English vocabulary words list 1
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- fledgling
- a young bird ready to fly: a beginner
- copious
- abundant, plentiful
- hapless
- unfortunate, having no luck
- cower
- to crouch, as in fearor shame
- acephalous
- lacking a head or a clearly defined head; "acephalous worms"
- exhume
- to remove from a grave, disinter: to bring to light, espicially after a period of obsecurity
- bellicose
- inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious
- carrion
- Of or similar to dead and decaying flesh.
- hermitage
- the habitation of a hermit; a monasttery or abbey
- hedonism
- pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, espicially to the pleasure of the senses
- enigma
- a puzzling or inexplicable occurence or situation; a puzzling or contradictory character
- sadistic
- the deriving pleasure ,or the tendancy to derive pleasure from cruelty, extreme cruelty
- visage
- the face or facial expression of a person countenance: appearance, aspect
- dilettante
- a lover of an art or science, esp. of a fine art
- ubiquitous
- existing or being everywhere
- fitful
- not regular: intermittent, disturbed
- judicious
- Having or exhibiting sound judgment; prudent.
- formidable
- Arousing fear, dread, or alarm
- indigenous
- Originating and living or occurring naturally in an area or environment
- petrify
- To stun or paralyze with terror; daze
- encumber
- To put a heavy load on; burden
- lithe
- gracefully slender, moving and bending with ease
- inarticulate
- not understandable as spoken words: mute not able to speak clearly or express oneself well
- indigent
- expiercing want or need, impoverished; lacking or deficient
- venial
- favor, indulgence, pardon, forgivable
- unanimaty
- the condition of being unanimous
- fortuitous
- happening by accidental or chance; lucky of fortunate
- discernible
- capable of being discerned; distinguishable
- puerile
- belonging to childhood; juvenile; immatur3e childish
- plethora
- overabundance, excess
- derision
- speech or actions showing someone is considered foolish, redicule, belittling
- emulate
- to strive to equal or excel; imitate
- consort
- the wife or husband of a king or queen
- nonchalance
- the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern
- sylvan
- relating to or charctersitic of woods or forest regions; in or inhabiting a wood or forest
- taint
- to affect with or as if wih a disease; a trace of something bad
- bestial
- without reason or intelligence; brutal; inhuman
- bleak
- cold and uncutting; raw: exposed to the elements, unsheltered and barren
- liaison
- a coordination, an exchange between individuals, business, or governments. esp. of information
- offal
- waste parts, espicially of a butchered animal
- schism
- a seperation or division into fractions ; disunion, discord
- numismatist
- the study or collection of money, coins, and often medals
- vicarious
- felt as if one were taking part in experience or feelings of another
- bludgeon
- a thick stick with heavy end, used as a weapon; to hit hard
- tawdry
- gaudy and cheap in nature or apperance: shameful or indecent
- cataclysm
- any violent upheaval esp. one of a social or political nature: a devastating flood
- itinerant
- traveling from place to place, espicially to perform work or a duty: one who travels from place to place
- pernicious
- causing or leading to injury, destruction, or ruin in an evil or hidden way; causing death
- admonish
- to caution, advise or counsel against something
- ruminate
- To reflect on over and over again
- allay
- to reduce the intensity of; relieve; to calm or pacitfy, set to rest
- rustic
- of , pertaining to, or living in the country, as distinguished from towns or cities; rural: simple, artless, or unsophisticated
- prodigal
- rashly or wastefully extravagant
- habinger
- something that anounces the beginning, a messanger, forerunner
- accost
- To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request
- conjecture
- guess, surmice
- heinous
- extremely wicked, deeply criminal
- scrupulous
- conscientious and exact, painstaking; extremely careful
- capricious
- doing something unexpected, undependable, unreliable: 2) changing frequently
- benign
- harmless, gentle; not having cancer
- uncanny
- peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature, eerie
- opulence
- wealth, riches, or affluence
- florid
- reddish, ruddy, rosy, flowery, excessively ornate; showy
- allege
- to assert to be true, to assert without or before proof
- cauterize
- to burn or sear as with a heated iron: destruction of tissue with cautery
- permeable
- allowing liquids, materials,: to pass through
- innocuous
- not hamful or injurious, harmless, inoffensive
- crestfallen
- dejected, despirited, discouraged
- disconsolate
- Seeming beyond consolation; extremely dejected: Cheerless; gloomy
- euphemism
- to replace a nasty word with a pleasant word
- lexicon
- dictionary
- vertigo
- the sensation of dizziness
- obliterate
- to do away with completely so as to leave no trace: to wipe off, to rub off, erase
- stupor
- a state of senselessness, a complete lack of mental power
- incorrigible
- not able to behave correctly, always bad
- rummage
- A thorough search among a number of things
- notorious
- widely and unfavorably known: publicly or generally known as for a particular trait
- livid
- discolored, as from a bruis: black and blue
- taciturn
- quiet, shy, not talkative
- ruddy
- reddish in color
- eviscerate
- to remove the entrails of: to take away a vital or essential part of
- limbo
- theology) in Roman Catholicism, the place of unbaptized but innocent or righteous souls (such as infants and virtuous individuals)
- tenacity
- persistent determination