Vocabulary Learning Mind Tricks - Nov 24th to Dec 1st 2012

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Vocabulary Learning Mind Trick of this week

(1) FACTOTUM

Meaning of Factotum

• Handyman, servant
• A servant who does a variety of jobs
• A person employed to do a wide variety of jobs for somebody

Mind-Trick

* Factotum originates from fac and totum, fac means "to do" and totoum(total) means "all".

* Fact of Tom is that he can do every work.

* There is so many Factotum working in our Factory.

Synonyms:-Handyperson, personal assistant, slave, poen, servant, worker

Antonyms:- Lazy man, Idler

(2) FALLACIOUS

Meaning:-

• Wrong, deceitful, fraud
• Based on a False Idea. 
• Based on an incorrect or misleading notion or information.
• Intended to deceive

Noun:- Fallaciousness, fallacy

Adverb:- Fallaciously

Examples:-

1. What other fallacious assumptions are underlying nuclear safety?
2. Such fallacious reasoning did not influence Colonel somereset's plans.
3. Etymology- Fallacious comes from the latin fallax means "deceptive".

Mind Tricks:-

1. If you fall in sauce, it must be fallacious.
2. Every things that are false is fallacious.

Synonyms:- Deceptive, incorrect, mistaken, unreal, untrue, unreasonable

Antonyms:- Correct, real, true, truthful

(3) FALLIBLE

Meaning:-

• Weak, imperfect, errant.
• Able to make mistakes.
• Likely to fail or make errors

Noun:- Fallibility, fallibleness

Adverb:- Fallibly

Examples:-

1. All human beings are fallible.
2. God is a fallible workman who often gets things wrong.
3. Etymology- Fallible comes from latin fallibilis means "liable to err, deceitful" and latin fallibilis originated from latin fallerre means "deceive".

Mind Tricks:-

• All human beings are able to fall that's why we are fallible.

Synonyms:- Careless, faulty, weak, mortal, errable, questionable

Antonyms:- Unerring, perfect, strong, sure, certain, reliable

(4) FALSIFY

Meaning:- 

• Belie, adulterate.
• To alter something in a way that distorts the meaning.
• To change a written record or information for making false

Noun:- Falsification, falsity, falsifying, falsifier

Adjective:- Falsifiable

Examples:-

1. Digital evidence can also be falsified.
2. These are just falsified documents they have collected against me.
3. Etymology- Falsify comes for French falsifier and falsifier from latin falsificare meaning "to make false".

Mind Tricks:-

• False spy is  falsifying all important documents.

Synonyms:- Belie, con, counterfeit, distort, fake, lie

Antonyms:- Be honest, truthful, truth representative

(5) FALTER

Meaning:-

• To become weaker or less effective.
• To walk in a way that shows that you are not confident.
• To speak in a way that show that you are not confident.
• The act of pausing uncertainly(as a noun)

Noun:- Faltering, falter

Adjective:- Faltering

Adverb:- Falteringly

Examples:-

1. The pilot of the faltering Black Hawk moved with practiced speed.
2. Britain is also finally taking some faltering steps to address the issue.
3. Etymology- Falter has unknown origin but, seems to be influenced by word fault.

Mind Tricks:-

• Harry Potter is getting falter in his way.

Synonyms:- Vacillate, waver, stagger, tremble, hesitate, fluctuate

Antonyms:- Maintain, stay, endure, continue

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