{"id":667,"date":"2010-08-16T06:04:33","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T11:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:53:05","slug":"three-letter-words-pan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/three-letter-words-pan\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Letter Words: Pan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/06\/definition-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"Text book word close-up\" 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>Pan?  Today&#8217;s word is <i>pan<\/i>?  Yep.  Dictionary.com gives no fewer than eighteen definitions of the word <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/pan\">pan<\/A>, many of them describing different types of containers.  However, if you saw an Antonyms or Analogies problem and scanned the answers to discover that <i>pan<\/i> were being used as a verb, you&#8217;d want to know that the word can mean &#8220;criticize severely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Pan<\/i> is often used, in both noun and verb form, in reference to reviews of artistic performances:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The movie was so bad, even &#8220;Stoners Monthly&#8221; <i>panned<\/i> it as a waste of time.<\/p>\n<p>Her debut film, &#8220;Sisterhood of the Contagious Acne,&#8221; received far more <i>pans<\/i> than plaudits, but of course the distributors picked out the few good quotes for the DVD box.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Try a sample Antonyms problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PAN :<br \/>\nA.\tlaud<br \/>\nB.\tdeplore<br \/>\nC.\timplore<br \/>\nD.\tconsole<br \/>\nE.\true\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Choose your own answer, then click &#8220;more\u009d for the solution.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>To <i>pan<\/i> is to criticize severely.  A good strategy for Antonyms problems is to write your own antonym before viewing the choices.  You might have something like <i>praise<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>A.\t<i>Laud<\/i> means praise.  (Note the same root as in &#8220;applaud.&#8221;)  This is our answer.<br \/>\nB.\t<i>Deplore<\/i> means regret, lament.\u009d  This is on the wrong side.<br \/>\nC.\t<i>Implore<\/i> means beg, beseech.\u009d<br \/>\nD.\t<i>Console<\/i> means &#8220;comfort.&#8221;  You might console someone after his or her play is panned, but console is not the opposite of pan.<br \/>\nE.\t<i>Rue<\/i> means &#8220;regret.&#8221;  You might rue the day you ever invested in &#8220;Sisterhood of the Contagious Acne,&#8221; but <i>rue<\/i> is not an antonym for <i>pan<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The answer is A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive. 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