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(High Frequency) Words

PART 1

01. Aberrant - deviating from the norm

02. Alacrity - eager and enthusiastic willingness

03. Anomaly - deviation from the normal order, form, or rule; abnormality

04. Approbation - an expression of approval or praise

05. Assuage - to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify

06. Audacious - daring and fearless; recklessly bold

07. Capricious - inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable

08. Censure - to criticize severely; to officially rebuke

09. Chicanery - trickery or subterfuge

10. Connoisseur - an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert

11. Discordant - conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

12. Disparate - fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

13. Eloquent - well-spoken; expressive; articulate

14. Enervate - to weaken; to reduce in vitality

15. Ennui - dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy

16. Equivocate - to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent

17. Exculpate - exonerate; to clear of blame

18. Exigent - urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention

19. Filibuster - intentional obstruction, esp. using prolonged speechmaking to delay

legislative action

20. Ingenuous - artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication

21. Inured - accustomed to accepting something undesirable

22. Irascible - easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts


23. Laud - to praise highly

24. Magnanimity - the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart, esp. in forgiving

martial associated with war and the armed forces

25. Mundane - of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary

26. Nascent - coming into being; in early developmental stages

27. Nebulous - vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form

28. Neologism - a new word, expression, or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses

29. Noxious - harmful; injurious

30. Obtuse - lacking sharpness of intellect; not clear or precise in thought or expression

31. Obviate - to anticipate and make unnecessary

32. Onerous - troubling; burdensome

33. Parody - a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect, esp. in literature and

art

34. Perennial - recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly

35. Perfunctory - cursory; done without care or interest

36. Prattle - to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner

37. Prescience - foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring

38. Prevaricate - to deliberately avoid the truth; to mislead

39. Refute - to disprove; to successfully argue against

40. Relegate - to forcibly assign, esp. to a lower place or position

41. Solicitous - concerned and attentive; eager

42. Sporadic - occurring only occasionally, or in scattered instances

43. Static - not moving, active, or in motion; at rest

44. Stupefy - to stun, baffle, or amaze

45. Tortuous - winding; twisting; excessively complicated

46. Truculent - fierce and cruel; eager to fight

47. Voracious - having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous

48. Waver - to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion

49. Abscond - to depart clandestinely; to steal off and hide

50. Ameliorate - to make better or more tolerable


51. Arduous - strenuous; taxing; requiring significant effort

52. Ascetic - one who practices rigid self-denial, esp. as an act of religious devotion

53. Austere - without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic

54. Axiom - a universally recognized principle

55. Axiomatic - taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth

56. Bucolic - rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

57. Canonical - following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

58. Contentious - argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement

59. Convoluted - complex or complicated culpable deserving blame

60. Disabuse - to undeceive; to set right

61. Eclectic - composed of elements drawn from various sources

62. Effrontery - extreme boldness; presumptuousness

63. Ephemeral - brief; fleeting

64. Erudite - very learned; scholarly

65. Eulogy - a speech honoring the dead

66. Extemporaneous - improvised; done without preparation

67. Facetious - playful; humorous

68. Fulminate - to loudly attack or denounce

69. Hyperbole - an exaggerated statement, often used as a figure of speech

70. Lucid - clear; easily understood

71. Oscillation - the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady, uninterrupted

rhythm

72. Paean - a song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving

73. Penurious - penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous

74. Perfidy - intentional breach of faith; treachery

75. Pernicious - extremely harmful; potentially causing death

76. Perspicacious - acutely perceptive; having keen discernment

77. Pious - extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion

78. Precipitate - acting with excessive haste or impulse

79. Precipitate - to cause or happen before anticipated or required


80. Precursor - one that precedes and indicates or announces another

81. Predilection - a disposition in favor of something; preference

82. Prolific - producing large volumes or amounts; productive

83. Qualms - misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy

84. Quiescence - stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest

85. Recant - to retract, esp. a previously held belief

86. Redoubtable - awe-inspiring; worthy of honor

87. Reticent - quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings

88. Satire - a literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision

89. Sordid - characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul

90. Squalid - sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect

91. Squander - to waste by spending or using irresponsibly

92. Stoic - indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

93. Stymie - to block; thwart

94. Supplant - to take the place of; supersede

95. Synthesis - the combination of parts to make a whole

96. Torpid - lethargic; sluggish; dormant

97. Torque - a force that causes rotation ubiquitous existing everywhere at the same time;

constantly encountered; widespread

98. Veracity - truthfulness; honesty

99. Virulent - extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic

100. Vilify - to defame; to characterize harshly

101. abate to lessen in intensity or degree

102. accolade an expression of praise

103. adulation excessive praise; intense adoration

104. aesthetic dealing with, appreciative of, or responsive to art or the beautiful

105. avarice greed, esp. for wealth

106. burgeon to grow rapidly or flourish

107. cacophony harsh, jarring, discordant sound; dissonance

108. canon an established set of principles or code of laws, often religious in nature


109. castigation severe criticism or punishment

110. catalyst a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself

changing

111. catalyst a person or thing that causes change

112. caustic burning or stinging; causing corrosion

113. chary wary; cautious; sparing

114. cogent appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing

115. complaisance the willingness to comply with the wishes of others

116. contrite regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness

117. dearth smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack

118. demur to question or oppose

119. didactic intended to teach or instruct

120. discretion cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

121. disinterested indifferent; free from self-interest

122. dogmatic stubbornly opinionated

123. ebullience the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

124. elegy a mournful poem, esp. one lamenting the dead

125. emollient soothing, esp. to the skin; making less harsh

126. empirical based on observation or experiment

127. enigmatic mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand

128. esoteric intended for or understood by a small, specific group

129. exonerate to remove blame

130. fallacy an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief

131. furtive marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

132. gregarious sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people

133. harangue to deliver a pompous speech or tirade

134. heretical violating accepted dogma or convention

135. impecunious lacking funds; without money

136. incipient beginning to come into being or to become apparent

137. inert unmoving; lethargic; sluggish


138. innocuous harmless; causing no damage

139. intransigent refusing to compromise

140. inveigle to obtain by deception or flattery

141. morose sad; sullen; melancholy

142. odious evoking intense aversion or dislike

143. opaque impenetrable by light; not reflecting light

144. peruse to examine with great care

145. preen to dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care

146. prodigious abundant in size, force, or extent; extraordinary

147. putrefy to rot; to decay and give off a foul odor

148. quaff to drink deeply sanction authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended

to enforce compliance

149. urbane sophisticated; refined; elegant

150. viscous thick; sticky




PART 2

01. Acerbic - having a sour or bitter taste or character

02. Amalgamate - to combine several elements into a whole

03. Amenable - agreeable; responsive to suggestion

04. Bolster - to provide support or reinforcement

05. Bombast - self-important or pompous writing or speech

06. Bombastic - pompous; grandiloquent

07. Credulous - tending to believe too readily; gullible

08. Diatribe - a harsh denunciation

09. Fawn - to flatter or praise excessively

10. Fervent - greatly emotional or zealous

11. Flout - to demonstrate contempt for, as in a rule or convention

12. Fortuitous - happening by fortunate accident or chance

13. Garrulous - pointlessly talkative; talking too much

14. Germane - relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter

15. Glib - marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial

16. Halcyon - calm and peaceful

17. Hubris - arrogant presumption or pride

18. Idolatrous - given to intense or excessive devotion to something

19. Imminent - about to happen; impending

20. Imperturbable - marked by extreme calm, impassivity and steadiness

21. Impetuous - hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement

22. Implacable - not capable of being appeased or significantly changed

23. Indifferent - having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice


24. Intrepid - steadfast and courageous

25. Laconic - using few words; terse

26. Malleable - capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable

27. Maverick - an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party

28. Mendacity - the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty

29. Mercurial - characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood

30. Meticulous - characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail

31. Mollify - to calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity

32. Obdurate - unyielding; hardhearted; intractable

33. Obfuscate - to deliberately obscure; to make confusing

34. Obsequious - exhibiting a fawning attentiveness

35. Obstinate - stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising

36. Opprobrium - disgrace; contempt; scorn

37. Ostentatious - characterized by or given to pretentiousness

38. Pedantic - the parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules

39. Pervade - to permeate throughout

40. Pervasive - having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout

41. Phlegmatic - calm; sluggish; unemotional

42. Pirate - to illegally use or reproduce

43. Plethora - an overabundance; a surplus

44. Polemical - controversial; argumentative

45. Pragmatic - practical rather than idealistic

46. Rancorous - characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment

47. Rhetoric - the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion

48. Salubrious - promoting health or well-being

49. Sedulous - diligent; persistent; hard-working

50. Solvent - able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance

51. Soporific - causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep

52. Aggrandize - to increase in intensity, power, or prestige


53. Alchemy - a medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals, esp. base metals into

gold

54. Anachronism - something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological

context

55. Astringent - having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe

56. Contiguous - sharing a border; touching; adjacent

57. Convention - a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude

58. Cynicism - an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness

59. Decorum - polite or appropriate conduct or behavior

60. Derision - scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment

61. Desiccate - to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull

62. Dilettante - one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of

knowledge

63. Disparage - to slight or belittle

64. Divulge - to disclose something secret

65. Immutable - not capable of change

66. Inimical - damaging; harmful; injurious

67. Intractable - not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate

68. Neophyte - a recent convert; a beginner; novice

69. Presumptuous - overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties

70. Pristine - pure; uncorrupted; clean

71. Probity - adherence to highest principles; uprightness

72. Proclivity - a natural predisposition or inclination

73. Profligate - excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant

74. Propensity - a natural inclination or tendency; penchant

75. Prosaic - dull; unimaginative

76. Pungent - characterized by a strong, sharp smell or taste

77. Quixotic - foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals

78. Quotidian - occurring or recurring daily; commonplace

79. Rarefy - to make or become thin, less dense; to refine


80. Recondite - hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure

81. Refulgent - radiant; shiny; brilliant

82. Renege - to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise

83. Shard - a piece of broken pottery or glass

84. Sparse - thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals

85. Spendthrift - one who spends money wastefully

86. Subtle - not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern

87. Tacit - implied; not explicitly stated

88. Terse - brief and concise in wording

89. Tout - to publicly praise or promote

90. Trenchant - sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating

91. Unfeigned - genuine; not false or hypocritical

92. Untenable - indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable

93. Vacillate - to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; to

waver

94. Variegated - multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color

95. Vexation - annoyance; irritation

96. Vigilant - alertly watchful

97. Vituperate - to use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or

abusively; to berate

98. Volatile - readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive

99. Acumen - quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight

100. Adulterate - to reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients

101. Archaic - outdated; associated with an earlier, perhaps more primitive, time

102. Aver - to state as a fact; to confirm or support

103. Dissemble - to disguise or conceal; to mislead

104. Eccentric - departing from norms or conventions

105. Endemic - characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people

106. Evanescent - tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

107. Exacerbate - to make worse or more severe


108. Grandiloquence - pompous speech or expression

109. Hackneyed - rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage

110. Hedonism - devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. to the pleasures of the senses

111. Hegemony - the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others

112. Iconoclast - one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions

113. Impassive - revealing no emotion

114. Impunity - immunity from punishment or penalty

115. Inchoate - in an initial stage; not fully formed

116. Infelicitous - unfortunate; inappropriate

117. Insipid - without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; bland

118. Loquacious - extremely talkative

119. Luminous - characterized by brightness and the emission of light

120. Malevolent - having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or hatred

121. Misanthrope - one who hates all other humans

122. Mitigate - to make or become less severe or intense; to moderate

123. Occlude - to obstruct or block

124. Pedagogy - the art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing

125. Penury - poverty; destitution

126. Pine - to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor

127. Pith - the essential or central part

128. Pithy - precise and brief

129. Placate - to appease; to calm by making concessions

130. Platitude - a superficial remark, esp. one offered as meaningful

131. Plummet - to plunge or drop straight down

132. Prodigal - recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish

133. Profuse - given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant

134. Proliferate - to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly

135. Queries - questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations

136. Querulous - prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome

137. Recalcitrant - obstinately defiant of authority; difficult to manage


138. Repudiate - to refuse to have anything to do with; to disown

139. Rescind - to invalidate; to repeal; to retract

140. Reverent - marked by, feeling, or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect

141. Specious - seeming true, but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive

142. Spurious - lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit

143. Subpoena - a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony

144. Succinct - brief; concise

145. Superfluous - exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

146. Surfeit - excess; overindulgence

147. Tenacity - the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued

148. Tenuous - having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak

149. Tirade - a long and extremely critical speech; a harsh denunciation

150. Transient - fleeting; passing quickly; brief

151. Zealous - fervent; ardent; impassioned




PART 3

01. Abate - subside or moderate

02. Aberrant - abnormal or deviant

03. Abeyance - suspended action

04. Abscond - depart secretly and hide

05. Abstemious - sparing in eating and drinking; temperate

06. Admonish - warn; reprove

07. Adulterate - make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances

08. Aesthetic - artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful

09. Aggregate - gather; accumulate

10. Alacrity - cheerful promptness; eagerness

11. Alleviate - relieve

12. Amalgamate - combine; unite in one body

13. Ambiguous - unclear or doubtful in meaning

14. Ambivalence - the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes

15. Ameliorate - improve

16. Anachronism - something or someone misplaced in time

17. Analogous - comparable

18. Anarchy - absence of governing body; state of disorder

19. Anomalous - abnormal; irregular

20. Antipathy - aversion; dislike

21. Apathy - lack of caring; indifference

22. Appease - pacify or soothe; relieve

23. Apprise - inform

24. Approbation - approval


25. Appropriate - acquire; take possession of for one's own use

26. Arduous - hard; strenuous

27. Artless - without guile; open and honest

28. Ascetic - practicing self-denial; austere

29. Assiduous - diligent

30. Assuage - ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)

31. Attenuate - make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force, degree)

32. Audacious - daring; bold

33. Austere - forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented

34. Aver - assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact

35. Banal - hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality

36. Belie - contradict; give a false impression

37. Beneficent - kindly; doing good

38. Bolster - support; reinforce

39. Bombastic - pompous; using inflated language

40. Boorish - rude; insensitive

41. Burgeon - grow forth; send out buds

42. Burnish - make shiny by rubbing; polish

43. Buttress - support; prop up

44. Cacophonous - discordant; inharmonious

45. Capricious - unpredictable; fickle

46. Castigation - punishment; severe criticism

47. Catalyst - agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction, development, or change

48. Caustic - burning; sarcastically biting

49. Chicanery - trickery; deception

50. Coagulate - thicken; congeal; clot

51. Coda - concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that

summarizes

52. Cogent - convincing

53. Commensurate - corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc.; proportionate


54. Compendium - brief, comprehensive summary

55. Complaisant - trying to please; overly polite; obliging

56. Compliant - yielding; conforming to requirements

57. Condone - overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse

58. Confound - confuse; puzzle

59. Connoisseur - person competent to act as a judge of art, etc.; a lover of an art

60. Contention - claim; thesis

61. Contentious - quarrelsome

62. Contrite - penitent

63. Conundrum - riddle; difficult problem

64. Converge - approach; tend to meet; come together

65. Convoluted - coiled around; involved; intricate

66. Craven - cowardly

67. Daunt - intimidate; frighten

68. Decorum - propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners

69. Default - failure to act

70. Deference - courteous regard for another's wish

71. Delineate - portray; depict; sketch

72. Denigrate - blacken

73. Deride - ridicule; make fun of

74. Derivative - unoriginal; obtained from another source

75. Desiccate - dry up

76. Desultory - aimless; haphazard; digressing at random

77. Deterrent - something that discourages; hindrance

78. Diatribe - bitter scolding; invective

79. Dichotomy - split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)

80. Diffidence - shyness

81. Diffuse - wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas)

82. Digression - wandering away from the subject

83. Dirge - lament with music


84. Disabuse - correct a false impression; undeceive

85. Discerning - mentally quick and observant; having insight

86. Discordant - not harmonious; conflicting

87. Discredit - defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve

88. Discrepancy - lack of consistency; difference

89. Discrete - separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts

90. Disingenuous - lacking genuine candor; insincere

91. Disinterested - unprejudiced

92. Disjointed - lacking coherence

93. Dismiss - eliminate from consideration; reject

94. Disparage - belittle

95. Disparate - basically different; unrelated

96. Dissemble - disguise; pretend

97. Disseminate - distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds)

98. Dissolution - disintegration; looseness in morals

99. Dissonance - discord; opposite of harmony

100. Distend - expand; swell out

101. Distill - purify; refine; concentrate

102. Diverge - vary; go in different directions from the same point

103. Divest - strip; deprive

104. Document - provide written evidence

105. Dogmatic - opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal

106. Dormant - sleeping; lethargic; latent

107. Dupe - someone easily fooled

108. Ebullient - showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm

109. Eclectic - selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources

110. Efficacy - power to produce desired effect

111. Effrontery - impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness

112. Elegy - poem or song expressing lamentation

113. Elicit - draw out by discussion


114. Embellish - adorn; ornament; enhance, as a story

115. Empirical - base on experience

116. Emulate - imitate; rival

117. Endemic - prevailing among a specific group of people or an area

118. Enervate - weaken

119. Engender - cause; produce

120. Enhance - increase; improve

121. Ephemeral - short-lived; fleeting

122. Equanimity - calmness of temperament; composure

123. Equivocate - lie, mislead; attempt to conceal the truth

124. Erudite - learned; scholarly

125. Esoteric - hard to understand; known only to the chosen few

126. Eulogy - expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death

127. Euphemism - mild expression in place of an unpleasant one

128. Exacerbate - worsen; embitter

129. Exculpate - clear from blame

130. Exigency - urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate

attention

131. Extrapolation - projection; superfluous

132. Facetious - joking (often inappropriately); humorous

133. Facilitate - help bring about; make less difficult

134. Fallacious - false; misleading

135. Fatuous - brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug

136. Fawning - trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering or cringing

137. Felicitous - apt; suitably expressed; well chosen

138. Fervor - glowing ardor; intensity of feeling

139. Flag - droop; grow feeble

140. Fledgling - inexperienced

141. Flout - reject; mock; show contempt for

142. Foment - stir up; instigate


143. Forestall - prevent by taking action in advance

144. Frugality - thrift; economy

145. Futile - useless; hopeless; ineffectual

146. Gainsay - deny

147. Garrulous - loquacious; wordy; talkative

148. Goad - urge on

149. Gouge - overcharge

150. Grandiloquent - pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language




PART 4

01. Gregarious - sociable

02. Guileless - without deceit

03. Gullible - easily deceived

04. Harangue - long, passionate, and vehement speech

05. Homogenous - of the same kind

06. Hyperbole - exaggeration; overstatement

07. Iconoclast - attacking cherished traditions

08. Idolatry - worship of idols; excessive admiration

09. Immutable - unchangeable

10. Impair - injure; hurt

11. Impassive - without feeling; imperturbable; stoical

12. Impede - hinder, block

13. Impermeable - impervious; not permitting passage through its substance

14. Imperturbable - calm; placid

15. Impervious - impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed

16. Implacable - incapable of being pacified

17. Implicit - understood but not stated

18. Implode - burst inward

19. Inadvertently - unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly

20. Inchoate - recently begun; rudimentary; elementary

21. Incongruity - lack of harmony; absurdity

22. Inconsequential - insignificant; unimportant

23. Incorporate - introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite

24. Indeterminate - uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite


25. Indigence - poverty

26. Indolent - lazy

27. Inert - inactive; lacking power to move

28. Ingenuous - naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated

29. Inherent - firmly established by nature or habit

30. Innocuous - harmless

31. Insensible - unconscious; unresponsive

32. Insinuate - hint; imply; creep in

33. Insipid - lacking in flavor; dull

34. Insularity - narrow-mindedness; isolation

35. Intractable - unruly; stubborn; unyielding

36. Intransigence - refusal of any compromise; stubbornness

37. Inundate - overwhelm; flood; submerge

38. Inured - accustomed; hardened

39. Invective - abuse

40. Irascible - irritable; easily angered

41. Irresolute - uncertain how to act; weak

42. Itinerary - plan of a trip

43. Laconic - brief and to the point

44. Lassitude - languor; weariness

45. Latent - potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden

46. Laud - praise

47. Lethargic - drowsy; dull

48. Levee - earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding

49. Levity - lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity

50. Log - record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities

51. Loquacious - talkative

52. Lucid - easily understood; clear; intelligible

53. Luminous - shining; issuing light

54. Magnanimity - generosity


55. Malingerer - one who feigns illness to escape duty

56. Malleable - capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable

57. Maverick - rebel; nonconformist

58. Mendacious - lying; habitually dishonest

59. Metamorphosis - change of form

60. Meticulous - excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous

61. Misanthrope - one who hates mankind

62. Mitigate - lessen in intensity; moderate; appease

63. Mollify - soothe

64. Morose - ill-humored; sullen; melancholy

65. Mundane - worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday

66. Negate - cancel out; nullify; deny

67. Neophyte - recent convert; beginner

68. Obdurate - stubborn

69. Obsequious - slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic

70. Obviate - make unnecessary; get rid of

71. Occlude - shut; close

72. Officious - meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services

73. Onerous - burdensome

74. Opprobrium - infamy; vilification

75. Oscillate - vibrate pendulum like; waver

76. Ostentatious - showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention

77. Paragon - model of perfection

78. Partisan - one-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party

79. Pathological - pertaining to disease

80. Paucity - scarcity

81. Pedantic - showing off learning; bookish

82. Penchant - strong inclination; liking

83. Penury - severe poverty; stinginess

84. Perennial - something long-lasting


85. Perfidious - treacherous; disloyal

86. Perfunctory - superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm

87. Permeable - penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through

88. Pervasive - spread throughout

89. Phlegmatic - calm; not easily disturbed

90. Piety - devoutness; reverence for God

91. Placate - pacify; conciliate

92. Plasticity - ability to be molded

93. Platitude - trite remark; commonplace statement

94. Plethora - excess; overabundance

95. Plummet - fall sharply

96. Porous - full of pores; like a sieve

97. Pragmatic - practical (as opposed to idealistic)

98. Preamble - introductory statement

99. Precarious - uncertain; risky

100. Precipitate - rash; premature; hasty; sudden

101. Precursor - forerunner; harbinger

102. Presumptuous - arrogant; taking liberties

103. Prevaricate - lie

104. Pristine - characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled

105. Probity - uprightness; incorruptibility

106. Problematic - doubtful; unsettled; questionable; perplexing

107. Prodigal - wasteful; reckless with money

108. Profound - deep; not superficial; complete

109. Prohibitive - inclined to prevent or forbid

110. Proliferate - grow rapidly; spread; multiply

111. Propensity - natural inclination

112. Propitiate - appease

113. Propriety - fitness; correct conduct

114. Proscribe - ostracize; banish; outlaw


115. Pungent - stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic

116. Qualified - limited; restricted

117. Quibble - minor objection or complaint

118. Quiescent - at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive

119. Rarefied - made less dense (of a gas)

120. Recalcitrant - obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly

121. Recant - disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error

122. Recluse - hermit; loner

123. Recondite - abstruse; profound; secret

124. Refractory - stubborn; unmanageable

125. Refute - disprove

126. Relegate - banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign

127. Reproach - express disapproval or disappointment

128. Reprobate - person hardened by sin, devoid of a sense of decency

129. Repudiate - disown; disavow

130. Rescind - cancel

131. Resolution - determination

132. Resolve - determination; firmness of purpose

133. Reticent - reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence

134. Reverent - respectful; worshipful

135. Sage - person celebrated for wisdom

136. Salubrious - healthful

137. Sanction - approve; ratify

138. Satiate - satisfy fully

139. Saturate - soak thoroughly

140. Savor - enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality

141. Secrete - hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism

142. Shard - fragment; generally of pottery

143. Skeptic - doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the

evidence supporting a point of view


144. Solicitous - worried, concerned

145. Soporific - sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness

146. Specious - seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional)

147. Spectrum - colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism

148. Sporadic - occurring irregularly

149. Stigma - token of disgrace; brand

150. Stint - be thrifty; set limits

151. Stipulate - make express conditions, specify

152. Stolid - dull; impassive

153. Striated - marked with parallel bands; grooved

154. Strut - pompous walk

155. Strut - supporting bar

156. Subpoena - writ summoning a witness to appear

157. Subside - settle down; descend; grow quiet

158. Substantiate - establish by evidence; verify; support

159. Supersede - cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete

160. Supposition - hypothesis; surmise

161. Tacit - understood; not put into words

162. Tangential - peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing

163. Tenuous - thin; rare; slim

164. Tirade - extended scolding; denunciation; harangue

165. Torpor - lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy

166. Tortuous - winding; full of curves

167. Tractable - docile; easily managed

168. Transgression - violation of a law; sin

169. Truculence - aggressiveness; ferocity

170. Vacillate - waver; fluctuate

171. Venerate - revere

172. Veracious - truthful

173. Verbose - wordy


174. Viable - practical or workable; capable of maintaining life

175. Viscous - sticky, gluey

176. Vituperative - abusive; scolding

177. Volatile - changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly

178. Warranted - justified; authorized

179. Wary - very cautious

180. Welter - turmoil; bewildering jumble

181. Whimsical - capricious; fanciful

182. Zealot - fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal




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01. Abate - to reduce in amount, degree, or severity

02. Abscond - to leave secretly

03. Abstain - to choose not to do something

04. Abyss - an extremely deep hole

05. Adulterate - to make impure

06. Advocate - to speak in favor of

07. Aesthetic - concerning the appreciation of beauty

08. Aggrandize - to increase in power, influence, and reputation

09. Alleviate - to make more bearable

10. Amalgamate - to combine, to mix together

11. Ambiguous - doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in several ways

12. Ameliorate - to make better; to improve

13. Anachronism - something out of place in time

14. Analogous - similar or alike in some way; equivalent to

15. Anomaly - deviation form what is normal

16. Antagonize - to annoy or provoke to anger

17. Antipathy - extreme dislike

18. Apathy - lack of interest or emotion

19. Arbitrate - to judge a dispute between two opposing parties

20. Archaic - ancient, old-fashioned

21. Ardor - intense and passionate feeling

22. Articulate - able to speak clearly and expressively

23. Assuage - to make something unpleasant less sever

24. Attenuate - to reduce in force or degree; to weaken


25. Audacious - fearless and daring

26. Austere - severe or stern in appearance; undecorated

27. Banal - predictable, clichéd, boring

28. Bolster - to support; to prop up

29. Bombastic - pompous in speech and manner

30. Cacophony - harsh, jarring noise

31. Candid - impartial and honest in speech

32. Capricious - changing one's mind quickly and often

33. Castigate - to punish or criticize harshly

34. Catalyst - something that brings about a change in something else

35. Caustic - biting in wit chaos great disorder or confusion

36. Chauvinist - someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs

37. Chicanery - deception by means of craft or guile

38. Cogent - convincing and well reasoned

39. Condone - to overlook, pardon, or disregard

40. Convoluted - intricate and complicated

41. Corroborate - to provide supporting evidence

42. Credulous - too trusting; gullible

43. Crescendo - steadily increasing volume or force

44. Conciliatory - reconciling; soothing

45. Decorum - appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety

46. Deference - respect, courtesy

47. Deride - to speak of or treat with contempt; to mock

48. Desiccate - to dry out thoroughly

49. Desultory - jumping from one thing to another; disconnected

50. Diatribe - an abusive, condemnatory speech

51. Diffident - lacking self-confidence

52. Dilate - to make larger; to expand

53. Dilatory - intended to delay

54. Dilettante - someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic


55. Dirge - a funeral hymn or mournful speech

56. Disabuse - to set right; to free from error discern to perceive; to recognize

57. Disparate - fundamentally different; entirely unlike

58. Dissemble - to present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character

59. Dissonance - a harsh and disagreeable combination, often of sounds

60. Dogma - a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief

61. Dogmatic - dictatorial in one's opinions

62. Dupe - to deceive; a person who is easily deceived

63. Eclectic - selecting from or made up from a variety of sources

64. Efficacy - effectiveness

65. Elegy - a sorrowful poem or speech

66. Eloquent - persuasive and moving, especially in speech

67. Emulate - to copy; to try to equal or excel

68. Enervate - to reduce in strength engender to produce, cause, or bring about

69. Enigma - a puzzle; a mystery

70. Enumerate - to count, list, or itemize

71. Ephemeral - lasting a short time

72. Equivocate - to use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

73. Erratic - wandering and unpredictable

74. Erudite - learned, scholarly, bookish

75. Esoteric - known or understood by only a few

76. Estimable - admirable

77. Eulogy - speech in praise of someone

78. Euphemism - use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one

79. Exacerbate - to make worse

80. Exculpate - to clear from blame; prove

81. Innocent - exigent urgent; requiring immediate action

82. Exonerate - to clear of blame

83. Explicit - clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression

84. Fanatical - acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion


85. Fawn - to court favor by a flattering manner

86. Fervid - intensely emotional; feverish florid excessively decorated or embellished

87. Foment - to arouse or incite

88. Frugality - a tendency to be thrifty or cheap

89. Garrulous - tending to talk a lot

90. Gregarious - outgoing, sociable

91. Guile - deceit or trickery

92. Gullible - easily deceived

93. Homogenous - of a similar kind

94. Iconoclast - one who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions

95. Imperturbable - not capable of being disturbed

96. Impervious - impossible to penetrate; incapable of being affected

97. Impetuous - quick to act without thinking

98. Implacable - unable to be calmed down or made peaceful

99. Inchoate - not fully formed; disorganized

100. Ingenuous - showing innocence or childlike simplicity

101. Inimical - hostile, unfriendly innocuous harmless

102. Insipid - lacking interest or flavor

103. Intransigent - uncompromising; refusing to be reconciled

104. Inundate - to overwhelm; to cover with water

105. Irascible - easily made angry

106. laconic - using few words

107. Lament - to express sorrow; to grieve

108. Laud - to give praise; to glorify

109. Lavish - to give unsparingly (V); Extremely generous or extravagant (ADJ)

110. Lethargic - acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner

111. Loquacious - talkative

112. Lucid - clear and easily understood

113. Luminous - bright, brilliant, glowing

114. Malinger - to evade responsibility by pretending to be ill


115. Malleable - capable of being shaped

116. Metaphor - a figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol

117. Meticulous - extremely careful about details

118. Misanthrope - a person who dislikes others

119. Mitigate - to soften; to lessen

120. Mollify - to calm or make less severe

121. Monotony - lack of variation

122. Naïve - lacking sophistication or experience

123. Obdurate - hardened in feeling; resistant to persuasion

124. Obsequious - overly submissive and eager to please

125. Obstinate - stubborn, unyielding

126. Obviate - to prevent; to make unnecessary

127. Occlude - to stop up; to prevent the passage of

128. Onerous - troublesome and oppressive; burdensome

129. Opaque - impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light

130. Opprobrium - public disgrace

131. Ostentation - excessive showiness

132. Paradox - a contradiction or dilemma

133. Paragon - model of excellence or perfection

134. Pedant - someone who shows off learning

135. Perfidious - willing to betray one's trust

136. Perfunctory - done in a routine way; indifferent

137. Permeate - to penetrate

138. Philanthropy - charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness

139. Placate - to sooth or pacify

140. Plastic - able to be molded, altered, or bent

141. Plethora - excess

142. Pragmatic - practical as opposed to idealistic

143. Precipitate - to throw violently or bring about abruptly; lacking deliberation

144. Prevaricate - to lie or deviate from the truth


145. Pristine - fresh and clean; uncorrupted

146. Prodigal - lavish, wasteful

147. Proliferate - to increase in number quickly

148. Propitiate - to conciliate; to appease

149. Propriety - correct behavior; obedience to rules and customs

150. Prudence - wisdom, caution, or restraint

151. Pungent - sharp and irritating to the senses

152. Quiescent - motionless

153. Rarefy - to make thinner or sparser

154. Repudiate - to reject the validity of

155. Reticent - silent, reserved

156. Rhetoric - effective writing or speaking

157. Satiate - to satisfy fully or overindulge

158. Soporific - causing sleep or lethargy

159. Specious - deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious

160. Stigma - a mark of shame or discredit

161. Stolid - unemotional; lacking sensitivity

162. Sublime - lofty or grand

163. Tacit - done without using words

164. Taciturn - silent, not talkative

165. Tirade - long, harsh speech or verbal attack

166. Torpor - extreme mental and physical sluggishness

167. Transitory - temporary, lasting a brief time

168. Vacillate - to sway physically; to be indecisive

169. Venerate - to respect deeply

170. Veracity - filled with truth and accuracy

171. Verbose - wordy

172. Vex - to annoy

173. Volatile - easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive

174. Waver - to fluctuate between choices


175. Whimsical - acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable

176. Zeal - passion, excitement

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