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Adorbs! Vocab and Cute Animals from Grammarly.com

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Grammarly.com claims to be the world’s most accurate online grammar checker. Interesting!

Fortunately, grammar is not tested on the GRE (as it is on the SAT and GMAT). However, Grammarly’s Facebook page is full of (that is, replete with) vocab learning and other word fun.

Do you know the meanings of agog, voracious, loquacious, frolicsome, tortuousness, and indelicate? Check out these explanations, then try a GRE problem at the bottom of the post.

Try this GRE problem (feel free to scroll back up and read the definitions!):

Her grandparents valued seemliness above all else, and were _________ at her incorrigibly _________ behavior.

i
loquacious
agog
frolicsome
ii
voracious
indelicate
tortuous

Have your answer ready? No? Seriously, pick your answers!

The sentence has two good clues — the grandparents value seemliness, the state of being proper and appropriate. The woman’s behavior is incorrigible (resistant to correction), which definitely has a bad connotation.

The answers are agog and indelicate.

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