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