Daily Vocabulary Day 9

TODAY VOCABULARY
Word & its Details

1. Transit (noun)

Elaborated meaning : the carrying of people or things from one place to another

Synonyms: alteration, traverse

Antonyms : hold, stagnation

Example :Since then the transit trade has been practically nil.

Trick : Transit = first TRANSFER + then SIT

2. Dynamic(adjective)

Elaborated meaning : (of a process or system) characterized by constant change, activity, or progress

Synonyms: influential, strenuous

Antonyms : lifeless, passive

Example :This self-strained frame is called the dynamic frame of the machine.

Trick : My friend always REACTS SPONTANEOUSLY so we called him most DYNAMIC person

3. Pegged (adjective)

Elaborated meaning : fix (a price, rate, or amount) at a particular level.

Synonyms: fasten, secure

Antonyms : detach, loose

Example :Howie visited a suburban home in Orange County, Indiana and pegged the date by an open newspaper.

Trick : PEG means NAIL or PIN . we FIX something to the wall with help of PEG (NAIL)

4.Perquisite (noun)

Elaborated meaning : a benefit which one enjoys or is entitled to on account of one’s job or position

Synonyms: dividend, gravy

Antonyms : disadvantage, loss

Example :Most finished off there by satisfying a perquisite on the educational bill.

Trick : PERQUISITE - FREE + REQUEST + SITE (Governor wife is eligible for enjoying FREE honours governor)

5. Dragnet (noun)

Elaborated meaning : a net drawn through a river or across ground to trap fish or game

Synonyms: chase, pursuit

Antonyms : retreat

Example : Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you’ve drawn it out it’s empty!

Trick : dragnet = drag + net (for expansion )

6.Acquiescence(noun)

Elaborated meaning : the reluctant acceptance of something without protest

Synonyms: acceptance, consent

Antonyms : refusal, dissent

Example :That Israel was the stronger may be suggested by the acquiescence of Judah in the new situation.

Trick : Acquiescence = ACQUIRE something with ACCEPTANCE

7.Sluggish (adjective)

Elaborated meaning : slow-moving or inactive

Synonyms: lethargic, lumpish

Antonyms : alert, lively

Example :He guided the horse with his legs, testing its sluggish responsiveness as the attackers prepared to pounce.

Trick : moving like a slug (caterpillar(gongali purugu))

8. Deportation (noun)

Elaborated meaning : the action of deporting a foreigner from a country

Synonyms: eviction, exile

Antonyms : approval, permission

Example :For his detention until deportation should be judged expedient for the state.

Trick : DEPARTURE some PORTION permanently

9.Peculiar (adjective)

Elaborated meaning : different to what is normal or expected, strange

Synonyms: specific, endemic

Antonyms : indefinite, resembling

Example :There was something peculiar about it, quite unsoldierly, rather comic, but extremely attractive.

Trick : Not PARTICULAR

10.Tardiness(noun)

Elaborated meaning : the quality or fact of being late, lateness

Synonyms: delay, detention

Example :This tardiness in authorship is a significant fact in his life, in harmony with his tempered wisdom.

Trick : TARD means SLOW then TARDINESS means SLOWNESS(making anything slowly)

Imp Word : overwhelming

Elaborated meaning : very great in amount

Synonyms: enormous, immense

Antonyms : encourage,inspirit,lose

Example :These are the things I remember, the times of overwhelming emotion

Trick : overwhelming - OVER + WE + WANTING

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