GRE (11 Oct’08 iv)
1.
facilitate Definition
fa·cili·tate (fə sil′ə tāt′)
transitive verb -·tat′ed, -·tat′·ing
to make easy or easier
fa·cil′i·ta′·tor noun
facilitate Synonyms
facilitate Usage Examples
Object
- sharing: Microsoft SharePoint™ Services helps small to medium sized businesses facilitate the sharing of information within their organizations, over the Internet.
- exchange: The Center has academic agreements with several Latin American universities which facilitate exchanges of faculty.
- communication: The Tuesday Updates were a common point of reference for all game players, facilitating communication.
- collaboration: These grants demonstrate the councils ‘ vital role in bringing about change through facilitating productive collaboration with industry.
- discussion: Speakers will usually address the seminar for no more than 15 minutes each to facilitate group discussion.
- dialog: Useful links are provided and there is a newsletter called ” Ethically Speaking ” which facilitates dialog between different European ethics committees.
Subject
- tutor: It involves self-management courses facilitated by trained tutors who themselves have a long-term health problem.
- expert: We have ‘ permanent ‘ boards which are not facilitated by any expert.
Adjective complement
- rapid: This will help to facilitate rapid take up of the cards.
Modifying Another Word
- greatly: The proceedings will be made with LaTeX, which will greatly facilitate future publication.
- thereby: HSE must change this so as to enable prompt investigation, root cause analysis and thereby facilitating avoidance of similar accidents.
- externally: A working group has been established, externally facilitated, which will aim to deliver the final Scheme by December 2006.
- jointly: Snail Mail Workshop The school workshop was jointly facilitated by my good friend and writer, Fiona Hamilton.
- actively: We will actively facilitate business opportunities and develop them whenever they benefit the people of Northern Ireland.
- effectively: In this way, the sharing of good practice and networking of ideas could be facilitated more effectively.
Used with why or when
- where: McKeone ( 1994, p 6 ) suggests that legal aid should be granted to facilitate this where necessary.
Present participle complement
- learn: Groups are often formed because of factors like the classroom layout and in the interests of classroom management, rather than to facilitate learning.
- search: Such memos facilitate later searching and cataloging of images.
Preposition: by
- tutor: It involves self-management courses facilitated by trained tutors who themselves have a long-term health problem.
- expert: We have ‘ permanent ‘ boards which are not facilitated by any expert.
2.
facetious Definition
fa·ce·tious (fə sē′s̸həs)
adjective
joking or trying to be jocular, esp. at an inappropriate time
fa·ce′·tious·ly adverb fa·ce′·tious·ness noun
facetious Synonyms
facetious
modif.
jocular, jocose, humorous, funny, flippant, waggish, jesting, joking, jokey, tongue-in-cheek, sportive, sprightly, witty, merry, pleasant, comical, droll, amusing, laughable, clever, ludicrous, farcical, whimsical, fanciful, bantering, pert, light, irreverent, quippish, playful, quizzical, dry, wry, salty, sarcastic, ironic, satirical, trifling, not serious, punning, epigrammatic, capering, indecorous, ridiculous, jolly, jocund, flip*, kidding*, joshing*, wisecracking*, pulling one’s leg*, putting one on*; see also funny 1. See syn. study at witty.
facetious Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- remark: Anthony Mayers Wrexham, Clwyd Dear Sir Kind Ed, I take back all those nasty facetious remarks I have ever made about you.
- answer: Not to be out done by your facetious answer, I would like to make a facetious suggestion of my own.
- example: This is obviously untrue ( at least one MP is Prime Minister, for a facetious example ).
- person: Wags ‘ Dinners ( Definition of a Wag - ” a facetious person: intending to be amusing, especially inappropriately ” !
- point: This may seem a facetious point but that is far from my intention.
- way: Mr Boyd: I am making the serious point, in a slightly facetious way, that a range of skills must be encouraged.
Modifying Another Word
- slightly: There is no single quick answer, apart from the slightly facetious ” in the ground ” .
- little: Peter Gasston Says: May 31st, 2006 at 2:59 pm I agree, I was being a little facetious.
- very: I’m sure you realized I was only being very facetious!
Used with adjective complement
3.
extrapolate Definition
ex·trapo·late (ek strap′ə lāt′, ik-)
transitive verb, intransitive verb -·lat′ed, -·lat′·ing
- Statistics to estimate or infer (a value, quantity, etc. beyond the known range) on the basis of certain variables within the known range, from which the estimated value is assumed to follow
- to arrive at (conclusions or results) by hypothesizing from known facts or observations
- to speculate as to consequences on the basis of (known facts or observations)
Etymology: L extra (see extra-) + (inter)polate
ex·trap′o·la′·tion noun ex·trap′o·la′·tive adjective ex·trap′o·la′·tor noun
extrapolate Usage Examples
Object
- finding: It makes even less sense to extrapolate findings in young monkeys to old women.
- trend: It is dangerous to extrapolate these trends to the UK, however.
- figure: If we extrapolate these figures to Britain, some 111,000 people would have died, with 1.4 million people injured.
- result: To extrapolate the survey result to the public in general could be unwise, ” he added.
- datum: Having drawn your graph, extrapolate the data for the next three months.
- recommendation: Emerging links between both macro and micro governance vis-à-vis performance are probed with a view to extrapolating policy recommendations.
Used with why or when
- what: That’s because standard toxicology tests use much higher doses to quickly but roughly extrapolate what happens in the real world.
Infinitive complement
- give: The results from the tests are then extrapolated to give an estimate of the life for the product.
Modifying Another Word
- backward: How far can research findings be extrapolated backward and do they have any relevance for the pre-school and kindergarten stages?
- reliably: We oppose animal experimentation, based on overwhelming scientific evidence that findings from animal models cannot be reliably extrapolated to humans.
- simply: Argument of extremes The argument of extremes simply extrapolates each side of the argument to the point where they become unreal.
- directly: Of course you can’t extrapolate directly from a chicken to a man.
- then: Results are then extrapolated to human studies, either health or in certain clinical states.
- forward: Will include glass mass balances and waste materials arising, extrapolated forward on a national basis.
Preposition: from
- experiment: It is not possible to extrapolate from animal experiments to human studies.
- figure: But it has no idea how many remain in circulation and is wary of extrapolating from annual figures.
- datum: Nonetheless, peak continuous demand for them can be extrapolated from the data available for the three higher command levels.
- result: Extrapolating from this result, we will now win everything.
- study: Some EP findings are extrapolated from studies of other species.
- experience: We extrapolate from recent experience into the unknown, often coming to quite incorrect conclusions.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:30 am
I’ve been reading along for a while now. I just wanted to drop you a comment to say keep up the good work.
October 29th, 2008 at 7:21 am
Good post.