Words related to CRIME

By admin On June 7th, 2010
  • felon - Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime(severe criminal)

  • felony - severe crime

  • suborn - persuade to act unlawfully (especially to commit perjury)

  • abscond -   depart secretly and hide

  • eg : The accountant absconded with the cash from the safe.

  • skulk - move furtively and secretly

  • accomplice – partner in crime

  • complicity - involvement in crime

  • connivance – pretence of being ignorant about a crime

  • abetto assist criminals

  • punitive - pertaining to punishment

  • condign punishment - appropriate punishment

  • perdition - complete ruin; damnation

  • salvation - the act of preserving or the stare of being preserved from harm

  • retribution – punishment for offenses; vengeance; compensation

  • reprieve – to postpone or remit the punishment of ( a person, esp one condemned to death)

  • incendiary – arsonist

  • arsonistA criminal who illegally sets fire to property

  • chasten - correct by punishment or scolding

  • recrimination - Mutual accusations

  • recidivist - Someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behaviour (especially for the same criminal behaviour)

  • recidivism - habitual retun to crime

  • narkInform or spy (for the police)

  • alibi - (law) a defence by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question

  • – A defence of some offensive behaviour or some failure to keep a promise etc.

  • bail - (V)The legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody.

  • eg : He is out on bail.

  • - (N)Release after a security has been paid.

  • sinister - evil

  • eg : We must defeat the sinister that seek our downlfall.

  • expiate - Make amends for (a sin)

  • eg : expiate one’s sins

  • decimate - Kill in large numbers

  • asylum -  a place for refugee or shelter

  • extradition -  surenderer of prisoner by one stare t another

  • expatriate - exile

  • repatriate - to send back(a refugee, prisoner of war etc.) to his birth or citizenship

  • homicide - The killing of a human being by another human being

  • regicide - The act of killing a king

  • fratricide - A person who murders their brother or sister

  • spat - minor dispute

  • amoral -  not  moral

  • mores - moral standards

Word related to THIEF

By admin On May 28th, 2010
  • larceny – thief

  • kleptomaniac – a person who has a compulsive desire to steal

  • eg : They discovered that Naz was a kleptomaniac when they caught him stealing some cheap  trinkets.

  • filch – steal

  • pilfer – to steal insignificant things

  • rifle – to search in hurriedly in order to cheat

  • eg : Who rifled through my desk drawers?

  • bootlegging – illegal trade

  • eg : They were bootlegging whisky.

  • contraband – illegal things to trade

  • shoplifting – steal in store

  • ferret - to search around

  • apprehend – arrest(a criminal); dread; perceive

  • eg : The police will apprehend the culprit and convict him before long.

  • collar – take into custody

Passage

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Passage

Sentence Completion

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Sentence Completion

Analogy

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Analogy

Antonym

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GRE Analogy

By admin On May 6th, 2010

Hanger:Airplance:: => Stable:Horse
Vane:Wiond Direction:: => Sundial:Time
Anonymous:Name:: => Shapeless:Form
Sympathy:Emotion:: => Friendship:Relationship
Habit:Customary:: => Reflex:Involuntary
Threat:Hostility:: => Compliment:Admiration
Ardent:Interested:: => Incensed:Annoyed
Vogue:Accepted:: => Disrepute:Shunned
Hyperbole:Language:: => Prodigality:spending
Studio:Artist:: => Laboratory:Chemist
Ripple:Tidal Wave:: => Breeze:Hurricane
Educational:Ignorance:: => Medicine:Disease
Bow:Violin:: => Drumstick:Drum
Dumbfound:Astonishment:: => Exasperate:Frustration

GRE- Analogies and Antonyms

By admin On May 5th, 2010

ASSUAGE : SORROW :: => dampen : ardor

DIE : SHAPING :: => drill : boring

PERFUNCTORILY : INSPIRATION :: => insolently : veneration

FAWN : IMPERIOUSNESS :: => equivocate : directness

CLOT : DISSOLVED :: => crowd : dispersed

STUDY : LEARN :: => search : find

BOISTEROUS: = quiet

JABBER: = speak slowly

AMALGAMATE: = separate

ENDORSE: = oppose publicly

GIST: = trivial point

ANARCHY: = order

BREACH: = solder

EXTANT: = extinct

GRE Wordlist-2

By admin On May 2nd, 2010

aritfice – cunning trick

syn – strategem, ploy, ruse

indifference – lack of interest

syn – insouciance, nonchalance

aggreement – compact, pact, accord

ant – discord

autonomous – independent or self government

definite decision – final decision

irrevocable – that can’t be cancelled

unanimous – agreed by all

unanimity – agreement by all

lucre – money earned in a dishonest way

lucrative – profitable

idosyncratic – odd

eg – idosyncratic behaviour

syn – bizarre

amivalent – having conflicting emotion at same time

(ami – both)

amidextrous – using both hands skillfully

detrimental, pernicious, deleterious, virulent – harmful

eg – virulent food

syn – pathogenic

ant – hygienic

GRE wordlists

By admin On April 24th, 2010

nonplussed – baffled or puzzled

spurious – fake or phony

incorrigible – that can’t be reformed

langour – lack of energy

syn : lassitude, haggard

repine – to express anxiety

ramification – branching in all direction

quip – mockery

escapade – prank

impropriety – lack of proper manner

decrepitude – old and at ruining condition

depredation – plundering or attack

syn : fret

recuperate – improve

recidivism – commiting crime repeatedly