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Word: ACOMPLISE

Meaning: PARTNER IN CRIME

Mnemonic: Accompany + Lies(lice) i.e. partner in some kind of crime

Example: Two people have pleaded guilty over an armed robbery where one of the crooks was accidentally shot by his accomplice as the pair attempted.

Learn Smart !Word: Accolade

Meaning: Award of merit, strong praise and approval

Mnemonic: A+Cool+Aide is a praise for the effort by a Distinction Student.

Example: It was the biggest accolade in the industry. 

Learn Smart !Word: ACCLIVITY

Meaning: SHARP UPSLOPE OF A HILL, DECLIVITY

Mnemonic: If u know that cliff is A steep high face of rock, then its easy to remember.

Example: The town occupies chiefly the acclivity of Compass Hill, and while of picturesque appearance is built in a very irregular manner, the streets being narrow and precipitous.

Learn Smart !Word: ACCLIMATE

Meaning: ADAPT, ADJUST TO ENVIRONMENT

Mnemonic: Adjust According to CLIMATE = acclimate.

Example: It acclimated to her and accepted her until it obeyed her thoughts before she thought them.

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Word: ABUT

Meaning: ADJOIN, BORDER UPON

Mnemonic: A+But : 'But' is used to (ad)join two sentence as in example : He is good guy, but not a good student.

Example: This article is abut how to grow the plans in your garden like a professional.

Learn Smart !Word: ABUSIVE

Meaning: COARSELY INSULTING, PHYSICALLY HARMFUL

Mnemonic:  Ab + usive : ab+use; ab is generally used in negative (bad) sense. Hence, we should not use bad language (abusive)in front of children.

Example: The twisted, abusive man who had fallen prey to the same curse in his blood that she carried in hers.

Learn Smart !Word: ABSTRUSE

Meaning: OBSCURE, PROFOUND, DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND

Mnemonic: Abstruse rhyme with CONFUSE, there is confusion when things are not clear.

Example: To the public Boole was known only as the author of numerous abstruse papers on mathematical topics, and of three or four distinct publications which have become standard works.

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Word: ABSTRACT

Meaning: A concept or idea not associated with any specific instance

Mnemonic: Abstract-means theoretical or not concrete. think of the movie "Star Trek" - that is purely a non- concrete concept.

Example: They had no abstract ideas; in their minds all was concrete, visible and tangible.

Learn Smart !Word: ABSTEMIOUS

Meaning: SPARING IN EATING AND DRINKING, TEMPERATE

Mnemonic:  Focus on 'abs' part of this word. Abs. To build a six-pack abs, eat n drink carefully.

Example: Because I was abstemious with alcohol when I was younger, I am still quite healthy in my later years.

Learn Smart !Word: ABSOLVE

Meaning: PARDON

Mnemonic: Ab –solve, So you solved a dispute between you and your friend , how did you solve it by forgiving and pardoning him/her.

Example: He can only absolve you from mortal sins.

Learn Smart !Word: ABSOLUTE

Meaning: COMPLETE, CERTAIN

Example: He'll have to trust you to maintain absolute secrecy.

Learn Smart !Word: ABSCOND

Meaning: DEPART SECRETELY AND HIDE

Mnemonic: Abscond – ab + scond. ‘Absent in a second’. When you will absent in a second? =when u STEAL OFF & HIDE, or when u DEPART secretly.

Example: Since the boys could not pay for their meals, they decided to abscond before the waitress returned with their cheque.

Learn Smart !Word: ABSCISSION

Meaning: CUTTING OFF, SEPERATION

Mnemonic: It had the word sciss(scissors) in it. Scissors are used for Cutting, separating.

Example: The doctor had to perform an abscission of the inflamed appendix.

Learn Smart !Word: ABRIDGE

Meaning: CONDENSE OR SHORTEN

Mnemonic:  A + bridge. Well bridges are meant to reduce the gap between something. So abridging..something means reducing or shortening something.

Example: Immediately afterward he was a member of a commission appointed "to revise the laws in force in the state; to select, abridge, alter and digest them, so as to be accommodated to the present government."

Learn Smart !Word: ABORTIVE

Meaning: UNSUCCEFUL, FRUITLESS

Mnemonic: Relate it to abort. Things usually gets aborted when it seems that it would be unsuccessful or fruitless.

Example: An abortive expedition to reinstate a Thessalian prince probably also belongs to this year; there is also evidence that Athens interfered in a war between Selinus and Segesta in Sicily about this time.

Learn Smart !Word: ABOMINABLE

Meaning: DETESTABLE, EXTREMELY UNPLEASANT

Mnemonic: Abominable means think as boman irani (villain in 3idiots) so he is bad, hated by all, his face was extremely unpleasant (in that picture)

Example: This abominable deed gave northern France for twenty years to an English master.

Learn Smart !Word: ABOLISH

Meaning: CANCEL, PUT AN END TO

Mnemonic: Sounds somewhat similar to demolish, which means put an end to something.

Example: Various efforts were made during the middle ages to abolish the Feast of Fools.

Learn Smart !Word: ABODE

Meaning: DWELLING PLACE, HOME

Mnemonic: Abode sounds just like aboard = a + board boarding refers to living room or place

Example: During his residence in Holland he lived at thirteen different places, and changed his abode twenty-four times.

Learn Smart !Word: ABJECT

Meaning: As low as possible,  very humble, showing lack of self-respect

Mnemonic: Abject sounds like reject if any person is rejected in job he/she will feel hopeless and will be in miserable conditionExample: The condition of the European Jews seems, on a superficial examination, abject enough.

Learn Smart !Word: ABJURE

Meaning: FORMALLY REJECTED, USUALLY UNDER PRESSURE

Mnemonic: Abjure think it like injure. So once you are injured you will give up. So abjure means give up.

Example: Many hellenizers rallied round those who were minded to die rather than abjure their religion.