Group 6 Flashcards
Admonish
Warn someone firmly, reprimand
Mnemonic- to avoid a demonish child, a mother scolds firmly
Affectation
Pretentious
Mnemonic- affection is natural and true, affectation is pretense
Alleviate
Make suffering less severe
Mnemonic- All+evil+ate- all evil gone so your pain becomes less severe
Analogous
Similar in some aspects
Sentence- brain and computer are considered analogous
Bolster
Support or strength
Mnemonic- sounds like booster which gives us strength
Chauvinistic
Excess Support for their own cause/ patriotism
Connoisseur
Expert judge in a particular field
Mnemonic- kon inse sure nahi hoga, yeh toh expert hai
Dissemble
Disguise one’s true feeling
Dogged
Determined to do something no matter what
Mnemonic- dog’s tail is tedha no matter what so it is dogged
Dupe
A person who is tricked(victim)
Mnemonic- duplicates in movies are used to trick or fool people
Empirical
Based on observation rather than theory
Mnemonic- empirical formula in chem, observation and not theory
Engender
Cause or give rise to(feeling/situation)
Pertinacious
Dogged, tenacity
Holding firmly to an opinion, unyielding
Mnemonic - sounds like persistent, tenacious
Venerate
Regard with great respect
Mnemonic- when you rate someone higher, you treat them with respect
Venal
Corrupt, bribery
Mnemonic- we null, when we have null money, we can be inclined towards bribery
Underscore
Emphasize
Ubiquitous
Being present everywhere at once
Mnemonic - sounds like mosquitos which are present everywhere
Omnipresent
Transient
Lasting for a short time
Ephemeral
Tractable
Easy to control and deal with
Tortuous
Full of twists and turns
Mnemonic- sounds like tortoise, never walks in a straight line
Timorous
Lack of confidence, easily frightened, fearful
Mnemonic- sounds like time over, when time over during a test we get fear
Subvert
Undermine the power of the system
Spurious
False or fake
Synonym of specious
Opposite of pure, spure
Specious
Plausible but fake, false
Synonym of spurious
Proliferate
Increase rapidly in number, multiply
Mnemonic- life rate- always increasing
Probity
Having strong principles, honesty
Mnemonic- pro(first)+ beti- ladies first- shows principle
Presumptuous
Brazen, bold
Confident that something will happen without being being sure. In a way thats annoys people
