"V6"

1. vicarious - acting as substitute (vicarious feeling: when you substitute yourself as hero on the screen while watching movie)
2. vicissitude - change of fortune
3. victuals - food
4. vie - contend, compete
5. vigilant - watchful
6. vigor - active strength
7. vignette - picture ; short literary sketch
   
8. vilify - spread negative information about
9. vindicate - clear from blame; exonerate
   
10. vindictive - out of revenge
    

"V5"

1. verity - quality of being true
2. vernacular - living language; natural style
3. vernal - pertaining to spring
4. vertex - summit
5. vertigo - severe dizziness
6. verve - enthusiasm
   
7. vestige - remains; trace
8. vex - annoy
9. viable - practical or workable
10. viand - food
    

"V4"

1. veracious - truthful
2. veracity - truthfulness
3. verbalize - put in words
4. verbatim - word for word
   
5. verbiage - pompous array of words
6. verbose - wordy
7. verdant - fresh green,lush in vegetation
   
8. verdigris - green coating on copper that has been exposed to the weather
9. verisimilitude - appearance of truth
10. veritable - actual
    

Learning with animals

Hello people......
My friend Niraj is doing a great job here.
So as you see the topic for this post is "Learning with animals"
By this I don't mean that you have to sit in a zoo to learn new words. I'll put up some words that deal with qualities of humans which are similar to some animals. Lets start

• Bovine- connected with the cows. Also it describes a person having cow-like qualities (slow, placid, phlegmatic)
  
• Equine- connected with horses, or appearing similar to horses. It is from this word we derive equestrian- a person riding a horse or something to do with riding with horses like Olympics' equestrian events.
• Canine- these would be pretty familiar we have canine teeth. Canine is connected with dogs.
• Feline- is connected with cats. Also we may say a girl has feline features (cat like)
• Porcine- is to do with pigs. From this word we derive pork meat from pig
  
• Similarly we have vulpine-fox like; leonine- lion like; ursine- bear like (for star gazers Ursa Major and Minor is a good hint); lupine- wolf like.

These were basically words derived from the corresponding Latin words (Word Power Made Easy by Norman Lewis)

Now I'll talk about certain features we possess which can be considered to be inherited from animals. Or when we talk about these qualities we first remember about the corresponding animal.

• Lion-hearted- a very brave person
• Eagle-eyed - a discerning person, very vigilant
• featherbrained- silly or often forgetting things (I may be a featherbrained creature :-)
• pigheaded- very stubborn and unyielding
  
• lily-livered- a coward
• dogged - a dogged person is very determined to do something, also when you dog someone you are always followed by that person like in reporters dogged the mayor

Also animals are used as symbols for particular characteristics like "busy as a bee", "industrious beaver","cunning as a fox". "a gaggle (means a collection of geese but it also means a group of noisy people)"

That's all folks.....keep visiting this BEAUtiful site which will help all of us in learning newer words.

"V3"

Sorry friends...yesterday i was busy with "Heroes"(season1), so could not add words....Now again to keep going i am adding 10 more words.

1. venerable - deserving high respect
2. venerate - revere
3. venial - forgivable
4. venison - the meat of a dear
5. venom - poison
6. vent (N) - small opening; outlet
7. vent(v) - express; utter
8. ventral - abdominal
9. ventriloquist - A performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy
10. venturesome - bold
    

"V continued "

hi to continue the journey of words am adding 10 more words today...

1. vapid - dull or unimaginative
2. variegated - multicolored
   
3. vassal - in feudalism, one who held land of a superior lord
4. vaunted - boasted, bragged
5. veer - change the direction
6. vegetate - live in a monotonous way
7. vehement- forceful , intensely emotional
8. venal- corrupt
9. vendetta - blood feud
10. veneer - thin layer

GRE special

Hello Friends!
Are U getting bored with orkut and gtalk? What a silly question i am asking..What i meant to say was if none of your friends are online and you are waiting.You can use this time to play with words.
Here i will be writing 10 words every day along with there meaning (not every day...here in NITC u can't say such things for sure) ...These words are from Barron's guide...
so let's start with "V"

1. vacillate - fluctuate
2. vacuous - empty;laking in ideas
3. vagabond - wanderer
4. vagary - whim(a sudden wish to do sth or to have sth especially ven it is sth unusual)
5. vagrant - stray, random
6. vainglorious - boasted; excessively conceited
   
7. valedictory - pertaining to farewell
8. vampire - ghostly being that sucks blood of the living
9. vanguard - forerunners
10. vantage - i don't need to explain this....u might have seen vantage point..itzz good movie..anyways it's meaning is "position giving an advantage"

Though i am lazy person but i will try my best to continue this everyday...