1) Acme

High point

2) Bane

A cause for ruin

3) Bevy

A large group

4) Bilk

To steal; to embezzle

5) Boon

A sudden gain

6) Boor

A rude person

7) Fawn

To flatter subserviently (eager to please)

8) Gait

A manner of walking

9) Glut

To oversupply

10) Mire
A swamp; quagmire

11) Esoteric

Difficult to understand

12) Admonishing

Warning

13) Contrite

Remorseful

14) Penitent

Remorseful

15) Emphatic

Stressing one’s point

16) Bemusement

Puzzlement

17) Indignation

Anger

18) Onus

A duty or burden

19) Tome
A large book

20) Tout

To display proudly

21) Tyro

A beginner

22) Aesthete

One who seeks out/appreciates beauty

23) Alacrity

Cheerful readiness/eagerness

24) Aphorism

A wise saying

25) (to) Appropriate

To take another’s property as one’s own

26) Arable

Able to be farmed

27) Arboreal

Relating to trees

28) Conspicuous
Clearly visible

29) Auspicious

Foretelling well for the future

30) Avant-garde

New, cutting edge

31) Bequest

A gift upon one’s death

32) (to) brook

To endure

33) (to) bungle

To screw up

34) Byzantine

Fancy

35) Celerity

Swiftness of speed

36) Cerebral

Intellectual

37) Chagrin

An embarrassment
38) Circumscribed

Isolated; defined or limited

39) Cloy

Overly sweet

40) Confound

To confuse

41) Conjecture

A guess

42) Constituents

Voters

43) Consummate

Perfect

44) Curtail

To cut short

45) Debased

Morally low

46) Decorous

Appropriate for the situation

47) Dilatory

Lacking aim or purpose

48) Desultory

Lacking aim or purpose

49) Didactic

Instructive

50) Din

Noise

51) Dirge

A funeral song

52) Discomfited

To feel embarrassed

53) Discretionary

Based on personal choice

54) Disingenuous

Dishonest

55) Disposition

Behavioural inclination

56) Edifice
Building

57) Effigy

A crude resemblance of a loathed person

58) Egregious

Blatantly wrong

59) Emollient

Soothing lotion

60) Empirical

Based on data, facts, observations

61) Enervate

To drain of energy

62) Enfranchise

To free from slavery and bestow the right to vote

63) Epitaph

Words on a tomb

64) Espouse

To support

65) Expurgate/bowdlerize
To remove obscene text from a media

66) Extempore

With little or no preparation, impromptu

67) Felicitous

Suitable, appropriate

68) Galvanize

To arouse into action

69) Gaunt

Thin, haggard

70) Grovel

To beg/please/crawl/behave subordinately

71) Harbinger

Bringer of news, messenger

72) Hermetic

Airtight

73) Histrionic

Overly dramatic

74) Hubris
Excessive pride

75) Incantation

A calling out for inspiration/guidance

76) Inchoate

Not fully formed

77) Incisive

Acute/cutting

78) Incumbent

One who holds political office

79) Indelible

Permanent

80) Ineffable

Incapable of expression in words

81) Inflammatory

Likely to excite rage/disorder

82) Insular

Remote, isolated

83) Intemperate

Immoderate
84) Interlocutor

One who participates in discussion

85) Intractable

Hard to control

86) Jaded

Bored from overconsumption/too much indulgence

87) Juxtapose

To place side by side for the sake of comparison

88) Leviathan

Something huge; a subaquatic, mythological sea creature

89) Licentious

Morally lax

90) Milieu

Environment

91) Myopic

Bad eyes

92) Nihilism

The philosophy of rejecting established values and morality

93) Nondescript

Featureless

94) Nonplussed

Confused to the point of being unable to speak

95) Oblique

Indirect

96) Olfactory

Relating to the sense of smell

97) Ostensible

Apparent

98) Panacea

A cure-all

99) Partisan

Biased; opinionated

100) Pathos

Empathy; pity

101) Pedagogic

Relating to education

102) Pedantic
Narrowly or pretentiously learned; being a stickler for academic correctness

103) Perfidious

Disloyal

104) Petulant

Irritated

105) Plaudits

Praise; applause

106) Pontificate

To speak in a self-important manner

107) Pragmatism

A practical person

108) Precept

Set of rules or conditions

109) Precipitate

To hurry up, to make happen faster

110) Prescience

Advanced knowledge

111) Probity
Honesty

112) Profligate

Recklessly wasteful

113) Proliferate

To multiply rapidly

114) Promulgate

To announce (formally) a set of laws

115) Pundit

Scholarly person

116) Qualm

Doubt, hesitation

117) Quibble

To find fault with

118) Quixotic

Romantic, dreamy

119) Refractory/obstinate

Stubborn

120) Relegate
To demote to a lower position

121) Reprehensible

Worthy of blame

122) Rescind

To withdraw or take back

123) Retrograde

Moving backwards and therefore not progressing

124) (to) sanction

To approve

125) Sanctimonious

Pretending to be religion

126) Serendipity

Faculty of benefiting by chance

127) Sophistry

Deceptive thinking, invalid argument

128) Scrupulous

Very conscientious

129) Spate

An outpouring
130) Specious

False, not authentic

131) Stupefy

To stun

132) Subterfuge

Deception

133) Abstemious

Moderate; not self-indulging

134) Ambiguous

Obscure

135) Ambivalence

Having mixed feelings towards something

136) Amorphous

Shapeless

137) Anarchy

Political/social disorder

138) Apathetic

Indifference
139) Apprehensive

Feeling of dread

140) Ascetic

A person who practices sever self discipline

141) Assiduous

Hard working

142) Assuage

Soothe, calm

143) Augment

To make greater

144) Benevolent

Wishing to do good

145) Candour

Frankness

146) Censure

To criticize harshly

147) Circumspect

Taking everything into account

148) Coerce
To persuade by force

149) Commensurate

Equal in size/dimensions

150) Conflagration

A GREAT and destructive fire

151) Dawdle

To waste time

152) Dearth

Scarcity

153) Debilitate

Weaken

154) Deference

Submission or courteous regard for another’s wish

155) Deleterious

Harmful

156) Despotism

Tyranny

157) Digression
Act of wandering away from the subject

158) Dilapidated

Decayed because of neglect or age

159) Diminution

Lessening in size

160) Disparity

Difference; condition of inequality

161) Dissuade

Advise against

162) Domineer

To rule over tyrannically

163) Supplant

To replace as better

164) Surfeit

An overabundance

165) Sybarite

Please-loving person

166) Synergistic
Working together and having a greater combine effect because of simultaneous operation

167) Table

To put aside an issue for later discussion

168) Tawdry

Cheap looking; poor

169) Temerity

Reckless boldness

170) Temper

To lessen the severity of

171) Threadbare

Very worn; shabby

172) Truculent

Overly hostile

173) Turgid

Swollen; pompous

174) Unctuous

Inky, oily

175) Unheralded

Unannounced
176) Untenable

Unable to be defended

177) Vaunt

To brag/boast

178) Venial

Pardonable

179) Verdant

Green, lush

180) Verisimilitude

Something that has the appearance of truth

181) Vestigial

Extremely small

182) Victuals

Food

183) Vignette

Brief written description

184) Virile

Manly, strong
185) Visceral

Related to the abdomen

186) Vitiate

To impair

187) Vitriolic

Harsh, biting

188) Watershed

Turning point

189) Waylay

Ambush

190) Wheedle

To cajole

191) Wily

sly

192) Windfall

Unexpected boon

193) Winsome

attractive

194) Obfuscate
To obscure the meaning of

195) Ennui

Feeling of boredom from something tedious

196) Eccentric

Irregular

197) Emaciated

Extremely thin

198) Embellish

To adorn; beautify

199) Erratic

Irregular in movement

200) Expedite

To speed up the progress of

201) Explicit

Obviously understood

202) Expunge

To remove something completely

203) Extricate
To release from difficulty

204) Embezzlement

To steal

205) Fallacious

Containing mistaken belief

206) Fallow

Uncultivated

207) Fastidious

Difficult to please

208) Flagrant

Egregious

209) Frivolous

Lack of seriousness

210) Furtive

Stealthy

211) Reconcile

To make up differences between

212) Gluttonous
Extremely greedy

213) Innocuous

Harmless

214) Insipid

Dull, tasteless, vapid

215) Insolvency

Inability to pay one’s debts

216) Languid

Slowness of movement

217) Leniency

Not strict

218) Levity

Lightness, frivolity (lack of seriousness)

219) Miser

One who hordes thigns

220) Monotony

Having the same thing occur over and over in a tedious manner

221) Precocious

Very early development

222) Prattle

To chatter childishly

223) Recalcitrant

Resisting authority

224) Venerate

To honour

225) Revere

To honour

226) Sequester

To isolate

227) Servile

Fawning (to flatter subserviently (eager to please))

228) Squalid

Poor looking, tawdry

229) Taciturn

Silent

230) Virtuoso

Talented artist
231) Respite

Period of rest

232) Prodigal

Wasteful

233) Prudent

Cautious (especially with money)

234) Prodigious

Enormous

235) Profusion

Abundance of

236) Prolific

Abundantly fruitful

237) Complacent

Overly confident with one’s accomplishments

238) Disparage

To insult/put down

239) Refute

To prove wrong

240) Discern
To notice

241) Dubious

Doubtful

242) Eradicate

To wipe out completely

243) Discord

Disagreement

244) Eclectic

Selecting only the best

245) Vindicate

To free from blame

246) Solicitous

Eager to help

247) Autonomy

Self-independence

248) Pretentiousness

Feeling of (too much) self-importance

249) Ephemeral
Short –lived

250) Spurious

Not genuine

251) Mundane

Relating to everyday life

252) Impetuous

Rash

253) Repudiate

To reject a person/idea completely

254) Diverge

To go apart

255) Converge

To come together

256) Incongruous

Out of place

257) Diffident

Shy

258) Transient
Passing through a place quickly

259) Prosaic

Ordinary

260) Condescend

To speak down to

261) Substantiate

To help prove

262) Lucid

Clear

263) Polemical

Arguing a position

264) Belie

To contradict

265) Disdain

To regard with scorn/comtempt

266) Deferential

Courteous regard to someone’s wish

267) Capricious

Unpredictable
268) Exacerbate

To make a bad situation worse

269) Dogmatic

Stubbornly opinionated

270) Gregarious/genial

Friendly

271) Tenacious

Persistent

272) Meticulous

Extremely careful

273) Equanimity

Calm

274) Transitory

Lasting short duration

275) Immutable

Eternal, unchanging

276) Cursory

Hurried, rash,
277) Rancour

Extremely bad feeling about something

278) Satirize

To mimic so as to make fun of

279) Underscore

Emphasize

280) Exasperate

Annoyed to the point of frustration

281) Pertinent

Important

282) Pervasive

Appearing/being everywhere

283) Tenuous

Thin, unable to support anything

284) Attenuate

To make tenuous

285) Innate

Inborn ability

286) Exacting
Demanding

287) (to) Champion

To support

288) Pedantic

Being a stickler for academic correctness

289) Anachronistic

Out of date

290) Conciliatory

Overcoming hostility

291) Reticent

Restrained

292) Candid

Free from prejudice

293) Morose

Gloomy

294) Ostentatious

Showy, pretentious

295) Prevaricate
Evading the truth

296) Querulous

Expressing complaint

297) Repose

Calmness

298) Virulent

Bitterly hostile

299) Quiescent

Still, dormant

300) Abject

Miserable

301) Affluence

Wealth

302) Analogous

Similar in function

303) Cognizant

Knowing

304) Destitute
Utterly lacking

305) Disseminate

To spread

306) Fortuitous

Happen by accident /chance

307) Clairvoyance

Ability to see into future

308) Regressive

To go back

309) Succinct/terse

Brief

310) Wanton

Immoral

311) Rapacious

Greedy

312) Recant

To formally deny

313) Redolent

Strongly scented
314) Remonstrate

To beg/plead in protest

315) Reparation

The act of amending

316) Requisite

Requirement

317) Rudiment

Principle

318) Credulous

Gullible

319) Emblazon

To embellish

320) Paucity

Scarcity of

321) Adulation

High praise

322) Amicable

Friendly
323) Amiable

Friendly

324) Arid

Very dry

325) Asylum

Safe house

326) Camaraderie

Feeling of goodwill among friends

327) Circuitous

Taking the longest possible route

328) Conformist

One who abides by acceptd rules

329) Congregation

A crowd of people

330) Demagogue

A leader who appeals to emotions

331) Evanescent

Vanishing quickly

332) Extenuate
Mitigating factors

333) Florid

Red coloured, ornate

334) Frugal

Cheap

335) Hackneyed

Cliché

336) Haughty

Arrogant

337) Hedonist

One who actively pursues pleasure as a goal

338) Incur

To bring upon oneself

339) Apprise

To give someone information

340) Eminent

Well known

341) Impute
To attribute an action to something particular

342) Intrepid

Fearless

343) Jubilation

Joy

344) Nonchalant

Calm

345) Opulent

Wealthy

346) Orator

Speaker

347) Reclusive

Preferring to live in isolation

348) Sagacity

Wisdom

349) Surreptitious

Secret

350) Clandestine
Secret

351) Superfluous

Excess, extra

352) Obstinate

Stubborn

353) Heresy

Any belief that goes against the viewpoint on a subject

354) Extol

To praise highly

355) Inundate

To flood

356) Equivocal

Intentionally unclear

357) Divisive

Stirring up disagreement

358) Cantankerous

Irritable

359) Officious

Bossy
360) Peremptory

Bossy

361) Laconic

Habitually using few words

362) Astute

Insightful

363) Lament

To deeply regret

364) Exonerate

To free from blame (vindicate)

365) Ingenuous

Childlike

366) Urbane

Sophisticated

367) Sanguine

Hopeful

368) Parochial

Provincial, narrow-minded
369) Corroborate

To support

370) Deride

To mock

371) Discord

Disagreement

372) Serene

Peaceful

373) Contentious

To fight

374) Exorbitant

Superflous, extra

375) Idiosyncratic

Extremely individualistic way of doing something

376) Banal

Ordinary

377) Salutary

Beneficial

378) Amenable
Cooperative