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q: abacus
a: frame with balls for calculating
q: abate
a: to lessen to subside
q: abdication
a: giving up control authority
q: aberration
a: straying away from what is normal
q: abet
a: help/encourage smb (in doing wrong)
q: abeyance
a: suspended action
q: abhor
a: to hate to detest
q: abide
a: be faithful to endure
q: abjure
a: promise or swear to give up
q: abraded
a: rubbed off worn away by friction
q: abrogate
a: repeal or annul by authority
q: abscond
a: to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
q: abstruse
a: difficult to comprehend obscure
q: abut
a: border on
q: abysmal
a: bottomless extreme
q: acarpous
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a: effete no longer fertile worn out

q: acclaimed
a: welcomed with shouts and approval
q: accolade
a: praise approval
q: accretion
a: the growing of separate things into one
q: adamant
a: kind of stone inflexible
q: admonitory
a: containing warning
q: adorn
a: add beauty decorate
q: adulteration
a: making unpure poorer in quality
q: affable
a: polite and friendly
q: affinity
a: close connection relationship
q: aggravate
a: make worse irritate
q: agile
a: active quick-moving
q: agog
a: eager/excited
q: ail
a: trouble be ill
q: alacrity
a: eager and cheerful readiness
q: alcove
a: recess/partially enclosed place
q: allegiance
a: duty support loyalty
q: alleviate
a: make (pain) easier to bear
q: alloy
a: to debase by mixing with something inferior
q: aloof
a: reserved indifferent
q: amalgamate
a: mix combine unite societies
q: ambidextrous
a: able to use the left hand or the right equally well
q: ambiguous
a: doubtful uncertain
q: ambivalent
a: having both of two contrary meanings
q: ameliorate
a: improve make better
q: amortize
a: end (a debt) by setting aside money
q: anguish
a: severe suffering
q: animosity
a: strong dislike
q: antidote
a: medicine used against a poison or a disease
q: antithetical
a: direct opposing
q: apartheid
a: brutal racial discrimination
q: aplomb
a: self-confidence
q: apostate
a: one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
q: apotheosis
a: deification glorification to godliness
q: appease
a: make quiet or calm
q: apprehensive
a: grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
q: apprise
a: give notice to inform
q: approbation
a: approval
q: apropos
a: appropriate to the situation apt
q: apt
a: well-suited quick-witted
q: arabesque
a: a complex ornate design
q: arboreal
a: of connected with trees
q: ardor
a: enthusiasm
q: arduous
a: steep difficult ascent laborious
q: argot
a: jargon slang
q: arrant
a: in the highest degree
q: arrogance
a: proud superior manner of behaviour

q: articulate
a: speak distinctly connect by joints
q: ascend
a: go or come up
q: ascertain
a: get to know
q: ascetic
a: practicing self-denial austere stark
q: ascribe
a: consider to be the origin of or belonging to
q: aseptic
a: surgically clean
q: asperity
a: roughness harshness ill temper irritability
q: aspersion
a: slander
q: assail
a: with attack violently
q: assiduous
a: diligent hard-working sedulous
q: assuage
a: make smth (pain desire) less
q: asterisk
a: the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
q: astringent
a: substance that shrinks
q: astute
a: clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
q: atonement
a: repayment death of Jesus
q: attenuate
a: make thin. weaken enervate
q: attune
a: bring into harmony
q: audacious
a: daring foolishly bold impudent
q: augury
a: omen sign
q: august
a: majestic venerable
q: auspicious
a: favorable successful prosperous
q: austere
a: severely moral and strict simple and plain
q: auxiliary
a: helping supporting
q: aver
a: affirm assert prove justify
q: aversion
a: strong dislike
q: avid
a: eager greedy
q: avow
a: admit. Declare openly
q: baleful
a: harmful ominous causing evil
q: balk
a: obstacle purposely to get on the way of
q: baneful
a: causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive
q: barrage
a: artificial obstacle built across a river
q: barren
a: not good enough unable to have young ones without value
q: bask
a: in enjoy warmth and light
q: beatify
a: to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
q: bedizen
a: to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
q: belabor
a: beat hard
q: bellicose
a: belligerent pugnacious warlike
q: belligerent
a: (person nation) waging war
q: benefactor
a: person who has given help
q: benevolence
a: wish or activity in doing good
q: benign
a: kind and gentle mild (climate)
q: bequest
a: arrangement to give smth at death
q: berate
a: scold sharply
q: bereft
a: rob or dispossess of smth (material)
q: bewilder
a: puzzle confuse
q: bigot
a: stubborn narrow-minded person

q: bilge
a: bulge the protuberance of a cask
q: blandishment
a: flattery coaxing
q: blandness
a: polite manner comforting uninteresting
q: blatant
a: noisy and rough
q: blithe
a: cheerful casual carefree
q: bogus
a: sham counterfeit not genuine
q: boisterous
a: loud noisy rough lacking restraint
q: bolster
a: give greatly needed support
q: boorish
a: crude offensive rude
q: brash
a: hasty rush cheeky saucy
q: brass
a: yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
q: brazen
a: made of brass
q: breach
a: opening broken place breaking
q: brittle
a: easily broken
q: broach
a: bring up announce begin to talk about
q: brook
a: to tolerate endure
q: buoyant
a: able to float light-hearted
q: burgeon
a: grow forth send out buds
q: burnish
a: to polish rub to a shine
q: cabal
a: a scheme or plot a group of plotters
q: cadge
a: to beg to get by begging
q: cajole
a: use flattery or deceit to persuade
q: calipers
a: metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
q: calumny
a: slander aspersion
q: candid
a: frank straight-forward
q: cant
a: insincere talk/jargon
q: cantankerous
a: bad-tempered/quarrelsome
q: canvass
a: discuss thoroughly sort of touting
q: castigate
a: to chastise correct by punishing
q: castigation
a: severe punishment
q: catalyst
a: substance that causes speeding up
q: caustic
a: biting sarcastic
q: censure
a: expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
q: centurion
a: leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
q: chary
a: cautious wary
q: chastened
a: corrected punished
q: chastisement
a: punishment
q: chauvinist
a: a blindly devoted patriot
q: chicanery
a: legal trickery/false argument
q: chisel
a: steel tool for shaping materials
q: churl
a: bad-tempered person
q: clamor
a: shout complain with a lot of noise
q: clientele
a: customers
q: clinch
a: come to grips/settle conclusively
q: cling
a: to resist separation
q: clot
a: half-solid lump formed from liquid

q: cloture
a: closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
q: coagulation
a: change to a thick and solid state
q: coalescing
a: coming together and uniting into one substance
q: coax
a: get smb to do smth by kindness
q: coda
a: passage that completes a piece of music
q: coddle
a: treat with care and tenderness
q: coerce
a: compel to force to make obedient
q: coeval
a: of the same period coexisting
q: cogent
a: strong convincing
q: cogitate
a: think deeply mediate
q: cognizant
a: being fully aware of
q: colander
a: bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
q: collusion
a: secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
q: combustion
a: process of burning
q: commemorate
a: keep the memory of
q: commodious
a: having plenty of space for what is needed
q: commuter
a: person who travels regularly
q: complaisance
a: tending to comply obliging willingness to please
q: compunction
a: feeling of regret for one's action
q: conceal
a: hide keep secret
q: conceit
a: over-high opinion of too much pride
q: conciliatory
a: reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
q: concord
a: agreement or harmony
q: concur
a: agree in opinion happen together
q: condense
a: increase in density strength make laconic
q: condone
a: forgive
q: congeal
a: make or become stiff and solid
q: conjoin
a: to join together
q: connoisseur
a: a person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
q: connotation
a: suggestion in addition to
q: consequential
a: pompous self important
q: console
a: give comfort or sympathy to
q: conspicuous
a: easily seen remarkable
q: consternation
a: surprise and fear dismay
q: constrain
a: compel
q: constrict
a: make tight or smaller
q: consume
a: get to the end of
q: consummate
a: perfect/make perfect/complete
q: contemn
a: to scorn or despise
q: contentious
a: argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
q: contiguous
a: touching neighboring near
q: contrite
a: filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
q: contumacious
a: insubordinate rebellious
q: conundrum
a: a riddle dilemma enigma
q: conviction
a: convincing firm belief
q: convoke
a: call together summon

q: convoluted
a: complicated coiled twisted
q: cordial
a: warm and sincere
q: cordon
a: line (of police acting as a guard)
q: cornucopia
a: abundant supply
q: corporeal
a: physical of or for the body
q: correlate
a: have a mutual relation
q: corroboration
a: additional strengthening evidence
q: countenance
a: to favor or approve of
q: counterfeit
a: forgery
q: countervail
a: counterbalance
q: covert
a: disguised
q: covetous
a: eagerly desirous
q: cower
a: crouch shrink back
q: coy
a: shy/modest (esp of a girl)
q: crass
a: very great (es. stupidity)
q: cravat
a: piece of linen worn as a necktie
q: craven
a: cowardly
q: crease
a: line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
q: credulity
a: too great a readiness to believe things
q: credulous
a: ready to believe things
q: crush
a: press lose shape subdue overwhelm
q: cryptic
a: secret with a hidden meaning
q: cumbersome
a: burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
q: curmudgeon
a: bad-tempered person
q: curriculum
a: course of study
q: cursory
a: quick hurried
q: curtail
a: make shorter then was planned
q: dainty
a: pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
q: daunt
a: intimidate make fearful
q: dawdler
a: person who is slow waste of time
q: dearth
a: shortage
q: debacle
a: a breakup overthrow sudden disaster
q: decorum
a: propriety properness
q: decree
a: order given by authority
q: decry
a: disapprove of
q: defer
a: postpone give way (to show respect)
q: deferential
a: showing respect
q: defiance
a: open disobedience or resistance
q: delineate
a: to portray depict sketch out
q: deluge
a: great flood heavy rush of water
q: demagogue
a: person appealing not to reasons
q: demur
a: to hesitate raise objections
q: denigrate
a: blacken belittle sully defame
q: denouement
a: an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
q: deplete
a: use until none remains
q: deposition
a: dethronement depositing
q: deprave
a: make morally bad corrupt
q: deprecate
a: protest against express disapproval of
q: dereliction
a: deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
q: derision
a: ridicule mockery deriding
q: derivative
a: unoriginal obtained from another source
q: derogatory
a: insulting tending to damage
q: descry
a: catch sight of see smth in the distance
q: desiccant
a: substance used to absorb moisture
q: desuetude
a: cessation of use disuse
q: desultory
a: aimless haphazard digressing at random
q: deter
a: discourage hinder
q: detraction
a: slandering verbal attack aspersion
q: detumescence
a: diminishing or lessening of swelling
q: deviance
a: being different in moral standards (from normal)
q: dexterity
a: skill (esp. in handling)
q: diaphanous
a: transparent gauzy
q: diatribe
a: bitter and violent attack in words
q: diffidence
a: shyness
q: dilate
a: speak comprehensively become wider large
q: disallow
a: refuse to allow or accept as a correct
q: discern
a: see with an effort but clearly
q: discomfit
a: confuse embarrass
q: disconcert
a: upset the self-possession of
q: discountenance
a: refuse to approve of
q: discourse
a: speech lecture
q: discredit
a: refuse to believe
q: discreet
a: careful/prudent
q: discrete
a: individually distinct
q: disdain
a: look on with contempt
q: disencumber
a: free from encumbrance
q: disheveled
a: untidy
q: disingenuous
a: sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
q: disinter
a: dig up from the earth
q: dislodge
a: move force from the place occupied
q: dismal
a: sad gloomy miserable
q: disparate
a: essentially different
q: disproof
a: proof to the contrary
q: dissemble
a: speak or behave so as to hide smth (in mind)
q: disseminate
a: distribute (esp. ideas)
q: dissent
a: have a different opinion refuse to assent
q: dissolution
a: disintegration looseness in morals
q: distraught
a: distracted violently upset in mind
q: divergence
a: getting farther apart from a point
q: divestiture
a: taking off getting rid of giving up
q: divulge
a: make known smth secret
q: doggerel
a: trivial poorly constructed verse

q: dogmatic
a: positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion
q: dolt
a: stupid fellow
q: dormant
a: in a state of inactivity but awaiting development
q: dote
a: show much fondness center one's attention
q: drawl
a: slow way of speaking
q: droll
a: jesting
q: drone
a: male bee person who isn't self-employed
q: drowsiness
a: feeling sleepy half asleep
q: dubious
a: feeling doubt
q: dud
a: no use person smth that fails
q: dulcet
a: melodious harmonious
q: dupe
a: cheat make a fool of
q: duplicity
a: deliberate deception
q: duress
a: threats to compel smb
q: dwarf
a: person or smb much below the usual size
q: dynamo
a: a generator something that produces electric current
q: earthenware
a: dishes made of baked clay
q: ebullience
a: exuberance outburst of feeling
q: ebullient
a: overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
q: ecumenical
a: representing the whole Christian world
q: edacious
a: voracious devouring
q: eddy
a: circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
q: edible
a: fit to be eaten/not poisonous
q: effete
a: infertile worn out weak
q: efficacy
a: production of a desired result
q: effluvia
a: outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
q: effrontery
a: boldness impudence arrogance
q: egress
a: way out exit
q: elaborate
a: worked out with much care in great detail
q: elegy
a: a lament a melancholy composition
q: elicit
a: draw out
q: eloquence
a: fluent speaking skillful use of language
q: emaciate
a: make thin and weak
q: embellish
a: make beautiful
q: embezzle
a: use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
q: emote
a: stir up excite
q: empirical
a: relying on experiment
q: encapsulate
a: enclose in capsule
q: encomium
a: warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
q: encumbrance
a: burden things that get on the way of
q: endearing
a: making dear or liked
q: endemic
a: epidemic
q: endorse
a: write one's name on the back of
q: enduring
a: lasting
q: enervate
a: weaken deprive of strength attenuate
q: engender
a: cause produce give rise to

q: engrave
a: impress deeply
q: engrossing
a: taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
q: engulf
a: swallow up
q: enigma
a: smth that is puzzling
q: enmity
a: hatred being an enemy
q: ensign
a: flag/badge
q: entangle
a: put into difficulties
q: enthral
a: please greatly/enslave (fig)
q: entice
a: tempt or persuade
q: entreat
a: ask earnestly
q: enunciate
a: pronounce (words)/express a theory
q: enzyme
a: catalyst
q: epicurean
a: devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
q: epistle
a: letter
q: epithet
a: adjective
q: epitome
a: brief summary representative example a typical model
q: equable
a: steady regular
q: equanimity
a: calmness of temperament
q: equilibrium
a: state of being balanced
q: equipoise
a: equal distribution of weight equilibrium
q: equivocal
a: having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
q: equivocate
a: try to deceive by equivocal language
q: eradicate
a: get rid of pull up by the roots
q: erratic
a: irregular in behaviour or opinion
q: erudite
a: learned scholarly
q: eschew
a: avoid
q: esoteric
a: abstruse intended only for a small circle of
q: espouse
a: marry give one's support to
q: eulogy
a: formal praise panegyric
q: euphoria
a: elation state of pleasant excitement
q: euthanasia
a: easy and painless death
q: evasive
a: tending to evade
q: evince
a: to show clearly to indicate
q: evoke
a: call up bring out
q: excoriation
a: severe criticism
q: exculpate
a: to clear from a charge of guilt
q: exhaustive
a: complete thorough
q: exigency
a: emergency an urgent situation
q: exoneration
a: set smb clear free (e.g.. from blame)
q: exorbitant
a: much too high or great
q: expatiate
a: to roam wander freely
q: expedient
a: likely to be useful for a purpose
q: expiation
a: ending expiring
q: exploit
a: brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
q: expostulate
a: argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
q: expurgate
a: to remove obscenity purify censor

q: exscind
a: to cut out cut away
q: extant
a: still in existence
q: extempore
a: without previous thought or preparation
q: extenuate
a: reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
q: extinct
a: no longer active
q: extinguish
a: end the existence of/wipe or put out
q: extirpate
a: to destroy exterminate cut out exscind
q: extol
a: praise highly
q: extort
a: obtain by threats violence
q: extralegal
a: outside the law
q: extricable
a: that can be freed
q: extrovert
a: cheerful person
q: exuberance
a: state of growing vigorously being full of life
q: facetious
a: humorous funny jocular
q: facile
a: easily done
q: fallacious
a: based on error
q: falter
a: waver/move in an uncertain manner
q: fatuous
a: without sense foolish self-satisfaction
q: fawn
a: young deer try to win smb's favor
q: feckless
a: lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
q: fecund
a: fertile
q: feint
a: pretend
q: felicitous
a: apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
q: felon
a: person guilty of murder
q: ferment
a: substance become excited
q: ferocity
a: savage cruelty
q: ferret
a: discover by searching search
q: fervid
a: showing earnest feeling
q: fervor
a: warmth of feelings earnestness
q: fetid
a: stinking
q: fetter
a: to shackle put in chains
q: feud
a: bitter quarrel over a long period of time
q: fidelity
a: loyalty accuracy
q: fidget
a: move restlessly make nervous
q: figurehead
a: carved image on the prow of a ship
q: finesse
a: delicate way of dealing with a situation
q: finical
a: too fussy about food clothing etc.
q: finicky
a: finical
q: fission
a: splitting or division (esp. of cells)
q: fixate
a: stare at
q: flak
a: criticism/anti-aircraft guns
q: flamboyant
a: brightly colored florid
q: flaunting
a: show off complacently
q: flax
a: pale yellow (hair) a plant
q: fledged
a: able to fly trained experienced
q: fleet
a: number of ships quick-moving

q: flinch
a: draw move back wince
q: flop
a: fail/move/fall clumsily
q: florid
a: very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
q: flout
a: reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
q: fluke
a: lucky stroke
q: fluster
a: make nervous or confused
q: foible
a: defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
q: foil
a: prevent from carrying out contrast
q: foment
a: put smth warm (to lessen the pain)
q: foolproof
a: incapable of failure or error
q: foppish
a: like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
q: forage
a: food for horses and cattle
q: forbear
a: refrain from be patient ancestor
q: forbearance
a: patience willingness to wait
q: ford
a: shallow place in a river (to cross)
q: forestall
a: prevent by taking action in advance preempt
q: forfeit
a: suffer the loss of smth
q: forge
a: workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead
q: forgery
a: counterfeit
q: forswear
a: renounce disallow repudiate
q: foster
a: nurture care for
q: fracas
a: noisy quarrel
q: fragile
a: easily injured broken or destroyed
q: fragrant
a: sweet-smelling
q: frantic
a: wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
q: frenetic
a: frantic frenzied
q: fret
a: worry irritation wear away
q: fringe
a: edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
q: froward
a: intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
q: frugal
a: careful economical
q: fulmination
a: bitter protest
q: fulsome
a: disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
q: gainsay
a: to deny to oppose
q: garble
a: make unfair selection from facts
q: garment
a: article of clothing
q: garner
a: to gather and save to store up
q: garrulity
a: talkativeness
q: garrulous
a: too talkative
q: gaucherie
a: socially awkward tactless behavior
q: germane
a: relevant pertinent to
q: gist
a: the point general sense
q: glean
a: gather facts in small quantities
q: glib
a: ready and smooth but not sincere
q: glimmer
a: weak/unsteady light
q: gloat
a: over look at with selfish delight
q: glut
a: supply to much fill to excess

q: gnaw
a: waste away bite steadily
q: goad
a: smth urging a person to action
q: gorge
a: eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
q: gossamer
a: soft light delicate material
q: gouge
a: tool for cutting grooves in wood
q: grandiloquent
a: using pompous words
q: grave
a: serious requiring consideration
q: graze
a: touch or scrape lightly in passing
q: gregarious
a: living in societies liking the company
q: grievous
a: causing grief or pain serious dire grave
q: grovel
a: crawl humble oneself
q: guile
a: deceit cunning
q: gullible
a: easily gulled
q: gush
a: burst out suddenly/talk ardently
q: gust
a: outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
q: hack
a: cut roughly hired horse
q: halcyon
a: calm and peaceful
q: hallow
a: to make holy consecrate
q: harangue
a: a long passionate speech
q: harbinger
a: smth or smb that foretells the coming of
q: harrow
a: to distress create stress or torment
q: haughty
a: arrogant conceited
q: heed
a: attention/give notice to
q: heinous
a: odious (of crime)
q: heresy
a: belief contrary to what is generally accepted
q: hermetic
a: sealed by fusion
q: heterogeneous
a: made up of different kinds
q: hew
a: make by hard work cut (by striking)
q: highbrow
a: (person) with superior tastes
q: hirsute
a: hairy shaggy
q: hoax
a: mischievous trick played on smb for a joke
q: hoi
a: polloi the masses the rabble
q: hollow
a: not soled with hole
q: holster
a: leather case for a pistol
q: homiletics
a: act of preaching
q: hone
a: stone used for sharpening tools
q: hoodwink
a: trick mislead
q: hospitable
a: liking to give hospitality
q: hubris
a: arrogant pride
q: hush
a: make or become silent
q: husk
a: worthless outside part of anything
q: hypocrisy
a: falsely making oneself appear to be good
q: iconoclast
a: person who attacks popular beliefs
q: idiosyncrasy
a: personal mannerism
q: idolatry
a: excessive admiration of
q: idyll
a: a carefree episode or experience

q: ignoble
a: dishonorable common undignified
q: ignominious
a: shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
q: illicit
a: unlawful forbidden
q: imbroglio
a: complicated and embarrassing situation
q: immaculate
a: pure faultless
q: imminent
a: likely to come or happen soon
q: immutable
a: that cannot be changed
q: impair
a: worsen diminish in value
q: impassive
a: unmoved feeling no sign of passion
q: impecunious
a: having little or no money
q: impede
a: hinder get in the way of
q: impediment
a: smth that hinders (e.g. stammer)
q: impending
a: imminent being about to happen expected
q: imperative
a: urgent essential
q: imperious
a: commanding haughty arrogant
q: impermeable
a: that cannot be permeated
q: imperturbable
a: calm not capable of being excited
q: impervious
a: not allowing to pass through (of materials)
q: imperviousness
a: haughty arrogant commanding
q: impetuous
a: having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
q: impiety
a: lack of reverence or dutifulness
q: implacable
a: incapable of being placated unpleasable
q: implicate
a: show that smb has a share
q: implicit
a: implied though not plainly expressed
q: implosion
a: collapse bursting inward
q: importune
a: beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
q: imprecation
a: an invocation of evil a curse
q: impromptu
a: without preparation
q: impudent
a: rash indiscreet
q: impugned
a: challenged to be doubted
q: impute
a: to attribute to a cause or source ascribe
q: inadvertent
a: not paying proper attention
q: inane
a: silly senseless
q: inasmuch
a: since because
q: incense
a: make angry
q: incessant
a: often repeated continual
q: inchoate
a: not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
q: incipient
a: beginning
q: incise
a: engrave make a cut in
q: incite
a: stir up rouse
q: inclined
a: directing the mind in a certain direction
q: incongruous
a: out of place not in harmony or agreement
q: incorrigibility
a: cannot be cured or corrected
q: incredulous
a: skeptical unwilling to believe
q: inculcate
a: fix firmly by repetition
q: incumbents
a: official duties
q: incursion
a: a raid a sudden attack
q: indefatigability
a: not easily exhaustible tirelessness
q: indelible
a: that cannot be rubbed out
q: indigence
a: poverty
q: indigenous
a: native
q: indistinct
a: not easily heard seen clearly marked
q: indolence
a: laziness
q: indomitable
a: not easily discouraged or subdued
q: indulge
a: gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
q: indulgent
a: inclined to indulge
q: ineffable
a: to great to be described in words
q: ineluctable
a: certain inevitable
q: inept
a: unskillful said or done at the wrong time
q: ineptitude
a: quality of being unskillful
q: inferno
a: hell
q: infuriate
a: fill with fury or rage
q: infuse
a: put pour fill
q: ingenuous
a: naive young artless frank honest sincere
q: ingest
a: take in by swallowing
q: inimical
a: harmful or friendly
q: inimitable
a: defying imitation unmatchable
q: innocuous
a: causing no harm
q: inscrutable
a: incapable of being discovered or understood
q: insensible
a: unconscious unresponsive unaffected
q: insinuate
a: suggest unpleasantly make a way for smth gently
q: insipid
a: without taste or flavor
q: insouciant
a: unconcerned carefree
q: insularity
a: narrow-mindedness isolated
q: insurrection
a: rising of people to open resistance to
q: interdict
a: prohibit forbid
q: interim
a: as an installment
q: intersperse
a: place here and there
q: intransigence
a: unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
q: intransigent
a: uncompromising
q: intrepid
a: fearless brave undaunted
q: introspection
a: examining one's own thoughts and feelings
q: inundate
a: flood cover by overflowing
q: inured
a: accustomed to adapted
q: invective
a: abusive language curses
q: inveigh
a: to attack verbally denounce deprecate
q: inveterate
a: deep-rooted. long-established
q: invincible
a: too strong to be defeated
q: involute
a: complex
q: irascible
a: irritable easily angered
q: irate
a: angry
q: ire
a: anger
q: irksome
a: tiresome
q: irresolute
a: hesitating undecided
q: irrevocable
a: final and unalterable
q: itinerate
a: to travel from place to place to peregrinate
q: jabber
a: talk excitedly utter rapidly
q: jibe
a: gibe make fun of
q: jocular
a: meant as a joke
q: judicious
a: sound in judgment wise
q: knit
a: draw together unite firmly
q: labyrinthine
a: to entangle the state of affairs
q: lachrymose
a: causing tears tearful
q: lackluster
a: (of eyes) dull
q: lament
a: show feel great sorrow
q: lassitude
a: weariness tiredness
q: latent
a: present but not yet active developed or visible
q: laudatory
a: expressing or giving praise
q: lavish
a: giving or producing freely liberally or generously
q: legacy
a: smth handed down from ancestors
q: levee
a: formal reception/embankment
q: levity
a: lack of seriousness
q: libel
a: statement that damages reputation
q: liberality
a: free giving generosity
q: libertine
a: immoral person
q: lien
a: legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
q: limn
a: paint portray
q: limp
a: lacking strength walking unevenly
q: lionize
a: treat as a famous person
q: lithe
a: bending twisting
q: loll
a: rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
q: lope
a: move along with long strides
q: loquacious
a: talkative garrulous
q: lucubrate
a: write in scholarly fashion
q: luculent
a: easily understood lucid clear
q: lugubrious
a: mournful excessively sad
q: lull
a: become quiet or less active
q: lumber
a: move in a clumsy/noisy way
q: luminary
a: star light-giving body
q: lurk
a: be out of view ready to attack
q: lustrous
a: being bright polished
q: macabre
a: gruesome suggesting death
q: macerate
a: make or become soft by soaking in water
q: machination
a: plot scheme (esp. evil)
q: maladroit
a: tactless clumsy
q: malapropism
a: misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
q: malevolence
a: wishing to do evil
q: malign
a: injurious speak ill of smb tell lie

q: malinger
a: to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty
q: malleable
a: yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
q: manacle
a: chains for the hands or feet
q: massacre
a: cruel killing of a large number of people
q: matriculation
a: be admitted enter a university as a student
q: maudlin
a: sentimental in a silly or tearful way
q: maul
a: hurt by rough handling
q: maverick
a: rebel nonconformist
q: mellifluous
a: sweetly flowing
q: mendacity
a: dishonesty
q: mendicant
a: a beggar
q: mercurial
a: quick changeable in character fleeting
q: meretricious
a: attractive on the surface but of little value
q: mesmerize
a: hypnotize
q: meticulous
a: giving great attention to details
q: mettle
a: quality of endurance or courage
q: mettlesome
a: courageous high-spirited
q: middling
a: fairly good but not very good
q: minatory
a: menacing threatening
q: mince
a: pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
q: misanthrope
a: person who hates mankind
q: mischievous
a: harmful causing mischief
q: miser
a: person who loves wealth and spends little
q: misogynist
a: one who hates women/females
q: moderation
a: quality of being limited not extreme
q: mollify
a: make calmer or quieter
q: molt
a: moult lose hair feathers before new growing
q: morbid
a: diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
q: morose
a: ill-tempered unsocial
q: muffler
a: cloth worn round the neck/silencer
q: multifarious
a: varied motley greatly diversified
q: mundane
a: worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
q: myriad
a: very great number
q: nadir
a: lowest weakest point
q: nascent
a: coming into existence emerging
q: nebulous
a: cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
q: negligent
a: taking too little care
q: neophyte
a: person who has been converted to a belief
q: nexus
a: a connection tie or link
q: nibble
a: show some inclination to accept (an offer)
q: noisome
a: offensive disgusting (smell)
q: nonchalant
a: not having interest
q: nonplused
a: greatly surprised
q: nostrum
a: a quack remedy an untested cure
q: noxious
a: harmful
q: nugatory
a: trifling/worthless
q: obdurate
a: hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
q: obfuscate
a: to darken make obscure muddle
q: oblivious
a: unaware having no memory
q: obloquy
a: abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
q: obsequious
a: too eager to obey or serve
q: obstreperous
a: noisy loud
q: obtain
a: to be established accepted or customary
q: obtrusive
a: projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
q: obtuse
a: blunt/stupid
q: obviate
a: to make unnecessary get rid of
q: occluded
a: blocked up
q: odious
a: repulsive hateful
q: odium
a: contempt dislike aversion
q: odor
a: smell favor reputation
q: officious
a: too eager or ready to help offer advice
q: ominous
a: threatening
q: onerous
a: needing effort burdensome
q: opaqueness
a: dullness/not allowing light to pass through
q: opprobrious
a: showing scorn or reproach
q: ossify
a: to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
q: ostensible
a: seeming appearing as such professed
q: ostentation
a: display to obtain admiration or envy
q: ostracism
a: shut out from society refuse to meet talk
q: overhaul
a: examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
q: overweening
a: presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
q: paean
a: song of praise or triumph
q: palate
a: roof of the mouth sense of taste
q: palatial
a: magnificent
q: palliate
a: lessen the severity of
q: palpability
a: can be felt touched understood
q: palpitate
a: tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
q: panegyric
a: formal praise eulogy
q: paradigm
a: a model example or pattern
q: parenthesis
a: sentence within another one smth separated
q: pariah
a: an outcast a rejected and despised person
q: parsimonious
a: too economical miserly
q: partisan
a: one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
q: patron
a: regular customer person who gives support
q: paucity
a: scarcity a lacking of
q: peccadillo
a: small sin small weakness in one's character
q: pedantic
a: bookish showing off learning
q: pedestrian
a: commonplace trite unremarkable
q: pellucid
a: transparent easy to understand
q: penchant
a: strong inclination a liking
q: penitent
a: feeling or showing regret
q: penurious
a: poor/stingy
q: penury
a: extreme poverty
q: peregrination
a: traveling about wandering
q: peremptory
a: urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate
q: perfidious
a: treacherous faithless
q: perfidy
a: treachery breaking of faith
q: perfunctory
a: done as a duty without care
q: perilous
a: dangerous
q: peripatetic
a: wandering
q: perish
a: be destroyed decay
q: perjury
a: willful FALSE statement unlawful act
q: permeate
a: spread into every part of
q: pernicious
a: harmful injurious
q: perpetrate
a: be guilty commit (a crime)
q: personable
a: pleasing in appearance attractive
q: perspicacity
a: quick judging and understanding
q: pertain
a: belong as a part have reference
q: pest
a: destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
q: petrified
a: taken away power (to think feel act)
q: petrify
a: to make hard rocklike
q: petrous
a: like a rock hard stony
q: petulant
a: unreasonably impatient
q: philistine
a: a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
q: phlegmatic
a: calm sluggish temperament unemotional
q: picaresque
a: involving clever rogues or adventurers
q: pied
a: of mixed colors
q: pinch
a: be too tight take between the thumb and finger
q: pine
a: waste away through sorrow or illness
q: pious
a: dutiful to parents devoted to religion
q: piquant
a: agreeably pungent stimulating
q: pique
a: hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
q: pitfall
a: covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
q: pith
a: essential part force soft liquid substance
q: pivotal
a: of great importance (others depend on it)
q: placate
a: soothe pacify calm
q: plaintive
a: mournful melancholy sorrowful
q: plaque
a: flat metal on a wall as a memorial
q: platitude
a: a trite or banal statement unoriginality
q: plea
a: request
q: plead
a: address a court of law as an advocate
q: plethora
a: glut
q: pliant
a: pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
q: plod
a: continue doing smth without resting
q: pluck
a: pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
q: plumb
a: get to the root of
q: plummet
a: fall plunge steeply
q: plunge
a: move quickly suddenly and with force

q: poignant
a: deeply moving keen
q: poncho
a: large piece of cloth
q: ponderous
a: heavy bulky dull
q: portent
a: omen marvelous threatening
q: precarious
a: uncertain risky dangerous
q: precepts
a: rules establishing standards of conduct
q: preclude
a: prevent make impossible
q: precursory
a: preliminary anticipating
q: predilection
a: special liking mental preference
q: predominate
a: have more power than others
q: preen
a: tidy/show self-satisfaction
q: premature
a: doing or happening smth before the right time
q: preponderance
a: greatness in number strength weight
q: presage
a: warning sign
q: presumption
a: arrogance
q: preternatural
a: not normal or usual
q: prevalent
a: common
q: prevaricate
a: to equivocate to stray from the truth
q: prim
a: neat formal
q: pristine
a: primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
q: probity
a: uprightness incorruptibility principle
q: proclivity
a: inclination
q: procrastination
a: keeping on putting off
q: prodigal
a: wasteful reckless with money
q: prodigious
a: enormous wonderful
q: profane
a: worldly having contempt for God
q: profligacy
a: shameless immorality
q: profligate
a: wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
q: profundity
a: depth
q: profuse
a: abundant/lavish
q: proliferate
a: grow reproduce by rapid multification
q: prolix
a: tiring because too long
q: prone
a: prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
q: propagation
a: increasing the number spreading extending
q: propinquity
a: nearness in time or place affinity of nature
q: propitiatory
a: conciliatory appeasing mitigating
q: propitious
a: auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
q: prosaic
a: everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
q: proscribe
a: denounce as dangerous
q: protracted
a: prolonged
q: provident
a: frugal looking to the future
q: provisional
a: of the present time only
q: provoke
a: make angry vax
q: prudence
a: careful forethought
q: prudish
a: easily shocked excessively modest
q: prune
a: dried plum silly person

q: pry
a: get smth inquire too curiously
q: pucker
a: wrinkle
q: pugnacious
a: fond of in the habit of fighting
q: puissance
a: strength
q: punctilious
a: precise paying attention to trivialities
q: pundit
a: pedant authority on a subject
q: pungency
a: sharpness stinging quality
q: purvey
a: provide supply
q: pusillanimous
a: cowardly craven
q: putrefaction
a: becoming rotten
q: pyre
a: large pile of wood for burning
q: quack
a: person dishonestly claiming to smth
q: quaff
a: drink deeply
q: quail
a: lose courage turn frightened
q: qualm
a: feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
q: quandary
a: state of doubt or perplexity
q: quell
a: suppress subdue
q: quibble
a: try to avoid by sophistication
q: quiescence
a: state of being passive/motionless
q: quiescent
a: at rest dormant torpid
q: quirk
a: habit or action peculiar to smb or smth
q: quixotic
a: generous unselfish
q: quotidian
a: banal everyday
q: rabble
a: mob crowd the lower classes of populace
q: raconteur
a: person who tells anecdotes
q: raffish
a: low vulgar base tawdry
q: ramify
a: to be divided or subdivided to branch out
q: rancorous
a: feeling bitterness spitefulness
q: rant
a: use extravagant language
q: rapacious
a: greedy (esp for money)
q: rarefy
a: to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
q: rave
a: act with excessive enthusiasm
q: reactionary
a: opposing progress
q: rebuff
a: snub
q: recalcitrant
a: disobedient
q: recant
a: take back as being FALSE give up
q: recast
a: cast or fashion anew
q: recidivism
a: relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
q: reciprocity
a: granting of privileges in return for similar
q: recitals
a: a number of performance of music
q: recluse
a: person who lives alone and avoids people
q: recompense
a: make payment to reward punish
q: reconcile
a: settle a quarrel restore peace
q: recondite
a: little known abstruse
q: recreancy
a: cowardice a cowardly giving up
q: recuperate
a: become strong after illness loss exhaustion

q: redeem
a: get back by payment compensate
q: redoubtable
a: formidable causing fear
q: refine
a: make or become pure cultural
q: refractory
a: stubborn unmanageable untractable
q: refulgent
a: shining brilliant
q: regale
a: to delight or entertain to feast
q: regicide
a: crime of killing a king
q: reiterate
a: say or do again several times
q: rejuvenation
a: becoming young in nature or appearance
q: relapse
a: fall back again
q: remonstrate
a: to protest object
q: render
a: deliver provide represent
q: renovate
a: restore smth to better condition
q: renowned
a: celebrated famous
q: repast
a: meal
q: repel
a: refuse to accept/cause dislike
q: repine
a: at be discontented with
q: reproach
a: scold upbraid
q: reprobate
a: person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
q: repudiate
a: disown refuse to accept or pay
q: repulsive
a: causing a feeling of disgust
q: requite
a: repay give in return
q: rescind
a: repeal/annul/cancel
q: resigned
a: unresisting submissive
q: resilience
a: quality of quickly recovering the original shape
q: resort
a: to frequently visit
q: restive
a: refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
q: resuscitation
a: coming back to consciousness
q: retard
a: check hinder
q: reticent
a: reserved untalkative silent taciturn
q: revere
a: have deep respect for
q: reverent
a: feeling or showing deep respect
q: riddle
a: puzzling person or thing
q: rift
a: split crack dissension
q: rivet
a: fix take up secure metal pin
q: roll
a: call calling of names
q: rotund
a: rich and deep plump and round
q: ruffian
a: violent cruel man
q: rumple
a: make rough
q: sagacious
a: having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
q: salacious
a: obscene
q: salubrious
a: healthful
q: salutary
a: remedial wholesome causing improvement
q: sanctimony
a: self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
q: sanction
a: approval (by authority) penalty
q: sanguine
a: cheerful confident optimistic

q: sanity
a: health of mind soundness of judgement
q: sash
a: long strip worn round the waist
q: satiate
a: satisfy fully
q: saturnine
a: gloomy dark sullen morose
q: savant
a: person of great learning
q: savor
a: taste flavor smth
q: sawdust
a: tiny bits of wood
q: scabbard
a: sheath for the blade
q: scent
a: smell (esp pleasant)
q: scorch
a: become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
q: scribble
a: write hastily
q: scurvy
a: mean contemptible
q: secular
a: material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
q: sedulous
a: persevering
q: seminal
a: like a seed constituting a source originative
q: sententious
a: short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
q: sequence
a: succession connected line of
q: sere
a: make hard and without feeling
q: sermon
a: reproving a person for his faults
q: serrated
a: having a toothed edge
q: serration
a: having a toothed edge
q: servile
a: like a slave lacking independence
q: sever
a: break off
q: severance
a: severing
q: shallow
a: little depth not earnest
q: shard
a: piece of broken earthenware
q: sheath
a: cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
q: shrewd
a: astute showing sound judgement
q: shrill
a: sharp piercing
q: shun
a: keep away from avoid
q: shunt
a: send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
q: sidestep
a: step to one side
q: simper
a: (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
q: sinuous
a: winding undulating serpentine
q: skiff
a: small boat
q: skit
a: short piece of humorous writing
q: slack
a: sluggish dull not tight
q: slake
a: to assuage to satisfy allay
q: slate
a: king of blue-grey stone propose criticize
q: sluggard
a: lazy slow-moving person
q: slur
a: join sounds/words (indistinct)
q: smolder
a: burn slowly without flame
q: snare
a: trap
q: snub
a: treat with contempt
q: soar
a: rise fly high
q: sober
a: self-controlled
q: sobriety
a: quality or condition of being sober
q: sodden
a: soaked saturated
q: soggy
a: heavy with water
q: solvent
a: of the power of forming a solution
q: somatic
a: of the body
q: soot
a: black powder in smoke
q: sophisticated
a: complex subtle refined
q: sophistry
a: fallacious reasoning faulty logic
q: sophomoric
a: self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
q: soporific
a: producing sleep
q: sordid
a: wretched comfortless contemptible
q: spear
a: weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
q: specious
a: illogical of questionable truth or merit
q: splenetic
a: bad-tempered irritable
q: splice
a: join (two ends)
q: sponge
a: porous rubber for washing live at once expense
q: spurious
a: FALSE counterfeit
q: spurn
a: have nothing to do reject or refuse
q: squalid
a: foul filthy
q: squander
a: spend wastefully
q: squat
a: crouch/settle without permission
q: stanch
a: to stop the flow of a fluid
q: steeply
a: rising or falling sharply
q: stentorian
a: extremely loud and powerful
q: stickler
a: person who insists on importance of smth
q: stigma
a: mark of shame or disgrace
q: stigmatize
a: describe smb scornfully
q: sting
a: smth sharp
q: stingy
a: spending using unwillingly
q: stint
a: to be thrifty to set limits
q: stipple
a: paint with dots
q: stipulate
a: state or put forward as a necessary condition
q: stolid
a: showing no emotion impassive
q: stray
a: wander lose one's way
q: streak
a: long thin move very fast
q: striated
a: striped grooved or banded
q: stride
a: walk with long steps
q: strut
a: a supporting bar
q: stygian
a: hence dark gloomy
q: stymie
a: to hinder obstruct or block
q: subdue
a: overcome bring under control
q: sublime
a: extreme astounding
q: submerge
a: put under water liquid sink out of sight
q: suborn
a: induce by bribery or smth to commit perjury
q: subpoena
a: written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
q: substantiation
a: giving facts to support (statement)

q: subsume
a: include under a rule
q: succor
a: assistance relief in time of distress
q: suffice
a: be enough
q: suffocate
a: cause or have difficulty in breathing
q: sullied
a: to be stained or discredited
q: summarily
a: briefly without delay
q: sumptuous
a: magnificent
q: sundry
a: various miscellaneous separate
q: supercilious
a: disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
q: superfluous
a: more then is needed or wanted
q: superimpose
a: put smth on the top
q: supersede
a: take the place of
q: supine
a: lying on the back slow to act passive
q: suppliant
a: asking humbly beseeching
q: supplicate
a: make a humble petition to
q: suppress
a: prevent from being known put an end to
q: surcharge
a: additional load/charge
q: surfeit
a: satiate feed to fulness or to excess
q: susceptibility
a: sensitiveness
q: swerve
a: change direction suddenly
q: sycophant
a: person who flatter to the rich and powerful
q: synopsis
a: summary or outline
q: taciturn
a: untalkative silent
q: tadpole
a: form of a frog when it leaves the egg
q: talon
a: claw of a bird of prey
q: tamp
a: tap or drive down by repeated light blows
q: tamper
a: interfere with
q: tangential
a: suddenly changeable
q: tarnished
a: lost brightness
q: tassel
a: bunch of threads
q: taunt
a: contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
q: taut
a: tightly stretched
q: tautology
a: a repetition a redundancy
q: tawdry
a: cheap gaudy showy tacky
q: teetotal
a: oppose to alcohol
q: temerity
a: boldness brashness intrepidness
q: temperance
a: abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
q: temperate
a: showing self-control
q: tenacity
a: firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
q: tenuous
a: insubstantial flimsy weak
q: tepid
a: lukewarm
q: terse
a: brief and to the point
q: testiness
a: witness/evidence
q: thrift
a: care economy thriving prosperous
q: thwart
a: obstruct/frustrate
q: timid
a: shy easily frightened

q: timorous
a: fearful timid afraid
q: toady
a: obsequious flatterer
q: tonic
a: smth giving strength or energy
q: topple
a: be unsteady and overturn
q: torment
a: severe pain or suffering
q: torpid
a: sleeping sluggish lethargic dormant
q: torque
a: twisting force causing rotation
q: tortuous
a: devious/not straightforward
q: tout
a: person who worries others to buy smth to use his service
q: tractable
a: easily controlled or guided
q: transgress
a: break go beyond (a limit)
q: transient
a: temporary fleeting
q: transitory
a: brief
q: travesty
a: parody/imitation
q: trenchant
a: forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
q: trepidation
a: alarm excited state of mind
q: trickle
a: flow in drops
q: trifling
a: unimportant
q: trite
a: not new
q: truce
a: (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
q: truculence
a: aggressiveness ferocity
q: trudge
a: walk heavily
q: turbid
a: muddy having the sediment stirred up
q: turbulence
a: being uncontrolled violent
q: turgid
a: excessively ornate swollen or bloated
q: turmoil
a: trouble disturbance
q: turpitude
a: wickedness shamefulness
q: turquoise
a: greenish-blue precious stone
q: tyro
a: tiro beginner
q: ubiquitous
a: present everywhere
q: ulterior
a: situated beyond
q: umbrage
a: offense resentment
q: uncouth
a: rough awkward
q: underbid
a: make a lower bid then smb else
q: undermine
a: weaken gradually at the base make smth under
q: undulate
a: to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
q: unearth
a: discover and bring to light
q: unencumbered
a: easy-going trifle
q: unfeigned
a: not pretended sincere
q: unscathed
a: unharmed unhurt
q: untoward
a: unfortunate inconvenient
q: upbraid
a: scold reproach
q: urbane
a: elegant refined in manners
q: vacillation
a: being uncertain hesitating
q: vagary
a: strange act or idea
q: vain
a: without use result conceited

q: valiant
a: brave
q: valorous
a: brave
q: vanquish
a: conquer
q: veer
a: change direction
q: venal
a: ready to do smth dishonest
q: veneer
a: surface appearance covering the TRUE nature
q: veneration
a: regard with deep respect
q: veracity
a: truth
q: verdant
a: fresh and green
q: verisimilitude
a: appearing TRUE or real
q: veritable
a: real rightly named
q: verve
a: spirit vigor enthusiasm
q: vestige
a: trace or sign
q: vex
a: annoy distress trouble
q: vigilance
a: watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
q: vigilant
a: member of a vigilance committee
q: vigorous
a: strong energetic
q: vilify
a: slander say evil things
q: vindictive
a: having a desire to revenge
q: virago
a: a loud domineering woman a scold or nag
q: visceral
a: of the internal organs of the body
q: viscous
a: sticky/semi-fluid
q: vitiate
a: lower the quality weaken the strength
q: vituperate
a: curse abuse in words
q: vivacious
a: lively high-spirited
q: volatile
a: changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
q: volubility
a: fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
q: voluble
a: fluent
q: waffle
a: talk vaguely and without much result
q: waft
a: scent waving movement carry lightly through
q: wag
a: merry person
q: warmonger
a: person who stirs up war
q: warrant
a: authority written order guarantee
q: wean
a: to turn away (from a habit)
q: weigh
a: measure hoe heavy smth is
q: welter
a: turmoil a bewildering jumble
q: wend
a: to go proceed
q: whimsical
a: full of odd and fanciful ideas
q: wince
a: show bodily or mental pain
q: woo
a: try to win
q: writ
a: written order
q: yarn
a: tale story fibers for knitting
Q: to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty

A: malinger
Q: tiresome
A: irksome
Q: include under a rule
A: subsume
Q: a beggar
A: mendicant
Q: truth
A: veracity
Q: black powder in smoke
A: soot
Q: easily gulled
A: gullible
Q: proof to the contrary
A: disproof
Q: act with excessive enthusiasm
A: rave
Q: agree in opinion happen together
A: concur
Q: not normal or usual
A: preternatural
Q: slander say evil things
A: vilify
Q: substance that causes speeding up
A: catalyst
Q: bending twisting
A: lithe
Q: make beautiful
A: embellish
Q: having a desire to revenge
A: vindictive
Q: remedial wholesome causing improvement
A: salutary
Q: walk with long steps
A: stride
Q: inclination
A: proclivity
Q: dishes made of baked clay
A: earthenware
Q: serious requiring consideration
A: grave
Q: to chastise correct by punishing
A: castigate
Q: disapprove of
A: decry
Q: waste away through sorrow or illness
A: pine
Q: make morally bad corrupt
A: deprave
Q: tremble beat rapidly and irregularly
A: palpitate
Q: to darken make obscure muddle
A: obfuscate
Q: active quick-moving
A: agile
Q: brilliant achievement develop use selfishly
A: exploit
Q: quality of endurance or courage
A: mettle
Q: upset the self-possession of
A: disconcert
Q: change direction suddenly

A: swerve
Q: pale yellow (hair) a plant
A: flax
Q: porous rubber for washing live at once expense
A: sponge
Q: shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful
A: ignominious
Q: at rest dormant torpid
A: quiescent
Q: dried plum silly person
A: prune
Q: ask earnestly
A: entreat
Q: showing no emotion impassive
A: stolid
Q: worry irritation wear away
A: fret
Q: not good enough unable to have young ones without value
A: barren
Q: (person) with superior tastes
A: highbrow
Q: person who tells anecdotes
A: raconteur
Q: examining one's own thoughts and feelings
A: introspection
Q: person who flatter to the rich and powerful
A: sycophant
Q: add beauty decorate
A: adorn
Q: untalkative silent
A: taciturn
Q: having plenty of space for what is needed
A: commodious
Q: precise paying attention to trivialities
A: punctilious
Q: helping supporting
A: auxiliary
Q: bring into harmony
A: attune
Q: touch or scrape lightly in passing
A: graze
Q: pedant authority on a subject
A: pundit
Q: rebel nonconformist
A: maverick
Q: severely moral and strict simple and plain
A: austere
Q: implied though not plainly expressed
A: implicit
Q: polite and friendly
A: affable
Q: not having interest
A: nonchalant
Q: odious (of crime)
A: heinous
Q: obstacle purposely to get on the way of
A: balk
Q: make hard and without feeling
A: sere
Q: slandering verbal attack aspersion
A: detraction
Q: fluent speaking skillful use of language
A: eloquence
Q: a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge
A: philistine
Q: belong as a part have reference
A: pertain
Q: attractive on the surface but of little value
A: meretricious
Q: varied motley greatly diversified
A: multifarious
Q: little depth not earnest
A: shallow
Q: have deep respect for
A: revere
Q: quality of being unskillful
A: ineptitude
Q: recess/partially enclosed place
A: alcove
Q: sticky/semi-fluid
A: viscous
Q: can be felt touched understood
A: palpability
Q: a person with good judgement (e.g.. in art)
A: connoisseur
Q: bitter protest
A: fulmination
Q: wandering
A: peripatetic
Q: flat metal on a wall as a memorial
A: plaque
Q: noisy loud
A: obstreperous
Q: treat as a famous person
A: lionize
Q: trace or sign
A: vestige
Q: weaken deprive of strength attenuate
A: enervate
Q: argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome
A: contentious
Q: asking humbly beseeching
A: suppliant
Q: bottomless extreme
A: abysmal
Q: not pretended sincere
A: unfeigned
Q: abundant/lavish
A: profuse
Q: complicated coiled twisted
A: convoluted
Q: the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
A: asterisk
Q: much too high or great
A: exorbitant
Q: harmful injurious
A: pernicious
Q: sharp piercing
A: shrill
Q: warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric
A: encomium
Q: fill with fury or rage

A: infuriate
Q: renounce disallow repudiate
A: forswear
Q: burdensome heavy and awkward to carry
A: cumbersome
Q: compel to force to make obedient
A: coerce
Q: calmness of temperament
A: equanimity
Q: stir up excite
A: emote
Q: changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive
A: volatile
Q: treat with care and tenderness
A: coddle
Q: agreeably pungent stimulating
A: piquant
Q: haughty arrogant commanding
A: imperviousness
Q: epidemic
A: endemic
Q: containing warning
A: admonitory
Q: talkative garrulous
A: loquacious
Q: trifling/worthless
A: nugatory
Q: preliminary anticipating
A: precursory
Q: outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor
A: effluvia
Q: injurious speak ill of smb tell lie
A: malign
Q: unfortunate inconvenient
A: untoward
Q: puzzle confuse
A: bewilder
Q: forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive
A: trenchant
Q: direct opposing
A: antithetical
Q: having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious
A: equivocal
Q: bad-tempered irritable
A: splenetic
Q: interfere with
A: tamper
Q: adjective
A: epithet
Q: tempt or persuade
A: entice
Q: health of mind soundness of judgement
A: sanity
Q: likely to be useful for a purpose
A: expedient
Q: suspended action
A: abeyance
Q: hurt by rough handling
A: maul
Q: person hardened in sin one devoid of decency
A: reprobate
Q: talk excitedly utter rapidly

A: jabber
Q: coming into existence emerging
A: nascent
Q: omen sign
A: augury
Q: long thin move very fast
A: streak
Q: trouble disturbance
A: turmoil
Q: tending to comply obliging willingness to please
A: complaisance
Q: make known smth secret
A: divulge
Q: devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
A: epicurean
Q: relying on experiment
A: empirical
Q: wish or activity in doing good
A: benevolence
Q: lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless
A: feckless
Q: long strip worn round the waist
A: sash
Q: refuse to approve of
A: discountenance
Q: to be divided or subdivided to branch out
A: ramify
Q: splitting or division (esp. of cells)
A: fission
Q: regard with deep respect

A: veneration
Q: cast or fashion anew
A: recast
Q: contemptuous reproach hurtful remark
A: taunt
Q: dishonesty
A: mendacity
Q: soft light delicate material
A: gossamer
Q: primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated
A: pristine
Q: make rough
A: rumple
Q: food for horses and cattle
A: forage
Q: filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
A: contrite
Q: tightly stretched
A: taut
Q: fluent
A: voluble
Q: cause produce give rise to
A: engender
Q: uncertain risky dangerous
A: precarious
Q: shining brilliant
A: refulgent
Q: passage that completes a piece of music
A: coda
Q: celebrated famous
A: renowned
Q: eagerly desirous
A: covetous
Q: irritable easily angered
A: irascible
Q: too economical miserly
A: parsimonious
Q: hesitating undecided
A: irresolute
Q: jesting
A: droll
Q: have nothing to do reject or refuse
A: spurn
Q: certain inevitable
A: ineluctable
Q: to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner
A: bedizen
Q: coming back to consciousness
A: resuscitation
Q: without sense foolish self-satisfaction
A: fatuous
Q: stubborn narrow-minded person
A: bigot
Q: excessive admiration of
A: idolatry
Q: effete no longer fertile worn out
A: acarpous
Q: muddy having the sediment stirred up
A: turbid
Q: wickedness shamefulness
A: turpitude
Q: opening broken place breaking

A: breach
Q: making dear or liked
A: endearing
Q: habit or action peculiar to smb or smth
A: quirk
Q: lasting
A: enduring
Q: repayment death of Jesus
A: atonement
Q: pliable easily bent shaped or twisted
A: pliant
Q: argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest
A: expostulate
Q: contempt dislike aversion
A: odium
Q: have a different opinion refuse to assent
A: dissent
Q: be faithful to endure
A: abide
Q: puzzling person or thing
A: riddle
Q: send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion
A: shunt
Q: ready to do smth dishonest
A: venal
Q: drink deeply
A: quaff
Q: lukewarm
A: tepid
Q: poor/stingy
A: penurious
Q: small boat
A: skiff
Q: prevent by taking action in advance preempt
A: forestall
Q: roof of the mouth sense of taste
A: palate
Q: to go proceed
A: wend
Q: to lessen to subside
A: abate
Q: get rid of pull up by the roots
A: eradicate
Q: sluggish dull not tight
A: slack
Q: talkativeness
A: garrulity
Q: smth giving strength or energy
A: tonic
Q: disobedient
A: recalcitrant
Q: final and unalterable
A: irrevocable
Q: feeling bitterness spitefulness
A: rancorous
Q: quick judging and understanding
A: perspicacity
Q: roughness harshness ill temper irritability
A: asperity
Q: silly senseless
A: inane
Q: substance become excited
A: ferment
Q: easy-going trifle
A: unencumbered
Q: voracious devouring
A: edacious
Q: a trite or banal statement unoriginality
A: platitude
Q: frame with balls for calculating
A: abacus
Q: settle a quarrel restore peace
A: reconcile
Q: secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
A: collusion
Q: present but not yet active developed or visible
A: latent
Q: full of odd and fanciful ideas
A: whimsical
Q: urgent essential
A: imperative
Q: increasing the number spreading extending
A: propagation
Q: workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead
A: forge
Q: greatly surprised
A: nonplused
Q: get to know
A: ascertain
Q: trouble be ill
A: ail
Q: brutal racial discrimination

A: apartheid
Q: repulsive hateful
A: odious
Q: blocked up
A: occluded
Q: threats to compel smb
A: duress
Q: make (pain) easier to bear
A: alleviate
Q: very great number
A: myriad
Q: complex
A: involute
Q: an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot
A: denouement
Q: depth
A: profundity
Q: able to use the left hand or the right equally well
A: ambidextrous
Q: sheath for the blade
A: scabbard
Q: bulge the protuberance of a cask
A: bilge
Q: causing a feeling of disgust
A: repulsive
Q: close connection relationship
A: affinity
Q: warmth of feelings earnestness
A: fervor
Q: showing earnest feeling

A: fervid
Q: a scheme or plot a group of plotters
A: cabal
Q: common
A: prevalent
Q: material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries
A: secular
Q: regular customer person who gives support
A: patron
Q: unlawful forbidden
A: illicit
Q: jargon slang
A: argot
Q: biting sarcastic
A: caustic
Q: too fussy about food clothing etc.
A: finical
Q: cheat make a fool of
A: dupe
Q: too strong to be defeated
A: invincible
Q: complete thorough
A: exhaustive
Q: neat formal
A: prim
Q: official duties
A: incumbents
Q: surgically clean
A: aseptic
Q: imminent being about to happen expected
A: impending
Q: to attribute to a cause or source ascribe
A: impute
Q: belligerent pugnacious warlike
A: bellicose
Q: get smth inquire too curiously
A: pry
Q: enormous wonderful
A: prodigious
Q: hatred being an enemy
A: enmity
Q: striped grooved or banded
A: striated
Q: a long passionate speech
A: harangue
Q: diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
A: morbid
Q: self-controlled
A: sober
Q: rubbed off worn away by friction
A: abraded
Q: magnificent
A: sumptuous
Q: easily controlled or guided
A: tractable
Q: slander
A: aspersion
Q: large piece of cloth
A: poncho
Q: discover and bring to light
A: unearth
Q: person who has been converted to a belief

A: neophyte
Q: additional strengthening evidence
A: corroboration
Q: paint portray
A: limn
Q: naive young artless frank honest sincere
A: ingenuous
Q: dutiful to parents devoted to religion
A: pious
Q: weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
A: spear
Q: learned scholarly
A: erudite
Q: bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
A: colander
Q: use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
A: embezzle
Q: having little or no money
A: impecunious
Q: crude offensive rude
A: boorish
Q: seeming appearing as such professed
A: ostensible
Q: a complex ornate design
A: arabesque
Q: harmful causing mischief
A: mischievous
Q: protest against express disapproval of
A: deprecate
Q: waste away bite steadily

A: gnaw
Q: to remove obscenity purify censor
A: expurgate
Q: change to a thick and solid state
A: coagulation
Q: an invocation of evil a curse
A: imprecation
Q: make worse irritate
A: aggravate
Q: lowest weakest point
A: nadir
Q: short piece of humorous writing
A: skit
Q: elegant refined in manners
A: urbane
Q: in enjoy warmth and light
A: bask
Q: person who loves wealth and spends little
A: miser
Q: feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness
A: qualm
Q: trap
A: snare
Q: alarm excited state of mind
A: trepidation
Q: rise fly high
A: soar
Q: taking too little care
A: negligent
Q: substance that shrinks
A: astringent
Q: bring up announce begin to talk about
A: broach
Q: abstruse intended only for a small circle of
A: esoteric
Q: defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
A: foible
Q: put smth on the top
A: superimpose
Q: excessively ornate swollen or bloated
A: turgid
Q: poverty
A: indigence
Q: to make hard rocklike
A: petrify
Q: taken away power (to think feel act)
A: petrified
Q: show that smb has a share
A: implicate
Q: being different in moral standards (from normal)
A: deviance
Q: rash indiscreet
A: impudent
Q: feeling of regret for one's action
A: compunction
Q: satisfy fully
A: satiate
Q: get to the end of
A: consume
Q: melodious harmonious
A: dulcet
Q: piece of linen worn as a necktie

A: cravat
Q: strange act or idea
A: vagary
Q: make or become silent
A: hush
Q: help/encourage smb (in doing wrong)
A: abet
Q: punishment
A: chastisement
Q: think deeply mediate
A: cogitate
Q: paint with dots
A: stipple
Q: tactless clumsy
A: maladroit
Q: appearing TRUE or real
A: verisimilitude
Q: a model example or pattern
A: paradigm
Q: native
A: indigenous
Q: as an installment
A: interim
Q: easily injured broken or destroyed
A: fragile
Q: keep away from avoid
A: shun
Q: cruel killing of a large number of people
A: massacre
Q: worked out with much care in great detail

A: elaborate
Q: with attack violently
A: assail
Q: relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
A: recidivism
Q: act of preaching
A: homiletics
Q: ridicule mockery deriding
A: derision
Q: flag/badge
A: ensign
Q: a carefree episode or experience
A: idyll
Q: extreme poverty
A: penury
Q: directing the mind in a certain direction
A: inclined
Q: wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant
A: profligate
Q: refusing to move reluctant to be controlled
A: restive
Q: well-suited quick-witted
A: apt
Q: severe pain or suffering
A: torment
Q: to resist separation
A: cling
Q: worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday
A: mundane
Q: show feel great sorrow
A: lament
Q: to tolerate endure
A: brook
Q: make quiet or calm
A: appease
Q: being bright polished
A: lustrous
Q: a supporting bar
A: strut
Q: spending using unwillingly
A: stingy
Q: to roam wander freely
A: expatiate
Q: speak comprehensively become wider large
A: dilate
Q: magnificent
A: palatial
Q: sweet-smelling
A: fragrant
Q: make thin and weak
A: emaciate
Q: become quiet or less active
A: lull
Q: tool for cutting grooves in wood
A: gouge
Q: disgusting offensive due to excessiveness
A: fulsome
Q: bookish showing off learning
A: pedantic
Q: very great (es. stupidity)
A: crass
Q: quality of quickly recovering the original shape

A: resilience
Q: having both of two contrary meanings
A: ambivalent
Q: smth that is puzzling
A: enigma
Q: ready and smooth but not sincere
A: glib
Q: smell favor reputation
A: odor
Q: open disobedience or resistance
A: defiance
Q: to make holy consecrate
A: hallow
Q: real rightly named
A: veritable
Q: hinder get in the way of
A: impede
Q: press lose shape subdue overwhelm
A: crush
Q: watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order
A: vigilance
Q: hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity)
A: pique
Q: cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
A: sheath
Q: to be established accepted or customary
A: obtain
Q: severing
A: severance
Q: immoral person
A: libertine
Q: straying away from what is normal
A: aberration
Q: state of being balanced
A: equilibrium
Q: kind and gentle mild (climate)
A: benign
Q: easily broken
A: brittle
Q: making unpure poorer in quality
A: adulteration
Q: unaware having no memory
A: oblivious
Q: gruesome suggesting death
A: macabre
Q: courageous high-spirited
A: mettlesome
Q: end (a debt) by setting aside money
A: amortize
Q: pompous self important
A: consequential
Q: make angry vax
A: provoke
Q: move restlessly make nervous
A: fidget
Q: polloi the masses the rabble
A: hoi
Q: criticism/anti-aircraft guns
A: flak
Q: person appealing not to reasons
A: demagogue
Q: attention/give notice to
A: heed
Q: to equivocate to stray from the truth
A: prevaricate
Q: move quickly suddenly and with force
A: plunge
Q: to cut out cut away
A: exscind
Q: oppose to alcohol
A: teetotal
Q: to be thrifty to set limits
A: stint
Q: person who has given help
A: benefactor
Q: repay give in return
A: requite
Q: duty support loyalty
A: allegiance
Q: feeling or showing deep respect
A: reverent
Q: feeling doubt
A: dubious
Q: succession connected line of
A: sequence
Q: presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk
A: overweening
Q: king of blue-grey stone propose criticize
A: slate
Q: smth handed down from ancestors
A: legacy
Q: crouch shrink back

A: cower
Q: apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos
A: felicitous
Q: unimportant
A: trifling
Q: lacking strength walking unevenly
A: limp
Q: gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself
A: indulge
Q: finical
A: finicky
Q: a quack remedy an untested cure
A: nostrum
Q: break off
A: sever
Q: state of being passive/motionless
A: quiescence
Q: make or become pure cultural
A: refine
Q: tidy/show self-satisfaction
A: preen
Q: formal praise eulogy
A: panegyric
Q: reconciling soothing comforting mollifying
A: conciliatory
Q: without use result conceited
A: vain
Q: ending expiring
A: expiation
Q: FALSE counterfeit
A: spurious
Q: gather facts in small quantities
A: glean
Q: make or become soft by soaking in water
A: macerate
Q: the growing of separate things into one
A: accretion
Q: abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation
A: obloquy
Q: quick hurried
A: cursory
Q: brave
A: valiant
Q: repeal or annul by authority
A: abrogate
Q: describe smb scornfully
A: stigmatize
Q: to debase by mixing with something inferior
A: alloy
Q: easy and painless death
A: euthanasia
Q: severe punishment
A: castigation
Q: authority written order guarantee
A: warrant
Q: be unsteady and overturn
A: topple
Q: keeping on putting off
A: procrastination
Q: to assuage to satisfy allay
A: slake
Q: deliberate deception
A: duplicity
Q: legal trickery/false argument
A: chicanery
Q: inclined to indulge
A: indulgent
Q: in the highest degree
A: arrant
Q: to make unnecessary get rid of
A: obviate
Q: incapable of failure or error
A: foolproof
Q: generous unselfish
A: quixotic
Q: grow reproduce by rapid multification
A: proliferate
Q: flow in drops
A: trickle
Q: set smb clear free (e.g.. from blame)
A: exoneration
Q: free from encumbrance
A: disencumber
Q: put smth warm (to lessen the pain)
A: foment
Q: chains for the hands or feet
A: manacle
Q: brief summary representative example a typical model
A: epitome
Q: discover by searching search
A: ferret
Q: to attack verbally denounce deprecate

A: inveigh
Q: cheerful confident optimistic
A: sanguine
Q: of the power of forming a solution
A: solvent
Q: bitter and violent attack in words
A: diatribe
Q: insubordinate rebellious
A: contumacious
Q: without preparation
A: impromptu
Q: abundant supply
A: cornucopia
Q: cause or have difficulty in breathing
A: suffocate
Q: deeply moving keen
A: poignant
Q: of the present time only
A: provisional
Q: tiring because too long
A: prolix
Q: strong inclination a liking
A: penchant
Q: meal
A: repast
Q: a repetition a redundancy
A: tautology
Q: scarcity a lacking of
A: paucity
Q: flattery coaxing
A: blandishment
Q: savage cruelty
A: ferocity
Q: treacherous faithless
A: perfidious
Q: intimidate make fearful
A: daunt
Q: abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation
A: temperance
Q: smth that hinders (e.g. stammer)
A: impediment
Q: secret with a hidden meaning
A: cryptic
Q: a lament a melancholy composition
A: elegy
Q: that cannot be permeated
A: impermeable
Q: traveling about wandering
A: peregrination
Q: approval (by authority) penalty
A: sanction
Q: pronounce (words)/express a theory
A: enunciate
Q: refuse to believe
A: discredit
Q: outside the law
A: extralegal
Q: bitter quarrel over a long period of time
A: feud
Q: severe criticism
A: excoriation
Q: being uncertain hesitating
A: vacillation
Q: shy easily frightened
A: timid
Q: unoriginal obtained from another source
A: derivative
Q: deification glorification to godliness
A: apotheosis
Q: that cannot be changed
A: immutable
Q: talk vaguely and without much result
A: waffle
Q: customers
A: clientele
Q: to delight or entertain to feast
A: regale
Q: to hesitate raise objections
A: demur
Q: strong convincing
A: cogent
Q: unskillful said or done at the wrong time
A: inept
Q: calm and peaceful
A: halcyon
Q: an outcast a rejected and despised person
A: pariah
Q: sad gloomy miserable
A: dismal
Q: giving up control authority
A: abdication
Q: cowardly
A: craven
Q: be out of view ready to attack
A: lurk
Q: bunch of threads
A: tassel
Q: that can be freed
A: extricable
Q: one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced
A: partisan
Q: burn slowly without flame
A: smolder
Q: gibe make fun of
A: jibe
Q: scold sharply
A: berate
Q: state or put forward as a necessary condition
A: stipulate
Q: summary or outline
A: synopsis
Q: crawl humble oneself
A: grovel
Q: causing tears tearful
A: lachrymose
Q: lose courage turn frightened
A: quail
Q: insubstantial flimsy weak
A: tenuous
Q: warning sign
A: presage
Q: fit to be eaten/not poisonous

A: edible
Q: obsequious flatterer
A: toady
Q: too eager to obey or serve
A: obsequious
Q: letter
A: epistle
Q: distribute (esp. ideas)
A: disseminate
Q: unconcerned carefree
A: insouciant
Q: move along with long strides
A: lope
Q: brave
A: valorous
Q: skeptical unwilling to believe
A: incredulous
Q: not easily exhaustible tirelessness
A: indefatigability
Q: written order
A: writ
Q: having a toothed edge
A: serrated
Q: unresisting submissive
A: resigned
Q: song of praise or triumph
A: paean
Q: illogical of questionable truth or merit
A: specious
Q: obstruct/frustrate
A: thwart
Q: covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger
A: pitfall
Q: make tight or smaller
A: constrict
Q: circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
A: eddy
Q: arrangement to give smth at death
A: bequest
Q: practicing self-denial austere stark
A: ascetic
Q: incapable of being placated unpleasable
A: implacable
Q: satiate feed to fulness or to excess
A: surfeit
Q: show much fondness center one's attention
A: dote
Q: mean contemptible
A: scurvy
Q: make shorter then was planned
A: curtail
Q: disintegration looseness in morals
A: dissolution
Q: quick changeable in character fleeting
A: mercurial
Q: swallow up
A: engulf
Q: to turn away (from a habit)
A: wean
Q: fearful timid afraid
A: timorous
Q: granting of privileges in return for similar

A: reciprocity
Q: to distress create stress or torment
A: harrow
Q: become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
A: scorch
Q: put pour fill
A: infuse
Q: write in scholarly fashion
A: lucubrate
Q: person guilty of murder
A: felon
Q: show off complacently
A: flaunting
Q: equal distribution of weight equilibrium
A: equipoise
Q: elation state of pleasant excitement
A: euphoria
Q: care economy thriving prosperous
A: thrift
Q: restore smth to better condition
A: renovate
Q: increase in density strength make laconic
A: condense
Q: careful economical
A: frugal
Q: of great importance (others depend on it)
A: pivotal
Q: grow forth send out buds
A: burgeon
Q: praise approval
A: accolade
Q: brief and to the point
A: terse
Q: producing sleep
A: soporific
Q: small sin small weakness in one's character
A: peccadillo
Q: tiny bits of wood
A: sawdust
Q: quality or condition of being sober
A: sobriety
Q: smth or smb that foretells the coming of
A: harbinger
Q: rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
A: loll
Q: person who lives alone and avoids people
A: recluse
Q: patience willingness to wait
A: forbearance
Q: more then is needed or wanted
A: superfluous
Q: complex subtle refined
A: sophisticated
Q: being uncontrolled violent
A: turbulence
Q: sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning
A: disingenuous
Q: examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
A: overhaul
Q: everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian
A: prosaic
Q: mix combine unite societies
A: amalgamate
Q: kind of stone inflexible
A: adamant
Q: prevent from carrying out contrast
A: foil
Q: unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
A: intransigence
Q: to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea
A: ossify
Q: able to float light-hearted
A: buoyant
Q: briefly without delay
A: summarily
Q: belief contrary to what is generally accepted
A: heresy
Q: eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
A: gorge
Q: skill (esp. in handling)
A: dexterity
Q: corrected punished
A: chastened
Q: fall plunge steeply
A: plummet
Q: sharpness stinging quality
A: pungency
Q: misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
A: malapropism
Q: laziness
A: indolence
Q: calm sluggish temperament unemotional

A: phlegmatic
Q: (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
A: simper
Q: getting farther apart from a point
A: divergence
Q: transparent easy to understand
A: pellucid
Q: appropriate to the situation apt
A: apropos
Q: person or smb much below the usual size
A: dwarf
Q: easily done
A: facile
Q: the point general sense
A: gist
Q: forgery
A: counterfeit
Q: individually distinct
A: discrete
Q: keep the memory of
A: commemorate
Q: cheap gaudy showy tacky
A: tawdry
Q: prevent from being known put an end to
A: suppress
Q: devious/not straightforward
A: tortuous
Q: abusive language curses
A: invective
Q: to join together
A: conjoin
Q: deliver provide represent
A: render
Q: needing effort burdensome
A: onerous
Q: over look at with selfish delight
A: gloat
Q: transparent gauzy
A: diaphanous
Q: glut
A: plethora
Q: worldly having contempt for God
A: profane
Q: unharmed unhurt
A: unscathed
Q: edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead
A: fringe
Q: a generator something that produces electric current
A: dynamo
Q: additional load/charge
A: surcharge
Q: angry
A: irate
Q: distracted violently upset in mind
A: distraught
Q: fertile
A: fecund
Q: reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition)
A: flout
Q: disown refuse to accept or pay
A: repudiate
Q: yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
A: brass
Q: diminishing or lessening of swelling
A: detumescence
Q: wrinkle
A: pucker
Q: essentially different
A: disparate
Q: witness/evidence
A: testiness
Q: easily seen remarkable
A: conspicuous
Q: closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
A: cloture
Q: make a lower bid then smb else
A: underbid
Q: call up bring out
A: evoke
Q: lying on the back slow to act passive
A: supine
Q: noisy quarrel
A: fracas
Q: a number of performance of music
A: recitals
Q: draw out
A: elicit
Q: to scorn or despise
A: contemn
Q: sleeping sluggish lethargic dormant
A: torpid
Q: legal claim until a debt on it is repaid

A: lien
Q: try to avoid by sophistication
A: quibble
Q: state of growing vigorously being full of life
A: exuberance
Q: improve make better
A: ameliorate
Q: assistance relief in time of distress
A: succor
Q: process of burning
A: combustion
Q: praise highly
A: extol
Q: harmful ominous causing evil
A: baleful
Q: like a slave lacking independence
A: servile
Q: star light-giving body
A: luminary
Q: person dishonestly claiming to smth
A: quack
Q: shut out from society refuse to meet talk
A: ostracism
Q: fix take up secure metal pin
A: rivet
Q: frugal looking to the future
A: provident
Q: able to fly trained experienced
A: fledged
Q: large pile of wood for burning

A: pyre
Q: stir up rouse
A: incite
Q: arrogant pride
A: hubris
Q: lower the quality weaken the strength
A: vitiate
Q: since because
A: inasmuch
Q: scold upbraid
A: reproach
Q: prevent make impossible
A: preclude
Q: rules establishing standards of conduct
A: precepts
Q: strength
A: puissance
Q: affirm assert prove justify
A: aver
Q: to shackle put in chains
A: fetter
Q: to hinder obstruct or block
A: stymie
Q: provide supply
A: purvey
Q: disdainful characterized by haughty scorn
A: supercilious
Q: come to grips/settle conclusively
A: clinch
Q: banal everyday
A: quotidian
Q: obscene
A: salacious
Q: out of place not in harmony or agreement
A: incongruous
Q: narrow-mindedness isolated
A: insularity
Q: expressing or giving praise
A: laudatory
Q: get back by payment compensate
A: redeem
Q: temporary fleeting
A: transient
Q: be destroyed decay
A: perish
Q: involving clever rogues or adventurers
A: picaresque
Q: of the body
A: somatic
Q: shortage
A: dearth
Q: admit. Declare openly
A: avow
Q: counterfeit
A: forgery
Q: a raid a sudden attack
A: incursion
Q: refrain from be patient ancestor
A: forbear
Q: please greatly/enslave (fig)
A: enthral
Q: too talkative
A: garrulous
Q: winding undulating serpentine
A: sinuous
Q: like a seed constituting a source originative
A: seminal
Q: careful forethought
A: prudence
Q: parody/imitation
A: travesty
Q: to hate to detest
A: abhor
Q: continue doing smth without resting
A: plod
Q: artificial obstacle built across a river
A: barrage
Q: fallacious reasoning faulty logic
A: sophistry
Q: give notice to inform
A: apprise
Q: leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
A: centurion
Q: too eager or ready to help offer advice
A: officious
Q: commonplace trite unremarkable
A: pedestrian
Q: person who insists on importance of smth
A: stickler
Q: end the existence of/wipe or put out
A: extinguish
Q: hell
A: inferno
Q: loud noisy rough lacking restraint
A: boisterous
Q: fall back again
A: relapse
Q: use flattery or deceit to persuade
A: cajole
Q: speak distinctly connect by joints
A: articulate
Q: call together summon
A: convoke
Q: quality of being limited not extreme
A: moderation
Q: meant as a joke
A: jocular
Q: mournful melancholy sorrowful
A: plaintive
Q: call calling of names
A: roll
Q: fearless brave undaunted
A: intrepid
Q: taste flavor smth
A: savor
Q: make or become stiff and solid
A: congeal
Q: self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety
A: sanctimony
Q: person who worries others to buy smth to use his service
A: tout
Q: of the internal organs of the body
A: visceral
Q: like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
A: foppish
Q: likely to come or happen soon
A: imminent
Q: conciliatory appeasing mitigating
A: propitiatory
Q: noisy and rough
A: blatant
Q: in a state of inactivity but awaiting development
A: dormant
Q: article of clothing
A: garment
Q: sham counterfeit not genuine
A: bogus
Q: polite manner comforting uninteresting
A: blandness
Q: to entangle the state of affairs
A: labyrinthine
Q: take in by swallowing
A: ingest
Q: easily shocked excessively modest
A: prudish
Q: marry give one's support to
A: espouse
Q: surface appearance covering the TRUE nature
A: veneer
Q: repeal/annul/cancel
A: rescind
Q: of mixed colors
A: pied
Q: feeling sleepy half asleep

A: drowsiness
Q: bad-tempered/quarrelsome
A: cantankerous
Q: bad-tempered person
A: curmudgeon
Q: agreement or harmony
A: concord
Q: healthful
A: salubrious
Q: not easily heard seen clearly marked
A: indistinct
Q: hasty rush cheeky saucy
A: brash
Q: engrave make a cut in
A: incise
Q: to protest object
A: remonstrate
Q: prolonged
A: protracted
Q: burst out suddenly/talk ardently
A: gush
Q: cowardly craven
A: pusillanimous
Q: approval
A: approbation
Q: (person nation) waging war
A: belligerent
Q: unconscious unresponsive unaffected
A: insensible
Q: suddenly changeable
A: tangential
Q: arrogant conceited
A: haughty
Q: to clear from a charge of guilt
A: exculpate
Q: collapse bursting inward
A: implosion
Q: without previous thought or preparation
A: extempore
Q: beginning
A: incipient
Q: based on error
A: fallacious
Q: no use person smth that fails
A: dud
Q: mob crowd the lower classes of populace
A: rabble
Q: coming together and uniting into one substance
A: coalescing
Q: promise or swear to give up
A: abjure
Q: request
A: plea
Q: make payment to reward punish
A: recompense
Q: number of ships quick-moving
A: fleet
Q: to be stained or discredited
A: sullied
Q: great flood heavy rush of water
A: deluge
Q: have a mutual relation
A: correlate
Q: representing the whole Christian world
A: ecumenical
Q: become strong after illness loss exhaustion
A: recuperate
Q: impress deeply
A: engrave
Q: rich and deep plump and round
A: rotund
Q: step to one side
A: sidestep
Q: very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face)
A: florid
Q: draw together unite firmly
A: knit
Q: crouch/settle without permission
A: squat
Q: overcome bring under control
A: subdue
Q: pure faultless
A: immaculate
Q: supply to much fill to excess
A: glut
Q: deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
A: dereliction
Q: clever quick at seeing to get an advantage
A: astute
Q: self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown
A: sophomoric
Q: willful FALSE statement unlawful act

A: perjury
Q: often repeated continual
A: incessant
Q: place here and there
A: intersperse
Q: tap or drive down by repeated light blows
A: tamp
Q: write hastily
A: scribble
Q: obtain by threats violence
A: extort
Q: done as a duty without care
A: perfunctory
Q: trick mislead
A: hoodwink
Q: annoy distress trouble
A: vex
Q: lucky stroke
A: fluke
Q: crime of killing a king
A: regicide
Q: forgive
A: condone
Q: moult lose hair feathers before new growing
A: molt
Q: look on with contempt
A: disdain
Q: refuse to accept/cause dislike
A: repel
Q: being fully aware of

A: cognizant
Q: scold reproach
A: upbraid
Q: yielding easily shaped moldable adapting
A: malleable
Q: proud superior manner of behaviour
A: arrogance
Q: a riddle dilemma enigma
A: conundrum
Q: smell (esp pleasant)
A: scent
Q: strong dislike
A: aversion
Q: soaked saturated
A: sodden
Q: made of brass
A: brazen
Q: accustomed to adapted
A: inured
Q: harmful
A: noxious
Q: dig up from the earth
A: disinter
Q: eager/excited
A: agog
Q: cloth worn round the neck/silencer
A: muffler
Q: twisting force causing rotation
A: torque
Q: self-confidence
A: aplomb
Q: becoming young in nature or appearance
A: rejuvenation
Q: dishonorable common undignified
A: ignoble
Q: address a court of law as an advocate
A: plead
Q: plot scheme (esp. evil)
A: machination
Q: of connected with trees
A: arboreal
Q: arrogance
A: presumption
Q: rob or dispossess of smth (material)
A: bereft
Q: shallow place in a river (to cross)
A: ford
Q: grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future
A: apprehensive
Q: slander aspersion
A: calumny
Q: one who hates women/females
A: misogynist
Q: member of a vigilance committee
A: vigilant
Q: give greatly needed support
A: bolster
Q: disguised
A: covert
Q: favorable successful prosperous
A: auspicious
Q: go or come up
A: ascend
Q: having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage
A: sagacious
Q: lively high-spirited
A: vivacious
Q: mark of shame or disgrace
A: stigma
Q: a blindly devoted patriot
A: chauvinist
Q: eager and cheerful readiness
A: alacrity
Q: scent waving movement carry lightly through
A: waft
Q: prostrate inclined to (undesirable things)
A: prone
Q: steady regular
A: equable
Q: burden things that get on the way of
A: encumbrance
Q: formal reception/embankment
A: levee
Q: soothe pacify calm
A: placate
Q: waver/move in an uncertain manner
A: falter
Q: pretend
A: feint
Q: steel tool for shaping materials
A: chisel
Q: heavy bulky dull

A: ponderous
Q: not paying proper attention
A: inadvertent
Q: fail/move/fall clumsily
A: flop
Q: person who attacks popular beliefs
A: iconoclast
Q: untidy
A: disheveled
Q: claw of a bird of prey
A: talon
Q: slow way of speaking
A: drawl
Q: physical of or for the body
A: corporeal
Q: cheerful person
A: extrovert
Q: short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs
A: sententious
Q: omen marvelous threatening
A: portent
Q: hairy shaggy
A: hirsute
Q: without taste or flavor
A: insipid
Q: persevering
A: sedulous
Q: like a rock hard stony
A: petrous
Q: use extravagant language
A: rant
Q: weak/unsteady light
A: glimmer
Q: easily understood lucid clear
A: luculent
Q: worthless outside part of anything
A: husk
Q: (agreement) stop of fighting for a time
A: truce
Q: take back as being FALSE give up
A: recant
Q: suppress subdue
A: quell
Q: conquer
A: vanquish
Q: enclose in capsule
A: encapsulate
Q: have more power than others
A: predominate
Q: pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
A: dainty
Q: exuberance outburst of feeling
A: ebullience
Q: cheerful casual carefree
A: blithe
Q: medicine used against a poison or a disease
A: antidote
Q: reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse
A: extenuate
Q: split crack dissension
A: rift
Q: mournful excessively sad

A: lugubrious
Q: form of a frog when it leaves the egg
A: tadpole
Q: fix firmly by repetition
A: inculcate
Q: fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language
A: volubility
Q: spread into every part of
A: permeate
Q: convincing firm belief
A: conviction
Q: avoid
A: eschew
Q: no longer active
A: extinct
Q: not new
A: trite
Q: difficult to comprehend obscure
A: abstruse
Q: suggestion in addition to
A: connotation
Q: unmoved feeling no sign of passion
A: impassive
Q: nearness in time or place affinity of nature
A: propinquity
Q: astute showing sound judgement
A: shrewd
Q: carved image on the prow of a ship
A: figurehead
Q: ill-tempered unsocial
A: morose
Q: make calmer or quieter
A: mollify
Q: doing or happening smth before the right time
A: premature
Q: hence dark gloomy
A: stygian
Q: pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize
A: mince
Q: spirit vigor enthusiasm
A: verve
Q: make nervous or confused
A: fluster
Q: personal mannerism
A: idiosyncrasy
Q: living in societies liking the company
A: gregarious
Q: shout complain with a lot of noise
A: clamor
Q: low vulgar base tawdry
A: raffish
Q: projecting prominent undesirably noticeable
A: obtrusive
Q: free giving generosity
A: liberality
Q: careful/prudent
A: discreet
Q: reproving a person for his faults
A: sermon
Q: uncompromising
A: intransigent
Q: giving great attention to details
A: meticulous
Q: that cannot be rubbed out
A: indelible
Q: dethronement depositing
A: deposition
Q: delicate way of dealing with a situation
A: finesse
Q: (of eyes) dull
A: lackluster
Q: to beg to get by begging
A: cadge
Q: cloud-like hazy vague indistinct
A: nebulous
Q: anger
A: ire
Q: measure hoe heavy smth is
A: weigh
Q: intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn
A: froward
Q: trivial poorly constructed verse
A: doggerel
Q: wishing to do evil
A: malevolence
Q: shyness
A: diffidence
Q: to destroy exterminate cut out exscind
A: extirpate
Q: line (of police acting as a guard)
A: cordon
Q: relevant pertinent to
A: germane
Q: cannot be cured or corrected
A: incorrigibility
Q: deceit cunning
A: guile
Q: compel
A: constrain
Q: cessation of use disuse
A: desuetude
Q: try to win
A: woo
Q: extremely loud and powerful
A: stentorian
Q: warm and sincere
A: cordial
Q: see with an effort but clearly
A: discern
Q: touching neighboring near
A: contiguous
Q: sound in judgment wise
A: judicious
Q: present everywhere
A: ubiquitous
Q: cut roughly hired horse
A: hack
Q: move in a clumsy/noisy way
A: lumber
Q: causing no harm
A: innocuous
Q: humorous funny jocular

A: facetious
Q: shameless immorality
A: profligacy
Q: outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc.
A: gust
Q: various miscellaneous separate
A: sundry
Q: uprightness incorruptibility principle
A: probity
Q: one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
A: apostate
Q: becoming rotten
A: putrefaction
Q: cautious wary
A: chary
Q: nurture care for
A: foster
Q: be admitted enter a university as a student
A: matriculation
Q: production of a desired result
A: efficacy
Q: brightly colored florid
A: flamboyant
Q: reserved untalkative silent taciturn
A: reticent
Q: greedy (esp for money)
A: rapacious
Q: give comfort or sympathy to
A: console
Q: be too tight take between the thumb and finger
A: pinch
Q: insulting tending to damage
A: derogatory
Q: piece of broken earthenware
A: shard
Q: pleasing in appearance attractive
A: personable
Q: a breakup overthrow sudden disaster
A: debacle
Q: fairly good but not very good
A: middling
Q: fresh and green
A: verdant
Q: counterbalance
A: countervail
Q: denounce as dangerous
A: proscribe
Q: try to deceive by equivocal language
A: equivocate
Q: diligent hard-working sedulous
A: assiduous
Q: shy/modest (esp of a girl)
A: coy
Q: suggest unpleasantly make a way for smth gently
A: insinuate
Q: to gather and save to store up
A: garner
Q: emergency an urgent situation
A: exigency
Q: showing self-control
A: temperate
Q: challenged to be doubted
A: impugned
Q: lack of reverence or dutifulness
A: impiety
Q: get to the root of
A: plumb
Q: violent cruel man
A: ruffian
Q: speech lecture
A: discourse
Q: person of great learning
A: savant
Q: fond of in the habit of fighting
A: pugnacious
Q: formal praise panegyric
A: eulogy
Q: to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine
A: rarefy
Q: person who travels regularly
A: commuter
Q: be enough
A: suffice
Q: greenish-blue precious stone
A: turquoise
Q: harmful or friendly
A: inimical
Q: surprise and fear dismay
A: consternation
Q: extreme astounding
A: sublime
Q: loyalty accuracy
A: fidelity
Q: socially awkward tactless behavior
A: gaucherie
Q: sentence within another one smth separated
A: parenthesis
Q: turmoil a bewildering jumble
A: welter
Q: sealed by fusion
A: hermetic
Q: tending to evade
A: evasive
Q: take the place of
A: supersede
Q: overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement
A: ebullient
Q: display to obtain admiration or envy
A: ostentation
Q: strong energetic
A: vigorous
Q: to portray depict sketch out
A: delineate
Q: wander lose one's way
A: stray
Q: draw move back wince
A: flinch
Q: perfect/make perfect/complete
A: consummate
Q: make smth (pain desire) less
A: assuage
Q: not allowing to pass through (of materials)
A: impervious
Q: stare at
A: fixate
Q: catch sight of see smth in the distance
A: descry
Q: statement that damages reputation
A: libel
Q: treachery breaking of faith
A: perfidy
Q: majestic venerable
A: august
Q: wasteful reckless with money
A: prodigal
Q: be guilty commit (a crime)
A: perpetrate
Q: special liking mental preference
A: predilection
Q: severe suffering
A: anguish
Q: reserved indifferent
A: aloof
Q: lack of seriousness
A: levity
Q: tale story fibers for knitting
A: yarn
Q: make a humble petition to
A: supplicate
Q: dangerous
A: perilous
Q: lessen the severity of
A: palliate
Q: leather case for a pistol

A: holster
Q: get smb to do smth by kindness
A: coax
Q: deep-rooted. long-established
A: inveterate
Q: show bodily or mental pain
A: wince
Q: wildly excited with joy pain anxiety
A: frantic
Q: daring foolishly bold impudent
A: audacious
Q: weariness tiredness
A: lassitude
Q: over-high opinion of too much pride
A: conceit
Q: feeling or showing regret
A: penitent
Q: situated beyond
A: ulterior
Q: young deer try to win smb's favor
A: fawn
Q: speak or behave so as to hide smth (in mind)
A: dissemble
Q: to favor or approve of
A: countenance
Q: curse abuse in words
A: vituperate
Q: mischievous trick played on smb for a joke
A: hoax
Q: urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate

A: peremptory
Q: commanding haughty arrogant
A: imperious
Q: eager greedy
A: avid
Q: say or do again several times
A: reiterate
Q: discourage hinder
A: deter
Q: doubtful uncertain
A: ambiguous
Q: still in existence
A: extant
Q: dullness/not allowing light to pass through
A: opaqueness
Q: having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful
A: impetuous
Q: falsely making oneself appear to be good
A: hypocrisy
Q: at be discontented with
A: repine
Q: hide keep secret
A: conceal
Q: confuse embarrass
A: discomfit
Q: course of study
A: curriculum
Q: brief
A: transitory
Q: taking off getting rid of giving up
A: divestiture
Q: put under water liquid sink out of sight
A: submerge
Q: blunt/stupid
A: obtuse
Q: put into difficulties
A: entangle
Q: to show clearly to indicate
A: evince
Q: to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate
A: undulate
Q: auspicious presenting favorable circumstances
A: propitious
Q: of the same period coexisting
A: coeval
Q: cowardice a cowardly giving up
A: recreancy
Q: irregular in behaviour or opinion
A: erratic
Q: person who stirs up war
A: warmonger
Q: unreasonably impatient
A: petulant
Q: threatening
A: ominous
Q: offense resentment
A: umbrage
Q: enthusiasm
A: ardor
Q: taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal
A: engrossing
Q: to stop the flow of a fluid

A: stanch
Q: sensitiveness
A: susceptibility
Q: complicated and embarrassing situation
A: imbroglio
Q: join (two ends)
A: splice
Q: smth urging a person to action
A: goad
Q: suffer the loss of smth
A: forfeit
Q: use until none remains
A: deplete
Q: half-solid lump formed from liquid
A: clot
Q: discuss thoroughly sort of touting
A: canvass
Q: catalyst
A: enzyme
Q: not easily discouraged or subdued
A: indomitable
Q: consider to be the origin of or belonging to
A: ascribe
Q: rising of people to open resistance to
A: insurrection
Q: infertile worn out weak
A: effete
Q: make by hard work cut (by striking)
A: hew
Q: spend wastefully
A: squander
Q: causing grief or pain serious dire grave
A: grievous
Q: make thin. weaken enervate
A: attenuate
Q: insincere talk/jargon
A: cant
Q: break go beyond (a limit)
A: transgress
Q: to deny to oppose
A: gainsay
Q: merry person
A: wag
Q: hypnotize
A: mesmerize
Q: steep difficult ascent laborious
A: arduous
Q: not soled with hole
A: hollow
Q: menacing threatening
A: minatory
Q: pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers)
A: pluck
Q: frank straight-forward
A: candid
Q: bad-tempered person
A: churl
Q: sweetly flowing
A: mellifluous
Q: make angry
A: incense
Q: hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible
A: obdurate
Q: lazy slow-moving person
A: sluggard
Q: change direction
A: veer
Q: too great a readiness to believe things
A: credulity
Q: formidable causing fear
A: redoubtable
Q: to polish rub to a shine
A: burnish
Q: rising or falling sharply
A: steeply
Q: to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
A: abscond
Q: postpone give way (to show respect)
A: defer
Q: stubborn unmanageable untractable
A: refractory
Q: a connection tie or link
A: nexus
Q: giving facts to support (statement)
A: substantiation
Q: calm not capable of being excited
A: imperturbable
Q: frantic frenzied
A: frenetic
Q: using pompous words
A: grandiloquent
Q: refuse to allow or accept as a correct

A: disallow
Q: person who hates mankind
A: misanthrope
Q: order given by authority
A: decree
Q: firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on
A: tenacity
Q: having a toothed edge
A: serration
Q: male bee person who isn't self-employed
A: drone
Q: opposing progress
A: reactionary
Q: weaken gradually at the base make smth under
A: undermine
Q: metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument
A: calipers
Q: heavy with water
A: soggy
Q: beat hard
A: belabor
Q: a loud domineering woman a scold or nag
A: virago
Q: defying imitation unmatchable
A: inimitable
Q: show some inclination to accept (an offer)
A: nibble
Q: boldness brashness intrepidness
A: temerity
Q: foul filthy
A: squalid
Q: walk heavily
A: trudge
Q: to great to be described in words
A: ineffable
Q: little known abstruse
A: recondite
Q: to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to
A: beatify
Q: positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion
A: dogmatic
Q: destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
A: pest
Q: propriety properness
A: decorum
Q: stinking
A: fetid
Q: prohibit forbid
A: interdict
Q: snub
A: rebuff
Q: sentimental in a silly or tearful way
A: maudlin
Q: way out exit
A: egress
Q: boldness impudence arrogance
A: effrontery
Q: stupid fellow
A: dolt
Q: induce by bribery or smth to commit perjury
A: suborn
Q: aimless haphazard digressing at random
A: desultory
Q: tiro beginner
A: tyro
Q: flood cover by overflowing
A: inundate
Q: join sounds/words (indistinct)
A: slur
Q: smth sharp
A: sting
Q: strong dislike
A: animosity
Q: written order requiring a person to appear in a low court
A: subpoena
Q: state of doubt or perplexity
A: quandary
Q: expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke
A: censure
Q: line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket
A: crease
Q: beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute)
A: importune
Q: treat with contempt
A: snub
Q: aggressiveness ferocity
A: truculence
Q: worsen diminish in value
A: impair
Q: offensive disgusting (smell)
A: noisome
Q: stone used for sharpening tools

A: hone
Q: liking to give hospitality
A: hospitable
Q: showing scorn or reproach
A: opprobrious
Q: rough awkward
A: uncouth
Q: substance used to absorb moisture
A: desiccant
Q: welcomed with shouts and approval
A: acclaimed
Q: to frequently visit
A: resort
Q: write one's name on the back of
A: endorse
Q: check hinder
A: retard
Q: make unfair selection from facts
A: garble
Q: to travel from place to place to peregrinate
A: itinerate
Q: greatness in number strength weight
A: preponderance
Q: not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary
A: inchoate
Q: gloomy dark sullen morose
A: saturnine
Q: incapable of being discovered or understood
A: inscrutable
Q: made up of different kinds

A: heterogeneous
Q: essential part force soft liquid substance
A: pith
Q: person who is slow waste of time
A: dawdler
Q: move force from the place occupied
A: dislodge
Q: causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive
A: baneful
Q: wretched comfortless contemptible
A: sordid
Q: ready to believe things
A: credulous
Q: border on
A: abut
Q: lost brightness
A: tarnished
Q: showing respect
A: deferential
Q: blacken belittle sully defame
A: denigrate
Q: giving or producing freely liberally or generously
A: lavish
GRE General Vocabulary

Compiled by Oleg Smirnov
GRE Vocabulary Preparation
http://www.uoregon.edu/~osmirnov/gre/
Originally formatted by Vijay S. Govind
vijaysg2k@yahoo.co.in
A
abacus
abate
abdication
abdomen
aberration
abeyance
abhor
abide
abjure
abraded
abrasion
abrogate
abscond
abstruse
abundant
abut
abysmal
acarpous
accentuate
frame with balls for calculating

to lessen, to subside
giving up control, authority
stomach and bowels
straying away from what is normal
suspended action
to hate, to detest
be faithful to; endure
promise or swear to give up
rubbed off, worn away by friction
rubbing, scraping, wearing off
repeal or annul by authority
to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
difficult to comprehend; obscure
plentiful
border on
bottomless, extreme
effete, no longer fertile, worn out
give more force or attention to
acclaimed
accolade
accretion
acquiesce in
acquisition
adamant
adhere
adhesion
adjacent
admonitory
adorn
adulteration
affinity
aggravate
agile
ail
alacrity
alienate
allegiance
alleviate
alloy
aloof
amalgamate
ambidextrous
equally well
ambiguous
ambivalent
ameliorate
amendment
amicable
amortize
welcomed with shouts and approval

praise, approval
the growing of separate things into one
agree (without protest)
something acquired, acquiring
kind of stone; inflexible
remain faithful, stick fast to
adhering, support
lying near, next
containing warning
add beauty; decorate
making unpure, poorer in quality
close connection, relationship
make worse; irritate
active, quick-moving
trouble; be ill
eager and cheerful readiness
estrange
duty, support, loyalty
make (pain) easier to bear
to debase by mixing with something inferior
reserved, indifferent
mix, combine, unite societies
able to use the left hand or the right
doubtful, uncertain
having both of two contrary meanings
improve, make better
improving
friendly
end (a debt) by setting aside money
amplify
make large or fuller, increase the strength
animosity
strong dislike
annul
put an end to
anticlimax
sudden fall
antidote
medicine used against a poison or a disease
antithetical
direct opposing
apartheid
brutal racial discrimination
apathetic
indifference
aplomb
self-confidence
apostate
one who abandons long-held religious or
political convictions
apotheosis
deification, glorification to godliness
appease
make quiet or calm
apprehensive
grasping, understanding; fear, unhappy
feeling about future
apprise
give notice to, inform
approbation
approval
appropriate
take for one's own use, acquire, set aside
apropos
appropriate to the situation; apt
apt
well-suited, quick-witted
arabesque
a complex, ornate design
arabesque
whimsical
arbitrate
decide by arbitration
arboreal
of connected with trees
ardently
with full of ardor
ardor
enthusiasm
arduous
steep, difficult ascent; laborious
argot
jargon, slang
arrant
in the highest degree
arrogance
proud, superior manner of behavior
articulate
speak distinctly, connect by joints
ascend
ascent
ascertain
ascetic
ascribe
to
asperity
irritability
aspersion
assail with
asset
value
assiduous
assuage
assumption
asterisk
astringent
astute
atonement
attenuate
audacious
augury
august
auspice
auspicious
austere
auxiliary
aver
aversion
avid
avow
go or come up
the act of ascending
get to know
practicing self-denial, austere, stark
consider to be the origin of or belonging
roughness, harshness, ill temper,
slander
attack violently
valuable quality, something that has money
diligent, hard-working, sedulous
make something (pain, desire) less
something supposed but not proved
the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
substance that shrinks
clever; quick at seeing to get an advantage
repayment; death of Jesus
make thin. weaken, enervate
daring, foolishly bold, impudent
omen, sign
majestic, venerable
protection or support, patronage
favorable, successful, prosperous
severely moral and strict; simple and plain
helping, supporting
affirm, assert, prove, justify
strong dislike
eager, greedy
admit. Declare openly
B
baleful
balk
balloon
balm
banal
band
frequencies
bane
baneful
destructive
barrage
barren
without value
bask in
bazaar
beatify
to
bedizen
manner
belie
belittle
bellicose
belligerent
belligerently
bend
line
benefactor
benevolence
benign
harmful, ominous, causing evil

obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
swell out like balloon
sweet-smelling oil; consolation
uninteresting
flat, thin strip of material; range of
cause of injury, poison, source of harm
causing harm or ruin, pernicious,
artificial obstacle built across a river
not good enough, unable to have young ones,
enjoy warmth and light
market
to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue
to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy
contradict, give a false impression
cause to seem unimportant
belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
(person, nation) waging war
waging war
cause something to be out of a straight
person who has given help
wish or activity in doing good
kind and gentle; mild (climate)
bequest
berate
bereft
bewilder
biased
bigot
bilge
blandishment
blandness
blatant
blithe
blithe
blueprint
blunt
boggle
bogus
boisterous
bolster
boorish
braid
edging sloth
brash
brass
brazen
breach
brisk
brisket
brittle
broach
brook
buoyant
arrangement to give something at death

scold sharply
rob or dispossess of something (material)
puzzle, confuse
prejudice
stubborn, narrow-minded person
bulge, the protuberance of a cask
flattery, coaxing
polite manner, comforting, uninteresting
noisy and rough, highly obvious
cheerful, casual, carefree
gay and joyous
plan, scheme, photographic print
plain, not troubling to be polite
be alarmed, hesitate, amazed
sham, counterfeit, not genuine
loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint
give greatly needed support
crude, offensive, rude
strands of hair woven together, something
hasty, rush; cheeky, saucy
yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
made of brass
opening, broken place, breaking
active, lively
breast of an animal
easily broken
bring up, announce, begin to talk about
to tolerate, endure
able to float; light-hearted
burgeon
burnish
bust
grow forth, send out buds

to polish, rub to a shine
run out of money
C
cabal
a scheme or plot, a group of plotters
cadge
to beg, to get by begging
calipers
metal supports attached to the legs,
measuring instrument
calumniate
to slander, present false accusal
calumny
slander, aspersion
candid
frank, straight-forward
canvass
discuss thoroughly; sort of touting
capricious
fickle, whimsical, given to change,
unpredictable
castigate
to chastise, correct by punishing
castigation
severe punishment
casual
happening by chance, careless
catalyst
substance that causes speeding up
caustic
biting, sarcastic
censure
expression of blame or disapproval; a
rebuke
census
official counting of the population
centurion
leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
chary
cautious, wary
chastened
corrected, punished
chastisement
punishment
chauvinist
a blindly devoted patriot
chisel
steel tool for shaping materials
churl
bad-tempered person
cite
give as an example
clamor
shout, complain with a lot of noise
cleanse
make pure, thoroughly clean
cling to
resist separation
clot
half-solid lump formed from liquid
cloture
closing, device (in Parliament) to end a
debate by voting
coalescing
coming together and uniting into one
substance
coax
get somebody to do something by kindness
coddle
treat with care and tenderness
coerce
compel, to force to make obedient
coeval
of the same period, coexisting
cogent
strong, convincing
cogitate
think deeply, mediate
cognition
knowing, awareness (emotionless)
cognizant
being fully aware of
coherent
sticking together
colander
bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to
drain off water
collaborate
work in partnership
collusion
secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
combustion
process of burning
commemorate
keep the memory of
commend
praise
commendable
worthy of praise
commingle
mingle together
commuter
person who travels regularly
complacently
with self-satisfaction
complaisance
tending to comply, obliging, willingness to
please
comply
act in accordance
compound
comprise
compunction
conceal
conceit
conciliatory
mollifying
concord
concur
condense
condone
congeal
conjoin
connoisseur
connotation
consent
consequential
consolation
console
conspicuous
consternation
constrict
consume
contemn
contentious
quarrelsome
contiguous
contrite
contumacious
conundrum
conviction
mix or combine
be composed of
feeling of regret for one's action
hide, keep secret
over-high opinion of, too much pride
reconciling, soothing, comforting,
agreement or harmony
agree in opinion, happen together
increase in density, strength, make laconic
forgive
make or become stiff and solid
to join together
a person with good judgment (e.g.. in art)
suggestion in addition to
give agreement or permission
pompous, self important
consoling or being consoled
give comfort or sympathy to
easily seen; remarkable
surprise and fear, dismay
make tight or smaller
get to the end of
to scorn or despise
argumentative, pugnacious, combative,
touching, neighboring, near
filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
insubordinate, rebellious
a riddle, dilemma, enigma
convincing; firm belief
convoke
call together, summon
convoluted
complicated; coiled, twisted
cord
twisted strands
cordial
warm and sincere
cordon
line (of police acting as a guard)
corporeal
physical; of or for the body
correlate
have a mutual relation
corroboration
additional, strengthening evidence
countenance
to favor or approve of
counterfeit
forgery
countervail
counterbalance
covert
disguised
covetous
eagerly desirous
cower
crouch; shrink back
craven
cowardly
crease
line made by crushing; white line on the
ground in cricket
credulity
too great a readiness to believe things
credulous
ready to believe things
crush
press, lose shape, subdue, overwhelm
cryptic
secret, with a hidden meaning
cumbersome
burdensome, heavy and awkward to carry
curmudgeon
bad-tempered person
curriculum
course of study
cursory
quick, hurried
curtail
make shorter then was planned
cynic
person who see no good in anything
D
dart
quick movement; missile in darts
daunt
dawdler
dearth
debacle
decorous
decorum
decree
decry
defer
deference
deferential
defiance
deflect
defy
degrade
delineate
deluge
demagogue
demur
denigrate
denouement
plot
denounce
dent
deplete
deposition
deprave
deprecate
dereliction
derision
derivative
intimidate, make fearful

person who is slow; waste of time
shortage
a breakup, overthrow, sudden disaster
polite, decent
propriety, properness
order given by authority
disapprove of
postpone; give way (to show respect)
respect
showing respect
open disobedience or resistance
turn aside
resist openly
reduce in rank or status
to portray, depict, sketch out
great flood, heavy rush of water
person appealing not to reasons
to hesitate, raise objections
blacken, belittle, sully, defame
an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a
give information against
hollow, depression mad by a blow
use until none remains
dethronement, depositing
make morally bad; corrupt
protest against, express disapproval of
deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
ridicule, mockery, deriding
derived, not original or primitive
derivative
derogatory
descry
distance
desiccant
desiccate
desuetude
desultory
detach
deter
detraction
detumescence
deviance
normal)
dexterity
dexterous
diaphanous
diatribe
dictate
diffidence
diffident
dilate
dilatory
disabuse
disallow
discern
discomfit
discomfit
disconcert
discountenance
discourse
unoriginal, obtained from another source

insulting; tending to damage
catch sight of, see something in the
substance used to absorb moisture
to dry up, dehydrate
cessation of use; disuse
aimless, haphazard, digressing at random
separate
discourage, hinder
slandering, verbal attack, aspersion
diminishing or lessening of swelling
being different in moral standards (from
skill (esp. in handling)
clever, skillful with hands
transparent, gauzy
bitter and violent attack in words
order
shyness
lacking in self-confidence
speak comprehensively, become wider, large
causing delay, procrastinating
to undeceive, correct a false impression
refuse to allow or accept as a correct
see with an effort but clearly
confuse, embarrass
to defeat, put down
upset the self-possession of
refuse to approve of
speech, lecture,
discredit
disdain
disencumber
disheveled
disingenuous
cunning
disinter
dislodge
dismal
disparate
dispassionate
dissemble
mind)
disseminate
dissent
dissipation
dissolution
distinct
marked
distorted
account of
distraught
distress
divergence
diverse
divestiture
divulge
doggerel
dogmatic
for discussion
dogmatism
refuse to believe
look on with contempt
free from encumbrance
untidy
sophisticated, artful, trying to deceive,
dig up from the earth
move, force from the place occupied
sad, gloomy, miserable
essentially different
free from passion
speak or behave so as to hide something (in
distribute (esp. ideas)
have a different opinion, refuse to assent
going away, dispersing
disintegration, looseness in morals
easily heard, seen, understood, clearly
pulled out of the usual shape, give a false
distracted, violently upset in mind
great pain; cause discomfort
getting farther apart from a point
of different kinds
taking off, getting rid of, giving up
make known something secret
trivial, poorly constructed verse
positive, certain, arbitrary, without room
being dogmatic
dolt
stupid fellow
dormant
in a state of inactivity but awaiting
development
dote
show much fondness, center one's attention
drone
male bee, person who isn't self-employed
drowsiness
feeling sleepy, half asleep
dubious
feeling doubt
dud
no use person, something that fails
dulcet
melodious, harmonious
dupe
cheat, make a fool of
duplicity
deliberate deception
duress
threats to compel somebody
dwarf
person or somebody much below the usual
size
dynamo
a generator, something that produces
electric current
E
earthenware
ebullience
ebullient
excitement
ecumenical
edacious
eddy
effete
efficacy
effluvia
odor or vapor
effrontery
egress
dishes made of baked clay

exuberance, outburst of feeling
overflowing with enthusiasm; showing
representing the whole Christian world
voracious, devouring
circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind)
infertile, worn out, weak
production of a desired result
outflow in a stream of particles; a noxious
boldness, impudence, arrogance
way out, exit
elaborate
worked out with much care in great detail
elate
stimulate
elation
high-spirits
electorate
all the electors
elegy
a lament, a melancholy composition
elicit
draw out
eloquence
fluent speaking; skillful use of language
emaciate
make thin and weak
embellish
make beautiful
embezzle
use in a wrong way for one's own benefit
emergence
emerging
emote
stir up, excite
empirical
relying on experiment
encapsulate
enclose in capsule
encomium
warm or glowing praise; eulogy, panegyric
encumbrance
burden; things that get on the way of
endearing
making dear or liked
endemic
epidemic
endemic
prevailing in a specific area
endorse
write one's name on the back of
enduring
lasting
enervate
weaken, deprive of strength, attenuate
engender
cause, produce, give rise to
engrave
impress deeply
engrossing
taken up all the time or attention; writing
in large or formal
engulf
swallow up
enigma
something that is puzzling
enmity
hatred; being an enemy
enormity
excessive wickedness; evilness
enormousness
great size
entangle
entreat
enzyme
epicure
Epicurean
epistle
epithet
epitome
typical model
equable
equanimity
equilibrium
equipoise
equivocal
suspicious
equivocate
eradicate
erasure
erode
erratic
erudite
escalate
esoteric
of
espouse
eulogy
euphoria
euthanasia
evaluating
evaporate
evince
put into difficulties

ask earnestly
catalyst
food lover, a connoisseur of food
devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
letter
adjective
brief summary; representative example; a
steady, regular
calmness of temperament
state of being balanced
equal distribution of weight; equilibrium
having a double or doubtful meaning;
try to deceive by equivocal language
get rid of; pull up by the roots
erasing, removing all traces
wear away, eat into
irregular in behavior or opinion
learned, scholarly
increase, develop
abstruse; intended only for a small circle
marry; give one's support to
formal praise; panegyric
elation; state of pleasant excitement
easy and painless death
finding out the value
change into vapor, disappear, die
to show clearly, to indicate
evoke
call up, bring out
evolve
unfold, develop naturally and gradually
excoriate
to flay, strip off the skin; to denounce
sharply
excoriation
severe criticism
exculpate
free from blame
exculpate
to clear from a charge of guilt
exert
but forth; bring into use
exertion
instance of exerting
exhaustive
complete, thorough
exigency
emergency, an urgent situation
exonerate
free; clear
exoneration
set somebody clear, free (e.g.. from blame)
exorbitant
much too high or great
expatiate
to roam, wander freely
expedient
likely to be useful for a purpose
expiation
ending; expiring
exploit
brilliant achievement; develop; use
selfishly
expostulate
argue earnestly to dissuade, correct, or
protest
expurgate
to remove obscenity, purify, censor
exscind
to cut out, cut away
exsert
thrust out, push forth
extant
still in existence
extensive
far-reaching
extenuate
reduce the strength of, lessen seriousness,
partially excuse
extinct
no longer active
extirpate
to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind
extol
praise highly
extort
extralegal
extricable
extrovert
exuberance
life
obtain by threats, violence

outside the law
that can be freed
cheerful person
state of growing vigorously; being full of
F
facetious
facile
facilitate
fallacious
fallacy
fatuous
faucet
liquid
fawn
feckless
feckless
careless
fecund
feint
felicitous
apropos
felon
ferment
ferocity
ferret
fertile
fertilize
fervid
humorous, funny, jocular

easily done
make easy (e.g.. a process of something)
based on error
false or mistaken belief
without sense, foolish self-satisfaction
device for controlling the outflow of a
young deer, try to win smb's favor
futile, irresponsible, inefficient
lacking purpose or vitality; ineffective;
fertile
pretend
apt; suitably expressed, well chosen,
person guilty of murder
substance; become excited
savage cruelty
discover by searching; search
producing much, full of ideas
make fertile or productive
intense, zealous
fervid
showing earnest feeling
fervor
warmth of feelings; earnestness
fetter
to shackle, put in chains
feud
bitter quarrel over a long period of time
fidelity
loyalty, accuracy
fidget
move restlessly, make nervous
figurehead
carved image on the prow of a ship
finesse
delicate way of dealing with a situation
finical
too fussy about food, clothing, etc.
finicky
finical
finite
limited, having bounds
fission
splitting or division (esp. of cells)
fixate
stare at
flamboyant
brightly colored, florid
flammable
having tendency to burst into flames
flaunting
show off complacently
flaw
crack, lessen value
flax
pale yellow (hair); a plant
fledged
able to fly, trained, experienced
fleet
number of ships, quick-moving
fleeting
passing quickly
flexibility
easily bent without braking
flinch
draw, move back, wince
florid
very much ornamented; naturally red (e.g..
of face)
floridness
ruddiness; heavily decorated; ornateness
flout
reject, mock, to go against (as in going
against tradition)
fluster
make nervous or confused
foible
defect of character (a person is wrongly
proud)
foil
prevent from carrying out; contrast
foment
put something warm (to lessen the pain)
foppish
like a man who pays too much attention to
his clothes
forbear
refrain from, be patient; ancestor
forbearance
patience, willingness to wait
ford
shallow place in a river (to cross)
forestall
prevent by taking action in advance,
preempt
forfeit
suffer the loss of something
forge
workshop for the shaping of metal; to shape
metal; lead
forgery
counterfeit
forswear
renounce, disallow, repudiate
fortify
strengthen
fortuitous
happening by chance
foster
nurture, care for
fragile
easily injured, broken or destroyed
fragrant
sweet-smelling
franchise
special right given by authority
frantic
wildly excited with joy, pain, anxiety
frenetic
frantic, frenzied
fret
worry; irritation; wear away
friction
the rubbing of one thing against another,
difference of opinion
fringe
edge; ornamental border; part of hair over
the forehead
froward
intractable, not willing to yield or
comply, stubborn
frugal
careful, economical
fulminate
berate, vituperate, to thunder out, to
explode
fulmination
fulsome
bitter protest
disgusting, offensive due to excessiveness
G
gainsay
gambol
garment
garner
garrulity
garrulous
gaucherie
germane
gist
glean
glib
gloat over
glut
gnaw
goad
gossamer
gouge
grace
grave
gregarious
grievance
grievous
grimace
grind
grooves
of living
to deny, declare false, to oppose

quick, playful jumping
article of clothing
to gather and save; to store up
talkativeness
too talkative
socially awkward, tactless behavior
relevant; pertinent to
the point, general sense
gather facts in small quantities
ready and smooth but not sincere
look at with selfish delight
supply to much, fill to excess
waste away; bite steadily
something urging a person to action
soft, light, delicate material
tool for cutting grooves in wood
favor
serious, requiring consideration
living in societies; liking the company
cause for complaint or protest
causing grief or pain; serious, dire, grave
twisted expression of a face
crush, polish
long channel in the surface, habitual way
grovel
guile
guileless
gull
gullible
gust
fire, etc.
crawl, humble oneself

deceit, cunning
straight-forward, candid
cheat, deceive
easily gulled
outburst of feeling; sudden rain, wind,
H
hack
hallow
hamper
activity
hapless
harangue
harbinger
coming of
harrow
harsh
haughty
haven
heed
heinous
heresy
accepted
hermetic
heterogeneous
hew
hirsute
hoax
joke
cut roughly; hired horse

to make holy; consecrate
basket with a lid, prevent free movement or
unlucky, unfortunate
a long, passionate speech
something or somebody that foretells the
to distress, create stress or torment
rough, cruel, stern
arrogant; conceited
harbor, safety place
pay attention; notice
odious (of crime)
belief contrary to what is generally
sealed by fusion
made up of different kinds
make by hard work; cut (by striking)
hairy, shaggy
mischievous trick played on somebody for a
hoi polloi
hollow
holster
hone
hoodwink
hospitable
hubris
hurdle
husk
hypocrisy
the masses; the rabble

not soled, with hole
leather case for a pistol
stone used for sharpening tools
trick, mislead
liking to give hospitality
arrogant pride
light frame, fence to be jumped over
worthless outside part of anything
falsely making oneself appear to be good
I
iconoclast
iconoclastic
idiosyncrasy
idolatrous
idolatry
idyll
ignoble
ignominious
disgraceful
illicit
illusory
imbroglio
immaculate
immerse
imminent
immutable
impair
impaired
impassive
person who attacks popular beliefs

attacking cherished beliefs
personal mannerism
worshipping idols
excessive admiration of
a carefree episode or experience
dishonorable, common, undignified
shameful, dishonorable, undignified,
unlawful, forbidden
deceptive; an illusion
complicated and embarrassing situation
pure, faultless
absorb; put under the surface of
likely to come or happen soon
that cannot be changed
worsen, diminish in value
damaged, weakened
unmoved; feeling no sign of passion
impecunious
impede
impediment
impending
imperative
imperious
imperviousness
impermeable
imperturbable
impervious
imperviousness
impetuous
ahead, forceful
impiety
implacable
implausibility
implicate
implicit
implosion
imply
importune
imprecation
impromptu
impudence
impudent
impugned
impute
inadvertent
inane
inasmuch
incense
having little or no money

hinder; get in the way of
something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
imminent, being about to happen, expected
urgent, essential
commanding, haughty, arrogant
haughty, arrogant, commanding
that cannot be permeated
calm; not capable of being excited
not allowing to pass through (of materials)
arrogance, commanding presence, overbearing
having sudden energy, impulsive, thrusting
lack of reverence or dutifulness
incapable of being placated, unpleasable
incredibility
show that somebody has a share
implied though not plainly expressed
collapse; bursting inward
make a suggestion
beg urgently; solicit (of a prostitute)
an invocation of evil; a curse
without preparation
being rash, indiscreet
rash, indiscreet
challenged, to be doubted
to attribute to a cause or source, ascribe
not paying proper attention
silly, senseless
since, because
make angry
incessant
often repeated, continual
inchoate
not yet fully formed, rudimentary,
elementary
incise
engrave, make a cut in
incite
stir up, rouse
inclined
directing the mind in a certain direction
incoherently
not consistently, unclearly
incongruous
out of place, not in harmony or agreement
incorrigibility cannot be cured or corrected
incredulous
skeptical, unwilling to believe
inculcate
fix firmly by repetition
incumbents
official duties
incursion
a raid, a sudden attack
indefatigability
not easily exhaustible;
tirelessness
indelible
that cannot be rubbed out
indelicate
immodest; lacking in refinement
indigence
poverty
indigenous
native
indistinct
not easily heard, seen, clearly marked
indolence
laziness
indomitable
not easily discouraged or subdued
indulge
gratify, give way to, satisfy; allow
oneself
indulgent
inclined to indulge
ineffable
to great to be described in words
ineluctable
certain, inevitable
inept
unskillful; said or done at the wrong time
infertile
not fertile, barren
inflame
become red, angry
inflammatory
tending to inflame
infuriate
fill with fury or rage
infuse
put, pour, fill
ingenuous
naive, young, artless, frank, honest,
sincere
ingest
take in by swallowing
inherent
existing as a natural part
inhibit
hinder, restrain
inimical
harmful or friendly
inimitable
defying imitation, unmatchable
innocuous
causing no harm
inscrutable
incapable of being discovered or understood
insensible
unconscious, unresponsive, unaffected
insinuate
suggest unpleasantly; make a way for
something gently
insipid
without taste or flavor
insouciant
unconcerned, carefree
insularity
narrow-mindedness, isolated
insurrection
rising of people to open resistance to
interdict
prohibit, forbid
interim
as an installment
intersperse
place here and there
intervene
come between; interfere to change the
result
intractable
unruly, refractory, stubborn
intransigence
unwillingness to compromise,
stubbornness,intractability
intransigent
uncompromising
intrepid
fearless, brave, undaunted
introspection
examining one's own thoughts and feelings
inundate
flood; cover by overflowing
inured
accustomed to, adapted
invective
inveigh
inveterate
involute
irascible
irate
ire
irksome
irreconcilable
irrelevant
irresolute
irrevocable
itinerary
route
itinerate
peregrinate
abusive language, curses

to attack verbally, denounce, deprecate
deep-rooted. long-established
complex
irritable, easily angered
angry
anger
tiresome
cannot be brought into harmony
not relevant, not connected
hesitating; undecided
final and unalterable
plan for a journey, details or records of a
to travel from place to place, to
J
jabber
jeopardize
jibe
jocular
judicious
talk excitedly; utter rapidly

put in danger
gibe, make fun of
meant as a joke
sound in judgment; wise
K
knit
draw together, unite firmly
L
labyrinthine
to entangle the state of affairs
lachrymose
lackluster
laconic
lag
lament
lassitude
latent
visible
laudatory
lavish
generously
leakage
legacy
libel
liberality
libertine
lien
limn
limp
lithe
loll
(dog's tongue)
loquacious
lubricant
lubricate
lubricious
lucubrate
luculent
lugubrious
lull
luminary
causing tears, tearful

(of eyes) dull
brief, to the point, terse
go too slow
show, feel great sorrow
weariness, tiredness
present but not yet active, developed or
expressing or giving praise
giving or producing freely, liberally or
the process of leaking
something handed down from ancestors
statement that damages reputation
free giving; generosity
immoral person
legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
paint, portray
lacking strength, walking unevenly
bending, twisting
rest, to sit or stand in a lazy way; hang
talkative, garrulous
substance that makes work easier
put oil to make work easily
lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
write in scholarly fashion
easily understood, lucid, clear
mournful, excessively sad
become quiet or less active
star, light-giving body
lustrous
being bright, polished
M
macabre
machination
maladroit
malapropism
it)
malevolence
malign
malinger
shirk a duty
malleable
manacle
martial
massacre
matriculation
student
mature
for use
maudlin
maverick
mellifluous
mendacious
mendacity
mendicant
mercurial
meretricious
value
mesmerize
meticulous
gruesome, suggesting death

plot, scheme (esp. evil)
tactless, clumsy
misuse of a word (for one that resembles
wishing to do evil
injurious, speak ill of somebody, tell lie
to fake illness or injury, in order to
yielding; easily shaped; moldable; adapting
chains for the hands or feet
brave, of associated with war
cruel killing of a large number of people
be admitted, enter a university as a
come to full development, to a state ready
sentimental in a silly or tearful way
rebel, nonconformist
sweetly flowing
false
dishonesty
a beggar
quick, changeable in character, fleeting
attractive on the surface but of little
hypnotize
giving great attention to details
mettle
quality of endurance or courage
mettlesome
courageous, high-spirited
middling
fairly good but not very good
minatory
menacing, threatening
mince
pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize
misanthrope
person who hates mankind
mischievous
harmful, causing mischief
miser
person who loves wealth and spends little
misogynist
one who hates women/females
missile
something that is thrown or shot
mitigate
make less severe or painful
moderation
quality of being limited, not extreme
mollify
make calmer or quieter
molt
moult, lose hair, feathers before new
growing
morbid
diseased, unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
morose
ill-tempered, unsocial
mortuary
place where dead bodies are taken to be
kept until burial
multifarious
varied, motley, greatly diversified
mundane
worldly as opposed to spiritual;
commonplace,everyday
myriad
very great number
N
nadir
nascent
nebulous
negligent
neophyte
nexus
lowest, weakest point

coming into existence, emerging
cloud-like; hazy; vague; indistinct
taking too little care
person who has been converted to a belief
a connection, tie, or link
nibble
nice
noisome
nonchalant
nonplused
nostrum
notion
noxious
nullify
numb
numbness
show some inclination to accept (an offer)

precise, sensitive to subtleness
offensive, disgusting (smell)
not having interest
greatly surprised
a quack remedy, an untested cure
nominal, token
harmful
make void and null
without ability to feel or move
without ability to move a finger
O
obdurate
hardened and unrepenting; stubborn,
inflexible
obfuscate
to darken, make obscure, muddle
oblivious
unaware, having no memory
obloquy
abusively detractive language, sharp
criticism, vituperation
obsequious
too eager to obey or serve
obsolete
no longer used
obstreperous
noisy, loud
obtain
to be established, accepted, or customary
obtrusive
projecting, prominent, undesirably
noticeable
obviate
to make unnecessary, get rid of
occluded
blocked up
occult
hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
odious
repulsive, hateful
odium
contempt, dislike, aversion
odor
smell; favor; reputation
officious
too eager or ready to help, offer advice
onerous
needing effort, burdensome
opprobrious
showing scorn or reproach
ossify
to turn to bone; to settle rigidly into an
idea
ostensible
seeming, appearing as such, professed
ostentation
display to obtain admiration or envy
ostentatious
fond of showing ostentation
ostracism
shut out from society, refuse to meet, talk
ostrich
fast-running bird unable to fly
outset
start
overhaul
examine thoroughly to learn about the
condition
overweening
presumptuously arrogant, overbearing,
immoderate, being a jerk
overwhelm
weigh down, submerge
P
paean
song of praise or triumph
palate
roof of the mouth; sense of taste
palatial
magnificent
palliate
lessen the severity of
palliate
to make something appear less serious,to
alleviate,to gloss over
palpability
can be felt, touched, understood
palpitate
tremble, beat rapidly and irregularly
panegyric
formal praise, eulogy
paradigm
a model, example, or pattern
parenthesis
sentence within another one, something
separated
pariah
an outcast, a rejected and despised person
parsimonious
partisan
prejudiced
patron
paucity
peccadillo
character
pedantic
pedestrian
pellucid
penchant
penitent
penury
peregrination
peremptory
debate
perennial
perfidious
perfidy
perfunctory
perilous
peripatetic
perish
perjury
permeate
pernicious
perpetrate
persevere
personable
perspicacity
pertain
too economical, miserly

one-sided, committed to a party, biased or
regular customer; person who gives support
scarcity, a lacking of
small sin; small weakness in one's
bookish, showing off learning
commonplace, trite, unremarkable
transparent, easy to understand
strong inclination, a liking
feeling or showing regret
extreme poverty
traveling about, wandering
urgent, imperative, unchallengeable, ending
lasting for a long time (e.g.. a year)
treacherous, faithless
treachery; breaking of faith
done as a duty without care
dangerous
wandering
be destroyed; decay
willful false statement, unlawful act
spread into every part of
harmful, injurious
be guilty; commit (a crime)
keep on steadily, continue
pleasing in appearance, attractive
quick judging and understanding
belong as a part, have reference
pest
nuisance
petrified
petrify
petrous
petulant
philistine
knowledge
phlegmatic
picaresque
pied
pinch
finger
pious
piquant
pique
(curiosity)
pitfall
pith
substance
pivotal
placate
plaintive
plaque
platitude
plea
plead
plethora
pliant
plod
pluck
destructive thing or a person who is

taken away power (to think, feel, act)
to make hard, rocklike
like a rock, hard, stony
unreasonably impatient
a smug ignorant person; one who lacks
calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional
involving clever rogues or adventurers
of mixed colors
be too tight, take between the thumb and
dutiful to parents; devoted to religion
agreeably pungent, stimulating
hurt the pride or self-respect, stir
covered hole as a trap, unsuspected danger
essential part, force, soft liquid
of great importance (others depend on it)
soothe, pacify, calm
mournful, melancholy, sorrowful
flat metal on a wall as a memorial
a trite or banal statement; unoriginality
request
address a court of law as an advocate
glut
pliable, easily bent, shaped or twisted
continue doing something without resting
pull the feathers off, pick (e.g.. flowers)
plumb
plummet
plunge
poignant
poise
polemical
ponderous
portent
poseur
phony
posture
poverty
pragmatic
precarious
precept
precepts
precipitate
height
preclude
precursory
predilection
predominate
preempt
premature
right time
preponderance
presage
preternatural
prevalent
prevaricate
prim
get to the root of

fall, plunge, steeply
move quickly, suddenly and with force
deeply moving; keen
be ready, be balanced, self-possession
controversial, argued
heavy, bulky, dull
omen; marvelous; threatening
someone taking on airs to impress others; a
state, attitude; adopt a vain
state of being poor
practical, favoring utility
uncertain, risky, dangerous
moral instruction
rules establishing standards of conduct
throw something violently down from a
prevent, make impossible
preliminary, anticipating
special liking, mental preference
have more power than others
obtain by preemption or in advance
doing or happening something before the
greatness in number, strength, weight
warning sign
not normal or usual
common
to equivocate, to stray from the truth
neat; formal
pristine
primitive, unspoiled, pure, as in earlier
times, unadulterated
probity
uprightness, incorruptibility, principle
proclivity
inclination
procrastination keeping on putting off
prodigal
wasteful, reckless with money
prodigious
enormous, wonderful
profane
worldly, having contempt for God
profligate
wasteful, prodigal, licentious, extravagant
profundity
depth
proliferate
grow, reproduce by rapid multification
prolix
tiring because too long
prone
prostrate; inclined to (undesirable things)
propagation
increasing the number, spreading, extending
propinquity
nearness in time or place, affinity of
nature
propitiate
do something to take away the anger of
propitiatory
conciliatory, appeasing, mitigating
propitious
auspicious, presenting favorable
circumstances
prosaic
everyday, mundane, commonplace, trite,
pedestrian
proscribe
denounce as dangerous
protracted
prolonged
provident
frugal; looking to the future
provisional
of the present time only
provoke
make angry; vax
prudence
careful forethought
prudish
easily shocked, excessively modest
prune
dried plum, silly person
pry
get something; inquire too curiously
pugnacious
fond of, in the habit of fighting
punch
strike with the fist; tool for cutting
holes; alc.drink
punctilious
precise, paying attention to trivialities
pundit
pedant, authority on a subject
pungency
sharpness; stinging quality
purvey
provide, supply
pusillanimous
cowardly, craven
pyre
large pile of wood for burning
Q
quack
quaff
quail
qualm
sickness
quell
quibble
quiescent
quirk
something
quixotic
quotidian
person dishonestly claiming to something

drink deeply
lose courage, turn frightened
feeling of doubt, temporary feeling of
suppress, subdue
try to avoid by sophistication
at rest, dormant, torpid
habit or action peculiar to somebody or
generous, unselfish
banal; everyday
R
rabble
raconteur
radiant
raffish
mob, crowd; the lower classes of populace

person who tells anecdotes
bright, shining
low, vulgar, base, tawdry
rail at
ramify
rancorous
rant
rapacious
rarefy
or refine
reactionary
rebuff
recalcitrant
recant
recast
recidivism
behavior
reciprocity
similar
recitals
recluse
recompense
reconcile
recondite
recourse
recreancy
recuperate
exhaustion
redeem
redemptive
redoubtable
refine
refractory
refulgent
find fault, utter reproaches

to be divided or subdivided; to branch out
feeling bitterness, spitefulness
use extravagant language
greedy (esp for money)
to make thin, to make less dense, to purify
opposing progress
snub
disobedient
take back as being false; give up
cast or fashion anew
relapse into antisocial or criminal
granting of privileges in return for
a number of, performance of music
person who lives alone and avoids people
make payment to; reward, punish
settle a quarrel; restore peace
little known; abstruse
something turned to for help
cowardice, a cowardly giving up
become strong after illness, loss,
get back by payment; compensate
serving to redeem
formidable, causing fear
make or become pure, cultural
stubborn, unmanageable, untractable
shining, brilliant
regale
to delight or entertain; to feast
regicide
crime of killing a king
reiterate
say or do again several times
rejuvenation
becoming young in nature or appearance
relapse
fall back again
relinquish
give up
reluctant
unwilling or disinclined
remonstrate
to protest, object
render
deliver, provide, represent
renovate
restore something to better condition
renowned
celebrated, famous
rent
regular payment for the use of something,
division or split
repast
meal
repine at
be discontented with
reproach
scold, upbraid
reprobate
person hardened in sin; one devoid of
decency
repudiate
disown, refuse to accept or pay
repulsive
causing a feeling of disgust
requite
repay, give in return
resigned
unresisting, submissive
resilience
quality of quickly recovering the original
shape
resolve
determine
resort to
frequently visit
restive
refusing to move; reluctant to be
controlled
resurrect
bring back into use
resuscitation
coming back to consciousness
retard
check, hinder
reticent
revere
rift
rivet
roll call
rope
rotund
rubric
ruffian
reserved, untalkative, silent, taciturn

have deep respect for
split, crack, dissension
fix, take up, secure; metal pin
calling of names
thick strong cord made by twisting
rich and deep; plump and round
heading, title, or category
violent, cruel man
S
sagacious
like a sage
salacious
salient
relevant
salubrious
salutary
sanctimony
false piety
sanction
sanguine
sanity
sap
sate
satiate
saturnine
savant
savor
sawdust
scabbard
having sound judgment; perceptive, wise;

obscene
prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly
healthful
remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
self-righteousness, hypocritical, with
approval (by authority); penalty
cheerful, confident, optimistic
health of mind; soundness of judgement
weaken
satiate
satisfy fully
gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
person of great learning
taste, flavor something
tiny bits of wood
sheath for the blade
scent
smell (esp pleasant)
scribble
write hastily
scurvy
mean, contemptible
seal
piece of wax, lead, etc stamped on the
document
secular
material (not spiritual); living outside
monasteries
sedulous
persevering
seminal
like a seed; constituting a source,
originative
sententious
short and pithy, full of maxims/proverbs
sequence
succession, connected line of
serrated
having a toothed edge
serration
having a toothed edge
servile
like a slave, lacking independence
severance
severing
shaft
arrow or spear, something long and narrow
shallow
little depth; not earnest
shard
piece of broken earthenware
sheath
cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
shove
push
shrewd
astute; showing sound judgement
shrill
sharp, piercing
shun
keep away from; avoid
shunt
send from one track to another; lay aside;
evade discussion
sidestep
step to one side
sinuous
winding, undulating, serpentine
skiff
small boat
skit
short piece of humorous writing
slack
sluggish; dull; not tight
slake
to assuage, to satisfy, allay
slate
king of blue-grey stone; propose; criticize
sluggard
lazy, slow-moving person
soar
rise, fly high
sober
self-controlled
sobriety
quality or condition of being sober
sodden
soaked, saturated
soggy
heavy with water
solvent
of the power of forming a solution
somatic
of the body
soot
black powder in smoke
sophisticated
complex, subtle, refined
sophistry
fallacious reasoning, faulty logic
sophomoric
self-assured though immature, affected,
bombastic, overblown
sordid
wretched, comfortless, contemptible
spear
weapon with a metal point on a long shaft
specious
illogical, of questionable truth or merit
splenetic
bad-tempered, irritable
splice
join (two ends)
sponge
porous rubber for washing; live at once
expense
spurious
false, counterfeit
spurn
have nothing to do; reject or refuse
squalid
foul, filthy
squander
spend wastefully
stanch
to stop the flow of a fluid
steeply
rising or falling sharply
stentorian
extremely loud and powerful
stickler
person who insists on importance of
something
stigma
mark of shame or disgrace
stigmatize
describe somebody scornfully
sting
something sharp
stingy
spending, using unwillingly
stint
to be thrifty, to set limits
stipulate
state or put forward as a necessary
condition
stolid
showing no emotion; impassive
strands
something twisted together into a rope,
line of development
stray
wander, lose one's way
streak
long, thin; move very fast
striated
striped, grooved, or banded
stride
walk with long steps
strut
a supporting bar
stygian
hence, dark, gloomy
stymie
to hinder, obstruct, or block
subdue
overcome, bring under control
sublime
extreme; astounding
submerge
put under water, liquid, sink out of sight
suborn
induce by bribery or something to commit
perjury
subpoena
written order requiring a person to appear
in a law court
subsume
include under a rule
succor
assistance, relief in time of distress
suffice
be enough
sullied
to be stained or discredited
summarily
briefly; without delay
sumptuous
magnificent
sundry
various, miscellaneous, separate
supercilious
superfluous
superimpose
supersede
supine
suppliant
supplicate
suppress
surfeit
susceptibility
sustain
decision
sycophant
synopsis
disdainful; characterized by haughty scorn

more then is needed or wanted
put something on the top
take the place of
lying on the back; slow to act, passive
asking humbly, beseeching
make a humble petition to
prevent from being known; put an end to
satiate, feed to fulness or to excess
sensitiveness
keep from falling; maintain; suffer; give a
person who flatter to the rich and powerful
summary or outline
T
taciturn
talon
tamp
tamper
tangential
tarnished
taunt
taut
tautology
tawdry
tease
tedious
teetotal
temerity
temperance
untalkative, silent
claw of a bird of prey
tap or drive down by repeated light blows
interfere with
suddenly changeable
lost brightness
contemptuous reproach, hurtful remark
tightly stretched
a repetition, a redundancy
cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
annoy; puzzling question
tiresome
oppose to alcohol
boldness, brashness, intrepidness
abstinence from alcohol, self-control,
moderation
temperate
showing self-control
tenacity
firmness, persistency, adhesiveness,
tending to hang on
tenuous
insubstantial, flimsy, weak
terse
brief and to the point
thrift
care, economy, thriving, prosperous
timid
shy, easily frightened
timorous
fearful, timid, afraid
tolerable
fairly good
tonic
something giving strength or energy
topple
be unsteady and overturn
torment
severe pain or suffering
torpid
sleeping, sluggish, lethargic, dormant
tortuous
full of twists and bends
tout
person who worries others to buy something,
to use his service
touting
act as tout
toy
think not seriously, handle absent-mindedly
tractable
easily controlled or guided
transgress
break, go beyond (a limit)
transient
temporary, fleeting
transitory
brief
trenchant
forceful, effective, vigorous; extremely
perceptive,incisive
trend
tendency, general direction
trepidation
alarm, excited state of mind
trifling
unimportant
trite
not new
truculence
aggressiveness, ferocity
trudge
walk heavily
turbid
turbulence
turgid
turmoil
turpitude
tyro
muddy, having the sediment stirred up

being uncontrolled, violent
excessively ornate; swollen or bloated
trouble, disturbance
wickedness, shamefulness
tiro, beginner
U
ulterior
umbrage
uncouth
underbid
undermine
something under
undulate
unencumbered
unfeigned
unscathed
untoward
upbraid
urbane
situated beyond
offense, resentment
rough, awkward
make a lower bid then somebody else
weaken gradually, at the base, make
to move in wavelike fashion, fluctuate
easy-going, trifle
not pretended, sincere
unharmed, unhurt
unfortunate, inconvenient
scold, reproach
elegant, refined in manners
V
vacillation
vagary
vain
valiant
valorous
vanquish
vapor
being uncertain, hesitating

strange act or idea
without use, result; conceited
brave
brave
conquer
stim, mist
veer
venal
veneer
veneration
veracity
verisimilitude
veritable
verve
vex
vigilance
maintain order
vigilant
vigorous
vilify
vindictive
virago
visceral
vitiate
vituperate
vivacious
volatile
explosive
volubility
language
voluble
voluminous
change direction
ready to do something dishonest
surface appearance covering the true nature
regard with deep respect
truth
appearing true or real
real, rightly named
spirit, vigor, enthusiasm
annoy, distress, trouble
watchfulness, self-appointed group who
member of a vigilance committee
strong, energetic
slander, say evil things
having a desire to revenge
a loud, domineering woman; a scold or nag
of the internal organs of the body
lower the quality; weaken the strength
curse, abuse in words
lively, high-spirited
changeable, inconstant, fickle, unstable,
fluency, verbosity, easy use of spoken
fluent
occupying much space
W
waft
through
wag
scent, waving movement; carry lightly

merry person
wage
warmonger
warp
warrant
wary
weave
weigh
welter
wend
whimsical
wince
woo
payment, carry on, engage in (war)

person who stirs up war
become bent
authority, written order, guarantee
cautious
make (threads) into cloth
measure how heavy something is
turmoil; a bewildering jumble
to go, proceed
full of odd and fanciful ideas
show bodily or mental pain
try to win
Y
yarn
tale, story; fibers for knitting

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