Wordlist and RC
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Wordlist
MEANING: Cancel, Put an end to
SYNONYMS: Get rid of
MNEMONICS: A+Polish(Bolish), A polish puts an end to dullness of shoes
2. Abscission
MEANING: Separation
SYNONYMS: cutting off
MNEMONICS: ab + scission = scissor separates two things by cutting them,so separation
3. Aggrandize
MEANING: Make greater; Increase in power, beauty, wealth, rank, or honour
SYNONYMS: aggrandise , blowup , dramatise , dramatize , embellish , embroider, lard, pad
MNEMONICS: Grand - this resembles to something huge, great, and wealthy.
4. Obdurate
MEANING: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
SYNONYMS: flint , flinty , granitic , stony
MNEMONICS: OB+DURA(RELATE IT TO WORD DURABILITY)..SO anything which has durability .has the resisting power, and something which can resist, is stubborn.
5. Bereavement
MEANING: state of sorrow over the death or departure of a loved one
SYNONYMS: mourning, BEREFT, bereaved , grief-stricken , grieving, sorrowing
MNEMONICS: be-leave-ment; this is the state when someone LEAVEs us forever
6. Abscond
MEANING: run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
SYNONYMS: absquatulate , bolt , decamp , go off , make off , run off
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.
7. Ameliorate
MEANING: to make better
SYNONYMS: amend , better, improve, meliorate
MNEMONICS: Ameli (Imli) improves the taste of food.
8. Lucid
MEANING: transparently clear; easily understandable
SYNONYMS: crystal clear , limpid , luculent , pellucid, perspicuous