Vocabulary Word
Word: mnemonic
Definition: pertaining to memory; assisting the memory; N: device, such as as formula or rhyme, used as a mnemonic aid
Definition: pertaining to memory; assisting the memory; N: device, such as as formula or rhyme, used as a mnemonic aid
More Vocab Words
::: chicanery - trickery; deception::: abstinence - restraint from pleasant things, esp. eating or drinking; CF. abstention: act of abstaining from vote
::: demagogue - person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people; CF. demagoguery
::: flighty - (esp. of a woman's behavior) capricious; often changing, esp. from one lover to another; impulsive
::: impuissance - powerlessness; feebleness
::: abnegation - renunciation; self-sacrifice; self-abnegation
::: espionage - spying
::: atrophy - wasting away; V: weaken and lose flesh and muscle (through lack of blood or lack of use)
::: ancestry - family descent; ADJ. ancestral
::: chaperon - older person who accompanies and supervises a young unmarried woman
