CORDIAL VENAL CONJURER INVOICE AMELIORATE DEBACLE AMORPHOUS UNITARY ADULTERATION OBSTREPEROUS DISPARATE
Meanings:
VENAL (Adj)
- corrupt
- capable of being corrupted
- prepared to do dishonest or immoral things in return for money
Mind Trick:
Usages:Word Venal sounds like the word Venom and has same root. Venal people are those who have some amount of venom(corrupt, dishonesty,etc.) inside them.
- Most of the leaders are venal today.
- A venal servant has been caught stealing money.
CONJUROR / CONJURER (N)
Meanings:- Someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience
Mind Trick:
Usages:
- A conjuror has come in our city to perform conjuring.
- It is a mystery to me how the conjuror made that rabbit appear.
Disparate (Adj.)
Meanings:- things that are very different from each other
- made up of parts or people that are very different from each other
- fundamentally different or distinct in quality
Mind Trick:
Usages:Disparate comes from Latin prefix Dis - "apart" and par means "equal, same", meaning apart from same, equal.
More words on "dis" prefix-
disappeared
dispute
disorder
dis-able
- India has disparate culture.
- The machine can keep the disparate parts of the system coordinated.
DEBACLE (N)
Meanings:- an event or a situation that is a complete failure and causes embarrassment
- a sudden and violent collapse
Mind Trick:
Usages:Word Debacle origins from Middle French word desbacler, combining the prefix des- "completely, utterly" plus bacler "to block."
- An economic debacle took place after the world war.
- After the debacle of his first novel, he had trouble getting a publisher for his next book.
AMELIORATE (V)
Meanings:- to make something better
Mind Trick:
Usages:
- The side-effect of the treatment can be ameliorated to some extent.
- This medicine should help ameliorate the pain.
INVOICE (N/V)
Meanings:- bill; a list of goods that have been sold, work that has been done etc, showing what you must pay
- to send or give someone a bill for a purchase or service
- Shopkeeper will invoice you.
- Please pay the final invoice within two weeks.
AMORPHOUS (Adj.)
Meanings:- shapeless
- having no definite shape form or structure
Mind Trick:
Usages:Amorphous sounds like a more face means more that one shape or face.
Word Amorphous looks and sounds like the word Amoeba. An amoeba has no shape. It has not definite shape; An amoeba is an Amorphous creature.
- An amorphous creature is moving around.
UNITARY (Adj.)
Meanings:- single; forming one unit
- consisting of a number of areas or groups that are joined together and are controlled by one government or group
Mind Trick:
Usages:Unitary comes from the word Unit that means single.
- We will make a unitary state.
ADULTERATION (N)
Meanings:- the act of making impure
- making food or drink less pure by adding another substance to it.
- the condition of being impure
Mind Trick:
Usages:Word Adulteration has the word Adult inside it and Adult things are always impure.
- The company is accused of adulterating its products with cheap additives.
OBSTREPEROUS (Adj.)
Meanings:- noisy and difficult to control
Mind Trick:
Usages:Word Obstreperous looks rather similar to the word Boisterous, and we know that Boisterous also means noisy and difficult to control.
- We cannot control an obstreperous bull.
- A room full of obstreperous children.
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