জিআরই (GRE) পরীক্ষা বলে কথা নয়, বিভিন্ন পরীক্ষায় এই শব্দগুলোর গুরুত্ব রয়েছে। এই শব্দগুলো দিয়ে ইংরেজি ভাষা শিক্ষার উচ্চতর স্তর যাচাই করা হয়।
* Extant (adj.) – in existence
বিরাজমান
Few documents antedating the advent of papyrus are extant today.
* Ephemeral (adj). – short-lived
ক্ষণস্থায়ী
Youtube has made fame truly ephemeral. Just ask Rebecca Black.
* Capricious (adj.) – unpredictable, whimsical
হঠকারী
Because Martha was so capricious her friends felt they could not rely on her.
* Corroborate (v.) – to confirm, make stronger
বলশালী করা
Three witnesses were able to corroborate Lucy’s alibi that she had been at the bowling alley at the time of the murder.
* Loquacious (adj.) – talkative
বাচাল
Nancy was so loquacious her friends usually didn’t like to watch a movie with her.
* Esoteric (adj) – known to a select few
Many jazz artists once deemed esoteric have emerged due to the greater access users have to avant-garde music on-line.
* Erudite (adj.) – scholarly
পণ্ডিত
A Rhodes Scholar, Max was a true erudite, and a formidable opponent on Jeopardy.
* Pragmatic (adj.) – practical
বাস্তবিক
Edna never cared for abstract thinking and preferred the pragmatic world of business, in which every action, ideally, has an intended consequence.
* Ambivalent (adj.) – having contradictory feelings
দোটানা মনোভাব
Erin was ambivalent about her freshman year in college; her classes were fascinating but she missed her high school friends.
* Soporific (adj.) – inducing sleep
ঘুম উদ্রেককারী
Professor’s Moore’s lectures were soporific to the point that students, before they nodded off in class, would usually quip, “It’s time for Professor Bore.”
* Prolific (adj.) – producing or creating abundantly
প্রস্ফুটিত
Irving Berlin had one of the most prolific careers in song-writing history; dozens of his hundreds of tunes are familiar to us. Anyone dreaming of a “White Christmas?”
* Auspicious (adj.) – favorable
The team’s run for the pennant started auspiciously with 24 wins. Two starting pitchers snapped their elbows mid-season, clearly an inauspicious sign.
* Sanguine (adj.) – cheerful; optimistic
খাঁটি
A Yale graduate with a 4.0, she was sanguine about finding a job right out of college.
* Enervate (v.) – to weaken; drain the energy from
দুর্বল করা
Sitting in the windowless room, the tropical humidity soaking through the walls, I was enervated before noon.
* Magnanimous (adj.) – big-hearted; generous
উদার
Upon receiving his first Wall Street paycheck, Jerry was so magnanimous he not only bought his Mom a car, he bought his Dad one too.
* Mercurial (adj.) – 1. Changing one’s personality often and unpredictably. 2. Animated, sprightly
বর্ণীল
One never knew exactly what the professor’s class would be like; he was so mercurial that many of his students thought of him as two different people.
* Belligerent (adj.) – Inclined to fighting
ঝগড়াটে
After a few drinks Stevie was convivial; after two six-packs he became belligerent, challenging anyone around him to a head-butting contest.
* Fastidious (adj.) – nitpicky
খুঁতখুঁতে
A fastidious eater, Herman would only eat the center of anything he touched. As a result, his plate was strewn with the remnants of his dinner, an eyesore for the hapless dinner guest.
* Reticent (adj.) – tightlipped, not prone to saying much, reluctant
অনিচ্ছুক
Paul was reticent and preferred observing others mannerisms.
* Inculpate (adj.) – to charge with wrong-doing; accuse
অভিযুক্ত
To inculpate Eddy with the murder was absurd; he’d been bowling with
