Friday, 25 September 2015

Words with their Manemonic

1. Abase:     Meaning: lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self respect 
  Mnemonics: :  abase-abe(a slang used to degrade a person)+shhh(se)usually anö 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. Abbreviate:     Meaning: shorten    Mnemonics: :  abbreviate has root brev (brief) in it; brev (brief) means in short.       Hence meaning of abbreviate is to shorten something.
5.  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 give-up power.
6. Aberrant:     Meaning: abnormal or deviant  
Mnemonics: :  ab (away) + err (error) + ant : focus on ERR and ANT. Ants normally move together in a queue. imagine all these ants moving randomly like a group of  honey bees. That would be abnormal behaviour.
7. Aberration:     Meaning: deviation from the normal; mental disorder    Mnemonics: :  sounds like abortion which is not normal delivery.
8. Abet:     Meaning: assist usually in doing something wrong; encourage
   Mnemonics: :  a+bet  a bet generally assists you to do something wrong
9. Abeyance:     Meaning: suspended action  
Mnemonics: :  it seemingly sounds like ab+yawns.... so, think of something like  'students started yawning and so the teacher gave them 5 mins break' i.e. temporary suspension...
10. Abhor:    Meaning: detest; hate   Mnemonics: :  abhor sounds like "a whore" and we generally hate a whore....so to hate someone is abhoring that person1

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