Vocabularies For SSC Exams With Mind Tricks - 5

ALTRUISTIC              INHALE           EXTRICATE          COLLATE       ADVOCATE 
PREAMBLE       WARY        THRIFTY        RASH          AMBIGUOUS
                                                                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                                    
ALTRUISTIC  (Adj.)  [al-troo-is-tik]
Meaning:-
  • caring about the need and happiness of other people more than your own
Noun:- Altruism
Mind Tricks:-
Word Altruistic sounds like All Tourist. Every country should care about the need and happiness of All TouristAltruistic behaviour for All Tourist.



                                                                                                                                 
INHALE (V)   [in-heyl]
Meaning:-
  • to take air, smoke, gas etc. into your lungs as you breathe
Noun:- Inhalation
Adjective:- Inhalant
Verb Form:- 
inhale inhaled inhaled
Mind Tricks:-
Inhale is anto. of exhale. In + hale, hale means breathe.



                                                                                                                                 
EXTRICATE  (V)  [ek-stri-keyt]
Meaning:-
  • to escape or enable to escape from a difficult situation
Noun:- Extrication
Verb Form:- 
extricate extricated extricated
Mind Tricks:-
Extricate sounds like Extra Ticket. You need extra Ticket to escape from metro station.
Extrication(Noun) sounds like Excretion.



                                                                                                                                 
COLLATE  (V)  [kuh-leyt]
Meaning:-
  • to collect information together from different sources in order to examine and compare it
  • to assemble properly
Noun :- Collation
Verb Form:- 
collate collated collated
Mind Tricks:-
Collate sounds like Collect. Collate means to Collect information together.


                                                                                                                                 
ADVOCATE (N/V)  [ad-vuh-keyt]
Meaning:-
  • to support something publicly (V)
  • a person who supports or speaks in favour of somebody of a public plan or action
Noun:- Advocacy, advocation
Verb Form:- 
advocate advocated advocated
Mind Tricks:-
Advocate- From ad means to + vocare means to call. To call in support of somebody is called Advocate.


                                                                                                                                 
PREAMBLE (N/V)  [pree-am-buhl]
Meaning:-
  • an introduction to a book or a written document
  • make a preliminary introduction, usually to a formal document
Mind Tricks:-
Preamble- From Latin, Pre means "before" and ambulare means 'to walk"such as ambulance.


                                                                                                                                 
WARY (Adj.)  [wair-ee]
Meaning:-
  • careful when dealing with somebody or something because you think that there may be a danger or problem
Noun:- Wariness
Adverb:- Warily
Mind Tricks:-
Word Wary looks and sounds like Worry. Don't worry about wary situation.( Wary is adjective and Worry is Verb.)



THRIFTY (Adj.)  [thrif-tee]
Meaning:-
  • careful about spending money and not wasting things
  • mindful of the future in spending money
Noun:- Thriftiness
Adverb:- Thriftily
Mind Tricks:-
Thrifty sounds like "350". My friend spends only 350 dollars in a month, he is very thrifty. He is very careful about spending money.



                                       
RASH  (N/Adj.)  [rash]
Meaning:-
  • an area of red spot on a person's skin, caused by an illness or reaction to something
  • doing some risky work (Adj.)
Adverb:- Rashly
Noun:- Rashness
Mind Tricks:-
Word Rash sounds and looks like word Crash. You would get rash in crash.


                       
AMBIGUOUS (Adj.)  [am-big-yoo-uhs]
Meaning:-
  • having different meanings
  • can be understood in more than one way
Noun:- Ambiguity
Adverb:- Ambiguously
Mind Tricks:-
Ambiguous sounds like Obvious. Ambiguous is antonym of obvious. (obvious means clear and ambiguous means not clear.)
Two words in Ambiguous i.e.  Am big + adj. suffix-"ous". I am big that's why you would face difficulty to understand me. 
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