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  1. Conduce: To bring about
  2. abate: to lessen to subside
  3. abdication: giving up control authority
  4. aberration: straying away from what is normal
  5. abet: help/encourage smb (in doing wrong)
  6. abeyance: suspended action
  7. abhor: to hate to detest
  8. abide: be faithful to endure
  9. abjure: promise or swear to give up
  10. abraded: rubbed off worn away by friction
  11. abrogate: repeal or annul by authority
  12. abscond: to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
  13. abstruse: difficult to comprehend obscure
  14. abut: border on
  15. abysmal: bottomless extreme
  16. acarpous: effete no longer fertile worn out
  17. acclaimed: welcomed with shouts and approval
  18. accolade: praise approval
  19. accretion: the growing of separate things into one
  20. accrue: accumulate
  21. adamant: kind of stone inflexible
  22. admonitory: containing warning
  23. adorn: add beauty decorate
  24. adulteration: making unpure poorer in quality
  25. affable: polite and friendly
  26. affinity: close connection relationship
  27. aggravate: make worse irritate
  28. agile: active quick-moving
  29. agog: eager/excited
  30. ail: trouble be ill
  31. alacrity: eager and cheerful readiness
  32. alcove: recess/partially enclosed place
  33. ale: fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer
  34. aleck: one who considers himself smarter than others
  35. allegiance: duty support loyalty
  36. alleviate: make (pain) easier to bear
  37. alloy: to debase by mixing with something inferior
  38. aloof: reserved indifferent
  39. amalgamate: mix combine unite societies
  40. ambidextrous: able to use the left hand or the right equally well
  41. ambiguous: doubtful uncertain
  42. ambivalent: having both of two contrary meanings
  43. ambrosial: extremely pleasing to taste
  44. ameliorate: improve make better
  45. amortize: end (a debt) by setting aside money
  46. anguish: severe suffering
  47. animosity: strong dislike
  48. antidote: medicine used against a poison or a disease
  49. antithetical: direct opposing
  50. apartheid: brutal racial discrimination
  51. aplomb: self-confidence
  52. apostate: one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
  53. apotheosis: deification glorification to godliness
  54. appease: make quiet or calm
  55. apprehensive: grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
  56. apprise: give notice to inform
  57. approbation: approval
  58. apropos: appropriate to the situation apt
  59. apt: well-suited quick-witted
  60. arabesque: a complex ornate design
  61. arboreal: of connected with trees
  62. ardor: enthusiasm
  63. arduous: steep difficult ascent laborious
  64. argot: jargon slang
  65. arrant: in the highest degree
  66. arrogance: proud superior manner of behaviour
  67. articulate: speak distinctly connect by joints
  68. ascend: go or come up
  69. ascertain: get to know
  70. ascetic: practicing self-denial austere stark
  71. ascribe: consider to be the origin of or belonging to
  72. aseptic: surgically clean
  73. asperity: roughness harshness ill temper irritability
  74. aspersion: slander
  75. assail: with attack violently
  76. assiduous: diligent hard-working sedulous
  77. assuage: make something (pain desire) less
  78. asterisk: the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
  79. astringent: substance that shrinks
  80. astute: clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
  81. atonement: repayment death of Jesus
  82. attenuate: make thin. weaken enervate
  83. attune: bring into harmony
  84. audacious: daring foolishly bold impudent
  85. augury: omen sign
  86. august: majestic venerable
  87. auspicious: favorable successful prosperous
  88. austere: severely moral and strict simple and plain
  89. auxiliary: helping supporting
  90. aver: affirm assert prove justify
  91. aversion: strong dislike
  92. avid: eager greedy
  93. avow: admit. Declare openly
  94. baleful: harmful ominous causing evil
  95. balk: obstacle purposely to get on the way of
  96. baneful: causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive
  97. barrage: artificial obstacle built across a river
  98. barren: not good enough unable to have young ones without value
  99. bask: in enjoy warmth and light
  100. beatify: to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
  101. bedizen: to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
  102. belabor: beat hard
  103. bellicose: belligerent pugnacious warlike
  104. belligerent: (person nation) waging war
  105. benefactor: person who has given help
  106. benevolence: wish or activity in doing good
  107. benign: kind and gentle mild (climate)
  108. bequest: arrangement to give something at death
  109. berate: scold sharply
  110. bereft: rob or dispossess of something (material)
  111. bewilder: puzzle confuse
  112. bigot: stubborn narrow-minded person
  113. bilge: bulge the protuberance of a cask
  114. blandishment: flattery coaxing
  115. blandness: polite manner comforting uninteresting
  116. blatant: noisy and rough
  117. blithe: cheerful casual carefree
  118. bogus: sham counterfeit not genuine
  119. boisterous: loud noisy rough lacking restraint
  120. bolster: give greatly needed support
  121. boorish: crude offensive rude
  122. brash: hasty rush cheeky saucy
  123. brass: yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
  124. brazen: made of brass
  125. breach: opening broken place breaking
  126. brittle: easily broken
  127. broach: bring up announce begin to talk about
  128. brook: to tolerate endure
  129. buoyant: able to float light-hearted
  130. burgeon: grow forth send out buds
  131. burnish: to polish rub to a shine
  132. cabal: a scheme or plot a group of plotters
  133. cadge: to beg to get by begging
  134. cajole: use flattery or deceit to persuade
  135. calipers: metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
  136. calumny: slander aspersion
  137. candid: frank straight-forward
  138. cant: insincere talk/jargon
  139. cantankerous: bad-tempered/quarrelsome
  140. canvass: discuss thoroughly sort of touting
  141. castigate: to chastise correct by punishing
  142. castigation: severe punishment
  143. catalyst: substance that causes speeding up
  144. caustic: biting sarcastic
  145. censure: expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
  146. centurion: leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
  147. chary: cautious wary
  148. chastened: corrected punished
  149. chastisement: punishment
  150. chauvinist: a blindly devoted patriot
  151. chicanery: legal trickery/false argument
  152. chisel: steel tool for shaping materials
  153. churl: bad-tempered person
  154. clamor: shout complain with a lot of noise
  155. clientele: customers
  156. clinch: come to grips/settle conclusively
  157. cling: to resist separation
  158. clot: half-solid lump formed from liquid
  159. cloture: closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
  160. coagulation: change to a thick and solid state
  161. coalescing: coming together and uniting into one substance
  162. coax: get smb to do something by kindness
  163. coda: passage that completes a piece of music
  164. coddle: treat with care and tenderness
  165. coerce: compel to force to make obedient
  166. coeval: of the same period coexisting
  167. cogent: strong convincing
  168. cogitate: think deeply mediate
  169. cognizant: being fully aware of
  170. cohort: a group or band of people
  171. colander: bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
  172. collusion: secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
  173. combustion: process of burning
  174. commemorate: keep the memory of
  175. commodious: having plenty of space for what is needed
  176. commuter: person who travels regularly
  177. complaisance: tending to comply obliging willingness to please
  178. compunction: feeling of regret for one's action
  179. conceal: hide keep secret
  180. conceit: over-high opinion of too much pride
  181. conciliatory: reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
  182. concord: agreement or harmony
  183. concur: agree in opinion happen together
  184. condense: increase in density strength make laconic
  185. condone: forgive
  186. congeal: make or become stiff and solid
  187. conjoin: to join together
  188. connoisseur: a person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
  189. connotation: suggestion in addition to
  190. consequential: pompous self important
  191. console: give comfort or sympathy to
  192. conspicuous: easily seen remarkable
  193. consternation: surprise and fear dismay
  194. constrain: compel
  195. constrict: make tight or smaller
  196. consume: get to the end of
  197. consummate: perfect/make perfect/complete
  198. contemn: to scorn or despise
  199. contentious: argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
  200. contiguous: touching neighboring near
  201. contrite: filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
  202. contumacious: insubordinate rebellious
  203. conundrum: a riddle dilemma enigma
  204. conviction: convincing firm belief
  205. convoke: call together summon
  206. convoluted: complicated coiled twisted
  207. cordial: warm and sincere
  208. cordon: line (of police acting as a guard)
  209. cornucopia: abundant supply
  210. corporeal: physical of or for the body
  211. correlate: have a mutual relation
  212. corroboration: additional strengthening evidence
  213. countenance: to favor or approve of
  214. counterfeit: forgery
  215. countervail: counterbalance
  216. covert: disguised
  217. covetous: eagerly desirous
  218. cower: crouch shrink back
  219. coy: shy/modest (esp of a girl)
  220. crass: very great (es. stupidity)
  221. cravat: piece of linen worn as a necktie
  222. craven: cowardly
  223. crease: line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
  224. credulity: too great a readiness to believe things
  225. credulous: ready to believe things
  226. crush: press lose shape subdue overwhelm
  227. cryptic: secret with a hidden meaning
  228. cumbersome: burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
  229. curmudgeon: bad-tempered person
  230. curriculum: course of study
  231. cursory: quick hurried
  232. curtail: make shorter then was planned
  233. dainty: pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
  234. daunt: intimidate make fearful
  235. dawdler: person who is slow waste of time
  236. dearth: shortage
  237. debacle: a breakup overthrow sudden disaster
  238. decorum: propriety properness
  239. decree: order given by authority
  240. decry: disapprove of
  241. defer: postpone give way (to show respect)
  242. deferential: showing respect
  243. defiance: open disobedience or resistance
  244. delineate: to portray depict sketch out
  245. deluge: great flood heavy rush of water
  246. demagogue: person appealing not to reasons
  247. demur: to hesitate raise objections
  248. denigrate: blacken belittle sully defame
  249. denouement: an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
  250. deplete: use until none remains
  251. deposition: dethronement depositing
  252. deprave: make morally bad corrupt
  253. deprecate: protest against express disapproval of
  254. dereliction: deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
  255. derision: ridicule mockery deriding
  256. derivative: unoriginal obtained from another source
  257. derogatory: insulting tending to damage
  258. descry: catch sight of see something in the distance
  259. desiccant: substance used to absorb moisture
  260. desuetude: cessation of use disuse
  261. desultory: aimless haphazard digressing at random
  262. deter: discourage hinder
  263. detraction: slandering verbal attack aspersion
  264. detumescence: diminishing or lessening of swelling
  265. deviance: being different in moral standards (from normal)
  266. dexterity: skill (esp. in handling)
  267. diaphanous: transparent gauzy
  268. diatribe: bitter and violent attack in words
  269. didactic: intended to instruct
  270. diffidence: shyness
  271. dilate: speak comprehensively become wider large
  272. disallow: refuse to allow or accept as a correct
  273. discern: see with an effort but clearly
  274. discomfit: confuse embarrass
  275. disconcert: upset the self-possession of
  276. discountenance: refuse to approve of
  277. discourse: speech lecture
  278. discredit: refuse to believe
  279. discreet: careful/prudent
  280. discrete: individually distinct
  281. disdain: look on with contempt
  282. disencumber: free from encumbrance
  283. disheveled: untidy
  284. disingenuous: sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
  285. disinter: dig up from the earth
  286. dislodge: move force from the place occupied
  287. dismal: sad gloomy miserable
  288. disparate: essentially different
  289. disproof: proof to the contrary
  290. dissemble: speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind)
  291. disseminate: distribute (esp. ideas)
  292. dissent: have a different opinion refuse to assent
  293. dissolution: disintegration looseness in morals
  294. distraught: distracted violently upset in mind
  295. divergence: getting farther apart from a point
  296. divestiture: taking off getting rid of giving up
  297. divulge: make known something secret
  298. doggerel: trivial poorly constructed verse
  299. dogmatic: positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion
  300. dolt: stupid fellow
  301. dormant: in a state of inactivity but awaiting development
  302. dote: show much fondness center one's attention
  303. drawl: slow way of speaking
  304. droll: jesting
  305. drone: male bee person who isn't self-employed
  306. drowsiness: feeling sleepy half asleep
  307. dubious: feeling doubt
  308. dud: no use person something that fails
  309. dulcet: melodious harmonious
  310. dupe: cheat make a fool of
  311. duplicity: deliberate deception
  312. duress: threats to compel smb
  313. dwarf: person or smb much below the usual size
  314. dynamo: a generator something that produces electric current
  315. earthenware: dishes made of baked clay
  316. ebullience: exuberance outburst of feeling
  317. ebullient: overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
  318. ecumenical: representing the whole Christian world
  319. edacious: voracious devouring
  320. eddy: circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
  321. edible: fit to be eaten/not poisonous
  322. effete: infertile worn out weak
  323. efficacy: production of a desired result
  324. effluvia: outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
  325. effrontery: boldness impudence arrogance
  326. egress: way out exit
  327. elaborate: worked out with much care in great detail
  328. elegy: a lament a melancholy composition
  329. elicit: draw out
  330. eloquence: fluent speaking skillful use of language
  331. emaciate: make thin and weak
  332. embellish: make beautiful
  333. embezzle: use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
  334. emote: stir up excite
  335. empirical: relying on experiment
  336. encapsulate: enclose in capsule
  337. encomium: warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
  338. encumbrance: burden things that get on the way of
  339. endearing: making dear or liked
  340. endemic: epidemic
  341. endorse: write one's name on the back of
  342. enduring: lasting
  343. enervate: weaken deprive of strength attenuate
  344. engender: cause produce give rise to
  345. engrave: impress deeply
  346. engrossing: taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
  347. engulf: swallow up
  348. enigma: something that is puzzling
  349. enmity: hatred being an enemy
  350. ensign: flag/badge
  351. entangle: put into difficulties
  352. enthral: please greatly/enslave (fig)
  353. entice: tempt or persuade
  354. entreat: ask earnestly
  355. enunciate: pronounce (words)/express a theory
  356. enzyme: catalyst
  357. epicurean: devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
  358. epiphany: A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi.
  359. epistle: letter
  360. epithet: adjective
  361. epitome: brief summary representative example a typical model
  362. equable: steady regular
  363. equanimity: calmness of temperament
  364. equilibrium: state of being balanced
  365. equipoise: equal distribution of weight equilibrium
  366. equivocal: having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
  367. equivocate: try to deceive by equivocal language
  368. eradicate: get rid of pull up by the roots
  369. erratic: irregular in behaviour or opinion
  370. erudite: learned scholarly
  371. eschew: avoid
  372. esoteric: abstruse intended only for a small circle of
  373. espouse: marry give one's support to
  374. eulogy: formal praise panegyric
  375. euphoria: elation state of pleasant excitement
  376. euthanasia: easy and painless death
  377. evasive: tending to evade
  378. evince: to show clearly to indicate
  379. evoke: call up bring out
  380. excoriation: severe criticism
  381. exculpate: to clear from a charge of guilt
  382. exhaustive: complete thorough
  383. exigency: emergency an urgent situation
  384. exoneration: set smb clear free (e.g.. from blame)
  385. exorbitant: much too high or great
  386. expatiate: to roam wander freely
  387. expedient: likely to be useful for a purpose
  388. expiation: ending expiring
  389. exploit: brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
  390. expostulate: argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
  391. expurgate: to remove obscenity purify censor
  392. exscind: to cut out cut away
  393. extant: still in existence
  394. extempore: without previous thought or preparation
  395. extenuate: reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
  396. extinct: no longer active
  397. extinguish: end the existence of/wipe or put out
  398. extirpate: to destroy exterminate cut out exscind
  399. extol: praise highly
  400. extort: obtain by threats violence
  401. extralegal: outside the law
  402. extricable: that can be freed
  403. extrovert: cheerful person
  404. exuberance: state of growing vigorously being full of life
  405. facetious: humorous funny jocular
  406. facile: easily done
  407. fagged: too tired, exhausted
  408. fallacious: based on error
  409. falter: waver/move in an uncertain manner
  410. fatuous: without sense foolish self-satisfaction
  411. fawn: young deer try to win smb's favor
  412. feckless: lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
  413. fecund: fertile
  414. feint: pretend
  415. felicitous: apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
  416. felon: person guilty of murder
  417. ferment: substance become excited
  418. ferocity: savage cruelty
  419. ferret: discover by searching search
  420. fervid: showing earnest feeling
  421. fervor: warmth of feelings earnestness
  422. fetid: stinking
  423. fetter: to shackle put in chains
  424. feud: bitter quarrel over a long period of time
  425. fidelity: loyalty accuracy
  426. fidget: move restlessly make nervous
  427. figurehead: carved image on the prow of a ship
  428. finesse: delicate way of dealing with a situation
  429. finical: too fussy about food clothing etc.
  430. finicky: finical
  431. fission: splitting or division (esp. of cells)
  432. fixate: stare at
  433. flak: criticism/anti-aircraft guns
  434. flamboyant: brightly colored florid
  435. flaunting: show off complacently
  436. flax: pale yellow (hair) a plant
  437. fledged: able to fly trained experienced
  438. fleet: number of ships quick-moving
  439. flinch: draw move back wince
  440. flop: fail/move/fall clumsily
  441. florid: very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
  442. flout: reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
  443. fluke: lucky stroke
  444. fluster: make nervous or confused
  445. foible: defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
  446. foil: prevent from carrying out contrast
  447. foment: put something warm (to lessen the pain)
  448. foolproof: incapable of failure or error
  449. foppish: like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
  450. forage: food for horses and cattle
  451. forbear: refrain from be patient ancestor
  452. forbearance: patience willingness to wait
  453. ford: shallow place in a river (to cross)
  454. forestall: prevent by taking action in advance preempt
  455. forfeit: suffer the loss of something
  456. forge: workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead
  457. forgery: counterfeit
  458. forswear: renounce disallow repudiate
  459. foster: nurture care for
  460. fracas: noisy quarrel
  461. fragile: easily injured broken or destroyed
  462. fragrant: sweet-smelling
  463. frantic: wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
  464. frenetic: frantic frenzied
  465. fret: worry irritation wear away
  466. fringe: edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
  467. froward: intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
  468. frugal: careful economical
  469. fulmination: bitter protest
  470. fulsome: disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
  471. gainsay: to deny to oppose
  472. garble: make unfair selection from facts
  473. garner: to gather and save to store up
  474. garrulity: talkativeness
  475. garrulous: too talkative
  476. gaucherie: socially awkward tactless behavior
  477. germane: relevant pertinent to
  478. gist: the point general sense
  479. glean: gather facts in small quantities
  480. glib: ready and smooth but not sincere
  481. glimmer: weak/unsteady light
  482. gloat: over look at with selfish delight
  483. glut: supply to much fill to excess
  484. gnaw: waste away bite steadily
  485. goad: something urging a person to action
  486. gorge: eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
  487. gossamer: soft light delicate material
  488. gouge: tool for cutting grooves in wood
  489. gourmand: a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess
  490. grandiloquent: using pompous words
  491. grave: serious requiring consideration
  492. graze: touch or scrape lightly in passing
  493. gregarious: living in societies liking the company
  494. grievous: causing grief or pain serious dire grave
  495. grovel: crawl humble oneself
  496. guile: deceit cunning
  497. gullible: easily gulled
  498. gush: burst out suddenly/talk ardently
  499. gust: outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
  500. hack: cut roughly hired horse
  501. halcyon: calm and peaceful
  502. hallow: to make holy consecrate
  503. harangue: a long passionate speech
  504. harbinger: something or smb that foretells the coming of
  505. harrow: to distress create stress or torment
  506. haughty: arrogant conceited
  507. heed: attention/give notice to
  508. heinous: odious (of crime)
  509. heresy: belief contrary to what is generally accepted
  510. hermetic: sealed by fusion
  511. heterogeneous: made up of different kinds
  512. hew: make by hard work cut (by striking)
  513. highbrow: (person) with superior tastes
  514. hirsute: hairy shaggy
  515. hoax: mischievous trick played on smb for a joke
  516. hoi: polloi the masses the rabble
  517. hollow: not soled with hole
  518. holster: leather case for a pistol
  519. homiletics: act of preaching
  520. hone: stone used for sharpening tools
  521. hoodwink: trick mislead
  522. hospitable: liking to give hospitality
  523. hubris: arrogant pride
  524. hush: make or become silent
  525. husk: worthless outside part of anything
  526. hypocrisy: falsely making oneself appear to be good
  527. iconoclast: person who attacks popular beliefs
  528. idiosyncrasy: personal mannerism
  529. idolatry: excessive admiration of
  530. idyll: a carefree episode or experience
  531. ignoble: dishonorable common undignified
  532. ignominious: shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
  533. illicit: unlawful forbidden
  534. imbroglio: complicated and embarrassing situation
  535. immaculate: pure faultless
  536. imminent: likely to come or happen soon
  537. immutable: that cannot be changed
  538. impair: worsen diminish in value
  539. impassive: unmoved feeling no sign of passion
  540. impecunious: having little or no money
  541. impede: hinder get in the way of
  542. impediment: something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
  543. impending: imminent being about to happen expected
  544. imperative: urgent essential
  545. imperious: commanding haughty arrogant
  546. impermeable: that cannot be permeated
  547. imperturbable: calm not capable of being excited
  548. impervious: not allowing to pass through (of materials)
  549. imperviousness: haughty arrogant commanding
  550. impetuous: having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
  551. impiety: lack of reverence or dutifulness
  552. implacable: incapable of being placated unpleasable
  553. implicate: show that smb has a share
  554. implicit: implied though not plainly expressed
  555. implosion: collapse bursting inward
  556. importune: beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
  557. imprecation: an invocation of evil a curse
  558. impromptu: without preparation
  559. impudent: rash indiscreet
  560. impugned: challenged to be doubted
  561. impute: to attribute to a cause or source ascribe
  562. inadvertent: not paying proper attention
  563. inane: silly senseless
  564. inasmuch: since because
  565. incense: make angry
  566. incessant: often repeated continual
  567. inchoate: not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
  568. incipient: beginning
  569. incise: engrave make a cut in
  570. incite: stir up rouse
  571. inclined: directing the mind in a certain direction
  572. incongruous: out of place not in harmony or agreement
  573. incorrigibility: cannot be cured or corrected
  574. incredulous: skeptical unwilling to believe
  575. inculcate: fix firmly by repetition
  576. incumbents: official duties
  577. incursion: a raid a sudden attack
  578. indefatigability: not easily exhaustible tirelessness
  579. indelible: that cannot be rubbed out
  580. indigence: poverty
  581. indigenous: native
  582. indistinct: not easily heard seen clearly marked
  583. indolence: laziness
  584. indomitable: not easily discouraged or subdued
  585. indulge: gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
  586. indulgent: inclined to indulge
  587. ineffable: to great to be described in words
  588. ineluctable: certain inevitable
  589. inept: unskillful said or done at the wrong time
  590. ineptitude: quality of being unskillful
  591. inferno: hell
  592. infuriate: fill with fury or rage
  593. infuse: put pour fill
  594. ingenuous: naive young artless frank honest sincere
  595. ingest: take in by swallowing
  596. inimical: harmful or friendly
  597. inimitable: defying imitation unmatchable
  598. innocuous: causing no harm
  599. inscrutable: incapable of being discovered or understood
  600. insensible: unconscious unresponsive unaffected
  601. insinuate: suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently
  602. insipid: without taste or flavor
  603. insouciant: unconcerned carefree
  604. insularity: narrow-mindedness isolated
  605. insurrection: rising of people to open resistance to
  606. interdict: prohibit forbid
  607. interim: as an installment
  608. intersperse: place here and there
  609. intransigence: unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
  610. intransigent: uncompromising
  611. intrepid: fearless brave undaunted
  612. introspection: examining one's own thoughts and feelings
  613. inundate: flood cover by overflowing
  614. inured: accustomed to adapted
  615. invective: abusive language curses
  616. inveigh: to attack verbally denounce deprecate
  617. inveterate: deep-rooted. long-established
  618. invincible: too strong to be defeated
  619. involute: complex
  620. irascible: irritable easily angered
  621. irate: angry
  622. ire: anger
  623. irksome: tiresome
  624. irresolute: hesitating undecided
  625. irrevocable: final and unalterable
  626. itinerate: to travel from place to place to peregrinate
  627. jabber: talk excitedly utter rapidly
  628. jagged: notched, rough
  629. jibe: gibe make fun of
  630. jocular: meant as a joke
  631. judicious: sound in judgment wise
  632. knit: draw together unite firmly
  633. labyrinthine: to entangle the state of affairs
  634. lachrymose: causing tears tearful
  635. lackluster: (of eyes) dull
  636. lament: show feel great sorrow
  637. lassitude: weariness tiredness
  638. latent: present but not yet active developed or visible
  639. laudatory: expressing or giving praise
  640. lavish: giving or producing freely liberally or generously
  641. legacy: something handed down from ancestors
  642. levee: formal reception/embankment
  643. levity: lack of seriousness
  644. libel: statement that damages reputation
  645. liberality: free giving generosity
  646. libertine: immoral person
  647. lien: legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
  648. limn: paint portray
  649. limp: lacking strength walking unevenly
  650. lionize: treat as a famous person
  651. lithe: bending twisting
  652. loll: rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
  653. lope: move along with long strides
  654. loquacious: talkative garrulous
  655. lucubrate: write in scholarly fashion
  656. luculent: easily understood lucid clear
  657. lugubrious: mournful excessively sad
  658. lull: become quiet or less active
  659. lumber: move in a clumsy/noisy way
  660. luminary: star light-giving body
  661. lurk: be out of view ready to attack
  662. lustrous: being bright polished
  663. macabre: gruesome suggesting death
  664. macerate: make or become soft by soaking in water
  665. machination: plot scheme (esp. evil)
  666. maladroit: tactless clumsy
  667. malapropism: misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
  668. malevolence: wishing to do evil
  669. malign: injurious speak ill of smb tell lie
  670. malinger: to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
  671. malleable: yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
  672. manacle: chains for the hands or feet
  673. massacre: cruel killing of a large number of people
  674. matriculation: be admitted enter a university as a student
  675. maudlin: sentimental in a silly or tearful way
  676. maul: hurt by rough handling
  677. maverick: rebel nonconformist
  678. mellifluous: sweetly flowing
  679. mendacity: dishonesty
  680. mendicant: a beggar
  681. mercurial: quick changeable in character fleeting
  682. meretricious: attractive on the surface but of little value
  683. mesmerize: hypnotize
  684. meticulous: giving great attention to details
  685. mettle: quality of endurance or courage
  686. mettlesome: courageous high-spirited
  687. middling: fairly good but not very good
  688. minatory: menacing threatening
  689. mince: pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
  690. misanthrope: person who hates mankind
  691. mischievous: harmful causing mischief
  692. miser: person who loves wealth and spends little
  693. misogynist: one who hates women/females
  694. mite: Avery small amount, portion, or particle
  695. moderation: quality of being limited not extreme
  696. mollify: make calmer or quieter
  697. molt: moult lose hair feathers before new growing
  698. morbid: diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
  699. morose: ill-tempered unsocial
  700. muffler: cloth worn round the neck/silencer
  701. multifarious: varied motley greatly diversified
  702. mundane: worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
  703. myriad: very great number
  704. nadir: lowest weakest point
  705. nascent: coming into existence emerging
  706. nebulous: cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
  707. negligent: taking too little care
  708. neophyte: person who has been converted to a belief
  709. nexus: a connection tie or link
  710. nibble: show some inclination to accept (an offer)
  711. noisome: offensive disgusting (smell)
  712. nonchalant: not having interest
  713. nonplused: greatly surprised
  714. nostrum: a quack remedy an untested cure
  715. noxious: harmful
  716. nugatory: trifling/worthless
  717. obdurate: hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
  718. obfuscate: to darken make obscure muddle
  719. oblivious: unaware having no memory
  720. obloquy: abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
  721. obsequious: too eager to obey or serve
  722. obstreperous: noisy loud
  723. obtain: to be established accepted or customary
  724. obtrusive: projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
  725. obtuse: blunt/stupid
  726. obviate: to make unnecessary get rid of
  727. occluded: blocked up
  728. odious: repulsive hateful
  729. odium: contempt dislike aversion
  730. odor: smell favor reputation
  731. officious: too eager or ready to help offer advice
  732. ominous: threatening
  733. onerous: needing effort burdensome
  734. opaqueness: dullness/not allowing light to pass through
  735. opprobrious: showing scorn or reproach
  736. ossify: to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
  737. ostensible: seeming appearing as such professed
  738. ostentation: display to obtain admiration or envy
  739. ostracism: shut out from society refuse to meet talk
  740. overhaul: examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
  741. overweening: presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
  742. paean: song of praise or triumph
  743. palate: roof of the mouth sense of taste
  744. palatial: magnificent
  745. palliate: lessen the severity of
  746. palpability: can be felt touched understood
  747. palpitate: tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
  748. panegyric: formal praise eulogy
  749. paradigm: a model example or pattern
  750. parenthesis: sentence within another one something separated
  751. pariah: an outcast a rejected and despised person
  752. parley: negotiation, discussion between enemies
  753. parsimonious: too economical miserly
  754. partisan: one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
  755. patron: regular customer person who gives support
  756. paucity: scarcity a lacking of
  757. peccadillo: small sin small weakness in one's character
  758. pedantic: bookish showing off learning
  759. pedestrian: commonplace trite unremarkable
  760. pellucid: transparent easy to understand
  761. penchant: strong inclination a liking
  762. penitent: feeling or showing regret
  763. penurious: poor/stingy
  764. penury: extreme poverty
  765. peregrination: traveling about wandering
  766. peremptory: urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
  767. perfidious: treacherous faithless
  768. perfidy: treachery breaking of faith
  769. perfunctory: done as a duty without care
  770. perilous: dangerous
  771. peripatetic: wandering
  772. perish: be destroyed decay
  773. perjury: willful FALSE statement unlawful act
  774. permeate: spread into every part of
  775. pernicious: harmful injurious
  776. perpetrate: be guilty commit (a crime)
  777. personable: pleasing in appearance attractive
  778. perspicacity: quick judging and understanding
  779. pertain: belong as a part have reference
  780. pest: destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
  781. petrified: taken away power (to think feel act)
  782. petrify: to make hard rocklike
  783. petrous: like a rock hard stony
  784. petulant: unreasonably impatient
  785. philistine: a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
  786. phlegmatic: calm sluggish temperament unemotional
  787. picaresque: involving clever rogues or adventurers
  788. pied: of mixed colors
  789. pinch: be too tight take between the thumb and finger
  790. pine: waste away through sorrow or illness
  791. pious: dutiful to parents devoted to religion
  792. piquant: agreeably pungent stimulating
  793. pique: hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
  794. pitfall: covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
  795. pith: essential part force soft liquid substance
  796. pivotal: of great importance (others depend on it)
  797. placate: soothe pacify calm
  798. plaintive: mournful melancholy sorrowful
  799. plaque: flat metal on a wall as a memorial
  800. platitude: a trite or banal statement unoriginality
  801. plea: request
  802. plead: address a court of law as an advocate
  803. plethora: glut
  804. pliant: pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
  805. plod: continue doing something without resting
  806. pluck: pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
  807. plumb: get to the root of
  808. plummet: fall plunge steeply
  809. plunge: move quickly suddenly and with force
  810. poignant: deeply moving keen
  811. poncho: large piece of cloth
  812. ponderous: heavy bulky dull
  813. portent: omen marvelous threatening
  814. precarious: uncertain risky dangerous
  815. precepts: rules establishing standards of conduct
  816. preclude: prevent make impossible
  817. precursory: preliminary anticipating
  818. predilection: special liking mental preference
  819. predominate: have more power than others
  820. preen: tidy/show self-satisfaction
  821. premature: doing or happening something before the right time
  822. preponderance: greatness in number strength weight
  823. presage: warning sign
  824. presumption: arrogance
  825. preternatural: not normal or usual
  826. prevalent: common
  827. prevaricate: to equivocate to stray from the truth
  828. prim: neat formal
  829. pristine: primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
  830. probity: uprightness incorruptibility principle
  831. proclivity: inclination
  832. procrastination: keeping on putting off
  833. prodigal: wasteful reckless with money
  834. prodigious: enormous wonderful
  835. profane: worldly having contempt for God
  836. profligacy: shameless immorality
  837. profligate: wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
  838. profundity: depth
  839. profuse: abundant/lavish
  840. proliferate: grow reproduce by rapid multification
  841. prolix: tiring because too long
  842. prone: prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
  843. propagation: increasing the number spreading extending
  844. propinquity: nearness in time or place affinity of nature
  845. propitiatory: conciliatory appeasing mitigating
  846. propitious: auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
  847. prosaic: everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
  848. proscribe: denounce as dangerous
  849. protracted: prolonged
  850. provident: frugal looking to the future
  851. provisional: of the present time only
  852. provoke: make angry vax
  853. prudence: careful forethought
  854. prudish: easily shocked excessively modest
  855. prune: dried plum silly person
  856. pry: get something inquire too curiously
  857. pucker: wrinkle
  858. pugnacious: fond of in the habit of fighting
  859. puissance: strength
  860. punctilious: precise paying attention to trivialities
  861. pundit: pedant authority on a subject
  862. pungency: sharpness stinging quality
  863. purvey: provide supply
  864. pusillanimous: cowardly craven
  865. putrefaction: becoming rotten
  866. pyre: large pile of wood for burning
  867. quack: person dishonestly claiming to something
  868. quaff: drink deeply
  869. quail: lose courage turn frightened
  870. qualm: feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
  871. quandary: state of doubt or perplexity
  872. quell: suppress subdue
  873. quibble: try to avoid by sophistication
  874. quiescence: state of being passive/motionless
  875. quiescent: at rest dormant torpid
  876. quirk: habit or action peculiar to smb or something
  877. quixotic: generous unselfish
  878. quotidian: banal everyday
  879. rabble: mob crowd the lower classes of populace
  880. raconteur: person who tells anecdotes
  881. raffish: low vulgar base tawdry
  882. ramify: to be divided or subdivided to branch out
  883. rancorous: feeling bitterness spitefulness
  884. rant: use extravagant language
  885. rapacious: greedy (esp for money)
  886. rarefy: to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
  887. rave: act with excessive enthusiasm
  888. reactionary: opposing progress
  889. rebuff: snub
  890. recalcitrant: disobedient
  891. recant: take back as being FALSE give up
  892. recast: cast or fashion anew
  893. recidivism: relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
  894. reciprocity: granting of privileges in return for similar
  895. recitals: a number of performance of music
  896. recluse: person who lives alone and avoids people
  897. recompense: make payment to reward punish
  898. reconcile: settle a quarrel restore peace
  899. recondite: little known abstruse
  900. recreancy: cowardice a cowardly giving up
  901. recuperate: become strong after illness loss exhaustion
  902. redeem: get back by payment compensate
  903. redoubtable: formidable causing fear
  904. refine: make or become pure cultural
  905. refractory: stubborn unmanageable untractable
  906. refulgent: shining brilliant
  907. regale: to delight or entertain to feast
  908. regicide: crime of killing a king
  909. reiterate: say or do again several times
  910. rejuvenation: becoming young in nature or appearance
  911. relapse: fall back again
  912. reminiscent: viewing the past
  913. remonstrate: to protest object
  914. render: deliver provide represent
  915. renovate: restore something to better condition
  916. renowned: celebrated famous
  917. repast: meal
  918. repel: refuse to accept/cause dislike
  919. repine: at be discontented with
  920. reproach: scold upbraid
  921. reprobate: person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
  922. repudiate: disown refuse to accept or pay
  923. repulsive: causing a feeling of disgust
  924. requite: repay give in return
  925. rescind: repeal/annul/cancel
  926. resigned: unresisting submissive
  927. resilience: quality of quickly recovering the original shape
  928. resort: to frequently visit
  929. restive: refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
  930. resuscitation: coming back to consciousness
  931. retard: check hinder
  932. reticent: reserved untalkative silent taciturn
  933. retrospective: Looking back on past
  934. revere: have deep respect for
  935. reverent: feeling or showing deep respect
  936. riddle: puzzling person or thing
  937. rift: split crack dissension
  938. rivet: fix take up secure metal pin
  939. roll: call calling of names
  940. rotund: rich and deep plump and round
  941. ruffian: violent cruel man
  942. rumple: make rough
  943. sagacious: having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
  944. salacious: obscene
  945. salubrious: healthful
  946. salutary: remedial wholesome causing improvement
  947. sanctimony: self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
  948. sanction: approval (by authority) penalty
  949. sanguine: cheerful confident optimistic
  950. sanity: health of mind soundness of judgment
  951. sash: long strip worn round the waist
  952. satiate: satisfy fully
  953. saturnine: gloomy dark sullen morose
  954. savant: person of great learning
  955. savor: taste flavor something
  956. sawdust: tiny bits of wood
  957. scabbard: sheath for the blade
  958. scent: smell (especially pleasant)
  959. scorch: become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
  960. scribble: write hastily
  961. scurvy: mean contemptible
  962. secular: material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
  963. sedulous: persevering
  964. seminal: like a seed constituting a source originative
  965. sententious: short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
  966. sequence: succession connected line of
  967. sere: make hard and without feeling
  968. sermon: reproving a person for his faults
  969. serrated: having a toothed edge
  970. serration: having a toothed edge
  971. servile: like a slave lacking independence
  972. sever: break off
  973. severance: severing
  974. shallow: little depth not earnest
  975. shard: piece of broken earthenware
  976. sheath: cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
  977. shrewd: astute showing sound judgement
  978. shrill: sharp piercing
  979. shun: keep away from avoid
  980. shunt: send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
  981. sidestep: step to one side
  982. simper: (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
  983. sinuous: winding undulating serpentine
  984. skiff: small boat
  985. skit: short piece of humorous writing
  986. slack: sluggish dull not tight
  987. slake: to assuage to satisfy allay
  988. slate: king of blue-grey stone propose criticize
  989. sluggard: lazy slow-moving person
  990. slur: join sounds/words (indistinct)
  991. smolder: burn slowly without flame
  992. snare: trap
  993. snub: treat with contempt
  994. soar: rise fly high
  995. sober: self-controlled
  996. sobriety: quality or condition of being sober
  997. sodden: soaked saturated
  998. soggy: heavy with water
  999. solvent: of the power of forming a solution
  1000. somatic: of the body
  1001. soot: black powder in smoke
  1002. sophisticated: complex subtle refined
  1003. sophistry: fallacious reasoning faulty logic
  1004. sophomoric: self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
  1005. soporific: producing sleep
  1006. sordid: wretched comfortless contemptible
  1007. spear: weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
  1008. specious: illogical of questionable truth or merit
  1009. splenetic: bad-tempered irritable
  1010. splice: join (two ends)
  1011. sponge: porous rubber for washing live at once expense
  1012. spurious: FALSE counterfeit
  1013. spurn: have nothing to do reject or refuse
  1014. squalid: foul filthy
  1015. squander: spend wastefully
  1016. squat: crouch/settle without permission
  1017. stanch: to stop the flow of a fluid
  1018. steeply: rising or falling sharply
  1019. stentorian: extremely loud and powerful
  1020. stickler: person who insists on importance of something
  1021. stigma: mark of shame or disgrace
  1022. stigmatize: describe smb scornfully
  1023. sting: something sharp
  1024. stingy: spending using unwillingly
  1025. stint: to be thrifty to set limits
  1026. stipple: paint with dots
  1027. stipulate: state or put forward as a necessary condition
  1028. stolid: showing no emotion impassive
  1029. stray: wander lose one's way
  1030. streak: long thin move very fast
  1031. striated: striped grooved or banded
  1032. stride: walk with long steps
  1033. strut: a supporting bar
  1034. stygian: hence dark gloomy
  1035. stymie: to hinder obstruct or block
  1036. subdue: overcome bring under control
  1037. sublime: extreme astounding
  1038. submerge: put under water liquid sink out of sight
  1039. suborn: induce by bribery or something to commit perjury
  1040. subpoena: written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
  1041. substantiation: giving facts to support (statement)
  1042. subsume: include under a rule
  1043. succor: assistance relief in time of distress
  1044. suffice: be enough
  1045. suffocate: cause or have difficulty in breathing
  1046. sullied: to be stained or discredited
  1047. summarily: briefly without delay
  1048. sumptuous: magnificent
  1049. sundry: various miscellaneous separate
  1050. supercilious: disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
  1051. superfluous: more then is needed or wanted
  1052. superimpose: put something on the top
  1053. supersede: take the place of
  1054. supine: lying on the back slow to act passive
  1055. suppliant: asking humbly beseeching
  1056. supplicate: make a humble petition to
  1057. suppress: prevent from being known put an end to
  1058. surcharge: additional load/charge
  1059. surfeit: satiate feed to fulness or to excess
  1060. susceptibility: sensitiveness
  1061. swerve: change direction suddenly
  1062. sycophant: person who flatter to the rich and powerful
  1063. synopsis: summary or outline
  1064. taciturn: untalkative silent
  1065. tadpole: form of a frog when it leaves the egg
  1066. talon: claw of a bird of prey
  1067. tamp: tap or drive down by repeated light blows
  1068. tamper: interfere with
  1069. tangential: suddenly changeable
  1070. tarnished: lost brightness
  1071. tassel: bunch of threads
  1072. taunt: contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
  1073. taut: tightly stretched
  1074. tautology: a repetition a redundancy
  1075. tawdry: cheap gaudy showy tacky
  1076. teetotal: oppose to alcohol
  1077. telltale: That gives warning or information
  1078. temerity: boldness brashness intrepidness
  1079. temperance: abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
  1080. temperate: showing self-control
  1081. tenacity: firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
  1082. tenuous: insubstantial flimsy weak
  1083. tepid: lukewarm
  1084. terse: brief and to the point
  1085. testiness: witness/evidence
  1086. thrift: care economy thriving prosperous
  1087. thwart: obstruct/frustrate
  1088. timid: shy easily frightened
  1089. timorous: fearful timid afraid
  1090. toady: obsequious flatterer
  1091. tonic: something giving strength or energy
  1092. topple: be unsteady and overturn
  1093. torment: severe pain or suffering
  1094. torpid: sleeping sluggish lethargic dormant
  1095. torque: twisting force causing rotation
  1096. tortuous: devious/not straightforward
  1097. tout: person who worries others to buy something to use his service
  1098. tractable: easily controlled or guided
  1099. transgress: break go beyond (a limit)
  1100. transient: temporary fleeting
  1101. transitory: brief
  1102. travesty: parody/imitation
  1103. trenchant: forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
  1104. trepidation: alarm excited state of mind
  1105. trickle: flow in drops
  1106. trifling: unimportant
  1107. trite: not new
  1108. truce: (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
  1109. truculence: aggressiveness ferocity
  1110. trudge: walk heavily
  1111. turbid: muddy having the sediment stirred up
  1112. turbulence: being uncontrolled violent
  1113. turgid: excessively ornate swollen or bloated
  1114. turmoil: trouble disturbance
  1115. turpitude: wickedness shamefulness
  1116. turquoise: greenish-blue precious stone
  1117. tyro: tiro beginner
  1118. ubiquitous: present everywhere
  1119. ulterior: situated beyond
  1120. umbrage: offense resentment
  1121. uncouth: rough awkward
  1122. underbid: make a lower bid then smb else
  1123. undermine: weaken gradually at the base make something under
  1124. undulate: to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
  1125. unearth: discover and bring to light
  1126. unencumbered: easy-going trifle
  1127. unfeigned: not pretended sincere
  1128. unscathed: unharmed unhurt
  1129. untoward: unfortunate inconvenient
  1130. upbraid: scold reproach
  1131. urbane: elegant refined in manners
  1132. vacillation: being uncertain hesitating
  1133. vagary: strange act or idea
  1134. vain: without use result conceited
  1135. valiant: brave
  1136. valorous: brave
  1137. vanquish: conquer
  1138. variegate: To mark with different shade or colors
  1139. veer: change direction
  1140. venal: ready to do something dishonest
  1141. veneer: surface appearance covering the TRUE nature
  1142. veneration: regard with deep respect
  1143. veracity: truth
  1144. verdant: fresh and green
  1145. verisimilitude: appearing TRUE or real
  1146. veritable: real rightly named
  1147. verve: spirit vigor enthusiasm
  1148. vestige: trace or sign
  1149. vex: annoy distress trouble
  1150. vigilance: watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
  1151. vigilant: member of a vigilance committee
  1152. vigorous: strong energetic
  1153. vilify: slander say evil things
  1154. vindictive: having a desire to revenge
  1155. virago: a loud domineering woman a scold or nag
  1156. visceral: of the internal organs of the body
  1157. viscous: sticky/semi-fluid
  1158. vitiate: lower the quality weaken the strength
  1159. vituperate: curse abuse in words
  1160. vivacious: lively high-spirited
  1161. volatile: changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
  1162. volubility: fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
  1163. voluble: fluent
  1164. waffle: talk vaguely and without much result
  1165. waft: scent waving movement carry lightly through
  1166. wag: merry person
  1167. warmonger: person who stirs up war
  1168. warrant: authority written order guarantee
  1169. wean: to turn away (from a habit)
  1170. weigh: measure hoe heavy something is
  1171. welter: turmoil a bewildering jumble
  1172. wend: to go proceed
  1173. whimsical: full of odd and fanciful ideas
  1174. wince: show bodily or mental pain
  1175. woo: try to win
  1176. writ: written order
  1177. xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl): a person who is attracted to foreign peoples, cultures, or customs
  1178. yarn: tale story fibers for knitting