GRE (12 Oct’08 iv)
1. fervid : showing earnest feeling
fer·vid (fʉr′vid)
Modifies a noun
- imagination: It needs the most fervid imagination to distort any text to refer to him.
2.
- hot; burning; glowing
- having or showing great warmth of feeling; intensely devoted or earnest; ardent
Etymology: ME + OFr & fervens (gen. ferventis), prp. of fervere, to glow, boil, rage bhreu-, to boil up bher-, to boil > brew, burn
fervent
modif.
Preposition: of
- musician: The lãutari ‘ The lãutari of Clejani are perhaps the most inspired and fervent of all folk musicians in Romania.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Q So you would say that America is becoming more secular that its subscription to religious beliefs is becoming less fervent?
Modifies a noun
- admirer: On the 10 August, Massey, a fervent admirer of Milton, entered the lists.
- prayer: Rejoice, thou who with fervent prayer hast given wing to thy spirit!
- believer: We in the west, even fervent believers, are used to humor being directed at religion.
- supporter: He is also a fervent football supporter of Crystal Palace.
- wish: National reconciliation is now the most fervent wish of the Somali people.
- nationalist: She was passionate about the Welsh language and a fervent nationalist.
Modifying Another Word
- equally: Each successive move against the puritans by Laud appeared to have provoked an equally fervent response.
- so: He was moderately humorous in School of Rock, because he was so fervent.
- too: But perhaps it is all the product of too fervent an opposition, too fertile an imagination.
- especially: Had the refugees known their eventual destination their prayers on Friday afternoon would have been especially fervent.
- even: We in the west, even fervent believers, are used to humor being directed at religion.
Preposition: in
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord.
zeal·ous (zel′əs)
adjective
full of, characterized by, or showing zeal; ardently devoted to a purpose; fervent; enthusiastic
Etymology: ML zelosus zelus: see zeal
- reformer: Henry was a forceful and energetic character, a fervent and zealous reformer in the mold of Bernard.
- preacher: He embraced the tenets of Fox, and became aim ardent disciple of the zealous preacher.
- defender: The 5th Duke was a zealous defender of the Established Church at all times.
- advocate: Interesting herself particularly in the education of girls, she was a zealous advocate for the extensive teaching of domestic economy.
- pursuit: Salinas’s zealous pursuit of ‘ free market ‘ policies made him a darling of the Western media.
Modifying Another Word
- overly: This can only encourage firms not to be overly zealous in attempting to resolve alleged shortcomings of service.
- over: We strongly caution against anyone against being over zealous in these matters.
- too: There is an excellent archway down yonder in case a too zealous policeman should intrude.
- so: The Lord is so zealous for his law, that he will part with it for no man’s sake.
- very: However, an Address to the Coal Miners develops into a very zealous piece of propaganda.
- extremely: Unfortunately his extremely zealous brand of police work means that Starsky burns through partners faster than his beloved Gran Torino goes through spark plugs.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Local authorities are now becoming increasingly zealous - desperate even - about getting us to recycle more of our rubbish.
- seem: Evangelical theology is being decimated by this teaching that seems so zealous ” to discover how sparse the faith that justifies can be.
Preposition: in
- cause: Fearless and zealous in the cause of others he had gone forward to reconnoiter the enemy’s lines, when he fell mortally wounded.
- obedience: Thirdly, assurance makes us zealous in obedience and service.
Preposition: of
- gift: Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.
Preposition: for
- law: In John 2:27 Jesus has ” zeal ” and in Acts 21:20 James ‘ followers are ” zealous for the Law ” .
- work: They not only have good works to prove the reality of their faith, but they are zealous for good works.
- deed: Verse 14, because God is purifying for Himself a people for His own possessions zealous for good deeds.
4.
not allowed by law, custom, rule, etc.; unlawful; improper; prohibited; unauthorized
Etymology: Fr illicite illicitus, not allowed: see in- & licit
Adjective complement with noun phrase
- do: I accuse nobody without proof, because I realize it’s just as bad to accuse someone frivolously as to do something illicit.
Modifies a noun
- trafficking: The fight against the illicit traffic in cultural property The extent of illicit trafficking has never been greater.
- antiquity: No provenance is what keeps the trade in illicit antiquities alive.
- brokering: The fifth cluster focused on the issues of import/export controls and illicit brokering.
- distillation: The new duty structure was intended to prevent illicit distillation in Great Britain: it was a compromise designed to protect the spirit revenue.
- drug: Like most illicit drugs, you can never be sure of what is in them.
- distiller: He stood six feet four inches tall and his stature helped to silence any of the illicit distillers who challenged the newly licensed distillery.
Modifying Another Word
- often: Saying you understand will often illicit a grunt at best.
- only: The profits to be made encourage not only illicit plundering of ancient sites but skillful forgeries.
- apparently: I do not have time this evening to unravel the complexities of this apparently illicit relationship.
- entirely: As the supply chain is entirely illicit, there are no legitimate manufacturers with whom the government can work to restrict supply.
- not: But we’re not illicit any more, so you’re going to have to stop being that too.
un·law·ful (-lô′fəl)
adjective
- against the law; illegal
- against moral or ethical standards; immoral
adj
- Not authorized by law; illegal.
- Punishable under criminal law.
- Characterized by moral corruption.
- render: The OFT ruling in any case is spearate from the laws already in place that render these charges unlawful.
Modifies a noun
- discrimination: In October 2006 the law will be amended to include unlawful discrimination on the ground of age.
- killing: At a later inquest the jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing.
- deduction: They are also protected from unlawful deductions from their salary.
- eviction: This would be unlawful eviction, which is a criminal offense.
- combatant: Instead he offers us a linguistic and legal leap into the unknown, describing them as ‘ unlawful combatants ‘ .
- intercourse: Roman Polanski had pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13 year old girl in 1977.
Modifying Another Word
- otherwise: The assessment of necessity must be made at the time the decision is made to commit the otherwise unlawful act.
- potentially: Legality: discrimination on the grounds of race, gender and disability are potentially unlawful.
- therefore: To address any creation by such a name, is therefore unlawful.
Infinitive complement
- treat: It is unlawful to treat disabled people less favorably than non-disabled people.
- refuse: It is unlawful to refuse someone a job because they are pregnant.
Used with adjective complement
- declare: Was this oversight of such severity as to require the entire project being declared unlawful?
- become: Discrimination on the grounds of age will become unlawful from October 2006.
- rule: However, it was ruled unlawful by a German court on the grounds of being anti-competitive [ 5 ] .
Preposition: in
- employment: The law makes sexual harassment - and harassment on the ground of sex - explicitly unlawful in employment or vocational training.
Preposition: for
- employer: Under the DDA it is now unlawful for an employer to operate blanket bans on the recruitment of people with diabetes.
- provider: It is now unlawful for education providers to treat disabled people ‘ less favorably ‘ than they treat non-disabled people.
- authority: This section states that it is unlawful for a public authority to act in a way, which is incompatible with a Convention Right.
- person: Management It is unlawful for a person managing any premises to discriminate against disabled people occupying those premises.
6.
7.
Now Literary a prayer
Etymology: ME oreisun oreison oratio, a prayer oration
Adjective modifier
- hasty: Only the stuttering rifles ‘ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons.
squalid (skwäl′id, skwôl′-)
adjective
- foul or unclean, esp. as the result of neglect or unsanitary conditions
- wretched; miserable; sordid
Etymology: L squalidus squalere, to be foul or filthy
squalid
modif.
dirty, filthy, unclean, poor, poverty-stricken, mean, grimy, soiled, foul, reeking, ordurous, nasty, abominable, slimy, slummocky, sloshy, ill-smelling, feculent, odious, repellent, gruesome, horrid, horrible, sordid, ramshackle, besmeared, sloppy, smutty, muddy, miry, lutose, dingy, reeky, fetid, moldy, musty, fusty, offensive.
- surroundings: The Williamsburgh Savings Bank, rises majestically from its squalid surroundings where Atlantic Avenue meets Flatbush Avenue.
- camp: Yet the squalid refugee camps are filled with people who are all too aware of the bitter reality.
- condition: The squalid, run-down conditions at Glasgow Zoo did not happen over night.
- apartment: He died of smoke inhalation from a kitchen fire in his tiny, squalid one-bedroom apartment in Philadelphia.
- street: The applause of society is but faintly audible in the slums of Whitechapel or in the squalid streets of Southwark.
- flat: Instead the four women were held in a squalid flat in Lamia by a criminal gang waiting for them to give birth.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: However, until 1970 a group of rather squalid houses stood here.
- often: Often squalid and slackly administered with lavish dietaries Kent’s mixed workhouses did little to reduce the rates.
- not: Anyway, picture a small room, roughly decorated in white, not squalid, but certainly not luxurious, .
- somewhat: However the latest work, in what was the arena of the amphitheater, has also revealed that a somewhat squalid late Saxon settlement.
- so: No little woman is so trifling and sordid, no handmaid so squalid, but that she gained some advantage from his death.
- very: You can sleep here but its very squalid and usually wet.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Two days later this pleasant site was cursed, as usual, with the ” Reverse Midas Touch ” and digging became somewhat squalid.
—Reagan, Ronald Wilson
Never under the most despotic of infidel Governments did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return, in the very heart of a Christian country. And what are your remedies? After months of inaction, and months of action worse than inactivity, at length comes forth the grand specificöthe never-failing nostrum of all state physicians from the days of Draco to the present time; death. Is there not blood enough upon your penal code that more must be poured forth to ascend to Heaven and testify against you?
—Rochdale
9.
covered with or full of grime; very dirty
Modifying Another Word
- very: Here a ramp leads down to the original station entrance subway with its white glazed brick walls now looking very grimy.
- rather: The accommodation was a wooden bunk in the back of a lorry, shared with two other clowns and four rather grimy tattooed laborers.
- all: Their hands and faces were all grimy, and their clothes.
- slightly: Coming off the slightly grimy platform at Manchester Picadilly I was most impressed by the rest of the station.
Modifies a noun
- street: But no longer will you find the grimy back streets, or rows of chimneys belching back smoke.
- window: Through my grimy window, I observe the old man shuffle past with his new companion.
- town: Burne-Jones spent the first 20 years of his life in Birmingham, then a grimy industrial town.
- face: With sweat running down his forehead eroding rivulets into a grimy face, he holds a goats head by its horns over roaring flames.
- hand: She had the faded picture clasped in her grimy, knotted hands.
- wall: Painted on to a grimy white wall were the words ‘The Gate Vegetarian Restaurant ‘ .
Used with adjective complement
- look: Here a ramp leads down to the original station entrance subway with its white glazed brick walls now looking very grimy.
dingy (din′jē)
adjective -·gier, -·gi·est
- dirty-colored; not bright or clean; grimy
- dismal; shabby
Etymology: orig. dial. var. of dungy
Converse of object
- look: Always wash colored items separately to whites, otherwise, even if the color does not run, the light articles will look dingy.
- lose: Mersey River Rescue has caught the lost sailing dingy.
Adjective modifier
- small: On clear evenings, there would be a landing party, buzzing over to the deserted shore in a small dingy to explore.
- little: We were then filmed from a little rubber dingy which I subsequently obtained.
Modifies a noun
- skipper: Cheshire’s stronghold for the dingy skipper, a Local Biodiversity Action Plan species, is on Ashton’s Flash.
- basement: The vinyl version is like being led down into a dingy basement, with the lights off.
- sailing: Sailing Guest membership at the Errwood Sailing Club, which offers dingy sailing in the Goyt Valley, can be arranged.
- corridor: We must have walked down dark dingy corridors for ages - very creepy.
- pub: I met Jon in a rather dingy pub in Waterloo, London five years ago.
- street: I tracked him down to a dingy street in Soho.
Modifying Another Word
- rather: I met Jon in a rather dingy pub in Waterloo, London five years ago.
- very: Lighting was originally by oil lamp, very dingy.
- somewhat: Tattered prayer-books and somewhat dingy scapulars were brought to light.
- pretty: The Manchester Craft and Design Center is a true oasis in the otherwise pretty dingy Northern Quarter.
- particularly: Our final visit was to a particularly dingy part of the dregs of the city.
Noun used with modifier
- sailing: Mersey River Rescue has caught the lost sailing dingy.
- rubber: We were then filmed from a little rubber dingy which I subsequently obtained.
- inflatable: These trips take just 15 minutes in an inflatable dingy - hard hats are provided.
Of course, being fatally poor and dingy, it was wise of Gerty to have taken up philanthropy and symphony concerts.