Meanings
Readings
Common Words
to relax; to feel at home
tolerant; generous; lenient; broad-minded; magnanimous
tolerance; open-mindedness; forbearance; generosity; magnanimity
ease; relaxation; comfort; unwinding
magnanimity; forgiveness; generosity
Memory Mnemonics
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Mnemonic Stories
A tolerant neighbor will ignore see_ing marijuana _flowers growing in someone else’s house.
To learn to be tolerant, you must first see your own mind as a house. What kind of flowers are you growing? Are you letting other kinds grow too?
The building inspector was famously tolerant. He’d walk into a condemned house, see a dandelion growing through the floorboards, and write on his report, “Lovely flowers! Structure approved.”
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