TURPITUDE and RECTITUDE are rhyming words with opposite meanings. Turpitude refers to wickedness while Rectitude refers to correctness of behaviour, upright and honest.
turpitude...concentrate on "turp", now replace 't' with 's'..it becomes surp..which means snake in hindi..what can you expect from a snake..turpitude, or depraved act
The first word that comes with my association with TURPITUDE is TORPEDO..torpedo is similar as it is destructive too
unbridle - u can quickly remember bridal or bride and so you think about marriage and barat (where the relatives dance) ... every body was drunk and hence the situation became voilent and uncontrollable..
UN(not)+BRIDEled(bride means girl on her marriage day)...people who don't have brides are uncontrolled....
Some say that even a uncontrollable and violent person will turn to be good once he gets married with bride
unbridled ===> like a bride. In hindu wedding, the bride at the end suddenly gets a VIOLENT fit n starts crying.
think of bride and marriage. when ur marital relation gets 'violent' then you un-bride i.e u divorce
un-bridled un-pride without manner, without control.
Unbridled and kindled. His unbridled rage was further kindled by his sister.
bridle means torestrain or curb.so, unbridled means not restrained or violent
uncouth
Definition (adj) lacking refinement or cultivation or taste
COUTH sounds like COURT so a court always supports ethic. So a person is said UNCOUTH if he does UNETHICAL things something like SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE THINGS
unctuous -> functuous -> party like ... in parties girls do a lot of oily makeup and try to appear and behave sauve but in my opinion they look and behave in a bland way.
UN CUTE
(UNCLE CHIPS r UNCTUOUS)
untukodam...sticky, oily...!!!
My UNCLE is unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech TO US.
Unctous and sanctimonous are similar in sound and they mean, hypocritical, insincere.
Word Root:Unctuosus means greasy
un+ctu+ous= un sit ous -> undress made sit ous for oil massage and flatter the angry customer.
his unctuous behaviour makes me anxious
unkempt
Definition (adj) not neatly combed
Example Sentence
wild unkempt hair
Definition (adj) not properly maintained or cared for
Example Sentence
an unkempt garden
native vistas and unkempt rambling paths
an ukempt appearance
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for unkempt
Drop the 'm' from unkempt. It becomes 'UNKEPT'...UN+KEPT, something not kept properly or maintained like hair. or someone who is dowdy, untamed.
remember JUSTIN KEMP South Afrcian cricket player...whose hair r always untidy......
remember kemp fort in bangalore. it was very well maintained. now a mall is being built at that place and they have unkempt it.
un tempt girl, uncared for her appearance & not combed.
braid means hairdo(hairstyle). upbraid means destroy hairdo. In hindi baal khinchna. If teacher rebukes or scolds you, he/she pulls your hair.
It has the word raid in it , it implies when sm1 raids your house and finds black money , u will be scolded very badly
up + bra : girls dont do it here or ..
ladki ki choti kheechna is extremely reprimanded
upBRAID. Relate BRAID with BRIDE. When you catch up a bride who's eloped, you scold her severly and reprimand her.
Upbraid and Deprecate have somewhat similar meanings. The words mean, express disapproval of, reprimand.
A BRAID(plait) is a pattern formed by intertwining three or more strands of flexible material such as textile fibres, wire, or human hair so u r asking a girl to lift her braid (upbraid)tie up over n ask her to walk mean(criticize
give up bribe above the bike openly so policeman severely scolded him
UPper class people often faces RAIDS....
Up(coming) + raid ; If someone comes to raid ur house, you will first try to scold or Critize him, to woo him off..
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