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30/10/2021

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Obligatory GRE Word:
umbrage: offence
It's used as such in this article:
"A rebuttal to the report was recently issued by the Press Information Bureau which takes umbrage with several issues, one of which is the organisation’s characterisation of India’s Internet shutdowns."

PS: If you remember Professor Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter, you'll know never to umbrage her!

29/10/2021

Equivocate is used in this article (The opportunity to nail an equivocating government agent both invigorates the host and gives the show a fleeting sense of rhetorical purpose) as such:

"The opportunity to nail an equivocating government agent both invigorates the host and gives the show a fleeting sense of rhetorical purpose"

Equivocate: to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

It's highly probable you'll see this word at least once per section on the GRE!

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28/10/2021

Opprobrium means harsh criticism or censure

This word is used in this article (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/bernard-henri-levy-documentary-will-to-see/620467/) as such:

"Those so inclined should go right ahead, for there is no insult, no criticism, no mockery that you can direct at Lévy that he has not already heard and probably cited, somewhere, in a self-deprecating comment. The list of his detractors is very long, and even his admirers describe him in unsparing terms: “Pomposity and self-promotion are his vices,” wrote Paul Berman, as far back as 1995. In the book as well as a new documentary Lévy has written and co-directed, also called The Will to See—now showing at film festivals in English, and perhaps to be more widely released next year—he makes several wry references to the opprobrium his various engagements have inspired (“There is the war in Libya, of course, for which I have been lavishly criticized”

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22/10/2021

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10/09/2020

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Domestic priorities will and should take precedence over any Middle East adventures likely to absorb large resources or the president’s time.
All these challenges have assumed far greater significance than the declining terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland emanating from the Middle East.
The last thing this country needs is to throw good money after bad in a futile search for opportunities to reform, let alone transform, the dysfunctional Middle East.
The U.S. can protect its energy interests in the Middle East without a significant increase in military or economic investments.
Indeed, the U.S. is no longer the top dog in the Middle East neighborhood.

Total GRE Words: 32

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19/07/2020

Fun fact: Oxford dictionary now lists the infamous and incorrect usage of the word "literally" officially!

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"Used to emphasize a word or phrase, even if it is not actually true in a literal sense"
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10/07/2020

Daily reading practice:

"The UK government keeps making irresponsible remarks on Hong Kong affairs," he told a virtual news conference.
He added: "We are currently assessing the national security law and its legal ramifications in terms of extradition with Hong Kong.
"In Hong Kong, we still urge people to vote in the upcoming primary election scheduled on this weekend.
Tong Ying-kit is accused of driving a motorbike into police while carrying a sign saying "Liberate Hong Kong" at a demonstration last Wednesday.
Police officers may also ask a magistrate to require a suspect to surrender their travel document in order to stop them from leaving Hong Kong.

Total GRE Words: 23

Reading practice for GRE: China: “I’d recommend not getting too close with Hong Kong. If you do...we may have problems getting along.”

09/07/2020

Daily reading practice:

A Toronto police officer who beat a Black teenager so badly he lost an eye has been found guilty of assault, but not aggravated assault.
The brothers were charged with aggravated assault and obstruction of justice, as they were accused of misleading police about the incident.
Both were acquitted of obstruction Friday, and Christian was acquitted of aggravated assault.
Di Luca said Michael's likely intention when he left the garage was to assault Miller.
He said he can’t say beyond a reasonable doubt that it was aggravated assault because the rupture to Miller’s eye may have occurred earlier.

Total GRE Words: 10

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04/06/2020

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04/06/2020

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The health effects of discrimination are usually less obvious than murder.

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28/05/2020

Daily reading practice:

Three officials from different congressional committees say investigators on Capitol Hill believe that Linick’s investigations into the Saudi arms sale and Pompeo’s use of the political aide contributed to his firing.
A White House official has said that Pompeo recommended to Trump that Linick be fired, and that Trump agreed.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., confirmed Monday that Linick was looking into the Saudi arms deal.
The State Department and Pompeo’s office did not respond to multiple requests for comment.
Routine ethics briefings for State Department officials include the admonition that they may not enlist people who report directly to them to perform personal errands, a current and a former State Department official said.

Total GRE Words: 15

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16/05/2020

Daily reading practice:

Artists, Auden insisted, should be anonymous; Shakespeare, for all intents and purposes, is, and we should revel in it.
The absence of one emotion in Shakespeare, the undue intensity of another are powerful indicators of a mind and a man at work.
He begins with a fine, disabused picture of Stratford circa 1564, when the poet was born.
By the time Shakespeare was a young man, to be a Catholic priest at all was a capital offense.
Greenblatt uses “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” as a road map in his section on Shakespeare’s childhood, and persuasively so.

Total GRE Words: 27

Reading practice for GRE: Why Shakespeare Remains the Necessary Poet