TURPITUDE and RECTITUDE are rhyming words with opposite meanings. Turpitude refers to wickedness while Rectitude refers to correctness of behaviour, upright and honest.
turpitude...concentrate on "turp", now replace 't' with 's'..it becomes surp..which means snake in hindi..what can you expect from a snake..turpitude, or depraved act
The first word that comes with my association with TURPITUDE is TORPEDO..torpedo is similar as it is destructive too
focus on the last part of the word turpITUDE...(SOUNDS SIMILAR TO ATTITUDE).....SO SOMEONE HAVING THE MEAN ATTITUDE.
notice the word PIT. a turpitude or turd + PIT + dude, or a turd dude will definately go to hell(pit of fire) if he is immoral
When you do "TUR" (tor) and "PIT" (peet), u are being corrupt, or degenerate, or depraved - morally not correct !
When you say something TURPITUDINOUS your mother washes your mouth out with TURPentine soap
To punish the little boy for his turpitude, his mother put TERPENTINE on his TORPEDO.
turks wre thrown in the pit by morgan black's invaders. in the pit they had to live in depravity to servive
unbridled - bridle is hand gear of horse...imagine if horse is unbridled... it is violent.........
(unbridled ~ un + bride) focus on bride; a bride should be in a husband's control, if not then she is UNBRIDLED (not in control)
unbridle - u can quickly remember bridal or bride and so you think about marriage and barat (where the relatives dance) ... every body was drunk and hence the situation became voilent and uncontrollable..
COUTH sounds like COURT so a court always supports ethic. So a person is said UNCOUTH if he does UNETHICAL things something like SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE THINGS
un mouth... (speech - mouth)
sounds like UNCOUCH..a person who doesn't(un) sit on the couch is uncultured..
un-COW-th
youth herding cows n buffaloes, lives in village hence outlandish, ill mannered
Uncouth...uncouth + youth... the uncouth youth, an unrefined, boorish young man.
un mouth ~ jo apna moo na band rakh sakey ~ boorish
UN(not) wearing cloth(COUTH) means lacks culture
un mouth -> opened the mouth and gave vulgar & clumsy talk.
unction
Definition (noun) excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm
unctuous -> functuous -> party like ... in parties girls do a lot of oily makeup and try to appear and behave sauve but in my opinion they look and behave in a bland way.
elders criticize severely if their girls UP their BRA
braid means hairdo(hairstyle). upbraid means destroy hairdo. In hindi baal khinchna. If teacher rebukes or scolds you, he/she pulls your hair.
It has the word raid in it , it implies when sm1 raids your house and finds black money , u will be scolded very badly
up + bra : girls dont do it here or ..
ladki ki choti kheechna is extremely reprimanded
upBRAID. Relate BRAID with BRIDE. When you catch up a bride who's eloped, you scold her severly and reprimand her.
Upbraid and Deprecate have somewhat similar meanings. The words mean, express disapproval of, reprimand.
A BRAID(plait) is a pattern formed by intertwining three or more strands of flexible material such as textile fibres, wire, or human hair so u r asking a girl to lift her braid (upbraid)tie up over n ask her to walk mean(criticize
give up bribe above the bike openly so policeman severely scolded him
UPper class people often faces RAIDS....
Up(coming) + raid ; If someone comes to raid ur house, you will first try to scold or Critize him, to woo him off..
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