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ignominious

Rigging by returning officers in general election of Pakistan is ignominious for Imran Khan; he condemn returning officers with sever words.

Trick to Remember: Ignominious = ignore + mini (minus); which signify its meaning of making very shameful.

(ADJ.) deserving or causing public disgrace or shame.

227.

anglicized

French books of history needs to anglicized in order to make it readable by the general public so that they can understand the history of french.

Trick to Remember: Anglina Jolie is an english heroin, so it means make it english.

(NOUN) make English in appearance.

228.

presumption

Even before preparation, Bilal presume that he can get very high score in GAT, but after the preparation; its not the right way to predict your score, one have to prepare well and then do much practice for achieving the result.

Trick to Remember: Presumption = pre + assumption; so it’s assumption before research to get information.

(ADJ.) an assumption that is taken for granted

229.

perspicacious

Some students develop new short-cuts to solve math questions due to their perspicacious strength.

Trick to Remember: It derived from perception; the right perception of things is perspicacious.

(ADJ.) having a ready insight into and understanding of things.

230.

affluent

The affluent practice materials are not enough to get high score in GAT; smart work is always better than the hard-work.

Trick to Remember: fluency it speaking increase the chances of getting jobs of high profile, so if someone what’s to be rich, he should be fluent in english; So affluent is something abundant.

(ADJ.) wealth; abundant.

231.

modicum

When you awarded Commonwealth scholarship, you will have only modicum expense of visa to bear; all major expenses are covered by the scholarship.

Trick to Remember: It looks like moderate, so it’s something small or less in amount or quantity.

(ADJ.) a small or moderate amount.

232.

Dogmatism

Mr. Umair has much given to inflexible dogmatism when it came to answer difficult questions of math MCQs.

Trick to Remember: it suggests its meaning ‘like dogs’, a dog who is usually stubborn; in Pakistan, we use words’kutton ki tarha par gya hai pichy’; its stubborn.

(ADJ.) stubborn and narrow-minded

233.

prudent

Prudence decision of Mr. Ali to select his future university has revealed his level of knowledge.

Trick to Remember: A prude University is one of the famous university that admit wise students; so prude has something wise.

(ADJ.) wise; judicious.

234.

alluring

Allured by the songs of Ashqi movie, many young adults built affairs.

Trick to Remember: alluring = all yours; when you are much attractive, then all beauty around you is yours.

(ADJ.) highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire (mostly immoral)..

235.

fortuitous

There is no connection between these two events; their timing is entirely fortuitous.

Trick to Remember: It has derived from fortune; so it should mean by luck.

(ADJ.) occurring by happy chance; having no cause or apparent cause; having or showing good luck.

236.

dysphoric

A low score in mock test of GAT produce dysphoric state of mind.

Trick to Remember: dys- means abnormal; whenever a word start with dys- is must be of something not good.

(ADJ.) generalised feeling of unhappy.

237.

ebullient

Fatima sounded ebullient and happy, when she got very high GAT score, for having brighter chance of getting scholarship.

Trick to Remember: It’s very close to boiling; when something is boiling it’s excited highly.

(NOUN) showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm; boiling; joyously unrestrained.

238.

advent

The advent of his son’s first birthday has lead him to spend more than 50 million dollars; its a world record.

Trick to Remember: It derived from adventure; the arrival of new millennium has introduced adventurous movies; now-a-days all adventurous movies are successful, because its the arrival of new era.

(NOUN) arrival

239.

culpability

The culpability of Raymond Davis was so sever that he should not free from imprisonment of Pakistan.

Trick to Remember: It derived from culprit; that is a person who is guilty of a crime or offence.

(ADJ.) a state of guilt; blameworthy

240.

vociferous

The decision to cancel the kerry lugar bill was made over the vociferous objections of media and some political parties.

Trick to Remember: vociferous = voice full; it’s meaning is offensively loud.

(ADJ.) conspicuously and offensively loud.

241.

gregarious

As a gregarious boy Bilal ran up to every person on the playground and wanted to be their friend.

rick to Remember: gregarious = GRE + groups; many students prefer combine study or study in groups for GRE practice questions.

(NOUN) sociable; tending to form a group.

242.

ominous

After the GAT preparation, a very low score in mocks is ominous; it suggests a low score that one will receive in actual GAT exam.
Trick to Remember: According to few Islamic books of Hadith, Dajjal (Devil) will come out from the place of Yaman, near to Oman (close to ominous); so these places are threatening.

(NOUN) threatening; of an evil omen.

243.

bracing

A good preparation and practices of mocks of GAT was bracing him; therefore Ahmed got very high score in GAT.

Trick to Remember: when someone embrace Islam, it gives strength and vigour to him.

(VERB) giving strength, vigour, or freshness.

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prolific

Fatima is a prolific writer who produced as many as three books a year; its very worthcoming for his Phd study.

Trick to Remember: It looks like profit, which is fruitful for a person who earn it; please don’t mix this with profligate ( which means destructive or wasteful); as too much profit by a person is destructive by the other from whom it has earned.

(ADJ.) intellectually productive; fruitfully abundant.

245.

torpor

Because of his torpor in nature of habit in avoid reading the passages and English novels, Bilal cannot get high score in GAT.

Trick to Remember: It sounds like tor-phor (depreciate); when something has tor-phor too much, it becomes inactive and not able to be use; torpid also has same in meaning which is an adjective.

(NOUN) lethargic; lazy; inactive.

246.

circumscribe

Verbal score of Bilal in GAT was too low, because he circumscribed his preparation to only quantitative & analytical section.

Trick to Remember: A circumference is the circular line that is the limit of the circle.

(VERB) limit, restrict or confine.

247.

engendered

His strong efforts in preparation of GAT has engendered his high score in GAT.

Trick to Remember: engender = enhance in generation (gender); so it means produce as a result.

(VERB) cause or give rise to.

248.

suspect

In violation of the Pakistan law, the police grilled the suspect for several hours before reading him his rights.

Trick to Remember: it’s very close to inspect; police inspector inspect those to whom he have doubt of guilty of an offence.

(VERB) believe to be guilty; regard as untrustworthy.

249.

scrupulous

One way to get perfect score in GAT is to make scrupulous look on each questions while attempting it.

Trick to Remember: scrupulous = scotland yard ki pulous (police); it’s famous for diligent through investigation with careful attention to detail.

(ADJ.) diligent, thorough, and extremely attentive to details.

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mercurial

He was of a mercurial temperament and therefore unpredictable.

Trick to Remember: mercury in a thermometer gives different movements under different places of different temperatures; so mercurial is something capricious.

(ADJ.) capricious; quick and changing; fickle.