{"id":990,"date":"2010-09-07T06:19:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T11:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=990"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:58","slug":"visual-dictionary-lithe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/visual-dictionary-lithe\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Dictionary: Lithe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Visual Dictionary<\/a>, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nThis woman is quite lithe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You could also say she is limber<\/a> or lissome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

There are more words for flexible that you wouldn’t typically use to describe an entire person. For instance, supple<\/a> (commonly used to describe skin or leather) and plastic<\/a> (the point of plastic<\/em> surgery is that it bends and reshapes parts of the body).<\/p>\n

The words pliant<\/a> and malleable<\/a> can physically describe something like clay, or can metaphorically describe someone who bends to the will of others, a pushover.<\/p>\n

Try this Sentence Completion problem:<\/p>\n

Although they were twins, they couldn’t have been more different: she was a ________ ballerina, and he was a ________ but gentle giant who often broke things unintentionally.<\/p>\n

A. lithe … ratiocinating
\nB. lissome … sashaying
\nC. flexible … craven
\nD. supple … tyrannical
\nE. limber … lumbering\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nIn the second blank, we are looking for something on the opposite side of “ballerina,” and which also fits with a “giant” who often breaks things. The answer is E; she is limber<\/em>, he is lumbering<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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