351.

abate

Her stress over spending so much money on house abated when the real estate broker told her about the property’s 15 year tax abatement.

Trick to Remember: Abate comes from an old french word for ‘beat, cast down’ that also give us batter (beat severely) and abattoir (slaughterhouse).

(ADJ.) Moderate; reduce; diminish.

352.

rife

Reports of money laundering and financial corruptions of Pakistani politicians are rife.

Trick to Remember: It’s very close to word ‘river’– thus the idea of ‘flowing freely’.

(NOUN) Happening frequently, abundant; (of something bad) widespread; currently being reported.

353.

partial

Imran Khan’s lawyer was appealing on the ground that the judge was partial to the federal government for making the prejudiced decision on recounting the votes.

Trick to Remember: Of course, partial can also mean ‘not complete’. But it’s usually used for tell that something is one-sided; for instance, a partial decision is made by taking consider of only one party, rather that both of two parties.

(NOUN) Biased, prejudiced, favoring one over others.

354.

objective

We need someone outside the company to give us an objective analysis.

Trick to Remember: When a movie is based on some physical objects or facts, it’s objective. it’s the opposite of subjective; a subjective decision by a judge is based only on a subject rather than on physical evidence or objects (objective).

(ADJ) Factual; related to reality; free from biased or emotions.

355.

skirt

They put a protective skirt around the base of the machine, so that this will remain protected from water erosion.

Trick to Remember: This word is related to clothing item skirt, which modern women usually wear.

(VERB) Border on, lie along the edge of; go around.

356.

offhand

I was pretty happy with my salary until my coworker mentioned offhandedly that she was thinking about buying a house new that she made six figures.

Trick to Remember: When some work is done on-hand(reverse of offhand) that is made carefully and after preparation; but when the work is done offhand it will be informal and without preparation.

(ADJ.) Casual, informal; done without preparation or previous thought.

357.

bygone

After starting jobs, the time to reminisce about bygone days of graduation with cheering friends was pretty much all the time.

Trick to Remember: bygone = bye + gone; that is saying bye to something or someone that has gone (past).

(ADJ.) Past; former.

358.

convoluted

Your argument is so convoluted that I’m not even able to understand it enough to start critiquing it.

Trick to Remember: convolute = con (together) + volume (space occupied by a body); when a body or a thing is twisted together to make it jumble; it becomes convoluted.

(VERB) Twisted; very complicated.

359.

crafty

Don’t be over confident while attempting the questions that looks to be easy in GAT; these questions are mostly crafty and tricky.

Trick to Remember: The word Air Craft is very common in Air Force; Air Craft is the name given to fighter jet, which has installed awesome technologies(e.g. stealth technology) to deceive enemies Radar. Crafty is therefore a skill to deceive others by way of some tricks.

(NOUN) cleverly deceitful; skilful in deception.

360.

table

Let’s table our discussion on poor economic development and move on the discussion of terrorism; the later issue is more sever and one of the major cause of the former issue.

Trick to Remember: In GAT exams, tables of 13 to 30 up-to their square are very important; but most of the students postpone this; they want first the conceptual topics for preparation, if they have adequate time, they can make ratta of these tables which are postponed.

(ADJ.) Lay aside to discuss later; to postpone discussion.

361.

conversely

I am not here to argue that lack of education causes poverty; conversely, I am here to argue that poverty causes lack of education.

Trick to Remember: it looks like in reversely or inversely. ‘ All Mangoes are sweets’ & ‘All sweets are Mangoes.’; here later statement is conversely stated to the former statement.

(VERB) In an opposite way; on the other hand.

362.

constrict

The declining economy has constricted job opportunities.

Trick to Remember: constrict = con (together) + strict (hard or uncompromisable); it gives a meaning of something restricted.

(NOUN) Squeeze, compress; restrict the freedom of.

363.

bogus

Ahmed was rejected by the cOMMONWEALTH Scholarship decision panel after realizing his interview as bogus; there was not as such clear facts that Ahmed showed in his personal statements and letter of recommendations.

Trick to Remember: It sounds like baqwas; when some report is bogus, its fake; whatever written in the report is baqwas.

(VERB) Fake, fraudulent; not authentic; intentionally false.

364.

complementary

Each section of GAT exam is complementary, whether it’s quantitative, verbal or analytical.

Trick to Remember: In any right angle triangle, the sum of all complementary angles (less than 90 degree) is equal to 90 degree.

(ADJ.) Serving to complete something.

365.

culminate

A PhD. program generally culminates in a written dissertation and its defines to committee.

Trick to Remember: It has derived from word qalam (nib) in Pakistan; a qalam has the needle like point where the ink finally ejected to make words on paper; so it’s the final point or highest point.

(NOUN) Reach the highest point or final stage.

366.

cynical

Few cynical persons doesn’t cast their votes to Imran Khan, for they believe he would make more trouble of this country with his lack of experience; these people never think the positive side for casting vote to Imran.

Trick to Remember: It sounds like signical; when someone suggests that change is a sign(close to cynical) of something worst; he is cynical, because he always suggests any change is a sign of something worst.

(ADJ.) Thinking the worst of other’s motives; bitterly pessimistic.

367.

placid

Bilal attained the placid manner of doing his official GAT exam, because he has well done in his 8 full practice tests before his exam; therefore he got high score in GAT.
Trick to Remember: Placid = place emotions aside, and do task peacefully.

(NOUN) Peaceful, calm.

368.

derivative

Many modern singer’s albums are mere disappointment, derivative of several hit albums from the past legendary.

Trick to Remember: When a word is derived from its original roots (e.g., French, Greek or Latin original root) it’s derivative; which is driver from some original source.

(ADJ.) Not original.

369.

spartan

Her apartment was so spartan that she couldn’t even serve us both soup; she only had one bowl and one spoon.

Trick to Remember: In movie 300, we saw story about ancient Greek spartans; although this movie wasn’t historically accurate, yet it was know that the spartans were fierce wardiors known for their harsh training methods.

(ADJ.) Very disciplined; frugal, living simply; austere.

370.

cacophony

The sounds of barking dogs and sirens added to the cacophony on the streets at midnight; I didn’t sleep for that reason.

Trick to Remember: cacao is a distorted spell of coca (cocacola); phony derived from phone that related to sounds. A distorted sound is known as cacophony.

(ADJ.) Harsh, discordant, or meaningless mixture of sounds.

371.

console

Bilal was unable to console his disappointment when he was caught with some helpful materials during his official GAT exam; after that he was banned to attempt for next GAT exam throughout this life.

rick to Remember: It derived from privileged, e.g, privileged class; which means high in status, rank or power; also it’s famous speech of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto “Justice must prevail over power”

(VERB) Lessen sadness or disappointment.

372.

consolidate

After launching the successful operation in Waziristan, Pakistan Army has consolidated their hold on that region.

Trick to Remember: consolidate = con(together) + solidate(make it solid); so it signify its meaning as strengthening.

(VERB) unite; combine, solidify, make coherent; merge.

373.

credulous

Few people are credulous enough to believe such nonsense that Imran Khan will also start corruption as other politicians do.

Trick to Remember: The root ‘creed’ meaning ‘believe’ also gives us credit, creed, credo and accreditation.

(NOUN) Gullible; trusting to easily or without enough evidence.

374.

penchant

He had a strong penchant for sculpture and owned so many statues that his home is filled with many kinds of these sculptures.

Trick to Remember: It comes from a Latin root that gives us pendulum. A person with a penchant leans towards certain direction.

(ADJ.) Liking or inclination; leaning towards.

375.

benign

The old man was well liked because of his benign attitude toward friend and stranger alike.

Trick to Remember: It contains the root ‘been’, meaning ‘good’. Its antonym is ‘malign’ meaning bad; so when something is benign it’s beneficial or favorable.

(NOUN) kindly; favorable; not malignant (disease); harmless.