TOEFL IELTS Vocabulary fun - Y

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These words are frequently found on TOEFL tests. I have provided useful meaning and Memory tricks to memorizing them. Learn them, Above all practice!

Vocabulary Fun!

Yen

• (noun)  strong desire; longing; urge; ex. Yen for travel

Mnemonics

Yen

• (tag: ) Yen is also the currency of Japan, so you are having the strong desire of going to Japan and get some Yens from there.

Yeoman

• (noun)  man or farmer owning small estate; middle-class farmer

Mnemonics

• (tag: ) relate with Yo-man . A self satisfied middle class farmer always says yo man.

Yield

• (noun)  amount produced; crop; income on investment; profit obtained from an investment; v: produce; give in; surrender

Mnemonics

• (tag: ) yield sounds similar to field, and field is a area where crop is produced, and the amount(of crop usually ) produced is much  higher than the initial seeds.

Yoke

• (noun)  join together; unite; n: crossbar used to joining two draft animals

Mnemonics

• yoke: Replace y with j joke, you know a joke and a laugh brings, joins people together.

Yokel

• (noun) a person who is not very intelligent or interested in culture

 Monemonics

• sound like LOCAL..a local person who visits foreign countries is a rustic

Yore

• (noun) time long past; ex. In the days of yore

Mnemonics

• Yore sounds like bore....and we get bored when we see an old movie..or of time long past..
  

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