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Supple and Have you ever seen people who can quick and light in If you're nimble, you can move quickly
graceful (Syn for bend so easily, they can touch their action (Syn for and with ease. That spryness can be
flexible) heels to the back of their heads? That flexible) both physical and mental, so even if your
Form: adj person is, in a word, lithe. Form: adj granny isn't very nimble on her feet, she
Tone: pos Tone: pos can probably still whip you in chess.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: Lithe Sounds like Example: the Lithe body of a Mnemonic: Nimble..sounds like Example: You need Nimble
light and something which is dancer. nimbu(lemon)..when a lemon falls fingers for that job.
light in weight can easily be on the floor it rolls quickly..sure
moved and bended. this helps you in understanding
the meaning quickly...ie in being
Nimble
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able to do When someone has become good at skilled and expert prowess means exceptional skill or
something well something, they are Proficient. After all (syn) ability. Your sailing prowess might save
because of those hours playing video games, you Form: n your life in a storm, while someone with
training and must be very Proficient at them. Tone: pos less experience might make mistakes.
practice
Form: adj Mnemonic/Example
Tone: pos Mnemonic: Prowess sounds like
Mnemonic/Example POWERS
Mnemonic: A Proficient person is Example: With practice, you Example: He was complimented
EFFICIENT at the job he/she does should become Proficient within on his Prowess as an oarsman.
six months.
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bending, moving Something or someone that is supple highly complicated highly complex or intricate and occasionally
easily (syn for bends and moves easily, like a (syn) devious
flexible) contortionist at a circus sideshow. If you Form: adj
Form: adj can wrap your legs around your neck, Tone: Neg
Tone: pos you most likely have a supple body. Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Recall the chemistry
Mnemonic: Playing cards can be where we studied Benzene
SHUFFLED because they are which is complex in structure.
Supple Example: This is an organization
Example: These exercises will of Byzantine complexity
help to keep you Supple.
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS
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longer path, Circuitous means indirect or roundabout. If Twisted extremely If something is convoluted, it's intricate and
roundabout ( you're in a hurry to get to the hospital difficult to follow hard to understand. You'll need to read
kind, nature) where your wife is having a baby, you want (syn) over your brother's convoluted investment
Form: adj to take the straightest, fastest way, not a Form: adj scheme a few times before deciding
Tone: Neg circuitous one! Tone: Neg whether or not to go in on it.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: circ(circle)tous(tour) Mnemonic: Breaking into a
circle+tour=round about path. VAULT is COMPLICATED
which isn't straight (Convoluted)
Example: He took us on a Example: She could not follow
Circuitous route to the hotel. his Convoluted discourse.
HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS
Lithe Nimble
Proficient Prowess
Supple Byzantine
Circuitous Convoluted
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rough and To gnarl is to twist something up until it's connect and link Things that intertwine are twisted or mixed
twisted (syn) deformed. A gnarl is something twisted up (Syn) together. You have to intertwine yarn to
Form: verb like a knot. Form: v make a scarf.
Tone: Neg Tone: Neg
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: People's bodies can Mnemonic: Intertwine sounds Example: Their political careers
gnarl too, especially as they get like In-Turbine. So remind like: In had become closely Intertwined.
older. Turbine, turbine SPINs while Root: the Prefix Inter means -in
Example: The wind has Gnarled exerting pressure of water flow between.
this old tree or WIND,and converts
mechanical energy into
electrical(electricity).
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proceed aimlessly follow a winding course. complex, cunning You can use the adjective serpentine to
(effect) (effect) describe things that look like a serpent or
Form: v Form: adj are snakelike. Looking down at the carved
Tone: Neg Tone: Neg riverbeds in the Grand Canyon is like
Mnemonic/Example looking into a basket of snakes: the
Mnemonic: Pronounce it like serpentine twists curve throughout the
'wander'; they are synonymous. canyon floor.
Example: The stream Meanders Mnemonic/Example
slowly down to the river. Mnemonic: A serpent is a snake- a snake has a twisting and
winding movement instead of a straight one and therefore such
a movement is termed as Serpentine .
Example: the Serpentine course of the river
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having curves and Sinuous means winding or curvy. If you get twists and turns Tortuous means twisting or complicated.
turns (Syn) lost on a sinuous mountain path, you'll (Syn)
Form: adj need a compass or a GPS to figure out Form: adj
Tone: Neg which direction leads back to camp. Tone: Neg
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: Sinuous...one who Example: One gloriously Sinuous Mnemonic: a tortoise does not
commits sins is NOT MORALLY run eight minutes from the move in straight line... it keeps
HONEST but is twisted by nature. interval made three opponents twisting and turning making path
look as though they were trying complicated.
to tackle smoke. Example: a Tortuous road up the
mountain
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spiral courses having many twists and turns. pleasing The adjective aesthetic (also spelled esthetic)
(nature) appearance, comes in handy when subject is beauty or the
Form: adj artistic beauty arts. A velvet painting of dogs playing poker
Tone: Neg (opposite) might have minimal aesthetic appeal.
Mnemonic/Example Form: n,adj
Mnemonic: WindingS around Tone: pos
Transformers (electronics) isnt Mnemonic/Example
straight, so hence its twisting Mnemonic: aes + thetic Example: The beautiful
and like a spiral.. hence Winding opposite of "pathetic"..means sculpture was a mirror image
Example: Winding roads are full beauty of the carver's aethetic values.
of surprises
HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE
Winding Aesthetic
Gnarled Intertwine
Meander Serpentine
Sinuous Tortuous
James Bond drove his custom BMW 120
mph on the road that was tortuous in its
twists and turns.
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shocked (syn) Something that is appalling is awful or attractive (opp) Comely means attractive or appropriate. A
Form: adj horrible, causing dismay or disgust. It's Form: adj comely girl is pretty. A comely hairstyle makes
Tone: neg definitely not appealing. Tone: pos you seem prettier maybe than you are. If
your manners are comely, it means you know
the right way to act to put people at their
Mnemonic/Example ease.
Mnemonic: Appalling is Mnemonic/Example
something that is not at all Mnemonic: Comely- resembles Example: The General's lady is
Appealing. homely, homely gals are a hearty, Comely, discreet,
Example: The brutality of the always liked by everyone,as affable woman, some few
crime appalled the public. they are attractive and also years older than himself
have a pleasing appearance.
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offensive (syn, Something that is egregious stands out, but causing horror( Something that's ghastly isn't just gross. It's
manner) not in a good way it means "really bad or syn) shockingly, horrifyingly unpleasant so
Form: adj offensive," like a tattoo on a man misspelling Form: adj gruesome and grisly that it makes you want
Tone: neg his girlfriend's name. Tone: neg to puke.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: Egregious is Example: There are several Mnemonic: Ghastly sounds
similer to prime ministers in the past like Ghostly, which is equally
aggressive.Aggressive pepole who have committed far more horrifying.
are very bad in manner. Egregious offenses. Example: She woke up in the
middle of a Ghastly nightmare.
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horror (cause ans Grisly means disgusting and bloody, vulgar, Get ready, because gross has a few different
syn) absolutely repulsive and horrible. Theres a unattractive meanings. When something is gross, it's
Form: adj wonderfully creepy movie about a man who (nature) disgusting. The noun, a gross, is the complete
Tone: neg suffers a grisly death at the hands of the Form: adj amount (before expenses), and the verb "to
grizzly bears he was studying. Tone: neg gross" is to bring in money.
Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: If you're talking Example: He ate it with
Mnemonic: because of too Example: The jurors saw about awful, sickening, vile mustard. Oh, Gross!
much of GREASE on the road Grisly photos of the crime things such as dissecting an
my car met with a hORRIFIC scene. animal or filthy behavior,
accident you're looking at the adjective
Gross.
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ugly or unusually Use grotesque to describe things that are extremely Gothic novels, horror movies, and crime
unattractive very strange and ugly in an unnatural way. If unpleasant dramas don't shy away from showing
(cause) something "grosses you out," you can safely (cause) gruesome scenes of death, pictures that
Form: adj refer to it as grotesque. Form: adj inspire fright and repulsion.
Tone: Neg Tone: neg
Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Gruesome -
Mnemonic: When I GROW Example: It's Grotesque to Sounds like cruelsome, which
TUSK: how do i look: expect a person of her is self-explainable
UGLY:abnormal....it is only a experience to work for so little Example: We spent a week in
fantasy money. a Gruesome apartment in
Miami.
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE
Grotesque Gruesome
Egregious Ghastly
Grisly Gross
Appalling Comely
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wicked (nature of A heinous crime is very evil or wicked. Of ugly (cause) Hideous is a word that means extremely ugly.
crime) course, some people only use the term as an Form: adj Anything or anybody that is painful and a
Form: adj exaggeration, claiming that their parents' little scary to look at is hideous.
Tone: neg requirement that they write thank you notes Mnemonic/Example
after their birthdays is a heinous form of Mnemonic: write it like Example: Their new color
torture. hide+ous.and ous sounds scheme is Hideous!
Mnemonic/Example simillar to "us"...and when do
Mnemonic: Heinous sounds Example: There were Heinous we hide ourselves ? Its when
like hyena (a wild animal) accusations made against we see something ugly and
these animals are very them for involving in child unpleasant.
cunning & wicked) labour and assault.
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shocking (syn) Monstrous is an adjective that describes interest in Morbid is a word used to describe anyone
Form: adj something gross or shocking. It can refer to unpleasant and who spends too much time thinking about
Tone: neg the size, shape, or general look of something. disturbing death or disease.
If your face or body is monstrous, it's subjects (death)
misshapen and horrifying to look at. (syn)
Mnemonic/Example Form: adj
Mnemonic: Something that is Example: He is considering Tone: Neg
something like a MONSTER launching new courses in New Mnemonic/Example
(huge and ugly) is Monstrous. York and sees Latin America Mnemonic: Morbid -MORTAL Example: He had a Morbid
as a potentially Monstrous (deadly) + BITE (like of an fascination with blood.
market. insect) - a deadly bite is Root: The root word
unhealthy and disease MOR/MORT refers to DEATH
related.
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ugly (cause) Unsightly is a gentler way of saying ugly. unpleasant (syn) Surely only an evil person could be so vile as
Form: adj Often something that is described as and (nature) to have made you so angry. Vile is something
Tone: neg unsightly sticks out like a sore thumb in an Form: adj or someone so morally wrong or offensive as
otherwise attractive environment. Tone: neg to be thoroughly disgusting.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: Concentrate on Mnemonic: Rearrange Vile and
sight means to see. Unsightly you will get a synonym for it
means can't like to see if it is EVIL
ugly. Example: The weather was
Example: The accident site really Vile most of the time.
was unslightly.
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natural liking or If you get along with someone very well, natural talent If you have a knack or aptitude for doing
sympathy (syn) you have an affinity with them. (syn) something, you can say you have a bent
Form: n Sometimes opposites attract, so you Form: n for it. Perhaps you have a bent for
Tone: pos might feel a strange affinity to someone Tone: pos woodworking, creating fabulous desserts,
who is seemingly very different from you. or writing poetry, you are good at it.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: Mathematicians Mnemonic: Bent-sounds like Example: Do this exercise with
have an Affinity for infinity. bend it like beckham a movie your knees Bent
Example: Sam was born in the where a girl is determined to
country and had a deep Affinity prove her natural talent of
with nature. football
INCLINATION INCLINATION
Affinity Bent
Monstrous Morbid
Unsightly Vile
Heinous Hideous
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inclined and naturally disposed toward syn If you're inclined to do something, you
special attitude Form: adj want to do it, you like doing it, and you
(syn) Tone: pos may even have an inherent talent for
Form: adj doing it. Alternatively, if the sidewalk
Tone: pos outside your house is inclined, that means
it slopes upward.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: we always have Mnemonic: In (into) cline (cling)
INCLINATION for having to a habit.
tea/coffee/juice in DISPOSable Example: He did not show the
glass when we are outside slightest inclination to leave.
Example: I'm not Disposed to Root: the prefix IN means into
argue.
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habituated liking A penchant is a strong preference or a special liking A predilection is a preference for or bias
(syn) tendency. If you have a penchant for (syn) toward something. If you have a
Form: n pizza, you either eat it daily, or wish you Form: n predilection for wool clothing, you should
Tone: pos did. Tone: pos take up knitting.
Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Example: an artist with a
Mnemonic: p+enchantsomething Example: He quit his job as the pre(before)+dialect(local Predilection for bright colors
that enchants you, CEO of a leading company, to language); you generally Root: the prefix PRE- mens
you have a strong liking for satisfy his Penchant for become partial when you are before
that. teaching. taking an interview and you
meet someone who speaks
your language
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a favorable A predisposition is a tendency to do to do something A proclivity is a natural tendency to like
inclination something. If you know you have a regularly or liking something, such as your sister's proclivity
towards someone predisposition toward getting carsick, towards for restaurants that serve hot, spicy food.
(syn) better to plan ahead and avoid eating something (syn)
Form: n before a long drive. Things could get ugly. Form: n
Tone: pos Tone: pos
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: your position Example: his indicates that Mnemonic: pro(forward) + Example: the government's
(POSITION) is more towards many cancers may have a clivity( think of cliff or high slope, Proclivity for spending money
this (DIS) shared underlying genetic prone to slipping towards it), so
Predisposition a strong
Root: same as above. predispostion/inclination to...
something
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natural tendency A propensity is a natural tendency to predicts a bad or To augur is to predict, but what's tricky
to behave in a behave in a certain way. We all have good outcome about the word is that it pertains to an
particular way propensities things we tend to do. (syn) object or an event. A black cat is an
(syn) Dogs have a propensity to bark, and Form: v,n augur of bad luckit brings bad luck.
Form: n many people have a propensity for Tone: Neutral, Seeing one doesn't augur well for your
Tone: pos getting annoyed by it. negative, positive future.
Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: now a days people Example: He showed a Mnemonic: Augur-- aug+ur -- AUGust indicates(SIGN/WARNS)
are inclined towards "CITY" dats Propensity for violence. approaching of winters
why thery are migrating from Root: the Prefix PRO- means for Example: Conflicts among the various groups do not Augur
villages. or forward. well for the future of the peace talks.
Root: NA
INCLINATION PREDICTION
Propensity Augur
Penchant Predilection
Predisposition Proclivity
Disposed Inclined
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Predict an occurrence, A forecast is a prediction of what will happen. prediction (syn) Use the noun foresight to describe
especially If the weather forecast calls for sunny skies, Form: n successful planning for the future, like
weather (syn) consider leaving your umbrella at home. Tone: neutral on a cloudy morning having the
Form: v,n (But, since forecasts arent guaranteed to be foresight to bring an umbrella in case
Tone: Neutral right, dont blame us if you get rained on). of rain showers later in the day.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: While often used in the context of weather, Forecast can also Mnemonic: The word Foresight is made of two parts: fore, which means
be used for other types of predictions such as those related to before, and sight, which means "to perceive."
financial or political outcomes. Example: She had the Foresight to prepare herself financially in case of an
Example: The Forecast said there would be sunny intervals and showers. accident.
Root: the prefix fore- means before Root: Prefix Fore- means before
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predict (syn) to know or say what will happen in the Omen, bad sign A presage is a sign that something
Form: v future, especially by using magic or warning (effect) bad is about to happen, like when you
Tone: neutral powers Form: v,n get that queasy feeling in your
Tone: stomach because your mom found out
Mnemonic/Example Neutral/negative you skipped band practice to go to the movies.
Mnemonic: Fore means before and Mnemonic/Example
telling about what happened before. Mnemonic: As a verb, Presage means making a prediction or giving
Example: The witch foretold that she a warning of what's to come, like a terrible end-of-season football game's
would marry a prince. outcome game that Presaged the struggles the team faced the next
Root: the prefix fore- means before season.
Example: Nothing had Presaged the dreadful fate about to befall him.
Root: NA
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having knowledge To be prescient is to have foresight or forecast the Prognosis concerns people who are so
of events to take foreknowledge. We can use this word outcome of some sick they might die. What is their
plc (syn) to describe people themselves, or situation (syn) prognosis? It is a word doctors use to
Form: adj what they say or do at a given Form: n talk about the path a disease will take
Tone: neutral moment. Tone: Negative with a person.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: pre- sciencemeans Mnemonic: Prognosis = pro+diagnosis, pro= think forward, diagnosis =
prediction, knowledge of events cause of disease, it means to predict the features of a disease
forehand before the disease itself.
Example: She showed great Example: The Prognosis is for more people to work part-time in the future.
prescience in selling her shares just Root: NA
before the market crashed.
Root: the prefix pre- means before
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lack of connection Disjointed isnt when you can bend your thumb connecting more If you happen to be at the nexus of something
(kind or nature) all the way backwards thats double-jointed. than one thing , this noun means that
Form: adj Disjointed means "unorganized" or (opp) you are right in the middle.
Tone: neg "disconnected." Form: n
Mnemonic/Example Tone: pos
Mnemonic: DIS (not) + Example: The novel Mnemonic/Example
JOINTED (connected)...so suffers from a Disjointed Mnemonic: Google --
Disjointed is disconnected plot and pale, insignificant connected to android.. So
or scattered. characters. their phone name Nexus
Root: The Prefix DISrefers Example: The Nexus
to NOT between industry and
political power
SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED
Disjointed Nexus
Fortell Presage
Prescient Prognosis
Forecast Foresight
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Divide (cause) To polarize is to divide. Something that's been separate the To winnow is to blow something away until
Form: v polarized has been split into two sides good from bad you are left with what you want, like
Tone: neutral that are so different, it seems as though (syn) grain from chaff. If you only want your favorite
they're from opposite ends of the earth Form: v people at the party, you will need to
like the North Pole and the South Pole. Tone: pos winnow down the guest list from 300 to 30.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: Reminds of Example: Public opinion Mnemonic: WIN NOW
the two poles "N-Pole", has Polarized on this (sounds like WINNER)will
S-Pole which is nothing issue. separate you from looser
but division of two Example: She stood there
extreme poles. Winnowing chaff all day in
the field
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Divide (syn) To separate people by race or religion is to Warning in make a prediction about; tell in advance
Form: v segregate them. In general, the word segregate advance (syn)
Tone: neutral means to separate one Form: v
type of thing from another. Tone: neutral
Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: Aggregate is Mnemonic/Example
to combine together, Mnemonic: fore = for the Example: She had a sense of
Segregate is to seperate future; bode = brood on foreboding that the news
Example: Whites and something bad. (Not so good, would be bad.
blacks were Segregated but what can we do) Root: The prefix -fore means
into different parts of before
town.
SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning)
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Warning (syn) To foreshadow is to predict something or to expressing threat minatory means threatening. When you
Form: v give a hint of what is to come. If you could (syn) petition the school for higher academic
Tone: neutral take a stereo apart and put it back together Form: adj standardsi.e. harder grading from
at age five, it can foreshadow a successful Tone: negative teachersyou may receive some minatory
career in electronics. looks, or even hate note, from the kids in
Mnemonic/Example your school.
Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: A 'shadow' of an Example: His sudden death Mnemonic: MINEatory.....mines Example: There was a silence
assasin alerts you 'before' his had been Foreshadowed by are always threatening which, it seemed to her, could
arrival. earlier health scares. because lot's of people can die be more Minatory even than
Root: prefix fore- refers to because of suffocation or accusation.
before poisonous gases present in
mines....
SIGN (Warning) SIGN (Warning)
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threateningly If something looks or sounds ominous, be Warning (syn) portend means to show a sign that
inauspicious (syn) careful, a threat or an unpleasant event is at Form: v something calamitous is about to happen.
Form: adj hand. If you see an ominous frown on your Tone: negative The tottering, pile of fine china piled up after
Tone: negative boss's face, you're in trouble! the dinner party portends an imminent crash
of broken plates and dishes.
Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example
Mnemonic: "omen+ious", Mnemonic: When we reached Example: For there are many
Remember the movie "omen" the port's end (sea port) we kinds of calms that do not
the horror movie saw some dead bodies, which Portend coming storms.
Example: There were gave a sign that something
Ominous dark clouds bad was going to happen.
gathering overhead.
SIGN (Warning) SIGN (Warning)
Ominous Portend
Segregate Forebode
Foreshadow Minatory
Polarize Winnow
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highly complex or intricate and occasionally
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If something is convoluted, it's intricate and
over your brother's convoluted investment
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Things that intertwine are twisted or mixed
Example: Their political careers
had become closely Intertwined.
Root: the Prefix Inter means -in
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The adjective aesthetic (also spelled esthetic)
comes in handy when subject is beauty or the
arts. A velvet painting of dogs playing poker
sculpture was a mirror image
of the carver's aethetic values.
James Bond drove his custom BMW 120
mph on the road that was tortuous in its
twists and turns.
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Comely means attractive or appropriate. A
comely girl is pretty. A comely hairstyle makes
your manners are comely, it means you know
Example: The General's lady is
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Something that's ghastly isn't just gross. It's
gruesome and grisly that it makes you want
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Get ready, because gross has a few different
disgusting. The noun, a gross, is the complete
amount (before expenses), and the verb "to
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Hideous is a word that means extremely ugly.
Anything or anybody that is painful and a
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who spends too much time thinking about
MOR/MORT refers to DEATH
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Surely only an evil person could be so vile as
to have made you so angry. Vile is something
or someone so morally wrong or offensive as
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Predilection for bright colors
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Mnemonic: The word Foresight is made of two parts: fore, which means
Example: She had the Foresight to prepare herself financially in case of an
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you skipped band practice to go to the movies.
a warning of what's to come, like a terrible end-of-season football game's
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Example: The Prognosis is for more people to work part-time in the future.
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If you happen to be at the nexus of something
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To winnow is to blow something away until
grain from chaff. If you only want your favorite
winnow down the guest list from 300 to 30.
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Example: She had a sense of
Root: The prefix -fore means
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teachersyou may receive some minatory
Example: There was a silence
which, it seemed to her, could
be more Minatory even than
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The tottering, pile of fine china piled up after
the dinner party portends an imminent crash
Example: For there are many
Byzantine Supple
Convoluted Circuitous
Nimble Lithe
Prowess Proficient
Aesthetic Winding
Serpentine Meander
Tortuous Sinuous
Intertwine Gnarled
Gruesome Grotesque
Ghastly Egregious
Gross Grisly
Comely Appalling
Bent Affinity
Morbid Monstrous
Vile Unsightly
Hideous Heinous
Augur Propensity
Predilection Penchant
Proclivity Predisposition
Inclined Disposed
Nexus Disjointed
Presage Fortell
Prognosis Prescient
Foresight
Forecast
Portend Ominous
Forebode Segregate
Minatory Foreshadow
Winnow Polarize
Supple
Circuitous
Lithe
Proficient
Winding
Meander
Sinuous
Gnarled
Grotesque
Egregious
Grisly
Appalling
Affinity
Monstrous
Unsightly
Heinous
Propensity
Penchant
Predisposition
Disposed
Disjointed
Fortell
Prescient
Forecast
Ominous
Segregate
Foreshadow
Polarize

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