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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Incense make someone angry (syn) Form: v Tone: negative If your new college roommate burns incense in your tiny dorm room, you might get incense d and storm out. Glower angry and sullen look on face (effect) Form: v Tone: negative If you see someone glower at you, you might consider glower ing 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. Fume very angry (degree) (syn) Form: v Tone: negative Enrage Words Relation to Group to make someone angry (syn) Form: v Tone: negative Meaning 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 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. 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 Example: Bright confident morning has been replaced by a Glowering twilight Mnemonic: Incense sounds like insensible.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 Mnemonic: The word can be related to Fury or anger. Example: Her silence Infuriate d him even more. Mnemonic: IRATE rhymes with "eye red". When does your eye become red? When you are ANGRY.
to make someone angry (syn) Form: v Infuriate Tone: negative
Different things infuriate different people: whatever makes you angry, mad, or ticked off infuriates you.
very angry Form: adj Tone: negative
On the anger scale, first comes annoyed, then cross, then furious, then irate. When cartoon characters are irate smoke comes out of their ears.
IRATE
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. 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. 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. 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 Rabid ly anti-smoking as only a recently cured addict can be. Mnemonic: Seethe (SITA)..when Ravan took Sita to Lanka, Lord Ram BOILED with anger and was DISTURBED. Example: He marched off, seething with frustration. 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
furiously angry (syn) Form: adj Tone: negative Livid
If you're livid , you're furious, in a black cloud of anger.
Extreme anger (syn) Form: adj Tone: negative Rabid
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.
Seethe
extreme but unexpected anger (syn) Form: v Tone: negative
If a liquid seethe s, it is boiling, but if it's a person who's seething , watch out! He or she is really angry!
suppressed anger or hatred(lesser degree) (syn) Form: v Tone: negative Smolder
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.
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
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: Sandy s )hurricane) Wrath will peak Monday night, but chances are the effects will be felt long after.
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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Elude 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." 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. 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 Deflect 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. Circumvent Avert Words Relation to Group prevent something from happening (manner) Form: v Tone: pos avoid to overcome problem (cause) Form: v Tone: pos Meaning To avert is to turn away or to prevent. You might avert your gaze or avert a disaster - either way, you are avoiding something. 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/Example Mnemonic: sounds like DIVERT, and that is the meaning. Example: He did his best to Avert suspicion. 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 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. Example: The two men managed to Elude the police for six weeks.
Evade
escape or avoid using tricks (syn) Form: v Tone: pos
Mnemonic: Evade rhymes with AVOID Example: For two weeks they Evaded the press.
done in a hurry (opposite) Form: adj,adv Headlong
Mnemonic: Sounds like headstrong.i.e. adamant or unthinkably daring (person who is very strongheaded)
headlong dive for the base.
Example: The government is taking care not to rush Headlong into another controversy. Mnemonic: sounds like "Harry" Potter who wards off all the difficulties of people Example: He parried a blow to his head. 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. Mnemonic: what happens when current is Shunted, it diverts (electronics term) Example: John was Shunted sideways to a job in sales. Example: She Skirted the problem.
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. 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.
Shirk
divert (syn) Form: v Tone: neg Shunt
move to a less important place or position.
Skirt
avoiding an issue (type of) Form: v Tone: neg changing directions suddenly (cause) Form: v Tone: neut
avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues) 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.
Swerve
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.
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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Inept 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. Gauche Fumble nervous or clumsy way of handling things (syn) Form: v,n Tone: neg unsophisticated (syn) Form: adj 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. 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: Fumble is like tumble. Example: He Fumbled with the buttons on his shirt. 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. 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 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 Mnemonic: un(means NOT) + GAINly...a model who LACKS GRACE IN HER Feckless Words Relation to Group ineffective, weak (syn) Form: v Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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.
not efficient (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
Maladroit
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.
awkward (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
Ungainly is the opposite of graceful, convenient or easy. A clumsy dancer boogies in an ungainly or awkward
fashion. Ungainly
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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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Dilly Dally wasting time having failed to decide (effect) Form: v Tone: neg postpone doing what one should be doing Dilatory Dawdle 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. 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. Dally Words Relation to Group move slowly (action) Form: v Tone: neg Meaning Dally means to waste time. When you dally, you will cause a delay because of your dawdling. Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: Dawdle is somewhat similar to idle. Example: Stop dawdling! We're going to be late! 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. Mnemonic: Dilly and Dally sounds like DELAY. Example: Don't dillydally on the way home from school. 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. 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.
causing delay intentionally (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
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.
Linger
stay in a place for a longer span because you don 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).
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.
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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Relation to Group the beginning of something, especially something unpleasant Form: n Tone: neg
Meaning 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. the time at which something is supposed to begin
Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: Set out to do your work right NOW Example: I made it clear right from the OUTSET that I disapproved. 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
ONSET
at/from the beginning of something OUTSET Form: n Tone: neutral
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.
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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Frigid 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. 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. 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 scald the milk, it means to heat it to the Conflagration Fire that destroys (syn) Form: n Tone: neg very hot or highly changed emotion (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg If youre having a torrid romance, that means it's steamy and emotionally charged. If youre listening to a torrid band, then you re listening to a band that has a lot of energy. A conflgaration isn't just a few flames; it's an especially large and destructive fire that causes devastation. # Tepid#(warm) Words Relation to Group Warm or unenthusiastic (Degree) Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning slightly warm Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: torturously arid or hot & arid=torrid Example: Yet watching him, even on such a torrid shooting night, always leaves a lukewarm feeling. Mnemonic: Flagration sounds like flare which means fire, so big fire. Example: The conflgaration destroyed property worth millions. Root: The prefix Conmeans together Mnemonic: Frigidconcentrate on fridge which is cold Example: There was a Frigid atmosphere in the room.
torrid
Glacial
icy cold and Unemotional (syn and effect) Form: adj Tone: neg
Mnemonic: Ice+Glass-Glass+ice Example: the Glacial wind whipped her skin blue.
injure with hot liquid (effect) Form: v Tone: negative Scald
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.
moment just before it boils. burn Form: v.adj Tone: negative Scathe 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. 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 Scorch ed my dress when I was ironing it. Mnemonic: Sear rhymes with TEAR. When you BURN your hand you are in tears. Example: The heat of the sun Sear ed their faces. Mnemonic: Singeremove 'n' from the word, we will be left with sige- like cige, a cigarette BURNS Example: He Singe d his hair as he tried to light his cigarette. 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 90F.
Burn (syn) Form: v Tone: neg
Scorch
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.
Sear
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. burn superficially or lightly
Singe
burn lightly (syn) Form: v Tone: negative or neutral
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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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Pedantic 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. Erudite 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 . one who gives or renders moral lessons and instructions(syn) Form: adj Didactic Tone: pos Words Relation to Group Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: sounds like cereBRAINal Example: The content of philosophical works is Cerebral in nature and requires much thought. 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 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. 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 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. intellectual or brainy (syn) Form: adj Cerebral Tone: pos
an expert (syn) Form: n Tone: pos Pundit
Beware of the pundit , a supposed expert who imparts deep knowledge to us more ignorant folks. pundit s are often blowhards, mere hacks, and you might well want to take what they say with a pinch of salt.
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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Aptitude Natural ability Form: adj Tone: pos Agile moves quickly and easily (syn for flexible) Form: adj Tone: pos 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. 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. 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. Adept Words Relation to Group very skilled and professional (Syn for skillful) Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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/Example 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. 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 Mnemonic: When we are in good age we'll be quick Example: He had the agility of a man half his age.
Mnemonic: remember this word from various " Aptitude tests" which check talent or IQ etc Example: She showed a natural Aptitude for the work. 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.
to finish something in the perfect or best manner (syn) Form: v,adj Tone: pos Consummate
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.
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. 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. Mnemonic: Limberit sounds like C Limber.. a C Limber is FLEXIBLE Example: The violist Limbered her wrists before the concert 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. 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. Mnemonic: A Proficient person is EFFICIENT at the job he/she does Example: With practice, you should become Proficient within six months. Mnemonic: Prowess sounds like POWERS Example: He was complimented on his Prowess as an oarsman. Mnemonic: Playing cards can be SHUFFLED because they are Supple
Skilled at using hands (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos Dexterous
If you're dexterous, you're good with your hands. To be dexterous is an essential trait for knitters and sleight-ofhand magicians.
Limber
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. 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 .
Lithe
Supple and graceful (Syn for flexible) Form: adj Tone: pos
quick and light in action (Syn for flexible) Form: adj Tone: pos Nimble
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.
Proficient
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. prowess means exceptional skill or ability. Your sailing prowess might save your life in a storm, while someone with less experience might make mistakes. Something or someone that is supple bends and moves easily, like a contortionist at a circus
Prowess
skilled and expert (syn) Form: n Tone: pos
Supple
bending, moving easily (syn for flexible) Form: adj
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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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Intertwine connect and link (Syn) Form: v Tone: Neg Twisted extremely difficult to follow (syn) Form: adj Convoluted Tone: Neg 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! 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. Things that intertwine are twisted or mixed together. You have to intertwine yarn to make a scarf. Byzantine Words Relation to Group highly complicated (syn) Form: adj Tone: Neg Meaning highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Recall the chemistry where we studied Benzene which is complex in structure. Example: This is an organization of Byzantine complexity 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.
Mnemonic: Breaking into a VAULT is COMPLICATED (Convoluted) Example: She could not follow his Convoluted discourse.
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.
Meander
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. 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. 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
having curves and turns (Syn) Form: adj Tone: Neg Sinuous
made three opponents look as though they were trying to tackle smoke. 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. 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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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.
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.
Ghastly
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. Grisly means disgusting and bloody, absolutely repulsive and horrible. Theres a wonderfully creepy movie
horror (cause ans syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
Grisly
about a man who suffers a grisly death at the hands of the grizzly bears he was studying. 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.
hORRIFIC accident Example: The jurors saw Grisly photos of the crime scene. 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: He ate it with mustard. Oh, Gross! 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. Mnemonic: Gruesome - Sounds like cruelsome, which is self-explainable Example: We spent a week in a Gruesome apartment in Miami. 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. 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! Mnemonic: Horrendous sounds like Horrible and Horrifying. Example: The police officer said the attack was the most Horrendous he had ever seen.
Gross
Grotesque
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.
Gruesome
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.
wicked (nature of crime) Form: adj Tone: neg Heinous
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.
ugly (cause) Form: adj
Hideous
Hideous is a word that means extremely ugly. Anything or anybody that is painful - and a little scary to look at is hideous.
Horrendous
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.
horrifying because involved with
The adjective macabre is Mnemonic: Macabre used to describe things that Sounds like
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. 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 Monstrous market. 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 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. Mnemonic: Rearrange Vile and you will get a synonym for it: EVIL Example: The weather was really Vile most of the time.
shocking (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
Monstrous
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.
Morbid
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.
ugly (cause) Form: adj Tone: neg Unsightly
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.
Vile
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.
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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. inclined and special naturally disposed attitude (syn) toward Form: adj Tone: pos
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 Mnemonic: we always have INCLINATION for having tea/coffee/juice in DISPOSable glass when we are outside Example: I'm not Disposed to argue. 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 Penchant
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. Mnemonic: pre(before)+dialect(local language); you generally become partial when you are taking an
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
Predilection
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 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. 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. 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.
Predisposition
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. A proclivity is a natural tendency to like something, such as your sister's proclivity for restaurants that serve hot, spicy food.
Proclivity
to do something regularly or liking towards something (syn) Form: n Tone: pos
Propensity
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.
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Omen, bad sign or warning (effect) Form: v,n Tone: Neutral/negative Presage
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.
Example: Nothing had Presaged the dreadful fate about to befall him. Root: NA 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: presciencemeans prediction, knowledge of events forehand Example: She showed great prescience in selling her shares just before the market crashed. Root: the prefix premeans before 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
Prescient
forecast the outcome of some situation (syn) Form: n Tone: Negative Prognosis
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.
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Winnow
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.
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Ominous
Warning (syn) Form: v Tone: negative
Portend
are many kinds of calms that do not Portend coming storms. Warning (syn) Form: n Tone: negative Portent 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. 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 Mnemonic: Sinistersounds like Monster - evil monster Example: There was something cold and Sinisterabout him.
a strong feeling that something unpleasant might happen Form: n Tone: negative Premonition
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.
Sinister
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?
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Meaning
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
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.
break things to parts (syn) Form: v Tone: neut Dismantle
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.
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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Jabber talk foolishly (syn) Form: v Tone: neg Gibberish meaningless speech or write up (syn) Form: n Tone: neg 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. 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. 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. 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. Drawl Babble Words Relation to Group continuously speaking foolishly, that cannot be understood (syn) Form: n Tone: neg Meaning Babble is to talk on and on without a particular goal, to bubble at the mouth, but not in a pretty way. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Babble bab - ble bla bla bla ( ble) which means to chatter foolishly Example: I can't listen to his constant Babble. 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. Mnemonic: Drivel sounds like trivial... a Drivel person always says trivial stuff Example: How can you watch that Drivel on TV? Mnemonic: Gibberish sounds like rubbish.......hence nonsense Example: You were talking Gibberish in your sleep.
lazy and slow a slow speech pattern with speaker (leading to prolonged vowels boredome) Form: n,v Tone: neg
Mnemonic: Jabber sounds like blabber... Example: What is he Jabbering about now?
senseless (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg Nonsensical
Mnemonic: Nonsense talking is Nonsensical Example: If you ask a Nonsensical question and you will get a Nonsensical answer Mnemonic: talking like a parrot is to Prate.
lengthy and foolish To prate means to talk on talk (syn) and on about something. Form: v,n While it may be interesting
Prate
Tone: neg
to hear about other peoples vacations, when they prate about them until the wee hours, it becomes intolerable. 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.
Example: Stop this silly Prate immediately!
Prattle
continuously speaking foolishly (syn) Form: v,n Tone: neg
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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Relation to Group an experienced adviser (Teacher) Form: n Tone: pos
Meaning 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. 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/Example 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. 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 Mnemonic: prot(protection)+ ege(ageis means sheild)....providing sheild for protection Example: She is a protg of the great violinist Yehudi Menuhin
Mentor
a strict teacher (syn) Form: n Tone: pos
Pedagogue
Prote'ge'
student. Guided by an older and influential person Form: n Tone: pos
A protg is a person who receives special protection and promotion from someone more established in a field. If your boss introduces you as his newest protg, you're off to a good start in your career.
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Relation to Group changes in somebody/something that are difficult to predict or control Form: noun Tone: neut/ neg
Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: some times to face VICISSITUDES OF LIFE one should possess a WISE(good)ATTITUDE Example: the VICISSITUDEs of family life
VAGARIES
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.
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Groups 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) TAKE APART TALK FOOLISHLY TEACHER/GUIDE / X STUDENT UNEXPECTED CHANGES UNREAL VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Delusion Delirium a very disturbed mind caused because of intoxication etc (syn) Form: n Tone: neg Chimera a thing which you wish to hve but cant (result) Form: n Tone: neg Apparition Words Relation to Group ghostly (syn) Form: n Tone: neg Meaning 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 doesand saying that you've seen one won't cause you to be committed. A chimera is something youve imagined thats bits and pieces of others things mashed together into a new horrible fantasy, something impossible in real life that only exists in your mind. 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. 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. 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. perceive what is not there; have illusions Mnemonic/Example 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.
Mnemonic: Chimera sounds like camera which captures images. Example: You do indeed smile, Madam, at my being obliged seriously to combat such Chimeras.
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
Mnemonic: sounds like illusion which is nothing but false belief Example: Love can be nothing but a Delusion.
Fantasy
imagining things which are impossible (syn) Form: n Tone: neg
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 that s not present
Mnemonic: split the word like hallu(holo)+cinate.consider
Hallucinate
(syn) Form: v Tone: neg
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 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. Next time youre 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. Look over there, across the room. Is that a phantom, some weary soul come back from the dead to haunt you? Maybe its a shadow, or maybe it s a ghost. Either way, turn on a light and itll disappear. Hopefully. 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. 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: Sounds like Ill + Vision. (Bad Vision) Example: She's under the Illusion that she'll get the job.
a wrong belief (syn) Form: n Tone: neg Illusion
Mirage
something that seems real but is not so (syn) Form: n Tone: neg
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. 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.
a ghost (syn) Form: n Tone: neg Phantom
ghostly (syn) Form: n Tone: neg Specter
Example: Was he a spectre returning to haunt her? Root: The Prefix SPECTmeans to SEE
Wraith
ghostly image (syn) Form: n Tone: neg
Mnemonic: those who have faith , dont believe in Wraith Example: The Wraith's stony eyes stared on, but there was silence.
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Relation to Group child having developed incilnation (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos
Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Person with exceptional talents is proud ji(Prodigy) Example: She is a chess Prodigy
Precocious
child with exceptional qualities (syn) Form: n Tone: pos Prodigy
A prodigy is someone who is so naturally talented at something that they become a master of that particular skill as a child-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
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Coterminous 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. Contemporary Something that occurs in the present. Form: adj Tone: neut Coeval Words Relation to Group belonging to the same age and date(syn) Form: adj Tone: neut Meaning 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. Things that are contemporary are either happening at the same time or happening now. Contemporary art is recent art. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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 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
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING 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! 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. Rancor 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. Malice 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. Words Relation to Group wishing bad or evil for others(syn) Form: adj Tone: neg Malevolence Meaning Malevolence is a nasty, wicked, evil quality. When you're full of malevolence, you wish harm on others. Mnemonic/Example 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 Mnemonic: mal+ice sounds like MALpractICE Example: the ghosts are described as if they bear actual Malice towards humans. Root: same as above 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. Mnemonic: In hindi vish means poison,here Vicious means evil Example: She has a Vicious temper.
Vicious
Virulent
Extremely harsh and infectious( nature) Form: adj Tone: neg
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
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Relation to Group
Meaning capable of being regained especially with effort.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: RE means to Repeat. Example: The dog retrieved the ball from the water. Mnemonic: Salvageable - SAVEABLE Example: This is an exhibition of the salvage from the wreck
capable of being brought back. (syn) Retrievable Form: verb Tone: neut something that can be rescued, especially in Salvageable parts (syn) Form: noun Tone: neut
capable of being saved from ruin
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Groups 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 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 judgement; the fact of doing something stupid Form: noun Tone: neg Circumspect careful and doesn t want to take risk Form: adj Tone: Neutral Chary Words Relation to Group very careful about doing or saying anything (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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 don t want to get burned by a person or situation, you're chary. 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/Example Mnemonic: Chary sounds similar to WARY, meaning CAUTIOUS. Example: The advices that the Chary minister gave the king, helped him win over the enemies. 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. Mnemonic: delhi daredevils... think how they appear to bat.. RECKLESS Example: Don't try any daredevil stunts.
"foolish or crazy behavior," like the folly of an unprepared student, showing up to take the final exam without a pencil, paper or eyeglasses.
Mnemonic: Fools commit folly or mistakes. Example: Giving up a secure job seems to be the height of folly.
FoolhardyX
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. Mnemonic: be VERY CAREFUL while cutting GINGER(LY), since they are small and hard. Example: He opened
Gingerly
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
creaky stairs when you're trying to sneak out. aware of and taking heed; giving close attentive to others. and thoughtful attention (syn) Form: adj Tone: Neutral 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. 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.
the box Gingerly and looked inside. Example: Heedful of snakes, we watched out footing while walking through the tall grass to the lake's edge. Mnemonic: Leerycompare with jerry. Tom is always cautious and suspicious that jerry is around Example: The government is Leery of changing the current law. 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. 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. Mnemonic: Restless, careless and heedless people take RECKLESS decision. Example: He showed a reckless disregard for his own safety. 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
Heedful
Leery
Prudent
acting with care keeping in mind the future (syn) Form: adj Tone: Neutral
RashX
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.
Reckless X
showing a lack of care about danger and the possible results of your actions Form: adj Tone: neg feeling cautious about a possible problem or danger (syn) Form: adj Tone: pos
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. 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!
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED Grouse Grumbling and complaining on small issues (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg Carping complain and find fault continually specially about small matters (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg Captious Words Relation to Group someone who always finds faults related to petty or small matters (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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! Carping is petty and unjustified criticism that just wont stop. People who find fault with you at every turn, who appreciate nothing and complain, complain, complain, are carping. Enough already! Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: simiar to CAUTIOUS...cautious people FIND FAULTS in things Example: Her mother was very Captious, and the babies fell off. 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 Mnemonic: Spouses Grouse a lot .... complain a lot Example: She's been grousing to her boss about the working conditions. Mnemonic: One who keeps questioning (querying) everything. Example: He complained in a Querulous voice about having been woken up.
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. Querulous means having a tendency to complain or, more directly put, whiny. Sure, no one can be happy all the time, but thats no excuse for being querulous.
unreasonable and unnecessary complaining. TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE (nature) DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER Querulous Form: adj TROUBLED Tone: neg WARNING / SCOLDING
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Castigate reprimand someone severly Form: verb Tone: neg Berate 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." 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. 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. 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. Belittle 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." Assail Words Relation to Group make a violent attack on someone (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning To assail is to attack or assault - with throwing stars, fists, words or, less tangibly but just as violently, with troubles or doubts. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: be+rate - he was RATEd BElow expectations and hence forth scolded. Example: She Berated herself for being a bad mother.
Mnemonic: Castigate sounds like cast+i+hate - if you hate caste, you criticize it.. Example: He Castigated himself for being so stupid. 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 Mnemonic: Denounce - Similar to announce. Announce is for all kind of information but Denounce is to criticize Example: She publicly Denounced
Decry
Publicly talk badly about someone. (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
Denounce
to accuse, publicly disapprove of someone or something Form: verb Tone: neg
the government's handling of the crisis. a bitter and harsh argument Form: noun Tone: neg Diatribe 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. 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: 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. 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 epic. 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. 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.
Epithet
a descriptive phrase expressing a quality or attribute regarded as characterestics of a person Form: noun Tone: neg
criticize severely (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
Excoriate
When it comes to telling someone off, 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.
Flay
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. 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. 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.
Fulminate
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. Mnemonic: ENVY + ACTIVE or Active jealousy can cause you to ABUSE the other person. Example: The gesture infuriated him and he let out a
Invective
insulting with critical language (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg
stream of Invective. criticize harshly (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg Lambaste 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. 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. Mnemonic: r-"Ant". When an ant bites, you Rant. Example: Parents should not rate their child when it failed an exam
Rail
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. 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. to rebuke angrily or violently
Rant
to shout or speak loudly (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
Rate
scold angrily (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
Example: I was subjected to severe rating for having misbehaved in the class. Mnemonic: For Revile, concentrate on evil- doing evil like slandering Example: He was Reviled in the press for his angry outbursts. 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. 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. Mnemonic: It has the
Revile
criticize angrily and If something is reviled, in an insulting you alone dont 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.
Rile
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 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 roommates clothes one too many times, and you can bet youll be treated to a heated tirade. No, upbraid isnt what
Tirade
find fault in
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 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.
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.
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Relation to Group danger of loss, harm and faliure (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg
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. 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/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. Mnemonic: THERE s a pit to make you fall...trap Example: Getting professional advice will help you avoid the most obvious Pitfalls. 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
Pitfall
a hidden source of trouble or danger (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg
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!
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Elope (for Marriage) conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty Defection Form: noun (Political) Tone: neg Abscond (criminal) Words Relation to Group leave quickly and secretly to avoid a situation (nature of) Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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/Example 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.
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 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
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 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.
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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Relation to Group To discuss the same thing repeatedly (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Understate is to Underestimate (rhymes and means similar) Example: To say we were pleased is an understatement
Belabor
an act of explaining something less Understatement than it should be. (oppo) (opposite) Form: noun Tone: neg
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.
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Aversion 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. Stealing the last piece of food from a starving child goes way beyond mean. It's despicable - a vile and harmful act. Antipathy 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. Animosity strong hate (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg Abhor Words Relation to Group show hatred and disgust (action) Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning 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. Animosity is hatred. If your (supposed) best buddy embarrasses you in front of a big crowd, your friendship could turn into animosity. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Abhor The last part sounds like HORror people hate horror films, they detest them. Example: She Abhors cats. 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. 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. Mnemonic: You hate a+version of vista..firm dislike Example: He has a strong Aversion for liars and cheaters.
one who deserves to be hated, hateful (nature) Form: adj Despicable Tone: neg
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
intense hate for If you detest something, something (action) you dislike it intensely. Form: verb The word can apply to
Detest
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. 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. Mnemonic: hate people with bad odour(Odious) and high audio(Odious) Example: It was one of the most Odious crimes of recent history. Mnemonic: Rip the enemy to Repel. Example: Troops Repelled an attempt to infiltrate the south of the island.
Loath
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. 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.
Odious
Repel
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. 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.
Repugnant
very hateful, cant be accepted (syn,nature) Form: adj Tone: neg
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. 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. 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.
Repulsion
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. contemptible
Scurvy
of the most contemptible kind. Form: noun Tone: neg
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Contempt Burlesque a comical imitation, exaggeration or absurdity. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg Abase Words Relation to Group to lower in rank and prestige (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning 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. an artistic composition, especially literary or dramatic that treats ordinary material with mockery 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. 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. 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. The verb deride means to show a low Mnemonic/Example 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. 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 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.
to behave toward someone as though you are more important and more Condescend intelligent than they are. So disrespecting Form: verb Tone: neg the feeling that a person is worthless and disregard them.(syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
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 Denigrate
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 Mnemonic: de -ride -riding a horse upside
express contempt and ridicule (syn)
Form: verb Tone: neg Deride
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. If you feel that something isn't worthy of your consideration, you may disdain it (or treat it with disdain).
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 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 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 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.
Disparage
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.
Jeer
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. 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. 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. "Louises favorite pastime was to mock her brother
Lampoon
Publicly criticize by using sarcasm or ridicule (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg
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.
Mock
tease or laugh at someone ina disrespectful manner (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
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.
s inability to sing on key." 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. Mnemonic: We know what SARCASM is. Example: I hate her Sarcastic comments that my singing reminded her of the time her dog was sick
Patronize
Ironic remarks intended to wound (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg Sarcastic
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. 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. 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. 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. Scorn is open disrespect for someone or something. It can also be disrespect coupled with feelings of intense dislike.
seriously mocking (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg 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. 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. 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
Satire
the use of humor, irony to criticize people's stupidity. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg
Scoff
to speak to someone in a mocking tone. (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
Scorn
to treat someone with disrespect (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg
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
the tax system. 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. 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. 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, What? Was she in a car wreck? thats a snide comment. 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. 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: 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 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
Sneer
Snicker
Snide
derogatory or mocking in an indirect way (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
Mnemonic: If you don 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
Spurn
to reject with anger and scorn (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
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 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
Taunt
provoke or challenge with insulting remarks (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE Archaic DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING old fashioned (syn,type) Form: adj Tone: neg very old fashioned (syn,type) Form: adj Tone: neg Antiquated old fashioned (syn,type) Form: adj Tone: neg Antediluvian Words Relation to Group very old fashioned (syn,type) Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning Antediluvian means "before the flood" - that is, the Biblical flood with Noah's ark. Generally, though, the word is used often humorously - to describe something really, really old. 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. 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! marked by features of the immediate and usually discounted past Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: ANTE== BEFORE DILUVIAN== DILUGE (FLOOD BIBLICAL)means - extremely old fashioned Example: He has Antediluvian notions about the role of women at the workplace
Mnemonic: read as antique(old item)+dated(outdated)..hence outdated Example: I saw an Antiquated hand-cranked rope-machine at the textiles museums.
Mnemonic: Archealogy study of old things.. Archaic The old things on which we study. Example: The system is Archaic and unfair and needs changing.
Dated
Mnemonic: Relate it to outDatedbecause it is very old and no one uses it anymore. Example: Those TV comedies were OK in their day but seem incredibly Dated now. 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
out of date(syn) Form: adj Tone: neg Obsolete
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." Something that is
old fashioned
Mnemonic: Outmoded or
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. 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."
OUTDATED - something that is out of fashion or no longer in use. Example: This organizational structure was now Outmoded.
old fashioned (syn,type) Form: adj Tone: neg
Mnemonic: GRE bigbook QUANT'S questions are old fashioned(Quaint) Example: This is a Quaint seaside village
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE Applaud DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING show strong approval or praising highly (syn, degree) Form: verb Tone: pos Accolade an award or special recognition (nature of ) Form: noun Tone: pos Words Relation to Group Public Praise (syn) Form: verb Tone: pos Acclaim Meaning 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. 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. 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." 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. If something's commendable it deserves whatever praise it receives. Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: it sounds like chocolate.. parents Accolade if kids do home work properly Example: Meryl Streep has received many Accolades for her performances.
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
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
Mnemonic: Commendable -come to an end able i.e he is able to come to end of this process thats why
Commendable
When you developed a car that could run on solar power, that was a commendable accomplishment. Now, it's time to move from Seattle. 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.
he is praiseworthy Example: She showed Commendable loyalty to the family firm.
Encomium
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. 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. Mnemonic: ex(tra) + alt(itude) -rise high = praise Example: His son was Exalted to a high position in the government through family connections. Mnemonic: Extol - exTALL - make somebody TALL with praise. Example: Doctors often Extol the virtues of eating less fat.
a speech or writing that praises someone (type of) Form: noun Tone: pos Eulogy
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. You might like your manager, but if you exalt her, it means you really put her on a pedestal and treat her like royalty. 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. To glorify is to praise or honor something or someone to an extreme degree. 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." To laud someone
Exalt
holding someone or something in very high regard. (syn) Form: verb Tone: pos to praise enthusiastically (degree) Form: verb Tone: pos
Extol
Glorify
to give honor and praise highly (syn) Form: verb Tone: pos Acclaim enthusiastically (syn) Form: verb Tone: pos
Mnemonic: Glory calls for Praise. Example: He denies that the movie glorifies violence. Mnemonic: Remember the movi "Mr. India" People say "Hail Mogambo" Example: The conference was Hailed as a great success.
Hail
Praise someone in
Mnemonic: O, Lord! Let
public.(syn) Form: verb Tone: pos Laud
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. 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. A paean is a hymn of praise or thanksgiving. You might sing a paean in church, where many hymns extol the greatness of God. 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. 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."
me Laud You for all your help Example: He was Lauded for his courage.
Lionize
give a lot of public appreciation and attention (nature of) Form: verb Tone: pos
Mnemonic: Lion is assigned a great social importance in animal kingdom Example: The tenor was Lionized in Vienna
Paean
a song of Praise (syn, nature) Form: noun Tone: pos
Mnemonic: it is pronounced exactly as P.N. remember it by 'Priase Number' -praise song. Example: a Paean of praise
Panegyric
a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something (kind of) Form: noun Tone: pos
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.
Plaudit
to be praised by the audience (syn) Form: noun Tone: pos
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.
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Dissident a person who goes against an official policy or authority (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg Desperado 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. If you are a dissident, you are a person who is rebelling against a government. Dissidents can do their work peacefully or with violence. Convention (oppo) following traditions and customs (oppo) Form: noun Tone: pos Conservative (oppo) Words Relation to Group following traditions and customs (oppo) Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning Mnemonic/Example If you are Example: Her style of conservative, you dressing was never arent necessarily a conservative. card-carrying member of the Republican party (though you might be); it means you resist change. 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. Mnemonic: bad people are always desperate to do something so "despera-do" Example: the notorious Desperados of the Wild West
Mnemonic: ASSENT = agree; DISSENT = disagree; Dissident = a person who dissents/disagrees. Example: There were Dissident elements within the Catholic Church. 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
a belief or opinion opposite to orthodox religion (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg Heresy
Heresies are beliefs that do not agree with the official beliefs of a particular religion; heresy is the maintaining of such contrary beliefs.
burned at the stake for Heresy. 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. 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. Are you always challenging the establishment? Or provoking popular thought by attacking traditions and institutions? Then you're definitely an iconoclast. 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. 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 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. 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 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 Mnemonic: Mave+"RICK" sounds
Heretical
doesnt accept orthodox beliefs (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg Heterodox
Iconoclast
a person who attacks cherished beliefs and institutions. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg
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.
Insurgent
Insurrection
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.
a person who does A maverick is a rebel, not accept someone who shows a
orthodox beliefs. Form: noun Tone: neg Maverick
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. 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.
Non comformist
one who refuses to be restricted by set beliefs and customs. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg
A nonconformist is someone who doesn t conform to other peoples ideas of how things should be. Activists, artists, street performers, your wacky uncle Marvin anyone who marches to the beat of a different drummer is a nonconformist.
Orthodox (oppo)
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 meat-not like those people who have chicken once in awhile, or even-gasp!- bacon. 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 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. Mnemonic: Renegade sounds like grenade. A person who throws a grenade in his own country is a Traitor. Example: He is a Renegade priest Mnemonic: Revolution.
Radical
Moving away or departing from the usual customs. (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
opposition to any kind of progress (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg Reactionary
Reactionary describes people on the far right politically. Reactionaries occupy a political space past conservative, near where ultraconservative bumps shoulders with fascist.
Renegade
a person who leaves and betrays an organization, country or principle(syn) Form: noun Tone: neg something that results in a big
A renegade is a person who has deserted their cause or defied convention; they're rebels and sometimes outlaws, or even traitors. A revolutionary person fearlessly advocates
Revolutionary
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. 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. 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.
Example: The effects of technological development are Revolutionary.
Subversive
to undermine or not giving due respect to an established government.( syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
Mnemonic: Subversive- reversivego against established rule.Revert (to cause downfall) from inside. Example: He was a known political Subversive. Mnemonic: Un (Not) Conventional. Example: The magazine describes him as having Unconventional good looks.
Unconventional
Not respecting conventions (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
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to become less valuable over a period of time Form: verb DEPRECIATE Tone: neg
Something depreciates when it loses value. If you bought shares of a company for $10 each a year ago and now they re worth $1 each, guess what: they have depreciated. Amass means bring together or assemble. It can be a real shock to enter a room and see your amassed friends shouting "Surprise!"
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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Relation to Group Trying to attach a custom or event to a period to which it does not belong Form: noun Tone: neg
Meaning An anachronism is something that doesn't fit its time period, like if you say you'll "dial" your smartphone.
Mnemonic/Example 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. 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 Mnemonic: Chron meand Time + Logical (say in an order). Example: The facts should be presented in Chronological order.
Anachronism
Chronicle
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. If youre making a list of all your teachers in the order you had them, from kindergarten right up to the present, youre listing them in chronological order. Chronological is the order in which things actually happened.
Sequence or order of date and time Form: adj Tone: neg/ neut Chronological
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING not willing to accept defeat, even in a difficult situation; very indomitable brave and X determined Form: adj Tone: pos Impervious X not affected or influenced by something Form: adj Tone: pos Drub Capitulate # Words Relation to Group to agree to do something that you have been refusing to do for a long time Form: verb Tone: pos hit or beat repeatedly. Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning Capitulate means to give in to something. "The teachers didn't want to have class outside, but the students begged so hard, she capitulated." beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: CAPtain it's too late, we will have to surrender. Example: They were finally forced to capitulate to the terrorists' demands. 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
An impervious surface is Mnemonic: "I am one that can't be Pervez(pervez penetrated. The word is musharraf)"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 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 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. Mnemonic: As in during Riots stampede take place. hence Rout happens during Riots.
Invincible X
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. 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
a situation in which someone is defeated easily and completely in a battle or
Rout
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 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.
Example: Only the skill of the goalkeeper prevented the match from turning into a Rout. 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. Mnemonic: sounds like vanish..by vanishing you can be better than anyone in a competition. Example: They were vanquished in battle.
Subjugate
to defeat someone or something; to gain control over someone or something Form: verb Tone: neg
Vanquish
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.
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Meaning 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. Beset means to attack from all sides-an invading army will beset a castle, or you might find yourself beset by a devastating storm.
Mnemonic/Example 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 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. 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
Beset
trouble or threaten continuously.(syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
trouble Form: verb Tone: neg
trouble persistently
Plagued
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Groups 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 HATE MOCK / DISRESPECT OLD FASHIONED PRAISE REBELLIOUS / UNCONVENTIONAL REDUCE TIME RELATED TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER TROUBLED WARNING / SCOLDING Chide to scold mildly in order to correct or improve someone (syn) Form: verb Tone: positive Chastise 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. Censure blame Form: noun Tone: neg Admonish Words Relation to Group not to approve something and hence rebuke (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: to avoid A DEMON-ish act, a mother Warns her naughty child Example: She was Admonished for chewing gum in class. 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. 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. 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. 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 chide someone is to ride them or get on their case, without really getting in their face.
to criticize severely If you receive a rebuke, it (syn) means that you have been Form: verb reprimanded, or scolded. Tone: neg Rebuke
to reprove severely (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg Reprimand
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. Mnemonic: If you see a cockRROACH, you Reproach and express disapproval! Example: His voice was full of Reproach. Mnemonic: re+prove - Teacher is scolding student again and again (RE) to prove the theorem correct. Example: He Reproved her for rushing away.
Reproach
to express disapproval, or criticize. (syn) Form: noun Tone: neg to disapprove of something or someone (syn) Form: verb Tone: neg
Reproach means to mildly criticize. If you show poor manners at your grandmother's dinner table, she will reproach you. If you get into trouble and are sent to the principal s office, be prepared for the principal to reprove you for your behavior. To reprove is to scold, reprimand, or - in plain English - chew out.
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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/Example 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. Example: First-class accommodation is available for a Supplement.
to add to something for improvement. Form: v Complement Tone: pos
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.
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 Contentious 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. Belligerent 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. Bellicose Words Relation to Group someone who is ready to fight and argue.(syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG Meaning 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/Example 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 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 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.
a discussion about something that people do not agree on (syn) Form: adj Disputatious Tone: NEG
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 The Night Before Christmas If you're prone to picking fights, making snarky comments, and being Mnemonic: Those who get their limbs fractured -gets
bad tempered or who gets easily upset with small
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. 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. 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 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 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. Mnemonic: Truculent sounds like turbulent which is very aggressive. Example: Die-hard fans who became Truculent and violent after their team's loss
unfriendly and aggressive (syn) Form: n Tone: NEG Hostility
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.
Litigous
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. 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 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.
very unfriendly, ready to argue and fight.(syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG Polemical
Pugnacious
having a desire to fight and argue with somebody (syn) Form: adj Tone: NEG
Truculent
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.
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 strong disagreement within an organization Form: noun Tone: neg # SCHISM # RIFT # GULF a separation or lack of agreement Form: noun Tone: neg # CHASM Words Relation to Group a very big difference between two people or groups Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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. a large difference between two people or groups 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: Chasm sounds like chashma.. if it has a crack, it is difficult to see Example: the yawning chasm of the generation gap
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 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.
a serious disagreement between people Form: noun Tone: neg
Mnemonic: Sounds like prism which splits light into colors. Example: There is a schism between leading members of the party
agreement Form: n Tone: pos
Accord
If you clean your room of your own accord, you parents will be pleased it means you did it without having to be asked. They might even accord you an extra privilege. Warring nations make peace accords. 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. If all your friends wear jeans to school and you wear checkered slacks, you could say you reject conformity doing the same thing as everyone else. suitable or appropriate together
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
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
Concord
agreement (young people are always in conformity) Form: n Tone: pos Conformity
Mnemonic: Conform it - Means agree to it Example: The corporate culture demands a certain Conformity of appearance. Root: The prefix CON means TOGETHER
Congruous
in agreement, at par. Form: adj Tone: pos
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 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
agreement, together, blend Form: n Tone: pos Consonance
Use consonance to describe a state of agreement or harmony of parts, and is often refers
to a pleasing combination of musical sounds. arguing or disagreement (oppo) Form: n Tone: neg Discord 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. Disagreeable sounds can be called dissonance. You know it's dissonance if you have the strong desire to cover your ears with your hands. 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. Things that are harmonious go together nicely, like notes in music or people that work well as a team. Use the adjective incompatible to describe things or people that are too different to 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
Dissonance
not in agreement, not together (oppo) Form: n Tone: neg
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
Mnemonic: Faction-fraction means fraction of a large party Example: The committee soon split into Factions.
Faction
in agreement, at par. Form: adj Tone: pos Harmonious
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
Mnemonic: IN (not)+ compatible. Example: This printer is Incompatible with some PCs. Root: Prefix IN means NOT
Incompatible
get along. When paired with someone you can't work with, don't criticize or get mad. Just say, "We are incompatible."
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 fighting in war time. Form: n Tone: NEG Brawl a noisy argument, involving many people,especially in public place Form: n,v Tone: NEG 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. 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. Combat is fighting between two groups of armed forces. When you engage in combat, typically this means you engage in fighting that involves weapons. struggle in opposition Words Relation to Group a noisy argument Form: n Tone: NEG Altercation Meaning Altercation is a nicer word for "quarrel," which is a nicer word for "fight." Mnemonic/Example 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 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.
Bicker
Mnemonic: Brawl can be pronounced as bawaal....in hindi bawaal is noisy drunken fight Example: Fans were Brawling in the streets after the game.
Mnemonic: concentrate on the last part of the wordbat. It will remind you that a fight in cricket (usage of bat) is for winning. Example: Some of these soldiers have never seen Combat.
Combat
Contend
struggle in a fight Form: v Tone: NEG
Mnemonic: You have less content to support your point means you are highly unlikely to
Contend(COMPETE) Example: to Contend with the enemy for control of the port a noisy argument, involving many people. Form: n Tone: NEG Fracas 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. 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. 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. Row means a noisy argument, but when you use it this way, it rhymes with cow, rather than toe. 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: Fracas-(fraud + cause), a fraud will generally cause a quarrel or brawl. Example: Police preparing for any Fracas that might follow the soccer game
Melee
a situation in which a crowd of people rush or push each other in a confused way. Form: n Tone: NEG
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 Quibble
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
Row
quarell and dispute. Form: n Tone: NEG
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.
Squabble
to argue noisily about very unimportant details Form: n,v Tone: NEG
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
Tiff
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 When two warring sides decide to call it quits, it's called a truce - an agreement to end the fighting. disorderly 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. Mnemonic: Tussle can be remembered in relation to a hassle. Example: The suspect was arrested after a Tussle with a security guard.
Truce (oppo)
an agreement between enemies or opponents to stop fighting for a period of time Form: n Tone: POS a short fight in order to get something. Form: n,v Tone: NEG
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 Impartial Form: adj Tone: pos Dispassionate describes someone who is not getting carried away by or maybe not even having feelings. It's something you'd want to see in a surgeon, who keeps cool under pressure, but not in a romantic partner. An egalitarian is a person who believes in the equality of all Discriminatory unfair, treating characterized by or someone or one showing prejudicial group of people treatment worse than others. Form: adj Tone: neg Bigot a person who has very strong ,unreasonable beliefs or opinions about race, religion etc and doesnt accept others opinion. Form: n,adj Tone: neg Biased Words Relation to Group having tendency to show favor towards or against a group of people. Making unfair judgements. Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: Difference or discrmination. Example: This is a company that was fined for its Discriminatory practices in the hiring of women Mnemonic: dispassionate, without any passion usually people without passions are calm Example: He spoke in a dispassionate tone about the accident.
Dispassionate(oppo)
hold the belief that everyone is equal and should have the same rights
Mnemonic: for EAGLES, it does not matter which person's meat is that,
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 an egalitarian and vouches on Equality of rights 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 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. Mnemonic: There are two PARTS. You don't favor either PART. You are imPARTIAL. Root: Prefix IN means NOT
treating everyone in an equal way. Form: adj Tone: pos Equitable(oppo)
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. 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.
Evenhanded(oppo)
completely Fair, especially when dealing with different groups of people. Form: adj Tone: pos
Form: adj Tone: pos Impartial X
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. 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. 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.
Unbiased Form: adj Tone: pos Objectivity(oppo)
Mnemonic: Objective(goal oriented)-hence IMPARTIAL Example: We need someone outside the company to give us an objective analysis. 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.
one-sided (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg
Partisan
Prejudiced
having unreasonable dislike of or preference for someone or something, based on religion, sex etc. Form: adj Tone: neg expressing a strong opinion that people are likely to disagree with. 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.
Tendentious
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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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 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. Equanimity a calm state of mind that means that you do not become angry or upset. Form: n Tone: pos Composure to be calm and in control of your feelings. Form: n Tone: pos Aplomb Words Relation to Group something done confidently and successfully, often in a difficult situation. Form: n Tone: pos Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: A R Rahman is a composer. He need all his Composure to compose music. Example: After the initial shock she regained her Composure. 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 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 Mnemonic: im'not'+perturb(able), meaning not perturbed....so a person who is not perturbed stays calm and placid.
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. 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.
Impassive
not easily upset or worried by a difficult situation. Form: adj Tone: pos Imperturbable
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.
Example: Although he seems outwardly Imperturbable, he can get very angry at times. Root: Prefix IM means NOT casual. Form: adj Tone: neutral Nonchalant 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. 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 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 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 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 easily made angry or upset. Form: adj Tone: pos Phlegmatic
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. 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.
not easily excited or irritated. Form: adj Tone: pos Placid
quiet and peaceful Form: adj Tone: pos Serene
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! 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.
not interesting or amusing. Form: adj Tone: neutral
Staid
not showing much emotion or interest.never
A stolid person cant Mnemonic: be moved to smile or Remember Stolid as show much sign of life, in solid. As we all know
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. 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
quiet and peaceful Form: adj Tone: pos Tranquil
When a place or your state of mind is peaceful, quiet and serene, it is tranquil.
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Agitate X
Dismay X
Distraught X
cannot think clearly because you are extremely upset. Form: adj Tone: neg
Faze X
to make someone feel confused or shocked, so that you dont know what to do. Form: v Tone: neg to make someone nervous or confused by giving them a lot to do. Form: v,n 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. 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. Stand outside the school cafeteria passing out flyers with nutritional details on school food, and you may foment a revolution foment means stirring up something undesirable, such as trouble. 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: 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. Mnemonic: Fluster reminds me of 'Frustrate'. when you get confused, you get frustrated. Example: Some speakers fluster more easily than others. 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.
Fluster X
Foment X
to create trouble or violence to make it worse. Form: v Tone: neg
Frenetic X
lot of energy and activity in a way that is not organized Form: adj Tone: neg
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. 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. 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 Mnemonic: wrought sounds lik drought...during drought people run mad
in a state of extreme excitement, in an uncontrolled way. Form: adj Tone: neg Hysterical X
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.
cannot be calmed down Form: adj Tone: neg Implacable X
An implacable person just cant 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. High on drama and lacking any emotional restraint, overwrought is an adjective that
Overwrought
very worried and upset Form: adj Tone: neg
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. 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. Mnemonic: perturb sounds like "disturb" Example: It perturbed him that his son was thinking about leaving school.
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 Despot a ruler with great power, especially one who uses it in a cruel way Form: n Tone: neg Autocrat showing that you expect people to obey and respect Authoritative you. Form: adj Tone: neg a person who expects to be obeyed by other people and does not care about their opinions or feelings. Form: n Tone: neg Absolute Words Relation to Group having unlimited power or control, esp when despotic Form: adj,n Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Someone having Authority will be Authoritative. Example: The book is an Authoritative guide to the city's restaurants.
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 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. 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. Mnemonic:
Dogmatic
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.
control by one
Hegemony is political or
Hegemony
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. 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 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. Mnemonic: Totalitarian sounds like TOTAL power Example: We were asked to oppose dictatorship and totalitarianism and embrace Democracy. Mnemonic: Remember mike tyson .. He was cruel dictator in the ring Example: The country was ruled by a succession of Tyrants.
Imperious
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. 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. 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. If you accuse your parents of being tyrants, you are saying they abuse their control of you-they are cruel, overly restrictive of your freedoms, and unfair. A tyrant is a ruler who is cruel and unjust.
Martinet
a very strict person who demands that other people obey orders or rules completely Form: n Tone: neg
Totalitariian
in which there is only one political party that has complete power and control over the people. Form: adj,n Tone: neg a person who has complete power in a country and uses it in a cruel and unfair way. Form: n Tone: neg
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 Peers 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. Parity Equal (syn) Form: n Tone: neutral Disparate (opp) not similar (oppo) Form: adj Tone: negative, neutral depending on the context Commensurate Words Relation to Group Equal work (syn) Form: adj Tone: neutral Meaning 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. 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. Parity refers to equality of an amount or value, and it's used most often to refer to finance. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: SPLIT AS COMMON - ENSURED -RATE. WHICH MEANS, OUR RATE WILL BE EQUAL TO THE CHEAPEST PRODUCT! Example: Salary will be Commensurate with experience. Mnemonic: Disparate can be broken as: "This" "sEparate" so read as "this is separate Example: They are a disparate group of individuals. 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. 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. 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
equality Form: adj Tone: neutral
Tantamount
When something is tantamount to another thing it is essentially its equivalent. For some animal activists, wearing fur is tantamount to murder.
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 Fulsome too generous in praising or thanking somebody Form: adj Tone: pos Fawn flatter Form: v Tone: neg when you say all good things to someone to persuade them to do things for you. Blandishment Form: n * Tone: neg 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! 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. Compliments usually make you feel pretty good, but fulsome compliments, which are exaggerated and usually insincere, may have the opposite effect. 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. Adulation * Words Relation to Group admiration and praise, but it is greater than is necessary. Form: n Tone: neg Meaning If you've ever been to a pop concert filled with screaming fans you've probably been exposed to adulation praise so over-thetop it's almost embarrassing. Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: BLAN (like PLAN) + DISH (food) PLAN a DISH to FLATTER somebody... Example: He refused to be moved by either threats or Blandishment *s.
Mnemonic: a FAN tries to gain favor by flattery Example: a sports star surrounded by Fawning fans
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. 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.
Obsequious
trying too hard to please or satisfy someone very important. Form: adj Tone: neg
a person who praises influential or powerful people in order to get something in return. Form: n Tone: neg Sycophant
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 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. 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
Toady
a person who praises influential or powerful people in order to get something in return. Form: n,v Tone: neg friendly or giving praise in a way that is not sincere and hence unpleasant. Form: adj 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. 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.
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 existing in all parts and spreading gradually to affect all parts of a place. Form: adj Tone: NEUT Inclusive including everything Form: adj Tone: NEUT Encompass COMPREHENSIVE Words Relation to Group covering completely Form: adj Tone: neut Meaning 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/Example 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 Mnemonic: We use compass to draw circle, which sorrounds or includes the area within it. Example: The district Encompasses most of the downtown area. Mnemonic: Everything is IN the CLOSET. Example: A butterfly expert with an Inclusive knowledge of his subject
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. 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. When something is pervasive, it's everywhere. Common things are pervasive like greed and cheap perfume.
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Mnemonic: Pervasive sounds like persuasive, if you are persuasive youre ideas will be Pervasive Example: Television's Pervasive influence on our culture
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Words Relation to Group someone who is not interested or enthusiastic about anything. Form: n. Tone: neg Apathy
Meaning 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/Example 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 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
Stoic
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.
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Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Depriciate is to reduce and lessen. Example: He made a deprecating comment. Root: Prefix De means DOWN. 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 Mnemonic: Owner of a Mitsubishi PAJERO belittles everyone on the road. Example: I'm using the word academic here in a Pejorative sense.
to feel and express tending to diminish or disapproval of disparage something or someone. Deprecatory Form: adj Tone: neg
Derogatory
showing a bad attitude towards someone. Form: adj Tone: neg
Something that's derogatory is insulting or disrespectful. If you make derogatory comments, that means you say things that are unflattering, unkind, or demeaning.
Pejorative
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.
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Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: go anti to someone that is ANTAGONIZE for you Example: Her comments ANTAGONIZEd many people. Root: Prefix ANTI means AGAINST. 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
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. 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.
ANTAGONIZE
Divide, isolate Form: n Tone: NEG Estrange
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.
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Relation to Group only interested in your country, ideas etc, or not in those from outside. Form: adj Tone: NEG
Meaning 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. lacking tolerance or understanding
Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: With My Opaque lenses I will be short sighted Example: Dogma and Myopic politics always falls short in explanation Mnemonic: Having PARTIAL vision or outlook is being Parochial. Example: They need to be better informed and less Parochial in their thinking. 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.
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Myopic
narrow minded Form: N Tone: NEG
only concerned with small issues that happen in you local areas. Parochial Form: adj Tone: NEG
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. 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.
narrow-minded. Form: adj Tone: NEG
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 Insouciant serious Form: adj Tone: pos If you have a grave personality, you are solemn and dignified and don't joke around very much. 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. silly or not serious especially when it is not suitable. Form: adj Tone: neg Frivolous Flippant Words Relation to Group showing that you do not take certain things as seriously as you are expected to take. Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. Frivolous things are silly or unnecessary. If something is frivolous, then you don't need it. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: Don't laugh near the graves,be serious. Example: My father would turn in his grave if he knew what I have done. 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 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
Grave (oppo)
the state of not being worried about anything. Form: adj Tone: neg
Levity
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.
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 Slavish copying someone without any originality of his own at all. Form: adj Tone: neg someone who eagerly wants to obey or please someone Form: adj,n Tone: neg Subservient abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant Servile someone who eagerly wants to obey or please someone Form: adj Tone: neg Minion Grovel Words Relation to Group to behave in a humble manner with someone who can probably give him what he wants. Form: v Tone: neg a servant Form: n Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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. 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 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 Mnemonic: Slavish sounds like SLAVE. Example: He has been criticized for his Slavish devotion to the rules. 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. Mnemonic: One who says ..SUPPLy me I CANT get it on my own. Example: The new governor soon had to
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. 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.
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.
Supplicant
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.
Form: v Tone: neg
deal with a long line of Supplicants asking for jobs and other political favors>
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 Indulge Humor the state of your feelings or mind at a particular time. Form: n,v Tone: neut to satisfy a particular desire and interest. Form: v Tone: pos Coddle Words Relation to Group to treat someone with too much care and attention. Form: v Tone: pos Meaning While it is okay for parents to coddle, spoil, or pamper a young child, its a little unnerving when parents coddle, or pamper adult children. And downright weird when adult children wear Pampers. Mnemonic/Example 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. Example: She Humored her grandfather by listening to his war stories for the hundredth time. Example: It's my birthday. I'm going to Indulge myself and eat whatever I want to eat.
Humor is a word for the quality of being funny - or for appreciating comedy, as in "sense of humor." 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. 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.
to protect soomeone too much and make their life too comfortable and Mollycoddle safe. Form: v Tone: pos
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. 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.
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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Relation to Group Present everywhere. (syn) Form: adj Tone: NEUT
Meaning Omnipresent describes something that's everywhere at once, like a deity or a bad smell.
Mnemonic/Example 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. 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
Omnipresent
Ubiquitous
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.
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Groups ADD / SUPPORT AGGRESSIVE / ARGUMENTATIVE AGREEMENT / HARMONY ARGUE / FIGHT 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 prevent something from taking place (syn) Form: n Tone: neg Repression 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). 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. The verb to scotch has nothing to do with the wellknown liquor. Instead, it means to prevent or stop something from happening. Quell calm down someone or something. Form: v Tone: pos Quash Pulverize Words Relation to Group Meaning Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Pulverize = POWDERIZE Example: We Pulverized the opposition. Mnemonic: Quash can be framed as CRUSH to ash, so qu+(ASH) Example: The rumours were quickly Quashed. to defeat or when you pulverize destroy something someone, you defeat completely.(effect) him/her thoroughly Form: v Tone: neg 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 its usually used to talk about ideas, feelings, or political movements. You wouldn t quash a grape underfoot; you would squash it. But if you were a military dictator, you would quash a revolution. 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. Mnemonic: Repression is like depression and you control your depression which is Repression Example: They survived 60 years of political Repression. 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. 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. Mnemonic: Hungry?
Restrain
Scotch
decisively putting an end to something. Form: v Tone: pos/neut
to bring someone
To subdue is to hold back,
Subdue
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. To suppress something means to curb, inhibit, or even stop it. If the sound of your boss moving in his chair sounds like gas, you re going to have to learn how to suppress your giggles.
Lets go to SUBWAYS to Subdue our hunger. Example: Julia had to Subdue an urge to stroke his hair. Mnemonic: The celebrity said "sup press" when the press came and ruined his activity. Example: The governor tried to Suppress the news.
Suppress
to put something to end especially by force Form: v Tone: neg
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Bemuse
showing that you are confused and unable to think clearly. Form: adj Tone: neg/ neut
to confuse someone Form: v Tone: neut Bewilder
Mnemonic: Some times people behave like wild animals that Bewilders me, because they lack humanity.
Example: The change in policy seems to have Bewildered many of our customers 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 Mnemonic: CONfusion FOUND -Confound Example: The school's team Confounded all predictions and won the game.
Boggle
to confuse and surprise someone. Form: v Tone: neg/ neut Confound
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 doesnt work on your mom. 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, youre flabbergasted. You are really, really shocked pretty much speechless.
Flabbergasted
extremely surprised and shocked. Form: adj Tone: neg/ neut
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.
Fox
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. Mnemonic: plussedpuzzled. Example: I was nonplussed by his openly expressed admiration of me.
Non plussed
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. 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. To perplex someone is to amaze, baffle, bewilder, dumbfound, flummox, mystify, or puzzle them. Perplexing things are
Obfuscate
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. Mnemonic: Perplex = complex (full of confusion) Example: Questions about the meaning of
Perplex
confused and worried because you did not understand it. Form: v
Tone: neut
hard to understand.
life have always Perplexed humankind. 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.
Stupefy
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?
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Anodyne reduce distress or pain Form: adj Tone: pos Ameliorate Alleviate 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. Allay Words Relation to Group putting a fear, suspicion or worry at rest. Form: v Tone: pos Meaning The verb allay is used when you want to make something better or eliminate fears and concerns. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: Ameliorate sounds like deteriorate = degrade Ameliorate = improve Example: This medicine should help Ameliorate the pain.
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. 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. 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.
Appease
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."
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
Assuage
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 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.
Conciliate
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. 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. 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." 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. To mollify is to calm someone down, talk them off the ledge, make amends, maybe even apologize.
Exacerbate (oppo)
to make something worse. (oppo) Form: v Tone: pos
Mnemonic: acerbmeans bitter, harsh; So exacerbate means to make things bitter, to worsen. Example: The proposed factory shutdown would only exacerbate our unemployment problems. 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.
Extenuating
Making a guilt appear less serious and that can be forgiven Form: adj Tone: pos
Mitigate
make something less serious or painful Form: v Tone: pos
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. Mnemonic: Mollify sounds like nullify...so just think of nullifying something...nullifying your temper Example: He tried to Mollify his critics with an apology. Mnemonic: a passive person is always calm,so calm down Example: She resigned from her position to Pacify her accusers.
Mollify
to lessen someones anger Form: v Tone: pos
supress the anger or excitement of something Form: v Tone: pos Pacify
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
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 Placate 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. 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. 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. Temper can refer to a tendency to become unreasonably angry. If youre not sure whether you have a temper, ask your friends - but dont get mad if you dislike what they have to say. 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.
Propitiate
to stop somebody from being angry and calm them down Form: v Tone: pos
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.
Solace
emotional comfort Form: n Tone: pos
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. Mnemonic: The TEMPo travellER is a vehicle of moderate speed. Example: his was disliked by everyone because of his high Temper
Temper
someone who becomes angry very easily (oppo) Form: n Tone: pos
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION vital Form: adj Tone: pos IMPERATIVE FOREMOST CORE CARDINAL Words Relation to Group Important Form: n Tone: pos Meaning 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. 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. 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. When something absolutely has to be done and cannot be put off, use the adjective imperative. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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.
central part Form: noun Tone: pos
the most important or famous Form: n Tone: pos
Mnemonic: Fore means before. So something that is of primary importance is FOREMOST. Example: The governor was FOREMOST among those who condemned the violence.
Mnemonic: you have to attend your "important r(el)ative "and that meeting is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY and IMPORTANT. Example: It is absolutely IMPERATIVE that we finish by next week. 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.
most important to be without Form: adj Tone: pos INDISPENSIBLE
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
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. 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. To the President, protecting our nation's security is of paramount importance - it's at the very top of his to-do list. Mnemonic: MANDATORY, man-date -for every man time and date is necessary/requirement Example: The offense carries a MANDATORY life sentence.
MANDATORY
very important, specially because it will have important results Form: adj Tone: pos MOMENTOUS
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. 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 Mnemonic: Pi-votalvoting is very crucial & important right. Example: She is at a PIVOTAL point in her career. Mnemonic: We generally use SALIENT features to mean important features related to something. Example: She pointed out the SALIENT features of the new design.
very important Form: adj Tone: pos
PARAMOUNT
PIVOTAL
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. 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.
most important Form: adj Tone: pos
SALIENT
Legends: X * : Antonyms : Words with slightly different meaning from the majority of the words in a cluster.
: Words which are neither synonyms nor antonyms.
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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. 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.
Esoteric
Mystical
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.
experience. not clearly expressed or explained. Form: adj/v/n Tone: neg/neut Obscure 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. Mnemonic: Occult sounds like Difficult to understand. Example: The actor's private life had long been Occulted by a contrived public persona 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. 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. 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
mysterious Form: adj Tone: neut Occult
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. Difficult to understand
Profound
deep, grave and hence difficult to understand Form: adj Tone: neg/neut
knowing little about something Form: adj Tone: neut Recondite
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.
clear/clarity Form: adj Tone: pos X Perspicuous
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.
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Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Cease is to Stop. Example: You never Cease to amaze me!
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.
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.
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 end something Form: v Tone: neut/neg Terminate
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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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. 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. If a person, place, or thing is energetic and active, then it's dynamic. When things are dynamic, there's a lot going on.
Ebullient
Effervescent
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. Getting a compliment from your effusive Aunt Sally can be a little embarrassing. Since
Gushing, unrestrained praise, pleasure or approval.
Effusive
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. Mnemonic: Exuberant- Excess number of ANTS. ants are unrestrained, in large numbers Example: She gave an Exuberant performance. 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. 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.
Exuberant
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!
having passionate feeling Form: adj/n Tone: pos Fervent/Fervor
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.
Frisky
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.
Gushing
expressing so much enthusiasm and emotion that doesnt seem sincere Form: adj Tone: pos showing strong feeling about something 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. 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. 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. lessen in force or effect Mnemonic: Impassioned can be remembered as I AM PASSIONed Example: His lawyer made an Impassioned argument in his defense. Mnemonic: YoU should try to be lively and energetic at the time of your VIVA Example: He had three pretty, Vivacious daughters. Mnemonic: Dampened spirit means lack of enthusiasm, when something is damp, it become weak. Example: None of the setbacks could
Impassioned
Vivacious
attractively lively Form: adj Tone: pos
make something less strong Form: v Tone: neg 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. Mnemonic: Zeal means passion or enthusiasm. Example: The detective was zealous in her pursuit of the kidnappers.
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION extremely excited Form: adj Tone: pos Elate Ecstasy feeling of great happiness Form: n Tone: pos Blithe Beatific Beam Words Relation to Group to smile Form: v Tone: pos Meaning Experience a feeling of well-being or happiness, as from good health or an intense emotion Mnemonic/Example 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. 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 Mnemonic: Blithe- Belight- Hearted. means care free Example: He drove with Blithe disregard for the rules of the road.
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. 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. If youve ever been so happy that the rest of the world seemed to disappear, you ve felt ecstasy a feeling or state of intensely beautiful bliss. To elate is to fill with happiness. If you are elated, you are thrilled. You are walking on air.
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. 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. 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.
Euphoria
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 that-it's unusually, crazy happy, over the top.
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 Exhilaration
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. 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. 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!" 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. A festive, happy event, like a big summer backyard party, will be full of gaiety - or merriment and playfulness. 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. 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.
'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 Exultant
Mnemonic: Exultant sounds like Excitement, which is a combination of pride and joy. Example: Researchers are Exultant over the new discovery.
Facetious
trying to be funny in a way that is not appropriate Form: adj Tone: neg
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 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. Mnemonic: Gaeiety can be remembered as GAY (meaning merry and happy) Example: The colorful flags added to the Gaiety of the occasion. Mnemonic: Remember "Jest for laughs gags" on pogo Example: You should know that our teasing was done entirely in Jest.
great happiness Form: n/v Tone: pos Felicity
Gaiety
happiness and fun Form: adj Tone: pos
a joke Form: n/v Tone: pos Jest
Jocular
humorous Form: adj Tone: pos
Mnemonic: Jocular sounds like a joker. Example: He is a Jocular man who could make the most serious people smile Mnemonic: joc...(joke)..and you crack jokes when you are cheerful or to show high siprited merriment
happy and cheerful You know that Form: adj teacher who always Tone: pos has a goofy smile on his face and a
Jocund
bad pun for the Example: Old friends kids? He's got a engaged in Jocund teasing. jocund personality, meaning he's merry and cheerful. 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. 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. If you were the quarterback that threw the touchdown pass that won the Super Bowl, you would be jubilant: filled with joy. If you're blissfully happy, you're rapturous. You could describe your purring cat rolling around in catnip as rapturous. You may have heard it said that the fastest way to a persons 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. If you're sanguine about a situation, that means you're optimistic that everything's going to work out fine. Mnemonic: jolli+ty...so focus on jolli....jolly means cheers to you. Example: I love all of the warmhearted Jollity of the holiday season.
Jollity
friendly and happy Form: adj Tone: pos Jovial
Mnemonic: Jovial=jo(joy)+vi(by)+al(all), so Jovial means happiness, joyful, merriment Example: He was in a Jovial mood.
Jubilant
feeling or showing happiness because of success Form: adj Tone: pos
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. 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. 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.
great happiness Form: adj Tone: pos Rapturous
entertain someone with a story Form: v Tone: pos Regale
Sanguine
confident, hopeful and optimistic about what might happen, in a difficult situation Form: n Tone: pos
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. Mnemonic: Uproarious has ROAR, sound made by Lion which always comes before TOM AND JERRY starts....its a show marked by
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
Uproarious
Form: adj Tone: pos
match. Uproarious situations are very loud, a little out of control, and often hilarious. Waggish means that someone is humorous or witty the kind of person who'd keep you in stitches all night if you sat next to one at a party.
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. 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.
someone who does something clever and amusing Form: adj Tone: pos Waggish
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Painstaking very careful and hardworking Form: adj Tone: pos Industrious Diligent very persevering Form: adj Tone: pos Assiduous Words Relation to Group Diligent, hardworking Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning If you call someone assiduous, it's a compliment. It means they're careful, methodical and very persistent. Good detectives are classically assiduous types. 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. 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. 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 carefulso meticulous, so thorough that it hurts. 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/Example Mnemonic: Ass is donkey and donkey is hardworking. Example: They were Assiduous in their search for all the latest facts and figures. 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. 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 Mnemonic: Taking the pain of doing something. Example: The event had been planned with Painstaking attention to detail.
Diligent, hardworking Form: adj Tone: pos
constant in effort and hardworking Form: adj Tone: pos Sedulous
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. Example: Hundreds of men Toiled for years at building the pyramid.
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
Toil
work as a rock goddess. Unfortunately, there weren't many ads in the employment section for goddesses - rock or otherwise.
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Spasmodic Occassional 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. Something that is spasmodic is experiencing a fit, a loss of muscular control. If you are spazzing out, you are spasmodic. Intermittent something that takes place at irregular intervals Form: adj Tone: neut Fitfully Words Relation to Group active but not regular and steady Form: adj/adv Tone: neut Meaning 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. Reach for the adjective intermittent to describe periodic movement and stopping and starting over a period of time. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: I am fat and so trousers occasionally fit me fully. Example: Several fitful attempts at negotiation have failed. 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. 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. Mnemonic: A SPAM mail seems to be an interruption. Example: He made only Spasmodic attempts to lose weight. Mnemonic: Sporadic -opposite of periodic, we know periodic things occur regularly. Example: Fighting continued Sporadically for two months.
Irregular bursts (The spasmodic fighting between the two parties continued) Form: adj Tone: neg Scattered or isolated or irregular Interval. Form: adj Tone: neg
Sporadic
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 sporadic-he comes as needed.
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION 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. Languid 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. Lackluster Lackadaisical Indolent Words Relation to Group Lazy Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: Lacking shine (lustre) or livliness Example: This was a a Lackluster performance. Mnemonic: Languid sounds similar to language..language classes are generally boring.. Example: They proceeded at a Languid pace. 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. 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.
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.
lacking in energy, lacking brilliance or force, not inspiring vitality Form: adj Tone: neg
Lassitude
lazy Form: adj Tone: neg Lethargic
When you feel lethargic, you're sluggish or lacking energy. Being sleepy or hungry can make anyone lethargic.
Example: A big meal always makes me feel Lethargic and sleepy lacking energy Form: adj Tone: neg Listless To be listless it to be lethargic, low spirited, and limp. "The fever made the boy listless 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.
Loll
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. 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. 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: "slow"th Example: A youth inclined more toward Sloth than athletics Mnemonic: Sluggish = slow + ish Example: The game picked up after a Sluggish start.
Sloth
Inactive Form: adj Tone: neg Sluggish
lethargic Form: n/adj Tone: neg Torpor/Torpid
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
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Inexorable 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. Incessant 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. Chronic Words Relation to Group Meaning Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: In (NOT) + Terminable (stop) Something that cannot be stopped. Example: The drive seemed Interminable. Root: Prefix IN means NOT. 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.
never ending Form: adj Tone: pos Interminable
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. Perennial typically describes things that are permanent, constant, or
Lasting Forever Form: adj Tone: pos
Mnemonic: if you remember we have learnt about Perennial
Perennial
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. Never Ending, Constant Form: adj Tone: pos 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.
rivers in social studies which means LONG LASTING rivers Example: Flooding is a Perennial problem for people living by the river. 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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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION not original Form: adj Tone: neg Derivative 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. Clich an uninteresting phrase. Form: noun Tone: neg If you've heard an expression a million times, chances are it's a cliche. Bromide 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." Banal Words Relation to Group lacking excitement Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning If something is boring and unoriginal, it's banal. Banal things are dull as dishwater. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. 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 Clich that a trouble shared is a trouble halved Mnemonic: Derived from something. Example: I've always found the exercise slightly Derivative and not very challenging
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 revolutionary so much that it now just means that a product is new lacking in refinement Form: adj Tone: neg Humdrum 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. 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
happens everyday Form: adj Tone: neg Mundane
An ordinary, unexciting thing can be called mundane: "Superman hid his heroic feats by posing as his mundane alter ego, Clark Kent."
Dull, lacking inspiration.boring and always the same Form: adj Pedestrian Tone: neg
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. 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 clichs and tell him to cut the p In Roman times, the lower class of people was the plebeian class. Today, if something is plebeian, it is of the common people. 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. 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 Mnemonic: split it as "quote+indian".QUOTE AN INDIAN every day. Newspapers quote opinions of Indians everyday.. so its a
Platitude
a remark or statement with moral content often interesting and thoughtful Form: adj Tone: neg
Plebeian
of or belonging to the lower social classes Form: adj Tone: neg
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.
Quotidian
DAILY occurence,customary Example: Not content with the Quotidian quarrels that other couples had, they had rows that shook the entire neighborhood overused and therefore lacking freshness or originality Form: adj/n Tone: neg 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. 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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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Bleak not giving any reason to hope Form: adj Tone: neg Bereft Bereaved having lost a relative or close one because of death Form: adj Tone: neg Words Relation to Group lot of mental and physical pain and suffering Form: n,adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. If you're ejected from an important game, you're going to feel dejected. If you're rejected by Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: Bereaved sounds like GRIEVE..which means mourning for somebody Example: The grief of the Bereaved parents seemed to be without limit
Anguish
deprived of something or someone, lonely Form: adj Tone: neg
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. 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.
Crestfallen
sad and disappointed because of having failed Form: adj Tone: neg sad and depressed Form: adj Tone: neg
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. Mnemonic: you feel Dejected when you are rejected Example: She looked so Dejected when she lost the
Dejected
the love of your life, you'll feel dejected again. 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. If you are despondent, you are discouraged, very sad, and without hope. If you are depressed, you might describe your mood as despondent. Sniff, sniff, boohoo... use the adjective forlorn to express loneliness and feeling left out.
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Desolate
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 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. 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. 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
Despondent
sad, less hope and courage Form: adj Tone: neg
Forlorn
sad and abondoned and hence lonely Form: adj Tone: neg
tearful or weeping Form: adj Tone: neg Lachrymose
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. If you are really upset or sorry about something, you might lament it. A lament is full of regret and grief. Funerals are lugubrious. So are rainy days and Mondays. Anything that makes you sad, gloomy, or mournful can be called lugubrious. Melancholy is beyond sad: as a noun or an adjective, it's a word for the gloomiest of spirits.
Lament
to feel or show great sadness for someone Form: v Tone: neg looking or sounding sad Form: adj Tone: neg
Mnemonic: Lament = l[amen]t => we Lament the death by saying 'amen' Example: She Lamented over the loss of her best friend. 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 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.
Lugubrious
sad, depressed Form: n,adj Tone: neg Melancholy
Pine
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.
Form: v Tone: neg sounding sad Form: adj Tone: neg
your loved one. 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. 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. "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.
Example: After his wife died, he just Pined away. 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.
Plaintive
expressing discontent Form: v Tone: neg Repine
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 Woe
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!
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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 fleeting or temporary. Fleeting is an adjective that describes something that happens really fast, or something that doesnt last as long as youd like.
Transient
worldly and not permanent Form: adj Tone: neg Transitory
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.
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Petulant Peevish Morose Dour Words Relation to Group Meaning 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. Mnemonic: When someone is Morose, they seem to have a cloud of sadness hanging over them. Example: She just sat there looking Morose. 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. 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 Mnemonic: Push the liP OUT to Pout. Example: She Pouted her lips and stared at him angrily. 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.
Unhappy and bad tempered Form: adj Tone: neg
A morose person is sullen, gloomy, sad, glum, and depressed - not a happy camper.
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.
bad tempered Form: adj Tone: neg
Choose the adjective, petulant, to describe a person or behavior that is irritable in a childish way.
Pout
pouting your lips will mean you are annoyed Form: v Tone: neg
When something doesnt go your way and you get annoyed about it, thats a pout. And when you let the world know about it by thrusting out your lower lip, you are pouting. Get over it.
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 planet 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
by the police shared a Saturnine silence 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. Mnemonic: Your face is SWOLLEN ( by some insect bite ) and so you feel Sullen Example: Bob looked pale and Sullen.
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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 which will necessitate a trip to the gym. something that is required or necessary Form: n Tone: neut necessitate or justify
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION INCONSEQUENTIAL INCIDENTAL FRINGE Words Relation to Group 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 something that is marginal Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning Anything expendable is not necessary - it can be done without. If you lose or use expendable funds, you won't miss the money. fringe players in a team are not as famous or as highly regarded as the other players in the team are. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Expend sounds like Expense, which at times seems to be unnecessary. Example: There are employees whose jobs are considered EXPENDABLE. Mnemonic: FRINGE players do not get as much attention as main players do. Example: a FRINGE of moss around the tree Mnemonic: "dental" is considered minor to other branches of medical.. Example: You may incur some INCIDENTAL expenses on the trip.
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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. 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. Something nugatory has no real value; its worthless. All your excuses for why you didnt turn the bath tap off when you left the apartment are nugatory; they dont change the fact that the tub overflowed and leaked into the
Mnemonic: INCONSEQUENTIAL sounds like Not essential Example: That's an INCONSEQUENTIAL problem compared to the other issues
having no value Form: adj Tone: neg
NUGATORY
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.
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. 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: 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.
PERIPHERAL
something unimportant Form: n Tone: neg PICAYUNE
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
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Groups CALM DOWN CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / IMPORTANT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND END / STOP ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / EXCITE EXPRESS SYMPATHY HAPPY / JOYOUS HARDWORKING IRREGULAR / AT INTERVALS LACKING ENERGY / LAZY NEVER ENDING/NONSTOP ORDINARY SAD / DEPRESSED SHORT-LIVED SULKING / BADTEMPERED TO MAKE UNNECESSARY UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Detour 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) Anomaly a thing that is not normal Form: n Tone: neut An anomaly is an abnormality, a blip on the screen of life that doesnt 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. Words Relation to Group a fact or action that is not usual. Form: n Tone: neut Meaning 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/Example 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 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. 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 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
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to be different from something Form: v Tone: neut Deviate
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.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Form: v Tone: neut Meld mix together different elements Conflate Form: v Tone: neut Coalition 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. 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. Amalgamate Words Relation to Group Form: v Tone: neut Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Co means TOGETHER. So anything done together. Example: There is a Coalition of environmental and consumer groups 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 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. Mnemonic: Remember photoSynthesis which combines carbondioxide , organic material and light to give Oxygen Example: Our culture has a Synthesis of
Form: n Tone: neut
Synthesis
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.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Drench (oppo) Form: v Tone: neut Desiccated Form: v Tone: neut Deluge (oppo) 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. To be desiccated is to be dried out. If you like desiccated fruit, you like dried fruit - such as raisins or dried apricots. Arid Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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. 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. 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.
drench or submerge or be Example: We were drenched or submerged caught in the storm and got drenched to the skin. 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. 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: 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. 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
Form: v Tone: neut/neg Inundate (oppo)
Form: v Tone: neg
Parch
country. Form: v Tone: neut Sear 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. 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: Sear rhymes with TEAR. When you BURN your hand you are in tears. Example: The heat of the sun Seared their faces. 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. Mnemonic: SODDEN sounds like suddenly soaken (soak with water, wet) Example: We arrived home completely sodden. Mnemonic: Steep and seep are synonyms both meaning WET Example: Steep the fruit in brandy overnight.
Form: v Tone: neut Seeped (oppo)
Form: adj Tone: neut Sodden (oppo)
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. Steep means to soak in, as in steeping a tea bag in boiling water.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Cornucopia Form: n Tone: neut Copious Form: adj Tone: neut 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. 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. Bounteous Form: adj Tone: pos given or giving freely Barrage Abound Words Relation to Group Form: v Tone: neut Meaning When things abound, there are a lot of them. In spring, birds, flowers, rain, and frisbees abound. A barrage is something that comes quickly and heavily - as an attack of bullets or artillery, or a fast spray of words. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Bounded means limited. Abound means not limited, that is plentiful. Example: Stories about his travels Abound. 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 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. Mnemonic: By copying in an exam, some get a LOT of marks Example: She supports her theory with Copious evidence.
Form: n Tone: neut
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. Mnemonic: Glut-Gain a Lot..excess Example: There is a Glut of cheap DVDs on the market
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Glut
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.
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Inundate
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. A legion is a horde or a large number of people or things. It was originally a term for a military unit.
Mnemonic: as mentioned before (WET category) Example: We have been Inundated with offers of help.
Form: n Tone: neut Legion
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 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". 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. 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. Mnemonic: to PRODUCE an abundance of energy from nuclear FUSion, you need to join two atomic nuclei. Example: He is Profusely bleeding. 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
Form: adj Tone: pos Multitudinous
Anything multitudinous is countless, infinite, innumerable, and, myriad: you couldn't count it if you tried.
Form: n,adj Tone: neut
Myriad
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. 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.
Form: n Tone: pos
Plethora
Form: adj Tone: neut/ pos Profuse
Profuse is a word for a lot of something or even way too much - a profuse rainfall is a serious amount of rain.
Form: adj Tone: pos
Prolific
Someone or something that is prolific is fruitful or highly productive. A prolific songwriter can churn out five hit tunes before breakfast.
his Prolific output. Form: adj Tone: pos Rife If your supervisor at work describes your new position as rife with opportunities for advancement, then rejoice! That means your position offers many opportunities for advancement. Rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms A spate is a large number. If a spate of new coffee shops open in your neighborhood, itll be easy for you to stay wide awake. Mnemonic: Rife- rifle which has abundant bullets Example: It is a country where corruption is Rife.
Salvo
Form: n Tone: neut Form: n Tone: neut
Example: The first Salvo exploded a short distance away. 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. Mnemonic: as mentioned before (WET category) Example: as mentioned before (under WET category) 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.
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Form: v Tone: neut Steeped
Steep also means to soak in, as in steeping a tea bag in boiling water.
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Surfeit
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. 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. Teeming means completely full, especially with living things. If your grandmother's apartment is teeming with cats, she sure has a lot of them. When an attacking army lets loose a barrage of bullets all at once, it's called a volley.
Form: v,n Tone: neut/neg
Surge
Mnemonic: S-sudden URGE to increase spectacularly.. Example: He Surged past the other runners on the last lap.
Form: v Tone: neut Teeming
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 Volley
Mnemonic: just like in Volley-ball we throw shots at each other. Example: Police fired a Volley over the heads of the crowd.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 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. Fanatic Form: n,adj Tone: neg If youre 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. "Shes a real vegetable fanatic; Ive never seen someone so enthusiastic about gardening methods. Chauvinism Words Relation to Group Form: n Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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. 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. 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 mindprotection humbug, silver, Jingoism, etc Mnemonic: Zealot can be connected to A LOT OF ZEAL (ENTHUSIASM), So a person who is very passionate about someone is definitely an enthusiastic
Jingoism
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Zealot
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
ketchup.
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Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Arable
Meaning 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.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: agra (agriculture) + able. Example: Bees do not occupy and use up Arable land.
Fecund
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. 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. 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: VARDAAN(blessing)...green color is a blessing...green vegetables,trees. Example: She wore a dress of Verdant green. 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.
Form: adj Tone: pos Verdant
Form: adj Tone: neg
X Barren
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Proliferate
Mnemonic: pro + life + rate : increase in rate of production (pro) of life (living organisms) causes population to increase rapidly Example: Books and
YouTube videos on the internet. Form: v Tone: pos To wax is to grow larger or increase, whereas wane means to grow smaller or decrease.
articles on the subject have Proliferated over the last year. 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.
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Words Relation to Group Form: v Tone: neg Abate
Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: Focus on ate 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. 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,n Tone: neut
Ebb
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.
Form: v Tone: neut Recede
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. 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). 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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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Serendipity Form: n Tone: pos Propitious 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. If you find good things without looking for them, serendipity - unexpected good luck - has brought them to you. Opportune 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. Fortuitous Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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, thats a fortuitous coincidence! Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: equivalent to fortune... fortune isn't destined to occur, it is accidental Example: His success depended on a Fortuitous combination of circumstances. Mnemonic: Everything one wishes for is OPPORTUNITIES at the Opportune time. Example: The offer could not have come at a more Opportune moment. Mnemonic: sounds like profitious.. hence its profitable and thus favorable Example: It was not a Propitious time to start a new business.
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! 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. Mnemonic: relate it to helpless Example: Intimacy between performers and their hapless
Form: n Tone: neg X Despair
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. Use the adjective hapless to describe someone unlucky and deserving of pity, like the hapless used car buyer who gives in to the fast-
Form: adj Tone: neg X Hapless
talking salesperson.
audience members creates an interesting frisson. Mnemonic: wretched - people in a wrecked ship are wretched.... physical misery! Example: I felt wretched about the way things had turned out.2 (formal)
Form: adj Tone: neg X Wretched
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.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Form: n Tone: neg Ordeals 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. Mishap Form: n Tone: neg Afflictions 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. Adversity Words Relation to Group Form: n Tone: neg Meaning When circumstances or a situation works against you, you face adversity. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: ad-worse, when the conditions are worst, its your misfortune Example: He overcame many personal adversities. 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. 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 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. Example: this film is as much about celebration as it is about Trials. 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.
Dont 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, thats a mishap to get upset about.
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a trial is a difficult experience, trouble or grief. 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.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 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. Impecunious 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. Destitute Form: adj Tone: neg Bankrupt Words Relation to Group Form: an,adj,v Tone: neg Meaning You might not have any money in your pocket, but it doesnt 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: When your bank is ruptured (you left without money), you would definitely be Bankrupt Example: The company was declared Bankrupt by the court. 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. 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 Mnemonic: Impoverish can be remembered as INTO POVERTY Example: These changes are likely to Impoverish singleparent families even further. Root: IM means NOT. Mnemonic: Indigent (poor) cannot be INDULGENT(rich and overspending) Example: Homeless shelters, soup kitchens, free medical
Impoverish
Form: adj Tone: neg
Indigent
An indigent person is extremely poor, lacking the basic resources of a normal life. Often the indigent lack not only money but homes.
clinics and courtappointed lawyers are all institutions that our society has developed to help indigen Form: adj Tone: neg Insolvent 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. 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: in + solvent = one who cant solve his debts. Example: The company has been declared Insolvent. 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. Mnemonic: Pauper and POOR rhymes partially. Example: She was buried in a Pauper's grave. Mnemonic: pen+ru(pee)-no rupee to buy a pen Example: He died in Penury.
Form: n,adj Tone: neg
Mendicant
Form: n Tone: neut/neg Pauper
Pauper is an old-fashioned word for someone who is poor - really poor, like the paupers described by Charles Dickens or Mark Twain. 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. As an adjective, solvent describes someone who's got cash on hand.
Form: n Tone: neg Penury
Form: adj,n Tone: neg
X Solvent
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.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Ramshackle 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. Dilapidated Form: adj Tone: neg Derelict Form: adj Tone: neg Decrepit Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. Falling down and in total disrepair, something that's dilapidated is going to need a lot of fixing up. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Decrease in Brad pit's muscular strength made him very weak Example: He is a Decrepit old man. Mnemonic: Derelict sounds like Neglect. Neglected things are generally abondoned after a while. Example: The canal has been Derelict for many years.
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. Mnemonic: When the roof rambles and falls apart, its indeed in a Ramshackled state. Example: The opposition criticized the government's Ramshackle economic policies. 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.
Form: n Tone: neg
Any scene, place, or thing in disorder.
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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. Mnemonic: if a swindler (cheater) swindles (cheats) you then your savings Dwindle. Example: Support for the party has Dwindled away to nothing. 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. 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.
Stopping for a snack may help when your energy or attention begin to flag, meaning you are getting tired or losing your focus. 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."
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Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos
Meaning 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. 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. Germane means relevant; it fits in. If you are giving a speech on dog training, stick to the germane, canine stuff.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Appositeopposite of OPPOSITE i.e. perfectly matched; appropriate; most suitable Example: Her remarks are extremely Apposite to the present discussion. Mnemonic: Apropos apro + pos, appropriate + position - appropriate + situation... Example: Lets discuss this on an Apropos moment. 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 Mnemonic: relate this word to pertaining....which means relevant to. Example: Please keep your comments Pertinent to the topic under discussion.
Apposite
Form: adj,adv Tone: pos Apropos
Form: adj Tone: pos
Germane
Form: adj Tone: pos Pertinent
Something pertinent is relevant and on-point. If you give your best friend pertinent advice, that means the advice is appropriate for the situation.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Retrospect Form: n,adj Tone: neut Reminiscence 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 reminiscences -things you hadn't thought of in years coming suddenly back. In retrospect - that is, in looking back and contemplating the past we sometimes find ourselves wishing that we had done some things differently. Nostalgia Form: n Tone: neut Hindsight Words Relation to Group Form: n Tone: neut Meaning 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. Think of the noun, nostalgia, when you long for the good old days of the past. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. 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. 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 Mnemonic: Wistful and Wishful...Wistful -Full of longing or unfulfilled desire. Wishful = Seeking advancement or recognition. Example: If only I had known you then, he said Wistfully.
Form: adj Tone: neut
Wistfully
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.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Devoid 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. Deprived 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. Deficit 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. Dearth Words Relation to Group Form: n Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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 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 Example: Boys from a Deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation. Root: Prefix DE means DOWN/AWAY Mnemonic: void resembles something nullified, ie empty, lacking. Example: The letter was Devoid of warmth and feeling. Root: Prefix DE means DOWN/AWAY Example: Flora saw her father trembling in all his Exiguous length, though he held himself stiffer than ever if that was possible. Mnemonic: pau paav as in paav bhaji and if there is only one "paav" for the whole city...so obviously it will be scarce
Form: adj Tone: neg Exiguous
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. The word paucity means not enough of something. If you've got a paucity of good cheer, for example, you'd better cheer up!
Form: n Tone: neg
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. 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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Mnemonic: Profligate= spend Profusely like bill Gates Example: A Profligate nation may have good reason to run up debts. 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. Mnemonic: Squander rhymes with WANDER....so if you keep wandering, you are ultimately wasting time in life. Example: He Squandered all his
Spendthrift
Form: v Tone: neg Squander
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.
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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.
Mnemonic: Certitude sounds like Certainity, and with a similar meaning. Example: You will like Rome, he said, with absolute Certitude.
Form: n Tone: neut
Contingent (X)
Mnemonic: remember that a continent and small continents depend on others Example: A strong contingent of local residents were there to block the proposal.
Form: n Tone: pos Conviction
A conviction is something certain: a judgment of guilty in court and a strong belief are both convictions. Emphatic means forceful and clear. Nicole's mother was emphatic when she told her not to come home late again. When something is incontrovertible, it is undeniably, absolutely, 100 percent, completely true. That rain is wet is an incontrovertible fact. 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. 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. Choose the adjective, tentative to describe
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
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
Incontrovertible
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.
Provisional (X)
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
Qualify (X)
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 earlierI didn't mean he couldn't do the job, only that he would need supervision.
Mnemonic: Living in a tent temporarily. If you are living in a tent, you are unsettled. Example: Her English is correct
Tentative (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. Form: adj Tone: pos not limited or restricted Example: The event was not an Unqualified success.
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Words Relation to Group Form: v Tone: neut/neg Distend
Meaning A soda and pizza binge might make your stomach distend, meaning your stomach will swell as a result of pressure from the inside.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: try to relate it with dis means distance and extend means to expand. Example: Starving children develop huge Distended bellies 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. Mnemonic: Turgid and Tumid sounds similar and they share the same meaning. Example: This is a Turgid prose, very lengthy and boring.
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Tumid
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.
Form: adj Tone: neut/neg Turgid
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.
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Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut
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/Example Mnemonic: Ambi means BOTH, so when you are in two minds you seem to be confused. Example: Her account was deliberately Ambiguous. 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 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
If you can't decide how you feel about something, declare yourself ambivalent about it.
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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.
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Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut *Frugal
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.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Usury Form: n Tone: neg Prohibitive 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. 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. Gouging 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. Exorbitant Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. Mnemonic/Example 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 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. Mnemonic: PROHIBIT Example: The price of property in the city is Prohibitive. 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.
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Groups COMBINE DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) EXCESS EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM (-) FERTILE INCREASE LESSEN IN INTENSITY LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) PAIN / SUFFERING 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 Paltry Form: adj Tone: neg Negligible Form: adj Tone: neg Meager Form: adj Tone: neg Marginal Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: Marginal is like MARGIN. Example: The story will only be of Marginal interest to our readers.
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. 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. 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: NEGLect it because it's not (><) GIB (big ) Example: The cost was Negligible.
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. Mnemonic: S-CAN'TY = CAN'T be Sufficient Example: Details of his life are Scanty.
Form: adj Tone: neg Scanty
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." containing little excess
Form: adj Tone: neg Skimpy
Mnemonic: Pinky wore Skimpy clothes to the party only to add to the disaster. Example: They
provided only Skimpy details. Form: v.adj Tone: neg Spare 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. Something thats sparse is thin, not dense. If you re looking for the perfect place to build a tree house, a sparse forest is probably not your best bet. 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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Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Affluent
Meaning 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. Opulent is a word that you will hear a lot around rich people looking to show off. "Remember the opulent buffet at Carries sweet sixteen? Sixteen chocolate cakes iced in gold leaf!"
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: af + fluent. Someone who is fluent in a language knows an abundance of words. Example: I have a very Affluent neighborhood. 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.
Form: adj Tone: neg
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Form: verb Tone: pos X Adhere Follow instructions, rules, etc closely X Abide Form: verb Tone: pos Flout Form: verb Tone: neg Breach Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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." To accept a rule, law or judgement without question Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Breach sounds like brea(k)(ch)...break the contract Example: Selling goods constituted a Breach of regulation 10B. 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. 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 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.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Form: verb Tone: neg Null Form: adj Tone: neg/neut Gainsay Form: verb Tone: neg Disavow Form: verb Tone: neg Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg Annul Meaning When a celebrity wakes up in Las Vegas with a mysterious wedding ring on her finger, the first thing shell probably want to do is annul the marriage. That will declare it invalid and officially cancel the whole deal. 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/Example 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.
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 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. Mnemonic: Null sounds like NIL. Example: The contract was declared Null and void.
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. Null means having no value; in other words null is zero, like if you put so little sugar in your coffee that its practically null. Null also means invalid, or having no binding force. 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.
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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
Form: verb Tone: neg Renege
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
Reneged. Form: verb Tone: neg Repeal 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. 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. 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: rejection of an appeal - Repeal Example: The committee does not have the power to Repeal the ban.
Form: verb Tone: neg Repudiate
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. 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 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 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. Mnemonic: Void is nothing but VACCUM Example: Because they were not happy in their marriage, they had it Voided.
Form: verb Tone: neg
Rescind
Form: verb Tone: neut Retract
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. 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.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Rancid Form: adj Tone: neg Putrefaction Form: noun Tone: neg Carrion Form: noun Tone: neg 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. Brackish Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg 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/Example 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. 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 Mnemonic: Putrefaction is the opposite of PURIFICATION. Example: The smell was awful. Putrefaction had already set in. 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. 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.
If you suspect that something in your yard is in a state of putrefaction, there's probably something stinky and rotten out there. 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. 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.
Form: adj Tone: pos X Wholesome
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Form: adj Tone: neut X Sedative Form: adj Tone: neut Rousing 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. 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. Something that is soporific is sleep-inducing. Certain medicines, but also extreme coziness, can have a soporific effect. Revitalizing Form: verb Tone: pos To revitalize is to restore something to life or give it new life. Revitalizing adds newsness and strength. Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: pos Invogorating Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: IN + VIGOR (enthusiasm) and hence the meaning. Example: They felt refreshed and invigorated after the walk. Root: IN means INTO Mnemonic: REVITALIZE sounds like REVIVE Example: The local economy has been revitalized. Root: RE means to AGAIN Mnemonic: aRousing ... lively or stirring up the crowd Example: The team was given a Rousing reception by the fans.
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. Example: The movie had a soporific effect on the audience. Root: SOPAR means SLEEP
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Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg
Meaning Irrelevant, unnecessary, not required
Mnemonic/Example 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 Mnemonic: Redundant rhymes Abundant and that is the meaning (more than necessary). Example: The picture has too much Redundant detail. Root: RE means AGAIN.
Extraneous
Form: adj Tone: neg Redundant
The word redundant applies to things that are unnecessary or could be left out. Calling a blank sheet of paper empty is redundant. 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.
Form: adj Tone: neg 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.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Stature Form: noun Tone: pos PreEminent 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. Luminary 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. Eminent Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning Anyone highly regarded or prominent is eminent. People that are eminent are giants in their field. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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 Mnemonic: preeminent sounds like prominent Example: Dickens was preeminent among English writers of his day. Root: PRE means BEFORE 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.
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.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Form: noun Tone: neg Cupidity Form: noun Tone: neg Remember the saying Greed is good? It could just as easily be Cupidity is good, though admittedly it doesnt roll off the tongue quite the same way. Cupidity means a burning desire to have more wealth than you need. 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. Covetous 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 industrys goal is to make you covetous of the things that other people have - that way, you'll buy them. Avarice Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning Avarice is a fancy word for good old-fashioned greed. It's one of what some call "the seven deadly sins." Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: Cupidity sounds like COMMODITY. Person having greed for lots of it. Example: His Cupidity was tempted, his every weakness exploited.
Gluttony
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. Mnemonic: read Rapacious as 'rupeecious' so a person who is greedy must have rupees on his mind. Example: After years of Rapacious
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Rapacious
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.
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 Mnemonic: remember carniVORES, herbiVORES...So "VORE" tells something about eating. Example: Ever since her childhood she had read Voraciously. 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
Form: adj Tone: neg Voracious
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. A strong desire to travel is called a wanderlust. If you dream of backpacking through Europe, you have a wanderlust.
Form: noun Tone: neg
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Meaning 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 do-or what you do for a living. 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/Example 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 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.
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parsing "* Boisterous" - Quantifier {x,y} following nothing.
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Meaning 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! The adjective boisterous is what you would use if you want to call attention in a loud or clamorous way.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: INAUDIBLE is NOT AUDIBLE Example: She spoke in an almost inaudible whisper. Root: IN means NOT
# Inaudible
Form: adj * Tone: neg Boisterous
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Intentional Form: adj Tone: neut/pos Something intentional was done on purpose. If a crime was intentional, it was no accident. 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. Studied describes a result achieved, not spontaneously, but by calculated and Forethought Form: noun Tone: neut/pos Deliberate Form: adj Tone: neut 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, wellthought-through choice. planning or plotting in advance of acting Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut/pos Calculated Meaning 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/Example 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. 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.
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 Mnemonic: INTENTION Example: I'm sorry I left you off the list it wasn't Intentional. Mnemonic: pre+meditate - think before planning something. Example: The killing was not Premeditated. Root: PRE means BEFORE
Premeditated
Form: adj Tone: neut/pos
Mnemonic: when we have Studied (calculated approach) enough, we tend to
Studied
deliberate effort. It will probably take a studied effort to not appear nervous when you give an oral presentation. 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. Someone impetuous acts too hastily or carelessly. Hotheaded, impulsive folks are impetuous.
score high. Example: She introduced herself with Studied casualness. Mnemonic: TEMPORARILY done in haste and so not planned. Example: His playing was polished yet essayistic and almost extemporaneous. Root: EX means OUT OF 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. 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 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 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.
X Extemporaneous
Form: adj Tone: neg X Impetuous
Form: adj Tone: pos/neut
X Impromptu
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. 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." 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.
X Improvise
Form: adj Tone: neg
X Offhand
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 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 trip you'll have blisters, but she'll see no reason not to keep going. Use the verb persevere when you want to persist in anything and continue despite difficulties or obstacles. Immutable 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. Endure Form: verb Tone: pos Dogged Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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. 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/Example 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. 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. 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. 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 Mnemonic: Perseverepersistent+severe,he is very severely persistent. Example: Despite a number of setbacks, they Persevered in their attempts to fly
Indefatigable
Form: v Tone: pos
Persevere
around the world in a balloon. Form: noun Tone: pos Persistence 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! 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: sounds like PERSIST/ EXIST Example: His Persistence was finally rewarded when the insurance company agreed to pay for the damage. 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. 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 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.
Form: adj Tone: pos
Resolute
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 shouldn t wear that outfit.
Steadfast
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.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Form: adj Tone: neg Incorrigible Defiant Form: adj Tone: neg Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Adamant Meaning If you stubbornly refuse to change your mind about something, you are adamant about it. 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. 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. 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/Example 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.
Mnemonic: Defiant sounds like DEFY + ARROGANT. Example: The terrorists sent a Defiant message to the government.
Form: adj Tone: neg
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.
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.
Intractable
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. Mnemonic: Intransigent - in-'not' + transact - won't do the transaction Example: An Intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency. Root: IN means NOT.
Intransigent
Form: adj Tone: neg Mulish
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 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. When someone is beyond stubborn, use the word obstinate instead: "You obstinate old mule! Get out of my way!" If you won t take no for an answer, youre pertinacious. The same holds true if you stubbornly push on a 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
Obdurate
Form: adj Tone: neg
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
Obstinate
Form: adj Tone: neg
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.
Pertinacious
door despite a sign that says pull. 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. If someone is so pigheaded that he won't budge on an issue, call him recalcitrant. Not that it will make a difference Imagine yourself pulling a dog who doesn't want to walk. The dog is refractory, or stubbornly resisting your authority. 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: 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.
Perverse
Form: adj Tone: neg
Recalcitrant
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
Mnemonic: Refractory-means factor ,who always factors the law into piece,means don't follow the law. Example: He is a Refractory child.
Refractory
Form: adj Tone: neg
Mnemonic: wil+ful... full of will to do something..something intentional (done purposely). Example: She is a Willful child.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Form: verb Tone: pos ENDORSE Champion Ally Form: noun Tone: pos Form: verb Tone: pos/neut Advocate X Opponent Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: OPPONENT sounds like an OPPOSER. Example: The team's opponents are unbeaten so far this season.
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. 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.
Form: noun Tone: pos
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. 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. Mnemonic: a person
Form: verb Tone: pos
Espouse
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. A lobbyist is someone
Form: noun
Tone: pos
Lobbyist
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. 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 nation s health care system. Root: PROP means NEAR Example: He is a leading Protagonist of the conservation movement.
Form: noun Tone: pos/ neut
Proponent
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.
Form: noun Tone: pos/neut Protagonist
A protagonist is the central character in a story: the protagonist of Huckleberry Finn is guess who? Huckleberry Finn. 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. An adversary is someone who fights against or opposes another. In tennis, you stand across the net from your adversary.
Form: verb Tone: pos/neut Tout
Mnemonic: Tout: shout to promote (to publicly praise or promote) Example: She's being Touted as the next governor. Mnemonic: Concentrate on ADVERSE : one who gives us adverse effects i.e. opponents Example: His old adversary beat him in the chess tournament. Mnemonic: Antagonist sounds like someone who is an ANTI (opposer) Example: He has always been the prime minister's most formidable antagonist in Parliament. 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 Example: Though dying, his foes are
Form: noun Tone: neg X Adversary
Form: noun Tone: neg X Antagonist
An antagonist is someone who opposes someone else.
one who disparages or belittles the worth of something
X Detractor
A foe is an enemy. Foes can range from an
X Foe
adversary of one person to afraid to approach him. that of a nation, from he is my foe to they are my foe. There is also a that is my foe who those who are trying to diet know well, aka chocolate. Form: verb Tone: neg 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 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
Form: adj Tone: neg X Inimical
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.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Succulent Form: adj Tone: pos Scrumptious Form: adj Tone: pos Savory 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. 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? Succulent means "juicy" and is often used to describe food. Think a succulent piece of meat, or berries so succulent youre left sucking juice off your fingertips when you eat them. 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. Piquant Form: adj Tone: pos Delectable Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning Something delectable is extremely delicious or appealing. Nothing tastes better at the end of a meal than an array of delectable desserts and pastries! Pleasantly sharp taste. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Something delicious on table arouses desire. Example: I love the Delectable smell of freshly baked bread. Mnemonic: PI+QUANT Quant in GRE is more attracting and delighting than Verbal Example: The chicken served with a Piquant wild mushroom sauce. Mnemonic: Save + Poori is pleasant to taste. Example: I am getting a Savory smell from the kitchen.
Mnemonic: Strawberry CRUMble is deliCIOUS Example: I baked a Scrumptious chocolate cake
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
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.
Form: adj Tone: neg
X Unpalatable
Use the adjective unpalatable to describe something that tastes really bad, like a glass of unsweetened lemonade.
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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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Form: noun Tone: neut/pos Form: adj Tone: pos/neut 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. 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. Acquiesce Form: verb Tone: neut Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neut/pos Accede Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: sounds like accept + agreed : Accede Example: He Acceded to demands for his resignation.
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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: one who never complains and obeys everyone is Compliant ! Example: Most of the patients were Compliant with the diet. Mnemonic: com+ply -
Amenable
Assent
Form: adj Tone: neut/pos Compliant
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.
Form: verb
Comply is to act according
Tone: neut
Comply
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 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 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 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 Mnemonic: relate with meltable; so possible to reshape. Example: The softness and malleability of gold makes it perfect for making jewelry. Mnemonic: Pliant sounds like PLANT ( flexible, easily bent) compared to a tree. Example: He was deposed and replaced by a more Pliant successor.
Form: verb Tone: pos/neut
Concede
If you concede something, you admit that it is true, proper, or certain usually in an unwilling way and often in the context of a competition, as in "At midnight, the candidate finally conceded defeat."
Form: verb Tone: neut/pos
Concur
To concur is to agree or approve of something. If someone says something you agree with, you can say "I concur!"
Form: adj Tone: pos
Docile
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.
Form: adj Tone: neut Malleable
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. 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."
Form: adj Tone: neut/pos Pliant
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
trying to make the sale and never give in until you've made it. Relent
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: Well, just for a little while then, she said, finally Relenting. Root: RE means AGAIN Mnemonic: Succumb(Suck + thumb)- Children doesn't give up sucking their thumb. Example: They were all offered bribes and some of them Succumbed. Mnemonic: When you cannot shield, you then Yield to force. Example: After a long siege, the town was forced to Yield.
Form: verb Tone: neut Succumb
Use the verb succumb to say that someone yields to something they've tried to fight off, such as despair, temptation, disease or injury.
Form: verb Tone: neut Yield
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.
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Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: pos
Meaning Make up a story, idea,etc, especially falsely.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: CON means TOGETHER... Example: He Concocted an excuse to avoid punishment. Root: CON means WITH/TOGETHER Mnemonic: Only WISE people can Devise/ invent things. Example: A new system has been Devised to control traffic in the city. Mnemonic: Formulate sounds like CALCULATEwhen we calculate you think well, that is similar to FORMULATING Example: She has lots of good ideas, but she has difficulty formulating them.
Concoct
Form: verb Tone: pos Devise
To devise is to figure out a plan. Men twirling long mustaches might devise a plan to tie someone to the railroad tracks.
Form: verb Tone: poa
Formulate
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.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Object Form: verb Tone: neut/neg 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. Dissent Form: noun Tone: neg Demur Form: verb Tone: neut/neg Defy Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg 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. 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. To dissent is to publicly disagree with an official opinion or decision. Dissent is also a noun referring to public disagreement. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Defy sounds like DENY. Example: I wouldn't have dared to Defy my teachers.
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. 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 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. Mnemonic: Query + babble (minor objection/murmuring). Example: It isn't worth quibbling over such a small amount.
Form: verb Tone: neg Quibble
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.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Discredit Form: verb Tone: neg 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. Debunk Form: verb Tone: neg 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. Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg Belie Meaning To belie means to contradict. If you are 93 but look like you are 53, then your young looks belie your age. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Belie sounds like lie. Example: Her energy and youthful good looks Belie her 65 years. Root: BE means THOROUGHLY, MAKE or RENDER. 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 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 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 Mnemonic: When you REpeatedly say BUT,you are trying to contradict something using arguments or
Expostulate
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!
To rebut is to argue against something. If your parents say you're too young and irresponsible to drive, you can rebut their
Rebut
claim by ticking off examples of your responsibility.
evidences Example: He issued a firm Rebuttal to the accusations. Root: RE- means AGAIN 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. 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
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.
Remonstrate
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.
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Groups BREAK A RULE CANCEL / TAKE BACK (STATEMENT) DECAY / ROT ENERGIZING EXTRA / UNNECESSARY FAMOUS / IMPORTANT PERSON GREED MAIN JOB / PROFESSION OVERLY NOISY PLANNED / (X) SPONTANEOUS 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 Form: adj Tone: neut Odoriferous Noisome Form: adj Tone: neg Malodorous Form: adj Tone: neg Fetid Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. 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. Something that's odoriferous carries a smell. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Fetid sounds like Feet smells bad Example: I cannot stand the Fetid odor of rotting vegetables.
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
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.
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. 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.
Form: adj Tone: neg
Putrid
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
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. 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. 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: 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.
Rank
Form: adj Tone: pos X Fragrant
Mnemonic: FRAGRANT/ FRAGRANCE. Example: The air was fragrant with scents from the ocean and the hills.
Form: adj Tone: pos
X Redolent
Mnemonic: red+(Rose)+olent; The Red rose you lent has a pleasant smell. Example: The kitchen is redolent with the smell of baking.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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
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Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos
Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: BENE (GOOD) and DICTUM is 'saying'. Good words used is called BENEDICTION. Example: his arms outstretched in BENEDICTION Root: BENE means GOOD 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
BENISON
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.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CLARITY CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 Form: verb Tone: neut EXPOSITION EXEGESIS Form: noun Tone: neut ELUCIDATE Form: verb Tone: pos/neut Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos Meaning Clarity means clearness. Clean water running down a mountain has clarity. So does a lovely singing voice: it's clear and pure. 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. 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. 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. 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. The adjective limpid Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: CLARITY sounds and means like CLEAR. Example: The brilliant CLARITY of his argument could not be disputed. Mnemonic: think of lucid, which means clear. Example: He ELUCIDATEd a point of grammar.
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. Mnemonic: EXPOSITION sounds like EXPLANATION. Example: We need a clear and detailed EXPOSITION of their legal position.
Mnemonic: EXPOUND sounds like expand which means explain Example: He EXPOUNDed his views on the subject to me at great length.
EXPOUND
Form: adj
Mnemonic:
Tone: pos
LIMPID
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. 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. Mnemonic: PEL+LUCID...LUCID..MEANS CLEAR ....SO CLEAR IN MEANING. Example: The light was so PELLUCID, so dazzling that she reached for her sunglasses.
Form: adj Tone: pos LUCID
Form: adj Tone: pos
PELLUCID
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.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 EXPIATE Form: verb Tone: pos/neut DISABUSE Form: verb Tone: pos/neut ATONE Form: verb Tone: pos AMEND Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: pos/neut Meaning 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. 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. 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. In the fairy tale, the baker must expiate his fathers 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. 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 one customer lost three cars, a row boat, and a golf cart." Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: at+own(one) - he realized his mistake 'at' his 'own' and wanted amend it. Example: I have a desire to ATONE.
Mnemonic: Remember as the opposite of abuse Example: Let me DISABUSE you of your foolish notions about married life. Root: DIS means NOT 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
INDEMNIFY
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.
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 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 elses bike. 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. 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. 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: REDEMPTION is to REDEEM. Example: The REDEMPTION of the world from sin Root: RE means AGAIN Mnemonic: REDRESS is: "relief from distress" Example: It is time to REDRESS the injustices of the past.
REDRESS
REPARATION
Mnemonic: REPARATION can be remembered in connection to REPAIR (sounds and means similar). Example: Offenders should be forced to make REPARATION to the community 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
Form: noun Tone: pos/neut
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 Form: adj Tone: neg/neut EXACTING Form: adj Tone: neg/neut ENCUMBER Form: verb Tone: neg/neut CUMBERSOME Form: adj Tone: neg/neut Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg/neut ARDUOUS Meaning 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! 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/Example 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. 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 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. 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. 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.
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! 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. 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. When you call Frankenstein ponderous, it's not because he likes
ONEROUS
Form: adj Tone: neg/neut
Mnemonic: POUND is a unit of weight , we often calculate
PONDEROUS
to ponder the great questions of life. It's because he moves like a Mack truck, only slower and less gracefully Form: adj Tone: neg/neut 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. 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.
weight in pounds! 1 Pound = 480 grams Example: he spoke in a slow PONDEROUS voice. Mnemonic: TEDIOUS is Tiresome. Example: The journey soon became TEDIOUS 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.
TEDIOUS
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 PLIGHT Form: noun Tone: neg Form: noun Tone: neg IMBROGLIO Form: noun Tone: neg DILEMMA Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning A dilemma is a tough choice. When you're in a difficult situation and each option looks equally bad, you're in a dilemma. 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. 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. 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. 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/Example 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. 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 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 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.
MORASS
PREDICAMENT
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.
QUAGMIRE
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 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: 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.
QUANDARY
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?
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 QUISLING Form: noun Tone: neg PERFIDY Form: noun Tone: neg 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. A quisling is a traitor, especially one who collaborates with an enemy occupying force for personal gain. INSIDIOUS Form: adj Tone: neg BETRAY Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning 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. If something is slowly and secretly causing harm, it's insidious like the rumors no one seems to listen to until suddenly someone's reputation is ruined. Mnemonic/Example Example: He was offered money to BETRAY his colleagues. Root: BE means INTENSIVE/ THOROUGH/MAKE/RENDER
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 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. 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. Mnemonic: TRAITOR and a CHEATER sounds and means similar. Example: He was seen as a TRAITOR to the socialist cause.
Form: noun Tone: neg TRAITOR
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. Treachery is trickery, cheating, and deceit, like the treachery of your former friend who only stuck
Form: noun Tone: neg TREACHERY
Mnemonic: treach+hertrick her-deceit somone Example: He was punished for his treacheries.
around until he stole your girlfriend and turned the whole grade against you Form: noun Tone: neg Hacking your brothers email account and sharing all his secrets with your mom could be considered an act of personal treason, meaning you have betrayed your brother. Have you ever switched political parties, taken up a different religion, or 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. 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"? Stemming from the Latin word "fidelitas," the noun fealty is related to "fidelity," and is another way of saying "loyalty" or "faithfulness.". Fidelity is the quality of being faithful or loyal. Dogs are famous for their fidelity. 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.
TREASON
TURNCOAT
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.
X ALLEGIANCE
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.
Form: noun Tone: pos X FEALTY
Mnemonic: sounds like fidelity....fidelity means loyalty Example: Now let us shake hands all around and swear fealty. Root: FEAL means TRUST/ FAITH 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
X FIDELITY
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Meaning a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft.
Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: One who has seen many SEASONS in his life...will be very AGED and EXPERIENCED. Example: Sudha is a SEASONED dance performer.
JOURNEYMAN
Form: adj Tone: pos
SEASONED
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. Veteran commonly refers to someone who has fought in a warthink Veterans' Day, the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial-but, in fact, the word can mean anyone with experience in a particular field.
VETERAN
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.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 GOURMAND Form: noun Tone: neg EPICURE Form: noun Tone: pos CONNOISSEUR Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos Meaning 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. We call a person who truly loves food food at the highest levelsan 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. A gourmand is someone obsessively and unhealthily devoted to eating good food and lots of it. Mnemonic/Example 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.
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.
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. 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. Mnemonic: One who has many "virtues" is called a VIRTUOSO.
Form: noun Tone: pos GOURMET
That guy over there correctly identifying the dozen spices used in the meal he's eating? Hes likely a gourmet, someone who knows a lot about fine food. A virtuoso is an incredibly talented musician. You can
VIRTUOSO
also be a virtuoso in non-musical fields.

Example: He is a Piano VIRTUOSO.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 Form: noun Tone: neg/neut Remorse, a noun, is what you feel if you regret your actions or wish for another outcome. POIGNANT Form: adj Tone: neg/neut 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. PENITENT Form: adj Tone: pos/neut Penitent means deeply sorry, ashamed, and full of remorse. If you feel sorry -or just want to appear to -you should adopt a penitent manner. CONTRITE Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg/neut Meaning We are sorry to inform you that the adjective contrite means to feel regret, remorse, or even guilt. Mnemonic/Example 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 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 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. Mnemonic: rem+(w)orse ....remembering(read recalling)the worse thing that you did you feel the guilt at leaving them without notice Example: she felt no REMORSE at leaving them without notice Mnemonic: RUEFUL sounds CRYFUL. Example: "So this is the last time that we are meeting", she said RUEFULly.
REMORSE
Form: adj Tone: neg/neut RUEFUL
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.
Rueful means apologetic or remorseful.

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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 MORATORIUM Form: noun Tone: neut Form: noun Tone: neg/neut LULL HIATUS Form: noun Tone: neut 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. 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). A moratorium is the suspension of a particular activity-you could have a moratorium on fishing, baking, the use of candles, the wearing of matching socks. ABEYANCE Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neut Meaning 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/Example 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 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. Mnemonic: LULL DULL Example: a LULL in the conversation.
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. Mnemonic: RESPITE sounds like rest a bit Example: The medicine brought a brief RESPITE from the pain.
Form: noun Tone: neg/neut RESPITE
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.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 Form: noun Tone: neut 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. HARBINGER Form: noun Tone: neut A harbinger is something that comes before and that shows what will follow in the future. The robin is a harbinger of spring-its presence means spring is coming soon. FORERUNNER Form: noun Tone: neut 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. ANTECEDENT Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neut Meaning 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/Example 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" 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. 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. 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
PRECURSOR
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 BLIGHT Form: noun Tone: neg BANE Form: noun Tone: neg 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. 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. 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. Detrimental is a formal way of saying "harmful." Anything BALEFUL 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. ANATHEMA Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: ASTHMA...ANATHEMA 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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: Black light may destroy the plants. Example: His career has been BLIGHTed by injuries
Form: adj Tone: neg DELETERIOUS
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. Mnemonic: Look at the part MENTAL ...a MENTAL person can
Form: adj Tone: neg
DETRIMENTAL
detrimental hurts, hinders, or puts a damper on something. Detrimental things do damage. Form: noun Tone: neg Go bury your head in the sand. This nasty curse is a malediction (and, I m sure, nothing you would ever say to another human being).
cause serious harm or injury, when violent. Example: the sun's DETRIMENTAL effect on skin. 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 Mnemonic: MAL means BAD. Example: She was relieved when the doctor told her that the tumor was not MALIGNANT. Root: MAL means BAD/ EVIL 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.
MALEDICTION
Form: adj Tone: neg MALIGNANT
For something that's very harmful, especially a tumor that's cancerous, use the term malignant.
Form: adj Tone: neg
PERNICIOUS
Pernicious means harmful and subtle, such as a poison gas that causes cancer in those exposed to it over the course of years.
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Meaning 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. 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/Example 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. 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
UTOPIAN
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 DEPRAVITY Form: noun Tone: neg DEGENERATE Form: verb Tone: neg DECADENT Form: adj Tone: neg DEBAUCHERY Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. 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. 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/Example 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 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. Mnemonic: DE (not) + GENERATE(working). Stopped generating. Example: We are living in a DEGENERATEd society. Root: DE means AWAY/ DOWN/ OFF
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 Mnemonic: One whose moral values are dissolved Example: Literature dealing with the DISSOLUTE and degrading aspects of human experience
Form: adj Tone: neg DISSOLUTE
The adjective dissolute means unrestrained. If you're a dissolute person, you indulge in gambling, drugs, and drinking and
don't care if others disapprove. Form: noun Tone: neg IMPROBITY lack of probity : lack of integrity or rectitude
Root: DIS means NOT 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 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 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. 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 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: noun Tone: neg LIBERTINE
If you drink a lot, eat a lot, and live a wild and unrestrained life, you might be called a libertine.
Form: adj Tone: neg
Someone who is licentious behaves or speaks inappropriately or vulgarly.
LICENTIOUS
REPROBATE
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. 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. 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.
TURPITUDE
Form: adj Tone: neg
WANTON
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
Tone: neg WAYWARD
a little stubborn and independent - they're determined to find their own way and are not easily controlled.
waver...wave means a whim or caprice. Example: She is a WAYWARD child.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 INCHOATE Form: adj Tone: neut FLEDGLING Form: adj Tone: neut EMBRYONIC Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut Meaning 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." A fledgling is a fuzzy baby bird just learning to fly, or someone (like a baby bird) who's brand new at doing something. 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 neighbors talking parrot Incipient means something is in an early stage of existence. In its incipient Mnemonic/Example 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
Mnemonic: FLEDGLING rhymes with duckling.. a young duck thus referring to inexperience. Example: The intern was still a FLEDGLING.
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.
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.
INCIPIENT
form, basketball was played with a soccer ball and peach baskets for goals. Bouncy orange balls and nets came later. Form: adj Tone: neut 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. 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: "new soul sent".....to earth- NASCENT Example: The actress is now focusing on her NASCENT singing career. Root: NASC means NATURAL
NASCENT
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.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 DEBILITATE Form: verb Tone: neg 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. 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 Form: noun Tone: neg ATTENUATE Form: verb Tone: neg 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). Attrition is a gradual process of wearing down, weakening, or destroying something. ATROPHY Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg 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/Example 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. 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 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 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 Mnemonic: De (not)+ Generate (work) Stop working Example: Her health DEGENERATEd quickly Root: DE means AWAY/ DOWN
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DEGENERATE
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. Its also a downcast state. Once the president has resigned, he might feel degradation. 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: 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. 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 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. Mnemonic: Not aBLE to pay the FEE since his economic conditions are very weak Example: That bout of pneumonia ENFEEBLEd him. Mnemonic: f-LAGging. lag behind,weak-not able to keep pace with another or others Example: We should rejuvenate our FLAGGING attitude toward everything. Example: she started macerating after the accident. Mnemonic: MORIBUND is kind of similar to morbid, which refers to things related to death Example: a MORIBUND company or patient.
DEGRADATION
Form: adj Tone: neg
EFFETE
Form: verb
to make someone feel weak and tired
ENERVATE
Form: verb Tone: neg ENFEEBLE
make weak
Form: adj Tone: neg FLAGGING
weak from exhaustion
MACERATE
Form: verb Tone: neg Form: adj Tone: neg
to grow thin
MORIBUND
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.
SAP
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. lose strength
Mnemonic: If you slap(SAP) someone you diminish his dignity.. Example: the arduous job has SAPped him of all the energy.
Form: verb Tone: neg WILT
Mnemonic: WILT and tilt sound the same and they both mean, to droop. Example: He was WILTing from all the pressure at work 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 Mnemonic: Burge+on sounds like Bulge which means growing big Example: This country has a burgeoning population.
Form: verb Tone: neg WITHER
Wither means to shrivel up or shrink. If you forget to water your plants for six weeks, they'll wither they'll dry up and you probably won't be able to bring them back to life 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. 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.
X BURGEON
Form: verb Tone: pos X REGENERATE
Mnemonic: RE (again) + Generate. Generations keep growing. Example: The money will be used to regenerate the commercial heart of the town. Mnemonic: reJUVENATE-Juvenile means a young person..so making Younger Example: His new job seemed to rejuvenate him. Root: RE means AGAIN
X REJUVENATE
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.
Form: verb Tone: pos X RESUSCITATION
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.
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. Mnemonic: re-vibe (return to being vibrant again) Example: The flowers soon revived in water.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 SHACKLE SECURE Form: verb Tone: neut You secure the sails before you take out the sailboat, which means you tie them down. 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. 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. PINION Form: verb Tone: neg 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. MANACLE Form: noun Tone: neg FETTER Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning A fetter is a shackle or chain that is attached to someones 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. 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/Example 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 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 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. Example: She SECUREd the rope firmly to the back of the car. Mnemonic: SHACKLE - buckle the ankles from shaking. Example: A country struggling to free itself from the shakles of colonialism 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
Form: verb,noun Tone: neg TETHER
X EMANCIPATE
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 Mnemonic: concentrate on ex+tricMr.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 EXTRICATE
If you need to be untangled, set free or otherwise released from something or someone, you need to be extricated.
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Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neut
Meaning 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. 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/Example 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. 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.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 Form: noun Tone: neg/neut QUIRKINESS ODDITY Form: noun Tone: neg/neut IDIOSYNCRASY Form: noun Tone: neg/neut FOIBLE Form: noun Tone: neg/neut ECCENTRIC Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg/neut Meaning 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. 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. 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. 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. a strange attitude or habit Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: ec(x)centric(normal): going away from the center that is departing from the norms Example: Most people considered him a harmless ECCENTRIC 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
Mnemonic: Idiot in sync with the crazy people are idiosyncratic. Example: Wearing a raincoat, even on a hot day, is one of her idiosyncrasies
Mnemonic: odd things are usually strange Example: the book deals with some of the oddities of grammar and spelling Mnemonic: Quirk sounds like CRACK (unusual) Example: everyone have their own little quirks and mannerisms
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 PURPORT Form: noun Tone: neg 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. PR CIS Form: noun Tone: neut 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. GIST Form: noun Tone: neut When you need a quick summary of the essentials, rather than the whole story or a thorough explanation, you're looking for the gist. CRUX Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neut 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/Example 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. 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? 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. 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 Mnemonic: When you SHRINK a lengthy piece of writing, its called a SYNOPSIS. Example: The program gives a brief SYNOPSIS of the plot.
Form: noun Tone: neut SYNOPSIS
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.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 Form: adj Tone: neg MURKY 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. Use the adjective nebulous for situations that are "hazy, indistinct" and also "cloudy" or "fuzzy." INDISTINCT Form: adj Tone: neg CLOUD Form: verb Tone: neg if something clouds your judgment, memory, etc., it makes it difficult for you to understand or remember something clearly BECLOUD Form: noun Tone: neg make less visible or unclear AMORPHOUS Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut Meaning 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/Example 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 Mnemonic: Her father's illness BECLOUDed her wedding day. Example: Her father's illness BECLOUDed her wedding day. 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. 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 Mnemonic: MURKY mu(munsoon)+r(rainy)+ ky (sky) - which is dark and gloomy Example: This is a MURKY night.
Is it hard to tell what someone is saying? Can you not see something clearly? Anything hard to make out is indistinct.
Form: adj Tone: neg/neut NEBULOUS
Mnemonic: Nebula the milky way in galaxy which is cloudy and unclear Example: This is a NEBULOUS concept.
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Groups BLESSING CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY AND IN MEANING) CORRECT / REPAIR DIFFICULT DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING DISLOYALTY EXPERIENCED EXPERT FEELING GUILTY GAP 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 INFALLIBLE Form: adj Tone: pos IMPECCABLE Form: adj Tone: pos IMMACULATE Form: adj Tone: pos FLAWLESS Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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+. Immaculate means spotless, pure, and clean as fresh snow on a far-off mountain. Only obsessive cleaners can keep immaculate homes, but its a goal we can strive for, like that far-off mountain. The adjective impeccable describes something or someone without any flaws. A stand-up comedian needs impeccable timing for his jokes to work. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: flaw is a mistakeFLAWLESS means without mistake Example: Her English is almost FLAWLESS
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. 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 Mnemonic: Folly means mistake and In means 'not'. So without mistake is being INFALLIBLE. Example: Doctors are not INFALLIBLE Root: IN means NOT Mnemonic: INTEGRITY is like ENTIRELY TRUE (fair) Example: A man of great INTEGRITY
"Fallible" means capable of making mistakes - or, easier to remember - capable of failing. Infallible means exactly the opposite - incapable of failing. Integrity is a personal quality of fairness that we all aspire to - unless you're a dishonest, immoral scoundrel, of course. Use the adjective irreproachable to describe something or someone blameless or not
Form: noun Tone: pos INTEGRITY
Form: adj Tone: pos
Mnemonic: cannot be REPROACHED (criticized). Example: His conduct as a police
IRREPROACHABLE
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!" Form: noun Tone: pos 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 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 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
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. 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.
Form: adj Tone: pos
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Form: adj Tone: pos Propriety Form: noun Tone: pos 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. 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. Prim Form: adj Tone: pos Form: adj Tone: pos Demure Decorous Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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. A demure woman or girl can be described as polite and a little shy. A demure outfit is a modest one think high neckline and low hem. Prim means polite, straight-laced, even twee. Many characters in Jane Austen novels are prim and proper. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: dcor, DECORATE. if you decorate your ROOM it will look proper in appearance compared to hall. Example: They skipped her immoral doings Decorously Example: she is a Demure young lady.
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! Mnemonic: sounds like proper! PROPER + APPROPRIATE = Propriety Example: nobody questioned the Propriety of her being there alone
Seemly
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 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
Form: adj Tone: neg X Execrable
If something's execrable it's really and truly, unbelievably, absolutely the worst.
Form: adj Tone: neg X Flagrant
Something flagrant is bad 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. 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: flag + rent --renting the national flag!(No offense meant) It is shocking & scandalous. Example: a flagrant use of human rights 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
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Audacious Arrogant Form: adj Tone: neg (X) Unassuming Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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. 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. This adjective is very bold - if you are audacious, you are daring and unconventional! Mnemonic/Example 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.
Example: His Arrogant behavior is ovserved by his seniors with disgust.
Form: adj Tone: pos
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 Mnemonic: if bomblast takes place anywhere then all politicians starts to give a Bombastic (blah blah) speech Example: His speech was full of bombast. Mnemonic: Braggart sounds like dragg art.. the art of dragging oneself too much(boasting) Example: Her Braggart behavior annoys everyone
Form: noun Tone: neg Bombastic
To be bombastic is to be full of hot air - like a politician who makes grand promises and doesn't deliver. If you know someone who is a real show off and is always bragging about how great they
Braggart
are, then you might call this boaster a braggart. Brass Form: noun Tone: neg Form: noun Tone: neg Form: noun Tone: neg impudent aggressiveness a very troublesome child 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. 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. Example: She marched in here, bold as Brass, and demanded a raise. Mnemonic: Brat-similar to a rat which is very troublesome. Example: a Bratty kid he is. Mnemonic: Brava+Do = Act like brave but not brave. Pretended bravery Example: "Don't threaten me," she whispered with false Bravado
Brat
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Form: adj Tone: neg
Mnemonic: a Brazen person will not care about anything or anyone. Example: She had become Brazen about the whole affair
Brazen
Form: adj Tone: neg
Cheeky
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. 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 you re conceite If you rudely Mnemonic: for every
Form: adj Tone: neg
Conceited
Form: noun
Tone: neg Effrontery
behave as if you have a right to something that you have no right to, you're committing effrontery. limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs 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. Grandiloquent is a fancy term for, well, being fancy or pretentious. In fact, you might say grandiloquent is itself a pretty grandiloquent word.
discussion he comes to the FRONT and argues...in a rude manner. Example: He had the Effrontery to accuse me of lying
Egotistical
Mnemonic: ego Example: His egotism prevented him from really loving anyone but himself. 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
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Form: adj Tone: neg
Grandiloquent
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
Haughty
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. Hubris is an excess of confidence: a boxer who shouts "I'm the greatest!" even though he's about to get pummeled by a Example: Bills hautiness infuriated Martha so much that she stormed out of the room. -
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Hubris
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
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. An impudent person is bold, sassy, and shameless. If you want to get into a fancy nightclub and you tell the bouncer, Let me in, Im much more beautiful than all these ugly losers in line, that s impudent behavior. Someone who's insolent is either really doing her own thing, even if it goes against what everyone else is doing, or shes mildly disrespectful. the courage to carry on 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." When someone takes liberties, doing things too boldly, you can describe them with the adjective presumptuous. Use the adjective pretentious as a way to criticize people who try 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 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!
Impertinent
Form: adj Tone: neg
Impudent
Form: adj Tone: neg Insolent
Mnemonic: sounds like insultent -A person who insults evryone is UNRESTRAINED, IMPRUDENT AND SHAMELESS Example: Her insolence cost her her job.
Nerve
Form: noun Tone: pos Form: adj Tone: neg
Example: It took a lot of Nerve to take the company to the court. Mnemonic: pomp sounds like pump... so falsely pump oneself up... puffed with vanity Example: his speech sounded very Pompous and self congratulatory
Pompous
Form: adj Tone: neg 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? Mnemonic: Pretentious is someone who is Pretending Example: That was just an ordinary house- not a Pretentious one
Form: adj Tone: neg
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. 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. 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. 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 If you admire yourself in the mirror all the time and constantly brag about all the beauty contests you have won, you might Example: a Saucy smile
Saucy
Form: adj Tone: neg
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 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
Swagger
Temerity
Mnemonic: te+merit+yif 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
Vainglorious
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.
rightfully get accused of being vainglorious.

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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Upheaval Form: noun Tone: Neg Turbulence Form: noun Tone: Neg Use the noun turbulence to describe instability or disturbance. If youre on an airplane during a storm, turbulence is that horrible thing that is causing the plane (and your stomach) to bounce around. Form: adj Tone: Neg Tumultous The adjective tumultuous means "disruptive," "troubled," "disorderly," or "turbulent." Bedlam Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: Neg Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: billowing waves and turbulences Example: It was a Tumultous time in her life 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 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
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Form: adj Tone: neg Crafty Chicanery Form: noun Tone: neg Bilk Form: verb Tone: neg Artifice Form: noun Tone: neg 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. Ever paid a restaurant bill only to discover they charged you for stuff you never had? What they did was bilk you cheat you out of money that was justly yours. Shady companies are forever bilking their investors. 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. Artful Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning To be artful is to do something skillfully, especially in a cunning way. A con man must be artful. Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: sounds like artificial fish which is nothing but a trick. Example: Pretending to faint was merely an Artifice. Mnemonic: milk~ similary milk suppliers add water to cheat us Example: a con man who Bilked investors out of millions of dollars 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.
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 trick or deceive. We re sorry we tried to dupe you into believing the wrong definition. When you finagle, you get out of something using devious methods, like when you pretend you're sick to Example: They soon realized they had been Duped.
Form: verb Tone: neg Dupe
Form: verb Tone: neg Finagle
Mnemonic: it is very difficult to have an ANGLE in FINLAND,BY ANY TRICKS.
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Example: He Finagled some tickets for tonight's big game. Mnemonic: colleges are PLUNDERING in the form of Fleece(FEES) and capitation Example: Some local stores have been fleecing tourists Mnemonic: Chris Gayle is a Guile cricketer. Example: George was a man completely lacking in Guile Example: The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone","You can't fool me!" 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 Mnemonic: Movie the Great Swindle. Example: They Swindled him out of hundreds of dollars
Form: verb Tone: neg Fleece
You can also use fleece in an informal way to mean cheating someone.
Form: noun Tone: neg Guile
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. Your little brother might be a gull if you can trick him into doing your chores along with his own. 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.
Gulled
Hoodwink
Form: verb Tone: neg Swindle
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. 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.
Form: adj Tone: neg Wily
Mnemonic: Wily=WILling to trick people what anyone wants to have Example: The boss is a Wily old fox.
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Form: noun Tone: neg Debacle 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. Coup (X) Form: noun Tone: neut A coup is a pretty major achievement, whether it involves taking over a government by force, or landing a major business contract. Catastrophe Form: noun Tone: neg 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. Cataclysm Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: The clysm part of Cataclysm comes from the Greek word meaning to wash, so Cataclysm's original meaning was flood, deluge". Example: to survive the Cataclysm of the Black Death Mnemonic: Cats as astronauts will create Catastrophe in the space. Example: Early warnings of rising water levels prevented another major Catastrophe 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 Root: DE refers to DOWN or AWAY
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Miscreant Form: noun Tone: neg Menace Hooligan Form: noun Tone: neg Felon Form: noun Tone: neg 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. Desperado Words Relation to Group Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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. 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. A miscreant is a person who is bad-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. 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: 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 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 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.
Rogue
A ruffian is a bully, someone Mnemonic: Don't get who is violent toward others. on the wrong side of
Ruffian
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. Form: noun Tone: neg 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.
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. 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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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Skeptical Questionable Form: adj Tone: neg Dubious 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. Cynical Form: adj Tone: neg Apprehensive Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. If you think public officials are nothing but a bunch of greedy buffoons, you have a cynical attitude about politics. Mnemonic/Example Example: You have no reason to be Apprehensive about the future
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? 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 Example: The conclusion that they may come are highly Questionable Example: I am Skeptical about his chances of winning
subject to question
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.
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Benevolent Form: adj Tone: pos Beneficent Form: adj Tone: pos Benefactor Form: noun Tone: pos 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. 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. 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. 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. Altruist Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos Meaning someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: one who thinks about the benefits of others. Example: the benificent power of nature
Example: belief in the existence of a Benevolent God! Root: BENE means GOOD
Form: adj Tone: pos
Humane
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 Mnemonic: magnify is hugea big hearted person. Example: He was Magnanimous in defeat and praised his
Form: adj Tone: pos Magnanimous
A magnanimous person has a generous spirit. Letting your little sister have the last of the cookies, even though you hadn't eaten since
breakfast, would be considered a magnanimous act. Form: adj Tone: pos If you give your best friend a bracelet for her birthday, then youre a good friend. If you give her a diamond bracelet, a racehorse, and an oil well, then youre a munificent friend, meaning you are very lavish when it comes to giving gifts. 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 financially, not with food rations. 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.
opponent's skill
Munificent
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
Form: noun Tone: pos Patron
Mnemonic: The boss thinks he is a Patron saint. Example: Peggy was the Patron of many artists
Philanthropist
Mnemonic: Phil is Love and Anthrop means mankind 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
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Imposter Form: noun Tone: neg 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. 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. Demagogue Form: noun Tone: neg Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: I+m+postera person made a poster of himself with a celebrity showing every body that I AM in POSTER is a fraud person 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 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
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A demagogue is someone who becomes a leader largely because of skills as a speaker or who appeals to emotions and prejudices.
Form: noun Tone: neg Quack
A shyster is someone who might rip you off or do something unethical in order to get his way.
Shyster
that his newly discovered half brother was a cheap Shyster. Form: verb Tone: neg If you know someone is a swindler, stay away from him. Swindlers are scammers who con people to make a buck. Mnemonic: Movie the great swindle Example: They swindled him out of hundreds of dollars.
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Form: adj Tone: pos Pragmatic Plausible Form: adj Tone: pos Feasible Form: adj Tone: pos Credible Form: adj Tone: pos Conceivable Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The adjective verisimilar describes something appears to be true or real, Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: read it as can + see + able = CAPABLE OF BEING IMAGINED Example: It is a Conceivable that I'll see her tomorrow
Mnemonic: Credible sounds like Believable. Example: It is just not Credible that she would cheat. Root: CRED means BELIEVE Example: Its just not Feasible to manage the business on a part time basis
Mnemonic: Plausible rhymes with possible Example: Her story sounded perfectly Plausible
Mnemonic: PRA + gma + TIC = PRA + c + TIC + al Example: a Pragmatic approach to management problems Mnemonic: utility comes from usefulness. Example: this is a plain Utilitarian kitchenware
Form: adj Tone: pos Utilitarian
Mnemonic: remember veriserum from Harry Potter
Verisimilar
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. Mnemonic: vi(VIV=LIFE) + ABLE....so some one who is ABLE to live his LIFE. Example: this is a Viable option
Form: adj Tone: pos Viable
When something is viable, the adjective refers to something workable with the ability to grow and function properly.
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Prude Form: noun Tone: neg 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 romantically-it's not very nice. 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. Prig Form: noun Tone: neg Hypocritical Form: noun Tone: neg Cant Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying 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. Mnemonic: PIGGish people don't take much care on propriety but PrigGISH people do. Example: He was in danger of becoming Priggish and opinionated. 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! 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
Form: adj Tone: neg Sanctimonious
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Brevity Form: noun Tone: pos 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. 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. 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. Abridge Form: verb Tone: neut 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. Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neut Meaning To abbreviate is to shorten. Words are often abbreviated, like when we say sked instead of schedule. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: brief + tea session,tea time is short Example: Charles Dickens was not known for his Brevity 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. 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
Abbreviated
Form: verb Tone: neut Condense
Laconic
Any word or sound made Example: Ralph grew up of just one syllable can increasingly
Monosyllabic Form: adj Tone: neut Reticent
be described with the adjective monosyllabic. 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. 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. omit a sound or letter in a word
Monosyllabic as the evening progressed. Mnemonic: Cent (Saint) is stereotypically reluctant to speak or draw attention to themselves. Example: She was shy and Reticent. Mnemonic: SUCK+INK brief/summary of story sucks less ink on the paper Example: Keep your answers as succint as possible Example: The patterned holes in the paper kept coming and turned into Syncopated sweetness before your eyes. Root: SYN- means WITH,TOGETHER. Mnemonic: meaning of tacit = silent. so meaning of tacit + urn = Taciturn = silent person , untalkative Example: He Is a Taciturn and serious young man
Form: adj Tone: neut Succinct
Form: adj Tone: neut Syncopate
Form: adj Tone: neut/neg Taciturn
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.
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Reiterate Rehash Form: verb Tone: neutral Regurgitate Form: verb Tone: neut/pos 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. present or use over, with no or few changes Recapitulate Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neut Meaning 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/Example 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 these Root: Prefix RE means to REPEAT. 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. Example: He just Rehashes songs from the 60's Root: Prefix RE means to REPEAT. 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.
Form: verb Tone: neut
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.
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Abstemious
When you abstain from pleasures of life, you're practicing celibacy.
Form: adj Tone: neut Moderate
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 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.
Form: verb Tone: neut Refrain
Mnemonic: refrain...we resist from getting wet in the "rain" in rainy season. Example: please Refrain from smoking
Form: adj Tone: neut Temperate
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. 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.
Mnemonic: Temperatehe has taken over his temper, that is have controlled it Example: He is Temperate in his eating and drinking Example: They went into town to indulge in some serious shopping
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Opalescent Lustrous Form: adj Tone: pos Luminous Form: adj Tone: pos Iridescent Form: adj Tone: neut Incandescent Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut/neg Meaning 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. Iridescent is an adjective that means lustrous and pearly, giving off a brilliant sheen like an oil slick or, well, a pearl. 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. In shampoo commercials, the hair you see swinging is lustrous. It is brilliant, in the shiny sense. 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/Example Mnemonic: IN the LIGHT of the SCENTED CANDLE.. Example: an Incandescent musical performance
Mnemonic: irid means iris and iris helps us distinguish colours Example: a bird with iridiscent bright colors Mnemonic: remember Luminous INVERTERS ad by dhoni...brightful Example: he was staring with large Luminous eyes Mnemonic: luster means shinny. Example: she has thick Lustrous hair 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 Mnemonic: Refulgent sounds like detergent.. use detergent to make things shine Example: the Refulgent sun
Form: adj Tone: pos Refulgent
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." Something scintillating is flashing briefly and sharply with light. Scintillating conversations are smart and captivating.
Form: adj Tone: pos Scintillating
Mnemonic: Scintillating === ILLUMINATING Example: this was a Scintillating
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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 Mnemonic: Ostentatious....read it as Stuntatious....Stunts...you perform stunts to attract attention, showy. Example: she wore Ostentatious gold jewelry
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Gaudy Form: adj Tone: neg Garish 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. Bedizen Form: verb Tone: neg (X) Sobriety Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos Meaning 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. Bedizen means to decorate yourself or something else to the max - in an over-thetop flashy style. Picture big jewels and gold bling. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: sounds like SOBER Example: She was a model of honesty and sobriety
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. Mnemonic: Imagine if someone GARNISHES too oddly ! puts everything, and makes it gaudy ! Example: this dress is a little to garisg for my taste
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. 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 and tha Tawdry means cheap, shoddy, or tasteless. It can be used to describe almost anything from clothes to people to even events or affairs. Mnemonic: Meretricious = Mere + Tricious. 'Mere' means trifle or something less important Example: Bill has been involved in several Meretricious relations 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
Form: adj Tone: neg
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Form: noun Tone: neut Verbiage Prolix Form: adj Tone: neut 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. 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. 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 Voluble describes someone who talks a lot, like your aunt who cant stop telling you to cut your hair or a political candidate who makes twenty speeches on the day before the election. Loquacious Form: adj Tone: neut 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. Garrulous Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut Meaning A garrulous person just wont stop talking (and talking, and talking, and talking...). Mnemonic/Example 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 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 Mnemonic: Prolix=prolonged +lexico graphy Example: a Prolix lecturer telling you more than you want to know Mnemonic: relate it to verbose! Example: use concise military Verbiage
Verbose
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
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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
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Groups ACTING PROPERLY / MISBEHAVE (x) BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY PROUD CHAOS / CONFUSION CHEAT / DECEIVE COUP CRIMINALS / LAW BREAKERS DOUBTFUL GENEROUS SUPPORTER IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE PRETENSE OF MORALITY QUIET / FEW WORDS REPEAT SELF-CONTROL SHINING SHOW - OFF (-) VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS OF WORDS WITHOUT DECEPTION Form: adj Tone: pos Guileless Dupe Form: verb Tone: pos Credulous 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. Credence/ Credible Artless Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: art + less, without having any art(skill) Example: the Artless sincerity of a young child 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 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 trick or deceive. We re sorry we tried to dupe you into believing the wrong definition. 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. 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
Form: adj Tone: pos
If you are gullible, the joke is on you because you are easily fooled.
Gullible
weight Form: adj Tone: pos Ingenuous 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 ingenuous-their open, trusting natures are a joy. No one likes being called naive, since it means you lack sophistication or street smarts. Mnemonic: In genuine relationship people are naive and trusting to each other. Example: You are too Ingenuous. Root: In means NOT Mnemonic: sounds as "naya", some one who is new is inexperienced Example: I can't believe you were so Nave as to trust him.
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 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. Seclude Form: verb Tone: Negative/ Neutral when you seclude others, you separate them from other people. Recluse Form: noun Tone: Negative/ Neutral Loner Form: noun Tone: Neutral when a person avoids others company or assistance we call him a Loner. A recluse lives alone, works alone, eats alone, and generally stays away from other people. Form: noun Tone: Negative/ Neutral Isolation Hermit Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: Neutral Meaning a hermit is someone who likes to be alone, far from the crowd because of religious beliefs. People who are isolated are completely cut off from the rest of the world. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: The root of the word is the Greek eremos, meaning solitary. 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. Mnemonic: Isolation sounds like solo or alonesounds 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. Mnemonic: Loner sounds like lonely and it means the same. Example: I am a Loner by nature, love to keep to myself. 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. 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. Parks death, praising him was taboo, and his daughter, who never married, has lived a Secluded life. 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.
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 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! Slipshod Form: adj Tone: Negative Form: adj Tone: Negative Remiss 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 when someone does something in a slipshod manner they do it in a way that is careless and sloppy. Negligent Form: adj Tone: Negative You can be negligent at work if you let the work pile up while you play computer games. Lax Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: Negative Meaning to be extremely careless. A paperclip chain used as a bike lock? That would be an example of lax security. Mnemonic/Example 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 Mnemonic: Negligent comes from the Latin word neglegentia, meaning "carelessness." Example: Fining Negligent smokers can reduce the number of smokers in public. Mnemonic: Remiss sounds like you missed doing something again. Example: We were Remiss in not sending thank-you notes for our wedding gifts 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? 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.
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Form: verb Tone: Neutral
Mnemonic: A VERy confident statement! Example: She Averred that she had never seen the man before.
Mnemonic: A: VOW Example: They Avowed their undying love for each other.
Mnemonic: Sounds like claim Example: The day was Proclaimed a public holiday.
X Abdicate
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
X Abjure
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. Form: verb Tone: Negative The verb abnegate means to deny or renounce something. Scientists abnegate the existence of little green spacemen from Mars.
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. 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. Example: Cuba was ceded by Spain to the US in 1898. 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. 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. Mnemonic: Relin(Release)+quish(wish); So release ur wish Example: He was forced to relinquish control of the company.
X Abnegate
X Cede
Form: verb Tone: Negative Form: verb Tone: Negative
To cede is to give up or surrender land, position, or authority. To forsake another person is to leave them entirely, usually in a moment of need.
X Forsake
Form: verb Tone: Negative X Forswear
To forswear is to give up an idea, belief, or habit that youve had previously. New Years is a popular time to forswear anything from sweets to bad relationships. 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. To renounce is to officially give up or turn away from. People on a diet usually renounce pizza and chocolate cake, for example.
Form: verb Tone: Neutral X Relinquish
Form: verb Tone: Negative X Renounce
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.
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Prone 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 Vulnerable Form: adj Tone: Negative 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. Susceptible Subject to 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. Mnemonic: In Latin, vulnerare means to wound; able to be wounded or woundable. Example: In cases of food poisoning, young children are especially Vulnerable. Form: adj Tone: Negative The path of least resistance is where you'll find prone: it refers to whatever you're likely to do. Impervious (X) Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: Positive Meaning 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/Example 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 Mnemonic: Pro+One: liking towards one. Example: People with fair skin who sunburn easily are very Prone to develop skin cancer.
Form: adj Tone: Negative
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Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: Neutral
Meaning Window shopping and scanning the newspaper for interesting headlines are forms of browsing.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: browse means the same as peruse. Example: There was so much food at the party that we quickly got sated just by browsing. 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 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. Mnemonic: Scrutiny is known to all of us. Example: She leaned forward to Scrutinize their faces.
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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.
examine carefully.
Pore Over
Form: verb Tone: Neutral Scrutinize
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.
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Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: Neutral
Meaning 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. When you gesticulate, you make sweeping and excited movements with your hands when speaking. Someone describing a scary car accident might gesticulate wildly. A mime is a performer who uses exaggerated facial expressions and body movements - instead of words - to communicate with his audience.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: back to school time activities: act out the name of a movie using hands only.sign language. Example: Let's play Charades. Mnemonic: latin, gestus means action. Example: She was shouting and gesticulating from the other side of the road. Mnemonic: consider 'Mime' as short-form of mimicry without words Example: The actor mimicked the President very accurately Root: Mime is to COPY. Mnemonic: Tushaar Kapoor performs a Pantomime in Golmaal movies Example: This is a magical tale told through Pantomime and song
Charade
Form: verb Tone: Neutral Gesticulate
Form: noun Tone: Neutral
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Form: noun Tone: neutral
Pantomime
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
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 Form: noun Tone: positive a feeling of friendship and trust among people who work or spend a lot of time together Amicable Form: adj Tone: positive Amicable is being friendly. Amiable Form: adj Tone: positive Aloof (X) Form: adj Tone: Negative Someone showing aloofness might be shy, or just really doesn't want to be around people. A friendly, pleasant person could be described as amiable. Affable Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: positive Meaning If the adjective affable applies to you, it means that you are friendly and pleasant. A snarling junkyard dog is not affable. Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: Aloof is away from crowd. Example: My nervousness expressed itself as aloofness: overly judgmental, overly cool 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. 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 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. Mnemonic: Compliansance sounds like
Camaraderie
ready to accept and doing what others
want you to do. Complaisance
Comply which means to agree to everyones opinion. Example: She was a complaisant wife and dutiful daughter. Root: COM means TOGETHER. 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. 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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: Genial sounds like Genuinely Friendly. Example: Bob was always Genial and welcoming , a warm hearted Genial host 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.
Form: adj Tone: positive
Congenial
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.
If someone is called 'life of the party' she can be called convival.
Convivial
Cordial
Use cordial to describe a greeting or relationship that is friendly and sincere.
Form: verb Tone: positive
Fraternize
You many not realise it, but when you hang out with your buds, your fraternize. That is you associate in a friendly manner.
Genial
If you're friendly and outgoing, you're genial. You can be a genial host or a genial guest. If you know someone who's outgoing, sociable, and fond of the company of others, you might want to call her gregarious.
Form: adj Tone: positive Gregarious
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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. When you want to do something and not be recognized, go incognito - hiding your true identity.
Incognito
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.
Form: noun Tone: Neutral Masquerade
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. 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. A travesty is a silly imitation, like a tall young man dressed up like a little old lady
Mnemonic: Maquerade sounds like mask. To hide behind a mask. Example: He was tired of the Masquerade and wanted the truth to come out.
Form: noun Tone: Neutral Shroud
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 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.
Form: noun Tone: Neutral Travesty
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 Form: verb Tone: positive Simulate Parody Form: noun Tone: positive Mimic Form: verb Tone: positive 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. 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. Emulate Form: verb Tone: positive When you emulate someone, you imitate them, especially with the idea of matching their success. Burlesque Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: positive Meaning In contemporary usage, burlesque is a ironic style of entertainment dating back to medieval times. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: Mimicry Example: He Mimicked Rajnikanth in the class
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 model-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 Mnemonic: to spell SPOON as Spoof is a kind of parody,hoax or Spoof Example: It's a Spoof on horror movies.
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Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: Awe can be remembered in connection to Awesome Example: I'm in Awe of your biking skills. 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. 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.
Awe
Formidable
Redoubtable
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.
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Meaning act in an official capacity in a ceremony or religious ritual, such as a wedding
Mnemonic/Example
Form: verb * Officiate Tone: positive

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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 Curmudgeon Form: noun Tone: Negative Churlish Form: adj Tone: Negative A churlish person is one whose middle name might as well be Rude. Hes the one who was never taught to mind his manners and avoid telling vulgar jokes at the dinner table. 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. Choleric Form: adj Tone: Negative 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. Chagrin Cantankerous Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: Negative Meaning Take care not to throw your ball into the yard of the cantankerous old man down the street If you feel chagrin it means that you are embarrassed or distressed as a result of a failure. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Cantankerous sounds like: RANT HIS ANGER AT US. Example: He is a Cantankerous old man. 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. 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. 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 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? Mnemonic: Girls always saying ouch-ouch for every silly thing, make guys very irritated & Grouchy!!! Now you will always remember this
Form: noun Tone: Negative
An irritable and unpleasant mood is being grouchy.
Grouchy
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. If you're irascible, you get angry easily perhaps blowing up in rage when someone brushes into you. Irritable feeling calls for testiness. 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. Mnemonic: Root word for Irascible is IRE: which means ANGER. Example: He had an Irascible temper. 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.
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 Form: adj Tone: Negative Lurid Form: adj Tone: Negative 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. Obscene describes something that is morally offensive way. Lewd Leer Form: adj Tone: Negative 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. 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. Lecherous Lascivious Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: Negative Meaning 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. To be lecherous is to be full of strong sexual desire and to act on it, usually in an unpleasant way. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Lascivious means lewd Example: He was fired for making Lascivious remarks to a co-worker. Mnemonic: lecher means to live in sin. Any indecent activity is definitely sinful. Example: He had a Lecherous gleam in his eye. Mnemonic: Leer is to stare without fear. Example: Leering objectionably at others is utterly frustrating and intolerable. 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. Mnemonic: In latin, Luridis means pale, yellow, ghastly; thus, Lurid means scandalous, obscene. Example: She was wearing a Lurid orange and green blouse. 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 Mnemonic: Ogle sounds like eagle, who always waits to first eye a victim and then
Obscene
Form: adj Tone: Negative Ogle
When you ogle someone, you look at them with love or desire in mind. And if you're a cartoon character,
you might also be drooling.
target it. Example: He is not in the habit of ogling at women. 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. 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. 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
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.
Sordid
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!
Form: adj Tone: Negative Vulgar
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.
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Meaning 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/Example 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. 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 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
Sedentary
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.
If you have a cushy job one that pays, but involves minimal work then you have a sinecure.
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Form: noun Tone: positive Homage
father. 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 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, 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.
Revere
Form: v Tone: positive
Venerate
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
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 Oblique 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. Furtive Form: adj Tone: Negative Covert Form: adj Tone: Negative 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. Let's hope the teacher doesn't see your furtive attempts to pass notes in class! Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: Negative Meaning Pick the adjective, clandestine, to describe something that is done in secret, like your clandestine attempts to steal your brother's candy. Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: Covert sounds like Cover up and attack secretly. Example: The teachers weren't impressed by the students' Covert attempt to derail the discussion. Mnemonic: Furtive sounds like 'FLIRT'ive.. So a flirtly look is always SNEAKY...!! Example: She cast a Furtive glance over her shoulder. 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. 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. Mnemonic: HULK SkulkED through the
Clandestine
Overt (X)
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.
Form: verb Tone: Negative
Skulking is cowardly. It means hiding out, either
Skulk
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. Form: adj Tone: Negative When you're sly, you're crafty, cunning, tricky, and wily. If you're good at lying, you're quite sly. Stealth means to do something so quietly and carefully that no one notices, like the stealth of a kitten sneaking up on a mouse.
city to avoid being noticed by COPS. Example: There was someone Skulking behind the bushes. Mnemonic: When you LIE you are Sly!! Example: He is as Sly as a fox. 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. 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.
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When someone behaves in a surreptitious way, they're being secretive. They're doing something that they don't want to be seen doing.
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 Preempt Form: verb Tone: Negative 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. Expropriate Form: verb Tone: Negative If you really like your neighbor's house, you may wish you could expropriate the property. Divest Form: verb Tone: Negative The extra coats that are taking up space in your closet,, when you divest them, you get rid of it. Appropriate Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: Negative Meaning To take something, someone's ideas, etc. for your own use, especially illegally or without permission Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. 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 Mnemonic: Pre means before and -empt sounds like attemptSo 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 Mnemonic: Here's the secret to stealing a chef's power: use herbs Usurp. Example: The old guard being Usurped by the new.
Form: verb Tone: Negative Usurp
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.
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Seductive 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
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Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: Neutral
Meaning The adjective erotic is often used to describe a person s carnal desires.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Greek word erotikos, from eros or erot-, meaning sexual love. Example: An Erotic art seems to be appealing if depicted sensually. Mnemonic: The word comes from the Latin seducere, meaning draw aside. Example: Radio people often have Seductive voices that lull you to sleep Mnemonic: Sensual is related to senses. Example: Food is a great Sensual experience.
Erotic
Form: adj Tone: Neutral
Seductive is an adjective that describes the fascinating magnetic pull that someone or something has, an attractive quality that tempts you in some way.
Sensual
Form: adj Tone: Neutral
Sensual means physically pleasing.
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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. 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. 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. Mnemonic:
Heckle
when in a political campaign a leader delivers his speech, and you tend to interrupt him by shouting or questioning, you are heckling him
Form: noun
If recess gets canceled for
Tone: Negative
Indignation
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. Mnemonic: Fury is a word for "anger" that should help with this word Example: Her silence Infuriated him even more. Mnemonic: Irksome sounds like Tiresome and thats the meaning. Example: what an Irksome task the writing of long letters is 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. Mnemonic: Nag sounds like Drag .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. 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 workthe angry brother shrieked out at his sister. 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
Form: verb Tone: Negative Infuriate
People talking too loudly on their phones, the cancellation of your favorite TV show is infuriating
Form: adj Tone: Negative Irksome
If your little brother keeps saying the same phrase over and over again, you might find it irksomeits annoying and tiresome.
Form: adj Tone: Negative Miffed
If you are miffed you are slightly annoyed and hurt because of something which someone has done or said.
Nag
When you continuously keep finding fault in a person simply because you dont like them or keep asking for something that your father may not wanting to give you, you are nagging
Nettle
If you know what a nettle isthat is, a barbed seed that gets stuck in your clothes and hair..you will know how annoying and irritating it is.
when a person drives too slowly on the highway, it seems to be peevish annoying, frustrating.
Peeve
while you watching a movie, it seems peevish Form: noun Tone: Negative Pique The verb pique means to make someone angry or annoyed. 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.
Vex
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.
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 Form: noun Tone: neutral/ positive reflect on one's own thoughts and feelings Deliberate Form: adj Tone: neutral/ positive Contemplate 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. 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. Cogitate Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: Positive Meaning 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/Example 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. 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. 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. 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 Mnemonic: when you are considering
Introspect
Form: v Tone: neutral/
The verb mull means to think deeply about
positive Mull
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. 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
Form: noun Tone: Positive Muse
As a verb, to muse is to consider something thoughtfully.
Pensive
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. "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." If you reflect on your past experiences, you look at them once again thoughtfully. 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. 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. 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.
Form: v Tone: Positive
Ponder
Reflect
Ruminate
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.
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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) EASILY AFFECTED EXAMINE CAREFULLY EXPRESS USING GESTURES FRIENDLY 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 Form: verb Tone: Negative Intrude When someone says, I hate to intrude, but you can bet she is in fact going to interrupt your conversation or insert her opinion, even though it isn t wanted. Infringe Form: verb Tone: Negative 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. Impinge Form: verb Tone: Negative 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. Encroach Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: Negative Meaning 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/Example 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. 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 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. Mnemonic: This verb is derived from the Latin, Intrudere, in which the inmeans into and -trudere means, to thrust. Example: Loud music could Intrude into your studying. Mnemonic: Obtrude sounds like rude that is when someone is climbing through your kitchen window is someone who chooses
If you want to be rude, you'll obtrude, or thrust yourself to the front of a line without waiting.
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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Groups ALONE / LONELY CARELESS CONFIRM / DECLARE/ GIVE UP (X) 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 RESPECT SECRET TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY TEMPTING / EXCITING TO IRRITATE / MAKE ANGRY TO THINK UNWELCOME INTRUSION WISE, SHORT SAYING Epigram Form: noun Tone: Neutral One of Oscar Wilde's many memorable epigrams is "I can resist everything but temptation." Apothegm Form: noun Tone: Neutral An apothegm is a short instructive saying that's easy to remember and sometimes even slightly witty, like "haste makes waste." Form: noun Tone: Neutral "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." is an aphorism which is apt and witty. Adage Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: Neutral Meaning Moms and dads love adages such as "early to bed early to rise" and "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." Mnemonic/Example 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. 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 rememberRonald Reagans Aphorism: trust, but verify. 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 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. 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." Mnemonic: The pith is an essential part of a fruit, but small; thus Pithy means small but substantial
Form: noun Tone: Neutral Maxim
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." This is a maxim which is like great sayings everybody knows. A pithy phrase or statement is brief but full of substance and meaning. Proverbs and sayings are pithy
Form: adj Tone: Neutral 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"it is considered a precept 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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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Form: verb Tone: neg evil in nature or effect. Libel Form: noun Tone: neg a written document that is for damaging someones's reputation. Defame Form: verb Tone: neg 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. Calumny Form: noun Tone: neg the making of false statements to damage someones reputation. Aspersion Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Calumny rhymes with ALUMNI-imagine yourself slandering and defaming some of your college ALUMNI Example: He accused the press of publishing vicious calumnies. 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. 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. 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
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 Mnemonic: If you take OPIUM(banned drug) you will be criticized, humiliated & put to shame. Example: The bombing has attracted international Opprobrium. Mnemonic: its like throwing sand on someone's reputation Example: He's suing them for Slander.
Obloquy
Opprobrium
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.
Form: noun Tone: neg Slander
If you call your teacher a "dirty toad," you're going to get into trouble she'll call you out on the slander. Slander is the act of making a false, negative spoken statement about someone. making damaging accusations against someone.
Slur
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. Mnemonic: Vilify (to speak ill of) is to make someone out to be a villain Example: The Nazi propaganda vilified the Jews
Form: verb Tone: neg Vilify
To vilify someone is to spread nasty stories about them, whether true or not.
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Meaning Use vigilant to describe someone who keeps awake and alert in order to avoid danger or problems.
Mnemonic/Example 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
VIGILANT
Form: verb Tone: neg X Disarm
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. 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.
Form: verb Tone: neg X Slouch
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When you like Mnemonic: enam+or something a lot (often ENAM(inaama 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 Mnemonic: In means Not and Fatuate: When you are not (in) fat, you would look
Have you ever had a ridiculous crush on someone that's made you act foolishly? That
INFATUATE
person infatuated or inspired unreasonable passion in you, causing you to become infatuated. Form: verb Tone: pos You meet someone and you cant take your eyes off them, like you are connected by an invisible cord and cant break free. Those kinds of people have the power to mesmerize.
attractive and people will be attracted towards you and may even be In-Fat-uated. Example: His new car has INFATUATEd him Mnemonic: MESMERIZE sounds like memorizeif 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. Mnemonic: En RAPTURE: the word RAPTURE means ecstasy, i listen the rap music with great RAPTURE. Example: Charles listened with RAPTURE to her singing. Mnemonic: RIVET is used to hold two metal plates together. RIVETing is holding ones attention. Example: The last chapter was so RIVETing that I was reading past midnight. 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. 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.
MESMERIZE
Form: noun Tone: pos RAPTURE
Rapture is a feeling of emotional ecstasy so magical it's almost as if you've been transported to some other world.
Form: noun Tone: pos RIVET
When you watch a movie which though scary, you appreciate the dark somber look of the ugly hero, it must have been rivetting.
Form: adj Tone: pos
attracting and holding interest as if by a spell.
SPELLBINDING
X ENNUI
The French word ennui describes a feeling that combines tiredness and boredom. Ennui is one version of "the blahs."
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Form: noun Tone: neg 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. CALLOW 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. CADET Form: noun Tone: pos APPRENTICE Form: noun Tone: pos 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. ACOLYTE Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos 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/Example 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. 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. 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 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 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
a young person who is training to become an officer in the police or armed forces
DILETTANTE
finished the course Form: adj Tone: pos INGENUOUS One of the things kindergarten teachers value is the chance to work with kids while they're still relatively ingenuous-their open, trusting natures are a joy. "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: 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. Mnemonic: Neomeans new, and -phyte is from the Greek phuton "plant"- 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. 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. 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. 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. Example: I don't want to have another ROOKIE to train.
NEOPHYTE
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.
NOVEL
Form: noun Tone: neut/pos
On the Internet, a novice might be called a newbie, but your parents would call one a beginner.
NOVICE
PUERILE
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.
ROOKIE
Form: noun Tone: neut/neg
an awkward and inexperienced youth is a 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.
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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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL CHIVALRY FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER INTREPID Form: adj Tone: pos GALLANT 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. 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. DAUNTLESS 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. Form: noun Tone: pos Men behaving courteously toward women - holding the door for them, offering them their jackets when it's cold - is called chivalry. AUDACIOUS Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning This adjective is very bold - if you are audacious, you are daring and unconventional! Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: CHIVALRY sounds like: Lord Shiva is bestowed with endless valor and patience. Example: Women always admire men who are chivalrous. 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. Mnemonic: army GALLANTry award is awarded to BRAVE army people Example: She made a GALLANT attempt to hide her tears. 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.
PLUCK
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. If you're undaunted, you're not afraid or intimidated. As a great Mnemonic: UN is not , daunt is fear. So UNDAUNTED is
Form: adj Tone: pos
UNDAUNTED
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. 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. Mnemonic: The Jailer is valor. Example: He received the Medal of Honor for his valor in battle.
Form: adj Tone: pos VALIANT
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. 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.
Form: noun Tone: pos VALOUR
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Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neut/neg
Meaning To adjourn is to close a session of something, like at court. People also adjourn when they go to bed.
Mnemonic/Example 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 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. 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. 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. Example: They voted to TABLE the proposal until the following meeting.
ADJOURN
Defer means to put off or delay. You can try to defer the inevitable by pushing snooze and falling back asleep, but eventually you're going to have to get up. 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.
PROTRACT
To postpone something for a while.
SHELVE
Form: verb Tone: neg/neut
When we table an issue, we tend to hold back to a later time
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Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg
Meaning public shame
Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: in(NOT GOOD OR BAD) +famous...FAMOUS for BEING NOT GOOD or Notorious Example: Mountain weather is Notoriously difficult to predict.
Ignominy
Infamy
infamous for some bad quality or deed wicked or criminal
Form: adj Tone: neg Nefarious
Notorious
Form: adj Tone: neg
infamous for some bad quality or deed
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER FALLACIOUS 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. Illicit means not allowed by law or custom. An illicit drug trade is one that happens under the radar FABRICATE Form: verb Tone: neg 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. ERRONEOUS Form: adj Tone: neg DUBIOUS Form: adj Tone: neg APOCRYPHAL Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: Appu cry, fal (fruit): Apple is a crying fruit is a APOCRYPHAL Example: Most of the stories about him are APOCRYPHAL.
Mnemonic: Doubt DUBIOUS is doubtful Example: I am DUBIOUS about the wisdom of this action 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. 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. 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
Mnemonic: Silly Sit Silly is sitting and doing ILLICIT things. Example: The man
of the law.
got caught with dangerous weapons and ILLICIT drugs Mnemonic: Eu: Good , Phony: sound so good sound. Example: Her poetry was full of euphony, and therefore very enjoyable to read aloud. Mnemonic: Scam shyam always SHAM illness Example: She felt trapped in a SHAM of a marriage.
Form: adj Tone: neg PHONEY
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 somethings not real. A sham is a fake. If you frequently order products advertised on late-night, hour-long television commercials, youve probably ended up with at least one item that was a sham. All-purpose, industrial strength stain remover, anyone? 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.
SHAM
Form: adj Tone: neg
SPECIOUS
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 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
Form: adj Tone: neg
SPURIOUS
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.
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER X VERACITY Form: noun Tone: pos 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. PREVARICATION Form: verb Tone: neg PERJURY MENDACITY Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. A boy might use prevarication to avoid telling the whole truth about how the kitchen window got broken. Mnemonic/Example 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 Mnemonic: Jury sanctioned charges due to his PERJURY Example: The witness is now facing charges of PERJURY. Root: Prefix PERrefers to THROUGH 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 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
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER FLINCH Form: verb Tone: neut 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. When you intimidate, you frighten or make someone afraid. A pet rat might intimidate DAUNT Form: verb Tone: neg The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz appeared at first to be easily daunted, but, in fact, he showed unusual courage. CRINGE Form: verb Tone: neut CRAVEN COWER Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neut 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. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Coward COWER when Cow (animal) cowed (terrorized) him Example: A gun went off and people COWERed behind walls and under tables. Mnemonic: Opposite of Brave is CRAVEN Example: CRAVEN cowardice of the highest order.
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. 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. Mnemonic: Haunt: Dont 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 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. Mnemonic: You can see "timid" in the middle of INTIMIDATE, and to
INTIMIDATE
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. 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. Mnemonic: Pussy animals: pussy cat like animals are coward Example: You should be ashamed of your PUSILLANIMOUS conduct during this dispute. 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. Mnemonic: Trep is fear. Example: The sailors viewed the gathering storm clouds with TREPIDATION.
Form: verb Tone: neg PETRIFY
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.
Form: adj Tone: neg PUSILLANIMOUS
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. 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.
SHRINK
Form: noun Tone: neut/neg TREPIDATION
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.
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER GLIB 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. If you have to recite Shakespeare and you do so haltingly or selfconsciously, then you have given a labored performance. ENUNCIATE 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. ELOQUENT Form: adj Tone: POS An eloquent speaker expresses herself clearly and powerfully. COHERENT ARTICULATE Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: POS Meaning To articulate is to say something. And, if you say it well, someone might praise you by saying you are articulate. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: The Art of Calculating your speech while you presenting a paper at your college. Example: She struggled to ARTICULATE her thoughts. 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 Mnemonic: Eloquence sounds like fluency. Example: He was ELOQUENT when it came to addressing his office colleagues. Root: Prefix LOQ means to SPEAK Mnemonic: The word ENUNCIATE is related to the Latin words for both "announce" and "messenger." Example: She ENUNCIATEd each word slowly and carefully. Mnemonic: GLIB sounds like Ghalib..his shayeri was slick and fluent. Example: He is a GLIB salesman. Mnemonic: labor is something done with lots of effort. Example: The movie looks labored and slow by today's standards.
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
Form: adj Tone: NEG x LABORED
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ABYSMAL
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. 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 BLEAKcold and depressed Example: No doubt it is also BLEAK in the winter. 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. 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 Mnemonic: STYGIAN sounds like dungeon both related to bottom hell wherein darkness thrives. Example: She was STYGIAN in her appearance yesterday
Form: adj Tone: neg BLEAK
Form: adj Tone: neg
GLOOMY
Form: adj Tone: neg SOMBRE
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. Dark and dismal
Form: adj Tone: neg STYGIAN
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER Form: noun Tone: neg X ABYSS Making a momentous life decision with great uncertainty, like enrolling in clown college, might feel like jumping into the abyss. SUMMIT Form: noun Tone: pos PINNACLE Form: noun Tone: pos 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. What better place for the mountain climbing summit than on the summit of the mountain. CREST APEX Form: noun Tone: pos ACME Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos Meaning 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. When there's no mountain left to climb and nothing but blue sky above, you know you've reached the highest peak - the apex. 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/Example Mnemonic: Lakme is at ACME: top beauty product Example: His work is considered the ACME of cinematic art.
Mnemonic: APEX = climax = MAX Example: An actor who wins an Oscar can say she's reached the APEX of her career. 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. Mnemonic: Pineapple juice is PINNACLE of juices Example: He had reached the PINNACLE of his career.
Mnemonic: sum+mit 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. Mnemonic: the abyss referred to the "bottomless pit" of Hell. Example: They took a long look into the abyss before deciding whether to jump. Mnemonic: Nadir sounds like Na + Gir meaning from where
If a highly forgetful person loses his phone, his wallet, and then his car keys in
X NADIR
separate instances all in one day, you could say that he has reached an organizational nadir. This means lowest point.
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. Mnemonic: Jannat is at ZENITH Example: His career is now at its ZENITH.
ZENITH
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.
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Form: adj Tone: neg
Atypical means outside of type an atypical suburban town might be populated by zombies in damp caves.
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. Mnemonic: Pre (before) Post (after) both in one word, pre+post+erous seems ABSURD. Example: a chef who is asked to cook with
Form: adj Tone: neg
PREPOSTEROUS
nothing but jelly beans might exclaim, "That's PREPOSTEROUS!" Root: Prefix PRE refers to BEFORE Form: adj Tone: neg If you hear strange music echoing through your attic, you might refer to it as positively uncanny. 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 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. Though Switzerland is known for its chocolates, chocolate, which comes from the cocoa plant, is indigenous to South America.
Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: Exotic Destinations/ Exotic Islands: TV show Example: He travelled around the globe to collect rare and exotic plant species.
DOMESTIC
INDIGENOUS
Form: adj Tone: neut X EXOTIC
Something so unusual that it must be from some unfamiliar place is exotic. An exotic pet might be a panda, instead of a hamster.
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER GARBLE 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. ENIGMA Form: noun Tone: neut/neg Form: adj Tone: neut/neg "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. 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. CONUNDRUM Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning The tricky word conundrum is used to describe a riddle or puzzle, sometimes including a play on words or pun. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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 Mnemonic: Who havent heard the tunes of ENIGMA, also, no one has ever seen the members of ENIGMA 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 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. Mnemonic: Its INSCRUTABLE to tight screw in table Example: The killer left no clues, and the
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Form: adj Tone: neg
INSCRUTABLE
Any person or thing that's mysterious, mystifying, hard to read, or impossible to interpret is
inscrutable.You ever notice how it's hard to tell what some people are thinking? Those folks are inscrutable. Form: verb Tone: neg INTRIGUE 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. 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. 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
murder remains an INSCRUTABLE mystery
Mnemonic: INTRIGUE - tri(tricky) + gue(game) - tricky game Example: The idea INTRIGUEd her. Mnemonic: When you visit a huge library, you may lose your way in the process of finding your necessary books, so its a LABYRINTH and a complicated situation altogether. Example: We lost our way in the LABYRINTH of streets. 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. 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.
LABYRINTH
Form: noun Tone: neut/neg MAZE
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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.
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Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: NEG
Meaning A boor is a crude, rude person. Boors lack sophistication and manners
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: BOOR can be related to this hindi word BOORA a bad and rude person. Example: A BOOR would talk too loudly on the train. Mnemonic: Brush and BRUSQUE are not related, but they sound similarwhen someone is BRUSQUE, you often feel that they are trying to give you the "brush off." Example: The doctor spoke in a BRUSQUE tone. Mnemonic: It's CURTesy (courtesy) to not be rude and short in behavior Example: A CURT note of rejection arrived from the company director. 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.
BOOR
Form: adj Tone: NEG
BRUSQUE
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.
Form: adj Tone: NEG CURT
Im sorry to be curt, but let's get right to the point. You should use the adjective curt to describe a way of speaking that s brief and blunt. 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.
Form: adj Tone: NEG
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL EGOTIST FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER SELFEFFACING (X) Form: adj Tone: pos SELFDEPRECATORY (X) Form: adj Tone: neg NARCISSIST Form: noun Tone: neg 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. A self-deprecating person knows her own weaknesses and shortcomings and isn't afraid to point them out, often in a humorous way. Someone who's self-effacing is shy and likes to stay out of the spotlight, shunning attention and praise. Form: noun Tone: neg A self-centered person is egotist. EGOCENTRIC Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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/Example 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 Mnemonic: A person who is concerned with ones self only. SELF is EGO. Example: You need to be an EGOTIST to succeed in politics. 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. 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. 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.
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER RETIRING Form: adj Tone: neg/neut 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. RESERVED Form: adj Tone: neut 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. INTROVERT Form: noun Tone: neut 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. DIFFIDENCE Form: adj Tone: neg/neut COY Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg/neut Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: COY Boy (shy boy) Example: But the former finance minister remains COY on the timing of the vote. Mnemonic: Confidence DIFFIDENCE is lack of confidence .Diffident is not confident. Example: With habitual DIFFIDENCE she handed a new manuscript to me 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. Mnemonic: RESERVED attitude. Remains quiet and to himself. Example: He was unemotional, quiet, quiet, and RESERVED. Mnemonic: After RETIRING people has a RETIRING personality. Example: Given Susan's RETIRING personality, no one expected her to take up public speaking. Mnemonic: TIMID (shy) + date. TIMID person going on date with boss and she inTIMIDate him. Example: Deer are naturally TIMID creatures.
Form: adj Tone: neg TIMID
Timid means "overly cautious or fearful," like a timid driver who drives very slowly or avoids highways altogether.
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.
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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Relation to Group Form: adverb Tone: neut
Meaning 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.
Mnemonic/Example 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
INADVERTENTLY
Form: adverb Tone: neg/neut UNWITTINGLY
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
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Meaning 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/Example 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 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.
NONDESCRIPT
Form: adj Tone: pos X CONSPICUOUS
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.
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Groups ACCUSE ALERT ATTRACT / FASCINATE BEGINNER / INEXPERIENCED / IMMATURE BRAVE DELAY /POSTPONE DISREPUTE / BAD REPUTATION FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL FALSEHOOD FEAR / LACKING COURAGE FLUENT / CLEAR GENUINE GLOOMY / DARK / HOPELESS HIGHEST POINT ILLOGICAL / STRANGE NATIVE / LOCAL PUZZLING RUDE SELF-OBSESSED SHY UNINTENTIONAL UNINTERESTING WIDESPREAD WORKING UNDER ANOTHER EPIDEMIC Form: noun Tone: neg ENDEMIC Form: adj Tone: neg CONTAGIOUS Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning You should probably postpone dinner if your date's cold is contagious that means it's easily spread and likely to get you sick. 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! 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. Remember the 2009 swine flu? That was a pandemic an illness Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: contag+ious CONTAG(contact) +ious something thats 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
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.
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.
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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
that swept over much of the globe. Form: adj Tone: neg Rampant means wild, out of control, to be up on your hind legs roaring at the world.
century Root: Prefix PAN means ALL or EVERY. 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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Meaning Subordinate means putting one thing below another. We subordinate our desire for popcorn to our desire to keep watching the movie.
Mnemonic/Example 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 Mnemonic: UNDERLING has the word Under that itself means below someone. Example: He dishes out orders to his UNDERLING. 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
Form: noun Tone: neg UNDERLING
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 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.
Form: noun Tone: neut UNDERSTUDY
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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 DIGRESS Form: verb Tone: neg 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. DESULTORY Form: adj Tone: neg CIRCUITOUS Form: adj Tone: neg AWRY Form: adverb Tone: neg ASTRAY Words Relation to Group Form: adverb Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Plan went AWRY, success went away Example: All my plans for the party had gone AWRY.
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. 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 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
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."
Form: adj Tone: neg DISCURSIVE
If people accuse you of rambling from topic to topic in your speech or writing, they may say you have a discursive style with changes in subject that are hard to follow. Something divergent is moving away from what is expected. Two divergent paths are moving in opposite directions - away from each other.
Mnemonic: Cursive writing is not at centre, it is diverting from one side to another side. Example: The DISCURSIVE style of novel 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. Mnemonic: Amble is to walk, RAMBLE is to walk aimlessly. Example: They RAMBLEd through the shops until closing time. Mnemonic: TANGENTIAL is like a Tangent Example: Although interesting, Christina's point was TANGENTIAL to the discussion
DIVERGENT
Form: verb Tone: neg RAMBLE
You ramble when your talking or your walking goes on and on and on. And on. Youre in no hurry to make a point or get to your destination if there is one at all. 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.
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Meaning 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. Hear that applause and cries of "Bravo"? Your audience is giving you an ovation, or praise for a great performance.
Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: On this Occasion he got standing OVATION Example: He was pleasantly surprised by the OVATION he received. 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
Form: noun Tone: pos OVATION
To pan a performance, book, or movie is to say that you think it stunk.
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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 Form: adj Tone: neg FARCICAL Form: adj Tone: neg CONTRIVED 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. AFFECTED Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning Pretended Mnemonic/Example 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. 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.
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. If your grandmother describes you as mannered, she means you are very formal, observing all societys 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. 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. Example: The administration has adopted an aggressive POSTURE on immigration.
POSTURE
Form: adj Tone: neg
Mnemonic: PRETENTIOUS is someone who is Pretending Example: It was just an ordinary housenothing PRETENTIOUS.
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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 Form: verb Tone: pos EPITOME Form: noun Tone: pos EMBODY Form: verb Tone: pos ARCHETYPE Form: noun Tone: pos APOTHEOSIS Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos Meaning 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. 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. 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. 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. 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/Example 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
Mnemonic: Archies type comics are ARCHETYPE Example: She is the ARCHETYPE of an American movie star.
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
Mnemonic: Happy Tom: is a perfect example of Tom and Jerry Example: He is the EPITOME of goodness.
EXEMPLIFY
Mnemonic: EXEMPLIFY is nothing but EXAMPLE. Example: His food exemplifies Italian cooking at its best. Root: Suffix -Y always means A STATE of something
obsession with pirates. Form: noun Tone: pos PARADIGM A paradigm is a standard, perspective, or set of ideas. A paradigm is a way of looking at something. 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." 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..." 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. 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: Dime coin is PARADIGM for US currency Example: The war was a PARADIGM of the destructive side of human nature. 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. 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 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.
PARAGON
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PROTOTYPE
Mnemonic: Type of something. Example: Scientists have developed a working PROTOTYPE for a voice translation machine. Root: Prefix PROTO means FIRST
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Meaning Concurrent means happening at the same time, as in two movies showing at the same theater on the same weekend.
Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: CONVERGE sounds like Come and merge. Example: Thousands of supporters CONVERGEd on Washington, D.C. for the rally. Root: Prefix CON means TOGETHER.
CONCURRENT
CONFLUENCE
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.
CONVERGE
Two roads, a roomful of politicians, or a group of rabid fans - when things come together from different points they converge.
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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 Form: verb Tone: neut 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. FERRET Form: noun Tone: pos/neut EXHUME Form: verb Tone: neut When you see your mysterious neighbor digging around in his backyard, you may wonder if hes trying to exhume something. Chances are hes only digging up potatoes - when you exhume something, it means youre digging up a corpse. 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. EXCAVATE Form: verb Tone: neut DISINTER Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neut Meaning 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. 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/Example 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. 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 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 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. 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
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. Mnemonic: Inter is to bury. Example: The princess was interred on an island in the middle of a lake.
UNRAVEL
Form: verb Tone: neut/neg X INTER
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.
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Meaning To resound is to echo with sounds, usually loudly. When you sing in the shower, your voice resounds.
Mnemonic/Example 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 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
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.
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Meaning Secular things are not religious. Anything not affiliated with a church or faith can be called secular.
Mnemonic/Example 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. 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
Form: adj Tone: pos
Secular, lay, or civil, as opposed to any particular religion.
TEMPORAL
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Mnemonic: OBESE can be used as very fat so OBviously not at EASE. Example: OBESE patients are given dietary advice. Mnemonic: PORKY the pig is PORTLY... Example: The salesclerk tactfully referred to the overweight customer as PORTLY rather than fat Mnemonic: Kuwait people are SQUAT Example: As he was SQUAT, he was easily noticeable in a team having lean players. 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.
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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 Form: verb Tone: neg ENTREATY Form: noun Tone: neg CAJOLE Form: verb Tone: neg 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. "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. 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. CADGE Form: verb Tone: neg BESEECH Form: verb Tone: neg 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. to ask somebody for food, money, etc. especially because you cannot or do not want to pay for something yourself BEHEST Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg 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/Example 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. 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! 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. Example: The salesman will CAJOLE the couple into buying the stereo.
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 Mnemonic: Beggars IMPLORE for money sitting on floor Example: They IMPLOREd him for forgiveness.
IMPLORE
IMPORTUNE
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 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 Mnemonic: WHEEDLE sounds like Needle. She WHEEDLEd Needle from doctor Example: I WHEEDLEd a new car out of my father.
SUPPLICATE
If you dont 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 A may or may not work. 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.
Form: verb Tone: neg WHEEDLE
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Form: noun Tone: neg PRESS
When you urge, and literally force your mother to sign the marksheet since you have scored very less and its the Principals command, its
PRESSING her to do so. Form: verb Tone: neg When you dissuade someone, you convince that person not to do something: When Caroline saw Peter's broken leg, she tried to dissuade him going on the ski trip. 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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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 PURGE Form: verb Tone: neg To purge is to get rid of something or someone, and often its done suddenly. EXPURGATE Form: verb Tone: neg 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. EXORCISE Form: verb Tone: neg 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. CATHARSIS Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning Use the noun, catharsis, to refer to the experience a person can have of releasing emotional tension and feeling refreshed afterwards. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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 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 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.
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Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: a MILESTONE victory or a company's sales MILESTONE. Example: He said the launch of the party represented a MILESTONE in Zambian history. Example: The middle decades of the 19th century marked a WATERSHED in Russia's history
HALLMARK
Form: noun Tone: pos MILESTONE
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. 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.
Form: noun Tone: pos WATERSHED
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The verb contaminate means the same as pollute. Whether its food, air, or water, when you contaminate something, you make it impure or hazardous.
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. 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. 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: NOXIOUS can be split in two parts: No+ Oxygen in the air is really harmful. Example: His cologne was so NOXIOUS I had to exit the elevator and take the stairs 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. Mnemonic: VITIATE the effect of Vish
As some sneaky fiveyear-olds know,
VITIATE
crossing ones fingers while making a promise is an effective way to vitiate, or destroy the validity of, an agreement.
(Poison) Example: The yes vote was VITIATEd by the low turnout in the election.
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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 Form: adj Tone: neut INTRINSIC The intrinsic qualities of something have to do with its nature. An intrinsic quality of dogs is that they're loyal. INNATE Form: adj Tone: neut 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. INHERENT Form: adj Tone: neut Use the adjective inherent for qualities that are considered permanent or cannot be separated from an essential character. ENTRENCHED Form: verb Tone: neut CONGENITAL Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: Genetic mismatches lead to CONGENITAL diseases. Example: Half of all fetuses with the syndrome have a CONGENITAL heart defect. 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 Mnemonic: INHERENT is always in here. Its 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 Mnemonic: He always ate in inn, thats his INNATE (inborn) habit Example: He possess an INNATE knowledge of right and wrong Root: Prefix IN means INTO Mnemonic: INTRINSIC is internal, within. Example: Generosity was an INTRINSIC part of her nature
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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 DISCRIMINATING 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. DISCERNING Form: adj Tone: pos ASTUTE Form: adj Tone: pos ACUMEN Form: noun Tone: pos ACUITY Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos Meaning Acuity has to do with sharpness and smartness. Do you always get A's in math? Then you have an acuity for numbers. 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. Someone who is astute is clever and has good judgment. The kid running around with a bucket stuck on his head? Not so astute. 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/Example Mnemonic: A cute girl has sharp features Example: In time his youthful ACUITY of vision failed him, and he needed glasses. Mnemonic: A few men have ACUMEN Example: His business ACUMEN helped him to succeed where others had failed. Mnemonic: absolute: a salute to ASTUTE person Example: That was a very ASTUTE observation. 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. 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 Mnemonic: With this word, remember inand -sight-. When
Form: adj Tone: pos
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INSIGHTFUL
papers is insightful analysis - thinking that sees beyond the obvious and expresses an original thought.
you have the ability to look (sight) inside (in) something a painting, a discussion, a situation. Example: She offered some really interesting, INSIGHTFUL observation. Mnemonic: judi+cious--- having JUDgement qualities Example: It is curable with JUDICIOUS use of antibiotics. Root: Prefix JUD means to JUDGE Mnemonic: PERCEPTIVE sounds like Perfectly Observative. Example: It was very PERCEPTIVE of you to notice that. Root: Prefix PER means THROUGH Mnemonic: A PERSPICACIOUS person has keen perspective Example: The brilliant lawyer was known for his PERSPICACIOUS deductions 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 JUDICIOUS
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. 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. 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. 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. Use the formal adjective, sagacious, to describe someone who is wise and insightful like an advisor to the president or a Supreme Court justice. 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!
Form: adj Tone: pos PERCEPTIVE
Form: adj Tone: pos PERSPICACIOUS
Form: adj Tone: pos
PRUDENT
Form: adj Tone: pos SAGACIOUS
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.
Form: noun Tone: pos SAGE
Mnemonic: S + AGE... a wise aged man(your grandpa).. Example: He was famous for his SAGE advice to younger paints.
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.
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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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 INDUCE Form: verb Tone: neg 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. EXHORT Form: verb Tone: neg ENJOIN Form: verb Tone: neg COGENT Form: adj Tone: neg In these days of 24-hour entertainment news and sound-bite sized explanations of complex government policy, its hard to find a cogent (persuading) argument amidst all the emotional outbursts. COAX Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning When you coax someone, you try to convince him gently, with pleasant words and maybe a little flattery. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: When you want a bike from your father, serve him some cokes to first cool him and then request for your bikein short COAX him. Example: She COAXed the horse into coming a little closer. 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. 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. Mnemonic: Mr. BURGEr King giving bURGEr to BoURGEois (middle class people) dressed in pink.
If you have an urge to eat candy, you really want to eat those sweets. Your mother might urge you to
URGE
wait until after dinner.
Example: Police are urging anyone who saw the accident to contact them immediately.
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Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg
Meaning You can burnish your resume, by polishing it until it's perfect.
Mnemonic/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 andBURNISH whendry. 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. Mnemonic: garnish means to decorate; VARNISH means to decorate by POLISHING Example: I'll give the shelves a coat of VARNISH. 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
Form: verb Tone: neg REFURBISH
Whether its a bike, an old computer, or a tennis stadium, when you refurbish something you clean it up and make it look or perform better. a coating that provides a hard, lustrous, transparent finish to a surface
Form: noun Tone: neg VARNISH
Form: noun Tone: neg VENEER
A veneer can be anything that makes something look more elegant or attractive than it is.
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Meaning 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). 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/Example Mnemonic: Amused No => BEMUSED = Confused Example: It Constantly confuse or bemuses people, why he did this. Mnemonic: PENSIVE calls for a PAINFULL face/ mood Example: She was in a PENSIVE mood, just wanting to be alone to think.
BEMUSED
Form: adj Tone: neut PENSIVE
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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.
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TAINTED
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. 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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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 Form: noun Tone: neg OAF 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. INANE 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. IMBECILE Form: noun Tone: neg 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. FATUOUS Form: adj Tone: neg DOLT Form: noun Tone: neg ASININE Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. Fatuous means lacking intelligence. When your mother outlaws calling your brother stupid, use fatuous instead. 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 Mnemonic: getting FATUOUS on purpose is foolish for your health Example: She is far too intelligent to utter such FATUOUS remarks Mnemonic: IMBECILE sounds like IMBALANCE....a person having imbalance in his mind is a stupid person.... Example: They behaved like IMBECILEs. Mnemonic: Insane person passes INANE remarks. Example: I have never heard anything as INANE as what just came out of your mouth. Mnemonic: OAF...sounds like uff..and when you see an ugly awkward person. Example: He stood there grinning like an OAF. Mnemonic:
Form: adj
The adjective obtuse is good
Tone: neg
for describing someone slow on the uptake: "Don't be so obtuse: get with the program!"
OBTUSE
Remember OBTUSE angle in Geometry? Its 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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Groups AWAY FROM THE CORRECT/INTENDED PATH APPLAUSE ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BEST EXAMPLE COME TOGETHER DIG OUT / SEARCH / SOLVE 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 Form: verb Tone: neg When you conspire, you collaborate with others to do harm, or maybe just keep something from happening CONNIVE Form: verb Tone: neg COLLUDE Form: verb Tone: neg BEGUILE Form: verb Tone: neg ALLURE Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: All Lure means to attract Example: The romantic young man ALLUREd the beautiful woman by preparing a wonderful dinner. 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. Mnemonic: CO means together and Lude is to play, using tactics. Example: Several people had COLLUDEd in the murder. 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. 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.
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. To connive is to plan or plot to do something illegal or wrong. Conniving is considered dishonest and cowardly.
CONSPIRE
Root: Prefix CON means TOGETHER Form: verb Tone: neg ENTICE 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. When you tell your boyfriend hes 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 To lure is to entice or bait someone. A lure is used to bait or entice fish to attach themselves to your hook. Mnemonic: You are ENTICEd (attracted to) buy ENTICEr, the bike. Example: Some stores slashed prices by up to 80 % to ENTICE shoppers. 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
INVEIGLE
Form: verb Tone: neg LURE
Mnemonic: LURE is not a Pure act of attracting. Example: The romantic young man LUREd the beautiful woman by preparing a wonderful dinner. Mnemonic: Machine Guns in Nation for MACHINATIONs. Example: I don't want to get involved in all his MACHINATIONs.
MACHINATION
When a James Bond villain comes up with a plan to destroy the world, he doesnt use a simple plan. No, he uses a machination - a complex plot that relies on numerous elements coming together to work. 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. 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. 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
Form: noun Tone: neg PLOY
Mnemonic: PLOY is to plot or take strategic steps. Example: This is a a clever marketing PLOY.
Form: noun Tone: neg RUSE
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. Mnemonic: These companies keep on introducing new SCHEME(PLAN) to trick customers Example: This is an elaborate SCHEME to avoid taxes
Form: noun Tone: neg SCHEME
parties at once. Form: noun Tone: neg Tactic is another word for maneuver or method. Looking for a way to get something done? Then you better find a tactic. 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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Meaning 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. If you don't notice or aren't aware, it means that the adjective oblivious applies to you!
Mnemonic/Example 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. 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
Form: adj Tone: neg
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Meaning To behold is to see. You could behold the changing sky as the sun sets. Its oldfashioned and fancy, so magicians like to use it, as in Behold! I shall pull a rabbit out of my hat!
Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: ESPY is to SPY on someone. Example: Here from a window, did she ESPY a Knight standing in a woodman's cart? Mnemonic: PERCEIVE is ti SEE. Example: I PERCEIVEd a change in his behavior.
BEHOLD
If you can make out, pick out, or distinguish something, you can discern it. This is a word for recognizing and perceiving things.
DISCERN
Form: verb Tone: pos ESPY
catch sight of.
PERCEIVE
When we perceive something, we become aware of or notice it. Sometimes we perceive things by using our senses of sight, hearing, and smell.
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Meaning 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.
Mnemonic/Example 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.
INIMITABLE
Form: adj Tone: pos PEERLESS
Do you ever feel like one of Mnemonic: a kind? Then maybe you PEERLESS dont 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.
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Meaning grow weak and thin or waste away physically is called emaciate.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Ema she ate it but still looks thin or EMACIATEd Example: His long period of starvation had left him EMACIATEd. Mnemonic: Taunt to GAUNT girl Example: The girl was very GAUNT, but she was very healthy as well.
EMACIATE
Form: adj Tone: neg GAUNT
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.
Form: adj Tone: neg
LANKY
Use the adjective lanky Mnemonic: Youve to describe someone probably seen a LANKY whos 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.
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Groups CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER 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
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INDEFENSIBLE
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 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. Mnemonic: Un + Tenable Teenager is UNTENABLE Example: I find your theory UNTENABLE and must reject it
Form: adj Tone: neut UNTENABLE
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Groups CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER 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 Form: adj Tone: pos PURISTS Form: noun Tone: pos PUNCTILIOUS Form: adj Tone: pos METICULOUS 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. 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. FASTIDIOUS Form: adj Tone: neut CONSCIENTIOUS Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos Meaning 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 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. 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 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. Scrupulous means very careful to do things properly and correctly, such as Mnemonic: Screw Plus (positive) Example: He was SCRUPULOUS about
SCRUPULOUS
paying friends back for money borrowed right away, or not returning a pair of shoes after they've been worn outdoors.
the choices he made;This was a SCRUPULOUS performance
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Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: HEDONISM would be indulging in places like Las Vegas. Example: the hedonistic philosophy of eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die! 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
SYBARITE
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.
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Meaning argue over petty things
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: petti (small issues) creating fight. Example: Instinct is what drives the best instant decisions and puts too much PETTIFOGGING purity to shame. Mnemonic: Soap History SOPHISTRY on soap history Example: The judge rejected the local authority's argument as mere SOPHISTRY
PETTIFOGGING
SOPHISTRY
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.
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Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Extra Dramatic is called MELODRAMATIC Example: a MELODRAMATIC plot full of deceit and murder
HISTRIONIC
Form: adj Tone: neg MELODRAMATIC
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.
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Groups CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER 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 TABOO Form: noun Tone: neg 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. SHUN Form: verb Tone: neg If you purposely stay away from someone, you shun that person. A sensitive baker may ask why you are shunning her cookies. PROSCRIBE Form: verb Tone: neg To proscribe something is to forbid or prohibit it, as a school principal might proscribe the use of cell phones in class. PARIAH Form: noun Tone: neg A pariah is someone that has been soundly rejected by their community. Your constant gossiping might make you a pariah on campus. OUTLAW Form: verb Tone: neg declare illegal; outlaw OSTRACIZE Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg 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/Example 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 Mnemonic: OUTLAW: without Law, which is Illigal Example: There are plans to OUTLAW the carrying of knives 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 Mnemonic: Doctor prescribes medicines and PROSCRIBEs junk food Example: The new law PROSCRIBEd drinking alcohol on the street. Root: Suffix SCRIBE is to WRITE Mnemonic: SHUN sounds like SUN so keep a distance from the sun. Example: She has been SHUNned by her neighbors 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.
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Meaning 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/Example 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. 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
SUBTLE
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.
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Meaning 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. 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Fourth option Right hai you said in FORTHRIGHT manner. Example: He was known for his FORTHRIGHT manner
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Form: adj Tone: pos FORTHRIGHT
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Meaning 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/Example 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 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
PERIPATETIC
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.
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Groups CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER 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 Form: verb Tone: pos The verb saturate means to cause something to be fully soaked to the point where it can't take on anything else. SATIATE Form: verb Tone: pos 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. SATE Form: verb Tone: pos REPLETE Form: adj Tone: pos QUENCH Form: verb Tone: pos 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. 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." GRATIFY Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: pos Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Drench and QUENCH sounds similar Example: Firemen tried to QUENCH the flames raging through the building. Mnemonic: deplete, complete, REPLETE all relate to the quantity of something. Example: Literature is REPLETE with drama and excitement Mnemonic: s-ate, so when we have finished eating our food, we are satisfied to the full. Example: However many are planned, I ve had my curiosity SATEd and will happily skip the next. 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. 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
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.
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. Mnemonic: SUFFICE sounds like SUFFICIENT. Example: Generally a brief note or a phone call will SUFFICE.
SLAKE
Form: verb Tone: pos SUFFICE
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.
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Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: Nicky is FINICKY, FINICKY is Picky Example: Even the most FINICKY eater will find something to eat.
FINICKY
NITPICKING
be overly critical; criticize Example: Some minor details readers will surely perceive our critique as NITPICKING Khan s errors. Persnickety is a lively, fancy word for fussy. 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: To be polite, Id call her PERSNICKETY, he told me. Mnemonic: SQUEAMISH is like "scream-ish". i.e., one who screams for everything. Example: This movie is not for the SQUEAMISH. 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.
Form: adj Tone: neg
PERSNICKETY
Form: adj Tone: neg SQUEAMISH
If you fainted or threw up at the sight of frog intestines in biology class, youre squeamish - easily nauseated or shocked by unpleasant, icky things. No horror movies for you! A stickler is someone who insists that things are done in a certain way. Say youre getting married and want to write your own vows, but your partners mother demands that you have a traditional ceremony. The mother is a stickler for tradition.
Form: noun Tone: neg/neut
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ALLUDE/ALLUSION
Example: Temperature is often a CUE to enter or emerge from hibernation.
Example: He resented any HINT that he might be to blame.
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.
INNUENDO
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
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. Something tacit is implied or understood without question. Holding hands might be a tacit acknowledgment that a boy and girl are dating. 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: 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. Mnemonic: TACITly asked To Sit Example: She gave a TACIT approval by smiling and winking
INSINUATE
Form: adj Tone: neut TACIT
Form: adj Tone: neg
X BLATANT
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. Mnemonic: Please sit: I will make it explicit Example: The plot of 9/11 attack was an explicit act of violence.
Form: adj Tone: neut X EXPLICIT
Anything explicit is very clear, whether it's instructions or a bad movie
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GIGANTIC
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. Mnemonic: HUMONGOUS sounds like ENORMOUS OR TREMENDOUS. When we describe something very big will call it so. Example: You may look a little silly
HUMONGOUS
making phone calls, holding the HUMONGOUS Galaxy Note up to your ear. Form: noun Tone: neut LEVIATHAN 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 theyre 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 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. Mnemonic: have you seen large MONUMENTS, they are attractive because of their look as well as height or hugeness. Example: Gibbon's MONUMENTAL work The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire Mnemonic: Prodigy group is PRODIGIOUS. Proud ji us: because we are PRODIGIOUS (extraordinary) Example: He impressed everyone with his PRODIGIOUS memory 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
MAMMOTH
MONOLITHIC
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. 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. 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.
MONUMENTAL
Form: adj Tone: pos
PRODIGIOUS
Form: adj Tone: pos
TITANIC
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.
evil Form: adj Tone: neut TOWERING 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. Mnemonic: VOLUMINOUS definitely comes from VOLUME which in this case is great. Example: There is VOLUMINOUS literature on modernism and postmodernism.
VOLUMINOUS
Consider that volume is a measure of size. That will help you understand that voluminous refers to something very large in size or extent.
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Meaning If you use the word discourse, you are describing a formal and intense discussion or debate.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Sounds like 'this Course'. I attended a DISCOURSE on this course. Example: A DISCOURSE on issues of gender and sexuality. Mnemonic: Dessert Station pe DISSERTATION di Example: He is currently writing a DISSERTATION
DISCOURSE
Form: noun Tone: neut DISSERTATION
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. 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.
Form: noun Tone: neut 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 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.
THESIS
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.
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Mnemonic: Bangle seller bunged his job by breaking bangles Example: He was caught during hisBUNGLEd attempt to burgle the bank. 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. Mnemonic: Disney character Goofy who was always making Blunders. Example: He made some real GAFFEs early in his career.
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 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
MISNOMER
with four legs that doesnt 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 Mnemonic: Without Tact would be TACTLESS. Example: It was TACTLESS of you to comment on his hair! Mnemonic: Finesse sounds like FINENESS that is involved in doing something. Example: He used no unnecessary finesse in stating his ends.
Form: adj Tone: neg TACTLESS
To be tactless is to either be rude (without manners) or inept (without finesse). Either way, it's awkward. 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.
Form: noun Tone: pos X FINESSE
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ABUT
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. Wouldnt it be nice to have your back yard abut a forest preserve or park? 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. Use the adjective contiguous when you want to describe one thing touching another thing, or next to it but not actually touching. Mnemonic: Add scent ADJACENT to each other Example: The planes landed on ADJACENT runways. Root: AD- means TO or TOWARDS.
ADJACENT
CONTIGUOUS
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. 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.
JUXTAPOSITION
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.
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Groups CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER 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 EFFACE Form: verb Tone: neg 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!" DECIMATE Form: verb Tone: neg 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." CARNAGE Form: noun Tone: neg 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. ANNIHILATE Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning Killing ends when the thing you are killing (your sworn enemy, all hope, a gerbil) is dead. Annihilate goes farther when you annihilate something, you wipe all trace of it from the earth. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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 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 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
To eradicate something is to get rid of it, to destroy it, and to kiss it goodbye.
ERADICATE
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 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
EXPUNGE
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.
EXTERMINATE
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 that 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 Mnemonic: lets ' all-be-literate ' and destroy illiteracy completely Example: Everything that happened that night was OBLITERATEd from his memory. Example: Thousands PERISHed at the hands of the invading forces.
FUMIGATE
OBLITERATE
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. 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. If something is indelible, you better hope you never regret it, like the indelible tattoo of the
Form: verb Tone: neg PERISH
Form: adj Tone: pos
Mnemonic: indelible: in + delete + ablewhich can't be deleted
X INDELIBLE
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.
Example: Her unhappy childhood left an indelible mark. Root: IN- means NOT.
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DIMINUTIVE
Mnemonic: Micro = small + Cosmos = worldA small world Example: The family is a MICROCOSM of society. Root: MICRO means SMALL 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. Mnemonic: SLIGHT means Less. Example: I woke up with a SLIGHT headache.
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Meaning 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. When you cheer up a friend who's feeling down, you bolster them. To bolster is to offer support or strengthen.
Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: Boster sounds like Bolt the sitar. Example: These bolts on Sitar are to BOLSTER the sitar. Mnemonic: Butt-rest for a wall.. Example: Trees have wideBUTTRESS rootsto support their great height.
BASTION
Form: Verb Tone: pos BOLSTER
Form: noun Tone: pos BUTTRESS
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. 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. support
Form: Verb Tone: pos FORTIFY
Mnemonic: If you turn your couch into a fort you make it stronger Example: They fortified the area against attack. 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.
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Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neut/pos
Meaning If someone shows kindness, caring, and a willingness to help others, they're showing compassion.
Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: EMPATHY and Sympathy are similar in meaning. Example: He has EMPATHY for other people's situations Root: EM- means IN Mnemonic: Remember HUMANE is nothing but Being Human. Example: This is a a caring and HUMANE society Example: He had worked in the hospital for so many years that he was callous to the suffering in the wards.
COMPASSION
Form: noun Tone: neut/pos EMPATHY
Use empathy if you're looking for a noun meaning "the ability to identify with another's feelings."
Form: adj Tone: neut/pos HUMANE
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. 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.
Form: adj Tone: neg X CALLOUS
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Meaning 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. 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: Poster is to FOSTER your brand name. Example: The club s aim is to FOSTER better relations within the community; ..FOSTER Parents Mnemonic: Dont torture but please NURTURE a child, even if it belongs to sombody else. Example: These delicate plants need careful nurturing. 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
Form: verb Tone: pos NURTURE
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Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: Its nothing but HYPOTHESIS, which lacks EVIDENCE Example: Let us take the HYPOTHETICAL case of Sheila, a mother of two Root: Prefix HYPOmeans UNDER
HYPOTHETICAL
SPECULATE
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 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
Form: adj Tone: neut X EMPERICAL
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.
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Groups CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER 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 MEMBRANOUS Form: noun Tone: neut INTANGIBLE Form: adj Tone: neut 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. characterized by formation of a membrane (or something resembling a membrane) If people can see through your shirt, it's GOSSAMER Form: noun Tone: pos/neut FRAIL Form: adj Tone: neut FLIMSY Form: adj Tone: neut/neg DIAPHANOUS Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: pos/neut Meaning 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. 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. 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. Gossamer is something super fine and delicate like a spider web or the material of a wedding veil. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: DIAPHANOUS phone. Example: The stain glass window was very DIAPHANOUS I could almost clearly see the clouds outside Root: Prefix DIAmeans THROUGH 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. Mnemonic: FRAIL one who fails in a subject is obviously WEAK in it Example: Mother was becoming too FRAIL to live alone. Mnemonic: +SAMMER(summer) we wear clothes of light fabric Example: Nylon can be woven into GOSSAMER or thick fabrics. Mnemonic: INTANGIBLE is not tangible Example: The old building had an INTANGIBLE air of sadness about it. Root: Prefix TANGmeans to TOUCH Example: It also provides a clear MEMBRANOUS touchpoint for the touchscreen. Example: We were impressed by the
SHEER
sheer. This can also mean something steep, like a cliff, or anything extreme, like sheer nerve. Form: adj Tone: neut 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. 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.
SHEER size of the cathedral.
TENUOUS
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 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 Mnemonic: Lots of Substance in anything would be considered as Substantial Example: He ate a substantial breakfast. Root: Prefix SUBmeans UNDER. 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
X PALPABLE
Form: adj Tone: neut X SUBSTANTIAL
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. Tactile has to do with the sense of touch. There's a huge tactile difference between smooth glass and rough sandpaper.
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Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Imagine a grungy teenager unwilling to help out with chores Example: The GRUDGING acceptance of his opponent's victory. Mnemonic: All creativity requires is alacrity Example: He demonstrated his eagerness to serve by his alacrity in executing the orders of his master. Example: The obliging waiter was in no hurry for us to leave.
BALK
Form: adj Tone: neg GRUDGING
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. 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.
Form: noun Tone: pos X ALACRITY
X OBLIGING
Form: adj Tone: pos
showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others
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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! 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. 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: 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. 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. 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
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.
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Groups CANNOT BE DEFENDED CAREFUL / PRECISE CONCERNED ONLY WITH PLEASURE DECEPTIVE REASONING EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR EXCLUDE / FORBID FINE / DELICATE FRANK FREQUENT TRAVELLER FULLY SATISFIED 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 THIN / TRANSPARENT TO DO RELUCTANTLY TO GUESS / INFER UNDERSTAND USED TO WEAKEN Form: adj Tone: pos ILLEGIBLE Form: adj Tone: neg When your friend scribbles a note to you and you cant figure out what it says, its because her handwriting is illegible - its unreadable. Use the adjective intelligible to describe speech that is loud and clear, like the intelligible FATHOM Form: verb Tone: pos 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." Form: verb Tone: pos ASSIMILATE Form: verb Tone: pos APPREHEND Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: pos Meaning 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/Example 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. 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. Mnemonic: Not Legible, Not understood. Example: This is an ILLEGIBLE signature Root: Prefix ILmeans NOT Mnemonic: like if you have done something by intelligence, it would
INTELLIGIBLE
words of your principal which, thanks to a microphone, you were able to hear.
be INTELLIGIBLE that is clear and easily understood... Example: His lecture was readily INTELLIGIBLE to all the students.
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Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut/neg
Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: When it s a habit to do something you are HABITUATEd. Example: We have all become HABITUATEd to thinking and reacting in certain ways. Mnemonic: Vaccinations serve to make people IMMUNE to certain diseases. Example: You'll eventually become IMMUNE to criticism. Mnemonic: To become INUREd to bad life you get insured Example: Doctors become INUREd to death Root: IN- means INTO 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
Form: adj Tone: neut IMMUNE
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. 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. 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.
Form: verb Tone: neut/neg INURE
Form: adj Tone: neut INVETERATE
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Meaning 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. 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/Example 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 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.
SUBVERT
UNDERMINE
X UNDER GIRD
make secure underneath, Mnemonic: Under gird lend moral support to. can be related to 'guard' or secure
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 Form: verb Tone: pos FACILITATE Form: verb Tone: pos EXPEDIENT Form: noun Tone: neut ENGENDER Form: verb Tone: pos 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. The adjective expedient describes something that provides an easy way to achieve a goal or result, but it's not necessarily a moral solution. CATALYST Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: When genders get together they cause, produce, and give rise to children, that is ENGENDER. Example: Hatred ENGENDERs violence. 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 Mnemonic: Pre +
KINDLE
Form: verb
Precipitate usually means
Tone: neg PRECIPITATE
"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. Mnemonic: Rod: PROD (stir up) with rod Example: I PRODded him with my elbow.
Form: verb Tone: pos/neut PROD
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. 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. To propel is to push or drive forward, like a sheep dog nipping at the heels of his flock to keep them moving.
Form: adj Tone: pos
PROMPT
Mnemonic: Pro empty: pro empty response is PROMPT because you dont need to do much. Command PROMPT Example: A noise PROMPTed the guard to go back and investigate. 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. Mnemonic: Economists talk of lowering interest rates to SPUR spending. Example: His speech was a powerful SPUR to action. 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.
PROPEL
Form: noun Tone: pos SPUR
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. If the economy is starting to stall, the president can't just sit there. He has to stimulateturn 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.
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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
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Meaning 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.
Mnemonic/Example 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 Mnemonic: REPREHENSIBLE is Blamable. Example: His conduct was thoroughly REPREHENSIBLE. Root: RE means to REPEAT
CULPABLE
Form: adj Tone: neg
REPREHENSIBLE
Reprehensible means deserving of blame or strong criticism. It is a strong word-your mother might forgive you for doing something bad, but something reprehensible? That's worse.
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 SLOPPY Form: adj Tone: neg SHODDY 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. lacking neatness or order SHABBY 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. RUMPLED GAUCHERIE Form: adj Tone: neg Form: verb Tone: neg DISHEVELED Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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 the quality of being rustic or gauche extremely disorderly Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Dis + Shave A person who dont shave is DISHEVELED Example: He looked very tired, DISHEVELED and very pale Root: DIS means NOT Example: a gauche teenager/manner Mnemonic: Heard of Crumbled shirt, it looks disorderly and so is RUMPLED. Example: She RUMPLED his hair playfully. 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. 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 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
SLOVENLY
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. Form: adj Tone: neg Unkempt literally means not combed, 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.
SLOVENLY appearance
UNKEMPT
Mnemonic: Un (not) + Kept UNKEMPT is not kept properly Example: The beggar was dirty and UNKEMPT. Root: UN means WITHOUT
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 RATIFY ENDORSE Form: verb Tone: pos CORROBORATE Form: noun Tone: pos/neut To corroborate is to back someone else 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. 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." CONFIRM CLINCH Form: verb Tone: pos Form: verb Tone: pos settle conclusively make sure AFFIRM Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: pos Meaning To affirm something is to give it a big "YES" or to confirm that it is true. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: AFFIRM rhymes with Confirm and so is the meaning. Example: Both sides AFFIRMed their commitment to the cease-fire. Example: They CLINCHed the deal. Mnemonic: CONFIRM rhymes with Affirm and so is the meaning. Example: Rumors of job losses were later CONFIRMed. Mnemonic: CORROBORATE sounds like Collaborate (work with other) and CORROBORATE (support and strengthen). Example: We need to CORROBORATE the findings. Mnemonic: When someone ENDORSEs a product in a commercial, it means "Go buy this! Example: he world leaders ENDORSEd a ban on land mines. Mnemonic: Rat And Cat never RATIFY. Rectify the mistake in document to RATIFY it. Example: They have yet to RATIFY the treaty.
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. To substantiate is to give support to a claim. Wed really like to believe in the Tooth
Mnemonic: SUBSTANTIATE is related to the word substantial, which
SUBSTANTIATE
Fairy; however, more evidence is needed to substantiate her existence (besides that quarter in your pocket). Form: verb Tone: pos To testify is to make a statement or provide evidence, usually in court. Witnesses testify for the prosecution or defense.
means "solid." Example: The results of the tests SUBSTANTIATEd his claims. 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. Mnemonic: VALIDATE is to make something VALID. Example: to VALIDATE a theory
TESTIFY
Form: verb Tone: pos VALIDATE
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.
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Meaning 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." A stalemate is an impasse in a contest, a point where neither player - usually in chess - can win or lose.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Its impossible to pass this traffic, so its a traffic IMPASSE. Example: The peace talks reached an IMPASSE
IMPASSE
Form: noun Tone: neg STALEMATE
Mnemonic: CheckMate STALEMATE and check-mate in chess Example: Talks between union and management resulted in a STALEMATE.
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 Form: adj Tone: neg DESECRATE Form: verb Tone: neg 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. 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. Profane is the sort of BLASPHEMY Form: noun Tone: neg Saying offensive things about God or religion is blasphemy. Blasphemy can be used for offensive ideas in other areas too. (X) SACROSANCT Form: adj Tone: pos (X) CONSECRATE Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: pos Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: Con + sacred Example: Conscrate yourselves for tommorrow the lord will do wonders among you.
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. 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. Mnemonic: DESECRATE sounds like De (NOT)-Sacred Example: Please do not DESECRATE the Monument or surrounding area. Root: DE means DOWN/AWAY. 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 Mnemonic: Propane
IMPIOUS
Form: adj
Tone: neg
PROFANE
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. Mnemonic: SACRILEGE has its roots in the sacr-, meaning "holy." Example: The cult of the Roman emperor was SACRILEGE to Jews and Christians.
SACRILEGE
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.
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Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: IM (NOT) and MUTABLE (CHANGEABLE). Cannot change Example: This decision should not be seen as IMMUTABLE. Root: IM means NOT Mnemonic: In (NOT) Variable (changes or VARIES) Does not change or vary is INVARIABLE. Example: Her routine was INVARIABLE. Mnemonic: Steady Fast Example: Let them thank the Lord for his STEADFAST love, for his wondrous works to the children of men
IMMUTABLE
Form: adj Tone: pos INVARIABLE
Use the adjective invariable to describe something that's unlikely to change, such as your invariable custom of eating deep-dish pizza every Saturday. 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 shouldnt wear that outfit.
Form: adj Tone: pos STEADFAST
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 EXONERATE Form: verb Tone: pos EXCULPATE Form: verb Tone: pos 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. 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 acquit. Vindicate means to justify, prove, or reinforce an idea - or to absolve from guilt. If your family thinks you hogged ACQUIT Form: verb Tone: pos ABSOLVE Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: pos Meaning 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. To acquit someone is to clear them of charges. Acquitting also has to do with how you carry or present yourself. Mnemonic/Example 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. 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. 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
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
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
the last piece of pie on Thanksgiving, you'll be vindicated when your younger brother fesses up.
CHARGES...you are freed from blame. Example: There was not enough evidence against him, so the court VINDICATEd him.
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Meaning Someone or something that is benign is gentle, kind, mild, or unharmful: a benign soul wouldn't hurt a fly.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: BENIGN sounds like Be nice Example: Its entirely BENIGN in nature, you will be start working in two days. Root: BE means GOOD Mnemonic: INNOCUOUS is innoxious which is harmless Example: An INNOCUOUS home remedy; An INNOCUOUS remark
BENIGN
Form: adj Tone: pos INNOCUOUS
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!
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CURATIVE
tending to cure or restore Mnemonic: to health CURATIVE is nothing but Curing Example: the CURATIVE properties of herbs Whether youre talking about a therapeutic drug or a therapeutic exercise plan, something that is therapeutic helps to heal or to restore health. Mnemonic: THERAPEUTIC is nothing bout Therapy Example: Painting can be very THERAPEUTIC.
Form: adj Tone: pos THERAPEUTIC
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 SALUBRIOUS RUDDY FLUSHED Form: adj Tone: pos FLORID 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 CHERUBIC Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos Meaning Use the word cherubic to describe someone with a round face and an air of sweetness, whether you re talking about a cute cooing baby or your innocent-looking, roundfaced 40-year-old brother. Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: FLORIDa mein FLORID stalls and FLORID (reddish) complexion girls. Example: a FLORID style of painting
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. 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. Salubrious is a fancy way to describe something thats good for you or is generally favorable to mind or body, but it need not be limited to describing healthy foods or liquids. Mnemonic: RUDDY complexion is Reddy complexion. Example: He had a naturally RUDDY complexion. 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.
Form: adj Tone: pos
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Meaning 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." 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/Example Mnemonic: Office mein Officious person. Example: The officious man didn't realize that his help was not needed.
OFFICIOUS (-)
Form: adj Tone: pos
SOLICITOUS
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.
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Meaning 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. 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. 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/Example 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.
MODICUM
Form: noun Tone: neut/neg REMNANT
Mnemonic: REMNANT is remaining part. Example: The shop is selling REMNANTs of cloth at half price.
TRACE
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. Mnemonic: VESTIGE sounds like Wastage. VESTIGE of Wastage Example: We discovered VESTIGEs of early Indian life in the cave.
Form: noun Tone: neut VESTIGE
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.
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Meaning 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/Example Mnemonic: Con (common) sensus (sense): its a common sense for a group to reach CONSENSUS to resolve the issue Example: CONSENSUS decision making leads to paralysis Mnemonic: UNANIMOUS sounds like UNION. Example: UNANIMOUS agreement must be reached for this plan to go ahead. 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
Form: adj Tone: pos UNANIMOUS
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! A veto is a no vote that blocks a decision. The President can veto some bills that pass his desk.
Form: noun Tone: neg X VETO
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Meaning 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. 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. done quickly; in a summary manner
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Mouse is used to move the cursor hastily without going into minor details Example: CURSORY reading of new testament.
CURSORY
PERFUNCTORY
Mnemonic: Parai factory ko take care in PERFUNCTORY way Example: In his lectures he reveals himself to be merely a PERFUNCTORY speaker
SUMMARILY
Example: the suspected spy was SUMMARILY executed.
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Meaning 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. 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: ROBUST Robot Example: The candidate for the football team had a ROBUST physique. Mnemonic: RUGGED can also describe something that is steady, sturdy, and strong. Example: The countryside around here is very RUGGED. 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
Form: adj Tone: pos RUGGED
Form: adj Tone: pos
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 SENTENCE Form: noun Tone: neg INCARCERATE Form: verb Tone: Neg 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. If you receive a lengthy prison sentence, you will certainly feel it. IMMURE Form: verb Tone: Neg CONVICT Form: verb Tone: Neg CONDEMN Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neut/neg Meaning 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/Example 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.
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. 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. Mnemonic: Sent to Jail Example: The prisoner has served (= completed) his SENTENCE and will be released tomorrow. Mnemonic: amnesty - am + ne (not) + sty (stay); Imagine a prisoner saying "I am not going to stay in this prison anymore as judge granted
Amnesty can mean a pardon for a wrongdoing, or it can also signal a government's willingness to overlook something.
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 Mnemonic: Reprieve sounds like relieve and means the same Example: He is a a reprieved murderer. Root: RE- is to REPEAT
X CONDONE
Form: verb Tone: pos X REPRIEVE
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.
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 Form: verb Tone: neg 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. FOIL Form: verb Tone: neg to prevent the success of something. EDDY Form: noun Tone: neg DETER Form: verb Tone: neg Deter means to discourage. Many believe that the use of capital punishment deters people from committing murder. Others think that is hogwash. An eddy is a whirlpool what you stare at as a kid when the water is draining out of the bathtub. CHECK Form: verb Tone: neg As a noun: the act of restraining power or action BARRICADE Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg Meaning A barricade is anything that prevents people or vehicles from getting through. Construction workers often barricade a street to block traffic. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: BARRICADE sounds like Barrier. Example: The police stormed the BARRICADEs the demonstrators put up. 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. Mnemonic: DETER sounds like DETERmined. Example: This is equivalent to a DETERminate sentence of 20 years. Mnemonic: EDDY current/wind: where current flows Example: Caught in an EDDY, the polythene bag flew high over the trees Mnemonic: Silver FOIL prevents bacteria getting successful in decaying food Example: Loyal troops FOILed his attempt to overthrow the government. 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
FORESTALL
doing crossword puzzles daily may FORESTALL Alzheimer's disease FRUSTRATE Form: verb Tone: neg Form: verb Tone: neg HINDER self explanatory The verb hinder means to block or put something in the way of, so if youre in a high-speed car chase with the police, they might put up a blockade to hinder your progress. 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: a political situation that HINDERs economic growth
IMPEDE
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 Mnemonic: INHIBIT is to prohibit Example: I need to INHIBIT myself from eating too many cookies.
INHIBIT
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. 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.
INTERDICT
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 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 Mnemonic: OBTRUDE is similar to Intrude, enter forcibly
OBSTRUCT
When you obstruct something, you block it. If youre gobbling down your pizza, a chunk of crust you didnt chew so well might obstruct your airway and you'll choke.
If you want to be rude, you'll obtrude, or thrust yourself to the front of a line without waiting.
OBTRUDE
Example: She tried to OBTRUDE the wedge through the door Root: OB means AGAINST Form: verb Tone: neg 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 vessels-things that occlude the flow of blood. To preclude something is to prevent it from happening. A muzzle precludes a dog from biting. Mnemonic: OCCLUDE is to Exclude Example: A blood clot OCCLUDEd an artery to the heart.
OCCLUDE
PRECLUDE
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 Mnemonic: The progression of the disease can be RETARDed by early surgery. 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. Mnemonic: STYMIE rhymes with: Tie me, so you cant move and its a STYMIE (obstacle) Example: A problem in thermodynamics that STYMIEd half the class. Mnemonic: War THWART my plans Example: They were doing all they could to THWART the terrorists.
RETARD
To retard something is to slow it down. This is also a mean and inappropriate word for someone who's mentally slow. 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. The verb stymie means to obstruct or hinder. Constantly texting with your friends will stymie your effort to finish your homework.
Form: noun Tone: neg STOCKADE
Form: verb Tone: neg STYMIE
Form: verb Tone: neg THWART
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.
Form: verb Tone: neg TRAMMEL
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.
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 Form: adj Tone: pos EMBELLISH Form: verb Tone: pos EFFULGENT 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. BAROQUE 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. ADORN Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: pos 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/Example 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 Mnemonic: Music fromlate 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 waysmore BAROQUE (showy)than classical. Mnemonic: Eff (Efficient)+ full+ gen(gem)= an efficient full gem shins brightly Example: Love these EFFULGENT daffodils. 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 Mnemonic: FLORIDa mein FLORID stalls and FLORID (reddish) complexion girls. Example: The bride had a FLORID dress.
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. 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
FLORID
be florid with the reddish color that comes from exercise and living Form: verb Tone: pos GARNISH 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. The noun intricacy means a quality of being complex or elaborately detailed. You could compliment the intricacy of your friend's complicated hairdo. Mnemonic: Garden is GARNISHed with new plants and gorgeous flowers Example: GARNISH the chicken with almonds. Mnemonic: Intricate sounds like DELICATE and so is the meaning Example: an intricate network of loyalties and relationships
Form: noun Tone: neut INTRICACY
Form: adj Tone: pos ORNATE
If something is ornate 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. 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." 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: This pendant is RESPLENDENT Example: Mary looked RESPLENDENT in her royal blue velvet prom dress. Mnemonic: SPECTACULAR sounds like Miraculous and so is the meaning. Example: Messi scored a SPECTACULAR goal. Root: SPEC- means to SEE
Form: adj Tone: pos RESPLENDENT
Form: adj Tone: pos SPECTACULAR
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 PROSAIC INSIPID Form: adj Tone: neg DRAB Form: adj Tone: neg BLAND Form: adj Tone: neg AUSTERE Form: adj Tone: neg ASCETIC Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. When you have a nasty cold and youre very congested, food can taste unappealingly bland. That means dull, flavorless, or just plain blah. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: someone who leaves all AESTHETICs (art of beauty)is an ASCETIC Example: Only real saints and sages are ASCETIC in nature. Mnemonic: Aus tere: Austrailian live AUSTERE life and practice that s why they do good. Example: It is a monk s AUSTERE life; AUSTERE grandeur of the cathedral. 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. Mnemonic: Crab is a DRAB creature. Example: a cold DRAB little office
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. Some insipid is lacking in flavor or interest. You'll probably find the generic poems inside of greeting cards insipid. Prosaic means ordinary or dull. Most of us lead a prosaic everyday life, sometimes interrupted by some drama or crisis.
Mnemonic: INSIPID coffee, so you dont sip it INSIPID people are Stupid Example: This is a cup of INSIPID coffee 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. Mnemonic: A barren desert or a room with no furniture or curtains is STARK. It can also mean "severe, stern, or
Form: adj Tone: neg
Form: adj Tone: neg
extremely simple or plain
STARK
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 Form: adj Tone: neg 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.) 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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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 INCRIMINATE Form: verb Tone: neg IMPUTE Form: noun Tone: neg IMPLICATE Form: verb Tone: neg ALLEGE Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. 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. 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: IMPLICATE implies Incriminate are synonyms, involved in crimnal activity Example: He tried to avoid saying anything that would IMPLICATE him further. 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
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. Mnemonic: Rhymes with VERDICT Example: She was INDICTed for murder.
Form: verb Tone: neg INDICT
If you accuse someone of committing an offense, you indict them. A book that indicts the entire education system might lay out all the
reasons that schools are failing kids. Form: verb Tone: neg return an accusation against someone or engage in mutual accusations; charge in return 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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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 Form: adj Tone: neg INCONSISTENT 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. 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. ERRATIC Form: adj Tone: neg CAPRICIOUS Form: adj Tone: neg ARBITRARY Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg Meaning 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. 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: ARBITRARY art Example: Hitler was an ARBITRARY leader.
Mnemonic: I like this one, but other will look better on me..CAPRICIOUS Example: The storm was CAPRICIOUS and changed course constantly. 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 Mnemonic: In (NOT) and Consistent (CONSTANT). NOT CONSTANT. Example: The report is INCONSISTENT with the financial statements.
IRRESOLUTE
Mnemonic: IRRESOLUTE is not resolute IRRESOLUTE dont know new year resolution Example: She had no respect for him because he seemed weak-willed and IRRESOLUTE Root: IR means NOT
Form: adj Tone: neg
MERCURIAL
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. Oscillating means to vacillate between differing opinions,conditions, etc
Mnemonic: Mercury level in the blood pressure testing device is MERCURIAL when measuring B.P Example: Advertising is a MERCURIAL business
Form: verb Tone: neg OSCILLATING
Mnemonic: Oscillate is like Vacillate. Example: Her moods oscillated between depression and elation.
Form: noun Tone: neg PENDULATING
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. 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? 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. 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: 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 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. 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. Mnemonic: The word soon came to mean "to talk foolishly" and then eventually "to vacillate, to change." Example: She continues to WAFFLE
Form: adj Tone: neg
TEMPERAMENTAL
VACILLATING
Form: adj Tone: neg
VOLATILE
WAFFLE
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
means to avoid making a definitive decision. Form: verb Tone: neg WAVERING the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes
on honesty,and is capitalizing on dishonesty Mnemonic: Like a sea WAVE going UP and DOWN in taking decision: WAVERING Example: He wavered in his determination. Mnemonic: Whims and Fancies which are odd, because they rarely come true. Example: He was forced to pander to her every WHIMSICAL idea.
Form: adj Tone: neg
WHIMSICAL
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.
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Meaning When your best friends 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. 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. When youve 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/Example Mnemonic: Ash fans were ASHEN when Ash got married to Abhishek Example: Her face was ASHEN with fear.
ASHEN
Form: adj Tone: neg PALLID
Mnemonic: Pal had PALLID expressions which is like a lid. Example: His thin, PALLID face broke into a smile 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. Mnemonic: SALLOW - Yellow Example: She has SALLOW complexion due to jaundice
PALLOR
Form: adj Tone: neg SALLOW
Sallow means unhealthy in appearance-often yellow in color-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. Someone who is wan is visibly unwell and lacking in energy. If youve 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.
Form: noun Tone: neg 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.
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Groups ACTIVATE / SPEED UP BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY CARELESS / DIRTY CONFIRM / SUPPORT DEADLOCK DISRESPECTING SACRED THINGS 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 TOTTERING Form: verb Tone: neg/neut unsteady in gait as from infirmity or old age FUMBLE FOUNDER Form: verb Tone: neg/neut to fail because of a particular problem or difficulty FLOUNDER Form: verb Tone: neg/neut FALTER Words Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg/neut Meaning 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." 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/Example Mnemonic: FALTER sounds like Fault When you FALTER you make lots of Faults. Example: As he neared the house, he FALTERed 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. Mnemonic: FOUNDER sounds like flounder with similar meaning. Example: The peace talks FOUNDERed on a basic lack of trust. 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. Mnemonic: TOTTERING is being unsteady like TINY TOT, who keeps TOTTERING because he is small Example: The building tottered and collapsed. Example: Only, unlike Apple, Facebook shares are on WOBBLY footing at best.
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.
WOBBLY
inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
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Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neg/neut
Meaning a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility
Mnemonic/Example 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. Mnemonic: Nomi-nal sounds like Name, and thats the meaning. NOMINAL means IN NAME ONLY. Example: He remained in NOMINAL control of the business for another ten years. Root: NOMEN means NAME. 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
in name only, without authority.
NOMINAL
TITULAR
You might say youre 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, its just a title. Theres no power behind it.
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Groups AFTER-EFFECTS COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS 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
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Meaning 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. 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/Example 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.
RAMIFICATION
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.
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Groups AFTER-EFFECTS COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS 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 DISCREET 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. DISASSEMBLE Form: verb Tone: neg 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. DEMURE Form: adj Tone: pos A demure woman or girl can be described as polite and a little shy. A demure outfit is a modest one-think high neckline and low hem. DEMUR Form: verb Tone: neut/neg ALLUSION Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neut Meaning 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." 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/Example 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. 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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: DISCREET- diSECRET. "You must be DISCREET about our SECRET." Example: You should ask a few DISCREET questions before you sign anything.
DISCRETE
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 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 Mnemonic: A fort thats stands straight and strong is a symbol of Support and strength. Example: They fortified the area against attack. 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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: INCUM + BENT - OFFICIALS are BENT on(determined)
DISSEMBLE
To dissemble is to hide under a false appearance, to deceive. "When confronted about their human rights record, the Chinese government typically dissembles."
Form: verb Tone: pos FORTIFY
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. 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. When you immure someone or something, you put it behind a wall, as in a jail or some other kind of confining space.
ILLUSION
Form: verb Tone: neut IMMURE
Form: adj Tone: neg
INANE
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.
An incumbent is an official who holds an office. If you want to
INCUMBENT
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 Mnemonic: Since Birth is INNATE Example: He never lost his INNATE sense of fun.
Form: adj Tone: neut INNATE
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Bikes on which you recline rather than sit upright are recumbent. Recumbent means to leaning back in a reclining position.
Form: verb Tone: neg INURE
Mnemonic: INUREd means its 'in' 'your' systemyour used to it... Example: The prisoners quickly became INUREd to the harsh conditions. 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. 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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: If you've ever seen a TV show
Form: adj Tone: neg
LOATH
Form: verb Tone: neg LOATHE
Form: verb Tone: neg MORTIFY
RECUMBENT
To testify is to make a statement or provide
evidence, usually in court. Witnesses testify for the prosecution or defense. TESTIFY
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. 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. 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 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. 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. Mnemonic: VINDICTIVEwin+addictive obsessed about winning ...so always having ill will against others Example: He accused her of being VINDICTIVE.
Form: adj Tone: neg
TESTY
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.
Form: adj Tone: neg VENAL
Someone with venal motives is corrupt and maybe a little evil. Nobody wants to be thought of as venal.
VENIAL
Some crimes are unforgivable. Others are venial - venial crimes and sins are excusable. They're not a big deal.
VINDICATE
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.
Form: adj Tone: neg
VINDICTIVE
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.
Form: noun Tone: neg WRAITH
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. 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: Those who have faith , dont believe in WRAITH Example: He has a a WRAITH-like.
WRATH
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.
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Meaning 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. To retaliate means to get back at someone, usually through a counterattack. Ned got hit with a cream pie, then he retaliated by throwing a bucket of Jell-O at his attackers.
Mnemonic/Example 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 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.
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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. 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. Mnemonic: RAZE = Erase Which means to remove or clean completely. Example: Dozens of villages have been RAZEd due to floods.
Form: verb Tone: neg RAZE
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Meaning 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. 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, were sure you would never do that, right? Right?)
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: A=ALWAYS B=BRINGS a S=SHAME Example: I was ABASHed by the magnitude of the others generosity so I donated twenty thousand more
ABASH
DISCOMFIT
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. 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
MORTIFY
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.
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Meaning 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. to understate or deemphasize; downplay
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Hyper Beyond the limit Example: The film is being promoted with all the usual HYPERBOLE. Hes not usually given to HYPERBOLE Example: The coach is underplaying the team's poor performance. 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
X UNDERPLAY
represent as less significant or important
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Meaning 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. expel from a country
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Vanishing oneself from power is BANISH ; hand over Example: He was BANISHed to Australia, where he died five years later. Mnemonic: DEPORT = depart moving from one place to another from india to us 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 Example: She was EXPELled from school at 15. Root: EX- means OUT OF/ FROM
BANISH
DEPORT
to exclude or expel from membership or participation in any group, association, etc.
EXCOMMUNICATE
Form: verb Tone: neg EXPEL
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.
EXTRADITE
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.
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Meaning Something that's faddish is in style, often for a brief length of time.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: f+ add+ish = f(follow) add = advertisements fashion Example: Timelessness is key--so watch out for FADDISH designs. 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
Form: noun Tone: neut VOGUE
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, its not.
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Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: relate it to emit/illuminate. HEMAN ATE and come out (EMANATE) from his home Example: He EMANATEs power and confidence. 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.
EMANATE
EMIT
Form: verb Tone: neut RADIATE
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.
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Groups AFTER-EFFECTS COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS 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 TRENCHANT 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 INCISIVE Form: adj Tone: neg CAUSTIC ACRIMONIOUS Form: adj Tone: neg Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neg ACERBIC Meaning 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. 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. 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: ACRIMONIOUS sounds like Ominous. Both has to do with a bad or wrong doing. Example: His parents went through an ACRIMONIOUS divorce. 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. 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 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
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.
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Meaning 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/Example 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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: SCRUPLE and PRINCIPLE sounds alike. Example: He had no SCRUPLES about spying on her.
COMPUNCTION
MISGIVINGS
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.
QUALMS
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 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.
Form: noun Tone: pos SCRUPLES
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Relation to Group Form: verb Tone: neg/pos
Meaning When you conceal something, you are keeping it from being discovered: To avoid another argument with his cousins, Jonathan worked hard to conceal his disappointment at the outcome of the race.
Mnemonic/Example 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 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.
CONCEAL
DIVULGE
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.
Form: verb Tone: neg SECRETE
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.
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Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: Talent Regroup LATENT as Talent. Talent is LATENT. Example: These children have a huge reserve of LATENT talent Mnemonic: QUIESCENT quies - quiet > motionless Example: The QUIESCENT melancholy of the town enchants me.
DORMANT
Form: adj Tone: neg LATENT
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. The adjective quiescent means "being quiet and still," like the quiescent moments lying in a hammock on a beautiful summer Sunday. There is a tone to the word stagnant that sounds like what it is: lacking movement, stale, and inactive, especially with exaggerated pronunciation, "staaaagnant."
Form: adj Tone: neg QUIESCENT
Form: adj Tone: neg
STAGNANT
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.
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Meaning 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: auto(self) + nomous(operation) = self operating Example: AUTONOMOUS provinces which make their own laws. Root: AUTO- refers to SELF 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. Mnemonic: India is a SOVEREIGN, Secular,socialist, Democratic and republic country. Example: an autonomous judiciary,a SOVEREIGN state
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LATITUDE
Form: adj,n Tone: pos SOVEREIGN
having complete power, freedom or authority
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Meaning If a newspaper editorial describes a politician as feckless, you might wonder, "What is feck, and why doesnt he have any? In fact, the columnist is accusing the politician of being irresponsible and incompetent. 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: think of FECk-LESS as afFECting LESS because it is so useless. Example: She had lost the FECKLESSness of youth and settled down. Mnemonic: IN = Not, effect sounds like effective. Thus, INEFFECTUAL = ineffective . Example: This is an INEFFECTUAL attempt to reform the law Mnemonic: Efficacy is EFFECTIVE Example: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the treatment
FECKLESS
Form: adj Tone: neg INEFFECTUAL
Form: noun Tone: pos X EFFICACY
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Meaning assign to a lower position; reduce in rank
Mnemonic/Example 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 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
Form: verb Tone: neg RELEGATE
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.
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Meaning Bikes on which you recline rather than sit upright are recumbent. Recumbent means to leaning back in a reclining position.
Mnemonic/Example 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 Mnemonic: REPOSE = resting pose Example: The first rays of morning sun disturbed their REPOSE. Mnemonic: Spine Lying on Spine is SUPINE Example: Clare remained SUPINE, her eyes closed.
RECUMBENT
Form: noun Tone: neut REPOSE
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. 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").
Form: adj Tone: neut SUPINE
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Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: SMIle+IRK....meaning SMILE IN AN IRKY MANNER OR IRRITATED MANNER Example: He SMIRKed unpleasantly when we told him the bad news. 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
A smirk is specific kind of smile, one that suggests selfsatisfaction, smugness, or even pleasure at someone else's unhappiness or misfortune.
Form: adj Tone: neg SMUG
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.
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Mnemonic: BASKetball player Michel Jordan lives luxury life. Example: We sat BASKing in the warm sunshine.
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.
Mnemonic: To con a jury you need magical power
CONJURE
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. Form: adj Tone: neut 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. Pardon me, but when a polite term is substituted for a blunt, offensive one, you should call it a euphemism. 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. 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. If something is inevitable, it Mnemonic: Corp o real: Corporate o real: always target the material aspect of customer, dont care about the spiritual part Example: CORPOREAL reality as the goddess herself appeared. Root: CORP- means BODY
CORPOREAL
Form: noun Tone: pos 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: User fees is just a politician's EUPHEMISM for taxes. Root: EU- means GOOD Mnemonic: blUE(HUE)...blue is a color Example: Her paintings capture the subtle HUES of the countryside in the fall.
HUES
Form: adj Tone: pos
INEFFABLE
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.
Mnemonic: Remember INEVITABLE sounds like IN-
INEVITABLE
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 Mnemonic: JADED sounds like faded.. which means WORN OUT, WEARIED, TIRED Example: It was a meal to tempt even the most JADED palate.
Form: adj Tone: neg
JADED
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. 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. 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. 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. Use the word
Mnemonic: eating well is the LINCHPIN to staying healthy. Example: Nurses are the LINCHPIN of our health center.
LINCHPIN
Form: adj Tone: pos/neg
LOFTY
Mnemonic: LOFTY sounds like HEFTY (big/ large). He played a lofted shot in the air Example: A towering mountain can be called "LOFTY."
Form: noun Tone: neg/neut
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
MERCENARY
Form: noun
Mnemonic: NEMESIS can be
Tone: neg
NEMESIS
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. 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. Pathos is a quality that stirs emotions. A song with a lot of pathos hits you right in the heart. 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.
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
OBJECTIVE
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.
Form: noun Tone: neut PATHOS
Mnemonic: PATHOS is related to SYMPATHY, EMPATHY. Example: The scene was full of PATHOS.
PURVEYOR
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
RHAPSODIZE
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"
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. 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: SUBJECTIVE sounds like Subject, which seems to be related to a particular Subject only. Example: Everyone's opinion is bound to be SUBJECTIVE.
SUBJECTIVE
VICARIOUS
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.
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Mnemonic/Example
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morally low; without estimable Mnemonic: BASE is personal qualities. waste (very bad quality) Example: She was upset to see his BASE behavior In common use, sublime is an adjective meaning "aweinspiringly grand, excellent, or impressive," like the best chocolate fudge sundae you've ever had. Mnemonic: once u sublimate(purify) your earthly pleasures you will be SUBLIME(noble) Example: The location of the hotel is SUBLIME.
Form: adj Tone: pos SUBLIME
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Meaning 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/Example 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. 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. 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 Mnemonic: If you 'Persistently' tell someone 'Cute' he/she wil be irritated. Example: Throughout history, people have been persecuted for their religious beliefs.
ASYLUM
HARBOR
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.
Form: noun Tone: pos HAVEN
Need to find shelter, from the weather or from other troubles? Then you need a haven.
Form: verb Tone: neg PERSECUTE (X)
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.
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Groups AFTER-EFFECTS COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS 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 X EXTIRPATE Form: verb Tone: neut The verb extirpate originally literally meant "to weed out by the roots." Now you'd use it when you want to get rid of PROPAGATE Form: verb Tone: neut To propagate is to be fruitful and multiply, by the usual routes of reproduction, or by spreading something around - like a rumor. PROMULGATE DISSEMINATE Form: verb Tone: neut DIFFUSE Words Relation to Group Form: adj Tone: neut Meaning 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. 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. 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/Example 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.
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. 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. 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. Mnemonic: Imagine that you destroy someone's wig by throwing eggs and turps on it Example: Indian extirpated the British
something completely as if pulling it up by the root.

after a long struggle.
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Meaning Retribution is the act of taking revenge. If you pull a prank on someone, expect retribution.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Ratri at tuition and teacher scolded her and she got her RETRIBUTION. Example: People are seeking RETRIBUTION for the latest terrorist outrages. Mnemonic: 'venge'ance, add rein beginning, it becomes revenge, so it means taking revenge Example: He swore VENGEANCE on his child's killer.
RETRIBUTION
VENGEANCE
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.
Form: adj Tone: neg
VINDICTIVE
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.
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Groups AFTER-EFFECTS COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS 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 Form: noun Tone: neut A mandate is like an official command or a go-ahead. When a politician wins an DOGMAS Form: noun Tone: neut Dogma means the doctrine of belief in a religion or a political system. DOCTRINE Form: noun Tone: neut DICTUM Form: noun Tone: neut CANONS Form: noun Tone: neut AXIOMS Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: neut Meaning 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/Example 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 standards 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 Mirth 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 Mnemonic: They have something called Doctor Medical DOCTRINE for doctors Example: He was deeply committed to political DOCTRINEs of social equality. 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. Mnemonic: man+date man(boss) orders you to finish
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.
MANDATE
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. 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
Form: noun Tone: neut TENETS
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.
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Meaning 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/Example 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. 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
Form: noun Tone: neg PARADOX
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!
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Meaning start to burn or burst into flames
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: COMBUST sounds like CAN BURST INTO FIRE anytime Example: Never place candles on top of tv or other plastic COMBUSTible surfaces. 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. Mnemonic: A CANDLE can be KINDLEd. Example: We watched as the fire slowly KINDLEd.
COMBUST
INCINERATE
See incinerate and think: "burn, dear, burn!" Whether its 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.
Form: verb Tone: neut KINDLE
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.
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Meaning To incite is to cause to act or occur. Violent words can incite violent actions which, in turn, might incite public outcry against 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. 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/Example Mnemonic: INCITE rhymes with excite which also means arouse to action. Example: They were accused of inciting the crowd to violence. Mnemonic: I am always motivated whenever I see the Institute gate (relate to INSTIGATE) of "MIT". Example: They were accused of instigating racial violence. 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. Mnemonic: seidition = said+i+shun he said i will shun u.. reisitance 2 authority Example: Two journalists were charged with SEDITION
INCITE
Form: verb Tone: neg INSTIGATE
PROVOKE
Form: noun Tone: neg SEDITION
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.
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Meaning 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/Example 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. Mnemonic: (gene)ric...in genes...so it is a characteristic of the entire class/species Example: Broadband is a GENERIC term for any high-speed connection to the Internet. 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
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.
UNIVERSAL
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.
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Groups AFTER-EFFECTS COMMONLY CONFUSED WORDS 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 MULTIFARIOUS Form: adj Tone: pos MULTIFACETED Form: adj Tone: pos MOTLEY Form: adj Tone: neut 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. 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. ECLECTIC Form: adj Tone: pos/neut 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. Words Relation to Group Form: noun Tone: pos DIVERSITY Meaning When there's diversity, there's variety. Often, this word is used for diversity of race, class, or gender. Mnemonic/Example 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 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 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 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 Mnemonic: Multi means MANY and Farious relates to variety. So many varieties calls for MULTIFARIOUS Example: the MULTIFARIOUS life forms in the coral reef
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.
Form: adj Tone: pos PIED
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. 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. make something more diverse and varied
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. Mnemonic: SUNDRY contains SUNDRY items in purse Example: On what basis will these SUNDRY expenses be met?
Form: adj Tone: pos
SUNDRY
Form: adj Tone: pos VARIEGATE
Mnemonic: VARIEGATE is nothing but VARIETY Example: This is a a plant with VARIEGATEd leaves 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.
Form: adj Tone: pos VERSATILE
To describe a person or thing that can adapt to do many things or serve many functions, consider the adjective versatile.
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Meaning 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. 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. 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/Example 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 Mnemonic: PASTORAL is Rural Example: In these stories of PASTORAL life, we find an understanding of the daily tasks of country folk 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
Form: adj Tone: neut PASTORAL
RUSTIC
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to make someone angry (syn) Form: v Infuriate Tone: negative

very angry Form: adj Tone: negative

furiously angry (syn) Form: adj Tone: negative Livid

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

Extreme anger (syn) Form: adj Tone: negative Rabid

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

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

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

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

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

headlong dive for the base.

divert (syn) Form: v Tone: neg Shunt

move to a less important place or position.

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not efficient (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

awkward (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

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

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

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

Burn (syn) Form: v Tone: neg

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

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

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an expert (syn) Form: n Tone: pos Pundit

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

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

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

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

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proceed aimlessly (effect) Form: v Tone: Neg

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attractive (opp) Form: adj Tone: pos

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

causing horror( syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

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

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

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

ugly (cause) Form: adj

terribly unpleasant (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

horrifying because involved with

death (nature) Form: adj Tone: neg

shocking (syn) Form: adj Tone: neg

ugly (cause) Form: adj Tone: neg Unsightly