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- Zealot
- Fanatic; person showing excessive zeal
- Whimsical
- Capricious; fanciful
- Welter
- Turmoil; bewildering jumble
- Wary
- Very cautious
- Warranted
- Justified; authorised
- Volatile
- Explosive; changeable; unstable; evaporating rapidly
- Vituperative
- Scolding; abusive
- Viscous
- Sticky; gluey
- Viable
- Practical or workable; capable of maintaining life
- Verbose
- Wordy
- Veracious
- Truthful
- Venerate
- Revere
- Vacillate
- Waver; fluctuate
- Trucluence
- Aggressiveness; ferocity
- Transgression
- Violation of the law; sin
- Tractable
- Docile; easily managed
- Tortuous
- Winding; full of curves
- Torpor
- Lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
- Tirade
- Extended scolding; harangue; denunciation
- Tenuous
- Slim; thin; rare
- Tangential
- Digressing; peripheral; only slightly connected
- Tacit
- Understood but not put into words
- Supposition
- Hypothesis; surmise
- Supersede
- Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
- Substantiate
- Establish by evidence; verify; support
- Subside
- Settle down; descend; grow quiet
- Subpoena
- Writ summoning a witness to appear
- Strut (n)
- Supporting bar
- Striated
- Marked with parallel bands; grooved
- Stolid
- Dull; impassive
- Stipulate
- Make express conditions; specify
- Stint (v)
- Be thrifty; set limits
- Stint (n)
- Supply; alloted amount; assigned portion of work
- Stigma
- Token of disgrace; brand
- Sporadic
- Irregular
- Spectrum
- Band of colour produced when light is passed through a prism
- Specious
- Seemingly reasonable but false; misleading
- Soporific
- Sleep causing; marked by sleepiness
- Solicitous
- Worried; concerned
- Skeptic
- Doubter; person who suspends judgement about something until having examined all evidence
- Shard
- Fragment, usually of pottery
- Secrete
- Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
- Savor
- Enjoy; having a distinctive flavour, smell or quality
- Saturate
- Soak thoroughly
- Satiate
- Satisfy fully
- Sanction
- Approve; ratify
- Salubrious
- Healthful
- Sage
- Person known for his wisdom
- Reverent
- Respectful; worshipful
- Reticent
- Reserved; uncommunicative
- Resolve
- Determination; firmness of purpose
- Resolution
- Determination
- Rescind
- Cancel
- Repudiate
- Disavow or Disown
- Reprobate
- Person hardened in sin; devoid or a sense of decency
- Reproach
- Express disapproval or disappointment
- Relegate
- Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
- Refute
- Disprove
- Refractory
- Stubborn; unmanageable
- Recondite
- Abstruse; secret; profound
- Recluse
- Hermit; loner
- Recant
- Disavow or disclaim; retract a previous statement; openly confess error
- Recalcitrant
- Obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly
- Rarefied
- Make less dense
- Quiescent
- At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
- Quibble
- Minor objection or complaint
- Qualified
- Limited; restricted
- Pungent
- Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
- Proscribe
- Ostracise; banish; outlaw
- Propriety
- Fitness; correct conduct
- Propitiate
- Appease
- Propensity
- Natural inclination
- Proliferate
- Grow rapidly; multiply; spread
- Prohibitive
- Tending to prevent the use or purchase of something; inclined to forbid or prevent
- Profound
- Deep; complete
- Prodigal
- Wasteful; reckless with money
- Problematic
- Doubtful; perplexing; questionable; unsettled
- Probity
- Incorruptibility; uprightness
- Pristine
- Primordial; primitive; charactersitic of older times; unspoiled
- Prevaricate
- Lie
- Presumptous
- Arrogant; taking liberties
- Precursor
- Forerunner
- Precipitate (ADJ)
- Hasty; rash; premature; sudden
- Precarious
- Uncertain; risky
- Preamble
- Introductory statement
- Pragmatic
- Practical (as opposed to idealistic); concerned with practical worth or impact of something
- Porous
- Full of pores
- Plummet
- Fall sharply
- Plethora
- Excess; overabundance
- Platitude
- Trite expression; commonplace statement
- Plasticity
- Able to be molded
- Placate
- Pacify; soothe
- Piety
- Devoutness; reverence for God
- Phlegmatic
- Calm; not easily disturbed
- Pervasive
- Spread throughout
- Permeable
- Allowing gases or liquids to pass through; penetrable; porous
- Perfucntory
- Superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care or enthusiasm
- Perfidious
- Treacherous; disloyal
- Perennial
- Long lasting
- Penury
- Severe poverty
- Penchant
- Inclination; liking
- Pedantic
- Bookish; showing off learning
- Paucity
- Scarcity
- Pathological
- Pertaining to disease
- Partisan
- One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
- Paragon
- Model of perfection
- Ostentatious
- Pretenious; showy; trying to attract attention
- Oscillate
- Pendulum-like movement; waver
- Opprobrium
- Infamy; villification
- Onerous
- Burdunsome
- Officious
- Meddlesome
- Occlude
- Hinder; block
- Obviate
- Make unnecessary; get rid of
- Obsequious
- Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic
- Obdurate
- Stubborn
- Neophyte
- Beginner; recent convert
- Negate
- Nullify; cancel out; deny
- Mundane
- Everyday; worldy as opposed to spiritual
- Morose
- Ill-humoured; sullen; melancholy
- Mollify
- Soothe
- Mitigate
- Moderate; appease
- Misanthrope
- One who hates mankind
- Meticulous
- Very careful; Painstakingly scrupulous
- Metamorphosis
- Change of form
- Mendacious
- Lying; habitually dishonest
- Maverick
- Rebel; non-conformist
- Malleable
- Able to be shaped by pounding; impressionable
- Malingerer
- One who feigns sickness to escape from duty
- Magnanimity
- Generosity
- Luminous
- Shining; giving off light
- Lucid
- Clear; easily understood; intelligible
- Loquacious
- Talkative
- Log
- Record of flight or voyage; written record of day to day activities
- Levity
- Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity
- Levee
- Stone or earthen embankment built to prevent flooding
- Lethargic
- Drowsy; dull
- Laud
- Praise; applaud
- Latent
- Potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden
- Lassitude
- Weariness; languor
- Laconic
- Brief and to the point
- Itinerary
- Travel schedule
- Irresolute
- Uncertain how to act; weak
- Irascible
- Irritable; easily angered
- Invective
- Abuse
- Inured
- Accustomed; hardened
- Inundate
- Teach
- Intransigence
- Refusal to come to a compromise; stubborness
- Intractable
- Unruly; stubborn; unyeilding
- Insularity
- Narrow-mindedness; isolation
- Insipid
- Flavourless; bland
- Insinuate
- Imply; hint; creep in
- Insensible
- Unconscious; unresponsive
- Innocuous
- Harmless
- Inherent
- Firmly established by nature or habit
- Ingenuous
- Naive and trusting; young; not sophisticated
- Inert
- Lacking the power to move; inactive
- Indolent
- Lazy
- Indigence
- Poverty
- Indeterminate
- Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
- Incorporate
- Introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite
- Inconsequential
- Insignificant; unimportant
- Incongruity
- Absurdity; not in harmony
- Inchoate
- Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary
- Inadvertently
- Unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly
- Implode
- Burst inwards
- Implicit
- Meant but not said
- Implacable
- Not able to be placated
- Impervious
- Impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
- Imperturbable
- Calm; placid
- Impede
- Block; hinder
- Impassive
- Imperturbable; without feeling; stoic
- Impair
- Injure; hurt
- Immutable
- Unchangeable
- Idolatry
- Idol worship; excessive admiration
- Iconoclastic
- Attacking cherished traditions
- Hyperbole
- Exaggeration; overstatement
- Homogeneous
- Of the same kind
- Harangue
- Long, passionate and vehement speech
- Gullible
- Easily deceived
- Guileless
- Without deceit
- Gregarious
- Sociable
- Grandiloquent
- Pompous; using inflated language; bombastic
- Gouge
- Overcharge
- Goad
- Urge on
- Garrulous
- Talkative; wordy; loquacious
- Gainsay
- Deny; contradict or oppose; declare to be untrue
- Futile
- Useless; ineffectual
- Frugality
- Economy; thrift
- Forestall
- Prevent by taking action in advance
- Foment
- Stir up; instigate
- Flout
- Reject; mock
- Fledgling
- Inexperienced
- Flag
- Droop; grow feeble
- Fervor
- Glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
- Felicitous
- Apt; well chosen; suitably expressed
- Fawning
- Courting favour by cringing and flattering
- Fatuous
- Foolish; inane
- Fallacious
- False; misleading
- Facilitate
- Make easy; help bring about
- Facetious
- Joking (inappropriately); humorous
- Extrapolation
- Projection; conjecture
- Exigency
- Urgent situation
- Exculpate
- Clear from blame
- Exacerbate
- Embitter; worsen
- Euphemism
- A mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
- Eulogy
- Expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death
- Esoteric
- Hard to understand; known only to a chosen few
- Erudite
- Learned; scholarly
- Equivocate
- Lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth
- Equanimity
- Calmness of temperament; composure
- Enhance
- Increase; improve
- Engender
- Cause; produce
- Enervate
- Weaken
- Endemic
- Prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country
- Emulate
- Mimic; rival
- Empirical
- based on experience
- Emebellish
- Adorn; ornament; enhance
- Elicit
- Draw out by discussion
- Elegy
- Song or poem expression lamentation