Lele has been helping students excel on the SAT, GRE, and GMAT. Say a child were to ask, how long would it take driving in a car to go from one end of the universe to the other? Unless you have a really big calculator-and a very fast car-then the answer to this question would be imponderable.įor the last ten years, Christopher S. An imponderable is something that is impossible to estimate, fathom or figure out. Imponderable is not the opposite of ponderous. So, to be ponderous means to be weighed-down, and to move slowly and in a labored fashion. Ponderous is derived from ‘pondus’, which means weight (think of a pound). To censure someone is to express strong disapproval of that person. However, if you decide to start dropping the F-bomb in public-and I don’t mean facetious-then you can easily expect someone to censure you. Censure, the much more common GRE word, has nothing to do with removing objectionable words and/or material. Speaking of beeping out the F-word, we have a synonym for expurgate: censor.
#Artful synonym driver#
So, if you’ve been a good driver over the last 10 years, then that one incident when 85 became the new 65…well, that’s probably been expunged from your record. Many people who commit petty crimes have those crimes expunged from their records, given that person doesn’t decide to start running every other red-light. To expunge simply means to wipe out or remove any trace off. If you’ve ever watched a rated-R film that has been adapted for prime time, you’ll probably note that all those F-words-factitious, facetious, and fatuous-have been removed. To expurgate means to remove objectionable material.
They both mean to remove, but in different ways. However, GRE rarely, if ever, tests this definition. Therefore, Picasso is artful and I am artless. It should come as little surprise, then, that the literary canon is absent an artless dodger, as he would be too innocent and naive to dodge much of anything.įinally, artful and artless can refer back to the original usage of art. If somebody is artless, on the other hand, that person is innocent, guileless. This trait, presumably, allowed him to dodge tricky situations. The titular artful dodger did not have a penchant for watercolors, but was instead a devious, wily lad.
Perhaps you’ve read Dickens, and remember The Artful Dodger. To be artful means to be cunning and wily. Well, as far as the GRE is concerned, neither word relates to art (both in the lower case and upper case sense). Van Gogh, Picasso, Monet…surely they relate to the second word, and definitely not the first, which would be reserved for people like me who reached their artistic apotheosis with the drawing of stick-figures.
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