Give me a hard, not used very often word...let's see if I know what it means!

10/29/2009 4:16:21 PM

magnanimous

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10/29/2009 4:16:37 PM

hmm something related to greatness haha

10/29/2009 4:17:44 PM

fellatio

10/29/2009 4:18:40 PM

you could figure it out in context.

blithe

boisterous

hirsute

fuck i had to memorize a list of like 150 of these fucking bs words that no one ever says or uses in literature in high school.

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10/29/2009 4:19:19 PM

nonplus

10/29/2009 4:19:39 PM

blandishment

should be easy if you've watched o brother where are thou.

Who else on here actually uses the kind of words these tests use?



[Edited on October 29, 2009 at 4:20 PM. Reason : df]

10/29/2009 4:19:45 PM

hmm oral sex.

blithe idk

boisterous...loud and heavy?

hirsute...have no idea

wow i need help lol

10/29/2009 4:20:24 PM

Archetype/Archetypal


you could figure all of these out in context, except for maybe hirsute

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[Edited on October 29, 2009 at 4:21 PM. Reason : ]

10/29/2009 4:20:43 PM

yeah, no kidding.

bigfoot is hirsute, btw

[Edited on October 29, 2009 at 4:21 PM. Reason : on needing help]

10/29/2009 4:20:52 PM

blandishment...something like flattery in order to persuade, i remember this one from somewhere

10/29/2009 4:21:07 PM

lentencious

10/29/2009 4:21:20 PM

Blithe is a pretty common one.

I have no evidence, just go on my word alone.

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[Edited on October 29, 2009 at 4:22 PM. Reason : ]

10/29/2009 4:22:08 PM

archetype...the orignial of something...

lentencious...never heard of that

10/29/2009 4:22:48 PM

http://www.freerice.com/

Just go use that for a couple weeks.

10/29/2009 4:24:17 PM

aggrandizing?

Magnanimous is my favorite, it makes me feel like i'm a sage or some shit.


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10/29/2009 4:24:36 PM

^^+1

[Edited on October 29, 2009 at 4:25 PM. Reason : antediluvian]

10/29/2009 4:24:41 PM

aggrandize...to increase in power/reputation, i studied this one!

10/29/2009 4:26:14 PM

paradigm

amalgamate

attenuate

desiccate

sanguine

taciturn

turpitude

10/29/2009 4:26:33 PM

paradigm-model/paragon
amalgamate-i think to mix together
attenuate-to weaken
dessicate- to dry
sanguine- don't remember
taciturn-someone who doesn't talk
turpitude- idk

10/29/2009 4:30:46 PM

loquacious

10/29/2009 4:34:05 PM

onus

10/29/2009 4:34:28 PM

^^ thats my sisters name

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10/29/2009 4:34:39 PM

loquacious-very talkative?
onus- no idea

10/29/2009 4:35:12 PM

senescence
obtuse
garrulous
arcane
floccipaucinihilipilification
equine
lupine
puerile
parochial
querulous
curmudgeon
turgid
obsolescence
tenacious
tumultuous
nefarious
insidious
invidious
deleterious
foment
farcical
fastidious
histrionics
trepidation
truculent
celerity
alacrity
draconian
mellifluous


i memorized 800 words for the SAT... almost 30 a day. everyday, i would also go over (test myself) all words from all previous days.

make sure to memorize all words from most frequently occurring list; usually about 300 words (at least in the barron's book).

10/29/2009 5:44:46 PM

10/30/2009 6:08:45 PM

Quote :

"i memorized 800 words for the SAT... almost 30 a day. everyday, i would also go over (test myself) all words from all previous days."

haha you did all that to get into NC State?

10/30/2009 6:10:03 PM

how did you do on the SAT?

[Edited on October 30, 2009 at 6:11 PM. Reason : ^^]

10/30/2009 6:11:39 PM

No, I went to state for my Master's. I went to Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, a highly selective 4-year college, ranked in the top 25 every year among 4-year colleges (US News and World Report). Their average SAT score at that time was about 1250, maybe upto 1300.

Anyway, you gotta remember that competition among international students wanting to study in the US is far more intense. The average SAT score of international students is around 150 points higher than that of the whole entering class at most places. Sometimes 200 points higher.

1300 the first time. (700 M, 600 V)
1450 the second time, after a year. (730 M, 720 V)


[Edited on October 30, 2009 at 6:17 PM. Reason : http://www.hamilton.edu]

10/30/2009 6:14:47 PM

Perspicacity--one of my favorite words.

10/30/2009 6:22:09 PM

^ i love it too. but i prefer the adjectival form: perspicacious.

10/30/2009 6:23:31 PM

legerdemain.

10/30/2009 7:19:54 PM

I, too, came to post http://www.freerice.com/

10/30/2009 8:39:29 PM

megalomania

10/30/2009 8:49:49 PM

no poopface!!

10/30/2009 8:50:50 PM

wait a second

Quote :

"Hamilton College is a private, independent, liberal arts college located in Clinton, New York. The college is known for its emphasis on writing and speaking"

so you went to a blue-blood daycare center with a staff dedicated to teaching the use of language and then immediately come on the wolfweb and dedicate 2 solid years to being completely surprised at how poorly you communicate

gg

10/31/2009 12:19:08 AM

dicksuckius

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[Edited on October 31, 2009 at 12:22 AM. Reason : ^an NC State student who is full of themselves? go figure. Did your engineering teachers tell you you'd make more money? You that desperate to have someone else tell you that you're better than someone else?]

10/31/2009 12:21:52 AM

you're quite terribly uninformed aren't you lad

10/31/2009 1:34:47 AM

Are these really GRE words?

10/31/2009 2:49:21 AM

the...seriously, it has no definition, just uses

10/31/2009 3:48:00 AM

Quote :

"so you went to a blue-blood daycare center with a staff dedicated to teaching the use of language and then immediately come on the wolfweb and dedicate 2 solid years to being completely surprised at how poorly you communicate"

Troll away, Fermat.

You wish you had gone to the school I did, or a similar one. One of the most beautiful campuses around, with acres of natural forest. And beautiful buildings.

Campus 65% the size of NC State's campus.

But with only 5% of NC State's students.

Great professors, great facilities and buildings, small class sizes, great food, great dorms.

I communicate poorly? OK. You are the first one ever in my life to say that... guess my profs (or friends, family, colleagues, students, etc) never had the guts to tell me.

11/1/2009 3:11:45 PM

hermetic
abate

11/1/2009 7:02:01 PM

Quote :

"You wish you had gone to the school I did, or a similar one."

probably not, but also shows how little you knew about NCSU's campus... i haven't noticed how natural forest does anything to further the learning experience short of forestry or related subjects...

i'm sure some do wish they went to a school like that, but i doubt Fermat is one of them

11/1/2009 7:15:33 PM

felching

Quote :

"I went to Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, a highly selective 4-year college, ranked in the top 25 every year among 4-year colleges (US News and World Report)."

i don't mean to shit on your school, but you DO know US news and world report's college ranking system is little more than a beauty pageant, right?

[Edited on November 1, 2009 at 7:48 PM. Reason : .]

11/1/2009 7:42:21 PM

^ I wasn't boasting about going to this or that school. I was responding to NRR about why I memorized 800 new words for the SAT (because the higher-ranked the school, the higher the average SAT score at said school, so you need to get a high score to have a good chance of getting in). Having said that, check out this link:

http://www.hamilton.edu/admission/counselors/testingstats.html

And as I also said, even if I had come to NCSU or an even lower ranked school, I still would have had to get a [much] higher than average score as the competition for international students is murderous! The year I got into Hamilton, ~400 international students applied. I don't know how many were accepted, but about 15 enrolled. (I would guess about 40 were accepted)

11/2/2009 4:36:10 PM

hey dudes. i took it. you can shutup now.

11/2/2009 4:36:43 PM

so did you pass or fail?

11/2/2009 4:37:59 PM

lol i passed surprisingly though, i did better on math. weird.

11/2/2009 4:39:05 PM

What were your writing prompts?

11/2/2009 4:39:58 PM

you can't make a thread like this and not tell us what you got.

it is against [tww] law!

11/2/2009 4:40:42 PM