{"id":18327,"date":"2010-10-20T13:56:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/20\/gre-practice\/"},"modified":"2010-10-20T13:56:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T13:56:00","slug":"gre-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/20\/gre-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"GRE practice"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tonight I accompanied Abe on his late night inspections, and we practiced his GRE words. At the end of the trip, we played a story game. We each took turns writing a sentence using at least one GRE word per turn. Here are our stories:<\/div>\n

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“The nadir<\/b><\/i> of my life occurred when I was 14 years old. It was already hard being a neophyte<\/b><\/i> at the nuances<\/b><\/i> of high school life, but to make matters worse, Tommy Brown, the seraphic<\/b><\/i> school quarterback, was oblivious to my existence. I suspect my obsequious<\/i>  <\/b>attempts to get his attention came across as officious<\/b><\/i> behavior. For example, I offered to help him with his homework and brought him liberal<\/b><\/i> helpings of homemade pie, but to no avail. Though our simple interactions must have seemed quotidian<\/b><\/i> to him, a mere glance from Tommy would make the apex<\/i>  <\/b>of my day. Thought I was undoubtedly a nominal<\/b><\/i> part of his existence, he was the reason I got up in the morning. My friends tried hard to explain his disinterest in me, but I was obstinate<\/b><\/i> in my obsession. Perhaps he was turned off by my noisome<\/i> <\/b>odor. At the time, I didn’t even know I smelled because my nose was perpetually occluded<\/b> <\/i>by allergies.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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And then, we learned the word, “numismatics.” It means, “coin-collecting.” Abe pointed out that each phrase has four syllables, and the world would be just fine if we got rid of one phrase. But we made a story about it anyway.<\/div>\n
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“I love numismatics<\/b><\/i>! Although others might consider my hobby jejune<\/b><\/i>, I believe anyone who can’t appreciate a fine coin collection is a Philestine<\/b><\/i>. In fact, coin collecting is so thrilling to me, it obviates<\/b><\/i> the need for any other hobbies. I have a coterie<\/i> <\/b>of friends who share my passion. We are such zealots<\/b><\/i> that it would be impossible for us to abjure<\/b><\/i> our love of coins. I keep my coffer<\/b><\/i> of coins in a hidden safe because I fear that the mendacious<\/i> mendicants<\/i> <\/b>who hang out near my house might try to break in and steal my collection. The <\/i>hermetic<\/i>  <\/b>seal on my safe is so effective that it would prevent those dissembling<\/b><\/i> crooks from stealing my collection–<\/span>even if they knew where it was.”<\/span><\/div>\n
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Yes, we are nerds.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight I accompanied Abe on his late night inspections, and we practiced his GRE words. At the end of the trip, we played a story game. We each took turns writing a sentence using at least one GRE word per turn. Here are our stories: “The nadir of my life occurred when I was 14 … Continue reading GRE practice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abeandlily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}