Bemoan - bemoan... look at moan..means cryin,..whn does one cry when dey loose something..

when
one looses something they express disapproval..

Contrite - SPLIT AS cont (COUNT) - rite (RIGHT). COUNT THE CASH RIGHT, ELSE YOU WILL REGRET I

Emancipate - cip= ship : a man is set free to travel in ship to his own country

Guffaw - remember gufa in hindi. If you laugh a bit in gufa, it sounds like boisterous laugh.

Jeopardize - sounds like leopard... leopard r now ENDANGERED species

Philistine - break it into PHIL(feel)+TINE(tiny)...those who feel over tiny things are NARROW MINDED.

Redolent - re-odo-lent: reminder of "odor".

Surreptitious - Surreptitious sounds like suspicious.....you suspect someone if they are hiding secrets

Benevolent - bene(root bene means good)+volent(voluntarily)..so good person voluntarily donating his all
GOODS to people.

Contrition - CON(not)+TREATion...if your girlfriend does not treat you properly you will be in great
remorse...

Embezzle - Remember Bees (the buZZing sound of the bees) which misappropriates the honey from the
flowers

Guile - SOME GUYS guile GIRLS

Jingoistic - jin+OIST+ic..... ppl HOIST flags on days of NATIONAL importance...so nationalistic, patriotic or
jingoistic -- jingle bell jingle bell... a christmas day , a festival and a festival is always related 2 patriotic n
nationalistic

Nonchalance - nonchalance rhymes like No + Challenge , When there is no challenge, people tend not to
care and there will be a casual lack of concern.

Phlegmatic - plleg (flag) when we hoist a FLAG we have the AUTOMATIC reaction be calm and unexcited.

Sounds like PRAGMATIC(practical) --> practical people think with logic and show little emotion.

Redress - Redress is: "relief from distress"

Wily - sounds like willy which means someone who wants to fulfill his will by any means. He has to be
clever to do so.

Benign - benign- bene(good) + sign

Contumacious - (In Hindi language) Break the word as CON - TU - MA - CI- OUS n tat can be read as Kaun Tu
Ma Ki one who says this is disobedient or CONTUMACIOUS=CONTRARY+REBELLIOUS. (Rebelliously
disobedient)

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

(Brawl)

Nondescript - read it as non+describe... an ordinary object does not need to be described.

Pillage - Pirate+Village=Pillage

Redundant - redundant rhymes Abundant and thats the meaning.

Susceptible - the one who is not aBLE to SUSPECT, so easily influenced

Wispy - whispy=whisper...which is barely discernible..

Contusion - in TUITION i got several hits(BRUISES) beccause i din do homework

Jubilant - I sing JUBY-DUBY-JUBY-DUBY whenever i am extremely joyful.

Nostalgia - nostalgia. sounds like no hostel gia.. so he feels home sick..remembers home

Pious - We give thanks to God for the PIe he has given US.

Refute - refute rhymes with refuse, when you DISAPPROVE OF something, or if something is false or
incorrect..you refute it or disapprove..

Sybarite - sybarite..sy+bar+rite a lover of luxury finds going to the bar right and munching dick

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Ostracism - O-ST-Racisim. in Olden days ST faced Racisim. Which means they faced exclusion from social
acceptance.

Penchant - p+enchant- something that enchants you, you have a strong liking for that.

Rarefy - rare-fy rare ~ low in density (therefore thin, sparse) -fy is a root means "to make". you "make"
something "thinner" is rarefy.

Repine - Imagine on Christmas, your friend brings pine tree instead of Christmas tree, so you will repine

Diaphanous - Think of the clear cellophane plastic wrap, which is clear. PHANE, meaning clear, is the same
root that is found in diaphanous.

Feint - The boxer was faked out by his opponent's feint. He then fainted because the blow he received was
very strong.

Inured v- someone INJURED again and again will become TOUGH

Mettlesome - remember it by breaking it as ... mettlesome - mettle + some or metal + some.. some one
who(who's spirit) is as strong as metal and hence courageous.

Puissance - PUISSANCE -> POTANCE -> POTENCY means power.

Recondite - read recondite as "re conduct". The professor re coducted(repeated) the topic as the students
could not understand properly.

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

Caret - Great care goes into crossing the t's and dotting the i's of a manuscript.

Contiguous - rhymes with continuous.. to be continuous you gotta be contiguous

Damp - assume that (d)-means "decrease" (amp) means amplifier which increse the intensity.If we place 'd'
before amp it means decreasing intensity

Ellipsis - imagine it as - E's lips is so beautiful that unko dekhkar muuh se words hi gayab ho jate
hai ..;) ..omission of words !! lolzz

Extripation - Lord Rama destroyed Ravana by shooting a tir-teer(arrow) in his pate(belly).

Foppish - 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 !!!!

Gaffe - Disney character Goofy who was always making Blunders.

Hortatory - While ploughing farms with bullocks, farmers say "HUR HUR ;HORT HORT" to encourage
bullocks to move ahead. This is HORTATORY.

Opprobrious - opp-ROBRI-ous ROBRI = robbery,,, so if u were caught in a robbery, u will b disgraceful and
contemptuous

Recumbent - recum+bent => sounds similar like become+bent. you become bent while sitting means you
lie down.

Ambidextrous - need to know cartoon network: in dexter show the small kid's name is dexter who is highly
talented,skilled or ambi - on both sides + dexter - right handed

Culpability - sounds like culprit

Discernment - Judgment

Encomium - INCOME - People of high INCOME are formally praised for their large donations.

Inveigle - inveigle sounds like in veil. SO something that is concealed by a veil. Outward appearances are
sometimes deceptive.

Minatory - Minatory sounds like military--military people are very threatening most of the times.

Ossified - Ossi rhymes with AUSSIE.. the Australian Cricket team has become old and they are now history,
like fossils.

Plumb - plumb--plumber who tests the pipe to see whether it is exactly vertical or not.

Quintessential - A quintessential dress of queen with every essential diamond.

Runic - in Lab yu have RUINED the IC(integrated chip)..now teachers asks who did this and all keep
mysterious faces..hahaha

Accretion - Accretion sounds like Errection,,, so u r dik grows in size during an errection

Anachronistic - read it as An Achronistic. A(not) CHRONISTIC(in order).

Chronic - initial part sound as crown !! crown + ic .. A king rules the nation for long time, hence his crown
last for long time..ie long lasting

Churlishness - chur(church)+lish(wish)-church wishes always not to behave rude,boorish

Demagogue - demo(means people) agogue (means leading ) so it adds up to leading people in a wrong
way... syn:rable rouser

Effrontery - for every discussion he comes to the FRONT and argues...in a rude manner.

Idyll - sounds like IDEAL..most of the times when we talk about our ideals we use poetry..
Interregnum - reg stands for king or kingly styles (e.g. in regicide,regalia etc.) so inter regnum = in between
two kings(referring to their ruling period).

Nugatory - No+guarantee, i.e a product which has no guarantee, is worthless.

Sinecure - 7 crores ... baithe baithe hi 7 crores mil jate

Aphoristic - aphor= A4 ; write in just a4 sheet => brief & short

Canonical - canonical--look at the word canon+ical-....something that resembles or like the biblical canon.

Commensurate - SPLIT AS COMMON - ENSURED -RATE. WHICH MEANS, OUR RATE WILL BE EQUAL TO THE
CHEAPEST PRODUCT!

Extant - Opposite of extinct is extant

Impugned - im + PUGN ~ pugn looks like pungaa(hindi); NOW think of a person who is habitual of taking
PUNGAA, he will always CONTRADICT people, and will always CHALLENGE others (impugn others).

Probity - A PROBATION Officer tries to keep former criminals HONEST.

Raconteur - one who recounts

Solicitous - soli(solo).if u r doin a work on ur own(solo) then u ll do t wit much eager and care

Amalgamate - amalga+mate ,mate means combine........or 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

Baleful - BALEFUL.....remind yourself of christian bale.....in The Dark Knight.....the movie immediately
reminds you of Joker....the BALEFUL joker!!(sounds like Painful)

Inchoate - choate seems like "chote"..for example "chote bachche" means not fully grown up or in the
initial stage of life.

Iniquitous - Iniquitous:this sounds like in quit us We should quit those habits, virtues that are bad. Thus
inquitous = wicked.

Libertine - LIBERTINE=liberti+ne=LIBERTY IN Excess can make you irresponsible and immoral.

Millinery - Consider it as mill + nery (nari) i.e. a mill for nary or shop for women (selling hats)

Natty - NATTY sounds like NEAT and N se naya also..., so natty

Occluded - to conclude means to stop :)

Sidereal - SIDEREAL is pronounced as SY-DEE-RIAL and not SIDE+REAL, therefore CELESTIAL is a more
appropriate suggestion, as it not only rhymes with sidereal, it also has the same meaning-relating to the
stars or the constellation.

Avaricious - comes from avarice=a+var(war)::in a war evry1 becomes greedy.

Halcyon - halycon can be considered as opposite of cyclone...just imagine a cyclone...you will understand
what I mean.

List - List=Items falling one after another.So one item is leaning over another.

Maudlin - when she received a call from the MODELLING company for her appointment, she became
EFFUSIVELY SENTIMENTAL and wept a lot.Her dream had come true.

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Abysmal - a+bys(take dis as 20 i.e.bees in hindi)+mal(take it as mile).....so a 20 mile deep pit in the ground
looks like its bottomless.

Approbation - Ap+PROBATION: You get CONFIRMATION/APPROVAL in your job after your Probation period

Bent - bent~sounds like "bend it like beckham" a movie where a girl is determined to prove her natural
talent of football

Cadge - cadge....sounds like cage....some1 in d cage begging to get out !!!!!!

Debacle - belt..having bacle ..if we (de)remove buckle from belt,the pant will fall.. then comes the complete
disaster

Extemporize - extra + tempo(speed of music) +rise:why there is extra tempo,because this is performed
without any preparation

Incumbent - INCUM + BENT = OFFICIALS are BENT on(determined) to bring an INCUM home, as it is
NECESSARY to survive.

Lambaste - lambaste sounds like namaste(in hindi), which is a respectful greeting. lambaste is precisely
opposite of that or Lambaste will remind u of BLAST!!!

Noisome - Try to extract out two words from it...

1. NOSE
2. NOISE

.. Hence NOISOME is something that makes NOISE in our NOSE

Pastiche - PASTi+CHE......pasti...PASTE...........we do copy PASTE......while copying we imitate the style of

others and paste it where we want

Arboreal - arboreal:arrow+bow+real..made out of tree's

Centrifuge - an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension

Disabuse - story: like a girl fall in love with a rascal, and her father comes to know. what he will do is abuse
the boy and disabuse the girl about the boy. simple naa.

Intemperate - Cannot control his temper. Excessive in behaviour, voracious in drinking alcohol.

Lugubrious - He was very mournful when he had to BURY his maimed LEG.

Nonplussed - plussed........puzzled.

Pedagogy - remember ENCYCLO-PEDIAGOGY. Encylopedias teach and educate about biolOGY, geolOGY,
and psycholOGY.

Satiate - I SAT & ATE till I was full!

Comeliness - come in line to see the beauty

Doff - DO + OFF or take off, remove.

Don - DON used to 'PUT ON' diverse sorts of clothes to escape from the CBI or FBI.

Erudition - Erudition sounds like education ..... someone who is well educated or has an extensive bookish
knowledge is a scholar, an erudite

Suborn - sub+porn = to force someone to see porn is unlawful

Tendentious - Rearrange the words to make - Tend or Tendency + ious or bias. So, TENDENTIOUS is a
TENDENcy towards one viewpoint over another.

Tortuous - a tortoise does not move in straight line... it keeps twisting and turning making path
complicated.

Verbiage - VERBIAGE IS A GARBAGE OF WORDS.

Atonement - A(ppeasing)TONE MEaNT for god to compensate for our wrongdoings.

Complaisance - complete saint=saints yield for the will of others

Fawn - a FAN tries to gain favor by flattery

Nascent - "new soul sent".....to earth

Paean - Paean sounds like "pian+o" which is used in praise songs

Reproof - if some asks for a proof again and again (re-proof) you will criticize them and try to censure them.

Scurvy - SCURVY is a deadly disease. So people suffering from this vitamin c deficiency are low in health.

Tutelary - "Tute Le Rahi" mam jab tutorials leti hain to v r in her custody... but she is very sweet like an
angel.

Abscission - It had the word sciss(scissors) in it.Scissors are used for Cutting, separating..

Contentious - (Contender+Serious) One who takes competition too serious always fights and quarrels.

Foible - Fail to be able.. so you have a weakness or slight fault at something.

Importune - Im (not) + portune (fortune). Someone who doesn't have fortune BEGS PERSISTANTLY.

Pertain - (pert)sounds like part means belongs to

Slew - His typing was "slow", yet there were a slew of errors.

Toady - Sir, "TODAY"(toady) you look very ...... (this an act of pleasing someone in order to gain a personal
advantage.)

Torrid - torturously arid or hot & arid=torrid or "Tour" + "Rid" You got rid of the tour because it was too hot
outside.

Veracious - the root word 'VER' refers to true.. hence we can frame words like: veracious - truthful and
verisimilitude - an appearance of truth.

Asperity - Asperity can be thought of as A spear with severity. i.e Sharpness or Harshness.

Blowhard - can be think as blow-word -> blowing words -> means talkative

Disingenuous - This word is derived from the word "Genuine", which means true and
real. Disingenuous is just the opposite of genuine.

Evanescent - Remember it as "I want scent. Scent evaporates like vapour.

Intangible - can be understood as in+toungue+able -> when we put some food in the
mouth (tongue) we can only feel the taste but cannot perceive it by touch

Labile - LABILE ...read it as "liable" to change,i.e UNSTABLE

Malapropism - mal (negative) + prop (proper usage) .. improper usage of words

Proximate - proximate = approximate = nearly accurate

Pugnacious - punga+nacious- one with tendency to always fight and take

pungas(Hindi)

Gaucherie - gau+Cherieimagine a girl in GAU(village-gaon) having just a

CHERIE(cherry) in lunch, that is so SOCIALLY EMBARRASSING AND AWKWARD ACT

Heterodox - heterodox--hetero-means different+ dox --means opinion, so different or

many opinions. Orthodox, heterodox are from the same root.

Inscrutability - Difficult to SCREW!!!!

Mannered - man in red is "not natural"

Pluck - one should possess "Courage" to pluck flowers from our garden.

Sedulous - to seduce a woman, man needs to be diligent and persistent and off course
Hardworking ;)

Vicissitude - some times to face VICISSITUDES OF LIFE one should possess a

WISE(good)ATTITUDE

Acolyte - aap ko light(acolyte) rakhne wala (one who helps u in every way and does lot
of your work)

Admonitory - Remember MONITOR in class who used to give admonitory gesture and
warning other students not to talk.

Caprices - the government put a CAP on the PRICE of RICE..because it keeps changing.

Cornucopia - corn + copia copia is similar to copius meaning plentiful, cornucopia thus
means plenty of corn(grains/fruits).

Deferential - Since deferential equations are difficult to solve, people stupid at math do
not attempt them because they respect their difficulty....and probably have a life.

Intractability - Intractable: things which can not be brought in the right track...
opposite of tractable.

Luminary - Luminary sounds like luminous(under light).So,a celebrity who is in the

limelight inspiring others.

Minion - A mini peon.. Who is servile to his boss.

Undergird - under + guard. Something which is guarded under hence secured
underneath

Vitiate - vitiate is vish + ate, vish in the hindi language means poison..if you make
anyone eat poison it's an IMMORAL ACT and the person will be in an IMPERFECT
condition.

Coterie - sounds like KOTHARI (in hindi it means an enclosed room) -- where people
with common purposes meet.

Denigrate - focus on the 'nigrate' part of this word and relate it to 'nigger' (which
means people who have black skin) no racism plz

Empirical - Empire...maintaining an empire requires much practical experiences and

workouts.

Gainsay - she has (Gain)ed weight but is not (say)ing it which means, she is denying the
fact.

Hyperbole - hyper(beyond the limit)+bole(means speak)..so someone who gives the

statement beyond his limit..overstating basically.

Prolixity - "lexikon" means workbook..."lexicographer" is dictionary writer...writer of

words n words n..more words.

Rebus - Re(read)+bus imagine u r in bus.so for tp u start reading book but reading is
difficult in bus.so you buy the book which has pictures in place of words now its really
easy to read it.so here picture represents words.Reading+At+BUS

Sere - like the Sierra Desert, dry and arid

Vulpine - VULP sounds like WOLF

Corroborate - just focus on borate part of this word -- Borate test is a confirmatory
test in chemistry.

Exacerbated - Latin ex+acerb+ate; Latin acerb- means bitter, harsh; So exacerbate

means to make bittter, to worsen.

Exact - I want the EXACT amount! nothing more nothing less! very demanding.

Faddish - f+ add+ish = f(follow) add = advertisements => fashion

Hapless - relate it to helpless

Misconstrue - Misconstrue = Mis + Cons + True. Someone is 'Missing' the 'True' fact.
Perennial - if you remember we have learnt about perennial rivers in social studies
which means LONG LASTING rivers or sounds like PURANI(old)...purani things are
perennial

Rent - it sounds like rend and both words mean the same, RENT = REND

Shard - s + hard..it is very HARD to join the broken FRAGMENTS OF POTTERY.

Xenophobe - Xeno means foreigner

Alleviated - ALL (all)+ EVI (evil)+ ATE (has been eaten up) so hence you are relieved of
the pain and you feel relief.

Centurion - centurion -> century -> 100; thus it means a leader of 100 soldiers.

Emollient - 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.

Fusillade - 'Fusion' bomb, a kind of nuclear bomb. So 'fusillade' is discharge of bombs.

Inerrancy - ERR in inERRancy stands for an error .. so IN+ERR+ANCY = No Error (No

Fallacy) which means infallibility

Mince - mince sounds like mice which takes tiny steps to go anywhere and nce(nice)or
speak nicely or carefuly to larger people.

Palpate - palpate == my best PAL (frnd) ,touched my PATE ( means "stomach" in

hindi). with hands to examine medically.

Platitude - flat + attitude: something flat does not attract us as it is very common. So
you will obviously give trite remarks.

Quibble - mnemonic in hindi.. read it as qui(kyun)+bble(bill)..KYUN BILL ITNA ZYADA

HAI?, you OBJECT to reading of meter & COMPLAIN to the authorities

Conniving - connive- con-spire, conspire- do something secretly

Derision - Noun form is 'deride' and in high school, if you don't have a car (de ride)
that is expensive enough, other kids may mock and ridicule you

Epigram - telegram-->simple note....epigram--->witty note

Lassitude - After a heavy lunch, if you drink a glass of LASSI, you will go into a
lassitude i.e. weariness, lethargy and ultimately go to sleep.

Pedantic - Can u smell the word 'PANDIT'( "Scholar" in english) from "Pedantic"?
PANDITs are usually very strict about the bookish stuff.
Precipitate - Precipitate -> Pre + anticipate. That means you dont think/anticipate
before you do something. You do it in RASH or HASTE.

Renege - renege seems lke rehne de.. so rehne de promise mat kar coz i the end you will
renege it or sumthng or RENEGADE is a traitor of a country.. RENEGE is a traitor of
his own words..

Armada- do u know narmada river ? fleets of warship in narmada ~ armada

Dawdler - dawdle=>doodle; Someone doodles and does the work hence is slow and
inefficient.

Dross - close to gross....worthless.

Expiate - Rhymes as Ex Pirate. An ex-pirate always tries to expiate his guilt.Ex pirate
becomes pious.

Hack - hack- can be termed as HA ACHE when doctor cut our organ we make sound
HA and ACHE

Prone - Lying PRONE she is talking on PHONE. (i.e she is lying face down)

Propensity - prop + city = people get propelled towards city only because of strong
inclination towards city life

Scabbard - On a funny note S (Sword) + CABBARD (Cupboard), so you can say that it
is a sword's cupboard or a case!

Skiff - Skiff = Ship + Kid => small ship (boat in this case)

Umbrage - notice the last 4 letters...RAGE.And then umbrella =shade, rage=anger and
resentment.

Enervate - NERV(w)asTE whwn you waste your energy you become weak.

Neophyte - neo+phyte ~ new + fight; A new member or beginner always has to fight to
establish his own identity.

Panegyric - pane sounds like paean means praise and gyric sounds like lyric, so
panegyric means expression of praise.

Presage - pre+sage- a SAGE has the power to PRE-tell the future.

Aberration - sounds like abortion which is not normal delivery.

Cant - chant ~ nice and pious words.. cant is opposite

Disinter - inter = to bury. so disinter means opposite of bury => to dig up.
Facade - facade = fake + id

Impeding - impede from impedance meaning resistance

Lacuna - lacuna .. sounds like lack you ...meaning of word is something which you lack

Pied - remember pie chart which has different colors

Roster - list of roast in hotel-onion roast,ghee roast,masala roast etc

Seemly - seemly ~ see + homely (hindi: gharelu in positive sense) : see sita is so homely
and hence proper or appopriate to be my daughter in law !

Coda - ie ,conclusive part of the lunch ,is done by soda(coda) by watching music on
television.

Hallow - Hallow = Hall + ow; in a prayer 'Hall' religious programs are are held.

Indigence - Indica + Zen (Cars)Cars owned by poor people. Antonym:"Opulence"

which means "Rich" Mnemonic :Opel Astra(Its a car owned by very rich people).

Papyrus - papyrus: sounds like paper thing

Pique - pique can be split as pi+que.. so imagine you are standing in a QUE(ue) in a Pie
shop (cake) for a long time you get ANNOYED ,IRRITATED and you tend to show
RESENTMENT.

Sap - If you slap(sap) someone you diminish his dignity..

Arbitrator - a + bit+ ratewho JUDGES the BIT RATE for data transfer.

Descry - If 10(DES) people will CRY every body will notice them!!

Facetious - someone who makes funny faces Facetious>>>Face is not Serious

Indecorous - not decorate properly..INAPPROPIATE..

Proliferate - life rate=its always increasing

Scotch - If you see a SCOTCH bottle, you PUT AN END TO it!

Strut - rhymes with SLUT - imagine the way she walks...pompous, with head erect
and chest thrown out.

Usury - USURY reminds me of TREASURY - Lending money from the treasury at a

very high rate of interest.

Wag - when u rag u make ur juniors as wags

Atavism - by ATAVISM you should remember AVATAR, i.e. you are an
avatar(incarnation) of one of your ancestors

Filibuster - something that is filled to burst the final outcome (which delays the
outcome).

Gambit - gambit - remember GAMBIR who is the OPENING batsman... gambit is

opening in chess

Predilection - pre(before)+dialect(local language); you generally become partial when

you are taking an interview and you meet someone who speaks your language ( :)
assume the interview is in the US)

Propitiate - PROf+PITI- if you want professor's pity then you would have to appease
him/her.

Stanch - stanch = ST(op)+AN(d)+CH(eck)

Travesty - If u think Bra(tra) as vest then it is a travesty.

Waft - waft=wa+ft===> i.e. FLoating on WAter. i.e. driven slowly by waves.

Forage - it take as for+age(alive)=food(which is most important)so for the further

aliving searching of food is necessary.

Lumber - Relate to the person who is "lamba" (lamba in Hindi language means tall
person in English ) moves heavily or clumsily.

Muse - MUSEum consist of historic things by seeing them, we think deeply

Resolve - If u r SOLVING problems in a chapter AGAIN & AGAIN then u have

determination to do that chapter in exams.

Squalid - associate it with 'lid'..widout a lid the contents of the container wud get dirty
n filthy.

Sullied - Sully=soily

Veneration - vanar(monkey) served god(rama)

Demur - sounds a little like Damn U R wrong!! I object!

Duplicity - duplicity== making two faces(duplicate).. one who makes two faces is a
fraud..

Exigency - exigency ~ exit + emergency; you remember the emergency exit, only when
at the time of an urgent situation.
Expostulate - expostulate also means make a protest...EXPOSEtulate......when you
expose your body too much, most of the people will oppose you !!!

Gossamer - GO+SAMMER(summer) - we wear clothes of light fabric.

Pine - pine(verb):Have a desire for something or someone who is not present there.
Mera dost jab WINE pe leta hai tab he starts pining for his girlfriend.

Prudish - prudish = prudent ( careful ) + childish................. ---->> one who is childishly

careful.

Quixotic - quixotic== quick + exotic, if you desire something exotic to happen quickly in
your life it is just a daydream.

Stipple - staple means to punch holes. stipple means to put dots.

Abrasion - an abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.

Adumbrate - A dumb brat can't give the details - just a sketchy outline.

Cognitive - Root word COGN meaning=know.so, recognize, cognitive,

incognito,cognizance all means know.aur wyse v knowledge k bina kahan COGNIZANT
jayse bari softwere company me placement hoti hai yaar?

Deign - Reign, which shows high dignity, is the opposite of Deign, which shows low
dignity.

Fervid - fer-fur vid-video video with girls in furs =extremely hot

Gall - A slap on his 'Gall'(cheek) completely exasperated him.

Levee- levee..(sounds like level..) we LEVEL the land ,with LEVEE so that there is no
seep of water(..flooding..).

Quell - quell sounds similar to yell and we yell to suppress someone or make him/her
quite

Abut - Look at your BUTT (Dont take it offensively).Its like two pieces of flesh together
marked by a boundary in between them Thats abut

Consternation - conster(sounds like monster) + nation......and a monster creates fear in

every one ....due to which we donot go out so as to avoid danger.

Gavel - Rhymes with gravel (small stone) : To break gravel, you need a gavel(hammer).

Lien - sounds like lion.. a lion is the king of the jungle and can thus legally claim any
part of the jungle!!
Steep - while climbing STEEP slopes you get SOAKED OR SATURATED.

Tamp - TAMP sounds like STAMP. How do we put a stamp? by Pressing down hard.

Venturing - AD+VENTURE=which is exiting but full of risks and daring things.

Wry - wry - comes from AWRY, crooked, twisted.

Arduous - arduous = read it as: "hard to do for us"

Decimated - deci [means 10]mate[in ,chess mate means killing a king]so it sound like
killing a king in every 10 people,so to kill a king u have to kill 10 persons.so ie make
killing at huge amount.

Fledge - fledge sounds like fly + urge. When feathers grow baby birds have an urge to
fly or to leave nest.

Gouge - gouge ~ gauge -> if compressor is OVERCHARGED, air will TEAR OUT tick
layer of storage tank.

Picayune - picayune: relate it to pico, which means small. so picayune->pico->small or

petty things

Riveting - ii was aroused and riveted by the WET girl in the RIVER

Soliloquy - soliloquy.soli(soul).loquy(root..loque..means..talk or speech)now we

must have seen in a play or movie.a person talking to his soul(talking to himself
that is audible to everyone of us).

Transcendental - Transcend means to go beyond....Transcendental means beyond the

thinking of common people.

Condescension - conDESCEND--to come down to smaller position

Divest - opposite to invest; di + vest; vest means an inner garment; divest is to remove
it.

Eddy - if you can remember the term "Eddy current", where the current flows .

Epaulet - relate paulet to pilot...epaulets are there on pilot's uniform

Leaven - Lift up to the hEAVEN...tht is rise u ll rise up to heaven only when u grow
lighter(in wt.)

Patronize - PATRO(father)+NIZE(nice)....we get NICE SUPPORT from our FATHER

Statute - statutory warning

Aver - A VERy confident statement!

Expatiate - expatiate - ex + pati (husband in hindi) + ate - your ex husband ate your
brain talking some nonsense tried to convince you to remarry him, means he talked at
length.

Flag - white flag is used to indicate surrender as in a war, a white flag is used to
indicate acceptance of defeat. thus low in vigour, grow feeble.

Flail - flail rhymes with fail....if a child fails in his exams, he is beaten hardlyyyy by his
parents.

Indicted - sorry for the bad language :( but will make you learn the word : if you push
your dick in a girl without her permission she will accuse you of rape.

Loll - Think of person singing loll la lolla la la la la .. So he has nothing to do ,so he is

lounging about, lazily.

Talon - Falcon depends upon its Talon (claw of a Bird), while on hunting

Abeyance - Interpret it as opposite of obey+ance -- not obeying the given orders and
suspend the work (action).

Foment - Foam starts to appear once you profusely foment (stir up) a soapy hot water
bucket(2nd meaning ).

Rue - rue sounds similar to ruin...when you ruin your life you LAMENT and REGRET it

Somatic - etymologically "SOMA" means body...and thus the word SOMATIC

Stinting - very close to stingy... stinting is being somewhat stingy..

Temperate - Temper+ate= which means he doesn't have a temper , that is he is

self-controlled and is not extreme in behavior.

Allure - allure = Al(l) L(ove) u re(like in hindi).. bcoz u are attractive or enticing ..

Caulk - caulk sounds like cork which makes bottles watertight

Conscript - CONSCRIPT = forced to CONSent and sign a SCRIPT (contract) to join the
military.

Desultory - De-result...Obviously a haphazard or desultory approach will result to

nothing.

Elegy - E(a)-LEGY(legendry).....so if a legendry person dies......people sing a mournful

poem or people lament or regret for his death..

Fallow - after plowing farmer fallow(fall-low) of money so, he left it without

seeding(uncultivated).
Forbearing - forbearing: bearing pain for long time without resisting. forbear: take
pain in REFRAINING or abstaining smoking(for smock snatchers).

Hegemony - hegemony:he's got money,so he's domineering in the society and he

control others.

Qualm - opposite of Calm.

Assay - its not like mnemonic...just rem tis saying"ASSAY THE ESSAY"..it means
evaluate the essay.

Chauvinist - show over nationalist=Chauvinist(s0-v-nist)

Fulminate - fulminate sounds like full + illuminate During an explosion or lightning,

everything is illuminated completely.

Hawser - spell like "hose-r"...hose pipe is like a big long rope used for nautical purposes.

Jibe - ji+be : means you ji(agree) with someone.

Peer - rhymes beer drink a beer with an equal person.

Cloture - cloture=closure of a meeting

Dally - sounds like daily..so daily you waste your time.right?

Dissemble - seems like "dis assemble"(break) you broke the favourite pot of mom n den
tried to "conceal" ur mistake...or pretending

Dote - when you go on a date what will u do u shower her/him with love ri8 so
dote=shower with love

Errant - Same as Aberrant ..

Fervent - fervent/fervid both can be remembered by February -specifically Feb14

when youngsters are quite emotional regarding V-Day.

Stomach - Stomach - secondary meaning is to TOLERATE... ...a person can eat

anything as long as his stomach can TOLERATE it...:)

Arson - ars(ass)+ on FIRE!!!!

Carrion - car+lion imagine rotten body of a lion after a car run over it.

Ironclad - clad means clothed. So ironclad means clothed with iron. Now one who is
clothed is iron would be very firm. He would be unaltered, unchangeable and inflexible.

Pretension - Pretend
Pundit - A pandit is scholar

Pyre - the PYR root mean FIRE, like some words: PYRe, PYRomania, PYRoris,
PYRotechnic,

Sate - s-ate, so when we have finished eating our food, we are satisfied to the full..(pet
bhar kar khaana kha liya)

Syncopation - Sync with Piano