abate, verb

adjoin, verb
amalgamate, verb
anomalous,
to reduce in to be close or in combine; unite in adjective

amount, degree or contact with

one body
abnormal; irregular

severity

admonish, verb
amatory, adjective
antipathy, noun

abdicate, verb
to counsel against of or pertaining to aversion; dislike

to renounce or something; caution; lovers or

relinquish a throne
warn; reprove
lovemaking
apartheid, noun

any system or
aberrant, adjective
adulterate, verb
ambiguous, caste that
abnormal or to make impure by adjective
separates people
deviant
adding inferior or unclear or doubtful according to race

tainted substances
in meaning

abeyance, noun
apathy, adjective

suspended action
aesthetic, ambivalence, noun
lack of interest or
adjective
the state of having emotion; uncaring;
abject, adjective
artistic; dealing contradictory or indifference

utterly hopeless; with or capable of conflicting

humiliating or appreciating the emotional attitudes
appease, verb

wretched
beautiful
pacify or soothe;
ameliorate, verb
relieve

ablution, noun
affable, adjective
to make better; to
act of cleansing
friendly, courteous
improve
approbation, noun

approval; praise,
abscond, verb
aggrandize, verb
amity , noun
consideration

depart secretly and to increase in friendship; peaceful

hide
power, influence harmony
appropriate,
and reputation
adjective

abstemious, anachronism, acquire; take

adjective
aggregate, verb
noun
possession of for
sparing in eating gather; accumulate
something or one’s own use

and drinking; someone

temperate
alacrity, adjective
misplaced in time; arduous, adjective

cheerful an obsolete or hard; strenuous

acquiesce, verb
promptness; archaic form

to comply, give in
eagerness
artless, adjective

anarchy, noun
without guile; open
acrid, adjective
alleviate, verb
absence of and honest

sharp or biting to relieve

governing body;
the taste or smell
state of disorder
ascetic, adjective

altruist, noun
practicing self-
acrimonious, a person androgynous, denial; austere

adjective
unselfishly adjective

caustic, stinging or concerned for the being both male assiduous,

bitter in nature
welfare of others
and female
adjective

diligent, persistent,
hardworking

 catalyst, noun
complacent,
assuage, verb
benign, adjective
agent that adjective

to make less having a kindly increases the rate self-satisfied,

severe; ease or disposition
of a chemical unconcerned

lessen (pain); action; person or

satisfy (hunger); bilateral, adjective
thing that causes compliant,
soothe (anger)
pertaining to or action
adjective

affecting two or yielding;

atrophy, verb
both sides
caustic, adjective
conforming to
to waste away; burning; requirements

wither or bolster, verb

sarcastically biting

deteriorate; the support; reinforce

compunction,
wasting away of chicanery, noun
noun

body tissue
bombastic, trickery; deception a feeling of
adjective
by means of craft uneasiness for
audacious, pompous in speech or guile
doing wrong

adjective
and manner ; using
daring; bold
inflated language
circuitous, concentric,
adjective
adjective

austere, adjective
boorish, adjective
roundabout, having a common
forbiddingly stern rude; insensitive
indirect
center

in appearance;
severely simple and burnish, verb
circumscribe, verb
conciliate, verb

unornamented
make shiny by to draw a line to placate, win over

rubbing; polish
around

autonomous, conciliatory,
adjective
buttress, verb
circumspect, adjective

self-governing; support; prop up

adjective
reconciling;
independent
watchful and soothing

banal, adjective
capitulate, verb
discreet

boring; to surrender condone, verb

commonplace; unconditionally or coagulate, verb

overlook; forgive;
trite; lacking on stipulated terms
thicken; congeal; give tacit approval;
originality; clichéd; clot
excuse

hackneyed
capricious,
adjective
cogent, adjective
conflagration,
belligerent, unpredictable; convincing and well noun

adjective
fickle; changing reasoned
a large destructive
warlike, given to one’s mind quickly fire

waging war
and often
commensurate,
adjective
confluence, noun

bemoan, verb
castigate, verb
corresponding in merging into one

to express pity for

to punish or extent, degree,
criticize harshly
etc.; proportionate
confound, verb

benevolent, confuse; puzzle

adjective

desiring to do good
to others

congenital, convoluted, dichotomy, noun

adjective
adjective
split; branching into
existing or as such intricate and two parts
from birth
complicated
deign, verb
(especially
to think fit or in contradictory ones)

connoisseur, noun
corroborate, verb
accordance with
person competent to provide one’s dignity
diffident, adjective

to act as a judge of supporting lacking or marked

art; a lover of art
evidence
delude, verb
by a lack of self-
to mislead the mind confidence; shy
contention, noun
craven, adjective
of judgment of, and timid.

claim; thesis
cowardly
deceive

diffuse, verb

contentious, credulous, verb

denigrate, verb
to spread widely or
adjective
too trusting; gullible
blacken
thinly

quarrelsome

cursory, adjective
deride, verb
digression, noun

contravene, verb
going rapidly over ridicule; make fun wandering away
to come into something; hasty; of
from the subject

conflict with
superficial

derision, noun
dilatory, adjective

contrite, adjective
daunt, verb
contemptuous or inclined to delay or
feeling regret and intimidate; frighten
jeering laughter; procrastinate

sorrow for one’s ridicule.

sins or offenses; decadent, dilettante, noun

penitent
adjective
derivative, noun
someone with an
decaying; unoriginal; obtained amateurish and
conundrum, noun
deteriorating
from another superficial interest
riddle; difficult source
in a topic

problem
decorum, adjective

propriety; desiccate, verb

dirge, noun

convalescent, orderliness and to dry out lament with music

adjective
good taste in thoroughly

recovering from manners

disabuse, verb

illness
desultory, correct a false
default, verb
adjective
impression; to set
converge, verb
failure to act
aimless; right; to free from
approach; tend to haphazard; error

meet; come deference, noun

digressing at
together
respect; courteous random
discerning,
regard for another’s adjective

convoke, verb
wishes
deterrent, mentally quick and
to call together
adjective
observant; having
deferential, something that insight

adjective
discourages;
respectful; to yield hindrance

judgment to

discordant, disparate, doctrine, noun

eclectic, adjective

adjective
adjective
a principle or body selective;
not harmonious; fundamentally of principles composed of
conflicting
distinct or different presented for elements from a
in kind; entirely acceptance or variety of sources

discredit, verb
dissimilar
belief; dogma

defame; destroy efficacy, noun

confidence in; disquiet, noun

document, verb
effectiveness ;
disbelieve
a lack of calm or provide written power to produce
peace
evidence
desired effect

discrepancy, noun

lack of dissemble, verb

dogma, noun
effigy, noun

consistency; disguise; pretend; a firmly held a dummy; a

difference
to disguise one’s opinion, often a likeness or image,
real intentions or religious belief
especially of a
discrete, adjective
character
person.

separate; dogmatic,
unconnected; disseminate, verb
adjective
effrontery, noun

consisting of distribute; spread opinionated; impudence;

distinct parts
widely; scatter (like arbitrary; doctrinal
shameless
seeds)
boldness; sheer
disingenuous, doleful, adjective
nerve;
adjective
dissolution, noun
sorrowful, mournful
presumptuousness

lacking genuine disintegration;

candor; insincere
looseness in dormant, adjective
elicit, verb

morals
sleeping; lethargic; draw out by
disinterested, latent
discussion

adjective
dissonance, noun

unprejudiced
discord; opposite dour, adjective
elocution, noun

of harmony
sullen, gloomy
art of clear and
disjointed, expressive
adjective
distend, verb
dupe, verb
speaking

lacking coherence; to expand by to deceive; a

separated at the stretching; swell person who is embellish, verb

joints
out
easily deceived
adorn; ornament;
enhance, as a story

dismiss, verb
distill, verb
duplicity, noun

eliminate from purify; refine; deceitfulness in empathy, noun

consideration; concentrate
speech or conduct; the identification
reject
double-dealing
with the feelings or
diverge, verb
thoughts of others

disparage, verb
vary; go in different ebullient, adjective

belittle
directions from the showing empirical,
same point
excitement; adjective

overflowing with based on

enthusiasm
experience

emulate, verb
euphemism, noun
fallacious, fusillade, noun

imitate; rival
an inoffensive adjective
continuous
expression that is false; misleading
discharge of
endemic, adjective
substituted for one firearms or outburst
prevailing among a that is considered fatuous, adjective
of criticism

specific group of offensive

brainless; inane;
people or in a foolish, yet smug
futile, adjective

specific area or exacerbate, verb

useless; hopeless;
country
worsen; to increase fawning, adjective
ineffectual

bitterness or trying to please by

engender, verb
violence
behaving garrulous,
to produce, cause obsequiously, adjective

or bring about
execrable, flattering, or loquacious;
adjective
cringing
talkative; wordy

enhance, verb
abominable

increase; improve
fervor, noun
goad, verb

exigency, noun
glowing ardor; urge on

enigma, noun
urgent situation; intensity of feeling

a puzzle; a mystery
pressing needs or grandiloquent,
demands; state of flag, verb
adjective

ephemeral, requiring droop; grow feeble; pompous or

adjective
immediate to decline in vigor inflated in
short-lived; fleeting
attention
or strength
language;
bombastic; using
equanimity, noun
exigent, adjective
fledgling, adjective
high-sounding
calmness of urgent; requiring inexperienced
language

temperament; immediate action

composure
flout, verb
gregarious,
expound, verb
reject; mock; show adjective

equivocate, verb
to set forth in detail
contempt for
sociable

lie; mislead;
attempt to conceal exult, verb
foment, verb
guile, noun

the truth
to show or feel to arouse or incite
deceit or trickery

triumphant joy

erudite, adjective
forestall, verb
guileless, adjective

learned, scholarly, facetious, prevent by taking without deceit

bookish
adjective
action in advance

joking (often gullible, adjective

eulogy, noun
inappropriately); fractious, adjective
easily deceived

expression of humorous
irritable, peevish

praise, often on the harangue,

occasion of facilitate, verb
frugality, noun
nounlong,
someone's death
help bring about; thrifty; economy
passionate, and
make less difficult
vehement speech
homogeneous, impervious, incursion, noun
insensible,
adjective
adjective
a hostile entrance adjective

of the same kind

impenetrable; into a place
unconscious;
incapable of being unresponsive

hyperbole, noun
damaged or indeterminate,
exaggeration; distressed
adjective
insidious, adjective

overstatement
uncertain; not intended to trap or
impetuous, clearly fixed; beguile

hypocritical, adjective
indefinite

adjective
quick to act without insinuate, verb

affecting virtues or thinking

indigence, noun
hint; imply; creep in

qualities one does poverty

not have
implacable, insipid, adjective

adjective
indigent, adjective
lacking in interest
idolatry, noun
incapable of being experiencing want or flavor; dull

worship of idols; pacified

or need;
excessive impoverished.
insolent, adjective

admiration
implicit, adjective
boldly rude or
understood but not indolence, noun
disrespectful

immutable, stated
state of being lazy
adjective
or slothful
insularity, noun

unchangeable
implode, verb
narrow-
burst inward
induce, verb
mindedness;
impair, verb
to move or lead by isolation

injure; hurt
inadvertently, influence

adjective
interloper, noun

impassive, unintentionally; by inert, adjective

someone who
adjective
oversight; inactive; lacking intrudes in the
without feeling; carelessly
power to move
domain of others

imperturbable;
showing or feeling incongruity, noun
infusion, noun
intractable,
no emotion
lack of harmony; liquid extract so adjective

absurdity
obtained
unruly; stubborn;
impede, verb
unyielding

hinder; block
inconsequential, inherent, adjective

adjective
firmly established intransigence,
impermeable, insignificant; by nature or habit
noun

adjective
unimportant
refusal of any
impervious; not inimical, adjective
compromise;
permitting passage incorporate, verb
hostile, unfriendly
stubbornness

through its introduce

substance
something into a innocuous, intransigent,
larger whole; adjective
adjective

imperturbable, combine; unite

harmless
refusing to agree or
adjective
compromise

calm; placid

inundate, verb
litigate, verb
malign, verb
mollify, verb

overwhelm; flood; to make the subject to speak harmful to calm or make

submerge
of a lawsuit
untruths about, to less severe; soothe

slander

irascible, adjective
log, noun
morose, adjective

irritable; easily record of a voyage malingerer, noun

ill-humored; sullen;
angered
or flight; record of one who feigns melancholy

day-to-day illness to escape

irresolute, activities
duty
mundane,
adjective
adjective

uncertain how to loquacious, malleable, worldly as opposed

act; weak
adjective
adjective
to spiritual;
talkative
capable of being everyday

itinerary, noun
shaped by
plan of a trip
lucid, adjective
pounding; nascent, adjective

easily understood; impressionable

starting to develop

laconic, adjective
clear; intelligible

brief and to the maverick, noun

negate, verb

point; using few luminous, rebel; cancel out; nullify;

words
adjective
nonconformist
deny

shining; issuing
lassitude, noun
light
maxim, noun
obdurate,
languor; weariness
an expression of adjective

magnanimity, general truth or stubborn, hardened

latent, adjective
noun
principle
in feelings;
potential but generosity
resistant to
undeveloped; mendacious, persuasion

dormant; hidden
magnanimous, adjective

adjective
lying; habitually oblique, adjective

laud, verb
generous in dishonest
having a slanting or
praise
forgiving an insult sloping direction

or injury
metamorphosis,
lethargic, adjective
noun
obsequious,
drowsy; dull
magnate, noun
change of form
adjective

a powerful or overly submissive

levee, noun
influential person
meticulous, and eager to
earth or stone adjective
please; servile;
embankment to maladroit, excessively careful; sycophantic

prevent flooding
adjective
painstaking;
clumsy, tactless
scrupulous
obsolescent,
levity, noun
adjective

lack of seriousness malevolent, mitigate, verb

becoming obsolete

or steadiness; adjective
to soften, to lessen

frivolity
characterized by or obstreperous,
expressing bad will
adjective

noisily defiant,
unruly

obtuse, adjective
partisan, adjective
peripatetic, placate, verb

not sharp, pointed one-sided; adjective

pacify; conciliate

or acute
prejudiced; walking or traveling
committed to a about; itinerant
plasticity, noun

obviate, verb
party
ability to be molded

to prevent; make permeable,

unnecessary; get pathological, adjective
platitude, noun

rid of
adjective
penetrable; porous; trite remark;
pertaining to allowing liquids or commonplace
officious, adjective
disease
gas to pass statement

meddlesome; through

excessively pushy paucity, noun

plethora, noun

in offering one’s smallness of pervasive, excess;

services
quantity; scarcity; adjective
overabundance

scantiness
spread throughout

omnivorous, plummet, verb

adjective
pedantic, adjective
petulant, adjective
fall sharply

eating or absorbing showing off showing sudden

everything
learning; bookish
irritation, esp. over porous, adjective

some annoyance
full of pores; like a
onerous, adjective
penchant, sieve

troublesome and adjective

philanderer, noun

oppressive; strong inclination; one who carries on pragmatic,

burdensome
liking
flirtations
adjective

practical (as
opprobrium, noun
penury, noun
philanthropy, noun
opposed to
public disgrace; severe poverty; charity; a desire or idealistic);
infamy; vilification
stinginess
effort to promote concerned with the
goodness
practical worth or
oscillate, verb
perennial, impact of
vibrate; waver
adjective
philology, noun
something

something long- the study of literary

ostentatious, lasting
texts to establish preamble, noun

adjective
their authenticity introductory
showy; pretentious; perfidious, and determine their statement

trying to attract adjective

meaning

attention
treacherous; precarious,
disloyal; willing to phlegmatic, adjective

panoply , noun
betray one’s trust
adjective
uncertain; risky

a wide-ranging and calm; not easily

impressive array or perfunctory, disturbed
precipitate ,
display
adjective
adjective

superficial; not piety, noun

adj. rash,
paragon, noun
thorough; lacking devoutness; premature, hasty,
model of interest, care, or reverence for God
sudden

excellence or enthusiasm; done

perfection
in a routine way;

preclude, verb
problematic, protract, verb
quiescence, noun

to prevent the adjective

to prolong, draw n. the condition of
presence of
doubtful; unsettled; out, extend
being at rest, still,
questionable; inactive

precocious, perplexing
provident,
adjective
adjective
quiescent,
unusually prodigal, adjective
having or showing adjective

advanced or lavish; wasteful; foresight

adj. at rest;
mature in mental reckless with dormant;
development or money
prudence, noun
temporarily
talent
wisdom, caution or inactive; motionless

profound, restraint

precursor, noun
adjective
rarefied, adjective

forerunner
deep; not puerile, adjective
made less dense
superficial; childish, immature
(of a gas)

predilection, noun
complete

preference, liking
pugnacious, verb
recalcitrant,
prohibitive, to quarrel or fight adjective

presentiment, adjective
readily
obstinately
adjective
tending to prevent stubborn;
a feeling of the purchase or punctilious, determined to
anticipation over a use of something; adjective
resist authority;
future event
inclined to prevent strict or exact in unruly

or forbid
the observance of
presumptuous, formalities
recant, verb

adjective
proliferate, verb
disclaim or
arrogant; taking grow rapidly; pungent, adjective
disavow; retract a
liberties
spread; multiply
stinging; sharp in previous statement;
taste or smell; openly confess
prevaricate, verb
propensity, noun
caustic
error

to lie or deviate natural inclination

from the truth

pusillanimous, recluse, noun

propound, verb
adjective
hermit; loner

pristine, adjective
to set forth for lacking courage or
characteristic of consideration
resolution
recumbent,
earlier times; adjective

primitive; unspoiled
propriety, noun
qualified, adjective
lying down;
correct behavior or limited; restricted
reclining; leaning

probity, noun
conduct,
honesty; obedience to rules querulous, refute, verb

uprightness; and customs

adjective
disprove

incorruptibility
full of complaints

proscribe, verb
rejoinder, verb

to condemn as quibble, noun

to reply, retort

harmful or odious; minor objection or

ostracize; banish; complaint

outlaw

relegate, verb
reverent, adjective
doubter; person to restrict or limit,
banish to an respectful; who suspends as in amount or
inferior position; worshipful
judgment until number; be sparing
delegate; assign
having examined with

sage, noun
evidence
remonstrate, verb
person celebrated supporting a point stipulate, verb

to say or plead in for wisdom

of view
to lay down as a
protest, objection, condition of an
or reproof
salient, adjective
sociopath, noun
agreement; require
prominent or a person whose by contract

reprehensible, conspicuous
behavior is
adjective
antisocial and who stolid, adjective

deserving rebuke salubrious, lacks a sense of dull; impassive;

or censure; adjective
moral responsibility
unemotional;
blameworthy.
conducive or lacking sensitivity

favorable to health solicitous,

reprisals, noun
or well-being
adjective
strut, verb

retaliation against worried; concerned

walk pompously
an enemy
sanction, noun
wal

approve; ratify
soporific, adjective

reproach, verb
sleep-causing; subjugate, verb

express satiate, verb

lethargy; marked by to conquer

disapproval or satisfy fully

sleepiness

disappointment
subpoena, noun

saturate, verb
specious, adjective
a writ requiring
reprobate, noun
soak thoroughly
having the ring of appearance in
person hardened in truth or plausibility court to give
sin; wicked person; savor, verb
but actually testimony

devoid of a sense enjoy; have a fallacious)

of decency
distinctive flavor, subside, verb

smell, or quality
spectrum, noun
settle down;
repudiate, verb
colored band descend; grow
disown; disavow; secrete, verb
produced when a quiet

to reject the validity hide away or beam of light

of
cache; produce passes through a substantiate, verb

and release a prism

establish by
resolution, noun
substance
evidence; verify;
determination
sporadic, adjective
support

sedition, noun
occurring irregularly

resolve, verb
incitement of subterfuge, noun

to make a firm discontent or stigma, noun

an artifice or
decision about
rebellion against a a mark of shame or expedient used to
government
discredit
evade a rule

reticent, adjective

silent; reserved;
uncommunicative; supercilious,
inclined to silence
skeptic, adjective
adjective

stint , verb

arrogant, haughty, extended scolding; truthfulness

wary, adjective

condescending
denunciation; very cautious

harangue
viable, adjective

supersede, verb
practical or whimsical,
cause to be set torpor, noun
workable
adjective

aside; replace; lethargy; capricious; fanciful

make obsolete
sluggishness; vicarious,
dormancy
adjective
zealot, noun

supplicate, verb
performed, fanatic; person who
to make humble tortuous, adjective
exercised, received shows excessive
and earnest winding; full of or suffered in place zeal
entreaty
curves
of another

supposition, noun
tractable, adjective
vilify, verb

hypothesis; docile; easily to slander, to

surmise
managed or defame

controlled

tacit, adjective
viscous, adjective

understood; not transcendent, sticky, gluey

put into words

adjective

going beyond vituperative,

taciturn, adjective
ordinary limits
adjective

silent, not talkative

abusive; scolding

transgression,
tangential, noun
vociferous,
adjective
violation of a law; adjective

peripheral; only sin

crying out noisily

slightly connected;
digressing
truculence, noun
volatile, adjective

aggressiveness; changeable;
tenable, adjective
ferocity
explosive;
capable of being evaporation rapidly

held, maintained or vacillate, verb

defended
waver; fluctuate
volition, noun

free choice, free

tenacious, venerate, verb
will; act of
adjective
revere
choosing

holding fast;
holding or tending veracity, noun
voracious,
to hold persistently filled with trust and adjective

to something
accuracy
having a great
appetite

verbose, adjective

wordy
warranted,
adjective

tirade, noun
justified; authorized

verity, noun