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📢Here are some frequently used words in competitive and language exams. Learn these words to improve both your understanding (Reading Comprehension) and use (Writing and Speaking).

➡️ #vocabulary #gre #ielts #band9

✏️✏️. Rites - Established ceremonies prescribed by a religion

✏️✏️. Inevitable - That which cannot be prevented or stopped

✏️✏️. Orchestra - A large body of people playing various musical instruments

✏️✏️. Compositors - One who sets the font and layout for books, newspapers, etc

✏️✏️. Peninsula - land surrounded by water on three sides or projecting out into a body of water.

✏️✏️. Barracks - A place where soldiers live

✏️✏️. Numismatist - A coin collector

✏️✏️. Clientele - Regular clients of a certain institution (salons, restaurants, cinemas)

✏️✏️. Observatory - A place where astronomical observations are made

✏️✏️. Sororicide - The killing of one's sister.

✏️✏️. Pilferage - Act of stealing something in small quantities

✏️✏️. Occidental - Pertaining to the west (usually used in relation to culture)

✏️✏️. Inscribe - To write (usually, something important)

✏️✏️. Insolvent- The state of not having enough funds to clear one's debts

✏️✏️. Harass- Trouble and annoy continually

✏️✏️. Novice- A person who is new to a profession

✏️✏️. Erudition- State or quality of being knowledgeable

✏️✏️. Alienation- A state of emotional or intellectual separation

✏️✏️. Obituary- A notice of a person’s death

✏️✏️. Gregarious- Someone who enjoys or prefers being in a group

✏️✏️. Sedulous - Hard working and diligent

✏️✏️. Odyssey - A usually long and eventful journey or shift

✏️✏️. Obsolete - The thing no longer in use

✏️✏️. Embezzlement - Misappropriation of (others') funds for personal use.

✏️✏️. Colleague - A person who is working in the same institution

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Whether you are taking the #gre or any other exams, understanding some elements of #grammar is important. One of the things you should 🦢definitely🦢 know is parts of speech.

🎚️ Here is part 1️⃣ of the 4️⃣ part series on Parts of Speech

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Nouns refer to persons, animals, places, things, ideas, or events, etc.
Nouns encompass most of the words of a language.

🔹Noun can be a/an -
➖Person – a name for a person: - John, Sita, Rahman, Vinay, Srinivas, Abdul, Manoj, etc.
➖Animal – a name for an animal: - Dog, Cat, Rat, Horse, etc.
➖Place – a name for a place: - Mumbai, Delhi, Patna etc.
➖Thing – a name for a thing: - Pen, Pencil, Rubber, Computer, Table etc.
➖Idea – A name for an idea: - devotion, superstition, happiness, excitement, etc.
➖Emotion - A name for an emotion of feeling: anger, sadness, jealousy, tiredness, etc.


8️⃣ Types of Nouns:

1️⃣Proper Noun:
A proper noun is a name which refers only to a single person, place, or thing and there is no common name for it. In written English, a proper noun always begins with capital letters.
Example: Mumbai (it refers to only one particular city), Amit (refers to a particular person)

2️⃣Common Noun:
A common noun is a name for something which is common for many things, person, or places. It encompasses a particular type of things, person, or places.
Example: Country (it can refer to any country, nothing in particular), city (it can refer to any city like Delhi, Mumbai, etc. but nothing in particular).

3️⃣Abstract Noun:
An abstract noun is a word for something that cannot be seen but is there. It has no physical existence. Generally, it refers to ideas, qualities, and conditions.
Example: Truth, lies, happiness, sorrow, time, friendship, humour, patriotism, etc.

4️⃣Concrete Noun:
A concrete noun is the exact opposite of abstract noun. It refers to the things we see and have physical existence.
Example: Chair, table, bat, ball, water, money, sugar, etc.

5️⃣Countable Noun:
The nouns that can be counted are called countable nouns. Countable nouns can take an article: a, an, the.
Example: Chair, table, bat, ball, etc. (you can say 1 chair, 2 chairs, 3 chairs – so chairs are countable)

6️⃣Non-countable Noun:
The nouns that cannot be counted are called non-countable nouns.
Example: Water, sugar, oil, salt, etc. (you cannot say “1 water, 2 water, 3 water” because water is not countable)

7️⃣Collective Noun:
A collective noun is a word for a group of things, people, or animals, etc.
Example: family, team, jury, cattle, etc.

8️⃣Compound Noun:
Sometimes two or three nouns appear together, or even with other parts of speech, and create idiomatic compound nouns. Idiomatic means that those nouns behave as a unit and, to a lesser or greater degree, amount to more than the sum of their parts.
Example: six-pack, five-year-old, and son-in-law, snowball, mailbox, etc.

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💡 Abstract nouns and proper nouns are always non-countable nouns, but common nouns and concrete nouns can be both count and non-count nouns.

💡Collective nouns can be both plural and singular. However, Americans prefer to use collective nouns as singular, but both of the uses are correct in other parts of the world.

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➡️ #vocabulary #ielts #gre

✏️. LEGITIMATE (ADJECTIVE): Valid
Synonyms: Sound, Admissible
Antonyms: Invalid
Example:
➡️He should at least give a legitimate excuse for being late.

✏️. COMMIT (VERB): pledge, promise
Related words: Devoted, Loyal
Antonyms: Apathetic
Example:
➡️First Academy is committed to providing excellent training

✏️. COUNTER (VERB): Parry
Synonyms: Answer, Contradict
Antonyms: Support
Example:
➡️To counter a fool is futile. They do not listen to us anyway!

✏️. ERSTWHILE (ADJECTIVE): Former
Synonyms: Old, Past
Antonyms: Present
Example:
➡️The erstwhile manager of my company now started his own firm.

✏️. UNRELENTING (ADJECTIVE): Without giving up.
Synonyms: Constant, Continuous
Antonyms: Intermittent
Example :
➡️The unrelenting rains caused floods in the region.

✏️. OVERWHELMING (ADJECTIVE): very great , too much to handle
Synonyms: Profuse, Enormous
Antonyms: Small
Example:
➡️ Team India received overwhelming praise after winning the world cup.

✏️. CLAMOUR (NOUN): Din, Protest
Synonyms: Racket, Uproar
Antonyms: Silence
Example:
➡️There is huge clamour for legalising some drugs

✏️. PERFUNCTORY (ADJECTIVE): Without care or attention
Synonyms: Desultory, Quick
Antonyms: Careful
Example:
➡️Most government officials do their duties perfunctorily.

✏️. DISTRESS (NOUN): Anguish
Synonyms: Suffering, Pain
Antonyms:Happiness
Example:
➡️He was in great distress after hearing about the death of his grandfather.

✏️✏️. CONVICTION (NOUN): Certainty
Synonyms: Certitude, Assurance
Antonyms: Uncertainty
Example:
➡️If you say things with conviction, people will believe you.