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Groups Words Relation to Group Meaning Mnemonic/Example
ANGRY to make someone put into a rage; make violently Mnemonic: Enrage
angry (syn) angry is another word for
AVOID / DODGE Form: v RAGE (anger).
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Tone: negative Example: She was
Enrage
Enraged at his
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME stupidity.
Root: the prefix En-
BEGINNING
means IN
BURN/HOT very angry To fume is to feel or express Mnemonic: In
(effect)/(opp)COLD (degree) (syn) great anger. You would fume cartoons, when a
DISPLAYING Form: v if your teacher accused you of character is fuming,
Tone: negative cheating when you didn't. it is often drawn with
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL Fumes coming out of
Fume
HAVING TWISTS AND its ears.
TURNS Example: She sat in
the car, silently
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING fuming at the traffic
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE jam.
INCLINATION angry and sullen If you see someone glower at Mnemonic: Glower
look on face you, you might consider sounds like Lower.
PREDICTION (effect) glowering back, but no one when someone
SEPARATED / (opp) Form: v likes an angry staring contest. LOWERS you in front
CONNECTED Tone: negative To glower is not only to stare, of others, you tend to
Glower it's to stare angrily, as if stare ANGRILY at
SIGN (Warning) you're going to throttle them.
TAKE APART someone. Example: Bright
confident morning
TALK FOOLISHLY has been replaced by
a Glowering twilight
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
STUDENT make someone If your new college roommate Mnemonic: Incense
angry (syn) burns incense in your tiny sounds like insensible.
UNEXPECTED CHANGES Form: v dorm room, you might get Insensible people
UNREAL Tone: negative incensed and storm out. infuriate(Incense)
me.
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Example: Incensed,
Incense Mr. John demanded
on national television
that Ms. Rihana be
given a 30-year
prison sentence.
Root: the prefix In-
means NOT
to make someone Different things infuriate Mnemonic: The word
angry (syn) different people: whatever can be related to Fury
Form: v makes you angry, mad, or or anger.
Infuriate
Tone: negative ticked off infuriates you. Example: Her silence
Infuriated him even
more.
very angry On the anger scale, first Mnemonic: IRATE
Form: adj comes annoyed, then cross, rhymes with "eye
Tone: negative then furious, then irate. When red". When does your
cartoon characters are irate eye become red?
smoke comes out of their ears. When you are ANGRY.
Example: When
IRATE cartoon characters
are IRATE smoke
comes out of their
ears. Use this word
only when someone is
so mad that they
scare you.
anger Ire is another word for Mnemonic: IRE
Form: n "anger." sounds like FIRE.
Tone: negative Anger emits fIRE like
burning emotions
visible in action and
speech.
IRE Example: If you
routinely steal your
neighbor's
newspaper, don't be
surprised to be on the
receiving end of his
IRE.
furiously angry If you're livid, you're furious, Mnemonic: Livid
(syn) in a black cloud of anger. sounds like
Form: adj LIVE+VIDEO: The
Tone: negative officer was ENRAGED
WITH ANGER when
Livid
he was caught taking
bribe on LIVE VIDEO
Example: Dad will be
Livid when he finds
out.
Extreme anger Chances are that if the tail- Mnemonic: Rabid
(syn) wagging dog that just can be remembered
Form: adj appeared on your doorstep is in this manner: rabbit
Tone: negative also foaming at the mouth and is extremely
chewing on your welcome mat, zealous/enthusiastic
it's rabid and you should back about carrots, and
Rabid
away slowly; no petting for gets angry if you try
this infectious pup. to snatch it from him.
Example: She is as
Rabidly anti-smoking
as only a recently
cured addict can be.
extreme but If a liquid seethes, it is Mnemonic:
unexpected anger boiling, but if it's a person Seethe(SITA)..when
(syn) who's seething, watch out! Ravan took Sita to
Form: v He or she is really angry! Lanka, Lord Ram
Tone: negative BOILED with anger
Seethe
and was DISTURBED.
Example: He
marched off,
seething with
frustration.
suppressed anger When a fire is barely burning, Mnemonic: smol +
or hatred(lesser it's smoldering. Fires can der --
degree) (syn) smolder for days without 'smol'........small
Form: v anyone's knowing, then burst 'der'.... fear (in
Tone: negative into a conflagration that gets hindi)... that is, while
the fire department sirens handling small things
Smolder wailing all over town. the fear is they might
break down.
Example: He was
Smoldering with rage
when he learned that
his orders were not
followed.
great anger leading wrath is great anger that Mnemonic:
to revenge (effect) expresses itself in a desire to Remember rath(s)
Form: n punish someone: Noah saw means chariots in
Tone: negative the flood as a sign of the mahabharata. When
wrath of God. kings were angry and
furious, they used to
come on their rath(s)
Wrath to fight.
Example: Sandyâ
€™s )hurricane)
Wrath will peak
Monday night, but
chances are the
effects will be felt
long after.
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ANGRY prevent something To avert is to turn away or Mnemonic: sounds

from happening to prevent. You might avert like DIVERT, and that
AVOID / DODGE (manner) your gaze or avert a is the meaning.
Avert
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Form: v disaster - either way, you Example: He did his
Tone: pos are avoiding something. best to Avert
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME suspicion.
BEGINNING avoid to overcome To circumvent is to avoid. Mnemonic: circle +
problem (cause) Someone who trains prevent - to form a
BURN/HOT Form: v elephants but somehow CIRCLE or a boundary
(effect)/(opp)COLD Tone: pos gets out of picking up after around the target so
DISPLAYING them has found a way to as to OUTSMART your
circumvent the cleaning of opponent, like
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL the circus tent. Abhimanyu did
Circumvent
HAVING TWISTS AND Example: They
TURNS found a way of
Circumventing the
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING law.
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE Root: The prefix
CIRCUM- means
INCLINATION
AROUND
PREDICTION to deviate (cause) The verb deflect describes Mnemonic: Deflect
SEPARATED / (opp) Form: v blocking something or sounds like Defect.
CONNECTED Tone: neut changing its course. Hockey And anything
goalies deflect the flying Defective is avoided
SIGN (Warning) puck with their sticks or and not used.
TAKE APART blockers, making it travel in Example: All
Deflect
a different direction, attempts to Deflect
TALK FOOLISHLY preferably to a teammate's attention from his
stick. private life have
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
failed.
STUDENT
Root: The refix DE-
UNEXPECTED CHANGES means AWAY.
UNREAL escape in a Elude means evade, or be Example: The two
cunning manner. hard to grasp. "Tom eluded men managed to
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) (manner) his captors by hiding under Elude the police for
Elude Form: v a table. Asha tried to six weeks.
Tone: neg understand chemistry, but
the subject continued to
elude her."
escape or avoid When you evade something, Mnemonic: Evade
using tricks (syn) you escape it. You could rhymes with AVOID
Form: v evade a police chase by Example: For two
Tone: pos slipping into a secret alley, weeks they Evaded
Evade
or you could evade your the press.
mother's questions about
the missing cookies by
slipping into another topic.
done in a hurry Headlong describes Mnemonic: Sounds
(opposite) something done headfirst, like headstrong.i.e.
Form: adj,adv rashly, or really quickly. If adamant or
you're the star batter on unthinkably daring
your baseball team, it's (person who is very
Headlong expected that you'll make a strongheaded)
headlong dive for the base. Example: The
government is taking
care not to rush
Headlong into another
controversy.
avoid a question or When you parry, you avoid Mnemonic: sounds
blow. doing things. As the needy like "Harry" Potter
Form: v friend approaches, say, "I who wards off all the
Parry
Tone: pos wish I had time to catch difficulties of people
up!" and hurry off. Or, hide Example: He parried
under a table. a blow to his head.
neglect or avoid To shirk your Mnemonic:
(syn) responsibilities is to avoid Remember Shrek? He
Form: v dealing with them - like used to avoid work or
Tone: neg when you watch four responsibilities as he
consecutive hours of was fat and was not
Shirk
infomercials instead of able to do so.
facing your homework. Example: Discipline
in the company was
strict and no one
Shirked.
divert (syn) move to a less important Mnemonic: what
Form: v place or position. happens when
Tone: neg current is Shunted, it
diverts (electronics
Shunt
term)
Example: John was
Shunted sideways to
a job in sales.
avoiding an issue avoid or try to avoid Example: She
(type of) fulfilling, answering, or Skirted the problem.
Skirt
Form: v performing (duties,
Tone: neg questions, or issues)
changing directions The noun swerve means a Mnemonic: Swerve
suddenly (cause) sudden turn off your path. rhymes with SERVE,
Form: v As a verb, it means to in tennis the best
Tone: neut move off your original SERVE, SwerveS, i.e.
Swerve route, possibly to avoid a abruptly turns and
collision. You can swerve puzzles the opponent.
either toward something or Example: The bus
away from it. suddenly Swerved
into his path.
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ANGRY ineffective, weak If a newspaper editorial Mnemonic: The "feck"

(syn) describes a politician as in Feckless began as a
AVOID / DODGE Form: v feckless, you might wonder, short form of effect. So
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Tone: neg "What is feck, and why Feckless essentially
doesn't he have any?" In means ineffective. Can
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME fact, the columnist is be remembered as
Feckless
accusing the politician of Effectless
BEGINNING
being irresponsible and Example: She had lost
BURN/HOT incompetent. the Fecklessness of
(effect)/(opp)COLD youth and settled down.
DISPLAYING
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL nervous or clumsy If you're a football fan you Mnemonic: Fumble is
HAVING TWISTS AND way of handling know all about the agony of like tumble.
TURNS things (syn) the fumble - the clumsy Example: He Fumbled
Fumble
Form: v,n handling of the ball that with the buttons on his
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING Tone: neg makes you drop it or lose shirt.
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE possession.
INCLINATION unsophisticated Use the word gauche when Mnemonic: Gauche
(syn) you want to call something sounds the Hindi word
PREDICTION Form: adj tacky, graceless, tactless, Ghochu used for a
SEPARATED / (opp) Tone: neg rude, boorish, or awkward clumsy and awkward
CONNECTED and foolish. Have you just person.
Gauche
pointed out someone's Example: She was too
SIGN (Warning) misuse of this word? Oh Gauche to leave the
TAKE APART dear, how gauche! room when the
conversation became
TALK FOOLISHLY intimate.
TEACHER/GUIDE / X having no A clumsy, incompetent Mnemonic: IN (not) +
STUDENT skills.(syn) person - or an ineffective EPT (like apt ; which
Form: adj action - is inept. When means suitable) -not
UNEXPECTED CHANGES Tone: neg you're inept, you don't know suitable
UNREAL Inept what you're doing or just Example: She was left
can't get it done. feeling Inept and
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) inadequate.
Root: The Prefix IN
means NOT
not efficient (syn) If you are clumsy, you are Mnemonic: Mal means
Form: adj maladroit. But the word can BAD and Adroit means
Tone: neg mean all kinds of clumsy. SKILLFUL. So a person
Trip over your words? You is not skillful at doing
are verbally maladroit. anything is rather a
Stumble in social situations? Maladroit.
Maladroit
You're socially maladroit. Example: Both parties
are unhappy about the
Maladroit handling of
the whole affair.
Root: The prefix MAL
means BAD
awkward (syn) Ungainly is the opposite of Mnemonic: un(means
Form: adj graceful, convenient or easy. NOT) + GAINly...a
Tone: neg A clumsy dancer boogies in model who LACKS
an ungainly or awkward GRACE IN HER
fashion. MOVEMENT OR IF SHE
WALKS IN AN
Ungainly
AWKWARD manner on
the ramp, will NOT
GAIN popularity.
Example: He was a
tall, Ungainly boy of
18.
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ANGRY move slowly Dally means â€œto waste Mnemonic: Dally

(action) time.â€ When you dally, you sounds like delay. lazy
AVOID / DODGE Form: v will cause a delay because of people delay work.
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Tone: neg your dawdling. Example: Despite our
best intentions of not
Dally
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME Dallying, it's hard to
pass up the chance to
BEGINNING
check out a sunrise like
BURN/HOT this at the end of our
(effect)/(opp)COLD morning ride.
DISPLAYING slow, wastes time There are lots of words that Mnemonic: Dawdle is
(syn) mean to move slowly. The somewhat similar to
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL Form: v point of dawdle is that one is idle.
Dawdle
HAVING TWISTS AND Tone: neg moving too slowly, is falling Example: Stop
TURNS behind, or is not properly dawdling! We're going
focused on making progress. to be late!
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING
causing delay Something dilatory creates a Mnemonic: Extract
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE
intentionally (syn) delay. If you are a high 'late' from the word
INCLINATION Form: adj school student, once in a Dilatory and you get....
Tone: neg while you might have used delay which is generally
PREDICTION dilatory tactics if you forgot due to waste of time.
Dilatory
SEPARATED / (opp) to do your homework. Example: The
CONNECTED government has been
Dilatory in dealing with
SIGN (Warning) the problem of
TAKE APART unemployment.
wasting time postpone doing what one Mnemonic: Dilly and
TALK FOOLISHLY
having failed to should be doing Dally sounds like
TEACHER/GUIDE / X Dilly decide (effect) DELAY.
STUDENT Dally Form: v Example: Don't dilly-
Tone: neg dally on the way home
UNEXPECTED CHANGES from school.
UNREAL slow progress and Hey pokey! Yeah you, Mr. Mnemonic:
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) lagging behing Slow Pants. Quit your concentrate on lag, one
(effect) dawdling! This is no time to who always lag behind
Form: n be a laggard, or someone the others means slow
Laggard Tone: neg who's always lagging behind. and sluggish.
Example: Laggards are
the ones still using fax
machines instead of
email.
stay in a place for When someone lingers, he Mnemonic: Linger---
a longer span or she takes an Ginger... the taste of
because you donâ unexpectedly long time to ginger is still present in
€™t want to leave depart, as Romeo lingers my tongue although its
Form: v when bidding Juliet farewell slowly leaving
Linger Tone: neg (or as annoying houseguests Example: Furthermore
almost always tend to do). there are Lingering
questions as to why the
U.S. has focused on
chemical weapons in
particular.
to fake illness in When you malinger, you Mnemonic:
order to avoid duty pretend to be sick. If you MAL(bad)+LINGER(stay
or work (cause) ever claimed to have a in a place longer than
Form: v stomach ache in order to necessary)...when you
Malinger Tone: neg stay home from school, you linger on the ramp
know what it means to badly you Malinger
malinger. Example: She lingered
for a few minutes to
talk to Nick.
Legends:
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ANGRY the beginning of When something is at its Mnemonic: On + Set

something, onset, it's at the beginning, in action
AVOID / DODGE especially just getting started, and it's Example: Diagnostic
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED something often something that's not so errors are even more
ONSET unpleasant pleasant. The onset of common in early
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME Form: n hurricane season is probably ONSET Alzheimer's,
Tone: neg not the best time to visit the where patients often
BEGINNING
beach. wait several years for
BURN/HOT a correct diagnosis.
(effect)/(opp)COLD at/from the the time at which something is Mnemonic: Set out
DISPLAYING beginning of supposed to begin to do your work right
something NOW
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL OUTSET Form: n Example: I made it
HAVING TWISTS AND Tone: neutral clear right from the
TURNS OUTSET that I
disapproved.
the act of leaving a If you want to leave a place, Mnemonic: gress- to
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE
place you need a means of egress, or go; digress-to stray;
INCLINATION Form: noun a way to exit, such as a door egress- to go out;
Tone: neg/ neut or window. It was a beautiful ingress- to go in and
PREDICTION X
old house, but without enough regress is to return to
EGRESS
SEPARATED / (opp) ways of egress, they needed a former state
CONNECTED outdoor fire-stairs for reaching Example: doorways
the upper floors. intended for egress
SIGN (Warning) only
TAKE APART
TALK FOOLISHLY
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
STUDENT
UNEXPECTED CHANGES
UNREAL
VERY TALENTED (CHILD)
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ANGRY Warm or slightly warm Mnemonic: te(tea)

unenthusiastic and pid(dip):you can
AVOID / DODGE (Degree) dip your hand into tea
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Form: adj only when it is
Tone: neg lukewarm
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME # Example: The
Tepid#(warm) mushrooms develop
BEGINNING
more flavor if you use
BURN/HOT the slower method of
(effect)/(opp)COLD soaking them in tepid
water for six hours or
DISPLAYING overnight.
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL very hot or highly If youâ€™re having a Mnemonic:
HAVING TWISTS AND changed emotion torrid romance, that torturously arid or hot
TURNS (syn) means it's steamy and & arid=torrid
Form: adj emotionally charged. If Example: Yet
torrid
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING Tone: neg youâ€™re listening to a watching him, even on
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE torrid band, then youâ such a torrid shooting
€™re listening to a band night, always leaves a
INCLINATION
that has a lot of energy. lukewarm feeling.
PREDICTION Fire that destroys A conflgaration isn't Mnemonic: Flagration
SEPARATED / (opp) (syn) just a few flames; it's sounds like flare which
CONNECTED Form: n an especially large and means fire, so big fire.
Tone: neg destructive fire that Example: The
SIGN (Warning) Conflagration causes devastation. conflgaration
TAKE APART destroyed property
worth millions.
TALK FOOLISHLY Root: The prefix Con-
means together
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
STUDENT very cold (syn) Like the North Pole on Mnemonic: Frigid-
Form: adj the coldest day of concentrate on fridge
UNEXPECTED CHANGES Tone: neg winter, frigid is an which is cold
UNREAL adjective that means Example: There was
Frigid
extremely chilly. It a Frigid atmosphere
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) applies to both in the room.
temperatures and
personalities.
icy cold and Things that are glacial Mnemonic:
Unemotional (syn are super cold. A place Ice+Glass-Glass+ice
and effect) can be glacial - like Example: the Glacial
Form: adj the South Pole - but a wind whipped her skin
Glacial
Tone: neg person can be glacial, blue.
too, like that unfriendly
girl who gave you a
glacial stare.
injure with hot You could scald yourself Mnemonic: Scald
liquid (effect) if your bathwater is too sounds like bald - he
Form: v hot. To scald something became bald because
Tone: negative is to burn it with hot his scalp got burnt in
liquid. However, if a hot water.
Scald
recipe tells you to â Example: Be careful
€œscald the milk,â€ it not to Scald yourself
means to heat it to the with the steam.
moment just before it
boils.
burn injure or harm, Mnemonic: When you
Form: v.adj especially by fire. Skate you damage
Tone: negative (Scathe) the ICE
beneath
Scathe
Example: Her
sensitive skin got
Scathed because of
excessive heat.
Burn (syn) To scorch is to burn Mnemonic: Think of
Form: v something fiercely, to Scorch as
Tone: neg the point where its Torch.Torch is used by
surface - your face, people who work in
prairie grass, a steak on mines.And these
the grill - chars or people have to face
otherwise changes color. extreme heat and
Scorch
because they are in
mine(e.g.coal
mine)their face turns
black.
Example: I Scorched
my dress when I was
ironing it.
intense heat To sear something is to Mnemonic: Sear
(nature or kind of quickly cook or burn its rhymes with TEAR.
heat) surface by applying When you BURN your
Form: v intense heat. When hand you are in tears.
Sear
Tone: neg making beef stew, the Example: The heat of
color and flavor are the sun Seared their
usually better if you faces.
sear the meat first.
burn lightly (syn) burn superficially or Mnemonic: Singe-
Form: v lightly remove 'n' from the
Tone: negative or word, we will be left
neutral with sige- like cige, a
Singe
cigarette BURNS
Example: He Singed
his hair as he tried to
light his cigarette.
hot and To swelter is to be hot Mnemonic: If you
uncomfortable (syn - very, very hot, like on put on a SWEATER in
and effect) a humid, ninety-degree the heat, then you will
Form: v day. To swelter is to get WET with SWEAT
Tone: neg feel like you're in an and will suffer from
Swelter
oven. oppresive heat.
Example: Passengers
Sweltered in
temperatures of over
90Â°F.
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ANGRY intellectual or If you are a cerebral Mnemonic: sounds like

brainy (syn) person, no one would ever cereBRAINal
AVOID / DODGE Form: adj call you a drama queen. You Example: The content
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Cerebral Tone: pos make decisions using your of philosophical works is
intelligence and cold, hard Cerebral in nature and
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME facts, instead of your requires much thought.
emotions.
BEGINNING
one who gives or When people are didactic, Mnemonic: Sounds like
BURN/HOT renders moral they're teaching or didi (sister) who always
(effect)/(opp)COLD lessons and instructing. This word is acts in a way like she is
DISPLAYING instructions(syn) often used negatively for teaching
Form: adj when someone is acting too something...''didi-act'ic
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL Didactic
Tone: pos much like a teacher. Example: The poet's
HAVING TWISTS AND works became
TURNS increasingly Didactic
after his religious
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING conversion
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE
showing great If you call someone Mnemonic:
INCLINATION knowledge(syn) erudite, that means they e+RUD(RUDE)+IT+e-
Form: adj show great learning. After now just concentrate on
PREDICTION Tone: pos you've earned your second RUDE IT....NOW THINK
SEPARATED / (opp) Ph.D., you will be truly OF rude IT
CONNECTED erudite. PROFESSIONAL WHO IS
BASICALLY
SIGN (Warning) Erudite
CONSIDERED AS A
TAKE APART LEARNED man..or
scholarly
TALK FOOLISHLY Example: She could
turn any conversation
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
into an Erudite
STUDENT
discussion.
UNEXPECTED CHANGES very concerned There's nothing wrong with Mnemonic: Can you
UNREAL with academic focusing on the details, but smell the word
learning (syn) someone who is pedantic 'PANDIT'( "Scholar" in
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Form: adj makes a big display of English) from
Tone: pos knowing obscure facts and "Pedantic"? PANDIT's
Pedantic
details. are usually very strict
about the bookish stuff.
Example: A Pedantic
insistence on the correct
way of doing things
an expert (syn) Beware of the pundit, a Mnemonic: A pandit is
Form: n supposed expert who a scholar.
Tone: pos imparts deep knowledge to Example: Political
us more ignorant folks. Pundits in the United
Pundit pundits are often States predicted a
blowhards, mere hacks, and historic win for Barack
you might well want to take Obama in the 2008 US
what they say with a pinch Elections.
of salt.
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ANGRY very skilled and Are you looking for Mnemonic: Adept is
professional (Syn another word to describe close to adapt so an
AVOID / DODGE for skillful) a person who is highly Adept batsman like
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Form: adj skilled, very proficient or sachin adapt himself
Tone: pos expert at something? Try quickly on any kind of
Adept
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME the adjective adept! pitch.
Example: He became
BEGINNING
Adept at getting even
BURN/HOT the shyest students to
(effect)/(opp)COLD talk.
DISPLAYING Skilled at using Someone who is adroit is Mnemonic: Adroit
hands and mind clever and skillful. An sounds like Androids,
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL (syn for skillful) adroit leader will be able a mix of human and
HAVING TWISTS AND Form: adj to persuade people to go machine, hence they
TURNS Adroit Tone: pos with his ideas. An adroit are more dexterous
sculptor can turn a lump than humans.
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING of clay into an object of Example: I want to
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE great beauty. become an Adroit
guitarist
INCLINATION
moves quickly and On water skis she was Mnemonic: When we
PREDICTION easily (syn for agile and made sharp are in good age we'll
SEPARATED / (opp) flexible) turns and long arcs be quick
CONNECTED Form: adj cutting through the Example: He had the
Agile Tone: pos water, but she was a lot agility of a man half
SIGN (Warning) less agile on the his age.
TAKE APART snowboard, landing on
her face and hands as she
TALK FOOLISHLY clunked down the slopes.
TEACHER/GUIDE / X Natural ability An aptitude is something Mnemonic:
STUDENT Form: adj you're good at. A rock remember this word
Tone: pos star might have an from various
UNEXPECTED CHANGES aptitude for energizing "Aptitude tests"
UNREAL an audience, or for which check talent or
Aptitude
trashing his hotel room. IQ etc
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Example: She
showed a natural
Aptitude for the
work.
to finish something If a restaurant is a Mnemonic:
in the perfect or consummate example of con+summit(the
best manner (syn) fine dining, you might say highest point of
Form: v,adj there's nothing more to something), and now
Tone: pos say about fine dining that imagine a person who
what this restaurant has reached the
represents. consummate highest point of
Consummate means complete or perfection,is truly a
finished. complete man.
Example: She was a
Consummate
performer.
Root: The prefix CON
either means with or
together.
skillful and Clever deft means "showing Mnemonic: Ravi
(syn for skillful) cleverness and skill in shastri say for
Form: adj handling things." What Sachin's backside's
Tone: pos you want to see in delicate touch as
Deft football or basketball is 'Deft touch by Sachin'
some deft handling of the Example: He finished
ball. off the painting with a
few Deft strokes of
the brush.
Skilled at using If you're dexterous, Mnemonic: dexter, a
hands (syn) you're good with your cartoon character is
Form: adj hands. To be dexterous someone ,who is very
Tone: pos is an essential trait for skillfull and uses his
knitters and sleight-of- hands and minds in a
Dexterous
hand magicians. very skillfull manner.
Example: Paul
Frazier was quietly
Dexterous on bass
guitar.
Flexible (a body Can you dance the hula? Mnemonic: Limber-
part) (Syn) Get into crazy yoga it sounds like
Form: adj positions, or touch your CLimber.. a CLimber
Limber Tone: pos toes? Then you're is FLEXIBLE
limber, meaning your Example: The violist
body is pretty flexible and Limbered her wrists
able to bend well. before the concert
Supple and Have you ever seen Mnemonic: Lithe
graceful (Syn for people who can bend so Sounds like "light"
flexible) easily, they can touch and something which
Form: adj their heels to the back of is light in weight can
Lithe
Tone: pos their heads? That person easily be moved and
is, in a word, lithe. bended.
Example: the Lithe
body of a dancer.
quick and light in If you're nimble, you can Mnemonic:
action (Syn for move quickly and with Nimble..sounds like
flexible) ease. That spryness can nimbu(lemon)..when
Form: adj be both physical and a lemon falls on the
Tone: pos mental, so even if your floor it rolls
granny isn't very nimble quickly..sure this
Nimble on her feet, she can helps you in
probably still whip you in understanding the
chess. meaning quickly...ie in
being Nimble
Example: You need
Nimble fingers for
that job.
able to do When someone has Mnemonic: A
something well become good at Proficient person is
because of training something, they are EFFICIENT at the job
and practice Proficient. After all he/she does
Proficient
Form: adj those hours playing video Example: With
Tone: pos games, you must be very practice, you should
Proficient at them. become Proficient
within six months.
skilled and expert prowess means Mnemonic: Prowess
(syn) exceptional skill or ability. sounds like POWERS
Form: n Your sailing prowess Example: He was
Prowess Tone: pos might save your life in a complimented on his
storm, while someone Prowess as an
with less experience oarsman.
might make mistakes.
bending, moving Something or someone Mnemonic: Playing
easily (syn for that is supple bends and cards can be
flexible) moves easily, like a SHUFFLED because
Form: adj contortionist at a circus they are Supple
Supple
Tone: pos sideshow. If you can wrap Example: These
your legs around your exercises will help to
neck, you most likely keep you Supple.
have a supple body.
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ANGRY highly complicated highly complex or Mnemonic: Recall the

(syn) intricate and chemistry where we
AVOID / DODGE Form: adj occasionally devious studied Benzene which is
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Byzantine Tone: Neg complex in structure.
Example: This is an
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME organization of Byzantine
complexity
BEGINNING
longer path, Circuitous means Mnemonic:
BURN/HOT roundabout ( kind, indirect or roundabout. circ(circle)tous(tour)
(effect)/(opp)COLD nature) If you're in a hurry to circle+tour=round about
DISPLAYING Form: adj get to the hospital path. which isn't straight
Circuitous Tone: Neg where your wife is Example: He took us on
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL having a baby, you want a Circuitous route to the
HAVING TWISTS AND to take the straightest, hotel.
TURNS fastest way, not a
circuitous one!
Twisted extremely If something is Mnemonic: Breaking
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE
difficult to follow convoluted, it's intricate into a VAULT is
INCLINATION (syn) and hard to understand. COMPLICATED
Form: adj You'll need to read over (Convoluted)
PREDICTION Convoluted Tone: Neg your brother's Example: She could not
SEPARATED / (opp) convoluted investment follow his Convoluted
CONNECTED scheme a few times discourse.
before deciding whether
SIGN (Warning) or not to go in on it.
TAKE APART connect and link Things that intertwine Mnemonic: Intertwine
(Syn) are twisted or mixed sounds like In-Turbine.
TALK FOOLISHLY
Form: v together. You have to So remember it as: In
TEACHER/GUIDE / X Tone: Neg intertwine yarn to make Turbine, turbine SPINs
STUDENT a scarf. while exerting pressure
of water flow or
UNEXPECTED CHANGES WIND,and converts
Intertwine
UNREAL mechanical energy into
electrical(electricity).
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Example: Their political
careers had become
closely Intertwined.
Root: the Prefix Inter
means -in between.
proceed aimlessly follow a winding course. Mnemonic: Pronounce it
(effect) like 'wander'; they are
Form: v synonymous.
Meander
Tone: Neg Example: The stream
Meanders slowly down to
the river.
having curves and Sinuous means winding Mnemonic:
turns (Syn) or curvy. If you get lost Sinuous...one who
Form: adj on a sinuous mountain commits sins is NOT
Tone: Neg path, you'll need a MORALLY HONEST but is
compass or a GPS to twisted by nature.
Sinuous figure out which Example: One gloriously
direction leads back to Sinuous run eight
camp. minutes from the interval
made three opponents
look as though they were
trying to tackle smoke.
twists and turns Tortuous means twisting Mnemonic: A tortoise
(Syn) or complicated. "James does not move in straight
Form: adj Bond drove his custom line. It keeps twisting
Tortuous Tone: Neg BMW 120 mph on the and turning making the
road that was tortuous path complicated.
in its twists and turns. Example: A Tortuous
road up the mountain
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ANGRY pleasing The adjective aesthetic Mnemonic: aes +

appearance, (also spelled esthetic) thetic opposite of
AVOID / DODGE artistic beauty comes in handy when "pathetic"..means
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED (opposite) subject is beauty or the beauty
Aesthetic Form: n,adj arts. A velvet painting of Example: The
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME Tone: pos dogs playing poker might beautiful sculpture
have minimal aesthetic was a mirror image of
BEGINNING
appeal. the carver's aethetic
BURN/HOT values.
(effect)/(opp)COLD shocked (syn) Something that is appalling Mnemonic: Appalling
DISPLAYING Form: adj is awful or horrible, causing is something that is
Tone: neg dismay or disgust. It's not at all Appealing.
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL Appalling
definitely not appealing. Example: The
HAVING TWISTS AND brutality of the crime
TURNS appalled the public.
attractive (opp) Comely means attractive or Mnemonic: Comely-
Form: adj appropriate. A comely girl is resembles homely,
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE
Tone: pos pretty. A comely hairstyle homely girls are
INCLINATION makes you seem prettier always liked by
maybe than you are. If your everyone,as they are
PREDICTION manners are comely, it attractive and also
SEPARATED / (opp) means you know the right have a pleasing
CONNECTED Comely way to act to put people at appearance.
their ease. Example: The
SIGN (Warning) General's lady is a
TAKE APART hearty, Comely,
discreet, affable
TALK FOOLISHLY woman, some few
years older than
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
himself
STUDENT
offensive (syn, Something that is egregious Mnemonic:
UNEXPECTED CHANGES manner) stands out, but not in a Egregious is similer
UNREAL Form: adj good way - it means to
Tone: neg "really bad or offensive," aggressive.Aggressive
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) like a tattoo on a man people are very bad
misspelling his girlfriend's in manner.
Egregious
name. Example: There are
several prime
ministers in the past
who have committed
far more Egregious
offenses.
causing horror( Something that's ghastly Mnemonic: Ghastly
syn) isn't just gross. It's sounds like Ghostly,
Form: adj shockingly, horrifyingly which is equally
Ghastly Tone: neg unpleasant - so gruesome horrifying.
and grisly that it makes Example: She woke
you want to puke. up in the middle of a
Ghastly nightmare.
horror (cause ans Grisly means disgusting and Mnemonic: because
syn) bloody, absolutely repulsive of too much of
Form: adj and horrible. Thereâ€™s a GREASE on the road
Tone: neg wonderfully creepy movie my car met with a
Grisly
about a man who suffers a hORRIFIC accident
grisly death at the hands of Example: The jurors
the grizzly bears he was saw Grisly photos of
studying. the crime scene.
vulgar, Get ready, because gross Mnemonic: If you're
unattractive has a few different talking about awful,
(nature) meanings. When something sickening, vile things
Form: adj is gross, it's disgusting. The such as dissecting an
Tone: neg noun, a gross, is the animal or filthy
Gross complete amount (before behavior, you're
expenses), and the verb "to looking at the
gross" is to bring in money. adjective Gross.
Example: â€œHe ate
it with mustard.â€ â
€œOh, Gross!â€
ugly or unusually Use grotesque to describe Mnemonic: When I
unattractive things that are very strange GROW TUSK: how do
(cause) and ugly in an unnatural i look:
Form: adj way. If something "grosses UGLY:abnormal....it is
Tone: Neg you out," you can safely only a fantasy
Grotesque
refer to it as grotesque. Example: It's
Grotesque to expect
a person of her
experience to work
for so little money.
extremely Gothic novels, horror Mnemonic:
unpleasant (cause) movies, and crime dramas Gruesome - Sounds
Form: adj don't shy away from like cruelsome, which
Tone: neg showing gruesome scenes is self-explainable
Gruesome
of death, pictures that Example: We spent
inspire fright and repulsion. a week in a
Gruesome apartment
in Miami.
wicked (nature of A heinous crime is very evil Mnemonic: Heinous
crime) or wicked. Of course, some sounds like hyena (a
Form: adj people only use the term as wild animal) these
Tone: neg an exaggeration, claiming animals are very
that their parents' cunning & wicked.
Heinous requirement that they write Example: There
thank you notes after their were Heinous
birthdays is a heinous form accusations made
of torture. against them for
involving in child
labour and assault.
ugly (cause) Hideous is a word that Mnemonic: write it
Form: adj means extremely ugly. like hide+ous.and ous
Anything or anybody that is sounds simillar to
painful - and a little scary â "us"...and when do
€” to look at is hideous. we hide ourselves?
Hideous Its when we see
something ugly and
unpleasant.
Example: Their new
color scheme is
Hideous!
terribly unpleasant Bad luck, an injury, a Mnemonic:
(syn) mistake, an unfortunate Horrendous sounds
Form: adj outfit, or a crime - anything like Horrible and
Tone: neg can be called horrendous if Horrifying.
Horrendous it causes such dread or fear Example: The police
that you can barely even officer said the attack
think about it. was the most
Horrendous he had
ever seen.
horrifying because The adjective macabre is Mnemonic: Macabre
involved with used to describe things that Sounds like
death (nature) involve the horror of death massacre..which
Form: adj or violence. If a story means "excessive
Tone: neg involves lots of blood and killing of many
Macabre gore, you can call it people"..and which
macabre. also represents death
Example: The scene
of crime was a
Macabre sight to
behold.
shocking (syn) Monstrous is an adjective Mnemonic:
Form: adj that describes something Something that is like
Tone: neg gross or shocking. It can a MONSTER (huge
refer to the size, shape, or and ugly) is
general look of something. Monstrous.
If your face or body is Example: He is
Monstrous monstrous, it's misshapen considering launching
and horrifying to look at. new courses in New
York and sees Latin
America as a
potentially â
€œMonstrousâ€
market.
interest in Morbid is a word used to Mnemonic: Morbid -
unpleasant and describe anyone who MORTAL (deadly) +
disturbing subjects spends too much time BITE (like of an
(death) (syn) thinking about death or insect) - a deadly bite
Form: adj disease. is unhealthy and
Tone: Neg disease related.
Morbid
Example: He had a
Morbid fascination
with blood.
Root: The root word
MOR/MORT refers to
DEATH
ugly (cause) Unsightly is a gentler way Mnemonic:
Form: adj of saying ugly. Often Concentrate on 'sight'
Tone: neg something that is described which means to see.
as unsightly sticks out like a Unsightly means
Unsightly sore thumb in an otherwise reluctance or denial
attractive environment. to see if it is ugly.
Example: The
accident site was
unslightly.
unpleasant (syn) Surely only an evil person Mnemonic:
and (nature) could be so vile as to have Rearrange Vile and
Form: adj made you so angry. Vile is you will get a
Vile Tone: neg something or someone so synonym for it: EVIL
morally wrong or offensive Example: The
as to be thoroughly weather was really
disgusting. Vile most of the time.
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ANGRY natural liking or If you get along with Mnemonic:

sympathy (syn) someone very well, Mathematicians have an
AVOID / DODGE Form: n you have an affinity Affinity for infinity.
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Tone: pos with them. Sometimes Example: Sam was
opposites attract, so born in the country and
Affinity
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME you might feel a had a deep Affinity with
strange affinity to nature.
BEGINNING
someone who is
BURN/HOT seemingly very
(effect)/(opp)COLD different from you.
DISPLAYING natural talent (syn) If you have a knack or Mnemonic: Bent-
Form: n aptitude for doing sounds like "bend it like
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL Tone: pos something, you can beckham" a movie
HAVING TWISTS AND say you have a bent where a girl is
TURNS for it. Perhaps you determined to prove her
Bent
have a bent for natural talent of football
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING woodworking, creating Example: Do this
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE fabulous desserts, or exercise with your knees
writing poetry, you are Bent
INCLINATION
good at it.
PREDICTION inclined and special naturally disposed Mnemonic: we always
SEPARATED / (opp) attitude (syn) toward have INCLINATION for
CONNECTED Form: adj having tea/coffee/juice
Disposed Tone: pos in DISPOSable glass
SIGN (Warning) when we are outside
TAKE APART Example: I'm not
Disposed to argue.
TALK FOOLISHLY
syn If you're inclined to do Mnemonic: In (into)
TEACHER/GUIDE / X Form: adj something, you want cline (cling) to a habit.
STUDENT Tone: pos to do it, you like doing Example: He did not
it, and you may even show the slightest
UNEXPECTED CHANGES have an inherent inclination to leave.
UNREAL Inclined talent for doing it. Root: the prefix IN
Alternatively, if the means into
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) sidewalk outside your
house is inclined, that
means it slopes
upward.
habituated liking A penchant is a strong Mnemonic:
(syn) preference or p+enchant- something
Form: n tendency. If you have that enchants you, you
Tone: pos a penchant for pizza, have a strong liking for
you either eat it daily, that.
Penchant
or wish you did. Example: He quit his
job as the CEO of a
leading company, to
satisfy his Penchant for
teaching.
a special liking A predilection is a Mnemonic:
(syn) preference for or bias pre(before)+dialect(local
Form: n toward something. If language); you generally
Tone: pos you have a become partial when
predilection for wool you are taking an
clothing, you should interview for a candidate
Predilection take up knitting. meet who speaks your
language/dialect.
Example: An artist with
a Predilection for bright
colors.
Root: the prefix PRE-
mens before
a favorable A predisposition is a Mnemonic: your
inclination towards tendency to do position (POSITION) is
someone (syn) something. If you more towards this (DIS)
Form: n know you have a Example: His health
Tone: pos predisposition toward graph indicates that
Predisposition
getting carsick, better many cancers may have
to plan ahead and a shared underlying
avoid eating before a genetic Predisposition
long drive. Things Root: same as above.
could get ugly.
to do something A proclivity is a natural Mnemonic:
regularly or liking tendency to like pro(forward) + clivity(
towards something something, such as think of cliff or high
(syn) your sister's proclivity slope, prone to slipping
Form: n for restaurants that towards it), so a strong
Proclivity
Tone: pos serve hot, spicy food. predispostion/inclination
towards something
Example: The
government's Proclivity
for spending money.
natural tendency A propensity is a Mnemonic: Now days
to behave in a natural tendency to people are inclined
particular way behave in a certain towards "CITY" that is
(syn) way. We all have why they are migrating
Form: n propensities - things from villages.
Propensity
Tone: pos we tend to do. Dogs Example: He showed a
have a propensity to Propensity for violence.
bark, and many people Root: the Prefix PRO-
have a propensity for means for or forward.
getting annoyed by it.
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ANGRY predicts a bad or To augur is to predict, Mnemonic: Augur--

good outcome but what's tricky about aug+ur -- AUGust
AVOID / DODGE (syn) the word is that it indicates(SIGN/WARNS)
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Form: v,n pertains to an object or approaching of winters
Tone: Neutral, an event. A black cat is Example: Conflicts
Augur
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME negative, positive an augur of bad luckâ€“â among the various
€“it brings bad luck. groups do not Augur well
BEGINNING
Seeing one doesn't augur for the future of the
BURN/HOT well for your future. peace talks.
(effect)/(opp)COLD Root: NA
DISPLAYING Predict an A forecast is a prediction Mnemonic: While often
occurrence, of what will happen. If the used in the context of
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL especially weather weather forecast calls for weather, Forecast can
HAVING TWISTS AND (syn) sunny skies, consider also be used for other
TURNS Form: v,n leaving your umbrella at types of predictions such
Tone: Neutral home. (But, since as those related to
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING forecasts arenâ€™t financial or political
Forecast
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE guaranteed to be right, outcomes.
donâ€™t blame us if you Example: The Forecast
INCLINATION
get rained on). said there would be
PREDICTION sunny intervals and
showers.
SEPARATED / (opp) Root: the prefix fore-
CONNECTED means before
SIGN (Warning) prediction (syn) Use the noun foresight Mnemonic: The word
TAKE APART Form: n to describe successful Foresight is made of two
Tone: neutral planning for the future, parts: fore, which means
TALK FOOLISHLY like on a cloudy morning "before," and sight, which
having the foresight to means "to perceive."
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
Foresight bring an umbrella in case Example: She had the
STUDENT
of rain showers later in Foresight to prepare
UNEXPECTED CHANGES the day. herself financially in case
of an accident.
UNREAL Root: Prefix Fore- means
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) before
predict (syn) to know or say what will Mnemonic: Fore means
Form: v happen in the future, before and telling about
Tone: neutral especially by using magic what happened before.
powers Example: The witch
Fortell
foretold that she would
marry a prince.
Root: the prefix fore-
means before
Omen, bad sign or A presage is a sign that Mnemonic: As a verb,
warning (effect) something bad is about to Presage means "making
Form: v,n happen, like when you get a prediction or giving a
Tone: that queasy feeling in warning of what's to
Neutral/negative your stomach because come," like a terrible
your mom found out you end-of-season football
skipped band practice to game's outcome game
Presage
go to the movies. that Presaged the
struggles the team faced
the next season.
Example: Nothing had
Presaged the dreadful
fate about to befall him.
Root: NA
having knowledge To be prescient is to Mnemonic: pre-
of events to take have foresight or scienceâ€”means
plc (syn) foreknowledge. We can prediction, knowledge of
Form: adj use this word to describe events forehand
Tone: neutral people themselves, or Example: She showed
Prescient
what they say or do at a great prescience in selling
given moment. her shares just before the
market crashed.
Root: the prefix pre-
means before
forecast the Prognosis concerns Mnemonic: Prognosis
outcome of some people who are so sick = pro+diagnosis, pro=
situation (syn) they might die. What is think forward, diagnosis
Form: n their prognosis? It is a = cause of disease, it
Tone: Negative word doctors use to talk means to predict the
about the path a disease features of a disease
Prognosis
will take with a person. before the disease itself.
Example: The
Prognosis is for more
people to work part-time
in the future.
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ANGRY lack of connection Disjointed isnâ€™t when you Mnemonic: DIS

(kind or nature) can bend your thumb all the (not) + JOINTED
AVOID / DODGE Form: adj way backwards - thatâ€™s (connected)...so
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Tone: neg double-jointed. Disjointed Disjointed is
means "unorganized" or disconnected or
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME "disconnected." scattered.
Disjointed Example: The novel
BEGINNING
suffers from a
BURN/HOT Disjointed plot and
(effect)/(opp)COLD pale, insignificant
characters.
DISPLAYING Root: The Prefix
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL DIS- refers to NOT
HAVING TWISTS AND connecting more If you happen to be at the Mnemonic: Google -
TURNS than one thing nexus of something, this - connected to
(opp) noun means that you are android.. So their
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING Nexus Form: n right in the middle. phone name Nexus
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE Tone: pos Example: The Nexus
between industry and
INCLINATION
political power
PREDICTION Divide (cause) To polarize is to divide. Mnemonic: Reminds
SEPARATED / (opp) Form: v Something that's been of the two poles "N-
CONNECTED Tone: neutral polarized has been split into Pole", "S-Pole" which
two sides that are so is nothing but division
SIGN (Warning) Polarize
different, it seems as though of two extreme poles.
TAKE APART they're from opposite ends of Example: Public
the earth - like the North Pole opinion has Polarized
TALK FOOLISHLY and the South Pole. on this issue.
TEACHER/GUIDE / X Divide (syn) To separate people by race Mnemonic:
STUDENT Form: v or religion is to segregate Aggregate is to
Tone: neutral them. In general, the word combine together,
UNEXPECTED CHANGES segregate means to separate Segregate is to
UNREAL one type of thing from seperate
Segregate
another. Example: Whites and
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) blacks were
Segregated into
different parts of
town.
separate the good To winnow is to blow Mnemonic: WIN
from bad (syn) something away until you are NOW (sounds like
Form: v left with what you want, like WINNER)will separate
Tone: pos grain from chaff. If you only you from looser
Winnow
want your favorite people at Example: She stood
the party, you will need to there Winnowing
winnow down the guest list chaff all day in the
from 300 to 30. field
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ANGRY Warning in make a prediction about; Mnemonic: fore =

advance (syn) tell in advance for the future; bode =
AVOID / DODGE Form: v brood on something
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Tone: neutral bad. (Not so good,
but what can we do)
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME Forebode Example: She had a
sense of foreboding
BEGINNING
that the news would
BURN/HOT be bad.
(effect)/(opp)COLD Root: The prefix -
fore means before
DISPLAYING
Warning (syn) To foreshadow is to Mnemonic: A
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL Form: v predict something or to 'shadow' of an
HAVING TWISTS AND Tone: neutral give a hint of what is to assasin alerts you
TURNS come. If you could take a 'before' his arrival.
stereo apart and put it Example: His sudden
Foreshadow
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING back together at age five, death had been
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE it can foreshadow a Foreshadowed by
successful career in earlier health scares.
INCLINATION
electronics. Root: prefix fore-
PREDICTION refers to before
SEPARATED / (opp) expressing threat minatory means Mnemonic:
CONNECTED (syn) threatening. When you MINEatory.....mines
Form: adj petition the school for are always
SIGN (Warning) Tone: negative higher academic threatening because
TAKE APART standardsâ€“-i.e. harder lot's of people can die
grading from teachersâ€“â because of
TALK FOOLISHLY €“you may receive some suffocation or
Minatory
minatory looks, or even poisonous gases
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
hate note, from the kids in present in mines....
STUDENT
your school. Example: There was
UNEXPECTED CHANGES a silence which, it
seemed to her, could
UNREAL be more Minatory
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) even than accusation.
threateningly If something looks or Mnemonic:
inauspicious (syn) sounds ominous, be "omen+ious",
Form: adj careful, a threat or an Remember the movie
Tone: negative unpleasant event is at "omen" the horror
Ominous hand. If you see an movie
ominous frown on your Example: There
boss's face, you're in were Ominous dark
trouble! clouds gathering
overhead.
Warning (syn) portend means to show a Mnemonic: When
Form: v sign that something we reached the port's
Tone: negative calamitous is about to end (sea port) we
happen. The tottering, pile saw some dead
of fine china piled up after bodies, which gave a
the dinner party portends sign that something
Portend an imminent crash of bad was going to
broken plates and dishes. happen.
Example: For there
are many kinds of
calms that do not
Portend coming
storms.
Warning (syn) While you might love Mnemonic: On
Form: n crows, your father will Camping if it pours
Tone: negative shudder when he sees on your tent it is a
them if he superstitiously omen trekking is
believes they're a portent going to be bad.
Portent
- a sign or warning - of Example: The event
death. proved to be a
Portent of the
disaster that was to
come.
a strong feelingâ Some people claim to have Mnemonic:
€¦that something premonitions, such as a pre(before hand) +
unpleasant might dream about a friend they monition (remember
happen haven't seen in years the adMONISH, which
Form: n night before the friend dies. means to warn)...so
Tone: negative A premonition is a warning which is
warning that comes in before hand is
Premonition advance. Premonition
Example: He had a
Premonition that he
would never see her
again.
Root: the suffix -tion
means state or
quality of being
suggesting harm People who are left-handed Mnemonic:
(syn) might feel unlucky having Sinistersounds like
Form: adj to use a desk designed for Monster - evil
Tone: negative right-handers, but there monster
Sinister
probably wasn't any Example: There was
sinister, or evil, intent something cold and
behind the design. Or was Sinisterabout him.
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ANGRY to take apart (syn) The verb disassemble Mnemonic: Dis

Form: v means to take something means NOT and
AVOID / DODGE Tone: neut apart. It's one thing to Assemble is to bring
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED disassemble a computer; things together. So
it's a whole other thing to Disassemble will be
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME Disassemble put it back together again. to set things apart.
Example: We had to
BEGINNING
completely
BURN/HOT Disassemble the
(effect)/(opp)COLD engine to find the
problem.
DISPLAYING
break things to To take something apart or Mnemonic: MANTLE
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL parts (syn) down is to dismantle it. If is a covering and
HAVING TWISTS AND Form: v you dismantle a computer Dismantle is to
TURNS Tone: neut to see what it looks like uncover or take
inside, you better know apart.
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING Dismantle how to put it back Example: I had to
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE together, or you might be Dismantle the engine
looking at the inside of in order to repair it.
INCLINATION
your room for awhile. Root: The prefix
PREDICTION DIS- means APART/
NOT
SEPARATED / (opp)
CONNECTED
SIGN (Warning)
TAKE APART
TALK FOOLISHLY
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
STUDENT
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ANGRY continuously Babble is to talk on and on Mnemonic: Babble -

speaking foolishly, without a particular goal, to bab - ble bla bla bla (
AVOID / DODGE that cannot be bubble at the mouth, but ble) which means to
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Babble understood (syn) not in a pretty way. chatter foolishly
Form: n Example: I can't
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME Tone: neg listen to his constant
Babble.
BEGINNING
lazy and slow a slow speech pattern with Mnemonic: Those
BURN/HOT speaker (leading to prolonged vowels who Drawl will crawl
(effect)/(opp)COLD boredome) and hence who crawl
DISPLAYING Form: n,v are kids only ,
Tone: neg therefore they shall
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL Drawl
use prolonged vowels
HAVING TWISTS AND to speak.
TURNS Example: He had a
smooth, Drawling
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING voice.
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE
senseless talk Drivel is useless, boring Mnemonic: Drivel
INCLINATION (syn) information. If you drivel, sounds like trivial... a
Form: n you talk stupidly or actually Drivel person always
PREDICTION Drivel Tone: neg drool. Your parent might says trivial stuff
SEPARATED / (opp) think the articles in your Example: How can
CONNECTED favorite fashion magazine you watch that Drivel
are drivel. on TV?
SIGN (Warning)
meaningless Gibberish is nonsense Mnemonic: Gibberish
TAKE APART speech or write up sounds or writing. A baby's sounds like
(syn) babble is often called rubbish.......hence
TALK FOOLISHLY
Form: n gibberish. When someone nonsense
TEACHER/GUIDE / X Gibberish Tone: neg is speaking a foreign Example: You were
STUDENT language you don't talking Gibberish in
understand, what they're your sleep.
UNEXPECTED CHANGES saying will sound to you
UNREAL like gibberish.
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) talk foolishly (syn) When someone starts to Mnemonic: Jabber
Form: v jabber, they start talking on sounds like blabber...
Tone: neg and on about this or that, Example: What is he
Jabber or that or this, in an Jabbering about now?
excited, sometimes
incoherent way. Jabber is a
close cousin to blabber.
senseless (syn) If something has no Mnemonic:
Form: adj intelligent meaning, you Nonsense talking is
Tone: neg can describe it as Nonsensical
nonsensical. When you're Example: If you ask
Nonsensical really angry, you might a Nonsensical
hear yourself sputtering question and you will
nonsensical sounds and get a Nonsensical
have to stop, take a answer
breath, and start again.
lengthy and foolish To prate means to talk on Mnemonic: talking
talk (syn) and on about something. like a parrot is to
Form: v,n While it may be interesting Prate.
Tone: neg to hear about other Example: Stop this
Prate
peopleâ€™s vacations, silly Prate
when they prate about immediately!
them until the wee hours,
it becomes intolerable.
continuously If your little sister won't Mnemonic: Prattle-
speaking foolishly stop talking about her think of cattle, they
(syn) latest crush and you don't walk around
Form: v,n want to hear it, you might aimlessly, with no
Prattle Tone: neg say, "Stop prattling on meaning. -meaning
about that loser!" To prattle less.
is go on and on about Example: She
something unimportant. Prattled on about her
vacation all evening.
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ANGRY an experienced A mentor is a person who Mnemonic: A

adviser (Teacher) trains and guides someone, Mentor Mends your
AVOID / DODGE Form: n like the second-grade ways by instructing or
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Tone: pos English teacher who saw the teaching you about
Mentor
spark of creativity in your various things.
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME writing and encouraged you Example: She was a
to become a professional friend and Mentor to
BEGINNING
author. many young actors.
BURN/HOT a strict teacher pedagogue is another Mnemonic: ped is
(effect)/(opp)COLD (syn) name for "teacher," but one normally used for a
DISPLAYING Form: n who is strict, stiff or old- child.. and -agogue
Tone: pos fashioned, as in a means a leader..
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL pedagogue who stands in hence pedegogue..
HAVING TWISTS AND the front of the room and Example: He was a
TURNS lectures for the entire class Pedagogue who
Pedagogue
period, boring the students really believed that
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING to tears. he could make a
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE difference in young
lives
INCLINATION
Root: the suffix
PREDICTION agouge or agog
means a leader
SEPARATED / (opp)
CONNECTED student. Guided by A protÃ©gÃ© is a person Mnemonic:
an older and who receives special prot(protection)+
SIGN (Warning) influential person protection and promotion ege(ageis means
TAKE APART Form: n from someone more sheild)....providing
Prote'ge' Tone: pos established in a field. If your sheild for protection
TALK FOOLISHLY boss introduces you as his Example: She is a
newest protÃ©gÃ©, you're protÃ©gÃ© of the
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
off to a good start in your great violinist Yehudi
STUDENT
career. Menuhin
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ANGRY changes in A vagary is an Mnemonic:

somebody/something unexpected and vagary..break it as
AVOID / DODGE that are difficult to unpredictable change, vage+ary ,the vage is
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED predict or control and the word is usually vague and ary=action
Form: noun used in the plural. You meaning something
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME Tone: neut/ neg might know from that is vague and not
experience that the predictable .
BEGINNING VAGARIES vagaries of winter Example: The
BURN/HOT weather make planning VAGARIES of the real
(effect)/(opp)COLD a vacation in February a estate market will
risky proposition. determine whether
DISPLAYING that swamp property
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL you just bought is a
gold mine or a
HAVING TWISTS AND disaster.
TURNS
one of the many When you talk of the Mnemonic: some
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING changes and vicissitudes of life, times to face
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE problems in a you're referring to the VICISSITUDES OF
situation or in your difficult times that we LIFE one should
INCLINATION
VICISSITUDE life, that you have to all go through: sickness, possess a
PREDICTION deal with job loss, and other WISE(good)ATTITUDE
Form: noun unwelcome episodes. Example: the
SEPARATED / (opp) Tone: neg No one can escape the VICISSITUDEs of
CONNECTED vicissitudes of life. family life
SIGN (Warning)
TAKE APART
TALK FOOLISHLY
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
STUDENT
UNEXPECTED CHANGES
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ANGRY ghostly (syn) If you see something Mnemonic: Apparition

Form: n you think might be a sounds like 'a partition'.
AVOID / DODGE Tone: neg ghost, you can call it When a soul 'parts' from a
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED an apparition to hedge body, you become a
your bets. Apparition "ghost"
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME Apparition doesn't commit you in Example: Apparitions of a
the same way the word woman in white robes
BEGINNING
ghost doesâ€”and have been reported.
BURN/HOT saying that you've
(effect)/(opp)COLD seen one won't cause
you to be committed.
DISPLAYING
a thing which you A chimera is something Mnemonic: Chimera
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL wish to hve but youâ€™ve imagined sounds like camera which
HAVING TWISTS AND cant (result) thatâ€™s bits and captures images.
TURNS Form: n pieces of others things Example: You do indeed
Chimera Tone: neg mashed together into a smile, Madam, at my being
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING new horrible fantasy, obliged seriously to
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE something impossible combat such Chimeras.
in real life that only
INCLINATION
exists in your mind.
PREDICTION a very disturbed Many things can cause Mnemonic: Delirium is
SEPARATED / (opp) mind caused delirium, including when your mind is not in a
CONNECTED because of illness, high stress, and state of equilibrium (a
intoxication etc your team winning the state of balance).
SIGN (Warning) (syn) World Series after 100 Example: He mumbled in
Delirium
TAKE APART Form: n years of trying. Delirium all night.
Tone: neg Experiencing delirium?
TALK FOOLISHLY Then you're out of your
mind and so excited
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
you're hallucinating.
STUDENT
a belief that A delusion is a belief Mnemonic: sounds like
UNEXPECTED CHANGES something is there that has no evidence in illusion which is nothing
UNREAL even if its not in fact - a complete but false belief
reality (syn) illusion. The cook at Example: Love can be
VERY TALENTED (CHILD) Delusion Form: n the hot dog stand who nothing but a Delusion.
Tone: neg thinks he is the best
chef in the world? That
opinion is definitely a
delusion.
imagining things A fantasy is something Mnemonic: Fantasy
which are you imagine, which sounds like FANCY both of
impossible (syn) might involve dragons, which is a residue of
Form: n unicorns, or an imagination.
Tone: neg imaginary best friend. Example: His childhood
Fantasy If you live in a fantasy fantasies about becoming
world, you're not a famous football player
worrying much about
reality - pleasant,
maybe, but not very
practical.
to visualise perceive what is not Mnemonic: split the word
something thatâ there; have illusions like
€™s not present hallu(holo)+cinate.consider
(syn) the first word hallu(sounds
Form: v like holo)..something which
Tone: neg is holo you can imagine to
Hallucinate fill that place...so
something not actually
present
Example: The objects of
dreamers and Hallucinated
persons are wholly without
general validity
a wrong belief An illusion is something Mnemonic: Sounds like Ill
(syn) that isn't real. It may + Vision. (Bad Vision)
Form: n look real, but it's Example: She's under the
Tone: neg actually fake - just a Illusion that she'll get the
crafty construction or job.
Illusion
fantasy. Like the old
rabbit-out-of-the-hat
trick practiced by
magicians around the
globe.
something that Next time youâ€™re Mnemonic: MIRA..mirror
seems real but is traveling in the desert, ,and when we see ouselves
not so (syn) make sure you carry in MIRROR we get to see
Form: n plenty of water. That our image in MIRROR
Mirage Tone: neg enticing pool of water ,which is nothing but
you see far away in the UNREAL REFLECTION.
distance may be a Example: His idea of love
mirage, or an optical was a Mirage.
illusion.
a ghost (syn) Look over there, across Mnemonic: Phantom is a
Form: n the room. Is that a ghost and all of us know
Tone: neg phantom, some weary that ghosts just exist in
soul come back from the imagination and not in
the dead to haunt you? real
Phantom Maybe itâ€™s a Example: Phantoms and
shadow, or maybe itâ chimeras inhabited her
€™s a ghost. Either brain.
way, turn on a light
and itâ€™ll disappear.
Hopefully.
ghostly (syn) A specter means a Example: Was he a
Form: n ghostly apparition, a spectre returning to haunt
Tone: neg ghost itself, or simply her?
an idea that people Root: The Prefix SPECT-
find frightening. You means to SEE
Specter can give yourself
nightmares if you listen
to too many stories
about ghostly specters
appearing in dark
windows.
ghostly image If you have a vision of Mnemonic: those who
(syn) your grandfather just have faith , dont believe in
Form: n before he passes away, Wraith
Tone: neg you have seen a wraith Example: The Wraith's
Wraith
or a ghostly image. stony eyes stared on, but
Wraith can also mean there was silence.
something thin, wispy,
or ghost-like.
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ANGRY child having The sixth grader who's Mnemonic: it can be
developed already asking questions pre+conscious(conscious).
AVOID / DODGE incilnation (syn) about organic i.e. thing or person
AWKWARD / UNSKILLED Form: adj chemistry? She is who/which is very
Tone: pos precocious - meaning conscious in advance.
BE SLOW / WASTE TIME Precocious they're way beyond their Example: From an early
years in skill or age, she displayed a
BEGINNING
knowledge. Precocious talent for
BURN/HOT music.
(effect)/(opp)COLD Root: The Prefix PRE-
refers to BEFORE.
DISPLAYING
child with A prodigy is someone Mnemonic: Person with
FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL exceptional who is so naturally exceptional talents is
HAVING TWISTS AND qualities (syn) talented at something proud ji(Prodigy)
TURNS Form: n that they become a Example: She is a chess
Tone: pos master of that particular Prodigy
HORRIFYING / SHOCKING skill as a childâ€“-you
Prodigy
/ (opp) ATTRACTIVE can be a musical prodigy
or a math
INCLINATION
prodigy.Mozart was one,
PREDICTION writing symphonies and
playing for kings when
SEPARATED / (opp) he was only five yea
CONNECTED
SIGN (Warning)
TAKE APART
TALK FOOLISHLY
TEACHER/GUIDE / X
STUDENT
UNEXPECTED CHANGES
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BELONGING TO SAME belonging to the When two things live or Mnemonic: sounds
AGE/ERA same age and happen during the same similar to co-evolve
date(syn) period of time, they are meaning EVOLVED OR
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Form: adj coeval. If you annotate BORN AT THE SAME
WILL Coeval Tone: neut an old poem, the TIME
BRING BACK annotations and the Example: The
text of the poem are industry is Coeval with
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL not coeval. the construction of the
first railways.
COMPLAIN (low degree)
Something that Things that are Mnemonic: 'con'
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS occurs in the contemporary are either means with or
STRONG present. happening at the same together and
DANGER Form: adj time or happening now. temporary' is
Tone: neut Contemporary art is something which exists
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) recent art. only in the present and
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH may not be there in
Contemporary
future. So
HATE Contemporary is 'with
or belonging to the
MOCK / DISRESPECT
present'
OLD FASHIONED Example: We have no
Contemporary account
PRAISE of the battle
REBELLIOUS / having the same Use the word Mnemonic: co+
UNCONVENTIONAL space, time and coterminous to describe term+ inous. Term
REDUCE meaning like that things that are equal in usually means time
of other scope. If an earthquake period or "meaning".
TIME RELATED Form: adj in Australia was Coterm - inous is
Tone: neut coterminous with the something having
TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE
earthquake in China, same term( meaning
DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER
that means it caused or time or extent )
TROUBLED Coterminous the same amount of Example: He seems
destruction. to regard the interests
WARNING / SCOLDING of the state as
Coterminous with the
interests of the party
in government.
Root: Co means
together, or at the
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BELONGING TO SAME wishing bad or evil Malevolence is a nasty, Mnemonic:

AGE/ERA for others(syn) wicked, evil quality. When Malevolence (Mal is
Form: adj you're full of malevolence, bad) is opposite of
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Tone: neg you wish harm on others. BENEVOLENCE (Ben
WILL means good)which
Malevolence means kind and
BRING BACK
charitable.
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL Example: His dark
malevolent eyes.
Root: The prefix Mal
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS means Bad
STRONG A desire to harm Malice is the intention to Mnemonic: mal+iceâ
DANGER others (syn) cause harm. If someone €”sounds like
Form: noun feels malice toward you, MALpractICE
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) Tone: neg look out! They've got bad Example: the ghosts
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH Malice intentions. are described as if
they bear actual
HATE Malice towards
humans.
MOCK / DISRESPECT
Root: same as above
OLD FASHIONED bitter and long The word rancor is best Mnemonic: Rancor :
PRAISE lasting anger (syn) when you're not just RANKER! Most of the
Form: noun talking about anger, you're students always hate
REBELLIOUS / Tone: neg talking about deep, twisted the top RANKER of
UNCONVENTIONAL bitter type of anger in your the class, as they
REDUCE heart. The open rancor in always defeat them in
Rancor
political discussion the exams!
TIME RELATED prevents cooperation Example: In the end,
between political parties. the debate created a
degree of Rancor
among the committee
TROUBLED members.
WARNING / SCOLDING Having a bad, evil Vicious is an adjective that Mnemonic: In hindi
or immoral nature means intentionally vish means
(kind of) harmful or nasty. If you poison,here Vicious
Form: adj spread vicious rumors means evil
Vicious Tone: neg about a person, you're Example: She has a
telling people things that Vicious temper.
will hurt her feelings or
ruin her reputation. Cut it
out!
Extremely harsh A virulent disease is one Mnemonic: It is a
and infectious( that's infectious, spreading virus, which causes
nature) and making lots of people disease and harm.
Form: adj sick, while a virulent rant is So, something
Tone: neg just a verbal attack, Virulent is viral and
Virulent
causing sickness of the poisonous.
emotional kind. Example: the
newspaper carried
out a Virulent attack
on the politician
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BELONGING TO SAME capable of being capable of being Mnemonic: RE means to

AGE/ERA brought back. (syn) regained especially Repeat.
Retrievable Form: verb with effort. Example: The dog
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Tone: neut retrieved the ball from
WILL the water.
BRING BACK something that can be capable of being Mnemonic: Salvageable
rescued, especially in saved from ruin - SAVEABLE
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL
Salvageable parts (syn) Example: This is an
COMPLAIN (low degree) Form: noun exhibition of the salvage
Tone: neut from the wreck
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS
STRONG
DANGER
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY)
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH
HATE
MOCK / DISRESPECT
OLD FASHIONED
PRAISE
REBELLIOUS /
UNCONVENTIONAL
REDUCE
TIME RELATED
TROUBLED
WARNING / SCOLDING
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BELONGING TO SAME very careful about Being chary (pronounced Mnemonic: Chary
AGE/ERA doing or saying CHAIR-ee) is being wary or sounds similar to
anything (syn) cautious. Chary is the word WARY, meaning
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Form: adj "char" with an added "y" CAUTIOUS.
WILL Chary Tone: pos and to char is to burn, so Example: The
BRING BACK if you're careful and donâ advices that the
€™t want to get burned by Chary minister gave
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL a person or situation, the king, helped him
you're chary. win over the enemies.
careful and doesnâ If you are circumspect, you Mnemonic: Circum
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS €™t want to take think carefully before doing means around and
STRONG risk or saying anything. A good Spect means to SEE.
DANGER Form: adj quality in someone Circumspect will be to
Tone: Neutral entrusted with look around, before
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) responsibility, though arriving at a decision
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH sometimes boring in a or being careful.
Circumspect
friend. Example: He was
HATE very Circumspect in
his financial affairs.
MOCK / DISRESPECT
Root: The refix
OLD FASHIONED CIRCUM means
AROUND and SPECT
PRAISE is to see.
REBELLIOUS / a person who a reckless impetuous Mnemonic: delhi
UNCONVENTIONAL enjoys doing irresponsible person daredevils... think
REDUCE dangerous things, how they appear to
in a way that other bat.. RECKLESS
Daredevil X
TIME RELATED people may think is Example: Don't try
stupid any daredevil stunts.
Form: noun
Tone: Neutral
TROUBLED a lack of good Folly is a noun that means Mnemonic: Fools
WARNING / SCOLDING judgement; the "foolish or crazy behavior," commit folly or
fact of doing like the folly of an mistakes.
something stupid unprepared student, Example: Giving up
FollyX
Form: noun showing up to take the a secure job seems to
Tone: neg final exam without a be the height of folly.
pencil, paper or
eyeglasses.
taking unnecessary If you decide you are going Mnemonic: A fool
risks to scale Mt. Everest next and hardy sailor
Form: adj weekend without any would take the risk of
Tone: neg training or experience, that sailing in a bad
FoolhardyX
would be a foolhardy weather.
decision. Example: It would
be foolhardy to sail in
weather like this.
showing great care If something needs to be Mnemonic: be VERY
or carefulness done with great care and CAREFUL while
(syn) caution, you should do it cutting GINGER(LY),
Form: adverb gingerly. Like gingerly since they are small
Gingerly
Tone: Neutral holding a newborn baby or and hard.
gingerly creeping down the Example: He opened
creaky stairs when you're the box Gingerly and
trying to sneak out. looked inside.
aware of and taking heed; giving close Example: Heedful of
attentive to others. and thoughtful attention snakes, we watched
(syn) out footing while
Heedful
Form: adj walking through the
Tone: Neutral tall grass to the
lake's edge.
careful and You can use the adjective Mnemonic: Leery-
suspicious because leery to describe someone compare with jerry.
of real life who's suspicious of a Tom is always
experience (syn) person or situation. After cautious and
Form: adj his brother came out with suspicious that jerry
Leery
Tone: Neutral bald spots and uneven is around
patches of buzz-cut hair, Example: The
he was leery of having the government is Leery
same barber get near his of changing the
own head. current law.
acting with care Describe an action as Mnemonic: we all
keeping in mind prudent if it is the wise know ICICI Prudential
the future (syn) thing to do under the insurance.. so we can
Form: adj existing circumstances. If think of thoughtful
Tone: Neutral you're getting in trouble, it decision taken, by
Prudent is probably prudent to having a insurance
keep your mouth closed policy
and just listen. Example: It might be
more Prudent to get
a second opinion
before going ahead.
a lot of something; A rash is something that Mnemonic: Rash,
a series of spreads like wild fire - a think about the
unpleasant things series of unfortunate computer game road
that happen over a events. It can also rash- where a series
short period of describe an impulsive, wild of unpleasant and
time decision. unexpected things
RashX
Form: adj happens in the road.
Tone: neg Example: Rising
prices are the result
of the recent rash of
strikes in the steel
industry.
showing a lack of If you are reckless, you Mnemonic: Restless,
care about danger don't think or care about careless and heedless
and the possible the consequences of your people take
Reckless X results of your words or actions, like a RECKLESS decision.
actions reckless driver who speeds Example: He showed
Form: adj while texting, knitting and a reckless disregard
Tone: neg eating a sandwich. for his own safety.
feeling cautious Describe yourself as wary Mnemonic: Wary
about a possible if you don't quite trust and worry sound the
problem or danger someone or something and same... you become
(syn) want to proceed with Wary (cautious) if
Form: adj caution. Be wary of risky you have too many
Wary
Tone: pos things like wild mushrooms worries in life.
and Internet deals! Example: The police
will need to keep a
Wary eye on this area
of the town
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BELONGING TO SAME someone who If someone tends to be Mnemonic: simiar

AGE/ERA always finds faults hypercritical and find fault to
related to petty or with everything, you can CAUTIOUS...cautious
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- small matters (syn) describe that person as people FIND FAULTS
WILL Captious Form: adj captious. Try not to be in things
BRING BACK Tone: neg described as a captious Example: Her
person yourself, however. No mother was very
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL one likes a carping Captious, and the
individual! babies fell off.
complain and find Carping is petty and Mnemonic:
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS fault continually unjustified criticism that just Car+p(ark)+ing;
STRONG specially about wonâ€™t stop. People who Many people find
DANGER small matters (syn) find fault with you at every faults in your car-
Form: noun turn, who appreciate nothing parking style and
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) Carping
Tone: neg and complain, complain, complain.
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH complain, are carping. Example: Critics
Enough already! from both sides are
HATE already Carping about
this
MOCK / DISRESPECT
Grumbling and A grouse is a small game Mnemonic: Spouses
OLD FASHIONED complaining on bird. But the verb to grouse Grouse a lot ....
PRAISE small issues (syn) is different. It means to gripe complain a lot
Grouse Form: noun about how unhappy you are. Example: She's been
REBELLIOUS / Tone: neg It's not recommended for grousing to her boss
UNCONVENTIONAL most people, because about the working
REDUCE grousing is unattractive. conditions.
unreasonable and Querulous means â€œhaving Mnemonic: One who
TIME RELATED
unnecessary a tendency to complainâ€ or, keeps questioning
TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE complaining. more directly put, â (querying)
DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER (nature) €œwhiny.â€ Sure, no one everything.
Querulous Form: adj can be happy all the time, Example: He
TROUBLED Tone: neg but thatâ€™s no excuse for complained in a
WARNING / SCOLDING being querulous. Querulous voice
about having been
woken up.
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BELONGING TO SAME make a violent To assail is to attack or Mnemonic: Assail

AGE/ERA attack on someone assault - with throwing sounds like a sale; a
(syn) stars, fists, words or, less customer argued with
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Form: verb tangibly but just as sales person of the
WILL Assail Tone: neg violently, with troubles or store using force and
BRING BACK doubts. bad words.
Example: He was
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL Assailed with fierce
blows to the head.
dismiss someone To belittle means to put Mnemonic: be+little -
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS or something as down, or to make another be little in value,
STRONG unimportant (syn) person feel as though they depreciate -In recent
DANGER Form: verb aren't important. Saying days the value of
Tone: neg mean things about another dollar has depreciated
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) Belittle
person literally makes a lot.
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH them feel "little." Example: She felt her
husband constantly
HATE Belittled her
achievements.
MOCK / DISRESPECT
strongly scold or A strong verb for harshly Mnemonic: be+rate
OLD FASHIONED criticize (syn) cutting someone down - he was RATEd BElow
PRAISE Form: verb with words is berate. "He expectations and
Tone: neg didn't just correct the hence forth scolded.
REBELLIOUS / Berate cashier who gave him the Example: She
UNCONVENTIONAL wrong change, he started Berated herself for
REDUCE to berate her, calling her being a bad mother.
names in front of the
TIME RELATED whole store."
TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE reprimand Use castigate when you Mnemonic: Castigate
DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER someone severly mean reprimand but in an sounds like
Form: verb especially harsh way. If cast+i+hate - if you
TROUBLED Tone: neg you take a mean teacher's hate caste, you
Castigate
WARNING / SCOLDING books, even accidently, criticize it..
you might worry that she's Example: He
going to castigate you as Castigated himself for
soon as she finds out. being so stupid.
Publicly talk badly When you dye your hair Mnemonic: deep +
about someone. pink and orange, your cry... focus on the
(syn) mother decries your act as CRY PART ...a girl
Form: verb a horror and bursts into CRYING to express
Decry Tone: neg tears. She criticizes your her disapproval of
choice of colors, stating getting married now.
that pink and purple would Example: Violence on
have looked better. TV is generally decried
as harmful to children
to accuse, publicly To denounce is to tattle, Mnemonic: Denounce
disapprove of rat out, or speak out - Similar to announce.
someone or against something. When Announce is for all
something you stand on your desk kind of information
Form: verb and tell the class that your but Denounce is to
Denounce
Tone: neg partner is cheating, you criticize
denounce him or her. Example: She
publicly Denounced
the government's
handling of the crisis.
a bitter and harsh It's totally overwhelming Mnemonic:
argument when you ask someone a dia+tribe:the lower
Form: noun seemingly harmful ranked tribe(in caste
Tone: neg question, like "Do you like division) always face
hot dogs?" and they thunderous verbal
Diatribe unleash a diatribe about attack from upper
the evils of eating meat. A caste people.
diatribe is an angry speech Example: He
that strongly criticizes a launched a bitter
person or thing. Diatribe against the
younger generation.
a descriptive The noun epithet is a Mnemonic:
phrase expressing descriptive nickname, such Concentrate on the
a quality or as "Richard the latter part of the
attribute regarded Lionhearted," or "Tommy word, Epithet
as characterestics the Terrible." When it (Threat): If someone
of a person takes a turn for the worse, threatens you, he's
Epithet Form: noun it can also be a word or going to use abusive
Tone: neg phrase that offends. words.
Example: The movie
is long and dramatic
but does not quite
earn the Epithet â
€œepic.â€
criticize severely When it comes to â Mnemonic:
(syn) €œtelling someone off,â€ Excoriate(sounds like
Form: verb excoriate is reserved for ex-koriate) koreans
Tone: neg the most severe cases. So, are chinese and they
before you excoriate your are good in fighting
little sister for borrowing and tend to rip the
your favorite jacket skin off ( a korean ate
Excoriate
without permission, you !)so being very
consider whether she truly severe!
deserves such harsh Example: The
treatment. candidates have
publicly Excoriated
each other throughout
the campaign.
criticize severely or Nasty word, flay. It means Mnemonic: Flay
brutally (syn) to peel or beat the skin of sounds very similar to
(degree) a person or animal, and play. His skin Flayed
Form: verb not necessarily a dead when he fell down
Tone: neg one, either. Nowadays it while playing cricket.
Flay
more commonly means to Example: He Flayed
criticize harshly someone himself for his lack of
or something, usually in tact.
public, leaving them raw
and wounded.
express severe Watch a bomb fulminate Mnemonic: I'm FULL
protest. or explode and hope I just ATE and any
Form: verb you're under safe cover. more food goes in I
Tone: neg Have your parents will explode!
Fulminate
fulminate or blow up at Example: He was
you for coming home after always fulminating
10 pm. against interference
from the government.
insulting with Invective is harsh, abusive Mnemonic: ENVY +
critical language language, like, "you dirty ACTIVE or Active
(syn) rotten scoundrel." I'm sure jealousy can cause
Form: noun you can think of harsher you to ABUSE the
Invective Tone: neg and more obscene other person.
examples, but we won't Example: The
get into them here. gesture infuriated him
and he let out a
stream of Invective.
criticize harshly To lambaste is to Mnemonic: Lambaste
(syn) reprimand or berate sounds like
Form: verb someone severely. People namaste(in hindi),
Tone: neg lambaste those who have which is a respectful
angered or disappointed greeting. Lambaste is
Lambaste
them. precisely opposite of
that..to CRITICIZE
Example: The coach
Lambasted the team
for its poor play.
complain or protest The verb rail means to Mnemonic: Rail
strongly (syn) criticize severely. When sounds like Rail or
Form: verb you rail against increased train so when you
Tone: neg taxes at a town meeting, missed your Rail, your
Rail you speak openly and father scolded you for
loudly about how wrong not reaching on time
the increase is and point Example: Neitzsche
out the problems it will Railed against the ill
cause. effects of Christianity.
to shout or speak A rant is an argument that Mnemonic: r-"Ant".
loudly (syn) is fueled by passion, not When an ant bites,
Form: verb shaped by facts. When the you Rant.
Tone: neg shouting starts on talk Example: Parents
Rant radio, or when a blog should not rate their
commenter resorts to ALL child when it failed an
CAPS - you're almost exam
certainly encountering an
instance of ranting.
scold angrily (syn) to rebuke angrily or Example: I was
Form: verb violently subjected to severe
Rate Tone: neg rating for having
misbehaved in the
class.
criticize angrily and If something is reviled, Mnemonic: For
in an insulting you alone donâ€™t dislike Revile, concentrate on
manner (syn) it; a whole community of evil- doing evil like
Form: verb like-minded souls has to slandering
Revile
Tone: neg hate its guts. For instance, Example: He was
spam is widely reviled. Reviled in the press
for his angry
outbursts.
to irritate someone To rile is to stir up, like Mnemonic:
water that becomes Rile(rail)...when we
Form: verb muddy when you rile, or travel by railways
Tone: neg to bother or disturb, imagine you are on a
especially with little trip to kodaikanal in a
annoyances. For example, train and you find
Rile
if you bring up an your co passenger
unpleasant subject, this who is all the time
might rile your friend's ANNOYING you
mood, or a noisy neighbor Example: Nothing
might rile your ner ever seemed to Rile
him.
a long angry A tirade is a speech, Mnemonic: sounds
speech of criticism usually consisting of a like tired.. your mom
(syn) long string of violent, gets tired after a
Form: noun emotionally charged Tirade..i.e. LONG
Tone: neg words. Borrow and lose ANGRY
Tirade your roommateâ€™s DENUNCIATORY
clothes one too many SPEECH..
times, and you can bet Example: She
youâ€™ll be treated to a launched into a Tirade
heated tirade. of abuse against
politicians.
find fault in No, upbraid isnâ€™t what Mnemonic: It has the
someone and girls get done at a salon word raid in it , it
scold. before prom. When you implies when someone
Form: verb upbraid people, you scold raids your house and
Tone: neg them, tell them off and finds black money ,
Upbraid criticize them. (You could, you will be scolded
however, upbraid your very badly
stylist after a bad haircut.) Example: His wife
Upbraided him for his
irresponsible handling
of the family finances
Bitter and abusive Use the adjective Mnemonic: In older
(syn) vituperative to describe days H2SO4 was
Form: noun criticism that's so sharp it called oil of vitriol that
Tone: neg hurts. A vituperative is severly bitter and
review of a movie would caustic.Vituperative
make the director bitter appears as 'operating'
for months. vitriol on
someone.Note that
Vituperative vtriolic and
Vituperative have
almost similar
meaning.
Example: She was
unprepared for the
flood of vituperation
which descended on
her from her critics.
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BELONGING TO SAME danger of loss, To be in jeopardy is to be in Mnemonic:

AGE/ERA harm and faliure danger. Eating three plates Jeopardy sound like
(syn) of nachos a day may leopard. leopard is
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Form: noun improve your chances of really a danger for
WILL Jeopardy
Tone: neg winning your office's nacho- human.
BRING BACK eating contest; Example: The future
unfortunately, it could also of the school and 50
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL put your health in jeopardy. jobs are in Jeopardy.
COMPLAIN (low degree) a hidden source of A pitfall is a trap or difficulty Mnemonic: THERE s
trouble or danger you didn't see. A possible a pit to make you
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS (syn) pitfall for high school seniors fall...trap
STRONG Form: noun is not working hard after Example: Getting
Pitfall
DANGER Tone: neg they know they've already professional advice
been accepted into college. will help you avoid
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) the most obvious
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH Pitfalls.
Something that is Grab for the adjective Mnemonic:
HATE
dangerously likely precarious when something PRE+CARE+IOUS -
MOCK / DISRESPECT to fall or collapse is unstable, dangerous or We have to take
(syn) difficult and likely to get CARE while doing
OLD FASHIONED Form: adj worse. Are you totally broke something risky so
PRAISE Precarious Tone: neg and the people you owe that it does not go
money to keep calling? wrong.
REBELLIOUS / You're in a precarious Example: The
UNCONVENTIONAL financial situation! museum is in a
REDUCE financially Precarious
position.
TIME RELATED
TROUBLED
WARNING / SCOLDING
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BELONGING TO SAME leave quickly and Abscond is to escape into Mnemonic: abs + cond
AGE/ERA secretly to avoid a hiding, often taking (condition) : I should
situation (nature something along. As a have six pack abs is an
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- of) kid, you may have important condition
WILL Form: verb absconded from your before she can abscond
Abscond
BRING BACK Tone: neg lemonade stand - with with me.
(criminal)
the coffee can of cash in Example: Several
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL hand, and your prisoners absconded from
bewildered sister still the jail.
filling cups for your
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS customers.
STRONG conscious Is your team so bad you Mnemonic: de +
DANGER abandonment of have begun supporting a affection - no affection; if
allegiance or duty rival team? Then you're you have no affection
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) Defection
Form: noun guilty of defection - the then you will leave it
(Political)
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH Tone: neg act of shifting your Example: Defection of
support to a new cause. both security forces and
HATE members of the media
MOCK / DISRESPECT the abandonment the act of giving Mnemonic: You DESERT
without consent or something up (leave) A deasert TO GET
OLD FASHIONED legal justification of RID OF THE EXTREMELY
PRAISE a person, post, or HOT CLIMATE THERE.
Desertion relationship and Example: The soldiers
REBELLIOUS / (Military) the associated were imprisoned for
UNCONVENTIONAL duties and desertion of their posts
REDUCE obligations
Form: noun
TIME RELATED Tone: neg
TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE Run away secretly When you elope, you run Mnemonic: the word
DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER in order to get away with the person you 'lope' resembles 'rope'
married (nature ) love. Usually, you elope ..in films we see the hero
TROUBLED Form: verb to get married without tries to make the heroine
WARNING / SCOLDING Tone: neg anyone knowing in escape from the house
Elope advance. with the help of a rope
(for attached to the window
Marriage) of her bedroom and then
he takes away and
marries her
Example: The couple
eloped in the middle of
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BELONGING TO SAME To discuss the Belabor means to go at Mnemonic: In spite

AGE/ERA same thing something with of your good
repeatedly (syn) everything you've got. involvement in a
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Form: verb When you say, "Don't project, if the boss
WILL Tone: neg belabor or agonize over keeps saying be-
BRING BACK the decision," it means, laborious, he is be
Belabor
"Move on." laboring.
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL Example: I don't
want to belabour the
point, but it's vital
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS you understand how
STRONG important this is.
DANGER an act of You make an Mnemonic:
explaining understatement when Understate is to
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) something less you say a lot less than Underestimate
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH Understatement than it should be. you could, "We didn't (rhymes and means
(oppo) (opposite) do so well," when your similar)
HATE Form: noun team loses 56 to 0. Example: To say we
Tone: neg That's quite an were pleased is an
MOCK / DISRESPECT
understatement. understatement
OLD FASHIONED
PRAISE
REBELLIOUS /
UNCONVENTIONAL
REDUCE
TIME RELATED
TROUBLED
WARNING / SCOLDING
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BELONGING TO SAME show hatred and If you abhor something, it Mnemonic: Abhor -
AGE/ERA disgust (action) gives you a feeling of The last part sounds
Form: verb complete hatred. Chances like HORror people hate
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Abhor Tone: neg are you abhor that kid who horror films, they
WILL used to torture the frogs detest them.
BRING BACK in biology class. Example: She Abhors
cats.
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL
strong hate (syn) Animosity is hatred. If Mnemonic: pronounce
COMPLAIN (low degree) Form: noun your (supposed) best Animosity like
Tone: neg buddy embarrasses you in 'Enemy'sity. so if
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS front of a big crowd, your someone is having
STRONG Animosity friendship could turn into enemysity he will have
DANGER animosity. ill will intentions.
Example: He felt no
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) Animosity towards his
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH critics.
a deep feelig of An antipathy is a deep- Mnemonic: consider
HATE
dislike(syn) seated dislike of pathy-sympathy, there
MOCK / DISRESPECT Form: Noun something or someone. are two words. 1.
Tone: neg Usually it's a condition Antipathy = dislike 2.
OLD FASHIONED that is long-term, innate, apathy = disinterested
PRAISE and pretty unlikely to Since "anti" is stronger
change - like your than "a".. disliking is 1
REBELLIOUS / Antipathy antipathy for the Red Sox. step above
UNCONVENTIONAL disinterested..
REDUCE Example: His
professional judgement
TIME RELATED was coloured by his
personal antipathies.
Root: The refix anti
means against.
TROUBLED strong dislike (syn) If you have an aversion to Mnemonic: You hate
WARNING / SCOLDING Form: noun something, you have an a+version of vista..firm
Tone: neg intense dislike for it. dislike
Commonly its food, but Example: He has a
you could have an strong Aversion for liars
Aversion
aversion to black and and cheaters.
white movies, driving with
the windows open, taking
calls from salespeople or
being barefoot outdoors.
one who deserves Stealing the last piece of Mnemonic:
to be hated, food from a starving child DE(not)+SPEAKable....a
hateful (nature) goes way beyond mean. person about whom we
Form: adj It's despicable - a vile even don't talk is too
Despicable Tone: neg and harmful act. MEAN, WORTHLESS.
Example: I hate you!
You're Despicable.
Root: The prefix DE
means NOT.
intense hate for If you detest something, Mnemonic: Detest-
something (action) you dislike it intensely. de(dubara)+ test-i hate
Form: verb The word can apply to doing this
Tone: neg things and also to people. Example: They
Detest
You might detest your ex- Detested each other on
boyfriend and you might sight.
also detest rainy Mondays
and broccoli.
extreme hate (syn, If you loathe someone or Mnemonic: Loathe can
action) something, you hate them be related as Low
Form: adj very much. You might not thought...So having a
Tone: neg choose to eat raw carrots low thought of someone
Loath if you dislike them, but if else implies hate or
you loathe them, you detest
might have a hard time Example: He was
even having them on your Loath to admit his
plate. mistake.
unpleasant and If something is odious it's Mnemonic: hate
hateful (nature, hateful. If you become a people with bad
syn) historian of slavery, you'll odour(Odious) and high
Form: adj learn all the details of that audio(Odious)
Odious
Tone: neg odious trade. Example: It was one
of the most Odious
crimes of recent
history.
keeping away from Use the verb repel when Mnemonic: Rip the
an unpleasant you want to turn enemy to Repel.
situation or person something away, like Example: Troops
(action) drenched yourself in bug Repelled an attempt to
Repel
Form: verb spray in an attempt to infiltrate the south of
Tone: neg repel the mosquitoes that the island.
plague you when you go
camping.
very hateful, cant Repugnant refers to Mnemonic: re-pug-
be accepted something you detest so nant -pug which
(syn,nature) thoroughly it threatens to belongs to dog family
Form: adj make you physically sick, and you think that you
Tone: neg like the idea of marrying hate dogs
Repugnant
your sister. Or wearing Example: We found
last year's jeans. his suggestion
absolutely Repugnant.
Root: The root PUGNA
is FIGHT.
a disgusting feeling Repulsion is getting Mnemonic: one North
(syn) grossed out. If the thought pole has strong hatred
Form: Noun of great green globs of (distaste) towards other
Tone: neg greasy grimy gopher guts N-pole therefore they
Repulsion makes you recoil in horror, repel each other
then you've experienced Example: We are all
repulsion, or an intense aware of the forces of
aversion to something. attraction and
Repulsion.
of the most contemptible Mnemonic: Scurvy is a
contemptible kind. deadly disease. So
Form: noun people suffering from
Tone: neg this vitamin c deficiency
Scurvy are low in health.
Example: That was a
Scurvy trick you played
on me, you dastardly
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BELONGING TO SAME to lower in rank To abase something Mnemonic: Abase = a +

AGE/ERA and prestige (syn) or someone is to base; without a base;
Form: verb humiliate them - no, Imagine you shifted to a
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Tone: neg more than just new house whose base is
WILL humiliate them. If not very strong (without
BRING BACK you abase another base) and hence it may fall
Abase
person you are down anytime and can
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL bringing them low, Abase you in front of your
humbling them in a neighbours.
mean, base manner. Example: I certainly don't
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS Not nice at all. Abase myself when I do
STRONG good, honest manual labor.
DANGER a comical an artistic Mnemonic: if you want to
imitation, composition, ridicule Barclays premier
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) exaggeration or especially literary or league than you can write
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH Burlesque absurdity. (syn) dramatic that treats Burlesque premier league.
Form: noun ordinary material Example: a writer whose
HATE Tone: neg with mockery Burlesque often bordered
on cruelty
MOCK / DISRESPECT
to behave toward A snooty waiter Mnemonic: It has the
OLD FASHIONED someone as might condescend to word descend in it ,it
PRAISE though you are serve you dinner at a implies descending to a
more important fancy restaurant, lower position
REBELLIOUS / and more meaning that he'd Example: While giving a
UNCONVENTIONAL Condescend intelligent than consider himself far talk, be careful not to
REDUCE they are. So too important to Condescend to your
disrespecting carry out the audience.
TIME RELATED Form: verb mundane task of
Tone: neg delivering your
hamburger and fries.
the feeling that a Reserve the noun Mnemonic: Contempt -con
TROUBLED person is worthless contempt for an (with) + TEMPER
WARNING / SCOLDING and disregard extreme lack of Example: He feels that
them.(syn) respect: a food snob wealthy people view him
Contempt Form: verb has nothing but with Contempt because he
Tone: neg contempt for mass- is poor.
produced burgers and
fries at a fast-food
joint.
criticize someone To denigrate is to say Mnemonic:
unfairly (syn) bad things - true or Denigrate=DENY+GREAT.so
Form: verb false - about a person if you deny someone is
Tone: neg or thing. Your great ,it means you
reputation as a math BELITTLE him
quiz might be hurt if Example: No one is trying
Denigrate
your jealous to Denigrate the
classmate manages importance of a good
to denigrate you, education. We all know that
even though the it is crucial for success.
accusations are Root: The prefix DE meand
unfounded. DOWN or AWAY
express contempt The verb deride Mnemonic: de -ride --
and ridicule (syn) means to show a low riding a horse upside
Form: verb opinion of someone down.. people will make fun
Tone: neg or something. The of you ( ridicule)
jerk would deride the Example: My brothers
other kids on the bus Derided our efforts, but
Deride
by calling them were forced to eat their
names or pulling their words when we won first
hair until the driver place
decided to de-ride
him by kicking him
off the bus.
the feeling that a If you feel that Mnemonic: divide it like
person is worthless something isn't dis(dish)+dain(rhyms like
and disregard worthy of your vain..means
them.(syn) consideration, you useless)....think you have
Form: noun may disdain it (or ordered for a dish , but it is
Tone: neg treat it with disdain). useless or in vain, beacuse
you can cook better than
Disdain this, so you REJECT THE
order, you Disdain the
order.
Example: I have a healthy
Disdain for companies that
mistreat their workers.
Root: The prefix DIS
means NOT
to speak about If you haven't got Mnemonic: dispa-rage can
someone in anything nice to say, be read as display a rage.
disrespectful then it's time to When you display your
manner (syn) disparage someone. RAGE on your juniors you
Form: verb It means to belittle or BELITTLE them in front of
Tone: neg degrade a person or the others.
Disparage
idea. Example: Voters don't like
political advertisements in
which opponents Disparage
one another.
Root: Prefix DIS refers to
NOT
make rude and As a noun, jeer is the Mnemonic: in a party
mocking remarks act of scoffing, instead of saying cheers,he
(syn) taunting, or mocking. told JeerS.and the whole
Form: verb Think of it as an anti- crowd MOCKED at him
Tone: neg cheer. If you offer Example: The prisoner
Jeer
cheers for the visiting was Jeered by an angry
team and jeers for mob.
the home team, you
might not be too
popular in the stands.
Publicly criticize by When you make fun Mnemonic: Lampoon- if
using sarcasm or of something by you pour oil for a LAMP
ridicule (syn) imitating it in a with a SPOON people will
Form: noun humorous way, ridicule because for a lamp
Tone: neg you're lampooning it. you should pour a lot of oil.
Lampoon The writers at The Example: He said such
Onion, Saturday ridiculous things that he
Night Live and was often the target of
FunnyOrDie.com are Lampoons in the press.
all experts in the art
of the lampoon.
tease or laugh at Imitation may be the Mnemonic: U give Mock
someone ina most sincere form of test.That is not all that
disrespectful flattery, but to mock serious. opposite of serious
manner (syn) is to make fun of or is ridiculous which is the
Form: verb mimic someone with meaning of Mock
Mock Tone: neg contempt, ridicule or Example: He Mocks art
derision. "Louiseâ€™s only because he doesn't
favorite pastime was understand it.
to mock her brotherâ
€™s inability to sing
on key."
to treat with an if someone patronizes Mnemonic: If you
apparent kindness you, it's not so remember Patronus--from
which betrays a pleasant - they talk to latin it will give you a lot of
feeling of you as if you were words like patriarch (Patri+
supiriority. inferior or not very arch: ruled by father or
Form: verb intelligent. eldest male) well you father
Patronize
Tone: neg is giving you regular pat
(encouragement)
Example: He hated being
Patronized and pitied by
those who didn't believe his
story.
Ironic remarks Sarcastic humor is Mnemonic: We know what
intended to wound biting humor; it SARCASM is.
(syn) hurts. The talent- Example: I hate her
Form: adj show judge who rolls Sarcastic comments that
Tone: neg his eyes at your my singing reminded her of
dancing and says the time her dog was sick
Sarcastic things like "The
average border
Radha has more
talent than you" is a
sarcastic person
given to sarcastic
remarks.
seriously mocking If someone is being Mnemonic: Sardonic
(syn) scornful and mocking sounds like saridon (famous
Form: adj in a humorous way, medicine for headache in
Tone: neg call her sardonic. If India) : If everybody
you want to write around you criticise you ,
Sardonic
comic sketches for then you will get headache,
late-night talk shows, take saridon
work on being Example: The movie is a
sardonic. Sardonic look at modern
life.
the use of humor, Satire is a way of Mnemonic: Satire is a
irony to criticize making fun of people FIRE (attack) against
people's stupidity. by using silly or human vices brought
(syn) exaggerated forward through irony or
Form: noun language. Politicians sarcasm in a novel or
Satire
Tone: neg are easy targets for play.Sarcasm+Fire
satire, especially Example: His movies are
when they're acting known for their use of
self-righteous or Satire.
hypocritical.
to speak to To laugh at someone Mnemonic: Scoff rhymes
someone in a with scorn is to scoff with cough. If someone
mocking tone. at them. People have coughs in the class
(syn) scoffed at many great continuously we MOCK at
Form: verb inventors, saying them.
Tone: neg their products would Example: Critics Scoff as
Scoff
flop because the Matolcsy says Hungary's
public wouldn't be economy to return to
interested in things growth next year
like the light bulb,
cars, televisions, or
personal computers.
to treat someone Scorn is open Mnemonic: Scorn = sc (
with disrespect disrespect for Schedule Caste) + orn; sc
(syn) someone or people are always criticize
Form: noun something. It can for bad ornate.
Scorn
Tone: neg also be disrespect Example: Her political
coupled with feelings rivals have poured Scorn
of intense dislike. on her ideas for improving
the tax system.
smile or speak in a If your smile is Mnemonic: Sneer sounds
mocking manner contorted with like STARE aggressively
(syn) contempt or your when the other driver
Form: verb upper lip curled with speaks to you in a derisive
Tone: neg distaste and disdain, manner.
Sneer
you're probably Example: In high school
sneering. And you the in crowd would
should stop, because invariably Sneer every time
it isn't nice. they passed the hapless
nerds
to give a half- A snicker is a Mnemonic: The students
supressed laugh to disrespectful snort of gave a Snicker when the
mock at someone half-suppressed professor came to the class
(syn) laughter, often in a sneaker.
Form: verb expressing Example: He Snickered at
Snicker
Tone: neg superiority. We the puzzled look on her face
snicker at beauty
queens talking about
world peace, for
example.
derogatory or Snide means insulting Mnemonic: If you donâ
mocking in an or contemptuous in €™t abide by a rule you are
indirect way (syn) an indirect way. If supposed to be called a
Form: adj your friend is wearing Snide.
Tone: neg too much purple eye Example: A Snide trick to
Snide shadow and your get the old woman to sell
other friend whispers her antiques for practically
to you, â€œWhat? nothing
Was she in a car
wreck?â€ thatâ€™s a
snide comment.
to reject with If you reject your Mnemonic: Spurn rhymes
anger and scorn mother's offer to buy with burn, so when your
(syn) you a pair of fastrack cloth is on fire, you are
Form: verb sunglasses with a Spurning it.
Spurn Tone: neg snort and eye roll, Example: Fiercely
you are spurning her independent, the elderly
generosity. To spurn couple Spurned all offers of
means to reject with financial help
disdain.
provoke or A short list of people Mnemonic: Taunt and
challenge with not to taunt: your big Flaunt are rhyming words
insulting remarks brother, cops, but have totally different
(syn) nightclub bouncers, meanings. The rich are
Form: noun dragons. Taunts are always Taunting the poor
Tone: neg insulting comments, by flaunting (making a
Taunt
and, unless you are a show of) their money at
really, really fast them.
runner, keep them to Example: They Taunted
yourself. the newly arrived
immigrants about their
broken English
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BELONGING TO SAME very old fashioned Antediluvian Mnemonic: ANTE== BEFORE

AGE/ERA (syn,type) means "before the DILUVIAN== DILUGE (FLOOD
Form: adj flood" - that is, the BIBLICAL)means - extremely
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Tone: neg Biblical flood with old fashioned
WILL Noah's ark. Example: He has
BRING BACK Generally, though, Antediluvian notions about
Antediluvian
the word is used â the role of women at the
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL €” often workplace
humorously - to
describe
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS something really,
STRONG really old.
DANGER old fashioned Something is Mnemonic: read as
(syn,type) antiquated when it antique(old
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) Form: adj is so old that it is item)+dated(outdated)..hence
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH Tone: neg no longer useful. If outdated
your parents Example: I saw an
HATE believe that you Antiquated hand-cranked
Antiquated
shouldn't use the rope-machine at the textiles
MOCK / DISRESPECT
Internet when you museums.
OLD FASHIONED write papers for
school, you might
PRAISE call their ideas
REBELLIOUS / antiquated.
UNCONVENTIONAL very old fashioned If you use the Mnemonic: Archealogy -
REDUCE (syn,type) adjective archaic study of old things.. Archaic -
Form: adj you are referring The old things on which we
TIME RELATED Tone: neg to something study.
outmoded, Example: The system is
Archaic belonging to an Archaic and unfair and needs
earlier period. changing.
TROUBLED Rotary phones and
cassette players
WARNING / SCOLDING already seem so
archaic!
old fashioned marked by Mnemonic: Relate it to
(syn,type) features of the outDatedâ€¦because it is very
Form: adj immediate and old and no one uses it
Dated Tone: neg usually discounted anymore.
past Example: Those TV comedies
were OK in their day but seem
incredibly Dated now.
out of date(syn) Use the adjective Mnemonic: OB+SO+LETE =
Form: adj obsolete for obviously so late... Something
Tone: neg something that is so late is outmoded
out of date. As the Example: With technological
Rolling Stones changes many traditional
Obsolete
song "Out of Time" skills have become Obsolete.
goes, "You're Root: The prefix OB- means
obsolete, my baby, AGAINST
my poor old-
fashioned baby."
old fashioned Something that is Mnemonic: Outmoded or
(syn,type) outmoded is no OUTDATED - something that
Form: adj longer cool or in is out of fashion or no longer
Tone: neg style, like your in use.
Outmoded
dad's outmoded Example: This organizational
hairstyle that he's structure was now Outmoded.
had since he was
in high school.
old fashioned Quaint means Mnemonic: GRE bigbook
(syn,type) strange and QUANT'S questions are old
Form: adj unusual in an old- fashioned(Quaint)
Tone: neg fashioned and Example: This is a Quaint
charming way. It's seaside village
a word you'd use
to describe a little
Quaint store that sells tea
cozies and antique
tea services, or
your
grandmother's
habit of calling the
radio the
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BELONGING TO SAME Public Praise (syn) You know you've hit Mnemonic:
AGE/ERA Form: verb it big, when you A+claim..imagine you
Tone: pos earn acclaim, or have claimed to a news
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- enthusiastic channel that you have
WILL approval. And when designed a super computer
Acclaim you have achieved ,so every where people are
BRING BACK
"critical acclaim," praising you for your great
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL even the grouchy invention
critics approve of Example: The work was
you. Acclaimed as a
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS masterpiece.
STRONG an award or special A knight being Mnemonic: it sounds like
DANGER recognition (nature honored with the chocolate.. parents
of ) tap of a sword- Accolade if kids do home
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) Form: noun blade was the work properly
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH Tone: pos earliest form of Example: Meryl Streep
Accolade accolade. Today, an has received many
HATE accolade is more Accolades for her
than a way to performances.
MOCK / DISRESPECT
bestow knighthood,
OLD FASHIONED it is a form of praise
or an award.
PRAISE
show strong To applaud is to Mnemonic: Applaud =
REBELLIOUS / approval or show approval, divide it into 2 :
UNCONVENTIONAL praising highly encouragement, or app(application) +
REDUCE (syn, degree) appreciation. You lau(launch) and now I will
Form: verb can applaud by memorise it as I have
TIME RELATED Tone: pos clapping your hands launched an application for
at a performance, microsoft and they have
TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE Applaud
or you can applaud approved it with great
with just your praise
TROUBLED mouth, as when you Example: He started to
tell someone "I Applaud and the others
WARNING / SCOLDING applaud your joined in.
decision to start
exercising."
Praise or approval Approbation is an Mnemonic:
(syn) official, important- Ap+PROBATION: You get
Form: noun sounding, and CONFIRMATION/APPROVAL
Tone: pos somewhat old- in your job after your
fashioned word for Probation period
approval or praise. Example: There was
Approbation A princess, for widespread Approbation of
example, might only the new president.
consider marrying a
prince that is met
with her father's,
the King's,
approbation.
deserving Praise If something's Mnemonic: Commendable
(syn) commendable it -come to an end able i.e
Form: adj deserves whatever he is able to come to end
Tone: pos praise it receives. of this process thats why
When you he is praiseworthy
developed a car Example: She showed
Commendable
that could run on Commendable loyalty to
solar power, that the family firm.
was a commendable
accomplishment.
Now, it's time to
move from Seattle.
a speech or writing An encomium is a Mnemonic: Encomium
that praises fancy word for a sounds like INCOME -
someone (type of) formal speech or People of high INCOME are
Form: noun piece of writing that formally praised for their
Encomium Tone: pos warmly praises large donations.
someone or Example: This was much
something. more numerous; and a
new speech received still
greater Encomiums.
a speech or writing At every funeral, Mnemonic: Eulogy - eu-
that praises there comes a 'good' + log 'root: logue
someone (type of) moment when [dialogue, talk, speech]' -
Form: noun someone who knew Good speech
Tone: pos the dead person Example: Several
speaks about their eulogies were given at the
Eulogy life. They are special assembly marking
delivering what is the retirement of the
known as a eulogy. company's longtime
A eulogy is a formal president.
speech that praises Root: The prefix EU
a person who has means GOOD.
died.
holding someone You might like your Mnemonic: ex(tra) +
or something in manager, but if you alt(itude) -rise high =
very high regard. exalt her, it means praise
Exalt (syn) you really put her Example: His son was
Form: verb on a pedestal and Exalted to a high position
Tone: pos treat her like in the government through
royalty. family connections.
to praise If you have a crush Mnemonic: Extol - exTALL
enthusiastically on a guy who likes - make somebody TALL
(degree) your best friend, it with praise.
Form: verb can be very Example: Doctors often
Tone: pos depressing to listen Extol the virtues of eating
to him extol your less fat.
Extol
friend's virtues,
while you just nod
and smile. If you
extol something,
you praise it very
highly.
to give honor and To glorify is to Mnemonic: Glory calls for
praise highly (syn) praise or honor Praise.
Glorify Form: verb something or Example: He denies that
Tone: pos someone to an the movie glorifies
extreme degree. violence.
Acclaim Hail is when chunks Mnemonic: Remember
enthusiastically of ice fall from the the movi "Mr. India"
(syn) sky. Also, to hail People say "Hail
Form: verb someone is to greet Mogambo"
Tone: pos them or say good Example: The conference
Hail things about them. was Hailed as a great
Or it can be a way success.
to tell people of
your homeland, as
in: "I hail from the
Moon."
Praise someone in To laud someone Mnemonic: O, Lord! Let
public.(syn) doesn't mean to me Laud You for all your
Form: verb give them help
Tone: pos knighthood, but to Example: He was Lauded
praise them for his courage.
extravagantly -
Laud usually in a very
public manner.
Being lauded, of
course, can have
the same tonic
effect as having
been made a lord.
give a lot of public The lion is the king Mnemonic: Lion is
appreciation and of beasts. To lionize assigned a great social
attention (nature someone is to see importance in animal
of) them as important kingdom
Lionize Form: verb as a lion. Example: The tenor was
Tone: pos Republicans Lionized in Vienna
continue to lionize
Ronald Reagan as
their ultimate hero.
a song of Praise A paean is a hymn Mnemonic: it is
(syn, nature) of praise or pronounced exactly as P.N.
Form: noun thanksgiving. You remember it by 'Priase
Tone: pos might sing a paean Number' -praise song.
Paean
in church, where Example: a Paean of
many hymns extol praise
the greatness of
God.
a public speech or A formal, high- Mnemonic: pane sounds
published text in minded speech can like paean means praise
praise of someone be described with a and gyric sounds like lyric,
or something (kind formal, high-minded so Panegyric means
of) word - the word expression of praise
Panegyric Form: noun panegyric, which is Example: In Greece and
Tone: pos a very elaborate Rome, Panegyrics were
tribute to someone. often pronounced at the
You could consider grave.
most eulogies as
panegyrics.
to be praised by As its sound might Mnemonic: remove 'p' u'll
the audience (syn) suggest, plaudit is get LAUDIT. which can
Form: noun indeed related to mean loud it. Victory
Tone: pos "applaud" and should always be praised
Plaudit "applause." In fact by loud cheer i.e. with
it's really just a enthusiastic approval.
fancy way of saying Example: His work won
"praise" or him Plaudits from the
"acclamation." critics.
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BELONGING TO SAME following traditions If you are Example: Her style of

AGE/ERA and customs conservative, you dressing was never
(oppo) arenâ€™t necessarily a conservative.
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Conservative Form: adj card-carrying member
WILL (oppo) Tone: pos of the Republican party
BRING BACK (though you might be);
it means you resist
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL change.
COMPLAIN (low degree) following traditions A convention is a Mnemonic: A group of
and customs meeting, usually of a people who agree upon
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS (oppo) particular group. the Christian practice
STRONG Form: noun Political parties, of tranditional worship
DANGER Tone: pos teachers, plumbers, CONVENE (gather
gardeners, toymakers together) every
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) Convention
and computer Sunday in church.
(oppo)
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH designers all hold They are adhering to a
conventions. CONVENTION.
HATE Example: She is a
young woman who
MOCK / DISRESPECT
enjoys going against
OLD FASHIONED conventions.
PRAISE a desperate person A desperado is an Mnemonic: bad
who is especially a outlaw that you'd see people are always
REBELLIOUS / criminal (nature) in an old Western or in desperate to do
UNCONVENTIONAL Form: noun the Wild West. Think something so
REDUCE Tone: neg hip holsters, spinning "despera-do"
Desperado
guns, and a shoot-out, Example: the
TIME RELATED all with a bandanna notorious Desperados
pulled up hiding half of of the Wild West
the face of the
desperado.
TROUBLED a person who goes If you are a dissident, Mnemonic: ASSENT =
WARNING / SCOLDING against an official you are a person who agree; DISSENT =
policy or authority is rebelling against a disagree; Dissident =
(syn) government. a person who
Dissident Form: noun Dissidents can do their dissents/disagrees.
Tone: neg work peacefully or with Example: There were
violence. Dissident elements
within the Catholic
Church.
a belief or opinion Heresies are beliefs Mnemonic: divide this
opposite to that do not agree with word into her
orthodox religion the official beliefs of a (her)+esy(sounds like
(syn) particular religion; essay)... most of the
Form: noun heresy is the essays written by her
Tone: neg maintaining of such are against popular
contrary beliefs. beliefs. Taslima Nasrin,
Heresy a Bangladeshi writer is
one such person who
has recently created a
furore because of her
book
Example: He was
burned at the stake for
Heresy.
a person who has Something that Mnemonic: Heretical,
controversial departs from normally reminds of hierarchy
opinions and goes held beliefs (especially which means divisions
against religious religious, political, or of labor with set rules,
belief.(syn) social norms) is therefore one which
Form: noun heretical. If your doesn't follow the set
Heretical Tone: neg family is resistant to rules is "Heretical"
change, they may Example: The
consider your idea of religious people didn't
making pancakes for cast vote in favor of
dinner to be the politician because
completely heretical. of his Heretical
behaviour.
doesnâ€™t accept Heterodox is from the Mnemonic: opposite
orthodox beliefs Greek root words of ORTHODOX (one
(syn) heteros, meaning "the who follows the
Form: adj other," and doxa, conventions or rules of
Tone: neg meaning "opinion." The society)
adjective heterodox Example: Her
Heterodox
was first applied to Heterodox approach to
people who held a teaching science
different religious initially met with some
opinion from the resistance from her
standard beliefs and peers
teachings.
a person who Are you always Mnemonic: icons-
attacks cherished challenging the ideals; clast is like
beliefs and establishment? Or clash... so Iconoclast is
institutions. (syn) provoking popular someone whose ideas
Form: noun thought by attacking clash with the
Iconoclast Tone: neg traditions and traditional ideals.
institutions? Then Example: Notorious
you're definitely an as an Iconoclast, that
iconoclast. music critic isn't afraid
to go after sacred
cows.
rising in active An insurgent is a rebel Mnemonic: a person
revolution. (syn) or a revolutionary, (army man) who does
Form: noun someone who takes up not listen to the
Tone: neg arms against the command of his
authorities. sergeant is rebellious
in nature therefore in-
surgent- one who does
Insurgent not listen to his
sergeant[ commander]
thus is rebellious.
Example: There was
an attack by armed
Insurgents
Root: The prefix IN
means NOT
The act of openly Insurrection is an Mnemonic:
going against the uprising against a Insurrection: relate
government (syn) larger force that's in surrection with
Form: noun power. An insurrection surrender thus -in
Tone: neg can lead to revolution, surrection = not to
Insurrection but it is just as likely surrender = rebellious
to be put down. Example: an armed
Insurrection against
the regime
Root: The prefix IN
means NOT
a person who does A maverick is a rebel, Mnemonic:
not accept someone who shows a Mave+"RICK" sounds
orthodox beliefs. lot of independence. A like Ricky Ponting who
Form: noun maverick on a is rebellious and non-
Tone: neg motorcycle might blaze conformist as he does
his own trail, or show not believe in umpire
Maverick
a maverick touch in a descisions during
rough sport by wearing India's Cricket match
a helmet with the word Example: The
"Mom" inside a heart. Maverick detective
managed to crack the
case.
one who refuses to A nonconformist is Mnemonic: Non (not)
be restricted by set someone who doesnâ Confirming or adusting
beliefs and €™t conform to other to a certain belief or
customs. (syn) peopleâ€™s ideas of convention.
Form: noun how things should be. Example: He was a
Non Tone: neg Activists, artists, street nonconformist in
comformist performers, your college but now wears
wacky uncle Marvin â a three-piece suit to
€” anyone who work every day.
marches to the beat of
a different drummer is
a nonconformist.
following traditions Orthodox practices or Example: He is very
and customs beliefs are generally orthodox in his views.
(oppo) accepted as true or
Form: adj correct. If you are an
Tone: pos orthodox vegetarian,
Orthodox
you never, ever eat
(oppo)
meatâ€“-not like those
people who have
chicken once in awhile,
or evenâ€“-gasp!-â
€“bacon.
Moving away or If something is Mnemonic: Break it
departing from the considered extremist as RADIO+KAL (past
usual customs. or very different from days) -In the past the
(syn) anything that has radio was used as the
Radical Form: adj come before it, call it fundamental mode of
Tone: neg radical. entertainment.
Example: There is a
need for Radical
changes in education
opposition to any Reactionary describes Mnemonic:
kind of progress people on the far right Reactionary -
(syn) politically. Actionary is to perfrom
Form: noun Reactionaries occupy a some action, but
Tone: neg political space past Reactionary is to
conservative, near restrain/suppress the
where ultra- action...i.e. to recoil
Reactionary conservative bumps the progress.
shoulders with fascist. Example: Reactionary
guardians of proper
English usage
invariably regard every
new coinage that
comes along as a
nonword.
a person who A renegade is a person Mnemonic: Renegade
leaves and betrays who has deserted their sounds like grenade. A
an organization, cause or defied person who throws a
Renegade country or convention; they're grenade in his own
principle(syn) rebels and sometimes country is a Traitor.
Form: noun outlaws, or even Example: He is a
Tone: neg traitors. Renegade priest
something that A revolutionary person Mnemonic:
results in a big fearlessly advocates Revolution.
change (effect) radical change. Example: The effects
Form: adj Revolutionary people of technological
Tone: neg and ideas challenge development are
Revolutionary
the status quo and Revolutionary.
might be violent or
willing to upset the
natural order to
achieve their goals.
to undermine or You might want to call Mnemonic:
not giving due someone subversive if Subversive- reversive-
respect to an they are sneakily go against established
established trying to undermine rule.Revert (to cause
Subversive government.( syn) something, from the downfall) from inside.
Form: adj social structure of your Example: He was a
Tone: neg high school to an known political
entire system of Subversive.
government.
Not respecting To be unconventional Mnemonic: Un (Not)
conventions (syn) is to act, dress, speak, Conventional.
Form: adj or otherwise exist out Example: The
Tone: neg of the bounds of magazine describes
Unconventional cultural norms. If you him as having
eat cheeseburgers for Unconventional good
breakfast, that's looks.
somewhat
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BELONGING TO SAME to reduce To deplete is to use up or Mnemonic: If you

AGE/ERA something by a consume a limited de(remove) + from
large amount so resource. Visiting relatives plate.. you will reduce
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- that there is not might deplete your its contents.
WILL DEPLETE enough left refrigerator of food, or a Example: Food
BRING BACK Form: verb pestering friend might supplies were
Tone: neg deplete your patience. severely DEPLETEd.
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL Root: Prefix DE
means NOT
to become less Something depreciates Mnemonic:
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS valuable over a when it loses value. If you appreciate -value
STRONG period of time bought shares of a increases.
DANGER Form: verb company for $10 each a DEPRECIATE -value
DEPRECIATE Tone: neg year ago and now theyâ decreases
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) €™re worth $1 each, Example: New cars
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH guess what: they have start to DEPRECIATE
depreciated. as soon as they are
HATE on the road.
MOCK / DISRESPECT to collect Amass means bring Mnemonic: amass -
something, together or assemble. It add masses and
OLD FASHIONED especially in large can be a real shock to hence to collect
PRAISE quantities enter a room and see your things.
X AMASS Form: verb amassed friends shouting Example: They
REBELLIOUS / Tone: pos "Surprise!" amassed a truckload
UNCONVENTIONAL of donations in the
REDUCE course of their
canned food drive
TIME RELATED
a reserve supply of a storage pile accumulated Mnemonic: Piling up
TO DEFEAT/ X CANNOT BE something for future use stock (lot of things
DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER essential piled up together)
X accumulated within Example: An
TROUBLED STOCKPILE a country for use emergency stockpile
WARNING / SCOLDING during a shortage of potable water and
Form: noun canned goods in the
Tone: pos cellar
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BELONGING TO SAME Trying to attach a An anachronism is Mnemonic: ana (out

AGE/ERA custom or event to something that doesn't fit of order, negative
a period to which it its time period, like if you sense) + chron
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- does not belong say you'll "dial" your (time).. so something
WILL Form: noun smartphone. not placed correctly
BRING BACK Tone: neg with respect to time.
Example: The
Anachronism
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL monarchy is seen by
many people as an
Anachronism in the
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS modern world.
STRONG Root: The prefix
CHRON - means
DANGER TIME.
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) A fact based To chronicle an event is to Mnemonic: think of
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH documentof record it as it happens, the Chronicles of
important events in and a chronicle is a narnia.....a long
HATE the order in which record of those events. If story...
Chronicle they took place your grandmother took Example: Her latest
MOCK / DISRESPECT
Form: noun the time to chronicle the novel is a Chronicle of
OLD FASHIONED Tone: neut details of her 1910 life in a Devon
journey to Japan, you can village.
PRAISE read her chronicle today. Root: same as above
REBELLIOUS / Sequence or order If youâ€™re making a list Mnemonic: Chron
UNCONVENTIONAL of date and time of all your teachers in the meand Time +
REDUCE Form: adj order you had them, from Logical (say in an
Tone: neg/ neut kindergarten right up to order).
TIME RELATED the present, youâ€™re Example: The facts
Chronological
listing them in should be presented
chronological order. in Chronological
Chronological is the order order.
TROUBLED in which things actually
happened.
WARNING / SCOLDING
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BELONGING TO SAME to agree to do Capitulate means to give in Mnemonic: CAPtain

AGE/ERA something that you to something. "The it's too late, we will
have been refusing teachers didn't want to have to surrender.
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Capitulate
to do for a long have class outside, but the Example: They were
WILL #
time students begged so hard, finally forced to
BRING BACK Form: verb she capitulated." capitulate to the
Tone: pos terrorists' demands.
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL
hit or beat beat thoroughly and Mnemonic: when a
COMPLAIN (low degree) repeatedly. conclusively in a team wins it pours
Form: verb competition or fight water from a
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS Tone: neg DRUM(drub) on the
STRONG loosing team in rugby
DANGER Drub matches
Example: a crowd
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) was drubbing the
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH purse snatcher when
the police arrived on
HATE the scene
MOCK / DISRESPECT not affected or An impervious surface is Mnemonic: "I am
influenced by one that can't be Pervez(pervez
OLD FASHIONED something penetrated. The word is musharraf)"â€¦No
PRAISE Form: adj often followed by "to," as in matter wat you say, I
Tone: pos "His steely personality won't be affected!!
REBELLIOUS / Impervious
made him impervious to Example: The
UNCONVENTIONAL X
jokes about his awful material for this coat
REDUCE haircut." is supposed to be
impervious to rain
TIME RELATED Root: Prefix IM
means NOT
DEFEATED/ # SURRENDER not willing to Something indomitable Mnemonic: IN-
accept defeat, can't be beat. People DOMITABLE -
TROUBLED even in a difficult described as having impossible to
WARNING / SCOLDING situation; very indomitable spirits don't DOMINATE
indomitable brave and need pep talks or protein Example: An
X determined shakes; their strength indomitable spirit was
Form: adj comes from within. needed to endure the
Tone: pos rigors of pioneer life
Root: Prefix IN refers
NOT
too strong to be Something invincible is Mnemonic: It
defeated or victorious over everything. reminds me of the
changed Disease, death, great artist Vinci and
Form: adj destruction? No match for we all know his arts
Invincible
Tone: pos something truly invincible. can't be conquered.
X
Mere humans who imagine so unconquerable.
they're invincible, however, Example: The team
will inevitably prove that seemed invincible.
they're not.
a situation in which When you think about the Mnemonic: As in
someone is thrill of victory and the during Riots
defeated easily and agony of defeat, associate a stampede take place.
completely in a rout with the agonizing hence Rout happens
battle or defeat. A rout is the kind of during Riots.
Rout
competition humiliating loss that makes Example: Only the
Form: noun you wish you would have skill of the goalkeeper
Tone: neg been injured in the first prevented the match
quarter so you could have from turning into a
avoided the outco Rout.
to defeat someone If you say you won't be Mnemonic: It just
or something; to kept down by the man, you sound in hindi like
gain control over are saying that you won't "SaB JUkhkege mere
someone or let the man subjugate you. GATE ke
something To subjugate is to repress aage"...mean conquer
Subjugate Form: verb someone, or to make them , bring under control
Tone: neg subservient to you. Example: Her
personal ambitions
had been Subjugated
to the needs of her
family.
to defeat someone To vanquish is to be the Mnemonic: sounds
completely in a complete and total winner, like vanish..by
competition, war, to overpower and vanishing you can be
etc. overcome, whether in a better than anyone in
Vanquish Form: verb contest, a race, or a war. It a competition.
Tone: neg generally suggests a total Example: They were
trouncing, to the point of vanquished in battle.
humiliation - or worse - for
the loser.
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BELONGING TO SAME to be put in a very Beleaguer means to pester Mnemonic: not able
AGE/ERA difficult situation or badger with persistence. to withstand the
(syn) A babysitter might find HARASSMENT of the
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Form: verb annoying the children who senior players the
WILL Beleaguered Tone: neg beleaguer her with new player opted to
BRING BACK requests for candy, BE out of the LEAGUE
cookies, games, and Example: The lack of
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL piggyback rides all at the funds that beleaguers
same time. schools
trouble or threaten Beset means to attack Mnemonic: Beset.
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS continuously.(syn) from all sidesâ€“-an bees+attack. imagine
STRONG Form: verb invading army will beset a bees attack on you
DANGER Tone: neg castle, or you might find from all directions.
Beset
yourself beset by a Example: A lack of
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) devastating storm. money is the greatest
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH problem Besetting
the city today.
HATE
trouble trouble persistently Mnemonic: PLAGUE
MOCK / DISRESPECT Form: verb is a epidemic..if
Tone: neg anyone is affected,
OLD FASHIONED people tend to
PRAISE alienate him/her
which ANNOYs or
REBELLIOUS / Plagued
creates TROUBLE for
UNCONVENTIONAL the affected person.
REDUCE Example: the team
was Plagued by a lot
TIME RELATED of mismanagement
issues
TROUBLED
WARNING / SCOLDING
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BELONGING TO SAME not to approve To admonish is to scold. If Mnemonic: to avoid

AGE/ERA something and you want to show someone A DEMON-ish act, a
hence rebuke (syn) you're not happy with his mother Warns her
BITTER FEELINGS / ILL- Admonish Form: verb behavior, admonish him. It naughty child
WILL Tone: neg sounds better than Example: She was
BRING BACK "scolding," and it's less Admonished for
painful than spanking. chewing gum in class.
CAUTIOUS / CAREFUL
blame Censure is a noun referring Mnemonic: Try to
COMPLAIN (low degree) Form: noun to very strong criticism; the link the meaning of
Tone: neg verb means to criticize very this word with the
CRITICIZE / EXPRESS strongly. If you take your censor board which
STRONG dad's car without telling always critisizes every
DANGER him, you can expect him to inch of the film and
censure you severely, and also disapproves of
ESCAPE (RUN AWAY) Censure
maybe even ground you as some of the parts.
EXPLAIN TOO MUCH well. Example: The
country faces
HATE international Censure
for its alleged
MOCK / DISRESPECT
involvement in the
OLD FASHIONED assassination.
PRAISE rebuke (syn) Chastise is a fancy word for Mnemonic: Chastise-
Form: verb telling someone something chest ice-The kid was
REBELLIOUS / Tone: neg they did that was really bad. punished or crticized
UNCONVENTIONAL If you pick your nose, your severly by his mother
REDUCE mom's gonna yell at you. If for playing with ice on
Chastise
you do it in front of the chest
TIME RELATED Queen of England, you mom Example: He
will chastise you. Chastised the team
for their lack of
commitment.
TROUBLED to scold mildly in To chide someone is to ride Mnemonic: Chide
WARNING / SCOLDING order to correct or them or get on their case, can be remembered
improve someone without really getting in as "hide". You hide to
(syn) their face. avoid getting scolded
Form: verb for what you have
Chide
Tone: positive done.
Example: She Chided
herself for being so
impatient with the
children.
to criticize severely If you receive a rebuke, it Mnemonic: sounds
(syn) means that you have been like REEBOK.....you'll
Form: verb reprimanded, or scolded. SCOLD HARSHLY and
Tone: neg CRITICIZE SEVERELY
your servant as he
has spoiled your
Rebuke
reebok shoes..
Example: he
company was publicly
Rebuked for having
neglected safety
procedures.
to reprove severely If you're reprimanded, Mnemonic:
(syn) someone in authority speaks Rep+rimand(Remand)
Form: verb to you in an angry way when police take
Tone: neg because you've done remand of
something wrong. Or you someone,,they Scold
might reprimand your dog if them harshly (Strong
Reprimand
he steals your hot dog. rebuke)
Example: The
officers were severely
Reprimanded for their
unprofessional
behavior.
to express Reproach means to mildly Mnemonic: If you
disapproval, or criticize. If you show poor see a cockRROACH,
criticize. (syn) manners at your you Reproach and
Reproach
Form: noun grandmother's dinner table, express disapproval!
Tone: neg she will reproach you. Example: His voice
was full of Reproach.
to disapprove of If you get into trouble and Mnemonic: re+prove
something or are sent to the principalâ - Teacher is scolding
someone (syn) €™s office, be prepared for student again and
Form: verb the principal to reprove you again (RE) to prove
Reprove Tone: neg for your behavior. To the theorem correct.
reprove is to scold, Example: He
reprimand, or - in plain Reproved her for
English - â€œchew out.â€ rushing away.
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ADD / SUPPORT to add to A complement is Mnemonic: When

something for something that makes up you Complement
AGGRESSIVE / improvement. a satisfying whole with others it is when they
ARGUMENTATIVE Form: v something else. Those finish the work
Complement Tone: pos shiny red shoes you just perfectly or completly
AGREEMENT / HARMONY
bought complement your Example: The
ARGUE / FIGHT shiny red purse. excellent menu is
Complemented by a
BIASED
good wine list.
CALM a thing that is A supplement is something Example: First-class
DISTURBED / AGITATED added to added to something else. accommodation is
something else to Nutritional supplements available for a
DOMINATING Supplement improve or add vitamins and minerals Supplement.
EQUALITY complete it. to the ones already
Form: n included in the food you
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- Tone: pos eat.
)/ * PRAISE
INCLUDING EVERYTHING
INDIFFERENT
INSULTING WORDS
MAKE ISOLATE
NARROW MINDED /
REGIONAL
NOT SERIOUS
OVERLY OBEDIENT
PAMPERING
PRESENT EVERYWHERE
SUPPRESS / END
SURPRISE / CONFUSE
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ADD / SUPPORT someone who is If you walk into a high Mnemonic:

ready to fight and school where you know no belli+cose - cose
AGGRESSIVE / argue.(syn) one, find the toughest sounds like cause, a
ARGUMENTATIVE Form: adj looking girl in the halls and small fight can
AGREEMENT / HARMONY Tone: NEG tell her she's ugly, them's become a cause of
fighting words. Or bellicose warlike situation
Bellicose
ARGUE / FIGHT ones. Bellicose means Example: Bellicose
eager for war. hockey players who
BIASED
always seem to spend
CALM more time fighting
than playing
DISTURBED / AGITATED Root: same as above
DOMINATING unfriendly and If someone is belligerent, Mnemonic:
EQUALITY aggressive (syn) they're eager to fight. It's Belligerent sounds
Form: adj a good idea to avoid like billi (TOM) and
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- Tone: NEG hardcore hockey fans after Jerry always quarrel
)/ * PRAISE their team loses - they in TOM and JERRY
tend to be belligerent. cartoon.
Example: The coach
Belligerent
INDIFFERENT became quite
Belligerent and spit at
INSULTING WORDS an umpire after being
MAKE ISOLATE thrown out of the
game
NARROW MINDED / Root: Prefix BELLI-
REGIONAL means WAR
NOT SERIOUS controversial (syn) A contentious issue is one Mnemonic:
Form: adj that people are likely to Contentious-
OVERLY OBEDIENT
Tone: NEG argue about, and a (Contender+Serious)
PAMPERING contentious person is One who takes
someone who likes to competition too
PRESENT EVERYWHERE argue or fight. serious always fights
SUPPRESS / END Contentious and quarrels.
Example: After a
SURPRISE / CONFUSE Contentious debate,
members of the
committee finally
voted to approve the
funding.
a discussion about a contentious speech act; a Mnemonic:
something that dispute where there is Disputation sounds
people do not strong disagreement like Disputes and so it
agree on (syn) is.
Form: adj Example: A heated
Disputatious Tone: NEG disputation over the
true authorship of the
poem popularly
known as â€œThe
Night Before
Christmasâ€
bad tempered or If you're prone to picking Mnemonic: Those
who gets easily fights, making snarky who get their limbs
upset with small comments, and being fractured -gets
things(syn) frustratingly stubborn, annoyed or bad
Fractious Form: adj you're fractious. And odds tempered by taking
Tone: NEG are you're not invited to bed rest for long
too many parties. Example: The
Fractious crowd grew
violent.
unfriendly and Hostility is the state of ill Mnemonic: Hostility:
aggressive (syn) will and bad feeling. If a opposite being not a
Form: n teacher embarrasses you in good HOST implies
Tone: NEG front of the whole class, unfriendly
you will probably regard Example: They were
Hostility
him or her with hostility for both glad to have
the remainder of the school gotten through the
year. divorce proceedings
without any visible
signs of Hostility.
too ready to take If the haunted house staff Mnemonic: people
disagreements to treats you with extra care would fight to eat a
court. (syn) and don't subject you to "litti" (a North Indian
Form: adj the worst frights, it might delicacy) so you get
Litigous
Tone: NEG not be because they like contentious
you, but because they Example: There is
know you're litigious: you this very litigious
tend to sue people. group of people
very unfriendly, The adjective polemical Mnemonic: refer pol
ready to argue and describes something to politics, as you
fight.(syn) related to an argument or know modern day
Form: adj controversy. To keep the politics is full of
Tone: NEG peace, avoid discussing CONTROVERSIES
politics at Thanksgiving, Example: an
Polemical
which usually deteriorates unnecessarily
into a polemical argument Polemical look at the
with Uncle Bob. Better supposed
stick to football or apple incompatibility
versus between science and
religion
having a desire to Pugnacious means ready Mnemonic: a pug is
fight and argue for a fight. If you're a first an aggressive breed
with somebody year teacher, you probably of dog. So a
(syn) don't know how to deal Pugnacious pug..
Form: adj with the pugnacious kids in Example: There's
Pugnacious Tone: NEG every class. Learn some one Pugnacious
discipline or they'll end up member on the
fighting you, or each other. committee who won't
agree to anything.
Root: Prefix PUG is a
DOG.
bad tempered If you are quick to argue, Mnemonic: Truculent
(syn) always looking for a fight, sounds like turbulent
Form: adj and hard to please, you which is very
Tone: NEG are truculent. You can also aggressive.
Truculent
write a truculent essay, Example: Die-hard
and fans upset by a loss fans who became
can become truculent. Truculent and violent
after their team's loss
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ADD / SUPPORT a very big A chasm is a Mnemonic: Chasm sounds like

difference between deep divide, chashma.. if it has a crack, it is
AGGRESSIVE / two people or either literal difficult to see
ARGUMENTATIVE groups or figurative, Example: the yawning chasm of the
AGREEMENT / Form: noun such as a generation gap
HARMONY Tone: neg giant chasm
in an ice cap
ARGUE / FIGHT # CHASM or the
growing
BIASED
chasm
CALM between two
friends who
DISTURBED / haven't
AGITATED spoken in a
DOMINATING long time.
EQUALITY a separation or a large Mnemonic: we say gulf of Mexico,

lack of agreement difference gulf means water body , so a deep
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY Form: noun between two opening
# GULF
(- )/ * PRAISE Tone: neg people or Example: The great gulf of time and
groups space that separates us from the first
INCLUDING
inhabitants of North America
EVERYTHING
a serious Rift sounds Mnemonic: rhymes with drift(a
INDIFFERENT disagreement like rip, and sound force which drives something
INSULTING WORDS between people it's helpful to along)..a drifted water caused many
Form: noun think of it breaks in the wall.
MAKE ISOLATE Tone: neg that way. Example: Efforts to heal the rift
NARROW MINDED / When there is between the two countries have
REGIONAL a rift in a failed.
# RIFT political party
NOT SERIOUS over how
much taxes
OVERLY OBEDIENT
to pay, it is
PAMPERING like a rip or
tear in the
PRESENT fabric of the
EVERYWHERE group.
SUPPRESS / END strong The sound of Mnemonic: Sounds like prism which
SURPRISE / CONFUSE disagreement the word splits light into colors.
within an schism Example: There is a schism between
organization reminds some leading members of the party
Form: noun people of the
Tone: neg sound of a
piece of paper
being torn in
# SCHISM two; which
makes sense -
when a group
has a big fight
and the group
is torn in two,
that's a
schism.
agreement If you clean Mnemonic: Agreement between
Form: n your room of father and son that he will buy Accord
Tone: pos your own (Honda Accord, car name)for his son
accord, you if he tops in his exams.
parents will Example: The two sides signed a
be pleasedâ peace Accord last July.
€”it means
you did it
without
Accord having to be
asked. They
might even
accord you an
extra
privilege.
Warring
nations make
peace
accords.
blend or A concord is Mnemonic: If you are a keyboard
agreement an player you must be knowing about
Form: adj agreement. If chords..chords are used for
Tone: pos you want to harmony...Concord = con + chord
watch a Example: Living in Concord with
romantic people of different races and religions
comedy and
your date
wants to
Concord watch a
horror film,
you might
compromise
and come to
a concord by
agreeing to
watch an
action
comedy.
agreement (young If all your Mnemonic: Conform it - Means agree
people are always friends wear to it
in conformity) jeans to Example: The corporate culture
Form: n school and demands a certain Conformity of
Tone: pos you wear appearance.
checkered Root: The prefix CON means
slacks, you TOGETHER
Conformity
could say you
reject
conformity â
€” doing the
same thing as
everyone
else.
in agreement, at suitable or Mnemonic: congruent triangles are
par. appropriate matching triangles...so matching in
Form: adj together kind or character
Congruous Tone: pos Example: When performing his
official duties, the president must be
dressed in clothes that are Congruous
with his high position
agreement, Use Mnemonic: Double Consonance gives
together, blend consonance the effect of being a near rhyme.
Form: n to describe a Example: At present, the living room
Tone: pos state of lacks Consonance because all of the
agreement or furniture is on one side
harmony of
Consonance
parts, and is
often refers
to a pleasing
combination
of musical
sounds.
arguing or Discord is the Mnemonic:
disagreement strife and DIS(not)+ACCORD(agreement).accord
(oppo) tension that means agreement...hence Discord
Form: n arises when means disagreement.
Tone: neg two sides Example: The city has long been
disagree on known as a scene of racial intolerance
something, and Discord.
Discord
like the high Root: The prefix DIS is NOT
pitched
screaming of
two kids
fighting over
the front seat
of the car.
not in agreement, Disagreeable Mnemonic: dis-sonance::DIS
not together sounds can RESONANCE--not resonant....so not in
(oppo) be called harmony
Form: n dissonance. Example: The Dissonance between
Tone: neg You know it's what we are told and what we see
Dissonance dissonance if with our own eyes
you have the
strong desire
to cover your
ears with
your hands.
opposition or Fractions are Mnemonic: Faction-fraction means
disagreement on smaller parts fraction of a large party
something.(oppo) of whole Example: The committee soon split
Form: n numbers: into Factions.
Tone: neg one-quarter,
one-tenth,
one-half, and
a faction is a
smaller
portion of a
Faction
larger group
that breaks
away from it.
A faction
might take a
fraction of the
people from a
large group
and start a
new group.
in agreement, at Things that Mnemonic: A harmonium (musical
par. are instrument) if played well and in
Form: adj harmonious angreement to the reeds produces
Tone: pos go together Harmonious and melodious music.
nicely, like Example: The living room was
Harmonious
notes in decorated in Harmonious colors.
music or
people that
work well as
a team.
not compatible or Use the Mnemonic: IN (not)+ compatible.
not adjective Example: This printer is Incompatible
harmonious.(oppo) incompatible with some PCs.
Form: adj to describe Root: Prefix IN means NOT
Tone: neg things or
people that
are too
different to
get along.
Incompatible
When paired
with someone
you can't
work with,
don't criticize
or get mad.
Just say, "We
are
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ADD / SUPPORT a noisy argument Altercation is a Mnemonic: altered - alter (means

Form: n nicer word for to change); When things are
AGGRESSIVE / Tone: NEG "quarrel," altered without telling the elders,
ARGUMENTATIVE which is a nicer then there may arise a noisy
Altercation word for quarrel.
AGREEMENT / HARMONY
"fight." Example: Judging from all the
ARGUE / FIGHT slamming and banging, I'd say
there was some sort of Altercation
BIASED
going on next door
CALM to argue about When you Mnemonic: Bicker sounds like
DISTURBED / AGITATED unimportant things bicker, you Biker. The biker crashed into the
like children do. argue in a car and he had a big quarrel with
DOMINATING Form: v petty way, like the owner of the car.
EQUALITY Tone: NEG two kids Example: After a prolonged
squabbling in Bicker, they finally managed to
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- the backseat find a movie that both of them
)/ * PRAISE on a long car were interested in seeing.
Bicker trip, or
politicians
INDIFFERENT taking cheap
shots at each
INSULTING WORDS other but
MAKE ISOLATE avoiding
discussion of
NARROW MINDED / important
REGIONAL issues.
NOT SERIOUS a noisy argument, A bar fight is a Mnemonic: Brawl can be
involving many brawl. A fight pronounced as bawaal....in hindi
OVERLY OBEDIENT
people,especially in in the cafeteria bawaal is noisy drunken fight
PAMPERING public place which turns Example: Fans were Brawling in
Form: n,v into a free-for- the streets after the game.
PRESENT EVERYWHERE Brawl
Tone: NEG all can also be
SUPPRESS / END called a brawl.
A brawl is a
SURPRISE / CONFUSE noisy fight in a
crowd.
fighting in war Combat is Mnemonic: concentrate on the
time. fighting last part of the word bat. It will
Form: n between two remind you that a fight in cricket
Tone: NEG groups of (usage of bat) is for winning.
armed forces. Example: Some of these soldiers
When you have never seen Combat.
engage in
Combat
combat,
typically this
means you
engage in
fighting that
involves
weapons.
struggle in a fight struggle in Mnemonic: You have less content
Form: v opposition to support your point means you
Tone: NEG are highly unlikely to
Contend
Contend(COMPETE)
Example: to Contend with the
enemy for control of the port
a noisy argument, If your Mnemonic: Fracas-(fraud +
involving many marching band cause), a fraud will generally cause
people. gets into a a quarrel or brawl.
Form: n fight with Example: Police preparing for any
Tone: NEG another Fracas that might follow the soccer
school's pep game
squad, your
Fracas
principal might
say the fracas
was uncalled
for and
undignified. A
fracas is a
noisy quarrel.
a situation in which A melee is a Mnemonic: Melee sounds like
a crowd of people noisy free-for- Bruce Lee...famous for his fights.
rush or push each all or rowdy ME and Bruce LEE in a fight, who
other in a confused fight - a no would win? ME VS LEE
way. holds barred, Example: A verbal disagreement
Form: n battle royal, if at the football game soon turned
Tone: NEG you will. It's into a general Melee involving
Melee what pro scores of spectators
wrestlers
engage in
every night,
and shoppers
endure at the
toy store every
holiday season.
to complain and A quibble is a Mnemonic: Query + babble
argue about small small argument (minor objection/murmuring).
matters. or fight. As a Example: He spent the entire
Form: n,v verb, it means evening quibbling about the
Tone: NEG to pick a mini- historical inaccuracies in the
fight over television series on World War II
something that
Quibble doesn't really
matter. "Let's
not quibble
over price,"
people will say,
usually when
they plan to
gouge you.
quarell and Row means a Mnemonic: When you sit in a Row
dispute. noisy with your enimies you argue and
Form: n argument, but quarrel
Tone: NEG when you use Example: He was engaged in a
Row
it this way, it Row with his classmates, and
rhymes with made friends with seniors.
cow, rather
than toe.
to argue noisily A squabble is a Mnemonic: While playing
about very fight but not scrabble, children fight with each
unimportant details necessarily a other on minor
Form: n,v serious one. issues...Squabble=Quarrel+scribble
Tone: NEG When we Example: Frightened by noise of
Squabble squabble, we the Squabble, the cat hid under
have a little the couch
argument,
probably about
something not
too important.
quarell a quarrel about Mnemonic: ti(ny)f(fight): fight
Form: n petty points about tiny things
Tiff Tone: NEG Example: Like any couple, they
occasionally Tiff, but it's never
anything serious
an agreement When two Mnemonic: Truce rhymes with
between enemies warring sides juice...so you give a juice to
or opponents to decide to call it people who are fighting so that it
Truce stop fighting for a quits, it's called stops for sometime and they can
(oppo) period of time a truce - an discuss over it
Form: n agreement to Example: There's been an uneasy
Tone: POS end the truce between her and her parents
fighting. for the past several months.
a short fight in disorderly Mnemonic: Tussle can be
order to get fighting remembered in relation to a
something. hassle.
Tussle
Form: n,v Example: The suspect was
Tone: NEG arrested after a Tussle with a
security guard.
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ADD / SUPPORT having tendency to When a skirt is cut Mnemonic: The

show favor towards at an angle, with Prefix 'bi' means two,
AGGRESSIVE / or against a group one side higher however its just the
ARGUMENTATIVE of people. Making than the other, it opposite for Bias,
AGREEMENT / HARMONY unfair judgements. has a bias cut. where it means One,
Biased Form: adj Being biased is rather One-sided.
ARGUE / FIGHT Tone: neg kind of lopsided Example: Employers
too: a biased must consider all
BIASED
person favors one candidates impartially
CALM side or issue over and without bias.
another.
DISTURBED / AGITATED
a person who has A bigot is someone Mnemonic:
DOMINATING very strong who doesn't bi(by)+got(god)--
EQUALITY ,unreasonable tolerate people of think of a person who
beliefs or opinions different races or is excessively
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- about race, religion religions. If you devoted to god and
)/ * PRAISE etc and doesnâ€™t have an uncle who hence very much
accept others is a bigot and tells hypocritical.this
Bigot opinion. racist jokes at person will not
INDIFFERENT Form: n,adj Thanksgiving, you tolerate any opinion
Tone: neg may need to talk about god differing
INSULTING WORDS to him and tell him from his own.
MAKE ISOLATE it's not okay. Example: He was
labeled a Bigot after
NARROW MINDED / making some
REGIONAL offensive comments.
NOT SERIOUS unfair, treating characterized by or Mnemonic:
someone or one showing prejudicial Difference or
OVERLY OBEDIENT
group of people treatment discrmination.
PAMPERING worse than others. Example: This is a
Discriminatory Form: adj company that was
PRESENT EVERYWHERE Tone: neg fined for its
SUPPRESS / END Discriminatory
practices in the hiring
SURPRISE / CONFUSE of women
Impartial Dispassionate Mnemonic: dis-
Form: adj describes someone passionate, without
Tone: pos who is not getting any passion usually
carried away byâ people without
€”or maybe not passions are calm
even havingâ Example: He spoke
€”feelings. It's in a dispassionate
Dispassionate(oppo)
something you'd tone about the
want to see in a accident.
surgeon, who
keeps cool under
pressure, but not
in a romantic
partner.
hold the belief that An egalitarian is a Mnemonic: for
everyone is equal person who EAGLES, it does not
and should have believes in the matter which person's
the same rights equality of all meat is that,
and opportunities. people, and an ultimately they have
Form: adj egalitarian society to fill their stomach
Tone: pos gives everyone being scavengers.
Egalitarian(oppo)
equal rights. EAGLES are
EGALitarians.
Example: He
described himself as
â€ãn egalitarianâ€™
and vouches on
Equality of rights
treating everyone If you work on a Mnemonic: Mom
in an equal way. group project in made a cake and
Form: adj class, you want an distributed it
Tone: pos equitable share of EQUALLY to everyone
the credit, you sitting at the TABLE,
want as much being impartial and
Equitable(oppo) credit as you fair.
deserve for your Example: They
work. Equitable reached an equitable
distribution means settlement of their
each party gets the dispute.
share of something Root: Equi means
that they deserve. TWO
completely Fair, Evenhanded means Mnemonic: EVEN +
especially when fair to all sides. If HANDED - Even (that
dealing with your essay is which is equal or
different groups of evenhanded, it proper) + Handed
people. should look at both (handled)... a
Form: adj sides of an situation that has
Evenhanded(oppo) Tone: pos argument, without been fairly or
showing preference properly handled or
for one side or the judged.
other. Example: I thought
it was an evenhanded
assessment of her
performance.
Form: adj If you're in a Mnemonic: There
Tone: pos contest you'd are two PARTS. You
better hope the don't favor either
judges are PART. You are
Impartial X impartial, that is, imPARTIAL.
that they aren't Root: Prefix IN
biased toward one means NOT
competitor over
another.
Unbiased Objectivity is a Mnemonic:
Form: adj noun that means a Objective(goal
Tone: pos lack of bias, oriented)-hence
judgment, or IMPARTIAL
Objectivity(oppo) prejudice. Example: We need
Maintaining one's someone outside the
objectivity is the company to give us
most important job an objective analysis.
of a judge.
one-sided (syn) If something is Mnemonic:
Form: adj prejudicial towards parti(think of a
Tone: neg a particular point political
of view, you can party)+san(son).so a
call it partisan. father who is
You'll often hear of favouring his son's
Partisan the partisan politics political party, instead
in the US - since of a good party.
politicians seem to Example: Most
be so devoted to newspapers are
either the politically Partisan.
Republican or
Democratic parties.
having being biased or Mnemonic: prejudice
unreasonable having a belief or reminds of pre-
dislike of or attitude formed judgement... which
preference for beforehand leads to partiality
someone or Example: Their
Prejudiced
something, based decision was based
on religion, sex on ignorance and
etc. prejudice.
Form: adj
Tone: neg
expressing a If you are writing a Mnemonic:
strong opinion that report on climate Rearrange the words
people are likely to change, and ignore to make - Tend or
disagree with. evidence that the Tendency + ious or
Form: adj earth is warming, bias. So, Tendentious
Tone: neg the paper might be is a TENDENcy
Tendentious
called tendentious. towards one
Tendentious means viewpoint over
promoting a another.
specific, and Example: He made
controversial, point some extremely
of view. Tendentious remarks.
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ADD / SUPPORT something done Aplomb is the ultimate Mnemonic: Aplomb -

confidently and test for cool: grace under a + pl (people) +
AGGRESSIVE / successfully, often pressure. Use aplomb to OM; people normally
ARGUMENTATIVE in a difficult show great restraint chant 'OM' when they
AGREEMENT / HARMONY situation. under even the most do meditation to keep
Aplomb Form: n trying circumstances. In themselves cool
ARGUE / FIGHT Tone: pos retail, it's always a good under strain.
idea to handle the angry Example: He showed
BIASED
customers with aplomb. great Aplomb in
CALM dealing with the
reporters.
to be calm and in When you stay calm Mnemonic: A R
DOMINATING control of your under pressure, you keep Rahman is a
EQUALITY feelings. your composure. Keeping composer. He need
Form: n your composure for a all his Composure to
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- Composure Tone: pos skinned knee? Easy. compose music.
)/ * PRAISE Keeping your composure Example: After the
during an avalanche? Not initial shock she
so easy. regained her
INDIFFERENT Composure.
INSULTING WORDS a calm state of If you take the news of Mnemonic:
mind that means your brother's death with Equanimity = equal +
MAKE ISOLATE that you do not equanimity, it means you enmity. To fight the
NARROW MINDED / become angry or take it calmly without enemy you need to
REGIONAL upset. breaking down. be composed and
Form: n Equanimity refers to temperamental, else
NOT SERIOUS Equanimity Tone: pos emotional calmness and he'll beat you.
balance in times of Example: He is an
OVERLY OBEDIENT
stress. Olympic diver who
PAMPERING always displays
remarkable
PRESENT EVERYWHERE Equanimity on the
SUPPRESS / END platform
SURPRISE / CONFUSE emotionless Someone who doesn't Mnemonic:

Form: adj seem to react - who is Impassive- A person
Tone: neg always "taking a pass" in saying-"I m
the conversation of life Passive(Not Active)",
can be described as that means he has no
impassive. feelings,emotions.
Impassive Example: She
remained Impassive
as the officers
informed her of her
son's death
Root: Prefix IM
means NOT
not easily upset or If you're imperturbable Mnemonic: im-
worried by a you are not easily upset. 'not'+perturb(able),
difficult situation. If your goal is to be meaning not
Form: adj imperturbable, then you perturbed....so a
Tone: pos can't let things bother person who is not
you or get you stressed, perturbed stays calm
confused, or angry. and placid.
Imperturbable
Example: Although
he seems outwardly
Imperturbable, he
can get very angry at
times.
Root: Prefix IM
means NOT
casual. If your friend is acting Mnemonic:
Form: adj cool, unconcerned or in Nonchalant seems
Tone: neutral an indifferent manner, similar to non
call him nonchalant - like challenge. If there is
when he saunters by a no challenge, life is
Nonchalant group of whispering, calm and
giggling girls and just relaxed/carefree.
nods and says, "Hey." Example: She faced
the crowd with the
Nonchalant ease of an
experienced speaker.
not easily made Yes, phlegmatic has Mnemonic: Sounds
angry or upset. roots in that colorless, like
Form: adj mucous stuff called PRAGMATIC(practical)
Tone: pos phlegm, but people who - practical people
are phlegmatic aren't think with logic and
Phlegmatic called that because they show little emotion.
have lots of mucous. Example: There is a
They are just a little dull strangely Phlegmatic
in expressing feelings or response to what
showing emotion. should have been
happy news
not easily excited Call a body of water Mnemonic: a
or irritated. placid if it has a smooth student well PLACED
Form: adj surface and no waves. in his college will sit
Tone: pos Call a person placid if calmly and
they don't tend to make peacefully...as
Placid waves by causing a fuss. compared to those
who did not get
placed.
Example: He is a
person with a sunny,
Placid disposition
quiet and peaceful Choose the adjective, Mnemonic: when
Form: adj serene, to describe we
Tone: pos someone who is calm se(see)+rene(rain) in
and untroubled. If you hot season,we
Serene tell someone horrible become calm
news and they remain Example: She is a
serene, you might Serene woman who
wonder if they heard was everyone's
you! source of support
not interesting or Something that is staid is Mnemonic: Staid -
amusing. dignified, respectable - sounds like
Form: adj possibly even boring, like "STAYED"-Imagine
Tone: neutral a staid dinner party that you have always
is heavy on the maintained your
important guests but dignity and propriety
light on the laughs. in the place where
Staid
you have stayed for
so many years!
Example: Everyone
was surprised by the
racy joke from the
usually Staid
professor
not showing much A stolid person canâ€™t Mnemonic:
emotion or be moved to smile or Remember Stolid as
interest.never show much sign of life, in solid. As we all know
reacting. much the same way as that molecules in
Form: adj something solid, like a solid are not moving
Tone: pos giant boulder, is randomly as in liquid
Stolid
immovable. Both are or gas. So they are
expressionless. dull. So Stolid means
solid and dull.
Example: She
remained Stolid
during the trial.
quiet and peaceful When a place or your Mnemonic:
Form: adj state of mind is peaceful, Tranquilizer is given
Tone: pos quiet and serene, it is to animals for
tranquil. calming them and
thus Tranquil means
Tranquil to calm
Example: The house
was once again
Tranquil after the kids
moved outside to
play
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ADD / SUPPORT to make someone Agitate means to stir Mnemonic: Agitate

feel anxious and up. If you watch a rhymes with Irritate.
AGGRESSIVE / nervous. horror movie at You get agitated if
ARGUMENTATIVE Form: v bedtime, you may be somebody constantly
AGREEMENT / HARMONY
Agitate X Tone: neg too agitated to sleep. irritates you.
Movies like that can Example: If I talk
ARGUE / FIGHT agitate all sorts of about the problem with
adrenaline responses him it just agitates him
BIASED
in the body. even more.
CALM a worried and sad Consternation is a Mnemonic:
DISTURBED / AGITATED feeling after having noun that can stop you CONSTERNATION -
received an in your tracks because (cons) continuous + ter
DOMINATING unpleasant it means "a sudden, (terror) + nation;
EQUALITY surprise. alarming amazement continuous terrorist
Consternation
Form: n or dread that results in attacks on a nation can
X
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- Tone: neg utter confusion; cause CONSTERNATION
)/ * PRAISE dismay." Example: Much to her
parents' consternation,
she had decided to not
INDIFFERENT go to college.
INSULTING WORDS disturb. To disconcert is to Mnemonic: When you
Form: v unsettle someone, are getting ready to
MAKE ISOLATE Tone: neg make them feel perform at a concert,
NARROW MINDED / confused and out of you are tensed and
REGIONAL sorts. It's a mixture of confused as to how your
to embarrass and to show will fair with the
NOT SERIOUS Disconcert X creep out. audience.
Example: News of his
OVERLY OBEDIENT
criminal past has
PAMPERING disconcerted even his
admirers.
PRESENT EVERYWHERE Root: Prefix DIS means
SUPPRESS / END NOT
SURPRISE / CONFUSE a worried and sad If you discover late Mnemonic: This (Dis)
feeling after having Sunday night that the MAY semester end
received an dog really did eat your exams begin, I fear in
unpleasant homework, you might dismay.
Dismay X surprise. cry out in dismay. Example: The imposing
Form: n Dismay describes an climb up the mountain
Tone: neg emotional state of dismayed us even
alarm, fear, or serious before we got started.
disappointment.
cannot think If you are upset, you Mnemonic: This year
clearly because are distraught. If you because of drought
you are extremely want to explain why (sounds like distraught)
upset. you are pulling your people were upset and
Form: adj hair out, just utter anxious.
Distraught X Tone: neg "Leave me alone; I'm Example: Distraught
distraught" It'll work. relatives are waiting for
news of the missing
children.
Root: Prefix DIS means
NOT
to make someone If nothing can faze Mnemonic: The face
feel confused or you, you are turns faze(d) when
shocked, so that unflappable. Nothing someone is humiliated.
Faze X you donâ€™t know bothers you, or gets Example: You'll never
what to do. you off your game. To succeed as a writer if
Form: v faze is to disrupt or you let a little bit of
Tone: neg disturb. criticism faze you.
to make someone To fluster someone is Mnemonic: Fluster
nervous or to make them feel reminds me of
confused by giving upset or agitated. A 'Frustrate'. when you
them a lot to do. challenging math get confused, you get
Fluster X
Form: v,n problem might fluster frustrated.
Tone: neg you, or even a glance Example: Some
from an admirer. speakers fluster more
easily than others.
to create trouble or Stand outside the Mnemonic: Foam
violence to make it school cafeteria starts to appear once
worse. passing out flyers with you profusely foment
Form: v nutritional details on (stir up) a soapy hot
Tone: neg school food, and you water bucket(2nd
Foment X may foment a meaning )
revolutionâ€“â Example: He was
€“foment means accused of fomenting
stirring up something violence.
undesirable, such as
trouble.
lot of energy and The adjective frenetic Mnemonic: sounds like
activity in a way is another way to say 'fanatic' which means
that is not frenzied, frantic, or someone with excessive
organized totally worked up. Kind excitement or devotion
Form: adj of how you'd run to something
Tone: neg around the kitchen (belief/cause) so
Frenetic X
madly trying to cook a frenetic means
last-minute dinner for excessive excitement
30 of your closest like a mad man.
friends. Example: The
celebration was noisy
and frenetic.
in a state of Hysterical means Mnemonic: Hysterical
extreme "marked by sounds like Hilarious,
excitement, in an uncontrollable, when its not even so.
uncontrolled way. extreme emotion." If Like its an emotional
Form: adj your favorite sports disorder and someone
Tone: neg team wins a watching an emotional
championship, you scene starts laughing as
Hysterical X
might get hysterical if it comprises a funny
and started weeping plot. That hysterical.
and screaming all at Example: A few of the
once. children began to
scream, and soon they
were all caught up in
the hysteria.
cannot be calmed An implacable person Mnemonic: Sounds like
down just canâ€™t be IMPLEASABLE -- some
Form: adj appeased. If you really one who cannot be
Tone: neg offended your best pleased or appeased --
friend and tried every not pacifiable
Implacable X
kind of apology but she Example: He has an
refused to speak to implacable hatred for
you again, you could his political opponents.
describe her as Root: Prefix MIS means
implacable. NOT
very worried and High on drama and Mnemonic: wrought
upset lacking any emotional sounds lik
Form: adj restraint, overwrought drought...during
Tone: neg is an adjective that drought people run mad
Overwrought
means deeply, behind food...they are in
X
excessively agitated or a state of agitation
nervous. Example: The witness
became overwrought as
she described the crime.
to make someone To perturb is to bug or Mnemonic: perturb
worried or anxious bother someone by sounds like "disturb"
Form: v confusing them or Example: It perturbed
Tone: neg throwing them off him that his son was
Perturb X balance. You can try, thinking about leaving
but it's almost school.
impossible to perturb
the guards outside
Buckingham Palace.
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ADD / SUPPORT having unlimited Use absolute as a noun or Mnemonic: "solute"

power or control, an adjective when you're sounds like salute
AGGRESSIVE / esp when despotic so sure of something that and we use to salute
ARGUMENTATIVE Form: adj,n you know it will never people having
AGREEMENT / HARMONY Tone: neg change. For example, a complete power.
Absolute
devout person's belief in Example: The
ARGUE / FIGHT life after death is an country is ruled by an
absolute; that person has Absolute dictator.
BIASED
absolute faith in the Root: Prefix AB
CALM afterlife. means AWAY FROM.
DISTURBED / AGITATED showing that you Speak with an Mnemonic: Someone
expect people to authoritative tone, or no having Authority will
DOMINATING obey and respect one will listen to you. Why be Authoritative.
EQUALITY Authoritative you. would they, if you sound Example: The book
Form: adj like you don't even believe is an Authoritative
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- Tone: neg in yourself? Authoritative guide to the city's
)/ * PRAISE means sure or definitive. restaurants.
INCLUDING EVERYTHING a person who An autocrat is another Mnemonic:
expects to be name for a dictator, Autocracy (Auto
INDIFFERENT obeyed by other someone who wields means indeendent) is
INSULTING WORDS people and does absolute power and uses it just the opposite
not care about in a cruel and despotic word for Democracy.
MAKE ISOLATE their opinions or manner. Example: European
Autocrat
NARROW MINDED / feelings. Autocrats once
REGIONAL Form: n commonly believed
Tone: neg that they had
NOT SERIOUS received the right to
rule directly from
OVERLY OBEDIENT
God.
PAMPERING a ruler with great A despot, is a cruel, all- Mnemonic: Cruel
PRESENT EVERYWHERE power, especially controlling ruler. For dictators kill
one who uses it in example, a despot does thousands of people
SUPPRESS / END a cruel way not allow people to speak on de (the) spot
SURPRISE / CONFUSE Form: n out against the leadership, (Despot)
Despot
Tone: neg nor really want them to Example: He was a
have much freedom at all. successful basketball
coach, but many
people regarded him
as a petty Despot.
you are certain Someone who is dogmatic Mnemonic: If you
that your beliefs has arrogant attitudes try to read
and rights are based on unproved "Dogmatic" from
correct and that theories. If you back to front, you will
others should dogmatically assert that get "i am god". the
accept them. the moon is made of person who think that
Dogmatic Form: adj green cheese, you'll just he is a god is
Tone: neg get laughed at. arrogant and
stubborn
Example: She's
become so Dogmatic
lately that arguing
with her is pointless.
control by one Hegemony is political or Mnemonic:
country, cultural dominance or Hegemony:he's got
organization, etc. authority over others. The money,so he's
over other hegemony of the popular domineering in the
countries, within a kids over the other society and he control
Hegemony particular group. students means that they others.
Form: n determine what is and is Example: They
Tone: neg not cool. discussed the national
government's
Hegemony over their
tribal community.
expecting people Someone who is imperious Mnemonic:
to obey you and gives orders in a way that remember Imperious
treating them as if shows they feel superior curse in harry
they are not as or more important than potter!!it is used to
important as you. other people. You might command others to
Imperious
Form: adj want the smartest kid in do something
Tone: neg the class as your lab Example: She is an
partner, but not if they Imperious movie star
have an imperious attitude who thinks she's
and boss you around. some sort of goddess
a very strict person Use the noun martinet to Mnemonic:
who demands that describe someone is a Martinet's spelling is
other people obey stickler when it comes to very similar to
orders or rules following rules, such as martial - so a
Martinet completely the teacher who won't Martinet is a strict
Form: n accept homework if it is martial.
Tone: neg written in a color other Example: The
than blue. prison's warden was
a cruel Martinet.
in which there is You can decipher the Mnemonic:
only one political meaning of totalitarian by Totalitarian sounds
party that has the first part: "total." It like TOTAL power
complete power refers to a government Example: We were
Totalitariian and control over with total power, one that asked to oppose
the people. exercises complete, even dictatorship and
Form: adj,n oppressive control over totalitarianism and
Tone: neg the people and their embrace Democracy.
activities.
a person who has If you accuse your parents Mnemonic:
complete power in of being tyrants, you are Remember mike
a country and uses saying they abuse their tyson .. He was cruel
it in a cruel and control of youâ€“-they are dictator in the ring
Tyrant unfair way. cruel, overly restrictive of Example: The
Form: n your freedoms, and unfair. country was ruled by
Tone: neg A tyrant is a ruler who is a succession of
cruel and unjust. Tyrants.
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ADD / SUPPORT Equal work (syn) The word commensurate Mnemonic: SPLIT AS
Form: adj has to do with things COMMON - ENSURED
AGGRESSIVE / Tone: neutral that are similar in size -RATE. WHICH
ARGUMENTATIVE and therefore MEANS, OUR RATE
AGREEMENT / HARMONY appropriate. Many WILL BE EQUAL TO
Commensurate people think the death THE CHEAPEST
ARGUE / FIGHT penalty is a PRODUCT!
commensurate Example: Salary will
BIASED
punishment for murder. be Commensurate
CALM In other words, the with experience.
penalty fits the crime.
not similar (oppo) The trunk of some Mnemonic:
DOMINATING Form: adj people's cars may Disparate can be
EQUALITY Tone: negative, contain items as broken as: "This"
neutral depending disparate as old clothes, "sEparate" so read as
Disparate
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- on the context rotting food, and "this is separate
(opp)
)/ * PRAISE possibly a missing Example: They are a
relative. Disparate disparate group of
things are very different individuals.
INDIFFERENT from each other.
INSULTING WORDS Equal (syn) Parity refers to equality Mnemonic:
Form: n of an amount or value, Parity.......divide it
MAKE ISOLATE Tone: neutral and it's used most often like pari(pair)...pairs
NARROW MINDED / to refer to finance. always exhibit
REGIONAL equality in their
Parity
choices.
NOT SERIOUS Example: Prison
officers are
OVERLY OBEDIENT
demanding pay Parity
PAMPERING with the police force.
PRESENT EVERYWHERE Equal(syn) A peer is someone at Mnemonic: peer
Form: n your own level. If you rhymes with near and
SUPPRESS / END Tone: neutral are a 10th grader, other dear -people of equal
SURPRISE / CONFUSE high school students are status(Peers) are
your peers. usually near and dear
Peers
to each other.
Example: Children
are worried about
failing in front of their
Peers.
equality When something is Mnemonic:
Form: adj tantamount to another Tantamount and
Tone: neutral thing it is essentially its Paramount are similar
equivalent. For some in sound but have
animal activists, wearing different meanings.
fur is tantamount to While Tantamount
murder. means, equivalent,
Tantamount
paramount means
chief in importance.
Example: If he
resigned it would be
Tantamount to
admitting that he was
guilty.
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ADD / SUPPORT admiration and If you've ever been to Mnemonic: Adulation *-

praise, but it is a pop concert filled ad + u + late; To act in
AGGRESSIVE / greater than is with screaming fans an ad (advertisement)
ARGUMENTATIVE necessary. you've probably been you came late, so
AGREEMENT / HARMONY Form: n exposed to adulation â producer became
Tone: neg €” praise so over-the- furious...in order to cool
Adulation *
ARGUE / FIGHT top it's almost him u need to FLATTER
embarrassing. him.
BIASED
Example: The band
CALM enjoy the Adulation *of
their fans wherever they
DISTURBED / AGITATED go.
DOMINATING when you say all When you hear a Mnemonic: BLAN (like
EQUALITY good things to blandishment come PLAN) + DISH (food) -
someone to your way, you may PLAN a DISH to FLATTER
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- persuade them to feel flattered, as that's somebody...
)/ * PRAISE do things for you. what a blandisher Example: He refused to
Blandishment Form: n intends to do. be moved by either
* Tone: neg However, beware threats or Blandishment
INDIFFERENT because that flattery *s.
may come with the
INSULTING WORDS underlying intention of
MAKE ISOLATE persuading you to do
something!
NARROW MINDED /
REGIONAL flatter A fawn is a young Mnemonic: a FAN tries
Form: v deer, but it's also a to gain favor by flattery
NOT SERIOUS Tone: neg verb meaning to try Example: a sports star
and win favor by surrounded by Fawning
OVERLY OBEDIENT
Fawn flattering. You might fans
PAMPERING fawn over Bambi if you
want to hang out with
PRESENT EVERYWHERE the cute and fuzzy
SUPPRESS / END gang.
SURPRISE / CONFUSE too generous in Compliments usually Mnemonic: Focus on

praising or make you feel pretty the full portion. Fulsome
thanking somebody good, but fulsome means excessive to the
Form: adj compliments, which point where it is too full.
Fulsome
Tone: pos are exaggerated and Example: He was
usually insincere, may Fulsome in his praise of
have the opposite the Prime Minister.
effect.
trying too hard to If you disapprove of Mnemonic: ob + SEQUI
please or satisfy the overly submissive + ous .. sequi means
someone very way someone is acting sequence where one
important. - like the teacher's pet thing "follows" the
Form: adj or a celebrity's other.. and servants
Tone: neg assistant - call them by follow what their masters
Obsequious
the formal adjective say
obsequious. Example: She's
constantly followed by
Obsequious assistants
who will do anything she
tells them to.
a person who A sycophant is a Mnemonic:
praises influential person who tries to Sycophant.split it like
or powerful people win favor from wealthy .....syco(sounds like
in order to get or influential people by psycho)+phan...sounds
something in flattering them. Also like FAN.......SO JUST
return. known as brown- IMAGINE a PSYCHO FAN
Form: n nosers, teacher's pets of yours in your office
Tone: neg or suck-ups. who want to please you
in whatever way..by
Sycophant
flattering..or by
bootliking.....just to gain
your favour...
Example: When her
career was riding high,
the self-deluded actress
often mistook
Sycophants for true
friends
a person who You can call the kid Mnemonic: Sir,
praises influential who is always really "TODAY"(Toady) you
or powerful people nice to the teacher in look very ...... (this an
in order to get hopes of getting a act of pleasing someone
Toady
something in good grade a brown- in order to gain a
return. noser or, if you want personal advantage.)
Form: n,v to sound clever, a Example: She's a real
Tone: neg toady. Toady to the boss.
friendly or giving You might know the Mnemonic: Unctuous ->
praise in a way idea of the adjective fUnctuous -> party like
that is not sincere unctuous by other ... in parties girls do a
and hence words like "oily," lot of oily makeup and
unpleasant. "smarmy," or overly try to appear and behave
Form: adj "flattering." When a sauve but in my opinion
Unctuous
Tone: neg person is unctuous, they look and behave in
you can't trust their a bland way.
kindness, because Example: an Unctuous
they usually want appraisal of the musical
something in return. talent shown by the
boss's daughter
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ADD / SUPPORT covering When you want to Mnemonic: we

completely describe something always hear
AGGRESSIVE / Form: adj that includes all or "COMPREHENSIVE
ARGUMENTATIVE Tone: neut most details, you can win" from cricket
AGREEMENT / HARMONY use the adjective commentators.. it
comprehensive. If means the side wins
ARGUE / FIGHT you get the making enough runs
comprehensive or with enough
BIASED COMPREHENSIVE treatment at a spa, it wickets.. so its
CALM might include covering and winning
massage, manicure in all aspects over the
DISTURBED / AGITATED and a facial. opposition..
DOMINATING Example: A
COMPREHENSIVE
EQUALITY overview of European
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- history since the
)/ * PRAISE French Revolution
to include a large Encompass means to Mnemonic: We use
number or range of contain. When you compass to draw
INDIFFERENT things. see the word, picture circle, which
Form: v a campus which sorrounds or includes
INSULTING WORDS Encompass Tone: NEUT encompasses lecture the area within it.
MAKE ISOLATE halls, a football field, Example: The district
a medical center, a Encompasses most of
NARROW MINDED / dining hall and some the downtown area.
REGIONAL parking lots.
NOT SERIOUS including Call something Mnemonic:
everything inclusive when it's Everything is IN the
OVERLY OBEDIENT
Form: adj designed or inclined CLOSET.
PAMPERING Tone: NEUT to include. An Example: A butterfly
Inclusive exclusive club might expert with an
PRESENT EVERYWHERE let you in, but an Inclusive knowledge
SUPPRESS / END inclusive one will ask of his subject
you to join, no strings
SURPRISE / CONFUSE attached.
existing in all parts When something is Mnemonic: Pervasive
and spreading pervasive, it's sounds like
gradually to affect everywhere. Common persuasive, if you are
all parts of a place. things are pervasive â persuasive youre
Pervasive
Form: adj €” like greed and ideas will be Pervasive
Tone: NEUT cheap perfume. Example: Television's
Pervasive influence on
our culture
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ADD / SUPPORT someone who is Use the noun apathy when Mnemonic: a
not interested or someone is not interested in (negative) + pathy :
AGGRESSIVE / enthusiastic about the important things that are root "pathy" means
ARGUMENTATIVE anything. happening. You might feel feeling as in sympathy;
AGREEMENT / HARMONY Form: n. apathy for the political process so Apathy means
Tone: neg after watching candidates having no feeling for
ARGUE / FIGHT bicker tediously with one others or lacking
Apathy another. interest in something.
BIASED
Example: People have
CALM shown surprising
Apathy toward these
DISTURBED / AGITATED important social
DOMINATING problems.
Root: Prefix A- means
EQUALITY NOT
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- a person who is Being stoic is being calm and Mnemonic: Think:
)/ * PRAISE unable to suffer almost without any emotion. "Stone-like" -To be like
pain without When you're stoic, you don't a stone means you
complaining. show what you're feeling and don't experience
INDIFFERENT Stoic Form: n,adj you also accept whatever is pleasure or pain. You
Tone: neg happening. are unaffected.
INSULTING WORDS Example: We are
MAKE ISOLATE surprised at his Stoical
acceptance of death
NARROW MINDED /
REGIONAL
NOT SERIOUS
OVERLY OBEDIENT
PAMPERING
PRESENT EVERYWHERE
SUPPRESS / END
SURPRISE / CONFUSE
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ADD / SUPPORT to feel and express tending to diminish or Mnemonic:

disapproval of disparage Depriciate is to
AGGRESSIVE / something or reduce and lessen.
ARGUMENTATIVE someone. Example: He made a
Deprecatory
AGREEMENT / HARMONY Form: adj deprecating
Tone: neg comment.
ARGUE / FIGHT Root: Prefix De
means DOWN.
BIASED
showing a bad Something that's Mnemonic: de rogue
CALM attitude towards derogatory is insulting or -you always will have
DISTURBED / AGITATED someone. disrespectful. If you make a low opinion of
Form: adj derogatory comments, that rogues
DOMINATING Derogatory Tone: neg means you say things that Example: Fans made
EQUALITY are unflattering, unkind, or a steady stream of
demeaning. Derogatory remarks
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- about the players on
)/ * PRAISE the visiting team
INCLUDING EVERYTHING a word or remark Call a word or phrase Mnemonic: Owner of
that expresses pejorative if it is used as a a Mitsubishi PAJERO
INDIFFERENT criticism. disapproving expression or belittles everyone on
INSULTING WORDS Form: adj a term of abuse. Tree- the road.
Pejorative
Tone: neg hugger is a pejorative term Example: I'm using
MAKE ISOLATE for an environmentalist. the word â
NARROW MINDED / €ãcademicâ€™ here
REGIONAL in a Pejorative sense.
NOT SERIOUS
OVERLY OBEDIENT
PAMPERING
PRESENT EVERYWHERE
SUPPRESS / END
SURPRISE / CONFUSE
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ADD / SUPPORT to make unfriendly When you alienate Mnemonic:

Form: v people, you make them Alien+ate. treating
AGGRESSIVE / Tone: neg stop liking or caring about someone like an alien
ARGUMENTATIVE you. Show up at a is like being
AGREEMENT / HARMONY conference of cat lovers unfriendly or getting
ALIENATE
with a sign around your separated.
ARGUE / FIGHT neck that says, "I hate Example: He
kittens," and you'll learn ALIENATEd most of
BIASED
firsthand what that his colleagues with
CALM means. his bad temper.
DISTURBED / AGITATED to act in oposition To antagonize is to Mnemonic: go anti
Form: v provoke someone to react to someone that is
DOMINATING Tone: neg angrily. If your mother ANTAGONIZE for you
EQUALITY tells you to stop Example: Her
ANTAGONIZE antagonizing your comments
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- brother, she's asking you ANTAGONIZEd many
)/ * PRAISE to stop making him mad. people.
Root: Prefix ANTI
means AGAINST.
INDIFFERENT Divide, isolate To estrange people may Mnemonic: To
INSULTING WORDS Form: n sound like adding wobbly behave like a
Tone: NEG antennae and an extra stranger with a friend
MAKE ISOLATE eyeball to their faces. will mean estranging.
NARROW MINDED / Estrange Really, estrange means to Example: she
REGIONAL push apart people who Estranged several of
were once close to each her coworkers when
NOT SERIOUS other and cause them to she let her promotion
be like strangers. go to her head
OVERLY OBEDIENT
PAMPERING
PRESENT EVERYWHERE
SUPPRESS / END
SURPRISE / CONFUSE
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ADD / SUPPORT only interested in Insular means "having a Mnemonic:

your country, ideas narrow view of the world," IN(not)+SECULAR.a
AGGRESSIVE / etc, or not in those like insular people who country which is not
ARGUMENTATIVE from outside. never leave their small secular is Insular
AGREEMENT / HARMONY
Insular Form: adj town, which enables them Example: The British
Tone: NEG to believe that every place are often accused of
ARGUE / FIGHT in the world is the same being Insular.
and the people are all just Root: In means INTO or
BIASED
like them. WITHIN.
CALM narrow minded lacking tolerance or Mnemonic: With My
DISTURBED / AGITATED Form: N understanding Opaque lenses I will be
Tone: NEG short sighted
DOMINATING Myopic
Example: Dogma and
EQUALITY Myopic politics always
falls short in explanation
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (-
only concerned If an issue or a matter is Mnemonic: Having
)/ * PRAISE
with small issues parochial, it is trivial or PARTIAL vision or
INCLUDING EVERYTHING that happen in you only concerns a local area. outlook is being
local areas. Likewise, a person with a Parochial.
INDIFFERENT Parochial
Form: adj parochial mentality is Example: They need to
INSULTING WORDS Tone: NEG narrow-minded, or not be better informed and
open to new ideas. less Parochial in their
MAKE ISOLATE thinking.
NARROW MINDED / narrow-minded. A provincial person comes Mnemonic: Provincial
REGIONAL Form: adj from the backwaters. sounds like "PROVINCE".
Tone: NEG Someone from a small Imagine a person
NOT SERIOUS
province outside of belonging to rural
OVERLY OBEDIENT Provence, France, might province then he don't
seem a little more have much exposure to
PAMPERING Provincial provincial and less worldly outer world...so he is
PRESENT EVERYWHERE than someone from, say, unsophisticated and
Paris. limited in outlook
SUPPRESS / END Example: In spite of his
SURPRISE / CONFUSE education and travels,
he has remained very
Provincial.
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ADD / SUPPORT showing that you When a parent scolds Mnemonic: focus on flip;
do not take certain a teenager for missing during exam time if you flip
AGGRESSIVE / things as seriously a curfew or blowing through the pages of the
ARGUMENTATIVE as you are off a test and the teen book rather than reading
AGREEMENT / HARMONY expected to take. snaps back, them with concentration,
Flippant Form: adj "Whatever," you could then you LACK PROPER
ARGUE / FIGHT Tone: neg say the teen is being SERIOUSNESS.
flippant. His reply was Example: He made a
BIASED
casual to the point of Flippant response to a
CALM sarcasm and serious question.
disrespect.
silly or not serious Frivolous things are Mnemonic: Frivolous things
DOMINATING especially when it silly or unnecessary. are silly or unnecessary. If
EQUALITY is not suitable. If something is something is Fri-vo-lous -
Form: adj frivolous, then you Free - If something is free,
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- Tone: neg don't need it. you don't take it seriously,
)/ * PRAISE you think 'oh they are giving
Frivolous it for free because its not an
important stuff, or not the
INDIFFERENT stuff in demand, or not the
stuff usually taken
INSULTING WORDS Example: She thinks
MAKE ISOLATE window shopping is a
Frivolous activity.
NARROW MINDED /
REGIONAL serious If you have a grave Mnemonic: Don't laugh
Form: adj personality, you are near the graves,be serious.
Grave
NOT SERIOUS Tone: pos solemn and dignified Example: My father would
(oppo)
and don't joke around turn in his grave if he knew
OVERLY OBEDIENT
very much. what I have done.
PAMPERING the state of not Only people with no Mnemonic: Insouciant:
PRESENT EVERYWHERE being worried real troubles can sounds like In-soup-ant or
about anything. afford to be insouciant in-sauce-ant. Suppose the
SUPPRESS / END Form: adj during times like waiter serves you a soup
SURPRISE / CONFUSE Tone: neg these. Runway models with an ant in it and he is
are great at looking not even concerned about
Insouciant
insouciant, strolling removing it, he is
the catwalk Insouciant.
apparently without a Example: She wandered
care in the world. into the meeting with
complete insouciance to the
fact that she was late
behavior that Joking that your dead Mnemonic: Levity Sounds
shows lack of grandmother "never like
respect for looked better" could lev(leave)+it+y(.yaar).you
something serious inject some levity, or casually leave things without
and that treats it frivolity, into her any seriousness
Levity
in an amusing way. funeral, but your Example: The teachers
Form: n relatives might find disapprove of any displays of
Tone: neg your joke Levity during school
inappropriate to the assemblies
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ADD / SUPPORT to behave in a To grovel is to beg like a Mnemonic: One who

humble manner hungry dog. You don't wants to "grow well"
AGGRESSIVE / with someone who have to be a canine, in his Company needs
ARGUMENTATIVE can probably give though, you might grovel to Grovel before his
Grovel
AGREEMENT / HARMONY him what he for a better grade (please manager.
wants. don't). Example: He had to
ARGUE / FIGHT Form: v Grovel to get her to
Tone: neg accept his apology.
BIASED
a servant Your minions, if you are Mnemonic: A mini
CALM Form: n lucky enough to have any, peon (Minion).. Who
DISTURBED / AGITATED Tone: neg are those people who are is servile to his boss.
devoted to you and entirely Example: Most of the
DOMINATING Minion dependent on you. If you top appointments
EQUALITY borrow money from a bully went to the new
and don't pay it back, he governor's personal
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- might send one of his Minions and political
)/ * PRAISE minions after you. cronies
INCLUDING EVERYTHING someone who If you want to get Mnemonic: sounds
eagerly wants to someone to like you, don't like "SERVE" while
INDIFFERENT obey or please offer to fetch them a Coke, serving you have to
INSULTING WORDS someone rub their feet, or do their be submissive, or
Form: adj homework. They won't like keep your head down.
MAKE ISOLATE Servile
Tone: neg you any better, and your Example: He had
NARROW MINDED / servile attitude will only always maintained a
REGIONAL cost you their respect. Servile attitude
around people with
NOT SERIOUS money
OVERLY OBEDIENT copying someone abjectly submissive; Mnemonic: Slavish
without any characteristic of a slave or sounds like SLAVE.
PAMPERING originality of his servant Example: He has
Slavish
PRESENT EVERYWHERE own at all. been criticized for his
Form: adj Slavish devotion to
SUPPRESS / END Tone: neg the rules.
SURPRISE / CONFUSE someone who Subservient means Mnemonic:
eagerly wants to "compliant," "obedient," sub+servient..servient
obey or please "submissive," or having the sounds like
someone qualities of a servant. servent.....a servent
Form: adj,n Something that's is a slave or one who
Tone: neg subservient has been made is low in rank or
useful, or put into the position so
Subservient
service of, something else. subordinate.
Example: She
refused to take a
Subservient role in
their marriage.
Root: Prefix SUB-
means UNDER.
a person who asks If you pray every night to Mnemonic: One who
for something in a be accepted to your dream says ..SUPPLy me I
humble manner college, you can call CANT get it on my
specially from God yourself a supplicant, or a own.
or a powerful person who asks humbly Example: The new
Supplicant
person. for something. governor soon had to
Form: v deal with a long line
Tone: neg of Supplicants asking
for jobs and other
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ADD / SUPPORT to treat someone While it is okay for Mnemonic: Coddle -

with too much care parents to coddle, spoil, sounds like cuddle -
AGGRESSIVE / and attention. or pamper a young child, cuddling is pampering
ARGUMENTATIVE Form: v itâ€™s a little unnerving kids, showing excessive
AGREEMENT / HARMONY Tone: pos when parents coddle, or love, indulge in excess
Coddle pamper adult children. of cuddling that is
ARGUE / FIGHT And downright weird mollyCoddle, which will
when adult children wear spoil kids.
BIASED
Pampers. Example: The judges
CALM were accused of
coddling criminals.
the state of your Humor is a word for the Example: She
DOMINATING feelings or mind at quality of being funny - or Humored her
EQUALITY Humor a particular time. for appreciating comedy, grandfather by listening
Form: n,v as in "sense of humor." to his war stories for
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- Tone: neut the hundredth time.
)/ * PRAISE
to satisfy a Indulge is a verb that Example: It's my
INCLUDING EVERYTHING particular desire means "to give in to birthday. I'm going to
and interest. something," like when Indulge myself and eat
INDIFFERENT Indulge
Form: v you indulge your craving whatever I want to eat.
INSULTING WORDS Tone: pos for chocolate by eating a
big piece of it.
MAKE ISOLATE
to protect Mollycoddle means to Mnemonic: molly=to
NARROW MINDED / soomeone too spoil or overindulge calm
REGIONAL much and make something. You can think down/pacify...coddle=to
their life too of mollycoddle as an treat with
NOT SERIOUS
comfortable and extreme form of coddle. tenderness/care...
OVERLY OBEDIENT Mollycoddle safe. If you constantly fuss Mollycoddle= treat with
Form: v over your dog and serve excessive care
PAMPERING Tone: pos her homemade food while Example: The coach
PRESENT EVERYWHERE she's resting on a soft has been mollycoddling
feather bed, you the team's star players.
SUPPRESS / END mollycoddle her.
SURPRISE / CONFUSE to take care of treat with excessive Mnemonic: Do you
someone very well indulgence know what hampers a
and make them child most? I think if
feel as comfortable the parents always
as possible. INDULGE a child , it
Pamper
Form: v may be Pampered & its
Tone: pos life may be hampered.
Example: They really
Pamper their guests at
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ADD / SUPPORT Present Omnipresent describes Mnemonic: Omni

everywhere. (syn) something that's means ALL and
AGGRESSIVE / Form: adj everywhere at once, like Present. So present in
ARGUMENTATIVE Tone: NEUT a deity or a bad smell. all places or
AGREEMENT / HARMONY everywhere is being
Omnipresent.
ARGUE / FIGHT Omnipresent Example: Seeking
some much-needed
BIASED
relief from the
CALM Omnipresent noise of
the big city
DISTURBED / AGITATED Root: Omni means
DOMINATING ALL.
EQUALITY seeming to be It's everywhere! It's Mnemonic:

everywhere or in everywhere! When Remember UB Group
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- several places at something seems like it's belonging to Vijaya
)/ * PRAISE the same time. present in all places at Malliya. It is present
Form: adj the same time, reach for everywhere in India.
Tone: NEUT the adjective ubiquitous. Example: By that
Ubiquitous
INDIFFERENT time cell phones had
become Ubiquitous,
INSULTING WORDS and people had long
MAKE ISOLATE ceased to be
impressed by the sight
NARROW MINDED / of one
REGIONAL
NOT SERIOUS
OVERLY OBEDIENT
PAMPERING
PRESENT EVERYWHERE
SUPPRESS / END
SURPRISE / CONFUSE
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ADD / SUPPORT to defeat or when you pulverize Mnemonic: Pulverize

destroy something someone, you defeat = POWDERIZE
AGGRESSIVE / Pulverize completely.(effect) him/her thoroughly Example: We
ARGUMENTATIVE Form: v Pulverized the
AGREEMENT / HARMONY Tone: neg opposition.
to officially state Quash means to put down, Mnemonic: Quash
ARGUE / FIGHT
that a decision stop, extinguish, and itâ€™s can be framed as
BIASED made by the court usually used to talk about CRUSH to ash, so
has come to an ideas, feelings, or political qu+(ASH)
CALM end or not valid. movements. You wouldnâ Example: The
Quash
DISTURBED / AGITATED Form: v €™t quash a grape rumours were quickly
Tone: neut underfoot; you would squash Quashed.
DOMINATING it. But if you were a military
EQUALITY dictator, you would quash a
revolution.
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (-
calm down Meaning to suppress or Mnemonic: Quell
)/ * PRAISE
someone or overcome, quell is what you sounds simlar to yell
INCLUDING EVERYTHING something. have to do with nerves and we yell to
Form: v before a big test and fears supress someone or
INDIFFERENT Quell Tone: pos before going skydiving. make him/her quiet.
INSULTING WORDS Example: Extra
police were called in
MAKE ISOLATE to Quell the
NARROW MINDED / disturbances.
REGIONAL control Repression is a kind of Mnemonic:
Form: v holding back or holding Repression is like
NOT SERIOUS
Tone: pos/neut down. There's repression of depression and you
OVERLY OBEDIENT feelings (willing yourself not control your
Repression to cry), as well as social depression which is
PAMPERING repression (where the Repression
PRESENT EVERYWHERE government limits freedom Example: They
or shuts out certain groups). survived 60 years of
SUPPRESS / END political Repression.
SURPRISE / CONFUSE prevent something Restrain means to hold Mnemonic: Restrain
from taking place yourself back, which is is to TRAIN your
(syn) exactly what you'd have to BRAIN to REFRAIN
Form: n do if, after weeks of dieting, from doing something
Restrain Tone: neg you found yourself face to you are not supposed
face with a dessert case to.
filled with pies, cakes, and Example: He could
cookies. not Restrain the dog
from attacking.
decisively putting The verb to scotch has Mnemonic: Scotch
an end to nothing to do with the well- sounds like Torch,
something. known liquor. Instead, it which is used to
Form: v means to prevent or stop supress Darkness.
Scotch Tone: pos/neut something from happening. Example: Rumours
that he had fled the
country were
promptly Scotched by
his wife.
to bring someone To subdue is to hold back, Mnemonic: Hungry?
or something to put down, or defeat. A Lets go to SUBWAYS
control.(effect) Doberman can be subdued to Subdue our
Subdue Form: v with a bone, but subduing a hunger.
Tone: neg/neut yapping toy poodle can be a Example: Julia had
mail carrier's greatest daily to Subdue an urge to
challenge. stroke his hair.
to put something To suppress something Mnemonic: The
to end especially means to curb, inhibit, or celebrity said "sup
by force even stop it. If the sound of press" when the
Form: v your boss moving in his press came and
Suppress
Tone: neg chair sounds like gas, youâ ruined his activity.
€™re going to have to learn Example: The
how to suppress your governor tried to
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ADD / SUPPORT to surprise or Astound means to Mnemonic: Astound

shock someone amaze. Savants, or those sounds like A- STUNT
AGGRESSIVE / very much. with extreme brain which is really a
ARGUMENTATIVE Form: v abnormalities, can wonder.
AGREEMENT / HARMONY
Astound Tone: neg/ neut astound people by their Example: The
ability to play Beethoven magician will Astound
ARGUE / FIGHT sonatas on the piano you with his latest
after having heard them tricks.
BIASED
only once.
CALM to confuse To baffle is to confuse. If Mnemonic: Baffle
DISTURBED / AGITATED someone you are completely sounds like be + fool.
completely. puzzled as to what baffle Everybody knows
DOMINATING Form: v means, you might say that a fool is always
EQUALITY Tone: neg/ neut that this word baffles confused and
you. frusturated while
Baffle
EXCESSIVE FLATTERY (- trying to understand
)/ * PRAISE / do something new.
Example: I was
Baffled by many of
INDIFFERENT the scientific terms
used in the article.
INSULTING WORDS
to confuse To bamboozle is to Mnemonic: sounds
MAKE ISOLATE someone especially hoodwink, lead by the like Puzzle, using
NARROW MINDED / by tricking them. nose, or pull the wool trick
REGIONAL Form: v over someone's eyes - Example:
Bamboozle
Tone: neg/ neut you're tricking or fooling Bamboozled by con
NOT SERIOUS them. men into buying
worthless land in the
OVERLY OBEDIENT
desert
PAMPERING confused and To befuddle is to confuse. Mnemonic: Befuddle
PRESENT EVERYWHERE unable to think A sticky exam question sounds like
normally. can befuddle you, or an bepuzzled.
SUPPRESS / END Form: v awkward question about Example: Most of
SURPRISE / CONFUSE Befuddle Tone: neg/ neut your whereabouts the the applicants were
night before (how can Befuddled by the
you remember? You were wording of one of the
befuddled, after all.) questions on the
driving test
showing that you To bemuse means to Mnemonic: BEwilder
are confused and confuse or puzzle. You + confUSE = Bemuse
unable to think might be bemused Example: The stage
clearly. opening a box of candy mishap momentarily
Bemuse Form: adj from a "secret admirer." Bemused the actress
Tone: neg/ neut Your teacher might give
you a bemused smile if
you write your essay as a
series of haikus.
to confuse To bewilder is to amaze, Mnemonic: Some
someone baffle, dumbfound, times people behave
Form: v flummox, perplex, or like wild animals that
Tone: neut stupefy. When you Bewilders me,
bewilder people, you because they lack
Bewilder confuse them. humanity.
Example: The
change in policy
seems to have
Bewildered many of
our customers
to be slow to do or startle with amazement Mnemonic: Find it
accept something or fear similar with Google,
because you are as Google gives us
surprised. regular amazement.
Boggle
Form: v Example: She
Tone: neut Boggled her first
effort to make
Christmas cookies
to confuse and If you have an identical Mnemonic:
surprise someone. twin, you've probably CONfusion FOUND
Form: v tried dressing alike so -Confound
Tone: neg/ neut that people confound you Example: The
with, or mistake you for, school's team
Confound
one another. You've also Confounded all
probably learned that, predictions and won
unfortunately, this trick the game.
doesnâ€™t work on your
mom.
extremely When you see your mom Mnemonic: The
surprised and come back from the extra flab in his body
shocked. salon with bright green aghasted him, for he
Form: adj spiky hair and your jaw was confused
Tone: neg/ neut drops to the floor in total whether to go for the
Flabbergasted
shock, youâ€™re audition or not
flabbergasted. You are Example: It
really, really shocked - flabbergasts me to
pretty much speechless. see how many people
still support them.
confounded or be confusing or Mnemonic: A Fox is
confused. perplexing to; cause to cunning and have the
Form: adj be unable to think clearly capability of
Tone: neg/ neut confusing you with its
Fox
tricks
Example: I must
admit I'm completely
Foxed.
so shocked that If a conversation with Mnemonic: plussed-
you fail to speak or someone leaves you puzzled.
do something scratching your head and Example: I was
Form: adj wondering what point nonplussed by his
Non plussed Tone: neg/ neut they were trying to openly expressed
make, you are admiration of me.
nonplussed: bewildered,
puzzled, often
speechless.
to make something Some people are experts Mnemonic: ob (ab--
less clear and at obfuscating the truth -now) FUSCATE -fuss
more difficult to by being evasive, + create To
understand unclear, or obscure in the deliberately create a
Form: v telling of the facts. The fuss about an issue to
Obfuscate Tone: neg/ neut people who are good at make it hard to
obfuscating would include understand.
defense lawyers and Example: Their
teenagers asked about explanations only
their plans for Saturday serve to Obfuscate
night. and confuse.
confused and To perplex someone is to Mnemonic: Perplex
worried because amaze, baffle, bewilder, = complex (full of
you did not dumbfound, flummox, confusion)
understand it. mystify, or puzzle them. Example: Questions
Perplex
Form: v Perplexing things are about the meaning of
Tone: neut hard to understand. life have always
Perplexed
humankind.
to surprise or Don't be embarrassed if Mnemonic: Think of
shock someone the magician's tricks tourists visiting New
and hence cant stupefy you. It means York City for the first
think clearly you're amazed. Who time. They stare up
Form: v doesn't want to be at the skyscrapers,
Stupefy Tone: neg/ neut stopped in his tracks lost in wonder. They
sometimes? are stupified.
Example: He was
stupefied by the
amount they had
spent.
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CALM DOWN putting a fear, The verb allay is used Mnemonic: al + lay - Ali
suspicion or worry when you want to (name of a person) +
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / at rest. make something better lay; Ali lay down on bed
IMPORTANT Form: v or eliminate fears and to calm down his body
DIFFICULT TO Tone: pos concerns. and mind.
UNDERSTAND Allay Example: The new
advertising campaign is
END / STOP an attempt to Allay the
public's concerns about
ENTHUSIASM / PASSION /
the safety of the
EXCITE
company's products.
EXPRESS SYMPATHY making a problem Do all these words Mnemonic: Alleviate -
HAPPY / JOYOUS less serious make your head ache? elevator: It sounds like
Form: v If so, take an aspirin to elevator that helps us to
HARDWORKING Tone: pos alleviate, or relieve, reduce leg pain while
IRREGULAR / AT your pain. walking or climbing
Alleviate
INTERVALS stairs.
Example: Finding ways
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY to Alleviate stress is of
primary importance these
NEVER ENDING/NON-
days.
STOP
to make something To ameliorate is to step Mnemonic: Ameliorate
ORDINARY better in and make a bad sounds like deteriorate =
SAD / DEPRESSED Form: v situation better. You degrade Ameliorate =
Tone: pos could try introducing a improve
SHORT-LIVED Ameliorate second lollipop to Example: This medicine
SULKING / BAD- ameliorate a battle should help Ameliorate
TEMPERED between two four-year- the pain.
olds over a single
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY lollipop.
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL reduce distress or When your back is Mnemonic: Anodyne > a
pain killing you from helping + no + dyne (dying); If
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Form: adj your friend move you want him not to die
Tone: pos furniture into his new from pain, you should
apartment, you need to give him some Anodyne
Anodyne take an anodyne, a drugs.
painkiller. Example: The otherwise
Anodyne comments
sounded quite
inflammatory when taken
out of context.
Making peace by Appease means to Mnemonic: After the
accepting demands make or preserve end of World War II,
Form: v peace with a nation, peace brought calmness
Tone: pos group, or person by to all parts of the world.
Appease giving in to their Example: They
demands, or to relieve Appeased the dictator by
a problem, as in "the accepting his demands in
cold drink appeased his an effort to avoid war.
thirst."
make an If you assuage an Mnemonic: Assuage
unpleasant feeling unpleasant feeling, you .....sounds like AT YOUR
less serious make it go away. AGE. imagine a nurse is
Form: v Assuaging your hunger ASSUAGING a 70 year
Tone: pos by eating a bag of old PATIENT and saying
Assuage marshmallows may "AT YOUR AGE you
cause you other should take some rest"
unpleasant feelings. Example: A mother
cooing to her toddler and
assuaging his fear of the
dark
to make somebody The verb conciliate Mnemonic: Conceal
less angry by being means to placate, means hide....when you
kind and pleasant appease, or pacify. If hide yourself from traffic,
Form: v you are eating at a chaos, cacophonies, you
Tone: pos restaurant and the feel calm and you pacify
Conciliate waiter accidentally yourself
spills a drink on you, Example: The company's
the manager may try to attempts to Conciliate the
conciliate you by strikers have failed.
picking up the tab for
your meal.
to make something For a formal-sounding Mnemonic: acerb-
worse. (oppo) verb that means to means bitter, harsh; So
Form: v make worse, try exacerbate means to
Tone: pos exacerbate. If you're in make things bitter, to
Exacerbate
trouble, complaining worsen.
(oppo)
about it will only Example: The proposed
exacerbate the factory shutdown would
problem. only exacerbate our
unemployment problems.
Making a guilt You'll be furious that Mnemonic: An extended
appear less serious your friend didn't bake class if supplemented
and that can be the cupcakes she with snacks may be
forgiven promised for christmas Extenuating.
Form: adj - until you learn the Example: There were
Tone: pos extenuating Extenuating
Extenuating
circumstances: her dog circumstances and the
climbed onto her defendant did not receive
kitchen counter and ate a prison sentence.
all the cupcake batter.
Extenuating means
"making forgivable."
make something Choose the verb, Mnemonic: think of
less serious or mitigate, when Mitigate as
painful something lessens the COLGATE(toothpaste).Use
Form: v unpleasantness of a of COLGATE lessen or try
Tone: pos situation. You can to lessen the extent of
Mitigate mitigate your parents' germs in our teeth.
anger by telling them Example: Emergency
you were late to dinner funds are being provided
because you were to help Mitigate the
helping your elderly effects of the disaster.
neighbor.
to lessen To mollify is to calm Mnemonic: Mollify
someones anger someone down, talk sounds like nullify...so
Form: v them off the ledge, just think of nullifying
Tone: pos make amends, maybe something...nullifying
Mollify
even apologize. your temper
Example: He tried to
Mollify his critics with an
apology.
supress the anger If you are bringing Mnemonic: a passive
or excitement of peace or calm to a person is always calm,so
something state of unrest, you are calm down
Form: v pacifying the situation. Example: She resigned
Tone: pos Just think of the from her position to
transformation a Pacify her accusers.
Pacify
squalling baby
undergoes when a
pacifier is placed within
his mouth, and you will
remember the power of
the verb to pacify.
make someone When a husband shows Mnemonic: PL + ac +
less angry up with flowers after ATE = a PLATE full of
Form: v he's fought with his tasty food to SATISFY
Tone: pos wife, he's trying to someone.
placate her. If you Example: The angry
Placate placate someone, you customer was not
stop them from being Placated by the clerk's
angry by giving them apology.
something or doing
something that pleases
them.
to stop somebody If you forgot flowers on Mnemonic: PROf+PITI-
from being angry your Mom's birthday, if you want professor's
and calm them you can still propitiate pity then you would have
down her by sending a to appease him/her
Form: v bouquet the next day. Example: He made an
Propitiate
Tone: pos Propitiate means to offering to Propitiate the
appease someone or angry gods.
make them happy by
doing a particular
thing.
emotional comfort If something eases Mnemonic: He has SO
Form: n your disappointment or LESS anger that he is
Tone: pos grief, consider it a always in a state of
Solace solace. If you're sad, Solace.
you might find solace in Example: I Solaced
music or in talking to myself with a book while
your friends. I waited for the bus.
someone who Temper can refer to a Mnemonic: The TEMPo
becomes angry tendency to become travellER is a vehicle of
very easily (oppo) unreasonably angry. If moderate speed.
Form: n youâ€™re not sure Example: his was
Tone: pos whether you have a disliked by everyone
Temper
temper, ask your because of his high
friends - but donâ€™t Temper
get mad if you dislike
what they have to say.
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CALM DOWN Important In Catholicism, a Mnemonic: 'CARDINAL'

Form: n cardinal is a high- also means pertaining to
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / Tone: pos ranking bishop. In the 'heart' and the heart is
IMPORTANT math, you use the 'most important' part
DIFFICULT TO cardinal numbers of our body. It is
CARDINAL
UNDERSTAND to count. A responsible for the
cardinal rule is one working of our body.
END / STOP that is central and Example: My CARDINAL
should not be rule is to always be
broken. honest.
EXCITE
central part If you're looking Mnemonic: CORE part of
EXPRESS SYMPATHY Form: noun for the most the course is what we
HAPPY / JOYOUS Tone: pos essential part or always try to focus on,
the very center of when we were doing our
HARDWORKING something, you're graduation.
IRREGULAR / AT CORE looking for its Example: Concern for the
INTERVALS core. Like the environment is at the
inedible middle of CORE of our policies.
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY an apple or your
inner circle of core
NEVER ENDING/NON-
friends.
STOP
the most important Foremost is an Mnemonic: Fore means
ORDINARY or famous adjective that before. So something that
SAD / DEPRESSED Form: n means holding the is of primary importance is
Tone: pos highest position or FOREMOST.
SHORT-LIVED rank. When Example: The governor
SULKING / BAD- FOREMOST naming advisors, was FOREMOST among
TEMPERED presidents usually those who condemned the
search for the violence.
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY foremost experts
on various
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL
subjects.
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION vital When something Mnemonic: you have to
Form: adj absolutely has to attend your "important
Tone: pos be done and r(el)ative "â€¦and that
cannot be put off, meeting is ABSOLUTELY
IMPERATIVE use the adjective NECESSARY and
imperative. IMPORTANT.
Example: It is absolutely
IMPERATIVE that we finish
by next week.
most important to Indispensable is a Mnemonic: Dispenser
be without strong adjective gives coffee, so important
Form: adj for something that things in the dispensing
Tone: pos you couldn't do machine do not come with
without. If you coffee, so somening that
have asthma and cannot be dispensed is
INDISPENSIBLE you're packing for important, so
summer vacation, indispensable means
your inhaler is important
indispensable, Example: She made
unless you enjoy herself indispensable to
gasping on the the department.
beach.
required by law In the US, Mnemonic: MANDATORY,
Form: adj attending school man-date -for every man
Tone: pos through the time and date is
twelfth grade, necessary/requirement
driving on the Example: The offense
right side of the carries a MANDATORY life
road, and sentence.
MANDATORY
obtaining a social
security number
are all mandatory.
The phrase
"mandatory
requirement" is
redundant.
very important, Momentous Mnemonic:
specially because it describes an momento+ous....momento
will have important important event or or memento are the
results moment in time. It objects which are gifted to
Form: adj is used for a time us by someone special
Tone: pos of great which reminds us of the
consequence or for past and that person and
a major which are of great
MOMENTOUS accomplishment, significance and value to
and is almost us, cards and gifts are
always reserved given as momento which
for good things. are MOMENTOUS to us
The day Barack Example: My college
Obama was graduation was a
elected president MOMENTOUS day in my
was a momentous life.
day for America.
very important To the President, Mnemonic:
Form: adj protecting our PARAMOUNT..(MOUNT
Tone: pos nation's security is EVEREST)..IS THE biggest
of paramount mountain on the earth,so
importance - it's at something SUPREME ,and
the very top of his BEYOND OUR REACH(LIKE
PARAMOUNT
to-do list. MOUNT EVEREST) is
PARAMOUNT.
Example: Maintaining the
secrecy of the agreement
is of PARAMOUNT
importance
vitally important High school Mnemonic: Pi-votal-
Form: adj graduation is a voting is very crucial &
Tone: pos pivotal moment in important right.
PIVOTAL most people's lives Example: She is at a
- an important PIVOTAL point in her
point that signifies career.
a shift in direction.
most important If something Mnemonic: We generally
Form: adj stands out in a use SALIENT features to
Tone: pos very obvious way, mean important features
it can be called related to something.
salient. It's time to Example: She pointed out
find new friends if the SALIENT features of
SALIENT
the differences the new design.
between you and
your current
friends are
becoming more
and more salient.
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CALM DOWN something that is Use the adjective abstract Mnemonic: Abstract:
present in the for something that is not a sounds close to
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / thought but doesnâ material object or is retract.-and you cant
IMPORTANT €™t have a general and not based on retract anything from
DIFFICULT TO concrete shape or specific examples. an Abstract speech or
Abstract
UNDERSTAND existence. passage.
Form: adj/v/n Example: We may
END / STOP Tone: neut talk of beautiful
things, but beauty
itself is Abstract.
EXCITE
difficult to Abstruse things are difficult Mnemonic: Abstruse
EXPRESS SYMPATHY understand to understand because they rhyme with
HAPPY / JOYOUS Form: adj are so deep and CONFUSE,there is
Tone: neg/ neut intellectually challenging. It confusion when
HARDWORKING Abstruse might be hard to figure out things are not clear
IRREGULAR / AT how a toilet flushes but the Example: You're not
INTERVALS technology that goes into the only one who
making the Internet finds Einstein's theory
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY function is abstruse. of relativity Abstruse
NEVER ENDING/NON- something that is Something arcane is Mnemonic: Ar +
STOP mysterious and understood or known by Kane (arcane) -
hence understood only a few people. Almost Kane's (for WWF
ORDINARY by a few everyone knows the basics watchers) face always
SAD / DEPRESSED Form: adj of baseball, but only an remains secret, as he
Tone: neut elite few possess the uses a mask.
SHORT-LIVED arcane knowledge of its Example:
arcane
SULKING / BAD- history that marks the true Grammatical rules
TEMPERED fan. that seem arcane to
generations of
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY students who were
never taught
grammar in the first
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION place
likely to be Pssst... do you know the Mnemonic: Esoteric
understood by only secret handshake? If you sounds like 'It's so
a small number of haven't been brought into terrible' that I fail to
people with special the inner circle of those understand this
knowledge and with special knowledge, theorem.
Esoteric interest. esoteric things will remain Example:
Form: adj a mystery to you. Metaphysics is such
Tone: neut an Esoteric subject
that most people are
content to leave it to
the philosophers
having spiritual Things that are mystical are Mnemonic: Mystical
qualities that are magical or mysterious, sounds like Mystery,
difficult to possibly having to do with which is always
understand witches or the occult. difficult to
Form: adj comprehend.
Mystical
Tone: neut Example: Watching
the sun rise over the
mountain was an
almost Mystical
experience.
not clearly If something is obscure, it's Mnemonic:
expressed or vague and hard to see. Be Obscure= OBSession
explained. careful if you're driving in + CURE - Many
Form: adj/v/n heavy rain - the painted psychiatrists believe
Tone: neg/neut lines can be obscure. that Obsession's cure
is still UNKNOWN /
Obscure UNCLEAR
Example: We went
to see one of
Shakespeare's more
Obscure plays.
Root: Prefix OB
means AGAINST.
mysterious Dark and mysterious, the Mnemonic: Occult
Form: adj occult is a kind of sounds like Difficult â
Tone: neut supernatural power or €¦to understand.
magic. If you see your Example: The actor's
Occult neighbor chanting over a private life had long
giant vat of bubbling brew been Occulted by a
in the middle of the night, contrived public
there's a chance he's persona
dabbling in the occult.
deep, grave and Difficult to understand Mnemonic: whatever
hence difficult to professional or
understand researchers
Form: adj found(read find) has
Tone: neg/neut to be deep.
Profound
Example: It is
difficult to understand
these Profound
questions about life
and death.
knowing little It's rather difficult to Mnemonic: read
about something penetrate the meaning of Recondite as "re
Form: adj recondite. Fitting, because conduct". The
Tone: neut it's an adjective that professor re
basically means hard for coducted(repeated)
the average mind to the topic as the
Recondite
understand. students could not
understand properly.
Example: This is a a
Recondite subject
Root: Prefix RE
means to REPEAT.
clear/clarity Perspicuous is an adjective Mnemonic:
Form: adj describing language that is Perspicuous is not
Tone: pos clear and easy to suspicious..
understand. When you give absolutely clear
a presentation, you should Example: Believing
X
speak in a perspicuous that poetry need not
Perspicuous
manner so that everyone be as perspicuous as
will be able to follow you. prose, he writes
poems that are
intentionally
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CALM DOWN To come to an end. "Cease to exist" is a popular Mnemonic: Cease is

Form: v use of the word cease, or to Stop.
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / Tone: neut/neg end, and you may have Example: You never
IMPORTANT closed your eyes and wished Cease to amaze me!
DIFFICULT TO that someone - the
Cease
UNDERSTAND boogeyman in the dark or a
pesky sibling by day - would
END / STOP stop! Go away! Cease to be!
Or, at the very least - quit
bugging you.
EXCITE
reach the climax or The verb culminate is used to Mnemonic:
EXPRESS SYMPATHY highest state of describe a high point or a Culminate = break up
HAPPY / JOYOUS development climactic stage in a process. like this.. cal(cul) min
Form: v For example, the goal of a ate.. I'm having my
HARDWORKING Tone: pos Major League baseball team food, it is almost over
IRREGULAR / AT is to have their season or almost at climax ..
INTERVALS Culminate culminate in a World Series i will call you in a
victory. minute.
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY Example: Their
summer tour will
NEVER ENDING/NON-
Culminate at a
STOP
spectacular concert in
ORDINARY London.
SAD / DEPRESSED To end something To terminate something is to Mnemonic: His term
Form: v bring it to an end. Period. (time) of
SHORT-LIVED Tone: neut/neg Full stop. imprisonment should
SULKING / BAD- never be Terminated
TEMPERED (stop).
Terminate
Example: Your
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY contract of
employment
Terminates in
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION December.
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CALM DOWN great enthusiasm Are you inspired to write Mnemonic: ardor -
and passion love poems to your our door; please close
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / Form: adj/n crush? Sprinkle rose the door and
IMPORTANT Tone: pos petals in her path? Then windows, to prevent
DIFFICULT TO you're feeling ardor - an the heat from going
Ardor/Ardent
UNDERSTAND intense kind of warmth outside.
and fervor most often Example: His
END / STOP associated with love. revolutionary ardor
was an example to
his followers.
EXCITE
very enthusiastic Avid usually means very Mnemonic: a person
EXPRESS SYMPATHY Form: adj eager or enthusiastic. If is always eager to be
HAPPY / JOYOUS Tone: pos you're an avid reader, it in Avid(a video)
Avid
means you read as much Example: He is an
HARDWORKING as you can, whenever Avid admirer of
IRREGULAR / AT you can. horror movies.
INTERVALS full of Buoyancy is a quality Mnemonic: So
energy/liveliness that makes things float whenever you run
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY
Form: n in water. It's also a type into the word
NEVER ENDING/NON- Buoyancy Tone: pos of happiness: if you're Buoyancy, just think
STOP full of buoyancy, you're "staying afloat."
mood is light and happy. Example: They were
ORDINARY all in buoyant mood.
SAD / DEPRESSED positive in attitude If a person, place, or Mnemonic: A
SHORT-LIVED and full of energy thing is energetic and Dynamite (explosive)
Form: adj active, then it's is Dynamic (active
SULKING / BAD- Tone: pos dynamic. When things and powerful)
Dynamic
TEMPERED are dynamic, there's a Example: Market
lot going on. Dynamics are
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY
working in the
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL company's favor.
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION cheerful and full of More than chipper, more Mnemonic: Your dad
energy than happy, more than purchasing you a new
Form: adj delighted is ebullient - 'Enfield Bullet' so you
Tone: pos meaning bubbling over show your
Ebullient with joy and delight. 'Excitement' -
Ebullient!
Example: The boss
was in Ebullient
mood.
a person who is Something effervescent Mnemonic: My
very enthusiastic has bubbles or froth, like excitable dog is EVER
Form: adj a sparkling wine or a VEnturing after my
Tone: pos bubble bath. If you have SCENt
Effervescent
a happy, light, cheerful Example: He has got
personality - if you are a warm, Effervescent
"bubbly" - you too are personality
effervescent.
Gushing, Getting a compliment Mnemonic: Effusive
unrestrained from your effusive Aunt when spoken have
praise, pleasure or Sally can be a little similarity with
approval. embarrassing. Since Diffusive-Diffuse that
Form: adj she's so effusive, Aunt means something
Effusive
Tone: pos Sally holds nothing back, going out/ gushing
gushing with out
enthusiasm. Example: They
offered Effusive
thanks for our help.
full of energy, Are you feeling really Mnemonic:
excitement and happy and enthusiastic Exuberant- Excess
happiness. about something? number of ANTS. ants
Form: adj Describe yourself with are unrestrained, in
Exuberant
Tone: pos the adjective, exuberant! large numbers
Example: She gave
an Exuberant
performance.
having passionate Use fervent to describe Mnemonic:
feeling a person or thing that fervent/fervid both
Form: adj/n shows very strong can be remembered
Tone: pos feelings or enthusiasm. by February -
If you have a fervent specifically Feb14
desire to become an when youngsters are
Fervent/Fervor
actress, you'll stop at quite emotional
nothing to realize your regarding V-Day.
dream. Example: She
prayed fervently for
his complete
recovery.
full of energy, The adjective frisky Mnemonic: When
wanting to play means playful or lively. you do brisk walk
Form: adj Your frisky puppy likes early in the morning,
Tone: pos to play tug-of-war with it makes you Frisky,
Frisky your socks, whether in other words lively
they're on or off your and energetic.
feet. Example: The kids
were Frisky after all
that candy.
expressing so uttered with Mnemonic: Gush
much enthusiasm unrestrained enthusiasm sounds like Blush.
and emotion that When we blush our
doesnâ€™t seem cheek becomes
Gushing
sincere shinny.
Form: adj Example: Everyone
Tone: pos has been Gushing
over the baby.
showing strong If something is Mnemonic:
feeling about impassioned it's filled Impassioned can be
something with or demonstrating remembered as I AM
Form: adj intense emotion. PASSIONed
Impassioned
Tone: pos Anything can be Example: His lawyer
impassioned - speech, a made an Impassioned
play, a conversation, a argument in his
novel, or even you. defense.
attractively lively A vivacious person is Mnemonic: YoU
Form: adj lively and spirited: a should try to be lively
Tone: pos vivacious dancer might and energetic at the
Vivacious do a back-flip off the time of your VIVA
wall and then jump into Example: He had
the arms of her partner. three pretty,
Vivacious daughters.
make something lessen in force or effect Mnemonic:
less strong Dampened spirit
Form: v means lack of
Tone: neg enthusiasm, when
something is damp, it
X Dampen become weak.
Example: None of
the setbacks could
dampen his
enthusiasm for the
project.
having or showing Use the adjective Mnemonic: Zeal
great enthusiasm zealous as a way to means passion or
Form: adj describe eagerness or enthusiasm.
Tone: pos enthusiastic activity. If Example: The
you are too zealous in detective was zealous
Zealous/Zest your efforts to decorate in her pursuit of the
the house with kidnappers.
Christmas lights, you
might cause a power
outage for the whole
neighborhood.
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CALM DOWN to show sympathy When you commiserate Mnemonic:

to someone who is with your buddies, co+miserate ...share
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / upset. you're sharing your one's misery by being
IMPORTANT Form: v lousy feelings. People with them or identifying
DIFFICULT TO Tone: pos who commiserate have their misery vicariously
UNDERSTAND Commiserate the same negative Example: The players
feelings about Commiserated over
END / STOP something. their loss in the
championship game.
Root: Prefix Com is
EXCITE
together, with
EXPRESS SYMPATHY showing sympathy A condolence is an Mnemonic: When you
HAPPY / JOYOUS to somebody. expression of sympathy offer your Condolences
Form: n and sorrow to someone to someone who has
HARDWORKING Tone: pos who has suffered a loss, suffered a loss, you are
IRREGULAR / AT like the letter of saying that you share
INTERVALS condolence you send to their sadness, that you
a faraway friend who are there to support
Condolence
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY has lost a loved one. and help them.
Example: The governor
NEVER ENDING/NON-
issued a statement of
STOP
Condolence to the
ORDINARY victims' families.
Root: Prefix Con refers
SAD / DEPRESSED to with, together
SHORT-LIVED ability to Use empathy if you're Mnemonic: simliar to -
SULKING / BAD- understand looking for a noun sympathy ( the ability
TEMPERED another persons meaning "the ability to to share someone else's
feelings. identify with another's feelings or experiences
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY Form: n feelings." by imagining what it
Tone: pos would be like to be in
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL Empathy
their situation)
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Example: He felt great
Empathy with the poor.
Root: The prefix EM
refers to IN â€¦feeling
In
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CALM DOWN to smile Experience a feeling Mnemonic: We generally

Form: v of well-being or say a Beam of light has
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / Tone: pos happiness, as from entered our life when our
IMPORTANT Beam
good health or an first child was born.
DIFFICULT TO intense emotion Example: She was positively
UNDERSTAND Beaming with pleasure.
happy and peaceful That blissful grin on Mnemonic: divide this word
END / STOP
Form: n your face? It could like beati+fic--beati sounds
ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / Tone: pos be described as like beautiful and something
Beatific
EXCITE beatific, meaning it which is beautiful is blissful.
projects a peaceful Example: He has got a
EXPRESS SYMPATHY sense of joy. Beatific smileand expression
HAPPY / JOYOUS seeming not to The adjective blithe Mnemonic: Blithe- Be-
HARDWORKING care or worry, used to mean happy light- Hearted. means care
happy and carefree, but free
IRREGULAR / AT Form: adj over time it's Example: He drove with
INTERVALS Blithe Tone: pos acquired a new Blithe disregard for the rules
understanding of of the road.
someone who isn't
NEVER ENDING/NON- paying attention the
STOP way they should.
ORDINARY feeling of great If youâ€™ve ever Mnemonic: In a city like
happiness been so happy that Delhi, if you get ( ek in hindi)
SAD / DEPRESSED Form: n the rest of the world (one) taxi in the peak hours
SHORT-LIVED Tone: pos seemed to it definitely adds to your
Ecstasy disappear, youâ Ecstasy.
SULKING / BAD- €™ve felt ecstasy â Example: His performance
TEMPERED €” a feeling or state sent the audience into
of intensely ecstasies.
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY
beautiful bliss.
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL extremely excited To elate is to fill Mnemonic: Elate sounds a
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Form: adj with happiness. If bit like inflate. Although the
Tone: pos you are elated, you words are not rElated, if you
are thrilled. You are Elate someone the feeling is
walking on air. probably a bit like inflating
Elate them - filling them with
happiness, making them feel
as though they're floating
above the ground.
Example: The discovery has
Elated researchers.
great happiness Use euphoria to Mnemonic: if you(eu) live
that does not last describe a feeling of FOR(phori) others (like
for a long time great happiness and mother teresa)...that's the
Form: n well-being, but best way to live...and you'll
Euphoria Tone: pos know that euphoria always be happy
often more than Example: The initial
thatâ€“-it's Euphoria following their
unusually, crazy victory in the election has
happy, over the top. now subsided.
to make somebody Exhilaration is great Mnemonic: Exhilaration:
feel very happy joy, and excitement Imagine making a verb of
and excited and liveliness! When 'hilarious'; something like
Form: n you ride an ocean 'ex-hilariation' meaning
Tone: pos wave, hear a cheerful and lively.
favorite song, or Example: I felt exhilarated
Exhilaration have a long and after a morning of skiing.
uncontrollable laugh
with friends, there's
a feeling of
exhilaration, an
overflow of
happiness.
very happy and Use the adjective Mnemonic: Exultant sounds
pleased exultant to describe like Excitement, which is a
Form: adj the triumphant combination of pride and joy.
Tone: pos feeling you get Example: Researchers are
when you succeed Exultant over the new
Exultant at something. The discovery.
kids on the Little
League team who
win the
championship game
will be exultant.
trying to be funny Someone who is Mnemonic: someone who
in a way that is not facetious is only makes funny faces
appropriate joking: "I was being Facetious-Face is not Serious
Form: adj facetious when I Example: A Facetious and
Facetious Tone: neg told my mother I tasteless remark about
want Brussels people in famine-stricken
sprouts with every countries being spared the
meal, but she took problem of overeating
me seriously!"
great happiness Felicity is a state of Mnemonic: Felicity seems
Form: n/v happiness or the very like facility. If one gets
Tone: pos quality of joy. all facility (s)he must be very
Sitting on the roof happy. Thus Felicity may
with a telescope and stand for happiness or some
Felicity
iced tea on a clear, thing producing happiness
starry night is one Example: He told his friends
way to find perfect that marriage had brought
felicity - a happy him a Felicity that he had
place. never known before.
happiness and fun A festive, happy Mnemonic: Gaeiety can be
Form: adj event, like a big remembered as GAY
Tone: pos summer backyard (meaning merry and happy)
Gaiety party, will be full of Example: The colorful flags
gaiety - or added to the Gaiety of the
merriment and occasion.
playfulness.
a joke A jest is a joke. Are Mnemonic: Remember "Jest
Form: n/v you a playful for laughs gags" on pogo
Tone: pos prankster? A jocular Example: You should know
jokester? A witty that our teasing was done
Jest
wisecracker? Then entirely in Jest.
you are definitely
well versed in the
art of the jest.
humorous Do you like to make Mnemonic: Jocular sounds
Form: adj a lot of jokes? Are like a joker.
Tone: pos you often silly? Are Example: He is a Jocular
Jocular
you usually happy? man who could make the
If so, then you are a most serious people smile
jocular person.
happy and cheerful You know that Mnemonic: joc...(joke)..and
Form: adj teacher who always you crack jokes when you
Tone: pos has a goofy smile are cheerful or to show high
on his face and a siprited merriment
Jocund bad pun for the Example: Old friends
kids? He's got a engaged in Jocund teasing.
jocund personality,
meaning he's merry
and cheerful.
the state of being Use the noun jollity Mnemonic: jolli+ty...so
happy to describe having focus on jolli....jolly means
Form: n fun and being in an cheers to you.
Tone: pos extremely good Example: I love all of the
mood, like the jollity warmhearted Jollity of the
Jollity
you feel when you holiday season.
are with your best
friends at your
favorite amusement
park.
friendly and happy Use jovial to Mnemonic:
Form: adj describe people who Jovial=jo(joy)+vi(by)+al(all),
Tone: pos show good humor so Jovial means happiness,
and are full of joy. joyful, merriment
Jovial
Santa Claus, with Example: He was in a Jovial
his constant "ho-ho- mood.
hoing" is a jovial
figure.
feeling or showing If you were the Mnemonic: Jubilant sounds
happiness because quarterback that like Jubilee, any kind of
of success threw the Silver or Golden Jubilee is a
Form: adj touchdown pass special occasion and is a
Jubilant
Tone: pos that won the Super happy and joyous moment.
Bowl, you would be Example: The fans were in
jubilant: filled with a Jubilant mood after the
joy. victory.
great happiness If you're blissfully Mnemonic: rapture sounds
Form: adj happy, you're like capture. You capture
Tone: pos rapturous. You could good moments with a cam
describe your on occassions of happiness
Rapturous
purring cat rolling and DELIGHT, ECSTACY
around in catnip as Example: We listened with
rapturous. rapture as the orchestra
played.
entertain someone You may have heard Mnemonic:
with a story it said that the re+gale(remember chris
Form: v fastest way to a gayle )if he comes to bat
Tone: pos personâ€™s heart is again he always provides
through his entertainment to audience
stomach. So, if you Example: An inn that
Regale
need to please or nightly Regales its guests
impress someone, with five-course meals
regale them - that prepared by a master chef.
is, treat them to
lavish food and
drink.
confident, hopeful If you're sanguine Mnemonic: Sanguine -
and optimistic about a situation, Penguin : Kids cheer up
about what might that means you're when they see penguins ..
happen, in a optimistic that Penguins are very cheerful
difficult situation everything's going and hopeful (Ref the movie
Sanguine
Form: n to work out fine. "Happy Feet")
Tone: pos Example: They are less
Sanguine about the
company's long-term
prospects.
extremely noisy Uproarious Mnemonic: Uproarious has
(the uproarious describes a room of ROAR, sound made by Lion
laughter passed happy people which always comes before
across the room); laughing, or a noisy TOM AND JERRY starts....its
relate it to ROAR crowd at a soccer a show marked by
Uproarious Form: adj match. Uproarious commotion,fun,laughter and
Tone: pos situations are very is sometimes noisy
loud, a little out of Example: Visited the site
control, and often where the action movie was
hilarious. being filmed only to find a
chaotic, Uproarious set.
someone who does Waggish means that Mnemonic: Remember the
something clever someone is character "SHAGGY" in
and amusing humorous or witty â Scooby Doo? He is the
Form: adj €” the kind of comedian of the show who
Tone: pos person who'd keep always passes funny and
you in stitches all witty comments and acts like
Waggish
night if you sat next a joker. Waggish sounds
to one at a party. similar to Shaggy (though
partially).
Example: He has a Waggish
disposition that often got him
into trouble as a child.
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CALM DOWN Diligent, If you call someone Mnemonic: Ass is

hardworking assiduous, it's a donkey and donkey is
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / Form: adj compliment. It means hardworking.
IMPORTANT Tone: pos they're careful, methodical Example: They were
Assiduous
DIFFICULT TO and very persistent. Good Assiduous in their
UNDERSTAND detectives are classically search for all the
assiduous types. latest facts and
END / STOP figures.
ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / very persevering Someone who is diligent Mnemonic: Deligent
EXCITE Form: adj works hard and carefully. If is more than being
Tone: pos you want to write the epic intelligent, which
EXPRESS SYMPATHY history of your family, you'll involves hardworking.
HAPPY / JOYOUS Diligent have to be very diligent in Example: A student
tracking down and who has been
HARDWORKING interviewing all of your unceasingly Diligent
IRREGULAR / AT relatives. in pursuit of a degree
INTERVALS in mathematics.
Diligent, If someone comments that Mnemonic:
hardworking you are very industrious, Industrious..if you
NEVER ENDING/NON- Form: adj they are complimenting you want to be an
STOP Tone: pos for working hard and INDUSTRIalist you
tirelessly. You can have the have to be DILIGENT
ORDINARY Industrious
evening to yourself if you're and HARD-WORKING.
SAD / DEPRESSED industrious enough during Example: An
the afternoon to get your Industrious worker
SHORT-LIVED homework and chores done. who never seems to
SULKING / BAD- sleep
TEMPERED very careful and If you notice that Mnemonic: Taking
hardworking painstaking is composed of the pain of doing
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY
Form: adj pains and taking, you something.
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL Tone: pos already have a pretty clear Example: The event
Painstaking sense of what this adjective had been planned
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION means: to be painstaking is with Painstaking
to be so carefulâ€”so attention to detail.
meticulous, so thorough
that it hurts.
constant in effort A sedulous person is Mnemonic:
and hardworking someone who works hard se+dul+lous...to
Form: adj and doesn't give up easily. SEEK knowledge you
Tone: pos If you make repeated and have to PAY
sedulous attempts to fix a ATTENTION i.e. have
leaky pipe and it only to be LESS DULL
Sedulous makes things worse, it Example: An
might be time to go online impressively Sedulous
and find the number of a suitor, he was
plumber. constantly sending
her flowers and other
tokens of his
affection.
to work hard Toil is another word for Example: Hundreds
Form: n/v work. You toil as a of men Toiled for
Tone: pos customer service rep all years at building the
day, but you'd prefer to pyramid.
work as a rock goddess.
Toil
Unfortunately, there weren't
many ads in the
employment section for
goddesses - rock or
otherwise.
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CALM DOWN active but not An adjective that sounds a Mnemonic: I am fat
regular and steady little like what it means, and so trousers
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / Form: adj/adv fitful means stopping and occasionally fit me
IMPORTANT Tone: neut starting, on-again off- fully.
Fitfully
DIFFICULT TO again, switching suddenly. Example: Several
UNDERSTAND I had a fitful night's sleep: fitful attempts at
I woke up several times negotiation have
END / STOP throughout the night. failed.
ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / something that Reach for the adjective Mnemonic: Here the
EXCITE takes place at intermittent to describe word starts with inter
irregular intervals periodic movement and so remember as
EXPRESS SYMPATHY Form: adj stopping and starting over intervals...intervals of
HAPPY / JOYOUS Tone: neut a period of time. pendulum is periodic
Intermittent
in motion
HARDWORKING Example: The
IRREGULAR / AT patient was having
INTERVALS Intermittent pains in
his side.
happening or done When something happens Mnemonic: She is so
NEVER ENDING/NON- sometimes but not from time to time on an weight conscious that
STOP often irregular basis, we say it is she consumes
Form: adj an occasional occurrence. Chocolates only on
ORDINARY Tone: neut For example, you might occasions (special
Occassional
SAD / DEPRESSED have an occasional lunch moments)
with a friend. If your friend Example: He spent
SHORT-LIVED ever picked up the bill, five years in Paris,
SULKING / BAD- maybe it would happen with occasional visits
TEMPERED more often. to Italy.
Irregular bursts Something that is Mnemonic: A SPAM
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY
(The spasmodic spasmodic is experiencing mail seems to be an
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL fighting between a fit, a loss of muscular interruption.
Spasmodic the two parties control. If you are spazzing Example: He made
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION continued) out, you are spasmodic. only Spasmodic
Form: adj attempts to lose
Tone: neg weight.
Scattered or Sporadic is an adjective Mnemonic: Sporadic
isolated or that you can use to refer to -opposite of periodic,
irregular Interval. something that happens or we know periodic
Form: adj appears often, but not things occur
Sporadic Tone: neg constantly or regularly. The regularly.
mailman comes every day Example: Fighting
but the plumber visits are continued
sporadicâ€“-he comes as Sporadically for two
needed. months.
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CALM DOWN Lazy Indolent is an adjective Mnemonic: In India

Form: adj meaning slow or lazy. It people become lazy
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / Tone: neg can take an indolent when it is time to pay
IMPORTANT teenager hours to get the rent. (Indolent)
DIFFICULT TO out of bed on a Example: An Indolent
Indolent
UNDERSTAND weekend morning. boy who had to be
forced to help out with
END / STOP the chores.
Root: Prefix IN means
NOT.
EXCITE
carelessly lazy Even though Mnemonic:
EXPRESS SYMPATHY Form: adj lackadaisical sounds like Lackadaisical sounds
HAPPY / JOYOUS Tone: neg it has something to do as LACK-A-DI-
with a shortage of ZEALCAL... hence the
HARDWORKING Lackadaisical daisies, know that what meaning " lack of zeal"
IRREGULAR / AT it really means is Example: His teachers
INTERVALS lacking in spirit or did not approve of his
liveliness. Lackadaisical approach
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY to homework.
NEVER ENDING/NON- lacking in energy, lacking brilliance or Mnemonic: Lacking
STOP force, not inspiring vitality shine (lustre) or
Form: adj livliness
ORDINARY Lackluster
Tone: neg Example: This was a
SAD / DEPRESSED a Lackluster
performance.
SHORT-LIVED
lazy, slow, weak Describe a slow-moving Mnemonic: Languid
SULKING / BAD- Form: adj river or a weak breeze sounds similar to
TEMPERED Tone: neg or a listless manner with language..language
the slightly poetic classes are generally
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY Languid
adjective, languid. boring..
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL Example: They
proceeded at a Languid
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION pace.
lack of energy After running 10 miles, Mnemonic: After a
Form: n/adj bicycling 20 miles, and heavy lunch, if you
Tone: neg swimming 10 miles, the drink a glass of LASSI,
triathlete was overcome you will go into a
with lassitude - a great Lassitude i.e.
weariness or lack of weariness, lethargy
Lassitude
energy. and ultimately go to
sleep.
Example: Symptoms
of the disease include
paleness and
Lassitude.
lazy When you feel lethargic, Mnemonic: Being
Form: adj you're sluggish or Lethargic also goes
Tone: neg lacking energy. Being well with watching TV,
sleepy or hungry can since that takes almost
make anyone lethargic. no energy at all. When
Lethargic you feel Lethargic, you
don't have any energy
to spare.
Example: A big meal
always makes me feel
Lethargic and sleepy
lacking energy To be listless it to be Mnemonic: I lost my
Form: adj lethargic, low spirited, list of universities to
Tone: neg and limp. "The fever apply. Now I am
made the boy listless â lacking spirit because I
Listless
€” he seemed to melt am Listless!
into the sofa." Example: The heat
made everyone tired
and Listless.
sit, lie or stand in a To loll means to hang Mnemonic: this is
lazy manner around lazily without easy - sounds like LOL.
Form: v doing much at all. It's a We use LOL only when
Tone: neg great pleasure to loll we are chatting. When
about in the park we chat we waste time
Loll instead of going to lazily by laying around.
work. But your boss So Loll is wasting time
might have a problem lazily.
with it. Example: He Lolled
back in his chair by the
fire.
lazy If you lounge around in Mnemonic: "slow"th
Form: n/adj your bathrobe watching Example: A youth
Sloth Tone: neg TV and ordering out for inclined more toward
pizza, you'll get called a Sloth than athletics
sloth.
Inactive When you are feeling Mnemonic: Sluggish
Form: adj draggy - positively = slow + ish
Tone: neg slug-like - you are Example: The game
sluggish, or slow. If picked up after a
Sluggish
cookie sales are Sluggish start.
sluggish at your bake
sale, you are selling
very few treats.
lethargic Torpor is a state of Mnemonic: Torpor
Form: n/adj mental and physical sounds like 'topper'.
Tone: neg inactivity. "After a huge Its quite opposite to
Thanksgiving meal, my what is a 'topper' who
Torpor/Torpid family members fall into is naturally diligent
a torpor; no one can Example: A torpid
even pick up the TV sloth that refused to
remote." budge off its tree
branch
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CALM DOWN something that If you smoke a cigarette Mnemonic: initial part
lasts for a long once, you've simply made sounds like 'crown'!
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / time and cannot be a bad choice. But if crown + ic. A king
IMPORTANT wiped off you're a chronic smoker, rules the nation for
DIFFICULT TO Form: adj you've been smoking for long time, hence his
UNDERSTAND Chronic Tone: pos a long time and will have crown last for long
a hard time stopping. time..ie long lasting
END / STOP Example: Inflation
has become a Chronic
condition in the
EXCITE
economy.
EXPRESS SYMPATHY that does not STOP Something incessant Mnemonic: IN(
HAPPY / JOYOUS Form: adj continues without not)+cessa(sounds
Tone: pos interruption. When you're like CEASE) which
HARDWORKING on a cross country flight, MEANS TO
IRREGULAR / AT it's tough to tolerate the STOP...something
INTERVALS incessant crying of a which does not stop ,
baby. and continues forever,
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY hence
Incessant UNINTERRUPTED AND
NEVER ENDING/NON-
UNCEASING.
STOP
Example: The
ORDINARY Incessant noise from
an outside repair crew
SAD / DEPRESSED was a real distraction
SHORT-LIVED during the test.
SULKING / BAD- NOT.
TEMPERED
that cannot be When a person is Mnemonic:
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY stopped or inexorable, they're in(not)+exhort(means
changed stubborn. When a thing to pressurize):that
Form: adj or process is inexorable, means a person who is
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Tone: pos it can't be stopped. Inexorable cant be
pressurised;he will not
Inexorable
yield
Example: There has
been this Inexorable
rise of crime in Delhi.
NOT.
never ending Use interminable to Mnemonic: In (NOT)
Form: adj describe something that + Terminable (stop)
Tone: pos has or seems to have no Something that cannot
end. Your math class. be stopped.
Your sister's violin recital. Example: The drive
Interminable
A babysitting job where seemed Interminable.
five kids are going Root: Prefix IN means
through your purse and NOT.
the parents didn't leave a
number.
Lasting Forever Perennial typically Mnemonic: if you
Form: adj describes things that are remember we have
Tone: pos permanent, constant, or learnt about Perennial
repeated. If you fight with rivers in social studies
your parents every year which means LONG
Perennial over whether they really LASTING rivers
must invite your Example: Flooding is
annoying cousins for a Perennial problem
Thanksgiving, you could for people living by
call that a perennial the river.
conflict.
Never Ending, Relentless is a good word Mnemonic: relent(to
Constant for describing something surrender)+ less.....so
Form: adj that's harsh, unforgiving, it is one who doesn't
Tone: pos and persistent, like the surrender or is
hot sun in the desert, or persistent and
Relentless
a cold that keeps you in determined
bed for days with a nose Example: Her
like a strawberry. Relentless optimism
held the team
together.
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CALM DOWN lacking excitement If something is boring and Mnemonic: Divide it

Form: adj unoriginal, it's banal. Banal like -ban + al(ban all
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / Tone: neg things are dull as people); you ban all
IMPORTANT dishwater. those people from
DIFFICULT TO your group, if they are
Banal repeating the same
UNDERSTAND
activity again and
END / STOP again.
Example: The writing
was Banal but the
EXCITE
story was good.
EXPRESS SYMPATHY an unoriginal idea A bromide is a common Mnemonic: Bromide
HAPPY / JOYOUS Form: adj saying or proverb that is is the COMMON salt
Tone: neg obvious and not that ever found
HARDWORKING helpful, like "When life Example: His speech
IRREGULAR / AT Bromide hands you lemons, make had nothing more to
INTERVALS lemonade." offer than the usual
Bromides about how
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY everyone needs to
work together.
NEVER ENDING/NON-
STOP an uninteresting If you've heard an Mnemonic: CLICK....it
phrase. expression a million times, represents
ORDINARY Form: noun chances are it's a cliche. camera...cliche means
SAD / DEPRESSED Tone: neg a remark that is
overused....these days
SHORT-LIVED we make overuse of
SULKING / BAD- camera to take photos
TEMPERED ClichÃ© everytime to upload
them on social
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY networking site like
facebook
Example: This is an
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION old ClichÃ© that â€œa
trouble shared is a
trouble halvedâ€
not original Alert: shifting parts of Mnemonic: Derived
Form: adj speech! As a noun, a from something.
Tone: neg derivative is kind of Example: I've always
financial agreement or found the exercise
deal. As an adjective, slightly Derivative and
Derivative
though, derivative not very challenging
describes something that
borrows heavily from
something else that came
before it.
not original, Hackneyed is a word for Mnemonic: when a
overused so lost its language that doesn't pack software is hacked, it
significance a punch since it's overused becomes Hackneyed
Form: adj and trite. "Roses are red, because then all
Tone: neg violets are..." - enough people are able to use
already?! That's hackneyed that program without
stuff. paying for
Hackneyed
Example: Advertisers
have Hackneyed the
word â
€œrevolutionaryâ€ so
much that it now just
means that a product
is new
lacking in That class on 18th century Mnemonic: Anything
refinement feminist zoologists and that you can call
Form: adj their favorite poets? Humdrum is so
Tone: neg Surprisingly humdrum, or severely lacking in
dull, tedious, and totally variety and excitement
boring. that it's sure to make
Humdrum you hum and drum
your fingers out of
boredom.
Example: She liked
the movie, but I
thought it was
Humdrum.
happens everyday An ordinary, unexciting Mnemonic: Mundane
Form: adj thing can be called sounds like Monday.
Tone: neg mundane: "Superman hid After an exciting
his heroic feats by posing weekend, Monday is
as his mundane alter ego, just another Mundane
Mundane
Clark Kent." day.
Example: Prayer and
meditation helped her
put her Mundane
worries aside
Dull, lacking a pedestrian thing is Mnemonic: ped
inspiration.boring something that is boring or means foot Pedestrian
and always the unexciting means one who walks
same on foot is obviously
Form: adj ordinary
Pedestrian
Tone: neg Example: He lived a
Pedestrian life,
working at the paper
mill and living in his
trailer.
a remark or If an executive gives a Mnemonic: Platitude
statement with speech that begins, "This sounds flat + attitude:
moral content business is all about something flat does
often interesting survival of the fittest. You not attract us as it is
and thoughtful need to burn the midnight very common. So you
Form: adj oil and take one for the will obviously give trite
Platitude
Tone: neg team," his employees remarks.
might get sick of listening Example: His speech
to these meaningless was filled with familiar
clichÃ©s and tell him to Platitudes about the
cut the p value of hard work
and dedication.
of or belonging to In Roman times, the lower Mnemonic: sounds
the lower social class of people was the like pebble which are
classes plebeian class. Today, if found every where and
Form: adj something is plebeian, it is are very common
Plebeian Tone: neg of the common people. Example: He
wondered what the
people at the country
club would think of his
Plebeian origins
occurring everyday Quotidian is a fancy way of Mnemonic: split it as
and therefore saying "daily" or "ordinary." "quote+indian".QUOTE
ordinary Quotidian events are the AN INDIAN every day.
Form: adj everyday details of life. Newspapers quote
Tone: neg opinions of Indians
everyday.. so its a
DAILY
Quotidian
occurence,customary
Example: Not content
with the Quotidian
quarrels that other
couples had, they had
rows that shook the
entire neighborhood
overused and When you want to indicate Mnemonic: Trite = tri
therefore lacking that something is silly or +it ( so sounds like try
freshness or overused, you would call it + it) She made the
originality trite. A love song with same dish all the time
Form: adj/n lyrics about holding hands and gave it to her
Tone: neg in the sunshine? Totally friends saying, 'try it'
trite. ... as it is repeated so
Trite many times, it
becomes over familiar.
Example: By the time
the receiving line had
ended, the bride and
groom's thanks
sounded Trite and
tired
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CALM DOWN lot of mental and The noun anguish Mnemonic: Anguish - ang
physical pain and refers to severe (anger) + you + wish; When
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / suffering physical or you are in anger with
IMPORTANT Form: n,adj emotional pain or someone, you wish him/her
DIFFICULT TO
Anguish Tone: neg distress. A trip to to suffer from pain and
UNDERSTAND the dentist might distress.
cause a cavity- Example: They watched in
END / STOP prone person a lot Anguish as fire spread
of anguish. through the house.
EXCITE having lost a Bereaved is an Mnemonic: Bereaved sounds
relative or close adjective describing like GRIEVE..which means
EXPRESS SYMPATHY one because of people in deep mourning for somebody
HAPPY / JOYOUS death sorrow at the loss Example: The grief of the
Form: adj of a loved one. For Bereaved parents seemed to
HARDWORKING Tone: neg some, being be without limit
Bereaved
IRREGULAR / AT bereaved helps
INTERVALS them leave the
sadness or release
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY themselves from it
by experiencing it
NEVER ENDING/NON-
for awhile.
STOP
deprived of So, they took the Mnemonic: be+reft--reft
ORDINARY something or thing you most sounds like left, imagine a
SAD / DEPRESSED someone, lonely loved, and you're man who is left alone, after
Form: adj never going to get his best friend left him or
SHORT-LIVED Bereft
Tone: neg it back. You've deprived of someone lovable.
SULKING / BAD- gone beyond just Example: He was completely
TEMPERED plain grief-stricken Bereft when his wife died.
- you're bereft.
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY
not giving any Something that is Mnemonic: Bleak sounds like
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL reason to hope bleak is gloomy black -- black color is the
Form: adj and depressing. If symbol of hopelessness and
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Tone: neg it's raining and depression.
dark, you might Example: A Bleak outlook for
describe the night the team for the rest of the
Bleak
as bleak. If you season.
have looked for
work and no one
will hire you, you
could describe your
prospects as bleak.
sad and If you are Mnemonic: Crest means
disappointed crestfallen, you are heights and falling from a
because of having dark, depressed, height is being Crestfallen.
Crestfallen failed and down in the Example: She was
Form: adj dumps. You are in Crestfallen when she found
Tone: neg need of a pep talk, out she hadn't got the job.
or at least a hug.
sad and depressed If you're ejected Mnemonic: you feel
Form: adj from an important Dejected when you are
Tone: neg game, you're going rejected
to feel dejected. If Example: She looked so
Dejected
you're rejected by Dejected when she lost the
the love of your game.
life, you'll feel
dejected again.
making people sad If you feel alone, Mnemonic: de + solate
and frightened left out, and sounds like I + SOLATE..and
Form: adj devastated, you who lives an isolated life?
Tone: neg feel desolate. A Obviously a person who has
Desolate deserted, empty, been ABANDONED by his
depressing place family.
can be desolate Example: This is a Desolate
too. house abandoned many years
ago
sad, less hope and If you are Mnemonic: the word
courage despondent, you despondant looks like
Form: adj are discouraged, pepsodent. So wen you don't
Tone: neg very sad, and brush in the morning... your
Despondent without hope. If day will be gloomy and
you are depressed, depressing.
you might describe Example: I had never seen
your mood as them looking so Despondent.
despondent.
sad and abondoned Sniff, sniff, boo- Mnemonic: FOR+LORN
and hence lonely hoo... use the (sounds like MOURN) - You
Form: adj adjective forlorn to are sad and wretched when
Tone: neg express loneliness you mourn for someone dear
Forlorn
and feeling left out. to you.
Example: She looked so
Forlorn, standing there in the
rain.
tearful or weeping A good place to see Mnemonic: Lachrymose-
Form: adj a display of lac+chry(cry)+mose(most),so
Tone: neg lachrymose sorrow when you cry most you
is at a funeral - produce 'tears'.
people sobbing Example: The more
Lachrymose openly or sniffling Lachrymose mourners at the
quietly into their funeral required a steady
hankies. To be supply of tissues
lachrymose, in
other words, is to
be tearful.
to feel or show If you are really Mnemonic: Lament =
great sadness for upset or sorry l[amen]t => we Lament the
someone about something, death by saying 'amen'
Lament
Form: v you might lament Example: She Lamented
Tone: neg it. A lament is full over the loss of her best
of regret and grief. friend.
looking or Funerals are Mnemonic: He was very
sounding sad lugubrious. So are mournful when he had to
Form: adj rainy days and BURY his cut LEG.
Tone: neg Mondays. Anything Example: The diner's dim
Lugubrious
that makes you lighting makes eating there a
sad, gloomy, or particularly Lugubrious
mournful can be experience
called lugubrious.
sad, depressed Melancholy is Mnemonic: Being Melancholy
Form: n,adj beyond sad: as a means that you're
Tone: neg noun or an overwhelmed with sorrow,
adjective, it's a wrapped up in sorrowful
Melancholy
word for the thoughts.
gloomiest of spirits. Example: There is a
brooding Melancholy in his
black and white photography.
to fail gradually in if you pine, you Mnemonic: Someone who is
health or vitality become weak, staying away from home, will
from grief, regret, especially if you are be in pain and would Pine to
Pine
etc separated from meet his/her parents.
Form: v your loved one. Example: After his wife died,
Tone: neg he just Pined away.
sounding sad Plaintive is an Mnemonic: Plaintive can be
Form: adj adjective for split into
Tone: neg describing someone plain(plane)+tive(relative).
or something with Suppose a relative dies in a
a pleading, plane crash, we mourn. Thus
sorrowful, Plaintive = mourn.
Plaintive
desperate tone. If Example: We could hear the
you have ever Plaintive cry of a wounded
heard the plaintive animal in the woods.
howl of a wolf, then
you know what we
are getting at here.
expressing The verb repine Mnemonic: Imagine on
discontent describes Christmas, your friend brings
Form: v expressing gloom pine tree instead of
Tone: neg or discontent. Christmas tree, so you will
Brooding, fretful, Repine
Repine and sad - these Example: There is no use
are the traits of repining over a love that's
people who repine been long lost
at their
circumstances in
life.
great sorrow "O, woe is me!" Mnemonic: Woe - when our
Form: n,adj This line is from favourite batsmen gets out...
Tone: neg Shakespeare. When we, while watching cricket
Hamlet scorns shout OH!!!! sadly
Ophelia, she utters Example: Ah, Woe, with the
Woe
these words to death of the last of my
express the grief siblings I am alone in this
and despair that world!
will soon drive her
to suicide.
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CALM DOWN something that Something that is fleeting or Mnemonic:

stays for a very short-lived is ephemeral, Ephemeral sounds
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / short time like a fly that lives for one like e-funeral. Electric
IMPORTANT Form: adj day or text messages flitting funeral is SHORT.
DIFFICULT TO Tone: neg from cellphone to cellphone. Example: The
Ephemeral
UNDERSTAND autumnal blaze of
colors is always to be
END / STOP treasured, all the
more so because it is
so Ephemeral.
EXCITE
something that A beautiful sunset, a Mnemonic:
EXPRESS SYMPATHY stays for a very rainbow, a wonderful dream Remember it as "Eva
HAPPY / JOYOUS short time right before your alarm clock want scent'. Scent
Form: adj goes off - all of these could evaporates like vapor.
HARDWORKING Evanescent
Tone: neut/neg be described as evanescent, Example: Beauty is
IRREGULAR / AT which means â€œfleetingâ€ as Evanescent as a
INTERVALS or â rainbow
€œtemporary.â€
something that Fleeting is an adjective that Mnemonic: fleet is
NEVER ENDING/NON- stays for a very describes something that usually used for a
STOP short time happens really fast, or group of
Form: adj something that doesnâ€™t airplanes/ship/cars
ORDINARY Tone: neg last as long as youâ€™d which can be seen for
SAD / DEPRESSED like. short period of time,
Fleeting
so short lived
SHORT-LIVED Example: I had a
SULKING / BAD- Fleeting desire to
TEMPERED jump into the cool
lake but kept on
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY hiking
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL Not Permanent Use the adjective transient Mnemonic:
Form: adj to describe something that remember Transient
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Tone: neut/neg always changes or moves light and Transient
around, like how a teenage current.... that we
girl can have a temporary studied in
crush on one boy one week physics.....which
Transient
and another boy the next produce an effect for
week. a very short time
Example: We are all
aware of the
Transient nature of
speech
worldly and not If something is fleeting or Mnemonic:
permanent lasts a short time, it is Transistors take a
Form: adj transitory. Your boss very short time to
Tone: neg declared the company's turn from on to off
restructuring to be mode i.e acting like a
transitory, and promised switch
Transitory
that the company would Example: A
emerge stronger and better Transitory panic
than ever. struck me when I
realized that we had
left the baby in the
car.
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CALM DOWN giving the Dour describes something Mnemonic: "Dour"

impression of being sullen, gloomy, or looks like "sour." A
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / unfriendly persistent. You might look person with a sour
IMPORTANT Form: adj dour on your way to picking expression is clearly
DIFFICULT TO Tone: neg up your last check from the feeling very Dour, that
Dour
UNDERSTAND job you just got fired from, is, sullen and gloomy
and people should get out of Example: The city,
END / STOP your way. drab and Dour by day,
is transformed at
night.
EXCITE
Unhappy and bad A morose person is sullen, Mnemonic: When
EXPRESS SYMPATHY tempered gloomy, sad, glum, and someone is Morose,
HAPPY / JOYOUS Form: adj depressed - not a happy they seem to have a
Morose Tone: neg camper. cloud of sadness
HARDWORKING hanging over them.
IRREGULAR / AT Example: She just sat
INTERVALS there looking Morose.
someone who is When you're peevish, you're Mnemonic: Know
easily annoyed by easily irritated and grumpy. someone who always
NEVER ENDING/NON- unimportant things Everything seems to get seems annoyed,
STOP Form: adj under your skin. grumpy, cranky, or
Tone: neg irritated? That person
ORDINARY Peevish is Peevish.
SAD / DEPRESSED Example: I would
rather figure things out
SHORT-LIVED on my own than ask
SULKING / BAD- that Peevish librarian
TEMPERED for help.
bad tempered Choose the adjective, Mnemonic: The pet -
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY
Form: adj petulant, to describe a u - lent (Petulant) me
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL Tone: neg person or behavior that is is getting me irritated
irritable in a childish way. Example: A Petulant
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION Petulant
and fussy man who is
always blaming
everyone else for his
problems
pouting your lips When something doesnâ€™t Mnemonic: Push the
will mean you are go your way and you get liP OUT to Pout.
annoyed annoyed about it, thatâ€™s Example: She Pouted
Pout Form: v a pout. And when you let her lips and stared at
Tone: neg the world know about it by him angrily.
thrusting out your lower lip,
you are pouting. Get over it.
looking serious and Medieval alchemists ascribed Mnemonic: If you are
threatening. to the planet Saturn a a party freak and at
Form: adj gloomy and slow character. Nine of Saturday Night
Tone: neg When people are called if you are still at
saturnine, it means they are home..then you will be
like the planetâ€“â gloomy! So from this
Saturnine
€“gloomy, mean, scowling. we can get SATURday
Not exactly the life of the NINE or Saturnine!
party. Example: The men
awaiting interrogation
by the police shared a
Saturnine silence
bad tempered and A bad-tempered or gloomy Mnemonic: Your face
not willing to talk person is sullen. Sullen is SWOLLEN ( by some
Form: adj people are down in the insect bite ) and so
Sullen
Tone: neg dumps. you feel Sullen
Example: Bob looked
pale and Sullen.
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CALM DOWN done without any Gratuitous means Mnemonic:

good reason and "without cause" or 'Gratitude' is
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / often having "unnecessary." Telling something that
IMPORTANT harmful effects ridiculous jokes at a cannot be measured.
Gratuitous
DIFFICULT TO Form: adj somber occasion would It is priceless.
UNDERSTAND Tone: neg be a display of gratuitous Example: The film
humor. was criticized for its
END / STOP Gratuitous violence.
ENTHUSIASM / PASSION / to anticipate and To obviate means to Mnemonic: OBVIATE
EXCITE prevent (as a eliminate the need for - viate sounds like
situation) or make something or to prevent deviate, deviate
EXPRESS SYMPATHY unnecessary (as an something from yourself from
HAPPY / JOYOUS action) happening. If you want something
OBVIATE
Form: verb to obviate the possibility unnecessary to you
HARDWORKING Tone: neg of a roach infestation, Example: The new
IRREGULAR / AT clean your kitchen medical treatment
INTERVALS regularly. OBVIATEs the need
for surgery.
to make necessary The verb necessitate Mnemonic:
NEVER ENDING/NON- Form: verb shows that something is necessi+tateâ
STOP Tone: pos necessary or needs to €”something
happen, as when a sweet NECESSARY
ORDINARY X
tooth can necessitate a Example: New safety
NECESSITATE
SAD / DEPRESSED trip to the store for a regulations
triple-scoop ice cream â necessitated adding a
SHORT-LIVED €” which will necessitate railing to the stairs.
SULKING / BAD- a trip to the gym.
TEMPERED something that is necessitate or justify Mnemonic: we say a
required or WARRANT is issued
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY
necessary against him, so a
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL Form: n warrant is to JUSTIFY
Tone: neut that he is liable to be
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION taken into custody
X Warrant
Example: The
deepening gloom
about the economy
may well warrant
such an aggressive
response
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CALM DOWN if you consider Anything Mnemonic: Expend

people or things to expendable is not sounds like Expense,
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / be expendable, you necessary - it can which at times seems
IMPORTANT think that you can be done without. If to be unnecessary.
DIFFICULT TO
EXPENDABLE get rid of them you lose or use Example: There are
UNDERSTAND when they are no expendable funds, employees whose
longer needed you won't miss the jobs are considered
END / STOP Form: adj money. EXPENDABLE.
Tone: neg
EXCITE something that is fringe players in a Mnemonic: FRINGE
marginal team are not as players do not get as
EXPRESS SYMPATHY Form: noun famous or as highly much attention as
HAPPY / JOYOUS FRINGE Tone: neg regarded as the main players do.
other players in the Example: a FRINGE
HARDWORKING team are. of moss around the
IRREGULAR / AT tree
INTERVALS minor consequence Incidental means Mnemonic: "dental"
Form: adj secondary in time is considered minor
Tone: neg or importance. If to other branches of
NEVER ENDING/NON- you lose weight medical..
STOP because you moved Example: You may
INCIDENTAL
and must walk incur some
ORDINARY further to school, INCIDENTAL
SAD / DEPRESSED the weight loss was expenses on the trip.
incidental to the
SHORT-LIVED move.
SULKING / BAD- not important If something is Mnemonic:
TEMPERED Form: adj considered of little INCONSEQUENTIAL
Tone: neg worth or sounds like Not
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY
importance, it is essential
UNIMPORTANT / TRIVIAL inconsequential. If Example: That's an
astronomers INCONSEQUENTIAL
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION forecast a problem compared to
INCONSEQUENTIAL
tremendous meteor the other issues
shower, it might
turn out to be no
more than space
junk, too
inconsequential to
record.
having no value Something nugatory Mnemonic:
Form: adj has no real value; NUGATORY sounds
Tone: neg itâ€™s worthless. like No+guarantee,
All your excuses for i.e a product which
why you didnâ€™t has no guarantee, is
turn the bath tap worthless.
off when you left Example: The book
NUGATORY
the apartment are is entertaining, but its
nugatory; they contributions to
donâ€™t change Shakespearean
the fact that the tub scholarship are
overflowed and NUGATORY.
leaked into the
apartment below.
not as important Scanners, printers, Mnemonic: Villages
as the main aim. and speakers are on the Periphery of
Form: adj peripheral devices any country are of
Tone: neg for a computer less importance...i.e
because they aren't PERIPHERAL
central to the Example: If we focus
working of the too much on
PERIPHERAL computer itself. PERIPHERAL issues,
Anything peripheral we will lose sight of
is on the margin, or the goal.
outside, while main
things, like a
computer's
processor, are not
peripheral.
something The adjective Mnemonic: relate it
unimportant picayune refers to to pico, which means
Form: n those things that small. so PICAYUNE-
Tone: neg are so small, trivial, pico-small or petty
and unimportant things
that they're not Example: Our lives
PICAYUNE
worth getting into. don't amount to a
Why focus on the PICAYUNE in the
picayune details, great scheme of
when it's the larger things
ideas that are the
real problem?
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CALM DOWN a fact or action An aberration is a noun that Mnemonic: Sounds

that is not usual. means something that is not like abh (hindi word
CRUCIAL / SIGNIFICANT / Form: n normal or is very typical at for 'now') +
IMPORTANT Tone: neut all. An example of an operation. Due to the
DIFFICULT TO aberration is when the mental disorder, the
UNDERSTAND temperature hits 90 degrees patient needs to be
in January - it's nice and operated immediately
Aberration
END / STOP warm, but it's really strange. (now).
Example: For her,
such a low grade on
EXCITE
an exam was an
EXPRESS SYMPATHY Aberration.
Root: prefix AB-
HAPPY / JOYOUS means AWAY FROM
HARDWORKING a thing that is not An anomaly is an Mnemonic:
IRREGULAR / AT normal abnormality, a blip on the Anomaly= A(means
INTERVALS Form: n screen of life that doesnâ€™t NO) + Nomaly =
Tone: neut fit with the rest of the A(no) + Normality =
LACKING ENERGY / LAZY pattern. If you are a breeder ABNORMALITY,
Anomaly of black dogs and one puppy DEVIATION FROM
NEVER ENDING/NON-
comes out pink, that puppy NORMAL ORDER
STOP
is an anomaly. Example: We
ORDINARY couldn't explain the
anomalies in the test
SAD / DEPRESSED results.
SHORT-LIVED a longer route that a roundabout road Mnemonic: Detour if
SULKING / BAD- is taken to avoid a (especially one that is used we REVERSE it
TEMPERED problem or go to a temporarily while a main ROUTE(D)means
place route is blocked) LONGER ROUTE
TO MAKE UNNECESSARY Form: n Example: We had to
Detour Tone: neut make a Detour
around the flooded
UNUSUAL / EXCEPTION fields.
Root: Prefix DE
means AWAY or
DOWN
to be different If something turns off course Mnemonic:
from something or is diverted, it deviates DeviatING from the
Form: v from the expected or the main point.
Tone: neut norm. Deviating from explicit Example: The bus
recipe directions is never a had to Deviate from
Deviate
good idea, unless you want its usual route
inedible food or a kitchen because of a road
fire. closure.
Root: Prefix DE
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COMBINE Form: v To amalgamate is to Mnemonic:

Tone: neut combine different things to Amalgamate: as we
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) create something new. all know that
EXCESS Institutions - such as AMALGAM is the alloy
banks, schools, or hospitals of mercury.And alloy
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM - often join forces and means MIXING things
(-) Amalgamate amalgamate with one together.SO
other. But other things - Amalgamate means
FERTILE
like musical genres - get mixing or combining.
INCREASE amalgamated as well. Example: The
company has now
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Amalgamated with
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) another local firm.
PAIN / SUFFERING Form: n A coalition is a group of Mnemonic: Co

Tone: neut people who join together means TOGETHER. So
POOR for a common cause, like a anything done
coalition you form with together.
POOR CONDITION Coalition
other skateboarders who Example: There is a
REDUCE want to convince your Coalition of
town to build a skate park. environmental and
RELEVANT consumer groups
REMEMBERING THE PAST Form: v Conflate is a more formal Mnemonic: Conflates
SHORTAGE / LACK OF Tone: neut way to say "mix together." sounds similar to
You probably wouldn't say cornflakes which
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) you conflated the gives us strength by
ingredients for a cake, but bringing together all
SURE / CERTAIN
if you blended two different the vitamin and
SWELL Conflate stories together to make a minerals together
new one, conflate would Example: The issues
UNCLEAR IN MEANING work. of race and class are
UNWILLING TO SPEND separate and should
not be Conflated.
VERY HIGH PRICE Root: CON means
VERY LESS TOGETHER
Form: v mix together different Mnemonic: Meld
WEALTHY
Tone: neut elements sounds like blend
which means a
mixture of
Meld Example: Time goes
on Like an endless
maze, Melding
seconds to hours And
hours to days.
Form: n Synthesis is a mixture, or Mnemonic:
Tone: neut a result that comes from Remember
adding things together. photoSynthesis -
Add salt to water, and the which combines
synthesis is salt water. Mix carbondioxide ,
flour, sugar, butter, and organic material and
Synthesis
eggs together and bake light to give Oxygen
them, and the synthesis is Example: Our
a cake. culture has a
Synthesis of
traditional and
modern values
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COMBINE Form: adj Arid is so dry that nothing Mnemonic: Arid : Take
Tone: neg will grow. Death Valley in it as a-rigid; a rigid
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) California features an arid thing can't be made to
EXCESS climate, which is why it's change it's shape, thus
called Death Valley and it can be taken as dry,
Arid
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM not Life Valley. barren, and
(-) unproductive.
Example: Nothing
FERTILE
grows in these Arid
INCREASE regions.
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Form: n,v Feeling overwhelmed, like Mnemonic: del[dell
Tone: neut you're underwater? You company]uge[huge]...so
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) might be experiencing a when the Dell company
PAIN / SUFFERING deluge - like when you've advertised it's product,
been given a deluge of there was a huge rush
Deluge
POOR homework over vacation: of requests, a deluge of
(oppo)
a dozen term requests.
POOR CONDITION
papers, two dozen books Example: When the
REDUCE to read, and a mile-high snow melts, the
stack of math problems. mountain stream
RELEVANT becomes a deluge.
REMEMBERING THE PAST Form: v To be desiccated is to be Mnemonic: Removing
SHORTAGE / LACK OF Tone: neut dried out. If you like moisture and humidity
desiccated fruit, you like from something is what
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) dried fruit - such as makes it become
raisins or dried apricots. Desiccated.
SURE / CERTAIN Desiccated
Example: Thus, these
SWELL environments are
Desiccated by the dry
UNCLEAR IN MEANING winds and direct
UNWILLING TO SPEND sunlight.
VERY HIGH PRICE Form: v drench or submerge or be Example: We were

Drench Tone: neut drenched or submerged caught in the storm and
VERY LESS (oppo) got drenched to the
skin.
WEALTHY
Form: v To inundate means to Mnemonic: Attempt to
Tone: neut/neg quickly fill up or read the entire
overwhelm, just like a dictionary in one sitting
flood. Your bathroom and you'll inundate your
Inundate
could be inundated with mind with vocabulary.
(oppo)
water if the pipes burst, Example: We have
and hopefully your inbox been inundated with
is inundated with nice offers of help.
emails on your birthday.
Form: v If you don't water your Mnemonic: Parch can
Tone: neg lawn all summer, the hot be related to
weather will parch the MARCH(month name).
grass until it's brown and In the month of march
withered. To parch is to its so hot that
Parch
dry up or wither due to everything starts drying
sunlight or heat. up.
Example: A drought is
Parching much of the
country.
Form: v To sear something is to Mnemonic: Sear
Tone: neut quickly cook or burn its rhymes with TEAR.
surface by applying When you BURN your
intense heat. When hand you are in tears.
Sear
making beef stew, the Example: The heat of
color and flavor are the sun Seared their
usually better if you sear faces.
the meat first.
Form: v Seep means to leak Mnemonic: SEEP is
Tone: neut slowly. When you see the similar to PEEP. When
word, imagine water you peep, you see
coming in through your through a small
Seeped sneakers on a rainy day. opening. When liquid
(oppo) It's not a lot of water, but seeps, it comes out of a
your feet still get pretty small opening
wet. Example: Blood was
beginning to seep
through the bandages.
Form: adj When it's been raining for Mnemonic: SODDEN
Tone: neut days, there are puddles sounds like suddenly
everywhere, and the soaken (soak with
Sodden
grass is thoroughly water, wet)
(oppo)
soaked, it's safe to say Example: We arrived
the ground is sodden. home completely
sodden.
Form: v Steep means to soak in, Mnemonic: Steep and
Tone: neut as in steeping a tea bag seep are synonyms both
Steeped in boiling water. meaning WET
(oppo) Example: Steep the
fruit in brandy
overnight.
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COMBINE Form: v When things abound, Mnemonic: Bounded

Tone: neut there are a lot of them. means limited. Abound
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) In spring, birds, means not limited, that
Abound
EXCESS flowers, rain, and is plentiful.
frisbees abound. Example: Stories about
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM his travels Abound.
(-)
Form: n A barrage is something Mnemonic: Barrage -
FERTILE Tone: neut that comes quickly and barrier; like man-made
heavily - as an attack of barrier in a stream
INCREASE bullets or artillery, or a which can stop
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Barrage fast spray of words. continuous flow of river
water.
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) Example: the media's
PAIN / SUFFERING Barrage of attacks on
the President's wife
POOR
Form: adj given or giving freely Mnemonic: Bounty
POOR CONDITION Tone: pos sounds like Abound or
Abundant which means
REDUCE A LOT.
RELEVANT Bounteous Example: Once again
was the Bounteous
REMEMBERING THE PAST earth giving to man a
SHORTAGE / LACK OF hundredfold what he
had sown.
SPEND LAVISHLY (-)
Form: adj If you have a copious Mnemonic: By copying
SURE / CERTAIN Tone: neut amount of something, in an exam, some get a
you have a lot of it. If LOT of marks
SWELL you take copious notes, Example: She supports
UNCLEAR IN MEANING Copious you'll do well when it her theory with Copious
comes time for review evidence.
UNWILLING TO SPEND sessions - unless you
VERY HIGH PRICE can't read your own
handwriting.
VERY LESS
Form: n A grocery store with a Mnemonic: corn +
WEALTHY Tone: neut large selection of fruits copia. copia is similar to
and vegetables could be copius meaning
said to have a plentiful, Cornucopia
Cornucopia cornucopia of produce. thus means plenty of
A cornucopia is a lot of corn(grains/fruits).
good stuff. Example: The book is a
Cornucopia of good
ideas.
Form: n,v A glut is too much of Mnemonic: Glut-Gain
Tone: neg something. A glut of a Lot..excess
gas in the marketplace Example: There is a
can lower its price. A Glut of cheap DVDs on
glut of heavy metal T- the market
Glut shirts in your dresser,
however, has nothing
to do with the economy
but might be a signal
that it's time to clean
your room.
Form: v To inundate means to Mnemonic: as
Tone: neut quickly fill up or mentioned before (WET
overwhelm, just like a category)
flood. Your bathroom Example: We have
could be inundated with been Inundated with
Inundate
water if the pipes burst, offers of help.
and hopefully your
inbox is inundated with
nice emails on your
birthday.
Form: n A legion is a horde or a Mnemonic: In army,
Tone: neut large number of people 'march fast' is common
or things. It was which is performed
originally a term for a using legs hence in this
Legion
military unit. way related to the word
Legion
Example: Legions of
photographers
Form: adj Anything multitudinous Mnemonic: MULTI
Tone: pos is countless, infinite, always means MANY.
innumerable, and, Example: All the
myriad: you couldn't Multitudinous donations
Multitudinous
count it if you tried. that the Earth makes
free of charge to human
society are known as
"ecosystem services".
Form: n,adj If you've got myriad Mnemonic: like
Tone: neut problems it doesn't pyramid.. huge number
mean you should call a of years since it was
myriad exterminator, it built The PYRAMID
means you've got consist of a huge pile of
Myriad
countless problems; rocks = a Myriad of
loads of them; too rocks
many to count. Example: Designs are
Welcome to the club. available in a Myriad of
colours.
Form: n Plethora means an Mnemonic: like if you
Tone: pos abundance or excess of go home after many
something. If you have days, your mother will
15 different people who insist that you eat
want to take you on a more. What she will say
date, you have a is "Pe Le + Thoda Aur
plethora of romantic Le" (in Hindi, meaning
Plethora
possibilities. take some
more)ultimately, it will
become an excess at
the end. You will be full
Example: The report
contained a Plethora of
detail.
Form: adj Profuse is a word for a Mnemonic: to
Tone: neut/ pos lot of something or PRODUCE an abundance
even way too much - a of energy from nuclear
Profuse profuse rainfall is a FUSion, you need to
serious amount of rain. join two atomic nuclei.
Example: He is
Profusely bleeding.
Form: adj Someone or something Mnemonic:
Tone: pos that is prolific is fruitful "Production Lifted"-
or highly productive. A They produced large
prolific songwriter can amounts of the product
churn out five hit tunes -Their production was
Prolific
before breakfast. lifted up in amount -
They were Prolific.
Example: Few
composers can match
his Prolific output.
Form: adj If your supervisor at Mnemonic: Rife- rifle
Tone: pos work describes your which has abundant
new position as â€œrife bullets
with opportunities for Example: It is a
Rife advancement,â€ then country where
rejoice! That means corruption is Rife.
your position offers
many opportunities for
advancement.
Form: n Rapid simultaneous Example: The first
Salvo Tone: neut discharge of firearms Salvo exploded a short
distance away.
Form: n A spate is a large Mnemonic: What will
Tone: neut number. If a spate of be fate of our state if
new coffee shops open there is a Spate OR
in your neighborhood, SUDDEN FLOOD?
Spate
itâ€™ll be easy for you Example: The bombing
to stay wide awake. was the latest in a
Spate of terrorist
attacks.
Form: v Steep also means to Mnemonic: as
Tone: neut soak in, as in steeping mentioned before (WET
a tea bag in boiling category)
Steeped
water. Example: as mentioned
before (under WET
category)
Form: n Steve baked a surfeit of Mnemonic: Surfeit =
Tone: pos jam tarts. Steve ate a SIR is FAT..as he eats a
surfeit of jam tarts. lot more than required
Steve surfeited himself until he is full.
on jam tarts. Whether Example: Indigestion
Surfeit surfeit is a noun or a can be brought on by a
verb (as in Surfeit of rich food.
"overabundance" or
"gorge"), Steve is likely
to end up with a
bellyache.
Form: v,n A surge is a sudden Mnemonic: S-sudden
Tone: neut/neg strong swelling, like a URGE to increase
tsunami wave that spectacularly..
engulfs the land. Example: He Surged
Although a surge offers past the other runners
Surge a fluid image, anything on the last lap.
can experience a
sudden surge, including
emotions, political
support, or an angry
mob.
Form: v Teeming means Mnemonic: Any time
Tone: neut completely full, something (or
especially with living someplace) is filled with
things. If your life, it's Teeming with it.
Teeming
grandmother's Example: the Teeming
apartment is teeming streets of the city
with cats, she sure has
a lot of them.
Form: n When an attacking Mnemonic: just like in
Tone: neut army lets loose a Volley-ball we throw
barrage of bullets all at shots at each other.
Volley
once, it's called a Example: Police fired a
volley. Volley over the heads of
the crowd.
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COMBINE Form: n The adjective chauvinistic is Mnemonic: If you

Tone: neg useful for describing people believe that your
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) who strongly believe in the gender, culture,
EXCESS superiority of their own country, or group is
gender or kind. A inherently better than
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM chauvinistic man might say another, you are
(-) women are too emotional to chauvinistic, which is
hold stressful jobs. pronounced "sho-
FERTILE Chauvinism van-IS-tick."
INCREASE Example: Male public
figures who make
LESSEN IN INTENSITY chauvinistic
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) comments about
women are now
PAIN / SUFFERING immediately placed in
POOR the public stocks of
social media.
POOR CONDITION
Form: n,adj If youâ€™re apt to come Mnemonic: Fanatic
REDUCE Tone: neg off as a little zany and sounds like a FAN
express extreme (follower) WHO DOES
RELEVANT enthusiasm for a particular NOT KNOW HIS
REMEMBERING THE PAST idea or thing, you may be LIMITS and BECOMES
described as a fanatic. ECCESSIVELY
SHORTAGE / LACK OF "Sheâ€™s a real vegetable ENTHUSIASTIC about
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) fanatic; Iâ€™ve never seen SOMEONE or
Fanatic someone so enthusiastic SOMETHING
SURE / CERTAIN about gardening methods. Example: An
addictive parlor
SWELL
game, it's played in
UNCLEAR IN MEANING front of millions of
political Fanatics, like
UNWILLING TO SPEND me, who can't resist
VERY HIGH PRICE tuning in and feasting
on the dish.
VERY LESS
Form: n Jingoism is fanatical, over- Mnemonic: jin(that
WEALTHY Tone: neg the-top patriotism. If you alladin one) had
refuse to eat, read, wear, extreme and
or discuss anything that uncontrolled loyalty
wasn't made in your own towards his master
country, people might Example: The really
Jingoism
accuse you of jingoism. bad thing here is the
silly wave that has
gone over the public
mindâ€”protection
humbug, silver,
Jingoism, etc
Form: n The hamburger zealot was Mnemonic: Zealot
Tone: neg so fanatical about his can be connected to
burgers that he camped A LOT OF ZEAL
outside his favorite fast- (ENTHUSIASM), So a
food joint for hours every person who is very
morning, waiting for it to passionate about
open. And he would never someone is definitely
Zealot put mustard on them, only an enthusiastic
ketchup. person.
Example: The coffee
lover was a Zealot
regarding where his
coffee was grown,
who grew it, and how
it was roasted.
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COMBINE Form: adj If you describe land as Mnemonic: agra

Tone: pos arable, it means that (agriculture) + able.
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) something can grow Example: Bees do not
EXCESS Arable there. If you're looking to occupy and use up Arable
raise crops, you better land.
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM find yourself a patch of
(-) arable land.
FERTILE Form: adj The adjective fecund Example: Fecundity
Tone: pos describes things that are declines rapidly after the
INCREASE Fecund highly fertile and that age of 40.
LESSEN IN INTENSITY easily produce offspring or
fruit.
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-)
Form: adj When something is green Mnemonic:
PAIN / SUFFERING Tone: pos with plant life it's verdant, VARDAAN(blessing)...green
a word often used to color is a blessing...green
POOR Verdant
idealize the countryside vegetables,trees.
POOR CONDITION with its verdant pastures Example: She wore a
or verdant hills. dress of Verdant green.
REDUCE
Form: adj Drive through a forest Mnemonic: Anything
RELEVANT Tone: neg that's just been destroyed BARRING (stopping) RAIN
REMEMBERING THE PAST by a fire, and you'll get an can cause a land to be
idea of what barren means BARREN (not fertile).
SHORTAGE / LACK OF - stripped of vegetation Example: In ten thousand
X
and devoid of life. years, the earth could be
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) Barren
cold and barren, an
SURE / CERTAIN endless frozen wasteland
more suitable for
SWELL mammoths than for
UNCLEAR IN MEANING humans.
UNWILLING TO SPEND
VERY HIGH PRICE
VERY LESS
WEALTHY
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COMBINE Form: n The process of increasing Mnemonic: Accretion

Tone: pos can be called accretion. -add + creation , this
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) Although you may say that addition to creation
EXCESS stalactites "grow" from the leads to growth
Accretion ceilings of caves, they Example: The process
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM actually form from an of character building
(-) accretion of limestone and through Accretion and
other minerals. elimination has been
FERTILE
going on.
INCREASE Form: v If you are a window Mnemonic:
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Tone: neut/neg washer, but you refer to Aggrandize -aggregate
yourself as a "vista + grand; aggregating
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) enhancement specialist," things...is similar to
Aggrandize
PAIN / SUFFERING then you are aggrandizing adding details
your job title - that is, Example: Her sole
POOR making it sound greater aim is personal
than it is. Aggrandizement.
POOR CONDITION
Form: v Do you need to make Mnemonic: Augment
REDUCE Tone: neut something bigger, better, sounds like argument;
RELEVANT or stronger? Then you need Your misleading
to augment it. To augment argument, can
REMEMBERING THE PAST is to increase the amount increase the chances
SHORTAGE / LACK OF or strength of something. of damage to our
Augment
company.
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) Example: The recent
speech of the
SURE / CERTAIN
president Augmented
SWELL tensions in the Near
East
UNCLEAR IN MEANING
Form: v To dilate something is to Mnemonic: If you DIE
UNWILLING TO SPEND Tone: neut make it wider. When the LATE(die in a very old
VERY HIGH PRICE light fades, the pupil of age) you expand(in
Dilate your eye will dilate, weight sense or in
VERY LESS meaning it looks bigger. age)
Example: Her eyes
WEALTHY
Dilated with fear.
Form: v Many people use the Example: This is an
Tone: neut expression "enhance your opportunity to
chance" to point out ways Enhance the
to increase your chances of reputation of the
Enhance winning or earning a company.
contest or prize. When you
enhance something, you
heighten it or make it
better.
Form: v When something Mnemonic: pro + life
Tone: pos proliferates, it's growing, + rate : increase in
spreading or multiplying rate of production
really quickly. Bunny (pro) of life (living
rabbits have a habit of organisms) causes
Proliferate proliferating, as do population to increase
dandelions in untended rapidly
gardens and funny Example: Books and
YouTube videos on the articles on the subject
internet. have Proliferated over
the last year.
Form: v To wax is to grow larger or Mnemonic: If you go
Tone: pos increase, whereas wane for Waxing( A
means to grow smaller or technique to remove
decrease. hair from your
skin..usually ladies go
for it) once..next time
the hair growth on
Wax
your skin INCREASES
GRADUALLY
Example: The sun's
energy output varies
slightly as sunspots
Wax on the star's
surface.
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COMBINE Form: v Something that abates Mnemonic: Focus on

Tone: neg becomes fewer or less intense. â€ãteâ€™ part of
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) Your enthusiasm for skiing Abate. (eat, ate,
EXCESS might abate after falling off a eaten). When you eat
Abate ski lift and getting a mouthful anything, you reduce
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM of snow. it's quantity.
(-) Example: They
waited for the crowd's
FERTILE
fury to Abate.
INCREASE Form: v,n When something ebbs, it is Mnemonic: Relate it
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Tone: neut declining, falling, or flowing to egg ; now-a-days
away. The best time to look for because of bird flu
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) sea creatures in tidal pools is the quantity of eggs
PAIN / SUFFERING when the tide is on the ebb - coming to the market
Ebb
meaning it has receded from is reduced.
POOR the shore. Example: She sat in
silence enjoying the
POOR CONDITION
Ebb and flow of
REDUCE conversation.
RELEVANT Form: v Recede means to pull back, Mnemonic: You'll
Tone: neut retreat, or become faint or succeed if you let
REMEMBERING THE PAST distant. Flood waters recede, as your bad memories
SHORTAGE / LACK OF Recede do glaciers, and even Recede
abstractions like "panic" and Example: The sound
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) "hope." Think "receding of the truck Receded
hairline." (That means bald.) into the distance.
SURE / CERTAIN
Form: v To subside is to die down or Mnemonic: Subside
SWELL Tone: pos/ neut become less violent, like rough sounds like subsidy
UNCLEAR IN MEANING ocean waves after a storm has (reduction of cost on
passed (or your seasickness, if services) the word
UNWILLING TO SPEND you happened to be sailing on REDUCE still remains
VERY HIGH PRICE Subside that ocean). common.
Example: She waited
VERY LESS nervously for his
anger to Subside.
WEALTHY
Root: refix SUB
means UNDER
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COMBINE Form: adj Fortuitous means by Mnemonic:

Tone: pos chance, like a lucky equivalent to
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) accident. If you and your fortune... fortune isn't
EXCESS best friend's families destined to occur, it
happen to go on vacation to is accidental
Fortuitous
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM the same place at the same Example: His
(-) time, thatâ€™s a fortuitous success depended on
coincidence! a Fortuitous
FERTILE
combination of
INCREASE circumstances.
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Form: adj Use the adjective opportune Mnemonic:
Tone: pos to describe especially good Everything one
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) timing. A snowstorm is an wishes for is
PAIN / SUFFERING opportune time to make OPPORTUNITIES at
Opportune extra money shoveling your the Opportune time.
POOR neighbor's driveway. Example: The offer
could not have come
POOR CONDITION
at a more Opportune
REDUCE moment.
RELEVANT Form: adj When the timing of Mnemonic: sounds
Tone: pos something is propitious or like profitious.. hence
REMEMBERING THE PAST you've got propitious its profitable and thus
SHORTAGE / LACK OF circumstances for favorable
Propitious something, it's likely to turn Example: It was not
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) out well. A propitious time a Propitious time to
for taking a big test is when start a new business.
SURE / CERTAIN
you've studied hard and
SWELL gotten a good night's sleep.
UNCLEAR IN MEANING Form: n If you find good things Mnemonic: You can
Tone: pos without looking for them, thank Serendipity if
UNWILLING TO SPEND serendipity - unexpected you find a pencil at
VERY HIGH PRICE good luck - has brought an empty desk just as
them to you. you walk into an
VERY LESS Serendipity exam and realize that
you forgot yours.
WEALTHY
Example: Meeting
her like that, and
there of all places,
was true Serendipity!
Form: n Despair is the feeling of not Mnemonic: Despair
Tone: neg having any hope left. If you can also refer to
just found out that you're someone or
having a test in math and something that
X Despair you hadn't studied at all, causes you to worry
you might feel despair, or or be sad.
despair of any hope that Example: A deep
you can pass it. sense of despair
overwhelmed him.
Form: adj Use the adjective hapless to Mnemonic: relate it
Tone: neg describe someone unlucky to helpless
and deserving of pity, like Example: Intimacy
the hapless used car buyer between performers
X Hapless
who gives in to the fast- and their hapless
talking salesperson. audience members
creates an interesting
frisson.
Form: adj The fairy tale Cinderella Mnemonic: wretched
Tone: neg gives us many examples of - people in a wrecked
uses for the word wretched. ship are wretched....
Poor Cinderella had a physical misery!
X wretched childhood, living in Example: I felt
Wretched wretched conditions with a wretched about the
wretched stepmother. It way things had
would be enough to make turned out.2 (formal)
anyone feel wretched, or
absolutely terrible.
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COMBINE Form: n When circumstances or a Mnemonic: ad-worse,

Tone: neg situation works against when the conditions
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) you, you face adversity. are worst, its your
EXCESS Adversity misfortune
Example: He
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM overcame many
(-) personal adversities.
FERTILE Form: n An affliction makes you Mnemonic: Affliction
Tone: neg suffer, but you have to sounds like infection,
INCREASE deal with it anyway. which causes a state of
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Diseases are often said to distress, irritation and
be afflictions, but the word suffering
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) Afflictions
can mean just about Example: He is in fact
PAIN / SUFFERING anything that causes great one person with an
suffering. affliction that radically
POOR changes his
personality.
POOR CONDITION
Form: n Donâ€™t cry over spilled Mnemonic: MIS refers
REDUCE Tone: neg milk, it is just a minor to negative attribute
RELEVANT mishap - a misfortune. If and HAP can be related
the surgeon operates on to happening. So a
REMEMBERING THE PAST the wrong leg when you go wrong happening.
Mishap
SHORTAGE / LACK OF in for knee surgery? Now, Example: I managed
thatâ€™s a mishap to get to get home without
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) upset about. further Mishap.
Root: MIS means
SURE / CERTAIN
HATE/WRONG
SWELL Form: n An ordeal is something Mnemonic:
UNCLEAR IN MEANING Tone: neg difficult or painful to go OR+DEAL...DEALING
through. Something kind of WITH ORIYA SPEAKING
UNWILLING TO SPEND hard like taking a test can PEOPLE IN ANOTHER
VERY HIGH PRICE be an ordeal, but often an LANGUAGE is quite a
Ordeals
ordeal is a serious and difficult experience.
VERY LESS long-lasting event, like an Example: They are to
illness or tragedy. be spared the ordeal of
WEALTHY
giving evidence in
court.
Form: n a trial is a difficult Example: this film is
Tone: neg experience, trouble or as much about
Trials
grief. celebration as it is
about Trials.
Form: n Tribulation is suffering or Mnemonic:
Tone: neg trouble, usually resulting Tribulation-Tribal ;
from oppression. The While the group was
tribulations of a coal miner trekking they were
include a dangerous work caught by jungle tribal
Tribulation environment, lung disease (junglee log In Hindi)
from black dust and a and harassed ...It was
cramped, dark work space. a period of Tribulation
for them!
Example: Life is full of
Tribulations.
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COMBINE Form: an,adj,v You might not have any Mnemonic: When
Tone: neg money in your pocket, but your bank is ruptured
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) it doesnâ€™t necessarily (you left without
EXCESS mean you are bankrupt. It money), you would
Bankrupt takes a legal proceeding definitely be Bankrupt
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM for the courts to declare a Example: The
(-) person bankrupt - or company was
officially unable to pay his declared Bankrupt by
FERTILE
debts. the court.
INCREASE Form: adj When you think of the Mnemonic: Break it
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Tone: neg word destitute, which as
means poor or lacking DE+INSTITUE...that
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) other necessities of life, means the person
PAIN / SUFFERING think of someone who is in who has never been
desperate straits. A very, to any
POOR Destitute very tight budget is poor. INSTITUTE..i.e. who
Living on the streets is is ILLITERATE is very
POOR CONDITION
destitute. poor
REDUCE Example: When he
died, his family was
RELEVANT left completely
REMEMBERING THE PAST Destitute.
SHORTAGE / LACK OF Form: adj If you are hard up, broke, Mnemonic:
Tone: neg penniless, or strapped for IM(not)+PECUNIA is
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) cash, you could describe a root for
yourself as impecunious. money...hence
SURE / CERTAIN
Then maybe you could Impecunious means
SWELL make some money having little or no
Impecunious teaching vocabulary money.
UNCLEAR IN MEANING words. Example: They were
UNWILLING TO SPEND so Impecunious that
they couldn't afford
VERY HIGH PRICE to give one another
VERY LESS even token Christmas
gifts
WEALTHY
Form: v To impoverish is to take Mnemonic:
Tone: neg away a person's livelihood. Impoverish can be
When a drought ruins a remembered as INTO
farmer's crop and he has POVERTY
nothing to harvest, his Example: These
Impoverish bad luck may leave him changes are likely to
and his family Impoverish single-
impoverished, or poor. parent families even
further.
Root: IM means
NOT.
Form: adj An indigent person is Mnemonic: Indigent
Tone: neg extremely poor, lacking (poor) cannot be
the basic resources of a INDULGENT(rich and
normal life. Often the overspending)
indigent lack not only Example: Homeless
money but homes. shelters, soup
Indigent kitchens, free medical
clinics and court-
appointed lawyers are
all institutions that
our society has
developed to help
indigen
Form: adj Piggy bank empty? Mnemonic: in +
Tone: neg Nothing but lint in your solvent = one who
pockets? Then you're cant solve his debts.
Insolvent probably unable to meet Example: The
any financial obligations. company has been
In other words, you are declared Insolvent.
insolvent.
Form: n,adj People who live off Mnemonic:
Tone: neg begging can be called Mendicant - Men + dI
mendicants. However, you + Can't : men who
probably wouldn't call say I can't, they don't
your kids mendicants, like to work and
even though they beg you sometimes start
Mendicant
for stuff, because the word practicing beggary
mendicant also implies Example: A
extreme poverty. Mendicant
approached me while
I was waiting at the
traffic signal.
Form: n Pauper is an old-fashioned Mnemonic: Pauper
Tone: neut/neg word for someone who is and POOR rhymes
poor - really poor, like partially.
Pauper
the paupers described by Example: She was
Charles Dickens or Mark buried in a Pauper's
Twain. grave.
Form: n Penury means extreme Mnemonic:
Tone: neg poverty to the point of pen+ru(pee)-no
homelessness and begging rupee to buy a pen
in the streets. Economic Example: He died in
Penury downturns, job loss, Penury.
shopping sprees, and
weekends at the high
rollers' table in Vegas can
lead to penury.
Form: adj,n As an adjective, solvent Mnemonic: Sounds
Tone: neg describes someone who's like "solve" + "rent".
got cash on hand. If you want to solve
the issues related to
rent then you must
be able to pay all
X Solvent
your debts.
Example: In some
cases, banks that
were otherwise
solvent faced
collapse.
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COMBINE Form: adj That building falling down Mnemonic: Decrease

Tone: neg on the corner of your in Brad pit's muscular
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) block? It's decrepit. So is strength made him
EXCESS Decrepit the old man who lives very weak
there, if he is weak from Example: He is a
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM age. Decrepit means Decrepit old man.
(-) broken down by hard use.
FERTILE Form: adj If something has been Mnemonic: Derelict
Tone: neg abandoned, you can call it sounds like Neglect.
INCREASE derelict. Even if a person Neglected things are
LESSEN IN INTENSITY has abandoned his generally abondoned
responsibilities, you can after a while.
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) Derelict
say that he is derelict in his Example: The canal
PAIN / SUFFERING duties. But don't call a lost has been Derelict for
child derelict - unless, of many years.
POOR course, he has neglected
his chores.
POOR CONDITION
Form: adj Falling down and in total Mnemonic: I drank a
REDUCE Tone: neg disrepair, something that's DILuted API(appy)
RELEVANT dilapidated is going to need juice which was
a lot of fixing up. outDATED(expired)....
REMEMBERING THE PAST my stomach got
SHORTAGE / LACK OF RUINED as a result of
Dilapidated
my own NEGLECT.
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) Example: The house
remained empty, and
SURE / CERTAIN
was getting into a
SWELL very Dilapidated
state.
UNCLEAR IN MEANING
Form: adj Is your house in terrible Mnemonic: When
UNWILLING TO SPEND Tone: neg condition? Does the roof the roof rambles and
VERY HIGH PRICE leak? Is it half tumbling falls apart, its indeed
down? Congratulations! It's in a Ramshackled
VERY LESS ramshackle - in other words state.
Ramshackle
- in terrible condition and Example: The
WEALTHY
barely holding together. opposition criticized
the government's
Ramshackle economic
policies.
Form: n Any scene, place, or thing Mnemonic: Shamble
Tone: neg in disorder. has 'amble' which
means able to walk.
But it also has SH, so
may be a person who
Shamble
walks shakily lacks in
strength.
Example: Terrorists
have turned the city
into Shambles.
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COMBINE Form: v squeeze or press together Mnemonic: Constrict

Tone: neut/neg sounds like RESTRICT.
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) Thatâ€™s the meaning as
EXCESS well, to restrict something
Constrict
from happening.
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM Example: Film-makers of
(-) the time were Constricted
by the censors.
FERTILE
Form: v Contract also means Mnemonic: Contraction
INCREASE Tone: neut/neg "shrink." When the and expansion are
LESSEN IN INTENSITY economy contracts, opposites
consumers stop buying Example: The universe is
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) Contract
things, and people lose expanding rather than
PAIN / SUFFERING their jobs, and if you Contracting.
freeze water, it contracts
POOR too.
POOR CONDITION Form: v To curtail something is Mnemonic: Curtail. Can
Tone: neut/neg slow it down, put be read as cur + TAIL or
REDUCE restrictions on it, or stop it cutting the tail of a dog
RELEVANT entirely. If I give up cake, (CUR), ie reducing it. So
Curtail I am curtailing my cake- Curtail is to shorten or to
REMEMBERING THE PAST eating. reduce.
SHORTAGE / LACK OF Example: The lecture
was Curtailed by the fire
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) alarm going off.
SURE / CERTAIN Form: v What do love, money, and Mnemonic: if a swindler
Tone: neut/neg the earth all have in (cheater) swindles
SWELL common? All can dwindle, (cheats) you then your
UNCLEAR IN MEANING Dwindle or shrink away, if we don't savings Dwindle.
handle them properly. Example: Support for the
UNWILLING TO SPEND party has Dwindled away
VERY HIGH PRICE to nothing.
Form: v Stopping for a snack may Mnemonic: Flag rhymes
VERY LESS
Tone: neut/neg help when your energy or with sag which means to
WEALTHY attention begin to flag, droop or grow feeble
Flag
meaning you are getting Example: It had been a
tired or losing your focus. long day and the children
were beginning to Flag.
Form: v Things that wax and wane Mnemonic: Wane--it
Tone: neg grow larger and smaller, sounds like "vain",
like the moon. Things that imagine your tailor has
wane simply grow smaller. decreased the size of
"My initial enthusiasm for your pant and shirt and
helping waned when I saw now you can't wear it, so
Wane
the pile of envelopes that your hard work involved
needed licking." in buying that dress went
in vain.
Example: Her
enthusiasm for the whole
idea was waning rapidly.
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COMBINE Form: adj Something apposite is fitting Mnemonic: Apposite-

Tone: pos or relevant. It is apposite opposite of OPPOSITE
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) that radio stations play i.e. perfectly matched;
EXCESS Christmas carols on appropriate; most
Apposite Christmas Eve, and that suitable
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM your tax accountant takes Example: Her remarks
(-) vacation after April 15th. It are extremely Apposite
all makes sense. to the present
FERTILE
discussion.
INCREASE Form: adj,adv Apropos means regarding or Mnemonic: Apropos -
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Tone: pos appropriate to, as in: apro + pos,
Apropos of your interest in appropriate + position
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) fishing, your grandfather - appropriate +
Apropos
PAIN / SUFFERING gave you his set of situation...
championship lures, rods, Example: Lets discuss
POOR reels and lucky tackle box. this on an Apropos
moment.
POOR CONDITION
Form: adj Germane means relevant; it Mnemonic:
REDUCE Tone: pos fits in. If you are giving a Germane...very close
RELEVANT speech on dog training, stick to word ..Germany..so
to the germane, canine stuff. if you want TO learn
REMEMBERING THE PAST GERMAN
SHORTAGE / LACK OF LANGUAGE....I GUESS
Germane
A GERMAN teacher
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) would be
APPROPRIATE.
SURE / CERTAIN
Example: remarks
SWELL that are Germane to
the discussion
UNCLEAR IN MEANING
Form: adj Something pertinent is Mnemonic: relate this
UNWILLING TO SPEND Tone: pos relevant and on-point. If you word to
VERY HIGH PRICE give your best friend pertaining....which
pertinent advice, that means means relevant to.
Pertinent
VERY LESS the advice is appropriate for Example: Please keep
the situation. your comments
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Pertinent to the topic
under discussion.
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COMBINE Form: n People who are able to Mnemonic: see it as

Tone: neut look back on the past and be Hindsight..
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) understand what foresight- seeing
EXCESS happened have hindsight. before occurring and
If you go skating on a Hindsight- seeing
Hindsight
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM frozen lake and it cracks, after occurring.
(-) in hindsight you'd know Example: What looks
you should've paid obvious in Hindsight
FERTILE
attention to the giant was not at all obvious
INCREASE "danger" sign. at the time.
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Form: n Think of the noun, Mnemonic:
Tone: neut nostalgia, when you long Nostalgia. sounds like
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) for the good old days of no- hostel- gia.. so
PAIN / SUFFERING the past. he feels home
sick..remembers
Nostalgia
POOR home
Example: She is
POOR CONDITION
filled with Nostalgia
REDUCE for her own college
days.
RELEVANT
Form: n A reminiscence is a Mnemonic: can
REMEMBERING THE PAST Tone: neut memory, or the act of break it as re + mini
SHORTAGE / LACK OF recovering it. A visit to + scene - recollecting
your old elementary mini scenes from our
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) Reminiscence school may flood your past memories
brain with reminiscencesâ Example: The book
SURE / CERTAIN
€“-things you hadn't is a collection of his
SWELL thought of in years Reminiscences about
coming suddenly back. the actress.
UNCLEAR IN MEANING
Form: n,adj In retrospect - that is, in Mnemonic: Retro
UNWILLING TO SPEND Tone: neut looking back and means PAST and
VERY HIGH PRICE contemplating the past â Spect is to see. So to
€” we sometimes find look back in the past
VERY LESS ourselves wishing that we is to Retrospect
Retrospect had done some things Example: The
WEALTHY
differently. decision seems
extremely odd, in
Retrospect.
Root: RETRO means
PAST
Form: adj Only one letter separates Mnemonic: Wistful
Tone: neut the two words, but and Wishful...Wistful
"wishful" is having hope -Full of longing or
for something, and wistful unfulfilled desire.
is having sadness or Wishful = Seeking
Wistfully melancholy about advancement or
something. "Wist" isn't recognition.
even a word that's used Example: â€œIf only
anymore, but you can still I had known you
be wistful. then,â€ he said
Wistfully.
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COMBINE Form: n If there is a dearth of Mnemonic: earth is

Tone: neg something, there is not big. de-earth.....(read
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) enough of it. A dearth of as Dearth) means
EXCESS affordable housing is bad, but small...small in
a dearth of bed bugs is a quantity..or scarcity
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM Dearth blessing. Example: here was a
(-) Dearth of reliable
information on the
FERTILE
subject.
INCREASE Root: Prefix DE
means DOWN/AWAY
LESSEN IN INTENSITY
Form: n If you're running a deficit, you Mnemonic: Deficit:
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) Tone: neg are losing. You might be DEFICIent+ IT,
PAIN / SUFFERING losing money or losing a means reduce in
game. Either way, you better quantity
POOR make up for it. Example: The trade
Deficit
balance has been in
POOR CONDITION
Deficit for the past
REDUCE five years.
Root: Prefix DE
RELEVANT means DOWN/AWAY
REMEMBERING THE PAST Form: adj Being deprived means lacking Example: Boys from
SHORTAGE / LACK OF Tone: neg important things like food and a Deprived
water. For example, when environment, wherein
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) warm clothing, housing, and the family life
Deprived nutrition are in short supply, revealed a pattern of
SURE / CERTAIN
the people are deprived of neglect, moral
SWELL basics of life. degradation.
Root: Prefix DE
UNCLEAR IN MEANING means DOWN/AWAY
UNWILLING TO SPEND Form: adj You're stranded in the ocean, Mnemonic: void -
VERY HIGH PRICE Tone: neg miles from shore, clinging to a resembles something
sinking boat, and you can't nullified, ie empty,
VERY LESS swim? Sorry to say, your lacking.
Devoid situation is devoid of all hope. Example: The letter
WEALTHY
was Devoid of
warmth and feeling.
Root: Prefix DE
means DOWN/AWAY
Form: adj If I had more than an Example: Flora saw
Tone: neg exiguous amount of space her father trembling
here, I'd be able to tell you in all his Exiguous
Exiguous more about the fact that length, though he
exiguous means a tiny held himself stiffer
amount. than ever if that was
possible.
Form: n The word paucity means not Mnemonic: pau -
Tone: neg enough of something. If paav as in paav bhaji
you've got a paucity of good and if there is only
cheer, for example, you'd one "paav" for the
better cheer up! whole city...so
Paucity
obviously it will be
scarce
Example: There was
a a Paucity of
information.
Form: adj Reserved for the harmlessly Mnemonic: Vacuous
Tone: neg stupid and truly meaningless, can be seen as
vacuous is a smart-sounding vacuum which
way to describe something means, a region
Vacuous
dumb. Celebrity gossip and empty of matter.
reality TV is usually pretty Example: He stared
vacuous, even if it's fun. down at her, grinning
Vacuously.
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COMBINE Form: v Dissipate means "disperse" Mnemonic: di-SIP-

Tone: neg or "fade away" - as a bad ATE can be
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) smell will dissipate (usually) remembered as: Sip
EXCESS if you wait long enough. = drinking, Ate =
Eating, a life of
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM drinking and eating ,
(-) thus spending a lot
and pursuing
FERTILE Dissipate
pleasure!
INCREASE Example: If you win
the lottery, you might
LESSEN IN INTENSITY suddenly find yourself
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) with a group of new
friends encouraging
PAIN / SUFFERING you to Dissipate your
POOR money.
Form: adj,n In the Bible, the Prodigal Example: They
POOR CONDITION
Tone: neg Son leaves home and criticized the
REDUCE wastes all his money, but Prodigality of the
when he returns, he feels administration.
RELEVANT Prodigal sorry. Use the adjective
REMEMBERING THE PAST prodigal to describe
someone who spends too
SHORTAGE / LACK OF much money, or something
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) very wasteful.
Form: adj,n Profligate, as a noun or as Mnemonic:
SURE / CERTAIN
Tone: neg an adjective, implies Profligate= spend
SWELL recklessly wasting your Profusely like bill
money on extravagant Gates
UNCLEAR IN MEANING Profligate luxury. Profligate behavior Example: A â
UNWILLING TO SPEND is a lot of fun, but you'll €œProfligateâ€
regret it later - when you nation may have
VERY HIGH PRICE get your charge card bill. good reason to run
VERY LESS up debts.
Form: n A spendthrift person is Mnemonic:
WEALTHY
Tone: neg reckless and wasteful with Spendthrift can be
his money. Spendthrifts who split in this way:
like to take you out to nice SPEND+THRIFT.
lunches are good people to Spending ones thrift
Spendthrift be friends with, but it's (saving).
generally a bad way to Example: Ability to
handle your own bank save.-All healthy
account. boys are naturally
inclined to be
Spendthrifts.
Form: v To squander means to Mnemonic:
Tone: neg spend extravagantly, Squander rhymes
thoughtlessly, or wastefully. with WANDER....so if
If you need to save for you keep wandering,
Squander college, don't squander her you are ultimately
income on nightly sushi wasting time in life.
dinners. Example: He
Squandered all his
money on gambling.
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COMBINE Form: adj Use absolute as Mnemonic: "solute" sounds like

Tone: pos a noun or an salute and we salute people
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET adjective when having complete power.
(-) you're so sure Example: â€˜You're wrong,â
EXCESS of something €™ she said with Absolute
that you know certainty.
EXCESSIVE it will never
PATRIOTISM (-) change. For
Absolute
example, a
FERTILE
devout person's
INCREASE belief in life
after death is
LESSEN IN INTENSITY an absolute;
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) that person has
absolute faith in
PAIN / SUFFERING the afterlife.
POOR Form: adj If someone Mnemonic: assume that there
Tone: pos accuses you of are two categories A & B and
POOR CONDITION
stealing their you have to put an object in
REDUCE lunch and you one of them..now when you put
give a that object in a category..you
RELEVANT categorical are ABSOLUTEly sure that it
REMEMBERING THE denial, it means belongs there.
PAST that you Example: He is known for
Categorical absolutely deny making Categorical statements.
SHORTAGE / LACK OF having anything
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) to do with the
theft.
SURE / CERTAIN Categorical
means
SWELL
absolute,
UNCLEAR IN MEANING unqualified,
unconditional.
UNWILLING TO SPEND
Form: adj If you're Mnemonic: Certitude sounds
VERY HIGH PRICE Tone: pos absolutely like Certainity, and with a
VERY LESS convinced your similar meaning.
team is going Example: You will like Rome,â
Certitude
WEALTHY to the Super €™ he said, with absolute
Bowl, you state Certitude.
it with certitude
or confidence.
Form: n The adjective Mnemonic: remember that a
Tone: neut contingent can continent and small continents
be used to depend on others
describe when Example: A strong contingent
something can of local residents were there to
occur only block the proposal.
Contingent (X) when
something else
does first.
Making money
is contingent on
finding a good-
paying job.
Form: n A conviction is Mnemonic: He is the 'convict', i
Tone: pos something don't have any doubt about it, I
certain: a am absolutely sure.
judgment of Example: He said he agreed
Conviction
guilty in court but his voice lacked Conviction.
and a strong
belief are both
convictions.
Form: adj Emphatic Mnemonic: saying something
Tone: pos means forceful with EMPHASIS
and clear. Example: He was Emphatic
Nicole's mother that he could not work with her.
Emphatic was emphatic Root: Prefix EM- means IN
when she told
her not to come
home late
again.
Form: adj When Mnemonic: in-controvertible;
Tone: pos something is here relate controvertible with
incontrovertible, controversy thus something
it is undeniably, which cannot have any
absolutely, 100 controversy is in-controvertible
Incontrovertible percent, and thus is indisputable
completely true. Example: Her book shows
That rain is wet incontrovertibly that he was
is an innocent.
incontrovertible
fact.
Form: adj Something Mnemonic: provisional
Tone: neut provisional is certificate is issued by
temporary, in university before the actual
the sense that degree certificate as a
it's only valid TENTATIVE ONE FOR THE
for a while. ORIGINAL
You'll often Example: The meeting has
hear provisional been provisionally arranged for
used to Friday.
Provisional (X) describe things
such as
governments,
elections,
contracts, and
agreements, all
of which can
change into
something
permanent.
Form: v Make sure you Mnemonic: Think of java
Tone: neg know the qualifiers
context when (private/public/default/protected
using the word - they limit the access of
qualify. In one members of a class).
sense, it means Example: I want to qualify
to be right for, what I said earlierâ€”I didn't
to measure up. mean he couldn't do the job,
Qualify (X)
In another only that he would need
sense, though, supervision.
qualify means
to change
something
slightly, to limit
it or add a
condition to it.
Form: adj Choose the Mnemonic: Living in a tent
Tone: neut adjective, temporarily. If you are living in
tentative to a tent, you are unsettled.
describe Example: Her English is correct
something you but tentative.
are unsure or Root: Prefix TEN/TENT means
hesitant about. TO HOLD.
Tentative (X) On Monday,
you can make
tentative plans
for the weekend
but it's too
early to commit
to one party or
another.
Form: adj not limited or Example: The event was not an
Unqualified
Tone: pos restricted Unqualified success.
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COMBINE Form: v A soda and pizza binge might Mnemonic: try to

Tone: neut/neg make your stomach distend, relate it with dis
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) meaning your stomach will swell means distance and
EXCESS as a result of pressure from the extend means to
Distend
inside. expand.
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM Example: Starving
(-) children develop huge
Distended bellies
FERTILE
Form: adj To understand tumid, think Mnemonic: Tumid
INCREASE Tone: neut/neg about how your belly feels after has the first three
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Thanksgiving when you've just letters common with
polished off that third helping of TUMOUR, which is a
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) turkey with stuffing and swollen mass or ball
PAIN / SUFFERING Tumid Brussels sprouts. Gassy? Full? of cells. So Tumid is
Distended? That's tumid for swollen, or distended.
POOR you. Example: In a
Tumid, swelling,
POOR CONDITION
blustering manner;
REDUCE haughtily; violently.
RELEVANT Form: adj Turgid describes something Mnemonic: Turgid
Tone: neut/neg that's swollen, typically by and Tumid sounds
REMEMBERING THE PAST fluids, like a turgid water similar and they
SHORTAGE / LACK OF balloon that's way too big to share the same
Turgid
resist dropping on your friend's meaning.
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) head. Example: This is a
Turgid prose, very
SURE / CERTAIN
lengthy and boring.
SWELL
UNCLEAR IN MEANING
UNWILLING TO SPEND
VERY HIGH PRICE
VERY LESS
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COMBINE Form: adj Look to the adjective Mnemonic: Ambi

Tone: neut ambiguous when you need means BOTH, so
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) to describe something that's when you are in two
EXCESS open to more than one minds you seem to
Ambiguous interpretation, like the be confused.
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM headline "Squad helps dog Example: Her
(-) bite victim." account was
deliberately
FERTILE
Ambiguous.
INCREASE Form: adj If you can't decide how you Mnemonic: Ambi
LESSEN IN INTENSITY Tone: neut feel about something, means BOTH, so
declare yourself ambivalent when you are in two
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) about it. minds you seem to
PAIN / SUFFERING be confused.
Ambivalent
Example: She seems
POOR to feel Ambivalent
about her new job.
POOR CONDITION
Root: Prefix AMBI
REDUCE means BOTH
RELEVANT Form: adj Try to remember that Mnemonic: Equi
Tone: neut uncertain means equivocal means EQUAL, so
REMEMBERING THE PAST and certain means again refering to
SHORTAGE / LACK OF unequivocal. That's a tricky doubleness or two
movement the un- is minds/ confusion
Equivocal
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) making, and a lot of people Example: She gave
get stumped. an Equivocal answer,
SURE / CERTAIN
typical of a politician.
SWELL Root: Prefix EQU
means BOTH
UNCLEAR IN MEANING
UNWILLING TO SPEND
VERY HIGH PRICE
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COMBINE Form: adj A person who lives simply and

Tone: neut economically can be called
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) frugal. Buying clothes at a
EXCESS *Frugal consignment shop would be
considered frugal. Not getting
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM your mom a gift for her
(-) birthday - that's just cheap.
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: Words with slightly
LESSEN IN INTENSITY different meaning from the
*
majority of the words in a
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-)
cluster.
PAIN / SUFFERING : Words which are neither
#
synonyms nor antonyms.
POOR
: The words in this family
POOR CONDITION (+) are used usually in positive
context.
REDUCE
: The words in this family
RELEVANT (-) are used usually in
negative context.
REMEMBERING THE PAST
SHORTAGE / LACK OF
SPEND LAVISHLY (-)
SURE / CERTAIN
SWELL
UNCLEAR IN MEANING
UNWILLING TO SPEND
VERY HIGH PRICE
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COMBINE Form: adj Use the adjective exorbitant Mnemonic:

Tone: neg when you want to describe EX(extra)ORBIT-
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) something that is really just ant...extra orbit in the
EXCESS too much! You'll often hear solar system...so this
people griping about extra+orbit makes
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM exorbitant bank fees or the solar system
Exorbitant
(-) exorbitant interest rates. excessive now
Example: It's a good
FERTILE
hotel but the prices
INCREASE are Exorbitant.
Root: EX means OUT
LESSEN IN INTENSITY OF/ FROM
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) Form: n,v Gouge means stealing by Mnemonic: If you're
PAIN / SUFFERING Tone: neg overcharging. If your local not careful with the
gas station puts the price of screwdriver, you'll
POOR gas way up because a storm accidentally gouge a
Gouging is coming, you may say that hole in the wall.
POOR CONDITION
the station owner gouges Example: Housing
REDUCE prices - and that's illegal. shortages permit
landlords to gouge
RELEVANT their renters.
REMEMBERING THE PAST Form: adj If something's so expensive Mnemonic:
SHORTAGE / LACK OF Tone: neg you can't touch it, it's PROHIBIT
prohibitive. That Ferrari in Example: The price
Prohibitive
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) the showroom? You may of property in the city
want it, but its price is is Prohibitive.
SURE / CERTAIN
prohibitive.
SWELL Form: n Usury means lending money Mnemonic: SURY
UNCLEAR IN MEANING Tone: neg at exorbitant interest rates. reminds me of
Credit-card companies TREASURY - Lending
UNWILLING TO SPEND charging annual interest money from the
VERY HIGH PRICE rates of 29% are guilty of treasury at a very
usury, as far as I'm high rate of interest
Usury
VERY LESS concerned. Example: Bank of
America recently
WEALTHY
rolled back a $5
monthly fee for debit
cards that many
considered Usury.
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COMBINE Form: adj Use the word marginal when Mnemonic: Marginal
Tone: neg something is minimal or is like MARGIN.
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) barely enough. If you buy Example: The story
EXCESS lemons and sugar, make will only be of
Marginal
lemonade and set up a stand Marginal interest to
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM on the street corner, but only our readers.
(-) sell a couple of glasses, your
profits will be marginal.
FERTILE
Form: adj deficient in amount or quality Mnemonic: Meager =
INCREASE Tone: neg or extent m + eager
LESSEN IN INTENSITY concentrate on
"eager". A person is
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) eager only when
PAIN / SUFFERING he/she is in a
desperate need of
Meager
POOR something
inadequate...or scanty
POOR CONDITION
in supply.
REDUCE Example: She
supplements her
RELEVANT meagre income by
REMEMBERING THE PAST cleaning at night.
SHORTAGE / LACK OF Form: adj When something is Mnemonic: NEGLect

Tone: neg meaningless or insignificant it because it's not
SPEND LAVISHLY (-) because it is so little, it's (><) GIB (big )
negligible. The amount of Example: The cost
SURE / CERTAIN Negligible
interest you'll get on your was Negligible.
SWELL savings is negligible, so you
might as well spend your
UNCLEAR IN MEANING money.
UNWILLING TO SPEND Form: adj A paltry amount is so small Mnemonic: Paltry is
VERY HIGH PRICE Tone: neg it's not even worth thinking a laughably small
about. In the novel "Oliver amount - the waiter
VERY LESS Twist," when Oliver is given a might chuck a Paltry
paltry amount of gruel - not tip in the garbage.
WEALTHY Paltry
nearly enough - he asks, Example: his account
"Please, sir, can I have some offers a Paltry 1%
more?" return on your
investment.
Form: adj We refer to an amount or Mnemonic: S-CAN'T-

Tone: neg thing that is not quite enough Y = CAN'T be
as scanty, or lacking. It's an Sufficient
adjective used to describe Example: Details of
Scanty
something that doesn't offer his life are Scanty.
enough, as in "farmers
having a scanty crop in a
drought year."
Form: adj containing little excess Mnemonic: Pinky
Tone: neg wore Skimpy clothes
to the party only to
Skimpy add to the disaster.
Example: They
provided only Skimpy
details.
Form: v.adj Frugally restricted or meager, Mnemonic: Repair
Tone: neg as a manner of living or a the Spare parts
diet Example: Since he
Spare
was obese, the doctor
recommended him a
Spare diet.
Form: adj Something thatâ€™s sparse Mnemonic: Sparse
Tone: neg is thin, not dense. If youâ sounds like Parsi(one
€™re looking for the perfect group of people),who
place to build a tree house, a are not many in
sparse forest is probably not INDIA but THINLY
Sparse your best bet. SCATTERED or
SCANTILY present.
Example: Vegetation
becomes Sparse
higher up the
mountains.
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COMBINE Form: adj You know you're driving Mnemonic: af +

Tone: neg through an affluent fluent. Someone who is
DRY/ EXTREMELY WET (-) neighborhood when you see fluent in a language
EXCESS large houses, perfect knows an abundance
Affluent
landscaping, and expensive of words.
EXCESSIVE PATRIOTISM cars. Use affluent to describe Example: I have a
(-) wealthy people or areas. very Affluent
neighborhood.
FERTILE
Form: adj Opulent is a word that you will Mnemonic: lent
INCREASE Tone: neg hear a lot around rich people means lending.
LESSEN IN INTENSITY looking to show off. generally rich people
"Remember the opulent buffet lend money.Opulent
LUCKY / UNLUCKY (-) at Carrieâ€™s sweet sixteen? means wealthy.
PAIN / SUFFERING Sixteen chocolate cakes iced Example: And on the
Opulent
in gold leaf!" thought, as though in
POOR answer to his wish, the
landlord entered
POOR CONDITION
bearing a fine Opulent
REDUCE omelet stuffed with
green peas.
RELEVANT
REMEMBERING THE PAST
SHORTAGE / LACK OF
SPEND LAVISHLY (-)
SURE / CERTAIN
SWELL
UNCLEAR IN MEANING
UNWILLING TO SPEND
VERY HIGH PRICE
VERY LESS
WEALTHY
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BREAK A RULE Form: noun A breach is a violation of a Mnemonic: Breach

Tone: neg law, duty, or promise. If sounds like
CANCEL / TAKE BACK you'd contracted to mow brea(k)(ch)...break the
(STATEMENT) your neighbor's lawn and contract
Breach
DECAY / ROT don't do it, he can sue you Example: Selling goods
for breach of contract. Or constituted a Breach of
ENERGIZING he can mow the lawn regulation 10B.
himself.
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
Form: verb To flout is to scorn or show Mnemonic: Flout... FOUL
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT Tone: neg contempt for. "I flout the + OUT. When a player is
PERSON law and the concept of sent out by foul, the player
GREED Flout civilian safety by making a shows his contempt to the
concerted effort to jaywalk referee.
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION every time I cross a Example: Motorists
OVERLY NOISY street." regularly Flout the law.
Form: verb To accept a rule, law or Mnemonic: bide in abide
PLANNED / (X)
Tone: pos judgement without sounds like
SPONTANEOUS
question bind(something that binds
RESOLUTE / DETERMINED you).....so abide means
something that fails to
STUBBORN bind you from your
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / X heart..but you merely
(X) ENEMY Abide have to tolerate and
follow.
TASTY Example: The act does
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / not spell out any
GIVE IN consequences for failing to
abide the rule.
TO MAKE UP / CREATE Root: AB means FROM
TO OBJECT Form: verb Follow instructions, rules, Mnemonic: adhere - add
Tone: pos etc closely + here; so adding two
TO PROVE FALSE / TO things together means to
DISPROVE stick them.
X
UNPLEASANT SMELL Example: Corporations
Adhere
rule the roost, and don't
have any particular moral
standard to which they
adhere.
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BREAK A RULE Form: verb When a celebrity wakes up Mnemonic: an + nul -

Tone: neg in Las Vegas with a so to nullify something
CANCEL / TAKE BACK mysterious wedding ring means to make it zero
(STATEMENT) on her finger, the first or to make it void
DECAY / ROT
Annul thing sheâ€™ll probably Example: Their
want to do is annul the marriage was Annulled
ENERGIZING marriage. That will declare after just two months.
it invalid and officially
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
cancel the whole deal.
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT Form: verb To disavow is to deny Mnemonic: Disavow
PERSON Tone: neg support for someone or can be split into
GREED something. You might feel dis+allow which means
dissed if your biggest to refuse.
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION Disavow donor decides to suddenly Example: The coach
OVERLY NOISY disavow you in your run Disavowed responsibility
for president. for the player's
PLANNED / (X) behavior.
SPONTANEOUS Root: DIS means NOT
RESOLUTE / DETERMINED Form: verb Gainsay, a verb, means Mnemonic: She has
Tone: neg "contradict" or "speak out (Gain)ed weight but she
STUBBORN against." When you is not (say)ing it which
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / Gainsay challenge authority, you means, she is denying
(X) ENEMY gainsay, as in teachers the fact.
don't like it when unruly Example: Nobody can
TASTY students gainsay them. Gainsay his claims.
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / Form: adj Null means having no Mnemonic: Null sounds
GIVE IN Tone: neg/neut value; in other words null like NIL.
is zero, like if you put so Example: The contract
TO MAKE UP / CREATE
little sugar in your coffee was declared Null and
Null
TO OBJECT that itâ€™s practically void.
null. Null also means
TO PROVE FALSE / TO invalid, or having no
DISPROVE binding force.
UNPLEASANT SMELL Form: verb If you're someone who Mnemonic: RE (again)
Tone: neg speaks before you think, + CANT (cannot) - "I
you may need to recant, or have told you this
take back, that overly AGAIN and AGAIN, it
honest assessment of your CANNOT be done, it has
friend's new haircut. been REJECTED."
Recant
Example: He made a
public Recantation of all
his former beliefs.
Root: RE means AGAIN
and CANT means
CHARM/SING
Form: verb To renege is to go back on Mnemonic: RENEGADE
Tone: neg your word or fail to keep a is a traitor of a
promise. country.. Renege is a
traitor of his own
Renege words..
Example: They had
promised to pay her
tuition but later
Reneged.
Form: verb To repeal something - Mnemonic: rejection of
Tone: neg usually a law, ordinance or an appeal - Repeal
public policy - is to take it Example: The
back. For example, dog committee does not
Repeal lovers might want the have the power to
town council to repeal the Repeal the ban.
law that says residents can
have no more than four
dogs.
Form: verb To repudiate something is Mnemonic: he ate the
Tone: neg to reject it, or to refuse to PUDDING AGAIN.. When
accept or support it. If you his mother asked him if
grow up religious, but he ate the pudding, he
Repudiate repudiate all organized tried to Repudiate (deny
religion as an adult, you eating it)
might start spending Example: Socialism
holidays at the movies, or had been Repudiated at
just going to work. the polls.
Form: verb If you get a call saying a Mnemonic: Rescind
Tone: neg company has decided to reminds us of "resign",
rescind your job offer, it's where resign is to
back to the classifieds for cancel your
you. Rescind is an official appointment and
Rescind
reversal. Rescind is to cancel an
agreement.
Example: The company
later Rescinded its offer.
Root: RE means AGAIN
Form: verb Have you ever said Mnemonic: Retract-RE
Tone: neut something you wish you TAKE IT, meaning to
could retract, or take take back
back? You're not alone. Example: He made a
Retract Even newspapers and false confession, which
magazines have sections he later Retracted.
where the editors can Root: TRACT means TO
retract something written PULL/ DRAW
that was incorrect.
Form: verb When you revoke Mnemonic: Revoke
Tone: neg something, you officially sounds like PROVOKE.
cancel it, like when you When you provoke your
revoke your sister's friend again and again
"coolest sibling" award (RE) to start an
because she shows your argument, he may
Revoke
friends funny pictures of altogether Revoke
you from when you were (cancel) any kind of ties
little. that he shares with you.
Example: The judge
Revoked her driver's
license.
Form: noun Invalidate or nullify Mnemonic: Void is
Tone: neg/neut nothing but VACCUM
Example: Because they
Void
were not happy in their
marriage, they had it
Voided.
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BREAK A RULE Form: adj Something that is Mnemonic: Brackish

Tone: neg brackish is unpleasant sounds like BLACKISH.
CANCEL / TAKE BACK and harsh, like the The vegetables were
(STATEMENT) coffee you left on too rotten to the extent that
DECAY / ROT long or the water in a it looked almost blackish.
Brackish
muddy pond. Example: The office
ENERGIZING coffee is often some
Brackish brew that's
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
been sitting around for a
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT couple of hours.
PERSON Form: noun The noun carrion refers Mnemonic: CARRYING
GREED Tone: neg to the dead and rotting rotten flesh from one
flesh of an animal. Ever place to another, that is
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION seen a dead opossum what Vultures do.
OVERLY NOISY Carrion or cat in the road? You Example: The Carrion
can call that road kill Crow is found as far
PLANNED / (X) carrion. North as Carolina.
SPONTANEOUS Root: CARN means
FLESH
RESOLUTE / DETERMINED
Form: noun If you suspect that Mnemonic: Putrefaction
STUBBORN Tone: neg something in your yard is the opposite of
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / is in a state of PURIFICATION.
(X) ENEMY Putrefaction putrefaction, there's Example: The smell was
probably something awful. Putrefaction had
TASTY stinky and rotten out already set in.
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / there.
GIVE IN Form: adj Rancid is a great name Mnemonic:
Tone: neg for a post-punk band, ran+acid(acid)...presence
TO MAKE UP / CREATE
but a lousy way to of acid(secreted by
TO OBJECT describe the sauce on bacteria during the
your eggs Benedict. process of fermentation)
TO PROVE FALSE / TO Rancid Rancid means sour, in curd makes the curd
DISPROVE rotten, nasty and refers bitter in taste and bad in
UNPLEASANT SMELL most specifically to the smell
sharp bad smell of Example: There was a
decomposing oils or Rancid smell coming
fats. from the kitchen.
Form: adj Anything wholesome is Mnemonic: Whole
Tone: pos good for you. (complete, full, total) +
Hopscotch is in most some (a part of, a little
X cases a wholesome portion)...you can take
Wholesome game, since you can't some parts of the whole.
get into much trouble A feeling of entirety.
while hopping up and Example: It was clean
down on the concrete. wholesome fun.
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BREAK A RULE Form: verb A dip in the ocean in Mnemonic: IN +

Tone: pos January is horrifying to VIGOR (enthusiasm)
CANCEL / TAKE BACK some people but and hence the
(STATEMENT) invigorating to others. meaning.
DECAY / ROT
Invogorating Invigorating describes Example: They felt
something that makes you refreshed and
ENERGIZING feel strong and revitalized. invigorated after the
walk.
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
Root: IN means INTO
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT Form: verb To revitalize is to restore Mnemonic:
PERSON Tone: pos something to life or give it REVITALIZE sounds
GREED new life. Revitalizing adds like REVIVE
newsness and strength. Example: The local
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION Revitalizing
economy has been
OVERLY NOISY revitalized.
Root: RE means to
PLANNED / (X) AGAIN
SPONTANEOUS
Form: adj If you've ever been Mnemonic: aRousing
RESOLUTE / DETERMINED Tone: pos "roused" out of your sleep ... lively or stirring up
by someone, then you'll the crowd
STUBBORN have no trouble seeing Example: The team
Rousing
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / that rousing refers to was given a Rousing
(X) ENEMY anything that gets you reception by the fans.
going, up on your feet,
TASTY energized.
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / Form: adj Sedate means to be calm, Mnemonic: When we
GIVE IN Tone: neut but if a doctor sedates you SEE + DATE for the
it means you've been exam approaching we
TO MAKE UP / CREATE
administered a generally become
TO OBJECT tranquilizing drug. Most tensed, but the key
X Sedative surgeries require some to success is to stay
TO PROVE FALSE / TO form of sedation, but to be CALM.
DISPROVE sedate in day-to-day life Example: We
UNPLEASANT SMELL means composed, quiet, followed the
and serene. Not youngsters at a more
necessarily unconscious. sedate pace.
Form: adj Something that is soporific Example: The movie
Tone: neut is sleep-inducing. Certain had a soporific effect
X Soporific medicines, but also on the audience.
extreme coziness, can Root: SOPAR means
have a soporific effect. SLEEP
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BREAK A RULE Form: adj Irrelevant, Mnemonic: Think of news

Tone: neg unnecessary, not channels....EXTRA+NEWS...In
CANCEL / TAKE BACK required order to get TRP, news
(STATEMENT) channels show irrelevant or
DECAY / ROT unrelated things hence the
news are most of the times
Extraneous
ENERGIZING Extraneous
Example: We do not want
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
any Extraneous information
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT on the page.
PERSON Root: EXTR- means
OUTWARD
GREED
Form: adj The word redundant Mnemonic: Redundant
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION Tone: neg applies to things rhymes Abundant and that is
OVERLY NOISY that are the meaning (more than
unnecessary or necessary).
PLANNED / (X) Redundant could be left out. Example: The picture has
SPONTANEOUS Calling a blank too much Redundant detail.
sheet of paper Root: RE means AGAIN.
empty is
STUBBORN redundant.
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / Form: adj When something is Mnemonic: divide it as
(X) ENEMY Tone: neg so unnecessary that super+flow.. when there is
it could easily be large(super) flow of water, it
TASTY done away with, becomes EXCESSIVE /
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / Superfluous like a fifth wheel on OVERABUNDANCE of water..
GIVE IN a car or a fifth Example: She gave him a
person on a double look that made words
TO MAKE UP / CREATE date, call it Superfluous.
superfluous. Root: SUPER means ABOVE.
TO OBJECT
TO PROVE FALSE / TO
DISPROVE
UNPLEASANT SMELL
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BREAK A RULE Form: adj Anyone highly regarded or Mnemonic: Like the
Tone: pos prominent is eminent. People singer "EMINEM" who
CANCEL / TAKE BACK that are eminent are giants in is STANDING ABOVE
(STATEMENT) their field. OTHER rap artists IN
DECAY / ROT QUALITY AND
Eminent
POSITION
ENERGIZING Example: Mr. Vijay
Mallya is an Eminent
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
peronality in the
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT business world.
PERSON Form: noun In scientific writing, Stephen Mnemonic: Luminary
GREED Tone: pos J. Hawking is a luminary. sounds like
People look up to this well- luminous(under
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION known scientist and author for light).So,a celebrity
OVERLY NOISY his knowledge and insight. who is in the limelight
Luminary inspiring others.
PLANNED / (X) Example: He has
SPONTANEOUS played with all the
great jazz luminaries.
Root: LUC means
STUBBORN LIGHT/ CLEAR
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / Form: adj Calling someone preeminent Mnemonic:
(X) ENEMY Tone: pos means they're truly preeminent sounds
outstanding or better than like prominent
TASTY everyone else - not in Example: Dickens
Pre-
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / general, but in a specific field was preeminent
Eminent
GIVE IN or specialty. Such as a among English
preeminent geologist. writers of his day.
TO MAKE UP / CREATE Root: PRE means
BEFORE
TO OBJECT
Form: noun Stature is the another way to Mnemonic: Stature
TO PROVE FALSE / TO Tone: pos say "height of a person," like sounds like Statue..
DISPROVE the surprising stature of the All over the country
UNPLEASANT SMELL movie star who seems so we have statues of
much taller in his action people who are
Stature
movies. famous and
prominent.
Example: She is an
actress of
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BREAK A RULE Form: noun Avarice is a fancy word for Mnemonic: Avarice- a
Tone: neg good old-fashioned greed. + very + rich -a
CANCEL / TAKE BACK It's one of what some call strong greed to be 'a
(STATEMENT) "the seven deadly sins." very rich' person.
Avarice
DECAY / ROT Example: The man
was now blinded by his
ENERGIZING own greed and
Avarice.
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
Form: adj To be covetous of Mnemonic: Covetous
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT Tone: neg something is to want it = split it as cove(love)
PERSON and to be a little jealous of + to + US ; because of
GREED anyone who has it. The excessive greed and
advertising industryâ€™s the love for money
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION goal is to make you Covetous people go to
OVERLY NOISY covetous of the things that USA. i remembered
other people have - that like that.
Covetous
PLANNED / (X) way, you'll buy them. Example: Not only do
SPONTANEOUS public displays of
wealth draw the
Covetous gaze of tax
STUBBORN collectors, they are
frowned on by a
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / culture that values
(X) ENEMY solidarity.
TASTY Form: noun Remember the saying â Mnemonic: Cupidity
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / Tone: neg €œGreed is goodâ€? It sounds like
GIVE IN could just as easily be â COMMODITY. Person
€œCupidity is good,â€ having greed for lots
TO MAKE UP / CREATE though admittedly it of it.
Cupidity doesnâ€™t roll off the Example: His Cupidity
TO OBJECT
tongue quite the same was tempted, his
TO PROVE FALSE / TO way. Cupidity means a every weakness
DISPROVE burning desire to have exploited.
more wealth than you
UNPLEASANT SMELL need.
Form: noun Called one of the seven Mnemonic:
Tone: neg deadly sins, gluttony is glu'TON'ny...when you
characterized by a limitless eat excess,your weight
appetite for food and drink will be a TON!
and overindulgence to the Example: Gluttony
Gluttony
point where one is no has already been
longer eating just to live, touched on and needs
but rather living to eat. no illustration as to its
extremely bad effect
on health.
Form: adj Something rapacious is out Mnemonic: read
Tone: neg to devour - anything, and Rapacious as
little can stand in its way. 'rupeecious' so a
A rapacious landlord is out person who is greedy
for more rent, and a must have rupees on
rapacious eater is only his mind.
Rapacious satisfied at the all-you- Example: After years
can-eat buffet. of Rapacious
supermarket expansion
there are too many
mouths to feed.
Root: RAP means
SEIZE
Form: adj A ravenous person feels Mnemonic: sounds
Tone: neg like they haven't eaten in like RAVAN.. we can
days and could probably understand how
finish off 10 pizzas without hungry one would get
help. So ravenous is not a to feed his 10 heads.
Ravenous
good state to be in when Example: What's for
you go grocery shopping. lunch? I'm absolutely
Ravenous.
Root: RAV means
SEIZE
Form: adj Voracious is an adjective Mnemonic: remember
Tone: neg used to describe a wolflike carniVORES,
appetite. It might be a herbiVORES...So
craving for food or for "VORE" tells something
Voracious
something else, such as about eating.
power, but the word Example: Ever since
usually denotes an her childhood she had
unflattering greediness. read Voraciously.
Form: noun A strong desire to travel is Mnemonic:
Tone: neg called a wanderlust. If you wander(moving from
dream of backpacking place to place)+lust(a
through Europe, you have desire for
a wanderlust. something)....when
you have a desire for
wandering to places ,it
Wanderlust means, you love to
travel ,so you can be
refered to as a
Wanderlust
Example: He never
stays long anywhere
when the Wanderlust
is on him.
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BREAK A RULE Form: noun Unless you can find someone Mnemonic: A perfect
Tone: neut to pay you to sip fancy job is when a
CANCEL / TAKE BACK tropical drinks on the beach, Vocation is a Vacation
(STATEMENT) your vocation is not likely to (holiday) for a person
DECAY / ROT
Vocation be a "vacation." Rather, the Example: Nursing is
word means something you not just a job - it's a
ENERGIZING know how to doâ€“-or what Vocation.
you do for a living. Root: VOC means
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
CALL
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT Form: noun An avocation is an activity Mnemonic:
PERSON Tone: neut that you pursue when you're AVOCATION-in a
GREED not at work - a hobby. Pretty vacation. you do very
much anything can be an little /minor work
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION avocation: tennis, soduko, only....hence
OVERLY NOISY writing poetry. avocation implies
minor occupation
X
PLANNED / (X) Example: The
Avocation
SPONTANEOUS shepherds Watchful,
Sincere, and
Experience, if not
STUBBORN Knowledge, were
known of all men, in
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / less pastoral
(X) ENEMY avocations.
TASTY
TO ACCEPT / AGREE /
GIVE IN
TO MAKE UP / CREATE
TO OBJECT
TO PROVE FALSE / TO
DISPROVE
UNPLEASANT SMELL
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BREAK A RULE Form: adj Inaudible is another way of Mnemonic:

Tone: neut saying "hushed" or "silent." INAUDIBLE is NOT
CANCEL / TAKE BACK If you thought the bad words AUDIBLE
(STATEMENT) # you muttered under your Example: She spoke
DECAY / ROT Inaudible breath were inaudible, in an almost inaudible
perhaps you should've whisper.
ENERGIZING turned off that microphone in Root: IN means NOT
front of you!
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
Form: adj The adjective boisterous is
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT * Tone: neg what you would use if you
PERSON Boisterous want to call attention in a
GREED loud or clamorous way.
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION Legends:

X : Antonyms
OVERLY NOISY
: Words with slightly different
PLANNED / (X) * meaning from the majority of
SPONTANEOUS the words in a cluster.
: Words which are neither
RESOLUTE / DETERMINED #
synonyms nor antonyms.
STUBBORN : The words in this family are
(+) used usually in positive
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / context.
(X) ENEMY
: The words in this family are
TASTY (-) used usually in negative
context.
TO ACCEPT / AGREE /
GIVE IN
TO MAKE UP / CREATE
TO OBJECT
TO PROVE FALSE / TO
DISPROVE
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BREAK A RULE Form: adj If you do something in Mnemonic: every

Tone: neut/pos a calculated way, calculation is well
CANCEL / TAKE BACK you've given it quite a weighed and
(STATEMENT) bit of thought "planned"..and gives
Calculated beforehand, and us a likely result
DECAY / ROT
you're very deliberate Example: This kind
ENERGIZING in the way you do it. of entertainment is
not Calculated to be
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
appealing to children.
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT Form: adj To deliberate means to Mnemonic: daily +
PERSON Tone: neut carefully think or talk berate - if you get
GREED something through â berated(scolded)
€” it also means slow daily, you need to
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION and measured, the think it over as to
OVERLY NOISY pace of this kind of why it happens..
Deliberate
careful decision Example: She spoke
PLANNED / (X) making. If you chose in a slow and
SPONTANEOUS deliberately, you make Deliberate way.
a very conscious, well-
thought-through
STUBBORN choice.
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / Form: noun planning or plotting in Mnemonic: can be
(X) ENEMY Tone: neut/pos advance of acting rearranged as
THOUGHT +BEFORE.
TASTY Example: Some
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / Forethought and
GIVE IN Forethought preparation are
necessary before you
TO MAKE UP / CREATE embark on the
project.
TO OBJECT
Root: FORE means
TO PROVE FALSE / TO IN FRONT OF
DISPROVE Form: adj Something intentional Mnemonic:
UNPLEASANT SMELL Tone: neut/pos was done on purpose. INTENTION
If a crime was Example: I'm sorry I
Intentional
intentional, it was no left you off the listâ
accident. €”it wasn't
Intentional.
Form: adj When you Mnemonic:
Tone: neut premeditate, you are pre+meditate - think
planning ahead. While before planning
most people associate something.
this word with crime, Example: The killing
Premeditated let's hope you can was not
think of a better Premeditated.
reason to premeditate Root: PRE means
- like buying groceries BEFORE
before a storm.
Form: adj Studied describes a Mnemonic: when we

Tone: neut/pos result achieved, not have Studied
spontaneously, but by (calculated approach)
calculated and enough, we tend to
deliberate effort. It will score high.
Studied
probably take a Example: She
studied effort to not introduced herself
appear nervous when with Studied
you give an oral casualness.
presentation.
Form: adj Extemporaneous Mnemonic:
Tone: pos/neut means spoken without TEMPORARILY done in
preparation. The haste and so not
orator's performance planned.
X was impressive, but Example: His playing
Extemporaneous only after we learn was polished yet
that his speech was essayistic and almost
extemporaneous did extemporaneous.
we realize the true Root: EX means OUT
depth of his talent. OF
Form: adj Someone impetuous Mnemonic: im(not)-
Tone: neg acts too hastily or pet-tuo(to)-us...a
carelessly. Hotheaded, dog which is not our
impulsive folks are pet will be very
X Impetuous
impetuous. VIOLENT and RASH.
Example: She is an
impetuous young
woman.
Form: adj Some of the best kinds Mnemonic: IM
Tone: pos/neut of parties are means NOT and
impromptu ones, when PROMPTU can be
you decide at the last remembered as
minute to get PROMPT. So a person
X Impromptu together. The who is not prompt.
adjective impromptu Example: They often
describes things done held impromptu
or said without meetings at their
previous thought or house.
preparation. Root: IM means NOT
Form: verb To improvise means to Mnemonic: I Am Pro
Tone: neg make something up on - vise - I am proved
the spot, or figure it wise as I have done
out as you go. "Our it without actually
boss decided to preparing for it
improvise his speech beforehand.
X Improvise
at our company Example: There isn't
meeting and when he much equipment.
started going off-topic, We're going to have
everyone could tell he to improvise.
hadn't prepared in Root: IM means NOT
advance."
Form: adj The adjective offhand Mnemonic: offhand
Tone: neg describes a remark or - hands on means
comment that is made experience, you have
without previous prepared for that , so
thought or offhands means
X Offhand preparation. If you are something without
at a wedding, you may preparation
want to make a few Example: He spoke
offhand but nice offhandedly, making
remarks about the it clear I had no say
bride and groom. in the matter.
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BREAK A RULE Form: adj In the old Looney Tunes Mnemonic: a dogs
Tone: pos cartoons, Wile E. Coyote's tail is always curved
CANCEL / TAKE BACK pursuit of the Road and can never be
(STATEMENT) Runner is dogged. He made straight thus it
DECAY / ROT simply will not give up. is Dogged.
Dogged
The Road Runner is Example: Although
ENERGIZING dogged by the Coyote, the men fought
who will not stop chasing Doggedly on, a sense
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
him. of hopeless despair
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT engulfed them.
PERSON Form: verb If something endures, it Mnemonic: Endure -
GREED Tone: pos lasts: Beethoven's fame en (enable ) + dure
has endured for more (long distance);
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION than 200 years. But if you enable upto the long
OVERLY NOISY endure something, you distance.
Endure suffer through it: We Example: They had
PLANNED / (X) endured our teacher's to Endure a long wait
SPONTANEOUS slide shows of her before the case came
vacation photographs. to trial.
Root: EN means
STUBBORN INTO.
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / Form: adj If you can't change it, it's Mnemonic: mutation
(X) ENEMY Tone: pos immutable. There are implies changes in
many things in life that genes etc. Therefore,
TASTY are immutable; these if it is im (non) +
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / unchangeable things mutable it cannot be
GIVE IN include death, taxes, and changed.
Immutable
the laws of physics. Example: This
TO MAKE UP / CREATE decision should not
be seen as
TO OBJECT
Immutable.
TO PROVE FALSE / TO Root: MUT means
DISPROVE CHANGE.
UNPLEASANT SMELL Form: adj Someone who is Mnemonic: in
Tone: pos indefatigable can go on for means not..and
a very long time without fatigue means
becoming tired. You might tiredness.. so
not be so happy to have Indefatigable would
Indefatigable an indefatigable guide on be tireless..
your walking tripâ€“â Example: She was
€“you'll have blisters, but Indefatigable in her
she'll see no reason not to search for the truth.
keep going. Root: IN means
INTO/VERY
Form: v Use the verb persevere Mnemonic:
Tone: pos when you want to persist Persevere-
in anything and continue persistent+severe,he
despite difficulties or is very severely
obstacles. persistent.
Persevere Example: Despite a
number of setbacks,
they Persevered in
their attempts to fly
around the world in a
balloon.
Form: noun Persistence is the ability Mnemonic: sounds
Tone: pos to stick with something. If like PERSIST/ EXIST
you practice the violin for Example: His
over a year before you Persistence was
Persistence
can play Twinkle Twinkle finally rewarded when
Little Star perfectly, that's the insurance
persistence! company agreed to
pay for the damage.
Form: adj Use the adjective resolute Mnemonic: we make
Tone: pos to describe a purposeful resolutions on jan 1st
and determined person, and we are
someone who wants to do determined to follow
something very much, them atleast for that
Resolute
and won't let anything get day!
in the way. Example: He became
even more Resolute
in his opposition to
the plan.
Form: adj Someone who is firm and Mnemonic:
Tone: pos determined in a belief or a Steadfast- stood +
position can be called first ; One who has
steadfast in that view, like always STOOD by you
your mom when she and is the FIRST one
thinks you really shouldnâ to help you is a
€™t wear that outfit. LOYAL friend. Another
meaning - Always
Steadfast STEADY so
unswerving
Example: He
remained Steadfast in
his determination to
bring the killers to
justice.
Root: STEAD means
PLACE
Form: adj Use tenacious to mean Mnemonic: Sounds
Tone: pos "not easily letting go or like ten Asians. Ten
giving up," like a clingy developing Asian
child who has a tenacious countries if united
grip on his mother's hand. together, cannot be
pulled apart.
Tenacious
Example: She's a
Tenacious woman.
She never gives up.
Root: TEN means
HOLD/ HOLD
TOGETHER.
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BREAK A RULE Form: adj If you Mnemonic: A+DAM+ant...A DAM IS

Tone: neg stubbornly GENERALLY INFLEXIBLE AND HARD so
CANCEL / TAKE refuse to vehicles can pass through it.
BACK change your Example: Eva was Adamant that she would
(STATEMENT) Adamant mind about not come.
DECAY / ROT something,
you are
ENERGIZING adamant
about it.
EXTRA /
UNNECESSARY Form: adj Have you Mnemonic: Defiant sounds like DEFY +
Tone: neg ever seen a ARROGANT.
FAMOUS / picture of a Example: The terrorists sent a Defiant
IMPORTANT protester message to the government.
PERSON who is about
GREED to be carried
off by police
MAIN JOB / Defiant but is still
PROFESSION shouting or
OVERLY NOISY resisting,
fighting to
PLANNED / (X) the bitter
SPONTANEOUS end? That
person is
RESOLUTE /
defiant.
DETERMINED
Form: adj Someone Mnemonic: (in)corr(gible) - in (NOT) eligible
STUBBORN Tone: neg incorrigible to be corrected or cant be corrected
SUPPORTER / seems to be Example: I thought you had given me up
(X) ANTI / (X) beyond long ago as an Incorrigible boy, who would
ENEMY correcting or have his own way.
improving.
TASTY When you
TO ACCEPT / Incorrigible talk about an
AGREE / GIVE incorrigible
IN drunk,
you're saying
TO MAKE UP / they're
CREATE never going
to stop
TO OBJECT
drinking.
TO PROVE Form: adj Can't Mnemonic: Intractable is
FALSE / TO Tone: neg manage your IN(Not)+TRACT(STRETCH)+ABLE(Do)...means
DISPROVE stubborn if something/someone is not
UNPLEASANT little brother stretchable/flexible,implies STUBBORN or
SMELL who won't do UNYIELDING.
what anyone Example: Unemployment was proving to be
says? You an Intractable problem.
could call Root: IN means NOT.
him
Intractable
intractable,
or you could
call your
mother.
Problems are
intractable
when they
can't be
solved.
Form: adj Intransigent Mnemonic: Intransigent - in-'not' + transact
Tone: neg means - won't do the transaction
inflexible, Example: An Intransigent conservative
stubborn, opposed to every liberal tendency.
entrenched. Root: IN means NOT.
Argue all you
like with an
intransigent
Intransigent three-year-
old. He will
never back
down from
the position
that he
wants the
lollipop
NOW.
Form: adj unreasonably Example: I rode a big mule not used to the
Tone: neg rigid in the bit, very troublesome and Mulish at first, but
face of broken in an hour.
Mulish
argument or
entreaty or
attack
Form: adj Obdurate is Mnemonic: OB+DURA(RELATE IT TO WORD
Tone: neg a formal DURABILITY)..SO anything which has
word durability..has the resisting power, and
meaning something which can resist, is stubborn.
stubborn. If Example: The child's misery would move
you want to even the most Obdurate heart.
major in Root: OB means AGAINST
English, but
your parents
Obdurate
are obdurate
that you
should go
premed,
they might
go so far as
to threaten
not to pay
your tuition.
Form: adj When Mnemonic: obs+tin(ate), obsessive
Tone: neg someone is teens,they are stubborn,hard to control
beyond Example: He can be very Obstinate when he
stubborn, wants to be!
use the word Root: STIN means STAND
obstinate
Obstinate
instead:
"You
obstinate old
mule! Get
out of my
way!"
Form: adj If you wonâ Mnemonic: Pertinacious - pre(before) +
Tone: neg €™t take no teenage : The age before teenage is where a
for an person shows a childish behaviour and is very
answer, stubborn in a negative sense.
youâ€™re Example: Jones was the most vocal and
pertinacious. Pertinacious of all her critics.
The same
holds true if
you
stubbornly
Pertinacious
push on a
door despite
a sign that
says â
€œpull.â€
Pertinacious
means
unyielding or
perversely
persistent.
Form: adj Something Mnemonic: if we remove letter "p" and if we
Tone: neg perverse, or only concentrate on the reverse-this sounds
improper, similar to reverse- which is nothing but
doesn't have leading to opposite path which is not
a whole lot acceptable in society.
Perverse
of good Example: She finds a Perverse pleasure in
things going upsetting her parents.
for it, even if
it brings a
few laughs.
Form: adj If someone Mnemonic: re+calci(calculator-
Tone: neg is so pig- >calculate)+trant....so imagine a person who
headed that has made a mistake in calculations using a
he won't calci and is unwilling to re-calculate...it shows
budge on an he is STUBBORN
Recalcitrant issue, call Example: The University suspended the most
him Recalcitrant demonstrators.
recalcitrant.
Not that it
will make a
difference
Form: adj Imagine Mnemonic: Refractory-means factor ,who
Tone: neg yourself always factors the law into piece,means don't
pulling a dog follow the law.
who doesn't Example: He is a Refractory child.
want to
walk. The
Refractory
dog is
refractory, or
stubbornly
resisting
your
authority.
Form: adj Willful means Mnemonic: wil+ful... full of will to do
Tone: neg "deliberate" something..something intentional (done
or purposely).
"stubborn." Example: She is a Willful child.
A child who
exhibits
willful
Willful disobedience
knows she is
doing
something
wrong (even
if she tries to
convince you
otherwise).
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BREAK A RULE Form: noun An opponent is your Mnemonic:

Tone: neg competition, whether it's a OPPONENT sounds like
CANCEL / TAKE BACK rival hockey team, or the an OPPOSER.
(STATEMENT) X other finalist in the chess Example: The team's
DECAY / ROT Opponent tournament. Coaches tell opponents are
you to never unbeaten so far this
ENERGIZING underestimate your season.
opponent.
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
Form: verb You can refer to a person Mnemonic: Advocate
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT Tone: pos/neut who's a public supporter is a SUPPORTER
PERSON of a cause as an advocate. Example: Many
Advocate
GREED experts Advocate
rewarding your child
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION for good behavior.
OVERLY NOISY Form: noun If you have an ally, you Mnemonic: Ally( alien)
Tone: pos have someone who is on to overcome the power
PLANNED / (X)
your side, like a more of aliens the countries
SPONTANEOUS
experienced teammate have decided to help
RESOLUTE / DETERMINED Ally who is your ally in each other during the
convincing the coach to war with aliens
STUBBORN give you more playing Example: His sister
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / time. was his Ally against
(X) ENEMY their grandparents.
TASTY Form: noun A champion is a supporter Mnemonic:

Tone: pos of a group, cause,idea or Champions are like
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / belief. super man who has
GIVE IN capability to support
and defend there
TO MAKE UP / CREATE Champion
friends [Secondary
TO OBJECT Meaning]
Example: She was a
TO PROVE FALSE / TO Champion of the poor
DISPROVE all her life.
UNPLEASANT SMELL Form: verb To endorse is to give Mnemonic: To
Tone: pos support to someone or ENDORSE is to give
something. "I endorse support.
this!" means "I think this Example: I wonder
ENDORSE
is a good thing, and so how many celebrities
should you." actually use the
products they
ENDORSE.
Form: verb Use the verb espouse to Mnemonic: pick the
Tone: pos describe the actions of word spouse like the
someone who lives wife is the spouse of
according to specific her husband and is
beliefs, such as your always supportive of
Espouse
friends who espouse him.
environmentalism and as a Example: They
result walk whenever Espoused the notion of
possible instead of taking equal opportunity for
the car. all in education.
Form: noun A lobbyist is someone Mnemonic: a person
Tone: pos hired by a business or a who waits in the lobby
cause to persuade of government
legislators to support that headquarters and wait
business or cause. for the law makers to
Lobbyist
come out, to influence
them.
Example: She is a
paid Lobbyist for a
drug company.
Form: noun Proponent means someone Mnemonic: A person
Tone: pos/ neut who is in favor of who PROPOSES
something. You might be a something is a
proponent of longer Proponent, opposite of
vacations, but your OPPONENT (one who
parents are proponents of opposes)
Proponent a longer school year. Example: He was also
a leading Proponent of
overhauling the nationâ
€™s health care
system.
Root: PROP means
NEAR
Form: noun A protagonist is the Example: He is a
Tone: pos/neut central character in a leading Protagonist of
story: the protagonist of the conservation
Protagonist
Huckleberry Finn is - movement.
guess who? -
Huckleberry Finn.
Form: verb To tout means to praise, Mnemonic: Tout:
Tone: pos/neut boast, or brag about. If shout to promote (to
you like to tout your skill publicly praise or
Tout as a skier, you tell people promote)
you can go down expert- Example: She's being
level hills. Touted as the next
governor.
Form: noun An adversary is someone Mnemonic:
Tone: neg who fights against or Concentrate on
opposes another. In ADVERSE : one who
X tennis, you stand across gives us adverse
Adversary the net from your effects i.e. opponents
adversary. Example: His old
adversary beat him in
the chess tournament.
Form: noun An antagonist is someone Mnemonic: Antagonist
Tone: neg who opposes someone sounds like someone
else. who is an ANTI
(opposer)
X
Example: He has
Antagonist
always been the prime
minister's most
formidable antagonist
in Parliament.
Form: noun one who disparages or Mnemonic: contractor
Tone: neg belittles the worth of is one who takes up
something work and supports the
work, detractor is the
one who criticize the
X work
Detractor Example: Detractors
claim the building will
be ugly and
impractical.
Root: DE means
AWAY/DOWN/OFF
Form: noun A foe is an enemy. Foes Example: Though
Tone: neg can range from an dying, his foes are
adversary of one person to afraid to approach him.
that of a nation, from â
€œhe is my foeâ€ to â
X Foe
€œthey are my foe.â€
There is also a â€œthat is
my foeâ€ who those who
are trying to diet know
well, aka chocolate.
Form: verb To impugn means to call Mnemonic: im +
Tone: neg into question or attack as PUGN - pugn looks like
wrong. If your usually pungaa(hindi); NOW
grumpy brother is think of a person who
suddenly nice and sweet, is habitual of taking
you'll impugn his motives PUNGAA, he will always
if you're smart - he CONTRADICT people,
probably just wants and will always
X Impugn
something from you. CHALLENGE others
(impugn others).
Example: There were
no real grounds for
impugning the
decision.
Root: PUG means
FIGHT
Form: adj Censorship is inimical to Mnemonic: INIMICAL
Tone: neg freedom. So, most - inimi (sounds like
teenagers would argue, ENEMY) + cal; Enemies
are curfews. To be inimical are HOSTILE and of-
X Inimical is to be harmful, course UNFRIENDLY
antagonistic, or opposed to Example: These
- like smoking two packs a policies are inimical to
day is to healthy lungs. the interests of society.
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BREAK A RULE Form: adj Something delectable is Mnemonic: Something

Tone: pos extremely delicious or delicious on table
CANCEL / TAKE BACK appealing. Nothing arouses desire.
(STATEMENT) Delectable tastes better at the end Example: I love the
DECAY / ROT of a meal than an array Delectable smell of
of delectable desserts freshly baked bread.
ENERGIZING and pastries!
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY Form: adj Pleasantly sharp taste. Mnemonic: PI+QUANT
Tone: pos Quant in GRE is more
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT attracting and delighting
PERSON Piquant than Verbal
GREED Example: The chicken
served with a Piquant
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION wild mushroom sauce.
OVERLY NOISY Form: adj Something savory is full Mnemonic: Save +
Tone: pos of flavor, delicious and Poori is pleasant to
PLANNED / (X)
tasty - usually taste.
SPONTANEOUS
something that someone Example: I am getting
RESOLUTE / DETERMINED has cooked. In the world a Savory smell from the
Savory
of cuisine, savory is also kitchen.
STUBBORN often used to mean the
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / opposite of sweet, or
(X) ENEMY salty.
TASTY
Form: adj If you describe Mnemonic: Strawberry
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / Tone: pos something as CRUMble is deliCIOUS
GIVE IN scrumptious, you'd Example: I baked a
probably like to eat Scrumptious chocolate
TO MAKE UP / CREATE Scrumptious
every last crumb. Can I cake
TO OBJECT have another slice of
that scrumptious pie?
TO PROVE FALSE / TO Please?
DISPROVE
Form: adj Succulent means "juicy" Mnemonic: You suck a
UNPLEASANT SMELL Tone: pos and is often used to fruit only if it is
describe food. Think a Succulent.
succulent piece of meat, Example: A buffet table
Succulent
or berries so succulent was set with an array of
youâ€™re left sucking Succulent roasts.
juice off your fingertips
when you eat them.
Form: adj Sumptuous could be Mnemonic: just focus
Tone: pos used to describe a room on SUM(means whole
appointed with the amount)+ptuous.....well
finest furniture, a lush you have decided to
orchestra playing a spend whole amount of
beautiful symphony, or yours ( around a crore
Sumptuous
a meal meant for a )on your wedding..so
king. you are trying to be
Sumptuous.
Example: We dined in
Sumptuous
surroundings.
Form: adj Use the adjective Mnemonic: Something
Tone: neg unpalatable to describe that is UNPALATABLE
something that tastes (not tasty) is definitely
really bad, like a glass not worth serving on the
of unsweetened PLATE. So remember it
lemonade. as 'UN-PLATABLE'
X
Example: The insects
Unpalatable
store this chemical in
their bodies in order to
make themselves
unpalatable to
predators.
Root: UN means NOT
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BREAK A RULE Form: verb If you accede, it means you Mnemonic: sounds
Tone: neut/pos agree with someone or give like accept + agreed :
CANCEL / TAKE BACK in to his or her wish. The Accede
(STATEMENT) word is often used in a Example: He Acceded
Accede political context - the Queen to demands for his
DECAY / ROT
acceded to the Prince's resignation.
ENERGIZING demands for more territory,
a larger army, and funnier
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
jesters.
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT Form: verb To acquiesce is to agree to Mnemonic:
PERSON Tone: neut something or to give in. If Acquiesce..concentrate
GREED your kid sister is refusing to on the part quie. and
hand over the television remember quiet..
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION remote, you hope she which means
OVERLY NOISY acquiesces before your submissive.. or
favorite show comes on. imagine someone who
Acquiesce
PLANNED / (X) is quiet will give in/
SPONTANEOUS agree without any
protest.
Example: Senior
STUBBORN government figures
must have Acquiesced
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / in the cover-up.
(X) ENEMY
Form: adj If your friends want to try Mnemonic: Amen is a
TASTY Tone: pos/neut sky diving and you're word used in
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / amenable to the idea, Christianity. Meaning
GIVE IN sounds like you're going to of which is I agree. So
be jumping out of a plane. Amenable means
Amenable
TO MAKE UP / CREATE If a person or thing is something that we
amenable to something, agree to.
TO OBJECT
they are ready, willing, or Example: They had
TO PROVE FALSE / TO responsive. three very Amenable
DISPROVE children.
UNPLEASANT SMELL Form: noun Assent means agreement. If Mnemonic: Assent
Tone: neut/pos you nod your head in sounds like as sent;
assent, you agree to press editor agreed
something or you assent to and published the
it. You can assent in the article 'as sent' by us
Assent same contexts as agree, but without any
you'll seem a bit more modifications.
serious. Example: There were
murmurs of both
Assent and dissent
from the crowd.
Form: adj If you are willing to submit Mnemonic: one who
Tone: neut/pos to someone's request, then never complains and
you are compliant. Parents obeys everyone is
like it when their teenagers Compliant !
Compliant
are compliant and follow the Example: Most of the
rules. patients were
Compliant with the
diet.
Form: verb Comply is to act according Mnemonic: com+ply -
Tone: neut to someone's wishes or com cab be related to
rules. Although you might computer and it works
like to stay out with your according to our
friends, you'll have to instructions and
comply with your parents' wishes.
Comply
rules and be home by Example: They
midnight. refused to Comply
with the U.N.
resolution.
Root: COM means
TOGETHER
Form: verb If you concede something, Mnemonic: if your
Tone: pos/neut you admit that it is true, mom is pointing out
proper, or certainâ€“â that you need sleep
€“usually in an unwilling before the test, you
way and often in the context should Concede the
of a competition, as in "At truth of what she's
Concede midnight, the candidate saying.
finally conceded defeat." Example: He was
forced to Concede
(that) there might be
difficulties.
Root: CON means
WITH/TOGETHER
Form: verb To concur is to agree or Mnemonic: when a
Tone: neut/pos approve of something. If king conquers(Concur)
someone says something a state then the
you agree with, you can say people in the state
"I concur!" have to agree with it
Concur Example: Historians
have Concurred with
each other in this
view.
Root: CON means
WITH/TOGETHER
Form: adj If someone is docile, he is Mnemonic: Docile
Tone: pos easily taught or handled. If contains 'doc' as in
you suddenly became a doctor; You have to be
trouble-maker in class, your Docile (easily managed
teachers would long for the or handled) in front of
days when you were sweet your doctor.
Docile
and docile. Example: All my
tution students are
quite Docile and hence
I enjoy teaching them.
Root: DOC means TO
TEACH
Form: adj A malleable personality is Mnemonic: relate
Tone: neut capable of being changed or with meltable; so
trained, and a malleable possible to reshape.
metal is able to be pounded Example: The
Malleable
or pressed into various softness and
shapes. It's easier to learn malleability of gold
when you're young and makes it perfect for
malleable. making jewelry.
Form: adj pliant describes something Mnemonic: Pliant
Tone: neut/pos that adjusts to conditions or sounds like PLANT (
is easily influenced: "In flexible, easily bent)
order to survive the compared to a tree.
Pliant
recession, the company had Example: He was
to be pliant and adjust to deposed and replaced
the new economic by a more Pliant
conditions." successor.
Form: verb Being unwilling to relent is a Mnemonic: re-
Tone: neut/pos good qualification for a sales re+lent, imagine you
person. You have to keep lent something to your
trying to make the sale and friend, and you need it
never give in until you've back but your friend
made it. needs it even more
than you do, so you
Relent Relent and lend the
thing again.
Example: â€œWell,
just for a little while
then,â€ she said,
finally Relenting.
Root: RE means
AGAIN
Form: verb Use the verb succumb to Mnemonic:
Tone: neut say that someone yields to Succumb(Suck +
something they've tried to thumb)- Children
fight off, such as despair, doesn't give up
Succumb temptation, disease or sucking their thumb.
injury. Example: They were
all offered bribes and
some of them
Succumbed.
Form: verb Yield has two meanings that Mnemonic: When you
Tone: neut seem quite different: "an cannot shield, you
amount" or "to give way." then Yield to force.
The yield of the recipe was Example: After a long
Yield twelve brownies. To avoid siege, the town was
being tripped, Mary was forced to Yield.
forced to yield to the
children on her way to the
brownie plate.
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BREAK A RULE Form: verb Make up a story, idea,etc, Mnemonic: CON

Tone: pos especially falsely. means TOGETHER...
CANCEL / TAKE BACK Example: He
(STATEMENT) Concoct Concocted an excuse
DECAY / ROT to avoid punishment.
Root: CON means
ENERGIZING WITH/TOGETHER
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY Form: verb To devise is to figure out a Mnemonic: Only
Tone: pos plan. Men twirling long WISE people can
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT mustaches might devise a Devise/ invent things.
PERSON Devise plan to tie someone to the Example: A new
GREED railroad tracks. system has been
Devised to control
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION traffic in the city.
OVERLY NOISY Form: verb To formulate is to come up Mnemonic:
Tone: poa with a plan. If you are locked Formulate sounds like
PLANNED / (X)
out of your house, you'll CALCULATEâ€¦when
SPONTANEOUS
need to formulate a plan to we calculate you think
RESOLUTE / DETERMINED get back inside - preferably well, that is similar to
Formulate
one that doesn't involving FORMULATING
STUBBORN kicking in the door. Example: She has
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / lots of good ideas,
(X) ENEMY but she has difficulty
formulating them.
TASTY
TO ACCEPT / AGREE /
GIVE IN
TO MAKE UP / CREATE
TO OBJECT
TO PROVE FALSE / TO
DISPROVE
UNPLEASANT SMELL
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BREAK A RULE Form: verb When you disregard the rules Mnemonic: Defy
Tone: neg about not wearing sunglasses sounds like DENY.
CANCEL / TAKE BACK in school, proudly sporting your Example: I wouldn't
(STATEMENT) Defy purple aviator glasses in math have dared to Defy
DECAY / ROT class, you've made a decision to my teachers.
defy - to resist or challenge -
ENERGIZING the school rules.
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY Form: verb Your mother asks you to pick Mnemonic: If Aunt
Tone: neut/neg up your room. You refuse: you Tilly offers to knit a
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT demur. Your friend wants to go sweater for you, you
PERSON to the Death Metal Forever might politely Demur,
GREED Demur concert, but you hesitate: you being reluctant to
demur. Whether you strongly accept.
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION object, politely disagree, or Example: At first she
OVERLY NOISY hesitate to agree, you demur. Demurred, but then
finally agreed.
PLANNED / (X)
Form: noun To dissent is to publicly Mnemonic: ASSENT,
SPONTANEOUS
Tone: neg disagree with an official opinion ACCORD etc means to
RESOLUTE / DETERMINED or decision. Dissent is also a agree and Dissent,
noun referring to public DISCORD etc means
STUBBORN disagreement. to disagree.
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / Example: Voices of
Dissent
(X) ENEMY Dissent began to rise
against the
TASTY established authority
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / in the 1950s and
GIVE IN 1960s.
Root: DIS means NOT
TO MAKE UP / CREATE
Form: verb When your younger brother Mnemonic: Object is
TO OBJECT Tone: neut/neg runs around the house with just a verb (action)
scissors, you should definitely form of ObjectION.
TO PROVE FALSE / TO object. Perhaps a less sharp Example: Many local
DISPROVE Object object such as a roll of paper people Object to the
UNPLEASANT SMELL towels would suffice. building of the new
airport.
Root: OB means
AGAINST.
Form: verb A quibble is a small argument Mnemonic: Query +
Tone: neg or fight. As a verb, it means to babble (minor
pick a mini-fight over objection/murmuring).
Quibble
something that doesn't really Example: It isn't
matter. worth quibbling over
such a small amount.
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BREAK A RULE Form: verb To belie means to Mnemonic: Belie

Tone: neg contradict. If you are 93 sounds like lie.
CANCEL / TAKE BACK but look like you are 53, Example: Her energy
(STATEMENT) then your young looks and youthful good
Belie belie your age. looks Belie her 65
DECAY / ROT
years.
ENERGIZING Root: BE means
THOROUGHLY, MAKE
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
or RENDER.
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT Form: verb When you debunk Mnemonic:
PERSON Tone: neg something you show it to DE+BUNK..so when
GREED be false. For over a you bunk your
century people have tried college, and get
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION to debunk the notion of caught by your
OVERLY NOISY natural selection, but no teacher... your
one has succeeded. It's a teacher exaggerates
PLANNED / (X) very hard idea to debunk. this fact and ridicules
Debunk
SPONTANEOUS you in front of the
class.
Example: His
STUBBORN theories have been
Debunked by recent
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / research.
(X) ENEMY Root: DE means
TASTY AWAY/ DOWN/ OFF
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / Form: verb Discredit means to cause Mnemonic: DIS

GIVE IN Tone: neg mistrust or cast the (not) giving CREDIT
accuracy of something into or honoring someone
TO MAKE UP / CREATE doubt. If you say that would definitely mean
schooling is important to to damage that
TO OBJECT
you, but you never study, persons image.
Discredit
TO PROVE FALSE / TO your actions discredit you Example: The photos
DISPROVE and your words. were deliberately
taken to Discredit the
UNPLEASANT SMELL president.
Root: DIS means
NOT
Form: verb The verb expostulate Mnemonic: Ex+
Tone: neg means to reason with Posing (exposing)
someone against an details unnecessarily
intended course of action. may be opposed.
Your parent you always Example: The man
Expostulate expostulate about your was struggling
really cool money-making violently, and
ideas. They just don't expostulating in no
understand! mild terms.
Root: EX means OUT
OF
Form: verb To rebut is to argue Mnemonic: When
Tone: neg against something. If your you REpeatedly say
parents say you're too BUT,you are trying to
young and irresponsible to contradict something
drive, you can rebut their using arguments or
Rebut claim by ticking off evidences
examples of your Example: He issued
responsibility. a firm Rebuttal to the
accusations.
Root: RE- means
AGAIN
Form: verb The verb refute is to prove Mnemonic: Refute
Tone: neg that something is wrong. rhymes with refuse,
When the kids you're when you
babysitting swear they DISAPPROVE OF
brushed their teeth, you something, or if
can refute their claim by something is false or
Refute presenting the dry incorrect..you Refute
toothbrushes. it or disapprove..
Example: She
Refutes any
suggestion that she
behaved
unprofessionally.
Form: verb Remonstrate means to call Mnemonic:
Tone: neg someone on something Remonstrate sounds
that's wrong. If your like demonstrate...so
mother yells at you in remember it like
public, you might call this when you are
getting chewed out. She demonstrative you
Remonstrate
might call it can protest for
remonstrating. Either way, something.
it's embarrassing. Example: They
Remonstrated with
the official about the
decision.
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BREAK A RULE Form: adj If you want to Mnemonic: Fetid sounds like
Tone: neg understand the true Feet smells bad
CANCEL / TAKE BACK meaning of fetid, Example: I cannot stand the
(STATEMENT) leave your sweaty Fetid odor of rotting
DECAY / ROT gym clothes in your vegetables.
Fetid
locker for a few
ENERGIZING days. Fetid is a
fancy way of saying
EXTRA / UNNECESSARY
that something
FAMOUS / IMPORTANT smells really bad.
PERSON Form: adj You can use the Mnemonic: mal(means
GREED Tone: neg adjective bad)+odor(sounds simillar to
malodorous as a odour)..+us.......smelling..bad
MAIN JOB / PROFESSION nicer way to say odour of some chemicals is
OVERLY NOISY that something's dangerous to health.
stinky. Maybe you Example: She could not
PLANNED / (X) think your feet understand how his son could
Malodorous
SPONTANEOUS smell like roses, but eat such a Malodorous dish.
if people move far Root: MAL means BAD
away when your
STUBBORN shoes come off,
your rosy feet are
SUPPORTER / (X) ANTI / probably
(X) ENEMY malodorous.
TASTY Form: adj If you accidentally Mnemonic: NOSE+ NOISE
TO ACCEPT / AGREE / Tone: neg leave half a (Noisome is something that
GIVE IN sandwich under makes noise in our nose).
your bed for a few Example: It's no fun having
TO MAKE UP / CREATE days, cover your asthma and living in an area
nose while you with Noisome smog.
TO OBJECT Noisome
sleep because it
TO PROVE FALSE / TO will probably
DISPROVE become quite
noisome. This is a
UNPLEASANT SMELL fancy way of saying
that it will stink.
Form: adj Something that's Mnemonic: Odoriferous
Tone: neut odoriferous carries sounds like ODOUR with a
a smell. similar meaning.
Example: Spices, Odoriferous
Odoriferous
woods, and aromatic herbs,
tea, coffee, oranges, nutmeg,
and ginger, are exceedingly
plentiful.
Form: adj You know that Mnemonic:
Tone: neg science experiment put+rid...anything that is
that used to be rotten and foul smelling, we
lunch that is now would want to get rid of it
rotting in the back immediately.
Putrid of your fridge? Example: Everyone will
Because it's detest the Putrid smell of
decomposing and rotten meat.
stinks to high
heaven, you can
call it putrid.
Form: adj Rank to describe an Mnemonic: Rank sounds like
Tone: neg especially foul RANG.The stink rang our nose
smell. No matter even after the garbage loaded
what rank you are, truck had passed by, atleast
you must not enjoy an hour back.
Rank
walking into the Example: The house was full
mess hall and of the Rank smell of urine.
realizing that the
rank smell in the
air is today's lunch.
Form: adj Something that is Mnemonic: FRAGRANT/
Tone: pos fragrant has a nice FRAGRANCE.
smell. What makes Example: The air was
a smell nice is fragrant with scents from the
X Fragrant subjective, or ocean and the hills.
course. You might
find bowl of dried
lavender to be
fragrant.
Form: adj When something is Mnemonic:
Tone: pos redolent of red+(Rose)+olent; The Red
something, it rose you lent has a pleasant
makes you think of smell.
that thing by Example: The kitchen is
X Redolent making a pretty redolent with the smell of
strong impression baking.
on you. He had a
shifty eye redolent
of years of lying
and petty crime.
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BLESSING Form: noun A benediction is a Mnemonic: BENE -

Tone: pos blessing - either a formal (GOOD) and DICTUM
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY one that you might hear is 'saying'. Good
AND IN MEANING) in a church service or an words used is called
CORRECT / REPAIR informal one that you BENEDICTION.
BENEDICTION
might utter when you Example: his arms
DIFFICULT take any leap of faith. outstretched in
BENEDICTION
DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING
Root: BENE means
DISLOYALTY GOOD
EXPERIENCED Form: noun If you say grace before a Mnemonic:
Tone: pos meal, you are saying a Beni(means good)+
EXPERT benison, or blessing. You son. You feel blessed
FEELING GUILTY can also be grateful for to have a good son.
the benison of having Example: I could
GAP BENISON your family around the never step in to
table for a meal. marriage without my
HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN
Grandmothers
EVENT
BENISON.
HARMFUL / CURSE Root: BENE means
GOOD
IDEALISTIC
IMMORAL
JUST BEGINNING /
DEVELOPING
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X)
THRIVING
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
RIGHT TO VOTE
STRANGE
SUMMARY
UNCLEAR / HAZY
WITHOUT MISTAKES /
PERFECT
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BLESSING Form: noun Clarity means Mnemonic: CLARITY

Tone: pos clearness. Clean sounds and means like
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY water running down CLEAR.
AND IN MEANING) CLARITY a mountain has Example: The brilliant
CORRECT / REPAIR clarity. So does a CLARITY of his argument
lovely singing voice: could not be disputed.
DIFFICULT it's clear and pure.
DIFFICULTY / CONFUSING Form: verb If you elucidate Mnemonic: think of lucid,
Tone: pos/neut something, you which means clear.
DISLOYALTY explain it very Example: He ELUCIDATEd
EXPERIENCED clearly. If you don't a point of grammar.
ELUCIDATE understand
EXPERT fractions, a visit to
FEELING GUILTY the pie shop may
elucidate the subject
GAP for you.
HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN Form: noun If your teacher gives Mnemonic: EXEcute
EVENT Tone: neut an explanation of a GEneSIS(part of the Holy
difficult text you are Bible)- to interpret the Bible
HARMFUL / CURSE reading, she is & explain it.
IDEALISTIC EXEGESIS giving you an Example: A
exegesis on it. An psychobiography that
IMMORAL exegesis is a critical purports to be the definitive
JUST BEGINNING / look at a text. EXEGESIS of the late
DEVELOPING president's character.
Form: noun An exposition takes Mnemonic: EXPOSITION
Tone: neut place when you sounds like EXPLANATION.
THRIVING
"expose" something - Example: We need a clear
RESTRAIN / SET FREE like at a fair or and detailed EXPOSITION of
convention for their legal position.
RIGHT TO VOTE showing off goods,
EXPOSITION
STRANGE art, or similar wares.
An exposition can
SUMMARY also be the section
UNCLEAR / HAZY of a story that
explains the basics
WITHOUT MISTAKES / of the tale.
PERFECT
Form: verb If given recipe Mnemonic: EXPOUND
Tone: neut directions that sounds like expand which
include "some means explain
sugar," "some Example: He EXPOUNDed
onions," and "some his views on the subject to
flour" as ingredients, me at great length.
you might ask the
EXPOUND cook to expound by
adding
measurements of
how much of each
to use. When you
expound, you
explain or provide
details.
Form: adj The adjective limpid Mnemonic:
Tone: pos describes something LIMPID...lucid...liquid
(often liquid) that is Example: she gave him a
clear, serene and look of LIMPID honesty.
bright. Nature
LIMPID
calendars often
feature glamour
shots of a limpid
stream or a limpid
lake.
Form: adj When you call Mnemonic:
Tone: pos something lucid, you LUCing(looking)In Day is
mean it's "easy to very clear. We can see
understand" or anybody clearly in day time.
LUCID "sensible". So LUCID is something
which is crystal clear.
Example: the answers in
this book are explained in a
LUCID style.
Form: adj A sentence that Mnemonic:
Tone: pos teaches a new PEL+LUCID...LUCID..MEANS
vocabulary word CLEAR ....SO CLEAR IN
should always be MEANING.
pellucid, that is, its Example: The light was so
PELLUCID style and meaning PELLUCID, so dazzling that
should be easily she reached for her
understandable so sunglasses.
that you can derive
the definition from
the sentence.
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BLESSING Form: verb Amend describes actions Mnemonic: AMEND

Tone: pos/neut or speech intended to sounds like a + mind;
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY correct or improve you should have a
AND IN MEANING) something. If you sound mind to
CORRECT / REPAIR confused your audience AMEND your score in
AMEND when you gave your mathematics.
DIFFICULT speech, don't be afraid to Example: The law
amend what you said, has been AMENDed
meaning you make minor for the betterment of
DISLOYALTY changes to better explain all common people.
what you meant.
EXPERIENCED
Form: verb To atone is to do Mnemonic:
EXPERT Tone: pos something "right" to at+own(one) - he
FEELING GUILTY make up for doing realized his mistake
something wrong. 'at' his 'own' and
GAP Religious believers are wanted amend it.
ATONE
known to atone for their Example: I have a
sins, but even students desire to ATONE.
EVENT
can atone for a past
HARMFUL / CURSE failure by acing a quiz or
two.
IDEALISTIC
Form: verb Disabuse means to free Mnemonic:
IMMORAL Tone: pos/neut someone of a belief that Remember as the
JUST BEGINNING / is not true. Many opposite of abuse
DEVELOPING teachers of health find Example: Let me
DISABUSE that when they teach, DISABUSE you of
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) they spend as much your foolish notions
THRIVING energy disabusing kids of about married life.
false beliefs as they doing Root: DIS means
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
giving them the facts. NOT
RIGHT TO VOTE Form: verb In the fairy tale, the Mnemonic: Rhymes
STRANGE Tone: pos/neut baker must expiate his as Ex Pirate. An ex-
fatherâ€™s sins by pirate always tries to
SUMMARY bringing the witch three EXPIATE his guilt.Ex
UNCLEAR / HAZY ingredients for a magic pirate becomes pious.
EXPIATE potion: a cow, a cape Example: he had a
WITHOUT MISTAKES / and a slipper. Expiate chance to confess
PERFECT means to make amends and EXPIATE his guilt
or atone for a wrong you
or someone else has
committed.
Form: verb To pay compensation for Mnemonic: look for
Tone: pos/neut a loss, damages, or the word-"demn"
similar expense is to which can be
indemnify. "The insurance connected to
company indemnified its "demon"..so what
customers for their claims does demon do? it
after the severe storm â destroys property..
€” one customer lost IN(not)+demni+fy -
three cars, a row boat, correct what the
INDEMNIFY and a golf cart." demon inside you has
done..make amends
for it.
Example: The tenant
is legally required to
INDEMNIFY the
landlord for any
damage caused to
the property
Root: IN means NOT
Form: noun Redemption is the buying Mnemonic:
Tone: pos/neut back of something. You REDEMPTION is to
might try for redemption REDEEM.
by attempting to buy Example: The
REDEMPTION back a bike you sold, or REDEMPTION of the
you might attempt to buy world from sin
back your soul after you Root: RE means
steal someone elseâ€™s AGAIN
bike.
Form: verb The verb redress is used Mnemonic:
Tone: pos/neut when you are supposed REDRESS is: "relief
to fix a problem and from distress"
make amends. You want Example: It is time
your parents to redress to REDRESS the
REDRESS
the fact that you don't injustices of the past.
have a pet. Your parents
offer to get a hamster,
but instead, you say you
want a monkey.
Form: noun If you guessed that Mnemonic:
Tone: pos reparation is related to REPARATION can be
the word repair, you were remembered in
right. Both come from the connection to REPAIR
Latin word meaning "to (sounds and means
REPARATION
restore." While reparation similar).
has a range of meanings, Example: Offenders
they all convey the sense should be forced to
of fixing or making up for make REPARATION to
a past wrong. the community
Form: noun Restitution is the act of Mnemonic:
Tone: pos/neut making up for damages RESTITUTION - we
or harm, like the time you can think of "rest".
knocked the ball out of We take rest when
the park, scoring a home we feel tired.i.e when
run but breaking a energy is lost.....so
house's window in the "rest" is a
RESTITUTION
process. You had to "compensation" for an
make restitution for the energy loss.
broken window, paying Example: The
for its replacement. government tried to
make RESTITUTION
for the damage
caused
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BLESSING Form: adj Use the adjective, Mnemonic: (h)ard +

Tone: neg/neut arduous, to describe an u (you) + ous (we).
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY activity that takes a lot This work is very
AND IN MEANING) of effort. Writing all difficult and required
ARDUOUS those college essays and full hard work from
CORRECT / REPAIR
filling out the us and your side.
DIFFICULT applications is an Example: They
arduous process! searched ARDUOUSly
for clues.
DISLOYALTY Form: adj You have to wrestle a bit Mnemonic: (Come-
EXPERIENCED Tone: neg/neut with the longish word bear-some) come
cumbersome; it's bear some heavy
EXPERT cumbersome, or kind of things that are hard
FEELING GUILTY long and clumsy, to to manage
CUMBERSOME
tumble out in a sentence. Example: The
GAP It's hard to use it organization changed
gracefully its CUMBERSOME title
to something easier
EVENT
to remember
HARMFUL / CURSE Form: verb To encumber is to weigh Mnemonic: Look for
IDEALISTIC Tone: neg/neut someone or something the word cumber and
down with a physical or think of cumbersome
IMMORAL psychological burden. ....anything that is
JUST BEGINNING / You may find yourself cumbersome may
ENCUMBER
DEVELOPING encumbered by a heavy prove to be a burden.
backpack or with Example: The police
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) anxieties. Either way, it's operation was
THRIVING a heavy load to bear! ENCUMBERed by
crowds of reporters.
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
Form: adj Use the adjective Mnemonic:
RIGHT TO VOTE Tone: neg/neut exacting to describe EXACTING -he wants
STRANGE something or someone things to be too exact
very precise or strict in and precise...hence
SUMMARY its requirements. If your he is making great
EXACTING
UNCLEAR / HAZY teacher has exacting demands
standards about spelling Example: He was an
WITHOUT MISTAKES / and punctuation, you EXACTING man to
PERFECT better carefully check work for.
your final paper.
Form: adj If one teacher gives you Mnemonic: it sounds
Tone: neg/neut three hours of homework like on+er+us..that is
a night, that's rough. But ON+US.. when
if all of your teachers do something is ON US
it, that makes the task of ..we feel burdensome
ONEROUS completing your Example: an
homework an onerous ONEROUS duty or
one, to say the least. If responsibility.
something is onerous, it
is very difficult to deal
with or do.
Form: adj When you call Mnemonic: POUND
Tone: neg/neut Frankenstein ponderous, is a unit of weight ,
it's not because he likes we often calculate
to ponder the great weight in pounds! 1
PONDEROUS
questions of life. It's Pound = 480 grams
because he moves like a Example: he spoke
Mack truck, only slower in a slow
and less gracefully PONDEROUS voice.
Form: adj If something is tedious, Mnemonic: TEDIOUS
Tone: neg/neut it's boring. If you're is Tiresome.
anxious to get outside Example: The
TEDIOUS
and enjoy the sun, even journey soon became
the best lecture will TEDIOUS
seem tedious.
Form: adj If someone does Mnemonic: Facile -
Tone: pos/neut something easily, or can be read as 'Face I
shows ease, it is will'... I will be able
described as facile in a to face the problem
good way, but if (/person) because it
someone takes the easy is EASY (REQUIRES
X FACILE way out and shows a VERY LITTLE EFFORT)
lack of thought or care, it to solve
is facile in a bad way. Example: It seems
too facile to blame
everything on his
mishandling of the
crisis.
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BLESSING Form: noun A dilemma is a Mnemonic: To DIAL his

Tone: neg tough choice. When number or not is a real
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY you're in a difficult DILEMMA.
AND IN MEANING) situation and each Example: Here am I
DILEMMA
CORRECT / REPAIR option looks brought to a very pretty
equally bad, you're DILEMMA; I must commit
DIFFICULT in a dilemma. murder or commit
matrimony.
Form: noun An imbroglio is a Mnemonic:
DISLOYALTY Tone: neg complicated or IM+brog(=frog)+lio(=lion).
EXPERIENCED confusing personal Suppose in a play, you
situation. To have to choose between
EXPERT rephrase the J. characters of frog and lion,
FEELING GUILTY Geils band song, you will be in a
IMBROGLIO "Love Stinks," if complicated and confusing
GAP you love her and situation.
she loves him and Example: A celebrated
he loves somebody IMBROGLIO involving some
EVENT
else, you've got big names in the New York
HARMFUL / CURSE quite an imbroglio. literary scene
Root: IM means NOT
IDEALISTIC
Form: noun A morass is a Mnemonic: MORASS
IMMORAL Tone: neg mushy, muddy refers to anything that
JUST BEGINNING / patch of ground bogs you down,
DEVELOPING that you might find overwhelms you, sticks to
in a bog. In other everything, and hinders
MORASS
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) words, it's your progress - like red
THRIVING something you tape.
probably don't Example: A MORASS of
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
want to get stuck lies and deceit
RIGHT TO VOTE in.
STRANGE Form: noun A plight is a Mnemonic: PLIGHT
Tone: neg situation that's sounds like FLIGHT which
SUMMARY hard to get out of. tends to be a difficult
UNCLEAR / HAZY Learning about the condition for first time
plight of very poor flyers.
WITHOUT MISTAKES / PLIGHT people trying Example: The African
PERFECT rebuild their homes elephant is in a desperate
after a devastating PLIGHT.
earthquake might
inspire you to send
money to a charity.
Form: noun If you're engaged Mnemonic: PREDICAMENT
Tone: neg to get married, but sounds like PREDIC (T) -
suddenly fall in love AMENT : imagine a
with someone else, situation where YOU DON'T
you have got KNOW WHAT will happen
PREDICAMENT yourself in quite a (can't predict) or WHAT TO
predicament. A DO..is a PREDICAMENT.
predicament is a Example: I am in a
difficult, confusing, terrible PREDICAMENT.
and unpleasant
situation
Form: noun A quagmire is a Mnemonic: Take into
Tone: neg dangerous place, consideration the First
like the muddy three words QUAGMIRE.
shoreline of a The word resembles earth
pond. The more QUAKE. So earth quake is
you try to climb out an awkward predicament,
QUAGMIRE
of a quagmire, the where soil sinks under your
more you seem to feet.
slip. That's because Example: I can't handle
as you step on the this QUAGMIRE anymore.
mud, it oozes
everywhere
Form: noun How to define the Mnemonic: QUANDARY
Tone: neg word quandary? sounds like LAUNDRY. So
Wow, this is quite a many clothes to be washed
dilemma. What to at home or given to the
do, what to do? LAUNDRY adds to dilemma
QUANDARY Looks like this and and difficult to decide.
moment itself is a Example: George was in a
quandary: a tough QUANDARY - should he go
situation that will or shouldn't he?
be really hard to
resolve.
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BLESSING Form: verb When you betray Example: He was offered

Tone: neg someone or money to BETRAY his
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY something, you colleagues.
AND IN MEANING) provide information Root: BE means
CORRECT / REPAIR whether you mean to INTENSIVE/
do it or not, like the THOROUGH/MAKE/RENDER
BETRAY
DIFFICULT loud growling of your
stomach that betrays
your hunger or the
DISLOYALTY secret you tell about
your friend that
EXPERIENCED betrays her trust.
EXPERT Form: adj If something is slowly Mnemonic: INSIDIOUS-
FEELING GUILTY Tone: neg and secretly causing inside+ hideous. think of
harm, it's insidious â something terrible, like a
GAP €” like the rumors no disease, hiding inside the
one seems to listen body.
HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN INSIDIOUS
to until suddenly Example: This kind of
EVENT
someone's reputation advertising acts
HARMFUL / CURSE is ruined. INSIDIOUSly on young
minds.
IDEALISTIC Root: IN means VERY
IMMORAL Form: noun If you shared your Mnemonic: per+ fidy-
JUST BEGINNING / Tone: neg most embarrassing without fidelity i.e cheat
DEVELOPING secrets with a friend upon your close ones,in
who then told them general cheat or breach
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) PERFIDY to everyone he something/ someone.
THRIVING knows, his betrayal Example: In Act 2 he
could be described as learns of Giovanni's
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
perfidy. PERFIDY and swears
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STRANGE Form: noun A quisling is a traitor, Mnemonic: QUISLING-
Tone: neg especially one who split like QUIT+LINK
SUMMARY collaborates with an means a culprit quits and
UNCLEAR / HAZY enemy occupying collaborate (link)with
QUISLING force for personal enemy
WITHOUT MISTAKES / gain. Example: QUISLING
PERFECT finally gave in, allowing
the imprisoned teachers to
return home.
Form: noun A traitor says one Mnemonic: TRAITOR and
Tone: neg thing but does a CHEATER sounds and
another. If you means similar.
promise a friend Example: He was seen as
TRAITOR
you'll keep his secret, a TRAITOR to the socialist
but instead you blab cause.
it to everyone, you're
a traitor.
Form: noun Treachery is trickery, Mnemonic: treach+her-
Tone: neg cheating, and deceit, trick her-deceit somone
like the treachery of Example: He was
your former friend punished for his
TREACHERY who only stuck treacheries.
around until he stole
your girlfriend and
turned the whole
grade against you
Form: noun Hacking your Mnemonic: Trickery with
Tone: neg brotherâ€™s email a Reason calls for a
account and sharing TREASON
all his secrets with Example: Ocalan, who
your mom could be has been found guilty of
TREASON
considered an act of TREASON, is being held in
personal treason, solitary confinement on a
meaning you have remote island prison.
betrayed your
brother.
Form: noun Have you ever Mnemonic: if you turn
Tone: neg switched political your coat then you show
parties, taken up a your back... and one who
different religion, or â back stabs you is a
€” worst of all - traitor..
changed which sports Example: In the days
TURNCOAT
team you support? before his unmasking, he
You are a turncoat was strangely haunted by
then, a deeply hostile the subject of TURNCOATs.
word meaning a
traitor or deserter to
the cause.
Form: noun Every second grader Mnemonic: We have
Tone: pos knows how to pledge heard the fancy stories of
allegiance to the flag, ALI and his GIN - his gin is
but do you think they COMMITTED and LOYAL to
realize when they him.. hence ALLE +
X
place their right hand GI(A)N + CE
ALLEGIANCE
over their hearts that Example: People of
they're expressing various party allegiances
loyalty to what we joined the campaign.
call the "Red, White,
and Blue"?
Form: noun Stemming from the Mnemonic: sounds like
Tone: pos Latin word "fidelitas," fidelity....fidelity means
the noun fealty is loyalty
related to "fidelity," Example: Now let us
X FEALTY
and is another way of shake hands all around
saying "loyalty" or and swear fealty.
"faithfulness.". Root: FEAL means TRUST/
FAITH
Form: noun Fidelity is the quality Mnemonic: look for the
Tone: pos of being faithful or root word fid...means
loyal. Dogs are faith, belief..so words like
famous for their fidelity, confide, diffident,
fidelity. bonafide, fiduciary..all
have 'fid' common in it
and all these words are
X FIDELITY related to involving trust
or faith, similarly fidelity
Example: The best
printers can reproduce
photographs with amazing
fidelity.
Root: FID means TRUST/
FAITH
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BLESSING Form: noun a skilled worker who Mnemonic: A man who

Tone: pos practices some trade may have covered so
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY or handicraft. many journeys of life,
AND IN MEANING) will necessarily be
CORRECT / REPAIR experienced.
JOURNEYMAN Example: The picture is
DIFFICULT certainly competent, but
a dozen other
JOURNEYMAN directors
DISLOYALTY could have executed this
piece just as efficiently.
EXPERIENCED
Form: adj Seasoned describes a Mnemonic: One who
EXPERT Tone: pos person who has been has seen many
FEELING GUILTY around forever, doing SEASONS in his life...will
what they do, and be very AGED and
GAP doing it well - EXPERIENCED.
SEASONED throughout the Example: Sudha is a
seasons. They have SEASONED dance
EVENT
lots of experience, and performer.
HARMFUL / CURSE they can handle just
about anything that
IDEALISTIC comes their way.
IMMORAL Form: noun Veteran commonly Mnemonic: VETERAN -
JUST BEGINNING / Tone: pos refers to someone who vet(Vietnam)+eran(Iran)
DEVELOPING has fought in a warâ€“- -the people who were
think Veterans' Day, involved in both these
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) the Vietnam Veterans' wars were certainly
THRIVING VETERAN Memorialâ€“-but, in experienced in war
fact, the word can Example: He is a
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
mean anyone with VETERAN of the Korean
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particular field.
STRANGE
SUMMARY
UNCLEAR / HAZY
WITHOUT MISTAKES /
PERFECT
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BLESSING Form: noun A connoisseur is a Mnemonic:

Tone: pos person who, through CONNOISSEUR is always
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY study and interest, SURE as he is an expert
AND IN MEANING) has a fine or a good judge
CORRECT / REPAIR appreciation for Example: The exhibition
something, like the will be a delight for the
CONNOISSEUR
DIFFICULT connoisseur who can collector and
identify the clarinet CONNOISSEUR of silver
player on a jazz ornaments.
DISLOYALTY recording by the
sound of his
EXPERIENCED inhalations alone.
EXPERT Form: noun We call a person who Mnemonic: EPIC-
FEELING GUILTY Tone: pos truly loves foodâ CURRY...one who can
€”food at the highest write an EPIC on CURRY
GAP levelsâ€”an epicure. has to be a
Occasionally, you CONNOISSEUR OF
might find the word FOOD.
EVENT EPICURE
epicure used for a Example: Thomas
HARMFUL / CURSE person who loves Jefferson was one of
something else, but America's first great
IDEALISTIC an epicure is usually EPICUREs.
IMMORAL someone who
delights in fine food.
JUST BEGINNING /
DEVELOPING Form: noun A gourmand is Mnemonic: sounds like
Tone: neg someone obsessively government -and in
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) and unhealthily India..anything by
THRIVING devoted to eating government is supposed
good food and lots of to be free for people..so
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
it. if government plans to
RIGHT TO VOTE provide free food people
will eat
STRANGE GOURMAND excessively...beyond
SUMMARY their capacity..because
we take pleasure in
UNCLEAR / HAZY anything which is free
WITHOUT MISTAKES / for us.
PERFECT Example: He is the kind
of GOURMAND who
swallows food without
even pausing to taste it.
Form: noun That guy over there Mnemonic: GOURMET-
Tone: pos correctly identifying A guru(expert) of
the dozen spices meat(all food and drink)
used in the meal he's -'A connoisseur of fine
GOURMET eating? Heâ€™s food and drink'.
likely a gourmet, Example: Peter is the
someone who knows GOURMET guru, so he
a lot about fine food. should order the food for
dinner.
Form: noun A virtuoso is an Mnemonic: One who
Tone: pos incredibly talented has many "virtues" is
VIRTUOSO musician. You can called a VIRTUOSO.
also be a virtuoso in Example: He is a Piano
non-musical fields. VIRTUOSO.
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BLESSING Form: adj We are sorry to inform you Mnemonic: Split as

Tone: neg/neut that the adjective contrite cont (COUNT) - rite
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY means to feel regret, (RIGHT). COUNT THE
AND IN MEANING) remorse, or even guilt. CASH RIGHT, ELSE
CORRECT / REPAIR YOU WILL REGRET IT.
CONTRITE Example: He looked
DIFFICULT so CONTRITE that for
a while she nearly
believed that he was
DISLOYALTY actually feeling sorry
for his deed
EXPERIENCED
Form: adj Penitent means deeply sorry, Mnemonic:
EXPERT Tone: pos/neut ashamed, and full of PENITENT sounds like
FEELING GUILTY remorse. If you feel sorryâ REPENTENT (to feel
€“-or just want to appear toâ sorry about a doing)
GAP €“-you should adopt a Example: He was
PENITENT penitent manner. feeling PENITENT for
having punished his
EVENT
son without verifying
HARMFUL / CURSE the truth.
Root: PEN means
IDEALISTIC PUNISHMENT
IMMORAL Form: adj Something that is poignant Mnemonic:
JUST BEGINNING / Tone: neg/neut touches you deeply. POIGNANT sounds
DEVELOPING Watching a poignant like PUNGENT. But
YouTube video about baby something that's
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) penguins chasing their pungent pricks your
THRIVING mothers, for example, might sense of smell,
give you a lump in your whereas POIGNANT
RESTRAIN / SET FREE POIGNANT
throat. poignant feeling can refers to something
RIGHT TO VOTE also make you feel sad or that pricks your
regretful. emotions.
STRANGE Example: her face
SUMMARY was a POIGNANT
reminder of the past
UNCLEAR / HAZY time.
WITHOUT MISTAKES / Form: noun Remorse, a noun, is what Mnemonic:
PERFECT Tone: neg/neut you feel if you regret your rem+(w)orse
actions or wish for another ....remembering(read
outcome. recalling)the worse
thing that you did â
REMORSE €¦you feel the guilt at
leaving them without
notice
Example: she felt no
REMORSE at leaving
them without notice
Form: adj If your elaborate magic trick Mnemonic: RUEFUL
Tone: neg/neut goes awry, and instead of sounds CRYFUL.
pulling a rabbit out of an Example: "So this is
audience member's shoe, the last time that we
RUEFUL
you set the shoe on fire, you are meeting", she
might give a rueful smile. said RUEFULly.
Rueful means apologetic or
remorseful.
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BLESSING Form: noun An abeyance is a Mnemonic: Interpret

Tone: neut temporary halt to it as opposite of
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY something, with the obey+ance -- not
AND IN MEANING) emphasis on obeying the given
CORRECT / REPAIR "temporary." It is usually orders and suspend
used with the word "in" the work (action)
DIFFICULT ABEYANCE or "into"; "in abeyance" Example: Legal
suggests a state of proceedings are in
waiting or holding. ABEYANCE while
DISLOYALTY further enquiries are
made
EXPERIENCED Root: AB means
EXPERT AWAY FROM
FEELING GUILTY Form: noun A temporary gap, pause, Mnemonic: split it as

Tone: neut break, or absence can be HI+AT+US.....if
GAP called a hiatus. When anyone says 'Hi' on
your favorite TV show is the way, we will
HIATUS on hiatus, that means definitely stop for a
EVENT
there are no new while.
HARMFUL / CURSE episodes - not forever, Example: After a five
just for a little while. month HIATUS, the
IDEALISTIC talks resumed.
IMMORAL Form: noun See lull, think "calm." It Mnemonic: LULL -
JUST BEGINNING / Tone: neg/neut could be the noun form DULL
DEVELOPING (like "the lull before the Example: a LULL in
storm") or the verb: one the conversation.
LULL
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) can lull someone by
THRIVING calming them (as in
lulling a baby to sleep
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
with a lullaby).
RIGHT TO VOTE Form: noun A moratorium is the Mnemonic:
STRANGE Tone: neut suspension of a particular Generally,
activityâ€“-you could MORATORIUMs go
SUMMARY have a moratorium on into effect when
UNCLEAR / HAZY fishing, baking, the use of something becomes
candles, the wearing of seen as being not
WITHOUT MISTAKES / MORATORIUM matching socks. okay for now, but
PERFECT might go back to
being okay later.
Example: The
convention called for
a two year
MORATORIUM.
Form: noun A respite is a break from Mnemonic: RESPITE
Tone: neg/neut something that's difficult sounds like rest a bit
or unpleasant. If you're Example: The
RESPITE cramming for exams, medicine brought a
take an occasional walk brief RESPITE from
to give yourself a respite the pain.
from the intensity.
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BLESSING Form: noun An antecedent is a thing Mnemonic:

Tone: neut that comes before ante(before) +
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY something else. You ced("to go"). root
AND IN MEANING) might think rap music "ced" means "to go"
CORRECT / REPAIR has no historical .Hence ANTECEDENT
antecedent, but earlier means "that which
ANTECEDENT
DIFFICULT forms of African American goes before"
spoken verse go back for Example: "He
centuries grabbed the ball and
DISLOYALTY threw it in the
air,"ball" is the
EXPERIENCED ANTECEDENT of "it"
EXPERT Form: noun A forerunner is someone Mnemonic: Fore
FEELING GUILTY Tone: neut or something that came means something
before and paved the that precedes and
GAP way for something today. runner means
Rotary phones were someone is
forerunners of today's approaching so the
EVENT
complex cell phones. meaning.
HARMFUL / CURSE FORERUNNER Example: An early
injury proved the
IDEALISTIC FORERUNNER of a
IMMORAL disastrous
performance by
JUST BEGINNING / Williams.
DEVELOPING Root: FORE means
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) IN FRONT OF.
THRIVING Form: noun A harbinger is something Mnemonic:
Tone: neut that comes before and HARBINGER sounds
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
that shows what will like HER + FINGER,
RIGHT TO VOTE follow in the future. The she shows me what is
robin is a harbinger of about to happen by
STRANGE springâ€“-its presence gesturing with her
HARBINGER
SUMMARY means spring is coming finger.
soon. Example: Her
UNCLEAR / HAZY father's successful job
WITHOUT MISTAKES / interview was seen as
PERFECT a HARBINGER of
better times to come.
Form: noun You've heard the old Mnemonic:
Tone: neut saying "Pride comes "PRECURSOR" -
before the fall?" Well, you pre(before) +
could just as easily say cursor(that points
pride is a precursor to out) -something that
the fall. A precursor is points out in advance
PRECURSOR something that happens - forerunner.
before something else. Example: These
events were
PRECURSORs to
revolution
Root: PRE means
BEFORE
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BLESSING Form: noun Something that one Mnemonic:

Tone: neg absolutely and positively ASTHMA...ANATHEMAâ
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY cannot stand is €¦I hate asthma
AND IN MEANING) anathema. Garlic is because it affects
CORRECT / REPAIR anathema to vampires respiratory
(ditto for stakes and system....ANATHEMA
ANATHEMA
DIFFICULT daylight). So is also means curse....to
kryptonite to Superman have ASTHMA is a
or a silver bullet to a kind of ANATHEMA
DISLOYALTY werewolf. Example: Racial
prejudice is (an)
EXPERIENCED ANATHEMA to me.
EXPERT Form: adj Baleful means the Mnemonic: BALEFUL
FEELING GUILTY Tone: neg foreshadowing of tragic sounds like bail+ful;
or evil events. If no when any dangerous
GAP one's listening in class convict gets out of jail
and your teacher taking bail, he could
HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN BALEFUL
reprimands you with a be threatening.
EVENT
baleful glance, expect a Example: We are
HARMFUL / CURSE pop quiz. aware of the BALEFUL
effects of water
IDEALISTIC pollution.
IMMORAL Form: noun The noun bane refers to Mnemonic: Modern
JUST BEGINNING / Tone: neg anything that is a cause technology is BOON
DEVELOPING of harm, ruin, or death. OR BANE. Boon is
But we often use it for useful and BANE is
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) BANE things that aren't that Something causing
THRIVING bad, just feel like it. You misery or death
might say mosquitoes Example: The
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
are the bane of your neighbors kids are the
RIGHT TO VOTE existence. BANE of my existence.
STRANGE Form: noun A blight is a disease Mnemonic: Black
Tone: neg that hurts plants and light may destroy the
SUMMARY makes their leaves plants.
UNCLEAR / HAZY wither. It can also affect Example: His career
neighborhoods. Urban has been BLIGHTed by
BLIGHT
WITHOUT MISTAKES / blight refers to a part of injuries
PERFECT the city where things
are falling apart. Blight
could also mean
something that harms.
Form: adj If something is Mnemonic: relate it
Tone: neg deleterious, it does to DELETE...so you
harm or makes things DELETE all the spam
worse. Smoking has mails because they
DELETERIOUS obvious deleterious may BE HARMFUL to
effects on your health, your PC
not to mention your Example: the
social life. DELETERIOUS effect of
stress on health.
Form: adj Detrimental is a formal Mnemonic: Look at
Tone: neg way of saying the part MENTAL ...a
"harmful." Anything MENTAL person can
detrimental hurts, cause serious harm or
DETRIMENTAL
hinders, or puts a injury, when violent.
damper on something. Example: the sun's
Detrimental things do DETRIMENTAL effect
damage. on skin.
Form: noun â€œGo bury your head Mnemonic:
Tone: neg in the sand.â€ This MALEDICTION -
nasty curse is a MAL+DICTION. MAL
malediction (and, Iâ means 'evil or ill' and
€™m sure, nothing you DICTUM is 'saying'. So
would ever say to to say something evil
MALEDICTION another human being). is to CURSE.
Example: The
MALEDICTION by the
sorcerer scared him to
death
Root: MAL means
BAD/ EVIL
Form: adj For something that's Mnemonic: MAL
Tone: neg very harmful, especially means BAD.
a tumor that's Example: She was
cancerous, use the term relieved when the
MALIGNANT malignant. doctor told her that
the tumor was not
MALIGNANT.
Root: MAL means
BAD/ EVIL
Form: adj Pernicious means Mnemonic: word can
Tone: neg harmful and subtle, be divided like
such as a poison gas per+nicious..nicious
that causes cancer in when pronounced
those exposed to it over sounds like
the course of years. noxious...so noxious..
PERNICIOUS
..so something
harmful
Example: the
PERNICIOUS influence
of TV violence on
children.
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BLESSING Form: adj Use quixotic for Mnemonic: QUIXOTIC -

Tone: neut someone or something quick + exotic, if you
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY that is romantic and desire something exotic to
AND IN MEANING) unrealistic, or possessed happen quickly in your life
CORRECT / REPAIR by almost impossible it is just a daydream.
QUIXOTIC
hopes. Your quixotic Example: He is QUIXOTIC
DIFFICULT task is easy to - he wants to achieve
understand, if difficult to things that are practically
achieve: establish world impossible.
DISLOYALTY peace.
EXPERIENCED Form: adj If you're looking to Mnemonic: UTOPIAN -
Tone: neut relocate to a utopia, UTOPIa , sounds like
EXPERT good luck! A utopia is an Trophy - which is
FEELING GUILTY ideal society, and a something that everyone
scheme or vision for wants but only one of
GAP producing such a society them gets it, like its a
UTOPIAN can be called utopian. ideology/imaginary
concept that everyone
EVENT
wants it but practically
HARMFUL / CURSE only one gets it.
Example: There is
IDEALISTIC nothing like a UTOPIAN
IMMORAL society.
JUST BEGINNING /
DEVELOPING
THRIVING
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SUMMARY
UNCLEAR / HAZY
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BLESSING Form: noun Debauchery is a noun Mnemonic: DEBAUCHERY

Tone: neg meaning crazy sounds like BUTCHERY.
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY partying and wild Butcher, a person who kill
AND IN MEANING) nights, usually animals for food.Hence
CORRECT / REPAIR accompanied by a lot after killing, people
of alcohol. So you indulge.
DEBAUCHERY
DIFFICULT probably don't want Example: He later
to engage in any kind regretted the
of debauchery the DEBAUCHERY of his
DISLOYALTY night before an youth.
exam. Root: DE means AWAY/
EXPERIENCED DOWN/ OFF
EXPERT Form: adj If your friend Mnemonic:
FEELING GUILTY Tone: neg vacations in lavish DECAY+DANCE -now a
hotels, wears days the way heroines are
GAP thousand-dollar dancing is degrading as
shoes, and refuses to far as vulgarity is
DECADENT eat cheese that costs concerned.
EVENT
less than $20 an Example: The book
HARMFUL / CURSE ounce, you might say condemns some of
her lifestyle is society's wealthiest
IDEALISTIC decadent. members as DECADENT
IMMORAL fools.
JUST BEGINNING / Form: verb If something Mnemonic: DE (not) +

DEVELOPING Tone: neg degenerates, it gets GENERATE(working).
worse, like a food Stopped generating.
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) fight that Example: We are living
THRIVING degenerates to an in a DEGENERATEd
all-out spaghetti- society.
RESTRAIN / SET FREE DEGENERATE
throwing war. Root: DE means AWAY/
RIGHT TO VOTE Degenerate can also DOWN/ OFF
describe an immoral
STRANGE person - or the
SUMMARY behavior of such a
person.
UNCLEAR / HAZY
Form: noun Depravity goes Mnemonic: People are
WITHOUT MISTAKES / Tone: neg beyond mere bad deprived of their basic
PERFECT behavior - it is a amenities because of the
total lack of morals, extreme corruption
values, and even existing among the
DEPRAVITY regard for other goverment employees
living things, like the Example: He was sinking
depravity of a serial into a life of utter
killer DEPRAVITY.
Root: DE means AWAY/
DOWN/ OFF
Form: adj The adjective Mnemonic: One whose
Tone: neg dissolute means moral values are dissolved
unrestrained. If Example: Literature
you're a dissolute dealing with the
DISSOLUTE person, you indulge DISSOLUTE and
in gambling, drugs, degrading aspects of
and drinking and human experience
don't care if others Root: DIS means NOT
disapprove.
Form: noun lack of probity : lack Mnemonic: PROBITY
Tone: neg of integrity or sounds like INTEGRITY,
rectitude and IM (not). So no
Integrity.
IMPROBITY Example: His IMPROBITY
resulted in him facing a
termination from his
workplace.
Root: IM means NOT
Form: noun If you drink a lot, eat Mnemonic: LIBERTINE-
Tone: neg a lot, and live a wild liberti+ne=LIBERTY IN
and unrestrained life, Excess can make you
you might be called a irresponsible and immoral.
LIBERTINE
libertine. Example: The legend of
Don Juan depicts him as a
LIBERTINE.
Root: LIBER means FREE
Form: adj Someone who is Mnemonic:
Tone: neg licentious behaves or licent(license)+ous....well
speaks some bollywood
inappropriately or celebrities have got the
vulgarly. LICENSE OF indulging into
amoral ACTIVITIES.
LICENTIOUS
Example: A moralist who
decried what she regarded
as the LICENTIOUS and
corrupt culture of the
entertainment industry.
Root: LIC means PERMIT.
Form: noun There's no way Mnemonic: REPROBATE:
Tone: neg around it, a rep(repeatedly)+rob+ate..
reprobate is a bad a person who again and
egg. The black sheep again robs other peoples
of the family, missing belongings has no moral
REPROBATE a moral compass - a values.
reprobate's been Example: Without
called everything hesitation, she criticized
from a deviant to an the REPROBATE who
evildoer to a proposed such an
scoundrel. indecent idea
Form: noun If you are guilty of Mnemonic: TURPITUDE
Tone: neg turpitude, you should sounds like turbid attitude
be ashamed of so a depraved act.
yourself. Turpitude is Example: This, he said,
a word that left modern man out of
TURPITUDE represents depraved synch with the natural
behavior. Prisons are order of things, resulting
filled with criminals in war, conflict and
who have engaged in general TURPITUDE.
acts of moral
turpitude.
Form: adj Wanton describes Mnemonic: WANTON
Tone: neg something excessive, sounds like WANT ON.
uncontrolled and Someone who's
sometimes even WANT(desire) goes ON
cruel. The principal and ON..no limit to his
sees a food fight as a want.
WANTON
wanton act of Example: They were
vandalism done with accused of WANTON
wanton disregard for cruelty toward animals.
the rules, but the
kids might just see it
as fun.
Form: adj Someone wayward is Mnemonic: sounds like
Tone: neg a little stubborn and waver...wave means a
independent - they're whim or caprice.
WAYWARD determined to find Example: She is a
their own way and are WAYWARD child.
not easily controlled.
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BLESSING Form: adj If something Mnemonic: embryo+nic.. an EMBRYO

Tone: neut is described is a cell which is UNDEVLOPED (of
CLEAR (BOTH as embryonic, human, hen etc ), so the
PHYSICALLY AND IN it's just underdeveloped stage is called
MEANING) starting to EMBRYONIC.
CORRECT / REPAIR develop or Example: The plan, as yet, only exists
come in EMBRYONIC form.
DIFFICULT together. An Root: EM means IN/INTO/ ON
EMBRYONIC "embryo" is a
DIFFICULTY /
person or
CONFUSING
animal that is
DISLOYALTY still growing
in the womb
EXPERIENCED or egg, and
EXPERT embryonic
means "like
FEELING GUILTY an embryo."
GAP Form: adj A fledgling is Mnemonic: FLEDGLING rhymes with
Tone: neut a fuzzy baby duckling.. a young duck thus referring
HAPPENING BEFORE
bird just to inexperience.
MAIN EVENT
learning to Example: The intern was still a
HARMFUL / CURSE fly, or FLEDGLING.
FLEDGLING
someone (like
IDEALISTIC a baby bird)
IMMORAL who's brand
new at doing
JUST BEGINNING / something.
DEVELOPING
Form: adj Inchoate Mnemonic: inch(o)+ate i've "just
LOSS OF STRENGTH Tone: neut means just begun" to eat an inch
/ (X) THRIVING beginning to Example: INCHOATE feelings of
form. You can affection for a man whom she had, up
RESTRAIN / SET
have an till now, thought of as only a friend.
FREE
inchoate idea,
RIGHT TO VOTE like the
earliest
STRANGE flickers of
SUMMARY images for
INCHOATE
your
UNCLEAR / HAZY masterpiece,
WITHOUT or it can be a
MISTAKES / feeling, like
PERFECT the inchoate
sense of
anger toward
your new
neighborâ€™s
talking parrot
Form: adj Incipient Mnemonic:
Tone: neut means inci(INITIAL)+pie(nt)(PAYment)...when
something is only the initial payment is given, your
in an early house will be partially constructed.
stage of Example: The project is still in its
existence. In INCIPIENT stages.
its incipient
form,
basketball
INCIPIENT
was played
with a soccer
ball and
peach baskets
for goals.
Bouncy
orange balls
and nets
came later.
Form: adj Nascent Mnemonic: "new soul sent".....to
Tone: neut describes the earth- NASCENT
birth or Example: The actress is now focusing
beginning of on her NASCENT singing career.
something, Root: NASC means NATURAL
for example a
civilization, a
trend, an
NASCENT idea, or an
action. It can
also imply a
future
promise, like
the nascent
government
of a new
country.
Form: adj Rudimentary Mnemonic: sedimentary -
Tone: neut is a pretty RUDIMENTARY.....sedimentary rock
long and are used in the base or foundation of a
fancy word, building...hence RUDIMENTARY means
for a word basic or fundamental
that just Example: They were given only
means RUDIMENTARY training in the job.
stripped down
or at a very
RUDIMENTARY
early stage.
The test
should be
easy: it
requires only
a rudimentary
understanding
of the
materials.
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BLESSING Form: noun Wearing a cast on a Mnemonic: A +

Tone: neg broken leg can cause trophy; Even after
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY atrophy, or withering, many years of
AND IN MEANING) in the leg, because it practice, he didn't win
CORRECT / REPAIR is immobilized and a trophy, so that was
ATROPHY gets no exercise. just wastage of his
DIFFICULT energy.
Example: TV viewing
may lead to ATROPHY
DISLOYALTY of children's
imaginations.
EXPERIENCED
Form: verb Attenuate is a verb Mnemonic:
EXPERT Tone: neg that means to make or ATTENUATE - at ten
FEELING GUILTY become weaker. The + you + ate; if youl
effects of aging may eat only at 10 PM
GAP ATTENUATE be attenuated by (once in a day), you
exercise. (Or by will ATTENUATE.
drinking from the Example: The drug
EVENT
fountain of youth). ATTENUATEs the
HARMFUL / CURSE effects of the virus
IDEALISTIC Form: noun Attrition is a gradual Mnemonic:
Tone: neg process of wearing ATTRITION -at +
IMMORAL down, weakening, or rition (sounds like
JUST BEGINNING / destroying something. RATION); Due to
DEVELOPING flood, ration is
available in very
ATTRITION
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) limited amount. there
THRIVING is a shortage of food
everywhere in our
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
city
RIGHT TO VOTE Example: It was a
war of ATTRITION
STRANGE
Form: verb To debilitate Mnemonic: de +
SUMMARY Tone: neg something is to make ablity -without ability,
UNCLEAR / HAZY it weaker. A bad flu the person who
may debilitate your doesnot have the
WITHOUT MISTAKES / powers of ablity to do
PERFECT DEBILITATE concentration, like the something is called
New Year's resolutions weak.
that temporarily Example: The troops
debilitate bakeries' were severely
business. DEBILITATEd by
hunger and disease
Form: verb If something Mnemonic: De
Tone: neg degenerates, it gets (not)+ Generate
worse, like a food fight (work) Stop working
that degenerates to an Example: Her health
all-out spaghetti- DEGENERATEd
DEGENERATE throwing war. quickly
Degenerate can also Root: DE means
describe an immoral AWAY/ DOWN
person - or the
behavior of such a
person.
Form: noun Degradation is the act Mnemonic:
Tone: neg of lowering something de(means
or someone to a less less)+grad...so when
respected state. A you get less GRADES
president resigning in your exam..you
from office is a see humiliation from
DEGRADATION
degradation. Itâ€™s all sides.
also a downcast state. Example: A lot of
Once the president environmental
has resigned, he might DEGRADATION is
feel degradation. caused because of
plastic usage.
Form: adj Effete is a Mnemonic:
Tone: neg disapproving term EFFETE...ef+fete..feet
meaning decadent and -so when you walk
self-indulgent, even for longer distances
useless. The on your feet, you feel
stereotype of the completely worn out -
EFFETE rugged Westerner is as if you are lacking
just as false as the in power
one of the effete East Example: The soft,
Coast liberal. EFFETE society that
marked the final
years of the Roman
empire
Form: verb to make someone feel Mnemonic:
weak and tired ENERV(w)asTE when
you waste your
energy you become
ENERVATE weak.
Example: A lifetime
of working in dreary
jobs had ENERVATEd
his very soul.
Form: verb make weak Mnemonic: Not aBLE
Tone: neg to pay the FEE since
his economic
conditions are very
ENFEEBLE
weak
Example: That bout
of pneumonia
ENFEEBLEd him.
Form: adj weak from exhaustion Mnemonic: f-LAG-
Tone: neg ging. lag
behind,weak-not able
to keep pace with
FLAGGING another or others
Example: We should
rejuvenate our
FLAGGING attitude
toward everything.
Form: verb to grow thin Example: she started
MACERATE Tone: neg macerating after the
accident.
Form: adj Something that is Mnemonic:
Tone: neg moribund is almost MORIBUND is kind of
dead, like the similar to morbid,
moribund plant you which refers to things
didn't water for related to death
MORIBUND months, or so without Example: a
change or growth that MORIBUND company
it seems dead, like a or patient.
moribund town that
seems trapped in the
1950s.
Form: verb To sap something is to Mnemonic: If you
Tone: neg drain or deplete slap(SAP) someone
something over time. you diminish his
If you sap a maple dignity..
tree, you drain the Example: the
SAP liquid inside it to make arduous job has
maple syrup. But if SAPped him of all the
you sap a person of energy.
strength, you've
rendered him
defenseless.
Form: verb lose strength Mnemonic: WILT
Tone: neg and tilt sound the
same and they both
WILT mean, to droop.
Example: He was
WILTing from all the
pressure at work
Form: verb Wither means to Mnemonic: WITHER
Tone: neg shrivel up or shrink. If -with + her when a
you forget to water friend wants to spend
your plants for six time with her,
WITHER weeks, they'll wither â generally his money
€” they'll dry up and is going to decay
you probably won't be Example: All our
able to bring them hopes just WITHER
back to life away with time
Form: verb Use the verb burgeon Mnemonic:
Tone: pos to describe something Burge+on sounds like
that is growing, Bulge which means
expanding, and growing big
flourishing. If you Example: This
have a green thumb, country has a
in the spring your burgeoning
X BURGEON
flower gardens will population.
burgeon in a
cacophony of color. If
you don't have a
green thumb, your
collection of plastic
plants will burgeon.
Form: verb Starfish are famous for Mnemonic: RE
Tone: pos their ability to (again) + Generate.
regenerate, or regrow, Generations keep
a lost arm. Anything growing.
X REGENERATE that revives in this Example: The money
magical way can be will be used to
said to regenerate. regenerate the
commercial heart of
the town.
Form: verb When you make Mnemonic:
Tone: pos something young reJUVENATE-Juvenile
again or give it more means a young
life and energy, you person..so making
rejuvenate it. For Younger
X REJUVENATE example, you can Example: His new
often rejuvenate a job seemed to
not-quite-dead plant, rejuvenate him.
bringing it back to Root: RE means
health with some AGAIN
water and some TLC.
Form: verb To resuscitate is to Mnemonic:
Tone: pos revive a person who RECESS+ATE-in
has lost consciousness RECESS (interval) I
ATE something and
X due to that I got
RESUSCITATION proper consciousness.
Example: He had an
heart attack and all
attempts to
resuscitate him failed.
Form: verb To revive something is Mnemonic: re-vibe
Tone: pos to provide it with new (return to being
energy or life, like vibrant again)
when you revive a Example: The
X REVIVE drooping plant by flowers soon revived
watering it, or when in water.
you revive a boring
party by breaking out
the karaoke machine.
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BLESSING Form: verb A fetter is a shackle or Mnemonic: FETTER

Tone: neg chain that is attached to sounds like(shutter)
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY someoneâ€™s ankles. To when a shutter is
AND IN MEANING) fetter someone is to closed..then nothing
CORRECT / REPAIR restrict their movement, can go out of it.
FETTER
either literally or Example: He felt
DIFFICULT metaphorically. You might FETTERed by small
feel fettered by your and petty rules and
parents' rules, even regulations
DISLOYALTY without the chains.
EXPERIENCED Form: noun If a police officer has to Mnemonic:
Tone: neg manacle your hands MANACLE sounds like
EXPERT behind your back, you're ankle or shackle , so
FEELING GUILTY in big trouble. That's just my ankle got trapped
a fancy way of saying that that restrained me
GAP MANACLE you've been handcuffed. from doing
something.
Example: MANACLEs
EVENT
prevented the bear
HARMFUL / CURSE from roaming beyond
a very small area
IDEALISTIC
Form: verb Many cars use rack-and- Mnemonic: PINION
IMMORAL Tone: neg pinion steering, in which can be split into
JUST BEGINNING / the steering wheel turns a PIN+ON; when we
DEVELOPING small-toothed pinion gear, PIN something, it will
which engages the larger hold it and thereby
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) PINION rack that turns the car's prevent it from flying
THRIVING wheels. away .. (bind the
arms of something)
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
Example: His arms
RIGHT TO VOTE were PINIONed to his
sides.
STRANGE
Form: verb You secure the sails Example: She
SUMMARY Tone: neut before you take out the SECUREd the rope
SECURE
UNCLEAR / HAZY sailboat, which means you firmly to the back of
tie them down. the car.
WITHOUT MISTAKES /
Form: noun Handcuffs are shackles. So Mnemonic: SHACKLE
PERFECT
Tone: neg are those leg irons some - buckle the ankles
prisoners wear when they from shaking.
appear in court. In other Example: A country
SHACKLE
words, a shackle is a struggling to free
restraint, either physical itself from the shakles
or psychological, that of colonialism
restricts movement.
Form: verb,noun Both a verb and a noun, Mnemonic: TETHER
Tone: neg tether keeps things tied can be split as TiE +
together, or is the tie HER, so remember it
itself. Remember, when as TIE her WITH A
TETHER
you tether that chair to ROPE.
those balloons, use a Example: he
strong tether. TETHERed his horse
to a tree
Form: verb If you emancipate Mnemonic: A man in
Tone: pos someone, you set them cip= ship: a man is
free from something. At set free to travel in
the end of the Civil War, ship to his own
slaves were emancipated country
X and became free men and Example: Slaves
EMANCIPATE women. were not
emancipated (freed)
until 1863 in the
United States.
Root: EM means
INTO
Form: verb If you need to be Mnemonic:
Tone: pos untangled, set free or concentrate on
otherwise released from ex+tricâ€¦Mr.EX(X)
something or someone, PLAYED A TRIC(k) in
you need to be extricated. order to FREE himself
X from the prison.
EXTRICATE Example: He had
managed to extricate
himself from most of
his official duties
Root: EX means OUT
OF
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BLESSING Form: verb The verb enfranchise is Mnemonic: if you

Tone: neut used when a group of are franchisee of a
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY people are given voting company you have
AND IN MEANING) rights or freedoms they right to VOTE for its
CORRECT / REPAIR didn't have before. Many policies. freedom to
ENFRANCHISE
people under the age of vote being a franchise
DIFFICULT 18 would like lawmakers Example: the
to enfranchise their peer ENFRANCHISEment
group so they can vote. of foreign residents in
DISLOYALTY local elections.
EXPERIENCED Form: noun Suffrage is the right to Mnemonic:
Tone: pos vote in public elections. SUFFRAGE after you
EXPERT Universal suffrage means reach super age (18)
FEELING GUILTY everyone gets to vote, you get voting right
as opposed to only men, Example: Even as
SUFFRAGE
GAP or property holders. the world entered the
Suffrage has nothing to 21st century, some
do with "suffering," nations still did not
EVENT
unless the wrong person permit women's
HARMFUL / CURSE is elected. SUFFRAGE.
IDEALISTIC
IMMORAL
JUST BEGINNING /
DEVELOPING
THRIVING
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
RIGHT TO VOTE
STRANGE
SUMMARY
UNCLEAR / HAZY
WITHOUT MISTAKES /
PERFECT
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BLESSING Form: adj You're most likely to Mnemonic: ec(x)-

Tone: neg/neut encounter the adjective centric(normal):
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY eccentric in a going away from the
AND IN MEANING) description of an center that is
CORRECT / REPAIR unusual or quirky departing from the
ECCENTRIC
person - like a scatter- norms
DIFFICULT brained aunt who Example: Most
leaves her life savings people considered
to her cat. him a harmless
DISLOYALTY ECCENTRIC
EXPERIENCED Form: noun If you repeat foible out Mnemonic: FOIBLE
Tone: neg/neut loud enough times, it sounds like Fail-able..
EXPERT sounds so funny that so you have a
FEELING GUILTY you can laugh at it and weakness or slight
maybe remember to fault at something
FOIBLE
GAP laugh at the odd and Example: We have
distinctive weaknesses to tolerate each
of others - the foible or others little FOIBLEs
EVENT
two or a hundred that
HARMFUL / CURSE we all have.
IDEALISTIC Form: noun If a person has an Mnemonic: Idiot in
Tone: neg/neut idiosyncrasy, he or she sync with the crazy
IMMORAL has a little quirk, or a people are
JUST BEGINNING / funny behavior, that idiosyncratic.
DEVELOPING makes him or her Example: Wearing a
IDIOSYNCRASY
different. If you only raincoat, even on a
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) say goodbye in French, hot day, is one of her
THRIVING never in English, that idiosyncrasies
would be an
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
idiosyncrasy.
RIGHT TO VOTE Form: noun An oddity is anything Mnemonic: odd
STRANGE Tone: neg/neut strange or unusual. things are usually
Wearing ear muffs strange
SUMMARY ODDITY during a heat wave Example: the book
UNCLEAR / HAZY would be considered an deals with some of
oddity, because most the oddities of
WITHOUT MISTAKES / people wouldn't do that. grammar and spelling
PERFECT
Form: noun a strange attitude or Mnemonic: Quirk
Tone: neg/neut habit sounds like CRACK
(unusual)
QUIRKINESS Example: everyone
have their own little
quirks and
mannerisms
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BLESSING Form: noun The essential point or Mnemonic: FOCUS

Tone: neut problem is the crux. People ON LETTERS CRU +
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY are always trying to get to x....cru very near to
AND IN MEANING) the crux of a matter or the CRUcial...so
CORRECT / REPAIR crux of a problem, while something which is
CRUX
others try to distract them. crucial is always the
DIFFICULT essential thing.
Example: Now we
should come to the
DISLOYALTY CRUX of the matter.
EXPERIENCED Form: noun When you need a quick Mnemonic: GIST -
Tone: neut summary of the essentials, sounds very similar
EXPERT rather than the whole story to list.....So your
FEELING GUILTY or a thorough explanation, lecturer is asking you
you're looking for the gist. to LIST OUT THE
GAP MAIN POINTS of the
GIST
paragraph.
Example: I missed
EVENT
the beginning of the
HARMFUL / CURSE lecture - can you give
me the GIST of what
IDEALISTIC he said?
IMMORAL Form: noun A precis is a summary of Mnemonic: pre (
JUST BEGINNING / Tone: neut something's main points. If meaning before ) +
DEVELOPING you've ever jotted down cis ( as in thesis ) ....
notes about your main ideas it is the summary
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) before writing a persuasive that comes before a
PRÃ
THRIVING essay, you've used a precis. thesis
‰CIS
Example: He was
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
asked to make a
RIGHT TO VOTE precis of the report
and submit it before
STRANGE the next meeting.
SUMMARY Form: noun Use purport when you want Mnemonic:
UNCLEAR / HAZY Tone: neg to convince people about PURPORT:PURPOSE -
something that might not be to convince someone
WITHOUT MISTAKES / true, like when you purport wrongly
PERFECT that the dog ate your Example: The book
PURPORT
homework. does not PURPORT to
be a complete history
of the period
Root: PUR means TO
CLEANSE
Form: noun Synopsis is a noun meaning Mnemonic: When
Tone: neut summary. Instead of reciting you SHRINK a lengthy
every line of the piece of writing, its
Shakespeare play you were called a SYNOPSIS.
SYNOPSIS assigned to read over the Example: The
weekend, it might be more program gives a brief
helpful for your classmates if SYNOPSIS of the plot.
you give them a synopsis of
what happened.
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BLESSING Form: adj In a broader sense, the Mnemonic:

Tone: neut Amorphous describes AMORPHOUS -
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY anything that lacks a a[morf]us = on
AND IN MEANING) distinct shape or reversing, morf become
CORRECT / REPAIR organizing theme, be it - a+form+us i.e
a work of art, a political something without
DIFFICULT movement, or even form.. or something
AMORPHOUS
someone's direction in lacking shape
life. Example: an
DISLOYALTY AMORPHOUS mass of
cells with no identity at
EXPERIENCED all
EXPERT Root: MORPH means
FORM
FEELING GUILTY
Form: noun make less visible or Mnemonic: Her father's
GAP Tone: neg unclear illness BECLOUDed her
wedding day.
HAPPENING BEFORE MAIN BECLOUD
Example: Her father's
EVENT
illness BECLOUDed her
HARMFUL / CURSE wedding day.
IDEALISTIC Form: verb if something clouds Mnemonic: CLOUD
Tone: neg your judgment, itself calls for a unclear
IMMORAL memory, etc., it makes vision literally and leads
JUST BEGINNING / it difficult for you to to lack of understanding,
DEVELOPING CLOUD understand or because of lack of
remember something clarity.
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) clearly Example: Doubts were
THRIVING beginning to CLOUD my
mind.
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
Form: adj Is it hard to tell what Mnemonic: DISTINCT
RIGHT TO VOTE Tone: neg someone is saying? Can means CLEAR and IN
STRANGE you not see something means NOT. Hence
clearly? Anything hard lacking in CLARITY will
SUMMARY INDISTINCT to make out is mean INDISTINCT
UNCLEAR / HAZY indistinct. Example: His memory
of the incident was
WITHOUT MISTAKES / someone INDISTINCT
PERFECT Root: IN means NOT
Form: adj Something that's murky Mnemonic: MURKY -
Tone: neg is dim, gloomy or hard mu(munsoon)+r(rainy)+
to see through clearly. ky (sky) - which is dark
Think of the dark fog and gloomy
MURKY
around a haunted Example: This is a
house or the cloudy, MURKY night.
muddy water in a
swamp.
Form: adj Use the adjective Mnemonic: Nebula the
Tone: neg/neut nebulous for situations milky way in galaxy
that are "hazy, which is cloudy and
NEBULOUS
indistinct" and also unclear
"cloudy" or "fuzzy." Example: This is a
NEBULOUS concept.
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BLESSING Form: adj Flawless is an Mnemonic: flaw is a

Tone: pos adjective that means mistakeâ€”FLAWLESS
CLEAR (BOTH PHYSICALLY "without any means without
AND IN MEANING) imperfections," like mistake
CORRECT / REPAIR your flawless vocal Example: Her
FLAWLESS
performance - not English is almost
DIFFICULT one mistake. That's FLAWLESS
why the choir teacher
gave you an A+.
DISLOYALTY
EXPERIENCED Form: adj Immaculate means Mnemonic:
Tone: pos spotless, pure, and IMMACULATE - Im +
EXPERT clean as fresh snow Maculate - without
FEELING GUILTY on a far-off macule (spots)
mountain. Only Macule is a spot or
GAP obsessive cleaners area of discoloration
IMMACULATE
can keep immaculate of skin.... so
homes, but itâ€™s a IMMACULATE is
EVENT
goal we can strive without macules....
HARMFUL / CURSE for, like that far-off spotless, clean
mountain. Example: she always
IDEALISTIC looks IMMACULATE.
IMMORAL Form: adj The adjective Mnemonic: Picking
JUST BEGINNING / Tone: pos impeccable describes on somebody means
DEVELOPING something or to finding faults.
someone without any Hence Im + Pick-able
LOSS OF STRENGTH / (X) flaws. A stand-up means no fault can
IMPECCABLE
THRIVING comedian needs be found
impeccable timing for Example: Her
RESTRAIN / SET FREE
his jokes to work. written English is
RIGHT TO VOTE IMPECCABLE
Root: IM means NOT
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Form: adj "Fallible" means Mnemonic: Folly
SUMMARY Tone: pos capable of making means mistake and
UNCLEAR / HAZY mistakes - or, In means 'not'. So
easier to remember without mistake is
WITHOUT MISTAKES / INFALLIBLE - capable of failing. being INFALLIBLE.
PERFECT Infallible means Example: Doctors
exactly the opposite are not INFALLIBLE
- incapable of failing. Root: IN means NOT
Form: noun Integrity is a Mnemonic:

Tone: pos personal quality of INTEGRITY is like
fairness that we all ENTIRELY TRUE (fair)
INTEGRITY aspire to - unless Example: A man of
you're a dishonest, great INTEGRITY
immoral scoundrel,
of course.
Form: adj Use the adjective Mnemonic: cannot
Tone: pos irreproachable to be REPROACHED
describe something (criticized).
or someone Example: His
blameless or not conduct as a police
deserving of officer was
criticism. It can be IRREPROACHABLE.
IRREPROACHABLE
annoying, but your
parents strive to give
you irreproachable
advice when they tell
you, "Study hard in
school," and not
"Party on!"
Form: noun Though probity Mnemonic: PROBITY
Tone: pos sounds like what you sounds and means
might do with a like INTEGRITY
sharp stick, it Example: The
actually means being defense attorney
PROBITY
morally and ethically questioned the
above reproach, PROBITY of the
having integrity witness
Root: PROB means
PROVE
Form: noun Rectitude refers to Mnemonic:
Tone: pos behavior that is RECTITUDE - rectified
correct, upright and + attitude. If a
honorable. You have attitude is rectified, it
moral rectitude if you has to be correct.
RECTITUDE
refuse to be involved Example: She is a
with a plan that model of RECTITUDE
some kids in your Root: RECT means
class have to cheat RULE
on a test.
Form: adj Unimpeachable Mnemonic: impeach
Tone: pos describes someone means to doubt or
or something that is question,
totally, completely, UNIMPEACHABLE
without any doubt, means that cannot be
UNIMPEACHABLE innocent and good, doubted
like an Example: we got
unimpeachable role evidence from an
model who avoids UNIMPEACHABLE
bad influences and source
sketchy situations. Root: UN means NOT
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj Something that is decorous Mnemonic: dÃ©cor,

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: pos is dignified, proper, and in DECORATE. if you
good taste, like your decorate your ROOM
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY decorous great-aunt who it will look proper in
PROUD Decorous always wears a dress - appearance compared
CHAOS / CONFUSION even when she's only to hall.
headed to the grocery Example: They
CHEAT / DECEIVE store. skipped her immoral
doings Decorously
COUP
Form: adj A demure woman or girl Example: she is a
CRIMINALS / LAW Tone: pos can be described as polite Demure young lady.
BREAKERS and a little shy. A demure
Demure
DOUBTFUL outfit is a modest oneâ€“â
€“think high neckline and
GENEROUS SUPPORTER low hem.
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT Form: adj Prim means polite, Mnemonic: In order
Tone: pos straight-laced, even twee. to be very precise
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE
Many characters in Jane and formal with my
PRETENSE OF MORALITY Austen novels are prim and speech, I had to trim
Prim proper. all my stories. (Prim -
QUIET / FEW WORDS Trim)
REPEAT Example: She is
much too Prim and
SELF-CONTROL proper!
SHINING Form: noun Propriety is following what Mnemonic: sounds
Tone: pos is socially acceptable in like proper! PROPER
SHOW - OFF (-)
speech and behavior. If + APPROPRIATE =
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY you are someone who Propriety
cares about always doing Example: nobody
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS Propriety
the right and proper thing, questioned the
OF WORDS your friends might accuse Propriety of her being
WITHOUT DECEPTION you of being obsessed with there alone
propriety and beg you to
loosen up.
Form: adj You don't want to seem Mnemonic: See+
Tone: pos anything less than seemly, homely: see Sita is so
especially in the presence homely and hence
of the Queen. Only seemly proper or appropriate
behavior is allowed when to be my daughter in
Seemly
she's around. law!
Example: it was not
considered Seemly to
talk in such a way in
front of the children
Form: adj If something's execrable Mnemonic:
Tone: neg it's really and truly, Execrable = exe + cr
unbelievably, absolutely + able; this *.exe file
the worst. is a 'crappy' virus and
X Execrable
is 'able' to badly
harm your computer.
Example: execrable
piece of poem
Form: adj Something flagrant is bad â Mnemonic: flag +
Tone: neg €” so bad you can't ignore rent --renting the
it. A flagrant foul in sports national flag!(No
might send you to the offense meant) It is
X Flagrant
bench, and a flagrant shocking &
violation of the law might scandalous.
send you to the slammer. Example: a flagrant
use of human rights
Form: noun Whenever you see the Mnemonic: What do
Tone: neg prefix "mal-," you know it's we mean by it if we
not good. Malfeasance is say MAL FEES??
bad behavior, especially Certainly its a bribe.
from officials or people who So Malfeasance
should know better. means officials
X
indulged in taking
Malfeasance
bribes, a misconduct.
Example: The officer
was arrested for
malfeasance activities
Root: Mal means
BAD
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj The word Mnemonic: Unassuming

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: pos unassuming (modest) is the opposite of
means modest, flaunting (making a show of).
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY lacking in Example: Sachin is very
PROUD arrogance, unassuming and hence is the
CHAOS / CONFUSION pleasant, or king of the cricket world.
polite. You'll find
CHEAT / DECEIVE that some of the
(X) most
COUP
Unassuming unassuming
CRIMINALS / LAW people are
BREAKERS actually the
most interesting
DOUBTFUL and powerful of
GENEROUS SUPPORTER all. They're just
decent enough
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT not to display it
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE all the time.
Form: adj Arrogant is an Example: His Arrogant
PRETENSE OF MORALITY
Tone: neg adjective for behavior is ovserved by his
QUIET / FEW WORDS describing seniors with disgust.
people who are
REPEAT too proud and
SELF-CONTROL look down on
Arrogant others, like
SHINING supermodels
SHOW - OFF (-) who think their
good looks give
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY them a right to
do whatever
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS
they want.
OF WORDS
Form: adj This adjective is Mnemonic:
WITHOUT DECEPTION Tone: pos very bold - if Audacious..auda(AUDIBLE)....IF
you are YOU WANT to be audible to
audacious, you millions of people you have to
Audacious are daring and be very daring and bold, to go
unconventional! to the stage and deliver your
message.
Example: an Audacious
decision
Form: noun To be bombastic Mnemonic: if bomblast takes
Tone: neg is to be full of place anywhere then all
hot air - like a politicians starts to give a
Bombastic politician who Bombastic (blah blah) speech
makes grand Example: His speech was full
promises and of bombast.
doesn't deliver.
Form: noun If you know Mnemonic: Braggart sounds
Tone: neg someone who is like dragg art.. the art of
a real show off dragging oneself too
and is always much(boasting)
bragging about Example: Her Braggart
Braggart
how great they behavior annoys everyone
are, then you
might call this
boaster a
braggart.
Form: noun impudent Example: She marched in
Brass Tone: neg aggressiveness here, bold as Brass, and
demanded a raise.
Form: noun a very Mnemonic: Brat-similar to a
Brat Tone: neg troublesome rat which is very troublesome.
child Example: a Bratty kid he is.
Form: noun If you act with Mnemonic: Brava+Do = Act
Tone: neg bravado, you are like brave but not brave.
making a bold Pretended bravery
showy Example: "Don't threaten me,"
statement. she whispered with false
Bravado Picture a cowboy Bravado
bursting through
saloon doors in
an old western,
and you can
picture bravado.
Form: adj With brazen Mnemonic: a Brazen person
Tone: neg disregard for the will not care about anything or
sign that said anyone.
"no cellphones Example: She had become
please" the Brazen about the whole affair
woman took a
Brazen long call in the
doctor's office
waiting room.
Brazen refers to
something
shocking, done
shamelessly.
Form: adj If you're being Example: a Cheeky grin
Tone: neg cheeky you're
being brash or
irreverent. If
you're a cheeky
child, you're
Cheeky
probably just
being impudent
and disrespectful
- and you're
probably going
to get in trouble.
Form: adj A conceited Example: He is a very
Tone: neg person has an Conceited person
inflated self-
image and
perceives
himself as
incredibly
entertaining and
wonderful. Talk
Conceited incessantly
about your
accomplishments
on the clarinet
or amazing
ability to wiggle
your ears, and
people are going
to think youâ
€™re conceite
Form: noun If you rudely Mnemonic: for every
Tone: neg behave as if you discussion he comes to the
have a right to FRONT and argues...in a rude
something that manner.
Effrontery
you have no Example: He had the
right to, you're Effrontery to accuse me of lying
committing
effrontery.
Form: noun limited to or Mnemonic: ego
Tone: neg caring only Example: His egotism
Egotistical about yourself prevented him from really
and your own loving anyone but himself.
needs
Form: noun Gall describes Mnemonic: remember Galls in
Tone: neg something "Asterix & Obelix" they used to
irritating, like slap the Romans, as the
someone very Romans always annoyed them
rude. If you Example: Then they had the
Gall barge into a Gall to complain
bakery and cut
in front of a
sweet old lady,
then you have
gall.
Form: adj Grandiloquent is Mnemonic:
Tone: neg a fancy term for, GRAND+ELOQUENT only an
well, being fancy ELOQUENT speaker can deliver
or pretentious. a POMPOUS/BOMBASTIC
In fact, you speech in front a HUGE/GRAND
Grandiloquent
might say crowd
grandiloquent is Example: His Grandiloquent
itself a pretty speech impressed no one
grandiloquent
word.
Form: adj Someone who is Mnemonic: don't care attitude
Tone: neg haughty is Example: he replied with
arrogant and full Haughty disdain
of pride. When
you're haughty,
Haughty
you have a big
attitude and act
like you're better
than other
people.
Form: noun Hauteur is an Example: Billâ€™s hautiness
Tone: neg obnoxious infuriated Martha so much that
display of she stormed out of the room. -
overbearing
pride and
superiority over
others. Rather
Hauteur
than showing
humility and
respect, a bad
king might act
with hauteur
toward his
subjects.
Form: noun Hubris is an Mnemonic: HUB+RIS(RAISE)-
Tone: neg excess of -A person RAISEd in a HUB(city
confidence: a centre),will be arrogant and
boxer who conceited towards villagers and
shouts "I'm the others.
greatest!" even Example: his faliure was
Hubris though he's brought only by Hubris
about to get
pummeled by a
much stronger
opponent is
displaying a lot
of hubris.
Form: adj If someone's Mnemonic: focus on its last
Tone: neg rude without words "tinent" sounds like
being openly tenant-> so when a imperial
nasty, like a kid owner talks to his tenant he
in the back row doesn't give any respect.
Impertinent
of class quietly Example: Would it be
heckling his Impertinent to ask why you are
teacher, you can leaving?
call him Root: IM means NOT
impertinent.
Form: adj An impudent Mnemonic: sounds like
Tone: neg person is bold, impunity, which means immune
sassy, and from punishment, which is
shameless. If characteristic of those who are
you want to get shamelessly bold, insolent,
into a fancy impertinent = Impudent.
nightclub and Example: an Impudent young
you tell the man!
Impudent
bouncer, â€œLet
me in, Iâ€™m
much more
beautiful than all
these ugly losers
in line,â€ thatâ
€™s impudent
behavior.
Form: adj Someone who's Mnemonic: sounds like insult-
Tone: neg insolent is either ent -A person who insults
really doing her evryone is UNRESTRAINED,
own thing, even IMPRUDENT AND SHAMELESS
Insolent if it goes against Example: Her insolence cost
what everyone her her job.
else is doing, or
sheâ€™s mildly
disrespectful.
Form: noun the courage to Example: It took a lot of
Nerve Tone: pos carry on Nerve to take the company to
the court.
Form: adj A pompous Mnemonic: pomp sounds like
Tone: neg person is pump... so falsely pump oneself
arrogant or up... puffed with vanity
conceited. He'll Example: his speech sounded
walk into a party very Pompous and self
Pompous with an inflated congratulatory
ego, ready to
tell anyone who
will listen that
"I'm kind of a
big deal."
Form: adj When someone Mnemonic: Focus on "Presum"
Tone: neg takes liberties, (Presume)--> To overstep your
doing things too boundaries by boldly
boldly, you can PRESUMing something.
Presumptuous
describe them Example: Would it be
with the Presumptuous of me to ask to
adjective borrow your car?
presumptuous.
Form: adj Use the Mnemonic: Pretentious is
Tone: neg adjective someone who is Pretending
pretentious as a Example: That was just an
way to criticize ordinary house- not a
people who try Pretentious one
Pretentious to act like they
are more
important or
knowledgeable
than they really
are.
Form: adj You can use Example: a Saucy smile
Tone: neg saucy to
describe
someone who
likes to cause
trouble, but
usually in a
Saucy
playful and
funny way.
Saucy is also a
good word for a
person who
really likes to
flirt.
Form: adj Supercilious Mnemonic: split it like
Tone: neg people think SUPER+CILI(sounds like
very highly of SILLY)+o+US......now think of
themselves, our SUPER SENIORs in our
more highly college . ..who were very
than of others. ARROGANT IN NATURE..and
Supercilious
Think of them as were very keen to exhibit their
a "super silly superiority over us hence
ass," and you'll treated us in a very silly way..
remember the Example: The jewelry store
basic sense of clerk was very Supercilious
supercilious.
Form: verb Picture the Mnemonic: It's like sword +
Tone: neg confident, dagger. If one has both of
maybe even them, he will be quite
arrogant way a confident.
pirate, a Example: he Swaggered into
Swagger cowboy, or even the room looking very pleased
a rapper might with himself
stroll around.
That style of
walking is called
a swagger.
Form: noun Use the noun Mnemonic: te+merit+yâ€”if
Tone: neg temerity to you have merit(academic
mean the quality excellence) then you will be
of being unafraid excessive confident and
of danger or fearless
punishment. If Example: he had the Temerity
you have the to call me a liar
Temerity temerity to jump
off the bridge
even after
hearing about
the risk of
instant death,
you truly are a
nutcase
Form: adj If you admire Mnemonic: all your glorious
Tone: neg yourself in the achievements are in vain if you
mirror all the boast about them.
time and Example: In saying this we
constantly brag may well be proud but not
about all the Vainglorious.
Vainglorious
beauty contests
you have won,
you might
rightfully get
accused of being
vainglorious.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: noun Bedlam is a scene of Mnemonic: Imagine

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: Neg madness, chaos or great a room full of beds
confusion. If you allow with one leg missing -
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY football fans onto the field the bed lame is
PROUD Bedlam after the big game, it will be general confusion
CHAOS / CONFUSION pure bedlam. Example: It was
Bedlam at our house
CHEAT / DECEIVE on the morning of the
wedding.
COUP
Form: adj The adjective tumultuous Mnemonic: billowing
CRIMINALS / LAW Tone: Neg means "disruptive," waves and
BREAKERS "troubled," "disorderly," or turbulences
Tumultous
DOUBTFUL "turbulent." Example: It was a
Tumultous time in her
GENEROUS SUPPORTER life
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT Form: noun Use the noun turbulence to Mnemonic: Imagine
Tone: Neg describe instability or someone who has
disturbance. If youâ€™re on ants crawling all over
PRETENSE OF MORALITY an airplane during a storm, their turban; the
turbulence is that horrible turban ants are in the
QUIET / FEW WORDS Turbulence
thing that is causing the state of being
REPEAT plane (and your stomach) to uncontrolled
bounce around. Example: a period of
SELF-CONTROL Turbulence in the
SHINING country's history
Form: noun Upheaval means a violent or Mnemonic: Making
SHOW - OFF (-)
Tone: Neg sudden change. You might an evil version of the
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY talk about an upheaval in movie up - making
government following an up evil - would be a
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS Upheaval election where many drastic change in the
OF WORDS incumbents are replaced. movie
WITHOUT DECEPTION Example: I cannot
face the Upheaval of
moving house again
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj To be artful is to do Mnemonic: spell it

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neg something skillfully, "art of fool(ing)" i.e in
especially in a cunning way. a cunning way
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY Artful A con man must be artful. Example: He was
PROUD Artful and cunning,
CHAOS / CONFUSION and didn't really trust
him.
CHEAT / DECEIVE
Form: noun If a politician pretends to be Mnemonic: sounds
COUP Tone: neg angry as a way of rousing the like artificial fish
anger of the voters and which is nothing but a
CRIMINALS / LAW Artifice getting more votes, he's guilty trick.
BREAKERS of artifice - a subtle and crafty Example: Pretending
DOUBTFUL trick. to faint was merely
an Artifice.
GENEROUS SUPPORTER
Form: verb Ever paid a restaurant bill Mnemonic: milk~
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT Tone: neg only to discover they charged similary milk
you for stuff you never had? suppliers add water
What they did was bilk you â to cheat us
Bilk
PRETENSE OF MORALITY €” cheat you out of money Example: a con man
that was justly yours. Shady who Bilked investors
QUIET / FEW WORDS companies are forever bilking out of millions of
REPEAT their investors. dollars
SELF-CONTROL Form: noun Have you ever gotten the Mnemonic: She can
Tone: neg sense that politicians or be tricky!
SHINING corporate leaders will say Example: It can take
anything to turn public several hours in large
SHOW - OFF (-)
opinion their way? This tricky counties for the
Chicanery
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY kind of deceit and ballots to reach the
manipulation is called counting station,
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS chicanery. giving ample
OF WORDS opportunity for
WITHOUT DECEPTION Chicanery.
Form: adj If people call you crafty, they Mnemonic:
Tone: neg probably mean you are sly Example: He's a
and a little deceptive. Then Crafty old devil
again, they could be saying
Crafty
that you are really good at
knitting, beading or turning
old t-shirts into funky
pillowcases.
Form: verb A dupe is a furry, ceremonial Example: They soon
Tone: neg hat occasionally worn during realized they had
ancient pagan rituals... or been Duped.
not. Dupe actually means â
Dupe
€œtrick or deceive.â€ Weâ
€™re sorry we tried to dupe
you into believing the wrong
definition.
Form: verb When you finagle, you get Mnemonic: it is very
Tone: neg out of something using difficult to have an
devious methods, like when ANGLE in FINLAND,BY
you pretend you're sick to ANY TRICKS.
Finagle
avoid taking a pop quiz. Example: He
Finagled some tickets
for tonight's big
game.
Form: verb You can also use fleece in an Mnemonic: colleges
Tone: neg informal way to mean are PLUNDERING in
cheating someone. the form of
Fleece(FEES) and
Fleece
capitation
Example: Some local
stores have been
fleecing tourists
Form: noun Use the noun guile for Mnemonic: Chris
Tone: neg cunning, craftiness, and artful Gayle is a Guile
duplicity. Acting like you have cricketer.
Guile a job on Wall Street when Example: George
you're actually unemployed was a man
would take a lot of guile. completely lacking in
Guile
Form: verb Your little brother might be a Example: The
Tone: neg gull if you can trick him into immigrant was duped
Gulled doing your chores along with because he trusted
his own. everyone", "You can't
fool me!"
Form: verb To hoodwink someone means Mnemonic: To place
Tone: neg to trick or mislead them. a hood over
Beware of fake ATMs that try someone's head and
to hoodwink you into giving make them wink
over your bank card and your (close) their eyes is
Hoodwink code, only to keep them both to Hoodwink or trick
and steal all your money. them
Example: She was
Hoodwinked into
buying a worthless
necklace
Form: verb To swindle is to cheat or Mnemonic: Movie
Tone: neg steal. You can swindle the Great Swindle.
money, goods, ideas, and Example: They
Swindle anything else that can be Swindled him out of
stolen, but be careful, hundreds of dollars
because someone can also
swindle you.
Form: adj Did you fall for that wily door Mnemonic:
Tone: neg to door salesman's pitch? He Wily=WILling to trick
must be very slick and tricky people what anyone
Wily to have convinced you to buy wants to have
a set of new tires, Example: The boss
considering you don't have a is a Wily old fox.
car.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: noun The hurricane battered the Mnemonic: The -
MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neg coast, causing the city to clysm part of
flood, and tens of Cataclysm comes
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY thousands of people were from the Greek word
PROUD stranded without food or meaning â€œto
CHAOS / CONFUSION water. When an event wash,â€ so
Cataclysm
causes great suffering, we Cataclysm's original
CHEAT / DECEIVE call it a cataclysm. meaning was â
€œflood, deluge".
COUP
Example: to survive
CRIMINALS / LAW the Cataclysm of the
BREAKERS Black Death
DOUBTFUL Form: noun A catastrophe is a disaster. Mnemonic: Cats as
Tone: neg If a wedding reception is astronauts will create
GENEROUS SUPPORTER disrupted by a fistfight Catastrophe in the
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT between the bride and her space.
Catastrophe new mother-in-law, you Example: Early
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE could call the occasion a warnings of rising
catastrophe. water levels
prevented another
QUIET / FEW WORDS major Catastrophe
REPEAT Form: noun A coup is a pretty major Mnemonic: Coup
Tone: neut achievement, whether it sounds like Cop(
SELF-CONTROL involves taking over a Police), they do
SHINING government by force, or sudden attack
landing a major business (encounter), which is
Coup (X)
SHOW - OFF (-) contract. often a successful
action too!
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY
Example: he seized
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS power in a military
OF WORDS coup in 2008
WITHOUT DECEPTION Form: noun Use debacle to refer to a Root: DE refers to
Tone: neg violent disaster or a great DOWN or AWAY
failure. If the flower
gardens come toppling
Debacle down during prom,
strangling some students
and tripping others, you
might call the evening a
debacle.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Tone: neg A desperado is an outlaw Mnemonic: When

MISBEHAVE (x) that you'd see in an old somebody is
Western or in the Wild West. Desperate, he can go
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY Think hip holsters, spinning to the extent of
PROUD guns, and a shoot-out, all indulging in violent
Desperado
CHAOS / CONFUSION with a bandanna pulled up act.
hiding half of the face of the Example: Payne is
CHEAT / DECEIVE desperado. described as a
worthless loafer and
COUP
Desperado.
CRIMINALS / LAW Form: noun Technically, a felon is Mnemonic: A person
BREAKERS Tone: neg anyone who's been who FEL (fell) ON a
DOUBTFUL convicted of a serious crime, road of decency and
but you can use felon to became a criminal
GENEROUS SUPPORTER Felon
describe anyone you think (Felon).
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT has done something terrible. Example: A
convicted Felon loses
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE the right to vote
PRETENSE OF MORALITY Form: noun A hooligan is a rowdy person Example: Hooligans
Tone: neg who causes trouble for vandalizing the
QUIET / FEW WORDS Hooligan
others. Hooligans are similar neighbourhood
REPEAT to bullies and thugs.
SELF-CONTROL Form: noun If it's threatening you or Mnemonic: If a man

Tone: neg otherwise posing some sort is an ace at what he
SHINING of danger, then it's a does..he is Menace to
menace. Angry rabid dogs, you.
SHOW - OFF (-) Menace
smog clouds, and annoying Example: a new
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY little brothers are all initiative aimed at
probable menaces. beating the Menace of
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS illegal drugs
OF WORDS
Form: noun A miscreant is a person who Mnemonic: Imagine
WITHOUT DECEPTION Tone: neg is badâ€“-who lies, breaks dr. frankenstein
the law, yells at small miscreated a person
puppies. It's a somewhat who behaves badly
Miscreant old-fashioned word, popular Example: Some
with old ladies shocked at Miscreants uprooted
having their purses stolen at all the plants in our
the opera. colony last night.
Root: Mis is to HATE
Form: noun A rogue is a sneaky person Mnemonic: Someone
Tone: neg who has tricks up their who ROb his own
sleeves, not like a magician, GUEsts is a Rogue
but like someone who would Example: Many of
steal your wallet or cheat at the vagabonds were
Rogue cards. Rogues and cheaters
of various kinds, and
formed a sub
community on the
fringes of official
society.
Form: noun A ruffian is a bully, someone Mnemonic: Don't get
Tone: neg who is violent toward others. on the wrong side of
Maybe they had a bad rough ian because
childhood, or perhaps they he's a petty criminal
Ruffian like the sound of people in and will probably beat
pain. No matter where they you up and take your
come from, ruffians are best lunch money.
avoided. Example: a gang of
young Ruffians.
Form: noun A scoundrel is a person who Mnemonic: An
Tone: neg does deliberately evil things. irresponsible driller on
If your brother hides a fake an oil rig will clean
mouse in your shoe and you himself with the drill,
therefore almost have a turning it into a
heart attack while getting scouring drill
dressed, you have every Example: The
Scoundrel
right to call him a scoundrel. Scoundrel who killed
her made good his
escape eight full
hours before the
police had any
knowledge of the
crime.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj If you're apprehensive, Example: You have

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neg you're anxious or fearful. no reason to be
If you just got run over Apprehensive about
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY Apprehensive by a crazy bicyclist, you the future
PROUD might be a bit
CHAOS / CONFUSION apprehensive crossing the
street.
CHEAT / DECEIVE
Form: adj If you think public officials Mnemonic: A talk
COUP Tone: neg are nothing but a bunch show: 'sin call', where
of greedy buffoons, you people phone in with
CRIMINALS / LAW have a cynical attitude their sins and the
BREAKERS Cynical about politics. hosts exhibit moral
DOUBTFUL skepticism
Example: Do you
GENEROUS SUPPORTER have to be Cynical
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT about everything?
Form: adj Choose the adjective Mnemonic: The duo
Tone: neg dubious for something of bees were
PRETENSE OF MORALITY you have doubts about or somewhat doubtful
you suspect is not true. that this whole wasp-
QUIET / FEW WORDS Dubious That bridge you just honey thing was for
REPEAT "bought" might be of real
dubious value. Example: I was
SELF-CONTROL pretty Dubious about
SHINING the whole idea
Form: adj subject to question Example: The
SHOW - OFF (-)
Tone: neg conclusion that they
Questionable
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY may come are highly
Questionable
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS
OF WORDS Form: adj If a friend told you that Example: I am
Tone: neg her family was perfect Skeptical about his
WITHOUT DECEPTION and they never had any chances of winning
problems, would you
Skeptical believe her? If not, you
may be skeptical.
Skeptical people look at
the world with a certain
amount of doubt.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: noun someone who makes Mnemonic: al+trust

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: pos charitable donations : a person who is
intended to increase trusted by all as he
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY human well-being does good deeds for
PROUD Altruist welfare of others
CHAOS / CONFUSION Example: Politicians
are not necessarily
CHEAT / DECEIVE motivated by pure
altruism.
COUP
Form: noun Every school, museum, Mnemonic: bene is a
CRIMINALS / LAW Tone: pos and struggling artist is in root word which
BREAKERS search for a generous means good..
DOUBTFUL benefactor, or someone bene+factor i.e some
Benefactor
to provide the financial good factors like
GENEROUS SUPPORTER means to keep everything money, help.
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT running smoothly. Example: He is a
generous Benefactor.
Form: adj Beneficent is the type of Mnemonic: one who
PRETENSE OF MORALITY Tone: pos act that helps others. If thinks about the
you're a beneficent benefits of others.
QUIET / FEW WORDS person, you probably Example: the
REPEAT spend a lot of your time benificent power of
Beneficent
volunteering at soup nature
SELF-CONTROL kitchens or homeless
SHINING shelters, helping people
who are less fortunate
SHOW - OFF (-) than you are.
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY Form: adj Choose the adjective Example: belief in
Tone: pos benevolent for someone the existence of a
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS who does good deeds or Benevolent God!
OF WORDS shows goodwill. If your Root: BENE means
WITHOUT DECEPTION Benevolent teacher collects GOOD
homework with a
benevolent smile, she's
hoping that you've done
a good job.
Form: adj A humane person is one Mnemonic: HUMAN
Tone: pos who shows great have sympathy for
compassion and caring those who have
for others, including suffered. Eg. We give
animals, and who tries charity for flood
Humane whenever possible to victims and all
alleviate another's Example:
suffering. Campaigners claim
that the animals are
not being kept in
Humane condition
Form: adj A magnanimous person Mnemonic: magnify
Tone: pos has a generous spirit. is hugeâ€¦a big
Letting your little sister hearted person.
have the last of the Example: He was
Magnanimous cookies, even though you Magnanimous in
hadn't eaten since defeat and praised his
breakfast, would be opponent's skill
considered a
magnanimous act.
Form: adj If you give your best Mnemonic: you think
Tone: pos friend a bracelet for her of rishi - muni
birthday, then youâ€™re (sages), who are
a good friend. If you give always generous in
her a diamond bracelet, a giving, will give you
Munificent racehorse, and an oil whatever you want
well, then youâ€™re a Example: He enjoys
munificent friend, being Munificent on a
meaning you are very princely scale
lavish when it comes to
giving gifts.
Form: noun A patron supports Mnemonic: The boss
Tone: pos someone or something. A thinks he is a Patron
patron of a business saint.
supports the business by Example: Peggy was
Patron being a loyal customer. A the Patron of many
patron of the arts helps artists
support starving artists â
€” financially, not with
food rations.
Form: noun A philanthropist is a Mnemonic: Phil is
Tone: pos person who gives money Love and Anthrop
or gifts to charities, or means mankindâ€¦
helps needy people in So Love for mankind
other ways. Famous is what is shown by a
Philanthropist examples include Andrew Philanthropist
Carnegie and Bill & Example: He was a
Melinda Gates. wealthy businessman
and philathropist
Root: PHIL means
LOVER OF, LIKE
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: noun A charlatan is a quack, a Mnemonic: The guys

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neg person who is trying to on the Shopping
deceive you with false Channel, who claim
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY claims. Beware of to give you rock hard
PROUD charlatans who try to sell abs on five minutes a
Charlatan you access to the fountain day, are mostly
CHAOS / CONFUSION
of youth or to a Ponzi Charlatans.
CHEAT / DECEIVE scheme disguised as an Example: He knows
exclusive investment fund. nothing about
COUP
medicine- he is a
CRIMINALS / LAW complete Charlatan.
BREAKERS Form: noun A demagogue is someone Mnemonic:
DOUBTFUL Tone: neg who becomes a leader democracy+agog-an
largely because of skills as agog man leading
GENEROUS SUPPORTER a speaker or who appeals democracy will only
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT to emotions and try to win peoples
prejudices. support by using
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE unreasonable and
Demagogue emotional arguments
Example: There will
QUIET / FEW WORDS always be another
video, book, or
REPEAT cartoon just waiting
SELF-CONTROL to be exploited by
politically savvy
SHINING Demagogues.
SHOW - OFF (-) Form: noun An imposter is a person Mnemonic:
Tone: neg who pretends to be I+m+posterâ€”a
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY
someone else. Someone person made a poster
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS who tries to convince you of himself with a
OF WORDS Imposter that he's your long lost celebrity showing
cousin in order to get an every body that I AM
WITHOUT DECEPTION invitation to stay in your in POSTER is a fraud
awesome apartment is an person
imposter.
Form: noun There are good quacks and Mnemonic: If
Tone: neg bad quacks. A good quack someone tells you
is the sound a duck makes. that he has the power
A bad quack is someone to create an earth
Quack pretending to be a doctor. quake, he is certainly
a Quack.
Example: She
exposed Dr Jones as
a Quack
Form: noun A shyster is someone who Mnemonic: Shiny
Tone: neg might rip you off or do (Ahuja) is a star
something unethical in (Shyster), and you all
order to get his way. know what he's done
was unethical.
Example: On L.A.
Shyster Law, respectable
attorney Brackman
was horrified to learn
that his newly
discovered half
brother was a cheap
Shyster.
Form: verb If you know someone is a Mnemonic: Movie
Tone: neg swindler, stay away from the great swindle
Swindler him. Swindlers are Example: They
scammers who con people swindled him out of
to make a buck. hundreds of dollars.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj If you see yellowish skies Mnemonic: read it
MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: pos on a humid, spring evening as can + see + able
in Kansas, it is entirely = CAPABLE OF BEING
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY conceivable that a tornado IMAGINED
PROUD Conceivable is in the making. That is to Example: It is a
CHAOS / CONFUSION say, it's imaginable or even Conceivable that I'll
possible, so make sure you see her tomorrow
CHEAT / DECEIVE take every conceivable
precaution.
COUP
Form: adj Someone who's credible is Mnemonic: Credible
CRIMINALS / LAW Tone: pos honest and believable. A sounds like
BREAKERS pathological liar, for Believable.
DOUBTFUL example, might not be the Example: It is just
Credible
most credible witness for not Credible that she
GENEROUS SUPPORTER your case against the bank would cheat.
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT robber. Root: CRED means
BELIEVE
Form: adj If something is feasible, Example: Its just not
PRETENSE OF MORALITY Tone: pos then you can do it without Feasible to manage
too much difficulty. When the business on a
QUIET / FEW WORDS Feasible someone asks "Is it part time basis
REPEAT feasible?" the person is
asking if you'll be able to
SELF-CONTROL get something done.
SHINING Form: adj If something is plausible, Mnemonic: Plausible
Tone: pos it's reasonable or rhymes with possible
SHOW - OFF (-)
believable. Things that are Example: Her story
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY plausible could easily sounded perfectly
Plausible
happen. A woman Plausible
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS becoming President is very
OF WORDS plausible. A giraffe
WITHOUT DECEPTION becoming President is not.
Form: adj To describe a person or a Mnemonic: PRA +
Tone: pos solution that takes a gma + TIC = PRA + c
realistic approach, consider + TIC + al
the adjective pragmatic. Example: a
Pragmatic
The four-year-old who Pragmatic approach
wants a unicorn for her to management
birthday isn't being very problems
pragmatic.
Form: adj The adjective utilitarian Mnemonic: utility
Tone: pos describes something that is comes from
useful or functional. If you usefulness.
are attracted to a car for Example: this is a
Utilitarian its storage space and gas plain Utilitarian
mileage - as opposed to its kitchenware
sparkly tire rims - then
chances are you value a
car's utilitarian features.
Form: noun The adjective verisimilar Mnemonic:
Tone: pos describes something remember veriserum
appears to be true or real, from Harry Potter
but may not be. If you which makes you tell
want to impress your the truth even if you
Verisimilar friends, remark on the don't drink a drop of
verisimilar portrait of lost it
love in that foreign film you Example: a
all went to see. Verisimilar tale
Root: VER means
TRUE.
Form: adj When something is viable, Mnemonic:
Tone: pos the adjective refers to vi(VIV=LIFE) +
something workable with ABLE....so some one
Viable the ability to grow and who is ABLE to live
function properly. his LIFE.
Example: this is a
Viable option
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: noun Cant is language Mnemonic: monks

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neg repeated so often and so will be ChANT ing
mechanically that it's mantras . its known
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY essentially empty of only for saints and
PROUD Cant meaning. monks
CHAOS / CONFUSION Example: His speech
was full of moral,
CHEAT / DECEIVE religious and social
Cant.
COUP
Form: noun Hypocritical involves Mnemonic: A hippo
CRIMINALS / LAW Tone: neg acting in a way that who says 'i am very
BREAKERS goes against your stated clean' but who lives in
DOUBTFUL beliefs. If you drive hippo grit is one who
drunk despite the fact contradicts her own
GENEROUS SUPPORTER Hypocritical that you are the statements
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT president of Students Example: Charles
Against Drunk Driving, was a liar and a
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE you are truly hypocrite who
hypocritical. married her for
money.
QUIET / FEW WORDS Form: noun a person regarded as Mnemonic: PIGGish
REPEAT Tone: neg arrogant and annoying people don't take
much care on
SELF-CONTROL propriety but
SHINING Prig PrigGISH people do.
Example: He was in
SHOW - OFF (-) danger of becoming
Priggish and
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY
opinionated.
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS Form: noun Use prude to describe Mnemonic: Can be
OF WORDS Tone: neg someone who is too thought as an
WITHOUT DECEPTION concerned with being antonym of CRUDE.
proper or modest. It is a Also, when crude oil
derogatory label affixed is refined we get
Prude most often to girls or PURE oil and hence it
women who are not can be called
forthcoming PURITAN also.
romanticallyâ€“-it's not Example: The people
very nice. of the Victorian Age
were such Prudes!
Form: adj The sanctimonious Mnemonic: Just
Tone: neg person sounds like a because he SANCT
hypocrite when he (relate it to
preaches to a friend sanction)SOM MONEY
Sanctimonious about the evils of drugs, to us don't mean he's
while he drinks one beer all religious.
after another. Example: I wish she
had stopped being
Sanctimonious
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: verb To abbreviate is to Mnemonic:

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neut shorten. Words are often abbreviate consists of
abbreviated, like when we brevity(means
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY say sked instead of brief)..so the meaning
PROUD schedule. would be 'to make
Abbreviated brief'
CHAOS / CONFUSION
Example: The
CHEAT / DECEIVE National Aeronautics
and Space
COUP
Administration is
CRIMINALS / LAW Abbreviated to NASA.
BREAKERS Form: verb So the editor wants to cut Mnemonic:
DOUBTFUL Tone: neut your epic 800-page history a+bridge..well
of the stapler to a 150- bridges are meant to
GENEROUS SUPPORTER page summary instead. reduce the gap
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT Don't cry - he just wants to between
abridge your masterpiece, something..so
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE trimming it down to the abridging..something
Abridge
more readable essential means reducing or
elements. shortening
QUIET / FEW WORDS something.
Example: She has
REPEAT been asked to
SELF-CONTROL Abridge the movie for
television.
SHINING
Form: noun The noun brevity means Mnemonic: brief +
SHOW - OFF (-) Tone: pos shortness or conciseness. tea session,tea time
If you give a report on is shortâ€¦
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY
Brevity agriculture in the northern Example: Charles
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS hemisphere in 3 minutes, Dickens was not
OF WORDS you have done it with known for his Brevity
incredible brevity.
WITHOUT DECEPTION
Form: verb When you condense Mnemonic: Imagine
Tone: neut something, you cut it a cone-shaped cloud:
down and trim it. You may the cloud has cone
love every word of your dents where parts of
Condense 1000-page novel, but it have changed from
you'll have to condense a gas into a liquid
the plot into a 2-page Example: Condense
summary for your editor. the soup by boiling it
for several minutes.
Form: adj Laconic is an adjective that Mnemonic:
Tone: neut describes a style of LAC..LACK, SO LACK
speaking or writing that OF WORDS in her
uses only a few words, speech, specify that
often to express complex she used very few
Laconic
thoughts and ideas. A words to portray her
more laconic way to write ideas.
that last sentence might Example: a Laconic
be this: laconic means comment
brief.
Form: adj Any word or sound made Example: Ralph grew
Tone: neut up of just one syllable can increasingly
Monosyllabic
be described with the Monosyllabic as the
adjective monosyllabic. evening progressed.
Form: adj Reticent means either Mnemonic: Cent
Tone: neut quiet or restrained. If (Saint) is
you're reticent about your stereotypically
feelings, you like to keep reluctant to speak or
Reticent them to yourself, and draw attention to
you're probably quiet in themselves.
rowdy groups where Example: She was
everyone is talking over shy and Reticent.
each other.
Form: adj Something that is succinct Mnemonic:
Tone: neut is short and clear. If you're SUCK+INK -
going to be interviewed on brief/summary of
television about your new story sucks less ink
Succinct
book and only have a five on the paper
minute slot, you'll need to Example: Keep your
come up with a succinct answers as succint as
version of your story. possible
Form: adj omit a sound or letter in a Example: The
Tone: neut word patterned holes in the
paper kept coming
and turned into
Syncopate Syncopated
sweetness before
your eyes.
Root: SYN- means
WITH,TOGETHER.
Form: adj Someone who is taciturn is Mnemonic: meaning
Tone: neut/neg reserved, not loud and of tacit = silent. so
talkative. The word itself meaning of tacit +
refers to the trait of urn = Taciturn =
Taciturn reticence, of seeming aloof silent person ,
and uncommunicative. A untalkative
taciturn person might be Example: He Is a
snobby, naturally quiet, or Taciturn and serious
just shy. young man
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: verb To recapitulate means to Mnemonic: sounds

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neut go back and summarize. At like recap....if you
the end of an oral report, have noticed ,
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY you might say, "So, to whenever you watch
PROUD recapitulate, I've made a serial ,before it
CHAOS / CONFUSION three points," and then you starts they always
name them. give the recap of
CHEAT / DECEIVE Recapitulate what happened the
previous day
COUP
Example: to
CRIMINALS / LAW Recapitulate briefly,
BREAKERS the three main points
are theseâ€¦
DOUBTFUL Root: Prefix RE
GENEROUS SUPPORTER means to REPEAT.
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT Form: verb To regurgitate is to bring Mnemonic: When

Tone: neut/pos already swallowed food you gargle you
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE back up through one's re(gurg)itate the
throat and out the mouth. water
Not so nice in humans, Example: For the
Regurgitate
QUIET / FEW WORDS much more understandable exam, you must be
(if still gross) in birds - who able to Regurgitate
REPEAT feed their baby chicks by the information
SELF-CONTROL regurgitating. Root: Prefix RE
means to REPEAT.
SHINING
Form: verb present or use over, with Example: He just
SHOW - OFF (-) Tone: neutral no or few changes Rehashes songs from
Rehash the 60's
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY
Root: Prefix RE
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS means to REPEAT.
OF WORDS Form: verb To reiterate something is Mnemonic: Break it
WITHOUT DECEPTION Tone: neut to say or do something like = Reiterate=
again, or many times. Let RE+UTTER+IT i.e to
me reiterate: if you repeat say again
yourself, you're reiterating Example: Let me
Reiterate
the thing you originally Reiterate that we are
said. fully committed to
this policy
Root: Prefix RE
means to REPEAT.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj Reserve abstemious for Mnemonic: focus on

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neut someone who exercises 'abs' part of this
restraint, especially with word. Abs...To build a
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY regard to alcohol. A rock six-pack abs, eat and
PROUD musician may sing about drink carefully
CHAOS / CONFUSION Abstemious enjoying wine and women, Example: He was a
but in his private life he hardworking man
CHEAT / DECEIVE may be abstemious. with Abstemious
habits
COUP
Root: AB means
CRIMINALS / LAW AWAY FROM
BREAKERS Form: noun If you are a chocolate lover Mnemonic: ABS
DOUBTFUL Tone: neut you'll have to show great THIN ence. A person
restraint when the dessert maintained
GENEROUS SUPPORTER cart rolls over if you are Abstinence when he
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT practicing abstinence, restrained from
Abstinence another word for pleasant things like
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE "refraining." It might take a food and drinks!!!
lot of willpower not to throw Example: practicing
yourself at the cart. Abstinence from
QUIET / FEW WORDS chocolates is
impossible for her.
REPEAT
Form: adj When you abstain from Mnemonic: A
SELF-CONTROL Tone: neut pleasures of life, you're CELIBATE is far from
SHINING practicing celibacy. CELEBRATING life.
Celibacy
Example: He has
SHOW - OFF (-) been celibate all his
life
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY
Form: verb To stop yourself from Mnemonic: We must
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS Tone: neut saying or doing something be willing to wait
OF WORDS that you could or would like patiently FOR the
WITHOUT DECEPTION to say or do BEAR to leave as we
stay tucked in a tight
Forbear
ball face down.
Example: He wanted
to answer back,but
he forbore from doing
so.
Form: adj A moderate voter is Example: He has
Tone: neut someone who is politically Moderate salary
speaking, in the center. In demands
Moderate
other words, they are not
quite left or right, but
somewhere in the middle
Form: verb When someone burps in a Mnemonic: ref-
Tone: neut quiet classroom it can be rain...we resist from
hard to refrain from getting wet in the
laughing. Use the verb "rain" in rainy
Refrain
refrain if you have a sudden season.
impulse to do something, Example: please
and you have stopped Refrain from smoking
yourself from doing it.
Form: adj Temperate means mild, Mnemonic: Temper-
Tone: neut moderate. If you're a ateâ€¦he has taken
temperate person, you are over his temper, that
Temperate calm, reasonable. If you live is have controlled it
in a temperate climate it's Example: He is
warm and sunny, but not Temperate in his
too hot. eating and drinking
Form: verb Indulge is a verb that Example: They went
Tone: pos means "to give in to into town to indulge
something," like when you in some serious
X Indulge
indulge your craving for shopping
chocolate by eating a big
piece of it.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj When heated, coals Mnemonic: IN the
MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neut/neg become incandescent, LIGHT of the
which means that they SCENTED CANDLE..
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY glow red-hot. When Example: an
PROUD you're heated up by an Incandescent musical
Incandescent
CHAOS / CONFUSION argument, chances are performance
you're incandescent with,
CHEAT / DECEIVE or characterized by the
intense emotion of
COUP
frustration.
CRIMINALS / LAW Form: adj Iridescent is an adjective Mnemonic: irid
BREAKERS Tone: neut that means lustrous and means iris and iris
DOUBTFUL pearly, giving off a helps us distinguish
Iridescent
brilliant sheen like an oil colours
GENEROUS SUPPORTER slick or, well, a pearl. Example: a bird with
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT iridiscent bright colors
Form: adj Luminous means full of or Mnemonic:
Tone: pos giving off light. During the remember Luminous
PRETENSE OF MORALITY winter holidays, with all INVERTERS ad by
Luminous their emphasis on light, dhoni...brightful
QUIET / FEW WORDS you can see luminous Example: he was
REPEAT displays of candles staring with large
everywhere. Luminous eyes
SELF-CONTROL
Form: adj In shampoo commercials, Mnemonic: luster
SHINING Tone: pos the hair you see swinging means shinny.
Lustrous
is lustrous. It is brilliant, Example: she has
SHOW - OFF (-)
in the shiny sense. thick Lustrous hair
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY Form: adj If you're familiar with the Mnemonic: opal
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS Tone: neut way that the gemstone comes from iris..
OF WORDS opal shimmers like a which is the part of
pearl, then you'll the eye..eyes helps
WITHOUT DECEPTION understand that us experience colors..
Opalescent something opalescent and Opalescent
reflects the light in the means lustrour
same way. colors..
Example: the pearls
had an Opalescent
luster
Form: adj If someone tells you that Mnemonic:
Tone: pos you have refulgent eyes, Refulgent sounds like
they mean that your eyes detergent.. use
shine brightly, like the detergent to make
Refulgent stars. This suggests that things shine
your special someone is Example: the
the poetic type, since Refulgent sun
refulgent is a literary way
of saying "bright."
Form: adj Something scintillating is Mnemonic:
Tone: pos flashing briefly and Scintillating ===
sharply with light. ILLUMINATING
Scintillating
Scintillating conversations Example: this was a
are smart and captivating. Scintillating
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj extravagant Mnemonic: flamboyant ~

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neg elaborateness flame + boy; imagine a
boy wearing a T-shirt with
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY pictures of flame on it. will
PROUD Flamboyance
it not be flamboyant?
CHAOS / CONFUSION Example: he was
flamboyant on and off the
CHEAT / DECEIVE stage.
COUP Form: verb Flaunt is "to display Mnemonic: Flaunt -
Tone: neg proudly or show off," >Friend's aunt; my
CRIMINALS / LAW like when you flaunt Friend's aunt always
BREAKERS your new Italian Flaunts.
DOUBTFUL leather jacket by Example: he did not
Flaunt
wearing it to the believe in Flaunting his
GENEROUS SUPPORTER beach and pretending wealth.
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT you're cold to make
sure everyone sees
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE it.
PRETENSE OF MORALITY Form: adj You've got big plans. Mnemonic:
Tone: neg Huge plans. Grandiose=Grand+Expose.
QUIET / FEW WORDS Whatever it is, it's Think of it as
REPEAT going to blow minds IMPRESSIVELY HUGE
and absolutely rock assets which are
SELF-CONTROL worlds! Well, to some RIDICULOUSLY
Grandiose
SHINING people those plans EXAGGERATED but they
might sound a bit are fake
SHOW - OFF (-) grandiose. Example: he could no
longer live the Grandiose
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY
lifestyle to which he had
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS become accustomed
OF WORDS Form: adj Reach for the Mnemonic:
WITHOUT DECEPTION Tone: neg adjective Ostentatious....read it as
ostentatious when Stuntatious....Stunts...you
Ostentatious you want a flashy perform stunts to attract
way to say - well, attention, showy.
"flashy" or "showy." Example: she wore
Ostentatious gold jewelry
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: noun Sobriety is the state of Mnemonic: sounds

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: pos being sober, which can like SOBER
mean either not intoxicated Example: She was a
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY or being solemn. If he model of honesty and
PROUD (X)
takes a drink, an alcoholic sobriety
Sobriety
CHAOS / CONFUSION ends a stretch of sobriety.
You might note sobriety in
CHEAT / DECEIVE the stands when your team
is losing.
COUP
Form: verb Bedizen means to decorate Mnemonic: Bedizen
CRIMINALS / LAW Tone: neg yourself or something else can be remembered
BREAKERS to the max - in an over-the- as 'bad design dress'
DOUBTFUL top flashy style. Picture big Example: i told it
Bedizen jewels and gold bling. would be a disaster
GENEROUS SUPPORTER to let your mother
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT decorate this place,
just look how she has
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE Bedizened it.
PRETENSE OF MORALITY Form: adj Use the adjective garish to Mnemonic: Imagine
Tone: neg describe something that is if someone
QUIET / FEW WORDS overly vivid, bright, showy, GARNISHES too oddly
REPEAT and in bad taste - like the ! puts everything,
Garish
DJ's garish outfit that is a and makes it gaudy !
SELF-CONTROL flashback to the disco era. Example: this dress
SHINING is a little to garisg for
my taste
SHOW - OFF (-)
Form: adj Something that's gaudy is Example: she always
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY Tone: neg showy, bright and wears Gaudy colors.
definitely tacky. So think
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS Gaudy
twice about that gaudy
OF WORDS rainbow-colored suit and
WITHOUT DECEPTION shiny gold shoes ensemble.
Form: adj Have you ever heard the Mnemonic:
Tone: neg phrase "fake it until you Meretricious = Mere
make it"? That is advice + Tricious. 'Mere'
that encourages you to be means trifle or
meretricious, pretending to something less
Meretricious be something you aren't, important
like the meretricious Example: Bill has
flaunting of gigantic fake been involved in
diamond earrings, several Meretricious
pretending they are real â relations
€” and tha
Form: adj Tawdry means cheap, Mnemonic:
Tone: neg shoddy, or tasteless. It can ORIGINALLY THE
be used to describe almost WORD IS DERIVED
anything from clothes to FROM AUDRYLACE,A
people to even events or PLACE IN BRITAIN
affairs. WHERE CHEAP AND
Tawdry
SHOWY LACE(PROB
OF SHOES) WERE
SOLD
Example: She wore
a Tawdry necklace to
the ball.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj A garrulous person just Mnemonic: "Girls,

MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: neut wonâ€™t stop talking (and rule us!" They rule us
talking, and talking, and in their ability to talk
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY talking...). non-stop about any
PROUD Garrulous topic.
CHAOS / CONFUSION Example: He became
positively Garrulous
CHEAT / DECEIVE whenever extremely
happy
COUP
Form: adj A loquacious person talks a Mnemonic: it is
CRIMINALS / LAW Tone: neut lot, often about stuff that derived from the root
BREAKERS only they think is word 'loqua'... which
DOUBTFUL interesting. You can also call refers to SPEECH or
them chatty or gabby, but TALK
GENEROUS SUPPORTER Loquacious either way, they're Example: She is a
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT loquacious. Loquacious lady who
never runs out of
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE stories to tell.
Root: LOQ means
SPEAK
QUIET / FEW WORDS Form: adj A book that feels like it is Mnemonic:
REPEAT Tone: neut several hundred pages Prolix=prolonged
longer than it needs to be is +lexico graphy
SELF-CONTROL Prolix prolix. The word simply Example: a Prolix
SHINING means that something has lecturer telling you
too many words and goes more than you want
SHOW - OFF (-) on too long. to know
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY Form: noun Verbiage is what it sounds Mnemonic: relate it
Tone: neut like - a lot of words: verbs, to verbose!
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS nouns, adjectives and all the Example: use
OF WORDS other parts of speech. concise military
Verbiage
WITHOUT DECEPTION Usually, verbiage means a Verbiage
few too many words - like
the excessive verbiage in a
legal document.
Form: adj Verbose describes a person, Mnemonic: VER for
Tone: neut speech, or piece of writing verbal BOSE for boss;
that uses many words, so you may say that
usually more words than your boss is
necessary. If you talk too excessively verbal or
Verbose
much, you can be described talkitive.
as verbose, and so can your Example: She is a
history paper if you didn't do Verbose speaker
the research and are just
tried to take
Form: adj Voluble describes someone Mnemonic:
Tone: neut who talks a lot, like your Remember "volume"
aunt who canâ€™t stop in TV controls. It's
telling you to cut your hair related to sound. This
or a political candidate who Voluble is also related
Voluble
makes twenty speeches on to speaking.
the day before the election. Example: Evelyn was
very Voluble on the
subject of woman
rights.
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ACTING PROPERLY / Form: adj Yes, artless could mean Mnemonic: art +
MISBEHAVE (x) Tone: pos lacking in art, but more often less, without having
it means lacking in any art(skill)
BOLD / RUDE / OVERLY Artless
superficiality or deceit. An Example: the Artless
PROUD artless person could never sincerity of a young
CHAOS / CONFUSION make a living as a con artist. child
Form: noun Credence means Mnemonic:
CHEAT / DECEIVE
Tone: pos truthfulness, or believability. Credence: imagine
COUP A video of a funnel cloud that a shopkeeper is
entering Central Park would giving you credit
CRIMINALS / LAW give credence to rumors of a because he has
BREAKERS Credence/ tornado in Manhattan. confidence in you,
DOUBTFUL Credible that you would return
it someday
GENEROUS SUPPORTER Example: They could
IMPERSONATOR / CHEAT give no credence to
the findings of the
PRACTICAL / POSSIBLE survey
PRETENSE OF MORALITY Form: adj People who believe things Mnemonic: Relate
Tone: pos easily without having to be the word Credulous
QUIET / FEW WORDS convinced are credulous. to Credibility (bearing
REPEAT Sales people are always truth)
Credulous
hoping that someone Example: He is
SELF-CONTROL credulous picks up the Credulous on the one
SHINING phone during a sales call. hand and intensely
loyal on the other.
SHOW - OFF (-)
Form: verb A dupe is a furry, ceremonial Example: They soon
VERY BRIGHT / SHOWY Tone: pos hat occasionally worn during realized they had
ancient pagan rituals... or been Duped
VERY TALKATIVE / LOTS not. Dupe actually means â
OF WORDS Dupe
€œtrick or deceive.â€ Weâ
WITHOUT DECEPTION €™re sorry we tried to dupe
you into believing the wrong
definition.
Form: adj If you are guileless, you are Mnemonic: "guile"
Tone: pos not a liar; you are innocent, means to decieve
and you might be a touch on guile+less means no
the gullible side. deception, only
Guileless
honesty.
Example: She had
the Guileless
innocence of a child.
Form: adj If you are gullible, the joke Mnemonic: Gullible
Tone: pos is on you because you are = Gull + ible =
easily fooled. girl/galli + able A girl
who is able to be
tricked or deceived
easily
Gullible
Example: the
advertisement is
aimed at Gullible
young women
worried about their
weight
Form: adj Someone who is ingenuous Mnemonic: In
Tone: pos shows a childlike innocence, genuine relationship
trust, and openness. One of people are naive and
the things kindergarten trusting to each
Ingenuous teachers value is the chance other.
to work with kids while Example: You are
they're still relatively too Ingenuous.
ingenuousâ€“-their open, Root: In means NOT
trusting natures are a joy.
Form: adj No one likes being called Mnemonic: sounds
Tone: pos naive, since it means you as "naya", some one
lack sophistication or street who is new is
smarts. inexperienced
NaÃ¯ve
Example: I can't
believe you were so
NaÃ¯ve as to trust
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ALONE / LONELY Form: noun a hermit is Mnemonic: The root of the word is
Tone: Neutral someone who the Greek eremos, meaning â
CARELESS likes to be alone, €œsolitary.â€ Hermit does not
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ Hermit far from the permit a social life.
GIVE UP (X) crowd because of Example: It was an attempt to live
religious beliefs. by himself and to himself, in fact,
EASILY AFFECTED to turn modern Hermit.
EXAMINE CAREFULLY Form: noun People who are Mnemonic: Isolation sounds like
Tone: Negative/ isolated are solo or aloneâ€¦sounds like I (me)
EXPRESS USING Neutral completely cut - solation- solo. So, I am solo or
GESTURES off from the rest alone
Isolation
FRIENDLY of the world. Example: Many unemployed
people experience feelings of
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Isolation and depression.
IMITATE / COMIC Root: prefix ISO means EQUAL.
IMITATION Form: noun when a person Mnemonic: Loner sounds like
Tone: Neutral avoids others lonely and it means the same.
INSPIRING FEAR OR
Loner company or Example: I am a Loner by nature,
RESPECT
assistance we love to keep to myself.
INTERVENOR / LEAD call him a Loner.
IRRITABLE / BAD Form: noun A recluse lives Mnemonic: Think of the Brown
TEMPERED Tone: Negative/ alone, works Recluse spider, who likes to hide
Neutral alone, eats alone, out in dark old boots or
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY and generally undisturbed corners of the
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED stays away from basement. re- means again,
Recluse
other people. claudere means to shut.
RESPECT Example: Reclusion from the
crowd seems soothing at time but
SECRET
one cannot live in that, all alone all
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY the time.
TEMPTING / EXCITING Form: verb when you Mnemonic: The root is Latin,
Tone: Negative/ seclude others, Secludere, which means "shut off'
TO IRRITATE / MAKE Neutral you separate from se, "apart" and cludere, "to
ANGRY them from other shut." OR think like this: Se means
TO THINK people. apart from and clude sounds like
Seclude
include..so not including oneself
UNWELCOME INTRUSION Example: After Mr. Parkâ€™s
death, praising him was taboo, and
WISE, SHORT SAYING
his daughter, who never married,
has lived a Secluded life.
Form: adj If you are a lone Mnemonic: Solitary comes to us
Tone: Negative/ wolf, a rugged from the Latin solus, which means
Neutral individualist, an alone. Note its similarity to words
Solitary island unto like solo which means Solitary or
yourself you alone.
prefer to be Example: She enjoys long Solitary
solitary or alone. walks.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: adj to be extremely careless. Mnemonic: Lax sounds

Tone: Negative A paperclip chain used as like LaxUS, which in Latin
CARELESS a bike lock? That would means Loose. It can also
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ be an example of lax be remembered as a
GIVE UP (X) security. RELaxED attitude.
Lax Example: The entire
EASILY AFFECTED class performed incredibly
well on the test, largely
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
due to the sleepy
EXPRESS USING professor's Lax
GESTURES supervision
FRIENDLY Form: adj You can be negligent at Mnemonic: Negligent
Tone: Negative work if you let the work comes from the Latin
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE pile up while you play word neglegentia,
IMITATE / COMIC computer games. meaning "carelessness."
Negligent
IMITATION Example: Fining
Negligent smokers can
INSPIRING FEAR OR reduce the number of
RESPECT smokers in public.
INTERVENOR / LEAD Form: adj If it's your turn to bring Mnemonic: Remiss
Tone: Negative in the coffee and donuts sounds like you missed
IRRITABLE / BAD for your early morning doing something again.
TEMPERED meeting, and you forget, Example: We were
Remiss
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY then your co-workers Remiss in not sending
can say that you were thank-you notes for our
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED remiss in fulfilling your wedding gifts
RESPECT responsibility
Form: adj when someone does Mnemonic: An easy way
SECRET
Tone: Negative something in a slipshod to remember the meaning
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY manner they do it in a of Slipshod is to note that
way that is careless and "shod" (inferior in quality)
TEMPTING / EXCITING sloppy. is part of "shoddy," a
TO IRRITATE / MAKE Slipshod shoddy slipper led to an
ANGRY acute foot pain.
Example: The crops are
TO THINK gathered in the same
UNWELCOME INTRUSION Slipshod way. How do we
get profits from it?
WISE, SHORT SAYING
Form: adj That teacher's demands Mnemonic: Stringent
Tone: Neutral are stringent - she wants sounds like ASTRINGENT,
the homework typed in which we use if we have
her favorite font, on pimples on the face.
special paper, and each Applying an astringent
Stringent essay must be exactly 45 tightens the pores and
X lines! lessen the pimples. Strict
is being stringent.
Example: Stringent
safety procedures prevent
accidents in a dangerous
work environment.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: verb To affirm something is Mnemonic: Affirm sounds

Tone: Neutral to give it a big "YES" like Confirm
CARELESS Affirm
or to confirm that it is Example: I can Affirm that
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ true. no one will lose their job.
GIVE UP (X) Form: verb Ascertain is a verb that Mnemonic: As Certain as
Tone: Neutral means to find out ever!
EASILY AFFECTED
something. You might Example: A great detective
EXAMINE CAREFULLY Ascertain have to go to the bank must always Ascertain his
to ascertain if there is beliefs.
EXPRESS USING any money in your
GESTURES account.
FRIENDLY Form: verb To aver is to declare Mnemonic: A VERy
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Tone: Neutral something is true or to confident statement!
state. This verb has a Example: She Averred that
IMITATE / COMIC serious tone, so you she had never seen the
IMITATION Aver might aver something man before.
on a witness stand or
INSPIRING FEAR OR
you might aver that
RESPECT
you won't back down
INTERVENOR / LEAD to a challenge.
IRRITABLE / BAD Form: verb When you avow Mnemonic: A: VOW
TEMPERED Tone: Neutral something, you say it Example: They Avowed
openly for the whole their undying love for each
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY world to hear. If you're other.
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED Avow a witness in a trial,
you'll be asked to take
RESPECT an oath in which you'll
avow that you'll tell
SECRET
the truth.
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY Form: verb "I proclaim the Mnemonic: Sounds like
TEMPTING / EXCITING Tone: Neutral Olympic Games open." claim
Every two years with Example: The day was
TO IRRITATE / MAKE words similar to these, Proclaimed a public holiday.
ANGRY Proclaim
the Olympic games
TO THINK officially begin. To
proclaim is to exclaim
UNWELCOME INTRUSION or declare.
WISE, SHORT SAYING Form: verb Sometimes someone in Mnemonic: abdicate
Tone: Neutral power might decide to sounds like dictate, with a
give up that power and twist in the meaning.
step down from his or Dictate is to Rule and
her position. When Abdicate is to give up that
X they do that, they rule
Abdicate abdicate their Example: Sonia Gandhi
authority, giving up all abdicated the position of
duties and perks of the Prime Minister and
job. surprised the whole world
Root: AB refers to AWAY
FROM.
Form: verb Abjure means to swear Mnemonic: If your abs feel
Tone: Positive off, and it applies to pain, you might want to
something you once forgo that intensive ab
believed. You can workout.
abjure a religious faith, Example: When the five
X Abjure you can abjure your year old got abs injured his
love of another person, mother advised that he
and you can abjure the forgo his thousand situps a
practice of using day
excessive force in Root: AB refers to AWAY
interrogation. FROM.
Form: verb The verb abnegate Mnemonic: ab-Negate,
Tone: Negative means to deny or Negate means to reject or
renounce something. to stop something from
Scientists abnegate the happening.
X
existence of little green Example: The king
Abnegate
spacemen from Mars. abnegated his power to the
ministers.
Root: AB refers to AWAY
FROM.
Form: verb To cede is to give up Example: Cuba was ceded
X Cede Tone: Negative or surrender land, by Spain to the US in 1898.
position, or authority.
Form: verb To forsake another Mnemonic: for- expresses
Tone: Negative person is to leave negativity, sake means in
them entirely, usually the interest of; forsake
X Forsake in a moment of need. means to abandon
Example: She promised his
wife that he will never
forsake her.
Form: verb To forswear is to give Mnemonic: I Swear to
Tone: Negative up an idea, belief, or forgo all fatty sweets and
habit that youâ€™ve look slim and trim all my
X had previously. New life.
Forswear Yearâ€™s is a popular Example: He foreswore
time to forswear cigarettes as his New Year's
anything from sweets resolution.
to bad relationships.
Form: verb If you relinquish Mnemonic:
Tone: Neutral something, you let it Relin(Release)+quish(wish);
go. You relinquish So release ur wish
control of the army Example: He was forced to
X when you resign as relinquish control of the
Relinquish general. Your company.
relinquish your plan to
sneak into town when
your parents find out
what's going on.
Form: verb To renounce is to Mnemonic: Satyam
Tone: Negative officially give up or announce to renounce
turn away from. People Ramalinga Raju
X on a diet usually Example: Will James
Renounce renounce pizza and renounce his throne in favor
chocolate cake, for of his son?
example. Root: RE refers to AGAIN
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ALONE / LONELY Form: adj An impervious surface is Mnemonic: IM-

Tone: Positive one that can't be means not, pervius
CARELESS penetrated. The word is means having a way
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ often followed by "to," as in through; impervious
Impervious
GIVE UP (X) "His steely personality made means impenetrable.
(X)
him impervious to jokes Example: She is
EASILY AFFECTED about his awful haircut." impervious or not
affected by criticism.
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
Root: IM means NOT
EXPRESS USING Form: adj The path of least resistance Mnemonic:
GESTURES Tone: Negative is where you'll find prone: it Pro+One: liking
FRIENDLY refers to whatever you're towards one.
likely to do. Example: People
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Prone with fair skin who
IMITATE / COMIC sunburn easily are
IMITATION very Prone to develop
skin cancer.
INSPIRING FEAR OR
Form: n It can mean "to make
RESPECT
Tone: Negative someone do something," as
INTERVENOR / LEAD Subject to in "Don't let your dad
subject you to an hour-long
IRRITABLE / BAD lecture on fishing."
TEMPERED
Form: adj If you are susceptible to Mnemonic:
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY Tone: Negative something such as Susceptible sounds
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED infections or earaches, it like suspect, so
means you are likely to suspected to be
RESPECT become sick with these easily influenced by
Susceptible
things. someone.
SECRET
Example: Salt intake
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY may lead to high
blood pressure in
TEMPTING / EXCITING Susceptible adults.
TO IRRITATE / MAKE Form: adj Use the adjective vulnerable Mnemonic: In Latin,
ANGRY Tone: Negative to describe something or vulnerare means to
TO THINK someone open to being wound; able to be
physically or emotionally wounded or
UNWELCOME INTRUSION Vulnerable wounded, like a newborn woundable.
chick or an overly sensitive Example: In cases of
WISE, SHORT SAYING
teenager. food poisoning, young
children are especially
Vulnerable.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: verb Window shopping and Mnemonic: browse

Tone: Neutral scanning the newspaper for means the same as
CARELESS interesting headlines are peruse.
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ forms of browsing. Example: There was
Browse#
GIVE UP (X) so much food at the
party that we quickly
EASILY AFFECTED got sated just by
browsing.
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
Form: verb Traditionally, peruse has Mnemonic: Peruse is
EXPRESS USING Tone: Neutral meant to read or examine like read as per use.
GESTURES something carefully. If you To read what is
FRIENDLY are visiting a library or a required.
bookstore, you might find Example: A copy of
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Peruse yourself perusing the shelves. the report is available
IMITATE / COMIC for you to Peruse at
IMITATION your leisure.
Root: Prefix PER
INSPIRING FEAR OR means THROUGH
RESPECT
Form: verb examine carefully. Mnemonic: When
INTERVENOR / LEAD Tone: Neutral you pore yourself
completely over
IRRITABLE / BAD something and you
TEMPERED are hell bent on
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY Pore Over understanding the
concepts.
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED Example: His
RESPECT lawyers are poring
over the fine print in
SECRET the contract.
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY Form: verb If you want to examine Mnemonic: Scrutiny
Tone: Neutral something closely and go is known to all of us.
TEMPTING / EXCITING over every single detail, then Example: She leaned
TO IRRITATE / MAKE you should scrutinize it. Like forward to Scrutinize
Scrutinize
ANGRY the way your mom probably their faces.
assesses your outfit before
TO THINK you leave the house for a
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ALONE / LONELY Form: noun A charade is something Mnemonic: back to

Tone: Neutral done just for show. Your school time activities:
CARELESS devotion to vegetarianism act out the name of a
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ Charade would be a charade if you movie using hands
GIVE UP (X) actually ate cheeseburgers only.sign language.
when no one was looking. Example: Let's play
EASILY AFFECTED Charades.
EXAMINE CAREFULLY Form: verb When you gesticulate, you Mnemonic: latin,
Tone: Neutral make sweeping and excited gestus means action.
EXPRESS USING movements with your hands Example: She was
GESTURES Gesticulate when speaking. Someone shouting and
FRIENDLY describing a scary car gesticulating from the
accident might gesticulate other side of the
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE wildly. road.
IMITATE / COMIC Form: noun A mime is a performer who Mnemonic: consider
IMITATION Tone: Neutral uses exaggerated facial 'Mime' as short-form
expressions and body of mimicry without
INSPIRING FEAR OR
movements - instead of words
RESPECT
words - to communicate Example: The actor
Mime
INTERVENOR / LEAD with his audience. mimicked the
President very
IRRITABLE / BAD accurately
TEMPERED Root: Mime is to
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY COPY.
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED Form: noun If you make a motion with Mnemonic: Tushaar
Tone: neutral your hands to indicate Kapoor performs a
RESPECT eating ice cream, you are Pantomime in
using pantomime.Parents Golmaal movies
SECRET
often use this wordless Example: This is a
Pantomime
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY communication to try to magical tale told
keep things from the kids. through Pantomime
TEMPTING / EXCITING Unfortunately, the kids and song
TO IRRITATE / MAKE usually catch on quickly -
ANGRY especially if there is ice cre
TO THINK
UNWELCOME INTRUSION
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ALONE / LONELY Form: adj If the adjective Mnemonic: Arrange this

Tone: positive affable applies to word like this: Aff for
CARELESS you, it means that affection and able. So a
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ you are friendly and person who is capable of
Affable pleasant. A snarling being affectionate is
GIVE UP (X)
junkyard dog is not Affable.
EASILY AFFECTED affable. Example: Mr Brook is an
extremely Affable and
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
approachable person.
EXPRESS USING Form: adj Someone showing Mnemonic: Aloof is away
GESTURES Tone: Negative aloofness might be from crowd.
FRIENDLY shy, or just really Example: My nervousness
Aloof (X)
doesn't want to be expressed itself as
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE around people. aloofness: overly
IMITATE / COMIC judgmental, overly cool
IMITATION Form: adj A friendly, pleasant Mnemonic: The Prefix AM
Tone: positive person could be refers to Love. So a
INSPIRING FEAR OR
described as person who has a loving
RESPECT
amiable. attitude and is friendly
INTERVENOR / LEAD should be Amiable.
Example: Two Amiable
IRRITABLE / BAD Amiable
people who no longer want
TEMPERED to be married to one
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY another might have an
amicable divorce.
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED Root: prefix AM means
RESPECT LOVE.
Form: adj Amicable is being Mnemonic: The Prefix AM
SECRET
Tone: positive friendly. refers to Love. So a
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY person who has a loving
attitude and is friendly
TEMPTING / EXCITING should be Amicable.
TO IRRITATE / MAKE Example: The end of a
Amicable
ANGRY romantic relationship
that's less than Amicable
TO THINK might involve broken
UNWELCOME INTRUSION dishes or broken bones.
Root: prefix AMI means
WISE, SHORT SAYING LOVE
Form: noun a feeling of Mnemonic: break it up
Tone: positive friendship and trust into Camara + de + rie..
among people who you give or share your
work or spend a lot room with your friends
of time together with whom you have
mutual trust.. good-
Camaraderie
fellowship.
Example: The games are
designed to differentiate
the line between
competition and
Camaraderie.
Form: adj ready to accept and Mnemonic:
Tone: Negative doing what others Compliansance sounds like
want you to do. Comply which means to
agree to everyones
opinion.
Complaisance
Example: She was a
complaisant wife and
dutiful daughter.
Root: COM means
TOGETHER.
Form: adj If you're trying to Mnemonic: con- means
Tone: positive decide which of your together, genialis means
friends to take on a nuptial, productive;
road trip, choose the Congenial means good-
most congenial one. humored
Congenial
Definitely like Example: It always feels
minded and friendly. great to work in a
Congenial environment.
Root: Con means
TOGETHER.
Form: adj If someone is called Mnemonic: Con' means
Tone: positive 'life of the party' she together, and VIV means
can be called lively. So when together
convival. you call for a lively
environment with your
Convivial friends, its called Convivial
Example: She is a woman
of convival nature, very
fun loving.
Root: Con means
TOGETHER.
Form: adj Use cordial to Mnemonic: You can relate
Tone: positive describe a greeting it to 'chord' that
or relationship that joins/connects two people,
is friendly and and hence calls for a
sincere. Cordial relation.
Cordial
Example: Justice Thomas
did not address the
controversy directly, but
he said relationships on
the court are Cordial.
Form: verb You many not Mnemonic: fraternity
Tone: positive realise it, but when comes from the Latin
you hang out with word, Fraternus, which
your buds, your means brotherly.
fraternize. That is Example: The recession
Fraternize
you associate in a has created an
friendly manner. atmosphere where
disparate groups fraternise
in an atmosphere of
mutual support.
Form: adj If you're friendly Mnemonic: Genial sounds
Tone: positive and outgoing, you're like Genuinely Friendly.
Genial genial. You can be a Example: Bob was always
genial host or a Genial and welcoming , a
genial guest. warm hearted Genial host
Form: adj If you know Mnemonic: it's from the
Tone: positive someone who's Latin word grex, meaning
outgoing, sociable, "herd (animals that live in
and fond of the groups)." Not surprisingly,
Gregarious company of others, people began using it to
you might want to describe humans who liked
call her gregarious. being in groups.
Example: She is very
outgoing and Gregarious.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: noun Camouflage is to Mnemonic: Camouflage is

Tone: Neutral hide, like the leaf- in relation to a chameleon
CARELESS colored and (lizard) who keeps changing
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ patterned uniforms its colors according to
Camouflage worn by soldiers who sorroundings and to hide
GIVE UP (X)
want to blend in with from the enemy.
EASILY AFFECTED their natural Example: The leopard's
surroundings. spots act as (a)
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Camouflage.
EXPRESS USING Form: noun An over-sized, dark Mnemonic: If you were a
GESTURES Tone: Neutral raincoat you wear famous person who wanted
FRIENDLY when you don't want to go out alone, you might
your friends to see Cloak your identity with a
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Cloak you're going to the Cloak.
IMITATE / COMIC movies without Example: Cloaking an
IMITATION them., is a Cloak. issue never helps you get
rid of it, you should face it.
INSPIRING FEAR OR
Form: verb To dissemble is to Mnemonic: If you don't
RESPECT
Tone: Neutral pretend that you want to re-semble (to look
INTERVENOR / LEAD don't know like someone else) yourself,
something, to dis-semble (hide your
IRRITABLE / BAD Dissemble
pretend that you identity) yourself.
TEMPERED think one way when Example: She was a very
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY you act another way. honest person who was
incapable of dissembling.
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED
Form: verb For a more formal Mnemonic: Feign sounds
RESPECT Tone: Neutral way to say pretend like Fake and the meaning
to or imitate, choose remains the same.
SECRET Feign
the verb feign. Example: â€œA present
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY for me?â€ she asked with
Feigned surprise.
TEMPTING / EXCITING
Form: noun Guise, a noun, is the Mnemonic: Guise sounds
TO IRRITATE / MAKE Tone: Neutral art of pretending to like disGuise. Both means
ANGRY be something you the art of hiding
TO THINK aren't, like when, in Example: The story
Guise the guise of an appears in different Guises
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fake your way into
WISE, SHORT SAYING
the party of the
century.
Form: adv When you want to do Mnemonic: consider the
Tone: Neutral something and not word RECOGNITiOn.
be recognized, go Incognito can be
incognito - hiding remembered as IN(-ve
your true identity. prefix)+rRECOGNITiOn, i.e
avoiding recognition among
Incognito the public and to do that
you conceal your identity o
name.
Example: Movie stars often
prefer to travel Incognito.
Root: COG meanS to
KNOW.
Form: noun If you masquerade Mnemonic: Maquerade
Tone: Neutral as a sweet, kind- sounds like mask. To hide
hearted person, you behind a mask.
present that image Example: He was tired of
Masquerade
to the world, hiding the Masquerade and wanted
your true identity as the truth to come out.
a jerk who has rage
issues.
Form: noun The fog might shroud Mnemonic: Shroud sounds
Tone: Neutral the valley, or that like crowd. Like a crowd
long-sleeved, ankle- covers a place which would
length dress might otherwise be silent and
Shroud shroud the tan you vacant, a Shroud is used to
worked so hard on in cover up a place or thing.
Mexico over Example: The organization
Christmas break. is cloaked in a Shroud of
secrecy
Form: noun A travesty is a silly Mnemonic: In Latin, trans-
Tone: Neutral imitation, like a tall means over, vestire means
young man dressed to clothe; in French, travesti
up like a little old means dressed in disguise;
Travesty
lady Travesty means an
outrageous injustice
Example: The trial was a
Travesty of justice.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: noun In contemporary usage, Mnemonic: if you

Tone: positive burlesque is a ironic style of want to ridicule
CARELESS entertainment dating back to Barclay's premier
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ medieval times. league than you can
GIVE UP (X) write Burlesque
premier league.
EASILY AFFECTED Example: So now it
Burlesque
is time to consider
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
better ways to
EXPRESS USING accomplish these
GESTURES goals, ways that don't
turn the appointment
FRIENDLY system into
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Burlesque.
IMITATE / COMIC Form: verb When you emulate someone, Mnemonic: Our
IMITATION Tone: positive you imitate them, especially friend, the late emu,
with the idea of matching (emu-late) sadly died
INSPIRING FEAR OR their success. while trying to imitate
Emulate
RESPECT the flight of an eagle
Example: She hopes
INTERVENOR / LEAD
to Emulate her sister's
IRRITABLE / BAD athletic achievements.
TEMPERED Form: verb A mimic is someone who is Mnemonic: Mimicry
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY Tone: positive good at imitating others. A Example: He
gifted mimic might be able Mimicked Rajnikanth
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED to imitate one president in the class
Mimic
RESPECT after another just by
minimally changing facial
SECRET expression and manner of
speaking.
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
Form: noun A parody is a humorous or Mnemonic:
TEMPTING / EXCITING Tone: positive mocking imitation of Parody..parrot..always
TO IRRITATE / MAKE something, using the same imitates people often
ANGRY form as the original. To in a humorous way.
Parody
parody a poem, you have to Example: His
TO THINK write another poem. personality made him
UNWELCOME INTRUSION an easy subject for
Parody.
WISE, SHORT SAYING
Form: verb When you simulate Mnemonic: In latin,
Tone: positive something you imitate it. similis means like;
Hollywood makeup artists Simulate means
can use pencils and gray imitate
Simulate wigs to simulate old age in a Example: Role-
young actor. It can also playing is a useful
mean to modelâ€“-a way of simulating
computer can simulate real-life situations.
disaster scenarios in cities.
Form: noun a composition that imitates Mnemonic: to spell
Tone: positive or misrepresents somebody's SPOON as Spoof is a
style, usually in a humorous kind of parody,hoax
Spoof
way or Spoof
Example: It's a Spoof
on horror movies.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: noun Awe is a feeling of fear Mnemonic: Awe can
Tone: positive that is mixed with respect be remembered in
CARELESS and wonder. You might connection to
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ Awe gaze at the Grand Canyon Awesome
GIVE UP (X) with awe, marveling at its Example: I'm in Awe
beauty and fearing its of your biking skills.
EASILY AFFECTED depth.
EXAMINE CAREFULLY Form: adj What do the national debt, Mnemonic: In Latin,
Tone: Negative your old gym teacher, and formido means terror,
EXPRESS USING your mother-in-law have dread; Formidable
GESTURES in common? They're all means awesome,
FRIENDLY formidable - that is, they great in size of
Formidable inspire fear and respect difficulty
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE thanks to their size, or Example: In spite of
IMITATE / COMIC special ability, or unusual his Formidable
IMITATION qualities. appearance he had a
certain charm of
INSPIRING FEAR OR manner.
RESPECT
Form: adj Redoubtable means Mnemonic: re-
INTERVENOR / LEAD Tone: positive honorable, maybe even doubt-able :
intimidatingly so. If your Something appears to
IRRITABLE / BAD grandmother worked be so fearful that it
TEMPERED tirelessly to raise four kids makes you doubt
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY Redoubtable on her own and start her again.
own taxi cab business and Example: He was
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED to this day, keeps all of dreading his interview
RESPECT her cabbies in line, she is with the Redoubtable
without a doubt Mrs. Fitton.
SECRET redoubtable.
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
TEMPTING / EXCITING
TO IRRITATE / MAKE
ANGRY
TO THINK
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ALONE / LONELY Form: verb act in an official capacity in

* Officiate Tone: positive a ceremony or religious
CARELESS ritual, such as a wedding
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ Legends:
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EASILY AFFECTED : Words with slightly different
* meaning from the majority of the
EXAMINE CAREFULLY words in a cluster.
EXPRESS USING #
: Words which are neither
GESTURES synonyms nor antonyms.
: The words in this family are
FRIENDLY (+)
used usually in positive context.
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE : The words in this family are
(-)
used usually in negative context.
IMITATE / COMIC
IMITATION
INSPIRING FEAR OR
RESPECT
INTERVENOR / LEAD
IRRITABLE / BAD
TEMPERED
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY
RESPECT
SECRET
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
TEMPTING / EXCITING
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ALONE / LONELY Form: adj Take care not to throw Mnemonic:

Tone: Negative your ball into the yard Cantankerous sounds
CARELESS of the cantankerous like: RANT HIS ANGER
Cantankerous
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ old man down the AT US.
GIVE UP (X) street Example: He is a
Cantankerous old man.
EASILY AFFECTED
Form: noun If you feel chagrin it Mnemonic: Chagrin:
EXAMINE CAREFULLY Tone: Negative means that you are Anita, that poor girl, she
embarrassed or is unlikely to ever grin
EXPRESS USING distressed as a result again after the shame
GESTURES Chagrin of a failure. and disappointment she
FRIENDLY has endured.
Example: To her
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Chagrin, neither of her
IMITATE / COMIC sons became doctors.
IMITATION Form: adj Are you easy to tick Mnemonic: Choleric:
Tone: Negative off? Known to have a sounds like CALL A RICK
INSPIRING FEAR OR
short fuse? Then, you at night in Bangalore
RESPECT
could be described as and you will be bound to
INTERVENOR / LEAD choleric. Choleric just lose your temper/
Choleric means you're testy Choleric because they
IRRITABLE / BAD and irritable. charge any amount they
TEMPERED want to.
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY Example: He was a
Choleric, self-important
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED little man.
RESPECT Form: adj A churlish person is Mnemonic:
Tone: Negative one whose middle chur(church)+lish(wish)-
SECRET
name might as well be church wishes always
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY Rude. Heâ€™s the one not to behave
Churlish who was never taught rude,boorish
TEMPTING / EXCITING to mind his manners Example: It might
TO IRRITATE / MAKE and avoid telling seem Churlish to
ANGRY vulgar jokes at the critique this engaging
dinner table. film on political grounds
TO THINK
Form: noun Old, cranky, and more Mnemonic:
UNWELCOME INTRUSION Tone: Negative than a little stubborn, Curmudgeon: Cur
a curmudgeon is the means a dog and a
WISE, SHORT SAYING
crusty grey haired person who keeps
neighbor who refuses freaking out at others
to hand out candy to a like a dog barks all the
Curmudgeon
child and even time.
snatches the ball Example: You are such
which may have fallen a terrible old
in his yard. Curmudgeon, why do
you keep shouting at my
kids for no reason?
Form: adj An irritable and Mnemonic: Girls always
Tone: Negative unpleasant mood is saying ouch-ouch for
being grouchy. every silly thing, make
guys very irritated &
Grouchy!!! Now you will
Grouchy always remember this
Example: On average,
people are chirpier when
they wake up and
become Grouchy as the
day wears on.
Form: adj It's the kind of short, Mnemonic: Gruff is the
Tone: Negative brusque response perfect adjective to
you'd give a describe a irritated old
telemarketer who man who rarely leaves
called you in the his house and yells at
Gruff
middle of dinner - any children who dare to
right before you hung cross his lawn.
up. That when you Example: Beneath his
gruff. Gruff exterior, he's
really a nice guy.
Form: adj If you're irascible, you Mnemonic: Root word
Tone: Negative get angry easily - for Irascible is IRE:
Irascible perhaps blowing up in which means ANGER.
rage when someone Example: He had an
brushes into you. Irascible temper.
Form: adj Irritable feeling calls Mnemonic: Testiness
Tone: Negative for testiness. sounds like testing of
patience. When you lose
it, you are irritated.
Example: "Why do you
Testiness
laugh at me?" she
inquired, with a frank
Testiness that pleased
me better than her other
talk.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: adj Use lascivious to describe a Mnemonic: Lascivious

Tone: Negative person's behavior that is means lewd
CARELESS driven by thoughts of sex. If Example: He was
Lascivious
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ someone gives you a fired for making
GIVE UP (X) lascivious smile, they've got Lascivious remarks to
only one thing in mind. a co-worker.
EASILY AFFECTED
Form: adj To be lecherous is to be full Mnemonic: lecher
EXAMINE CAREFULLY Tone: Negative of strong sexual desire and means to live in sin.
to act on it, usually in an Any indecent activity is
EXPRESS USING Lecherous unpleasant way. definitely sinful.
GESTURES Example: He had a
FRIENDLY Lecherous gleam in his
eye.
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE
Form: adj A leer is a grin that isn't Mnemonic: Leer is to
IMITATE / COMIC Tone: Negative friendly. A leer means the stare without fear.
IMITATION person doesn't like you, or Example: Leering
Leer
even worse, does - in a objectionably at others
INSPIRING FEAR OR
creepy way. is utterly frustrating
RESPECT
and intolerable.
INTERVENOR / LEAD Form: adj Making lewd remarks are Mnemonic: Lewd
IRRITABLE / BAD Tone: Negative sexually inappropriate. sounds like too loud to
TEMPERED Personal and sexually appear crude and
explicit comments might be indecent.
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY acceptable when said in Example: His Lewd
Lewd
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED private but they are not all behavior and
right when said to strangers suggestions offended
RESPECT in public. his students and they
denied attending his
SECRET
classes.
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY Form: adj When people are lured into Mnemonic: In latin,
TEMPTING / EXCITING Tone: Negative looking at something, they Luridis means pale,
may be drawn to it because yellow, ghastly; thus,
TO IRRITATE / MAKE it's a shocking, graphic, or Lurid means
ANGRY Lurid
horrible scene, something scandalous, obscene.
TO THINK lurid and very vivid that Example: She was
pulls them in. wearing a Lurid orange
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WISE, SHORT SAYING Form: adj Obscene describes Mnemonic: Ob means
Tone: Negative something that is morally against and any scene
offensive way. (movie) that is not
worth seeing , is
Obscene.
Obscene Example: It's
Obscene to waste so
much on food when
millions are starving.
Root: Prefix OB means
AGAINST
Form: adj When you ogle someone, Mnemonic: Ogle
Tone: Negative you look at them with love sounds like eagle, who
or desire in mind. And if always waits to first
you're a cartoon character, eye a victim and then
Ogle
you might also be drooling. target it.
Example: He is not in
the habit of ogling at
women.
Form: adj Things that are seamy have Mnemonic: Seamy
Tone: Negative lost all morality. Your reminds me of shoaib
mother wouldn't approve of akhtar who's a seam
you going to a seamy video bowler and he is so
arcade, especially not if you fast that it is Seamy or
went with a group of seamy unpleasant for the
Seamy
people. batsman who is facing
him.
Example: He was
always attracted
towards a Seamy way
of life.
Form: adj Describe a person's actions Mnemonic: She lived
Tone: Negative as sordid if they are so in very Sordid housing
immoral or unethical that conditions, under a
they seem dirty. Think of bridge to be exact, so
the worst parts of a bad that the SORE DID not
Sordid
soap opera! heal properly.
Example: It was a
shock to discover the
truth about his Sordid
past.
Form: adj Vulgar is a great word that Mnemonic: He had a
Tone: Negative combines a bunch of vultures eyes, too
different meanings into one, eager to scan through
chief among them: crude, distatesful things.
Vulgar
crass, common, uncouth, Example: The Vulgar
sometimes raunchy. It decoration spoilt the
depends on who's saying it mood and ambience of
and why. the party.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: noun An incumbent is an official Mnemonic: The head

Tone: Negative who holds an office. If you of citibank currently
CARELESS want to run for congress, holding an office gets a
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ you're going to have to bright red ink umbrella
GIVE UP (X) beat the incumbent. that paints him red
when it rains
Incumbent
EASILY AFFECTED Example: Voters are
usually reluctant to
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
toss out Incumbents
EXPRESS USING who bring
GESTURES improvement, however
limited.
FRIENDLY
Form: adj Scientists believe that one Mnemonic: Sedentary
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Tone: Negative of the causes of the sounds like sit and do
IMITATE / COMIC obesity epidemic sweeping all the entries in the
IMITATION the US is our sedentary book all day long, like
lifestyle. Sedentary means a cashier or librarian.
INSPIRING FEAR OR sitting a lot and refers to a Example: The
RESPECT Sedentary person or job that is not researchers say the
very physically active. opportunities for
INTERVENOR / LEAD
Sedentary behaviour in
IRRITABLE / BAD modern society such as
TEMPERED watching TV, sitting in
a car or using a
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY computer is becoming
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED Form: noun If you have a cushy job â Mnemonic: Sinecure
RESPECT Tone: Negative €” one that pays, but sounds like insecure. I
involves minimal work - became very insecure
SECRET then you have a sinecure. when my boss assigned
me to do a job with
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
few responsibilities;
TEMPTING / EXCITING maybe he doesn't think
i'm responsible.
TO IRRITATE / MAKE Sinecure
Example: Because he
ANGRY was the brother of the
TO THINK CEO, he was offered a
Sinecure in the
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WISE, SHORT SAYING up each day and
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ALONE / LONELY Form: v To commemorate Mnemonic: come +

Tone: positive something means to memory(ative)
CARELESS remember something remembering
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ and by doing so to something and
GIVE UP (X) honor it, as in â€œWe honouring.
Cemmemorate
would like to Example: A series of
EASILY AFFECTED commemorate his many movies will be shown
years of past service by to commemorate the
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
presenting him with this 30th anniversary of
EXPRESS USING lovely gold watch.â€ his death.
GESTURES Form: noun Sure you wear ripped Mnemonic: de-
FRIENDLY Tone: positive jeans to school every means down, away;
day, but you don't wear ferre means to carry;
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE them to your if you let someone
IMITATE / COMIC grandmother's house out carry away a matter,
IMITATION of deference to her. you are showing
Deference When you show respectful submission
INSPIRING FEAR OR deference to someone, or Deference to their
RESPECT you make a gesture of competence
respect. Example: The
INTERVENOR / LEAD
DEFinite difFERENCE
IRRITABLE / BAD between good and
TEMPERED bad manners.
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY Form: v You might like your Mnemonic: In Latin,
Tone: Negative manager, but if you ex- means out, altus
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED exalt her, it means you means high; if you
RESPECT really put her on a hold someone in
pedestal and treat her 'high' regard, you
SECRET like royalty. Exalt or praise them
Example: The chefs
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY Exalt
gave the young man
TEMPTING / EXCITING high praise for
inventing an egg
TO IRRITATE / MAKE flavored salt, and
ANGRY quickly began to use
TO THINK it in all their
sandwiches.
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Form: adj To hallow is to bless, Mnemonic: Hallow =
WISE, SHORT SAYING Tone: positive consecrate, or render Hall+ow; in a prayer
holy by means of 'Hall' religious
religious rites, especially programs are held
Hallow
significant religious Example: Their
places or the relics of wedding was
saints. Hallowed by a
friendly priest
Form: noun Homage means great Mnemonic: Homage
Tone: positive respect and honor, or = Home + Age; In
something done to our culture, we
honor a person or thing. respect the aged
Homage We pay homage to our persons of our home.
ancestors and say Example: He
prayers in homage to describes his book as
their memory. â€œa Homage to my
father.â€
Form: v Revere means that to Mnemonic: In Latin,
Tone: positive respect someone so re- is an intensive
deeply that you almost prefix; vereri means
worship them. Despite to stand in awe or
the size of the American fear
military, the American Example: From
Revere
people revere earliest childhood she
peacemakers like Martin had been taught to
Luther King, Jr. and Revere and love
Mahatma Gandhi. Rock bishops of her church.
stars are revered by
throngs of devoted fa
Form: v To venerate is to Mnemonic: In latin
Tone: positive worship, adore, be in venus means beauty,
awe of. You probably love, desire; you
don't venerate your cherish respectfullyor
teacher or boss; Venerate something
Venerate however, you may act that you love and find
like you do! beautiful
Example: U RATE
someone higher.. you
TREAT THEM WITH
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ALONE / LONELY Form: adj Pick the adjective, Mnemonic:

Tone: Negative clandestine, to describe Clandestine--break it
CARELESS something that is done in like clan + destine--
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ secret, like your What our DESTINy
GIVE UP (X) clandestine attempts to has in store for us
steal your brother's candy. remains a big secret
Clandestine
EASILY AFFECTED to everyone.
Example: The CIA
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
might run a
EXPRESS USING Clandestine operation
GESTURES to infiltrate terrorist
organizations.
FRIENDLY
Form: adj Think soldiers in masks Mnemonic: Covert
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Tone: Negative secretly infiltrating an sounds like Cover up
IMITATE / COMIC enemy stronghold, a and attack secretly.
IMITATION covert operation is one Example: The
Covert that no one but the teachers weren't
INSPIRING FEAR OR president and a few impressed by the
RESPECT generals know is students' Covert
happening. attempt to derail the
INTERVENOR / LEAD
discussion.
IRRITABLE / BAD Form: adj Let's hope the teacher Mnemonic: Furtive
TEMPERED Tone: Negative doesn't see your furtive sounds like
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY attempts to pass notes in 'FLIRT'ive.. So a
class! flirtly look is always
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED Furtive
SNEAKY...!!
RESPECT Example: She cast a
Furtive glance over
SECRET her shoulder.
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY Form: adj In figurative use, oblique Mnemonic: By
Tone: negative/ means indirect or correcting the clerk's
TEMPTING / EXCITING neutral purposely misleading. "Mrs." with "That's
TO IRRITATE / MAKE "What is two plus two?" Ms. now," the woman
ANGRY "Fish!" as an answer is made an Oblique
completely oblique. reference to her
TO THINK Oblique
change in marital
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Example: He
WISE, SHORT SAYING referred only
Obliquely to their
recent problems.
Form: adj An overt attempt to get Mnemonic: Here's
Tone: Negative your teacher off-track your trick for
might fail. Instead, try remembering the
asking subtle questions difference between
about her kids, and she'll overt and covert:
Overt (X)
stay off topic all class. overt = "open,"
covert = "covered."
Example: There was
little overt support for
the project.
Form: verb Skulking is cowardly. It Mnemonic: HULK
Tone: Negative means hiding out, either SkulkED through the
because you're trying to city to avoid being
pull something off in noticed by COPS.
Skulk
secret, or you're trying to Example: There was
get out of doing someone Skulking
something you're behind the bushes.
supposed to be doing.
Form: adj When you're sly, you're Mnemonic: When
Tone: Negative crafty, cunning, tricky, and you LIE you are Sly!!
Sly
wily. If you're good at Example: He is as
lying, you're quite sly. Sly as a fox.
Form: noun Stealth means to do Mnemonic: Stealth
Tone: Negative something so quietly and and steal come from
carefully that no one the same root word
notices, like the stealth of and used to mean the
a kitten sneaking up on a same thing.
Stealth
mouse. Example: if you plan
a birthday party by
Stealth, then the
guest of honor will be
pleasantly surprised.
Form: adj When someone behaves in Mnemonic: You have
Tone: Negative a surreptitious way, to be Surreptitious to
they're being secretive. text in class without
They're doing something being caught.
that they don't want to be Example: The
Surreptitious seen doing. members of the
secret society hold
Surreptitious
meetings because,
well, they're a secret
society.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: verb To take something, Mnemonic: Appropriate

Tone: Negative someone's ideas, etc. = a + property + iate..
CARELESS for your own use, i.e. to make it your own
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ especially illegally or property.. by force if
GIVE UP (X) without permission required.. And also when
Appropriate you are appropriating it
EASILY AFFECTED your self you are
"allocating" it to yourself.
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
Example: He was
EXPRESS USING accused of appropriating
GESTURES club funds.
FRIENDLY Form: verb The extra coats that are Mnemonic: In latin, di-
Tone: Negative taking up space in your means apart and vestire
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE closet,, when you divest means to clothe; you get
IMITATE / COMIC them, you get rid of it. rid of clothes by selling
IMITATION Divest them; thus Divest means
sell.
INSPIRING FEAR OR Example: The company
RESPECT is Divesting itself of some
of its assets.
INTERVENOR / LEAD
Form: verb If you really like your Mnemonic: It sounds a
IRRITABLE / BAD Tone: Negative neighbor's house, you lot like another verb,
TEMPERED may wish you could appropriate and has a
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY expropriate the similar meaning..from
property. the common root word:
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED Own
Expropriate
RESPECT Example: a state may
Expropriate property in
SECRET order to build a new
road.
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
Root: EX means OUT OF,
TEMPTING / EXCITING FROM
TO IRRITATE / MAKE Form: verb If everyone at the lunch Mnemonic: Pre means
ANGRY Tone: Negative meeting is vying for the before and -empt sounds
last roast chicken like attemptâ€¦So when
TO THINK sandwich, but you grab you attempt to do
UNWELCOME INTRUSION it first, you preempt something before anyone
your colleagues from else does it is called
Preempt
WISE, SHORT SAYING getting it. Preempt
Example: A good
training course will
Preempt many problems.
Root: PRE means
BEFORE
Form: verb If you take over your Mnemonic: Here's the
Tone: Negative neighbor's backyard and secret to stealing a chef's
claim his in-ground power: use herbsâ
swimming pool as your €¦Usurp.
Usurp
own, you might seize Example: The old guard
control of, or usurp his being Usurped by the
yard, but he'll probably new.
call the cops on you.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: adj The adjective erotic is often Mnemonic: Greek
Tone: Neutral used to describe a personâ word erotikos, from
CARELESS €™s carnal desires. eros or erot-,
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ meaning â€œsexual
Erotic love.
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Example: An Erotic
EASILY AFFECTED art seems to be
appealing if depicted
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
sensually.
EXPRESS USING Form: adj Seductive is an adjective that Mnemonic: The word
GESTURES Tone: Neutral describes the fascinating comes from the Latin
FRIENDLY magnetic pull that someone seducere, meaning â
or something has, an €œdraw aside.â€
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Seductive attractive quality that tempts Example: Radio
IMITATE / COMIC you in some way. people often have
IMITATION Seductive voices that
lull you to sleep
INSPIRING FEAR OR
Form: adj Sensual means physically Mnemonic: Sensual
RESPECT
Tone: Neutral pleasing. is related to senses.
INTERVENOR / LEAD Sensual Example: Food is a
great Sensual
IRRITABLE / BAD experience.
TEMPERED
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY
RESPECT
SECRET
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
TEMPTING / EXCITING
TO IRRITATE / MAKE
ANGRY
TO THINK
UNWELCOME INTRUSION
WISE, SHORT SAYING
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ALONE / LONELY Form: adj When an employee is Mnemonic: Disgrunt

Tone: Negative dissatisfied by her bad is like grunt that is a
CARELESS working condition, they are low sound made
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ disgruntled. when you are not
GIVE UP (X) satisfied, angry.
Disgruntled Example: I went to
EASILY AFFECTED five high schools in
four years and was
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
very Disgruntled
EXPRESS USING Root: DIS means
GESTURES APART, NOT
FRIENDLY Form: verb To exasperate is to make Mnemonic: I become
Tone: Negative something that is already angry getting "eggs
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE bad even worse, by asking as per rate"â
IMITATE / COMIC the waiter continuously €¦.Exasperate
Exasperate
IMITATION "what are all the ingredients Example: Her moods
in the salad dressing?" and Exasperated him.
INSPIRING FEAR OR making him repeat the
RESPECT specials five times.
INTERVENOR / LEAD Form: noun When you grate something Mnemonic: Grater
Tone: Negative you rip it to shreds, can almost seem as if
IRRITABLE / BAD similarly someone annoys a cheese Grater has
TEMPERED you extremely, you feel like been applied to your
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY you are being grated nerves and is slowly
Grate ripping them to
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED shreds.
RESPECT Example: He kept
staring at her and it
SECRET began to Grate on her
nerves.
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
Form: verb A harangue is more than a Mnemonic: HAR
TEMPTING / EXCITING Tone: Negative speech, louder than a (her) + ANGUE
TO IRRITATE / MAKE discussion, and nastier than (anger) = she
ANGRY a lecture. VERBALLY ATTACKED
me because of HER
TO THINK Harangue ANGER at me.
UNWELCOME INTRUSION Example: He walked
to the front of the
WISE, SHORT SAYING stage and began to
Harangue the
audience.
Form: verb when in a political Mnemonic: Heckle
Tone: Negative campaign a leader delivers sounds like tickle.
his speech, and you tend to Like when you are
interrupt him by shouting or busy doing something
questioning, you are and your
Heckle heckling him sister/brother tickles
you and interrupts it
is called Heckle.
Example: He was
Heckled throughout
his speech.
Form: noun If recess gets canceled for Mnemonic:
Tone: Negative everyone because two Indignation traces
students get into a fight, back to the Latin
the rest of the student body prefix in- "not" and
will respond with root dignus "worthy"
indignation. and means anger at
Indignation
something that is
unfair or unjust.
Example: The
increase in plane
fares has aroused
public Indignation.
Form: verb People talking too loudly on Mnemonic: Fury is a
Tone: Negative their phones, the word for "anger" that
cancellation of your favorite should help with this
Infuriate TV show is infuriating word
Example: Her silence
Infuriated him even
more.
Form: adj If your little brother keeps Mnemonic: Irksome
Tone: Negative saying the same phrase sounds like Tiresome
over and over again, you and thatâ€™s the
might find it irksomeâ€¦its meaning.
Irksome
annoying and tiresome. Example: what an
Irksome task the
writing of long letters
is
Form: adj If you are miffed you are Mnemonic: If there
Tone: Negative slightly annoyed and hurt is a tiff with someone
because of something which you are Miffed.
Miffed someone has done or said. Example: She's a
little Miffed that we're
not taking her with
us.
Form: verb When you continuously Mnemonic: Nag
Tone: Negative keep finding fault in a sounds like Dragâ
person simply because you €¦.when you keep
donâ€™t like them or keep dragging on an issue
asking for something that for too long which is
Nag
your father may not not important any
wanting to give you, you more, its Nagging.
are nagging Example: My girl
friend Nagged me to
cut my hair.
Form: noun If you know what a nettle Mnemonic: A kid
Tone: Negative isâ€”that is, a barbed seed sister, a mosquito, an
that gets stuck in your angry boyfriend, or a
clothes and hair..you will hot, muggy day: all
know how annoying and of these are examples
irritating it is. of things that might
Nettle Nettle a person.
Example: Stop
nettling when am
focussing on my
workâ€¦the angry
brother shrieked out
at his sister.
Form: noun when a person drives too Mnemonic: If
Tone: Negative slowly on the highway, it someone keeps
seems to be peevishâ peeping at you from
€¦annoying, frustrating. the back seat of the
bus continuously, you
will definitely get
Peeve irritated/Peeved
Example: When a
baby sitting beside
you keeps crying
while you watching a
movie, it seems
peevish
Form: noun The verb pique means to Mnemonic: Pique
Tone: Negative make someone angry or sounds like prick,
annoyed. when someone or
something pricks you
Pique get angry.
Example: When he
realized no one was
listening to him, he
left in a fit of Pique.
Form: verb If something vexes you, it Mnemonic: Vex
Tone: Negative bring you irritation, bothers, sounds like mess,
worries. when someone
messes around you
feel Vexed (irritated)
Example: New
research findings
Vex
announced today
offer a small, albeit
promising,
breakthrough in
addressing the
Vexing issue of
waste.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: verb Cogitate is a fancy was of Mnemonic: Cogitate

Tone: Positive saying think hard. If you can be related to
CARELESS spend a lot of time figuring cognitive thinking.
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ out exactly how your Cog always means to
GIVE UP (X) French teacher does her know, so when you
hair, you are cogitating in know about
EASILY AFFECTED order to avoid conjugating. something and have
Cogitate
knowledge about the
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
same you think
EXPRESS USING deeply.
GESTURES Example: I have
been cogitating all
FRIENDLY day about this issue
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE but getting nowhere.
IMITATE / COMIC Form: v Before you accept a job Mnemonic: its too
IMITATION Tone: neutral/ offer, or a college's offer of late now to show
positive admission, you should take contempt over this
INSPIRING FEAR OR time to contemplate the issue. Just think
RESPECT pros and cons of your carefully and take a
Contemplate
decision. If you decision.
INTERVENOR / LEAD
contemplate something, Example: You are
IRRITABLE / BAD you think about it too young to be
TEMPERED carefully. contemplating
retirement.
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY
Form: adj To deliberate means to Mnemonic:
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED Tone: neutral/ carefully think or talk Deliberate sounds like
RESPECT positive something through - it also Daily-berate, i.e. you
means slow and measured, are berated or
SECRET the pace of this kind of scolded everyday,
careful decision making. If you need to think
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
Deliberate you chose deliberately, you why it is happening
TEMPTING / EXCITING make a very conscious, with you everyday.
well-thought-through Example: The
TO IRRITATE / MAKE choice. speech was a
ANGRY Deliberate attempt to
TO THINK embarrass the
government.
UNWELCOME INTRUSION
Form: noun reflect on one's own Mnemonic: Intro
WISE, SHORT SAYING Tone: neutral/ thoughts and feelings means inside and
positive spect means to see.
So to look within is
Introspection.
Example: These
situations are best
Introspect
resolved with the
minimum of
Introspection or self-
analysis.
Root: Intro means
INSIDE and SPECT is
to SEE
Form: v The verb mull means to Mnemonic: when
Tone: neutral/ think deeply about you are considering
positive something, the way you an offer for 5 days,
might mull over your you are Mulling over
Mull choice of what college to it
attend. Example: I need
some time to Mull it
over before making a
decision.
Form: noun As a verb, to muse is to Mnemonic: Muse is
Tone: Positive consider something to use your brains
thoughtfully. and think over
something for long.
Muse Example:
philosophers have
mulled over the
question of God for
thousands of years
Form: adj See that person staring Example: Rainy days
Tone: neut/neg out the window who looks often put her in a
Pensive so sad and lost in thought? Pensive mood.
He is pensive, the opposite
of cheery and carefree.
Form: v "Once upon a midnight Mnemonic: In Latin,
Tone: Positive dreary, while I pondered, Ponder means weigh
weak and weary" is the on the mind; thus
first line of Edgar Allen Ponder means think
Poe's poem The Raven. about
Ponder
Many a deep thinker has Example: She
repeated it while musing. Pondered over his
But if you've given up words, because a
deep thinking, you may serious decision was
say instead, "Nevermore." to be taken.
Form: v If you reflect on your past Mnemonic: to
Tone: Positive experiences, you look at understand the
them once again concepts of Reflection
thoughtfully. of light, we have to
think deeply and
Reflect
study
Example: She was
left to Reflect on the
implications of her
decision.
Form: v When you ruminate, it Mnemonic: In Latin,
Tone: Positive means you are thinking ruminare means to
very deeply about chew cud, turn over
something. You're likely to in the mind. When we
be so lost in thought that sit alone in a room
you stare off into space (rum-inate), we start
Ruminate and don't hear people thinking about
when they call your name. random things.
Example: From
placement point of
view, here are some
points to Ruminate
upon.
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ALONE / LONELY Form: verb To encroach is to overstep Mnemonic: Encroach

Tone: Negative your bounds, to take over sounds like cockroach.
CARELESS space or rights that belong Say, a cockroach creeps
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ to another, like your brother inside your bed while
GIVE UP (X) whose mess always you are sleeping, forget
encroaches on your side of about dislike you will
EASILY AFFECTED the room you share. scream because its
Encroach
disgusting.
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
Example: Someone
EXPRESS USING whose questions get
GESTURES more and more
personal, which
FRIENDLY Encroaches on your
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE privacy.
IMITATE / COMIC Form: verb Whether you have a habit of Mnemonic: Impinge-
IMITATION Tone: Negative standing too close when im + ping(e)..Someone
talking to others or bringing continuously pinging
INSPIRING FEAR OR luggage on a crowded rush- you while chatting
RESPECT hour subway car, you'll find means he or she wants
people don't like it when to influence you and
INTERVENOR / LEAD
you impinge on their then touch your heart.
IRRITABLE / BAD Impinge personal space. Example: Constantly
TEMPERED inviting your friend to
go shopping and meet
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY you in nice restaurants
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED might Impinge on her
desire to save money.
RESPECT Root: IM here means
SECRET INTO
Form: verb When you infringe on Mnemonic: Fringe
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
Tone: Negative someone's space, time, or refers to BORDERS, so
TEMPTING / EXCITING rights, you're getting if someone tries to
involved in a way that is not cross the borders
TO IRRITATE / MAKE Infringe cool. That's why, when you forcefully, it should not
ANGRY violate a copyright, you're be tolerated.
TO THINK said to infringe upon it. Example: The material
can be copied without
UNWELCOME INTRUSION infringing copyright.
WISE, SHORT SAYING Form: verb When someone says, â€œI Mnemonic: This verb is
Tone: Negative hate to intrude, butâ€¦â€ derived from the Latin,
you can bet she is in fact Intrudere, in which the
going to interrupt your in- means â€œintoâ€
Intrude conversation or insert her and -trudere means, â
opinion, even though it isnâ €œto thrust.â€
€™t wanted. Example: Loud music
could Intrude into your
studying.
Form: verb If you want to be rude, Mnemonic: Obtrude
Tone: Negative you'll obtrude, or thrust sounds like rude that is
yourself to the front of a when someone is
line without waiting. climbing through your
kitchen window is
someone who chooses
Obtrude to Obtrude, or forcefully
enter your home.
Example: Music from
the next room Obtruded
upon his thoughts.
Root: OB means
AGAINST
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ALONE / LONELY Form: noun Moms and dads love Mnemonic: Adage
Tone: Neutral adages such as "early to sounds like adding age
CARELESS bed early to rise" and "an to a saying by using it
CONFIRM / DECLARE/ apple a day keeps the several times.
Adage
GIVE UP (X) doctor away." Example: According to
the old Adage, a picture
EASILY AFFECTED is worth a thousand
words.
EXAMINE CAREFULLY
Form: noun "People who live in glass Mnemonic: a+phrase :
EXPRESS USING Tone: Neutral houses shouldn't throw Remember Navjot Singh
GESTURES stones." is an aphorism sidhu for his proverbs
FRIENDLY which is apt and witty. which he would share in
the cricket commentary:
HIDE / COVER / DISGUISE Aphorism Aphorism
IMITATE / COMIC Example: They force
IMITATION us, in other words, to
remember Ronald
INSPIRING FEAR OR Reaganâ€™s Aphorism:
RESPECT trust, but verify.
INTERVENOR / LEAD Form: noun An apothegm is a short Mnemonic: The
Tone: Neutral instructive saying that's hooligans overheard the
IRRITABLE / BAD easy to remember and man trying to be witty
TEMPERED sometimes even slightly diverting attention
OFFENSIVE / LUSTY witty, like "haste makes saying "ape... oh. them!"
waste." / Apothegm
OFFICE OR JOB RELATED Apothegm
Example: "Necessity,"
RESPECT says the old Apothegm,
"is the mother of
SECRET invention."
Root: APO means FROM,
TAKE AWAY FORCIBLY
AWAY FROM
TEMPTING / EXCITING Form: noun One of Oscar Wilde's Mnemonic: If you've
TO IRRITATE / MAKE Tone: Neutral many memorable ever seen an inscription
ANGRY epigrams is "I can resist on, say, the back of a
everything but watch, you know the
TO THINK temptation." writing has to be brief.
Epigram
UNWELCOME INTRUSION That is an Epigram
Example: "Don't sweat
WISE, SHORT SAYING the small stuff." is an
Epigram.
Root: EPI means UPON.
Form: noun "Early to bed, early to Mnemonic: I believe in
Tone: Neutral rise, makes a man the Maxim, 'if it ain't
healthy, wealthy, and broke, don't fix it'.
Maxim wise." This is a maxim Example: An overused
which is like great sayings Maxim of real estate is
everybody knows. "Location, location,
location."
Form: adj A pithy phrase or Mnemonic: The pith is
Tone: Neutral statement is brief but full an essential part of a
of substance and fruit, but small; thus
meaning. Proverbs and Pithy means small but
Pithy
sayings are pithy substantial
Example: They finally
got to the pith of the
discussion.
Form: noun When you are asked to Mnemonic: its a rule to
Tone: Neutral behave following certain PRE SET(cept)the oven
rules like "give your ears before cooking.
Precept
to everyone, but your Example: The law of
voice to a few"â€¦it is nature has but one
considered a precept Precept, "Be strong."
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ACCUSE Form: noun An aspersion is a Mnemonic: Finding

Tone: neg disparaging remark. It out that a field-
ALERT almost invariably appears hockey coach had
ATTRACT / FASCINATE as a plural, following the never played the
word "cast" - when you cast sports might cast
BEGINNER / Aspersion aspersions on someone, you Aspersions on her
INEXPERIENCED / are questioning their ability to coach it.
IMMATURE abilities or doubting them. Example: I wouldn't
want to cast
BRAVE
Aspersions on your
DELAY /POSTPONE honesty.
DISREPUTE / BAD Form: noun the making of false Mnemonic: Calumny
REPUTATION Tone: neg statements to damage rhymes with ALUMNI-
someones reputation. -imagine yourself
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL slandering and
FALSEHOOD defaming some of
Calumny
your college ALUMNI
FEAR / LACKING Example: He
COURAGE accused the press of
publishing vicious
FLUENT / CLEAR
calumnies.
GENUINE Form: verb Even though Joan Jett sang Mnemonic: de(do
GLOOMY / DARK / Tone: neg about not minding her bad away with) +
HOPELESS reputation, most of us don't fame...so taking away
want others to defame us. somebody's
HIGHEST POINT To defame is to gossip, fame...defaming
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE Defame even if the story is made- someone.
up, with the goal of hurting Example: The
NATIVE / LOCAL someone's image. newspaper denies any
intention to Defame
PUZZLING
the senator's
RUDE reputation.
SELF-OBSESSED Form: noun a written document that is Mnemonic: Libel is
Tone: neg for damaging someones's close to label.WE
SHY reputation. always tend to LABEL
UNINTENTIONAL people by their
shortcomings, thus
Libel
UNINTERESTING Libel=defamatory
statement
WIDESPREAD
Example: He sued
WORKING UNDER the newspaper for
ANOTHER Libel.
Form: verb evil in nature or effect. Mnemonic:
Tone: neg mal=bad,
ling=related to
language
(lingual)...so,
Malign=use of bad
language Also, it's
Malign
opposite of BENIGN
Example: She feels
she has been much
Maligned by the
press.
Root: Prefix MAL
refers to BAD
Form: noun strong public criticism , Mnemonic:
Tone: neg public abuse. etymologically OB-
'against' and LOQUY-
'talk'. Therefore
Obloquy means to
TALK AGAINST
Obloquy SOMEONE,i.e.
SLANDER
Example: Her family
tried to shield her
from public Obloquy.
Root: Prefix OB
means AGAINST
Form: noun Bad behavior leads to Mnemonic: If you
Tone: neg opprobrium. If you throw a take OPIUM(banned
soft drink off the theater drug) you will be
balcony, the opprobrium criticized, humiliated
might keep you from & put to shame.
Opprobrium
getting dates to the Example: The
movies. bombing has
attracted
international
Opprobrium.
Form: noun If you call your teacher a Mnemonic: its like
Tone: neg "dirty toad," you're going throwing sand on
to get into troubleâ€“â someone's reputation
€“she'll call you out on the Example: He's suing
Slander
slander. Slander is the act them for Slander.
of making a false, negative
spoken statement about
someone.
Form: verb making damaging Mnemonic: Slur -
Tone: neg accusations against blur : Blur is
someone. something that is not
clear to the eyes
(vision) and Slur is
Slur not clear in Sound !
Example: She
accused the
programme of
Slurring the
company's name.
Form: verb To vilify someone is to Mnemonic: Vilify (to
Tone: neg spread nasty stories about speak ill of) is to
them, whether true or not. make someone out to
Vilify be a villain
Example: The Nazi
propaganda vilified
the Jews
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ACCUSE Form: adj Use vigilant to Mnemonic: If you stay

Tone: pos describe someone awake all night, you're
ALERT who keeps awake and keeping watch or keeping a
ATTRACT / FASCINATE alert in order to avoid vigil.
VIGILANT
danger or problems. Example: A pilot must
BEGINNER / remain VIGILANT at all times.
INEXPERIENCED / Root: Prefix VIGIL refers to
IMMATURE SEEING
BRAVE Form: verb make less hostile, win Mnemonic: A criminal
Tone: neg over. threatens another with small
DELAY /POSTPONE arms. the other dices his
DISREPUTE / BAD arms and after the diss arm
X Disarm
REPUTATION he takes away his weapon
Example: Most of the rebels
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL were captured and disarmed.
FALSEHOOD Root: Prefix DIS means NOT
Form: verb an incompetent Mnemonic: Slouch sounds
FEAR / LACKING
Tone: neg person; usually used like slow. And so is a person
COURAGE
in negative who is slouch.
FLUENT / CLEAR X Slouch constructions. Example: One felt that
people were able to slouch a
GENUINE bit and slip off too tight
GLOOMY / DARK / shoes.
HOPELESS
HIGHEST POINT
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE
NATIVE / LOCAL
PUZZLING
RUDE
SELF-OBSESSED
SHY
UNINTENTIONAL
UNINTERESTING
WIDESPREAD
WORKING UNDER
ANOTHER
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ACCUSE Form: adj Something arresting Mnemonic: when

Tone: pos commands your someone gets
ALERT attention. It's ARRESTed, he is all
ATTRACT / FASCINATE stunning, and you over the news paper
can't turn away. and hets ATTRACTING
ARRESTING
BEGINNER / ATTENTION of all
INEXPERIENCED / Example: An
IMMATURE ARRESTING song is one
you always want to
BRAVE
hear.
DELAY /POSTPONE Form: verb Some people are able Mnemonic: CAPTIVATE
DISREPUTE / BAD Tone: pos to captivate with wit comes from Capture ,
REPUTATION and charm, others the only difference is
with physical beauty, CAPTIVATE is used in a
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL still others with positive context. To
FALSEHOOD intelligence. attract someones
CAPTIVATE attention.
FEAR / LACKING Example: The children
COURAGE were CAPTIVATEd by
her stories.
FLUENT / CLEAR
Root: Prefix CAP
GENUINE means to TAKE or
SEIZE.
GLOOMY / DARK /
HOPELESS Form: adj When you like Mnemonic: enam+orâ
Tone: pos something a lot (often €”ENAM(inaamâ€”a
HIGHEST POINT in a negative sense). prize in hindi), when
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE someone gets inaam,
he is filled with LOVE
NATIVE / LOCAL and HAPPINESS and is
center of ATTRACTION
PUZZLING ENAMORED
for all
RUDE Example: The tourists
have always been
SELF-OBSESSED enamoured by the
SHY beauty of Niagara Falls.
Root: refix EN- refers
UNINTENTIONAL to IN
UNINTERESTING Form: verb Whether it's a thrilling Mnemonic: En (enter)
Tone: pos action-adventure film, Hall: when you enter a
WIDESPREAD
or that enigmatic girl gigantic and exclusively
WORKING UNDER you see on the decored hall you are
ANOTHER subway, when ENTHRALled
something is so Example: He is a star
ENTHRAL
fascinating that it performer whose grace,
holds all your skill, and virtuosity
attention, it is said to ENTHRALl the
enthrall. audiences.
Root: refix EN- refers
to IN
Form: verb Have you ever had a Mnemonic: In means
Tone: pos ridiculous crush on Not and Fatuate: When
someone that's made you are not (in) fat,
you act foolishly? That you would look
person infatuated or attractive and people
INFATUATE
inspired unreasonable will be attracted
passion in you, towards you and may
causing you to become even be In-Fat-uated.
infatuated. Example: His new car
has INFATUATEd him
Form: verb You meet someone Mnemonic:
Tone: pos and you canâ€™t take MESMERIZE sounds
your eyes off them, like memorizeâ€”if you
like you are connected memorize all vocab
by an invisible cord words you can
and canâ€™t break ATTRACT(HYPNOTIZE)
MESMERIZE free. Those kinds of anyone with your good
people have the power communication skills,
to mesmerize. especially at your work
place.
Example: They were
MESMERIZEd by her
performance.
Form: noun Rapture is a feeling of Mnemonic: En
Tone: pos emotional ecstasy so RAPTURE: the word
magical it's almost as RAPTURE means
if you've been ecstasy, i listen the rap
RAPTURE transported to some music with great
other world. RAPTURE.
Example: Charles
listened with RAPTURE
to her singing.
Form: noun When you watch a Mnemonic: RIVET is
Tone: pos movie which though used to hold two metal
scary, you appreciate plates together.
the dark somber look RIVETing is holding
RIVET of the ugly hero, it oneâ€™s attention.
must have been Example: The last
rivetting. chapter was so
RIVETing that I was
reading past midnight.
Form: adj attracting and holding Mnemonic: spell
Tone: pos interest as if by a (magical) and that
spell. seems to bind us in a
way that seems
extremely attractive
SPELLBINDING
and worth attending.
Example: It was a
SPELLBINDING
description of life in
ancient Rome.
Form: noun The French word ennui Mnemonic: En
Tone: neg describes a feeling (anything) nui (new)? I
that combines am tired of old stuffs.
tiredness and Example: When you're
boredom. Ennui is one feeling ennui, you
X ENNUI
version of "the blahs." might as well take a
nap, because you're
too drowsy and
uninterested to do
much of anything else.
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ACCUSE Form: noun An acolyte is also a fan Mnemonic: ACOLYTEs

Tone: pos or follower of the of movie star or pro
ALERT famous, so you can find athletes closely follow
ATTRACT / FASCINATE an acolyte in church or their careers - and with
at a concert. great admiration - and
ACOLYTE
BEGINNER / would love to be just
INEXPERIENCED / like their heroes.
IMMATURE Example: He is the
emperor's faithful
BRAVE
ACOLYTE.
DELAY /POSTPONE Form: noun An apprentice is Mnemonic:
DISREPUTE / BAD Tone: pos someone who learns a APPRENTICE sounds
REPUTATION trade. An apprentice like a parent. Say
farmer is paid very little someone who has
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL but has the chance to become a parent for
APPRENTICE
FALSEHOOD learn farming by the first time, tries to
watching and doing. gradually learn how to
FEAR / LACKING manage their kids.
COURAGE Example: An
APPRENTICE chef.
FLUENT / CLEAR
Form: noun a young person who is Mnemonic: remember
GENUINE Tone: pos training to become an NCC = national CADET
GLOOMY / DARK / officer in the police or crops. students joined
HOPELESS armed forces in NCC camp for serving
nation. so they ll join
HIGHEST POINT CADET military trainee they
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE are called CADET
Example: Thomas
NATIVE / LOCAL received the best
CADET award of the Air
PUZZLING
Force last year
RUDE Form: adj callow is a freshmen in Mnemonic: The
SELF-OBSESSED Tone: neg high school or the callow inexperienced cat
receptionist who can't owner did not see
SHY figure out how to anything wrong with
UNINTENTIONAL transfer a call. the cat lying low on the
the ground, yowling in
CALLOW
UNINTERESTING pain.
Example: The
WIDESPREAD
inexperienced cop did
WORKING UNDER not see anything wrong
ANOTHER with a big bag of cash
laying on the street
Form: noun Though dilettante might Mnemonic: A card
Tone: neg sound like a nice French dealer learns how to
word, don't use it on deal a tent instead of
your friend who thinks cards and is one who
he can play the guitar practises an art for
DILETTANTE after several short pleasure
lessons. Example: Online
DILETTANTEs dropped
out fast, but 23,000
committed learners
finished the course
Form: adj One of the things Mnemonic:
Tone: pos kindergarten teachers In+genuine- In genuine
value is the chance to relationship people are
work with kids while naive and trusting to
INGENUOUS they're still relatively each other.
ingenuousâ€“-their Example: It is
open, trusting natures INGENUOUS to suppose
are a joy. that money did not play
a part in his decision.
Form: noun "Look at the little Mnemonic: Neo-
Tone: neut freshies," said the means new, and -phyte
football team captain to is from the Greek
his friends. "Little phuton "plant"-â
neophytes come to learn €“like a baby plant, a
how the big boys NEOPHYTE is someone
play....Let's get 'em!" who is new to an
activity.
Example: A political
NEOPHYTE
NEOPHYTE is someone
who has just been
elected and comes to
Washington D.C. not
understanding how the
game of politics is
played.
Root: Prefix NEO
means NEW.
Form: adj If something is so new Mnemonic: Companies
Tone: pos and original that it's are always looking for
never been seen, used that NOVEL idea that
or even thought of will earn them millions
before, call it novel. and skydiving is a
NOVEL experience,
NOVEL
especially if you're not
adventurous.
Example: Protesters
found a NOVEL way of
demonstrating against
steepy rising oil prices.
Form: noun On the Internet, a novice Mnemonic: NOVICE is
Tone: neut/pos might be called a derived from the Latin
newbie, but your parents word novus, which
would call one a means new. A NOVICE
beginner. is new to what they do,
so a NOVICE
NOVICE
photographer is just
learning how to take
nice pictures
Example: I'm a
complete NOVICE at
skiing.
Form: adj If you hear someone talk Mnemonic: PUERILE
Tone: neut/neg about puerile toys, they sounds like Pure. Like a
may merely be child who is pure at
remarking on the toys of heart and is
childhood, but it is more inexperienced,
PUERILE likely they are discussing immature.
whoopee cushions, fake Example: Concert
dog poo, and the like. organizers branded the
group's action as
PUERILE, schoolboy
humor.
Form: noun an awkward and Example: I don't want
ROOKIE Tone: neut/neg inexperienced youth is a to have another
rookie. ROOKIE to train.
Form: noun A tyro is a beginner, a Mnemonic: TYRO isn't
Tone: neut new recruit, or someone used much these days
who is just learning but it's similar to
something. If you are newbie, novice, or
TYRO the new guy at the job recruit.
and you're wearing a big Example: He is a TYRO
dorky badge that says Journalist.
"Trainee" on it, you are a
tyro.
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ACCUSE Form: adj This adjective is very bold Mnemonic:

Tone: pos - if you are audacious, you AUDACIOUS is Audio
ALERT are daring and to us: if you want to
ATTRACT / FASCINATE unconventional! be audible you need
to be AUDACIOUS
AUDACIOUS
BEGINNER / (bold)
INEXPERIENCED / Example: The
IMMATURE AUDACIOUS soldier
went into battle
BRAVE
without a shield.
DELAY /POSTPONE Form: noun Men behaving courteously Mnemonic:
DISREPUTE / BAD Tone: pos toward women - holding CHIVALRY sounds
REPUTATION the door for them, offering like: Lord Shiva is
them their jackets when bestowed with
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL CHIVALRY it's cold - is called chivalry. endless valor and
FALSEHOOD patience.
Example: Women
FEAR / LACKING always admire men
COURAGE who are chivalrous.
FLUENT / CLEAR Form: adj A dauntless person is Mnemonic: If Daunt
Tone: pos someone who isn't easily means Fear and Less
GENUINE frightened. If you're we know. So
GLOOMY / DARK / dauntless, it means you're DAUNTLESS means
HOPELESS like a tiger or a wild horse fearless.
DAUNTLESS
- you can't be dominated Example: The
HIGHEST POINT or tamed. DAUNTLESS reporters
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE saved the lives of
hundreds of tourists
NATIVE / LOCAL in the hotel.
PUZZLING Form: adj If you volunteered to deal Mnemonic: army
Tone: pos with removing a huge, GALLANTry award is
RUDE hairy spider from your awarded to BRAVE
SELF-OBSESSED GALLANT bathroom ceiling, your army people
whole family would be Example: She made
SHY grateful for your gallant a GALLANT attempt
UNINTENTIONAL actions. to hide her tears.
Form: adj Intrepid is just a fancy Mnemonic: In means
UNINTERESTING
Tone: pos word for describing a NOT and TREP means
WIDESPREAD person or action that is FEAR. INTREPID
bold and brave. Super means fearless.
WORKING UNDER INTREPID heroes are intrepid in their Example: The
ANOTHER struggle for truth, justice INTREPID reporters
and the American way. braved the threat of
gunfire for the sake
of their news reports.
Form: noun As a noun, pluck is energy Example: I finally
Tone: pos or enthusiasm, even when PLUCKed up the
PLUCK
things are looking grim. courage to ask her
for a date.
Form: adj If you're undaunted, Mnemonic: UN is not
Tone: pos you're not afraid or , daunt is fear. So
intimidated. As a great UNDAUNTED is
surfer, you remain fearless.
UNDAUNTED undaunted as you seek out Example: You must
dangerous waters to ride remain UNDAUNTED
the biggest waves. when facing your
terrifying calculus
homework.
Form: adj It was pretty courageous Mnemonic: separate
Tone: pos of the automaker VALIANT into Valley +
Plymouth to name a car Ant. Now think "ants"
the "Valiant" in the 1960s audaciously walking
VALIANT and 70s because that term through a "valley" to
usually refers to a hero or gather their food
describes a really Example: It was a
determined, or valiant. VALIANT attempt to
prevent the hijack.
Form: noun It was custom-ordered for Mnemonic: The
Tone: pos a knight in resplendent Jailer is valor.
armor sitting atop his Example: He
noble steed. "Onward to received the Medal of
VALOUR
deeds of valor!," you Honor for his valor in
imagine him saying, battle.
anticipating his own
unfailing courage.
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ACCUSE Form: verb To adjourn is to Mnemonic: "I must

Tone: neut/neg close a session of ADJOURN!" is a fancy way of
ALERT something, like at saying "I'm out of here! I
ATTRACT / FASCINATE court. People also need to get some sleep. See
ADJOURN adjourn when they you tomorrow."
BEGINNER / go to bed. Example: The trial has been
INEXPERIENCED / ADJOURNed until next week.
IMMATURE Root: Prefix AD refers to
towards
BRAVE
Form: verb Defer means to put Mnemonic: When you
DELAY /POSTPONE Tone: neg off or delay. You can become deaf to your
DISREPUTE / BAD try to defer the mother's pushing you to get
REPUTATION inevitable by pushing up from bed because you
â€œsnoozeâ€ and may get late for college and
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL DEFER falling back asleep, you say you will go tomorrow,
FALSEHOOD but eventually you're you are DEFERring.
going to have to get Example: The department
FEAR / LACKING up. DEFERred the decision for six
COURAGE months.
FLUENT / CLEAR Form: verb To protract Mnemonic: You may
Tone: neg something is to remember from geometry
GENUINE stretch it out. If you that a PROTRACTor is a
GLOOMY / DARK / have a disagreement device used to draw exact
HOPELESS with a friend that angles. A PROTRACTor allows
you continue for you to PROTRACT a plan for
HIGHEST POINT PROTRACT
weeks and weeks, the perfect catapult - perfect
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE you are protracting to use to end a PROTRACTed
the argument. battle. Example: The ruling
NATIVE / LOCAL brings an end to a heated,
PROTRACTed court case.
PUZZLING
RUDE Form: verb To postpone Mnemonic: When we keep
SELF-OBSESSED Tone: neg something for a something in the SHELVE,
while. purpose is to keep it aside
SHY and use it when required,
UNINTENTIONAL similarly when we SHELVE an
SHELVE issue we postpone it for a
UNINTERESTING while.
Example: Authorities have
WIDESPREAD
drawn up draft media bills in
WORKING UNDER the past which were later
ANOTHER SHELVEd.
Form: verb When we table an Example: They voted to
Tone: neg/neut issue, we tend to TABLE the proposal until the
TABLE
hold back to a later following meeting.
time
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ACCUSE Form: noun public Mnemonic:

Tone: neg shame IGNO(IGNORE)+miny(enemy)...so YOU
ALERT ignore your enemy because you have a
Ignominy
ATTRACT / FASCINATE DEEP DISGRACE FOR HIM.
Example: They suffered the Ignominy
BEGINNER / of defeat.
INEXPERIENCED /
Form: noun infamous Mnemonic: in(not) + fame = so when
IMMATURE
Tone: neg for some not in fame it could only mean disgrace.
BRAVE Infamy bad quality Example: They are seeking a sort of
or deed personal vindication through fame or,
DELAY /POSTPONE more precisely, Infamy.â€
DISREPUTE / BAD Form: adj wicked or Mnemonic: this sounds like
REPUTATION Tone: neg criminal ne(nephew)+farious(furious).so your
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL nephew is very furious or cruel or
violent
Nefarious
FALSEHOOD Example: It's getting as profitable as
selling dangerous illegal drugs, and
FEAR / LACKING
many of the same Nefarious people are
COURAGE
involved.
FLUENT / CLEAR Form: adj infamous Mnemonic: in(NOT GOOD OR BAD)
GENUINE Tone: neg for some +famous...FAMOUS for BEING NOT
Notorious bad quality GOOD or Notorious
GLOOMY / DARK / or deed Example: Mountain weather is
HOPELESS Notoriously difficult to predict.
HIGHEST POINT
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE
NATIVE / LOCAL
PUZZLING
RUDE
SELF-OBSESSED
SHY
UNINTENTIONAL
UNINTERESTING
WIDESPREAD
WORKING UNDER
ANOTHER
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ACCUSE Form: adj Urban legends - stories Mnemonic: Appu

Tone: neg about phantom cry, fal (fruit): Apple
ALERT hitchhikers, deep-fried is a crying fruit is a
ATTRACT / FASCINATE rats, and spider eggs in APOCRYPHAL
bubblegum - are classic Example: Most of
APOCRYPHAL
BEGINNER / examples of apocryphal the stories about him
INEXPERIENCED / tales. They're told as if are APOCRYPHAL.
IMMATURE they're true, but no one
can ever identify their
BRAVE
origins.
DELAY /POSTPONE Form: adj Choose the adjective Mnemonic: Doubt
DISREPUTE / BAD Tone: neg dubious for something you DUBIOUS is doubtful
REPUTATION have doubts about or you Example: I am
DUBIOUS
suspect is not true. That DUBIOUS about the
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL bridge you just "bought" wisdom of this action
FALSEHOOD might be of dubious value.
Form: adj The adjective erroneous Mnemonic:
FEAR / LACKING
Tone: neg describes something or ERRONEOUS sounds
COURAGE
someone as mistaken and like ERROR and the
FLUENT / CLEAR incorrect. Early explorers meaning is also
had the erroneous notion similar
GENUINE ERRONEOUS that the oceans were full Example: The
GLOOMY / DARK / of dragons. reporter's
HOPELESS ERRONEOUS story
was corrected by a
HIGHEST POINT new article that
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE stated the truth.
Form: verb Do you like to construct Mnemonic: When
NATIVE / LOCAL
Tone: neg mini airplanes from kits? the mattress fabric
PUZZLING Work on an assembly ate Johnny Depp in
line? Piece together Ikea "A Nightmare on Elm
RUDE furniture? Then you Street", his mother
SELF-OBSESSED FABRICATE certainly know how to was forced to clean
fabricate, or to put up and make his bed
SHY together, things. again.
UNINTENTIONAL Example: The
evidence was totally
UNINTERESTING FABRICATEd.
WIDESPREAD Form: adj Something fallacious is a Mnemonic:
Tone: neg mistake that comes from FALLACIOUS derived
WORKING UNDER too little information or from FALLACY which
ANOTHER unsound sources. is derived from FALSE
Predictions that the whole Example: It is a
FALLACIOUS state of California will fallacy to say that the
snap off from the rest of camera never lies.
North America and float
away have proven to be
fallacious - for now,
anyway.
Form: adj Illicit means not allowed Mnemonic: Silly Sit
Tone: neg by law or custom. An illicit Silly is sitting and
drug trade is one that doing ILLICIT things.
ILLICIT happens under the radar Example: The man
of the law. got caught with
dangerous weapons
and ILLICIT drugs
Form: adj Whether you're talking Mnemonic: Eu: Good
Tone: neg about your attitude, a , Phony: sound so
gigantic diamond, or that good sound.
obnoxious guy's claims Example: Her poetry
PHONEY that he knows everything was full of euphony,
about quantum physics, and therefore very
you can use phony to say enjoyable to read
that somethingâ€™s not aloud.
real.
Form: noun A sham is a fake. If you Mnemonic: Scam
Tone: neg frequently order products shyam always SHAM
advertised on late-night, illness
hour-long television Example: She felt
commercials, youâ€™ve trapped in a SHAM of
SHAM
probably ended up with at a marriage.
least one item that was a
sham. All-purpose,
industrial strength stain
remover, anyone?
Form: adj Use specious to describe Mnemonic:
Tone: neg an argument that seems Spec+ious => people
to be good, correct, or with specs normally
logical, but is not so. We seem reasonable but
live on the earth, end up being
therefore the earth must incorrect. * (no
be the center of the offense, just to
SPECIOUS
universe has been proven remember)
to be a specious theory of Example: This idea
the solar system. that we must see
through what we
have started is
SPECIOUS, however
good it may sound
Form: adj Something false or Mnemonic:
Tone: neg inauthentic is spurious. SPURIOUS sounds
Don't trust spurious ideas like furious. You get
and stories. Spurious furious when you
statements often are lies, hear SPURIOUS
SPURIOUS
just as a spurious coin is arguments
a counterfeit coin - a Example: When his
fake. wife died, he became
the victim of
SPURIOUS rumors
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ACCUSE Form: noun Mendacity is a Mnemonic: you

Tone: neg tendency to lie. Your require a special kind
ALERT friend might swear of mental audacity to
ATTRACT / FASCINATE that he didn't eat your think it's okay to lie
MENDACITY secret chocolate stash, to a police officer.
BEGINNER / but you'll find it hard Example: often
INEXPERIENCED / to believe him if he's politicians are
IMMATURE known for his accused of hypocrisy
mendacity. and MENDACITY
BRAVE
Form: noun A defendant in a Mnemonic: Jury
DELAY /POSTPONE Tone: neg murder trial commits sanctioned charges
DISREPUTE / BAD perjury when he due to his PERJURY
REPUTATION swears he never met Example: The
PERJURY
the murder victim witness is now facing
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL before, even though he charges of PERJURY.
FALSEHOOD had a two-year Root: Prefix PER-
relationship with her. refers to THROUGH
FEAR / LACKING
Form: verb A boy might use Mnemonic: Pre
COURAGE
Tone: neg prevarication to avoid (Before) Varicate
FLUENT / CLEAR telling the whole truth (varying): if you are
about how the kitchen varying from what
GENUINE window got broken. you said before, you
GLOOMY / DARK / are lying. Pre + var
HOPELESS (truth) + cate
(fabricate) is to
HIGHEST POINT fabricate the truth,
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE PREVARICATION meaning to lie.
Example: Some
NATIVE / LOCAL people believe that to
prevaricate in a good
PUZZLING
cause is justifiable
RUDE and regard the
statement as a "white
SELF-OBSESSED lie."
SHY Root: Prefix PRE
refers to BEFORE
UNINTENTIONAL
Form: noun Veracity sounds like Mnemonic: Ver is
UNINTERESTING Tone: pos some kind of disease root for Thruth.
you don't want to Veracity of Veer in
WIDESPREAD
catch, but in fact, it city.
WORKING UNDER means truthfulness. If Example: I can
ANOTHER you question the recommend him for
X VERACITY
veracity of a statement this position because
or story, you wonder I have always found
whether it is truthful him veracious and
or accurate. reliable.
Root: refix VER
refers to TRUTH
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ACCUSE Form: verb To cower is to shrink Mnemonic: Coward

Tone: neut in fear. Whether they COWER when Cow
ALERT live in the country or (animal) cowed
ATTRACT / FASCINATE city, any mouse will (terrorized) him
COWER cower when a huge, Example: A gun
BEGINNER / hungry cat went off and people
INEXPERIENCED / approaches. COWERed behind
IMMATURE walls and under
tables.
BRAVE
Form: adj A craven man is no Mnemonic: Opposite
DELAY /POSTPONE Tone: neg Superman or of Brave is CRAVEN
DISREPUTE / BAD Spiderman, nor is he a Example: CRAVEN
REPUTATION firefighter or a soldier. cowardice of the
CRAVEN
A craven man is the highest order.
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL opposite of those
FALSEHOOD guys: he has not an
ounce of courage.
FEAR / LACKING
Form: verb When you cringe, your Mnemonic: Whether
COURAGE
Tone: neut body language shows it's a song you hate
FLUENT / CLEAR you don't like what or someone
you see and hear. You mentioning an
GENUINE may even jerk your embarrassing
GLOOMY / DARK / body away from the moment from the
HOPELESS CRINGE offensive sight or past, you CRINGE at
sound, like the movie things that are
HIGHEST POINT Agneepath. unpleasant.
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE Example: She felt
herself CRINGE with
NATIVE / LOCAL embarrassment at the
memory.
PUZZLING
Form: verb The Cowardly Lion in Mnemonic: Haunt:
RUDE Tone: neg the Wizard of Oz Donâ€™t do this, an
SELF-OBSESSED appeared at first to be inner voice which
easily daunted, but, in make you DAUNT.
SHY fact, he showed DAUNT to go into
DAUNT
UNINTENTIONAL unusual courage. haunted house.
Example: I felt
UNINTERESTING somewhat DAUNTed
by the prospect of the
WIDESPREAD
long drive home
WORKING UNDER Form: verb Flinch is often used to Mnemonic: Sounds
ANOTHER Tone: neut describe a person who like pinch , when you
shows a moment of pinch, the skin
weakness or fright: he FLINCHes.
FLINCH was so tough, I Example: She
thought he'd never FLINCHed away from
flinch, but snakes the dog; He
really freak him out. FLINCHed at the sight
of the death.
Form: verb When you intimidate, Mnemonic: You can
Tone: neg you frighten or make see "timid" in the
someone afraid. A pet middle of
rat might intimidate INTIMIDATE, and to
your sister's friends, be timid is to be
INTIMIDATE keeping them out of frightened or to pull
your fort. back from something.
Example: Attempts
to INTIMIDATE
people into voting for
them failed.
Form: verb If you scare someone Mnemonic: More
Tone: neg so much they can't commonly, something
move, you petrify petrifies a person or
them. Petrify is to an animal when it
PETRIFY make something like a scares them very
stone or to literally much.
turn to stone. Example: Just the
thought of making a
speech petrifies me.
Form: adj You can describe Mnemonic: Pussy
Tone: neg someone who lacks animals: pussy cat
courage as like animals are
pusillanimous, such as coward
PUSILLANIMOUS a pusillanimous Example: You should
student who is too be ashamed of your
afraid to speak out PUSILLANIMOUS
against someone who conduct during this
is bullying others. dispute.
Form: verb Shrink is the informal Mnemonic: SHRINK
Tone: neut word you can use to also means to
talk about a therapist. reduce, our clothes
Talking about your get SHRINKED due to
problems with her can FEAR of WATER, so
SHRINK hopefully help you CLOTHES MOVE BACK
shrink them, or make COZ OF FEAR of
them smaller. water
Example: My
sweater shrank in the
wash.
Form: noun When plain old "fear" Mnemonic: Trep is
Tone: neut/neg isn't enough to get fear.
across a deep feeling Example: The sailors
of dread about viewed the gathering
TREPIDATION
something on the storm clouds with
horizon, use the more TREPIDATION.
formal word
trepidation.
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ACCUSE Form: verb To articulate is to say Mnemonic: The Art

Tone: POS something. And, if you say of Calculating your
ALERT it well, someone might speech while you
ATTRACT / FASCINATE praise you by saying you presenting a paper at
ARTICULATE are articulate. your college.
BEGINNER / Example: She
INEXPERIENCED / struggled to
IMMATURE ARTICULATE her
thoughts.
BRAVE
Form: adj Something coherent is Mnemonic:
DELAY /POSTPONE Tone: POS logical and clear. "I told c+o+her+rent--- HER
DISREPUTE / BAD you if you didn't do your RENT used to come
REPUTATION homework you couldn't CONSISTANTLY as
watch TV. You didn't do she was in a
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL your homework so you good(LOGICAL) job
FALSEHOOD COHERENT can't watch TV." This is a Example: She only
coherent argument became COHERENT
FEAR / LACKING again two hours after
COURAGE the attack.
Root: Prefix CO
FLUENT / CLEAR
refers to TOGETHER
GENUINE or WITH
GLOOMY / DARK / Form: adj An eloquent speaker Mnemonic:
HOPELESS Tone: POS expresses herself clearly Eloquence sounds like
and powerfully. fluency.
HIGHEST POINT Example: He was
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE ELOQUENT ELOQUENT when it
came to addressing
NATIVE / LOCAL his office colleagues.
Root: Prefix LOQ
PUZZLING
means to SPEAK
RUDE Form: verb Can't get your point Mnemonic: The word
SELF-OBSESSED Tone: POS across? Maybe you just ENUNCIATE is related
need to speak more to the Latin words for
SHY clearly or articulate your both "announce" and
UNINTENTIONAL ENUNCIATE thoughts better - in "messenger."
short, enunciate. Example: She
UNINTERESTING ENUNCIATEd each
word slowly and
WIDESPREAD
carefully.
WORKING UNDER Form: adj The word glib might be Mnemonic: GLIB
ANOTHER Tone: POS used to describe the slick sounds like
car salesman who uses his Ghalib..his shayeri
GLIB
polished sales pitch to talk was slick and fluent.
his customers into buying Example: He is a
lemons. GLIB salesman.
Form: adj If you have to recite Mnemonic: labor is
Tone: NEG Shakespeare and you do something done with
so haltingly or self- lots of effort.
x LABORED consciously, then you have Example: The movie
given a labored looks labored and
performance. slow by today's
standards.
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ACCUSE Form: adj Be careful when you are Mnemonic:

Tone: pos buying jewelry or AUTHENTICate with a
ALERT watches. If you are ticket, it proves you
ATTRACT / FASCINATE going to buy a diamond are genuine
ring, you want an Example: My little
AUTHENTIC
BEGINNER / authentic diamond and sister told me that the
INEXPERIENCED / not glass. That would be Eiffel Tower is about
IMMATURE authentic glass but a 10,000 feet high,"
fake diamond! when in fact it's 1,063
BRAVE
feet tall.
DELAY /POSTPONE Form: adj If you painted an Mnemonic: contra-
DISREPUTE / BAD Tone: neg uncanny copy of the means in opposition,
REPUTATION "Mona Lisa" and tried to facere means make;
pass it off as the making a product for
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL original, you'd have a a different (opposing)
COUNTERFEIT
FALSEHOOD counterfeit on your reason; a counterfeit
(X)
hands. is an imitation of
FEAR / LACKING something valuable
COURAGE Example: Are you
aware these notes are
FLUENT / CLEAR
counterfeit?
GENUINE Form: adj If you create a Mnemonic: Most
GLOOMY / DARK / Tone: neg "diamond" out of plastic, facts are factitious.
HOPELESS then youâ€™ve created Fictitious .. is always
FACTITIOUS a factitious diamond, artificial
HIGHEST POINT (X) meaning that itâ€™s a Example: Bollywood
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE phony. actresses often create
factitious tears by
NATIVE / LOCAL using glycerin
PUZZLING Form: adj Something legitimate is Mnemonic:
Tone: pos the real deal - LEGITIMATE is like
RUDE according to the law. legible that is
SELF-OBSESSED something that is
LEGITIMATE
logical and lawful
SHY Example: It seemed
UNINTENTIONAL like a perfectly
LEGITIMATE question.
UNINTERESTING
Form: adj "The trees and lights Mnemonic: Ver
WIDESPREAD Tone: pos turned the campus into a means TRUE â€¦so
veritable wonderland" something that is
WORKING UNDER means that the campus truly able is
ANOTHER VERITABLE
seemed to be VERITABLE.
transformed into a true Example: The meal
wonderland (if there is that followed was a
such a thing). VERITABLE banquet.
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ACCUSE Form: adj If one person shows up Mnemonic: Abis

Tone: neg to your party, well Mal(Aladdin) was ABYSMAL
ALERT ABYSMAL then that is an in nature
ATTRACT / FASCINATE abysmal turnout. Example: His manners are
ABYSMAL.
BEGINNER /
Form: adj If it's raining and dark, Mnemonic: Leak makes it
INEXPERIENCED /
Tone: neg you might describe the cold BLEAK chances, that it
IMMATURE
night as bleak. will leak His roof leaked and
BRAVE BLEAK he is BLEAKâ€¦cold and
depressed
DELAY /POSTPONE Example: No doubt it is
DISREPUTE / BAD also BLEAK in the winter.
REPUTATION Form: adj A cloudy day, a sad Mnemonic: Have you ever
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL Tone: neg song about lost love, been called a GLOOMY Gus?
your downbeat mood If so, you must have been
FALSEHOOD after your team loses a acting depressed or sulky.
big game - all of these But you aren't the first to be
FEAR / LACKING
GLOOMY can be called gloomy. called that - after all,
COURAGE
GLOOMY Gus was a comic
FLUENT / CLEAR book character
Example: There was a
GENUINE GLOOMY silence in the
GLOOMY / DARK / room.
HOPELESS Form: adj Also your face after Mnemonic: Something that
HIGHEST POINT Tone: neg your teacher hands is somber is often thought of
back an exam you as "in shadow," as in "the
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE failed. Somber is used shadow of grief," or "the
SOMBRE
to describe situations, shadow of a bad mood.
NATIVE / LOCAL
facial expressions, or Example: Funerals and
PUZZLING moods that are dark, burials tend to be very
gloomy, or depressing. somber occasions
RUDE
Form: adj Dark and dismal Mnemonic: STYGIAN
SELF-OBSESSED Tone: neg sounds like dungeon both
SHY related to bottom hell
STYGIAN wherein darkness thrives.
UNINTENTIONAL Example: She was
STYGIAN in her appearance
UNINTERESTING
yesterday
WIDESPREAD
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ACCUSE Form: noun When something is at the Mnemonic: Lakme is

Tone: pos very peak of perfection, at ACME: top beauty
ALERT reach for this noun from product
ATTRACT / FASCINATE Greek: acme. A brilliant Example: His work is
ACME
violinist might reach the considered the ACME
BEGINNER / acme of her career, but of cinematic art.
INEXPERIENCED / eventually she might
IMMATURE become unstrung.
BRAVE Form: noun When there's no mountain Mnemonic: APEX =
Tone: pos left to climb and nothing but climax = MAX
DELAY /POSTPONE blue sky above, you know Example: An actor
APEX
DISREPUTE / BAD you've reached the highest who wins an Oscar can
REPUTATION peak - the apex. say she's reached the
APEX of her career.
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL
Form: noun A crest is a showy tuft of Mnemonic: CREST is
FALSEHOOD Tone: neut feathers on the head of a like Crust i.e upper
bird. It's easy to identify a part/highest point of
FEAR / LACKING
male cardinal by its bright that wave.
COURAGE CREST
red color and the tufted Example: They've
FLUENT / CLEAR crest on its head. been on the CREST of
the wave ever since
GENUINE their election victory.
GLOOMY / DARK / Form: noun Going as far into the sky as Mnemonic: Pineapple
HOPELESS Tone: pos you can go on foot, you'll juice is PINNACLE of
HIGHEST POINT reach the highest point, or juices
pinnacle, of the Himalayas. Example: He had
PINNACLE
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE A successful climb like that reached the PINNACLE
might also become the of his career.
NATIVE / LOCAL
pinnacle, or peak, of your
PUZZLING success.
RUDE Form: noun What better place for the Mnemonic:
Tone: pos mountain climbing summit sum+mitâ€” imagine
SELF-OBSESSED than on the summit of the you SUM your gre
SHY mountain. score(quant+verbal)
and think of getting
UNINTENTIONAL SUMMIT into MIT school, i.e.,
HIGHEST or TOPMOST
UNINTERESTING
POINT you can get
WIDESPREAD into
Example: This path
WORKING UNDER leads to the SUMMIT.
ANOTHER
Form: noun Making a momentous life Mnemonic: the abyss
Tone: neg decision with great referred to the
uncertainty, like enrolling in "bottomless pit" of
clown college, might feel like Hell.
X ABYSS
jumping into the abyss. Example: They took a
long look into the
abyss before deciding
whether to jump.
Form: noun If a highly forgetful person Mnemonic: Nadir
Tone: neg loses his phone, his wallet, sounds like Na + Gir
and then his car keys in meaning from where
separate instances all in one one cannot fall that is
day, you could say that he the lowest point.
has reached an Example: The nadir
X NADIR organizational nadir. This of David's life came in
means â€œlowest point.â€ a brief two month
period when his wife
left him, he got fired,
he lost the lease on
his apartment, and his
dog died.
Form: noun Zenith means the high point. Mnemonic: Jannat is
Tone: pos The sun reaches its zenith at ZENITH
ZENITH when it is as high in the sky Example: His career
as it is going to go on that is now at its ZENITH.
day.
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ACCUSE Form: adj Something absurd Mnemonic: Ab means

Tone: neg is really silly, away from normal path
ALERT absolutely and that is what ABSURD
ATTRACT / FASCINATE ABSURD ridiculous, or total means
nonsense. Example: â€œthe
BEGINNER / ABSURD excuse that the
INEXPERIENCED / dog ate his homeworkâ€
IMMATURE
Form: adj Atypical means Mnemonic: A (not)
BRAVE Tone: neg outside of typeâ typical
€”an atypical Example: Women, he
DELAY /POSTPONE suburban town noted, are more likely
DISREPUTE / BAD might be populated than men to have so-
REPUTATION by zombies in damp called ATYPICAL heart
ATYPICAL
caves. attack symptoms - like
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL unexplained shortness of
FALSEHOOD breath, nausea or
weakness.
FEAR / LACKING Root: Prefix A-refers to
COURAGE WITHOUT
FLUENT / CLEAR Form: adj If your teacher Mnemonic: Bizzare
Tone: neg walked into class sounds like Bazar. we all
GENUINE wearing a purple know how noisy, and
GLOOMY / DARK / boa, cat's eyes stange it becomes to visit
HOPELESS glasses and three a big bazar, where you
inch heels, you are clueless where to go
HIGHEST POINT BIZARRE
might comment, and what to buy.
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE "How bizarre!" Example: Unpredictable
behavior is often called
NATIVE / LOCAL BIZARRE - like when your
teacher conducts a lesson
PUZZLING
in Pig Latin.
RUDE Form: adj Ludicrous things Mnemonic: Ridiculous
SELF-OBSESSED Tone: neg are funny, absurd, and LUDICROUS are
or nonsensical. If same.
SHY someone says Example: It was
LUDICROUS
UNINTENTIONAL something silly or LUDICROUS to think that
far-fetched, you plan will succeed.
UNINTERESTING could say "That's
ludicrous!"
WIDESPREAD
Form: adj Driving around the Mnemonic: Out +
WORKING UNDER Tone: neg city in a golf cart Landish => the one who
ANOTHER and eating is from some other land.
spaghetti with Means unconventional
OUTLANDISH
pineapple sauce are and bizarre to our land
both examples of Example: This idea is
outlandish not as OUTLANDISH as it
behavior. seems.
Form: adj To a vegetarian, Mnemonic: Pre (before)
Tone: neg the idea of eating a Post (after) both in one
52-ounce T-bone word, pre+post+erous
steak would seem seems ABSURD.
preposterous - Example: a chef who is
PREPOSTEROUS absolutely absurd. asked to cook with
nothing but jelly beans
might exclaim, "That's
PREPOSTEROUS!"
Root: Prefix PRE refers
to BEFORE
Form: adj If you hear strange Mnemonic: If something
Tone: neg music echoing is UNCANNY, it is so
through your attic, mysterious, strange, or
you might refer to unfamiliar that it seems
it as positively supernatural.prefix un-
UNCANNY uncanny. "not" and canny
"fortunate, safe."
Example: You have the
UNCANNY knack of
reading my innermost
thoughts.
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ACCUSE Form: adj Domestic work is work Mnemonic: I'm not a

Tone: neut done in the home. very DOMESTIC sort of
ALERT Domestic is also used person.
ATTRACT / FASCINATE to refer to products Example: Then an
DOMESTIC that are produced in establishment newspaper
BEGINNER / your country, or offered him a column-
INEXPERIENCED / policies and affairs writing about foreign, but
IMMATURE that relate to your not DOMESTIC, affairs.
country.
BRAVE
Form: adj Though Switzerland is Mnemonic: Indigeneous
DELAY /POSTPONE Tone: neut known for its sounds like
DISREPUTE / BAD chocolates, chocolate, indian+geniuses.....native
REPUTATION which comes from the or local talent or
cocoa plant, is genius....
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL indigenous to South Example: An
INDIGENOUS
FALSEHOOD America. INDIGENOUS ceremony
or religion is one
FEAR / LACKING traditionally used by a
COURAGE certain group of people.
FLUENT / CLEAR
INTO.
GENUINE Form: adj Something so unusual Mnemonic: Exotic
GLOOMY / DARK / Tone: neut that it must be from Destinations/ Exotic
HOPELESS some unfamiliar place Islands: TV show
X EXOTIC is exotic. An exotic pet Example: He travelled
HIGHEST POINT might be a panda, around the globe to
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE instead of a hamster. collect rare and exotic
plant species.
NATIVE / LOCAL
PUZZLING
RUDE
SELF-OBSESSED
SHY
UNINTENTIONAL
UNINTERESTING
WIDESPREAD
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ANOTHER
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ACCUSE Form: noun The tricky word Mnemonic: "What

Tone: neg conundrum is used to walks on four legs in
ALERT describe a riddle or the morning, two in the
ATTRACT / FASCINATE puzzle, sometimes afternoon, and three in
including a play on the evening?" The
BEGINNER / words or pun. answer is "A person":
INEXPERIENCED / crawling as a child,
CONUNDRUM
IMMATURE walking as an adult,
and using a cane in old
BRAVE
age.
DELAY /POSTPONE Example: Oil, in short,
is an essential
DISREPUTE / BAD CONUNDRUM of our
REPUTATION lives.
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL Form: adj "White bunny. Moon. Mnemonic: A Roman
FALSEHOOD Tone: neut/neg Square." Do you Script will be difficult to
understand what that comprehend and hence
FEAR / LACKING means? Of course not! it may be called
COURAGE It's totally cryptic. CRYPTIC.
CRYPTIC Cryptic comments are Example: I shall be
FLUENT / CLEAR
hard to understand careful in future not to
GENUINE because they seem to make my remarks so
have a hidden CRYPTIC.
GLOOMY / DARK / meaning. Root: The root CRYPT
HOPELESS means HIDDEN
HIGHEST POINT Form: noun Take the noun, enigma, Mnemonic: Who
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE Tone: neut/neg for something that is a havent heard the tunes
puzzle or a mystery. of ENIGMA, also, no
NATIVE / LOCAL Why do you have to one has ever seen the
learn difficult words like members of ENIGMAâ
PUZZLING
this? That is an enigma. €¦Band members are
RUDE ENIGMA still remain in Enig
Example: To me he
SELF-OBSESSED has always been an
SHY ENIGMA, one minute
completely insensitive,
UNINTENTIONAL the next moved to
UNINTERESTING tears
Form: adj When you garble Mnemonic: While he
WIDESPREAD
Tone: neg something, you warp or was Gargeling he spoke
WORKING UNDER distort it, making it with GARBLEd words
ANOTHER hard to understand. Example: So imagine
Talking with marbles in a sentence so
GARBLE
your mouth is one sure scrambled that you
way of garbling your have to sort through
speech. each word, trying to
figure out what
everything means.
Form: adj Any person or thing Mnemonic: Its
Tone: neg that's mysterious, INSCRUTABLE to tight
mystifying, hard to screw in table
read, or impossible to Example: The killer
interpret is left no clues, and the
INSCRUTABLE
inscrutable.You ever murder remains an
notice how it's hard to INSCRUTABLE mystery
tell what some people
are thinking? Those
folks are inscrutable.
Form: verb An intrigue is a secret Mnemonic: INTRIGUE
Tone: neg plot. If you ever - tri(tricky) +
become the monarch of gue(game) - tricky
INTRIGUE a small island kingdom, game
keep watch for signs of Example: The idea
any intrigue against INTRIGUEd her.
you.
Form: noun A labyrinth is a Mnemonic: When you
Tone: neut/neg structure with many visit a huge library, you
connected paths or may lose your way in
passages in which it is the process of finding
hard to find your way. your necessary books,
LABYRINTH So a labyrinth is a so itâ€™s a LABYRINTH
complicated situation: and a complicated
our tax code is a situation altogether.
labyrinth of rules and Example: We lost our
regulations. way in the LABYRINTH
of streets.
Form: noun a system of paths Mnemonic: MAZE
Tone: neut/neg separated by walls or sounds like haze. Haze
hedges built in a park or something hazzy is
or garden, that is cloudy and hence
MAZE designed so that it is confusing. So is the
difficult to find your function of MAZE
way through Example: The old city
is a delightful MAZE for
the modern tourist.
Form: noun Runic writing consists Mnemonic: RUIN-IC..
Tone: neut/neg of ancient characters Imagine going through
that are tough to newly discovered ruins
decipher. These days of a civilization, it'll be
the word might better enchanting and
fit a doctor's signature mysterious at the same
RUNIC
or a confusing time.
instruction manual. Example: RUNIC
inscriptions continue to
have an air of mystery
about them, because
they're so hard to read.
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ACCUSE Form: noun A boor is a crude, rude Mnemonic: BOOR can be

Tone: NEG person. Boors lack related to this hindi word
ALERT sophistication and BOORAâ€¦ a bad and
ATTRACT / FASCINATE BOOR manners rude person.
Example: A BOOR would
BEGINNER / talk too loudly on the
INEXPERIENCED / train.
IMMATURE
Form: adj If you ask a salesperson Mnemonic: Brush and
BRAVE Tone: NEG with help finding BRUSQUE are not related,
something and all you get but they sound similarâ€“-
DELAY /POSTPONE in response is a brusque when someone is
DISREPUTE / BAD "Everything's out on the BRUSQUE, you often feel
BRUSQUE
REPUTATION shelves," it would be that they are trying to
unfriendly, rude, and very give you the "brush off."
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL brief. Example: The doctor
FALSEHOOD spoke in a BRUSQUE
tone.
FEAR / LACKING
Form: adj Iâ€™m sorry to be curt, Mnemonic: It's CURTesy
COURAGE
Tone: NEG but let's get right to the (courtesy) to not be rude
FLUENT / CLEAR point. You should use the and short in behavior
CURT
adjective curt to describe Example: A CURT note
GENUINE a way of speaking thatâ of rejection arrived from
GLOOMY / DARK / €™s brief and blunt. the company director.
HOPELESS Form: adj If your teacher tells you Mnemonic:
HIGHEST POINT Tone: NEG to make your writing in TERSE...sounds like
your essay style terse TERESA..Here all her
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE and to the point, he's achievements,efforts
saying use as few words everything has been
NATIVE / LOCAL
as you can and be simple consolidated, confined
TERSE
PUZZLING and clear. and put into a single
word "MOTHER"
RUDE Example: The President
SELF-OBSESSED issued a TERSE
statement denying the
SHY charges.
UNINTENTIONAL
UNINTERESTING
WIDESPREAD
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ACCUSE Form: adj If you are Mnemonic: Ego is self and

Tone: neg egocentric, the Centric means center of
ALERT whole world attraction. So a person who
ATTRACT / FASCINATE centers on you and is self-centered is Ego
you don't pay Centric.
BEGINNER / EGOCENTRIC much attention to Example: Young children
INEXPERIENCED / other people. Are are usually EGOCENTRIC
IMMATURE you even reading because they haven't
this? learned other forms of
BRAVE
behavior.
DELAY /POSTPONE Root: Prefix EGO is SELF
DISREPUTE / BAD Form: noun A self-centered Mnemonic: A person who
REPUTATION Tone: neg person is egotist. is concerned with ones self
only. SELF is EGO.
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL EGOTIST Example: You need to be
FALSEHOOD an EGOTIST to succeed in
politics.
FEAR / LACKING
Form: noun The noun narcissist Mnemonic: NARCISSIST
COURAGE
Tone: neg refers to someone has emerged from the
FLUENT / CLEAR intensely word Narcissus was a
concerned with hunter who was
GENUINE only his or her own exceptionally beautiful and
NARCISSIST
GLOOMY / DARK / self or interests also just as proud of his
HOPELESS and who seems to looks, ignoring other
forget that others people around him.
HIGHEST POINT exist. Example: A NARCISSIST
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE is his own best friend.
Form: adj A self-deprecating Mnemonic: Some people
NATIVE / LOCAL
Tone: neg person knows her are egotistical, always
PUZZLING own weaknesses talking about how great
SELF- and shortcomings they are. The opposite type
RUDE DEPRECATORY and isn't afraid to of person is self-
SELF-OBSESSED (X) point them out, deprecating, dwelling on
often in a his own faults.
SHY humorous way. Example: He gave a self-
UNINTENTIONAL deprecating shrug.
Form: adj Someone who's Mnemonic: If someone
UNINTERESTING
Tone: pos self-effacing is shy says you did a great job
WIDESPREAD and likes to stay and you say, "It was
out of the nothing," that's self-
WORKING UNDER spotlight, shunning effacing. Efface mean to
ANOTHER SELF-
attention and erase, so when you tend to
EFFACING (X)
praise. erase yourself from
different situations its self-
effacing.
Example: He was a shy,
self-effacing man.
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ACCUSE Form: adj Take the adjective, coy, for Mnemonic: COY Boy
Tone: neg/neut a person who pretends to (shy boy)
ALERT be shy but really isn't, or Example: But the
ATTRACT / FASCINATE someone who could give a former finance
COY
definite answer but won't. minister remains COY
BEGINNER / Coy behavior can be on the timing of the
INEXPERIENCED / playful or just plain vote.
IMMATURE annoying.
BRAVE Form: adj Your diffidence might be Mnemonic:
Tone: neg/neut the reason why you never Confidence
DELAY /POSTPONE say "hi" to the cute guy or DIFFIDENCE is lack of
DISREPUTE / BAD gal in the elevator or why confidence .Diffident
REPUTATION DIFFIDENCE you never ask for a raise. is not confident.
Example: With
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL habitual DIFFIDENCE
FALSEHOOD she handed a new
manuscript to me
FEAR / LACKING
Form: noun An introvert is person who Mnemonic: The word
COURAGE
Tone: neut is wrapped up in herself. If INTROVERT comes
FLUENT / CLEAR you are extremely shy and from Latin intro-, for
would rather examine your inward, and vertere,
GENUINE feelings in your diary than for turning.
INTROVERT
GLOOMY / DARK / have a conversation, then Example: He was
HOPELESS you are an introvert. described as an
INTROVERT, a
HIGHEST POINT reserved man who
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE spoke little.
Form: adj If you're reserved, you're Mnemonic:
NATIVE / LOCAL
Tone: neut the opposite of a RESERVED attitude.
PUZZLING loudmouth or a cut-up: Remains quiet and to
you're polite, you have a himself.
RUDE RESERVED
lot of self-control, and you Example: He was
SELF-OBSESSED don't show your feelings. unemotional, quiet,
quiet, and
SHY RESERVED.
UNINTENTIONAL Form: adj If you are a retiring Mnemonic: After
Tone: neg/neut person, you avoid being at RETIRING people has
UNINTERESTING
the center of attention. You a RETIRING
WIDESPREAD can often be found in the personality.
RETIRING library and other quiet Example: Given
WORKING UNDER places, and if someone Susan's RETIRING
ANOTHER compliments you. personality, no one
expected her to take
up public speaking.
Form: adj Timid means "overly Mnemonic: TIMID
Tone: neg cautious or fearful," like a (shy) + date. TIMID
timid driver who drives person going on date
very slowly or avoids with boss and she
TIMID
highways altogether. inTIMIDate him.
Example: Deer are
naturally TIMID
creatures.
Form: adj A timorous person is timid Mnemonic: Timor
Tone: neg/neut or shy, like your timorous sounds like Tremor,
friend who likes to hang which means shaking
out with close pals but gets and that happens
nervous around big groups even when we are
of new people. scared. And
TIMOROUS
TIMOROUS is related
to fearful.
Example: She
started delivering her
speech with a
TIMOROUS tone.
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ACCUSE Form: adverb Inadvertently Mnemonic: In advertisement there

Tone: neut is an adverb is no logic but still we buy the
ALERT that means products
ATTRACT / "without Example: The teacher told her
FASCINATE knowledge or student, 'You're acting
intent," like INADVERTENTLY, please pay
BEGINNER / when you attention
INEXPERIENCED / inadvertently
INADVERTENTLY
IMMATURE take
someone
BRAVE
else's coat
DELAY /POSTPONE from the
coatroom
DISREPUTE / BAD because it
REPUTATION looks just
FALSE / FAKE / like yours.
DOUBTFUL Form: adverb without Mnemonic: wit is knowledge.
FALSEHOOD Tone: neg/neut knowledge or Witting means knowing
intention something.UN(not)WITTING(knowing
FEAR / LACKING something)
UNWITTINGLY
COURAGE Example: She had broken the law
UNWITTINGLY, but she had still
FLUENT / CLEAR
broken it.
GENUINE Root: UN means NOT
GLOOMY / DARK /
HOPELESS
HIGHEST POINT
ILLOGICAL /
STRANGE
NATIVE / LOCAL
PUZZLING
RUDE
SELF-OBSESSED
SHY
UNINTENTIONAL
UNINTERESTING
WIDESPREAD
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ACCUSE Form: adj You might have trouble Mnemonic: Non +

Tone: neg finding a nondescript Describe : An
ALERT apartment building ordinary object does
ATTRACT / FASCINATE because it looks exactly not need to be
like every other described
BEGINNER / apartment building Example: The
INEXPERIENCED / around it. So its private detective was
IMMATURE something that is not a short,
NONDESCRIPT
special. NONDESCRIPT fellow
BRAVE
with no outstanding
DELAY /POSTPONE features, the sort of
person one would
DISREPUTE / BAD never notice in a
REPUTATION crowd.
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL Root: Suffix SCRIPT
refers to WRITE
FALSEHOOD
Form: adj Keep your eye on the Mnemonic: If you
FEAR / LACKING Tone: pos adjective conspicuous are doing something
COURAGE for something that wrong, it's wise not
stands out so much you to be conspicuous
FLUENT / CLEAR X
notice it right away - like about it!
CONSPICUOUS
GENUINE that zit in the center of Example: Mary's red
your friend's forehead. hair always made her
GLOOMY / DARK / conspicuous at
HOPELESS school.
HIGHEST POINT
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE
NATIVE / LOCAL
PUZZLING
RUDE
SELF-OBSESSED
SHY
UNINTENTIONAL
UNINTERESTING
WIDESPREAD
WORKING UNDER
ANOTHER
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ACCUSE Form: adj You should Mnemonic: contag+iousâ

Tone: neg probably €”CONTAG(contact) +iousâ
ALERT postpone €”something thatâ€™s SPREADS
ATTRACT / FASCINATE dinner if when comes in CONTACT with
your date's body or something; so something
BEGINNER / cold is that SPREADS
INEXPERIENCED / CONTAGIOUS contagious â Example: His enthusiasm was
IMMATURE €” that CONTAGIOUS
means it's Root: Prefix CON means WITH or
BRAVE
easily TOGETHER
DELAY /POSTPONE spread and
likely to get
DISREPUTE / BAD you sick.
REPUTATION
Form: adj If you want Mnemonic: Like epidemic disease,
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL Tone: neg to ENDEMIC is specific to a group. As
FALSEHOOD underscore discussed about epidemic and
just how pandemic.
FEAR / LACKING commonly Example: Food shortages and
COURAGE found and starvation are ENDEMIC in certain
present parts of the world.
FLUENT / CLEAR
something
GENUINE ENDEMIC is within a
particular
GLOOMY / DARK / place, try
HOPELESS the word
HIGHEST POINT endemic.
Tight pants
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE are endemic
NATIVE / LOCAL in my lunch
room!
PUZZLING
Form: noun An epidemic Mnemonic:
RUDE Tone: neg is a disease pandemic,EPIDEMIC,endemic....say
that spreads pandemic is whole world,EPIDEMIC
SELF-OBSESSED rapidly whole country and endemic is for a
SHY among city or particular in a community
many Example: Effectively, tobacco
UNINTENTIONAL people in a companies will be exporting an
UNINTERESTING community EPIDEMIC of smoking-related
at the same diseases, the campaign suggests.
EPIDEMIC
WIDESPREAD time. In the Root: The root word DEM (I/O)
1980, the refers to PEOPLE.
WORKING UNDER
fast
ANOTHER
spreading
AIDS
epidemic
transformed
life on our
planet.
Form: noun Remember Mnemonic: pan means all, demos
Tone: neg the 2009 means people; a PANDEMIC is a
swine flu? widespread outbreak of disease
That was a affecting all people
pandemic â Example: A flu PANDEMIC
PANDEMIC
€” an illness occurred three times in the last
that swept century
over much Root: Prefix PAN means ALL or
of the EVERY.
globe.
Form: adj Rampant Mnemonic: RAM ka naam lekar
Tone: neg means wild, public ko thagne waale BABA aaj
out of kal RAMPANT ho gaye
control, to hain.....Taking God Rama's name
be up on and fooling around with people, all
your hind these Baba's have become
RAMPANT legs roaring RAMPANT these days.
at the Example: The children ran
world. RAMPANT at the supermarket even
though their mother tried to
control them.
Root: Prefix PAN means ALL or
EVERY.
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ACCUSE Form: adj Subordinate means Mnemonic: Sub means

Tone: neg putting one thing lower and Ordinate
ALERT below another. We sounds like order, so
ATTRACT / FASCINATE subordinate our when someone is
desire for popcorn to ordered to do something
BEGINNER / our desire to keep as he works under
INEXPERIENCED / SUBORDINATE watching the movie. someone else, he is
IMMATURE called a SUBORDINATE
Example: In many
BRAVE
societies women are
DELAY /POSTPONE SUBORDINATE to men.
Root: Prefix SUB refers
DISREPUTE / BAD to UNDER
REPUTATION
Form: noun someones called an Mnemonic: UNDERLING
FALSE / FAKE / DOUBTFUL Tone: neg underling when they has the word Under that
FALSEHOOD are lower in rank to itself means below
someone else and someone.
UNDERLING
FEAR / LACKING take orders from Example: He dishes out
COURAGE them, and also when orders to his
you do not respect UNDERLING.
FLUENT / CLEAR
someone
GENUINE Form: noun an actor who learns Mnemonic:
GLOOMY / DARK / Tone: neut the part of another UNDERSTUDY sounds like
HOPELESS actor in a play so studying under someone
that they can play so that you can learn
HIGHEST POINT UNDERSTUDY that part if enough and practice the
ILLOGICAL / STRANGE necessary, so an same role if required
extra is called an Example: She worked as
NATIVE / LOCAL understudy. an UNDERSTUDY to
Meryl Streep.
PUZZLING
RUDE
SELF-OBSESSED
SHY
UNINTENTIONAL
UNINTERESTING
WIDESPREAD
WORKING UNDER
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adverb If you go astray, you lose Mnemonic: A STRAY
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg the path. If you went to dog is a domestic
college intending to animal found
APPLAUSE become a doctor, but wandering. It is not in
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE instead became interested right direction to
ASTRAY
in making violent video home.
BEST EXAMPLE games, your parents Example: We locked
might feel you have gone up our valuables so
COME TOGETHER
astray. they would not go
DIG OUT / SEARCH / ASTRAY.
SOLVE Form: adverb When something goes Mnemonic: Plan went
ECHO Tone: neg wrong with a decent plan, AWRY, success went
you say it has gone awry. away
EQUALITY You accidentally forget Example: All my
AWRY
FAT your backpack in the plans for the party
airport? That's a mistake. had gone AWRY.
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER That's when something
DEGREE) has gone awry.
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) Form: adj Circuitous means indirect Mnemonic: If your
Tone: neg or roundabout. If you're in route goes around in
GET RID OF / CLEANSE a hurry to get to the complicated circuits,
IMPORTANT MARK hospital where your wife it's CIRCUITOUS, or
is having a baby, you windy and indirect
IMPURE / POISONOUS CIRCUITOUS
want to take the Example: Because of
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED straightest, fastest way, the traffic congestion
not a circuitous one! on the mainhighways,
INTELLIGENT she took a
CIRCUITOUS route.
PERSUADE
Form: adj If you lack a definite plan Mnemonic:
POLISH / *RENOVATE Tone: neg or purpose and flit from DESULTORY can be
SERIOUS / CONFUSED one thing to another, related to: Worse
your actions are than going and
SPOIL / DISFIGURE desultory. Some people insulting people from
SPOTTED / STAINED DESULTORY call such desultory place to place is going
wanderings spontaneous. around without a plan
STUPID / FOOLISH Others call it "being lost." of insulting.
Example: I wandered
TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK
about in a
TO KNOW DESULTORY fashion
TO SEE Form: verb If we're talking about Mnemonic: Di -Away,
Tone: neg science fiction, and you Gress - step. DIGRESS
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE suddenly go off on a long is to move away from
WEAK / THIN / TALL tangent about the cost of path. Due to
grape soda, you digress. Depression you need
When a person digresses, DIGRESSion from that
they stray from the topic. matter. Example: To
DIGRESS
follow it, we must
make a little
DIGRESSion into the
history of Bolshevism
Root: Prefix DI-
means ACROSS
Form: adj If people accuse you of Mnemonic: Cursive
Tone: neg rambling from topic to writing is not at
topic in your speech or centre, it is diverting
writing, they may say you from one side to
DISCURSIVE
have a discursive style â another side.
€” with changes in subject Example: The
that are hard to follow. DISCURSIVE style of
novel
Form: verb Something divergent is Mnemonic: Things
Tone: neg moving away from what is that are DIVERGENT
expected. Two divergent are diverging - moving
paths are moving in away from a path or a
opposite directions - away standard. A teacher
from each other. who comes to work in
DIVERGENT a clown outfit is being
DIVERGENT Example:
We went through high
school and college
together, but then our
paths diverged.
Form: verb You ramble when your Mnemonic: Amble is

Tone: neg talking or your walking to walk, RAMBLE is to
goes on and on and on. walk aimlessly.
RAMBLE And on. Youâ€™re in no Example: They
hurry to make a point or RAMBLEd through the
get to your destination â shops until closing
€” if there is one at all. time.
Form: adj Tangential refers to Mnemonic:
Tone: neg something that's not part TANGENTIAL is like a
of the whole. If you make Tangent
a comment that is Example: Although
TANGENTIAL tangential to the story interesting, Christina's
you're telling, it's a point was
digression. The story TANGENTIAL to the
could still be understood discussion
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun A performance that's repeated Mnemonic: ONCE
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: pos or added to the regular MORE is ENCORE...
performance is called an (just rearrange
APPLAUSE encore. If you're deaf from letters ENCO to ONCE
ENCORE last night's concert, it might and you are there
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE
be because the band played with it...)
BEST EXAMPLE for two hours and then did a Example: She played
thirty minute encore. a Chopin waltz as an
COME TOGETHER
ENCORE.
DIG OUT / SEARCH / Form: noun Hear that applause and cries Mnemonic: On this
SOLVE Tone: pos of "Bravo"? Your audience is Occasion he got
ECHO giving you an ovation, or standing OVATION
OVATION praise for a great Example: He was
EQUALITY performance. pleasantly surprised
FAT by the OVATION he
received.
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER
Form: verb To pan a performance, book, Mnemonic: Pan
DEGREE)
Tone: neg or movie is to say that you sounds like BAN ,
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) think it stunk. when a performance
or book is criticized,
GET RID OF / CLEANSE at times it is banned
X PAN
IMPORTANT MARK from reading.
Example: The
IMPURE / POISONOUS television series was
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED panned by critics and
viewers alike.
INTELLIGENT
PERSUADE
POLISH / *RENOVATE
SERIOUS / CONFUSED
SPOIL / DISFIGURE
SPOTTED / STAINED
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adj Pretended Mnemonic: AFFECTED.....past

CORRECT/INTENDED Tone: neg form of
PATH affect....affect..af+fect(FACT).SO
SOMETHING which has nothing
APPLAUSE to do with facts....or reality
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE hence ARTIFICIAL AND THE KEY
AFFECTED
WORD HERE IS
BEST EXAMPLE FACT...reality..and opposite of it
artificial
COME TOGETHER
Example: I had been quite
DIG OUT / SEARCH / scared by the dog but AFFECTED
SOLVE carelessness.
ECHO Form: adj If you see Mnemonic: Con(not true, as in
Tone: neg something con artist, con job)+Try --not
EQUALITY that seems truly trying. Contri(ved) ie
FAT fake since it forced , artificial, not
was too spontaneous
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER perfectly Example: The book's happy
DEGREE) planned out, ending seemed CONTRIVED.
call it
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) CONTRIVED
contrived. If
GET RID OF / CLEANSE you can easily
predict the
IMPORTANT MARK final minutes
IMPURE / POISONOUS of a made-
for-TV movie,
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED then call it
INTELLIGENT contrived.
Form: adj Something Example: It was a FARCICAL
PERSUADE
Tone: neg that's farcical trial.
POLISH / *RENOVATE is ridiculously
funny -
SERIOUS / CONFUSED absurd, even.
SPOIL / DISFIGURE When you
stumbled
SPOTTED / STAINED onstage,
STUPID / FOOLISH FARCICAL tripping over
your costume
TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK and pulling
down the
TO KNOW
backdrop, you
TO SEE brought a
farcical
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE element to the
WEAK / THIN / TALL serious play.
Form: adj If your Mnemonic: man in red is "not
Tone: neg grandmother natural"
describes you Example: His prose style is far
as mannered, too MANNERED and self-
she means conscious.
you are very
formal,
observing all
societyâ€™s
MANNERED
mandates.
She might
mean this
positively,
approving of
your actions,
or negatively,
thinking you
too formal.
Form: verb If you're Example: The administration
Tone: neg accused of has adopted an aggressive
posturing POSTURE on immigration.
though, that's
a different
POSTURE story - that
means you're
behaving
unnaturally to
impress
someone.
Form: adj Use the Mnemonic: PRETENTIOUS is
Tone: neg adjective someone who is Pretending
pretentious as Example: It was just an
a way to ordinary houseâ€”nothing
criticize people PRETENTIOUS.
who try to act
PRETENTIOUS
like they are
more
important or
knowledgeable
than they
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun If your teacher says Mnemonic: apo = up/
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: pos the term paper you above(raise) + theo(god)+
handed in last week sis = is. So "god is above all
APPLAUSE is a work of genius in APOTHEOSIS belief".
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE that sets a new Example: Mona Lisa is the
gold standard for APOTHEOSIS of all
APOTHEOSIS
BEST EXAMPLE the school, he's paintings.
telling you your Root: Prefix APO means
COME TOGETHER
work is the AWAY FROM, FROM
DIG OUT / SEARCH / apotheosis of term
SOLVE papers. The
epitome.
ECHO
Form: noun An archetype is a Mnemonic: Archies type
EQUALITY Tone: pos perfect example of comics are ARCHETYPE
FAT something. If you Example: She is the
have blond hair, a ARCHETYPE of an American
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER perfect size six movie star.
ARCHETYPE
DEGREE) body and are on the
cheerleading squad,
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE)
you're the
GET RID OF / CLEANSE archetype of a high
school cheerleader.
IMPORTANT MARK
Form: verb To embody a role is Mnemonic: Imagine
IMPURE / POISONOUS Tone: pos to fill it completely. someone whose body is
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED If a high schooler crushed and replaced with a
seems to embody letter m - the 'm' body
INTELLIGENT the character of stands as a representative
Macbeth, his of his body.
PERSUADE EMBODY
performance might Example: He is a politician
POLISH / *RENOVATE make the audience who embodied the hopes of
forget they're black youth
SERIOUS / CONFUSED watching a dorky
SPOIL / DISFIGURE 15-year-old with
braces.
SPOTTED / STAINED
Form: noun If you're talking Mnemonic: Happy Tom: is
STUPID / FOOLISH Tone: pos about a typical a perfect example of Tom
example of and Jerry
something, call it Example: He is the
TO KNOW the epitome. The EPITOME of goodness.
EPITOME
cartoon character
TO SEE Garfield is the
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE epitome of the fat,
lazy, food-obsessed
WEAK / THIN / TALL cat.
Form: verb If you exemplify Mnemonic: EXEMPLIFY is
Tone: pos something, you're nothing but EXAMPLE.
the perfect example Example: His food
of it. Say you wear exemplifies Italian cooking
frilly shirts, knee- at its best.
EXEMPLIFY high boots, and Root: Suffix -Y always
black eye-make-up - means A STATE of
you exemplify the something
fashion world's
obsession with
pirates.
Form: noun A paradigm is a Mnemonic: Dime coin is
Tone: pos standard, PARADIGM for US currency
perspective, or set Example: The war was a
PARADIGM of ideas. A PARADIGM of the
paradigm is a way destructive side of human
of looking at nature.
something.
Form: noun Paragon applies to Mnemonic: You rub the
Tone: pos someone who is a gold on the touchstone and
model of perfection you can find out how good
in some quality or the gold is. You are hoping
trait. We link that it is the PARAGON of
PARAGON
paragon with other "goldness."
words that follow it, Example: He wasn't the
such as "paragon of PARAGON of virtue she had
virtue" or "paragon expected.
of patience."
Form: verb To personify is to Mnemonic:
Tone: pos give something person+infy(infosys):infosys
lifeless human-like recruit only quality people.
qualities - like Example: These children
when Emily PERSONIFY all that is wrong
PERSONIFY
Dickinson wrote, with the education system.
"Because I could Root: Suffix -Y always
not stop for Death, means A STATE of
He kindly stopped something
for me..."
Form: noun A precedent is Mnemonic: PRECEDENT -
Tone: pos something that sets pre(before)+
a standard for cedent(incident), an incident
future events. It's happened before which will
hard to say what decide the following
the legal incident.
community would Example: The ruling set a
PRECEDENT
do without the word PRECEDENT for future libel
precedent, since so cases.
many legal Root: Prefix PRE means
judgments and BEFORE.
decisions are based
on what came
before.
Form: noun A prototype is the Mnemonic: Type of
Tone: pos original model, like somethingâ€¦.
a sample on which Example: Scientists have
to base future developed a working
designs. A company PROTOTYPE for a voice
PROTOTYPE designing a new translation machine.
toaster will first Root: Prefix PROTO means
design and build a FIRST
prototype, to test it
out and see if it's
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adj Concurrent means Mnemonic:

CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neut happening at the same CONCURRENT can be
time, as in two movies related to Co-
APPLAUSE showing at the same (together) occurant
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE theater on the same (something that takes
weekend. place).
BEST EXAMPLE CONCURRENT Example: He was
imprisoned for two
COME TOGETHER
CONCURRENT terms
DIG OUT / SEARCH / of 30 months and 18
SOLVE months.
Root: Prefix CON
ECHO means TOGETHER.
EQUALITY Form: noun Confluence means a Mnemonic:
FAT Tone: neut flowing together. In a CONFLUENCE can be
literal sense, it's about remembered as you
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER rivers. But it's more often bring people together
DEGREE) used to talk about the by means of your
coming together of influence.
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) CONFLUENCE
factors or ideas, or of Example: the
GET RID OF / CLEANSE cultures in a diverse city. CONFLUENCE of the
Blue Nile and the
IMPORTANT MARK White Nile
IMPURE / POISONOUS Root: Prefix CON
means TOGETHER.
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED
Form: verb Two roads, a roomful of Mnemonic:
INTELLIGENT Tone: neut politicians, or a group of CONVERGE sounds
rabid fans - when things like Come and merge.
PERSUADE
come together from Example: Thousands
POLISH / *RENOVATE different points they of supporters
CONVERGE
converge. CONVERGEd on
SERIOUS / CONFUSED Washington, D.C. for
SPOIL / DISFIGURE the rally.
Root: Prefix CON
SPOTTED / STAINED means TOGETHER.
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: verb To "inter" a body is to bury Mnemonic: Inter is
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neut it or place it in a to bury DISINTER is
mausoleum, so to disinter to dig out. Dis is NOT
APPLAUSE someone is to take the body .
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE out again - usually to find Example: The actor's
DISINTER
out how they died, to make autobiography
BEST EXAMPLE sure it's really who we think DISINTERred a past
it is, or to move the body to era.
COME TOGETHER
a new burial site. Root: Prefix DIS-
DIG OUT / SEARCH / means NOT/ APART.
SOLVE Form: verb To excavate is to remove or Mnemonic: Try to
ECHO Tone: neut find by digging. If you have remember EXCAVATE
rocky soil in your garden, in this way: eight
EQUALITY you may have to excavate it eggs dig out a cave
FAT to remove the rocks and and are known as the
EXCAVATE replace them with additional eggs cave eight.
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER soil. Example: The site
DEGREE) has been EXCAVATEd
by archaeologists.
Root: Prefix EX-
GET RID OF / CLEANSE means OUT OF, FROM
IMPORTANT MARK Form: verb When you see your Mnemonic: Ex-
Tone: neut mysterious neighbor digging human, dig out
IMPURE / POISONOUS around in his backyard, you (EXHUME) human
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED may wonder if heâ€™s trying from ground
to exhume something. Example: They
INTELLIGENT EXHUME Chances are heâ€™s only insisted not to
digging up potatoes - when EXHUME that old
PERSUADE
you exhume something, it argument in the
POLISH / *RENOVATE means youâ€™re digging up party.
a corpse. Root: Prefix EX-
SERIOUS / CONFUSED means OUT OF, FROM
SPOIL / DISFIGURE Form: noun You may be familiar with Mnemonic: FERRET
SPOTTED / STAINED Tone: pos/neut ferrets, those adorable little my Parrot FERRET the
mammals that look like FERRET, kaunsa
STUPID / FOOLISH cheap minks. Well, the verb FERRET hai mera
to ferret means to act like a (trying to find out
FERRET ferret: to dig for something from a flock of
TO KNOW until you find it. parrots)
Example: She
TO SEE opened the drawer
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE and FERRETed
around for her keys.
WEAK / THIN / TALL
Form: verb To unearth something is to Mnemonic:
Tone: neut dig it up. You could unearth un(not)+earth the
a coffin, or even a tee shirt minerals which are
buried in the bottom of a not present in surface
drawer. of earth is found BY
UNEARTH DIGGING
Example: When they
UNEARTHed the city,
the archeologists
found many relics of
an ancient civilization.
Form: verb make plain or clear; solve Mnemonic: Un (not)
Tone: neut + Ravel is to
complicate. Paresh
Rawal Ravel the story
Example: It also
UNRAVEL helped UNRAVEL
longstanding
mysteries such as
exactly how ozone
degrades and rust
forms.
Form: verb Inter means to bury, usually Mnemonic: Inter is
Tone: neut/neg in a tomb or grave. If you to bury.
loved your cat a lot, you Example: The
X INTER
might want to inter her princess was interred
remains in the back yard and on an island in the
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AWAY FROM THE Form: verb To resound is to echo Mnemonic: Re means

CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neut with sounds, usually to REPEAT. So the
loudly. When you sing sound that keeps
APPLAUSE in the shower, your repeating is RESOUND.
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE voice resounds. Example: If you've
RESOUND ever heard a ring
BEST EXAMPLE announcer, the
microphone helps his or
COME TOGETHER
her voice RESOUND to
DIG OUT / SEARCH / the crowd.
SOLVE Root: RE is to REPEAT
ECHO Form: verb If you give a loud Mnemonic: Re is to
Tone: neut shout in a cavernous REPEAT and verbate can
EQUALITY place, like a gym, or a be equated to vibrate.
FAT church, the sound of So a sound that keeps
your voice will on vibrating, its
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER reverberate REVERBERATE.
REVERBERATE
DEGREE) throughout the room. Repetitive Re Vibration
Reverberate means an (echo) produces echo.
echo. Example: The thunder
GET RID OF / CLEANSE REVERBERATEd across
the valley.
IMPORTANT MARK Root: RE is to REPEAT
IMPURE / POISONOUS
INTELLIGENT
PERSUADE
POLISH / *RENOVATE
SERIOUS / CONFUSED
SPOIL / DISFIGURE
SPOTTED / STAINED
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adj Secular things are Mnemonic: we say india is a
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: pos not religious. SECULAR country--- means
Anything not india has combination of many
APPLAUSE affiliated with a religions, not a fixed religion,
SECULAR church or faith can there are hindu, muslims
be called secular. ,Christian, jain
BEST EXAMPLE Example: Ours is a SECULAR
society.
COME TOGETHER
Root: Prefix SEC mean CUT.
DIG OUT / SEARCH / Form: adj Secular, lay, or Mnemonic: TEMPORAL and
SOLVE Tone: pos civil, as opposed Mortal are rhyming words with
ECHO to any particular the same meaning i.e
religion. something that is temporary,
EQUALITY that does not last forever.
TEMPORAL
FAT Example: Although spiritual
leader of millions of people, the
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER Pope has no TEMPORAL power.
DEGREE) Root: Prefix TEMP means
TIME.
GET RID OF / CLEANSE
IMPORTANT MARK
IMPURE / POISONOUS
INTELLIGENT
PERSUADE
POLISH / *RENOVATE
SERIOUS / CONFUSED
SPOIL / DISFIGURE
SPOTTED / STAINED
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adj Corpulent is a formal word Mnemonic:

CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg that describes a fat person. cor+pulent (Car
If you are trying to be Puller) one who is
APPLAUSE respectful when describing capable of pulling a
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE a fat man, you might refer car i.e. a large fat
to him as a "corpulent man
BEST EXAMPLE gentleman." Example: Mrs.
CORPULENT George donner was in
COME TOGETHER
good health was
DIG OUT / SEARCH / somewhat
SOLVE CORPULENT and
certainly able to
ECHO travel.
EQUALITY Root: Prefix CORP
means BODY
FAT
Form: noun The girth of something is Mnemonic: He is a
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER Tone: neg the distance around its GIRTH of Earth
DEGREE) middle, and it usually Example: The man
refers to a personâ€™s of enormous GIRTH.
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) GIRTH
waist. If you get pregnant A tree one meter in
GET RID OF / CLEANSE with twins, your girth will GIRTH .
probably block your view of
IMPORTANT MARK your toes.
IMPURE / POISONOUS Form: adj Obese means excessively Mnemonic: OBESE
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED Tone: neg fat. In medical terms, it can be used as very
means you have a body fat so OBviously not
INTELLIGENT OBESE mass index (BMI) of 30 or at EASE.
more, at which point your Example: OBESE
PERSUADE
body's excess fat begins to patients are given
POLISH / *RENOVATE threaten your health. dietary advice.
SERIOUS / CONFUSED Form: adj Don't call someone fat. Be Mnemonic: PORKY
Tone: neut/neg nice, and call them portly. the pig is PORTLY...
SPOIL / DISFIGURE Portly is just one of several Example: The
SPOTTED / STAINED words that are kinder than salesclerk tactfully
PORTLY
"fat," including "stout," referred to the
STUPID / FOOLISH "heavy," and "pleasingly overweight customer
plump." as PORTLY rather
than fat
TO KNOW Form: verb short and thick Mnemonic: Kuwait
TO SEE Tone: neg people are SQUAT
Example: As he was
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE SQUAT
SQUAT, he was easily
WEAK / THIN / TALL noticeable in a team
having lean players.
Form: adj Stout describes something Mnemonic: Most
Tone: neg fat, dependable, or rugged. supermodels would
If someone calls you stout, not want to be
ask them exactly what they described as STOUT,
STOUT mean before bursting into which is often a nicer
tears and skipping dinner. way of saying "fat."
It could be a compliment! Example: She is
getting too STOUT for
her dresses.
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun Behest is an Mnemonic: BEHEST

CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg authoritative command can be split as Be
or request. If your boss (become) + Haste
APPLAUSE or principal asks to see (fast) when you are
BEHEST you, you go to their called by your boss,
office at their behest. because it is his
BEST EXAMPLE command/BEHEST.
Example: He went at
COME TOGETHER
the king's BEHEST.
DIG OUT / SEARCH / Form: verb If you're begging for Mnemonic: BESEECH
SOLVE Tone: neg something but you want sounds a little like
ECHO to sound formal and a seek, which is
little old-fashioned, say appropriate. To
EQUALITY BESEECH "I beseech you!" It really BESEECH is to seek for
FAT captures how urgent and something, or for
desperate you are, yet permission.
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER saves a shred of your Example: Let him go, I
DEGREE) dignity. BESEECH you!
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) Form: verb to ask somebody for Mnemonic: Imagine
Tone: neg food, money, etc. begging somebody for a
GET RID OF / CLEANSE especially because you ride. "Can I catch
IMPORTANT MARK cannot or do not want to (CADGE) a ride with
CADGE
pay for something you?"
IMPURE / POISONOUS yourself Example: I managed
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED to CADGE some money
off my dad.
INTELLIGENT
Form: verb To cajole someone is to Example: The
PERSUADE Tone: neg persuade them by using salesman will CAJOLE
insincere compliments or the couple into buying
POLISH / *RENOVATE promises. If you say the stereo.
CAJOLE
SERIOUS / CONFUSED "Please, pretty-please,
I'll be your best friend,"
SPOIL / DISFIGURE when asking for a candy,
SPOTTED / STAINED you are cajoling him.
Form: noun "Ain't too proud to beg" Mnemonic: We often
STUPID / FOOLISH
Tone: neg is what the word have to entreat a
TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK entreaty is all about. person to give us a
When you make an treat
TO KNOW ENTREATY
entreaty, you're begging Example: She held up
TO SEE or pleading for her arms in ENTREATY.
something. Root: Prefix EN means
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE IN
WEAK / THIN / TALL Form: verb You might ask your Mnemonic: Beggars
Tone: neg friend for a loan if you're IMPLORE for money
short a few bucks, but if sitting on floor
the bank is about to Example: They
foreclose on your house IMPLOREd him for
IMPLORE
you'll implore your friend forgiveness.
for the money,
desperately begging for
the cash so you can keep
your house.
Form: verb to importune is to beg, Mnemonic: Im means
Tone: neg but use it only when NOT and -portune
you're talking about sounds like Fortune
going beyond mere (fate and money both).
begging into more urgent So a person lacking or
territory. The woman not having enough
importuned the judge to money and a good
release her innocent fortune has to beg from
IMPORTUNE
brother from jail. others and is called
IMPORTUNE.
Example: After a year
of being IMPORTUNEd
(persuasion), dad let
me have the car.
Root: Prefix IM means
NOT
Form: verb If you donâ€™t get the Mnemonic: Imagine a
Tone: neg grade you were hoping cat supply teacher, a
for on your paper, you supply cat, who has no
could try to rewrite it, or idea how to teach and
you could meet with your has to beg for help
SUPPLICATE
teacher and supplicate. Example: He
Your humble requests for SUPPLICATEd her
an â€Ãâ€™ may or may girlfriend to get back to
not work. him after cheating on
her
Form: verb To wheedle is to sweet Mnemonic: WHEEDLE
Tone: neg talk, or flatter someone sounds like Needle. She
in the hopes of getting WHEEDLEd Needle from
something in return. You doctor
WHEEDLE
might try to wheedle a Example: I WHEEDLEd
meter maid into not a new car out of my
giving you a parking father.
ticket.
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun Coercion is making Mnemonic:

CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg something happen by COERCIVE forces in
force, like when bullies physics
APPLAUSE COERCION use coercion to make kids Example: The police
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE give them their lunch might use COERCION,
money. too, to get a
BEST EXAMPLE confession.
COME TOGETHER Form: verb You don't want to be Mnemonic: School
Tone: neg compelled to go to a officials might be
DIG OUT / SEARCH / classical music concert if upset if a winter
SOLVE you'd rather listen to rap. storm COMPELs them
ECHO Compel means to force or to cancel classes
COMPEL
drive someone to do Example: The law
EQUALITY something. can COMPEL fathers
FAT to make regular
payments for their
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER children.
DEGREE)
Form: noun Let's say you have a Mnemonic:
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) Tone: neg secret. You've promised Compusion is to
not to tell, but there's comply or agree to
GET RID OF / CLEANSE something forcing you to something when you
IMPORTANT MARK call a friend and spill the are forced to.
COMPULSION beans. This force is Example:
IMPURE / POISONOUS compulsion, that urge to COMPULSION for
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED do something even employers in
though you know you contributing to their
INTELLIGENT shouldn't. employees pension
funds.
PERSUADE
Form: verb To extort is to use Mnemonic: Ex Tort
POLISH / *RENOVATE Tone: neg information or the threat (Torture) get money
SERIOUS / CONFUSED of violence to acquire by threats
EXTORT cash or something else. Example: The
SPOIL / DISFIGURE Extortion is a classic kidnappers EXTORTed
SPOTTED / STAINED shakedown, a gouge, a a 2 lakh ransom for
squeeze. his release.
STUPID / FOOLISH
Form: verb something that Mnemonic: GOAD =
TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK Tone: neg encourages, urges, or goat. Imagine a huge
drives. Goat which always
TO KNOW inspires you to think
TO SEE that humans could
eat grass for their
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE GOAD
living
WEAK / THIN / TALL Example: When
GOADed beyond
endurance, she
turned on him and hit
out.
Form: noun When you urge, and Mnemonic: PRESS is
Tone: neg literally force your mother to force.
to sign the marksheet Example: They had
PRESS since you have scored PRESSed for their
very less and itâ€™s the children to be taught
Principals command, its French.
PRESSING her to do so.
Form: verb When you dissuade Mnemonic:
Tone: neg someone, you convince Remember the
that person not to do meaning of dissuade
something: â€œWhen (discourage) by
Caroline saw Peter's comparing it to its
broken leg, she tried to more common
X DISSUADE dissuade him going on relative persuade (to
the ski trip.â€ force or urge)
Example: I tried to
dissuade him from
giving up his job.
Root: Prefix DIS
means APART/ NOT
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun Use the noun, catharsis, Mnemonic: CATHA
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg to refer to the experience sounds like KATHA(a
a person can have of religious story in
APPLAUSE releasing emotional hindi)..KATHA leads to
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE tension and feeling the purging(means
refreshed afterwards. release) of emotional
BEST EXAMPLE CATHARSIS tensions.
Example: Aristotle
COME TOGETHER
maintained that
DIG OUT / SEARCH / tragedy created a
SOLVE CATHARSIS by purging
the soul of base
ECHO concepts.
EQUALITY Form: verb To exorcise is to cast out Mnemonic: EXORCISE
FAT Tone: neg a devil or evil spirit, sounds like "exercise,"
using prayer and other which means to work
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER religious tools. You're out or train your body
DEGREE) probably familiar with the or mind. Casting out
name of the person who devils is hard work, so
EXORCISE does this: an exorcist. be sure to exercise
GET RID OF / CLEANSE before you EXORCISE.
Example: The ghost
IMPORTANT MARK was EXORCISEd from
IMPURE / POISONOUS the house.
Root: EX means OUT
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED OF/FROM
INTELLIGENT Form: verb To expurgate is to Mnemonic: ex- means
Tone: neg censor. Usually, people out, purgare means
PERSUADE
talk about expurgating cleanse; EXPURGATE
POLISH / *RENOVATE bad words from means change the tone
something written or on of a text by removing
SERIOUS / CONFUSED TV. For Instance, the BIG words
SPOIL / DISFIGURE EXPURGATE BOSS, contestents have Example: On TV, if you
been asked not to use hear some words
SPOTTED / STAINED curse words. bleeped out, those
STUPID / FOOLISH words have been
EXPURGATEd.
TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK Root: EX means OUT
OF/FROM
TO KNOW
Form: verb To purge is to get rid of Mnemonic: PURGE
TO SEE Tone: neg something or someone, rhymes with urge, and
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE and often itâ€™s done when you have a really
suddenly. strong urge to throw
WEAK / THIN / TALL stuff away or clean
PURGE something out, you
have an urge to
PURGE.
Example: His first act
as leader was to PURGE
the party of extremists.
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun A hallmark is a distinctive Mnemonic: A

CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: pos characteristic of something basketball player
or someone. That can could say that coming
APPLAUSE mean a literal symbol on to practice early is a
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE the bottom of a piece of HALLMARK of her
HALLMARK
pottery, or just a rock success
BEST EXAMPLE star's signature hair style. Example: Police said
the explosion bore all
COME TOGETHER
the HALLMARKs of a
DIG OUT / SEARCH / terrorist attack.
SOLVE Form: noun A milestone is a significant Mnemonic: a
ECHO Tone: pos event in your life. Often a MILESTONE victory or
milestone marks the start a company's sales
EQUALITY of a new chapter. For MILESTONE.
FAT MILESTONE example, the day you Example: He said
graduated from high the launch of the
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER school was a milestone in party represented a
DEGREE) your life. MILESTONE in
Zambian history.
Form: noun A watershed is a turning Example: The middle
GET RID OF / CLEANSE Tone: pos point, or historic moment. decades of the 19th
IMPORTANT MARK The day you got your century marked a
WATERSHED
braces off might have WATERSHED in
IMPURE / POISONOUS been a watershed moment Russia's history
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED in your life.
INTELLIGENT
PERSUADE
POLISH / *RENOVATE
SERIOUS / CONFUSED
SPOIL / DISFIGURE
SPOTTED / STAINED
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: verb If you adulterate Mnemonic:

CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg something, you mess it ADULTERATE sounds
up. You may not want like: Adult rate, adult
APPLAUSE to adulterate the beauty are impure than
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE of freshly fallen snow by children so adults are
ADULTERATE
shoveling it, but how adultrated
BEST EXAMPLE else are you going to Example: Food
get to work? adulteration is a big
COME TOGETHER
problem in developing
DIG OUT / SEARCH / countries.
SOLVE Form: verb The verb contaminate Mnemonic: If your
ECHO Tone: neg means the same as coke has got tab in it
pollute. Whether itâ€™s the coke is made
EQUALITY food, air, or water, impure
FAT CONTAMINATE when you contaminate Example: The
something, you make it drinking water has
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER impure or hazardous. become
DEGREE) CONTAMINATEd with
lead.
Form: noun A miasma is a cloud of Mnemonic: You could
GET RID OF / CLEANSE Tone: neg foul-smelling vapor, like describe the MIASMA
IMPORTANT MARK swamp gas. of a hot summer day,
but you'd be thinking
IMPURE / POISONOUS of the stench of
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED MIASMA uncollected garbage
and exhaust fumes,
INTELLIGENT not the smell of
summer flowers
PERSUADE
Example: a MIASMA
POLISH / *RENOVATE of cigarette smoke.
SERIOUS / CONFUSED Form: adj Something noxious is Mnemonic: NOXIOUS
Tone: neg harmful and could be can be split in two
SPOIL / DISFIGURE even fatal - whether it is parts: No+ Oxygenâ
SPOTTED / STAINED colorless, odorless, and €¦in the air is really
invisible like carbon harmful.
NOXIOUS
STUPID / FOOLISH monoxide, or dark, Example: His cologne
strong-smelling, and was so NOXIOUS I
obvious, like black had to exit the
TO KNOW smoke from a fire. elevator and take the
stairs
TO SEE
Form: adj Danger! Hazardous! Do Mnemonic: TOXIC is
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE Tone: neg not eat! These are just related to the word
WEAK / THIN / TALL some of the warnings toxin, which is a kind
you'll see on toxic of poison. Cobra bites,
substances - meaning wild mystery
TOXIC stuff that's poisonous mushrooms and
and even deadly. strong chemicals are
all TOXIC.
Example: Many
pesticides are highly
TOXIC.
Form: verb As some sneaky five- Mnemonic: VITIATE
Tone: neg year-olds know, the effect of Vish
crossing oneâ€™s (Poison)
fingers while making a Example: The â
VITIATE
promise is an effective €œyesâ€ vote was
way to vitiate, or VITIATEd by the low
destroy the validity of, turnout in the
an agreement. election.
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adj Congenital refers to Mnemonic: Genetic

CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neut something present at mismatches lead to
birth but not necessarily CONGENITAL
APPLAUSE inherited from the diseases.
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE parents. Babies with Example: Half of all
CONGENITAL
heart disorders developed fetuses with the
BEST EXAMPLE in utero can live long and syndrome have a
productive lives, in spite CONGENITAL heart
COME TOGETHER
of their congenital birth defect.
DIG OUT / SEARCH / defect.
SOLVE Form: verb When you're entrenched, Mnemonic: If you
ECHO Tone: neut you're dug in. Sometimes establish something
that means you're by digging a trench
EQUALITY literally in a trench, but you are in trench
FAT usually it means you just Example: Having
won't budge from a turkey on
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER ENTRENCHED position or belief. Thanksgiving is a
DEGREE) tradition that's
ENTRENCHED in
American culture -
GET RID OF / CLEANSE it's long been
established and isn't
IMPORTANT MARK going anywhere
IMPURE / POISONOUS Form: adj Use the adjective Mnemonic:
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED Tone: neut inherent for qualities that INHERENT is always
are considered in here. Itâ€™s a rule
INTELLIGENT permanent or cannot be that if you want to
separated from an stay in here, at our
PERSUADE
essential character. house you have to
INHERENT
POLISH / *RENOVATE pay a monthly rent.
Example: It has,
SERIOUS / CONFUSED however, highlighted
SPOIL / DISFIGURE the difficulties
INHERENT in this
SPOTTED / STAINED process
STUPID / FOOLISH Form: adj If a characteristic or Mnemonic: He
Tone: neut ability is already present always ate in inn,
in a person or animal thatâ€™s his INNATE
TO KNOW when they are born, it is (inborn) habit
INNATE innate. People have the Example: He possess
TO SEE innate ability to speak an INNATE knowledge
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE whereas animals do not. of right and wrong
Root: Prefix IN
WEAK / THIN / TALL means INTO
Form: adj The intrinsic qualities of Mnemonic:
Tone: neut something have to do INTRINSIC is internal,
with its nature. An within.
INTRINSIC
intrinsic quality of dogs is Example: Generosity
that they're loyal. was an INTRINSIC
part of her nature
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun Acuity has to do with Mnemonic: A cute
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: pos sharpness and girl has sharp
smartness. Do you features
APPLAUSE ACUITY always get A's in Example: In time his
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE math? Then you have youthful ACUITY of
an acuity for vision failed him, and
BEST EXAMPLE numbers. he needed glasses.
COME TOGETHER Form: noun If you have acumen, Mnemonic: A few
Tone: pos you are very sharp at men have ACUMEN
DIG OUT / SEARCH / what you do. You Example: His
SOLVE ACUMEN hope your accountant business ACUMEN
ECHO and your surgeon are helped him to
both known for their succeed where others
EQUALITY acumen. had failed.
FAT Form: adj Someone who is Mnemonic: absolute:
Tone: pos astute is clever and a salute to ASTUTE
has good judgment. person
DEGREE)
ASTUTE The kid running Example: That was a
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) around with a bucket very ASTUTE
stuck on his head? observation.
GET RID OF / CLEANSE Not so astute.
IMPORTANT MARK Form: adj Discerning people Mnemonic: READ IT
IMPURE / POISONOUS Tone: pos pick up on subtle AS di-screening. A
traits and are good DUAL SCREENING
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED judges of quality - PERSON, WHO KEEPS
they're the ones that ON SCREENING
INTELLIGENT
can tell if your EVERYTHING
PERSUADE cupcakes are AROUND TWICE(
DISCERNING
homemade from the VERY OBSERVANT,
POLISH / *RENOVATE finest ingredients or ALERT)
SERIOUS / CONFUSED totally from a box Example: The
mix. DISCERNING
SPOIL / DISFIGURE customer will
SPOTTED / STAINED recognize this as a
high quality product.
STUPID / FOOLISH
Form: adj Someone Mnemonic:
TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK Tone: pos discriminating has Discriminate is to
fine-grained know the
TO KNOW judgment and can DIFFERENCE between
TO SEE tell, for example, the good and bad.
difference between Example: When
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE pretty good cookies eating, being
WEAK / THIN / TALL DISCRIMINATING and incredibly great DISCRIMINATING is
cookies - a valuable especially useful: why
skill. eat food that's badly
prepared or
unhealthy if you don't
have to?
Root: Prefix DIS
means to APART,NOT
Form: adj What English Mnemonic: With this
Tone: pos teachers want from word, remember in-
students writing and -sight-. When
papers is insightful you have the ability
analysis - thinking to look (sight) inside
that sees beyond (in) somethingâ€“â
the obvious and €“a painting, a
INSIGHTFUL
expresses an discussion, a
original thought. situation.
Example: She
offered some really
interesting,
INSIGHTFUL
observation.
Form: adj If you're judicious, Mnemonic:
Tone: pos you've got a good judi+cious--- having
head on your JUDgement qualities
shoulders and make Example: It is
JUDICIOUS good decisions. curable with
Humpty Dumpty's JUDICIOUS use of
decision to sit on a antibiotics.
wall? NOT judicious. Root: Prefix JUD
means to JUDGE
Form: adj If someone calls you Mnemonic:
Tone: pos perceptive, they PERCEPTIVE sounds
mean you are good at like Perfectly
understanding things Observative.
PERCEPTIVE or figuring things out. Example: It was
Perceptive people are very PERCEPTIVE of
insightful, intelligent, you to notice that.
and able to see what Root: Prefix PER
others cannot. means THROUGH
Form: adj Perspicacious is an Mnemonic: A
Tone: pos adjective that means PERSPICACIOUS
"shrewd" and "wise." person has keen
A perspicacious child perspective
PERSPICACIOUS can't be fooled when Example: The
her parents try to brilliant lawyer was
keep a secret by known for his
talking in Pig Latin. PERSPICACIOUS
deductions
Form: adj To be imprudent Mnemonic: Im
Tone: pos means lacking self- means NOT and
restraint when it PRUDENT means
would be wise to CAREFUL. Not Careful
have it, like that time Example: It would
PRUDENT
you started dancing be imPRUDENT to
on the table during a invest all your money
math test. Remember in one company.
that? Everybody else
does.
Form: adj Use the formal Mnemonic: Imagine
Tone: pos adjective, sagacious, a man who is so old
to describe someone his skin sags in sag
who is wise and ages -this man is so
SAGACIOUS insightful like an old he must be wise
advisor to the Example: He is a
president or a SAGACIOUS leader.
Supreme Court
justice.
Form: noun Use the word sage for Mnemonic: S +
Tone: pos someone or AGE... a wise aged
something wise and man(your grandpa)..
judicious. Thanks to Example: He was
SAGE the sage advice of famous for his SAGE
your friend, you advice to younger
didn't write your paints.
teacher an angry e-
mail!
Form: noun You know that girl in Mnemonic: Rakhi
Tone: pos your school with a Sawant is considered
GPA over 100? She is SAVANT in exposing
a savant in the Example: There are
SAVANT
making. A savant is SAVANTs who are
someone over-the- wise and learned, and
top smart, a scholar. then there are idiot
SAVANTs
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AWAY FROM THE Form: verb When you coax someone, Mnemonic: When you
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg you try to convince him want a bike from your
gently, with pleasant father, serve him some
APPLAUSE words and maybe a little cokes to first cool him
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE flattery. and then request for your
COAX
bikeâ€¦in short COAX
BEST EXAMPLE him.
Example: She COAXed
COME TOGETHER
the horse into coming a
DIG OUT / SEARCH / little closer.
SOLVE Form: adj In these days of 24-hour Mnemonic: COGENT
ECHO Tone: neg entertainment news and sounds like Convincing+
sound-bite sized Gent. A man who speaks
EQUALITY explanations of complex in a way that is very
FAT government policy, itâ€™s convincing, may be like a
COGENT
hard to find a cogent salesman.
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER (persuading) argument Example: She put
DEGREE) amidst all the emotional forward some COGENT
outbursts. reasons for abandoning
the plan.
GET RID OF / CLEANSE Form: verb To enjoin is to issue an Mnemonic: ENJOIN to
IMPORTANT MARK Tone: neg urgent and official order. If join the army
the government tells Example: The doctor
IMPURE / POISONOUS ENJOIN loggers to stop cutting ENJOINed a strict diet.
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED down trees, they are
enjoining the loggers to
INTELLIGENT stop.
PERSUADE Form: verb When he heard the crowd Mnemonic: If your Ex,
Tone: neg exhort (to fill up with hurts (EXHORT) you
POLISH / *RENOVATE encouragement) him with continuously by reminding
SERIOUS / CONFUSED stomping and cheers, he you of time spent in the
knew that he could finish past, request (urge) him
SPOIL / DISFIGURE EXHORT the marathon. to move on and stop
SPOTTED / STAINED bothering you.
Example: The media
STUPID / FOOLISH have been EXHORTing
people to come to the
demonstration.
TO KNOW Form: verb To induce is to move or Mnemonic: Typical filmy
TO SEE Tone: neg lead someone to action. A dialogue: a movie heroine
promise of a lollipop can might say to the villain,
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE induce a toddler to do just "Nothing could INDUCE
WEAK / THIN / TALL about anything, even sit me to marry you. Not all
INDUCE down and be polite to the the money in the world.
maid. Not if you were the last
man on Earth!"
Example: Nothing would
INDUCE me to take the
job.
Form: verb If you have an urge to eat Mnemonic: Mr. BURGEr
Tone: neg candy, you really want to King giving bURGEr to
eat those sweets. Your BoURGEois (middle class
mother might urge you to people) dressed in pink.
URGE
wait until after dinner. Example: Police are
urging anyone who saw
the accident to contact
them immediately.
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AWAY FROM THE Form: verb You can burnish your Mnemonic: BURNISH is
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg resume, by polishing it opposite of Tarnish.
until it's perfect. Tarnish is to spoil or
APPLAUSE disfigure something and
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE BURNISH is to make
BURNISH something look shiny by
BEST EXAMPLE polishing.
Example: When the
COME TOGETHER
floor is dry apply a coat
DIG OUT / SEARCH / of concentrated Star
SOLVE and BURNISH when dry.
ECHO Form: verb Whether itâ€™s a bike, Mnemonic: REFURBISH
Tone: neg an old computer, or a sounds like refurnish.
EQUALITY tennis stadium, when Example: REFURBISHed
FAT you refurbish something phones are easily
REFURBISH
you clean it up and available for those who
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER make it look or perform do not wish to spend
DEGREE) better. much on hi-tech phones.
Root: RE means AGAIN.
Form: noun a coating that provides Mnemonic: garnish
GET RID OF / CLEANSE Tone: neg a hard, lustrous, means to decorate;
IMPORTANT MARK transparent finish to a VARNISH means to
VARNISH surface decorate by POLISHING
IMPURE / POISONOUS Example: I'll give the
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED shelves a coat of
VARNISH.
INTELLIGENT
Form: noun A veneer can be Mnemonic: VENEER is
PERSUADE Tone: neg anything that makes pronounced in a similar
something look more way to Paneer. Both
POLISH / *RENOVATE VENEER elegant or attractive mean the same soft,
SERIOUS / CONFUSED than it is. elegant.
Example: The chest is
SPOIL / DISFIGURE solid oak, not VENEER.
SPOTTED / STAINED
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adj If you're bemused, you're Mnemonic: Amused
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neut muddled or preoccupied. It No => BEMUSED =
happens when you're lost in Confused
APPLAUSE BEMUSED thought, dazed, or Example: It
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE overwhelmed (say, on the Constantly confuse or
first day of high school). bemuses people, why
BEST EXAMPLE he did this.
COME TOGETHER Form: adj See that person staring out Mnemonic: PENSIVE
Tone: neut the window who looks so sad calls for a PAINFULL
DIG OUT / SEARCH / and lost in thought? He is face/ mood
SOLVE PENSIVE pensive, the opposite of Example: She was in
ECHO cheery and carefree. a PENSIVE mood, just
wanting to be alone
EQUALITY to think.
FAT
DEGREE)
GET RID OF / CLEANSE
IMPORTANT MARK
IMPURE / POISONOUS
INTELLIGENT
PERSUADE
POLISH / *RENOVATE
SERIOUS / CONFUSED
SPOIL / DISFIGURE
SPOTTED / STAINED
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: verb If you deface Mnemonic: The de- in
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg something, you've DEFACE should be a clue
blemished or disfigured that this is a negative
APPLAUSE it in some way. For word.Throwing a cup of
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE example, graffiti can coffee on a valuable
deface a statue. painting ruins the face of
BEST EXAMPLE DEFACE the painting - so we say
it's been DEFACEd.
COME TOGETHER
Example: They were
DIG OUT / SEARCH / charged with defacing
SOLVE public property.
Root: DE refers to DOWN
ECHO or AWAY
EQUALITY Form: verb To disfigure something Mnemonic: The prefix
FAT Tone: neg is to ruin its DIS means negative
appearance, which is always and Dis means
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER what would happen if NOT. So When the figure
DEGREE) you drew a big bushy is not in usual shape and
mustache and a pair of form its called
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) DISFIGURE
antennae on the Mona DISFIGURE.
GET RID OF / CLEANSE Lisa. Example: Their faces are
DISFIGUREd by severe
IMPORTANT MARK burn scars.
IMPURE / POISONOUS Root: DIS is APART or
NOT
Form: verb Distort means to twist Mnemonic: Dis means
INTELLIGENT Tone: neg out of shape. When you NOT and again to
look at a tree through a maintain the original form
PERSUADE
twisting kaleidoscope, of something is to
DISTORT
POLISH / *RENOVATE you distort its image, DISTORT
making its branches and Example: The
SERIOUS / CONFUSED leaves look wavy and loudspeaker seemed to
SPOIL / DISFIGURE misshapen. DISTORT his voice.
SPOTTED / STAINED Form: verb A mar is a flaw, mark, Mnemonic: She MARked
Tone: neg or blemish, like a deep on the wall with pencil
STUPID / FOOLISH scratch on a wooden and spoilt the paint.
table. As a verb, to mar Example: The elections
TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK MAR
is to make such an were MARred by violence.
TO KNOW imperfection - like the
pen mark that mars
TO SEE your crisp, white shirt.
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE Form: verb to become, or make Mnemonic: WARP is
WEAK / THIN / TALL Tone: neg something become, pronounced as Worp
twisted or bent out of which sounds like a dwarf
its natural shape, who is extra short and
WARP especially something sometimes not in correct
that is too hot or damp. posture.
Example: The window
frames had begun to
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun A blemish is a small flaw. If Mnemonic: BLEMISH
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg you borrow your brother's sounds like Blame.
brand new bicycle, you'd We usually blame
APPLAUSE better be careful - what people even for small
BLEMISH
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE might seem like the tiniest flaws
blemish to you might be a Example: His
BEST EXAMPLE horribly ruined paint job to reputation is without
him. a BLEMISH.
COME TOGETHER
Form: noun an irregularly shaped spot Mnemonic: BLOTCH
DIG OUT / SEARCH / Tone: neg sounds like a blot (of
SOLVE ink) on your shirt
ECHO leading to a dirty
BLOTCH
patch.
EQUALITY Example: His face
FAT was covered with
dark red BLOTCHes.
Form: verb To debase something is to Mnemonic: The Base
DEGREE)
Tone: neg make it corrupt or impure. If Terrace se building ki
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) your lemonade stand sells â base pe aa gaye hai
€œpure lemonade,â€ youâ so DEBASE
GET RID OF / CLEANSE €™d insist on using real Example: He
DEBASE
IMPORTANT MARK lemons instead of a mix; wouldn't DEBASE
using a mix would debase himself by doing
IMPURE / POISONOUS your product. manual labor
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED Root: DE refers to
DOWN or AWAY
INTELLIGENT
Form: adj If your little sister has a Mnemonic:
PERSUADE Tone: neg maculate appearance, she MACULATE sounds
either needs a good wipe like Mac -you -Late
POLISH / *RENOVATE with a damp towel or you for the partyâ€¦thatâ
SERIOUS / CONFUSED should take her to the €™s not correct and
doctor straight away. your image is stained
SPOIL / DISFIGURE Example: The room
MACULATE
SPOTTED / STAINED was long, dark,
narrow, slovenly,
STUPID / FOOLISH spaced with tables on
which were
MACULATE cloths and
TO KNOW lamps with faded
shades.
TO SEE
Form: verb If you spread false rumors Mnemonic: Bully
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE Tone: neg that there's chicken stock in always SULLY people
WEAK / THIN / TALL the vegetarian entree at Mr Example: I would
SULLY Srivastav's, you would sully not SULLY her
his good reputation.To sully reputation with that
is to attack someone's good piece of gossip
name.
Form: verb If something's tainted, it's Mnemonic: Taint
Tone: neg ruined or spoiled. If you sounds like a bad
leave milk on the counter paint. A bad paint
overnight, it could be can ruin the look of
tainted. the wall and hence
TAINTED look TAINTED.
Example: Opposition
leaders said that the
elections had been
TAINTED by
corruption.
Form: verb To tarnish is to become dull Mnemonic: TARNISH
Tone: neg or discolored. Silver tends to is opposite of
tarnish easily, which is why Garnish. Garnish is to
your mother is always decorate and
TARNISH
having you polish the family TARNISH is stained.
silver. Example: The
mirrors had
TARNISHed with age.
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adj If you want to call someone a Mnemonic: if you
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg complete stupid while get NINE out of
sounding smart yourself, ASSI(80) You ar
APPLAUSE asinine is your go-to word. surely an
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE ASININE(stupid)
ASININE
Example: Talking
BEST EXAMPLE trash about your boss
in an email they're
COME TOGETHER
cc'd on...that's
DIG OUT / SEARCH / ASININE.
SOLVE Form: noun Dolt refers a person who isn't Mnemonic: DOLT
ECHO Tone: neg very smart. You might be rhymes with bolt.
called a dolt if you do Nut-bolt ~ what a nut
EQUALITY something dumb, like stand he is. (stupid person)
DOLT
FAT outside your car complaining Example: I gave him
that you locked your keys the keys, but then
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER inside - even though the that DOLT locked
DEGREE) window is wide open. them in the car
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) Form: adj Fatuous means lacking Mnemonic: getting
Tone: neg intelligence. When your FATUOUS on purpose
GET RID OF / CLEANSE mother outlaws calling your is foolish for your
IMPORTANT MARK brother stupid, use fatuous health
FATUOUS
instead. Example: She is far
IMPURE / POISONOUS too intelligent to utter
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED such FATUOUS
remarks
INTELLIGENT
Form: noun If your best friend calls you Mnemonic:
PERSUADE Tone: neg an imbecile, he's implying IMBECILE sounds like
that you're stupid, and he's IMBALANCE....a
POLISH / *RENOVATE probably pretty angry with person having
SERIOUS / CONFUSED IMBECILE you. An imbecile is an imbalance in his mind
extremely stupid person. is a stupid person....
SPOIL / DISFIGURE Example: They
SPOTTED / STAINED behaved like
IMBECILEs.
STUPID / FOOLISH
Form: adj If something is inane, it's silly Mnemonic: Insane
TEMPT / PLOT / TRICK Tone: neg or senseless. If you just want person passes INANE
to space out, you won't mind remarks.
TO KNOW the inane chatter on TV, as Example: I have
INANE
TO SEE long as it's on. never heard anything
as INANE as what
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE just came out of your
WEAK / THIN / TALL mouth.
Form: noun An oaf is the boring, ill- Mnemonic:
Tone: neg mannered person you hope OAF...sounds like
doesn't show up at your party uff..and when you
and send the other guests see an ugly awkward
OAF
running for the door. person.
Example: He stood
there grinning like an
OAF.
Form: adj The adjective obtuse is good Mnemonic:
Tone: neg for describing someone slow Remember OBTUSE
on the uptake: "Don't be so angle in Geometry?
obtuse: get with the Itâ€™s the opposite
program!" of Acute angle. Acute
means Sharp ,
OBTUSE
OBTUSE should be
Blunt.
Example: Perhaps
I'm being OBTUSE,
but what has all this
got to do with me?
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun If you find yourself Mnemonic: All Lure
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg making eyes at that means to attract
stranger across the Example: The
APPLAUSE coffee shop, chances are romantic young man
ALLURE there is an allure about ALLUREd the
him or her - something beautiful woman by
BEST EXAMPLE mysteriously, powerfully preparing a wonderful
attractive and tempting. dinner.
COME TOGETHER
DIG OUT / SEARCH / Form: verb To beguile is to trick Mnemonic: Be
SOLVE Tone: neg someone, either with means TO and -Guile
ECHO deception or with is to cheat using
irresistible charm and charm. SO BEGUILE
EQUALITY beauty. You could be IS TO CHEAT USING
BEGUILE
FAT beguiled by a super ONES CHARM.
model or by a super con Example: Bermuda
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER artist. triangle is something
DEGREE) which BEGUILEs a
great many people.
Form: verb When you collude with Mnemonic: CO
GET RID OF / CLEANSE Tone: neg someone you secretly means together and
IMPORTANT MARK plot together to do Lude is to play, using
something bad. You tactics.
IMPURE / POISONOUS COLLUDE
might collude with your Example: Several
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED twin sister to find out people had
where all the birthday COLLUDEd in the
INTELLIGENT presents are hidden. murder.
PERSUADE Form: verb To connive is to plan or Mnemonic: Connie
Tone: neg plot to do something has been plotting and
POLISH / *RENOVATE illegal or wrong. conspiring to ruin her
SERIOUS / CONFUSED Conniving is considered neighbor's garden by
dishonest and cowardly. planting it full of ivy
SPOIL / DISFIGURE (a climbing tree)
CONNIVE
SPOTTED / STAINED Example: The
government was
STUPID / FOOLISH accused of having
CONNIVEd with the
security forces to
TO KNOW permit murder.
TO SEE Form: verb When you conspire, you Mnemonic: CON
Tone: neg collaborate with others means TOGETHER
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE to do harm, or maybe and Aspire would
WEAK / THIN / TALL just keep something mean that you are
from happening keen to do
something. In this
case when together
you aspire to harm
CONSPIRE
some one its called
conspiracy.
Example: They were
accused of conspiring
against the
government.
Root: Prefix CON
means TOGETHER
Form: verb Let's say your friend Mnemonic: You are
Tone: neg wants to go to the ENTICEd (attracted
movies and you don't to) buy ENTICEr, the
want to. Your friend bike.
ENTICE might try to entice you Example: Some
by offering to buy you stores slashed prices
popcorn. Entice means by up to 80 % to
to persuade with ENTICE shoppers.
promises of something.
Form: verb When you tell your Mnemonic: In veil
Tone: neg boyfriend heâ€™s not girl is having
just the best boyfriend INVEIGLE intentions.
ever but also the world's Deceptive intentions
best driver, and this of girl in veil
makes him offer to drive Example: The
INVEIGLE
the whole way on your babysitter tried to
upcoming road trip, then INVEIGLE the kids
congratulations. You into going to bed
know how to inveigle, or
use charm to coax
someone i
Form: verb To lure is to entice or Mnemonic: LURE is
Tone: neg bait someone. A lure is not a Pure act of
used to bait or entice attracting.
fish to attach themselves Example: The
LURE
to your hook. romantic young man
LUREd the beautiful
woman by preparing
a wonderful dinner.
Form: noun When a James Bond Mnemonic: Machine
Tone: neg villain comes up with a Guns in Nation for
plan to destroy the MACHINATIONs.
world, he doesnâ€™t use Example: I don't
a simple plan. No, he want to get involved
MACHINATION
uses a machination - a in all his
complex plot that relies MACHINATIONs.
on numerous elements
coming together to work.
Form: noun A ploy is a clever plan Mnemonic: PLOY is

Tone: neg that helps you get what to plot or take
you want. A strategic steps.
manipulative little girl Example: This is a a
PLOY
might shed tears simply clever marketing
as a ploy to get her PLOY.
mother to buy her ice
cream.
Form: noun Movie bank robbers Mnemonic: Imagine
Tone: neg always seem to pull an australian making
some kind of ruse, a a scheme to sell
deceptive trick or tactic kangaroos to people
RUSE like hiding the money as pets.
underneath the bank Example: She tried
while they drive off in to think of a RUSE to
the getaway car to avoid get him out of the
capture by the police. house.
Form: noun A scheme is an elaborate Mnemonic: These
Tone: neg plan or plot. It's going to companies keep on
take a really solid introducing new
scheme, probably SCHEME(PLAN) to
SCHEME involving teleportation or trick customers
some sort of temporary Example: This is an
cloning, to make an elaborate SCHEME to
appearance at both avoid taxes
parties at once.
Form: noun Tactic is another word Mnemonic: To
Tone: neg for maneuver or method. TACKLE something in
Looking for a way to get a tricky way or by
something done? Then planning or plotting is
you better find a tactic. TACTICs.
TACTIC Example: football
teams have to use
strong defensive
TACTICs to keep the
other guys from
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AWAY FROM THE Form: noun If you are cognizant of Mnemonic: COG is
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: pos what's going on at the to SEE.
table behind you in the Example: In the light
APPLAUSE lunchroom, that means you of the new evidence
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE know they're plotting to that the court can
COGNIZANT
throw peas at your head. If now take cognizance
BEST EXAMPLE you are cognizant of of, the case is
something, you are aware dropped.
COME TOGETHER
of or informed about it. Root: Prefix COG-
DIG OUT / SEARCH / means to KNOW.
SOLVE Form: adj If you don't notice or aren't Mnemonic: For
ECHO Tone: neg aware, it means that the example, Mr. Magoo
adjective oblivious applies mistakes an airplane
EQUALITY to you! for a theater and
FAT instead of watching a
X
movie, he takes a
OBLIVIOUS
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER seat on a departing
DEGREE) airplane!
Example: You
eventually became
GET RID OF / CLEANSE oblivious to the noise
IMPORTANT MARK
IMPURE / POISONOUS
INTELLIGENT
PERSUADE
POLISH / *RENOVATE
SERIOUS / CONFUSED
SPOIL / DISFIGURE
SPOTTED / STAINED
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: verb To behold is to see. You could Mnemonic: To be
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: pos behold the changing sky as holden by someone,
the sun sets. Itâ€™s old- keep showing
APPLAUSE fashioned and fancy, so gratitude Feeling
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE magicians like to use it, as in BEHOLDen
â€œBehold! I shall pull a (obligated) as he is
BEHOLD
BEST EXAMPLE rabbit out of my hat!â€ holding on
Example: BEHOLD
COME TOGETHER
breathtaking
DIG OUT / SEARCH / mountain views, while
SOLVE relaxing in a
luxurious guestroom.
ECHO
Form: verb If you can make out, pick Mnemonic: We
EQUALITY Tone: pos out, or distinguish something, placed the broken
FAT you can discern it. This is a disc's ashes in an urn
word for recognizing and to recognize it as
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER perceiving things. distinct and different
DEGREE) from all our other
DISCERN
deceased records.
Example: It is
GET RID OF / CLEANSE possible to DISCERN
a number of different
IMPORTANT MARK techniques in her
IMPURE / POISONOUS work.
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED Form: verb catch sight of. Mnemonic: ESPY is
Tone: pos to SPY on someone.
INTELLIGENT Example: Here from
ESPY a window, did she
PERSUADE
ESPY a Knight
POLISH / *RENOVATE standing in a
woodman's cart?
SERIOUS / CONFUSED
Form: verb When we perceive something, Mnemonic:
SPOIL / DISFIGURE Tone: pos we become aware of or notice PERCEIVE is ti SEE.
SPOTTED / STAINED PERCEIVE it. Sometimes we perceive Example: I
things by using our senses of PERCEIVEd a change
STUPID / FOOLISH sight, hearing, and smell. in his behavior.
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adj Use the adjective inimitable Mnemonic: IN
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: pos to describe someone or means NOT and
something that is so special IMITATE is to COPY.
APPLAUSE or unique, it is impossible So it means
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE to duplicate, like that something that
superstar tennis player with cannot be copied or
INIMITABLE
BEST EXAMPLE the inimitable serve no duplicated.
other player can copy. Example: John
COME TOGETHER
related in his own
DIG OUT / SEARCH / INIMITABLE way the
SOLVE story of his trip to
Tibet.
ECHO
Form: adj Do you ever feel like one of Mnemonic:
EQUALITY Tone: pos a kind? Then maybe you PEERLESS donâ€™t
FAT are peerless, a word for have any peer(friend)
someone (or something) Example: Amazing,
FLATTER / BEG (LOWER PEERLESS unique, excellent, and one-of-a-kind people
DEGREE) superior. like Picasso, Gandhi,
and Shakespeare are
considered
GET RID OF / CLEANSE PEERLESS.
IMPORTANT MARK
IMPURE / POISONOUS
INTELLIGENT
PERSUADE
POLISH / *RENOVATE
SERIOUS / CONFUSED
SPOIL / DISFIGURE
SPOTTED / STAINED
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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AWAY FROM THE Form: adj grow weak and thin or Mnemonic: Ema she ate
CORRECT/INTENDED PATH Tone: neg waste away physically is it but still looks thin or
called emaciate. EMACIATEd
APPLAUSE EMACIATE
Example: His long
ARTIFICIAL / PRETENSE period of starvation had
left him EMACIATEd.
BEST EXAMPLE
Form: adj You can never be too rich Mnemonic: Taunt to
COME TOGETHER Tone: neg or too thin, but you GAUNT girl
certainly can be too Example: The girl was
DIG OUT / SEARCH / gaunt. It means you look very GAUNT, but she was
SOLVE GAUNT skinny like you're sick, very healthy as well.
ECHO not skinny like you have
a personal nutritionist
EQUALITY slapping your hand when
FAT you reach for a bonbon.
Form: adj Use the adjective lanky Mnemonic: Youâ€™ve
Tone: neg to describe someone probably seen a LANKY
DEGREE)
whoâ€™s tall, thin, and a basketball player who
FORCE (HIGHER DEGREE) little bit gawky. moves awkwardly but is
still able to make the
GET RID OF / CLEANSE LANKY play, or a LANKY
IMPORTANT MARK teenager who seems to
be made up entirely of
IMPURE / POISONOUS long legs and long arms.
INBORN / FIRMLY FIXED Example: She is a tall
LANKY teenager.
INTELLIGENT
PERSUADE
POLISH / *RENOVATE
SERIOUS / CONFUSED
SPOIL / DISFIGURE
SPOTTED / STAINED
STUPID / FOOLISH
TO KNOW
TO SEE
UNMATCHED / UNIQUE
WEAK / THIN / TALL
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj not able to be protected Mnemonic: In (NOT)

Tone: neg against attack and Defensible.
CAREFUL / PRECISE Cannot be Defeated
CONCERNED ONLY WITH Example: The
INDEFENSIBLE assemblyman was
PLEASURE
accused of defending
DECEPTIVE REASONING the INDEFENSIBLE.
Root: Prefix IN
EXAGGERATED BEHAVIOR
means NOT
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: adj If something is Mnemonic: Un +
FINE / DELICATE Tone: neut untenable, you can't Tenable Teenager is
defend it or justify it. If UNTENABLE
FRANK your disagreement with Example: I find your
FREQUENT TRAVELLER UNTENABLE your teacher puts you in theory UNTENABLE
an untenable position, and must reject it
FULLY SATISFIED you better just admit
you made a mistake and
FUSSY (-)
get on with it.
HINT / INDIRECT
REFERENCE
HUGE
LONG ESSAY
MISTAKE / ACT DONE
CARELESSSLY
PERTAINING TO RELIGION
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
REMOVE / DESTROY
SMALL
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj If someone is Mnemonic:

Tone: pos conscientious, that Conscious =
CAREFUL / PRECISE person strives to do CONSCIENTIOUS
CONCERNED ONLY WITH what's right and to Example:
CONSCIENTIOUS carry out his duties. CONSCIENTIOUS with
PLEASURE
Conscientious people regard to his duties
DECEPTIVE REASONING show care and put in a as examiner.
big effort. Root: Prefix CON
means TOGETHER
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: adj If you want to Mnemonic:
FINE / DELICATE Tone: neut describe a person who FASTIDIOUS sounds
insists on perfection or like: Fast + Tedious
FRANK pays much attention ie fast and
FREQUENT TRAVELLER FASTIDIOUS to food, clothing and hardworking
cleanliness, the right Example: He was
FULLY SATISFIED word is fastidious. FASTIDIOUS in his
preparation for the
FUSSY (-)
big day.
HINT / INDIRECT Form: adj People who are Mnemonic: Someone
REFERENCE Tone: pos meticulous can be who's METICULOUS is
HUGE pretty annoying, what afraid of what will
with their extreme happen if they're not
LONG ESSAY attention to detail. But careful enough to get
MISTAKE / ACT DONE METICULOUS if that person is, say, every detail right.
CARELESSSLY your surgeon or your Example: The lab
accountant, you'll technicians must be
PERTAINING TO RELIGION want them to be METICULOUS in their
meticulous. measurements to
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
obtain exact results
REMOVE / DESTROY Form: adj A punctilious person Mnemonic: Punctual
SMALL Tone: pos pays attention to person is
details. Are you PUNCTILIOUS: very
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN always precisely on attentive. Punctuation
SYMPATHY time? Is your room is right or not, said
PUNCTILIOUS perfectly neat? Do you the PUNCTILIOUS
TAKE CARE never forget a man.
birthday or a library Example: He was
THEORY WITHOUT
book's due date? Then PUNCTILIOUS about
EVIDENCE
you are one of the being ready exactly
THIN / TRANSPARENT punctilious people. on time
TO DO RELUCTANTLY Form: noun someone who insists Mnemonic: Purist is
Tone: pos on great precision and a person who belongs
TO GUESS / INFER correctness in PURE usage of
UNDERSTAND everything.
PURISTS Example: PURISTS
USED TO may not approve of
the changes made to
WEAKEN
the text of the play in
this production.
Form: adj Scrupulous means Mnemonic: Screw
Tone: pos very careful to do Plus (positive)
things properly and Example: He was
correctly, such as SCRUPULOUS about
paying friends back the choices he
SCRUPULOUS
for money borrowed made;This was a
right away, or not SCRUPULOUS
returning a pair of performance
shoes after they've
been worn outdoors.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: noun Strictly speaking, hedonism Mnemonic:

Tone: neg is the belief that pursuing HEDONISM would be
CAREFUL / PRECISE pleasure leads to the indulging in places
CONCERNED ONLY WITH greatest ethical good. In like Las Vegas.
PLEASURE
HEDONISM practice, though, the ethical Example: the
part sometimes gets lost in hedonistic philosophy
DECEPTIVE REASONING the pleasure part. of â€œeat, drink and
be merry for
tomorrow we die!â€
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: noun If you know someone who's Mnemonic:
FINE / DELICATE Tone: neg totally addicted to luxurious SYBARITE a lover of
things and all of life's luxury always Say Bar
FRANK pleasures, call them a is the right place to
FREQUENT TRAVELLER sybarite. Unless she's go.
SYBARITE inviting you over for Example: Jared, who
FULLY SATISFIED champagne brunches and used to be the
showering you with gifts - in epitome of Chicago's
FUSSY (-)
which case you should keep wealthy SYBARITEs,
HINT / INDIRECT your mouth shut. went bankrupt in
REFERENCE December, 1997
HUGE
LONG ESSAY
MISTAKE / ACT DONE
CARELESSSLY
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
REMOVE / DESTROY
SMALL
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj argue over petty things Mnemonic: petti
Tone: neg (small issues)
CAREFUL / PRECISE creating fight.
CONCERNED ONLY WITH Example: Instinct is
PETTIFOGGING what drives the best
PLEASURE
instant decisions -
DECEPTIVE REASONING and puts too much
PETTIFOGGING purity
to shame.
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: noun Sophistry is tricking Mnemonic: Soap
FINE / DELICATE Tone: neg someone by making a History SOPHISTRY
seemingly clever on soap history
FRANK argument, such as Example: The judge
FREQUENT TRAVELLER telling your mom you rejected the local
SOPHISTRY
must have candy before authority's argument
FULLY SATISFIED dinner because if you as mere SOPHISTRY
don't you'll die and then
FUSSY (-)
the protein and vitamins
HINT / INDIRECT won't get eaten at all.
REFERENCE
HUGE
LONG ESSAY
MISTAKE / ACT DONE
CARELESSSLY
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
REMOVE / DESTROY
SMALL
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj Anything that has to Mnemonic: describe a

Tone: neg do with actors or person who in regular
CAREFUL / PRECISE acting can be called life is a little too
CONCERNED ONLY WITH histrionic, like a dramatic and even
PLEASURE Broadway actor's over-acts, like your
histrionic voice friend whose
DECEPTIVE REASONING projection that would HISTRIONIC rantings
HISTRIONIC
sound strange in make a trip to the
everyday life but is grocery store seem like
EXCLUDE / FORBID perfect for the stage. a matter of life and
death.
FINE / DELICATE Example: She was
FRANK used to her mother's
HISTRIONICs.
FREQUENT TRAVELLER
Form: adj If you're writhing on Mnemonic: Extra
FULLY SATISFIED Tone: neg the floor, howling in Dramatic is called
pain over the splinter MELODRAMATIC
FUSSY (-)
in your finger, you're Example: a
HINT / INDIRECT MELODRAMATIC being a tad MELODRAMATIC plot
REFERENCE melodramatic, that full of deceit and
is, exaggerated, murder
HUGE affected, or
LONG ESSAY histrionic.
MISTAKE / ACT DONE

CARELESSSLY
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
REMOVE / DESTROY
SMALL
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
WEAKEN
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb If you banish someone or Mnemonic:

Tone: neg ignore him, you ostracize ostRACISM .. racism
CAREFUL / PRECISE him. When the Iranian leads to groupism
CONCERNED ONLY WITH president claimed that the and excluding a
PLEASURE Holocaust was a hoax, he group from the public
OSTRACIZE
was ostracized by the is to OSTRACIZE.
DECEPTIVE REASONING international community. Example: The ostrich
was OSTRACIZEd
because of his big
EXCLUDE / FORBID mouth
FINE / DELICATE Form: verb declare illegal; outlaw Mnemonic:
Tone: neg OUTLAW: without
FRANK Law, which is Illigal
OUTLAW
FREQUENT TRAVELLER Example: There are
plans to OUTLAW the
FULLY SATISFIED carrying of knives
FUSSY (-) Form: noun A pariah is someone that Mnemonic: Her pair
Tone: neg has been soundly rejected of eyes had a hard
HINT / INDIRECT by their community. Your time looking in the
REFERENCE constant gossiping might same direction so she
HUGE make you a pariah on became one who was
PARIAH
campus. rejected by society
LONG ESSAY Example: Because of
MISTAKE / ACT DONE his religious beliefs he
CARELESSSLY became a PARIAH in
the village
Form: verb To proscribe something is Mnemonic: Doctor
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE Tone: neg to forbid or prohibit it, as a prescribes medicines
school principal might and PROSCRIBEs
REMOVE / DESTROY proscribe the use of cell junk food
SMALL phones in class. Example: The new
PROSCRIBE
law PROSCRIBEd
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN drinking alcohol on
SYMPATHY the street.
Root: Suffix SCRIBE
TAKE CARE is to WRITE
THEORY WITHOUT Form: verb If you purposely stay away Mnemonic: SHUN
EVIDENCE Tone: neg from someone, you shun sounds like SUN so
that person. A sensitive keep a distance from
THIN / TRANSPARENT SHUN baker may ask why you are the sun.
TO DO RELUCTANTLY shunning her cookies. Example: She has
been SHUNned by her
TO GUESS / INFER neighbors
UNDERSTAND Form: noun Something considered Mnemonic: TABOO
Tone: neg taboo is naughty, its similar to TAUBA(-
USED TO
something society considers ->refrain oneself to
WEAKEN a no-no. For example, it is do somthing
TABOO taboo to ask people how restricted in Islam)
much money they earn or Example: Death is
about their sex lives. one of the great
TABOOs in our
culture.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: noun Use nuance to refer to a Mnemonic: It is

Tone: neut very small difference in color, always such a
CAREFUL / PRECISE meaning, or feeling. What nuisance to have to
CONCERNED ONLY WITH makes singers brilliant is not capture all the subtle
PLEASURE how loud they can sing a aspects of every new
NUANCES
note, but how many nuances dance we learn.
DECEPTIVE REASONING they can evoke through their Example: He
approach. watched her face
intently to catch every
EXCLUDE / FORBID nuance of expression.
FINE / DELICATE Form: adj Something that is subtle is Mnemonic: SUBTLE
Tone: neut not obvious: a professional is used for things that
FRANK food taster might be able to are hard to describe
FREQUENT TRAVELLER perceive subtle differences of because of their
flavor that most people don't complexity or
FULLY SATISFIED notice. delicacy: a way of
SUBTLE
thinking, arguing, or
FUSSY (-)
creating a work of art.
HINT / INDIRECT Example: The
REFERENCE fragrance is a SUBTLE
blend of jasmine and
HUGE sandalwood.
LONG ESSAY
MISTAKE / ACT DONE
CARELESSSLY
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
REMOVE / DESTROY
SMALL
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj Straightforward and Mnemonic:

Tone: pos truthful talk might be Remember that TV
CAREFUL / PRECISE described with the show Candid Camera?
CONCERNED ONLY WITH adjective candid. If It was called that
PLEASURE you're too candid in because its hidden
CANDID/CANDOR your personal blog, a cameras supposedly
DECEPTIVE REASONING future employer showed a candid view
might discover your of reality.
penchant for nude Example: To be
EXCLUDE / FORBID skydiving. candid, I can't stand
her.
FINE / DELICATE
Form: adj When a person is Mnemonic: Fourth
FRANK Tone: pos being forthright, option Right hai you
FREQUENT TRAVELLER they're being direct, said in FORTHRIGHT
clear, or even manner.
FORTHRIGHT
FULLY SATISFIED straight-up. But we're Example: He was
not here to talk about known for his
FUSSY (-)
those. We're here to FORTHRIGHT manner
HINT / INDIRECT talk about forthright.
REFERENCE
HUGE
LONG ESSAY
MISTAKE / ACT DONE
CARELESSSLY
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
REMOVE / DESTROY
SMALL
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
WEAKEN
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj An itinerant is a person Mnemonic:

Tone: neut who moves from place to ITINERANT keeps
CAREFUL / PRECISE place, typically for work, itinerary all the time
CONCERNED ONLY WITH like the itinerant preacher as he always travels
ITINERANT who moves to a new from place to place
PLEASURE
community every few Example: The same
DECEPTIVE REASONING years. day, an ITINERANT
preacher came to the
village
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: adj If you're reading this on a Mnemonic: Music
FINE / DELICATE Tone: neut treadmill or while taking a teachers in England
walk, you may know about rarely teach in one
FRANK the peripatetic, or school these days;
FREQUENT TRAVELLER walking, philosopher they teach in several
Aristotle, who taught and are described as
FULLY SATISFIED while strolling with his PERIPATETIC
PERIPATETIC students. Or, maybe you teachers.
FUSSY (-)
just like being a Example: Her father
HINT / INDIRECT peripatetic, a walking was in the army and
REFERENCE wanderer. the family led a
PERIPATETIC
HUGE existence
LONG ESSAY Root: Prefix PERI-
means AROUND
MISTAKE / ACT DONE
CARELESSSLY
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
REMOVE / DESTROY
SMALL
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
WEAKEN
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb To gratify is to give Mnemonic: it would

Tone: pos satisfaction. So if you've be really GREAT IF I
CAREFUL / PRECISE managed to get straight A's bring a score above
CONCERNED ONLY WITH in school, what you did was 330 in GRE and I'll be
PLEASURE gratify your parents - and it able to please the top
GRATIFY
probably felt pretty notch universities
DECEPTIVE REASONING gratifying to you too. Example: He only
gave his consent in
order to GRATIFY her
EXCLUDE / FORBID wishes.
FINE / DELICATE Form: verb Quench means to put out, Mnemonic: Drench
Tone: pos put an end to, or satisfy. If and QUENCH sounds
FRANK you're stranded in the similar
FREQUENT TRAVELLER middle of the desert with Example: Firemen
QUENCH
nothing drink, you're tried to QUENCH the
FULLY SATISFIED probably dreaming of a nice flames raging through
big glass of ice water to the building.
FUSSY (-)
quench your thirst.
HINT / INDIRECT Form: adj Replete means full, often in Mnemonic: deplete,
REFERENCE Tone: pos a satisfying way. "The library complete, REPLETE all
HUGE was replete with bound first relate to the quantity
volumes, and Lucy, a of something.
LONG ESSAY REPLETE
bookworm, was happier Example: Literature
MISTAKE / ACT DONE there than any place else." is REPLETE with
CARELESSSLY drama and
excitement
Form: verb Sometimes you're so hungry Mnemonic: s-ate,
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE Tone: pos you feel like you could eat a so when we have
ten-course meal. Other finished eating our
REMOVE / DESTROY times it takes just a small food, we are satisfied
SMALL salad to sate your appetite, to the full.
SATE or to satisfy your hunger. Example: However
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN many are planned, Iâ
SYMPATHY €™ve had my
curiosity SATEd and
TAKE CARE will happily skip the
next.
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE Form: verb If you just can't get enough Mnemonic: I SAT &
Tone: pos popcorn, even the jumbo tub ATE till I was full!
THIN / TRANSPARENT at the movie theater may Example: Protein
TO DO RELUCTANTLY not be enough to satiate, or and fat keep you
SATIATE
satisfy, your desire. SATIATEd, so you
TO GUESS / INFER don't want another
UNDERSTAND snack 30 minutes
later.
USED TO
Form: verb The verb saturate means to Mnemonic: If you're
WEAKEN Tone: pos cause something to be fully a workaholic, you
soaked to the point where it might SATURATE all
can't take on anything else. your free time with
work, leaving no time
to spend with your
SATURATE
family.
Example: The
company had
SATURATEd the
market for personal
organizers
Form: verb When you slake something, Mnemonic: focus on
Tone: pos such as a desire or a thirst, the 'lake' part of this
you satisfy it. A big glass of word..so you can say
lemonade on a hot summer that you want to
day will slake your thirst. satisfy your thrist
after seeing the water
in that lake .
SLAKE
Example: More
through fatigue than
because his thirst
was SLAKEd, he
stopped at last and
turned away from the
lake.
Form: verb To suffice is to be enough, in Mnemonic: SUFFICE
Tone: pos either quality or quantity. If sounds like
may not be gourmet all the SUFFICIENT.
SUFFICE time, but if your food is Example: Generally
healthy, it will suffice. a brief note or a
phone call will
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj You reject any vegetable Mnemonic: Nicky is
Tone: neg that isn't yellow. You like FINICKY, FINICKY is
CAREFUL / PRECISE basmati rice, but detest Picky
CONCERNED ONLY WITH jasmine and brown.You Example: Even the
PLEASURE dine at one restaurant, most FINICKY eater
FINICKY
and you always order the will find something to
DECEPTIVE REASONING same meal. You are a eat.
finicky eater - that is, you
are quite particular about
EXCLUDE / FORBID food.
FINE / DELICATE Form: noun be overly critical; criticize Example: Some
Tone: neg minor details readers will surely
FRANK NITPICKING perceive our critique
FREQUENT TRAVELLER as NITPICKING Khanâ
€™s errors.
FULLY SATISFIED
Form: adj Persnickety is a lively, Mnemonic: The
FUSSY (-) Tone: neg fancy word for â adjective
€œfussy.â€ If you've PERSNICKETY sounds
HINT / INDIRECT sent your salad back to prickly like a
REFERENCE the kitchen three times, porcupine, and
HUGE you might be a PERSNICKETY people
persnickety eater. can indeed be sharp
LONG ESSAY PERSNICKETY and prickly when they
MISTAKE / ACT DONE don't get things
CARELESSSLY precisely as they
wish.
PERTAINING TO RELIGION Example: â€œTo be
polite, Iâ€™d call her
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
PERSNICKETY,â€ he
REMOVE / DESTROY told me.
SMALL Form: adj If you fainted or threw up Mnemonic:
Tone: neg at the sight of frog SQUEAMISH is like
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN intestines in biology "scream-ish". i.e.,
SYMPATHY class, youâ€™re one who screams for
SQUEAMISH
squeamish - easily everything.
TAKE CARE nauseated or shocked by Example: This movie
unpleasant, icky things. is not for the
THEORY WITHOUT
No horror movies for you! SQUEAMISH.
EVIDENCE
Form: noun A stickler is someone Mnemonic:
THIN / TRANSPARENT Tone: neg/neut who insists that things STICKLER sounds like
TO DO RELUCTANTLY are done in a certain a person who is very
way. Say youâ€™re sticky, that sticks to
TO GUESS / INFER getting married and want one point only.
UNDERSTAND STICKLER to write your own vows, Example: To others
but your partnerâ€™s it might seem that
USED TO mother demands that you you're being a
have a traditional STICKLER for rules.
WEAKEN
ceremony. The mother is
a stickler for tradition.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb When you allude to Mnemonic: Helen, a

Tone: neut something, you fitting name for a
CAREFUL / PRECISE don't identify it or woman of great
CONCERNED ONLY WITH mention it beauty, is an allusion
PLEASURE specifically. If you to Helen of Troy.
allude to the fact Example: Try not to
ALLUDE/ALLUSION
DECEPTIVE REASONING that a cop is sitting allude to this matter
right behind you, in his presence
your friends might because the topic
EXCLUDE / FORBID stop talking about annoys him.
their plans to rob a
FINE / DELICATE bank.
FRANK Form: noun During rehearsal, Example:
FREQUENT TRAVELLER Tone: neut the actors need to Temperature is often
learn their cues to a CUE to enter or
FULLY SATISFIED make sure their emerge from
CUE
timing is right. A cue hibernation.
FUSSY (-)
can also be a clue or
HINT / INDIRECT reminder of
REFERENCE something.
HUGE Form: noun A hint is a slight Example: He
Tone: neut indication or clue. resented any HINT
LONG ESSAY Your mother might that he might be to
MISTAKE / ACT DONE hint at the fact that blame.
CARELESSSLY she doesnâ€™t like
HINT
your shoes, while
PERTAINING TO RELIGION your grandmother
will just come right
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
out and say that
REMOVE / DESTROY theyâ€™re ugly.
SMALL Form: adj Use the adjective Mnemonic: IMPLICIT
Tone: neut implicit when you sounds like Imply or
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN mean that Refer to something
SYMPATHY something is and the opposite is
understood but not EXPLICIT.
TAKE CARE clearly stated. You Example: IMPLICIT
might think you and in his speech was the
THEORY WITHOUT IMPLICIT
your boyfriend might assumption that they
EVIDENCE
have an implicit were guilty.
THIN / TRANSPARENT understanding that
you are going to get
TO DO RELUCTANTLY married, but it's
TO GUESS / INFER probably better to
talk it through.
UNDERSTAND
Form: noun Speaking in Mnemonic: A worm
USED TO Tone: neg innuendo is when is cut in two so it has
you say something a new end: the old
WEAKEN
indirectly - often of worm head says a
a hurtful or sexual statement that
nature. implies something
INNUENDO bad indirectly in the
new end
Example: Because
the movie is full of
sexual INNUENDOs,
we did not bring the
children
Form: verb Insinuate means you Mnemonic: The girl
Tone: neut imply or suggest has lost her memory.
something that may The boy telling her -
or may not be true. This is the INStitute
If you say things IN which YOU ATE.
INSINUATE seemed to go wrong He is trying to HINT,
about the time your IMPLY to her.
brother took over, Example: The article
you insinuate that INSINUATEd that he
he had something to was having an affair
do with the decline. with his friend's wife.
Form: adj Something tacit is Mnemonic: TACITly
Tone: neut implied or asked To Sit
understood without Example: She gave a
question. Holding TACIT approval by
TACIT hands might be a smiling and winking
tacit
acknowledgment
that a boy and girl
are dating.
Form: adj Something blatant is Mnemonic: Blatant is
Tone: neg very obvious and not latent. Latent:
offensive. Don't get hidden, dormant,
caught in a blatant unexpressed. Latent
lie, because you is hidden in tent (LA
X BLATANT won't be able to TENT), opposite is
weasel your way out Blatant which means
of it. OBVIOUS
Example: I am not
sure why Raki is
always so blatant.
Form: adj Anything explicit is Mnemonic: Please
Tone: neut very clear, whether sit: I will make it
it's instructions or a explicit
X EXPLICIT bad movie Example: The plot of
9/11 attack was an
explicit act of
violence.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: noun You can call a massive Mnemonic:

Tone: pos telecommunications BEHEMOTH is big like
CAREFUL / PRECISE company a behemoth. Mammoth Biblical
CONCERNED ONLY WITH The word means creature mentioned in
PLEASURE something big and the Book of Job The
powerful. word is most likely a
DECEPTIVE REASONING plural form of ????
BEHEMOTH
(b?h?m?h), meaning
beast or large animal.
EXCLUDE / FORBID Example: Its tough
for BING to compete
FINE / DELICATE with the BEHEMOTH
FRANK search engines like
Google.
FREQUENT TRAVELLER
Form: adj Colossal describes Mnemonic: The
FULLY SATISFIED Tone: neut something so large it colosseum - one of
makes you say, "Whoa!" the seven wonders of
FUSSY (-)
You might have a the world, which was
HINT / INDIRECT COLOSSAL colossal amount of a huge theatre in the
REFERENCE homework, or see a olden days
colossal pyramid while Example: The singer
HUGE vacationing in Egypt. earns a COLOSSAL
LONG ESSAY amount of money.
MISTAKE / ACT DONE Form: adj Whether you're talking Mnemonic:

CARELESSSLY Tone: neut about your gargantuan Gargantua was a
appetite or a gargantuan huge, stout GIANT.
PERTAINING TO RELIGION building, use the word We get the name
gargantuan to describe from that character.
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
GARGANTUAN something so big that Example: A
REMOVE / DESTROY big just isn't, well, big GARGANTUAN
enough to accurately corruption scandal a
SMALL describe it. marketing event of
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN GARGANTUAN
proportion.
SYMPATHY
Form: adj Gigantic is an adjective Mnemonic:
TAKE CARE Tone: neut used to describe GIGANTIC soungs like
something that's really a GIANT. And so it is,
THEORY WITHOUT
big, as though it were unusually huge.
EVIDENCE
made for a giant. You Example: The
GIGANTIC
THIN / TRANSPARENT might call a skyscraper a problem was
gigantic building, beginning to take on
TO DO RELUCTANTLY especially if it towers GIGANTIC
TO GUESS / INFER over other buildings proportions.
nearby.
UNDERSTAND
Form: adj Something humongous is Mnemonic:
USED TO Tone: neut really, really big. If you HUMONGOUS sounds
experiment with like ENORMOUS OR
WEAKEN
greenhouses, TREMENDOUS. When
fertilization, and grow we describe
lights, you can grow a something very big
HUMONGOUS humongous pumpkin. will call it so.
Example: You may
look a little silly
making phone calls,
holding the
HUMONGOUS Galaxy
Note up to your ear.
Form: noun anything of immense size Mnemonic:
Tone: neut and power. LEVIATHAN sounds
like a LIVING GIANT.
LEVIATHAN Example: the
LEVIATHAN of
government
bureaucracy
Form: noun The adjective mammoth Mnemonic:
Tone: pos is a great way to MAMMOTH is big like
describe something Behemoth Biblical
really, really big, like creature mentioned in
those huge woolly the Book of Job The
elephants theyâ€™re still word is most likely a
MAMMOTH
finding in the melting plural form of ????
glaciers. (b?h?m?h), meaning
beast or large animal.
Example: This is a
MAMMOTH
organization
Form: noun When something is Mnemonic: Mono -
Tone: neut monolithic it's big, and Single + Lithic -
made of one thing. A related to rocks, so
large piece of stone single solid rock and
jutting from the earth is unchangeable
MONOLITHIC a monolith, and Detroit's Example: Knowing
economy when it the importance of
depended entirely on the appearing resolute,
auto industry was the patriots sought to
monolithic. present a
MONOLITHIC front.
Form: adj Whether it's a Mnemonic: have you
Tone: neut monumental effort seen large
requiring vast amounts MONUMENTS, they
of strength or a are attractive
monumental cruise ship because of their look
with eleven floors and as well as height or
MONUMENTAL
five sets of elevators, the hugeness.
word monumental Example: Gibbon's
describes something MONUMENTAL work â
imposing or massive in €œThe Rise and Fall
size. of the Roman
Empireâ€
Form: adj Something exceptional, Mnemonic: Prodigy
Tone: pos substantial, or great is group is
prodigious. A blizzard PRODIGIOUS. Proud
includes prodigious wind ji us: because we are
and snow. A prodigious PRODIGIOUS
PRODIGIOUS
writer is one who can (extraordinary)
write a lot and do it well. Example: He
impressed everyone
with his PRODIGIOUS
memory
Form: adj If two rival football Mnemonic:
Tone: pos teams played a close Remember the HUGE
game that went into SHIP named TITANIC
overtime, it could be in the movie with the
could be said that same name. Its
TITANIC winning it was a titanic meant to be huge
struggle. This means it and gigantic.
took a large amount of Example: This is a
force and power to do TITANIC struggle
so. between good and
evil
Form: adj of imposing height; Mnemonic: A Tower
Tone: neut especially standing out usually stands tall
above others and appears to be
TOWERING huge.
Example: This was a
TOWERING
performace.
Form: adj Consider that volume is Mnemonic:
Tone: neut a measure of size. That VOLUMINOUS
will help you understand definitely comes from
that voluminous refers to VOLUME which in this
something very large in case is great.
VOLUMINOUS
size or extent. Example: There is
VOLUMINOUS
literature on
modernism and post-
modernism.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: noun If you use the word Mnemonic: Sounds
Tone: neut discourse, you are like 'this Course'. I
CAREFUL / PRECISE describing a formal and attended a
CONCERNED ONLY WITH intense discussion or DISCOURSE on this
DISCOURSE debate. course.
PLEASURE
Example: A
DECEPTIVE REASONING DISCOURSE on issues
of gender and
sexuality.
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: noun A dissertation is a long Mnemonic: Dessert
FINE / DELICATE Tone: neut piece of writing that Station pe
uses research to bring DISSERTATION di
FRANK to light an original idea. Example: He is
FREQUENT TRAVELLER DISSERTATION Don't go to grad school currently writing a
unless you're prepared DISSERTATION
FULLY SATISFIED to write, say, a 300-
page dissertation on
FUSSY (-)
some topic.
HINT / INDIRECT Form: noun Rhetoric is speaking or Mnemonic: Our
REFERENCE Tone: neut writing that's intended friend Ray learned the
HUGE to persuade. If your art of discourse from
goal is to write editorial attending many tours
LONG ESSAY RHETORIC columns for "The New held by famous
MISTAKE / ACT DONE York Times," you should orators
CARELESSSLY work on your rhetoric. Example: His offers
of compromise were
PERTAINING TO RELIGION mere RHETORIC
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE Form: noun A thesis is the most Mnemonic: THESIS
Tone: neut important or or a Treatise refer to
REMOVE / DESTROY foundational idea of an a theory or statement
SMALL argument. If you write put forward for
a paper with the central reasoning.
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN THESIS
thesis that girls are Example: Students
SYMPATHY yucky, you'll need to must submit a
back that up with THESIS on an agreed
TAKE CARE cooties-based research. subject within four
years.
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb If you botch something, Mnemonic: BOTCH

Tone: neg you make a mess of it or can be rememberd as
CAREFUL / PRECISE you ruin it. If you totally Black Patch
CONCERNED ONLY WITH botch your lines in the Example: The work
BOTCH
PLEASURE school play, you they did on the house
stammer and stutter was a BOTCHed job.
DECEPTIVE REASONING your way through the
whole thing.
Form: verb Saying the wrong thing Mnemonic: Bangle
EXCLUDE / FORBID Tone: neg at the wrong time, seller bunged his job
FINE / DELICATE dropping something, by breaking bangles
tripping and falling: Example: He was
FRANK BUNGLE
these are some classic caught during
FREQUENT TRAVELLER bungles - and theyâ his BUNGLEd attempt
€™re always to burgle the bank.
FULLY SATISFIED embarrassing.
FUSSY (-) Form: noun If you misread a party Mnemonic: Faux Pa
Tone: neg invitation and arrive in a is a french word
HINT / INDIRECT penguin costume, only meaning a false step.
REFERENCE to realize that the other Example: His
HUGE guests are wearing outbursts and FAUX
FAUX PAS
elegant gowns, you'll PAS often triggered
LONG ESSAY understand what it national debates, but
MISTAKE / ACT DONE means to commit a faux also made for
CARELESSSLY pas, or an awkward television gold.
social mistake.
Form: noun A gaffe is mistake that Mnemonic: Disney
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE Tone: neg embarrasses you in front character Goofy who
of others. If you run into was always making
REMOVE / DESTROY a friend out with her Blunders.
SMALL GAFFE grey-haired father, and Example: He made
you blurt out, "Oh, hi, some real GAFFEs
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN you must be Tara's early in his career.
SYMPATHY grandfather!" then
you've made a gaffe.
TAKE CARE
Form: noun A malapropism occurs Mnemonic: Mal
THEORY WITHOUT Tone: neg when you say one word (negative) + Prop
EVIDENCE but you mean another, (proper usage) ..
like instead of saying a improper usage of
THIN / TRANSPARENT certain restaurant is words
TO DO RELUCTANTLY MALAPROPISM prosperous, you say it is Example: One of the
preposterous. As you things George W.
TO GUESS / INFER can tell, malapropisms Bush is known for are
UNDERSTAND are often humorous, his MALAPROPISMs.
though sometimes the Root: Prefix MAL
USED TO joke is on the speaker. means BAD
WEAKEN Form: noun A misnomer is a wrong Mnemonic: MIS
Tone: neg or unsuitable name. Itâ means WRONG OR
€™s a misnomer to call HATE and NOMER can
your grandmother â be related to NAME.
€œGrandfather,â€ the So a Name that does
same way itâ€™s a not match at all with
misnomer to call a chair the person's
MISNOMER with four legs that characterestics
doesnâ€™t move unless Example: Villa was
you drag it across the something of a
floor, a rocking chair. MISNOMER; the place
was no more than an
old farmhouse.
Root: Prefix MIS-
means HATE
Form: adj To be tactless is to Mnemonic: Without
Tone: neg either be rude (without Tact would be
manners) or inept TACTLESS.
TACTLESS
(without finesse). Either Example: It was
way, it's awkward. TACTLESS of you to
comment on his hair!
Form: noun Having finesse means Mnemonic: Finesse
Tone: pos you can handle difficult sounds like FINENESS
situations with that is involved in
diplomacy and tact, like doing something.
X FINESSE the finesse it takes to Example: He used
help two friends work no unnecessary
out their differences - finesse in stating his
without taking sides or ends.
alienating either one.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: noun If someone believes they Mnemonic: Imagine

Tone: pos/neut cannot know whether or staring at a hag (an
CAREFUL / PRECISE not God exists, label ugly old woman)
CONCERNED ONLY WITH them an agnostic. A bad nose and not being
PLEASURE joke: Did you hear about sure whether the hag
the dyslexic agnostic is a witch - you are
DECEPTIVE REASONING insomniac? He stayed up unsure of the
AGNOSTIC
all night wondering if existence of the
there was a dog. supernatural
EXCLUDE / FORBID Example: She grew
up in an AGNOSTIC
FINE / DELICATE household.
FRANK Root: GNOS- means
KNOWLEDGE
FREQUENT TRAVELLER
Form: noun An atheist believes there Mnemonic: THEIST
FULLY SATISFIED Tone: neut is no such thing as god, means God or
or any other deity. believer in God, And
FUSSY (-)
the prefix A means
HINT / INDIRECT NOT. So ATHEIST
REFERENCE does not believe in
God.
HUGE ATHEIST Example: Nearly one
LONG ESSAY in five Americans say
they are ATHEIST,
MISTAKE / ACT DONE agnostic or â
CARELESSSLY €œnothing in
PERTAINING TO RELIGION particular.â€
Root: THEO - means
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE GOD
REMOVE / DESTROY Form: verb To proselytize is to try to Mnemonic: Pro sell
Tone: neg persuade someone to ytize (advertize): act
SMALL switch to your religious of pros to sell and
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN beliefs or your way of advertize their gods
living. "Like a true and force people to
SYMPATHY PROSELYTIZE
evangelist, Amber convert.
TAKE CARE proselytized about the Example: Christian
rewards of life as a groups were arrested
THEORY WITHOUT devout adherent of the for trying to
EVIDENCE faith." PROSELYTIZE people
THIN / TRANSPARENT Form: noun one who believes in the Mnemonic: THEIST
THEIST Tone: neut existence of a god or means God or
TO DO RELUCTANTLY gods believer in God.
TO GUESS / INFER Form: noun Theology is the study of Mnemonic: Theo is
UNDERSTAND Tone: pos/neut religion, plain and simple. know as GOD in
Of course, religion isnâ Greek.
USED TO €™t simple, so theology Example: He got a a
THEOLOGY covers a lot of subjects, degree in THEOLOGY
WEAKEN
like rituals, divine beings, Root: Prefix THEO-
the history of religions, means GOD and
and the concept of suffix -LOGY means
religious truth. STUDY/FIELD OF.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb When something Example: His land

Tone: neut borders something ABUTs on to a road
CAREFUL / PRECISE else, it is said to abut
CONCERNED ONLY WITH it. The term is often
PLEASURE used in real estate to
ABUT
refer to a lot line.
DECEPTIVE REASONING Wouldnâ€™t it be nice
to have your back yard
abut a forest preserve
EXCLUDE / FORBID or park?
FINE / DELICATE Form: adj Adjacent means close Mnemonic: Add
Tone: neut to or near something. scent ADJACENT to
FRANK You may consider the each other
FREQUENT TRAVELLER people up and down Example: The planes
your street to be landed on ADJACENT
ADJACENT
FULLY SATISFIED neighbors, but your runways.
next door neighbor is Root: AD- means TO
FUSSY (-)
the person who lives in or TOWARDS.
HINT / INDIRECT the house or apartment
REFERENCE adjacent to yours.
HUGE Form: adj Use the adjective Mnemonic: All states
Tone: neut contiguous when you are touching/adjacent
LONG ESSAY want to describe one (CONTIGUOUS) or all
MISTAKE / ACT DONE thing touching another states are
CARELESSSLY thing, or next to it but continuous..
CONTIGUOUS not actually touching. Example: The
PERTAINING TO RELIGION bruising was not
CONTIGUOUS to the
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
wound.
REMOVE / DESTROY Root: CON means
TOGETHER.
SMALL
Form: verb If a waiter served you Mnemonic: Imagine
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN Tone: neut a whole fish and a a funeral mourner
SYMPATHY scoop of chocolate ice telling jokes
cream on the same graveside, and you
TAKE CARE plate, your surprise get the idea - the
might be caused by the JUXTAPOSITION in
THEORY WITHOUT
juxtaposition, or the this case is between
EVIDENCE JUXTAPOSITION
side-by-side contrast, grief and humor.
THIN / TRANSPARENT of the two foods. Example: In the
exhibition, abstract
TO DO RELUCTANTLY paintings are
TO GUESS / INFER juxtaposed with
shocking
UNDERSTAND photographs.
USED TO
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb Killing ends when the Mnemonic:

Tone: neg thing you are killing ANNIHILATE -
CAREFUL / PRECISE (your sworn enemy, all Eliminate; So to
CONCERNED ONLY WITH hope, a gerbil) is dead. ELIMINATE someone
PLEASURE Annihilate goes fartherâ completely from your
€”when you annihilate life.. means to kill
DECEPTIVE REASONING ANNIHILATE something, you wipe all them.
trace of it from the Example: The
earth. human race has
EXCLUDE / FORBID enough weapons to
ANNIHILATE itself.
FINE / DELICATE Root: AN- means
FRANK WITHOUT.
FREQUENT TRAVELLER Form: noun Carnage is mass murder. Mnemonic: If under

Tone: neg If you have seen news aged people drive the
FULLY SATISFIED footage of a village after car, there is a
a bomb has been possibility that he
FUSSY (-)
detonated, you probably may kill people or
HINT / INDIRECT saw a scene of carnage. animals on the road.
CARNAGE
REFERENCE Example: How can
we reduce the
HUGE CARNAGE on our
LONG ESSAY roads?
Root: CARN- means
MISTAKE / ACT DONE MEAT
CARELESSSLY
Form: verb If something is Mnemonic: deci
PERTAINING TO RELIGION Tone: neg drastically reduced or [means 10]mate[in
killed, especially in ,chess mate means
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
number, you can say it killing a king]so it
REMOVE / DESTROY was decimated. "The oil sound like killing a
spill in the Gulf of Mexico king in every 10
SMALL decimated the wildlife people,so to kill a
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN DECIMATE along the coast." king you have to kill
10 persons.
SYMPATHY Example: The rabbit
TAKE CARE population was
DECIMATEd by the
THEORY WITHOUT disease.
EVIDENCE Root: DE- means
DOWN/ AWAY
THIN / TRANSPARENT
Form: verb If something is erased or Mnemonic: Closely
TO DO RELUCTANTLY Tone: neg rubbed out, it has been related to "erase"..to
TO GUESS / INFER effaced. Teachers get rub out or we can
annoyed to find that think in another way
UNDERSTAND someone has effaced the also, we wash our
USED TO blackboard - even the face to remove the
part clearly marked, "Do dust from the surface
EFFACE
WEAKEN Not Erase!" of the skin(ef+face)
Example: She tried
her best to EFFACE
the memory of the
accident.
Root: E- means OUT
OF/FROM
Form: verb To eradicate something Mnemonic: You can
Tone: neg is to get rid of it, to also ERADICATE
destroy it, and to kiss it corruption, poverty,
goodbye. or diseases, rather
ERASE it.
ERADICATE
Example: Diphtheria
has been virtually
ERADICATEd in the
United States.
Root: same as above
Form: verb To expunge is to cross Mnemonic:
Tone: neg out or eliminate. After EXPUNGE rhymes
Nicholas proved he had with sponge..which is
been in school on the day used to remove dirt..
in question, the absence Example: Details of
EXPUNGE
was expunged from his his criminal activities
record. were EXPUNGEd from
the file.
Root: EX- means
OUT OF/ FROM
Form: verb If your house becomes Mnemonic:
Tone: neg infested with AXE+TERMINATE(put
cockroaches, mice, or an end to)...when you
even ants, you might use axe to end
have to exterminate someone, you
EXTERMINATE
them. It is certainly not a EXTERMINATE
pleasant process, but Example: Fur seals
often quite necessary. were nearly
EXTERMINATEd a few
years ago.
Form: verb To fumigate is to spray Mnemonic:
Tone: neg something with fumes, FUMIGATE sounds
usually to eliminate pests like FUMES, and thatâ
of some kind. €™s the meaning,
used to draw away
insects.
Example: Carpets
FUMIGATE are best FUMIGATEd
on the floor, but
should afterward be
removed to the open
air and thoroughly
beaten.
Root: OB- means
AGAINST
Form: verb When you see obliterate, Mnemonic: lets '
Tone: neg think of evil alien all-be-literate ' and
invaders that zap a destroy illiteracy
planet with a destructive completely
ray. In one blast, the Example: Everything
OBLITERATE
planet and all of the that happened that
people on it are night was
vaporized. The planet is OBLITERATEd from
truly obliterated, or his memory.
completely wiped out.
Form: verb Perish means to die, but Example: Thousands
Tone: neg it suggests a slow, PERISHed at the
gradual, nonviolent hands of the invading
PERISH death. Starving to death forces.
is perishing. Getting hit
by a bus is just plain
getting killed.
Form: adj If something is indelible, Mnemonic: indelible:
Tone: pos you better hope you in + delete + able-
never regret it, like the which can't be
indelible tattoo of the deleted
name of your favorite Example: Her
X INDELIBLE band or the indelible first unhappy childhood
impression it might give left an indelible mark.
people you meet years Root: IN- means
from now, especially if NOT.
your taste in music
changes.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj Diminutive means Mnemonic: Dimin

Tone: neut small. A diminutive (sounds like
CAREFUL / PRECISE person is short and DIMINISH), when
CONCERNED ONLY WITH small. A diminutive something diminishes
PLEASURE word is a "cute" version the effect becomes
of a regular word, lesser smaller.
DIMINUTIVE
DECEPTIVE REASONING "Maggie" is the Example: Jim and
diminutive of Jimmy are
"Margaret." DIMINUTIVEs of
EXCLUDE / FORBID 'James'.
Root: Root MIN
FINE / DELICATE means SMALL.
FRANK Form: adj When it's incalculably Mnemonic:
FREQUENT TRAVELLER Tone: neut small, when teensy INFINITESIMAL is
seems large compared infinitely small. Earth
FULLY SATISFIED to it, then it is is INFINITESIMAL in
infinitesimal. "The universe
FUSSY (-)
INFINITESIMAL equipment was so Example: His
HINT / INDIRECT sensitive that even the statement has
REFERENCE infinitesimal dust INFINITESIMAL
molecules that swept in amount of truth
HUGE with the open door
LONG ESSAY altered the readings."
MISTAKE / ACT DONE Form: noun When you think of Mnemonic: Micro =
CARELESSSLY Tone: neut microcosm, picture your small + Cosmos =
home town inside a worldâ€¦A small
PERTAINING TO RELIGION snow globe. The teeny world
MICROCOSM tiny city is a microcosm Example: The family
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
of the one you live in. It is a MICROCOSM of
REMOVE / DESTROY is that place in society.
miniature. Root: MICRO means
SMALL SMALL
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN Form: adj Miniscule is a variant of Mnemonic: Mini
SYMPATHY Tone: neut minuscule, meaning â means extremely
€œvery tiny.â€ Ants, small. as in the words
TAKE CARE grains of sand, and minimal and
portion sizes at fancy miniskirt.
THEORY WITHOUT
restaurants might all be Example: But what
EVIDENCE MINUSCULE
described as miniscule. may seem like a
THIN / TRANSPARENT miniscule gain can
affect medal
TO DO RELUCTANTLY standings.
TO GUESS / INFER Root: Prefix MIN
means SMALL.
UNDERSTAND
Form: adj If you have a slight Mnemonic: SLIGHT
USED TO Tone: neut build, you're slim with means Less.
small bones. A slight Example: I woke up
WEAKEN SLIGHT
deviation from your with a SLIGHT
plan, is a tiny headache.
adjustment.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: noun When the battle is getting Mnemonic: BASTION
Tone: pos long and the odds are army fighting from
CAREFUL / PRECISE getting longer, retreat to BASTION Army Base
CONCERNED ONLY WITH your bastion to regroup and station is BASTION
PLEASURE
BASTION prepare for the next round Example: There is a
of fighting. A bastion is a huge BASTION on the
DECEPTIVE REASONING stronghold or fortification side of the castle to
that remains intact. help protect it from
the enemy.
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: Verb When you cheer up a friend Mnemonic: Boster
FINE / DELICATE Tone: pos who's feeling down, you sounds like Bolt the
bolster them. To bolster is to sitar.
FRANK BOLSTER
offer support or strengthen. Example: These
FREQUENT TRAVELLER bolts on Sitar are to
BOLSTER the sitar.
FULLY SATISFIED
Form: noun You can buttress an Mnemonic: Butt-rest
FUSSY (-) Tone: pos argument with solid facts or for a wall..
your financial portfolio with Example: Trees have
HINT / INDIRECT safe investments. You may wide BUTTRESS
REFERENCE BUTTRESS find that giving compliments roots to support their
HUGE to everyone you meet great height.
buttresses your popularity.
LONG ESSAY To buttress is to sustain or
MISTAKE / ACT DONE reinforce.
CARELESSSLY Form: Verb If you add nutrients to Mnemonic: If you
Tone: pos something you fortify it. turn your couch into
Food scientists have found a fort you make it
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE FORTIFY ways to fortify cereal, but in stronger
addition to vitamins C and Example: They
REMOVE / DESTROY D, they usually add a lot of fortified the area
SMALL sugar. against attack.
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN Form: noun support Mnemonic:

Tone: pos Remember we used
SYMPATHY to watch this dance
show boogy woogy
TAKE CARE
where you have to
THEORY WITHOUT PROP dance with a PROP
EVIDENCE (support the act)
Example: these are
THIN / TRANSPARENT measures to PROP up
TO DO RELUCTANTLY an unpopular
government.
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: noun If someone shows Mnemonic: Com

Tone: neut/pos kindness, caring, and a means together and
CAREFUL / PRECISE willingness to help Passion is the zeal. So
CONCERNED ONLY WITH others, they're showing when you have the
PLEASURE compassion. passion and
willingness to help
DECEPTIVE REASONING COMPASSION others its
COMPASSION.
Example: She was
EXCLUDE / FORBID known as a hard
woman with no
FINE / DELICATE COMPASSION, no
FRANK emotion.
FREQUENT TRAVELLER Form: noun Use empathy if you're Mnemonic: EMPATHY

Tone: neut/pos looking for a noun and Sympathy are
FULLY SATISFIED meaning "the ability to similar in meaning.
EMPATHY identify with another's Example: He has
FUSSY (-)
feelings." EMPATHY for other
HINT / INDIRECT people's situations
REFERENCE Root: EM- means IN
HUGE Form: adj A humane person is one Mnemonic:
Tone: neut/pos who shows great Remember HUMANE is
LONG ESSAY compassion and caring nothing but Being
MISTAKE / ACT DONE for others, including Human.
HUMANE
CARELESSSLY animals, and who tries Example: This is a a
whenever possible to caring and HUMANE
PERTAINING TO RELIGION alleviate another's society
suffering.
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
Form: adj A callous person is Example: He had
REMOVE / DESTROY Tone: neg insensitive or emotionally worked in the hospital
SMALL hardened. If you laugh at for so many years
X CALLOUS your little sister while that he was callous to
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN she's trying to show you the suffering in the
SYMPATHY her poetry, you're being wards.
callous.
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb To foster is to nurture Mnemonic: Poster is

Tone: pos something for a little to FOSTER your
CAREFUL / PRECISE while. She fosters brand name.
CONCERNED ONLY WITH creativity by providing Example: The clubâ
FOSTER crayons to every student. €™s aim is to
PLEASURE
You can also foster a child, FOSTER better
DECEPTIVE REASONING which means she lives in relations within the
your home for a time. community; ..FOSTER
Parents
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: verb If you plant a seed, water Mnemonic: Dont
FINE / DELICATE Tone: pos it daily and give it lots of torture but please
light, you nurture it until it NURTURE a child,
FRANK is ready to be transplanted even if it belongs to
NURTURE
FREQUENT TRAVELLER outside. When you nurture sombody else.
a person or thing, you care Example: These
FULLY SATISFIED for it and help it to grow. delicate plants need
careful nurturing.
FUSSY (-)
Form: adj Someone who acts as a Mnemonic:
HINT / INDIRECT Tone: neut surrogate takes the place SURROGATE sounds
REFERENCE of another person. In the like :Sir, your gate is
HUGE middle of a big Hollywood broken and I will be
awards ceremony, if a the one to take the
LONG ESSAY celebrity has to go to the responsibility for it
MISTAKE / ACT DONE SURROGATE bathroom, a surrogate will even though Bob did
CARELESSSLY take his or her place and it.
fill the seat. Example: She
PERTAINING TO RELIGION adopted our newest
rescue and became a
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
SURROGATE mom to
REMOVE / DESTROY him this year.
SMALL
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
WEAKEN
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj Everyone who has ever Mnemonic: Its
Tone: neut taken a science class nothing but
CAREFUL / PRECISE knows the word HYPOTHESIS, which
CONCERNED ONLY WITH "hypothesis," which lacks EVIDENCE
PLEASURE means an idea, or a Example: Let us take
guess, that you are the HYPOTHETICAL
HYPOTHETICAL
DECEPTIVE REASONING going to test through an case of Sheila, a
experiment. A mother of twoâ€¦
hypothetical is related Root: Prefix HYPO-
EXCLUDE / FORBID to that. It means means UNDER
something based on an
FINE / DELICATE informed guess.
FRANK Form: verb When you speculate, Mnemonic: a
FREQUENT TRAVELLER Tone: neut/pos you use what you know business owner may
to make a prediction SPECULATE that a
FULLY SATISFIED about an outcome, like brand-new kind of
when you speculate that frozen yogurt will be
FUSSY (-)
the injury of two key really popular, so she
HINT / INDIRECT players will prevent buys a huge order of
SPECULATE
REFERENCE your favorite team from it for her ice cream
going far in the playoffs store.
HUGE this year. Example: We all
LONG ESSAY SPECULATEd about
the reasons for her
MISTAKE / ACT DONE resignation.
CARELESSSLY Root: SPEC is to SEE
PERTAINING TO RELIGION Form: adj If knowledge is Mnemonic: Such
Tone: neut empirical, it's based on claims need to be
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
observation rather than tested empirically.
REMOVE / DESTROY theory. To do an Example: There is
X EMPERICAL empirical study of donut enormous empirical
SMALL shops, you'll need to evidence for the law
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN visit every one you can of diminishing
find. marginal returns.
SYMPATHY Root: EM- means IN
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
WEAKEN
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj If a dress is so see- Mnemonic:

Tone: pos/neut through that light shines DIAPHANOUS phone.
CAREFUL / PRECISE through it revealing the Example: The stain
CONCERNED ONLY WITH things unnecessarily, it's glass window was
PLEASURE diaphanous. Also known very DIAPHANOUS I
DIAPHANOUS
as "sheer," could almost clearly
DECEPTIVE REASONING "transparent," or just see the clouds
plain" but diaphanous is outside
so much classier. Root: Prefix DIA-
EXCLUDE / FORBID means THROUGH
FINE / DELICATE Form: adj You can describe weak, Mnemonic: A
Tone: neut/neg thin, and fragile things FLIMSY object and a
FRANK as flimsy. Onion smells FLIMSY objection or
FREQUENT TRAVELLER are strong, onion skins excuse are both
are flimsy. Blaming without weight and
FLIMSY
FULLY SATISFIED onions for making you are easy to knock
cry during a sad movie, down
FUSSY (-)
that's a flimsy excuse, Example: The
HINT / INDIRECT when there are no evidence against him
REFERENCE onions in the theater. is pretty FLIMSY.
HUGE Form: adj Something that is Mnemonic: FRAIL -
Tone: neut delicate and fragile can one who fails in a
LONG ESSAY be described as frail. subject is obviously
MISTAKE / ACT DONE Grandma's favorite vase WEAK in it
FRAIL
CARELESSSLY is probably too frail to Example: Mother
use for football practice; was becoming too
PERTAINING TO RELIGION some of us have learned FRAIL to live alone.
that the hard way.
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
Form: noun Gossamer is something Mnemonic:
REMOVE / DESTROY Tone: pos/neut super fine and delicate â +SAMMER(summer) -
SMALL €” like a spider web or we wear clothes of
the material of a light fabric
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN GOSSAMER
wedding veil. Example: Nylon can
SYMPATHY be woven into
GOSSAMER or thick
TAKE CARE fabrics.
THEORY WITHOUT Form: adj You can't touch this word Mnemonic:
EVIDENCE Tone: neut - it is intangible. You can INTANGIBLE is not
grasp the meaning of the tangible
THIN / TRANSPARENT word in your head, but Example: The old
TO DO RELUCTANTLY INTANGIBLE you can't close your building had an
hands around it; you'll INTANGIBLE air of
TO GUESS / INFER just put fingerprints on sadness about it.
UNDERSTAND your monitor. Root: Prefix TANG-
means to TOUCH
USED TO
Form: noun characterized by Example: It also
WEAKEN Tone: neut formation of a provides a clear
MEMBRANOUS membrane (or MEMBRANOUS touch-
something resembling a point for the
membrane) touchscreen.
Form: adj If people can see Example: We were
Tone: neut/neg through your shirt, it's impressed by the
sheer. This can also SHEER size of the
SHEER mean something steep, cathedral.
like a cliff, or anything
extreme, like sheer
nerve.
Form: adj If something is tenuous Mnemonic: Ten Of
Tone: neut it's thin, either literally Us can fit in this car,
or metaphorically. If you there is TENUOUS
try to learn a chances.
complicated Example: He holds a
TENUOUS
mathematical concept by rather TENUOUS
cramming for 45 position in history
minutes, you will have a Root: Prefix TEN
tenuous grasp of that means HOLD
concept, at best.
Form: adj When something is Mnemonic: After
Tone: neg/neut palpable, you can touch touching the PULP of
or handle it, even though fruit its obvious that
the word is often used to every one would be
describe things that ABLE to perceive
X PALPABLE
usually can't be handled whether the fruit is
or touched, such as fresh or not.
emotions or sensations. Example: The
tension between
them is palpable
Form: adj Something substantial is Mnemonic: Lots of
Tone: neut large in size, number, or Substance in anything
amount: If you want to would be considered
say someone spent a lot as Substantial
X
of money without being Example: He ate a
SUBSTANTIAL
too specific, you could substantial breakfast.
say they spent a Root: Prefix SUB-
substantial amount of means UNDER.
money.
Form: adj Tactile has to do with Mnemonic: This Tile
Tone: neut the sense of touch. is so tactile
There's a huge tactile Example: Different
difference between textures of food are
smooth glass and rough tactile - they feel
X TACTILE
sandpaper. different in your
mouth, aside from
how they taste.
Root: Prefix TACT-
means TOUCH
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb If you balk at your mother's Mnemonic: Dog
Tone: neg suggestion that you take on barked to BALK the
CAREFUL / PRECISE more responsibility, you're thieves. Dog BALKed
CONCERNED ONLY WITH saying no to added chores. to bark.
PLEASURE
BALK To balk means to refuse to Example: Many
go along with. parents may BALK at
DECEPTIVE REASONING the idea of paying
$100 for a pair of
shoes.
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: adj If you do something in a Mnemonic: Imagine
FINE / DELICATE Tone: neg grudging manner (or a grungy teenager
grudgingly), you do it with unwilling to help out
FRANK reluctance. Doing with chores
GRUDGING
FREQUENT TRAVELLER homework, paying taxes, Example: The
and saying sorry are all GRUDGING
FULLY SATISFIED commonly done in a acceptance of his
grudging manner. opponent's victory.
FUSSY (-)
Form: noun Someone with alacrity Mnemonic: All
HINT / INDIRECT Tone: pos shows cheerful willingness creativity requires is
REFERENCE and eager behavior, like a alacrity
HUGE kid whose mother has told Example: He
X
him he can buy anything in demonstrated his
LONG ESSAY ALACRITY
a candy store. eagerness to serve by
MISTAKE / ACT DONE his alacrity in
CARELESSSLY executing the orders
of his master.
Form: adj showing a cheerful Example: The
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE X Tone: pos willingness to do favors for obliging waiter was in
OBLIGING others no hurry for us to
REMOVE / DESTROY leave.
SMALL
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
WEAKEN
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: noun Can you guess what Mnemonic: A

Tone: neut conjecture means? It's a "CONGUESSTURE"
CAREFUL / PRECISE word to use when you donâ€™t make the
CONCERNED ONLY WITH are not sure of complete picture.
CONJECTURE
PLEASURE something and have to Example: The truth
"guess or surmise." of his CONJECTURE
DECEPTIVE REASONING was confirmed by the
newspaper report.
Form: verb If you interpret Mnemonic:
EXCLUDE / FORBID Tone: neut something or make Construct true movie
FINE / DELICATE sense of it, you construe by construing the
its meaning. If the new true story
FRANK girl in your class asks to Example:
CONSTRUE
FREQUENT TRAVELLER sit with you at lunch, you CONSTRUEd
could construe that she according to the laws
FULLY SATISFIED wants to be friends. You of england and wales.
can never have too
FUSSY (-)
many friends!
HINT / INDIRECT Form: verb To deduce is to figure Mnemonic: de-
REFERENCE Tone: neut something out based on means down, ducere
HUGE what you already know. means lead; to 'lead
When you see a person down, derive', figure
LONG ESSAY crying, it's easy to out
MISTAKE / ACT DONE DEDUCE deduce that the person is Example: We can
CARELESSSLY sad. Unless they're DEDUCE a lot from
happy, of course. what people choose
PERTAINING TO RELIGION Sometimes happy people to buy.
cry. Root: Root DUC-
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
means LEAD.
REMOVE / DESTROY Form: verb When you extrapolate, Mnemonic: Looking
SMALL Tone: neut you use specific details at your current grade
to make a general report for math and
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN comment. For example, how you are doing in
SYMPATHY if you travel to Canada class now, you could
and encounter only EXTRAPOLATE that
EXTRAPOLATE
TAKE CARE friendly, kind natives, you'll likely earn a
you might extrapolate solid B for the year.
THEORY WITHOUT
that all Canadians are Example: The
EVIDENCE
friendly. figures were obtained
THIN / TRANSPARENT by extrapolating from
past trends.
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
Form: verb If you see the empty ice Mnemonic: Mice can
TO GUESS / INFER Tone: neut cream containers, a SURMISE where the
UNDERSTAND kicked can of Reddi-wip cheese is kept even
in the trash, you can though they do not
USED TO surmise what has know where exactly it
SURMISE
happened: Sundaes. To is kept.
WEAKEN
surmise is to form an Example: I SURMISE
opinion or make a guess this is needed to
about something. complete your
homework
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb To apprehend is to Mnemonic:

Tone: pos capture or arrest, as APPREHEND sounds
CAREFUL / PRECISE when the police try to like Comprehend, and
CONCERNED ONLY WITH apprehend criminals and the meaning remains
APPREHEND bring them to justice. the same: to
PLEASURE
You also apprehend a Understand.
DECEPTIVE REASONING concept when you Example: He was
understand it, grasping slow to APPREHEND
or capturing its meaning. danger.
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: verb If you are trying to fit in, Mnemonic:
FINE / DELICATE Tone: pos you are trying to ASSIMILATE has the
assimilate. word similar within it
FRANK and in fact, means "to
FREQUENT TRAVELLER become like
something else."
ASSIMILATE
FULLY SATISFIED Example: The
committee will need
FUSSY (-)
time to ASSIMILATE
HINT / INDIRECT this report.
REFERENCE Root: Prefix SIMIL-
means SAME
HUGE
Form: verb To comprehend Mnemonic: Com
LONG ESSAY Tone: pos something is to means together and
MISTAKE / ACT DONE understand it, like when so it means to
CARELESSSLY you have to read a combine things and
difficult passage more understand the issue.
PERTAINING TO RELIGION COMPREHEND than once in order to Example:
comprehend it. COMPREHEND why
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
these meetings seem
REMOVE / DESTROY to be held in secret.
Root: Prefix COM-
SMALL means TOGETHER.
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN Form: verb To fathom something is Mnemonic: FATHOM
SYMPATHY Tone: pos to understand it sounds like BOTTOM:
thoroughly, and is To understand
TAKE CARE usually used in the something thoroughly
negative, as in "I can't is "to get to the
THEORY WITHOUT FATHOM
fathom why he doesn't bottom of it."
EVIDENCE
want to go along with Example: It is hard
THIN / TRANSPARENT us." to FATHOM the pain
felt at the death of a
TO DO RELUCTANTLY child.
TO GUESS / INFER Form: adj When your friend Mnemonic: Not
UNDERSTAND Tone: neg scribbles a note to you Legible, Not
and you canâ€™t figure understood.
USED TO ILLEGIBLE out what it says, itâ€™s Example: This is an
because her handwriting ILLEGIBLE signature
WEAKEN
is illegible - itâ€™s Root: Prefix IL-
unreadable. means NOT
Form: adj Use the adjective Mnemonic: like if
Tone: pos intelligible to describe you have done
speech that is loud and something by
clear, like the intelligible intelligence, it would
words of your principal be INTELLIGIBLE that
INTELLIGIBLE which, thanks to a is clear and easily
microphone, you were understood...
able to hear. Example: His lecture
was readily
INTELLIGIBLE to all
the students.
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: adj When you habituate Mnemonic: When itâ
Tone: neut/neg something, you're helping €™s a habit to do
CAREFUL / PRECISE it to get accustomed to a something you are
CONCERNED ONLY WITH new home. Workers in HABITUATEd.
PLEASURE
HABITUATE zoos spend a lot of time Example: We have
habituating animals. all become
DECEPTIVE REASONING HABITUATEd to
thinking and reacting
in certain ways.
EXCLUDE / FORBID Form: adj To be immune to Mnemonic:
FINE / DELICATE Tone: neut something is to be Vaccinations serve to
resistant to it. If you had make people IMMUNE
FRANK IMMUNE chickenpox as a child, you to certain diseases.
FREQUENT TRAVELLER should be immune to it Example: You'll
now. eventually become
FULLY SATISFIED IMMUNE to criticism.
FUSSY (-) Form: verb To inure is to get used to Mnemonic: To
Tone: neut/neg something difficult or become INUREd to
HINT / INDIRECT unpleasant. If after bad life you get
REFERENCE spending an hour in your insured
HUGE INURE brother's room, you stop Example: Doctors
noticing the stinky-sock become INUREd to
LONG ESSAY smell, you have become death
MISTAKE / ACT DONE inured to the odor. Root: IN- means
CARELESSSLY INTO
Form: adj If you're an inveterate Mnemonic: Veter is
Tone: neut doodler, all your a root which means
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE notebooks are covered for a long time
with drawings. If you're an Example: She is an
REMOVE / DESTROY INVETERATE inveterate golf player, you INVETERATE smoker
SMALL probably get twitchy if you and cannot break the
haven't been out on a habit
SUPPORT / STRENGTHEN course in a week. Root: IN- means
SYMPATHY INTO
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
WEAKEN
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CANNOT BE DEFENDED Form: verb When you subvert Mnemonic: SUBVERT

Tone: neg something, your words or sounds like DIVERT, ie
CAREFUL / PRECISE actions criticize or going the unusual way
CONCERNED ONLY WITH undermine the usual way and breaking laws
PLEASURE of doing something or Example: This was an
SUBVERT
common values. The girl alleged plot to
DECEPTIVE REASONING who wears a tuxedo to SUBVERT the state.
the prom might subvert Root: Prefix SUB
traditional ideas about means UNDER
EXCLUDE / FORBID beauty.
FINE / DELICATE Form: verb To undermine literally Mnemonic:
Tone: neg means to dig a hole UNDEMINE has an
FRANK underneath something, effect which is opposite
FREQUENT TRAVELLER making it likely to of UNDERLINE. We
collapse. But we more underline to emphasise
FULLY SATISFIED often use the word to something that is
describe sabotage or the important and
FUSSY (-)
UNDERMINE act of weakening Undermining would be
HINT / INDIRECT someone else's efforts. to make something
REFERENCE lesser Important
Example: Our
HUGE confidence in the team
LONG ESSAY has been seriously
UNDERMINEd by their
MISTAKE / ACT DONE recent defeats.
CARELESSSLY
Form: verb make secure underneath, Mnemonic: Under gird
X UNDER
PERTAINING TO RELIGION Tone: pos lend moral support to. can be related to
GIRD
'guard' or secure
PLACE SIDE BY SIDE
REMOVE / DESTROY
SMALL
SYMPATHY
TAKE CARE
THEORY WITHOUT
EVIDENCE
THIN / TRANSPARENT
TO DO RELUCTANTLY
TO GUESS / INFER
UNDERSTAND
USED TO
WEAKEN
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: noun A catalyst is an event or Mnemonic: Raju acts

Tone: pos person causing a change. as a CATALYST in our
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY Getting kicked out of your fights, when you least
CARELESS / DIRTY parents' house might be a expect it.
catalyst for becoming Example: His
CONFIRM / SUPPORT CATALYST more independent. imprisonment by the
government served as
DEADLOCK
the CATALYST that
DISRESPECTING SACRED helped transform
THINGS social unrest into
revolution.
FIRM / UNCHANGING
Form: verb Engender is a fancy way Mnemonic: When
FREE FROM BLAME Tone: pos of saying "to make genders get together
HARMLESS / KIND happen," like when you they cause, produce,
engender the spirit of and give rise to
HEALING ENGENDER teamwork and children, that is
cooperation by ENGENDER.
HEALTHY LOOKING
encouraging others and Example: Hatred
HELPFUL doing your share of the ENGENDERs violence.
group's work.
LEFT-OVER
Form: noun The adjective expedient Mnemonic:
MUTUAL AGREEMENT Tone: neut describes something that Expedited delivery is
NOT THOROUGHLY / provides an easy way to (EXPEDIENT) suitable
SUPERFICIALLY achieve a goal or result, when sending your
but it's not necessarily a GRE scores to
PHYSICALLY STRONG moral solution. universities
Example: A
PUNISH EXPEDIENT
pragmatic politician,
RESTRICT / STOP / he was guided by
PREVENT what was EXPEDIENT
rather than by what
SHINING / DECORATIVE was ethical.
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING Root: EX means OUT
OF/ FROM
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE Form: verb To facilitate means to Mnemonic:
Tone: pos make something easier. If FACILITATE calls for
UNABLE TO DECIDE / your best friend is very facilities
FICKLE shy, you could facilitate Example: The new
FACILITATE
her efforts to meet new trade agreement
UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE
people. should FACILITATE
UNSTEADY WALK / more rapid economic
HESITATE growth.
WITHOUT REAL POWER Form: verb to excite; stir up or set Mnemonic: KINDLE
Tone: pos going. the Candle. Amazon
KINDLE, KINDLEs
(inspires) the world of
books
KINDLE
Example: The soft
music and dim lights
in our favorite
restaurant always
KINDLE romance
Form: verb Precipitate usually means Mnemonic: Pre +
Tone: neg "bringing something on" anticipate: you
or "making it happen" - anticipate before
and not always in a good thinking (sooner) or
PRECIPITATE way. hasten anticipation
Example: I don't
think we should make
any PRECIPITATE
decisions.
Form: verb A teacher might use a Mnemonic: Rod:
Tone: pos/neut verbal prod when PROD (stir up) with
students aren't rod
PROD participating in class. A Example: I PRODded
prod is an him with my elbow.
encouragement, like the
threat of a quiz.
Form: adj A prompt is a cue that Mnemonic: Pro
Tone: pos gives forgetful actors a empty: pro empty
hint for their next line, or response is PROMPT
students the topic of the because you donâ€™t
essay they will write. It need to do much.
PROMPT
can also be the act of Command PROMPT
inspiring action, like your Example: A noise
letter to the editor that PROMPTed the guard
prompts others to join to go back and
your cause. investigate.
Form: verb To propel is to push or Mnemonic: PROPEL
Tone: pos drive forward, like a sounds like Compel,
sheep dog nipping at the that is force or drive
heels of his flock to keep something to happen.
them moving. Example: The
PROPEL
development of our
missile program has
forced our scientists
to seek more powerful
PROPELlants.
Form: noun To spur something on is Mnemonic:
Tone: pos to get it going, to Economists talk of
encourage it, to hasten it lowering interest
or stimulate. Cowboys rates to SPUR
SPUR wear spiky metal tools spending.
called spurs on their boots Example: His speech
to kick their horse, and was a powerful SPUR
spur them to greater to action.
speed.
Form: verb If the economy is starting Mnemonic: Say, for
Tone: pos to stall, the president example, that I'm
can't just sit there. He trying to sell my new
has to stimulateâ€”turn it song CD. In order to
on, bring it to life, perk it STIMULATE interest, I
up. You can stimulate need to send out a
practically anything: a sample song to all my
STIMULATE
person, a conversation, a friends. Unless, of
mind, or even the growth course, my songs are
of a plant. not good.
Example: The article
can be used to
STIMULATE discussion
among students.
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj If a child tells his Mnemonic: culp(

Tone: neg mother he was not to culprit)...so a culprit
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY blame for the cookie is always DESERVING
CARELESS / DIRTY jar being broken, she OF BLAME FROM
could still find him EVERYONE.
CONFIRM / SUPPORT culpable if he was the Example: The
CULPABLE
only one home. accident was the
DEADLOCK
Culpable means to be result of a CULPABLE
DISRESPECTING SACRED at fault. failure to consider the
THINGS risks involved.
Root: CULP- means
FIRM / UNCHANGING GUILT
FREE FROM BLAME Form: adj Reprehensible means Mnemonic:
HARMLESS / KIND Tone: neg deserving of blame or REPREHENSIBLE is
strong criticism. It is a Blamable.
HEALING strong wordâ€“-your Example: His
mother might forgive conduct was
HEALTHY LOOKING REPREHENSIBLE
you for doing thoroughly
HELPFUL something bad, but REPREHENSIBLE.
something Root: RE means to
LEFT-OVER reprehensible? That's REPEAT
MUTUAL AGREEMENT worse.
NOT THOROUGHLY /
SUPERFICIALLY
PHYSICALLY STRONG
PUNISH
RESTRICT / STOP /
PREVENT
SHINING / DECORATIVE
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
WITHOUT REAL POWER
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj The meaning of disheveled Mnemonic: Dis +

Tone: neg hasn't changed much from Shave A person who
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY the 16th and 17th donâ€™t shave is
CARELESS / DIRTY centuries, when it referred DISHEVELED
to disordered clothing or Example: He looked
CONFIRM / SUPPORT DISHEVELED hair. If he were coming in very tired,
from the snow, you could DISHEVELED and
DEADLOCK
blame static and hat-hair very pale
DISRESPECTING SACRED for his disheveled look, Root: DIS means
THINGS but no, he just never uses NOT
a
FIRM / UNCHANGING
Form: adj the quality of being rustic Example: a gauche
FREE FROM BLAME GAUCHERIE
Tone: neg or gauche teenager/manner
HARMLESS / KIND Form: verb extremely disorderly Mnemonic: Heard of
Tone: neg Crumbled shirt, it
HEALING
looks disorderly and
HEALTHY LOOKING RUMPLED so is RUMPLED.
Example: She
HELPFUL RUMPLED his hair
LEFT-OVER playfully.
MUTUAL AGREEMENT Form: adj The adjective shabby Mnemonic: If you

Tone: neg describes something that spent your whole
NOT THOROUGHLY / is threadbare or worn out. childhood treating
SUPERFICIALLY Your last apartment was your younger brother
clean, but the furniture in a SHABBY way,
PHYSICALLY STRONG
and carpets were so you can't expect him
SHABBY
PUNISH shabby that you were to be your friend
embarrassed to invite when you're older.
RESTRICT / STOP / your friends over. Example: The
PREVENT outside of the house
SHINING / DECORATIVE was beginning to look
SHABBY.
Form: adj Shoddy refers to poor Mnemonic: Shody
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / Tone: neg materials or quality. sounds like Shady.
CHARGE Maybe you passed on She is showing
buying a house because it SHODDY emotions
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
leaned in an odd way and and he is looking at
FICKLE SHODDY
various and sundry parts SHODDY construction
UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE were falling off. Sounds Example: SHODDY
like both the materials and business practices;
UNSTEADY WALK / workmanship were SHODDY behavior; a
HESITATE shoddy. SHODDY bookcase
WITHOUT REAL POWER Form: adj lacking neatness or order Mnemonic: SLOPPY
Tone: neg sounds like a SLOw
person who is
SLOPPY CARELESS about his
career.
Example: Your work
is SLOPPY.
Form: adj Slovenly is what your Example: This,
Tone: neg great aunt Mehitabel together with a slack
might call you if you came tie, creates a
to high tea without a SLOVENLY
SLOVENLY necktie. It means "messy appearance
or unkempt," but is a
word you probably won't
hear messy or unkempt
people using.
Form: adj Unkempt literally means â Mnemonic: Un (not)
Tone: neg €œnot combed,â€ but use + Kept UNKEMPT is
it to describe anything not kept properly
with a sloppy appearance. Example: The
Your hair probably looks beggar was dirty and
UNKEMPT
unkempt when you roll out UNKEMPT.
of bed in the morning. Root: UN means
Keep it that way if you're WITHOUT
going for the rock star
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: verb To affirm something is Mnemonic: AFFIRM

Tone: pos to give it a big "YES" or rhymes with Confirm
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY to confirm that it is and so is the
CARELESS / DIRTY true. meaning.
AFFIRM
Example: Both sides
CONFIRM / SUPPORT AFFIRMed their
commitment to the
DEADLOCK
cease-fire.
DISRESPECTING SACRED Form: verb settle conclusively Example: They
THINGS CLINCH
Tone: pos CLINCHed the deal.
FIRM / UNCHANGING Form: verb make sure Mnemonic:
FREE FROM BLAME Tone: pos CONFIRM rhymes
with Affirm and so is
HARMLESS / KIND CONFIRM the meaning.
Example: Rumors of
HEALING
job losses were later
HEALTHY LOOKING CONFIRMed.
HELPFUL Form: noun To corroborate is to Mnemonic:
Tone: pos/neut back someone elseâ CORROBORATE
LEFT-OVER €™s story. If you swear sounds like
MUTUAL AGREEMENT to your teacher that Collaborate (work
you didn't throw the with other) and
NOT THOROUGHLY / spitball, and your CORROBORATE
CORROBORATE
SUPERFICIALLY friends corroborate your (support and
story by promising that strengthen).
PHYSICALLY STRONG
you were concentrating Example: We need
PUNISH on math homework, she to CORROBORATE the
might actually believe findings.
RESTRICT / STOP / you.
PREVENT
Form: verb To endorse is to give Mnemonic: When
SHINING / DECORATIVE Tone: pos support to someone or someone ENDORSEs
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING something. "I endorse a product in a
this!" means "I think commercial, it means
ENDORSE
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / this is a good thing, and "Go buy this!
CHARGE so should you." Example: he world
leaders ENDORSEd a
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
ban on land mines.
FICKLE
Form: verb To ratify a treaty or Mnemonic: Rat And
UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE Tone: pos contract is to officially Cat never RATIFY.
UNSTEADY WALK / approve it by signing or Rectify the mistake in
HESITATE voting for it. You and document to RATIFY
your brothers and it.
WITHOUT REAL POWER RATIFY sisters might devise a Example: They have
plan for a family yet to RATIFY the
vacation to Disney treaty.
World, but it would
need to be ratified by
your parents.
Form: verb To substantiate is to Mnemonic:
Tone: pos give support to a claim. SUBSTANTIATE is
Weâ€™d really like to related to the word
believe in the Tooth substantial, which
SUBSTANTIATE Fairy; however, more means "solid."
evidence is needed to Example: The results
substantiate her of the tests
existence (besides that SUBSTANTIATEd his
quarter in your pocket). claims.
Form: verb To testify is to make a Mnemonic: If you've
Tone: pos statement or provide ever seen a TV show
evidence, usually in about lawyers, you've
court. Witnesses testify probably seen
for the prosecution or someone TESTIFYing:
defense. putting their hand on
TESTIFY the Bible, sitting in
the witness seat, and
telling what they
know about a case.
Example: She
refused to TESTIFY
against her husband.
Form: verb To validate is to prove Mnemonic:
Tone: pos that something is based VALIDATE is to make
on truth or fact, or is something VALID.
VALIDATE acceptable. It can also Example: to
mean to make VALIDATE a theory
something, like a
contract, legal.
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: noun When two huge semi Mnemonic: Its
Tone: neg trailers meet face-to-face impossible to pass
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY on a one-lane mountain this traffic, so itâ€™s
CARELESS / DIRTY road, the drivers jumped a traffic IMPASSE.
out of their cabs and Example: The peace
CONFIRM / SUPPORT IMPASSE exclaimed, "We're at an talks reached an
impasse! We can't move IMPASSE
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forward - we can only
DISRESPECTING SACRED reverse and go back in the
THINGS direction from which we
came."
FIRM / UNCHANGING
Form: noun A stalemate is an impasse Mnemonic: Check-
FREE FROM BLAME Tone: neg in a contest, a point where Mate STALEMATE and
HARMLESS / KIND neither player - usually in check-mate in chess
STALEMATE chess - can win or lose. Example: Talks
HEALING between union and
management resulted
HEALTHY LOOKING
in a STALEMATE.
HELPFUL
LEFT-OVER
MUTUAL AGREEMENT
NOT THOROUGHLY /
SUPERFICIALLY
PHYSICALLY STRONG
PUNISH
RESTRICT / STOP /
PREVENT
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
WITHOUT REAL POWER
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: verb Consecrate means to Mnemonic: Con +

Tone: pos make holy or to sacred
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY dedicate to a higher Example: Conscrate
CARELESS / DIRTY purpose. You need to yourselves for
consecrate a building to tommorrow the lord
(X)
CONFIRM / SUPPORT turn it into a church, will do wonders among
CONSECRATE
but you can also you.
DEADLOCK
consecrate a week in
DISRESPECTING SACRED New York City to the
THINGS pursuit of the perfect
bagel.
FIRM / UNCHANGING
Form: adj You might be enraged Mnemonic: Sacrosanct
FREE FROM BLAME Tone: pos at the idea of doing Sounds like SACRED
HARMLESS / KIND homework on a Example: A church,
Saturday if you consider for example, might
HEALING (X) your weekends consider its Sunday
SACROSANCT sacrosanct - meaning service to be sacrosanct
HEALTHY LOOKING
they are too special or - a very important and
HELPFUL important to interrupt. holy ritual that cannot
be changed or canceled.
LEFT-OVER
MUTUAL AGREEMENT Form: noun Saying offensive things Mnemonic:
NOT THOROUGHLY / Tone: neg about God or religion is BLASPHEMY -
SUPERFICIALLY blasphemy. Blasphemy bless+famous...Famous
can be used for people are so proud of
PHYSICALLY STRONG offensive ideas in other their success that they
areas too. often disrespect God-
PUNISH BLASPHEMY
they are never to be
RESTRICT / STOP / Blessed !
PREVENT Example: To say that
man is precisely what
SHINING / DECORATIVE God made him to be is
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING sheer BLASPHEMY.
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / Form: verb To desecrate means to Mnemonic:

CHARGE Tone: neg treat a sacred place or DESECRATE sounds like
thing with violent De (NOT)-Sacred
UNABLE TO DECIDE / disrespect. The news Example: Please do
FICKLE DESECRATE sometimes reports on not DESECRATE the
vandals who have Monument or
desecrated tombstones surrounding area.
UNSTEADY WALK / or places of worship. Root: DE means
HESITATE DOWN/AWAY.
WITHOUT REAL POWER Form: adj To be impious is to be Mnemonic: IMPIOUS
Tone: neg disrespectful of god or can be split as IM
duty. When someone is (NOT) + PIOUS
being impious they are (RELIGIOUS)
doing things that their Example: The
IMPIOUS
church, synagogue, IMPIOUS man began to
temple, mosque, school pray in an ungodly
principal, government fashion.
or parents would find Root: IM means NOT
unacceptable.
Form: adj Profane is the sort of Mnemonic: Propane
Tone: neg language that gets gas: being
bleeped on TV but it's inextinguishable is not
also whenever you allowed in holy places.
deeply offend people Cannot use propane for
PROFANE with how little respect aarti
you show something Example: Tourists are
(usually religious). urged not to PROFANE
the sanctity of holy
places by wearing
improper clothes.
Form: noun If you show up to an Mnemonic:
Tone: neg animal rights rally with SACRILEGE has its
a bucket full of fried roots in the sacr-,
chicken for lunch, you meaning "holy."
may be accused of Example: The cult of
SACRILEGE
committing sacrilege. the Roman emperor
You are violating a was SACRILEGE to
belief held sacred, at Jews and Christians.
least by some
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj If you can't change it, it's Mnemonic: IM (NOT)
Tone: pos immutable. There are and MUTABLE
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY many things in life that are (CHANGEABLE).
CARELESS / DIRTY immutable; these Cannot change
IMMUTABLE unchangeable things Example: This
CONFIRM / SUPPORT include death, taxes, and decision should not
the laws of physics. be seen as
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IMMUTABLE.
DISRESPECTING SACRED Root: IM means NOT
THINGS Form: adj Use the adjective Mnemonic: In (NOT)
FIRM / UNCHANGING Tone: pos invariable to describe Variable (changes or
something that's unlikely VARIES) Does not
FREE FROM BLAME to change, such as your change or vary is
INVARIABLE
HARMLESS / KIND invariable custom of eating INVARIABLE.
deep-dish pizza every Example: Her
HEALING Saturday. routine was
INVARIABLE.
HEALTHY LOOKING
Form: adj Someone who is firm and Mnemonic: Steady
HELPFUL Tone: pos determined in a belief or a Fast
LEFT-OVER position can be called Example: Let them
steadfast in that view, like thank the Lord for his
MUTUAL AGREEMENT STEADFAST
your mom when she thinks STEADFAST love, for
NOT THOROUGHLY / you really shouldnâ€™t his wondrous works
SUPERFICIALLY wear that outfit. to the children of
men
PHYSICALLY STRONG
PUNISH
RESTRICT / STOP /
PREVENT
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
WITHOUT REAL POWER
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: verb To be absolved is to Mnemonic: ab + solve : if

Tone: pos be let off the hook, you can solve this problem,
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY to be set free from a I can ABSOLVE your sin
CARELESS / DIRTY certain obligation or from the accusation of
to be forgiven for a cheating in exam. (a
CONFIRM / SUPPORT ABSOLVE wrongdoing. The teacher said to his student)
Church may absolve Example: The court
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you of your sins, but ABSOLVEd him of all
DISRESPECTING SACRED that won't absolve responsibility for the
THINGS you of the need to accident.
attend mass.
FIRM / UNCHANGING
Form: verb To acquit someone is Mnemonic:
FREE FROM BLAME Tone: pos to clear them of AC(accused)+QUIT.....when
HARMLESS / KIND charges. Acquitting you are under any kind of
also has to do with criminal charge and the
HEALING how you carry or court quits the charge, it
ACQUIT present yourself. means that you are free
HEALTHY LOOKING
from a criminal charge by a
HELPFUL verdict of not guilty...hence
ACQUIT
LEFT-OVER Example: The jury
MUTUAL AGREEMENT ACQUITted him of murder.
NOT THOROUGHLY / Form: verb To exculpate means Mnemonic: EXCULPATE

SUPERFICIALLY Tone: pos to find someone not sounds like ex-culprit =
guilty of criminal culprit...but now he has
PHYSICALLY STRONG charges. If you've been cleared of the
been wrongly charges.
PUNISH
convicted of robbery, Example: The defendant
EXCULPATE
RESTRICT / STOP / you better hope a was able to EXCULPATE
PREVENT judge will exculpate himself from liability.
you, unless you want Root: EX- is OUT OF/FROM
SHINING / DECORATIVE to go to jail because
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING you've heard prison
food is amazing.
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE Form: verb To exonerate Mnemonic: EXONERATE -
Tone: pos someone is to break it as EX (gone)
UNABLE TO DECIDE / declare him not guilty HONOUR (pride) - to bring
FICKLE of criminal charges. back your gone or fallen
This word is pretty honour by getting the
much only used in blame off you.
UNSTEADY WALK / EXONERATE reference to Example: The police report
HESITATE proceedings in a EXONERATEd Lewis from all
court of law. A word charges of corruption.
WITHOUT REAL POWER with a similar Root: EX- is OUT OF/FROM
meaning that might
be familiar is â
€œacquit.â€
Form: verb Vindicate means to Mnemonic: vidicate....split
Tone: neut justify, prove, or it like vin(WIN) + di(the) +
reinforce an idea - or cate(case)....so when you
to absolve from guilt. win a case IN a COURT...it
If your family thinks means you are freed FROM
you hogged ACCUSATION AND
VINDICATE
the last piece of pie CHARGES...you are freed
on Thanksgiving, from blame.
you'll be vindicated Example: There was not
when your younger enough evidence against
brother fesses up. him, so the court
VINDICATEd him.
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj Someone or something Mnemonic: BENIGN

Tone: pos that is benign is gentle, sounds like Be nice
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY kind, mild, or unharmful: a Example: Its entirely
CARELESS / DIRTY benign soul wouldn't hurt BENIGN in nature,
BENIGN
a fly. you will be start
CONFIRM / SUPPORT working in two days.
Root: BE means
DEADLOCK
GOOD
DISRESPECTING SACRED Form: adj If you want to reassure Mnemonic:
THINGS Tone: pos someone that something INNOCUOUS is
FIRM / UNCHANGING isn't harmful or likely to innoxious which is
cause injury, call it harmless
FREE FROM BLAME INNOCUOUS
innocuous. Even an Example: An
HARMLESS / KIND innocuous letter from your INNOCUOUS home
boyfriend is embarrassing remedy; An
HEALING if your parents find it! INNOCUOUS remark
HEALTHY LOOKING
HELPFUL
LEFT-OVER
MUTUAL AGREEMENT
NOT THOROUGHLY /
SUPERFICIALLY
PHYSICALLY STRONG
PUNISH
RESTRICT / STOP /
PREVENT
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
WITHOUT REAL POWER
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj tending to cure or restore Mnemonic:

Tone: pos to health CURATIVE is nothing
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY but Curing
CURATIVE
CARELESS / DIRTY Example: the
CURATIVE properties
CONFIRM / SUPPORT of herbs
DEADLOCK Form: adj Whether youâ€™re Mnemonic:
Tone: pos talking about a THERAPEUTIC is
DISRESPECTING SACRED therapeutic drug or a nothing bout Therapy
THINGS THERAPEUTIC therapeutic exercise plan, Example: Painting
FIRM / UNCHANGING something that is can be very
therapeutic helps to heal THERAPEUTIC.
FREE FROM BLAME or to restore health.
HARMLESS / KIND
HEALING
HEALTHY LOOKING
HELPFUL
LEFT-OVER
MUTUAL AGREEMENT
NOT THOROUGHLY /
SUPERFICIALLY
PHYSICALLY STRONG
PUNISH
RESTRICT / STOP /
PREVENT
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
WITHOUT REAL POWER
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: noun Use the word cherubic to Mnemonic:

Tone: pos describe someone with a CHERUBIC,
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY round face and an air of pronounced "CHAIR-
CARELESS / DIRTY sweetness, whether youâ uh-bick," is used to
€™re talking about a cute describe someone
CONFIRM / SUPPORT cooing baby or your who looks like a
CHERUBIC innocent-looking, round- cherub, a baby-like
DEADLOCK
faced 40-year-old angel
DISRESPECTING SACRED brother. Example: With her
THINGS cheerful smile and
rosy cheeks, she was
FIRM / UNCHANGING a particularly
FREE FROM BLAME CHERUBIC child.
HARMLESS / KIND Form: adj When people are red- Mnemonic: FLORIDa
Tone: pos cheeked with good health mein FLORID stalls
HEALING they are florid. Spending and FLORID (reddish)
most of the year in the complexion girls.
HEALTHY LOOKING
college library can give Example: a FLORID
HELPFUL FLORID you a colorless, weary style of painting
face, but after a mountain
LEFT-OVER vacation, you'll be florid
MUTUAL AGREEMENT with the reddish color that
comes from exercise and
NOT THOROUGHLY / living
SUPERFICIALLY
Form: adj having the pinkish flush of Mnemonic: Flush
PHYSICALLY STRONG Tone: pos health sounds like Blush.
When you blush your
PUNISH
FLUSHED face turns pink and u
RESTRICT / STOP / looked FLUSHED
PREVENT Example: Sam felt
her cheeks flush red.
Form: adj Ruddy is used to describe Mnemonic: RUDDY
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING Tone: pos something that is reddish complexion is Reddy
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / - like the color of red complexion.
RUDDY
CHARGE hair, tomatoes, or your Example: He had a
cheeks on a cold winter's naturally RUDDY
UNABLE TO DECIDE / day. complexion.
FICKLE
Form: adj Salubrious is a fancy way Mnemonic:
UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE Tone: pos to describe something SALUBRIOUS sounds
thatâ€™s good for you or like we salute each
UNSTEADY WALK / is generally favorable to other with the cheer,
HESITATE SALUBRIOUS mind or body, but it need "To your health!"
WITHOUT REAL POWER not be limited to Example: We had to
describing healthy foods move to a house in a
or liquids. less SALUBRIOUS
area.
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj Though officious sounds Mnemonic: Office

Tone: neg like official, it means being mein Officious
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY annoyingly eager to do person.
CARELESS / DIRTY more than is required. Example: The
OFFICIOUS "The officious lunch lady officious man didn't
CONFIRM / SUPPORT (-) made everyone's food realize that his help
choices her business, and was not needed.
DEADLOCK
made nasty comments
DISRESPECTING SACRED when students chose
THINGS cookies over carrots."
FIRM / UNCHANGING Form: adj When you hear the word Mnemonic: Solicit
Tone: pos solicitous, think of your means to request
FREE FROM BLAME mom - attentive, caring earnestly for
HARMLESS / KIND and concerned. It's nice something, but if you
when your waiter gives have to wait for it to
HEALING you good service, but if he happen then you are
SOLICITOUS
or she is solicitous, the liable to become
HEALTHY LOOKING
hovering might annoy you. SOLICITOUS
HELPFUL Example: The son
was SOLICITOUS
LEFT-OVER about his father's
MUTUAL AGREEMENT health.
NOT THOROUGHLY /
SUPERFICIALLY
PHYSICALLY STRONG
PUNISH
RESTRICT / STOP /
PREVENT
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: noun If you want to Mnemonic: MODICUM sounds

Tone: neut describe a small like Moderate or medium and
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY amount of so is the meaning.
CARELESS / DIRTY something, try Example: He does not have a
modicum. If you MODICUM of sense. She always
MODICUM
CONFIRM / SUPPORT have a modicum of discarded all garments that
interest in were no longer modish.
DEADLOCK
something, you are
DISRESPECTING SACRED a little bit
THINGS interested.
FIRM / UNCHANGING Form: noun A remnant is Mnemonic: REMNANT is
Tone: neut/neg something that's remaining part.
FREE FROM BLAME left over, once the Example: The shop is selling
HARMLESS / KIND rest is used up. If REMNANTs of cloth at half
REMNANT you plan to sew a price.
HEALING shirt using only a
remnant, it might
HEALTHY LOOKING
have to be a midriff
HELPFUL shirt.
LEFT-OVER Form: verb A trace of Mnemonic: There are more
Tone: neut something is just a meanings we can TRACE to this
MUTUAL AGREEMENT hint or suggestion word. So you could say that
NOT THOROUGHLY / of it, a very small Sherlock Holmes TRACEd
SUPERFICIALLY amount left behind criminals throughout London,
TRACE - like the sad following even the smallest
PHYSICALLY STRONG cookie crumbs at TRACEs of evidence and tracing
the bottom of an copies of the villain's notes for
PUNISH
empty cookie jar. his files.
RESTRICT / STOP / Example: We finally TRACEd
PREVENT him to an address in Chicago.
SHINING / DECORATIVE Form: noun Vestige is an Mnemonic: VESTIGE sounds
Tone: neut elegant word. It's like Wastage. VESTIGE of
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING all about shadows, Wastage
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / and gives us a way Example: We discovered
CHARGE VESTIGE to talk about traces VESTIGEs of early Indian life in
or reminders of the cave.
UNABLE TO DECIDE / something that has
FICKLE disappeared or is
disappearing.
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
WITHOUT REAL POWER
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: noun When there's a consensus, Mnemonic: Con

Tone: pos everyone agrees on (common) sensus
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY something. If you're going (sense): itâ€™s a
CARELESS / DIRTY to a movie with friends, common sense for a
you need to reach a group to reach
CONFIRM / SUPPORT CONSENSUS consensus about which CONSENSUS to
movie everyone wants to resolve the issue
DEADLOCK
see. Example:
DISRESPECTING SACRED CONSENSUS decision
THINGS making leads to
paralysis
FIRM / UNCHANGING
Form: adj When a group or a Mnemonic:
FREE FROM BLAME Tone: pos decision is unanimous, it UNANIMOUS sounds
HARMLESS / KIND means that everyone is in like UNION.
total agreement. Just Example:
HEALING UNANIMOUS imagine if you let third UNANIMOUS
graders vote on what to agreement must be
HEALTHY LOOKING
serve at lunch: Pizza and reached for this plan
HELPFUL candy would be the to go ahead.
unanimous choice!
LEFT-OVER
Form: noun A veto is a no vote that Mnemonic: Vetoes
MUTUAL AGREEMENT Tone: neg blocks a decision. The block or forbid
NOT THOROUGHLY / President can veto some something, and the
SUPERFICIALLY bills that pass his desk. word is also used
X VETO more loosely.
PHYSICALLY STRONG Example: The
governor used his
PUNISH
veto to block the
RESTRICT / STOP / proposal.
PREVENT
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
WITHOUT REAL POWER
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj No reason to get excited Mnemonic: Mouse is

Tone: neut - cursory has nothing to used to move the
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY do with bad language. cursor hastily without
CARELESS / DIRTY Instead, it means not going into minor
paying attention to details
CURSORY
CONFIRM / SUPPORT details, like friends who Example: CURSORY
are so busy studying for reading of new
DEADLOCK
a test that they only testament.
DISRESPECTING SACRED give your new haircut a
THINGS cursory glance.
FIRM / UNCHANGING Form: adj Perfunctory means done Mnemonic: Parai
Tone: neut as part of a routine or factory ko take care
FREE FROM BLAME duty. If you give in PERFUNCTORY way
HARMLESS / KIND someone a gift and they Example: In his
look at it like it's roadkill lectures he reveals
PERFUNCTORY
HEALING and say nothing about it himself to be merely
but a perfunctory "thank a PERFUNCTORY
HEALTHY LOOKING
you," you might not be speaker
HELPFUL giving them another one
anytime soon.
LEFT-OVER
Form: adj done quickly; in a Example: the
MUTUAL AGREEMENT Tone: neut summary manner suspected spy was
SUMMARILY
NOT THOROUGHLY / SUMMARILY
SUPERFICIALLY executed.
PHYSICALLY STRONG
PUNISH
RESTRICT / STOP /
PREVENT
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj Use robust to describe a Mnemonic: ROBUST

Tone: pos person or thing that is healthy Robot
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY and strong, or strongly built. Example: The
CARELESS / DIRTY ROBUST This adjective also commonly candidate for the
describes food or drink: a football team had a
CONFIRM / SUPPORT robust wine has a rich, strong ROBUST physique.
flavor.
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Form: adj Terrain that is broken and Mnemonic: RUGGED
DISRESPECTING SACRED Tone: pos uneven is called rugged. If you can also describe
THINGS want an easy hike, you should something that is
FIRM / UNCHANGING stay away from the rugged steady, sturdy, and
RUGGED
coastline. That rocky shoreline strong.
FREE FROM BLAME is definitely for the more Example: The
HARMLESS / KIND experienced hikers. countryside around
here is very RUGGED.
HEALING
Form: adj Describe something that is Mnemonic: Your
HEALTHY LOOKING Tone: pos firmly constructed or strongly grandmother is
made as sturdy. That house pushing 80, but she is
HELPFUL you built was not sturdy at all. still pretty STURDY if
LEFT-OVER It blew down in the last wind she can beat you at
STURDY
storm. Fortunately, it was only tennis.
MUTUAL AGREEMENT a dog house and the dog Example: The
NOT THOROUGHLY / wasn't in it. vehicle is STURDY
SUPERFICIALLY enough to withstand
rough terrain.
PHYSICALLY STRONG
PUNISH
RESTRICT / STOP /
PREVENT
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: verb You can condemn, or Mnemonic: You may
Tone: neut/neg openly criticize, someone see politicians
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY who is behaving CONDEMN each other
CARELESS / DIRTY inappropriately. If you in political ads during
are an animal rights a campaign in hopes
CONFIRM / SUPPORT activist, you would of improving their
CONDEMN probably condemn chances of winning an
DEADLOCK
someone for wearing fur. election.
DISRESPECTING SACRED Example: The
THINGS government issued a
statement
FIRM / UNCHANGING CONDEMNing the
FREE FROM BLAME killings.
HARMLESS / KIND Form: verb A convict is a person who Example: He was

Tone: Neg has been found guilty - CONVICTed of fraud.
HEALING CONVICT convicted - of a crime and
is serving a sentence in
HEALTHY LOOKING
prison.
HELPFUL Form: verb When you immure Mnemonic: Funny
LEFT-OVER Tone: Neg someone or something, way of remembering
you put it behind a wall, it will be: IMMURE
MUTUAL AGREEMENT as in a jail or some other like I M
NOT THOROUGHLY / kind of confining space. YOURS....please
SUPERFICIALLY IMMURE enclose me within the
walls of your heart
PHYSICALLY STRONG Example: At the age
of 86 he was
PUNISH
IMMUREd in his house
RESTRICT / STOP / by infirmity.
PREVENT Form: verb Use the verb incarcerate Mnemonic: IN +
SHINING / DECORATIVE Tone: Neg when you need to put CAR + CIGARETTE -
someone behind bars in due to a ban on
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING a big way, meaning, smoking, if you
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / send them to prison, like smoke cigarettes
INCARCERATE
CHARGE those who, after being even in the car, you
found guilty of a crime may be IMPRISONed.
UNABLE TO DECIDE / and sentenced, become Example: Thousands
FICKLE incarcerated. were INCARCERATEd
in labor camps.
Form: noun If you receive a lengthy Mnemonic: Sent to
UNSTEADY WALK / Tone: neg prison sentence, you will Jail
HESITATE certainly feel it. Example: The
WITHOUT REAL POWER SENTENCE prisoner has served
(= completed) his
SENTENCE and will be
released tomorrow.
Form: noun Amnesty can mean a Mnemonic: amnesty
Tone: pos pardon for a wrongdoing, - am + ne (not) + sty
or it can also signal a (stay); Imagine a
government's willingness prisoner saying "I am
to overlook something. not going to stay in
this prison anymore
X AMNESTY
as judge granted
amnesty to me."
Example: The
president granted a
general amnesty for
all political prisoners.
Form: verb If you condone Mnemonic: When
Tone: pos something, you allow it, you tell someone that
approve of it, or at least "THIS CAN BE DONE"
can live with it. Some (condone) you are
teachers condone approving of
chewing gum, and some something.
X CONDONE don't. Example: The
college cannot
condone any behavior
that involves illicit
drugs.
Root: CON- means
WITH/ TOGETHER
Form: verb A reprieve is a break in Mnemonic: Reprieve
Tone: pos or cancellation of a sounds like relieve
painful or otherwise and means the same
lousy situation. If you're Example: He is a a
X REPRIEVE
being tortured, a reprieved murderer.
reprieve is a break from Root: RE- is to
whatever's tormenting REPEAT
you.
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: noun A barricade is anything that Mnemonic:

Tone: neg prevents people or vehicles BARRICADE sounds
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY from getting through. like Barrier.
CARELESS / DIRTY Construction workers often Example: The police
BARRICADE
barricade a street to block stormed the
CONFIRM / SUPPORT traffic. BARRICADEs the
demonstrators put
DEADLOCK
up.
DISRESPECTING SACRED Form: verb As a noun: the act of Mnemonic: We
THINGS Tone: neg restraining power or action sometimes tell a
FIRM / UNCHANGING rowdy guy "Hey
CHECK your action"
FREE FROM BLAME urging him to keep a
HARMLESS / KIND CHECK on what he
CHECK
does
HEALING Example: The
government is
HEALTHY LOOKING
determined to CHECK
HELPFUL the growth of public
spending.
LEFT-OVER
Form: verb Deter means to discourage. Mnemonic: DETER
MUTUAL AGREEMENT Tone: neg Many believe that the use sounds like
NOT THOROUGHLY / of capital punishment DETERmined.
SUPERFICIALLY DETER deters people from Example: This is
committing murder. Others equivalent to a
PHYSICALLY STRONG think that is hogwash. DETERminate
sentence of 20 years.
PUNISH
Form: noun An eddy is a whirlpool - Mnemonic: EDDY
RESTRICT / STOP / Tone: neg what you stare at as a kid current/wind: where
PREVENT when the water is draining current flows
SHINING / DECORATIVE EDDY out of the bathtub. Example: Caught in
an EDDY, the
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING polythene bag flew
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / high over the trees
CHARGE Form: verb to prevent the success of Mnemonic: Silver
Tone: neg something. FOIL prevents
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
bacteria getting
FICKLE
successful in decaying
UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE FOIL food
Example: Loyal
UNSTEADY WALK / troops FOILed his
HESITATE attempt to overthrow
WITHOUT REAL POWER the government.
Form: verb It takes a bit of planning to Mnemonic: Fore =
Tone: neg forestall something, before, Stall = stop.
meaning stop it from FORESTALL is to stop
happening. To forestall the before happening I
effects of aging, exercise put for stall to
and take care of your FORESTALL crowd
health all your life. pushing when one
FORESTALL
stall
Example: Some
research shows that
doing crossword
puzzles daily may
FORESTALL
Alzheimer's disease
Form: verb self explanatory
FRUSTRATE
Tone: neg
Form: verb The verb hinder means to Mnemonic: a
Tone: neg block or put something in political situation that
the way of, so if youâ€™re HINDERs economic
HINDER in a high-speed car chase growth
with the police, they might
put up a blockade to hinder
your progress.
Form: verb To impede something is to Mnemonic: IMPEDE
Tone: neg delay or block its progress sounds like Compete
or movement. Carrying six .You IMPEDE when
heavy bags will impede you compete. You try
your progress if you're to obstruct so they
IMPEDE trying to walk across town. cant win.
Example: Do they
assist or IMPEDE the
flow of learning in the
course?
Root: IM means NOT
Form: verb When you inhibit Mnemonic: INHIBIT
Tone: neg something, you block it or is to prohibit
hold it back. If you put Example: I need to
plants in a dark room, you INHIBIT myself from
inhibit their growth. A eating too many
INHIBIT
teacher who mocks their cookies.
students for giving wrong
answers inhibits their
willingness to speak up in
class.
Form: noun Interdict means to forbid, Mnemonic: Inter
Tone: neg to nix, to veto. If your (between) Dict
parents find out you're (Speak) So if you
planning a party for a time speak in between you
when they're away , they prohibit someone else
will interdict it. from speaking
INTERDICT Example: Civilized
nations must
INTERDICT the use of
nuclear weapons if we
expect out society to
live
Root: IN means NOT
Form: verb When you obstruct Mnemonic: Ob
Tone: neg something, you block it. If means AGAINST and
youâ€™re gobbling down Struct can be related
your pizza, a chunk of crust to structure.
you didnâ€™t chew so well Remember
might obstruct your airway OBSTRUCTion
and you'll choke. (something that
OBSTRUCT prevents)
Example: He was
arrested for
OBSTRUCTion of a
police officer in the
execution of his duty.
Root: OB means
AGAINST
Form: verb If you want to be rude, Mnemonic:
Tone: neg you'll obtrude, or thrust OBTRUDE is similar
yourself to the front of a to Intrude, enter
line without waiting. forcibly
Example: She tried
OBTRUDE
to OBTRUDE the
wedge through the
door
Root: OB means
AGAINST
Form: verb Occlude means to obstruct, Mnemonic:
Tone: neg as with an opening. You OCCLUDE is to
hear this a lot in a medical Exclude
context. Heart surgeons are Example: A blood
OCCLUDE
looking for occlusions in clot OCCLUDEd an
blood vesselsâ€“-things that artery to the heart.
occlude the flow of blood.
Form: verb To preclude something is to Mnemonic:

Tone: neg prevent it from happening. PRECLUDE - Exclude
A muzzle precludes a dog opposite of include. I
from biting. had no pre-clue that
I will be PRECLUDEd
Example: His
PRECLUDE
physical disability
PRECLUDEs an
athletic career for
him.
Root: PRE means
BEFORE
Form: verb To retard something is to Mnemonic: The
Tone: neg slow it down. This is also a progression of the
RETARD mean and inappropriate disease can be
word for someone who's RETARDed by early
mentally slow. surgery.
Form: noun A stockade is an enclosed Mnemonic: Stock
Tone: neg pen used to herd cattle and Ate STOCKADE to
other livestock. Stockades prevent stock ate
can also house men, in the from cow
STOCKADE sense of a penal camp. In Example: When he
both cases, the treatment returns to the old
tends to be on the rough STOCKADE, he has a
side. surprise waiting for
him.
Form: verb The verb stymie means to Mnemonic: STYMIE
Tone: neg obstruct or hinder. rhymes with: Tie me,
Constantly texting with so you cant move and
your friends will stymie itâ€™s a STYMIE
STYMIE your effort to finish your (obstacle)
homework. Example: A problem
in thermodynamics
that STYMIEd half the
class.
Form: verb A villain's worst nightmare Mnemonic: War
Tone: neg is the superhero who THWART my plans
always seems to thwart his Example: They were
THWART
efforts, preventing him doing all they could
from carrying out his plans to THWART the
to take over the world. terrorists.
Form: verb to limit someone's freedom Mnemonic: The tram
Tone: neg of movement or activity mall is _restrict_ed to
shops selling trams
TRAMMEL and tram accessories
Example: He felt
himself TRAMMELed
by convention.
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: verb To adorn is to dress Mnemonic: Add orn

Tone: pos something up by (ornaments), add on
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY decorating it. You might add on... to ADORN
CARELESS / DIRTY adorn your poncho with Example: He said
fringe or your poodle's add on, add
ADORN
CONFIRM / SUPPORT dog collar with ornaments to ADORN
rhinestones. the room for her
DEADLOCK
birthday party
DISRESPECTING SACRED Root: AD- means
THINGS TO/TOWARDS
FIRM / UNCHANGING Form: adj Something baroque is Mnemonic: Music
Tone: pos overly ornate, like a from late 16th
FREE FROM BLAME paisley red velvet jacket century to the early
HARMLESS / KIND with tassels, or music 18th century Play
that has a lot going on. BAROQUE music
HEALING piece.From 16th
century
HEALTHY LOOKING
Broke..BAROQUE
BAROQUE
HELPFUL music was played
from broken record
LEFT-OVER Example: BAROQUE
MUTUAL AGREEMENT music is considered
to be in many
NOT THOROUGHLY / ways more BAROQUE
SUPERFICIALLY (showy) than
PHYSICALLY STRONG classical.
Form: adj Something effulgent Mnemonic: Eff
PUNISH
Tone: pos radiates light. On a clear (Efficient)+ full+
RESTRICT / STOP / day the sun can be quite gen(gem)= an
PREVENT EFFULGENT effulgent. You might efficient full gem
need a pair of shades. shins brightly
SHINING / DECORATIVE Example: Love these
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING EFFULGENT daffodils.
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / Form: verb The word "bell" shows Mnemonic:

CHARGE Tone: pos up in the middle of EMBELLISH has a
embellish, and bells are BELL in the middle of
UNABLE TO DECIDE / something that decorate, the word which talks
FICKLE or embellish something, about decoration
making it more especialy in
UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE EMBELLISH
attractive. If you Christmas.
UNSTEADY WALK / embellish speech, Example: The artist
HESITATE though, it can get ugly if EMBELLISH his
you add a lot of details painting to make it
WITHOUT REAL POWER that aren't true. look more real
Root: EM- means IN
Form: adj When people are red- Mnemonic: FLORIDa
Tone: pos cheeked with good mein FLORID stalls
health they are florid. and FLORID (reddish)
Spending most of the complexion girls.
year in the college library Example: The bride
FLORID can give you a colorless, had a FLORID dress.
weary face, but after a
mountain vacation, you'll
be florid with the reddish
color that comes from
exercise and living
Form: verb A garnish is a decoration Mnemonic: Garden
Tone: pos or embellishment, often is GARNISHed with
used with food. It is also new plants and
the verb that means to gorgeous flowers
GARNISH
do the decorating: you Example: GARNISH
can garnish a baked fish the chicken with
with a garnish of lemon almonds.
slices and parsley.
Form: noun The noun intricacy Mnemonic: Intricate
Tone: neut means a quality of being sounds like DELICATE
complex or elaborately and so is the meaning
INTRICACY detailed. You could Example: an
compliment the intricacy intricate network of
of your friend's loyalties and
complicated hairdo. relationships
Form: adj If something is ornate â Mnemonic:
Tone: pos €” whether it's a ball Ornaments are
gown, a set of dishes, or ORNATE in nature
ORNATE a poem - it seems to be and look.
covered in ornaments. It's Example: This style
lavish, flowery, or heavily is a little too ORNATE
adorned. for my taste.
Form: adj Someone or something Mnemonic: This
Tone: pos that is resplendent has pendant is
great beauty and is a RESPLENDENT
pleasure to behold. "She Example: Mary
RESPLENDENT
was there, at the base of looked RESPLENDENT
the stairs, resplendent in in her royal blue
her flowing gown and velvet prom dress.
jewels."
Form: adj Spectacular is both a Mnemonic:
Tone: pos noun and an adjective. SPECTACULAR sounds
The noun spectacular like Miraculous and so
refers to a big, beautiful is the meaning.
SPECTACULAR production, like a play or Example: Messi
musical performance scored a
that has a huge cast and SPECTACULAR goal.
many dance numbers. Root: SPEC- means
to SEE
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj Want to live an ascetic Mnemonic: someone

Tone: neg lifestyle? Then you better who leaves all
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY ditch the flat panel TV and AESTHETICs (art of
CARELESS / DIRTY ASCETIC fuzzy slippers. To be beauty)is an ASCETIC
ascetic, you learn to live Example: Only real
CONFIRM / SUPPORT without; it's all about self- saints and sages are
denial. ASCETIC in nature.
DEADLOCK
Form: adj The adjective austere is Mnemonic: Aus tere:
DISRESPECTING SACRED Tone: neg used to describe Austrailian live AUSTERE
THINGS something or someone life and practice thatâ
FIRM / UNCHANGING stern or without any €™s why they do good.
AUSTERE
decoration. You wouldn't Example: It is a monkâ
FREE FROM BLAME want someone to describe €™s AUSTERE life;
HARMLESS / KIND you or your home as AUSTERE grandeur of
austere. the cathedral.
HEALING
Form: adj When you have a nasty Mnemonic: divide it into
HEALTHY LOOKING Tone: neg cold and youâ€™re very B and LAND.in a B-
congested, food can taste barren LAND you dont
HELPFUL unappealingly bland. That get tasty food to eat.
BLAND
LEFT-OVER means dull, flavorless, or Example: An elevated
just plain â€œblah.â€ threshold for taste may
MUTUAL AGREEMENT make food taste BLAND
NOT THOROUGHLY / or boring.
SUPERFICIALLY Form: adj Dull, dreary, dingy, Mnemonic: Crab is a
Tone: neg depressing: These DRAB creature.
PHYSICALLY STRONG
adjectives capture the Example: a cold DRAB
PUNISH sense of drab, whether the little office
DRAB
word is used to describe a
RESTRICT / STOP / muted color, a miserable
PREVENT mood, or an oppressively
SHINING / DECORATIVE boring existence.
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING Form: adj Some insipid is lacking in Mnemonic: INSIPID
Tone: neg flavor or interest. You'll coffee, so you donâ€™t
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / probably find the generic sip it INSIPID people are
INSIPID
CHARGE poems inside of greeting Stupid
cards insipid. Example: This is a cup
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
of INSIPID coffee
FICKLE
Form: adj Prosaic means ordinary or Mnemonic: mosaic -
UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE Tone: neg dull. Most of us lead a beautiful artistic work
UNSTEADY WALK / prosaic everyday life, with full of vibrant
HESITATE sometimes interrupted by colours.....PROSAIC
some drama or crisis. ...opposite of that ...dull
WITHOUT REAL POWER PROSAIC
Example: The guitars
feel fairly PROSAIC to
me, there's nothing
complex or amazingly
new going on.
Form: adj extremely simple or plain Mnemonic: A barren
Tone: neg desert or a room with no
furniture or curtains is
STARK. It can also mean
"severe, stern, or
austere," like the STARK
STARK
beauty of the rocky cliffs
in the west of Ireland.
Example: the STARK
interior of the place did
not attract people
looking for flamboyance
Form: adj Reserve the adjective Mnemonic: VAPID
Tone: neg vapid for the airhead in sounds like Rapid If you
your office that brings cook food rapidly then it
nothing to the table, will be VAPID WAP
VAPID except maybe the seminar is VAPID
doughnuts. (And be careful Example: The VAPID
to mutter it behind her conversation bored her.
back; it's much too vicious
for a casual dig.)
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: verb If you accuse someone Mnemonic: ALLEGE -

Tone: neg of committing a crime eligible; so if you are
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY but the proof of the eligible for voting, you
CARELESS / DIRTY wrongdoing isn't yet have to show a
found, use the verb certificate proving that
CONFIRM / SUPPORT ALLEGE allege. You might you are above 18 years
allege that your sister old.
DEADLOCK
broke a vase, just Example: The
DISRESPECTING SACRED because no one else prosecution ALLEGEs
THINGS was home when you (that) she was driving
heard the crash. carelessly.
FIRM / UNCHANGING
Form: verb The verb implicate Mnemonic: IMPLICATE
FREE FROM BLAME Tone: neg means "to connect or implies Incriminate are
HARMLESS / KIND involve in something." synonyms, involved in
For example, your crimnal activity
IMPLICATE
HEALING cousins might Example: He tried to
implicate you in the avoid saying anything
HEALTHY LOOKING
planning of a big party that would IMPLICATE
HELPFUL for your grandparents. him further.
LEFT-OVER Form: noun The verb impute can Mnemonic: im(put)e...
Tone: neg be used to blame put the blame to
MUTUAL AGREEMENT someone for doing somebody
NOT THOROUGHLY / something bad, give Example: I denied the
SUPERFICIALLY credit for good work, motives that my
IMPUTE
or just tell it like it is, employer was imputing
PHYSICALLY STRONG like when you impute to me.
your lateness to my Root: IM means NOT
PUNISH
not telling you where
RESTRICT / STOP / to meet me.
PREVENT Form: verb Is your homework in Mnemonic: here we
SHINING / DECORATIVE Tone: neg shreds and the dog need to remember two
chewing something? things the prefix IN
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING Then you can intensifies or strengthen
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / incriminate poor Fido the suffix added to it.
CHARGE for eating your suffix here is criminate=
homework. To to make some one
UNABLE TO DECIDE / incriminate someone criminal in-criminate =
FICKLE INCRIMINATE (or some dog) of a make someone further a
crime, is more than criminal thus we we
just accusing them; accuse someone who
UNSTEADY WALK / it's offering some had a previous record.
HESITATE evidence they're Example: They were
guilty. afraid of answering the
WITHOUT REAL POWER questions and
incriminating
themselves.
Form: verb If you accuse someone Mnemonic: Rhymes
Tone: neg of committing an with VERDICT
offense, you indict Example: She was
them. A book that INDICTed for murder.
INDICT indicts the entire
education system
might lay out all the
reasons that schools
are failing kids.
Form: verb return an accusation Mnemonic: RE means
Tone: neg against someone or REPEAT/ RETURN and
engage in mutual CRIMINATE sounds like
accusations; charge in CRIMINAL. So when
return someone accuses you in
RETURN , because you
RECRIMINATE had accused him
someday, its
recriminating.
Example: They must
not come to
recriminating each
other.
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj Something that's Mnemonic:

Tone: neg arbitrary seems like ARBITRARY art
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY it's chosen at random Example: Hitler was
CARELESS / DIRTY instead of following a an ARBITRARY leader.
consistent rule. Team
ARBITRARY
CONFIRM / SUPPORT members would
dislike their coach
DEADLOCK
using a totally
DISRESPECTING SACRED arbitrary method to
THINGS pick starting players.
FIRM / UNCHANGING Form: adj Capricious is an Mnemonic: I like this
Tone: neg adjective to describe one, but other will
FREE FROM BLAME a person or thing look better on
HARMLESS / KIND that's impulsive and me..CAPRICIOUS
CAPRICIOUS unpredictable, like a Example: The storm
HEALING bride who suddenly was CAPRICIOUS and
leaves her groom changed course
HEALTHY LOOKING
standing at the constantly.
HELPFUL wedding altar.
LEFT-OVER Form: adj The adjective erratic Mnemonic: This is
Tone: neg describes things that ERRATIC behavior:
MUTUAL AGREEMENT are unpredictable, message says error at
NOT THOROUGHLY / unusual, and that the top and operation
SUPERFICIALLY deviate from the completed
norm. An erratic successfully at the
PHYSICALLY STRONG ERRATIC quarterback might same time..
completely confuse Example: Investors
PUNISH
his receivers waiting become anxious when
RESTRICT / STOP / for a pass. the stock market
PREVENT appears ERRATIC.
Root: ERR means
SHINING / DECORATIVE MISTAKE
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING Form: adj Inconsistent describes Mnemonic: In (NOT)
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / Tone: neg something that's and Consistent
CHARGE varied or irregular. So (CONSTANT). NOT
if you're supposed to CONSTANT.
UNABLE TO DECIDE / floss every day, but Example: The report
INCONSISTENT
FICKLE you only remember is INCONSISTENT
every now and then, with the financial
your commitment to statements.
UNSTEADY WALK / oral hygiene could be
HESITATE called inconsistent.
WITHOUT REAL POWER Form: adj Irresolute describes Mnemonic:
Tone: neg someone who feels IRRESOLUTE is not
stuck. A decision resolute IRRESOLUTE
must be made, a plan donâ€™t know new
acted on, but the year resolution
IRRESOLUTE irresolute person just Example: She had
doesn't know what to no respect for him
do. because he seemed
weak-willed and
IRRESOLUTE
Root: IR means NOT
Form: adj Mercurial describes Mnemonic: Mercury
Tone: neg someone whose mood level in the blood
or behavior is pressure testing
changeable and device is MERCURIAL
unpredictable, or when measuring B.P
MERCURIAL someone who is Example: Advertising
clever, lively, and is a MERCURIAL
quick. With a business
mercurial teacher, you
never know where
you stand.
Form: verb Oscillating means to Mnemonic: Oscillate
Tone: neg vacillate between is like Vacillate.
differing Example: Her moods
OSCILLATING
opinions,conditions, oscillated between
etc depression and
elation.
Form: noun One who swings like a Example: In
Tone: neg Pendulum and is education, the
never stable pendulum has swung
PENDULATING back to traditional
teaching methods.
Root: PEND means
to HANG OR WEIGH.
Form: adj If your moods change Mnemonic: A
Tone: neg quickly and TEMPERAMENTAL air
dramatically, people conditioner can make
might describe you as for a long, hot
temperamental. If you summer.
TEMPERAMENTAL weren't so Example: You never
temperamental, know what to expect
maybe your friends with her. She's so
would open up to you TEMPERAMENTAL.
more. Did I say Root: TEMP means
something wrong? TIME
Form: verb If someone can't Mnemonic: Vacillate
Tone: neg make up their mind, sounds like
you can call that OScillate..so
person vacillating. A something which
vacillating student moves from one
VACILLATING might not know position to another
whether to commit to position.
a major in electrical Example: His
engineering or in art tendency to vacillate
history. makes him a poor
leader.
Form: adj Watch out when a Mnemonic:
Tone: neg situation becomes VOLATILE means
volatile - it is likely to "fleeting, transitory"
change for the worse always gives the
suddenly. You fight sense of sudden,
and then make up radical change. Think
VOLATILE with your partner of it as the opposite
often if you two have of stable.
a volatile relationship. Example: A person
who is VOLATILE
loses his or her
temper suddenly and
violently.
Form: verb You might think of a Mnemonic: The word
Tone: neg waffle as a grid- soon came to mean
patterned pancake- "to talk foolishly" and
like food that's tasty then eventually "to
with syrup, and you'd vacillate, to change."
WAFFLE
be right. But the word Example: She
is also a verb that continues to WAFFLE
means to avoid on honesty,and is
making a definitive capitalizing on
decision. dishonesty
Form: verb the quality of being Mnemonic: Like a
Tone: neg unsteady and subject sea WAVE going UP
to changes and DOWN in taking
WAVERING decision: WAVERING
Example: He
wavered in his
determination.
Form: adj Whimsical means full Mnemonic: Whims
Tone: neg of or characterized by and Fancies which are
whims, which are odd odd, because they
ideas that usually rarely come true.
occur to you very Example: He was
WHIMSICAL suddenly. If you forced to pander to
decide at the last her every WHIMSICAL
minute to fly to idea.
Europe, you could say
you went there on a
whim.
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: adj When your best friendâ€™s Mnemonic: Ash fans
Tone: neg face drains of all color when he were ASHEN when
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY hears that his favorite team Ash got married to
CARELESS / DIRTY traded its star player, you can Abhishek
ASHEN
use the word ashen to describe Example: Her face
CONFIRM / SUPPORT the pale, white face of was ASHEN with fear.
someone who is shocked and
DEADLOCK
upset.
DISRESPECTING SACRED Form: adj Santa looks a little pallid, Mnemonic: Pal had
THINGS Tone: neg meaning that he has a pale PALLID expressions
FIRM / UNCHANGING complexion, from spending too which is like a lid.
PALLID much time at the North Pole. A Example: His thin,
FREE FROM BLAME few days in Hawaii might do PALLID face broke
HARMLESS / KIND wonders to add color to his into a smile
pale, bearded face.
HEALING
Form: noun When youâ€™ve got the flu, Mnemonic: PALLOR
HEALTHY LOOKING Tone: neg that pale, sickly color of your sounds like Parlour.
skin is called a pallor. Other When we go to a
HELPFUL causes of pallor include shock, party we should look
LEFT-OVER stress, or 10 days spent good and not Pale, so
PALLOR
indoors trying to beat your going to the PARLOR
MUTUAL AGREEMENT new video game. may help.
NOT THOROUGHLY / Example: Her cheeks
SUPERFICIALLY had an unhealthy
PALLOR.
PHYSICALLY STRONG
Form: adj Sallow means unhealthy in Mnemonic: SALLOW
PUNISH Tone: neg appearanceâ€“-often yellow in - Yellow
colorâ€“-and is almost Example: She has
RESTRICT / STOP / invariably used to describe SALLOW complexion
PREVENT SALLOW someone's complexion. His due to jaundice
SHINING / DECORATIVE smile was as engaging as ever,
but from his sallow complexion,
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING I knew he was sick.
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE Form: noun Someone who is wan is visibly Mnemonic: WAN
Tone: neg unwell and lacking in energy. rhymes with maruthi
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
If youâ€™ve had the flu for van... she liked to
FICKLE
over a week, and you finally travel in a scorpio but
WAN
UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE get out of bed looking pale she is traveling in a
and tired, your mother might van..so she is pale
UNSTEADY WALK / say that you look wan. Example: He looked
HESITATE WAN and tired.
WITHOUT REAL POWER
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: verb Falter means to hesitate, Mnemonic: FALTER

Tone: neg/neut stumble, or waver, and sounds like Fault When
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY everything from faith to you FALTER you make
CARELESS / DIRTY voices can do it. So if you lots of Faults.
FALTER
want to keep your bride or Example: As he
CONFIRM / SUPPORT groom happy, it's best not neared the house, he
to falter when it's your FALTERed
DEADLOCK
turn to say "I do."
DISRESPECTING SACRED Form: verb A flounder is a flat fish Mnemonic:
THINGS Tone: neg/neut with both eyes on one side FLOUNDER sounds like
FIRM / UNCHANGING of its head; and, as a Fly+under water is
verb, to flounder is to accompanied with lots
FREE FROM BLAME wobble around like a fish of struggle and
FLOUNDER
HARMLESS / KIND out of water. confusion
Example: He
HEALING FLOUNDERed
helplessly on the first
HEALTHY LOOKING
day of his new job.
HELPFUL Form: verb to fail because of a Mnemonic: FOUNDER
LEFT-OVER Tone: neg/neut particular problem or sounds like flounder
difficulty with similar meaning.
MUTUAL AGREEMENT FOUNDER
Example: The peace
NOT THOROUGHLY / talks FOUNDERed on a
SUPERFICIALLY basic lack of trust.
Form: verb If you're a football fan you Mnemonic: FUMBLE
PHYSICALLY STRONG
Tone: neg/neut know all about the agony sounds like Tumble.
PUNISH of the fumble - the clumsy We generally Tumble
handling of the ball that when we are not
RESTRICT / STOP / makes you drop it or lose stable, so is to
PREVENT possession. FUMBLE
SHINING / DECORATIVE FUMBLE (uncoordinated
movement that can
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING involve your entire
TO BLAME / ACCUSE / body)
CHARGE Example: She
FUMBLEd in her pocket
UNABLE TO DECIDE / for a tissue.
FICKLE
Form: verb unsteady in gait as from Mnemonic:
UNHEALTHY APPEARANCE Tone: neg/neut infirmity or old age TOTTERING is being
unsteady like TINY
UNSTEADY WALK / TOT, who keeps
HESITATE TOTTERING TOTTERING because
WITHOUT REAL POWER he is small
Example: The
building tottered and
collapsed.
Form: adj inclined to shake as from Example: Only, unlike
Tone: neg/neut weakness or defect Apple, Facebook
WOBBLY
shares are on WOBBLY
footing at best.
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ACTIVATE / SPEED UP Form: noun a person who is head of a Mnemonic: We are

Tone: neg/neut group, company, etc., in aware of the phrase
BLAMEWORTHY / GUILTY title but actually has no "head of the Family"
CARELESS / DIRTY real authority or is applicable to a
FIGUREHEAD responsibility FIGUREHEAD.
CONFIRM / SUPPORT Example: The
president of the club
DEADLOCK
is not just a
DISRESPECTING SACRED FIGUREHEAD.
THINGS Form: adj in name only, without Mnemonic: Nomi-nal
FIRM / UNCHANGING Tone: neg/neut authority. sounds like Name,
and thatâ€™s the
FREE FROM BLAME meaning. NOMINAL
HARMLESS / KIND means IN NAME
ONLY.
HEALING NOMINAL Example: He
remained in NOMINAL
HEALTHY LOOKING
control of the
HELPFUL business for another
ten years.
LEFT-OVER Root: NOMEN means
MUTUAL AGREEMENT NAME.
NOT THOROUGHLY / Form: adj You might say youâ€™re Mnemonic: TITULAR
SUPERFICIALLY Tone: neg/neut the boss man in your sounds like Title, and
household, but if a person of Name
PHYSICALLY STRONG everybody else in the and Fame is always
family ignores you, 'boss Titled. Title Ruler
PUNISH
TITULAR man' is probably a titular TITULAR Ruler just
RESTRICT / STOP / position for you. In other have Title no powers
PREVENT words, itâ€™s just a title. Example: He is
Thereâ€™s no power TITULAR head, and
SHINING / DECORATIVE behind it. merely signs laws
SIMPLE / PLAIN / BORING occasionally.
TO BLAME / ACCUSE /
CHARGE
UNABLE TO DECIDE /
FICKLE
UNSTEADY WALK /
HESITATE
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun A ramification is an Mnemonic:

Tone: neut accidental consequence Amplification (Ramify
COMMONLY CONFUSED that complicates things. ? Amplify) Amplify is
WORDS Remember that time to increase and
COUNTER-ATTACK you borrowed your ramify is to divide
father's car without into parts and hence
DESTROY RAMIFICATION asking? The increase.
ramification was that Example: These
EMBARRASS
Dad missed an issues have powerful
EXAGGERATE important meeting, his personal and political
company went under, RAMIFICATIONs.
EXCLUDE and he had to sell the
FASHION car.
GIVE OUT Form: noun A repercussion is Mnemonic: very

Tone: neut something that simple !! concentrate
HARSH / BITING / SHARP happens because of on CUSSION(I mean
another action. You cushions) ... cushions
HESITATE ON MORAL
could quit paying your are so soft ..bouncy
GROUNDS
rent, but getting bouncy (rebound
HIDE / REVEAL (X) REPERCUSSION evicted from your property)...similarly
apartment might be the REPERCUSSION -->
INACTIVE repercussion. rebound
INDEPENDENCE / Example: The
FREEDOM REPERCUSSIONs of
the quarrel were
INEFFECTIVE widespread.
LOWER IN RANK
LYING DOWN / RESTING
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X)
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
UNIVERSAL
VARIETY
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun That little nod to a Mnemonic: it is

Tone: neut Dylan Thomas poem similar to "illusion"
COMMONLY CONFUSED that you sneaked into which is done by
WORDS your PowerPoint showing things not
COUNTER-ATTACK presentation? That was there, indirectly
ALLUSION
an allusion, a quick Example: His
DESTROY reference to something statement was seen
that your audience will as an ALLUSION to
EMBARRASS
have to already know in the recent political
EXAGGERATE order to "get." unrest.
EXCLUDE Form: verb Your friend wants to go Mnemonic: sounds a
Tone: neut/neg to the Death Metal little like Damn you
FASHION Forever concert, but you are wrong!! I object!
GIVE OUT hesitate: you demur. If Aunt Tilly offers to
Whether you strongly knit you a sweater,
HARSH / BITING / SHARP DEMUR object, politely disagree, you might politely
or hesitate to agree, DEMUR, being
HESITATE ON MORAL
you demur. reluctant to accept.
GROUNDS
Example: At first she
HIDE / REVEAL (X) DEMURred, but then
finally agreed.
INACTIVE
Form: adj A demure woman or girl Mnemonic: DEMURE
INDEPENDENCE / Tone: pos can be described as is a word you don't
FREEDOM polite and a little shy. A hear a lot these days,
INEFFECTIVE demure outfit is a but it used to be a
modest oneâ€“-think huge compliment for a
LOWER IN RANK DEMURE high neckline and low woman or a girl, for
hem. them to be considered
shy and quiet and
MALICIOUS SELF- modest.
SATISFACTION Example: She is a
DEMURE young lady.
MISC.
Form: verb The verb disassemble Mnemonic: DIS is not
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) Tone: neg means to take and ASSEMBLE is to
EARTHLY something apart. It's arrange. So
PLACE OF SAFETY one thing to DISASSEMBLE means
disassemble a to spoil the
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD computer; it's a whole arrangement of
DISASSEMBLE
other thing to put it something.
REVENGE
back together again. Example: We had to
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE completely
DISASSEMBLE the
SELF-CONTRADICTION engine to find the
TO BURN problem.
TO STIR UP / REVOLT Form: adj Discreet describes Mnemonic:

Tone: pos someone or something DISCREET- diSECRET.
UNIVERSAL that is appropriately "You must be
quiet, prudent, and DISCREET about our
VARIETY
DISCREET restrained. If you are SECRET."
VILLAGE - LIKE wearing a discreet gray Example: You should
suit, it is unlikely that ask a few DISCREET
anyone at that business questions before you
meeting will notice you. sign anything.
Form: adj Discrete means separate Mnemonic: if u can
Tone: neut or divided. A discrete remember the
unit is a separate part DISCRETE maths ,you
of something larger. A can see that one topic
room is a discrete space is separated from the
within a house, just as other and subtopics
the transmission is a also unconnected to
DISCRETE
discrete part of a car each other.
engine. Example: The
organisms can be
divided into DISCRETE
categories.
Root: DIS- means
APART
Form: verb To dissemble is to hide Mnemonic: The word
Tone: neg under a false sounds like
appearance, to deceive. "resemble"...the
"When confronted about person/ a thing of that
their human rights type can be in
record, the Chinese disguise
DISSEMBLE
government typically Example: She was a
dissembles." very honest person
who was incapable of
dissembling.
Root: DIS- is APART/
NOT
Form: verb If you add nutrients to Mnemonic: A fort
Tone: pos something you fortify it. thatâ€™s stands
Food scientists have straight and strong is
found ways to fortify a symbol of Support
FORTIFY
cereal, but in addition to and strength.
vitamins C and D, they Example: They
usually add a lot of fortified the area
sugar. against attack.
Form: noun An illusion is something Mnemonic: ILLUSION
Tone: neut that isn't real. It may sounds like ILL-
look real, but it's VISION. When
actually fake - just a something is not real
crafty construction or and you still manage
ILLUSION
fantasy. Like the old to see it, your eyes
rabbit-out-of-the-hat are tricking you.
trick practiced by Example: She's under
magicians around the the ILLUSION that
globe. she'll get the job.
Form: verb When you immure Mnemonic: sounds
Tone: neut someone or something, like I M
you put it behind a wall, YOURS....please
as in a jail or some enclose me within the
IMMURE other kind of confining walls of your heart...
space. Example: At the age
of 86 he was
IMMUREd in his house
by infirmity.
Form: adj If something is inane, Mnemonic:
Tone: neg it's silly or senseless. If Remember the word
you just want to space insane. Insane person
out, you won't mind the doesnt have a mind to
inane chatter on TV, as think and understand
INANE
long as it's on. and hence he is void.
Example: Surely
there never had been
written anything so
INANE and silly.
Form: noun An incumbent is an Mnemonic: INCUM +
Tone: neut official who holds an BENT - OFFICIALS are
office. If you want to BENT on(determined)
run for congress, you're to bring an INCUM
INCUMBENT going to have to beat home, as it is
the incumbent. NECESSARY to survive
Example: it is
INCUMBENT on them
to pay their own debts
Form: adj If a characteristic or Mnemonic: Since
Tone: neut ability is already present Birth is INNATE
in a person or animal Example: He never
INNATE when they are born, it is lost his INNATE sense
innate. People have the of fun.
innate ability to speak
whereas animals do not.
Form: verb To inure is to get used Mnemonic: INUREd
Tone: neg to something difficult or means its 'in' 'your'
unpleasant. If after systemâ€¦your used
spending an hour in to it...
INURE your brother's room, Example: The
you stop noticing the prisoners quickly
stinky-sock smell, you became INUREd to the
have become inured to harsh conditions.
the odor.
Form: adj If you are loath to do Mnemonic:
Tone: neg something, you really l+oath..oath..so if you
don't want to do it. If have taken a oath of
you are reluctant to go not doing what your
swimming, people will dad guides you... you
LOATH
say you are loath to are very unwilling and
swim, but if they are reluctant to listen him.
really mean - they may Example: He was
throw you in anyway. LOATH to admit his
mistake.
Form: verb If you loathe someone Mnemonic: Loa-the
Tone: neg or something, you hate can be related as Low
them very much. You thought...So having a
might not choose to eat low thought of
LOATHE raw carrots if you dislike someone else implies
them, but if you loathe hate or detest
them, you might have a Example: They
hard time even having LOATHE each other.
them on your plate.
Form: verb To mortify someone is Mnemonic: MORTIFY
Tone: neg to cause them extreme can be said as moti fy
embarrassment. Your means calling
mother may not have someone moti(fat)
MORTIFY been trying to mortify which is embarrasing.
you when she showed Example: She was
up at your senior prom mortified to realize he
with a bunch of unicorn had heard every word
balloons, but she did. she said.
Form: adj Bikes on which you Mnemonic:
Tone: neut recline rather than sit recum+bent- sounds
upright are recumbent. similar to
Recumbent means to become+bent. If you
leaning back in a become bent while
reclining position. sitting it would mean
you want to lie down.
RECUMBENT
Example: In a few
minutes the watchers
observed a warm,
healthy flush spread
over the white face
and limp hands of the
RECUMBENT boy.
Form: verb To testify is to make a Mnemonic: If you've
Tone: neg statement or provide ever seen a TV show
evidence, usually in about lawyers, you've
court. Witnesses testify probably seen
for the prosecution or someone TESTIFYing:
defense. putting their hand on
the Bible, sitting in the
TESTIFY
witness seat, and
telling what they know
about a case.
Example: There are
several witnesses who
will TESTIFY for the
defense.
Form: adj You might feel a bit Mnemonic: If
Tone: neg testy before taking a someone has
test, but test and testy described you as
are unrelated. Feeling SHORT-TEMPERED in
testy is like being the
TESTY peeved, annoyed, or TESTY(testimonial),
irritated. then you will get
IRRITATED looking at
it.
Example: The old
man sounded TESTY.
Form: adj Someone with venal Mnemonic: ve + nal
Tone: neg motives is corrupt and = we null ....we can
maybe a little evil. be easily bribed when
Nobody wants to be we are null in terms of
VENAL
thought of as venal. money ...
Example: We have
these bunch of VENAL
journalists
Form: adj Some crimes are Mnemonic: key word
Tone: neut unforgivable. Others are is menial. We forgive
venial - venial crimes someone for menial
and sins are excusable. (small) mistakes.
They're not a big deal. Example: The
VENIAL confidence of
ignorance, however
VENIAL in youth, is
not altogether so
excusable, in full
grown men.
Form: verb Vindicate means to Mnemonic:
Tone: neut justify, prove, or vidicate....split it like
reinforce an idea - or to vin(WIN) + di(the) +
absolve from guilt. If cate(case)....so when
your family thinks you you win a case IN a
hogged the last piece of COURT...it means you
pie on Thanksgiving, are freed FROM
VINDICATE
you'll be vindicated ACCUSATION AND
when your younger CHARGES...you are
brother fesses up. freed from blame.
Example: I have
every confidence that
this decision will be
fully VINDICATEd.
Form: adj It is no fun hanging out Mnemonic:
Tone: neg with vindictive people, VINDICTIVE-
who are forever out to win+addictive
get back at people they obsessed about
think have hurt them. If winning ...so always
VINDICTIVE
you forget to say hello having ill will against
to them one day in the others
hall, they will carry a Example: He accused
grudge against you into her of being
next week. VINDICTIVE.
Form: noun If you have a vision of Mnemonic: Those
Tone: neg your grandfather just who have faith , dont
before he passes away, believe in WRAITH
you have seen a wraith Example: He has a a
WRAITH
or a ghostly image. WRAITH-like.
Wraith can also mean
something thin, wispy,
or ghost-like.
Form: noun Wrath is great anger Mnemonic:
Tone: neg that expresses itself in a Remember rath(s)
desire to punish means chariots in
someone: Noah saw the mahabharata. when
flood as a sign of the kings are angry and
wrath of God. furious, they come on
WRATH their rath(s) to fight.
Example: Nobody
wanted to face the
WRATH of their
teacher and so came
well prepared for the
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun A reprisal is an act of Mnemonic: If you escape

Tone: neg retaliation, especially from jail and are caught
COMMONLY CONFUSED one committed by one they will re-prison you as
WORDS country against an act of retaliation
COUNTER-ATTACK
REPRISAL another. If you attack Example: They did not
your enemy's village want to give evidence for
DESTROY and cause lots of fear of REPRISALs.
damage, expect a Root: RE- is AGAIN/ BACK
EMBARRASS
reprisal.
EXAGGERATE Form: verb To retaliate means to Mnemonic: RET called ALI
EXCLUDE Tone: neg get back at someone, and they both ATE Pizza
usually through a and didn't study at all for
FASHION counterattack. â€œNed the exam because they
GIVE OUT got hit with a cream wanted to repay her
pie, then he retaliated mother the agression she
RETALIATE
HARSH / BITING / SHARP by throwing a bucket showed in making them
of Jell-O at his learn things at the last
HESITATE ON MORAL
attackers.â€ moment.
GROUNDS
Example: The boy hit his
HIDE / REVEAL (X) sister, who RETALIATEd by
kicking him.
INACTIVE
INDEPENDENCE /
FREEDOM
INEFFECTIVE
LOWER IN RANK
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: verb If a storm devastates your Mnemonic:

Tone: neg town, it comes pretty close DEVASTATE can be
COMMONLY CONFUSED to destroying it. To remembered in this
WORDS devastate is to cause way: A VAST area
COUNTER-ATTACK destruction to or was WASTED in
overwhelm. Japan, because of the
DEVASTATE
DESTROY destruction caused by
Tsunami.
EMBARRASS
Example: The bomb
EXAGGERATE DEVASTATEd much of
the old part of the
EXCLUDE city.
FASHION Form: verb Raze means to tear an Mnemonic: RAZE =
GIVE OUT Tone: neg object down to the ground. Erase Which means to
Before Donald Trump can remove or clean
HARSH / BITING / SHARP RAZE raze that family's home to completely.
build another skyscraper, Example: Dozens of
HESITATE ON MORAL
he's going to have to cut villages have been
GROUNDS
them a big check. RAZEd due to floods.
HIDE / REVEAL (X)
INACTIVE
INDEPENDENCE /
FREEDOM
INEFFECTIVE
LOWER IN RANK
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
UNIVERSAL
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: adj Although abash sounds Mnemonic: A=ALWAYS

Tone: neg like a big party or what B=BRINGS a S=SHAME
COMMONLY CONFUSED fire fighters do to get Example: I was ABASHed
WORDS through a locked door, by the magnitude of the
COUNTER-ATTACK abash is, in fact, a verb othersâ€™ generosity so I
ABASH
that means you have donated twenty thousand
DESTROY caused another person more
to feel awkward,
EMBARRASS
bashful, embarrassed,
EXAGGERATE or ashamed.
EXCLUDE Form: verb To discomfit someone Mnemonic: DISCOMFIT-
Tone: neg is to make them feel resembles discomfortable,
FASHION uncomfortable or when you are
GIVE OUT upset. An easy way to uncomfortable ,you tend
discomfit another to get frustrated and
HARSH / BITING / SHARP person is to use the defeated. If you can check
age-old, childish trick the word Fit ,you can add
HESITATE ON MORAL DISCOMFIT
of ignoring them. (Of a meaning ,by assuming,-
GROUNDS
course, weâ€™re sure if you are not fit(disfit) you
HIDE / REVEAL (X) you would never do are defeated and put to
that, right? Right?) embarrasment.
INACTIVE Example: He was not
INDEPENDENCE / noticeably DISCOMFITed
FREEDOM by the request.
INEFFECTIVE Form: verb To mortify someone is Mnemonic: where mor

Tone: neg to cause them extreme (peacock) compares itself
LOWER IN RANK embarrassment. Your with other birds and talks
mother may not have proudly about it
been trying to mortify wings..and its beautiful
MALICIOUS SELF- you when she showed body..but when other birds
SATISFACTION up at your senior prom remind it of its ugly
MORTIFY with a bunch of legs...mor (peacock) feel
MISC. unicorn balloons, but embarrassed and
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) she did. humiliated.
EARTHLY Example: She was
mortified to realize he had
PLACE OF SAFETY heard every word she said.
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD Root: MORT- means
DEATH
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun Praising your favorite Mnemonic: Hyper -

Tone: neg sports team is one thing, Beyond the limit
COMMONLY CONFUSED but if you call the team Example: The film is
WORDS the most incredible group being promoted with
HYPERBOLE
COUNTER-ATTACK of humans ever to walk all the usual
the earth, then you're HYPERBOLE. Heâ€™s
DESTROY going overboard and not usually given to
indulging in hyperbole. HYPERBOLE
EMBARRASS
Form: verb to understate or de- Example: The coach
EXAGGERATE X Tone: neg emphasize; downplay is underplaying the
EXCLUDE UNDERPLAY team's poor
performance.
FASHION
Form: verb represent as less Mnemonic: Calling
GIVE OUT Tone: neg significant or important washington dc an
under state is to
HARSH / BITING / SHARP
describe it as less
HESITATE ON MORAL important than it
X
GROUNDS actually is
UNDERSTATE
Example: It would
HIDE / REVEAL (X) be a mistake to
INACTIVE understate the
seriousness of the
INDEPENDENCE / problem.
FREEDOM
INEFFECTIVE
LOWER IN RANK
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: verb To banish is to get rid Mnemonic:

Tone: neg of. Think very Vanishing oneself
COMMONLY CONFUSED carefully before you from power is
WORDS banish someone from BANISH ; hand over
BANISH
COUNTER-ATTACK your group. Example: He was
Someday, you may BANISHed to
DESTROY want that person Australia, where he
around again. died five years later.
EMBARRASS
Form: verb expel from a country Mnemonic: DEPORT
EXAGGERATE Tone: neg = depart moving
EXCLUDE DEPORT from one place to
another from india to
FASHION us
GIVE OUT Form: verb to exclude or expel Mnemonic: When
Tone: neg from membership or you stop
participation in any communicating with
HESITATE ON MORAL group, association, your EX-, you
GROUNDS etc. generally exclude
them from your
HIDE / REVEAL (X) EXCOMMUNICATE
friend list as well.
INACTIVE Example: They were
threatened with
INDEPENDENCE / excommunication.
FREEDOM Root: EX- means
INEFFECTIVE OUT OF/ FROM
Form: verb Getting expelled from Example: She was
LOWER IN RANK
Tone: neg a school is a step EXPELled from school
LYING DOWN / RESTING beyond suspension. at 15.
It means that you are Root: EX- means
MALICIOUS SELF- EXPEL asked to leave and OUT OF/ FROM
SATISFACTION never come back. In
MISC. other words, you
have been kicked
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) out.
EARTHLY
Form: verb hand over to the Mnemonic: X-
PLACE OF SAFETY Tone: neg/neut authorities of another TRAitor....the X-
country traitor of a particular
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
country was
REVENGE EXTRADITEd to the
country soon after he
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE EXTRADITE left the country
SELF-CONTRADICTION Example: The
government
TO BURN attempted to
TO STIR UP / REVOLT EXTRADITE the
suspect from Canada
UNIVERSAL to the U.S.
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun Something that's faddish is Mnemonic: f+

Tone: pos in style, often for a brief add+ish = f(follow) add
COMMONLY CONFUSED length of time. = advertisements -
WORDS FADDISH fashion
COUNTER-ATTACK Example: Timelessness
is key--so watch out for
DESTROY FADDISH designs.
EMBARRASS Form: noun If something is the latest Mnemonic: VOGUE and
Tone: neut vogue, it is the latest provoke...sometimes
EXAGGERATE fashion. When your new fashion trends (in
EXCLUDE hairstyle catches on, it's in VOGUE) provoke
VOGUE vogue - or if it becomes (anger) a certain class
FASHION unpopular, itâ€™s not. of conservative people.
GIVE OUT Example: Sixties music
has come back into
HARSH / BITING / SHARP VOGUE.
HESITATE ON MORAL
GROUNDS
HIDE / REVEAL (X)
INACTIVE
INDEPENDENCE /
FREEDOM
INEFFECTIVE
LOWER IN RANK
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
UNIVERSAL
VARIETY
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: verb When you use the word Mnemonic: relate it to
Tone: neut emanate, you're usually emit/illuminate. HE-
COMMONLY CONFUSED talking about lights, sounds MAN ATE and come out
WORDS or unseen forces coming out (EMANATE) from his
EMANATE of a specific source. If you home
COUNTER-ATTACK
hear creepy sounds Example: He
DESTROY emanating from an old EMANATEs power and
house, that might mean it's confidence.
EMBARRASS
haunted.
EXAGGERATE Form: verb To emit means to give off or Mnemonic: Lots of
EXCLUDE Tone: neut let out, and it usually has a things can be EMITted:
lot to do with gases, smells body heat from your
FASHION and noises. All of which hands, high pitched
GIVE OUT could be potentially sound waves from a
embarrassing, depending on dog whistle, nasty
EMIT
HARSH / BITING / SHARP where they're coming from. odors from your mouth
after a garlic-heavy
HESITATE ON MORAL
lunch
GROUNDS
Example: The metal
HIDE / REVEAL (X) container began to
EMIT a clicking sound.
INACTIVE
Form: verb When something radiates, it Mnemonic: Imagine
INDEPENDENCE / Tone: neut sends out waves or rays. you are on a ray diet
FREEDOM The sun radiates light and that causes you to emit
INEFFECTIVE warmth. energy in the form of
RADIATE rays
LOWER IN RANK Example: He
RADIATEd self-
confidence and
MALICIOUS SELF- optimism.
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: adj If you say something Mnemonic: ACERBIC

Tone: neg acerbic, or harshly speech is like acidic,
COMMONLY CONFUSED bitter, to someone, it because it is sour and
WORDS can leave a bitter taste corrodes, or weakens,
ACERBIC in your own mouth that relationships.
COUNTER-ATTACK
lingers, and the acerbic, Example: The letter
DESTROY or acidic, words can eat was written in her
away at the person on usual ACERBIC style.
EMBARRASS
the receiving end too.
EXAGGERATE Form: adj Locked in a mean- Mnemonic:
EXCLUDE Tone: neg spirited, bitter ACRIMONIOUS
argument? That's an sounds like Ominous.
FASHION acrimonious situation Both has to do with a
GIVE OUT ACRIMONIOUS that might result in fists bad or wrong doing.
flying unless you and Example: His
HARSH / BITING / SHARP your opponent can cool parents went through
down. an ACRIMONIOUS
HESITATE ON MORAL
divorce.
GROUNDS
Form: adj Use the adjective caustic Mnemonic: CAUSTIC
HIDE / REVEAL (X) Tone: neg to describe any chemical is CAUSTIC soda, it
INACTIVE that is able to burn burns and is bitter
living tissue or other and acidic, so is a
INDEPENDENCE / substances, or, person who is called
FREEDOM figuratively, a statement CAUSTIC.
CAUSTIC
INEFFECTIVE that has a similarly Example: The critic's
burning effect. Caustic in CAUSTIC remarks
LOWER IN RANK this sense means angered the hapless
harshly critical. actors who were the
subjects of his
MALICIOUS SELF- sarcasm.
SATISFACTION Form: adj The adjective incisive Mnemonic: Incisor
MISC. Tone: neg describes something teeth are INCISIVE.
that is sharp, decisive, Very sharp and used
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) and direct. A comment to cut food.
EARTHLY that cuts right to the Example: Both sides
INCISIVE
PLACE OF SAFETY bone can be just as had their chances but
incisive as an actual the visitors looked
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD knife. more INCISIVE in
attack.
REVENGE
Root: IN means NOT
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE Form: adj If you're trenchant, it Mnemonic: The
SELF-CONTRADICTION Tone: neg means you think or say people on the train-
smart, sharply worded chant in an energetic
TO BURN things that cut right to and vigorous fashion
TO STIR UP / REVOLT the heart of the matter. when they see their
A trenchant observation family waiting.
TRENCHANT
UNIVERSAL is one that makes Example: He was
people scratch their shattered by the
VARIETY
chins thoughtfully, or TRENCHANT criticism
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embarrassment for
whomever you're talki
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun When you feel Mnemonic:

Tone: pos compunction you feel compuncture sounds
COMMONLY CONFUSED very, very sorry, usually like
WORDS for something you did compensation..when
COUNTER-ATTACK to hurt someone or you hav done a
mess something up. wrong thing you
COMPUNCTION
DESTROY When you feel no regret and offer
compunction, you're not victim the
EMBARRASS
at all sorry. compensation..
EXAGGERATE Example: She felt no
COMPUNCTION about
EXCLUDE quitting her job.
FASHION Form: noun If you have misgivings Mnemonic:
GIVE OUT Tone: pos about something, it Mis(not)+Giving....I
means you're worried am not giving the
HARSH / BITING / SHARP that it's not a good keys of my locker to
idea. Trying to fall you because I have
HESITATE ON MORAL
asleep the night before some doubts,anxiety
GROUNDS MISGIVINGS
a test, you might have in my mind about
HIDE / REVEAL (X) misgivings about having you.
studied so little. Example: I had
INACTIVE grave MISGIVINGS
INDEPENDENCE / about making the
FREEDOM trip.
INEFFECTIVE Form: noun A qualm is a feeling of Mnemonic: QUALM

Tone: pos uneasiness, or a sense = QUAL + M(S) =
LOWER IN RANK that something you're QUALIFICATION +
doing is wrong, and it MS, you are in doubt
sounds almost like how whether MS as
MALICIOUS SELF- it makes your stomach qualification is right
QUALMS
SATISFACTION feel. If you had qualms for you or not.
about taking candy from Example: He had
MISC. the bulk bins at the been working very
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) store, your conscience hard so he had no
EARTHLY probably told you to go QUALMS about taking
ba a few days off.
PLACE OF SAFETY
Form: noun Your scruples are what Mnemonic: SCRUPLE
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD Tone: pos keep you from doing and PRINCIPLE
things you consider to sounds alike.
REVENGE
be morally or ethically Example: He had no
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE SCRUPLES wrong. Your scruples SCRUPLES about
won't allow you to cheat spying on her.
SELF-CONTRADICTION on a test, or steal from
TO BURN your brother's
Halloween candy stash.
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: verb When you conceal something, Mnemonic:

Tone: neg/pos you are keeping it from being CONCEAL sounding
COMMONLY CONFUSED discovered: â€œTo avoid like SEAL.. you seal
WORDS another argument with his something which you
COUNTER-ATTACK cousins, Jonathan worked don't like to be
CONCEAL hard to conceal his exhibited.. ! So hide
DESTROY disappointment at the or prevent from being
outcome of the race.â€ discovered
EMBARRASS
Example: She
EXAGGERATE CONCEALs her anger
well
EXCLUDE
Form: verb If you've been sneaking Mnemonic: When
FASHION Tone: neg around with your best friend's Sally revealed the
GIVE OUT boyfriend, that's probably one secret that if you put
secret you don't want to fudge on you face,
HARSH / BITING / SHARP divulge, because revealing pimples will
that tidbit of information will disappear, Amy dived
HESITATE ON MORAL DIVULGE
probably cut your friendship into a pool of dive
GROUNDS
short. fudge
HIDE / REVEAL (X) Example: Police
refused to DIVULGE
INACTIVE the identity of the
INDEPENDENCE / suspect.
FREEDOM Form: verb Secrete is all about secrets. It Mnemonic: SECRETE
INEFFECTIVE Tone: neg means both "to hide" and "to is secret
release." Example: The drugs
SECRETE
LOWER IN RANK were SECRETEd in
the lining of his
suitcase.
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: adj That old dog was Mnemonic: Volcanoes are
Tone: neg dormant for so long described as DORMANT
COMMONLY CONFUSED he was confused for a when they stay cool for a
WORDS furry doormat, but a long time, without spewing
COUNTER-ATTACK doormat is likely to hot lava and ash. They
stay dormant, or may have the ability to
DORMANT
DESTROY inactive, because it is come to life, but they
lifeless: that old dog remain DORMANT, or
EMBARRASS
has some life in him inactive.
EXAGGERATE yet. Example: During the
winter the seeds lie
EXCLUDE DORMANT in the soil.
FASHION Form: adj Latent is an adjective Mnemonic: Talent
GIVE OUT Tone: neg that you use to Regroup LATENT as Talent.
describe something Talent is LATENT.
HARSH / BITING / SHARP LATENT that is capable of Example: These children
becoming active or at have a huge reserve of
HESITATE ON MORAL
hand, though it is not LATENT talent
GROUNDS
currently so.
HIDE / REVEAL (X) Form: adj The adjective Mnemonic: QUIESCENT -
INACTIVE Tone: neg quiescent means quies - quiet > motionless
"being quiet and still," Example: The QUIESCENT
INDEPENDENCE / like the quiescent melancholy of the town
FREEDOM QUIESCENT
moments lying in a enchants me.
INEFFECTIVE hammock on a
beautiful summer
LOWER IN RANK Sunday.
LYING DOWN / RESTING Form: adj There is a tone to the Mnemonic: Nelson, the
Tone: neg word stagnant that retired station agent, stood
MALICIOUS SELF- sounds like what it is: patiently on the platform
SATISFACTION lacking movement, everyday, waiting for the
MISC. stale, and inactive, trains to begin moving
especially with again, like the still,
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) STAGNANT
exaggerated unchanging puddles of
EARTHLY pronunciation, water that would never do
PLACE OF SAFETY "staaaagnant." anything but sit idly there.
Example: Few fish survive
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD in the STAGNANT waters of
the lake.
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: adj Autonomous describes Mnemonic:

Tone: pos things that function auto(self) +
COMMONLY CONFUSED separately or nomous(operation) =
WORDS independently. Once you self operating
COUNTER-ATTACK move out of your Example:
AUTONOMOUS
parents' house, and get AUTONOMOUS
DESTROY your own job, you will be provinces which make
an autonomous member their own laws.
EMBARRASS
of the family. Root: AUTO- refers
EXAGGERATE to SELF
EXCLUDE Form: noun Use the word latitude to Mnemonic:
Tone: pos describe how much LATITUDE:can be
FASHION freedom you have in interpreted as lasting
GIVE OUT making choices. For attitude,...and any
example, if a teacher one who's got a good
HARSH / BITING / SHARP gives you latitude in atitude will always be
writing your paper, you free from narrow
HESITATE ON MORAL LATITUDE
might get to choose the thoughts
GROUNDS
topic and how many Example: Skating
HIDE / REVEAL (X) sources to include. officials have
LATITUDE in the
INACTIVE selections, which will
INDEPENDENCE / be announced
FREEDOM Sunday.
INEFFECTIVE Form: adj,n having complete power, Mnemonic: India is a

Tone: pos freedom or authority SOVEREIGN,
LOWER IN RANK Secular,socialist,
Democratic and
SOVEREIGN republic country.
MALICIOUS SELF- Example: an
SATISFACTION autonomous
judiciary, a
MISC. SOVEREIGN state
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: adj If a newspaper editorial Mnemonic: think of

Tone: neg describes a politician as FECk-LESS as
COMMONLY CONFUSED feckless, you might afFECting LESS
WORDS wonder, "What is feck, because it is so
COUNTER-ATTACK and why doesnâ€™t he useless.
FECKLESS
have any?â€ In fact, the Example: She had
DESTROY columnist is accusing the lost the
politician of being FECKLESSness of
EMBARRASS
irresponsible and youth and settled
EXAGGERATE incompetent. down.
EXCLUDE Form: adj If you are a coach with a Mnemonic: IN =
Tone: neg losing team that doesn't Not, effect sounds
FASHION listen to you, don't be like effective. Thus,
GIVE OUT surprised if you are called INEFFECTUAL =
INEFFECTUAL
ineffectual. It means too ineffective .
HARSH / BITING / SHARP weak to produce the Example: This is an
desired effect. INEFFECTUAL attempt
HESITATE ON MORAL
to reform the law
GROUNDS
Form: noun The degree to which a Mnemonic: Efficacy
HIDE / REVEAL (X) Tone: pos method or medicine is EFFECTIVE
INACTIVE brings about a specific Example: to
result is its efficacy. You evaluate the efficacy
INDEPENDENCE / X EFFICACY
might not like to eat it, and safety of the
FREEDOM but you can't question the treatment
INEFFECTIVE efficacy of broccoli as a
health benefit.
LOWER IN RANK
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: verb assign to a lower position; Mnemonic: DEMOTE

Tone: neg reduce in rank can be remembered
COMMONLY CONFUSED as DEMOTION, which
WORDS is opposite for
COUNTER-ATTACK PROMOTION
DEMOTE
Example: She was
DESTROY DEMOTEd because
she always speaks up
EMBARRASS
Root: DE means
EXAGGERATE DOWN/AWAY
EXCLUDE Form: verb Relegate means assign to a Mnemonic: divide it
Tone: neg lower position. If the like rail+gate. Earlier
FASHION quarterback of the football station Master is now
GIVE OUT team stops making decent appointed as a
RELEGATE throws he might be relegated watcher of rail gate.
HARSH / BITING / SHARP to the position of so, in worse position.
benchwarmer, while another Example: She was
HESITATE ON MORAL
kid is given the chance to then RELEGATEd to
GROUNDS
play. the role of assistant.
HIDE / REVEAL (X)
INACTIVE
INDEPENDENCE /
FREEDOM
INEFFECTIVE
LOWER IN RANK
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: adj Bikes on which you recline Mnemonic:

Tone: neut rather than sit upright are recum+bent - sounds
COMMONLY CONFUSED recumbent. Recumbent similar to
WORDS means to leaning back in a become+bent. you
COUNTER-ATTACK reclining position. become bent while
RECUMBENT sitting means you lie
DESTROY down.
Example: Doctor
EMBARRASS
advised him to
EXAGGERATE assume RECUMBENT
posture
EXCLUDE
Form: noun Repose is a formal or Mnemonic: REPOSE
FASHION Tone: neut literary term used to mean = resting pose
GIVE OUT the act of resting, or the Example: The first
REPOSE
state of being at rest. rays of morning sun
HARSH / BITING / SHARP Repose is also a state of disturbed their
mind: freedom from worry. REPOSE.
HESITATE ON MORAL
GROUNDS Form: adj One can be described as Mnemonic: Spine
Tone: neut supine when lying face up Lying on Spine is
HIDE / REVEAL (X) ("his favorite yoga poses SUPINE
INACTIVE were always the supine Example: Clare
SUPINE
ones"); or, if one is very remained SUPINE,
INDEPENDENCE / passive or lethargic her eyes closed.
FREEDOM ("supine in the face of their
INEFFECTIVE threats and insults").
LOWER IN RANK
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: verb If you gloat, you express great Mnemonic:

Tone: neg satisfaction at the misfortune of g+loat....LOOT...so
COMMONLY CONFUSED others. If your team scores a think of dacoits who
WORDS big win, it would be better not express their evil
COUNTER-ATTACK to gloat. Be happy for your win, satisfaction after
GLOAT but don't laugh at their loss. looting houses of
DESTROY people.
Example: She was
EMBARRASS
still GLOATing over
EXAGGERATE her rival's
disappointment.
EXCLUDE
Form: verb A smirk is specific kind of smile, Mnemonic:
FASHION Tone: neg one that suggests self- SMIle+IRK....meaning
GIVE OUT satisfaction, smugness, or even SMILE IN AN IRKY
pleasure at someone else's MANNER OR
HARSH / BITING / SHARP unhappiness or misfortune. IRRITATED MANNER
SMIRK
Example: He
HESITATE ON MORAL
SMIRKed
GROUNDS
unpleasantly when we
HIDE / REVEAL (X) told him the bad
news.
INACTIVE
Form: adj A smug person is self-satisfied. Mnemonic: SMUG
INDEPENDENCE / Tone: neg You can usually recognize can be remembered
FREEDOM someone who is pleased with as when we drink a
INEFFECTIVE himself by his smug little smile MUG of some
SMUG and self-righteous remarks. drink,we feel SELF-
LOWER IN RANK SATISFIED
Example: He smiled
SMUGly as the results
MALICIOUS SELF- were announced.
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: verb To accost is to Mnemonic:

Tone: neg approach ACCOST=Ac(Acclerating)+Cost-
COMMONLY CONFUSED someone When cost shoots up in a shop,
WORDS aggressively or we as a person speaks with the
ACCOST confront them shopkeeper to reduce the
COUNTER-ATTACK
in an cost.Hence we initiate the talk
DESTROY inappropriate Example: She was ACCOSTed
way. in the street by a complete
EMBARRASS
stranger.
EXAGGERATE Form: noun A short, Mnemonic: The word's original
EXCLUDE Tone: neut amusing true sense in English was "secret or
story is an private stories" - tales not fit for
FASHION anecdote. You print, so to speak. Example:
GIVE OUT might come The book is a rich store of
ANECDOTE
back from a ANECDOTE.
HARSH / BITING / SHARP crazy spring
break with a lot
HESITATE ON MORAL
of anecdotes to
GROUNDS
tell.
HIDE / REVEAL (X) Form: verb To bask in Mnemonic: BASKetball player
INACTIVE Tone: pos something is to Michel Jordan lives luxury life.
take it in, Example: We sat BASKing in
INDEPENDENCE / receive its the warm sunshine.
FREEDOM warmth, or
INEFFECTIVE bathe in its
goodness. On
LOWER IN RANK the first warm
BASK
day of the
spring, you
MALICIOUS SELF- may bask in
SATISFACTION the sunshine.
When you win
MISC. the Pulitzer,
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) you bask in
EARTHLY your own glory.
PLACE OF SAFETY Form: verb As a verb, Mnemonic: When a Boy

Tone: neut broach means appROACH a girl for the first
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD to bring up or time,he needs to BROACH.
introduce a Example: She was dreading
REVENGE
sensitive issue. having to BROACH the subject
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE As a noun, a of money with her father.
broach is one
SELF-CONTRADICTION of those dowdy
BROACH
TO BURN pins your Great
Aunt Edna
TO STIR UP / REVOLT wears. Telling
UNIVERSAL her not to wear
it is a subject
VARIETY you should
probably not
VILLAGE - LIKE
broach.
Form: verb If your mom Mnemonic: To con a jury you
Tone: neut can magically need magical power
conjure up the Example: He could CONJURE
most delicious coins from behind people's ears.
meals from the
most random
CONJURE
ingredients in
the kitchen,
she might just
be the best
cook in the
neighborhood.
Form: adj Use the Mnemonic: Corp o real:
Tone: neut adjective Corporate o real: always target
corporeal to the material aspect of customer,
describe donâ€™t care about the
something that spiritual part
has to do with Example: CORPOREAL reality
the body, like as the goddess herself
when your appeared.
teacher catches Root: CORP- means BODY
CORPOREAL you
daydreaming
and says you
need to bring
your mental
sharpness, not
just your
corporeal
presence to the
classroom.
Form: noun Pardon me, but Mnemonic: Assuming: females
Tone: pos when a polite are milder than males as they
term is are more emotionally inclined. It
substituted for reads like E(xpress) U(yourself)
EUPHEMISM a blunt, Phemism(like feminism).
offensive one, Example: â€œUser feesâ€ is
you should call just a politician's EUPHEMISM
it a for taxes.
euphemism. Root: EU- means GOOD
Form: noun Green, orange, Mnemonic: blUE(HUE)...blue is
Tone: neut yellow, and a color
blue - each of Example: Her paintings capture
these is a hue, the subtle HUES of the
a color or a countryside in the fall.
shade that's
true. A rainbow
HUES
shows the
melting of one
hue into
another, from
red to violet,
and all shades
in between.
Form: adj When you find Mnemonic: in+ef+ fable. fable
Tone: pos something hard means story. story can be told.
to express or in-fable means something which
difficult to pin can not be uttered such as the
down, it's name of Lord Voldemort (from
ineffable. The Harry Potter).
INEFFABLE feeling when Example: Professional women
you get a new gained ground in the INEFFABLE
puppy is but vital world of informal
ineffable - too networks.
strange and
wonderful to
define.
Form: adj If something is Mnemonic: Remember
Tone: neut inevitable, it INEVITABLE sounds like IN-
will definitely EVERY-TABLE( what is
happen, like UNAVOIDABLE in every table?
death or tax Answer is food) Food is
INEVITABLE season. unavoiadable in
every(dinning)table.So
ineveitable=unavoidable
Example: It seems INEVITABLE
that interest rates will rise.
Root: IN means INTO
Form: adj If you've done Mnemonic: JADED sounds like
Tone: neg something so faded.. which means WORN
much that it OUT, WEARIED, TIRED
doesn't excite Example: It was a meal to
you anymore tempt even the most JADED
but just leaves palate.
you tired,
JADED
consider
yourself jaded.
If someone
says you look a
little jaded, it
just means that
you look tired.
Form: noun Literally, a Mnemonic: eating well is the
Tone: pos linchpin is the LINCHPIN to staying healthy.
pin that goes Example: Nurses are the
through the LINCHPIN of our health center.
axle of a wheel
to keep it in
place, but
LINCHPIN
linchpin can be
used to mean
an important
part of
anything, the
thing that holds
it all together.
Form: adj Lofty is a good Mnemonic: LOFTY sounds like
Tone: pos/neg word for HEFTY (big/ large). He played a
describing lofted shot in the air
something Example: A towering mountain
that's high can be called "LOFTY."
LOFTY above the
ground, or
someone who
acts like she's
high above
everyone else.
Form: noun You might not Mnemonic: MERCENARY sounds
Tone: neg/neut want to call a like: merce - mercy + na - no;
mercenary a no mercy.He can kill anybody
"hireling" to his for money or gain
face, but a Example: Lila was suspicious
mercenary is, that Joe had jumped at the
after all, a chance only for MERCENARY
soldier who reasons
gets paid to
MERCENARY
fight where
needed,
sometimes
taking a heroic
stand and other
times just
wanting
payment for
fighting.
Form: noun Use the word Mnemonic: NEMESIS can be
Tone: neg nemesis to remembered in this way:
describe not+my+sis hence wants to
someone or take revenge..my sister
something that wouldn't have been the cause of
always causes my downfall.
you major Example: The football team
problems, like seeks NEMESIS of previous lost
NEMESIS the runner on on Saturday.
another
school's track
team who, for
years, has
been beating
your time by a
fraction of a
second.
Form: adj If a police Mnemonic: You are not
Tone: pos officer falls in influenced by emotions when
love with a you need to fulfill your
witness in a OBJECTIVE
case, it might Example: These figures give a
be hard for him reliable and OBJECTIVE indicator
OBJECTIVE to stay of changing trends in people's
objective - that lifestyles.
is, looking at
things in a
detached,
impartial, fact-
based way.
Form: noun Pathos is a Mnemonic: PATHOS is related
Tone: neut quality that to SYMPATHY, EMPATHY.
stirs emotions. Example: The scene was full of
PATHOS A song with a PATHOS.
lot of pathos
hits you right in
the heart.
Form: noun A purveyor is Mnemonic: remember conveyor
Tone: neut someone who which means supplying
supplies goods - something..PURVEYOR=
often of food or person+ conveyor. A person
drinks. If you're who does a job of conveyor by
a seafood supplying something to others.
purveyor you Example: Brown and Son,
will always PURVEYORs of fine wines
PURVEYOR smells a bit
fishy, which is
no surprise,
considering that
you sell cod and
haddock all day
long.
Form: verb Use the verb Mnemonic: WRAP+SODA+ICE-

Tone: neut rhapsodize to I wrapped soda in ice which is a
describe miracle.......I was telling this to
something my friends enthusiastically
spoken about Example: "He RHAPSODIZEd
with extreme about his new project for an
enthusiasm - hour"
and often at
RHAPSODIZE great length,
like that friend
who tends to
rhapsodize
about her
favorite movie
for twenty
minutes
straight.
Form: adj Things that are Mnemonic: SUBJECTIVE sounds
Tone: neut subjective are like Subject, which seems to be
open to related to a particular Subject
interpretation. only.
If you go see a Example: Everyone's opinion is
movie about a bound to be SUBJECTIVE.
SUBJECTIVE jewel thief, the
topic is not
subjective. But
whether it's a
good movie or
not is
subjective.
Form: adj If something is Mnemonic: If you're mad at
Tone: neut vicarious, it your wife but you take it out on
delivers a your dog, that's VICARIOUS
feeling or punishment.
experience Example: He got a VICARIOUS
from someone thrill out of watching his son
VICARIOUS else. If your score the winning goal.
child becomes
a big star, you
might have a
vicarious
experience of
celebrity.
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun morally low; without estimable Mnemonic: BASE is

Tone: neut personal qualities. waste (very bad
COMMONLY CONFUSED quality)
WORDS BASE
Example: She was
COUNTER-ATTACK upset to see his BASE
behavior
DESTROY
Form: adj In common use, sublime is an Mnemonic: once u
EMBARRASS Tone: pos adjective meaning "awe- sublimate(purify)
inspiringly grand, excellent, or your earthly
EXAGGERATE impressive," like the best pleasures you will be
SUBLIME
EXCLUDE chocolate fudge sundae you've SUBLIME(noble)
ever had. Example: The
FASHION location of the hotel
GIVE OUT is SUBLIME.

HESITATE ON MORAL
GROUNDS
HIDE / REVEAL (X)
INACTIVE
INDEPENDENCE /
FREEDOM
INEFFECTIVE
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MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
UNIVERSAL
VARIETY
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun Any mom taking care of the Mnemonic: Amanda,
Tone: pos kids day in and day out is the silent lamb,
COMMONLY CONFUSED probably more than ready sought refuge and
WORDS to seek asylum, or refuge, sanctuary from the
COUNTER-ATTACK at a local spa. bullying rams out in
the cow pastures,
DESTROY where she was
ASYLUM
greeted with warmth
EMBARRASS
and kindness.
EXAGGERATE Example: There was
a nationwide debate
EXCLUDE on whether the
FASHION ASYLUM laws should
be changed.
GIVE OUT
Form: noun A harbor is a safe place Mnemonic: HARBOR
HARSH / BITING / SHARP Tone: pos providing refuge and is a place where ships
comfort. If you're traveling, stand, in Mumbai,
HESITATE ON MORAL
the harbor provided by a most of the criminals
GROUNDS
warm hotel is welcome. For and REFUGE find
HIDE / REVEAL (X) ships, a harbor is a SHELTER there
HARBOR
sheltered port area shielded Example: The church
INACTIVE from waves, where it's safe HARBORed aliens who
INDEPENDENCE / to dock. were political
FREEDOM refugees. To HARBOR
the negative
INEFFECTIVE thoughts.
LOWER IN RANK Form: noun Need to find shelter, from Mnemonic: HAVEN
Tone: pos the weather or from other sounds like Heaven -
troubles? Then you need a > a place which is
MALICIOUS SELF- haven. always safe.
SATISFACTION HAVEN Example: The new
floral beds, formally
MISC. opened in July 2002,
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) enhance this peaceful
EARTHLY HAVEN
PLACE OF SAFETY Form: verb To persecute is to make Mnemonic: If you

Tone: neg someone suffer or to keep 'Persistently' tell
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD them in bad circumstances. someone 'Cute'
In some parts of the world he/she wil be
REVENGE
PERSECUTE governments or military irritated.
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE (X) groups persecute, or Example:
punish, people for religious Throughout history,
SELF-CONTRADICTION beliefs, often sending them people have been
TO BURN to prisons or work camps. persecuted for their
religious beliefs.
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
UNIVERSAL
VARIETY
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: adj Diffuse mean spread Mnemonic: Bulb fuse

Tone: neut out, or the action of and gas DIFFUSE.
COMMONLY CONFUSED spreading out. If lots Suffuse - liquid, color or
WORDS of people in school light spread all over.
COUNTER-ATTACK believe invisible Suffuse and DIFFUSE.
angels are Example: The active
DIFFUSE
DESTROY everywhere, you ingredient DIFFUSEs
could say that slowly through the
EMBARRASS
opinion is diffuse. coating giving good
EXAGGERATE You might even think residual control.
angels are diffuse as
EXCLUDE well.
FASHION Form: verb Disseminate means Mnemonic: dis +
GIVE OUT Tone: neut to spread seminate: seminate could
information, be taken as seminar, so
HARSH / BITING / SHARP knowledge, opinions for a seminar people
widely. Semin- gather at a place. Hence
HESITATE ON MORAL
derives from the disseminar could be
GROUNDS DISSEMINATE
Latin word for seed; understood as the
HIDE / REVEAL (X) the idea with scattering of people.
disseminate is that Example: Their findings
INACTIVE information travels have been widely
INDEPENDENCE / like seeds sown by a DISSEMINATEd.
FREEDOM farmer.
INEFFECTIVE Form: verb To promulgate is to Mnemonic: By legend

Tone: neut officially put a law Romulus is the founder of
LOWER IN RANK into effect. Your state Rome. Let's imagine he
may announce a plan lays the foundation of
to promulgate a new some gate in Rome and
MALICIOUS SELF- traffic law on January says:"I PROclaim this is
SATISFACTION 1st. ROMULus GATE!" (P-
PROMULGATE
ROMUL-GATE) He's the
MISC. founder, right? So he's
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) already broadcasted a
EARTHLY decree!
Example: The new
PLACE OF SAFETY constitution was
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD PROMULGATEd in 2006.
Form: verb To propagate is to be Mnemonic: Scientists
REVENGE
Tone: neut fruitful and multiply, are now studying how
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE by the usual routes best to PROPAGATE fresh
of reproduction, or by vanilla, as demand for
SELF-CONTRADICTION PROPAGATE spreading something the flavour grows.
TO BURN around - like a rumor. Example: Television
advertising PROPAGATEs
TO STIR UP / REVOLT a false image of the ideal
UNIVERSAL family.
Form: verb The verb extirpate Mnemonic: Imagine that
VARIETY
Tone: neut originally literally you destroy someone's
VILLAGE - LIKE meant "to weed out wig by throwing eggs and
by the roots." Now turps on it
you'd use it when Example: Indian
X EXTIRPATE
you want to get rid of extirpated the British
something after a long struggle.
completely as if
pulling it up by the
root.
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun Retribution is the act of Mnemonic: Ratri at

Tone: neg taking revenge. If you tuition and teacher
COMMONLY CONFUSED pull a prank on someone, scolded her and she
WORDS expect retribution. got her
COUNTER-ATTACK RETRIBUTION.
RETRIBUTION
Example: People are
DESTROY seeking
RETRIBUTION for the
EMBARRASS
latest terrorist
EXAGGERATE outrages.
EXCLUDE Form: noun If someone hurts you, Mnemonic:
Tone: neg you might be inspired to 'venge'ance, add re-
FASHION plan an act of in beginning, it
GIVE OUT vengeance: some type of becomes revenge, so
payback in order to settle it means taking
VENGEANCE
HARSH / BITING / SHARP the score. Be careful, revenge
though, because you Example: He swore
HESITATE ON MORAL
might inspire someone to VENGEANCE on his
GROUNDS
take vengeance on you in child's killer.
HIDE / REVEAL (X) return.
INACTIVE Form: adj It is no fun hanging out Mnemonic: He
Tone: neg with vindictive people, accused her of being
INDEPENDENCE / who are forever out to VINDICTIVE.
FREEDOM get back at people they
INEFFECTIVE think have hurt them. If
VINDICTIVE
you forget to say hello to
LOWER IN RANK them one day in the hall,
they will carry a grudge
against you into next
MALICIOUS SELF- week.
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
UNIVERSAL
VARIETY
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun An axiom is a statement Mnemonic: Axi OM:

Tone: neut that everyone believes is Axiom is like OM.
COMMONLY CONFUSED true, such as "supply equals Universally believed
WORDS demand" or "the only Example: the old
AXIOMS
COUNTER-ATTACK constant is change." axiom that you can
Mathematicians use axiom only succeed through
DESTROY to refer to established hard work
proofs.
EMBARRASS
Form: noun Canon is all about Mnemonic: College
EXAGGERATE Tone: neut authoritative standardsâ students used to read
EXCLUDE €”for literature, sainthood, what was called the
or behavior. Don't confuse it "literary canon," until
FASHION with cannon with two n's, they noticed that they
GIVE OUT the big gun that shoots were written by dead
CANONS
bowling-size balls at the white men.
HARSH / BITING / SHARP enemy. Example: "The
House of Mirthâ€ is a
HESITATE ON MORAL
central book in the
GROUNDS
canon of American
HIDE / REVEAL (X) literature.
INACTIVE Form: noun "You are what you eat" is a Mnemonic: Dictator
Tone: neut dictum, and so is a law is authoritarian and
INDEPENDENCE / requiring you to curb your DICTUM is
FREEDOM dog. A dictum is a formal authoritative
INEFFECTIVE pronouncement, a rule, or a statement
DICTUM
statement that expresses a Example: He cites
LOWER IN RANK truth universally Augustine's DICTUM
acknowledged. that 'If you
understand it, it is
MALICIOUS SELF- not God
SATISFACTION Form: noun Doctrine means a belief or Mnemonic: They
MISC. Tone: neut set of beliefs. The idea that have something
a man named Jesus was the called Doctor Medical
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) son of God is part of the DOCTRINE for doctors
EARTHLY DOCTRINE
Christian doctrine. Example: He was
PLACE OF SAFETY deeply committed to
political DOCTRINEs
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD of social equality.
REVENGE Form: noun Dogma means the doctrine Mnemonic: If you
Tone: neut of belief in a religion or a try to read "dogmatic"
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE political system. from back to front,
SELF-CONTRADICTION you will get "i am
god". the person who
TO BURN think that he is a god
DOGMAS
TO STIR UP / REVOLT is arrogant and
stubborn
UNIVERSAL Example: There is a
danger of becoming
VARIETY
too dogmatic about
VILLAGE - LIKE teaching methods.
Form: noun A mandate is like an official Mnemonic:
Tone: neut command or a go-ahead. man+date man(boss)
When a politician wins an orders you to finish
election by a lot, that's a your work on date.
MANDATE mandate for their ideas. Example: The
presidential MANDATE
is limited to two
terms of four years
each.
Form: noun A tenet is a principle or Mnemonic: A
Tone: neut belief honored by a person volleyball team
or, more often, a group of always carries ten
people. "Seek pleasure and nets with it - ten net
TENETS avoid pain" is a basic tenet is a watchword held
of Hedonism. "God exists" is as true by a group
a tenet of most major Example: Non-
religions. violence is the central
tenet of their faith
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun Reserve irony for Mnemonic: Remember Ironic

Tone: neg situations where as Iron. Imagine that people
COMMONLY CONFUSED there's a gap were mining a new place in
WORDS between reality and that place they were amazed
COUNTER-ATTACK expectations, that unexpectedly they found
IRONY especially when such Iron but no one were sure
DESTROY a gap is created for either it was Iron or not. So it
dramatic or was contrary outcome.
EMBARRASS
humorous effect. Example: The IRONY is that
EXAGGERATE when he finally got the job, he
discovered he didn't like it.
EXCLUDE
Form: noun Here's a mind- Mnemonic: you are unique
FASHION Tone: neg bender: "This but "everybody is unique" .this
GIVE OUT statement is false." is a PARADOX
If you think it's true, Example: It is a curious
HARSH / BITING / SHARP PARADOX then it must be PARADOX that professional
false, but if you comedians often have unhappy
HESITATE ON MORAL
think it's false, it personal lives.
GROUNDS
must be true. Now,
HIDE / REVEAL (X) that's a paradox!
INACTIVE
INDEPENDENCE /
FREEDOM
INEFFECTIVE
LOWER IN RANK
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
UNIVERSAL
VARIETY
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: verb start to burn or burst into Mnemonic:

Tone: neut flames COMBUST sounds like
COMMONLY CONFUSED CAN BURST INTO
WORDS FIRE anytime
COUNTER-ATTACK
COMBUST Example: Never
place candles on top
DESTROY of tv or other plastic
COMBUSTible
EMBARRASS
surfaces.
EXAGGERATE Form: verb See incinerate and think: Mnemonic: You will
EXCLUDE Tone: neut "burn, dear, burn!" be INCINERATEd if
Whether itâ€™s an old you smoke excessive
FASHION love letter that makes you cigarette.
GIVE OUT sad or a terrible picture of Example: Holland
INCINERATE
yourself, it might be better has a very good
HARSH / BITING / SHARP just to incinerate it, recycling record and
meaning, you burn it. INCINERATEs much
HESITATE ON MORAL
of its waste, like
GROUNDS
Germany.
HIDE / REVEAL (X) Form: verb When you start a fire Mnemonic: A
INACTIVE Tone: neut burning, you can say you CANDLE can be
kindle the fire. Knowing KINDLEd.
INDEPENDENCE / how to kindle a campfire is Example: We
FREEDOM KINDLE an important survival skill. watched as the fire
INEFFECTIVE It can help keep you warm slowly KINDLEd.
at night, and keep you
LOWER IN RANK from eating cold beans for
dinner.
MALICIOUS SELF-
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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VARIETY
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: verb To incite is to cause to act Mnemonic: INCITE

Tone: neut or occur. Violent words can rhymes with excite
COMMONLY CONFUSED incite violent actions which also means
WORDS INCITE which, in turn, might incite arouse to action.
COUNTER-ATTACK public outcry against Example: They were
violence. accused of inciting the
DESTROY crowd to violence.
EMBARRASS Form: verb When you instigate Mnemonic: I am
Tone: neg something, you start it, always motivated
EXAGGERATE but the word carries whenever I see the
EXCLUDE conflict with it. If you are Institute gate (relate
INSTIGATE suspended for wearing a to INSTIGATE) of
FASHION political t-shirt, the "MIT".
GIVE OUT incident might instigate Example: They were
days of protest by students accused of instigating
HARSH / BITING / SHARP and faculty. racial violence.
HESITATE ON MORAL Form: verb Anything that brings about Mnemonic: The sales
GROUNDS Tone: neg a strong reaction can be man in provogue
said to provoke. You can showroom started
HIDE / REVEAL (X) provoke that lion if you argumenting instead of
INACTIVE want. But if he responds changing the defective
by attacking, don't come shirt. It annoyed me
INDEPENDENCE / PROVOKE
running to me. badly. They PROVOKEd
FREEDOM me to get irriated.
INEFFECTIVE Example: The
announcement
LOWER IN RANK PROVOKEd a storm of
protest.
Form: noun Sedition is the illegal act of Mnemonic: seidition =
MALICIOUS SELF- Tone: neg inciting people to resist or said+i+shun he said i
SATISFACTION rebel against the will shun u.. reisitance
MISC. government in power. It's 2 authority
SEDITION
what the southern states Example: Two
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) did at the start of the Civil journalists were
EARTHLY War. charged with
PLACE OF SAFETY SEDITION
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD

REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun When capitalized, Catholic Mnemonic:

Tone: neut refers to the Catholic CATHOLIC Christians
COMMONLY CONFUSED Church. With a lower-case are found everywhere
WORDS "c," catholic means in the world....so they
COUNTER-ATTACK "universal" and "inclusive." are present
CATHOLIC If you listen to anything universally.
DESTROY from hip-hop to Baroque, Example: Unlike his
you have catholic taste in father, Tom's
EMBARRASS
music. judgments are
EXAGGERATE CATHOLIC
(universal)in nature.
EXCLUDE
Form: adj Generic refers to the Mnemonic:
FASHION Tone: neut members of a whole class (gene)ric...in
GIVE OUT of things - like "tissue," a genes...so it is a
generic word for any soft, characteristic of the
HARSH / BITING / SHARP thin piece of paper that's entire class/species
GENERIC good for wiping runny Example: â
HESITATE ON MORAL
noses. €œBroadbandâ€ is a
GROUNDS
GENERIC term for
HIDE / REVEAL (X) any high-speed
connection to the
INACTIVE Internet.
INDEPENDENCE / Form: adj Universal describes Mnemonic:
FREEDOM Tone: neut something for everything or UNIVERSAL and
INEFFECTIVE everyone. Universal design General sound the
is architectural design that same and both words
LOWER IN RANK accommodates every refer to something
person. A universal remote that is present
LYING DOWN / RESTING UNIVERSAL
can change the stations on everywhere, is
MALICIOUS SELF- all your home common.
SATISFACTION entertainment systems, but Example: Such
hopefully not at once. problems are a
MISC. UNIVERSAL feature of
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) old age.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: noun When there's diversity, Mnemonic: We are

Tone: pos there's variety. Often, all aware of the
COMMONLY CONFUSED this word is used for phrase Unity is
WORDS diversity of race, class, DIVERSITY.
COUNTER-ATTACK
DIVERSITY or gender. Example: There is a
need for greater
DESTROY DIVERSITY and
choice in education.
EMBARRASS
Root: DI means TWO
EXAGGERATE Form: adj She listens to hip-hop, Mnemonic:
EXCLUDE Tone: pos/neut Gregorian chant, and ECLECTIC or elect
folk music from the means, choosing the
FASHION '60s. He's been seen best from many
GIVE OUT wearing a handmade sources which is the
ECLECTIC tuxedo jacket over a meaning of the word
HARSH / BITING / SHARP thrift-store flannel shirt. ECLECTIC
They both have eclectic Example: The
HESITATE ON MORAL
tastes. ECLECTIC collection
GROUNDS
of furniture did not
HIDE / REVEAL (X) match
INACTIVE Form: adj If you've encountered Mnemonic: Imagine
Tone: neut the word motley, it's a motel made of
INDEPENDENCE / most likely in the junk, made up of
FREEDOM phrase "motley crew," diverse parts
INEFFECTIVE which means a diverse Example: The room
MOTLEY and poorly organized was filled with a
LOWER IN RANK group. Think of a band MOTLEY collection of
of pirates, or the furniture and
assorted characters who paintings.
MALICIOUS SELF- became The Fellowship Root: MOT- means
SATISFACTION of the Ring. MOVE
MISC. Form: adj Multifaceted means Mnemonic: Multi
Tone: pos having many aspects or means Many and
NOBLE / SPIRITUAL / (X) sides. Diamonds are Faceted can be
EARTHLY usually cut to be equated to Faces. SO
PLACE OF SAFETY multifaceted, that is, Many Faces.
MULTIFACETED with many angled flat Example: This is a a
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD surfaces, because this complex and
increases their ability to MULTIFACETED
REVENGE
reflect light. problem
RULE / LAW / PRINCIPLE Root: MULTI- means
MANY
SELF-CONTRADICTION
Form: adj A person or thing with Mnemonic: Multi
TO BURN Tone: pos many sides or different means MANY and
TO STIR UP / REVOLT qualities is multifarious. Farious relates to
The Internet has variety. So many
UNIVERSAL multifarious uses, varieties calls for
MULTIFARIOUS museums are known for MULTIFARIOUS
VARIETY
their multifarious art Example: the
VILLAGE - LIKE collections, and Hindu MULTIFARIOUS life
gods are associated forms in the coral
with multifarious reef
incarnations.
Form: adj Pied means colorfully Mnemonic: PIED
Tone: pos jumbled. If you're bird Pie chart:
looking at kittens, you multicolored pie
may see solid black Example: In the
PIED ones, solid white, or early hours of the
ones with lots of day, bird with PIED
different patches of markings can be seen
color. You'd call a in the park.
patchy one pied.
Form: adj A woman emptying out Mnemonic: SUNDRY
Tone: pos her purse after many contains SUNDRY
years might find an old items in purse
stick of gum, a pair of Example: On what
broken sunglasses, a basis will these
SUNDRY few movie tickets, and SUNDRY expenses be
sundry items, meaning met?
that that her purse was
filled with a random
collection of unrelated
things.
Form: adj make something more Mnemonic:
Tone: pos diverse and varied VARIEGATE is nothing
but VARIETY
VARIEGATE
Example: This is a a
plant with
VARIEGATEd leaves
Form: adj To describe a person or Mnemonic: "Various
Tone: pos thing that can adapt to Attires" or "Various
do many things or serve Styles" ...means
many functions, many forms and tahts
VERSATILE consider the adjective being VERSATILE.
versatile. Example: He's a
VERSATILE actor who
has played a wide
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AFTER-EFFECTS Form: adj As an adjective, bucolic Mnemonic: BUlls and

Tone: neut refers to an ideal country life COLI (collie, a sheep
COMMONLY CONFUSED that many yearn for. If your dog) Country -- rustic
WORDS parents wanted to raise you and pastoral places,
BUCOLIC in a bucolic environment, people, and songs.
COUNTER-ATTACK
you may find yourself living Example: a stream
DESTROY 45 minutes away from the winding through
nearest movie theater or tranquil parks and
EMBARRASS
person your age. Not ideal. BUCOLIC meadows
EXAGGERATE Form: adj Pastoral refers to the Mnemonic:
EXCLUDE Tone: neut countryside, particularly an PASTORAL is Rural
idealized view of the Example: In these
FASHION country. If you draw cheery stories of PASTORAL
GIVE OUT PASTORAL pictures with lush grassy life, we find an
fields, calm skies, a farm understanding of the
HARSH / BITING / SHARP animal or two, and some daily tasks of country
flowers, you draw pastoral folk
HESITATE ON MORAL
scenes.
GROUNDS
Form: adj When you think of the word Mnemonic: Think of
HIDE / REVEAL (X) Tone: neut rustic, think of the rural RUST, which reminds
INACTIVE country. This word can be us of something
given a positive or a which is old or has
INDEPENDENCE / negative spin depending on worn out, hence
FREEDOM how you use it; a rustic inn, country people are
RUSTIC
INEFFECTIVE for example, might be quaint old fashioned, rural
(old and strange) or it might or slightly backwards:
LOWER IN RANK be virtually uninhabitable RUSTIC.
(cannot st Example: This is a
typical an old cottage
MALICIOUS SELF- full of RUSTIC charm
SATISFACTION
MISC.
EARTHLY
PLACE OF SAFETY
REMOVE (X) / SPREAD
REVENGE
SELF-CONTRADICTION
TO BURN
TO STIR UP / REVOLT
UNIVERSAL
VARIETY
VILLAGE - LIKE
Legends:
X : Antonyms

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