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mottled

Definition
(adj) having spots or patches of color
Synonyms : dappled
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mottled

MOTE( a speck/spot) + LED = SPOTT + ED

sometimes BOTTLED water has "patches of color"

mottled=bottled.....all the colours have been bottled in this bottle...u have to just make a hole in its bottle cap and spray it on the wall.....THATS SPRAY PAINTING......:D

sounds like molded with different patches of molds

motted sound like spotted

Motte in kannada means Egg. Egg os sparrow has many black patches on it.

Motte mean EGG in kannada. Egg of sparro has many black patches on it.

mote + LED >>> when we see LED's in a lighting over a house, it looks as if the house has colored spots of the color of LED's..

mountebank

Definition
(noun) a flamboyant deceiver; one who attracts customers with tricks or jokes
Synonyms : charlatan
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mountebank

mountebank can be broken as mouth+bank=person whose mouth is a bank of words....who is extremely boastful and pretentious...

"I have a bank built over on a mountain" "what a mountebank"

when u read bank.. think of a bank robbery.. n to carry out a robbery need to disguise as a quack (charlatan)

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person who BOASTS that he has been to MOUNTains and BANKs of many rivers etc.

person who says he owns a bank on a distant mountain is obviously montebanking

U.S. BANKS swindled and deceived the world into buying worthless, mortgage-backed securities. Then they went to Capitol HILL (like MOUNTain) to get a $700 Billion bailout.

votebank politics means complete deception, as we see these days.. mountebank is similar

MOUNTEBANK-MOUNT+BANK PERSONS WHO DECEIVES SAYING THAT MOUNTAIN(MOUNT) IS FULL OF MONEY(BANK)

Mountebank was a quack doctor who used to mount a Bank (Bench in past) and sell his magical medicines.

mulct

Definition
(noun) money extracted as a penalty
Synonyms : amercement fine
Definition
(verb) deprive of by deceit
Example Sentence
  • He swindled me out of my inheritance
  • She defrauded the customers who trusted her
  • the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
Definition
(verb) impose a fine on
Example Sentence
  • he was fined for littering
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mulct

abe HULCT kisi aur ko ch*tiya banana :)

to mulct someone...semiliar to mug someone

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mal+ act >>> -ve act...

MU (mujhe)L (License ka)C (Chalaan)T (Thok Diya)

A mulct will be imposed for littering on the mulch.

"first I was mulct(ed), then i was mocked."

Got mulct? The bank?

mulct : maal-lekar-cut kar ( take the maal and cut their money )

mulct - MULC(society)ka Traitor

Mul (مال)+C(کسی)+T(تصرف)->MULCT=مال کسی را تصرف کردن

Malkit Singh mulct people of our mulk.

mundane

Definition
(adj) found in the ordinary course of events
Example Sentence
  • a placid everyday scene
  • it was a routine day
  • there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute
Definition
(adj) concerned with the world or worldly matters
Synonyms : terrestrial
Example Sentence
  • mundane affairs
  • he developed an immense terrestrial practicality
Definition
(adj) belonging to this earth or world; not ideal or heavenly
Synonyms : terrene
Example Sentence
  • not a fairy palace; yet a mundane wonder of unimagined kind
  • so terrene a being as himself
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mundane

monday, tuesday, wednesday....everyday

Mundane sounds like Monday. After an exciting weekend, Monday is just another mundane day.

mundane=(monday) sunday is intresting but monday is "unintresting and dull"

u can raed this as "Munda ka din (dane)" was ordinary or pretty boring........

MUNDAN in marathi or hindi means remove hairs from head and become bald...when someone dies, we go bald....and that day we LACK EXCITEMENT AND BECOME DULL....

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There is nothing quite as mundane as MONDAY morning.

The MONDAY morning window PANE- which represent the dull daily routine.

munificent

Definition
(adj) very generous
Example Sentence
  • distributed gifts with a lavish hand
  • the critics were lavish in their praise
  • a munificent gift
  • his father gave him a half-dollar and his mother a quarter and he thought them munificent
  • prodigal praise
  • unsparing generosity
  • his unstinted devotion
  • called for unstinting aid to Britain
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for munificent

by muni - you think of rishi - muni (sages), who are always generous in giving, will give you whatever you want....tathastu :-)

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money+sufficient-when a person has sufficient money he is generous

Remember Hindi Song "munni badnam hui.." she is badnam because she is very generous in exposing/giving.

Munificent gifts can lead to magnificent results! (also, connect MUNI to "money")

I'll give you the MOON IF I SCENT your perfume.

think of munni(friom dabbang).. she is sufFICiENT and is very generous.. she'll give what you want..

muster

Definition
(noun) a gathering of military personnel for duty
Example Sentence
  • he was thrown in the brig for missing muster
Definition
(noun) compulsory military service Definition
(verb) gather or bring together
Example Sentence
  • muster the courage to do something
  • she rallied her intellect
  • Summon all your courage
Definition
(verb) call to duty, military service, jury duty, etc.
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for muster

try rhyming it with "cluster" almost means the same..

muster : students assemble in class for "MASTER"

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Muster the seeds to get the mustard oil.

muster - every1 must come ie, gather through order forcefully

We must muster the courage to speak against the music master.

mutilate

Definition
(verb) destroy or injure severely
Synonyms : cut up mangle
Example Sentence
  • The madman mutilates art work
Definition
(verb) alter so as to make unrecognizable
Synonyms : mangle murder
Example Sentence
  • The tourists murdered the French language
Definition
(verb) destroy or injure severely
Synonyms : mar
Example Sentence
  • mutilated bodies
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mutilate

late aa vandhaa muttiliya adi vizhum - mutilate

mutiny is late now.. destroy something completely(to damage severely, especially by violently removing a part) or amputate

muti(ny)+late was attacked late nite was severely injured

mutilate - muti(URINE)+late .....will destroy kidney lol.

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LATE resembles death soo body is destroyed ..

Mutilate sounds like MOTI- लेट...so when a MOTI girl lie (लेट) on smthng..it destroys completely

He received injuries to the extent that made him mute. He may succummed to injuries and people may put late before his name e.g. late John

mutinous

Definition
(adj) disposed to or in a state of mutiny
Example Sentence
  • the men became mutinous and insubordinate
Definition
(adj) consisting of or characterized by or inciting to mutiny
Example Sentence
  • mutinous acts
  • mutinous thoughts
  • a mutinous speech
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for mutinous

We all remember "Sepoy Mutiny" of 1857.

try to extract mute + tiny from this word...so someone who is neither mute nor tiny... (in thoughts) can be rebellious. mutiny means open rebellion against constituted authority(especially by soldiers against their officers)

mute + ni= ab hum mutenirahengey= REBEL

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mutans of xmen movie are rebellious

mutinous Moti(fat)+No fat person can be more rebellious

nascent

Definition
(adj) being born or beginning
Example Sentence
  • the nascent chicks
  • a nascent insurgency
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for nascent

"new soul sent".....to earth

it has the word SCENT in it,SCENT daalo to smell comes into existence

this word is derived from the latin word nasci- which means being born

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nascent = new + existent

nai(new) scent....which comes new into existence

Nascent-NASC-NASA.Thus NASA came in existence in 2008 or so having problems in the beginning.

You may have read about "nascent oxygen" in Chemistry, which is highly unstable.

now(na) scan(scent) if you scan paper now its image will start to exist in computer (start to exist)

if u breathe NASCENT OXYGEN .. u wil rejuvenate (go young again)...!! :)

innocent

na +scent..in telugu na means mine and scent means smell or perfume..my perfume just now spread or beginned spreading in the office as soon as i entered

Ugh! That rank odor, that NASty SCENT, my neighbor's green pool is hatching 'skeetos'

now(na) + sent(scent)= beginning now

nascent oxygen are newly produced and highly active

New Scent

nascent-> new+cent,coming into being or existence.

nebulous

Definition
(adj) lacking definite form or limits
Synonyms : cloudy nebulose
Example Sentence
  • gropes among cloudy issues toward a feeble conclusion
  • nebulous distinction between pride and conceit
Definition
(adj) of or relating to or resembling a nebula
Synonyms : nebular
Example Sentence
  • the nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system
Definition
(adj) lacking definition or definite content
Synonyms : unfixed
Example Sentence
  • nebulous reasons
  • unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for nebulous

Nebula the milky way in galaxy which is cloudy and unclear

nebulous comes from nibu(lemon). Nimbu water is hazy so v can correlate

"nee+bulla+us (nacked)which is shown with a cloudy patch in the movies so u can remember like this" -cloudy,unclear

nimbu ras in your eyes makes your vision hazy

a new bulls running in sand and make a dusty cloudy.

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like 'nebulizer' which makes a cloudy mist

imagine nevy blue colour comes in front of ur eyer so nothing is clear to u.

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