Vocabulary Mnemonics

Instead of being energizing, some things are the opposite. These things are enervating.

Enervate means “to weaken, drain of energy.”

In a sentence, you could say, “The all-day conference was enervating.”

Mnemonic

This mnemonic requires a German accent.

When you hear the beginning of this word – ener – it sounds like “energy,” “energize,” or some sort of energy-related word. But “vait…” (wait in a German accent). It doesn’t mean energizing. It means the opposite.