{"id":674,"date":"2010-08-25T06:54:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T11:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=674"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:53:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:53:02","slug":"three-letter-words-ire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/three-letter-words-ire\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Letter Words: Ire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"definition\"Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive. Who doesn’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>. A few of them might make you want to deploy some four-letter words.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ire<\/A> means “anger or wrath” and comes from the same root as irascible<\/A> and irate<\/A>. To raise someone’s ire<\/i> is to anger that person.<\/p>\n

If it’s helpful as a mnemonic<\/A>, you could remember ire<\/i> by imagining a very angry man named Ira, or by imagining that everyone in Ireland is angry, although we certainly wouldn’t want to stereotype men named Ira, or the Irish, and certainly not Irish men named Ira.<\/p>\n

Reading the above paragraph about ire<\/i> would likely make an Irishman named Ira quite irate. No one wants to raise the ire of an irascible Irish Ira.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Try a sample Analogies problem:<\/p>\n

MOLLIFY : IRE ::
\nA.\tsocialize : apathy
\nB.\trattle : equanimity
\nC.\tantagonize : desire
\nD.\tquarantine : happiness
\nE.\tsilence : bombast\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Choose your own answer, then click “more\u009d for the solution.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

To mollify<\/A> is to pacify or appease. A good strategy for Analogies problems is to write your own linking sentence before viewing the choices. You might have something like “to ______ is to reduce someone else’s _______.” It will be important here that mollify<\/i> is something a person does to someone else<\/i>.<\/p>\n

A.\tTo socialize is not to reduce someone’s apathy.<\/p>\n

B.\tTo rattle<\/A> someone is to disconcert, disturb, or confuse that person. Equanimity<\/A> is calmness. To rattle someone is to reduce his or her equanimity. This is our answer.<\/p>\n

C.\tAntagonize and desire have no definitional relationship to one another.<\/p>\n

D.\tQuarantine and happiness have no definitional relationship to one another.<\/p>\n

E.\tYou can silence<\/i> someone else, and that would have the effect of depriving that person of speech (bombast<\/A> is pretentious speech), but the two words have no definitional relationship.<\/p>\n

The answer is B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive. Who doesn’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. Ire […]<\/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":[324],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-vocabulary","tag-three-letter-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7374,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions\/7374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}