Barrons Mnemonics Vocabulary tricks e-book pdf
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 an 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 person
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