TREMOR – shake / earthquake OBFUSCATE – cover, confuse PLAGIARISM – copy someone’s literature HALLUCINATION – seeing what is not
PERJURY – lying under oath AMICABLE – friendly SUBSTANTIAL – a lot
YEARN/ LONGING – want/desire OPULENT – showing expenses DEBRIS – broken leftovers of building CRESTFALLEN – come down PROCRASTINATE – delay ALLEVIATE – remove HUBRIS – arrogance JAUNTILY / JOVIAL – with liveliness, purpose
PEDANT – person who insists on formal rules / exact meaning NOCTURNAL – active in night
ELOPE – to run away with lover WINDFALL GAIN – surprise profit STOWAWAY – who hides on ship to travel for free INEFFABLE – impossible to describe DENIGRATE – to damage someone’s character VOLLEY – continuous stream of HOLLER – loud shouts CHIVALRY – courtesy towards ladies CAPTIVE – Within control ARCHAIC – very old DETERRENCE/DETERRENT – a stopping threat/factor SQUEAMISH – not loud MICROCOSM – environment MONETARILY/MONETARY – regarding money RIVETED – fixed SYCOPHANCY – flaterrer / chaplusi LABYRINTH – a series of SUCCUMB – fell to PERPLEX – confuse ABRASIVE – crude PURGED OFF – removed from GRAPPLE – wrestle / fight REMNANTS – remaining parts ONUS – its on you LACKADAISICAL – lazy in a dreamy way FORSAKE – leave someone who needs or counts on you VIRULENT – extremely poisonous or injurious OBLITERATE – remove completely from recognition or memory CONUNDRUM – a difficult problem BOLSTER – support CALAMITY – Tragedy CHARISMA – Charm, appeal DAUNTLESS – brave DABBLE – Indulge in DEPLORE – criticize ASSENT – rise MOTIVATION – drive PERPETUAL – always DEFIANCE – resistance RESIDUE – remains EMANCIPATE – lift up / raise standard HOSTILITY – enmity FORBID – prevent AMBIGIOUS – double meaning / confusing COUNTERFEIT – not original FUSION – mixture ESCALATE – increase TERMINATE – end/finish GRAVITATE – move towards AGILE – nimble, swift BLITHE – carefree CONCEIT – extra pride in oneself ARCHIVE – old ATROPHY – wastage BECKON – call with expression BELLIGERENT – tending to fight BENIGN – not growing ACCRUE – accumulate RECKON – decide after calculating ARSON – fight/riots/violence NARCISSISTIC – self obsessed ASYLUM – shelter BEHEMOTH – giant VOCIFEROUS – loudly PLACIBO – dose without medicine CONCEDE – Give in / agree after first disagreeing ANNIHILATE – destroy CONCUR – give sanction RETALIATE – fight back ATONEMENT – prashyit UBIQUITOUS – found everywhere STOIC – can withstand stress BEREAVEMENT – sorrow after death BEQUEATH – give VEHEMENTLY – very strongly COMMEMORATE – celebrate ADORE – love BANAL – boring, repetitive PILFER – steal FIREBRAND – tough tongue FIASCO – flop thing, ULTERIOR – inner motive, wrong intention, ABEYANCE – suspended indefinitely PLACATE – making calm and quiet PACIFIST – one who doesn’t like war HEYDAY – past days of glory BURGEONING – filled with RILE – disturbance GARISH – shameless display of money ERSTWHILE – of past VILIFY – spoil someone’s character ARCHETYPE – initial model of things to be made CRYPTIC – secretive, with clues, PENCHANT –flair for, love for something FAWNING – buttering LAGGARD – one who is always late INGRAINED – deeply set
ABHOR – hate AUTHENTIC – original ALLURE – attract ABOLISH – ban ABJECT – bad state ACCEDE – give up ARROGANT – too proud ASTRAY – go on wrong path ACCUMEN – intelligence AMIABLE – friendly AMENABLE – accepted easily ADVENT – start ABYSMAL – low chances ACQUISITION – to acquire ADEPT – skillful ADVERSARY – enemy AESTHETIC – graceful, with style AGITATE – getting angry AFFORD – ability to buy ALLUDE – to tell something secretly ALTERCATION – argument ANOMALY – exception ABANDON – leave, discard ACQUIT – free someone ALIMONY – money after divorce ABSTAIN – stay away ACCOMPLICE – partner ADMONISH – scold ADORN – to make something beautiful ADULATION – appreciation AGRARIAN – related to agriculture ALLEGE – blame ALLEGIENCE – loyalty AMNESTY – forgiveness AFFLUENT – rich ASCERTAIN – check again ANARCHY – disorder, chaos AMUSE – entertain ATTRIBUTE – link to, qualities ATTIRE – dress
AVARICE –greed BAFFLE – confuse BALEFUL – deadly / evil BALK – stop suddenly
BALLAD – song BANTER – chat BARBARIC – cruel BARREN – infertile BEGUILE – charm someone deceptively BELITTLE – to make someone small BENEFACTOR – one who supports financially BLUNT – not sharp EPOCH – era DECIMATE – destroy DRACONIAN – cruel FROTH – bubbles LITHARGY – laziness JURISDICTION – area of responsibility RHETORIC – saying repeatedly TANGIBLE – which can be measured GULLIBLE – easily manipulated FRATERNITY – community HEINOUS– very bad JARGON – typical language CATAPULT – device with rubber to throw stones ELONGATE – to stretch NASCENT – early stage OXYMORON – something in which opposites are true/impossible
MUNDANE – boring, repetitive TYRANT – cruel king RAMPART – protrusion in a Fort STIMULATE – to give an input / boost RAMPANT – widespread LIQUIDATE – sell everything and shut RETICENT – one who speaks less VAGABOND – one who keeps travelling without a shelter CACOPHONY – harsh sound VERACITY – truthfulness IDIOSYNCRACIES – strange habits ZEST – zeal, enthusiasm INFIRMITY – lack of firmness RENDEVOUS – meeting point EVOCATIVE – to bring out feelings IMPROMPTU – without preparation
underbid | make a lower bid then somebody else |
euthanasia | easy and painless death |
irate | angry |
decree | order given by authority |
lampoon | publicly mock or ridicule |
alcove | recess/partially enclosed place |
turquoise | greenish-blue precious stone |
hapless | unlucky |
miser | person who loves wealth and spends little |
frantic | wildly excited with joy; pain; anxiety |
woo | try to win |
pervade | spread through every part of |
concoct | invent, prepare by mixing together |
reverent | feeling or showing deep respect |
imminent | likely to come or happen soon |
valiant | brave |
irrevocable | final and unalterable |
derogatory | insulting; damaging |
voluptuous | arousing sensual pleasures |
tarnished | lost brightness/daag lagna |
soggy | heavy with water |
vindictive | having a desire to take revenge |
pinch | be too tight take between the thumb and finger |
earthenware | dishes made of baked clay |
suppress | To prevent / dabana / push down |
hoax | mischievous trick played to deceive |
savor | Taste, flavor something |
unearth | discover and bring to light |
loquacious | talkative; garrulous |
defiance | open disobedience or resistance |
warmonger | person who stirs up war |
gust | outburst of feeling; sudden rain wind fire etc. |
candid | frank; straight-forward |
coalescing | coming together and uniting into one substance |
counterfeit | forgery |
Pilfer | steal, especially in small quantities |
precursory | preliminary; anticipating |
gush | burst out suddenly/talk ardently |
quandary | state of doubt or perplexity |
plunge | move quickly suddenly and with force |
wanton | unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste |
revere | have deep respect for |
punitive | Punishing |
swerve | change direction suddenly |
torment | severe pain or suffering |
dawdler | person who is slow waste of time |
abraded | rubbed off; worn away by friction |
noxious | Harmful |
vitriolic | corrosive; sarcastic |
compunction | feeling of regret for one’s action |
squander | spend wastefully |
exculpate | to clear from a charge of guilt |
antithetical | direct opposing |
stifled | suppressed, kept back |
deplete | use until none remains |
recompense | make payment to reward punish |
propagation | increasing the number; spreading; extending |
coerce | Compel, to force, to make obedient |
implacable | incapable of being placated; unpleasable |
vigilance | Watchfulness, self-appointed group who maintain order |
proliferate | grow / reproduce by rapid multification |
holster | leather case for a pistol |
aseptic | surgically clean |
apropos | by the way |
ineptitude | quality of being unskillful |
distraught | distracted violently, upset in mind |
reciprocity | granting of privileges in return for similar |
peccadillo | small sin, small weakness in one’s character |
lustrous | being bright; polished, shiny |
extol | to praise highly |
condense | increase in density/ strength, make laconic |
fawn | To seek favour or attention by flattery |
personable | pleasing in appearance, attractive |
forestall | prevent by taking action in advance; pre-empt |
stipulate | state or put forward as a necessary condition |
lament | show feeling of great sorrow |
provoke | make angry, vax |
subpoena | written order requiring a person to appear in a low court |
plummet | Fall, plunge steeply |
soot | black powder in smoke |
accrue | Accumulate |
complaisance | tending to comply, obliging, willingness to please |
illicit | unlawful; forbidden |
valorous | Brave |
apprehensive | Fear / unhappy feeling about future |
idolatry | excessive admiration of |
viscous | sticky/semi-fluid |
haughty | arrogant; conceited |
concord | agreement or harmony |
aversion | strong dislike |
latent | present but not yet active; developed or visible |
supersede | take the place of |
topple | be unsteady and overturn |
entangle | put into difficulties |
deviance | being different in moral standards (from normal) |
inept | unskillful; said or done at the wrong time |
variegate | To mark with different shade or colors |
pristine | Primitive, unspoiled, pure as in earlier times unadulterated |
impediment | something that hinders (e.g. stammer) |
wince | show bodily or mental pain |
prevalent | Common |
undermine | weaken gradually at the base |
enunciate | pronounce (words)/express a theory |
malevolence | wishing to do evil |
slack | sluggish; dull; not tight |
arduous | steep difficult ascent; laborious |
iconoclast | person who attacks popular beliefs |
pungency | Sharpness, stinging quality |
chortle | loud chuckle of pleasure or amusement |
aloof | reserved; indifferent |
placate | Soothe, pacify, calm |
regicide | crime of killing a king |
palate | roof of the mouth; sense of taste |
indomitable | not easily discouraged or subdued |
calisthenics | exercises to develop strong bodies |
polemic | a controversial argument / a person engaged in such an argument |
recluse | person who lives alone and avoids people |
felon | person guilty of murder |
whimsical | full of odd and fanciful ideas |
hush | make or become silent |
frugal | careful; economical |
finesse | delicate way of dealing with a situation |
shun | keep away from avoid |
apprise | give notice to inform |
bigot | stubborn; narrow-minded person |
tamper | interfere with |
muffler | cloth worn round the neck; silencer |
imperative | urgent; essential |
lavish | giving or producing freely liberally or generously |
enthral | take the whole attention, enslave |
dismal | sad; gloomy; miserable |
smolder | burn slowly without flame |
perilous | dangerous |
floe | a sheet of floating ice |
trickle | flow in drops |
disencumber | free from encumbrance |
impending | imminent; about to happen; expected |
stickler | person who insists on importance of something |
vehemence | forcefulness |
stigma | mark of shame or disgrace |
castigation | severe punishment |
avow | admit; declare openly |
mendacious | lying; habitually dishonest |
nihilism | total rejection of all religious and moral beliefs |
benevolence | wish or activity in doing good |
deter | Discourage, hinder |
tenacity | firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on |
indulge | gratify; give way to satisfy allow oneself |
squat | crouch/settle without permission |
incredulous | skeptical; unwilling to believe |
exuberance | state of growing vigorously being full of life |
incessant | Constant |
apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
gist | the point general sense |
connotation | Suggestion, in addition to |
transient | Temporary, fleeting |
conciliatory | reconciling; soothing; comforting; mollifying |
empirical | relying on experiment |
berate | scold sharply |
soar | rise fly high |
arcane | known or understood by very few |
engrave | impress deeply |
procrastination | keeping on putting off |
subdue | overcome bring under control |
flaunting | show off complacently |
impair | worsen; diminish in value |
tassel | bunch of threads |
immaculate | pure; faultless |
prone | prostrate; inclined to (undesirable things) |
astute | clever quick at seeing to get an advantage |
extrovert | cheerful person |
coy | shy/modest (especially of a girl) |
approbation | approval |
pillage | plunder (especially in war) |
incorrigibility | cannot be cured or corrected |
taciturn | unspoken, silent |
efface | rub or wipe out, obliterate |
mollify | make calmer or quieter |
sober | self-controlled |
truce | (agreement) stop of fighting for a time |
exorbitant | much too high or great |
bolster | give greatly needed support |
conviction | convincing firm belief |
diabolical | having the qualities of a devil |
castigate | to chastise; correct by punishing |
fallacious | based on error |
precepts | rules establishing standards of conduct |
curtail | make shorter then was planned |
flamboyant | brightly colored; florid |
nonchalant | not having interest |
vex | annoy distress trouble |
gorge | eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream |
poncho | large piece of cloth |
inscrutable | incapable of being discovered or understood |
impassive | unmoved; feeling no sign of passion |
grandiloquent | using pompous words |
espouse | To take in marriage |
pitfall | covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger |
boorish | crude; rude |
shrill | sharp; piercing |
lull | become quiet or less active |
imperturbable | calm not capable of being excited |
arboreal | of connected with trees |
coddle | treat with care and tenderness |
timorous | fearful timid afraid |
sagacious | having sound judgment; perceptive; wise like a sage |
prudence | careful forethought |
cohort | a group or band of people |
oblivious | unaware; having no memory |
ignoble | not noble; inferior |
perch | take up a high position |
disseminate | distribute (esp. ideas) |
rescind | repeal/annul/cancel |
ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement |
intersperse | place here and there |
nebulous | cloud-like; hazy; vague; indistinct |
laudatory | expressing or giving praise |
bask | in enjoy warmth and light |
fluke | lucky; stroke |
heed | attention/give notice to |
pliant | easily bent |
endearing | making dear or liked |
matriculation | be admitted enter a university as a student |
precarious | uncertain risky dangerous |
embellish | make beautiful |
ominous | threatening |
fluster | make nervous or confused |
inferno | hell |
susceptibility | sensitiveness |
dubious | feeling doubt |
graze | touch or scrape lightly in passing |
malapropism | misuse of a word (for one that resembles it) |
quell | suppress subdue |
irascible | irritable; easily angered |
ostracism | shut out from society refuse to meet talk |
divulge | make known something secret |
incise | engrave; make a cut in |
maverick | rebel; nonconformist |
palpitate | tremble beat rapidly and irregularly |
ambrosial | extremely pleasing to taste |
extort | obtain by threats violence |
sidestep | step to one side |
cling | to resist separation |
arabesque | a complex ornate design |
corroboration | additional strengthening evidence |
cantankerous | bad-tempered/quarrelsome |
ferocity | savage cruelty |
insensible | unconscious; unresponsive; unaffected |
epitome | brief summary representative example a typical model |
chaste | pure |
expurgate | to remove obscenity purify censor |
garner | to gather and save to store up |
rift | split crack dissension |
fidget | move restlessly make nervous |
efficacy | production of a desired result |
enmity | hatred being an enemy |
impervious | not allowing to pass through (of materials) |
palpability | can be felt or touched |
gourmand | a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess |
credulous | ready to believe things |
morbid | diseased; unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas) |
superfluous | more then is needed or wanted |
feral | Existing in a wild or untamed state |
attune | bring into harmony |
equipoise | equal distribution of weight equilibrium |
plead | address a court of law as an advocate |
convoke | call together summon |
veer | change direction |
Conduce | To bring about |
lackluster | (of eyes) dull |
chastisement | punishment |
benign | kind and gentle |
breach | opening; broken place; breaking |
pious | dutiful to parents; devoted to religion |
dissent | have a different opinion refuse to assent |
rarefy | to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine |
neophyte | person who has been converted to a belief |
reticence | uncommunicativeness |
veneration | regard with deep respect |
trudge | walk heavily |
grave | serious requiring; consideration |
thrift | care economy thriving prosperous |
blas� | bored with pleasure or dissipation |
daunt | intimidate make fearful |
impiety | lack of reverence or dutifulness |
irresolute | hesitating; undecided |
temperate | showing self-control |
heresy | belief contrary to what is generally accepted |
disheveled | untidy |
rave | act with excessive enthusiasm |
frenetic | frantic; frenzied |
fret | worry; irritation; wear away |
chicanery | legal trickery/false argument |
scalding | hot enough to boil |
guile | deceit; cunning |
tawdry | cheap gaudy showy tacky |
feckless | lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless |
ardor | enthusiasm |
telltale | That gives warning or information |
jocular | meant as a joke |
debacle | a breakup overthrow sudden disaster |
striated | striped grooved or banded |
cajole | use flattery or deceit to persuade |
taunt | contemptuous reproach hurtful remark |
exoneration | set someone clear (e.g.. from blame) |
contentious | argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome |
resilience | quality of quickly recovering the original shape |
hoodwink | trick; mislead |
alacrity | eager and cheerful; readiness |
disdain | look on with contempt |
abeyance | suspended action |
glimmer | weak/unsteady light |
ulterior | situated beyond |
terse | brief and to the point |
apotheosis | deification glorification to godliness |
inimitable | defying; imitation; unmatchable |
jagged | notched |
myriad | very great number |
conundrum | a riddle dilemma enigma |
nexus | a connection or link |
incite | stir up; rouse |
falter | waver/move in an uncertain manner |
drawl | slow way of speaking |
clamor | shout complain with a lot of noise |
clinch | come to grips/settle conclusively |
render | deliver provide represent |
abet | help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong) |
decorum | propriety properness |
quiescence | state of being passive/motionless |
ale | fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer |
innocuous | causing no harm |
discreet | careful/prudent |
ruffian | violent cruel man |
tepid | lukewarm |
itinerate | to travel from place to place to peregrinate |
sash | long strip worn round the waist |
exhaustive | complete; thorough |
doleful | dismal; mourful |
recant | take back as being FALSE give up |
crush | press lose shape subdue overwhelm |
talon | claw of a bird of prey |
abrogate | repeal or annul by authority |
sever | break off |
sodden | soaked; saturated |
quack | person dishonestly claiming to something |
intrepid | fearless; brave; undaunted |
emaciate | make thin and weak |
moot | open to discussion or debate; doubtful |
preternatural | not normal or usual |
ossify | to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea |
pariah | an outcast a rejected and despised person |
prim | neat; formal |
commodious | having plenty of space for what is needed |
servile | like a slave lacking independence |
unfeigned | not pretended sincere |
sketchy | shortly, roughly, quickly |
flinch | draw; move back; wince |
fixate | stare at |
recast | cast or fashion anew |
insurrection | rising of people to open resistance to |
transgress | break go beyond (a limit) |
engrossing | taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal |
vilify | slander say evil things |
intransigence | unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability |
heinous | odious (of crime) |
thwart | obstruct/frustrate |
infuse | put; pour; fill |
covert | disguised |
quixotic | fanciful, fantastic, imaginary |
ubiquitous | present everywhere |
putrefaction | becoming rotten |
assuage | make something (pain desire) less |
fracas | noisy; quarrel |
torpid | dull and slow |
sycophant | person who flatter to the rich and powerful |
ebullience | exuberance outburst of feeling |
insinuate | suggest unpleasantly; make a way for something gently |
urbane | elegant refined in manners |
austere | severely moral and strict simple and plain |
inadvertent | not paying proper attention |
assail | attack violently |
churlish | (adj) boorish |
equivocal | having a double or doubtful meaning; suspicious |
burnish | to polish; rub to a shine |
stingy | spending using unwillingly |
colander | bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water |
proclivity | inclination |
cower | crouch shrink back |
provisional | of the present time only |
mephitic | Poisonous; noxious |
maul | hurt by rough handling |
penury | extreme poverty |
ire | anger |
guileless | honest; straightforward |
engender | cause produce give rise to |
ruddy | reddish, healthy-looking |
occluded | blocked up |
profuse | abundant/lavish |
vain | without use result conceited |
forfeit | suffer the loss of something |
rotund | rich and deep; plump and round |
puerile | childish |
adamant | kind of stone; inflexible |
savant | person of great learning |
enervate | weaken deprive of strength attenuate |
equivocate | try to deceive by equivocal language |
dynamo | a generator something that produces electric current |
gnaw | waste away; bite steadily |
wean | to turn away (from a habit) |
beatify | to bless; make happy or ascribe a virtue to |
discrete | distinct |
crease | line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket |
glut | supply to much fill to excess |
pry | get something inquire too curiously |
ascertain | get to know |
splice | join (two ends) |
reticent | reserved; untalkative; silent; taciturn |
sting | something sharp |
elegy | a lament a melancholy composition |
penitent | feeling or showing regret |
paucity | scarcity a lacking of |
pusillanimous | cowardly; craven |
consummate | perfect/make; perfect/complete |
cogitate | think deeply mediate |
diatribe | bitter and violent attack in words |
obtuse | blunt/stupid |
stolid | showing no emotion impassive |
effrontery | boldness impudence arrogance |
indolence | laziness |
dissolution | disintegration looseness in morals |
derision | ridicule mockery deriding |
pyre | large pile of wood for burning |
dirge | a song of grief or lamentation |
erudite | learned; scholarly |
mercurial | quick changeable in character fleeting |
corporeal | physical of or for the body |
pedestrian | commonplace trite unremarkable |
equable | steady; regular |
insularity | narrow-mindedness; isolated |
admonitory | containing warning |
auspicious | favorable successful prosperous |
foray | to venture |
luculent | easily understood; lucid; clear |
onus | responsilibilty,burden |
nascent | coming into existence; emerging |
coeval | of the same period; coexisting |
decry | disapprove of |
penchant | strong inclination a liking |
secular | material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries |
streak | long thin move very fast |
vanquish | conquer |
retinue | following; attendants |
assiduous | diligent hard-working; sedulous |
dearth | shortage |
extirpate | to destroy exterminate cut out exscind |
baneful | causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive |
condone | forgive |
accretion | the growing of separate things into one |
pellucid | transparent easy to understand |
palliate | lessen the severity of |
cogent | strong; convincing |
indelible | that cannot be rubbed out |
covetous | eagerly desirous |
discredit | refuse to believe |
lumber | move in a clumsy/noisy way |
recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior |
lurk | be out of view ready to attack |
coda | passage that completes a piece of music |
cornucopia | abundant supply |
censure | expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke |
highbrow | (person) with superior tastes |
serration | having a toothed edge |
elicit | draw out |
caustic | biting sarcastic |
odious | repulsive; hateful |
dainty | pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please |
veneer | surface appearance covering the TRUE nature |
chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot |
deprave | make morally bad;corrupt |
duplicity | deliberate deception |
petrify | to make hard rocklike |
inane | silly; senseless |
tyro | a beginner |
abjure | promise or swear to give up |
dilate | speak comprehensively become wider large |
denigrate | blacken; belittle; sully; defame |
turbid | muddy having the sediment stirred up |
taut | tightly stretched |
privation | hardship |
protracted | prolonged |
pulchritude | Physical beauty |
bellicose | inclined to fighting |
punctilious | Meticulous |
ignominious | shameful; dishonorable; undignified; disgraceful |
avid | eager; greedy |
malign | to speak harmful untruths about someone |
interim | as an installment |
inundate | flood cover by overflowing |
attenuate | make thin; weaken; enervate |
phlegmatic | calm; sluggish; temperament; unemotional |
florid | very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face) |
inimical | harmful or unfriendly |
veracity | truth |
consume | get to the end of |
ingenuous | naive; young; artless; frank; honest; sincere |
sanctimony | self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety |
prevaricate | to equivocate to stray from the truth |
exigency | emergency an urgent situation |
hegemony | predominance |
lien | legal claim until a debt on it is repaid |
plaque | flat metal on a wall as a memorial |
barren | not good enough; unable to have young ones without value |
aver | affirm; assert; prove; justify |
credulity | too great a readiness to believe things |
chagrin | vexation |
forbearance | patience; willingness to wait |
snub | treat with contempt |
volubility | fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language |
libel | statement that damages reputation |
conceit | over-high opinion of too much pride |
idiosyncrasy | personal mannerism |
fledgling | an inexperienced person. |
obdurate | hardened and unrepenting; stubborn; inflexible |
dud | no use person something that fails |
contiguous | touching neighboring near |
facile | easily done |
waft | scent waving movement carry lightly through |
resigned | unresistant; submissive |
chastened | corrected punished |
repudiate | disown refuse to accept or pay |
abut | border on |
pernicious | harmful; injurious |
verisimilitude | appearing TRUE or real |
somatic | of the body |
defalcate | (v) to embezzle or misappropriate |
fringe | edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead |
insipid | without taste or flavor |
husk | worthless; outside part of anything |
dolt | stupid fellow |
penurious | poor/stingy |
incursion | a raid; a sudden attack |
coax | get somebody to do something by kindness |
parley | negotiation |
effluvia | outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor |
obfuscate | to darken; make obscure; muddle |
preclude | prevent make impossible |
disingenuous | sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning |
obtain | to be established accepted or customary |
encumbrance | burden things that get on the way of |
morose | ill-tempered; unsocial |
gloat | over look at with selfish delight |
jejune | insubstantial/dull/immature |
quirk | habit or action peculiar to something |
extempore | without previous thought or preparation |
regale | to delight or entertain to feast |
disparate | essentially different |
foil | prevent from carrying out |
finagle | to practice deception or fraud; scheme. |
salubrious | healthful |
scorch | become discolored/dry up/go at high speed |
perpetrate | be guilty commit (a crime) |
malinger | to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty |
discern | see with an effort but clearly |
Palpable | Obvious |
perfunctory | done as a duty without care |
waffle | talk vaguely and without much result |
transitory | brief |
pundit | pedant authority on a subject |
extant | still in existence |
deluge | great flood heavy rush of water |
mundane | worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday |
tocsin | a signal, especially of alarm |
ascribe | consider to be the origin of or belonging to |
visceral | of the internal organs of the body |
lachrymose | causing tears; tearful |
sullied | to be stained or discredited |
exscind | to cut out cut away |
temerity | boldness brashness intrepidness |
squalid | foul filthy |
extenuate | reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse |
collusion | secret agreement for a deceitful purpose |
undulate | to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate |
grovel | crawl; humble oneself |
fagged | too tired |
hollow | not soled with hole |
harbinger | One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner. |
shrewd | astute; showing sound judgement |
august | majestic; venerable |
conspicuous | easily seen remarkable |
Pastiche | work (usually artistic) which imitates |
rife | widespread |
gaucherie | socially awkward; tactless behavior |
evince | to show clearly to indicate |
finical | too fussy about food clothing etc. |
mellifluous | sweetly flowing |
rancorous | feeling bitterness; spitefulness |
snare | trap |
ascetic | practicing self-denial; austere; stark |
macabre | gruesome; suggesting death |
uncouth | rough awkward |
amortize | end (a debt) by setting aside money |
obviate | to make unnecessary get rid of |
levity | lack of seriousness |
paean | song of praise or triumph |
epiphany | A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi. |
delineate | to portray depict sketch out |
nadir | lowest; weakest point |
emote | stir up excite |
congeal | make or become stiff and solid |
grouse | Complain or grumble (verb) |
verve | spirit vigor enthusiasm |
fervor | warmth of feelings earnestness |
lope | move along with long strides |
gauche | hence; awkward |
lionize | treat as a famous person |
discourse | speech lecture |
expostulate | argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest |
noisome | offensive; disgusting (smell) |
dogmatic | positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion |
epicurean | devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment) |
lassitude | weariness; tiredness |
sumptuous | magnificent |
sanguine | cheerful; confident; optimistic |
irksome | tiresome |
ostentation | display to obtain admiration or envy |
prodigal | wasteful; reckless with money |
craven | cowardly |
imperious | commanding; haughty; arrogant |
brash | hasty rush; cheeky; saucy |
didactic | intended to instruct |
sophomoric | being immature |
requite | repay give in return |
presage | warning sign |
trifling | unimportant |
verdant | fresh and green |
intransigent | uncompromising |
prodigious | enormous; wonderful |
palatial | magnificent |
broach | bring up; announce; begin to talk about |
desiccant | substance used to absorb moisture |
supine | lying on the back slow to act passive |
agog | eager/excited |
philistine | a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge |
heretic | recreant, protestant,skeptic |
ensconce | To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably |
wile | a trick |
raconteur | person who tells anecdotes |
reactionary | opposing progress |
ferment | substance become excited |
hauteur | haughtiness |
perfidious | treacherous; faithless |
qualm | feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness |
drone | male bee person who isn’t self-employed |
propitious | auspicious; presenting favorable circumstances |
remonstrate | to protest object |
dilettante | a lover of an art or science |
rumple | make rough |
curmudgeon | bad-tempered person |
inchoate | not yet fully formed; rudimentary; elementary |
bequest | arrangement to give something at death |
facetious | humorous; funny; jocular |
fatuous | without sense foolish; self-satisfaction |
roll | call calling of names |
rapacious | greedy (esp for money) |
reproach | scold upbraid |
obtrusive | projecting; prominent; undesirably noticeable |
stymie | to hinder obstruct or block |
wan | looking ill, not bright |
baleful | harmful; ominous causing evil |
preen | tidy/show self-satisfaction |
jibe | gibe; make fun of |
bandy | discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly |
extricable | that can be freed |
provident | frugal; looking to the future |
burgeon | grow forth send out buds |
figurehead | carved image on the prow of a ship |
overweening | presumptuously; arrogant; overbearing |
barrage | artificial obstacle built across a river |
eschew | avoid |
fetid | stinking |
discountenance | refuse to approve of |
rivet | fix take up secure metal pin |
impetuous | having sudden energy; impulsive |
vacillation | being uncertain hesitating |
rueful | dejected |
equanimity | calmness of temperament |
pedantic | bookish showing off learning |
mendicant | a beggar |
hubris | arrogant; pride |
atonement | repayment death of Jesus |
excoriation | severe criticism |
ford | shallow place in a river (to cross) |
macerate | make or become soft by soaking in water |
soporific | producing sleep |
forswear | renounce; disallow; repudiate |
skiff | small boat |
saturnine | gloomy; dark; sullen; morose |
supplicate | make a humble petition to |
blithe | cheerful; casual; carefree |
profundity | depth |
boggle | To hesitate as if in fear or doubt |
blandness | polite manner; comforting; uninteresting |
contemn | to scorn or despise |
slur | join sounds/words (indistinct) |
cloture | closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting |
hallow | to make holy; consecrate |
egress | way out exit |
tortuous | devious/not straightforward |
scabbard | sheath for the blade |
benison | blessing |
rant | use extravagant language |
dereliction | deserting and leaving to fall into ruins |
seminal | like a seed constituting a source; originative |
perspicacity | quick judging and understanding |
petrous | like a rock hard stony |
machination | plot; scheme (esp. evil) |
restive | refusing to move reluctant to be controlled |
mendacity | dishonesty |
festoon | a decorative chain or strip hanging between two points |
prudish | easily shocked; excessively modest |
esoteric | abstruse intended only for a small circle of |
entreat | ask earnestly |
labyrinthine | to entangle the state of affairs |
perfidy | treachery breaking of faith |
vacuity | idleness |
prune | dried plum silly person |
contrite | filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing |
incumbents | official duties |
probity | uprightness incorruptibility principle |
indigence | poverty |
manacle | chains for the hands or feet |
maladroit | tactless; clumsy |
fervid | showing earnest feeling |
germane | relevant; pertinent to |
imbroglio | complicated and embarrassing situation |
stigmatize | describe somebody scornfully |
overhaul | examine thoroughly to learn about the condition |
kibosh | block, halt, stop |
molt | lose hair/feathers before new growing |
goad | something urging a person to action |
specious | illogical of questionable truth or merit |
cravat | piece of linen worn as a necktie |
cordon | line (of police acting as a guard) |
vestige | trace or sign |
eddy | circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind) |
forage | food for horses and cattle |
parsimonious | too economical; miserly |
flax | pale yellow (hair) a plant |
exploit | brilliant achievement develop use selfishly |
subsume | include under a rule |
poignant | deeply moving keen |
aleck | one who considers himself smarter than others |
petulant | unreasonably; impatient |
rubicund | red and healthy |
ineluctable | certain; inevitable |
severance | severing |
depredation | plundering |
insouciant | unconcerned; carefree |
platitude | a trite or banal statement unoriginality |
halcyon | calm and peaceful |
interdict | prohibit forbid |
lugubrious | mournful; excessively sad |
officious | too eager or ready to help offer advice |
predilection | special liking mental preference |
flout | reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition) |
onerous | needing effort burdensome |
gouge | tool for cutting grooves in wood |
chary | cautious; wary |
belligerent | (person nation) waging war |
profligate | wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant |
feint | pretend |
demagogue | person appealing not to reasons |
cabal | a scheme or plot a group of plotters |
upbraid | scold reproach |
deprecate | protest against; express disapproval of |
impute | to attribute to a cause or source ascribe |
inveterate | deep-rooted. long-established |
obsequious | too eager to obey or serve |
spurious | false; counterfeit |
retard | check hinder |
propitiatory | conciliatory; appeasing; mitigating |
maudlin | sentimental in a silly or tearful way |
shunt | send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion |
aplomb | self-confidence |
dulcet | melodious; harmonious |
tautology | a repetition a redundancy |
inured | accustomed to adapted |
gregarious | living in societies liking the company |
impecunious | having little or no money |
cursory | quick; hurried |
denouement | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
sordid | wretched; comfortless; contemptible |
hone | stone used for sharpening tools |
forge | workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead |
argot | jargon; slang |
plethora | glut |
sinuous | winding; undulating serpentine |
desultory | aimless;haphazard; digressing at random |
vigilant | member of a vigilance committee |
mulct | to deprive (someone) of something, as by fraud, extortion, etc. |
harangue | a long passionate speech |
augury | omenl sign |
libertine | immoral person |
salacious | obscene |
propinquity | nearness in time or place affinity of nature |
recalcitrant | disobedient |
turgid | excessively ornate swollen or bloated |
odium | intense hatred or dislike |
homiletics | act of preaching |
foible | defect of character (a person is wrongly proud) |
harrow | to distress; create stress or torment |
epistle | letter |
eclat | Great brilliance, as of performance or achievement |
deposition | dethronement; depositing |
tangential | suddenly changeable |
inculcate | fix firmly by repetition |
gainsay | to deny; to oppose |
nemesis | deserved and unavoidable punishment for wrong doing |
middling | fairly good but not very good |
countervail | counterbalance |
resort | to frequently visit |
repertoire | A stock of plays, dances, or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform |
nary | not any; no; |
pinchbeck | An alloy of zinc and copper used as imitation gold; A cheap imitation |
finicky | finical |
stentorian | extremely loud and powerful |
gossamer | soft light; delicate material |
divestiture | taking off getting rid of giving up |
profane | worldly having contempt for God |
temperance | abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation |
churl | bad-tempered person |
truculence | aggressiveness ferocity |
diffidence | shyness |
inveigh | to attack verbally; denounce; deprecate |
diaphanous | transparent; gauzy |
levee | formal reception/embankment |
astringent | substance that shrinks |
opprobrious | showing scorn or reproach |
nugatory | trifling/worthless |
trepidation | alarm excited state of mind |
rebuff | snub |
tenuous | insubstantial flimsy weak |
detumescence | diminishing or lessening of swelling |
glean | gather facts in small quantities |
panegyric | formal praise eulogy |
pucker | wrinkle |
vitiate | lower the quality weaken the strength |
disinter | dig up from the earth |
foppish | like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes |
flak | criticism; anti-aircraft guns |
refractory | stubborn; unmanageable; intractable |
atavistic | something reverting to an earlier type |
ramify | to be divided or subdivided to branch out |
fecund | fertile |
plod | continue doing something without resting |
expedient | likely to be useful for a purpose |
encomium | warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric |
pugnacious | fond of in the habit of fighting |
vituperate | curse abuse in words |
distrait | distracted |
obloquy | abusively; detractive language; sharp criticism; vituperation |
quail | lose courage turn frightened |
trenchant | forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive |
discomfit | confuse embarrass |
disconcert | upset the self-possession of |
impudent | rash; indiscreet |
untoward | unfortunate inconvenient |
quaff | drink deeply |
calumny | slander; aspersion |
voluble | fluent |
sermon | reproving a person for his faults |
rabble | mob crowd the lower classes of populace |
sublime | extreme; astounding |
peremptory | urgent; imperative; unchallenged; ending debate |
blandishment | flattery; coaxing |
bereft | rob or dispossess of something (material) |
cant | insincere talk/jargon |
strut | a supporting bar |
prosaic | straightforward.; lacking in imagination and spirit |
fetter | to shackle put in chains |
glib | ready and smooth but not sincere |
turpitude | wickedness shamefulness |
asperity | roughness; harshness; ill temper; irritability |
ensign | flag/badge |
raffish | showing vulgar in nature or appearance; tawdry |
contumacious | insubordinate rebellious |
idyll | a carefree episode or experience |
teetotal | oppose to alcohol |
meretricious | attractive on the surface but of little value |
veritable | real rightly named |
simper | (give a) silly/self-conscious smile |
incense | make angry |
implicate | to be involved |
invective | abusive language; curses |
mien | demeanor |
unencumbered | easy-going trifle |
endemic | epidemic |
quotidian | banal; everyday |
sophistry | fallacious; reasoning faulty logic |
hirsute | hairy; shaggy |
impugned | challenged to be doubted |
surfeit | satiate feed to fulness or to excess |
umbrage | offense resentment |
felicitous | suitably expressed; well chosen; apropos |
hack | cut roughly; hired horse |
toady | obsequious flatterer |
mettle | quality of endurance or courage |
peregrination | traveling about wandering |
plaintive | mournful; melancholy; sorrowful |
ineffable | to great to be described in words |
ecumenical | representing the whole Christian world |
canvass | discuss thoroughly sort of touting |
incipient | beginning |
pine | waste away through sorrow or illness |
ostensible | seeming appearing as such professed |
forbear | refrain from; be patient; ancestor |
tout | To solicit customers, votes, or patronage |
tamp | tap or drive down by repeated light blows |
piquant | agreeably pungent; stimulating |
slate | king of blue-grey stone propose criticize |
minatory | menacing; threatening |
stanch | to stop the flow of a fluid |
plumb | get to the root of |
fledged | able to fly trained experienced |
deferential | showing respect |
stipple | paint with dots |
sundry | various miscellaneous; separate |
demur | to hesitate; raise objections |
blatant | noisy and rough |
aspersion | slander |
cadge | to beg; to get by begging |
consternation | surprise and fear; dismay |
spurn | have nothing to do reject or refuse |
bedizen | to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner |
purvey | provide supply |
desuetude | cessation of use disuse |
suppliant | asking humbly beseeching |
countenance | to favor or approve of |
miseenscene | the stage setting or scenery of a play |
presumption | arrogance |
belabor | beat hard |
obstreperous | noisy; loud |
balk | obstacle purposely to get on the way of |
redoubtable | formidable causing fear |
supercilious | disdainful characterized by haughty scorn |
virago | a loud domineering woman a scold or nag |
trite | not new |
stygian | hence; dark; gloomy |
orison | prayer |
brummagem | Cheap and showy |
reprobate | person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency |
preponderance | greatness in number strength weight |
rebus | puzzle in which pictures stand for words |
hermetic | sealed by fusion |
expiation | ending; expiring |
vagary | strange act or idea |
trencherman | person who eats a lot |
sententious | short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs |
hew | make by hard work cut (by striking) |
dissemble | speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind) |
proscribe | denounce as dangerous |
imperviousness | not permitting penetration or passage; impenetrable |
portent | omen marvelous threatening |
picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers |
venal | ready to do something dishonest |
doggerel | trivial poorly constructed verse |
splenetic | bad-tempered;irritable |
peripatetic | wandering |
profligacy | shameless immorality |
imprecation | an invocation of evil a curse |
mettlesome | courageous; high-spirited |
froward | intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn |
lithe | bending; twisting |
petrified | taken away power (to think feel act) |
succor | assistance relief in time of distress |
pileous | Covered with hair |
duress | threats to compel somebody |
ferret | discover by searching search |
fulsome | disgusting offensive due to excessiveness |
travesty | parody/imitation |
puissance | strength |
acarpous | effete no longer fertile; worn out |
effete | infertile; worn out; weak |
pied | of mixed colors |
edacious | voracious; devouring |
constrain | compel |
wend | to go proceed |
sobriquet | nickname |
fulmination | bitter protest |
nibble | show some inclination to accept (an offer) |
ponderous | heavy; bulky; dull |
slake | to assuage to satisfy allay |
brook | to tolerate; endure |
pique | hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity) |
salutary | remedial wholesome causing improvement |
detraction | slandering verbal attack aspersion |
welter | turmoil a bewildering jumble |
palaver | To flatter; to cajole |
repast | meal |
stint | to be thrifty to set limits |
nostrum | a quack remedy; an untested cure |
pith | essential part force soft liquid substance |
nonplused | greatly surprised |
suborn | induce by bribery or something to commit perjury |
refulgent | shining; brilliant |
expatiate | to roam wander freely |
garble | make unfair selection from facts |
recondite | little known; abstruse |
fustian | bombastic |
scurvy | mean; contemptible |
mince | pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize |
epithet | adjective |
sedulous | persevering |
prolix | tiring because too long |
importune | beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute) |
abraid | to awaken or rouse |
cavalcade | a procession |
involute | complex |
bilge | bulge; the protuberance of a cask |
sere | make hard and without feeling |
droll | jesting |
descry | catch sight of see something in the distance |
brazen | made of brass |
repine | at be discontented with |
limn | paint portray |
wag | merry person |
lucubrate | write in scholarly fashion |
coruscate | sparkle |
crass | without refinement or sensitivity; gross. |
consequential | pompous self important |
foment | put something warm (to lessen the pain) |
testiness | witness/evidence |
recreancy | cowardice a cowardly giving up |
arrant | in the highest degree |
quibble | try to avoid by sophistication |
lam | a hasty escape; flight. |
Archaic | marked by the characteristics of an earlier period |
imbibe | to consume (liquids) by drinking; drink |
repose | rest;sleep |
perfunctorily | performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial |
impasse | a position or situation from which there is no escape; deadlock |
pulchritudinous | physically beautiful; comely. |
eupeptic | good digestion |
Chicane | deception |
brobdingnagian | gigantic |
Exodus | a going out; a departure |
Rejoinder | response |
Furtive | taken,done |