David's Vocabulary List II
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- Disseminate
- to disperse; to scatter far and wide
- Dissipate
- dissolve; dispel; to scatter; to disperse; to disappear; to squander or waste
- Dissolution
- a dissolving; the termination (business); death; adjournment of a meeting
- Dissonant
- cacophonous; harsh; jarring; discordant
- Distort
- to twist out of the true meaning or proportion
- Dither
- excitement; great agitation
- Diversity
- difference; variety
- Docile
- easily taught, led, or managed; tractable; obedient
- Dogmatic
- stubbornly opinionated; dictatorial; doctrinal; asserted without proof;
- Dormant
- inactive
- Dossier
- a collection of documents concerning a particular person or matter
- Dote
- to be excessively or foolishly fond of
- Dour
- gloomy; sullen; sorrowful; doleful
- Drought
- prolonged shortage or lack of something; a period of dryness
- Dulcet
- melodious; harmonious (opp. Cacophonous)
- Dupe
- to deceive; to trick; inveigle
- Ebullience
- enthusiastic expression of thoughts or feelings; exuberance
- Ebullient
- bubbling, boiling; overflowing with enthusiasm
- Eccentric
- odd; unusual; quirky
- Efficacy
- the power to produce the desired effect; effectiveness
- Effrontery
- audacity; boldness transcending the bounds of modesty; temerity
- Effulgent
- diffusing a flood of light; shining
- Elate
- to raise the spirits of; to make proud
- Elegy
- poem of lament, esp. for the dead
- Elicit
- extract; bring out; draw forth
- Elucidate
- to make clear; clarify
- Elusive
- hard to explain, grasp or retain; evasive; escaping (opp. evident or lucid)
- Embellish
- to enhance with elaborate additions; to decorate; to adorn; to beautify
- Embezzlement
- the act of stealing something entrusted to your care
- Embody
- to incorporate; to represent; to take on the physical representation of
- Emergent
- arising unexpectedly
- Eminent
- famous
- Emolument
- remuneration; salary; gain; profit
- Empirical
- relying or based on experiment and observation rather than theory
- Emulsify
- to form into a fluid (by suspending an oily substance in another liquid)
- Encapsulate
- to enclose as if in a capsule; to condense
- Encomium
- high praise
- Enigma
- a mystery (enigmatic, puzzling) [Enigmatic (adj)]
- Enigmatic
- mysterious; puzzling
- Enmity
- hostility; antagonism; opposition; resistance
- Ennui
- dissatisfaction resulting from inactivity; boredom
- Ensconce
- to settle securely or snugly; to cover or shelter
- Enterprising
- full of energy and initiative; willing to take on new project
- Entitlement
- an honoring or dignifying title; a qualification of a person to do something
- Entrench
- to secure; to surround or fortify with trenches
- Enumerate
- count; to name one by one
- Epilogue
- a conclusion or postscript
- Equanimity
- composure; quality of remaining calm and undisturbed; evenness of mind
- Equivocal
- having two or more meanings; purposefully vague, misleading
- Equivocate
- to use equivocal language, esp. with the intent to deceive
- Equivocation
- something with a double meaning; ambiguity
- Erroneous
- inaccurate; incorrect; faulty; mistaken
- Esoteric
- taught only to a select number; confidential
- Espouse
- to give in marriage; betroth; to support or commit to
- Estrange
- to alienate the affections of; to keep away
- Euphony
- pleasant sound (opp. Cacophony)
- Evacuee
- a person who withdraws from a place in an organized manner
- Evade
- to avoid
- Exacerbate
- irritate; annoy; aggravate; agitate; to make more violent, bitter, or severe
- Exasperation
- irritation; annoyance
- Excel
- to be superior to; to surpass in accomplishment or achievement
- Excruciating
- causing great pain or anguish; agonizing; intense or extreme
- Exculpate
- free; to clear from alleged fault or guilt; acquit
- Execrable
- deserving to be cursed; detestable
- Exegesis
- explanation, critical analysis or interpretation of a word or passage
- Expatiate
- expand; broaden; speak/write at length on a subject
- Expenditure
- expense; disbursement; receipt
- Explication
- full explanation
- Explicit
- fully revealed or expressed without ambiguity or vagueness
- Expunge
- to blot out; obliterate; delete; erase; cancel
- Expurgate
- erase; remove anything objectionable
- Extemporaneous
- made, done, or spoken without any preparation; unpremeditated; impromptu
- Extol
- to praise highly
- Extraneous
- foreign; not essential; irrelevant
- Façade
- a pretense; a front (an appearance concealing something)
- Facetious
- flippant; witty; jocose
- Fallacious
- false; untrue [Fallacy (n)]
- Fallow
- uncultivated
- Fatuous
- inane; foolish; silly
- Fecund
- productive; fertile; prolific
- Feeble
- lacking strength; weak; inadequate; inferior
- Ferment
- to excite; to agitate
- Fervent
- ardent; earnest
- Fester
- to ulcerate; to grow embittered; to decay
- Fetid
- malodorous; noisome; having an offensive or rancid smell
- Fetter
- to confine; to enchain; to restrain motion of
- Fickle
- changeable; capricious; mercurial
- Fidelity
- faithfulness
- Fissure
- rift; a crack; an opening made by splitting
- Fitful
- spasmodic; intermittent
- Flabbergasted
- surprised; astonished
- Flagrant
- glaring; notorious; scandalous; outrageous; flaringly bad
- Fleeting
- not lasting; transient
- Flippant
- frivolous; disrespectful; saucy; impertinent
- Florid
- highly decorated; ornate
- Flux
- flow
- Foremost
- first in place, time or importance
- Forfeit
- to lose or give up
- Formidable
- causing fear or dread; hard to handle or overcome; awe-inspiring in size
- Forthright
- straightforward and aboveboard frank, candid, direct, open
- Fortify
- to increase the defenses or effectiveness of; to impart strength
- Fortuitous
- lucky; accidental; happening by chance
- Foster
- to promote the growth of; to bring up; giving or receiving parental care
- Franchise
- freedom from some restriction
- Fraught
- loaded; filled
- Frenetic
- frantic; frenzied
- Fulsome
- extravagant; excessive
- Futile
- describing something that could not succeed; useless; vain; hopeless;
- Futility
- ineffectiveness; uselessness
- Gambol
- to skip about in play; frisk
- Gamut
- entire range of or extent of anything
- Genial
- pleasantly warm, mild, and healthful
- Germane
- relevant; pertinent
- Germinate
- to sprout; to start growing
- Gibe
- sneer; snarl; to deride; to scoff at
- Gravity
- seriousness; critical character [Grave (adj)]
- Guffaw
- a loud, coarse burst of laughter
- Guile
- cunning; deceitfulness; duplicity
- Harbinger
- herald; omen; precursor; augury
- Hemp
- a plant of the hemp family; the fiber used to make rope
- Herald
- announce; proclaim
- Heresy
- an opinion violently opposed to established beliefs
- Hiatus
- a pause; an interruption in time or continuity; a break; a gap or opening
- Hierarchical
- the quality or state of being arranged in order of rank, grade, or class
- Hierarchy
- group of persons/things arranged in order of rank, grade, or class
- Holistic
- having the belief that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts
- Homogeneous
- composed of uniform structure or composition throughout
- Hub
- origin; center of activity; focal point
- Humdrum
- lacking variety; dull; monotonous
- Humility
- humble; modest opinion of one's own importance; meekness
- Hyperbole
- exaggeration
- Ideologue
- an impractical idealist
- Ideology
- concepts about human life or culture
- Illicit
- not permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful
- Illuminate
- to give light to; illuminate; explain
- Imbue
- infuse; ingrain; permeate; suffuse; inculcate; pervade
- Immune
- safe from harm; protected
- Immutable
- not capable of or susceptible to change; unchangeable
- Impair
- to make worse; weaken; damage
- Impassive
- not feeling pain; not feeling or showing emotion; serene; placid
- Impede
- hinder; retard or obstruct movement or progress; prevent
- Impertinence
- not showing proper respect or manners; insolence; impudence
- Impertinent
- insolent; impudent; rude
- Impervious
- not capable of being penetrated; impenetrable; impermeable; not affected by
- Impetus
- force; incentive
- Impiety
- not pious; irreverence toward God
- Implacable
- inexorable; that which cannot be pacified or appeased
- Implement
- to fulfill; accomplish; provide the means for the carrying out of
- Impropriety
- being improper; improper behavior; improper use of a word or phrase
- Improvisation
- something that is improvised or spontaneous; extemporization; impromptu
- Improvise
- to compose on the spur of the moment; extemporize
- Impugn
- to oppose or challenge as false; to attack with words
- Inadvertent
- heedless; not attentive or observant; unintentional
- Inadvertently
- unintentionally
- Inane
- foolish; stupid; ridiculous
- Incandescent
- bright; glowing with intense heat; red-hot
- Incinerate
- to burn up; to burn to ashes
- Incipient
- in the first stages of existence; beginning
- Incongruity
- lack of harmony or agreement; lack of appropriateness
- Indefatigable
- incapable of being fatigued; untiring
- Indigenous
- native born; grown or produced naturally in a region; endemic
- Indigent
- destitute; in poverty; needy; poor
- Indiscernible
- imperceptible; unnoticeable
- Indulgent
- to pamper someone or oneself; satisfy desires [Indulge (v)]
- Ineffable
- inexpressible; unutterable
- Inevitable
- unavoidable; bound to happen; certain to happen; that cannot be avoided
- Infelicity
- unhappiness
- Inference
- deduction; logical conclusion derived by reasoning
- Infuse
- to pour into or on; to put into; impart; inspire; imbue; to instill
- Inherent
- innate; basic; inborn; natural quality
- Inhibit
- to hold back an action or feeling; to repress
- Iniquity
- wickedness; gross injustice; vice
- Innovation
- a change in the way of doing things; introducing new methods
- Insinuate
- to hint or suggest (something) indirectly; to imply
- Insipid
- tasteless; flat or dull; wanting in spirit or life; lacking flavor or interest; boring
- Intact
- untouched; undamaged; unimpaired; remaining complete
- Intangible
- insubstantial; abstract; not perceptible to touch
- Integral
- making part of a whole or to make a whole; essential
- Integrity
- soundness of moral character; honesty; being whole or entire.
- Intemperate
- lack of moderation or restraint; unrestrained; unbridled
- Intercede
- mediate
- Intermittent
- stopping and starting at intervals; periodic
- Interrogation
- questioning
- Intimation
- a hint; indirect suggestion
- Intractable
- hard to manage; unruly or stubborn; recalcitrant; hard to treat or cure
- Intransigent
- refusing to abandon an extreme position; uncompromising
- Intrepid`
- fearless; brave
- Intrigue
- a secret plot or scheme; machination
- Inundate
- to overflow; to flood
- Invalidate
- to make invalid; to deprive of legal force
- Inveigle
- entice; ensnare; dupe
- Inversion
- reversal
- Inveterate
- habitual; confirmed in a habit
- Invidious
- likely to engender hatred; provoke envy; give offense; hateful
- Invigorate
- to give life and energy to
- Invigorated
- to give vigor to; to enliven; fill with energy
- Irascibility
- irritability; being easily angered
- Ire
- anger; wrath
- Ironic
- satiric; unexpected; sarcastic
- Irrelevant
- not pertinent, applicable, or relevant
- Irrevocable
- unalterable; cannot be revoked or undone
- Itinerant
- traveling from place to place; wandering
- Jaunt
- a short trip for pleasure; excursion
- Jingoist
- a person who boasts of his patriotism
- Jocose
- humorous; playful; jovial; jolly
- Jubilant
- rejoicing; elated
- Judicious
- having or exercising sound judgment; wise
- Jurisdiction
- the administering of justice; authority or power in general; sphere of authority
- Kiln
- an oven for processing a substance by firing or burning
- Laborious
- arduous; requiring labor; toilsome; tiresome; not easy
- Laity
- the people, as distinguished from the clergy
- Lament
- (n) a crying out in grief; dirge; elegy (v) deplore; to regret
- Lamentation
- outward expression of grief, esp. a weeping or wailing
- Lampoon
- a harsh satire usually directed against an individual; satire
- Larceny
- theft
- Lassitude
- lethargy; a feeling of being tired or weak; weariness
- Laud
- to praise
- Laudable
- worthy of praise; commendable
- Lauded
- praised
- Lethargy
- sluggishness; abnormal drowsiness; apathy
- Levity
- lack of seriousness; lightness of temperament or disposition; frivolity
- Lewd
- indecent; lustful; licentious
- Liability
- anything for which a person is responsible; a responsibility
- Liberate
- to set free
- Livid
- grayish-blue; lead-colored; pallid
- Loathe
- disdain; detest; hate; abominate; abhor; despise
- Loiter
- to linger or dawdle; procrastinate
- Loquacious
- garrulous; voluble; talkative
- Ludicrous
- causing laughter because absurd or ridiculous
- Lunar
- of the moon
- Malevolent
- wishing evil or harm to others; malicious
- Malign
- slander; speak evil of; deprecate; defame
- Malignant
- evil; very harmful; malicious
- Malleable
- capable of being changed, trained or molded, adapted; pliable; adaptable
- Marauder
- pirate; a rover in search of plunder
- Marred
- deformed; injured
- Meander
- to ramble; wander
- Mediation
- friendly or diplomatic intervention for settling differences
- Mediocrity
- quality of being average; average or moderate ability, value or attainment
- Meek
- patient; mild
- Melancholy
- depression of spirits; dejection
- Mendacity
- untruthfulness; a lie or falsehood
- Mentor
- a trusted counselor or guide; a tutor; a coach
- Mercurial
- unpredictable; quick, quick-witted; volatile, fickle; changeable; protean