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rhetoric

Definition
(noun) using language effectively to please or persuade Definition
(noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
Example Sentence
  • the grandiosity of his prose
  • an excessive ornateness of language
Definition
(noun) loud and confused and empty talk
Example Sentence
  • mere rhetoric
Definition
(noun) study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for rhetoric

<br> rhetoric = "right oral" skills. If you have the right oral skills, you can communicate well.

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RHETORIC is right oral skills with little real sound knowledge

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rhetorical questn is a questn which does not expects any ans frm t listener, bt provokes him to think on it just like putting him in words and entangling him.. its an art of communication (in hindi like shabdo ke jaal mein fasana)

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rhe(re) tori c(communication)effective hai yar..

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ribald

Definition
(noun) a ribald person; someone who uses vulgar and offensive language Definition
(adj) humorously vulgar
Synonyms : bawdy off-color
Example Sentence
  • bawdy songs
  • off-color jokes
  • ribald language
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for ribald

ribald~bald guy in roadies...raghu...who generally uses ribald,profane,wanton language to ridicule the roadies

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riducule "bald" people

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R(region where we have curly hairs)+Is+BALD.......your region is bald...isn't it coarsely humorous and offensive????

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Ribald,sounds like rival(that to bald)then how u treat them??with ABUSIVE,PROFANE,INDECENT language i.e.MOCKING at them.

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his jokes are bald of decency and hence is revolting.. rebald

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ribald

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Calling some one BALD is Vulgar !! how mean!

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rickety

Definition
(adj) inclined to shake as from weakness or defect
Synonyms : shaky wobbly wonky
Example Sentence
  • a rickety table
  • a wobbly chair with shaky legs
  • the ladder felt a little wobbly
  • the bridge still stands though one of the arches is wonky
Definition
(adj) affected with, suffering from, or characteristic of rickets
Synonyms : rachitic
Example Sentence
  • rickety limbs and joints
  • a rachitic patient
Definition
(adj) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality
Example Sentence
  • a feeble old woman
  • her body looked sapless
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for rickety

ricket is disease caused due to lack of vit D ,bones become weak.....so can collapse...similarly rickety collapsing state

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rockets go up Vs rickets fall down.

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Rickety:Wickety. Wickets always fall down

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rococo

Definition
(noun) fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century Definition
(adj) having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation
Example Sentence
  • an exquisite gilded rococo mirror
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for rococo

ro(w)+coco- you arrange and decorate coconuts in a row.

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rococo reminds me of Hawaiian ladies with their coconut decoration around the waist and sometimes the neck.

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...Remember the higly ornate coco bongo club in the mask movie n cartoons that everyone wishes to go to????!!!

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rotund

Definition
(adj) spherical in shape Definition
(adj) (of sounds) full and rich
Example Sentence
  • orotund tones
  • the rotund and reverberating phrase
  • pear-shaped vowels
Definition
(adj) excessively fat
Synonyms : corpulent obese weighty
Example Sentence
  • a weighty man
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for rotund

remove the "t" in the word.

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If you eat ROTi & UNDa(egg) routinely, you become rotund.

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Rotund- It seems similar to "TONDU" (in hindi a fat person)...thus rotund is a fat person..

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Rotund seems like roto, which is rounded part that rotates in machines

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rotundity

Definition
(noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object Definition
(noun) the fullness of a tone of voice
Synonyms : roundness
Example Sentence
  • there is a musky roundness to his wordiness
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for rotundity

rotund = round

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sounds lile ROTI in hindi and is usually round in shape

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a girl who is ROnTU will have soreness in speech

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INFERNAL= smthing that is inferior like hell INFERiorAL

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rubberneck

Definition
(noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest Definition
(noun) a person who stares inquisitively
Synonyms : rubbernecker
Definition
(verb) strain to watch; stare curiously
Example Sentence
  • The cars slowed down and the drivers rubbernecked after the accident

rudimentary

Definition
(adj) being or involving basic facts or principles
Synonyms : fundamental underlying
Example Sentence
  • the fundamental laws of the universe
  • a fundamental incomatibility between them
  • these rudimentary truths
  • underlying principles
Definition
(adj) being in the earliest stages of development
Example Sentence
  • rudimentary plans
Definition
(adj) not fully developed in mature animals
Synonyms : vestigial
Example Sentence
  • rudimentary wings
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for rudimentary

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sedimentary=rudimentary.....sedimentary rock are used in the base or foundation of a building...hence rudimentary means basic or fundamental !!!!!!!

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kids in elementry schools are rudimentary

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CRUDE-i-mentary. somethin rudimentary is crude and elementary

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sound like RUDE+MEN so rude men never developed becoz they are lacking of elementary or fundamental principals.....hope it helps...

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rudimentary=crude+fundamental.

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rudimentary(rude+mentaring):there is a person who was always rude and people had dislike towards him, after i had started mentoring him,has improved,so now he is in his INITIAL DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE of learning,behaving with manners

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ruminate

Definition
(verb) chew the cuds
Example Sentence
  • cows ruminate
Definition
(verb) reflect deeply on a subject
Example Sentence
  • I mulled over the events of the afternoon
  • philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years
  • The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for ruminate

if in ROOMS of hostel there is interNET, we will start to think(mull over)

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Roaming-at:means ur mind is roaming. ruminate = roam-in-it. "I just had a wonderful party, but I dont want my mind to roam-in-it for too long, for i have to study for GRE"

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my RUMmy ATE my food, u gotta think over what you can do

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split it as RUM+I+ATE...si i ate rum and kept PONDERING and BROODING about it

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Ruminate and Meditate rhyme.....

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RUM+i+ate- so after drinking lots rum and eating most ppl start to ruminate abt there X-gf/bf's

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rum+in+ate—when we sin IN RUM(room) alone, we think deeply

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rum i ate: u drank rum and ate toasted octopus (which u have to chew over and over again ^^)

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sounds like masticate which means chewing

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# विचार करना # जुगाली करना

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rummage

Definition
(noun) a jumble of things to be given away Definition
(noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion)
Synonyms : ransacking
Example Sentence
  • he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis
Definition
(verb) search haphazardly
Example Sentence
  • We rummaged through the drawers
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for rummage

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if yu drink RUM at small age then definetlty yu loose yur way to home and yu have to SEARCH SEARCH SEARCH now

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RUMMAGE rhymes with PILLAGE meaning PLUNDERING and RANSACK

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rum+mage.......after driniking RUM....ramiz ransaked the maize field

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In a MAZE U have to Repeatedly thoroughly search for the exit.

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The drunkard's last bottle of RUM fell in the GARBAGE, so he rummaged through the garbage to find his bottle. :D

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rum+mage.......after driniking RUM....ramiz ransaked the maize field

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its like a police rading some underAGE kids, for rum

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rummage: Rum+Mate when a guy want to drink rum, he first needs to find a mate, or someone to drinks with him.

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