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abscond

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  • *Meanings:** to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide
  • *Sentence:** Two prisoners absconded last night.
  • *Mnemonics:** ABSENT KAUN(who?) - whoever is absent in class has absconded
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ameliorate

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  • *Meanings:** to make better or more tolerable
  • *Sentence:** Foreign aid is badly needed to ameliorate the effects of the drought.
  • *Mnemonics:**
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arduous

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  • *Meanings:** strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort
  • *Sentence:** an arduous climb/task/journey
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ascetic

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  • *Meanings:** one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion
  • *Sentence:** They live a very ascetic life.
  • *Mnemonics:** ASS+SEPTIC(infected)….a person who has got highly SEPTIC ASS will be a ASCETIC…….he cannot live a normal life….
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austere

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  • *Meanings:** without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic
  • *Sentence:**
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axiom

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  • *Meanings:** a universally recognized principle
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axiomatic

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  • *Meanings:** taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
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bucolic

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  • *Meanings:** rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants
  • *Sentence:** The painting shows a typically bucolic scene with peasants.
  • *Mnemonics:** like boroccoli. Agriculutural. Rural.
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canonical

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  • *Meanings:** following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards
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  • *Mnemonics:** canonical–look at the word canon+ical-….something that resembles or like the biblical canon.
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contentious

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  • *Meanings:** argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement
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  • *Mnemonics:** Contentious- (Contender+Serious) One who takes competition too serious always fights and quarrels)
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convoluted

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  • *Meanings:** complex or complicated
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culpable

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  • *Meanings:** deserving blame
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  • *Mnemonics:** culp( culprit)…so a culprit is always DESERVING OF BLAME FROM EVERYONE.
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disabuse

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  • *Meanings:** to undeceive; to set right
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  • *Mnemonics:** story: like a girl fall in love with a rascal, and her father comes to know. what he will do is abuse the boy and disabuse the girl about the boy. simple naa.
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eclectic

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  • *Meanings:** composed of elements drawn from various sources
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  • *Mnemonics:** sounds like election, and in election only the best candidated are chosen !!
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effrontery

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  • *Meanings:** extreme boldness; presumptuousness
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  • *Mnemonics:** for every discussion he comes to the FRONT and argues…in a rude manner.
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ephemeral

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  • *Meanings:** brief; fleeting
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  • *Mnemonics:** elephant+marela hai..he lived short! :|
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erudite

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  • *Meanings:** very learned; scholarly
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  • *Mnemonics:** taken from rude+ite…in olden days people who were higly educated were basically very rude…as they were having profound knowledge of a subject they use to behave very rudely with less educated or illiterates people.
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extemporaneous

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  • *Meanings:** improvised; done without preparation
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  • *Mnemonics:** from extempore
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facetious

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  • *Meanings:** playful; humorous
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  • *Mnemonics:** FACE….SO THINK OF someone who never give serious look on his face.
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fulminate

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  • *Meanings:** to loudly attack or denounce /to criticise severely
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  • *Mnemonics:** Frustration will culminate in a loud verbal attack, an emotional explosion.
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hyperbole

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  • *Meanings:** an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech
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  • *Mnemonics:** bohat hi barra bole
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paean

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  • *Meanings:** a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving
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  • *Mnemonics:** like pious prayer
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penurious

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  • *Meanings:** penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous
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  • *Mnemonics:** A person who has to spend a PENNY and is FURIOUS about it is called PENURIOUS.
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perfidy

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  • *Meanings:** intentional breach of faith; treachery
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  • *Mnemonics:** per+ fidy=without fidelity i.e cheat upon ur partner,,in general cheat or breach something
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pernicious
* *Meanings:** extremely harmful; potentially causing death * *Sentence:** * *Mnemonics:** Pernicious sounds like vicious in the end which means very harmful
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perspicacious
* *Meanings:** acutely perceptive; having keen discernment * *Sentence:** it offers quite a few facts to the perspicacious reporter * *Mnemonics:** sounds like perspective or perceptive which are related.
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precipitate
* *Meanings:** acting with excessive haste or impulse * *Sentence:** * *Mnemonics:** like HEAVY rain. Happens suddenly and violently. TWO MEANINGS
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precipitate
* *Meanings:** to cause or happen before anticipated or required * *Sentence:** * *Mnemonics:** like HEAVY rain. Happens suddenly and violently. TWO MEANINGS
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predilection
* *Meanings:** a disposition in favor of something; preference * *Sentence:** your predilection for pretty girls * *Mnemonics:** pre-delicious. Your liking for somebody. Pre disposed
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prolific
* *Meanings:** producing large volumes or amounts; productive * *Sentence:** * *Mnemonics:**
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qualms
* *Meanings:** misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy * *Sentence:** military regimes generally have no qualms about controlling the press * *Mnemonics:**
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quiescence
* *Meanings:** stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest * *Sentence:** * *Mnemonics:** like the act of being quiet, motionless, at rest
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recant
* *Meanings:** to retract, esp. a previously held belief * *Sentence:** heretics were burned if they would not recant * *Mnemonics:**
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redoubtable
* *Meanings:** awe-inspiring; worthy of honor * *Sentence:** he was a redoubtable debater * *Mnemonics:** it can be splitted like re+doubt+able considering which can show that the thing which is able to create doubt again and again.and those things always create fear..
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reticent
* *Meanings:** quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings * *Sentence:** she was extremely reticent about her personal affairs * *Mnemonics:**
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squalid
* *Meanings:** sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect * *Sentence:** the squalid, overcrowded prison * *Mnemonics:** squashed lid. When lid is squashed, contents get dirty. Hence. Dirty from neglect.
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squander
* *Meanings:** to waste by spending or using irresponsibly * *Sentence:** £100m of taxpayers' money has been squandered on administering the tax * *Mnemonics:**
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stoic
* *Meanings:** indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast * *Sentence:** * *Mnemonics:** a look of stoic resignation. More like Tanveer Sb. Reserved.
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stymie
* *Meanings:** to block; thwart * *Sentence:** the changes must not be allowed to stymie new medical treatments * *Mnemonics:** Stymie is a negative word. Stymie means "tie me". i.e., prevent from moving forward.
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supplant
* *Meanings:** to take the place of; supersede * *Sentence:** domestic production has been supplanted by imports and jobs have been lost * *Mnemonics:**
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torpid
* *Meanings:** lethargic; sluggish; dormant * *Sentence:** the animal need not lie around in a torpid state, vulnerable to attack * *Mnemonics:** tor-pid like a tor-toise, we all know they-are-slow...
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torque
* *Meanings:** a force that causes rotation * *Sentence:** * *Mnemonics:**
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ubiquitous
* *Meanings:** existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread * *Sentence:** * *Mnemonics:**
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veracity
* *Meanings:** truthfulness; honesty * *Sentence:** officials expressed doubts concerning the veracity of the story * *Mnemonics:** ver=truth so truthfulness or honesty
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vilify
* *Meanings:** to defame; to characterize harshly * *Sentence:** he has been vilified in the press * *Mnemonics:** Vilify (to speak ill of) is to make someone out to be a villain
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virulent
* *Meanings:** extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic * *Sentence:** * *Mnemonics:** like a virus. Harmful and hostile.

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