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prodigious

Short Definition : enormous; marvelous; extraordinary; Ex. prodigious amount/memory

Definition
(adj) so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe
Synonyms : colossal stupendous
Example Sentence
  • colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple
  • has a colossal nerve
  • a prodigious storm
  • a stupendous field of grass
  • stupendous demand
Definition
(adj) of momentous or ominous significance
Synonyms : portentous
Example Sentence
  • such a portentous...monster raised all my curiosity
  • a prodigious vision
Definition
(adj) far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree
Example Sentence
  • a night of exceeding darkness
  • an exceptional memory
  • olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy
  • the young Mozart's prodigious talents
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for prodigious

The root PRO- means 'in favor of'.The root DIGI- (e.g., digit) refers to numbers or quantity. So, PRODIGIOUS refers to a favorable (or great) number.

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pro+Dj=> professional DJ is extra ordinary

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Pro+Digious= Professional Diggaj

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prod refers to production and gious sounds as genious so someone genious in production we say him as marvelous, great.

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Asadharan

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prodigy is very talent person, so prodigious means talented person who is GREAT IN SIZE

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Think PROfessional/DIGger=HUGE amount. A PRO DIGGER--with his fancy digging uniform and silver shovel--digs such HUGE quantities of dirt that he's able to completely fill in the ocean.

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Like Prodigy - Huge or just gifted.

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we fight about prodigious dirty dishes

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if we dig something we can get amazing, awesome diamonds, jewellery.

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prodigy

Short Definition : highly gifted child; person with exceptional talents; marvel; wonder

Definition
(noun) an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration
Example Sentence
  • she is a chess prodigy
Definition
(noun) a sign of something about to happen
Example Sentence
  • he looked for an omen before going into battle
Definition
(noun) an impressive or wonderful example of a particular quality
Example Sentence
  • the Marines are expected to perform prodigies of valor
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for prodigy

Person with exceptional talents is proud ji(prodigy)

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A person with gifted talent is always PRO \m/.

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profane

Short Definition : violate; desecrate (something holy); treat unworthily; be profane for; ADJ: secular; nonreligious; irreverent for holy things

Definition
(verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality
Example Sentence
  • debauch the young people with wine and women
  • Socrates was accused of corrupting young men
  • Do school counselors subvert young children?
  • corrupt the morals
Definition
(verb) violate the sacred character of a place or language
Example Sentence
  • desecrate a cemetery
  • violate the sanctity of the church
  • profane the name of God
Definition
(adj) characterized by profanity or cursing
Synonyms : blasphemous blue
Example Sentence
  • foul-mouthed and blasphemous
  • blue language
  • profane words
Definition
(adj) not concerned with or devoted to religion
Synonyms : secular
Example Sentence
  • sacred and profane music
  • secular drama
  • secular architecture
  • children being brought up in an entirely profane environment
Definition
(adj) not holy because unconsecrated or impure or defiled Definition
(adj) grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred
Example Sentence
  • blasphemous rites of a witches' Sabbath
  • profane utterances against the Church
  • it is sacrilegious to enter with shoes on
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for profane

PROPANE - propane being unextinguishable is not allowed in mosques/temples etc.

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when a person is a fan" of porn" films then he is voliated from the good ppl'z gang

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threw propane gas on the idol to desecrate it.

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profane=peevish+rogue+fan,if some one is a fan of rogue,it means u will not respect the sacred things

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profligate

Short Definition : wasteful (of money); dissipated; wildly immoral; dissolute; N: profligate person; N. profligacy

Definition
(noun) a dissolute man in fashionable society
Synonyms : blood rake rakehell rip roue
Definition
(noun) a recklessly extravagant consumer
Synonyms : prodigal squanderer
Definition
(adj) recklessly wasteful
Example Sentence
  • prodigal in their expenditures
Definition
(adj) unrestrained by convention or morality
Example Sentence
  • Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
  • deplorably dissipated and degraded
  • riotous living
  • fast women
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for profligate

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Profligate= spend Profusely like bill Gates

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split it like prof(professor)+li(lee)+g+ate(past f. of eat).. your Professor whose son Lee spent all of his father's money .. eating at all five stars hotels...what a wasteful use of your Professor's money....

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PROperty FLy through GATE - because you spend like crazy

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profli(profli)+gate...so think f candidate whose profile reveals about his hand in some immoral activities..such a candidate is even not allowed to even enter to the GATE OF some colleges and organizations....

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PROFLIGATE: DIVIDE IT INTO 3 PARTS, PROF+LEE+GATE. think that PROFessor had thrown LEE out of GATE bcoz he was extravagant.

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Pro fil(fli) gate .. The proletarians filed the gate of their boss with sweets just before the appraisal day .. Wasteful and def wildly immoral

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this word is taken from phlibein means to squeeze ..so think of a prodigal..or profligate son..who has squeezed his fathers pocket in doing all wasteful activities

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Because of his immoral behavior his PROFITS were all LITIGATED

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Due to the Profligate use of assets by PROFessionals IGATE company got dissolved.

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<B>Flagrantly Prodigal</B>.

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who earns PROFit at good rATE spends a LOT

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(also means corrupt): he is PRO FLoggIng people at the GATE of the city

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Profligate = His job PROFile in resume is so wasteful and lack of planning, that the manager thrown it out of the gate.

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spell lyk pro(professional)+fli(FLY)+gate(Jet)...--->there r so many low cost airlines still professional travel through JET airways and "WASTE their MONEY"....

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fli + gate... fly through gate. implies wasteful thing.. and we throw wasteful things

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"prof" -professor "fli" -flew or spent "gate" -all his money building college gate...

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all high-profiled ppl are mostly spendthrifts.

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pROFLigate: When you tell Professor Flagrant that he is being wasteful and should be ashamed, he just ROFLS (rolls on the floor laughing)!!!

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PROFuse and LIberal spending w/o GATE (thoughts or constraint). Profuse = extravagance.

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pro+fly+gate....why to fly over the college gate on some plane, when we can walk and go through without wasting money...

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pro+fli+gate, imagine a fly (fli) crosses the gate of ur house to buy a choclate which is a waste expenditure for it... this seems to be a stupid mnemonic but give it a try... u will remember it for sure :))

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pro+fly+gate = pro things fly over the gate therefore lessen or worsen things are there.

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profound

Short Definition : deep; not superficial; complete; Ex. profound thinker/remark/silence/deafness; N. profundity

Definition
(adj) showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth
Example Sentence
  • the differences are profound
  • a profound insight
  • a profound book
  • a profound mind
  • profound contempt
  • profound regret
Definition
(adj) of the greatest intensity; complete
Example Sentence
  • a profound silence
  • a state of profound shock
Definition
(adj) far-reaching and thoroughgoing in effect especially on the nature of something
Synonyms : fundamental
Example Sentence
  • the fundamental revolution in human values that has occurred
  • the book underwent fundamental changes
  • committed the fundamental error of confusing spending with extravagance
  • profound social changes
Definition
(adj) coming from deep within one
Example Sentence
  • a profound sigh
Definition
(adj) (of sleep) deep and complete
Synonyms : heavy sound wakeless
Example Sentence
  • a heavy sleep
  • fell into a profound sleep
  • a sound sleeper
  • deep wakeless sleep
Definition
(adj) situated at or extending to great depth; too deep to have been sounded or plumbed
Example Sentence
  • the profound depths of the sea
  • the dark unfathomed caves of ocean
  • unplumbed depths of the sea
  • remote and unsounded caverns
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for profound

whatever professional or researchers found(read find) has to be deep.

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PROFessors u FOUND will have profound(deep) knowledge

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profound seems like purana funda and purana funde have depth meaning

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Profound= Pehle found. Isliye usmein jyada interest hai

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pro(past/previous) + found .. if we need to find something from past we have to do deep study about that.

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profusion

Short Definition : great amount; plenty; overabundance; excess; lavish expenditure; Ex. profusion of choices; ADJ. profuse: plentiful; copious; giving or given abundantly; extravagant

Definition
(noun) the property of being extremely abundant
Example Sentence
  • the profusion of detail
  • the idiomatic richness of English
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for profusion

WHERE THERE IS FUSION (EXPLOSION, ABUNDANCE, MUCH) OF MONEY

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Nuclear fusion release abundant amount of energy...so profusion is something extremely abundant

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progenitor

Short Definition : ancestor

Definition
(noun) an ancestor in the direct line
Synonyms : primogenitor
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for progenitor

Pro + Genesis

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Pro + Genes >> the genes before us.. our ancestors..

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Progeny is children. Progenitor is the ancestor.

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progeny producer...progeny=children

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progeny

Short Definition : children; offspring; descendants

Definition
(noun) the immediate descendants of a person
Synonyms : issue offspring
Example Sentence
  • she was the mother of many offspring
  • he died without issue
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for progeny

Progeny = Provide Gene i.e ur offsprings.

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pro(forth)+ genes >> offspring which has next level genes of his father/mother

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progenitor son...progeny

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prognosis

Short Definition : forecasted course of a disease; prediction; CF. prognostic

Definition
(noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop
Synonyms : forecast
Definition
(noun) a prediction of the course of a disease
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for prognosis

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prognosis = pro+diagnosis, pro= think forward, diagnosis = cause of disease, it means to predict the features of a disease before the disease itself.

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PROGNO(PREGNANT)SIS(SISTER)-> how can we PREDICT that..by seeing her vomiting or stomach :)

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prognosticate

Short Definition : predict (according to present indications)

Definition
(verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance
Example Sentence
  • Call the outcome of an election
Definition
(verb) indicate by signs
Example Sentence
  • These signs bode bad news
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for prognosticate

PROgKNOWsticate. a PRO KNOWS enough to make a prediction

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It sounds like prog(program)+nosticate(no ticket)-we can predict that there are no more tickets left for the program

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Root Word:prognosticus Means See

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It can be thought of as prognosis which means to predict..

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Pro - diagnosticate , predict features of disease b4 disease itself.

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Resembles to Diagnostic so foretell

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