1. Condescending (Adjective):- The Latin prefix con- means “with,” and the Latin word for descend means “down,” so the word condescending probably developed to describe someone who looked down on others.
Synonyms: arch, patronising, patronizing
Example Sentence: It’s usually intended to make people feel bad about not knowing or having something, and it very often works.
2. chicanery (Noun):- the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).
Synonyms: chicane, guile, trickery, wile
Example Sentence: You can smell the chicanery from a dishonest politician like Lalu And Mulayam.
Trick: chicanery sounds like shikari who uses means of deception to trick animals into his traps.
3. Abrade (Verb):- rub hard or scrub
Synonyms: abrase, corrade, rub down, rub off, scour
Example Sentence: Soaps are also prepared in which large proportions of fine sharp sand, or of powdered pumice, are incorporated, and these substances, by their abrading action, powerfully assist the detergent influence of the soap on hands much begrimed by manufacturing operations.’
Trick: If you have VIM LIQUID then you don’t have to abrade much your oily pots 🙂
4. Retreat (Noun):- the act of withdrawing or going backward (especially to escape something hazardous or unpleasant)
Example Sentence: the disorderly retreat of Pakistani troops in Kargil war.
TRick: retreat=suppose if someone asks for re(again) treat….you will avoid him.move back from from him ie withdraw
5. Propitiate (Verb):- to make pleased or less angry by giving or saying something desired.
Synonyms: appease
Example Sentence: : After Tom Cruise forgot his wife’s birthday, he tried to propitiate the situation by purchasing her the pearl necklace she always wanted 🙂
Trick: If you forgot flowers on your Girl Friend’s birthday, you can still propitiate her by sending a bouquet the next day.
