Verbiage : (verb ka garbage) : Profusion of words usually of little or obscure content.
Futile : (Phat gayi MISSILE, sab ho gaya WASTE sab ho gaya FUTILE) : Completely useless
Perpetuate : (DURACELL - lasts long really long) : Prolong the existence of something
Frugal : (FREE vich no gallan) : Economical in expenditure
1. coquette -- remember shriman shrimati ji .. usme koki ji thi jinke saath unka neighbour flirt karta
tha
coquette ( ) n. A woman who makes teasing sexual or romantic overtures; a flirt
2. plethora -- plate mei thoda nhi rhega .. ye india hai .. you will get plethora of dishes
plethora/pleTHr/
Noun:
1.
2.
An excess of.
An excess of a bodily fluid, particularly blood.
abhor: can be read as ab or nahi
means complete hatred.
Salubrious- Health-giving; healthy: "salubrious weather".
Mnemonic- Just like Sallu miyan (apne Salman Bhai, always healthy)
Meaning of some words ve can remember by their opposite word:
For Ex:
1) Bashful : ye garrulous ka opposite h..nd ve kno garrulous means extremely talkative..
2) Impugn : ye defend ka opposite h..nd ve kno wt defend means..
3) Ostensible : opposite of "Real"
4) Apocryphal : Opposite of "authentic"....
5) ducile : opposite of "Obdurate.".
6) Inept: Opposite of "Adept"
7) shallow : opposite of "profound"
8) Wane, deteriorate : opposite of Flourish..
Jagganath temple me vishal rath yatra hoti hai!
Word: juggernaut
Meaning: a very large truck
Usage: The city is surrounded by juggernauts disturbing the peace of citizens.
ji aapka ladka badda hi ghul mil ke rahta hai!
Word: gregarious
Meaning: one who enjoys the company of people
Usage: Vishal is a gregarious person.
Tricks:- Osama Bin Laden is full of (laden) with heavy weapons.
Osama Bin Laden ka jiwan paap karmo se bhara tha.
laden :- full of, filled with great quality
CHIMERICAL- though its prnounced as KI-MERI-KAL, but the learning technique lies in
wrong pronounciation
SHE-MARRY-KAL
Now think abt AISHWARYA Rai...wat did she do to SALMAN and Vivek.....whenever they
asked abt marriage she said -SHE MARRY-KAL , i.e the marriage never took place it was
UNREAL, IMAGINARY and FANCIFUL ....which is the meaning of the word CHIMERICA
Servile: We can get the idea of serve from the word servile and that is essentially the
meaning of the word, though in a negative sense. It means, trying to please somebody by
serving his and obeying his/her each and every command, often to get a favour in return.
Sojourn: SOJOURN can be broken down into short-journey and this would help us to learn
the word. Now since you are making a short journey so you will be staying somewhere
temporarily as a part of that journey, this is what sojourn means. A temporary stay in a
place away from your home
Accessory - Additional; Spare
Accessary - A helper in any act(specially in crime); accomplice; partner
Acrid - Sharp; bitterly pungent
Acrimonious - Stinging; caustic; hostile; rancorous; discordant
Affection - Feeling of love
Affectation - Insincere pretense; artificial show; exaggeration
Allude - To make an indirect reference
Elude - To escape; evade; dodge
Ameliorate: In the movie Amelie by Jean pierre amelie wants to make the life of people
better
to make better
Syn- improv
Amanuensis : Stenographer or shorthand typist. For example, read the word like this ...
"Aman you and sis" come down for stenography ..... lolz
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Peevish : Irritated. For example, Now if you will spit in a soup and ask a boy named vish to
drink, wont he get irritated.......lolz
-----------------------------------------------------------------------Bacchanalian : Alcohalic (Sharabi). For example, Bacchan was Bacchanalian in the movie
Sharabi............lolz
bedizen: kiran bedi ne zen mei aa kar show off kiya
meaning: tastelessly showy
ameliorate: omellete + rate ) high toh better quality
meaning: To make better
PIQUE is a spanish football player
pique provoke his opponent to irritate him to get advantage in game
pique-A sudden outburst of anger
-to arouse anger or resentment in=irritate
Certitude-overconfidence
Certificate+Attitude
Because of certitude behavior of Ram,a" Certificate of Attitude " must be bestowed on him.
read a line in ET"Uppity Walmart"
Uppity-Presumptuously arrogant
Upper baith kar kar Walmart arrogant ho gayi hain
1. Phlegmatic :
M : Calm and unemotional.
Synonym : apathetic, imperturbable,sluggish.
Usgae : Being a man with a phlegmatic temperament, people resent his company.
2. Ubiquitous : Found or present everywhere.
M : remember UB Group of Vijaya Malliya. It is present everywhere in India.
Synonym : omnipresent
Antomym : rare, scarce
Usage : The celebrity was pursued by the ubiquitous paparazzi who were anxious to
photograph her
ODIUM = hate coupled with disgust
odium sounds very close to podium(a stage type of thing)-well standing on podium when
politician delivers speech against their opponents ..it fills us with odium
Pithy = a pithy statement or piece of writing is short and very effective
pi-thy: the math symbol pi is concise and has great meaning
1. ASCETIC (adj) : strictly self-disciplined and avoiding any pleasures or luxuries
M : Ascetic it is pronounced similar to acidic which is sour and colourless,so
whosoever is livin sour n colourless life (metaphorically speaking) but not sweet and
colourful is a ascetic person because he is avoiding pleasures and luxuries of life.
Synonyms : austere, abstemious, frugal.
Antonym : sybaritic
Usage : He gave up his opulent life for he now preferred to lead an ascetic existence.
2. Discreet : careful not to attract attention or give offence
M : Remove the C from it and it sounds like disrespect,so when you disrespect
somebody you bring offence to them.
Synonym : careful, cautious, chary, circumspect, considerate, delicate, diplomatic,
guarded.
Antonym : Indiscreet
Usage : They made a few discreet enquiries before clinching the deal.
Vacillate :
waver (in opinion); fluctuate; sway to and fro;
M : connect it with oscillate which moves to and fro here and there.
Vagary :
Capricious happening,an unpredictable or erratic action, occurrence, course, or instance
M : VAGARY agar,magar haan but suno toh.....when something is attached with agar magar,then u
never know whts going to be the result i.e it is unpredictable n maybe erratic
Break- divide in pieces
Brake- something that slows the action
---Right- Correct
Write- form/compose/spell
Wright- One that constructs/repairs
Rite- ceremony/ceremony act/series of acts
Palatable :
Agreeable,pleasing to the taste
M : 1. PALAT mat agree kar meri baat se
2 PLATE(palat) me jo bhi hai,it is pleasing my tastebuds
Golupcious :
M : Focus on GO UP (GOlUPcious), when you go up u feel delighted,splendid,magnificent.
couldnt find any better
Missive - letter
Missive >When you miss somebody you write a letter to them.
Mitigate - to lesson, to reduce, Appease, moderate.
Mitigate > "Gate pe kutte ki potty pe mitti daal do" why? so that the intensity of bad odour
will lessen.
Moodiness - felt of gloom and depression
moodiness > mood die --- u felt gloomy
flout meaning1) To treat something e.g. rules or code of conduct with scorn.
2) To show disrespect for something, in this case it is usually followed by at.
3) A disdainful act. (Noun)
my trickflout-float in air(feel happy) after flouting something !!!!
sordid
adj
1. dirty, foul, or squalid
2. degraded; vile; base a sordid affair
3. selfish and grasping sordid avarice
sordid - unethical or dishonest; "dirty police officers"; "a sordid political
campaign";dirty;corrupt
sordid - meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material
interests"
mnemonic to remember this word
sordid----feel sorry for what i did as a result if my sordidness
Circumlocation :M : Concentrate on circum means gol gol,so when you talk gol matol and not to the
point,we say u r circumlocuting.
Deference :
1.respectful submission or yielding to the judgment, opinion, will, etc., of another.
2. respectful or courteous regard: in deference to his wishes.
Deference connect it with reference. If somebody give your reference for something you respect him.
tirade = a speech of violent denunciation
Sounds like tired.. your mom gets tired after a TIRADE..i.e. LONG ANGRY
DENUNCIATORY SPEECH
Canard = a deliberately misleading fabrication
It was proved beyond doubt that the allegation against the leader was nothing but a canard.
Remember Kannad movies...their fighting is so unreal..false... so remember
canard as being a false portrayal.
Canard - can hard, it can hardly happen. It is exaggerated.
dicey=unreliable;difficult or dangerous; risky; tricky
mnemonic - (die see)
see u can die
Garmi mein to Sprite peena banta hai (chahe jitna bhi health-conscious ho). Aur ek se
zyaada baari, woh bhi: Repeat and Repeat Sprite!
Kyu?
For some respite, as simple as that!
Pronunciation: res-pit
Dictionary Kya Bolti Hai Respite ke Baare Mein:
1. A usually short interval of rest or relief.
2. Law Temporary suspension of a death sentence; a reprieve.
1. Abase:
Meaning: lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose selfRespect
Mnemonics: abase-abe(a slang used to degrade a person)+shhh(se)usually
an attempt to degrade a person's opinion..overall goes to humiliate a person....
2. Abash:
Meaning: embarrass
Mnemonics: What happens when u get a bash? (bashing)....u get embarrassed.
3. Abate:
Meaning: To reduce in amount;Put an end to; subside or moderate
Mnemonics: ab+ate , conc on ate, if u ate (spent) all ur money , ur property comes
to
an end (abate)
4. Abdicate:
Meaning: renounce; give up (position, right, or responsibility)
Mnemonics: ab (root ab means away as in abandon) + dic (dictatorship) + ate (to
eat and hence reduce) : means to give away (or reduce) dictatorship and hence to
giveup power.
Hubris :
arrogance; excessive self-conceit
Link word:
HUBBY
HUBRIS shown by HUBBY
mnemonic tip for mercenaryMercenary bole to aisa banda jo bilkul bhi mercy nahi rakhta, total hard-hearted emotionaless
banda. Iski sole motivation power/money etc. hote hai.
Professionally hired soldiers/markemen/bhailog ko mercenary bolte hai.
meaning of mercenary
1. Motivated solely by a desire for monetary or material gain.
2. Hired for service in a foreign army.
3. One who serves or works merely for monetary gain; a hireling. (noun, plural: mercenaries)
4. A professional soldier hired for service in a foreign army. (noun, plural: mercenaries)
The times when Bush was burnt on the streets, not literally, but a representation of him was
burnt, it was an effigy that people were setting fire to. We see such examples of effigies being
burst almost every day, dont we? Some reviled politician or the other is burst to ashes every now
and then.
Meaning of effigy1) A representation of a person or a group that is roughly made
2) Image of a person who is disliked and is used to ridicule.
master's tipEffigy can be easily learnt with the help of the word jiffy, as the two words are a bit similar in
sound. Further, to make it easier, we can say the effigy was reduced to ashes in a jiffy (in an
instant).
some sentences1) George Bushs effigy was burnt in the streets as a protest against the war. (Noun)
2) Effigies were burnt in the street to protest the westernisation of the Indian culture. (Plural)
3) It was the effigy-like representation of communism that was assaulted in the public view.
(Adjective)
4) People were left aghast when they saw the effigies being burnt in the streets. (Plural)
consent- able to participate, who is "legally capable" of giving argument. (matlab HAA )
Assent- kind of back support, unable to legally give agreement (matlab Huu (bina man ka
yes))
Haggard :
having a wild, wasted, worn look, as from sleeplessness, grief, or illness
Link word:
HEY GOD
Ramlal exclaimed 'HEY GOD' for the HAGGARD look on the Shyamlal's face
vintage:Characterized by excellence,maturity,and enduring appeal; classic.Of the best;Of the most
distinctive
mnemonic usedwin(vin) by having these (age)advantages(excellence,maturity...)
kernel -- we all know colonel (kernel) is the most important part of army unit
kernel -- central or vital part; core; whole seed (as of corn)
kindle -- rhymes with candle
kindle -(verb) cause to start burning
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
"arouse pity", "raise a smile", "evoke sympathy"
catena -- cat har saal hota hai ye yaad rakkho bas..so it is a series of events
catena -- A chain of connected ideas, passages or objects so arranged that each member is
closely related to the preceding and following members
salacious....it means lustful ; lechorous
it gives the hint of the hindi word 'sali'....so can be remebered as a "a characterless jeeja
who is salacious for his sali"...
shrew...it means a bad tempered female....one of the like who is always nagging...So
split shrew:sounds like 'She+screwed'...
a girl who screws you is always bad tempered and not very well behaved...hence the
meaning.
articulate : "Artist + Late ( Aaram se kaam karega) => Absolute, Good work"
1) adj. --> Expressing oneself easily in clear and effective language: an articulate speaker
2) vb. --> To express in coherent verbal form; give words to: couldn't articulate my fears
expropriate -- it actually means ex-property
expropriate -- Deprive of possessions
"The Communist government expropriated the landowners"
restitution -- after some hard work we REST(itute) to regain energy
restitution/restt(y)ooSHn/
Noun:
1.
2.
The restoration of something lost or stolen to its proper owner.
Recompense for injury or loss.
modicum:
it sounds like 'kumm'...so it is less in quantity or not up tp the required amount...very small
in quantity or number
cerebrate: (Not celebrate) : "cerebrum" is part of brain.(U must have learned in school).
So related to thinking.
cerebrate - use or exercise the mind OR one's power of reason in order to make
inferences, decisions, or arrive at a solution or judgments;
(Entire reasoning is based on CEREBRATING)
Synonyms: cogitate, think
eg. As they surveyed the damage, Jonathan did not ask his father how he would fix the tree
house, instead allowing him stare and cerebrate in silence.
catastrophe - what if "CAT STOP" ---Disaster (Term CAT here used is Common Aptitude
Test)
catastrophe - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; notable disaster or
misfortune; OR
A complete failure; a fiasco:
Eg: The food was cold, the guests quarreled
the whole dinner was a catastrophe.
Related word :
cataclysm - a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
subterfuge -- sab taraf fuse udd gya .. and i couldn't recognise the thief
subterfuge -- Something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity
"he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"
quarry -- kuwari ladki ko raat ko akele mat bhejo .. there are many anti social elements waiting out
there to make her their quarry
quarry -- A person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation)
by some hostile person or influence.
"he fell quarry to muggers"
vermilion -- achha var mile is liye roz mandir jaa k vermilion color ka teeka lagaate hai
vermilion --- Of a vivid red to reddish-orange colour
pageantry -- there were spectacular fireworks on republic day and newspapers made a page
entry of the celebrations
pageantry -- A rich and spectacular ceremony
redact -- remember our teacher used to circle out mistakes with red pen before getting our articles
published in the school magazine .. that was a red act
redact -- Prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
"redact a book on lexical semantics"
Hobsons choice: No choice
Hobsons gave no one any choice at all. Thats the real meaning of the phrase. Thomas
Hudson was the owner of a livery stable in 17th century England. He loved his horses and
made a great fetish of seeing to it that each horse was hired in turn. A customer who didn't
happen to care for the animal that was offered him was forced to accept or do without his
ride for the day. If someone , then should offer you Hobsons choice it means that you must
accept the thing offered or settle for
nothing at all.
Meaning: The absence of real alternative
Synonyms:Catch-22, between Scylla andCharybdis, between a rock and a hard
place,between the hammer and the anvil, between twofires, cornered, in a dilemma, in a
pickle, in apredicament, in the middle, no choice, sitting on a powder keg
impresario -- stars impress us because impresario sets a great stage for their shows ..
impresario -- A sponsor who books and stages public entertainments
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delude - 'Dell ud.....frrrrrr'... Upar udega to gum ho jayega ---> mislead....
To deceive the mind or judgment of; mislead; beguile
be false to; be dishonest with
fraudulent ads that delude consumers into sending in money.
>She deluded herself into thinking he cared for her.
Sophomore - First year se jee nahi bhara so for more education she continued to 2nd year!!
sophomore - A second-year university or high school student.
pooh pooh -- from boo boo (_as we do when india plays bad)
pooh pooh -- Express contempt about
"She pooh-poohed his advances"
missive: when we miss someone we message him/her
missive: A written message addressed to a person or organization
"mailed an indignant missive to the editor"
Subjugate= Sub+Jug+ate= saare jag ko khane waala
Subjugate means conqueror
Jettison = To get rid off
When jet airways were laying off their staffs.
BALMY: Soothing (Having the qualities of BALM)
MORIBUND: (mori+ bund = dimaag bund means end) Approaching death
POLTROON: (PATLOON dheela hona ) Coward
BALLYHOO: (bol+hoo-noisy sound) A noisy attention
ABANDON: band (dam)+on in hindi movies we often seen jab bandh toot jata hai aur jo
vahan ke officers incharge hote hai vo give up kar dete hai
ABSCOND- AB sbko CON krke hide ho gya n thn escape kr gya qki uske
contacts Dcompany k sath the.
(depart secretly or hide, escape,flee)
IRATE = I + RATE . Meaning Angry
When performance ratings come , they make me angry :sneaky::sneaky:
ABOUND means abundant quantity
Abound : No bound . Thats why a lot
1.) cull : kal kal karte kam reject kar dena
Meaning : reject
ENTOURAGE = EN + TOUR + AGE
Meaning : A group of ppl following a person .
Old ppl (jinki AGE zyaada hai) are going on a TOUR . Since they are old they are going with
a tour guide .
Excruciating : Extremely Painful
Those who watch football must be knowing about ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament) . Ppl
who get ACL injury have to bear immense pain . So ex"CRUCIAT"ing is extremely painful
idiosyncrasy
ideas + synch (people having same ideas)
MEANING :
1. a behaviour pattern peculiar to a type of individual or group of such like minded people
progenitor
pro(before) + gene (existence)
MEANING :
1. an ancestor or a forefather
2. an originator, precursor, predecessor or founder
metamorphosis
meta(complete)+ morph(change)
MEANING :
1. a profound change in form from one stage to the next in the life history of an organism
2. a complete change in the character, appearance or circumstances
ac : root means sharp or biiter
acrid means : sharp or pungent smell
acrimonious : sharp remark
(remember acrimonious can be only used for some kind remark but not smell or taste..)
Pair->Two
Pare->To remove the thin outer layer of something/ To reduce the value of smth.
Peel-> Chhilka , banana ka chhilka, Apple ka chhilka
Peek/Peep->jhaankna ->To look at something very quickly and secretly because u should
not be looking at it.
Peak-> At the highest point of smth.
Pique-> Annoyed of bitter feelings that u have, because ur pride has been hurt.
pachyderm
thick-skinned animal
mnemonic- PAKKI in hindi (strong)+derm(skin)
taciturn
habitually reserved and uncommunicative
mnemonic- tacit which means "without words".
unguent
An ointment usually liquid or semi-liquid for application to wounds. (noun)
Unguent can be associated with the word pungent not only due to the same sound, but also
because an unguent usually comes with a pungent smell.
stipulated
Stipulate = Staple It.
Staple what?
The terms and conditions at the end of agreement, the ones that are made compulsory and
obligatory by it.
Paradox
1) A statement that is self-contradictory, but in reality has a possibility to be true
2) A self-contradictory suggestion
one example - what came before ? a hen or an egg ?