Simple vocab term

📌 Set 1 (Political / Moral / Behavior-heavy words)

Demagogue – leader who stirs people up with lies

🧠 Mnemonic: “DEMO = people, GOGUE = goad” → riles up the crowd

Aspersion – damaging remark

🧠 Mnemonic: “A SPUR on reputation” → poking holes in someone

Castigate – harshly punish/criticize

🧠 Mnemonic: “CAST the GUILT”

Heinous – shockingly evil

🧠 Mnemonic: “HATE-NOUS”

Scurrilous – filthy, abusive language

🧠 Mnemonic: “SCURRY of insults”

Transgress – cross a line, break rules

🧠 Mnemonic: “TRANS = across”

Flout – openly mock rules

🧠 Mnemonic: “FLOUT = flaunt”

📌 Set 2 (Strange / Change / Form)

Anomalous – abnormal

🧠 Mnemonic: “ANOMALY”

Bizarre – extremely strange

🧠 Mnemonic: “BIZARRE bazaar”

Amorphous – shapeless

🧠 Mnemonic: “A-MORPH-LESS”

Gossamer – thin, delicate

🧠 Mnemonic: “GHOST fabric”

Transmute – change form

🧠 Mnemonic: “MUTATE”

Immutable – unchangeable

🧠 Mnemonic: “I’M MUTABLE? NO.”

Irrevocable – cannot be undone

🧠 Mnemonic: “NO REVERSE button”

📌 Set 3 (Personality / Social vibes)

Affable – friendly

🧠 Mnemonic: “A FRIEND-ABLE”

Brusque – blunt, rude

🧠 Mnemonic: “BRUSK = brisk & rude”

Querulous – whiny

🧠 Mnemonic: “QUERY-complaining”

Insular – narrow-minded

🧠 Mnemonic: “ISLAND mind”

Straitlaced – overly strict

🧠 Mnemonic: “LACED TIGHT morals”

Sleazy – cheap, shady

🧠 Mnemonic: “SLEAZE = grease”

📌 Set 4 (Control / Freedom / Power)

Fetter – restrain

🧠 Mnemonic: “FEET chained”

Extricate – free from

🧠 Mnemonic: “EXIT a trap”

Autonomy – self-rule

🧠 Mnemonic: “AUTO = self”

Amnesty – pardon

🧠 Mnemonic: “AMNESTY = mercy”

Insurgent – rebel

🧠 Mnemonic: “IN SURGE against power”

📌 Set 5 (Thinking / Knowledge)

Erudite – very learned

🧠 Mnemonic: “RUDE amount of knowledge”

Inscrutable – hard to understand

🧠 Mnemonic: “SCRUTINY fails”

Axiomatic – self-evident

🧠 Mnemonic: “AXIOM = obvious truth”

Archetype – original model

🧠 Mnemonic: “ARCH = first”

Precept – rule or principle

🧠 Mnemonic: “PRE-SET rule”

📌 Set 6 (Effort / Action)

Contrive – plan cleverly

🧠 Mnemonic: “CONSTRUCT a plan”

Cajole – sweet-talk

🧠 Mnemonic: “CAJOLE with cookies”

Aggrandize – make bigger

🧠 Mnemonic: “GRAND-ize”

Sedulous – hardworking

🧠 Mnemonic: “SCHEDULE-obsessed”

Propensity – natural tendency

🧠 Mnemonic: “PROPENSITY = habit”

📌 Set 7 (Mood / Tone)

Ennui – boredom

🧠 Mnemonic: “ON-WEARY”

Vapid – dull

🧠 Mnemonic: “VAPOR personality”

Sepulchral – gloomy, tomb-like

🧠 Mnemonic: “SEPULCHER voice”

Soporific – sleep-causing

🧠 Mnemonic: “SNORE-ific”

Reverberate – echo

🧠 Mnemonic: “RE-VERB”

📌 Set 8 (Law / Ethics / Order)

Contraband – illegal goods

🧠 Mnemonic: “CONTRA the law”

Repudiate – reject

🧠 Mnemonic: “REPU-deny”

Caveat – warning

🧠 Mnemonic: “CAVE-AT your own risk”

Equitable – fair

🧠 Mnemonic: “EQUAL-table”

Salutary – beneficial

🧠 Mnemonic: “SALUTE = good effect”

📌 Set 9 (Restraint / Release / Justice)

Scourge – source of suffering/punishment

🧠 Mnemonic: “SCOUR = whip”

Unwieldy – hard to handle/manage

🧠 Mnemonic: “UN-WIELD = can’t wield”

Transient – temporary, short-lived

🧠 Mnemonic: “TRANSIT = passing through”

Resilient – bounces back, recovers quickly

🧠 Mnemonic: “RESILIENT = springy”

Irrevocable – cannot be undone

🧠 Mnemonic: “NO REVOKE button”

📌 Set 10 (Speech / Expression / Knowledge)

Blazon – proclaim/display widely

🧠 Mnemonic: “BLAZE across headlines”

Scathing – harsh, bitter criticism

🧠 Mnemonic: “SCAR with words”

Sinecure – easy job, little work

🧠 Mnemonic: “SIT-n’-CURE job”

Erudite – very learned, scholarly

🧠 Mnemonic: “RUDE amount of knowledge”

Vicarious – experienced through another

🧠 Mnemonic: “VICAR = substitute”

📌 Set 11 (Behavior / Trickery / Tone)

Disabuse – correct false belief

🧠 Mnemonic: “DIS-illusion”

Megalomania – delusion of grandeur

🧠 Mnemonic: “MEGA ego”

Surreptitious – secret, stealthy

🧠 Mnemonic: “SLIP in secretly”

Querulous – whiny, complaining

🧠 Mnemonic: “QUERY = complain”

Brusque – blunt, rude

🧠 Mnemonic: “BRUSK = brisk & rude”