1. 10 Loan Words
1. Déjà vu Pronunciation: day-zha voo
From French. The sense of having already seen or hear something being experienced for the first
time.
2. Ad Hominem Pronunciation: add om-in-im
From Latin. Replying to an argument or factual claim by attacking the person who made it, and
not what he said.
3.Zeitgeist Pronunciation: zight-gihst
From German. Something that captures the spirit of the era.
4. Weltschmerz Pronunciation: velt-shmeartz
From German. The pathological suffering felt by one who has realised that physical reality can
never truly satisfy the demands of the mind. A melancholy sense of anguish about the nature of
being.
5.. Doppelganger Pronunciation: dopple-gang-?
From German. The ghostly double of a living person.
6.Saudade Pronunciation: saw-the-th?
From Portuguese. A feeling of longing for something that one is fond of, which is gone, but
might return in a distant future, although deep down you know it probably wont.
7. Sehnsucht Pronunciation: sane-zookt
From German. A self-destructive or addictive yearning for a time, place or thing that one can’t
explain.
8.Wanderlust Pronunciation: vunder-loost
From German. A strong longing or desire towards wandering.
9.Schadenfreude Pronunciation: shah-din-froyd-?
From German. Taking joy in the suffering of others
10.Ennui Pronunciation: on-wee
From French. Boredom of the soul

2. 10 British English Vs.American English
British english Vs. American English
1 tap 1.Faucet
2cooker 2.Stove
3petrol 3.Gas
4.toilet 4.Bathroom
5trousers 5.Pants
6railway 6.Railroad
7wash up 7.Do the Dishes
8wash your hand 8.Wash up
9.jug 9.Pitcher
10.campsite 10.Campground
(10)Preffixes (10) Suffixes
act Do
Example: Action, actor, react
aud Hear
Example: Audience
cre d believe
Example: Credit, incredible
dic speak
Example: Dictate, predic
graph write
Example: Autograph, paragraph

3. loc place
Example: Allocate, dislocate, location
man hand
Example: Manual, manufacture, manuscript
mot move
Example: Demote, motion, motor
ped foot
Example: Pedal, pedestrian
pop people
Example: population, popular
10 euphemisms
1. If you are offered a career change or an early retirement opportunity, a career or employee
transition, or you are being involuntarily separated, or if personnel is being realigned or there is
a surplus reduction in personnel, or the staff is being re-engineered or right sized, or if there is a
workforce imbalance correction then: You’re fired!
2. You aren’t poor, you are economically disadvantaged.
3. You aren’t broke, you have temporary negative cash flow.
4. You do not live in a slum but in substandard housing, or in an economically depressed
neighborhood, or culturally deprived environment.
5. If you are managing company stakeholders, that means you are lobbying, which is really the
same as bribing.
6. When you get an unwanted phone call just as you are sitting down to dinner from a
representative of the Republican party (and you are a Democrat) or vice versa, this is called a
courtesy call. Only courtesy has nothing to do with it, it’s just freaking annoying.
7. In light of the recent demise of Osama bin Laden, several politicians have stressed that it was
the enhanced interrogation methods which caused the informants to squeal and give up the
nickname of the courier, which we then followed around until he led us to the compound of
OBL. This is one of my personal favorites, not the process it refers to of course, but the absolute
ludicrousness of this particular phrase. The ultimate of euphemism. It’s torture, folks! Torture,

4. and you can’t sugarcoat it, and you can’t make it sound nice. Torture.
8. Since we’ve been involved in two wars for ten years, stuff happens, stuff that we don’t want
to happen. When you come into a country and break it, for a variety of good reasons, you might
cause some collateral damage, which are really deaths of civilians. Women and children and old
people. Accidental death. Accidental – but you can’t quite escape the “death” part.
9. When a geographical area is neutralized or depopulated that means the CIA killed people, just
because
10. On a lighter note, intelligent ventilation points, when speaking of a garment are – armholes!
10 apocopated
ab
abdominal muscle (slang)[1]
Abalone
abscess (slang)[2]
ad
advantage (tennis)[3]
advertisement[4]
advert
advertisement[4]
addy
(email) address[5]
admin
administrator[6]
administration[7]
afish
aficionado[citation needed]
ag

5. agriculture (informal)[8]
aggro
aggravation or aggression[9]
agit-prop
agitational propaganda[10]
amp
ampere[11]
amphetamine (as in "amped up")[citation needed]
amplifier[11]
amputation or amputee[12]
ampoule[12]
amplify[citation needed]
10 Portmantheus
1. Affluenza (affluence/influenza): anxiety or dissatisfaction caused by submission to
consumerism
2. Anacronym (anachronism/acronym): an acronym derived from a phrase no longer widely
known (for example, radar)
3. Anticipointment (anticipation/disappointment): the letdown after hype gives way to reality
4. Backronym (back/acronym): a word presented as an acronym after the fact (for example, the
name of the car brand Ford was derisively backronymed to stand for “Fix Or Repair Daily”) or
mistakenly believed to be an acronym (the Morse code distress signal is erroneously said to
stand for “Save Our Souls”)
5. Blaxploitation (black/exploitation): a genre of pulp entertainment — most prevalent during
the 1970s, when African American culture began to permeate US society — that exploits clichés
about black people
6. Bodacious (bold/audacious): insolent or unrestrained, extraordinary or impressively large,
or extremely attractive

6. 7. Celebutant(e) (celebrity/debutant(e)): someone famous for being famous, with no apparent
talent except self-promotion
8. Chillax (chill/relax): behave, calm down, or relax
9. Cocacolonization (Coca-Cola/colonization): the aggressive introduction or pervasive influence
of American consumerism on other cultures
10. Cosplay (costume/play): wearing costumes and accessories that resemble those of
characters from various forms of popular culture, or the subculture that engages in cosplay