Malinger

Que: Is the word "Enigma", an enigma?

MALINGER

Pronounced:

Ma-leen-ger

Synonyms:

Shirk; loaf; dodge

Definition:

Pretending to be sick to get out of doing work.

Sentence:

I knew he would malinger because he pretended to sneeze.

Memory Trick:

Mal - linger

Mal (reminds of) mal or bad

Linger (reminds of) linger or to hang around

We pretend to be mal because we want to linger.

MAL LINGER

 

Ans: It is, if you did not know what Enigma means. An enigma is a riddle. "The pyramids are an enigma. No one knows how they were made."

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