{"id":2211,"date":"2011-08-02T08:35:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T12:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=2211"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:21","slug":"popvocab-lets-learn-vocab-from-the-dalai-lamas-twitter-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/popvocab-lets-learn-vocab-from-the-dalai-lamas-twitter-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"PopVocab: Let’s Learn Vocab from the Dalai Lama’s Twitter Feed!"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can follow the Dalai Lama on Twitter here<\/a>, although we doubt he writes the posts himself. Let’s see some of his pithy<\/a> remarks.<\/p>\n

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Altruism<\/a> is “unselfish concern for the welfare of others; selflessness.”<\/p>\n

Mundane<\/a> means “of the world, secular” or “ordinary, concerned with commonplaces.” A synonym is quotidian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Equanimity<\/a> means “the quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure.” It comes from the Latin “aequus” for “even” and “animus” for “mind.”<\/p>\n

Did you know that animus<\/a> (the same root in animation<\/i>) is actually a word in its own right? Animus<\/a> means “an attitude that informs one’s actions,” or “a feeling of animosity; ill will,” as in, “He couldn’t get over his animus<\/i> enough to work for his old childhood nemesis.”<\/p>\n

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Forbearance<\/a> means “Tolerance and restraint in the face of provocation; patience.” And if you’ve gotten in trouble with your student loans, you know it also means “The act of a creditor who refrains from enforcing a debt when it falls due.”<\/p>\n

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Impartial<\/a> means “fair, unbiased, not prejudiced.”<\/p>\n

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This Tweet didn’t use any GRE-style vocabulary words, but it did remind me of one: syncretism<\/a>, the “reconciliation or fusion of differing systems of belief, as in philosophy or religion, especially when success is partial or the result is heterogeneous.”<\/p>\n

Feeling enlightened yet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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