Mnemonics, Picture, Root word

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ABDICATE
- to give up a position, right, or power

ABJURE

Root: Ab

- to reject, abandon formally

Abjure, Abdicate, abominate, abandon,
abnegate
ABLUTION
- act of cleansing
Ablution > Blue
ABNEGATE
- to deny, renounce
ABROGATE
- to abolish or invalidate by authority

ABSTEMIOUS
- consuming moderately
Abstruse / Ab >
ABSTRUSE

- difficult to comprehend

ABUT

Acerbic, Acrimonious, Acidulous

- to touch, to be in contact with

Prefix Ac > Acid >

Negative connotation

ACERBIC
- bitter, sharp in taste or temper

ACME

ADROIT

- highest point, summit

Draw

skill

ACQUIESCE
- to agree or comply in silence

ADROIT
- skillful, accomplished, highly
competent

ADUMBRATE

ALTRUISM

- to sketch, outline in a shadowy way

All true person

ALTRUISM
- unselfish concern for others' welfare

AMBULATORY
- itinerant; walking around

AMBULATORY

Ambulance

AMORTIZE
- to diminish by installment payments

ANTEDILUVIAN
ANTE DILUVIAN anti-love

ANCILLARY
- accessory, subordinate; helping
ANTHROPOMORPHIC
ANTEDILUVIAN

Confidence

- prehistoric, ancient beyond measure;

coming before the biblical flood

performance

ANTHROPOMORPHIC
- attributing human qualities to
nonhumans; having human qualities
APLOMB
- poise, confidence

A PO STATE // Po state
APOSTATE

Po-state > Political status

- one who renounces a religious faith

APOTHEGM > theme
APOTHEGM

shortly

- a short, instructive saying

APOTHEOSIS
APOTHEOSIS
- deification; glorified ideal

supervisor

thesis

ARBOREAL
- relating to trees; living in trees

ass+in+the+dust.

ASSIDUOUS
- diligent, persistent, hardworking

BACCHANALIAN
- drunkenly festive

BALK
- to refuse, shirk; prevent
Continue

BEATIFIC
- saintly, angelic

BEHEMOTH
- huge creature
BELIE
- to misrepresent; expose as false

BENISON
- blessing

When a dog barks, you balk.

BEATIFIC beauty

BIFURCATE
- divide into two parts
BILIOUS

bili-ili-ill..so it resembles ill in bile,ie

stomach
dont take it offensely

- easily irritated, relating to bile

BONHOMIE
- good-natured geniality; atmosphere
of good cheer
BULWARK
- defense wall; anything serving as

BULWARK bull

defense

CAJOLE

JOSTLE = harsh force. CAJOLE =

- to flatter, coax, persuade

gentle force to do something

CALAMITOUS
- disastrous, catastrophic

CALUMNY
- false and malicious accusation,
misrepresentation, slander

CANARD
- a lie

CANARD

CAROM
- to strike and rebound
CAVALCADE
- a procession

CHAGRIN
- shame, embarrassment, humiliation
Embarrassing
CHARLATAN \
CHARLATAN
- quack, fake

CHIMERICAL
Miracle is imaginative

CHATTEL
- piece of personal property
CHIMERICAL
- fanciful, imaginary, visionary;
impossible

CHOLERIC
- easily angered, short-tempered

CHURLISH
- rude
CISTERN
- tank for rainwater
COALESCE

- to grow together; cause to unite as

one

COFFER
- strongbox, large chest for money
COGNOMEN
- family name; any name, especially a
nickname

COMELINESS

COMMODIOUS

COMMODI

- physical grace and beauty

COMPUNCTIOUS
COMMODIOUS
- roomy, spacious

COMPUNCTIOUS
- feeling guilty or having misgivings

CONCILIATORY
- overcoming distrust or hostility
FLAGRATION
CONFLAGRATION
- big, destructive fire

CONGENIAL
- similar in tastes and habits

con(same)+genial(gene

CONSANGUINEOUS
- of the same origin; related by blood

CONTENTIOUS
- quarrelsome, disagreeable,
belligerent

Contentious- (Contender+

CONTUMACIOUS

Serious)

- rebellious

CORPULENCE
- obesity, fatness, bulkiness

CORRUGATE
- to mold in a shape with parallel
grooves and ridges
COSSET
- to pamper, treat with great care

COTERIE
- small group of persons with a similar
purpose
COVEN
- group of witches

cove is like cave. so witches usually

live in caves

CURMUDGEON
- cranky person

Cur-mud-geon > Car mud(

driver went bad tempered..

DECLIVITY

DECLIVITY

DECLI

- downward slope
DELETERIOUS
DELETERIOUS
- harmful, destructive, detrimental

DELUGE

DEL UGE

charge someone with too many tasks

- flood
DEMAGOGUE
- leader or rabble-rouser who usually
uses appeals to emotion or prejudice

DEMAGOGUE

DENIGRATE

DENIGRATE

- to slur or blacken someone's

reputation

If

DES) people will CRY every

body will notice them

DESCRY
- to discover or reveal

DIAPHANOUS
- allowing light to show through;
delicate
DICTUM
- authoritative statement; popular

dictator

means

saying

authoritarian; dictum means an

authoritative statement.
DIDACTIC
- excessively instructive
DILUVIAL

Dida (Grandmother) Teaches us many

thing in childhood specially moral
lesson

- relating to a flood
DIMINUTIVE

DIMINUTIVE

- small
DISCOMFIT

DISCOMFIT

- to cause perplexity and

embarrassment

DISTAFF

DI

DISTAFF
- the female branch of a family

DITHER DITH

DITHER
- to move or act confusedly or without

DIURNAL

clear purpose

DIURNAL
- daily

Some Doctors are arrogant on their

opinions when a junior suggest them.

DOCTRINAIRE
- rigidly devoted to theories
a stubborn person of arbitrary or
arrogant opinions

DOLOR
- sadness

DOUGHTY
- courageous

DROLL
- amusing in a wry, subtle way

DYSPEPTIC
- suffering from indigestion; gloomy

dys (means not functioning

and irritable
properly) + peptic.. pepsin.

EBULLIENT

ebullient="e+bullet" so u r the don and

- exhilarated, full of enthusiasm and

now u have new e-bullet so obviously u

high spirits

r so h ppy with this

EFFLUVIA
- outpouring of gases or vapors

EFFULGENT
- brilliantly shining

EGREGIOUS

effulgent:-ef +fulgent

- conspicuously bad a crying shame

mend means to correct things.

EMEND
- to correct a text

EMOLLIENT

MOLLI

EMOLLIENT
- having soothing qualities, esp. for
skin
ENCOMIUM

ENCOMIUM
- warm praise

epidemic is something that is confined

to vast area and endemic is confined to
small area

ENDEMIC
- belonging to a particular area,
inherent

ENNUI

ENNUI
- boredom, lack of interest and energy

EPICURE
- person with refined taste in food and
wine

EPITOME
- representative of an entire group;

epitome,at d end it sounds like

summary

TOM-remember tom n jerry r d

"perfect example" of EPIc.

ERSATZ

- fake

ERSATZ E

R SAT

ESCHEW
- to abstain from, avoid

EVINCE

ES CHEW

CHEW

- to show clearly, display, signify

EXORCISE
- to expel evil spirits

EVINCE sounds like evidence,

evidence CLEARLY SHOWS

EXPATIATE

ex or cize; cut or size means to

- to wander; to discuss or describe at

make trim & neat.

length

expatiate.....sounds like expect....and

you expect every writer to clarify the

EXPIATE
- to atone for, make amends for

meaning or the intent of his written

essays.. or stories.
sounds like expiry date:-if u buy
anything which is already expired then

EXPUNGE

the person selling that will make

- to erase, eliminate completely

amends and give you the fresh piece

EXPURGATE

when some PUNCHES u.. he takes u

- to censor

out

Expurgate - divide this word into

(expel+ur+gate), you always expel the

EXTEMPORANEOUS

waste from your gate to make your

- unrehearsed, on the spur of the

home 'clean'

moment

EXTOL
- to praise

EXTRAPOLATE
- to estimate

FACETIOUS
- witty in an inappropriate way

FATUOUS
- stupid; smugly foolish;
unconsciously foolish

FEALTY
- intense loyalty

FECUND
- fertile, fruitful, productive

FETID
- foul-smelling, putrid

FEY
- doomed

FILCH
- to steal

FILIAL
- appropriate for a child

FLACCID
- limp, flabby, weak

FOLIATE
- to grow, sprout leaves

FORSWEAR
- to repudiate, renounce, disclaim,
reject

FRACAS
- noisy dispute

FRACTIOUS
- unruly, rebellious

FRENETIC
- wildly frantic, frenzied, hectic

FULMINATE
- to explode with anger

FULSOME
- excessive, overdone, sickeningly
abundant

FURTIVE
- secret, stealthy

GAINSAY

GAINSAY

- to deny

GAMBOL
- to dance or skip around playfully

GAUCHE
- crude, socially awkward

GERMINATE
- to begin to grow (as in a seed or
idea)

GIBE
- to make heckling, taunting remarks

GLIB
- fluent in an insincere manner;
offhand, casual

GNOSTIC
- having to do with knowledge

GRANDILOQUENCE
- pompous talk, fancy but meaningless
language

GRATUITOUS
- free, voluntary; unnecessary and
unjustified

GUSTATORY
- relating to sense of taste

HACKNEYED
- worn out by over-use

HARANGUE
- a pompous speech

HEGEMONY
- leadership, domination, usually by a

country

HERETICAL
- opposed to an established religious
orthodoxy

HERMETIC
- tightly sealed

HOARY
- very old; whitish or gray from age
HUSBAND
- to farm; manage carefully and
thriftily

IDIOSYNCRASY
- peculiarity of temperament,
eccentricity
IGNOMINIOUS
- disgraceful and dishonorable
ILK
- type or kind
ILLUSORY
- unreal, deceptive
IMBUE
- to infuse; dye; wet, moisten
IMPECUNIOUS
- poor, having no money
IMPERIOUS
- arrogantly self-assured,
domineering, overbearing
IMPOLITIC

- unwise
IMPROMPTU
- spontaneous, without rehearsal
IMPUGN
- to call into question, attack verbally
INCARNATE
- having bodily form
INCENDIARY
- combustible, flammable, burning
easily
INCULCATE
- to teach; impress in the mind
INCULPATE
- to blame; charge with a crime
INDEFATIGABLE
- never tired
INDIGENT
- very poor
INDOLENT
- habitually lazy, idle
INDUBITABLE
- unquestionable
INERT
- unable to move, tending to inactivity
INFALLIBLE
- incapable of making a mistake
INGENIOUS
- original, clever, inventive
INGRATIATE
- to bring oneself purposely into

another's good graces

INGRESS
- entrance
INNUENDO
- indirect and subtle criticism,
insinuation
INSIDIOUS
- sly, treacherous, devious
INSUPERABLE
- insurmountable, unconquerable
INTERDICT
- to forbid, prohibit
INTERLOCUTOR
- someone taking part in a dialogue
INTERLOPER
- trespasser; meddler in others' affairs
INTERNECINE
- deadly to both sides
INTERPOLATE
- to insert; change by adding new
words or material
INTERSTICE
- a space between things
INTIMATION
- clue, suggestion
INTREPID
- fearless
INTRINSIC
- inherent, internal
INURE

- to harden; accustom; become used to

INVETERATE
- confirmed, long-standing, deeply
rooted
INVIDIOUS
- likely to provoke ill will, offensive
ITINERANT
- wandering from place to place,
unsettled

JIBE
- to shift suddenly from one side to the
other
JINGOISM
- belligerent support of one's country
JOCULAR
- jovial, playful, humorous
JUGGERNAUT
- huge force destroying everything in
its path
JURISPRUDENCE
- philosophy of law

KISMET
- fate
KNELL
- sound of a funeral bell; omen of
death or failure

LACHRYMOSE
- tearful
LAMBASTE
- disapprove angrily
LAPIDARY
- relating to precious stones
LARGESS
- generosity; gift
LASSITUDE
- lethargy, sluggishness
LEGERDEMAIN
- trickery
LEVITY
- humor, frivolity, gaiety
LEXICON
- dictionary, list of words
LIBIDINOUS
- lustful
LICENTIOUS
- immoral; unrestrained by society
LIMPID
- clear and simple in style
LINIMENT
- medicinal liquid used externally to
ease pain
LIONIZE
- to treat as a celebrity
LISSOME
- easily flexed, limber, agile
LUGUBRIOUS

- sorrowful, mournful

MACABRE
- gruesome, producing horror
MACHINATION
- plot or scheme
MALAPROPISM
- humorous misuse of a word
MALEVOLENT
- ill-willed; causing evil or harm to
others
MANIFOLD
- diverse, varied; comprised of many
parts
MARTINET
- strict disciplinarian; one who rigidly
follows rules
MAUDLIN
- overly sentimental
MAWKISH
- sickeningly sentimental
MEGALOMANIA
- mental state with delusions of wealth
and power
MENDACIOUS
- dishonest
MENDICANT
- beggar
MERCURIAL
- quick, shrewd, and unpredictable

MERITORIOUS
- deserving reward or praise
MINATORY
- menacing, threatening
MNEMONIC
- relating to memory; designed to
assist memory
MOLT
- to shed hair, skin, or an outer layer
periodically
MORDACIOUS
- caustic, biting
MOTE
- small particle, speck
MULTIFARIOUS
- diverse
MUNIFICENT
- generous

NADIR
- lowest point
NASCENT
- starting to develop, coming into
existence
NEBULOUS
- vague, cloudy
NECROMANCY
- black magic
NEFARIOUS
- vicious, evil

NEOLOGISM
- new word or expression
NEOPHYTE
- novice, beginner
NIHILISM
- belief that existence and all
traditional values are meaningless
NOISOME
- stinking, putrid
NOXIOUS
- harmful, unwholesome
NUMISMATICS
- coin collecting

OBFUSCATE
- to confuse, obscure
OBSTREPEROUS
- troublesome, boisterous, unruly
OMNIPOTENT
- having unlimited power
OMNISCIENT
- having infinite knowledge
OSCILLATE
- to move back and forth
OUSTER - expulsion, ejection

PAEAN
- a song of praise or thanksgiving
PALLIATE
- to make less serious, ease

PANACEA
- cure-all
PANEGYRIC
- elaborate praise; formal hymn of
praise
PANOPLY
- impressive array
PARLEY
- discussion, usually between enemies
PAROCHIAL
- of limited scope or outlook,
provincial
PARSIMONY
- stinginess
PASTICHE
- piece of literature or music imitating
other works
PAUCITY
- scarcity, lack
PECCADILLO
- minor sin or offense
PECULATION
- theft of money or goods
PENCHANT
- inclination
PENULTIMATE
- next to last
PENUMBRA
- partial shadow
PERAMBULATE

- walk about
PERIPHRASTIC
- using circumlocution
PERNICIOUS
- very harmful
PERSPICACIOUS
- shrewd, astute, keen-witted
PERTINACIOUS
- persistent, stubborn
PHALANX
- massed group of soldiers, people, or
things
PHILISTINE
- narrow-minded person, someone
lacking appreciation for art or culture
PLAIT
- to braid
PLANGENT
- resounding; plaintive
PLAUDIT
- applause
PNEUMATIC
- relating to air; worked by
compressed air
POLEMIC
- controversy, argument; verbal attack
POLYGLOT
- speaker of many languages
POSIT
- to put in position; to suggest an idea

PRECEPT
- principle; law
PRECURSOR
- forerunner, predecessor
PREDILECTION
- preference, liking
PRESCIENT
- having foresight
PRIVATION
- lack of usual necessities or comforts
PROBITY
- honesty, high-mindedness
PROGENITOR
- originator, forefather, ancestor in a
direct line
PROGNOSTICATE
- to predict
PROLIFIC
- productive, fertile
PROLIX
- tedious; wordy
PROMULGATE
- to make known publicly
PROPINQUITY
- nearness
PROPITIOUS
- favorable, advantageous
PROSELYTIZE
- to induce someone to convert to a
particular belief or religion

PROSTRATE
- lying face downward, lying flat on
the ground
PROTAGONIST
- main character in a play or story,
hero
PROVIDENT
- prudent, frugal
PROVINCIAL
- rustic, unsophisticated, limited in
scope
PRURIENT
- lustful, exhibiting lewd desires
PUERILE
- childish, immature, silly
PULCHRITUDE
- beauty
PUNDIT
- an authority or critic
PUSILLANIMOUS
- cowardly

QUERULOUS
- inclined to complain, irritable
QUOTIDIAN
- occurring daily; commonplace

RACONTEUR
- a witty, skillful storyteller
RAILLERY

- lighthearted jesting
RANCOR
- bitter hatred
RAPACIOUS
- greedy; predatory
RAPPROCHEMENT
- reestablishing a cordial relationship
RAZE
- to tear down, demolish
RECALCITRANT
- resisting authority or control
RECIDIVISM
- tendency to repeat previous behavior
RECONDITE
- relating to obscure learning; known
to only a few
RECREANT
- disloyal; cowardly
REDRESS
- relief from wrong or injury
REJOINDER
- response
RENEGE
- to go back on one's word
RENITENT
- resisting pressure, obstinate
REPAST
- meal
REPROBATE
- morally unprincipled person

REQUITE
- to return or repay
RESPITE
- interval of relief
RESTIVE
- impatient, uneasy, restless
RETINUE
- group of attendants with an
important person
REVELRY
- boisterous festivity
RIBALD
- humorous in a vulgar way
RIPOSTE
- a retort
ROCOCO
- very highly ornamented
ROTUND
- round in shape; fat
RUMINATE
- to contemplate, reflect upon

SACROSANCT
- extremely sacred; beyond criticism
SAGACIOUS
- shrewd, wise
SALACIOUS
- lustful
SALUBRIOUS
- healthful

SANGUINE
- ruddy; cheerfully optimistic
SAPIENT
- wise
SCABBARD
- sheath for sword or dagger
SCINTILLA
- very small amount
SCINTILLATE
- to sparkle, flash
SCURRILOUS
- vulgar, low, indecent
SEDITION
- behavior promoting rebellion
SENESCENT
- aging, growing old
SENTIENT
- aware, conscious, able to perceive
SEPULCHRAL
- typical of a place of burial
SERAPHIC
- angelic, pure, sublime
SHIRK
- to avoid a task due to laziness or fear
SIMPER
- to smirk, smile foolishly
SINECURE
- well-paying job or office that
requires little or no work
SINUOUS

- winding; intricate, complex

SLAKE
- to quench or moderate
SLOVENLY
- untidy, messy
SOJOURN
- visit, stay
SOLECISM
- grammatical mistake
SOLIPSISM
- belief that the self is the only reality
SOMNAMBULIST
- sleepwalker
SONOROUS
- producing a full, rich sound
SOPHIST
- person good at arguing deviously
SPORTIVE
- frolicsome, playful
SQUALID
- filthy; morally repulsive
STAID
- self-restrained, strait-laced
STENTORIAN
- extremely loud
STRIATE
- striped, grooved
STRINGENT
- imposing severe, rigorous standards
STYMIE

- to block or thwart
SUBTERFUGE
- trick or tactic used to avoid
something
SULLY
- to soil, stain, tarnish; taint
SUPERCILIOUS
- arrogant, haughty, overbearing,
condescending
SURLY
- rude and bad-tempered
SURREPTITIOUS
- characterized by secrecy
SYBARITE
- person devoted to pleasure and
luxury
SYCOPHANT
- self-serving flatterer, yes-man
SYNCOPATION
- temporary irregularity in musical
rhythm

TABLEAU
- vivid description, striking incident or
scene
TALISMAN
- something producing a magical
effect
TANTAMOUNT
- equivalent in value or significance;

amounting to
TEMERITY
- recklessness
TEMPORAL
- relating to time; chronological
TENABLE
- defensible, reasonable
TENET
- belief, doctrine
TENUOUS
- weak, insubstantial
THRENODY
- a sad poem or song
TRAMMEL
- to impede or hamper
TRENCHANT
- acute, sharp, incisive; forceful,
effective
TRITE
- shallow, superficial
TRUCULENT
- savage and cruel; fierce; ready to
fight
TURGID
- swollen, bloated
TURPITUDE
- inherent vileness, foulness, depravity
TYRO
- beginner, novice

UMBRAGE
- offense, resentment
UNCTUOUS
- greasy, oily; smug and falsely
earnest
UNFETTERED
- free, unrestrained
UNSULLIED
- clean
UNTOWARD
- not favorable; unruly
URBANE
- courteous, refined, suave
USURY
- lending money at exorbitant rates

VACUOUS
- empty, void; lacking intelligence,
purposeless
VARIEGATED
- varied; marked with different colors
VIRILE
- manly, having qualities of an adult
male
VISCOUS
- thick, syrupy, and sticky
VITIATE
- reduce in value or effectiveness
VITRIOLIC
- burning, caustic; sharp, bitter

VITUPERATE
- to abuse verbally
VOCIFEROUS
- loud, vocal, and noisy
VOLUBLE
- speaking much and easily, talkative;
glib

WASPISH
- easily irritated
WIZENED
- withered, shriveled, wrinkled
WRAITH
- a ghost

XENOPHOBIA
- fear or hatred of foreigners or
strangers

ZENITH
- highest point, summit

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