TENUOUS can be split as TEN+US,so TEN of us goin to USa together,the chances are very SLIM and it'll be a RARITY
Tenuous comes from Attenuate. Attenuate means to make thin.
tenous...this word it extracted from Latin tenuis means...thin, slight...
split it "Ten+of+us". It is a rare possiblity that ten of us will accomodate in car
this word is delibrately mispronounced some times as tenyeas....tenyears....so your ten years daughter is very thin.........and slim.....
tenuous can be related to tension..in tension a person is weak....
Read TENUOUS as 'TEN of U vs twO of US', so when ur only two against ten, u become "WEAK AND INSUBSTANTIAL"( Insubstantial : lacking strength and solidity ).
tenuous sounds like "Thin" and fragile
Tenuous and Bulbous are rhyming words with different meanings. Tenuous is something slim or thin while Bulbous is something fat and round .
me playin TENNIS is a tenuous idea
TEN+US....the plane we hired to go to gre could manage only 10 people because the plane was TENUOUS
though ten of us are thin ,its very rare to fit in the car
TEN of US can only cook a TENUOUS dish... for too many cooks spoil the dish..
tenuous = tenis. tenis players(female) are thin and generally lack substance - they are more hype.
ten u or us:so doubtful,uncertain;
tender: easily broken so must be thin
tenuous-sounds like strenuous. under strain we become fragile and thin
Tenuous sound like tender, and tender meat is soft/flimsy
tepid sounds like torpid which is sluggish ie, inactive
te(tea) and pid(dip):ypu can dip ur hand into tea only when it is lukewarm
tepid..sounds like rapid....when u have half hearted approach for sth u do things rapidly..means u want to just finish ur work u have no interst in doing it...
~tea+Pee'd:: you can have hint from either TEA or PEE, in either case it's luke warm
Tepid can be thought of as "Tap" which gives lukewarm water..
terse...sounds like TERESA..Here all her achievements,efforts everything has been consolidated, confined and put into a single word "MOTHER"..So TERSE means brief,concise
TERSE rhymes with VERSE.jus a verse is always CONCISE and PITHY
write mother teresa as terse....so u r riting concise and brief!
TEARse....when you tear your cloth it becomes brief,concise...
Terse is when you Converse in a curt or concise manner.
<B>Time</B> spent in a <B>hearse</B> is brief by comparison.
read it as T-erase.... we erase unnecessary lines to make it short and concise
pronouncing thespian gives u a feeling of the
(e)spn which is a sports channel..it never shows drama so thespian is opposite of espn which shows drama
do you remember thespis.....the first person in universe who appeared as an actor on the stage in a play....so thespian..means .pertaning to drama or play.
Thespian - rearrange the words into - The as THEATRE and Spian as Person. Therefore a Thespian is a Theatre Person, an actor.
THE + SPAIN..The movie Zindagi na milegi dobara was shot in SPAIN. Thus relate this movie with drama..
thrall=thrill( a person is in slavery under a witch and doing thrill work
Thrall and Enthrall have similar sounds and a somewhat similar meaning as both words refer to a kind of captivity. While thrall means to be held by power or forcefully, enthrall means to be spellbound (beholden by someone's charm)
Observe that 'threadbar' as 'read' + 'bar' [In hindi, it is bar, bar i.e repetitive]. So when you read same thing repetitively, you get 'over familiar' and it becomes 'common/trite' for you.
throes
Definition (noun) violent pangs of suffering
Example Sentence
death throes
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for throes
THROE is pronounced like throw ..so you throw things at someone when you become violent in PAIN/ANGUISH.
this word sounds like throwes...so if a person in voilent anguish..he throwes up everything whatever comes in front of him...
Throes and Woes both refer to pain. While throes means pangs of pain, woes refer to deep pain caused by great sorrow (it generally causes a heart ache).
throes rhymes with toes... beating with toes gives someone "violent suffering"...
throes somewhat sounds like throat, so when you have a sore throat, you have a throe.
When your GIRL FRIEND THROES(throw) you out of her life it is really PAINFUL to your heart....
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