Gradutate Record Exam

1. Assuage(v): To make (something burdensome or painful) less intense or severe; To satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst, for example); To pacify or calm; provide physical relief, as from pain; cause to be more favorably inclined.
Synonyms: alleviate, lessen, abate, appease, comfort, diminish, ease, fill, lull, mitigate, modify, mollify, quiet, reduce, relieve, salve, slake, soften, solace, soothe, sweeten, tranquilize.
Antonyms: intensify.

2. Exculpate(v): to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame.
Synonyms: absolve, acquit, amnesty, clear, dismiss, excuse, exonerate, forgive, free, pardon, release, vindicate.

3. Callous(adj): made hard; hardened; insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic, Emotionally hardened; unfeeling. <
Synonyms: adamant, anesthetic, apathetic, brawny, horny, impertinent, indurative, inexorable, obdurate, stubborn, torpid.

4. Stoic(adj): One who is seemingly indifferent to or unaffected by joy, grief, pleasure, or pain; seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
Synonyms: detached, dispassionate, impassive, imperturbable, patient, philosophic, phlegmatic, resolute, spartan, stolid, unconcerned, undemonstrative, unflappable, unruffled.

5. Ponderous(adj): Having great weight; unwieldy from weight or bulk; lacking grace or fluency.
Synonyms: heavy, boring, dreary, plodding, tedious, awkward, bulky, cumbersome, dull, hefty, humdrum, massive, monotonous.
Antonyms: lively, exciting.

6. Timorous(adj) : full of fear; fearful.
Synonyms: abashed, aghast, anxious, apprehensive, blanched, cowed, daunted, dismayed, intimidated, panic-stricken, perplexed, perturbed, rattled, spooked.
Antonyms: bold, courageous, valiant

7. Ineluctable(adj): incapable of being evaded; inescapable; Not to be avoided or escaped.
Synonyms: inevitable, unavoidable, certain, doomed, indubitable, inescapable, inevitable, sure, unavoidable, unevadable.

8. Pulsatile(adj): Undergoing pulsation; vibrating; Capable of being struck or beaten; played by beating or by percussion; as, a tambourine is a pulsatile musical instrument.

9. Intimidate(v): fill with fear; to force into or deter from some action by inducing fear; to compel or deter by or as if by threats; make timid or fearful.
Synonyms: abash, badger, bludgeon, browbeat, bulldoze, bully, coerce, cow, daunt, denounce, dishearten, dominate, dragoon, faze, frighten, hector, overawe, ride, scare, swagger, terrorize, threaten.
Antonyms: calm, encourage.


Analogies:

1. Ineluctable: Avoid

2. Approach: Intimidate


Issue Topic:

1. The study of history is done only on few famous persons. The great achievements of the so called famous is actually achieved by groups of people who have been long forgotten.


Argument Topic:

1. The Residents of the Mason city make no recreational use of the Mason river that is nearer to the city. Eventhough the state survey done, quotes that water sports(swimming, fishing, boating) as the favourites among the people. There are complaints that the river is been polluted and hence the people might be staying away from it. The situation is about to change as the state government has decided to purify the Mason river and hence the recreational use of river is about to rise. The Mason city council should increase the budget to develop the city-owned lands across the river.
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