Inadvertently Rampart Hallucination Salacious Derive Retrench Aggravate Indelible Citadel Stern
INADVERTENTLY (Adv.)
Meaning:-- without knowledge, by accident, unintentionally
- without intending to
Mind Tricks:-
We advertise something to let people know that thing; we try to make aware of that things. On the contrary, Inadvertently means without knowledge as in means not and advertent means turning the mind to.
- I inadvertently entered into her room.
- I inadvertently dialed the wrong number.
RAMPART (N)
Meaning:-- a high wide wall of stone or earth with a path on top, built around a castle, town, etc. to defend it.
Mind Tricks:-
Rampart comes from two words - Ram, a Hindu God, and Part, a section or structure. On the whole, Rampart means a sacred and protective place that is guarded by God Ram.
- We should build rampart along the city.
- The city's ramparts crumbled long ago.
HALLUCINATION (N)
Meaning:-- something that is seen or heard when it is not really there
- the fact of seeming to see or hear somebody or something that is not really there,
- especially because of illness or drugs
Mind Tricks:-
Hallucination comes from Illusion that means false idea or belief.
- Ghost is nothing but a hallucination.
- He has been having hallucination due to the medication.
SALACIOUS (Adj.)
Meaning:-- encouraging sexual desire or containing too much sexual detail
Mind Tricks:-
Salacious sounds like Shall i sex that means encouraging sexual desire.
- He is reading a salacious story
- There is a salacious picture at the table.
DERIVE (V)
Meaning:-- to come or develop from something
- to get something from something
Mind Tricks:-
Rive is Latin for River or Stream and De means down or away. As De means down and Rive means stream, we can say- river comes down and develop from stream. In this way Derive comes to mean - to come or develop from something.
- Many English words are derived from French.
- Water is derived from the Earth.
RETRENCH (V)
- to spend less money
- to reduce costs
- to tell somebody that they cannot continue working for
Mind Tricks:-
Retrench sounds like Return to Inch (Inch means small amount).
We retrench the cost means return the cost to inch or small amount.
- We should retrench our cost.
- The company is going to retrench many employees.
AGGRAVATE (V)
Meaning:-- to make an illness or a bad or unpleasant situation worse
- to annoy somebody, especially deliberately
Mind Tricks:-
Gravate from Gravity that means to make heavy, and prefix Ag from Ad means towards. Briefly, Aggravate means towards heavy or to make something heavy or worse.
- Doing lots of physical work, he aggravates his own health.
- The symptoms were aggravated by drinking alcohol.
INDELIBLE (Adjective)
Meaning:-- impossible to forget or remove
- permanent
Mind Tricks:-
In means not and delible means delete, not able to delete or permanent means Indelible.
- Her unhappy childhood left an indelible mark.
CITADEL (N)
Meaning:-- a castle on high ground in or near a city where people could go when the city was being attacked
Mind Tricks:-
Citadel looks like City a delhi. City- a Delhi is a citadel for India. When our city gets attack we must move towards a citadel, Delhi.
- There are so many citadel in our country.
- We visited a medieval citadel in Italy.
STERN (Adj., N)
Meaning:-- serious, strict , severe, harsh,
- difficult, unforgiving
Mind Tricks:-
Word Stern comes from Steering that means to control the vehicle. You must be very serious, strict or Stern using Steering; and that way word Stern originates from Steering.
- His voice was very stern.
- He made a stern expression before his son.
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