Norman Lewis

Word

Meaning

Abash
Abate
Abdicate
Aberration
Abhor
Abject
Abnegate
Abortive
Abridge
Absolve
Abstinent
Abstruse
Accolade
Accost
Acerbic
Acquiesce
Acrid
Acrimonious
Acumen
Adage
Adamant
Adherent
Admonish
Adroit
Adulation
Adulterate
Adverse
Aesthetic
Affable
Affectation
Affinity
Affluent
Agrarian
Aggregate
Agnostic
Alacrity
Allege
Alleviate
Allusion
Aloof
Altruism
Ambience
Ameliorate
Amenable
Amenity
Amiable
Amnesty
Amorous

Ashamed, to embarrass
To subside, to reduce
Step down from a position of authority
A deviation from the standard
Hate
Hopeless, extremely sad and servile
To deny oneself of things
Unsuccessful
Shorten
Forgive or free from a blame
Voluntarily not do something
Very hard to understand
Award or honour
Approach or speak with someone
Sour, bitter
Accept, comply
Harsh, like an acid
Full of spite, bitter, nasty
The ability to make good decisions
An old saying
Stubborn
Follower, supporter
To scold gently
Dextrous, skilful
Excessive admiration
To contaminate, mix
Unfavourable, extreme
Having to do with artistic beauty
Easy to talk to
Unnatural, artificial behaviour
Attraction, longing
Wealthy
Having to do with land (laws)
Sum total, collection of something
One who believes that existence of god can neither be proven nor disproven
Cheerfulness
To assert without proving
To relieve temporarily without removing the actual cause
An indirect reference
Stand off, uninvolved
True devotion in the welfare of others
Mood, atmosphere
To make better or make tolerable
Obedient, willing fully submit to the wishes of others
Comfortable features
Friendly, agreeable
An official pardon to a group of people who broke the law
Feeling loving specially in sexual sense

Amorphous
Anachronism
Analogy
Anarchy
Anecdote
Anguish
Animosity
Anomaly
Antipathy
Antithesis
Apartheid
Apathy
Aphorism
Apocryphal
Apotheosis
Appease
Approbation
Appropriate
Aptitude
Arbiter
Arcane
Archaic
Archetype
Ardent
Arduous
Aristocratic
Artful
Artifice
Ascendancy
Ascetic
Assiduous
Assimilate
Assuage
Astute
Attrition
Audacity
Augment
Austere
Autocratic
Autonomous
Avarice
Avow
Avuncular
Awry
Axiom
Banal
Bane
Bastion
Beget
Belabour
Beleaguer
Belie
Belittle
Belligerent
Bemused

Lacking a definite shape

Something out of place, time or history
A comparison of one thing to another
A condition of total chaos, absence of government
A short humorous or revealing incident
Agonizing mental and physical pain
Ill will, strong hostility
Deviation from standard, not usual
Strong dislike
Direct opposite
Policy of racial discrimination followed in republic of Africa
Lack of feeling for something or someone
A short witty saying
Of dubious authenticity
Elevate to divine status
Please, pacify, soothe
Approval, praise
To take without permission
The capacity of learning
One who judges, decides
Mysterious, known to only few
Extremely old, ancient
An original model or plan
Passionate
Hard, difficult
Royale family, noble birth
Sly, crafty
Clever trick, cunning
Supremacy, domination
Deny oneself
Hard working, busy
To absorb in, to take in
To pacify, to soothe
Keen in judgement
Gradually wearing off
Boldness, reckless, daring
To make bigger
Stern, forbidding
Ruling with absolute power
Independent ruling body
Excessive liking for riches
To declare publicly
Like an uncle
Twisted
A self evident rule
Unoriginal, ordinary
To cause pain, torment
Fortified place, stronghold
To give birth
To go over and over again over something
To surround, to besiege
A false impression
To make or seem little
Combative, quarrelsome
Confused

Benefactor
Benevolent
Benign
Bequest
Bereft
Beset
Blasphemy
Blatant
Blight
Blithe
Bourgeois
Bovine
Brevity
Broach
Bucolic
Bureaucracy
Burgeon
Burlesque
Cadence
Cajole
Callow
Candor
Capitulate
Capricious
Caricature
Categorical
Catharsis
Catholic
Censure
Chagrin
Charlatan
Chasm
Chastise
Chicanery
Chimera
Choleric
Circuitous
Circumlocution
Circumspect
Clemency
Clique
Coalesce
Coalition
Coerce
Cogent
Cognitive
Cognizant
Collusion
Compendium
Commensurate
Complacent
Complicity
Conciliatory
Concord

One who provides help specially in the form of gift or donation

Generous, kind
Gentle, not harmful
Something left for someone in a will
Deprived or left desolate
To harass, to surround
An insult to something held sacred
Unpleasantly or offensively noisy
A plant disease
Carefree, cheerful
Middle class
Cow like
Briefness
To open a topic for discussion
Charmingly rural
A system of government administration consisting of bureaus and offices
To expand
An exaggerated imitation
Rhythmic rise and fall of sound
To persuade someone to do something they are not willing to do
Immature
Truthfulness, honesty
To submit, to surrender
Unpredictable, likely to change
Portrait that is purposely exaggerated
Unconditional
Emotional purification that brings peace
Universal, embracing everything
To condemn for doing something bad
Humiliation, disappointment
Fraud, conman
Gorge
Inflict punishment
Trickery
A foolish fantasy
Hot tempered
Roundabout
An indirect expression
To be cautious
Mercy, forgiveness
A group of people bound together by a shared quality or interest
To come together as one, to unite
Group of people coming together for some purpose
Force someone to do something
Powerful, convincing
How we know the world based on our perception
Aware, conscious
Secret cooperation, conspiracy
Summary
Equal, proportionate
Overly satisfied with oneself , contended to a fault
(complaisanteager to please someone)
Being a part of some wrong doing
Making peace, trying to resolve a dispute through goodwill
Harmony, agreement

Condescend
Conducive
Congenial
Congenital
Conjecture
Connoisseur
Consecrate
Consensus
Consonant
Construe
Consummate
Contentious
Contiguous
Contingent
Contrite
Contrived
Convivial
Copious
Corroborate
Cosmopolitan
Countenance
Coup
Covenant
Covet
Culminate
Credence
Culpable
Cursory
Cynic
Daunt
Debacle
Debilitate
Decadent
Decimate
Decorous
Deference
Definitive
Deleterious
Delineate
Delude
Deluge
Denizen
Depravity
Deprecate
Depreciate
Deride
Derogatory
Desiccate
Despondent
Despot
Desultory
Dialectical
Dictum
Didactic

Stoop to someone elses place, usually offensive way

Promoting
Pleasant [the new restrau has a congenial atmosphere]
A train that is acquired after conception and before birth [a congenital liar]
Guess, to infer on a slight evidence
An expert, particularly in art or taste
To make or declare sacred
General agreement, Unanimous
Harmonious, agreement
To interpret
Perfect, completely skilful
Quarrelsome, argumentative
Side by side, adjoining
Dependent
Admitting guilt
Artificial
Fond of partying, festive
Abundant, plentiful
To backup with evidence
Internationally sophisticated [new york is a cosmopolitan city, u can hear almost all
languages of the world there]
Facial expression, an encouraging one
A brilliant victory or accomplishment
A contract or agreement
To wish for enviously [covetous- envious]
Reach climax, to reach full effect
To gain believe or intellectual acceptance
Deserving blame, guilt
Hasty, superficial
One who deeply distrust human nature
To make fearful, to intimidate
A violent breakdown
To weaken or cripple
Decaying or decayed in terms of morale
To kill or destroy a large part
Proper, in good taste
Submission to others will
Conclusive
Harmful
To describe accurately
To deceive
Figurative flood
Inhabitant
Extreme wickedness
To express disapproval
To signify of least value
To ridicule, laugh contemptuously
Disapproving, degrading
To dry out
Extremely depressed
Absolute ruler
Without a plan
Relating to discussions
Authoritative saying
Intended to teach

Diffident
Digress
Dilettante
Discreet
Discrete
Disdain
Disparage
Disparate
Distend
Docile
Doctrinaire
Dogmatic
Ebullient
Eccentric
Edify
Efface
Effusion
Egalitarian
Egregious
Egotist
Elusive
Empirical
Endemic
Enervate
Engender
Enigma
Ephemeral
Enormity
Epigram
Epigraph
Epitaph
Epithet
Epitome
Erudite
Equanimity
Equivocal
Esoteric
Espouse
Ethereal
Euphemism
Evanescent
Exacerbate
Exacting
Exalt
Exasperate
Exemplify
Exhort
Exigency
Existential
Exonerate
Expatriate
Expedient
Expedite
Explicit
Extol

Lacking in self confidence, timid

To stray from main subject
Having superficial knowledge of a subject
Judiciously reserved, careful and prudent
Unconnected, distinct
Contempt
To belittle, to say uncomplimentary things about something
Different, unequal
To swell, to extend a great deal
Easily taught, obedient
Inflexibly committed to a doctrine or theory
Strong belief in unproven facts
Bubbling with excitement
Not conventional, irregular
To instruct in moral matters
To erase the features of
Pouring forth
Believing in the social and economic equality of the people
Extremely bad
An egoist who tells everyone how great he is
Hard to pin down
Relying on observation or experience
Resident, restricted to a particular region or group
To reduce the strength of
To bring to existence
Mystery
Lasting a very short time
Extremely evil
A brief and satirical saying
Apt quotation at the start of a book
Inscription on a grave
A term used to describe the nature of something
A brief summary that captures the whole meaning
Scholar, learned
Composure, calm
Ambiguous, intentionally confusing
Hard to understand
To support
Heavenly
To use a pleasant phrase in place of an offensive or unpleasant one
Vanishing, disappearing
To make things worse
Very hard, difficult
To reach glorious heights
Annoy thoroughly
Give a suitable example
To urge strongly
Urgency, emergency
Related to existence
To free someone from a charge or blame
To throw someone out of his motherland or homeland
An immediate advantage
To speed up or ease the progress of it
To say directly and clearly
Praise highly

Extraneous
Extrapolate
Extricate
Exult
Facetious
Facile
Faction
Farcical
Farce
Fastidious
Fatalist
Fatuous
Fecund
Felicity
Fervour
Fetter
Fidelity
Finesse
Flagrant
Flout
Flounder
Foible
Foment
Forbear
Forgo
Fortuitous
Founder
Frenetic
Frugal
Furtive
Futile
Garrulous
Genteel
Gesticulate
Glut
Grandiloquent
Grandiose
Gratuitous
Gregarious
Guile
Hackneyed
Hapless
Harbinger
Hedonism
Hegemony
Heresy
Hermetic
Heyday
Hiatus
Homily
Husbandry
Hyperbole
Iconoclast
Ideology
Idiosyncrasy

Unnecessary, irrelevant
To infer or deduce from available data
To free from a difficulty
To rejoice, to celebrate
Humorous, not serious
Skilful, superficially skilful
A smaller group of a larger group
Absurd
A mockery or ridiculous satire
Demanding
Someone who believes that future is decided and can never be changed
Foolish, silly
Productive, fertile
Happiness, skilfulness
With great warmth
To restrain, hamper
Loyalty, truthfulness
Crafty, skilfulness
Notorious, glaringly bad
To do something out of disrespect
To walk in confusion
A minor character flaw
To stir up
To refrain from
To forbear
Accidental, by chance
To collapse, to fail
Frantic
Economical, penny pinching
Secretly
Useless, hopeless
Talkative
Kind, polite
To make use of gestures while speaking
Overabundance
Use of excessive fancy words to sound good
Overly exaggerated
Uncalled for, free
Sociable, enjoying to party and company of others
Cunning, artfulness
Overused, stale
Unlucky
A foreteller, that tells the start of something
The art of pursuing pleasure as a way of life
Authority of one over the other (usually the country)
A belief that is strongly against the current beliefs
Strongly impervious
Golden era
To take a break, usually from office
A sermon
Live stock farming
Overly exaggerated
One who attacks popular beliefs and institutions
Set of social ideas or principles
Peculiar

Idyllic
Ignominy
Illicit
Impeccable
Impugn
Inane
Incandescent
Incantation
Incense
Incessant
Incipient
Incisive
Incongruous
Incorrigible
Indigenous
Indigent
Indignant
Indolent
Indulgent
Ineffable
Inept
Inexorable
Infamous
Infatuated
Ingenuous
Inherent
Injunction
Innate
Innocuous
Inordinate
Insatiable
Insidious
Insinuate
Insipid
Insolent
Instigate
Insular
Insurgent
Intractable
Intransigent
Introspective
Inundate
Invective
Inveterate
Irascible
Ironic
Irrevocable
Itinerant
Judicious
Juxtapose
Kinetic
Labyrinth
Laconic
Lament
Lampoon

Charming in a rustic way

Deep disgrace
Not allowed, illegal
Flawless
To attack, specially the truth
Senseless
Brilliant, giving out heat and light
Chant, to repeat phrase or sentence in form of a chant
To make very angry
Constant, unceasing
Beginning
To cut to the heart of the matter
Not harmonious, not in consistency
One that cannot be reformed
Native, found in that area
Poor
Angry because of an insult
Lazy
Lenient, giving into desire
One that cannot be expressed
Incompetent, gauche
unavoidable, inevitable
Famous for wickedness, shamefully wicked
Strong attraction, foolish
Frank, without deception
Part of the real or essential nature of something
Command, specially that issued from the court
Existing since birth
Harmless
Excessive, unreasonable
One that cannot be satisfied
Treacherous, sneaky
To creep in, to hint
Dull, banal
Arrogant, insulting
Provoke
Like an island, isolated
Rebel, one who goes against the government
Uncontrollable, stubborn
Uncompromising, stubborn
Tending to think about oneself
To flood, to overwhelm
Insulting or abusive speech
Habitual, deep rooted
Easily provoked or angered
Meaning the opposite of what you say
Irreversible
Moving from place to place
Exercising sound judgement
To place side by side
Having to do with motion, lively, active
Maze
Using few words to speak, to the point of being understood as rude
To mourn
To mock, parody

Languish
Largess
Latent
Laud
Levity
Libel
Litigate
Loquacious
Lugubrious
Machination
Magnanimous
Magnate
Malaise
Malfeasance
Malinger
Mandate
Manifest
Manifesto
Marshal
Martial
Matriculate
Maudlin
Maverick
Maxim
Mediate
Mellifluous
Mendacious
Mendicant
Mentor
Mercenary
Mercurial
Microcosm
Milieu
Minuscule
Misanthropic
Mitigate
Mollify
Monolithic
Moribund
Morose
Mortify
Mundane
Munificent
Myriad
Narcissism
Nebulous
Nefarious
Neologism
Nepotism
Nihilism
Nominal
Nostalgia
Notorious
Noxious
Nuance

To become weak or depressed

Generous in giving gifts
Something that cannot be seen, hidden
Appraise, extol
Un-seriousness, lightness
To write something publicly that defames a person
To try in court
Talking a lot
Exaggeratedly mournful
A scheming activity for an evil purpose
Generous, forgiving
A rich and powerful person
Feel uneasy
An act of wrong doing
To act sick to avoid doing work
A command or authorisation to do something
To become clear or visible
a public declaration of beliefs or principles
To gather together for the purpose of doing something
Warlike, having to do with war
To enrol
Silly and sentimental
Rebel
A fundamental belief, an old saying
To settle difference
Flowing sweetly
Dishonest, lying
Beggar
A teacher, a senior
A hired soldier, someone wholl do anything for money
Emotionally unpredictable
The world in miniature
Environment, surrounding
Very tiny
Hating mankind
To moderate the effect of something
Soften
Massive, unyielding
Dying
Sullen, gloomy
To humiliate
Common, very boring
Very generous, lavish
A large number
Excessive love for one self or ones own body
Vague, hazy
Evil, wicked
A new word or phrase
To show favouritism to family and friends in business or politics
To believe that there are no values in morals in universe
In name only, insignificant
Emotional longing for the past
Famous for doing something evil
Harmful, offensive
Subtle difference or distinction

Obdurate
Obfuscate
Oblivion
Obscure
Obsequious
Officious
Onerous
Opulent
Ostensible
Ostentatious
Palliate
Palpable
Paltry
Panacea
Paradigm
Paradox
Parochial
Parody
Parsimonious
Partisan
Patent
Paternal
Patriarch
Patrician
Patronize
Paucity
Peccadillo
Pedantic
Pedestrian
Pejorative
Penchant
Penitent
Pensive
Peremptory
Perennial
Perfidy
Perfunctory
Peripatetic
Perjury
Permeate
Pernicious
Perquisite
Pertinent
Perturb
Peruse
Pervade
Petulant
Philistine
Pious
Pivotal
Placate
Plaintive
Platitude
Plebeian
Plethora

Insensitive and stubborn

Confusing, to create confusing
Indirect, at an angle
Hard to understand
To suck up, never tell truly how u feel
Annoyingly eager to help or advice
Oppressive
Luxurious
Apparent but misleading
Showing off
To alleviate something without getting rid of the actual problem
One that can be touched
Insignificant, worthless
One that is capable of curing everything
Model or example
A statement that contradicts itself
Narrow in point of view
Satirical imitation
Stingy
One who supports a particular cause or person or idea
Obvious
Fatherly, fatherlike
The male head of the family
A person of noble birth
To treat as in inferior
Scarcity
A minor offense
Boringly academic
Unimaginative, banal
Negative
Strong liking for something
Sorry, repentant
Thoughtful
Final, categorical
Continuously flowing
Treacherous
Careless, unenthusiastic
Wandering, travelling continuously
Lying under an oath
To seep through
Deadly, extremely evil
The perks that comes with a job
Relevant
To disturb greatly
Read carefully
Spread all throughout
Ill mannered, rude
An ignorant person with no appreciation of art and intellect
Religious
Crucial
Pacify
Expressing sadness or sorrow
Clich
Common, vulgar
Excess

Poignant
Polarize
Polemic
Ponderous
Portent
Postulate
Pragmatic
Precept
Precipitate
Precipitous
Preclude
Precursor
Predilection
Preeminent
Pre-empt
Premise
Prepossess
Prerogative
Prevail
Pristine
Prodigal
Prodigious
Prodigy
Profane
Profess
Proficient
Profligate
Profound
Profuse
Proletariat
Proliferate
Prolific
Promulgate
Propensity
Propitious
Proponent
Proprietary
Propriety
Prosaic
Proscribe
Proselytize
Protract
Provident
Provincial
Provisional
Prudent
Purported
Putative
Querulous
Quixotic
Ramification
Rancor
Rapacious
Rebuke
Rebut

Painfully emotional
To break into opposing fractions or groups
A powerful argument
So large as to be clumsy
Omen, a sign of something about to happen
Something accepted as truth without proof
Practical, down to earth
Living by a rule
To happen suddenly
Steep
To prevent something from ever happening
That goes ahead and paves the way for anything that follows
To have a natural preference for something
Better than anyone else
To seize something by prior rights
An assumption
Pre own
A right connected exclusively with a person
To overcome rivals
Original
Wastefully extravagant
Extraordinary
A very talented child
Disrespectful of religion, blasphemy
To declare falsely, to pretend
Competent
Extraordinary wasteful
Deep
Flowing
The industrial working class
To grow rapidly
Abundantly productive
To proclaim publicly
Natural inclination towards something
Marked by favourable sign or fortune
Advocate, supporter
An owner of a property
Properness, manners
Dull, unimaginative
Inhibit, prohibit
To convert from one religion to another
To prolong
Preparing for the future
Looking to ones own business
Temporary
Careful
Rumoured
Commonly accepted
Always complaining
Romantic or idealistic to a foolish degree
Branching out
To bear ill will
Greedy
Criticise sharply
Contradict

Recalcitrant
Recant
Reclusive
Recondite
Recrimination
Redolent
Refute
Relegate
Relentless
Relinquish
Remonstrate
Renaissance
Renounce
Reparation
Repercussion
Replete
Reprehensible
Reprisal
Reproach
Reprove
Repudiate
Resolute
Respite
Reticent
Revere
Rogue
Rudimentary
Ruminate
Rustic
Saccharine
Sacrilege
Sacrosanct
Sagacious
Salient
Salutary
Sanctimonious
Sanguine
Sardonic
Scintillate
Scrupulous
Sedition
Sentient
Sequester
Serendipity
Servile
Slander
Sobriety
Solicitous
Solvent
Soporific
Sordid
Spawn
Specious
Sporadic
Spurious

Disobedient
To publicly take back an error
Take back from society
Hard to understand
A bitter counter accusation
Fragrant
To prove to be wrong or false
Banish or send away
Continuous, unstoppable
To release or let go off
To protest
Birth or revival
To formally resign or give up
Making amendments, paying back
An indirect effect
Completely filled
Worthy of blame
A military action taken in revenge of one
To scold, to disgrace
Criticize mildly
To reject
Determined, firm
Relief
Quiet, reluctant to talk
To respect highly, to honour
A criminally dishonest person
Basic, crude, underdeveloped
To chew over ones thought
Lacking urban comforts and sophistication
Excessively sweet, disgustingly sweet
Violation of something sacred, blasphemy
Sacred
Wise
Sticking out
Healthful, remedial
Pretending to be a devout
Happy, cheerful
Mocking, scornful
To sparkle either literally or figuratively
Strict
Treason, the incitement of public disorder
Thing that can be felt by the senses
To be kept apart
Accidental good luck, discovering good things without searching for them
Like a servant
To speak bad about someone publicly
The state of being sober
Eager and attentive
Not broke, able to bear his/her own expense
Sleep inducing
Filthy
To bring forth, to produce in large numbers
Deceptively attractive
Occurring in bursts at large number of discrete places
False, fake

Squalor
Stagnation
Staunch
Steadfast
Stigmatize
Stipulate
Stoic
Stricture
Strife
Stringent
Stymie
Subjugate
Sublime
Subtle
Subversive
Succinct
Succumb
Supercilious
Superfluous
Surfeit
Surreptitious
Surrogate
Sycophant
Synthesis
Tacit
Taciturn
Tangential
Tantamount
Tautological
Temerity
Tenable
Tenacious
Tenet
Tentative
Tenuous
Terse
Theology
Tirade
Torpor
Touchstone
Tout
Transcend
Transgress
Transient
Trepidation
Turpitude
Ubiquitous
Unconscionable
Unctuous
Unremitting
Unwitting
Urbane
Usurp
Utilitarian
Utopia

Filthy living conditions

Stationary, motionless
Firm belief
Loyal, faithful
To brand with disgrace
To require something as a part of the agreement
Indifferent
A limitation or restriction
Discord, conflict
Strict, restrictive
To hinder, to come in between [golf term]
Subdue and dominate
Magnificent, awesome
Not obvious, able to make fine distinctions
Corrupting, overthrowing
Concise and brief
To yield or submit
Haughty and patronizing
Extra, unnecessary,
An extra charge
Sneaky, secret
Substitute
Who sucks up to others
To combine different parts to complete a whole
Not spoken, implied
Less talkative
Only superficially related to the matter
Equivalent
Circular, redundant
Boldness, audacity
One who can be argued, defensible
Persistent, stubborn
Shared belief
Uncertain
Extremely thin
Using no unnecessary words
Study of god
Prolonged bitter speech
Sluggish, inactivity
A standard, a test of authenticity or quality
Publicly brag, to praise highly
To go above and beyond
Sin, to violate law
Not staying for a long time, temporary
Tremble, shake, fear
Shamefully wicked
Present everywhere at the same time
Not controlled by conscious
Oily, both literally and figuratively
Unceasing, unabated
Ignorant, unintentional
Sophisticated, poised
To seize wrongfully
Focusing on utility over all other qualities
An ideal society

Vacillate
Vapid
Vehement
Venal
Venerate
Veracity
Verbose
Verisimilitude
Vernacular
Vestige
Vex
Viable
Vicarious
Vicissitude
Vilify
Vindicate
Vindictive
Virtuoso
Virulent
Visionary
Vitiate
Vitriolic
Vocation
Vociferous
Volatile
Volition
Wanton
Willful
Wistful
Zealous

To be indecisive, to switch between decisions

Without liveliness, dull
Intense, violent
Capable of being bribed
To treat something as holy or sacred
Truthfulness
Using too many words to say something
Similarity to reality
Everyday slang, speech
Remaining bit of something
To annoy, to confuse
Capable of being worked/lived
Experienced, performed or lived by someone else
Natural change
Defame
To clear from all blame and suspicion
Seeking revenge
A master musician
Extremely poisonous, full of hatred
Dreamer
To make impure
Caustic, full of bitterness
Occupation, work
Loud, noisy
Quickly evaporate, highly unstable
Will, conscious choice
Unjustifiable, malicious, unprovoked
Deliberate, obstinate
Sadly longing
Enthusiastically devoted to something, fervent