Mnemonic for Concupiscible
Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:17:46 pm

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Concupiscible is dictionary.com's word of the day, which they define as "worthy of being desired". This one is very easy for me to remember. The first part is similar to "concubine" and concubines are worthy of being desired. That's sufficient to recall the meaning if I see the word in the future, but something extra is needed if I want to recall the word when I want to write or say it. For that, I need to encode the rest of the word.

I pronounce concupiscible in my mind as "concu"+"pissable". The visualization for this involves concubines and urination. For someone with a urine fetish, that is a situation worthy of being desired.