live broadcast of the presidential debate preempts the regular news hour
discussion of the emergency situation will preempt the lecture by the professor
Definition (verb) gain possession of by prior right or opportunity, especially so as to obtain the right to buy (land)
Definition (verb) make a preemptive bid in the game of bridge
PRE+EMPTY = force to empty a place in order to occupy a prior right to buy.
PREEMPTIVE MEASURES :measures taken b4 sth gets worse or to prevent mishap
divide it like - PRE(means BEFORE) + EMPT(EMPTY)......IMAGINE YOU get the news that there is a bomb in your room.... you EMPTY the ROOM WITHOUT DETECTING IT ..so as to PREVENT, in advance, any kind of mishap.
(pre+attempt) attempt(empt) and acquire land or something earlier(pre)inorder to prevent others from acquiring it. You can also imagine that after buying u have replaced the earlier landlord.That counts for another meaning.
Preemptive sounds like preventive
preempt = pre + empt = pre + employ = employ or act in advance
basically it is taken from praeemere means to buy before others comes and purchase it...SO YOU buy IN ADVANCE INORDER to prevent COMPETITION, YOU DISPLACE others by buying that land.
they are avaricious and will do anything for money
casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
a grasping old miser
grasping commercialism
greedy for money and power
grew richer and greedier
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for prehensile
PRE(before)+HENS+ILE
before the hens can escape we have to grasp & hold them.
From comprehensible to get hold of idea or concept.Prehensile is get hold or grasp things.
PreHensile..Concentrate on Hensile.. Sounds like Tensile..Now Tensile means Capable of Being stretched, similarly lets say hensile means capable of being held or grasped..!
Root word
prehend/ /prehens/ /preg/ = to grasp; to take; to seize e.g. comprehensible
PREHENSILE sounds like PENCIL. Hands are PREHENSILE because they can grab PENcILs.
ponderous means weighty, unwieldy...so preponderance may be remembered as something having heavy weight, quantity or power
prePONDeRANCe...In monetary value, the POUND is superior to the FRANC.
pre- pond- e - rance.
Consider only pond and d(r)ance .. Earlier times witnessed lot of kings enjoying dance with decorations around ponds and lakes !!
So this means superiority of power, quality.
pre(b4)+ponder(think)= such a heavy or large in no. dat u have to ponder about it before..
the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for presentiment
sentiment means feeling or perciving. presentiment means feeling before hand about the future.
present + mint: when evil comes in(present) the movies the temperature falls and every thing gets cold...mint
Take example of dementors in harry potter, Blackheart in Ghostrider
on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide
the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants
Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for presumptuous
Focus on "Presum" (Presume)--> To overstep your boundaries by boldly PRESUMing/assuming something.
Consider the word in bracket only :
pre(sum )ptuous
We can relate sum with Money or hafta vasooli. The ppl doing hafta vasooli are ARROGANT and taking LIBERTY of our silence
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