Monday, October 13, 2008

GRE preparations Day 1 Attempt 2

Alleged Alliteration
While most men thrive on the adulation of others, there are a few who take it as a vice. Rather nothing pleases them more than the advent of a critic or an adventitious adversary. Such are the people who flourish in adverse situations and it is indeed the adversity that takes out the best in them. The adage "When the going gets tough, the tough get going" adverts the same. Partially because an aegis to their own advocacy keeps them from being blinded by pride. While the idea is aesthetic, such folks are hardly ever affable and posses affected mannerisms lacking affinity for the normal human.

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hose souls are truly unfortunate however, who are affixed to the former kind, constantly afflicted if their actions would be taken as a personal affront. In their own resolve, they hence begin to aggrandize attempts to help the subject with everything they can. More than their own success, they remain agog of their subject's endeavours, while assisting in the same with great alacrity. Such is the alchemy of desire, for in some alcove of their hearts, they allay their own fears of their host alienating them by these meandering usefulness. Such allegiances are however, hardly meaningful for the subject.

The matter slightly alludes to me and my subject. I have however, not been honest as my subject is altruistic. I blame this on my ambivalent feelings. Moreover, a lot of these words wouldn't be accounted for if I were to be accurate. After all, the purpose of these rants is to prepare for the GRE at an amble pace. I hope to ameliorate the next passage in its truthfulness.

Words I couldn't accommodate

Aerie:
Nest of a large bird
Agape: Open mouthed, e.x. standing agape at a sight
Affluence: abundance, wealth
Agglomeration: collection, heap
Allegory: fable
Alimentary: supplying nourishment, ex: digestion occurs in alimentary canal
Amenable:
readily managed or willing to be led, answerable legally

3 comments:

Anshul said...

No such post can be complete without a link to this!

Haru said...

heh.. very true :) that should count as one of the ways for gre preps too :P

Anonymous said...

Ever read "Surely, You're Joking Mr. Feynman!"? Like RPF says, "the purpose of language is communication". The GRE is a farce. :-)