ab+dicate
dicate sounds like dictator.
Dictator is an authoritarian ruler who has lot of power.
To remember better,ab normal is opposite to normal.So,abdicate is opposite to dictator (ie)losing power.
ab(अब ) di (दी ) CAT which means in Hindi "now given up the cat", imagine you have a powerful cat and you given her to some one.
ab (root ab means away as in abandon) + dic (dictatorship) + ate (to eat and hence reduce) : means to give away (or reduce) dictatorship and hence to give-up power.
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