Barrons (51-100)

If something looks or sounds ominous, be careful, a threat or an unpleasant event is at hand. If you see an ominous frown on your boss's face, you're in trouble!

Mnemonics:-
maruti OMNI.....it is a threating car usually used by kidnappers.

Something tremulous is shaky and quivering, usually from fear or lack of strength. If you're nervous at your first big job interview, your hands might be a little tremulous.

Mnemonics:-
TREMble+nervOUS-->Tremulous is trembling in nervousness or fear

To repudiate something is to reject it, or to refuse to accept or support it. If you grow up religious, but repudiate all organized religion as an adult, you might start spending holidays at the movies, or just going to work.

Mnemonics:-
he ate the PUDDING AGAIN.. When his mother asked him if he ate the pudding, he tried to REPUDIATE (deny eating it)... :)

Cessation is an end to something, such as the stopping of a bad habit, like the cessation of smoking.

Mnemonics:-
cessation comes from cease.. which means to stop.

1 a stiff hair
2 rise up as in fear
3 react in an offended or angry manner
Ex:-“He bristled at her suggestion that he should teach her how to use the program
4 be in a state of movement or action

Pardon me, but when a polite term is substituted for a blunt, offensive one, you should call it a euphemism.

Mnemonics:-
monday, tuesday, wednesday....everyday

Something that's incongruous is inconsistent or incompatible with something else. Remember that Sesame Street song "One of these things is not like the other"? They were talking about that one thing being incongruous.

Mnemonics:-
In+congress there is no place for outsiders. Therefore they feel out of place.

To stipulate something means to demand that it be part of an agreement. So when you make a contract or deal, you can stipulate that a certain condition must be met.

Mnemonics:-
staple+it-- Staple the documents, so that it GUARANTEES that they stay together permanently!

Someone with alacrity shows cheerful willingness and eager behavior, like a kid whose mother has told him he can buy anything in a candy store.

Teacher sometime told who will finish first ? then students Me, teacher Me, Me, Teacher Me that shows alacrity..

Mnemonics:-
take the suffix crity we can link it with creativity.creative people are so eager to learn n create things differently.

-a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient
-reject with contempt

If you feel that something isn't worthy of your consideration, you may disdain it (or treat it with disdain).

Mnemonics:-
divide it like dis(dish)+dain(rhyms like vain..means useless)....think you have ordered for a dish , but it is useless or in vain, because you can cook better than this, so you REJECT THE order, you disdain the order.

If someone is belligerent, they're eager to fight. It's a good idea to avoid hardcore hockey fans after their team loses — they tend to be belligerent

Mnemonics:-
belli (TOM) and gerry always quarrel in TOM and GERRY cartoon

-to compel or deter by or as if by threats

An animal might intimidate a smaller animal by bearing its teeth
a person can intimidate another by threatening to do something harmful.

-deceive by a mock action (v)
Ex:-The midfielder feinted to shoot

Did you ever tell your parents you were going off to school, grabbed your book bag, and headed out the door... only to spend the rest of the day hanging out with your friends? Well, that was a feint, a super sneaky move designed to fool someone.

Pugnacious means ready for a fight. If you're a first year teacher, you probably don't know how to deal with the pugnacious kids in every class. Learn some discipline or they'll end up fighting you, or each other.

Mnemonics:-
punga+nacious- one with tendency to always fight and take pungas(Hindi)

To promulgate is to officially put a law into effect. Your state may announce a plan to promulgate a new traffic law on January 1st.

Laws aren't the only things you can promulgate. The word promulgate comes from the Latin word promulgatus, meaning "make publicly known." Someone can promulgate values, belief systems, and philosophies — it just means they're promoted or made public. For example, you might write an article to promulgate the benefits of eating only organic foods.

Mnemonics:-
Promo

Brash sounds like what it means: harsh, loud, and maybe a little rude. Sometimes that’s good, like when you have a serious rash on your face and give Aunt Nell a brash warning before she showers you with kisses.


There's nothing warm and fuzzy about brash. New Yorkers are sometimes thought of as the poster children for brash behavior: they can be bold and brazen. Pushy even. You might find brashness offensive, or maybe you think it's refreshingly direct. If you're a cab driver, a tough exterior

To laugh at someone with scorn is to scoff at them. People have scoffed at many great inventors, saying their products would flop because the public wouldn't be interested in things like the light bulb, cars, televisions, or personal computers.

-lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of
Ex:- “don't belittle your colleagues”

To belittle means to put down, or to make another person feel as though they aren't important. Saying mean things about another person literally makes them feel "little."

Example:-
A candidate for office might belittle his opponent by pointing out during a press conference that his fellow candidate has an inferior intellect

When you can touch something, it's tangible: "I need tangible proof that aliens exist — I want to shake their little green hands!"

skin with a tangible roughness

A laceration is a tear, cut, or gash. Your heart can also get a more figurative laceration when you see your love kissing another.

Mnemonics:-
Laceration .... read it as Laser(lacer) ... Action (ation) ... when laser action is performed on ur body it is expected to cause damage like a cut or a wound ....

Use castigate when you mean reprimand but in an especially harsh way. If you take a mean teacher's books, even accidently, you might worry that she's going to castigate you as soon as she finds out.

Mnemo:- castigate sound restigate so restigate as a punishment

-unethical or dishonest

Describe a person's actions as sordid if they are so immoral or unethical that they seem dirty.

(SORDID)SORry I DID this FILTHY, VILE thing.

If something eases your disappointment or grief, consider it a solace. If you're sad, you might find solace in music or in talking to your friends.

When you go to sleepover camp, your parents will miss you, but they'll find solace in knowing that you are having fun.

Every young person who wishes on a star for fame and fortune is an aspirant

As Adj:-
The aspirant dancer had to start her career as an understudy to the prima ballerina."

Those little grains of tea or coffee left at the bottom of the cup are known as the dregs. The dregs are the least wanted portion, or the residue.

but figuratively you can use dregs to mean “a small amount left.” If you are running out of food in your refrigerator, you might say, “We’re down to the dregs in here.”

Dregs is also used in the same way as the expression “bottom of the barrel.” The “dregs of society,” for instance, is a negative phrase that describes people whom the speaker consid

you're in a frenzy, you're certainly delirious. You can be in a frenzy because something made you mad, happy, or even just hungry — whatever makes you so crazy you're not thinking clearly. Frenzy is often used when talking about a group of people (or animals) who get worked up at the same time about the same thing, like sharks near tasty fish or teenagers near pizza.

In Guj:- GALA-GALI KARNARU...

If something is scurrilous, it's meant to offend.

Rampant means wild, out of control, to be up on your hind legs roaring at the world. You don't have to be four-legged: "The children ran rampant at the supermarket even though their mother tried to control them."

ramp + ant

If something is inane, it's silly or senseless. If you just want to space out, you won't mind the inane chatter on TV, as long as it's on.

Mnemonics:-
Remember the word insane. Insane person doesnt have a mind to think and understand and hence he is void.

When discussing a code of morals, choose the noun ethics. You might call a politician who uses taxpayer money for wild parties a little "ethics-challenged."

-be in accord; be in agreement

To concur is to agree or approve of something. If someone says something you agree with, you can say "I concur!"

Pick the adjective, clandestine, to describe something that is done in secret, like your clandestine attempts to steal your brother's Halloween candy.

Mnemonics:-
Plan(Clan) this(des) time(tine) in Clandestine --- Plan this time secretly

Something flagrant is bad — so bad you can't ignore it. A flagrant foul in sports might send you to the bench, and a flagrant violation of the law might send you to the slammer.

flag + rent --renting the national flag!(No offense meant) It is shocking & scandalous.

-warn strongly; put on guard
-admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior

To admonish is to scold. If you want to show someone you're not happy with his behavior, admonish him. It sounds better than "scolding," and it's less painful than spanking.

Let’s hope you’re never denied food and sleep and forced to sign a confession, but if you are, that's called being under duress. Threats and harsh treatment meant to make you do something you don’t want to do is duress.

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

A culprit is a person who does something wrong, like committing a crime. When your wallet got stolen out of your pocket, there was a culprit to blame in the crowd.

Mnemonics:-
KALPIT YO FATYO :-

When a person is inexorable, they're stubborn. When a thing or process is inexorable, it can't be stopped

This is a word for people and things that will not change direction. An inexorable person is hard-headed and cannot be convinced to change their mind, no matter what. You can also say that a process, like the progress of a deadly illness, is inexorable because it can't be stopped. A speeding train with no brakes is inexorable; it's not stopping till it crashes. When you see the word inexora

Something that is egregious stands out, but not in a good way — it means "really bad or offensive," like a tattoo on a man misspelling his girlfriend's name.

Mnemonics:-
During one of our stage performance, we made such a huge mistake that people started throwing eggs at us and a rotten 'EGG REACHes US' (sounds like egregious)

If you are upset, you are distraught. If you want to explain why you are pulling your hair out, just utter "Leave me alone; I'm distraught" It'll work.

If you are distraught, you are so upset that it's hard to think straight, hence your mind is "drawn in different directions."

Mnemonics:-
its like...dis(not)+traught(thought)....so he did "not thought" of his failure in exam....
so he is upset

-acting in bad faith

Though he said he didn't know anything about the footprints in the new sidewalk, his duplicity, or deceitfulness, was obvious from the cement caking his shoes. His mouth said one thing, his feet said another.

Mnemonics:-
duplicity== making two faces(duplicate).. one who makes two faces is a fraud..

marked by strong resentment(Bitter indignation at having been treated unfairly) or cynicism
-Simple meaning:- harsh in tone...

acrimonious is used to describe things like angry and bitter speeches or debates.

One good way to remember the meaning of paucity is that it's a bit like pauper(poor person), as in The Prince and the Pauper. The prince had too much money, and the pauper had a paucity. There are a lot of words that mean "little" or "small," but paucity is used when you mean specifically "not enough" or "too little." People in LA don't understand how New Yorkers can live with such a paucity of space. For what New Yorkers pay for a tiny apartment, Angelenos get a house and a yard

-Definition
(verb) derive by reason
Ex:-
elicit a solution

When you elicit, you're bringing out a response of some sort. A good comedian elicits a lot of laughs.

Mnemonics:-
elicit = e + lic + it; One lic it one the tube so air is coming out from the tube.

Pernicious means harmful and subtle, such as a poison gas that causes cancer in those exposed to it over the course of years.

You might have heard your parents and teachers talk about the pernicious effects of watching too much TV and playing video games all day––they'll turn your brain to mush.

Mnemo:-
word can be divided like per+nicious..nicious when pronounced sounds like noxious...so noxious.. ..so something harmful....

It means you allow something to happen or exist, even if you don't really like it

Simple Word in Guj:- "SAHAN KARVU"

If you interpret something or make sense of it, you construe its meaning. If the new girl in your class asks to sit with you at lunch, you could construe that she wants to be friends. You can never have too many friends!

To make an assumption based on evidence is to construe.
You could construe that eating an entire box of cookies might make you feel a bit sick. And you might not want to eat them again for a very long time. The opposite of construe is misconstrue
KAUN+TRUE- let me know WHO is t

If doing something usually results in punishment, but you do it with impunity, you will not be punished for the deed. Students are not allowed to chew gum in school, but teachers do it with impunity. Not fair!

Mnemonics:-
sounds like immunity in roadies who has immunity is free from punishment....