1. Enunciation (N):- the articulation of speech regarded from the point of view of its intelligibility to the audience
Synonyms: diction, articulate,
Uses: As the teacher gave instructions, she was careful to enunciate each step of the process so her young students would not be confused.
Trick: rhymes with pronunciation which means clear accent.
2. Eviscerate (V):- take away a vital or essential part of; surgically remove a part of a structure or an organ.
Synonyms: disembowel, draw, resect.
Uses: the compromise among the parties eviscerated the bill that had been proposed
Tricks: eviscerate = e (exit) + viscera + ate; The viscera has been exit & eaten
3. Tantamount (Adj):- being essentially equal to something.
Synonyms: equivalent
Uses: his statement was tantamount to an admission of guilt
Trick: Tantamount and Paramount are similar in sound but have different meanings. While tantamount means, equivalent, paramount means chief in importance.
4. Suffuse (V):- cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across.
Synonyms: perfuse.
Uses: The sky was suffused with a warm pink color.
Trick: SUFFUSE=SUFficient+difFUSE. So, Suffuse is to Diffuse Sufficiently, that is, spread through, over or across.
5. Arrogate (V):- seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession.
Synonyms: assume, seize, take over, usurp
Uses: She seized control of the throne after her husband died.
Trick: A surrogate mom arrogate the custody of the child for ever.
6. Repine (V):- express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness.
Tricks: Imagine on Christmas, your friend brings pine tree instead of Christmas tree, so you will repine.
7. Primordial (Adj):- having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state.
Synonyms: aboriginal , primaeval , primal , primeval
Uses: primordial forms of life.
Trick: primordial" = "prime" + "order" =first in the order = existing at the beginning , rudimentary.
8. Temerity (N):- the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger.
Synonyms: audaciousness, audacity.
USes: The correspondent must have lost the playbook and had the temerity to ask him to explain.
Trick: remember the word tremor.. meaning shaking with fear so a temer person doesn't have tremors.
9. Unassailable (Adj):- not open to attack; impregnable; not subject to question.
Synonyms: impregnable , inviolable , secure , strong , unattackable
Uses: fortifications that made the frontier inviolable.
Trick: a boat can be made to change direction by changing direction of SAIL. so one who is unassailable cannot be changed or questioned or attacked or tampered with.it remains as it it.
10. Iconoclastic (Adj):- characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions; destructive of images used in religious worship; said of religions, such as Islam, in which the representation of living things is prohibited.
Synonyms: Unorthodox, destructive.
Uses: This comes in the wake of other iconoclastic destruction by Islamic State.
