Group1_HitParade Flashcards
(36 cards)
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alacrity
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- *Meanings:** eager and enthusiastic willingness
- *Sentence 1:** We accepted the invitation with alacrity.
- *Sentence 2:** They would rush to the spot with alacrity, and ask only to be told what todo.
- *Mnemonics:** remember it as a la carte.. which means selecting food from the menu.. usually when ppl go to restaurants they are “eager” to get food!!
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approbation
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- *Meanings:** an expression of approval or praise
- *Sentence 1:** For that message, he deserves our approbation.
- *Sentence 2:** But the very power of its imagery is in itself something far less thanapprobation.
- *Mnemonics:** APPRO-bation something related to approve or approval
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assuage
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- *Meanings:** to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
- *Sentence 1:** It also agreed to make its secret source code available to somegovernments in order to assuage security concerns.
- *Sentence 2:** The authorities have agreed to hold the vote over one day instead of two, toassuage fears of manipulation.
- *Mnemonics:** ass-usage in the toilet gives huge relief
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capricious
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- *Meanings:** inclined to change one’s mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
- *Sentence 1:** But in this changed behavior of the people there is nothing capricious orinconsistent.
- *Sentence 2:** There are just too many variables, and airlines are just too capricious toallow themselves to be outguessed.
- *Mnemonics:** part of this word is “Capri”.. usually capri’s are low waist… its very unpredictable when it may fall of ur waist.. its so loose..
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censure
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- *Meanings:** to criticize severely; to officially rebuke
- *Sentence 1:** But do not risk the censure of your supervisor by refusing to extend co-authorship.
- *Sentence 2:** Americans censure nepotism on the one hand and practice it as much asthey can on the other.
- *Mnemonics:** Try to link the meaning of this word with the censor board which always critisizes every inch of the film and also disapproves of some of the parts.
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chicanery
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- *Meanings:** trickery or subterfuge
- *Sentence 1:** Auditors uncovered telltale hints of financial chicanery.
- *Sentence 2:** Politics has always been lousy with blather and chicanery.
- *Mnemonics:** chicanery sounds like shikari who uses means of deception to trick animals into his traps.
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connoisseur
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- *Meanings:** an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert
- *Sentence 1:** If you are a hardcore coffee connoisseur, you might find the pod choices toolimiting.
- *Sentence 2:** He was a true audiophile, and connoisseur of jazz in particular.
- *Mnemonics:** kon aur sure?
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discordant
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- *Meanings:** conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
- *Sentence 1:** If a song ends in one key and the next song starts in a discordant key, itpsychologically jars the audience.
- *Sentence 2:** But these two discordant personalities did make their peace.
- *Mnemonics:** dis+chord as in not a chord, so it is conflicting or harsh in sound
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enervate
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- *Meanings:** to weaken; to reduce in vitality
- *Sentence 1:** Although eventually the emotionally dark atmosphere may enervate thereader, the novel has a haunting power.
- *Sentence 2:** The nerves finally terminate in the wing cell layer from where they enervatethe epithelium.
- *Mnemonics:** Energy being vaped
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ennui
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- *Meanings:** dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
- *Sentence 1:** Sometimes a change of scene isn’t enough to ease urban ennui.
- *Sentence 2:** And nothing kills ennui dead better than the Pixies.
- *Mnemonics:** ay nayee.
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equivocate
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- *Meanings:** to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent
- *Sentence 1:** Because he is in the right, he cannot afford to compromise and his leaderscannot afford to equivocate.
- *Sentence 2:** You may equivocate, you may lie in your business, but you don’t lie to thepress.
- *Mnemonics:** equi(equal) vocal(sound)… if we make similar sounds then it would be ambiguous(unclear) to distinguish!!
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exculpate
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- *Meanings:** exonerate; to clear of blame
- *Sentence 1:** Each makes some attempt to exculpate the other.
- *Sentence 2:** It is alleged that without this exemption the defendant would be required toexculpate himself.
- *Mnemonics:** ex-culprit
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exigent
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- *Meanings:** urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
- *Sentence 1:** How much and what type of urgency constitutes an exigent circumstance? .
- *Sentence 2:** The exigent time scale of the evolutionary crisis still has not captured theirattention.
- *Mnemonics:** EX-tremely ur-GENT
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ingenuous
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- *Meanings:** artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication
- *Sentence 1:** The claim is perhaps cagily ingenuous, by a writer often accused of beingtoo cerebral and cool-hearted.
- *Sentence 2:** It is impossible not to accept it in the ingenuous spirit in which it wasfabricated.
- *Mnemonics:** In+genuine- In genuine relationship people are naive and trusting to each other.
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inured
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- *Meanings:** to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to):
- *Sentence 1:** Some critics believe investors have become inured to the hefty payouts.
- *Sentence 2:** The full professors turn a callous eye toward this grieving process, havingmany years ago become inured to such losses.
- *Mnemonics:** To become INURED you must have ENDURED.
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irascible
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- *Meanings:** easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts laud to praise highly
- *Sentence 1:** He was a little quicktempered and irascible, and people were apt to thinkhim cross and crabbed, but he had a kind heart.
- *Sentence 2:** But the irascible old militia colonel was there to oppose it, and his harsharguments disappointed his colleagues.
- *Mnemonics:** concentrate on rasc- a rascal is one who is irritable, choleric, shor-tempered & hotheaded
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magnanimity
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- *Meanings:** the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving
- *Sentence 1:** He swept away boundaries with his vision, hatred with his magnanimity,fear with his courage.
- *Sentence 2:** Don’t slag the students who insulted you, show magnanimity.
- *Mnemonics:** magNANIMAous, NANI MA in hindi, is always “generous” to us
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nascent
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- *Meanings:** coming into being; in early developmental stages
- *Sentence 1:** It was cold and rainy, and there was only so much I was willing to sacrificefor a nascent crush.
- *Sentence 2:** When the original article was published, crowdsourcing still constituted anascent business model.
- *Mnemonics:**“new soul sent”…..to earth
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nebulous
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- *Meanings:** vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
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neologism
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- *Meanings:** a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses
- *Sentence 1:** To make it substantive and then pluralising it merely allows for a falseidentification as a neologism.
- *Sentence 2:** Please give me a strong incentive to keep reading your blog by avoiding theuse of this awful neologism.
- *Mnemonics:**‘neo’ means ‘new’ and ‘logos’ means ‘word’; so ‘neologism’ means inventing new word.
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noxious
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- *Meanings:** harmful; injurious
- *Sentence 1:** She got him to eat his peas, whenever the noxious legume appeared on hisplate, by paying him $5.
- *Sentence 2:** These chemicals can make plants smell good or, alternately, noxious.
- *Mnemonics:** Oxides of nitrogen are all toxic and are represented by NOx (Sulfur oxides by SOx)so NOx -IOUS…means harmful…also something NOXIOUS can make you NAUSEOUS
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obtuse
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- *Meanings:** lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression
- *Sentence 1:** It might even be the actual dominant life form on this planet, and we’resimply too obtuse to be aware of it.
- *Sentence 2:** The parents who gave their kids the gun that his brother used to commitsuicide weren’t evil so much as mind-numbingly obtuse.
- *Mnemonics:** obtuse = big/fat so it means moti buddhi ha ha ha
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obviate
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- *Meanings:** to anticipate and make unnecessary
- *Sentence 1:** The new system also would not obviate concerns about the accidental ormalicious storage of images.
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- *Mnemonics:** OOhhh..Deviate ..and prevent it from happening
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onerous
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- *Meanings:** troubling; burdensome
- *Sentence 1:** There are other powers, too, that could perform this grateful but onerousduty-Times.
- *Sentence 2:** Or it can go in and have to obey the onerous requests.
- *Mnemonics:** onerous….can be associated wid owners on us…who r trouble some
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perennial
* *Meanings:** recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
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perfunctory
* *Meanings:** cursory; done without care or interest
* *Sentence 1:** Many institutions provide only perfunctory advising and/or counseling.
* *Sentence 2:** The daughter remembers how she was too busy with city life to makeanything more than a perfunctory phone call home.
* *Mnemonics:** Perform+hurry....perform in a hurry....perfunctory....
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prattle
* *Meanings:** to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner
* *Sentence 1:** It's one thing to have your monkey's on the left prattle on about how badthe filibuster is.
* *Sentence 2:** But journalists ignore the both of us and prattle on regardless, as if it werefactual.
* *Mnemonics:** prattle- think of cattle, they walk around aimlessly, with no meaning. -meaning less.
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prescience
* *Meanings:** foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
* *Sentence 1:** Investigators will try to find out who it was that showed such sinisterprescience.
* *Sentence 2:** Lewis is delighted but not surprised by her own prescience.
* *Mnemonics:** pre(before)+science(..knowledge)..i.e. having the knowledge to TELL THE FUTURE BEFORE TIME...
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prevaricate
* *Meanings:** to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead
* *Sentence 1:** He must now decide whether to use the split as a chance to start afresh, ormerely as another reason to prevaricate.
* *Sentence 2:** On a more enlightened planet we wouldn't need to prevaricate.
* *Mnemonics:** divide is as pre(..before)+var(truth..)+icate(..gate) ..i.e. before truth, you have kept a gate. Hence you are LYING or HIDING THE TRUTH..
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solicitous
* *Meanings:** concerned and attentive; eager
* *Sentence 1:** He is solicitous about colleagues, concerned about friends and worried aboutthe whole world.
* *Sentence 2:** One hates one's abnormal, erupting skin but is led into a brooding, solicitousattention toward it.
* *Mnemonics:** solicitor means a lawyer so he always must be attentive and concerned (/solicitous ) towards his cases.
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sporadic
* *Meanings:** occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances
* *Sentence 1:** Since then supporters loyal to both figures have been involved in sporadic,often violent, clashes.
* *Sentence 2:** The pre-dawn ocean was violently churning and downpours of rain weresporadic.
* *Mnemonics:** sporadic== opposite of periodic, we know periodic things occur regularly.
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stupefy
* *Meanings:** to stun, baffle, or amaze
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tortuous
* *Meanings:** winding; twisting; excessively complicated
* *Sentence 1:** The calculations can be complicated by the tortuous accounting used tocalculate the private-equity industry's returns.
* *Sentence 2:** Physically he had survived, but mentally he carried that tortuous ordeal untilthe day he died.
* *Mnemonics:** like a winding road
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truculent
* *Meanings:** fierce and cruel; eager to fight
* *Sentence 1:** a theater critic who was notorious for his titanically truculent reviews
* *Sentence 2:** die-hard fans who became truculent and violent after their team's loss
* *Mnemonics:** Sounds like 'Truck' which is the king of the road and runs very aggessively.
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voracious
* *Meanings:** having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous
* *Sentence 1:** it seemed like the voracious kitten was eating her weight in food every day
* *Sentence 2:** 1. He has a voracious appetite.
* *Mnemonics:** remember carniVORES ,herbiVORES...So "VORE" tells sumthing about eating.
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waver
* *Meanings:** to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion
* *Sentence 1:** They never wavered in their support for their leader.
* *Sentence 2:** Despite the changes, he did not waver from his plan to retire.
* *Mnemonics:** Like a sea WAVE going UP and DOWN in taking decision.
