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bliss

Short Definition : complete happiness; ADJ. blissful

Definition
(noun) a state of extreme happiness
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for bliss

rhyming with kiss..... it feels great when we kiss...

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bliss sounds like bless, so you will say god bless you only when u are completely happy with that person

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bliss -- sounds like bless -- god bless you with lot of happiness.

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blotch

Short Definition : spot; blot; CF. blot+botch

Definition
(noun) an irregularly shaped spot
Synonyms : splodge splotch
Definition
(verb) mark with spots or blotches of different color or shades of color as if stained
Synonyms : mottle streak
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for blotch

blotch similar to scoth ...after drinking scotch you can fall in irregular spot (gutter)

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Bleach(wash/whiten) the blotch(spot).

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BLOTch is blotting of ink is irregular in shape

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blot + ch -- blot -- sounds like spot - an irregularly shaped spot.

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blowhard

Short Definition : talkative boaster; braggart

Definition
(noun) a very boastful and talkative person
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for blowhard

can be think as blow-word -> blowing words -> means talkative

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blowhard - like we say in hindi fekta hai saala :) or fek(blow) raha hai

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blow + hard -- imagine someone who blows words in a way as if he is blowing air -- too many words, hence talkative.

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(blow)ing his own trumpet (hard). One who boasts himself.

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imagine a person blowing(boasting) that he is hard but instead he is weak..

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from the proverb - one who blows his own trumpet

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bludgeon

Short Definition : club; heavy-headed weapon; V.

Definition
(noun) a club used as a weapon Definition
(verb) overcome or coerce as if by using a heavy club
Example Sentence
  • The teacher bludgeoned the students into learning the math formulas
Definition
(verb) strike with a club or a bludgeon
Synonyms : club
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for bludgeon

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Blud+geon-Blood+Generator...If you hit someone with a bludgeon(eg;a hockey stick) then blood comes out.

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Bludgeon ~ Blood + Generator; If u hit someone with a bludgeon (ex. hockey stick) then blood comes out.

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Bludgeon sounds like Vazan (Weight) ... So heavy headed weapon

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Remember the big ball used in quidich(Harry Potter) that s used 2 hit others

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bludgeon :blud+geon: blade (blud) fixed on a gun (geon)

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blue

Short Definition : gloomy; depressed

Definition
(noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
Synonyms : blueness
Example Sentence
  • he had eyes of bright blue
Definition
(noun) blue clothing
Example Sentence
  • she was wearing blue
Definition
(noun) any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue
Example Sentence
  • the Union army was a vast blue
Definition
(noun) the sky as viewed during daylight
Example Sentence
  • he shot an arrow into the blue
Definition
(noun) used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
Synonyms : blueing bluing
Definition
(noun) the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic Definition
(noun) any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae Definition
(verb) turn blue Definition
(adj) of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky
Synonyms : blueish bluish
Example Sentence
  • October's bright blue weather
  • a blue flame
  • blue haze of tobacco smoke
Definition
(adj) used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms)
Example Sentence
  • a ragged blue line
Definition
(adj) filled with melancholy and despondency
Example Sentence
  • gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
  • gloomy predictions
  • a gloomy silence
  • took a grim view of the economy
  • the darkening mood
  • lonely and blue in a strange city
  • depressed by the loss of his job
  • a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
  • downcast after his defeat
  • feeling discouraged and downhearted
Definition
(adj) characterized by profanity or cursing
Synonyms : blasphemous profane
Example Sentence
  • foul-mouthed and blasphemous
  • blue language
  • profane words
Definition
(adj) suggestive of sexual impropriety
Example Sentence
  • a blue movie
  • blue jokes
  • he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details
  • a juicy scandal
  • a naughty wink
  • naughty words
  • racy anecdotes
  • a risque story
  • spicy gossip
Definition
(adj) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
Example Sentence
  • an aristocratic family
  • aristocratic Bostonians
  • aristocratic government
  • a blue family
  • blue blood
  • the blue-blooded aristocracy
  • of gentle blood
  • patrician landholders of the American South
  • aristocratic bearing
  • aristocratic features
  • patrician tastes
Definition
(adj) morally rigorous and strict
Synonyms : puritanic puritanical
Example Sentence
  • the puritan work ethic
  • puritanic distaste for alcohol
  • she was anything but puritanical in her behavior
Definition
(adj) causing dejection
Example Sentence
  • a blue day
  • the dark days of the war
  • a week of rainy depressing weather
  • a disconsolate winter landscape
  • the first dismal dispiriting days of November
  • a dark gloomy day
  • grim rainy weather
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for blue

You will be gloomy and depressed when you know that your secret sex has been shot secretly and some one made a "blue" film.

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have you heard of the song “jaane kya chahe maan-feel and blue” song from pyar ke side effects, then no need more explanation

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blues

Short Definition : state of depression or melancholy; style of slow, mournful music (evolved from southern Black American songs)

Definition
(noun) a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes Definition
(noun) a state of depression
Example Sentence
  • he had a bad case of the blues
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for blues

have you heard of the song “jaane kya chahe maan-feel and blue” song from pyar ke side effects, then no need more explanation

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When snake bite your body becomes blue and you become worried

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bluff

Short Definition : pretense (of strength); deception; high cliff; ADJ: rough but good-natured

Definition
(noun) a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion) Definition
(noun) pretense that your position is stronger than it really is
Example Sentence
  • his bluff succeeded in getting him accepted
Definition
(noun) the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards
Synonyms : four flush
Definition
(verb) deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand
Synonyms : bluff out
Definition
(verb) frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is Definition
(adj) very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front
Synonyms : bold sheer
Example Sentence
  • a bluff headland
  • where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise
  • a sheer descent of rock
Definition
(adj) bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured
Example Sentence
  • a bluff but pleasant manner
  • a bluff and rugged natural leader
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for bluff

In Bluff Master movie abhishek bacchan has Bluff (rough but good natured)manners.He bluffs (decieves every one whom he meets) and at the end of the movie he jumps from (High cliff .Bluff)Very Tall building

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bluff ~ blue film; they made the blue film by bluffing the girl.

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bluff = blue + friend; a blue friend always cheat friends.

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blunder

Short Definition : error; stupid mistake

Definition
(noun) an embarrassing mistake Definition
(verb) commit a faux pas or a fault or make a serious mistake
Synonyms : boob drop the ball goof sin
Example Sentence
  • I blundered during the job interview
Definition
(verb) make one's way clumsily or blindly
Synonyms : fumble
Example Sentence
  • He fumbled towards the door
Definition
(verb) utter impulsively
Example Sentence
  • He blurted out the secret
  • He blundered his stupid ideas
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for blunder

Blind Error.

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Isabel BLUNDERed by dropping her BLENDER down in the food contest. So, jury`s pants got dirty because of the sauce on the BLENDER.

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blunder ~ blue underwear; suppose you told your servant to go to market to buy a blue color underwear but he bought pink color .. isn't it a blunder (big mistake)

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Down under( in Australia) they make the blunder of wearing only 'Blu under'wear.

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blunt

Short Definition : having a dull edge; abrupt and frank in speech or manner; brusque; V: make or become blunt

Definition
(verb) make less intense
Example Sentence
  • blunted emotions
Definition
(verb) make numb or insensitive
Synonyms : benumb dull numb
Example Sentence
  • The shock numbed her senses
Definition
(verb) make dull or blunt
Synonyms : dull
Example Sentence
  • Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
Definition
(verb) make less sharp
Example Sentence
  • blunt the knives
Definition
(verb) make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation
Synonyms : deaden
Example Sentence
  • Terror blunted her feelings
  • deaden a sound
Definition
(adj) having a broad or rounded end
Example Sentence
  • thick marks made by a blunt pencil
Definition
(adj) used of a knife or other blade; not sharp
Example Sentence
  • a blunt instrument
Definition
(adj) characterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
Example Sentence
  • blunt talking and straight shooting
  • a blunt New England farmer
  • I gave them my candid opinion
  • forthright criticism
  • a forthright approach to the problem
  • tell me what you think--and you may just as well be frank
  • it is possible to be outspoken without being rude
  • plainspoken and to the point
  • a point-blank accusation
Definition
(adj) devoid of any qualifications or disguise or adornment
Synonyms : crude stark
Example Sentence
  • the blunt truth
  • the crude facts
  • facing the stark reality of the deadline
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for blunt

blunt ~ blue + aunty; lady (aunty) standing there in blue clothes is blunt.

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blunt knife

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blurt

Short Definition : utter impulsively from nervousness or excitement

Definition
(verb) utter impulsively
Example Sentence
  • He blurted out the secret
  • He blundered his stupid ideas
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for blurt

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when ever u try to FLIRT u automatically BLURT....reveal all the secrets of u'r frenz,also talk all non-sense

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blurt is like spurt. spurt means sudden discharge. similarly blurt means sudden utterance of words

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Blurt rhymes with flirt. Flirt loves without thinking and blurts talks without thinking.

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blowing utterance

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