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Vocabulary

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Words

ANGRY AVOID / DODGE AWKWARD / UNSKILLED

Enrage

Relation to Group

very angry (degree) (syn) Form: v Tone: negative

To fume is to feel or express great anger. You would fume if your teacher accused you of cheating when you didn't.

Mnemonic: In cartoons, when a character is fuming, it is often drawn with Fumes coming out of its ears. Example: She sat in the car, silently fuming at the traffic jam.

angry and sullen look on face (effect) Form: v Tone: negative

If you see someone glower at you, you might consider glowering back, but no one likes an angry staring contest. To glower is not only to stare, it's to stare angrily, as if you're going to throttle someone.

Mnemonic: Glower sounds like Lower. when someone LOWERS you in front of others, you tend to stare ANGRILY at them. Example: Bright confident morning has been replaced by a Glowering twilight

make someone angry (syn) Form: v Tone: negative

If your new college roommate burns incense in your tiny dorm room, you might get incensed and storm out.

Mnemonic: Incense sounds like insensible. Insensible people infuriate(Incense) me. Example: Incensed, Mr. John demanded on national television that Ms. Rihana be given a 30-year prison sentence. Root: the prefix Inmeans NOT

Different things infuriate different people: whatever makes you angry, mad, or ticked off infuriates you.

Mnemonic: The word can be related to Fury or anger. Example: Her silence Infuriated him even more.

On the anger scale, first comes annoyed, then cross, then furious, then irate. When cartoon characters are irate smoke comes out of their ears.

Mnemonic: IRATE rhymes with "eye red". When does your eye become red? When you are ANGRY.

BEGINNING

DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS

Fume

HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning)

Glower

TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD)

Mnemonic/Example

put into a rage; make violently Mnemonic: Enrage angry is another word for RAGE (anger). Example: She was Enraged at his stupidity. Root: the prefix Enmeans IN

BE SLOW / WASTE TIME BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD

Meaning

to make someone angry (syn) Form: v Tone: negative

Incense

to make someone angry (syn) Form: v Infuriate Tone: negative

very angry Form: adj Tone: negative

Example: When cartoon characters are IRATE smoke comes out of their ears. Use this word only when someone is so mad that they scare you.

IRATE

anger Form: n Tone: negative

Ire is another word for "anger."

Mnemonic: IRE sounds like FIRE. Anger emits fIRE like burning emotions visible in action and speech. Example: If you routinely steal your neighbor's newspaper, don't be surprised to be on the receiving end of his IRE.

furiously angry (syn) Form: adj Tone: negative

If you're livid, you're furious, in a black cloud of anger.

Mnemonic: Livid sounds like LIVE+VIDEO: The officer was ENRAGED WITH ANGER when he was caught taking bribe on LIVE VIDEO Example: Dad will be Livid when he finds out.

Extreme anger (syn) Form: adj Tone: negative

Chances are that if the tailwagging dog that just appeared on your doorstep is also foaming at the mouth and chewing on your welcome mat, it's rabid and you should back away slowly; no petting for this infectious pup.

Mnemonic: Rabid can be remembered in this manner: rabbit is extremely zealous/enthusiastic about carrots, and gets angry if you try to snatch it from him. Example: She is as Rabidly anti-smoking as only a recently cured addict can be.

extreme but unexpected anger (syn) Form: v Tone: negative

If a liquid seethes, it is boiling, but if it's a person who's seething, watch out! He or she is really angry!

Mnemonic: Seethe(SITA)..when Ravan took Sita to Lanka, Lord Ram BOILED with anger and was DISTURBED. Example: He marched off, seething with frustration.

suppressed anger or hatred(lesser degree) (syn) Form: v Tone: negative

When a fire is barely burning, it's smoldering. Fires can smolder for days without anyone's knowing, then burst into a conflagration that gets the fire department sirens wailing all over town.

Mnemonic: smol + der -'smol'........small 'der'.... fear (in hindi)... that is, while handling small things the fear is they might break down. Example: He was Smoldering with rage when he learned that his orders were not followed.

IRE

Livid

Rabid

Seethe

Smolder

great anger leading to revenge (effect) Form: n Tone: negative

wrath is great anger that expresses itself in a desire to punish someone: Noah saw the flood as a sign of the wrath of God.

Wrath

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Mnemonic: Remember rath(s) means chariots in mahabharata. When kings were angry and furious, they used to come on their rath(s) to fight. Example: Sandyâ €™s )hurricane) Wrath will peak Monday night, but chances are the effects will be felt long after.

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Vocabulary

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Words


Avert

BE SLOW / WASTE TIME BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

prevent something from happening (manner) Form: v Tone: pos

To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster - either way, you are avoiding something.

Mnemonic: sounds like DIVERT, and that is the meaning. Example: He did his best to Avert suspicion.

avoid to overcome problem (cause) Form: v Tone: pos

To circumvent is to avoid. Someone who trains elephants but somehow gets out of picking up after them has found a way to circumvent the cleaning of the circus tent.

Mnemonic: circle + prevent - to form a CIRCLE or a boundary around the target so as to OUTSMART your opponent, like Abhimanyu did Example: They found a way of Circumventing the law. Root: The prefix CIRCUM- means AROUND

to deviate (cause) Form: v Tone: neut

The verb deflect describes blocking something or changing its course. Hockey goalies deflect the flying puck with their sticks or blockers, making it travel in a different direction, preferably to a teammate's stick.

Mnemonic: Deflect sounds like Defect. And anything Defective is avoided and not used. Example: All attempts to Deflect attention from his private life have failed. Root: The refix DEmeans AWAY.

escape in a cunning manner. (manner) Form: v Tone: neg

Elude means evade, or be hard to grasp. "Tom eluded his captors by hiding under a table. Asha tried to understand chemistry, but the subject continued to elude her."

Example: The two men managed to Elude the police for six weeks.

escape or avoid using tricks (syn) Form: v Tone: pos

When you evade something, you escape it. You could evade a police chase by slipping into a secret alley, or you could evade your mother's questions about the missing cookies by slipping into another topic.

Mnemonic: Evade rhymes with AVOID Example: For two weeks they Evaded the press.

done in a hurry (opposite) Form: adj,adv

Headlong describes something done headfirst, rashly, or really quickly. If you're the star batter on your baseball team, it's expected that you'll make a

Mnemonic: Sounds like headstrong.i.e. adamant or unthinkably daring (person who is very strongheaded)

DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS

Circumvent

HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART

Deflect

TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD)

Elude

Evade

Headlong

headlong dive for the base.

Parry

avoid a question or When you parry, you avoid blow. doing things. As the needy Form: v friend approaches, say, "I Tone: pos wish I had time to catch up!" and hurry off. Or, hide under a table.

Mnemonic: sounds like "Harry" Potter who wards off all the difficulties of people Example: He parried a blow to his head.

neglect or avoid (syn) Form: v Tone: neg

To shirk your responsibilities is to avoid dealing with them - like when you watch four consecutive hours of infomercials instead of facing your homework.

Mnemonic: Remember Shrek? He used to avoid work or responsibilities as he was fat and was not able to do so. Example: Discipline in the company was strict and no one Shirked.

divert (syn) Form: v Tone: neg

move to a less important place or position.

Mnemonic: what happens when current is Shunted, it diverts (electronics term) Example: John was Shunted sideways to a job in sales.

avoiding an issue (type of) Form: v Tone: neg

avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)

Example: She Skirted the problem.

changing directions suddenly (cause) Form: v Tone: neut

The noun swerve means a sudden turn off your path. As a verb, it means to move off your original route, possibly to avoid a collision. You can swerve either toward something or away from it.

Mnemonic: Swerve rhymes with SERVE, in tennis the best SERVE, SwerveS, i.e. abruptly turns and puzzles the opponent. Example: The bus suddenly Swerved into his path.

Shirk

Shunt

Skirt

Swerve

Example: The government is taking care not to rush Headlong into another controversy.

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Vocabulary

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Words

ANGRY AVOID / DODGE AWKWARD / UNSKILLED BE SLOW / WASTE TIME BEGINNING

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

ineffective, weak (syn) Form: v Tone: neg

If a newspaper editorial describes a politician as feckless, you might wonder, "What is feck, and why doesn't he have any?" In fact, the columnist is accusing the politician of being irresponsible and incompetent.

Mnemonic: The "feck" in Feckless began as a short form of effect. So Feckless essentially means ineffective. Can be remembered as Effectless Example: She had lost the Fecklessness of youth and settled down.

nervous or clumsy way of handling things (syn) Form: v,n Tone: neg

If you're a football fan you know all about the agony of the fumble - the clumsy handling of the ball that makes you drop it or lose possession.

Mnemonic: Fumble is like tumble. Example: He Fumbled with the buttons on his shirt.

unsophisticated (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the word gauche when you want to call something tacky, graceless, tactless, rude, boorish, or awkward and foolish. Have you just pointed out someone's misuse of this word? Oh dear, how gauche!

Mnemonic: Gauche sounds the Hindi word Ghochu used for a clumsy and awkward person. Example: She was too Gauche to leave the room when the conversation became intimate.

having no skills.(syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

A clumsy, incompetent person - or an ineffective action - is inept. When you're inept, you don't know what you're doing or just can't get it done.

Mnemonic: IN (not) + EPT (like apt ; which means suitable) -not suitable Example: She was left feeling Inept and inadequate. Root: The Prefix IN means NOT

not efficient (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

If you are clumsy, you are maladroit. But the word can mean all kinds of clumsy. Trip over your words? You are verbally maladroit. Stumble in social situations? You're socially maladroit.

Mnemonic: Mal means BAD and Adroit means SKILLFUL. So a person is not skillful at doing anything is rather a Maladroit. Example: Both parties are unhappy about the Maladroit handling of the whole affair. Root: The prefix MAL means BAD

awkward (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Ungainly is the opposite of graceful, convenient or easy. A clumsy dancer boogies in an ungainly or awkward

Mnemonic: un(means NOT) + GAINly...a model who LACKS GRACE IN HER

Feckless

BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS

Fumble

HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED

Gauche

SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL

Inept

VERY TALENTED (CHILD)

Maladroit

fashion. Ungainly

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MOVEMENT OR IF SHE WALKS IN AN AWKWARD manner on the ramp, will NOT GAIN popularity. Example: He was a tall, Ungainly boy of 18.

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Vocabulary

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Words

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

move slowly (action) Form: v Tone: neg

Dally means â€œto waste time.â€ When you dally, you will cause a delay because of your dawdling.

Mnemonic: Dally sounds like delay. lazy people delay work. Example: Despite our best intentions of not Dallying, it's hard to pass up the chance to check out a sunrise like this at the end of our morning ride.

slow, wastes time (syn) Form: v Tone: neg

There are lots of words that mean to move slowly. The point of dawdle is that one is moving too slowly, is falling behind, or is not properly focused on making progress.

Mnemonic: Dawdle is somewhat similar to idle. Example: Stop dawdling! We're going to be late!

causing delay intentionally (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Something dilatory creates a delay. If you are a high school student, once in a while you might have used dilatory tactics if you forgot to do your homework.

Mnemonic: Extract 'late' from the word Dilatory and you get.... delay which is generally due to waste of time. Example: The government has been Dilatory in dealing with the problem of unemployment.

wasting time having failed to decide (effect) Form: v Tone: neg

postpone doing what one should be doing

Mnemonic: Dilly and Dally sounds like DELAY. Example: Don't dillydally on the way home from school.

slow progress and lagging behing (effect) Form: n Laggard Tone: neg

Hey pokey! Yeah you, Mr. Slow Pants. Quit your dawdling! This is no time to be a laggard, or someone who's always lagging behind.

Mnemonic: concentrate on lag, one who always lag behind the others means slow and sluggish. Example: Laggards are the ones still using fax machines instead of email.

stay in a place for a longer span because you donâ €™t want to leave Form: v Tone: neg

When someone lingers, he or she takes an unexpectedly long time to depart, as Romeo lingers when bidding Juliet farewell (or as annoying houseguests almost always tend to do).

Mnemonic: Linger--Ginger... the taste of ginger is still present in my tongue although its slowly leaving Example: Furthermore there are Lingering questions as to why the U.S. has focused on chemical weapons in particular.

ANGRY AVOID / DODGE AWKWARD / UNSKILLED BE SLOW / WASTE TIME

Relation to Group

Dally

BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS

Dawdle

HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED

Dilatory

SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT

Dilly Dally

UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD)

Linger

to fake illness in order to avoid duty or work (cause) Form: v Malinger Tone: neg

When you malinger, you pretend to be sick. If you ever claimed to have a stomach ache in order to stay home from school, you know what it means to malinger.

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Mnemonic: MAL(bad)+LINGER(stay in a place longer than necessary)...when you linger on the ramp badly you Malinger Example: She lingered for a few minutes to talk to Nick.

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Vocabulary

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Words

ANGRY AVOID / DODGE AWKWARD / UNSKILLED BE SLOW / WASTE TIME BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning)

ONSET

Relation to Group the beginning of something, especially something unpleasant Form: n Tone: neg

at/from the beginning of something OUTSET Form: n Tone: neutral

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

When something is at its onset, it's at the beginning, just getting started, and it's often something that's not so pleasant. The onset of hurricane season is probably not the best time to visit the beach.

Mnemonic: On + Set in action Example: Diagnostic errors are even more common in early ONSET Alzheimer's, where patients often wait several years for a correct diagnosis.

the time at which something is supposed to begin

Mnemonic: Set out to do your work right NOW Example: I made it clear right from the OUTSET that I disapproved.

the act of leaving a If you want to leave a place, place you need a means of egress, or Form: noun a way to exit, such as a door Tone: neg/ neut or window. It was a beautiful X old house, but without enough EGRESS ways of egress, they needed outdoor fire-stairs for reaching the upper floors.

TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Legends: X

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Mnemonic: gress- to go; digress-to stray; egress- to go out; ingress- to go in and regress is to return to a former state Example: doorways intended for egress only

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# Tepid#(warm)

Relation to Group

Meaning slightly warm

Mnemonic: te(tea) and pid(dip):you can dip your hand into tea only when it is lukewarm Example: The mushrooms develop more flavor if you use the slower method of soaking them in tepid water for six hours or overnight.

very hot or highly changed emotion (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

If youâ€™re having a torrid romance, that means it's steamy and emotionally charged. If youâ€™re listening to a torrid band, then youâ €™re listening to a band that has a lot of energy.

Mnemonic: torturously arid or hot & arid=torrid Example: Yet watching him, even on such a torrid shooting night, always leaves a lukewarm feeling.

Fire that destroys (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

A conflgaration isn't just a few flames; it's an especially large and destructive fire that causes devastation.

Mnemonic: Flagration sounds like flare which means fire, so big fire. Example: The conflgaration destroyed property worth millions. Root: The prefix Conmeans together

very cold (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Like the North Pole on the coldest day of winter, frigid is an adjective that means extremely chilly. It applies to both temperatures and personalities.

Mnemonic: Frigidconcentrate on fridge which is cold Example: There was a Frigid atmosphere in the room.

icy cold and Unemotional (syn and effect) Form: adj Tone: neg

Things that are glacial are super cold. A place can be glacial - like the South Pole - but a person can be glacial, too, like that unfriendly girl who gave you a glacial stare.

Mnemonic: Ice+Glass-Glass+ice Example: the Glacial wind whipped her skin blue.

injure with hot liquid (effect) Form: v Tone: negative

You could scald yourself if your bathwater is too hot. To scald something is to burn it with hot liquid. However, if a recipe tells you to â €œscald the milk,â€ it means to heat it to the

Mnemonic: Scald sounds like bald - he became bald because his scalp got burnt in hot water. Example: Be careful not to Scald yourself with the steam.

BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE

torrid

INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning)

Conflagration

TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL

Frigid


Glacial

Scald

Mnemonic/Example

Warm or unenthusiastic (Degree) Form: adj Tone: neg

moment just before it boils. burn Form: v.adj Tone: negative

injure or harm, especially by fire.

Mnemonic: When you Skate you damage (Scathe) the ICE beneath Example: Her sensitive skin got Scathed because of excessive heat.

Burn (syn) Form: v Tone: neg

To scorch is to burn something fiercely, to the point where its surface - your face, prairie grass, a steak on the grill - chars or otherwise changes color.

Mnemonic: Think of Scorch as Torch.Torch is used by people who work in mines.And these people have to face extreme heat and because they are in mine(e.g.coal mine)their face turns black. Example: I Scorched my dress when I was ironing it.

intense heat (nature or kind of heat) Form: v Tone: neg

To sear something is to quickly cook or burn its surface by applying intense heat. When making beef stew, the color and flavor are usually better if you sear the meat first.

Mnemonic: Sear rhymes with TEAR. When you BURN your hand you are in tears. Example: The heat of the sun Seared their faces.

burn lightly (syn) Form: v Tone: negative or neutral

burn superficially or lightly

Mnemonic: Singeremove 'n' from the word, we will be left with sige- like cige, a cigarette BURNS Example: He Singed his hair as he tried to light his cigarette.

Scathe

Scorch

Sear

Singe

Swelter

hot and To swelter is to be hot uncomfortable (syn - very, very hot, like on and effect) a humid, ninety-degree Form: v day. To swelter is to Tone: neg feel like you're in an oven.

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Mnemonic: If you put on a SWEATER in the heat, then you will get WET with SWEAT and will suffer from oppresive heat. Example: Passengers Sweltered in temperatures of over 90Â°F.

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Words

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

intellectual or brainy (syn) Form: adj Cerebral Tone: pos

If you are a cerebral person, no one would ever call you a drama queen. You make decisions using your intelligence and cold, hard facts, instead of your emotions.

Mnemonic: sounds like cereBRAINal Example: The content of philosophical works is Cerebral in nature and requires much thought.

one who gives or renders moral lessons and instructions(syn) Form: adj Didactic Tone: pos

When people are didactic, they're teaching or instructing. This word is often used negatively for when someone is acting too much like a teacher.

Mnemonic: Sounds like didi (sister) who always acts in a way like she is teaching something...''didi-act'ic Example: The poet's works became increasingly Didactic after his religious conversion

showing great knowledge(syn) Form: adj Tone: pos

If you call someone erudite, that means they show great learning. After you've earned your second Ph.D., you will be truly erudite.

Mnemonic: e+RUD(RUDE)+IT+enow just concentrate on RUDE IT....NOW THINK OF rude IT PROFESSIONAL WHO IS BASICALLY CONSIDERED AS A LEARNED man..or scholarly Example: She could turn any conversation into an Erudite discussion.

very concerned with academic learning (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos

There's nothing wrong with focusing on the details, but someone who is pedantic makes a big display of knowing obscure facts and details.

Mnemonic: Can you smell the word 'PANDIT'( "Scholar" in English) from "Pedantic"? PANDIT's are usually very strict about the bookish stuff. Example: A Pedantic insistence on the correct way of doing things

an expert (syn) Form: n Tone: pos

Beware of the pundit, a supposed expert who imparts deep knowledge to us more ignorant folks. pundits are often blowhards, mere hacks, and you might well want to take what they say with a pinch of salt.

Mnemonic: A pandit is a scholar. Example: Political Pundits in the United States predicted a historic win for Barack Obama in the 2008 US Elections.

BE SLOW / WASTE TIME BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning)

Erudite

TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Pedantic

Pundit

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Words

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

very skilled and professional (Syn for skillful) Form: adj Tone: pos

Are you looking for another word to describe a person who is highly skilled, very proficient or expert at something? Try the adjective adept!

Mnemonic: Adept is close to adapt so an Adept batsman like sachin adapt himself quickly on any kind of pitch. Example: He became Adept at getting even the shyest students to talk.

Adroit

Skilled at using hands and mind (syn for skillful) Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone who is adroit is clever and skillful. An adroit leader will be able to persuade people to go with his ideas. An adroit sculptor can turn a lump of clay into an object of great beauty.

Mnemonic: Adroit sounds like Androids, a mix of human and machine, hence they are more dexterous than humans. Example: I want to become an Adroit guitarist

Agile

moves quickly and easily (syn for flexible) Form: adj Tone: pos

On water skis she was agile and made sharp turns and long arcs cutting through the water, but she was a lot less agile on the snowboard, landing on her face and hands as she clunked down the slopes.

Mnemonic: When we are in good age we'll be quick Example: He had the agility of a man half his age.

Natural ability Form: adj Tone: pos

An aptitude is something you're good at. A rock star might have an aptitude for energizing an audience, or for trashing his hotel room.

Mnemonic: remember this word from various "Aptitude tests" which check talent or IQ etc Example: She showed a natural Aptitude for the work.

to finish something in the perfect or best manner (syn) Form: v,adj Tone: pos

If a restaurant is a consummate example of fine dining, you might say there's nothing more to say about fine dining that what this restaurant represents. consummate means complete or finished.

Mnemonic: con+summit(the highest point of something), and now imagine a person who has reached the highest point of perfection,is truly a complete man. Example: She was a Consummate performer. Root: The prefix CON either means with or together.


Adept

Relation to Group

BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL

Aptitude


Consummate

Deft

skillful and Clever (syn for skillful) Form: adj Tone: pos

deft means "showing cleverness and skill in handling things." What you want to see in football or basketball is some deft handling of the ball.

Mnemonic: Ravi shastri say for Sachin's backside's delicate touch as 'Deft touch by Sachin' Example: He finished off the painting with a few Deft strokes of the brush.

Skilled at using hands (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos

If you're dexterous, you're good with your hands. To be dexterous is an essential trait for knitters and sleight-ofhand magicians.

Mnemonic: dexter, a cartoon character is someone ,who is very skillfull and uses his hands and minds in a very skillfull manner. Example: Paul Frazier was quietly Dexterous on bass guitar.

Flexible (a body part) (Syn) Form: adj Tone: pos

Can you dance the hula? Get into crazy yoga positions, or touch your toes? Then you're limber, meaning your body is pretty flexible and able to bend well.

Mnemonic: Limberit sounds like CLimber.. a CLimber is FLEXIBLE Example: The violist Limbered her wrists before the concert

Supple and graceful (Syn for flexible) Form: adj Tone: pos

Have you ever seen people who can bend so easily, they can touch their heels to the back of their heads? That person is, in a word, lithe.

Mnemonic: Lithe Sounds like "light" and something which is light in weight can easily be moved and bended. Example: the Lithe body of a dancer.

quick and light in action (Syn for flexible) Form: adj Tone: pos

If you're nimble, you can move quickly and with ease. That spryness can be both physical and mental, so even if your granny isn't very nimble on her feet, she can probably still whip you in chess.

Mnemonic: Nimble..sounds like nimbu(lemon)..when a lemon falls on the floor it rolls quickly..sure this helps you in understanding the meaning quickly...ie in being Nimble Example: You need Nimble fingers for that job.

able to do something well because of training and practice Form: adj Tone: pos

When someone has become good at something, they are Proficient. After all those hours playing video games, you must be very Proficient at them.

Mnemonic: A Proficient person is EFFICIENT at the job he/she does Example: With practice, you should become Proficient within six months.

skilled and expert (syn) Form: n Tone: pos

prowess means exceptional skill or ability. Your sailing prowess might save your life in a storm, while someone with less experience might make mistakes.

Mnemonic: Prowess sounds like POWERS Example: He was complimented on his Prowess as an oarsman.

bending, moving easily (syn for flexible) Form: adj

Something or someone that is supple bends and moves easily, like a contortionist at a circus

Mnemonic: Playing cards can be SHUFFLED because they are Supple

Dexterous

Limber

Lithe

Nimble

Proficient

Prowess

Supple

Tone: pos

sideshow. If you can wrap Example: These your legs around your exercises will help to neck, you most likely keep you Supple. have a supple body.

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Words

Relation to Group

Byzantine

highly complicated (syn) Form: adj Tone: Neg

highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious

Mnemonic: Recall the chemistry where we studied Benzene which is complex in structure. Example: This is an organization of Byzantine complexity

Circuitous

longer path, roundabout ( kind, nature) Form: adj Tone: Neg

Circuitous means indirect or roundabout. If you're in a hurry to get to the hospital where your wife is having a baby, you want to take the straightest, fastest way, not a circuitous one!

Mnemonic: circ(circle)tous(tour) circle+tour=round about path. which isn't straight Example: He took us on a Circuitous route to the hotel.

Twisted extremely difficult to follow (syn) Form: adj Convoluted Tone: Neg

If something is convoluted, it's intricate and hard to understand. You'll need to read over your brother's convoluted investment scheme a few times before deciding whether or not to go in on it.

Mnemonic: Breaking into a VAULT is COMPLICATED (Convoluted) Example: She could not follow his Convoluted discourse.

connect and link (Syn) Form: v Tone: Neg

Things that intertwine are twisted or mixed together. You have to intertwine yarn to make a scarf.

Mnemonic: Intertwine sounds like In-Turbine. So remember it as: In Turbine, turbine SPINs while exerting pressure of water flow or WIND,and converts mechanical energy into electrical(electricity). Example: Their political careers had become closely Intertwined. Root: the Prefix Inter means -in between.

proceed aimlessly (effect) Form: v Tone: Neg

follow a winding course. Mnemonic: Pronounce it like 'wander'; they are synonymous. Example: The stream Meanders slowly down to the river.

having curves and turns (Syn) Form: adj Tone: Neg

Sinuous means winding or curvy. If you get lost on a sinuous mountain path, you'll need a compass or a GPS to figure out which direction leads back to camp.


Meaning

BE SLOW / WASTE TIME BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL

Intertwine


Meander

Sinuous

Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: Sinuous...one who commits sins is NOT MORALLY HONEST but is twisted by nature. Example: One gloriously Sinuous run eight minutes from the interval

made three opponents look as though they were trying to tackle smoke.

Tortuous

twists and turns (Syn) Form: adj Tone: Neg

Tortuous means twisting or complicated. "James Bond drove his custom BMW 120 mph on the road that was tortuous in its twists and turns.

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Mnemonic: A tortoise does not move in straight line. It keeps twisting and turning making the path complicated. Example: A Tortuous road up the mountain

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Aesthetic

Relation to Group

DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL

Appalling

HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION

Mnemonic: aes + thetic opposite of "pathetic"..means beauty Example: The beautiful sculpture was a mirror image of the carver's aethetic values.

shocked (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that is appalling is awful or horrible, causing dismay or disgust. It's definitely not appealing.

Mnemonic: Appalling is something that is not at all Appealing. Example: The brutality of the crime appalled the public.

attractive (opp) Form: adj Tone: pos

Comely means attractive or appropriate. A comely girl is pretty. A comely hairstyle makes you seem prettier maybe than you are. If your manners are comely, it means you know the right way to act to put people at their ease.

Mnemonic: Comelyresembles homely, homely girls are always liked by everyone,as they are attractive and also have a pleasing appearance. Example: The General's lady is a hearty, Comely, discreet, affable woman, some few years older than himself

offensive (syn, manner) Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that is egregious stands out, but not in a good way - it means "really bad or offensive," like a tattoo on a man misspelling his girlfriend's name.

Mnemonic: Egregious is similer to aggressive.Aggressive people are very bad in manner. Example: There are several prime ministers in the past who have committed far more Egregious offenses.

causing horror( syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that's ghastly isn't just gross. It's shockingly, horrifyingly unpleasant - so gruesome and grisly that it makes you want to puke.

Mnemonic: Ghastly sounds like Ghostly, which is equally horrifying. Example: She woke up in the middle of a Ghastly nightmare.

horror (cause ans syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Grisly means disgusting and bloody, absolutely repulsive and horrible. Thereâ€™s a wonderfully creepy movie

Mnemonic: because of too much of GREASE on the road my car met with a

PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED

Comely

SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Egregious

Ghastly

Mnemonic/Example

The adjective aesthetic (also spelled esthetic) comes in handy when subject is beauty or the arts. A velvet painting of dogs playing poker might have minimal aesthetic appeal.

BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD

Meaning

pleasing appearance, artistic beauty (opposite) Form: n,adj Tone: pos

Grisly

Gross

Grotesque

Gruesome

about a man who suffers a grisly death at the hands of the grizzly bears he was studying.

hORRIFIC accident Example: The jurors saw Grisly photos of the crime scene.

vulgar, unattractive (nature) Form: adj Tone: neg

Get ready, because gross has a few different meanings. When something is gross, it's disgusting. The noun, a gross, is the complete amount (before expenses), and the verb "to gross" is to bring in money.

Mnemonic: If you're talking about awful, sickening, vile things such as dissecting an animal or filthy behavior, you're looking at the adjective Gross. Example: â€œHe ate it with mustard.â€ â €œOh, Gross!â€

ugly or unusually unattractive (cause) Form: adj Tone: Neg

Use grotesque to describe things that are very strange and ugly in an unnatural way. If something "grosses you out," you can safely refer to it as grotesque.

Mnemonic: When I GROW TUSK: how do i look: UGLY:abnormal....it is only a fantasy Example: It's Grotesque to expect a person of her experience to work for so little money.

extremely Gothic novels, horror unpleasant (cause) movies, and crime dramas Form: adj don't shy away from Tone: neg showing gruesome scenes of death, pictures that inspire fright and repulsion.

Mnemonic: Gruesome - Sounds like cruelsome, which is self-explainable Example: We spent a week in a Gruesome apartment in Miami.

wicked (nature of crime) Form: adj Tone: neg

A heinous crime is very evil or wicked. Of course, some people only use the term as an exaggeration, claiming that their parents' requirement that they write thank you notes after their birthdays is a heinous form of torture.

Mnemonic: Heinous sounds like hyena (a wild animal) these animals are very cunning & wicked. Example: There were Heinous accusations made against them for involving in child labour and assault.

ugly (cause) Form: adj

Hideous is a word that means extremely ugly. Anything or anybody that is painful - and a little scary â €” to look at is hideous.

Mnemonic: write it like hide+ous.and ous sounds simillar to "us"...and when do we hide ourselves? Its when we see something ugly and unpleasant. Example: Their new color scheme is Hideous!

terribly unpleasant (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Bad luck, an injury, a mistake, an unfortunate outfit, or a crime - anything can be called horrendous if it causes such dread or fear that you can barely even think about it.

Mnemonic: Horrendous sounds like Horrible and Horrifying. Example: The police officer said the attack was the most Horrendous he had ever seen.

horrifying because involved with

The adjective macabre is Mnemonic: Macabre used to describe things that Sounds like

Heinous

Hideous

Horrendous

Macabre

death (nature) Form: adj Tone: neg

involve the horror of death or violence. If a story involves lots of blood and gore, you can call it macabre.

massacre..which means "excessive killing of many people"..and which also represents death Example: The scene of crime was a Macabre sight to behold.

shocking (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Monstrous is an adjective that describes something gross or shocking. It can refer to the size, shape, or general look of something. If your face or body is monstrous, it's misshapen and horrifying to look at.

Mnemonic: Something that is like a MONSTER (huge and ugly) is Monstrous. Example: He is considering launching new courses in New York and sees Latin America as a potentially â €œMonstrousâ€ market.

interest in unpleasant and disturbing subjects (death) (syn) Form: adj Tone: Neg

Morbid is a word used to describe anyone who spends too much time thinking about death or disease.

Mnemonic: Morbid MORTAL (deadly) + BITE (like of an insect) - a deadly bite is unhealthy and disease related. Example: He had a Morbid fascination with blood. Root: The root word MOR/MORT refers to DEATH

ugly (cause) Form: adj Tone: neg

Unsightly is a gentler way of saying ugly. Often something that is described as unsightly sticks out like a sore thumb in an otherwise attractive environment.

Mnemonic: Concentrate on 'sight' which means to see. Unsightly means reluctance or denial to see if it is ugly. Example: The accident site was unslightly.

unpleasant (syn) and (nature) Form: adj Tone: neg

Surely only an evil person could be so vile as to have made you so angry. Vile is something or someone so morally wrong or offensive as to be thoroughly disgusting.

Mnemonic: Rearrange Vile and you will get a synonym for it: EVIL Example: The weather was really Vile most of the time.

Monstrous

Morbid

Unsightly

Vile

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Words


Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

If you get along with someone very well, you have an affinity with them. Sometimes opposites attract, so you might feel a strange affinity to someone who is seemingly very different from you.

Mnemonic: Mathematicians have an Affinity for infinity. Example: Sam was born in the country and had a deep Affinity with nature.

natural talent (syn) If you have a knack or Form: n aptitude for doing Tone: pos something, you can say you have a bent for it. Perhaps you have a bent for woodworking, creating fabulous desserts, or writing poetry, you are good at it.

Mnemonic: Bentsounds like "bend it like beckham" a movie where a girl is determined to prove her natural talent of football Example: Do this exercise with your knees Bent

inclined and special naturally disposed attitude (syn) toward Form: adj Tone: pos

Mnemonic: we always have INCLINATION for having tea/coffee/juice in DISPOSable glass when we are outside Example: I'm not Disposed to argue.

syn Form: adj Tone: pos

If you're inclined to do something, you want to do it, you like doing it, and you may even have an inherent talent for doing it. Alternatively, if the sidewalk outside your house is inclined, that means it slopes upward.

Mnemonic: In (into) cline (cling) to a habit. Example: He did not show the slightest inclination to leave. Root: the prefix IN means into

habituated liking (syn) Form: n Tone: pos

A penchant is a strong preference or tendency. If you have a penchant for pizza, you either eat it daily, or wish you did.

Mnemonic: p+enchant- something that enchants you, you have a strong liking for that. Example: He quit his job as the CEO of a leading company, to satisfy his Penchant for teaching.

a special liking (syn) Form: n Tone: pos

A predilection is a preference for or bias toward something. If you have a predilection for wool

Mnemonic: pre(before)+dialect(local language); you generally become partial when you are taking an

natural liking or sympathy (syn) Form: n Tone: pos Affinity

BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS

Bent

HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning)

Disposed


Inclined


Penchant

clothing, you should take up knitting.

interview for a candidate meet who speaks your language/dialect. Example: An artist with a Predilection for bright colors. Root: the prefix PREmens before

a favorable inclination towards someone (syn) Form: n Tone: pos

A predisposition is a tendency to do something. If you know you have a predisposition toward getting carsick, better to plan ahead and avoid eating before a long drive. Things could get ugly.

Mnemonic: your position (POSITION) is more towards this (DIS) Example: His health graph indicates that many cancers may have a shared underlying genetic Predisposition Root: same as above.

to do something regularly or liking towards something (syn) Form: n Tone: pos

A proclivity is a natural tendency to like something, such as your sister's proclivity for restaurants that serve hot, spicy food.

Mnemonic: pro(forward) + clivity( think of cliff or high slope, prone to slipping towards it), so a strong predispostion/inclination towards something Example: The government's Proclivity for spending money.

natural tendency to behave in a particular way (syn) Form: n Tone: pos

A propensity is a natural tendency to behave in a certain way. We all have propensities - things we tend to do. Dogs have a propensity to bark, and many people have a propensity for getting annoyed by it.

Mnemonic: Now days people are inclined towards "CITY" that is why they are migrating from villages. Example: He showed a Propensity for violence. Root: the Prefix PROmeans for or forward.

Predilection

Predisposition

Proclivity

Propensity

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Augur

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

predicts a bad or good outcome (syn) Form: v,n Tone: Neutral, negative, positive

To augur is to predict, but what's tricky about the word is that it pertains to an object or an event. A black cat is an augur of bad luckâ€“â €“it brings bad luck. Seeing one doesn't augur well for your future.

Mnemonic: Augur-aug+ur -- AUGust indicates(SIGN/WARNS) approaching of winters Example: Conflicts among the various groups do not Augur well for the future of the peace talks. Root: NA

Predict an occurrence, especially weather (syn) Form: v,n Tone: Neutral

A forecast is a prediction of what will happen. If the weather forecast calls for sunny skies, consider leaving your umbrella at home. (But, since forecasts arenâ€™t guaranteed to be right, donâ€™t blame us if you get rained on).

Mnemonic: While often used in the context of weather, Forecast can also be used for other types of predictions such as those related to financial or political outcomes. Example: The Forecast said there would be sunny intervals and showers. Root: the prefix foremeans before

prediction (syn) Form: n Tone: neutral

Use the noun foresight to describe successful planning for the future, like on a cloudy morning having the foresight to bring an umbrella in case of rain showers later in the day.

Mnemonic: The word Foresight is made of two parts: fore, which means "before," and sight, which means "to perceive." Example: She had the Foresight to prepare herself financially in case of an accident. Root: Prefix Fore- means before

predict (syn) Form: v Tone: neutral

to know or say what will happen in the future, especially by using magic powers

Mnemonic: Fore means before and telling about what happened before. Example: The witch foretold that she would marry a prince. Root: the prefix foremeans before

Omen, bad sign or warning (effect) Form: v,n Tone: Neutral/negative

A presage is a sign that something bad is about to happen, like when you get that queasy feeling in your stomach because your mom found out you skipped band practice to go to the movies.

Mnemonic: As a verb, Presage means "making a prediction or giving a warning of what's to come," like a terrible end-of-season football game's outcome game that Presaged the struggles the team faced the next season.

BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE

Forecast

INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT

Foresight


Fortell

Presage

Example: Nothing had Presaged the dreadful fate about to befall him. Root: NA

Prescient

having knowledge of events to take plc (syn) Form: adj Tone: neutral

To be prescient is to have foresight or foreknowledge. We can use this word to describe people themselves, or what they say or do at a given moment.

Mnemonic: prescienceâ€”means prediction, knowledge of events forehand Example: She showed great prescience in selling her shares just before the market crashed. Root: the prefix premeans before

forecast the outcome of some situation (syn) Form: n Tone: Negative

Prognosis concerns people who are so sick they might die. What is their prognosis? It is a word doctors use to talk about the path a disease will take with a person.

Mnemonic: Prognosis = pro+diagnosis, pro= think forward, diagnosis = cause of disease, it means to predict the features of a disease before the disease itself. Example: The Prognosis is for more people to work part-time in the future. Root: NA

Prognosis

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Relation to Group

Meaning Disjointed isnâ€™t when you can bend your thumb all the way backwards - thatâ€™s double-jointed. Disjointed means "unorganized" or "disconnected."

Mnemonic: DIS (not) + JOINTED (connected)...so Disjointed is disconnected or scattered. Example: The novel suffers from a Disjointed plot and pale, insignificant characters. Root: The Prefix DIS- refers to NOT

connecting more than one thing (opp) Form: n Tone: pos

If you happen to be at the nexus of something, this noun means that you are right in the middle.

Mnemonic: Google - connected to android.. So their phone name Nexus Example: The Nexus between industry and political power

Divide (cause) Form: v Tone: neutral

To polarize is to divide. Something that's been polarized has been split into two sides that are so different, it seems as though they're from opposite ends of the earth - like the North Pole and the South Pole.

Mnemonic: Reminds of the two poles "NPole", "S-Pole" which is nothing but division of two extreme poles. Example: Public opinion has Polarized on this issue.

Divide (syn) Form: v Tone: neutral

To separate people by race or religion is to segregate them. In general, the word segregate means to separate one type of thing from another.

Mnemonic: Aggregate is to combine together, Segregate is to seperate Example: Whites and blacks were Segregated into different parts of town.

separate the good from bad (syn) Form: v Tone: pos

To winnow is to blow something away until you are left with what you want, like grain from chaff. If you only want your favorite people at the party, you will need to winnow down the guest list from 300 to 30.

Mnemonic: WIN NOW (sounds like WINNER)will separate you from looser Example: She stood there Winnowing chaff all day in the field

Disjointed

BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE

Nexus

INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning)

Polarize


Segregate


Winnow

Mnemonic/Example

lack of connection (kind or nature) Form: adj Tone: neg

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Meaning make a prediction about; tell in advance

Mnemonic: fore = for the future; bode = brood on something bad. (Not so good, but what can we do) Example: She had a sense of foreboding that the news would be bad. Root: The prefix fore means before

Warning (syn) Form: v Tone: neutral

To foreshadow is to predict something or to give a hint of what is to come. If you could take a stereo apart and put it back together at age five, it can foreshadow a successful career in electronics.

Mnemonic: A 'shadow' of an assasin alerts you 'before' his arrival. Example: His sudden death had been Foreshadowed by earlier health scares. Root: prefix forerefers to before

expressing threat (syn) Form: adj Tone: negative

minatory means threatening. When you petition the school for higher academic standardsâ€“-i.e. harder grading from teachersâ€“â €“you may receive some minatory looks, or even hate note, from the kids in your school.

Mnemonic: MINEatory.....mines are always threatening because lot's of people can die because of suffocation or poisonous gases present in mines.... Example: There was a silence which, it seemed to her, could be more Minatory even than accusation.

threateningly inauspicious (syn) Form: adj Tone: negative

If something looks or sounds ominous, be careful, a threat or an unpleasant event is at hand. If you see an ominous frown on your boss's face, you're in trouble!

Mnemonic: "omen+ious", Remember the movie "omen" the horror movie Example: There were Ominous dark clouds gathering overhead.

Warning (syn) Form: v Tone: negative

portend means to show a sign that something calamitous is about to happen. The tottering, pile of fine china piled up after the dinner party portends an imminent crash of broken plates and dishes.

Mnemonic: When we reached the port's end (sea port) we saw some dead bodies, which gave a sign that something bad was going to happen. Example: For there

Forebode


Foreshadow

INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT

Minatory


Ominous

Portend

Mnemonic/Example

Warning in advance (syn) Form: v Tone: neutral

are many kinds of calms that do not Portend coming storms. Warning (syn) Form: n Tone: negative

While you might love crows, your father will shudder when he sees them if he superstitiously believes they're a portent - a sign or warning - of death.

Mnemonic: On Camping if it pours on your tent it is a omen trekking is going to be bad. Example: The event proved to be a Portent of the disaster that was to come.

a strong feelingâ €¦that something unpleasant might happen Form: n Tone: negative

Some people claim to have premonitions, such as a dream about a friend they haven't seen in years the night before the friend dies. A premonition is a warning that comes in advance.

Mnemonic: pre(before hand) + monition (remember adMONISH, which means to warn)...so warning which is before hand is Premonition Example: He had a Premonition that he would never see her again. Root: the suffix -tion means state or quality of being

suggesting harm (syn) Form: adj Tone: negative

People who are left-handed might feel unlucky having to use a desk designed for right-handers, but there probably wasn't any sinister, or evil, intent behind the design. Or was there?

Mnemonic: Sinistersounds like Monster - evil monster Example: There was something cold and Sinisterabout him.

Portent

Premonition

Sinister

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Words

Relation to Group

Meaning

to take apart (syn) The verb disassemble Form: v means to take something Tone: neut apart. It's one thing to disassemble a computer; it's a whole other thing to Disassemble put it back together again.

BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING

break things to parts (syn) Form: v Tone: neut

FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE

Dismantle

INCLINATION PREDICTION

To take something apart or down is to dismantle it. If you dismantle a computer to see what it looks like inside, you better know how to put it back together, or you might be looking at the inside of your room for awhile.

SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Legends: X

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Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Dis means NOT and Assemble is to bring things together. So Disassemble will be to set things apart. Example: We had to completely Disassemble the engine to find the problem. Mnemonic: MANTLE is a covering and Dismantle is to uncover or take apart. Example: I had to Dismantle the engine in order to repair it. Root: The prefix DIS- means APART/ NOT

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Babble

BE SLOW / WASTE TIME BEGINNING

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Babble is to talk on and on without a particular goal, to bubble at the mouth, but not in a pretty way.

Mnemonic: Babble bab - ble bla bla bla ( ble) which means to chatter foolishly Example: I can't listen to his constant Babble.

lazy and slow a slow speech pattern with speaker (leading to prolonged vowels boredome) Form: n,v Tone: neg

Mnemonic: Those who Drawl will crawl and hence who crawl are kids only , therefore they shall use prolonged vowels to speak. Example: He had a smooth, Drawling voice.

Drivel

senseless talk (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

Drivel is useless, boring information. If you drivel, you talk stupidly or actually drool. Your parent might think the articles in your favorite fashion magazine are drivel.

Mnemonic: Drivel sounds like trivial... a Drivel person always says trivial stuff Example: How can you watch that Drivel on TV?

Gibberish

meaningless speech or write up (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

Gibberish is nonsense sounds or writing. A baby's babble is often called gibberish. When someone is speaking a foreign language you don't understand, what they're saying will sound to you like gibberish.

Mnemonic: Gibberish sounds like rubbish.......hence nonsense Example: You were talking Gibberish in your sleep.

talk foolishly (syn) Form: v Tone: neg

When someone starts to jabber, they start talking on and on about this or that, or that or this, in an excited, sometimes incoherent way. Jabber is a close cousin to blabber.

Mnemonic: Jabber sounds like blabber... Example: What is he Jabbering about now?

senseless (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

If something has no intelligent meaning, you can describe it as nonsensical. When you're really angry, you might hear yourself sputtering nonsensical sounds and have to stop, take a breath, and start again.

Mnemonic: Nonsense talking is Nonsensical Example: If you ask a Nonsensical question and you will get a Nonsensical answer

BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL

Relation to Group continuously speaking foolishly, that cannot be understood (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

Drawl

HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Jabber

Nonsensical

lengthy and foolish To prate means to talk on talk (syn) and on about something. Form: v,n While it may be interesting

Mnemonic: talking like a parrot is to Prate.

Prate

Prattle

Tone: neg

to hear about other peopleâ€™s vacations, when they prate about them until the wee hours, it becomes intolerable.

Example: Stop this silly Prate immediately!

continuously speaking foolishly (syn) Form: v,n Tone: neg

If your little sister won't stop talking about her latest crush and you don't want to hear it, you might say, "Stop prattling on about that loser!" To prattle is go on and on about something unimportant.

Mnemonic: Prattlethink of cattle, they walk around aimlessly, with no meaning. -meaning less. Example: She Prattled on about her vacation all evening.

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: Antonyms

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Words


Mentor

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

an experienced adviser (Teacher) Form: n Tone: pos

A mentor is a person who trains and guides someone, like the second-grade English teacher who saw the spark of creativity in your writing and encouraged you to become a professional author.

Mnemonic: A Mentor Mends your ways by instructing or teaching you about various things. Example: She was a friend and Mentor to many young actors.

a strict teacher (syn) Form: n Tone: pos

pedagogue is another name for "teacher," but one who is strict, stiff or oldfashioned, as in a pedagogue who stands in the front of the room and lectures for the entire class period, boring the students to tears.

Mnemonic: ped is normally used for a child.. and -agogue means a leader.. hence pedegogue.. Example: He was a Pedagogue who really believed that he could make a difference in young lives Root: the suffix agouge or agog means a leader

student. Guided by an older and influential person Form: n Tone: pos

A protÃ©gÃ© is a person who receives special protection and promotion from someone more established in a field. If your boss introduces you as his newest protÃ©gÃ©, you're off to a good start in your career.

Mnemonic: prot(protection)+ ege(ageis means sheild)....providing sheild for protection Example: She is a protÃ©gÃ© of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin

BE SLOW / WASTE TIME BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS

Pedagogue

HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY

Prote'ge'

TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Legends: X

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Words

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

changes in somebody/something that are difficult to predict or control Form: noun Tone: neut/ neg

A vagary is an unexpected and unpredictable change, and the word is usually used in the plural. You might know from experience that the vagaries of winter weather make planning a vacation in February a risky proposition.

Mnemonic: vagary..break it as vage+ary ,the vage is vague and ary=action meaning something that is vague and not predictable . Example: The VAGARIES of the real estate market will determine whether that swamp property you just bought is a gold mine or a disaster.

one of the many changes and problems in a situation or in your VICISSITUDE life, that you have to deal with Form: noun Tone: neg

When you talk of the vicissitudes of life, you're referring to the difficult times that we all go through: sickness, job loss, and other unwelcome episodes. No one can escape the vicissitudes of life.

Mnemonic: some times to face VICISSITUDES OF LIFE one should possess a WISE(good)ATTITUDE Example: the VICISSITUDEs of family life

ANGRY AVOID / DODGE AWKWARD / UNSKILLED BE SLOW / WASTE TIME BEGINNING BURN/HOT (effect)/(opp)COLD

Relation to Group

VAGARIES

DISPLAYING FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Legends: X

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Words

ANGRY AVOID / DODGE

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

ghostly (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

If you see something you think might be a ghost, you can call it an apparition to hedge your bets. Apparition doesn't commit you in the same way the word ghost doesâ€”and saying that you've seen one won't cause you to be committed.

Mnemonic: Apparition sounds like 'a partition'. When a soul 'parts' from a body, you become a "ghost" Example: Apparitions of a woman in white robes have been reported.

a thing which you wish to hve but cant (result) Form: n Tone: neg

A chimera is something youâ€™ve imagined thatâ€™s bits and pieces of others things mashed together into a new horrible fantasy, something impossible in real life that only exists in your mind.

Mnemonic: Chimera sounds like camera which captures images. Example: You do indeed smile, Madam, at my being obliged seriously to combat such Chimeras.

a very disturbed mind caused because of intoxication etc (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

Many things can cause delirium, including illness, high stress, and your team winning the World Series after 100 years of trying. Experiencing delirium? Then you're out of your mind and so excited you're hallucinating.

Mnemonic: Delirium is when your mind is not in a state of equilibrium (a state of balance). Example: He mumbled in Delirium all night.

a belief that something is there even if its not in reality (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

A delusion is a belief that has no evidence in fact - a complete illusion. The cook at the hot dog stand who thinks he is the best chef in the world? That opinion is definitely a delusion.

Mnemonic: sounds like illusion which is nothing but false belief Example: Love can be nothing but a Delusion.

imagining things which are impossible (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

A fantasy is something you imagine, which might involve dragons, unicorns, or an imaginary best friend. If you live in a fantasy world, you're not worrying much about reality - pleasant, maybe, but not very practical.

Mnemonic: Fantasy sounds like FANCY both of which is a residue of imagination. Example: His childhood fantasies about becoming a famous football player

to visualise something thatâ €™s not present

perceive what is not there; have illusions

Mnemonic: split the word like hallu(holo)+cinate.consider

AWKWARD / UNSKILLED BE SLOW / WASTE TIME

Apparition


Chimera

INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART

Delirium

TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD)

Delusion

Fantasy

Hallucinate

(syn) Form: v Tone: neg

a wrong belief (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

An illusion is something that isn't real. It may look real, but it's actually fake - just a crafty construction or fantasy. Like the old rabbit-out-of-the-hat trick practiced by magicians around the globe.

Mnemonic: Sounds like Ill + Vision. (Bad Vision) Example: She's under the Illusion that she'll get the job.

something that seems real but is not so (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

Next time youâ€™re traveling in the desert, make sure you carry plenty of water. That enticing pool of water you see far away in the distance may be a mirage, or an optical illusion.

Mnemonic: MIRA..mirror ,and when we see ouselves in MIRROR we get to see our image in MIRROR ,which is nothing but UNREAL REFLECTION. Example: His idea of love was a Mirage.

a ghost (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

Look over there, across the room. Is that a phantom, some weary soul come back from the dead to haunt you? Maybe itâ€™s a shadow, or maybe itâ €™s a ghost. Either way, turn on a light and itâ€™ll disappear. Hopefully.

Mnemonic: Phantom is a ghost and all of us know that ghosts just exist in the imagination and not in real Example: Phantoms and chimeras inhabited her brain.

ghostly (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

A specter means a ghostly apparition, a ghost itself, or simply an idea that people find frightening. You can give yourself nightmares if you listen to too many stories about ghostly specters appearing in dark windows.

Example: Was he a spectre returning to haunt her? Root: The Prefix SPECTmeans to SEE

ghostly image (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

If you have a vision of your grandfather just before he passes away, you have seen a wraith or a ghostly image. Wraith can also mean something thin, wispy, or ghost-like.

Mnemonic: those who have faith , dont believe in Wraith Example: The Wraith's stony eyes stared on, but there was silence.

Illusion

Mirage

Phantom

Specter

Wraith

the first word hallu(sounds like holo)..something which is holo you can imagine to fill that place...so something not actually present Example: The objects of dreamers and Hallucinated persons are wholly without general validity

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Words


Precocious

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

child having developed incilnation (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos

The sixth grader who's already asking questions about organic chemistry? She is precocious - meaning they're way beyond their years in skill or knowledge.

Mnemonic: it can be pre+conscious(conscious). i.e. thing or person who/which is very conscious in advance. Example: From an early age, she displayed a Precocious talent for music. Root: The Prefix PRErefers to BEFORE.

child with exceptional qualities (syn) Form: n Tone: pos

A prodigy is someone who is so naturally talented at something that they become a master of that particular skill as a childâ€“-you can be a musical prodigy or a math prodigy.Mozart was one, writing symphonies and playing for kings when he was only five yea

Mnemonic: Person with exceptional talents is proud ji(Prodigy) Example: She is a chess Prodigy


Prodigy

INCLINATION PREDICTION SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Legends: X

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Words

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Coeval

belonging to the same age and date(syn) Form: adj Tone: neut

When two things live or happen during the same period of time, they are coeval. If you annotate an old poem, the annotations and the text of the poem are not coeval.

Mnemonic: sounds similar to co-evolve meaning EVOLVED OR BORN AT THE SAME TIME Example: The industry is Coeval with the construction of the first railways.

Something that occurs in the present. Form: adj Tone: neut

Things that are contemporary are either happening at the same time or happening now. Contemporary art is recent art.

Mnemonic: 'con' means with or together and temporary' is something which exists only in the present and may not be there in future. So Contemporary is 'with or belonging to the present' Example: We have no Contemporary account of the battle

having the same space, time and meaning like that of other Form: adj Tone: neut

Use the word coterminous to describe things that are equal in scope. If an earthquake in Australia was coterminous with the earthquake in China, that means it caused the same amount of destruction.

Mnemonic: co+ term+ inous. Term usually means time period or "meaning". Coterm - inous is something having same term( meaning or time or extent ) Example: He seems to regard the interests of the state as Coterminous with the interests of the party in government. Root: Co means together, or at the same time

BELONGING TO SAME AGE/ERA BITTER FEELINGS / ILLWILL BRING BACK CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH

Contemporary

HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED

Coterminous

WARNING / SCOLDING

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BELONGING TO SAME AGE/ERA BITTER FEELINGS / ILLWILL BRING BACK

Relation to Group

Meaning Malevolence is a nasty, wicked, evil quality. When you're full of malevolence, you wish harm on others.

Mnemonic: Malevolence (Mal is bad) is opposite of BENEVOLENCE (Ben means good)which means kind and charitable. Example: His dark malevolent eyes. Root: The prefix Mal means Bad

A desire to harm others (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Malice is the intention to cause harm. If someone feels malice toward you, look out! They've got bad intentions.

Mnemonic: mal+iceâ €”sounds like MALpractICE Example: the ghosts are described as if they bear actual Malice towards humans. Root: same as above

bitter and long lasting anger (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

The word rancor is best when you're not just talking about anger, you're talking about deep, twisted bitter type of anger in your heart. The open rancor in political discussion prevents cooperation between political parties.

Mnemonic: Rancor : RANKER! Most of the students always hate the top RANKER of the class, as they always defeat them in the exams! Example: In the end, the debate created a degree of Rancor among the committee members.

Having a bad, evil or immoral nature (kind of) Form: adj Tone: neg

Vicious is an adjective that means intentionally harmful or nasty. If you spread vicious rumors about a person, you're telling people things that will hurt her feelings or ruin her reputation. Cut it out!

Mnemonic: In hindi vish means poison,here Vicious means evil Example: She has a Vicious temper.

Extremely harsh and infectious( nature) Form: adj Tone: neg

A virulent disease is one that's infectious, spreading and making lots of people sick, while a virulent rant is just a verbal attack, causing sickness of the emotional kind.

Mnemonic: It is a virus, which causes disease and harm. So, something Virulent is viral and poisonous. Example: the newspaper carried out a Virulent attack on the politician

Malevolence

CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH

Malice

HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE

Rancor

TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING

Vicious

Virulent

Legends: X

: Antonyms

Mnemonic/Example

wishing bad or evil for others(syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

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Word List: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Groups BELONGING TO SAME AGE/ERA BITTER FEELINGS / ILLWILL BRING BACK CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG

Words

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

capable of being brought back. (syn) Retrievable Form: verb Tone: neut

Relation to Group

capable of being regained especially with effort.

Mnemonic: RE means to Repeat. Example: The dog retrieved the ball from the water.

something that can be rescued, especially in Salvageable parts (syn) Form: noun Tone: neut

capable of being saved from ruin

Mnemonic: Salvageable - SAVEABLE Example: This is an exhibition of the salvage from the wreck

DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Legends: X

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Words

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Chary

very careful about doing or saying anything (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos

Being chary (pronounced CHAIR-ee) is being wary or cautious. Chary is the word "char" with an added "y" and to char is to burn, so if you're careful and donâ €™t want to get burned by a person or situation, you're chary.

Mnemonic: Chary sounds similar to WARY, meaning CAUTIOUS. Example: The advices that the Chary minister gave the king, helped him win over the enemies.

careful and doesnâ €™t want to take risk Form: adj Tone: Neutral

If you are circumspect, you think carefully before doing or saying anything. A good quality in someone entrusted with responsibility, though sometimes boring in a friend.

Mnemonic: Circum means around and Spect means to SEE. Circumspect will be to look around, before arriving at a decision or being careful. Example: He was very Circumspect in his financial affairs. Root: The refix CIRCUM means AROUND and SPECT is to see.


Circumspect

HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL

a person who a reckless impetuous enjoys doing irresponsible person dangerous things, REDUCE in a way that other Daredevil X TIME RELATED people may think is stupid TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE Form: noun DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER Tone: Neutral TROUBLED a lack of good Folly is a noun that means WARNING / SCOLDING FollyX

FoolhardyX

Gingerly

Mnemonic: delhi daredevils... think how they appear to bat.. RECKLESS Example: Don't try any daredevil stunts.

Mnemonic: Fools commit folly or mistakes. Example: Giving up a secure job seems to be the height of folly.

judgement; the fact of doing something stupid Form: noun Tone: neg

"foolish or crazy behavior," like the folly of an unprepared student, showing up to take the final exam without a pencil, paper or eyeglasses.

taking unnecessary risks Form: adj Tone: neg

If you decide you are going to scale Mt. Everest next weekend without any training or experience, that would be a foolhardy decision.

Mnemonic: A fool and hardy sailor would take the risk of sailing in a bad weather. Example: It would be foolhardy to sail in weather like this.

showing great care If something needs to be or carefulness done with great care and (syn) caution, you should do it Form: adverb gingerly. Like gingerly Tone: Neutral holding a newborn baby or gingerly creeping down the

Mnemonic: be VERY CAREFUL while cutting GINGER(LY), since they are small and hard. Example: He opened

Heedful

Leery

Prudent

RashX

Reckless X

Wary

creaky stairs when you're trying to sneak out.

the box Gingerly and looked inside.

aware of and taking heed; giving close attentive to others. and thoughtful attention (syn) Form: adj Tone: Neutral

Example: Heedful of snakes, we watched out footing while walking through the tall grass to the lake's edge.

careful and suspicious because of real life experience (syn) Form: adj Tone: Neutral

You can use the adjective leery to describe someone who's suspicious of a person or situation. After his brother came out with bald spots and uneven patches of buzz-cut hair, he was leery of having the same barber get near his own head.

Mnemonic: Leerycompare with jerry. Tom is always cautious and suspicious that jerry is around Example: The government is Leery of changing the current law.

acting with care keeping in mind the future (syn) Form: adj Tone: Neutral

Describe an action as prudent if it is the wise thing to do under the existing circumstances. If you're getting in trouble, it is probably prudent to keep your mouth closed and just listen.

Mnemonic: we all know ICICI Prudential insurance.. so we can think of thoughtful decision taken, by having a insurance policy Example: It might be more Prudent to get a second opinion before going ahead.

a lot of something; a series of unpleasant things that happen over a short period of time Form: adj Tone: neg

A rash is something that spreads like wild fire - a series of unfortunate events. It can also describe an impulsive, wild decision.

Mnemonic: Rash, think about the computer game road rash- where a series of unpleasant and unexpected things happens in the road. Example: Rising prices are the result of the recent rash of strikes in the steel industry.

showing a lack of care about danger and the possible results of your actions Form: adj Tone: neg

If you are reckless, you don't think or care about the consequences of your words or actions, like a reckless driver who speeds while texting, knitting and eating a sandwich.

Mnemonic: Restless, careless and heedless people take RECKLESS decision. Example: He showed a reckless disregard for his own safety.

feeling cautious about a possible problem or danger (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos

Describe yourself as wary if you don't quite trust someone or something and want to proceed with caution. Be wary of risky things like wild mushrooms and Internet deals!

Mnemonic: Wary and worry sound the same... you become Wary (cautious) if you have too many worries in life. Example: The police will need to keep a Wary eye on this area of the town

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

someone who always finds faults related to petty or small matters (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

If someone tends to be hypercritical and find fault with everything, you can describe that person as captious. Try not to be described as a captious person yourself, however. No one likes a carping individual!

Mnemonic: simiar to CAUTIOUS...cautious people FIND FAULTS in things Example: Her mother was very Captious, and the babies fell off.

complain and find fault continually specially about small matters (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Carping is petty and unjustified criticism that just wonâ€™t stop. People who find fault with you at every turn, who appreciate nothing and complain, complain, complain, are carping. Enough already!

Mnemonic: Car+p(ark)+ing; Many people find faults in your carparking style and complain. Example: Critics from both sides are already Carping about this

Grumbling and complaining on small issues (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

A grouse is a small game bird. But the verb to grouse is different. It means to gripe about how unhappy you are. It's not recommended for most people, because grousing is unattractive.

Mnemonic: Spouses Grouse a lot .... complain a lot Example: She's been grousing to her boss about the working conditions.

unreasonable and unnecessary complaining. TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE (nature) DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER Querulous Form: adj TROUBLED Tone: neg WARNING / SCOLDING

Querulous means â€œhaving a tendency to complainâ€ or, more directly put, â €œwhiny.â€ Sure, no one can be happy all the time, but thatâ€™s no excuse for being querulous.

Mnemonic: One who keeps questioning (querying) everything. Example: He complained in a Querulous voice about having been woken up.

Groups

Words

BELONGING TO SAME AGE/ERA BITTER FEELINGS / ILLWILL

Captious

BRING BACK CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY)

Carping

EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL

Grouse

REDUCE

TIME RELATED

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Relation to Group

Assail

make a violent attack on someone (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

To assail is to attack or assault - with throwing stars, fists, words or, less tangibly but just as violently, with troubles or doubts.

Mnemonic: Assail sounds like a sale; a customer argued with sales person of the store using force and bad words. Example: He was Assailed with fierce blows to the head.

dismiss someone or something as unimportant (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

To belittle means to put down, or to make another person feel as though they aren't important. Saying mean things about another person literally makes them feel "little."

Mnemonic: be+little be little in value, depreciate -In recent days the value of dollar has depreciated a lot. Example: She felt her husband constantly Belittled her achievements.

strongly scold or criticize (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

A strong verb for harshly cutting someone down with words is berate. "He didn't just correct the cashier who gave him the wrong change, he started to berate her, calling her names in front of the whole store."

Mnemonic: be+rate - he was RATEd BElow expectations and hence forth scolded. Example: She Berated herself for being a bad mother.

reprimand someone severly Form: verb Tone: neg

Use castigate when you mean reprimand but in an especially harsh way. If you take a mean teacher's books, even accidently, you might worry that she's going to castigate you as soon as she finds out.

Mnemonic: Castigate sounds like cast+i+hate - if you hate caste, you criticize it.. Example: He Castigated himself for being so stupid.

Publicly talk badly about someone. (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

When you dye your hair pink and orange, your mother decries your act as a horror and bursts into tears. She criticizes your choice of colors, stating that pink and purple would have looked better.

Mnemonic: deep + cry... focus on the CRY PART ...a girl CRYING to express her disapproval of getting married now. Example: Violence on TV is generally decried as harmful to children

to accuse, publicly disapprove of someone or something Form: verb Tone: neg

To denounce is to tattle, rat out, or speak out against something. When you stand on your desk and tell the class that your partner is cheating, you denounce him or her.

Mnemonic: Denounce - Similar to announce. Announce is for all kind of information but Denounce is to criticize Example: She publicly Denounced


Meaning

CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY)

Belittle


Berate

REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING

Castigate

Decry

Denounce

Mnemonic/Example

the government's handling of the crisis. a bitter and harsh argument Form: noun Tone: neg

It's totally overwhelming when you ask someone a seemingly harmful question, like "Do you like hot dogs?" and they unleash a diatribe about the evils of eating meat. A diatribe is an angry speech that strongly criticizes a person or thing.

Mnemonic: dia+tribe:the lower ranked tribe(in caste division) always face thunderous verbal attack from upper caste people. Example: He launched a bitter Diatribe against the younger generation.

a descriptive phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characterestics of a person Form: noun Tone: neg

The noun epithet is a descriptive nickname, such as "Richard the Lionhearted," or "Tommy the Terrible." When it takes a turn for the worse, it can also be a word or phrase that offends.

Mnemonic: Concentrate on the latter part of the word, Epithet (Threat): If someone threatens you, he's going to use abusive words. Example: The movie is long and dramatic but does not quite earn the Epithet â €œepic.â€

criticize severely (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

When it comes to â €œtelling someone off,â€ excoriate is reserved for the most severe cases. So, before you excoriate your little sister for borrowing your favorite jacket without permission, consider whether she truly deserves such harsh treatment.

Mnemonic: Excoriate(sounds like ex-koriate) koreans are chinese and they are good in fighting and tend to rip the skin off ( a korean ate you !)so being very severe! Example: The candidates have publicly Excoriated each other throughout the campaign.

criticize severely or Nasty word, flay. It means brutally (syn) to peel or beat the skin of (degree) a person or animal, and Form: verb not necessarily a dead Tone: neg one, either. Nowadays it more commonly means to criticize harshly someone or something, usually in public, leaving them raw and wounded.

Mnemonic: Flay sounds very similar to play. His skin Flayed when he fell down while playing cricket. Example: He Flayed himself for his lack of tact.

express severe protest. Form: verb Tone: neg

Watch a bomb fulminate or explode and hope you're under safe cover. Have your parents fulminate or blow up at you for coming home after 10 pm.

Mnemonic: I'm FULL I just ATE and any more food goes in I will explode! Example: He was always fulminating against interference from the government.

insulting with critical language (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Invective is harsh, abusive language, like, "you dirty rotten scoundrel." I'm sure you can think of harsher and more obscene examples, but we won't get into them here.

Mnemonic: ENVY + ACTIVE or Active jealousy can cause you to ABUSE the other person. Example: The gesture infuriated him and he let out a

Diatribe

Epithet

Excoriate

Flay

Fulminate

Invective

stream of Invective. criticize harshly (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

To lambaste is to reprimand or berate someone severely. People lambaste those who have angered or disappointed them.

Mnemonic: Lambaste sounds like namaste(in hindi), which is a respectful greeting. Lambaste is precisely opposite of that..to CRITICIZE Example: The coach Lambasted the team for its poor play.

complain or protest strongly (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

The verb rail means to criticize severely. When you rail against increased taxes at a town meeting, you speak openly and loudly about how wrong the increase is and point out the problems it will cause.

Mnemonic: Rail sounds like Rail or train so when you missed your Rail, your father scolded you for not reaching on time Example: Neitzsche Railed against the ill effects of Christianity.

to shout or speak loudly (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

A rant is an argument that is fueled by passion, not shaped by facts. When the shouting starts on talk radio, or when a blog commenter resorts to ALL CAPS - you're almost certainly encountering an instance of ranting.

Mnemonic: r-"Ant". When an ant bites, you Rant. Example: Parents should not rate their child when it failed an exam

scold angrily (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

to rebuke angrily or violently

Example: I was subjected to severe rating for having misbehaved in the class.

Lambaste

Rail

Rant

Rate

Revile

Rile

Tirade

criticize angrily and If something is reviled, in an insulting you alone donâ€™t dislike manner (syn) it; a whole community of Form: verb like-minded souls has to Tone: neg hate its guts. For instance, spam is widely reviled.

Mnemonic: For Revile, concentrate on evil- doing evil like slandering Example: He was Reviled in the press for his angry outbursts.

to irritate someone To rile is to stir up, like water that becomes Form: verb muddy when you rile, or Tone: neg to bother or disturb, especially with little annoyances. For example, if you bring up an unpleasant subject, this might rile your friend's mood, or a noisy neighbor might rile your ner

Mnemonic: Rile(rail)...when we travel by railways imagine you are on a trip to kodaikanal in a train and you find your co passenger who is all the time ANNOYING you Example: Nothing ever seemed to Rile him.

a long angry speech of criticism (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

A tirade is a speech, usually consisting of a long string of violent, emotionally charged words. Borrow and lose your roommateâ€™s clothes one too many times, and you can bet youâ€™ll be treated to a heated tirade.

Mnemonic: sounds like tired.. your mom gets tired after a Tirade..i.e. LONG ANGRY DENUNCIATORY SPEECH.. Example: She launched into a Tirade of abuse against politicians.

find fault in

No, upbraid isnâ€™t what

Mnemonic: It has the

Upbraid

someone and scold. Form: verb Tone: neg

girls get done at a salon before prom. When you upbraid people, you scold them, tell them off and criticize them. (You could, however, upbraid your stylist after a bad haircut.)

word raid in it , it implies when someone raids your house and finds black money , you will be scolded very badly Example: His wife Upbraided him for his irresponsible handling of the family finances

Bitter and abusive (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Use the adjective vituperative to describe criticism that's so sharp it hurts. A vituperative review of a movie would make the director bitter for months.

Mnemonic: In older days H2SO4 was called oil of vitriol that is severly bitter and caustic.Vituperative appears as 'operating' vitriol on someone.Note that vtriolic and Vituperative have almost similar meaning. Example: She was unprepared for the flood of vituperation which descended on her from her critics.

Vituperative

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a hidden source of trouble or danger (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

A pitfall is a trap or difficulty you didn't see. A possible pitfall for high school seniors is not working hard after they know they've already been accepted into college.

Mnemonic: THERE s a pit to make you fall...trap Example: Getting professional advice will help you avoid the most obvious Pitfalls.

Something that is dangerously likely to fall or collapse (syn) Form: adj Precarious Tone: neg

Grab for the adjective precarious when something is unstable, dangerous or difficult and likely to get worse. Are you totally broke and the people you owe money to keep calling? You're in a precarious financial situation!

Mnemonic: PRE+CARE+IOUS We have to take CARE while doing something risky so that it does not go wrong. Example: The museum is in a financially Precarious position.

Jeopardy

CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree)

DANGER

Pitfall

ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Jeopardy sound like leopard. leopard is really a danger for human. Example: The future of the school and 50 jobs are in Jeopardy.

BRING BACK

CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG

Meaning To be in jeopardy is to be in danger. Eating three plates of nachos a day may improve your chances of winning your office's nachoeating contest; unfortunately, it could also put your health in jeopardy.


Relation to Group danger of loss, harm and faliure (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Legends: X

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Abscond (criminal)

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

leave quickly and secretly to avoid a situation (nature of) Form: verb Tone: neg

Abscond is to escape into hiding, often taking something along. As a kid, you may have absconded from your lemonade stand - with the coffee can of cash in hand, and your bewildered sister still filling cups for your customers.

Mnemonic: abs + cond (condition) : I should have six pack abs is an important condition before she can abscond with me. Example: Several prisoners absconded from the jail.

Is your team so bad you have begun supporting a rival team? Then you're guilty of defection - the act of shifting your support to a new cause.

Mnemonic: de + affection - no affection; if you have no affection then you will leave it Example: Defection of both security forces and members of the media

CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH

conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty Defection Form: noun (Political) Tone: neg

HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED

the abandonment the act of giving without consent or something up legal justification of a person, post, or Desertion relationship and (Military) the associated duties and obligations Form: noun Tone: neg

TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING

Elope (for Marriage)

Run away secretly in order to get married (nature ) Form: verb Tone: neg

When you elope, you run away with the person you love. Usually, you elope to get married without anyone knowing in advance.

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Mnemonic: You DESERT (leave) A deasert TO GET RID OF THE EXTREMELY HOT CLIMATE THERE. Example: The soldiers were imprisoned for desertion of their posts

Mnemonic: the word 'lope' resembles 'rope' ..in films we see the hero tries to make the heroine escape from the house with the help of a rope attached to the window of her bedroom and then he takes away and marries her Example: The couple eloped in the middle of the night.

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To discuss the same thing repeatedly (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg


Relation to Group

Belabor

CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Belabor means to go at something with everything you've got. When you say, "Don't belabor or agonize over the decision," it means, "Move on."

Mnemonic: In spite of your good involvement in a project, if the boss keeps saying belaborious, he is be laboring. Example: I don't want to belabour the point, but it's vital you understand how important this is.

You make an understatement when you say a lot less than you could, "We didn't do so well," when your team loses 56 to 0. That's quite an understatement.

Mnemonic: Understate is to Underestimate (rhymes and means similar) Example: To say we were pleased is an understatement

COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT

an act of explaining something less Understatement than it should be. (oppo) (opposite) Form: noun Tone: neg

OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Abhor

show hatred and disgust (action) Form: verb Tone: neg

If you abhor something, it gives you a feeling of complete hatred. Chances are you abhor that kid who used to torture the frogs in biology class.

Mnemonic: Abhor The last part sounds like HORror people hate horror films, they detest them. Example: She Abhors cats.

strong hate (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Animosity is hatred. If your (supposed) best buddy embarrasses you in front of a big crowd, your friendship could turn into animosity.

Mnemonic: pronounce Animosity like 'Enemy'sity. so if someone is having enemysity he will have ill will intentions. Example: He felt no Animosity towards his critics.

a deep feelig of dislike(syn) Form: Noun Tone: neg

An antipathy is a deepseated dislike of something or someone. Usually it's a condition that is long-term, innate, and pretty unlikely to change - like your antipathy for the Red Sox.

Mnemonic: consider pathy-sympathy, there are two words. 1. Antipathy = dislike 2. apathy = disinterested Since "anti" is stronger than "a".. disliking is 1 step above disinterested.. Example: His professional judgement was coloured by his personal antipathies. Root: The refix anti means against.

strong dislike (syn) If you have an aversion to Form: noun something, you have an Tone: neg intense dislike for it. Commonly its food, but you could have an aversion to black and white movies, driving with the windows open, taking calls from salespeople or being barefoot outdoors.

Mnemonic: You hate a+version of vista..firm dislike Example: He has a strong Aversion for liars and cheaters.

BELONGING TO SAME AGE/ERA BITTER FEELINGS / ILLWILL BRING BACK CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG

Animosity

DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL

Antipathy

REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Aversion

one who deserves to be hated, hateful (nature) Form: adj Despicable Tone: neg

Stealing the last piece of food from a starving child goes way beyond mean. It's despicable - a vile and harmful act.

intense hate for If you detest something, something (action) you dislike it intensely. Form: verb The word can apply to

Mnemonic: DE(not)+SPEAKable....a person about whom we even don't talk is too MEAN, WORTHLESS. Example: I hate you! You're Despicable. Root: The prefix DE means NOT. Mnemonic: Detestde(dubara)+ test-i hate doing this

Detest

Loath

Odious

Repel

Repugnant

Repulsion

Scurvy

Tone: neg

things and also to people. Example: They You might detest your ex- Detested each other on boyfriend and you might sight. also detest rainy Mondays and broccoli.

extreme hate (syn, If you loathe someone or action) something, you hate them Form: adj very much. You might not Tone: neg choose to eat raw carrots if you dislike them, but if you loathe them, you might have a hard time even having them on your plate.

Mnemonic: Loathe can be related as Low thought...So having a low thought of someone else implies hate or detest Example: He was Loath to admit his mistake.

unpleasant and hateful (nature, syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is odious it's hateful. If you become a historian of slavery, you'll learn all the details of that odious trade.

Mnemonic: hate people with bad odour(Odious) and high audio(Odious) Example: It was one of the most Odious crimes of recent history.

keeping away from an unpleasant situation or person (action) Form: verb Tone: neg

Use the verb repel when you want to turn something away, like drenched yourself in bug spray in an attempt to repel the mosquitoes that plague you when you go camping.

Mnemonic: Rip the enemy to Repel. Example: Troops Repelled an attempt to infiltrate the south of the island.

very hateful, cant be accepted (syn,nature) Form: adj Tone: neg

Repugnant refers to something you detest so thoroughly it threatens to make you physically sick, like the idea of marrying your sister. Or wearing last year's jeans.

Mnemonic: re-pugnant -pug which belongs to dog family and you think that you hate dogs Example: We found his suggestion absolutely Repugnant. Root: The root PUGNA is FIGHT.

a disgusting feeling (syn) Form: Noun Tone: neg

Repulsion is getting grossed out. If the thought of great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts makes you recoil in horror, then you've experienced repulsion, or an intense aversion to something.

Mnemonic: one North pole has strong hatred (distaste) towards other N-pole therefore they repel each other Example: We are all aware of the forces of attraction and Repulsion.

of the most contemptible kind. Form: noun Tone: neg

contemptible

Mnemonic: Scurvy is a deadly disease. So people suffering from this vitamin c deficiency are low in health. Example: That was a Scurvy trick you played on me, you dastardly cur.

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Mnemonic: Abase = a + base; without a base; Imagine you shifted to a new house whose base is not very strong (without base) and hence it may fall down anytime and can Abase you in front of your neighbours. Example: I certainly don't Abase myself when I do good, honest manual labor.

a comical imitation, exaggeration or absurdity. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic that treats ordinary material with mockery

Mnemonic: if you want to ridicule Barclays premier league than you can write Burlesque premier league. Example: a writer whose Burlesque often bordered on cruelty

A snooty waiter might condescend to serve you dinner at a fancy restaurant, meaning that he'd consider himself far too important to carry out the mundane task of delivering your hamburger and fries.

Mnemonic: It has the word descend in it ,it implies descending to a lower position Example: While giving a talk, be careful not to Condescend to your audience.

the feeling that a person is worthless and disregard them.(syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

Reserve the noun contempt for an extreme lack of respect: a food snob has nothing but contempt for massproduced burgers and fries at a fast-food joint.

Mnemonic: Contempt -con (with) + TEMPER Example: He feels that wealthy people view him with Contempt because he is poor.

criticize someone unfairly (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

To denigrate is to say bad things - true or false - about a person or thing. Your reputation as a math quiz might be hurt if your jealous classmate manages to denigrate you, even though the accusations are unfounded.

Mnemonic: Denigrate=DENY+GREAT.so if you deny someone is great ,it means you BELITTLE him Example: No one is trying to Denigrate the importance of a good education. We all know that it is crucial for success. Root: The prefix DE meand DOWN or AWAY

express contempt and ridicule (syn)

The verb deride means to show a low

Mnemonic: de -ride -riding a horse upside

CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH

Burlesque

HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER

to behave toward someone as though you are more important and more Condescend intelligent than they are. So disrespecting Form: verb Tone: neg

TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Contempt

Mnemonic/Example

To abase something or someone is to humiliate them - no, more than just humiliate them. If you abase another person you are bringing them low, humbling them in a mean, base manner. Not nice at all.

Abase

DANGER

Meaning

to lower in rank and prestige (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

Denigrate

Form: verb Tone: neg

opinion of someone or something. The jerk would deride the other kids on the bus by calling them names or pulling their hair until the driver decided to de-ride him by kicking him off the bus.

down.. people will make fun of you ( ridicule) Example: My brothers Derided our efforts, but were forced to eat their words when we won first place

the feeling that a person is worthless and disregard them.(syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

If you feel that something isn't worthy of your consideration, you may disdain it (or treat it with disdain).

Mnemonic: divide it like dis(dish)+dain(rhyms like vain..means useless)....think you have ordered for a dish , but it is useless or in vain, beacuse you can cook better than this, so you REJECT THE order, you Disdain the order. Example: I have a healthy Disdain for companies that mistreat their workers. Root: The prefix DIS means NOT

to speak about someone in disrespectful manner (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

If you haven't got anything nice to say, then it's time to disparage someone. It means to belittle or degrade a person or idea.

Mnemonic: dispa-rage can be read as display a rage. When you display your RAGE on your juniors you BELITTLE them in front of the others. Example: Voters don't like political advertisements in which opponents Disparage one another. Root: Prefix DIS refers to NOT

make rude and mocking remarks (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

As a noun, jeer is the act of scoffing, taunting, or mocking. Think of it as an anticheer. If you offer cheers for the visiting team and jeers for the home team, you might not be too popular in the stands.

Mnemonic: in a party instead of saying cheers,he told JeerS.and the whole crowd MOCKED at him Example: The prisoner was Jeered by an angry mob.

Publicly criticize by using sarcasm or ridicule (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

When you make fun of something by imitating it in a humorous way, you're lampooning it. The writers at The Onion, Saturday Night Live and FunnyOrDie.com are all experts in the art of the lampoon.

Mnemonic: Lampoon- if you pour oil for a LAMP with a SPOON people will ridicule because for a lamp you should pour a lot of oil. Example: He said such ridiculous things that he was often the target of Lampoons in the press.

tease or laugh at someone ina disrespectful manner (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

Imitation may be the most sincere form of flattery, but to mock is to make fun of or mimic someone with contempt, ridicule or derision. "Louiseâ€™s favorite pastime was to mock her brotherâ

Mnemonic: U give Mock test.That is not all that serious. opposite of serious is ridiculous which is the meaning of Mock Example: He Mocks art only because he doesn't understand it.

Deride

Disdain

Disparage

Jeer

Lampoon

Mock

€™s inability to sing on key."

Patronize

to treat with an apparent kindness which betrays a feeling of supiriority. Form: verb Tone: neg

if someone patronizes you, it's not so pleasant - they talk to you as if you were inferior or not very intelligent.

Mnemonic: If you remember Patronus--from latin it will give you a lot of words like patriarch (Patri+ arch: ruled by father or eldest male) well you father is giving you regular pat (encouragement) Example: He hated being Patronized and pitied by those who didn't believe his story.

Ironic remarks intended to wound (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Sarcastic humor is biting humor; it hurts. The talentshow judge who rolls his eyes at your dancing and says things like "The average border Radha has more talent than you" is a sarcastic person given to sarcastic remarks.

Mnemonic: We know what SARCASM is. Example: I hate her Sarcastic comments that my singing reminded her of the time her dog was sick

seriously mocking (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

If someone is being scornful and mocking in a humorous way, call her sardonic. If you want to write comic sketches for late-night talk shows, work on being sardonic.

Mnemonic: Sardonic sounds like saridon (famous medicine for headache in India) : If everybody around you criticise you , then you will get headache, take saridon Example: The movie is a Sardonic look at modern life.

the use of humor, irony to criticize people's stupidity. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Satire is a way of making fun of people by using silly or exaggerated language. Politicians are easy targets for satire, especially when they're acting self-righteous or hypocritical.

Mnemonic: Satire is a FIRE (attack) against human vices brought forward through irony or sarcasm in a novel or play.Sarcasm+Fire Example: His movies are known for their use of Satire.

to speak to someone in a mocking tone. (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

To laugh at someone with scorn is to scoff at them. People have scoffed at many great inventors, saying their products would flop because the public wouldn't be interested in things like the light bulb, cars, televisions, or personal computers.

Mnemonic: Scoff rhymes with cough. If someone coughs in the class continuously we MOCK at them. Example: Critics Scoff as Matolcsy says Hungary's economy to return to growth next year

to treat someone with disrespect (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Scorn is open disrespect for someone or something. It can also be disrespect coupled with feelings of intense dislike.

Mnemonic: Scorn = sc ( Schedule Caste) + orn; sc people are always criticize for bad ornate. Example: Her political rivals have poured Scorn on her ideas for improving

Sarcastic

Sardonic

Satire

Scoff

Scorn

the tax system.

Sneer

Snicker

Snide

Spurn

Taunt

smile or speak in a If your smile is mocking manner contorted with (syn) contempt or your Form: verb upper lip curled with Tone: neg distaste and disdain, you're probably sneering. And you should stop, because it isn't nice.

Mnemonic: Sneer sounds like STARE aggressively when the other driver speaks to you in a derisive manner. Example: In high school the in crowd would invariably Sneer every time they passed the hapless nerds

to give a halfsupressed laugh to mock at someone (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

A snicker is a disrespectful snort of half-suppressed laughter, often expressing superiority. We snicker at beauty queens talking about world peace, for example.

Mnemonic: The students gave a Snicker when the professor came to the class in a sneaker. Example: He Snickered at the puzzled look on her face

derogatory or mocking in an indirect way (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Snide means insulting or contemptuous in an indirect way. If your friend is wearing too much purple eye shadow and your other friend whispers to you, â€œWhat? Was she in a car wreck?â€ thatâ€™s a snide comment.

Mnemonic: If you donâ €™t abide by a rule you are supposed to be called a Snide. Example: A Snide trick to get the old woman to sell her antiques for practically nothing

to reject with anger and scorn (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

If you reject your mother's offer to buy you a pair of fastrack sunglasses with a snort and eye roll, you are spurning her generosity. To spurn means to reject with disdain.

Mnemonic: Spurn rhymes with burn, so when your cloth is on fire, you are Spurning it. Example: Fiercely independent, the elderly couple Spurned all offers of financial help

provoke or challenge with insulting remarks (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

A short list of people not to taunt: your big brother, cops, nightclub bouncers, dragons. Taunts are insulting comments, and, unless you are a really, really fast runner, keep them to yourself.

Mnemonic: Taunt and Flaunt are rhyming words but have totally different meanings. The rich are always Taunting the poor by flaunting (making a show of) their money at them. Example: They Taunted the newly arrived immigrants about their broken English

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Mnemonic/Example

very old fashioned (syn,type) Form: adj Tone: neg

Antediluvian means "before the flood" - that is, the Biblical flood with Noah's ark. Generally, though, the word is used â €” often humorously - to describe something really, really old.

Mnemonic: ANTE== BEFORE DILUVIAN== DILUGE (FLOOD BIBLICAL)means - extremely old fashioned Example: He has Antediluvian notions about the role of women at the workplace

old fashioned (syn,type) Form: adj Tone: neg

Something is antiquated when it is so old that it is no longer useful. If your parents believe that you shouldn't use the Internet when you write papers for school, you might call their ideas antiquated.

Mnemonic: read as antique(old item)+dated(outdated)..hence outdated Example: I saw an Antiquated hand-cranked rope-machine at the textiles museums.

very old fashioned (syn,type) Form: adj Tone: neg

If you use the adjective archaic you are referring to something outmoded, belonging to an earlier period. Rotary phones and cassette players already seem so archaic!

Mnemonic: Archealogy study of old things.. Archaic The old things on which we study. Example: The system is Archaic and unfair and needs changing.


marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past

Mnemonic: Relate it to outDatedâ€¦because it is very old and no one uses it anymore. Example: Those TV comedies were OK in their day but seem incredibly Dated now.

out of date(syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the adjective obsolete for something that is out of date. As the Rolling Stones song "Out of Time" goes, "You're obsolete, my baby, my poor oldfashioned baby."

Mnemonic: OB+SO+LETE = obviously so late... Something so late is outmoded Example: With technological changes many traditional skills have become Obsolete. Root: The prefix OB- means AGAINST

old fashioned

Something that is

Mnemonic: Outmoded or

Antediluvian

CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT

Antiquated

OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE Archaic DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING

Dated

Obsolete

Outmoded

(syn,type) Form: adj Tone: neg

outmoded is no longer cool or in style, like your dad's outmoded hairstyle that he's had since he was in high school.

OUTDATED - something that is out of fashion or no longer in use. Example: This organizational structure was now Outmoded.


Quaint means strange and unusual in an oldfashioned and charming way. It's a word you'd use to describe a little store that sells tea cozies and antique tea services, or your grandmother's habit of calling the radio the "wireless."

Mnemonic: GRE bigbook QUANT'S questions are old fashioned(Quaint) Example: This is a Quaint seaside village

Quaint

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Mnemonic/Example

Public Praise (syn) Form: verb Tone: pos

You know you've hit it big, when you earn acclaim, or enthusiastic approval. And when you have achieved "critical acclaim," even the grouchy critics approve of you.

Mnemonic: A+claim..imagine you have claimed to a news channel that you have designed a super computer ,so every where people are praising you for your great invention Example: The work was Acclaimed as a masterpiece.

an award or special recognition (nature of ) Form: noun Tone: pos

A knight being honored with the tap of a swordblade was the earliest form of accolade. Today, an accolade is more than a way to bestow knighthood, it is a form of praise or an award.

Mnemonic: it sounds like chocolate.. parents Accolade if kids do home work properly Example: Meryl Streep has received many Accolades for her performances.

show strong approval or praising highly (syn, degree) Form: verb Tone: pos

To applaud is to show approval, encouragement, or appreciation. You can applaud by clapping your hands at a performance, or you can applaud with just your mouth, as when you tell someone "I applaud your decision to start exercising."

Mnemonic: Applaud = divide it into 2 : app(application) + lau(launch) and now I will memorise it as I have launched an application for microsoft and they have approved it with great praise Example: He started to Applaud and the others joined in.

Praise or approval (syn) Form: noun Tone: pos

Approbation is an official, importantsounding, and somewhat oldfashioned word for approval or praise. A princess, for example, might only consider marrying a prince that is met with her father's, the King's, approbation.

Mnemonic: Ap+PROBATION: You get CONFIRMATION/APPROVAL in your job after your Probation period Example: There was widespread Approbation of the new president.

deserving Praise (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos

If something's commendable it deserves whatever praise it receives.

Mnemonic: Commendable -come to an end able i.e he is able to come to end of this process thats why

Acclaim

CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE

Accolade

MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE Applaud DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING

Approbation

When you developed a car that could run on solar power, that was a commendable accomplishment. Now, it's time to move from Seattle.

he is praiseworthy Example: She showed Commendable loyalty to the family firm.

a speech or writing that praises someone (type of) Form: noun Tone: pos

An encomium is a fancy word for a formal speech or piece of writing that warmly praises someone or something.

Mnemonic: Encomium sounds like INCOME People of high INCOME are formally praised for their large donations. Example: This was much more numerous; and a new speech received still greater Encomiums.

a speech or writing that praises someone (type of) Form: noun Tone: pos

At every funeral, there comes a moment when someone who knew the dead person speaks about their life. They are delivering what is known as a eulogy. A eulogy is a formal speech that praises a person who has died.

Mnemonic: Eulogy - eu'good' + log 'root: logue [dialogue, talk, speech]' Good speech Example: Several eulogies were given at the special assembly marking the retirement of the company's longtime president. Root: The prefix EU means GOOD.

holding someone or something in very high regard. (syn) Form: verb Tone: pos

You might like your manager, but if you exalt her, it means you really put her on a pedestal and treat her like royalty.

Mnemonic: ex(tra) + alt(itude) -rise high = praise Example: His son was Exalted to a high position in the government through family connections.

to praise enthusiastically (degree) Form: verb Tone: pos

If you have a crush on a guy who likes your best friend, it can be very depressing to listen to him extol your friend's virtues, while you just nod and smile. If you extol something, you praise it very highly.

Mnemonic: Extol - exTALL - make somebody TALL with praise. Example: Doctors often Extol the virtues of eating less fat.

to give honor and praise highly (syn) Form: verb Tone: pos

To glorify is to praise or honor something or someone to an extreme degree.

Mnemonic: Glory calls for Praise. Example: He denies that the movie glorifies violence.

Acclaim enthusiastically (syn) Form: verb Tone: pos

Hail is when chunks of ice fall from the sky. Also, to hail someone is to greet them or say good things about them. Or it can be a way to tell people of your homeland, as in: "I hail from the Moon."

Mnemonic: Remember the movi "Mr. India" People say "Hail Mogambo" Example: The conference was Hailed as a great success.

Praise someone in

To laud someone

Mnemonic: O, Lord! Let

Commendable

Encomium

Eulogy

Exalt

Extol

Glorify

Hail

public.(syn) Form: verb Tone: pos

doesn't mean to give them knighthood, but to praise them extravagantly usually in a very public manner. Being lauded, of course, can have the same tonic effect as having been made a lord.

me Laud You for all your help Example: He was Lauded for his courage.

give a lot of public appreciation and attention (nature of) Form: verb Tone: pos

The lion is the king of beasts. To lionize someone is to see them as important as a lion. Republicans continue to lionize Ronald Reagan as their ultimate hero.

Mnemonic: Lion is assigned a great social importance in animal kingdom Example: The tenor was Lionized in Vienna

a song of Praise (syn, nature) Form: noun Tone: pos

A paean is a hymn of praise or thanksgiving. You might sing a paean in church, where many hymns extol the greatness of God.

Mnemonic: it is pronounced exactly as P.N. remember it by 'Priase Number' -praise song. Example: a Paean of praise

a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something (kind of) Form: noun Tone: pos

A formal, highminded speech can be described with a formal, high-minded word - the word panegyric, which is a very elaborate tribute to someone. You could consider most eulogies as panegyrics.

Mnemonic: pane sounds like paean means praise and gyric sounds like lyric, so Panegyric means expression of praise Example: In Greece and Rome, Panegyrics were often pronounced at the grave.

to be praised by the audience (syn) Form: noun Tone: pos

As its sound might suggest, plaudit is indeed related to "applaud" and "applause." In fact it's really just a fancy way of saying "praise" or "acclamation."

Mnemonic: remove 'p' u'll get LAUDIT. which can mean loud it. Victory should always be praised by loud cheer i.e. with enthusiastic approval. Example: His work won him Plaudits from the critics.

Laud

Lionize

Paean

Panegyric

Plaudit

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Vocabulary

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Words

Relation to Group

Conservative (oppo)

following traditions and customs (oppo) Form: adj Tone: pos

If you are Example: Her style of conservative, you dressing was never arenâ€™t necessarily a conservative. card-carrying member of the Republican party (though you might be); it means you resist change.

following traditions and customs (oppo) Form: noun Tone: pos

A convention is a meeting, usually of a particular group. Political parties, teachers, plumbers, gardeners, toymakers and computer designers all hold conventions.

Mnemonic: A group of people who agree upon the Christian practice of tranditional worship CONVENE (gather together) every Sunday in church. They are adhering to a CONVENTION. Example: She is a young woman who enjoys going against conventions.

a desperate person who is especially a criminal (nature) Form: noun Tone: neg

A desperado is an outlaw that you'd see in an old Western or in the Wild West. Think hip holsters, spinning guns, and a shoot-out, all with a bandanna pulled up hiding half of the face of the desperado.

Mnemonic: bad people are always desperate to do something so "despera-do" Example: the notorious Desperados of the Wild West

a person who goes against an official policy or authority (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

If you are a dissident, you are a person who is rebelling against a government. Dissidents can do their work peacefully or with violence.

Mnemonic: ASSENT = agree; DISSENT = disagree; Dissident = a person who dissents/disagrees. Example: There were Dissident elements within the Catholic Church.

a belief or opinion opposite to orthodox religion (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Heresies are beliefs that do not agree with the official beliefs of a particular religion; heresy is the maintaining of such contrary beliefs.

Mnemonic: divide this word into her (her)+esy(sounds like essay)... most of the essays written by her are against popular beliefs. Taslima Nasrin, a Bangladeshi writer is one such person who has recently created a furore because of her book Example: He was


Convention (oppo)

HATE

Meaning

MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE

Desperado

TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Dissident

Heresy

Mnemonic/Example

burned at the stake for Heresy.

Heretical

a person who has controversial opinions and goes against religious belief.(syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Something that departs from normally held beliefs (especially religious, political, or social norms) is heretical. If your family is resistant to change, they may consider your idea of making pancakes for dinner to be completely heretical.

Mnemonic: Heretical, reminds of hierarchy which means divisions of labor with set rules, therefore one which doesn't follow the set rules is "Heretical" Example: The religious people didn't cast vote in favor of the politician because of his Heretical behaviour.

doesnâ€™t accept orthodox beliefs (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

Heterodox is from the Greek root words heteros, meaning "the other," and doxa, meaning "opinion." The adjective heterodox was first applied to people who held a different religious opinion from the standard beliefs and teachings.

Mnemonic: opposite of ORTHODOX (one who follows the conventions or rules of society) Example: Her Heterodox approach to teaching science initially met with some resistance from her peers

a person who attacks cherished beliefs and institutions. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Are you always challenging the establishment? Or provoking popular thought by attacking traditions and institutions? Then you're definitely an iconoclast.

Mnemonic: iconsideals; clast is like clash... so Iconoclast is someone whose ideas clash with the traditional ideals. Example: Notorious as an Iconoclast, that music critic isn't afraid to go after sacred cows.

rising in active revolution. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

An insurgent is a rebel or a revolutionary, someone who takes up arms against the authorities.

Mnemonic: a person (army man) who does not listen to the command of his sergeant is rebellious in nature therefore insurgent- one who does not listen to his sergeant[ commander] thus is rebellious. Example: There was an attack by armed Insurgents Root: The prefix IN means NOT

The act of openly going against the government (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Insurrection is an uprising against a larger force that's in power. An insurrection can lead to revolution, but it is just as likely to be put down.

Mnemonic: Insurrection: relate surrection with surrender thus -in surrection = not to surrender = rebellious Example: an armed Insurrection against the regime Root: The prefix IN means NOT

Heterodox

Iconoclast

Insurgent

Insurrection

a person who does A maverick is a rebel, not accept someone who shows a

Mnemonic: Mave+"RICK" sounds

orthodox beliefs. Form: noun Tone: neg

lot of independence. A maverick on a motorcycle might blaze his own trail, or show a maverick touch in a rough sport by wearing a helmet with the word "Mom" inside a heart.

like Ricky Ponting who is rebellious and nonconformist as he does not believe in umpire descisions during India's Cricket match Example: The Maverick detective managed to crack the case.

one who refuses to be restricted by set beliefs and customs. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

A nonconformist is someone who doesnâ €™t conform to other peopleâ€™s ideas of how things should be. Activists, artists, street performers, your wacky uncle Marvin â €” anyone who marches to the beat of a different drummer is a nonconformist.

Mnemonic: Non (not) Confirming or adusting to a certain belief or convention. Example: He was a nonconformist in college but now wears a three-piece suit to work every day.

following traditions and customs (oppo) Form: adj Tone: pos

Orthodox practices or Example: He is very beliefs are generally orthodox in his views. accepted as true or correct. If you are an orthodox vegetarian, you never, ever eat meatâ€“-not like those people who have chicken once in awhile, or evenâ€“-gasp!-â €“bacon.

Moving away or departing from the usual customs. (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is considered extremist or very different from anything that has come before it, call it radical.

Mnemonic: Break it as RADIO+KAL (past days) -In the past the radio was used as the fundamental mode of entertainment. Example: There is a need for Radical changes in education

opposition to any kind of progress (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Reactionary describes people on the far right politically. Reactionaries occupy a political space past conservative, near where ultraconservative bumps shoulders with fascist.

Mnemonic: Reactionary Actionary is to perfrom some action, but Reactionary is to restrain/suppress the action...i.e. to recoil the progress. Example: Reactionary guardians of proper English usage invariably regard every new coinage that comes along as a nonword.

a person who leaves and betrays an organization, country or principle(syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

A renegade is a person who has deserted their cause or defied convention; they're rebels and sometimes outlaws, or even traitors.

Mnemonic: Renegade sounds like grenade. A person who throws a grenade in his own country is a Traitor. Example: He is a Renegade priest

something that results in a big

A revolutionary person fearlessly advocates

Mnemonic: Revolution.

Maverick

Non comformist

Orthodox (oppo)

Radical

Reactionary

Renegade

Revolutionary

Subversive

Unconventional

change (effect) Form: adj Tone: neg

radical change. Revolutionary people and ideas challenge the status quo and might be violent or willing to upset the natural order to achieve their goals.

Example: The effects of technological development are Revolutionary.

to undermine or not giving due respect to an established government.( syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

You might want to call someone subversive if they are sneakily trying to undermine something, from the social structure of your high school to an entire system of government.

Mnemonic: Subversive- reversivego against established rule.Revert (to cause downfall) from inside. Example: He was a known political Subversive.

Not respecting conventions (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

To be unconventional is to act, dress, speak, or otherwise exist out of the bounds of cultural norms. If you eat cheeseburgers for breakfast, that's somewhat unconventional.

Mnemonic: Un (Not) Conventional. Example: The magazine describes him as having Unconventional good looks.

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Vocabulary

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Words


DEPLETE

BRING BACK CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY)

Relation to Group to reduce something by a large amount so that there is not enough left Form: verb Tone: neg

to become less valuable over a period of time Form: verb DEPRECIATE Tone: neg


X AMASS

to collect something, especially in large quantities Form: verb Tone: pos

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

To deplete is to use up or consume a limited resource. Visiting relatives might deplete your refrigerator of food, or a pestering friend might deplete your patience.

Mnemonic: If you de(remove) + from plate.. you will reduce its contents. Example: Food supplies were severely DEPLETEd. Root: Prefix DE means NOT

Something depreciates when it loses value. If you bought shares of a company for $10 each a year ago and now theyâ €™re worth $1 each, guess what: they have depreciated.

Mnemonic: appreciate -value increases. DEPRECIATE -value decreases Example: New cars start to DEPRECIATE as soon as they are on the road.

Amass means bring together or assemble. It can be a real shock to enter a room and see your amassed friends shouting "Surprise!"

Mnemonic: amass add masses and hence to collect things. Example: They amassed a truckload of donations in the course of their canned food drive


X STOCKPILE

a reserve supply of a storage pile accumulated Mnemonic: Piling up something for future use stock (lot of things essential piled up together) accumulated within Example: An a country for use emergency stockpile during a shortage of potable water and Form: noun canned goods in the Tone: pos cellar

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Vocabulary

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Words

BELONGING TO SAME AGE/ERA BITTER FEELINGS / ILLWILL BRING BACK CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Trying to attach a custom or event to a period to which it does not belong Form: noun Tone: neg

An anachronism is something that doesn't fit its time period, like if you say you'll "dial" your smartphone.

Mnemonic: ana (out of order, negative sense) + chron (time).. so something not placed correctly with respect to time. Example: The monarchy is seen by many people as an Anachronism in the modern world. Root: The prefix CHRON - means TIME.

A fact based documentof important events in the order in which they took place Form: noun Tone: neut

To chronicle an event is to record it as it happens, and a chronicle is a record of those events. If your grandmother took the time to chronicle the details of her 1910 journey to Japan, you can read her chronicle today.

Mnemonic: think of the Chronicles of narnia.....a long story... Example: Her latest novel is a Chronicle of life in a Devon village. Root: same as above

Sequence or order of date and time Form: adj Tone: neg/ neut

If youâ€™re making a list of all your teachers in the order you had them, from kindergarten right up to the present, youâ€™re listing them in chronological order. Chronological is the order in which things actually happened.

Mnemonic: Chron meand Time + Logical (say in an order). Example: The facts should be presented in Chronological order.

Anachronism

COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT

Chronicle

OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER

Chronological

TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Legends: X

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Vocabulary

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Words

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Capitulate #

to agree to do something that you have been refusing to do for a long time Form: verb Tone: pos

Capitulate means to give in to something. "The teachers didn't want to have class outside, but the students begged so hard, she capitulated."

Mnemonic: CAPtain it's too late, we will have to surrender. Example: They were finally forced to capitulate to the terrorists' demands.

hit or beat repeatedly. Form: verb Tone: neg

beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight

Mnemonic: when a team wins it pours water from a DRUM(drub) on the loosing team in rugby matches Example: a crowd was drubbing the purse snatcher when the police arrived on the scene

not affected or influenced by something Form: adj Tone: pos

An impervious surface is Mnemonic: "I am one that can't be Pervez(pervez penetrated. The word is musharraf)"â€¦No often followed by "to," as in matter wat you say, I "His steely personality won't be affected!! made him impervious to Example: The jokes about his awful material for this coat haircut." is supposed to be impervious to rain Root: Prefix IM means NOT

BELONGING TO SAME AGE/ERA BITTER FEELINGS / ILLWILL BRING BACK CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER

Drub

ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL

Impervious X


Something indomitable can't be beat. People described as having indomitable spirits don't need pep talks or protein shakes; their strength comes from within.

Mnemonic: INDOMITABLE impossible to DOMINATE Example: An indomitable spirit was needed to endure the rigors of pioneer life Root: Prefix IN refers NOT

too strong to be defeated or changed Form: adj Tone: pos

Something invincible is victorious over everything. Disease, death, destruction? No match for something truly invincible. Mere humans who imagine they're invincible, however, will inevitably prove that they're not.

Mnemonic: It reminds me of the great artist Vinci and we all know his arts can't be conquered. so unconquerable. Example: The team seemed invincible.

a situation in which someone is defeated easily and completely in a battle or

When you think about the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, associate a rout with the agonizing defeat. A rout is the kind of

Mnemonic: As in during Riots stampede take place. hence Rout happens during Riots.

not willing to accept defeat, even in a difficult situation; very indomitable brave and X determined Form: adj Tone: pos

Invincible X

Rout

Subjugate

Vanquish

competition Form: noun Tone: neg

humiliating loss that makes you wish you would have been injured in the first quarter so you could have avoided the outco

Example: Only the skill of the goalkeeper prevented the match from turning into a Rout.

to defeat someone or something; to gain control over someone or something Form: verb Tone: neg

If you say you won't be kept down by the man, you are saying that you won't let the man subjugate you. To subjugate is to repress someone, or to make them subservient to you.

Mnemonic: It just sound in hindi like "SaB JUkhkege mere GATE ke aage"...mean conquer , bring under control Example: Her personal ambitions had been Subjugated to the needs of her family.

to defeat someone completely in a competition, war, etc. Form: verb Tone: neg

To vanquish is to be the complete and total winner, to overpower and overcome, whether in a contest, a race, or a war. It generally suggests a total trouncing, to the point of humiliation - or worse - for the loser.

Mnemonic: sounds like vanish..by vanishing you can be better than anyone in a competition. Example: They were vanquished in battle.

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Vocabulary

Word List: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Groups BELONGING TO SAME AGE/ERA BITTER FEELINGS / ILLWILL

Words

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Beleaguer means to pester or badger with persistence. A babysitter might find annoying the children who beleaguer her with requests for candy, cookies, games, and piggyback rides all at the same time.

Mnemonic: not able to withstand the HARASSMENT of the senior players the new player opted to BE out of the LEAGUE Example: The lack of funds that beleaguers schools

trouble or threaten continuously.(syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

Beset means to attack from all sidesâ€“-an invading army will beset a castle, or you might find yourself beset by a devastating storm.

Mnemonic: Beset. bees+attack. imagine bees attack on you from all directions. Example: A lack of money is the greatest problem Besetting the city today.

trouble Form: verb Tone: neg

trouble persistently

Mnemonic: PLAGUE is a epidemic..if anyone is affected, people tend to alienate him/her which ANNOYs or creates TROUBLE for the affected person. Example: the team was Plagued by a lot of mismanagement issues

to be put in a very difficult situation (syn) Form: verb Beleaguered Tone: neg

BRING BACK CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG DANGER

Beset

ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL

Plagued

REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Legends: X

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Vocabulary

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Words


Admonish

Relation to Group

COMPLAIN (low degree) CRITICIZE / EXPRESS STRONG

Mnemonic: to avoid A DEMON-ish act, a mother Warns her naughty child Example: She was Admonished for chewing gum in class.

blame Form: noun Tone: neg

Censure is a noun referring to very strong criticism; the verb means to criticize very strongly. If you take your dad's car without telling him, you can expect him to censure you severely, and maybe even ground you as well.

Mnemonic: Try to link the meaning of this word with the censor board which always critisizes every inch of the film and also disapproves of some of the parts. Example: The country faces international Censure for its alleged involvement in the assassination.

rebuke (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

Chastise is a fancy word for telling someone something they did that was really bad. If you pick your nose, your mom's gonna yell at you. If you do it in front of the Queen of England, you mom will chastise you.

Mnemonic: Chastisechest ice-The kid was punished or crticized severly by his mother for playing with ice on chest Example: He Chastised the team for their lack of commitment.

to scold mildly in order to correct or improve someone (syn) Form: verb Tone: positive

To chide someone is to ride them or get on their case, without really getting in their face.

Mnemonic: Chide can be remembered as "hide". You hide to avoid getting scolded for what you have done. Example: She Chided herself for being so impatient with the children.

DANGER ESCAPE (RUN AWAY)

Censure

EXPLAIN TOO MUCH HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE

Chastise

TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Chide

to criticize severely If you receive a rebuke, it (syn) means that you have been Form: verb reprimanded, or scolded. Tone: neg Rebuke

Mnemonic/Example

To admonish is to scold. If you want to show someone you're not happy with his behavior, admonish him. It sounds better than "scolding," and it's less painful than spanking.

BRING BACK CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL

Meaning

not to approve something and hence rebuke (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

Mnemonic: sounds like REEBOK.....you'll SCOLD HARSHLY and CRITICIZE SEVERELY your servant as he has spoiled your reebok shoes.. Example: he company was publicly Rebuked for having neglected safety procedures.

to reprove severely (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

If you're reprimanded, someone in authority speaks to you in an angry way because you've done something wrong. Or you might reprimand your dog if he steals your hot dog.

Mnemonic: Rep+rimand(Remand) when police take remand of someone,,they Scold them harshly (Strong rebuke) Example: The officers were severely Reprimanded for their unprofessional behavior.

to express disapproval, or criticize. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg

Reproach means to mildly criticize. If you show poor manners at your grandmother's dinner table, she will reproach you.

Mnemonic: If you see a cockRROACH, you Reproach and express disapproval! Example: His voice was full of Reproach.

to disapprove of something or someone (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg

If you get into trouble and are sent to the principalâ €™s office, be prepared for the principal to reprove you for your behavior. To reprove is to scold, reprimand, or - in plain English - â€œchew out.â€

Mnemonic: re+prove - Teacher is scolding student again and again (RE) to prove the theorem correct. Example: He Reproved her for rushing away.

Reprimand

Reproach

Reprove

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Vocabulary

Word List: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY

Words

Relation to Group

Meaning A complement is something that makes up a satisfying whole with something else. Those shiny red shoes you just bought complement your shiny red purse.

Mnemonic: When you Complement others it is when they finish the work perfectly or completly Example: The excellent menu is Complemented by a good wine list.

a thing that is added to something else to Supplement improve or complete it. Form: n Tone: pos

A supplement is something added to something else. Nutritional supplements add vitamins and minerals to the ones already included in the food you eat.

Example: First-class accommodation is available for a Supplement.

ARGUE / FIGHT BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE

Mnemonic/Example

to add to something for improvement. Form: v Complement Tone: pos

INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE Legends: X

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Vocabulary

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Words

ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

someone who is ready to fight and argue.(syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG

Relation to Group

If you walk into a high school where you know no one, find the toughest looking girl in the halls and tell her she's ugly, them's fighting words. Or bellicose ones. Bellicose means eager for war.

Mnemonic: belli+cose - cose sounds like cause, a small fight can become a cause of warlike situation Example: Bellicose hockey players who always seem to spend more time fighting than playing Root: same as above

unfriendly and aggressive (syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG

If someone is belligerent, they're eager to fight. It's a good idea to avoid hardcore hockey fans after their team loses - they tend to be belligerent.

Mnemonic: Belligerent sounds like billi (TOM) and Jerry always quarrel in TOM and JERRY cartoon. Example: The coach became quite Belligerent and spit at an umpire after being thrown out of the game Root: Prefix BELLImeans WAR

controversial (syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG

A contentious issue is one that people are likely to argue about, and a contentious person is someone who likes to argue or fight.

Mnemonic: Contentious(Contender+Serious) One who takes competition too serious always fights and quarrels. Example: After a Contentious debate, members of the committee finally voted to approve the funding.

Bellicose

BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT

Belligerent

INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END

Contentious

SURPRISE / CONFUSE

a discussion about something that people do not agree on (syn) Form: adj Disputatious Tone: NEG

bad tempered or who gets easily upset with small

a contentious speech act; a Mnemonic: dispute where there is Disputation sounds strong disagreement like Disputes and so it is. Example: A heated disputation over the true authorship of the poem popularly known as â€œThe Night Before Christmasâ€ If you're prone to picking fights, making snarky comments, and being

Mnemonic: Those who get their limbs fractured -gets

Fractious

things(syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG

frustratingly stubborn, you're fractious. And odds are you're not invited to too many parties.

annoyed or bad tempered by taking bed rest for long Example: The Fractious crowd grew violent.

unfriendly and aggressive (syn) Form: n Tone: NEG

Hostility is the state of ill will and bad feeling. If a teacher embarrasses you in front of the whole class, you will probably regard him or her with hostility for the remainder of the school year.

Mnemonic: Hostility: opposite being not a good HOST implies unfriendly Example: They were both glad to have gotten through the divorce proceedings without any visible signs of Hostility.

too ready to take disagreements to court. (syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG

If the haunted house staff treats you with extra care and don't subject you to the worst frights, it might not be because they like you, but because they know you're litigious: you tend to sue people.

Mnemonic: people would fight to eat a "litti" (a North Indian delicacy) so you get contentious Example: There is this very litigious group of people

very unfriendly, ready to argue and fight.(syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG

The adjective polemical describes something related to an argument or controversy. To keep the peace, avoid discussing politics at Thanksgiving, which usually deteriorates into a polemical argument with Uncle Bob. Better stick to football or apple versus

Mnemonic: refer pol to politics, as you know modern day politics is full of CONTROVERSIES Example: an unnecessarily Polemical look at the supposed incompatibility between science and religion

having a desire to fight and argue with somebody (syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG

Pugnacious means ready for a fight. If you're a first year teacher, you probably don't know how to deal with the pugnacious kids in every class. Learn some discipline or they'll end up fighting you, or each other.

Mnemonic: a pug is an aggressive breed of dog. So a Pugnacious pug.. Example: There's one Pugnacious member on the committee who won't agree to anything. Root: Prefix PUG is a DOG.

bad tempered (syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG

If you are quick to argue, always looking for a fight, and hard to please, you are truculent. You can also write a truculent essay, and fans upset by a loss can become truculent.

Mnemonic: Truculent sounds like turbulent which is very aggressive. Example: Die-hard fans who became Truculent and violent after their team's loss

Hostility

Litigous

Polemical

Pugnacious

Truculent

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Words


Relation to Group

Mnemonic: Chasm sounds like chashma.. if it has a crack, it is difficult to see Example: the yawning chasm of the generation gap

a separation or lack of agreement Form: noun Tone: neg

a large difference between two people or groups

Mnemonic: we say gulf of Mexico, gulf means water body , so a deep opening Example: The great gulf of time and space that separates us from the first inhabitants of North America

a serious disagreement between people Form: noun Tone: neg

Rift sounds like rip, and it's helpful to think of it that way. When there is a rift in a political party over how much taxes to pay, it is like a rip or tear in the fabric of the group.

Mnemonic: rhymes with drift(a sound force which drives something along)..a drifted water caused many breaks in the wall. Example: Efforts to heal the rift between the two countries have failed.

strong disagreement within an organization Form: noun Tone: neg

The sound of the word schism reminds some people of the sound of a piece of paper being torn in two; which makes sense when a group has a big fight and the group is torn in two, that's a schism.

Mnemonic: Sounds like prism which splits light into colors. Example: There is a schism between leading members of the party

BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- )/ * PRAISE

# GULF

INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS

# RIFT

OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE

# SCHISM

Mnemonic/Example

A chasm is a deep divide, either literal or figurative, such as a giant chasm in an ice cap or the growing chasm between two friends who haven't spoken in a long time.

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DOMINATING

Meaning

a very big difference between two people or groups Form: noun Tone: neg

agreement Form: n Tone: pos

If you clean your room of your own accord, you parents will be pleasedâ €”it means you did it without having to be asked. They might even accord you an extra privilege. Warring nations make peace accords.

Mnemonic: Agreement between father and son that he will buy Accord (Honda Accord, car name)for his son if he tops in his exams. Example: The two sides signed a peace Accord last July.

blend or agreement Form: adj Tone: pos

A concord is an agreement. If you want to watch a romantic comedy and your date wants to watch a horror film, you might compromise and come to a concord by agreeing to watch an action comedy.

Mnemonic: If you are a keyboard player you must be knowing about chords..chords are used for harmony...Concord = con + chord Example: Living in Concord with people of different races and religions

agreement (young people are always in conformity) Form: n Tone: pos

If all your friends wear jeans to school and you wear checkered slacks, you could say you reject conformity â €” doing the same thing as everyone else.

Mnemonic: Conform it - Means agree to it Example: The corporate culture demands a certain Conformity of appearance. Root: The prefix CON means TOGETHER

in agreement, at par. Form: adj Tone: pos

suitable or appropriate together

Mnemonic: congruent triangles are matching triangles...so matching in kind or character Example: When performing his official duties, the president must be dressed in clothes that are Congruous with his high position

agreement, together, blend Form: n Tone: pos

Use consonance to describe a state of agreement or harmony of parts, and is often refers

Mnemonic: Double Consonance gives the effect of being a near rhyme. Example: At present, the living room lacks Consonance because all of the furniture is on one side

Accord

Concord

Conformity

Congruous

Consonance

to a pleasing combination of musical sounds. arguing or disagreement (oppo) Form: n Tone: neg

Discord is the strife and tension that arises when two sides disagree on something, like the high pitched screaming of two kids fighting over the front seat of the car.

Mnemonic: DIS(not)+ACCORD(agreement).accord means agreement...hence Discord means disagreement. Example: The city has long been known as a scene of racial intolerance and Discord. Root: The prefix DIS is NOT

not in agreement, not together (oppo) Form: n Tone: neg

Disagreeable sounds can be called dissonance. You know it's dissonance if you have the strong desire to cover your ears with your hands.

Mnemonic: dis-sonance::DIS RESONANCE--not resonant....so not in harmony Example: The Dissonance between what we are told and what we see with our own eyes

opposition or disagreement on something.(oppo) Form: n Tone: neg

Fractions are smaller parts of whole numbers: one-quarter, one-tenth, one-half, and a faction is a smaller portion of a larger group that breaks away from it. A faction might take a fraction of the people from a large group and start a new group.

Mnemonic: Faction-fraction means fraction of a large party Example: The committee soon split into Factions.

in agreement, at par. Form: adj Tone: pos

Things that are harmonious go together nicely, like notes in music or people that work well as a team.

Mnemonic: A harmonium (musical instrument) if played well and in angreement to the reeds produces Harmonious and melodious music. Example: The living room was decorated in Harmonious colors.

not compatible or not harmonious.(oppo) Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the adjective incompatible to describe things or people that are too different to

Mnemonic: IN (not)+ compatible. Example: This printer is Incompatible with some PCs. Root: Prefix IN means NOT

Discord

Dissonance

Faction

Harmonious

get along. When paired with someone you can't work with, don't criticize or get mad. Just say, "We are incompatible."

Incompatible

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Words

ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

a noisy argument Form: n Tone: NEG

Altercation is a nicer word for "quarrel," which is a nicer word for "fight."

Mnemonic: altered - alter (means to change); When things are altered without telling the elders, then there may arise a noisy quarrel. Example: Judging from all the slamming and banging, I'd say there was some sort of Altercation going on next door

to argue about unimportant things like children do. Form: v Tone: NEG

When you bicker, you argue in a petty way, like two kids squabbling in the backseat on a long car trip, or politicians taking cheap shots at each other but avoiding discussion of important issues.

Mnemonic: Bicker sounds like Biker. The biker crashed into the car and he had a big quarrel with the owner of the car. Example: After a prolonged Bicker, they finally managed to find a movie that both of them were interested in seeing.

a noisy argument, involving many people,especially in public place Form: n,v Tone: NEG

A bar fight is a brawl. A fight in the cafeteria which turns into a free-forall can also be called a brawl. A brawl is a noisy fight in a crowd.

Mnemonic: Brawl can be pronounced as bawaal....in hindi bawaal is noisy drunken fight Example: Fans were Brawling in the streets after the game.

fighting in war time. Form: n Tone: NEG

Combat is fighting between two groups of armed forces. When you engage in combat, typically this means you engage in fighting that involves weapons.

Mnemonic: concentrate on the last part of the word bat. It will remind you that a fight in cricket (usage of bat) is for winning. Example: Some of these soldiers have never seen Combat.

struggle in a fight Form: v Tone: NEG

struggle in opposition

Mnemonic: You have less content to support your point means you are highly unlikely to

Altercation

ARGUE / FIGHT BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING

Bicker

INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE

Brawl

SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE

Combat

Contend

Contend(COMPETE) Example: to Contend with the enemy for control of the port a noisy argument, involving many people. Form: n Tone: NEG

If your marching band gets into a fight with another school's pep squad, your principal might say the fracas was uncalled for and undignified. A fracas is a noisy quarrel.

Mnemonic: Fracas-(fraud + cause), a fraud will generally cause a quarrel or brawl. Example: Police preparing for any Fracas that might follow the soccer game

a situation in which a crowd of people rush or push each other in a confused way. Form: n Tone: NEG

A melee is a noisy free-forall or rowdy fight - a no holds barred, battle royal, if you will. It's what pro wrestlers engage in every night, and shoppers endure at the toy store every holiday season.

Mnemonic: Melee sounds like Bruce Lee...famous for his fights. ME and Bruce LEE in a fight, who would win? ME VS LEE Example: A verbal disagreement at the football game soon turned into a general Melee involving scores of spectators

to complain and argue about small matters. Form: n,v Tone: NEG

A quibble is a small argument or fight. As a verb, it means to pick a minifight over something that doesn't really matter. "Let's not quibble over price," people will say, usually when they plan to gouge you.

Mnemonic: Query + babble (minor objection/murmuring). Example: He spent the entire evening quibbling about the historical inaccuracies in the television series on World War II

quarell and dispute. Form: n Tone: NEG

Row means a noisy argument, but when you use it this way, it rhymes with cow, rather than toe.

Mnemonic: When you sit in a Row with your enimies you argue and quarrel Example: He was engaged in a Row with his classmates, and made friends with seniors.

to argue noisily about very unimportant details Form: n,v Tone: NEG

A squabble is a fight but not necessarily a serious one. When we squabble, we have a little argument, probably about something not too important.

Mnemonic: While playing scrabble, children fight with each other on minor issues...Squabble=Quarrel+scribble Example: Frightened by noise of the Squabble, the cat hid under the couch

Fracas

Melee

Quibble

Row

Squabble

Tiff

Truce (oppo)

Tussle

quarell Form: n Tone: NEG

a quarrel about Mnemonic: ti(ny)f(fight): fight petty points about tiny things Example: Like any couple, they occasionally Tiff, but it's never anything serious

an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting for a period of time Form: n Tone: POS

When two warring sides decide to call it quits, it's called a truce - an agreement to end the fighting.

Mnemonic: Truce rhymes with juice...so you give a juice to people who are fighting so that it stops for sometime and they can discuss over it Example: There's been an uneasy truce between her and her parents for the past several months.

a short fight in order to get something. Form: n,v Tone: NEG

disorderly fighting

Mnemonic: Tussle can be remembered in relation to a hassle. Example: The suspect was arrested after a Tussle with a security guard.

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Vocabulary

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Words


Biased

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

having tendency to show favor towards or against a group of people. Making unfair judgements. Form: adj Tone: neg

When a skirt is cut at an angle, with one side higher than the other, it has a bias cut. Being biased is kind of lopsided too: a biased person favors one side or issue over another.

Mnemonic: The Prefix 'bi' means two, however its just the opposite for Bias, where it means One, rather One-sided. Example: Employers must consider all candidates impartially and without bias.

a person who has very strong ,unreasonable beliefs or opinions about race, religion etc and doesnâ€™t accept others opinion. Form: n,adj Tone: neg

A bigot is someone who doesn't tolerate people of different races or religions. If you have an uncle who is a bigot and tells racist jokes at Thanksgiving, you may need to talk to him and tell him it's not okay.

Mnemonic: bi(by)+got(god)-think of a person who is excessively devoted to god and hence very much hypocritical.this person will not tolerate any opinion about god differing from his own. Example: He was labeled a Bigot after making some offensive comments.

unfair, treating characterized by or someone or one showing prejudicial group of people treatment worse than others. Form: adj Tone: neg

Mnemonic: Difference or discrmination. Example: This is a company that was fined for its Discriminatory practices in the hiring of women

Impartial Form: adj Tone: pos

Dispassionate describes someone who is not getting carried away byâ €”or maybe not even havingâ €”feelings. It's something you'd want to see in a surgeon, who keeps cool under pressure, but not in a romantic partner.

Mnemonic: dispassionate, without any passion usually people without passions are calm Example: He spoke in a dispassionate tone about the accident.

hold the belief that everyone is equal and should have the same rights

An egalitarian is a person who believes in the equality of all

Mnemonic: for EAGLES, it does not matter which person's meat is that,


Bigot

INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE

Discriminatory


Dispassionate(oppo)

Egalitarian(oppo)

and opportunities. Form: adj Tone: pos

people, and an egalitarian society gives everyone equal rights.

ultimately they have to fill their stomach being scavengers. EAGLES are EGALitarians. Example: He described himself as â€ãn egalitarianâ€™ and vouches on Equality of rights

treating everyone in an equal way. Form: adj Tone: pos

If you work on a group project in class, you want an equitable share of the credit, you want as much credit as you deserve for your work. Equitable distribution means each party gets the share of something that they deserve.

Mnemonic: Mom made a cake and distributed it EQUALLY to everyone sitting at the TABLE, being impartial and fair. Example: They reached an equitable settlement of their dispute. Root: Equi means TWO

completely Fair, especially when dealing with different groups of people. Form: adj Tone: pos

Evenhanded means fair to all sides. If your essay is evenhanded, it should look at both sides of an argument, without showing preference for one side or the other.

Mnemonic: EVEN + HANDED - Even (that which is equal or proper) + Handed (handled)... a situation that has been fairly or properly handled or judged. Example: I thought it was an evenhanded assessment of her performance.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you're in a contest you'd better hope the judges are impartial, that is, that they aren't biased toward one competitor over another.

Mnemonic: There are two PARTS. You don't favor either PART. You are imPARTIAL. Root: Prefix IN means NOT

Unbiased Form: adj Tone: pos

Objectivity is a noun that means a lack of bias, judgment, or prejudice. Maintaining one's objectivity is the most important job of a judge.

Mnemonic: Objective(goal oriented)-hence IMPARTIAL Example: We need someone outside the company to give us an objective analysis.

one-sided (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is prejudicial towards a particular point of view, you can call it partisan. You'll often hear of the partisan politics in the US - since politicians seem to be so devoted to either the Republican or Democratic parties.

Mnemonic: parti(think of a political party)+san(son).so a father who is favouring his son's political party, instead of a good party. Example: Most newspapers are politically Partisan.

Equitable(oppo)

Evenhanded(oppo)

Impartial X

Objectivity(oppo)

Partisan

Prejudiced

Tendentious

having unreasonable dislike of or preference for someone or something, based on religion, sex etc. Form: adj Tone: neg

being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand

Mnemonic: prejudice reminds of prejudgement... which leads to partiality Example: Their decision was based on ignorance and prejudice.

expressing a strong opinion that people are likely to disagree with. Form: adj Tone: neg

If you are writing a report on climate change, and ignore evidence that the earth is warming, the paper might be called tendentious. Tendentious means promoting a specific, and controversial, point of view.

Mnemonic: Rearrange the words to make - Tend or Tendency + ious or bias. So, Tendentious is a TENDENcy towards one viewpoint over another. Example: He made some extremely Tendentious remarks.

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Words

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

something done confidently and successfully, often in a difficult situation. Form: n Tone: pos

Aplomb is the ultimate test for cool: grace under pressure. Use aplomb to show great restraint under even the most trying circumstances. In retail, it's always a good idea to handle the angry customers with aplomb.

Mnemonic: Aplomb a + pl (people) + OM; people normally chant 'OM' when they do meditation to keep themselves cool under strain. Example: He showed great Aplomb in dealing with the reporters.

Composure

to be calm and in control of your feelings. Form: n Tone: pos

When you stay calm under pressure, you keep your composure. Keeping your composure for a skinned knee? Easy. Keeping your composure during an avalanche? Not so easy.

Mnemonic: A R Rahman is a composer. He need all his Composure to compose music. Example: After the initial shock she regained her Composure.

Equanimity

a calm state of mind that means that you do not become angry or upset. Form: n Tone: pos

If you take the news of your brother's death with equanimity, it means you take it calmly without breaking down. Equanimity refers to emotional calmness and balance in times of stress.

Mnemonic: Equanimity = equal + enmity. To fight the enemy you need to be composed and temperamental, else he'll beat you. Example: He is an Olympic diver who always displays remarkable Equanimity on the platform

emotionless Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone who doesn't seem to react - who is always "taking a pass" in the conversation of life can be described as impassive.

Mnemonic: Impassive- A person saying-"I m Passive(Not Active)", that means he has no feelings,emotions. Example: She remained Impassive as the officers informed her of her son's death Root: Prefix IM means NOT

not easily upset or worried by a difficult situation. Form: adj Tone: pos

If you're imperturbable you are not easily upset. If your goal is to be imperturbable, then you can't let things bother you or get you stressed, confused, or angry.

Mnemonic: im'not'+perturb(able), meaning not perturbed....so a person who is not perturbed stays calm and placid.


Aplomb

Relation to Group

BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE

Impassive

Imperturbable

Example: Although he seems outwardly Imperturbable, he can get very angry at times. Root: Prefix IM means NOT casual. Form: adj Tone: neutral

If your friend is acting cool, unconcerned or in an indifferent manner, call him nonchalant - like when he saunters by a group of whispering, giggling girls and just nods and says, "Hey."

Mnemonic: Nonchalant seems similar to non challenge. If there is no challenge, life is calm and relaxed/carefree. Example: She faced the crowd with the Nonchalant ease of an experienced speaker.

not easily made angry or upset. Form: adj Tone: pos

Yes, phlegmatic has roots in that colorless, mucous stuff called phlegm, but people who are phlegmatic aren't called that because they have lots of mucous. They are just a little dull in expressing feelings or showing emotion.

Mnemonic: Sounds like PRAGMATIC(practical) - practical people think with logic and show little emotion. Example: There is a strangely Phlegmatic response to what should have been happy news

not easily excited or irritated. Form: adj Tone: pos

Call a body of water placid if it has a smooth surface and no waves. Call a person placid if they don't tend to make waves by causing a fuss.

Mnemonic: a student well PLACED in his college will sit calmly and peacefully...as compared to those who did not get placed. Example: He is a person with a sunny, Placid disposition

quiet and peaceful Form: adj Tone: pos

Choose the adjective, serene, to describe someone who is calm and untroubled. If you tell someone horrible news and they remain serene, you might wonder if they heard you!

Mnemonic: when we se(see)+rene(rain) in hot season,we become calm Example: She is a Serene woman who was everyone's source of support

not interesting or amusing. Form: adj Tone: neutral

Something that is staid is dignified, respectable possibly even boring, like a staid dinner party that is heavy on the important guests but light on the laughs.

Mnemonic: Staid sounds like "STAYED"-Imagine you have always maintained your dignity and propriety in the place where you have stayed for so many years! Example: Everyone was surprised by the racy joke from the usually Staid professor

not showing much emotion or interest.never

A stolid person canâ€™t Mnemonic: be moved to smile or Remember Stolid as show much sign of life, in solid. As we all know

Nonchalant

Phlegmatic

Placid

Serene

Staid

Stolid

reacting. Form: adj Tone: pos

much the same way as something solid, like a giant boulder, is immovable. Both are expressionless.

that molecules in solid are not moving randomly as in liquid or gas. So they are dull. So Stolid means solid and dull. Example: She remained Stolid during the trial.

quiet and peaceful Form: adj Tone: pos

When a place or your state of mind is peaceful, quiet and serene, it is tranquil.

Mnemonic: Tranquilizer is given to animals for calming them and thus Tranquil means to calm Example: The house was once again Tranquil after the kids moved outside to play

Tranquil

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Words

Relation to Group

Agitate X

to make someone feel anxious and nervous. Form: v Tone: neg


Consternation is a noun that can stop you in your tracks because it means "a sudden, alarming amazement or dread that results in utter confusion; dismay."

Mnemonic: CONSTERNATION (cons) continuous + ter (terror) + nation; continuous terrorist attacks on a nation can cause CONSTERNATION Example: Much to her parents' consternation, she had decided to not go to college.

disturb. Form: v Tone: neg

To disconcert is to unsettle someone, make them feel confused and out of sorts. It's a mixture of to embarrass and to creep out.

Mnemonic: When you are getting ready to perform at a concert, you are tensed and confused as to how your show will fair with the audience. Example: News of his criminal past has disconcerted even his admirers. Root: Prefix DIS means NOT

a worried and sad feeling after having received an unpleasant surprise. Form: n Tone: neg

If you discover late Sunday night that the dog really did eat your homework, you might cry out in dismay. Dismay describes an emotional state of alarm, fear, or serious disappointment.

Mnemonic: This (Dis) MAY semester end exams begin, I fear in dismay. Example: The imposing climb up the mountain dismayed us even before we got started.

cannot think clearly because you are extremely upset. Form: adj Tone: neg

If you are upset, you are distraught. If you want to explain why you are pulling your hair out, just utter "Leave me alone; I'm distraught" It'll work.

Mnemonic: This year because of drought (sounds like distraught) people were upset and anxious. Example: Distraught relatives are waiting for news of the missing children. Root: Prefix DIS means NOT

BIASED DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE

a worried and sad feeling after having received an unpleasant surprise. Consternation Form: n X Tone: neg

INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS

Disconcert X


Dismay X

Distraught X

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Agitate rhymes with Irritate. You get agitated if somebody constantly irritates you. Example: If I talk about the problem with him it just agitates him even more.

ARGUE / FIGHT CALM

Meaning Agitate means to stir up. If you watch a horror movie at bedtime, you may be too agitated to sleep. Movies like that can agitate all sorts of adrenaline responses in the body.

Faze X

Fluster X

Foment X

Frenetic X

to make someone feel confused or shocked, so that you donâ€™t know what to do. Form: v Tone: neg

If nothing can faze you, you are unflappable. Nothing bothers you, or gets you off your game. To faze is to disrupt or disturb.

Mnemonic: The face turns faze(d) when someone is humiliated. Example: You'll never succeed as a writer if you let a little bit of criticism faze you.

to make someone nervous or confused by giving them a lot to do. Form: v,n Tone: neg

To fluster someone is to make them feel upset or agitated. A challenging math problem might fluster you, or even a glance from an admirer.

Mnemonic: Fluster reminds me of 'Frustrate'. when you get confused, you get frustrated. Example: Some speakers fluster more easily than others.

to create trouble or violence to make it worse. Form: v Tone: neg

Stand outside the school cafeteria passing out flyers with nutritional details on school food, and you may foment a revolutionâ€“â €“foment means stirring up something undesirable, such as trouble.

Mnemonic: Foam starts to appear once you profusely foment (stir up) a soapy hot water bucket(2nd meaning ) Example: He was accused of fomenting violence.

lot of energy and activity in a way that is not organized Form: adj Tone: neg

The adjective frenetic is another way to say frenzied, frantic, or totally worked up. Kind of how you'd run around the kitchen madly trying to cook a last-minute dinner for 30 of your closest friends.

Mnemonic: sounds like 'fanatic' which means someone with excessive excitement or devotion to something (belief/cause) so frenetic means excessive excitement like a mad man. Example: The celebration was noisy and frenetic.

in a state of extreme excitement, in an uncontrolled way. Form: adj Tone: neg

Hysterical means "marked by uncontrollable, extreme emotion." If your favorite sports team wins a championship, you might get hysterical and started weeping and screaming all at once.

Mnemonic: Hysterical sounds like Hilarious, when its not even so. Like its an emotional disorder and someone watching an emotional scene starts laughing as if it comprises a funny plot. That hysterical. Example: A few of the children began to scream, and soon they were all caught up in the hysteria.

cannot be calmed down Form: adj Tone: neg

An implacable person just canâ€™t be appeased. If you really offended your best friend and tried every kind of apology but she refused to speak to you again, you could describe her as implacable.

Mnemonic: Sounds like IMPLEASABLE -- some one who cannot be pleased or appeased -not pacifiable Example: He has an implacable hatred for his political opponents. Root: Prefix MIS means NOT

very worried and upset Form: adj Tone: neg

High on drama and lacking any emotional restraint, overwrought is an adjective that

Mnemonic: wrought sounds lik drought...during drought people run mad

Hysterical X

Implacable X

Overwrought

means deeply, behind food...they are in excessively agitated or a state of agitation nervous. Example: The witness became overwrought as she described the crime.

X

Perturb X

to make someone worried or anxious Form: v Tone: neg

To perturb is to bug or bother someone by confusing them or throwing them off balance. You can try, but it's almost impossible to perturb the guards outside Buckingham Palace.

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Mnemonic: perturb sounds like "disturb" Example: It perturbed him that his son was thinking about leaving school.

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Vocabulary

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Words


Absolute

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

having unlimited power or control, esp when despotic Form: adj,n Tone: neg

Use absolute as a noun or an adjective when you're so sure of something that you know it will never change. For example, a devout person's belief in life after death is an absolute; that person has absolute faith in the afterlife.

Mnemonic: "solute" sounds like salute and we use to salute people having complete power. Example: The country is ruled by an Absolute dictator. Root: Prefix AB means AWAY FROM.

Speak with an authoritative tone, or no one will listen to you. Why would they, if you sound like you don't even believe in yourself? Authoritative means sure or definitive.

Mnemonic: Someone having Authority will be Authoritative. Example: The book is an Authoritative guide to the city's restaurants.

ARGUE / FIGHT BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE

showing that you expect people to obey and respect Authoritative you. Form: adj Tone: neg

INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL

Autocrat

NOT SERIOUS

a person who expects to be obeyed by other people and does not care about their opinions or feelings. Form: n Tone: neg

An autocrat is another Mnemonic: name for a dictator, Autocracy (Auto someone who wields means indeendent) is absolute power and uses it just the opposite in a cruel and despotic word for Democracy. manner. Example: European Autocrats once commonly believed that they had received the right to rule directly from God.

a ruler with great power, especially one who uses it in a cruel way Form: n Tone: neg

A despot, is a cruel, allcontrolling ruler. For example, a despot does not allow people to speak out against the leadership, nor really want them to have much freedom at all.

Mnemonic: Cruel dictators kill thousands of people on de (the) spot (Despot) Example: He was a successful basketball coach, but many people regarded him as a petty Despot.

you are certain that your beliefs and rights are correct and that others should accept them. Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone who is dogmatic has arrogant attitudes based on unproved theories. If you dogmatically assert that the moon is made of green cheese, you'll just get laughed at.

Mnemonic: If you try to read "Dogmatic" from back to front, you will get "i am god". the person who think that he is a god is arrogant and stubborn Example: She's become so Dogmatic lately that arguing with her is pointless.

control by one

Hegemony is political or

Mnemonic:


Despot

Dogmatic

Hegemony

Imperious

Martinet

Totalitariian

Tyrant

country, organization, etc. over other countries, within a particular group. Form: n Tone: neg

cultural dominance or authority over others. The hegemony of the popular kids over the other students means that they determine what is and is not cool.

Hegemony:he's got money,so he's domineering in the society and he control others. Example: They discussed the national government's Hegemony over their tribal community.

expecting people to obey you and treating them as if they are not as important as you. Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone who is imperious gives orders in a way that shows they feel superior or more important than other people. You might want the smartest kid in the class as your lab partner, but not if they have an imperious attitude and boss you around.

Mnemonic: remember Imperious curse in harry potter!!it is used to command others to do something Example: She is an Imperious movie star who thinks she's some sort of goddess

a very strict person who demands that other people obey orders or rules completely Form: n Tone: neg

Use the noun martinet to describe someone is a stickler when it comes to following rules, such as the teacher who won't accept homework if it is written in a color other than blue.

Mnemonic: Martinet's spelling is very similar to martial - so a Martinet is a strict martial. Example: The prison's warden was a cruel Martinet.

in which there is only one political party that has complete power and control over the people. Form: adj,n Tone: neg

You can decipher the meaning of totalitarian by the first part: "total." It refers to a government with total power, one that exercises complete, even oppressive control over the people and their activities.

Mnemonic: Totalitarian sounds like TOTAL power Example: We were asked to oppose dictatorship and totalitarianism and embrace Democracy.

a person who has complete power in a country and uses it in a cruel and unfair way. Form: n Tone: neg

If you accuse your parents of being tyrants, you are saying they abuse their control of youâ€“-they are cruel, overly restrictive of your freedoms, and unfair. A tyrant is a ruler who is cruel and unjust.

Mnemonic: Remember mike tyson .. He was cruel dictator in the ring Example: The country was ruled by a succession of Tyrants.

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Vocabulary

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Words


Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Equal work (syn) Form: adj Tone: neutral

The word commensurate has to do with things that are similar in size and therefore appropriate. Many people think the death penalty is a commensurate punishment for murder. In other words, the penalty fits the crime.

Mnemonic: SPLIT AS COMMON - ENSURED -RATE. WHICH MEANS, OUR RATE WILL BE EQUAL TO THE CHEAPEST PRODUCT! Example: Salary will be Commensurate with experience.

not similar (oppo) Form: adj Tone: negative, neutral depending on the context

The trunk of some people's cars may contain items as disparate as old clothes, rotting food, and possibly a missing relative. Disparate things are very different from each other.

Mnemonic: Disparate can be broken as: "This" "sEparate" so read as "this is separate Example: They are a disparate group of individuals.

Equal (syn) Form: n Tone: neutral

Parity refers to equality of an amount or value, and it's used most often to refer to finance.

Mnemonic: Parity.......divide it like pari(pair)...pairs always exhibit equality in their choices. Example: Prison officers are demanding pay Parity with the police force.

Equal(syn) Form: n Tone: neutral

A peer is someone at your own level. If you are a 10th grader, other high school students are your peers.

Mnemonic: peer rhymes with near and dear -people of equal status(Peers) are usually near and dear to each other. Example: Children are worried about failing in front of their Peers.

equality Form: adj Tone: neutral

When something is tantamount to another thing it is essentially its equivalent. For some animal activists, wearing fur is tantamount to murder.

Mnemonic: Tantamount and Paramount are similar in sound but have different meanings. While Tantamount means, equivalent, paramount means chief in importance. Example: If he resigned it would be Tantamount to admitting that he was

Commensurate

BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE

Disparate (opp)


Parity

NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE

Peers

Tantamount

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Words


Adulation *

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

If you've ever been to a pop concert filled with screaming fans you've probably been exposed to adulation â €” praise so over-thetop it's almost embarrassing.

Mnemonic: Adulation *ad + u + late; To act in an ad (advertisement) you came late, so producer became furious...in order to cool him u need to FLATTER him. Example: The band enjoy the Adulation *of their fans wherever they go.

When you hear a blandishment come your way, you may feel flattered, as that's what a blandisher intends to do. However, beware because that flattery may come with the underlying intention of persuading you to do something!

Mnemonic: BLAN (like PLAN) + DISH (food) PLAN a DISH to FLATTER somebody... Example: He refused to be moved by either threats or Blandishment *s.

flatter Form: v Tone: neg

A fawn is a young deer, but it's also a verb meaning to try and win favor by flattering. You might fawn over Bambi if you want to hang out with the cute and fuzzy gang.

Mnemonic: a FAN tries to gain favor by flattery Example: a sports star surrounded by Fawning fans

too generous in praising or thanking somebody Form: adj Tone: pos

Compliments usually make you feel pretty good, but fulsome compliments, which are exaggerated and usually insincere, may have the opposite effect.

Mnemonic: Focus on the full portion. Fulsome means excessive to the point where it is too full. Example: He was Fulsome in his praise of the Prime Minister.

trying too hard to please or satisfy someone very important. Form: adj Tone: neg

If you disapprove of the overly submissive way someone is acting - like the teacher's pet or a celebrity's assistant - call them by the formal adjective obsequious.

Mnemonic: ob + SEQUI + ous .. sequi means sequence where one thing "follows" the other.. and servants follow what their masters say Example: She's constantly followed by Obsequious assistants who will do anything she tells them to.

admiration and praise, but it is greater than is necessary. Form: n Tone: neg


when you say all good things to someone to persuade them to do things for you. Blandishment Form: n * Tone: neg

INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING

Fawn

PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE Fulsome

Obsequious

a person who praises influential or powerful people in order to get something in return. Form: n Tone: neg

A sycophant is a person who tries to win favor from wealthy or influential people by flattering them. Also known as brownnosers, teacher's pets or suck-ups.

Mnemonic: Sycophant.split it like .....syco(sounds like psycho)+phan...sounds like FAN.......SO JUST IMAGINE a PSYCHO FAN of yours in your office who want to please you in whatever way..by flattering..or by bootliking.....just to gain your favour... Example: When her career was riding high, the self-deluded actress often mistook Sycophants for true friends

a person who praises influential or powerful people in order to get something in return. Form: n,v Tone: neg

You can call the kid who is always really nice to the teacher in hopes of getting a good grade a brownnoser or, if you want to sound clever, a toady.

Mnemonic: Sir, "TODAY"(Toady) you look very ...... (this an act of pleasing someone in order to gain a personal advantage.) Example: She's a real Toady to the boss.

friendly or giving praise in a way that is not sincere and hence unpleasant. Form: adj Tone: neg

You might know the idea of the adjective unctuous by other words like "oily," "smarmy," or overly "flattering." When a person is unctuous, you can't trust their kindness, because they usually want something in return.

Mnemonic: Unctuous -> fUnctuous -> party like ... in parties girls do a lot of oily makeup and try to appear and behave sauve but in my opinion they look and behave in a bland way. Example: an Unctuous appraisal of the musical talent shown by the boss's daughter

Sycophant

Toady

Unctuous

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Vocabulary

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Words

ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

covering completely Form: adj Tone: neut

When you want to describe something that includes all or most details, you can use the adjective comprehensive. If you get the comprehensive treatment at a spa, it might include massage, manicure and a facial.

Mnemonic: we always hear "COMPREHENSIVE win" from cricket commentators.. it means the side wins making enough runs or with enough wickets.. so its covering and winning in all aspects over the opposition.. Example: A COMPREHENSIVE overview of European history since the French Revolution

to include a large number or range of things. Form: v Tone: NEUT

Encompass means to contain. When you see the word, picture a campus which encompasses lecture halls, a football field, a medical center, a dining hall and some parking lots.

Mnemonic: We use compass to draw circle, which sorrounds or includes the area within it. Example: The district Encompasses most of the downtown area.

including everything Form: adj Tone: NEUT

Call something inclusive when it's designed or inclined to include. An exclusive club might let you in, but an inclusive one will ask you to join, no strings attached.

Mnemonic: Everything is IN the CLOSET. Example: A butterfly expert with an Inclusive knowledge of his subject

existing in all parts and spreading gradually to affect all parts of a place. Form: adj Tone: NEUT

When something is pervasive, it's everywhere. Common things are pervasive â €” like greed and cheap perfume.

Mnemonic: Pervasive sounds like persuasive, if you are persuasive youre ideas will be Pervasive Example: Television's Pervasive influence on our culture

AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT BIASED CALM

COMPREHENSIVE

DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS

Encompass

MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE

Inclusive


Pervasive

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Words Relation to Group

ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT BIASED

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

someone who is not interested or enthusiastic about anything. Form: n. Tone: neg

Use the noun apathy when someone is not interested in the important things that are happening. You might feel apathy for the political process after watching candidates bicker tediously with one another.

Mnemonic: a (negative) + pathy : root "pathy" means feeling as in sympathy; so Apathy means having no feeling for others or lacking interest in something. Example: People have shown surprising Apathy toward these important social problems. Root: Prefix A- means NOT

a person who is unable to suffer pain without complaining. Form: n,adj Tone: neg

Being stoic is being calm and almost without any emotion. When you're stoic, you don't show what you're feeling and you also accept whatever is happening.

Mnemonic: Think: "Stone-like" -To be like a stone means you don't experience pleasure or pain. You are unaffected. Example: We are surprised at his Stoical acceptance of death

Apathy

CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS

Stoic

MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE Legends: X

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Vocabulary

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Words

CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED Derogatory

INDIFFERENT MAKE ISOLATE

Pejorative

Mnemonic: Depriciate is to reduce and lessen. Example: He made a deprecating comment. Root: Prefix De means DOWN.

Something that's derogatory is insulting or disrespectful. If you make derogatory comments, that means you say things that are unflattering, unkind, or demeaning.

Mnemonic: de rogue -you always will have a low opinion of rogues Example: Fans made a steady stream of Derogatory remarks about the players on the visiting team

a word or remark that expresses criticism. Form: adj Tone: neg

Call a word or phrase pejorative if it is used as a disapproving expression or a term of abuse. Treehugger is a pejorative term for an environmentalist.

Mnemonic: Owner of a Mitsubishi PAJERO belittles everyone on the road. Example: I'm using the word â €ãcademicâ€™ here in a Pejorative sense.

EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING

Mnemonic/Example

showing a bad attitude towards someone. Form: adj Tone: neg

EQUALITY

INSULTING WORDS

Meaning

to feel and express tending to diminish or disapproval of disparage something or someone. Deprecatory Form: adj Tone: neg

BIASED

DOMINATING

Relation to Group

NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE Legends: X

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Vocabulary

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Words

Relation to Group

ALIENATE

to make unfriendly When you alienate Form: v people, you make them Tone: neg stop liking or caring about you. Show up at a conference of cat lovers with a sign around your neck that says, "I hate kittens," and you'll learn firsthand what that means.

Mnemonic: Alien+ate. treating someone like an alien is like being unfriendly or getting separated. Example: He ALIENATEd most of his colleagues with his bad temper.

to act in oposition Form: v Tone: neg

To antagonize is to provoke someone to react angrily. If your mother tells you to stop antagonizing your brother, she's asking you to stop making him mad.

Mnemonic: go anti to someone that is ANTAGONIZE for you Example: Her comments ANTAGONIZEd many people. Root: Prefix ANTI means AGAINST.

Divide, isolate Form: n Tone: NEG

To estrange people may sound like adding wobbly antennae and an extra eyeball to their faces. Really, estrange means to push apart people who were once close to each other and cause them to be like strangers.

Mnemonic: To behave like a stranger with a friend will mean estranging. Example: she Estranged several of her coworkers when she let her promotion go to her head

ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE

ANTAGONIZE

Meaning


Estrange

NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE Legends: X

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Words


Insular

ARGUE / FIGHT

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

only interested in your country, ideas etc, or not in those from outside. Form: adj Tone: NEG

Insular means "having a narrow view of the world," like insular people who never leave their small town, which enables them to believe that every place in the world is the same and the people are all just like them.

Mnemonic: IN(not)+SECULAR.a country which is not secular is Insular Example: The British are often accused of being Insular. Root: In means INTO or WITHIN.

narrow minded Form: N Tone: NEG

lacking tolerance or understanding

Mnemonic: With My Opaque lenses I will be short sighted Example: Dogma and Myopic politics always falls short in explanation

If an issue or a matter is parochial, it is trivial or only concerns a local area. Likewise, a person with a parochial mentality is narrow-minded, or not open to new ideas.

Mnemonic: Having PARTIAL vision or outlook is being Parochial. Example: They need to be better informed and less Parochial in their thinking.

A provincial person comes from the backwaters. Someone from a small province outside of Provence, France, might seem a little more provincial and less worldly than someone from, say, Paris.

Mnemonic: Provincial sounds like "PROVINCE". Imagine a person belonging to rural province then he don't have much exposure to outer world...so he is unsophisticated and limited in outlook Example: In spite of his education and travels, he has remained very Provincial.

BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING

Myopic

EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS

only concerned with small issues that happen in you local areas. Parochial Form: adj Tone: NEG

MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL

narrow-minded. Form: adj Tone: NEG

NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING

Provincial

PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE Legends: X

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Flippant

Relation to Group

Meaning

showing that you do not take certain things as seriously as you are expected to take. Form: adj Tone: neg

When a parent scolds a teenager for missing a curfew or blowing off a test and the teen snaps back, "Whatever," you could say the teen is being flippant. His reply was casual to the point of sarcasm and disrespect.

Mnemonic: focus on flip; during exam time if you flip through the pages of the book rather than reading them with concentration, then you LACK PROPER SERIOUSNESS. Example: He made a Flippant response to a serious question.

silly or not serious especially when it is not suitable. Form: adj Tone: neg

Frivolous things are silly or unnecessary. If something is frivolous, then you don't need it.

Mnemonic: Frivolous things are silly or unnecessary. If something is Fri-vo-lous Free - If something is free, you don't take it seriously, you think 'oh they are giving it for free because its not an important stuff, or not the stuff in demand, or not the stuff usually taken Example: She thinks window shopping is a Frivolous activity.

serious Form: adj Tone: pos

If you have a grave personality, you are solemn and dignified and don't joke around very much.

Mnemonic: Don't laugh near the graves,be serious. Example: My father would turn in his grave if he knew what I have done.

the state of not being worried about anything. Form: adj Tone: neg

Only people with no real troubles can afford to be insouciant during times like these. Runway models are great at looking insouciant, strolling the catwalk apparently without a care in the world.

Mnemonic: Insouciant: sounds like In-soup-ant or in-sauce-ant. Suppose the waiter serves you a soup with an ant in it and he is not even concerned about removing it, he is Insouciant. Example: She wandered into the meeting with complete insouciance to the fact that she was late

behavior that shows lack of respect for something serious and that treats it in an amusing way. Form: n Tone: neg

Joking that your dead grandmother "never looked better" could inject some levity, or frivolity, into her funeral, but your relatives might find your joke inappropriate to the occasion.

Mnemonic: Levity Sounds like lev(leave)+it+y(.yaar).you casually leave things without any seriousness Example: The teachers disapprove of any displays of Levity during school assemblies

BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING

Frivolous

INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT

Grave (oppo)

PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE

Insouciant

Levity

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: Antonyms

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Words

Relation to Group

Grovel

to behave in a humble manner with someone who can probably give him what he wants. Form: v Tone: neg

To grovel is to beg like a hungry dog. You don't have to be a canine, though, you might grovel for a better grade (please don't).

Mnemonic: One who wants to "grow well" in his Company needs to Grovel before his manager. Example: He had to Grovel to get her to accept his apology.

a servant Form: n Tone: neg

Your minions, if you are lucky enough to have any, are those people who are devoted to you and entirely dependent on you. If you borrow money from a bully and don't pay it back, he might send one of his minions after you.

Mnemonic: A mini peon (Minion).. Who is servile to his boss. Example: Most of the top appointments went to the new governor's personal Minions and political cronies

someone who eagerly wants to obey or please someone Form: adj Tone: neg

If you want to get someone to like you, don't offer to fetch them a Coke, rub their feet, or do their homework. They won't like you any better, and your servile attitude will only cost you their respect.

Mnemonic: sounds like "SERVE" while serving you have to be submissive, or keep your head down. Example: He had always maintained a Servile attitude around people with money

copying someone without any originality of his own at all. Form: adj Tone: neg

abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant

Mnemonic: Slavish sounds like SLAVE. Example: He has been criticized for his Slavish devotion to the rules.

someone who eagerly wants to obey or please someone Form: adj,n Tone: neg

Subservient means "compliant," "obedient," "submissive," or having the qualities of a servant. Something that's subservient has been made useful, or put into the service of, something else.

Mnemonic: sub+servient..servient sounds like servent.....a servent is a slave or one who is low in rank or position so subordinate. Example: She refused to take a Subservient role in their marriage. Root: Prefix SUBmeans UNDER.

a person who asks for something in a humble manner specially from God or a powerful person.

If you pray every night to be accepted to your dream college, you can call yourself a supplicant, or a person who asks humbly for something.

Mnemonic: One who says ..SUPPLy me I CANT get it on my own. Example: The new governor soon had to

ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING

Minion

EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE

Servile

NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL

Meaning

NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE

Slavish


Subservient

Supplicant

Mnemonic/Example

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deal with a long line of Supplicants asking for jobs and other political favors>

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Vocabulary

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Words


Coddle

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

to treat someone with too much care and attention. Form: v Tone: pos

While it is okay for parents to coddle, spoil, or pamper a young child, itâ€™s a little unnerving when parents coddle, or pamper adult children. And downright weird when adult children wear Pampers.

Mnemonic: Coddle sounds like cuddle cuddling is pampering kids, showing excessive love, indulge in excess of cuddling that is mollyCoddle, which will spoil kids. Example: The judges were accused of coddling criminals.

the state of your feelings or mind at a particular time. Form: n,v Tone: neut

Humor is a word for the quality of being funny - or for appreciating comedy, as in "sense of humor."

Example: She Humored her grandfather by listening to his war stories for the hundredth time.

to satisfy a particular desire and interest. Form: v Tone: pos

Indulge is a verb that means "to give in to something," like when you indulge your craving for chocolate by eating a big piece of it.

Example: It's my birthday. I'm going to Indulge myself and eat whatever I want to eat.

Mollycoddle means to spoil or overindulge something. You can think of mollycoddle as an extreme form of coddle. If you constantly fuss over your dog and serve her homemade food while she's resting on a soft feather bed, you mollycoddle her.

Mnemonic: molly=to calm down/pacify...coddle=to treat with tenderness/care... Mollycoddle= treat with excessive care Example: The coach has been mollycoddling the team's star players.

BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY

Humor

EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT

Indulge


to protect soomeone too much and make their life too comfortable and Mollycoddle safe. Form: v Tone: pos

PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE

Pamper

to take care of treat with excessive someone very well indulgence and make them feel as comfortable as possible. Form: v Tone: pos

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Mnemonic: Do you know what hampers a child most? I think if the parents always INDULGE a child , it may be Pampered & its life may be hampered. Example: They really Pamper their guests at that hotel.

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Words

ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE

Relation to Group

Meaning Omnipresent describes something that's everywhere at once, like a deity or a bad smell.

Mnemonic: Omni means ALL and Present. So present in all places or everywhere is being Omnipresent. Example: Seeking some much-needed relief from the Omnipresent noise of the big city Root: Omni means ALL.

seeming to be everywhere or in several places at the same time. Form: adj Tone: NEUT

It's everywhere! It's everywhere! When something seems like it's present in all places at the same time, reach for the adjective ubiquitous.

Mnemonic: Remember UB Group belonging to Vijaya Malliya. It is present everywhere in India. Example: By that time cell phones had become Ubiquitous, and people had long ceased to be impressed by the sight of one

AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT

Omnipresent


Ubiquitous

Mnemonic/Example

Present everywhere. (syn) Form: adj Tone: NEUT

INSULTING WORDS MAKE ISOLATE NARROW MINDED / REGIONAL NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE Legends: X

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Vocabulary

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Words

Relation to Group

Pulverize

to defeat or when you pulverize destroy something someone, you defeat completely.(effect) him/her thoroughly Form: v Tone: neg

Mnemonic: Pulverize = POWDERIZE Example: We Pulverized the opposition.

to officially state that a decision made by the court has come to an end or not valid. Form: v Tone: neut

Quash means to put down, stop, extinguish, and itâ€™s usually used to talk about ideas, feelings, or political movements. You wouldnâ €™t quash a grape underfoot; you would squash it. But if you were a military dictator, you would quash a revolution.

Mnemonic: Quash can be framed as CRUSH to ash, so qu+(ASH) Example: The rumours were quickly Quashed.

calm down someone or something. Form: v Tone: pos

Meaning to suppress or overcome, quell is what you have to do with nerves before a big test and fears before going skydiving.

Mnemonic: Quell sounds simlar to yell and we yell to supress someone or make him/her quiet. Example: Extra police were called in to Quell the disturbances.

control Form: v Tone: pos/neut

Repression is a kind of holding back or holding down. There's repression of feelings (willing yourself not to cry), as well as social repression (where the government limits freedom or shuts out certain groups).

Mnemonic: Repression is like depression and you control your depression which is Repression Example: They survived 60 years of political Repression.

Restrain

prevent something from taking place (syn) Form: n Tone: neg

Restrain means to hold yourself back, which is exactly what you'd have to do if, after weeks of dieting, you found yourself face to face with a dessert case filled with pies, cakes, and cookies.

Mnemonic: Restrain is to TRAIN your BRAIN to REFRAIN from doing something you are not supposed to. Example: He could not Restrain the dog from attacking.

Scotch

decisively putting an end to something. Form: v Tone: pos/neut

The verb to scotch has nothing to do with the wellknown liquor. Instead, it means to prevent or stop something from happening.

Mnemonic: Scotch sounds like Torch, which is used to supress Darkness. Example: Rumours that he had fled the country were promptly Scotched by his wife.

to bring someone

To subdue is to hold back,

Mnemonic: Hungry?

ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED

Quash

DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE INCLUDING EVERYTHING INDIFFERENT

Quell

Meaning


Repression

PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE

Mnemonic/Example

Subdue

Suppress

or something to control.(effect) Form: v Tone: neg/neut

put down, or defeat. A Doberman can be subdued with a bone, but subduing a yapping toy poodle can be a mail carrier's greatest daily challenge.

Lets go to SUBWAYS to Subdue our hunger. Example: Julia had to Subdue an urge to stroke his hair.

to put something to end especially by force Form: v Tone: neg

To suppress something means to curb, inhibit, or even stop it. If the sound of your boss moving in his chair sounds like gas, youâ €™re going to have to learn how to suppress your giggles.

Mnemonic: The celebrity said "sup press" when the press came and ruined his activity. Example: The governor tried to Suppress the news.

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Words

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Astound

to surprise or shock someone very much. Form: v Tone: neg/ neut

Astound means to amaze. Savants, or those with extreme brain abnormalities, can astound people by their ability to play Beethoven sonatas on the piano after having heard them only once.

Mnemonic: Astound sounds like A- STUNT which is really a wonder. Example: The magician will Astound you with his latest tricks.

to confuse someone completely. Form: v Tone: neg/ neut

To baffle is to confuse. If you are completely puzzled as to what baffle means, you might say that this word baffles you.

Mnemonic: Baffle sounds like be + fool. Everybody knows that a fool is always confused and frusturated while trying to understand / do something new. Example: I was Baffled by many of the scientific terms used in the article.

to confuse someone especially by tricking them. Form: v Tone: neg/ neut

To bamboozle is to hoodwink, lead by the nose, or pull the wool over someone's eyes you're tricking or fooling them.

Mnemonic: sounds like Puzzle, using trick Example: Bamboozled by con men into buying worthless land in the desert

confused and unable to think normally. Form: v Tone: neg/ neut

To befuddle is to confuse. A sticky exam question can befuddle you, or an awkward question about your whereabouts the night before (how can you remember? You were befuddled, after all.)

Mnemonic: Befuddle sounds like bepuzzled. Example: Most of the applicants were Befuddled by the wording of one of the questions on the driving test

showing that you are confused and unable to think clearly. Form: adj Tone: neg/ neut

To bemuse means to confuse or puzzle. You might be bemused opening a box of candy from a "secret admirer." Your teacher might give you a bemused smile if you write your essay as a series of haikus.

Mnemonic: BEwilder + confUSE = Bemuse Example: The stage mishap momentarily Bemused the actress

to confuse someone Form: v Tone: neut

To bewilder is to amaze, baffle, dumbfound, flummox, perplex, or stupefy. When you bewilder people, you confuse them.

Mnemonic: Some times people behave like wild animals that Bewilders me, because they lack humanity.

ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT BIASED CALM DISTURBED / AGITATED DOMINATING EQUALITY EXCESSIVE FLATTERY ()/ * PRAISE

Baffle


Bamboozle

NOT SERIOUS OVERLY OBEDIENT PAMPERING PRESENT EVERYWHERE SUPPRESS / END SURPRISE / CONFUSE

Befuddle

Bemuse

Bewilder

Example: The change in policy seems to have Bewildered many of our customers

Boggle

to be slow to do or startle with amazement accept something or fear because you are surprised. Form: v Tone: neut

Mnemonic: Find it similar with Google, as Google gives us regular amazement. Example: She Boggled her first effort to make Christmas cookies

to confuse and surprise someone. Form: v Tone: neg/ neut

If you have an identical twin, you've probably tried dressing alike so that people confound you with, or mistake you for, one another. You've also probably learned that, unfortunately, this trick doesnâ€™t work on your mom.

Mnemonic: CONfusion FOUND -Confound Example: The school's team Confounded all predictions and won the game.

extremely surprised and shocked. Form: adj Tone: neg/ neut

When you see your mom come back from the salon with bright green spiky hair and your jaw drops to the floor in total shock, youâ€™re flabbergasted. You are really, really shocked pretty much speechless.

Mnemonic: The extra flab in his body aghasted him, for he was confused whether to go for the audition or not Example: It flabbergasts me to see how many people still support them.

confounded or confused. Form: adj Tone: neg/ neut

be confusing or Mnemonic: A Fox is perplexing to; cause to cunning and have the be unable to think clearly capability of confusing you with its tricks Example: I must admit I'm completely Foxed.

Confound

Flabbergasted

Fox

Non plussed

Obfuscate

Perplex

so shocked that If a conversation with you fail to speak or someone leaves you do something scratching your head and Form: adj wondering what point Tone: neg/ neut they were trying to make, you are nonplussed: bewildered, puzzled, often speechless.

Mnemonic: plussedpuzzled. Example: I was nonplussed by his openly expressed admiration of me.

to make something less clear and more difficult to understand Form: v Tone: neg/ neut

Some people are experts at obfuscating the truth by being evasive, unclear, or obscure in the telling of the facts. The people who are good at obfuscating would include defense lawyers and teenagers asked about their plans for Saturday night.

Mnemonic: ob (ab--now) FUSCATE -fuss + create To deliberately create a fuss about an issue to make it hard to understand. Example: Their explanations only serve to Obfuscate and confuse.

confused and worried because you did not understand it. Form: v

To perplex someone is to amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, mystify, or puzzle them. Perplexing things are

Mnemonic: Perplex = complex (full of confusion) Example: Questions about the meaning of

Stupefy

Tone: neut

hard to understand.

life have always Perplexed humankind.

to surprise or shock someone and hence cant think clearly Form: v Tone: neg/ neut

Don't be embarrassed if the magician's tricks stupefy you. It means you're amazed. Who doesn't want to be stopped in his tracks sometimes?

Mnemonic: Think of tourists visiting New York City for the first time. They stare up at the skyscrapers, lost in wonder. They are stupified. Example: He was stupefied by the amount they had spent.

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Words

CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND

Allay

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

putting a fear, suspicion or worry at rest. Form: v Tone: pos

The verb allay is used when you want to make something better or eliminate fears and concerns.

Mnemonic: al + lay - Ali (name of a person) + lay; Ali lay down on bed to calm down his body and mind. Example: The new advertising campaign is an attempt to Allay the public's concerns about the safety of the company's products.

making a problem less serious Form: v Tone: pos

Do all these words make your head ache? If so, take an aspirin to alleviate, or relieve, your pain.

Mnemonic: Alleviate elevator: It sounds like elevator that helps us to reduce leg pain while walking or climbing stairs. Example: Finding ways to Alleviate stress is of primary importance these days.

to make something better Form: v Tone: pos

To ameliorate is to step in and make a bad situation better. You could try introducing a second lollipop to ameliorate a battle between two four-yearolds over a single lollipop.

Mnemonic: Ameliorate sounds like deteriorate = degrade Ameliorate = improve Example: This medicine should help Ameliorate the pain.

reduce distress or pain Form: adj Tone: pos

When your back is killing you from helping your friend move furniture into his new apartment, you need to take an anodyne, a painkiller.

Mnemonic: Anodyne > a + no + dyne (dying); If you want him not to die from pain, you should give him some Anodyne drugs. Example: The otherwise Anodyne comments sounded quite inflammatory when taken out of context.

Making peace by accepting demands Form: v Tone: pos

Appease means to make or preserve peace with a nation, group, or person by giving in to their demands, or to relieve a problem, as in "the cold drink appeased his thirst."

Mnemonic: After the end of World War II, peace brought calmness to all parts of the world. Example: They Appeased the dictator by accepting his demands in an effort to avoid war.

make an unpleasant feeling less serious

If you assuage an Mnemonic: Assuage unpleasant feeling, you .....sounds like AT YOUR make it go away. AGE. imagine a nurse is

END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS

Alleviate

LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED

Ameliorate

SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Anodyne

Appease

Assuage

Conciliate

Exacerbate (oppo)

Extenuating

Mitigate

Mollify

Pacify

Form: v Tone: pos

Assuaging your hunger by eating a bag of marshmallows may cause you other unpleasant feelings.

ASSUAGING a 70 year old PATIENT and saying "AT YOUR AGE you should take some rest" Example: A mother cooing to her toddler and assuaging his fear of the dark

to make somebody less angry by being kind and pleasant Form: v Tone: pos

The verb conciliate means to placate, appease, or pacify. If you are eating at a restaurant and the waiter accidentally spills a drink on you, the manager may try to conciliate you by picking up the tab for your meal.

Mnemonic: Conceal means hide....when you hide yourself from traffic, chaos, cacophonies, you feel calm and you pacify yourself Example: The company's attempts to Conciliate the strikers have failed.

to make something worse. (oppo) Form: v Tone: pos

For a formal-sounding verb that means to make worse, try exacerbate. If you're in trouble, complaining about it will only exacerbate the problem.

Mnemonic: acerbmeans bitter, harsh; So exacerbate means to make things bitter, to worsen. Example: The proposed factory shutdown would only exacerbate our unemployment problems.

Making a guilt appear less serious and that can be forgiven Form: adj Tone: pos

You'll be furious that your friend didn't bake the cupcakes she promised for christmas - until you learn the extenuating circumstances: her dog climbed onto her kitchen counter and ate all the cupcake batter. Extenuating means "making forgivable."

Mnemonic: An extended class if supplemented with snacks may be Extenuating. Example: There were Extenuating circumstances and the defendant did not receive a prison sentence.

make something less serious or painful Form: v Tone: pos

Choose the verb, mitigate, when something lessens the unpleasantness of a situation. You can mitigate your parents' anger by telling them you were late to dinner because you were helping your elderly neighbor.

Mnemonic: think of Mitigate as COLGATE(toothpaste).Use of COLGATE lessen or try to lessen the extent of germs in our teeth. Example: Emergency funds are being provided to help Mitigate the effects of the disaster.

to lessen someones anger Form: v Tone: pos

To mollify is to calm someone down, talk them off the ledge, make amends, maybe even apologize.

Mnemonic: Mollify sounds like nullify...so just think of nullifying something...nullifying your temper Example: He tried to Mollify his critics with an apology.

supress the anger or excitement of something Form: v Tone: pos

If you are bringing peace or calm to a state of unrest, you are pacifying the situation. Just think of the transformation a squalling baby

Mnemonic: a passive person is always calm,so calm down Example: She resigned from her position to Pacify her accusers.

undergoes when a pacifier is placed within his mouth, and you will remember the power of the verb to pacify. make someone less angry Form: v Tone: pos

When a husband shows up with flowers after he's fought with his wife, he's trying to placate her. If you placate someone, you stop them from being angry by giving them something or doing something that pleases them.

Mnemonic: PL + ac + ATE = a PLATE full of tasty food to SATISFY someone. Example: The angry customer was not Placated by the clerk's apology.

to stop somebody from being angry and calm them down Form: v Tone: pos

If you forgot flowers on your Mom's birthday, you can still propitiate her by sending a bouquet the next day. Propitiate means to appease someone or make them happy by doing a particular thing.

Mnemonic: PROf+PITIif you want professor's pity then you would have to appease him/her Example: He made an offering to Propitiate the angry gods.

emotional comfort Form: n Tone: pos

If something eases your disappointment or grief, consider it a solace. If you're sad, you might find solace in music or in talking to your friends.

Mnemonic: He has SO LESS anger that he is always in a state of Solace. Example: I Solaced myself with a book while I waited for the bus.

someone who becomes angry very easily (oppo) Form: n Tone: pos

Temper can refer to a tendency to become unreasonably angry. If youâ€™re not sure whether you have a temper, ask your friends - but donâ€™t get mad if you dislike what they have to say.

Mnemonic: The TEMPo travellER is a vehicle of moderate speed. Example: his was disliked by everyone because of his high Temper

Placate

Propitiate

Solace

Temper

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Words


Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Important Form: n Tone: pos

In Catholicism, a cardinal is a highranking bishop. In math, you use cardinal numbers to count. A cardinal rule is one that is central and should not be broken.

Mnemonic: 'CARDINAL' also means pertaining to the 'heart' and the heart is the 'most important' part of our body. It is responsible for the working of our body. Example: My CARDINAL rule is to always be honest.

central part Form: noun Tone: pos

If you're looking for the most essential part or the very center of something, you're looking for its core. Like the inedible middle of an apple or your inner circle of core friends.

Mnemonic: CORE part of the course is what we always try to focus on, when we were doing our graduation. Example: Concern for the environment is at the CORE of our policies.

the most important or famous Form: n Tone: pos

Foremost is an adjective that means holding the highest position or rank. When naming advisors, presidents usually search for the foremost experts on various subjects.

Mnemonic: Fore means before. So something that is of primary importance is FOREMOST. Example: The governor was FOREMOST among those who condemned the violence.

vital Form: adj Tone: pos

When something absolutely has to be done and cannot be put off, use the adjective imperative.

Mnemonic: you have to attend your "important r(el)ative "â€¦and that meeting is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY and IMPORTANT. Example: It is absolutely IMPERATIVE that we finish by next week.

most important to be without Form: adj Tone: pos

Indispensable is a strong adjective for something that you couldn't do without. If you have asthma and you're packing for summer vacation, your inhaler is indispensable, unless you enjoy gasping on the

Mnemonic: Dispenser gives coffee, so important things in the dispensing machine do not come with coffee, so somening that cannot be dispensed is important, so indispensable means important Example: She made herself indispensable to the department.

CARDINAL


CORE

LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED

FOREMOST

TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

IMPERATIVE

INDISPENSIBLE

beach. required by law Form: adj Tone: pos

In the US, attending school through the twelfth grade, driving on the right side of the road, and obtaining a social security number are all mandatory. The phrase "mandatory requirement" is redundant.

Mnemonic: MANDATORY, man-date -for every man time and date is necessary/requirement Example: The offense carries a MANDATORY life sentence.

very important, specially because it will have important results Form: adj Tone: pos

Momentous describes an important event or moment in time. It is used for a time of great consequence or for a major accomplishment, and is almost always reserved for good things. The day Barack Obama was elected president was a momentous day for America.

Mnemonic: momento+ous....momento or memento are the objects which are gifted to us by someone special which reminds us of the past and that person and which are of great significance and value to us, cards and gifts are given as momento which are MOMENTOUS to us Example: My college graduation was a MOMENTOUS day in my life.

very important Form: adj Tone: pos

To the President, protecting our nation's security is of paramount importance - it's at the very top of his to-do list.

Mnemonic: PARAMOUNT..(MOUNT EVEREST)..IS THE biggest mountain on the earth,so something SUPREME ,and BEYOND OUR REACH(LIKE MOUNT EVEREST) is PARAMOUNT. Example: Maintaining the secrecy of the agreement is of PARAMOUNT importance

vitally important Form: adj Tone: pos

High school graduation is a pivotal moment in most people's lives - an important point that signifies a shift in direction.

Mnemonic: Pi-votalvoting is very crucial & important right. Example: She is at a PIVOTAL point in her career.

most important Form: adj Tone: pos

If something stands out in a very obvious way, it can be called salient. It's time to find new friends if the differences between you and your current friends are becoming more and more salient.

Mnemonic: We generally use SALIENT features to mean important features related to something. Example: She pointed out the SALIENT features of the new design.

MANDATORY

MOMENTOUS

PARAMOUNT

PIVOTAL

SALIENT

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Vocabulary

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Words


Abstract

END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING

Abstruse

Relation to Group

Mnemonic: Abstract: sounds close to retract.-and you cant retract anything from an Abstract speech or passage. Example: We may talk of beautiful things, but beauty itself is Abstract.

difficult to understand Form: adj Tone: neg/ neut

Abstruse things are difficult to understand because they are so deep and intellectually challenging. It might be hard to figure out how a toilet flushes but the technology that goes into making the Internet function is abstruse.

Mnemonic: Abstruse rhyme with CONFUSE,there is confusion when things are not clear Example: You're not the only one who finds Einstein's theory of relativity Abstruse

something that is mysterious and hence understood by a few Form: adj Tone: neut

Something arcane is understood or known by only a few people. Almost everyone knows the basics of baseball, but only an elite few possess the arcane knowledge of its history that marks the true fan.

Mnemonic: Ar + Kane (arcane) Kane's (for WWF watchers) face always remains secret, as he uses a mask. Example: Grammatical rules that seem arcane to generations of students who were never taught grammar in the first place

likely to be understood by only a small number of people with special knowledge and interest. Form: adj Tone: neut

Pssst... do you know the secret handshake? If you haven't been brought into the inner circle of those with special knowledge, esoteric things will remain a mystery to you.

Mnemonic: Esoteric sounds like 'It's so terrible' that I fail to understand this theorem. Example: Metaphysics is such an Esoteric subject that most people are content to leave it to the philosophers

having spiritual qualities that are difficult to understand Form: adj Tone: neut

Things that are mystical are magical or mysterious, possibly having to do with witches or the occult.

Mnemonic: Mystical sounds like Mystery, which is always difficult to comprehend. Example: Watching the sun rise over the mountain was an almost Mystical

LACKING ENERGY / LAZY

ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED

arcane


Esoteric

Mystical

Mnemonic/Example

Use the adjective abstract for something that is not a material object or is general and not based on specific examples.

IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP

Meaning

something that is present in the thought but doesnâ €™t have a concrete shape or existence. Form: adj/v/n Tone: neut

experience. not clearly expressed or explained. Form: adj/v/n Tone: neg/neut

If something is obscure, it's vague and hard to see. Be careful if you're driving in heavy rain - the painted lines can be obscure.

Mnemonic: Obscure= OBSession + CURE - Many psychiatrists believe that Obsession's cure is still UNKNOWN / UNCLEAR Example: We went to see one of Shakespeare's more Obscure plays. Root: Prefix OB means AGAINST.

mysterious Form: adj Tone: neut

Dark and mysterious, the occult is a kind of supernatural power or magic. If you see your neighbor chanting over a giant vat of bubbling brew in the middle of the night, there's a chance he's dabbling in the occult.

Mnemonic: Occult sounds like Difficult â €¦to understand. Example: The actor's private life had long been Occulted by a contrived public persona

deep, grave and hence difficult to understand Form: adj Tone: neg/neut

Difficult to understand

Mnemonic: whatever professional or researchers found(read find) has to be deep. Example: It is difficult to understand these Profound questions about life and death.

knowing little about something Form: adj Tone: neut

It's rather difficult to penetrate the meaning of recondite. Fitting, because it's an adjective that basically means hard for the average mind to understand.

Mnemonic: read Recondite as "re conduct". The professor re coducted(repeated) the topic as the students could not understand properly. Example: This is a a Recondite subject Root: Prefix RE means to REPEAT.

clear/clarity Form: adj Tone: pos

Perspicuous is an adjective describing language that is clear and easy to understand. When you give a presentation, you should speak in a perspicuous manner so that everyone will be able to follow you.

Mnemonic: Perspicuous is not suspicious.. absolutely clear Example: Believing that poetry need not be as perspicuous as prose, he writes poems that are intentionally ambiguous

Obscure

Occult

Profound

Recondite

X Perspicuous

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Words

Relation to Group

Cease

To come to an end. "Cease to exist" is a popular Form: v use of the word cease, or Tone: neut/neg end, and you may have closed your eyes and wished that someone - the boogeyman in the dark or a pesky sibling by day - would stop! Go away! Cease to be! Or, at the very least - quit bugging you.

CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY

Meaning

reach the climax or The verb culminate is used to highest state of describe a high point or a development climactic stage in a process. Form: v For example, the goal of a Tone: pos Major League baseball team is to have their season Culminate culminate in a World Series victory.

NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY To end something Form: v Tone: neut/neg

SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED

Terminate


Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Cease is to Stop. Example: You never Cease to amaze me!

Mnemonic: Culminate = break up like this.. cal(cul) min ate.. I'm having my food, it is almost over or almost at climax .. i will call you in a minute. Example: Their summer tour will Culminate at a spectacular concert in London.

To terminate something is to Mnemonic: His term bring it to an end. Period. (time) of Full stop. imprisonment should never be Terminated (stop). Example: Your contract of employment Terminates in December.

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Words


Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

great enthusiasm and passion Form: adj/n Tone: pos

Relation to Group

Are you inspired to write love poems to your crush? Sprinkle rose petals in her path? Then you're feeling ardor - an intense kind of warmth and fervor most often associated with love.

Mnemonic: ardor our door; please close the door and windows, to prevent the heat from going outside. Example: His revolutionary ardor was an example to his followers.

very enthusiastic Form: adj Tone: pos

Avid usually means very eager or enthusiastic. If you're an avid reader, it means you read as much as you can, whenever you can.

Mnemonic: a person is always eager to be in Avid(a video) Example: He is an Avid admirer of horror movies.

full of energy/liveliness Form: n Tone: pos

Buoyancy is a quality that makes things float in water. It's also a type of happiness: if you're full of buoyancy, you're mood is light and happy.

Mnemonic: So whenever you run into the word Buoyancy, just think "staying afloat." Example: They were all in buoyant mood.

positive in attitude and full of energy Form: adj Tone: pos

If a person, place, or thing is energetic and active, then it's dynamic. When things are dynamic, there's a lot going on.

Mnemonic: A Dynamite (explosive) is Dynamic (active and powerful) Example: Market Dynamics are working in the company's favor.

Ardor/Ardent

END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS

Avid

HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP

Buoyancy

ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED

Dynamic


Ebullient

Effervescent

cheerful and full of More than chipper, more energy than happy, more than Form: adj delighted is ebullient Tone: pos meaning bubbling over with joy and delight.

Mnemonic: Your dad purchasing you a new 'Enfield Bullet' so you show your 'Excitement' Ebullient! Example: The boss was in Ebullient mood.

a person who is very enthusiastic Form: adj Tone: pos

Something effervescent has bubbles or froth, like a sparkling wine or a bubble bath. If you have a happy, light, cheerful personality - if you are "bubbly" - you too are effervescent.

Mnemonic: My excitable dog is EVER VEnturing after my SCENt Example: He has got a warm, Effervescent personality

Gushing, unrestrained praise, pleasure or approval.

Getting a compliment from your effusive Aunt Sally can be a little embarrassing. Since

Mnemonic: Effusive when spoken have similarity with Diffusive-Diffuse that

Effusive

Exuberant

Form: adj Tone: pos

she's so effusive, Aunt Sally holds nothing back, gushing with enthusiasm.

means something going out/ gushing out Example: They offered Effusive thanks for our help.

full of energy, excitement and happiness. Form: adj Tone: pos

Are you feeling really happy and enthusiastic about something? Describe yourself with the adjective, exuberant!

Mnemonic: Exuberant- Excess number of ANTS. ants are unrestrained, in large numbers Example: She gave an Exuberant performance.

having passionate feeling Form: adj/n Tone: pos

Use fervent to describe a person or thing that shows very strong feelings or enthusiasm. If you have a fervent desire to become an actress, you'll stop at nothing to realize your dream.

Mnemonic: fervent/fervid both can be remembered by February specifically Feb14 when youngsters are quite emotional regarding V-Day. Example: She prayed fervently for his complete recovery.

full of energy, wanting to play Form: adj Tone: pos

The adjective frisky means playful or lively. Your frisky puppy likes to play tug-of-war with your socks, whether they're on or off your feet.

Mnemonic: When you do brisk walk early in the morning, it makes you Frisky, in other words lively and energetic. Example: The kids were Frisky after all that candy.

expressing so much enthusiasm and emotion that doesnâ€™t seem sincere Form: adj Tone: pos

uttered with Mnemonic: Gush unrestrained enthusiasm sounds like Blush. When we blush our cheek becomes shinny. Example: Everyone has been Gushing over the baby.

showing strong feeling about something Form: adj Tone: pos

If something is impassioned it's filled with or demonstrating intense emotion. Anything can be impassioned - speech, a play, a conversation, a novel, or even you.

Mnemonic: Impassioned can be remembered as I AM PASSIONed Example: His lawyer made an Impassioned argument in his defense.

attractively lively Form: adj Tone: pos

A vivacious person is lively and spirited: a vivacious dancer might do a back-flip off the wall and then jump into the arms of her partner.

Mnemonic: YoU should try to be lively and energetic at the time of your VIVA Example: He had three pretty, Vivacious daughters.

make something less strong Form: v Tone: neg

lessen in force or effect

Mnemonic: Dampened spirit means lack of enthusiasm, when something is damp, it become weak. Example: None of the setbacks could

Fervent/Fervor

Frisky

Gushing

Impassioned

Vivacious

X Dampen

dampen his enthusiasm for the project. having or showing great enthusiasm Form: adj Tone: pos Zealous/Zest

Use the adjective zealous as a way to describe eagerness or enthusiastic activity. If you are too zealous in your efforts to decorate the house with Christmas lights, you might cause a power outage for the whole neighborhood.

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Mnemonic: Zeal means passion or enthusiasm. Example: The detective was zealous in her pursuit of the kidnappers.

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Commiserate

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

to show sympathy to someone who is upset. Form: v Tone: pos

When you commiserate with your buddies, you're sharing your lousy feelings. People who commiserate have the same negative feelings about something.

Mnemonic: co+miserate ...share one's misery by being with them or identifying their misery vicariously Example: The players Commiserated over their loss in the championship game. Root: Prefix Com is together, with

showing sympathy to somebody. Form: n Tone: pos

A condolence is an expression of sympathy and sorrow to someone who has suffered a loss, like the letter of condolence you send to a faraway friend who has lost a loved one.

Mnemonic: When you offer your Condolences to someone who has suffered a loss, you are saying that you share their sadness, that you are there to support and help them. Example: The governor issued a statement of Condolence to the victims' families. Root: Prefix Con refers to with, together

ability to understand another persons feelings. Form: n Tone: pos

Use empathy if you're looking for a noun meaning "the ability to identify with another's feelings."

Mnemonic: simliar to sympathy ( the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences by imagining what it would be like to be in their situation) Example: He felt great Empathy with the poor. Root: The prefix EM refers to IN â€¦feeling In

END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY

Condolence

NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL

Empathy

UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

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CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT

Beam

DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE

Beatific

EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS

Blithe

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion

Mnemonic: We generally say a Beam of light has entered our life when our first child was born. Example: She was positively Beaming with pleasure.

happy and peaceful That blissful grin on Form: n your face? It could Tone: pos be described as beatific, meaning it projects a peaceful sense of joy.

Mnemonic: divide this word like beati+fic--beati sounds like beautiful and something which is beautiful is blissful. Example: He has got a Beatific smileand expression

seeming not to care or worry, happy Form: adj Tone: pos

The adjective blithe used to mean happy and carefree, but over time it's acquired a new understanding of someone who isn't paying attention the way they should.

Mnemonic: Blithe- Belight- Hearted. means care free Example: He drove with Blithe disregard for the rules of the road.

feeling of great happiness Form: n Tone: pos

If youâ€™ve ever been so happy that the rest of the world seemed to disappear, youâ €™ve felt ecstasy â €” a feeling or state of intensely beautiful bliss.

Mnemonic: In a city like Delhi, if you get ( ek in hindi) (one) taxi in the peak hours it definitely adds to your Ecstasy. Example: His performance sent the audience into ecstasies.

extremely excited Form: adj Tone: pos

To elate is to fill with happiness. If you are elated, you are thrilled. You are walking on air.

Mnemonic: Elate sounds a bit like inflate. Although the words are not rElated, if you Elate someone the feeling is probably a bit like inflating them - filling them with happiness, making them feel as though they're floating above the ground. Example: The discovery has Elated researchers.

great happiness that does not last for a long time Form: n Tone: pos

Use euphoria to describe a feeling of great happiness and well-being, but know that euphoria often more than thatâ€“-it's unusually, crazy happy, over the top.

Mnemonic: if you(eu) live FOR(phori) others (like mother teresa)...that's the best way to live...and you'll always be happy Example: The initial Euphoria following their victory in the election has now subsided.

to smile Form: v Tone: pos


Ecstasy


Elate

Euphoria

to make somebody Exhilaration is great Mnemonic: Exhilaration: feel very happy joy, and excitement Imagine making a verb of

and excited Form: n Tone: pos

and liveliness! When you ride an ocean wave, hear a favorite song, or have a long and uncontrollable laugh with friends, there's a feeling of exhilaration, an overflow of happiness.

'hilarious'; something like 'ex-hilariation' meaning cheerful and lively. Example: I felt exhilarated after a morning of skiing.

very happy and pleased Form: adj Tone: pos

Use the adjective exultant to describe the triumphant feeling you get when you succeed at something. The kids on the Little League team who win the championship game will be exultant.

Mnemonic: Exultant sounds like Excitement, which is a combination of pride and joy. Example: Researchers are Exultant over the new discovery.

trying to be funny in a way that is not appropriate Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone who is facetious is only joking: "I was being facetious when I told my mother I want Brussels sprouts with every meal, but she took me seriously!"

Mnemonic: someone who makes funny faces Facetious-Face is not Serious Example: A Facetious and tasteless remark about people in famine-stricken countries being spared the problem of overeating

great happiness Form: n/v Tone: pos

Felicity is a state of happiness or the quality of joy. Sitting on the roof with a telescope and iced tea on a clear, starry night is one way to find perfect felicity - a happy place.

Mnemonic: Felicity seems very like facility. If one gets all facility (s)he must be very happy. Thus Felicity may stand for happiness or some thing producing happiness Example: He told his friends that marriage had brought him a Felicity that he had never known before.

happiness and fun Form: adj Tone: pos

A festive, happy event, like a big summer backyard party, will be full of gaiety - or merriment and playfulness.

Mnemonic: Gaeiety can be remembered as GAY (meaning merry and happy) Example: The colorful flags added to the Gaiety of the occasion.

a joke Form: n/v Tone: pos

A jest is a joke. Are you a playful prankster? A jocular jokester? A witty wisecracker? Then you are definitely well versed in the art of the jest.

Mnemonic: Remember "Jest for laughs gags" on pogo Example: You should know that our teasing was done entirely in Jest.

humorous Form: adj Tone: pos

Do you like to make a lot of jokes? Are you often silly? Are you usually happy? If so, then you are a jocular person.

Mnemonic: Jocular sounds like a joker. Example: He is a Jocular man who could make the most serious people smile

Exhilaration

Exultant

Facetious

Felicity

Gaiety

Jest

Jocular

happy and cheerful You know that Form: adj teacher who always Tone: pos has a goofy smile on his face and a

Mnemonic: joc...(joke)..and you crack jokes when you are cheerful or to show high siprited merriment

bad pun for the Example: Old friends kids? He's got a engaged in Jocund teasing. jocund personality, meaning he's merry and cheerful.

Jocund

the state of being happy Form: n Tone: pos

Use the noun jollity to describe having fun and being in an extremely good mood, like the jollity you feel when you are with your best friends at your favorite amusement park.

Mnemonic: jolli+ty...so focus on jolli....jolly means cheers to you. Example: I love all of the warmhearted Jollity of the holiday season.

friendly and happy Form: adj Tone: pos

Use jovial to describe people who show good humor and are full of joy. Santa Claus, with his constant "ho-hohoing" is a jovial figure.

Mnemonic: Jovial=jo(joy)+vi(by)+al(all), so Jovial means happiness, joyful, merriment Example: He was in a Jovial mood.

feeling or showing happiness because of success Form: adj Tone: pos

If you were the quarterback that threw the touchdown pass that won the Super Bowl, you would be jubilant: filled with joy.

Mnemonic: Jubilant sounds like Jubilee, any kind of Silver or Golden Jubilee is a special occasion and is a happy and joyous moment. Example: The fans were in a Jubilant mood after the victory.

great happiness Form: adj Tone: pos

If you're blissfully happy, you're rapturous. You could describe your purring cat rolling around in catnip as rapturous.

Mnemonic: rapture sounds like capture. You capture good moments with a cam on occassions of happiness and DELIGHT, ECSTACY Example: We listened with rapture as the orchestra played.

entertain someone with a story Form: v Tone: pos

You may have heard it said that the fastest way to a personâ€™s heart is through his stomach. So, if you need to please or impress someone, regale them - that is, treat them to lavish food and drink.

Mnemonic: re+gale(remember chris gayle )if he comes to bat again he always provides entertainment to audience Example: An inn that nightly Regales its guests with five-course meals prepared by a master chef.

confident, hopeful and optimistic about what might happen, in a difficult situation Form: n Tone: pos

If you're sanguine about a situation, that means you're optimistic that everything's going to work out fine.

Mnemonic: Sanguine Penguin : Kids cheer up when they see penguins .. Penguins are very cheerful and hopeful (Ref the movie "Happy Feet") Example: They are less Sanguine about the company's long-term prospects.

extremely noisy (the uproarious laughter passed across the room); relate it to ROAR

Uproarious describes a room of happy people laughing, or a noisy crowd at a soccer

Mnemonic: Uproarious has ROAR, sound made by Lion which always comes before TOM AND JERRY starts....its a show marked by

Jollity

Jovial

Jubilant

Rapturous

Regale

Sanguine

Uproarious

Form: adj Tone: pos

match. Uproarious situations are very loud, a little out of control, and often hilarious.

commotion,fun,laughter and is sometimes noisy Example: Visited the site where the action movie was being filmed only to find a chaotic, Uproarious set.

someone who does something clever and amusing Form: adj Tone: pos

Waggish means that someone is humorous or witty â €” the kind of person who'd keep you in stitches all night if you sat next to one at a party.

Mnemonic: Remember the character "SHAGGY" in Scooby Doo? He is the comedian of the show who always passes funny and witty comments and acts like a joker. Waggish sounds similar to Shaggy (though partially). Example: He has a Waggish disposition that often got him into trouble as a child.

Waggish

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Assiduous

Relation to Group

EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS

Mnemonic: Ass is donkey and donkey is hardworking. Example: They were Assiduous in their search for all the latest facts and figures.

very persevering Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone who is diligent works hard and carefully. If you want to write the epic history of your family, you'll have to be very diligent in tracking down and interviewing all of your relatives.

Mnemonic: Deligent is more than being intelligent, which involves hardworking. Example: A student who has been unceasingly Diligent in pursuit of a degree in mathematics.

Diligent, hardworking Form: adj Tone: pos

If someone comments that you are very industrious, they are complimenting you for working hard and tirelessly. You can have the evening to yourself if you're industrious enough during the afternoon to get your homework and chores done.

Mnemonic: Industrious..if you want to be an INDUSTRIalist you have to be DILIGENT and HARD-WORKING. Example: An Industrious worker who never seems to sleep

very careful and hardworking Form: adj Tone: pos

If you notice that painstaking is composed of pains and taking, you already have a pretty clear sense of what this adjective means: to be painstaking is to be so carefulâ€”so meticulous, so thorough that it hurts.

Mnemonic: Taking the pain of doing something. Example: The event had been planned with Painstaking attention to detail.

constant in effort and hardworking Form: adj Tone: pos

A sedulous person is someone who works hard and doesn't give up easily. If you make repeated and sedulous attempts to fix a leaky pipe and it only makes things worse, it might be time to go online and find the number of a plumber.

Mnemonic: se+dul+lous...to SEEK knowledge you have to PAY ATTENTION i.e. have to be LESS DULL Example: An impressively Sedulous suitor, he was constantly sending her flowers and other tokens of his affection.

to work hard Form: n/v Tone: pos

Toil is another word for work. You toil as a customer service rep all day, but you'd prefer to

Example: Hundreds of men Toiled for years at building the pyramid.

Diligent

HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY

Industrious

SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

Painstaking

Mnemonic/Example

If you call someone assiduous, it's a compliment. It means they're careful, methodical and very persistent. Good detectives are classically assiduous types.

END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE

Meaning

Diligent, hardworking Form: adj Tone: pos

Sedulous

work as a rock goddess. Unfortunately, there weren't many ads in the employment section for goddesses - rock or otherwise.

Toil

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Fitfully

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

active but not regular and steady Form: adj/adv Tone: neut

An adjective that sounds a little like what it means, fitful means stopping and starting, on-again offagain, switching suddenly. I had a fitful night's sleep: I woke up several times throughout the night.

Mnemonic: I am fat and so trousers occasionally fit me fully. Example: Several fitful attempts at negotiation have failed.

something that takes place at irregular intervals Form: adj Tone: neut

Reach for the adjective intermittent to describe periodic movement and stopping and starting over a period of time.

Mnemonic: Here the word starts with inter so remember as intervals...intervals of pendulum is periodic in motion Example: The patient was having Intermittent pains in his side.

happening or done sometimes but not often Form: adj Tone: neut

When something happens from time to time on an irregular basis, we say it is an occasional occurrence. For example, you might have an occasional lunch with a friend. If your friend ever picked up the bill, maybe it would happen more often.

Mnemonic: She is so weight conscious that she consumes Chocolates only on occasions (special moments) Example: He spent five years in Paris, with occasional visits to Italy.

Irregular bursts (The spasmodic fighting between the two parties continued) Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that is spasmodic is experiencing a fit, a loss of muscular control. If you are spazzing out, you are spasmodic.

Mnemonic: A SPAM mail seems to be an interruption. Example: He made only Spasmodic attempts to lose weight.

Scattered or isolated or irregular Interval. Form: adj Tone: neg

Sporadic is an adjective that you can use to refer to something that happens or appears often, but not constantly or regularly. The mailman comes every day but the plumber visits are sporadicâ€“-he comes as needed.

Mnemonic: Sporadic -opposite of periodic, we know periodic things occur regularly. Example: Fighting continued Sporadically for two months.


Intermittent

HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED

Occassional

SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

Spasmodic

Sporadic

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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Lazy Form: adj Tone: neg

Indolent is an adjective meaning slow or lazy. It can take an indolent teenager hours to get out of bed on a weekend morning.

Mnemonic: In India people become lazy when it is time to pay the rent. (Indolent) Example: An Indolent boy who had to be forced to help out with the chores. Root: Prefix IN means NOT.

carelessly lazy Form: adj Tone: neg

Even though lackadaisical sounds like it has something to do with a shortage of daisies, know that what it really means is lacking in spirit or liveliness.

Mnemonic: Lackadaisical sounds as LACK-A-DIZEALCAL... hence the meaning " lack of zeal" Example: His teachers did not approve of his Lackadaisical approach to homework.

Indolent

END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING

Lackadaisical

IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY

Lackluster

lacking in energy, lacking brilliance or force, not inspiring vitality Form: adj Tone: neg

Mnemonic: Lacking shine (lustre) or livliness Example: This was a a Lackluster performance.

lazy, slow, weak Form: adj Tone: neg

Describe a slow-moving river or a weak breeze or a listless manner with the slightly poetic adjective, languid.

Mnemonic: Languid sounds similar to language..language classes are generally boring.. Example: They proceeded at a Languid pace.

lack of energy Form: n/adj Tone: neg

After running 10 miles, bicycling 20 miles, and swimming 10 miles, the triathlete was overcome with lassitude - a great weariness or lack of energy.

Mnemonic: After a heavy lunch, if you drink a glass of LASSI, you will go into a Lassitude i.e. weariness, lethargy and ultimately go to sleep. Example: Symptoms of the disease include paleness and Lassitude.

lazy Form: adj Tone: neg

When you feel lethargic, you're sluggish or lacking energy. Being sleepy or hungry can make anyone lethargic.

Mnemonic: Being Lethargic also goes well with watching TV, since that takes almost no energy at all. When you feel Lethargic, you don't have any energy to spare.

SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY

Languid

UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

Lassitude

Lethargic

Example: A big meal always makes me feel Lethargic and sleepy lacking energy Form: adj Tone: neg Listless

Loll

Sloth

To be listless it to be lethargic, low spirited, and limp. "The fever made the boy listless â €” he seemed to melt into the sofa."

Mnemonic: I lost my list of universities to apply. Now I am lacking spirit because I am Listless! Example: The heat made everyone tired and Listless.

sit, lie or stand in a To loll means to hang Mnemonic: this is lazy manner around lazily without easy - sounds like LOL. Form: v doing much at all. It's a We use LOL only when Tone: neg great pleasure to loll we are chatting. When about in the park we chat we waste time instead of going to lazily by laying around. work. But your boss So Loll is wasting time might have a problem lazily. with it. Example: He Lolled back in his chair by the fire. lazy Form: n/adj Tone: neg

If you lounge around in your bathrobe watching TV and ordering out for pizza, you'll get called a sloth.

Mnemonic: "slow"th Example: A youth inclined more toward Sloth than athletics

Inactive Form: adj Tone: neg

When you are feeling draggy - positively slug-like - you are sluggish, or slow. If cookie sales are sluggish at your bake sale, you are selling very few treats.

Mnemonic: Sluggish = slow + ish Example: The game picked up after a Sluggish start.

lethargic Form: n/adj Tone: neg

Torpor is a state of mental and physical inactivity. "After a huge Thanksgiving meal, my family members fall into a torpor; no one can even pick up the TV remote."

Mnemonic: Torpor sounds like 'topper'. Its quite opposite to what is a 'topper' who is naturally diligent Example: A torpid sloth that refused to budge off its tree branch

Sluggish

Torpor/Torpid

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Chronic

END / STOP

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic: initial part sounds like 'crown'! crown + ic. A king rules the nation for long time, hence his crown last for long time..ie long lasting Example: Inflation has become a Chronic condition in the economy.

that does not STOP Something incessant Form: adj continues without Tone: pos interruption. When you're on a cross country flight, it's tough to tolerate the incessant crying of a baby.

Mnemonic: IN( not)+cessa(sounds like CEASE) which MEANS TO STOP...something which does not stop , and continues forever, hence UNINTERRUPTED AND UNCEASING. Example: The Incessant noise from an outside repair crew was a real distraction during the test. Root: Prefix IN means NOT.

that cannot be stopped or changed Form: adj Tone: pos

When a person is inexorable, they're stubborn. When a thing or process is inexorable, it can't be stopped.

Mnemonic: in(not)+exhort(means to pressurize):that means a person who is Inexorable cant be pressurised;he will not yield Example: There has been this Inexorable rise of crime in Delhi. Root: Prefix IN means NOT.

never ending Form: adj Tone: pos

Use interminable to describe something that has or seems to have no end. Your math class. Your sister's violin recital. A babysitting job where five kids are going through your purse and the parents didn't leave a number.

Mnemonic: In (NOT) + Terminable (stop) Something that cannot be stopped. Example: The drive seemed Interminable. Root: Prefix IN means NOT.

Lasting Forever Form: adj Tone: pos

Perennial typically describes things that are permanent, constant, or

Mnemonic: if you remember we have learnt about Perennial

ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP

Incessant

ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

Mnemonic/Example

something that If you smoke a cigarette lasts for a long once, you've simply made time and cannot be a bad choice. But if wiped off you're a chronic smoker, Form: adj you've been smoking for Tone: pos a long time and will have a hard time stopping.

Inexorable

Interminable

Perennial

Never Ending, Constant Form: adj Tone: pos Relentless

repeated. If you fight with your parents every year over whether they really must invite your annoying cousins for Thanksgiving, you could call that a perennial conflict.

rivers in social studies which means LONG LASTING rivers Example: Flooding is a Perennial problem for people living by the river.

Relentless is a good word for describing something that's harsh, unforgiving, and persistent, like the hot sun in the desert, or a cold that keeps you in bed for days with a nose like a strawberry.

Mnemonic: relent(to surrender)+ less.....so it is one who doesn't surrender or is persistent and determined Example: Her Relentless optimism held the team together.

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Mnemonic/Example

lacking excitement Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is boring and unoriginal, it's banal. Banal things are dull as dishwater.

Mnemonic: Divide it like -ban + al(ban all people); you ban all those people from your group, if they are repeating the same activity again and again. Example: The writing was Banal but the story was good.

an unoriginal idea Form: adj Tone: neg

A bromide is a common saying or proverb that is obvious and not that helpful, like "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade."

Mnemonic: Bromide is the COMMON salt ever found Example: His speech had nothing more to offer than the usual Bromides about how everyone needs to work together.

an uninteresting phrase. Form: noun Tone: neg

If you've heard an expression a million times, chances are it's a cliche.

Mnemonic: CLICK....it represents camera...cliche means a remark that is overused....these days we make overuse of camera to take photos everytime to upload them on social networking site like facebook Example: This is an old ClichÃ© that â€œa trouble shared is a trouble halvedâ€

not original Form: adj Tone: neg

Alert: shifting parts of speech! As a noun, a derivative is kind of financial agreement or deal. As an adjective, though, derivative describes something that borrows heavily from something else that came before it.

Mnemonic: Derived from something. Example: I've always found the exercise slightly Derivative and not very challenging

Banal


Bromide


ClichÃ©


Derivative

Hackneyed

not original, Hackneyed is a word for overused so lost its language that doesn't pack significance a punch since it's overused Form: adj and trite. "Roses are red, Tone: neg violets are..." - enough already?! That's hackneyed stuff.

Mnemonic: when a software is hacked, it becomes Hackneyed because then all people are able to use that program without paying for Example: Advertisers

have Hackneyed the word â €œrevolutionaryâ€ so much that it now just means that a product is new lacking in refinement Form: adj Tone: neg

That class on 18th century feminist zoologists and their favorite poets? Surprisingly humdrum, or dull, tedious, and totally boring.

Mnemonic: Anything that you can call Humdrum is so severely lacking in variety and excitement that it's sure to make you hum and drum your fingers out of boredom. Example: She liked the movie, but I thought it was Humdrum.

happens everyday Form: adj Tone: neg

An ordinary, unexciting thing can be called mundane: "Superman hid his heroic feats by posing as his mundane alter ego, Clark Kent."

Mnemonic: Mundane sounds like Monday. After an exciting weekend, Monday is just another Mundane day. Example: Prayer and meditation helped her put her Mundane worries aside

Humdrum

Mundane

Dull, lacking inspiration.boring and always the same Form: adj Pedestrian Tone: neg

Platitude

Plebeian

a pedestrian thing is Mnemonic: ped something that is boring or means foot Pedestrian unexciting means one who walks on foot is obviously ordinary Example: He lived a Pedestrian life, working at the paper mill and living in his trailer.

a remark or statement with moral content often interesting and thoughtful Form: adj Tone: neg

If an executive gives a speech that begins, "This business is all about survival of the fittest. You need to burn the midnight oil and take one for the team," his employees might get sick of listening to these meaningless clichÃ©s and tell him to cut the p

Mnemonic: Platitude sounds flat + attitude: something flat does not attract us as it is very common. So you will obviously give trite remarks. Example: His speech was filled with familiar Platitudes about the value of hard work and dedication.

of or belonging to the lower social classes Form: adj Tone: neg

In Roman times, the lower class of people was the plebeian class. Today, if something is plebeian, it is of the common people.

Mnemonic: sounds like pebble which are found every where and are very common Example: He wondered what the people at the country club would think of his Plebeian origins

occurring everyday and therefore ordinary Form: adj Tone: neg

Quotidian is a fancy way of saying "daily" or "ordinary." Quotidian events are the everyday details of life.

Mnemonic: split it as "quote+indian".QUOTE AN INDIAN every day. Newspapers quote opinions of Indians everyday.. so its a

DAILY occurence,customary Example: Not content with the Quotidian quarrels that other couples had, they had rows that shook the entire neighborhood

Quotidian

overused and therefore lacking freshness or originality Form: adj/n Tone: neg Trite

When you want to indicate that something is silly or overused, you would call it trite. A love song with lyrics about holding hands in the sunshine? Totally trite.

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Mnemonic: Trite = tri +it ( so sounds like try + it) She made the same dish all the time and gave it to her friends saying, 'try it' ... as it is repeated so many times, it becomes over familiar. Example: By the time the receiving line had ended, the bride and groom's thanks sounded Trite and tired

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Relation to Group

Anguish

lot of mental and physical pain and suffering Form: n,adj Tone: neg

The noun anguish refers to severe physical or emotional pain or distress. A trip to the dentist might cause a cavityprone person a lot of anguish.

Mnemonic: Anguish - ang (anger) + you + wish; When you are in anger with someone, you wish him/her to suffer from pain and distress. Example: They watched in Anguish as fire spread through the house.

having lost a relative or close one because of death Form: adj Tone: neg

Bereaved is an adjective describing people in deep sorrow at the loss of a loved one. For some, being bereaved helps them leave the sadness or release themselves from it by experiencing it for awhile.

Mnemonic: Bereaved sounds like GRIEVE..which means mourning for somebody Example: The grief of the Bereaved parents seemed to be without limit

deprived of something or someone, lonely Form: adj Tone: neg

So, they took the thing you most loved, and you're never going to get it back. You've gone beyond just plain grief-stricken - you're bereft.

Mnemonic: be+reft--reft sounds like left, imagine a man who is left alone, after his best friend left him or deprived of someone lovable. Example: He was completely Bereft when his wife died.

not giving any reason to hope Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that is bleak is gloomy and depressing. If it's raining and dark, you might describe the night as bleak. If you have looked for work and no one will hire you, you could describe your prospects as bleak.

Mnemonic: Bleak sounds like black -- black color is the symbol of hopelessness and depression. Example: A Bleak outlook for the team for the rest of the season.

sad and disappointed because of having failed Form: adj Tone: neg

If you are crestfallen, you are dark, depressed, and down in the dumps. You are in need of a pep talk, or at least a hug.

Mnemonic: Crest means heights and falling from a height is being Crestfallen. Example: She was Crestfallen when she found out she hadn't got the job.

sad and depressed Form: adj Tone: neg

If you're ejected from an important game, you're going to feel dejected. If you're rejected by

Mnemonic: you feel Dejected when you are rejected Example: She looked so Dejected when she lost the

CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS

Bereaved

LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED

Bereft

SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Bleak

Crestfallen

Dejected

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Desolate

Despondent

Forlorn

the love of your life, you'll feel dejected again.

game.

making people sad and frightened Form: adj Tone: neg

If you feel alone, left out, and devastated, you feel desolate. A deserted, empty, depressing place can be desolate too.

Mnemonic: de + solate sounds like I + SOLATE..and who lives an isolated life? Obviously a person who has been ABANDONED by his family. Example: This is a Desolate house abandoned many years ago

sad, less hope and courage Form: adj Tone: neg

If you are despondent, you are discouraged, very sad, and without hope. If you are depressed, you might describe your mood as despondent.

Mnemonic: the word despondant looks like pepsodent. So wen you don't brush in the morning... your day will be gloomy and depressing. Example: I had never seen them looking so Despondent.

sad and abondoned and hence lonely Form: adj Tone: neg

Sniff, sniff, boohoo... use the adjective forlorn to express loneliness and feeling left out.

Mnemonic: FOR+LORN (sounds like MOURN) - You are sad and wretched when you mourn for someone dear to you. Example: She looked so Forlorn, standing there in the rain.

tearful or weeping Form: adj Tone: neg

A good place to see a display of lachrymose sorrow is at a funeral people sobbing openly or sniffling quietly into their hankies. To be lachrymose, in other words, is to be tearful.

Mnemonic: Lachrymoselac+chry(cry)+mose(most),so when you cry most you produce 'tears'. Example: The more Lachrymose mourners at the funeral required a steady supply of tissues

to feel or show great sadness for someone Form: v Tone: neg

If you are really upset or sorry about something, you might lament it. A lament is full of regret and grief.

Mnemonic: Lament = l[amen]t => we Lament the death by saying 'amen' Example: She Lamented over the loss of her best friend.

looking or sounding sad Form: adj Tone: neg

Funerals are lugubrious. So are rainy days and Mondays. Anything that makes you sad, gloomy, or mournful can be called lugubrious.

Mnemonic: He was very mournful when he had to BURY his cut LEG. Example: The diner's dim lighting makes eating there a particularly Lugubrious experience

sad, depressed Form: n,adj Tone: neg

Melancholy is beyond sad: as a noun or an adjective, it's a word for the gloomiest of spirits.

Mnemonic: Being Melancholy means that you're overwhelmed with sorrow, wrapped up in sorrowful thoughts. Example: There is a brooding Melancholy in his black and white photography.

to fail gradually in health or vitality from grief, regret, etc

if you pine, you Mnemonic: Someone who is become weak, staying away from home, will especially if you are be in pain and would Pine to separated from meet his/her parents.

Lachrymose

Lament

Lugubrious

Melancholy

Pine

Form: v Tone: neg

your loved one.

Example: After his wife died, he just Pined away.

sounding sad Form: adj Tone: neg

Plaintive is an adjective for describing someone or something with a pleading, sorrowful, desperate tone. If you have ever heard the plaintive howl of a wolf, then you know what we are getting at here.

Mnemonic: Plaintive can be split into plain(plane)+tive(relative). Suppose a relative dies in a plane crash, we mourn. Thus Plaintive = mourn. Example: We could hear the Plaintive cry of a wounded animal in the woods.

expressing discontent Form: v Tone: neg

The verb repine describes expressing gloom or discontent. Brooding, fretful, and sad - these are the traits of people who repine at their circumstances in life.

Mnemonic: Imagine on Christmas, your friend brings pine tree instead of Christmas tree, so you will Repine Example: There is no use repining over a love that's been long lost

great sorrow Form: n,adj Tone: neg

"O, woe is me!" This line is from Shakespeare. When Hamlet scorns Ophelia, she utters these words to express the grief and despair that will soon drive her to suicide.

Mnemonic: Woe - when our favourite batsmen gets out... we, while watching cricket shout OH!!!! sadly Example: Ah, Woe, with the death of the last of my siblings I am alone in this world!

Plaintive

Repine

Woe

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Words

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

something that stays for a very short time Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that is fleeting or short-lived is ephemeral, like a fly that lives for one day or text messages flitting from cellphone to cellphone.

Mnemonic: Ephemeral sounds like e-funeral. Electric funeral is SHORT. Example: The autumnal blaze of colors is always to be treasured, all the more so because it is so Ephemeral.

something that stays for a very short time Form: adj Evanescent Tone: neut/neg

A beautiful sunset, a rainbow, a wonderful dream right before your alarm clock goes off - all of these could be described as evanescent, which means â€œfleetingâ€ or â €œtemporary.â€

Mnemonic: Remember it as "Eva want scent'. Scent evaporates like vapor. Example: Beauty is as Evanescent as a rainbow

something that stays for a very short time Form: adj Tone: neg

Fleeting is an adjective that describes something that happens really fast, or something that doesnâ€™t last as long as youâ€™d like.

Mnemonic: fleet is usually used for a group of airplanes/ship/cars which can be seen for short period of time, so short lived Example: I had a Fleeting desire to jump into the cool lake but kept on hiking

Not Permanent Form: adj Tone: neut/neg

Use the adjective transient to describe something that always changes or moves around, like how a teenage girl can have a temporary crush on one boy one week and another boy the next week.

Mnemonic: remember Transient light and Transient current.... that we studied in physics.....which produce an effect for a very short time Example: We are all aware of the Transient nature of speech

worldly and not permanent Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is fleeting or lasts a short time, it is transitory. Your boss declared the company's restructuring to be transitory, and promised that the company would emerge stronger and better than ever.

Mnemonic: Transistors take a very short time to turn from on to off mode i.e acting like a switch Example: A Transitory panic struck me when I realized that we had left the baby in the


Ephemeral

Relation to Group

END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED

Fleeting

SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

Transient

Transitory

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Unhappy and bad tempered Form: adj Tone: neg

A morose person is sullen, gloomy, sad, glum, and depressed - not a happy camper.

Mnemonic: When someone is Morose, they seem to have a cloud of sadness hanging over them. Example: She just sat there looking Morose.

someone who is easily annoyed by unimportant things Form: adj Tone: neg

When you're peevish, you're easily irritated and grumpy. Everything seems to get under your skin.

Mnemonic: Know someone who always seems annoyed, grumpy, cranky, or irritated? That person is Peevish. Example: I would rather figure things out on my own than ask that Peevish librarian for help.

bad tempered Form: adj Tone: neg

Choose the adjective, petulant, to describe a person or behavior that is irritable in a childish way.

Mnemonic: The pet u - lent (Petulant) me is getting me irritated Example: A Petulant and fussy man who is always blaming everyone else for his problems

pouting your lips will mean you are annoyed Form: v Tone: neg

When something doesnâ€™t go your way and you get annoyed about it, thatâ€™s a pout. And when you let the world know about it by thrusting out your lower lip, you are pouting. Get over it.

Mnemonic: Push the liP OUT to Pout. Example: She Pouted her lips and stared at him angrily.

looking serious and Medieval alchemists ascribed threatening. to the planet Saturn a Form: adj gloomy and slow character. Tone: neg When people are called saturnine, it means they are like the planetâ€“â Saturnine €“gloomy, mean, scowling. Not exactly the life of the party.

Mnemonic: If you are a party freak and at Nine of Saturday Night if you are still at home..then you will be gloomy! So from this we can get SATURday NINE or Saturnine! Example: The men awaiting interrogation

Dour

END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HARDWORKING

Morose

IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY

Peevish

SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: "Dour" looks like "sour." A person with a sour expression is clearly feeling very Dour, that is, sullen and gloomy Example: The city, drab and Dour by day, is transformed at night.

CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT

HAPPY / JOYOUS

Meaning

giving the Dour describes something impression of being sullen, gloomy, or unfriendly persistent. You might look Form: adj dour on your way to picking Tone: neg up your last check from the job you just got fired from, and people should get out of your way.

CALM DOWN

DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND

Relation to Group

Petulant

Pout

by the police shared a Saturnine silence

Sullen

bad tempered and not willing to talk Form: adj Tone: neg

A bad-tempered or gloomy person is sullen. Sullen people are down in the dumps.

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Mnemonic: Your face is SWOLLEN ( by some insect bite ) and so you feel Sullen Example: Bob looked pale and Sullen.

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Gratuitous

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

done without any good reason and often having harmful effects Form: adj Tone: neg

Relation to Group

Gratuitous means "without cause" or "unnecessary." Telling ridiculous jokes at a somber occasion would be a display of gratuitous humor.

Mnemonic: 'Gratitude' is something that cannot be measured. It is priceless. Example: The film was criticized for its Gratuitous violence.

to anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action) Form: verb Tone: neg

To obviate means to eliminate the need for something or to prevent something from happening. If you want to obviate the possibility of a roach infestation, clean your kitchen regularly.

Mnemonic: OBVIATE - viate sounds like deviate, deviate yourself from something unnecessary to you Example: The new medical treatment OBVIATEs the need for surgery.


OBVIATE

HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED

to make necessary The verb necessitate Form: verb shows that something is Tone: pos necessary or needs to happen, as when a sweet X tooth can necessitate a NECESSITATE trip to the store for a triple-scoop ice cream â €” which will necessitate a trip to the gym. something that is required or necessary Form: n Tone: neut


necessitate or justify

X Warrant

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Mnemonic: necessi+tateâ €”something NECESSARY Example: New safety regulations necessitated adding a railing to the stairs. Mnemonic: we say a WARRANT is issued against him, so a warrant is to JUSTIFY that he is liable to be taken into custody Example: The deepening gloom about the economy may well warrant such an aggressive response

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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

EXPENDABLE

if you consider people or things to be expendable, you think that you can get rid of them when they are no longer needed Form: adj Tone: neg

Anything expendable is not necessary - it can be done without. If you lose or use expendable funds, you won't miss the money.

Mnemonic: Expend sounds like Expense, which at times seems to be unnecessary. Example: There are employees whose jobs are considered EXPENDABLE.

something that is marginal Form: noun Tone: neg

fringe players in a team are not as famous or as highly regarded as the other players in the team are.

Mnemonic: FRINGE players do not get as much attention as main players do. Example: a FRINGE of moss around the tree

minor consequence Incidental means Form: adj secondary in time Tone: neg or importance. If you lose weight because you moved and must walk further to school, the weight loss was incidental to the move.

Mnemonic: "dental" is considered minor to other branches of medical.. Example: You may incur some INCIDENTAL expenses on the trip.

not important Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is considered of little worth or importance, it is inconsequential. If astronomers forecast a tremendous meteor shower, it might turn out to be no more than space junk, too inconsequential to record.

Mnemonic: INCONSEQUENTIAL sounds like Not essential Example: That's an INCONSEQUENTIAL problem compared to the other issues

having no value Form: adj Tone: neg

Something nugatory has no real value; itâ€™s worthless. All your excuses for why you didnâ€™t turn the bath tap off when you left the apartment are nugatory; they donâ€™t change the fact that the tub overflowed and leaked into the

Mnemonic: NUGATORY sounds like No+guarantee, i.e a product which has no guarantee, is worthless. Example: The book is entertaining, but its contributions to Shakespearean scholarship are NUGATORY.

CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS

FRINGE

HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP

INCIDENTAL

ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

INCONSEQUENTIAL

NUGATORY

apartment below. not as important as the main aim. Form: adj Tone: neg

Scanners, printers, and speakers are peripheral devices for a computer because they aren't central to the working of the computer itself. Anything peripheral is on the margin, or outside, while main things, like a computer's processor, are not peripheral.

Mnemonic: Villages on the Periphery of any country are of less importance...i.e PERIPHERAL Example: If we focus too much on PERIPHERAL issues, we will lose sight of the goal.

something unimportant Form: n Tone: neg

The adjective picayune refers to those things that are so small, trivial, and unimportant that they're not worth getting into. Why focus on the picayune details, when it's the larger ideas that are the real problem?

Mnemonic: relate it to pico, which means small. so PICAYUNEpico-small or petty things Example: Our lives don't amount to a PICAYUNE in the great scheme of things

PERIPHERAL

PICAYUNE

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CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

a fact or action that is not usual. Form: n Tone: neut

An aberration is a noun that means something that is not normal or is very typical at all. An example of an aberration is when the temperature hits 90 degrees in January - it's nice and warm, but it's really strange.

Mnemonic: Sounds like abh (hindi word for 'now') + operation. Due to the mental disorder, the patient needs to be operated immediately (now). Example: For her, such a low grade on an exam was an Aberration. Root: prefix ABmeans AWAY FROM

a thing that is not normal Form: n Tone: neut

An anomaly is an abnormality, a blip on the screen of life that doesnâ€™t fit with the rest of the pattern. If you are a breeder of black dogs and one puppy comes out pink, that puppy is an anomaly.

Mnemonic: Anomaly= A(means NO) + Nomaly = A(no) + Normality = ABNORMALITY, DEVIATION FROM NORMAL ORDER Example: We couldn't explain the anomalies in the test results.

a longer route that is taken to avoid a problem or go to a place Form: n Tone: neut

a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)

Mnemonic: Detour if we REVERSE it ROUTE(D)means LONGER ROUTE Example: We had to make a Detour around the flooded fields. Root: Prefix DE means AWAY or DOWN

to be different from something Form: v Tone: neut

If something turns off course or is diverted, it deviates from the expected or the norm. Deviating from explicit recipe directions is never a good idea, unless you want inedible food or a kitchen fire.

Mnemonic: DeviatING from the main point. Example: The bus had to Deviate from its usual route because of a road closure. Root: Prefix DE means AWAY

Aberration

ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP

Anomaly

ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL

Detour

UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION

Deviate

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COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-)

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: v Tone: neut

To amalgamate is to combine different things to create something new. Institutions - such as banks, schools, or hospitals - often join forces and amalgamate with one other. But other things like musical genres - get amalgamated as well.

Mnemonic: Amalgamate: as we all know that AMALGAM is the alloy of mercury.And alloy means MIXING things together.SO Amalgamate means mixing or combining. Example: The company has now Amalgamated with another local firm.

Form: n Tone: neut

A coalition is a group of people who join together for a common cause, like a coalition you form with other skateboarders who want to convince your town to build a skate park.

Mnemonic: Co means TOGETHER. So anything done together. Example: There is a Coalition of environmental and consumer groups

Form: v Tone: neut

Conflate is a more formal way to say "mix together." You probably wouldn't say you conflated the ingredients for a cake, but if you blended two different stories together to make a new one, conflate would work.

Mnemonic: Conflates sounds similar to cornflakes which gives us strength by bringing together all the vitamin and minerals together Example: The issues of race and class are separate and should not be Conflated. Root: CON means TOGETHER

Form: v Tone: neut

mix together different elements

Mnemonic: Meld sounds like blend which means a mixture of Example: Time goes on Like an endless maze, Melding seconds to hours And hours to days.

Form: n Tone: neut

Synthesis is a mixture, or a result that comes from adding things together. Add salt to water, and the synthesis is salt water. Mix flour, sugar, butter, and eggs together and bake them, and the synthesis is a cake.

Mnemonic: Remember photoSynthesis which combines carbondioxide , organic material and light to give Oxygen Example: Our culture has a Synthesis of

EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-)

Amalgamate

FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING POOR POOR CONDITION

Coalition

REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL

Conflate

UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY

Meld

Synthesis

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COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-)

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Relation to Group

Arid is so dry that nothing will grow. Death Valley in California features an arid climate, which is why it's called Death Valley and not Life Valley.

Mnemonic: Arid : Take it as a-rigid; a rigid thing can't be made to change it's shape, thus it can be taken as dry, barren, and unproductive. Example: Nothing grows in these Arid regions.

Form: n,v Tone: neut

Feeling overwhelmed, like you're underwater? You might be experiencing a deluge - like when you've been given a deluge of homework over vacation: a dozen term papers, two dozen books to read, and a mile-high stack of math problems.

Mnemonic: del[dell company]uge[huge]...so when the Dell company advertised it's product, there was a huge rush of requests, a deluge of requests. Example: When the snow melts, the mountain stream becomes a deluge.

Form: v Tone: neut

To be desiccated is to be dried out. If you like desiccated fruit, you like dried fruit - such as raisins or dried apricots.

Mnemonic: Removing moisture and humidity from something is what makes it become Desiccated. Example: Thus, these environments are Desiccated by the dry winds and direct sunlight.

Form: v Tone: neut

drench or submerge or be Example: We were drenched or submerged caught in the storm and got drenched to the skin.

Form: v Tone: neut/neg

To inundate means to quickly fill up or overwhelm, just like a flood. Your bathroom could be inundated with water if the pipes burst, and hopefully your inbox is inundated with nice emails on your birthday.

Mnemonic: Attempt to read the entire dictionary in one sitting and you'll inundate your mind with vocabulary. Example: We have been inundated with offers of help.

Form: v Tone: neg

If you don't water your lawn all summer, the hot weather will parch the grass until it's brown and withered. To parch is to dry up or wither due to sunlight or heat.

Mnemonic: Parch can be related to MARCH(month name). In the month of march its so hot that everything starts drying up. Example: A drought is Parching much of the

Arid


Deluge (oppo)

REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN

Desiccated

SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS

Drench (oppo)

WEALTHY

Inundate (oppo)

Parch

country. Form: v Tone: neut

To sear something is to quickly cook or burn its surface by applying intense heat. When making beef stew, the color and flavor are usually better if you sear the meat first.

Mnemonic: Sear rhymes with TEAR. When you BURN your hand you are in tears. Example: The heat of the sun Seared their faces.

Form: v Tone: neut

Seep means to leak slowly. When you see the word, imagine water coming in through your sneakers on a rainy day. It's not a lot of water, but your feet still get pretty wet.

Mnemonic: SEEP is similar to PEEP. When you peep, you see through a small opening. When liquid seeps, it comes out of a small opening Example: Blood was beginning to seep through the bandages.

Form: adj Tone: neut

When it's been raining for days, there are puddles everywhere, and the grass is thoroughly soaked, it's safe to say the ground is sodden.

Mnemonic: SODDEN sounds like suddenly soaken (soak with water, wet) Example: We arrived home completely sodden.

Form: v Tone: neut

Steep means to soak in, as in steeping a tea bag in boiling water.

Mnemonic: Steep and seep are synonyms both meaning WET Example: Steep the fruit in brandy overnight.

Sear

Seeped (oppo)

Sodden (oppo)

Steeped (oppo)

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COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: v Tone: neut

When things abound, there are a lot of them. In spring, birds, flowers, rain, and frisbees abound.

Mnemonic: Bounded means limited. Abound means not limited, that is plentiful. Example: Stories about his travels Abound.

Form: n Tone: neut

A barrage is something that comes quickly and heavily - as an attack of bullets or artillery, or a fast spray of words.

Mnemonic: Barrage barrier; like man-made barrier in a stream which can stop continuous flow of river water. Example: the media's Barrage of attacks on the President's wife

Form: adj Tone: pos

given or giving freely

Mnemonic: Bounty sounds like Abound or Abundant which means A LOT. Example: Once again was the Bounteous earth giving to man a hundredfold what he had sown.


If you have a copious amount of something, you have a lot of it. If you take copious notes, you'll do well when it comes time for review sessions - unless you can't read your own handwriting.

Mnemonic: By copying in an exam, some get a LOT of marks Example: She supports her theory with Copious evidence.

Form: n Tone: neut

A grocery store with a large selection of fruits and vegetables could be said to have a cornucopia of produce. A cornucopia is a lot of good stuff.

Mnemonic: corn + copia. copia is similar to copius meaning plentiful, Cornucopia thus means plenty of corn(grains/fruits). Example: The book is a Cornucopia of good ideas.

Form: n,v Tone: neg

A glut is too much of something. A glut of gas in the marketplace can lower its price. A glut of heavy metal Tshirts in your dresser, however, has nothing to do with the economy but might be a signal that it's time to clean your room.

Mnemonic: Glut-Gain a Lot..excess Example: There is a Glut of cheap DVDs on the market

Abound

EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY

Barrage

LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT

Bounteous

REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING

Copious

UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY Cornucopia

Glut

Form: v Tone: neut

To inundate means to quickly fill up or overwhelm, just like a flood. Your bathroom could be inundated with water if the pipes burst, and hopefully your inbox is inundated with nice emails on your birthday.

Mnemonic: as mentioned before (WET category) Example: We have been Inundated with offers of help.

Form: n Tone: neut

A legion is a horde or a large number of people or things. It was originally a term for a military unit.

Mnemonic: In army, 'march fast' is common which is performed using legs hence in this way related to the word Legion Example: Legions of photographers

Form: adj Tone: pos

Anything multitudinous is countless, infinite, innumerable, and, myriad: you couldn't count it if you tried.

Mnemonic: MULTI always means MANY. Example: All the Multitudinous donations that the Earth makes free of charge to human society are known as "ecosystem services".

Form: n,adj Tone: neut

If you've got myriad problems it doesn't mean you should call a myriad exterminator, it means you've got countless problems; loads of them; too many to count. Welcome to the club.

Mnemonic: like pyramid.. huge number of years since it was built The PYRAMID consist of a huge pile of rocks = a Myriad of rocks Example: Designs are available in a Myriad of colours.

Form: n Tone: pos

Plethora means an abundance or excess of something. If you have 15 different people who want to take you on a date, you have a plethora of romantic possibilities.

Mnemonic: like if you go home after many days, your mother will insist that you eat more. What she will say is "Pe Le + Thoda Aur Le" (in Hindi, meaning take some more)ultimately, it will become an excess at the end. You will be full Example: The report contained a Plethora of detail.

Form: adj Tone: neut/ pos

Profuse is a word for a lot of something or even way too much - a profuse rainfall is a serious amount of rain.

Mnemonic: to PRODUCE an abundance of energy from nuclear FUSion, you need to join two atomic nuclei. Example: He is Profusely bleeding.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone or something that is prolific is fruitful or highly productive. A prolific songwriter can churn out five hit tunes before breakfast.

Mnemonic: "Production Lifted"They produced large amounts of the product -Their production was lifted up in amount They were Prolific. Example: Few composers can match

Inundate

Legion

Multitudinous

Myriad

Plethora

Profuse

Prolific

his Prolific output. Form: adj Tone: pos

If your supervisor at work describes your new position as â€œrife with opportunities for advancement,â€ then rejoice! That means your position offers many opportunities for advancement.

Mnemonic: Rife- rifle which has abundant bullets Example: It is a country where corruption is Rife.

Form: n Tone: neut

Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms

Example: The first Salvo exploded a short distance away.

Form: n Tone: neut

A spate is a large number. If a spate of new coffee shops open in your neighborhood, itâ€™ll be easy for you to stay wide awake.

Mnemonic: What will be fate of our state if there is a Spate OR SUDDEN FLOOD? Example: The bombing was the latest in a Spate of terrorist attacks.

Form: v Tone: neut

Steep also means to soak in, as in steeping a tea bag in boiling water.

Mnemonic: as mentioned before (WET category) Example: as mentioned before (under WET category)

Form: n Tone: pos

Steve baked a surfeit of jam tarts. Steve ate a surfeit of jam tarts. Steve surfeited himself on jam tarts. Whether surfeit is a noun or a verb (as in "overabundance" or "gorge"), Steve is likely to end up with a bellyache.

Mnemonic: Surfeit = SIR is FAT..as he eats a lot more than required until he is full. Example: Indigestion can be brought on by a Surfeit of rich food.

Form: v,n Tone: neut/neg

A surge is a sudden strong swelling, like a tsunami wave that engulfs the land. Although a surge offers a fluid image, anything can experience a sudden surge, including emotions, political support, or an angry mob.

Mnemonic: S-sudden URGE to increase spectacularly.. Example: He Surged past the other runners on the last lap.

Form: v Tone: neut

Teeming means completely full, especially with living things. If your grandmother's apartment is teeming with cats, she sure has a lot of them.

Mnemonic: Any time something (or someplace) is filled with life, it's Teeming with it. Example: the Teeming streets of the city

Form: n Tone: neut

When an attacking army lets loose a barrage of bullets all at once, it's called a volley.

Mnemonic: just like in Volley-ball we throw shots at each other. Example: Police fired a Volley over the heads of the crowd.

Rife

Salvo

Spate

Steeped

Surfeit

Surge

Teeming

Volley

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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: n Tone: neg

The adjective chauvinistic is useful for describing people who strongly believe in the superiority of their own gender or kind. A chauvinistic man might say women are too emotional to hold stressful jobs.

Mnemonic: If you believe that your gender, culture, country, or group is inherently better than another, you are chauvinistic, which is pronounced "shovan-IS-tick." Example: Male public figures who make chauvinistic comments about women are now immediately placed in the public stocks of social media.

Form: n,adj Tone: neg

If youâ€™re apt to come off as a little zany and express extreme enthusiasm for a particular idea or thing, you may be described as a fanatic. "Sheâ€™s a real vegetable fanatic; Iâ€™ve never seen someone so enthusiastic about gardening methods.

Mnemonic: Fanatic sounds like a FAN (follower) WHO DOES NOT KNOW HIS LIMITS and BECOMES ECCESSIVELY ENTHUSIASTIC about SOMEONE or SOMETHING Example: An addictive parlor game, it's played in front of millions of political Fanatics, like me, who can't resist tuning in and feasting on the dish.

Form: n Tone: neg

Jingoism is fanatical, overthe-top patriotism. If you refuse to eat, read, wear, or discuss anything that wasn't made in your own country, people might accuse you of jingoism.

Mnemonic: jin(that alladin one) had extreme and uncontrolled loyalty towards his master Example: The really bad thing here is the silly wave that has gone over the public mindâ€”protection humbug, silver, Jingoism, etc

Form: n Tone: neg

The hamburger zealot was so fanatical about his burgers that he camped outside his favorite fastfood joint for hours every morning, waiting for it to open. And he would never put mustard on them, only

Mnemonic: Zealot can be connected to A LOT OF ZEAL (ENTHUSIASM), So a person who is very passionate about someone is definitely an enthusiastic

EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE

Chauvinism

LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN

Fanatic

SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY

Jingoism

Zealot

ketchup.

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person. Example: The coffee lover was a Zealot regarding where his coffee was grown, who grew it, and how it was roasted.

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Meaning

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you describe land as arable, it means that something can grow there. If you're looking to raise crops, you better find yourself a patch of arable land.

Form: adj Tone: pos

The adjective fecund Example: Fecundity describes things that are declines rapidly after the highly fertile and that age of 40. easily produce offspring or fruit.

Form: adj Tone: pos

When something is green with plant life it's verdant, a word often used to idealize the countryside with its verdant pastures or verdant hills.

Mnemonic: VARDAAN(blessing)...green color is a blessing...green vegetables,trees. Example: She wore a dress of Verdant green.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Drive through a forest that's just been destroyed by a fire, and you'll get an idea of what barren means - stripped of vegetation and devoid of life.

Mnemonic: Anything BARRING (stopping) RAIN can cause a land to be BARREN (not fertile). Example: In ten thousand years, the earth could be cold and barren, an endless frozen wasteland more suitable for mammoths than for humans.


Arable

EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE

Fecund

LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING POOR

Verdant

POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-)

X Barren

SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY Legends: X

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Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: agra (agriculture) + able. Example: Bees do not occupy and use up Arable land.

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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: n Tone: pos

The process of increasing can be called accretion. Although you may say that stalactites "grow" from the ceilings of caves, they actually form from an accretion of limestone and other minerals.

Mnemonic: Accretion -add + creation , this addition to creation leads to growth Example: The process of character building through Accretion and elimination has been going on.


If you are a window washer, but you refer to yourself as a "vista enhancement specialist," then you are aggrandizing your job title - that is, making it sound greater than it is.

Mnemonic: Aggrandize -aggregate + grand; aggregating things...is similar to adding details Example: Her sole aim is personal Aggrandizement.

Form: v Tone: neut

Do you need to make something bigger, better, or stronger? Then you need to augment it. To augment is to increase the amount or strength of something.

Mnemonic: Augment sounds like argument; Your misleading argument, can increase the chances of damage to our company. Example: The recent speech of the president Augmented tensions in the Near East

Form: v Tone: neut

To dilate something is to make it wider. When the light fades, the pupil of your eye will dilate, meaning it looks bigger.

Mnemonic: If you DIE LATE(die in a very old age) you expand(in weight sense or in age) Example: Her eyes Dilated with fear.

Form: v Tone: neut

Many people use the expression "enhance your chance" to point out ways to increase your chances of winning or earning a contest or prize. When you enhance something, you heighten it or make it better.

Example: This is an opportunity to Enhance the reputation of the company.

Form: v Tone: pos

When something proliferates, it's growing, spreading or multiplying really quickly. Bunny rabbits have a habit of proliferating, as do dandelions in untended gardens and funny

Mnemonic: pro + life + rate : increase in rate of production (pro) of life (living organisms) causes population to increase rapidly Example: Books and

Accretion

FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING

Aggrandize

POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF

Augment

SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS

Dilate

WEALTHY

Enhance

Proliferate

Form: v Tone: pos

YouTube videos on the internet.

articles on the subject have Proliferated over the last year.

To wax is to grow larger or increase, whereas wane means to grow smaller or decrease.

Mnemonic: If you go for Waxing( A technique to remove hair from your skin..usually ladies go for it) once..next time the hair growth on your skin INCREASES GRADUALLY Example: The sun's energy output varies slightly as sunspots Wax on the star's surface.

Wax

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: v Tone: neg

Something that abates becomes fewer or less intense. Your enthusiasm for skiing might abate after falling off a ski lift and getting a mouthful of snow.

Mnemonic: Focus on â€ãteâ€™ part of Abate. (eat, ate, eaten). When you eat anything, you reduce it's quantity. Example: They waited for the crowd's fury to Abate.

Form: v,n Tone: neut

When something ebbs, it is declining, falling, or flowing away. The best time to look for sea creatures in tidal pools is when the tide is on the ebb meaning it has receded from the shore.

Mnemonic: Relate it to egg ; now-a-days because of bird flu the quantity of eggs coming to the market is reduced. Example: She sat in silence enjoying the Ebb and flow of conversation.

Form: v Tone: neut

Recede means to pull back, Mnemonic: You'll retreat, or become faint or succeed if you let distant. Flood waters recede, as your bad memories do glaciers, and even Recede abstractions like "panic" and Example: The sound "hope." Think "receding of the truck Receded hairline." (That means bald.) into the distance.

Form: v Tone: pos/ neut

To subside is to die down or become less violent, like rough ocean waves after a storm has passed (or your seasickness, if you happened to be sailing on that ocean).


Abate


Ebb


Recede

SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE

Subside

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Mnemonic: Subside sounds like subsidy (reduction of cost on services) the word REDUCE still remains common. Example: She waited nervously for his anger to Subside. Root: refix SUB means UNDER

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Relation to Group

Fortuitous means by chance, like a lucky accident. If you and your best friend's families happen to go on vacation to the same place at the same time, thatâ€™s a fortuitous coincidence!

Mnemonic: equivalent to fortune... fortune isn't destined to occur, it is accidental Example: His success depended on a Fortuitous combination of circumstances.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Use the adjective opportune to describe especially good timing. A snowstorm is an opportune time to make extra money shoveling your neighbor's driveway.

Mnemonic: Everything one wishes for is OPPORTUNITIES at the Opportune time. Example: The offer could not have come at a more Opportune moment.

Form: adj Tone: pos

When the timing of something is propitious or you've got propitious circumstances for something, it's likely to turn out well. A propitious time for taking a big test is when you've studied hard and gotten a good night's sleep.

Mnemonic: sounds like profitious.. hence its profitable and thus favorable Example: It was not a Propitious time to start a new business.

Form: n Tone: pos

If you find good things without looking for them, serendipity - unexpected good luck - has brought them to you.

Mnemonic: You can thank Serendipity if you find a pencil at an empty desk just as you walk into an exam and realize that you forgot yours. Example: Meeting her like that, and there of all places, was true Serendipity!

Form: n Tone: neg

Despair is the feeling of not having any hope left. If you just found out that you're having a test in math and you hadn't studied at all, you might feel despair, or despair of any hope that you can pass it.

Mnemonic: Despair can also refer to someone or something that causes you to worry or be sad. Example: A deep sense of despair overwhelmed him.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the adjective hapless to describe someone unlucky and deserving of pity, like the hapless used car buyer who gives in to the fast-

Mnemonic: relate it to helpless Example: Intimacy between performers and their hapless

Fortuitous

FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING POOR

Opportune


Propitious

SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS

Serendipity

WEALTHY

X Despair

X Hapless

Form: adj Tone: neg X Wretched

talking salesperson.

audience members creates an interesting frisson.

The fairy tale Cinderella gives us many examples of uses for the word wretched. Poor Cinderella had a wretched childhood, living in wretched conditions with a wretched stepmother. It would be enough to make anyone feel wretched, or absolutely terrible.

Mnemonic: wretched - people in a wrecked ship are wretched.... physical misery! Example: I felt wretched about the way things had turned out.2 (formal)

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Meaning When circumstances or a situation works against you, you face adversity.

Mnemonic: ad-worse, when the conditions are worst, its your misfortune Example: He overcame many personal adversities.

Form: n Tone: neg

An affliction makes you suffer, but you have to deal with it anyway. Diseases are often said to be afflictions, but the word can mean just about anything that causes great suffering.

Mnemonic: Affliction sounds like infection, which causes a state of distress, irritation and suffering Example: He is in fact one person with an affliction that radically changes his personality.

Form: n Tone: neg

Donâ€™t cry over spilled milk, it is just a minor mishap - a misfortune. If the surgeon operates on the wrong leg when you go in for knee surgery? Now, thatâ€™s a mishap to get upset about.

Mnemonic: MIS refers to negative attribute and HAP can be related to happening. So a wrong happening. Example: I managed to get home without further Mishap. Root: MIS means HATE/WRONG

Form: n Tone: neg

An ordeal is something difficult or painful to go through. Something kind of hard like taking a test can be an ordeal, but often an ordeal is a serious and long-lasting event, like an illness or tragedy.

Mnemonic: OR+DEAL...DEALING WITH ORIYA SPEAKING PEOPLE IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE is quite a difficult experience. Example: They are to be spared the ordeal of giving evidence in court.

Form: n Tone: neg

a trial is a difficult experience, trouble or grief.

Example: this film is as much about celebration as it is about Trials.

Form: n Tone: neg

Tribulation is suffering or trouble, usually resulting from oppression. The tribulations of a coal miner include a dangerous work environment, lung disease from black dust and a cramped, dark work space.

Mnemonic: Tribulation-Tribal ; While the group was trekking they were caught by jungle tribal (junglee log In Hindi) and harassed ...It was a period of Tribulation for them! Example: Life is full of Tribulations.

Adversity

EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-)

Afflictions

PAIN / SUFFERING POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF

Mishap

SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE

Ordeals

VERY LESS WEALTHY

Trials

Tribulation

Mnemonic/Example

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: an,adj,v Tone: neg

Relation to Group

You might not have any money in your pocket, but it doesnâ€™t necessarily mean you are bankrupt. It takes a legal proceeding for the courts to declare a person bankrupt - or officially unable to pay his debts.

Mnemonic: When your bank is ruptured (you left without money), you would definitely be Bankrupt Example: The company was declared Bankrupt by the court.

Form: adj Tone: neg

When you think of the word destitute, which means poor or lacking other necessities of life, think of someone who is in desperate straits. A very, very tight budget is poor. Living on the streets is destitute.

Mnemonic: Break it as DE+INSTITUE...that means the person who has never been to any INSTITUTE..i.e. who is ILLITERATE is very poor Example: When he died, his family was left completely Destitute.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you are hard up, broke, penniless, or strapped for cash, you could describe yourself as impecunious. Then maybe you could make some money teaching vocabulary words.

Mnemonic: IM(not)+PECUNIA is a root for money...hence Impecunious means having little or no money. Example: They were so Impecunious that they couldn't afford to give one another even token Christmas gifts

Form: v Tone: neg

To impoverish is to take away a person's livelihood. When a drought ruins a farmer's crop and he has nothing to harvest, his bad luck may leave him and his family impoverished, or poor.

Mnemonic: Impoverish can be remembered as INTO POVERTY Example: These changes are likely to Impoverish singleparent families even further. Root: IM means NOT.

Form: adj Tone: neg

An indigent person is extremely poor, lacking the basic resources of a normal life. Often the indigent lack not only money but homes.

Mnemonic: Indigent (poor) cannot be INDULGENT(rich and overspending) Example: Homeless shelters, soup kitchens, free medical

Bankrupt


Destitute

POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING

Impecunious

UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY

Impoverish

Indigent

clinics and courtappointed lawyers are all institutions that our society has developed to help indigen Form: adj Tone: neg

Piggy bank empty? Nothing but lint in your pockets? Then you're probably unable to meet any financial obligations. In other words, you are insolvent.

Mnemonic: in + solvent = one who cant solve his debts. Example: The company has been declared Insolvent.

Form: n,adj Tone: neg

People who live off begging can be called mendicants. However, you probably wouldn't call your kids mendicants, even though they beg you for stuff, because the word mendicant also implies extreme poverty.

Mnemonic: Mendicant - Men + dI + Can't : men who say I can't, they don't like to work and sometimes start practicing beggary Example: A Mendicant approached me while I was waiting at the traffic signal.

Form: n Tone: neut/neg

Pauper is an old-fashioned word for someone who is poor - really poor, like the paupers described by Charles Dickens or Mark Twain.

Mnemonic: Pauper and POOR rhymes partially. Example: She was buried in a Pauper's grave.

Form: n Tone: neg

Penury means extreme poverty to the point of homelessness and begging in the streets. Economic downturns, job loss, shopping sprees, and weekends at the high rollers' table in Vegas can lead to penury.

Mnemonic: pen+ru(pee)-no rupee to buy a pen Example: He died in Penury.

Form: adj,n Tone: neg

As an adjective, solvent describes someone who's got cash on hand.

Mnemonic: Sounds like "solve" + "rent". If you want to solve the issues related to rent then you must be able to pay all your debts. Example: In some cases, banks that were otherwise solvent faced collapse.

Insolvent

Mendicant

Pauper

Penury

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Mnemonic: Decrease in Brad pit's muscular strength made him very weak Example: He is a Decrepit old man.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If something has been abandoned, you can call it derelict. Even if a person has abandoned his responsibilities, you can say that he is derelict in his duties. But don't call a lost child derelict - unless, of course, he has neglected his chores.

Mnemonic: Derelict sounds like Neglect. Neglected things are generally abondoned after a while. Example: The canal has been Derelict for many years.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Falling down and in total disrepair, something that's dilapidated is going to need a lot of fixing up.

Mnemonic: I drank a DILuted API(appy) juice which was outDATED(expired).... my stomach got RUINED as a result of my own NEGLECT. Example: The house remained empty, and was getting into a very Dilapidated state.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Is your house in terrible condition? Does the roof leak? Is it half tumbling down? Congratulations! It's ramshackle - in other words - in terrible condition and barely holding together.

Mnemonic: When the roof rambles and falls apart, its indeed in a Ramshackled state. Example: The opposition criticized the government's Ramshackle economic policies.

Form: n Tone: neg

Any scene, place, or thing in disorder.

Mnemonic: Shamble has 'amble' which means able to walk. But it also has SH, so may be a person who walks shakily lacks in strength. Example: Terrorists have turned the city into Shambles.

EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-)

Derelict

PAIN / SUFFERING POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF

Dilapidated

SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY

Mnemonic/Example

That building falling down on the corner of your block? It's decrepit. So is the old man who lives there, if he is weak from age. Decrepit means broken down by hard use.

Decrepit

FERTILE

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

Ramshackle

Shamble

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Contract also means "shrink." When the economy contracts, consumers stop buying things, and people lose their jobs, and if you freeze water, it contracts too.

Mnemonic: Contraction and expansion are opposites Example: The universe is expanding rather than Contracting.


To curtail something is slow it down, put restrictions on it, or stop it entirely. If I give up cake, I am curtailing my cakeeating.

Mnemonic: Curtail. Can be read as cur + TAIL or cutting the tail of a dog (CUR), ie reducing it. So Curtail is to shorten or to reduce. Example: The lecture was Curtailed by the fire alarm going off.


What do love, money, and the earth all have in common? All can dwindle, or shrink away, if we don't handle them properly.

Mnemonic: if a swindler (cheater) swindles (cheats) you then your savings Dwindle. Example: Support for the party has Dwindled away to nothing.


Stopping for a snack may help when your energy or attention begin to flag, meaning you are getting tired or losing your focus.

Mnemonic: Flag rhymes with sag which means to droop or grow feeble Example: It had been a long day and the children were beginning to Flag.

Form: v Tone: neg

Things that wax and wane grow larger and smaller, like the moon. Things that wane simply grow smaller. "My initial enthusiasm for helping waned when I saw the pile of envelopes that needed licking."

Mnemonic: Wane--it sounds like "vain", imagine your tailor has decreased the size of your pant and shirt and now you can't wear it, so your hard work involved in buying that dress went in vain. Example: Her enthusiasm for the whole idea was waning rapidly.

EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-)

Contract

PAIN / SUFFERING POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST

Curtail

SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING

Dwindle


Flag

Wane

Legends: X

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Mnemonic/Example

squeeze or press together Mnemonic: Constrict sounds like RESTRICT. Thatâ€™s the meaning as well, to restrict something from happening. Example: Film-makers of the time were Constricted by the censors.

Constrict

FERTILE

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something apposite is fitting or relevant. It is apposite that radio stations play Christmas carols on Christmas Eve, and that your tax accountant takes vacation after April 15th. It all makes sense.

Mnemonic: Appositeopposite of OPPOSITE i.e. perfectly matched; appropriate; most suitable Example: Her remarks are extremely Apposite to the present discussion.

Form: adj,adv Tone: pos

Apropos means regarding or appropriate to, as in: Apropos of your interest in fishing, your grandfather gave you his set of championship lures, rods, reels and lucky tackle box.

Mnemonic: Apropos apro + pos, appropriate + position - appropriate + situation... Example: Lets discuss this on an Apropos moment.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Germane means relevant; it fits in. If you are giving a speech on dog training, stick to the germane, canine stuff.

Mnemonic: Germane...very close to word ..Germany..so if you want TO learn GERMAN LANGUAGE....I GUESS A GERMAN teacher would be APPROPRIATE. Example: remarks that are Germane to the discussion

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something pertinent is relevant and on-point. If you give your best friend pertinent advice, that means the advice is appropriate for the situation.

Mnemonic: relate this word to pertaining....which means relevant to. Example: Please keep your comments Pertinent to the topic under discussion.

Apposite


Apropos


Germane

SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS

Pertinent

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: n Tone: neut

People who are able to look back on the past and understand what happened have hindsight. If you go skating on a frozen lake and it cracks, in hindsight you'd know you should've paid attention to the giant "danger" sign.

Mnemonic: see it as be Hindsight.. foresight- seeing before occurring and Hindsight- seeing after occurring. Example: What looks obvious in Hindsight was not at all obvious at the time.

Form: n Tone: neut

Think of the noun, nostalgia, when you long for the good old days of the past.

Mnemonic: Nostalgia. sounds like no- hostel- gia.. so he feels home sick..remembers home Example: She is filled with Nostalgia for her own college days.

Form: n Tone: neut

A reminiscence is a memory, or the act of recovering it. A visit to your old elementary school may flood your brain with reminiscencesâ €“-things you hadn't thought of in years coming suddenly back.

Mnemonic: can break it as re + mini + scene - recollecting mini scenes from our past memories Example: The book is a collection of his Reminiscences about the actress.

Form: n,adj Tone: neut

In retrospect - that is, in looking back and contemplating the past â €” we sometimes find ourselves wishing that we had done some things differently.

Mnemonic: Retro means PAST and Spect is to see. So to look back in the past is to Retrospect Example: The decision seems extremely odd, in Retrospect. Root: RETRO means PAST


Only one letter separates the two words, but "wishful" is having hope for something, and wistful is having sadness or melancholy about something. "Wist" isn't even a word that's used anymore, but you can still be wistful.

Mnemonic: Wistful and Wishful...Wistful -Full of longing or unfulfilled desire. Wishful = Seeking advancement or recognition. Example: â€œIf only I had known you then,â€ he said Wistfully.

Hindsight


Nostalgia


Reminiscence

SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY

Retrospect

Wistfully

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Form: n Tone: neg

If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it. A dearth of affordable housing is bad, but a dearth of bed bugs is a blessing.

Mnemonic: earth is big. de-earth.....(read as Dearth) means small...small in quantity..or scarcity Example: here was a Dearth of reliable information on the subject. Root: Prefix DE means DOWN/AWAY

Form: n Tone: neg

If you're running a deficit, you are losing. You might be losing money or losing a game. Either way, you better make up for it.

Mnemonic: Deficit: DEFICIent+ IT, means reduce in quantity Example: The trade balance has been in Deficit for the past five years. Root: Prefix DE means DOWN/AWAY

Form: adj Tone: neg

Being deprived means lacking important things like food and water. For example, when warm clothing, housing, and nutrition are in short supply, the people are deprived of basics of life.

Example: Boys from a Deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation. Root: Prefix DE means DOWN/AWAY

Form: adj Tone: neg

You're stranded in the ocean, miles from shore, clinging to a sinking boat, and you can't swim? Sorry to say, your situation is devoid of all hope.

Mnemonic: void resembles something nullified, ie empty, lacking. Example: The letter was Devoid of warmth and feeling. Root: Prefix DE means DOWN/AWAY

Form: adj Tone: neg

If I had more than an exiguous amount of space here, I'd be able to tell you more about the fact that exiguous means a tiny amount.

Example: Flora saw her father trembling in all his Exiguous length, though he held himself stiffer than ever if that was possible.

Form: n Tone: neg

The word paucity means not enough of something. If you've got a paucity of good cheer, for example, you'd better cheer up!

Mnemonic: pau paav as in paav bhaji and if there is only one "paav" for the whole city...so obviously it will be scarce


Dearth


Deficit

REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN

Deprived


Devoid

Exiguous

Paucity

Example: There was a a Paucity of information. Form: adj Tone: neg Vacuous

Reserved for the harmlessly stupid and truly meaningless, vacuous is a smart-sounding way to describe something dumb. Celebrity gossip and reality TV is usually pretty vacuous, even if it's fun.

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Mnemonic: Vacuous can be seen as vacuum which means, a region empty of matter. Example: He stared down at her, grinning Vacuously.

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Form: v Tone: neg

Dissipate means "disperse" or "fade away" - as a bad smell will dissipate (usually) if you wait long enough.

Mnemonic: di-SIPATE can be remembered as: Sip = drinking, Ate = Eating, a life of drinking and eating , thus spending a lot and pursuing pleasure! Example: If you win the lottery, you might suddenly find yourself with a group of new friends encouraging you to Dissipate your money.


In the Bible, the Prodigal Son leaves home and wastes all his money, but when he returns, he feels sorry. Use the adjective prodigal to describe someone who spends too much money, or something very wasteful.

Example: They criticized the Prodigality of the administration.


Profligate, as a noun or as an adjective, implies recklessly wasting your money on extravagant luxury. Profligate behavior is a lot of fun, but you'll regret it later - when you get your charge card bill.

Mnemonic: Profligate= spend Profusely like bill Gates Example: A â €œProfligateâ€ nation may have good reason to run up debts.

Form: n Tone: neg

A spendthrift person is reckless and wasteful with his money. Spendthrifts who like to take you out to nice lunches are good people to be friends with, but it's generally a bad way to handle your own bank account.

Mnemonic: Spendthrift can be split in this way: SPEND+THRIFT. Spending ones thrift (saving). Example: Ability to save.-All healthy boys are naturally inclined to be Spendthrifts.

Form: v Tone: neg

To squander means to spend extravagantly, thoughtlessly, or wastefully. If you need to save for college, don't squander her income on nightly sushi dinners.

Mnemonic: Squander rhymes with WANDER....so if you keep wandering, you are ultimately wasting time in life. Example: He Squandered all his

EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE

Dissipate

INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT

Prodigal

REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING

Profligate


Spendthrift

Squander

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Form: adj Tone: pos

Use absolute as a noun or an adjective when you're so sure of something that you know it will never change. For example, a devout person's belief in life after death is an absolute; that person has absolute faith in the afterlife.

Mnemonic: "solute" sounds like salute and we salute people having complete power. Example: â€˜You're wrong,â €™ she said with Absolute certainty.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If someone accuses you of stealing their lunch and you give a categorical denial, it means that you absolutely deny having anything to do with the theft. Categorical means absolute, unqualified, unconditional.

Mnemonic: assume that there are two categories A & B and you have to put an object in one of them..now when you put that object in a category..you are ABSOLUTEly sure that it belongs there. Example: He is known for making Categorical statements.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you're absolutely convinced your team is going to the Super Bowl, you state it with certitude or confidence.

Mnemonic: Certitude sounds like Certainity, and with a similar meaning. Example: You will like Rome,â €™ he said, with absolute Certitude.

Form: n Tone: neut

The adjective contingent can be used to describe when something can occur only when something else does first. Making money is contingent on finding a goodpaying job.

Mnemonic: remember that a continent and small continents depend on others Example: A strong contingent of local residents were there to block the proposal.

EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE

Absolute

INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF

Categorical

SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY

Certitude

Contingent (X)

Form: n Tone: pos

A conviction is something certain: a judgment of guilty in court and a strong belief are both convictions.

Mnemonic: He is the 'convict', i don't have any doubt about it, I am absolutely sure. Example: He said he agreed but his voice lacked Conviction.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Emphatic means forceful and clear. Nicole's mother was emphatic when she told her not to come home late again.

Mnemonic: saying something with EMPHASIS Example: He was Emphatic that he could not work with her. Root: Prefix EM- means IN

Form: adj Tone: pos

When something is incontrovertible, it is undeniably, absolutely, 100 percent, completely true. That rain is wet is an incontrovertible fact.

Mnemonic: in-controvertible; here relate controvertible with controversy thus something which cannot have any controversy is in-controvertible and thus is indisputable Example: Her book shows incontrovertibly that he was innocent.


Something provisional is temporary, in the sense that it's only valid for a while. You'll often hear provisional used to describe things such as governments, elections, contracts, and agreements, all of which can change into something permanent.

Mnemonic: provisional certificate is issued by university before the actual degree certificate as a TENTATIVE ONE FOR THE ORIGINAL Example: The meeting has been provisionally arranged for Friday.

Form: v Tone: neg

Make sure you know the context when using the word qualify. In one sense, it means to be right for, to measure up. In another sense, though, qualify means to change something slightly, to limit it or add a condition to it.

Mnemonic: Think of java qualifiers (private/public/default/protected - they limit the access of members of a class). Example: I want to qualify what I said earlierâ€”I didn't mean he couldn't do the job, only that he would need supervision.


Choose the adjective, tentative to describe

Mnemonic: Living in a tent temporarily. If you are living in a tent, you are unsettled. Example: Her English is correct

Conviction

Emphatic

Incontrovertible

Provisional (X)

Qualify (X)

something you but tentative. are unsure or Root: Prefix TEN/TENT means hesitant about. TO HOLD. On Monday, you can make tentative plans for the weekend but it's too early to commit to one party or another.

Tentative (X)

Unqualified

Form: adj Tone: pos

not limited or restricted

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Example: The event was not an Unqualified success.

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


A soda and pizza binge might make your stomach distend, meaning your stomach will swell as a result of pressure from the inside.

Mnemonic: try to relate it with dis means distance and extend means to expand. Example: Starving children develop huge Distended bellies

Form: adj Tone: neut/neg

To understand tumid, think about how your belly feels after Thanksgiving when you've just polished off that third helping of turkey with stuffing and Brussels sprouts. Gassy? Full? Distended? That's tumid for you.

Mnemonic: Tumid has the first three letters common with TUMOUR, which is a swollen mass or ball of cells. So Tumid is swollen, or distended. Example: In a Tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.


Turgid describes something that's swollen, typically by fluids, like a turgid water balloon that's way too big to resist dropping on your friend's head.

Mnemonic: Turgid and Tumid sounds similar and they share the same meaning. Example: This is a Turgid prose, very lengthy and boring.

Distend

EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING

Tumid


Turgid

SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY Legends: X

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Meaning Look to the adjective ambiguous when you need to describe something that's open to more than one interpretation, like the headline "Squad helps dog bite victim."

Mnemonic: Ambi means BOTH, so when you are in two minds you seem to be confused. Example: Her account was deliberately Ambiguous.


If you can't decide how you feel about something, declare yourself ambivalent about it.

Mnemonic: Ambi means BOTH, so when you are in two minds you seem to be confused. Example: She seems to feel Ambivalent about her new job. Root: Prefix AMBI means BOTH


Try to remember that uncertain means equivocal and certain means unequivocal. That's a tricky movement the un- is making, and a lot of people get stumped.

Mnemonic: Equi means EQUAL, so again refering to doubleness or two minds/ confusion Example: She gave an Equivocal answer, typical of a politician. Root: Prefix EQU means BOTH

Ambiguous


Ambivalent

POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-)

Mnemonic/Example


Equivocal

SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY Legends: X

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parsing "*Frugal" - Quantifier {x,y} following nothing.

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*Frugal

EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE

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: The words in this family (+) are used usually in positive context. : The words in this family (-) are used usually in negative context.

Meaning A person who lives simply and economically can be called frugal. Buying clothes at a consignment shop would be considered frugal. Not getting your mom a gift for her birthday - that's just cheap.

Mnemonic/Example

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Mnemonic: EX(extra)ORBITant...extra orbit in the solar system...so this extra+orbit makes the solar system excessive now Example: It's a good hotel but the prices are Exorbitant. Root: EX means OUT OF/ FROM

Form: n,v Tone: neg

Gouge means stealing by overcharging. If your local gas station puts the price of gas way up because a storm is coming, you may say that the station owner gouges prices - and that's illegal.

Mnemonic: If you're not careful with the screwdriver, you'll accidentally gouge a hole in the wall. Example: Housing shortages permit landlords to gouge their renters.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If something's so expensive you can't touch it, it's prohibitive. That Ferrari in the showroom? You may want it, but its price is prohibitive.

Mnemonic: PROHIBIT Example: The price of property in the city is Prohibitive.

Form: n Tone: neg

Usury means lending money at exorbitant interest rates. Credit-card companies charging annual interest rates of 29% are guilty of usury, as far as I'm concerned.

Mnemonic: SURY reminds me of TREASURY - Lending money from the treasury at a very high rate of interest Example: Bank of America recently rolled back a $5 monthly fee for debit cards that many considered Usury.

Exorbitant


Gouging

REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-)

Prohibitive

SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS

Mnemonic/Example

Use the adjective exorbitant when you want to describe something that is really just too much! You'll often hear people griping about exorbitant bank fees or exorbitant interest rates.


Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

Usury

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Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the word marginal when something is minimal or barely enough. If you buy lemons and sugar, make lemonade and set up a stand on the street corner, but only sell a couple of glasses, your profits will be marginal.

Mnemonic: Marginal is like MARGIN. Example: The story will only be of Marginal interest to our readers.

Form: adj Tone: neg

deficient in amount or quality Mnemonic: Meager = or extent m + eager concentrate on "eager". A person is eager only when he/she is in a desperate need of something inadequate...or scanty in supply. Example: She supplements her meagre income by cleaning at night.

Form: adj Tone: neg

When something is meaningless or insignificant because it is so little, it's negligible. The amount of interest you'll get on your savings is negligible, so you might as well spend your money.

Mnemonic: NEGLect it because it's not (><) GIB (big ) Example: The cost was Negligible.

Form: adj Tone: neg

A paltry amount is so small it's not even worth thinking about. In the novel "Oliver Twist," when Oliver is given a paltry amount of gruel - not nearly enough - he asks, "Please, sir, can I have some more?"

Mnemonic: Paltry is a laughably small amount - the waiter might chuck a Paltry tip in the garbage. Example: his account offers a Paltry 1% return on your investment.

Form: adj Tone: neg

We refer to an amount or thing that is not quite enough as scanty, or lacking. It's an adjective used to describe something that doesn't offer enough, as in "farmers having a scanty crop in a drought year."

Mnemonic: S-CAN'TY = CAN'T be Sufficient Example: Details of his life are Scanty.

Form: adj Tone: neg

containing little excess

Mnemonic: Pinky wore Skimpy clothes to the party only to add to the disaster. Example: They

Marginal

EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING POOR

Meager

POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN

Negligible


Paltry

Scanty

Skimpy

provided only Skimpy details. Form: v.adj Tone: neg

Frugally restricted or meager, Mnemonic: Repair as a manner of living or a the Spare parts diet Example: Since he was obese, the doctor recommended him a Spare diet.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something thatâ€™s sparse is thin, not dense. If youâ €™re looking for the perfect place to build a tree house, a sparse forest is probably not your best bet.

Spare

Sparse

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Mnemonic: Sparse sounds like Parsi(one group of people),who are not many in INDIA but THINLY SCATTERED or SCANTILY present. Example: Vegetation becomes Sparse higher up the mountains.

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Mnemonic: af + fluent. Someone who is fluent in a language knows an abundance of words. Example: I have a very Affluent neighborhood.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Opulent is a word that you will hear a lot around rich people looking to show off. "Remember the opulent buffet at Carrieâ€™s sweet sixteen? Sixteen chocolate cakes iced in gold leaf!"

Mnemonic: lent means lending. generally rich people lend money.Opulent means wealthy. Example: And on the thought, as though in answer to his wish, the landlord entered bearing a fine Opulent omelet stuffed with green peas.

EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING

Mnemonic/Example

You know you're driving through an affluent neighborhood when you see large houses, perfect landscaping, and expensive cars. Use affluent to describe wealthy people or areas.

Affluent

FERTILE

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

Opulent

POOR POOR CONDITION REDUCE RELEVANT REMEMBERING THE PAST SHORTAGE / LACK OF SPEND LAVISHLY (-) SURE / CERTAIN SWELL UNCLEAR IN MEANING UNWILLING TO SPEND VERY HIGH PRICE VERY LESS WEALTHY Legends: X

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Meaning

Form: noun Tone: neg

A breach is a violation of a law, duty, or promise. If you'd contracted to mow your neighbor's lawn and don't do it, he can sue you for breach of contract. Or he can mow the lawn himself.

Mnemonic: Breach sounds like brea(k)(ch)...break the contract Example: Selling goods constituted a Breach of regulation 10B.


To flout is to scorn or show contempt for. "I flout the law and the concept of civilian safety by making a concerted effort to jaywalk every time I cross a street."

Mnemonic: Flout... FOUL + OUT. When a player is sent out by foul, the player shows his contempt to the referee. Example: Motorists regularly Flout the law.

Form: verb Tone: pos

To accept a rule, law or judgement without question

Mnemonic: bide in abide sounds like bind(something that binds you).....so abide means something that fails to bind you from your heart..but you merely have to tolerate and follow. Example: The act does not spell out any consequences for failing to abide the rule. Root: AB means FROM


Follow instructions, rules, etc closely

Mnemonic: adhere - add + here; so adding two things together means to stick them. Example: Corporations rule the roost, and don't have any particular moral standard to which they adhere.

BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT

Breach

ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED

Flout

MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY

X Abide

TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL

X Adhere

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Mnemonic: an + nul so to nullify something means to make it zero or to make it void Example: Their marriage was Annulled after just two months.


To disavow is to deny support for someone or something. You might feel dissed if your biggest donor decides to suddenly disavow you in your run for president.

Mnemonic: Disavow can be split into dis+allow which means to refuse. Example: The coach Disavowed responsibility for the player's behavior. Root: DIS means NOT


Gainsay, a verb, means "contradict" or "speak out against." When you challenge authority, you gainsay, as in teachers don't like it when unruly students gainsay them.

Mnemonic: She has (Gain)ed weight but she is not (say)ing it which means, she is denying the fact. Example: Nobody can Gainsay his claims.

Form: adj Tone: neg/neut

Null means having no value; in other words null is zero, like if you put so little sugar in your coffee that itâ€™s practically null. Null also means invalid, or having no binding force.

Mnemonic: Null sounds like NIL. Example: The contract was declared Null and void.


If you're someone who speaks before you think, you may need to recant, or take back, that overly honest assessment of your friend's new haircut.

Mnemonic: RE (again) + CANT (cannot) - "I have told you this AGAIN and AGAIN, it CANNOT be done, it has been REJECTED." Example: He made a public Recantation of all his former beliefs. Root: RE means AGAIN and CANT means CHARM/SING


To renege is to go back on Mnemonic: RENEGADE your word or fail to keep a is a traitor of a promise. country.. Renege is a traitor of his own words.. Example: They had promised to pay her tuition but later

ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY

GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION

Disavow

OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY

Gainsay

TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT

Null

TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL

Recant

Renege

Mnemonic/Example

When a celebrity wakes up in Las Vegas with a mysterious wedding ring on her finger, the first thing sheâ€™ll probably want to do is annul the marriage. That will declare it invalid and officially cancel the whole deal.

Annul

FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON

Meaning


Reneged. Form: verb Tone: neg

To repeal something usually a law, ordinance or public policy - is to take it back. For example, dog lovers might want the town council to repeal the law that says residents can have no more than four dogs.

Mnemonic: rejection of an appeal - Repeal Example: The committee does not have the power to Repeal the ban.


To repudiate something is to reject it, or to refuse to accept or support it. If you grow up religious, but repudiate all organized religion as an adult, you might start spending holidays at the movies, or just going to work.

Mnemonic: he ate the PUDDING AGAIN.. When his mother asked him if he ate the pudding, he tried to Repudiate (deny eating it) Example: Socialism had been Repudiated at the polls.


If you get a call saying a company has decided to rescind your job offer, it's back to the classifieds for you. Rescind is an official reversal.

Mnemonic: Rescind reminds us of "resign", where resign is to cancel your appointment and Rescind is to cancel an agreement. Example: The company later Rescinded its offer. Root: RE means AGAIN

Form: verb Tone: neut

Have you ever said something you wish you could retract, or take back? You're not alone. Even newspapers and magazines have sections where the editors can retract something written that was incorrect.

Mnemonic: Retract-RE TAKE IT, meaning to take back Example: He made a false confession, which he later Retracted. Root: TRACT means TO PULL/ DRAW


When you revoke something, you officially cancel it, like when you revoke your sister's "coolest sibling" award because she shows your friends funny pictures of you from when you were little.

Mnemonic: Revoke sounds like PROVOKE. When you provoke your friend again and again (RE) to start an argument, he may altogether Revoke (cancel) any kind of ties that he shares with you. Example: The judge Revoked her driver's license.

Form: noun Tone: neg/neut

Invalidate or nullify

Mnemonic: Void is nothing but VACCUM Example: Because they were not happy in their marriage, they had it Voided.

Repeal

Repudiate

Rescind

Retract

Revoke

Void

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Meaning Something that is brackish is unpleasant and harsh, like the coffee you left on too long or the water in a muddy pond.

Mnemonic: Brackish sounds like BLACKISH. The vegetables were rotten to the extent that it looked almost blackish. Example: The office coffee is often some Brackish brew that's been sitting around for a couple of hours.


The noun carrion refers to the dead and rotting flesh of an animal. Ever seen a dead opossum or cat in the road? You can call that road kill carrion.

Mnemonic: CARRYING rotten flesh from one place to another, that is what Vultures do. Example: The Carrion Crow is found as far North as Carolina. Root: CARN means FLESH


If you suspect that something in your yard is in a state of putrefaction, there's probably something stinky and rotten out there.

Mnemonic: Putrefaction is the opposite of PURIFICATION. Example: The smell was awful. Putrefaction had already set in.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Rancid is a great name for a post-punk band, but a lousy way to describe the sauce on your eggs Benedict. Rancid means sour, rotten, nasty and refers most specifically to the sharp bad smell of decomposing oils or fats.

Mnemonic: ran+acid(acid)...presence of acid(secreted by bacteria during the process of fermentation) in curd makes the curd bitter in taste and bad in smell Example: There was a Rancid smell coming from the kitchen.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Anything wholesome is good for you. Hopscotch is in most cases a wholesome game, since you can't get into much trouble while hopping up and down on the concrete.

Mnemonic: Whole (complete, full, total) + some (a part of, a little portion)...you can take some parts of the whole. A feeling of entirety. Example: It was clean wholesome fun.

Brackish

ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY

Carrion

PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY

Putrefaction

TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Rancid

UNPLEASANT SMELL

X Wholesome

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Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

A dip in the ocean in January is horrifying to some people but invigorating to others. Invigorating describes something that makes you feel strong and revitalized.

Mnemonic: IN + VIGOR (enthusiasm) and hence the meaning. Example: They felt refreshed and invigorated after the walk. Root: IN means INTO


To revitalize is to restore something to life or give it new life. Revitalizing adds newsness and strength.

Mnemonic: REVITALIZE sounds like REVIVE Example: The local economy has been revitalized. Root: RE means to AGAIN

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you've ever been "roused" out of your sleep by someone, then you'll have no trouble seeing that rousing refers to anything that gets you going, up on your feet, energized.

Mnemonic: aRousing ... lively or stirring up the crowd Example: The team was given a Rousing reception by the fans.


Sedate means to be calm, but if a doctor sedates you it means you've been administered a tranquilizing drug. Most surgeries require some form of sedation, but to be sedate in day-to-day life means composed, quiet, and serene. Not necessarily unconscious.

Mnemonic: When we SEE + DATE for the exam approaching we generally become tensed, but the key to success is to stay CALM. Example: We followed the youngsters at a more sedate pace.


Something that is soporific is sleep-inducing. Certain medicines, but also extreme coziness, can have a soporific effect.

Example: The movie had a soporific effect on the audience. Root: SOPAR means SLEEP

Invogorating

ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION

Revitalizing

OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY

Rousing


X Sedative

UNPLEASANT SMELL

X Soporific

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BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING

Relation to Group

Meaning Irrelevant, unnecessary, not required

Mnemonic: Think of news channels....EXTRA+NEWS...In order to get TRP, news channels show irrelevant or unrelated things hence the news are most of the times Extraneous Example: We do not want any Extraneous information on the page. Root: EXTR- means OUTWARD

Form: adj Tone: neg

The word redundant applies to things that are unnecessary or could be left out. Calling a blank sheet of paper empty is redundant.

Mnemonic: Redundant rhymes Abundant and that is the meaning (more than necessary). Example: The picture has too much Redundant detail. Root: RE means AGAIN.

Form: adj Tone: neg

When something is so unnecessary that it could easily be done away with, like a fifth wheel on a car or a fifth person on a double date, call it superfluous.

Mnemonic: divide it as super+flow.. when there is large(super) flow of water, it becomes EXCESSIVE / OVERABUNDANCE of water.. Example: She gave him a look that made words Superfluous. Root: SUPER means ABOVE.

Extraneous

EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS

Redundant

RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Superfluous

TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Relation to Group

Anyone highly regarded or prominent is eminent. People that are eminent are giants in their field.

Mnemonic: Like the singer "EMINEM" who is STANDING ABOVE OTHER rap artists IN QUALITY AND POSITION Example: Mr. Vijay Mallya is an Eminent peronality in the business world.

Form: noun Tone: pos

In scientific writing, Stephen J. Hawking is a luminary. People look up to this wellknown scientist and author for his knowledge and insight.

Mnemonic: Luminary sounds like luminous(under light).So,a celebrity who is in the limelight inspiring others. Example: He has played with all the great jazz luminaries. Root: LUC means LIGHT/ CLEAR

Form: adj Tone: pos

Calling someone preeminent means they're truly outstanding or better than everyone else - not in general, but in a specific field or specialty. Such as a preeminent geologist.

Mnemonic: preeminent sounds like prominent Example: Dickens was preeminent among English writers of his day. Root: PRE means BEFORE


Stature is the another way to say "height of a person," like the surprising stature of the movie star who seems so much taller in his action movies.

Mnemonic: Stature sounds like Statue.. All over the country we have statues of people who are famous and prominent. Example: She is an actress of considerable Stature.

Eminent

ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS

Luminary


PreEminent

TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL Stature

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Avarice is a fancy word for good old-fashioned greed. It's one of what some call "the seven deadly sins."

Mnemonic: Avarice- a + very + rich -a strong greed to be 'a very rich' person. Example: The man was now blinded by his own greed and Avarice.

Form: adj Tone: neg

To be covetous of something is to want it and to be a little jealous of anyone who has it. The advertising industryâ€™s goal is to make you covetous of the things that other people have - that way, you'll buy them.

Mnemonic: Covetous = split it as cove(love) + to + US ; because of excessive greed and the love for money Covetous people go to USA. i remembered like that. Example: Not only do public displays of wealth draw the Covetous gaze of tax collectors, they are frowned on by a culture that values solidarity.


Remember the saying â €œGreed is goodâ€? It could just as easily be â €œCupidity is good,â€ though admittedly it doesnâ€™t roll off the tongue quite the same way. Cupidity means a burning desire to have more wealth than you need.

Mnemonic: Cupidity sounds like COMMODITY. Person having greed for lots of it. Example: His Cupidity was tempted, his every weakness exploited.


Called one of the seven deadly sins, gluttony is characterized by a limitless appetite for food and drink and overindulgence to the point where one is no longer eating just to live, but rather living to eat.

Mnemonic: glu'TON'ny...when you eat excess,your weight will be a TON! Example: Gluttony has already been touched on and needs no illustration as to its extremely bad effect on health.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something rapacious is out to devour - anything, and little can stand in its way. A rapacious landlord is out for more rent, and a rapacious eater is only satisfied at the all-youcan-eat buffet.

Mnemonic: read Rapacious as 'rupeecious' so a person who is greedy must have rupees on his mind. Example: After years of Rapacious

Avarice


Covetous

RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT

Cupidity


Gluttony

Rapacious

supermarket expansion there are too many mouths to feed. Root: RAP means SEIZE Form: adj Tone: neg

A ravenous person feels like they haven't eaten in days and could probably finish off 10 pizzas without help. So ravenous is not a good state to be in when you go grocery shopping.

Mnemonic: sounds like RAVAN.. we can understand how hungry one would get to feed his 10 heads. Example: What's for lunch? I'm absolutely Ravenous. Root: RAV means SEIZE

Form: adj Tone: neg

Voracious is an adjective used to describe a wolflike appetite. It might be a craving for food or for something else, such as power, but the word usually denotes an unflattering greediness.

Mnemonic: remember carniVORES, herbiVORES...So "VORE" tells something about eating. Example: Ever since her childhood she had read Voraciously.


A strong desire to travel is called a wanderlust. If you dream of backpacking through Europe, you have a wanderlust.

Mnemonic: wander(moving from place to place)+lust(a desire for something)....when you have a desire for wandering to places ,it means, you love to travel ,so you can be refered to as a Wanderlust Example: He never stays long anywhere when the Wanderlust is on him.

Ravenous

Voracious

Wanderlust

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: noun Tone: neut

Unless you can find someone to pay you to sip fancy tropical drinks on the beach, your vocation is not likely to be a "vacation." Rather, the word means something you know how to doâ€“-or what you do for a living.

Mnemonic: A perfect job is when a Vocation is a Vacation (holiday) for a person Example: Nursing is not just a job - it's a Vocation. Root: VOC means CALL


An avocation is an activity that you pursue when you're not at work - a hobby. Pretty much anything can be an avocation: tennis, soduko, writing poetry.

Mnemonic: AVOCATION-in a vacation. you do very little /minor work only....hence avocation implies minor occupation Example: The shepherds Watchful, Sincere, and Experience, if not Knowledge, were known of all men, in less pastoral avocations.

Vocation


X Avocation

RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL Legends: X

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parsing "* Boisterous" - Quantifier {x,y} following nothing.

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# Inaudible

ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON

Form: adj * Tone: neg Boisterous

GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION

Legends: X

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PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS

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RESOLUTE / DETERMINED

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STUBBORN

: The words in this family are (+) used usually in positive context.

OVERLY NOISY

SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL Â© My Online Test Hub

: The words in this family are (-) used usually in negative context.

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Inaudible is another way of saying "hushed" or "silent." If you thought the bad words you muttered under your breath were inaudible, perhaps you should've turned off that microphone in front of you!

Mnemonic: INAUDIBLE is NOT AUDIBLE Example: She spoke in an almost inaudible whisper. Root: IN means NOT

The adjective boisterous is what you would use if you want to call attention in a loud or clamorous way.

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neut/pos

Relation to Group

If you do something in a calculated way, you've given it quite a bit of thought beforehand, and you're very deliberate in the way you do it.

Mnemonic: every calculation is well weighed and "planned"..and gives us a likely result Example: This kind of entertainment is not Calculated to be appealing to children.


To deliberate means to carefully think or talk something through â €” it also means slow and measured, the pace of this kind of careful decision making. If you chose deliberately, you make a very conscious, wellthought-through choice.

Mnemonic: daily + berate - if you get berated(scolded) daily, you need to think it over as to why it happens.. Example: She spoke in a slow and Deliberate way.

Form: noun Tone: neut/pos

planning or plotting in advance of acting

Mnemonic: can be rearranged as THOUGHT +BEFORE. Example: Some Forethought and preparation are necessary before you embark on the project. Root: FORE means IN FRONT OF


Something intentional was done on purpose. If a crime was intentional, it was no accident.

Mnemonic: INTENTION Example: I'm sorry I left you off the listâ €”it wasn't Intentional.


When you premeditate, you are planning ahead. While most people associate this word with crime, let's hope you can think of a better reason to premeditate - like buying groceries before a storm.

Mnemonic: pre+meditate - think before planning something. Example: The killing was not Premeditated. Root: PRE means BEFORE


Studied describes a result achieved, not spontaneously, but by calculated and

Mnemonic: when we have Studied (calculated approach) enough, we tend to

Calculated

ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY

Deliberate

PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN

Forethought

TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL Intentional

Premeditated

deliberate effort. It will probably take a studied effort to not appear nervous when you give an oral presentation.

score high. Example: She introduced herself with Studied casualness.

Form: adj Tone: pos/neut

Extemporaneous means spoken without preparation. The orator's performance was impressive, but only after we learn that his speech was extemporaneous did we realize the true depth of his talent.

Mnemonic: TEMPORARILY done in haste and so not planned. Example: His playing was polished yet essayistic and almost extemporaneous. Root: EX means OUT OF

Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone impetuous acts too hastily or carelessly. Hotheaded, impulsive folks are impetuous.

Mnemonic: im(not)pet-tuo(to)-us...a dog which is not our pet will be very VIOLENT and RASH. Example: She is an impetuous young woman.


Some of the best kinds of parties are impromptu ones, when you decide at the last minute to get together. The adjective impromptu describes things done or said without previous thought or preparation.

Mnemonic: IM means NOT and PROMPTU can be remembered as PROMPT. So a person who is not prompt. Example: They often held impromptu meetings at their house. Root: IM means NOT


To improvise means to make something up on the spot, or figure it out as you go. "Our boss decided to improvise his speech at our company meeting and when he started going off-topic, everyone could tell he hadn't prepared in advance."

Mnemonic: I Am Pro - vise - I am proved wise as I have done it without actually preparing for it beforehand. Example: There isn't much equipment. We're going to have to improvise. Root: IM means NOT

Form: adj Tone: neg

The adjective offhand describes a remark or comment that is made without previous thought or preparation. If you are at a wedding, you may want to make a few offhand but nice remarks about the bride and groom.

Mnemonic: offhand - hands on means experience, you have prepared for that , so offhands means something without preparation Example: He spoke offhandedly, making it clear I had no say in the matter.

Studied

X Extemporaneous

X Impetuous

X Impromptu

X Improvise

X Offhand

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

In the old Looney Tunes cartoons, Wile E. Coyote's pursuit of the Road Runner is dogged. He simply will not give up. The Road Runner is dogged by the Coyote, who will not stop chasing him.

Mnemonic: a dogs tail is always curved and can never be made straight thus it is Dogged. Example: Although the men fought Doggedly on, a sense of hopeless despair engulfed them.


If something endures, it lasts: Beethoven's fame has endured for more than 200 years. But if you endure something, you suffer through it: We endured our teacher's slide shows of her vacation photographs.

Mnemonic: Endure en (enable ) + dure (long distance); enable upto the long distance. Example: They had to Endure a long wait before the case came to trial. Root: EN means INTO.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you can't change it, it's immutable. There are many things in life that are immutable; these unchangeable things include death, taxes, and the laws of physics.

Mnemonic: mutation implies changes in genes etc. Therefore, if it is im (non) + mutable it cannot be changed. Example: This decision should not be seen as Immutable. Root: MUT means CHANGE.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone who is indefatigable can go on for a very long time without becoming tired. You might not be so happy to have an indefatigable guide on your walking tripâ€“â €“you'll have blisters, but she'll see no reason not to keep going.

Mnemonic: in means not..and fatigue means tiredness.. so Indefatigable would be tireless.. Example: She was Indefatigable in her search for the truth. Root: IN means INTO/VERY

Form: v Tone: pos

Use the verb persevere when you want to persist in anything and continue despite difficulties or obstacles.

Mnemonic: Perseverepersistent+severe,he is very severely persistent. Example: Despite a number of setbacks, they Persevered in their attempts to fly

Dogged


Endure


Immutable

TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL

Indefatigable

Persevere

around the world in a balloon. Form: noun Tone: pos

Persistence is the ability to stick with something. If you practice the violin for over a year before you can play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star perfectly, that's persistence!

Mnemonic: sounds like PERSIST/ EXIST Example: His Persistence was finally rewarded when the insurance company agreed to pay for the damage.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Use the adjective resolute to describe a purposeful and determined person, someone who wants to do something very much, and won't let anything get in the way.

Mnemonic: we make resolutions on jan 1st and we are determined to follow them atleast for that day! Example: He became even more Resolute in his opposition to the plan.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone who is firm and determined in a belief or a position can be called steadfast in that view, like your mom when she thinks you really shouldnâ €™t wear that outfit.

Mnemonic: Steadfast- stood + first ; One who has always STOOD by you and is the FIRST one to help you is a LOYAL friend. Another meaning - Always STEADY so unswerving Example: He remained Steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. Root: STEAD means PLACE

Form: adj Tone: pos

Use tenacious to mean "not easily letting go or giving up," like a clingy child who has a tenacious grip on his mother's hand.

Mnemonic: Sounds like ten Asians. Ten developing Asian countries if united together, cannot be pulled apart. Example: She's a Tenacious woman. She never gives up. Root: TEN means HOLD/ HOLD TOGETHER.

Persistence

Resolute

Steadfast

Tenacious

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BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT)

Relation to Group

Mnemonic: A+DAM+ant...A DAM IS GENERALLY INFLEXIBLE AND HARD so vehicles can pass through it. Example: Eva was Adamant that she would not come.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Have you ever seen a picture of a protester who is about to be carried off by police but is still shouting or resisting, fighting to the bitter end? That person is defiant.

Mnemonic: Defiant sounds like DEFY + ARROGANT. Example: The terrorists sent a Defiant message to the government.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone incorrigible seems to be beyond correcting or improving. When you talk about an incorrigible drunk, you're saying they're never going to stop drinking.

Mnemonic: (in)corr(gible) - in (NOT) eligible to be corrected or cant be corrected Example: I thought you had given me up long ago as an Incorrigible boy, who would have his own way.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Can't manage your stubborn little brother who won't do what anyone says? You could call him intractable, or you could call your mother. Problems are intractable

Mnemonic: Intractable is IN(Not)+TRACT(STRETCH)+ABLE(Do)...means if something/someone is not stretchable/flexible,implies STUBBORN or UNYIELDING. Example: Unemployment was proving to be an Intractable problem. Root: IN means NOT.

DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING

FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION

Defiant

OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN

Incorrigible

TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL

Intractable

Mnemonic/Example

If you stubbornly refuse to change your mind about something, you are adamant about it.

Adamant

EXTRA / UNNECESSARY

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

when they can't be solved. Form: adj Tone: neg

Intransigent means inflexible, stubborn, entrenched. Argue all you like with an intransigent three-yearold. He will never back down from the position that he wants the lollipop NOW.

Form: adj Tone: neg

unreasonably Example: I rode a big mule not used to the rigid in the bit, very troublesome and Mulish at first, but face of broken in an hour. argument or entreaty or attack

Form: adj Tone: neg

Obdurate is a formal word meaning stubborn. If you want to major in English, but your parents are obdurate that you should go premed, they might go so far as to threaten not to pay your tuition.

Mnemonic: OB+DURA(RELATE IT TO WORD DURABILITY)..SO anything which has durability..has the resisting power, and something which can resist, is stubborn. Example: The child's misery would move even the most Obdurate heart. Root: OB means AGAINST

Form: adj Tone: neg

When someone is beyond stubborn, use the word obstinate instead: "You obstinate old mule! Get out of my way!"

Mnemonic: obs+tin(ate), obsessive teens,they are stubborn,hard to control Example: He can be very Obstinate when he wants to be! Root: STIN means STAND

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you wonâ €™t take no for an answer, youâ€™re pertinacious. The same holds true if you stubbornly push on a

Mnemonic: Pertinacious - pre(before) + teenage : The age before teenage is where a person shows a childish behaviour and is very stubborn in a negative sense. Example: Jones was the most vocal and Pertinacious of all her critics.

Intransigent

Mulish

Obdurate

Obstinate

Pertinacious

Mnemonic: Intransigent - in-'not' + transact - won't do the transaction Example: An Intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency. Root: IN means NOT.

door despite a sign that says â €œpull.â€ Pertinacious means unyielding or perversely persistent. Form: adj Tone: neg

Something perverse, or improper, doesn't have a whole lot of good things going for it, even if it brings a few laughs.

Mnemonic: if we remove letter "p" and if we only concentrate on the reverse-this sounds similar to reverse- which is nothing but leading to opposite path which is not acceptable in society. Example: She finds a Perverse pleasure in upsetting her parents.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If someone is so pigheaded that he won't budge on an issue, call him recalcitrant. Not that it will make a difference

Mnemonic: re+calci(calculator>calculate)+trant....so imagine a person who has made a mistake in calculations using a calci and is unwilling to re-calculate...it shows he is STUBBORN Example: The University suspended the most Recalcitrant demonstrators.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Imagine yourself pulling a dog who doesn't want to walk. The dog is refractory, or stubbornly resisting your authority.

Mnemonic: Refractory-means factor ,who always factors the law into piece,means don't follow the law. Example: He is a Refractory child.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Willful means "deliberate" or "stubborn." A child who exhibits willful disobedience knows she is doing something wrong (even if she tries to convince you otherwise).

Mnemonic: wil+ful... full of will to do something..something intentional (done purposely). Example: She is a Willful child.

Perverse

Recalcitrant

Refractory

Willful

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


An opponent is your competition, whether it's a rival hockey team, or the other finalist in the chess tournament. Coaches tell you to never underestimate your opponent.

Mnemonic: OPPONENT sounds like an OPPOSER. Example: The team's opponents are unbeaten so far this season.

Form: verb Tone: pos/neut

You can refer to a person Mnemonic: Advocate who's a public supporter is a SUPPORTER of a cause as an advocate. Example: Many experts Advocate rewarding your child for good behavior.


If you have an ally, you have someone who is on your side, like a more experienced teammate who is your ally in convincing the coach to give you more playing time.


A champion is a supporter Mnemonic: of a group, cause,idea or Champions are like belief. super man who has capability to support and defend there friends [Secondary Meaning] Example: She was a Champion of the poor all her life.


To endorse is to give support to someone or something. "I endorse this!" means "I think this is a good thing, and so should you."

Mnemonic: To ENDORSE is to give support. Example: I wonder how many celebrities actually use the products they ENDORSE.


Use the verb espouse to describe the actions of someone who lives according to specific beliefs, such as your friends who espouse environmentalism and as a result walk whenever possible instead of taking the car.

Mnemonic: pick the word spouse like the wife is the spouse of her husband and is always supportive of him. Example: They Espoused the notion of equal opportunity for all in education.

Form: noun

A lobbyist is someone

Mnemonic: a person

X Opponent

ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED

Advocate

MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED

Ally

STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE

Champion

TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL

ENDORSE

Espouse

Mnemonic: Ally( alien) to overcome the power of aliens the countries have decided to help each other during the war with aliens Example: His sister was his Ally against their grandparents.

Tone: pos

hired by a business or a cause to persuade legislators to support that business or cause.

who waits in the lobby of government headquarters and wait for the law makers to come out, to influence them. Example: She is a paid Lobbyist for a drug company.

Form: noun Tone: pos/ neut

Proponent means someone who is in favor of something. You might be a proponent of longer vacations, but your parents are proponents of a longer school year.

Mnemonic: A person who PROPOSES something is a Proponent, opposite of OPPONENT (one who opposes) Example: He was also a leading Proponent of overhauling the nationâ €™s health care system. Root: PROP means NEAR

Form: noun Tone: pos/neut

A protagonist is the central character in a story: the protagonist of Huckleberry Finn is guess who? Huckleberry Finn.

Example: He is a leading Protagonist of the conservation movement.


To tout means to praise, boast, or brag about. If you like to tout your skill as a skier, you tell people you can go down expertlevel hills.

Mnemonic: Tout: shout to promote (to publicly praise or promote) Example: She's being Touted as the next governor.


An adversary is someone who fights against or opposes another. In tennis, you stand across the net from your adversary.

Mnemonic: Concentrate on ADVERSE : one who gives us adverse effects i.e. opponents Example: His old adversary beat him in the chess tournament.


An antagonist is someone who opposes someone else.

Mnemonic: Antagonist sounds like someone who is an ANTI (opposer) Example: He has always been the prime minister's most formidable antagonist in Parliament.


one who disparages or belittles the worth of something

Mnemonic: contractor is one who takes up work and supports the work, detractor is the one who criticize the work Example: Detractors claim the building will be ugly and impractical. Root: DE means AWAY/DOWN/OFF


A foe is an enemy. Foes can range from an

Example: Though dying, his foes are

Lobbyist

Proponent

Protagonist

Tout

X Adversary

X Antagonist

X Detractor

adversary of one person to afraid to approach him. that of a nation, from â €œhe is my foeâ€ to â €œthey are my foe.â€ There is also a â€œthat is my foeâ€ who those who are trying to diet know well, aka chocolate.

X Foe


To impugn means to call into question or attack as wrong. If your usually grumpy brother is suddenly nice and sweet, you'll impugn his motives if you're smart - he probably just wants something from you.

Mnemonic: im + PUGN - pugn looks like pungaa(hindi); NOW think of a person who is habitual of taking PUNGAA, he will always CONTRADICT people, and will always CHALLENGE others (impugn others). Example: There were no real grounds for impugning the decision. Root: PUG means FIGHT

Form: adj Tone: neg

Censorship is inimical to freedom. So, most teenagers would argue, are curfews. To be inimical is to be harmful, antagonistic, or opposed to - like smoking two packs a day is to healthy lungs.

Mnemonic: INIMICAL - inimi (sounds like ENEMY) + cal; Enemies are HOSTILE and ofcourse UNFRIENDLY Example: These policies are inimical to the interests of society.

X Impugn

X Inimical

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Mnemonic: Something delicious on table arouses desire. Example: I love the Delectable smell of freshly baked bread.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Pleasantly sharp taste.

Mnemonic: PI+QUANT Quant in GRE is more attracting and delighting than Verbal Example: The chicken served with a Piquant wild mushroom sauce.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something savory is full of flavor, delicious and tasty - usually something that someone has cooked. In the world of cuisine, savory is also often used to mean the opposite of sweet, or salty.

Mnemonic: Save + Poori is pleasant to taste. Example: I am getting a Savory smell from the kitchen.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you describe something as scrumptious, you'd probably like to eat every last crumb. Can I have another slice of that scrumptious pie? Please?

Mnemonic: Strawberry CRUMble is deliCIOUS Example: I baked a Scrumptious chocolate cake

Form: adj Tone: pos

Succulent means "juicy" and is often used to describe food. Think a succulent piece of meat, or berries so succulent youâ€™re left sucking juice off your fingertips when you eat them.

Mnemonic: You suck a fruit only if it is Succulent. Example: A buffet table was set with an array of Succulent roasts.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Sumptuous could be used to describe a room appointed with the finest furniture, a lush orchestra playing a beautiful symphony, or a meal meant for a king.

Mnemonic: just focus on SUM(means whole amount)+ptuous.....well you have decided to spend whole amount of yours ( around a crore )on your wedding..so you are trying to be Sumptuous. Example: We dined in Sumptuous surroundings.

DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON

Piquant

GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED

Savory

STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE

Scrumptious

TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL Succulent

Sumptuous

Mnemonic/Example

Something delectable is extremely delicious or appealing. Nothing tastes better at the end of a meal than an array of delectable desserts and pastries!

Delectable

EXTRA / UNNECESSARY

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: pos

Form: adj Tone: neg

X Unpalatable

Use the adjective unpalatable to describe something that tastes really bad, like a glass of unsweetened lemonade.

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Mnemonic: Something that is UNPALATABLE (not tasty) is definitely not worth serving on the PLATE. So remember it as 'UN-PLATABLE' Example: The insects store this chemical in their bodies in order to make themselves unpalatable to predators. Root: UN means NOT

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: verb Tone: neut/pos

If you accede, it means you agree with someone or give in to his or her wish. The word is often used in a political context - the Queen acceded to the Prince's demands for more territory, a larger army, and funnier jesters.

Mnemonic: sounds like accept + agreed : Accede Example: He Acceded to demands for his resignation.


To acquiesce is to agree to something or to give in. If your kid sister is refusing to hand over the television remote, you hope she acquiesces before your favorite show comes on.

Mnemonic: Acquiesce..concentrate on the part quie. and remember quiet.. which means submissive.. or imagine someone who is quiet will give in/ agree without any protest. Example: Senior government figures must have Acquiesced in the cover-up.


If your friends want to try sky diving and you're amenable to the idea, sounds like you're going to be jumping out of a plane. If a person or thing is amenable to something, they are ready, willing, or responsive.

Mnemonic: Amen is a word used in Christianity. Meaning of which is I agree. So Amenable means something that we agree to. Example: They had three very Amenable children.


Assent means agreement. If you nod your head in assent, you agree to something or you assent to it. You can assent in the same contexts as agree, but you'll seem a bit more serious.

Mnemonic: Assent sounds like as sent; press editor agreed and published the article 'as sent' by us without any modifications. Example: There were murmurs of both Assent and dissent from the crowd.


If you are willing to submit to someone's request, then you are compliant. Parents like it when their teenagers are compliant and follow the rules.

Mnemonic: one who never complains and obeys everyone is Compliant ! Example: Most of the patients were Compliant with the diet.

Form: verb

Comply is to act according

Mnemonic: com+ply -

Accede


Acquiesce

RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE

Amenable

TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL

Assent

Compliant

Tone: neut

to someone's wishes or rules. Although you might like to stay out with your friends, you'll have to comply with your parents' rules and be home by midnight.

com cab be related to computer and it works according to our instructions and wishes. Example: They refused to Comply with the U.N. resolution. Root: COM means TOGETHER


If you concede something, you admit that it is true, proper, or certainâ€“â €“usually in an unwilling way and often in the context of a competition, as in "At midnight, the candidate finally conceded defeat."

Mnemonic: if your mom is pointing out that you need sleep before the test, you should Concede the truth of what she's saying. Example: He was forced to Concede (that) there might be difficulties. Root: CON means WITH/TOGETHER


To concur is to agree or approve of something. If someone says something you agree with, you can say "I concur!"

Mnemonic: when a king conquers(Concur) a state then the people in the state have to agree with it Example: Historians have Concurred with each other in this view. Root: CON means WITH/TOGETHER

Form: adj Tone: pos

If someone is docile, he is easily taught or handled. If you suddenly became a trouble-maker in class, your teachers would long for the days when you were sweet and docile.

Mnemonic: Docile contains 'doc' as in doctor; You have to be Docile (easily managed or handled) in front of your doctor. Example: All my tution students are quite Docile and hence I enjoy teaching them. Root: DOC means TO TEACH


A malleable personality is capable of being changed or trained, and a malleable metal is able to be pounded or pressed into various shapes. It's easier to learn when you're young and malleable.

Mnemonic: relate with meltable; so possible to reshape. Example: The softness and malleability of gold makes it perfect for making jewelry.


pliant describes something that adjusts to conditions or is easily influenced: "In order to survive the recession, the company had to be pliant and adjust to the new economic conditions."

Mnemonic: Pliant sounds like PLANT ( flexible, easily bent) compared to a tree. Example: He was deposed and replaced by a more Pliant successor.


Being unwilling to relent is a Mnemonic: regood qualification for a sales re+lent, imagine you person. You have to keep lent something to your

Comply

Concede

Concur

Docile

Malleable

Pliant

trying to make the sale and never give in until you've made it.

friend, and you need it back but your friend needs it even more than you do, so you Relent and lend the thing again. Example: â€œWell, just for a little while then,â€ she said, finally Relenting. Root: RE means AGAIN


Use the verb succumb to say that someone yields to something they've tried to fight off, such as despair, temptation, disease or injury.

Mnemonic: Succumb(Suck + thumb)- Children doesn't give up sucking their thumb. Example: They were all offered bribes and some of them Succumbed.


Yield has two meanings that seem quite different: "an amount" or "to give way." The yield of the recipe was twelve brownies. To avoid being tripped, Mary was forced to yield to the children on her way to the brownie plate.

Mnemonic: When you cannot shield, you then Yield to force. Example: After a long siege, the town was forced to Yield.

Relent

Succumb

Yield

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Meaning Make up a story, idea,etc, especially falsely.

Mnemonic: CON means TOGETHER... Example: He Concocted an excuse to avoid punishment. Root: CON means WITH/TOGETHER


To devise is to figure out a plan. Men twirling long mustaches might devise a plan to tie someone to the railroad tracks.

Mnemonic: Only WISE people can Devise/ invent things. Example: A new system has been Devised to control traffic in the city.

Form: verb Tone: poa

To formulate is to come up with a plan. If you are locked out of your house, you'll need to formulate a plan to get back inside - preferably one that doesn't involving kicking in the door.

Mnemonic: Formulate sounds like CALCULATEâ€¦when we calculate you think well, that is similar to FORMULATING Example: She has lots of good ideas, but she has difficulty formulating them.

Concoct

DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON

Devise

GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED

Mnemonic/Example


Formulate

STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE UNPLEASANT SMELL Legends: X

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Meaning


When you disregard the rules about not wearing sunglasses in school, proudly sporting your purple aviator glasses in math class, you've made a decision to defy - to resist or challenge the school rules.

Mnemonic: Defy sounds like DENY. Example: I wouldn't have dared to Defy my teachers.

Form: verb Tone: neut/neg

Your mother asks you to pick up your room. You refuse: you demur. Your friend wants to go to the Death Metal Forever concert, but you hesitate: you demur. Whether you strongly object, politely disagree, or hesitate to agree, you demur.

Mnemonic: If Aunt Tilly offers to knit a sweater for you, you might politely Demur, being reluctant to accept. Example: At first she Demurred, but then finally agreed.


To dissent is to publicly disagree with an official opinion or decision. Dissent is also a noun referring to public disagreement.

Mnemonic: ASSENT, ACCORD etc means to agree and Dissent, DISCORD etc means to disagree. Example: Voices of Dissent began to rise against the established authority in the 1950s and 1960s. Root: DIS means NOT


When your younger brother runs around the house with scissors, you should definitely object. Perhaps a less sharp object such as a roll of paper towels would suffice.

Mnemonic: Object is just a verb (action) form of ObjectION. Example: Many local people Object to the building of the new airport. Root: OB means AGAINST.


A quibble is a small argument or fight. As a verb, it means to pick a mini-fight over something that doesn't really matter.

Mnemonic: Query + babble (minor objection/murmuring). Example: It isn't worth quibbling over such a small amount.


Defy

DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED

Demur

MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY

Dissent


Object

UNPLEASANT SMELL

Quibble

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Meaning To belie means to contradict. If you are 93 but look like you are 53, then your young looks belie your age.

Mnemonic: Belie sounds like lie. Example: Her energy and youthful good looks Belie her 65 years. Root: BE means THOROUGHLY, MAKE or RENDER.


When you debunk something you show it to be false. For over a century people have tried to debunk the notion of natural selection, but no one has succeeded. It's a very hard idea to debunk.

Mnemonic: DE+BUNK..so when you bunk your college, and get caught by your teacher... your teacher exaggerates this fact and ridicules you in front of the class. Example: His theories have been Debunked by recent research. Root: DE means AWAY/ DOWN/ OFF


Discredit means to cause mistrust or cast the accuracy of something into doubt. If you say that schooling is important to you, but you never study, your actions discredit you and your words.

Mnemonic: DIS (not) giving CREDIT or honoring someone would definitely mean to damage that persons image. Example: The photos were deliberately taken to Discredit the president. Root: DIS means NOT


The verb expostulate means to reason with someone against an intended course of action. Your parent you always expostulate about your really cool money-making ideas. They just don't understand!

Mnemonic: Ex+ Posing (exposing) details unnecessarily may be opposed. Example: The man was struggling violently, and expostulating in no mild terms. Root: EX means OUT OF


To rebut is to argue against something. If your parents say you're too young and irresponsible to drive, you can rebut their

Mnemonic: When you REpeatedly say BUT,you are trying to contradict something using arguments or

Belie


Debunk

RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT TO PROVE FALSE / TO DISPROVE

Mnemonic/Example


Discredit

UNPLEASANT SMELL

Expostulate

Rebut

claim by ticking off examples of your responsibility.

evidences Example: He issued a firm Rebuttal to the accusations. Root: RE- means AGAIN


The verb refute is to prove that something is wrong. When the kids you're babysitting swear they brushed their teeth, you can refute their claim by presenting the dry toothbrushes.

Mnemonic: Refute rhymes with refuse, when you DISAPPROVE OF something, or if something is false or incorrect..you Refute it or disapprove.. Example: She Refutes any suggestion that she behaved unprofessionally.


Remonstrate means to call someone on something that's wrong. If your mother yells at you in public, you might call this getting chewed out. She might call it remonstrating. Either way, it's embarrassing.

Mnemonic: Remonstrate sounds like demonstrate...so remember it like when you are demonstrative you can protest for something. Example: They Remonstrated with the official about the decision.

Refute

Remonstrate

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Form: adj Tone: neg

If you want to understand the true meaning of fetid, leave your sweaty gym clothes in your locker for a few days. Fetid is a fancy way of saying that something smells really bad.

Mnemonic: Fetid sounds like Feet smells bad Example: I cannot stand the Fetid odor of rotting vegetables.

Form: adj Tone: neg

You can use the adjective malodorous as a nicer way to say that something's stinky. Maybe you think your feet smell like roses, but if people move far away when your shoes come off, your rosy feet are probably malodorous.

Mnemonic: mal(means bad)+odor(sounds simillar to odour)..+us.......smelling..bad odour of some chemicals is dangerous to health. Example: She could not understand how his son could eat such a Malodorous dish. Root: MAL means BAD

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you accidentally leave half a sandwich under your bed for a few days, cover your nose while you sleep because it will probably become quite noisome. This is a fancy way of saying that it will stink.

Mnemonic: NOSE+ NOISE (Noisome is something that makes noise in our nose). Example: It's no fun having asthma and living in an area with Noisome smog.


Something that's odoriferous carries a smell.

Mnemonic: Odoriferous sounds like ODOUR with a similar meaning. Example: Spices, Odoriferous woods, and aromatic herbs, tea, coffee, oranges, nutmeg, and ginger, are exceedingly plentiful.

Form: adj Tone: neg

You know that science experiment that used to be lunch that is now rotting in the back of your fridge? Because it's decomposing and stinks to high

Mnemonic: put+rid...anything that is rotten and foul smelling, we would want to get rid of it immediately. Example: Everyone will detest the Putrid smell of rotten meat.

Fetid


Malodorous

RESOLUTE / DETERMINED STUBBORN SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / (X) ENEMY TASTY TO ACCEPT / AGREE / GIVE IN TO MAKE UP / CREATE TO OBJECT

Noisome


Odoriferous

Putrid

heaven, you can call it putrid. Form: adj Tone: neg

Rank to describe an especially foul smell. No matter what rank you are, you must not enjoy walking into the mess hall and realizing that the rank smell in the air is today's lunch.

Mnemonic: Rank sounds like RANG.The stink rang our nose even after the garbage loaded truck had passed by, atleast an hour back. Example: The house was full of the Rank smell of urine.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something that is fragrant has a nice smell. What makes a smell nice is subjective, or course. You might find bowl of dried lavender to be fragrant.

Mnemonic: FRAGRANT/ FRAGRANCE. Example: The air was fragrant with scents from the ocean and the hills.

Form: adj Tone: pos

When something is redolent of something, it makes you think of that thing by making a pretty strong impression on you. He had a shifty eye redolent of years of lying and petty crime.

Mnemonic: red+(Rose)+olent; The Red rose you lent has a pleasant smell. Example: The kitchen is redolent with the smell of baking.

Rank

X Fragrant

X Redolent

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BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


A benediction is a blessing - either a formal one that you might hear in a church service or an informal one that you might utter when you take any leap of faith.

Mnemonic: BENE (GOOD) and DICTUM is 'saying'. Good words used is called BENEDICTION. Example: his arms outstretched in BENEDICTION Root: BENE means GOOD


If you say grace before a meal, you are saying a benison, or blessing. You can also be grateful for the benison of having your family around the table for a meal.

Mnemonic: Beni(means good)+ son. You feel blessed to have a good son. Example: I could never step in to marriage without my Grandmothers BENISON. Root: BENE means GOOD

BENEDICTION

DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP

BENISON

HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT Legends: X

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BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CLARITY

Relation to Group

Mnemonic: CLARITY sounds and means like CLEAR. Example: The brilliant CLARITY of his argument could not be disputed.


If you elucidate something, you explain it very clearly. If you don't understand fractions, a visit to the pie shop may elucidate the subject for you.

Mnemonic: think of lucid, which means clear. Example: He ELUCIDATEd a point of grammar.


If your teacher gives an explanation of a difficult text you are reading, she is giving you an exegesis on it. An exegesis is a critical look at a text.

Mnemonic: EXEcute GEneSIS(part of the Holy Bible)- to interpret the Bible & explain it. Example: A psychobiography that purports to be the definitive EXEGESIS of the late president's character.


An exposition takes place when you "expose" something like at a fair or convention for showing off goods, art, or similar wares. An exposition can also be the section of a story that explains the basics of the tale.

Mnemonic: EXPOSITION sounds like EXPLANATION. Example: We need a clear and detailed EXPOSITION of their legal position.


If given recipe directions that include "some sugar," "some onions," and "some flour" as ingredients, you might ask the cook to expound by adding measurements of how much of each to use. When you expound, you explain or provide details.

Mnemonic: EXPOUND sounds like expand which means explain Example: He EXPOUNDed his views on the subject to me at great length.

Form: adj

The adjective limpid

Mnemonic:

DIFFICULT DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT

ELUCIDATE

FEELING GUILTY GAP HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC

EXEGESIS

IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE

EXPOSITION

SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT

Mnemonic/Example

Clarity means clearness. Clean water running down a mountain has clarity. So does a lovely singing voice: it's clear and pure.

CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING

Meaning


EXPOUND

Tone: pos

describes something LIMPID...lucid...liquid (often liquid) that is Example: she gave him a clear, serene and look of LIMPID honesty. bright. Nature calendars often feature glamour shots of a limpid stream or a limpid lake.

Form: adj Tone: pos

When you call something lucid, you mean it's "easy to understand" or "sensible".

Mnemonic: LUCing(looking)In Day is very clear. We can see anybody clearly in day time. So LUCID is something which is crystal clear. Example: the answers in this book are explained in a LUCID style.

Form: adj Tone: pos

A sentence that teaches a new vocabulary word should always be pellucid, that is, its style and meaning should be easily understandable so that you can derive the definition from the sentence.

Mnemonic: PEL+LUCID...LUCID..MEANS CLEAR ....SO CLEAR IN MEANING. Example: The light was so PELLUCID, so dazzling that she reached for her sunglasses.

LIMPID

LUCID

PELLUCID

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BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

Amend describes actions or speech intended to correct or improve something. If you confused your audience when you gave your speech, don't be afraid to amend what you said, meaning you make minor changes to better explain what you meant.

Mnemonic: AMEND sounds like a + mind; you should have a sound mind to AMEND your score in mathematics. Example: The law has been AMENDed for the betterment of all common people.


To atone is to do something "right" to make up for doing something wrong. Religious believers are known to atone for their sins, but even students can atone for a past failure by acing a quiz or two.

Mnemonic: at+own(one) - he realized his mistake 'at' his 'own' and wanted amend it. Example: I have a desire to ATONE.


Disabuse means to free someone of a belief that is not true. Many teachers of health find that when they teach, they spend as much energy disabusing kids of false beliefs as they doing giving them the facts.

Mnemonic: Remember as the opposite of abuse Example: Let me DISABUSE you of your foolish notions about married life. Root: DIS means NOT


In the fairy tale, the baker must expiate his fatherâ€™s sins by bringing the witch three ingredients for a magic potion: a cow, a cape and a slipper. Expiate means to make amends or atone for a wrong you or someone else has committed.

Mnemonic: Rhymes as Ex Pirate. An expirate always tries to EXPIATE his guilt.Ex pirate becomes pious. Example: he had a chance to confess and EXPIATE his guilt


To pay compensation for a loss, damages, or similar expense is to indemnify. "The insurance company indemnified its customers for their claims after the severe storm â €” one customer lost three cars, a row boat, and a golf cart."

Mnemonic: look for the word-"demn" which can be connected to "demon"..so what does demon do? it destroys property.. IN(not)+demni+fy correct what the demon inside you has done..make amends for it.

AMEND

DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT

ATONE

HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING

DISABUSE

RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT

EXPIATE

INDEMNIFY

Example: The tenant is legally required to INDEMNIFY the landlord for any damage caused to the property Root: IN means NOT Form: noun Tone: pos/neut

Redemption is the buying back of something. You might try for redemption by attempting to buy back a bike you sold, or you might attempt to buy back your soul after you steal someone elseâ€™s bike.

Mnemonic: REDEMPTION is to REDEEM. Example: The REDEMPTION of the world from sin Root: RE means AGAIN


The verb redress is used when you are supposed to fix a problem and make amends. You want your parents to redress the fact that you don't have a pet. Your parents offer to get a hamster, but instead, you say you want a monkey.

Mnemonic: REDRESS is: "relief from distress" Example: It is time to REDRESS the injustices of the past.


If you guessed that reparation is related to the word repair, you were right. Both come from the Latin word meaning "to restore." While reparation has a range of meanings, they all convey the sense of fixing or making up for a past wrong.

Mnemonic: REPARATION can be remembered in connection to REPAIR (sounds and means similar). Example: Offenders should be forced to make REPARATION to the community


Restitution is the act of making up for damages or harm, like the time you knocked the ball out of the park, scoring a home run but breaking a house's window in the process. You had to make restitution for the broken window, paying for its replacement.

Mnemonic: RESTITUTION - we can think of "rest". We take rest when we feel tired.i.e when energy is lost.....so "rest" is a "compensation" for an energy loss. Example: The government tried to make RESTITUTION for the damage caused

REDEMPTION

REDRESS

REPARATION

RESTITUTION

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Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

Use the adjective, arduous, to describe an activity that takes a lot of effort. Writing all those college essays and filling out the applications is an arduous process!

Mnemonic: (h)ard + u (you) + ous (we). This work is very difficult and required full hard work from us and your side. Example: They searched ARDUOUSly for clues.


You have to wrestle a bit with the longish word cumbersome; it's cumbersome, or kind of long and clumsy, to tumble out in a sentence. It's hard to use it gracefully

Mnemonic: (Comebear-some) come bear some heavy things that are hard to manage Example: The organization changed its CUMBERSOME title to something easier to remember

Form: verb Tone: neg/neut

To encumber is to weigh someone or something down with a physical or psychological burden. You may find yourself encumbered by a heavy backpack or with anxieties. Either way, it's a heavy load to bear!

Mnemonic: Look for the word cumber and think of cumbersome ....anything that is cumbersome may prove to be a burden. Example: The police operation was ENCUMBERed by crowds of reporters.


Use the adjective exacting to describe something or someone very precise or strict in its requirements. If your teacher has exacting standards about spelling and punctuation, you better carefully check your final paper.

Mnemonic: EXACTING -he wants things to be too exact and precise...hence he is making great demands Example: He was an EXACTING man to work for.


If one teacher gives you three hours of homework a night, that's rough. But if all of your teachers do it, that makes the task of completing your homework an onerous one, to say the least. If something is onerous, it is very difficult to deal with or do.

Mnemonic: it sounds like on+er+us..that is ON+US.. when something is ON US ..we feel burdensome Example: an ONEROUS duty or responsibility.


When you call Frankenstein ponderous, it's not because he likes

Mnemonic: POUND is a unit of weight , we often calculate

ARDUOUS

DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY

CUMBERSOME

GAP HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING

ENCUMBER

LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY

EXACTING

WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT

ONEROUS

to ponder the great questions of life. It's because he moves like a Mack truck, only slower and less gracefully

weight in pounds! 1 Pound = 480 grams Example: he spoke in a slow PONDEROUS voice.


If something is tedious, it's boring. If you're anxious to get outside and enjoy the sun, even the best lecture will seem tedious.

Mnemonic: TEDIOUS is Tiresome. Example: The journey soon became TEDIOUS


If someone does something easily, or shows ease, it is described as facile in a good way, but if someone takes the easy way out and shows a lack of thought or care, it is facile in a bad way.

Mnemonic: Facile can be read as 'Face I will'... I will be able to face the problem (/person) because it is EASY (REQUIRES VERY LITTLE EFFORT) to solve Example: It seems too facile to blame everything on his mishandling of the crisis.

PONDEROUS

TEDIOUS

X FACILE

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Mnemonic: To DIAL his number or not is a real DILEMMA. Example: Here am I brought to a very pretty DILEMMA; I must commit murder or commit matrimony.


An imbroglio is a complicated or confusing personal situation. To rephrase the J. Geils band song, "Love Stinks," if you love her and she loves him and he loves somebody else, you've got quite an imbroglio.

Mnemonic: IM+brog(=frog)+lio(=lion). Suppose in a play, you have to choose between characters of frog and lion, you will be in a complicated and confusing situation. Example: A celebrated IMBROGLIO involving some big names in the New York literary scene Root: IM means NOT


A morass is a mushy, muddy patch of ground that you might find in a bog. In other words, it's something you probably don't want to get stuck in.

Mnemonic: MORASS refers to anything that bogs you down, overwhelms you, sticks to everything, and hinders your progress - like red tape. Example: A MORASS of lies and deceit


A plight is a situation that's hard to get out of. Learning about the plight of very poor people trying rebuild their homes after a devastating earthquake might inspire you to send money to a charity.

Mnemonic: PLIGHT sounds like FLIGHT which tends to be a difficult condition for first time flyers. Example: The African elephant is in a desperate PLIGHT.


If you're engaged to get married, but suddenly fall in love with someone else, you have got yourself in quite a predicament. A predicament is a difficult, confusing, and unpleasant situation

Mnemonic: PREDICAMENT sounds like PREDIC (T) AMENT : imagine a situation where YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT will happen (can't predict) or WHAT TO DO..is a PREDICAMENT. Example: I am in a terrible PREDICAMENT.

DIFFICULT DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP

IMBROGLIO

HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING

MORASS


PLIGHT

PREDICAMENT

Mnemonic/Example

A dilemma is a tough choice. When you're in a difficult situation and each option looks equally bad, you're in a dilemma.

DILEMMA

DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING

Meaning



A quagmire is a dangerous place, like the muddy shoreline of a pond. The more you try to climb out of a quagmire, the more you seem to slip. That's because as you step on the mud, it oozes everywhere

Mnemonic: Take into consideration the First three words QUAGMIRE. The word resembles earth QUAKE. So earth quake is an awkward predicament, where soil sinks under your feet. Example: I can't handle this QUAGMIRE anymore.


How to define the word quandary? Wow, this is quite a dilemma. What to do, what to do? Looks like this moment itself is a quandary: a tough situation that will be really hard to resolve.

Mnemonic: QUANDARY sounds like LAUNDRY. So many clothes to be washed at home or given to the LAUNDRY adds to dilemma and and difficult to decide. Example: George was in a QUANDARY - should he go or shouldn't he?

QUAGMIRE

QUANDARY

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


When you betray someone or something, you provide information whether you mean to do it or not, like the loud growling of your stomach that betrays your hunger or the secret you tell about your friend that betrays her trust.

Example: He was offered money to BETRAY his colleagues. Root: BE means INTENSIVE/ THOROUGH/MAKE/RENDER

Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is slowly and secretly causing harm, it's insidious â €” like the rumors no one seems to listen to until suddenly someone's reputation is ruined.

Mnemonic: INSIDIOUSinside+ hideous. think of something terrible, like a disease, hiding inside the body. Example: This kind of advertising acts INSIDIOUSly on young minds. Root: IN means VERY


If you shared your most embarrassing secrets with a friend who then told them to everyone he knows, his betrayal could be described as perfidy.

Mnemonic: per+ fidywithout fidelity i.e cheat upon your close ones,in general cheat or breach something/ someone. Example: In Act 2 he learns of Giovanni's PERFIDY and swears revenge.


A quisling is a traitor, especially one who collaborates with an enemy occupying force for personal gain.

Mnemonic: QUISLINGsplit like QUIT+LINK means a culprit quits and collaborate (link)with enemy Example: QUISLING finally gave in, allowing the imprisoned teachers to return home.


A traitor says one thing but does another. If you promise a friend you'll keep his secret, but instead you blab it to everyone, you're a traitor.

Mnemonic: TRAITOR and a CHEATER sounds and means similar. Example: He was seen as a TRAITOR to the socialist cause.


Treachery is trickery, cheating, and deceit, like the treachery of your former friend who only stuck

Mnemonic: treach+hertrick her-deceit somone Example: He was punished for his treacheries.

BETRAY


INSIDIOUS


PERFIDY


QUISLING

TRAITOR

TREACHERY

around until he stole your girlfriend and turned the whole grade against you Form: noun Tone: neg

Hacking your brotherâ€™s email account and sharing all his secrets with your mom could be considered an act of personal treason, meaning you have betrayed your brother.

Mnemonic: Trickery with a Reason calls for a TREASON Example: Ocalan, who has been found guilty of TREASON, is being held in solitary confinement on a remote island prison.


Have you ever switched political parties, taken up a different religion, or â €” worst of all changed which sports team you support? You are a turncoat then, a deeply hostile word meaning a traitor or deserter to the cause.

Mnemonic: if you turn your coat then you show your back... and one who back stabs you is a traitor.. Example: In the days before his unmasking, he was strangely haunted by the subject of TURNCOATs.


Every second grader knows how to pledge allegiance to the flag, but do you think they realize when they place their right hand over their hearts that they're expressing loyalty to what we call the "Red, White, and Blue"?

Mnemonic: We have heard the fancy stories of ALI and his GIN - his gin is COMMITTED and LOYAL to him.. hence ALLE + GI(A)N + CE Example: People of various party allegiances joined the campaign.


Stemming from the Latin word "fidelitas," the noun fealty is related to "fidelity," and is another way of saying "loyalty" or "faithfulness.".

Mnemonic: sounds like fidelity....fidelity means loyalty Example: Now let us shake hands all around and swear fealty. Root: FEAL means TRUST/ FAITH


Fidelity is the quality of being faithful or loyal. Dogs are famous for their fidelity.

Mnemonic: look for the root word fid...means faith, belief..so words like fidelity, confide, diffident, bonafide, fiduciary..all have 'fid' common in it and all these words are related to involving trust or faith, similarly fidelity Example: The best printers can reproduce photographs with amazing fidelity. Root: FID means TRUST/ FAITH

TREASON

TURNCOAT

X ALLEGIANCE

X FEALTY

X FIDELITY

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Meaning a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft.

Mnemonic: A man who may have covered so many journeys of life, will necessarily be experienced. Example: The picture is certainly competent, but a dozen other JOURNEYMAN directors could have executed this piece just as efficiently.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Seasoned describes a person who has been around forever, doing what they do, and doing it well throughout the seasons. They have lots of experience, and they can handle just about anything that comes their way.

Mnemonic: One who has seen many SEASONS in his life...will be very AGED and EXPERIENCED. Example: Sudha is a SEASONED dance performer.


Veteran commonly refers to someone who has fought in a warâ€“think Veterans' Day, the Vietnam Veterans' Memorialâ€“-but, in fact, the word can mean anyone with experience in a particular field.

Mnemonic: VETERAN vet(Vietnam)+eran(Iran) -the people who were involved in both these wars were certainly experienced in war Example: He is a VETERAN of the Korean war.

JOURNEYMAN


SEASONED


Mnemonic/Example


VETERAN

RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


A connoisseur is a person who, through study and interest, has a fine appreciation for something, like the connoisseur who can identify the clarinet player on a jazz recording by the sound of his inhalations alone.

Mnemonic: CONNOISSEUR is always SURE as he is an expert or a good judge Example: The exhibition will be a delight for the collector and CONNOISSEUR of silver ornaments.


We call a person who truly loves foodâ €”food at the highest levelsâ€”an epicure. Occasionally, you might find the word epicure used for a person who loves something else, but an epicure is usually someone who delights in fine food.

Mnemonic: EPICCURRY...one who can write an EPIC on CURRY has to be a CONNOISSEUR OF FOOD. Example: Thomas Jefferson was one of America's first great EPICUREs.


A gourmand is someone obsessively and unhealthily devoted to eating good food and lots of it.

Mnemonic: sounds like government -and in India..anything by government is supposed to be free for people..so if government plans to provide free food people will eat excessively...beyond their capacity..because we take pleasure in anything which is free for us. Example: He is the kind of GOURMAND who swallows food without even pausing to taste it.


That guy over there correctly identifying the dozen spices used in the meal he's eating? Heâ€™s likely a gourmet, someone who knows a lot about fine food.

Mnemonic: GOURMETA guru(expert) of meat(all food and drink) -'A connoisseur of fine food and drink'. Example: Peter is the GOURMET guru, so he should order the food for dinner.


A virtuoso is an incredibly talented musician. You can

Mnemonic: One who has many "virtues" is called a VIRTUOSO.

CONNOISSEUR


EPICURE

HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE

GOURMAND

SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT

GOURMET

VIRTUOSO

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Example: He is a Piano VIRTUOSO.

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Meaning We are sorry to inform you that the adjective contrite means to feel regret, remorse, or even guilt.

Mnemonic: Split as cont (COUNT) - rite (RIGHT). COUNT THE CASH RIGHT, ELSE YOU WILL REGRET IT. Example: He looked so CONTRITE that for a while she nearly believed that he was actually feeling sorry for his deed


Penitent means deeply sorry, ashamed, and full of remorse. If you feel sorryâ €“-or just want to appear toâ €“-you should adopt a penitent manner.

Mnemonic: PENITENT sounds like REPENTENT (to feel sorry about a doing) Example: He was feeling PENITENT for having punished his son without verifying the truth. Root: PEN means PUNISHMENT


Something that is poignant touches you deeply. Watching a poignant YouTube video about baby penguins chasing their mothers, for example, might give you a lump in your throat. poignant feeling can also make you feel sad or regretful.

Mnemonic: POIGNANT sounds like PUNGENT. But something that's pungent pricks your sense of smell, whereas POIGNANT refers to something that pricks your emotions. Example: her face was a POIGNANT reminder of the past time.


Remorse, a noun, is what you feel if you regret your actions or wish for another outcome.

Mnemonic: rem+(w)orse ....remembering(read recalling)the worse thing that you did â €¦you feel the guilt at leaving them without notice Example: she felt no REMORSE at leaving them without notice


If your elaborate magic trick goes awry, and instead of pulling a rabbit out of an audience member's shoe, you set the shoe on fire, you might give a rueful smile.

Mnemonic: RUEFUL sounds CRYFUL. Example: "So this is the last time that we are meeting", she said RUEFULly.

CONTRITE


PENITENT

HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE

POIGNANT

RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT

REMORSE

RUEFUL

Mnemonic/Example


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BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING)

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


An abeyance is a temporary halt to something, with the emphasis on "temporary." It is usually used with the word "in" or "into"; "in abeyance" suggests a state of waiting or holding.

Mnemonic: Interpret it as opposite of obey+ance -- not obeying the given orders and suspend the work (action) Example: Legal proceedings are in ABEYANCE while further enquiries are made Root: AB means AWAY FROM


A temporary gap, pause, break, or absence can be called a hiatus. When your favorite TV show is on hiatus, that means there are no new episodes - not forever, just for a little while.

Mnemonic: split it as HI+AT+US.....if anyone says 'Hi' on the way, we will definitely stop for a while. Example: After a five month HIATUS, the talks resumed.


See lull, think "calm." It could be the noun form (like "the lull before the storm") or the verb: one can lull someone by calming them (as in lulling a baby to sleep with a lullaby).

Mnemonic: LULL DULL Example: a LULL in the conversation.


A moratorium is the suspension of a particular activityâ€“-you could have a moratorium on fishing, baking, the use of candles, the wearing of matching socks.

Mnemonic: Generally, MORATORIUMs go into effect when something becomes seen as being not okay for now, but might go back to being okay later. Example: The convention called for a two year MORATORIUM.


A respite is a break from something that's difficult or unpleasant. If you're cramming for exams, take an occasional walk to give yourself a respite from the intensity.

Mnemonic: RESPITE sounds like rest a bit Example: The medicine brought a brief RESPITE from the pain.

CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT

ABEYANCE


HIATUS


LULL


MORATORIUM

RESPITE

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An antecedent is a thing that comes before something else. You might think rap music has no historical antecedent, but earlier forms of African American spoken verse go back for centuries

Mnemonic: ante(before) + ced("to go"). root "ced" means "to go" .Hence ANTECEDENT means "that which goes before" Example: "He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air,"ball" is the ANTECEDENT of "it"


A forerunner is someone or something that came before and paved the way for something today. Rotary phones were forerunners of today's complex cell phones.

Mnemonic: Fore means something that precedes and runner means someone is approaching so the meaning. Example: An early injury proved the FORERUNNER of a disastrous performance by Williams. Root: FORE means IN FRONT OF.


A harbinger is something that comes before and that shows what will follow in the future. The robin is a harbinger of springâ€“-its presence means spring is coming soon.

Mnemonic: HARBINGER sounds like HER + FINGER, she shows me what is about to happen by gesturing with her finger. Example: Her father's successful job interview was seen as a HARBINGER of better times to come.


You've heard the old saying "Pride comes before the fall?" Well, you could just as easily say pride is a precursor to the fall. A precursor is something that happens before something else.

Mnemonic: "PRECURSOR" pre(before) + cursor(that points out) -something that points out in advance - forerunner. Example: These events were PRECURSORs to revolution Root: PRE means BEFORE

ANTECEDENT

DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT HARMFUL / CURSE

FORERUNNER

IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY

HARBINGER

UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT

PRECURSOR

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Relation to Group

Something that one absolutely and positively cannot stand is anathema. Garlic is anathema to vampires (ditto for stakes and daylight). So is kryptonite to Superman or a silver bullet to a werewolf.

Mnemonic: ASTHMA...ANATHEMAâ €¦I hate asthma because it affects respiratory system....ANATHEMA also means curse....to have ASTHMA is a kind of ANATHEMA Example: Racial prejudice is (an) ANATHEMA to me.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Baleful means the foreshadowing of tragic or evil events. If no one's listening in class and your teacher reprimands you with a baleful glance, expect a pop quiz.

Mnemonic: BALEFUL sounds like bail+ful; when any dangerous convict gets out of jail taking bail, he could be threatening. Example: We are aware of the BALEFUL effects of water pollution.


The noun bane refers to anything that is a cause of harm, ruin, or death. But we often use it for things that aren't that bad, just feel like it. You might say mosquitoes are the bane of your existence.

Mnemonic: Modern technology is BOON OR BANE. Boon is useful and BANE is Something causing misery or death Example: The neighbors kids are the BANE of my existence.


A blight is a disease that hurts plants and makes their leaves wither. It can also affect neighborhoods. Urban blight refers to a part of the city where things are falling apart. Blight could also mean something that harms.

Mnemonic: Black light may destroy the plants. Example: His career has been BLIGHTed by injuries

Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is deleterious, it does harm or makes things worse. Smoking has obvious deleterious effects on your health, not to mention your social life.

Mnemonic: relate it to DELETE...so you DELETE all the spam mails because they may BE HARMFUL to your PC Example: the DELETERIOUS effect of stress on health.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Detrimental is a formal way of saying "harmful." Anything

Mnemonic: Look at the part MENTAL ...a MENTAL person can

ANATHEMA


BALEFUL


BANE


BLIGHT

DELETERIOUS

detrimental hurts, hinders, or puts a damper on something. Detrimental things do damage.

cause serious harm or injury, when violent. Example: the sun's DETRIMENTAL effect on skin.


â€œGo bury your head in the sand.â€ This nasty curse is a malediction (and, Iâ €™m sure, nothing you would ever say to another human being).

Mnemonic: MALEDICTION MAL+DICTION. MAL means 'evil or ill' and DICTUM is 'saying'. So to say something evil is to CURSE. Example: The MALEDICTION by the sorcerer scared him to death Root: MAL means BAD/ EVIL

Form: adj Tone: neg

For something that's very harmful, especially a tumor that's cancerous, use the term malignant.

Mnemonic: MAL means BAD. Example: She was relieved when the doctor told her that the tumor was not MALIGNANT. Root: MAL means BAD/ EVIL

Form: adj Tone: neg

Pernicious means harmful and subtle, such as a poison gas that causes cancer in those exposed to it over the course of years.

Mnemonic: word can be divided like per+nicious..nicious when pronounced sounds like noxious...so noxious.. ..so something harmful Example: the PERNICIOUS influence of TV violence on children.

DETRIMENTAL

MALEDICTION

MALIGNANT

PERNICIOUS

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Use quixotic for someone or something that is romantic and unrealistic, or possessed by almost impossible hopes. Your quixotic task is easy to understand, if difficult to achieve: establish world peace.

Mnemonic: QUIXOTIC quick + exotic, if you desire something exotic to happen quickly in your life it is just a daydream. Example: He is QUIXOTIC - he wants to achieve things that are practically impossible.


If you're looking to relocate to a utopia, good luck! A utopia is an ideal society, and a scheme or vision for producing such a society can be called utopian.

Mnemonic: UTOPIAN UTOPIa , sounds like Trophy - which is something that everyone wants but only one of them gets it, like its a ideology/imaginary concept that everyone wants it but practically only one gets it. Example: There is nothing like a UTOPIAN society.

QUIXOTIC

DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT

UTOPIAN

HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT Legends: X

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Mnemonic/Example


Debauchery is a noun meaning crazy partying and wild nights, usually accompanied by a lot of alcohol. So you probably don't want to engage in any kind of debauchery the night before an exam.

Mnemonic: DEBAUCHERY sounds like BUTCHERY. Butcher, a person who kill animals for food.Hence after killing, people indulge. Example: He later regretted the DEBAUCHERY of his youth. Root: DE means AWAY/ DOWN/ OFF

Form: adj Tone: neg

If your friend vacations in lavish hotels, wears thousand-dollar shoes, and refuses to eat cheese that costs less than $20 an ounce, you might say her lifestyle is decadent.

Mnemonic: DECAY+DANCE -now a days the way heroines are dancing is degrading as far as vulgarity is concerned. Example: The book condemns some of society's wealthiest members as DECADENT fools.


If something degenerates, it gets worse, like a food fight that degenerates to an all-out spaghettithrowing war. Degenerate can also describe an immoral person - or the behavior of such a person.

Mnemonic: DE (not) + GENERATE(working). Stopped generating. Example: We are living in a DEGENERATEd society. Root: DE means AWAY/ DOWN/ OFF


Depravity goes beyond mere bad behavior - it is a total lack of morals, values, and even regard for other living things, like the depravity of a serial killer

Mnemonic: People are deprived of their basic amenities because of the extreme corruption existing among the goverment employees Example: He was sinking into a life of utter DEPRAVITY. Root: DE means AWAY/ DOWN/ OFF

Form: adj Tone: neg

The adjective dissolute means unrestrained. If you're a dissolute person, you indulge in gambling, drugs, and drinking and

Mnemonic: One whose moral values are dissolved Example: Literature dealing with the DISSOLUTE and degrading aspects of human experience

DEBAUCHERY


DECADENT


DEGENERATE

RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT DEPRAVITY

DISSOLUTE

don't care if others disapprove.

Root: DIS means NOT


lack of probity : lack of integrity or rectitude

Mnemonic: PROBITY sounds like INTEGRITY, and IM (not). So no Integrity. Example: His IMPROBITY resulted in him facing a termination from his workplace. Root: IM means NOT


If you drink a lot, eat a lot, and live a wild and unrestrained life, you might be called a libertine.

Mnemonic: LIBERTINEliberti+ne=LIBERTY IN Excess can make you irresponsible and immoral. Example: The legend of Don Juan depicts him as a LIBERTINE. Root: LIBER means FREE

Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone who is licentious behaves or speaks inappropriately or vulgarly.

Mnemonic: licent(license)+ous....well some bollywood celebrities have got the LICENSE OF indulging into amoral ACTIVITIES. Example: A moralist who decried what she regarded as the LICENTIOUS and corrupt culture of the entertainment industry. Root: LIC means PERMIT.


There's no way around it, a reprobate is a bad egg. The black sheep of the family, missing a moral compass - a reprobate's been called everything from a deviant to an evildoer to a scoundrel.

Mnemonic: REPROBATE: rep(repeatedly)+rob+ate.. a person who again and again robs other peoples belongings has no moral values. Example: Without hesitation, she criticized the REPROBATE who proposed such an indecent idea


If you are guilty of turpitude, you should be ashamed of yourself. Turpitude is a word that represents depraved behavior. Prisons are filled with criminals who have engaged in acts of moral turpitude.

Mnemonic: TURPITUDE sounds like turbid attitude so a depraved act. Example: This, he said, left modern man out of synch with the natural order of things, resulting in war, conflict and general TURPITUDE.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Wanton describes something excessive, uncontrolled and sometimes even cruel. The principal sees a food fight as a wanton act of vandalism done with wanton disregard for the rules, but the kids might just see it as fun.

Mnemonic: WANTON sounds like WANT ON. Someone who's WANT(desire) goes ON and ON..no limit to his want. Example: They were accused of WANTON cruelty toward animals.

Form: adj

Someone wayward is Mnemonic: sounds like

IMPROBITY

LIBERTINE

LICENTIOUS

REPROBATE

TURPITUDE

WANTON

Tone: neg WAYWARD

a little stubborn and independent - they're determined to find their own way and are not easily controlled.

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waver...wave means a whim or caprice. Example: She is a WAYWARD child.

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


If something is described as embryonic, it's just starting to develop or come together. An "embryo" is a person or animal that is still growing in the womb or egg, and embryonic means "like an embryo."

Mnemonic: embryo+nic.. an EMBRYO is a cell which is UNDEVLOPED (of human, hen etc ), so the underdeveloped stage is called EMBRYONIC. Example: The plan, as yet, only exists in EMBRYONIC form. Root: EM means IN/INTO/ ON


A fledgling is a fuzzy baby bird just learning to fly, or someone (like a baby bird) who's brand new at doing something.

Mnemonic: FLEDGLING rhymes with duckling.. a young duck thus referring to inexperience. Example: The intern was still a FLEDGLING.


Inchoate means just beginning to form. You can have an inchoate idea, like the earliest flickers of images for your masterpiece, or it can be a feeling, like the inchoate sense of anger toward your new neighborâ€™s talking parrot

Mnemonic: inch(o)+ate i've "just begun" to eat an inch Example: INCHOATE feelings of affection for a man whom she had, up till now, thought of as only a friend.


Incipient means something is in an early stage of existence. In its incipient

Mnemonic: inci(INITIAL)+pie(nt)(PAYment)...when only the initial payment is given, your house will be partially constructed. Example: The project is still in its INCIPIENT stages.

CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING

EMBRYONIC

DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT HARMFUL / CURSE

FLEDGLING

IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY

INCHOATE


form, basketball was played with a soccer ball and peach baskets for goals. Bouncy orange balls and nets came later.

INCIPIENT


Nascent describes the birth or beginning of something, for example a civilization, a trend, an idea, or an action. It can also imply a future promise, like the nascent government of a new country.

Mnemonic: "new soul sent".....to earth- NASCENT Example: The actress is now focusing on her NASCENT singing career. Root: NASC means NATURAL


Rudimentary is a pretty long and fancy word, for a word that just means stripped down or at a very early stage. The test should be easy: it requires only a rudimentary understanding of the materials.

Mnemonic: sedimentary RUDIMENTARY.....sedimentary rock are used in the base or foundation of a building...hence RUDIMENTARY means basic or fundamental Example: They were given only RUDIMENTARY training in the job.

NASCENT

RUDIMENTARY

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Meaning Wearing a cast on a broken leg can cause atrophy, or withering, in the leg, because it is immobilized and gets no exercise.

Mnemonic: A + trophy; Even after many years of practice, he didn't win a trophy, so that was just wastage of his energy. Example: TV viewing may lead to ATROPHY of children's imaginations.


Attenuate is a verb that means to make or become weaker. The effects of aging may be attenuated by exercise. (Or by drinking from the fountain of youth).

Mnemonic: ATTENUATE - at ten + you + ate; if youl eat only at 10 PM (once in a day), you will ATTENUATE. Example: The drug ATTENUATEs the effects of the virus


Attrition is a gradual process of wearing down, weakening, or destroying something.

Mnemonic: ATTRITION -at + rition (sounds like RATION); Due to flood, ration is available in very limited amount. there is a shortage of food everywhere in our city Example: It was a war of ATTRITION


To debilitate something is to make it weaker. A bad flu may debilitate your powers of concentration, like the New Year's resolutions that temporarily debilitate bakeries' business.

Mnemonic: de + ablity -without ability, the person who doesnot have the ablity to do something is called weak. Example: The troops were severely DEBILITATEd by hunger and disease


If something degenerates, it gets worse, like a food fight that degenerates to an all-out spaghettithrowing war. Degenerate can also describe an immoral person - or the behavior of such a

Mnemonic: De (not)+ Generate (work) Stop working Example: Her health DEGENERATEd quickly Root: DE means AWAY/ DOWN

ATROPHY

DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP

ATTENUATE


ATTRITION


DEBILITATE

DEGENERATE

Mnemonic/Example


person. Form: noun Tone: neg

Degradation is the act of lowering something or someone to a less respected state. A president resigning from office is a degradation. Itâ€™s also a downcast state. Once the president has resigned, he might feel degradation.

Mnemonic: de(means less)+grad...so when you get less GRADES in your exam..you see humiliation from all sides. Example: A lot of environmental DEGRADATION is caused because of plastic usage.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Effete is a disapproving term meaning decadent and self-indulgent, even useless. The stereotype of the rugged Westerner is just as false as the one of the effete East Coast liberal.

Mnemonic: EFFETE...ef+fete..feet -so when you walk for longer distances on your feet, you feel completely worn out as if you are lacking in power Example: The soft, EFFETE society that marked the final years of the Roman empire

Form: verb

to make someone feel weak and tired

Mnemonic: ENERV(w)asTE when you waste your energy you become weak. Example: A lifetime of working in dreary jobs had ENERVATEd his very soul.


make weak

Mnemonic: Not aBLE to pay the FEE since his economic conditions are very weak Example: That bout of pneumonia ENFEEBLEd him.

Form: adj Tone: neg

weak from exhaustion

Mnemonic: f-LAGging. lag behind,weak-not able to keep pace with another or others Example: We should rejuvenate our FLAGGING attitude toward everything.


to grow thin

Example: she started macerating after the accident.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that is moribund is almost dead, like the moribund plant you didn't water for months, or so without change or growth that it seems dead, like a moribund town that seems trapped in the 1950s.

Mnemonic: MORIBUND is kind of similar to morbid, which refers to things related to death Example: a MORIBUND company or patient.

DEGRADATION

EFFETE

ENERVATE

ENFEEBLE

FLAGGING

MACERATE

MORIBUND


To sap something is to drain or deplete something over time. If you sap a maple tree, you drain the liquid inside it to make maple syrup. But if you sap a person of strength, you've rendered him defenseless.

Mnemonic: If you slap(SAP) someone you diminish his dignity.. Example: the arduous job has SAPped him of all the energy.


lose strength

Mnemonic: WILT and tilt sound the same and they both mean, to droop. Example: He was WILTing from all the pressure at work


Wither means to shrivel up or shrink. If you forget to water your plants for six weeks, they'll wither â €” they'll dry up and you probably won't be able to bring them back to life

Mnemonic: WITHER -with + her when a friend wants to spend time with her, generally his money is going to decay Example: All our hopes just WITHER away with time


Use the verb burgeon to describe something that is growing, expanding, and flourishing. If you have a green thumb, in the spring your flower gardens will burgeon in a cacophony of color. If you don't have a green thumb, your collection of plastic plants will burgeon.

Mnemonic: Burge+on sounds like Bulge which means growing big Example: This country has a burgeoning population.


Starfish are famous for their ability to regenerate, or regrow, a lost arm. Anything that revives in this magical way can be said to regenerate.

Mnemonic: RE (again) + Generate. Generations keep growing. Example: The money will be used to regenerate the commercial heart of the town.


When you make something young again or give it more life and energy, you rejuvenate it. For example, you can often rejuvenate a not-quite-dead plant, bringing it back to health with some water and some TLC.

Mnemonic: reJUVENATE-Juvenile means a young person..so making Younger Example: His new job seemed to rejuvenate him. Root: RE means AGAIN


To resuscitate is to Mnemonic: revive a person who RECESS+ATE-in has lost consciousness RECESS (interval) I ATE something and due to that I got proper consciousness.

SAP

WILT

WITHER

X BURGEON

X REGENERATE

X REJUVENATE

X RESUSCITATION

Example: He had an heart attack and all attempts to resuscitate him failed. Form: verb Tone: pos X REVIVE

To revive something is to provide it with new energy or life, like when you revive a drooping plant by watering it, or when you revive a boring party by breaking out the karaoke machine.

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Mnemonic: re-vibe (return to being vibrant again) Example: The flowers soon revived in water.

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Mnemonic: FETTER sounds like(shutter) when a shutter is closed..then nothing can go out of it. Example: He felt FETTERed by small and petty rules and regulations


If a police officer has to manacle your hands behind your back, you're in big trouble. That's just a fancy way of saying that you've been handcuffed.

Mnemonic: MANACLE sounds like ankle or shackle , so my ankle got trapped that restrained me from doing something. Example: MANACLEs prevented the bear from roaming beyond a very small area


Many cars use rack-andpinion steering, in which the steering wheel turns a small-toothed pinion gear, which engages the larger rack that turns the car's wheels.

Mnemonic: PINION can be split into PIN+ON; when we PIN something, it will hold it and thereby prevent it from flying away .. (bind the arms of something) Example: His arms were PINIONed to his sides.


You secure the sails before you take out the sailboat, which means you tie them down.

Example: She SECUREd the rope firmly to the back of the car.


Handcuffs are shackles. So are those leg irons some prisoners wear when they appear in court. In other words, a shackle is a restraint, either physical or psychological, that restricts movement.

Mnemonic: SHACKLE - buckle the ankles from shaking. Example: A country struggling to free itself from the shakles of colonialism

Form: verb,noun Tone: neg

Both a verb and a noun, tether keeps things tied together, or is the tie itself. Remember, when you tether that chair to those balloons, use a strong tether.

Mnemonic: TETHER can be split as TiE + HER, so remember it as TIE her WITH A ROPE. Example: he TETHERed his horse to a tree

DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP

MANACLE


PINION

RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY

SECURE

WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT SHACKLE

TETHER

Mnemonic/Example

A fetter is a shackle or chain that is attached to someoneâ€™s ankles. To fetter someone is to restrict their movement, either literally or metaphorically. You might feel fettered by your parents' rules, even without the chains.

FETTER

EXPERIENCED

Meaning



If you emancipate someone, you set them free from something. At the end of the Civil War, slaves were emancipated and became free men and women.

Mnemonic: A man in cip= ship: a man is set free to travel in ship to his own country Example: Slaves were not emancipated (freed) until 1863 in the United States. Root: EM means INTO


If you need to be untangled, set free or otherwise released from something or someone, you need to be extricated.

Mnemonic: concentrate on ex+tricâ€¦Mr.EX(X) PLAYED A TRIC(k) in order to FREE himself from the prison. Example: He had managed to extricate himself from most of his official duties Root: EX means OUT OF

X EMANCIPATE

X EXTRICATE

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


The verb enfranchise is used when a group of people are given voting rights or freedoms they didn't have before. Many people under the age of 18 would like lawmakers to enfranchise their peer group so they can vote.

Mnemonic: if you are franchisee of a company you have right to VOTE for its policies. freedom to vote being a franchise Example: the ENFRANCHISEment of foreign residents in local elections.


Suffrage is the right to vote in public elections. Universal suffrage means everyone gets to vote, as opposed to only men, or property holders. Suffrage has nothing to do with "suffering," unless the wrong person is elected.

Mnemonic: SUFFRAGE after you reach super age (18) you get voting right Example: Even as the world entered the 21st century, some nations still did not permit women's SUFFRAGE.

ENFRANCHISE

DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP

SUFFRAGE

HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT Legends: X

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Mnemonic: ec(x)centric(normal): going away from the center that is departing from the norms Example: Most people considered him a harmless ECCENTRIC


If you repeat foible out loud enough times, it sounds so funny that you can laugh at it and maybe remember to laugh at the odd and distinctive weaknesses of others - the foible or two or a hundred that we all have.

Mnemonic: FOIBLE sounds like Fail-able.. so you have a weakness or slight fault at something Example: We have to tolerate each others little FOIBLEs


If a person has an idiosyncrasy, he or she has a little quirk, or a funny behavior, that makes him or her different. If you only say goodbye in French, never in English, that would be an idiosyncrasy.

Mnemonic: Idiot in sync with the crazy people are idiosyncratic. Example: Wearing a raincoat, even on a hot day, is one of her idiosyncrasies


An oddity is anything strange or unusual. Wearing ear muffs during a heat wave would be considered an oddity, because most people wouldn't do that.

Mnemonic: odd things are usually strange Example: the book deals with some of the oddities of grammar and spelling


a strange attitude or habit

Mnemonic: Quirk sounds like CRACK (unusual) Example: everyone have their own little quirks and mannerisms

DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP

FOIBLE

HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING

IDIOSYNCRASY

LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY

ODDITY


Mnemonic/Example

You're most likely to encounter the adjective eccentric in a description of an unusual or quirky person - like a scatterbrained aunt who leaves her life savings to her cat.

ECCENTRIC

EXPERIENCED

Meaning


QUIRKINESS

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Meaning The essential point or problem is the crux. People are always trying to get to the crux of a matter or the crux of a problem, while others try to distract them.

Mnemonic: FOCUS ON LETTERS CRU + x....cru very near to CRUcial...so something which is crucial is always the essential thing. Example: Now we should come to the CRUX of the matter.


When you need a quick summary of the essentials, rather than the whole story or a thorough explanation, you're looking for the gist.

Mnemonic: GIST sounds very similar to list.....So your lecturer is asking you to LIST OUT THE MAIN POINTS of the paragraph. Example: I missed the beginning of the lecture - can you give me the GIST of what he said?


A precis is a summary of something's main points. If you've ever jotted down notes about your main ideas before writing a persuasive essay, you've used a precis.

Mnemonic: pre ( meaning before ) + cis ( as in thesis ) .... it is the summary that comes before a thesis Example: He was asked to make a precis of the report and submit it before the next meeting.


Use purport when you want to convince people about something that might not be true, like when you purport that the dog ate your homework.

Mnemonic: PURPORT:PURPOSE to convince someone wrongly Example: The book does not PURPORT to be a complete history of the period Root: PUR means TO CLEANSE


Synopsis is a noun meaning summary. Instead of reciting every line of the Shakespeare play you were assigned to read over the weekend, it might be more helpful for your classmates if you give them a synopsis of what happened.

Mnemonic: When you SHRINK a lengthy piece of writing, its called a SYNOPSIS. Example: The program gives a brief SYNOPSIS of the plot.

CRUX


GIST


PRÃ ‰CIS

RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY UNCLEAR / HAZY WITHOUT MISTAKES / PERFECT

PURPORT

SYNOPSIS

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Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

In a broader sense, the Amorphous describes anything that lacks a distinct shape or organizing theme, be it a work of art, a political movement, or even someone's direction in life.

Mnemonic: AMORPHOUS a[morf]us = on reversing, morf become - a+form+us i.e something without form.. or something lacking shape Example: an AMORPHOUS mass of cells with no identity at all Root: MORPH means FORM


make less visible or unclear

Mnemonic: Her father's illness BECLOUDed her wedding day. Example: Her father's illness BECLOUDed her wedding day.


if something clouds your judgment, memory, etc., it makes it difficult for you to understand or remember something clearly

Mnemonic: CLOUD itself calls for a unclear vision literally and leads to lack of understanding, because of lack of clarity. Example: Doubts were beginning to CLOUD my mind.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Is it hard to tell what someone is saying? Can you not see something clearly? Anything hard to make out is indistinct.

Mnemonic: DISTINCT means CLEAR and IN means NOT. Hence lacking in CLARITY will mean INDISTINCT Example: His memory of the incident was someone INDISTINCT Root: IN means NOT

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that's murky is dim, gloomy or hard to see through clearly. Think of the dark fog around a haunted house or the cloudy, muddy water in a swamp.

Mnemonic: MURKY mu(munsoon)+r(rainy)+ ky (sky) - which is dark and gloomy Example: This is a MURKY night.


Use the adjective nebulous for situations that are "hazy, indistinct" and also "cloudy" or "fuzzy."

Mnemonic: Nebula the milky way in galaxy which is cloudy and unclear Example: This is a NEBULOUS concept.

CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING

AMORPHOUS

DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN EVENT

BECLOUD

HARMFUL / CURSE IDEALISTIC IMMORAL JUST BEGINNING / DEVELOPING

CLOUD

LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) THRIVING RESTRAIN / SET FREE RIGHT TO VOTE STRANGE SUMMARY

INDISTINCT


MURKY

NEBULOUS

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Form: adj Tone: pos

Relation to Group

Flawless is an adjective that means "without any imperfections," like your flawless vocal performance - not one mistake. That's why the choir teacher gave you an A+.

Mnemonic: flaw is a mistakeâ€”FLAWLESS means without mistake Example: Her English is almost FLAWLESS

Form: adj Tone: pos

Immaculate means spotless, pure, and clean as fresh snow on a far-off mountain. Only obsessive cleaners can keep immaculate homes, but itâ€™s a goal we can strive for, like that far-off mountain.

Mnemonic: IMMACULATE - Im + Maculate - without macule (spots) Macule is a spot or area of discoloration of skin.... so IMMACULATE is without macules.... spotless, clean Example: she always looks IMMACULATE.

Form: adj Tone: pos

The adjective impeccable describes something or someone without any flaws. A stand-up comedian needs impeccable timing for his jokes to work.

Mnemonic: Picking on somebody means to finding faults. Hence Im + Pick-able means no fault can be found Example: Her written English is IMPECCABLE Root: IM means NOT

Form: adj Tone: pos

"Fallible" means capable of making mistakes - or, easier to remember - capable of failing. Infallible means exactly the opposite - incapable of failing.

Mnemonic: Folly means mistake and In means 'not'. So without mistake is being INFALLIBLE. Example: Doctors are not INFALLIBLE Root: IN means NOT


Integrity is a personal quality of fairness that we all aspire to - unless you're a dishonest, immoral scoundrel, of course.

Mnemonic: INTEGRITY is like ENTIRELY TRUE (fair) Example: A man of great INTEGRITY

Form: adj Tone: pos

Use the adjective irreproachable to describe something or someone blameless or not

Mnemonic: cannot be REPROACHED (criticized). Example: His conduct as a police

FLAWLESS


IMMACULATE


IMPECCABLE


INFALLIBLE

INTEGRITY

deserving of officer was criticism. It can be IRREPROACHABLE. annoying, but your parents strive to give you irreproachable advice when they tell you, "Study hard in school," and not "Party on!"

IRREPROACHABLE


Though probity sounds like what you might do with a sharp stick, it actually means being morally and ethically above reproach, having integrity

Mnemonic: PROBITY sounds and means like INTEGRITY Example: The defense attorney questioned the PROBITY of the witness Root: PROB means PROVE


Rectitude refers to behavior that is correct, upright and honorable. You have moral rectitude if you refuse to be involved with a plan that some kids in your class have to cheat on a test.

Mnemonic: RECTITUDE - rectified + attitude. If a attitude is rectified, it has to be correct. Example: She is a model of RECTITUDE Root: RECT means RULE

Form: adj Tone: pos

Unimpeachable describes someone or something that is totally, completely, without any doubt, innocent and good, like an unimpeachable role model who avoids bad influences and sketchy situations.

Mnemonic: impeach means to doubt or question, UNIMPEACHABLE means that cannot be doubted Example: we got evidence from an UNIMPEACHABLE source Root: UN means NOT

PROBITY

RECTITUDE

UNIMPEACHABLE

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Words

ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something that is decorous is dignified, proper, and in good taste, like your decorous great-aunt who always wears a dress even when she's only headed to the grocery store.

Mnemonic: dÃ©cor, DECORATE. if you decorate your ROOM it will look proper in appearance compared to hall. Example: They skipped her immoral doings Decorously

Form: adj Tone: pos

A demure woman or girl can be described as polite and a little shy. A demure outfit is a modest oneâ€“â €“think high neckline and low hem.

Example: she is a Demure young lady.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Prim means polite, straight-laced, even twee. Many characters in Jane Austen novels are prim and proper.

Mnemonic: In order to be very precise and formal with my speech, I had to trim all my stories. (Prim Trim) Example: She is much too Prim and proper!


Propriety is following what is socially acceptable in speech and behavior. If you are someone who cares about always doing the right and proper thing, your friends might accuse you of being obsessed with propriety and beg you to loosen up.

Mnemonic: sounds like proper! PROPER + APPROPRIATE = Propriety Example: nobody questioned the Propriety of her being there alone

Form: adj Tone: pos

You don't want to seem anything less than seemly, especially in the presence of the Queen. Only seemly behavior is allowed when she's around.

Mnemonic: See+ homely: see Sita is so homely and hence proper or appropriate to be my daughter in law! Example: it was not considered Seemly to talk in such a way in front of the children

Form: adj Tone: neg

If something's execrable it's really and truly, unbelievably, absolutely the worst.

Mnemonic: Execrable = exe + cr + able; this *.exe file is a 'crappy' virus and is 'able' to badly harm your computer. Example: execrable piece of poem

Decorous

CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL

Demure

GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS

Prim

REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS

Propriety

WITHOUT DECEPTION

Seemly

X Execrable

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something flagrant is bad â €” so bad you can't ignore it. A flagrant foul in sports might send you to the bench, and a flagrant violation of the law might send you to the slammer.

Mnemonic: flag + rent --renting the national flag!(No offense meant) It is shocking & scandalous. Example: a flagrant use of human rights


Whenever you see the prefix "mal-," you know it's not good. Malfeasance is bad behavior, especially from officials or people who should know better.

Mnemonic: What do we mean by it if we say MAL FEES?? Certainly its a bribe. So Malfeasance means officials indulged in taking bribes, a misconduct. Example: The officer was arrested for malfeasance activities Root: Mal means BAD

X Flagrant

X Malfeasance

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ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x)

Relation to Group

Mnemonic: Unassuming (modest) is the opposite of flaunting (making a show of). Example: Sachin is very unassuming and hence is the king of the cricket world.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Arrogant is an adjective for describing people who are too proud and look down on others, like supermodels who think their good looks give them a right to do whatever they want.

Example: His Arrogant behavior is ovserved by his seniors with disgust.

Form: adj Tone: pos

This adjective is very bold - if you are audacious, you are daring and unconventional!

Mnemonic: Audacious..auda(AUDIBLE)....IF YOU WANT to be audible to millions of people you have to be very daring and bold, to go to the stage and deliver your message. Example: an Audacious decision


To be bombastic is to be full of hot air - like a politician who makes grand promises and doesn't deliver.

Mnemonic: if bomblast takes place anywhere then all politicians starts to give a Bombastic (blah blah) speech Example: His speech was full of bombast.


If you know someone who is a real show off and is always bragging about how great they

Mnemonic: Braggart sounds like dragg art.. the art of dragging oneself too much(boasting) Example: Her Braggart behavior annoys everyone

CHAOS / CONFUSION COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS

(X) Unassuming

DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING

Arrogant

SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Audacious

Bombastic

Braggart

Mnemonic/Example

The word unassuming means modest, lacking in arrogance, pleasant, or polite. You'll find that some of the most unassuming people are actually the most interesting and powerful of all. They're just decent enough not to display it all the time.

BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHEAT / DECEIVE

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: pos

are, then you might call this boaster a braggart. Brass


impudent aggressiveness

Example: She marched in here, bold as Brass, and demanded a raise.

Brat


a very troublesome child

Mnemonic: Brat-similar to a rat which is very troublesome. Example: a Bratty kid he is.


If you act with bravado, you are making a bold showy statement. Picture a cowboy bursting through saloon doors in an old western, and you can picture bravado.

Mnemonic: Brava+Do = Act like brave but not brave. Pretended bravery Example: "Don't threaten me," she whispered with false Bravado

Form: adj Tone: neg

With brazen disregard for the sign that said "no cellphones please" the woman took a long call in the doctor's office waiting room. Brazen refers to something shocking, done shamelessly.

Mnemonic: a Brazen person will not care about anything or anyone. Example: She had become Brazen about the whole affair

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you're being Example: a Cheeky grin cheeky you're being brash or irreverent. If you're a cheeky child, you're probably just being impudent and disrespectful - and you're probably going to get in trouble.

Form: adj Tone: neg

A conceited Example: He is a very person has an Conceited person inflated selfimage and perceives himself as incredibly entertaining and wonderful. Talk incessantly about your accomplishments on the clarinet or amazing ability to wiggle your ears, and people are going to think youâ €™re conceite

Form: noun

If you rudely

Bravado

Brazen

Cheeky

Conceited

Mnemonic: for every

Tone: neg

behave as if you have a right to something that you have no right to, you're committing effrontery.

discussion he comes to the FRONT and argues...in a rude manner. Example: He had the Effrontery to accuse me of lying


limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

Mnemonic: ego Example: His egotism prevented him from really loving anyone but himself.


Gall describes something irritating, like someone very rude. If you barge into a bakery and cut in front of a sweet old lady, then you have gall.

Mnemonic: remember Galls in "Asterix & Obelix" they used to slap the Romans, as the Romans always annoyed them Example: Then they had the Gall to complain

Form: adj Tone: neg

Grandiloquent is a fancy term for, well, being fancy or pretentious. In fact, you might say grandiloquent is itself a pretty grandiloquent word.

Mnemonic: GRAND+ELOQUENT only an ELOQUENT speaker can deliver a POMPOUS/BOMBASTIC speech in front a HUGE/GRAND crowd Example: His Grandiloquent speech impressed no one

Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone who is Mnemonic: don't care attitude haughty is Example: he replied with arrogant and full Haughty disdain of pride. When you're haughty, you have a big attitude and act like you're better than other people.


Hauteur is an obnoxious display of overbearing pride and superiority over others. Rather than showing humility and respect, a bad king might act with hauteur toward his subjects.

Example: Billâ€™s hautiness infuriated Martha so much that she stormed out of the room. -


Hubris is an excess of confidence: a boxer who shouts "I'm the greatest!" even though he's about to get pummeled by a

Mnemonic: HUB+RIS(RAISE)-A person RAISEd in a HUB(city centre),will be arrogant and conceited towards villagers and others. Example: his faliure was brought only by Hubris

Effrontery

Egotistical

Gall

Grandiloquent

Haughty

Hauteur

Hubris

much stronger opponent is displaying a lot of hubris. Form: adj Tone: neg

If someone's rude without being openly nasty, like a kid in the back row of class quietly heckling his teacher, you can call him impertinent.

Mnemonic: focus on its last words "tinent" sounds like tenant-> so when a imperial owner talks to his tenant he doesn't give any respect. Example: Would it be Impertinent to ask why you are leaving? Root: IM means NOT

Form: adj Tone: neg

An impudent person is bold, sassy, and shameless. If you want to get into a fancy nightclub and you tell the bouncer, â€œLet me in, Iâ€™m much more beautiful than all these ugly losers in line,â€ thatâ €™s impudent behavior.

Mnemonic: sounds like impunity, which means immune from punishment, which is characteristic of those who are shamelessly bold, insolent, impertinent = Impudent. Example: an Impudent young man!

Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone who's insolent is either really doing her own thing, even if it goes against what everyone else is doing, or sheâ€™s mildly disrespectful.

Mnemonic: sounds like insultent -A person who insults evryone is UNRESTRAINED, IMPRUDENT AND SHAMELESS Example: Her insolence cost her her job.


the courage to carry on

Example: It took a lot of Nerve to take the company to the court.

Form: adj Tone: neg

A pompous person is arrogant or conceited. He'll walk into a party with an inflated ego, ready to tell anyone who will listen that "I'm kind of a big deal."

Mnemonic: pomp sounds like pump... so falsely pump oneself up... puffed with vanity Example: his speech sounded very Pompous and self congratulatory

Form: adj Tone: neg

When someone takes liberties, doing things too boldly, you can describe them with the adjective presumptuous.

Mnemonic: Focus on "Presum" (Presume)--> To overstep your boundaries by boldly PRESUMing something. Example: Would it be Presumptuous of me to ask to borrow your car?

Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the adjective pretentious as a way to criticize people who try

Mnemonic: Pretentious is someone who is Pretending Example: That was just an ordinary house- not a Pretentious one

Impertinent

Impudent

Insolent

Nerve

Pompous

Presumptuous

Pretentious

to act like they are more important or knowledgeable than they really are. Form: adj Tone: neg

You can use saucy to describe someone who likes to cause trouble, but usually in a playful and funny way. Saucy is also a good word for a person who really likes to flirt.

Example: a Saucy smile

Form: adj Tone: neg

Supercilious people think very highly of themselves, more highly than of others. Think of them as a "super silly ass," and you'll remember the basic sense of supercilious.

Mnemonic: split it like SUPER+CILI(sounds like SILLY)+o+US......now think of our SUPER SENIORs in our college . ..who were very ARROGANT IN NATURE..and were very keen to exhibit their superiority over us hence treated us in a very silly way.. Example: The jewelry store clerk was very Supercilious


Picture the confident, maybe even arrogant way a pirate, a cowboy, or even a rapper might stroll around. That style of walking is called a swagger.

Mnemonic: It's like sword + dagger. If one has both of them, he will be quite confident. Example: he Swaggered into the room looking very pleased with himself


Use the noun temerity to mean the quality of being unafraid of danger or punishment. If you have the temerity to jump off the bridge even after hearing about the risk of instant death, you truly are a nutcase

Mnemonic: te+merit+yâ€”if you have merit(academic excellence) then you will be excessive confident and fearless Example: he had the Temerity to call me a liar

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you admire yourself in the mirror all the time and constantly brag about all the beauty contests you have won, you might

Mnemonic: all your glorious achievements are in vain if you boast about them. Example: In saying this we may well be proud but not Vainglorious.

Saucy

Supercilious

Swagger

Temerity

Vainglorious

rightfully get accused of being vainglorious. Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: noun Tone: Neg

Bedlam is a scene of madness, chaos or great confusion. If you allow football fans onto the field after the big game, it will be pure bedlam.

Mnemonic: Imagine a room full of beds with one leg missing the bed lame is general confusion Example: It was Bedlam at our house on the morning of the wedding.

Form: adj Tone: Neg

The adjective tumultuous means "disruptive," "troubled," "disorderly," or "turbulent."

Mnemonic: billowing waves and turbulences Example: It was a Tumultous time in her life


Use the noun turbulence to describe instability or disturbance. If youâ€™re on an airplane during a storm, turbulence is that horrible thing that is causing the plane (and your stomach) to bounce around.

Mnemonic: Imagine someone who has ants crawling all over their turban; the turban ants are in the state of being uncontrolled Example: a period of Turbulence in the country's history


Upheaval means a violent or sudden change. You might talk about an upheaval in government following an election where many incumbents are replaced.

Mnemonic: Making an evil version of the movie up - making up evil - would be a drastic change in the movie Example: I cannot face the Upheaval of moving house again

Bedlam


Tumultous


Turbulence

REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS

Upheaval

WITHOUT DECEPTION

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Meaning To be artful is to do something skillfully, especially in a cunning way. A con man must be artful.

Mnemonic: spell it "art of fool(ing)" i.e in a cunning way Example: He was Artful and cunning, and didn't really trust him.


If a politician pretends to be angry as a way of rousing the anger of the voters and getting more votes, he's guilty of artifice - a subtle and crafty trick.

Mnemonic: sounds like artificial fish which is nothing but a trick. Example: Pretending to faint was merely an Artifice.


Ever paid a restaurant bill only to discover they charged you for stuff you never had? What they did was bilk you â €” cheat you out of money that was justly yours. Shady companies are forever bilking their investors.

Mnemonic: milk~ similary milk suppliers add water to cheat us Example: a con man who Bilked investors out of millions of dollars


Have you ever gotten the sense that politicians or corporate leaders will say anything to turn public opinion their way? This tricky kind of deceit and manipulation is called chicanery.

Mnemonic: She can be tricky! Example: It can take several hours in large counties for the ballots to reach the counting station, giving ample opportunity for Chicanery.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If people call you crafty, they Mnemonic: probably mean you are sly Example: He's a and a little deceptive. Then Crafty old devil again, they could be saying that you are really good at knitting, beading or turning old t-shirts into funky pillowcases.


A dupe is a furry, ceremonial hat occasionally worn during ancient pagan rituals... or not. Dupe actually means â €œtrick or deceive.â€ Weâ €™re sorry we tried to dupe you into believing the wrong definition.

Example: They soon realized they had been Duped.


When you finagle, you get out of something using devious methods, like when you pretend you're sick to

Mnemonic: it is very difficult to have an ANGLE in FINLAND,BY ANY TRICKS.

Artful

CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS

Artifice

DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY

Bilk

QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY

Chicanery

VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION

Crafty

Dupe

Finagle

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

avoid taking a pop quiz.

Example: He Finagled some tickets for tonight's big game.


You can also use fleece in an informal way to mean cheating someone.

Mnemonic: colleges are PLUNDERING in the form of Fleece(FEES) and capitation Example: Some local stores have been fleecing tourists


Use the noun guile for cunning, craftiness, and artful duplicity. Acting like you have a job on Wall Street when you're actually unemployed would take a lot of guile.

Mnemonic: Chris Gayle is a Guile cricketer. Example: George was a man completely lacking in Guile


Your little brother might be a gull if you can trick him into doing your chores along with his own.

Example: The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone", "You can't fool me!"


To hoodwink someone means to trick or mislead them. Beware of fake ATMs that try to hoodwink you into giving over your bank card and your code, only to keep them both and steal all your money.

Mnemonic: To place a hood over someone's head and make them wink (close) their eyes is to Hoodwink or trick them Example: She was Hoodwinked into buying a worthless necklace


To swindle is to cheat or steal. You can swindle money, goods, ideas, and anything else that can be stolen, but be careful, because someone can also swindle you.

Mnemonic: Movie the Great Swindle. Example: They Swindled him out of hundreds of dollars

Form: adj Tone: neg

Did you fall for that wily door to door salesman's pitch? He must be very slick and tricky to have convinced you to buy a set of new tires, considering you don't have a car.

Mnemonic: Wily=WILling to trick people what anyone wants to have Example: The boss is a Wily old fox.

Fleece

Guile

Gulled

Hoodwink

Swindle

Wily

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


The hurricane battered the coast, causing the city to flood, and tens of thousands of people were stranded without food or water. When an event causes great suffering, we call it a cataclysm.

Mnemonic: The clysm part of Cataclysm comes from the Greek word meaning â€œto wash,â€ so Cataclysm's original meaning was â €œflood, deluge". Example: to survive the Cataclysm of the Black Death


A catastrophe is a disaster. If a wedding reception is disrupted by a fistfight between the bride and her new mother-in-law, you could call the occasion a catastrophe.

Mnemonic: Cats as astronauts will create Catastrophe in the space. Example: Early warnings of rising water levels prevented another major Catastrophe


A coup is a pretty major achievement, whether it involves taking over a government by force, or landing a major business contract.

Mnemonic: Coup sounds like Cop( Police), they do sudden attack (encounter), which is often a successful action too! Example: he seized power in a military coup in 2008


Use debacle to refer to a violent disaster or a great failure. If the flower gardens come toppling down during prom, strangling some students and tripping others, you might call the evening a debacle.

Root: DE refers to DOWN or AWAY

BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION

Cataclysm

CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE

Catastrophe

PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-)

Coup (X)

VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION

Debacle

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ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Tone: neg

A desperado is an outlaw that you'd see in an old Western or in the Wild West. Think hip holsters, spinning guns, and a shoot-out, all with a bandanna pulled up hiding half of the face of the desperado.

Mnemonic: When somebody is Desperate, he can go to the extent of indulging in violent act. Example: Payne is described as a worthless loafer and Desperado.


Technically, a felon is anyone who's been convicted of a serious crime, but you can use felon to describe anyone you think has done something terrible.

Mnemonic: A person who FEL (fell) ON a road of decency and became a criminal (Felon). Example: A convicted Felon loses the right to vote


A hooligan is a rowdy person Example: Hooligans who causes trouble for vandalizing the others. Hooligans are similar neighbourhood to bullies and thugs.


If it's threatening you or otherwise posing some sort of danger, then it's a menace. Angry rabid dogs, smog clouds, and annoying little brothers are all probable menaces.

Mnemonic: If a man is an ace at what he does..he is Menace to you. Example: a new initiative aimed at beating the Menace of illegal drugs


A miscreant is a person who is badâ€“-who lies, breaks the law, yells at small puppies. It's a somewhat old-fashioned word, popular with old ladies shocked at having their purses stolen at the opera.

Mnemonic: Imagine dr. frankenstein miscreated a person who behaves badly Example: Some Miscreants uprooted all the plants in our colony last night. Root: Mis is to HATE


A rogue is a sneaky person who has tricks up their sleeves, not like a magician, but like someone who would steal your wallet or cheat at cards.

Mnemonic: Someone who ROb his own GUEsts is a Rogue Example: Many of the vagabonds were Rogues and cheaters of various kinds, and formed a sub community on the fringes of official society.


A ruffian is a bully, someone Mnemonic: Don't get who is violent toward others. on the wrong side of

Desperado

CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER

Felon

IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS

Hooligan

REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-)

Menace

VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Miscreant

Rogue

Ruffian


Scoundrel

Maybe they had a bad childhood, or perhaps they like the sound of people in pain. No matter where they come from, ruffians are best avoided.

rough ian because he's a petty criminal and will probably beat you up and take your lunch money. Example: a gang of young Ruffians.

A scoundrel is a person who does deliberately evil things. If your brother hides a fake mouse in your shoe and you therefore almost have a heart attack while getting dressed, you have every right to call him a scoundrel.

Mnemonic: An irresponsible driller on an oil rig will clean himself with the drill, turning it into a scouring drill Example: The Scoundrel who killed her made good his escape eight full hours before the police had any knowledge of the crime.

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Example: You have no reason to be Apprehensive about the future

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you think public officials are nothing but a bunch of greedy buffoons, you have a cynical attitude about politics.

Mnemonic: A talk show: 'sin call', where people phone in with their sins and the hosts exhibit moral skepticism Example: Do you have to be Cynical about everything?

Form: adj Tone: neg

Choose the adjective dubious for something you have doubts about or you suspect is not true. That bridge you just "bought" might be of dubious value.

Mnemonic: The duo of bees were somewhat doubtful that this whole wasphoney thing was for real Example: I was pretty Dubious about the whole idea

Form: adj Tone: neg

subject to question

Example: The conclusion that they may come are highly Questionable

Form: adj Tone: neg

If a friend told you that her family was perfect and they never had any problems, would you believe her? If not, you may be skeptical. Skeptical people look at the world with a certain amount of doubt.

Example: I am Skeptical about his chances of winning

CHAOS / CONFUSION COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS

Cynical

DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS

Dubious

REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY

Questionable


Mnemonic/Example

If you're apprehensive, you're anxious or fearful. If you just got run over by a crazy bicyclist, you might be a bit apprehensive crossing the street.

Apprehensive

CHEAT / DECEIVE

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

Skeptical

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Meaning someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being

Mnemonic: al+trust : a person who is trusted by all as he does good deeds for welfare of others Example: Politicians are not necessarily motivated by pure altruism.


Every school, museum, and struggling artist is in search for a generous benefactor, or someone to provide the financial means to keep everything running smoothly.

Mnemonic: bene is a root word which means good.. bene+factor i.e some good factors like money, help. Example: He is a generous Benefactor.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Beneficent is the type of act that helps others. If you're a beneficent person, you probably spend a lot of your time volunteering at soup kitchens or homeless shelters, helping people who are less fortunate than you are.

Mnemonic: one who thinks about the benefits of others. Example: the benificent power of nature

Form: adj Tone: pos

Choose the adjective benevolent for someone who does good deeds or shows goodwill. If your teacher collects homework with a benevolent smile, she's hoping that you've done a good job.

Example: belief in the existence of a Benevolent God! Root: BENE means GOOD

Form: adj Tone: pos

A humane person is one who shows great compassion and caring for others, including animals, and who tries whenever possible to alleviate another's suffering.

Mnemonic: HUMAN have sympathy for those who have suffered. Eg. We give charity for flood victims and all Example: Campaigners claim that the animals are not being kept in Humane condition

Form: adj Tone: pos

A magnanimous person has a generous spirit. Letting your little sister have the last of the cookies, even though you hadn't eaten since

Mnemonic: magnify is hugeâ€¦a big hearted person. Example: He was Magnanimous in defeat and praised his

Altruist


Benefactor

GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT

Beneficent

SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION

Benevolent

Humane

Magnanimous

Mnemonic/Example


breakfast, would be considered a magnanimous act.

opponent's skill

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you give your best friend a bracelet for her birthday, then youâ€™re a good friend. If you give her a diamond bracelet, a racehorse, and an oil well, then youâ€™re a munificent friend, meaning you are very lavish when it comes to giving gifts.

Mnemonic: you think of rishi - muni (sages), who are always generous in giving, will give you whatever you want Example: He enjoys being Munificent on a princely scale


A patron supports someone or something. A patron of a business supports the business by being a loyal customer. A patron of the arts helps support starving artists â €” financially, not with food rations.

Mnemonic: The boss thinks he is a Patron saint. Example: Peggy was the Patron of many artists


A philanthropist is a person who gives money or gifts to charities, or helps needy people in other ways. Famous examples include Andrew Carnegie and Bill & Melinda Gates.

Mnemonic: Phil is Love and Anthrop means mankindâ€¦ So Love for mankind is what is shown by a Philanthropist Example: He was a wealthy businessman and philathropist Root: PHIL means LOVER OF, LIKE

Munificent

Patron

Philanthropist

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A charlatan is a quack, a person who is trying to deceive you with false claims. Beware of charlatans who try to sell you access to the fountain of youth or to a Ponzi scheme disguised as an exclusive investment fund.

Mnemonic: The guys on the Shopping Channel, who claim to give you rock hard abs on five minutes a day, are mostly Charlatans. Example: He knows nothing about medicine- he is a complete Charlatan.


A demagogue is someone who becomes a leader largely because of skills as a speaker or who appeals to emotions and prejudices.

Mnemonic: democracy+agog-an agog man leading democracy will only try to win peoples support by using unreasonable and emotional arguments Example: There will always be another video, book, or cartoon just waiting to be exploited by politically savvy Demagogues.


An imposter is a person who pretends to be someone else. Someone who tries to convince you that he's your long lost cousin in order to get an invitation to stay in your awesome apartment is an imposter.

Mnemonic: I+m+posterâ€”a person made a poster of himself with a celebrity showing every body that I AM in POSTER is a fraud person


There are good quacks and bad quacks. A good quack is the sound a duck makes. A bad quack is someone pretending to be a doctor.

Mnemonic: If someone tells you that he has the power to create an earth quake, he is certainly a Quack. Example: She exposed Dr Jones as a Quack


A shyster is someone who might rip you off or do something unethical in order to get his way.

Mnemonic: Shiny (Ahuja) is a star (Shyster), and you all know what he's done was unethical. Example: On L.A. Law, respectable attorney Brackman was horrified to learn

Charlatan

CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY

Demagogue

QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS

Imposter

WITHOUT DECEPTION

Quack

Shyster

that his newly discovered half brother was a cheap Shyster.

Swindler


If you know someone is a swindler, stay away from him. Swindlers are scammers who con people to make a buck.

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Mnemonic: Movie the great swindle Example: They swindled him out of hundreds of dollars.

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you see yellowish skies on a humid, spring evening in Kansas, it is entirely conceivable that a tornado is in the making. That is to say, it's imaginable or even possible, so make sure you take every conceivable precaution.

Mnemonic: read it as can + see + able = CAPABLE OF BEING IMAGINED Example: It is a Conceivable that I'll see her tomorrow

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone who's credible is honest and believable. A pathological liar, for example, might not be the most credible witness for your case against the bank robber.

Mnemonic: Credible sounds like Believable. Example: It is just not Credible that she would cheat. Root: CRED means BELIEVE

Form: adj Tone: pos

If something is feasible, then you can do it without too much difficulty. When someone asks "Is it feasible?" the person is asking if you'll be able to get something done.

Example: Its just not Feasible to manage the business on a part time basis

Form: adj Tone: pos

If something is plausible, it's reasonable or believable. Things that are plausible could easily happen. A woman becoming President is very plausible. A giraffe becoming President is not.

Mnemonic: Plausible rhymes with possible Example: Her story sounded perfectly Plausible

Form: adj Tone: pos

To describe a person or a solution that takes a realistic approach, consider the adjective pragmatic. The four-year-old who wants a unicorn for her birthday isn't being very pragmatic.

Mnemonic: PRA + gma + TIC = PRA + c + TIC + al Example: a Pragmatic approach to management problems

Form: adj Tone: pos

The adjective utilitarian describes something that is useful or functional. If you are attracted to a car for its storage space and gas mileage - as opposed to its sparkly tire rims - then chances are you value a car's utilitarian features.

Mnemonic: utility comes from usefulness. Example: this is a plain Utilitarian kitchenware


The adjective verisimilar describes something appears to be true or real,

Mnemonic: remember veriserum from Harry Potter

Conceivable


Credible


Feasible


Plausible


Pragmatic

Utilitarian

Verisimilar

Form: adj Tone: pos Viable

but may not be. If you want to impress your friends, remark on the verisimilar portrait of lost love in that foreign film you all went to see.

which makes you tell the truth even if you don't drink a drop of it Example: a Verisimilar tale Root: VER means TRUE.

When something is viable, the adjective refers to something workable with the ability to grow and function properly.

Mnemonic: vi(VIV=LIFE) + ABLE....so some one who is ABLE to live his LIFE. Example: this is a Viable option

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Hypocritical involves acting in a way that goes against your stated beliefs. If you drive drunk despite the fact that you are the president of Students Against Drunk Driving, you are truly hypocritical.

Mnemonic: A hippo who says 'i am very clean' but who lives in hippo grit is one who contradicts her own statements Example: Charles was a liar and a hypocrite who married her for money.


a person regarded as arrogant and annoying

Mnemonic: PIGGish people don't take much care on propriety but PrigGISH people do. Example: He was in danger of becoming Priggish and opinionated.


Use prude to describe someone who is too concerned with being proper or modest. It is a derogatory label affixed most often to girls or women who are not forthcoming romanticallyâ€“-it's not very nice.

Mnemonic: Can be thought as an antonym of CRUDE. Also, when crude oil is refined we get PURE oil and hence it can be called PURITAN also. Example: The people of the Victorian Age were such Prudes!

Form: adj Tone: neg

The sanctimonious person sounds like a hypocrite when he preaches to a friend about the evils of drugs, while he drinks one beer after another.

Mnemonic: Just because he SANCT (relate it to sanction)SOM MONEY to us don't mean he's all religious. Example: I wish she had stopped being Sanctimonious

CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER

Hypocritical

IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING

Prig

SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Prude

Sanctimonious

Mnemonic/Example

Cant is language Mnemonic: monks repeated so often and so will be ChANT ing mechanically that it's mantras . its known essentially empty of only for saints and meaning. monks Example: His speech was full of moral, religious and social Cant.

Cant

COUP

Meaning


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To abbreviate is to shorten. Words are often abbreviated, like when we say sked instead of schedule.

Mnemonic: abbreviate consists of brevity(means brief)..so the meaning would be 'to make brief' Example: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is Abbreviated to NASA.


So the editor wants to cut your epic 800-page history of the stapler to a 150page summary instead. Don't cry - he just wants to abridge your masterpiece, trimming it down to the more readable essential elements.

Mnemonic: a+bridge..well bridges are meant to reduce the gap between something..so abridging..something means reducing or shortening something. Example: She has been asked to Abridge the movie for television.


The noun brevity means shortness or conciseness. If you give a report on agriculture in the northern hemisphere in 3 minutes, you have done it with incredible brevity.

Mnemonic: brief + tea session,tea time is shortâ€¦ Example: Charles Dickens was not known for his Brevity


When you condense something, you cut it down and trim it. You may love every word of your 1000-page novel, but you'll have to condense the plot into a 2-page summary for your editor.

Mnemonic: Imagine a cone-shaped cloud: the cloud has cone dents where parts of it have changed from a gas into a liquid Example: Condense the soup by boiling it for several minutes.


Laconic is an adjective that describes a style of speaking or writing that uses only a few words, often to express complex thoughts and ideas. A more laconic way to write that last sentence might be this: laconic means brief.

Mnemonic: LAC..LACK, SO LACK OF WORDS in her speech, specify that she used very few words to portray her ideas. Example: a Laconic comment


Any word or sound made Example: Ralph grew up of just one syllable can increasingly

Abbreviated

CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY

Abridge

QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS

Brevity

WITHOUT DECEPTION

Condense

Laconic

Monosyllabic

be described with the adjective monosyllabic.

Monosyllabic as the evening progressed.


Reticent means either quiet or restrained. If you're reticent about your feelings, you like to keep them to yourself, and you're probably quiet in rowdy groups where everyone is talking over each other.

Mnemonic: Cent (Saint) is stereotypically reluctant to speak or draw attention to themselves. Example: She was shy and Reticent.


Something that is succinct is short and clear. If you're going to be interviewed on television about your new book and only have a five minute slot, you'll need to come up with a succinct version of your story.

Mnemonic: SUCK+INK brief/summary of story sucks less ink on the paper Example: Keep your answers as succint as possible


omit a sound or letter in a word

Example: The patterned holes in the paper kept coming and turned into Syncopated sweetness before your eyes. Root: SYN- means WITH,TOGETHER.


Someone who is taciturn is reserved, not loud and talkative. The word itself refers to the trait of reticence, of seeming aloof and uncommunicative. A taciturn person might be snobby, naturally quiet, or just shy.

Mnemonic: meaning of tacit = silent. so meaning of tacit + urn = Taciturn = silent person , untalkative Example: He Is a Taciturn and serious young man

Reticent

Succinct

Syncopate

Taciturn

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To recapitulate means to go back and summarize. At the end of an oral report, you might say, "So, to recapitulate, I've made three points," and then you name them.

Mnemonic: sounds like recap....if you have noticed , whenever you watch a serial ,before it starts they always give the recap of what happened the previous day Example: to Recapitulate briefly, the three main points are theseâ€¦ Root: Prefix RE means to REPEAT.


To regurgitate is to bring already swallowed food back up through one's throat and out the mouth. Not so nice in humans, much more understandable (if still gross) in birds - who feed their baby chicks by regurgitating.

Mnemonic: When you gargle you re(gurg)itate the water Example: For the exam, you must be able to Regurgitate the information Root: Prefix RE means to REPEAT.

Form: verb Tone: neutral

present or use over, with no or few changes

Example: He just Rehashes songs from the 60's Root: Prefix RE means to REPEAT.


To reiterate something is to say or do something again, or many times. Let me reiterate: if you repeat yourself, you're reiterating the thing you originally said.

Mnemonic: Break it like = Reiterate= RE+UTTER+IT i.e to say again Example: Let me Reiterate that we are fully committed to this policy Root: Prefix RE means to REPEAT.

BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE

Recapitulate

COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS

Regurgitate


Rehash

VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Reiterate

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Meaning Reserve abstemious for someone who exercises restraint, especially with regard to alcohol. A rock musician may sing about enjoying wine and women, but in his private life he may be abstemious.

Mnemonic: focus on 'abs' part of this word. Abs...To build a six-pack abs, eat and drink carefully Example: He was a hardworking man with Abstemious habits Root: AB means AWAY FROM


If you are a chocolate lover you'll have to show great restraint when the dessert cart rolls over if you are practicing abstinence, another word for "refraining." It might take a lot of willpower not to throw yourself at the cart.

Mnemonic: ABS THIN ence. A person maintained Abstinence when he restrained from pleasant things like food and drinks!!! Example: practicing Abstinence from chocolates is impossible for her.


When you abstain from pleasures of life, you're practicing celibacy.

Mnemonic: A CELIBATE is far from CELEBRATING life. Example: He has been celibate all his life


To stop yourself from saying or doing something that you could or would like to say or do

Mnemonic: We must be willing to wait patiently FOR the BEAR to leave as we stay tucked in a tight ball face down. Example: He wanted to answer back,but he forbore from doing so.


A moderate voter is someone who is politically speaking, in the center. In other words, they are not quite left or right, but somewhere in the middle

Example: He has Moderate salary demands


When someone burps in a quiet classroom it can be hard to refrain from laughing. Use the verb refrain if you have a sudden impulse to do something, and you have stopped yourself from doing it.

Mnemonic: refrain...we resist from getting wet in the "rain" in rainy season. Example: please Refrain from smoking

Abstemious

CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE

Abstinence

PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING

Celibacy

SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Forbear

Moderate

Refrain

Mnemonic/Example



Temperate means mild, moderate. If you're a temperate person, you are calm, reasonable. If you live in a temperate climate it's warm and sunny, but not too hot.

Mnemonic: Temperateâ€¦he has taken over his temper, that is have controlled it Example: He is Temperate in his eating and drinking


Indulge is a verb that means "to give in to something," like when you indulge your craving for chocolate by eating a big piece of it.

Example: They went into town to indulge in some serious shopping

Temperate

X Indulge

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When heated, coals become incandescent, which means that they glow red-hot. When you're heated up by an argument, chances are you're incandescent with, or characterized by the intense emotion of frustration.

Mnemonic: IN the LIGHT of the SCENTED CANDLE.. Example: an Incandescent musical performance


Iridescent is an adjective that means lustrous and pearly, giving off a brilliant sheen like an oil slick or, well, a pearl.

Mnemonic: irid means iris and iris helps us distinguish colours Example: a bird with iridiscent bright colors

Form: adj Tone: pos

Luminous means full of or giving off light. During the winter holidays, with all their emphasis on light, you can see luminous displays of candles everywhere.

Mnemonic: remember Luminous INVERTERS ad by dhoni...brightful Example: he was staring with large Luminous eyes

Form: adj Tone: pos

In shampoo commercials, the hair you see swinging is lustrous. It is brilliant, in the shiny sense.

Mnemonic: luster means shinny. Example: she has thick Lustrous hair


If you're familiar with the way that the gemstone opal shimmers like a pearl, then you'll understand that something opalescent reflects the light in the same way.

Mnemonic: opal comes from iris.. which is the part of the eye..eyes helps us experience colors.. and Opalescent means lustrour colors.. Example: the pearls had an Opalescent luster

Form: adj Tone: pos

If someone tells you that you have refulgent eyes, they mean that your eyes shine brightly, like the stars. This suggests that your special someone is the poetic type, since refulgent is a literary way of saying "bright."

Mnemonic: Refulgent sounds like detergent.. use detergent to make things shine Example: the Refulgent sun

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something scintillating is flashing briefly and sharply with light. Scintillating conversations are smart and captivating.

Mnemonic: Scintillating === ILLUMINATING Example: this was a Scintillating

Incandescent

CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL

Iridescent


Luminous

REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-)

Lustrous

VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION

Opalescent

Refulgent

Scintillating

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Meaning extravagant elaborateness

Mnemonic: flamboyant ~ flame + boy; imagine a boy wearing a T-shirt with pictures of flame on it. will it not be flamboyant? Example: he was flamboyant on and off the stage.


Flaunt is "to display proudly or show off," like when you flaunt your new Italian leather jacket by wearing it to the beach and pretending you're cold to make sure everyone sees it.

Mnemonic: Flaunt >Friend's aunt; my Friend's aunt always Flaunts. Example: he did not believe in Flaunting his wealth.

Form: adj Tone: neg

You've got big plans. Huge plans. Whatever it is, it's going to blow minds and absolutely rock worlds! Well, to some people those plans might sound a bit grandiose.

Mnemonic: Grandiose=Grand+Expose. Think of it as IMPRESSIVELY HUGE assets which are RIDICULOUSLY EXAGGERATED but they are fake Example: he could no longer live the Grandiose lifestyle to which he had become accustomed

Form: adj Tone: neg

Reach for the adjective ostentatious when you want a flashy way to say - well, "flashy" or "showy."

Mnemonic: Ostentatious....read it as Stuntatious....Stunts...you perform stunts to attract attention, showy. Example: she wore Ostentatious gold jewelry

Flamboyance


Flaunt

GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING

Grandiose

SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Ostentatious

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Mnemonic/Example


Sobriety is the state of being sober, which can mean either not intoxicated or being solemn. If he takes a drink, an alcoholic ends a stretch of sobriety. You might note sobriety in the stands when your team is losing.

Mnemonic: sounds like SOBER Example: She was a model of honesty and sobriety


Bedizen means to decorate yourself or something else to the max - in an over-thetop flashy style. Picture big jewels and gold bling.

Mnemonic: Bedizen can be remembered as 'bad design dress' Example: i told it would be a disaster to let your mother decorate this place, just look how she has Bedizened it.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the adjective garish to describe something that is overly vivid, bright, showy, and in bad taste - like the DJ's garish outfit that is a flashback to the disco era.

Mnemonic: Imagine if someone GARNISHES too oddly ! puts everything, and makes it gaudy ! Example: this dress is a little to garisg for my taste

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that's gaudy is Example: she always showy, bright and wears Gaudy colors. definitely tacky. So think twice about that gaudy rainbow-colored suit and shiny gold shoes ensemble.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Have you ever heard the phrase "fake it until you make it"? That is advice that encourages you to be meretricious, pretending to be something you aren't, like the meretricious flaunting of gigantic fake diamond earrings, pretending they are real â €” and tha

Mnemonic: Meretricious = Mere + Tricious. 'Mere' means trifle or something less important Example: Bill has been involved in several Meretricious relations

Form: adj Tone: neg

Tawdry means cheap, shoddy, or tasteless. It can be used to describe almost anything from clothes to people to even events or affairs.

Mnemonic: ORIGINALLY THE WORD IS DERIVED FROM AUDRYLACE,A PLACE IN BRITAIN WHERE CHEAP AND SHOWY LACE(PROB OF SHOES) WERE SOLD Example: She wore

(X) Sobriety

CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER

Bedizen

IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT

Garish

SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS

Gaudy

WITHOUT DECEPTION

Meretricious

Tawdry

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Meaning A garrulous person just wonâ€™t stop talking (and talking, and talking, and talking...).

Mnemonic: "Girls, rule us!" They rule us in their ability to talk non-stop about any topic. Example: He became positively Garrulous whenever extremely happy


A loquacious person talks a lot, often about stuff that only they think is interesting. You can also call them chatty or gabby, but either way, they're loquacious.

Mnemonic: it is derived from the root word 'loqua'... which refers to SPEECH or TALK Example: She is a Loquacious lady who never runs out of stories to tell. Root: LOQ means SPEAK


A book that feels like it is several hundred pages longer than it needs to be is prolix. The word simply means that something has too many words and goes on too long.

Mnemonic: Prolix=prolonged +lexico graphy Example: a Prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know


Verbiage is what it sounds like - a lot of words: verbs, nouns, adjectives and all the other parts of speech. Usually, verbiage means a few too many words - like the excessive verbiage in a legal document.

Mnemonic: relate it to verbose! Example: use concise military Verbiage


Verbose describes a person, speech, or piece of writing that uses many words, usually more words than necessary. If you talk too much, you can be described as verbose, and so can your history paper if you didn't do the research and are just tried to take

Mnemonic: VER for verbal BOSE for boss; so you may say that your boss is excessively verbal or talkitive. Example: She is a Verbose speaker


Voluble describes someone who talks a lot, like your aunt who canâ€™t stop telling you to cut your hair or a political candidate who makes twenty speeches on the day before the election.

Mnemonic: Remember "volume" in TV controls. It's related to sound. This Voluble is also related to speaking. Example: Evelyn was very Voluble on the

Garrulous

CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER

Loquacious

IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL

Prolix

SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION

Verbiage

Verbose

Voluble

Mnemonic/Example


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ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP

DOUBTFUL

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Yes, artless could mean lacking in art, but more often it means lacking in superficiality or deceit. An artless person could never make a living as a con artist.

Mnemonic: art + less, without having any art(skill) Example: the Artless sincerity of a young child


Credence means truthfulness, or believability. A video of a funnel cloud entering Central Park would give credence to rumors of a tornado in Manhattan.

Mnemonic: Credence: imagine that a shopkeeper is giving you credit because he has confidence in you, that you would return it someday Example: They could give no credence to the findings of the survey

Form: adj Tone: pos

People who believe things easily without having to be convinced are credulous. Sales people are always hoping that someone credulous picks up the phone during a sales call.

Mnemonic: Relate the word Credulous to Credibility (bearing truth) Example: He is Credulous on the one hand and intensely loyal on the other.


A dupe is a furry, ceremonial Example: They soon hat occasionally worn during realized they had ancient pagan rituals... or been Duped not. Dupe actually means â €œtrick or deceive.â€ Weâ €™re sorry we tried to dupe you into believing the wrong definition.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you are guileless, you are not a liar; you are innocent, and you might be a touch on the gullible side.

Mnemonic: "guile" means to decieve guile+less means no deception, only honesty. Example: She had the Guileless innocence of a child.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you are gullible, the joke is on you because you are easily fooled.

Mnemonic: Gullible = Gull + ible = girl/galli + able A girl who is able to be tricked or deceived easily Example: the advertisement is aimed at Gullible young women worried about their

Artless

CHAOS / CONFUSION

CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS

Relation to Group

Credence/ Credible

GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT

Credulous

SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS

Dupe

WITHOUT DECEPTION

Guileless

Gullible

weight Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone who is ingenuous shows a childlike innocence, trust, and openness. One of the things kindergarten teachers value is the chance to work with kids while they're still relatively ingenuousâ€“-their open, trusting natures are a joy.

Mnemonic: In genuine relationship people are naive and trusting to each other. Example: You are too Ingenuous. Root: In means NOT

Form: adj Tone: pos

No one likes being called naive, since it means you lack sophistication or street smarts.

Mnemonic: sounds as "naya", some one who is new is inexperienced Example: I can't believe you were so NaÃ¯ve as to trust him.

Ingenuous

NaÃ¯ve

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ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X)

Relation to Group

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: noun Tone: Neutral

a hermit is someone who likes to be alone, far from the crowd because of religious beliefs.

Mnemonic: The root of the word is the Greek eremos, meaning â €œsolitary.â€ Hermit does not permit a social life. Example: It was an attempt to live by himself and to himself, in fact, to turn modern Hermit.

Form: noun Tone: Negative/ Neutral

People who are isolated are completely cut off from the rest of the world.

Mnemonic: Isolation sounds like solo or aloneâ€¦sounds like I (me) - solation- solo. So, I am solo or alone Example: Many unemployed people experience feelings of Isolation and depression. Root: prefix ISO means EQUAL.


when a person avoids others company or assistance we call him a Loner.

Mnemonic: Loner sounds like lonely and it means the same. Example: I am a Loner by nature, love to keep to myself.

Form: noun Tone: Negative/ Neutral

A recluse lives alone, works alone, eats alone, and generally stays away from other people.

Mnemonic: Think of the Brown Recluse spider, who likes to hide out in dark old boots or undisturbed corners of the basement. re- means again, claudere means to shut. Example: Reclusion from the crowd seems soothing at time but one cannot live in that, all alone all the time.

Form: verb Tone: Negative/ Neutral

when you seclude others, you separate them from other people.

Mnemonic: The root is Latin, Secludere, which means "shut off' from se, "apart" and cludere, "to shut." OR think like this: Se means apart from and clude sounds like include..so not including oneself Example: After Mr. Parkâ€™s death, praising him was taboo, and his daughter, who never married, has lived a Secluded life.

Form: adj Tone: Negative/ Neutral

If you are a lone wolf, a rugged individualist, an island unto yourself you prefer to be solitary or alone.

Mnemonic: Solitary comes to us from the Latin solus, which means alone. Note its similarity to words like solo which means Solitary or alone. Example: She enjoys long Solitary walks.

Hermit

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY

Isolation

HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT

Loner

INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED

Recluse

RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK

Seclude

UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING

Solitary

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: Negative

to be extremely careless. A paperclip chain used as a bike lock? That would be an example of lax security.

Mnemonic: Lax sounds like LaxUS, which in Latin means Loose. It can also be remembered as a RELaxED attitude. Example: The entire class performed incredibly well on the test, largely due to the sleepy professor's Lax supervision


You can be negligent at work if you let the work pile up while you play computer games.

Mnemonic: Negligent comes from the Latin word neglegentia, meaning "carelessness." Example: Fining Negligent smokers can reduce the number of smokers in public.


If it's your turn to bring in the coffee and donuts for your early morning meeting, and you forget, then your co-workers can say that you were remiss in fulfilling your responsibility

Mnemonic: Remiss sounds like you missed doing something again. Example: We were Remiss in not sending thank-you notes for our wedding gifts


when someone does something in a slipshod manner they do it in a way that is careless and sloppy.

Mnemonic: An easy way to remember the meaning of Slipshod is to note that "shod" (inferior in quality) is part of "shoddy," a shoddy slipper led to an acute foot pain. Example: The crops are gathered in the same Slipshod way. How do we get profits from it?

Form: adj Tone: Neutral

That teacher's demands are stringent - she wants the homework typed in her favorite font, on special paper, and each essay must be exactly 45 lines!

Mnemonic: Stringent sounds like ASTRINGENT, which we use if we have pimples on the face. Applying an astringent tightens the pores and lessen the pimples. Strict is being stringent. Example: Stringent safety procedures prevent accidents in a dangerous work environment.

Lax

EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION

Negligent

INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY

Remiss

OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY

Slipshod

TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING

Stringent X

Legends: X

: Antonyms

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Gurgaon

Ruchir Arya



Vocabulary

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Words

ALONE / LONELY CARELESS

Affirm

CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: verb Tone: Neutral

Relation to Group

To affirm something is to give it a big "YES" or to confirm that it is true.

Mnemonic: Affirm sounds like Confirm Example: I can Affirm that no one will lose their job.


Ascertain is a verb that means to find out something. You might have to go to the bank to ascertain if there is any money in your account.

Mnemonic: As Certain as ever! Example: A great detective must always Ascertain his beliefs.


To aver is to declare something is true or to state. This verb has a serious tone, so you might aver something on a witness stand or you might aver that you won't back down to a challenge.

Mnemonic: A VERy confident statement! Example: She Averred that she had never seen the man before.


When you avow something, you say it openly for the whole world to hear. If you're a witness in a trial, you'll be asked to take an oath in which you'll avow that you'll tell the truth.

Mnemonic: A: VOW Example: They Avowed their undying love for each other.


"I proclaim the Olympic Games open." Every two years with words similar to these, the Olympic games officially begin. To proclaim is to exclaim or declare.

Mnemonic: Sounds like claim Example: The day was Proclaimed a public holiday.


Sometimes someone in power might decide to give up that power and step down from his or her position. When they do that, they abdicate their authority, giving up all duties and perks of the job.

Mnemonic: abdicate sounds like dictate, with a twist in the meaning. Dictate is to Rule and Abdicate is to give up that rule Example: Sonia Gandhi abdicated the position of Prime Minister and surprised the whole world Root: AB refers to AWAY FROM.

Form: verb Tone: Positive

Abjure means to swear Mnemonic: If your abs feel off, and it applies to pain, you might want to something you once forgo that intensive ab

Ascertain

EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION

Aver

INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED

Avow

RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY

Proclaim


X Abdicate

believed. You can abjure a religious faith, you can abjure your love of another person, and you can abjure the practice of using excessive force in interrogation.

workout. Example: When the five year old got abs injured his mother advised that he forgo his thousand situps a day Root: AB refers to AWAY FROM.

Form: verb Tone: Negative

The verb abnegate means to deny or renounce something. Scientists abnegate the existence of little green spacemen from Mars.

Mnemonic: ab-Negate, Negate means to reject or to stop something from happening. Example: The king abnegated his power to the ministers. Root: AB refers to AWAY FROM.


To cede is to give up or surrender land, position, or authority.

Example: Cuba was ceded by Spain to the US in 1898.


To forsake another person is to leave them entirely, usually in a moment of need.

Mnemonic: for- expresses negativity, sake means in the interest of; forsake means to abandon Example: She promised his wife that he will never forsake her.


To forswear is to give up an idea, belief, or habit that youâ€™ve had previously. New Yearâ€™s is a popular time to forswear anything from sweets to bad relationships.

Mnemonic: I Swear to forgo all fatty sweets and look slim and trim all my life. Example: He foreswore cigarettes as his New Year's resolution.


If you relinquish something, you let it go. You relinquish control of the army when you resign as general. Your relinquish your plan to sneak into town when your parents find out what's going on.

Mnemonic: Relin(Release)+quish(wish); So release ur wish Example: He was forced to relinquish control of the company.


To renounce is to officially give up or turn away from. People on a diet usually renounce pizza and chocolate cake, for example.

Mnemonic: Satyam announce to renounce Ramalinga Raju Example: Will James renounce his throne in favor of his son? Root: RE refers to AGAIN or BACK.

X Abjure

X Abnegate

X Cede

X Forsake

X Forswear

X Relinquish

X Renounce

Legends: X

: Antonyms

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Jamboree



Vocabulary

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Words


Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: Positive

Relation to Group

An impervious surface is one that can't be penetrated. The word is often followed by "to," as in "His steely personality made him impervious to jokes about his awful haircut."

Mnemonic: IMmeans not, pervius means having a way through; impervious means impenetrable. Example: She is impervious or not affected by criticism. Root: IM means NOT


The path of least resistance is where you'll find prone: it refers to whatever you're likely to do.

Mnemonic: Pro+One: liking towards one. Example: People with fair skin who sunburn easily are very Prone to develop skin cancer.

Form: n Tone: Negative

It can mean "to make someone do something," as in "Don't let your dad subject you to an hour-long lecture on fishing."


If you are susceptible to something such as infections or earaches, it means you are likely to become sick with these things.

Mnemonic: Susceptible sounds like suspect, so suspected to be easily influenced by someone. Example: Salt intake may lead to high blood pressure in Susceptible adults.


Use the adjective vulnerable to describe something or someone open to being physically or emotionally wounded, like a newborn chick or an overly sensitive teenager.

Mnemonic: In Latin, vulnerare means to wound; able to be wounded or woundable. Example: In cases of food poisoning, young children are especially Vulnerable.

Impervious (X)

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Prone IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD

Subject to

IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET

Susceptible

TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION

Vulnerable

WISE, SHORT SAYING

Legends: X

: Antonyms

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India

Jamboree



Vocabulary

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Words


Relation to Group

Meaning Window shopping and scanning the newspaper for interesting headlines are forms of browsing.

Mnemonic: browse means the same as peruse. Example: There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing.


Traditionally, peruse has meant to read or examine something carefully. If you are visiting a library or a bookstore, you might find yourself perusing the shelves.

Mnemonic: Peruse is like read as per use. To read what is required. Example: A copy of the report is available for you to Peruse at your leisure. Root: Prefix PER means THROUGH


examine carefully.

Mnemonic: When you pore yourself completely over something and you are hell bent on understanding the concepts. Example: His lawyers are poring over the fine print in the contract.


If you want to examine something closely and go over every single detail, then you should scrutinize it. Like the way your mom probably assesses your outfit before you leave the house for a party.

Mnemonic: Scrutiny is known to all of us. Example: She leaned forward to Scrutinize their faces.

Browse#

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Peruse IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY

Pore Over

OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY

Mnemonic/Example


Scrutinize

TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING Legends: X

: Antonyms

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Jamboree



Vocabulary

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Words


Relation to Group

Mnemonic: back to school time activities: act out the name of a movie using hands only.sign language. Example: Let's play Charades.


When you gesticulate, you make sweeping and excited movements with your hands when speaking. Someone describing a scary car accident might gesticulate wildly.

Mnemonic: latin, gestus means action. Example: She was shouting and gesticulating from the other side of the road.


A mime is a performer who uses exaggerated facial expressions and body movements - instead of words - to communicate with his audience.

Mnemonic: consider 'Mime' as short-form of mimicry without words Example: The actor mimicked the President very accurately Root: Mime is to COPY.

Form: noun Tone: neutral

If you make a motion with your hands to indicate eating ice cream, you are using pantomime.Parents often use this wordless communication to try to keep things from the kids. Unfortunately, the kids usually catch on quickly especially if there is ice cre

Mnemonic: Tushaar Kapoor performs a Pantomime in Golmaal movies Example: This is a magical tale told through Pantomime and song

EASILY AFFECTED EXPRESS USING GESTURES

Gesticulate

FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD

Mime

IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY

Mnemonic/Example

A charade is something done just for show. Your devotion to vegetarianism would be a charade if you actually ate cheeseburgers when no one was looking.

Charade

EXAMINE CAREFULLY

Meaning


Pantomime

TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING Legends: X

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India

Jamboree



Vocabulary

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Words


Relation to Group

Meaning If the adjective affable applies to you, it means that you are friendly and pleasant. A snarling junkyard dog is not affable.

Mnemonic: Arrange this word like this: Aff for affection and able. So a person who is capable of being affectionate is Affable. Example: Mr Brook is an extremely Affable and approachable person.


Someone showing aloofness might be shy, or just really doesn't want to be around people.

Mnemonic: Aloof is away from crowd. Example: My nervousness expressed itself as aloofness: overly judgmental, overly cool

Form: adj Tone: positive

A friendly, pleasant person could be described as amiable.

Mnemonic: The Prefix AM refers to Love. So a person who has a loving attitude and is friendly should be Amiable. Example: Two Amiable people who no longer want to be married to one another might have an amicable divorce. Root: prefix AM means LOVE.


Amicable is being friendly.

Mnemonic: The Prefix AM refers to Love. So a person who has a loving attitude and is friendly should be Amicable. Example: The end of a romantic relationship that's less than Amicable might involve broken dishes or broken bones. Root: prefix AMI means LOVE

Form: noun Tone: positive

a feeling of friendship and trust among people who work or spend a lot of time together

Mnemonic: break it up into Camara + de + rie.. you give or share your room with your friends with whom you have mutual trust.. goodfellowship. Example: The games are designed to differentiate the line between competition and Camaraderie.


ready to accept and doing what others

Mnemonic: Compliansance sounds like

Affable

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY

Aloof (X)

HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED

Amiable

OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY

Mnemonic/Example


Amicable


Camaraderie

want you to do.

Comply which means to agree to everyones opinion. Example: She was a complaisant wife and dutiful daughter. Root: COM means TOGETHER.


If you're trying to decide which of your friends to take on a road trip, choose the most congenial one. Definitely like minded and friendly.

Mnemonic: conmeans together, genialis means nuptial, productive; Congenial means goodhumored Example: It always feels great to work in a Congenial environment. Root: Con means TOGETHER.


If someone is called 'life of the party' she can be called convival.

Mnemonic: Con' means together, and VIV means lively. So when together you call for a lively environment with your friends, its called Convivial Example: She is a woman of convival nature, very fun loving. Root: Con means TOGETHER.


Use cordial to describe a greeting or relationship that is friendly and sincere.

Mnemonic: You can relate it to 'chord' that joins/connects two people, and hence calls for a Cordial relation. Example: Justice Thomas did not address the controversy directly, but he said relationships on the court are Cordial.

Form: verb Tone: positive

You many not realise it, but when you hang out with your buds, your fraternize. That is you associate in a friendly manner.

Mnemonic: fraternity comes from the Latin word, Fraternus, which means brotherly. Example: The recession has created an atmosphere where disparate groups fraternise in an atmosphere of mutual support.


If you're friendly and outgoing, you're genial. You can be a genial host or a genial guest.

Mnemonic: Genial sounds like Genuinely Friendly. Example: Bob was always Genial and welcoming , a warm hearted Genial host


If you know someone who's outgoing, sociable, and fond of the company of others, you might want to call her gregarious.

Mnemonic: it's from the Latin word grex, meaning "herd (animals that live in groups)." Not surprisingly, people began using it to describe humans who liked being in groups. Example: She is very outgoing and Gregarious.

Complaisance

Congenial

Convivial

Cordial

Fraternize

Genial

Gregarious

Legends: X

: Antonyms

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India

Jamboree



Vocabulary

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Words


Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

Camouflage is to hide, like the leafcolored and patterned uniforms worn by soldiers who want to blend in with their natural surroundings.

Mnemonic: Camouflage is in relation to a chameleon (lizard) who keeps changing its colors according to sorroundings and to hide from the enemy. Example: The leopard's spots act as (a) Camouflage.


An over-sized, dark raincoat you wear when you don't want your friends to see you're going to the movies without them., is a Cloak.

Mnemonic: If you were a famous person who wanted to go out alone, you might Cloak your identity with a Cloak. Example: Cloaking an issue never helps you get rid of it, you should face it.


To dissemble is to pretend that you don't know something, to pretend that you think one way when you act another way.

Mnemonic: If you don't want to re-semble (to look like someone else) yourself, dis-semble (hide your identity) yourself. Example: She was a very honest person who was incapable of dissembling.


For a more formal way to say pretend to or imitate, choose the verb feign.

Mnemonic: Feign sounds like Fake and the meaning remains the same. Example: â€œA present for me?â€ she asked with Feigned surprise.


Guise, a noun, is the art of pretending to be something you aren't, like when, in the guise of an invited guest, you fake your way into the party of the century.

Mnemonic: Guise sounds like disGuise. Both means the art of hiding Example: The story appears in different Guises in different cultures.

Form: adv Tone: Neutral

When you want to do something and not be recognized, go incognito - hiding your true identity.

Mnemonic: consider the word RECOGNITiOn. Incognito can be remembered as IN(-ve prefix)+rRECOGNITiOn, i.e avoiding recognition among the public and to do that you conceal your identity o name. Example: Movie stars often prefer to travel Incognito. Root: COG meanS to KNOW.

Camouflage

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Cloak IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED

Dissemble

OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET

Feign

TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION

Guise

WISE, SHORT SAYING

Incognito


If you masquerade as a sweet, kindhearted person, you present that image to the world, hiding your true identity as a jerk who has rage issues.

Mnemonic: Maquerade sounds like mask. To hide behind a mask. Example: He was tired of the Masquerade and wanted the truth to come out.


The fog might shroud the valley, or that long-sleeved, anklelength dress might shroud the tan you worked so hard on in Mexico over Christmas break.

Mnemonic: Shroud sounds like crowd. Like a crowd covers a place which would otherwise be silent and vacant, a Shroud is used to cover up a place or thing. Example: The organization is cloaked in a Shroud of secrecy


A travesty is a silly imitation, like a tall young man dressed up like a little old lady

Mnemonic: In Latin, transmeans over, vestire means to clothe; in French, travesti means dressed in disguise; Travesty means an outrageous injustice Example: The trial was a Travesty of justice.

Masquerade

Shroud

Travesty

Legends: X

: Antonyms

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India

Jamboree



Vocabulary

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Words


Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

In contemporary usage, burlesque is a ironic style of entertainment dating back to medieval times.

Mnemonic: if you want to ridicule Barclay's premier league than you can write Burlesque premier league. Example: So now it is time to consider better ways to accomplish these goals, ways that don't turn the appointment system into Burlesque.


When you emulate someone, you imitate them, especially with the idea of matching their success.

Mnemonic: Our friend, the late emu, (emu-late) sadly died while trying to imitate the flight of an eagle Example: She hopes to Emulate her sister's athletic achievements.


A mimic is someone who is good at imitating others. A gifted mimic might be able to imitate one president after another just by minimally changing facial expression and manner of speaking.

Mnemonic: Mimicry Example: He Mimicked Rajnikanth in the class


A parody is a humorous or mocking imitation of something, using the same form as the original. To parody a poem, you have to write another poem.

Mnemonic: Parody..parrot..always imitates people often in a humorous way. Example: His personality made him an easy subject for Parody.


When you simulate Mnemonic: In latin, something you imitate it. similis means like; Hollywood makeup artists Simulate means can use pencils and gray imitate wigs to simulate old age in a Example: Roleyoung actor. It can also playing is a useful mean to modelâ€“-a way of simulating computer can simulate real-life situations. disaster scenarios in cities.


a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way


Burlesque

EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT

Emulate

INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT

Mimic

SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY

Parody


Simulate

Spoof

Mnemonic: to spell SPOON as Spoof is a kind of parody,hoax or Spoof Example: It's a Spoof on horror movies.

Legends: X

: Antonyms

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India

Jamboree



Vocabulary

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Words


Relation to Group

Mnemonic: Awe can be remembered in connection to Awesome Example: I'm in Awe of your biking skills.


What do the national debt, your old gym teacher, and your mother-in-law have in common? They're all formidable - that is, they inspire fear and respect thanks to their size, or special ability, or unusual qualities.

Mnemonic: In Latin, formido means terror, dread; Formidable means awesome, great in size of difficulty Example: In spite of his Formidable appearance he had a certain charm of manner.


Redoubtable means honorable, maybe even intimidatingly so. If your grandmother worked tirelessly to raise four kids on her own and start her own taxi cab business and to this day, keeps all of her cabbies in line, she is without a doubt redoubtable.

Mnemonic: redoubt-able : Something appears to be so fearful that it makes you doubt again. Example: He was dreading his interview with the Redoubtable Mrs. Fitton.

EASILY AFFECTED EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE

Formidable

IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY

Mnemonic/Example

Awe is a feeling of fear that is mixed with respect and wonder. You might gaze at the Grand Canyon with awe, marveling at its beauty and fearing its depth.

Awe

EXAMINE CAREFULLY

Meaning


Redoubtable

OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING Legends: X

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India

Jamboree



Vocabulary

parsing "* Officiate" - Quantifier {x,y} following nothing.

Word List: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X)

Words

Relation to Group

Form: verb * Officiate Tone: positive Legends: X

: Antonyms

*


EXPRESS USING GESTURES

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FRIENDLY

(+)

: The words in this family are used usually in positive context.

(-)

: The words in this family are used usually in negative context.

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY

HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING Â© My Online Test Hub

Meaning act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding

Mnemonic/Example

India

Jamboree



Vocabulary

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Words

ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EXAMINE CAREFULLY

Meaning

Mnemonic: Cantankerous sounds like: RANT HIS ANGER AT US. Example: He is a Cantankerous old man.

Form: noun Tone: Negative

If you feel chagrin it means that you are embarrassed or distressed as a result of a failure.

Mnemonic: Chagrin: Anita, that poor girl, she is unlikely to ever grin again after the shame and disappointment she has endured. Example: To her Chagrin, neither of her sons became doctors.


Are you easy to tick off? Known to have a short fuse? Then, you could be described as choleric. Choleric just means you're testy and irritable.

Mnemonic: Choleric: sounds like CALL A RICK at night in Bangalore and you will be bound to lose your temper/ Choleric because they charge any amount they want to. Example: He was a Choleric, self-important little man.


A churlish person is one whose middle name might as well be Rude. Heâ€™s the one who was never taught to mind his manners and avoid telling vulgar jokes at the dinner table.

Mnemonic: chur(church)+lish(wish)church wishes always not to behave rude,boorish Example: It might seem Churlish to critique this engaging film on political grounds


Old, cranky, and more than a little stubborn, a curmudgeon is the crusty grey haired neighbor who refuses to hand out candy to a child and even snatches the ball which may have fallen in his yard.

Mnemonic: Curmudgeon: Cur means a dog and a person who keeps freaking out at others like a dog barks all the time. Example: You are such a terrible old Curmudgeon, why do you keep shouting at my kids for no reason?


An irritable and unpleasant mood is being grouchy.

Mnemonic: Girls always saying ouch-ouch for every silly thing, make guys very irritated & Grouchy!!! Now you will always remember this

Chagrin

FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED

Choleric

OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING

Churlish

TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING Curmudgeon

Grouchy

Mnemonic/Example

Take care not to throw your ball into the yard of the cantankerous old man down the street

Cantankerous

EASILY AFFECTED EXPRESS USING GESTURES

Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: Negative

Example: On average, people are chirpier when they wake up and become Grouchy as the day wears on. Form: adj Tone: Negative

It's the kind of short, brusque response you'd give a telemarketer who called you in the middle of dinner right before you hung up. That when you gruff.

Mnemonic: Gruff is the perfect adjective to describe a irritated old man who rarely leaves his house and yells at any children who dare to cross his lawn. Example: Beneath his Gruff exterior, he's really a nice guy.


If you're irascible, you get angry easily perhaps blowing up in rage when someone brushes into you.

Mnemonic: Root word for Irascible is IRE: which means ANGER. Example: He had an Irascible temper.


Irritable feeling calls for testiness.

Mnemonic: Testiness sounds like testing of patience. When you lose it, you are irritated. Example: "Why do you laugh at me?" she inquired, with a frank Testiness that pleased me better than her other talk.

Gruff

Irascible

Testiness

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India

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Vocabulary

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Words


Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Use lascivious to describe a person's behavior that is driven by thoughts of sex. If someone gives you a lascivious smile, they've got only one thing in mind.

Mnemonic: Lascivious means lewd Example: He was fired for making Lascivious remarks to a co-worker.


To be lecherous is to be full of strong sexual desire and to act on it, usually in an unpleasant way.

Mnemonic: lecher means to live in sin. Any indecent activity is definitely sinful. Example: He had a Lecherous gleam in his eye.


A leer is a grin that isn't friendly. A leer means the person doesn't like you, or even worse, does - in a creepy way.

Mnemonic: Leer is to stare without fear. Example: Leering objectionably at others is utterly frustrating and intolerable.


Making lewd remarks are sexually inappropriate. Personal and sexually explicit comments might be acceptable when said in private but they are not all right when said to strangers in public.

Mnemonic: Lewd sounds like too loud to appear crude and indecent. Example: His Lewd behavior and suggestions offended his students and they denied attending his classes.


When people are lured into looking at something, they may be drawn to it because it's a shocking, graphic, or horrible scene, something lurid and very vivid that pulls them in.

Mnemonic: In latin, Luridis means pale, yellow, ghastly; thus, Lurid means scandalous, obscene. Example: She was wearing a Lurid orange and green blouse.


Obscene describes something that is morally offensive way.

Mnemonic: Ob means against and any scene (movie) that is not worth seeing , is Obscene. Example: It's Obscene to waste so much on food when millions are starving. Root: Prefix OB means AGAINST


When you ogle someone, you look at them with love or desire in mind. And if you're a cartoon character,

Mnemonic: Ogle sounds like eagle, who always waits to first eye a victim and then

Lascivious

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES

Relation to Group

Lecherous

FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT

Leer


Lewd

RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY

Lurid


Obscene

Ogle

you might also be drooling.

target it. Example: He is not in the habit of ogling at women.


Things that are seamy have lost all morality. Your mother wouldn't approve of you going to a seamy video arcade, especially not if you went with a group of seamy people.

Mnemonic: Seamy reminds me of shoaib akhtar who's a seam bowler and he is so fast that it is Seamy or unpleasant for the batsman who is facing him. Example: He was always attracted towards a Seamy way of life.


Describe a person's actions as sordid if they are so immoral or unethical that they seem dirty. Think of the worst parts of a bad soap opera!

Mnemonic: She lived in very Sordid housing conditions, under a bridge to be exact, so that the SORE DID not heal properly. Example: It was a shock to discover the truth about his Sordid past.


Vulgar is a great word that combines a bunch of different meanings into one, chief among them: crude, crass, common, uncouth, sometimes raunchy. It depends on who's saying it and why.

Mnemonic: He had a vultures eyes, too eager to scan through distatesful things. Example: The Vulgar decoration spoilt the mood and ambience of the party.

Seamy

Sordid

Vulgar

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Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

An incumbent is an official who holds an office. If you want to run for congress, you're going to have to beat the incumbent.

Mnemonic: The head of citibank currently holding an office gets a bright red ink umbrella that paints him red when it rains Example: Voters are usually reluctant to toss out Incumbents who bring improvement, however limited.


Scientists believe that one of the causes of the obesity epidemic sweeping the US is our sedentary lifestyle. Sedentary means sitting a lot and refers to a person or job that is not very physically active.

Mnemonic: Sedentary sounds like sit and do all the entries in the book all day long, like a cashier or librarian. Example: The researchers say the opportunities for Sedentary behaviour in modern society such as watching TV, sitting in a car or using a computer is becoming


If you have a cushy job â €” one that pays, but involves minimal work then you have a sinecure.

Mnemonic: Sinecure sounds like insecure. I became very insecure when my boss assigned me to do a job with few responsibilities; maybe he doesn't think i'm responsible. Example: Because he was the brother of the CEO, he was offered a Sinecure in the company: he showed up each day and collected a pay check, but others actually

Incumbent

EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT

Sedentary

INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY

Sinecure

TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING Legends: X

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Words


Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: v Tone: positive

Relation to Group

To commemorate something means to remember something and by doing so to honor it, as in â€œWe would like to commemorate his many years of past service by presenting him with this lovely gold watch.â€

Mnemonic: come + memory(ative) remembering something and honouring. Example: A series of movies will be shown to commemorate the 30th anniversary of his death.


Sure you wear ripped jeans to school every day, but you don't wear them to your grandmother's house out of deference to her. When you show deference to someone, you make a gesture of respect.

Mnemonic: demeans down, away; ferre means to carry; if you let someone carry away a matter, you are showing respectful submission or Deference to their competence Example: The DEFinite difFERENCE between good and bad manners.

Form: v Tone: Negative

You might like your manager, but if you exalt her, it means you really put her on a pedestal and treat her like royalty.

Mnemonic: In Latin, exmeans out, altus means high; if you hold someone in 'high' regard, you Exalt or praise them Example: The chefs gave the young man high praise for inventing an egg flavored salt, and quickly began to use it in all their sandwiches.


To hallow is to bless, consecrate, or render holy by means of religious rites, especially significant religious places or the relics of saints.

Mnemonic: Hallow = Hall+ow; in a prayer 'Hall' religious programs are held Example: Their wedding was Hallowed by a friendly priest


Homage means great respect and honor, or something done to honor a person or thing. We pay homage to our ancestors and say prayers in homage to their memory.

Mnemonic: Homage = Home + Age; In our culture, we respect the aged persons of our home. Example: He describes his book as â€œa Homage to my

Cemmemorate

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT

Deference

INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY

Exalt

TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING Hallow

Homage

father.â€ Form: v Tone: positive

Revere means that to respect someone so deeply that you almost worship them. Despite the size of the American military, the American people revere peacemakers like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. Rock stars are revered by throngs of devoted fa

Mnemonic: In Latin, re- is an intensive prefix; vereri means to stand in awe or fear Example: From earliest childhood she had been taught to Revere and love bishops of her church.

Form: v Tone: positive

To venerate is to worship, adore, be in awe of. You probably don't venerate your teacher or boss; however, you may act like you do!

Mnemonic: In latin venus means beauty, love, desire; you cherish respectfullyor Venerate something that you love and find beautiful Example: U RATE someone higher.. you TREAT THEM WITH RESPECT

Revere

Venerate

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Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

Pick the adjective, clandestine, to describe something that is done in secret, like your clandestine attempts to steal your brother's candy.

Mnemonic: Clandestine--break it like clan + destine-What our DESTINy has in store for us remains a big secret to everyone. Example: The CIA might run a Clandestine operation to infiltrate terrorist organizations.


Think soldiers in masks secretly infiltrating an enemy stronghold, a covert operation is one that no one but the president and a few generals know is happening.

Mnemonic: Covert sounds like Cover up and attack secretly. Example: The teachers weren't impressed by the students' Covert attempt to derail the discussion.


Let's hope the teacher doesn't see your furtive attempts to pass notes in class!

Mnemonic: Furtive sounds like 'FLIRT'ive.. So a flirtly look is always SNEAKY...!! Example: She cast a Furtive glance over her shoulder.

Form: adj Tone: negative/ neutral

In figurative use, oblique means indirect or purposely misleading. "What is two plus two?" "Fish!" as an answer is completely oblique.

Mnemonic: By correcting the clerk's "Mrs." with "That's Ms. now," the woman made an Oblique reference to her change in marital status. Example: He referred only Obliquely to their recent problems.


An overt attempt to get your teacher off-track might fail. Instead, try asking subtle questions about her kids, and she'll stay off topic all class.

Mnemonic: Here's your trick for remembering the difference between overt and covert: overt = "open," covert = "covered." Example: There was little overt support for the project.


Skulking is cowardly. It means hiding out, either

Mnemonic: HULK SkulkED through the

Clandestine

EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT

Covert


Furtive


Oblique


Overt (X)

because you're trying to pull something off in secret, or you're trying to get out of doing something you're supposed to be doing.

city to avoid being noticed by COPS. Example: There was someone Skulking behind the bushes.


When you're sly, you're crafty, cunning, tricky, and wily. If you're good at lying, you're quite sly.

Mnemonic: When you LIE you are Sly!! Example: He is as Sly as a fox.


Stealth means to do something so quietly and carefully that no one notices, like the stealth of a kitten sneaking up on a mouse.

Mnemonic: Stealth and steal come from the same root word and used to mean the same thing. Example: if you plan a birthday party by Stealth, then the guest of honor will be pleasantly surprised.


When someone behaves in a surreptitious way, they're being secretive. They're doing something that they don't want to be seen doing.

Mnemonic: You have to be Surreptitious to text in class without being caught. Example: The members of the secret society hold Surreptitious meetings because, well, they're a secret society.

Skulk

Sly

Stealth

Surreptitious

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Meaning To take something, someone's ideas, etc. for your own use, especially illegally or without permission

Mnemonic: Appropriate = a + property + iate.. i.e. to make it your own property.. by force if required.. And also when you are appropriating it your self you are "allocating" it to yourself. Example: He was accused of appropriating club funds.


The extra coats that are taking up space in your closet,, when you divest them, you get rid of it.

Mnemonic: In latin, dimeans apart and vestire means to clothe; you get rid of clothes by selling them; thus Divest means sell. Example: The company is Divesting itself of some of its assets.


If you really like your neighbor's house, you may wish you could expropriate the property.

Mnemonic: It sounds a lot like another verb, appropriate and has a similar meaning..from the common root word: Own Example: a state may Expropriate property in order to build a new road. Root: EX means OUT OF, FROM


If everyone at the lunch meeting is vying for the last roast chicken sandwich, but you grab it first, you preempt your colleagues from getting it.

Mnemonic: Pre means before and -empt sounds like attemptâ€¦So when you attempt to do something before anyone else does it is called Preempt Example: A good training course will Preempt many problems. Root: PRE means BEFORE


If you take over your neighbor's backyard and claim his in-ground swimming pool as your own, you might seize control of, or usurp his yard, but he'll probably call the cops on you.

Mnemonic: Here's the secret to stealing a chef's power: use herbsâ €¦Usurp. Example: The old guard being Usurped by the new.

Appropriate


Divest

INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT

Expropriate

SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING

Preempt

Usurp

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Meaning The adjective erotic is often used to describe a personâ €™s carnal desires.

Mnemonic: Greek word erotikos, from eros or erot-, meaning â€œsexual love. Example: An Erotic art seems to be appealing if depicted sensually.


Seductive is an adjective that describes the fascinating magnetic pull that someone or something has, an attractive quality that tempts you in some way.

Mnemonic: The word comes from the Latin seducere, meaning â €œdraw aside.â€ Example: Radio people often have Seductive voices that lull you to sleep


Sensual means physically pleasing.

Mnemonic: Sensual is related to senses. Example: Food is a great Sensual experience.

Erotic

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Seductive IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD

Sensual

Mnemonic/Example


IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


When an employee is dissatisfied by her bad working condition, they are disgruntled.

Mnemonic: Disgrunt is like grunt that is a low sound made when you are not satisfied, angry. Example: I went to five high schools in four years and was very Disgruntled Root: DIS means APART, NOT


To exasperate is to make something that is already bad even worse, by asking the waiter continuously "what are all the ingredients in the salad dressing?" and making him repeat the specials five times.

Mnemonic: I become angry getting "eggs as per rate"â €¦.Exasperate Example: Her moods Exasperated him.


When you grate something you rip it to shreds, similarly someone annoys you extremely, you feel like you are being grated

Mnemonic: Grater can almost seem as if a cheese Grater has been applied to your nerves and is slowly ripping them to shreds. Example: He kept staring at her and it began to Grate on her nerves.


A harangue is more than a speech, louder than a discussion, and nastier than a lecture.

Mnemonic: HAR (her) + ANGUE (anger) = she VERBALLY ATTACKED me because of HER ANGER at me. Example: He walked to the front of the stage and began to Harangue the audience.


when in a political campaign a leader delivers his speech, and you tend to interrupt him by shouting or questioning, you are heckling him

Mnemonic: Heckle sounds like tickle. Like when you are busy doing something and your sister/brother tickles you and interrupts it is called Heckle. Example: He was Heckled throughout his speech.

Form: noun

If recess gets canceled for

Mnemonic:

Disgruntled


Exasperate

INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED

Grate


Harangue


Heckle

Tone: Negative

everyone because two students get into a fight, the rest of the student body will respond with indignation.

Indignation traces back to the Latin prefix in- "not" and root dignus "worthy" and means anger at something that is unfair or unjust. Example: The increase in plane fares has aroused public Indignation.


People talking too loudly on their phones, the cancellation of your favorite TV show is infuriating

Mnemonic: Fury is a word for "anger" that should help with this word Example: Her silence Infuriated him even more.


If your little brother keeps saying the same phrase over and over again, you might find it irksomeâ€¦its annoying and tiresome.

Mnemonic: Irksome sounds like Tiresome and thatâ€™s the meaning. Example: what an Irksome task the writing of long letters is


If you are miffed you are slightly annoyed and hurt because of something which someone has done or said.

Mnemonic: If there is a tiff with someone you are Miffed. Example: She's a little Miffed that we're not taking her with us.


When you continuously keep finding fault in a person simply because you donâ€™t like them or keep asking for something that your father may not wanting to give you, you are nagging

Mnemonic: Nag sounds like Dragâ €¦.when you keep dragging on an issue for too long which is not important any more, its Nagging. Example: My girl friend Nagged me to cut my hair.


If you know what a nettle isâ€”that is, a barbed seed that gets stuck in your clothes and hair..you will know how annoying and irritating it is.

Mnemonic: A kid sister, a mosquito, an angry boyfriend, or a hot, muggy day: all of these are examples of things that might Nettle a person. Example: Stop nettling when am focussing on my workâ€¦the angry brother shrieked out at his sister.


when a person drives too slowly on the highway, it seems to be peevishâ €¦annoying, frustrating.

Mnemonic: If someone keeps peeping at you from the back seat of the bus continuously, you will definitely get irritated/Peeved Example: When a baby sitting beside you keeps crying

Indignation

Infuriate

Irksome

Miffed

Nag

Nettle

Peeve

while you watching a movie, it seems peevish Form: noun Tone: Negative

The verb pique means to make someone angry or annoyed.


If something vexes you, it Mnemonic: Vex bring you irritation, bothers, sounds like mess, worries. when someone messes around you feel Vexed (irritated) Example: New research findings announced today offer a small, albeit promising, breakthrough in addressing the Vexing issue of waste.

Pique

Vex

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Mnemonic: Pique sounds like prick, when someone or something pricks you get angry. Example: When he realized no one was listening to him, he left in a fit of Pique.

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: verb Tone: Positive

Cogitate is a fancy was of saying think hard. If you spend a lot of time figuring out exactly how your French teacher does her hair, you are cogitating in order to avoid conjugating.

Mnemonic: Cogitate can be related to cognitive thinking. Cog always means to know, so when you know about something and have knowledge about the same you think deeply. Example: I have been cogitating all day about this issue but getting nowhere.

Form: v Tone: neutral/ positive

Before you accept a job offer, or a college's offer of admission, you should take time to contemplate the pros and cons of your decision. If you contemplate something, you think about it carefully.

Mnemonic: its too late now to show contempt over this issue. Just think carefully and take a decision. Example: You are too young to be contemplating retirement.

Form: adj Tone: neutral/ positive

To deliberate means to carefully think or talk something through - it also means slow and measured, the pace of this kind of careful decision making. If you chose deliberately, you make a very conscious, well-thought-through choice.

Mnemonic: Deliberate sounds like Daily-berate, i.e. you are berated or scolded everyday, you need to think why it is happening with you everyday. Example: The speech was a Deliberate attempt to embarrass the government.

Form: noun Tone: neutral/ positive

reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings

Mnemonic: Intro means inside and spect means to see. So to look within is Introspection. Example: These situations are best resolved with the minimum of Introspection or selfanalysis. Root: Intro means INSIDE and SPECT is to SEE

Form: v Tone: neutral/

The verb mull means to think deeply about

Mnemonic: when you are considering


Cogitate

EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD

Contemplate

IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING

Deliberate

TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING

Introspect

positive

something, the way you might mull over your choice of what college to attend.

an offer for 5 days, you are Mulling over it Example: I need some time to Mull it over before making a decision.

Form: noun Tone: Positive

As a verb, to muse is to consider something thoughtfully.

Mnemonic: Muse is to use your brains and think over something for long. Example: philosophers have mulled over the question of God for thousands of years


See that person staring Example: Rainy days out the window who looks often put her in a so sad and lost in thought? Pensive mood. He is pensive, the opposite of cheery and carefree.

Form: v Tone: Positive

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary" is the first line of Edgar Allen Poe's poem The Raven. Many a deep thinker has repeated it while musing. But if you've given up deep thinking, you may say instead, "Nevermore."

Mnemonic: In Latin, Ponder means weigh on the mind; thus Ponder means think about Example: She Pondered over his words, because a serious decision was to be taken.


If you reflect on your past experiences, you look at them once again thoughtfully.

Mnemonic: to understand the concepts of Reflection of light, we have to think deeply and study Example: She was left to Reflect on the implications of her decision.


When you ruminate, it means you are thinking very deeply about something. You're likely to be so lost in thought that you stare off into space and don't hear people when they call your name.

Mnemonic: In Latin, ruminare means to chew cud, turn over in the mind. When we sit alone in a room (rum-inate), we start thinking about random things. Example: From placement point of view, here are some points to Ruminate upon.

Mull

Muse

Pensive

Ponder

Reflect

Ruminate

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


To encroach is to overstep your bounds, to take over space or rights that belong to another, like your brother whose mess always encroaches on your side of the room you share.

Mnemonic: Encroach sounds like cockroach. Say, a cockroach creeps inside your bed while you are sleeping, forget about dislike you will scream because its disgusting. Example: Someone whose questions get more and more personal, which Encroaches on your privacy.


Whether you have a habit of standing too close when talking to others or bringing luggage on a crowded rushhour subway car, you'll find people don't like it when you impinge on their personal space.

Mnemonic: Impingeim + ping(e)..Someone continuously pinging you while chatting means he or she wants to influence you and then touch your heart. Example: Constantly inviting your friend to go shopping and meet you in nice restaurants might Impinge on her desire to save money. Root: IM here means INTO


When you infringe on someone's space, time, or rights, you're getting involved in a way that is not cool. That's why, when you violate a copyright, you're said to infringe upon it.

Mnemonic: Fringe refers to BORDERS, so if someone tries to cross the borders forcefully, it should not be tolerated. Example: The material can be copied without infringing copyright.


When someone says, â€œI hate to intrude, butâ€¦â€ you can bet she is in fact going to interrupt your conversation or insert her opinion, even though it isnâ €™t wanted.

Mnemonic: This verb is derived from the Latin, Intrudere, in which the inmeans â€œintoâ€ and -trudere means, â €œto thrust.â€ Example: Loud music could Intrude into your studying.


If you want to be rude, you'll obtrude, or thrust yourself to the front of a line without waiting.

Mnemonic: Obtrude sounds like rude that is when someone is climbing through your kitchen window is someone who chooses


Encroach

EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED

Impinge

OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY

Infringe


Intrude

Obtrude

to Obtrude, or forcefully enter your home. Example: Music from the next room Obtruded upon his thoughts. Root: OB means AGAINST

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Moms and dads love adages such as "early to bed early to rise" and "an apple a day keeps the doctor away."

Mnemonic: Adage sounds like adding age to a saying by using it several times. Example: According to the old Adage, a picture is worth a thousand words.


"People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." is an aphorism which is apt and witty.

Mnemonic: a+phrase : Remember Navjot Singh sidhu for his proverbs which he would share in the cricket commentary: Aphorism Example: They force us, in other words, to remember Ronald Reaganâ€™s Aphorism: trust, but verify.


An apothegm is a short instructive saying that's easy to remember and sometimes even slightly witty, like "haste makes waste."

Mnemonic: The hooligans overheard the man trying to be witty diverting attention saying "ape... oh. them!" / Apothegm Example: "Necessity," says the old Apothegm, "is the mother of invention." Root: APO means FROM, AWAY FROM


One of Oscar Wilde's many memorable epigrams is "I can resist everything but temptation."

Mnemonic: If you've ever seen an inscription on, say, the back of a watch, you know the writing has to be brief. That is an Epigram Example: "Don't sweat the small stuff." is an Epigram. Root: EPI means UPON.


"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." This is a maxim which is like great sayings everybody knows.

Mnemonic: I believe in the Maxim, 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. Example: An overused Maxim of real estate is "Location, location, location."


A pithy phrase or statement is brief but full of substance and meaning. Proverbs and sayings are pithy

Mnemonic: The pith is an essential part of a fruit, but small; thus Pithy means small but substantial

Adage

EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Aphorism IMITATE / COMIC IMITATION INSPIRING FEAR OR RESPECT INTERVENOR / LEAD IRRITABLE / BAD TEMPERED OFFENSIVE / LUSTY OFFICE OR JOB RELATED

Apothegm

RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION

Epigram

WISE, SHORT SAYING

Maxim

Pithy

Example: They finally got to the pith of the discussion. Form: noun Tone: Neutral Precept

When you are asked to behave following certain rules like "give your ears to everyone, but your voice to a few"â€¦it is considered a precept

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Mnemonic: its a rule to PRE SET(cept)the oven before cooking. Example: The law of nature has but one Precept, "Be strong."

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ACCUSE ALERT

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

An aspersion is a disparaging remark. It almost invariably appears as a plural, following the word "cast" - when you cast aspersions on someone, you are questioning their abilities or doubting them.

Mnemonic: Finding out that a fieldhockey coach had never played the sports might cast Aspersions on her ability to coach it. Example: I wouldn't want to cast Aspersions on your honesty.


the making of false statements to damage someones reputation.

Mnemonic: Calumny rhymes with ALUMNI-imagine yourself slandering and defaming some of your college ALUMNI Example: He accused the press of publishing vicious calumnies.


Even though Joan Jett sang about not minding her bad reputation, most of us don't want others to defame us. To defame is to gossip, even if the story is madeup, with the goal of hurting someone's image.

Mnemonic: de(do away with) + fame...so taking away somebody's fame...defaming someone. Example: The newspaper denies any intention to Defame the senator's reputation.


a written document that is for damaging someones's reputation.

Mnemonic: Libel is close to label.WE always tend to LABEL people by their shortcomings, thus Libel=defamatory statement Example: He sued the newspaper for Libel.


evil in nature or effect.

Mnemonic: mal=bad, ling=related to language (lingual)...so, Malign=use of bad language Also, it's opposite of BENIGN Example: She feels she has been much Maligned by the

ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE

Aspersion

BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD

Calumny

FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE

Defame

NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING

Libel

WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER

Malign

press. Root: Prefix MAL refers to BAD Form: noun Tone: neg

strong public criticism , public abuse.

Mnemonic: etymologically OB'against' and LOQUY'talk'. Therefore Obloquy means to TALK AGAINST SOMEONE,i.e. SLANDER Example: Her family tried to shield her from public Obloquy. Root: Prefix OB means AGAINST


Bad behavior leads to opprobrium. If you throw a soft drink off the theater balcony, the opprobrium might keep you from getting dates to the movies.

Mnemonic: If you take OPIUM(banned drug) you will be criticized, humiliated & put to shame. Example: The bombing has attracted international Opprobrium.


If you call your teacher a "dirty toad," you're going to get into troubleâ€“â €“she'll call you out on the slander. Slander is the act of making a false, negative spoken statement about someone.

Mnemonic: its like throwing sand on someone's reputation Example: He's suing them for Slander.


making damaging accusations against someone.

Mnemonic: Slur blur : Blur is something that is not clear to the eyes (vision) and Slur is not clear in Sound ! Example: She accused the programme of Slurring the company's name.


To vilify someone is to spread nasty stories about them, whether true or not.

Mnemonic: Vilify (to speak ill of) is to make someone out to be a villain Example: The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews

Obloquy

Opprobrium

Slander

Slur

Vilify

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ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Relation to Group

Use vigilant to describe someone who keeps awake and alert in order to avoid danger or problems.

Mnemonic: If you stay awake all night, you're keeping watch or keeping a vigil. Example: A pilot must remain VIGILANT at all times. Root: Prefix VIGIL refers to SEEING


make less hostile, win Mnemonic: A criminal over. threatens another with small arms. the other dices his arms and after the diss arm he takes away his weapon Example: Most of the rebels were captured and disarmed. Root: Prefix DIS means NOT


an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions.

VIGILANT

BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION

X Disarm

FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR

X Slouch

GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Legends: X

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Mnemonic: Slouch sounds like slow. And so is a person who is slouch. Example: One felt that people were able to slouch a bit and slip off too tight shoes.

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ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE

Relation to Group

Meaning Something arresting commands your attention. It's stunning, and you can't turn away.

Mnemonic: when someone gets ARRESTed, he is all over the news paper and hets ATTRACTING ATTENTION of all Example: An ARRESTING song is one you always want to hear.


Some people are able to captivate with wit and charm, others with physical beauty, still others with intelligence.

Mnemonic: CAPTIVATE comes from Capture , the only difference is CAPTIVATE is used in a positive context. To attract someones attention. Example: The children were CAPTIVATEd by her stories. Root: Prefix CAP means to TAKE or SEIZE.

Form: adj Tone: pos

When you like Mnemonic: enam+orâ something a lot (often €”ENAM(inaamâ€”a in a negative sense). prize in hindi), when someone gets inaam, he is filled with LOVE and HAPPINESS and is center of ATTRACTION for all Example: The tourists have always been enamoured by the beauty of Niagara Falls. Root: refix EN- refers to IN


Whether it's a thrilling action-adventure film, or that enigmatic girl you see on the subway, when something is so fascinating that it holds all your attention, it is said to enthrall.

Mnemonic: En (enter) Hall: when you enter a gigantic and exclusively decored hall you are ENTHRALled Example: He is a star performer whose grace, skill, and virtuosity ENTHRALl the audiences. Root: refix EN- refers to IN


Have you ever had a ridiculous crush on someone that's made you act foolishly? That

Mnemonic: In means Not and Fatuate: When you are not (in) fat, you would look

ARRESTING

BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE

CAPTIVATE

FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING

ENAMORED

RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

WORKING UNDER ANOTHER ENTHRAL

person infatuated or inspired unreasonable passion in you, causing you to become infatuated.

attractive and people will be attracted towards you and may even be In-Fat-uated. Example: His new car has INFATUATEd him


You meet someone and you canâ€™t take your eyes off them, like you are connected by an invisible cord and canâ€™t break free. Those kinds of people have the power to mesmerize.

Mnemonic: MESMERIZE sounds like memorizeâ€”if you memorize all vocab words you can ATTRACT(HYPNOTIZE) anyone with your good communication skills, especially at your work place. Example: They were MESMERIZEd by her performance.


Rapture is a feeling of emotional ecstasy so magical it's almost as if you've been transported to some other world.

Mnemonic: En RAPTURE: the word RAPTURE means ecstasy, i listen the rap music with great RAPTURE. Example: Charles listened with RAPTURE to her singing.


When you watch a movie which though scary, you appreciate the dark somber look of the ugly hero, it must have been rivetting.

Mnemonic: RIVET is used to hold two metal plates together. RIVETing is holding oneâ€™s attention. Example: The last chapter was so RIVETing that I was reading past midnight.

Form: adj Tone: pos

attracting and holding interest as if by a spell.

Mnemonic: spell (magical) and that seems to bind us in a way that seems extremely attractive and worth attending. Example: It was a SPELLBINDING description of life in ancient Rome.


The French word ennui describes a feeling that combines tiredness and boredom. Ennui is one version of "the blahs."

Mnemonic: En (anything) nui (new)? I am tired of old stuffs. Example: When you're feeling ennui, you might as well take a nap, because you're too drowsy and uninterested to do much of anything else.

INFATUATE

MESMERIZE

RAPTURE

RIVET

SPELLBINDING

X ENNUI

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Meaning An acolyte is also a fan or follower of the famous, so you can find an acolyte in church or at a concert.

Mnemonic: ACOLYTEs of movie star or pro athletes closely follow their careers - and with great admiration - and would love to be just like their heroes. Example: He is the emperor's faithful ACOLYTE.


An apprentice is someone who learns a trade. An apprentice farmer is paid very little but has the chance to learn farming by watching and doing.

Mnemonic: APPRENTICE sounds like a parent. Say someone who has become a parent for the first time, tries to gradually learn how to manage their kids. Example: An APPRENTICE chef.


a young person who is training to become an officer in the police or armed forces

Mnemonic: remember NCC = national CADET crops. students joined in NCC camp for serving nation. so they ll join military trainee they are called CADET Example: Thomas received the best CADET award of the Air Force last year

Form: adj Tone: neg

callow is a freshmen in high school or the callow receptionist who can't figure out how to transfer a call.

Mnemonic: The inexperienced cat owner did not see anything wrong with the cat lying low on the the ground, yowling in pain. Example: The inexperienced cop did not see anything wrong with a big bag of cash laying on the street


Though dilettante might sound like a nice French word, don't use it on your friend who thinks he can play the guitar after several short lessons.

Mnemonic: A card dealer learns how to deal a tent instead of cards and is one who practises an art for pleasure Example: Online DILETTANTEs dropped out fast, but 23,000 committed learners

ACOLYTE


APPRENTICE

FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT

CADET

ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING

CALLOW

WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER

DILETTANTE

Mnemonic/Example


finished the course Form: adj Tone: pos

One of the things kindergarten teachers value is the chance to work with kids while they're still relatively ingenuousâ€“-their open, trusting natures are a joy.

Mnemonic: In+genuine- In genuine relationship people are naive and trusting to each other. Example: It is INGENUOUS to suppose that money did not play a part in his decision.


"Look at the little freshies," said the football team captain to his friends. "Little neophytes come to learn how the big boys play....Let's get 'em!"

Mnemonic: Neomeans new, and -phyte is from the Greek phuton "plant"-â €“like a baby plant, a NEOPHYTE is someone who is new to an activity. Example: A political NEOPHYTE is someone who has just been elected and comes to Washington D.C. not understanding how the game of politics is played. Root: Prefix NEO means NEW.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If something is so new and original that it's never been seen, used or even thought of before, call it novel.

Mnemonic: Companies are always looking for that NOVEL idea that will earn them millions and skydiving is a NOVEL experience, especially if you're not adventurous. Example: Protesters found a NOVEL way of demonstrating against steepy rising oil prices.


On the Internet, a novice might be called a newbie, but your parents would call one a beginner.

Mnemonic: NOVICE is derived from the Latin word novus, which means new. A NOVICE is new to what they do, so a NOVICE photographer is just learning how to take nice pictures Example: I'm a complete NOVICE at skiing.


If you hear someone talk about puerile toys, they may merely be remarking on the toys of childhood, but it is more likely they are discussing whoopee cushions, fake dog poo, and the like.

Mnemonic: PUERILE sounds like Pure. Like a child who is pure at heart and is inexperienced, immature. Example: Concert organizers branded the group's action as PUERILE, schoolboy humor.

Form: noun Tone: neut/neg

an awkward and inexperienced youth is a rookie.

Example: I don't want to have another ROOKIE to train.

INGENUOUS

NEOPHYTE

NOVEL

NOVICE

PUERILE

ROOKIE

Form: noun Tone: neut TYRO

A tyro is a beginner, a new recruit, or someone who is just learning something. If you are the new guy at the job and you're wearing a big dorky badge that says "Trainee" on it, you are a tyro.

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Mnemonic: TYRO isn't used much these days but it's similar to newbie, novice, or recruit. Example: He is a TYRO Journalist.

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Meaning This adjective is very bold - if you are audacious, you are daring and unconventional!

Mnemonic: AUDACIOUS is Audio to us: if you want to be audible you need to be AUDACIOUS (bold) Example: The AUDACIOUS soldier went into battle without a shield.


Men behaving courteously toward women - holding the door for them, offering them their jackets when it's cold - is called chivalry.

Mnemonic: CHIVALRY sounds like: Lord Shiva is bestowed with endless valor and patience. Example: Women always admire men who are chivalrous.

Form: adj Tone: pos

A dauntless person is someone who isn't easily frightened. If you're dauntless, it means you're like a tiger or a wild horse - you can't be dominated or tamed.

Mnemonic: If Daunt means Fear and Less we know. So DAUNTLESS means fearless. Example: The DAUNTLESS reporters saved the lives of hundreds of tourists in the hotel.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you volunteered to deal with removing a huge, hairy spider from your bathroom ceiling, your whole family would be grateful for your gallant actions.

Mnemonic: army GALLANTry award is awarded to BRAVE army people Example: She made a GALLANT attempt to hide her tears.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Intrepid is just a fancy word for describing a person or action that is bold and brave. Super heroes are intrepid in their struggle for truth, justice and the American way.

Mnemonic: In means NOT and TREP means FEAR. INTREPID means fearless. Example: The INTREPID reporters braved the threat of gunfire for the sake of their news reports.


As a noun, pluck is energy Example: I finally or enthusiasm, even when PLUCKed up the things are looking grim. courage to ask her for a date.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you're undaunted, you're not afraid or intimidated. As a great

AUDACIOUS

BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL CHIVALRY FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS

DAUNTLESS

HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED

GALLANT

SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER

INTREPID

PLUCK

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Mnemonic: UN is not , daunt is fear. So UNDAUNTED is

surfer, you remain undaunted as you seek out dangerous waters to ride the biggest waves.

fearless. Example: You must remain UNDAUNTED when facing your terrifying calculus homework.

Form: adj Tone: pos

It was pretty courageous of the automaker Plymouth to name a car the "Valiant" in the 1960s and 70s because that term usually refers to a hero or describes a really determined, or valiant.

Mnemonic: separate VALIANT into Valley + Ant. Now think "ants" audaciously walking through a "valley" to gather their food Example: It was a VALIANT attempt to prevent the hijack.


It was custom-ordered for a knight in resplendent armor sitting atop his noble steed. "Onward to deeds of valor!," you imagine him saying, anticipating his own unfailing courage.

Mnemonic: The Jailer is valor. Example: He received the Medal of Honor for his valor in battle.

UNDAUNTED

VALIANT

VALOUR

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Relation to Group

DELAY /POSTPONE

Mnemonic: "I must ADJOURN!" is a fancy way of saying "I'm out of here! I need to get some sleep. See you tomorrow." Example: The trial has been ADJOURNed until next week. Root: Prefix AD refers to towards


Defer means to put off or delay. You can try to defer the inevitable by pushing â€œsnoozeâ€ and falling back asleep, but eventually you're going to have to get up.

Mnemonic: When you become deaf to your mother's pushing you to get up from bed because you may get late for college and you say you will go tomorrow, you are DEFERring. Example: The department DEFERred the decision for six months.


To protract something is to stretch it out. If you have a disagreement with a friend that you continue for weeks and weeks, you are protracting the argument.

Mnemonic: You may remember from geometry that a PROTRACTor is a device used to draw exact angles. A PROTRACTor allows you to PROTRACT a plan for the perfect catapult - perfect to use to end a PROTRACTed battle. Example: The ruling brings an end to a heated, PROTRACTed court case.


To postpone something for a while.

Mnemonic: When we keep something in the SHELVE, purpose is to keep it aside and use it when required, similarly when we SHELVE an issue we postpone it for a while. Example: Authorities have drawn up draft media bills in the past which were later SHELVEd.


When we table an issue, we tend to hold back to a later time

Example: They voted to TABLE the proposal until the following meeting.

DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL DEFER FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT

PROTRACT

ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING

SHELVE

WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER TABLE

Mnemonic/Example

To adjourn is to close a session of something, like at court. People also adjourn when they go to bed.

ADJOURN

BRAVE

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Infamy

DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSEHOOD

Mnemonic: IGNO(IGNORE)+miny(enemy)...so YOU ignore your enemy because you have a DEEP DISGRACE FOR HIM. Example: They suffered the Ignominy of defeat.


infamous for some bad quality or deed

Mnemonic: in(not) + fame = so when not in fame it could only mean disgrace. Example: They are seeking a sort of personal vindication through fame or, more precisely, Infamy.â€

Form: adj Tone: neg

wicked or criminal

Mnemonic: this sounds like ne(nephew)+farious(furious).so your nephew is very furious or cruel or violent Example: It's getting as profitable as selling dangerous illegal drugs, and many of the same Nefarious people are involved.

Form: adj Tone: neg

infamous for some bad quality or deed

Mnemonic: in(NOT GOOD OR BAD) +famous...FAMOUS for BEING NOT GOOD or Notorious Example: Mountain weather is Notoriously difficult to predict.

Nefarious

FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS

Notorious

Mnemonic/Example

public shame

DELAY /POSTPONE

FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL

Meaning

Form: noun Tone: neg Ignominy

BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE

Relation to Group

HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Legends: X

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Relation to Group

Mnemonic: Appu cry, fal (fruit): Apple is a crying fruit is a APOCRYPHAL Example: Most of the stories about him are APOCRYPHAL.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Choose the adjective dubious for something you have doubts about or you suspect is not true. That bridge you just "bought" might be of dubious value.

Mnemonic: Doubt DUBIOUS is doubtful Example: I am DUBIOUS about the wisdom of this action

Form: adj Tone: neg

The adjective erroneous describes something or someone as mistaken and incorrect. Early explorers had the erroneous notion that the oceans were full of dragons.

Mnemonic: ERRONEOUS sounds like ERROR and the meaning is also similar Example: The reporter's ERRONEOUS story was corrected by a new article that stated the truth.


Do you like to construct mini airplanes from kits? Work on an assembly line? Piece together Ikea furniture? Then you certainly know how to fabricate, or to put together, things.

Mnemonic: When the mattress fabric ate Johnny Depp in "A Nightmare on Elm Street", his mother was forced to clean up and make his bed again. Example: The evidence was totally FABRICATEd.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something fallacious is a mistake that comes from too little information or unsound sources. Predictions that the whole state of California will snap off from the rest of North America and float away have proven to be fallacious - for now, anyway.

Mnemonic: FALLACIOUS derived from FALLACY which is derived from FALSE Example: It is a fallacy to say that the camera never lies.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Illicit means not allowed by law or custom. An illicit drug trade is one that happens under the radar

Mnemonic: Silly Sit Silly is sitting and doing ILLICIT things. Example: The man

BRAVE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION

DUBIOUS

FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE

ERRONEOUS

GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED

FABRICATE

SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER FALLACIOUS

ILLICIT

Mnemonic/Example

Urban legends - stories about phantom hitchhikers, deep-fried rats, and spider eggs in bubblegum - are classic examples of apocryphal tales. They're told as if they're true, but no one can ever identify their origins.

APOCRYPHAL

DELAY /POSTPONE

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

of the law.

got caught with dangerous weapons and ILLICIT drugs

Form: adj Tone: neg

Whether you're talking about your attitude, a gigantic diamond, or that obnoxious guy's claims that he knows everything about quantum physics, you can use phony to say that somethingâ€™s not real.

Mnemonic: Eu: Good , Phony: sound so good sound. Example: Her poetry was full of euphony, and therefore very enjoyable to read aloud.


A sham is a fake. If you frequently order products advertised on late-night, hour-long television commercials, youâ€™ve probably ended up with at least one item that was a sham. All-purpose, industrial strength stain remover, anyone?

Mnemonic: Scam shyam always SHAM illness Example: She felt trapped in a SHAM of a marriage.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Use specious to describe an argument that seems to be good, correct, or logical, but is not so. We live on the earth, therefore the earth must be the center of the universe has been proven to be a specious theory of the solar system.

Mnemonic: Spec+ious => people with specs normally seem reasonable but end up being incorrect. * (no offense, just to remember) Example: This idea that we must see through what we have started is SPECIOUS, however good it may sound

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something false or inauthentic is spurious. Don't trust spurious ideas and stories. Spurious statements often are lies, just as a spurious coin is a counterfeit coin - a fake.

Mnemonic: SPURIOUS sounds like furious. You get furious when you hear SPURIOUS arguments Example: When his wife died, he became the victim of SPURIOUS rumors

PHONEY

SHAM

SPECIOUS

SPURIOUS

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Mendacity is a tendency to lie. Your friend might swear that he didn't eat your secret chocolate stash, but you'll find it hard to believe him if he's known for his mendacity.

Mnemonic: you require a special kind of mental audacity to think it's okay to lie to a police officer. Example: often politicians are accused of hypocrisy and MENDACITY


A defendant in a murder trial commits perjury when he swears he never met the murder victim before, even though he had a two-year relationship with her.

Mnemonic: Jury sanctioned charges due to his PERJURY Example: The witness is now facing charges of PERJURY. Root: Prefix PERrefers to THROUGH


A boy might use prevarication to avoid telling the whole truth about how the kitchen window got broken.

Mnemonic: Pre (Before) Varicate (varying): if you are varying from what you said before, you are lying. Pre + var (truth) + cate (fabricate) is to fabricate the truth, meaning to lie. Example: Some people believe that to prevaricate in a good cause is justifiable and regard the statement as a "white lie." Root: Prefix PRE refers to BEFORE


Veracity sounds like some kind of disease you don't want to catch, but in fact, it means truthfulness. If you question the veracity of a statement or story, you wonder whether it is truthful or accurate.

Mnemonic: Ver is root for Thruth. Veracity of Veer in city. Example: I can recommend him for this position because I have always found him veracious and reliable. Root: refix VER refers to TRUTH

MENDACITY

BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION

Relation to Group

PERJURY

FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE

PREVARICATION

NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER

X VERACITY

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ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE DELAY /POSTPONE

Form: adj Tone: neg

A craven man is no Superman or Spiderman, nor is he a firefighter or a soldier. A craven man is the opposite of those guys: he has not an ounce of courage.

Mnemonic: Opposite of Brave is CRAVEN Example: CRAVEN cowardice of the highest order.


When you cringe, your body language shows you don't like what you see and hear. You may even jerk your body away from the offensive sight or sound, like the movie Agneepath.

Mnemonic: Whether it's a song you hate or someone mentioning an embarrassing moment from the past, you CRINGE at things that are unpleasant. Example: She felt herself CRINGE with embarrassment at the memory.


The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz appeared at first to be easily daunted, but, in fact, he showed unusual courage.

Mnemonic: Haunt: Donâ€™t do this, an inner voice which make you DAUNT. DAUNT to go into haunted house. Example: I felt somewhat DAUNTed by the prospect of the long drive home


Flinch is often used to describe a person who shows a moment of weakness or fright: he was so tough, I thought he'd never flinch, but snakes really freak him out.

Mnemonic: Sounds like pinch , when you pinch, the skin FLINCHes. Example: She FLINCHed away from the dog; He FLINCHed at the sight of the death.


When you intimidate, you frighten or make someone afraid. A pet rat might intimidate

Mnemonic: You can see "timid" in the middle of INTIMIDATE, and to

FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD

FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS

CRINGE

HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL

DAUNT

UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Coward COWER when Cow (animal) cowed (terrorized) him Example: A gun went off and people COWERed behind walls and under tables.

CRAVEN

FEAR / LACKING COURAGE

Meaning To cower is to shrink in fear. Whether they live in the country or city, any mouse will cower when a huge, hungry cat approaches.

COWER

BRAVE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION

Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neut

FLINCH

your sister's friends, keeping them out of your fort.

be timid is to be frightened or to pull back from something. Example: Attempts to INTIMIDATE people into voting for them failed.


If you scare someone so much they can't move, you petrify them. Petrify is to make something like a stone or to literally turn to stone.

Mnemonic: More commonly, something petrifies a person or an animal when it scares them very much. Example: Just the thought of making a speech petrifies me.

Form: adj Tone: neg

You can describe someone who lacks courage as pusillanimous, such as a pusillanimous student who is too afraid to speak out against someone who is bullying others.

Mnemonic: Pussy animals: pussy cat like animals are coward Example: You should be ashamed of your PUSILLANIMOUS conduct during this dispute.


Shrink is the informal word you can use to talk about a therapist. Talking about your problems with her can hopefully help you shrink them, or make them smaller.

Mnemonic: SHRINK also means to reduce, our clothes get SHRINKED due to FEAR of WATER, so CLOTHES MOVE BACK COZ OF FEAR of water Example: My sweater shrank in the wash.


When plain old "fear" isn't enough to get across a deep feeling of dread about something on the horizon, use the more formal word trepidation.

Mnemonic: Trep is fear. Example: The sailors viewed the gathering storm clouds with TREPIDATION.

INTIMIDATE

PETRIFY

PUSILLANIMOUS

SHRINK

TREPIDATION

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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: verb Tone: POS

To articulate is to say something. And, if you say it well, someone might praise you by saying you are articulate.

Mnemonic: The Art of Calculating your speech while you presenting a paper at your college. Example: She struggled to ARTICULATE her thoughts.

Form: adj Tone: POS

Something coherent is logical and clear. "I told you if you didn't do your homework you couldn't watch TV. You didn't do your homework so you can't watch TV." This is a coherent argument

Mnemonic: c+o+her+rent--- HER RENT used to come CONSISTANTLY as she was in a good(LOGICAL) job Example: She only became COHERENT again two hours after the attack. Root: Prefix CO refers to TOGETHER or WITH

Form: adj Tone: POS

An eloquent speaker expresses herself clearly and powerfully.

Mnemonic: Eloquence sounds like fluency. Example: He was ELOQUENT when it came to addressing his office colleagues. Root: Prefix LOQ means to SPEAK

Form: verb Tone: POS

Can't get your point across? Maybe you just need to speak more clearly or articulate your thoughts better - in short, enunciate.

Mnemonic: The word ENUNCIATE is related to the Latin words for both "announce" and "messenger." Example: She ENUNCIATEd each word slowly and carefully.

Form: adj Tone: POS

The word glib might be used to describe the slick car salesman who uses his polished sales pitch to talk his customers into buying lemons.

Mnemonic: GLIB sounds like Ghalib..his shayeri was slick and fluent. Example: He is a GLIB salesman.

Form: adj Tone: NEG

If you have to recite Shakespeare and you do so haltingly or selfconsciously, then you have given a labored performance.

Mnemonic: labor is something done with lots of effort. Example: The movie looks labored and slow by today's standards.

ARTICULATE


COHERENT

FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE

ELOQUENT

NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL

ENUNCIATE

UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER GLIB

x LABORED

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Relation to Group

Be careful when you are buying jewelry or watches. If you are going to buy a diamond ring, you want an authentic diamond and not glass. That would be authentic glass but a fake diamond!

Mnemonic: AUTHENTICate with a ticket, it proves you are genuine Example: My little sister told me that the Eiffel Tower is about 10,000 feet high," when in fact it's 1,063 feet tall.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you painted an uncanny copy of the "Mona Lisa" and tried to pass it off as the original, you'd have a counterfeit on your hands.

Mnemonic: contrameans in opposition, facere means make; making a product for a different (opposing) reason; a counterfeit is an imitation of something valuable Example: Are you aware these notes are counterfeit?

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you create a "diamond" out of plastic, then youâ€™ve created a factitious diamond, meaning that itâ€™s a phony.

Mnemonic: Most facts are factitious. Fictitious .. is always artificial Example: Bollywood actresses often create factitious tears by using glycerin

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something legitimate is the real deal according to the law.

Mnemonic: LEGITIMATE is like legible that is something that is logical and lawful Example: It seemed like a perfectly LEGITIMATE question.

Form: adj Tone: pos

"The trees and lights turned the campus into a veritable wonderland" means that the campus seemed to be transformed into a true wonderland (if there is such a thing).

Mnemonic: Ver means TRUE â€¦so something that is truly able is VERITABLE. Example: The meal that followed was a VERITABLE banquet.

AUTHENTIC


COUNTERFEIT (X)


FACTITIOUS (X)

ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED

LEGITIMATE


VERITABLE

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ACCUSE ALERT

ABYSMAL

Relation to Group

BRAVE

Form: adj Tone: neg

If it's raining and dark, Mnemonic: Leak makes it you might describe the cold BLEAK chances, that it night as bleak. will leak His roof leaked and he is BLEAKâ€¦cold and depressed Example: No doubt it is also BLEAK in the winter.

Form: adj Tone: neg

A cloudy day, a sad song about lost love, your downbeat mood after your team loses a big game - all of these can be called gloomy.

Mnemonic: Have you ever been called a GLOOMY Gus? If so, you must have been acting depressed or sulky. But you aren't the first to be called that - after all, GLOOMY Gus was a comic book character Example: There was a GLOOMY silence in the room.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Also your face after your teacher hands back an exam you failed. Somber is used to describe situations, facial expressions, or moods that are dark, gloomy, or depressing.

Mnemonic: Something that is somber is often thought of as "in shadow," as in "the shadow of grief," or "the shadow of a bad mood. Example: Funerals and burials tend to be very somber occasions

Form: adj Tone: neg

Dark and dismal

Mnemonic: STYGIAN sounds like dungeon both related to bottom hell wherein darkness thrives. Example: She was STYGIAN in her appearance yesterday

BLEAK

DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE

GLOOMY

FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL

SOMBRE

PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL

Mnemonic/Example

If one person shows up Mnemonic: Abis to your party, well Mal(Aladdin) was ABYSMAL then that is an in nature abysmal turnout. Example: His manners are ABYSMAL.


Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

STYGIAN

UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Legends: X

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Mnemonic: Lakme is at ACME: top beauty product Example: His work is considered the ACME of cinematic art.


When there's no mountain left to climb and nothing but blue sky above, you know you've reached the highest peak - the apex.

Mnemonic: APEX = climax = MAX Example: An actor who wins an Oscar can say she's reached the APEX of her career.


A crest is a showy tuft of feathers on the head of a bird. It's easy to identify a male cardinal by its bright red color and the tufted crest on its head.

Mnemonic: CREST is like Crust i.e upper part/highest point of that wave. Example: They've been on the CREST of the wave ever since their election victory.


Going as far into the sky as you can go on foot, you'll reach the highest point, or pinnacle, of the Himalayas. A successful climb like that might also become the pinnacle, or peak, of your success.

Mnemonic: Pineapple juice is PINNACLE of juices Example: He had reached the PINNACLE of his career.


What better place for the mountain climbing summit than on the summit of the mountain.

Mnemonic: sum+mitâ€” imagine you SUM your gre score(quant+verbal) and think of getting into MIT school, i.e., HIGHEST or TOPMOST POINT you can get into Example: This path leads to the SUMMIT.


Making a momentous life decision with great uncertainty, like enrolling in clown college, might feel like jumping into the abyss.

Mnemonic: the abyss referred to the "bottomless pit" of Hell. Example: They took a long look into the abyss before deciding whether to jump.


If a highly forgetful person loses his phone, his wallet, and then his car keys in

Mnemonic: Nadir sounds like Na + Gir meaning from where

BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION

APEX

FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE

CREST

FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE

PINNACLE

NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL

SUMMIT

UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER

Mnemonic/Example

When something is at the very peak of perfection, reach for this noun from Greek: acme. A brilliant violinist might reach the acme of her career, but eventually she might become unstrung.

ACME

BRAVE

Meaning


X ABYSS

X NADIR

ZENITH


separate instances all in one day, you could say that he has reached an organizational nadir. This means â€œlowest point.â€

one cannot fall that is the lowest point. Example: The nadir of David's life came in a brief two month period when his wife left him, he got fired, he lost the lease on his apartment, and his dog died.

Zenith means the high point. The sun reaches its zenith when it is as high in the sky as it is going to go on that day.

Mnemonic: Jannat is at ZENITH Example: His career is now at its ZENITH.

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BRAVE

Mnemonic: Ab means away from normal path and that is what ABSURD means Example: â€œthe ABSURD excuse that the dog ate his homeworkâ€

Form: adj Tone: neg

Atypical means outside of typeâ €”an atypical suburban town might be populated by zombies in damp caves.

Mnemonic: A (not) typical Example: Women, he noted, are more likely than men to have socalled ATYPICAL heart attack symptoms - like unexplained shortness of breath, nausea or weakness. Root: Prefix A-refers to WITHOUT

Form: adj Tone: neg

If your teacher walked into class wearing a purple boa, cat's eyes glasses and three inch heels, you might comment, "How bizarre!"

Mnemonic: Bizzare sounds like Bazar. we all know how noisy, and stange it becomes to visit a big bazar, where you are clueless where to go and what to buy. Example: Unpredictable behavior is often called BIZARRE - like when your teacher conducts a lesson in Pig Latin.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Ludicrous things are funny, absurd, or nonsensical. If someone says something silly or far-fetched, you could say "That's ludicrous!"

Mnemonic: Ridiculous and LUDICROUS are same. Example: It was LUDICROUS to think that plan will succeed.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Driving around the city in a golf cart and eating spaghetti with pineapple sauce are both examples of outlandish behavior.

Mnemonic: Out + Landish => the one who is from some other land. Means unconventional and bizarre to our land Example: This idea is not as OUTLANDISH as it seems.

Form: adj Tone: neg

To a vegetarian, the idea of eating a 52-ounce T-bone steak would seem preposterous absolutely absurd.

Mnemonic: Pre (before) Post (after) both in one word, pre+post+erous seems ABSURD. Example: a chef who is asked to cook with

DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION

ATYPICAL

FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT

BIZARRE

ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL

LUDICROUS

UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER OUTLANDISH

PREPOSTEROUS

Mnemonic/Example

Something absurd is really silly, absolutely ridiculous, or total nonsense.

ABSURD

BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

nothing but jelly beans might exclaim, "That's PREPOSTEROUS!" Root: Prefix PRE refers to BEFORE Form: adj Tone: neg

UNCANNY

If you hear strange music echoing through your attic, you might refer to it as positively uncanny.

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Mnemonic: If something is UNCANNY, it is so mysterious, strange, or unfamiliar that it seems supernatural.prefix un"not" and canny "fortunate, safe." Example: You have the UNCANNY knack of reading my innermost thoughts.

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Domestic work is work done in the home. Domestic is also used to refer to products that are produced in your country, or policies and affairs that relate to your country.

Mnemonic: I'm not a very DOMESTIC sort of person. Example: Then an establishment newspaper offered him a columnwriting about foreign, but not DOMESTIC, affairs.


Though Switzerland is known for its chocolates, chocolate, which comes from the cocoa plant, is indigenous to South America.

Mnemonic: Indigeneous sounds like indian+geniuses.....native or local talent or genius.... Example: An INDIGENOUS ceremony or religion is one traditionally used by a certain group of people. Root: Prefix IN means INTO.


Something so unusual that it must be from some unfamiliar place is exotic. An exotic pet might be a panda, instead of a hamster.

Mnemonic: Exotic Destinations/ Exotic Islands: TV show Example: He travelled around the globe to collect rare and exotic plant species.

DOMESTIC


INDIGENOUS


X EXOTIC

ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Legends: X

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ACCUSE ALERT

Relation to Group

Mnemonic: "What walks on four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, and three in the evening?" The answer is "A person": crawling as a child, walking as an adult, and using a cane in old age. Example: Oil, in short, is an essential CONUNDRUM of our lives.


"White bunny. Moon. Square." Do you understand what that means? Of course not! It's totally cryptic. Cryptic comments are hard to understand because they seem to have a hidden meaning.

Mnemonic: A Roman Script will be difficult to comprehend and hence it may be called CRYPTIC. Example: I shall be careful in future not to make my remarks so CRYPTIC. Root: The root CRYPT means HIDDEN


Take the noun, enigma, for something that is a puzzle or a mystery. Why do you have to learn difficult words like this? That is an enigma.

Mnemonic: Who havent heard the tunes of ENIGMA, also, no one has ever seen the members of ENIGMAâ €¦Band members are still remain in Enig Example: To me he has always been an ENIGMA, one minute completely insensitive, the next moved to tears

Form: adj Tone: neg

When you garble something, you warp or distort it, making it hard to understand. Talking with marbles in your mouth is one sure way of garbling your speech.

Mnemonic: While he was Gargeling he spoke with GARBLEd words Example: So imagine a sentence so scrambled that you have to sort through each word, trying to figure out what everything means.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Any person or thing that's mysterious, mystifying, hard to read, or impossible to interpret is

Mnemonic: Its INSCRUTABLE to tight screw in table Example: The killer left no clues, and the

CONUNDRUM

BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR

CRYPTIC

GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE

ENIGMA

SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER GARBLE

INSCRUTABLE

Mnemonic/Example

The tricky word conundrum is used to describe a riddle or puzzle, sometimes including a play on words or pun.


Meaning


inscrutable.You ever notice how it's hard to tell what some people are thinking? Those folks are inscrutable.

murder remains an INSCRUTABLE mystery


An intrigue is a secret plot. If you ever become the monarch of a small island kingdom, keep watch for signs of any intrigue against you.

Mnemonic: INTRIGUE - tri(tricky) + gue(game) - tricky game Example: The idea INTRIGUEd her.


A labyrinth is a structure with many connected paths or passages in which it is hard to find your way. So a labyrinth is a complicated situation: our tax code is a labyrinth of rules and regulations.

Mnemonic: When you visit a huge library, you may lose your way in the process of finding your necessary books, so itâ€™s a LABYRINTH and a complicated situation altogether. Example: We lost our way in the LABYRINTH of streets.


a system of paths separated by walls or hedges built in a park or garden, that is designed so that it is difficult to find your way through

Mnemonic: MAZE sounds like haze. Haze or something hazzy is cloudy and hence confusing. So is the function of MAZE Example: The old city is a delightful MAZE for the modern tourist.


Runic writing consists of ancient characters that are tough to decipher. These days the word might better fit a doctor's signature or a confusing instruction manual.

Mnemonic: RUIN-IC.. Imagine going through newly discovered ruins of a civilization, it'll be enchanting and mysterious at the same time. Example: RUNIC inscriptions continue to have an air of mystery about them, because they're so hard to read.

INTRIGUE

LABYRINTH

MAZE

RUNIC

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BRAVE

Mnemonic: BOOR can be related to this hindi word BOORAâ€¦ a bad and rude person. Example: A BOOR would talk too loudly on the train.

Form: adj Tone: NEG

If you ask a salesperson with help finding something and all you get in response is a brusque "Everything's out on the shelves," it would be unfriendly, rude, and very brief.

Mnemonic: Brush and BRUSQUE are not related, but they sound similarâ€“when someone is BRUSQUE, you often feel that they are trying to give you the "brush off." Example: The doctor spoke in a BRUSQUE tone.

Form: adj Tone: NEG

Iâ€™m sorry to be curt, but let's get right to the point. You should use the adjective curt to describe a way of speaking thatâ €™s brief and blunt.

Mnemonic: It's CURTesy (courtesy) to not be rude and short in behavior Example: A CURT note of rejection arrived from the company director.

Form: adj Tone: NEG

If your teacher tells you to make your writing in your essay style terse and to the point, he's saying use as few words as you can and be simple and clear.

Mnemonic: TERSE...sounds like TERESA..Here all her achievements,efforts everything has been consolidated, confined and put into a single word "MOTHER" Example: The President issued a TERSE statement denying the charges.

DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION

BRUSQUE

FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR

CURT

GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING

Mnemonic/Example

A boor is a crude, rude person. Boors lack sophistication and manners

BOOR

BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE

Meaning

Form: noun Tone: NEG

TERSE

RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Relation to Group

If you are egocentric, the whole world centers on you and you don't pay much attention to other people. Are you even reading this?

Mnemonic: Ego is self and Centric means center of attraction. So a person who is self-centered is Ego Centric. Example: Young children are usually EGOCENTRIC because they haven't learned other forms of behavior. Root: Prefix EGO is SELF


A self-centered person is egotist.

Mnemonic: A person who is concerned with ones self only. SELF is EGO. Example: You need to be an EGOTIST to succeed in politics.


The noun narcissist refers to someone intensely concerned with only his or her own self or interests and who seems to forget that others exist.

Mnemonic: NARCISSIST has emerged from the word Narcissus was a hunter who was exceptionally beautiful and also just as proud of his looks, ignoring other people around him. Example: A NARCISSIST is his own best friend.

Form: adj Tone: neg

A self-deprecating person knows her own weaknesses and shortcomings and isn't afraid to point them out, often in a humorous way.

Mnemonic: Some people are egotistical, always talking about how great they are. The opposite type of person is selfdeprecating, dwelling on his own faults. Example: He gave a selfdeprecating shrug.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone who's self-effacing is shy and likes to stay out of the spotlight, shunning attention and praise.

Mnemonic: If someone says you did a great job and you say, "It was nothing," that's selfeffacing. Efface mean to erase, so when you tend to erase yourself from different situations its selfeffacing. Example: He was a shy, self-effacing man.


EGOCENTRIC

BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL EGOTIST FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS

NARCISSIST

HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED

SELFDEPRECATORY (X)


SELFEFFACING (X)

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Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

Take the adjective, coy, for a person who pretends to be shy but really isn't, or someone who could give a definite answer but won't. Coy behavior can be playful or just plain annoying.

Mnemonic: COY Boy (shy boy) Example: But the former finance minister remains COY on the timing of the vote.


Your diffidence might be the reason why you never say "hi" to the cute guy or gal in the elevator or why you never ask for a raise.

Mnemonic: Confidence DIFFIDENCE is lack of confidence .Diffident is not confident. Example: With habitual DIFFIDENCE she handed a new manuscript to me


An introvert is person who is wrapped up in herself. If you are extremely shy and would rather examine your feelings in your diary than have a conversation, then you are an introvert.

Mnemonic: The word INTROVERT comes from Latin intro-, for inward, and vertere, for turning. Example: He was described as an INTROVERT, a reserved man who spoke little.


If you're reserved, you're the opposite of a loudmouth or a cut-up: you're polite, you have a lot of self-control, and you don't show your feelings.

Mnemonic: RESERVED attitude. Remains quiet and to himself. Example: He was unemotional, quiet, quiet, and RESERVED.


If you are a retiring person, you avoid being at the center of attention. You can often be found in the library and other quiet places, and if someone compliments you.

Mnemonic: After RETIRING people has a RETIRING personality. Example: Given Susan's RETIRING personality, no one expected her to take up public speaking.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Timid means "overly cautious or fearful," like a timid driver who drives very slowly or avoids highways altogether.

Mnemonic: TIMID (shy) + date. TIMID person going on date with boss and she inTIMIDate him. Example: Deer are naturally TIMID creatures.

COY

BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION

DIFFIDENCE

FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS

INTROVERT

HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE

RESERVED

SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER

RETIRING

TIMID


TIMOROUS

A timorous person is timid or shy, like your timorous friend who likes to hang out with close pals but gets nervous around big groups of new people.

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Mnemonic: Timor sounds like Tremor, which means shaking and that happens even when we are scared. And TIMOROUS is related to fearful. Example: She started delivering her speech with a TIMOROUS tone.

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ACCUSE ALERT

Relation to Group

Form: adverb Tone: neg/neut

without Mnemonic: wit is knowledge. knowledge or Witting means knowing intention something.UN(not)WITTING(knowing something) Example: She had broken the law UNWITTINGLY, but she had still broken it. Root: UN means NOT

INADVERTENTLY


Mnemonic/Example

Inadvertently is an adverb that means "without knowledge or intent," like when you inadvertently take someone else's coat from the coatroom because it looks just like yours.


Meaning

Form: adverb Tone: neut

UNWITTINGLY

FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Legends: X

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Mnemonic: In advertisement there is no logic but still we buy the products Example: The teacher told her student, 'You're acting INADVERTENTLY, please pay attention


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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

You might have trouble finding a nondescript apartment building because it looks exactly like every other apartment building around it. So its something that is not special.

Mnemonic: Non + Describe : An ordinary object does not need to be described Example: The private detective was a short, NONDESCRIPT fellow with no outstanding features, the sort of person one would never notice in a crowd. Root: Suffix SCRIPT refers to WRITE

Form: adj Tone: pos

Keep your eye on the adjective conspicuous for something that stands out so much you notice it right away - like that zit in the center of your friend's forehead.

Mnemonic: If you are doing something wrong, it's wise not to be conspicuous about it! Example: Mary's red hair always made her conspicuous at school.

ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE

NONDESCRIPT

DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE

X CONSPICUOUS

GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Legends: X

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Relation to Group

Mnemonic: contag+iousâ €”CONTAG(contact) +iousâ €”something thatâ€™s SPREADS when comes in CONTACT with body or something; so something that SPREADS Example: His enthusiasm was CONTAGIOUS Root: Prefix CON means WITH or TOGETHER

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you want to underscore just how commonly found and present something is within a particular place, try the word endemic. Tight pants are endemic in my lunch room!

Mnemonic: Like epidemic disease, ENDEMIC is specific to a group. As discussed about epidemic and pandemic. Example: Food shortages and starvation are ENDEMIC in certain parts of the world.


An epidemic is a disease that spreads rapidly among many people in a community at the same time. In the 1980, the fast spreading AIDS epidemic transformed life on our planet.

Mnemonic: pandemic,EPIDEMIC,endemic....say pandemic is whole world,EPIDEMIC whole country and endemic is for a city or particular in a community Example: Effectively, tobacco companies will be exporting an EPIDEMIC of smoking-related diseases, the campaign suggests. Root: The root word DEM (I/O) refers to PEOPLE.


Remember the 2009 swine flu? That was a pandemic â €” an illness

Mnemonic: pan means all, demos means people; a PANDEMIC is a widespread outbreak of disease affecting all people Example: A flu PANDEMIC occurred three times in the last

CONTAGIOUS

BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE

ENDEMIC

GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD

EPIDEMIC

WORKING UNDER ANOTHER

PANDEMIC

Mnemonic/Example

You should probably postpone dinner if your date's cold is contagious â €” that means it's easily spread and likely to get you sick.


Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

Form: adj Tone: neg

RAMPANT

that swept over much of the globe.

century Root: Prefix PAN means ALL or EVERY.

Rampant means wild, out of control, to be up on your hind legs roaring at the world.

Mnemonic: RAM ka naam lekar public ko thagne waale BABA aaj kal RAMPANT ho gaye hain.....Taking God Rama's name and fooling around with people, all these Baba's have become RAMPANT these days. Example: The children ran RAMPANT at the supermarket even though their mother tried to control them. Root: Prefix PAN means ALL or EVERY.

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ACCUSE ALERT

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Relation to Group

Subordinate means putting one thing below another. We subordinate our desire for popcorn to our desire to keep watching the movie.

Mnemonic: Sub means lower and Ordinate sounds like order, so when someone is ordered to do something as he works under someone else, he is called a SUBORDINATE Example: In many societies women are SUBORDINATE to men. Root: Prefix SUB refers to UNDER


someones called an underling when they are lower in rank to someone else and take orders from them, and also when you do not respect someone

Mnemonic: UNDERLING has the word Under that itself means below someone. Example: He dishes out orders to his UNDERLING.


an actor who learns the part of another actor in a play so that they can play that part if necessary, so an extra is called an understudy.

Mnemonic: UNDERSTUDY sounds like studying under someone so that you can learn enough and practice the same role if required Example: She worked as an UNDERSTUDY to Meryl Streep.


SUBORDINATE


UNDERLING

FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT

UNDERSTUDY

ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Legends: X

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AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adverb Tone: neg

Relation to Group

If you go astray, you lose the path. If you went to college intending to become a doctor, but instead became interested in making violent video games, your parents might feel you have gone astray.

Mnemonic: A STRAY dog is a domestic animal found wandering. It is not in right direction to home. Example: We locked up our valuables so they would not go ASTRAY.

Form: adverb Tone: neg

When something goes wrong with a decent plan, you say it has gone awry. You accidentally forget your backpack in the airport? That's a mistake. That's when something has gone awry.

Mnemonic: Plan went AWRY, success went away Example: All my plans for the party had gone AWRY.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Circuitous means indirect or roundabout. If you're in a hurry to get to the hospital where your wife is having a baby, you want to take the straightest, fastest way, not a circuitous one!

Mnemonic: If your route goes around in complicated circuits, it's CIRCUITOUS, or windy and indirect Example: Because of the traffic congestion on the mainhighways, she took a CIRCUITOUS route.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you lack a definite plan or purpose and flit from one thing to another, your actions are desultory. Some people call such desultory wanderings spontaneous. Others call it "being lost."

Mnemonic: DESULTORY can be related to: Worse than going and insulting people from place to place is going around without a plan of insulting. Example: I wandered about in a DESULTORY fashion


If we're talking about science fiction, and you suddenly go off on a long tangent about the cost of grape soda, you digress. When a person digresses, they stray from the topic.

Mnemonic: Di -Away, Gress - step. DIGRESS is to move away from path. Due to Depression you need DIGRESSion from that matter. Example: To follow it, we must make a little DIGRESSion into the history of Bolshevism Root: Prefix DImeans ACROSS

APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE

ASTRAY

BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY FAT

AWRY

FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS

CIRCUITOUS

INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED

DESULTORY

STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL DIGRESS

Form: adj Tone: neg

If people accuse you of rambling from topic to topic in your speech or writing, they may say you have a discursive style â €” with changes in subject that are hard to follow.

Mnemonic: Cursive writing is not at centre, it is diverting from one side to another side. Example: The DISCURSIVE style of novel


Something divergent is moving away from what is expected. Two divergent paths are moving in opposite directions - away from each other.

Mnemonic: Things that are DIVERGENT are diverging - moving away from a path or a standard. A teacher who comes to work in a clown outfit is being DIVERGENT Example: We went through high school and college together, but then our paths diverged.


You ramble when your talking or your walking goes on and on and on. And on. Youâ€™re in no hurry to make a point or get to your destination â €” if there is one at all.

Mnemonic: Amble is to walk, RAMBLE is to walk aimlessly. Example: They RAMBLEd through the shops until closing time.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Tangential refers to something that's not part of the whole. If you make a comment that is tangential to the story you're telling, it's a digression. The story could still be understood without it.

Mnemonic: TANGENTIAL is like a Tangent Example: Although interesting, Christina's point was TANGENTIAL to the discussion

DISCURSIVE

DIVERGENT

RAMBLE

TANGENTIAL

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AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

A performance that's repeated or added to the regular performance is called an encore. If you're deaf from last night's concert, it might be because the band played for two hours and then did a thirty minute encore.

Mnemonic: ONCE MORE is ENCORE... (just rearrange letters ENCO to ONCE and you are there with it...) Example: She played a Chopin waltz as an ENCORE.


Hear that applause and cries of "Bravo"? Your audience is giving you an ovation, or praise for a great performance.

Mnemonic: On this Occasion he got standing OVATION Example: He was pleasantly surprised by the OVATION he received.


To pan a performance, book, or movie is to say that you think it stunk.

Mnemonic: Pan sounds like BAN , when a performance or book is criticized, at times it is banned from reading. Example: The television series was panned by critics and viewers alike.

ENCORE

BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY

OVATION

FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK

X PAN

IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL Legends: X

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Meaning Pretended

Mnemonic: AFFECTED.....past form of affect....affect..af+fect(FACT).SO SOMETHING which has nothing to do with facts....or reality hence ARTIFICIAL AND THE KEY WORD HERE IS FACT...reality..and opposite of it artificial Example: I had been quite scared by the dog but AFFECTED carelessness.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you see something that seems fake since it was too perfectly planned out, call it contrived. If you can easily predict the final minutes of a madefor-TV movie, then call it contrived.

Mnemonic: Con(not true, as in con artist, con job)+Try --not truly trying. Contri(ved) ie forced , artificial, not spontaneous Example: The book's happy ending seemed CONTRIVED.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something Example: It was a FARCICAL that's farcical trial. is ridiculously funny absurd, even. When you stumbled onstage, tripping over your costume and pulling down the backdrop, you brought a farcical element to the serious play.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If your grandmother describes you as mannered, she means you are very formal, observing all societyâ€™s


AFFECTED

BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE)

CONTRIVED

GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH

FARCICAL

TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Mnemonic: man in red is "not natural" Example: His prose style is far too MANNERED and selfconscious.

MANNERED

mandates. She might mean this positively, approving of your actions, or negatively, thinking you too formal. Form: verb Tone: neg

If you're accused of posturing though, that's a different story - that means you're behaving unnaturally to impress someone.

Example: The administration has adopted an aggressive POSTURE on immigration.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the adjective pretentious as a way to criticize people who try to act like they are more important or knowledgeable than they really are.

Mnemonic: PRETENTIOUS is someone who is Pretending Example: It was just an ordinary houseâ€”nothing PRETENTIOUS.

POSTURE

PRETENTIOUS

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


If your teacher says the term paper you handed in last week is a work of genius that sets a new gold standard for the school, he's telling you your work is the apotheosis of term papers. The epitome.

Mnemonic: apo = up/ above(raise) + theo(god)+ sis = is. So "god is above all in APOTHEOSIS belief". Example: Mona Lisa is the APOTHEOSIS of all paintings. Root: Prefix APO means AWAY FROM, FROM


An archetype is a perfect example of something. If you have blond hair, a perfect size six body and are on the cheerleading squad, you're the archetype of a high school cheerleader.

Mnemonic: Archies type comics are ARCHETYPE Example: She is the ARCHETYPE of an American movie star.


To embody a role is to fill it completely. If a high schooler seems to embody the character of Macbeth, his performance might make the audience forget they're watching a dorky 15-year-old with braces.

Mnemonic: Imagine someone whose body is crushed and replaced with a letter m - the 'm' body stands as a representative of his body. Example: He is a politician who embodied the hopes of black youth


If you're talking about a typical example of something, call it the epitome. The cartoon character Garfield is the epitome of the fat, lazy, food-obsessed cat.

Mnemonic: Happy Tom: is a perfect example of Tom and Jerry Example: He is the EPITOME of goodness.


If you exemplify something, you're the perfect example of it. Say you wear frilly shirts, kneehigh boots, and black eye-make-up you exemplify the fashion world's

Mnemonic: EXEMPLIFY is nothing but EXAMPLE. Example: His food exemplifies Italian cooking at its best. Root: Suffix -Y always means A STATE of something

APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE

APOTHEOSIS

COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE)

ARCHETYPE

FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE

EMBODY

POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW

EPITOME

TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL

EXEMPLIFY

obsession with pirates. Form: noun Tone: pos

A paradigm is a standard, perspective, or set of ideas. A paradigm is a way of looking at something.

Mnemonic: Dime coin is PARADIGM for US currency Example: The war was a PARADIGM of the destructive side of human nature.


Paragon applies to someone who is a model of perfection in some quality or trait. We link paragon with other words that follow it, such as "paragon of virtue" or "paragon of patience."

Mnemonic: You rub the gold on the touchstone and you can find out how good the gold is. You are hoping that it is the PARAGON of "goldness." Example: He wasn't the PARAGON of virtue she had expected.


To personify is to give something lifeless human-like qualities - like when Emily Dickinson wrote, "Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me..."

Mnemonic: person+infy(infosys):infosys recruit only quality people. Example: These children PERSONIFY all that is wrong with the education system. Root: Suffix -Y always means A STATE of something


A precedent is something that sets a standard for future events. It's hard to say what the legal community would do without the word precedent, since so many legal judgments and decisions are based on what came before.

Mnemonic: PRECEDENT pre(before)+ cedent(incident), an incident happened before which will decide the following incident. Example: The ruling set a PRECEDENT for future libel cases. Root: Prefix PRE means BEFORE.


A prototype is the original model, like a sample on which to base future designs. A company designing a new toaster will first design and build a prototype, to test it out and see if it's any good.

Mnemonic: Type of somethingâ€¦. Example: Scientists have developed a working PROTOTYPE for a voice translation machine. Root: Prefix PROTO means FIRST

PARADIGM

PARAGON

PERSONIFY

PRECEDENT

PROTOTYPE

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Mnemonic: CONCURRENT can be related to Co(together) occurant (something that takes place). Example: He was imprisoned for two CONCURRENT terms of 30 months and 18 months. Root: Prefix CON means TOGETHER.


Confluence means a flowing together. In a literal sense, it's about rivers. But it's more often used to talk about the coming together of factors or ideas, or of cultures in a diverse city.

Mnemonic: CONFLUENCE can be remembered as you bring people together by means of your influence. Example: the CONFLUENCE of the Blue Nile and the White Nile Root: Prefix CON means TOGETHER.


Two roads, a roomful of politicians, or a group of rabid fans - when things come together from different points they converge.

Mnemonic: CONVERGE sounds like Come and merge. Example: Thousands of supporters CONVERGEd on Washington, D.C. for the rally. Root: Prefix CON means TOGETHER.

ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE CONCURRENT

COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE)

CONFLUENCE

GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE

Mnemonic/Example

Concurrent means happening at the same time, as in two movies showing at the same theater on the same weekend.

APPLAUSE BEST EXAMPLE

Meaning


CONVERGE

SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


To "inter" a body is to bury it or place it in a mausoleum, so to disinter someone is to take the body out again - usually to find out how they died, to make sure it's really who we think it is, or to move the body to a new burial site.

Mnemonic: Inter is to bury DISINTER is to dig out. Dis is NOT . Example: The actor's autobiography DISINTERred a past era. Root: Prefix DISmeans NOT/ APART.


To excavate is to remove or find by digging. If you have rocky soil in your garden, you may have to excavate it to remove the rocks and replace them with additional soil.

Mnemonic: Try to remember EXCAVATE in this way: eight eggs dig out a cave and are known as the eggs cave eight. Example: The site has been EXCAVATEd by archaeologists. Root: Prefix EXmeans OUT OF, FROM


When you see your mysterious neighbor digging around in his backyard, you may wonder if heâ€™s trying to exhume something. Chances are heâ€™s only digging up potatoes - when you exhume something, it means youâ€™re digging up a corpse.

Mnemonic: Exhuman, dig out (EXHUME) human from ground Example: They insisted not to EXHUME that old argument in the party. Root: Prefix EXmeans OUT OF, FROM


You may be familiar with ferrets, those adorable little mammals that look like cheap minks. Well, the verb to ferret means to act like a ferret: to dig for something until you find it.

Mnemonic: FERRET my Parrot FERRET the FERRET, kaunsa FERRET hai mera (trying to find out from a flock of parrots) Example: She opened the drawer and FERRETed around for her keys.


To unearth something is to dig it up. You could unearth a coffin, or even a tee shirt buried in the bottom of a drawer.

Mnemonic: un(not)+earth the minerals which are not present in surface of earth is found BY DIGGING Example: When they UNEARTHed the city, the archeologists found many relics of


DISINTER

BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE)

EXCAVATE

FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT

EXHUME

PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW

FERRET


UNEARTH

an ancient civilization. Form: verb Tone: neut

make plain or clear; solve

Mnemonic: Un (not) + Ravel is to complicate. Paresh Rawal Ravel the story Example: It also helped UNRAVEL longstanding mysteries such as exactly how ozone degrades and rust forms.


Inter means to bury, usually in a tomb or grave. If you loved your cat a lot, you might want to inter her remains in the back yard and make a nice little memorial.

Mnemonic: Inter is to bury. Example: The princess was interred on an island in the middle of a lake.

UNRAVEL

X INTER

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


To resound is to echo with sounds, usually loudly. When you sing in the shower, your voice resounds.

Mnemonic: Re means to REPEAT. So the sound that keeps repeating is RESOUND. Example: If you've ever heard a ring announcer, the microphone helps his or her voice RESOUND to the crowd. Root: RE is to REPEAT


If you give a loud shout in a cavernous place, like a gym, or a church, the sound of your voice will reverberate throughout the room. Reverberate means an echo.

Mnemonic: Re is to REPEAT and verbate can be equated to vibrate. So a sound that keeps on vibrating, its REVERBERATE. Repetitive Re Vibration (echo) produces echo. Example: The thunder REVERBERATEd across the valley. Root: RE is to REPEAT


RESOUND


REVERBERATE

FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL Legends: X

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Meaning Secular things are not religious. Anything not affiliated with a church or faith can be called secular.

Mnemonic: we say india is a SECULAR country--- means india has combination of many religions, not a fixed religion, there are hindu, muslims ,Christian, jain Example: Ours is a SECULAR society. Root: Prefix SEC mean CUT.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Secular, lay, or civil, as opposed to any particular religion.

Mnemonic: TEMPORAL and Mortal are rhyming words with the same meaning i.e something that is temporary, that does not last forever. Example: Although spiritual leader of millions of people, the Pope has no TEMPORAL power. Root: Prefix TEMP means TIME.

SECULAR


Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

TEMPORAL

FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL Legends: X

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Corpulent is a formal word that describes a fat person. If you are trying to be respectful when describing a fat man, you might refer to him as a "corpulent gentleman."

Mnemonic: cor+pulent (Car Puller) one who is capable of pulling a car i.e. a large fat man Example: Mrs. George donner was in good health was somewhat CORPULENT and certainly able to travel. Root: Prefix CORP means BODY


The girth of something is the distance around its middle, and it usually refers to a personâ€™s waist. If you get pregnant with twins, your girth will probably block your view of your toes.

Mnemonic: He is a GIRTH of Earth Example: The man of enormous GIRTH. A tree one meter in GIRTH .

Form: adj Tone: neg

Obese means excessively fat. In medical terms, it means you have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more, at which point your body's excess fat begins to threaten your health.

Mnemonic: OBESE can be used as very fat so OBviously not at EASE. Example: OBESE patients are given dietary advice.


Don't call someone fat. Be nice, and call them portly. Portly is just one of several words that are kinder than "fat," including "stout," "heavy," and "pleasingly plump."

Mnemonic: PORKY the pig is PORTLY... Example: The salesclerk tactfully referred to the overweight customer as PORTLY rather than fat


short and thick

Mnemonic: Kuwait people are SQUAT Example: As he was SQUAT, he was easily noticeable in a team having lean players.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Stout describes something fat, dependable, or rugged. If someone calls you stout, ask them exactly what they mean before bursting into tears and skipping dinner. It could be a compliment!

Mnemonic: Most supermodels would not want to be described as STOUT, which is often a nicer way of saying "fat." Example: She is getting too STOUT for her dresses.

APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER

CORPULENT

DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE)

GIRTH

GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT

OBESE

PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED

PORTLY

STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE

SQUAT

WEAK / THIN / TALL

STOUT

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Meaning Behest is an authoritative command or request. If your boss or principal asks to see you, you go to their office at their behest.

Mnemonic: BEHEST can be split as Be (become) + Haste (fast) when you are called by your boss, because it is his command/BEHEST. Example: He went at the king's BEHEST.


If you're begging for something but you want to sound formal and a little old-fashioned, say "I beseech you!" It really captures how urgent and desperate you are, yet saves a shred of your dignity.

Mnemonic: BESEECH sounds a little like seek, which is appropriate. To BESEECH is to seek for something, or for permission. Example: Let him go, I BESEECH you!


to ask somebody for food, money, etc. especially because you cannot or do not want to pay for something yourself

Mnemonic: Imagine begging somebody for a ride. "Can I catch (CADGE) a ride with you?" Example: I managed to CADGE some money off my dad.


To cajole someone is to persuade them by using insincere compliments or promises. If you say "Please, pretty-please, I'll be your best friend," when asking for a candy, you are cajoling him.

Example: The salesman will CAJOLE the couple into buying the stereo.


"Ain't too proud to beg" is what the word entreaty is all about. When you make an entreaty, you're begging or pleading for something.

Mnemonic: We often have to entreat a person to give us a treat Example: She held up her arms in ENTREATY. Root: Prefix EN means IN


You might ask your friend for a loan if you're short a few bucks, but if the bank is about to foreclose on your house you'll implore your friend for the money, desperately begging for the cash so you can keep your house.

Mnemonic: Beggars IMPLORE for money sitting on floor Example: They IMPLOREd him for forgiveness.

BEHEST

BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY

BESEECH

FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK

CADGE

IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED

CAJOLE

SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW

ENTREATY


IMPLORE

Mnemonic/Example



to importune is to beg, but use it only when you're talking about going beyond mere begging into more urgent territory. The woman importuned the judge to release her innocent brother from jail.

Mnemonic: Im means NOT and -portune sounds like Fortune (fate and money both). So a person lacking or not having enough money and a good fortune has to beg from others and is called IMPORTUNE. Example: After a year of being IMPORTUNEd (persuasion), dad let me have the car. Root: Prefix IM means NOT


If you donâ€™t get the grade you were hoping for on your paper, you could try to rewrite it, or you could meet with your teacher and supplicate. Your humble requests for an â€Ãâ€™ may or may not work.

Mnemonic: Imagine a cat supply teacher, a supply cat, who has no idea how to teach and has to beg for help Example: He SUPPLICATEd her girlfriend to get back to him after cheating on her


To wheedle is to sweet talk, or flatter someone in the hopes of getting something in return. You might try to wheedle a meter maid into not giving you a parking ticket.

Mnemonic: WHEEDLE sounds like Needle. She WHEEDLEd Needle from doctor Example: I WHEEDLEd a new car out of my father.

IMPORTUNE

SUPPLICATE

WHEEDLE

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AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE

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Coercion is making something happen by force, like when bullies use coercion to make kids give them their lunch money.

Mnemonic: COERCIVE forces in physics Example: The police might use COERCION, too, to get a confession.


You don't want to be compelled to go to a classical music concert if you'd rather listen to rap. Compel means to force or drive someone to do something.

Mnemonic: School officials might be upset if a winter storm COMPELs them to cancel classes Example: The law can COMPEL fathers to make regular payments for their children.


Let's say you have a secret. You've promised not to tell, but there's something forcing you to call a friend and spill the beans. This force is compulsion, that urge to do something even though you know you shouldn't.

Mnemonic: Compusion is to comply or agree to something when you are forced to. Example: COMPULSION for employers in contributing to their employees pension funds.


To extort is to use information or the threat of violence to acquire cash or something else. Extortion is a classic shakedown, a gouge, a squeeze.

Mnemonic: Ex Tort (Torture) get money by threats Example: The kidnappers EXTORTed a 2 lakh ransom for his release.


something that encourages, urges, or drives.

Mnemonic: GOAD = goat. Imagine a huge Goat which always inspires you to think that humans could eat grass for their living Example: When GOADed beyond endurance, she turned on him and hit out.


When you urge, and literally force your mother to sign the marksheet since you have scored very less and itâ€™s the Principals command, its

Mnemonic: PRESS is to force. Example: They had PRESSed for their children to be taught French.

COERCION

ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO

COMPEL

EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS

COMPULSION

INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE

EXTORT

SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE

GOAD

WEAK / THIN / TALL

PRESS

PRESSING her to do so. Form: verb Tone: neg

X DISSUADE

When you dissuade someone, you convince that person not to do something: â€œWhen Caroline saw Peter's broken leg, she tried to dissuade him going on the ski trip.â€

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Mnemonic: Remember the meaning of dissuade (discourage) by comparing it to its more common relative persuade (to force or urge) Example: I tried to dissuade him from giving up his job. Root: Prefix DIS means APART/ NOT

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Use the noun, catharsis, to refer to the experience a person can have of releasing emotional tension and feeling refreshed afterwards.

Mnemonic: CATHA sounds like KATHA(a religious story in hindi)..KATHA leads to the purging(means release) of emotional tensions. Example: Aristotle maintained that tragedy created a CATHARSIS by purging the soul of base concepts.


To exorcise is to cast out a devil or evil spirit, using prayer and other religious tools. You're probably familiar with the name of the person who does this: an exorcist.

Mnemonic: EXORCISE sounds like "exercise," which means to work out or train your body or mind. Casting out devils is hard work, so be sure to exercise before you EXORCISE. Example: The ghost was EXORCISEd from the house. Root: EX means OUT OF/FROM


To expurgate is to censor. Usually, people talk about expurgating bad words from something written or on TV. For Instance, the BIG BOSS, contestents have been asked not to use curse words.

Mnemonic: exmeans out, purgare means cleanse; EXPURGATE means change the tone of a text by removing words Example: On TV, if you hear some words bleeped out, those words have been EXPURGATEd. Root: EX means OUT OF/FROM


To purge is to get rid of something or someone, and often itâ€™s done suddenly.

Mnemonic: PURGE rhymes with urge, and when you have a really strong urge to throw stuff away or clean something out, you have an urge to PURGE. Example: His first act as leader was to PURGE the party of extremists.


CATHARSIS

COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE

EXORCISE

IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE

EXPURGATE

SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL

PURGE

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A hallmark is a distinctive characteristic of something or someone. That can mean a literal symbol on the bottom of a piece of pottery, or just a rock star's signature hair style.

Mnemonic: A basketball player could say that coming to practice early is a HALLMARK of her success Example: Police said the explosion bore all the HALLMARKs of a terrorist attack.


A milestone is a significant event in your life. Often a milestone marks the start of a new chapter. For example, the day you graduated from high school was a milestone in your life.

Mnemonic: a MILESTONE victory or a company's sales MILESTONE. Example: He said the launch of the party represented a MILESTONE in Zambian history.


A watershed is a turning point, or historic moment. The day you got your braces off might have been a watershed moment in your life.

Example: The middle decades of the 19th century marked a WATERSHED in Russia's history


HALLMARK


MILESTONE

FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK

WATERSHED

IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL Legends: X

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If you adulterate something, you mess it up. You may not want to adulterate the beauty of freshly fallen snow by shoveling it, but how else are you going to get to work?

Mnemonic: ADULTERATE sounds like: Adult rate, adult are impure than children so adults are adultrated Example: Food adulteration is a big problem in developing countries.


The verb contaminate means the same as pollute. Whether itâ€™s food, air, or water, when you contaminate something, you make it impure or hazardous.

Mnemonic: If your coke has got tab in it the coke is made impure Example: The drinking water has become CONTAMINATEd with lead.


A miasma is a cloud of Mnemonic: You could foul-smelling vapor, like describe the MIASMA swamp gas. of a hot summer day, but you'd be thinking of the stench of uncollected garbage and exhaust fumes, not the smell of summer flowers Example: a MIASMA of cigarette smoke.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something noxious is harmful and could be even fatal - whether it is colorless, odorless, and invisible like carbon monoxide, or dark, strong-smelling, and obvious, like black smoke from a fire.

Mnemonic: NOXIOUS can be split in two parts: No+ Oxygenâ €¦in the air is really harmful. Example: His cologne was so NOXIOUS I had to exit the elevator and take the stairs

Form: adj Tone: neg

Danger! Hazardous! Do not eat! These are just some of the warnings you'll see on toxic substances - meaning stuff that's poisonous and even deadly.

Mnemonic: TOXIC is related to the word toxin, which is a kind of poison. Cobra bites, wild mystery mushrooms and strong chemicals are all TOXIC. Example: Many pesticides are highly TOXIC.


As some sneaky fiveyear-olds know,

Mnemonic: VITIATE the effect of Vish


ADULTERATE


CONTAMINATE

FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED

MIASMA

INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH

NOXIOUS

TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL TOXIC

crossing oneâ€™s fingers while making a promise is an effective way to vitiate, or destroy the validity of, an agreement.

VITIATE

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(Poison) Example: The â €œyesâ€ vote was VITIATEd by the low turnout in the election.

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Mnemonic: Genetic mismatches lead to CONGENITAL diseases. Example: Half of all fetuses with the syndrome have a CONGENITAL heart defect.


When you're entrenched, you're dug in. Sometimes that means you're literally in a trench, but usually it means you just won't budge from a position or belief.

Mnemonic: If you establish something by digging a trench you are in trench Example: Having turkey on Thanksgiving is a tradition that's ENTRENCHED in American culture it's long been established and isn't going anywhere


Use the adjective inherent for qualities that are considered permanent or cannot be separated from an essential character.

Mnemonic: INHERENT is always in here. Itâ€™s a rule that if you want to stay in here, at our house you have to pay a monthly rent. Example: It has, however, highlighted the difficulties INHERENT in this process


If a characteristic or ability is already present in a person or animal when they are born, it is innate. People have the innate ability to speak whereas animals do not.

Mnemonic: He always ate in inn, thatâ€™s his INNATE (inborn) habit Example: He possess an INNATE knowledge of right and wrong Root: Prefix IN means INTO


The intrinsic qualities of something have to do with its nature. An intrinsic quality of dogs is that they're loyal.

Mnemonic: INTRINSIC is internal, within. Example: Generosity was an INTRINSIC part of her nature

CONGENITAL


ENTRENCHED

FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE

INHERENT

SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE

INNATE

UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL

INTRINSIC

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Mnemonic/Example

Congenital refers to something present at birth but not necessarily inherited from the parents. Babies with heart disorders developed in utero can live long and productive lives, in spite of their congenital birth defect.


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Acuity has to do with sharpness and smartness. Do you always get A's in math? Then you have an acuity for numbers.

Mnemonic: A cute girl has sharp features Example: In time his youthful ACUITY of vision failed him, and he needed glasses.


If you have acumen, you are very sharp at what you do. You hope your accountant and your surgeon are both known for their acumen.

Mnemonic: A few men have ACUMEN Example: His business ACUMEN helped him to succeed where others had failed.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone who is astute is clever and has good judgment. The kid running around with a bucket stuck on his head? Not so astute.

Mnemonic: absolute: a salute to ASTUTE person Example: That was a very ASTUTE observation.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Discerning people pick up on subtle traits and are good judges of quality they're the ones that can tell if your cupcakes are homemade from the finest ingredients or totally from a box mix.

Mnemonic: READ IT AS di-screening. A DUAL SCREENING PERSON, WHO KEEPS ON SCREENING EVERYTHING AROUND TWICE( VERY OBSERVANT, ALERT) Example: The DISCERNING customer will recognize this as a high quality product.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone discriminating has fine-grained judgment and can tell, for example, the difference between pretty good cookies and incredibly great cookies - a valuable skill.

Mnemonic: Discriminate is to know the DIFFERENCE between good and bad. Example: When eating, being DISCRIMINATING is especially useful: why eat food that's badly prepared or unhealthy if you don't have to? Root: Prefix DIS means to APART,NOT

Form: adj Tone: pos

What English teachers want from students writing

Mnemonic: With this word, remember inand -sight-. When

ACUITY

ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE

ACUMEN

ECHO EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE)

ASTUTE

GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE

DISCERNING

POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL

DISCRIMINATING

papers is insightful analysis - thinking that sees beyond the obvious and expresses an original thought.

you have the ability to look (sight) inside (in) somethingâ€“â €“a painting, a discussion, a situation. Example: She offered some really interesting, INSIGHTFUL observation.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you're judicious, you've got a good head on your shoulders and make good decisions. Humpty Dumpty's decision to sit on a wall? NOT judicious.

Mnemonic: judi+cious--- having JUDgement qualities Example: It is curable with JUDICIOUS use of antibiotics. Root: Prefix JUD means to JUDGE

Form: adj Tone: pos

If someone calls you perceptive, they mean you are good at understanding things or figuring things out. Perceptive people are insightful, intelligent, and able to see what others cannot.

Mnemonic: PERCEPTIVE sounds like Perfectly Observative. Example: It was very PERCEPTIVE of you to notice that. Root: Prefix PER means THROUGH

Form: adj Tone: pos

Perspicacious is an adjective that means "shrewd" and "wise." A perspicacious child can't be fooled when her parents try to keep a secret by talking in Pig Latin.

Mnemonic: A PERSPICACIOUS person has keen perspective Example: The brilliant lawyer was known for his PERSPICACIOUS deductions

Form: adj Tone: pos

To be imprudent means lacking selfrestraint when it would be wise to have it, like that time you started dancing on the table during a math test. Remember that? Everybody else does.

Mnemonic: Im means NOT and PRUDENT means CAREFUL. Not Careful Example: It would be imPRUDENT to invest all your money in one company.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Use the formal adjective, sagacious, to describe someone who is wise and insightful like an advisor to the president or a Supreme Court justice.

Mnemonic: Imagine a man who is so old his skin sags in sag ages -this man is so old he must be wise Example: He is a SAGACIOUS leader.


Use the word sage for someone or something wise and judicious. Thanks to the sage advice of your friend, you didn't write your teacher an angry email!

Mnemonic: S + AGE... a wise aged man(your grandpa).. Example: He was famous for his SAGE advice to younger paints.

INSIGHTFUL

JUDICIOUS

PERCEPTIVE

PERSPICACIOUS

PRUDENT

SAGACIOUS

SAGE

Form: noun Tone: pos SAVANT

You know that girl in your school with a GPA over 100? She is a savant in the making. A savant is someone over-thetop smart, a scholar.

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Mnemonic: Rakhi Sawant is considered SAVANT in exposing Example: There are SAVANTs who are wise and learned, and then there are idiot SAVANTs

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Mnemonic: When you want a bike from your father, serve him some cokes to first cool him and then request for your bikeâ€¦in short COAX him. Example: She COAXed the horse into coming a little closer.

Form: adj Tone: neg

In these days of 24-hour entertainment news and sound-bite sized explanations of complex government policy, itâ€™s hard to find a cogent (persuading) argument amidst all the emotional outbursts.

Mnemonic: COGENT sounds like Convincing+ Gent. A man who speaks in a way that is very convincing, may be like a salesman. Example: She put forward some COGENT reasons for abandoning the plan.


To enjoin is to issue an Mnemonic: ENJOIN to urgent and official order. If join the army the government tells Example: The doctor loggers to stop cutting ENJOINed a strict diet. down trees, they are enjoining the loggers to stop.


When he heard the crowd exhort (to fill up with encouragement) him with stomping and cheers, he knew that he could finish the marathon.

Mnemonic: If your Ex, hurts (EXHORT) you continuously by reminding you of time spent in the past, request (urge) him to move on and stop bothering you. Example: The media have been EXHORTing people to come to the demonstration.


To induce is to move or lead someone to action. A promise of a lollipop can induce a toddler to do just about anything, even sit down and be polite to the maid.

Mnemonic: Typical filmy dialogue: a movie heroine might say to the villain, "Nothing could INDUCE me to marry you. Not all the money in the world. Not if you were the last man on Earth!" Example: Nothing would INDUCE me to take the job.


If you have an urge to eat candy, you really want to eat those sweets. Your mother might urge you to

Mnemonic: Mr. BURGEr King giving bURGEr to BoURGEois (middle class people) dressed in pink.

COAX


COGENT


ENJOIN

INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE

EXHORT

SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL

Mnemonic/Example

When you coax someone, you try to convince him gently, with pleasant words and maybe a little flattery.


Meaning


INDUCE

URGE

wait until after dinner.

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Example: Police are urging anyone who saw the accident to contact them immediately.

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BEST EXAMPLE

Mnemonic: BURNISH is opposite of Tarnish. Tarnish is to spoil or disfigure something and BURNISH is to make something look shiny by polishing. Example: When the floor is dry apply a coat of concentrated Star and BURNISH when dry.


Whether itâ€™s a bike, an old computer, or a tennis stadium, when you refurbish something you clean it up and make it look or perform better.

Mnemonic: REFURBISH sounds like refurnish. Example: REFURBISHed phones are easily available for those who do not wish to spend much on hi-tech phones. Root: RE means AGAIN.


a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface

Mnemonic: garnish means to decorate; VARNISH means to decorate by POLISHING Example: I'll give the shelves a coat of VARNISH.


A veneer can be anything that makes something look more elegant or attractive than it is.

Mnemonic: VENEER is pronounced in a similar way to Paneer. Both mean the same soft, elegant. Example: The chest is solid oak, not VENEER.

BURNISH

COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO EQUALITY FAT

REFURBISH


VARNISH

INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE

Mnemonic/Example

You can burnish your resume, by polishing it until it's perfect.


Meaning


VENEER

SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL Legends: X

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Mnemonic: Amused No => BEMUSED = Confused Example: It Constantly confuse or bemuses people, why he did this.


See that person staring out the window who looks so sad and lost in thought? He is pensive, the opposite of cheery and carefree.

Mnemonic: PENSIVE calls for a PAINFULL face/ mood Example: She was in a PENSIVE mood, just wanting to be alone to think.

ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE

Mnemonic/Example

If you're bemused, you're muddled or preoccupied. It happens when you're lost in thought, dazed, or overwhelmed (say, on the first day of high school).

BEMUSED

COME TOGETHER

Meaning


PENSIVE

ECHO EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL Legends: X

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If you deface something, you've blemished or disfigured it in some way. For example, graffiti can deface a statue.

Mnemonic: The de- in DEFACE should be a clue that this is a negative word.Throwing a cup of coffee on a valuable painting ruins the face of the painting - so we say it's been DEFACEd. Example: They were charged with defacing public property. Root: DE refers to DOWN or AWAY


To disfigure something is to ruin its appearance, which is what would happen if you drew a big bushy mustache and a pair of antennae on the Mona Lisa.

Mnemonic: The prefix DIS means negative always and Dis means NOT. So When the figure is not in usual shape and form its called DISFIGURE. Example: Their faces are DISFIGUREd by severe burn scars. Root: DIS is APART or NOT


Distort means to twist out of shape. When you look at a tree through a twisting kaleidoscope, you distort its image, making its branches and leaves look wavy and misshapen.

Mnemonic: Dis means NOT and again to maintain the original form of something is to DISTORT Example: The loudspeaker seemed to DISTORT his voice.


A mar is a flaw, mark, or blemish, like a deep scratch on a wooden table. As a verb, to mar is to make such an imperfection - like the pen mark that mars your crisp, white shirt.

Mnemonic: She MARked on the wall with pencil and spoilt the paint. Example: The elections were MARred by violence.


to become, or make something become, twisted or bent out of its natural shape, especially something that is too hot or damp.

Mnemonic: WARP is pronounced as Worp which sounds like a dwarf who is extra short and sometimes not in correct posture. Example: The window frames had begun to WARP.


DEFACE


DISFIGURE

GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE

DISTORT

SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK

MAR

TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL WARP

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Mnemonic: BLEMISH sounds like Blame. We usually blame people even for small flaws Example: His reputation is without a BLEMISH.


an irregularly shaped spot

Mnemonic: BLOTCH sounds like a blot (of ink) on your shirt leading to a dirty patch. Example: His face was covered with dark red BLOTCHes.


To debase something is to make it corrupt or impure. If your lemonade stand sells â €œpure lemonade,â€ youâ €™d insist on using real lemons instead of a mix; using a mix would debase your product.

Mnemonic: The Base Terrace se building ki base pe aa gaye hai so DEBASE Example: He wouldn't DEBASE himself by doing manual labor Root: DE refers to DOWN or AWAY

Form: adj Tone: neg

If your little sister has a maculate appearance, she either needs a good wipe with a damp towel or you should take her to the doctor straight away.

Mnemonic: MACULATE sounds like Mac -you -Late for the partyâ€¦thatâ €™s not correct and your image is stained Example: The room was long, dark, narrow, slovenly, spaced with tables on which were MACULATE cloths and lamps with faded shades.


If you spread false rumors that there's chicken stock in the vegetarian entree at Mr Srivastav's, you would sully his good reputation.To sully is to attack someone's good name.

Mnemonic: Bully always SULLY people Example: I would not SULLY her reputation with that piece of gossip


If something's tainted, it's ruined or spoiled. If you leave milk on the counter overnight, it could be tainted.

Mnemonic: Taint sounds like a bad paint. A bad paint can ruin the look of the wall and hence look TAINTED.

BEST EXAMPLE DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE ECHO

BLOTCH

EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK

DEBASE

IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED

MACULATE

STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL

SULLY

TAINTED

Mnemonic/Example

A blemish is a small flaw. If you borrow your brother's brand new bicycle, you'd better be careful - what might seem like the tiniest blemish to you might be a horribly ruined paint job to him.

BLEMISH

COME TOGETHER

Meaning


Example: Opposition leaders said that the elections had been TAINTED by corruption. Form: verb Tone: neg TARNISH

To tarnish is to become dull or discolored. Silver tends to tarnish easily, which is why your mother is always having you polish the family silver.

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Mnemonic: TARNISH is opposite of Garnish. Garnish is to decorate and TARNISH is stained. Example: The mirrors had TARNISHed with age.

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Dolt refers a person who isn't very smart. You might be called a dolt if you do something dumb, like stand outside your car complaining that you locked your keys inside - even though the window is wide open.

Mnemonic: DOLT rhymes with bolt. Nut-bolt ~ what a nut he is. (stupid person) Example: I gave him the keys, but then that DOLT locked them in the car

Form: adj Tone: neg

Fatuous means lacking intelligence. When your mother outlaws calling your brother stupid, use fatuous instead.

Mnemonic: getting FATUOUS on purpose is foolish for your health Example: She is far too intelligent to utter such FATUOUS remarks


If your best friend calls you an imbecile, he's implying that you're stupid, and he's probably pretty angry with you. An imbecile is an extremely stupid person.

Mnemonic: IMBECILE sounds like IMBALANCE....a person having imbalance in his mind is a stupid person.... Example: They behaved like IMBECILEs.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is inane, it's silly or senseless. If you just want to space out, you won't mind the inane chatter on TV, as long as it's on.

Mnemonic: Insane person passes INANE remarks. Example: I have never heard anything as INANE as what just came out of your mouth.


An oaf is the boring, illmannered person you hope doesn't show up at your party and send the other guests running for the door.

Mnemonic: OAF...sounds like uff..and when you see an ugly awkward person. Example: He stood there grinning like an OAF.

Form: adj

The adjective obtuse is good

Mnemonic:

ASININE


DOLT

FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK

FATUOUS

IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED

IMBECILE

SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE

INANE

UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL

Mnemonic/Example

If you want to call someone a Mnemonic: if you complete stupid while get NINE out of sounding smart yourself, ASSI(80) You ar asinine is your go-to word. surely an ASININE(stupid) Example: Talking trash about your boss in an email they're cc'd on...that's ASININE.


Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

OAF

Tone: neg

for describing someone slow on the uptake: "Don't be so obtuse: get with the program!"

OBTUSE

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Remember OBTUSE angle in Geometry? Itâ€™s the opposite of Acute angle. Acute means Sharp , OBTUSE should be Blunt. Example: Perhaps I'm being OBTUSE, but what has all this got to do with me?

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Mnemonic/Example


If you find yourself making eyes at that stranger across the coffee shop, chances are there is an allure about him or her - something mysteriously, powerfully attractive and tempting.

Mnemonic: All Lure means to attract Example: The romantic young man ALLUREd the beautiful woman by preparing a wonderful dinner.


To beguile is to trick someone, either with deception or with irresistible charm and beauty. You could be beguiled by a super model or by a super con artist.

Mnemonic: Be means TO and -Guile is to cheat using charm. SO BEGUILE IS TO CHEAT USING ONES CHARM. Example: Bermuda triangle is something which BEGUILEs a great many people.


When you collude with someone you secretly plot together to do something bad. You might collude with your twin sister to find out where all the birthday presents are hidden.

Mnemonic: CO means together and Lude is to play, using tactics. Example: Several people had COLLUDEd in the murder.


To connive is to plan or plot to do something illegal or wrong. Conniving is considered dishonest and cowardly.

Mnemonic: Connie has been plotting and conspiring to ruin her neighbor's garden by planting it full of ivy (a climbing tree) Example: The government was accused of having CONNIVEd with the security forces to permit murder.


When you conspire, you collaborate with others to do harm, or maybe just keep something from happening

Mnemonic: CON means TOGETHER and Aspire would mean that you are keen to do something. In this case when together you aspire to harm some one its called conspiracy. Example: They were accused of conspiring against the government.

ALLURE


BEGUILE


COLLUDE

INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED

CONNIVE

STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL

CONSPIRE

Root: Prefix CON means TOGETHER Form: verb Tone: neg

Let's say your friend wants to go to the movies and you don't want to. Your friend might try to entice you by offering to buy you popcorn. Entice means to persuade with promises of something.

Mnemonic: You are ENTICEd (attracted to) buy ENTICEr, the bike. Example: Some stores slashed prices by up to 80 % to ENTICE shoppers.


When you tell your boyfriend heâ€™s not just the best boyfriend ever but also the world's best driver, and this makes him offer to drive the whole way on your upcoming road trip, then congratulations. You know how to inveigle, or use charm to coax someone i

Mnemonic: In veil girl is having INVEIGLE intentions. Deceptive intentions of girl in veil Example: The babysitter tried to INVEIGLE the kids into going to bed


To lure is to entice or bait someone. A lure is used to bait or entice fish to attach themselves to your hook.

Mnemonic: LURE is not a Pure act of attracting. Example: The romantic young man LUREd the beautiful woman by preparing a wonderful dinner.


When a James Bond villain comes up with a plan to destroy the world, he doesnâ€™t use a simple plan. No, he uses a machination - a complex plot that relies on numerous elements coming together to work.

Mnemonic: Machine Guns in Nation for MACHINATIONs. Example: I don't want to get involved in all his MACHINATIONs.


A ploy is a clever plan that helps you get what you want. A manipulative little girl might shed tears simply as a ploy to get her mother to buy her ice cream.

Mnemonic: PLOY is to plot or take strategic steps. Example: This is a a clever marketing PLOY.


Movie bank robbers always seem to pull some kind of ruse, a deceptive trick or tactic like hiding the money underneath the bank while they drive off in the getaway car to avoid capture by the police.

Mnemonic: Imagine an australian making a scheme to sell kangaroos to people as pets. Example: She tried to think of a RUSE to get him out of the house.


A scheme is an elaborate plan or plot. It's going to take a really solid scheme, probably involving teleportation or some sort of temporary cloning, to make an appearance at both

Mnemonic: These companies keep on introducing new SCHEME(PLAN) to trick customers Example: This is an elaborate SCHEME to avoid taxes

ENTICE

INVEIGLE

LURE

MACHINATION

PLOY

RUSE

SCHEME

parties at once. Form: noun Tone: neg

TACTIC

Tactic is another word for maneuver or method. Looking for a way to get something done? Then you better find a tactic.

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Mnemonic: To TACKLE something in a tricky way or by planning or plotting is TACTICs. Example: football teams have to use strong defensive TACTICs to keep the other guys from scoring.

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If you are cognizant of what's going on at the table behind you in the lunchroom, that means you know they're plotting to throw peas at your head. If you are cognizant of something, you are aware of or informed about it.

Mnemonic: COG is to SEE. Example: In the light of the new evidence that the court can now take cognizance of, the case is dropped. Root: Prefix COGmeans to KNOW.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you don't notice or aren't aware, it means that the adjective oblivious applies to you!

Mnemonic: For example, Mr. Magoo mistakes an airplane for a theater and instead of watching a movie, he takes a seat on a departing airplane! Example: You eventually became oblivious to the noise


COGNIZANT


X OBLIVIOUS


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Relation to Group

To behold is to see. You could behold the changing sky as the sun sets. Itâ€™s oldfashioned and fancy, so magicians like to use it, as in â€œBehold! I shall pull a rabbit out of my hat!â€

Mnemonic: To be holden by someone, keep showing gratitude Feeling BEHOLDen (obligated) as he is holding on Example: BEHOLD breathtaking mountain views, while relaxing in a luxurious guestroom.


If you can make out, pick out, or distinguish something, you can discern it. This is a word for recognizing and perceiving things.

Mnemonic: We placed the broken disc's ashes in an urn to recognize it as distinct and different from all our other deceased records. Example: It is possible to DISCERN a number of different techniques in her work.


catch sight of.

Mnemonic: ESPY is to SPY on someone. Example: Here from a window, did she ESPY a Knight standing in a woodman's cart?


When we perceive something, we become aware of or notice it. Sometimes we perceive things by using our senses of sight, hearing, and smell.

Mnemonic: PERCEIVE is ti SEE. Example: I PERCEIVEd a change in his behavior.


BEHOLD


DISCERN

GET RID OF / CLEANSE IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE

ESPY

POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED

PERCEIVE

STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL Legends: X

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BEST EXAMPLE

Form: adj Tone: pos

Do you ever feel like one of Mnemonic: a kind? Then maybe you PEERLESS donâ€™t are peerless, a word for have any peer(friend) someone (or something) Example: Amazing, unique, excellent, and one-of-a-kind people superior. like Picasso, Gandhi, and Shakespeare are considered PEERLESS.

INIMITABLE


Mnemonic/Example

Use the adjective inimitable to describe someone or something that is so special or unique, it is impossible to duplicate, like that superstar tennis player with the inimitable serve no other player can copy.


Meaning

Form: adj Tone: pos

PEERLESS


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Mnemonic: IN means NOT and IMITATE is to COPY. So it means something that cannot be copied or duplicated. Example: John related in his own INIMITABLE way the story of his trip to Tibet.

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Meaning grow weak and thin or waste away physically is called emaciate.

Mnemonic: Ema she ate it but still looks thin or EMACIATEd Example: His long period of starvation had left him EMACIATEd.

Form: adj Tone: neg

You can never be too rich or too thin, but you certainly can be too gaunt. It means you look skinny like you're sick, not skinny like you have a personal nutritionist slapping your hand when you reach for a bonbon.

Mnemonic: Taunt to GAUNT girl Example: The girl was very GAUNT, but she was very healthy as well.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the adjective lanky Mnemonic: Youâ€™ve to describe someone probably seen a LANKY whoâ€™s tall, thin, and a basketball player who little bit gawky. moves awkwardly but is still able to make the play, or a LANKY teenager who seems to be made up entirely of long legs and long arms. Example: She is a tall LANKY teenager.

EMACIATE

ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE

GAUNT

ECHO EQUALITY FAT FLATTER / BEG (LOWER DEGREE) FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GET RID OF / CLEANSE

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

LANKY

IMPORTANT MARK IMPURE / POISONOUS INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED INTELLIGENT PERSUADE POLISH / *RENOVATE SERIOUS / CONFUSED SPOIL / DISFIGURE SPOTTED / STAINED STUPID / FOOLISH TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK TO KNOW TO SEE UNMATCHED / UNIQUE WEAK / THIN / TALL Legends: X

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CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE

Relation to Group


If something is untenable, you can't defend it or justify it. If your disagreement with your teacher puts you in an untenable position, you better just admit you made a mistake and get on with it.

DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER

Mnemonic/Example

not able to be protected Mnemonic: In (NOT) against attack and Defensible. Cannot be Defeated Example: The assemblyman was accused of defending the INDEFENSIBLE. Root: Prefix IN means NOT

INDEFENSIBLE

EXCLUDE / FORBID

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

UNTENABLE

FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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Mnemonic: Un + Tenable Teenager is UNTENABLE Example: I find your theory UNTENABLE and must reject it


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If you want to describe a person who insists on perfection or pays much attention to food, clothing and cleanliness, the right word is fastidious.

Mnemonic: FASTIDIOUS sounds like: Fast + Tedious ie fast and hardworking Example: He was FASTIDIOUS in his preparation for the big day.

Form: adj Tone: pos

People who are meticulous can be pretty annoying, what with their extreme attention to detail. But if that person is, say, your surgeon or your accountant, you'll want them to be meticulous.

Mnemonic: Someone who's METICULOUS is afraid of what will happen if they're not careful enough to get every detail right. Example: The lab technicians must be METICULOUS in their measurements to obtain exact results

Form: adj Tone: pos

A punctilious person pays attention to details. Are you always precisely on time? Is your room perfectly neat? Do you never forget a birthday or a library book's due date? Then you are one of the punctilious people.

Mnemonic: Punctual person is PUNCTILIOUS: very attentive. Punctuation is right or not, said the PUNCTILIOUS man. Example: He was PUNCTILIOUS about being ready exactly on time


someone who insists Mnemonic: Purist is on great precision and a person who belongs correctness in PURE usage of everything. Example: PURISTS may not approve of the changes made to the text of the play in this production.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Scrupulous means very careful to do things properly and correctly, such as

DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER

FASTIDIOUS

FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY

METICULOUS

PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE

PUNCTILIOUS

THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO

Mnemonic/Example

If someone is Mnemonic: conscientious, that Conscious = person strives to do CONSCIENTIOUS what's right and to Example: carry out his duties. CONSCIENTIOUS with Conscientious people regard to his duties show care and put in a as examiner. big effort. Root: Prefix CON means TOGETHER

CONSCIENTIOUS

EXCLUDE / FORBID

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: pos

PURISTS

WEAKEN

Mnemonic: Screw Plus (positive) Example: He was SCRUPULOUS about

paying friends back for money borrowed right away, or not returning a pair of shoes after they've been worn outdoors.

SCRUPULOUS

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the choices he made;This was a SCRUPULOUS performance

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Strictly speaking, hedonism is the belief that pursuing pleasure leads to the greatest ethical good. In practice, though, the ethical part sometimes gets lost in the pleasure part.

Mnemonic: HEDONISM would be indulging in places like Las Vegas. Example: the hedonistic philosophy of â€œeat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die!â€


If you know someone who's totally addicted to luxurious things and all of life's pleasures, call them a sybarite. Unless she's inviting you over for champagne brunches and showering you with gifts - in which case you should keep your mouth shut.

Mnemonic: SYBARITE a lover of luxury always Say Bar is the right place to go. Example: Jared, who used to be the epitome of Chicago's wealthy SYBARITEs, went bankrupt in December, 1997

HEDONISM

DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED

SYBARITE

FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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Form: adj Tone: neg

Relation to Group

argue over petty things

Mnemonic: petti (small issues) creating fight. Example: Instinct is what drives the best instant decisions and puts too much PETTIFOGGING purity to shame.


Sophistry is tricking someone by making a seemingly clever argument, such as telling your mom you must have candy before dinner because if you don't you'll die and then the protein and vitamins won't get eaten at all.

Mnemonic: Soap History SOPHISTRY on soap history Example: The judge rejected the local authority's argument as mere SOPHISTRY

PETTIFOGGING

DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER

SOPHISTRY

FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Relation to Group

Anything that has to do with actors or acting can be called histrionic, like a Broadway actor's histrionic voice projection that would sound strange in everyday life but is perfect for the stage.

Mnemonic: describe a person who in regular life is a little too dramatic and even over-acts, like your friend whose HISTRIONIC rantings make a trip to the grocery store seem like a matter of life and death. Example: She was used to her mother's HISTRIONICs.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you're writhing on the floor, howling in pain over the splinter in your finger, you're being a tad melodramatic, that is, exaggerated, affected, or histrionic.

Mnemonic: Extra Dramatic is called MELODRAMATIC Example: a MELODRAMATIC plot full of deceit and murder

CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR

HISTRIONIC

EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE

MELODRAMATIC

HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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Meaning If you banish someone or ignore him, you ostracize him. When the Iranian president claimed that the Holocaust was a hoax, he was ostracized by the international community.

Mnemonic: ostRACISM .. racism leads to groupism and excluding a group from the public is to OSTRACIZE. Example: The ostrich was OSTRACIZEd because of his big mouth


declare illegal; outlaw

Mnemonic: OUTLAW: without Law, which is Illigal Example: There are plans to OUTLAW the carrying of knives


A pariah is someone that has been soundly rejected by their community. Your constant gossiping might make you a pariah on campus.

Mnemonic: Her pair of eyes had a hard time looking in the same direction so she became one who was rejected by society Example: Because of his religious beliefs he became a PARIAH in the village


To proscribe something is to forbid or prohibit it, as a school principal might proscribe the use of cell phones in class.

Mnemonic: Doctor prescribes medicines and PROSCRIBEs junk food Example: The new law PROSCRIBEd drinking alcohol on the street. Root: Suffix SCRIBE is to WRITE


If you purposely stay away from someone, you shun that person. A sensitive baker may ask why you are shunning her cookies.

Mnemonic: SHUN sounds like SUN so keep a distance from the sun. Example: She has been SHUNned by her neighbors


Something considered taboo is naughty, something society considers a no-no. For example, it is taboo to ask people how much money they earn or about their sex lives.

Mnemonic: TABOO its similar to TAUBA(->refrain oneself to do somthing restricted in Islam) Example: Death is one of the great TABOOs in our culture.

OSTRACIZE


OUTLAW

FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE

PARIAH

LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL

PROSCRIBE

SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT

SHUN

TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN

TABOO

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Use nuance to refer to a very small difference in color, meaning, or feeling. What makes singers brilliant is not how loud they can sing a note, but how many nuances they can evoke through their approach.

Mnemonic: It is always such a nuisance to have to capture all the subtle aspects of every new dance we learn. Example: He watched her face intently to catch every nuance of expression.


Something that is subtle is not obvious: a professional food taster might be able to perceive subtle differences of flavor that most people don't notice.

Mnemonic: SUBTLE is used for things that are hard to describe because of their complexity or delicacy: a way of thinking, arguing, or creating a work of art. Example: The fragrance is a SUBTLE blend of jasmine and sandalwood.

NUANCES

DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-)

SUBTLE

HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Relation to Group

Straightforward and truthful talk might be described with the adjective candid. If you're too candid in your personal blog, a future employer might discover your penchant for nude skydiving.

Mnemonic: Remember that TV show Candid Camera? It was called that because its hidden cameras supposedly showed a candid view of reality. Example: To be candid, I can't stand her.

Form: adj Tone: pos

When a person is being forthright, they're being direct, clear, or even straight-up. But we're not here to talk about those. We're here to talk about forthright.

Mnemonic: Fourth option Right hai you said in FORTHRIGHT manner. Example: He was known for his FORTHRIGHT manner

CANDID/CANDOR

EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED

FORTHRIGHT

FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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An itinerant is a person who moves from place to place, typically for work, like the itinerant preacher who moves to a new community every few years.

Mnemonic: ITINERANT keeps itinerary all the time as he always travels from place to place Example: The same day, an ITINERANT preacher came to the village


If you're reading this on a treadmill or while taking a walk, you may know about the peripatetic, or walking, philosopher Aristotle, who taught while strolling with his students. Or, maybe you just like being a peripatetic, a walking wanderer.

Mnemonic: Music teachers in England rarely teach in one school these days; they teach in several and are described as PERIPATETIC teachers. Example: Her father was in the army and the family led a PERIPATETIC existence Root: Prefix PERImeans AROUND

ITINERANT

DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-)

PERIPATETIC

HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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To gratify is to give satisfaction. So if you've managed to get straight A's in school, what you did was gratify your parents - and it probably felt pretty gratifying to you too.

Mnemonic: it would be really GREAT IF I bring a score above 330 in GRE and I'll be able to please the top notch universities Example: He only gave his consent in order to GRATIFY her wishes.


Quench means to put out, put an end to, or satisfy. If you're stranded in the middle of the desert with nothing drink, you're probably dreaming of a nice big glass of ice water to quench your thirst.

Mnemonic: Drench and QUENCH sounds similar Example: Firemen tried to QUENCH the flames raging through the building.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Replete means full, often in a satisfying way. "The library was replete with bound first volumes, and Lucy, a bookworm, was happier there than any place else."

Mnemonic: deplete, complete, REPLETE all relate to the quantity of something. Example: Literature is REPLETE with drama and excitement


Sometimes you're so hungry you feel like you could eat a ten-course meal. Other times it takes just a small salad to sate your appetite, or to satisfy your hunger.

Mnemonic: s-ate, so when we have finished eating our food, we are satisfied to the full. Example: However many are planned, Iâ €™ve had my curiosity SATEd and will happily skip the next.


If you just can't get enough popcorn, even the jumbo tub at the movie theater may not be enough to satiate, or satisfy, your desire.

Mnemonic: I SAT & ATE till I was full! Example: Protein and fat keep you SATIATEd, so you don't want another snack 30 minutes later.


The verb saturate means to cause something to be fully soaked to the point where it can't take on anything else.

Mnemonic: If you're a workaholic, you might SATURATE all your free time with work, leaving no time to spend with your family. Example: The

GRATIFY


QUENCH

FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY

REPLETE

MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN

SATE

SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY

SATIATE

TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN

SATURATE

company had SATURATEd the market for personal organizers Form: verb Tone: pos

When you slake something, such as a desire or a thirst, you satisfy it. A big glass of lemonade on a hot summer day will slake your thirst.

Mnemonic: focus on the 'lake' part of this word..so you can say that you want to satisfy your thrist after seeing the water in that lake . Example: More through fatigue than because his thirst was SLAKEd, he stopped at last and turned away from the lake.


To suffice is to be enough, in either quality or quantity. If may not be gourmet all the time, but if your food is healthy, it will suffice.

Mnemonic: SUFFICE sounds like SUFFICIENT. Example: Generally a brief note or a phone call will SUFFICE.

SLAKE

SUFFICE

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Words


Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Relation to Group

You reject any vegetable that isn't yellow. You like basmati rice, but detest jasmine and brown.You dine at one restaurant, and you always order the same meal. You are a finicky eater - that is, you are quite particular about food.

Mnemonic: Nicky is FINICKY, FINICKY is Picky Example: Even the most FINICKY eater will find something to eat.


be overly critical; criticize Example: Some minor details readers will surely perceive our critique as NITPICKING Khanâ €™s errors.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Persnickety is a lively, fancy word for â €œfussy.â€ If you've sent your salad back to the kitchen three times, you might be a persnickety eater.

Mnemonic: The adjective PERSNICKETY sounds prickly like a porcupine, and PERSNICKETY people can indeed be sharp and prickly when they don't get things precisely as they wish. Example: â€œTo be polite, Iâ€™d call her PERSNICKETY,â€ he told me.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you fainted or threw up at the sight of frog intestines in biology class, youâ€™re squeamish - easily nauseated or shocked by unpleasant, icky things. No horror movies for you!

Mnemonic: SQUEAMISH is like "scream-ish". i.e., one who screams for everything. Example: This movie is not for the SQUEAMISH.


A stickler is someone who insists that things are done in a certain way. Say youâ€™re getting married and want to write your own vows, but your partnerâ€™s mother demands that you have a traditional ceremony. The mother is a stickler for tradition.

Mnemonic: STICKLER sounds like a person who is very sticky, that sticks to one point only. Example: To others it might seem that you're being a STICKLER for rules.

FINICKY

DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK

NITPICKING

FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY

PERSNICKETY

MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY

SQUEAMISH

TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN

STICKLER

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Mnemonic: Helen, a fitting name for a woman of great beauty, is an allusion to Helen of Troy. Example: Try not to allude to this matter in his presence because the topic annoys him.


During rehearsal, the actors need to learn their cues to make sure their timing is right. A cue can also be a clue or reminder of something.

Example: Temperature is often a CUE to enter or emerge from hibernation.


A hint is a slight indication or clue. Your mother might hint at the fact that she doesnâ€™t like your shoes, while your grandmother will just come right out and say that theyâ€™re ugly.

Example: He resented any HINT that he might be to blame.


Use the adjective implicit when you mean that something is understood but not clearly stated. You might think you and your boyfriend might have an implicit understanding that you are going to get married, but it's probably better to talk it through.

Mnemonic: IMPLICIT sounds like Imply or Refer to something and the opposite is EXPLICIT. Example: IMPLICIT in his speech was the assumption that they were guilty.


Speaking in innuendo is when you say something indirectly - often of a hurtful or sexual nature.

Mnemonic: A worm is cut in two so it has a new end: the old worm head says a statement that implies something bad indirectly in the new end Example: Because

EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-)

CUE

HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY

HINT

PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE

IMPLICIT

THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN

INNUENDO

Mnemonic/Example

When you allude to something, you don't identify it or mention it specifically. If you allude to the fact that a cop is sitting right behind you, your friends might stop talking about their plans to rob a bank.

ALLUDE/ALLUSION

FRANK

Meaning


the movie is full of sexual INNUENDOs, we did not bring the children Form: verb Tone: neut

Insinuate means you imply or suggest something that may or may not be true. If you say things seemed to go wrong about the time your brother took over, you insinuate that he had something to do with the decline.

Mnemonic: The girl has lost her memory. The boy telling her This is the INStitute IN which YOU ATE. He is trying to HINT, IMPLY to her. Example: The article INSINUATEd that he was having an affair with his friend's wife.


Something tacit is implied or understood without question. Holding hands might be a tacit acknowledgment that a boy and girl are dating.

Mnemonic: TACITly asked To Sit Example: She gave a TACIT approval by smiling and winking

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something blatant is very obvious and offensive. Don't get caught in a blatant lie, because you won't be able to weasel your way out of it.

Mnemonic: Blatant is not latent. Latent: hidden, dormant, unexpressed. Latent is hidden in tent (LA TENT), opposite is Blatant which means OBVIOUS Example: I am not sure why Raki is always so blatant.


Anything explicit is very clear, whether it's instructions or a bad movie

Mnemonic: Please sit: I will make it explicit Example: The plot of 9/11 attack was an explicit act of violence.

INSINUATE

TACIT

X BLATANT

X EXPLICIT

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: Antonyms

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Words


Relation to Group

EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR

Mnemonic: BEHEMOTH is big like Mammoth Biblical creature mentioned in the Book of Job The word is most likely a plural form of ???? (b?h?m?h), meaning beast or large animal. Example: Its tough for BING to compete with the BEHEMOTH search engines like Google.


Colossal describes something so large it makes you say, "Whoa!" You might have a colossal amount of homework, or see a colossal pyramid while vacationing in Egypt.

Mnemonic: The colosseum - one of the seven wonders of the world, which was a huge theatre in the olden days Example: The singer earns a COLOSSAL amount of money.


Whether you're talking about your gargantuan appetite or a gargantuan building, use the word gargantuan to describe something so big that big just isn't, well, big enough to accurately describe it.

Mnemonic: Gargantua was a huge, stout GIANT. We get the name from that character. Example: A GARGANTUAN corruption scandal a marketing event of GARGANTUAN proportion.


Gigantic is an adjective Mnemonic: used to describe GIGANTIC soungs like something that's really a GIANT. And so it is, big, as though it were unusually huge. made for a giant. You Example: The might call a skyscraper a problem was gigantic building, beginning to take on especially if it towers GIGANTIC over other buildings proportions. nearby.


Something humongous is really, really big. If you experiment with greenhouses, fertilization, and grow lights, you can grow a humongous pumpkin.

BEHEMOTH

EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE

COLOSSAL

HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY

GARGANTUAN

SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT

GIGANTIC

TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN

HUMONGOUS

Mnemonic/Example

You can call a massive telecommunications company a behemoth. The word means something big and powerful.

CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING

Meaning


Mnemonic: HUMONGOUS sounds like ENORMOUS OR TREMENDOUS. When we describe something very big will call it so. Example: You may look a little silly

making phone calls, holding the HUMONGOUS Galaxy Note up to your ear. Form: noun Tone: neut

anything of immense size Mnemonic: and power. LEVIATHAN sounds like a LIVING GIANT. Example: the LEVIATHAN of government bureaucracy


The adjective mammoth is a great way to describe something really, really big, like those huge woolly elephants theyâ€™re still finding in the melting glaciers.

Mnemonic: MAMMOTH is big like Behemoth Biblical creature mentioned in the Book of Job The word is most likely a plural form of ???? (b?h?m?h), meaning beast or large animal. Example: This is a MAMMOTH organization


When something is monolithic it's big, and made of one thing. A large piece of stone jutting from the earth is a monolith, and Detroit's economy when it depended entirely on the auto industry was monolithic.

Mnemonic: Mono Single + Lithic related to rocks, so single solid rock and unchangeable Example: Knowing the importance of appearing resolute, the patriots sought to present a MONOLITHIC front.


Whether it's a monumental effort requiring vast amounts of strength or a monumental cruise ship with eleven floors and five sets of elevators, the word monumental describes something imposing or massive in size.

Mnemonic: have you seen large MONUMENTS, they are attractive because of their look as well as height or hugeness. Example: Gibbon's MONUMENTAL work â €œThe Rise and Fall of the Roman Empireâ€

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something exceptional, substantial, or great is prodigious. A blizzard includes prodigious wind and snow. A prodigious writer is one who can write a lot and do it well.

Mnemonic: Prodigy group is PRODIGIOUS. Proud ji us: because we are PRODIGIOUS (extraordinary) Example: He impressed everyone with his PRODIGIOUS memory

Form: adj Tone: pos

If two rival football teams played a close game that went into overtime, it could be could be said that winning it was a titanic struggle. This means it took a large amount of force and power to do so.

Mnemonic: Remember the HUGE SHIP named TITANIC in the movie with the same name. Its meant to be huge and gigantic. Example: This is a TITANIC struggle between good and

LEVIATHAN

MAMMOTH

MONOLITHIC

MONUMENTAL

PRODIGIOUS

TITANIC

evil Form: adj Tone: neut

of imposing height; especially standing out above others

Mnemonic: A Tower usually stands tall and appears to be huge. Example: This was a TOWERING performace.


Consider that volume is a measure of size. That will help you understand that voluminous refers to something very large in size or extent.

Mnemonic: VOLUMINOUS definitely comes from VOLUME which in this case is great. Example: There is VOLUMINOUS literature on modernism and postmodernism.

TOWERING

VOLUMINOUS

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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


If you use the word discourse, you are describing a formal and intense discussion or debate.

Mnemonic: Sounds like 'this Course'. I attended a DISCOURSE on this course. Example: A DISCOURSE on issues of gender and sexuality.


A dissertation is a long piece of writing that uses research to bring to light an original idea. Don't go to grad school unless you're prepared to write, say, a 300page dissertation on some topic.

Mnemonic: Dessert Station pe DISSERTATION di Example: He is currently writing a DISSERTATION


Rhetoric is speaking or writing that's intended to persuade. If your goal is to write editorial columns for "The New York Times," you should work on your rhetoric.

Mnemonic: Our friend Ray learned the art of discourse from attending many tours held by famous orators Example: His offers of compromise were mere RHETORIC


A thesis is the most important or foundational idea of an argument. If you write a paper with the central thesis that girls are yucky, you'll need to back that up with cooties-based research.

Mnemonic: THESIS or a Treatise refer to a theory or statement put forward for reasoning. Example: Students must submit a THESIS on an agreed subject within four years.

DISCOURSE


DISSERTATION


RHETORIC

MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN

THESIS

SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

: Antonyms

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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


If you botch something, you make a mess of it or you ruin it. If you totally botch your lines in the school play, you stammer and stutter your way through the whole thing.

Mnemonic: BOTCH can be rememberd as Black Patch Example: The work they did on the house was a BOTCHed job.


Saying the wrong thing at the wrong time, dropping something, tripping and falling: these are some classic bungles - and theyâ €™re always embarrassing.

Mnemonic: Bangle seller bunged his job by breaking bangles Example: He was caught during his BUNGLEd attempt to burgle the bank.


If you misread a party invitation and arrive in a penguin costume, only to realize that the other guests are wearing elegant gowns, you'll understand what it means to commit a faux pas, or an awkward social mistake.

Mnemonic: Faux Pa is a french word meaning a false step. Example: His outbursts and FAUX PAS often triggered national debates, but also made for television gold.


A gaffe is mistake that embarrasses you in front of others. If you run into a friend out with her grey-haired father, and you blurt out, "Oh, hi, you must be Tara's grandfather!" then you've made a gaffe.

Mnemonic: Disney character Goofy who was always making Blunders. Example: He made some real GAFFEs early in his career.


A malapropism occurs when you say one word but you mean another, like instead of saying a certain restaurant is prosperous, you say it is preposterous. As you can tell, malapropisms are often humorous, though sometimes the joke is on the speaker.

Mnemonic: Mal (negative) + Prop (proper usage) .. improper usage of words Example: One of the things George W. Bush is known for are his MALAPROPISMs. Root: Prefix MAL means BAD


A misnomer is a wrong or unsuitable name. Itâ €™s a misnomer to call your grandmother â €œGrandfather,â€ the same way itâ€™s a misnomer to call a chair

Mnemonic: MIS means WRONG OR HATE and NOMER can be related to NAME. So a Name that does not match at all with the person's

BOTCH


BUNGLE

FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE

FAUX PAS

LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL

GAFFE

SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY

MALAPROPISM


MISNOMER

with four legs that doesnâ€™t move unless you drag it across the floor, a rocking chair.

characterestics Example: Villa was something of a MISNOMER; the place was no more than an old farmhouse. Root: Prefix MISmeans HATE

Form: adj Tone: neg

To be tactless is to either be rude (without manners) or inept (without finesse). Either way, it's awkward.

Mnemonic: Without Tact would be TACTLESS. Example: It was TACTLESS of you to comment on his hair!


Having finesse means you can handle difficult situations with diplomacy and tact, like the finesse it takes to help two friends work out their differences without taking sides or alienating either one.

Mnemonic: Finesse sounds like FINENESS that is involved in doing something. Example: He used no unnecessary finesse in stating his ends.

TACTLESS

X FINESSE

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Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

If someone believes they cannot know whether or not God exists, label them an agnostic. A bad joke: Did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic insomniac? He stayed up all night wondering if there was a dog.

Mnemonic: Imagine staring at a hag (an ugly old woman) nose and not being sure whether the hag is a witch - you are unsure of the existence of the supernatural Example: She grew up in an AGNOSTIC household. Root: GNOS- means KNOWLEDGE


An atheist believes there is no such thing as god, or any other deity.

Mnemonic: THEIST means God or believer in God, And the prefix A means NOT. So ATHEIST does not believe in God. Example: Nearly one in five Americans say they are ATHEIST, agnostic or â €œnothing in particular.â€ Root: THEO - means GOD


To proselytize is to try to persuade someone to switch to your religious beliefs or your way of living. "Like a true evangelist, Amber proselytized about the rewards of life as a devout adherent of the faith."

Mnemonic: Pro sell ytize (advertize): act of pros to sell and advertize their gods and force people to convert. Example: Christian groups were arrested for trying to PROSELYTIZE people


one who believes in the existence of a god or gods

Mnemonic: THEIST means God or believer in God.


Theology is the study of religion, plain and simple. Of course, religion isnâ €™t simple, so theology covers a lot of subjects, like rituals, divine beings, the history of religions, and the concept of religious truth.

Mnemonic: Theo is know as GOD in Greek. Example: He got a a degree in THEOLOGY Root: Prefix THEOmeans GOD and suffix -LOGY means STUDY/FIELD OF.

CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR

AGNOSTIC

EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE

ATHEIST

LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY

PROSELYTIZE

TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY

THEIST


Legends: X

: Antonyms

THEOLOGY

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Adjacent means close to or near something. You may consider the people up and down your street to be neighbors, but your next door neighbor is the person who lives in the house or apartment adjacent to yours.

Mnemonic: Add scent ADJACENT to each other Example: The planes landed on ADJACENT runways. Root: AD- means TO or TOWARDS.


Use the adjective contiguous when you want to describe one thing touching another thing, or next to it but not actually touching.

Mnemonic: All states are touching/adjacent (CONTIGUOUS) or all states are continuous.. Example: The bruising was not CONTIGUOUS to the wound. Root: CON means TOGETHER.


If a waiter served you a whole fish and a scoop of chocolate ice cream on the same plate, your surprise might be caused by the juxtaposition, or the side-by-side contrast, of the two foods.

Mnemonic: Imagine a funeral mourner telling jokes graveside, and you get the idea - the JUXTAPOSITION in this case is between grief and humor. Example: In the exhibition, abstract paintings are juxtaposed with shocking photographs.

DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED

ADJACENT

FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION

CONTIGUOUS

PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE

Mnemonic/Example

When something Example: His land borders something ABUTs on to a road else, it is said to abut it. The term is often used in real estate to refer to a lot line. Wouldnâ€™t it be nice to have your back yard abut a forest preserve or park?

ABUT

FINE / DELICATE

Meaning


JUXTAPOSITION

THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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Mnemonic: ANNIHILATE Eliminate; So to ELIMINATE someone completely from your life.. means to kill them. Example: The human race has enough weapons to ANNIHILATE itself. Root: AN- means WITHOUT.


Carnage is mass murder. If you have seen news footage of a village after a bomb has been detonated, you probably saw a scene of carnage.

Mnemonic: If under aged people drive the car, there is a possibility that he may kill people or animals on the road. Example: How can we reduce the CARNAGE on our roads? Root: CARN- means MEAT


If something is drastically reduced or killed, especially in number, you can say it was decimated. "The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico decimated the wildlife along the coast."

Mnemonic: deci [means 10]mate[in ,chess mate means killing a king]so it sound like killing a king in every 10 people,so to kill a king you have to kill 10 persons. Example: The rabbit population was DECIMATEd by the disease. Root: DE- means DOWN/ AWAY


If something is erased or rubbed out, it has been effaced. Teachers get annoyed to find that someone has effaced the blackboard - even the part clearly marked, "Do Not Erase!"

Mnemonic: Closely related to "erase"..to rub out or we can think in another way also, we wash our face to remove the dust from the surface of the skin(ef+face) Example: She tried her best to EFFACE the memory of the accident. Root: E- means OUT OF/FROM

ANNIHILATE

EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE

CARNAGE

HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN

DECIMATE

SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN

EFFACE

Mnemonic/Example

Killing ends when the thing you are killing (your sworn enemy, all hope, a gerbil) is dead. Annihilate goes fartherâ €”when you annihilate something, you wipe all trace of it from the earth.


Meaning



To eradicate something is to get rid of it, to destroy it, and to kiss it goodbye.

Mnemonic: You can also ERADICATE corruption, poverty, or diseases, rather ERASE it. Example: Diphtheria has been virtually ERADICATEd in the United States. Root: same as above


To expunge is to cross out or eliminate. After Nicholas proved he had been in school on the day in question, the absence was expunged from his record.

Mnemonic: EXPUNGE rhymes with sponge..which is used to remove dirt.. Example: Details of his criminal activities were EXPUNGEd from the file. Root: EX- means OUT OF/ FROM


If your house becomes Mnemonic: infested with AXE+TERMINATE(put cockroaches, mice, or an end to)...when you even ants, you might use axe to end have to exterminate someone, you them. It is certainly not a EXTERMINATE pleasant process, but Example: Fur seals often quite necessary. were nearly EXTERMINATEd a few years ago.


To fumigate is to spray something with fumes, usually to eliminate pests of some kind.

Mnemonic: FUMIGATE sounds like FUMES, and thatâ €™s the meaning, used to draw away insects. Example: Carpets are best FUMIGATEd on the floor, but should afterward be removed to the open air and thoroughly beaten. Root: OB- means AGAINST


When you see obliterate, think of evil alien invaders that zap a planet with a destructive ray. In one blast, the planet and all of the people on it are vaporized. The planet is truly obliterated, or completely wiped out.

Mnemonic: lets ' all-be-literate ' and destroy illiteracy completely Example: Everything that happened that night was OBLITERATEd from his memory.


Perish means to die, but it suggests a slow, gradual, nonviolent death. Starving to death is perishing. Getting hit by a bus is just plain getting killed.

Example: Thousands PERISHed at the hands of the invading forces.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If something is indelible, you better hope you never regret it, like the indelible tattoo of the

Mnemonic: indelible: in + delete + ablewhich can't be deleted

ERADICATE

EXPUNGE

EXTERMINATE

FUMIGATE

OBLITERATE

PERISH

name of your favorite band or the indelible first impression it might give people you meet years from now, especially if your taste in music changes.

X INDELIBLE

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Example: Her unhappy childhood left an indelible mark. Root: IN- means NOT.

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Diminutive means small. A diminutive person is short and small. A diminutive word is a "cute" version of a regular word, "Maggie" is the diminutive of "Margaret."

Mnemonic: Dimin (sounds like DIMINISH), when something diminishes the effect becomes lesser smaller. Example: Jim and Jimmy are DIMINUTIVEs of 'James'. Root: Root MIN means SMALL.


When it's incalculably small, when teensy seems large compared to it, then it is infinitesimal. "The equipment was so sensitive that even the infinitesimal dust molecules that swept in with the open door altered the readings."

Mnemonic: INFINITESIMAL is infinitely small. Earth is INFINITESIMAL in universe Example: His statement has INFINITESIMAL amount of truth


When you think of microcosm, picture your home town inside a snow globe. The teeny tiny city is a microcosm of the one you live in. It is that place in miniature.

Mnemonic: Micro = small + Cosmos = worldâ€¦A small world Example: The family is a MICROCOSM of society. Root: MICRO means SMALL


Miniscule is a variant of minuscule, meaning â €œvery tiny.â€ Ants, grains of sand, and portion sizes at fancy restaurants might all be described as miniscule.

Mnemonic: Mini means extremely small. as in the words minimal and miniskirt. Example: But what may seem like a miniscule gain can affect medal standings. Root: Prefix MIN means SMALL.


If you have a slight build, you're slim with small bones. A slight deviation from your plan, is a tiny adjustment.

Mnemonic: SLIGHT means Less. Example: I woke up with a SLIGHT headache.

DIMINUTIVE


INFINITESIMAL

HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE

MICROCOSM

REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE

MINUSCULE

THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN

Legends: X

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SLIGHT

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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


When the battle is getting long and the odds are getting longer, retreat to your bastion to regroup and prepare for the next round of fighting. A bastion is a stronghold or fortification that remains intact.

Mnemonic: BASTION army fighting from BASTION Army Base station is BASTION Example: There is a huge BASTION on the side of the castle to help protect it from the enemy.

Form: Verb Tone: pos

When you cheer up a friend who's feeling down, you bolster them. To bolster is to offer support or strengthen.

Mnemonic: Boster sounds like Bolt the sitar. Example: These bolts on Sitar are to BOLSTER the sitar.


You can buttress an argument with solid facts or your financial portfolio with safe investments. You may find that giving compliments to everyone you meet buttresses your popularity. To buttress is to sustain or reinforce.

Mnemonic: Butt-rest for a wall.. Example: Trees have wide BUTTRESS roots to support their great height.

Form: Verb Tone: pos

If you add nutrients to something you fortify it. Food scientists have found ways to fortify cereal, but in addition to vitamins C and D, they usually add a lot of sugar.

Mnemonic: If you turn your couch into a fort you make it stronger Example: They fortified the area against attack.


support

Mnemonic: Remember we used to watch this dance show boogy woogy where you have to dance with a PROP (support the act) Example: these are measures to PROP up an unpopular government.

BASTION


BOLSTER

FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE

BUTTRESS


FORTIFY

REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE

PROP

THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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Mnemonic: Com means together and Passion is the zeal. So when you have the passion and willingness to help others its COMPASSION. Example: She was known as a hard woman with no COMPASSION, no emotion.


Use empathy if you're looking for a noun meaning "the ability to identify with another's feelings."

Mnemonic: EMPATHY and Sympathy are similar in meaning. Example: He has EMPATHY for other people's situations Root: EM- means IN


A humane person is one who shows great compassion and caring for others, including animals, and who tries whenever possible to alleviate another's suffering.

Mnemonic: Remember HUMANE is nothing but Being Human. Example: This is a a caring and HUMANE society

Form: adj Tone: neg

A callous person is insensitive or emotionally hardened. If you laugh at your little sister while she's trying to show you her poetry, you're being callous.

Example: He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards.

COMPASSION

EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-)

EMPATHY

HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY

HUMANE

PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN

Mnemonic/Example

If someone shows kindness, caring, and a willingness to help others, they're showing compassion.


Meaning


X CALLOUS

SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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To foster is to nurture something for a little while. She fosters creativity by providing crayons to every student. You can also foster a child, which means she lives in your home for a time.

Mnemonic: Poster is to FOSTER your brand name. Example: The clubâ €™s aim is to FOSTER better relations within the community; ..FOSTER Parents


If you plant a seed, water it daily and give it lots of light, you nurture it until it is ready to be transplanted outside. When you nurture a person or thing, you care for it and help it to grow.

Mnemonic: Dont torture but please NURTURE a child, even if it belongs to sombody else. Example: These delicate plants need careful nurturing.


Someone who acts as a surrogate takes the place of another person. In the middle of a big Hollywood awards ceremony, if a celebrity has to go to the bathroom, a surrogate will take his or her place and fill the seat.

Mnemonic: SURROGATE sounds like :Sir, your gate is broken and I will be the one to take the responsibility for it even though Bob did it. Example: She adopted our newest rescue and became a SURROGATE mom to him this year.

FOSTER


NURTURE


SURROGATE

PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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Relation to Group

Everyone who has ever taken a science class knows the word "hypothesis," which means an idea, or a guess, that you are going to test through an experiment. A hypothetical is related to that. It means something based on an informed guess.

Mnemonic: Its nothing but HYPOTHESIS, which lacks EVIDENCE Example: Let us take the HYPOTHETICAL case of Sheila, a mother of twoâ€¦ Root: Prefix HYPOmeans UNDER


When you speculate, you use what you know to make a prediction about an outcome, like when you speculate that the injury of two key players will prevent your favorite team from going far in the playoffs this year.

Mnemonic: a business owner may SPECULATE that a brand-new kind of frozen yogurt will be really popular, so she buys a huge order of it for her ice cream store. Example: We all SPECULATEd about the reasons for her resignation. Root: SPEC is to SEE


If knowledge is empirical, it's based on observation rather than theory. To do an empirical study of donut shops, you'll need to visit every one you can find.

Mnemonic: Such claims need to be tested empirically. Example: There is enormous empirical evidence for the law of diminishing marginal returns. Root: EM- means IN

HYPOTHETICAL


SPECULATE

HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL

X EMPERICAL

SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


If a dress is so seethrough that light shines through it revealing the things unnecessarily, it's diaphanous. Also known as "sheer," "transparent," or just plain" but diaphanous is so much classier.

Mnemonic: DIAPHANOUS phone. Example: The stain glass window was very DIAPHANOUS I could almost clearly see the clouds outside Root: Prefix DIAmeans THROUGH


You can describe weak, thin, and fragile things as flimsy. Onion smells are strong, onion skins are flimsy. Blaming onions for making you cry during a sad movie, that's a flimsy excuse, when there are no onions in the theater.

Mnemonic: A FLIMSY object and a FLIMSY objection or excuse are both without weight and are easy to knock down Example: The evidence against him is pretty FLIMSY.


Something that is delicate and fragile can be described as frail. Grandma's favorite vase is probably too frail to use for football practice; some of us have learned that the hard way.

Mnemonic: FRAIL one who fails in a subject is obviously WEAK in it Example: Mother was becoming too FRAIL to live alone.


Gossamer is something super fine and delicate â €” like a spider web or the material of a wedding veil.

Mnemonic: +SAMMER(summer) we wear clothes of light fabric Example: Nylon can be woven into GOSSAMER or thick fabrics.


You can't touch this word - it is intangible. You can grasp the meaning of the word in your head, but you can't close your hands around it; you'll just put fingerprints on your monitor.

Mnemonic: INTANGIBLE is not tangible Example: The old building had an INTANGIBLE air of sadness about it. Root: Prefix TANGmeans to TOUCH


characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane)

Example: It also provides a clear MEMBRANOUS touchpoint for the touchscreen.


If people can see through your shirt, it's

Example: We were impressed by the

DIAPHANOUS


FLIMSY

FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY

FRAIL

PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN

GOSSAMER

SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY

INTANGIBLE


MEMBRANOUS

sheer. This can also mean something steep, like a cliff, or anything extreme, like sheer nerve.

SHEER size of the cathedral.


If something is tenuous it's thin, either literally or metaphorically. If you try to learn a complicated mathematical concept by cramming for 45 minutes, you will have a tenuous grasp of that concept, at best.

Mnemonic: Ten Of Us can fit in this car, there is TENUOUS chances. Example: He holds a rather TENUOUS position in history Root: Prefix TEN means HOLD


When something is palpable, you can touch or handle it, even though the word is often used to describe things that usually can't be handled or touched, such as emotions or sensations.

Mnemonic: After touching the PULP of fruit its obvious that every one would be ABLE to perceive whether the fruit is fresh or not. Example: The tension between them is palpable


Something substantial is large in size, number, or amount: If you want to say someone spent a lot of money without being too specific, you could say they spent a substantial amount of money.

Mnemonic: Lots of Substance in anything would be considered as Substantial Example: He ate a substantial breakfast. Root: Prefix SUBmeans UNDER.


Tactile has to do with the sense of touch. There's a huge tactile difference between smooth glass and rough sandpaper.

Mnemonic: This Tile is so tactile Example: Different textures of food are tactile - they feel different in your mouth, aside from how they taste. Root: Prefix TACTmeans TOUCH

SHEER

TENUOUS

X PALPABLE

X SUBSTANTIAL

X TACTILE

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Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

If you balk at your mother's suggestion that you take on more responsibility, you're saying no to added chores. To balk means to refuse to go along with.

Mnemonic: Dog barked to BALK the thieves. Dog BALKed to bark. Example: Many parents may BALK at the idea of paying $100 for a pair of shoes.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you do something in a grudging manner (or grudgingly), you do it with reluctance. Doing homework, paying taxes, and saying sorry are all commonly done in a grudging manner.

Mnemonic: Imagine a grungy teenager unwilling to help out with chores Example: The GRUDGING acceptance of his opponent's victory.


Someone with alacrity shows cheerful willingness and eager behavior, like a kid whose mother has told him he can buy anything in a candy store.

Mnemonic: All creativity requires is alacrity Example: He demonstrated his eagerness to serve by his alacrity in executing the orders of his master.

Form: adj Tone: pos

showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others

Example: The obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave.

BALK


GRUDGING


X ALACRITY

MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY

X OBLIGING

SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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Relation to Group

Can you guess what conjecture means? It's a word to use when you are not sure of something and have to "guess or surmise."

Mnemonic: A "CONGUESSTURE" donâ€™t make the complete picture. Example: The truth of his CONJECTURE was confirmed by the newspaper report.


If you interpret something or make sense of it, you construe its meaning. If the new girl in your class asks to sit with you at lunch, you could construe that she wants to be friends. You can never have too many friends!

Mnemonic: Construct true movie by construing the true story Example: CONSTRUEd according to the laws of england and wales.


To deduce is to figure something out based on what you already know. When you see a person crying, it's easy to deduce that the person is sad. Unless they're happy, of course. Sometimes happy people cry.

Mnemonic: demeans down, ducere means lead; to 'lead down, derive', figure out Example: We can DEDUCE a lot from what people choose to buy. Root: Root DUCmeans LEAD.


When you extrapolate, you use specific details to make a general comment. For example, if you travel to Canada and encounter only friendly, kind natives, you might extrapolate that all Canadians are friendly.

Mnemonic: Looking at your current grade report for math and how you are doing in class now, you could EXTRAPOLATE that you'll likely earn a solid B for the year. Example: The figures were obtained by extrapolating from past trends.


If you see the empty ice cream containers, a kicked can of Reddi-wip in the trash, you can surmise what has happened: Sundaes. To surmise is to form an opinion or make a guess about something.

Mnemonic: Mice can SURMISE where the cheese is kept even though they do not know where exactly it is kept. Example: I SURMISE this is needed to complete your homework

CONJECTURE


CONSTRUE


DEDUCE

PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE

EXTRAPOLATE

THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN

Legends: X

: Antonyms

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Mnemonic/Example


To apprehend is to capture or arrest, as when the police try to apprehend criminals and bring them to justice. You also apprehend a concept when you understand it, grasping or capturing its meaning.

Mnemonic: APPREHEND sounds like Comprehend, and the meaning remains the same: to Understand. Example: He was slow to APPREHEND danger.


If you are trying to fit in, Mnemonic: you are trying to ASSIMILATE has the assimilate. word similar within it and in fact, means "to become like something else." Example: The committee will need time to ASSIMILATE this report. Root: Prefix SIMILmeans SAME


To comprehend something is to understand it, like when you have to read a difficult passage more than once in order to comprehend it.

Mnemonic: Com means together and so it means to combine things and understand the issue. Example: COMPREHEND why these meetings seem to be held in secret. Root: Prefix COMmeans TOGETHER.


To fathom something is to understand it thoroughly, and is usually used in the negative, as in "I can't fathom why he doesn't want to go along with us."

Mnemonic: FATHOM sounds like BOTTOM: To understand something thoroughly is "to get to the bottom of it." Example: It is hard to FATHOM the pain felt at the death of a child.

Form: adj Tone: neg

When your friend scribbles a note to you and you canâ€™t figure out what it says, itâ€™s because her handwriting is illegible - itâ€™s unreadable.

Mnemonic: Not Legible, Not understood. Example: This is an ILLEGIBLE signature Root: Prefix ILmeans NOT

Form: adj Tone: pos

Use the adjective intelligible to describe speech that is loud and clear, like the intelligible

Mnemonic: like if you have done something by intelligence, it would

APPREHEND


ASSIMILATE

FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION COMPREHEND PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE

FATHOM

THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO

ILLEGIBLE

WEAKEN

words of your principal which, thanks to a microphone, you were able to hear.

INTELLIGIBLE

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be INTELLIGIBLE that is clear and easily understood... Example: His lecture was readily INTELLIGIBLE to all the students.

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Mnemonic/Example


When you habituate something, you're helping it to get accustomed to a new home. Workers in zoos spend a lot of time habituating animals.

Mnemonic: When itâ €™s a habit to do something you are HABITUATEd. Example: We have all become HABITUATEd to thinking and reacting in certain ways.


To be immune to something is to be resistant to it. If you had chickenpox as a child, you should be immune to it now.

Mnemonic: Vaccinations serve to make people IMMUNE to certain diseases. Example: You'll eventually become IMMUNE to criticism.


To inure is to get used to something difficult or unpleasant. If after spending an hour in your brother's room, you stop noticing the stinky-sock smell, you have become inured to the odor.

Mnemonic: To become INUREd to bad life you get insured Example: Doctors become INUREd to death Root: IN- means INTO


If you're an inveterate doodler, all your notebooks are covered with drawings. If you're an inveterate golf player, you probably get twitchy if you haven't been out on a course in a week.

Mnemonic: Veter is a root which means for a long time Example: She is an INVETERATE smoker and cannot break the habit Root: IN- means INTO

HABITUATE


IMMUNE

FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE HUGE

INURE

LONG ESSAY MISTAKE / ACT DONE CARELESSSLY PERTAINING TO RELIGION PLACE SIDE BY SIDE REMOVE / DESTROY

INVETERATE

SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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Mnemonic/Example


When you subvert something, your words or actions criticize or undermine the usual way of doing something or common values. The girl who wears a tuxedo to the prom might subvert traditional ideas about beauty.

Mnemonic: SUBVERT sounds like DIVERT, ie going the unusual way and breaking laws Example: This was an alleged plot to SUBVERT the state. Root: Prefix SUB means UNDER


To undermine literally means to dig a hole underneath something, making it likely to collapse. But we more often use the word to describe sabotage or the act of weakening someone else's efforts.

Mnemonic: UNDEMINE has an effect which is opposite of UNDERLINE. We underline to emphasise something that is important and Undermining would be to make something lesser Important Example: Our confidence in the team has been seriously UNDERMINEd by their recent defeats.


make secure underneath, Mnemonic: Under gird lend moral support to. can be related to 'guard' or secure

SUBVERT

DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED FUSSY (-) HINT / INDIRECT REFERENCE

UNDERMINE


X UNDER GIRD

REMOVE / DESTROY SMALL SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN SYMPATHY TAKE CARE THEORY WITHOUT EVIDENCE THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Legends: X

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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

A catalyst is an event or person causing a change. Getting kicked out of your parents' house might be a catalyst for becoming more independent.

Mnemonic: Raju acts as a CATALYST in our fights, when you least expect it. Example: His imprisonment by the government served as the CATALYST that helped transform social unrest into revolution.


Engender is a fancy way of saying "to make happen," like when you engender the spirit of teamwork and cooperation by encouraging others and doing your share of the group's work.

Mnemonic: When genders get together they cause, produce, and give rise to children, that is ENGENDER. Example: Hatred ENGENDERs violence.


The adjective expedient describes something that provides an easy way to achieve a goal or result, but it's not necessarily a moral solution.

Mnemonic: Expedited delivery is (EXPEDIENT) suitable when sending your GRE scores to universities Example: A pragmatic politician, he was guided by what was EXPEDIENT rather than by what was ethical. Root: EX means OUT OF/ FROM


To facilitate means to Mnemonic: make something easier. If FACILITATE calls for your best friend is very facilities shy, you could facilitate Example: The new her efforts to meet new trade agreement people. should FACILITATE more rapid economic growth.


to excite; stir up or set going.

Mnemonic: KINDLE the Candle. Amazon KINDLE, KINDLEs (inspires) the world of books Example: The soft music and dim lights in our favorite restaurant always KINDLE romance

Form: verb

Precipitate usually means

Mnemonic: Pre +

CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT

CATALYST

DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING

ENGENDER

HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH

EXPEDIENT

RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE

FACILITATE

UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER

KINDLE

Tone: neg

"bringing something on" or "making it happen" and not always in a good way.

anticipate: you anticipate before thinking (sooner) or hasten anticipation Example: I don't think we should make any PRECIPITATE decisions.


A teacher might use a verbal prod when students aren't participating in class. A prod is an encouragement, like the threat of a quiz.

Mnemonic: Rod: PROD (stir up) with rod Example: I PRODded him with my elbow.

Form: adj Tone: pos

A prompt is a cue that gives forgetful actors a hint for their next line, or students the topic of the essay they will write. It can also be the act of inspiring action, like your letter to the editor that prompts others to join your cause.

Mnemonic: Pro empty: pro empty response is PROMPT because you donâ€™t need to do much. Command PROMPT Example: A noise PROMPTed the guard to go back and investigate.


To propel is to push or drive forward, like a sheep dog nipping at the heels of his flock to keep them moving.

Mnemonic: PROPEL sounds like Compel, that is force or drive something to happen. Example: The development of our missile program has forced our scientists to seek more powerful PROPELlants.


To spur something on is to get it going, to encourage it, to hasten it or stimulate. Cowboys wear spiky metal tools called spurs on their boots to kick their horse, and spur them to greater speed.

Mnemonic: Economists talk of lowering interest rates to SPUR spending. Example: His speech was a powerful SPUR to action.


If the economy is starting to stall, the president can't just sit there. He has to stimulateâ€”turn it on, bring it to life, perk it up. You can stimulate practically anything: a person, a conversation, a mind, or even the growth of a plant.

Mnemonic: Say, for example, that I'm trying to sell my new song CD. In order to STIMULATE interest, I need to send out a sample song to all my friends. Unless, of course, my songs are not good. Example: The article can be used to STIMULATE discussion among students.

PRECIPITATE

PROD

PROMPT

PROPEL

SPUR

STIMULATE

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DEADLOCK

Mnemonic: culp( culprit)...so a culprit is always DESERVING OF BLAME FROM EVERYONE. Example: The accident was the result of a CULPABLE failure to consider the risks involved. Root: CULP- means GUILT

Form: adj Tone: neg

Reprehensible means deserving of blame or strong criticism. It is a strong wordâ€“-your mother might forgive you for doing something bad, but something reprehensible? That's worse.

Mnemonic: REPREHENSIBLE is Blamable. Example: His conduct was thoroughly REPREHENSIBLE. Root: RE means to REPEAT

CULPABLE

DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING

Mnemonic/Example

If a child tells his mother he was not to blame for the cookie jar being broken, she could still find him culpable if he was the only one home. Culpable means to be at fault.


Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

REPREHENSIBLE

HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

The meaning of disheveled hasn't changed much from the 16th and 17th centuries, when it referred to disordered clothing or hair. If he were coming in from the snow, you could blame static and hat-hair for his disheveled look, but no, he just never uses a

Mnemonic: Dis + Shave A person who donâ€™t shave is DISHEVELED Example: He looked very tired, DISHEVELED and very pale Root: DIS means NOT

Form: adj Tone: neg

the quality of being rustic or gauche

Example: a gauche teenager/manner


extremely disorderly

Mnemonic: Heard of Crumbled shirt, it looks disorderly and so is RUMPLED. Example: She RUMPLED his hair playfully.

Form: adj Tone: neg

The adjective shabby describes something that is threadbare or worn out. Your last apartment was clean, but the furniture and carpets were so shabby that you were embarrassed to invite your friends over.

Mnemonic: If you spent your whole childhood treating your younger brother in a SHABBY way, you can't expect him to be your friend when you're older. Example: The outside of the house was beginning to look SHABBY.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Shoddy refers to poor materials or quality. Maybe you passed on buying a house because it leaned in an odd way and various and sundry parts were falling off. Sounds like both the materials and workmanship were shoddy.

Mnemonic: Shody sounds like Shady. She is showing SHODDY emotions and he is looking at SHODDY construction Example: SHODDY business practices; SHODDY behavior; a SHODDY bookcase

Form: adj Tone: neg

lacking neatness or order

Mnemonic: SLOPPY sounds like a SLOw person who is CARELESS about his career. Example: Your work is SLOPPY.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Slovenly is what your Example: This, great aunt Mehitabel together with a slack might call you if you came tie, creates a


DISHEVELED

DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME

GAUCHERIE

HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING

RUMPLED

HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH

SHABBY

RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE

SHODDY

UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER SLOPPY

SLOVENLY

Form: adj Tone: neg

UNKEMPT

to high tea without a necktie. It means "messy or unkempt," but is a word you probably won't hear messy or unkempt people using.

SLOVENLY appearance

Unkempt literally means â €œnot combed,â€ but use it to describe anything with a sloppy appearance. Your hair probably looks unkempt when you roll out of bed in the morning. Keep it that way if you're going for the rock star look.

Mnemonic: Un (not) + Kept UNKEMPT is not kept properly Example: The beggar was dirty and UNKEMPT. Root: UN means WITHOUT

Legends: X

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Vocabulary

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Words

ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


To affirm something is to give it a big "YES" or to confirm that it is true.

Mnemonic: AFFIRM rhymes with Confirm and so is the meaning. Example: Both sides AFFIRMed their commitment to the cease-fire.


settle conclusively

Example: They CLINCHed the deal.


make sure

Mnemonic: CONFIRM rhymes with Affirm and so is the meaning. Example: Rumors of job losses were later CONFIRMed.


To corroborate is to back someone elseâ €™s story. If you swear to your teacher that you didn't throw the spitball, and your friends corroborate your story by promising that you were concentrating on math homework, she might actually believe you.

Mnemonic: CORROBORATE sounds like Collaborate (work with other) and CORROBORATE (support and strengthen). Example: We need to CORROBORATE the findings.


To endorse is to give support to someone or something. "I endorse this!" means "I think this is a good thing, and so should you."

Mnemonic: When someone ENDORSEs a product in a commercial, it means "Go buy this! Example: he world leaders ENDORSEd a ban on land mines.


To ratify a treaty or contract is to officially approve it by signing or voting for it. You and your brothers and sisters might devise a plan for a family vacation to Disney World, but it would need to be ratified by your parents.

Mnemonic: Rat And Cat never RATIFY. Rectify the mistake in document to RATIFY it. Example: They have yet to RATIFY the treaty.


To substantiate is to give support to a claim. Weâ€™d really like to believe in the Tooth

Mnemonic: SUBSTANTIATE is related to the word substantial, which

AFFIRM

CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS

CLINCH

FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND

CONFIRM

HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY

CORROBORATE

PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE

ENDORSE

UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER

RATIFY

SUBSTANTIATE

Fairy; however, more evidence is needed to substantiate her existence (besides that quarter in your pocket).

means "solid." Example: The results of the tests SUBSTANTIATEd his claims.


To testify is to make a statement or provide evidence, usually in court. Witnesses testify for the prosecution or defense.

Mnemonic: If you've ever seen a TV show about lawyers, you've probably seen someone TESTIFYing: putting their hand on the Bible, sitting in the witness seat, and telling what they know about a case. Example: She refused to TESTIFY against her husband.


To validate is to prove that something is based on truth or fact, or is acceptable. It can also mean to make something, like a contract, legal.

Mnemonic: VALIDATE is to make something VALID. Example: to VALIDATE a theory

TESTIFY

VALIDATE

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Mnemonic: Its impossible to pass this traffic, so itâ€™s a traffic IMPASSE. Example: The peace talks reached an IMPASSE


A stalemate is an impasse in a contest, a point where neither player - usually in chess - can win or lose.

Mnemonic: CheckMate STALEMATE and check-mate in chess Example: Talks between union and management resulted in a STALEMATE.

IMPASSE


Mnemonic/Example

When two huge semi trailers meet face-to-face on a one-lane mountain road, the drivers jumped out of their cabs and exclaimed, "We're at an impasse! We can't move forward - we can only reverse and go back in the direction from which we came."


Meaning


STALEMATE

HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Words

ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

Consecrate means to make holy or to dedicate to a higher purpose. You need to consecrate a building to turn it into a church, but you can also consecrate a week in New York City to the pursuit of the perfect bagel.

Mnemonic: Con + sacred Example: Conscrate yourselves for tommorrow the lord will do wonders among you.

Form: adj Tone: pos

You might be enraged at the idea of doing homework on a Saturday if you consider your weekends sacrosanct - meaning they are too special or important to interrupt.

Mnemonic: Sacrosanct Sounds like SACRED Example: A church, for example, might consider its Sunday service to be sacrosanct - a very important and holy ritual that cannot be changed or canceled.


Saying offensive things about God or religion is blasphemy. Blasphemy can be used for offensive ideas in other areas too.

Mnemonic: BLASPHEMY bless+famous...Famous people are so proud of their success that they often disrespect Godthey are never to be Blessed ! Example: To say that man is precisely what God made him to be is sheer BLASPHEMY.


To desecrate means to treat a sacred place or thing with violent disrespect. The news sometimes reports on vandals who have desecrated tombstones or places of worship.

Mnemonic: DESECRATE sounds like De (NOT)-Sacred Example: Please do not DESECRATE the Monument or surrounding area. Root: DE means DOWN/AWAY.

Form: adj Tone: neg

To be impious is to be disrespectful of god or duty. When someone is being impious they are doing things that their church, synagogue, temple, mosque, school principal, government or parents would find unacceptable.

Mnemonic: IMPIOUS can be split as IM (NOT) + PIOUS (RELIGIOUS) Example: The IMPIOUS man began to pray in an ungodly fashion. Root: IM means NOT

Form: adj

Profane is the sort of

Mnemonic: Propane

(X) CONSECRATE

DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING

(X) SACROSANCT

HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH

BLASPHEMY

RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE

DESECRATE

UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER

IMPIOUS

Tone: neg

language that gets bleeped on TV but it's also whenever you deeply offend people with how little respect you show something (usually religious).

gas: being inextinguishable is not allowed in holy places. Cannot use propane for aarti Example: Tourists are urged not to PROFANE the sanctity of holy places by wearing improper clothes.


If you show up to an animal rights rally with a bucket full of fried chicken for lunch, you may be accused of committing sacrilege. You are violating a belief held sacred, at least by some individuals.

Mnemonic: SACRILEGE has its roots in the sacr-, meaning "holy." Example: The cult of the Roman emperor was SACRILEGE to Jews and Christians.

PROFANE

SACRILEGE

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Words

ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Relation to Group

If you can't change it, it's immutable. There are many things in life that are immutable; these unchangeable things include death, taxes, and the laws of physics.

Mnemonic: IM (NOT) and MUTABLE (CHANGEABLE). Cannot change Example: This decision should not be seen as IMMUTABLE. Root: IM means NOT

Form: adj Tone: pos

Use the adjective invariable to describe something that's unlikely to change, such as your invariable custom of eating deep-dish pizza every Saturday.

Mnemonic: In (NOT) Variable (changes or VARIES) Does not change or vary is INVARIABLE. Example: Her routine was INVARIABLE.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone who is firm and determined in a belief or a position can be called steadfast in that view, like your mom when she thinks you really shouldnâ€™t wear that outfit.

Mnemonic: Steady Fast Example: Let them thank the Lord for his STEADFAST love, for his wondrous works to the children of men

IMMUTABLE

DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND

INVARIABLE

HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT

STEADFAST

NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


To be absolved is to be let off the hook, to be set free from a certain obligation or to be forgiven for a wrongdoing. The Church may absolve you of your sins, but that won't absolve you of the need to attend mass.

Mnemonic: ab + solve : if you can solve this problem, I can ABSOLVE your sin from the accusation of cheating in exam. (a teacher said to his student) Example: The court ABSOLVEd him of all responsibility for the accident.


To acquit someone is to clear them of charges. Acquitting also has to do with how you carry or present yourself.

Mnemonic: AC(accused)+QUIT.....when you are under any kind of criminal charge and the court quits the charge, it means that you are free from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty...hence ACQUIT Example: The jury ACQUITted him of murder.


To exculpate means to find someone not guilty of criminal charges. If you've been wrongly convicted of robbery, you better hope a judge will exculpate you, unless you want to go to jail because you've heard prison food is amazing.

Mnemonic: EXCULPATE sounds like ex-culprit = culprit...but now he has been cleared of the charges. Example: The defendant was able to EXCULPATE himself from liability. Root: EX- is OUT OF/FROM


To exonerate someone is to declare him not guilty of criminal charges. This word is pretty much only used in reference to proceedings in a court of law. A word with a similar meaning that might be familiar is â €œacquit.â€

Mnemonic: EXONERATE break it as EX (gone) HONOUR (pride) - to bring back your gone or fallen honour by getting the blame off you. Example: The police report EXONERATEd Lewis from all charges of corruption. Root: EX- is OUT OF/FROM


Vindicate means to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea - or to absolve from guilt. If your family thinks you hogged

Mnemonic: vidicate....split it like vin(WIN) + di(the) + cate(case)....so when you win a case IN a COURT...it means you are freed FROM ACCUSATION AND


ABSOLVE

DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING

ACQUIT

HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT

EXCULPATE

SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE

EXONERATE

WITHOUT REAL POWER

VINDICATE

the last piece of pie on Thanksgiving, you'll be vindicated when your younger brother fesses up. Legends: X

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CHARGES...you are freed from blame. Example: There was not enough evidence against him, so the court VINDICATEd him.

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Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone or something that is benign is gentle, kind, mild, or unharmful: a benign soul wouldn't hurt a fly.

Mnemonic: BENIGN sounds like Be nice Example: Its entirely BENIGN in nature, you will be start working in two days. Root: BE means GOOD

Form: adj Tone: pos

If you want to reassure someone that something isn't harmful or likely to cause injury, call it innocuous. Even an innocuous letter from your boyfriend is embarrassing if your parents find it!

Mnemonic: INNOCUOUS is innoxious which is harmless Example: An INNOCUOUS home remedy; An INNOCUOUS remark

BENIGN

CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME

INNOCUOUS

HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Form: adj Tone: pos

Whether youâ€™re talking about a therapeutic drug or a therapeutic exercise plan, something that is therapeutic helps to heal or to restore health.

CONFIRM / SUPPORT DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS

Mnemonic/Example

tending to cure or restore Mnemonic: to health CURATIVE is nothing but Curing Example: the CURATIVE properties of herbs

CURATIVE

DEADLOCK

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: pos

THERAPEUTIC

FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Mnemonic: THERAPEUTIC is nothing bout Therapy Example: Painting can be very THERAPEUTIC.

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Use the word cherubic to describe someone with a round face and an air of sweetness, whether youâ €™re talking about a cute cooing baby or your innocent-looking, roundfaced 40-year-old brother.

Mnemonic: CHERUBIC, pronounced "CHAIRuh-bick," is used to describe someone who looks like a cherub, a baby-like angel Example: With her cheerful smile and rosy cheeks, she was a particularly CHERUBIC child.

Form: adj Tone: pos

When people are redcheeked with good health they are florid. Spending most of the year in the college library can give you a colorless, weary face, but after a mountain vacation, you'll be florid with the reddish color that comes from exercise and living

Mnemonic: FLORIDa mein FLORID stalls and FLORID (reddish) complexion girls. Example: a FLORID style of painting

Form: adj Tone: pos

having the pinkish flush of Mnemonic: Flush health sounds like Blush. When you blush your face turns pink and u looked FLUSHED Example: Sam felt her cheeks flush red.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Ruddy is used to describe something that is reddish - like the color of red hair, tomatoes, or your cheeks on a cold winter's day.

Mnemonic: RUDDY complexion is Reddy complexion. Example: He had a naturally RUDDY complexion.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Salubrious is a fancy way to describe something thatâ€™s good for you or is generally favorable to mind or body, but it need not be limited to describing healthy foods or liquids.

Mnemonic: SALUBRIOUS sounds like we salute each other with the cheer, "To your health!" Example: We had to move to a house in a less SALUBRIOUS area.

CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK

CHERUBIC

DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL

FLORID

LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT

FLUSHED

SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE

RUDDY

UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE

SALUBRIOUS

WITHOUT REAL POWER

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Mnemonic: Office mein Officious person. Example: The officious man didn't realize that his help was not needed.

Form: adj Tone: pos

When you hear the word solicitous, think of your mom - attentive, caring and concerned. It's nice when your waiter gives you good service, but if he or she is solicitous, the hovering might annoy you.

Mnemonic: Solicit means to request earnestly for something, but if you have to wait for it to happen then you are liable to become SOLICITOUS Example: The son was SOLICITOUS about his father's health.

DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING

Mnemonic/Example

Though officious sounds like official, it means being annoyingly eager to do more than is required. "The officious lunch lady made everyone's food choices her business, and made nasty comments when students chose cookies over carrots."

OFFICIOUS (-)

FIRM / UNCHANGING

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

SOLICITOUS

HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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If you want to describe a small amount of something, try modicum. If you have a modicum of interest in something, you are a little bit interested.

Mnemonic: MODICUM sounds like Moderate or medium and so is the meaning. Example: He does not have a MODICUM of sense. She always discarded all garments that were no longer modish.


A remnant is something that's left over, once the rest is used up. If you plan to sew a shirt using only a remnant, it might have to be a midriff shirt.

Mnemonic: REMNANT is remaining part. Example: The shop is selling REMNANTs of cloth at half price.


A trace of something is just a hint or suggestion of it, a very small amount left behind - like the sad cookie crumbs at the bottom of an empty cookie jar.

Mnemonic: There are more meanings we can TRACE to this word. So you could say that Sherlock Holmes TRACEd criminals throughout London, following even the smallest TRACEs of evidence and tracing copies of the villain's notes for his files. Example: We finally TRACEd him to an address in Chicago.


Vestige is an elegant word. It's all about shadows, and gives us a way to talk about traces or reminders of something that has disappeared or is disappearing.

Mnemonic: VESTIGE sounds like Wastage. VESTIGE of Wastage Example: We discovered VESTIGEs of early Indian life in the cave.

MODICUM


REMNANT

HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG

TRACE

PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE

VESTIGE

UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


When there's a consensus, everyone agrees on something. If you're going to a movie with friends, you need to reach a consensus about which movie everyone wants to see.

Mnemonic: Con (common) sensus (sense): itâ€™s a common sense for a group to reach CONSENSUS to resolve the issue Example: CONSENSUS decision making leads to paralysis

Form: adj Tone: pos

When a group or a decision is unanimous, it means that everyone is in total agreement. Just imagine if you let third graders vote on what to serve at lunch: Pizza and candy would be the unanimous choice!

Mnemonic: UNANIMOUS sounds like UNION. Example: UNANIMOUS agreement must be reached for this plan to go ahead.


A veto is a no vote that blocks a decision. The President can veto some bills that pass his desk.

Mnemonic: Vetoes block or forbid something, and the word is also used more loosely. Example: The governor used his veto to block the proposal.


CONSENSUS


UNANIMOUS


X VETO

PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Mnemonic/Example


No reason to get excited - cursory has nothing to do with bad language. Instead, it means not paying attention to details, like friends who are so busy studying for a test that they only give your new haircut a cursory glance.

Mnemonic: Mouse is used to move the cursor hastily without going into minor details Example: CURSORY reading of new testament.


Perfunctory means done as part of a routine or duty. If you give someone a gift and they look at it like it's roadkill and say nothing about it but a perfunctory "thank you," you might not be giving them another one anytime soon.

Mnemonic: Parai factory ko take care in PERFUNCTORY way Example: In his lectures he reveals himself to be merely a PERFUNCTORY speaker


done quickly; in a summary manner

Example: the suspected spy was SUMMARILY executed.

CURSORY


PERFUNCTORY

HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY

SUMMARILY

PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Form: adj Tone: pos

Use robust to describe a person or thing that is healthy and strong, or strongly built. This adjective also commonly describes food or drink: a robust wine has a rich, strong flavor.

Mnemonic: ROBUST Robot Example: The candidate for the football team had a ROBUST physique.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Terrain that is broken and uneven is called rugged. If you want an easy hike, you should stay away from the rugged coastline. That rocky shoreline is definitely for the more experienced hikers.

Mnemonic: RUGGED can also describe something that is steady, sturdy, and strong. Example: The countryside around here is very RUGGED.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Describe something that is firmly constructed or strongly made as sturdy. That house you built was not sturdy at all. It blew down in the last wind storm. Fortunately, it was only a dog house and the dog wasn't in it.

Mnemonic: Your grandmother is pushing 80, but she is still pretty STURDY if she can beat you at tennis. Example: The vehicle is STURDY enough to withstand rough terrain.

ROBUST

CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING

RUGGED

FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER

STURDY

MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Relation to Group

You can condemn, or openly criticize, someone who is behaving inappropriately. If you are an animal rights activist, you would probably condemn someone for wearing fur.

Mnemonic: You may see politicians CONDEMN each other in political ads during a campaign in hopes of improving their chances of winning an election. Example: The government issued a statement CONDEMNing the killings.

Form: verb Tone: Neg

A convict is a person who Example: He was has been found guilty CONVICTed of fraud. convicted - of a crime and is serving a sentence in prison.


When you immure someone or something, you put it behind a wall, as in a jail or some other kind of confining space.

Mnemonic: Funny way of remembering it will be: IMMURE like I M YOURS....please enclose me within the walls of your heart Example: At the age of 86 he was IMMUREd in his house by infirmity.


Use the verb incarcerate when you need to put someone behind bars in a big way, meaning, send them to prison, like those who, after being found guilty of a crime and sentenced, become incarcerated.

Mnemonic: IN + CAR + CIGARETTE due to a ban on smoking, if you smoke cigarettes even in the car, you may be IMPRISONed. Example: Thousands were INCARCERATEd in labor camps.


If you receive a lengthy prison sentence, you will certainly feel it.

Mnemonic: Sent to Jail Example: The prisoner has served (= completed) his SENTENCE and will be released tomorrow.


Amnesty can mean a pardon for a wrongdoing, or it can also signal a government's willingness to overlook something.

Mnemonic: amnesty - am + ne (not) + sty (stay); Imagine a prisoner saying "I am not going to stay in this prison anymore as judge granted

CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK

CONDEMN

DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING

CONVICT


IMMURE

PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE

INCARCERATE


SENTENCE

X AMNESTY

amnesty to me." Example: The president granted a general amnesty for all political prisoners. Form: verb Tone: pos

If you condone something, you allow it, approve of it, or at least can live with it. Some teachers condone chewing gum, and some don't.

Mnemonic: When you tell someone that "THIS CAN BE DONE" (condone) you are approving of something. Example: The college cannot condone any behavior that involves illicit drugs. Root: CON- means WITH/ TOGETHER


A reprieve is a break in or cancellation of a painful or otherwise lousy situation. If you're being tortured, a reprieve is a break from whatever's tormenting you.

Mnemonic: Reprieve sounds like relieve and means the same Example: He is a a reprieved murderer. Root: RE- is to REPEAT

X CONDONE

X REPRIEVE

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Words


Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Relation to Group

A barricade is anything that prevents people or vehicles from getting through. Construction workers often barricade a street to block traffic.

Mnemonic: BARRICADE sounds like Barrier. Example: The police stormed the BARRICADEs the demonstrators put up.


As a noun: the act of restraining power or action

Mnemonic: We sometimes tell a rowdy guy "Hey CHECK your action" urging him to keep a CHECK on what he does Example: The government is determined to CHECK the growth of public spending.


Deter means to discourage. Many believe that the use of capital punishment deters people from committing murder. Others think that is hogwash.

Mnemonic: DETER sounds like DETERmined. Example: This is equivalent to a DETERminate sentence of 20 years.


An eddy is a whirlpool what you stare at as a kid when the water is draining out of the bathtub.

Mnemonic: EDDY current/wind: where current flows Example: Caught in an EDDY, the polythene bag flew high over the trees


to prevent the success of something.

Mnemonic: Silver FOIL prevents bacteria getting successful in decaying food Example: Loyal troops FOILed his attempt to overthrow the government.


It takes a bit of planning to forestall something, meaning stop it from happening. To forestall the effects of aging, exercise and take care of your health all your life.

Mnemonic: Fore = before, Stall = stop. FORESTALL is to stop before happening I put for stall to FORESTALL crowd pushing when one stall Example: Some research shows that

BARRICADE

CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND

CHECK

HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY

DETER

PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE

EDDY

SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE

FOIL


FORESTALL

doing crossword puzzles daily may FORESTALL Alzheimer's disease FRUSTRATE


self explanatory


The verb hinder means to block or put something in the way of, so if youâ€™re in a high-speed car chase with the police, they might put up a blockade to hinder your progress.

Mnemonic: a political situation that HINDERs economic growth


To impede something is to delay or block its progress or movement. Carrying six heavy bags will impede your progress if you're trying to walk across town.

Mnemonic: IMPEDE sounds like Compete .You IMPEDE when you compete. You try to obstruct so they cant win. Example: Do they assist or IMPEDE the flow of learning in the course? Root: IM means NOT


When you inhibit something, you block it or hold it back. If you put plants in a dark room, you inhibit their growth. A teacher who mocks their students for giving wrong answers inhibits their willingness to speak up in class.

Mnemonic: INHIBIT is to prohibit Example: I need to INHIBIT myself from eating too many cookies.


Interdict means to forbid, to nix, to veto. If your parents find out you're planning a party for a time when they're away , they will interdict it.

Mnemonic: Inter (between) Dict (Speak) So if you speak in between you prohibit someone else from speaking Example: Civilized nations must INTERDICT the use of nuclear weapons if we expect out society to live Root: IN means NOT


When you obstruct something, you block it. If youâ€™re gobbling down your pizza, a chunk of crust you didnâ€™t chew so well might obstruct your airway and you'll choke.

Mnemonic: Ob means AGAINST and Struct can be related to structure. Remember OBSTRUCTion (something that prevents) Example: He was arrested for OBSTRUCTion of a police officer in the execution of his duty. Root: OB means AGAINST


If you want to be rude, you'll obtrude, or thrust yourself to the front of a line without waiting.

Mnemonic: OBTRUDE is similar to Intrude, enter forcibly

HINDER

IMPEDE

INHIBIT

INTERDICT

OBSTRUCT

Example: She tried to OBTRUDE the wedge through the door Root: OB means AGAINST

OBTRUDE


Occlude means to obstruct, as with an opening. You hear this a lot in a medical context. Heart surgeons are looking for occlusions in blood vesselsâ€“-things that occlude the flow of blood.

Mnemonic: OCCLUDE is to Exclude Example: A blood clot OCCLUDEd an artery to the heart.


To preclude something is to prevent it from happening. A muzzle precludes a dog from biting.

Mnemonic: PRECLUDE - Exclude opposite of include. I had no pre-clue that I will be PRECLUDEd Example: His physical disability PRECLUDEs an athletic career for him. Root: PRE means BEFORE


To retard something is to slow it down. This is also a mean and inappropriate word for someone who's mentally slow.

Mnemonic: The progression of the disease can be RETARDed by early surgery.


A stockade is an enclosed pen used to herd cattle and other livestock. Stockades can also house men, in the sense of a penal camp. In both cases, the treatment tends to be on the rough side.

Mnemonic: Stock Ate STOCKADE to prevent stock ate from cow Example: When he returns to the old STOCKADE, he has a surprise waiting for him.


The verb stymie means to obstruct or hinder. Constantly texting with your friends will stymie your effort to finish your homework.

Mnemonic: STYMIE rhymes with: Tie me, so you cant move and itâ€™s a STYMIE (obstacle) Example: A problem in thermodynamics that STYMIEd half the class.


A villain's worst nightmare is the superhero who always seems to thwart his efforts, preventing him from carrying out his plans to take over the world.

Mnemonic: War THWART my plans Example: They were doing all they could to THWART the terrorists.


to limit someone's freedom Mnemonic: The tram of movement or activity mall is _restrict_ed to shops selling trams and tram accessories Example: He felt himself TRAMMELed by convention.

OCCLUDE

PRECLUDE

RETARD

STOCKADE

STYMIE

THWART

TRAMMEL

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Relation to Group

Meaning To adorn is to dress something up by decorating it. You might adorn your poncho with fringe or your poodle's dog collar with rhinestones.

Mnemonic: Add orn (ornaments), add on add on... to ADORN Example: He said add on, add ornaments to ADORN the room for her birthday party Root: AD- means TO/TOWARDS

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something baroque is overly ornate, like a paisley red velvet jacket with tassels, or music that has a lot going on.

Mnemonic: Music from late 16th century to the early 18th century Play BAROQUE music piece.From 16th century Broke..BAROQUE music was played from broken record Example: BAROQUE music is considered to be in many ways more BAROQUE (showy) than classical.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Something effulgent radiates light. On a clear day the sun can be quite effulgent. You might need a pair of shades.

Mnemonic: Eff (Efficient)+ full+ gen(gem)= an efficient full gem shins brightly Example: Love these EFFULGENT daffodils.


The word "bell" shows up in the middle of embellish, and bells are something that decorate, or embellish something, making it more attractive. If you embellish speech, though, it can get ugly if you add a lot of details that aren't true.

Mnemonic: EMBELLISH has a BELL in the middle of the word which talks about decoration especialy in Christmas. Example: The artist EMBELLISH his painting to make it look more real Root: EM- means IN

Form: adj Tone: pos

When people are redcheeked with good health they are florid. Spending most of the year in the college library can give you a colorless, weary face, but after a mountain vacation, you'll

Mnemonic: FLORIDa mein FLORID stalls and FLORID (reddish) complexion girls. Example: The bride had a FLORID dress.

ADORN

DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL

BAROQUE

LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT

EFFULGENT

SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE

EMBELLISH


FLORID

Mnemonic/Example


be florid with the reddish color that comes from exercise and living Form: verb Tone: pos

A garnish is a decoration or embellishment, often used with food. It is also the verb that means to do the decorating: you can garnish a baked fish with a garnish of lemon slices and parsley.

Mnemonic: Garden is GARNISHed with new plants and gorgeous flowers Example: GARNISH the chicken with almonds.


The noun intricacy means a quality of being complex or elaborately detailed. You could compliment the intricacy of your friend's complicated hairdo.

Mnemonic: Intricate sounds like DELICATE and so is the meaning Example: an intricate network of loyalties and relationships

Form: adj Tone: pos

If something is ornate â Mnemonic: €” whether it's a ball Ornaments are gown, a set of dishes, or ORNATE in nature a poem - it seems to be and look. covered in ornaments. It's Example: This style lavish, flowery, or heavily is a little too ORNATE adorned. for my taste.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Someone or something that is resplendent has great beauty and is a pleasure to behold. "She was there, at the base of the stairs, resplendent in her flowing gown and jewels."

Mnemonic: This pendant is RESPLENDENT Example: Mary looked RESPLENDENT in her royal blue velvet prom dress.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Spectacular is both a noun and an adjective. The noun spectacular refers to a big, beautiful production, like a play or musical performance that has a huge cast and many dance numbers.

Mnemonic: SPECTACULAR sounds like Miraculous and so is the meaning. Example: Messi scored a SPECTACULAR goal. Root: SPEC- means to SEE

GARNISH

INTRICACY

ORNATE

RESPLENDENT

SPECTACULAR

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Relation to Group

Mnemonic: someone who leaves all AESTHETICs (art of beauty)is an ASCETIC Example: Only real saints and sages are ASCETIC in nature.

Form: adj Tone: neg

The adjective austere is used to describe something or someone stern or without any decoration. You wouldn't want someone to describe you or your home as austere.

Mnemonic: Aus tere: Austrailian live AUSTERE life and practice thatâ €™s why they do good. Example: It is a monkâ €™s AUSTERE life; AUSTERE grandeur of the cathedral.

Form: adj Tone: neg

When you have a nasty cold and youâ€™re very congested, food can taste unappealingly bland. That means dull, flavorless, or just plain â€œblah.â€

Mnemonic: divide it into B and LAND.in a Bbarren LAND you dont get tasty food to eat. Example: An elevated threshold for taste may make food taste BLAND or boring.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Dull, dreary, dingy, depressing: These adjectives capture the sense of drab, whether the word is used to describe a muted color, a miserable mood, or an oppressively boring existence.

Mnemonic: Crab is a DRAB creature. Example: a cold DRAB little office

Form: adj Tone: neg

Some insipid is lacking in flavor or interest. You'll probably find the generic poems inside of greeting cards insipid.

Mnemonic: INSIPID coffee, so you donâ€™t sip it INSIPID people are Stupid Example: This is a cup of INSIPID coffee

Form: adj Tone: neg

Prosaic means ordinary or dull. Most of us lead a prosaic everyday life, sometimes interrupted by some drama or crisis.

Mnemonic: mosaic beautiful artistic work with full of vibrant colours.....PROSAIC ...opposite of that ...dull Example: The guitars feel fairly PROSAIC to me, there's nothing complex or amazingly new going on.

Form: adj Tone: neg

extremely simple or plain

Mnemonic: A barren desert or a room with no furniture or curtains is STARK. It can also mean "severe, stern, or

CONFIRM / SUPPORT DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING

AUSTERE

FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER

BLAND

MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH

DRAB

RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE

INSIPID


Mnemonic/Example

Want to live an ascetic lifestyle? Then you better ditch the flat panel TV and fuzzy slippers. To be ascetic, you learn to live without; it's all about selfdenial.

ASCETIC

DEADLOCK

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

PROSAIC

austere," like the STARK beauty of the rocky cliffs in the west of Ireland. Example: the STARK interior of the place did not attract people looking for flamboyance

STARK

Form: adj Tone: neg VAPID

Reserve the adjective vapid for the airhead in your office that brings nothing to the table, except maybe the doughnuts. (And be careful to mutter it behind her back; it's much too vicious for a casual dig.)

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Mnemonic: VAPID sounds like Rapid If you cook food rapidly then it will be VAPID WAP seminar is VAPID Example: The VAPID conversation bored her.

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Words


Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


If you accuse someone of committing a crime but the proof of the wrongdoing isn't yet found, use the verb allege. You might allege that your sister broke a vase, just because no one else was home when you heard the crash.

Mnemonic: ALLEGE eligible; so if you are eligible for voting, you have to show a certificate proving that you are above 18 years old. Example: The prosecution ALLEGEs (that) she was driving carelessly.


The verb implicate means "to connect or involve in something." For example, your cousins might implicate you in the planning of a big party for your grandparents.

Mnemonic: IMPLICATE implies Incriminate are synonyms, involved in crimnal activity Example: He tried to avoid saying anything that would IMPLICATE him further.


The verb impute can be used to blame someone for doing something bad, give credit for good work, or just tell it like it is, like when you impute your lateness to my not telling you where to meet me.

Mnemonic: im(put)e... put the blame to somebody Example: I denied the motives that my employer was imputing to me. Root: IM means NOT


Is your homework in shreds and the dog chewing something? Then you can incriminate poor Fido for eating your homework. To incriminate someone (or some dog) of a crime, is more than just accusing them; it's offering some evidence they're guilty.

Mnemonic: here we need to remember two things the prefix IN intensifies or strengthen the suffix added to it. suffix here is criminate= to make some one criminal in-criminate = make someone further a criminal thus we we accuse someone who had a previous record. Example: They were afraid of answering the questions and incriminating themselves.


If you accuse someone of committing an offense, you indict them. A book that indicts the entire education system might lay out all the

Mnemonic: Rhymes with VERDICT Example: She was INDICTed for murder.


ALLEGE


IMPLICATE


IMPUTE

PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE

INCRIMINATE


INDICT

reasons that schools are failing kids. Form: verb Tone: neg

return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return

RECRIMINATE

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Mnemonic: RE means REPEAT/ RETURN and CRIMINATE sounds like CRIMINAL. So when someone accuses you in RETURN , because you had accused him someday, its recriminating. Example: They must not come to recriminating each other.

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Words


Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

Something that's arbitrary seems like it's chosen at random instead of following a consistent rule. Team members would dislike their coach using a totally arbitrary method to pick starting players.

Mnemonic: ARBITRARY art Example: Hitler was an ARBITRARY leader.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Capricious is an adjective to describe a person or thing that's impulsive and unpredictable, like a bride who suddenly leaves her groom standing at the wedding altar.

Mnemonic: I like this one, but other will look better on me..CAPRICIOUS Example: The storm was CAPRICIOUS and changed course constantly.

Form: adj Tone: neg

The adjective erratic describes things that are unpredictable, unusual, and that deviate from the norm. An erratic quarterback might completely confuse his receivers waiting for a pass.

Mnemonic: This is ERRATIC behavior: message says error at the top and operation completed successfully at the same time.. Example: Investors become anxious when the stock market appears ERRATIC. Root: ERR means MISTAKE

Form: adj Tone: neg

Inconsistent describes something that's varied or irregular. So if you're supposed to floss every day, but you only remember every now and then, your commitment to oral hygiene could be called inconsistent.

Mnemonic: In (NOT) and Consistent (CONSTANT). NOT CONSTANT. Example: The report is INCONSISTENT with the financial statements.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Irresolute describes someone who feels stuck. A decision must be made, a plan acted on, but the irresolute person just doesn't know what to do.

Mnemonic: IRRESOLUTE is not resolute IRRESOLUTE donâ€™t know new year resolution Example: She had no respect for him because he seemed weak-willed and IRRESOLUTE Root: IR means NOT

ARBITRARY


CAPRICIOUS


ERRATIC

PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE

INCONSISTENT


IRRESOLUTE

Form: adj Tone: neg

Mercurial describes someone whose mood or behavior is changeable and unpredictable, or someone who is clever, lively, and quick. With a mercurial teacher, you never know where you stand.

Mnemonic: Mercury level in the blood pressure testing device is MERCURIAL when measuring B.P Example: Advertising is a MERCURIAL business


Oscillating means to vacillate between differing opinions,conditions, etc

Mnemonic: Oscillate is like Vacillate. Example: Her moods oscillated between depression and elation.


One who swings like a Example: In Pendulum and is education, the never stable pendulum has swung back to traditional teaching methods. Root: PEND means to HANG OR WEIGH.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If your moods change quickly and dramatically, people might describe you as temperamental. If you weren't so temperamental, maybe your friends would open up to you more. Did I say something wrong?

Mnemonic: A TEMPERAMENTAL air conditioner can make for a long, hot summer. Example: You never know what to expect with her. She's so TEMPERAMENTAL. Root: TEMP means TIME


If someone can't make up their mind, you can call that person vacillating. A vacillating student might not know whether to commit to a major in electrical engineering or in art history.

Mnemonic: Vacillate sounds like OScillate..so something which moves from one position to another position. Example: His tendency to vacillate makes him a poor leader.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Watch out when a situation becomes volatile - it is likely to change for the worse suddenly. You fight and then make up with your partner often if you two have a volatile relationship.

Mnemonic: VOLATILE means "fleeting, transitory" always gives the sense of sudden, radical change. Think of it as the opposite of stable. Example: A person who is VOLATILE loses his or her temper suddenly and violently.


You might think of a waffle as a gridpatterned pancakelike food that's tasty with syrup, and you'd be right. But the word is also a verb that

Mnemonic: The word soon came to mean "to talk foolishly" and then eventually "to vacillate, to change." Example: She continues to WAFFLE

MERCURIAL

OSCILLATING

PENDULATING

TEMPERAMENTAL

VACILLATING

VOLATILE

WAFFLE

means to avoid making a definitive decision.

on honesty,and is capitalizing on dishonesty


the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes

Mnemonic: Like a sea WAVE going UP and DOWN in taking decision: WAVERING Example: He wavered in his determination.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Whimsical means full of or characterized by whims, which are odd ideas that usually occur to you very suddenly. If you decide at the last minute to fly to Europe, you could say you went there on a whim.

Mnemonic: Whims and Fancies which are odd, because they rarely come true. Example: He was forced to pander to her every WHIMSICAL idea.

WAVERING

WHIMSICAL

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example

Form: adj Tone: neg

When your best friendâ€™s face drains of all color when he hears that his favorite team traded its star player, you can use the word ashen to describe the pale, white face of someone who is shocked and upset.

Mnemonic: Ash fans were ASHEN when Ash got married to Abhishek Example: Her face was ASHEN with fear.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Santa looks a little pallid, meaning that he has a pale complexion, from spending too much time at the North Pole. A few days in Hawaii might do wonders to add color to his pale, bearded face.

Mnemonic: Pal had PALLID expressions which is like a lid. Example: His thin, PALLID face broke into a smile


When youâ€™ve got the flu, that pale, sickly color of your skin is called a pallor. Other causes of pallor include shock, stress, or 10 days spent indoors trying to beat your new video game.

Mnemonic: PALLOR sounds like Parlour. When we go to a party we should look good and not Pale, so going to the PARLOR may help. Example: Her cheeks had an unhealthy PALLOR.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Sallow means unhealthy in appearanceâ€“-often yellow in colorâ€“-and is almost invariably used to describe someone's complexion. His smile was as engaging as ever, but from his sallow complexion, I knew he was sick.

Mnemonic: SALLOW - Yellow Example: She has SALLOW complexion due to jaundice


Someone who is wan is visibly unwell and lacking in energy. If youâ€™ve had the flu for over a week, and you finally get out of bed looking pale and tired, your mother might say that you look wan.

Mnemonic: WAN rhymes with maruthi van... she liked to travel in a scorpio but she is traveling in a van..so she is pale Example: He looked WAN and tired.

ASHEN

CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME

PALLID

HARMLESS / KIND HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER

PALLOR

MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT

SALLOW

SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE

WAN

UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


Falter means to hesitate, stumble, or waver, and everything from faith to voices can do it. So if you want to keep your bride or groom happy, it's best not to falter when it's your turn to say "I do."

Mnemonic: FALTER sounds like Fault When you FALTER you make lots of Faults. Example: As he neared the house, he FALTERed


A flounder is a flat fish with both eyes on one side of its head; and, as a verb, to flounder is to wobble around like a fish out of water.

Mnemonic: FLOUNDER sounds like Fly+under water is accompanied with lots of struggle and confusion Example: He FLOUNDERed helplessly on the first day of his new job.


to fail because of a particular problem or difficulty

Mnemonic: FOUNDER sounds like flounder with similar meaning. Example: The peace talks FOUNDERed on a basic lack of trust.


If you're a football fan you know all about the agony of the fumble - the clumsy handling of the ball that makes you drop it or lose possession.

Mnemonic: FUMBLE sounds like Tumble. We generally Tumble when we are not stable, so is to FUMBLE (uncoordinated movement that can involve your entire body) Example: She FUMBLEd in her pocket for a tissue.


unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age

Mnemonic: TOTTERING is being unsteady like TINY TOT, who keeps TOTTERING because he is small Example: The building tottered and collapsed.


inclined to shake as from weakness or defect

Example: Only, unlike Apple, Facebook shares are on WOBBLY footing at best.

FALTER

CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS FIRM / UNCHANGING FREE FROM BLAME HARMLESS / KIND

FLOUNDER

HEALING HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT

FOUNDER

NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT SHINING / DECORATIVE

FUMBLE

SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE

TOTTERING

WITHOUT REAL POWER

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Relation to Group

Meaning a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility

Mnemonic: We are aware of the phrase "head of the Family" is applicable to a FIGUREHEAD. Example: The president of the club is not just a FIGUREHEAD.


in name only, without authority.

Mnemonic: Nomi-nal sounds like Name, and thatâ€™s the meaning. NOMINAL means IN NAME ONLY. Example: He remained in NOMINAL control of the business for another ten years. Root: NOMEN means NAME.


You might say youâ€™re the boss man in your household, but if everybody else in the family ignores you, 'boss man' is probably a titular position for you. In other words, itâ€™s just a title. Thereâ€™s no power behind it.

Mnemonic: TITULAR sounds like Title, and a person of Name and Fame is always Titled. Title Ruler TITULAR Ruler just have Title no powers Example: He is TITULAR head, and merely signs laws occasionally.

FIGUREHEAD


NOMINAL

HEALTHY LOOKING HELPFUL LEFT-OVER MUTUAL AGREEMENT NOT THOROUGHLY / SUPERFICIALLY PHYSICALLY STRONG PUNISH RESTRICT / STOP / PREVENT

Mnemonic/Example


TITULAR

SHINING / DECORATIVE SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING TO BLAME / ACCUSE / CHARGE UNABLE TO DECIDE / FICKLE UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE UNSTEADY WALK / HESITATE WITHOUT REAL POWER Legends: X

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Words

AFTER-EFFECTS COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS

Relation to Group

Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


A ramification is an accidental consequence that complicates things. Remember that time you borrowed your father's car without asking? The ramification was that Dad missed an important meeting, his company went under, and he had to sell the car.

Mnemonic: Amplification (Ramify ? Amplify) Amplify is to increase and ramify is to divide into parts and hence increase. Example: These issues have powerful personal and political RAMIFICATIONs.


A repercussion is something that happens because of another action. You could quit paying your rent, but getting evicted from your apartment might be the repercussion.

Mnemonic: very simple !! concentrate on CUSSION(I mean cushions) ... cushions are so soft ..bouncy bouncy (rebound property)...similarly REPERCUSSION --> rebound Example: The REPERCUSSIONs of the quarrel were widespread.

COUNTER-ATTACK DESTROY

RAMIFICATION

EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

: Antonyms

REPERCUSSION

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AFTER-EFFECTS COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS COUNTER-ATTACK

Relation to Group

Mnemonic: it is similar to "illusion" which is done by showing things not there, indirectly Example: His statement was seen as an ALLUSION to the recent political unrest.


Your friend wants to go to the Death Metal Forever concert, but you hesitate: you demur. Whether you strongly object, politely disagree, or hesitate to agree, you demur.

Mnemonic: sounds a little like Damn you are wrong!! I object! If Aunt Tilly offers to knit you a sweater, you might politely DEMUR, being reluctant to accept. Example: At first she DEMURred, but then finally agreed.

Form: adj Tone: pos

A demure woman or girl can be described as polite and a little shy. A demure outfit is a modest oneâ€“-think high neckline and low hem.

Mnemonic: DEMURE is a word you don't hear a lot these days, but it used to be a huge compliment for a woman or a girl, for them to be considered shy and quiet and modest. Example: She is a DEMURE young lady.


The verb disassemble means to take something apart. It's one thing to disassemble a computer; it's a whole other thing to put it back together again.

Mnemonic: DIS is not and ASSEMBLE is to arrange. So DISASSEMBLE means to spoil the arrangement of something. Example: We had to completely DISASSEMBLE the engine to find the problem.

Form: adj Tone: pos

Discreet describes someone or something that is appropriately quiet, prudent, and restrained. If you are wearing a discreet gray suit, it is unlikely that anyone at that business meeting will notice you.

Mnemonic: DISCREET- diSECRET. "You must be DISCREET about our SECRET." Example: You should ask a few DISCREET questions before you sign anything.

DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP

DEMUR

HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK

DEMURE

LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE

DISASSEMBLE

RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE

DISCREET

Mnemonic/Example

That little nod to a Dylan Thomas poem that you sneaked into your PowerPoint presentation? That was an allusion, a quick reference to something that your audience will have to already know in order to "get."

ALLUSION

EXCLUDE

Meaning



Discrete means separate or divided. A discrete unit is a separate part of something larger. A room is a discrete space within a house, just as the transmission is a discrete part of a car engine.

Mnemonic: if u can remember the DISCRETE maths ,you can see that one topic is separated from the other and subtopics also unconnected to each other. Example: The organisms can be divided into DISCRETE categories. Root: DIS- means APART


To dissemble is to hide under a false appearance, to deceive. "When confronted about their human rights record, the Chinese government typically dissembles."

Mnemonic: The word sounds like "resemble"...the person/ a thing of that type can be in disguise Example: She was a very honest person who was incapable of dissembling. Root: DIS- is APART/ NOT


If you add nutrients to something you fortify it. Food scientists have found ways to fortify cereal, but in addition to vitamins C and D, they usually add a lot of sugar.

Mnemonic: A fort thatâ€™s stands straight and strong is a symbol of Support and strength. Example: They fortified the area against attack.


An illusion is something that isn't real. It may look real, but it's actually fake - just a crafty construction or fantasy. Like the old rabbit-out-of-the-hat trick practiced by magicians around the globe.

Mnemonic: ILLUSION sounds like ILLVISION. When something is not real and you still manage to see it, your eyes are tricking you. Example: She's under the ILLUSION that she'll get the job.


When you immure someone or something, you put it behind a wall, as in a jail or some other kind of confining space.

Mnemonic: sounds like I M YOURS....please enclose me within the walls of your heart... Example: At the age of 86 he was IMMUREd in his house by infirmity.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If something is inane, it's silly or senseless. If you just want to space out, you won't mind the inane chatter on TV, as long as it's on.

Mnemonic: Remember the word insane. Insane person doesnt have a mind to think and understand and hence he is void. Example: Surely there never had been written anything so INANE and silly.


An incumbent is an official who holds an office. If you want to

Mnemonic: INCUM + BENT - OFFICIALS are BENT on(determined)

DISCRETE

DISSEMBLE

FORTIFY

ILLUSION

IMMURE

INANE

run for congress, you're going to have to beat the incumbent.

to bring an INCUM home, as it is NECESSARY to survive Example: it is INCUMBENT on them to pay their own debts


If a characteristic or ability is already present in a person or animal when they are born, it is innate. People have the innate ability to speak whereas animals do not.

Mnemonic: Since Birth is INNATE Example: He never lost his INNATE sense of fun.


To inure is to get used to something difficult or unpleasant. If after spending an hour in your brother's room, you stop noticing the stinky-sock smell, you have become inured to the odor.

Mnemonic: INUREd means its 'in' 'your' systemâ€¦your used to it... Example: The prisoners quickly became INUREd to the harsh conditions.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you are loath to do something, you really don't want to do it. If you are reluctant to go swimming, people will say you are loath to swim, but if they are really mean - they may throw you in anyway.

Mnemonic: l+oath..oath..so if you have taken a oath of not doing what your dad guides you... you are very unwilling and reluctant to listen him. Example: He was LOATH to admit his mistake.


If you loathe someone or something, you hate them very much. You might not choose to eat raw carrots if you dislike them, but if you loathe them, you might have a hard time even having them on your plate.

Mnemonic: Loa-the can be related as Low thought...So having a low thought of someone else implies hate or detest Example: They LOATHE each other.


To mortify someone is to cause them extreme embarrassment. Your mother may not have been trying to mortify you when she showed up at your senior prom with a bunch of unicorn balloons, but she did.

Mnemonic: MORTIFY can be said as moti fy means calling someone moti(fat) which is embarrasing. Example: She was mortified to realize he had heard every word she said.


Bikes on which you recline rather than sit upright are recumbent. Recumbent means to leaning back in a reclining position.

Mnemonic: recum+bentsounds similar to become+bent. If you become bent while sitting it would mean you want to lie down. Example: In a few minutes the watchers observed a warm, healthy flush spread over the white face and limp hands of the RECUMBENT boy.


To testify is to make a statement or provide

Mnemonic: If you've ever seen a TV show

INCUMBENT

INNATE

INURE

LOATH

LOATHE

MORTIFY

RECUMBENT

evidence, usually in court. Witnesses testify for the prosecution or defense.

about lawyers, you've probably seen someone TESTIFYing: putting their hand on the Bible, sitting in the witness seat, and telling what they know about a case. Example: There are several witnesses who will TESTIFY for the defense.

Form: adj Tone: neg

You might feel a bit testy before taking a test, but test and testy are unrelated. Feeling testy is like being peeved, annoyed, or irritated.

Mnemonic: If someone has described you as SHORT-TEMPERED in the TESTY(testimonial), then you will get IRRITATED looking at it. Example: The old man sounded TESTY.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Someone with venal motives is corrupt and maybe a little evil. Nobody wants to be thought of as venal.

Mnemonic: ve + nal = we null ....we can be easily bribed when we are null in terms of money ... Example: We have these bunch of VENAL journalists


Some crimes are unforgivable. Others are venial - venial crimes and sins are excusable. They're not a big deal.

Mnemonic: key word is menial. We forgive someone for menial (small) mistakes. Example: The confidence of ignorance, however VENIAL in youth, is not altogether so excusable, in full grown men.


Vindicate means to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea - or to absolve from guilt. If your family thinks you hogged the last piece of pie on Thanksgiving, you'll be vindicated when your younger brother fesses up.

Mnemonic: vidicate....split it like vin(WIN) + di(the) + cate(case)....so when you win a case IN a COURT...it means you are freed FROM ACCUSATION AND CHARGES...you are freed from blame. Example: I have every confidence that this decision will be fully VINDICATEd.

Form: adj Tone: neg

It is no fun hanging out with vindictive people, who are forever out to get back at people they think have hurt them. If you forget to say hello to them one day in the hall, they will carry a grudge against you into next week.

Mnemonic: VINDICTIVEwin+addictive obsessed about winning ...so always having ill will against others Example: He accused her of being VINDICTIVE.

TESTIFY

TESTY

VENAL

VENIAL

VINDICATE

VINDICTIVE


If you have a vision of your grandfather just before he passes away, you have seen a wraith or a ghostly image. Wraith can also mean something thin, wispy, or ghost-like.

Mnemonic: Those who have faith , dont believe in WRAITH Example: He has a a WRAITH-like.


Wrath is great anger that expresses itself in a desire to punish someone: Noah saw the flood as a sign of the wrath of God.

Mnemonic: Remember rath(s) means chariots in mahabharata. when kings are angry and furious, they come on their rath(s) to fight. Example: Nobody wanted to face the WRATH of their teacher and so came well prepared for the class.

WRAITH

WRATH

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A reprisal is an act of retaliation, especially one committed by one country against another. If you attack your enemy's village and cause lots of damage, expect a reprisal.

Mnemonic: If you escape from jail and are caught they will re-prison you as an act of retaliation Example: They did not want to give evidence for fear of REPRISALs. Root: RE- is AGAIN/ BACK


To retaliate means to get back at someone, usually through a counterattack. â€œNed got hit with a cream pie, then he retaliated by throwing a bucket of Jell-O at his attackers.â€

Mnemonic: RET called ALI and they both ATE Pizza and didn't study at all for the exam because they wanted to repay her mother the agression she showed in making them learn things at the last moment. Example: The boy hit his sister, who RETALIATEd by kicking him.

REPRISAL

DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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RETALIATE

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AFTER-EFFECTS COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS COUNTER-ATTACK DESTROY

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Raze means to tear an object down to the ground. Before Donald Trump can raze that family's home to build another skyscraper, he's going to have to cut them a big check.

EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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RAZE

Mnemonic/Example

If a storm devastates your Mnemonic: town, it comes pretty close DEVASTATE can be to destroying it. To remembered in this devastate is to cause way: A VAST area destruction to or was WASTED in overwhelm. Japan, because of the destruction caused by Tsunami. Example: The bomb DEVASTATEd much of the old part of the city.

DEVASTATE

FASHION

Meaning


Mnemonic: RAZE = Erase Which means to remove or clean completely. Example: Dozens of villages have been RAZEd due to floods.

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Form: adj Tone: neg

Although abash sounds like a big party or what fire fighters do to get through a locked door, abash is, in fact, a verb that means you have caused another person to feel awkward, bashful, embarrassed, or ashamed.

Mnemonic: A=ALWAYS B=BRINGS a S=SHAME Example: I was ABASHed by the magnitude of the othersâ€™ generosity so I donated twenty thousand more


To discomfit someone is to make them feel uncomfortable or upset. An easy way to discomfit another person is to use the age-old, childish trick of ignoring them. (Of course, weâ€™re sure you would never do that, right? Right?)

Mnemonic: DISCOMFITresembles discomfortable, when you are uncomfortable ,you tend to get frustrated and defeated. If you can check the word Fit ,you can add a meaning ,by assuming,if you are not fit(disfit) you are defeated and put to embarrasment. Example: He was not noticeably DISCOMFITed by the request.


To mortify someone is to cause them extreme embarrassment. Your mother may not have been trying to mortify you when she showed up at your senior prom with a bunch of unicorn balloons, but she did.

Mnemonic: where mor (peacock) compares itself with other birds and talks proudly about it wings..and its beautiful body..but when other birds remind it of its ugly legs...mor (peacock) feel embarrassed and humiliated. Example: She was mortified to realize he had heard every word she said. Root: MORT- means DEATH

ABASH

DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS

DISCOMFIT

HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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MORTIFY

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Praising your favorite sports team is one thing, but if you call the team the most incredible group of humans ever to walk the earth, then you're going overboard and indulging in hyperbole.

Mnemonic: Hyper Beyond the limit Example: The film is being promoted with all the usual HYPERBOLE. Heâ€™s not usually given to HYPERBOLE


to understate or deemphasize; downplay

Example: The coach is underplaying the team's poor performance.


represent as less significant or important

Mnemonic: Calling washington dc an under state is to describe it as less important than it actually is Example: It would be a mistake to understate the seriousness of the problem.

HYPERBOLE

DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE

X UNDERPLAY

FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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X UNDERSTATE

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Mnemonic: Vanishing oneself from power is BANISH ; hand over Example: He was BANISHed to Australia, where he died five years later.


expel from a country

Mnemonic: DEPORT = depart moving from one place to another from india to us


to exclude or expel from membership or participation in any group, association, etc.

Mnemonic: When you stop communicating with your EX-, you generally exclude them from your friend list as well. Example: They were threatened with excommunication. Root: EX- means OUT OF/ FROM


Getting expelled from a school is a step beyond suspension. It means that you are asked to leave and never come back. In other words, you have been kicked out.

Example: She was EXPELled from school at 15. Root: EX- means OUT OF/ FROM


hand over to the Mnemonic: Xauthorities of another TRAitor....the Xcountry traitor of a particular country was EXTRADITEd to the country soon after he left the country Example: The government attempted to EXTRADITE the suspect from Canada to the U.S.

DESTROY EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE

DEPORT

FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X)

EXCOMMUNICATE

INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION

EXPEL

MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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EXTRADITE

Mnemonic/Example

To banish is to get rid of. Think very carefully before you banish someone from your group. Someday, you may want that person around again.

BANISH

EMBARRASS

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Meaning Something that's faddish is in style, often for a brief length of time.

Mnemonic: f+ add+ish = f(follow) add = advertisements fashion Example: Timelessness is key--so watch out for FADDISH designs.


If something is the latest vogue, it is the latest fashion. When your new hairstyle catches on, it's in vogue - or if it becomes unpopular, itâ€™s not.

Mnemonic: VOGUE and provoke...sometimes fashion trends (in VOGUE) provoke (anger) a certain class of conservative people. Example: Sixties music has come back into VOGUE.

FADDISH

COUNTER-ATTACK DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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VOGUE

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When you use the word emanate, you're usually talking about lights, sounds or unseen forces coming out of a specific source. If you hear creepy sounds emanating from an old house, that might mean it's haunted.

Mnemonic: relate it to emit/illuminate. HEMAN ATE and come out (EMANATE) from his home Example: He EMANATEs power and confidence.


To emit means to give off or let out, and it usually has a lot to do with gases, smells and noises. All of which could be potentially embarrassing, depending on where they're coming from.

Mnemonic: Lots of things can be EMITted: body heat from your hands, high pitched sound waves from a dog whistle, nasty odors from your mouth after a garlic-heavy lunch Example: The metal container began to EMIT a clicking sound.


When something radiates, it Mnemonic: Imagine sends out waves or rays. you are on a ray diet The sun radiates light and that causes you to emit warmth. energy in the form of rays Example: He RADIATEd selfconfidence and optimism.

EMANATE

DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP

EMIT

HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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RADIATE

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Form: adj Tone: neg

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If you say something acerbic, or harshly bitter, to someone, it can leave a bitter taste in your own mouth that lingers, and the acerbic, or acidic, words can eat away at the person on the receiving end too.

Mnemonic: ACERBIC speech is like acidic, because it is sour and corrodes, or weakens, relationships. Example: The letter was written in her usual ACERBIC style.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Locked in a meanspirited, bitter argument? That's an acrimonious situation that might result in fists flying unless you and your opponent can cool down.

Mnemonic: ACRIMONIOUS sounds like Ominous. Both has to do with a bad or wrong doing. Example: His parents went through an ACRIMONIOUS divorce.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Use the adjective caustic to describe any chemical that is able to burn living tissue or other substances, or, figuratively, a statement that has a similarly burning effect. Caustic in this sense means harshly critical.

Mnemonic: CAUSTIC is CAUSTIC soda, it burns and is bitter and acidic, so is a person who is called CAUSTIC. Example: The critic's CAUSTIC remarks angered the hapless actors who were the subjects of his sarcasm.

Form: adj Tone: neg

The adjective incisive describes something that is sharp, decisive, and direct. A comment that cuts right to the bone can be just as incisive as an actual knife.

Mnemonic: Incisor teeth are INCISIVE. Very sharp and used to cut food. Example: Both sides had their chances but the visitors looked more INCISIVE in attack. Root: IN means NOT

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you're trenchant, it means you think or say smart, sharply worded things that cut right to the heart of the matter. A trenchant observation is one that makes people scratch their chins thoughtfully, or wince with embarrassment for whomever you're talki

Mnemonic: The people on the trainchant in an energetic and vigorous fashion when they see their family waiting. Example: He was shattered by the TRENCHANT criticism

ACERBIC

DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT

ACRIMONIOUS

HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE

CAUSTIC

LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY

INCISIVE

REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE

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TRENCHANT

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When you feel compunction you feel very, very sorry, usually for something you did to hurt someone or mess something up. When you feel no compunction, you're not at all sorry.

Mnemonic: compuncture sounds like compensation..when you hav done a wrong thing you regret and offer victim the compensation.. Example: She felt no COMPUNCTION about quitting her job.


If you have misgivings about something, it means you're worried that it's not a good idea. Trying to fall asleep the night before a test, you might have misgivings about having studied so little.

Mnemonic: Mis(not)+Giving....I am not giving the keys of my locker to you because I have some doubts,anxiety in my mind about you. Example: I had grave MISGIVINGS about making the trip.


A qualm is a feeling of uneasiness, or a sense that something you're doing is wrong, and it sounds almost like how it makes your stomach feel. If you had qualms about taking candy from the bulk bins at the store, your conscience probably told you to go ba

Mnemonic: QUALM = QUAL + M(S) = QUALIFICATION + MS, you are in doubt whether MS as qualification is right for you or not. Example: He had been working very hard so he had no QUALMS about taking a few days off.


Your scruples are what keep you from doing things you consider to be morally or ethically wrong. Your scruples won't allow you to cheat on a test, or steal from your brother's Halloween candy stash.

Mnemonic: SCRUPLE and PRINCIPLE sounds alike. Example: He had no SCRUPLES about spying on her.

COMPUNCTION

EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS

MISGIVINGS

HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION

QUALMS


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SCRUPLES

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Form: verb Tone: neg/pos

When you conceal something, you are keeping it from being discovered: â€œTo avoid another argument with his cousins, Jonathan worked hard to conceal his disappointment at the outcome of the race.â€

Mnemonic: CONCEAL sounding like SEAL.. you seal something which you don't like to be exhibited.. ! So hide or prevent from being discovered Example: She CONCEALs her anger well


If you've been sneaking around with your best friend's boyfriend, that's probably one secret you don't want to divulge, because revealing that tidbit of information will probably cut your friendship short.

Mnemonic: When Sally revealed the secret that if you put fudge on you face, pimples will disappear, Amy dived into a pool of dive fudge Example: Police refused to DIVULGE the identity of the suspect.


Secrete is all about secrets. It Mnemonic: SECRETE means both "to hide" and "to is secret release." Example: The drugs were SECRETEd in the lining of his suitcase.

CONCEAL


DIVULGE


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SECRETE

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Form: adj Tone: neg

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That old dog was dormant for so long he was confused for a furry doormat, but a doormat is likely to stay dormant, or inactive, because it is lifeless: that old dog has some life in him yet.

Mnemonic: Volcanoes are described as DORMANT when they stay cool for a long time, without spewing hot lava and ash. They may have the ability to come to life, but they remain DORMANT, or inactive. Example: During the winter the seeds lie DORMANT in the soil.

Form: adj Tone: neg

Latent is an adjective that you use to describe something that is capable of becoming active or at hand, though it is not currently so.

Mnemonic: Talent Regroup LATENT as Talent. Talent is LATENT. Example: These children have a huge reserve of LATENT talent

Form: adj Tone: neg

The adjective quiescent means "being quiet and still," like the quiescent moments lying in a hammock on a beautiful summer Sunday.

Mnemonic: QUIESCENT quies - quiet > motionless Example: The QUIESCENT melancholy of the town enchants me.

Form: adj Tone: neg

There is a tone to the word stagnant that sounds like what it is: lacking movement, stale, and inactive, especially with exaggerated pronunciation, "staaaagnant."

Mnemonic: Nelson, the retired station agent, stood patiently on the platform everyday, waiting for the trains to begin moving again, like the still, unchanging puddles of water that would never do anything but sit idly there. Example: Few fish survive in the STAGNANT waters of the lake.

DORMANT

EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP

LATENT

HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM

QUIESCENT

INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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STAGNANT

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Form: adj Tone: pos

Autonomous describes things that function separately or independently. Once you move out of your parents' house, and get your own job, you will be an autonomous member of the family.

Mnemonic: auto(self) + nomous(operation) = self operating Example: AUTONOMOUS provinces which make their own laws. Root: AUTO- refers to SELF


Use the word latitude to describe how much freedom you have in making choices. For example, if a teacher gives you latitude in writing your paper, you might get to choose the topic and how many sources to include.

Mnemonic: LATITUDE:can be interpreted as lasting attitude,...and any one who's got a good atitude will always be free from narrow thoughts Example: Skating officials have LATITUDE in the selections, which will be announced Sunday.

Form: adj,n Tone: pos

having complete power, freedom or authority

Mnemonic: India is a SOVEREIGN, Secular,socialist, Democratic and republic country. Example: an autonomous judiciary, a SOVEREIGN state

AUTONOMOUS

DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS

LATITUDE


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SOVEREIGN

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Mnemonic: think of FECk-LESS as afFECting LESS because it is so useless. Example: She had lost the FECKLESSness of youth and settled down.

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you are a coach with a losing team that doesn't listen to you, don't be surprised if you are called ineffectual. It means too weak to produce the desired effect.

Mnemonic: IN = Not, effect sounds like effective. Thus, INEFFECTUAL = ineffective . Example: This is an INEFFECTUAL attempt to reform the law


The degree to which a method or medicine brings about a specific result is its efficacy. You might not like to eat it, but you can't question the efficacy of broccoli as a health benefit.

Mnemonic: Efficacy is EFFECTIVE Example: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the treatment

DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE FASHION GIVE OUT

INEFFECTUAL

HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

: Antonyms

X EFFICACY

Mnemonic/Example

If a newspaper editorial describes a politician as feckless, you might wonder, "What is feck, and why doesnâ€™t he have any?â€ In fact, the columnist is accusing the politician of being irresponsible and incompetent.

FECKLESS

EXCLUDE

Meaning

Form: adj Tone: neg

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Meaning assign to a lower position; reduce in rank

Mnemonic: DEMOTE can be remembered as DEMOTION, which is opposite for PROMOTION Example: She was DEMOTEd because she always speaks up Root: DE means DOWN/AWAY


Relegate means assign to a lower position. If the quarterback of the football team stops making decent throws he might be relegated to the position of benchwarmer, while another kid is given the chance to play.

Mnemonic: divide it like rail+gate. Earlier station Master is now appointed as a watcher of rail gate. so, in worse position. Example: She was then RELEGATEd to the role of assistant.

DEMOTE

DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

: Antonyms

RELEGATE

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Bikes on which you recline rather than sit upright are recumbent. Recumbent means to leaning back in a reclining position.

Mnemonic: recum+bent - sounds similar to become+bent. you become bent while sitting means you lie down. Example: Doctor advised him to assume RECUMBENT posture


Repose is a formal or literary term used to mean the act of resting, or the state of being at rest. Repose is also a state of mind: freedom from worry.

Mnemonic: REPOSE = resting pose Example: The first rays of morning sun disturbed their REPOSE.


One can be described as supine when lying face up ("his favorite yoga poses were always the supine ones"); or, if one is very passive or lethargic ("supine in the face of their threats and insults").

Mnemonic: Spine Lying on Spine is SUPINE Example: Clare remained SUPINE, her eyes closed.

RECUMBENT

EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT

REPOSE


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If you gloat, you express great satisfaction at the misfortune of others. If your team scores a big win, it would be better not to gloat. Be happy for your win, but don't laugh at their loss.

Mnemonic: g+loat....LOOT...so think of dacoits who express their evil satisfaction after looting houses of people. Example: She was still GLOATing over her rival's disappointment.


A smirk is specific kind of smile, one that suggests selfsatisfaction, smugness, or even pleasure at someone else's unhappiness or misfortune.

Mnemonic: SMIle+IRK....meaning SMILE IN AN IRKY MANNER OR IRRITATED MANNER Example: He SMIRKed unpleasantly when we told him the bad news.

Form: adj Tone: neg

A smug person is self-satisfied. You can usually recognize someone who is pleased with himself by his smug little smile and self-righteous remarks.

Mnemonic: SMUG can be remembered as when we drink a MUG of some drink,we feel SELFSATISFIED Example: He smiled SMUGly as the results were announced.


GLOAT


SMIRK


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To accost is to approach someone aggressively or confront them in an inappropriate way.

Mnemonic: ACCOST=Ac(Acclerating)+CostWhen cost shoots up in a shop, we as a person speaks with the shopkeeper to reduce the cost.Hence we initiate the talk Example: She was ACCOSTed in the street by a complete stranger.


A short, amusing true story is an anecdote. You might come back from a crazy spring break with a lot of anecdotes to tell.

Mnemonic: The word's original sense in English was "secret or private stories" - tales not fit for print, so to speak. Example: The book is a rich store of ANECDOTE.


To bask in something is to take it in, receive its warmth, or bathe in its goodness. On the first warm day of the spring, you may bask in the sunshine. When you win the Pulitzer, you bask in your own glory.

Mnemonic: BASKetball player Michel Jordan lives luxury life. Example: We sat BASKing in the warm sunshine.


As a verb, broach means to bring up or introduce a sensitive issue. As a noun, a broach is one of those dowdy pins your Great Aunt Edna wears. Telling her not to wear it is a subject you should probably not broach.

Mnemonic: When a Boy appROACH a girl for the first time,he needs to BROACH. Example: She was dreading having to BROACH the subject of money with her father.


If your mom can magically

Mnemonic: To con a jury you need magical power

ACCOST


ANECDOTE

HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING

BASK

MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN

BROACH

TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE

conjure up the Example: He could CONJURE most delicious coins from behind people's ears. meals from the most random ingredients in the kitchen, she might just be the best cook in the neighborhood.

CONJURE


Use the adjective corporeal to describe something that has to do with the body, like when your teacher catches you daydreaming and says you need to bring your mental sharpness, not just your corporeal presence to the classroom.

Mnemonic: Corp o real: Corporate o real: always target the material aspect of customer, donâ€™t care about the spiritual part Example: CORPOREAL reality as the goddess herself appeared. Root: CORP- means BODY


Pardon me, but when a polite term is substituted for a blunt, offensive one, you should call it a euphemism.

Mnemonic: Assuming: females are milder than males as they are more emotionally inclined. It reads like E(xpress) U(yourself) Phemism(like feminism). Example: â€œUser feesâ€ is just a politician's EUPHEMISM for taxes. Root: EU- means GOOD


Green, orange, yellow, and blue - each of these is a hue, a color or a shade that's true. A rainbow shows the melting of one hue into another, from red to violet, and all shades in between.

Mnemonic: blUE(HUE)...blue is a color Example: Her paintings capture the subtle HUES of the countryside in the fall.

Form: adj Tone: pos

When you find something hard to express or difficult to pin down, it's ineffable. The feeling when you get a new puppy is ineffable - too strange and wonderful to define.

Mnemonic: in+ef+ fable. fable means story. story can be told. in-fable means something which can not be uttered such as the name of Lord Voldemort (from Harry Potter). Example: Professional women gained ground in the INEFFABLE but vital world of informal networks.


If something is inevitable, it

Mnemonic: Remember INEVITABLE sounds like IN-

CORPOREAL

EUPHEMISM

HUES

INEFFABLE

will definitely happen, like death or tax season.

EVERY-TABLE( what is UNAVOIDABLE in every table? Answer is food) Food is unavoiadable in every(dinning)table.So ineveitable=unavoidable Example: It seems INEVITABLE that interest rates will rise. Root: IN means INTO

Form: adj Tone: neg

If you've done something so much that it doesn't excite you anymore but just leaves you tired, consider yourself jaded. If someone says you look a little jaded, it just means that you look tired.

Mnemonic: JADED sounds like faded.. which means WORN OUT, WEARIED, TIRED Example: It was a meal to tempt even the most JADED palate.


Literally, a linchpin is the pin that goes through the axle of a wheel to keep it in place, but linchpin can be used to mean an important part of anything, the thing that holds it all together.

Mnemonic: eating well is the LINCHPIN to staying healthy. Example: Nurses are the LINCHPIN of our health center.

Form: adj Tone: pos/neg

Lofty is a good word for describing something that's high above the ground, or someone who acts like she's high above everyone else.

Mnemonic: LOFTY sounds like HEFTY (big/ large). He played a lofted shot in the air Example: A towering mountain can be called "LOFTY."


You might not want to call a mercenary a "hireling" to his face, but a mercenary is, after all, a soldier who gets paid to fight where needed, sometimes taking a heroic stand and other times just wanting payment for fighting.

Mnemonic: MERCENARY sounds like: merce - mercy + na - no; no mercy.He can kill anybody for money or gain Example: Lila was suspicious that Joe had jumped at the chance only for MERCENARY reasons

Form: noun

Use the word

Mnemonic: NEMESIS can be

INEVITABLE

JADED

LINCHPIN

LOFTY

MERCENARY

Tone: neg

nemesis to describe someone or something that always causes you major problems, like the runner on another school's track team who, for years, has been beating your time by a fraction of a second.

remembered in this way: not+my+sis hence wants to take revenge..my sister wouldn't have been the cause of my downfall. Example: The football team seeks NEMESIS of previous lost on Saturday.

Form: adj Tone: pos

If a police officer falls in love with a witness in a case, it might be hard for him to stay objective - that is, looking at things in a detached, impartial, factbased way.

Mnemonic: You are not influenced by emotions when you need to fulfill your OBJECTIVE Example: These figures give a reliable and OBJECTIVE indicator of changing trends in people's lifestyles.


Pathos is a quality that stirs emotions. A song with a lot of pathos hits you right in the heart.

Mnemonic: PATHOS is related to SYMPATHY, EMPATHY. Example: The scene was full of PATHOS.


A purveyor is someone who supplies goods often of food or drinks. If you're a seafood purveyor you will always smells a bit fishy, which is no surprise, considering that you sell cod and haddock all day long.

Mnemonic: remember conveyor which means supplying something..PURVEYOR= person+ conveyor. A person who does a job of conveyor by supplying something to others. Example: Brown and Son, PURVEYORs of fine wines


Use the verb rhapsodize to describe something spoken about with extreme enthusiasm and often at great length, like that friend who tends to rhapsodize about her favorite movie

Mnemonic: WRAP+SODA+ICEI wrapped soda in ice which is a miracle.......I was telling this to my friends enthusiastically Example: "He RHAPSODIZEd about his new project for an hour"

NEMESIS

OBJECTIVE

PATHOS

PURVEYOR

RHAPSODIZE

for twenty minutes straight. Form: adj Tone: neut

Things that are subjective are open to interpretation. If you go see a movie about a jewel thief, the topic is not subjective. But whether it's a good movie or not is subjective.

Mnemonic: SUBJECTIVE sounds like Subject, which seems to be related to a particular Subject only. Example: Everyone's opinion is bound to be SUBJECTIVE.


If something is vicarious, it delivers a feeling or experience from someone else. If your child becomes a big star, you might have a vicarious experience of celebrity.

Mnemonic: If you're mad at your wife but you take it out on your dog, that's VICARIOUS punishment. Example: He got a VICARIOUS thrill out of watching his son score the winning goal.

SUBJECTIVE

VICARIOUS

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In common use, sublime is an adjective meaning "aweinspiringly grand, excellent, or impressive," like the best chocolate fudge sundae you've ever had.

COUNTER-ATTACK EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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SUBLIME

Mnemonic/Example

morally low; without estimable Mnemonic: BASE is personal qualities. waste (very bad quality) Example: She was upset to see his BASE behavior

BASE

DESTROY

Meaning


Mnemonic: once u sublimate(purify) your earthly pleasures you will be SUBLIME(noble) Example: The location of the hotel is SUBLIME.

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Any mom taking care of the kids day in and day out is probably more than ready to seek asylum, or refuge, at a local spa.

Mnemonic: Amanda, the silent lamb, sought refuge and sanctuary from the bullying rams out in the cow pastures, where she was greeted with warmth and kindness. Example: There was a nationwide debate on whether the ASYLUM laws should be changed.


A harbor is a safe place providing refuge and comfort. If you're traveling, the harbor provided by a warm hotel is welcome. For ships, a harbor is a sheltered port area shielded from waves, where it's safe to dock.

Mnemonic: HARBOR is a place where ships stand, in Mumbai, most of the criminals and REFUGE find SHELTER there Example: The church HARBORed aliens who were political refugees. To HARBOR the negative thoughts.


Need to find shelter, from the weather or from other troubles? Then you need a haven.

Mnemonic: HAVEN sounds like Heaven > a place which is always safe. Example: The new floral beds, formally opened in July 2002, enhance this peaceful HAVEN


To persecute is to make someone suffer or to keep them in bad circumstances. In some parts of the world governments or military groups persecute, or punish, people for religious beliefs, often sending them to prisons or work camps.

Mnemonic: If you 'Persistently' tell someone 'Cute' he/she wil be irritated. Example: Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs.

COUNTER-ATTACK DESTROY EMBARRASS

ASYLUM

EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X)

HARBOR

INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION

HAVEN


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PERSECUTE (X)

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Mnemonic: Bulb fuse and gas DIFFUSE. Suffuse - liquid, color or light spread all over. Suffuse and DIFFUSE. Example: The active ingredient DIFFUSEs slowly through the coating giving good residual control.


Disseminate means to spread information, knowledge, opinions widely. Seminderives from the Latin word for seed; the idea with disseminate is that information travels like seeds sown by a farmer.

Mnemonic: dis + seminate: seminate could be taken as seminar, so for a seminar people gather at a place. Hence disseminar could be understood as the scattering of people. Example: Their findings have been widely DISSEMINATEd.


To promulgate is to officially put a law into effect. Your state may announce a plan to promulgate a new traffic law on January 1st.

Mnemonic: By legend Romulus is the founder of Rome. Let's imagine he lays the foundation of some gate in Rome and says:"I PROclaim this is ROMULus GATE!" (PROMUL-GATE) He's the founder, right? So he's already broadcasted a decree! Example: The new constitution was PROMULGATEd in 2006.


To propagate is to be fruitful and multiply, by the usual routes of reproduction, or by spreading something around - like a rumor.

Mnemonic: Scientists are now studying how best to PROPAGATE fresh vanilla, as demand for the flavour grows. Example: Television advertising PROPAGATEs a false image of the ideal family.


The verb extirpate originally literally meant "to weed out by the roots." Now you'd use it when you want to get rid of

Mnemonic: Imagine that you destroy someone's wig by throwing eggs and turps on it Example: Indian extirpated the British

EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS

DISSEMINATE

HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION

PROMULGATE

MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION

PROPAGATE

TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE X EXTIRPATE

Mnemonic/Example

Diffuse mean spread out, or the action of spreading out. If lots of people in school believe invisible angels are everywhere, you could say that opinion is diffuse. You might even think angels are diffuse as well.

DIFFUSE

FASHION

Meaning


something completely as if pulling it up by the root. Legends: X

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Retribution is the act of taking revenge. If you pull a prank on someone, expect retribution.

Mnemonic: Ratri at tuition and teacher scolded her and she got her RETRIBUTION. Example: People are seeking RETRIBUTION for the latest terrorist outrages.


If someone hurts you, you might be inspired to plan an act of vengeance: some type of payback in order to settle the score. Be careful, though, because you might inspire someone to take vengeance on you in return.

Mnemonic: 'venge'ance, add rein beginning, it becomes revenge, so it means taking revenge Example: He swore VENGEANCE on his child's killer.

Form: adj Tone: neg

It is no fun hanging out Mnemonic: He with vindictive people, accused her of being who are forever out to VINDICTIVE. get back at people they think have hurt them. If you forget to say hello to them one day in the hall, they will carry a grudge against you into next week.

RETRIBUTION


VENGEANCE

HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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An axiom is a statement that everyone believes is true, such as "supply equals demand" or "the only constant is change." Mathematicians use axiom to refer to established proofs.

Mnemonic: Axi OM: Axiom is like OM. Universally believed Example: the old axiom that you can only succeed through hard work


Canon is all about Mnemonic: College authoritative standardsâ students used to read €”for literature, sainthood, what was called the or behavior. Don't confuse it "literary canon," until with cannon with two n's, they noticed that they the big gun that shoots were written by dead bowling-size balls at the white men. enemy. Example: "The House of Mirthâ€ is a central book in the canon of American literature.


"You are what you eat" is a dictum, and so is a law requiring you to curb your dog. A dictum is a formal pronouncement, a rule, or a statement that expresses a truth universally acknowledged.

Mnemonic: Dictator is authoritarian and DICTUM is authoritative statement Example: He cites Augustine's DICTUM that 'If you understand it, it is not God


Doctrine means a belief or set of beliefs. The idea that a man named Jesus was the son of God is part of the Christian doctrine.

Mnemonic: They have something called Doctor Medical DOCTRINE for doctors Example: He was deeply committed to political DOCTRINEs of social equality.


Dogma means the doctrine of belief in a religion or a political system.

Mnemonic: If you try to read "dogmatic" from back to front, you will get "i am god". the person who think that he is a god is arrogant and stubborn Example: There is a danger of becoming too dogmatic about teaching methods.


A mandate is like an official command or a go-ahead. When a politician wins an

Mnemonic: man+date man(boss) orders you to finish

AXIOMS


CANONS

HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE

DICTUM

LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY

DOCTRINE

PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT

DOGMAS

UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE

MANDATE

Form: noun Tone: neut TENETS

election by a lot, that's a mandate for their ideas.

your work on date. Example: The presidential MANDATE is limited to two terms of four years each.

A tenet is a principle or belief honored by a person or, more often, a group of people. "Seek pleasure and avoid pain" is a basic tenet of Hedonism. "God exists" is a tenet of most major religions.

Mnemonic: A volleyball team always carries ten nets with it - ten net is a watchword held as true by a group Example: Nonviolence is the central tenet of their faith

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Reserve irony for situations where there's a gap between reality and expectations, especially when such a gap is created for dramatic or humorous effect.

Mnemonic: Remember Ironic as Iron. Imagine that people were mining a new place in that place they were amazed that unexpectedly they found Iron but no one were sure either it was Iron or not. So it was contrary outcome. Example: The IRONY is that when he finally got the job, he discovered he didn't like it.


Here's a mindbender: "This statement is false." If you think it's true, then it must be false, but if you think it's false, it must be true. Now, that's a paradox!

Mnemonic: you are unique but "everybody is unique" .this is a PARADOX Example: It is a curious PARADOX that professional comedians often have unhappy personal lives.

IRONY

EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

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Meaning start to burn or burst into flames

Mnemonic: COMBUST sounds like CAN BURST INTO FIRE anytime Example: Never place candles on top of tv or other plastic COMBUSTible surfaces.


See incinerate and think: "burn, dear, burn!" Whether itâ€™s an old love letter that makes you sad or a terrible picture of yourself, it might be better just to incinerate it, meaning, you burn it.

Mnemonic: You will be INCINERATEd if you smoke excessive cigarette. Example: Holland has a very good recycling record and INCINERATEs much of its waste, like Germany.


When you start a fire burning, you can say you kindle the fire. Knowing how to kindle a campfire is an important survival skill. It can help keep you warm at night, and keep you from eating cold beans for dinner.

Mnemonic: A CANDLE can be KINDLEd. Example: We watched as the fire slowly KINDLEd.

COMBUST


INCINERATE


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KINDLE

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


To incite is to cause to act or occur. Violent words can incite violent actions which, in turn, might incite public outcry against violence.

Mnemonic: INCITE rhymes with excite which also means arouse to action. Example: They were accused of inciting the crowd to violence.


When you instigate something, you start it, but the word carries conflict with it. If you are suspended for wearing a political t-shirt, the incident might instigate days of protest by students and faculty.

Mnemonic: I am always motivated whenever I see the Institute gate (relate to INSTIGATE) of "MIT". Example: They were accused of instigating racial violence.


Anything that brings about a strong reaction can be said to provoke. You can provoke that lion if you want. But if he responds by attacking, don't come running to me.

Mnemonic: The sales man in provogue showroom started argumenting instead of changing the defective shirt. It annoyed me badly. They PROVOKEd me to get irriated. Example: The announcement PROVOKEd a storm of protest.


Sedition is the illegal act of inciting people to resist or rebel against the government in power. It's what the southern states did at the start of the Civil War.

Mnemonic: seidition = said+i+shun he said i will shun u.. reisitance 2 authority Example: Two journalists were charged with SEDITION

INCITE

COUNTER-ATTACK DESTROY EMBARRASS EXAGGERATE EXCLUDE FASHION

INSTIGATE

GIVE OUT HARSH / BITING / SHARP HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM

PROVOKE

INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE Legends: X

: Antonyms

SEDITION

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Vocabulary

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


When capitalized, Catholic refers to the Catholic Church. With a lower-case "c," catholic means "universal" and "inclusive." If you listen to anything from hip-hop to Baroque, you have catholic taste in music.

Mnemonic: CATHOLIC Christians are found everywhere in the world....so they are present universally. Example: Unlike his father, Tom's judgments are CATHOLIC (universal)in nature.


Generic refers to the members of a whole class of things - like "tissue," a generic word for any soft, thin piece of paper that's good for wiping runny noses.

Mnemonic: (gene)ric...in genes...so it is a characteristic of the entire class/species Example: â €œBroadbandâ€ is a GENERIC term for any high-speed connection to the Internet.


Universal describes something for everything or everyone. Universal design is architectural design that accommodates every person. A universal remote can change the stations on all your home entertainment systems, but hopefully not at once.

Mnemonic: UNIVERSAL and General sound the same and both words refer to something that is present everywhere, is common. Example: Such problems are a UNIVERSAL feature of old age.

CATHOLIC


GENERIC


: Antonyms

UNIVERSAL

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Vocabulary

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Meaning When there's diversity, there's variety. Often, this word is used for diversity of race, class, or gender.

Mnemonic: We are all aware of the phrase Unity is DIVERSITY. Example: There is a need for greater DIVERSITY and choice in education. Root: DI means TWO


She listens to hip-hop, Gregorian chant, and folk music from the '60s. He's been seen wearing a handmade tuxedo jacket over a thrift-store flannel shirt. They both have eclectic tastes.

Mnemonic: ECLECTIC or elect means, choosing the best from many sources which is the meaning of the word ECLECTIC Example: The ECLECTIC collection of furniture did not match


If you've encountered the word motley, it's most likely in the phrase "motley crew," which means a diverse and poorly organized group. Think of a band of pirates, or the assorted characters who became The Fellowship of the Ring.

Mnemonic: Imagine a motel made of junk, made up of diverse parts Example: The room was filled with a MOTLEY collection of furniture and paintings. Root: MOT- means MOVE

Form: adj Tone: pos

Multifaceted means having many aspects or sides. Diamonds are usually cut to be multifaceted, that is, with many angled flat surfaces, because this increases their ability to reflect light.

Mnemonic: Multi means Many and Faceted can be equated to Faces. SO Many Faces. Example: This is a a complex and MULTIFACETED problem Root: MULTI- means MANY

Form: adj Tone: pos

A person or thing with many sides or different qualities is multifarious. The Internet has multifarious uses, museums are known for their multifarious art collections, and Hindu gods are associated with multifarious incarnations.

Mnemonic: Multi means MANY and Farious relates to variety. So many varieties calls for MULTIFARIOUS Example: the MULTIFARIOUS life forms in the coral reef

DIVERSITY


ECLECTIC

HESITATE ON MORAL GROUNDS HIDE / REVEAL (X) INACTIVE INDEPENDENCE / FREEDOM INEFFECTIVE LOWER IN RANK

MOTLEY

LYING DOWN / RESTING MALICIOUS SELFSATISFACTION MISC. NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) EARTHLY PLACE OF SAFETY REMOVE (X) / SPREAD

MULTIFACETED

REVENGE RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SELF-CONTRADICTION TO BURN TO STIR UP / REVOLT UNIVERSAL VARIETY VILLAGE - LIKE

MULTIFARIOUS

Mnemonic/Example


Form: adj Tone: pos

Pied means colorfully jumbled. If you're looking at kittens, you may see solid black ones, solid white, or ones with lots of different patches of color. You'd call a patchy one pied.

Mnemonic: PIED bird Pie chart: multicolored pie Example: In the early hours of the day, bird with PIED markings can be seen in the park.

Form: adj Tone: pos

A woman emptying out her purse after many years might find an old stick of gum, a pair of broken sunglasses, a few movie tickets, and sundry items, meaning that that her purse was filled with a random collection of unrelated things.

Mnemonic: SUNDRY contains SUNDRY items in purse Example: On what basis will these SUNDRY expenses be met?

Form: adj Tone: pos

make something more diverse and varied

Mnemonic: VARIEGATE is nothing but VARIETY Example: This is a a plant with VARIEGATEd leaves

Form: adj Tone: pos

To describe a person or thing that can adapt to do many things or serve many functions, consider the adjective versatile.

Mnemonic: "Various Attires" or "Various Styles" ...means many forms and tahts being VERSATILE. Example: He's a VERSATILE actor who has played a wide variety of parts.

PIED

SUNDRY

VARIEGATE

VERSATILE

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Meaning

Mnemonic/Example


As an adjective, bucolic refers to an ideal country life that many yearn for. If your parents wanted to raise you in a bucolic environment, you may find yourself living 45 minutes away from the nearest movie theater or person your age. Not ideal.

Mnemonic: BUlls and COLI (collie, a sheep dog) Country -- rustic and pastoral places, people, and songs. Example: a stream winding through tranquil parks and BUCOLIC meadows


Pastoral refers to the countryside, particularly an idealized view of the country. If you draw cheery pictures with lush grassy fields, calm skies, a farm animal or two, and some flowers, you draw pastoral scenes.

Mnemonic: PASTORAL is Rural Example: In these stories of PASTORAL life, we find an understanding of the daily tasks of country folk


When you think of the word rustic, think of the rural country. This word can be given a positive or a negative spin depending on how you use it; a rustic inn, for example, might be quaint (old and strange) or it might be virtually uninhabitable (cannot st

Mnemonic: Think of RUST, which reminds us of something which is old or has worn out, hence country people are old fashioned, rural or slightly backwards: RUSTIC. Example: This is a typical an old cottage full of RUSTIC charm

BUCOLIC


PASTORAL


: Antonyms

RUSTIC

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