Group3_HitParade

Question 1

adulation

Answer 1

• *Meanings:** excessive praise; intense adoration
• *Sentence:** he found it difficult to cope with the adulation of the fans
• *Mnemonics:** adulation: additional congratulations…

Question 2

burgeon

Answer 2

• *Meanings:** to grow rapidly or flourish
• *Sentence:** manufacturers are keen to cash in on the burgeoning demand
• *Mnemonics:** Burge+on sounds like Bulge which means growing big

Question 3

castigation

Answer 3

• *Meanings:** severe criticism or punishment
• *Sentence:** Will he not castigate the Lebanese Government for permitting that to happen, despite promises to the contrary?
• *Mnemonics:** In olden days lower CAST people were severely criticized…

Question 4

caustic

Answer 4

• *Meanings:** burning or stinging; causing corrosion
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** like caustic soda. Corrodes

Question 5

chary

Answer 5

• *Meanings:** wary; cautious; sparing
• *Sentence:** most people are chary of allowing themselves to be photographed
• *Mnemonics:** chary: think of charred… somebody “charred” is chary i.e., somebody who is burnt is always wary or cautious

Question 6

cogent

Answer 6

• *Meanings:** appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** like potent, but for cognition. Very pursusasive

Question 7

complaisance

Answer 7

• *Meanings:** the willingness to comply with the wishes of others
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** compliance

Question 8

contrite

Answer 8

• *Meanings:** regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
• *Sentence:** a broken and a contrite heart
• *Mnemonics:** CONT+RITE= Cant + right= I regret that I cant do anything rite.

Question 9

demur

Answer 9

• *Meanings:** to question or oppose
• *Sentence:** normally she would have accepted the challenge, but she demurred
• *Mnemonics:** sounds a little like Damn U R wrong!! I object!

Question 10

didactic

Answer 10

• *Meanings:** intended to teach or instruct
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** diactic=did+act You do an act to teach something,as in a moral thus didactic=teach

Question 11

dogmatic

Answer 11

• *Meanings:** stubbornly opinionated
• *Sentence:** his religious dogmatic beliefs
• *Mnemonics:** concentrate on word DOGMA. dogma means a doctrine or codes. So dogmatic becomes doctrinal. again a doctrine is made of opinions, thus comes opinionated.

Question 12

ebullience

Answer 12

• *Meanings:** the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and
• *Sentence:** His diary is filled with a young man’s ebullience.
• *Mnemonics:** like something bubbling up with excitemnet

Question 13

elegy

Answer 13

• *Meanings:** a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** like eulogy, but a poem

Question 14

emollient

Answer 14

• *Meanings:** soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** break it like e + moll, now moll = mall, so in summer we go to a mall because of its centralized ‘AC’ for a soothing climate.

Question 15

furtive

Answer 15

• *Meanings:** marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** One who is FARTive has to expel farts stealthily.

Question 16

harangue

Answer 16

• *Meanings:** to deliver a pompous speech or tirade
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** hairan tongue.

Question 17

impecunious

Answer 17

• *Meanings:** lacking funds; without money
• *Sentence:** a titled but impecunious family
• *Mnemonics:** pecu (read as pesu means money). impec(s)unious who doesn’t have money.

Question 18

incipient

Answer 18

• *Meanings:** beginning to come into being or to become apparent
• *Sentence:** he could feel incipient anger building up
• *Mnemonics:** IN+SIP ient….a person who drinks for the first time takes alcohol in sips coz he is a beginner….incipient

Question 19

intransigent

Answer 19

• *Meanings:** refusing to compromise
• *Sentence:** the regime remained intransigent in its opposition to wider participation in the political process
• *Mnemonics:** intransigent = in-‘not’ + transact => won’t do the transaction

Question 20

inveigle

Answer 20

• *Meanings:** to obtain by deception or flattery
• *Sentence:** we cannot inveigle him into putting pen to paper
• *Mnemonics:** inveigle sounds like in veil. SO something that is concealed by a veil. Outward appearances are sometimes deceptive.

Question 21

odious

Answer 21

• *Meanings:** evoking intense aversion or dislike
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** like bad odor. Stench.

Question 22

preen

Answer 22

• *Meanings:** to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** like pruning plants

Question 23

prodigious

Answer 23

• *Meanings:** abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** like prodigal, but in things. Things in excess

Question 24

putrefy

Answer 24

• *Meanings:** to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** like vegetables, they putrefy

Question 25

quaff

Answer 25

• *Meanings:** to drink deeply
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** You cough when you quaff a liquid too quickly.

Question 26

urbane

Answer 26

• *Meanings:** sophisticated; refined; elegant
• *Sentence:**
• *Mnemonics:** makes sense. Not a dehati yo!