uoregon wordlist
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- abacus
- frame with balls for calculating
- abdication
- giving up control authority
- abet
- help/encourage smb (in doing wrong)
- abhor
- to hate to detest
- abjure
- promise or swear to give up
- abraded
- rubbed off worn away by friction
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend obscure
- abut
- border on
- abysmal
- bottomless extreme
- acarpous
- effete no longer fertile worn out
- adamant
- kind of stone inflexible
- affable
- polite and friendly
- affinity
- close connection relationship
- agog
- eager/excited
- ail
- trouble be ill
- alcove
- recess/partially enclosed place
- aloof
- reserved indifferent
- amortize
- end (a debt) by setting aside money
- antidote
- medicine used against a poison or a disease
- apartheid
- brutal racial discrimination
- aplomb
- self-confidence
- apropos
- appropriate to the situation apt
- arabesque
- a complex ornate design
- arboreal
- of connected with trees
- ardor
- enthusiasm
- argot
- jargon slang
- arrant
- in the highest degree
- ascertain
- get to know
- ascribe
- consider to be the origin of or belonging to
- aseptic
- surgically clean
- asperity
- roughness harshness ill temper irritability
- aspersion
- slander
- assail
- with attack violently
- astute
- clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
- atonement
- repayment death of Jesus
- attune
- bring into harmony
- auspicious
- favorable successful prosperous
- auxiliary
- helping supporting
- avid
- eager greedy
- avow
- admit. Declare openly
- baleful
- harmful ominous causing evil
- balk
- obstacle purposely to get on the way of
- baneful
- causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive
- barrage
- artificial obstacle built across a river
- bask
- in enjoy warmth and light
- belabor
- beat hard
- bequest
- arrangement to give smth at death
- berate
- scold sharply
- bereft
- rob or dispossess of smth (material)
- bewilder
- puzzle confuse
- bilge
- bulge the protuberance of a cask
- blandishment
- flattery coaxing
- blandness
- polite manner comforting uninteresting
- blatant
- noisy and rough
- boisterous
- loud noisy rough lacking restraint
- brash
- hasty rush cheeky saucy
- brass
- yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
- brazen
- made of brass
- brittle
- easily broken
- broach
- bring up announce begin to talk about
- brook
- to tolerate endure
- cabal
- a scheme or plot a group of plotters
- cadge
- to beg to get by begging
- cajole
- use flattery or deceit to persuade
- calipers
- metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
- calumny
- slander aspersion
- cant
- insincere talk/jargon
- cantankerous
- bad-tempered/quarrelsome
- canvass
- discuss thoroughly sort of touting
- centurion
- leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
- chastened
- corrected punished
- chastisement
- punishment
- chauvinist
- a blindly devoted patriot
- churl
- bad-tempered person
- clinch
- come to grips/settle conclusively
- cling
- to resist separation
- cloture
- closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
- coalescing
- coming together and uniting into one substance
- coddle
- treat with care and tenderness
- coeval
- of the same period coexisting
- colander
- bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
- collusion
- secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
- commemorate
- keep the memory of
- commodious
- having plenty of space for what is needed
- compunction
- feeling of regret for one's action
- congeal
- make or become stiff and solid
- connotation
- suggestion in addition to
- consequential
- pompous self important
- console
- give comfort or sympathy to
- conspicuous
- easily seen remarkable
- consternation
- surprise and fear dismay
- constrain
- compel
- consummate
- perfect/make perfect/complete
- contemn
- to scorn or despise
- contumacious
- insubordinate rebellious
- conviction
- convincing firm belief
- convoke
- call together summon
- cordial
- warm and sincere
- cordon
- line (of police acting as a guard)
- cornucopia
- abundant supply
- corroboration
- additional strengthening evidence
- countenance
- to favor or approve of
- countervail
- counterbalance
- covert
- disguised
- coy
- shy/modest (esp of a girl)
- crass
- very great (es. stupidity)
- cravat
- piece of linen worn as a necktie
- curmudgeon
- bad-tempered person
- cursory
- quick hurried
- curtail
- make shorter then was planned
- dawdler
- person who is slow waste of time
- debacle
- a breakup overthrow sudden disaster
- decree
- order given by authority
- decry
- disapprove of
- deferential
- showing respect
- deluge
- great flood heavy rush of water
- demagogue
- person appealing not to reasons
- denouement
- an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
- deposition
- dethronement depositing
- deprave
- make morally bad corrupt
- dereliction
- deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
- descry
- catch sight of see smth in the distance
- desiccant
- substance used to absorb moisture
- desuetude
- cessation of use disuse
- detraction
- slandering verbal attack aspersion
- detumescence
- diminishing or lessening of swelling
- diaphanous
- transparent gauzy
- discomfit
- confuse embarrass
- disconcert
- upset the self-possession of
- discountenance
- refuse to approve of
- disdain
- look on with contempt
- disencumber
- free from encumbrance
- disinter
- dig up from the earth
- dislodge
- move force from the place occupied
- dismal
- sad gloomy miserable
- dissent
- have a different opinion refuse to assent
- distraught
- distracted violently upset in mind
- divestiture
- taking off getting rid of giving up
- doggerel
- trivial poorly constructed verse
- dormant
- in a state of inactivity but awaiting development
- dote
- show much fondness center one's attention
- drawl
- slow way of speaking
- droll
- jesting
- drone
- male bee person who isn't self-employed
- dud
- no use person smth that fails
- dulcet
- melodious harmonious
- duplicity
- deliberate deception
- duress
- threats to compel smb
- dynamo
- a generator something that produces electric current
- earthenware
- dishes made of baked clay
- ecumenical
- representing the whole Christian world
- edacious
- voracious devouring
- eddy
- circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
- effete
- infertile worn out weak
- effluvia
- outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
- egress
- way out exit
- emaciate
- make thin and weak
- embezzle
- use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
- emote
- stir up excite
- encomium
- warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
- encumbrance
- burden things that get on the way of
- engrossing
- taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
- enmity
- hatred being an enemy
- ensign
- flag/badge
- entangle
- put into difficulties
- enthral
- please greatly/enslave (fig)
- entreat
- ask earnestly
- enzyme
- catalyst
- epicurean
- devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
- epistle
- letter
- epithet
- adjective
- equable
- steady regular
- equanimity
- calmness of temperament
- equipoise
- equal distribution of weight equilibrium
- equivocal
- having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
- eradicate
- get rid of pull up by the roots
- erratic
- irregular in behaviour or opinion
- eschew
- avoid
- espouse
- marry give one's support to
- evince
- to show clearly to indicate
- excoriation
- severe criticism
- exorbitant
- much too high or great
- expatiate
- to roam wander freely
- expedient
- likely to be useful for a purpose
- expiation
- ending expiring
- expostulate
- argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
- expurgate
- to remove obscenity purify censor
- exscind
- to cut out cut away
- extenuate
- reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
- extirpate
- to destroy exterminate cut out exscind
- extol
- praise highly
- extort
- obtain by threats violence
- extralegal
- outside the law
- extricable
- that can be freed
- exuberance
- state of growing vigorously being full of life
- facile
- easily done
- feckless
- lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
- fecund
- fertile
- feint
- pretend
- ferment
- substance become excited
- ferret
- discover by searching search
- fervid
- showing earnest feeling
- fetid
- stinking
- fetter
- to shackle put in chains
- feud
- bitter quarrel over a long period of time
- figurehead
- carved image on the prow of a ship
- finesse
- delicate way of dealing with a situation
- fission
- splitting or division (esp. of cells)
- fixate
- stare at
- flak
- criticism/anti-aircraft guns
- flamboyant
- brightly colored florid
- flinch
- draw move back wince
- flop
- fail/move/fall clumsily
- florid
- very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
- foible
- defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
- foil
- prevent from carrying out contrast
- foppish
- like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
- forage
- food for horses and cattle
- forbear
- refrain from be patient ancestor
- forbearance
- patience willingness to wait
- ford
- shallow place in a river (to cross)
- forswear
- renounce disallow repudiate
- fracas
- noisy quarrel
- frenetic
- frantic frenzied
- froward
- intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
- fulsome
- disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
- garble
- make unfair selection from facts
- garner
- to gather and save to store up
- gaucherie
- socially awkward tactless behavior
- glean
- gather facts in small quantities
- glut
- supply to much fill to excess
- gossamer
- soft light delicate material
- grave
- serious requiring consideration
- graze
- touch or scrape lightly in passing
- hack
- cut roughly hired horse
- harbinger
- smth or smb that foretells the coming of
- harrow
- to distress create stress or torment
- haughty
- arrogant conceited
- heinous
- odious (of crime)
- hermetic
- sealed by fusion
- hew
- make by hard work cut (by striking)
- highbrow
- (person) with superior tastes
- hirsute
- hairy shaggy
- hoi
- polloi the masses the rabble
- homiletics
- act of preaching
- hone
- stone used for sharpening tools
- hoodwink
- trick mislead
- husk
- worthless outside part of anything
- hypocrisy
- falsely making oneself appear to be good
- idiosyncrasy
- personal mannerism