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57 List 1 Relation to Group Meaning Relation to Group Meaning Supple and Have you ever seen people who can quick and light in If you're nimble, you can move quickly graceful (Syn for bend so easily, they can touch their action (Syn for and with ease. That spryness can be flexible) heels to the back of their heads? That flexible) both physical and mental, so even if your Form: adj person is, in a word, lithe. Form: adj granny isn't very nimble on her feet, she Tone: pos Tone: pos can probably still whip you in chess. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Lithe Sounds like Example: the Lithe body of a Mnemonic: Nimble..sounds like Example: You need Nimble light and something which is dancer. nimbu(lemon)..when a lemon falls fingers for that job. light in weight can easily be on the floor it rolls quickly..sure moved and bended. this helps you in understanding the meaning quickly...ie in being Nimble FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL 59 List 1 Relation to Group Meaning Relation to Group Meaning able to do When someone has become good at skilled and expert prowess means exceptional skill or something well something, they are Proficient. After all (syn) ability. Your sailing prowess might save because of those hours playing video games, you Form: n your life in a storm, while someone with training and must be very Proficient at them. Tone: pos less experience might make mistakes. practice Form: adj Mnemonic/Example Tone: pos Mnemonic: Prowess sounds like Mnemonic/Example POWERS Mnemonic: A Proficient person is Example: With practice, you Example: He was complimented EFFICIENT at the job he/she does should become Proficient within on his Prowess as an oarsman. six months. FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL 61 List 1 Relation to Group Meaning Relation to Group Meaning bending, moving Something or someone that is supple highly complicated highly complex or intricate and occasionally easily (syn for bends and moves easily, like a (syn) devious flexible) contortionist at a circus sideshow. If you Form: adj Form: adj can wrap your legs around your neck, Tone: Neg Tone: pos you most likely have a supple body. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Recall the chemistry Mnemonic: Playing cards can be where we studied Benzene SHUFFLED because they are which is complex in structure. Supple Example: This is an organization Example: These exercises will of Byzantine complexity help to keep you Supple. FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS 63 List 1 Relation to Group Meaning Relation to Group Meaning longer path, Circuitous means indirect or roundabout. If Twisted extremely If something is convoluted, it's intricate and roundabout ( you're in a hurry to get to the hospital difficult to follow hard to understand. You'll need to read kind, nature) where your wife is having a baby, you want (syn) over your brother's convoluted investment Form: adj to take the straightest, fastest way, not a Form: adj scheme a few times before deciding Tone: Neg circuitous one! Tone: Neg whether or not to go in on it. Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: circ(circle)tous(tour) Mnemonic: Breaking into a circle+tour=round about path. VAULT is COMPLICATED which isn't straight (Convoluted) Example: He took us on a Example: She could not follow Circuitous route to the hotel. his Convoluted discourse. HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS Lithe Nimble Proficient Prowess Supple Byzantine Circuitous Convoluted

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Relation to Group Meaning Relation to Group Meaning

Supple and Have you ever seen people who can quick and light in If you're nimble, you can move quickly

graceful (Syn for bend so easily, they can touch their action (Syn for and with ease. That spryness can be

flexible) heels to the back of their heads? That flexible) both physical and mental, so even if your

Form: adj person is, in a word, lithe. Form: adj granny isn't very nimble on her feet, she

Tone: pos Tone: pos can probably still whip you in chess.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: Lithe Sounds like Example: the Lithe body of a Mnemonic: Nimble..sounds like Example: You need Nimble

light and something which is dancer. nimbu(lemon)..when a lemon falls fingers for that job.

light in weight can easily be on the floor it rolls quickly..sure

moved and bended. this helps you in understanding

the meaning quickly...ie in being

Nimble

FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL

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able to do When someone has become good at skilled and expert prowess means exceptional skill or

something well something, they are Proficient. After all (syn) ability. Your sailing prowess might save

because of those hours playing video games, you Form: n your life in a storm, while someone with

training and must be very Proficient at them. Tone: pos less experience might make mistakes.

practice

Form: adj Mnemonic/Example

Tone: pos Mnemonic: Prowess sounds like

Mnemonic/Example POWERS

Mnemonic: A Proficient person is Example: With practice, you Example: He was complimented

EFFICIENT at the job he/she does should become Proficient within on his Prowess as an oarsman.

six months.

FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL FLEXIBLE/SKILFUL

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bending, moving Something or someone that is supple highly complicated highly complex or intricate and occasionally

easily (syn for bends and moves easily, like a (syn) devious

flexible) contortionist at a circus sideshow. If you Form: adj

Form: adj can wrap your legs around your neck, Tone: Neg

Tone: pos you most likely have a supple body. Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Recall the chemistry

Mnemonic: Playing cards can be where we studied Benzene

SHUFFLED because they are which is complex in structure.

Supple Example: This is an organization

Example: These exercises will of Byzantine complexity

help to keep you Supple.

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longer path, Circuitous means indirect or roundabout. If Twisted extremely If something is convoluted, it's intricate and

roundabout ( you're in a hurry to get to the hospital difficult to follow hard to understand. You'll need to read

kind, nature) where your wife is having a baby, you want (syn) over your brother's convoluted investment

Form: adj to take the straightest, fastest way, not a Form: adj scheme a few times before deciding

Tone: Neg circuitous one! Tone: Neg whether or not to go in on it.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: circ(circle)tous(tour) Mnemonic: Breaking into a

circle+tour=round about path. VAULT is COMPLICATED

which isn't straight (Convoluted)

Example: He took us on a Example: She could not follow

Circuitous route to the hotel. his Convoluted discourse.

HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS

Lithe Nimble

Proficient Prowess

Supple Byzantine

Circuitous Convoluted

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rough and To gnarl is to twist something up until it's connect and link Things that intertwine are twisted or mixed

twisted (syn) deformed. A gnarl is something twisted up (Syn) together. You have to intertwine yarn to

Form: verb like a knot. Form: v make a scarf.

Tone: Neg Tone: Neg

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: People's bodies can Mnemonic: Intertwine sounds Example: Their political careers

gnarl too, especially as they get like In-Turbine. So remind like: In had become closely Intertwined.

older. Turbine, turbine SPINs while Root: the Prefix Inter means -in

Example: The wind has Gnarled exerting pressure of water flow between.

this old tree or WIND,and converts

mechanical energy into

electrical(electricity).

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proceed aimlessly follow a winding course. complex, cunning You can use the adjective serpentine to

(effect) (effect) describe things that look like a serpent or

Form: v Form: adj are snakelike. Looking down at the carved

Tone: Neg Tone: Neg riverbeds in the Grand Canyon is like

Mnemonic/Example looking into a basket of snakes: the

Mnemonic: Pronounce it like serpentine twists curve throughout the

'wander'; they are synonymous. canyon floor.

Example: The stream Meanders Mnemonic/Example

slowly down to the river. Mnemonic: A serpent is a snake- a snake has a twisting and

winding movement instead of a straight one and therefore such

a movement is termed as Serpentine .

Example: the Serpentine course of the river

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having curves and Sinuous means winding or curvy. If you get twists and turns Tortuous means twisting or complicated.

turns (Syn) lost on a sinuous mountain path, you'll (Syn)

Form: adj need a compass or a GPS to figure out Form: adj

Tone: Neg which direction leads back to camp. Tone: Neg

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: Sinuous...one who Example: One gloriously Sinuous Mnemonic: a tortoise does not

commits sins is NOT MORALLY run eight minutes from the move in straight line... it keeps

HONEST but is twisted by nature. interval made three opponents twisting and turning making path

look as though they were trying complicated.

to tackle smoke. Example: a Tortuous road up the

mountain

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spiral courses having many twists and turns. pleasing The adjective aesthetic (also spelled esthetic)

(nature) appearance, comes in handy when subject is beauty or the

Form: adj artistic beauty arts. A velvet painting of dogs playing poker

Tone: Neg (opposite) might have minimal aesthetic appeal.

Mnemonic/Example Form: n,adj

Mnemonic: WindingS around Tone: pos

Transformers (electronics) isnt Mnemonic/Example

straight, so hence its twisting Mnemonic: aes + thetic Example: The beautiful

and like a spiral.. hence Winding opposite of "pathetic"..means sculpture was a mirror image

Example: Winding roads are full beauty of the carver's aethetic values.

of surprises

HAVING TWISTS AND TURNS HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE

Winding Aesthetic

Gnarled Intertwine

Meander Serpentine

Sinuous Tortuous

James Bond drove his custom BMW 120

mph on the road that was tortuous in its

twists and turns.

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shocked (syn) Something that is appalling is awful or attractive (opp) Comely means attractive or appropriate. A

Form: adj horrible, causing dismay or disgust. It's Form: adj comely girl is pretty. A comely hairstyle makes

Tone: neg definitely not appealing. Tone: pos you seem prettier maybe than you are. If

your manners are comely, it means you know

the right way to act to put people at their

Mnemonic/Example ease.

Mnemonic: Appalling is Mnemonic/Example

something that is not at all Mnemonic: Comely- resembles Example: The General's lady is

Appealing. homely, homely gals are a hearty, Comely, discreet,

Example: The brutality of the always liked by everyone,as affable woman, some few

crime appalled the public. they are attractive and also years older than himself

have a pleasing appearance.

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offensive (syn, Something that is egregious stands out, but causing horror( Something that's ghastly isn't just gross. It's

manner) not in a good way — it means "really bad or syn) shockingly, horrifyingly unpleasant — so

Form: adj offensive," like a tattoo on a man misspelling Form: adj gruesome and grisly that it makes you want

Tone: neg his girlfriend's name. Tone: neg to puke.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: Egregious is Example: There are several Mnemonic: Ghastly sounds

similer to prime ministers in the past like Ghostly, which is equally

aggressive.Aggressive pepole who have committed far more horrifying.

are very bad in manner. Egregious offenses. Example: She woke up in the

middle of a Ghastly nightmare.

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horror (cause ans Grisly means disgusting and bloody, vulgar, Get ready, because gross has a few different

syn) absolutely repulsive and horrible. There’s a unattractive meanings. When something is gross, it's

Form: adj wonderfully creepy movie about a man who (nature) disgusting. The noun, a gross, is the complete

Tone: neg suffers a grisly death at the hands of the Form: adj amount (before expenses), and the verb "to

grizzly bears he was studying. Tone: neg gross" is to bring in money.

Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: If you're talking Example: “He ate it with

Mnemonic: because of too Example: The jurors saw about awful, sickening, vile mustard.” “Oh, Gross!”

much of GREASE on the road Grisly photos of the crime things such as dissecting an

my car met with a hORRIFIC scene. animal or filthy behavior,

accident you're looking at the adjective

Gross.

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ugly or unusually Use grotesque to describe things that are extremely Gothic novels, horror movies, and crime

unattractive very strange and ugly in an unnatural way. If unpleasant dramas don't shy away from showing

(cause) something "grosses you out," you can safely (cause) gruesome scenes of death, pictures that

Form: adj refer to it as grotesque. Form: adj inspire fright and repulsion.

Tone: Neg Tone: neg

Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Gruesome -

Mnemonic: When I GROW Example: It's Grotesque to Sounds like cruelsome, which

TUSK: how do i look: expect a person of her is self-explainable

UGLY:abnormal....it is only a experience to work for so little Example: We spent a week in

fantasy money. a Gruesome apartment in

Miami.

HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE HORRIFYING / SHOCKING / (opp) ATTRACTIVE

Grotesque Gruesome

Egregious Ghastly

Grisly Gross

Appalling Comely

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wicked (nature of A heinous crime is very evil or wicked. Of ugly (cause) Hideous is a word that means extremely ugly.

crime) course, some people only use the term as an Form: adj Anything or anybody that is painful — and a

Form: adj exaggeration, claiming that their parents' little scary — to look at is hideous.

Tone: neg requirement that they write thank you notes Mnemonic/Example

after their birthdays is a heinous form of Mnemonic: write it like Example: Their new color

torture. hide+ous.and ous sounds scheme is Hideous!

Mnemonic/Example simillar to "us"...and when do

Mnemonic: Heinous sounds Example: There were Heinous we hide ourselves ? Its when

like hyena (a wild animal) accusations made against we see something ugly and

these animals are very them for involving in child unpleasant.

cunning & wicked) labour and assault.

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shocking (syn) Monstrous is an adjective that describes interest in Morbid is a word used to describe anyone

Form: adj something gross or shocking. It can refer to unpleasant and who spends too much time thinking about

Tone: neg the size, shape, or general look of something. disturbing death or disease.

If your face or body is monstrous, it's subjects (death)

misshapen and horrifying to look at. (syn)

Mnemonic/Example Form: adj

Mnemonic: Something that is Example: He is considering Tone: Neg

something like a MONSTER launching new courses in New Mnemonic/Example

(huge and ugly) is Monstrous. York and sees Latin America Mnemonic: Morbid -MORTAL Example: He had a Morbid

as a potentially “Monstrous” (deadly) + BITE (like of an fascination with blood.

market. insect) - a deadly bite is Root: The root word

unhealthy and disease MOR/MORT refers to DEATH

related.

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ugly (cause) Unsightly is a gentler way of saying ugly. unpleasant (syn) Surely only an evil person could be so vile as

Form: adj Often something that is described as and (nature) to have made you so angry. Vile is something

Tone: neg unsightly sticks out like a sore thumb in an Form: adj or someone so morally wrong or offensive as

otherwise attractive environment. Tone: neg to be thoroughly disgusting.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: Concentrate on Mnemonic: Rearrange Vile and

sight means to see. Unsightly you will get a synonym for it

means can't like to see if it is EVIL

ugly. Example: The weather was

Example: The accident site really Vile most of the time.

was unslightly.

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natural liking or If you get along with someone very well, natural talent If you have a knack or aptitude for doing

sympathy (syn) you have an affinity with them. (syn) something, you can say you have a bent

Form: n Sometimes opposites attract, so you Form: n for it. Perhaps you have a bent for

Tone: pos might feel a strange affinity to someone Tone: pos woodworking, creating fabulous desserts,

who is seemingly very different from you. or writing poetry, you are good at it.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: Mathematicians Mnemonic: Bent-sounds like Example: Do this exercise with

have an Affinity for infinity. bend it like beckham a movie your knees Bent

Example: Sam was born in the where a girl is determined to

country and had a deep Affinity prove her natural talent of

with nature. football

INCLINATION INCLINATION

Affinity Bent

Monstrous Morbid

Unsightly Vile

Heinous Hideous

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inclined and naturally disposed toward syn If you're inclined to do something, you

special attitude Form: adj want to do it, you like doing it, and you

(syn) Tone: pos may even have an inherent talent for

Form: adj doing it. Alternatively, if the sidewalk

Tone: pos outside your house is inclined, that means

it slopes upward.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: we always have Mnemonic: In (into) cline (cling)

INCLINATION for having to a habit.

tea/coffee/juice in DISPOSable Example: He did not show the

glass when we are outside slightest inclination to leave.

Example: I'm not Disposed to Root: the prefix IN means into

argue.

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habituated liking A penchant is a strong preference or a special liking A predilection is a preference for or bias

(syn) tendency. If you have a penchant for (syn) toward something. If you have a

Form: n pizza, you either eat it daily, or wish you Form: n predilection for wool clothing, you should

Tone: pos did. Tone: pos take up knitting.

Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic: Example: an artist with a

Mnemonic: p+enchantsomething Example: He quit his job as the pre(before)+dialect(local Predilection for bright colors

that enchants you, CEO of a leading company, to language); you generally Root: the prefix PRE- mens

you have a strong liking for satisfy his Penchant for become partial when you are before

that. teaching. taking an interview and you

meet someone who speaks

your language

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a favorable A predisposition is a tendency to do to do something A proclivity is a natural tendency to like

inclination something. If you know you have a regularly or liking something, such as your sister's proclivity

towards someone predisposition toward getting carsick, towards for restaurants that serve hot, spicy food.

(syn) better to plan ahead and avoid eating something (syn)

Form: n before a long drive. Things could get ugly. Form: n

Tone: pos Tone: pos

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: your position Example: his indicates that Mnemonic: pro(forward) + Example: the government's

(POSITION) is more towards many cancers may have a clivity( think of cliff or high slope, Proclivity for spending money

this (DIS) shared underlying genetic prone to slipping towards it), so

Predisposition a strong

Root: same as above. predispostion/inclination to...

something

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natural tendency A propensity is a natural tendency to predicts a bad or To augur is to predict, but what's tricky

to behave in a behave in a certain way. We all have good outcome about the word is that it pertains to an

particular way propensities — things we tend to do. (syn) object or an event. A black cat is an

(syn) Dogs have a propensity to bark, and Form: v,n augur of bad luck––it brings bad luck.

Form: n many people have a propensity for Tone: Neutral, Seeing one doesn't augur well for your

Tone: pos getting annoyed by it. negative, positive future.

Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: now a days people Example: He showed a Mnemonic: Augur-- aug+ur -- AUGust indicates(SIGN/WARNS)

are inclined towards "CITY" dats Propensity for violence. approaching of winters

why thery are migrating from Root: the Prefix PRO- means for Example: Conflicts among the various groups do not Augur

villages. or forward. well for the future of the peace talks.

Root: NA

INCLINATION PREDICTION

Propensity Augur

Penchant Predilection

Predisposition Proclivity

Disposed Inclined

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Predict an occurrence, A forecast is a prediction of what will happen. prediction (syn) Use the noun foresight to describe

especially If the weather forecast calls for sunny skies, Form: n successful planning for the future, like

weather (syn) consider leaving your umbrella at home. Tone: neutral on a cloudy morning having the

Form: v,n (But, since forecasts aren’t guaranteed to be foresight to bring an umbrella in case

Tone: Neutral right, don’t blame us if you get rained on). of rain showers later in the day.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: While often used in the context of weather, Forecast can also Mnemonic: The word Foresight is made of two parts: fore, which means

be used for other types of predictions such as those related to before, and sight, which means "to perceive."

financial or political outcomes. Example: She had the Foresight to prepare herself financially in case of an

Example: The Forecast said there would be sunny intervals and showers. accident.

Root: the prefix fore- means before Root: Prefix Fore- means before

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predict (syn) to know or say what will happen in the Omen, bad sign A presage is a sign that something

Form: v future, especially by using magic or warning (effect) bad is about to happen, like when you

Tone: neutral powers Form: v,n get that queasy feeling in your

Tone: stomach because your mom found out

Mnemonic/Example Neutral/negative you skipped band practice to go to the movies.

Mnemonic: Fore means before and Mnemonic/Example

telling about what happened before. Mnemonic: As a verb, Presage means making a prediction or giving

Example: The witch foretold that she a warning of what's to come, like a terrible end-of-season football game's

would marry a prince. outcome game that Presaged the struggles the team faced the next

Root: the prefix fore- means before season.

Example: Nothing had Presaged the dreadful fate about to befall him.

Root: NA

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having knowledge To be prescient is to have foresight or forecast the Prognosis concerns people who are so

of events to take foreknowledge. We can use this word outcome of some sick they might die. What is their

plc (syn) to describe people themselves, or situation (syn) prognosis? It is a word doctors use to

Form: adj what they say or do at a given Form: n talk about the path a disease will take

Tone: neutral moment. Tone: Negative with a person.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: pre- science—means Mnemonic: Prognosis = pro+diagnosis, pro= think forward, diagnosis =

prediction, knowledge of events cause of disease, it means to predict the features of a disease

forehand before the disease itself.

Example: She showed great Example: The Prognosis is for more people to work part-time in the future.

prescience in selling her shares just Root: NA

before the market crashed.

Root: the prefix pre- means before

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lack of connection Disjointed isn’t when you can bend your thumb connecting more If you happen to be at the nexus of something

(kind or nature) all the way backwards — that’s double-jointed. than one thing , this noun means that

Form: adj Disjointed means "unorganized" or (opp) you are right in the middle.

Tone: neg "disconnected." Form: n

Mnemonic/Example Tone: pos

Mnemonic: DIS (not) + Example: The novel Mnemonic/Example

JOINTED (connected)...so suffers from a Disjointed Mnemonic: Google --

Disjointed is disconnected plot and pale, insignificant connected to android.. So

or scattered. characters. their phone name Nexus

Root: The Prefix DISrefers Example: The Nexus

to NOT between industry and

political power

SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED

Disjointed Nexus

Fortell Presage

Prescient Prognosis

Forecast Foresight

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Divide (cause) To polarize is to divide. Something that's been separate the To winnow is to blow something away until

Form: v polarized has been split into two sides good from bad you are left with what you want, like

Tone: neutral that are so different, it seems as though (syn) grain from chaff. If you only want your favorite

they're from opposite ends of the earth — Form: v people at the party, you will need to

like the North Pole and the South Pole. Tone: pos winnow down the guest list from 300 to 30.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: Reminds of Example: Public opinion Mnemonic: WIN NOW

the two poles "N-Pole", has Polarized on this (sounds like WINNER)will

S-Pole which is nothing issue. separate you from looser

but division of two Example: She stood there

extreme poles. Winnowing chaff all day in

the field

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Divide (syn) To separate people by race or religion is to Warning in make a prediction about; tell in advance

Form: v segregate them. In general, the word segregate advance (syn)

Tone: neutral means to separate one Form: v

type of thing from another. Tone: neutral

Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: Aggregate is Mnemonic/Example

to combine together, Mnemonic: fore = for the Example: She had a sense of

Segregate is to seperate future; bode = brood on foreboding that the news

Example: Whites and something bad. (Not so good, would be bad.

blacks were Segregated but what can we do) Root: The prefix -fore means

into different parts of before

town.

SEPARATED / (opp) CONNECTED SIGN (Warning)

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Warning (syn) To foreshadow is to predict something or to expressing threat minatory means threatening. When you

Form: v give a hint of what is to come. If you could (syn) petition the school for higher academic

Tone: neutral take a stereo apart and put it back together Form: adj standards––i.e. harder grading from

at age five, it can foreshadow a successful Tone: negative teachers––you may receive some minatory

career in electronics. looks, or even hate note, from the kids in

Mnemonic/Example your school.

Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: A 'shadow' of an Example: His sudden death Mnemonic: MINEatory.....mines Example: There was a silence

assasin alerts you 'before' his had been Foreshadowed by are always threatening which, it seemed to her, could

arrival. earlier health scares. because lot's of people can die be more Minatory even than

Root: prefix fore- refers to because of suffocation or accusation.

before poisonous gases present in

mines....

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threateningly If something looks or sounds ominous, be Warning (syn) portend means to show a sign that

inauspicious (syn) careful, a threat or an unpleasant event is at Form: v something calamitous is about to happen.

Form: adj hand. If you see an ominous frown on your Tone: negative The tottering, pile of fine china piled up after

Tone: negative boss's face, you're in trouble! the dinner party portends an imminent crash

of broken plates and dishes.

Mnemonic/Example Mnemonic/Example

Mnemonic: "omen+ious", Mnemonic: When we reached Example: For there are many

Remember the movie "omen" the port's end (sea port) we kinds of calms that do not

the horror movie saw some dead bodies, which Portend coming storms.

Example: There were gave a sign that something

Ominous dark clouds bad was going to happen.

gathering overhead.

SIGN (Warning) SIGN (Warning)

Ominous Portend

Segregate Forebode

Foreshadow Minatory

Polarize Winnow

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highly complex or intricate and occasionally

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If something is convoluted, it's intricate and

over your brother's convoluted investment

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Things that intertwine are twisted or mixed

Example: Their political careers

had become closely Intertwined.

Root: the Prefix Inter means -in

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The adjective aesthetic (also spelled esthetic)

comes in handy when subject is beauty or the

arts. A velvet painting of dogs playing poker

sculpture was a mirror image

of the carver's aethetic values.

James Bond drove his custom BMW 120

mph on the road that was tortuous in its

twists and turns.

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Comely means attractive or appropriate. A

comely girl is pretty. A comely hairstyle makes

your manners are comely, it means you know

Example: The General's lady is

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Something that's ghastly isn't just gross. It's

gruesome and grisly that it makes you want

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Get ready, because gross has a few different

disgusting. The noun, a gross, is the complete

amount (before expenses), and the verb "to

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Hideous is a word that means extremely ugly.

Anything or anybody that is painful — and a

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who spends too much time thinking about

MOR/MORT refers to DEATH

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Surely only an evil person could be so vile as

to have made you so angry. Vile is something

or someone so morally wrong or offensive as

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Example: Do this exercise with

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Predilection for bright colors

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Proclivity for spending money

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Mnemonic: The word Foresight is made of two parts: fore, which means

Example: She had the Foresight to prepare herself financially in case of an

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you skipped band practice to go to the movies.

a warning of what's to come, like a terrible end-of-season football game's

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Example: The Prognosis is for more people to work part-time in the future.

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If you happen to be at the nexus of something

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To winnow is to blow something away until

grain from chaff. If you only want your favorite

winnow down the guest list from 300 to 30.

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Example: She had a sense of

Root: The prefix -fore means

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teachers––you may receive some minatory

Example: There was a silence

which, it seemed to her, could

be more Minatory even than

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The tottering, pile of fine china piled up after

the dinner party portends an imminent crash

Example: For there are many

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Byzantine Supple

Convoluted Circuitous

Nimble Lithe

Prowess Proficient

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Aesthetic Winding

Serpentine Meander

Tortuous Sinuous

Intertwine Gnarled

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Gruesome Grotesque

Ghastly Egregious

Gross Grisly

Comely Appalling

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Bent Affinity

Morbid Monstrous

Vile Unsightly

Hideous Heinous

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Augur Propensity

Predilection Penchant

Proclivity Predisposition

Inclined Disposed

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Nexus Disjointed

Presage Fortell

Prognosis Prescient

Foresight Forecast

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Portend Ominous

Forebode Segregate

Minatory Foreshadow

Winnow Polarize

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Supple

Circuitous

Lithe

Proficient

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Winding

Meander

Sinuous

Gnarled

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Grotesque

Egregious

Grisly

Appalling

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Affinity

Monstrous

Unsightly

Heinous

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Propensity

Penchant

Predisposition

Disposed

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Disjointed

Fortell

Prescient

Forecast

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Ominous

Segregate

Foreshadow

Polarize