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stipulate

Definition
(verb) specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or agreement; make an express demand or provision in an agreement
Example Sentence
  • The will stipulates that she can live in the house for the rest of her life
  • The contract stipulates the dates of the payments
Definition
(verb) give a guarantee or promise of
Example Sentence
  • They stipulated to release all the prisoners
Definition
(verb) make an oral contract or agreement in the verbal form of question and answer that is necessary to give it legal force
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for stipulate

staple+it-- Staple the documents, so that it GUARANTEES that they stay together permanently!

stipules are plant parts present at the base of leaf. additional leaves present along with leaves. similarly STIPULATE is an condition (AGREEMENT) present in the MAIN AGREEMENT. stipulate = agreement in an agreement

stipulate=steep+late imagine that you are going for a meeting where you are going to do some verbal agreement with the party but because of steep slope of the route you couldn't reach in time(reached late) at the desired place..

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we sometimes need to complete work in stipulated time. It means " specified" time.

Stipulate-(STIP-U-LATE) suppose a man named STIP had made verbal agreement to meet you but he comes late then you say him(STIP-U-LATE)

i will only stip [strip] you late if we have both expressed our conditions clearly. [yay for consent!]

stipul"stating"

stodgy

Definition
(adj) heavy and starchy and hard to digest
Example Sentence
  • stodgy food
  • a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was already full
Definition
(adj) (used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned
Example Sentence
  • moss-grown ideas about family life
Definition
(adj) excessively conventional and unimaginative and hence dull
Synonyms : stuffy
Example Sentence
  • why is the middle class so stodgy, so utterly without a sense of humor?
  • a stodgy dinner party
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for stodgy

stodgy-a old fashoined doggy

imagine stodgy as your doggy which is very "stuffy" which is very "dull"

STEADY+PORGY(girl)....a girl who is steady is stodgy........

doggy..whenever dogs see new person they bark...they are conservative *edited from here* and wat the hell was conservative useful for?

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STOdGY STOP it JI(gy) its boring!

stand up jokes on orgy are just too heavy to understanad

stodgy >> state of old age/oddy (odd)

Sticky, slimey... giving a dull and old feel

stodgy=study as in the old ages (conventional, boring)

stoic

Definition
(noun) a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno
Example Sentence
  • a Stoic achieves happiness by submission to destiny
Definition
(noun) someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions
Synonyms : unemotional person
Definition
(adj) seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
Synonyms : stoical
Example Sentence
  • stoic courage
  • stoic patience
  • a stoical sufferer
Definition
(adj) pertaining to Stoicism or its followers
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for stoic

Think: "Stone-like"--> To be like a stone means you don't experience pleasure or pain. You are unaffected.

STOIC sounds similar to TOY (if that 'c' is removed)...a toy is impassive and unmoved by joy or grief

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STOIC = STO (ie stony) + IC (ie icy) meaning thereby stony n icy...unaffected n emotionless

sTOIc,,,,,,, TOI stands for Times of Inda, the newspaper,,, and their articles are indifferent to emotion and bias

stoic:s+toy: at the age of playing with toys, child shows no emotions.

a child was very happy as his new toy would be coming. but seeing that the toy is made up of stone he turned stoic

stoic

stoic

story becomes stoic after being dry i.e. unemotional.

stoke

Definition
(verb) stir up or tend; of a fire
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for stoke

<br>Sounds like "stove" which is a furnace.

Remember the word stoke as strike.. We start a fire by striking the match stick..

stoke rhymes with poke, so you are poking the fire, similar to stoking the fire.

poke+stove ..so, when you poke a stove, it'll stir up a fire and will be fed plentifully with fire

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ST-OKE sounds like stir+smoke so stoke is stirring up a fire which brings about smoke

stolid

Definition
(adj) having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
Synonyms : impassive
Example Sentence
  • her impassive remoteness
  • he remained impassive, showing neither interest in nor concern for our plight
  • a silent stolid creature who took it all as a matter of course
  • her face showed nothing but stolid indifference
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for stolid

stone like It becomes 'T' SOLID. So someone very SOLID against 'T'(ears) or emo'T'ions.

STOL(sounds like stool)..and a stool is a nonliving thing without any emotion,simillarly a STOLID is like stool without any emotion,always dull and boring.

when you are stolid your face is solid

Remember stolid as solid. As we all know that molecules in solid are not moving randomly as in liquid or gas. So they are dull. So stolid means solid and dull.

stone --> no feeling

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stoic ( stubborn & emotionless ) persons are stolid.....

Stand or stone + Solid.

stolid - a lid on show or making a show of emotions

when u r sad ur face is solid.. UNEMOTIONAL...

stratagem

Definition
(noun) a maneuver in a game or conversation
Synonyms : gambit ploy
Definition
(noun) an elaborate or deceitful scheme contrived to deceive or evade
Synonyms : contrivance dodge
Example Sentence
  • his testimony was just a contrivance to throw us off the track
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strategy to deceive some one

STRATEGY+GEM(costly stone like diamond)....in order to steal gems, thieves had strategy for gems i.e stratagem....

strategy by a GEM..!!

stratge-m , the deceitful strategy of m

Their STRATEgy of sneaking up on the enemy was a total GEM.

strew

Definition
(verb) spread by scattering (
Synonyms : straw
Example Sentence
  • straw
  • strew toys all over the carpet
Definition
(verb) cover; be dispersed over
Example Sentence
  • Dead bodies strewed the ground
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for strew

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strew =screw

strew sounds like straw.....sugarcane straw were spreaded in the field

s+trew..tree..tree scatter its seed which are further spreaded to whole area by wind....flowers are spreaded on the field becoz someone has scattered them all over ....

strew=straw..if you sprinkle water with the straw it wil SPREAD RANDOMLY

straw : with a straw u sprinkled ur spit all over his face

strew - that which is strayed is strew

desperate

stricture

Definition
(noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway
Synonyms : stenosis
Definition
(noun) severe criticism
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for stricture

STRICTURE rhymes with strict sir...so a sir who is always strict CRITICEZES SEVERELY. And also constricts (limits)

Since structure of the building was somewhat confined the people critised the builder severly

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When a girl has a good STRUCTURE.. every boy will CRITICIZE(Stricture) her(in a good way though).

Rhymes with scripture - something that never faces stricture.

strident

Definition
(adj) conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry
Example Sentence
  • blatant radios
  • a clamorous uproar
  • strident demands
  • a vociferous mob
Definition
(adj) of speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as `f', `s', `z', or `th' in both `thin' and `then') Definition
(adj) being sharply insistent on being heard
Synonyms : shrill
Example Sentence
  • strident demands
  • shrill criticism
Definition
(adj) unpleasantly loud and harsh
Synonyms : raucous
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for strident

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Think of "stree"(wife) + "dant"(tooth). A girl's mouth is always loud and harsh - craving for supremacy or attention :)

s+TRIDENT= the OBEROI 'n TRIDENT hotel waz occupied by terrorists...'n dey wer loud n harsh der on ppl...hostages

Very close to 'Student', just ri=u. Anyway primary students are always loud and harsh.

STrident: STri (Street) DENT (TEETH). STreet Teeth connotes Street talking which is usually noisy or loud. Thus STRIDENT (Street Talk)

STRINGENT .means strict...strict teachers are always loud and harsh and so they are strident

S-TRIDENT. Think of Poseidon with his trident, with loud and harsh waves striking against rocks nearby.

strike+dent---loud noise will be produced

TRI + DAANT = apne teen daanton ko ek doosre k against rub karo aur dekho kaissee awaaz aati hai :)

stringent

Definition
(adj) demanding strict attention to rules and procedures
Synonyms : rigorous tight
Example Sentence
  • rigorous discipline
  • tight security
  • stringent safety measures
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for stringent

STRI(Lady) N GENT are binded together- both have to follow some rules when they are together

STRINGENT <> STRIct + GENTleman

astringent causes contraction stringent is opp which is rigid

Definition: Harshly restrictive. Imagine you and your friend are robbing a gentleman with a bowler hat, monocle, and handle bar mustache. You say to your accomplice, "Take that STRING and tie-up the GENT. A STRING GENT

stringent-stringent seems itself like the strict

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stringent-stringent seems itself like the strict

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