means to declare untrue or refuse to accept or believe or to refuse to recognize or acknowledge; refute means to prove to be false, wrong, or incorrect
to rebut a statement is to offer clear evidence or a reasoned argument against it; to refute a statement is to prove it wrong (neither means ‘contradict’ or ‘deny’)
refute means ‘to show conclusively to be false or illogical’ and applies primarily to assertions or arguments; confute means ‘to prove wrong’ and applies primarily to the person or agency making the assertion or argument
In October 1927 Cecil Beaton contrived a photograph of “the bright young things”, as they styled themselves, to which he gave the laconic title On The Bridge, Wilsford. Seven young men and women pose for the camera, all dressed up, in ruffs and frills, patterned silk waistcoats and faux-rustic breeches, as courtly versions of the shepherds and shepherdesses of Arcadia. ( Source: www.andrewgrahamdixon.com)
It is a point of (perverse?) pride that our soldiering tradition is marked by extreme laconic perspectives, attitudes and general disposition. Where that disposition irritated British officers the pleasure is refined. But Australian volunteer soldiers are not the owners of the laconic voice – I suspect that volunteer soldiers down through the ages have owned the same voice. (Source: http://www.pickledeel.com)
Synonyms:
boiled down, compendious, concise, epigrammatic, laconic, meaty, pithy, pointed, short and sweet, succinct, terse
Notes: a compact is a formal agreement on rights and conduct, a treaty is a compact between nations, and a contract is a compact between two business entities