Tempestuous and Tumultuous have similar sounds and they both refer to turbulence or disorder.
tempestuous can be related to tempting, if something is very tempting to us, we become violent and agitated to get it...
guys this one is simple.
tempestuous and impetuous mean the same. when a pet(dog) irritates u become impetuous or tempestuous. meaning violent and rash
focus on TEMP ..so not even (temp)orarily at rest...very stormy.originally posted by dancing shiv
temp(temporarily)+est(sounds like rest)……now think of rakhi savant(a dancer)..when mika (her friend and singer)..kissed her..she turned violent,she got bad tempered and villified him in media,and she does it almost every month,in short she never tak
n short she never takes rest and always makes the news.
we all know about the play "TEMPEST"
Tempest is a violent wind or storm.... So tempestuous is violent anger
sounds like "time pass" + ous.. If we do time pass during exams then our parents are sure to get violet, stormy on us..
Using the similarity to "Asian" again, you can use the stereotype that Asians are good at school... thus good at remembering/ retentive. You can even stretch it to the "stubbornly persistent" def."
REtenacious... one who retains things..
A man named ROCKY was sent to jail for throwing acid at his wife. He came out of jail several years later and you know the first thing he did? He threw the acid again. This thing repeated 10 times. Finally he was called tenacious
TENANT-DOESNT LET GO OFF a flat he gets , very easily..
TENANTs are TENAcious
even if there are ten meanings, a tenacious person will remember all
Tenacious reminds of Tentacles of Davy Jones in the movie Pirates of Caribbean, they stuck together and didn't yield by any possible means.
Humans have ten fingers to hold on to something persistently.
ten means push in greek
tenacious = ten + ac + io + us; We( us means we) indeed oblige(i for indeed & o for oblige) ten air conditioner for the hall anyhow otherwise you will not get your money.
tenacity : teen's consistant activity ie determination to continue what he/she 's doing.
tenacity : ten aina chestha - not giving up
in search of job i am PERSISTENTLY living in A CITY like mumbai for TEN years......still no job!!!WTF!!!......:D
Tenacity and Frailty are rhyming words with opposite meanings. While tenacity stands for firmness,strength, frailty refers to weakness or fragility (fragile).
Tenacity=Tenant+City means tenant in a city is not oersistant
tendentious
Definition (adj) having or marked by a strong tendency especially a controversial one
distinguishing between verifiable fact and tendentious assertion
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for tendentious
Rearrange the words to make - Tend or Tendency + ious or bias. So, TENDENTIOUS is a TENDENcy towards one viewpoint over another.
tendentious:(tendency+Us~United states):the tendency of US is to support/tend towrds the controversial country, thats why it supports pakistan to crub india through financial and military/weapon aids.so supporting a controversial
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!
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