GRE daily 10 words :Day 12

gregarious = sociable, outgoing
use = a gregarious person

meridian = circle passing through the two poles of the earth
use = The prime meridian of longitude is in Greenwich

dudgeon = resentment, indignant humor
use = After waiting over an hour for them, he drove off in high dudgeon

swindler = cheat
use = the swindler was jailed

fabricated = constructed, invented
use = a fabricated story

lewd = sexual in an obvious and rude way
use = a lewd suggestion

culminate = climax
use = Their many years of research have finally culminated in a cure for the disease

tribute = a gift or statement showing respect
use = Tributes have been pouring in from all over the world

fetter = to restrain, to bind
use = He felt fettered by a nine-to-five office existence

ancillary = supplementary, subsidiary, subordinate
use = ancillary unit 

Prisoners and hats puzzles: differnt

4 prisoners are caught and are to be punished. The Judge allows them

to be freed if they can solve a puzzle.

If they do not, they will be hung. They agreed.

The 4 prisoners are lined up on some steps (shown above). They are

all facing in the same direction. A wall separates the fourth man

from the other three.

So to summarize:-

Man 1 can see men 2 and 3.

Man 2 can see man 3.

Man 3 can see none of the others.

Man 4 can see none of the others.

The prisoners are wearing hats. They are told that there are two white

hats and two black hats. The men initially don't know what colour

hat they are wearing. They are told to shout out the color of the hat

that they are wearing as soon as they know for certain what colour

it is.

They are not allowed to turn round or move.

They are not allowed to talk to each other.

They are not allowed to take their hats off. Who is the first person

to shout out and why?

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GRE daily 10 words :Day 11

desecrate = profane, to abuse something sacred
use = It's a crime to desecrate the country's flag

hypothetical = theoretical, speculative
use = a hypothetical example

ribald = coarse, vulgar
use = He entertained us with his ribald stories

court-martial = military trial
use = he had to face a court-martial for disobeying the commanding officer

dissonant = Harsh and unpleasant sounding
use = *

misconstrue = to misunderstand, fail to discover
use = Their caution was misconstrued as cowardice

circuitous = roundabout
use = a circuitous route

industry = business or trade, energy
use = *

inconceivable = unthinkable
use = It would be inconceivable for her to change her mind.

abduct = kidnap
use = abducted from his car 

introduction to ramsy numbers

Prove that at a party with six people there is a group of at least three mutual acquaintances or three mutual strangers.






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GRE daily 10 words :Day 10

elusive = evasive
use = Success, however, remained elusive for her

livid = enraged, reddened with anger
use = He was livid when he found out

correlation = mutual relationship, association
use = There's a high correlation between smoking and lung cancer

annex = to attach
use = turn left to go to the annex

nuisance = annoyance
use = power failure was a real nuisance

arbitrator = mediator, negotiator
use = *

headlong = hasty, rash
use = The car skidded and plunged headlong over the cliff

hygienic = sanitary, clean
use = It is not hygienic

flagrant = outrageous, shameless
use = a flagrant misuse of funds

annul = cancel, nullify
use = annul a law 

LIGHT speed

The distance from the Earth to the Sun is about 100 million miles. The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. So it takes light eight minutes to reach Earth from the Sun. Let's say the Sun rose at 6am this morning, and that by some freak of physics, the speed of light is suddenly doubled to 372,000 miles per second. If the day were to be somehow repeated, what time would the Sun rise this time?






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Hunting for an answer

Two fathers and two sons, who were all poachers, went out hunting for rabbits. They bagged three in total, but they each took one home for supper. How is this possible?

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Rigid cube..! problem

You want to construct a rigid wire skeleton of a one-inch cube by using 12 one-inch wire segments for the cube's 12 edges. These you intend to solder together at the cube's eight corners.

"Why not cut down the number of soldering points," a friend suggests, "by using one or more longer wires that you can bend at sharp right angles at various corners?"

Adopting your friend's suggestion, what is the smallest number of corners where soldering will be necessary to make the cube's skeleton rigid?


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GRE daily 10 words :Day 9

exchequer = government department in charge of the revenues
use = *

felicitous = very appropriate, pertinent
use = He summed up the achievements in one or two felicitous phrases

introspective = looking within oneself
use = introspective songs

nuance = shade of meaning, subtlety
use = Linguists explore the nuances of language

fidelity = Loyalty
use = marital fidelity

tolerance = capacity to respect different values
use = religious tolerance

degrade = demean
use = don't degrade woman

colloquial = informal speech
use = colloquial speech

malnutrition = undernourishment
use = suffering from severe malnutrition

burly = husky, brawny
use = a burly policeman