Learn English Vocab With Fun part-20

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Acquiesce - to accept without arguing

Usage - We should never acquiesce to unrealistic and unnecessary demands.

Link1 - a+kiss : My girlfriend acquiesced when I tried to kiss her on her lips.

Link2 - A quiet person always agree passively watever u ask to do or tell him.

Acrid - pungent smell

Usage - The acrid smell of burning rubber.

Link1 - remove "r" from acrid, so now it becomes acid and acid is always bitter in taste and when smelt its pungent too.

Link2 - The child cried because of acrid taste/smell.

Acrimonious - angry and full of strong bitter feelings and words

Usage - The minor disagreement resulted in an acrimonious dispute.

Link1 - acri + moni + ous ~ a crore money; excess of money, which can make someone bitter, harsh

Link2 - Acrimony between them..coz both crying for money.

Actuary/Actuarial - person whose job involves calculating insurance risks.

Usage - The actuarial findings were an eye-opener.

Link - actuarial sounds like factorial which implies doing calculation.

Actuate - motivate

Usage - The similar nature of the homicide actuated the police to seek help from the CIA.

Link1 - actuate.. sounds like activate..we need motivation (or some incentives) to activate our thinkings.

Link2 - sounds like accurate and when you presented ACCURATE sales figure to the BOARD,they motivated (gave incentives to) you for your honest wok.

Acumen - mental sharpness, sharpness of judgment.

Usage - The curtains were arranged to fall in an acumen.

Link - acumen sounds like IQ-men.. men with high IQ have ability to judge quickly.

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Adage - wise saying, proverb

Link1 - add+age = when a person is adding in age (increase in age, old people) .. old people generally use lots of adage in their conversation.

Link2 - the word DAG ... a provoking proverb of hindu muslim was like a dag for the secular country like INDIA.

Adamant - determined not to change your mind,hard,inflexible

Usage - he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind

Link1 - Adam and eve were adamant to come on earth and produce a lot of humans as possible.

Link2 - a + diamond : diamond is a very hard substance and hence we can't break it easily. Similarly, adamant person is one whom we can't persuade easily.

Link3 - u get a word adam gilchrist.. or dam.. both are very strong and inflexible.

Addendum - addition, something that is added, appendix to book
Usage - Addendum was added at the end of the book.

Link1 - add+end+um...anything added in the end of the book.

Link2 - sounds like append(computer command) which means adding words at the end of something.

Addiction - compulsive habitual need

Usage - Her addiction to chocolates gave her a lot of pimples.

Link1 - When you start rubbing your dick you become addicted to it.

Link2 - diction sounds like fiction.reading fiction stories became a compulsory habit to me to read until i will complete the book.

Addle - to confuse, to become rotten

Usage - The little child addled my brain.

Link1 - sounds like idle.. when u sit idle u get addle.. u get confused yaar kya karu main??

Link2 - ADDLE ~ sounds like riddle which is usually confusing and hence we get confused.

Likn3 - My chef added addle eggs in my dal.

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