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shard

Definition
(noun) a broken piece of a brittle artifact
Synonyms : fragment sherd
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for shard

s + hard..it is very HARD to join the broken FRAGMENTS OF POTTERY.

( visualize SHARaD pawar our head of BCCI---his face is like broken pot.

Shard - flip 'd' vertically. You get sharP, broken part of pottery and glass are usually sharep.

shimmer

Definition
(noun) a weak and tremulous light
Synonyms : play
Example Sentence
  • the shimmer of colors on iridescent feathers
  • the play of light on the water
Definition
(verb) shine with a weak or fitful light
Example Sentence
  • Beech leaves shimmered in the moonlight
Definition
(verb) give off a shimmering reflection, as of silk
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for shimmer

sounds like "glimmer" and "s" gives the meaning of sharma sharma ke means intermittently

listen eagles famous song "hotel california" shimmering light

compare it wid swimmer...a swimmer breathes by putting his head out of water intermittently(regular intervals) and everytime sun shines on his face...!!!

shirk

Definition
(verb) avoid (one's assigned duties)
Example Sentence
  • The derelict soldier shirked his duties
Definition
(verb) avoid dealing with
Example Sentence
  • She shirks her duties
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for shirk

remember shark..., normal people used to avoid him as he was an ogre.

shirk sounds like shark..u dont deal with the sharks...

remember shrek. He used to avoid work or responsibilities as he was fat and was not able to do so.

shoddy

Definition
(noun) reclaimed wool fiber Definition
(adj) cheap and shoddy
Synonyms : cheapjack tawdry
Example Sentence
  • cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob
Definition
(adj) of inferior workmanship and materials
Synonyms : jerry-built
Example Sentence
  • mean little jerry-built houses
Definition
(adj) designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently
Synonyms : deceptive misleading
Example Sentence
  • the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm
  • deliberately deceptive packaging
  • a misleading similarity
  • statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading
  • shoddy business practices
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for shoddy

sounds like "showy" means in look things are good but in quality they are not good as they are made up of inferior material

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Shoddy - take this as Show + Body, Hot women usually show their body when they intend to mislead or deceive men.

He is shady and sells shoddy goods.

shrew

Definition
(noun) a scolding nagging bad-tempered woman
Synonyms : termagant
Definition
(noun) small mouselike mammal with a long snout; related to moles
Synonyms : shrewmouse
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for shrew

Split Shrew like SHE+SCREW means scolding women, termegant

I tried to SHOO away the SHREW that had got into my garden.

the shrewd woman was a shrew

shrewd

Definition
(adj) marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
Synonyms : astute sharp
Example Sentence
  • a smart businessman
  • an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease
  • he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow
Definition
(adj) used of persons
Example Sentence
  • the most calculating and selfish men in the community
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for shrewd

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just think of shrew i.e. a small mouse like animal....so thing "is chote hamesha chalak hote hain..."(Hindi)

those people may be rude sometimes if they're too smart

Shrewd(shre+wd~ western digital)The smart/hardheaded intelligent managers of WD western digital has decided to start a new busines in India for high profits at low making cost,and they named it as SHREwd(aded shre fr indian touch

shun

Definition
(verb) avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of
Synonyms : eschew
Definition
(verb) expel from a community or group
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for shun

shun sounds like SUN so keep a distance from the sun.

SHUN is like SHANI DEV (a Hindu God of destruction). So keep away, steer clear.

shun...shunn...shunn.. bullets are raining.. wrong place & time to hangout, keep away

shyster

Definition
(noun) a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods
Synonyms : pettifogger
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for shyster

shy + star...if you are shy and still want to become a star you have to use unethical methods because stars have a charisma in them which is lacking in shy people.Shy star +sinister

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Shiny (Ahuja) is a star (SHYSTER), and you all know what he's done was unethical.

SHYSTER - S=SHE + HYSTER=HYSTERICAL. SHE was quite HYSTERICAL when the unscrupulous lawyer or SHYSTER began asking her the most objectionable questions in front of a sitting audience.

sibylline

Definition
(adj) resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy
Example Sentence
  • the high priest's divinatory pronouncement
  • mantic powers
  • a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
Definition
(adj) having a secret or hidden meaning
Example Sentence
  • cabalistic symbols engraved in stone
  • cryptic writings
  • thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sibylline

sibyline=see + by + line...see within the lines...have you heard the idiom reading between the lines...this word has exactly the meaning.

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In Harry Potter, Prof Trelawney's first name was Sibyll. She was the divination teacher!

SIBYLLINE is a SIGN of the DIVINE.

sidereal

Definition
(adj) of or relating to the stars or constellations
Example Sentence
  • sidereal bodies
  • the sidereal system
Definition
(adj) (of divisions of time) determined by daily motion of the stars
Example Sentence
  • sidereal time
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for sidereal

SIDEREAL is pronounced as SY-DEE-RIAL and not SIDE+REAL, therefore CELESTIAL is a more appropriate suggestion, as it not only rhymes with sidereal, it also has the same meaning-relating to the stars or the constellation.

SIDE+REAL...the STARS by our SIDE are REAL

break it as side+reel, reel signifies something to do with movies, and movies=movie stars (actors), so eventually relating to stars :)

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