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sordid

Definition
(adj) morally degraded
Synonyms : seamy seedy sleazy squalid
Example Sentence
  • a seedy district
  • the seamy side of life
  • sleazy characters hanging around casinos
  • sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls
  • the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils
  • the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal
Definition
(adj) unethical or dishonest
Synonyms : dirty
Example Sentence
  • dirty police officers
  • a sordid political campaign
Definition
(adj) foul and run-down and repulsive
Synonyms : flyblown squalid
Example Sentence
  • a flyblown bar on the edge of town
  • a squalid overcrowded apartment in the poorest part of town
  • squalid living conditions
  • sordid shantytowns
Definition
(adj) meanly avaricious and mercenary
Example Sentence
  • sordid avarice
  • sordid material interests
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sordid

(SORDID)SORry I DID this FILTHY, VILE thing.

sour+dEEd =sordid

I SORDID my FILTHY, VILE laundry. (sordid sounds like sorted)

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<b>sordid</b> = like 'sardi' (cold). If you catch 'sardi', your nose is sordid-dirty

split it like SOR+DID..sor..sounds like sour..WE all have heard of AVARICIOUS and dishonest FOX....who once SAID A VERY FAMOUS LINE THAT WE ALL REMEMBER.....these grapes are SOUR..when we generally know that fox are quite greedy, mean , filthy and di

"sorry i did this.... " a dishonest person replied

SORDID=SORROW giving DEED.

SO-Rud-DID = So 核突

SORry I DID this DIRTY thing.

spasmodic

Definition
(adj) affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; resembling a spasm
Synonyms : convulsive spastic
Example Sentence
  • convulsive motions
  • his body made a spasmodic jerk
  • spastic movements
Definition
(adj) occurring in spells and often abruptly
Synonyms : fitful
Example Sentence
  • fitful bursts of energy
  • spasmodic rifle fire
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for spasmodic

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in muscular SPASM you have constant but PERIODIC pain

remose s..becomes SPAM..some interrupting mails for yu...hahaha

think of spa. We don't go to spa everyday

spate

Definition
(noun) (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
Example Sentence
  • a batch of letters
  • a deal of trouble
  • a lot of money
  • he made a mint on the stock market
  • see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos
  • it must have cost plenty
  • a slew of journalists
  • a wad of money
Definition
(noun) a sudden forceful flow
Synonyms : rush surge upsurge
Definition
(noun) the occurrence of a water flow resulting from sudden rain or melting snow
Synonyms : freshet
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for spate

What will be fate of our state if there is a SPATE OR SUDDEN FLOOD?

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Spate sounds like spout. Think of water rushing from a spout.

Spate=spat(spit) but rather pure water.

spate.........splash.

SPAT-e = sudden flood!

spate: SPAce + fATE : when we are in space(zero gravity) we count on our fate because there might be sudden flood of things/particles/rays and we might go to hell soon. so dont skate on fate and avoid going to space.. ;)

"pet" is a colloquial word in Telugu for "colony". <br> When there's a flood, it will "soak the pets".

The spate of dirty water from the pate

the himalyan ranges SPAT

spate= spa + te; spa means relax in water tab; when you enter you body in water tab then the water will floated & come in upper side. It will make a forceful flow of water.

when there is a spat on earth, there is a spate from God.

Spate= Spat + e. Flood is like an e normous spat

spawn

Definition
(noun) the mass of eggs deposited by fish or amphibians or molluscs Definition
(verb) call forth
Synonyms : breed engender
Definition
(verb) lay spawn
Example Sentence
  • The salmon swims upstream to spawn
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for spawn

spawn in the game "counter-strike" is the place where the players get rebirth in a new round. so basically spawn is place where something is regenerated. relate it to eggs.

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when a piegion was watching porn...it SPAWN......hehehehe...sorry...;)

prawn is spawn.....that is prawn is d cause of production...

Pawn in chess (to cause something new, or many new things, to grow or start suddenly) Pawn(young animal or child)... Pawn (eggs of frogs etc)

Spawn=see pawn(porn) , which makes u to see more porn, hence porn is spawned.

specious

Definition
(adj) plausible but false
Synonyms : spurious
Example Sentence
  • a specious claim
  • spurious inferences
Definition
(adj) based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
Synonyms : gilded meretricious
Example Sentence
  • the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
  • meretricious praise
  • a meretricious argument
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for specious

It sounds like 'suspicious'.

Like the movie "Species" about an alien woman who looks human but has other plans

Seemingly true/plausible/attractive, but when SPECulated closely, it was found to be fallaCIOUS.

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spec+ious => ppl with specs normally seem reasonable but end up being incorrect. * (no offense, just to remember)

He made a SPEECH to US which was false

JANta ke pisonse TICKET khared kar trip gaya

SPEC-to see/to seem specious--sthg that seems to be like this but actually it isnt

she peed sauce,I saw it.Looks true but it can't be

specious = "speech"ious, means it is true only in speech or words but not in reality

people having spects can clearly see but actually not(with out spects)

Looks like spAcious but actually not, then it is spEcious

splice

Definition
(noun) a junction where two things (as paper or film or magnetic tape) have been joined together
Synonyms : splicing
Example Sentence
  • the break was due to an imperfect splice
Definition
(noun) joint made by overlapping two ends and joining them together
Synonyms : lap joint
Definition
(verb) join the ends of
Example Sentence
  • splice film
Definition
(verb) perform a marriage ceremony
Synonyms : marry tie wed
Example Sentence
  • The minister married us on Saturday
  • We were wed the following week
  • The couple got spliced on Hawaii
Definition
(verb) join together so as to form new genetic combinations
Example Sentence
  • splice genes
Definition
(verb) join by interweaving strands
Example Sentence
  • Splice the wires
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for splice

Splice is the opposite of slice (not the drink). If you slice, you cut. If you splice, you join.

the free 5 star was fastened to the slice bottle

sporadic

Definition
(adj) recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances
Example Sentence
  • a city subjected to sporadic bombing raids
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sporadic

sporadic== opposite of periodic, we know periodic things occur regularly.

Take the first half of the word, i.e SPOR which sounds like pores. Pimples which OCCUR IRREGULARLY create pores in the skin.

sporadic..spora(spores). spores are cells which grow irregulary,like a media plate when exposed to fungi spores ,next day you will see a irregular growth.

SPORES on DICK occurs occasionally and at scattered instances.

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we can say sporadic as spasmodic.

sporadic = spores+ periodic we know females perdically discharge sopres but fertilization of these sores and thus pregnancy occurs by chance and thus sporadic = spores being fertilized not periodic and so occurring by chance

Remember Spores in flower.They are ocasionaly transferred by wind from one flower to another

today: PORA!! tomorrow: IC!! tu fir aa gya be.. PORA!! hahahahahah.. that means.... hahahah occurring irregularly :P

She was a POOR RADICal because her demonstrations only occured on occasion and in scattered instances.

sporadic~spot-radical: something RADICAL can just be SPOTted occasionally. E.g. I.Newton who occasionally SPOTted the falling apple gave birth to the RADICAL theory of gravitation.

spruce

Definition
(noun) light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork Definition
(noun) any coniferous tree of the genus Picea Definition
(verb) make neat, smart, or trim
Example Sentence
  • Spruce up your house for Spring
  • titivate the child
Definition
(verb) dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion
Example Sentence
  • He spruced up for the party
Definition
(adj) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
Example Sentence
  • a dapper young man
  • a jaunty red hat
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for spruce

SPRUCE rhymes with CRUISE,TOM CRUISE who is NEAT AND TRIM IN APPEARANCE

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++Imajeeth <br> It also sounds like: Bruce (Bruce Willis)

sounds like BRUCE WAYNE(BATMAN) who is always NEAT AND TRIM IN APPEARANCE when he is not in batman character

spruce = sp(special) + ruce (russian); special russian people are ways dressed with coat & tie which makes them very smart & aristocrat officers.

spry

Definition
(adj) moving quickly and lightly
Synonyms : agile nimble quick
Example Sentence
  • sleek and agile as a gymnast
  • as nimble as a deer
  • nimble fingers
  • quick of foot
  • the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for spry

Spry -- Sprite...and Sprite, the cold drink, can all make you active.

Spry sounds like SPY, person to collect secret information about another country, organization or person,

Remember when you press the spray bottle, how liquid comes out of the nozzle. Its very fast, active, agile, nimble...

SPRYte piyo, active raho

Spry ~ fry ; If you eat too much of fried food , then you won't be agile,nimble,vigourously active !

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spry - when you are nimble that you spring and fly up and down, then you are a spry person

Sprite bottle opened too soon

spurious

Definition
(adj) plausible but false
Synonyms : specious
Example Sentence
  • a specious claim
  • spurious inferences
Definition
(adj) born out of wedlock
Example Sentence
  • the dominions of both rulers passed away to their spurious or doubtful offspring
Definition
(adj) intended to deceive
Example Sentence
  • a spurious work of art
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for spurious

s-PURE+ious...pure means true...spurious means the opposite of it..which is FALSE,CONTERFEIT

Sounds like "furious". You get furious when you hear spurious arguments.

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Read it: s-poor-ious argument.

s pur ious- sounds like "s its pure lies"

to "spurn" means to reject. So you SPURn anything that is SPURious (false).

The polka dotted sponges in the aquarium were not the real, rare ones living in the ocean. They were fake.

Split "Spurious" into spur+ious, where spur means instantly(spur of the moment). So anything done without much thought and immediately can result in falsehood or may be illogical.

you get furious when you get spurious (counterfeit)dollar bills

the fast and the spurious.lol

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