Euphonious. Your friend has a big solo with the orchestra. After the show, she asks, breathlessly, “So? What’d you think?”
“It was amazing,” you say. “You were… euphonious!”
She bursts into tears. “I’m… phony?” she sobs.
“No,” you say. “Euphonious. Harmonious, delightful to the ear, opposite of cacophonous….? I learned it on 30 Second Words.”
“Oh,” she says, sniffling. As you walk away, she mutters, “Showoff.”
Euphonius: pleasing to the ear.
Accrete. One of the most beautiful images in modern astronomy is the accretion disk. Saturn’s rings are one example, but similar rings form around black holes. They capture millions of tiny bits of interstellar matter, which fall into orbit and form a disk that accumulates over time, that grows by adding new pieces—that accretes. On certain websites, your network of friends may accrete over time, as well—unless you have the personality of a black hole. Then they might disperse. Accrete: to grow by addition.
The recording is 8 minutes long and is comprised of approximately 40 vocabulary words and their definitions. With this production, 30 Second Words podcast has broken into long form territory with the first of three Vocabulary Study Aids. This was recorded in 2006 in preparation for my Graduate Record Exam (GRE), primarily as an exercise in the Audacity open-source sound editing software. I am listening to them tonight and thought they seemed useful enough to share.
I would urge you to use these podcasts as supplementary material for a Princeton Review, Barron’s or Kaplan’s Study Guide to the Graduate Record Exam (General). Don’t fret over which publisher, just get one!
Note: Writing credit for the definitions goes to one, if not all, the publishers listed above. I will admit to some shoddy record keeping as they were intended for personal use. I remember getting the list from a website that listed one of these three books as a source. If you find these useful, please consider purchasing one of them from the link below.
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(Must Have)Of the 9 books listed above, try to buy atleast the Must Have books. If you are serious about improving your GRE Score, you should have at least the 4 must have books.
Most students will just have Barron’s How to Prepare for GRE or Kaplan GRE Exam 2009 book and ignore other books. If you have good Verbal and Math skills, then you could get away with just one book, but if you are scoring between 800 to 1200 in practice tests, then try to buy above listed GRE Test Prep books.
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