Gruber's Common Words
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- abolish
- 1 : to end the observance or effect of : ANNUL 2 : DESTROY
- abridge
- 1 a archaic : DEPRIVE b : to reduce in scope : DIMINISH <attempts to abridge the right of free speech> 2 : to shorten in duration or extent <modern transportation that abridges distance> 3 : to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : CONDENSE
- abstemious
- : marked by restraint especially in the consumption of food or alcohol; also : reflecting such restraint <an abstemious diet>
- accent
- 1 a : to pronounce with accent : STRESS b : to mark with a written or printed accent 2 : to give prominence to : make more prominent
- accented
- accolade
- 1 a : a ceremonial embrace b : a ceremony or salute conferring knighthood 2 a : a mark of acknowledgment : AWARD b : an expression of praise 3 : a brace or a line used in music to join two or more staffs carrying simultaneous parts
- acquiesce
- : to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively -- often used with in and sometimes with to
- affirmation
- 1 a : the act of affirming b : something affirmed : a positive assertion 2 : a solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury by a person who conscientiously declines taking an oath
- amass
- 1 : to collect for oneself : ACCUMULATE <amass a great fortune> 2 : to collect into a mass : GATHER <must select rather than simply amass details>
- ambivalence
- 1 : simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action 2 a : continual fluctuation (as between one thing and its opposite) b : uncertainty as to which approach to follow
- ambivalent
- ambulatory
- 1 : of, relating to, or adapted to walking; also : occurring during a walk 2 : moving from place to place : ITINERANT 3 : capable of being altered <a will is ambulatory until the testator's death> 4 a : able to walk about and not bedridden b : performed on or involving an ambulatory patient or an outpatient <ambulatory medical care> <an ambulatory electrocardiogram>
- ameliorate
- transitive senses : to make better or more tolerable intransitive senses : to grow better
- amity
- FRIENDSHIP; especially : friendly relations between nations
- anchor
- antediluvian
- ascendancy
- governing or controlling influence : DOMINATION
- atrophy
- bane
- baneful
- bizarre
- blunder
- bungle
- transitive senses : MISHANDLE, BOTCH
- burgeon
- 2 : to grow and expand rapidly : FLOURISH
- capitulate
- capitulation
- capricious
- clemency
- coalesce
- coalescence
- cohere
- 1 a : to hold together firmly as parts of the same mass; broadly : STICK, ADHERE b : to display cohesion of plant parts
- coherent
- compress
- compression
- confide
- confidential
- confound
- congeal
- 1 : to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold
- contaminant
- contaminate
- converge
- convivial
- copious
- corroborate
- corrugated
- transitive senses : to form or shape into wrinkles or folds or into alternating ridges and grooves : FURROW
- corrupt
- corruption
- cursory
- : rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : HASTY <a cursory glance>
- daunt
- dauntless
- debilitate
- deplete
- discrepancy
- disentangle
- transitive senses : to free from entanglement : UNRAVEL
- disputatious
- dispute
- distend
- distention
- drawback
- efface
- effervesce
- 2 : to show liveliness or exhilaration
- effervescent
- enhance
- enigmatic
- ephemeral
- equilibrium
- euphonious
- euphony
- evacuate
- evanescent
- : tending to vanish like vapor
- expedite
- 1 : to execute promptly
- expeditious
- expendable
- expenditures
- exclude
- facilitate
- fallow
- : of a light yellowish brown color
- fertile
- flourish
- flower
- fraudulent
- fruitful
- fruitless
- garner
- 2 : something that is collected : ACCUMULATION
- guile
- hackneyed
- hefty
- 2 a : marked by bigness, bulk, and usually strength <a hefty football player> b : POWERFUL, MIGHTY c : impressively large : SUBSTANTIAL <hefty portions>
- hideous
- hilarity
- humane
- 1 : marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals
- hypocrisy
- hypocritical
- innocuous
- irascible
- : marked by hot temper and easily provoked anger
- jettison
- : a voluntary sacrifice of cargo to lighten a ship's load in time of distress
- kindle
- leniency
- lenient
- levity
- levitate
- listless
- maladroit
- : lacking adroitness : INEPT
- mitigate
- mobile
- munificent
- 1 : very liberal in giving or bestowing : LAVISH
- munificence
- myriad
- nefarious
- obscure
- obscurity
- opaque
- opacity
- parsimony
- 1 a : the quality of being careful with money or resources : THRIFT b : the quality or state of being stingy
- paucity
- 2 : smallness of quantity : DEARTH
- penury
- 1 : a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money); especially : severe poverty
- peripheral
- periphery
- placate
- precise
- precision
- premature
- premeditated
- prevalent
- proclivity
- : an inclination or predisposition toward something; especially : a strong inherent inclination toward something objectionable
- prodigal
- prodigious
- profuse
- 2 : exhibiting great abundance : BOUNTIFUL <a profuse harvest>
- profusion
- pulverize
- pulverized
- rant
- recalcitrant
- recant
- replete
- 2 a : abundantly fed b : FAT, STOUT
- rescind
- reserve
- ruffle
- rupture
- saccharine
- 2 : overly or sickishly sweet <saccharine flavor>
- salubrious
- somber
- specify
- specificity
- spurn
- squander
- stymie
- : to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of
- subtle
- summary
- summon
- sumptuous
- : extremely costly, rich, luxurious, or magnificent <sumptuous banquets> <a sumptuous residence>; also : MAGNIFICENT 4
- surreptitious
- 2 : acting or doing something clandestinely : STEALTHY
- surreptitiously
- tantamount
- : equivalent in value, significance, or effect
- tenacious
- 2 a : persistent in maintaining or adhering to something valued or habitual <a tenacious royalist> b : RETENTIVE <a tenacious memory>
- tenacity
- transcience
- 1 a : passing especially quickly into and out of existence : TRANSITORY b : passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn
- transient
- 1 a : passing especially quickly into and out of existence : TRANSITORY b : passing through or by a place with only a brief stay or sojourn
- turbulence
- venturesome
- viable
- 2 : capable of growing or developing <viable seeds> <viable eggs>
- vibrancy
- vibrant
- vilification
- virulence
- virulent
- whet
- zany
- 1 : a subordinate clown or acrobat in old comedies who mimics ludicrously the tricks of the principal : MERRY-ANDREW