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Hi,

Here are the words for today

1) Rivulet - A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
To remember: River lets to flow (small)

2) Roborant - Strengthening
A tonic
Restoring vigor or strength

3) Belabor - Beat hard
To beat vigorously; Ply with heavy blows.

4) Belligerent - Of warlike character; aggressively hostile
1. warlike; given to waging war.
2. of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose: a belligerent tone.
3. Waging war; engaged in war: a peace treaty between belligerent powers.
4. Pertaining to war or to those engaged in war: belligerent rights.

5) Bequest - Arrangement to give something at death
To remember: Bed + Request: Request to be granted on death bed

6) Bereft - Rob esp by death
To remember: Theft in grief
To deprive and make desolate, esp. by death (usually fol. by of): Illness bereaved them of their mother.

7) Bigot - Stubborn, Narrow minded
A person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.

8) Blandishment - flattery, coaxing
To remember: To make the head baldish (Thalayay mottai adikarathukku ice vakrathu)
To coax or influence by gentle flattery; cajole: They blandished the guard into letting them through the gate.

9) Boorish - Crude, offensive, rude
To remember: Bearish
Of or like a boor; unmannered; crude; insensitive.
Syn: coarse, uncouth, loutish, churlish

10) Brook - To tolerate
To remember: To tolerate a person who broke your heart
OR
A small stream or natural stream of fresh water

11) Burgeon - Grow fast, budding
1. To grow or develop quickly; flourish: The town burgeoned into a city. He burgeoned into a fine actor.
2. To begin to grow, as a bud; put forth buds, shoots, etc., as a plant (often fol. by out, forth).
3. To put forth, as buds.
4. A bud; sprout.

12) Burnish - To polish
To remember: To burn iron to make it smooth and bright
1. To polish (a surface) by friction.
2. To make smooth and bright.
3. Engraving. To flatten and enlarge the dots of (a halftone) by rubbing with a tool.

13) Cabal - A scheme or plot, a group of plotters
To remember: The cab people are always plotting something or the other
1. A small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
2. The plots and schemes of such a group; intrigue.

14) Cadge - To get by begging
To remember: Birds in the cage are begging to be released
To beg, to get by begging
1. To obtain by imposing on another's generosity or friendship.
2. To borrow without intent to repay.
3. To beg or obtain by begging.
4. To ask, expect, or encourage another person to pay for or provide one's drinks, meals, etc.
5. To beg.

15) Calumny - A false and malicious statement to injure someones reputation
To remember: Faulty statements as in the matrimonial columns
Slander, Aspersion
1. A false and malicious statement designed to injure the reputation of someone or something: The speech was considered a calumny of the administration.
2. The act of uttering calumnies; slander; defamation

16) Castigation - Severe punishment
To remember: To be cast out of a group. (A punishment in villages)
1. To criticize or reprimand severely.
2. To punish in order to correct.

17) Centurion - Leader of a group of 100 soldiers

18) Chary - Cautious wary
To remember: Remember that person Chary. What is your reaction?

19) Chicanery - Legal trickery \ false argument
1. Trickery or deception by quibbling or sophistry: He resorted to the worst flattery and chicanery to win the job.
2. A quibble or subterfuge used to trick, deceive, or evade.

20) Churl - Bad-tempered person
To remember: A person who makes your stomach curl
1. A rude, boorish, or surly person.
2. A peasant; rustic.
3. A niggard; miser: He was a churl in his affections.
4. English History. A freeman of the lowest rank.

The words once again
1) Bigot
2) Bequest
3) Rivulet
4) Brook
5) Cadge
6) Blandishment
7) Calumny
8) Bereft
9) Belabor
10) Roborant
11) Belligerent
12) Boorish
13) Burgeon
14) Burnish
15) Cabal
16) Castigation
17) Centurion
18) Chary
19) Chicanery
20) Churl

Enjoying the vacissitudes of CAT!!