FINAL GRE WORD LIST

Inert

inactive or sluggish by habit or nature., having little or no ability to react, inert gases like helium and neon do not chemically react easily with other elements

Intangible

incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch like a tangent something that cannot be grasped or perceived

Infallible

incapable of failure or error in (not) + failure ; therefore something that cannot make mistakes or fail

Inequity

lack of equity; unfairness; favoritism or bias. close to unequal (without balance/unfair)

Improbity

lack of honesty or moral scruples. improbability - something not possible is not truthful or dishonest

Incinerate

reduced to ashes and burned out completely cinerate sounds like cigarette that burns out into ash.

Iconoclast

someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions Icons+clash - someonels who's ideals clash with those of the icons

Ineffable

something that cannot be uttered in (not) + fable (story) - a story or something to be said that cannot be expressed The feeling when you get a new puppy is ineffable — too strange and wonderful to define.

Incursion

the act of entering some territory or domain (often in large numbers) think of it as similar to excursion, going to a different place or area

Insolvency

the lack of financial resources In + (solve + ent - money can solve you problems, someone without money cannot solve them

Imprecate

wish harm upon; invoke evil upon close to implicate which means to imply as involved with something negative/indirectly accuse - thus bringing harm upon another

Illimitable

without limits in extent or size or quantity il (negative prefix meaning not or no ) + limit - no limits/ without limits

Incorporeal

without material form or substance in (without) + corporate (a world that has a lot of money/material/substance)

Impiety

without respect for God or religious values im (not) + piety (sounds like deity meaning god) - without

Insidious

working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way insidious= inside+ hideous. think of something terrible, like a disease, hiding inside of the body.

Fell

(adj.) (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering similar to hell a place that inflicts pain and suffering

Analgesia

(n) Pain relier; inability to feel pain Natural birth advocate decline analgesia in chilbirth.

Artifice

(n) cunning tricks used to deceive others. ex- The mayoral candidate was charged for accusing other candidate of artifices design to mislead people.

Aerie

(n) dwelling or fortess built on a high place. eagle Hawk place.

Fledgling

"any new participant in some activity ; young and inexperienced

Antediluvian

"old,ancient,An antique; something of the time before the great flood in the Bible.

Aver

"to assert formally as a fact. "I am innocent," he averred

Aplomb

( n) great coolness and composure under strain. ex- Nancy acted with aplomb during dangerous situations. syn- equanimity, compose, countenance, placid, sangfroid

Piquant

(adj) having an agreeably pungent smell. The chef turned the soup into a piquant meal. Remember from Movie PikU.

Adulation

(noun) servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise

Derelict

(of a person): not doing one's duty. Deserted by an owner or keeper; abandoned.run down,dialpidated dairy + licked=> people will tend to abandon/discard a "dairy milk" chocolate that has been licked.. The teacher was derelict in her duties.

Discursive(adj)

(of speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point.

Ascribe

(v) assign or credit to a certain cause or source. He ascibed his good grades to diligent studying.

Conflate

(v) mix togther different elements or concepts. In his recent book, the author conflates several generes. Sound similar to cornflakes which is a mixture of things.

Dissipate

(v) squander or spend money frivolously. Young people dissipate their earning.

Color

(verb) affect as in thought or feeling

Peruse

(verb) examine or consider with attention and in detail. When you are PER(pertaining) to USE some device you read the manual with care Ex- Instead of perusing the important documents, people all too often rush to the bottom.

Pine

(verb) have a desire for something or someone. Mera dost jab WINE pe leta hai tab he starts pining for his girlfriend. Standing forlornly by the window, she pined for her lost love.

Adjudication

(verb) to serve as a judge in a competition.

Diatribe

A bitter, abusive denunciation. dia+tribe:the lower ranked tribe(in caste division) always face thunderous verbal attack from upper caste people.

Diadem

A crown worn as a sign of royalty. dia + dem; dia + gem; dia is related to circle; Circle of Gems is what a crown has

Effigy

A crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group. A likeness or image, especially of a person. Latin,effingere "mold, fashion, portray," from ex- "out" + fingere "to form, shape"

Exodus

A departure of a large number of people ek sau dus - 110 -> 11 - > nau do gyarah means departure

Dudgeon

A feeling of anger, resentment, indignation, etc. Dudgeon sounds like dungeon, and I would be very resentful if I were put in a dungeon

Contrite

A feeling of regret for one's sins or misdeeds SPLIT AS cont (COUNT) - rite (RIGHT). COUNT THE CASH RIGHT, ELSE YOU WILL REGRET IT.

Dossier

A file of papers containing a report. Dossier sounds like BOSS+here.. so ur boss is here n he needs d file!

Convention

A formal meeting, a widely observed/practised rule

Covenant

A formal sealed agreement or contract..an agreement between God and his people in which God makes certain promises and requires certain behavior from them in return Covalent means a kind of bonding, Covenant means binding between ppl.

Dirge

A funeral hymn or lament. A dirge gives me da (the) urge to start crying.

Crescendo

A gradual increase, especially in the volume or intensity of sound divide it like cresc(sound like krish)+end..at the end of krish movie..when hrithik kills the villian..the intensity or the volume of music increses .which conveys the feeling.

Deluge

A great flood or a heavy downpour del[del company]uge[huge]...so when the Del company advertised it's product, there was a huge rush of requests, a deluge of requests.

Canon

A law or rule. The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures sounds like canun -> kanun -> set of laws; so canon is the set of books containing kanun

Dissertation

A lengthy, formal treatise, especially one written by a candidate for the doctoral degree at a university; a thesis. essay on 'A dessert Station'..

Azure

A light purplish-blue. The blue sky sounds simillar to azo..which is dye used to colour clothes..........derived from azo compounds...this dye is available in blue

Ecclesiastic

A minister or priest; a cleric. (ecclesiastic = eccles + iastic) eccles sounds like 'EGG-LESS' and priests generally don't eat eggs.

Appellation

A name, title, or designation. Imagine the finest Technology company - Apple. It's a symbol of designation, a prestigious title. Ex- A twisted rood need appellation " sidewinder lane".

Egress

A path or opening for going out; an exit.Exit, act of leaving or going out. after giving GRE-U-LEAVE FOR US, EXITING India

Epicurean

A person devoted to pleasure and luxury Link it to the word epicure which means the same.

Emissary

A person sent to represent another. the word relates to Missionary --> some one with a mission i.e an AGENT

Demagogue

A person who appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the people to gain power. demo(means people) agogue (means leading ) so it adds up to leading people in a wrong way.

Charlatan

A person who makes elaborate, fraudulent, and often voluble claims to skill or knowledge you hit CHAR LATEIN (in Hindi language) (4 kicks) to the person who misguides you as he himself doesn't know anything.

Ascetic

A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion. ascetic ~ acidic; he is living ascetic life by drinking and eating only acidic things (not good in taste) and avoid anything have good taste.

Epicure

A person with refined taste, especially in food and wine. EPIC-CURRY...one who can write an EPIC on CURRY has to be a CONNOISSEUR OF FOOD..

Elegy

A poem or song composed especially as a lament for a deceased person. E(a)-LEGY(legendry).....so if a legendry person dies......people sing a mournful poem or people lament or regret for his death..

Epithet

A profane or obscene term ,The word or words by which one is called and identified: epithet = a + pithet -> a pathetic (person)

Catharsis

A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear, CATHA sounds like KATHA(a religious story in hindi)..KATHA leads to the purging(means release) of emotional tensions.

Epiphany

A revelatory manifestation of a divine being. Epi + Phan - read as appearcance of famous person-associated with the revelation of Jesus to the world

Augur

A seer or prophet; a soothsayer. Syn- Prognosticate, Presage

Epigram

A short, witty poem. A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement. telegram-->simple note....epigram--->witty note

Dilemma

A situation that requires a choice between options that are or seem equally unfavorable or mutually exclusive.

Desuetude

A state of disuse or inactivity. desuetude --- de sue can be remembered as Disuse.

Dolt

A stupid person; a dunce. dolt rhymes with bolt. Nut-bolt ~ what a nut he is. (stupid person)

Dragnet

A system of coordinated procedures for apprehending criminal suspects or other wanted persons u drag a jaal (net) to catch criminals

Caption

A title, short explanation, or description accompanying an illustration or a photograph. Just as Captain accompanies his team & explains them how to play,caption accompanies a photograph & explains what it is about

Harried

ADJ troubled persistently especially with petty annoyance My cousin Harry irritated me regularly Ravi was harried with little questions and could not focus on her projects. petulant , peevish

Brusque

Abrupt and curt in manner or speech brusque...sounds like brisk...and if you solve someone's doubt briskly..you are trying to be abrupt..... The teacher was brusque and impatient.

Celibate

Abstinence from sexual intercourse, especially by reason of religious vows. celi+ABATE - stop sex

Accede (v)

Accedence (n) Agree, given consent,assume power

Fallacy

Adj a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning "fal' from false, therefore something that leads to false understanding

Compliance

An act of willingly carrying out the wishes of others,the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another com + pliance, pliant means flexible - yielding.

Comity

An atmosphere of social harmony. comity sounds like come eat with us, which displays courtesy.

Dogma

An authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true. Mother's word (ma) is all the proof you need

Dictum

An authoritative statement. dictator means authoritarian; dictum means an authoritative statement.

Accolade

An expression of approval; praise. A+Cool+Aide is a praise for the effort by a Distinction Student

Abyss (n)

An immeasurably deep chasm, depth, or void. Something of immeasurable and vast exten a + bys (take this as 20 i.e. bees in hindi language)+mal(take it as mile)..... so a 20 mile deep pit in the ground looks like its bottomless. an abyss of despair

Epitaph

An inscription on a tombstone in memory of the one buried there. a person writing on the tomb of his father - 'e pitah'

Acreage

Area of land measured in acres. acre+age: acre-it is a unit to measure extent of land

Droll

Arousing laughter when u r amused u roll on the ground

Effrontery

Brazen boldness; presumptuousness, impudence; arrogance. for every discussion he comes to the FRONT and argues...in a rude manner. The skateboarders acted with effrontery, skating through the church and spray-painting signs warning trespassers.

Bravura

Brilliant technique or style in performance. A showy manner or display. brav(e)+ (s)ura - impressive song performance - display of skill

Canny

Careful and shrewd, especially where one's own interests are concerned. cautious in spending money a can is used to store stuff and hence canny refers to storing money and not easliy spending it

Detrimental

Causing damage or harm; injurious. look at the part MENTAL...a MENTAL person can cause serious harm or injury when violent

Capricious

Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable ca(CAR) + PRIC(PRICE)...PRICE OF cars nowadays is becoming unpredictable with the launch of Tata's 1 lakh car.

Exact

Characterized by strict adherence to standards or rules I want the EXACT amount! nothing more nothing less! very demanding

Bilk (v)

Cheat or defraud. The con artist bilked many elderly people.

Compendium (n)

Concise but complete summary; a list or collection.

Decorous

Conforming to accepted standards Sally's parties are decorous affairs.

Complacent

Contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned placement ... hogaya ab i am fully satisfied with myself

Exhaustive

Covering all aspects with painstaking accuracy: a person is exhausted after he covers all the aspects of research,so exhaustive-somethingthat covers all the aspects

Exegesis

Critical explanation or analysis, especially of a text. Something that serves to explain or clarify exe+ges+is (explain your guess work)

Chicanery

Deception by trickery or sophistry. sounds like Chick..a chick who tricks

Antipathy

Deep-seated hatred, as between longtime opponents or rivals; Extreme hostility and dislike remember antipathy as anti party. in politics the people of anti-party are quite opposite in feeling

Equivocal

Deliberately ambiguous or vague: If everyone spoke in an "equal-voice" you wouldn't be able to decipher who was calling.

Estimable

Deserving of esteem; admirable esteem+able- able to get esteem,worthy of esteem

Aberrant

Deviating from the proper or expected course. Departing from the normal. ab (away) + err (error) + ant : focus on ERR and ANT, usually an ant follows a path ... so moving away from (root ab means away from) that path means, error in regular path and hence deviating from normal path...or behaviour

Enigmatic

Difficult to explain or understand Enigmatic = "a night magic" --> Magic at night is mysterious and difficult to understand.

Abstruse

Difficult to understand; recondite It contains "ab....use". ab generally stands for negative sense and so 'ab+ use' can be taken as difficult to use. A word will be difficult to use if it is difficult to understand.

Blight (n,v)

Disease that kills plants rapidly, or any cause of decay or destruction. Syn- Scourge

Cloying (adj)

Disgustingly or distastefully sweet. Syn- Treacly, saccharine I can't stand those cloying movies my grandmother watches.

Abstemious

Eating and drinking in moderation. Exercising moderation and self-restraint in appetites and behavior link to abstain

Draconian

Exceedingly harsh; very severe: a draconian legal code; draconian budget cuts. dracon(SOUNDS LIKE DRACULA)...and a dracula as we have seen in movies, gives EXTREMELY SEVERE PUNISHMENT to people.

Desiccate

Excessive loss of moisture; uninterested , lacking vitality. The process of drying up desi cake is always dried up. This novel is a desiccated work-boring shadow of former books.

Articulate

Expressing oneself easily in clear and effective language: art + calculate; if you are good in art of speaking as well as good in calculations (maths), you will be able to express yourself in a better way.

Debauchery

Extreme indulgence in sensual pleasures; dissipation. immoral self-indulgence de (isused for negative)+ bauch sounds like nauch girls,so pleasure derived from bad dance

Emaciation

Extreme thinness and wasting, caused by disease or under nutrition

Exiguous

Extremely scanty; meager. Latin exiguus, from exigere "to weigh precisely, measure"

Audacious

Fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold when you go for some audition you need to be bold and daring.

Candid

Free from prejudice; impartial. candidates in an interview are recommended to be straight forward in an interview for best result.....

Exuberant

Full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy. Extreme in degree, size, or extent. EXUBERANT-Over Excess number of ANTS. ants are unrestrained, in large numbers

Explicit

Fully and clearly expressed; They wanted explicit directions to the museum so they would not get lost.

camaraderie

Goodwill and lighthearted rapport between or among friends; comradeship. break it up.. Camara + de + rie.. you give or share your room with your friends with whom you have mutual trust.. good-fellowship..

Delectable

Greatly pleasing; delightful. normally associated with food delight on table- delectable.

Empirical

Guided by practical experience and not theory,based on data Empire...maintaining an empire requires much practical experience

Consequential

Having great significance If you dont pay money, the consequences will be serious"

Desultory

Having no set plan; haphazard or random. De-result...Obviously a haphazard or desultory approach will result to nothing.

Convoluted

Having numerous overlapping coils or folds: volve is root which means to roll. con is prefix which means together.If you roll some thing completely (within it self) it becomes complicated!! and difficult to entangle it!

Artless

Having or displaying no guile, cunning, or deceit,Of a plain and unsophisticated nature art+less means not having many arts to understand very simple and natural.

Dauntless

Having or showing courage Dauntless - Daunt + less .. If daunt(Fright or FEAR) is less , it means you are bold and dauntless.

Effeminate

Having womanish traits or qualities. Characterized by weakness and excessive refinement. e+FFEMINA+te...focus on the middlie part FEMINA.....you must be knowing about FEMINA MISS INDIA , where the focus is on mainly promoting womanhood.

Eulogy

High praise or commendation. eulogy = eu-'good' + log 'root: logue [dialogue, talk, speech]' => Good speech

Baying (adj)

Howling in a deep way;like a dog. The lonely dog bayed all night

Avarice

Immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity. a + very + rich > a strong greed to be 'a very rich' person.

Axiomatic

Indisputably true; self-evident. we learnt axioms in Maths,which we didnt have to prove like Theorems, thus axiomatic means self evident, does not require proof.

Apprise

Inform, give notice to ex- I can't believe you failed to apprise me.

August

Inspiring awe or admiration; majestic:Raised to or occupying a high position or rank August reminds the king Augustus who was majestic and impressive Sy- Eminent, venerable, Olympian

Apathy

Lack of interest or concern, especially regarding matters of general importance or appeal; indifference. a (negative) + pathy : root "pathy" means feeling as in sympathy; so apathy means having no feeling for others or lacking interest in something.

Callow

Lacking adult maturity or experience; immature Callow = Cal + low; caliber is low. Both LA and New York are known for callow out-of-towner hoping to make it bis.

Erratic

Lacking consistency, regularity, or uniformity: focus on ERR + atic..part of it, and err is nothing but ERROR, and errors always look ODD, AND ARE unpredictable in nature.

Extradition

Legal surrender of a fugitive to the jurisdiction of another state ex-tradition.. like tradition is handed down through generations.. so its something to do with passing/giving.. here its a surrendering of a prisoner between two states!

Annul ( verb )

Make void or null, cancel, abolish (usually of law or some establish rules).

Cognizant

Marked by comprehension, cognizance, and perception:somebody who is fully informed & aware "capable of being known,"

Depravity

Moral corruption or degradation. Depravity: Think of "deprive". When people are deprived, they tend to head for corruption.

Heretic

N a person who hold unorthodox opinions in any field(not merely religion) dissident

Canard

N- a deliberately misleading fabrication. The public will always be fooled by the media's canard.

Chagrin

N- a strong feeling of embarrassment. Much to the timid writer's chagrin, the audience chanted his name until he came back on the stage.

Cataclysm

N- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune.

Capitulate

N- to surrender(usually under agreed condition) Pakistan loosing all the 9 wickets for 44 run basically capitulated when they played at their last wicket.

Aspersion

N: Damaging remarks, defamation, slander. he could no longer work with his partner, who acted friendly to his face but then spewed aspersions about him behind his back.

Accretion

N: Gradual increase; an aded part or addition. He was pleased by the accretion of money in his portfolio. Bank account accure interest Syn- Augment, Agglomerate

Opulence

NOUN wealth as exhibited by sumptuous living people who own an OPEL or a LANCER are rich extravagant people Russian oligarchs are famoous for their opulence,living in fancy homes and dining on expensive caviers.

Defunct

No longer in use, force, or operation de (means without) + funct(function)..so something without a functioning is considered DEAD.

Disingenuous

Not straightforward or candid; insincere or calculating: INGENUOUS(can be remembered as genuine) IS SINCERE, INNOCENT AND SOPHISTICATED. AND disingenuous IS not naive, insincere

Paltry

Not worth considering pal means moment in hindi. So, a results from trying something just for a pal(moment) ..may not be worth considering.

Collusion

Noun secret agreement rhymes with illusion- which is not real,appears something else-covers up the real thing-secret;Latin -colludere, from com- "together" + ludere "to play," from ludus "game" Many have argued that Lee Harvey ,JKF's assassin , was in collusion with other criminals.

Empyreal

Of or relating to the heavens: from Gk. empyros "fiery," from pyr "fire;"holy fire-related to God/heaven

Diaphanous

Of such fine texture as to be transparent or translucent: diaphanēs, from dia 'through' + phainein 'to show'

Abhorrence

One that is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent Ab + horror - filled with horror, something that fills you with disgust,horror

Catalyst

One that precipitates a process or event, especially without being involved in or changed by the consequences:

Equestrian

Pertaining to horses or horsemanship. People interested in horses can attend any of the equestrian events held during the fair

Apostle

Pioneer of a reform movement( originally , an early follower of Jesus) Syn- champion, expounder, paladin

Endemic

Prevalent in or peculiar to a particular locality, region, or people "In a demographic," which relates to a specific portion of the population.

Exigent

Requiring immediate action or remedy,Demanding; exacting. EX-tremely ur-GENT

Austere

Severe or stern in disposition or appearance; somber and grave,no adornment or ornamentation; bare austere sounds like severe which it means

Astringent

Sharp and penetrating; pungent or severe astringent ~ a strict agent; an agent who is harsh

Deterrent

Something that deters,Intended to prevent: DETER + RENT. A high rent IS ALWAYS A discouraging factor FOR TENANTS.

Anodyne (n)

Something that soothes or releive pain; inoffensive. ex- Although he enjoyed spicy but Jill prefered a far more anodyne meals today.

Acerbic

Sour or bitter tasting; acid. Sounds like "Acidic." Lemons have a sour taste and are acidic. Therefore, they are ACERBIC.

Debonair (adj)

Suave; urbane.genial Old French, from de bonne aire (of good lineage or disposition). James Bond is known for his debonair manner.

Morose

Sullenly melancholy; gloomy. bleak;dismal;forlorn;lugubrious;morbid;murky;sullen;somber

Drudgery

Tedious, menial, or unpleasant work onsider drudge which sounds like grudge..so when your boss has a grudge on you..he gives you A BORING WORK to you..

Abscission

The act of cutting off; Removal of a part or growth by cutting. ab + scission = scissor scissor separates two things by cutting them ,so separation

Defamation

The act of defaming; calumny defamation = de + fame, which means to reduce fame of a person

Disputation

The act of disputing; debate. link with dispute

Expostulation

The act of expressing strong or reasoned opposition postulate = put forth a theory; expostulate: protest the thory

Dissuasion

The act or an instance of dissuading.

Espionage

The act or practice of spying or of using spies to obtain secret information spi on age.. in our teen age parents use to spy on children

Despondent

The condition of being depressed. desp+on+dent = desperate person dented (hit emotionally) = gloomy and depressed...

Atheism

The doctrine that there is no God from Greek. a+theo( God)s "without god"

Discretion

The exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters:Unrestricted freedom to choose: discrete... means separate..that is we are separate & are not dependent on any one, hence we have the FREEDOM OF ACTION OR JUDGEMENT...

Ellipsis

The omission of a word or phrase necessary for a complete syntactical construction but not necessary for understanding. imagine if you are an editor of a paper, while editing you would make an ellipse on the words to be omitted!!!

Charisma

The power or quality of attracting this word sounds like KARISMA(KAPOOR BOLLYWOOD HEROINE)..she definitely has great charm and is quite appealing.

Equanimity

The quality of being calm and even-tempered; maintaining composure. quanimity = equal + enmity. To fight the enemy you need to be composed and temperamental, else he'll beat you.

Carrion

The rotting flesh of a dead animal. The vulture carries on eating carrion . (carries on=carrion)

Entomology

The scientific study of insects. ent(sounds like ant...and ants come under insects)+ logy(means study)..so studying about insects.

Dregs

The sediment in a liquid,he basest or least desirable portion, residue sounds like drugs...they are worthless residues and are not to be taken

Eugenics

The study of hereditary improvement of the human race by controlled selective breeding. GENICS - link to genetics

Clairvoyant

The supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses. clear + voyan -> boyan(speech); so clairvoyant means who can SPEECH CLEARLY about the future.

Assail

To attack with harsh, often insulting language,also attack with violent blows take 'sail' from 'assail'- for begining a war many warships sailed to the warfront

Cohere

To be united; to work or hold together. involves word "co"+"here" everybody come here...means stay together

Decry

To condemn openly. De+ cry= kids cry when they want to show disapproval. The entire audience in shouts and curses , decrying the wrong panelty given by the referee.

Enumerate

To count or list one by one in enumerate we have numerate like numeral which is a number so we make a list of one thing after the other in points or numbers

Decapitate

To cut off the head of; behead. de = down, cap = head => "decapitate" then means "cut the head

Demean

To deprive of esteem, self-worth, or effectiveness this word sounds like demon....and a demon is disgracing and humiliating in nature.

Disavow

To disclaim knowledge of, responsibility for, or association with. Split as dis+allow means to refuse

Descry

To discover by careful observation or scrutiny; detect If you cry every body will notice you.

Dissemble

To disguise or conceal behind a false appearance. The word sounds like "resemble"...the person/ a thing of tat type can be in disguise...

Environ

To encircle; surround environ..resembles enviroment...and our enviroment is SURROUNDED BY MANY GASES.

Extrapolate

To estimate/forecast on the basis of past values from the EXTRA info that u have, u guess what might happen LATEly or in future

Encapsulate

To express in a brief summary; Enclose in a case or shell. put in a capsule-so has to be condensed

Cavil

To find fault unnecessarily; trivial objections sounds like evil.. evil people always find unnecessary faults in the good..

Exonerate

To free from blame. break it as EX (gone) HONOUR (pride) ~ to bring back your gone or fallen honour by getting the blame off you.

Enjoin

To give orders to EN(means to become) + join...you command and order people to join and become members of your group.

Expatriate

To give up residence in one's homeland. To send into exile EXPATRIATE as EX-PATRIOT, now no more a patriot, as the person withdrew from his native land and settled somewhere else.

Abstain

To hold oneself back ab (meaning away) + stain : we generally tend to stay away from stain (dirt, dust etc)

Emend

To improve by critical editing emend = amend means...make improvements

Exacerbate

To increase the severity, to aggravate further Latin ex+acerb+ate; Latin acerb- means bitter, harsh; So exacerbate means to make bittter, to worsen.

Cavort

To leap and skip about playfully: cavort-cricket sounds rhyming so-Play cricket(cavort)in ground & enjoy.

Abscond

To leave quickly and secretly and hide oneself, often to avoid arrest or prosecution Abscond = ab + scond = Absent in a second. When you will absent in a second? when u STEAL & HIDE, or when u DEPART secretly.

Expiate

To make amends; atone. Rhymes as Ex Pirate. An ex-pirate always tries to expiate his guilt.Ex pirate becomes pious.

Essay

To make an attempt to do or make

Abash(v)

To make ashamed or uneasy To cause (a person) distress; What happens when u get a bash? (bashing)....u get embarrassed. He felt abashed by his deeds. Syn- embarass, discountenance An- embolden, courage

Embellish

To make beautiful, to add fictitious details belle is used to describe beautiful girls.. they generally adorn themselves

Attenuate

To make slender, fine, or small,To lessen the density of; rarefy. at ten + you + ate; if you will eat only at 10 PM (once in a day), you will attenuate.

Adduce( V)

To offer as evidence; to offer something as proof ADD+USE when you tell about added usage you give an example to support the use. Ex- To support the accuse the lwayer adduced data from other resorces.

Extol

To pay tribute or homage to, to honour Extol = Ex + Tol. My EX-Girlfriend always praised the 'Tall' guys highly in front of me. And so our relationship ended!

Engender

To procreate; propagate. give rise to When genders get together they cause, produce, and give rise to offspring yield,breed

Asseverate

To put into words positively and with conviction,To solemnly swear or affirm Link it to assert. aver state confidently

Abate

To reduce in amount, degree, or intensity; lessen Focus on 'ate' part of abate. (eat, ate, eaten). When you eat anything, you reduce it's quantity. George

Execrate

To regard with extreme dislike and hostility, to curse someone or something ex-recate rhymes with HATE

Abdicate

To relinquish (power or responsibility) formally ab (root ab means away as in abandon) + dic (dictatorship) + ate (to eat and hence reduce) : means to give away (or reduce) dictatorship and hence to give-up power

Exhume

To remove from a grave; To dig out of the earth something that has been buried. ex meaning out and hume sounds similar to human...so exhume is to take out the human body from the grave.

Assuage

To satisfy or appease,to calm or to pacify as u (you) age ~ grow old" your excitement temper etc come down

Excoriate

To severely criticize someone or something sounds like COREX-cough syrup,which is bitter & harsh. Lary was excoriated for giving the secrecy informations to the rivals.

Evince

To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest: sounds like evidence which means to show clearly.

Disparage

To speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; belittle. 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.

Expatiate

To speak or write at length: To wander freely. expatiate.....sounds like expect....and you expect every writer to clarify the meaning or the intent of his written essays..or stories...

Expedite

To speed up the progress of; accelerate.To issue officially; dispatch. Exped (sounds like speed) + It; so expedite means to speed up the progress of something.

Capitulate

To surrender under specified conditions; come to terms. Cap it's too late, we will have to surrender.. (cap = captain)

Abut

To touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent. A+But : 'But' is used to (ad)join two sentence as in example : He is good guy, but not a good student.

Equivocate

To use evasive or deliberately vague language equi+vocate sounds like advocate... corrupt advocates LIE, to CONCEAL THE TRUTH which MISLEADS the judge..

Demur

To voice opposition; object sounds a little like Damn U R wrong!! I object!

Enervate

To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality if someone ATE your ENERGY (ENER+vATE), you would be WEAKENED or tired

Elicit

V To bring or draw out ,call forth(emotion,feelings,responses) e+ LIC (read as likh in Hindi)- when you write,you are bringing out the answer/points of discussion Just smiling-even if you are depressed-can elicit feeling of pleasure and happiness. Educe,evoke,inspire, raise

Encomium

Warm, glowing praise en com ( think about M.Com) so when you top M.com, you will get encomium

leery >when u are travelling in train and someone asks u to eat something then they say ""leh ri"" then u get suspicious at his offering."

Without checking the references and talking to previous employers , I am leery of hiring the candidate.

Ebullience

Zestful enthusiasm. Concentrate on BULL in ebullient! Bull fight will be very excit He was ebullient after getting the graduation degree.

Neonate

a baby from birth to four weeks

Heresy

a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion divide this word into her (her)+esy(sounds like essay)... and relate it to controversial writer Taslima Nasrin, who writes about issues that reject orthodox tenets of society and religion

Lacuna

a blank gap or missing part something that U LACK

Bailiwick

a branch of knowledge bails & wickets are included in study of cricket

Shard

a broken piece of a brittle artifact

Guy

a cable, wire, or rope that is used to brace something (especially a tent) women or girls are said to be emotional compared to guys.. Guy tend to brace them and steady their emotins..acting like a rope / lifeline giving support.. it would be gauche to mention the subject

Sepulcher

a chamber that is used as a grave it can be breaked into see(p)+ vulture .a vulture flies near the sepulchre for food...

Bathos

a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one BATHOS means descent from elevated to ordinary. so pronounce as BATH+SOap which at first is very odorant and gradually becomes ordinary with use. Ex- The serious message of the fim is ruined by the bathos of its ridiculous ending.

Kinship

a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character KEEN FRIENDSHIP is

Confluence

a coming together of people the place where two rivers flow together and become one larger river !! so above mnemonics are all wrong. Confluence = Come(con) + flow (together) :)

Lexicographer

a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language

Kaleidoscope

a complex pattern of constantly changing colors and shapes kal (colour) - ei (eye) - dosco (disco) imagine a disco ball with constantly changing colourful lights and shapes

Lampoon

a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way

Burlesque

a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way burlesque..can be pronounced as bure log in hindi..what do bad ppl do?? ridicule others..

Compendium

a concise but comprehensive summary of a larger work,a publication containing a variety of works An audience always wants that whoever COMES to speak on the PODIUM should speak briefly.

Culmination

a concluding action sounds like termination which means the ending position (of play)or the climax (of attaining something).

Countermand (v)

a contrary command cancelling or reversing a previous command. By the time colonel countermanded his soldiers not to land in enemy terri

Deference

a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard sounds like REVERENCE ,whic means respect the man had the deferential attitude of someone who had been a servant his entire life

Machination

a crafty and involved plot to achieve your (usually sinister) ends machin+nations....machin...superpower nations use machines to achieve their sinister ends.(machines are generally crafty tools....which are artfully designed for some specific task....machines designed for war...n other dredful purposes.

Emollient

a cream/medicine that softens or soothes the skin divide it as e + moll(..mole which is a black spot)+ ient. If we find a black spot on our skin, we quickly start searching for a SOOTHING REMEDY to remove it.

Curmudgeon

a crusty irascible cantankerous old person full of stubborn ideas, Cur-mud-geon Car mud main gone... to driver went bad tempered... i.e. curmudgeon..

Knave

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel k+nave..naive(means trustworthy, innocent)....knave is just the opposite of naive.

Chasm

a deep opening in the earth's surface, ,A difference of ideas, beliefs, or opinions. Latin chasma < Greek khasma "gulf

Affectation(N)

a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display effect k liye affectation karo ? do some acting,pretend !! His French accent is just an affectation.

Fabrication

a deliberately false or improbable account fabric+ate.....Just as Fabric made from white threads, which is later dyed and coloured to give it another appearance, likewise we make up a story and add it to what we say (ie, we are lying or fabricating the truth)

Anathema (n)

a detested person; the source of somebody's hate.ex- Galileo was anathema to church.

Conundrum

a difficult problem Can+ any one lift is drum?? As it is a difficult problem.

Sloth

a disinclination to work or exert yourself "slow"th

Libertine

a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained LIBERTINE=liberti+ne=LIBERTY IN Excess can make you irresponsible and immoral.

Silhouette

a drawing of the outline of an object; filled in with some uniform color

Obloquy

a false accusation of an offense or state of disgrace etymologically OB-'against' and LOQUY-'talk'. Therefore OBLOQUY means to talk against someone,i.e. slander

Mountebank

a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes mountebank can be broken as mouth+bank=person whose mouth is a bank of words....who is extremely boastful and pretentious...

Bevy

a flock of birds Bevy=be +"we" not me, hence refers to group of people

Anathema

a formal ecclesiastical curse accompanied by excommunication anathema ~ anaath + ma; Being ANAATH or having no MAA is obviously a CURSE... Curse, Ban , Malison

Paean

a formal expression of praise (paean sounds like pain) If you take pains and achieve something, then you will hear paeans about you. Ex- Wrote a paean to the queen on her 50th birthday

Panegyric

a formal expression of praise pane sounds like paean means praise and gyric sounds like lyric, so panegyric means expression of praise

Quorum

a gathering of the minimal number of members of an organization to conduct business quorum is a forum for NUMBER OF MEMBERS NECESSARY TO CONDUCT A MEETING

Gossamer

a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy One can relate the sound of GOSS in Gossamer to wire-guaze. Wherein thin, tenous wires are criss-crossed and wound

Magnum opus

a great work of art or literature magum (great) + opus (work)

Limerick

a humorous verse form

Genre

a kind of literary or artistic work having a characteristic form or technique link it to people or music of a particular generation

Mausoleum

a large burial chamber, usually above ground sounds like Moslem or muslim. In Muslim culture they build tombs for the dead.

Amazon

a large strong and aggressive woman, an African river amazon ~ amazing woman

Referendum

a legislative act is referred for final approval to a popular vote by the electorate refer + dum -> we "refer" politicians on our own "dum". So we directly vote them.

Saunter

a leisurely walk we were sauntering in our Santro(car)..

Roster

a list of names sounds like REGISTER which contains a LIST

Odyssey

a long wandering and eventful journey relate it to the ODD things we SEE on a n eventful journey

Harangue

a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion HAR (her) + ANGUE (anger) expressed in words

Cacophony

a loud harsh or strident noise remember the croaking sound made by the frogs which is irritating.

Falsetto

a male singing voice with artificially high tones thats is above the normal voice range a voice that is SET to sound FALSE

Dandy

a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance

Levity

a manner lacking seriousness lev(leave)+it+y..you casually leave things without any seriousness

Sobriety

a manner that is serious and solemn sobr..sounds like SOBER..AND a sober person is always serious about his life, therefore seriousness is the state of being sober.

Gambit (n)

a manuveur or risk in a game or conversation, designed to secure an advantage. Randy played a gambit, telling his boss that he will resign if he didn't get a raise.

Potion

a medicinal or magical or poisonous beverage potion=poison+lotion

Anodyne

a medicine used to relieve pain, a source of soothing comfort,Capable of soothing or eliminating pain. a + no + dyne (dying); If you want him not to die from pain, you should give him some anodyne drugs.

Rendezvous

a meeting planned at a certain time and place I will remember it with the program that used to come on Star World titled : " Rendezvous with Simi Gerewal " it was a famous program...

Skirmish

a minor short-term fight break the word - skir(skirt)+mi(mini)+sh..now focus on the skir(T) part and imagine a GIRL walking on a road with her boy friend. If someone dares to pass a comment on her, what do you think will happen? There will be a SKIRMISH

Misogynist

a misanthrope who dislikes women in particular

Hallucination

a mistaken or unfounded opinion or idea OR illusory perception; a common symptom of severe mental disorder relate it to the word iLLUsion

Proclivity

a natural inclination Acclivity- an upward slope; Declivity --a downward slope; Proclivity -- a natural inclination

Melee

a noisy riotous fight sounds like Bruce Lee...famous for his fights.

Mendicant

a pauper who lives by begging Men+die+cant= men die because they can't work so they beg to survive

Shibboleth

a peculiarity of pronunciation, behavior, mode of dress, etc., that distinguishes a particular class or set of persons.

Paragon

a perfect embodiment of a concept paragon which is a slipper brand makes products which are models for perfection

Rendition

a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role relate it with audition

Pantomime

a performance using gestures and body movements without words panto+mime mime means acting without word.i.e. we can get mime in PANTO movie.

Colossus

a person of exceptional importance and reputation Gk. kolossos "gigantic statue,"

Raconteur

a person skilled in telling anecdotes one who recounts

Quisling

a person who betrays his or her own country by aiding an invading enemy Quislings are prone to QUIZZLINGS by the government when caught!

Scourge

a person who inspires fear or dread

Pedant

a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit

Advocate

a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea(n), push for something(v) Gandhi ji was an advocate of peace & non-violence. Gandhi ji advocated Satyagrah.

Sycophant

a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage ycophant.....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 bootlicking.....just to gain your favour...

Gait

a person's manner of walking gait rhymes with weight...person with excess weight has a particular manner of walking or running.

Affront

a personally offensive act or word; deliberate act or display ofdisrespect; intentional slight; insult: an affront to the king.

Buccaneer

a pirate, ruthless adventurer pirates of bikaner.

Rostrum

a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it

Podium

a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it pod means "feet".

Oligarchy

a political system governed by a few people sounds like anarchy...run by few people

Gerontocracy

a political system governed by old men by etymology gerontos means old people and cracy mens govt.(eg. democracy,autocracy etc.) ....therefore gerontocracy is the govt. formed by old people.

Corollary (N)

a practical consequence that follows naturally. A corollary of Hurricane Sandy.

Predilection

a predisposition in favor of something predilection--->pre + dir(l)ection--->prefered direction

Itinerary

a proposed route of travel Latin word itiner= journey....

Strut

a proud stiff pompous gait

Alchemy

a pseudoscientific forerunner of chemistry in medieval times ALL + CHEMIcal :related to chemistry

Manifesto

a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) MAN + FIST in the air making a public statement

Reprisal

a retaliatory action against an enemy in wartime

Fatuity

a ridiculous mistake to use FAT to make TEA is a ridiculous mistake

Liturgy

a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship

Reconnaissance

a search made for useful military information in the field, esp. by examining the ground. econnaissance means recognising an enemy while surveying your. territory,Recognisation of conman-(thief) by nice sons(of the country)--soldiers.

Renascence

a second or new birth

Sophomore

a second-year undergraduate

Homily

a sermon on a moral or religious topic home+silly - .when we do SILLY things at HOME ,our parents get annoyed and we end us listening to a long sermon or speech

Quiver

a shaky motion Quiver..... sounds like shiver.... when we have fever we shiver/ quiver..... tremble/ shake.

Apiary

a shed containing a number of beehives bee hives are usually pear shape..... so a-piary

Haven

a shelter serving as a place of safety or sanctuary it sounds like 'heaven'...a place which is always safe.

Aphorism

a short pithy instructive saying,A tersely phrased statement of a truth or opinion; an adage. a + phor (for); Kids are generally taught like "A for apple".. and there is a famous aphorism "An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

Bucolic

a short poem descriptive of rural or pastoral life,a rural person bucolic sounds a bit like bullock which is used in the "country side".

Oscillation

a single swing or movement in one direction of an oscillating body.

Damp

a slight wetness, To restrain or check; discourage.

Rivulet

a small stream river + outlet

Proletariat

a social class comprising those who do manual labor or work for wages

Gaffe (n)

a socially awkward or tactless act Disney character Goofy who was always making Blunders.

Quagmire

a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot

Adjuration(N)

a solemn and earnest appeal to someone to do something ad + jur(JURY)+ ation : so a request or appeal to jury about something. he couldn't refuse his ailing father 's adjuration to take up his family business.

Requiem

a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person requiem = re (recite) + quie (quiet) + m (man); means recite for a quiet/dead man.

Paradigm

a standard or typical example

Dilapidation

a state of deterioration due to old age or long use

Chaos

a state of extreme confusion and disorder

Bedlam

a state of extreme confusion and disorder bad lamhe..means bad moments..during our bad lamhe or bad moments there is extreme disorder and chaos. Ex- The park never had so many visitor. It was total bedlam.

Opprobrium

a state of extreme dishonor and disgrace If you take OPIUM(banned drug) you will be criticized, humiliated & put to shame.

Privation

a state of extreme poverty deprivation

Beatitude

a state of supreme happiness beatitude -- beauti(ful) + tude => The one which is beautiful gives extreme happiness. Not from the earthy riches but from the milk of human kindness comes true beatitude.

Paradox

a statement that contradicts itself

Obelisk

a stone disc / pillar ; a character used in printing to indicate a cross reference or footnote No number of pleas and bribes would get him to change his obdurate attitude.

Quirk

a strange attitude or habit

Fluke

a stroke of luck F(ortunately)LUKE(Y) means fortunately lucky

Besotted( adj)

a strong affectionate towards, very drunk. Ex- Never before have I seen my friend so besotted. Even his father didn't approve , Juliet became besotted with the young Romeo.,

Bastion

a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle this word sounds like base station,while in war base station is a stronghold for the troops. Ex-the rebel army retreated to its bastion in the mountains to regroup.

Citadel

a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle cita-del is similar to city -Delhi in India which has many old fortress.

Doctrinaire

a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions

Sophistry

a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious method of reasoning; a false argument remember"sophisticated".... looks eloquent and eloborate..but logically invalid...

Putsch

a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force

Qualms

a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness He felt Qualm about getting this work done.

Buttress

a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building you add Butter to give extra taste, so buttress means extra support

Bravado(n)

a swaggering show of courage,a false show of bravery. Brava+Do = Act like brave but not brave. Pretended bravery

Nomenclature

a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline

Filibuster

a tactic or person delaying or obstructing legislation by making long speeches relate to a 'fil'led object that blocks an action

Rummage

a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) RUMMAGE rhymes with PILLAGE meaning PLUNDERING and RANSACK

Culvert

a transverse and totally enclosed drain under a road or railway a culprit alwayz hides under a road or bridge...hence u can compare it with culvert

Braggart

a very boastful and talkative person brag + art = boasting aboutr yourself. b+RAAG+art - brother apna raag khud gata hai-shows off

Conflagration

a very intense and uncontrolled fire flagration sounds like flare which means fire, so big fire

Plebiscite

a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance plebiscite: By Plebiscite we mean - People cite their opinion towards some political government

Quip

a witty saying or remark.

Palindrome

a word or phrase that reads the same backward as forward

Pathogenic

able to cause disease

Solvent

able to pay all just debts; having the power of dissolving

Indict

accuse formally of a crime Indi+CT = Indian court. it formally accusses ppl for their crime.

obeisance

acknowledgment of another's superiority or importance

Arbitrate

act between parties with a view to reconciling differences You arbitrate between illiterate people

Emancipate

action or process of setting free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions. e(a) man cipate - A man who participate(d) in the race after a long time was running like he had been set free or liberated from a prison.

Prehensile

adapted for seizing, grasping, or taking hold of something PRE(before)+HENS+ILE before the hens can escape we have to grasp & hold them.

Aggrandize

add details to grand- this resembles to something huge,great,wealthy. ennoble, exalt, cannonize

Plodding

adj (of movement) slow and laborious Charlie may seem to ru at plodding pace

Inclement

adj (of weather) unpleasant,stromy; (of person) used of person or behaviour;showing no mercy

Aseptic

adj : Free from germs; lacking vitality, warthm or emotions.

Erudite

adj Deep, extensive learning,having or showing profound knowledge erudite has Latin root: eruditus = e + rudis = e + rude(untrained) After training , he becomes an erudite person Before the Internet,the library was typically were you would find erudite readers.

Deleterious

adj Having a harmful effect; injurious: the deleterious effects of smoking. relate it to DELETE...so you DELETE all the spam mails because they may BE HARMFUL to your PC The chemical is deleterious to the environment. adverse,baleful,baneful,detrimental,nocuous,noxious,pernicious

Ephemeral

adj Lasting or existing only for a short time sounds like e-funeral. Life is over .. short-lived? The lifespan of a mayfly is ephemeral. Deciduous,evanescent,fugacious,fugitive,transient

Cardinal

adj Of foremost importance; paramount: cardinal' also means pertaining to the 'heart' and the heart is the 'most important' part of our body. Most cultures consider gambling a cardinal sin and thus have outlawed its practices.

Dogmatic

adj Relating to, characteristic of, or resulting from dogma,highly opinionated,not accepting that your belief may not be correct. 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 Bryan is dogmatic in his belief.

Disaffect

adj To cause to lose affection or loyalty dis= not; affection= intimacy. So disaffect means not to have any intimacy. After watching his superior take rations from the soldiers, he quickly became disaffected and rebelled.

Disseminate

adj To scatter widely, as in sowing seed. 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.

Prodigal

adj a recklessly extravagant consumer rod(rodies) +gals(girls)=extravagance. If you are with girls of rodies then you have to be extravagant.. Successful professional athletes who do not fall prey to prodigality seem to be the exception.

Becoming

adj appropriate, and matches nicely Her dress was becoming and made her look even more beautiful.

Scrupulous

adj arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled; charaterized by extreme care. it makes u think of sculpture and while building sculpture the worker has to be very careful Because of his scrupulous nature.,Mary put him in charge of numbering and cataloging the entire collection of rare stamps.

Chivalrous

adj being attentive to women like an ideal knight Marco's chivalrous ways,like opening door etc. liked by all the girls.

Halcyon

adj calm and peaceful, prosperous suggesting happy tranquillity halycon (peaceful) can be considered as opposite of cyclone (stormy, unrest) n The first decade after WWI was a halcyon period in America with new-found and rapid improving technology.

Discreet

adj careful to protect one's speech or action in order to avoid offense or gain an advantage The professor thought that he was discreet,subtly wiping the stain off his shirt,but as soon as he stepped off the podium.

slapdash

adj carelessely and hastily put togther

Provincial

adj characteristic of a limited perspective; not fashionable or sophisticated Maggie enthusiasm about her high school teams semmed provincial to her college classmate.

Staid

adj characterized by dignity and propriety Staid: Imagine you have always maintained your dignity and properity in a place where you have stayed for so many years Frank came from staid environment.

Forthright

adj characterized by directness in manner or speech;without subtlety or evasion The insurance agent was quite forthright.

Facetious

adj cleverly amusing in tone someone who makes funny faces Facetious>>>Face is not Serious Facetious behavior will not be tolerated during sex education class

Eclectic

adj combining elements from a variety of sources: eclectic or elect means, chosing the best from many sources which is the meaning of the word eclectic

Pithy

adj concise and full of meaning pi-thy: the math symbol pi is concise and has great meaning

Illicit

adj contrary to or forbidden by law Though Al Capone was engaged in many illicit activities,he was finally arrested.

Stringent

adj demanding strict attention to rules and procedures STRI(Lady) N GENT are binded together- both have to follow some rules when they are together Most of the students disliked the teacher because of his stringent homework policy.

Eccentric

adj deviates markedly from an established norm:; highly unconventional or usual ec(x)-centric(normal) : going away from the center that is departing from the norms idiosyncrasy,foible,quirk

Genial

adj diffusing warmth and friendliness the actress Genelia D'souza is a genial girl.... gracious,cordial,affable

Precipitous

adj done with very great haste and without due deliberation He was expecting a precipitous rise in the value of a "hot" tech stock.

Humdrum

adj dull and lacking imagination Having grown up in a humdrum suburb,Jacobs relished life in New York City.

Peevish

adj easily irritated or anoyed Choleric Our office manager is peevish,so the rest of us tip toe around him

Petulant

adj easily irritated or anoyed The pet - u - lent me is getting me irritated She is so petulant.

Peevish

adj easily irritated or anoyed choleric,choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, fiery, grouchy, grumpy, irascible,perverse, pettish, petulant,

Mawkish

adj effusively or insincerely emotional mawk close to MOCK..so if someone mocks at you...and you are sentimental..then its a sad situation. The film was increadibly mawkish,introducing hihgly likeable characters only to have them succumb to a devastating illness by the end of the movie.

Poignant

adj emotionally touching This is the most poignant situation

Dictatorial

adj expecting unquestionable obedience The coach was dictatorial in manner

Derogative

adj expressed as wothless or in negative terms Derogative=Negative THe debate between two political candidate was derogative.

Abysmal

adj extremely bad Abysmal performance. Ex- They are living in abysmal ignorance.

Reverent

adj feeling or showing profound respect or veneration Reverent sounds like Reverend(Priest) now think of the feeling most people have for them.

Entrench

adj fix firmly or securely trench sounds like bench. so you have to fix a bench firmly by the time we reach 60 years old most of our habits are so entrenched that it is difficult for us to change.

Convivial

adj fun loving,fond of good company sounds like carnival which has a festive,fun atmosphere The wedding reception was convival.

Cavalier

adj given to haughty disregards of others Percy dismissed the issue with the cavaler wave of his hand.

Fastidious

adj giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness just like ... we fast to please god...a fast is tedious therefore god is fastidious He is fastidious about keeping the house clean

Querulous

adj habitually complaining One who keeps questioning (querying) everything. The querulous old lady.

Pejorative

adj having a disparaging, derogatory, or belittling effect or force "majority" wala group doosre group ka effect khatam kar deta hai...causing a belittling effect..

Piquant

adj having an agreebly pungent taste Remember from PIKU A piquant meal

Malodorous

adj having an unpleasant smell mal(means bad)+odour (smell)

incisive

adj having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinction incisive can be correlated with our incisor teeth. which is very sharp both in human and animal, and they use it to cut food thus incisive= incisor= cutting The lawyer had an incisive mind,able in a flash to disset a hopelessly tangled issue and insolate the essential laws at the play.

Stolid

adj having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited In STOLID take out the 'T' It becomes 'T' SOLID. So someone very SOLID against 'T'(ears) or emo'T'ions. Elephant may appear stolid to casual observer.

Consummate

adj having or revealing supreme mastery or skill Tyler was the consummate musician: he was able to play guitar ,harmonica.

Pertinent

adj having precise or logical relevance to the matter at hand This is not pertinent to who will win the election.

Boorish

adj ill-mannered and coarse or contemptible in behavior or appearance. Boorish-learn from BURRA(BAD) He was known for being a boorish drunk and alienating close friends and family.

subversive

adj in opposition to a civil authority or gov subversive--->reversive--->go against established rule.Revert (to cause downfall) from inside. The gov has started a campaign to shut down subversive website abase, bastardize, canker, cheapen, corrupt, debauch, degrade, demean, demoralize, deprave, deteriorate, lessen, pervert, poison, profane, prostitute, debase

Surly

adj inclined to anger or bad feeling with the overtones of menace Focus on sur- sir who use to get angry easily. Every morning , Bhavin was a surly person. glum, mopey, pouting, pouty, sullen, sulky

Didactic

adj instructive (especially excessively) did + tactic or did someone teach you a tactic? the poet's works became increasingly didactic after his religious conversion sententious, dogmatic

Ostentatious

adj intended to attract notice and impress others oSTENTATIOUS....read it as Stuntatious....Stunts...you perform stunts to attract attention, showy.

Spurious

adj intended to deceive Sounds like "furious". You get furious when you hear spurious arguments. spurious claims

cerebral

adj involving intellegence rather than emotions or instinct A cerebral analysis of most pop music finds it to be simple and childish,but tht ignores the point-the music's effect on the listener.

Benign

adj kind I remeber my grandfather face was wrinkled,benign and calm.

Esoteric

adj known by a restricted number of people HISTORIC lessons are ESOTERIC metaphysics is such an esoteric subject. abstruse,arcane,profound,hermetic,recondite

Diffident

adj lacking self-confidence diffident = difficult to be confident As a young girl she was diffident and reserve. demur,retiring,bashful,coy,demure,recessive,self-effacing,sheepish

Pedestrian

adj lacking wit or imagination ped means foot pedestrian means one who walks on foot is obviously ordinary

Fickle

adj liable to sudden unpredictable change esp. in affections or attachements Imagine you want to choose a pickle from a grocery shop but there are so many options so you fickle. She was so fickle in her politics ,it was hard to pinpoint her beliefs; one week she would embrace a side.

Mercurial

adj liable to sudden unpredictable change the mercury in a thermometer rises and falls according to the temperature which is very unpredictable

Magnanimity

adj liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit magna (mega or large) = large hearted person

Extenuating

adj making less guilty or more forgivable remember from attenuation The jury was hardly moved by the man's plea that his lonliness was an extenuating factor in his crime.

Rakish

adj marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness Sound like rough. so something that is rough in behaviour. As soon as he arrived in the city , the rakish young man brougt some drugs and headed straight to ..

Smug

adj marked by excessive complacency or self satisfaction When Phil was dating the model, he had a smug attitude that annyed his buddies Overweening, egotist

Meticulous

adj marked by extreme care in treatment of details it sounds like matriculation(admission to a college).To get matriculation we should be as a meticulous(careful) aspirant to clear the exam. The Japanese noodle maker was meticulous in making his noodles and would never let another person take over the task. fussy, painstaking , scrupulous.

Steadfast

adj marked by firm determination or resolution A good captain need to be steadfast

Forlorn

adj marked by or showing hopelessness FOR + LOAN =aap loan lene gaye aur vaha se hope less ho kar vapas aaye.. she was forlorn when she found out the trip had been cancelled. crestfallen,dejected,doleful,melancholic,woebegone,woeful

Genteel

adj marked by refinement in taste and manners this word is very close to GENTLE..AND A GENTLEMAN IS ONE who is WELL BRED, elegant and GIVES A REFINED APPEARANCE .

Sordid

adj meanly selfish, self-seeking; unethical or dishonest SORDID)SORry I DID this FILTHY, VILE thing. The politician was repudiated for all his sordid activities.

Superfluous

adj more than is needed, desired, or required divide it as super+flow.. when there is large(super) flow of money, it becomes EXCESSIVE / OVERABUNDANCE of wealth.. Everything in this coset is superfluous and can be given to chart=ity

Inscrutable

adj not easily understood;unfathomable

Frivolous

adj not serious in content or attitude or behavior Fri+vol+ous = Free+Will ->one who acts with his own will, carefree, not serious He approached seemed frivolous.

Maladroit

adj not skillful; clumsy mal(means bad at doing something)+droit(its french word means skillful and clever).......and someone who is bad at skills in his known area ,considered a maladroit person As a child she was quite maladroit, but as he grew older she became an adept dancer.

Fortuitous

adj occurring by chance (positive) having no apparent cause equivalent to fortune............. fortune isn't destined to occur it is accidental While the real objects are vastly different sizes in space,the sun and the moon seem to have the same fortuitous size in the sky.

Sartorial

adj of or relating to clothes Sar( Saare) + Torial( Toleye in Hindi)

Aboveboard

adj open and honest If you have to be above all cricket BOARD member you have to be aboveboard. He is hardly aboveboard.

Moot

adj open to argument or debate;undecidable in a meaningless or irrelevant way

Leery

adj openly distrustful and unwilling to confide "

Obstinate

adj persist stubbornly ob+stin+ate.. stin means to stand.. and a stubborn person will always stand by his view.. The coach suggested improvement Sarah might make on the balance beam,but she remained obstinate , unwilling to modify any of the habits that made her successful in the past. adamant, adamantine, bullheaded, dogged, immovable, implacable,intransigent, mulish, obdurate,ossified, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting

Carping

adj persistently petty and unjustified criticism Car par ping: persistently petty What seemed like incessant nagging and carping about my behavior from my mother turned out to be wise and useful advice that has served me well.

Specious

adj plausible but false it sounds like 'suspicious'. Almost every image on TV is specious and not to be trusted.

Destitude

adj poor enough to need help from others; completely wanting or lacking (usually "destitude of")

Cogent

adj powerfully persuasive and clear co+agent...cooperative agents make congent suggestions. A cogent argument will change the minds of even the most skeptical audience.

Prolific

adj productive Schubert was the most prolific coposer,producing hundred of hours of music before he died at the age of 31. Cornucopian,fecund,fructuous,

Forthcoming

adj readily available; honest and open

Sporadic

adj recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable intervals Take the first half of the word, i.e SPOR which sounds like pores. Pimples which OCCUR IRREGULARLY create pores in the skin. The signals were at first sporadic.

Errant

adj ro be wandering;not sticking to a circumscibe path Unlike his peers ,who spent their hours studying in the library,Matthew preferred errant walks through the university campus.

Insolent

adj rude and arrogant sounds like insult-ent => A person who insults evryone is UNRESTRAINED, IMPRUDENT AND SHAMELESS

Contemptuous

adj scornful,looking down at the others with a sneering attitude. Always on the forefront of fashion , Vanessa looked contemptuously at anyone wearing dated clothing.

Furtive

adj secretive, sly, done with caution and stealth FURtive.. relate to animal fur..u buy a fur coat secretly He cast a furtive glance in our direction. sneaky,shifty

Paradoxical

adj seemingly contradictory but nonetheless possibly true The light could be both a particle and a wave seems paradoxical

Macabre

adj shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; gruesome;terrifying Sounds like massacre..which means "excessive killing of many people" a repellent and horrifying scene

Obliging

adj showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others I found him accomodating and obliging. Indulgent

Analogous

adj similar or equivalent in some respects though otherwise dissimilar Analogies are given by the lecturers while teaching which compare the example with the present subject

Soporific

adj sleep inducing 100(soo) puri kha kar I felt soporific. Athrough the professor is brilliant, his bland monotone gives his lectures a soporific effect.

Colossal

adj so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe Few appreciate the colossal scale of the sun;if hollow ,it could contain a million Earths.

Prodigious

adj so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe The root PRO- means 'in favor of'.The root DIGI- (e.g., digit) refers to numbers or quantity. So, PRODIGIOUS refers to a favorable (or great) number. Baba Ruth's homerun totals were truely prodigious. Colossal

Obdurate

adj stubbornly persistent in changing an opinion or action OB+DURA(relate it to word durability)..SO anything which has durability..has the resisting power, and something which can resist, is stubborn. No number of pleas and bribes would get him to change his obdurate attitute

Refactory

adj stubbornly resistant to authority or control Used to studious high school students,Martha was unprepared for the refractoryKindgergarteners who neither sat still nor listened to a single word she said.

Martial

adj suggesting war or military life, of or relating to the armed forces martial arts like karate and kung-fu are forms of fighting for warriors and soldiers

Conducive

adj tending to bring about; being partly responsible for conducive - come(con) + do(du) + civil work(cive).....doing civil work is helpful & contributive. Studying in a quiet room is conducive to learning.

Hegemony

adj the dominance or leadership of one social group or nation over others hegemony:he's got money,so he's domineering in the society and he control others.

Myopic

adj unable to see distant objects clearly, lacking foresight or scope With My OPAQUE (that you cannot see through) lenses I will be short sighted Myopic Manager

Irresolute

adj uncertain how to act or proceed without resolution or unable to make decisions They tried not to be publicly judgmental about the character of the incumbent president, but they believed his celebrated political talents disguised an immature and irresolute nature.

Munificent

adj very generous money+sufficient-when a person has sufficient money he is generous Uncle Charley was kown for his munificence,giving all seven of his nephews lavish Christamas present each year.

Dilatory

adj wasting time Extract 'late' from the word dilatory and you get.... delay which is generally due to waste of time. Lawyers use dilatory tactics so that it takes years before the case is actually decided.

Impeccable

adj without fear or error He was impeccable in the latest fashion without crease.

Pernicious

adj working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way it has root nec/nox..in it....means to harm..so per(PERTAINING TO)+nIC/NEC..MEANS HARM..SOMETHING PERTAINING TO HARM U.

Fledging

adj young and inexperienced

Catholic

adj- universal

Appropriate

adj-suitable,just right,apt, verb-take possession of by force, as after an invasion 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.

Appurtenant

adj: supply added support. ex- In hiking Mt. Everest, sherpas are appurtenant, helping climbers carry items.

Repartee

adroitness and cleverness in reply rePARTEE, rhymes with party, so think of the party men, i.e. the politicians who are known for giving a CLEVER REPLY when interviewed.

Infringe

advance beyond the usual limit if enemy violates or encroaches the border the infantry would start firing

Brusquely

adverb in a blunt and direct manner

Amuck

adverb in a frenzied or uncontrolled state

Foppish

affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner fop-ish = pop (fop) - ish ; those boys who are in pop music are over dressed ... they have a very bad sense of dressing but they think that they are looking cool !!!!

Somatic

affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit etymologically "SOMA" means body...and thus the word SOMATIC

Copious

affording an abundant supply By copying in an exam, some get a LOT of marks

Homogenous

all of the same or similar kind or nature homo-same + jean(u)s- denims; think of a pair of jeans that basically all look alike and are the same type of clothing.

Oracular

ambiguous; obscure.; involved with fortelling or prophesying future events rhymes with circular, therefore something that is complex and round about difficult to understand

Craven

an abject coward craven - relate with cave + in. You move in cave if your are coward (in a jungle)

Calumny

an abusive attack on a person's character or good name calumny, sounds like kalmuhi, which is a harsh remark given by a saas to her bahu. So its a kind of slander.

Enormity(n)

an act of extreme wickedness. The enormity of Gas chamber period is hard to capture in words.

Involution

an act or instance of involving or entangling ALSO something complicated and overly detailed in+ volume = something that has volumes (a great quantity) of content that is details, information complex data

Statute

an act passed by a legislative body statutory warning

Bastardization (n)

an act that debases or corrupts.ex- The movie World War Z is a complete bastardization of the book with little more in common than zombies and a title.

Orifice

an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

Battery

an assault in which the assailant makes physical contact French from batre "beat"

Ordinance

an authoritative rule a nation under an authority that has been ordained is an ordinance

Rhapsody

an epic poem adapted for recitation sounds like rap songs which recite on a particular stanza or poem.

Hedonism

an ethical system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good he-(is)-don... and obviously has strong devotion to pleasures of senses..

Cataclysm

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune, a great flood from Gk. kataklysmos, from kata "down" + klyzein "to wash."

Facsimile

an exact copy or reproduction focus on fac (fax) and simile (similar).. both these words signify 'copy'

Narcissism

an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself narc-(narcotic/drug) one addicted to oneself

Coterie

an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose ounds like KOTHARI (in hindi it means an enclosed room) -- where people with common purposes meet.

Dispensation(n)

an exemption from a rule or obligation Since her father is a billionaire, she is given dispensation from many of the school's policies.

Connoisseur

an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts (In Hindi Language) Connoisseur sounds like kaun inse sure nahi hoga. Ye to expert hai. He is connoisseur. He is EXPERT.

Detonation

an explosion

Kudos

an expression of approval and commendation KUDO(to jump in Hindi). one JUMPS with joy on recieving an HONOUR.

Rave

an extravagantly enthusiastic review think of Brave, to whom you are giving enthusiastically review for this bravery.

Nadir

an extreme state of adversity; the lowest point of anything You can recall Persian emperor Nadir-shah a cruel man, so someone very "lowly"

Ersatz

an imitation or a substitute, usually an inferior one;phony Engineer taking SAT instead of GRE-poor substitute-will not get admission

Misnomer

an incorrect or unsuitable name mis+name( r ) = misnomer

Impropriety

an indecent or improper act im (not + proper (unsuitable)

Circumlocution

an indirect way of expressing something circumlocution -> circle + locution (loqui means to speak), speaking vaguely so as to avoid the topic.

Hiatus

an interruption in the intensity or amount of something a person we meet after a break or some time says HI-AT-US and we pause to meet that person..

Gaff

an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish visual - the hook and the long handle resembles the letter G

Resilience

an occurrence of rebounding or springing back

Onus

an onerous or difficult concern to be a burden ON US

Comeuppance

an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved come+uppance= uppance sounds like offence, so when u do any offence punishments will COME behind you which is DESERVED

Hoary (adj)

ancient

Bridle (v)

anger or take offense. The hostess bridle at the tactless dinner guest.

Quarry

animal hunted or caught for food

Solicitous

anxious or concerned; eager Solicit means to request earnestly for something, but if you have to wait for it to happen then you are liable to become solicitous.

Ballast

any heavy material used to stabilize a ship or airship,an attribute that tends to give stability in character and morals; something that steadies the mind or feelings Bal(Balance)+Last(last long), adding weight to bring balance to something(as in weighing balance) or to make it stable that last long.

Litany

any long and tedious address or recital close to a li(s)t + any. a long series of expressions

Neophyte

any new participant in some activity new + fight; A new member or beginner always has to fight to establish his own identity.

Aficionado

ardent admirer,fan,loyal follower AFICIONADO comes from the same latin root as the word affection. So, think AFFECTIONADO

Quibble

argue over petty things read it as qui(kyun)+bble(bill)..KYUN BILL ITNA ZYADA HAI?, you OBJECT to reading of meter & COMPLAIN to the authorities..

Contentious

argumentative,quarrelsome contentious=content+tious(relate with malicious)..i.e. malicious person will argue aboyt everything

Alienate

arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness alien+ate...if an alien comes and eat all food on earth .we all become unfriendly and hostile to it.

Facile (adj )

arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth. Many news shows provide facile explanations to complex politics.

Flabbergasted

as if struck dumb with astonishment and surprise

Broadside (n)

as strong verbal attack. Political broadside are usually strongest in the weeks up to a national elections.

Supplicate

ask humbly (for something) if u SUPPLICATE God will SUPPLY

Cadge

asking/excessively begging to get something free; be a parasite cadge....sounds like cage....some1 in the cage begging to get out

Lionize

assign great importance to Lion is assigned a great social importance in animal kingdom

Complicit (adj)

associated with or participating in an activity, especially one of questionable nature. In public mind he was still complicit in corruption.

Besige ( v)

attack , overwhelm, crowd in on or surround., The Night watch was besieged by the White walkers. Syn- Beleaguer.

Impugn

attack as false or wrong Many tried to impugn Darwin's theory.

Belabor

attack verbally with harsh criticism,beat soundly Imagine boss saying "you be labour" : he is criticizing, verbally attacking

Obsequious

attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner ob + SEQUI + ous .. sequi means sequence where one thing "follows" the other.. and servants follow what their masters say..

Beguile

attract; cause to be enamored beg + uile (oil) beggars spill oil on road so that people slip & they can steal their money

Enamor(v)

attraction or feeling of love. She is completely enamored with Justin Beiber.

Impute

attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source to "put" blame on someone

Impute (v)

attribute (responsibility or fault) to something. He imputed his subpar performance to poor training.

Egregious

bad or offensive,Strong and offensive in odor or flavor. EGREGIOUS (extremely bad). During one of our stage performance, we made such a huge mistake that people started throwing eggs at us and a rotten 'EGG REACHes US' (sounds like egregious)

Meretricious

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing like a merit (meret) certificate.. flashy and attractive in a way.. but of no REAL value...

Flummox (verb)

be a mystery or bewildering to. Mary's behaviour completely flummoxes me: I never have any idea what her motivations might be.

Prevaricate

be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information pre+var(truth)+cate(fabricate) is to fabricate the truth, meaning to lie.

Inebriate

become drunk or drink excessively INEBRIATE sounds like "in beer ate" ~ drink beer and eat food;

Flag

become less intense, lessen relate it to a white flag that is a symbol of surrender or defeat, therefore, feeling low, low intensity

Putrefy

become putrid; decay with an offensive smell think of purefy(purify-to make pure). now put a t in the middle..this makes it opposite. that is to rot.

Addle(adj)

become rotten,to muddle up or confuse sounds like riddle which is usually confusing and hence we get confused. addlepated. My brain grew more addle as I made my way through the tax instruction.

Importuned (v)

beg persistently and urgently. After weeks of importuning the star to meet for a five minute interview, the journalist finally got what she wanted.

Quiescent

being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless quiescent => quies ~ quiet = motionless

Nascent

being born or beginning newly+sent - something that has just begun.

Restive

being in a tense state Restive is actually restless

Cotermious (adj)

being of equal extent or scope or duration

Apposite

being of striking appropriateness and pertinence apposite=> opposite of OPPOSITE i.e. perfectly matched; appropriate; most suitable

Moribund

being on the point of death; breathing your last Moribund is kinda similar to morbid, which refers to things related to death

Meet

being precisely fitting and right, OR contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle, OR undergo or suffer to meet one's needs OR india meets austrailia for the match, Or he met with a fatal accident

Occlude

block passage through when you include someone they are welcome and the gates are always open but when you OCCLUDE(rhymes with EXCLUDE), they are unwelcome and hence the gates are SHUT or CLOSED on them.

Obstreperous

boisterously and noisily aggressive/defiant strepsil (medicine) cures uncontrolled sore throat that happens due to making too much noise

Contumacious

boldly defy or resist authority,stubborn Latin contumacia < contumac- "insolent"] Syn- Obsterperous, recalcritrant , refactory

Doughty(adj)

brave; bold; courageous I enjoy films in which a doughty group come together to battle a force of evil.

Laconic

brief and to the point; Lack + conic (concise) = lack of communication/words

Effulgence

brilliant radiance. bright and sending out rays of light Latin, effulgere "shine forth," from ex- "out" + fulgere "to shine"

Reprehensible

bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure Reprehensible ~ Sensible ; A sensible person takes care that his actions are not reprehensible

Crestfallen

brought low in spirit chest + fallen.. disappointed, sad.. you lose all hope.

Onerous

burdensome, tiring, heavy load that makes one weary Onerous= one+rous. If u assign much work on ONE person it will be onerous for him

Kindle

call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) or cause to start burning kindle sounds like CANDLE that is used to light a fire, also like a beacon to call forth

Convene

call together sounds like "convey" we have to convey something, so please assemble for a meeting. The action followed Maduro's decision to convene a special assembly to rewrite the constitution of the oil-rich nation and assume many government powers.

Feasible

capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are see EASI - work which are easy are always practical to do.

Malleable

capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out women are able to mold their MALE (malle) partners in any way

Incendiary

capable of catching fire spontaneously or causing fires or burning readily OR arousing to action or rebellion insane' person who sets his 'diary' on fire

Blithe

carefree and happy and lighthearted Blithe== Be-light- Hearted. means care free

Racketeer

carry on illegal business activities involving crime

Nettle

cause annoyance in; disturb, Nettle sounds like kettle. A Kettle boiling water makes a lot of noise and is therefore irriating and annoying. It also means "worried".

Proliferate

cause to grow or increase rapidly pro + life + rate : increase in rate of production (pro) of life (living organisms) causes population to increase rapidly

Resuscitate

cause to regain consciousness Compare it with 'Resurrect'; meanings are also same.

Suffuse

cause to spread or flush or flood through akin to other fuses: diffuse, effuse - all of which mean flow or spread.

Obnoxious

causes disapproval or harm to something noxious - means something unpleasant

Queasy

causing or fraught with or showing anxiety

stultifying

causing to lose enthusiasm

Berate

censure severely or angrily he was RATEd BElow expectations and hence forth scolded.

Remonstrate

censure severely or angrily sounds like demonstrate...so remember it like when you are demonstrative you can protest for something.

Kernel

central or vital part; core kernel sounds similar to colonel. In an army the colonel has an importance of being the central authority.

Oppugn

challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of OPPose something in terms of its truth or accuracy

Histrionic

characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected histrionic-- sounds like history. We find that most of the plays performed on stage in the theatre are from history, hence the name histrionic, theatrical.

Colloquial

characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation colloquial - can be read as Coll - local so we use local language(informal) language in our college..

Choleric (adj)

characterized by anger cholera is a disease . When you are sick you get irritated and bad-tempered, you are choleric.

Heterodox

characterized by departure from accepted beliefs or standards heterodox--hetero-means different+ dox --means opinion, so different or many opinions.

Chary

characterized by great caution and wariness CHARY sounds similar to WARY, meaning CAUTIOUS

Fervent

characterized by intense emotion; extremely hot relate to fever where one's temperature rises above the normal range

Ethereal (adj)

characterized by lightness and insubstantiality. Because she danced with an ethereal style, ballet critics have called her MADAM butterfly. Ether is used in scents.Its smell is so pleasant that it makes person light and heavenly.

Lubricious

characterized by lust, having a smooth or slippery quality relate to lubricant that makes things smooth slippery.

Machiavellian

characterized by subtle or unscrupulous cunning, deception, dishonesty: sounds like mafia villain. A villain is always crafty and double dealing.

Besmirch

charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone Bees + Mirch (In Hindi language Bees means twenty and Mirch means pepper) So,if you will add twenty pepper, you will definitely spoil the food.

Masticate

chew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth when you mash food between your teeth you masticate

Imminent

close in time; about to occur imminent sounds similar to immediate. so imminent means about to occur immediately.

Proscribe

command against; prohibit When you want a magazine, you PREscribe(subscribe) it. Similarly when you want to stop it, you will have to PROSCRIBE. SO PROSCRIBE = prohibit

Arresting

commanding attention,Readily attracting notice if the police come & arrest you while you are at work,everyone in the office will turn & stare at you, you will become the centre of attention !

Expansive(adj)

communicative, prone to talking in a social manner.

Inveigh

complain bitterly In + Veigh sounds like Weigh therefore, people who are passionate about maintaining their weight will complain if they become heavier It would be hard for politicians to inveigh against rate increases approved by their own proxies on the board. Rail , declaim, thunder

Grouse

complain sounds like spouse .... they complain a lot

Labyrinth

complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost

Hoodwink

conceal one's true motives by pretending to have good intentions so as to gain an end think of WINK-ing from under the HOOD of your jacket, to hide/deceive what you are doing

Pragmatic

concerned with practical matters PRA + gma + TIC = PRA + c + TIC + al

Aesthetic

concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste aes + thetic opposite of "pathetic"..means beauty

Surreptitious

conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods Surreptitious sounds like suspicious.....you suspect someone if they are hiding secrets

Canonical

conforming to orthodox or recognized rules canonical rhymes with Biblical, so something to do with Bible rules, religious,orthodox values

Necromancy

conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying

Cogitate

consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon Agitate the mind = cogitate.

Linguistic

consisting of or related to language relate directly to language

Sinewy

consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon; possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful sounds like "sunny" deol who is muscular and strong.

Flagrant

conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible renting the national flag!(No offense meant) It is shocking & scandalous.

Outlandish

conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual out+landish => the one who is from some other land.

Outre

conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual similar to OUTER therefore something that comes from an outer or other world, seems bizarre and strange to us

Monotony

constancy of tone or pitch or inflection MONO(SINGLE)+TONY(like TONE) = SINGLE TONE, the same tone gets boring after a while.

Seminal

containing seeds of later development Relate it with SEMINAR which incubates ideas influencing future developments

Grimace

contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state grim (serious, pained) + face (expression)

Proselytize

convert to another faith or religion

Propriety

correct or appropriate behavior divide the word as propr+iety ..propr(sounds like PROPER)..hence it refers to being PROPER or CORRECT IN CONDUCT..

Commensurate

corresponding in size or degree or extent sounds like common rate- that means the rate at which you work,at the same or common rate, you will get wages

Adulterate

corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones when a child becomes adult he loses his purity and innocence...so any thing adulterated is contaminated or has lost its purity.

Graft (n)

corruption, usually through bribery. In countries with rampant graft, getting a driver's licence can require no more than paying an official.

Orient

countries in the Eastern hemisphere, (Asia) relate it to the ORANGE sun in the east END referring to the Asian countries

Pluck

courage or resolution in the face of difficulties one should possess "Courage" to pluck flowers from our garden

Covert

covered over; sheltered. Covert sounds like "covered [covert = cover + t or covered + t] and something which is covered can be considered a secret.

Simulate

create a representation or model of SIMULATE and EMULATE which are rhyming words also have the same meaning, i.e to imitate or copy.

Promethean

creative; boldly original.

Fulminate

criticize severely or come on suddenly and intensely Bad deeds culminate in a fulmination

Rail

criticize severely rail sounds like rail or train so when you missed your rail, your father scolded you for not reaching on time.

Bawl

cry loudly B+awl(owl) bad owl will cry. Get in the car, he bawled.

Fallow

cultivated land that is left barren for one or more seasons sounds like 'hollow, therefore something which is empty, not bearing fruit'

Sever

cut off from a whole SEVER:If you have Fever, you will be separated or SEVERED from the group.

Stygian

dark or gloomy; hellish stygian... think it as one living in a sty(pen for pigs) .. it is expected to be be disgusting and therefore dark or dismal

baneful

deadly or sinister Modern technology is BOON OR BANE. Boon is useful and BANEFUL is Something happened misery or death

Debacle

debacle sounds like the battle..any battle brings the sudden and violent collapses of people and wealth. An abrupt disastrous failure

Duplicity (n)

deceitfulness, pretending to want one thing but interested in something else.

Lethargic

deficient in alertness or activity Sounds like alergic. When you are lethargic (do not feel like doing something) you develop an allergic reaction to it.

Contravene

deny the truth of contravene is like intervene..so opposing U might contravene your parents' ban on sweets when your friend offers to share her candy because chocolate tastes too good to resist!

Sap

deplete A sappling keeps sucking nutrients from the ground which has to be replenished by fertilizers

Stultify

deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless Stultify sounds like STUNT+IFY. When one guy who tries to be a stunt man and fails then he looks stupid.Stultify=stunt+failed.

Bask

derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in Baskin N Robbin's Ice Cream, Remember? We really enjoy going there and having ice creams.

Concomitant (adj)

describing an event or a situation that happens at the same time as or in connection with another.

Culpable

deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil culp( culprit)...so a culprit is always DESERVING OF BLAME FROM EVERYONE.

Lectern

desk or stand with a slanted top used to hold a text at the proper height for a lecturer Lectern resembles "lecture" and is where you put the notes to read during your lecture.

Discern

detect with the senses disc + earn......my teacher gifted a cd(disc) to me because i was able to recognize him even after 40 years

Insentient

devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation in (without) + senti (sentiments meaning feelings or consiousness)

Fatuous

devoid of intelligence

Chauvinist

devotion to a belief chauvinist-nationalist...sounds similar -an extreme nationalist

Rapacious

devouring or craving food in great quantities apa+cious....FOCUS ON FIRST PART..rapid.....and we eat very rapidly when are hungry and want to consume lot of food......simillarly you talk RAPIDLY..when you want to say many things at once..talkative.person does this...

Fractious

difficult in operation; likely to be troublesome or easily irritated or annoyed relate it to fraction which implies something divided or in parts, such a thing would be difficult to control; if you suffer a fracture you are easily irritated or annoyed. My fractious uncle Sam.

Imponderable

difficult or impossible to evaluate with precision im (not) ponder (think/consider) cannot be though of properly

Arduous

difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill arduous = read it as: "hard to do for us"

Intractable

difficult to manage or mold or change Intractable: things which can not be brought in the right track.

Recondite

difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge read recondite as "re conduct". The professor re coducted(repeated) the topic as the students could not understand properly.

Garbled

difficult to understand because it has been distorted; scrambled Any VoIP packet out of sequence results in garbled transmissions. Pervert , Twist

Dissidence

disagreement; especially disagreement with the government dissident..dis+sident......this word sounds very similar to resident....think you are a resident of particular place and if some one suggest you to leave that place....will you do that...no certainly no...you will disagree..

Prudence

discretion in practical affairs Do you know Prudential Corporation? A insurance company. So, prudence ~ caution ~careful

Sardonic

disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking think of SARDONIC as SARCASTIC + IRONIC

Indolent

disinclined to work or exertion; lazy In India people are lazyabout giving rent {indo = india , dent = rent}

Dissolution

disintegration. annulment, indulgence in sensual pleasures; debauchery. dissolution is the opposite of resolution. When you make a resolution you make a promise, when you make a dissolution you BREAK or dissolve the promise!

Exude

display, emit exclude is to remove and exude is to remove but slowly..like oozing out of liquid..

Puerile

displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity PURE things are always childish and immature.

Amenable

disposed or willing to comply amen is a word used in Islam and Christianity. meaning of which is i agree. So amenable means something able to be agreed.

Divisive

dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) link with divide

Aloof

distant physically or emotionally resreved.

Schism

division of a group into opposing factions Sounds like prism which splits light into colors.

Deign

do something that one considers to be below one's dignity Reign, which shows high dignity, is the opposite of Degin, which shows low dignity.

Parry

dodge, circumvent pari- imagine a pari(angel) warding off difficulties .

Philanthropy

donations to charity

Bedizen (v)

dress up garishly and tastelessly Bed izen: ( Bad citizen)- Bad citizen has poor dress sense. The elderly actress bedizening herself with makeup.

Lascivious

driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires similar to lush and lust.

Plummet

drop sharply Plummet sounds like Planet (something very very heavy) .. a heavy thing will fall or drop sharply.

Gullible

easily tricked because of being too trusting Gullible = Gull + ible = girl/galli + able A girl who is able to be tricked or deceived easily.

Surfeit

eating until excessively full surfeit = SIR is FAT..as he eats a lot than required until he is full.

Prolix

ediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length prolix=prolonged +lexico graphy

Bowdlerize (v)

edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate Word Root - Thomas Bowdler (1754-1825), English editor who censored and published Shakespeare's writings for family reading.

Maudlin

effusively or insincerely emotional Think of maudlin as model is in beauty pageant... All models in pageants keep crying unnecessarily, become effusively sentimental.

Baroque (adj)

elaborate and extensive ornamentation Bar + oque (oak) bar was designed of beautiful oak wood. A book filled with baroque description.

Florid

elaborately or excessively ornamented flo(wer) + rid(red)sounds like a flower that is in a red color.. OR simply flowery (showy/decorated)

Odoriferous

emitting or having a natural fragrance, morally offensive odori relates to smell. ferous related to ferocious and hence offensive

Edifying

enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement edison invented bulb which gives light Reading good literature is edifying or not.

Effervescence

enthusiasm, vivacity,the process of bubbling as gas escapes from Latin. effervescere, from ex- "out" + fervescere "begin to boil," enthu ppl keep jumping up just like bubbles keep forming when a liquid boils After the exam results the team was in an effervescent mood.

Plumb

examine thoroughly and in great depth; exactly plumb--plumber who tests the pipe to see whether it is exactly vertical or not.

Fetish

excessive or irrational devotion to some activity

Fulsome

excessive; excessively or insincerely lavish You can FOOL SOME people with excessive and insincere praise..

Corpulent (adj)

excessively fat we can remember it by 'crop'. One who eats too much crop is very fat.. A corpulent gentleman.

Lugubrious

excessively mournful LOOK+RUBY ous = DEPRESSED AND MOURNFUL that you LOOK like RUBY(face red)

Penurious

excessively unwilling to spend A person who has to spend a PENNY and is FURIOUS about it is called PENURIOUS.

Parsimonious

excessively unwilling to spend:extremely frugal,miserly a person who is not willing to spend money from his purse - Purse = MY money! Katie is so parsimonious that she only buys a pair of shoes.

Condone

excuse, overlook, or make allowances for; be lenient with condone = consideration + done ~ you do not consider STH anymore

Effete

exhausted,infertile,no longer effective,No longer possessing a unique quality 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 ...

Milk

exploit as much as possible when we milk a cow we make sure we squeeze out every drop for our benefit and gain

Bemoan (v)

express discontent or a strong regret.

Bemoan ( V)

express discontent or a strong regret. The employees bemoaned the cut in pay.

Enunciate

express or state clearly ENUNCIATION means GOOD PRONUNCIATION..:)

Succinct

expressed in few words; concise SUCK+INK - brief/summary of story sucks less ink on the paper

Elegiac(adj)

expressing sorrow. Few can listen to the elegiac opening bars of the moonlight sonata without feeling the urge to cry.

Supercilious

expressive of contempt 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..

Hyperbole

extravagant exaggeration hyper(beyond the limit)+bole(means speak)..so someone who gives the statement beyond its normal limit

Largess

extreme generosity and giving a philanthropist known for his largesse

Plethora

extreme or excess

Herculean

extremely difficult; displaying superhuman strength or power link it to Hercules

Archaic

extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period Remember with Archive. As we keep very old thing in archive- Archaic is related something very old.

Nefarious

extremely wicked ne(NO) + fairy + US: No good character like a fairy among us but an exact opposite i.e. a wicked person

Heinous

extremely wicked, deeply criminal Sounds like Highness - as we call a king. Imagine that he is a Wicked king, thinks only money and power and kills people, hence he is hatefully bad, atrocious

Remiss

failing in what duty requires re+MISS you miss something because of NEGLIGENCE, CARELESSNESS.

Benighted ( adj )

fallen into a state of ignorance.

Cynicism

feeling of distrust pronounced as SIN-ISM,you will not tust people who SIN.

Euphoria

feeling of great happiness or well-being. link to the band Euphoria-record peppy/happy numbers

Penitent

feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds read it as pentant.. rhymes with repentant

Disquietude

feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable disquietude = dis + quiet + attitude.. Quiet therefore uneasy and worried about something.

Ardor

feelings of great warmth and intensity Ardor sounds Like Murder...crime of passion. Ex- The sudden ardor of yoth.

Fecund

fertile, productive, capable of producing offspring

Inundate

fill or cover completely, beyond normal capacity, usually with water I+NUN +DATE....I asked the NUNs for a DATE and i was FLOODED with letters from christian societies for violating the social norms.

Satiate

fill to satisfaction I SAT & ATE till I was full!

Appall

fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised app + all; all applications. I was appalled (shocked) when my teacher told me to learn all applications of a software.

Loathe

find repugnant Loa-the can be related as Low thought...So having a low thought of someone else implies hate or detest

Dovetail (V)

fit together nicely.

Ensconce

fix firmly ensconce sounds something like iskon (lord krishna's temple which is a peaceful place..hence can settle comfortably

Recant

formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief RE (again) + CANT (cannot) = "I have told you this AGAIN and AGAIN, it CANNOT be done, it has been REJECTED."

Abjure (V)

formally reject or give up. ex- Church abjured the Galileo's sun theory.

Fictitious

formed or conceived by the imagination ; adopted in order to deceive relate to fiction

Plastic

forming or capable of forming or molding or fashioning

Noisome

foul-smelling; causing or able to cause nausea

Quotidian

found in the ordinary course of events; usual or customary split it as "quote+indian". Newspapers quote opinions of Indians everyday.. so its a DAILY occurence,customary Phil gets so involved thinking about Aristotle's arguments that he totally fogets quotidian concerns, such as exercising and eating regularly.

Precarious (adj)

fraught with danger. Smoking biddi is far more precarious than smoking weed.

Manumit

free from slavery or servitude manumit ~ man + u + mit (might); man you might go; hence free from slavery

Guileless

free of deceit

Disabuse

free somebody (from an erroneous belief) REMEMBER AS the opposite of abuse(use harsh words or create wrong impression

Badinage

frivolous banter Bad-in-age. Youth is the age we may get involved in doing bad things. One of those bad things is teasing someone (frivolous banter) during conversation or pulling someone's leg.

Flippancy

frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by lightheartedness similar to "flip" (flick-to treat something with disrespect)

Anachronism

from an incorrect time period ana (out of order, negative sense) + chron (time).. so something not placed correctly with respect to time.

Sapid

full of flavor

Succulent

full of juice You suck a fruit only if it is succulent.

Garrulous

full of trivial conversation ; talkative (garrulous can be related to girls when pronounced) and girls talk more than boys loquacious,gabby

Loquacious

full of trivial conversation it is derived from the root word 'loqua'... which refers to SPEECH or TALK

Striated

furrowed; striped;

Gambol

gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement gambol sounds like tambola which is a recreational activity

Feckless

generally incompetent and ineffectual ; lazy and irresponsible. similar to 'reckless' person whose actions are not effective'

Esquire

gentleman; a squire from L. scutarius "shield-bearer, guardsman,

Recuperate

get over an illness or shock Recuperate = RECover from OPERATion. => return to health again.

Gluttonous

given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink sounds like MUTTON, so think of a delicious plate of mutton that you want to have more and more of.

Sententious

given to excessive moralizing

Bibulous

given to or marked by the consumption of alcohol; highly absorbent. relate it to Bib that you tie so that whatever falls,it is absorbed by it. Ex- dying clothes so bibulous.

Hortatory

giving strong encouragement While ploughing farms with bulls, farmers say "HUR HUR ;HORT HORT" to encourage bulls to move ahead. This is HORTATORY.

Lurid

glowing unnaturally, glaringly vivid and graphic; marked by sensationalism lurid ~ horrid ; horrid , horrifying .. somewhat same .. horrible , wild , sensational ...

Serendipity

good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries; the instance in which an accidental, fortunate discovery is made The invention of the 3M Post It Note was serendipitous.

Furlough

grant a leave to OR dismiss, usually for economic reasons even a rich man in the FUR coat can be laid off LOW for economic reasons

Exorbitant(adj)

greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation. Sheely made one exorbitant purchase after another.

Scurrilous

grossly or obscenely abusive You want to scurry away when someone makes scurrilous charges against you.

Burgeon

grow and flourish burgeon ~ burger; If you eat a lot of burgers, you will gain weight (hence grow)

Senescent

growing old His "senses went" as he grew older.

Conscientious

guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong French < Latin conscientia "consciousness" < conscire "be conscious," literally "know thoroughly" < scire "know"]

Recidivism

habitual relapse into crime re (back to) + CID (central investigation department) = back to crime

Censure

harsh criticism or disapproval Try to link the meaning of this word with the censor board which always criticizes every inch of the film and also disapproves of some of the parts.

Animadversion

harsh criticism or disapproval a mad version of a speech or sentence will receive critical remarks

Perfunctory

hasty and without attention to detail; as a formality only PARAI(other's)+FACTORY - if you are told to take care of somebody else's factory, you would casually care about it

Cursory

hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough relate it to the cursor on your computer screen..the mouse is used to move the cursor hastily without going into minor details..

Fetid

having a foul smell feet' - often associated with bad smell.

contrived

having an unnatural or false appearance or quality

Perspicacious

having keen mental perception and understanding; acutely insightful and wise sounds like perspective or perceptive which are related.

Multifarious

having many aspects MULTIFARIOUS=MULTI+FARIOUS,farious rhymes with various...so both multi and various means de same...VARIED and GREATLY DIVERSIFIED

Malevolent

having or exerting a malignant influence malevolent = male +violent Violent males can cause more harm to society than females

Polychromatic

having or exhibiting many colors

Impassive

having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited break up into im+passive - that is, i am passive - unmoved - inactive

Bellicose

having or showing a ready disposition to fight Billi (cat); two Billi (cats) very close about to attack : billi-close::bellicose

Imperious

having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy someone imperial (royal) would look down on others as inferior Children are imperious with each other before they learn that earning someone's respect is better than demanding.

Overbearing

having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy to bear someone's views on yourself.. that person is overbearing you.. that is he is dominating over you..

Pied

having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly remember pie chart which has different colors

Probity

having strong moral principles basically this word is taken from latin probus..means honesty..............

Preponderant

having superior power and influence

Omnipotent

having unlimited power OMNI (means all) + POTENT (powerful) = ALL POWERFUL

Numismatics

he collection and study of money (and coins in particular)

Peroration

he concluding section of an oration Per+oration--Part after ORATION = PERORATION, that is the concluding section of an oration.

Apogee

he point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited. a final climactic stage,the highest/farthest point/peak Apogee = Up+ho+gee (ho ji -> like in hindi).. So what is up, is at the highest point

Bombardment

heavy artillery,an attack by dropping bombs Bombs falling on our Apartment

Grandiloquence

high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation grand (maginificent) + eloquent (fluent speech)

Frustrate

hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of relate to frustrated - a feeling when expectations are not met or hopes are disappointed

Stymie

hinder or prevent the progress Stymie is a negative word. Stymie means "tie me". i.e., prevent from moving forward.

Encumber (v)

hold back The costume encumbered all my movements and caused me to sweat profusely.

Enthrall

hold spellbound en+thrall(very close to word thrill.a thrilling dance performance

Domicile

housing that someone is living in Latin,from domus "house" (see domestic) + colere "to dwell"

Parody

humorous or satirical mimicry; make a spoof of or make fun of parody..parrot..always imitates people often in a humorous way.

Panacea

hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases Panacea Biotec - A Pharma Company - is producing remedy for all diseases.

Prattle

idle or foolish and irrelevant talk p-rattle, the word "rattle" (talk continuously) itself conveys that what you are saying sounds foolish as no one can understand what you are rattling off.

Lackadaisical

idle or indolent especially in a dreamy way, lacking spirit or liveliness lackadaisical sounds as LACK+(A)+DI+ZE(C)AL... hence the meaning " lack of zeal"

Loutish

ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance lot (loud) brutish and ill mannered people are also loud

Pristine

immaculately clean and unused sounds like priest(ine) means pertaining to priests which is to remain in pure state.

Ineluctable (adj)

impossible to avoid or evade. For those who smoke cigarettes for years , a major health crisis brought on by smoking is ineluctable.

Irrepressible

impossible to control or suppress focus on repress meaning press down, control

Irremediable

impossible to remedy or correct or redress remediable = unable to remedy (cure, correct

Grandiose

impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval grand+iose(..pose), people who give POSE (show off) are usually reffered to grandiose persons

Disgruntled

in a state of sulky dissatisfaction Run+Led==they were not satisfied getting 1000 Runs lead even...they were dissatisfied...

Ramshackle

in deplorable condition bhagwan Ram ko jo shack(doubt) karega... uska mann tho unstable hi hoga.

Insurgent

in opposition to a civil authority or government, rebel In + sergeant (one who does not listen to his superior is an insurgent)

Inherent

in the nature of something though not readily apparent something that exists "in here" (inside) not shown on the surface

Infelicitous

inappropriate, or awkward; producing unhappiness in (not)/without) + felicity (happiness)

Sedition

incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government. SEDITION or OPPOSITION which are rhyming words refer to words or actions inciting rebellion.

Noxious

injurious to physical or mental health Noxious - relate it to Naxalites who are dangerous people and therefore harmful to individuals and society

Foist

insert surreptitiously or without warrant or to force onto another foist sounds like hoist meaning 'raised', as in flag hoisting, therefore, he gave his career a "hoist" by "foist-ing" his work on a hardworking colleague

Formidable

inspiring fear or extremely impressive in strength or excellence a challenging enemy is FOR+ME+(like the) DEVIL...strong, difficult to overcome....

Gregarious

instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others relate it to AGGREGATE which means gathering something together... OR think of GRE classes where students study in groups

Conciliatory

intended to placate,mollify sounds like CONSOLING...which means soothin

Misconstrue

interpret in the wrong way when you MIS (wrongly)+ CONcentrate on the TRUE nature of things you misinterpret

Byzantine (adj)

intricate and complex.

Knotty

intricate; difficult; tangled knotty- with lots of knots -difficult to disentangle, difficult to manage.

Meddlesome

intrusive , interfering SOMEone who gets in the MIDDLE of things to interfere

Officious

intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner overenthusiastic about OFFERING help in an OFFICE might be considered meddling

Embroil

involve in dispute; complicate embroil=i m b(r)oil during dispute, quarrel, confusion. We get all boiled up due to great anger.

Felonious

involving or `having the nature of a crime link it to a felon

Lacerate

irregularly slashed and jagged as if torn, deeply hurt the feelings of; distress LACERate can be thought of LASER light which tears, mangles if focused for long time.

Quarantine

isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease quarantine is pretty familiar in case of antivirus softwares you can quarantine the virus affected files which means to ISOLATE THEM...

Aegis

kindl endorsement and guidance age is; if your age is too much (old), you need some protection for your body. Ex- under the aegis of constitution

Nebulous

lacking definition or definite content

Nondescript

lacking distinct or individual characteristics; dull and uninteresting read it as non+describe... an ordinary object does not need to be described.

Anemic (adj)

lacking energy and vigor. eg. after three straight shows , the lead artist gave an anemic performance.

Indiscreet

lacking good judgment, thoughtless opposite of Discreet

Pusillanimous

lacking in courage and manly strength Pussy cat is a coward

Insipid

lacking interest or significance or impact/ without flavour or taste (do) IN (not) + SIP + IT - you will advise someone not to sip something because it is tasteless and bland

Churlish ( adj)

lacking manner and refinement.

Languid

lacking spirit or liveliness languid sounds similar to language..language classes are generally boring and unexciting. We spent a languid weel lying around the house.

Prosaic

lacking wit or imagination mosaic--->beautiful artistic work with full of vibrant colours.....prosaic ...opposite of that ...dull

Gauche

laking social polish Ghochu

Bequeath

leave or give by will after one's death divide it like-be(before)+queath(sounds like death)-->a father wrote a will before his death, that his all property should be given to his son. He bequeathed his painting ti the museam.

Belittle

lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of. express a negative opinion be+little -- be little in value, depreciate

Steep

let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse

Invidious (adj)

likely to cause resentment. At many times when many others in the office were about to be liad off, many considered Cher's fine clothes that day an invidious display. Offensive, envious

Amortize

liquidate gradually from L. ad- "to" + mors (gen. mortis/mortal) "death" . Meaning "extinguish a debt" (in form amortization)

Knoll

little round hill; hillock here k is silent so read it as - KNOtting+HILL

Alacrity ( N)

liveliness and eagerness take the suffix crity we can link it with creativity. creative people are so eager to learn n create things differently. eX- She accepted the invitation letter with an alacrity that surprised me.

Sublime

lofty or grand

Ogle

look at with amorous intentions a man's face becomes an 'O' while staring at a girl he wants

Plangent

loud and resounding when PLANing GENTs make a lot of noise

Antic ( adj)

ludicrously odd. ex- The clown's antic act was too extreme for the youngest children.

Recumbent

lying down; in a position of comfort or rest ecum+bent => sounds similar like become+bent. you become bent while sitting means you lie down.

Hermetic

made airtight by fusion or sealing. ; not affected by outward influence or power; isolated. relate it to a hermit who lives in isolation,

Inured

made tough and immune by habitual exposure someone injured over and over again will become tough and immune to pain. Three years of Manhattan living has inured her to the sound of wailing sirens.

Limn

make a portrait of, trace the shape of limn: Think of 'Film' i.e. Picture, Drawing.

Refurbish

make brighter and prettier by changing one character b to n we get REFURNISH. i.e. refurnishing something - renovate or make bright by furnishing again.

Neutralize

make ineffective by counterbalancing the effect of

Divulge

make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret from L. divulgare "publish, make common," from dis- "apart" + vulgare "make common property," from vulgus "common people"

Mitigate

make less severe or harsh think of MITIGATE as COLGATE(toothpaste).Use of COLGATE lessen or try to lessen the extent of germs in our teeth.

Rarefy

make more subtle or refined; become thin rarefy ~ rare ~ low in density ~ thin, sparse

Obfuscate

make obscure or unclear obfus is similar to confuse + c(re)ate - therefore to create confusion

Fructify

make productive or fruitful something that bears frui(c)t

Stupefy

make senseless or dizzy by or as if by a blow

Impair

make worse or less effective or imperfect opposite of Repair

Raffish

marked by a carefree unconventionality or disreputableness sounds like "rough"ish so somthing which is rough in behaviour, that reminds of youngsters and they are carefree

Sedulous

marked by care and persistent effort to seduce a woman, man needs to be diligent and persistent

Flip

marked by casual disrespect relate it to "flick" which means to hit with a light quick blow - he flicked the insect off the table - therefore to treat something as if flicking it away (disrespect/casual attitude)

Nonchalant

marked by complete lack of concern

Ornate

marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details sounds like ORNAmenTe ..when many ornaments are used, the thing is ornated.

Rabid

marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea Rap+it =Rabid those who enjoy rap are its extreme fanatic.

Naive

marked by or showing unaffected simplicity and lack of guile or worldly experience

Punctilious

marked by precise accordance with details it is very close to word PUNCTUAL...and you pay attention to even a person who is 1 second late, that shows that you care for even very minute things too.

Recalcitrant

marked by stubborn resistance to authority 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

Natty

marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners NATTY sounds like NEAT and tidy so natty

Humane

marked or motivated by kindness/feeling of humanity humans are born considerate n kind...

Quack

medically unqualified think of it as...if a person quacks like a duck...he is an impostor who is acting like a duck

Elixir

medicine believed to have the power to cure all ills e(lix)ir: Tag: Consider the word in bracket only. Lix sounds like Vicks. Vicks is a common CURE for cold and cough

Nostrum

medicine whose effectiveness is questionable put RUM in the NOSTrils.....to cure cold.... a questionable remedy

Balmy

mild and pleasant BALMs are used to make us feel good, mild when we are having headache or tension. hence balmy means mild, pleasant

Misdemeanour

misbehavior; misdeed.a crime less serious than a felony mis(wrong) + demeanor (behaviour)

Coalesce

mix together different elements coalesce: coa+LACE: lace is used to tie things together or mix things together

knead

mix; work dough knead = k-nead(need)...what do you need? ..food? Then you will have to mix the dough

Lumber

move heavily or clumsily lumber(noun and verb)sounds simillar to cumber(some).means heavy and awkward.

Lissome

moving and bending with ease liss is similar to the 'hissing' sound of a snake which is a slim easily bendable creature

Lithe

moving and bending with ease, flexible lissome Sounds like "light" and something which is light in weight can easily be moved and bended.

Recrimination

mutual accusations re-crimina-tion: crimina relates to a crime. recrimination means: one accusing the other for a crime. The other "re" accused him of another crime.

Profligate

n & adj a recklessly extravagant consumer Profligate= spend Profusely like bill Gates

Bolster

n -a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows, v- to support or strengthen read bolster as booster which mean giving extra energy and hence to support and strengthen someone or something.

Atavism

n ; a reappearance of earlier characteristic; throwback.

Efficacy

n Power or capacity to produce a desired effect; effectiveness. effic(EFFICIENT)+AC(Y)..so just check out if your AC has the efficiency to PRODUCE DESIRED cooling . this medicine is no longer efficacious

Foible

n a behvaiour attributes that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual This is related to some short coming one have

Polemic

n a controversial argument, as one against some opinion, doctrine, etc.: a strong verbal attach on someone or something. refer pol to politics, as u know modern day politics is full of CONTROVERSIES... The professor launched into a polemic ,claiming

melancholy

n a deep long lasting sadness somber,depressing Hamlet is a figure of tremendous melancholy.

Malady

n a disease or sickness The town was hit by a malady throughout the winter

Myriad

n a large indefinite number ike pyramid.. huge number of years since it was built The PYRAMID consist of a huge pile of rocks = a MYRIAD of rocks There are myriad of internet sites.

Respite

n a pause from doing something ( as work) Respite pe respite judge sahab

Perquisite

n a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group(especially a hereditary or official right) gratuity,tip

Maxim

n a short saying expressing a general truth Jhonson initially suggest that the secret to business can be summarized in a single maxim.

Smattering

n a slight or superficial understanding of a subject; a small amount of something Sound like scatter.Something which is scatter is small and not thorough. I know a smattering of Japanese

Flux

n a state of uncertainity about what should be done (usually following some important events. Think about Lux variety soap when you don't know which one to buy. After manager resignation our sales strategy is in the state of flux.

Melee

n a wild, confusing fight and struggle Melle charater in TV serial was wild and always fighting Brutal melee.

Screed

n an abusive rant (oftern tedious) Some screed against the government.

Perfidy

n an act of deliberate betrayal per+ fidy=without fidelity i.e cheat upon ur partner,,in general cheat or breach something

Redress

n an act of making something right Re+ Adress Barry forgot his wife's birthday two years in a row, and was only able to redress his oversight by suprising his wife with a trip.

Duress

n compulsory threat or force Durex-forced to used condom to prevent AIDS The witness said that he signed the paper under duress. Coercion.

Bludgeon

n- a club used as a weapon, (verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club Bludgeon ~ Blood + Generator; If you hit someone with a bludgeon (ex. hockey stick) then blood comes out.

Die

n- a device used for shaping metal, v-stop operating or functioning

Descant

n-a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody, v- talk at great length about something of one's interest De+Scant: De means not, Scant means less. So not less or scant is something which is lengthy. Hence to descant is to talk at length.

Bungle

n-an embarrassing mistake. v-make a mess of, destroy or ruin bungle like jungle ..... if on a long drive you lose your way and end up in a jungle.... now that's a blunder....

Badger

n-carnivorous burrowing mammal, v -annoy persistently bad+ ger (gen, generation): gen means people. Today's bad generation can really annoy their parents.

Bivouac

n-temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers, v-live in or as if in a tent sounds like biwak,hijackers put the hostages in a bivouac

Savvy

n: a perceptive understanding; v- get the meaning of something; adj- well-informed or perceptive Noun- Although a great CEO, he didn't have the political savvy to win the election Verb- The student savvies the meaning; Adj- With his savvy business partner.

Apothegm

n; a short, pithy instructive saying. Winston Churchill is famous for many apothegms.

Parochial

narrowly restricted in outlook or scope link this with paro....(of devdas)...whose parents were narrow in their outlook for devdas family , so they married her to someone else.

Insular

narrowly restricted in outlook or scope, suggestive of the isolated life of an island something 'insulated' is isolated from everything else

Inviolable (adj )

never to be broken, infringed, or dishonored. But the idea that this is some kind of inviolable political rule is just nonsense. durable, hallowed,invincible, sacramental sacrosanct., unassailable, undefiled.

Boisterous

noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline split...BOIS(BOYS)+TEROS(TERRORIS(t)).....SO BOYS WHO BEHAVE LIKE TERRORIS.(t). . too noisy and rowdy A large and boisterous crowd.

Impervious

not admitting of passage or capable of being affected im (prefix meaning not) + pervade - something that cannot be prevaded or affected

Peremptory

not allowing contradiction or refusal

Inexpedient

not appropriate to the purpose in (not) + expert therefore one who is not an expert is not appropriate for a job

Placid (adj)

not easily irritated. Doug is normally placid, so we were shocked to see him yelling at the reporter. unperturbed, serene, tranquil

Improvident (adj)

not given careful consideration. Marty was improvident, never putting money aside for the future.

Impecunious

not having enough money to pay for necessities pecuniary - related to money; impecunious - lack of money

Mundane

not ideal or heavenly, found in the ordinary course of events Mundane sounds like Monday. After an exciting weekend, Monday is just another mundane day.

Impenitent

not penitent or remorseful im (prefix meaning not) + penitent (penance-remorse)

Factitious

not produced by natural forces sounds like FICTITIOUS....something which is always artificial. The defedant's story was largely factitious.

Quixotic

not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic THIS WORD IS DERIVED FROM THE NOVEL....Don Quixote de la Mancha...where the HERO IN THE NOVEL..Cervantes GETS inspired by lofty and chivalrous but impractical ideals.................... SO QUIXOTE....QUIXOTIC....MEANS HAVING IMPRACTICAL IDEAS.

Opaque

not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy; impenetrable to sight OR not clearly understood or expressed an opening that is covered with a plaque (a thin, flat plate of metal) so no light can shine through)

Dearth

noun A scarce supply; a lack: earth is big. de-earth.....(read as dearth) means small...small in quantity..or scarcity I am surprised by the dearth of fast food chains

Dilettante

noun Lacking the required professional skill DIE + LET (t) + ANT + (e) = An amateur who lets the ant die because of lack of expertise

Miscreant

noun a person without moral scruples MISCREANT=mis+create..so god created them by mistake. Who? The VILLAINS Come back you miscreant! yelled the women who just had her purse stollen.

Reprobate

noun a person without moral scruples reprobate: rep(repeatedly)+rob+ate.. a person who again and again robs other peoples food and eats it up has no moral values. Those old reprobates drinking all day down

Nuance

noun a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude nuance = new + ounce.. and ounce is a very small unit for weight.. hence a very small difference.. Because of the nuances involved in this case,I hired an outside consultant to advice us and help.

Precedent

noun an example that is used to justify similar occurrence at a later time

Pittance

noun an inadequate payment Pity + Allowance very sad payment,,, This money is a mere pittance.

Powwow

noun an informal meeting or discussion the coach always call for a powwow so that

Credence

noun belief in something remember it from credential He placed no credence in psychics,claiming that they offered no special power beyond the ability to make people part with their money.

Credulous

noun believe too readily; gullible. gives 'credit' to everything one hears or reads - credulous

Clemency

noun leniency and compassion shown towards offenders by a person or agency charged with the administering justice In the final moments of the trial,during his closing speech,Philips was nearly begging the judge for clemency.

Maverick

noun someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action Mave+"RICK" sounds like Ricky Ponting who is rebellious and non-conformist as he does not believe in umpire descisions during India's Cricket match

Cornucopia

noun the property of being extremely abundant corn + copia copia is similar to copius meaning plentiful, cornucopia thus means plenty of corn(grains/fruits). This shop has cornucopia of products.

Mendacity

noun the tendency to be untruthful mend+a+city. during elections, politicians promise that "they will mend the city and make it better" which is a lie....

Boon

noun very close and convivial He was a boon companion to many, and will be sadly missed

Concurrent

occurring or operating at the same time con-with + current -at the same time

Grievous

of great gravity or crucial import; requiring serious thought; causing or marked by unhappiness or anguish relate it to something that causes much "grief"

Gargantuan

of great mass; huge and bulky similar to gigantic

Nugatory

of no real value No+guarantee, i.e a product which has no guarantee, because it is worthless.

Nuptial

of or relating to a wedding

Lupine

of or relating to or characteristic of wolves

Culinary

of or relating to or used in cooking cullinary almost rhymes with CURRY, which is again related to cooking.

Simpatico

off one's mind

Approbation

official recognition or approval Ap+PROBATION: You get CONFIRMATION/APPROVAL in your job after your Probation period

Portentous

ominously prophetic

Gamester

one who likes to play games especially gambling relate I to 'games'

Martyr

one who suffers for the sake of principle if someone sacrificed for me, I would give them my tear; martyr

Incipient

only partly in existence; imperfectly formed in sips (small portions) not whole or complete

Inchoate

only partly in existence; imperfectly formed in+ch(a)o(s) + (st)ate not fully formed into order yet

Overt

open and observable; not secret or hidden overt can be said as "over the top".. that is a totally open place.. and nothing is concealed..

Ambiguous

open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead Ambi (am + bi) means 2 , while guous sounds like guess. So if 2 people guess on something, then it will make the subject doubtful or unclear.

Overture

orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera overture sounds like overtuning. before listening to FM radio we have to tune it for long for song which suits our taste. so overture = over + tune (re) is long musical introduction

Ordain

order by virtue of superior authority; decree ORD + A + IN = ORDer A person to come IN

Rococo

ornate or florid in speech, literary style, etc.

Digress

ose clarity or turn aside especially from the main subject of attention "DIscussion eGRESS" if you egress of the main topic of a discussion, you digress of it.

Bombastic

ostentatiously lofty in style sounds like fantastic-that means has to be spectacular,exaggerated. Professor joked that he became quite bombastic after a few drinks. Syn- Declamatory, Magniloquent and Grandiloquent.

Hauteur (n)

overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferior. As soon as she won the lottery, Alice begin displaying a hauteur to her friends, calling them dirty-clothed peasant behind their backs.

Hubris(n)

overbearing pride or presumption HUB+RIS(RAISE)--A person RAISEd in a HUB(city centre),will be arrogant and conceited towards villagers and others. Bill Clinton was criticized for his hubris since he believed he could get away with anything once in the White House.

Extemporaneous

performed with little or no preparation; without planning or forethought an extempore that we did in school which was spontaneous and NOT PLANNED

Incapacitate

permanently injure or in any way make unable to perform an action without capacity/abilty

Imbrue

permeate , saturate or stain brue - brew as in coffee that is brewed - leaves a stain

Assiduous

perseverance in carrying out action Ass is donkey and donkey is hardworking.

Eloquent

persuasive, powerful discourse Latin -eloqui "to speak out"

Niggardly

petty or reluctant in giving or spending

Pulchritude

physical beauty (especially of a woman)

Nice

pleasant /agreeable in nature or appearance OR done with delicacy and skill/precision usage eg - nice person, items arranged nicely

Felicity

pleasing and appropriate manner or style; contentment, joy when someone felicitates u, u feel happy

Dulcet

pleasing to the ear When You are Dull Then Music can Set it right.Dull + Set. It sets ur dullness to happiness by pleasing you when you listen to the song.

Impuissance

powerlessness revealed by an inability to act relate it to a pussycat which is a vulnerable timid weak creature unable to act

Blandish

praise somewhat dishonestly you will falsely praise a bland-dish prepared by your wife Cajole, Coax

Laud

praise, glorify, or honor

Orison

prayer to a deity ORIginal (sincere) SONg to a god

Minutiae

precise details; small or trifling matters relate it to the minute hand on a clock which measures very small precise units of time

Obviate

prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening obviate - viate sounds like deviate, deviate yourself from something unnecessary to you...

Factious (adj)

produced by or characterized by internal dis aggrement. The controversial bill proved factious, as dissension even within the parties resulted.

Profuse

produced or growing in extreme abundance

Lucrative

producing a sizeable profit it is derived from lucre which means money

Apocalyptic

prophetic of devastation or ultimate doom calamity means a disaster- so focus on 'cal' in apocalyptic Ex- No one listened to her aprocalyptic prediction.

Decorum

prppriety in manner and conduct DECO (dekho) yaar, RUM pine ke baad, there is very little possibility that you will be in ORDERLINESS and GOOD MANNERS, CONDUCT.

Frugality

prudence in avoiding waste frugal means avoiding waste... read it as free+girl...if you take a girl out for free it prevents waste of money

Scarify

puncture and scar (the skin), as for purposes or tribal identification or rituals

Castigation

punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. Castigated sounds similar to castrated, which would be a harsh punishment for any guy.

Extrude

pushing or thrusting out. process of shaping by forcing through a die. INtrude is to enter whereas extrude is to force or push OUT (ex means out)

Promulgate

put a law into effect by formal declaration

Quash

put down by force or intimidation squash also means the same - compress/suppress.

Propound

put forward, as of an idea propo(propose) + ound(round) = what do we propose at a round table, an idea, guys

Brook ( v)

put up with something or somebody unpleasant. Suffer or tolerate. Dad will brook no disobeying.

Mousy

quiet and timid and ineffectual acting like a mouse

Refulgent

radiating or as if radiating light refulgent sounds like detergent.. use detergent to make things shine

Ken

range of knowledge or vision ken sounds like "can" i.e., one who has a wide range of knowledge can understand anything.

Fusillade

rapid simultaneous discharge of firearms Fusion' bomb, a kind of nuclear bomb. So 'fusillade' is discharge of bombs.

Bristle (v)

react in an offended or angry manner. ex- As we discussed the painting, I noticed the artist's wife bristling at our crticism.

Perennial

recurring again and again sounds like PURANI(old)...purani things are perennial

Ruminate

reflect deeply on a subject

Kindred

related; belonging to the same group; similar in nature or character all of them are 'kind' 'red' indians ..... so they belong to one community / group share kinship

Bovine

relating to cattle , dull and slow-moving and stolid like a cow is slow & dull

Natal

relating to or accompanying birth natal sounds like fatal..as fatal is connected with death..natal....is just the opposite of fatal , hence connected with birth.

Bilious

relating to or containing bile, angry, irritable bilious can be compared with bile which is produced by liver.,L. biliosus, from bilis (see bile). Meaning "wrathful, peevish, ill-tempered" (as people afflicted with an excess of bile were believed to be)

Agrarian

relating to rural matters root "agr" in this word means related to agriculture clearly indicate the meaning of this word.

Catholic

relating to the Church,comprehensive,universal Catholic Christians are found everywhere in the world....so they are present universally.

Germane

relevant and appropriate germane...very close to word ..germany..so if you want TO learn GERMAN LANGUAGE....I GUESS A GERMAN teacher would be APPROPRIATE.

Expurgate

remove parts considered harmful or improper for publication divide this word into (expel+ur+gate), you always expel the waste from your gate to make your home 'clean' and 'purified'.

Hackneyed

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse concentrate on hack !!! once a hacker is ALWAYS a hacker.. he overuses his techniques. Cheryl rolled her eyes when she heard the lecturer's hackneyed advice to " be true to yourself". Banal,trite

Belie

represent falsely belie ~ lie means something false.

Ostensible

represented or appearing as such; pretended People are "tense" when they try to appear to be something they're not.

Sedentary

requiring sitting or little activity dentary- dentist u require a lot of sitting to make ur teeth healthy

Gumption (n)

resourcefulness and determination.

Abrogate (V)

revoke formally. ex-The workers abrogated their right to increment. Imagine a boy is making sighs to a girl standing in front of her GATE,seeing that ,her BRO comes & get rid of the boy (abolish)

Precept

rule of personal conduct

Disconsolate

sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled If you can identify the word consol(console), then... you would console someone who has lost every hope and is hopelessly sad.

Rhapsodize

say (something) with great enthusiasm

Cryptic

secret; obscure in meaning Crypt means Secret . . . So Cryptic means something secret .

Arrogate

seize and take control without authority and possibly with force Think of it's similarity to "arrogant." An arrogate person might be so bold as to arrogate another's possessions.

Factotum

servant employed to do a variety of jobs totum which sounds like total meaning all

Subpoena

serve or summons from court

Ossified

set in a rigidly conventional pattern of behavior, habits, or beliefs sounds like fossilised therefore something that is very old and rigid

Fulgent

shining intensely sounds like a "full" "gem" shiny and bright

Ghastly

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror ghastly sounds like ghost + ly; something like a ghost ........ very horrible ... and terrifying.

Abridge

shortening parts while maintaining the actual meaning. ex- abridge a dic by ommiting rare words.

Bellow

shout loudly and without restraint sound of BULL is very loud - Bellow. He bellowed at her to come over at once.

Cower

show submission or fear A coward cowers from fear while the bold and the brave do not.

Grovel

show submission or fear One who wants to "grow well" in an organisation needs to grovel before his manager.

Complaisant

showing a cheerful willingness to do favors for others com + plais(please) + ant come and please the a(u)n

Rancorous

showing deep-seated resentment rancor(ranker)+ous........we are so jealous of ranker 1 that we always had BITTER FEELINGS towards him

Profound

showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth; pervasive or intense; thorough; complete whatever professional or researchers found(read find) has to be deep.

Ingenious

showing inventiveness and skill someone who is a genius will show ability to invent and have great skill

Benevolent

showing kindness,generous bene(root bene means good)+volent(voluntarily)..so good person voluntarily donating his all GOODS to people.

Phlegmatic

showing little emotion Sounds like PRAGMATIC(practical) --> practical people think with logic and show little emotion.

Static

showing little if any change; angry criticism The contents of our ATTIC is STATIC; it hasn't changed in years.

Dolorous

showing sorrow DOL(SOUNDS LIKE DULL)..and when are you DULL, when you are feeling SORRY for something.

Lachrymose

showing sorrow lachrymose-lac+chry(cry)+mose(most),so when you cry most you produce 'tears'.

Acumen

shrewdness shown by keen insight acumen sounds like IQ-men.. men with high IQ have ability to judge quickly (has keen insight). He lack a business acumen.

Abreast (adj)

side-by-side; keeping up with , staying ware of

Odious

sincerely hated and despised the word reminds us of ODOUR, when we get bad odour from someone ...we tend to DISLIKE or DEVELOP AN AVERSION for that person..

Antipodal

situated on the opposite side or sides of the earth:diametrically/exactly opposite anti (against) + poda (feet), so think you & your friend are beginning a journey on foot from opposite/anti direction.

Brackish

slightly salty (especially from containing a mixture of seawater and fresh water); not appealing to taste. ending sounds like fish...which is found in salty water

Obtuse

slow to learn or understand; lacking intellect OBT (oft) + USE(d) = the mind lacks shrapness or becomes blunt if it is not often used

Saturnine

sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn. Saturn = rahu, rahu = makes wrong things happen in one's life (astronomically) so meaning = gloomy, unhappy, morose.Just remember saturns rings-->glommy,dull,faroff planet .

Niggling

small and of little importance

Rancid

smelling of fermentation or staleness ran+cid..ran(rank)+cid(acid)...rank means bad smell..and a acid which smell bad

Lambent

softly bright or radiant A lamp gives out a bright and radiant light

Luminous

softly bright or radiant luminous = luminance ~ bright

Novice

someone new to a field or activity A novice is NOT WISE enough yet

Marauder

someone who attacks in search of booty sounds like murderer - a person who attacks another for personal gain

Firebrand (n)

someone who deliberately creates trouble.

Martinet

someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms martinet could rhyme with matron.. whose job is also to keep discipline..

Misanthrope

someone who dislikes people in general mis (negative implication) + anthrop(ology) meaning the study of mankind..

Pedagogue

someone who educates young people ped normally means for a child.. and -agogue means a leader.. hence pedegogue..

Pugilist

someone who fights with his fists for sport A boxer's nose is like that of a pug - punched in

Belligerent

someone who fights, is agressive belli (TOM) and gerry always quarrel in TOM and GERRY cartoon series.

Stickler

someone who insists on something read it as STICK-LER, i.e one who sticks to a set of rules, a PERFECTIONIST.

Interloper

someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission INTER (between) + LOAFER (idiot) = a loafer tries to INTRUDE in other's affairs.

Conscript

someone who is drafted into military service Latin conscript-, past participle of conscribere "enroll" < scribere "write"]

Scapegoat

someone who is punished for the errors of others concetrate on 'goat' from scapegoat goat is nothing but the famous word 'bakra' in hindi recall mtv bakra

Stoic

someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions Think: "Stone-like"--> To be like a stone means you don't experience pleasure or pain. You are unaffected.

Laggard

someone who lags behind link it to 'lag' behind

Masochist

someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment mars+own+chest.... one who mars(beats or disfigures) his own chest is a masochist

Spendthrift

someone who spends money prodigally Spendthrift is actually a misnomer...split it as SPEND+THRIFT. Thrifty means, careful use of resources, so a spendthrift should actually mean someone who carefully spends money, but it means SOMEONE WHO WASTES MONEY.

Ribald

someone who uses vulgar and offensive language

Collier

someone who works in a coal mine col-sounds like coal

Kleptomaniac

someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive maniac(means a strong desire to do something, a madness)+klepto(means steal)...so having a strong desire to steal...something

Desideratum ( n)

something desired as necessity. The desideratum of the environmentalist group is that motorist shoul rely on carpooling.

Chimera (n)

something desired or wished for but is only an illusion and impossible to achieve.

Reparation

something done or paid in expiation of a wrong compare it with making repairs

Nemesis

something that brings an end to something; causing misery or death not+my+sis a sister wouldn't be the cause of my downfall/misery or death - therefore meaning is opposite to what a close family member would do. .

Protuberance

something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings as we pump air to tube it protuberances i.e bulges in size

Impediment

something that interferes with or delays action or progress impediment itself has the word imped(e) which means to obstruct.

Precursor

something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone She PREpared him for the CURSORy scene he was about to witness, serving as a PRECURSOR.

Harbinger

something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone sounds like HER + FINGER, she shows me what to do by gesturing with her finger.

Decoy

something used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed DECOY sounds like DACOIT.wat does a dacoit do?LURES VICTIMS TO DANGER

Bereft ( adj)

sorrowful through loss or deprivation be+reft--reft sounds like left, imagine a man who is left alone after his girlfriend left him or deprived of someone lovable. After 64 years of Marriage, William was bereft after the death of his wife.

Mellifluous

sounds that are pleasing to the ear the melodies from a 'Flute' are mellifluous.

Maunder

speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly sounds like wander - in speech or moving

Knack

special talent knack - knock out... u should have a special talent to knock out ur contender

Killjoy

spoilsport; one who intentionally spoils the pleasure of others kill+joy....... kill here means spoil .+ others joy means.....to spoil others pleasure....

Pervasive

spreading or spread throughout ook the word carefully..PERVASI+VE....and does'nt it sound like PERVASI BHARTIYA DIVAS.....an initiative by the Indian government to attract NON RESIDENT INDIANS who are SPREAD WIDELY ACROSS THE WORLD

Abeyance

state of being inactive or suspended temporarily ab+yawns.... so, think of something like 'students started yawning and so the teacher gave them 5 mins break' i.e. temporary suspension... Latency , doldrum,quiescent

Servitude

state of subjection to an owner or master or forced labor imposed as punishment SERVitude -->So remember it with a person who is kept for serving people at a party, at dinner or lunch.. He is a slave, a labourer.; Serve+attitude--> a person wth serving attitude

Quandary

state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options was in dilemma whether I give my cloths to laundry or wash them at home

Pungent

strong and sharp

Chagrin

strong feelings of embarrassment When someone laughs and GRINs at u,u feel humiliated,irritated.

Rhetoric

study of the technique and rules for using language effectively rhetoric = "right oral" skills. If you have the right oral skills, you can communicate well.

Robust

sturdy and strong in form, constitution, or construction

Euphemism

substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive: Concentrate on Phemism-sounds like feminism,females will never use harsh words,they use milder words.

Swelter

suffer from intense heat f you put on a SWEATER in the heat, then you will suffer from oppresive heat.

Risque

suggestive of sexual impropriety

Seemly

suitable or appropriate

Opportune

suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose OPPORTUNE sounds like FORTUNE., somehting that occurs at the right time is a matter of good luck or fortune

Glib

superficial speech, smooth, persuasive split the word into g(o) lib(rary). Someone who goes to the library very frequently obviously is very articulate and thus fluent,slick,diplomatic with people...

Occult

supernatural practices and techniques things that do not OCCUR in normal reality

Quench

suppress or crush completely rhymes with drench (which also means the same).

Moratorium

suspension of an ongoing activity moratorium= paying MORE PREMIUM (payments) will delay a job

Ballon (v)

swell or pull out; increase rapidly.

Aggress

take the initiative and go on the offensive short for agression - getting angry & attacking

Preempt (v)

take the place of or have precedence over. A governmental warning about an imminent attack would preempt ordinary network programs. Arrogate

Admonish

take to task, to criticize for a fault to avoid A DEMON-ish act, a mother Warns her naughty child

Plagiarize

take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech basically it is derived from Latin plagiare which means to kidnap, to wound..to claim ....kidnap means steal..so STEALING OR KIDNAPPING SOMEONE'S IDEA.

Expropriate

taking quick and forcible possession of something ex+propriate; ex+property...so depriving someone of his property

Malediction

the act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult) MALEDICTION=MAL+DICTION. MAL means 'evil or ill' and DICTUM is 'saying'. So to say something evil is to CURSE.

Oblation

the act of contributing to the funds of a church or charity close to obligation meaning a feeling of duty/responsibility towards others

Ford

the act of crossing a stream or river or a shallow area in a stream that can be forded FOUR jumps and you've crossed a ford

Blasphemy

the act of depriving something of its sacred character blas + phemy -- phemy close to famous-using a bad language or showing disrespect for a famous person.

Derision

the act of deriding or treating with contempt Noun form is 'deride'

Neologism

the act of inventing a word or phrase neo' means 'new' and 'logos' means 'word'; so 'neologism' means inventing new word.

Obeisance

the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior ; a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting divide this word...into .....obei which sounds like obey and + s(t)ance meaning position

Benediction

the act of praying for divine protection u know Pope Benedict...pope gives BLESSINGS. also sounds like benefit,good thing-blessing He dismissed the congregation with the benediction. Syn- benison, blession

Adumbration (V)

the act of providing vague advance estimations or representing beforehand Latin,from ad- "to" + umbrare "to cast in shadow', also think ad + umbrella - standing under the umbrella,you will be in shade/shadow,so ppl cant see you clearly, they will have a vague idea or see your outline only,not your face.

Forage

the act of searching for food and provisions search for provisions FOR old AGE

Pillage

the act of stealing valuable things from a place Pirate+Village=Pillage

Larceny

the act of taking something from someone unlawfully break it up into LA-R-CENY LA (Law) and CENY (rhymes with Money or CENT for money) Unlawful taking of money = theft

Perspicacity

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

Pith

the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience pith sounds like "peeth" which is central to the body hence pith means important, central or essential part of something

Coda

the closing section of a musical composition from L. cauda "a tail." Syn- Recapitulation, Precis Droppin my purse in a mud puddle right outside my own door was a fine coda to a horrible evening.

Mettle

the courage to carry on Sounds like metal and metals are obviously strong. So, can be related to a strong courageous person.

Apotheosis

the elevation of a person (as to the status of a god,Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification. apo(a person) theo( God) size(raise)~ means "to raise to the level of God"

Repertoire

the entire range of skills or aptitudes or devices used in a particular field or occupation

Façade

the face or front of a building OR a showy misrepresentation intended to conceal something unpleasant break up the word into fake + id, ie, an often false appearance or impression created on the surface

Ennui

the feeling of being bored by something tedious ennui sounds like YEH NAHEEEE!!!!

Amnesty

the formal act of liberating someone,A general pardon granted by a government, especially for political offenses. am + ne (not) + sty (stay); Imagine a prisoner saying "I am not going to stay in this prison anymore as judge granted amnesty to me."

Firmament

the imagined surface of heaven; sky.

Fealty

the loyalty that citizens owe to their country fealty -> feel + ty.. a feeling of "thank you"(ty) for your country.. i.e loyalty..

Semantics

the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text

Eponym (n)

the name derived from a person (real or imaginary); the person for whom something is named.

Denouement (n)

the outcome of a sequence of events; the end result de+NOUncEMENT(ANNOUNCEMENT)..SO you are making an annoucement of your company's FINAL OUTCOME report. At the denouement of the movie , all questions were answered, and the true identity of the robber was revealed.

Laity

the people outside of a particular profession, as distinguished from those belonging to it: the medical ignorance of the laity. relate it to a layman ie, a person who doesnt have in depth information about a subject, is outside the group of experts

Prescience

the power to foresee the future PRE(before)SCIENCE we had prophets to know the future

Husbandry

the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock most common usage is animal husbandry-taking care and raising livestock

Fidelity

the quality of being faithful relate to the root FID which means belief or faith, as in confide, bonafide

Comeliness

the quality of being good looking and attractive rhymes with cleabliness-neat,clean place will attract you

Altruism

the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others

Quiddity

the quality that makes a thing what it is

Lien

the right to take another's property if an obligation is not discharged when you have to show your right on your property you say 'this property "lie in" my name.

Enfranchise

the right to vote French - from en- "make, put in" + franc "free"

Interment

the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave in + term (terminate/death ) relate it to the ritual involved with a dead body

Carnage

the savage and excessive killing of many people carn+age where carn can be seen from the carnivorous point of view so its DESTRUCTION OF LIFE, SLAUGHTER,KILLING..

Notoriety

the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality link to 'notorious'

Latency

the state of being not yet evident or active focus on "late" something that arrives late is not present therefore not evident or active

Alloy

the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something, to adulterate sounds like ALLOW, two metals are allowed to combine together

Interregnum

the time between two reigns, governments, etc. inter (between) + regime (time period during a which a government is in power)

Gall

the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties or irritate or vex Even though he was hired recently ,he had the gall to question her boss's judgement in front of the office.In an act of gall ,Leach sent compromising photos of her Bf to all her co-workers.

Malapropism

the unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar mal (negative) + prop (proper usage) .. improper usage of words

Panorama

the visual percept of a region rama,our great god can see pan(remember pan india add by mobile companies) universe if he wants to.....

Kismet

the will of God sounds like kismat..word in hindi..so kismet means kismat...luck..

Minatory

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments Minatory sounds like military--military people are very threatening most of the times.

Sinister

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments SINISTER - let us break it into Hindi - SIN (GUNAH) + IS + TER = TARAH ... sin is tarrah bad gaye hain ke charoan aur evil he evil chha gayi hai.

Flustered

thrown into a state of agitated confusion when you think you will be FIRST and you came LAST you are flustered

Obtrude

thrust oneself in as if by force to intrude forcibly on to something

List

tilt to one side,

Interminable

tiresomely long; seemingly without end a term is a fixed period of time in(not) + term = time that is not limited/fixed

Interpolation

to alter (a text) by the insertion of new matter, to introduce (something additional or extraneous) between other things or parts; interject; interpose inter ( between) + pole = when something is inserted/comes between two poles/extremes

Placate

to appease or pacify, esp. by concessions or conciliatory gestures PL + ac + ATE = a PLATE full of tasty food to SATISFY someone.

Pique

to arouse an emotion or provoke to action pique - sounding like pic ! if some 1 takes ur pic secretly . you wuld b annoyed , irritated....

Browbeat ( v)

to be bossy towards; discourage or frigtened with threats. ex- The suspect was browbeaten into signing a false confession.

Preen

to be exultant or proud Preen ~ Rin; commonly used detergent bar in India used for cleaning clothes.. hence preening clothes.

Amalgamate

to bring or combine together or with something else. Suppose you are shy girl and you have a+ male+game+mate (amalgamate)what you should do ? of course combine or unite with your mate against other groups. Ex- amalgamating different style of music.

Hector (v)

to bully or intimidate.

Irradiate

to cast light upon, expose to radiation of light, radiate = emit light / shine light upon

Trounce

to defeat (someone or something) easily and thoroughly.

Gainsay

to deny, dispute, or contradict OR to speak or act against; oppose she has (Gain)ed weight but is not (say)ing it which means, she is denying the fact. contradict, disavow,negate,repudiate,disown

Extirpate

to destroy totally; exterminate Lord Rama destroyed Ravana by shooting a tir-teer(arrow) in his pate(belly)....

Deracinate

to displace from one's native or accustomed environment. de + race - remove from where ur racing,to remove

Beg ( v)

to eavde or dodge ( a question) Maggie begged the question.

Immure (v)

to enclose,usually in walls.

Embolden

to encourage, make bold, To impart courage, inspiration, and resolution em + bold - fill with boldness

Pillory

to expose to public derision, ridicule, or abuse Pillory: The word pillor stands out. Visualise a person being tied to a pillar as a punishment.

Commiserate

to feel or express sympathy or compassion co+miserate ...share one's misery by being with them

Defry (V)

to help pay the cost of, either in part or full. My generous uncle helped me defray the College tuition fee.

Hobble (v)

to hold back the progress of something. Bad weather has hobbled rescue efforts.

Captious

to judge too severely similar to CAUTIOUS...cautious people FIND FAULTS in things

Alleviate

to lessen the pain. to make something better alleviate ~ elevator: It sounds like elevator and elevator helps us reduce leg pain while walking or climbing stairs. Ex- Finding ways to alleviate Pain.

Ameliorate

to make better Take the suffix 'rate'. With the increase in product rate it's quality will also improve.

Sublimate

to make nobler or purer lime juice refines us...

Gauntlet

to offer or accept a challenge as in to take up or throw down a gauntlet a person who has been challeneged will be GONE TO LET the lions out of their cages

Mallinger

to pretend illness, esp. in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc. MA+LINGER- everytime child is told to do something by his MA, he LINGERS and stalls to avoid it

Objurgating

to reproach or denounce vehemently; upbraid harshly; berate sharply. when someone objects with you he will reproach or denounce

Hone

to sharpen; make perfect or complete sounds like cone or horn that are both sharp

Simper

to smile in a silly, self-conscious way. your smile should be simple...not simper

Mince

to soften, moderate, or weaken (one's words), esp. for the sake of decorum or courtesy. minced also means to cut up into very small pieces, something that is minced therefore will be softened, less harsh or potent.

Sully

to soil, stain, or tarnish. Sully=soily

Galvanize

to stimulate to action Imagine a Van filled with Girls appear, how will you react, you will be stirred up as if you have HAD A SHOCK.

Quaff

to swallow hurriedly or greedily sounds like cough. When we have a cough, we DRINK cough syrup which is quite tasty actually.

Congeal

to thicken,to solidfy con + geal..geal...gelatinous..means to coagulate

Knell

tolling of a bell especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc. Knell sounds just like 'Bell'

Superannuated

too old to be useful

Inanity (n)

total lack of meaning or ideas. Bill's poems were nothing more than a list of impressive sounding words, so there was no point in trying to take meaning from the inanity.

Pellucid

transparently clear; easily understandable PEL+LUCID...LUCID..MEANS CLEAR ....SO CLEAR IN MEANING.

Lucid

transparently clear; easily understandable, transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity when you "look" at someone's "id" you clearly understand who he is'

Flout

treat with contemptuous disregard FLOUT... FOUL + OUT. When a batsman is given out by foul, the batsman shows his contempt to the umpire.

Mollycoddle

treat with excessive indulgence molly (woman's name) + cuddle (showing affection, embrace)

Cosseted(v)

treat with excessive indulgence. The parents cosseted their child with expensive gifts.

Fawn

try to gain favor by cringing or flattering a FAN tries to gain favor by flattery

Foment

try to stir up public opinion Foam starts to appear once you profusely foment (stir up) a soapy hot water bucket

Encroachment

unauthorized extension on the land of another, violation of rules focus on 'croach' in 'ENCROACHMENT'; croach ~ cockroach; cockroach generally enters into another's house without right or permission

Incommodious

uncomfortably or inconveniently small does not accommodate(allow space or convenience)

Miasma

unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources cigarette smoke is harmful to MY(mi)+ASTHMA(asma)

Exotic

unusual or different; excitingly strange,from another region Latin exoticus from Greek exotikos, from exo "out, outside," the underlying notion being "foreign, out of the ordinary.

Anomaly

unusual,not normal Anomaly sounds like abnormal.. that is one who deviates from the normal order.

Presumptuous

unwarrantedly or impertinently bold Focus on "Presum" (Presume)--> To overstep your boundaries by boldly PRESUMing/assuming something. Barney was presumptous in moving into the large office before final announcement was made.

Husband

use cautiously and frugally All wives are extravagant and spendthrifts where as all husbands spend sparingly, are frugal and save on the budget

Arrant

used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers When someone is a complete stupid, you say "Arrey, you stupid". => Arrant

Coercion

using force to cause something to occur rhymes with aversion-force to do something you have an aversion for

Onomatopoeia

using words that imitate the sound they denote

Exasperate

v ; to irritate intensely exasperate(excess + parade)=hence u r ill and if u r asked to parade excess u will annoy and become angry as it may worsen your health condition

Denigrate

v To defame or belittle. ocus on the 'nigrate' part of this word and relate it to '******' ,which was used to refer to black ppl in a degrading manner-racism

Eschew

v To keep away from es+CHEW... CHEWING a CHEWINGGUM IS A BAD HABIT while working in an office, so you must avoid this HABIT. Politicians are the masters of eschewing morals.

Finagle

v achieve something by mean of trickery or devious methods Finn (English Bowler ) try to get out the Australian batsman by making angle(trick) Steven was able to finagle one of the last seats on the train. Contrive

Expound

v add details or explanation; clarify the meaning Ex+ Pound = add weight The CEO refuse to expound on the decision to merge our department with the other one.

Relegate

v assign to a lower position; reduce in rank divide it like rail+gate. Earlier station Master is now appointed as a watcher of rail gate. so, in worse position. The bill has been relegated to committee for discussion Deport, displace, expatraite,banish

Ostracize

v avoid speaking to or dealing with, expel ostRACISM .. racism leads to groupism and excluding a group from the public is to OSTRACIZE.

Flounder

v behave awkwardly ; have difficulties Every startup founder has difficulties to start He flounders in Maths

Rile

v cause annoyance in; distrub, especially by minor irritation Rail se travel karna is annoyance. Don usually calm and balance, but it taked only one intense glare from her to rile him

Glean

v collect information bit by bit Clean is collecting garbage bit by bit

Delineate

v describe in details the coach delineated the specifics of the game plan

Decimation

v destroying or killing a large part of the population The decimation after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is incomprehensible.

Ostracize

v exclude from a community or group

Renege

v fail to fulfill a promise or obligation renege : made of re+nege nege is a root for negative, go negative on ones own said words, which is the meaning. We will no longer work with this vendor since it has reneged on nearly every agreement.

Devolve

v grow worse(usually devolve into);; pass on or delegate to another The dailoue between the two academics devolved into a downright bitter argument; The company was full of manager for devolving tasks to lower management.

Stymie

v hinder or prevent the progress The engineer found their plans stymied at every turn and were ultimately able to make almost no progress on the project.

Hemstrung

v made ineffective or powerless

Incense

v make furious "Nonsense" people make you furious When Herbs bought football tickets for a game on the day of their wedding anniversery,Jill was incensed.

Mollify

v make less rigid or softer , make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable mollify sounds like nullify...nullifying something will reduce it till it is null or zero

Exalt

v praise or glorify The tennager exalted the rock star glorify,aggrandise,ennoble

Refute

v prove to be false or incorrect refute rhymes with refuse, when you DISAPPROVE OF something, or if something is false or incorrect..you refute it or disapprove..

Debase

v reduce the quality or value of something The third-rate script so debased the film that not even the ..

Snub

v refuse to acknowledge; reject outright and bluntly In a Pub you see your father and you refuse to recognise him. Wheeler was completely qualified for the committee, but the board snubbed him, choosing an less qualified candidate.

Squander

v spend extravagantly SQUANDER rhymes with WANDER....so if you keep wandering, you are ultimately wasting time in life. Fearnig his money would be squandered by his family, he gave all his money to charity.

Deliberate

v think about carefully,weigh the pros and cons Emergency situation as this call for immediate action and leave no room to deliberate over options.

Espouse

v to adpot or support an idea or cause spouse (you can do any thing for them),you support them As a college student ,Charlie espoused Marxism.

Fete

v to celebrate a person

Implicate

v to indicate in wrongdoing ,usually a crime The crime boss was implicated for many crimes.

Eke

v to live off meagre resources,to scrape by Stranded in a cabin over the winter,Terry was able to eke out an exitence on canned food.

Ferret

v to search for something persistently Ferret is an animal that look like large rat Ever the resourceful lexicographer, Fenton was able to ferret out the word origin of highly obscure words.

Deride

v treat or speak of with contempt The nun derided the students for trying to sneak insect and worms into classroom. Jibe,ridicule

Goad

v urge on with unpleasant comments go and do it some unpleasant comment from the Headmaster Doug didn't want to enter the race ,but Jim,through a steady stream of taunt ,goaded him into signing up for it.

Curry

v-give a neat appearance to, n- a pungent spicy asian dish

Cull

v-remove something that has been rejected for VERB - sounds like "KILL" - (verb) remove something that has been rejected

Preclude

verb Keep from happening or arising;make impossible The manager specified that all other gates be locked, to preclude the possibility of person withou tickets

Accost

verb To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. To meet face-to-face, especially defiantly: Accost=Ac(Acclerating)+Cost=>When cost shoots up, we raise hue & cry & agitate so that Govt. will reduce the cost.Hence we initiate the talk He wasaccosted by a stranger on the street.

Posit

verb assume as fact Initially ,Einstein posited a repulsive force to balance Gravity

Patronize

verb be a regular customer or client of; to treat condescendingly She always patronize me.

Rescind

verb cancel officially rescind reminds us of "resign", where resign is to cancel your appointment and rescind is to cancel an agreement. The man's driver's license was rescinded after his tenth car accident.

Perpetuate

verb cause to continue If you do not let him do things for himself, you are merely perpetuating bad habits. immortalize, eternal

Perpetuate

verb cause to continue perpectuating bad habits eternalize, immortalize

Rebuke

verb criticize severly or angrily; censure Remember from Tanu weds Manu Rebook. The police chief rebuked the two officers whose irresponsible decision almost led to the deaths of seven innocent by-stander.

Disenfranchise

verb deprive of voting rights

Repudiate

verb eject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust The Police did everything to repudiate the rumors

Elude

verb escape understanding Even a basic ubderstanding of Physics can elude most high schools students.

Nonplussed

verb filled with bewilderment non-pluss - imagine that you are so puzzled as to not be able to plus( do addition as in maths) therefore not being able to perform a simple mathematical calculation

Ingratiate

verb gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts INGRATIATE ~ in + grat(sounds like GREET) + ate (EAT) ... so when you greet somebody and give them something to eat...why do you do that ...you try to gain their favour . Sychophant,obsequious

Entice

verb get someone to do something through(often false or exaggerated) promises Harold enticed his wife,Maude,to go on a vacation to Hawaii. allure, bait, beguile, betray, decoy, lure, lead on, seduce, solicit, tempt

Rankle

verb gnaw into, make resentful or angry r+Ankle__ Your ankle hurt so u are angry. His constant whistling would rankle her, sometimes causing her to leave in a huff.

Besiege

verb harass, as with questions or requests After discovering a priceless artifacts in her backyard,Jane was beseiged by phone calls.

Subsume

verb include or contain

Irk

verb irritate or vex My little sister has a way of irking and annoying me. aggravate,gall,exasperate

Compound

verb make more intense ,stronger, or more marked Her headache was compounded by the construction crew outside.

Reconcile

verb make(one thing) compatible with (another) Peggy was unable to reconcile her kind friend Jane with the cruel and mericless character Jane played on the tv.

Consecrate

verb render holy by means of religious rites Consecrate = Con + Secrate (sounds like SACRED).SACRED is "holy". It refers to holiness when one dedicates his life to "god". At the church of Notre Dame in France,the new High Altar was consecrated in 1182.

Buck

verb resist the profit at our firm bucked the general downturn that effected the real estate industry.

Emulate

verb strive to equal or match , especially by imitating ;compete with successfully. To really become fluent in a new language,emulate the speech patterns.

Supplant

verb take the place or move into the position of sounds like: sub + plant....i.e substitute + plant... ...so it is taking the place of the other plant or superseding it. Root out one plant and grow another.

Conniving

verb taking part in immoral and unethical activities The queen was so conniving that,with the help of the prince, she tried to overthrow the king.

Behoove

verb to be one's duty or obligation Behave in an appropriate way and talk only necessary things it behooves us to go

Corroborate

verb to confirm or lend support to(usually an idea or claim) Her claim was corroborated by locals

Begrudge

verb to envy someone for possessing or enjoying something;to give reluctantly We never begrudge money spent on ourselves. Sitting all alone in his room,Harvey bedgruded the happiness of the other children playing outside his window.

Reproach

verb to express criticism towards

Dog

verb to pursue relentlessly;to hound Throughtout his life,he was dogged by insecurities that inhibted personal growth.

Cede

verb- relinquish possession or control over. Eventually, all parents must cede control of their growing children's education and allow their offspring some autonomy.

Antedate

verb: be older than; precede in time. ex- Dinosaur antedate the first human being by about 65 million years.

Skullduggery

verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

Contiguous

very close or connected in space or time rhymes with CONTINUOUS...so closely connected-without any space

Lavish

very generous, extravagant Love makes one lavish- it makes people spend generously on their mates.

Stentorian

very loud or powerful in sound steno is one who writes when one speaks. stento is one who has extremely loud voice.

Secede

withdraw from an organization or communion

Gratuitous

without cause OR costing nothing; unnecessary and unwarranted relate it to Gratitude' which cannot be measured in value. It is priceless.

Intrepid

without fear or cannot be intimidated IN TRAP... you are fearless and confident that you will come out of it.

Satire

witty language used to convey insults or scorn Remeber like set fire..his sarcasm set fire on his opponents.

Redoubtable

worthy of respect or honor

Ambrosial

worthy of the gods, highly pleasing to the senses-especially that of taste ambr (sounds like amber - sky) sey liya -ambrosia-that is from the sky where Gods live

Malfeasance

wrongful conduct by a public official mal (negative/wrong) -- + and feasance means the doing or performing of an act, therefore some wrongdoing

Acoustic

(noun) a remedy for hearing loss or deafness ,(adj.) of or relating to the science of acoustics greek -prefix a- + koein (similar to Hindi Kaan-ear) "to mark, perceive, hear,"

Anarchy

(noun) a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) Anarchy-Sounds like 'monarchy' (like Tibet was ruled by monarchy)...so, absence of government

Importunate

expressing earnest entreaty someone im(not)+p(f)ortunate will need to plead with earnestness

Incorrigible

impossible to correct or reform (in)corr(gible)==in eligible to be corrected or cant be corrected

Incontrovertible

impossible to deny or disprove without controversy

Insatiable

impossible to satisfy in(means not)+satia(ble).satiSFIED..SO someone who is NOT satisfied.

Idiosyncracy

a characteristic, habit, mannerism, or the like, that is peculiar to an individual. Think of someone in "sync" with his ID (identity); is unique individual in his manners habit eccenticity, foible

Intimate

a close acquaintance to whom private matters are confided focus on the word mate (meaning friend or partner)

Intuition

a keen and quick insight.; the ability to perceive the truth in something to be able to see Into(u) (inside ) the truth of something

Imbroglio(n)

a very embarrassing misunderstanding OR an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation Im+broke+lie - if i lie about being broke. im in a confusing and embarrassing situation Israel's security cabinet, which met late into Sunday night, was scheduled to meet again on Monday night for further discussions about resolving the imbroglio. Embroilment

Invective

abusive or venomous language used to express blame or bitter deep-seated ill will ENVY + ACTIVE or Active jealousy can cause you to ABUSE the other person. The internet has unleased the invectives in many of us; many people post stinging critcism on the comments section. Vituperate, Vitroil, denunciation, reproach

Ignominious

adj (used for conduct or character) deserving or bringing disrace or shame IGNORANT+MINUS(negative personality)....imagine your teacher is saying that you are an ignorant and negative person...what will happen??...it will cause public disgrace and shame.... Since the politician ethics and morality,his texting of revealing photographs was ignominious,bringing shame on both himslef and his part. black , contemptible, debasing degrading despicable discreditable dishonorable humiliating shameful

Incumbent

adj currently holding an office INCUM + BENT = OFFICIALS are BENT on(determined) to bring an INCUM home, as it is NECESSARY to survive Financial well-being of the corporation is ultimately incumbent on the CEO.

Inadvertent

adj happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally im(not) + averted - something that could not be averted or escaped The inadvertent and costly consequences of making alcohol illegal.

Implausible

adj highly imaginative but unlikely OR leads to disbelief implausible rhymes with impossible....something that is impossible is unlikely

Impregnable

adj immune to attack, incapable of being overcome, challenged or refuted im (not) + pregnant - something that cannot be made penetrated, entered/resistant

Intransigent

adj impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason a GENT IN TRANS(trance) doesnt listen to anyone..doesnt compromise Despite many calls for mercy,the judge remained intransigent ,citing strict legal precedence.

Impudent

adj impoperly forward or bold

Ingenuous

adj inability to mask your feelings, lacking in sophistication or worldliness In+genuine- In genuine relationship people are naive and trusting to each other.

Implacable

adj incapable of being consoled/calmed im (not) + placate (calm) This coach is always implacable.

Incongruous

adj lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness relate it to congruent triangles in basic geometry where triangles must be made similar/in harmony

Inimical

adj not friendly inimi (sounds like ENEMY) + cal; Enemies are HOSTILE and of-course UNFRIENDLY.

Innocuous

adj not injurious to physical or mental health, incapable of causing harm/disapproval in(not)+nocuous(noxious)........ means not noxious......something which is not noxious is harmless...

Imprudent

adj not prudent or wise im (not) + shouldnt - person to whom shouldnt does not occur, therefore does unwise things

Inexorable

adj not to be moved by persuasion/ unyielding in(not)+exhort(means to pressurise):that means a person who is inexorable cant be pressurised;he will not yield The rise of the computer was an inexorable shift in technology and culture.

Irascible

adj quickly aroused to anger concentrate on rasc- a rascal is one who is irritable, badly behaved and short-tempered/hotheaded

Impertinence

adj the trait of being rude and inappropriate; inclined to take liberties im (prefix meaning not) + pertinent (relevant or appropriate) Dexter over loosing his pet ,found the police officer's questions impertinent. cheeky,impudent,brazen

Inordinate

beyond normal limits split it as in+ord+din+ate... remember it as IN DIN(ner) he ORD(ered) and ATE EXCESSIVELY.

Idolatrous

blindly or excessively devoted or adoring relate it to worshipping statues("idols") as gods, complete and blind faith and devotion

Impede

block or obstruct relate it with stampede.in a stampede there is great obstruction

Internecine

characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides or (of conflict) within a group or organization INTER (between) + NE (any) + CINE (sign) = in a relationship, when there is'nt ANY SIGN of love BETWEEN the two, it is MUTUALLY DESTRUCTIVE for the relationship. The guerilla group, which had become so powerful as to own a state police, was finally destroyed by an internecine conflict.

Iniquitous

characterized by injustice or wickedness; wicked; sinful. INIQUITOUS ~ IN + Equity; in + equity -> not treating everyone equally (which is considered as INIQUITOUS or sinful act)

Impetuous

characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation im(not)-pet-tuo(to)-us...a dog which is not our pet will be very RASH, reckless.

Impunity

exemption from punishment or loss close to immunity meaning untouched impunity will imply something that is not affected by loss or harm