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maverick

Short Definition : rebel; nonconformist (in a group)

Definition
(noun) someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action
Synonyms : rebel
Definition
(noun) an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it Definition
(adj) independent in behavior or thought
Synonyms : irregular unorthodox
Example Sentence
  • she led a somewhat irregular private life
  • maverick politicians
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for maverick

Mave+"RICK" sounds like Ricky Ponting who is rebellious and non-conformist as he does not believe in umpire descisions during India's Cricket match

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those who play counter strike will be aware of the bot "maverick" who has cooperation as zero. which is what maverick means!!

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maverick-MAIN BHI RICKshaw chaloonga even I am engineer/doctor. I want to be maverick.

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Maverick (tom cruise's name) in top gun was maverick as he broke many codes of navy

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MaVErick- Main Vo Rockunga jo ho raha hai-> non-conformist

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m+ brick....person who acts like a brick in the way(path) of others

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BROCADE---"BROKE-AID"..after buying rich fabric i was BROKE (LACK OF MONEY) and wanted financial AID..

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in counterstrike, remember the guy named maverick .. he wont obey ur commands.. he'll go whereever he wants.

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maverick - Mai Very Kick the ass types

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maverick is a type of gun which a maverick uses

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maverick = ma + verick; ma is going to barit to barit house to house.

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maverick = ma + aver + ick; means mother is coming from wandering relatives houses.

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mawkish

Short Definition : mushy(sentimental) and gushy; icky-sticky sentimental; excessively and objectionably sentimental

Definition
(adj) effusively or insincerely emotional
Example Sentence
  • a bathetic novel
  • maudlin expressions of sympathy
  • mushy effusiveness
  • a schmaltzy song
  • sentimental soap operas
  • slushy poetry
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mawkish

"Maa" ka "kiss" hamesha sentimental aur emotional hota hai!

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mawk close to MOCK..so if someone mocks at you...and you are sentimental..then its a sad situation.

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Mawkish: Read it as -Make+Wish: An insincerely emotional person is always ready to make wish..

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Mock + Kiss = Mawkish or insincere emotion.

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My MAW is icky sweet and sentimental about loving us kids!

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MAWKISH -> MOCK means fake. Mawkish means faking emotion.

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Girls get sentimental when you kiss them. They also think its wrong and stop u for there maa sake

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mawkish=malfish;looking at mal[bad] fish is sickening

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mawkish = maw maw is done by cat to please sentimentally the ower & to get the care & food.

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maxim

Short Definition : proverb; truth pithily stated

Definition
(noun) a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits
Synonyms : axiom
Definition
(noun) English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916)
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for maxim

Maxim= for maximum you will say max.. it is a short rule of saying maximum..

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maxim = maximum + saying...

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Maxim is a famous magazine. Its a maxim that every young boy reads MAXIM!

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mayhem

Short Definition : injury to body; crime of willfully maiming or crippling a person; violent disorder; Ex. mayhem in the zoo; CF. maim

Definition
(noun) the willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person Definition
(noun) violent and needless disturbance
Synonyms : havoc
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sounds like MAY HARM ... injurious

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HEM means to fold and stitched down the edge of cloths. So if people injured they MAY need STITCHES mean HEM.

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MAY DAY - An internationally recognized distress signal via radiotelephone.

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mayhem-- split it as ma and he.. when u have injury to body u cry and call he(hey) ma, he(hey) ma

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mayhem sounds like hindi word MATAM and whenever people die due to violence,matam cha jata hai families me jinke members mare jate hai.

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As you know "HEM" is a way of stitching cloth, if I (May) start stitching(Hem) there will be no control... I will do the mess on the cloth.

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ME is HEMEN. So very powerfull and voilent

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meager

Short Definition : scanty; inadequate

Definition
(adj) deficient in amount or quality or extent
Example Sentence
  • meager resources
  • meager fare
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for meager

meager = m + eager concentrate on "eager". A person is eager only when he/she is in a desperate need of something inadequate...or scanty in supply.

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relate it to 'beggar'

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mea==mean (fish in tamil) mean karans life is always scanty

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Relate to beggar and miser ; A miser beggar may be very thin because of bad quality and insufficient eating.

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mealymouthed

Short Definition : indirect in speech (when something unpleasant must be said); hypocritical; evasive

Definition
(adj) hesitant to state facts or opinions simply and directly as from e.g. timidity or hypocrisy
Synonyms : mealy-mouthed
Example Sentence
  • a mealymouthed politician
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mealymouthed

mealy+mouthed-you have stuffed your mouth with meals ,so speech is not proper

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when you have meal in your mouth you don't speak clearly.:: you are being evasive.

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ur mouth is ful of meals because of which ur speech is ambiguous n u r nt able to speak properly

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i remember my dcs viva, maybe u can relate. mealy moore machines are stateless/ stateful machines. something like that. so when my teacher asked me this in my viva i got confused and indirectly implied the meaning hence mealymouth

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Mel = Latin for honey. Those who are mealymouthed are trying to sugar coat the truth.

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meander

Short Definition : wind or turn in its course; follow a winding or turning course; move aimlessly and idly

Definition
(noun) a bend or curve, as in a stream or river Definition
(noun) an aimless amble on a winding course
Synonyms : ramble
Definition
(verb) to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course
Synonyms : thread wander weave wind
Example Sentence
  • the river winds through the hills
  • the path meanders through the vineyards
  • sometimes, the gout wanders through the entire body
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for meander

Pronounce it like 'wander'; they are synonymous.

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when pronounced GIVE THE sounds OF meAN+wANDER.....SO A MEAN PERSON always WANDER aimlessly.

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meander...it sounds like Menderes a River in turkey....and a river changes its direction according to the wind direction....or turn its course along the winding path....

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Road meanders when we go to vaishno Devi mandir.

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me + under + me : turn

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meddlesome

Short Definition : interfering; V. meddle: interfere

Definition
(adj) intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner
Example Sentence
  • an interfering old woman
  • bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself
  • busy about other people's business
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for meddlesome

meddle(middle)+some..so when two people are talking WE SHOULD NEVER INTERFARE IN MIDDLE OF THEIR TALKS.

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If you want to get meddle you have to involve in those activities which you have never concerned.

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Do not MEDDLE in SOME affairs because you may land youself in trouble.

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to come someone in middle(meddle)

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mediate

Short Definition : settle a dispute through the services of an outsider; act as an intermediary; produce by mediating; Ex. mediate a cease-fire

Definition
(verb) act between parties with a view to reconciling differences
Example Sentence
  • He interceded in the family dispute
  • He mediated a settlement
Definition
(verb) occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others
Example Sentence
  • mediate between the old and the new
Definition
(adj) acting through or dependent on an intervening agency
Example Sentence
  • the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact
Definition
(adj) being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series
Synonyms : in-between middle
Example Sentence
  • adolescence is an awkward in-between age
  • in a mediate position
  • the middle point on a line
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mediate

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whenever their is a dispute b/w me and my mom....my mom imMEDIATEly calls my father who acts as a MEDIATOR for us...............:D

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one who come in MIDDLE to solve a dispute;

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mediocre

Short Definition : ordinary; commonplace; neither good nor bad

Definition
(adj) moderate to inferior in quality
Synonyms : second-rate
Example Sentence
  • they improved the quality from mediocre to above average
Definition
(adj) lacking exceptional quality or ability
Synonyms : average fair middling
Example Sentence
  • a novel of average merit
  • only a fair performance of the sonata
  • in fair health
  • the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average
  • the performance was middling at best
Definition
(adj) poor to middling in quality
Example Sentence
  • there have been good and mediocre and bad artists
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mediocre

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mediocre sounding lyk medium which means average so a mediocre performance in da sense an average performance

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mediocre~ media+cry media is always crying so it is ordinary thing

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Medio=middle ; so things are in between good and bad ; so it must be of average quality.

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mediocre sounds like medium/middle place...middle will be COMMON point for two places...and common=ordinary..

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