Placate: Plate+cake= a plate of cake which calms and appeases.
Placate: just concentrate on pronunciation Placate resembles "Pluck Ate",so just imagine ur a thief and went for a Apple farm and Plucking and Ate the Apples silently,calm,pacify,appease,soothe,placate.......
its like pla(playing)+cate(think cafe)....so playing in cafe pacify u...
if a tree is favorably inclined we can pluck its fruits and eat
it can be place+ate.
when he got that place by betryaing i.e. ATE THE PLACE.people had to please him.
place + ate >>> when u give some1 place to eat, u will certainly gain his/her good will....
placid
Definition (adj) (of a body of water) free from disturbance by heavy waves
PLACE+ID(recognition, you are famous).....when yo get a good house to live and people IDentify you because you are popular, then you will be very calm.....what else you want?????
PLACID= place i sit
FLACCID, if something is weak and soft, it should be calm and quiet
play CId one must be calm and composed
plagiarize
Definition (verb) take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property
Plug(plag) the idea(ia) that arise (ize)from others.
divide it like pla(plan)+gi+arize(arise)...so a plan arises in your mind to steal your friend's notes and show it to your lecturer.
basically it is derived from Latin plagiare which means to kidnap, to wound..to claim ....kidnap means steal..so STEALING OR KIDNAPPING SOMEONE'S IDEA.
plagiarie = play + guitar + rise -> pritam is rising in bollywood by playing guitar
For all who watched SECRET WINDOW...Depp was accused of plagiarism
Plague and Idea have smthing in common.....they spread!!! Also Plague = Scourge = Bad....So bad ppl steal ideas and spread them Muhahahahahhahhhahah
plagiarize: plag(plague)+i+arize(arise):my friends are very hungry so i have stolen bun from rat cage as we are left with nothing, havent told this to neither rat nor friends, eating that has ARIZEd PLAGue because of I.
Plaintive can be split into
plain(plane)+tive(relative).
Suppose a relative dies in a plane crash, we mourn.
Thus plaintive = mourn.
Sorry for the sadistic mnemonic.
lol its so easy wtf
plaintive = remove L pain + tive = mournful
plain means to complain. one who always complain is sorrowful,mournful
flat + attitude:
something flat does not attract us as it is very common. So you will obviously give trite remarks.
or we can think of plastic: it is veru cheap and of very little value just like platitude
Latitudes vary from place to place ...whereas Platitude is common to all ..i.e. COMMONPLACE...ORDINARY ... TRITE...
Take it as (PLATE + ATTITUDE) this hungry man was throwing the PLATE on server face bcos of serving late. Chef is obviously strongly REMARKING towards his ATTITUDE.
The word 'platitude' is derived from the word 'plat',which is the French version of the word 'flat' and means literally "a flat remark.
we can also link it with american millitary where the freshman is known as pleb..because fresher are generally bad dressers and unsocial.
People in LEBANON are lesbians; LEbanon contains all common people doing vulgar things..
plebeian - sounds like pedestrian, almost all pedestrians are common people
divide this like P(here it stands for people)+lebeian..sounds like Lebanon in south west asia & economy of this country is in disatrous state due to civil strife.so people of this country are not rich -only middle class people&they are commen people.
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