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egregious

The president’s abuse of power was so egregious that even his own family deserted him and asked the international courts to take action against him.

Desi trick to Remember: It sounds like greedious (i.e having greedyness); so greedious people are notorious

(ADJ.) extremely bad and shocking; notorious

27.

strife

The strife between the two biggest political parties of Pakistan does not seem to resolve anytime soon.

Desi trick to Remember: Strife sounds like Strike. So you strike someone if you have a bitter fight or conflict.
Also it sounds like stiff: means something rigid.

(NOUN) severe disagreement & conflict over basic issues

28.

crestfallen

The Pakistani cricket team and the entire nation was crestfallen after Pakistan lost a match that they were about to win.

Desi trick to Remember: Crest is the top of the hill. So after someone fall from his top fame or graph of fame etc, he feels dejected.

(ADJ.) dejected, sad dispirited and disappointed.

29.

auspicious

Despite an auspicious start to the match, Pakistan team lost its way later on in the match and eventually lost it by a big margin.

Desi trick to Remember: Auspicious sounds like suspicious; being suspicious of someone can really be favorable if you are a detective.
Also a restaurant offering a spicy (sounds like auspicious) food is almost profitable in long-run.

(ADJ.) favorable, positive

30.

involved

GRE quantitative section have a topics ‘integer theory’ and ‘probabilities’became so involved that the student decided to quit studying and went to sleep.

Desi trick to Remember: One gets involved with something that is complex; yes I’m talking about involved in a relationship, which make life more complicated.

(ADJ.) something which is very difficult and complicated to understand; highly complex or intricate

31.

arduous

GRE Preparation is considered as one of the most arduous thing; but only for those who don’t have good platform and most effective study materials.

Desi trick to Remember: arduous = read it as “hard to do for us”

(ADJ.) requiring lots of hard work; especially physical effort

32.

Ameliorate

With the joining of young professional induction program (YPIP), the complex banking conditions has been ameliorated and each tasks has become more manageable by governor of State Bank of Pakistan.

Desi trick to Remember: Ameli sounds like Imli; Imli improves the taste of food.

(VERB) to make better, to improve

33.

entail

Scoring above 90th percentile on the test entails studying 5 hours every day for more than one months and thereby learning thousands of new words.

Desi trick to Remember: Tail is a necessary part of the animal, so necessary.

(VERB) necessitate or require (something as essential)

34.

Intransigent

The intransigence of both the political parties made it impossible to arrive at a decision.

Desi trick to Remember: Intransigent = in mean not + transact → wouldn’t transform i.e. stubborn.

(ADJ.) stubborn, unwilling to change one’s views

35.

ingenuous

Although he looked like a villain, the movie actor still insisted that he can best cast as an ingenuous sweet young hero.

Desi trick to Remember Ingenuous sounds like genuine; genuine people are always straightforward and harmless.

(ADJ.) innocent and straightforward, artless

36.

plod

After watching the boring 3 hour long film at the cinema, Sarah plodded her way back to the car.

Desi trick to Remember: Plod sounds like IPOD; those who wear ipod walk slowly and heavily.

(NOUN) the act of walking with a slow heavy style (as in when you are bored or tired)

37.

sporadically

In the last few decades, Syria has been subjected to sporadic terrorist bombings and political activism that has caused many people to flee the country.

Desi trick to Remember: Sporadic sounds like predict, which cannot be consistent; i.e some times happen and sometimes not. So it must be something irregular.

(ADJ.) repeating again and again but irregularly and without any predictable pattern

38.

scrupulous

While preparing for the GRE online, Javeria scrupulously learn each lecture and then used those concepts in practice much timely and according to the schedule, in addition to this she showed great performence in quizzes after each topic completion; it resulted to 97th percentile rank in actual exam.

Desi trick to Remember: Scrupulous sounds like sculpture; while building sculpture the worker has to be very careful and make a great effort to make it look perfect.

(ADJ.) extremely principled, taking great care and effort in doing something

39.

cerebral

Reading books improves your cerebral activities; hence by reading on a daily basis you are likely to improve your GRE score.

Desi trick to Remember: It sounds like celebrate; if you get high score in GRE and get 100% scholarship on basis of this score, your family celebrate it. It’s because of your smart brain.

(ADJ.) involving intelligence rather than emotions, something related to brain

40.

malfeasance

The excise and taxation department in Pakistan discovered the high ranking officials malfeasance only after he had fled the country.

Desi trick to Remember: Sounds like MAL (bad) + FEES. Bad fee so it is something of a bribe. So malfeasance means officials taking bribe or doing a misconduct.
BTW majority of the words start with mal- has negative connotation.

(NOUN) wrongdoing or an incorrect act by a public official

41.

precariously

The gusty weather made aeroplane flight precarious; but we reached at Lahore safely.

Desi trick to Remember: Precarious = pre + car + ious. Pre means before something (like before preparation) So driving a car before preparation is precarious; which means dangerous.

(ADJ.) dangerous

42.

illuminate

The methodology in this GRE 60-days study plan is so easy and helpful that it illuminate the concepts and ways to solve any question of similar pattern.

Desi trick to Remember: Derived from the word luminous (means bright), like luminous stars. Please don’t mix it with eliminate(which means ‘to remove completely’).

(VERB) to make brighter, make clear or easier to understand.

43.

superficiality

Since your report gave only a superficial analysis of the problem, I cannot give you more than a passing grade.

Desi trick to Remember: Superficial = super (highly) + fictional (imaginative, as fictional movies and stories). So if someone looks very intelligent or smart, but actually he’s not; this means that he is superficial.

(NOUN) lack of depth of knowledge, thought or feeling

44.

notoriety

The notoriety of Pakistan as a corrupt state is due to its lack of genuine system of accountability; but with passage of time, things have started improving due to judicial independence and some steps taken to strengthen institutions of state, including Judiciary, National Accountability Bureo (NAB), Police and FIA etc.

Desi trick to Remember: When a person is known as notorious (close to ‘no tolerating’), he is eventually intolerable by others i.e. disrepute by others.

(NOUN) ill-fame, famous but in a negative fashion

45.

orthodox

In modern warfare, the orthodox approach to defeat the enemy is no longer useful; now the nuclear weapons are so destructive that many countries have started to fight proxy wars.

Desi trick to Remember: Orthodox= Or(Ordinary) + thodox(methodology). So orthodox must be something traditional.

(ADJ.) traditional

46.

tedious

Learning vocabulary is a tedious exercise – therefore I complied Desi trick to remember each word to help people belongs to Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Bangladesh.

Desi trick to Remember: It seem to originate from tedi; tedi bakra in Pakistan are not liked as compared to desi bakra, and you see tedious behaviour from the buyers of tedi bakra even on cheap rates.

(ADJ.) lacking in interest; weariness

47.

omniscience

After reading this GRE 30-Days Preparation Plan, Fatima became omniscient on all basic concepts of the exam; thereafter she started GRE 30-days practice session

Desi trick to Remember: We have a way to send money through UBL omni, its a new science & knowledge. So omniscience is something all-knowing power. Omni means universal. Like Omnivorous are those who eat meat as well as herbs. So its all-rounders.

(NOUN) all-knowing

48.

eminence

In Pakistan, practically, Army Chief is in an eminence position that he is the only person who may take others authority, even the whole government. Because if he see mutiny by the Prime Minster or government, he is bound to take action against him, whether constitutional or not; irrespective clarifying the definition of mutiny.
Desi trick to Remember: >It derived from ’eminent’, which means obvious, superior or highlighted.

(ADJ.) an important or distinguished person

49.

eloquence

In order to get a good score on the TOEFL and IELTS speaking section, one should speak with such eloquence that would convince the listener to give you the highest score.

Desi trick to Remember: Eloquence= e (efficient) + loquence (language). So efficient language.

(NOUN) expressiveness; persuasive speech

50.

polemical

When Sarah arrived home in the middle of the night, her parents launched a polemical on her for arriving so late..

Desi trick to Remember: Polemical = polio; Polio project is under dispute or controversial by militant organization (TTP). Because they are in doubt whether it has something that changed the people to western style of living. So Polemical must means controversial or disputable.

(ADJ.) aggressive in verbal attack; disputatious