VOCABULARY 01 AUG
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 |