301.

affability

The affability of Bilal has helped him in his interview with Commonwealth scholarship decision panel; he has spoken with confidence and in friendly manner that the panel has no other option for the guy but only to select him for the scholarship.

Trick to Remember: It derived from word affectuality; when something is affectual, it is working nicely; e.g. affectual in communication.

(ADJ.) a disposition to be friendly and approachable; easy to talk to.

302.

mutinous

Mr. Musharraf has considered to be mutinous Army officer on his illegal ride on democratically elected government in 1999.

Trick to Remember: when you mute a speaker of your computer, it sounds off; a dictatorship brings the voices of people off, because of its violence in nature.

(NOUN) unruly; rebellious.

303.

virtual

You may have made a virtual friend on an online gaming site, but don’t expect that person to meet you for coffee.

Trick to Remember: In virtual university, we can participates in virtual classes at home, which includes some video lectures; but its not the actually class, as one-on-one lecture and question-answer sessions.

(NOUN) being actually such in almost every respect; nearly as described, but not completely strict definition.

304.

Saturnine

Do not be misled by his saturnine countenance; he is not as gloomy as he looks.

Trick to Remember: it derived from word saturated; when a solution is saturated, it will not mix further sugar anymore; so saturnine is something harsh scolding, which can’t show sweetness.

(NOUN) bitter or scornful; showing a ill humor.

305.

immortality

Ambrosia was supposed to give immortality to any human who ate it.

Trick to Remember: immortality = impossible to meet with maot (death).

(ADJ.) live forever.

306.

imperil

The financial health of P.I.A, Pakistan Steel Mills and Pakistan Railways was imperiled political corruption and prejudiced hiring.

Trick to Remember: imperil = im-per-ill; when I am (im) persuaded (per) to work during ill (il), I am putting my-self in danger.

(ADJ.) put in danger.

307.

decry

The opposition decries on government plan to build Kala Bagh Dam; as they believe if this project will be successful, it would be the political success of the government and the failur of the opposition.

Trick to Remember: decry = the cry; when Indian army killed thousands of Kashmiri, it looks as if nothing has happened; but when indian faced reaction of this, it cries in front of United Nation; we all decry this injustice behavior of india.

(ADJ.) express strong disapproval of; condemn openly.

308.

apathy

Many GAT student have shown a surprising apathy toward first section of GRE exam; the result is that many students are not able to achieve high score in this section, because of their lack of interest.

Trick to Remember: When you have absence of sympathy for others, due to lack of interest on others feelings; you have apathy(absence of sympathy).

(VERB) an absence of emotion or enthusiasm.

309.

scathing

The news anchor launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister for his lack of deliverance of good governance.

Trick to Remember: When police sketch an image of a criminal (most wanted) in a paper and distribute it among public; it is to inform and alert them that they should have aware of this man, when see him inform it to police; it’s of something harsh in meaning.

(NOUN) very harsh or severe; marked by harshly abusive criticism.

310.

sullen

His sullen mood is due to the lack of any encouragement from top management he receives during job.

Trick to Remember: when you are suffering form sujan (sullen) on muscles due to playing after couple of years; it makes you angry and painful.

(ADJ.) used to describe an angry or unhappy person.

311.

sanguine

Let us not be too sanguine about the outcome when Afridi is send for play on very tough situation; something could go wrong with his fitness.

Trick to Remember: In many Pakistani songs, we heard words like ‘apny sang chala’ it shows something optimistic & cheerful expression.

(ADJ.) confidently optimistic and cheerful; hopeful.

312.

incensed

Mr. Edhi is know for very kind on children; unkindness to children by others incensed him.

Trick to Remember: incense = non-sense (sounds very similar); so it must be showing anger on something bad or non-sense.

(NOUN) angered at something unjust or wrong; beyond mad; make extremely angry; outrage.

313.

paradigm

Far from being atypically bawdy, this limerick is a paradigm of the form — nearly all of them rely on off-colour jokes.

Trick to Remember: ‘Para’ means beside. Paradigm comes from two word parts meaning ‘beside’ and ‘show’ and combined into ‘paradiegma’ for ‘pattern or example.’

(VERB) model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc.

314.

inconsequential

For many students, CGPA is just an inconsequential element in getting good jobs, rather personality, communication, skill and knowledge gives a good job, especially in multinational firms.

Trick to Remember: inconsequential = not sequential (sequences are the most important topic of GAT Quant section, as it is always tested in GRE; so not sequential means not important.

(ADJ.) lacking worth or importance.

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heterogeneous

Rather than build the wall with plain brick, we used a heterogeneous mixture of stones — they are not only different colous, but a variety of sizes are well.

Trick to Remember: The Latin root ‘gen’ means ‘birth, produce, race’ and appears in generate, gender, genocide. ‘Hetero’ means ‘different’ and appears in heterodox. Homogeneous(of the same kind is the opposite of heterogeneous.

(NOUN) different in type, incongruous; composed of different types of elements.

316.

retort

On the allegation by the opposition, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke loudly to make a suitably cutting retort.

Trick to Remember: What’s a retort? It’s a reply that’s short. “Why did the monkey fall out of the tree; please give me a report?” I said “The monkey’s dead,” with a dry retort.

(ADJ.) a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); a sharp, angry, or witty reply.

317.

charismatic

Imran Khan is a charismatic leader; youth in Pakistan are blindly devoted to his voice.

Trick to Remember: it derived from cherish which means attractiveness; in other way, it comes from the word karishma (mystery), so when something is karishma, it is usually attractive, because it’s very strange, not an ordinary.

(NOUN) possessing an extraordinary ability to attract.

318.

pathological

She though her skin darkening was simply a result of the sun, but it was actually pathological, the result of a serious disease.

Trick to Remember: It drives from ‘pathos’ which means disease. Pathological often occurs as pathological lair. When pathological is used alone to describe a person, meaning is that the person compulsively lies or hurts others.

(VERB) relating to or caused by disease; relating to compulsive bad behavior.

319.

gauche

It is terribly gauche to put ketchup on your steak and then talk with your mouth full as you eat it. That’s the last time I ever bring you to a nice place.

Trick to Remember: As a childhood, many children love to eat ghache (close to gauche) which created many diseases related to stomach; eating ghache is awkward on coarse.

(ADJ.) clumsy (in social behavior); coarse; awkward.

320.

impair

Continuous reading for a month without any rest has made Sehrish’s eyes impaired; now she cannot read at all without glasses.

Trick to Remember: impair = impossible to make pair; girl with too much eye side weakness usually hard to find his life partner(to make pair).

(VERB) make worse, weaken.

321.

conceivable

In order to get expert in analytical sections of GAT, one must have huge practice of such conceivable questions.

rick to Remember: conceivable = perceivable or imaginable.

(VERB) capable of being imagined.

322.

hardy

While the entire family enjoyed the trip to South America, only the hardier members even attempt to hike to the top Ecuador’s tallest volcano.

Trick to Remember: Hardy, unsurprisingly, comes from ‘harden,’ in the sense of ‘make brave.’

(VERB) capable of enduring difficult conditions; robust.

323.

philanthropy

Many wealthy people turn to philanthropy as a way to creat social good, and many others turn to it as a way to hobnob with the rich and famous.

Trick to Remember: ‘Phil’ means love and ‘anthro’ means humankind. A misanthropist is a hater of humankind.

(NOUN) Efforts to improve the well-being of mankind, generally through giving money.

324.

tractable

After good preparation of GAT, and timed-practice questions, one becomes tractable with time pressure during GAT exam.
Trick to Remember: When a tractor is controllable by you, it is tractable by you; In other way, anything which can be traced is tractable.

(NOUN) easily managed or controlled; the trait of being easily persuaded; .

325.

plummet

During the 1st minute or so of a skydive, the diver plummets towards Earth in free fall; then, he activates a parachute and floats down at what seems like a relatively leisurely pace.

Trick to Remember: A plummet (or plumb bob) is a weight on the end of a cord. When something plummets, the idea is that it is falling fast and straight down, as though it has been weighted.

(NOUN) drop sharply; fall straight down.