week 45-46

Raiment is an old-fashioned word for clothing, particularly fancy clothing, like ladies who always wore their best raiment when calling on friends.
mnemo:: sounds like the Raymond brand which is famous for its garments.

The verb rail means to criticize severely. When you rail against increased taxes at a town meeting, you speak openly and loudly about how wrong the increase is and point out the problems it will cause.
Rail can also mean "to complain." When your mom asks you to vacuum the house, you might rail against this chore by saying that you ALWAYS do the vacuuming, that vacuuming is SO hard, and that you hate the stupid vacuum! Rail can also mean to spread negative information about someone in an abusive

Corpulent is a formal word that describes a fat person. If you are trying to be respectful when describing a fat man, you might refer to him as a "corpulent gentleman."
mnemo::sounds like opulent means rich wealthy. rich people generally fat too.

Only one letter separates the two words, but "wishful" is having hope for something, and wistful is having sadness or melancholy about something. "Wist" isn't even a word that's used anymore, but you can still be wistful.
mnemo::

a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it
mnemo::bri - gand bhai (BRI) wo log gand (GAND) thod dete hai ... those bandits

Rift sounds like rip, and it's helpful to think of it that way. When there is a rift in a political party over how much taxes to pay, it is like a rip or tear in the fabric of the group.
Rift has a slightly different sense than break. A group can have a rift without having fully broken apart. A rift can heal, though a break is permanent. A rift can arise between sisters over whose turn it is to do dishes; it can quickly heal when parents promise an ice cream trip when the dishes are done.

Raconteurs are gifted storytellers, able to spin amusing tales from everyday life. Who is the biggest raconteur in your group? He or she's the one who always tells the best stories — or jumps in when another storyteller isn't being vivid enough.
mnemo::sounds like Rekha aunty ...who narrates all juicy and interesting stories..// ra, go n tell her, you master story teller.

A bad-tempered or gloomy person is sullen. Sullen people are down in the dumps.
If someone is dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, or sour, they're also sullen. Teenagers are often described as sullen, especially when they're being grumpy and silent. You often hear about "a sullen silence," which is when someone is quiet, but obviously in a lousy mood. If a sullen person is talking, they're probably not saying much, and they might not be doing much beyond grunting. A sullen person isn't much fun to

When presidents can’t attend state funerals, they send an emissary to pay their respects. An emissary performs a specific job on someone else’s behalf.
Emissary is a word you hear often around governments, but anyone can be one or have one. Say, if you’re feeling too lazy to get off the couch you could appoint your little sister to be your emissary in fetching ice cream from the kitchen.
mnemo:one with a mission i.e an AGENT

When you ruminate, it means you are thinking very deeply about something. You're likely to be so lost in thought that you stare off into space and don't hear people when they call your name.
Another meaning of ruminate is to "chew the cud," which can mean "to turn it over and over in your mind." Or, if you're a cow, to turn food over and over in your stomachs in order to digest it. Whether you're a human or a cow, if you ruminate, it will take a LONG time.
menmo: my RUMmy ATE my food, u gotta th

If you're livid, you're furious, in a black cloud of anger. The Latin root this word comes from means "bluish-gray" or "slate-colored," and you can also use livid to describe the color, such as a livid bruise or a livid sea.
Livid, even when it means "bluish-gray," has the sense of something not quite right. If the sky is livid, there's something ominous about it. Similarly, if your skin is livid, there's something wrong.
mnemo::LIVE+VIDEO: The officer was ENRAGED WITH ANGER when he was caught t

Taut means "tight, not slack." "The tightrope ought to be taut and not dangling down by the lion cage."
It sounds like the word "taught" and means stretched tight, like a rope, muscles, or even nerves. It's nice to have a taut body with tight muscles, but not so great to have a taut mind — tightly wound and tense. "The Olympic gymnast's taut body was something she worked hard for, but she gave a taut reply.
/"to pull." If you're fishing, you're happy when your line becomes taut, because there's

Use the noun martinet to describe someone is a stickler when it comes to following rules, such as the teacher who won't accept homework if it is written in a color other than blue.
mnemo:::mom wraning her child that "marti agar thu net use karetho"

Besides being the name of the Japanese currency, yen (a different yen) means a casual desire. You can have a yen for sushi, and if you're in Japan, you can pay for the sushi with the yen in your wallet.
Yen is a casual word––think of it like "hankering." If you have an easy time remembering rhymes, think "I sometimes have a yen, to go back home again." Sometimes yen can even work as a verb––you can yen for pancakes, or yen for truffles, or yen for a time when you yenned for things other than foo

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something of little value or significance
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a light piece of music for piano
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a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over
mnemo::
Bagga's tell have little importance to jethalal...

When the bad-tempered Queen of Hearts cried “off with their heads!” in "Alice in Wonderland," she was ordering her henchmen to decapitate those who had offended her.
mnemo:decapitate-> take the head with the cap

A penchant is a strong preference or tendency. If you have a penchant for pizza, you either eat it daily, or wish you did.
mnemo::p+enchant- something that enchants you, you have a strong liking for that.

Termagant is an insulting name for a woman who likes to nag, scold, or complain.as in "that termagant wife of yours is trouble."
menmo: TERRIBLE MY AUNT = TER MA GANT

Appalled is an adjective that describes feeling shocked and disappointed. Being appalled happens suddenly, like when you find out your little sister has been blogging about your family, telling embarrassing stories. When you are appalled, you don't just disapprove of what you are seeing; you are emotionally disturbed by it, like being appalled by the wasted food at a cafeteria or restaurant or the rudeness of someone who lets the door slam in your face.
mnemo:appa + yelled. yelling "appa" in sho

If you're a rookie or new to something, you could be described as callow — like callow freshmen in high school or the callow receptionist who can't figure out how to transfer a call.
menmo:: Callow = Cal + low; caliber is low. (madness) as well as cal-low= YOUTH N IMMATURE PPL DO THAT!

Use the verb burgeon to describe something that is growing, expanding, and flourishing. If you have a green thumb, in the spring your flower gardens will burgeon in a cacophony of color. If you don't have a green thumb, your collection of plastic plants will burgeon.
Although burgeon means to grow and flourish, it doesn't necessarily have to apply only to plants. Your town can have burgeoning downtown development.
mnemo: burgeon ~ burger; If you eat a lot of burgers, you will gain weight (hence

Ascertain is a verb that means to find out something. You might have to go to the bank to ascertain if there is any money in your account.
mnemo:: asCERTAIN means to make CERTAIN.

Disseminate means to spread information, knowledge, opinions widely. Semin- derives from the Latin word for seed; the idea with disseminate is that information travels like seeds sown by a farmer.

Volcanoes are described as dormant when they stay cool for a long time, without spewing hot lava and ash. They may have the ability to come to life, but they remain dormant, or inactive. Dormant comes from French dormir, "to sleep," and it refers to living things that are on a break rather than things that have died. Being dormant is being temporarily at rest, although sometimes, as with some cancer cells, things become permanently — and thankfully — dormant.
mnemo:: dor mat- being inactive

A potentate is a person so powerful they don't have to follow the rules that govern everyone else. Potentate normally refers to a king or dictator, but you can call anyone with virtually unlimited power a potentate.
mnemo::Potent enough to pass the rules - a monarch.

Prepare yourself, because internecine is a gloomy word. It’s an adjective you’d use to describe a bloody battle where both sides are badly hurt. On a lighter note, it can also mean a conflict that tears an organization apart.
mnemo::Now a days both INTERNEt + CINEma shows alot of bloodshed...

If you want to talk about something that comes from something else, but you want to sound sophisticated and maybe financial or scientific, use derive, like so: That scent? It's derived from a solution of roses boiled with toothpicks.

Nepotism is the practice of favoritism based on kinship, like when the coach chooses his own kid to be the quarterback even if his kid stinks at football.
mnemo:: nepolean su karto hato?? ans-nepotism.

A prerogative is someone's special right or privilege. As Bobby Brown once sang, "I don't need permission / Make my own decisions / That's my prerogative."
mnemo::remember "Interrogative" which means questioning by Investigation officers. So prerogative should be something opposite. so unquestionable

If there is a dearth of something, there is not enough of it. A dearth of affordable housing is bad, but a dearth of bed bugs is a blessing.Though the relationship of dearth meaning "lack, insufficient amount" to the adjective dear is not so obvious, it is still easy to imagine that something precious is probably also in short supply. Dearth is used almost exclusively in the phrase "a dearth of."
mnemo:Dearth - deers + earth. Deers in earth are getting insufficient in number

A tyro is a beginner, a new recruit, or someone who is just learning something. If you are the new guy at the job and you're wearing a big dorky badge that says "Trainee" on it, you are a tyro.
mnemo:: tyro is like- try karo(kem ke tame noob cho)..

If you are on the receiving end of obloquy, then society has turned against you and you are in a state of disgrace.Obloquy can also be the result of public shame, or criticism. Get scolded in front of the other shoppers by the grocery store manager for knocking over a display of bottles, and you will understand what obloquy is! ex=Was he destined to achieve perennial fame, or doomed to eternal obloquy?
mnemo::ab loki[people] kya kahenge

Sophistry is tricking someone by making a seemingly clever argument, such as telling your mom you must have candy before dinner because if you don't you'll die and then the protein and vitamins won't get eaten at all.

If you create a "diamond" out of plastic, then you’ve created a factitious diamond, meaning that it’s a phony.Factitious, pronounced "fac-TISH-us," means "fake," like a factitious compliment you give the person who cooked you an awful meal — you don't mean it, but you say it anyway, just to be nice. As he or she happily walks away, another friend might whisper, "Were you being facetious about the dinner being good?
mnemo:: sounds like -fake thi

An encomium is a fancy word for a formal speech or piece of writing that warmly praises someone or something.Encomium comes from the Greek word enkomion which, in a nutshell, is to honor someone or something at a party in a poetic speech. It used to refer to the song for the winner of the Olympic Games, sung at a victory celebration. You might hear an encomium at a retirement party, after you publish a fabulous book, or even at a funeral
mnemo:INCOME - People of high INCOME are formally praised

Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley had great charisma, or a special personal charm or appeal that gives them influence or authority.
Charisma is often a quality possessed by successful politicians or other leaders, or by other public figures. The corresponding adjective is charismatic, and it applies more to personality than appearance: a handsome and charismatic actor.
mnemo: karishma kapoor

Genocide refers to the systematic destruction of a race or cultural group. In the Rwandan genocide of 1994, members of one ethnic group, the Hutus, killed some 850,000 Tutsis in an attempt to wipe them out completely.
mnemo: godhara kand(mnemonics.com par kai nathi aani mate)

Prevarication is when someone tells a lie, especially in a sneaky way. A boy might use prevarication to avoid telling the whole truth about how the kitchen window got broken.While the noun prevarication is mostly just a fancy way to say "lie," it can also mean skirting around the truth, being vague about the truth, or even delaying giving someone an answer, especially to avoid telling them the whole truth.

If you give your best friend a bracelet for her birthday, then you’re a good friend. If you give her a diamond bracelet, a racehorse, and an oil well, then you’re a munificent friend, meaning you are very lavish when it comes to giving gifts. (And it’s possible you may also be broke.)ex=Mr. Thompson was even less munificent in 2011, when he reported no donations to charity.
mnemo::money+sufficient-when a person has sufficient money he is generous