abate, verb something; adjective lack of interest or

to reduce in caution; warn; unclear or emotion; uncaring;

amount, degree or reprove doubtful in indifference
severity meaning
adulterate, verb appease, verb
abdicate, verb to make impure by ambivalence, noun pacify or soothe;
to renounce or adding inferior or the state of having relieve
relinquish a throne tainted contradictory or
substances conflicting approbation, noun
aberrant, emotional approval; praise,
adjective aesthetic, attitudes consideration
abnormal or adjective
deviant artistic; dealing ameliorate, verb appropriate,
with or capable of to make better; to adjective
abeyance, noun appreciating the improve acquire; take
suspended action beautiful possession of for
amity , noun one’s own use
abject, adjective affable, adjective friendship;
utterly hopeless; friendly, courteous peaceful harmony arduous, adjective
humiliating or hard; strenuous
wretched aggrandize, verb anachronism,
to increase in noun artless, adjective
ablution, noun power, influence something or without guile;
act of cleansing and reputation someone open and honest
misplaced in time;
abscond, verb aggregate, verb an obsolete or ascetic, adjective
depart secretly gather; archaic form practicing self-
and hide accumulate denial; austere
anarchy, noun
abstemious, alacrity, adjective absence of assiduous,
adjective cheerful governing body; adjective
sparing in eating promptness; state of disorder diligent,
and drinking; eagerness persistent,
temperate androgynous, hardworking
alleviate, verb adjective
acquiesce, verb relieve being both male assuage, verb
to comply, give in and female to make less
altruist, noun severe; ease or
acrid, adjective a person anomalous, lessen (pain);
sharp or biting to unselfishly adjective satisfy (hunger);
the taste or smell concerned for the abnormal; soothe (anger)
welfare of others irregular
acrimonious, atrophy, verb
adjective amalgamate, verb antipathy, noun to waste away;
caustic, stinging combine; unite in aversion; dislike wither or
or bitter in nature one body deteriorate; the
apartheid, noun wasting away of
adjoin, verb amatory, adjective any system or body tissue
to be close or in of or pertaining to caste that
contact with lovers or separates people audacious,
lovemaking according to race adjective
admonish, verb daring; bold
to counsel against ambiguous, apathy, adjective
austere, adjective circumspect, approval; excuse
forbiddingly stern burnish, verb adjective
in appearance; make shiny by watchful and conflagration,
severely simple rubbing; polish discreet noun
and unornamented a large destructive
buttress, verb coagulate, verb fire
autonomous, support; prop up thicken; congeal;
adjective clot confluence, noun
self-governing; capitulate, verb merging into one
independent to surrender cogent, adjective
unconditionally or convincing and confound, verb
banal, adjective on stipulated well reasoned confuse; puzzle
boring; terms
commonplace; commensurate, congenital,
trite; lacking capricious, adjective adjective
originality; adjective corresponding in existing or as such
clichéd; unpredictable; extent, degree, from birth
hackneyed fickle; changing etc.; proportionate
one’s mind quickly connoisseur, noun
belligerent, and often complacent, person competent
adjective adjective to act as a judge
warlike, given to castigate, verb self-satisfied, of art; a lover of
waging war to punish or unconcerned art
criticize harshly
bemoan, verb compliant, contention, noun
to express pity for catalyst, noun adjective claim; thesis
agent that yielding;
benevolent, increases the rate conforming to contentious,
adjective of a chemical requirements adjective
desiring to do action; person or quarrelsome
good to others thing that causes compunction,
action noun contravene, verb
benign, adjective a feeling of to come into
having a kindly caustic, adjective uneasiness for conflict with
disposition burning; doing wrong
sarcastically contrite, adjective
bilateral, adjective biting concentric, feeling regret and
pertaining to or adjective sorrow for one’s
affecting two or chicanery, noun having a common sins or offenses;
both sides trickery; center penitent
deception by
bolster, verb means of craft or conciliate, verb conundrum, noun
support; reinforce guile to placate, win riddle; difficult
over problem
bombastic, circuitous,
adjective adjective conciliatory, convalescent,
pompous in roundabout, adjective adjective
speech and indirect reconciling; recovering from
manner ; using soothing illness
inflated language circumscribe, verb
to draw a line condone, verb converge, verb
boorish, adjective around overlook; forgive; approach; tend to
rude; insensitive give tacit meet; come
together respectful; to yield difference
judgment to diffident, adjective
convoke, verb lacking or marked discrete, adjective
to call together deign, verb by a lack of self- separate;
to think fit or in confidence; shy unconnected;
convoluted, accordance with and timid. consisting of
adjective one’s dignity distinct parts
intricate and diffuse, verb
complicated delude, verb to spread widely disingenuous,
to mislead the or thinly adjective
corroborate, verb mind of judgment lacking genuine
to provide of, deceive digression, noun candor; insincere
supporting wandering away
evidence denigrate, verb from the subject disinterested,
blacken adjective
craven, adjective dilatory, adjective unprejudiced
cowardly deride, verb inclined to delay
ridicule; make fun or procrastinate disjointed,
credulous, verb of adjective
too trusting; dilettante, noun lacking
gullible derision, noun someone with an coherence;
contemptuous or amateurish and separated at the
cursory, adjective jeering laughter; superficial joints
going rapidly over ridicule. interest in a topic
something; hasty; dismiss, verb
superficial derivative, noun dirge, noun eliminate from
unoriginal; lament with music consideration;
daunt, verb obtained from reject
intimidate; another source disabuse, verb
frighten correct a false disparage, verb
desiccate, verb impression; to set belittle
decadent, to dry out right; to free from
adjective thoroughly error disparate,
decaying; adjective
deteriorating desultory, discerning, fundamentally
adjective adjective distinct or
decorum, aimless; mentally quick different in kind;
adjective haphazard; and observant; entirely dissimilar
propriety; digressing at having insight
orderliness and random disquiet, noun
good taste in discordant, a lack of calm or
manners deterrent, adjective peace
adjective not harmonious;
default, verb something that conflicting dissemble, verb
failure to act discourages; disguise; pretend;
hindrance discredit, verb to disguise one’s
deference, noun defame; destroy real intentions or
respect; courteous dichotomy, noun confidence in; character
regard for split; branching disbelieve
another’s wishes into two parts disseminate, verb
(especially discrepancy, noun distribute; spread
deferential, contradictory lack of widely; scatter
adjective ones) consistency; (like seeds)
 speaking conceal the truth
dissolution, noun dour, adjective
disintegration; sullen, gloomy embellish, verb erudite, adjective
looseness in adorn; ornament; learned, scholarly,
morals dupe, verb enhance, as a bookish
to deceive; a story
dissonance, noun person who is eulogy, noun
discord; opposite easily deceived empathy, noun expression of
of harmony the identification praise, often on
duplicity, noun with the feelings the occasion of
distend, verb deceitfulness in or thoughts of someone's death
to expand by speech or others
stretching; swell conduct; double- euphemism, noun
out dealing empirical, an inoffensive
adjective expression that is
distill, verb ebullient, based on substituted for one
purify; refine; adjective experience that is considered
concentrate showing offensive
excitement; emulate, verb
diverge, verb overflowing with imitate; rival exacerbate, verb
vary; go in enthusiasm worsen; to
different endemic, increase
directions from eclectic, adjective adjective bitterness or
the same point selective; prevailing among violence
composed of a specific group of
doctrine, noun elements from a people or in a execrable,
a principle or body variety of sources specific area or adjective
of principles country abominable
presented for efficacy, noun
acceptance or effectiveness ; engender, verb exigency, noun
belief; dogma power to produce to produce, cause urgent situation;
desired effect or bring about pressing needs or
document, verb demands; state of
provide written effigy, noun enhance, verb requiring
evidence a dummy; a increase; improve immediate
likeness or image, attention
dogma, noun especially of a enigma, noun
a firmly held person. a puzzle; a exigent, adjective
opinion, often a mystery urgent; requiring
religious belief effrontery, noun immediate action
impudence; ephemeral,
dogmatic, shameless adjective expound, verb
adjective boldness; sheer short-lived; to set forth in
opinionated; nerve; fleeting detail
arbitrary; doctrinal presumptuousness
equanimity, noun exult, verb
doleful, adjective elicit, verb calmness of to show or feel
sorrowful, draw out by temperament; triumphant joy
mournful discussion composure
facetious,
dormant, adjective elocution, noun equivocate, verb adjective
sleeping; art of clear and lie; mislead; joking (often
lethargic; latent expressive attempt to inappropriately);
humorous fusillade, noun overstatement implacable,
continuous adjective
facilitate, verb discharge of hypocritical, incapable of being
help bring about; firearms or adjective pacified
make less difficult outburst of affecting virtues
criticism or qualities one implicit, adjective
fallacious, does not have understood but not
adjective futile, adjective stated
false; misleading useless; hopeless; idolatry, noun
ineffectual worship of idols; implode, verb
fatuous, adjective excessive burst inward
brainless; inane; garrulous, admiration
foolish, yet smug adjective inadvertently,
loquacious; immutable, adjective
fawning, adjective talkative; wordy adjective unintentionally; by
trying to please by unchangeable oversight;
behaving goad, verb carelessly
obsequiously, urge on impair, verb
flattering, or injure; hurt incongruity, noun
cringing grandiloquent, lack of harmony;
adjective impassive, absurdity
fervor, noun pompous or adjective
glowing ardor; inflated in without feeling; inconsequential,
intensity of feeling language; imperturbable; adjective
bombastic; using showing or feeling insignificant;
flag, verb high-sounding no emotion unimportant
droop; grow language
feeble; to decline impede, verb incorporate, verb
in vigor or gregarious, hinder; block introduce
strength adjective something into a
sociable impermeable, larger whole;
fledgling, adjective combine; unite
adjective guile, noun impervious; not
inexperienced deceit or trickery permitting incursion, noun
passage through a hostile entrance
flout, verb guileless, its substance into a place
reject; mock; adjective
show contempt for without deceit imperturbable, indeterminate,
adjective adjective
foment, verb gullible, adjective calm; placid uncertain; not
to arouse or incite easily deceived clearly fixed;
impervious, indefinite
forestall, verb harangue, noun adjective
prevent by taking long, passionate, impenetrable; indigence, noun
action in advance and vehement incapable of being poverty
speech damaged or
fractious, distressed indigent, adjective
adjective homogeneous, experiencing want
irritable, peevish adjective impetuous, or need;
of the same kind adjective impoverished.
frugality, noun quick to act
thrifty; economy hyperbole, noun without thinking indolence, noun
exaggeration; state of being lazy
or slothful someone who
intrudes in the lethargic, maladroit,
induce, verb domain of others adjective adjective
to move or lead by drowsy; dull clumsy, tactless
influence intractable,
adjective levee, noun malevolent,
inert, adjective unruly; stubborn; earth or stone adjective
inactive; lacking unyielding embankment to characterized by
power to move prevent flooding or expressing bad
intransigence, will
infusion, noun noun levity, noun
liquid extract so refusal of any lack of malign, verb
obtained compromise; seriousness or to speak harmful
stubbornness steadiness; untruths about, to
inherent, adjective frivolity slander
firmly established intransigent,
by nature or habit adjective litigate, verb malingerer, noun
refusing to agree to make the one who feigns
inimical, adjective or compromise subject of a illness to escape
hostile, unfriendly lawsuit duty
inundate, verb
innocuous, overwhelm; flood; log, noun malleable,
adjective submerge record of a voyage adjective
harmless or flight; record of capable of being
irascible, day-to-day shaped by
insensible, adjective activities pounding;
adjective irritable; easily impressionable
unconscious; angered loquacious,
unresponsive adjective maverick, noun
irresolute, talkative rebel;
insidious, adjective nonconformist
adjective uncertain how to lucid, adjective
intended to trap or act; weak easily understood; maxim, noun
beguile clear; intelligible an expression of
itinerary, noun general truth or
insinuate, verb plan of a trip luminous, principle
hint; imply; creep adjective
in laconic, adjective shining; issuing mendacious,
brief and to the light adjective
insipid, adjective point; using few lying; habitually
lacking in interest words magnanimity, dishonest
or flavor; dull noun
lassitude, noun generosity metamorphosis,
insolent, adjective languor; noun
boldly rude or weariness magnanimous, change of form
disrespectful adjective
latent, adjective generous in meticulous,
insularity, noun potential but forgiving an insult adjective
narrow- undeveloped; or injury excessively
mindedness; dormant; hidden careful;
isolation magnate, noun painstaking;
laud, verb a powerful or scrupulous
interloper, noun praise influential person
mitigate, verb unruly partisan, adjective itinerant
to soften, to one-sided;
lessen obtuse, adjective prejudiced; permeable,
not sharp, pointed committed to a adjective
mollify, verb or acute party penetrable;
to calm or make porous; allowing
less severe; obviate, verb pathological, liquids or gas to
soothe to prevent; make adjective pass through
unnecessary; get pertaining to
morose, adjective rid of disease pervasive,
ill-humored; adjective
sullen; melancholy officious, paucity, noun spread throughout
adjective smallness of
mundane, meddlesome; quantity; scarcity; petulant, adjective
adjective excessively pushy scantiness showing sudden
worldly as in offering one’s irritation, esp.
opposed to services pedantic, over some
spiritual; everyday adjective annoyance
omnivorous, showing off
nascent, adjective adjective learning; bookish philanderer, noun
starting to develop eating or one who carries
absorbing penchant, on flirtations
negate, verb everything adjective
cancel out; nullify; strong inclination; philanthropy, noun
deny onerous, adjective liking charity; a desire or
troublesome and effort to promote
obdurate, oppressive; penury, noun goodness
adjective burdensome severe poverty;
stubborn, stinginess philology, noun
hardened in opprobrium, noun the study of
feelings; resistant public disgrace; perennial, literary texts to
to persuasion infamy; vilification adjective establish their
something long- authenticity and
oblique, adjective oscillate, verb lasting determine their
having a slanting vibrate; waver meaning
or sloping perfidious,
direction ostentatious, adjective phlegmatic,
adjective treacherous; adjective
obsequious, showy; disloyal; willing to calm; not easily
adjective pretentious; trying betray one’s trust disturbed
overly submissive to attract
and eager to attention perfunctory, piety, noun
please; servile; adjective devoutness;
sycophantic panoply , noun superficial; not reverence for God
a wide-ranging thorough; lacking
obsolescent, and impressive interest, care, or placate, verb
adjective array or display enthusiasm; done pacify; conciliate
becoming in a routine way;
obsolete paragon, noun plasticity, noun
model of peripatetic, ability to be
obstreperous, excellence or adjective molded
adjective perfection walking or
noisily defiant, traveling about; platitude, noun
trite remark; inclined to prevent stinging; sharp in
commonplace predilection, noun or forbid taste or smell;
statement preference, liking caustic
proliferate, verb
plethora, noun presentiment, grow rapidly; pusillanimous,
excess; adjective spread; multiply adjective
overabundance a feeling of lacking courage or
anticipation over a propensity, noun resolution
plummet, verb future event natural inclination
fall sharply qualified,
presumptuous, propound, verb adjective
porous, adjective adjective to set forth for limited; restricted
full of pores; like a arrogant; taking consideration
sieve liberties querulous,
propriety, noun adjective
pragmatic, prevaricate, verb correct behavior full of complaints
adjective to lie or deviate or conduct,
practical (as from the truth obedience to rules quibble, noun
opposed to and customs minor objection or
idealistic); pristine, adjective complaint
concerned with characteristic of proscribe, verb
the practical earlier times; to condemn as quiescence, noun
worth or impact of primitive; harmful or odious; n. the condition of
something unspoiled ostracize; banish; being at rest, still,
outlaw inactive
preamble, noun probity, noun
introductory honesty; protract, verb quiescent,
statement uprightness; to prolong, draw adjective
incorruptibility out, extend adj. at rest;
precarious, dormant;
adjective problematic, provident, temporarily
uncertain; risky adjective adjective inactive;
doubtful; having or showing motionless
precipitate , unsettled; foresight
adjective questionable; rarefied, adjective
adj. rash, perplexing prudence, noun made less dense
premature, hasty, wisdom, caution (of a gas)
sudden prodigal, adjective or restraint
lavish; wasteful; recalcitrant,
preclude, verb reckless with puerile, adjective adjective
to prevent the money childish, immature obstinately
presence of stubborn;
profound, pugnacious, verb determined to
precocious, adjective to quarrel or fight resist authority;
adjective deep; not readily unruly
unusually superficial;
advanced or complete punctilious, recant, verb
mature in mental adjective disclaim or
development or prohibitive, strict or exact in disavow; retract a
talent adjective the observance of previous
tending to prevent formalities statement; openly
precursor, noun the purchase or confess error
forerunner use of something; pungent, adjective
recluse, noun stint , verb
hermit; loner resolve, verb skeptic, adjective to restrict or limit,
to make a firm doubter; person as in amount or
recumbent, decision about who suspends number; be
adjective judgment until sparing with
lying down; reticent, adjective having examined
reclining; leaning silent; reserved; evidence stipulate, verb
uncommunicative; supporting a point to lay down as a
refute, verb inclined to silence of view condition of an
disprove agreement;
reverent, adjective sociopath, noun require by
rejoinder, verb respectful; a person whose contract
to reply, retort worshipful behavior is
antisocial and who stolid, adjective
relegate, verb sage, noun lacks a sense of dull; impassive;
banish to an person celebrated moral unemotional;
inferior position; for wisdom responsibility lacking sensitivity
delegate; assign
salient, adjective solicitous, strut, verb
remonstrate, verb prominent or adjective walk pompously
to say or plead in conspicuous worried; wal
protest, objection, concerned
or reproof salubrious, subjugate, verb
adjective soporific, to conquer
reprehensible, conducive or adjective
adjective favorable to health sleep-causing; subpoena, noun
deserving rebuke or well-being lethargy; marked a writ requiring
or censure; by sleepiness appearance in
blameworthy. sanction, noun court to give
approve; ratify specious, testimony
reprisals, noun adjective
retaliation against satiate, verb having the ring of subside, verb
an enemy satisfy fully truth or settle down;
plausibility but descend; grow
reproach, verb saturate, verb actually quiet
express soak thoroughly fallacious)
disapproval or substantiate, verb
disappointment savor, verb spectrum, noun establish by
enjoy; have a colored band evidence; verify;
reprobate, noun distinctive flavor, produced when a support
person hardened smell, or quality beam of light
in sin; wicked passes through a subterfuge, noun
person; devoid of secrete, verb prism an artifice or
a sense of hide away or expedient used to
decency cache; produce sporadic, evade a rule
and release a adjective
repudiate, verb substance occurring supercilious,
disown; disavow; irregularly adjective
to reject the sedition, noun arrogant, haughty,
validity of incitement of stigma, noun condescending
discontent or a mark of shame
resolution, noun rebellion against a or discredit supersede, verb
determination government cause to be set
aside; replace; curves
make obsolete viscous, adjective
tractable, sticky, gluey
supplicate, verb adjective
to make humble docile; easily vituperative,
and earnest managed or adjective
entreaty controlled abusive; scolding

supposition, noun transcendent, vociferous,

hypothesis; adjective adjective
surmise going beyond crying out noisily
ordinary limits
tacit, adjective volatile, adjective
understood; not transgression, changeable;
put into words noun explosive;
violation of a law; evaporation
taciturn, adjective sin rapidly
silent, not
talkative truculence, noun volition, noun
aggressiveness; free choice, free
tangential, ferocity will; act of
adjective choosing
peripheral; only vacillate, verb
slightly waver; fluctuate voracious,
connected; adjective
digressing venerate, verb having a great
revere appetite
tenable, adjective
capable of being veracity, noun warranted,
held, maintained filled with trust adjective
or defended and accuracy justified;
authorized
tenacious, verbose, adjective
adjective wordy wary, adjective
holding fast; very cautious
holding or tending verity, noun
to hold truthfulness whimsical,
persistently to adjective
something viable, adjective capricious;
practical or fanciful
tirade, noun workable
extended zealot, noun
scolding; vicarious, fanatic; person
denunciation; adjective who shows
harangue performed, excessive zeal
exercised,
torpor, noun received or
lethargy; suffered in place
sluggishness; of another
dormancy
vilify, verb
tortuous, adjective to slander, to
winding; full of defame