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"When you say YES to others, make sure you are not saying NO to yourself." - Paulo Coelho

Word of the day!

SALUBRIOUS

Salubrious is a fancy way to describe something that’s good for you or is generally favorable to mind or body, but it need not be limited to describing healthy foods or liquids.

We salute each other with the cheer, "To your health!" as we chug down something that probably isn’t that good for us. But if it were salubrious, it would be. The two words, salute and salubrious stem from the same salus, meaning "welfare, health.” Maybe next time, raise a glass of milk instead of wine!

Because of his religion, Ramu was a very salubrious eater who ate only vegetables and fruits.

While nuts are salubrious on a nutritional level, eating too many of them can cause you to gain unwanted weight.

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Word of the day!

DOGGED

Most dogs I’ve met have been eager, friendly, aggressive, hyperactive or a mixture of all these (sometimes all at once). I’m not sure, however, if dogs are usually stubborn. Regardless, to be dogged means to do something persistently without giving up.

The journalists doggedly asked the celebrity prying questions until he finally relented and gave them a few salacious morsels.

During the severe economic downturn, even the most dogged pursuit of employment opportunities often proved fruitless.

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Word of the day!

PUGNACIOUS

Much like a pug dog, which aggressively yaps at anything near it, a person who is pugnacious likes to aggressively argue about everything. Verbally combative is another good way to describe pugnacious.

The comedian told one flat joke after another, and when the audience started booing, he pugnaciously spat back at them, “Hey, you think this is easy – why don’t you buffoons give it a shot?”

John’s pugnacious behavior causes him to have few friends.

The pugnacious little boy constantly talks back to his mother.

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Word of the day!

LACONIC

Another word that sounds different from what it means. A person is described as laconic when he/she says very few words.

I’m usually reminded of John Wayne, the quintessential cowboy, who, with a gravely intonation, muttered few words at a time. As this allusion betrays my age more than anything else, think of Christian Bale in Batman—the laconic caped crusader.

While Martha always swooned over the hunky, laconic types in romantic comedies, her boyfriends inevitably were very talkative—and not very hunky.

My chattering best friend couldn't be any different from her more reserved, laconic older brother.

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Word of the day!

INNOCUOUS

This word sounds very noxious, but actually means the opposite of noxious.

Something innocuous is harmless and doesn’t produce any ill effects. Many germs are innocuous. As are most bug bites. Even television, in small doses, is typically innocuous. Innocuous can also mean inoffensive. An innocuous question is unlikely to upset anyone.

Everyone found Nancy’s banter innocuous—except for Mike, who felt like she was intentionally picking on him.

Mary was scared that the dog was going to hurt her baby, but after a while she found that the dog was innocuous.

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Word of the day!

VERACITY

Veracity sounds a lot like voracity. Whereas many know voracity means full of hunger, whether for food or knowledge (the adjective form voracious is more common), few know veracity. Unfortunately, many confuse the two on the test.

Veracity means truthful. Veracious, the adjective form of veracity, sounds a lot like voracious. So be careful.

After years of political scandals, the congressman was hardly known for his veracity; yet despite this distrust, he was voted into yet another term.

Their veracity cannot be doubted: they have several witnesses to vouch for what they say.

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Word of the day!

BELIE

This is ETS’s number one favorite word for harder questions. Period. If ETS needs to make a Text Completion or Sentence Equivalence questions difficult, all it needs to do is throw in belie.

The key to answering a text completion question that uses belie is to know how the word functions in context. Let’s take a look below:

Her surface calm belied her roiling emotions.

The effortless fluidity with which the pianist’s fingers moved belied the difficulty of the Rachmaninov Prelude.

Her upbeat attitude during the group project belied her inherent pessimism towards any collective endeavor.

In each case, note how the outward appearance does not match up with the reality. That contradiction is the essence of belie.

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