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first list : some GRE words
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- discountenance
- refuse to approve of
- obloquy
- abusively detractive language; sharp criticism
- aphasia
- loss of the power to use or comprehend words
- ascribe
- consider to be the origin of or belonging to
- valiant
- brave
- veneration
- regard with deep respect
- recondite
- little known; abstruse
- swerve
- change direction suddenly
- stentorian
- extremely loud and powerful
- insuperable
- incapable of being surmounted or solved
- fragrant
- sweet-smelling
- serrated
- having a toothed edge
- adduce
- to offer as example, reason or proof
- brash
- hasty; rush; cheeky; saucy
- epicurean
- devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
- punctilious
- precise; paying attention to trivialities
- machination
- plot, scheme (esp. evil)
- patron
- regular customer; person who gives support
- missive
- letter
- argot
- jargon; slang
- odium
- contempt; dislike; aversion
- affinity
- close connection relationship
- extricable
- that can be freed
- malinger
- to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
- aspersion
- slander
- cryptic
- secret; with a hidden meaning
- incarcerate
- to put in prison; to confine
- sobriety
- quality or condition of being sober
- ingress
- the act of entering; entrance
- morbid
- diseased unhealthy (e.g., about ideas)
- demagogue
- person appealing not to reasons
- emaciate
- make thin and weak
- maelstrom
- powerful; violent whirlpool
- dynamo
- a generator; something that produces electric current
- detraction
- slandering; verbal attack; aspersion
- irresolute
- hesitating; undecided
- stickler
- person who insists on importance of smth
- audacious
- daring; foolishly bold; impudent
- berate
- scold sharply
- pith
- essential part; soft liquid substance
- tamp
- tap or drive down by repeated light blows
- cordon
- line (of police acting as a guard)
- quiescent
- at rest; dormant; torpid
- adamant
- kind of stone; inflexible
- finicky
- finical
- infuriate
- fill with fury or rage
- truce
- (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
- matriculation
- be admitted enter a university as a student
- immutable
- that cannot be changed
- exscind
- to cut out; cut away
- nugatory
- trifling; worthless
- feckless
- lacking purpose or vitality; ineffective
- clientele
- customers
- bigot
- stubborn; narrow-minded person
- disencumber
- free from encumbrance
- bewilder
- puzzle; confuse
- resigned
- unresisting; submissive
- effluvia
- outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious odor or vapor
- soot
- black powder in smoke
- intractable
- not easily managed or controlled; unruly
- adjudicate
- to settle judicially
- illicit
- unlawful; forbidden
- virago
- a loud domineering woman; a scold or nag
- implosion
- collapse; bursting inward
- appellation
- identifying name or title
- amalgamate
- mix, combine, unite societies
- turquoise
- greenish-blue precious stone
- chastisement
- punishment
- convalesce
- to recover health gradually after sickness
- repulsive
- causing a feeling of disgust
- dormant
- in a state of inactivity but awaiting development
- turbid
- muddy; having the sediment stirred up
- liberality
- free giving; generosity
- agnostic
- non-committal
- visceral
- of the internal organs of the body
- renascent
- rising again into being or vigor
- edacious
- voracious; devouring
- renegade
- deserter; unconventional or unlawful person
- transient
- temporary; fleeting
- contemn
- to scorn or despise
- compunction
- feeling of regret for one's action
- stymie
- to hinder, obstruct or block
- mercurial
- quick, changeable in character; fleeting
- avow
- admit; declare openly
- soggy
- heavy with water
- buoyant
- able to float light-hearted
- manacle
- chains for the hands or feet
- glean
- gather facts in small quantities
- jabber
- talk excitedly; utter rapidly
- glut
- supply too much; fill to excess
- quandary
- state of doubt or perplexity
- retrograde
- tending toward a worse or previous state
- lackluster
- (of eyes) dull
- sanctimony
- self-righteousness; hypocritical
- coerce
- compel to force to make obedient
- reverent
- feeling or showing deep respect
- regicide
- crime of killing a king
- interloper
- to encroach; to intrude
- vex
- annoy; distress; trouble
- castigation
- severe punishment
- emollient
- soothing to the skin; mollifying
- cadence
- rhythmic modulation of sound
- canvass
- discuss thoroughly; sort of touting
- quail
- lose courage; turn frightened
- veneer
- surface appearance covering the true nature
- vivacious
- lively; high-spirited
- incandescent
- white, glowing or luminous with intense heat
- fervid
- showing earnest feeling
- heterogeneous
- made up of different kinds
- hush
- make or become silent
- extraneous
- extrinsic; not forming an essential part
- egress
- way out; exit
- circumscribe
- to draw line around; to limit
- accolade
- praise; approval
- deprecate
- protest against; express disapproval of
- paradigm
- a model; example or pattern
- frantic
- wildly excited with joy; anxiety
- lope
- move along with long strides
- nibble
- show some inclination to accept (an offer)
- fluster
- make nervous or confused
- secede/secession
- to withdraw from an organization
- termagant
- shrew
- inasmuch
- since; because
- brook
- to tolerate, endure
- serendipity
- phenomenon of finding valuable things not sought for
- platitude
- a trite or banal statement; unoriginality
- conceited
- having an excessively high opinion of oneself
- cower
- crouch; shrink back
- tenacity
- firmness; persistency
- veritable
- real; rightly named
- teetotal
- oppose to alcohol
- incumbents
- official duties
- salubrious
- healthful
- forestall
- prevent by taking action in advance preempt
- miasma
- vaporous exhalation causing disease
- sublime
- extreme, astounding
- deprave
- make morally bad, corrupt
- curriculum
- course of study
- goad
- smth urging a person to action
- desiccant
- substance used to absorb moisture
- calumny
- slander; aspersion
- ferment
- substance; become excited
- disdain
- look on with contempt
- unearth
- discover and bring to light
- execrate
- to denounce; to detest utterly
- minatory
- menacing; threatening
- altercate
- to dispute angrily or noisily
- flak
- criticism; anti-aircraft guns
- prone
- prostrate; inclined to (undesirable things)
- suppliant
- asking humbly; beseeching
- inimitable
- defying imitation; unmatchable
- lament
- show, feel great sorrow
- odor
- smell; favor; reputation
- prudish
- easily shocked; excessively modest
- heckle
- to harass with questions, challenges or gibes
- exorbitant
- much too high or great
- prevaricate
- to equivocate; to stray from the truth
- tadpole
- form of a frog when it leaves the egg
- ramble
- to move aimlessly from place to place
- infuse
- put; pour; fill
- impair
- worsen; diminish in value
- crass
- very great (esp. stupidity)
- renaissance
- rebirth or revival
- strident
- characterized by harsh and discordant sound
- subsume
- include under a rule
- aver
- affirm; assert; prove; justify
- reprisal
- recurrence, renewal or resumption of an action
- obtuse
- blunt; stupid
- delineate
- to portray, depict, sketch out
- pariah
- an outcast; a rejected and despised person
- stigmatize
- describe smb scornfully
- macabre
- gruesome; suggesting death
- verve
- spirit; vigor; enthusiasm
- involute
- complex
- broach
- bring up; announce; begin to talk about
- unseemly
- inappropriate; indecorous
- imprecation
- an invocation of evil; a curse
- addle
- to become rotten; to become confused
- deferential
- showing respect
- idiosyncrasy
- personal mannerism
- garner
- to gather and save to store up
- blandness
- polite manner; comforting uninteresting
- perilous
- dangerous
- pliant
- pliable; easily bent, shaped or twisted
- garble
- make unfair selection from facts
- demur
- to hesitate; raise objections
- rancorous
- feeling bitterness; spitefulness
- chivy
- to tease or annoy with persistent petty attacks
- jejune
- lacking nutritive value; dull; juvenile
- disabuse
- to free from error
- torpid
- sleeping; sluggish; lethargic; dormant
- garrulous
- too talkative
- renege
- to deny; to renounce; to go back on a promise
- stint
- to be thrifty; to set limits
- gouge
- tool for cutting grooves in wood
- attenuate
- make thin; weaken; enervate
- ineluctable
- certain; inevitable
- torque
- twisting force causing rotation
- pusillanimous
- cowardly; craven
- extort
- obtain by threats, violence
- bellicose
- belligerent; pugnacious; warlike
- aphorism
- concise statement of a principle
- asperity
- roughness; harshness; ill temper; irritability
- tendentious
- biased
- refulgent
- shining; brilliant
- philistine
- a smug ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge
- taut
- tightly stretched
- munificent
- characterized by great liberality or generosity
- requiem
- mass for the dead; solemn chant for the dead
- servile
- like a slave; lacking independence
- predilection
- special liking; mental preference
- fidget
- move restlessly; make nervous
- reciprocity
- granting of privileges in return for similar
- fatuous
- without sense; foolish self-satisfaction
- succor
- assistance relief in time of distress
- morose
- ill-tempered unsocial
- rotund
- rich and deep; plump and round
- taciturn
- untalkative silent
- odious
- repulsive; hateful
- ostentation
- display to obtain admiration or envy
- undermine
- weaken gradually at the base
- obviate
- to make unnecessary; get rid of
- trite
- not new
- apostate
- one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
- thrift
- care; economy; thriving; prosperous
- polemic
- aggressive attack on opinions of another; disputant
- sever
- break off
- bolster
- give greatly needed support
- admonitory
- containing warning
- wean
- to turn away (from a habit)
- terse
- brief and to the point
- enmity
- hatred; being an enemy
- ribald
- crude; characterized by coarse indecent humor
- plod
- continue doing smth without resting
- roll
- call; calling of names
- disconcert
- upset the self-possession of
- glimmer
- weak, unsteady light
- gullible
- easily gulled
- accretion
- the growing of separate things into one
- arrogance
- proud superior manner of behaviour
- amortize
- end (a debt) by setting aside money
- indelible
- that cannot be rubbed out
- sybarite
- voluptuary
- obstreperous
- noisy; loud
- impetuous
- having sudden energy; impulsive
- inveterate
- deep-rooted; long-established
- vanquish
- conquer
- spurious
- counterfeit
- choleric
- irritable; bad-tempered
- plea
- request
- provident
- frugal; looking to the future
- epistle
- letter
- blithe
- cheerful; casual; carefree
- striated
- striped; grooved or banded
- foil
- prevent from carrying out; contrast
- antidote
- medicine used against a poison or a disease
- indigence
- poverty
- discern
- see with an effort but clearly
- libertine
- immoral person
- veracity
- truth
- precursory
- preliminary; anticipating
- insularity
- narrow-mindedness; isolated
- abscond
- to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
- savant
- person of great learning
- summary
- done without delay or formality
- bilge
- bulge the protuberance of a cask
- obfuscate
- to darken; make obscure; muddle
- meticulous
- giving great attention to details
- alacrity
- eager and cheerful readiness
- ail
- trouble; be ill
- meretricious
- attractive on the surface but of little value
- imperative
- urgent; essential
- skiff
- small boat
- cornucopia
- abundant supply
- convoke
- call together; summon
- mawkish
- sickly or puerilely sentimental
- knit
- draw together; unite firmly
- cupidity
- greed; lust
- negligent
- taking too little care
- tremulous
- characterized by trembling; affected with timidity
- ignominious
- shameful; dishonorable; undignified; disgraceful
- cede/cession
- to surrender possession of, especially by treaty
- pundit
- pedant; authority on a subject
- ascend
- go or come up
- interim
- as an installment
- cringe
- to behave in an excessively servile way
- deign
- to condescend; to give
- subpoena
- written order requiring a person to appear in a law court
- salacious
- obscene
- intimate
- to announce; to suggest or hint
- astringent
- substance that shrinks
- lustrous
- being bright, polished
- splenetic
- bad-tempered; irritable
- rivet
- fix; take up; secure metal pin
- impassioned
- filled with passion or zeal
- covetous
- eagerly desirous
- avid
- eager; greedy
- perfidious
- treacherous; faithless
- petrified
- taken away power (to think, feel, act)
- arduous
- steep; difficult; ascent; laborious
- extinct
- no longer active
- veer
- change direction
- coy
- shy, modest (esp of a girl)
- cajole
- use flattery or deceit; to persuade
- peevish
- bad-tempered; irritable
- superimpose
- put smth on the top
- flout
- reject, mock; to go against (as in going against tradition)
- plunge
- move quickly, suddenly and with force
- maverick
- rebel; nonconformist
- declivity
- downward inclination
- articulate
- speak distinctly; connect by joints
- umbrage
- offense; resentment
- smolder
- burn slowly without flame
- impending
- imminent; being about to happen; expected
- falter
- waver; move in an uncertain manner
- venial
- excusable
- proclivity
- inclination
- ensign
- flag; badge
- spurn
- have nothing to do; reject or refuse
- belabor
- beat hard
- entangle
- put into difficulties
- acclaimed
- welcomed with shouts and approval
- indulge
- gratify; give way to; satisfy; allow oneself
- prudence
- careful; forethought
- exuberance
- state of growing vigorously; being full of life
- propitiatory
- conciliatory; appeasing; mitigating
- shard
- piece of broken earthenware
- quirk
- habit or action peculiar to smb or smth
- amble
- leisurely walk
- sodden
- soaked; saturated
- antediluvian
- made a long time ago
- duplicity
- deliberate deception
- jibe
- gibe; make fun of
- censure
- expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
- viscous
- sticky; semi-fluid
- ubiquitous
- present everywhere
- benign
- kind and gentle; mild (climate)
- heresy
- belief contrary to what is generally accepted
- timorous
- fearful; timid
- declaim/declamation
- to speak pompously or bombastically
- highbrow
- (person) with superior tastes
- cacophony
- harsh sound
- requite
- repay; give in return
- doggerel
- trivial, poorly constructed verse
- petulant
- unreasonably impatient
- fractious
- quarrelsome; irritable
- innocuous
- causing no harm
- shrewd
- astute; showing sound judgement
- inculcate
- fix firmly by repetition
- gush
- burst out suddenly; talk ardently
- chimera
- illusion or fabrication of the mind
- obsequious
- too eager to obey or serve
- intransigent
- uncompromising
- contumacious
- insubordinate; rebellious
- somatic
- of the body
- imminent
- likely to come or happen soon
- mulish
- unreasonably and inflexibly obstinate
- neophyte
- person who has been converted to a belief
- stanch
- to stop the flow of a fluid
- germane
- relevant pertinent to
- corpulent
- having a large bulky body
- recuperate
- become strong after illness, loss, exhaustion
- constrain
- compel
- nonplused
- greatly surprised
- ambidextrous
- able to use the left hand or the right equally well
- espouse
- marry; give one's support to
- reproach
- scold; upbraid
- warrant
- authority; written order; guarantee
- proliferate
- grow, reproduce by rapid multification
- interdict
- prohibit; forbid
- perspicacity
- quick judging and understanding
- seminal
- like a seed; constituting a source; originative
- deposition
- dethronement; depositing
- pious
- dutiful to parents; devoted to religion
- alleviate
- make (pain) easier to bear
- glib
- ready and smooth but not sincere
- maleficent
- baleful
- baneful
- causing harm or ruin; pernicious; destructive
- cant
- insincere talk
- peccadillo
- small sin; small weakness in one's character
- foretoken
- premonitory sign
- clinch
- come to grips; settle conclusively
- nadir
- lowest, weakest point
- steeply
- rising or falling sharply
- extenuate
- reduce the strength; lessen seriousness; partially excuse
- valorous
- brave
- sanguine
- cheerful; confident; optimistic
- plummet
- fall; plunge steeply
- counterfeit
- forgery
- trifling
- unimportant
- sagacious
- having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
- candid
- frank; straight-forward
- libel
- statement that damages reputation
- progeny/progenitor
- descendants; children
- bilk
- to cheat
- levee
- formal reception; embankment
- opaqueness
- dullness; not allowing light to pass through
- personable
- pleasing in appearance; attractive
- imperious
- commanding; haughty; arrogant
- implicit
- implied though not plainly expressed
- catalyst
- substance that causes speeding up
- hector
- to bully
- florid
- very much ornamented; naturally red (e.g., of face)
- impudent
- rash indiscreet
- truckle
- to act in a subservient manner
- rumple
- make rough
- recreant
- coward; apostate or deserter
- disheveled
- untidy
- nexus
- a connection, tie or link
- cursory
- quick hurried
- disconsolate
- cheerless; dejected
- resuscitation
- coming back to consciousness
- sordid
- wretched; comfortless
- relapse
- fall back again
- craven
- cowardly
- dastard
- coward
- deciduous
- ephemeral
- divergence
- getting farther apart from a point
- deluge
- great flood; heavy rush of water
- mendacity
- dishonesty
- inter
- to entomb or bury
- inept
- unskillful; said or done at the wrong time
- prate
- to talk long and idly
- insolvent
- unable to pay debts; impoverished
- evoke
- call up; bring out
- gloat
- look at with selfish delight
- hack
- cut roughly; hired horse
- tassel
- bunch of threads
- graze
- touch or scrape lightly in passing
- tenuous
- insubstantial flimsy weak
- concomitant
- accompanying
- disinter
- dig up from the earth
- endearing
- making dear or liked
- ossify
- to turn to bone; to settle rigidly into an idea
- incite
- stir up; rouse
- crotchet
- highly individual and usually eccentric opinion
- impugned
- challenged; to be doubted
- denouement
- an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
- anguish
- severe suffering
- coddle
- treat with care and tenderness
- vindicate
- to free from allegation or blame; to justify
- chisel
- steel tool for shaping materials
- auspicious
- favorable; successful; prosperous
- irate
- angry
- bacchanalian
- orgy
- vigilant
- member of a vigilance committee
- reprobate
- person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency
- deplete
- use until none remains
- dissipate
- to be dissolute
- extralegal
- outside the law
- nebulous
- cloud-like; hazy; vague
- stray
- wander; lose one's way
- forgery
- counterfeit
- sidestep
- step to one side
- aversion
- strong; dislike
- harbinger
- smth or smb that foretells the coming of
- pique
- hurt the pride or self-respect; stir (curiosity)
- sumptuous
- magnificent
- arrant
- in the highest degree
- drawl
- slow way of speaking
- droll
- jesting
- prognosticate
- to foretell from signs or symptoms; presage
- peregrination
- traveling about; wandering
- suffrage
- short prayer usually in a series; right of voting
- temperance
- abstinence from alcohol; self-control; moderation
- lurk
- be out of view ready to attack
- splice
- join (two ends)
- fringe
- edge; ornamental border; part of hair over the forehead
- raconteur
- person who tells anecdotes
- deter
- discourage; hinder
- satiate
- satisfy fully
- entice
- tempt or persuade
- severance
- severing
- unscathed
- unharmed; unhurt
- astute
- clever, quick at seeing to get an advantage
- fanciful
- imaginary
- underbid
- make a lower bid then smb else
- oblivious
- unaware; having no memory
- haughty
- arrogant; conceited
- contrite
- filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
- talon
- claw of a bird of prey
- dexterity
- skill (esp. in handling)
- substantiation
- giving facts to support (statement)
- impromptu
- without preparation
- repast
- meal
- laudatory
- expressing or giving praise
- commodious
- having plenty of space for what is needed
- subjugate
- to conquer; to subdue
- tawdry
- cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky
- dwarf
- person or smb much below the usual size
- slake
- to assuage
- preclude
- prevent; make impossible
- agile
- active; quick-moving
- reiterate
- say or do again several times
- propinquity
- nearness in time or place; affinity of nature
- pine
- waste away through sorrow or illness
- fission
- splitting or division (esp. of cells)
- shunt
- send from one track to another; lay aside
- cumbersome
- burdensome; heavy and awkward to carry
- supplicate
- make a humble petition to
- exoneration
- set smb clear, free (e.g., from blame)
- embellish
- make beautiful
- transgress
- break; go beyond (a limit)
- daunt
- intimidate; make fearful
- belligerent
- (person, nation) waging war
- eradicate
- get rid of; pull up by the roots
- eloquence
- fluent speaking; skillful use of language
- derision
- ridicule; mockery; deriding
- gnaw
- waste away; bite steadily
- pluck
- pull the feathers off; pick (e.g., flowers)
- equipoise
- equal distribution of weight; equilibrium
- hubris
- arrogant pride
- breach
- opening; broken place; breaking
- heed
- attention; give notice to
- malleable
- yielding easily; moldable; adapting
- pristine
- primitive; unspoiled; pure as in earlier times
- interpose
- to come between
- antithetical
- direct opposing
- diaphanous
- transparent; gauzy
- equivocate
- try to deceive by equivocal language
- muffler
- cloth worn round the neck; silencer
- secular
- material (not spiritual); living outside monasteries
- dainty
- pretty, delicate (food); difficult to please
- purvey
- provide supply
- lionize
- treat as a famous person
- lachrymose
- causing tears; tearful
- stygian
- dark, gloomy
- indistinct
- not easily heard, seen
- discreet
- careful, prudent
- lumber
- move in a clumsy, noisy way
- miser
- person who loves wealth and spends little
- levity
- lack of seriousness
- recant
- take back as being false; give up
- spleen
- feelings of anger or ill will; often suppressed
- prodigal
- wasteful; reckless with money
- adumbrate
- to suggest or hint; overshadow
- hardihood
- resolute; courage and fortitude
- heinous
- odious (of crime)
- palliate
- lessen the severity of
- waft
- scent; waving movement; carry lightly through
- abrogate
- repeal or annul by authority
- mollify
- make calmer or quieter
- forbearance
- patience; willingness to wait
- hoodwink
- trick; mislead
- impertinent
- given to insolent rudeness
- iconoclast
- person who attacks popular beliefs
- debacle
- a breakup; overthrow; sudden disaster
- curtail
- make shorter then was planned
- tonic
- smth giving strength or energy
- appease
- make quiet or calm
- coeval
- of the same period; coexisting
- ameliorate
- improve; make better
- evasive
- tending to evade
- caustic
- biting; sarcastic
- intransigence
- unwillingness to compromise; stubbornness; intractability
- trudge
- walk heavily
- convoluted
- complicated; coiled; twisted
- engrossing
- taken up all the time or attention; writing in large or formal
- refine
- make or become pure, cultural
- scruple
- minute part or quantity; qualm
- apropos
- appropriate to the situation; apt
- idyll
- a carefree episode or experience
- vagary
- strange act or idea
- pucker
- wrinkle
- turmoil
- trouble; disturbance
- rapacious
- greedy (esp. for money)
- pivotal
- of great importance (others depend on it)
- abstruse
- difficult to comprehend; obscure
- malevolence
- wishing to do evil
- discomfit
- confuse; embarrass
- mordant
- biting and caustic; incisive
- sober
- self-controlled
- rave
- act with excessive enthusiasm
- anthropomorphic
- having human characteristics
- postulate
- to claim; to assume as true, existent or necessary
- pummel
- to pound or beat
- renovate
- restore smth to better condition
- indefatigability
- not easily exhaustible; tirelessness
- vilify
- slander; say evil things
- harrow
- to distress; create stress or torment
- subterfuge
- deception
- adventitious
- coming from another source and not innate
- preen
- tidy; show self-satisfaction
- irascible
- irritable; easily angered
- palpability
- can be felt, touched, understood
- syncopated
- abbreviated; stressing the weak beat
- expedient
- likely to be useful for a purpose
- provoke
- make angry
- ragamuffin
- ragged; often disreputable person
- abhor
- to hate; to detest
- slur
- join sounds, words (indistinct)
- squander
- spend wastefully
- stride
- walk with long steps
- grandiloquent
- using pompous words
- arabesque
- a complex ornate design
- cantankerous
- bad-tempered; quarrelsome
- suborn
- induce by bribery; to commit perjury
- quell
- suppress; subdue
- sash
- long strip worn round the waist
- foment
- put smth warm (to lessen the pain)
- stricture
- something that limits; adverse criticism
- fragile
- easily injured, broken or destroyed
- rant
- use extravagant language
- guile
- deceit; cunning
- resilience
- quality of quickly recovering the original shape
- comely
- attractive
- dissent
- have a different opinion refuse to assent
- nascent
- coming into existence; emerging
- effete
- infertile; worn out; weak
- felon
- person guilty of murder
- impiety
- lack of reverence or dutifulness
- defiance
- open disobedience or resistance
- boisterous
- loud; noisy; rough; lacking restraint
- imperturbable
- calm; not capable of being excited
- chary
- cautious; wary
- pedantic
- bookish; showing off learning
- deleterious
- harmful
- savor
- taste flavor smth
- equivocal
- having a double or doubtful meaning; suspicious
- carp
- to find fault or complain querulously
- piquant
- agreeably pungent; stimulating
- reticent
- reserved; untalkative
- imbroglio
- complicated and embarrassing situation
- sphinx
- enigmatic or mysterious person
- blatant
- noisy and rough
- portent
- omen; marvelous; threatening
- bereft
- rob or dispossess of smth (material)
- fawn
- young deer; try to win smb's favor
- luminary
- star; light-giving body
- ratify
- to approve and sanction formally
- exacerbate
- to make more violent, bitter or severe
- scribble
- write hastily
- constrict
- make tight or smaller
- aseptic
- surgically clean
- scent
- smell (esp. pleasant)
- verdant
- fresh and green
- saturnine
- gloomy; dark; morose
- flay
- to skin; to excoriate
- recluse
- person who lives alone and avoids people
- hallow
- to make holy; consecrate
- preponderance
- greatness in number, strength, weight
- squalid
- foul; filthy
- middling
- fairly good but not very good
- august
- majestic; venerable
- jettison
- to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering
- poncho
- large piece of cloth
- beatify
- to bless; make happy or ascribe a virtue to
- recitals
- a number of performance of music
- impeach
- to accuse; to charge with a crime
- mesmerize
- hypnotize
- eulogy
- formal praise; panegyric
- precis
- concise summary
- quibble
- try to avoid by sophistication
- holster
- leather case for a pistol
- cavil
- to raise trivial and frivolous objection
- conviction
- firm belief
- abdication
- giving up control, authority
- riddle
- puzzling person or thing
- hospitable
- liking; to give hospitality
- refractory
- stubborn; unmanageable; untractable
- consume
- get to the end of
- endorse
- write one's name on the back of
- fervor
- warmth of feelings; earnestness
- mundane
- worldly as opposed to spiritual; commonplace; everyday
- ponderous
- heavy; bulky; dull
- supine
- lying on the back; slow to act; passive
- facetious
- humorous; funny; jocular
- expiation
- ending; expiring
- aplomb
- self-confidence
- decorum
- propriety; properness
- sere
- make hard and without feeling
- shun
- keep away from; avoid
- coda
- passage that completes a piece of music
- noisome
- offensive disgusting (smell)
- finesse
- delicate way of dealing with a situation
- render
- deliver; provide; represent
- hew
- make by hard work cut (by striking)
- precarious
- uncertain; risky; dangerous
- procrastination
- keeping on putting off
- dereliction
- deserting and leaving; to fall into ruins
- foppish
- like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
- felicitous
- apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
- sponge
- porous rubber for washing; live at once expense
- paucity
- scarcity a lacking of
- frugal
- careful; economical
- obtrusive
- projecting; prominent; undesirably noticeable
- profligacy
- shameless immorality
- ominous
- threatening
- burnish
- to polish, rub to a shine
- primp
- to dress or arrange in a careful or finicky manner
- insinuate
- suggest unpleasantly; make a way for smth gently
- aberration
- straying away from what is normal
- expurgate
- to remove obscenity, purify, censor
- exculpate
- to clear from a charge of guilt
- emote
- stir up; excite
- exhaustive
- complete; thorough
- vigorous
- strong; energetic
- approbation
- approval
- impermeable
- that cannot be permeated
- aloof
- reserved; indifferent
- volubility
- fluency; verbosity; easy use of spoken language
- catholic
- comprehensive; universal
- warmonger
- person who stirs up war
- protean
- displaying great diversity or variety; versatile
- viraginous
- of a virago
- ingest
- take in by swallowing
- concord
- agreement or harmony
- mettle
- quality of endurance or courage
- forfeit
- suffer the loss of smth
- loquacious
- talkative; garrulous
- deviance
- being different in moral standards (from normal)
- perquisite
- gratuity or tip
- plaque
- flat metal on a wall as a memorial
- thwart
- obstruct; frustrate
- vitiate
- lower the quality; weaken the strength
- reconcile
- settle a quarrel; restore peace
- incursion
- a raid; a sudden attack
- dubious
- feeling doubt
- flinch
- draw; move back; wince
- drudge
- to do hard, menial or monotonous work
- sedulous
- persevering
- burgeon
- grow forth; send out buds
- venal
- ready to do smth dishonest
- supercilious
- disdainful; characterized by haughty scorn
- curmudgeon
- bad-tempered person
- ineffable
- too great to be described in words
- intersperse
- place here and there
- raffish
- low; vulgar
- occluded
- blocked up
- hoax
- mischievous trick played on smb for a joke
- embezzle
- use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
- skit
- short piece of humorous writing
- atonement
- repayment death of Jesus
- querulous
- habitually complaining
- obdurate
- hardened and unrepenting; stubborn; inflexible
- propagation
- increasing the number; spreading; extending
- gaucherie
- socially awkward, tactless behavior
- opprobrious
- showing scorn or reproach
- disparate
- essentially different
- impecunious
- having little or no money
- fusty
- musty; rigidly old-fashioned or reactionary
- stolid
- showing no emotion; impassive
- augury
- omen; sign
- petrous
- like a rock, hard, stony
- bequest
- arrangement to give smth at death
- finical
- too fussy about food, clothing, etc.
- volatile
- changeable; inconstant
- distraught
- distracted violently; upset in mind
- suffice
- be enough
- drowsiness
- feeling sleepy; half asleep
- subdue
- overcome, bring under control
- prevalent
- common
- fret
- worry; irritation; wear away
- diffidence
- shyness
- decry
- disapprove of
- mince
- pronounce or speak affectedly; euphemize
- extant
- still in existence
- effrontery
- boldness; impudence; arrogance
- abut
- border on
- churl
- bad-tempered person
- irksome
- tiresome
- dawdler
- person who is slow; waste of time
- invincible
- too strong to be defeated
- fecund
- fertile
- cogitate
- think deeply; mediate
- sullied
- to be stained or discredited
- foolproof
- incapable; of failure or error
- immaculate
- pure faultless
- fulmination
- bitter protest
- discredit
- refuse to believe
- pest
- destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
- barrage
- artificial; obstacle built across a river
- lassitude
- weariness; tiredness
- myriad
- very great number
- recompense
- make payment to reward punish
- traduce
- to malign; to violate
- abnegation
- self-denial
- fixate
- stare at
- noxious
- harmful
- ire
- anger
- forage
- food for horses and cattle
- erratic
- irregular in behaviour or opinion
- mettlesome
- courageous; high-spirited
- detumescence
- diminishing or lessening of swelling
- judicious
- sound in judgment; wise
- flop
- fail; move; fall clumsily
- sanity
- health of mind; soundness of judgement
- profligate
- wasteful; prodigal; extravagant
- extirpate
- to destroy; exterminate
- lien
- legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
- cadge
- to beg; to get by begging
- forensic
- belonging to courts of judicature
- hubbub
- noise; confusion
- recourse
- turning to someone or something for help
- repel
- refuse to accept; cause dislike
- nonchalant
- not having interest
- abide
- be faithful; to endure
- vain
- without use, result; conceited
- threadbare
- exhausted of interest or freshness; trite
- rescind
- repeal; annul; cancel
- maul
- hurt by rough handling
- redeem
- get back by payment; compensate
- enzyme
- catalyst
- propitious
- auspicious; presenting favorable circumstances
- ebullience
- exuberance; outburst of feeling
- grovel
- crawl; humble oneself
- sheath
- cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
- implicate
- show that smb has a share
- indubitable
- too evident to be doubted
- enigma
- smth that is puzzling
- sophisticated
- complex; subtle; refined
- fidelity
- loyalty; accuracy
- prodigy
- portentous event; omen
- toady
- obsequious flatterer
- upbraid
- scold; reproach
- credulous
- ready to believe things
- impute
- to attribute; to a cause or source; ascribe
- putrefaction
- becoming rotten
- presumption
- arrogance
- vituperate
- curse; abuse in words
- alloy
- to debase by mixing with something inferior
- jocular
- meant as a joke
- connoisseur
- a person with good judgement (e.g., in art)
- obtain
- to be established; accepted or customary
- coalescing
- coming together and uniting into one substance
- onerous
- needing effort; burdensome
- dearth
- shortage
- hyperbole
- extravagant exaggeration
- pinch
- be too tight; take between the thumb and finger
- wag
- merry person
- exigency
- emergency an urgent situation
- somnolent
- likely to induce sleep; inclined to sleep
- esoteric
- abstruse; intended only for a small circle of
- pellucid
- transparent; easy to understand
- honorific
- conferring or conveying honor
- disproof
- proof to the contrary
- froward
- intractable; not willing to yield or comply; stubborn
- penitent
- feeling or showing regret
- pry
- inquire too curiously
- vigilance
- watchfulness; self-appointed group who maintain order
- grave
- serious; requiring consideration
- sacrosanct
- most sacred or holy; immune from criticism or violation
- ashen
- deadly pale
- exploit
- brilliant achievement; develop, use selfishly
- efface
- to make indistinct
- voluble
- fluent
- lavish
- giving or producing freely, liberally or generously
- ignoble
- dishonorable; common; undignified
- palatial
- magnificent
- panegyric
- formal praise; eulogy
- vaunt
- to boast
- pitfall
- covered hole as a trap; unsuspected danger
- mottle
- surface having colored spots or blotches
- prattle
- to prate; to utter or make meaningless sounds
- elaborate
- worked out with much care, in great detail
- desuetude
- cessation of use; disuse
- enunciate
- pronounce (words); express a theory
- bogus
- sham; counterfeit; not genuine
- uncouth
- rough; awkward
- ascertain
- get to know
- turpitude
- wickedness; shamefulness
- scorch
- become discolored; dry up; go at high speed
- alcove
- recess; partially enclosed place
- adulteration
- making unpure, poorer in quality
- disallow
- refuse to allow or accept as a correct
- limn
- paint; portray
- coax
- get smb to do smth by kindness
- grievous
- causing grief or pain; serious
- overweening
- presumptuously arrogant; being a jerk
- gossamer
- soft light; delicate material
- temerity
- boldness; brashness; intrepidness
- dilatory
- intended to delay
- trenchant
- forceful; effective; vigorous
- condone
- forgive
- malign
- injurious; speak ill of smb; tell lie
- invidious
- of an unpleasant or objectionable nature
- forge
- workshop for the shaping of metal; to shape metal lead
- putative
- commonly accepted or supposed
- centurion
- leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
- clerical
- of the clergy or clerk
- benevolence
- wish or activity in doing good
- urbane
- elegant; refined in manners
- lugubrious
- mournful excessively; sad
- topple
- be unsteady and overturn
- pyre
- large pile of wood for burning
- limp
- lacking strength; walking unevenly
- probity
- uprightness; incorruptibility
- premature
- doing or happening smth before the right time
- snare
- trap
- preternatural
- not normal or usual
- panoply
- smth forming a protective covering; impressive array
- correlate
- have a mutual relation
- flounder
- to struggle to move; to proceed clumsily
- orotund
- sonorous; bombastic
- insurrection
- rising of people to open resistance to
- mellifluous
- sweetly flowing
- invective
- abusive language; curses
- wince
- show bodily or mental pain
- squat
- crouch; settle without permission
- dismal
- sad; gloomy; miserable
- perish
- be destroyed decay
- posit
- to postulate; to suggest
- allegiance
- duty; support; loyalty
- profundity
- depth
- percipient
- capable of perception; discerning
- simper
- (give a) silly, self-conscious smile
- pungency
- sharpness; stinging quality
- blandishment
- flattery coaxing
- extol
- praise highly
- lithe
- bending twisting
- scabbard
- sheath for the blade
- petrify
- to make hard, rocklike
- misanthrope
- person who hates mankind
- consternation
- surprise and fear; dismay
- listless
- characterized by lack of interest, energy or spirit
- incredulous
- skeptical; unwilling to believe
- feud
- bitter quarrel over a long period of time
- garrulity
- talkativeness
- plead
- address a court of law as an advocate
- malediction
- curse; execration
- scrupulous
- having moral integrity; punctiliously exact
- quotidian
- banal; everyday
- supersede
- take the place of
- gregarious
- living in societies; liking the company
- scurvy
- mean; contemptible
- affable
- polite and friendly
- soporific
- producing sleep
- husk
- worthless outside part of anything
- sundry
- various; miscellaneous; separate
- dissolute
- marked by indulgence in vices
- derivative
- unoriginal; obtained from another source
- tortuous
- devious; not straightforward
- suffocate
- cause or have difficulty in breathing
- stipple
- paint with dots
- indulgent
- inclined to indulge
- dilate
- speak comprehensively; become wider, large
- slack
- sluggish, dull, not tight
- fledged
- able to fly; trained, experienced
- abate
- to lessen; to subside
- conciliatory
- reconciling; soothing; comforting; mollifying
- untoward
- unfortunate; inconvenient
- profuse
- abundant; lavish
- perfunctory
- done as a duty, without care
- sting
- smth sharp
- atelier
- artist's workroom
- introspection
- examining one's own thoughts and feelings
- undulate
- to move in wavelike fashion; fluctuate
- prosaic
- everyday; mundane; commonplace
- agog
- eager; excited
- lull
- become quiet or less active
- euphoria
- elation state of pleasant excitement
- empirical
- relying on experiment
- adjure
- to beg
- animosity
- strong dislike
- chutzpah
- nerve; gall
- encapsulate
- enclose in capsule
- divulge
- make known smth secret
- charlatan
- quack or fraud
- epigram
- terse or witty and often paradoxical saying
- placid
- serenely free of interruption or disturbance
- rabble
- mob; crowd; the lower classes of populace
- impassive
- unmoved feeling; no sign of passion
- pertain
- belong as a part; have reference
- cordial
- warm and sincere
- barren
- not good enough; unable to have young ones without value
- itinerate
- to travel from place to place; to peregrinate
- mischievous
- harmful; causing mischief
- pathos
- emotion of sympathetic pity
- indigenous
- native
- scurrilous
- given to coarse language
- protracted
- prolonged
- incipient
- beginning
- cozen
- to cheat
- hypocrisy
- falsely making oneself appear to be good
- carouse
- to drink alcohol freely
- imperviousness
- haughty; arrogant; commanding
- susceptibility
- sensitiveness
- provisional
- of the present time only
- voluptuous
- full of pleasure to the senses
- apprise
- give notice; to inform
- earthenware
- dishes made of baked clay
- evince
- to show clearly; to indicate
- ecumenical
- representing the whole Christian world
- bedizen
- to adorn, especially in a cheap showy manner
- conspicuous
- easily seen; remarkable
- balk
- obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
- adjunct
- something added; assistant
- quack
- person dishonestly claiming
- extrovert
- cheerful person
- rejuvenation
- becoming young in nature or appearance
- salutary
- remedial; causing improvement
- congeal
- make or become stiff and solid
- encomium
- warm or glowing praise; eulogy; panegyric
- chauvinist
- a blindly devoted patriot
- idolatry
- excessive admiration of
- anathema
- something loathed; curse
- homiletics
- act of preaching
- concur
- agree in opinion; happen together
- truculence
- aggressiveness; ferocity
- recidivism
- relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
- catatonic
- immobile
- permeate
- spread into every part of
- multifarious
- varied; motley; greatly diversified
- streak
- long; thin; move very fast
- luculent
- easily understood; lucid; clear
- snub
- treat with contempt
- engrave
- impress deeply
- chicanery
- legal trickery; false argument
- plaintive
- mournful melancholy; sorrowful
- potentate
- ruler; one who wields great power or sway
- celerity
- rapidity of motion or action
- cabal
- a scheme or plot; a group of plotters
- asterisk
- the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
- discourse
- speech lecture
- peremptory
- urgent; imperative
- shrill
- sharp; piercing
- nostrum
- a quack, remedy; an untested cure
- sententious
- short and pithy; full of maxims, proverbs
- quaff
- drink deeply
- parasol
- umbrella used as a sunshade, especially by women
- pulchritude
- physical beauty
- bluster
- to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats
- edible
- fit to be eaten; not poisonous
- suppress
- prevent from being known; put an end to
- adorn
- add beauty; decorate
- dulcet
- melodious; harmonious
- sawdust
- tiny bits of wood
- quiescence
- state of being passive, motionless
- brass
- yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
- inferno
- hell
- stultify
- to cause to appear or be foolish
- resort
- to frequently visit
- abjure
- promise or swear to give up
- hone
- stone used for sharpening tools
- timid
- shy; easily frightened
- ostracism
- shut out from society; refuse to meet, talk
- stipulate
- state or put forward as a necessary condition
- countervail
- counterbalance
- plumb
- get to the root of
- fulsome
- disgusting; offensive due to excessiveness
- pied
- of mixed colors
- corporeal
- physical of or for the body
- implacable
- incapable of being placated; unpleasable
- bask
- enjoy warmth and light
- regale
- to delight or entertain; to feast
- plethora
- glut
- expatiate
- to roam; wander freely
- repudiate
- disown; refuse to accept or pay
- flamboyant
- brightly colored; florid
- abysmal
- bottomless; extreme
- wend
- to go, proceed
- penury
- extreme poverty
- countenance
- to favor or approve of
- puissance
- strength
- consummate
- perfect; make perfec, complete
- unencumbered
- easy-going; trifle
- indomitable
- not easily discouraged or subdued
- insouciant
- unconcerned; carefree
- phlegmatic
- calm sluggish temperament; unemotional
- tactile
- perceptible by touch
- carte blanche
- full discretionary power
- ablution
- washing
- covert
- disguised
- insipid
- without taste or flavor
- shrew
- ill-tempered, scolding woman
- euthanasia
- easy and painless death
- expostulate
- argue earnestly; to dissuade, correct or protest
- tamper
- interfere with
- ascendancy
- dominance
- enthral
- please greatly; enslave (fig.)
- whimsical
- full of odd and fanciful ideas
- apostasy
- renunciation of a religion
- pedestrian
- commonplace; trite; unremarkable
- sardonic
- disdainfully or skeptically humorous; sarcastic
- derogatory
- insulting; tending to damage
- redoubtable
- formidable; causing fear
- cling
- to resist separation
- unfeigned
- not pretended; sincere
- commuter
- person who travels regularly
- massacre
- cruel killing of a large number of people
- palpitate
- tremble; beat rapidly and irregularly
- cravat
- piece of linen worn as a necktie
- ardor
- enthusiasm
- diatribe
- bitter and violent attack in words
- importune
- beg urgently; solicit (of a prostitute)
- conceal
- hide; keep secret
- attune
- bring into harmony
- recast
- cast or fashion anew
- recreancy
- cowardice; cowardly giving up
- rarefy
- to make thin, less dense; to purify or refine
- desultory
- aimless; haphazard; digressing at random
- dislodge
- move force from the place occupied
- foster
- nurture; care for
- vacillation
- being uncertain; hesitating
- novitiate
- period of being a novice; house where novices are trained
- reactionary
- opposing progress
- halcyon
- calm and peaceful
- picaresque
- involving clever rogues or adventurers
- trepidation
- alarm; excited state of mind
- clamor
- shout; complain with a lot of noise
- sluggard
- lazy slow-moving person
- disquiet
- to take away the peace or tranquility
- chaff
- to tease good-naturedly
- inadvertent
- not paying proper attention
- sequence
- succession; connected line of
- loll
- rest to sit or stand in a lazy way; hang (dog's tongue)
- prim
- neat formal
- ramify
- to be divided or subdivided; to branch out
- misogynist
- one who hates women, females
- contiguous
- touching; neighboring
- flaunting
- show off complacently
- corroboration
- additional strengthening evidence
- soar
- rise; fly high
- superfluous
- more then is needed or wanted
- elicit
- draw out
- inured
- accustomed to adapted
- stigma
- mark of shame or disgrace
- erudite
- learned scholarly
- mendicant
- a beggar
- wrangle
- to dispute angrily or peevishly
- revere
- have deep respect for
- precepts
- rules establishing standards of conduct
- rectitude
- the quality of being straight; righteousness
- summarily
- briefly; without delay
- gainsay
- to deny; to oppose
- collusion
- secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
- baleful
- harmful; ominous; causing evil
- dissolution
- disintegration; looseness in morals
- peripatetic
- wandering
- remonstrate
- to protest, object
- travesty
- parody; imitation
- vindictive
- having a desire to revenge
- partisan
- one-sided; committed to a party; biased or prejudiced
- submerge
- put under water liquid; sink out of sight
- sophomoric
- self-assured though immature
- brazen
- made of brass
- apt
- well-suited; quick-witted
- abeyance
- suspended action
- console
- give comfort or sympathy to
- shiftless
- lacking in resourcefulness; lacking in ambition
- monomania
- excessive concentration on a single object or idea
- ulterior
- situated beyond
- commemorate
- keep the memory of
- writ
- written order
- forswear
- renounce; disallow; repudiate
- duress
- threats to compel smb
- sophistry
- fallacious reasoning; faulty logic
- irrevocable
- final and unalterable
- incessant
- often repeated; continual
- arboreal
- of connected with trees
- yarn
- tale, story, fibers for knitting
- penurious
- poor; stingy
- torment
- severe pain or suffering
- congenital
- existing from birth; inherent
- vestige
- trace or sign
- coagulation
- change to a thick and solid state
- fleet
- number of ships; quick-moving
- palate
- roof of the mouth; sense of taste
- verisimilitude
- appearing true or real
- sanction
- approval (by authority); penalty
- ford
- shallow place in a river (to cross)
- overhaul
- examine thoroughly; to learn about the condition
- epithet
- adjective
- incense
- make angry
- tractable
- easily controlled or guided
- superannuate
- to become retired; to become obsolete
- racy
- full of zest or vigor; piquant
- synopsis
- summary or outline
- turbulence
- being uncontrolled; violent
- pugnacious
- fond of, in the habit of fighting
- inordinate
- exceeding reasonable limits
- wheedle
- to influence or entice by soft words or flattery
- welter
- turmoil; a bewildering jumble
- auxiliary
- helping; supporting
- proscribe
- denounce as dangerous
- slate
- king of blue-grey stone; propose; criticize
- dupe
- cheat; make a fool of
- punitive
- inflicting, involving or aiming at punishment
- cloture
- closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
- assiduous
- diligent; hard-working; sedulous
- sinuous
- winding, undulating, serpentine
- sallow
- of a grayish greenish yellow color
- rebuff
- snub
- parsimonious
- too economical; miserly
- ambivalent
- having both of two contrary meanings
- rake
- dissolute person; libertine
- fluke
- lucky stroke
- perpetrate
- be guilty; commit (a crime)
- sanguinary
- bloody
- tautology
- a repetition, redundancy
- sycophant
- person who flatter to the rich and powerful
- quixotic
- generous; unselfish
- antebellum
- existing before a war
- recalcitrant
- disobedient
- eddy
- circular or spiral movement (e.g., of wind)
- boorish
- crude; offensive; rude
- dolt
- stupid fellow
- surfeit
- satiate; feed to fulness or to excess
- prodigious
- enormous; wonderful
- cognizant
- being fully aware of
- conjoin
- to join together
- frenetic
- frantic, frenzied
- divestiture
- taking off; getting rid of; giving up
- presage
- warning sign
- dote
- show much fondness; center one's attention
- prolix
- tiring because too long
- decree
- order given by authority
- hirsute
- hairy; shaggy
- discrete
- individually distinct
- inane
- silly senseless
- rift
- split; crack; dissension
- fetter
- to shackle; put in chains
- captious
- critical
- inveigh
- to attack verbally; denounce; deprecate
- figurehead
- carved image on the prow of a ship
- fetid
- stinking
- precipitous
- steep
- didactic
- intended to teach; preachy
- inscrutable
- incapable of being discovered or understood
- tangential
- suddenly changeable
- nervy
- bold or brash; nervous
- ferret
- discover by searching; search
- bait
- to persecute
- lucubrate
- write in scholarly fashion
- pernicious
- harmful; injurious
- dogmatic
- positive; certain; arbitrary without room for discussion
- equilibrium
- state of being balanced
- eschew
- avoid
- gnomic
- characterized by aphorism
- benefactor
- person who has given help
- qualm
- feeling of doubt; temporary feeling of sickness
- poignant
- deeply moving; keen
- macerate
- make or become soft by soaking in water
- paean
- song of praise or triumph
- penchant
- strong inclination; a liking
- sermon
- reproving a person for his faults
- condense
- increase in density, strength; make laconic
- interregnum
- lapse in a continuous series
- unexceptionable
- not open to objection or criticism
- officious
- too eager or ready to help; offer advice
- tepid
- lukewarm
- discompose
- to destroy the composure of
- impede
- hinder; get in the way of
- volition
- power of choosing or determining
- dud
- no use person; smth that fails
- austere
- severely moral and strict; simple and plain
- trickle
- flow in drops
- efficacy
- production of a desired result
- convivial
- fond of feasting, drinking, and good company
- woo
- try to win
- harangue
- a long passionate speech
- aggravate
- make worse; irritate
- prune
- dried plum; silly person
- testiness
- witness; evidence
- malefaction
- evil deed; crime
- apotheosis
- deification; glorification to godliness
- moderation
- quality of being limited; not extreme
- tyro
- tiro; beginner
- shallow
- little depth; not earnest
- equable
- steady; regular
- ambiguous
- doubtful; uncertain
- facile
- easily done
- disingenuous
- sophisticated; artful; trying to deceive; cunning
- contentious
- argumentative; pugnacious; combative; quarrelsome
- transitory
- brief
- disseminate
- distribute (esp. ideas)
- waffle
- talk vaguely and without much result
- sinew
- power; chief supporting force
- vouchsafe
- to grant (often in a gracious manner)
- insensible
- unconscious; unresponsive; unaffected
- flax
- pale; yellow (hair); a plant
- brittle
- easily broken
- latent
- present but not yet active, developed or visible
- dolorous
- marked by misery or grief
- forbear
- refrain from; be patient; ancestor
- surcharge
- additional load; charge
- garment
- article of clothing
- ebullient
- overflowing with enthusiasm; showing excitement
- forebode
- to foretell or predict
- drone
- male bee; person who isn't self-employed
- offal
- waste or by-product of a process; rubbish
- egregious
- flagrant
- acarpous
- effete; no longer fertile; worn out
- solvent
- of the power of forming a solution
- apartheid
- brutal racial discrimination
- extempore
- without previous thought or preparation
- ennui
- boredom
- ferocity
- savage cruelty
- ineptitude
- quality of being unskillful
- impervious
- not allowing to pass through (of materials)
- valedictory
- of an act of bidding farewell
- maladroit
- tactless; clumsy
- fracas
- noisy quarrel
- pertinacious
- stubbornly unyielding or tenacious
- predominate
- have more power than others
- ostensible
- seeming; appearing as such; professed
- taunt
- contemptuous reproach; hurtful remark
- extinguish
- end the existence of; wipe or put out
- perambulate
- to travel over or through (esp. on foot)
- clot
- half-solid lump formed from liquid
- descry
- catch sight of; see smth in the distance
- equanimity
- calmness of temperament
- strut
- a supporting bar
- assuage
- make smth (pain, desire) less
- maudlin
- sentimental in a silly or tearful way
- amorphous
- shapeless
- hermetic
- sealed by fusion
- specious
- illogical of questionable truth or merit
- enduring
- lasting
- encumbrance
- burden things that get on the way of
- excoriation
- severe criticism
- ruffian
- violent cruel man
- pungent
- marked by a sharp incisive quality; caustic
- placate
- soothe; pacify; calm
- indolence
- laziness
- stingy
- spending, using unwillingly
- gust
- outburst of feeling; sudden rain, wind, fire, etc.
- intrepid
- fearless; brave; undaunted
- temperate
- showing self-control
- gist
- the point; general sense
- profane
- worldly; having contempt for God
- impunity
- exemption from punishment, harm or loss
- foible
- defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
- malapropism
- misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
- incorrigibility
- cannot be cured or corrected
- miscreant
- heretical; villainous
- benediction
- something that promotes goodness or well-being
- licentious
- lacking legal or moral restraints
- legacy
- smth handed down from ancestors
- feint
- pretend
- connotation
- suggestion in addition to
- cogent
- strong; convincing
- labyrinthine
- to entangle; the state of affairs
- enervate
- weaken; deprive of strength; attenuate
- epitome
- brief summary; representative example; a typical model
- combustion
- process of burning
- fallacious
- based on error
- limpid
- transparent; absolutely serene and untroubled
- tarnished
- lost brightness
- dissemble
- speak or behave so as to hide smth (in mind)
- inundate
- flood; cover by overflowing
- turgid
- excessively ornate; swollen or bloated
- complaisance
- tending to comply; obliging willingness to please
- conundrum
- a riddle; dilemma; enigma
- abstemious
- restraint, especially of food and alcohol
- retard
- check; hinder
- denigrate
- blacken; belittle; defame
- obnoxious
- odiously or disgustingly objectionable
- entreat
- ask earnestly
- turmoil
- state of extreme confusion, agitation or commotion
- engulf
- swallow up
- inimical
- harmful or friendly
- incise
- engrave; make a cut in
- incongruous
- out of place; not in harmony or agreement
- inchoate
- not yet fully formed; rudimentary; elementary
- renowned
- celebrated; famous
- elegy
- a lament; a melancholy composition
- ingenuous
- naïve; young; artless; frank
- molt
- moult; lose hair, feathers before new growing
- apprehensive
- grasping; understanding; unhappy feeling about future
- gorge
- eat greedily; narrow opening with a stream
- chromatic
- of color
- restive
- refusing to move; reluctant to be controlled
- crease
- line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket