Wordlist #1
1. Abase:
Meaning: lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-
Respect
Mnemonics: abase-abe(a slang used to degrade a person)+shhh(se)usually
an attempt to degrade a person's opinion..ovral goes to humiliate a person....
2. Abash:
Meaning: embarrass
Mnemonics: What happens when u get a bash? (bashing)....u get embarrassed.
3. Abate:
Meaning: To reduce in amount;Put an end to; subside or moderate
Mnemonics: ab+ate , conc on ate, if u ate (spent) all ur money , ur property comes to
an end (abate)
4. Abbreviate:
Meaning: shorten
Mnemonics: abbreviate has root brev (brief) in it; brev (brief) means in short.
Hence meaning of abbreviate is to shorten something.
5. Abdicate:
Meaning: renounce; give up (position, right, or responsibility)
Mnemonics: ab (root ab means away as in abandon) + dic (dictatorship) + ate (to
eat and hence reduce) : means to give away (or reduce) dictatorship and hence to give-
up power.
6. Aberrant:
, Meaning: abnormal or deviant
Mnemonics: ab (away) + err (error) + ant : focus on ERR and ANT. Ants normally
move together in a queue. imagine all these ants moving randomly like a group of
honey bees. That would be abnormal behaviour.
7. Aberration:
Meaning: deviation from the normal; mental disorder
Mnemonics: sounds like abortion which is not normal delivery.
8. Abet:
Meaning: assist usually in doing something wrong; encourage
Mnemonics: a+bet a bet generally assists you to do something wrong
9. Abeyance :
Meaning: suspended action
Mnemonics: it seemingly sounds like ab+yawns.... so, think of something like
'students started yawning and so the teacher gave them 5 mins break' i.e. temporary
suspension...
10. Abhor:
Meaning: detest; hate
Mnemonics: abhor sounds like "a whore" and we generally hate a whore....so to
hate someone is abhoring that person
11. Abide:
, Meaning: dwell; abide by: comply with; put up with; tolerate;
Mnemonics: bide in abide sounds like bind(something that binds you).....so abide
means that fails to bind you from your heart..but you merely have to tolerate
12. Abject:
Meaning: (of a condition) wretched; as low as possible; lacking pride; very humble;
showing lack of self-respect;
Mnemonics: Abject sounds like REJECT. Poor people are like REJECTED (Abject)
people in the society.
13. Abjure:
Meaning: renounce upon oath
Mnemonics: abjure ~ ab (away) + jure (jury). He abjured (rejected, moved away
from) her earlier statements in front of jury.
14. Ablution:
Meaning: washing
Mnemonics: ablution ~ a + blue + solution; just imagine some blue color solution
used for washing clothes.
15. Abnegation:
Meaning: renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation
Mnemonics: Ab-negate ~ relate negate to negative and ab to away. It implies
subtracting something. Renouncing some important aspect of your life means
sacrificing something.
16. Abode:
Meaning: dwelling place; home
Mnemonics: abode sounds jus like aboard= a+board... boarding refers to living
, room or place
17. Abolish:
Meaning: cancel; put an end to, get rid of.
Mnemonics: a + polish (bolish): a polish puts an end to the dullness of shoes.
18. Abominable:
Meaning: detestable; extremely unpleasant
Mnemonics: AVOMIN "(pretty famous drug) given wen u feel a vomiting
Sensation (which is an unpleasant feeling)..Associate avomin to abomin...
19. Abominate:
Meaning: loathe; hate
Mnemonics: omi here sounds like omit, we omit the things we hate
20. Aboriginal:
Meaning: being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native; indigenous; N.
aborigine
Mnemonics: A+B+Origin+all : A-B are origin(initials) of all English alphabets. i.e.
first of its kind
21. Abortive:
Meaning: unsuccessful; fruitless
Mnemonics: Relate it to abort..things usually gets aborted when it seems that it
would be unsuccessful or fruitless
22. Abrasive:
Meaning: rubbing away; tending to grind down, harsh
Mnemonics: abrasive..it sounds like aggressive,which means harsh behavior
,23. Abridge:
Meaning: condense or shorten
Mnemonics: a+bridge : bridges can shorten the transportation time..
24. Abrogate:
Meaning: abolish
Mnemonics: Imagine a boy is making sighs to a girl standing in front of her
GATE,seeing that her BRO comes & get rid of the boy (abolish)
25. Abscission:
Meaning: cutting off; separation
Mnemonics: ab + scission = scissor scissor separates two things by cutting them ,so
separation
26. Abscond:
Meaning: To leave secretly
Mnemonics: Abscond = ab + scond. �Absent in a second�. When you will absent
in a second? =when u STEAL OFF & HIDE, or when u DEPART secretly.
27. Absolute:
Meaning: complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative;
Mnemonics: "solute" sounds like salute and we use to salute people certainly having
complete power.
28. Absolve:
Meaning: pardon (an offense)
, Mnemonics: ab -solve . so you solved a dispute between you and your friend , how
did you solve it by forgiving and pardoning him/her .
29. Abstain:
Meaning: refrain; choose not to do something; intentionally not use one's vote;
Mnemonics: ab+stain...we tend to stay away from stain....
30. Abstemious:
Meaning: sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
Mnemonics: abs (abs) + stemious (stamina): To build stamina or six pack abs, you
have to eat and drink carefully.
31. Abstinence:
Meaning: restraint from pleasant things, esp. eating or drinking;
Mnemonics: ab+stinence..(looks like STRINGENC(y)....MEANS sticking to the
rules)...so your doctor has asked you to stick to the rule of eating only bread ,if you
want to reduce your belly.
32. Abstract:
Meaning: theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational
Mnemonics: abstract: sounds close to extract....and you cant extract anything from
an abstract philosophical speech or passage.
33. Abstruse:
Meaning: obscure; profound; difficult to understand
Mnemonics: It contains "ab....use". ab generally stands for negative sense and so
'ab+ use' can be taken as difficult to use. A word will be difficult to use if it is difficult
to understand.
,34. Abusive:
Meaning: coarsely insulting; physically harmful
Mnemonics: abuse+eve… don’t abuse the eve, its very insulting..
35. Abut:
Meaning: border upon; adjoin
Mnemonics: Look at your BUTT (Dont take it offensively).Its like two pieces of
flesh together marked by a boundary in between them ..Thats abut .
36. Abysmal:
Meaning: bottomless
Mnemonics: a+bys(take dis as 20 i.e.bees in hindi)+mal(take it as mile)..... a 20 mile
deep pit in the ground looks like its bottomless
37. Abyss:
Meaning: enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit, an extremely deep hole.
Mnemonics: A+bys....(this mnemonic is in hindi...ek 20(bees) fit ka gadda)..i.e. Vast
bottomless pit....
38. Acade mic:
Meaning: related to a school; not practical or directly useful
Mnemonics: academy+ic (is) = something is related to academy
39. Accede:
Meaning: agree
Mnemonics: ac+cede( means to yield)..so accede means to yield to somebody’s
opinion or wish.
,40. Accelerate:
Meaning: move faster
Mnemonics: acc (acount)+ ele (element i.e. interest) + rate grows faster… and
reaches to high level amount.
41. Accessible:
Meaning: easy to approach; obtainable
Mnemonics: access+able = by ACCESSING interner you will be ABLE to access
online coaching.
42. Accessory:
Meaning: additional object; useful but not essential thing
Mnemonics: access(EXCESS)+ory(ornaments)..SO you have got excess of
ornaments ,which are not very essential for you,as your clothes,then why do you buy
this?
43. Acclaim:
Meaning: applaud; praise; greet with great approval; announce with great approval;
Mnemonics: A+claim..imagine you have claimed to a news channel that you have
designed a super computer ,so every where people are praising you for your great
invention
44. Acclimate:
Meaning: adjust to climate or environment; adapt
Mnemonics: ac+climate : according to the climate; You have to adapt yourself
according to the climate change.
45. Acclivity:
, Meaning: sharp upslope of a hill; OP. declivity
Mnemonics: if u knwo that cliff is A steep high face of rock, then its easy to
remember
46. Accolade:
Meaning: award of merit; strong praise and approval
Mnemonics: it sounds like chocolate.. parents accolade if kids do home work
properly
47. Accommodate:
Meaning: oblige or help someone; adjust or bring into harmony; adapt; make enough
space for;
Mnemonics: you accommodate someone when you provide accommodation, so you
are helping him/her.
48. Accomplice:
Meaning: partner in crime
Mnemonics: accompany + police; so accompany police implies helping police in
reducing crime ; accomplice means opposite of this : partner in crime.
49. Accord:
Meaning: agreement
Mnemonics: sounds like ACC(ACCORDING)+cord(record)...well ACCORDING TO our RECORDS we
are in agreement with our investors ,as where to invest their money.
50. Accost:
Meaning: approach and speak first to a person
Mnemonics: accost ~ sounds like at any cost. I will approach first and speak to her at
any cost.
, 51. Accooutre:
Meaning: equip; N. accoutrement
Mnemonics: couture means dress ,accoutre means furnish with dress or
equipment;to equip or to attire
52. Accretion:
Meaning: growth or increase in size by gradual addition; growth; increase; increase
by natural growth;
Mnemonics: ACCRETION sounds like secretion which gives an idea of growth in
size.
53. Accrue:
Meaning: come to one as a gain; accumulate over time; come about by addition;
Mnemonics: sounds like AKDU(hindi...means haughty)....so a person becomes akdu
when he gains a lot
54. Acerbity:
Meaning: bitterness of speech and temper; ADJ. acerbic: bitter; acrid (in taste,
manner, or tone)
Mnemonics: acer( SIR)+bity(BITE)...well your boss(SIR) is using BITTER
WORDS FOR YOU,what are you thinking??(man to karta hai KACCHA BITE (kha)
jauo)
55. Acetic:
Meaning: vinegary
Mnemonics: acetic is derived from acetic acid..which is a week acid,which we
1. Abase:
Meaning: lower; degrade; humiliate; make humble; make (oneself) lose self-
Respect
Mnemonics: abase-abe(a slang used to degrade a person)+shhh(se)usually
an attempt to degrade a person's opinion..ovral goes to humiliate a person....
2. Abash:
Meaning: embarrass
Mnemonics: What happens when u get a bash? (bashing)....u get embarrassed.
3. Abate:
Meaning: To reduce in amount;Put an end to; subside or moderate
Mnemonics: ab+ate , conc on ate, if u ate (spent) all ur money , ur property comes to
an end (abate)
4. Abbreviate:
Meaning: shorten
Mnemonics: abbreviate has root brev (brief) in it; brev (brief) means in short.
Hence meaning of abbreviate is to shorten something.
5. Abdicate:
Meaning: renounce; give up (position, right, or responsibility)
Mnemonics: ab (root ab means away as in abandon) + dic (dictatorship) + ate (to
eat and hence reduce) : means to give away (or reduce) dictatorship and hence to give-
up power.
6. Aberrant:
, Meaning: abnormal or deviant
Mnemonics: ab (away) + err (error) + ant : focus on ERR and ANT. Ants normally
move together in a queue. imagine all these ants moving randomly like a group of
honey bees. That would be abnormal behaviour.
7. Aberration:
Meaning: deviation from the normal; mental disorder
Mnemonics: sounds like abortion which is not normal delivery.
8. Abet:
Meaning: assist usually in doing something wrong; encourage
Mnemonics: a+bet a bet generally assists you to do something wrong
9. Abeyance :
Meaning: suspended action
Mnemonics: it seemingly sounds like ab+yawns.... so, think of something like
'students started yawning and so the teacher gave them 5 mins break' i.e. temporary
suspension...
10. Abhor:
Meaning: detest; hate
Mnemonics: abhor sounds like "a whore" and we generally hate a whore....so to
hate someone is abhoring that person
11. Abide:
, Meaning: dwell; abide by: comply with; put up with; tolerate;
Mnemonics: bide in abide sounds like bind(something that binds you).....so abide
means that fails to bind you from your heart..but you merely have to tolerate
12. Abject:
Meaning: (of a condition) wretched; as low as possible; lacking pride; very humble;
showing lack of self-respect;
Mnemonics: Abject sounds like REJECT. Poor people are like REJECTED (Abject)
people in the society.
13. Abjure:
Meaning: renounce upon oath
Mnemonics: abjure ~ ab (away) + jure (jury). He abjured (rejected, moved away
from) her earlier statements in front of jury.
14. Ablution:
Meaning: washing
Mnemonics: ablution ~ a + blue + solution; just imagine some blue color solution
used for washing clothes.
15. Abnegation:
Meaning: renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation
Mnemonics: Ab-negate ~ relate negate to negative and ab to away. It implies
subtracting something. Renouncing some important aspect of your life means
sacrificing something.
16. Abode:
Meaning: dwelling place; home
Mnemonics: abode sounds jus like aboard= a+board... boarding refers to living
, room or place
17. Abolish:
Meaning: cancel; put an end to, get rid of.
Mnemonics: a + polish (bolish): a polish puts an end to the dullness of shoes.
18. Abominable:
Meaning: detestable; extremely unpleasant
Mnemonics: AVOMIN "(pretty famous drug) given wen u feel a vomiting
Sensation (which is an unpleasant feeling)..Associate avomin to abomin...
19. Abominate:
Meaning: loathe; hate
Mnemonics: omi here sounds like omit, we omit the things we hate
20. Aboriginal:
Meaning: being the first of its kind in a region; primitive; native; indigenous; N.
aborigine
Mnemonics: A+B+Origin+all : A-B are origin(initials) of all English alphabets. i.e.
first of its kind
21. Abortive:
Meaning: unsuccessful; fruitless
Mnemonics: Relate it to abort..things usually gets aborted when it seems that it
would be unsuccessful or fruitless
22. Abrasive:
Meaning: rubbing away; tending to grind down, harsh
Mnemonics: abrasive..it sounds like aggressive,which means harsh behavior
,23. Abridge:
Meaning: condense or shorten
Mnemonics: a+bridge : bridges can shorten the transportation time..
24. Abrogate:
Meaning: abolish
Mnemonics: Imagine a boy is making sighs to a girl standing in front of her
GATE,seeing that her BRO comes & get rid of the boy (abolish)
25. Abscission:
Meaning: cutting off; separation
Mnemonics: ab + scission = scissor scissor separates two things by cutting them ,so
separation
26. Abscond:
Meaning: To leave secretly
Mnemonics: Abscond = ab + scond. �Absent in a second�. When you will absent
in a second? =when u STEAL OFF & HIDE, or when u DEPART secretly.
27. Absolute:
Meaning: complete; totally unlimited; having complete power; certain; not relative;
Mnemonics: "solute" sounds like salute and we use to salute people certainly having
complete power.
28. Absolve:
Meaning: pardon (an offense)
, Mnemonics: ab -solve . so you solved a dispute between you and your friend , how
did you solve it by forgiving and pardoning him/her .
29. Abstain:
Meaning: refrain; choose not to do something; intentionally not use one's vote;
Mnemonics: ab+stain...we tend to stay away from stain....
30. Abstemious:
Meaning: sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
Mnemonics: abs (abs) + stemious (stamina): To build stamina or six pack abs, you
have to eat and drink carefully.
31. Abstinence:
Meaning: restraint from pleasant things, esp. eating or drinking;
Mnemonics: ab+stinence..(looks like STRINGENC(y)....MEANS sticking to the
rules)...so your doctor has asked you to stick to the rule of eating only bread ,if you
want to reduce your belly.
32. Abstract:
Meaning: theoretical; not concrete; nonrepresentational
Mnemonics: abstract: sounds close to extract....and you cant extract anything from
an abstract philosophical speech or passage.
33. Abstruse:
Meaning: obscure; profound; difficult to understand
Mnemonics: It contains "ab....use". ab generally stands for negative sense and so
'ab+ use' can be taken as difficult to use. A word will be difficult to use if it is difficult
to understand.
,34. Abusive:
Meaning: coarsely insulting; physically harmful
Mnemonics: abuse+eve… don’t abuse the eve, its very insulting..
35. Abut:
Meaning: border upon; adjoin
Mnemonics: Look at your BUTT (Dont take it offensively).Its like two pieces of
flesh together marked by a boundary in between them ..Thats abut .
36. Abysmal:
Meaning: bottomless
Mnemonics: a+bys(take dis as 20 i.e.bees in hindi)+mal(take it as mile)..... a 20 mile
deep pit in the ground looks like its bottomless
37. Abyss:
Meaning: enormous chasm; vast bottomless pit, an extremely deep hole.
Mnemonics: A+bys....(this mnemonic is in hindi...ek 20(bees) fit ka gadda)..i.e. Vast
bottomless pit....
38. Acade mic:
Meaning: related to a school; not practical or directly useful
Mnemonics: academy+ic (is) = something is related to academy
39. Accede:
Meaning: agree
Mnemonics: ac+cede( means to yield)..so accede means to yield to somebody’s
opinion or wish.
,40. Accelerate:
Meaning: move faster
Mnemonics: acc (acount)+ ele (element i.e. interest) + rate grows faster… and
reaches to high level amount.
41. Accessible:
Meaning: easy to approach; obtainable
Mnemonics: access+able = by ACCESSING interner you will be ABLE to access
online coaching.
42. Accessory:
Meaning: additional object; useful but not essential thing
Mnemonics: access(EXCESS)+ory(ornaments)..SO you have got excess of
ornaments ,which are not very essential for you,as your clothes,then why do you buy
this?
43. Acclaim:
Meaning: applaud; praise; greet with great approval; announce with great approval;
Mnemonics: A+claim..imagine you have claimed to a news channel that you have
designed a super computer ,so every where people are praising you for your great
invention
44. Acclimate:
Meaning: adjust to climate or environment; adapt
Mnemonics: ac+climate : according to the climate; You have to adapt yourself
according to the climate change.
45. Acclivity:
, Meaning: sharp upslope of a hill; OP. declivity
Mnemonics: if u knwo that cliff is A steep high face of rock, then its easy to
remember
46. Accolade:
Meaning: award of merit; strong praise and approval
Mnemonics: it sounds like chocolate.. parents accolade if kids do home work
properly
47. Accommodate:
Meaning: oblige or help someone; adjust or bring into harmony; adapt; make enough
space for;
Mnemonics: you accommodate someone when you provide accommodation, so you
are helping him/her.
48. Accomplice:
Meaning: partner in crime
Mnemonics: accompany + police; so accompany police implies helping police in
reducing crime ; accomplice means opposite of this : partner in crime.
49. Accord:
Meaning: agreement
Mnemonics: sounds like ACC(ACCORDING)+cord(record)...well ACCORDING TO our RECORDS we
are in agreement with our investors ,as where to invest their money.
50. Accost:
Meaning: approach and speak first to a person
Mnemonics: accost ~ sounds like at any cost. I will approach first and speak to her at
any cost.
, 51. Accooutre:
Meaning: equip; N. accoutrement
Mnemonics: couture means dress ,accoutre means furnish with dress or
equipment;to equip or to attire
52. Accretion:
Meaning: growth or increase in size by gradual addition; growth; increase; increase
by natural growth;
Mnemonics: ACCRETION sounds like secretion which gives an idea of growth in
size.
53. Accrue:
Meaning: come to one as a gain; accumulate over time; come about by addition;
Mnemonics: sounds like AKDU(hindi...means haughty)....so a person becomes akdu
when he gains a lot
54. Acerbity:
Meaning: bitterness of speech and temper; ADJ. acerbic: bitter; acrid (in taste,
manner, or tone)
Mnemonics: acer( SIR)+bity(BITE)...well your boss(SIR) is using BITTER
WORDS FOR YOU,what are you thinking??(man to karta hai KACCHA BITE (kha)
jauo)
55. Acetic:
Meaning: vinegary
Mnemonics: acetic is derived from acetic acid..which is a week acid,which we
