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abate | to lessen to subside |
abdication | giving up control authority |
aberration | straying away from what is normal |
abet | help/encourage smb (in doing wrong) |
abeyance | suspended action |
abhor | to hate to detest |
abide | be faithful to endure |
abjure | promise or swear to give up |
abraded | rubbed off worn away by friction |
abrogate | repeal or annul by authority |
abscond | to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest) |
abstruse | difficult to comprehend obscure |
abut | border on |
abysmal | bottomless extreme |
acarpous | effete no longer fertile worn out |
acclaimed | welcomed with shouts and approval |
accolade | praise approval |
accretion | the growing of separate things into one |
accrue | accumulate |
adamant | kind of stone inflexible |
admonitory | containing warning |
adorn | add beauty decorate |
adulteration | making unpure poorer in quality |
affable | polite and friendly |
affinity | close connection relationship |
aggravate | make worse irritate |
agile | active quick-moving |
agog | eager/excited |
ail | trouble be ill |
alacrity | eager and cheerful readiness |
alcove | recess/partially enclosed place |
ale | fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer |
aleck | one who considers himself smarter than others |
allegiance | duty support loyalty |
alleviate | make (pain) easier to bear |
alloy | to debase by mixing with something inferior |
aloof | reserved indifferent |
amalgamate | mix combine unite societies |
ambidextrous | able to use the left hand or the right equally well |
ambiguous | doubtful uncertain |
ambivalent | having both of two contrary meanings |
ambrosial | extremely pleasing to taste |
ameliorate | improve make better |
amortize | end (a debt) by setting aside money |
anguish | severe suffering |
animosity | strong dislike |
antidote | medicine used against a poison or a disease |
antithetical | direct opposing |
apartheid | brutal racial discrimination |
aplomb | self-confidence |
apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
apotheosis | deification glorification to godliness |
appease | make quiet or calm |
apprehensive | grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future |
apprise | give notice to inform |
approbation | approval |
apropos | appropriate to the situation apt |
apt | well-suited quick-witted |
arabesque | a complex ornate design |
arboreal | of connected with trees |
ardor | enthusiasm |
arduous | steep difficult ascent laborious |
argot | jargon slang |
arrant | in the highest degree |
arrogance | proud superior manner of behaviour |
articulate | speak distinctly connect by joints |
ascend | go or come up |
ascertain | get to know |
ascetic | practicing self-denial austere stark |
ascribe | consider to be the origin of or belonging to |
aseptic | surgically clean |
asperity | roughness harshness ill temper irritability |
aspersion | slander |
assail | with attack violently |
assiduous | diligent hard-working sedulous |
assuage | make something (pain desire) less |
asterisk | the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters) |
astringent | substance that shrinks |
astute | clever quick at seeing to get an advantage |
atonement | repayment death of Jesus |
attenuate | make thin. weaken enervate |
attune | bring into harmony |
audacious | daring foolishly bold impudent |
augury | omen sign |
august | majestic venerable |
auspicious | favorable successful prosperous |
austere | severely moral and strict simple and plain |
auxiliary | helping supporting |
aver | affirm assert prove justify |
aversion | strong dislike |
avid | eager greedy |
avow | admit. Declare openly |
baleful | harmful ominous causing evil |
balk | obstacle purposely to get on the way of |
baneful | causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive |
barrage | artificial obstacle built across a river |
barren | not good enough unable to have young ones without value |
bask | in enjoy warmth and light |
beatify | to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to |
bedizen | to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner |
belabor | beat hard |
bellicose | belligerent pugnacious warlike |
belligerent | (person nation) waging war |
benefactor | person who has given help |
benevolence | wish or activity in doing good |
benign | kind and gentle mild (climate) |
bequest | arrangement to give something at death |
berate | scold sharply |
bereft | rob or dispossess of something (material) |
bewilder | puzzle confuse |
bigot | stubborn narrow-minded person |
bilge | bulge the protuberance of a cask |
blandishment | flattery coaxing |
blandness | polite manner comforting uninteresting |
blatant | noisy and rough |
blithe | cheerful casual carefree |
bogus | sham counterfeit not genuine |
boisterous | loud noisy rough lacking restraint |
bolster | give greatly needed support |
boorish | crude offensive rude |
brash | hasty rush cheeky saucy |
brass | yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc) |
brazen | made of brass |
breach | opening broken place breaking |
brittle | easily broken |
broach | bring up announce begin to talk about |
brook | to tolerate endure |
buoyant | able to float light-hearted |
burgeon | grow forth send out buds |
burnish | to polish rub to a shine |
cabal | a scheme or plot a group of plotters |
cadge | to beg to get by begging |
cajole | use flattery or deceit to persuade |
calipers | metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument |
calumny | slander aspersion |
candid | frank straight-forward |
cant | insincere talk/jargon |
cantankerous | bad-tempered/quarrelsome |
canvass | discuss thoroughly sort of touting |
castigate | to chastise correct by punishing |
castigation | severe punishment |
catalyst | substance that causes speeding up |
caustic | biting sarcastic |
censure | expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke |
centurion | leader of a unit of 100 soldiers |
chary | cautious wary |
chastened | corrected punished |
chastisement | punishment |
chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot |
chicanery | legal trickery/false argument |
chisel | steel tool for shaping materials |
churl | bad-tempered person |
clamor | shout complain with a lot of noise |
clientele | customers |
clinch | come to grips/settle conclusively |
cling | to resist separation |
clot | half-solid lump formed from liquid |
cloture | closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting |
coagulation | change to a thick and solid state |
coalescing | coming together and uniting into one substance |
coax | get smb to do something by kindness |
coda | passage that completes a piece of music |
coddle | treat with care and tenderness |
coerce | compel to force to make obedient |
coeval | of the same period coexisting |
cogent | strong convincing |
cogitate | think deeply mediate |
cognizant | being fully aware of |
cohort | a group or band of people |
colander | bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water |
collusion | secret agreement for a deceitful purpose |
combustion | process of burning |
commemorate | keep the memory of |
commodious | having plenty of space for what is needed |
commuter | person who travels regularly |
complaisance | tending to comply obliging willingness to please |
compunction | feeling of regret for one's action |
conceal | hide keep secret |
conceit | over-high opinion of too much pride |
conciliatory | reconciling soothing comforting mollifying |
concord | agreement or harmony |
concur | agree in opinion happen together |
condense | increase in density strength make laconic |
Conduce | To bring about |
condone | forgive |
congeal | make or become stiff and solid |
conjoin | to join together |
connoisseur | a person with good judgement (e.g.. in art) |
connotation | suggestion in addition to |
consequential | pompous self important |
console | give comfort or sympathy to |
conspicuous | easily seen remarkable |
consternation | surprise and fear dismay |
constrain | compel |
constrict | make tight or smaller |
consume | get to the end of |
consummate | perfect/make perfect/complete |
contemn | to scorn or despise |
contentious | argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome |
contiguous | touching neighboring near |
contrite | filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing |
contumacious | insubordinate rebellious |
conundrum | a riddle dilemma enigma |
conviction | convincing firm belief |
convoke | call together summon |
convoluted | complicated coiled twisted |
cordial | warm and sincere |
cordon | line (of police acting as a guard) |
cornucopia | abundant supply |
corporeal | physical of or for the body |
correlate | have a mutual relation |
corroboration | additional strengthening evidence |
countenance | to favor or approve of |
counterfeit | forgery |
countervail | counterbalance |
covert | disguised |
covetous | eagerly desirous |
cower | crouch shrink back |
coy | shy/modest (esp of a girl) |
crass | very great (es. stupidity) |
cravat | piece of linen worn as a necktie |
craven | cowardly |
crease | line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket |
credulity | too great a readiness to believe things |
credulous | ready to believe things |
crush | press lose shape subdue overwhelm |
cryptic | secret with a hidden meaning |
cumbersome | burdensome heavy and awkward to carry |
curmudgeon | bad-tempered person |
curriculum | course of study |
cursory | quick hurried |
curtail | make shorter then was planned |
dainty | pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please |
daunt | intimidate make fearful |
dawdler | person who is slow waste of time |
dearth | shortage |
debacle | a breakup overthrow sudden disaster |
decorum | propriety properness |
decree | order given by authority |
decry | disapprove of |
defer | postpone give way (to show respect) |
deferential | showing respect |
defiance | open disobedience or resistance |
delineate | to portray depict sketch out |
deluge | great flood heavy rush of water |
demagogue | person appealing not to reasons |
demur | to hesitate raise objections |
denigrate | blacken belittle sully defame |
denouement | an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot |
deplete | use until none remains |
deposition | dethronement depositing |
deprave | make morally bad corrupt |
deprecate | protest against express disapproval of |
dereliction | deserting and leaving to fall into ruins |
derision | ridicule mockery deriding |
derivative | unoriginal obtained from another source |
derogatory | insulting tending to damage |
descry | catch sight of see something in the distance |
desiccant | substance used to absorb moisture |
desuetude | cessation of use disuse |
desultory | aimless haphazard digressing at random |
deter | discourage hinder |
detraction | slandering verbal attack aspersion |
detumescence | diminishing or lessening of swelling |
deviance | being different in moral standards (from normal) |
dexterity | skill (esp. in handling) |
diaphanous | transparent gauzy |
diatribe | bitter and violent attack in words |
didactic | intended to instruct |
diffidence | shyness |
dilate | speak comprehensively become wider large |
disallow | refuse to allow or accept as a correct |
discern | see with an effort but clearly |
discomfit | confuse embarrass |
disconcert | upset the self-possession of |
discountenance | refuse to approve of |
discourse | speech lecture |
discredit | refuse to believe |
discreet | careful/prudent |
discrete | individually distinct |
disdain | look on with contempt |
disencumber | free from encumbrance |
disheveled | untidy |
disingenuous | sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning |
disinter | dig up from the earth |
dislodge | move force from the place occupied |
dismal | sad gloomy miserable |
disparate | essentially different |
disproof | proof to the contrary |
dissemble | speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind) |
disseminate | distribute (esp. ideas) |
dissent | have a different opinion refuse to assent |
dissolution | disintegration looseness in morals |
distraught | distracted violently upset in mind |
divergence | getting farther apart from a point |
divestiture | taking off getting rid of giving up |
divulge | make known something secret |
doggerel | trivial poorly constructed verse |
dogmatic | positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion |
dolt | stupid fellow |
dormant | in a state of inactivity but awaiting development |
dote | show much fondness center one's attention |
drawl | slow way of speaking |
droll | jesting |
drone | male bee person who isn't self-employed |
drowsiness | feeling sleepy half asleep |
dubious | feeling doubt |
dud | no use person something that fails |
dulcet | melodious harmonious |
dupe | cheat make a fool of |
duplicity | deliberate deception |
duress | threats to compel smb |
dwarf | person or smb much below the usual size |
dynamo | a generator something that produces electric current |
earthenware | dishes made of baked clay |
ebullience | exuberance outburst of feeling |
ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement |
ecumenical | representing the whole Christian world |
edacious | voracious devouring |
eddy | circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind) |
edible | fit to be eaten/not poisonous |
effete | infertile worn out weak |
efficacy | production of a desired result |
effluvia | outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor |
effrontery | boldness impudence arrogance |
egress | way out exit |
elaborate | worked out with much care in great detail |
elegy | a lament a melancholy composition |
elicit | draw out |
eloquence | fluent speaking skillful use of language |
emaciate | make thin and weak |
embellish | make beautiful |
embezzle | use in a wrong way for one's own benefit |
emote | stir up excite |
empirical | relying on experiment |
encapsulate | enclose in capsule |
encomium | warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric |
encumbrance | burden things that get on the way of |
endearing | making dear or liked |
endemic | epidemic |
epiphany | A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi. |
endorse | write one's name on the back of |
enduring | lasting |
enervate | weaken deprive of strength attenuate |
engender | cause produce give rise to |
engrave | impress deeply |
engrossing | taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal |
engulf | swallow up |
enigma | something that is puzzling |
enmity | hatred being an enemy |
ensign | flag/badge |
entangle | put into difficulties |
enthral | please greatly/enslave (fig) |
entice | tempt or persuade |
entreat | ask earnestly |
enunciate | pronounce (words)/express a theory |
enzyme | catalyst |
epicurean | devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment) |
epistle | letter |
epithet | adjective |
epitome | brief summary representative example a typical model |
equable | steady regular |
equanimity | calmness of temperament |
equilibrium | state of being balanced |
equipoise | equal distribution of weight equilibrium |
equivocal | having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious |
equivocate | try to deceive by equivocal language |
eradicate | get rid of pull up by the roots |
erratic | irregular in behaviour or opinion |
erudite | learned scholarly |
eschew | avoid |
esoteric | abstruse intended only for a small circle of |
espouse | marry give one's support to |
eulogy | formal praise panegyric |
euphoria | elation state of pleasant excitement |
euthanasia | easy and painless death |
evasive | tending to evade |
evince | to show clearly to indicate |
evoke | call up bring out |
excoriation | severe criticism |
exculpate | to clear from a charge of guilt |
exhaustive | complete thorough |
exigency | emergency an urgent situation |
exoneration | set smb clear free (e.g.. from blame) |
exorbitant | much too high or great |
expatiate | to roam wander freely |
expedient | likely to be useful for a purpose |
expiation | ending expiring |
exploit | brilliant achievement develop use selfishly |
expostulate | argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest |
expurgate | to remove obscenity purify censor |
exscind | to cut out cut away |
extant | still in existence |
extempore | without previous thought or preparation |
extenuate | reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse |
extinct | no longer active |
extinguish | end the existence of/wipe or put out |
extirpate | to destroy exterminate cut out exscind |
extol | praise highly |
extort | obtain by threats violence |
extralegal | outside the law |
extricable | that can be freed |
extrovert | cheerful person |
exuberance | state of growing vigorously being full of life |
facetious | humorous funny jocular |
facile | easily done |
fagged | too tired, exhausted |
fallacious | based on error |
falter | waver/move in an uncertain manner |
fatuous | without sense foolish self-satisfaction |
fawn | young deer try to win smb's favor |
feckless | lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless |
fecund | fertile |
feint | pretend |
felicitous | apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos |
felon | person guilty of murder |
ferment | substance become excited |
ferocity | savage cruelty |
ferret | discover by searching search |
fervid | showing earnest feeling |
fervor | warmth of feelings earnestness |
fetid | stinking |
fetter | to shackle put in chains |
feud | bitter quarrel over a long period of time |
fidelity | loyalty accuracy |
fidget | move restlessly make nervous |
figurehead | carved image on the prow of a ship |
finesse | delicate way of dealing with a situation |
finical | too fussy about food clothing etc. |
finicky | finical |
fission | splitting or division (esp. of cells) |
fixate | stare at |
flak | criticism/anti-aircraft guns |
flamboyant | brightly colored florid |
flaunting | show off complacently |
flax | pale yellow (hair) a plant |
fledged | able to fly trained experienced |
fleet | number of ships quick-moving |
flinch | draw move back wince |
flop | fail/move/fall clumsily |
florid | very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face) |
flout | reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition) |
fluke | lucky stroke |
fluster | make nervous or confused |
foible | defect of character (a person is wrongly proud) |
foil | prevent from carrying out contrast |
foment | put something warm (to lessen the pain) |
foolproof | incapable of failure or error |
foppish | like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes |
forage | food for horses and cattle |
forbear | refrain from be patient ancestor |
forbearance | patience willingness to wait |
ford | shallow place in a river (to cross) |
forestall | prevent by taking action in advance preempt |
forfeit | suffer the loss of something |
forge | workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead |
forgery | counterfeit |
forswear | renounce disallow repudiate |
foster | nurture care for |
fracas | noisy quarrel |
fragile | easily injured broken or destroyed |
fragrant | sweet-smelling |
frantic | wildly excited with joy pain anxiety |
frenetic | frantic frenzied |
fret | worry irritation wear away |
fringe | edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead |
froward | intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn |
frugal | careful economical |
fulmination | bitter protest |
fulsome | disgusting offensive due to excessiveness |
gainsay | to deny to oppose |
garble | make unfair selection from facts |
garner | to gather and save to store up |
garrulity | talkativeness |
garrulous | too talkative |
gaucherie | socially awkward tactless behavior |
germane | relevant pertinent to |
gist | the point general sense |
glean | gather facts in small quantities |
glib | ready and smooth but not sincere |
glimmer | weak/unsteady light |
gloat | over look at with selfish delight |
glut | supply to much fill to excess |
gnaw | waste away bite steadily |
goad | something urging a person to action |
gorge | eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream |
gossamer | soft light delicate material |
gouge | tool for cutting grooves in wood |
gourmand | a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess |
grandiloquent | using pompous words |
grave | serious requiring consideration |
graze | touch or scrape lightly in passing |
gregarious | living in societies liking the company |
grievous | causing grief or pain serious dire grave |
grovel | crawl humble oneself |
guile | deceit cunning |
gullible | easily gulled |
gush | burst out suddenly/talk ardently |
gust | outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc. |
hack | cut roughly hired horse |
halcyon | calm and peaceful |
hallow | to make holy consecrate |
harangue | a long passionate speech |
harbinger | something or smb that foretells the coming of |
harrow | to distress create stress or torment |
haughty | arrogant conceited |
heed | attention/give notice to |
heinous | odious (of crime) |
heresy | belief contrary to what is generally accepted |
hermetic | sealed by fusion |
heterogeneous | made up of different kinds |
hew | make by hard work cut (by striking) |
highbrow | (person) with superior tastes |
hirsute | hairy shaggy |
hoax | mischievous trick played on smb for a joke |
hoi | polloi the masses the rabble |
hollow | not soled with hole |
holster | leather case for a pistol |
homiletics | act of preaching |
hone | stone used for sharpening tools |
hoodwink | trick mislead |
hospitable | liking to give hospitality |
hubris | arrogant pride |
hush | make or become silent |
husk | worthless outside part of anything |
hypocrisy | falsely making oneself appear to be good |
iconoclast | person who attacks popular beliefs |
idiosyncrasy | personal mannerism |
idolatry | excessive admiration of |
idyll | a carefree episode or experience |
ignoble | dishonorable common undignified |
ignominious | shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful |
illicit | unlawful forbidden |
imbroglio | complicated and embarrassing situation |
immaculate | pure faultless |
imminent | likely to come or happen soon |
immutable | that cannot be changed |
impair | worsen diminish in value |
impassive | unmoved feeling no sign of passion |
impecunious | having little or no money |
impede | hinder get in the way of |
impediment | something that hinders (e.g. stammer) |
impending | imminent being about to happen expected |
imperative | urgent essential |
imperious | commanding haughty arrogant |
impermeable | that cannot be permeated |
imperturbable | calm not capable of being excited |
impervious | not allowing to pass through (of materials) |
imperviousness | haughty arrogant commanding |
impetuous | having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful |
impiety | lack of reverence or dutifulness |
implacable | incapable of being placated unpleasable |
implicate | show that smb has a share |
implicit | implied though not plainly expressed |
implosion | collapse bursting inward |
importune | beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute) |
imprecation | an invocation of evil a curse |
impromptu | without preparation |
impudent | rash indiscreet |
impugned | challenged to be doubted |
impute | to attribute to a cause or source ascribe |
inadvertent | not paying proper attention |
inane | silly senseless |
inasmuch | since because |
incense | make angry |
incessant | often repeated continual |
inchoate | not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary |
incipient | beginning |
incise | engrave make a cut in |
incite | stir up rouse |
inclined | directing the mind in a certain direction |
incongruous | out of place not in harmony or agreement |
incorrigibility | cannot be cured or corrected |
incredulous | skeptical unwilling to believe |
inculcate | fix firmly by repetition |
incumbents | official duties |
incursion | a raid a sudden attack |
indefatigability | not easily exhaustible tirelessness |
indelible | that cannot be rubbed out |
indigence | poverty |
indigenous | native |
indistinct | not easily heard seen clearly marked |
indolence | laziness |
indomitable | not easily discouraged or subdued |
indulge | gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself |
indulgent | inclined to indulge |
ineffable | to great to be described in words |
ineluctable | certain inevitable |
inept | unskillful said or done at the wrong time |
ineptitude | quality of being unskillful |
inferno | hell |
infuriate | fill with fury or rage |
infuse | put pour fill |
ingenuous | naive young artless frank honest sincere |
ingest | take in by swallowing |
inimical | harmful or friendly |
inimitable | defying imitation unmatchable |
innocuous | causing no harm |
inscrutable | incapable of being discovered or understood |
insensible | unconscious unresponsive unaffected |
insinuate | suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently |
insipid | without taste or flavor |
insouciant | unconcerned carefree |
insularity | narrow-mindedness isolated |
insurrection | rising of people to open resistance to |
interdict | prohibit forbid |
interim | as an installment |
intersperse | place here and there |
intransigence | unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability |
intransigent | uncompromising |
intrepid | fearless brave undaunted |
introspection | examining one's own thoughts and feelings |
inundate | flood cover by overflowing |
inured | accustomed to adapted |
invective | abusive language curses |
inveigh | to attack verbally denounce deprecate |
inveterate | deep-rooted. long-established |
invincible | too strong to be defeated |
involute | complex |
irascible | irritable easily angered |
irate | angry |
ire | anger |
irksome | tiresome |
irresolute | hesitating undecided |
irrevocable | final and unalterable |
itinerate | to travel from place to place to peregrinate |
jabber | talk excitedly utter rapidly |
jagged | notched, rough |
jibe | gibe make fun of |
jocular | meant as a joke |
judicious | sound in judgment wise |
knit | draw together unite firmly |
labyrinthine | to entangle the state of affairs |
lachrymose | causing tears tearful |
lackluster | (of eyes) dull |
lament | show feel great sorrow |
lassitude | weariness tiredness |
latent | present but not yet active developed or visible |
laudatory | expressing or giving praise |
lavish | giving or producing freely liberally or generously |
legacy | something handed down from ancestors |
levee | formal reception/embankment |
levity | lack of seriousness |
libel | statement that damages reputation |
liberality | free giving generosity |
libertine | immoral person |
lien | legal claim until a debt on it is repaid |
limn | paint portray |
limp | lacking strength walking unevenly |
lionize | treat as a famous person |
lithe | bending twisting |
loll | rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue) |
lope | move along with long strides |
loquacious | talkative garrulous |
lucubrate | write in scholarly fashion |
luculent | easily understood lucid clear |
lugubrious | mournful excessively sad |
lull | become quiet or less active |
lumber | move in a clumsy/noisy way |
luminary | star light-giving body |
lurk | be out of view ready to attack |
lustrous | being bright polished |
macabre | gruesome suggesting death |
macerate | make or become soft by soaking in water |
machination | plot scheme (esp. evil) |
maladroit | tactless clumsy |
malapropism | misuse of a word (for one that resembles it) |
malevolence | wishing to do evil |
malign | injurious speak ill of smb tell lie |
malinger | to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty |
malleable | yielding easily shaped moldable adapting |
manacle | chains for the hands or feet |
massacre | cruel killing of a large number of people |
matriculation | be admitted enter a university as a student |
maudlin | sentimental in a silly or tearful way |
maul | hurt by rough handling |
maverick | rebel nonconformist |
mellifluous | sweetly flowing |
mendacity | dishonesty |
mendicant | a beggar |
mercurial | quick changeable in character fleeting |
meretricious | attractive on the surface but of little value |
mesmerize | hypnotize |
meticulous | giving great attention to details |
mettle | quality of endurance or courage |
mettlesome | courageous high-spirited |
middling | fairly good but not very good |
minatory | menacing threatening |
mince | pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize |
misanthrope | person who hates mankind |
mischievous | harmful causing mischief |
miser | person who loves wealth and spends little |
misogynist | one who hates women/females |
mite | Avery small amount, portion, or particle |
moderation | quality of being limited not extreme |
mollify | make calmer or quieter |
molt | moult lose hair feathers before new growing |
morbid | diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas) |
morose | ill-tempered unsocial |
muffler | cloth worn round the neck/silencer |
multifarious | varied motley greatly diversified |
mundane | worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday |
myriad | very great number |
nadir | lowest weakest point |
nascent | coming into existence emerging |
nebulous | cloud-like hazy vague indistinct |
negligent | taking too little care |
neophyte | person who has been converted to a belief |
nexus | a connection tie or link |
nibble | show some inclination to accept (an offer) |
noisome | offensive disgusting (smell) |
nonchalant | not having interest |
nonplused | greatly surprised |
nostrum | a quack remedy an untested cure |
noxious | harmful |
nugatory | trifling/worthless |
obdurate | hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible |
obfuscate | to darken make obscure muddle |
oblivious | unaware having no memory |
obloquy | abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation |
obsequious | too eager to obey or serve |
obstreperous | noisy loud |
obtain | to be established accepted or customary |
obtrusive | projecting prominent undesirably noticeable |
obtuse | blunt/stupid |
obviate | to make unnecessary get rid of |
occluded | blocked up |
odious | repulsive hateful |
odium | contempt dislike aversion |
odor | smell favor reputation |
officious | too eager or ready to help offer advice |
ominous | threatening |
onerous | needing effort burdensome |
opaqueness | dullness/not allowing light to pass through |
opprobrious | showing scorn or reproach |
ossify | to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea |
ostensible | seeming appearing as such professed |
ostentation | display to obtain admiration or envy |
ostracism | shut out from society refuse to meet talk |
overhaul | examine thoroughly to learn about the condition |
overweening | presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk |
paean | song of praise or triumph |
palate | roof of the mouth sense of taste |
palatial | magnificent |
palliate | lessen the severity of |
palpability | can be felt touched understood |
palpitate | tremble beat rapidly and irregularly |
panegyric | formal praise eulogy |
paradigm | a model example or pattern |
parenthesis | sentence within another one something separated |
pariah | an outcast a rejected and despised person |
parley | negotiation, discussion between enemies |
parsimonious | too economical miserly |
partisan | one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced |
patron | regular customer person who gives support |
paucity | scarcity a lacking of |
peccadillo | small sin small weakness in one's character |
pedantic | bookish showing off learning |
pedestrian | commonplace trite unremarkable |
pellucid | transparent easy to understand |
penchant | strong inclination a liking |
penitent | feeling or showing regret |
penurious | poor/stingy |
penury | extreme poverty |
peregrination | traveling about wandering |
peremptory | urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate |
perfidious | treacherous faithless |
perfidy | treachery breaking of faith |
perfunctory | done as a duty without care |
perilous | dangerous |
peripatetic | wandering |
perish | be destroyed decay |
perjury | willful FALSE statement unlawful act |
permeate | spread into every part of |
pernicious | harmful injurious |
perpetrate | be guilty commit (a crime) |
personable | pleasing in appearance attractive |
perspicacity | quick judging and understanding |
pertain | belong as a part have reference |
pest | destructive thing or a person who is nuisance |
petrified | taken away power (to think feel act) |
petrify | to make hard rocklike |
petrous | like a rock hard stony |
petulant | unreasonably impatient |
philistine | a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge |
phlegmatic | calm sluggish temperament unemotional |
picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers |
pied | of mixed colors |
pinch | be too tight take between the thumb and finger |
pine | waste away through sorrow or illness |
pious | dutiful to parents devoted to religion |
piquant | agreeably pungent stimulating |
pique | hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity) |
pitfall | covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger |
pith | essential part force soft liquid substance |
pivotal | of great importance (others depend on it) |
placate | soothe pacify calm |
plaintive | mournful melancholy sorrowful |
plaque | flat metal on a wall as a memorial |
platitude | a trite or banal statement unoriginality |
plea | request |
plead | address a court of law as an advocate |
plethora | glut |
pliant | pliable easily bent shaped or twisted |
plod | continue doing something without resting |
pluck | pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers) |
plumb | get to the root of |
plummet | fall plunge steeply |
plunge | move quickly suddenly and with force |
poignant | deeply moving keen |
poncho | large piece of cloth |
ponderous | heavy bulky dull |
portent | omen marvelous threatening |
precarious | uncertain risky dangerous |
precepts | rules establishing standards of conduct |
preclude | prevent make impossible |
precursory | preliminary anticipating |
predilection | special liking mental preference |
predominate | have more power than others |
preen | tidy/show self-satisfaction |
premature | doing or happening something before the right time |
preponderance | greatness in number strength weight |
presage | warning sign |
presumption | arrogance |
preternatural | not normal or usual |
prevalent | common |
prevaricate | to equivocate to stray from the truth |
prim | neat formal |
pristine | primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated |
probity | uprightness incorruptibility principle |
proclivity | inclination |
procrastination | keeping on putting off |
prodigal | wasteful reckless with money |
prodigious | enormous wonderful |
profane | worldly having contempt for God |
profligacy | shameless immorality |
profligate | wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant |
profundity | depth |
profuse | abundant/lavish |
proliferate | grow reproduce by rapid multification |
prolix | tiring because too long |
prone | prostrate inclined to (undesirable things) |
propagation | increasing the number spreading extending |
propinquity | nearness in time or place affinity of nature |
propitiatory | conciliatory appeasing mitigating |
propitious | auspicious presenting favorable circumstances |
prosaic | everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian |
proscribe | denounce as dangerous |
protracted | prolonged |
provident | frugal looking to the future |
provisional | of the present time only |
provoke | make angry vax |
prudence | careful forethought |
prudish | easily shocked excessively modest |
prune | dried plum silly person |
pry | get something inquire too curiously |
pucker | wrinkle |
pugnacious | fond of in the habit of fighting |
puissance | strength |
punctilious | precise paying attention to trivialities |
pundit | pedant authority on a subject |
pungency | sharpness stinging quality |
purvey | provide supply |
pusillanimous | cowardly craven |
putrefaction | becoming rotten |
pyre | large pile of wood for burning |
quack | person dishonestly claiming to something |
quaff | drink deeply |
quail | lose courage turn frightened |
qualm | feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness |
quandary | state of doubt or perplexity |
quell | suppress subdue |
quibble | try to avoid by sophistication |
quiescence | state of being passive/motionless |
quiescent | at rest dormant torpid |
quirk | habit or action peculiar to smb or something |
quixotic | generous unselfish |
quotidian | banal everyday |
rabble | mob crowd the lower classes of populace |
raconteur | person who tells anecdotes |
raffish | low vulgar base tawdry |
ramify | to be divided or subdivided to branch out |
rancorous | feeling bitterness spitefulness |
rant | use extravagant language |
rapacious | greedy (esp for money) |
rarefy | to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine |
rave | act with excessive enthusiasm |
reactionary | opposing progress |
rebuff | snub |
recalcitrant | disobedient |
recant | take back as being FALSE give up |
recast | cast or fashion anew |
recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
reciprocity | granting of privileges in return for similar |
recitals | a number of performance of music |
recluse | person who lives alone and avoids people |
recompense | make payment to reward punish |
reconcile | settle a quarrel restore peace |
recondite | little known abstruse |
recreancy | cowardice a cowardly giving up |
recuperate | become strong after illness loss exhaustion |
redeem | get back by payment compensate |
redoubtable | formidable causing fear |
refine | make or become pure cultural |
refractory | stubborn unmanageable untractable |
refulgent | shining brilliant |
regale | to delight or entertain to feast |
regicide | crime of killing a king |
reiterate | say or do again several times |
rejuvenation | becoming young in nature or appearance |
relapse | fall back again |
reminiscent | viewing the past |
remonstrate | to protest object |
render | deliver provide represent |
renovate | restore something to better condition |
renowned | celebrated famous |
repast | meal |
repel | refuse to accept/cause dislike |
repine | at be discontented with |
reproach | scold upbraid |
reprobate | person hardened in sin one devoid of decency |
repudiate | disown refuse to accept or pay |
repulsive | causing a feeling of disgust |
requite | repay give in return |
rescind | repeal/annul/cancel |
resigned | unresisting submissive |
resilience | quality of quickly recovering the original shape |
resort | to frequently visit |
restive | refusing to move reluctant to be controlled |
resuscitation | coming back to consciousness |
retard | check hinder |
reticent | reserved untalkative silent taciturn |
retrospective | Looking back on past |
revere | have deep respect for |
reverent | feeling or showing deep respect |
riddle | puzzling person or thing |
rift | split crack dissension |
rivet | fix take up secure metal pin |
roll | call calling of names |
rotund | rich and deep plump and round |
ruffian | violent cruel man |
rumple | make rough |
sagacious | having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage |
salacious | obscene |
salubrious | healthful |
salutary | remedial wholesome causing improvement |
sanctimony | self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety |
sanction | approval (by authority) penalty |
sanguine | cheerful confident optimistic |
sanity | health of mind soundness of judgment |
sash | long strip worn round the waist |
satiate | satisfy fully |
saturnine | gloomy dark sullen morose |
savant | person of great learning |
savor | taste flavor something |
sawdust | tiny bits of wood |
scabbard | sheath for the blade |
scent | smell (especially pleasant) |
scorch | become discolored/dry up/go at high speed |
scribble | write hastily |
scurvy | mean contemptible |
secular | material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries |
sedulous | persevering |
seminal | like a seed constituting a source originative |
sententious | short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs |
sequence | succession connected line of |
sere | make hard and without feeling |
sermon | reproving a person for his faults |
serrated | having a toothed edge |
serration | having a toothed edge |
servile | like a slave lacking independence |
sever | break off |
severance | severing |
shallow | little depth not earnest |
shard | piece of broken earthenware |
sheath | cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool |
shrewd | astute showing sound judgement |
shrill | sharp piercing |
shun | keep away from avoid |
shunt | send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion |
sidestep | step to one side |
simper | (give a) silly/self-conscious smile |
sinuous | winding undulating serpentine |
skiff | small boat |
skit | short piece of humorous writing |
slack | sluggish dull not tight |
slake | to assuage to satisfy allay |
slate | king of blue-grey stone propose criticize |
sluggard | lazy slow-moving person |
slur | join sounds/words (indistinct) |
smolder | burn slowly without flame |
snare | trap |
snub | treat with contempt |
soar | rise fly high |
sober | self-controlled |
sobriety | quality or condition of being sober |
sodden | soaked saturated |
soggy | heavy with water |
solvent | of the power of forming a solution |
somatic | of the body |
soot | black powder in smoke |
sophisticated | complex subtle refined |
sophistry | fallacious reasoning faulty logic |
sophomoric | self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown |
soporific | producing sleep |
sordid | wretched comfortless contemptible |
spear | weapon with a metal point on a long shaft |
specious | illogical of questionable truth or merit |
splenetic | bad-tempered irritable |
splice | join (two ends) |
sponge | porous rubber for washing live at once expense |
spurious | FALSE counterfeit |
spurn | have nothing to do reject or refuse |
squalid | foul filthy |
squander | spend wastefully |
squat | crouch/settle without permission |
stanch | to stop the flow of a fluid |
steeply | rising or falling sharply |
stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
stickler | person who insists on importance of something |
stigma | mark of shame or disgrace |
stigmatize | describe smb scornfully |
sting | something sharp |
stingy | spending using unwillingly |
stint | to be thrifty to set limits |
stipple | paint with dots |
stipulate | state or put forward as a necessary condition |
stolid | showing no emotion impassive |
stray | wander lose one's way |
streak | long thin move very fast |
striated | striped grooved or banded |
stride | walk with long steps |
strut | a supporting bar |
stygian | hence dark gloomy |
stymie | to hinder obstruct or block |
subdue | overcome bring under control |
sublime | extreme astounding |
submerge | put under water liquid sink out of sight |
suborn | induce by bribery or something to commit perjury |
subpoena | written order requiring a person to appear in a low court |
substantiation | giving facts to support (statement) |
subsume | include under a rule |
succor | assistance relief in time of distress |
suffice | be enough |
suffocate | cause or have difficulty in breathing |
sullied | to be stained or discredited |
summarily | briefly without delay |
sumptuous | magnificent |
sundry | various miscellaneous separate |
supercilious | disdainful characterized by haughty scorn |
superfluous | more then is needed or wanted |
superimpose | put something on the top |
supersede | take the place of |
supine | lying on the back slow to act passive |
suppliant | asking humbly beseeching |
supplicate | make a humble petition to |
suppress | prevent from being known put an end to |
surcharge | additional load/charge |
surfeit | satiate feed to fulness or to excess |
susceptibility | sensitiveness |
swerve | change direction suddenly |
sycophant | person who flatter to the rich and powerful |
synopsis | summary or outline |
taciturn | untalkative silent |
tadpole | form of a frog when it leaves the egg |
talon | claw of a bird of prey |
tamp | tap or drive down by repeated light blows |
tamper | interfere with |
tangential | suddenly changeable |
tarnished | lost brightness |
tassel | bunch of threads |
taunt | contemptuous reproach hurtful remark |
taut | tightly stretched |
tautology | a repetition a redundancy |
tawdry | cheap gaudy showy tacky |
teetotal | oppose to alcohol |
telltale | That gives warning or information |
temerity | boldness brashness intrepidness |
temperance | abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation |
temperate | showing self-control |
tenacity | firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on |
tenuous | insubstantial flimsy weak |
tepid | lukewarm |
terse | brief and to the point |
testiness | witness/evidence |
thrift | care economy thriving prosperous |
thwart | obstruct/frustrate |
timid | shy easily frightened |
timorous | fearful timid afraid |
toady | obsequious flatterer |
tonic | something giving strength or energy |
topple | be unsteady and overturn |
torment | severe pain or suffering |
torpid | sleeping sluggish lethargic dormant |
torque | twisting force causing rotation |
tortuous | devious/not straightforward |
tout | person who worries others to buy something to use his service |
tractable | easily controlled or guided |
transgress | break go beyond (a limit) |
transient | temporary fleeting |
transitory | brief |
travesty | parody/imitation |
trenchant | forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive |
trepidation | alarm excited state of mind |
trickle | flow in drops |
trifling | unimportant |
trite | not new |
truce | (agreement) stop of fighting for a time |
truculence | aggressiveness ferocity |
trudge | walk heavily |
turbid | muddy having the sediment stirred up |
turbulence | being uncontrolled violent |
turgid | excessively ornate swollen or bloated |
turmoil | trouble disturbance |
turpitude | wickedness shamefulness |
turquoise | greenish-blue precious stone |
tyro | tiro beginner |
ubiquitous | present everywhere |
ulterior | situated beyond |
umbrage | offense resentment |
uncouth | rough awkward |
underbid | make a lower bid then smb else |
undermine | weaken gradually at the base make something under |
undulate | to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate |
unearth | discover and bring to light |
unencumbered | easy-going trifle |
unfeigned | not pretended sincere |
unscathed | unharmed unhurt |
untoward | unfortunate inconvenient |
upbraid | scold reproach |
urbane | elegant refined in manners |
vacillation | being uncertain hesitating |
vagary | strange act or idea |
vain | without use result conceited |
valiant | brave |
valorous | brave |
vanquish | conquer |
variegate | To mark with different shade or colors |
veer | change direction |
venal | ready to do something dishonest |
veneer | surface appearance covering the TRUE nature |
veneration | regard with deep respect |
veracity | truth |
verdant | fresh and green |
verisimilitude | appearing TRUE or real |
veritable | real rightly named |
verve | spirit vigor enthusiasm |
vestige | trace or sign |
vex | annoy distress trouble |
vigilance | watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order |
vigilant | member of a vigilance committee |
vigorous | strong energetic |
vilify | slander say evil things |
vindictive | having a desire to revenge |
virago | a loud domineering woman a scold or nag |
visceral | of the internal organs of the body |
viscous | sticky/semi-fluid |
vitiate | lower the quality weaken the strength |
vituperate | curse abuse in words |
vivacious | lively high-spirited |
volatile | changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive |
volubility | fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language |
voluble | fluent |
waffle | talk vaguely and without much result |
waft | scent waving movement carry lightly through |
wag | merry person |
warmonger | person who stirs up war |
warrant | authority written order guarantee |
wean | to turn away (from a habit) |
weigh | measure hoe heavy something is |
welter | turmoil a bewildering jumble |
wend | to go proceed |
whimsical | full of odd and fanciful ideas |
wince | show bodily or mental pain |
woo | try to win |
writ | written order |
xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl) | a person who is attracted to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs |
yarn | tale story fibers for knitting |
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