GRE 1300 Word List
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- abacus
- frame with balls for calculating
- abate
- to lessen/to subside
- abdication
- giving up control/authority
- abdomen
- stomach and bowels
- aberration
- straying away from what is normal
- abeyance
- suspended action
- abhor
- to hate/to detest
- abide
- be faithful to/endure
- abjure
- promise or swear to give up
- abraded
- rubbed off/worn away by friction
- abrasion
- rubbing/scraping/wearing off
- abrogate
- repeal or annul by authority
- abscond
- to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend/obscure
- abundant
- plentiful
- abut
- border on
- abysmal
- bottomless/extreme
- acarpous
- effete/no longer fertile/worn out
- accentuate
- give more force or attention to
- acclaimed
- welcomed with shouts and approval
- accolade
- praise/approval
- accretion
- the growing of separate things into one
- acquiesce in
- agree (without protest)
- acquisition
- smth acquired/acquiring
- adamant
- kind of stone/inflexible
- adhere
- remain faithful/stick fast to
- adhesion
- adhering/support
- adjacent
- lying near/next
- admonitory
- containing warning
- adorn
- add beauty/decorate
- adulteration
- making unpure/poorer in quality
- affinity
- close connection/relationship
- aggravate
- make worse/irritate
- agile
- active/quick-moving
- ail
- trouble/be ill
- alacrity
- eager and cheerful readiness
- alienate
- estrange
- allegiance
- duty/support/loyalty
- alleviate
- make (pain) easier to bear
- alloy
- to debase by mixing with something inferior
- aloof
- reserved/indifferent
- amalgamate
- mix/combine/unite societies
- ambidexterous
- able to use the left hand or the right equally well
- ambiguous
- doubtful/uncertain
- ambivalent
- having both of two contrary meanings
- ameliorate
- improve/make better
- amendment
- improving
- amicable
- friendly
- amortize
- end (a debt) by setting aside money
- amplify
- make large or fuller/increase the strength
- animosity
- strong dislike
- annul
- put an end to
- anticlimax
- sudden fall
- antidote
- medicine used against a poison or a disease
- antithetical
- direct oppposing
- apartheid
- brutal racial discrimination
- apathetic
- indifference
- apathy
- a lack of caring/an indifference
- aplomb
- self-confidence
- apostate
- one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
- apotheosis
- deification/glorification to godliness
- appease
- make quiet or calm
- apprehensive
- grasping/understanding/fear/unhappy feeling about future
- apprise
- give notice to/inform
- approbation
- approval
- appropriate
- take for one's own use/acquire/set aside
- apropos
- appropriate to the situation/apt
- apt
- well-suited/quick-witted
- arabesque
- whimcical
- arbitrate
- decide by arbitration
- arboreal
- of connected with trees
- ardently
- with full of ardour
- ardour
- enthusiasm
- arduous
- steep/difficult ascent/laborious
- argot
- jargon/slang
- arrant
- in the highest degree
- arrogance
- proud/superior manner of behaviour
- articulate
- speak distinctly/connect by joints
- ascend
- go or come up
- ascendancy
- a controlling influence/a domination
- ascent
- the act of ascending
- ascertain
- get to know
- ascetic
- practicing self-denial/austere/stark
- ascribe
- consider to be the origin of or belonging to
- asperity
- roughness/harshness/ill temper/irritability
- aspersion
- slander
- assail with
- attack violently
- asset
- valuable quality/smth that has money value
- assiduous
- diligent/hard-working/sedulous
- assuage
- make pain/desire less
- assumption
- smth supposed but not proved
- asterisk
- the mark * (omitted letters)
- astringent
- substance that shrinks
- astute
- clever/quick at seeing to get an advantage
- atonement
- repayment/death of Jesus
- attenuate
- make thin/weaken/enervate
- audacious
- daring/foolishly bold/impudent
- augury
- omen/sign
- august
- majestic/venerable
- auspice
- protection or support/patronage
- auspicious
- favorable/successful/prosperous
- austere
- severely moral and strict/simple and plain
- auxillary
- helping/supporting
- aver
- affirm/assert/prove/justify
- aversion
- strong dislike
- avid
- eager/greedy
- avow
- admit/declare openly
- baleful
- harmful/ominous/causing evil
- balk
- obstacle/purposely to get on the way of
- balloon
- swell out like balloon
- balm
- sweet-smelling oil/smth giving peace of mind/consolation
- banal
- uninteresting
- band
- flat/thin strip of material/group/range of frequences
- bane
- cause of injury/poison/source of harm
- baneful
- causing harm or ruin/pernicious/destructive
- barrage
- artificial obstacle built across a river
- barren
- not good enough/unable to have young ones/without value
- bask in
- enjoy warmth and light
- bazaar
- market
- be irreconcilable
- cannot be brought into harmony
- beatify
- to bless/make happy or ascribe a virtue to
- bedizen
- to adorn/especially in a cheap/showy manner
- belie
- contradict/give a false impression
- belittle
- cause to seem unimportant
- bellicose
- belligerent/pugnacious/warlike
- belligerent
- (person or nation) waging war
- belligerently
- waging war
- bend
- cause smth to be out of a straight line
- benefactor
- person who has given help
- benevolence
- wish or activity in doing good
- benevolent
- generous/charitable
- benign
- kindly/favorable/not malignant
- bequest
- arrangement to give smth at death
- berate
- scold sharply
- bereft
- rop or dispossess of smth (material)
- bewilder
- puzzle/confuse
- biased
- prejudice
- bigot
- stubborn/narrow-minded person
- bilge
- bulge/the protuberance of a cask
- blandishment
- flattery/coaxing
- blandness
- polite manner/comforting/uninteresting
- blatant
- noisy and rough
- blithe
- gay and joyous
- blueprint
- plan/scheme/photographic print
- blunt
- plain/not troubling to be polite
- boggle
- be alarmed/hesitate/amazed
- bogus
- sham/counterfeit/not genuine
- boisterous
- loud/noisy/rough/lacking restraint
- bolster
- give greatly needed support
- boorish
- crude/offensive/rude
- braid
- strands of hair woven together/smth edging sloth or garments
- brash
- hasty/rush/cheeky/saucy
- brass
- yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
- brazen
- made of brass
- breach
- opening/broken place/breaking
- brisk
- active/lively
- brisket
- breast of an animal
- brittle
- easily broken
- broach
- bring up/announce/begin to talk about
- brook
- to tolerate/endure
- buoyant
- able to float/light-hearted
- burgeon
- grow forth/send out buds
- burnish
- to polish/rub to a shine
- bust
- run out of money
- cabal
- a scheme or plot/a group of plotters
- cadge
- to beg/to get by begging
- calipers
- metal supports attached to the legs/measuring instrument
- calumniate
- to slander/present false accusal
- calumny
- slander/aspersion
- candid
- frank/straight-forward
- canvass
- discuss thotoughly/sort of touting
- capricious
- fickle/whimsical/given to change/unpredictable
- castigate
- to chastise/correct by punishing
- castigation
- severe punishment
- casual
- happening by chance/careless
- catalyst
- substance that causes speeding up
- caustic
- biting/sarcastic
- censure
- expression of blame or disapproval/a rebuke
- census
- official counting of the population
- centurion
- leader of a unit of soldiers
- chary
- cautious/wary
- chastened
- corrected/punished
- chastisement
- punishment
- chauvinist
- a blindly devoted patriot
- chisel
- steel tool for shaping materials
- churl
- bad-tempered person
- cite
- give as an example
- clamor
- shout/complain with a lot of noise
- cleanse
- make pure/thoroughly clean
- cling to
- resist separation
- clot
- half-solid lump formed from liquid
- cloture
- closing/device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
- coalescing
- coming together and uniting into one substance
- coax
- get smb to do smth by kindness
- coddle
- treat with care and tenderness
- codicil
- a supplement to the body of a will
- coerce
- compel/to force to make obedient
- coeval
- of the same period/coexisting
- cogent
- strong/convincing
- cogitate
- think deeply/mediate
- cognition
- knowing/awareness (emotionless)
- cognizant
- being fully aware of
- coherent
- sticking together
- colander
- bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
- collaborate
- work in partnership
- collusion
- secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
- combustion
- process of burning
- commemorate
- keep the memory of
- commend
- praise
- commendable
- worthy of praise
- commingle
- mingle together
- commuter
- person who travels regularly
- complacently
- with self-satisfaction
- complaisance
- tending to comply/obliging/willingness to please
- comply
- act in accordance
- compound
- mix or combine
- comprise
- be composed of
- compunction
- feeling of regret for one's action
- conceal
- hide/keep secret
- conceit
- over-high opinion of/too much pride
- conciliatory
- reconciling/soothing/comforting/mollifying
- concise
- brief and compact
- concord
- agreement or harmony
- concur
- agree in opinion/happen together
- condense
- increase in density/strength/make laconic
- condone
- forgive
- congeal
- make or become stiff and solid
- conjoin
- to join together
- connoisseur
- a person with good judgement (in art)
- connotation
- suggestion in addition to
- consent
- give agreement or permission
- consequential
- pompous/self important
- consolation
- consoling or being consoled
- console
- give comfort or sympathy to
- conspicuous
- easily seen/remarkable
- consternation
- surprise and fear/dismay
- constrict
- make tight or smaller
- consume
- get to the end of
- contemn
- to scorn or despise
- contentious
- argumentative/pugnacious/combative/quarrelsome
- contiguous
- touching/neighboring/near
- contrite
- filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
- contumacious
- insubordinate/rebellious
- conundrum
- a riddle/dilemma/enigma
- conviction
- convincing/firm belief
- convoke
- call together/summon
- convoluted
- complicated/coiled/twisted
- cord
- twisted strands
- cordial
- warm and sincere
- cordon
- line (of police acting as a guard)
- corporeal
- physical/of or for the body
- correlate
- have a mutual relation
- corroboration
- additional/strengthening evidence
- countenance
- to favor or approve of
- counterfeit
- forgery
- countervail
- counterbalance
- covert
- disguised
- covetous
- eagerly desirous
- cower
- crouch/shrink back
- craven
- cowardly
- crease
- line made by crushing/white line on the ground in criket
- credulity
- too great a readiness to believe things
- credulous
- ready to believe things
- crush
- press/lose shape/subdue/overwhelm
- cryptic
- secret/with a hidden meaning
- cumbersome
- burdensome/heavy and awkward to carry
- curmudgeon
- bad-tempered person
- curriculum
- course of study
- cursory
- quick/hurried
- curtail
- make shorter then was planned
- cynic
- person who see no good in anything
- dart
- quick movement/missile in darts
- daunt
- intimidate/make fearful
- dawdler
- person who is slow/waste of time
- dearth
- shortage
- debacle
- a breakup/overthrow/sudden disaster
- decorous
- polite/decent
- decorum
- propriety/properness
- decree
- order given by authority
- decry
- disapprove of
- defer
- postpone/give way (to show respect)
- deference
- respect
- deferential
- showing respect
- defiance
- open disobedience or resistance
- deflect
- turn aside
- defy
- resist openly
- degrade
- reduce in rank or status
- delineate
- to portray/depict/sketch out
- deluge
- great flood/heavy rush of water
- demagogue
- person appealing not to reasons
- demur
- to hesitate/raise objections
- denigrate
- blacken/belittle/sully/defame
- denouement
- an outcome or solution/the unraveling of a plot
- denounce
- give information against
- dent
- hollow/depression mad by a blow
- deplete
- use until none remains
- deplore
- to regret/to disapprove of
- deposition
- dethronoment/depositing
- deprave
- make morally bad/corrupt
- deprecate
- protest against/ express disapproval of
- dereliction
- deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
- derision
- ridicule/mockery/deriding
- derivative
- derived/not original or primitive
- derogatory
- insulting; tending to damage
- descry
- catch sight of/see smth in the distance
- desiccant
- substance used to absorb moisture
- desiccate
- to dry up/dehydrate
- desuetude
- cessation of use/disuse
- desultory
- aimless/haphazard/digressing at random
- detach
- separate
- deter
- discourage/hinder
- deterrent
- something that discourages/a hindrance
- detraction
- slandering/verbal attack/aspersion
- detumescence
- diminishing or lessening of swelling
- deviance
- being different in moral standarts (from normal)
- dexterity
- skill (in handling)
- dexterous
- clever/skillful with hands
- diaphanous
- transparent/gauzy
- diatribe
- bitter and violent attack in words
- dictate
- order
- diffidence
- shyness
- diffident
- lacking in self-confidence
- dilate
- speak comprehensively/become wider/large
- dilatory
- causing delay/procrastinating
- disabuse
- to undeceive/correct a false impression
- disallow
- refuse to allow or accept as a corret
- discern
- see with an effort but clearly
- discomfit
- to defeat/put down
- disconcert
- upset the self-possession of
- discordant
- inharmonious/conflicting
- discountenance
- refuse to approve of
- discourse
- speech/lecture/swearing
- discredit
- refuse to believe
- disdain
- look on with contempt
- disencumber
- free from encumbrance
- dishevelled
- untidy
- disingenuous
- sophisticated/artful/trying to deceive/cunning
- disinter
- dig up from the earth
- dislodge
- move/force from the place occupied
- dismal
- sad/gloomy/miserable
- disparate
- essentially different
- disparity
- a difference
- dispassionate
- free from passion
- dissemble
- speak or behave so as to hide smth (in mind)
- disseminate
- distribute (ideas)
- dissent
- have a different opinion/refuse to assent
- dissipation
- going away/dispersing
- dissolution
- disintegration/looseness in morals
- distend
- to expand/to swell out
- distinct
- easily heard/seen/understood/clearly marked
- distorted
- pulled out of the usual shape/give a false account of
- distraught
- distracted/violently upset in mind
- distress
- great pain/cause discomfort
- divergerence
- getting farther apart from a point
- diverse
- of different kinds
- divestiture
- taking off/getting rid of/giving up
- divulge
- make known smth secret
- doggerel
- trivial/poorly constructed verse
- dogmatic
- positive/certain/arbitrary/without room for discussion
- dogmatism
- being dogmatic
- dolt
- stupid fellow
- dormant
- in a state of inactivity but awaiting development
- dote
- show much fondness/center one's attention
- drone
- male bee/person who isn't self-employed
- dross
- waste product/sludge/something worthless/common or trivial
- drowsiness
- feeling sleepy/half asleep
- dubious
- feeling doubt
- dud
- no use person/smth that fails
- dulcet
- melodious/harmonious
- dupe
- cheat/make a fool of
- duplicity
- a hypocrisy/a double-dealing
- duress
- threats to compel smb
- dwarf
- person or smb much below the usual size
- dynamo
- something that produces electric current/an energetic person
- earthenware
- dishes made of baked clay
- ebullience
- exuberance/outburst of feeling
- ebullient
- overflowing with enthusiasm/showing excitement
- eclectic
- selective in choosing from a variety of sources
- ecumenical
- representing the whole Christian world
- edacious
- voracious/devouring
- eddy
- circular or spiral movement (of wind)
- effete
- infertile/worn out/weak
- efficacy
- production of a desired result
- effluvia
- outflow in a stream of particles/a noxious vapor
- effrontery
- boldness/impudence/arrogance
- egress
- way out/exit
- elaborate
- worked out with much care in great detail
- elate
- stimulate
- elation
- high-spirits
- electorate
- all the electors
- elegy
- a lament/a melancholy composition
- elicit
- draw out
- eloquence
- fluent speaking/skillful use of language
- emaciate
- make thin and weak
- embellish
- make beautiful
- embezzle
- use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
- emergence
- emerging
- emote
- stir up/excite
- empirical
- relying on experiment
- encapsulate
- enclose in capsule
- encomium
- warm or glowing praise/eulogy/panegyric
- encumbrance
- burden/things that get on the way of
- endearing
- making dear or liked
- endemic
- prevailing in a specific area
- endorse
- write one's name on the back of
- enduring
- lasting
- enervate
- weaken/deprive of strength/attenuate
- engender
- cause/produce/give rise to
- engrave
- impress deeply
- engrossing
- taken up all the time or attention/writing in large or formal
- engulf
- swallow up
- enigma
- smth that is puzzling
- enmity
- hatred/being an enemy
- enormity
- excessive wickedness/evilness
- enormousness
- great size
- entangle
- put into difficulties
- entreat
- ask earnestly
- enzyme
- catalyst
- epicure
- food lover/a connoisseur of food
- epicurean
- devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
- epistle
- letter
- epithet
- adjective
- epitome
- brief summary/representative example/a typical model
- equable
- steady/regular
- equanimity
- calmness of temperament
- equilibrium
- state of being balanced
- equipoise
- equal distribution of weight/equilibrium
- equivocal
- having a double or doubtful meaning/suspicious
- equivocate
- try to deceive by equivocal language
- eradicate
- get rid of/pull up by the roots
- erasure
- erasing/removing all traces
- erode
- wear away/eat into
- erratic
- irregular in behaviour or opinion
- erudite
- learned/scholarly
- escalate
- increase/develop
- esoteric
- known only to the chosen few
- espouse
- marry/give one's support to
- eulogy
- formal praise/panegyric
- euphoria
- elation/state of pleasant excitement
- euthanasia
- easy and painless death
- evaluating
- finding out the value
- evaporate
- change into vapour/disappear/die
- evince
- to show clearly/to indicate
- evoke
- call up/bring out
- evolve
- unfold/develop naturally and gradually
- excoriate
- to flay/stip off the skin/to denounce sharply
- excoriation
- severe criticism
- exculpate
- to clear from a charge of guilt
- exemplary
- serving as a model/outstanding
- exert
- but forth/bring into use
- exertion
- instance of exerting
- exhaustive
- complete/thorough
- exigency
- emergency/an urgent situation
- exonerate
- free/clear
- exoneration
- set smb clear/free (from blame)
- exorbitant
- much too high or great
- expatiate
- to roam/wander freely
- expedient
- suitable/practical/politic
- expiation
- ending/expiring
- exploit
- brilliant achievement/develop/use selfishly
- expostulate
- argue earnestly to dissuade/correct or protest
- expurgate
- to remove obscenity/purify/censor
- exscind
- to cut out/cut away
- exsert
- thrust out/push forth
- extant
- still in existence
- extensive
- far-reaching
- extenuate
- reduce the strength of/lessen seriousness/partially excuse
- extinct
- no longer active
- extirpate
- to destroy/exterminate/cut out/exscind
- extol
- praise highly
- extort
- obtain by threats/violence
- extralegal
- outside the law
- extricable
- that can be freed
- extrovert
- cheerful person
- exuberance
- state of growing vigorously/being full of life
- facetious
- humorous/funny/jocular
- facile
- easily done
- facilitate
- make easy (a process of smth)
- fallacious
- based on error
- fallacy
- false or mistaken belief
- fatuous
- without sense/foolish self-satisfaction
- faucet
- device for controlling the outflow of a liquid
- fawn
- young deer/try to win smb's favour by servile behaviour
- feckless
- lacking purpose or vitality/ineffective/careless
- fecund
- fertile
- feint
- pretend
- felicitous
- apt/suitably expressed/well chosen/apropos
- felon
- person guilty of murder
- ferment
- substance/become excited
- ferocity
- savage cruelty
- ferret
- discover by searching/search
- fertile
- producing much/full of ideas
- fertilize
- make fertile or productive
- fervid
- showing earnest feeling
- fervor
- a glowing ardor
- fetter
- to shackle/put in chains
- feud
- bitter quarrel over a long period of time
- fidelity
- loyalty/accuracy
- fidget
- move restlessly/make nervous
- figurehead
- carved image on the prow of a ship
- finesse
- delicate way of dealing with a situation
- finical
- too fussy about food and clothing
- finicky
- finical
- finite
- limited/having bounds
- fission
- splitting or division (of cells)
- fixate
- stare at
- flagrant
- conspicuously wicked
- flamboyant
- brightly colored/florid
- flammable
- having tendency to burst into flames
- flaunting
- show off complacently
- flaw
- crack/lessen value
- flax
- pale yellow (hair)/a plant
- fledged
- able to fly/trained/experienced
- fleet
- number of ships/quick-moving
- fleeting
- passing quaickly
- flexibility
- easily bent without braking
- flinch
- drow/move back/wince
- florid
- very much ornamented/naturally red (of face)
- floridness
- ruddiness/heavily decorated/ornateness
- flout
- reject/mock/to go against (as in going against tradition or conventions)
- fluster
- make nervous or confused
- foible
- defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
- foil
- prevent from carrying out/contrast
- foment
- put smth warm (to lessen the pain)
- foppish
- like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
- forbear
- refrain from/be patient/ancestor
- forbearance
- patience/willingness to wait
- ford
- shallow place in a river (to cross)
- forestall
- prevent by taking action in advance/preempt
- forfeit
- suffer the loss of smth
- forge
- workshop for the shaping of metal/to shape metal/lead
- forgery
- counterfeit
- forswear
- renounce/disallow/repudiate
- fortify
- strengthen
- fortuitous
- happening by chance
- foster
- nurture/care for
- fragile
- easily injured/broken or destroyed
- fragrant
- sweet-smelling
- franchise
- special right given by authority
- frantic
- wildly excited with joy/pain/anxiety
- frenetic
- frantic/fenzied
- fret
- worry/irritation/wear away
- friction
- the rubbing of one thing against another/difference of opinion
- fringe
- edge/ornamental border/part of hair over the forehead
- frivolity
- a lack of seriousness
- froward
- intractable/not willing to yield or comply/stubborn
- frugal
- careful/economical
- fulminate
- berate/vituperate/to thunder out/to explode
- fulmination
- bitter protest
- fulsome
- disgusting/offensive due to excessiveness
- gainsay
- to deny/declare false/to oppose
- gambol
- quick/playful jumping
- garment
- article of clothing
- garner
- to gather and save/to store up
- garrulity
- talkativeness
- garrulous
- too talkative
- gaucherie
- socially awkward/tactless bahaviour
- germane
- relevant/pertinent to
- gist
- the point/general sense
- glean
- gather facts in small quantities
- glib
- ready and smooth but not sincere
- gloat over
- look at with selfish delight
- glut
- supply to much/fill to excess
- gnaw
- waste away/bite steadily
- goad
- smth urging a person to action
- gossamer
- soft/light/delicate material
- gouge
- tool for cutting grooves in wood
- grace
- favor
- grave
- serious/requiring consideration
- gregarious
- living in societies/liking the company
- grievance
- cause for complaint or protest
- grievous
- causing grief or pain/serious/dire/grave
- grimace
- twisted expression of a face
- grind
- crush/polish
- grooves
- long channel in the surface/habital way of living
- grovel
- crawl/humble oneself
- guile
- deceit/cunning
- guileless
- straight-forward/candid
- gull
- cheat/decieve
- gullible
- easily gulled
- gust
- outburst of feeling/sudden rain/wind/fire
- hack
- cut roughly/hired horse
- hallow
- to make holy/consecrate
- hamper
- to obstruct
- hapless
- unlucky/unfortunate
- harangue
- a long/passionate speech
- harbinger
- smth or smb that foretells the coming of
- harrow
- to distress/create stress or torment
- harsh
- rough/cruel/stern
- haughty
- arrogant/conceited
- haven
- harbour/safety place
- heed
- pay attention/notice
- heinous
- odious (of crime)
- heresy
- belief contrary to what is generally acceted
- hermetic
- sealed by fusion
- heterogeneous
- made up of different kinds
- hew
- make by hard work/cut (by striking)
- hirsute
- hairy/shaggy
- hoax
- mischievous trick played on smb for a joke
- hoi polloi
- the masses/the rabble
- hollow
- not soled/with a hole
- holster
- leather case for a pistol
- homogeneous
- of the same kind
- hone
- stone used for sharpening tools
- hoodwink
- trick/mislead
- hospitable
- liking to give hospitality
- hubris
- arrogant pride
- hurdle
- light frame/fence to be jumped over
- husk
- worthless outside part of anything
- hypocrisy
- falsely making oneself appear to be good
- iconoclast
- person who attacks popular beliefs
- iconoclastic
- attacking cherished beliefs
- idiosyncracy
- personal mannerism
- idolatrous
- worshipping idols
- idolatry
- excessive admiration of
- idyll
- a carefree episode or experience
- ignoble
- dishonorable/common/undignified
- ignominious
- shameful/dishonorable/undignified/disgraceful
- illicit
- unlawful/forbidden
- illusory
- deceptive/an illusion
- imbroglio
- complicated and embarrassing situation
- immaculate
- pure/faultless
- immerse
- absorb/put under the surface of
- imminent
- likely to come or happen soon
- immutable
- that cannot be changed
- impair
- worsen/diminish in value
- impaired
- damaged/weakened
- impassive
- unmoved/feeling no sign of passion
- impecunious
- having little or no money
- impede
- hinder/get in the way of
- impediment
- smth that hinders (stammer)
- impending
- imminent/being about to happen/expected
- imperative
- urgent/essential
- imperious
- commanding/haughty/arrogant
- imperiousness
- haughty/arrogant/commandin
- impermeable
- that cannot be permeated
- imperturbable
- calm/not capable of being excited
- impervious
- not allowing to pass through (of materials)
- imperviousness
- arrogance/commanding presence/overbearingness
- impetuous
- having sudden energy/impulsive/thrusting ahead
- impiety
- lack of reverence or dutifulness
- implacable
- incapable of being placated/unpleasable
- implausibility
- incredibility
- implicate
- show that smb has a share
- implication
- that which is hinted at or suggested
- implicit
- implied though not plainly expressed
- implosion
- collapse/bursting inward
- imply
- make a suggestion
- importune
- beg urgently/solicit (of a prostitute)
- impostor
- someone who assumes a false identity
- imprecation
- an invocation of evil/a curse
- impromptu
- without preparation
- impudence
- being rash/indisreet
- impudent
- rash/indiscreet
- impugned
- challenged/to be doubted
- impute
- to attribute to a cause or source/ascribe
- inadvertent
- not paying proper attention
- inane
- silly/senseless
- inasmuch
- since/because
- inaugurate
- to start
- incence
- make angry
- incessant
- often repeated/continual
- inchoate
- not yet fully formed/rudimentary/elementary
- incise
- engrave/make a cut in
- incite
- stir up/rouse
- inclined
- directing the mind in a certain direction
- incoherently
- not consistently/unclearly
- incongruous
- out of place/not in harmony or agreement
- incorrigibility
- cannot be cured or corrected
- incredulous
- skeptical/unwilling to believe
- inculcate
- fix firmly by repetition
- incumbents
- official duties
- incursion
- a raid/a sudden attack
- indefatigability
- not easily exhaustible/tirelessness
- indelible
- that cannot be rubbed out
- indelicate
- immodest/lacking in refinement
- indigence
- poverty
- indigenous
- native
- indistinct
- not easily heard/seen/clearly marked
- indolence
- laziness
- indomitable
- not easily discouraged or subdued
- indulge
- gratify/give way to/satisfy/allow oneself
- indulgent
- humoring/yielding/lenient
- ineffable
- to great to be described in words
- ineluctable
- certain/inevitable
- inept
- unskillful/said or done at the wrong time
- infertile
- not fertile/barren
- infiltrate
- to pass into or through/to penetrate sneakily
- inflame
- become red/angry
- inflammatory
- tending to inflame
- infuriate
- fill with fury or rage
- infuse
- put/pour/fill
- ingenuous
- naive/young/artless/frank/honest/sincere
- ingest
- take in by swallowing
- inherent
- existing as a natural part
- inhibit
- hinder/restrain
- inimical
- harmful or unfriendly
- inimitable
- defying imitation/unmatchable
- innocuous
- causing no harm
- inscrutable
- incapable of being discovered or understood
- insensible
- unconscious/unresponsive/unaffected
- insinuate
- suggest unpleasantly/make a way for smth gently
- insipid
- without taste or flavour
- insouciant
- unconcerned/carefree
- insularity
- narrow-mindedness/isolated
- insurrection
- rising of people to open resistance to
- interdict
- prohibit/forbid
- interim
- as an instalment
- intermittent
- periodic/on and off
- intersperse
- place here and there
- intervene
- come between/interfere to change the result
- intractable
- unruly/refractory/stubborn
- intransigence
- unwillingness to compromise/stubbornness/intractability
- intransigent
- uncompromising
- intrepid
- fearless/brave/undaunted
- introspection
- examining one's own thoughts and feelings
- inundate
- flood/cover by overflowing
- inured
- accustomed to/adapted
- invective
- abusive language/curses
- inveigh
- to attack verbally/denounce/deprecate
- inveterate
- deep-rooted/long-established
- involute
- complex
- irascible
- irritable/easily angered
- irate
- angry
- ire
- anger
- irksome
- tiresome
- irrelevant
- not relevant/not connected
- irresolute
- hesitating/undecided
- irreverence
- a lack of proper respect
- irrevocable
- final and unalterable
- itinerary
- plan for a journey/details or records of a route
- itinerate
- to travel from place to place/to peregrinate
- jabber
- talk excitedly/utter rapidly
- jeopardize
- put in danger
- jibe
- gibe/make fun of
- jocular
- meant as a joke
- judicious
- sound in judgment/wise
- knit
- draw together/unite firmly
- labyrinthine
- to entangle the state of affairs
- lachrymose
- causing tears/tearful
- lackluster
- (of eyes) dull
- laconic
- brief/to the point/terse
- lag
- go too slow
- lament
- show/feel great sorrow
- lassitude
- weariness/tiredness
- latent
- present but not yet active/developed or visible
- laudatory
- expressing or giving praise
- lavish
- giving or producing freely/liberally or generously
- leakage
- the process of leaking
- legacy
- smth handed down drom ancestors
- libel
- statement that damages reputation
- liberality
- free giving/gererosity
- libertine
- immoral person
- lien
- legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
- limn
- paint/portray
- limp
- lacking strength/walking unevenly
- lithe
- bending/twisting
- loll
- rest/to sit or stand in a lazy way/hang (dog's tongue)
- loquacious
- talkative/garrulous
- lubricant
- substance that makes work easier
- lubricate
- put oil to make work easily
- lubricious
- lewd/wanton/greasy/slippery
- lucubrate
- write in scholarly fashion
- luculent
- easily understood/lucid/clear
- lugubrious
- mournful/excessively sad
- lull
- become quiet or less active
- luminary
- star/light-giving body
- lustrous
- being bright/polished
- macabre
- gruesome/suggesting death
- machination
- plot/scheme (evil)
- magnanimous
- generous
- maladroit
- tactless/clumpsy
- malapropism
- misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
- malevolence
- wishing to do evil
- malign
- injurious/speak ill of smb/tell lie
- malinger
- to fake illness or injury/in order to shirk a duty
- malleable
- yielding/easily shaped/moldable/adapting
- manacle
- chains for the hands or feet
- martial
- brave/of associated with war
- massacre
- cruel killing of a large number of people
- matriculation
- be admitted/enter a university as a student
- mature
- come to full development/to a state ready for use
- maudlin
- sentimental in a silly or tearful way
- maverick
- rebel/nonconformist
- mellifluous
- sweetly flowing
- mendacious
- false
- mendacity
- dishonesty
- mendicant
- a beggar
- mercurial
- quick/changeable in character/fleeting
- meretricious
- attractive on the surface but of little value
- mesmerize
- hypnotize
- meticulous
- giving great attention to details
- mettle
- quality of endurance or courage
- mettlesome
- courageous/high-spirited
- middling
- fairly good but not very good
- minatory
- menacing/threatening
- mince
- pronounce or speak affectedly/euphemize/speak too carefully
- misanthrope
- person who hates mankind
- mischievous
- harmful/causing mischief
- miser
- person who loves wealth and spends little
- misogynist
- one who hates women/females
- missile
- smth that is thrown or shot
- mitigate
- make less severe or painful
- moderation
- quality of being limited/not extreme
- mollify
- make calmer or quiter
- molt
- moult/lose hair/feathers before new growing
- morbid
- iseased/unhealthy (about ideas)
- morose
- ill-tempered/unsocial
- mortuary
- place where dead bodies are taken to be kept until burial
- multifarious
- varied/motley/greatly diversified
- mundane
- worldly as opposed to spiritual/commonplace/everyday
- myriad
- very great number
- nadir
- lowest/weakest point
- nascent
- coming into existance/emerging
- nebulous
- cloud-like/hazy/vague/indistinct
- negligent
- taking too little care
- neophyte
- person who has been converted to a belief
- nexus
- a connection/tie or link
- nibble
- show some inclination to accept (an offer)
- nice
- precise/sensitive to subtleness
- noisome
- offensive/disgusting (smell)
- nonchalant
- not having interest
- nonplussed
- greatly surprised
- nostrum
- a quack remedy/an untested cure
- notion
- nominal/token
- noxious
- harmful
- nullify
- make void and null
- numb
- without ability to feel or move
- numbness
- without ability to move a finger
- obdurate
- hardened and unrepenting/stubborn/inflexible
- obfuscate
- to darken/make obscure/muddle
- oblivious
- unaware/having no memory
- obloquy
- abusively detractive language/sharp criticism/vituperation
- obsequious
- too eager to obey or serve
- obsolete
- no longer used
- obstreperous
- noisy/loud
- obtain
- to be established/accepted or customary
- obtrusive
- projecting/prominent/undesirably noticeable
- obviate
- to make unnecessary/get rid of
- occluded
- blocked up
- occult
- hidden/concealed/beyond comprehension
- odious
- repulsive/hateful
- odium
- contempt/dislike/aversion
- odor
- smell/favor/reputation
- officious
- too eager or ready to help/offer advice
- onerous
- needing effort/burdensome
- opprobrious
- showing scorn or reproach
- opulence
- a wealth
- ossify
- to turn to bone/to settle rigidly into an idea
- ostensible
- seeming/appearing as such/professed
- ostentation
- display to obtain admiration or envy
- ostentatious
- fond of showing ostentation
- ostracism
- shut out from society/refuse to meet/talk
- ostrich
- fast-running bird unable to fly
- outset
- start
- overhaul
- examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
- overweening
- presumptuously arrogant/overbearing/immoderate/being a jerk
- overwhelm
- weigh down/submerge
- pacifist
- one opposed to force/an antimilitarist
- paean
- song of praise or triumph
- palate
- roof of the mouth/sense of taste
- palatial
- magnificent
- palliate
- to make something appear less serious/to alleviate
- palpability
- can be felt/touched/understood
- palpitate
- tremble/beat rapidly and irregularly
- panegyric
- formal praise/eulogy
- paradigm
- a model/example or pattern
- parenthesis
- sentense within another one/smth separated
- pariah
- an outcast/a rejected and despised person
- parsimonious
- too economical/miserly
- partisan
- one-sided/committed to a party/biased or prejudiced
- patron
- regular customer/person who gives support
- paucity
- scarcity/a lacking of
- peccadillo
- small sin/small weakness in one's character
- pedantic
- bookish/showing off learning
- pedestrian
- commonplace/trite/unremarkable
- pellucid
- transparent/easy to understand
- penchant
- strong inclination/a liking
- penitent
- feeling or showing regret
- penury
- extreme poverty
- peregrination
- traveling about/wandering
- peremptory
- urgent/imperative/unchallengeable/ending debate
- perennial
- lasting for a long time (a year)
- perfidious
- treacheres/faithless
- perfidy
- treachery/breaking of faith
- perfunctory
- done as a duty withour care
- perilous
- dangerous
- peripatetic
- wandering
- perish
- be destroyed/decay
- perjury
- wilful fasle statement/unlawful act
- permeate
- spread into every part of
- pernicious
- harmful/injurious
- perpetrate
- be guilty/commit (a crime)
- persevere
- keep on steadily/continue
- personable
- pleasing in appearance/attractive
- perspicacity
- quick judging and understanding
- pertain
- belong as a part/have reference
- pest
- destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
- petrified
- taken away power (to think/feel/act)
- petrify
- to make hard/rocklike
- petrous
- like a rock/hard/stony
- petulant
- unreasonably impatient
- philistine
- a smug ignorant person/one who lacks knowledge
- phlegmatic
- calm and sluggish temperament/unemotional
- picaresque
- involving clever rogues or adventurers
- pied
- of mixed colors
- pinch
- be too tight/take between the thumb and finger
- pious
- dutifull to parents/devoted to religion
- piquant
- agreeably pungent/stimulating
- pique
- hirt the pride or self-respect/stir (curiosity)
- pitfall
- covered hole as a trap/unsuspected danger
- pith
- essential part/force/soft liquid substance
- pivotal
- of great importance (others depend on it)
- placate
- to pacify/to conciliate
- plaintive
- mournful/melancholy/sorrowful
- plaque
- flat metal on a wall as a memorial
- platitude
- a trite or banal statement/unoriginality
- plea
- request
- plead
- address a court of law as an advocate
- plethora
- glut
- pliant
- pliable/easile bent/shaped or twisted
- plod
- continue doing smth without resting
- pluck
- pull the feathers off/pick (flowers)
- plumb
- get to the root of
- plummet
- fall or plunge/steeply
- plunge
- move quickly/suddenly and with force
- poignant
- deeply moving/keen
- poise
- be ready/be balanced/self-possession
- polemical
- controversial/argued
- ponderous
- heavy/bulky/dull
- portent
- omen/mervellous/threatening
- poseur
- someone taking on airs to impress others/a phony
- posture
- state/attitude/adopt a vain
- poverty
- state of being poor
- pragmatic
- practical/favoring utility
- precarious
- uncertain/risky/dangerous
- precept
- moral instruction
- precepts
- rules establishing standards of conduct
- precipitate
- throw smth violently down from a height
- preclude
- prevent/make impossible
- precursory
- preliminary/anticipating
- predilection
- special liking/mental preference
- predominate
- have more power than others
- preempt
- obtain by preemption or in advance
- premature
- doing or happening smth before the right time
- preponderance
- greatness in number/strength/weight
- presage
- warning sign
- preternatural
- not normal or usual
- prevalent
- widespread/generally accepted
- prevaricate
- to equivocate/to stray from the truth
- prim
- neat/formal
- pristine
- primitive/unspoiled/pure/as in earlier times/unadulterated
- probity
- uprightness/incorruptibility/principle
- proclivity
- inclination
- procrastination
- keeping on putting off
- prodigal
- wasteful/reckless with money
- prodigious
- enormous/wonderful
- profane
- wordly/having contempt for God
- profligate
- wasteful/prodigal/licentious/extravagant
- profundity
- depth
- profusion
- a lavish expenditure/an overabundant condition
- proliferate
- grow/reproduce by rapid multification
- prolix
- tiring because too long
- prone
- prostrate/inclined to (undesirable things)
- propagation
- increasing the number/spreading/extending
- propinquity
- nearness in time or place/affinity of nature
- propitiate
- do smth to take away the anger of
- propitiatory
- conciliatory/appeasing/mitigating
- propitious
- auspicious/presenting favorable circumstances
- prosaic
- everyday/mundane/commonplace/trite/pedestrian
- proscribe
- denounce as dangerous
- protracted
- prolonged
- provident
- frugal/looking to the future
- provisional
- of the present time only
- provoke
- make angry/vax
- prudence
- careful forethought
- prudish
- easily shocked/excessively modest
- prune
- dried plum/silly person
- pry
- get smth/inquire too curiosly
- pugnacious
- fond of/in the habit of fighting
- punch
- strike with the fist/tool for cutting holes/alc. drink
- punctilious
- precise/paying attention to trivialities
- pundit
- pedant/authority on a subject
- pungency
- sharpness/stinging quality
- purvey
- provide/supply
- pusillanimous
- cowardly/craven
- pyre
- large pile of wood for burning
- quack
- person dishonestly claiming to smth
- quaff
- drink deeply
- quail
- lose courage/turn frightened
- qualm
- feeling of doubt/temporary feeling of sickness in the stomach
- quell
- suppress/subdue
- quibble
- try to avoid by sophistication
- quiescent
- at rest/dormant/torpid
- quirk
- habit or action peculiar to smb or smth
- quixotic
- generous/unselfish
- quotidian
- banal/everyday
- rabble
- mob/crowd/the lower classes of populace
- raconter
- person who tells anecdotes
- radiant
- bright/shining
- raffish
- low/vulgar/base/tawdry
- rail
- at find fault/utter reproaches
- ramify
- to be divided or subdivided/to branch out
- rancorous
- feeling bitterness/spitefulness
- rant
- use extravagant language
- rapacious
- greedy (esp for money)
- rarefy
- to make thin/to make less dense/to purify or refine
- reactionary
- opposing progress
- rebuff
- snub
- recalcitrant
- disobedient
- recant
- take back as being false/give up
- recast
- cast or fashoin anew
- recidivism
- relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
- reciprocity
- granting of privileges in return for similiar
- recitals
- a number of/performance of music
- recluse
- person who lives alone and avoids people
- recompense
- make payment to/reward/punish
- reconcile
- settle a quarrel/restore peace
- recondite
- little known/abstruse
- recourse
- smth turned to for help
- recreancy
- cowardice/a cowardly giving up
- recuperate
- become strong after illness/loss/exhaustion
- redeem
- get back by payment/compensate
- redemptive
- serving to redeem
- redoubtable
- formidable/causing fear
- redundant
- superfluous/excessively wordy/repetitious
- refine
- make or become pure/cultural
- refractory
- stubborn/unmanageable/untractable
- refulgent
- shining/brilliant
- refute
- to disprove
- regale
- to delight or entertain/to feast
- regicide
- crime of killing a king
- reiterate
- say or do again several times
- rejuvenation
- becoming young in nature or appearence
- relapse
- fall back again
- relegate
- to banish/to consign to inferior position
- relinquish
- give up
- reluctant
- unwilling or disinclined
- remonstrate
- to protest/object
- render
- deliver/provide/represent
- renovate
- restore smth to better condition
- renowned
- celebrated/famous
- rent
- regular payment for the use of smth/division or split
- repast
- meal
- repine at
- be discontented with
- reproach
- scold/upbraid
- reprobate
- person hardened in sin/one devoid of decency
- repudiate
- disown/refuse to accept or pay
- repulsive
- causing a feeling of disgust
- requite
- repay/give in return
- resigned
- unresisting/submissive
- resilience
- quality of quickly recovering the proginal shape
- resolve
- determine
- resort to
- frequently visit
- restive
- refusing to move/reluctant to be controlled
- resurrect
- bring back into use
- resuscitation
- coming back to consciousness
- retard
- check/hinder
- reticent
- reserved/untalkative/silent/taciturn
- revere
- have deep respect for
- rift
- split/crack/dissension
- rivet
- fix/take up/secure/matel pin
- roll call
- calling of names
- rope
- thick strong cord made by twisting
- rotund
- rich and deep/plump and round
- rubric
- heading/title/or category
- ruffian
- violent/cruel man
- sagacious
- keen/shrewd/having insight
- salacious
- obscene
- salient
- prominent/protruding/conspicuous/highly relevant
- salubrious
- healthful
- salutary
- remedial/wholesome/causing improvement
- sanctimony
- self-righteousness/hypocritical/with false piety
- sanction
- approval (by authority)/penalty
- sanguine
- cheerful/confident/optimistic
- sanity
- health of mind/soundness of judgement
- sap
- weaken
- sate
- satiate
- satiate
- satisfy fully
- saturnine
- gloomy/dark/sullen/morose
- savant
- person of great learning
- savor
- taste/flavour smth
- sawdust
- tiny bits of wood
- scabbard
- sheath for the blade
- scent
- smell (pleasant)
- scribble
- write hastily
- scurvy
- mean/contemptible
- seal
- piece of wax/lead stamped on the document
- secular
- material (not spiritual)/living outside monasteries
- sedulous
- persevering
- seminal
- like a seed/constituting a source/originative
- sententious
- short and pithy/full of maxims/proverbs
- sequence
- succession/connected line of
- serrated
- having a toothed edge
- serration
- having a toothed edge
- servile
- slavish/cringing
- severance
- severing
- shaft
- arrow or spear/smth long and narrow
- shallow
- little depth/not earnest
- shard
- piece of broken earthenware
- sheath
- cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
- shove
- push
- shrewd
- astute/showing sound judgement
- shrill
- sparp/piercing
- shun
- keep away from/avoid
- shunt
- send from one track to another/lay aside/evade discussion
- sidestep
- step to one side
- sinuous
- winding/undulating/serpentine
- skiff
- small boat
- skit
- short piece of humorous writing
- slack
- sluggish/dull/not tight
- slake
- to assuage/to satisfy/allay
- slate
- king of blue-grey stone/propose/critisize
- sluggard
- lazy/slow-moving person
- soar
- rise/fly high
- sober
- self-controlled
- sobriety
- quality or condition of being sober
- sodden
- soaked/saturated
- soggy
- heavy with water
- solemnity
- a seriousness/a gravity
- solvent
- of the power of forming a solution
- somatic
- of the body
- soot
- black powder in smoke
- sophisticated
- complex/subtle/refined
- sophistry
- fallacious reasoning/faulty logic
- sophomoric
- self-assured though immature/affected/bombastic/overblown
- sordid
- wretched/comfortless/contemptible
- spear
- weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
- specious
- illogical/of questionable truth or merit
- splenetic
- bad-tempered/irritable
- splice
- join (two ends)
- sponge
- porous rubber for washing/live at once expense
- spurious
- false/counterfeit
- spurn
- have nothing to do/reject or refuse
- squalid
- foul/filthy
- squander
- spend wastefully
- stanch
- to stop the flow of a fluid
- steeply
- rising or falling sharply
- stentorian
- extremely loud and powerful
- stickler
- person who insists on importance of smth
- stigma
- mark of shame or disgrace
- stigmatize
- describe smb scornfully
- sting
- smth sharp
- stingy
- spending/using unwillingly
- stint
- to be thrifty/to set limits
- stipulate
- state or put forward as a necessary condition
- stoic
- a person who is indifferent to pleasure or pain
- stolid
- showing no emotion/impassive
- strands
- smth twisted together into a rope/line of development
- stray
- wander/lose one's way
- streak
- long/thin/move very fast
- striated
- striped/grooved or banded
- stride
- walk with long steps
- strut
- a supporting bar
- stygian
- hence/dark/gloomy
- stymie
- to hinder/obstruct or block
- subdue
- overcome/bring under control
- sublime
- extreme/astounding
- submerge
- put under water/liquid/sink out of sight
- suborn
- indice by bribery or smth to commit perjury
- subpoena
- written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
- subsume
- include under a rule
- succor
- assistance/relief in time of distress
- suffice
- be enough
- sullied
- to be stained or discredited
- summarily
- briefly/without delay
- sumptuous
- magnificent
- sundry
- various/miscellaneous/separate
- supercilious
- disdainful/characterized by haughty scorn
- superfluous
- more then is needed or wanted
- superimpose
- put smth on the top
- supersede
- take the place of
- supine
- lying on the back/slow to act/passive
- suppliant
- asking humbly/beseeching
- supplicate
- make a humble petition to
- suppress
- prevent from being known/put an end to
- surfeit
- satiate/feed to fulness or to excess
- susceptibility
- sensitiveness
- sustain
- keep from falling/maintain/suffer/give a decision
- sycophant
- a servile flatterer
- synopsis
- summary or outline
- taciturn
- untalkative/silent
- talon
- claw of a bird of prey
- tamp
- tap or drive down by repeated light blows
- tamper
- interfere with
- tangential
- suddenly changable
- tarnished
- lost brightness
- taunt
- contemptuous reproach/hurtful remark
- taut
- tightly stretched
- tautology
- a repetition/a redundancy
- tawdry
- cheap/gaudy/showy/tacky
- tease
- annoy/puzzling question
- tedious
- tiresome
- teetotal
- oppose to alcohol
- temerity
- boldness/brashness/intrepidness
- temperance
- abstinence from alcohol/self-control/moderation
- temperate
- showing self-control
- tenacity
- firmness/persistency/adhesiveness/tending to hang on
- tenuous
- unsubstantial/flimsy/weak
- terse
- concise/abrupt/pithy
- thrift
- care/economy/thriving/prosperous
- timid
- shy/easily frightened
- timorous
- fearful/timid/afraid
- tolerable
- fairly good
- tonic
- smth giving strength or energy
- topple
- be unsteady and overturn
- torment
- severe pain or suffering
- torpid
- sleeping/sluggish/lethargic/dormant
- tortuous
- full of twists and bends
- touting
- act as tout
- toy
- think not seriously/handle absent-mindedly
- tractable
- easily controlled or guided
- transgress
- break/go beyond (a limit)
- transient
- temporary/fleeting
- transitory
- brief
- trenchant
- forceful/effective/vigorous/extremely perceptive/incisive
- trend
- tendency/general direction
- trepidation
- a fear/a trembling agitation
- trifling
- unimportant
- trite
- not new
- truculence
- aggressiveness/ferocity
- trudge
- walk heavily
- turbid
- muddy/having the sediment stirred up
- turbulence
- a state of violent agitation
- turgid
- excessively ornate/swollen or bloated
- turmoil
- trouble/disturbance
- turpitude
- wickedness/shamefulness
- tyro
- tiro/beginner
- ulterior
- situated beyond
- unbrage
- offense/resentment
- uncouth
- rough/awkward
- underbid
- make a lower bid then smb else
- undermine
- weaken gradually/at the base/make smth under
- undulate
- to move in wavelike fashion/fluctuate
- unencumbered
- easy-going/trifle
- unfeigned
- not pretended/sincere
- unscathed
- unharmed/unhurt
- untoward
- unfortunate/inconvenient
- upbraid
- scold/reproach
- urbane
- elegant/refined in manners
- vacillation
- being uncertain/hesitating
- vagary
- strange act or idea
- vain
- without use/result/conceited
- valiant
- brave
- valorous
- brave
- vanquish
- conquer
- vapor
- stim/mist
- veer
- change direction
- venal
- ready to do smth dishonest
- veneer
- surface appearence covering the true nature
- venerate
- to revere
- veneration
- regard with deep respect
- veracity
- truth
- verisimilitude
- appearing true or real
- veritable
- real/rightly named
- verve
- spirit/vigour/enthusiasm
- vex
- annoy/distress/trouble
- viable
- capable of maintaining life
- vigilance
- watchfulness/self-appointed group who maintain order
- vigilant
- member of a vigilance committee
- vigorous
- strong/energetic
- vilify
- slander/say evil things
- vindictive
- having a desire to revenge
- virago
- a loud/domineering woman/a scold or nag
- visceral
- of the internal organs of the body
- vitiate
- lower the quality/weaken the strength
- vituperate
- curse/abuse in words
- volatile
- changeable/inconstant/fickle/unstable/explosive
- volubility
- fluency/verbosity/easy use of spoken language
- voluble
- fluent
- voluminous
- occupying much space
- waft
- scent/waving movement/carry lightly through