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Sunday, 6 March 2011

special post on demand

due to overwhelming response for the mnemonic's use in words , let me take it further with a few new and interesting words ..
 
1.abase

lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-respect
(verb) cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

"He humiliated his colleague by criticising him in front of the boss"
synonyms : chagrin , humble , humiliate , mortify
His maths teacher abased him in front of the whole class when he failed in his course.

mnemonic for abase

 abase = a + base; without a base; Imagine you shifted to a new house whose base is not very strong (without base) and hence it may fall down anytime and can abase you in front of your neighbours.

2.bacchanal

noisy party with a lot of drinking
(noun) a wild gathering involving excessive drinking and promiscuity
synonyms : bacchanalia , debauch , debauchery , drunken revelry , orgy , riot , saturnalia

the neighbours were getting really tired of the bacchanal parties she insisted on hosting every other week.
They felt very embarrassed about the drunken orgies of their youth.

(noun) a drunken reveller; a devotee of Bacchus
synonyms : bacchant
As much as posible, she stayed away from the bacchanal her mother said was her father.
(noun) someone who engages in drinking bouts
synonyms : bacchant , drunken reveler , drunken reveller

Her father was a bacchanal.

(adj.) used of riotously drunken merrymaking
"a night of bacchanalian revelry", "carousing bands of drunken soldiers", "orgiastic festivity"
synonyms : bacchanalian , bacchic , carousing , orgiastic

They were a bacchanal crowd.

Mnemonics for bacchanal
 Bachchan acted well in movie SHARABI.
or else----- it seems like bachhalan (charater less fellow) and we can imagine as he is an drunken fellow....

3.badger

 annoy continually with demands; persuade by asking again and again; Ex. The children badgered me into taking them into the cinema; N: a kind of mountain animal

(noun) sturdy carnivorous burrowing mammal with strong claws; widely distributed in the northern hemisphere

(verb) persuade through constant efforts
"inspite of his obvious reluctance, he was badgered into accepting the invitation"

mnemonics for badger
 Divide it like bad+ ger (gen, generation): gen means people. Today's bad generation can really annoy their parents.
or else
 BAD GIRL.....bad girls always annoy people

hope u enjoyed the session .. dedicated to my dear friends from Army Institute Of Management @kolkata..

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