Daily Vocabulary Part-1

“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney.

Vocabulary Part - 1

1. Abase:(अपमानित करना). 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:(लज्जित करना). Meaning: embarrass.

Mnemonics:: What happens when u get a bash? (bashing)....u get embarrassed.

 

3. Abate:(रोक-थाम करना). 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:(संक्षिप्त). 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:(त्यागना). 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:  (धर्मपथ से हटनेवाला). 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:(विपथन). Meaning: deviation from the normal; mental disorder.

Mnemonics:: sounds like abortion which is not normal delivery.

 

8. Abet:(उकसाना). Meaning: assist usually in doing something wrong;encourage.                                             Mnemonics:: a+bet a bet generally assists you to do something wrong.

9. Abeyance:(दुविधा). 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:(घृणा करना).Meaning: detest; hate.

Mnemonics:: abhor sounds like "a whore" and we generally hate a whore....so to hate someone is abhorring that person.