Definition (noun) act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for abstinence
ABS THIN ence. A person maintained abstinence when he restrained from pleasant things like food and drinks!!!
abstinence (sounds like absent) : like being absent from enjoying pleasant things
ab+stinence..(looks like STRINGENC(y)....MEANS sticking to the rules)...so your doctor has asked you to stick to the rule of eating only bread ,if you want to reduce your belly.
the professor's lectures were so abstruse that students tended to avoid them
a deep metaphysical theory
some recondite problem in historiography
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for abstruse
abstruse rhyme with CONFUSE,there is confusion when things are not clear
AB stress nahi doge or brain USE(last 2 alphabets) nahi karoge then you wont be able to understand anything.Difficult to understand.
It contains "ab....use". ab generally stands for negative sense and so 'ab+ use' can be taken as difficult to use. A word will be difficult to use if it is difficult to understand.
Ab-abishek, truce-(T)om c(RUCE) "" for abishek it is DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND Tom cruse behavior""
You might have seen "Aladdin"..in dat there was a negative character named as "Abysmaal"...i.e. "extremely bad" man...
a- this, bys-bees(20), mal-mal(in hindi we call some substance as mal) "" salesman saying to women ' madam a bees ka mal hen isme bottom nahi ayega only top ayega(bottomless)""
if use rearrange the word abysmal u get "smalbays" which sounds lik "small base" which is approximately equal to no base ie bottom less..
abyss-bottomless...abyssmal
A-Base
Imagine some1 telling alphabetically ab-y is small infact its a vrey huge gap inturn dis pertains to d depth in d meaning
ab (negative sense, not) + y small. something which is not small, so big and hence limitless or bottomless.
topics should be understood from basic otherwise its abysmal
accolade
Definition (noun) a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction
Definition (noun) something contributing to growth or increase
Example Sentence
he scraped away the accretions of paint
the central city surrounded by recent accretions
Definition (noun) (astronomy) the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases
Definition (noun) (biology) growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles
Definition (noun) (geology) an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment
Definition (noun) (law) an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance)
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for accretion
Accretion
sounds like
Errection,,, so u r dik grows in size during an errection
ACCRETION sounds like secretion which gives an idea of growth in size.
accretion ~ add + creation , this
addition to creation leads to growth
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