- A person with a mercurial personality is one who changes rapidly and unpredictably
between moods. - Mercurial Helen was crying one minute, laughing the next.
nostalgia (nahs TAL juh) n sentimental longing for the past; homesickness
Mnemonic:A NOSTALGIC view of the past means that you have NO TRAGIC memories, only
good ones.- A wave of nostalgia overcame me when the old song came on the radio; hearing it took
me right back to the summer of 1997. - Some people who don’t remember what the decade was really like feel a misplaced
nostalgia for the 1950s.
To be filled with nostalgia is to be nostalgic:
- As we talked about the fun we’d had together in junior high school, we all began to feel a
little nostalgic.
objective (ahb JEK tiv) adj unbiased; unprejudiced
Mnemonic:When you look at things as though they are merely OBJECTS, you are able to stay
OBJECTIVE.