GRE Words with Second Meanings - GRE Vocabulary Wednesday

For this week's GRE Vocabulary Wednesday we'll be covering a set of GRE vocabulary words that have double meanings. In this 4-minute video, our GRE expert Chris Lele will go over six tricky GRE vocabulary words whose multiple definitions could trip you up on the test. Chris will explain both meanings of each word, and how you can identify the correct definition based on context clues!

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00:00 - Chris introduces Vocabulary Wednesday
00:17 - Maintain
00:44 - Check
01:15 - Qualify
01:55 - Wanting
02:25 - Flag
02:47 - Appropriate

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[swatishrimali]

Maintain - Assert
Check - Limit
Qualify - To take a statement and restrict the extent of it
Wanting - Lacking in the necessary or required quality
Flag - Tired, Fatigued
Appropriate - Take something that is not yours

[Starlightnight]

Thanks Chris for making vocab learning so much fun and easy

[streamyoutub]

Best way to learn those plethora of gre words. Hats off to your enthusiasm Chris! 🍻

[khalood]

I am going to appropriate the vocabulary on your head. Thanks Chris

[kunalambat]

The way of explaining it understand easly thank you

[uttonio]

1. maintain (v):
- Common meaning: to continue to have, to keep in existence.
~ You have to maintain a minimum balance in your checking account dear.

- affirm, assert, to express firmly that sth is true.
~ Senior accountants at the firm maintained that they knew nothing of the transactions.

2. check (v):
- check sth: to control sth.
~ She tied some strips of cloth around the wound to check the bleeding.

- keep sb/sth in check: control sb/sth.
~ However choleric you are, you must be able to keep your emotions in check when meeting him.

3. qualify (v): to add sth to a previous statement so that its meaning is less strong or less general.
~ I want to qualify what I said earlier - I didn't mean that you would fail in the GRE, only that you should have adequate preparation for the GRE.

4. wanting (adj):
- lacking sth.
~ The more I learn for the GRE, the more I realize how wanting I am in English vocabulary.

- not good enough.
~ Your paper was wanting in many respects. First off, you need a highly corroborated theory.

5. flag (v): to become tired, weaker or less enthusiastic.
~ After waving the flag for more than 2 hours, I started to flag.
~ His slow response as the leader of a nation pulled down an economy already flagging because of the Corona virus.

6. appropriate (v):
- to take sth for your own use, esp illegally or without permission.
~ I never appropriate my loved ones' food.
~ He appropriated a considerable amount of my company's money 5 years ago and got away with it. Now he is permanently bed-ridden. Karma is a bitch you know.

- devote money, assets to a special purpose.
~ Jeff Bezos has recently appropriated 10 billion dollars for research into saving the Earth's environment. What a great man!

[arstatus]

Thank you for this video. I'm very happy. Awesome

[beyzanuryldrmylmaz]

I had a bit of problem understanding "qualify" too but thanks for the videos, I learn a lot!

[priur]

Thank you for this video 😊 I was just wondering today how can “check and flag” have another meaning.... thanks for introducing other words

[MegaNatasha]

My God the energy shook me !! Btw I didn't understand qualify !?!?

[whattoexpect]

I want to qualify the conditions so that it is more beneficial to me.

[whattoexpect]

My attention is flagging as I study more and more vocabularies.

[whattoexpect]

Make sure to check (limit) the number of people entering this gate by 100 people for an hour.

[whattoexpect]

I maintain confidently that democracy is better than communism.