Comic Vocabulary

T-2

2010-12-30T00:32:00.000-08:00

Temporal - not lasting forever, worldly

Usage - Also, the net is very tolerant of temporal variability in the signal.

Link - temporal is derived from temporary which means lasting only for a time

Temporize - to delay, or protract a discussion, negotiation, etc., esp in order to gain time or effect a compromise
Usage - The speaker temporized in order to delay the vote
Link – sounds like Temper + rise. In a team meeting, if a person does not answer to the point, instead tries to equivocate, the tempers of the team leaders will surely rise...

Link2 - sounds like memorize....If you are not able to memorize the GRE words properly you temporize your plan to schedule the exam date immediately..

Tenable - able to be upheld, believed, maintained, or defended, reasonable, plausible.
Usage - This argument is simply not tenable.
Link – Ten + able. Will you be able to believe, if your friend says that he has ten kilos of moon rock?? No na, you argue by saying, ‘dude that’s not tenable’.

Tenacious - holding or grasping firmly, tending to stick or adhere, stubborn or persistent.
Usage - He has a particularly tenacious grip on life.
Link – sounds like Tenu + she + yes. Tenu (means ‘you’ in Punjabi), a charming boy held the girl’s hand firmly and said, ‘tenu leke ghar jaoonga’ (i will take you home). The girl said NO, but his charm and persistent efforts bowled her and she said ‘YES’!!

Link2 - Sounds like ten Asians. Ten developing Asian countries if united together, can not be pulled apart.

Tenancy - temporary possession or holding by a tenant of lands or property owned by another.
Usage - Check the terms of your tenancy closely.
Link – sounds like Nancy. Nanny told Nancy, her new tenant, ‘please go through the terms and conditions of your tenancy’.

Tendentious - having or showing an intentional tendency or bias, esp a controversial one, a partisan.
Usage - a tendentious account of the recent elections.
Link – sounds like Ten + senti . Raj had a tendentious nature; he gave 2 cents to Ramesh and ten cents to Suresh....Poor ramesh got senti.....

Tenet - an opinion, doctrine, or principle held as being true by a person or especially by an organization
Usage - non violence is the central tenet of their faith
Link - sounds like TENANT...so the tenants were given a set of DOCTRINE by the owner before they could occupy the house.....

Tentative - uncertain, hesitant, not definite or positive

Usage - The restaurant hired two tentative cooks to deal with the extra rush during the holiday season.

Link - sounds like tent + tenant....Living in a tent temporarily. If you are living in a tent, you are unsettled.

Tenuous - long and thin, slender, lacking substance
Usage - It is like a tenuous string

Link - sounds like tennis....women who play tennis are long and thin and generally lack the substance( hope you understood :P)

Tepid - moderately warm, lukewarm, lacking in emotional warmth
Usage - He hates tepid coffee
Link - sounds like tap....in winters everyone wants to have tepid water from the tap in the morning....

Link - sounds like insiPID....insipid is lacking in taste and tepid is lacking in emotional warmth

Tertiary - third in place, order, degree, or rank
Usage - Tertiary education follows secondary education
Link - You can remember the meaning like this : primary education--> secondary education --> tertiary education; so something which comes afterSECONDary education is Tertiary education

Testator - maker of a will
Link - sounds like estator....means the owner of the estate....the estator wrote a testator.....

Hii guys.....follow the blog and refer it to your friends to get all the words in you mail.....to participate in LIVE GROUP DISCUSSION join the page "Successwithmasti" on facebook.....and do add me as your friend.....

T-1

2010-12-18T00:46:00.000-08:00

LIVE GROUP DISCUSSION

Hey guys....I have created a new page on facebook "SuccessWithMasti".....I have introduced a new concept of LIVE GROUP DISCUSSION on that page...so join the page to participate with your competitors for free just like a real environment....I think it will help a lot in your GD preparations.....best of luck... :)

Taciturn - habitually silent, reserved, talking little
Usage - A taciturn man, he replied to my questions in monosyllables.
Link – We were playing antakshari, it was my turn, but I was a taciturn, so I gave a pass!!

Link2 - sounds like Taxi_turn....while taking turns during driving, you will always find the taxi driver silent..

Tactile - perceptible to the sense of touch, tangible.

Usage - The tactual luxury of stroking silky human hair
Link – sounds like fact + tile. It’ s a fact, all tiles are tactile.

Taint - contaminate; cause to lose purity

Usage - Shopkeepers usually taint the grocery products.

Link - sounds like stain....where stain is one which causes to lose the purity.

Link2 - Paint on sth is to increases beauty but TAINT on sth DAMAGES BEAUTY

Tantalize - to tease or torment (a person etc) by making him want something he cannot have and by keeping it just beyond his reach.

Usage - The expensive clothes in the shop-window tantalized her.
Link – sounds like Santa + realize. Santa saw a beautiful villa and was tantalized, only to realize that he cannot afford it...

Link2 - sounds like taunt+entice....Taunt Tont Taunting someone... It means harassing

Tantamount - Equivalent in effect or value, commensurate with.

Usage - What he was saying was tantamount to heresy.
Link – sounds like Santa + amount. The amount given to Santa Singh was in commensurate with his work.

Link2 - ta-n-ta; an equal amount of 'ta' on both sides of 'n'.

Link3 - sounds like tent+mount...Tent's height is tantamount to mount Everest......

Taper - Gradual decreases, as in action or force, diminish or lessen gradually.

Usage - The storm finally tapered off.
Link – sounds like tape. When there is a water leakage, we apply a tape or a sticky substance (m-seal) around the leak, and the leakage gradually decreases and finally stops.

Tarry - To delay or be late in going, coming or doing, lounge, linger,dawdle,dally
Usage - Two old boys tarried on the street discussing some issues.
Link - sounds like Tar(material used to build roads)....when Tar gets stuck to your boot, it leaves the boot slowly....

Link2 - tarry sounds like the hindi word deri.....so a delay in doing something..

Taut - stretched tightly as a rope or wire
Usage - The clothes line is pulled taut and secured.
Link - Taut sounds like Tight; and has the same meaning.

Tautological - needless repetition of the same sense in different words, redundancy
Link - Sounds like Tota(parrot); It REPEATS what ever you say.

Tawdry - gaudy and cheap in nature or appearance, shameful and indecent

Usage - She wore a tawdry necklace to the ball.
Link - sounds like TOWEL+DRY......In a public locker room, a person who dries his body with a towel in front of everybody is vulgar and gaudy.

Taxonomist - the science, laws or principles of classification
Usage - Scholars have been laboring to develop a taxonomy of young killers
Link - sounds like TAX; People pay tax to the government, but does every one pay the same amount?People pay the taxes as per the slab(CLASSIFICATION) they fall into.

Tedium - the quality or condition of being tedious; tediousness or boredom.

Usage - I felt I would go mad with the tedium of the job.
Link - Sounds a bit like 'tedious' which means annoying
Link1 - tedium....stadium.......bored of sitting in a stadium when India is losing the cricket match very badly....

Teetotalism - One who abstains completely from alcoholic beverages.

Link - sounds like TEA -- TOTAL; He is TOtally into Tea and milk, no alcohols!!

Temerity - fearless daring, bold

Usage - Patients who have the temerity to the challenge their doctor.
Link - Temerity (boldness) is the opposite of timidity, which means fear or shyness.

Link2 - sounds my tea....why did you drink my tea....temerity behaviour...

Tempestuous - stormy, violent
Usage - A tempestuous relationship
Link - Tempestuous-- > tempest--> Temper; If one loses a temper in a relationship, then it becomes violent or a tempestuous relationship..

Link2 - sounds like TEMP + PEST + OUS, so you will loose your TEMPer if someone keeps PESTering you. It will obviously be VIOLENT.

Hii guys....follow the blog and refer it to your friends....do not forget to join the page and participate in live group discussion...

D-8

2010-11-14T01:00:00.000-08:00

Droll - amusing in a quaint or odd manner, comical, a buffoon.
Usage - The band have a droll sense of humour.
Link - remember rofl...it means roll on floor laughing..so whne something is droll you roll on floor laughing...

Link2 - When you see a comedian like gajodhar bhaiya perform on stage, you can’t help falling off the chair and roll in laughter.

Drone - talk dully; buzz or murmur like a bee, a loafer, one who does tedious or menial work.
Usage - A few are dim-witted drones, but most are talented.
Link - For all Harry Potter fans; Ron Wesley was considered a drone as he was always dependent on second hand items.

Link2 - think about the film drona...it was a boring piece of watch/talk.

Dross - Waste or impure matter, worthless or trivial matter.
Usage - discarded the dross after recycling the wood pulp.
Link - sounds like dress. When a dress is no longer fit to be worn, it becomes dross!!

Drudgery – hard monotonous routine work, hard boring work, laborious.
Usage - the drudgery of everyday life.
Link - drudgery work of darzi(tailor).whose routine work is to stitch the clothes...

Dulcet - pleasing to the ear, melodious, having a soothing, agreeable quality.
Usage - She had a dulcet voice.
Link - -DIL SE song sounds sweet to the ear.

Link2 - You are dull and feeling low, what will you do? Listen to music which is dulcet!!

Duress - compulsion by use of force or threat, forcible confinement, under pressure.
Usage - Her confession had been made under duress.
Link - sounds like.....imagine we had a crush on a girl....you will press her boobs with force...

Link2 - you + dress; that is u enforce your wife to put on a particular dress.....

Dwindle - shrink

Usage - Her savings dwindled down

Link - if a swindler swindles you then your savings dwindle...

Dyspeptic - irritable as if suffering from indigestion, having an unpleasant mood.

Link - Peptic ulcers in the stomach are a result of indigestion and the resulting pain makes us feel dyspeptic...and they occur if we drink a lot of pepsi with empty stomach.....

Hii guys...follow the blog to get all the words in your mail.....wordlist of D is completed...suggest the next letter....

D-7

2010-11-05T02:33:00.000-07:00

CAT 2010 Experience

I gave CAT on 27th october at Rithala center. D ppr ws very easy. Evry DI set has maximum 2 questions but dey r easy. Dere r 3 RC pasages of whch 1 z vry easy nd 2 r above average. D grammar part z vry easy. I attempted 57 questions overall. I thnk around 50-53 questions shuld b attmptd 2 fr prcntyl above 98. I think cut off wl b... around 115 as per my test to get call from every IIM(don't know about the rest). Individual cut off wuld b qa-40. di-35. va-32

Distrait - absentminded, distracted

Usage - He always behaves in a distrait manner.

Link - sounds like straight...someone who is not straight is distrait and looks for similar sex.....

Divulge - reveal, to proclaim publicly, disclose.
Usage - He was charged with divulging state secrets.
Link – sounds like di + vulg(ar). The media are always on the lookout for vulgar facts about celebrities and divulge them without any hesitation.

Link2 - A girl asks u what is that bulge ( rhymes with vulge) in your pant ,then u reveal or show it....

Doddering - shaky, feeble, or infirm, weak, decrepit especially from old age.

Usage - His mother was doddering and frailing.
Link – Read as Dadaring. Stress on dada, so budhe (old in Hindi) dadaji was a doddering old man.

Doff - To take off or remove, tip or remove (one's hat) in salutation.

Usage - He doffed his hat
Link - DO + OFF or take off, remove.

Link2 – Doff -> hats off -> take off or remove one’s hat in salutation.

Dogged - determined, stubborn, stubbornly persevering

Usage - Jones was the most vocal and dogged of all her critics.
Link – a dogs tail is always curved and can never be made straight thus it is dogged

Doggerel - comic verse, usually irregular in measure, bad piece of poetry.

Usage - He had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind
Link – look for the dog word here.....and now try to imagine about the song......WHO LET THE DOGS OUT.............ISN'T IT FUNNY.......SO SOMETHING COMICAL......THIS WORD IS ASSOCIATED WITH COMICAL...SO A COMIC ..SONG..COMIC VERSE...

Dogmatic - tending to force one's own opinions on other people.

Usage - He's very dogmatic on this subject.

Link - If you try to read "dogmatic" from back to front, you will get "i am god". the person who think that he is a god is arrogant and stubborn

Dolorous - Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.

Usage - She wore a dolorous dress at the funeral.
Link – read as ‘dollarous’. I lost a million dollars in casino royal, malfoy told in a dolorous tone...

Link2 - DOL(SOUNDS LIKE DULL)..and when are you DULL, when you are feeling SORRY for something.

Dolt - stupid person

Usage - His high school results clear show that he is a dolt in mathematics.

Link - dolt rhymes with bolt. Nut-bolt ~ what a nut he is. (stupid person)...a dolt person hs loose nut bolts...

Dote - to show excessive fondness or love
Usage - Parents who dote on their only child.
Link - I dote on you like every dot on your face...hope u got it.. :)

Link2 - sounds like date; On your first date you act as a doting boyfriend :p

Dour - serious and unfriendly, unkind, stubbornly unyielding, forbidding
Usage - A dour determination
Link - Dour sounds like Tour; When the girl asked for permission for a college tour, her parents said no with a dour determination.

Douse - wet thoroughly, dip into liquid; put out, as of a candle or a light
Usage - The crew began to douse the fire
Link - Douse sounds like drowsy; when u feel drowsy in the night but u want to study what do u do, u wash your face or dip your face in water.

Dowdy - untidy, lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby
Usage - a dowdy gray outfit.
Link - Dowdy sister of dawood, hasina parker...

Link2 - Dowdy sounds like dadi(grandmother); Dadi's are generally not stylish

Drab - lacking brightness or colour or dull
Usage - It was a drab day for him.
Link - sounds like drag; when the same topic is dragged again and again, it becomes boring and dull

Draconian - extremely harsh, very severe
Usage - a draconian legal code
Link - Draconian sounds like Dracula; One who is captured by Dracula goes through extremely harsh and Very severe punishment.

Dregs - last drops of a liquid left in a container, waste, deposit
Usage - He drained the dregs from his cup
Link - dregs sounds like drugs..usually people drink the dregs of drugs...i.e. till the last drop of it....

Drivel - a worthless message, babble, nonsense
Usage - I drivelled about the big race that day
Link - sounds like trivial... a drivel person always says trivial stuff

Hii guys....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail....follow me on facebook "funvocab builder"..

Your Ad Here

D-6

2010-10-29T03:26:00.000-07:00

CAT 2010 Experience

I gave CAT on 27th october at Rithala center. D ppr ws very easy. Evry DI set has maximum 2 questions but dey r easy. Dere r 3 RC pasages of whch 1 z vry easy nd 2 r above average. D grammar part z vry easy. I attempted 57 questions overall. I thnk around 50-53 questions shuld b attmptd 2 fr prcntyl above 98. I think cut off wl b... around 115 as per my test to get call from every IIM(don't know about the rest). Individual cut off wuld b qa-40. di-35. va-32

Disavowal - denial or rejection of any connection with or knowledge of
Usage - A public disavowal of his beliefs
Link - Remember the word Avow, an oath taken, or publicly claim something, disavow means to deny openly, bluntly

Disband - dissolve, cause to break up , dissipate , disperse, scatter
Usage - All the armed groups will be disbanded
Link - Band as a verb means bind together, hence dis + band => disperse, dissolve...

Link2 - Recently there have been many bandhs in the city, so when ever a bandh is announce people in the malls immediately disappear or scatter or spread .

Discombobulated - cause to confuse
Usage - The question discombobulated even the teacher
Link - If you remember bob(of a pendulum and think of the movement of swinging to and fro) bobulate - make something swing to and fro, here and there - to get someone confused....

Link2 - Dis + COMBO ; combo means a mixture; If you don't prepare the COMBO in correct proportions it gets discombobulated(confusing)

Discomfit - frustrate, to make uneasy or perplexed, disconcert , embarrass
Usage - He realized that his remarks had succeeded in discomfiting her.
Link - Sounds like discomfortable; if you are wearing something discomfortable then it ll discomfit you...example a boy wearing a mini skirt...haha you will be so screwed.. :)

Disconcert - confuse

Usage - The manager was disconcerted due to the negligence of his team members.

Link - When you are getting ready to perform at a concert, you are tensed and confused as to how your show will fair with the audience.

Discourse - serious speech

Usage - The speaker discoursed about the social politics in 18th century England

Link - sounds like discuss and hence it means to formally discuss a subject i.e. seriously....

Disgorge - surrender something (stolen); eject
Usage - The ground had opened to disgorge a boiling stream of molten lava.
Link - gorge(george) tried to eject it into her mouth, but she vomited,so he had to quickly surrender something....please take it cool...

Link2 - Dis + gorge. Gorge basically means a ‘narrow deep valley’, almost bottom less. Now imagine your food pipe to be a deep bottomless pit that can be stuffed with unlimited food. Your body, however, cannot take all of it and hence will disgorge the excess.

Disgruntle – feeling or expressing discontent or anger.

Usage - The employees were disgruntled by their bad working conditions

Link - something which makes people grunt or complainsomething which makes people grunt or complain

Link2 - Concentrate on GRUNT. Maria sharapova is called the ‘grunting queen’. The reason being, she always shouts (expressing displeasure or anger) while playing tennis.

Dishevelled – untidy, to throw into disorder or disarray, unkempt

Link - sounds like dis+sheve(shave)+.. a person who doesnt shave is UNTIDY

Link – Dis (order) + shelved (shelf). When u are angry, u break your shelf and throw all its contents, thus making it look disorderly, unkempt and untidy.

Disinter – To dig up or remove, exhume, to expose or bring to light (hidden facts, secrets).
Link – Dis (not) + enter. To enter into something (for example mud) means to hide or to take cover, disinter is the opposite, i.e. to uncover or expose or bring to light by digging.

Disport – To entertain (oneself) in a frolic manner, to indulge (oneself) in pleasure, amuse

Usage - The play amused the ladies
Link – Dis (not) + (sup)port. When nobody supports us, we disport ourselves in order to stay cheerful and motivated.

Disquietude – a feeling or state of anxiety or uneasiness.
Usage - He always remain in a disquietude attitude.

Link – Dis (not) + quiet + attitude. So if Quiet -> cool -> calm -> no tension. If disquiet -> tension -> sweating -> feeling uneasy or anxious.

Disquisition – a formal written or oral explanation of a subject, discourse, lecture.
Usage - There was a disquisition carried out by the interviewers before GD.
Link – Concentrate on QUIZ. A quiz master before starting the quiz will lecture on the rules and regulations.

Link2 - its like dis +quisition(means question)......when someone questions u.......u need to give explanations...EX:-enquiry...

Dissemble - disguise, hide the real nature of, pretend
Usage - He feigned that he was ill

Link – sounds like "resemble"...the person/ a thing of tat type can be in disguise...

Dissertation - a written thesis, formal essay
Link –sounds like dessertation. My research work is based entirely on yummy desserts, so I will write a dissertation on desserts.

Link2 - imagine u r asked 2 write an essay on 'A dessert Station'..

Dissident - disagreeing, as in opinion or belief, one who disagrees.
Link – Sid was a dissident in ‘Wake up sid’, when it came to obeying his dad

Link2 - sounds like dis+sident......this word sounds very similar to resident....think you are a resident of particular place and if some one suggest you to leave that place....will you do that...no certainly no...you will disagree..
.
Distend - to expand, swell, inflate, to magnify in importance.
Usage - The distended bellies of the starving cows

Link – Rhymes with extend, which means to expand or enlarge. So distend -> extend.

Link2 - try to relate it with dis means distance and extend means to expand.

Hii guyss...follow the blog to get all the words in your mail.....find me on facebook "funvocab builder"

Your Ad Here

D-5

2010-10-25T08:28:00.000-07:00

Diatribe - bitter scolding or denunciation; invective; abuse
Usage - an extended diatribe against academia.
Link - sounds like dia+tribe:the lower ranked tribe(in caste division) always face thunderous verbal attack from upper caste people.

Dictum - a formal or authoritative statement or assertion, a popular saying.
Usage - his dictum that the priority of the government must be the health of the people.
Link - sounds like dictator; a dictator makes authoritative statements or dictums.
Link - Dictum -> dict + im (portant). To ‘dict’ means to make a statement officially, and if the statement is an important one, then it becomes a dictum. So dictum means a formal authoritative statement.

Didactic - intended to teach or moralize excessively, serving to inform or enlighten.
Usage - In totalitarian societies, art exists solely for didactic purposes.
Link - didi always acts in a way she is teaching something..

Link2 - sounds like Di + tactic. In the movie ‘titanic’, di caprio adopts a didactic tone when he teaches rose the tactics involved in using an axe.

Diffidence - shyness, lack of self-confidence, timidity or shyness.
Usage - He spoke with certain diffidence.
Link - Diffidence is the opposite of confidence, so it means lacking confidence...

Link2 - dance was difficult so it lead to diffidence among the children....

Dilapidated - falling to pieces, in a bad condition, ruined because of neglect
Usage - She lived in a dilapidated old cottage.
Link - I drank a DILuted API(appy) juice which was outDATED(expired).... my stomach got RUINED as a result of my own NEGLECT.

Link2 - My DELL laptop is in dilapidated condition...

Dilatory - tending or inclined to delay or waste time, dallying.
Usage - They performed their work in a dilatory fashion.
Link – Sounds like ‘delaytory’. So having the tendency to delay or postpone things (by wasting time) is dilatory.

Link2 - Extract 'late' from the word dilatory and you get.... delay which is generally due to waste of time.

Dilettante - aimless follower of an art or a field of knowledge (not taking it seriously)
Usage - The sailing elite considered him a rank amateur, a dilettante.
Link – Dilettante -> Dil – E – Dante. Agar dil se kaam nahin karoge to daant (scolding) khaoge aur dilettante kehlaoge!!

Dimunition - the act of decreasing or reducing something
Usage - A slight diminution in asset value

Link - Rhymes with Diminish OR Diminish + -ion.... i.e. diminish or reduce in size.

Din - a loud harsh noise, clamor
Usage - They tried to make themselves heard over the din of the crowd
Link - DIN (morning) mein you will hear the loud noises of the traffic etc, but at night its very quiet.

Link2 - sounds like tin; when a tin falls from the top shelf, a large sound is heard

Dinghy - a small rowboat
Link - sounds like Tin ka ghee...a tin ka ghee was being carried in a small boat...

Dingy - dull, dark, soiled, shabby, squalid
Usage - He took me to his rather dingy office

Link - dingy reminds us about pakistan ex caption ingy(inzamam ul haq)who always remains dull and cheerless on field
Link2 - At night when no one is in the room , then there is no DIN( noise) and also it is dark n dull(dingy)

Dint - force or effort; power
Usage - People succeed by the dint of hard work
Link - In C programming if u write 'd int' instead of 'int d' which is a small error, u'll hav 2 make much EFFORTs 2 find d error.

Link2 - Last night when i was driving my car, a guy on the bike dashed and caused a DENT in the side of my car. With the DINT of my power i tried to set the dent straight...

Diorama - life-size, three-dimensional scene from nature or history
Link - Diorama of Lord RAMA in the temple was just awesome..

Dirge - A funeral hymn or lament; a musical composition in the memory of a dead man
Usage - The mournful dirge, 'Erin's Lament'.
Link - dirge sounds like purge(push out/clear); the dirge at his friend's funeral purged out his emotions

Disabuse - to free from a falsehood or misconception, inform
Usage - I must disabuse you of your feelings of grandeur.
Link - I disabused him that I didn't abused him....

Link2 - story: like a girl fall in love with a rascal, and her father comes to know. what he will do is abuse the boy and disabuse the girl about the boy.

Disaffect - the feeling of being alienated from other people, isolated
Usage - Evidence of people's disaffection with their leaders
Link - Dis(not) + affect(ion); When there is affection there is loyalty, when there is no affection there is no loyalty(Disaffection)

Hii guys follow the blog to get all the words in your mail...find me on facebook through "funvocab builder"...

Your Ad Here

D-4

2010-10-21T13:32:00.000-07:00

Derelict - abandoned, a homeless or jobless person, a person without a home
Usage - His body was found dumped in a derelict warehouse.
Link – a derelict was licking the milk at mother dairy

Deride - to speak of or treat with contempt, mockery, or ridicule, to insult, scoff
Usage - This theory is widely derided by conventional scientists.
Link – sounds like the + ride. David was scared of rides and when he refused to take the ride, he was derided.
Link2 - girls derided him when he fell duting riding a horse...

Descry - To discover by careful observation or scrutiny, to detect, to catch sight of things which are at a distance.
Usage - From the top of the hill I descried a solitary rider.
Link – sounds like de(tect) + scr (utin)y. Scrutiny means a careful examination or observation. So to detect something after scrutiny is descry

Desecrate - to violate or outrage the sacred character of (an object or place) by destructive, blasphemous, or sacrilegious action, to despoil.
Usage - She shouldn't have desecrated the picture of a religious leader.
Link – sounds like de + sacred...so to spoil the sacredness....

Desiccate - To dry out thoroughly, to make dry, dull, or lifeless, to dehydrate.
Usage - There was only the sun-bruised and desiccate feeling in his mind.
Link – sounds like de + suck + it (moisture). To desiccate is to suck out all the moisture or water and make things dry and lifeless...
Link2 - desi girls suck deep and then dry the tool....i hope you got it....
Link3 - sounds like "Desert Cake": Cake that has been dried out and turned dull in taste.

Despoil - To deprive of something valuable by force; rob, to plunder, to damage irreparably.
Usage - the modern day industry which has despoiled the town
Link – sounds like stress on spoil. When you spoil something, you damage it irreparably. So to despoil means to plunder, devastate or destroy.

Despondent - disheartened; lacking hope or courage; dejected.
Usage - He often felt despondent after these meetings.
Link – Despondent -> correspondent. The CWG (OC) chief was despondent after a meeting with correspondents of BBC & CNBC.
Link2 - sounds like pepsodent....the pepsodent owner was despondent when his company occured losses and was closed..then he was sitting idle and throwing stones in the pond...

Despot - A ruler with absolute power, a cruel and oppressive dictator.
Usage - He described the president as a ruthless despot.
Link – sounds like on the spot. A ruler or dictator who will punish you on the spot, for the smallest of mistakes, just because he has the power to do so is a despot.
Link2 - I killed a despot with dus(10) pots... :)

Desultory - Having no set plan; haphazard or random, unmethodical.
Usage - We made some desultory conversation while we waited for the bus.
Link – sounds like sultry.I was roaming with a sultry girl in the park with no aims..i was such a doosh.. :)
Link2 - De-result...Obviously a haphazard or desultory approach will result to nothing.

Devolve - to transfer to lower person, to delegate or cause to pass to a successor or substitute, as duties, power, etc.
Usage - the need to decentralize and devolve power to regional governments.
Link – sounds like Revolve. When you want to pass the cricket ball to your friend (for bowling), u throw it along the ground, the ball revolves or rolls and finally reaches your friend. So devolve means to pass on or delegate a work or duty to another person...
Link2 - if you are involved you do the work.....but if you DEVOLVE it to someone else then you are no longer involved in it.

Diabolic - devilish, fiendish
Usage - a life of diabolic depravity.
Link – Diabolic -> Diab(etic) + alcoh(olic). Imagine a person who is diabetic and alcoholic, what would he look like??
Link2 - di + aboli(abolition)....process of destroying something usually done by devils
Link3 - Dia Mirza is so diabolical...wo boli ki kal she will strip for me...but she didn't...but when the director told her to she did at that time only...

Diadem - A crown worn as a sign of royalty, an ornamental jewel signifying sovereignty.
Usage - a diadem held the veil firmly in place.
Link - a diamond diadem fell in a dam...
Link2 - dia + dem; dia + gem; dia is related to circle; Circle of Gems is what a crown has
Link3 – Diadem -> Dia(na) + gem. Princess Diana used to wear a diadem studded with gems.

Dialectical - The art or practice of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments, reasoning, ratiocination.
Usage - He spent much time learning rhetoric and dialectic.
Link - dia means round, lect means lecture. A lecture which is given with people sitting around is called a discussion or a debate.
Link2 – Dialectic -> Dial(ogue) + election. Before election, opposition leaders have a dialogue in order to find out the truth about the nature of the work done by the ruling party. They spend a lot of time debating and reasoning.

Diaphanous - transparent or translucent, sheer
Usage - a diaphanous dress of pale gold chiffon.
Link – Diaphanous -> Di (two) + fena + use. Use 2 drops of FENA (detergent) and clothes will become clean and clear, to the extent that you can see through them. Slightly exaggerated!!

Hii guyss....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail...

Your Ad Here

D-3

2010-10-18T01:59:00.000-07:00

Delineate - show the form or outline of, explain in detail

Usage - A settlement to delineate the border
Link - De + LINE ate; when you want to draw the sketch of something, first you draw the OUTLINE using lines.

Link2 - a map is always delineated through neat lines...

Delirium - state of mental agitation, uncontrolled excitement
Usage - Sport fans in delirium after their team's victory
Link - sounds like deli + r(i)um... taking rum daily will cause mental disorder

Delude - deceive, be false to; to be dishonest with
Usage - She deluded herself into thinking he cared of her
Link - sounds like allude; Raj's girlfriend alluded (indirectly suggesting) him for sex and took him to his room, and then she deluded and took away all the money.

Deluge - an overwhelming number or amount, a great flood of water
Usage - A deluge of criticisim
Link - sounds like HUGE; Remember Tsunami? A HUGE wave(flood of water)

Link2 - so when the Del company advertised in the newspaper for new jobs, there was a huge rush of requests, a deluge of requests.

Delve - to search deeply and laboriously; to dig the ground
Usage - She delved deep into her mother's past.
Link - Delve sounds like Shelves; If we misplace an important file or anything we first delve our shelves

Link2 - At 12, sardars always tries to delve an idea about them being sardars... :)...hope you got it...

Demented - mentally ill, insane, suffering from dementia or a loss of cognitive function
Usage - Her warnings were dismissed as ramblings of a demented old woman.
Link - sounds like mental...SO A MENTAL PERSON IS AN INSANE PERSON.

Link2 - For all the tennis fans, russian tennis player elena dementieva;She is a top ten tennis player and usually reaches semifinals or finals of every tournament but in the finals she plays as if she is DEMENTED(ill) and loses the match

Demotic - of or relating to the common people, popular, familiar, ordinary.
Usage - a populist, demotic politician.

Link - sounds like de(give)+moti(fat)...so asking a thing from your moti friend is very common..
Link2 - sounds like deMOTIc. Moti means pearl, which is very famous or popular in Hyderabad (pearl city). So buying moti in hyd would be considered common and ordinary.

Demur - To voice opposition, a formal objection, to show reluctance or hesitation.
Usage - At first I demurred when he asked me to do it.
Link – sounds like ‘dam ur’. So if a person is not the least satisfied with one’s suggestion, he would object by saying, ‘damn you and ur suggestion’

Demure - Modest and reserved in manner or behaviour, affectedly shy, modest.
Usage - She's very demure and sweet.
Link - since you have objected demi moore's proposal she is demure

Link2 - Demure is opposite of demur...So a demure will never complain or voice opposition, he/she will always be reserved, shy and modest.

Denigrate - To attack the character or reputation of, speak ill of, defame, to disparage;belittle
Usage - I'm not trying to denigrate her achievement.
Link – sounds like deny + gratitude. So denigrate is to deny gratitude to others by means of making disparaging remarks or speaking badly about them...

Link2 - focus on the 'nigrate' part of this word and relate it to 'nigger' (which means people who have black skin)...avoid racism please....

Denouement - the final outcome of a sequence of events, the end result, the climax or conclusion
Usage - an unexpected denouement to the affair.
Link – To be pronounced as ‘denoyment’, sounds like ointment. The end result or the final outcome of applying ointment on a wound will be the wound getting fully cured.

Deprecate - To belittle, depreciate, express a negative opinion, express disapproval.
Usage – They deprecate him and refer to him as 'a bit of a red'.
Link - sounds like depreciate. Depreciate means to lower in value or size, similarly deprecate means to belittle or show other people low.

Depredation - a predatory attack, a raid, the act or an instance of plundering, a destructive action.
Usage - Crops can be decimated by the unchecked depredations of deer.
Link – Concentrate on dePREDATion. A predator is an organism that survives by killing and eating other organisms. So depredation is the act of plundering, marauding or destroying, collectively a destructive action.

Deranged - To disturb the order or arrangement, upset the normal condition or functioning, disturb mentally, become insane.
Usage - His mind had become deranged as a result of his ordeal; mentally deranged.
Link – Deranged is opposite of arranged. When things are not in order or deranged, people get mentally disturbed which leads to madness.

Hii guys.....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail.....

Your Ad Here

D-2

2010-10-15T07:55:00.000-07:00

Decollete - (of a dress) having a low-cut neckline

Usage - She is wearing a decollete dress.

Link - sounds like the+collect....think a girl is wearing low neck cut dress...and you thrown a gold coin so that she will bend to COLLECT it....

Decoy - lure or baitUsage - They used flares to decoy enemy missiles
Link - sounds like dacoit...a decoy was set to decoy the dacoit using a blond girl....

Decrepitude - state of collapse caused by illness or old age
Usage - The boundary between healthy middle age and total decrepitude
Link - decre(decrease) + pitude(aptitude)..so if your aptitude is decreasing, it is an indication of OLD AGE, thats when a person becomes weak and in a state of deterioration...his mind stops working...

Link2 - Decrease in Brad pit's muscular strength made him very weak...

Decry - express strong disapproval of, condemn openlyUsage - To decry obsolete coinage
Link - sounds like deep + cry... focus on the CRY PART ...a girl CRYING to express her disapproval of getting married now.

Deface - mar, disfigure, spoil the appearance of
Usage - It is illegal to deface bank notes
Link - Hero ne Villain ke FACE pe mar mar kar usko DEFACE kar diya.

Defile - pollute, profaneUsage - Defile a river with sewage
Link - If you (de)FILE a case against him you will defame his image...hence defile...

Defoliate - to deprive (a plant, tree, or forest) of leaves, to cause the leaves of (a plant, tree, or forest) to fall off.Link – sounds like...de + foliage...Foliage means all the leaves of a tree considered as a group. So to defoliate means to remove or cause the leaves of a plant, tree to fall off.

Defray - To undertake the payment of (costs or expenses), to pay, bear the expenses.
Usage - The government has committed billions toward defraying the costs of the war.
Link - Two persons were involved in a fray(dispute) and later one of them had to defray the other person for the damages.

Link2 - def + ray -> by paying for their education, you provide a "ray" of hope for "deaf" people!!

Defrock - to strip of priestly privileges and functions, to deprive of the right to practice a profession, to deprive of an honorary position.Usage -A priest can be laicized by his request or by penalty; the term defrock is usually used
in the latter case.
Link - Defrock -> De + frock. So after stripping a nun(removing her frock), you will defrock her..

Link2 - the priest was defrocked after he came in a frock...

Defunct - no longer operative or valid, dead or extinct, obsolete.Usage - the leader of the now defunct Social Democratic Party
Link - Defunct -> de + functional. So something that is not functional or not in operation or use, hence obsolete.

Deify - To make a god of; raise to the condition of a god, to idealize, exalt to the position of god.Usage - Apollo's son was deified as the god of medicine.
Link - Rhymes well with deity. Deity means a god or goddess; deify means to treat someone like a deity.

Deign - do something that one considers to be below one's dignity, to condescend, stoop

Usage - He didn't deign to reply.
Link - Reign, which shows high dignity, is the opposite of Degin, which shows low dignity.

Hii guys....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail.....

Your Ad Here

D-1

2010-10-12T12:03:00.000-07:00

Dabble - to work in a non serious fashion , to deal (with) or work (at) frivolously.

Usage – He dabbles in chemistry.

Link - sounds like table...and if you see someone putting up their legs on the TABLE in the office, YOU GET the feeling that the person is not serious about his image at work...and if its a girl wearing mini skirt puts her legs ion the table then you become unserious about work...

Link – Dabble rhymes well with babble. To babble is to talk nonsense and talking nonsense means wasting time and wasting time means you are not taking your work seriously. So babble implies dabble.

Dally – to waste time idly, to act or move slowly, to behave carelessly or indifferently.

Usage - He did not dally long over his meal.

Link – Dally sounds like daily. So daily, if you chit chat with your ally (friend or associate), then you are

wasting precious time, hence dallying...

Link2 - if you are playing daily for 7-8 hours then you are wasting your time...

Dank - unpleasant, damp and cold

Usage - The kitchen was dank and cheerless.

Link – Dank sounds like tank. A tank containing cold water will be damp and cold on the inside.

Link2 - sounds like dan+k(kool)...Damp ANd Kool...simple:)

Dapper - neat and trim

Usage - David Beckham and Tom Cruise are dapper young men

Link - sounds like diaper....if you can remember the diapers used for babies, should be kept neat and trim..else they will catch infection...

Dappled - spotted, having spots or patches of color, having colorful patterns.

Usage - He stood in the dappled sunlight of the forest.

Link – Dappled = Dirty + apple. Cut an apple and leave it in the open, after some time you can see several

brown spots on it as a result of oxidation. So apple is dirty because it is dappled.

Daub – cover with something sticky, smear with paint

Usage - They daubed his home with slogans.

Link - sounds like Dabur chyavanprash. Mr. Dubey daubed dabur chyavanprash on bread...

Link2 - for all Harry Potter fans....if you can remember DOBBY from the Harry Potter movies: he was always shabby and dirty, as if COVERED WITH MUD or SMEARED WITH PAINT

Daunt - to intimidate, discourage, to dishearten.

Usage - Nothing evil could daunt them.

Link - sounds like danger + aunt..while you are doing it with a sexy aunt and uncle catches you...he will daunt

you....

Link2 - sounds like haunt...if you are frightened you will be discouraged to go into the haunted house....

Dawdle - loiter, hang around, waste time doing nothing

Usage - They dawdled arm in arm past the shopfronts.

Link – Read as daw+dull..dull people always dawdle...

Deadpan – a blank and expressionless face, emotionless face or manner

Usage - deadpan delivery of the joke.

Link – sounds like dead man. When you see a dead body, it is still and no expression on the face. So a dead

pan means a blank or expressionless face.

Debacle - a sudden collapse or a total failure, sudden disastrous

defeat

Usage - The convention was a disaster

Link - sounds like tackle...the student tried to tackle the problem in various ways, but it turned out to be a

debacle(failure, could not solve)

Debauch - morally corrupt, to lead away from excellence, involving excessively in drinking and promiscuity

Usage - A film accused of debauching public morals.

Link - sounds like De-BASH.Debashish was bashed because he was indulging in all the bad things, but instead of refraining from such activities, he became DEBAUCH...

Link2 - sounds like de(the)+boss...you think your boss is debauch(morally corrupt) and exploits her secretary..

Debonair - aiming to please, urbane, affable, elegant, charming

Usage - A handsome , debonair, death-defying racing driver

Link - i think everyone must have heard of debonair.com....the site has some girls to please everyone..rest is

clear...you can open the site only when you are alone to get the clear meaning of the word...

Debilitate - weaken(esp. through heat, hunger)

Usage - Life in the camp debilitated him.

Link - sounds like Bill Clinton....when he came to India he ate so much that he suffered from diarrhea which

debilitated him....

Link2 - Sounds like De Bill and Ate). You dont have enough money and the restaurant person is telling to "De Bill and Eat" means fist give bill and than eat. What will happen?? You will surely get weaken by Hunger!!!

Debunk - To expose or ridicule the falseness, sham or exaggerated claims

Usage - Debunk a supposed miracle drug

Link - the excuse for bunking the classes was debunked when my dad called the college and asked them...

Link2 - For all the Salman Khan fans, In the movie Dabaang, Salman khan tries to debunk the nefarious plans of Sonu Sood.

Decant - To pour ( a liquid) from one container into another

Usage - She decanted the milk into a jug

Link - The can of Kingfisher was opened and DECANTED into another vessel...

Decapitate - To cut off the head of, behead, execute

Usage - The colonel ordered his men to decapitate the prisoners

Link - The prisoner was decapitated and so could not wear a cap anymore :P

Deciduous - not lasting, ephemeral , shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season

Usage - Oaks are deciduous trees

Link - The reality show DESI(CI) Girls started with much hype and hoopla but once the show started the response was not so good and hence lost all the TRPS, the hype didnt last long, so DESI GIRL was DECIDUOUS....

Link2 - all the desi hot girls of delhi are found in DU(delhi university)....

Your Ad Here

P-14

2010-10-08T01:21:00.000-07:00

Proscribe - prohibit, banish, outlaw

Usage - Father has proscribed any telephone calls from being made after 10 p.m.

Link - When you want a magazine, you PREscribe(subscribe) it. Similarly when you want to stop it, you will have to PROSCRIBE..SO PROSCRIBE = prohibit

Link2 - A doctor Prescribes medicines and Proscribes unhealthy food......

Proselytize - to try to persuade people to accept your beliefs

Usage - Mahatma Gandhi’s writings have the power to proselytize anyone to the principals of non-violence.

Link - sounds like ti(taiji)+roz(daily)+layi(to bring)+rose....taiji roz rose layi to proselytize us...

Prostrate - lying on ground and facing downwards

Usage - She prostrated herself with frustration

Link - while doing it you lie straight on ground and facing downward....

Protean - able to take on many forms, versatile

Usage - The protean nature of clouds makes them a delight to watch.

Link - If you eat proteins rather than carbohydrates you will be strong and flexible(versatile) rather than fat...

Provenance - place of origin

Usage - Scientific examination of the piece of pottery found indicated that it was of Greek provenance.

Link - sounds like province+ance, remember when someone asks you: where do you belong to or to which province do you belong to?..which means whats your origin?...

Provender - dry food for livestock, fodder

Usage - The farmer spent the morning in the store room checking up on the farm’s provender.

Link - Some vendors sell dry food and hence product sold by a vendor = Provender...

Prowess - extraordinary ability

Usage - Napoleon Bonaparte’s military and political prowess came to an end when he lost the Battle of Waterloo against the Anglo-Allied army.

Link - sounds like POWERS....the one having extraordinary powers is a prowess...

Prude - excessively modest or proper person (who is easily shocked by improper things, esp. of a sexual nature), person who doesn't want to listen about sex

Usage - The people of the Victorian Age were such prudes

Link - prude people often becomes rude when we start talking about sex in front of them...

Prune - to remove dead parts of a plant, trim

Usage - The gardener visited the house every Sunday to prune the garden.

Link - sounds like SALOON, where barber CUT(TRIM) our hair...

Link2 - the ruined plants were pruned...

Prurient - salacious, having or causing lustful desires and thoughts

Usage - The moral science teacher asked her students to stay away from prurient literature and films that tend to corrupt young minds.

Link - Aunty ro ri thi because my uncle had excessive prurient desires....she was so much exhausted...

Pry - inquire impertinently (someone else's private affairs)

Usage - The carpenter used the pry bar to pull out all the nails from the wood.

Link - sounds like spy who interferes in others' private affairs and also OPENS up some secrets...

Link2 - paray neighbours pry in other's private life...

Puerile - childish, callow

Usage - He speaks in a puerile manner, with a pronounced lisp.

Link - sounds like pure....PURE things are always childish and immature.

Pugnacity - having strong desire to argue or fight

Usage - Kumar’s pugnacity made him very unpopular with his colleagues in the office, and they avoided him like the plague.

Link - Reverse 'gn' to 'ng' to make- 'punga'-'city' ( quarrelsome place)....here everyone will have affinity to take punga from each other..hence people will be pugnacious...

Pulchritude - beauty, comedy, loveliness

Usage - Princess Diana’s pulchritude combined with her gentle nature won her admiration the world over.

Link - pulchritude of Aishwarya because of her palak(eyelids) and attitude..

Pulverize - to destroy completely, crush or grind into very small particles

Usage - Grandmother believes in pulverizing coffee beans in the grinder at home to get freshly ground coffee powder.

Link - sounds like powderize...hence is the meaning....

Link2 - sounds like pal bhar mein....India pulverized Pakistan in pal bhar...

Pummel - to beat or pound with fists

Usage - The pedestrians pummeled the demonstrators

Link - imagine yourself BEATING PUMMELa Anderson Boobs with your FISTS....Pummel=punch+pamela....

Punctilious - very careful, scrupulous

Usage - Tom’s punctilious table etiquette put all the other children to shame.

Link - sounds like PUNCTUAL...and you pay attention to even a person who is 1 second late, that shows that you care for even very minute things too...

Punitive - punishing

Usage - The United States had served a warning to Iran to either stop its nuclear developments or face punitive measures.

Link - sounds like punit+ive(eve)..when Punit decided to become an eve(chakka in hindi)...he was thrashed by his parents....

Puny - tiny, weak

Usage - All the healthy puppies were sold, and only the puny, black one remained.

Link - sounds like "pony" tail which is small and tiny...

Purport - intention, purpose, meaning

Usage - The general purport of his lecture was to warn us about the evils of smoking.

Link - I purported that I blasted the airport after the officials stopped me from going abroad...

Puritan - person who hates pleasure

Usage - He is a puritan

Link - Mr puri is a puritan as he refused to do it with a hot pari...he doesn't use his pura tan(body)....

Putative - supposed, generally assumed

Usage - The putative leader behind the recent bomb blast was arrested yesterday.

Link - putative place of RAM SETU....

Link2 - sounds like put-a-ti(tea)..so we are PRESUPPOSED to put tea on the table not on the floor...

Purloin - to steal something

Usage - He has a habit of purloining things

Link - He purloined a lion from the zoo

Pylon - metal structure for supporting wires

Link - PI shaped pylon in the lawn...

Hii guys folllow the blog to get all the words in your mail.....find me on facebook "funvocab buildeR"....

Your Ad Here

P-13

2010-10-03T13:14:00.000-07:00

Primogeniture - state of being the first-born child, right of the eldest child (to inherit the entire property of one or both parents)

Usage - Following the law of primogeniture, the king left his kingdom to his elder son, Richard.

Link - sounds like PRIMoGENITure... Considered PRIMary Due to GENTIC importance(genetically important or born first)....

Privation - lack of basic necessities or comforts of life

Usage - The prisoners faced privation from their captors, and many of them starved to death.

Link - sounds like PRIVACY.. what do YOU need for privacy, a room, house, but if you don't even have that then you won't be able to do it in public...

Privy - knowledge of something secret or private

Usage - After a long journey, the traveler rushed to the privy to relieve himself.

Link - privy lace where knowledge of intercourse is taught... :P

Link2 - sounds like priv(PRIVATE)+Y.......SO A PRIVATE DISCUSSION IS ALWAYS secret and hidden from others....

Probity - degree of honesty

Usage - He enjoys an exaggerated reputation for probity

Link - probe is to find out something....CBI is probing in his financial probity....

Link2 - now a days probability of finding a honest person is very less...

Prodigal - wasteful, willing to spend money

Usage - The prodigal squandered all his wealth in gambling.

Link - sounds like prod(rodies) +gals(girls)=extravagance. If you are with girls of rodies then you have to be extravagant....

Profane - violate

Usage - Do not profane the name of God by taking it in vain.

Link - sounds like porn films....when a person is a fan" of porn" films then he is violated from the good people's gang....

Profligate - wasteful, prodigal

Usage - The profligate doesn’t think twice when buying a new cell phone or laptop.

Link - Profligate= spend Profusely like bill Gates...

Link2 - split it like prof(professor)+li(lee)+g+ate(past of eat)..your Professor whose son bought a Lee jeans spent all of his father's money .. eating at all five stars hotels...what a wasteful use of your Professor's money....

Progeny - a person's children, offspring

Usage - The Duke’s estate was to be equally divided among his numerous progeny.

Link - sounds like Provide Gene i.e ur offsprings....

Prognosis - a forecast(of a disease), prediction

Usage - The medical prognosis of the tuberculosis patient seemed positive.

Link - sounds like pro+diagnosis, pro= think forward, diagnosis = cause of disease, it means to predict the features of a disease before the disease itself....

Prognosticate - predict (according to present indications)

Usage - The heavy gales and dark skies prognosticated that a hurricane was on its way.

Link - sounds like PROgKNOWsticate. a PRO KNOWS enough to make a prediction...

Proletarian - a worker, member of the working class, blue collar guy

Usage - The proletarian aired his grievances to the committee.

Link - sounds like pre+literacy....literacy se pehle all the persons are doing low profile jobs....they generally wear blue dress(remember at petrol pumps)...

Proliferate - grow rapidly

Usage - We must not proliferate nuclear arms

Link - sounds like pro + life + rate : increase in rate of production (pro) of life (living organisms) causes population to increase rapidly....

Link2 - sounds like pro + life + rate : in our professional (pro) life, we should work at faster rate to grow rapidly.....

Prolific - producing offspring or fruit in abundance, fertile, fecund

Usage - The orchard was full of prolific guava, apple, and mango trees.

Link - sounds like Production Lifted...They produced large amounts of the product...their production was lifted up in amount.....They were PROLIFIC....

Prolixity - tedious wordiness, boring verbosity

Usage - The novel’s prolixity made me vow to never read another book by the same author.

Link - sounds like COMPLEXITY - complex words, work are always difficult and boring to understand....imagine in a GD or PI, if the other persons use difficult words you become bore...

Promulgate - announce, announce a new doctrine or law publicly

Usage - The new law promulgates the abolition of slavery.

Link - Prom (promote)+ul+gate. So promoting something out of the gate, i.e. to make known by opening the gate (or opening declaration) to everyone out there...

Link2 - the mall's gate will close at 9pm...this was promulgated...

Propensity - a natural tendency to a particular kind of behavior

Usage - The Doctor warned us that cancer had a high propensity to spread very fast.

Link - sounds like propagation+city....now a days people are inclined towards "CITY" so they are shifting to cities from villages....

Link2 - he haspropensity for "pen se seeti" bajana since birth...

Prophylactic - a medicine which prevents disease

Usage - The government has started a drive to provide free prophylactics to men in order to curb the rise of sexually transmitted diseases.

Link - the doctor filled lactic acid as a prophylactic...

Link2 - The professor rubs lactic acid(curds) inside his condom(Protection) for lubrication to prevent AIDS..

Propinquity - nearness (in space or relationship), proximity, kinship

Usage - Ritu’s parents objected to her proximity to the male members of her class.

Link - Propinquity has "PIN: in it. If you pin two things together they are close together

Link2 - since the alphabets P & Q are in close proximity to each other, they are in propinquity ....

Propitiate - appease, peaceful, placate

Usage - No amount of gifts sent by Pradeep could propitiate Sandhya.

Link - sounds like propiti + ate .. propiti sounds very close to property.. + ate .. so just imagine if you elder brother ate (here it means encroach) all your property ....you will quarrel with him... your father will try to appease or pacify you...

Link2 - PROf+PITI- if you want professor's pity then you would have to appease him/her...

Propitious - favorable, auspicious, advantageous, fortunate

Usage - Paul looked for a propitious moment to propose to Annie.

Link - sounds like profitious.. hence its profitable and thus favorable..

Link2 - sounds like property-if you have got lot of property, you are FORTUNATE to get it..money is basically considered AUSPICIOUS and you can make any adverse situation FAVORABLE TO you if you posses money.

Proponent - supporter, backer

Usage - Martin Luther King was a major proponent of the American Civil Rights Movement.

Link - person opposite to opponent is a proponent...

Propound - to suggest an idea or explanation of something for people to consider, put forth for consideration or analysis

Usage - It is sometimes said that Isaac Newton propounded the theory of gravity after an apple fell on his head.

Link - propo(propose) + ound(round) = what do we propose at a round table, an idea, guys :)

Link2 - my girlfriend propounded an idea to go to a pond and do it there..

Propriety - fitness, quality of being proper

Usage - Propriety demanded that we invite the new neighbors over.

Link - divide the word as propr+iety ..propr(sounds like PROPER)..hence it refers to being PROPER or CORRECT IN CONDUCT..

Link2 - sounds like pretty if you wanna look pretty you have to behave in correct manner...

Prosaic - dull and unimaginative

Usage - Amit was tired of his prosaic job as a clothes salesman.

Link - sounds like mosaic--->beautiful artistic work with full of vibrant colours.....prosaic ...opposite of that ...dull...

Hii guys....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail....

Your Ad Here

P-12

2010-10-01T12:40:00.000-07:00

Preen - to spend a lot of time to look good

Usage - She likes to dress when going to the opera

Link - sounds like Rin; commonly used detergent bar in India used for cleaning clothes.. hence preening clothes....

Prehensile - capable of grasping or holding

Usage - The octopus spread its prehensile arms and grasped the ship’s anchor.

Link - sounds like PRE(before)+HENS+ILE before the hens can escape we have to grasp & hold them....

Link2 - with prehensile tail, monkey captured a hen...

Prelate - priest of highest level

Usage - An Archbishop is also called a prelate

Link - prelate is a priest who never becomes late...

Prelude - introduction to something

Usage - A short piano piece preluded the opera.

Link - Joining any coaching institute is a prelude to Cat journey...

Link2 - CONCLUDE will be in the end, PRELUDE - beginning / introduction...

Premonition - feeling that something bad is going to happen

Usage - Every Thursday the villagers would gather under the mango tree to hear the seer’s premonitions.

Link - I had a premonition while carrying money in the bag...

Preponderance - superiority of power, majority

Usage - A preponderance of evidence against the defendant led to his ruin.

Link - no need to ponder when you have preponderance...

Prerogative - a right to a particular person because of their importance

Usage - Suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males

Link - remember "Interrogative" which means questioning by Investigation officers. So prerogative should be something opposite. so unquestionable...

Presage - foretell, give a warning or sign of

Usage - It is believed that catching the bride’s bouquet is a presage of one’s own impending wedding.

Link - sounds like pre+sage- a SAGE has the power to PRE-tell the future....

Presumptuous - over confident, excessively forward, arrogant

Usage - When Edward arrived at Jane’s house with two tickets to the play, Jane told him it that was very presumptuous of him.

Link - sumptuous Dawood was presumptuous that he will become immortal and overcome God...he had a pre assumption that he will overcome GOD..

Pretext - false reason that you give for doing something, excuse

Usage - Immediately after stealing the lady’s necklace, the housekeeper left under the pretext that her mother was seriously ill.

Link - sounds like textbook....when your teacher asks for an explanation for your low marks, you try to find an EXCUSE that you donot have a TEXTbook...

Prevaricate - to avoid giving a direct answer to a question in order to hide truth

Usage - The politician prevaricated about the basic points of his policy on health care for the elderly.

Link - when Kate Winslet's fiance was verified, Kate prevaricated...

Hii guys....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail....

Your Ad Here

P-11

2010-09-28T05:39:00.000-07:00

Precarious - unsafe, uncertain, risky

Usage - Negotiators on both sides knew that it was a precarious truce.

Link - sounds like PRE+CARE+IOUS....We have to take CARE while doing something risky so that it does not go wrong...we have to be careful before hand only...

Precept - principle, a rule about how to behave or look

Usage - His basic precepts prevented him from borrowing money from anyone.

Link - sounds like "recipe" which is a guideline for cooking....

Link2 - In the movie Mohabbatein, you have to pre accept the precepts of Gurukul...

Precipice - very steep cliff

Usage - Looking down the sharp precipice made Rita feel giddy and faint.

Link - I saw a naked girl sipping ice cream on the precipice...

Precipitous - steep, overhasty

Usage - Her precipitant acceptance of his proposal of marriage surprised everyone.

Link - The mountain PRECIPIce is very PRECIPITOUS...

Preclude - make impossible, prevent

Usage - The age limit precludes him from applying for the course at the university.

Link - sounds like EXCLUDE or keep out, whereas INCLUDE which is its opposite means to take in as part of a group....

Link2 - I didn't get pre clues, this precluded me to answer correctly...

Precocious - one who has extra ordinary abilities

Usage - Ron was a precocious child who started speaking when he was six months old

Link - sounds like pre(early) + cock(genital of man in slang) -> a "pre"-teen who has a huge "cock" is precocious....

Link2 - it can be pre+conscious(conscious). i.e. thing or person who/which is very conscious in advance...

Precursor - pioneer, predecessor, forerunner

Usage - The principal walked onto the stage as a precursor to announce the arrival of the chief guest.

Link - In computer, cursor ie precursor to various files to be opened

Predicament - difficult situation

Usage - The fight between her brothers left her in a predicament

Link - sounds like PREDIC (T) - AMENT : imagine a situation where YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT will happen (can't predict) or WHAT TO DO..is a predicament....

Link2 - while giving presentation if your dick grows straight you will be in preDICament...

Predilection - preference, partiality

Usage - She has a predilection for the latest perfumes and cosmetics.

Link - sounds like pre(before)+dialect(local language); you generally become partial when you are taking an interview and you meet someone who speaks your language...

Link2 - Every girl has predilection for Hrithik roshan's dil(heart )....

Preeminent - outstanding, superior

Usage - Amartya Sen is a preeminent Indian economist.

Link - sounds like prominent which is superior...

Hii guys....follow the blog to get all the words in you mail.....

Your Ad Here

P-10

2010-09-26T14:23:00.000-07:00

Plummet - fall suddenly

Usage - The stock market plummeted

Link - sounds like "comet" which falls so sharply...

Link2 - You went on a Blind date and girl was PLUM(very fat) who u MET..so you fell sharply...

Poignant - something that affects you deeply and makes you feel sad

Usage - There is a moment of extreme poignancy when the film's protagonist discovers he is dying.

Link - POIGNANCY sounds like pregnancy, and an unwanted pregnancy is sometimes a cause of sadness...

Polemic - attack or defense of an opinion, controversy or refutation

Usage - The polemic over a woman’s right to abortion has drawn considerable attention.

Link - sounds like pole(poll)+mic..so during polls politicians often attack or support others opinions...

Ponderous - too slow, serious and boring

Usage - A ponderous rock crashed down and shattered the wooden bridge.

Link - Its simple guys, POUND is a unit of weight , we often calculate weight in pounds! 1 Pound = 480 grams...its sometimes slow and boring...

Link2 - he was walking ponderously in a pond

Portend - a sign or warning of something that is going to happen in future, indication

Usage - The heavy gales and dark skies portended that a hurricane was on its way.

Link - When we reached the port's end (sea port) we saw some dead bodies, which gave a sign that something bad was going to happen...

Portly - fat

Usage - Men are portly and women are stout

Link - portly people are like gol(round) potty... :D

Link2 - PORKY the pig is PORTLY...

Poseur - a person who pretends to be sophisticated

Usage - Martha had been warned not to be taken in by the poseur’s fine clothes and stylish car.

Link - poseur was standing in a pretending pose...

Link2 - sounds like pose+ur -> pose ur stuff to impress others...girls do that a lot at beach...:)

Posterity - coming generation

Usage - She is to writing a book about the stories her grandmother told her when she was a child, so that those stories are preserved for posterity.

Link - posterity will remind him through posters....

Link2 - sounds like posterity = post + inherity...

Postulate - assumed truth

Usage - He posited three basic laws of nature

Link - sounds like post-u-late...when i posted the mail late..the employer postulated that i am not fit for the job...

Poultice - soothing application applied to sore and inflamed portions of the body

Usage - A bread poultice is a nice easy way to get thorns or glass out of a child's foot.

Link - poultICE contains word ICE.Ice in itself is a soothing substance which when applied on inflammation alleviates the pain.So poultice is applying ice on inflammation...

Link2 - in politics, politicians apply poultice to each other to palliate the pain...

Pragmatic - practical

Usage - The ministry issued a pragmatic sanction relating to the matter.

Link - pragmatic approach of parag sarees sales girls by posing half naked and displaying the sarees....

Prate - to talk in stupid or boring manner

Usage - Much to Sally’s annoyance, her sister prated on about her neighbors for an hour.

Link - sounds like pee+rate....some guys were talking about the rate at which they pee in front of everyone on the road....such a foolish talk, these people are really idle.

Link2 - Brad Pitt was prating on Angelina Jolie's sleeping rate...

Hii guys....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail....catch me on facebook...just write..."Funvocab builder"...you will find me...

Your Ad Here

P-9

2010-09-24T04:19:00.000-07:00

Plausible - reasonable

Usage - He gave a plausible excuse for the delay.

Link - sounds like possible and logical...something which is possible and logical is reasonable...

Plebeian - person belonging to a low social class

Usage - The plebeian narrated his woeful story.

Link - sounds like pebble which are found every where and are very common...

Link2 - sounds like play with lesbian which is very vulgar in a playboy to earn some money...

Plebiscite - direct vote by the entire electorate (on an important issue)

Usage - The plebiscite was issued this morning.

Link - plebiscite on "How many plebeians use websites. "...

Plenary - (of power) complete, compulsory, mandatory

Usage - For the first time after a decade one could behold a plenary session of the legislature.

Link - Plenary can be split into Plen (plenty) + nary (naari - women in hindi)...the disco is always full of plenty of naaris...it is compulsory...

Plenitude - abundance

Usage - There was a plenitude of food and wealth in the town.

Link - plen(i)tude: remove "i" and place it after "T". sounds like plenty..means full....

Plethora - excess; overabundance

Usage - There was a plethora of opportunities open to her.

Link - like if you go home after many days, your mother will insist that you eat more. What she will say is "Le + Thoda Aur Le" ultimately, aisai lene se, it will become an excess at the end. You will be full :)...

Pliable - flexible

Usage - The metal was pliable.

Link - sounds like ply...ply is a veru thin wooden sheet ehich is flexible and can be bend in any direction..

Plight - difficult situation

Usage - He never meant to flout the plight he made to his partner.

Link - sounds like light....in Bihar there is no light for most of the time which is a plight...

Plucky - having a lot of courage and determination

Usage - It takes loads of pluck to stand up to bullies like George.

Link - luck and pluck make a person successful...

Plumb - exactly vertical

Usage - He plumbed it till it was perfectly vertical.

Link - plumb--plumber who tests the pipe to see whether it is exactly vertical or not...

Link2 - When the leg is exactly in the vetical line(plumb) ,then the umpire examines closely to give lbw....LBw is also known as plumb...

Hii guys....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail....

Your Ad Here

P-8

2010-09-21T03:12:00.000-07:00

Pique - getting irritated

Usage - The woman stormed out in a fit of pique.

Link - sounds like pi+que.. so imagine you are standing in a QUE(ue) in a Pie shop (cake) for a long time you get ANNOYED ,IRRITATED and you tend to show RESENTMENT...

Link2 - sounds like pic...if someone takes your pic secretly in a embarrassing situation. you would be annoyed, irritated....

Pittance - small salary

Usage - They work all day for a mere pittance

Link - sounds like Patience; You need to have patience to work all day for a mere pittance....

Link2 - bahut pita(to beat someone) employer jab usne pittance di worker ko... :)

Placebo - dummy pill which doesn't has many effects, harmless substance prescribed as a dummy pill

Usage - The prayers of the placebo were not always welcome.

Link - PLACE-it takes the place of the actual substance..and BOgus..it doesnt do what the actual pill does.Thus PLACEBO is a bogus harmless pill which takes the place of the original...

Link2 - sounds like place+boobs...doctor placed some pills on her tongue to increase her boobs...

Plagiarize - to copy someone's ideas

Usage - Students often have a bad habit of plagiarizing.

Link - sounds like pla(plan)+gi+arize(arise)...so a plan arises in your mind to steal your friend's notes and show it to your lecturer...

Link2 - Dr. Katra plagiarized a plague removal formula of Mr. Batra...

Plaintive - expressing sorrow, mournful

Usage - I could hear the child's plaintive cries.

Link - husband died in a plain vrash...wife said in plaintive voice...

Platitude - a comment or statement

Usage - The politicians spoke platitudes about lowering the taxes.

Link - sounds like flat + attitude..something flat(no curves...hope u get it) does not attract us as it is very common. So you will obviously give trite remarks... :p

Platonic - friendly relationship, spiritual relationship

Usage - He was deeply interested in Platonic philosophy.

Link - after taking a tonic(hope you got it)...you can't maintain platonic relationship with your partner(friend)....

Plaudit - round of applause

Usage - The Kite Runner is one of the few books which has met with both critics & publicplaudit

Link - sounds like applaud it...

Hii guys...follow the blog to get all the words in your mail.....

Your Ad Here

P-7

2010-09-19T05:30:00.000-07:00

Philistine - ignorant person, narrow-minded person, uncultured and exclusively interested in material gain

Usage - He was a Philistine and a sworn enemy of the Israelites.

Link - sounds like tiny things....those who feel over tiny things are NARROW MINDED...

Phlegmatic - calm, not easily made angry or upset

Usage - He is a phlegmatic and an undemonstrative man.

Link - sounds like pull flag...when we hoist a flag we should be calm and unexcited....

Physiognomy - science of face reading

Usage - He had a striking physiognomy.

Link - perfect physique and physiognomy is beautiful...

Piebald - spotted in different colors (esp. in black and white)

Usage - Her pied dress caught my attention.

Link - piebald -> remember pie chart which is generally of different colors..

Piecemeal - irregular and unsatisfactory

Usage - He used a piecemeal approach to the problem.

Link - PIECE+MEAL...SO IF YOU DIVIDE YOUR MEAL INTO LITTLE PIECES AND EAT ONLY A PART OF IT AT A TIME...it will be very irritating....

Pilfer - steal things

Usage - She couldn't believe he had actually abstracted the files she had so carefully hidden.

Link - Pills le kar farar ho gaya...

Pillage - plunder i.e. the act of stealing valuable things from a place

Usage - He lost most of his goods because of the pillage.

Link - SOUNDS LIKE VILLAGE.. many villages were plundered during the Gujarat riots....

Link2 - sounds like P(pirate)+village...pirate's village....everythong will be plundered here...

Pinion - restrain or immobilize by binding the wings or legs

Usage - Its pinions soared high in the sky.

Link - sounds like PIN+ON; when we PIN something, it will hold it and thereby prevent it from flying away .. (bind the arms of something)...

Pinnacle - peak, highest point, acme

Usage - The old church had a large pinnacle jutting out of it.

Link - sounds like pin(pine tree)+uncle...a sexy lady said to my uncle that she will do it with him if he brings her hairpin from top of the pine tree.....

Hii guyss....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail....

Your Ad Here

P-6

2010-09-16T05:16:00.000-07:00

Persevere - continue steadily in spite of difficulties

Usage - He persevered in his attentions to his secretary.

Link - sounds like persevere=persistent+severe,he is very severely persistent...

Perspicuous - (of something) plainly expressed, easy to understand

Usage - His perspicuous argument finally won him the case.

Link - sounds like not suspicious.. absolutely clear...

Perturb - disturb greatly

Usage - The orbits of these stars were perturbed by the passings of a comet

Link - sounds like "disturb" or tub....in a washing tub you mix washing powder and agiate(disturb) the water...

Peruse - to read something in a careful way

Usage - Please peruse this report at your leisure

Link - sounds like abuse...when you read a sex abuse story in a newspaper...you read it in a very careful way and specially when it is about a hot girl...

Link2 - before keeping medicine in my purse while buying, I use to peruse the expiry date....

Pervasive - everywhere, omnipresent

Usage - God is pervasive

Link - Terrorism is pervasive because of Parvez Musharraf.... :P

Perversion - corruption, change from right to wrong

Usage - The case was a perversion of justice.

Link - sounds like perfect version....perfect version of getting money is corruption...

Link2 - sounds like PARIVARTAN from right to wrong (turning to wrong use)...

Petrify - something frightening, turn to stone

Usage - The horror petrified his feelings

Link - sounds like PATHARify (hindi pathar-stone)hence, the word...

Link2 - I was petrified when somebody patted on my back...

Petulant - touchy, peevish, ill-tempered

Usage - She seemed rather petulant and distracted today.

Link - sounds like pet + you+ lent....the pet which you lent me is making me irritated....

Link2 - If somebody peet you(hindi of hitting somebody)or beat you up, you will become irritable and annoyed....

Pharisaical - hypocritical, who paid scrupulous attention to tradition

Usage - The advocates are always regarded as pharaisical

Link - contains HARI and SAI all GOD name so Pharisaical means pious..

Hii guys...follow the blog to get all the words in your mail....

Your Ad Here

P-5

2010-09-13T03:34:00.000-07:00

Perdition - destruction

Usage - All murderers will be hurled to bottomless perdition.

Link - sounds like partition.. So Relate perdition to Partition of India in 1947 due to which several families were completely ruined...

Link2 - There was a movie named Road to Perdition, if someone has seen it he can very well relate to this word...

Peregrination - a journey esp a long and slow one

Usage - He went about on a pleasant peregrination through the forests of India.

Link - sounds like a pilgrimage, which means going on a tour...

Link2 - remove 1st 3 letter egrination sounds like migration, which means the same..

Peremptory - expecting to be obeyed immediately and without refusal

Usage - The judge's peremptory decision was announced in the morning.

Link - sounds like pre-empty, i.e something which is already empty, needs to be filled, it obeys each and every demand to get money...

Link2 - peremptory order to empty the house

Perfidious - disloyal

Usage - It is better to have enemies than perfidious friends.

Link - sounds like barfi....perfidious servant ne poisonous barfi dekar malik ko maar dia or paise lekar bhaag gya...

Link2 - per+FID+ious.. FID stands for fidelity.. i.e. loyalty.. hence perfidious is its opposite..

Perfunctory - superficial, done routinely and with little care

Usage - He cast a perfunctory glance over the room before opening it for the guests.

Link - sounds like PARAI(other's)+FACTORY - if you are told to take care of somebody else's factory, you would casually care about it...

Peripatetic - wandering from place to place

Usage - Jones is a confirmed peripatetic.

Link - sounds like paer(legs) pe tic tic....means wandering on legs.

Link2 - peri+pat+etic--peri means around, + pat or path means road to walk on, therefore peripatetic means to walk around...

Perjury - crime of speaking lie

Usage - He was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to a month of jail.

Link - speaking lie in front of the jury is perjury

Pernicious - harmful in a gradual manner

Usage - He was completely unaware of the pernicious disease eating him up from inside.

Link - sounds like per+nicious..nicious when pronounced sounds like noxious...so noxious.. ..so something harmful.....

Peroration - final part of a speech, conclusion of an oration

Usage - His peroration started boring them after a while.

Link - sounds like Per+oration--Part after ORATION = PERORATION, that is the concluding section of an oration..

Perpetrate - commit an offense

Usage - He was looking for an opportunity to perpetrate his crime.

Link - sounds like per+pet+r+ate--eating pet animal is doing wrong...

Link2 - I went to a perpretator and asked per person peetne(to beat) ke rate...thereby indulging in perpetration...

Hii guys...follow the blog to get all the words in yoru mail.....

Your Ad Here

P-4

2010-09-11T01:40:00.000-07:00

Patine - layer on bronze

Usage - The tools acquired a slight brown patina over time.

Link - sounds like Patila(a utensil made of copper) gets rusted and a green layer called patina is formed on it...

Patois - a regional dialect of a language

Usage - The poems were written in Jamaican patois.

Link - sounds like patai(to impress a girl)... usne kudi patai using punjabi patois...

Patrician - a person from highest social class

Usage - Having married a patrician, she gained a lot of prestige and respect.

Link - consider ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL those who study in that school are noble...

Link2 - sounds like patri(street)...from patri to patrician...he did a lot of hard work..

Pauper - very poor person

Usage - His losses at gambling reduced him to a pauper.

Link - Person jisko "pao"(bread...remeber pao bhaji) "per" jina padata hai use poor person kehte hai....

Peccadillo - small crime, offense or fault

Usage - Spending too much money is one his peccadilloes.

Link - "pecc" (actually, pecado) refers to "mistake" as in impeccable. pecking others etc., So, peccadillo means small mistake....

Link2 - sounds like pee kar dil lo....peekar(after drinking) girls se keh re ho ki dildo lo....is peccadillo...

Pedant - fussy teacher, scholar who overemphasizes book learningUsage - Our teacher was such a pedant that we lost interest in her classes very soon.

Link - sounds like peeda(pain)...lot of peeda when he teaches us in a pedantic style...

Peer - one who has equal standing with another, nobleman

Usage - He always considered Obama to be his peer.

Link - sounds like beer....always drink a beer with a person of your status....

Peevish - bad tempered

Usage - She seemed rather peevish and distracted today.

Link - sounds like pee+wish...while doing it...if your partner pees(urinate) on you will become peevish....

Link2 - sounds like pee+vish( pee means asking forcibly to drink,,, n vish is poison) so irritating easily....

Pejorative - derogatory, disapproving, (of a word or phrase) suggesting that someone is of little value

Usage - "Nigger" is a pejorative word for a black person.

Link - sounds like majority...."majority" wala group doosre group ka effect khatam kar deta hai...causing a belittling effect....

Pell-mell - very quickly and in an uncontrolled way

Usage - The kids were running pell-mell up the stairs.

Link - sounds like "pehle main pehle main".....children screamed and rushed pell-mell when hrithik roshan came to meet them....

Penance - self imposed punishment for sin done earlier

Usage - He decided to fast for ten days as penance for fighting.

Link - sounds like 'pain on us' what we take as a punishment on ourself for our sins....

Penitent - feeling sorry for doing something wrong

Usage - The penitent prayed silently in the church.

Link - inside a tent if you do some thing wrong with a girl by giving penni(money) you will repent it later...

Pensive - thinking deeply about something esp because you are sad and worried

Usage - The pensive look in his eyes melted my heart.
Link - pensive mood when expensive mobile was lost...

Link2 - With a pen in your mouth, you are always indulged in some kind of thought....

Hii guys...follow the blog to get all the words in your mail....

Your Ad Here

P-3

2010-09-09T13:51:00.000-07:00

Paramour – a lover, illicit lover
Usage – The presidents alleged paramour.

Link - every husband says....yeh dil maange more and need a paramour...
Link2 – sounds like pyar + amar. Amar said to his paramour ‘hamara pyar amar rahe...

Paranoia – mental illness when a person thinks that everybody is against him
Usage - The mood is one of paranoia and expectation of war.
Link – sounds like paranoid nahi....he was suffering from paranoia....paranoid nahi tha wo...

Paraphernalia – personal belongings, equipment consisting of miscellaneous articles needed or a particular operation or sport etc, a large collection of small objects, often the tool for a job or hobby.
Usage – A photographer's paraphernalia.
Link - You remember this word by peripheral,means extra equipments..

Link2 - Paraphernalia = para + phir + nali +a. Param said ‘Phir (again) nali (sewage pipe) got choked!? darn! So he called the plumber, who came along with his paraphernalia.

Parched - extremely dry, very thirsty, to roast, to dehydrate.
Usage – Showers poured down upon the parched earth.

Link - In march mouth becomes very parched...
Link – Parched sound like torched. So if something is torched, it means it is burnt or roasted or dried completely.

Pariah – a social outcast, a person who is rejected (from society or home).
Usage – I was treated like a pariah for the rest of the journey.
Link – sounds like Paa + riya and paraya....Riya’s paa treated her like a pariah..... i.e paraya....

Parochial - narrowly restricted in scope or outlook, narrow minded, only concerned with small issues.
Usage - the stuffy and parochial atmosphere of a small village.
Link – In the movie devdas, paro was parochial (unlike chandramukhi) because she did not make friends with anybody except devdas . Paro could have easily charmed others with her beauty and have fun, but she was restricted in her outlook, hence she was parochial.

Parody - A literary or artistic work for comic effect or ridicule, mimicry of someone's individual manner in a humorous or satirical way, a spoof.
Usage - It was easy to parody his rather pompous manner of speaking.
Link - sounds like parrot...always imitates people often in a humorous way.

Link – sounds like paresh + ody(ssey). Paresh Rawal was part of an odyssey (long eventful journey) and when things started to go completely wrong, the odyssey became a parody

Paroxysm – sudden attack of an emotion that can't be controlled, sudden outburst
Usage - A paroxysm of laughter.
Link – Paroxysm -> Oxysm -> oxygen. If you inhale oxygen and don’t exhale for some time, what happens? The suffocation increases and at one point, u find it uncontrollable and hence what follows is a sudden outburst (paroxysm) of air.

Link2 - sounds like "proxy" when we give proxy in class, we laugh a lot after class if it is successful. But professor may go in a rage if he gets to know about proxy and he may hit and give fit of pain or attack...

Parquet – a wooden flooring in pattern
Usage – Flooring made of parquet.
Link – parquet in a park to lay on back....

Parry – to deflect, evade or avoid, blocking an attack, to dodge or duck.
Usage - My opponent parried every blow I got close enough to attempt.
Link - sounds like pari(angel)...pari ne sari difficulties pare(side) kar di....

Link2 – remember harry. Harry potter was able to parry all the deathly blows received from lord voldemort!!

Partisan – biased person
Usage – He is too partisan to be a referee.
Link – parti(think of a political party)+san(son)...so a father who is favoring his son's political party, instead of a good party...

Passe – out of fashion, gone by, faded, old fashioned, antique.
Usage – This is a passé rose.
Link – Passe -> passed + away. So a style that has passed away becomes passé.

Pastiche - imitation of another's style in musical composition or in writing
Usage - The world menu may be a pastiche of dishes from many countries.
Link – sounds like Paste + achieve. So pastiche is an art form achieved by using the ‘cut copy and paste’ funda. Yahan wahan se cut karo copy karo aur paste karke nayan bana do.

Pathological – impossible to control
Usage – A pathological liar.

Link - pathological fear after murder in a pathological lab...
Link2 – Pathological -> concentrate on ‘logical’. A pathologically affected person does not exhibit good health in body or mind, and is very illogical, irrational, unreasonable and obsessive almost like a psycho path (remember the joker, in movie ‘the dark knight’).

Hii guys....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail.....

Your Ad Here

P-2

2010-09-08T02:11:00.000-07:00

Palpable – capable of being touched or felt, tangible, capable of being perceived by the senses or the mind
Usage – A palpable tumour.
Link – palpable = pulp + able. I am drinking pulpy orange and I am able to feel the orange pulp in the mouth, so the pulp is palpable!!

Palpitate – tremble, shake or quiver, shiver, to beat with excessive rapidity; throb (heart throb).
Usage - His whole body was palpitating with fear.
Link – palpitate = pulp + i + t(ook) +ate. I secretly took some mango pulp from my neighbor’s fridge and ate it. Later, my body started palpitating with the fear of being caught and punished.

Pall – a covering that darkens or obscures, a depressing or oppressive atmosphere, to have a dulling, boring or gloomy effect. Usage – A pall of smoke hung over the town.
Link – Pall = poison + all. If all people in a community are poisoned, then everyone will fall ill and will become weak, dull and finally will go into depression, so the entire atmosphere will become depressing, boring and dull!!

Pan – a wide and shallow container made, to express a totally negative opinion, to criticize.
Usage – Heat the butter in a large pan.
Link – Pan sounds like pen. I penned my first script and it was panned by aamir khan (pandit at judging scripts).

Link2 - sounds like paan(hindi)..anyone who eats PAAN excessively is subject to HARSH CRITICISM because he will spit everywhere after eating it...

Panacea – a remedy or cure for all diseases or ills, a universal remedy, an elixir.
Usage – Western aid will not be a panacea for the country’s problems.
Link – Panacea = pain + asia. Asia has cures for all the pains/ailments, so if you want panacea, please visit Asia

Panache – a dashing manner, style, distinctive or stylish elegance.
Usage - The orchestra played with great panache.

Link - it sounds a bit like APACHE.. which is a bike.. a bike is a symbol of FLAIR , FLAMBOYANCE, STYLE..
Link2 - sounds like payal + nach. Payal ka nach(dance) was full of panache

Pandemic – widespread, spread over a wide geographic area and affecting a large proportion of population.

Usage - The virus spread quickly and resulted in a deadly pandemic.
Link - sounds like pan + anda. When u break an anda(egg) and pour its contents into a pan, it spreads over the entire area of the pan, thus affecting its entire area...

Pandemonium - a very noisy place, wild confusion or disorder, a place of uproar and chaos.
Usage - There was pandemonium in the court as the verdict was delivered.
Link – sounds like panda + demon...if you are left in a place where only pandas and demons live, you will be in utter pandemonium!!
Link2 - sounds like harmonium(musical instrument)...a harmonium gone out of array creates noisy disorder...commotion

Pander - to fulfill the low desires of people, to cater to the tastes and desires of others, to give satisfaction.
Usage – The government has pandered to the terrorists for far too long.
Link - to get the tender you need to pander the administrator...
Link – sounds like Bandar (monkey). A trained bandar will do whatever his master tells him to do, in other words, the monkey satisfies his master by catering to his needs and desires.

Panegyric - a formal praise, a public compliment, elaborate praise or laudation, any form of enthusiastic praise.
Usage - It is traditional to deliver a panegyric to the departed.
Link – sounds like Pan + neg(ative) + ric(ky). In a match, if a cricketer is able to shield himself from the pan (criticisms) and negative vibes from Ricky pointing, he will surely receive a panegyric from the coach.

Panoramic – a picture or series of pictures representing a continuous scene, an extensive unbroken view, a wide or comprehensive survey.
Usage - He looked out over a panorama of hills and valleys.
Link – PanORAMic. Concentrate on ‘O RAM’. When sita was being taken to lanka by ravan, she looked out over a panorama of hills and clouds and shouted ‘O Ram’ come and save me!!

Pantomime –action without words as means of expression, acting without dialogues.
Usage – He studied pantomime in acting school.
Link – PanTOMmine. Concentrate on ‘TOM’, tom & jerry cartoons are full of pantomime, they hardly speak, it’s mostly chasing and hitting each other with a pan

Parable – a short and simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson, a short moral story.
Usage – The parable of the Good Samaritan.
Link - parable of an athlete who won the race with one paer(leg)...
Link2 – sounds like paragraph + able.....a small PARAgraph that makes u able to learn moral story.. (i.e. gives morals)

Paragon – a model of excellence or perfection.
Usage – She was a paragon of neatness and efficiency.
Link – Paragon chappals (slippers) are a paragon of comfort.

Hii guys...follow the blog to get all the words in your mail...catch me on facebook "funvocab builder"....

Your Ad Here

P-1

2010-09-05T13:23:00.000-07:00

Pachyderm - a large, thick skinned mammal such as an elephant, rhinoceros or hippopotamus.

Usage - The elephant enthusiast was keen on capturing the pachyderm on her camera.
Link - pachyderm = packed + derma (derma meaning skin). So an animal who’s skin is heavily stuffed or packed with fat is a pachyderm.

Paean - song of joy or praise, a joyful praise or exultation, enthusiastic praise.
Usage - The film received a paean from the critics.
Link – sounds like pain) If you take pains and achieve something, then you will hear paeans about you...

Link2 - it is pronounced exactly as P.N. remember it by 'Priase Number'=praise song...

Palatable - acceptable to the taste, sufficiently agreeable in flavor to be eaten, satisfactory the mind or senses.
Usage - Flavourings designed to make the food more palatable.
Link - Palatable = Pal + acceptable. Your pal prepares food and asks you to check the taste.You taste it and say, “pal its acceptable ”, hence palatable

Palate - the upper surface of the mouth that separates the oral and nasal cavities, the opening through which food is taken in, the sense of taste.
Usage - Having a glass of fresh lime soda always seems to refresh my palate.
Link - Having a glass of fresh lime soda always seems to refresh my palate.

Link2 - It’s our palate that tells us, weather the food we eat is palatable or not!!

Palatial - of or suitable for a palace as in spaciousness, grand, luxurious.
Usage - Sir John Crawford's palatial mansion attracts hundreds of tourists every year.
Link - sounds like palashial i.e., like a palace...

Link2 – sounds like palace + special....So those things or objects, which when kept in a palace make it all the more special or add to its grandeur or beauty can be called palatial.

Link3 - 'palat' in hindi means 'turn' we'l be turning again and again to see a magnificient thing!

Palette – a board which an artist holds while painting and on which colours are mixed.
Usage – Her paintings reveal a provocative palette of bright and bold colors.
Link – Palette sounds like plate. So imagine a plate being used by a painter to mix the colours. This plate now becomes a palette.

Pall - become boring, grow tiresome

Usage - His body lay in the coffin, covered in a black velvet pall.

Link - A Song from Lage Raho Munna Bhai "Pall Pall Pall Pall Har pal Har Pal Kaise katega pal" If you are bored then you say "Kaise Katega Pall Har Pall"

Palliate – to make less severe or intense, to mitigate, and to lessen the severity of (pain, disease etc), provide physical relief, to soothe.
Usage – The medicine palliated his pain.
Link- Palliate = palli + ate. Only after he ate palli (ground nut), did his burning desire for pallis palliate.

Link2 - PALL+I+ATE..ease pain.. PALL means become borin.. u got bored of the pain..fed up of it..so u ATE it..to ease the pain..

Pallid – abnormally pale complexion, lacking intensity of colour or brightness, vapid, deficient in color, dim or feeble.
Usage – He looked pallid and sickly.
Link – Pallid = pal + id (identity card). The class monitor called the student and told him, “pal your pic on ID card looks pallid, get a new one immediately”.

Link2 - sounds like peeli...which is yellow...

Hii guys....follow the blog to et all the words in your mail...

Your Ad Here

L-5

2010-09-04T01:44:00.000-07:00

Lopsided - heavier or larger on one side than the other

Usage - As she rushed to catch the train, her lopsided hat flew off her head.

Link - sounds like one sided...rest is clear...

Lounge - stand, sit or lie in a lazy

Usage - The high school students like to lounge in the Central Square

Link - sounds like lingerie...girls usually wear a lingerie on a beach to sit and stand in a relaxed way...they just lounge around in a lingerie...

Lout - clumsy person

Usage - Mary considers John to be an lout.

Link - sounds like thrown out...all the clumsy and lout persons are thrown out of the company...

Lucid - easily understood, clear

Usage - His lucid argument finally won him the case.

Link - sounds like luc(look)+id(identification card)....when you LOOK the ID of micorsoft employee...you will clearly understand that he is clever and intelligent

Lucrative - profitable, earning profit

Usage - This seems to be a lucrative deal

Link - sounds like look+ creative and hence anything of such a sort is sure to earn you profit...

Lucre - money, profit

Link - Pronounce it as 'Locker'.and Lockers in banks store money....

Lull - moment of calm

Usage - There was a lull in the storm

Link - sounds like LULLoo...tu LULLoo hi hai---not speaking anything

Lumber - move heavily or clumsily

Usage - The heavy man lumbered across the room

Link - Relate to the person who is "lamba" (lamba in Hindi language means tall person in English ) moves heavily or clumsily...

Link2 - When there is lumber (heavy logs of wood)on your back, you walk heavily!...

Lunatic - insane

Usage - He is a lunatic kind of a creature

Link - remember luna (the old bike in india)... if today somebody drives an outdated vehicle like luna , he will be called insane...

Lurid - wild, sensational, gruesome, horrible

Usage - He gave lurid details of the accident

Link - concentrate on de last 4 letters-ur+id.so if someone hacks UR mail ID,he has gotta be a SENSATIONAL hacker and in response to this u would become WILD and gruesome..

Lurk wait in hiding to attack, stealthily lie in waiting

Usage - The soldier lurked his enemies from behind.

Link - sounds like LOOK...so you must look to see if someone is waiting to attack you.?..you should look carefully at your surroundings....

Hii guys....follow the blog to get all the words in your mail.....find me on facebook by the name funvocab builder....

Your Ad Here