{"id":1416,"date":"2010-11-15T08:45:49","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T13:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:41","slug":"advocabulary-hirsute-is-not-the-kind-of-hair-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/advocabulary-hirsute-is-not-the-kind-of-hair-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocabulary: Hirsute is Not the Kind of Hair You Want"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know what&#8217;s not a good name for a hair salon?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/10\/hirsute1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"hirsute\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/hirsute\">Hirsute<\/A>, which means hairy or shaggy and typically refers to body hair.  <i>Hirsutism<\/i> is the medical condition of excessive growth of hair of normal or abnormal distribution, especially in women.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/10\/hirsute-salma1.jpg\" alt=\"hirsute salma\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>Above: Salma Hayek in <A HREF=\"\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0450405\/\">Cirque du Freak: The Vampire&#8217;s Assistant<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>A related word (and a very common word on the GRE) is <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/raze\">raze<\/A>, which is exactly what a <i>razor<\/i> does.  <i>Raze<\/i> can mean &#8220;shave or scrape off,&#8221; but isn&#8217;t only about hair: you can <i>raze<\/i> a building by demolishing it or leveling it to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Try this GRE Analogies problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RAZE : HIRSUTE ::<br \/>\nA. galvanize : hard<br \/>\nB. macerate : solid<br \/>\nC. vulcanize : placid<br \/>\nD. desiccate : arid<br \/>\nE. extirpate : homogeneous<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The linking sentence is &#8220;To <i>raze<\/i> is to make less <i>hirsute<\/i>.&#8221;  There are some attractive trap answers here: to <i>galvanize<\/i> is to make more hard, not less.  To <i>vulcanize<\/i> is actually to make stronger, usually by making (rubber) more pliable.  To <i>desiccate<\/i> is to make more arid (sort of &#8212; desiccate is used more for things like dried foods, whereas arid also means dry, but is used to refer more to climate).  To <i>extirpate<\/i> is to exterminate, so the words in E are completely unrelated.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is B.  To <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/macerate\">macerate<\/A> is to soften or separate into parts, and hence to make less solid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know what&#8217;s not a good name for a hair salon? Hirsute, which means hairy or shaggy and typically refers to body hair. Hirsutism is the medical condition of excessive growth of hair of normal or abnormal distribution, especially in women. Above: Salma Hayek in Cirque du Freak: The Vampire&#8217;s Assistant. A related word (and [&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-1416","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\/1416","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=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7319,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/7319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}