ALTRUISTIC INHALE EXTRICATE COLLATE ADVOCATE
PREAMBLE WARY THRIFTY RASH AMBIGUOUS
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
Mind Tricks:-
Word Altruistic sounds like All Tourist. Every country should care about the need and happiness of All Tourist. Altruistic behaviour for All Tourist.
INHALE (V) [in-heyl]
Meaning:-
Adjective:- Inhalant
Verb Form:-
- to take air, smoke, gas etc. into your lungs as you breathe
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:-
Verb Form:-
- to escape or enable to escape from a difficult situation
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:-
Verb Form:-
- to collect information together from different sources in order to examine and compare it
- to assemble properly
Verb Form:-
collate collated collated
Mind Tricks:-
Collate sounds like Collect. Collate means to Collect information together.
ADVOCATE (N/V) [ad-vuh-keyt]
Meaning:-
Verb Form:-
- to support something publicly (V)
- a person who supports or speaks in favour of somebody of a public plan or action
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:-
Adverb:- Warily
- careful when dealing with somebody or something because you think that there may be a danger or problem
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:-
Adverb:- Thriftily
- careful about spending money and not wasting things
- mindful of the future in spending money
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:-
Noun:- Rashness
- an area of red spot on a person's skin, caused by an illness or reaction to something
- doing some risky work (Adj.)
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:-
Adverb:- Ambiguously
- having different meanings
- can be understood in more than one way
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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