Vocabulary 3

Let us know about some words starting with alphabet A

Abase - (observe the word base in abase!!! base is nothing but lower point of something.)

 Now in the different context we can say

------to make oneself low, to make oneself look cheap.
                  eg: Don't use bad language and abase yourself.

which means  not to lower one's dignity and behave in a cheap manner.

synonyms- Debase, Degrade, Demeaning

                   eg: He is very mean to me
                     
                      

Abash - (observe the word bash which mean  celebration
                eg: Birthday bash, marriage bash, New year bash etc...
                bashful- when some people excessively praise us then we feel embarrassed)

there comes abash which means feeling embarrassed

eg: He looked slightly abashed in the party


Abate - (observe the word bate in abate
              eg: I went to a movie and I waited for climax with bated breath)
                    I am waiting for my test results with bated breath)

bated breath - holding one's breath due to suspense, excitement and anxiousness

in general sense abate is reduce/decrease in intensiy.

              eg: I am waiting for my problems to get abated.
                    Its been raining for the past 4 hours, I am waiting for the rain to abate.

synonyms:

1) Dwindle-reduce/decrease

2) Wane - eg: The image of the politician is waning gradually
                      The patriotic feeling in younger generation is waning day by day

3) Diminish
4) Slacken

5) Subside- eg: I am waiting for the storm to subside (ie...to reduce)
                  
    Subsidy is the word from subside
                  eg: poor students are given subsidy of 10$ for books.

-----------------now lets see the opposite of decrease ie... to increase---------------

Burgeon: eg: the number of schols in our area is burgeoning ie....increasing

Balloon: eg: political parties are ballooning in number

Escalate, Mushroom


there are two other words which sounds similar to Abate, they are ABET, ABUT

ABET- to encourage a person to do something negative or bad

person who encourages to do negative is called ABETTOR


A did the crime

B is called the ABETTOR if he abetted him to do the crime

[another word which sounds similar to ABETTOR is ABATTOIR

ABATTOIR- slaughterhouse, where animals are killed]


synonyms of Abet- provoke and instigate= these words are negative in sense.

if anyone encourages in  a +ve sense then we use the words

Impetus and stimulus

eg: my friend provided me impetus/stimulus  to write GRE


now lets know about ABUT = adjacent/side by side


eg: My house is abutting walmart

synonyms:

CONcomitant - my house is concomitant to walmart

CONtiguos - adjacent, neighbour

here we can see a root word CON


CONfluence - convergence, merging

USA is a diverse country because it is a confluence of different cultures

CONclave - private meeting

it is a conclave of all the senators from different states of USA