Vocabulary Words

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We have compiled a list of 1100+ English words in the list below. These words contain the definition, meaning, and pronunciation. So, you can enrich your vocabulary and learn about new words in the English language. The definition of each word is written below it.

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List of Vocabulary Words

List of more than 1100 English vocabulary words with definitions and proper pronunciation.

  • astringent
  • substance that shrinks

  • detumescence
  • diminishing or lessening of swelling

  • raconteur
  • person who tells anecdotes

  • excoriation
  • severe criticism

  • ebullience
  • exuberance outburst of feeling

  • aloof
  • reserved indifferent

  • reverent
  • feeling or showing deep respect

  • peccadillo
  • small sin small weakness in one’s character

  • sanguine
  • cheerful confident optimistic

  • descry
  • catch sight of see smth in the distance

  • tenacity
  • firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on

  • protracted
  • prolonged

  • contumacious
  • insubordinate rebellious

  • palpability
  • can be felt touched understood

  • teetotal
  • oppose to alcohol

  • disseminate
  • distribute (esp. ideas)

  • sawdust
  • tiny bits of wood

  • blandishment
  • flattery coaxing

  • salubrious
  • healthful

  • benefactor
  • person who has given help

  • drawl
  • slow way of speaking

  • profuse
  • abundant/lavish

  • muffler
  • cloth worn round the neck/silencer

  • provisional
  • of the present time only

  • emote
  • stir up excite

  • unscathed
  • unharmed unhurt

  • bask
  • in enjoy warmth and light

  • peripatetic
  • wandering

  • effrontery
  • boldness impudence arrogance

  • dupe
  • cheat make a fool of

  • candid
  • frank straight-forward

  • elaborate
  • worked out with much care in great detail

  • brazen
  • made of brass

  • presumption
  • arrogance

  • avid
  • eager greedy

  • inadvertent
  • not paying proper attention

  • render
  • deliver provide represent

  • hospitable
  • liking to give hospitality

  • misanthrope
  • person who hates mankind

  • reprobate
  • person hardened in sin one devoid of decency

  • petrous
  • like a rock hard stony

  • vain
  • without use result conceited

  • resort
  • to frequently visit

  • exoneration
  • set smb clear free (e.g.. from blame)

  • turbid
  • muddy having the sediment stirred up

  • turmoil
  • trouble disturbance

  • fret
  • worry irritation wear away

  • assail
  • with attack violently

  • efficacy
  • production of a desired result

  • congeal
  • make or become stiff and solid

  • visceral
  • of the internal organs of the body

  • incongruous
  • out of place not in harmony or agreement

  • euthanasia
  • easy and painless death

  • apartheid
  • brutal racial discrimination

  • hollow
  • not soled with hole

  • grandiloquent
  • using pompous words

  • fetter
  • to shackle put in chains

  • equipoise
  • equal distribution of weight equilibrium

  • contentious
  • argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome

  • thrift
  • care economy thriving prosperous

  • volatile
  • changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive

  • foil
  • prevent from carrying out contrast

  • pungency
  • sharpness stinging quality

  • molt
  • moult lose hair feathers before new growing

  • regicide
  • crime of killing a king

  • foster
  • nurture care for

  • enzyme
  • catalyst

  • impiety
  • lack of reverence or dutifulness

  • ostracism
  • shut out from society refuse to meet talk

  • temperate
  • showing self-control

  • torpid
  • sleeping sluggish lethargic dormant

  • quibble
  • try to avoid by sophistication

  • shallow
  • little depth not earnest

  • inured
  • accustomed to adapted

  • eloquence
  • fluent speaking skillful use of language

  • forage
  • food for horses and cattle

  • frantic
  • wildly excited with joy pain anxiety

  • apt
  • well-suited quick-witted

  • indelible
  • that cannot be rubbed out

  • turpitude
  • wickedness shamefulness

  • inclined
  • directing the mind in a certain direction

  • puissance
  • strength

  • breach
  • opening broken place breaking

  • pry
  • get smth inquire too curiously

  • restive
  • refusing to move reluctant to be controlled

  • brook
  • to tolerate endure

  • vilify
  • slander say evil things

  • dulcet
  • melodious harmonious

  • epithet
  • adjective

  • cognizant
  • being fully aware of

  • prim
  • neat formal

  • garrulity
  • talkativeness

  • valorous
  • brave

  • halcyon
  • calm and peaceful

  • demagogue
  • person appealing not to reasons

  • ominous
  • threatening

  • proliferate
  • grow reproduce by rapid multification

  • lien
  • legal claim until a debt on it is repaid

  • august
  • majestic venerable

  • connotation
  • suggestion in addition to

  • apostate
  • one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions

  • resuscitation
  • coming back to consciousness

  • insipid
  • without taste or flavor

  • suffice
  • be enough

  • lachrymose
  • causing tears tearful

  • dexterity
  • skill (esp. in handling)

  • undermine
  • weaken gradually at the base make smth under

  • flinch
  • draw move back wince

  • grovel
  • crawl humble oneself

  • unencumbered
  • easy-going trifle

  • stingy
  • spending using unwillingly

  • coda
  • passage that completes a piece of music

  • imbroglio
  • complicated and embarrassing situation

  • elicit
  • draw out

  • ostentation
  • display to obtain admiration or envy

  • obdurate
  • hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible

  • disinter
  • dig up from the earth

  • writ
  • written order

  • belabor
  • beat hard

  • ingenuous
  • naive young artless frank honest sincere

  • predilection
  • special liking mental preference

  • indigence
  • poverty

  • mellifluous
  • sweetly flowing

  • ensign
  • flag/badge

  • collusion
  • secret agreement for a deceitful purpose

  • vivacious
  • lively high-spirited

  • jabber
  • talk excitedly utter rapidly

  • defer
  • postpone give way (to show respect)

  • torment
  • severe pain or suffering

  • laudatory
  • expressing or giving praise

  • prone
  • prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)

  • convoluted
  • complicated coiled twisted

  • vigilant
  • member of a vigilance committee

  • enunciate
  • pronounce (words)/express a theory

  • irresolute
  • hesitating undecided

  • imperious
  • commanding haughty arrogant

  • feint
  • pretend

  • malign
  • injurious speak ill of smb tell lie

  • extort
  • obtain by threats violence

  • connoisseur
  • a person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)

  • savant
  • person of great learning

  • extol
  • praise highly

  • admonitory
  • containing warning

  • disheveled
  • untidy

  • sting
  • smth sharp

  • labyrinthine
  • to entangle the state of affairs

  • coalescing
  • coming together and uniting into one substance

  • temerity
  • boldness brashness intrepidness

  • stygian
  • hence dark gloomy

  • console
  • give comfort or sympathy to

  • mendicant
  • a beggar

  • turbulence
  • being uncontrolled violent

  • quail
  • lose courage turn frightened

  • feckless
  • lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless

  • froward
  • intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn

  • cryptic
  • secret with a hidden meaning

  • warrant
  • authority written order guarantee

  • preponderance
  • greatness in number strength weight

  • upbraid
  • scold reproach

  • apotheosis
  • deification glorification to godliness

  • sullied
  • to be stained or discredited

  • vitiate
  • lower the quality weaken the strength

  • alcove
  • recess/partially enclosed place

  • inscrutable
  • incapable of being discovered or understood

  • idolatry
  • excessive admiration of

  • embellish
  • make beautiful

  • enduring
  • lasting

  • divulge
  • make known smth secret

  • maladroit
  • tactless clumsy

  • hack
  • cut roughly hired horse

  • imperviousness
  • haughty arrogant commanding

  • implicit
  • implied though not plainly expressed

  • undulate
  • to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate

  • inundate
  • flood cover by overflowing

  • picaresque
  • involving clever rogues or adventurers

  • retard
  • check hinder

  • florid
  • very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)

  • soporific
  • producing sleep

  • abysmal
  • bottomless extreme

  • flak
  • criticism/anti-aircraft guns

  • turquoise
  • greenish-blue precious stone

  • refine
  • make or become pure cultural

  • amortize
  • end (a debt) by setting aside money

  • quotidian
  • banal everyday

  • disallow
  • refuse to allow or accept as a correct

  • trite
  • not new

  • rotund
  • rich and deep plump and round

  • ire
  • anger

  • flaunting
  • show off complacently

  • desuetude
  • cessation of use disuse

  • lope
  • move along with long strides

  • antidote
  • medicine used against a poison or a disease

  • officious
  • too eager or ready to help offer advice

  • premature
  • doing or happening smth before the right time

  • onerous
  • needing effort burdensome

  • ostensible
  • seeming appearing as such professed

  • antithetical
  • direct opposing

  • chicanery
  • legal trickery/false argument

  • buoyant
  • able to float light-hearted

  • exigency
  • emergency an urgent situation

  • harrow
  • to distress create stress or torment

  • beatify
  • to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to

  • ford
  • shallow place in a river (to cross)

  • discourse
  • speech lecture

  • subpoena
  • written order requiring a person to appear in a low court

  • fission
  • splitting or division (esp. of cells)

  • snub
  • treat with contempt

  • exuberance
  • state of growing vigorously being full of life

  • sequence
  • succession connected line of

  • curriculum
  • course of study

  • desultory
  • aimless haphazard digressing at random

  • mettle
  • quality of endurance or courage

  • splice
  • join (two ends)

  • bequest
  • arrangement to give smth at death

  • propinquity
  • nearness in time or place affinity of nature

  • sundry
  • various miscellaneous separate

  • chary
  • cautious wary

  • sagacious
  • having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage

  • abrogate
  • repeal or annul by authority

  • paucity
  • scarcity a lacking of

  • recast
  • cast or fashion anew

  • alloy
  • to debase by mixing with something inferior

  • paradigm
  • a model example or pattern

  • belligerent
  • (person nation) waging war

  • attune
  • bring into harmony

  • propagation
  • increasing the number spreading extending

  • heterogeneous
  • made up of different kinds

  • petrified
  • taken away power (to think feel act)

  • penchant
  • strong inclination a liking

  • deviance
  • being different in moral standards (from normal)

  • inchoate
  • not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary

  • quiescent
  • at rest dormant torpid

  • corporeal
  • physical of or for the body

  • finical
  • too fussy about food clothing etc.

  • abeyance
  • suspended action

  • inane
  • silly senseless

  • blandness
  • polite manner comforting uninteresting

  • inveigh
  • to attack verbally denounce deprecate

  • interim
  • as an installment

  • indigenous
  • native

  • pusillanimous
  • cowardly craven

  • salutary
  • remedial wholesome causing improvement

  • piquant
  • agreeably pungent stimulating

  • incorrigibility
  • cannot be cured or corrected

  • opprobrious
  • showing scorn or reproach

  • falter
  • waver/move in an uncertain manner

  • dwarf
  • person or smb much below the usual size

  • animosity
  • strong dislike

  • unfeigned
  • not pretended sincere

  • fragile
  • easily injured broken or destroyed

  • felicitous
  • apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos

  • dainty
  • pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please

  • incessant
  • often repeated continual

  • renowned
  • celebrated famous

  • consume
  • get to the end of

  • epicurean
  • devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)

  • suppress
  • prevent from being known put an end to

  • hubris
  • arrogant pride

  • quack
  • person dishonestly claiming to smth

  • idiosyncrasy
  • personal mannerism

  • interdict
  • prohibit forbid

  • aspersion
  • slander

  • constrict
  • make tight or smaller

  • inept
  • unskillful said or done at the wrong time

  • slake
  • to assuage to satisfy allay

  • savor
  • taste flavor smth

  • nexus
  • a connection tie or link

  • ossify
  • to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea

  • latent
  • present but not yet active developed or visible

  • heresy
  • belief contrary to what is generally accepted

  • talon
  • claw of a bird of prey

  • wend
  • to go proceed

  • incise
  • engrave make a cut in

  • imperative
  • urgent essential

  • boorish
  • crude offensive rude

  • timorous
  • fearful timid afraid

  • transgress
  • break go beyond (a limit)

  • vindictive
  • having a desire to revenge

  • defiance
  • open disobedience or resistance

  • palpitate
  • tremble beat rapidly and irregularly

  • proscribe
  • denounce as dangerous

  • egress
  • way out exit

  • abide
  • be faithful to endure

  • philistine
  • a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge

  • harangue
  • a long passionate speech

  • trickle
  • flow in drops

  • cursory
  • quick hurried

  • propitious
  • auspicious presenting favorable circumstances

  • atonement
  • repayment death of Jesus

  • indolence
  • laziness

  • palatial
  • magnificent

  • frenetic
  • frantic frenzied

  • libel
  • statement that damages reputation

  • unearth
  • discover and bring to light

  • ineptitude
  • quality of being unskillful

  • obviate
  • to make unnecessary get rid of

  • surfeit
  • satiate feed to fulness or to excess

  • scurvy
  • mean contemptible

  • consummate
  • perfect/make perfect/complete

  • paean
  • song of praise or triumph

  • eschew
  • avoid

  • flout
  • reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)

  • castigate
  • to chastise correct by punishing

  • torque
  • twisting force causing rotation

  • strut
  • a supporting bar

  • deluge
  • great flood heavy rush of water

  • moderation
  • quality of being limited not extreme

  • renovate
  • restore smth to better condition

  • stolid
  • showing no emotion impassive

  • opaqueness
  • dullness/not allowing light to pass through

  • cumbersome
  • burdensome heavy and awkward to carry

  • limn
  • paint portray

  • subdue
  • overcome bring under control

  • insensible
  • unconscious unresponsive unaffected

  • countervail
  • counterbalance

  • forfeit
  • suffer the loss of smth

  • frugal
  • careful economical

  • duress
  • threats to compel smb

  • glut
  • supply to much fill to excess

  • deplete
  • use until none remains

  • exhaustive
  • complete thorough

  • pyre
  • large pile of wood for burning

  • squalid
  • foul filthy

  • somatic
  • of the body

  • tamper
  • interfere with

  • ardor
  • enthusiasm

  • procrastination
  • keeping on putting off

  • morose
  • ill-tempered unsocial

  • dissent
  • have a different opinion refuse to assent

  • shrill
  • sharp piercing

  • elegy
  • a lament a melancholy composition

  • evasive
  • tending to evade

  • scorch
  • become discolored/dry up/go at high speed

  • abhor
  • to hate to detest

  • transient
  • temporary fleeting

  • fatuous
  • without sense foolish self-satisfaction

  • lull
  • become quiet or less active

  • brass
  • yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)

  • soar
  • rise fly high

  • approbation
  • approval

  • audacious
  • daring foolishly bold impudent

  • bogus
  • sham counterfeit not genuine

  • sophistry
  • fallacious reasoning faulty logic

  • recondite
  • little known abstruse

  • crush
  • press lose shape subdue overwhelm

  • cordon
  • line (of police acting as a guard)

  • reproach
  • scold upbraid

  • tadpole
  • form of a frog when it leaves the egg

  • mendacity
  • dishonesty

  • squat
  • crouch/settle without permission

  • clot
  • half-solid lump formed from liquid

  • knit
  • draw together unite firmly

  • dislodge
  • move force from the place occupied

  • slur
  • join sounds/words (indistinct)

  • indistinct
  • not easily heard seen clearly marked

  • indomitable
  • not easily discouraged or subdued

  • minatory
  • menacing threatening

  • petrify
  • to make hard rocklike

  • levity
  • lack of seriousness

  • punctilious
  • precise paying attention to trivialities

  • expiation
  • ending expiring

  • ferret
  • discover by searching search

  • accretion
  • the growing of separate things into one

  • cajole
  • use flattery or deceit to persuade

  • prudence
  • careful forethought

  • trifling
  • unimportant

  • blatant
  • noisy and rough

  • stipple
  • paint with dots

  • supersede
  • take the place of

  • spurious
  • FALSE counterfeit

  • pellucid
  • transparent easy to understand

  • aggravate
  • make worse irritate

  • nostrum
  • a quack remedy an untested cure

  • judicious
  • sound in judgment wise

  • vacillation
  • being uncertain hesitating

  • gust
  • outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.

  • fracas
  • noisy quarrel

  • austere
  • severely moral and strict simple and plain

  • odor
  • smell favor reputation

  • doggerel
  • trivial poorly constructed verse

  • pugnacious
  • fond of in the habit of fighting

  • ail
  • trouble be ill

  • finesse
  • delicate way of dealing with a situation

  • graze
  • touch or scrape lightly in passing

  • legacy
  • smth handed down from ancestors

  • preclude
  • prevent make impossible

  • matriculation
  • be admitted enter a university as a student

  • ineluctable
  • certain inevitable

  • lurk
  • be out of view ready to attack

  • impervious
  • not allowing to pass through (of materials)

  • prodigal
  • wasteful reckless with money

  • snare
  • trap

  • repulsive
  • causing a feeling of disgust

  • irrevocable
  • final and unalterable

  • underbid
  • make a lower bid then smb else

  • conviction
  • convincing firm belief

  • susceptibility
  • sensitiveness

  • pedantic
  • bookish showing off learning

  • caustic
  • biting sarcastic

  • centurion
  • leader of a unit of 100 soldiers

  • tamp
  • tap or drive down by repeated light blows

  • myriad
  • very great number

  • welter
  • turmoil a bewildering jumble

  • decree
  • order given by authority

  • coeval
  • of the same period coexisting

  • arboreal
  • of connected with trees

  • conjoin
  • to join together

  • brittle
  • easily broken

  • occluded
  • blocked up

  • affable
  • polite and friendly

  • extricable
  • that can be freed

  • contiguous
  • touching neighboring near

  • loquacious
  • talkative garrulous

  • ineffable
  • to great to be described in words

  • crass
  • very great (es. stupidity)

  • vigilance
  • watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order

  • taunt
  • contemptuous reproach hurtful remark

  • partisan
  • one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced

  • serrated
  • having a toothed edge

  • servile
  • like a slave lacking independence

  • portent
  • omen marvelous threatening

  • overhaul
  • examine thoroughly to learn about the condition

  • chastisement
  • punishment

  • quiescence
  • state of being passive/motionless

  • argot
  • jargon slang

  • curtail
  • make shorter then was planned

  • nugatory
  • trifling/worthless

  • crease
  • line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket

  • dawdler
  • person who is slow waste of time

  • clientele
  • customers

  • vagary
  • strange act or idea

  • neophyte
  • person who has been converted to a belief

  • equable
  • steady regular

  • venal
  • ready to do smth dishonest

  • epistle
  • letter

  • fluke
  • lucky stroke

  • splenetic
  • bad-tempered irritable

  • waft
  • scent waving movement carry lightly through

  • vigorous
  • strong energetic

  • aver
  • affirm assert prove justify

  • impugned
  • challenged to be doubted

  • sober
  • self-controlled

  • scabbard
  • sheath for the blade

  • gush
  • burst out suddenly/talk ardently

  • expostulate
  • argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest

  • forbearance
  • patience willingness to wait

  • divergence
  • getting farther apart from a point

  • lithe
  • bending twisting

  • rarefy
  • to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine

  • thwart
  • obstruct/frustrate

  • auspicious
  • favorable successful prosperous

  • aplomb
  • self-confidence

  • extenuate
  • cause (an offence) to seem less serious

  • odious
  • repulsive hateful

  • foolproof
  • incapable of failure or error

  • garble
  • make unfair selection from facts

  • irascible
  • irritable easily angered

  • recompense
  • make payment to reward punish

  • supine
  • lying on the back slow to act passive

  • fledged
  • able to fly trained experienced

  • denouement
  • an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot

  • pluck
  • pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)

  • turgid
  • excessively ornate swollen or bloated

  • asterisk
  • the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)

  • gorge
  • eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream

  • perfunctory
  • done as a duty without care

  • nebulous
  • cloud-like hazy vague indistinct

  • complaisance
  • tending to comply obliging willingness to please

  • mince
  • pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize

  • abstruse
  • difficult to comprehend obscure

  • profundity
  • depth

  • hermetic
  • sealed by fusion

  • debacle
  • a breakup overthrow sudden disaster

  • gregarious
  • living in societies liking the company

  • assuage
  • make smth (pain desire) less

  • nonchalant
  • not having interest

  • arabesque
  • a complex ornate design

  • expatiate
  • to roam wander freely

  • aberration
  • straying away from what is normal

  • forestall
  • prevent by taking action in advance preempt

  • exploit
  • brilliant achievement develop use selfishly

  • revere
  • have deep respect for

  • immutable
  • that cannot be changed

  • perfidy
  • treachery breaking of faith

  • gossamer
  • soft light delicate material

  • importune
  • beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)

  • rave
  • act with excessive enthusiasm

  • extinguish
  • end the existence of/wipe or put out

  • shard
  • piece of broken earthenware

  • trenchant
  • forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive

  • swerve
  • change direction suddenly

  • derision
  • ridicule mockery deriding

  • obstreperous
  • noisy loud

  • innocuous
  • causing no harm

  • sanction
  • approval (by authority) penalty

  • intransigent
  • uncompromising

  • discountenance
  • refuse to approve of

  • suppliant
  • asking humbly beseeching

  • effete
  • infertile worn out weak

  • balk
  • obstacle purposely to get on the way of

  • repine
  • at be discontented with

  • summarily
  • briefly without delay

  • arrogance
  • proud superior manner of behaviour

  • empirical
  • relying on experiment

  • ubiquitous
  • present everywhere

  • tautology
  • a repetition a redundancy

  • condone
  • forgive

  • vituperate
  • curse abuse in words

  • conspicuous
  • easily seen remarkable

  • palate
  • roof of the mouth sense of taste

  • fulmination
  • bitter protest

  • fragrant
  • sweet-smelling

  • plunge
  • move quickly suddenly and with force

  • obfuscate
  • to darken make obscure muddle

  • assiduous
  • diligent hard-working sedulous

  • condense
  • increase in density strength make laconic

  • tawdry
  • cheap gaudy showy tacky

  • sheath
  • cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool

  • pernicious
  • harmful injurious

  • enigma
  • smth that is puzzling

  • rift
  • split crack dissension

  • raffish
  • low vulgar base tawdry

  • platitude
  • a trite or banal statement unoriginality

  • aversion
  • strong dislike

  • highbrow
  • (person) with superior tastes

  • sponge
  • porous rubber for washing live at once expense

  • recidivism
  • relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior

  • quell
  • suppress subdue

  • gullible
  • easily gulled

  • discredit
  • refuse to believe

  • commuter
  • person who travels regularly

  • eradicate
  • get rid of pull up by the roots

  • perspicacity
  • quick judging and understanding

  • conundrum
  • a riddle dilemma enigma

  • calipers
  • metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument

  • rivet
  • fix take up secure metal pin

  • idyll
  • a carefree episode or experience

  • perilous
  • dangerous

  • germane
  • relevant pertinent to

  • hush
  • make or become silent

  • ramify
  • to be divided or subdivided to branch out

  • castigation
  • severe punishment

  • waffle
  • talk vaguely and without much result

  • sermon
  • reproving a person for his faults

  • satiate
  • satisfy fully

  • canvass
  • discuss thoroughly sort of touting

  • luculent
  • easily understood lucid clear

  • tractable
  • easily controlled or guided

  • stigmatize
  • describe smb scornfully

  • entice
  • tempt or persuade

  • toady
  • obsequious flatterer

  • stymie
  • to hinder obstruct or block

  • slate
  • king of blue-grey stone propose criticize

  • enthral
  • please greatly/enslave (fig)

  • deprecate
  • protest against express disapproval of

  • yarn
  • tale story fibers for knitting

  • exorbitant
  • much too high or great

  • stride
  • walk with long steps

  • benign
  • kind and gentle mild (climate)

  • truculence
  • aggressiveness ferocity

  • clamor
  • shout complain with a lot of noise

  • timid
  • shy easily frightened

  • anguish
  • severe suffering

  • rancorous
  • feeling bitterness spitefulness

  • dormant
  • in a state of inactivity but awaiting development

  • itinerate
  • to travel from place to place to peregrinate

  • ambidextrous
  • able to use the left hand or the right equally well

  • detraction
  • slandering verbal attack aspersion

  • garrulous
  • too talkative

  • constrain
  • compel

  • cogitate
  • think deeply mediate

  • verdant
  • fresh and green

  • peremptory
  • urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate

  • endearing
  • making dear or liked

  • engulf
  • swallow up

  • hirsute
  • hairy shaggy

  • apprehensive
  • anxious or fearful that something bad

  • loll
  • rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog’s tongue)

  • contemn
  • to scorn or despise

  • felon
  • person guilty of murder

  • immaculate
  • pure faultless

  • stipulate
  • state or put forward as a necessary condition

  • dismal
  • sad gloomy miserable

  • poignant
  • deeply moving keen

  • plummet
  • fall plunge steeply

  • preen
  • tidy/show self-satisfaction

  • sedulous
  • persevering

  • hoi
  • polloi the masses the rabble

  • presage
  • warning sign

  • entangle
  • put into difficulties

  • impede
  • hinder get in the way of

  • profane
  • worldly having contempt for God

  • aseptic
  • surgically clean

  • inveterate
  • deep-rooted. long-established

  • effluvia
  • outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor

  • edacious
  • voracious devouring

  • scribble
  • write hastily

  • auxiliary
  • helping supporting

  • cloture
  • closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting

  • superimpose
  • put smth on the top

  • fulsome
  • disgusting offensive due to excessiveness

  • whimsical
  • full of odd and fanciful ideas

  • odium
  • contempt dislike aversion

  • foment
  • put smth warm (to lessen the pain)

  • bolster
  • give greatly needed support

  • cogent
  • strong convincing

  • impetuous
  • having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful

  • invincible
  • too strong to be defeated

  • substantiation
  • giving facts to support (statement)

  • figurehead
  • carved image on the prow of a ship

  • fixate
  • stare at

  • pique
  • hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)

  • inasmuch
  • since because

  • dilate
  • speak comprehensively become wider large

  • extempore
  • without previous thought or preparation

  • noisome
  • offensive disgusting (smell)

  • appease
  • make quiet or calm

  • pitfall
  • covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger

  • abdication
  • giving up control authority

  • prune
  • dried plum silly person

  • fallacious
  • based on error

  • imprecation
  • an invocation of evil a curse

  • droll
  • jesting

  • smolder
  • burn slowly without flame

  • nonplused
  • greatly surprised

  • taciturn
  • untalkative silent

  • sordid
  • wretched comfortless contemptible

  • baneful
  • causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive

  • cling
  • to resist separation

  • obloquy
  • abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation

  • repel
  • refuse to accept/cause dislike

  • rant
  • use extravagant language

  • valiant
  • brave

  • adulteration
  • making unpure poorer in quality

  • recitals
  • a number of performance of music

  • ameliorate
  • improve make better

  • suffocate
  • cause or have difficulty in breathing

  • drone
  • male bee person who isn’t self-employed

  • sodden
  • soaked saturated

  • disparate
  • essentially different

  • sever
  • break off

  • tenuous
  • insubstantial flimsy weak

  • probity
  • uprightness incorruptibility principle

  • garner
  • to gather and save to store up

  • exculpate
  • to clear from a charge of guilt

  • perish
  • be destroyed decay

  • counterfeit
  • forgery

  • apprise
  • give notice to inform

  • abut
  • border on

  • dissemble
  • speak or behave so as to hide smth (in mind)

  • pinch
  • be too tight take between the thumb and finger

  • abet
  • help/encourage smb (in doing wrong)

  • uncouth
  • rough awkward

  • viscous
  • sticky/semi-fluid

  • recreancy
  • cowardice a cowardly giving up

  • fervor
  • warmth of feelings earnestness

  • liberality
  • free giving generosity

  • apropos
  • appropriate to the situation apt

  • fawn
  • young deer try to win smb’s favor

  • plaque
  • flat metal on a wall as a memorial

  • avow
  • admit. Declare openly

  • abscond
  • to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)

  • noxious
  • harmful

  • prosaic
  • everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian

  • lassitude
  • weariness tiredness

  • coddle
  • treat with care and tenderness

  • expedient
  • likely to be useful for a purpose

  • brash
  • hasty rush cheeky saucy

  • calumny
  • slander aspersion

  • agile
  • active quick-moving

  • negligent
  • taking too little care

  • parsimonious
  • too economical miserly

  • resilience
  • quality of quickly recovering the original shape

  • epitome
  • brief summary representative example a typical model

  • wag
  • merry person

  • reciprocity
  • granting of privileges in return for similar

  • haughty
  • arrogant conceited

  • levee
  • formal reception/embankment

  • tyro
  • tiro beginner

  • fidelity
  • loyalty accuracy

  • stentorian
  • extremely loud and powerful

  • vanquish
  • conquer

  • quirk
  • habit or action peculiar to smb or smth

  • irksome
  • tiresome

  • machination
  • plot scheme (esp. evil)

  • chastened
  • corrected punished

  • profligate
  • wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant

  • bellicose
  • belligerent pugnacious warlike

  • tassel
  • bunch of threads

  • churl
  • bad-tempered person

  • stickler
  • person who insists on importance of smth

  • adamant
  • kind of stone inflexible

  • remonstrate
  • to protest object

  • incite
  • stir up rouse

  • seminal
  • like a seed constituting a source originative

  • hallow
  • to make holy consecrate

  • inculcate
  • fix firmly by repetition

  • repudiate
  • disown refuse to accept or pay

  • salacious
  • obscene

  • extinct
  • no longer active

  • diatribe
  • bitter and violent attack in words

  • equivocate
  • try to deceive by equivocal language

  • ponderous
  • heavy bulky dull

  • fetid
  • stinking

  • striated
  • striped grooved or banded

  • prevaricate
  • to equivocate to stray from the truth

  • miser
  • person who loves wealth and spends little

  • curmudgeon
  • bad-tempered person

  • alacrity
  • eager and cheerful readiness

  • forgery
  • counterfeit

  • impudent
  • rash indiscreet

  • contrite
  • filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing

  • succor
  • assistance relief in time of distress

  • coy
  • shy/modest (esp of a girl)

  • tout
  • person who worries others to buy smth to use his service

  • conciliatory
  • reconciling soothing comforting mollifying

  • indefatigability
  • not easily exhaustible tirelessness

  • pariah
  • an outcast a rejected and despised person

  • jocular
  • meant as a joke

  • impromptu
  • without preparation

  • cravat
  • piece of linen worn as a necktie

  • nibble
  • show some inclination to accept (an offer)

  • prevalent
  • common

  • augury
  • omen sign

  • encumbrance
  • burden things that get on the way of

  • rapacious
  • greedy (esp for money)

  • equivocal
  • having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious

  • propitiatory
  • conciliatory appeasing mitigating

  • credulity
  • too great a readiness to believe things

  • plod
  • continue doing smth without resting

  • husk
  • worthless outside part of anything

  • enervate
  • weaken deprive of strength attenuate

  • sententious
  • short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs

  • censure
  • expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke

  • vestige
  • trace or sign

  • testiness
  • witness/evidence

  • discreet
  • careful/prudent

  • coax
  • get smb to do smth by kindness

  • erratic
  • irregular in behaviour or opinion

  • sobriety
  • quality or condition of being sober

  • incumbents
  • official duties

  • boisterous
  • loud noisy rough lacking restraint

  • simper
  • (give a) silly/self-conscious smile

  • untoward
  • unfortunate inconvenient

  • implacable
  • incapable of being placated unpleasable

  • tarnished
  • lost brightness

  • correlate
  • have a mutual relation

  • benevolence
  • wish or activity in doing good

  • evoke
  • call up bring out

  • dissolution
  • disintegration looseness in morals

  • ascend
  • go or come up

  • incursion
  • a raid a sudden attack

  • pine
  • waste away through sorrow or illness

  • penitent
  • feeling or showing regret

  • obtain
  • to be established accepted or customary

  • guile
  • deceit cunning

  • impair
  • worsen diminish in value

  • profligacy
  • shameless immorality

  • suborn
  • induce by bribery or smth to commit perjury

  • disencumber
  • free from encumbrance

  • exscind
  • to cut out cut away

  • middling
  • fairly good but not very good

  • compunction
  • feeling of regret for one’s action

  • disdain
  • look on with contempt

  • extant
  • still in existence

  • indulgent
  • inclined to indulge

  • drowsiness
  • feeling sleepy half asleep

  • esoteric
  • abstruse intended only for a small circle of

  • barrage
  • artificial obstacle built across a river

  • lavish
  • giving or producing freely liberally or generously

  • surcharge
  • additional load/charge

  • articulate
  • speak distinctly connect by joints

  • putrefaction
  • becoming rotten

  • gouge
  • tool for cutting grooves in wood

  • impecunious
  • having little or no money

  • mundane
  • worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday

  • ascertain
  • get to know

  • fringe
  • edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead

  • sluggard
  • lazy slow-moving person

  • flamboyant
  • brightly colored florid

  • sumptuous
  • magnificent

  • barren
  • not good enough unable to have young ones without value

  • decorum
  • propriety properness

  • endemic
  • epidemic

  • ecumenical
  • representing the whole Christian world

  • precursory
  • preliminary anticipating

  • euphoria
  • elation state of pleasant excitement

  • extirpate
  • to destroy exterminate cut out exscind

  • regale
  • to delight or entertain to feast

  • sinuous
  • winding undulating serpentine

  • warmonger
  • person who stirs up war

  • obtrusive
  • projecting prominent undesirably noticeable

  • mesmerize
  • hypnotize

  • petulant
  • unreasonably impatient

  • redeem
  • get back by payment compensate

  • recant
  • take back as being FALSE give up

  • steeply
  • rising or falling sharply

  • maverick
  • rebel nonconformist

  • cower
  • crouch shrink back

  • infuriate
  • fill with fury or rage

  • gnaw
  • waste away bite steadily

  • penurious
  • poor/stingy

  • homiletics
  • act of preaching

  • rescind
  • repeal/annul/cancel

  • meretricious
  • attractive on the surface but of little value

  • gaucherie
  • socially awkward tactless behavior

  • erudite
  • learned scholarly

  • disconcert
  • upset the self-possession of

  • encapsulate
  • enclose in capsule

  • tonic
  • smth giving strength or energy

  • soggy
  • heavy with water

  • ruffian
  • violent cruel man

  • commodious
  • having plenty of space for what is needed

  • sidestep
  • step to one side

  • amalgamate
  • mix combine unite societies

  • macabre
  • gruesome suggesting death

  • quixotic
  • generous unselfish

  • lucubrate
  • write in scholarly fashion

  • irate
  • angry

  • flax
  • pale yellow (hair) a plant

  • vex
  • annoy distress trouble

  • incense
  • make angry

  • diaphanous
  • transparent gauzy

  • riddle
  • puzzling person or thing

  • superfluous
  • more then is needed or wanted

  • inimitable
  • defying imitation unmatchable

  • nadir
  • lowest weakest point

  • dearth
  • shortage

  • combustion
  • process of burning

  • ignoble
  • dishonorable common undignified

  • credulous
  • ready to believe things

  • abacus
  • frame with balls for calculating

  • provident
  • frugal looking to the future

  • supercilious
  • disdainful characterized by haughty scorn

  • evince
  • to show clearly to indicate

  • precarious
  • uncertain risky dangerous

  • topple
  • be unsteady and overturn

  • imminent
  • likely to come or happen soon

  • limp
  • lacking strength walking unevenly

  • emaciate
  • make thin and weak

  • acclaimed
  • welcomed with shouts and approval

  • enmity
  • hatred being an enemy

  • veneration
  • regard with deep respect

  • maudlin
  • sentimental in a silly or tearful way

  • rejuvenation
  • becoming young in nature or appearance

  • malapropism
  • misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)

  • refractory
  • stubborn unmanageable untractable

  • eulogy
  • formal praise panegyric

  • espouse
  • marry give one’s support to

  • veracity
  • truth

  • pristine
  • primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated

  • recluse
  • person who lives alone and avoids people

  • diffidence
  • shyness

  • iconoclast
  • person who attacks popular beliefs

  • malinger
  • to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty

  • patron
  • regular customer person who gives support

  • scent
  • smell (esp pleasant)

  • relapse
  • fall back again

  • grave
  • serious requiring consideration

  • burnish
  • to polish rub to a shine

  • penury
  • extreme poverty

  • insinuate
  • suggest unpleasantly make a way for smth gently

  • cant
  • insincere talk/jargon

  • countenance
  • to favor or approve of

  • maul
  • hurt by rough handling

  • soot
  • black powder in smoke

  • serration
  • having a toothed edge

  • virago
  • a loud domineering woman a scold or nag

  • perpetrate
  • be guilty commit (a crime)

  • hoodwink
  • trick mislead

  • bewilder
  • puzzle confuse

  • finicky
  • finical

  • incipient
  • beginning

  • glimmer
  • weak/unsteady light

  • engrossing
  • taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal

  • sublime
  • extreme astounding

  • pith
  • essential part force soft liquid substance

  • hew
  • make by hard work cut (by striking)

  • clinch
  • come to grips/settle conclusively

  • disingenuous
  • sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning

  • recalcitrant
  • disobedient

  • wince
  • show bodily or mental pain

  • bedizen
  • to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner

  • proclivity
  • inclination

  • mercurial
  • quick changeable in character fleeting

  • concur
  • agree in opinion happen together

  • attenuate
  • make thin. weaken enervate

  • urbane
  • elegant refined in manners

  • introspection
  • examining one’s own thoughts and feelings

  • desiccant
  • substance used to absorb moisture

  • concord
  • agreement or harmony

  • spurn
  • have nothing to do reject or refuse

  • garment
  • article of clothing

  • astute
  • clever quick at seeing to get an advantage

  • deferential
  • showing respect

  • commemorate
  • keep the memory of

  • ferment
  • substance become excited

  • dereliction
  • deserting and leaving to fall into ruins

  • luminary
  • star light-giving body

  • consternation
  • surprise and fear dismay

  • plaintive
  • mournful melancholy sorrowful

  • distraught
  • distracted violently upset in mind

  • forge
  • workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead

  • cabal
  • a scheme or plot a group of plotters

  • gloat
  • over look at with selfish delight

  • alleviate
  • make (pain) easier to bear

  • placate
  • soothe pacify calm

  • dote
  • show much fondness center one’s attention

  • qualm
  • feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness

  • permeate
  • spread into every part of

  • equanimity
  • calmness of temperament

  • blithe
  • cheerful casual carefree

  • catalyst
  • substance that causes speeding up

  • deposition
  • dethronement depositing

  • ebullient
  • overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement

  • stigma
  • mark of shame or disgrace

  • inferno
  • hell

  • mettlesome
  • courageous high-spirited

  • jibe
  • gibe make fun of

  • reiterate
  • say or do again several times

  • umbrage
  • offense resentment

  • bereft
  • rob or dispossess of smth (material)

  • encomium
  • warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric

  • corroboration
  • additional strengthening evidence

  • stint
  • to be thrifty to set limits

  • broach
  • bring up announce begin to talk about

  • coagulation
  • change to a thick and solid state

  • demur
  • to hesitate raise objections

  • extralegal
  • outside the law

  • specious
  • illogical of questionable truth or merit

  • heinous
  • odious (of crime)

  • delineate
  • to portray depict sketch out

  • obsequious
  • too eager to obey or serve

  • truce
  • (agreement) stop of fighting for a time

  • duplicity
  • deliberate deception

  • extrovert
  • cheerful person

  • lustrous
  • being bright polished

  • perfidious
  • treacherous faithless

  • palliate
  • lessen the severity of

  • intrepid
  • fearless brave undaunted

  • insouciant
  • unconcerned carefree

  • illicit
  • unlawful forbidden

  • eddy
  • circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)

  • prudish
  • easily shocked excessively modest

  • lumber
  • move in a clumsy/noisy way

  • affinity
  • close connection relationship

  • flop
  • fail/move/fall clumsily

  • repast
  • meal

  • deter
  • discourage hinder

  • preternatural
  • not normal or usual

  • stanch
  • to stop the flow of a fluid

  • veneer
  • surface appearance covering the TRUE nature

  • gist
  • the point general sense

  • sanity
  • health of mind soundness of judgement

  • incredulous
  • skeptical unwilling to believe

  • impermeable
  • that cannot be permeated

  • asperity
  • roughness harshness ill temper irritability

  • rabble
  • mob crowd the lower classes of populace

  • volubility
  • fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language

  • squander
  • spend wastefully

  • subsume
  • include under a rule

  • decry
  • disapprove of

  • skit
  • short piece of humorous writing

  • implicate
  • show that smb has a share

  • dolt
  • stupid fellow

  • arduous
  • steep difficult ascent laborious

  • verve
  • spirit vigor enthusiasm

  • discrete
  • individually distinct

  • bigot
  • stubborn narrow-minded person

  • gainsay
  • to deny to oppose

  • precepts
  • rules establishing standards of conduct

  • taut
  • tightly stretched

  • shrewd
  • astute showing sound judgement

  • reactionary
  • opposing progress

  • baleful
  • harmful ominous causing evil

  • lugubrious
  • mournful excessively sad

  • pucker
  • wrinkle

  • secular
  • material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries

  • forswear
  • renounce disallow repudiate

  • plead
  • address a court of law as an advocate

  • morbid
  • diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)

  • fidget
  • move restlessly make nervous

  • deprave
  • make morally bad corrupt

  • bilge
  • bulge the protuberance of a cask

  • discern
  • see with an effort but clearly

  • tortuous
  • devious/not straightforward

  • facetious
  • humorous funny jocular

  • trepidation
  • alarm excited state of mind

  • infuse
  • put pour fill

  • pivotal
  • of great importance (others depend on it)

  • abate
  • to lessen to subside

  • ferocity
  • savage cruelty

  • impediment
  • smth that hinders (e.g. stammer)

  • craven
  • cowardly

  • arrant
  • in the highest degree

  • fecund
  • fertile

  • recuperate
  • become strong after illness loss exhaustion

  • reconcile
  • settle a quarrel restore peace

  • impute
  • to attribute to a cause or source ascribe

  • endorse
  • write one’s name on the back of

  • intransigence
  • unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability

  • plethora
  • glut

  • covetous
  • eagerly desirous

  • rebuff
  • snub

  • redoubtable
  • formidable causing fear

  • overweening
  • presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk

  • personable
  • pleasing in appearance attractive

  • mollify
  • make calmer or quieter

  • insularity
  • narrow-mindedness isolated

  • sere
  • make hard and without feeling

  • intersperse
  • place here and there

  • conceit
  • over-high opinion of too much pride

  • pertain
  • belong as a part have reference

  • requite
  • repay give in return

  • sophisticated
  • complex subtle refined

  • sash
  • long strip worn round the waist

  • resigned
  • unresisting submissive

  • fleet
  • number of ships quick-moving

  • libertine
  • immoral person

  • spear
  • weapon with a metal point on a long shaft

  • pied
  • of mixed colors

  • glib
  • ready and smooth but not sincere

  • agog
  • eager/excited

  • colander
  • bowl-shaped vessel with many holes

  • rumple
  • make rough

  • slack
  • sluggish dull not tight

  • sophomoric
  • relating to or characteristic of a sophomore

  • veritable
  • real rightly named

  • ignominious
  • shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful

  • severance
  • severing

  • grievous
  • causing grief or pain serious dire grave

  • cornucopia
  • abundant supply

  • divestiture
  • taking off getting rid of giving up

  • embezzle
  • use in a wrong way for one’s own benefit

  • hoax
  • mischievous trick played on smb for a joke

  • misogynist
  • one who hates women/females

  • inimical
  • harmful or friendly

  • veer
  • change direction

  • reticent
  • reserved untalkative silent taciturn

  • cordial
  • warm and sincere

  • cantankerous
  • bad-tempered/quarrelsome

  • plumb
  • get to the root of

  • massacre
  • cruel killing of a large number of people

  • denigrate
  • blacken belittle sully defame

  • synopsis
  • summary or outline

  • verisimilitude
  • appearing TRUE or real

  • dubious
  • feeling doubt

  • solvent
  • of the power of forming a solution

  • edible
  • fit to be eaten/not poisonous

  • purvey
  • provide supply

  • feud
  • bitter quarrel over a long period of time

  • coerce
  • compel to force to make obedient

  • goad
  • smth urging a person to action

  • oblivious
  • unaware having no memory

  • plea
  • request

  • lackluster
  • (of eyes) dull

  • ambivalent
  • having both of two contrary meanings

  • prolix
  • tiring because too long

  • berate
  • scold sharply

  • conceal
  • hide keep secret

  • invective
  • abusive language curses

  • tepid
  • lukewarm

  • quaff
  • drink deeply

  • panegyric
  • formal praise eulogy

  • ascribe
  • consider to be the origin of or belonging to

  • derogatory
  • insulting tending to damage

  • burgeon
  • grow forth send out buds

  • indulge
  • gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself

  • wean
  • to turn away (from a habit)

  • implosion
  • collapse bursting inward

  • meticulous
  • giving great attention to details

  • foible
  • defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)

  • covert
  • disguised

  • saturnine
  • gloomy dark sullen morose

  • equilibrium
  • state of being balanced

  • roll
  • call calling of names

  • streak
  • long thin move very fast

  • forbear
  • refrain from be patient ancestor

  • malleable
  • yielding easily shaped moldable adapting

  • hone
  • stone used for sharpening tools

  • terse
  • brief and to the point

  • sanctimony
  • self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety

  • insurrection
  • rising of people to open resistance to

  • cadge
  • to beg to get by begging

  • peregrination
  • traveling about wandering

  • impassive
  • unmoved feeling no sign of passion

  • temperance
  • abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation

  • poncho
  • large piece of cloth

  • perjury
  • willful FALSE statement unlawful act

  • consequential
  • pompous self important

  • pliant
  • pliable easily bent shaped or twisted

  • parenthesis
  • sentence within another one smth separated

  • hypocrisy
  • falsely making oneself appear to be good

  • skiff
  • small boat

  • earthenware
  • dishes made of baked clay

  • manacle
  • chains for the hands or feet

  • refulgent
  • shining brilliant

  • pest
  • destructive thing or a person who is nuisance

  • malevolence
  • wishing to do evil

  • mischievous
  • harmful causing mischief

  • involute
  • complex

  • voluble
  • fluent

  • phlegmatic
  • calm sluggish temperament unemotional

  • expurgate
  • to remove obscenity purify censor

  • chauvinist
  • a blindly devoted patriot

  • acarpous
  • effete no longer fertile worn out

  • abjure
  • promise or swear to give up

  • pundit
  • pedant authority on a subject

  • abraded
  • rubbed off worn away by friction

  • engender
  • cause produce give rise to

  • dogmatic
  • positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion

  • imperturbable
  • calm not capable of being excited

  • pious
  • dutiful to parents devoted to religion

  • heed
  • attention/give notice to

  • ingest
  • take in by swallowing

  • daunt
  • intimidate make fearful

  • prodigious
  • enormous wonderful

  • holster
  • leather case for a pistol

  • ascetic
  • practicing self-denial austere stark

  • dynamo
  • a generator something that produces electric current

  • fervid
  • showing earnest feeling

  • stray
  • wander lose one’s way

  • submerge
  • put under water liquid sink out of sight

  • multifarious
  • varied motley greatly diversified

  • allegiance
  • duty support loyalty

  • provoke
  • make angry vax

  • predominate
  • have more power than others

  • dud
  • no use person smth that fails

  • ambiguous
  • doubtful uncertain

  • transitory
  • brief

  • woo
  • try to win

  • lionize
  • treat as a famous person

  • convoke
  • call together summon

  • lament
  • show feel great sorrow

  • trudge
  • walk heavily

  • entreat
  • ask earnestly

  • adorn
  • add beauty decorate

  • macerate
  • make or become soft by soaking in water

  • quandary
  • state of doubt or perplexity

  • facile
  • easily done

  • tangential
  • suddenly changeable

  • derivative
  • unoriginal obtained from another source

  • nascent
  • coming into existence emerging

  • disproof
  • proof to the contrary

  • ulterior
  • situated beyond

  • harbinger
  • smth or smb that foretells the coming of

  • foppish
  • like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes

  • obtuse
  • blunt/stupid

  • impending
  • imminent being about to happen expected

  • fluster
  • make nervous or confused

  • discomfit
  • confuse embarrass

  • shun
  • keep away from avoid

  • supplicate
  • make a humble petition to

  • pedestrian
  • commonplace trite unremarkable

  • weigh
  • measure hoe heavy smth is

  • engrave
  • impress deeply

  • chisel
  • steel tool for shaping materials

  • accolade
  • praise approval

  • travesty
  • parody/imitation

  • sycophant
  • person who flatter to the rich and powerful

  • glean
  • gather facts in small quantities