Important GRE Words in this article:

Conspicuous Save

Meaning: easily visible; obvious

Sentences:

The attitudinal change of adolescents makes its conspicuous presence in the domestic environment. Armoured battle tanks girdled a handful of Boeings and uniformed soldiers were conspicuous.

Synonyms:

easily seen, clear, visible, clearly visible, standing out,

Antonyms:

inconspicuous,



Obtain Save

Meaning: to be established, accepted, or customary

Sentences:

Suppose you start off with no information about which of the four possible combinations of truth values for A and B obtains. Do they use the same sort of violence and threats to obtain what they want?

Synonyms:

get, acquire, come by, secure, procure,

Antonyms:

lose, relinquish,



Unequivocal Save

Meaning: admitting of no doubt or misunderstanding; having only one meaning orinterpretation and leading to only one conclusion

Sentences:

International trade theory does not offer any unequivocal answers to this question. The best one can hope for is an explicit and unequivocal commitment to doing that right thing.

Synonyms:

unambiguous, unmistakable, indisputable, incontrovertible, indubitable,

Antonyms:

equivocal, ambiguous, vague,



Anthropologist Save

Meaning: an expert in or student of anthropology

Sentences:

Developed by biologists and anthropologists, optimal foraging is a good example of a microeconomic, deductive modeling strategy. My single aphorism, derived from anthropologist Alfred Gell, is that pattern, decoration, ornament, attaches people to things.



Insidious Save

Meaning: working in a subtle but destructive way

Sentences:

But there's nothing laughable about the creature itself, a thoroughly insidious and hateful little beast. It harbours insidious designs in spite of its declared support for current Palestinian peace efforts.

Synonyms:

stealthy, subtle, surreptitious, sneaking, cunning,

Antonyms:

straightforward,

