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queasy

Short Definition : experiencing nausea; nauseated; easily nauseated; squeamish; Ex. feel a little queasy

Definition
(adj) causing or able to cause nausea
Example Sentence
  • a nauseating smell
  • nauseous offal
  • a sickening stench
Definition
(adj) feeling nausea; feeling about to vomit Definition
(adj) causing or fraught with or showing anxiety
Example Sentence
  • spent an anxious night waiting for the test results
  • cast anxious glances behind her
  • those nervous moments before takeoff
  • an unquiet mind
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for queasy

Prefix "ku" in Sanskrit converts a word into opposite. ku + easy = uneasy. i.e., feeling uneasy.

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sounds like squeezy.that means u feel suffocated.

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standing in a long QUEUE is not EASY and it makes us UNEASY

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queasy can be pronounced as quiz+y...if teacher takes a surprise quiz you are going to feel nauseated, uneasy, anxious

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Standing for long in a QUEUE EASYly makes me uneasy.

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sounds like squeeze...when my friend squeezed me I got a feeling of nausea because I just had food....

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qu(quite)+easy..so sth which is nt quite easy for you to gulp it down, but still if u do it..u experiance nausea..

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remember the word <<dizzy>>which comes usually with the queasy thing :)

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queer

Short Definition : strange; eccentric; deviating from the normal

Definition
(noun) offensive term for an openly homosexual man Definition
(verb) hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of
Example Sentence
  • What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge
  • foil your opponent
Definition
(verb) put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position Definition
(adj) beyond or deviating from the usual or expected
Example Sentence
  • a curious hybrid accent
  • her speech has a funny twang
  • they have some funny ideas about war
  • had an odd name
  • the peculiar aromatic odor of cloves
  • something definitely queer about this town
  • what a rum fellow
  • singular behavior
Definition
(adj) homosexual or arousing homosexual desires
Synonyms : gay homophile
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for queer

queer:queen-beer, a queen with a beer is strange.

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queer is similar to weird which also means STRANGE.

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To stand in a QUEUE for bEER is utterly strange.

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Queer and beer rhyme..after having a lot of beer queer person(eccentric person meaning 1) started feeling queer(faint/giddy meaning 2)

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remember queen band whose music is eccentric from all others but good...

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quell

Short Definition : suppress; put an end to; put down forcibly; extinguish; quiet; Ex. ``Army Quells Rebellion'' in newspaper; CF. kill

Definition
(verb) suppress or crush completely
Synonyms : quench squelch
Example Sentence
  • squelch any sign of dissent
  • quench a rebellion
Definition
(verb) overcome or allay
Synonyms : appease stay
Example Sentence
  • quell my hunger
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for quell

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quell sounds simlar to yell and we yell to supress someone or make him/her queite

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quell rhymes hell where ur supressed Quell= cool down the hell(fire)

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quell comes from "cwellan" which means to kill. quell also rhymes with kill, to an extent.

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QUEUE+WELL.i was forcing people to jump into a well to suppress the population

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quell rhymes with HELL were your pleasures will be SUPPRESSED

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quell taken from qualen means to vex, this word also rhyme like kill.means when u crash something you are killing something...whatever it may be...so quell means.....to supress or crash completely

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quell sounds with quail, which we have learned before, quail means fear, so quail makes you quelled.

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quell sounds with quail, which we have learned before, quail means fear, so quail makes you quelled.

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fell on one another like a well and suppress and crush below one

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Quell means Do well.

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QUELL=WELL:water extinguisher and used to put down fire

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He quelled his life by a duel.

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quench

Short Definition : assuage or satisfy (thrust); slake; douse or extinguish; put out; suppress

Definition
(verb) satisfy (thirst)
Synonyms : allay assuage slake
Example Sentence
  • The cold water quenched his thirst
Definition
(verb) put out, as of fires, flames, or lights
Example Sentence
  • Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained
  • quench the flames
  • snuff out the candles
Definition
(verb) electronics: suppress (sparking) when the current is cut off in an inductive circuit, or suppress (an oscillation or discharge) in a component or device Definition
(verb) suppress or crush completely
Synonyms : quell squelch
Example Sentence
  • squelch any sign of dissent
  • quench a rebellion
Definition
(verb) reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance Definition
(verb) cool (hot metal) by plunging into cold water or other liquid
Example Sentence
  • quench steel
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for quench

rhymes with drench (which also means the same).

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quench == quen(queen)+ ch(cha), so u urged your queen(gf or wife)to get you a cup of cha(tea or drinks).

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its satisfying that the QUE moved few iNCH

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lunch satisfy and suppress your hunger.

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querulous

Short Definition : given to complaining; complaining; fretful; whining

Definition
(adj) habitually complaining
Synonyms : fretful whiney whiny
Example Sentence
  • a whiny child
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for querulous

One who keeps questioning (querying) everything.

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QUERULOUS=QUARREL-ous

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querulous : quarrelsome louse.

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Relate to GARRULOUS

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querulous - querying all the rules and complaining always that is lousy

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querulous="kopam" mas=getting kopam...hehe

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QUERULOUS just sounds like CURIOUS, who questions all the time

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query

Short Definition : inquiry; question; V.

Definition
(noun) an instance of questioning
Example Sentence
  • there was a question about my training
  • we made inquiries of all those who were present
Definition
(verb) pose a question
Synonyms : question
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for query

query is to enquiry

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queue

Short Definition : line (of waiting people or vehicles)

Definition
(noun) a line of people or vehicles waiting for something
Synonyms : waiting line
Definition
(noun) (information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted Definition
(noun) a braid of hair at the back of the head Definition
(verb) form a queue, form a line, stand in line
Synonyms : line up queue up
Example Sentence
  • Customers lined up in front of the store
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for queue

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Queue

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quibble

Short Definition : minor objection or complaint; V: raise minor objections; carp; cavil

Definition
(noun) an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections
Synonyms : cavil quiddity
Definition
(verb) evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections Definition
(verb) argue over petty things
Example Sentence
  • Let's not quibble over pennies
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for quibble

mnemonic in hindi.. read it as qui(kyun)+bble(bill)..KYUN BILL ITNA ZYADA HAI?, you OBJECT to reading of meter & COMPLAIN to the authorities..

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Query + babble (minor objection/murmuring).

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Remember, the magazine by Luna LoveGod's father - "The quibbler", it was called so because it carried petty criticism of people.

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QUIBble->quib->rhymes with crib(cribbing) means complain, raise petty objections

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pebble...small piece of rock..

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Quibble is to Squabble..

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relate it to foible

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dribble-sound-objection/complaint

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quicksilver

Short Definition : mercury

Definition
(noun) a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures Definition
(adj) liable to sudden unpredictable change
Synonyms : erratic fickle mercurial
Example Sentence
  • erratic behavior
  • fickle weather
  • mercurial twists of temperament
  • a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for quicksilver

quicksilver, is a mercury which is very volatile

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mercury will be in silver color and reacts quickly with others.

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Beats of DJ Quicksilver change quickly. - erratic

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quiescent

Short Definition : dormant; temporarily inactive; at rest; N. quiescence

Definition
(adj) not active or activated
Example Sentence
  • the quiescent level of centimeter wave-length solar radiation
Definition
(adj) marked by a state of tranquil repose
Example Sentence
  • the quiescent melancholy of the town
Definition
(adj) being quiet or still or inactive Definition
(adj) (pathology) causing no symptoms
Example Sentence
  • a quiescent tumor
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for quiescent

quiescent => quies ~ quiet = motionless

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quies(QUITE)+scent(in hindi shant means quite)..so someone who is quite or shant for a period of time.

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quiz + cent, teacher asks students who will get cent(100) in the quiz...everyone reamains silent for sometime

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quiescent=quiet+descent..........lady1:->"What a QUIEt and deSCENT son u have..."...lady2:->"please dont go on his TEMPORARY INACTIVENESS...come to our house some day and u shall realise that he is an active volcano..!!!".......:D

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queue scent for buying a scent a stand in a queue and bcom quiescent

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It sounds like QUICKSAND, which looks harmless but deadly . A dormant threat .

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quie(quiet)+scent=scent or scence means 'growing' as in aduloscent.so quiescent means GROWING QUITER

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Diesel Accent was quiet and quiescent

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quiet+sometime....quiet for sometime..dormant

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qui- quality, e-scent- perfume(in hindi), so, a quality scent stands still on our clothes for hours, hence motionless..

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