{"id":1068,"date":"2010-09-27T06:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T11:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:53","slug":"three-letter-words-vim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/three-letter-words-vim\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Letter Words: Vim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Text book word close-up\" src=\"\/\/cdn.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2000\/Definition-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"definition\" width=\"190\" class=\"alignright\" \/><em>Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive.  Who doesn&#8217;t see PAN : REVIEW and metaphorically scratch his or her head, or wonder what, exactly, a nib\u009d or a gin\u009d is on its own?  Welcome to <a href=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/category\/gre-strategies\/three-letter-words-gre-strategies\/\">Three-Letter Words<\/a>.  A few of them might make you want to deploy some four-letter words.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/vim\">Vim<\/A> means &#8220;lively or energetic spirit; enthusiasm; vitality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Vim<\/i> almost always appears in the phrase &#8220;vim and vigor,&#8221; and thus is an especially difficult word when seen alone.  Incidentally, <i>vigor<\/i> is a synonym for <i>vim<\/i>, so the expression is a bit redundant and should be taken as expressing emphasis.<\/p>\n<p>Choose your own answer before clicking &#8220;more&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first half of the day, she had been full of vim, but after four hours of Coach Weebly&#8217;s castigation, she started to _________.<\/p>\n<p>A. despoil<br \/>\nB. flag<br \/>\nC. wax<br \/>\nD. mar<br \/>\nE. excise<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We need a verb that is on the opposite side of <i>vim<\/i> &#8212; something that means &#8220;get tired.&#8221;  <i>Flag<\/i> means exactly that.  The answer is B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive. Who doesn&#8217;t see PAN : REVIEW and metaphorically scratch his or her head, or wonder what, exactly, a nib\u009d or a gin\u009d is on its own? Welcome to Three-Letter Words. A few of them might make you want to deploy some four-letter words. Vim [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7351,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}