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Daily Gadha Words

Thursday, July 23, 2009

1#abase (v) - cause to feel shame
----what happens when you buy a house and lose it's base, it fells and you are humiliated in front of your neighbors .

2#abash
(tv) - make somebody ashame----what happens when you get "a bash", you feel ashamed.

3#abate (v) - reduce something, make less
----ab+ate, when you eat something, it becomes less.

4#abdicate (v) - resign from position or give up duty
----ab mein dictate nahi karoonga__courtesy sankalp

5#
abet (tv) - to help somebody in something wrong
----"a"+"bet" college students "bet" to their friends that they will make a girl fall in love with them and even their friends encourage them to do this .


6#abhor (tv) - to disapprove of or reject something very strongly
----a + bhor (bore).. a bore person is always rejected. Many people generally abhor a bore person.

7#abeyance (n) - suspension of activity
---- it seemingly sounds like ab+yawns.... so, think of something like 'students started yawning and so the teacher gave them 5 mins break' i.e. temporary suspension

8#
abide (tv) - tolerate something
----bide in abide sounds like bind(something that binds you).....so abide means that fails to bind you from your heart..but you merely have to tolerate

(v) - dwell or reside

9#
abject (adj) - extremely or excessively humble, e.g. in making an apology or request
- miserable or contemptible state of something or someone
----Abject sounds like Reject...hopeless person is always rejected
----One social object is to reduce abject poverty

10#
abjure (tv) -deny yourself something
----abjure ~ ab (away) + jure (jury). He abjured (rejected, moved away from) her earlier statements in front of jury.



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