Contents

A 3
B 5
C 6
D 8
E 12
F 14
G 16
H 17
I 17
L 20
M 21
N 22
O 22
P 23
Q 26
R 27
S 28
T 30
V 31
W 32
z 32

A
No. WORD MEANING
1.
1. Abate Decrease || Diminish || Subside || Moderate
2.
2.
Aberrant/ Aberration Abnormal || Deviant || Irregular || Anomalous/
Deviation
 This somewhat aberrant behavior requires an explanation.
 At later periods, extremely aberrant metaphases predominated.
 The existence of two governing bodies is anomalous and detrimental.
3.
3. Abeyance Suspended action
 The law is currently in abeyance.
 Matters were held in abeyance pending further enquiries.
4.
4. Abjure Give up
 He abjured his allegiance to his former country.
 She abjured her old beliefs.
5.
5. Aboveboard Honest

6.
6. Abrogate Overturn a law

7.
7. Abscond Depart secretly and hide
 They intend to abscond while being taken to court.
 She is enjoying significant unescorted ground leave and has not endeavored to abscond.
8. Self-denying || Ascetic || Austere || Sparing in eating
8. Abstemious
and drinking || Temperate || Hair-Shirt
 We have been extraordinarily abstemious.
 We were very abstemious—teetotalers and non-smokers.
 He chose an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labor.
 The people communicate with him by way of ascetic disciplines on certain sacred
mountains.
 He was austere, dour, kind, and hard working.
 The house was very cold and austere.
 He is the most rigorous, spare, and austere of film-makers.
 His spokesman says the king is a reserved, austere man.
9.
9. Acerbic Harsh

10.
10. Admonish/ Admonitory Scold || Warn || Reprove || Chastise/ Serving to warn
 My mother admonished me for eating dessert before my vegetables.
 After the town hall meeting ended in chaos, the mayor admonished her staff for not
properly preparing for the event.
 The waiter was chastised for forgetting the customer's order.
 The coach is always chastising the players for minor mistakes.
11.
11.  Adulterate Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
12.
12.  Advocate Person supporting an idea or cause publicly

13.
13.
Aesthetic/ Aesthete Artistic || Dealing with or capable of appreciating the
beautiful/ Appreciator of beauty
14.
14. Aggregate Gather || Accumulate
15.
15.  Alacrity Cheerful promptness || Eagerness
 They break from defense into attack with alacrity.
 She accepted the invitation with alacrity.
16.
16. Alleviate Reduce || Mitigate || Relieve || Assuage || Appease
 The doctor couldn't cure her, only alleviate her pain.
 What can we do to alleviate the suffering of those affected by the disaster?
 Measures to alleviate unemployment.
 To assuage her guilt, she did all she could to help.
 There seemed to be nothing I could do to assuage his grief.
 Those last few drops of water did little to assuage his thirst.
 They made an offering to appease the gods.
 It was a token gesture to appease his critics.
17.
17. Amalgamate/Amalgam Combine || Unite in one body/Mixture
 The board of directors agreed to amalgamate the two companies.
 The governors have decided to amalgamate the schools.
18. 18. Ambiguous Problematic || Unclear or doubtful in meaning ||
 Unsettled || Questionable || Perplexing
 Obscure
 His remarks were ambiguous, and it will be the tone that matters.
 It was an ambiguous sentence that could be taken in two ways.
 I seem to remember the novel being a bit more ambiguous than that.
 I don't wish to obscure the issue.
 No doubt some reader of this will know her more obscure connections.
19.  Ambivalence/ The state of having contradictory or conflicting
19.
Ambivalent emotional attitudes
 His ambivalence towards Hollywood is on full display in his latest feature.
 The law's ambivalence about the importance of a victim's identity.
 There is deep British ambivalence about openly acknowledging this.
 Montgomerie is equally tentative, possibly because he senses Kidd's ambivalence.
20.  Ameliorate [ə
20. Improve
ˈmiːlɪəreɪt]
 The reform did much to ameliorate living standards.
 Sam believed that if he wore his pajamas inside out, it would ameliorate the chance of
snow.
21.
21. Amiable Friendly || Convivial
 He is always very amiable to speak to.
 She was relaxed and convivial.
22.
22. Amok Frenzied

23.
23. Amorphous Shapeless
 Amorphous blue forms and straight black lines.
 And we take them as individuals, not as an amorphous mass.
24.
24.  Anachronism Something or someone misplaced in time
 It would be an anachronism to talk of Queen Victoria watching television.
 It could help to deflect the usual charges of anachronism and unfamiliarity with the
period.
25.
25. Analogous Comparable
 The present situation is not analogous with any other.
 The process is analogous to fermentation.
26.
26. Anarchy Absence of governing body || State of disorder
 Without these laws there would be total anarchy on the roads.
 Maybe anarchy is the only way, in moral if not practical terms.
27.
27. Anathema Detested person
 28.
28. Anodyne That which soothes

29.
29. Antipathy Aversion || Dislike
 The long-standing antipathy between the two rivals was well known.
 Might it not, however, be more accurate to call it antipathy?
 And the level of antipathy towards the president's visit shocked some.
30.
30. Antithetical Sharply contrasted

31.
31. Apathy Lack of caring || Indifference
 Another reason for voter apathy is a lack of confidence in politicians.
 Electronic voting is designed to combat voter apathy.
 There is widespread apathy among schoolchildren.
32.
32.
Apex Acme || Zenith || Summit || The top or highest part of
something
 The apex of the roof is three meters high.
 Touch the apex of the cone.
 Physics is the acme of scientific knowledge.
 Her career reached its zenith in the 1950s.
 The sun reaches its zenith at midday.
33.
33. Aplomb Self-possession || Self-confidence
 Diana passed the test with aplomb.
 Despite the heartache James must be feeling, he's still dancing with aplomb.
34.
34. Apostate Defector || Deserter || Traitor || Nonconformist

35.
35. Apotheosis Height of development

36.
36. Apposite Appropriate

37.
37. Apprise Inform
38. Approbation /
38. Approval / Showing approval
Approbatory
39.
39. Appropriate v. Acquire || Take possession of for one’s own use
40.
40. Appurtenant Supporting
 41.
41. Arch Teasing

42.
42.  Arduous Difficult || Hard || Strenuous
 It was an arduous seven-hour journey to get there.
 It can be a long and arduous task and very often ends in failure.
 Thanks to everyone who gave their time and effort to the arduous task.
43.
43. Arrant Utter || Complete

44.
44. Arriviste Upstart || Parvenu

45.
45. Artless Natural || Guileless [ˈɡʌɪlləs] || Open and honest
 Is face, once so open and guileless?
 There was an innocence about those days - something wanton yet guileless.
46.
46. Ascendancy Dominant position
 He sums up with thoughts on the ascendancy of the power of nature.
 The poor have a moral ascendancy over the rich.
47.
47. Ascribe Impute || Attribute
 It is possible to ascribe different meanings to the term.
 I ascribe his nervousness to an unhappy childhood.
 I don't ascribe any particular significance to his remarks.
 I am not imputing motives to these men.

48.
48.
Asperity Harshness of tone or manner || Abrasiveness ||
Roughness
 He's right there," said I with some asperity.
 "No, of course he did not," she replied with some asperity.
 He pointed this out with some asperity.
49.
49. Assail Attack
 His attacker assailed him with fierce blows to the head.
 The proposal was assailed by the opposition party.
50.
50. Assiduous Diligent || Careful || Hard-working
 He was assiduous in his support for the subject.
 He has been very assiduous in his research.
 She was assiduous in pointing out every feature.
 She was an assiduous student.
 After diligent searching, he found a parcel.
 Diligent efforts on the part of campaigners had finally resulted in a retrial.
 51.
51. Atavism Throwback

52.
52. Attenuate Make thinner
 Support from friends will attenuate the effects of stress.
 The filter must severely attenuate frequencies above 10 Hz.
53.
53.  Audacious/Audacity Brazen || Doughty || Daring || Bold/Boldness
 We need to be more audacious in what we say and do.
 It is still an audacious work of art after all these years.
 How dare he be so audacious!
 It was a brazen attempt to rig the result.
 She has been a doughty campaigner for her constituency.
54.
54.  Auspicious Favorable
 They said it was an auspicious moon—it was rising.
 It was not the most auspicious moment to hold an election.
55.
55. Autonomous Self-governing || Independent
56.
56. Avaricious Greedy

57.
57.
Aver Assert confidently or declare || As used in law, state
formally as a fact
 He averred that he was innocent.
 The defendant does not aver any performance by himself.

B
No. WORD MEANING
1.
58. Baleful Threatening || Menacing
 Riffs should be big, brooding, baleful things.
 Bill shot a baleful glance in her direction.
 But when it stopped the environment made its baleful impact.
2.
59. Balk Refuse to accept

Derivative || Commonplace || Lacking originality ||

60.
3.
Banal Cliché || Platitudinous ||
 Trite
 Hackneyed
 While some of the book's guidelines are common sense, others are banal.
 Songs with banal, repeated words.
 I watched a very banal comedy on TV yesterday.
 However, the story and the manner of its telling are alike hackneyed, dull, and pointless.
 The film has a rather trite plot line.
4.
61. Banish Get rid of
 They want to banish her from the sport.
 She banished the dogs to the basement during the party.
5.
62. Beatific Blissfully happy

6.
63. Begrudge Envy

7.
64. Behoove Be one’s duty

8.
65.  Belie [Be-lie] Contradict || Give a false impression
 The facts belie this claim.
 The quality of the music seems to belie the criticism.
 The recent revelations clearly belie those expectations.
66.
9.
Bellicose Warlike || Demonstrating aggression and willingness to
fight
 A mood of bellicose jingoism.
 But other less bellicose, parallel approaches should still be considered.
 At the time, the government was very bellicose about a military campaign.
10.
67.  Belligerent Hostile || Aggressive
 Ships and goods captured at sea by a belligerent.
 He was in a belligerent mood.
11.
68. Beneficent Kind || Doing good
 He is a beneficent and venerable old man of the sea, full of wisdom and skilled in
prophecy.
12. Gentle and kindly || Harmless || Safe ||
69.  Benign
 Innocuous
 He wished us well, with a benign wave of his hand.
 Her face was calm and benign.
 If the tumor is benign, doctors will not treat it.
 When this picture was taken it couldn't have seemed more innocuous.
 Honestly you would think that this would be quite an innocuous activity.
13.
70. Bereft Sad because of loss
 His death in 1990 left her bereft.
 Her room was stark and bereft of color.
14.
71. Besiege Harass

15.
72. Besotted Very infatuated

16. Grumpy || Choleric || Bad-tempered || Curmudgeonly ||

73. Bilious
Grouchy || Splenetic
 She suffered from bilious attacks.
 His shirt was a bilious shade of green.
 I don't see how he gets strongly choleric from this chart at all.
 Clearly, I only play a curmudgeon in the newspaper.
 My neighbor is a curmudgeon who keeps the soccer balls that accidentally come into his
yard.
 There's not a lot to grouch about.
 Rock’s foremost poet and ill-mannered grouch.
 It's bracing to hear Hodgson in full splenetic flow.
17.
74.  Bolster Support || Reinforce || Buttress
 This new striker will bolster the team.
 They took high premiums to bolster up the funds.
 The fall in interest rates is starting to bolster confidence.
 She clung to her shrinking faith as a buttress against despair.
 This is no ordinary brick arch and buttress structure.
Pompous || Using inflated language || Talkative ||
75.
18.
Bombastic Wordy || Verbose || Turgid || Grandiloquent ||
 Garrulous
 Loquacious
 Bombastic music that drowned out what anyone was saying.
 ‘He knows his stuff but he's extraordinarily bombastic,’ cautioned one art critic
 The exchanges themselves are unsubtle and bombastic.
 They are intensely literate and endlessly loquacious.
 Never loquacious, Sarah was now totally lost for words.
 Her redundant language is making her sound verbose.
 Being verbose and exaggerating a person's qualities will not help.
 Her garrulous neighbor quickly spread the news.
 Alcohol tended to make him garrulous.
 A garrulous cab driver.
 If I'm garrulous, it means I'm procrastinating, and I should be chastised accordingly.
 Such a grandiloquent claim deserves to be tested.
 I congratulate the draftsman who prescribed the constitution of this particular board in such
grandiloquent terms.
 What are the guidelines and what is the basis on which this grandiloquent gesture is to be
made?
 She gave a turgid speech on taxation.
 A turgid and fast-moving river.
19.
76. Boon Good thing || Benefit
 This weather will be a boon for farmers.
 The route will be a boon to many travelers.
 The Internet has been a boon to small businesses.
20.
77. Boorish Rude || Insensitive
 I found him rather boorish and aggressive.
 The boorish behavior of some tourists is embarrassing.
21.
78. Bridle Restrain

22.
79. Bristle React angrily
 She bristled, angry again.
 Sirian bristled, staring the warrior down.
23.
80. Broadside Verbal attack

24.
81. Bromide Unoriginal remark || Trite
 His speech had nothing more to offer than the usual bromides about how everyone needs
to work together.
25.
82. Brook Put up with
 He appears to be like a dictator who can brook no dissent.
 Jenny would brook no criticism of Matthew.
26.
83. Browbeat Bully || Boss around
 They tried to browbeat him into joining their cause.
 He prefers to browbeat his opponents rather than reason with them.
27.
84. Brusquely Bluntly

28.
85. Buck Resist

29.
86. Bumbling Clumsy || Maladroit || Ponderous
 I observed his bumbling attempts at flirting.
 He plays a bumbling inspector.
 She can be a little maladroit in social situations.
 The show is loaded down with ponderous one-liners.
 30. Grow rapidly || Proliferate || Wax || Send out buds ||
87. Burgeon
Flourish || Expand
 The town burgeoned into a city.
 He burgeoned into a fine actor.
 The cells remaining in the ruptured follicle proliferate rapidly and form the corpus
luteum.
 Studies on escalating student debt will proliferate.
 Her enthusiasm for the diva’s new album only waxed with each song.
31.
88. Burnish [ˈbəːdʒ(ə)n] Make shiny by rubbing || Polish
32.
89. Byzantine Overly complex


C
No. WORD MEANING
1.
90. Cacophony Noise || A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
 The carnival parade was a blast of color and a cacophony of sound.
 A cacophony of deafening alarm bells.
2.
91. Cadaverous Corpse-like || Very pale, thin, or bony
 I saw a cadaverous face appear at a small window.
 He had a cadaverous face.
3.
92. Callow Inexperienced
 Hay is able to recount the callow 17-year-old who impressed him in training.
 Earnest and callow undergraduates.
4.
93. Canard False report

94.
5.
Candid Straightforward || Outspoken || Frank || Riddle ||
 Vociferous
 I want to be quite candid with you.
 My candid opinion is that it won't work.
 He failed in his duty to be candid with the British people.
 More vociferous opponents of the ID card may wish to sign this pledge also.
 No one was more vociferous in condemning it than Mr Walker.
Whimsical || Unpredictable || Fickle || Impulsive ||
6.
95.  Capricious Playful || Bizarre || Unsteady
 Mercurial
 He's such a capricious boss I never know how he'll react.
 Please allow me to maintain my self-image as capricious, arbitrary and unfair.
 Wonderful and whimsical comedy drama.
 Despite his success, he retained a gently ironic, almost whimsical sense of the world.
 Modern authors also note the Mercurial influence.
 These mercurial chemicals are never taken lightly.
7.
96. Carping Fault-finding

8.
97. Castigation Punishment || Severe criticism
 They fear the castigation of their community.
 The teacher's verbal castigation of the student was harsh but needed since he refused to do
any work.
9.
98. Catalyst Agent that increases the pace of a chemical action
 Lime is used as a catalyst in smelting iron.
 The opening of the borders was a catalyst for change.
 The prime minister's speech acted as a catalyst for debate.
10.
99. Caustic Harsh || Burning || Sarcastically biting || Alkaline
 I was known for my short temper and caustic wit.
 They made some caustic remarks which rather upset me.
 Caustic cleaners can harm non-stick pans.
 Phosphates are highly caustic.
100. 11.
Cavalier Not caring

101. 12.  Chicanery [ʃɪ

Trickery || Deception || Fraud || Dishonesty
ˈkeɪn(ə)ri]
 It was a brilliant piece of political chicanery.
 He wasn't above using chicanery to win votes.
102. 13.
Circumscribe Restrict within limits
 The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed.
103. 14.
Circumvent Get out of duty || Avoid
 If you come to an obstruction in a road you can seek to circumvent it.
 It was always possible to circumvent the regulations.
104. 15. Coagulate [kəʊ
Thicken || Congeal || Clot
ˈaɡjʊleɪt]
 The eggs coagulate when heated.
 The medicine helps coagulate blood.
105. 16. Concluding section of a musical or literary composition
Coda
|| Summarizes or concludes
 His new novel is a kind of coda to his previous books.
 The first movement ends with a fortissimo coda.
106. 17.
Cogent [ˈkəʊdʒ(ə)nt] Convincing
 I am grateful to them for their clear, cogent and candid submissions.
 The case for war has not been presented using any cogent and compelling arguments.
 The newspaper's lawyers must prepare a cogent appeal.
107. 18. Commensurate adj. [kə
Corresponding in extent, degree, etc. || Proportionate
ˈmɛnʃ(ə)rət]
 Does he think her fame is commensurate with her ability?
 Salary will be commensurate with age and experience.
 But there has not been a commensurate increase in job opportunities.
108. 19. Compendium [kəm
Brief || Comprehensive summary
ˈpɛndɪəm]
 A compendium of tools.
 It is a compendium of car maintenance.
 This classic compendium of games includes all the family favorites.
109. 20. Complaisant [kəm
Trying to please || Overly polite || Obliging
ˈpleɪznt]
 There are too many complaisant doctors signing sick notes.
 But nothing seems to shift a complaisant populace.
 And a complaisant public is also, of course, invaluable to the transaction.
110. 21.
Complacent Contented to a fault
 He had become complacent after years of success.
111. 22.
Compliant Yielding || Conforming to requirements
112. 23. Involved with others in an activity that
Complicit
is unlawful or morally wrong
 The careers of those complicit in the cover-up were blighted.
 I felt complicit in the process which allowed this book to happen.
113. 24.
Conciliatory Reconciling || Soothing
 I've had a conciliatory letter from the council offering to pay for the damage.
 O'Brien, on the other hand, is mild-mannered and conciliatory in his approach.
114. 25.
Concomitant Accompanying
 Concomitant with his obsession with dirt was a desire for order.
 She loved travel, with all its concomitant worries.
115. 26.
Condone Overlook || Forgive || Give tacit approval || Excuse
 No matter where you are from, you cannot condone this behavior.
 Society must not been seen to condone violence.
 The college cannot condone any behavior that involves illicit drugs.
116. 27.
Confound Nonplussed || Confuse || Puzzle
 We will confound these tactics by the pressure groups.
 It was a tactic designed to confuse and confound the enemy.
 Diane was nonplussed by such an odd question.
 I was somewhat nonplussed at this question.
117. 28.
Conniving Conspiring to do bad
 But it is not your fault that a conniving temptress has ensnared you.
 I am fierce, powerful, ambitious, and if need be, conniving.
 A heartless and conniving person.
118. 29. Connoisseur [ˌkɒnə
Person competent to act as a judge of art || A lover of art
ˈsəː]
 He’s a connoisseur of good food and wine.
 He was a connoisseur and he felt they were connoisseurs, too.
 A connoisseur of music.
119. 30.
Consummate Masterful
 They did not consummate their marriage until months after it took place.
 She dressed with consummate elegance.
120. 31.
Contention Claim || Thesis
 A common area of contention is the time the new home will be complete.
 Freud's contention that all dreams were wish fulfilment.
 Last night he had put himself in medal contention in the decathlon.
Quarrelsome || Irritable || Peevish || Easily angered ||
121. 32.
Contentious Irascible || Factious
 Fractious
 It was a contentious decision by the referee.
 First aid was also a contentious issue in the dispute.
 An irascible and difficult man.
 He’s a difficult, irascible person.
 We are more used to his peevish criticism of Tory successes.
 King Malcolm struggled to unite his fractious kingdom.
 An already fractious situation has just got more difficult.
 Goad's friends protested against his dismissal as the work of a factious party.
122. 33.
Contrite Penitent || Remorseful || Full of regret
 Her expression was contrite.
 He looked so contrite that for a moment she nearly believed he really was sorry about
what he had said.
123. 34.
Converge Approach || Tend to meet || Come together
 The powers of E therefore converge very slowly indeed.
 There is a large roundabout where the two roads converge.
124. 35.
Convoluted Coiled around || Involved || Intricate
 The intrigue is deepened by the convoluted tale of the past few months.
 Walnuts come in hard and convoluted shells.
 Notice the convoluted rope work.
125. 36. Conundrum [kə
Difficult Problem || Dilemma || Puzzle
ˈnʌndrəm]
 He was perhaps too impatient with overly philosophical conundrums.
 The administration is facing a familiar conundrum.
126. 37.
 Copious Flush || Profuse || Plentiful || Abundant || Ample
 She took copious notes.
 There was a copious amount of work to get through.
 There was a copious supply of food and drink at the party.
 The students all took copious notes.
127. 38.
 Corroborate Confirm or give support to
 There was no evidence to corroborate his story.
 A witness was able to corroborate his statement.
 The figures corroborate earlier findings.
128. 39.
Cosseted Overly pampered
 You are quite cosseted throughout but at the end I felt vulnerable.
 The cosseted world of the superstar.
 The cosseted daughter of an upper-class New England family.
129. 40.
Cow Intimidate
 Don’t be cowed by 3000 words.
130. 41. Cowardly
Craven
 Pusillanimous
 This answer, amazingly, wasn't craven enough.
 A craven abdication of his moral duty.
 Pray do not continue such pusillanimous writings.
 Whose fault is it - the inadequate voters or the pusillanimous politicians?
131. 42.
Credence Belief || Acceptance || Trust
 It is painful to watch him displaying credentials that no longer carry much credence.
 Psychoanalysis finds little credence among laymen.
132. 43.
Crystallize Become definite || Become clear
133. 44.
Culminate Reach high point
 Her long acting career culminated when she won the Oscar.
134. 45.
Cupidity Greed for money
 He rushed with ravenous eagerness at every bait which was offered to his cupidity.

D
No. WORD MEANING
135. 1.
Daunt Intimidate || Frighten
136. 2.
Dearth Shortage
 The dearth of goals is the obvious complaint.
 Sometimes a dearth of information says a lot more than a glut.
137. 3.
Decorum/ Decorous Dignity || Propriety || Orderliness and good taste in
manners
 Ladies were taught how to behave with decorum.
 He had acted with the utmost decorum.
 He had no idea of funeral decorum.
138. 4.
Default Failure to act
139. 5.
Deference Respect || Courteous regard for another’s wishes
 He addressed her with the deference due to age.
 She treated her hosts with due deference.
 Arrogance is not an attractive trait, but surely it beats passive deference?
140. 6.
Delegate Assign || Entrust
 He is our delegate, elected to represent our wishes to the best of his ability.
 He is reluctant to delegate authority.
141. 7.
Deleterious Harmful
 Drinking too much is deleterious to your health.
 Divorce is assumed to have deleterious effects on children.
142. 8.
Delineate[dɪˈlɪnɪeɪt] Describe || Depict || Portray || Sketch
 In her speech she delineated the city plan with great care.
 Biography must to some extent delineate characters.
 The law should delineate and prohibit behavior which is socially abhorrent.
143. 9.
Denigrate Diminish || Blacken
 Her story denigrates him as a person and as a teacher.
 It was unkind to denigrate her achievement.
 Any discussion of the concept will be used to criticize and denigrate it.
 The company conducted a campaign to denigrate the book and its author.
144. 10.  Deride Mock || Ridicule || Make fun of || Derisive
 He derided my singing as pathetic.
 This building, once derided by critics, is now a major tourist attraction.
 You shouldn't deride their efforts.
 The movie critic took every opportunity to deride the A-list actor for making the awful
film.
 He gave a harsh, derisive laugh.
145. 11.
Derivative/ Derive Banal || Unoriginal || Obtained from another source/
Originate in
 ‘Fly-tip’ is a derivative of the phrase ‘on the fly’.
 An artist who is not in the slightest bit derivative.
 Too much of the music feels derivative.
 'Happiness' is a derivative of 'happy'.
146. 12.
Desiccate Dry up || Dehydrated
 Intensive farming has desiccated the land.
 Some plants wither quickly and lose their power of recovery if allowed to desiccate.
147. 13. Desultory
Aimless || Haphazard || Digressing at random
[ˈdɛs(ə)lt(ə)ri]
 A few people were left, dancing in a desultory fashion.
 Some guests were sitting in the hotel lobby, engaged in desultory conversation.
 Desultory passengers were appearing.
148. 14.
Deterrent Discouragement|| Hindrance
 This is supposed to act as a deterrent, but may be an incitement.
 A five-year sentence should act as a deterrent to others.
 However, price and negative attitudes were the main deterrents for non-organic
consumers.
 The warning sign served as a deterrent.
149. 15.
Diatribe n. [ˈdʌɪətrʌɪb] Bitter scolding || Vituperative || Tirade || Invective
 The book is a diatribe against the academic left.
 In this long diatribe, you begin to reveal yourself to me.
150. 16. Dichotomy [dʌɪ Split || Branching into two parts (especially
ˈkɒtəmi] contradictory ones)
 A rigid dichotomy between science and mysticism.
 At each dichotomy, the presumed ancestral genome size was indicated.
151. 17.
 Didactic Intended to teach || Educational
 He composed the works for didactic purposes.
 His tone ranged from didactic to backslapping.
152. 18.
 Diffidence Shyness || Lack of confidence
 He always speaks with great diffidence about a subject about which he has intimate
 knowledge.
 I speak with a certain amount of diffidence although perhaps with greater feeling than
anyone who has spoken.
153. 19.
Diffuse adj. Wordy, rambling, spread out (like a gas)
 The company has become large and diffuse.
154. 20.
Digression Wandering away from the subject
 He went into a long digression.
 Let’s return to the main topic after that brief digression.
 After a brief digression she returned to the main topic.
155. 21.
Dilatory Time-wasting || Snail-like || Lazy || Indolent
 It is this dilatory or sidelong compliance I am talking about.
 She denied that her organization had been dilatory in any way.
 They were indolent and addicted to a life of pleasure.
 Cats are indolent creatures.
156. 22.
Dirge Lament with music
 He sang a melancholy dirge.
 I'm not sure what melancholy instrument it is that carries this ponderous, mournful dirge.
157. 23.
Disabuse Correct a false impression || Undeceive || Lead one from
error
158. 24.
Discerning Mentally quick and observant || Having insight
 She has a discerning eye for art.
 Discerning collectors rarely buy a damaged piece.
 The brasserie attracts discerning customers.
159. 25.
Discordant Not harmonious || Conflicting
 Rakael frowned as a harsh, discordant sound echoed in her ears.
 Studies with data from discordant twins will be useful to confirm our findings.
 I’ve come to a shocking realization that I’m in a discordant relationship.
 The singers continued their discordant chanting.
160. 26.
Discredit Defame || Destroy confidence in || Disbelieve
161. 27.
Discrepancy Lack of consistency || Difference
 There’s a discrepancy between your account and his.
 Can you explain the discrepancy in the figures?
 There is a striking discrepancy between the two reports.
162. 28.
Discrete adj. Separate || Unconnected || Consisting of distinct parts
 Speech sounds are produced as a continuous sound signal rather than discrete units.
 Remember that a word can have several discrete meanings.
 The atoms in iron, in contrast, do not cluster into discrete molecules.
163. 29.
Discursive Tangential
 Students often write dull, second-hand, discursive prose.
 The short story is concentrated, whereas the novel is discursive.
164. 30.
Disingenuous Lacking genuine candor || Insincere
 He was being somewhat disingenuous as well as cynical.
 This disingenuous fluff was calculated to excuse the intrusive nature of the exercise.
 The minister was accused of being disingenuous in his explanations.
 It is disingenuous to pretend that any other analysis is tenable.
165. 31.
Disinterested Unprejudiced
166. 32.
Disjointed Lacking coherence || Separated at the joints
167. 33.
Dismiss Eliminate from consideration || Reject
168. 34.
Disparage Belittle
 That is not in any way to disparage his two competitors.
 He never missed an opportunity to disparage his competitors.
169. 35.
 Disparate adj. Basically different || Unrelated
170. 36.
 Dispassionate Unemotional
 She dealt with life's disasters in a calm, dispassionate way.
 Try and be dispassionate about it.
171. 37.
Dissemble v. Disguise || Pretend
 She lay down and dissembled sleep.
 He had dissembled about the risks involved.
172. 38.
Disseminate Distribute || Spread || Scatter (like seeds)
 There is a subset of these low-grade tumors that can disseminate and migrate.
 Researchers held meetings to disseminate their findings.
173. 39.
Dissolution Disintegration || Looseness in morals
 Divorce or dissolution is the legal end to a marriage.
 The dissolution of the monasteries took place in the 16th century.
 An advanced state of dissolution.
 This is due to the rapid dissolution of evaporates.
174. 40.
 Dissonance Discord || Opposite of harmony
 Tippet uses dissonance, but it sounds like music.
 The party faithful might be willing to put up with such dissonance among their candidates.
 An unusual degree of dissonance for such choral styles.
175. 41.
Distend Expand || Swell out
 The veins in your legs distend when you stand up.
 The carbon dioxide in soft drinks can distend your stomach.
 Air is introduced into the stomach to distend it.
176. 42.
Distill Purify || Refine || Concentrate
 She helped distill the inmate complaints into a list of demands.
177. 43.
Diverge Vary || Go in different directions from the same point
 The red line should diverge from the yellow line in this diagram.
 It is only after about the sixth week that male - female developments diverge.
 Thenceforward these two approaches tend to diverge.
178. 44.
Divest Strip || Deprive
 The council will divest him of all his authority.
 The grant of a license to occupy, however, will not divest the owner of control.
 During the Nineties healthcare firms were keen to divest themselves of their interests in
vaccines.
179. 45.
Document Provide written evidence
180. 46.
 Dogmatic Opinionated || Dictatorial || Arbitrary || Doctrinal
 Let’s not be dogmatic about this.
 She was not tempted to be dogmatic about what she believed.
 It’s not helpful to make such dogmatic statements.
 Her dogmatic beliefs were driving away her friends and family.
181. 47.
Dormant Sleeping || Latent ||
 Lethargic
 A club which had lain dormant for a decade and more has been rekindled.
 That dormant urge to write fiction has re-emerged.
 TB is a condition which progresses slowly and can lay dormant for months.
 I felt tired and a little lethargic.
 Why are you so lethargic in the evenings?
182. 48.
Dupe Someone easily fooled
 We’ve been duped!
 It’s easy to be duped if you're not careful.
 The newspaper was duped into publishing an untrue story.
 Users were duped into opening the infected files.

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183. 1.
Ebullient [ɪˈbʌljənt] Showing excitement || Overflowing with enthusiasm
 The ebullient song was so uplifting that I danced in my chair.
 She sounded ebullient and happy.
 Misted and ebullient seas.
184. 2.
Eclectic Having a variety || Wide-ranging || Selective ||
Composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
 As a thinker he was an eclectic.
 Indeed there are eclectic styles and influences very much in evidence here.
185. 3. Efficacy [ˈɛfɪkəsi]/
Power to produce desired effect/ Effective
Efficacious
 She doubted the efficacy of the method.
 The drug's efficacy in curing TB was celebrated.
 The efficacy of this drug has yet to be tested.
Audacity || Bad manners || Cheeky behavior ||
186. 4.
Effrontery [ɪˈfrʌnt(ə)ri]Impudence || Shameless || Boldness || Sheer nerve ||
Presumptuousness
 He had the effrontery to say I was lying.
 He then committed several acts of brazen effrontery.
 She had the effrontery to ask for two free samples.
187. 5. Poem or song expressing sorrow or lamentation/
Elegy [ˈɛlədʒi]/Elegiac Mournful
 The Echo Gate includes versions of the Latin love elegy.
 Addison was buried in Westminster Abbey, and lamented in an elegy by Tickell.
188. 6.
Elicit Draw out by discussion
 I tried to elicit a smile from Joanna.
 Which are more likely to elicit a positive response than direct statements of fact.
 Police enquiries failed to elicit any information.
189. 7.
Elucidate Explain || Make clear || Expound
 Work such as theirs will help to elucidate this matter.
 They would not elucidate further.
 He declined to expound on his decision.
190. 8.
Embellish Add details to || Adorn || Ornament || Enhance, as a
story
 Followers often embellish stories about their heroes.
 I asked him not to embellish the truth with ideas of his own.
191. 9.
Eminent Highly respected
 Dr Smith is eminent in his field.
 And it has won praise from some of this country's most eminent musicians.
 She was one of the world's most eminent economists.
192. 10. Based on experience/ Action based on practice ||
Empirical/ Empiricism
Research || Perception
 The work has a strong empirical base, but it is firmly governed by theory.
 There is a great deal of empirical research which supports this notion.
 It was the dawn of the age of empiricism.
193. 11.
Emulate Imitate || Rival
 My ambition from the time I can remember was to emulate what he did.
 He decided to emulate Dave and write some of his own material.
 Her achievements will be hard to emulate.
194. 12.
Enamored Charmed || In love with
 I became totally enamored of the wildflowers there.
 She is enamored with books.
195. 13.
Encumber Hold back
 These rules will only encumber the people we're trying to help.
 Lack of funding has encumbered the project.
196. 14. Prevailing among a specific group of people or in a
Endemic
specific area or country
 Poverty is endemic to the whole area.
 Malaria is endemic and is a cause of premature death.
 Poverty is endemic in the South and it is spreading to the North.
197. 15.
 Enervate [ˈɛnəveɪt] Weaken
 Delilah managed to completely enervate Samson with the simple cutting of his hair.
 The rain has enervated the rock wall for so many years that it's now just a few pebbles.
 Watching too much TV definitely has a tendency to enervate me for the rest of the day.
198. 16.
 Engender Cause || Produce
 You engender a feeling of comfort and stability to those within your charge.
 Again, this does not engender confidence in the reliability of the inspector's conclusions.
199. 17.
Enhance Increase || Improve
200. 18. A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to
Enigma
understand
 She was still an enigma to him.
201. 19.
Enormity Wickedness || Evilness || Vileness
 I began to get a sense of the enormity of the task.
 A thorough search disclosed the full enormity of the crime.
 The enormity of the insult cannot be ignored.
202. 20.  Ephemeral [ɪ
Momentary || Short-lived || Fleeting
ˈfɛm(ə)rəl]
 Fashions are ephemeral: new ones regularly drive out the old.
 Works of more than ephemeral interest.
 Bulbs have a very different life strategy from ephemeral weeds.
203. 21.
Eponym Derived from a name
 He was inventor and eponym of the Vernier scale used in measuring devices.
204. 22. Equanimity [ˌiːkwə
Calmness of temperament || Composure
ˈnɪmɪti]
 That was a prospect I could face with equanimity.
 No one should ever contemplate the loss of life with equanimity.
 It is difficult to behave with equanimity under such provocation.
205. 23.  Equivocate [ɪ
Lie || Mislead || Attempt to conceal the truth
ˈkwɪvəkeɪt]
 The applicant seemed to be equivocating when we asked him about his last job.
 When asked about her tax plan, the candidate didn't equivocate.
206. 24.  Erudite
Learned || Scholarly
[ˈɛr(j)ʊdʌɪt]
 She is the author of an erudite work on Cubism.
 He was one of the most erudite political thinkers of his age.
 But he is also very erudite, scholarly, and has lots of fresh ideas.
 She was very erudite.
207. 25.  Esoteric [ˌiːsə(ʊ) Mysterious || Hard to understand || Known only to the
ˈtɛrɪk] chosen few
 He is fond of pointing out how esoteric this debate is to the wider public.
 It is written in an esoteric style that few people will understand.
 Now all such esoteric knowledge is regarded as suspect, as somehow unjust.
208. 26.
Ethereal Delicate || Graceful || Beautiful
 This is how I will live on, not in some ethereal spirit form.
 Ethereal music could be heard coming through the chapel window.
 I love the strangely beautiful, ethereal vocal on this track.
209. 27. Expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone’s
 Eulogy [ˈjuːlədʒi] death
 I was asked to deliver the eulogy.
 The newspaper printed a eulogy of the late King.
 A eulogy to the Queen Mother.
210. 28. Euphemism
Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one
[ˈjuːfɪmɪz(ə)m]
 During the meeting, she skillfully used a euphemism to address the sensitive topic without
causing offense.
 The speaker tactfully used a euphemism to describe the challenging situation, opting for a
more delicate expression to convey the message without causing undue discomfort.
211. 29.
 Euphoric Joyous || Delighted
 The mood was euphoric.
 I was euphoric at winning the class medal.
212. 30.  Exacerbate [ɪɡ
Worsen || Embitter
ˈzasəbeɪt]
 The proposed factory shutdown would only exacerbate our unemployment problems.
 His angry comments have exacerbated tensions in the negotiation process.
213. 31.
Exasperate Annoy || Rile
 The criticism of his latest movie is sure to exasperate his admirers.
 We were exasperated by the delays.
 Avoid people who rile you for now.
 That has really riled people.
214. 32.
Exculpate [ˈɛkskʌlpeɪt] Clear from blame
 The court exculpated him after a thorough investigation.
 I will present evidence that will exculpate my client.
215. 33.
Exegesis Critical analysis || Interpretation

216. 34. Exigency Urgent situation || Pressing needs or demands || State of

[ˈɛksɪdʒ(ə)nsi] requiring immediate attention
 He listened carefully, spoke thoughtfully, and cast a discerning eye on his counterparts'
exigencies and needs.
 Courts have identified two exigencies that justify warrantless searches of suspects’
incident to arrest.
 The project, once conceived as a book, came with exigencies.
217. 35.
Exonerate Free from blame || Find innocent || Absolve
 The police report exonerated Lewis from all charges of corruption.
 The president cannot be exonerated from responsibility for this problem.
218. 36.
Expurgate Censor
 It was decided to expurgate the existing document, which had been removed from
circulation and release it.
219. 37.
 Extant In existence || Surviving
 The only extant copy of the contract is kept in a safe.
 I'm afraid records before 1700 are no longer extant.
220. 38.
Extenuating Excuse || Making less guilty

221. 39. Extrapolation/ Calculation || Projection || Conjecture / Estimate ||

Etrapolate Conclude
 The figure is an extrapolation from prior data.
 Caution is advised in the interpretation and extrapolation of results.
 Sizes were estimated by extrapolation.
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No. WORD MEANING
222. 1.
Facile Lacking depth || Effortless || Easy
 A man of facile and shallow intellect.
 We should be wary of facile comparisons.
 A facile seven-length victory.
223. 2.
Facilitate [fəˈsɪlɪteɪt] Help bring about || Make less difficult
 Schools were located in the same campus to facilitate the sharing of resources.
 Fatty acids have been used previously to facilitate the absorption of drugs by cells.
 These activities can facilitate product development in markets where the risks are high.
 Smaller teams facilitate communication with clients.
224. 3.
Factitious Artificial || Fake
 A largely factitious national identity.
225. 4.
Facetious Humorous
 I could so easily be facetious about this piece of news.
 It's a facetious question, but she answers seriously.
226. 5.
Fallacious [fəˈleɪʃəs] False || Misleading
 His argument is based on fallacious reasoning.
 The wildest and most fallacious stories have been told by them.
227. 6.
 Fastidious Fussy || Perfectionist
 She dressed with fastidious care.
 He’s very fastidious about the way things are done.
228. 7.
Fatuous [ˈfatjʊəs] Brainless || Inane || Foolish, yet smug
 I'd say the latter is the slightly more fatuous article.
 He made a fatuous speech that avoided any issues of substance.
 The comparisons are being made, fatuous as they are.
229. 8. Trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering, or
Fawning [ˈfɔːnɪŋ] cringing
 The forest was closed for hunting when the does were fawning.
 The dogs started fawning on me.
 He advanced his career by fawning on those in positions of power.
 They try to ingratiate themselves by fawning over the boss.
230. 9.
Fecund Mentally productive
 A lush and fecund garden.
 And yet (unlike the Tudors) the Dudleys were fecund.
231. 10.
Felicitous [fɪˈlɪsɪtəs] Apt || Suitably expressed || Well chosen
 The view was the room's only felicitous feature.
 Has there ever been an economist with a more felicitous turn of phrase?
232. 11.
Fervor [ˈfəːvə] Glowing ardor || Intensity of feeling
 The fervor surrounding her campaign continued right through Election Day.
 The novel captures the revolutionary fervor of the period.
233. 12.
Firebrand Troublemaker
 He used to be a famous left-wing firebrand.
 He was good enough to refer to me as a firebrand.
234. 13.
Flag Droop || Grow feeble
 If you flag or if your spirits flag, you begin to lose enthusiasm or energy.
 His enthusiasm was in no way flagging.
 By 4,000m he was beginning to flag.
235. 14.
Fell Evil
236. 15.
Fledgling [ˈflɛdʒlɪŋ] Inexperienced
 Nine years on, that fledgling script is about to see the light of day.
 There will also be funds for training 100,000 teachers, and for fledgling entrepreneurs.
 Many firms that were just fledgling start-ups in 2000 are now mature, profitable
businesses.
237. 16.
Flounder Struggle
 They seem to have also eaten flounder, whiting, plaice, cod and brown trout too.
 A swarm of seagulls circle aloft, darting down in random attempts to steal a flounder.
238. 17.
Flout Reject || Mock || Show contempt for
 Many motorcyclists flout the law by not wearing helmets.
 The orchestra decided to flout convention, and wear their everyday clothes for the concert.
 The show flouted traditions of respect for authority.
239. 18.
Foible Minor weakness

240. 19.
Foolhardy Rash || Reckless
 This doesn't mean becoming foolhardy, though it helps to be fun and playful.
 Fortunately, none of my students had been foolhardy enough to follow me.
241. 20.
Foment Stir up || Instigate
 That's an attempt to foment discord.
 He was accused of fomenting violence.
242. 21.
Forestall [fɔːˈstɔːl] Prevent by taking action in advance
 We must act now to forestall disaster.
 They presented their resignations to forestall a vote of no confidence.
243. 22.
 Fortuitous Unexpected
 By a fortuitous coincidence, it involves some real handcuffs.
 The ball went into the goal by a fortuitous ricochet.
244. 23.
Frugality [fruːˈɡalɪti] Thrift || Economy
 We learned our frugality from my mother,’ he explains.
 He scorned the finer things in life and valued frugality and simplicity.
 His frugality and thrift were particularly notorious.
245. 24.
 Frivolous Silly || Facetious || Joking (often inappropriately) ||
Humorous
 I don't like such frivolous behavior.
 She spends all her allowance on frivolous purchases.
 I could so easily be facetious about this piece of news.
 It's a facetious question, but she answers seriously
246. 25.
Futile [ˈfjuːtʌɪl] Useless || Hopeless || Ineffectual || Forlorn
 A futile attempt to keep fans from mounting the stage.
 It is futile to allocate blame for this.
 Forlorn figures at bus stops.

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No. WORD MEANING
247. 1.
Gaffe Social Blunder
 Otherwise it's merely a gaffe, an embarrassment or a row.
 Don't even think about ordering in Spanish or French - a diplomatic gaffe.
 His comments are a major diplomatic gaffe.
248. 2.
 Gainsay [ˌɡeɪnˈseɪ] Deny || Contradict
 None could gainsay her.
 So, claim above-average looks yourself, and who is to gainsay you?
 Everyone who believes it is legit will find some way to gainsay the believers.
249. 3.
Genial Agreeable || Friendly
 He greeted me with a genial smile.
 Jack was there already, playing the genial host.
250. 4.
Genteel Refined
251. 5.
Glean Collect

252. 6.
Goad [ɡəʊd] Urge on || Provoke
 He was trying to goad her into a fight.
 For him the visit was a goad to renewed effort.
 Still, I haven't found a mobile phone tiny enough to goad me into switching.
253. 7.
Gouge [ɡaʊdʒ] Overcharge
 Some days later he discovered a deep gouge in the paintwork of his car.
 Each contestant endeavored to gouge out their opponent's eyes.
254. 8.
Gregarious Sociable
 He's gregarious and tactile, always ready with a cuddle and a chuckle.
 He’s a gregarious man who's always good company.
 He was a popular and gregarious man.
255. 9.
Gullible [ˈɡʌlɪbl] Easily deceived || Exploitable || Fleece
 They convinced a gullible public that their policies were the right ones.
 An attempt to persuade a gullible public to spend their money.
 He is utterly charmless and few people are gullible enough to believe him.
 Many farmers identify their sheep by painting their fleeces.

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No. WORD MEANING
256. 1.
Harangue [həˈraŋ] Speech || Long, passionate and vehement speech
 His colleagues listened politely to his harangue but ignored him.
 He mounted his horse, gave a short harangue to the troops, and headed to battle.
 Although hit and incapacitated, he continued to harangue his men forward.
257. 2.
Hauteur Extreme pride
 She swept into the room with formidable hauteur.
 His natural coolness and aristocratic hauteur.
258. 3.
Hedge Limit a statement

259. 4.
Hoary Ancient || Old

260. 5.
Hobble Hold back
 He smiles warmly, despite hobbling around with a bad back.
 The last time I saw Rachel she was hobbling around with a stick.
261. 6.
Homogeneous Of the same kind
 If all jobs and workers were homogeneous.
 Students are not a homogeneous group.
 At the beginning of the experiments, seedlings were homogeneous in terms of length.
 I come from a homogeneous society.
262. 7.
Hyperbole [hʌɪˈpəːbəli] Exaggeration || Overstatement
 Hyperbole is unacceptable when speaking in court.
 His claim to be the smartest kid in the school was a bit of a hyperbole!
 Maurice is always blurring the facts with hyperbole.

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No. WORD MEANING
263. 1.  Iconoclastic/ Attacking cherished traditions || Questioning || Critical /
Iconoclast Critic
 An iconoclastic filmmaker who has pushed the boundaries with every film he's made.
 His criticisms are never iconoclastic and his sympathy never sycophantic.
264. 2.
 Idiosyncrasy Peculiarity
 Should I do this or should I leave it as an idiosyncrasy of my blog?
 The title is ‘The diagnosis of aspirin idiosyncrasy by analgesic challenge’.
265. 3.
Idolatry [ʌɪˈdɒlətri] Worship of idols || Excessive admiration
 It was an idolatry that had become one of society's assumed norms.
 No matter what form religion may take, idolatry is the foundation of its worship
266. 4.
Imbroglio Confusing situation
 The imbroglio seemed to be on the floor, on the other side of the table, near the wall.
267. 5.
 Imminent Approaching
 We were prepared for the imminent arrival of the President.
 There is an imminent danger of an epidemic.
268. 6.
Immutable Unchangeable
 In Nature nothing is immutable and change is the rule not the exception.
269. 7.
Impair Injure || Hurt
 A noisy job could permanently impair their hearing.
 High levels of the stress hormone cortisol appears to impair memory.
270. 8.
Impassive Expressionless || Without feeling || Imperturbable ||
Stoical
 They sat, impassive, beside me while I watched the news from Russia.
 His cold, impassive face.
 His words were defiant but his tone was neutral and impassive.
271. 9.
Impecunious Lacking money || Insolvent
 In my impecunious youth, I had no furniture of my own.
 A titled but impecunious family.
272. 10.
Impede Hinder || Block || Stymie
 The sap causes swelling which can impede breathing.
 Successive circles impede travel out of the city and stop air flow which removes pollution.
 I refuse to be stymied by social convention.
 They say they were stymied by corrupt colleagues.
273. 11.
Impermeable Impervious || Not permitting passage through its
substance
 There was an impermeable layer of clay a meter below ground level.
 The plastic is hydrophobic and thus impermeable to ions and water.
 The skin provides a relatively impermeable barrier to most substances.
274. 12. Imperturbable [ˌɪmpə
Calm || Placid
ˈtəːbəbl]
 But the square looks in on itself, exuding an air of imperturbable gentility.
 One secret of the success of the English was, perhaps, their imperturbable tolerance.
275. 13.
Impervious Impenetrable || Incapable of being damaged or distressed
 Their prejudices are so deep-rooted that they are impervious to reason.
 An impervious layer of rock.
 He worked, apparently impervious to the heat.
276. 14.
 Impetuous Impulsive || Rush || Rude
 He added that taking the car had been an impetuous and unplanned crime.
 She was impetuous to the point of being reckless.
277. 15.
Implacable Incapable of being pacified
 He is implacable until he gets what he wants.
 And what he saw inspired in him a deadly, implacable hatred.
 He was an implacable enemy of Ted's.
278. 16.
Implicit Understood but not stated || Dexterous
 She had implicit faith in him.
 An implicit faith in God.
 The values implicit in the school ethos.
279. 17.
Implode Burst inward || End or fail suddenly or dramatically
 You are subjected to the terror that will completely implode on your life.
 There was a reason the party did not implode after his conference speech.
 As the days and games tick by, perhaps they will implode under the pressure of
expectation.
280. 18.
Imponderable Difficult or impossible to estimate or assess
 These imponderable fluids were mere names, and these forces were suppositions,
representing no observed facts.
281. 19.
Importuned Beg || Asked persistently

282. 20.
Imprudent Not wise
 It would be imprudent to leave her winter coat behind.
 He made a rather imprudent choice.
283. 21.
Impugn Call into question
 He impugned his rival's character.
 Her motives have been scrutinized and impugned.
284. 22.
Inadvertently Unintentionally || By oversight || Carelessly
 His name had been inadvertently omitted from the list.
 Perhaps inadvertently, she gave the impression that she agreed.
 He had inadvertently given away their secret.
285. 23.
Inanity Silliness
 Their statement was a downright inanity.
 His speech was full of inanities that were meant to be funny.
286. 24.
Incense Make furious
 Without a cold biting, nothing is tangy incense.
287. 25.
 Inchoate adj. Recently begun || Rudimentary || Elementary
 His dreams were senseless and inchoate.
 She had a child's inchoate awareness of language.
288. 26.
Inclement Lacking mercy
 The harsh sentence of an inclement judge.
 Predictions of inclement weather proved to be wrong.
289. 27. Incongruity/
Incongruous Lack of harmony || Absurdity
 The incongruity of his fleshy face and skinny body disturbed her.
 The sheer oddness of the way the place functioned, the incongruity between functioning
and pretension.
290. 28.
Inconsequential Insignificant || Unimportant
 Trivial
 But what if some of these seemingly minor, inconsequential events had never occurred?
 The specific matters about which complaint is made were minor and inconsequential.
 They talked about inconsequential things.
 I know it sounds trivial, but I'm worried about it.
 He was sacked for a trivial mistake.
291. 29.
Incorporate Introduce something into a larger whole || Combine ||
unite
 Add the cheeses and butter and process briefly to incorporate them.
 We will incorporate the proposals into the plan.
 Through an incorporate resilience, slighted confidence restores itself.
292. 30.
 Inculpate Accuse || Blame
 I have heard that this man, Bakewell, chooses voluntarily not to inculpate my son.
 Moreover, he allowed Victor Durnovo to further inculpate himself.
293. 31.
Indeterminate Uncertain || Not clearly fixed || Indefinite
 He got his wish with an indeterminate sentence.
 He got an indeterminate sentence, with a minimum six years.
294. 32.
Indigence/ Indigent Poverty/ Poor
 Industry and enterprise can break the vicious circles of indigence.
 His skill at borrowing money saved him from indigence.
295. 33.
Indignant Angry

296. 34. Can’t be put in words || Inexpressible || Indescribable ||

Ineffable
Beyond words
 The ineffable Hebrew name that gentiles write as Jehovah.
 The ineffable mysteries of the soul.
297. 35.
Inert Inactive || Lacking power to move
 She lay inert on the hall floor.
 Since Newton's day, scientists have discovered that atoms are not inert.
 Normally it is said that gold has no biochemical purpose, because it is chemically inert.
 An inert political system.
298. 36.
Inflammatory Controversial
 The speaker was accused of having made inflammatory remarks to the crowd.
 She suggested that the councilor should step down as his remarks were
clearly inflammatory.
299. 37.
 Ingenious Inventive || Clever
 We are ingenious and we make great things, be it art, music or inventions.
 I am proud of my ingenious inventions.
300. 38.
Ingenuous Naïve and trusting || Young || Unsophisticated
 He eyed her with wide, ingenuous eyes.
 She thanked me with ingenuous sweetness for coming home with her.
 They were charming youths, ingenuous and intelligent at the same time.
 He’s a very kind person, if somewhat ingenuous.
301. 39.
Inherent Firmly established by nature or habit
 I have an inherent distrust of clowns.
 There are many things in life which have inherent dangers.
 The defects were inherent in the design.
302. 40.
 Inimical Tending to obstruct or harm || Hostile
 The policy was inimical to Britain's real interests.
 Drinking alcohol is inimical to thinking clearly.
 An inimical alien power.
303. 41.
Intimate Hint at

304. 42.
Inkling Vague idea || Notion || Glimmering || Sense
 I had an inkling that all was not well.
 Can you give me an inkling as to what is going on?
305. 43.
Irresolute Uncertain how to act || Indecisive
 She stood irresolute outside his door.
 He was following me no longer; he stood irresolute.
306. 44.
Insensible Unconscious || Unresponsive
307. 45.
Insinuate [ɪnˈsɪnjʊeɪt] Hint || Imply || Creep in
 He gradually insinuated himself into her life.
 She has managed to insinuate herself into the city's highest social circles.
308. 46.
 Insipid [ɪnˈsɪpɪd] Lacking in flavor || Dull
 Airline food used to be bland and insipid.
 The walls were painted an insipid beige.
 Mugs of insipid coffee.
309. 47.
Insidious Stealthy || Subtly destructive

310. 48.
Insolent Rude || Cheeky
 She hated the insolent tone of his voice.
 You should not be insolent to your teachers.
 I cannot bear insolent children.
311. 49.
Insularity [ˌɪnsjʊˈlarɪti] Narrow-mindedness || Isolation
 He proved the insularity of Van Diemen's Land by circumnavigating it in 1798.
 The stifling insularity of the children's existence.
 An example of British insularity.
312. 50. Intransigence n. [ɪn
Refusal of any compromise || Stubbornness
ˈtrɑːnsɪdʒəns]
 His intransigence was a refusal to bend within the social sciences.
 Opponents accused him of intransigence.
313. 51.
Inviolate Sacred || Untouched || Pour
 Think of the recognized classics of American cinema and they seem organic, inviolate.
 An international memorial which must remain inviolate.
314. 52.
Involved Complicated
The physics lecture became so involved that the undergraduate’s eyes glazed over.
315. 53.
Inundate [ˈɪnʌndeɪt] Overwhelm || Flood || Submerge
 Her office was inundated with requests for tickets.
 They have inundated me with fan letters.
316. 54.
Inured adj. [ɪˈnjʊəd] Accustomed || Hardened
 These children have been inured to violence.
 The frightening risks taken by clandestine immigrants are so common we are inured to
them.
317. 55.
Invective n. [ɪnˈvɛktɪv] Abuse
 She let out a stream of invective.
 She didn't understand this so hurled another stream of invective at me.
318. 56.
Irresolute [ɪˈrɛzəl(j)uːt] Uncertain how to act || Weak
 She stood irresolute outside his door.
 He was following me no longer; he stood irresolute.
319. 57. Itinerary [ʌɪˈtɪnərəri]/
Plan of a trip/ Traveling
Itinerant
 Editors are currently on tour, with a full itinerary on their website.
 Berlin is not on his itinerary.

J
No. WORD MEANING
320. 1.
Jaundice Bias

321. 2.
Jingoism Extreme patriotism

322. 3.
Jovial Merry
 She was in a jovial mood.
 Jessica joked, but her jovial smile was gone.
323. 4.
Juxtapose Mix || Place/set side by side
 By looking at my old diary, I can juxtapose my past with my current life.
 It is easy to juxtapose things that are complete opposites.

K
324. 1.
Kowtow Bow down before

L
No. WORD MEANING
Brief and to the point ||
325. 1.
 Laconic  Pithy
 Succinct
 The problem is likely to be, at least in part, Hilberg's laconic style.
 His laconic reply suggested a lack of interest in the topic.
 And I'm not going to end with a pithy summary.
 I relied on the contents of this letter as a succinct summary of the law.
326. 2.
Lambast Criticize harshly

327. 3.
Lampoon Poke fun at
 He said such ridiculous things that he was often the target of lampoons in the press.
328. 4.
Languid Tired

329. 5.
Lascivious Perverted
 He was arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior.
Inactivity || Torpor || Dullness || Lethargy ||
330. 6.
Lassitude Sluggishness || Slump || Dormancy || A state of physical
or mental inactivity
 She was overcome by lassitude and retired to bed.
 Reading causes lassitude and wearies us tremendously.
 Where physical torpor leads, mental atrophy is sure to follow.
 In the heat, they sank into a state of torpor.
331. 7.
Latent Potential but undeveloped || Dormant || Hidden
 There is a lot of latent talent in the school.
 They have a huge reserve of latent talent.
 There were latent defects in the system.
332. 8.
Laud v. [lɔːd] Praise || Exalt
 Many people lauded her for her efforts to help the poor.
 He was much lauded as a successful businessman.
333. 9.
Levee [ˈlɛvi] Stone embankment to prevent flooding
 Damage from Hurricane Katrina is complicated by widespread flooding from breached
levees.
 Many levees can be found near places like New Orleans and the Mississippi floodplain.
334. 10.
Levity Lack of seriousness or steadiness || Frivolity
 There are moments of levity, but they don't last long.
 Maybe it was too much levity given the subject matter.
335. 11.
 Lionize Celebrate || Glorify
 She was lionized everywhere after her novel won the Pulitzer Prize.
336. 12.
Log Record of a voyage or flight || Record of day-to-day
activities
 Log the wind speed.
 It was recorded in the ship's log.
 A roaring log fire.
337. 13.
Lucid [ˈl(j)uːsɪd] Easily understood || Clear || Intelligible
 Birds dipped their wings in the lucid flow of air.
 Write in a clear and lucid style.
 It is a lucid, bright day, and a lush tree looms across the window.
338. 14.
Luminous [ˈluːmɪnəs] Shining || Issuing light
 Her eyes were luminous with joy.
 He wore luminous green socks.
 I put on luminous cycle gear at night.
 In her luminous green and red jacket, she was easy to spot.

M
No. WORD MEANING
339. 1.
Magisterial Domineering || Authoritative
 He dropped his somewhat magisterial style of questioning.
 Magnanimity
340. 2.
[ˌmaɡnəˈnɪmɪti]/ Generosity/Generous || Charity
Magnanimous
 She is a person of great magnanimity and vision.
 They were embarrassed into magnanimity by their all-out victory.
 We hope the new government will show wisdom and magnanimity.
341. 3.
Malady Illness

342. 4.
Malapropism Wrong word

343. 5.
Malfeasance Misconduct
 Two officials were dismissed by the bank for malfeasance, a scapegoat gesture.
 He was accused of malfeasance in office, but he was not tried until several years had
elapsed.
344. 6.
 Malign Evil || Harmful
 Don’t you dare malign her in my presence?
 She had a strong and malign influence.
345. 7.
Malingerer [məˈlɪŋɡə] One who feigns[fake] illness to escape duty
 I do not know how you find and detect a malingerer.
 We know who the high spenders and municipal malingerers are.
346. 8.
Malleable [ˈmalɪəbl] Impressionable || Capable of being shaped by pounding
 They are as malleable and easily led as sheep.
 Gold is malleable and does not fracture as it is tumbled about in running water.
 A malleable metal can be beaten into a sheet.
347. 9.
Martinet Disciplinarian
 The officer,’ he reasoned, ‘will not make that martinet's error a second time.
 A martinet of a staff officer.
348. 10.
Maudlin Over-sentimental || Overemotional

349. 11.
Maverick Rebel || Nonconformist || Free spirit
 People thought he was too much of a maverick.
 The man's a maverick.
 He’s the maverick of the fashion scene.
350. 12.
Maxim Short saying
 The maxim that actions speak louder than words.
 It can also mean a precept, rule, principle, maxim, formula or method.
351. 13.
Mellifluous Sweet-sounding
 Her low mellifluous voice.
352. 14.
Mendacity Lying || Habitually dishonest
 Politicians are often accused of mendacity.
 Remember that you started all this for your own mendacious ends.
 Chuck is mendacious about his vegetarianism because he eats chicken.
353. 15.
Mendicant Beggar
 She abandoned her job and her career, and lived as a homeless mendicant on the streets of
Philadelphia.
354. 16.

355. 17.

356. 18.
Mettlesome Courageous || Fearless
 My brother is a mettlesome boy whose free-spirit always leads him to some type of
adventure.
357. 19.
Metamorphosis Change of form
 This is followed by a discussion of metamorphosis in insects and amphibians.
 The persistence of the larval tail during metamorphosis.
358. 20.  Misanthrope
One who hates mankind
[ˈmɪs(ə)nθrəʊp]
 He was shunned because of his miserable misanthropic nature.
 The moral corruption he saw around him made him misanthropic.
359. 21.
Misattribute Misidentify
 Her ideas are repeatedly misattributed to male colleagues.
360. 22.
Miscreant Criminal || Lawbreaker
 It is to be hoped that this miscreant youth has learnt his lesson.
 Despite his protestations, the authorities have wisely decided to cage the miscreant youth.
361. 23.
Moribund About to die || Expiring
 On examination she was moribund and dehydrated.
 The moribund commercial property market.
362. 24.
Morose [mɒˈrəʊs] Ill-humored || Sullen || Melancholy
 She was morose and silent when she got home.
 Then, feeling a bit morose and at a loose end, I headed for the bar.
363. 25.
Myopic Short-sighted
 He has a rather myopic view of the world.
 This is a myopic policy which will fail in the long term.
 N
No. WORD MEANING
364. 1.
Negate Cancel out || Nullify || Deny
 These weaknesses negated his otherwise progressive attitude towards the staff.
 He warned that to negate the results of elections would only make things worse.
365. 2.
Neophyte [ˈniːə(ʊ)fʌɪt] Recent convert || Beginner
 He was testing Thack, apparently, trying out his time-proven shtick on an unwitting
neophyte.
 Contrary to popular belief, neophytes are forbidden to run.

O
No. WORD MEANING
366. 1. Stubborn || Intractable || Refractory || Unmanageable ||
 Obdurate adj.
 Recalcitrant
 I argued this point with him, but he was obdurate.
 In favoring the obdurate option, United cramped Celtic for room and impressively limited
their effectiveness.
 There is only so long the recalcitrant can stay.
 A class of recalcitrant fifteen-year-olds.
 A stiff-necked recalcitrant and troublemaker.
 It will treat ores considered refractory to normal flotation methods.
 Some granules are refractory to secretory stimuli.
 Refractory materials found in lunar samples.
 The patient was admitted with intractable pain.
 His intractable personality did little to endear him to the staff.
367. 2.
 Obsequious Lavishly attentive || Servile || Sycophantic
 I can't stand his obsequious manner.
 They were served by obsequious waiters.
368. 3.
Obstreperous Uncontrollable || Noisily defiant
 Because my nephew is obstreperous, he often gets in trouble at school.
369. 4.
Obviate Remove || Make unnecessary || Get rid of
 The new treatment obviates the need for surgery.
 A parachute can be used to obviate disaster.
370. 5.
Occlude [əˈkluːd] Shut || Close
 Both teams have advocated the arterial approach to occlude the duct.
371. 6. Officious Bossy || Meddlesome || Excessively pushy in offering
 one’s services
 I have little doubt that they would have said so to an officious bystander.
 An officious man forced me to wait by the door as another patron was seated.
372. 7.
Onerous [ˈəʊn(ə)rəs] Burdensome
 She faces the onerous task of informing her parents of the truth.
 The free trade area is the least onerous in terms of involvement.
 First they had the onerous task of rearranging the furniture.
373. 8. Opprobrium [ə
Abuse || Infamy || Vilification
ˈprəʊbrɪəm]
 The critical opprobrium generated by his films.
 The opprobrium of being closely associated with gangsters.
374. 9.
 Orthodox Beliefs of a religion
 She’s very orthodox in her approach.
 For 150 years, it fell from orthodox medical practice.
375. 10.
Oscillate Vibrate || Waver
376. 11.  Ostentatious/
Ostentation Showy/ Show || Pretentious || Trying to attract attention
 She doesn't own a fleet of ostentatious cars or a portfolio of grand homes.
 He was always smartly dressed but not in an ostentatious way.

P
No. WORD MEANING
377. 1.
Palimpsest Something reused

378. 2.
Paragon Model of perfection
 Your cook is a paragon.
 She’s held up as a paragon of honesty.
 She’s a paragon of virtue.
379. 3.
Partisan One-sided || Prejudiced || Committed to a party
 In the current climate, it would probably be dismissed as partisan bias.
 His account was highly partisan.
380. 4. Glaringly / very obvious
Patent
 Conspicuous
 It was patently obvious to everyone that the plan had not been well thought out.
 The most conspicuous feature of the peacock is its tail.
 She had conspicuous red hair.
381. 5.
Pathological Pertaining to disease
382. 6.
Paucity [ˈpɔːsɪti] Scarcity
 Let me start with an apology for the paucity of blogging lately.
 A paucity of information.
383. 7.
Pecuniary Relating to money
 He admitted obtaining a pecuniary advantage by deception.
384. 8.
 Pedantic Showing off learning || Bookish
 Sorry to be pedantic but it really irked me for some reason.
 She’s the most pedantic lecturer in the whole faculty.
 He’s very pedantic about grammar.
385. 9.
 Pellucid Transparent || Clear || Crystal clear
 He writes, as always, in pellucid prose.
 His pellucid singing tone.
 Mountains reflected in the pellucid waters.
386. 10.
Penchant Strong inclination || Liking
 He had a penchant for silk ties.
 They had a penchant for moonlight walks.
 He has a penchant for adopting stray dogs.
387. 11. Penury [ˈpɛnjʊri]/
Severe poverty || Stinginess / Poor
Penurious
 Price rises due to his stealth taxes have reduced thousands like me to utter penury.
 He couldn't face another year of penury.
 He was not a poverty-stricken peasant's son looking to escape penury.
388. 12.
Percipient Percipient || Wise || Sage
 My friend was far more informed, articulate, and percipient than I was.
 The small percipient eyes are screwed up, and wrinkled from his repeated minute
scrutinizes.
 He is a percipient interpreter of the public mood.
389. 13.
Perennial Something long-lasting
 Spring streams rise from perennial springs.
 It's the best, even if your club is engaged in perennial struggle.
 These plants are perennial.
390. 14.
Perfidious Treacherous || Disloyal || Unable to be trusted, or
showing no loyalty
 She described the new criminal bill as a perfidious attack on democracy.
391. 15.
Perfunctory Superficial || Not thorough || Lacking interest, care, or
enthusiasm
 He walked in with a perfunctory nod to his colleagues.
 He gave a perfunctory nod.
392. 16.
Peripatetic Traveling on foot
 The peripatetic court lay at the heart of early Tudor government.
393. 17.
Permeable Penetrable || Porous|| Allowing liquids or gas to pass
through
 A frog's skin is permeable to water.
 The damaged endothelial cells become more permeable.
394. 18.
Peruse Read closely

395. 19.
Pervasive Spread throughout
 There was a pervasive smell of cooking in the entrance hall.
 But it's the pervasive humor that wins through, thanks to a nicely crafted script.
396. 20.
Phantasmagorical Illusive || Very strange

397. 21.
Philistine Hater of culture || Uncultured
 When it comes to art, he's a philistine!
 I am a complete philistine when it comes to paintings.
398. 22.
Phlegmatic Calm || Not easily disturbed || Stolid
 It's almost unbelievably fitting that these supremely phlegmatic men live in Spitalfields.
 The phlegmatic British character.
 A stolid bourgeois gent.
 She evinces a stolid seriousness way beyond her youthful appearance.
399. 23.
Piety [ˈpʌɪɪti] Devoutness || Reverence for God
 She was known for her piety and acts of public charity.
 Acts of piety and charity.
400. 24.
Pine Yearn on || To have an earnest or strong desire
 She pined for her lost love.
401. 25.
Pittance Small amount of money

402. 26.
 Placate Pacify || Conciliate || Mollify || Calm || Soothe
 Take a saucer of milk to placate him and you might just escape unscathed.
 It adopts no postures of phony charms to placate its visitors.
 My feeling is that he will leave, though good results could yet mollify him.
 We'll probably just see a bunch of cosmetic amendments to mollify the rebels.
403. 27.
Plaintive Sad || Mournful
 She writes plaintive songs of love and heartbreak.
 We listened to the plaintive cries of the seagulls.
 From a whooshing, gurgling still comes the ringing, plaintive and mournful.
404. 28.
Plasticity ability to be molded
405. 29.
Platitude n. Trite remark || Commonplace statement
 He will not offer platitudes about encouragement.
 Instead he chose a few bland platitudes.
406. 30.
Plethora Excess || Overabundance
407. 31.
Plucky Courageous
 The plucky student never gave up.
 I told them tales of plucky warriors in ancient battles.
408. 32.
Plummet [ˈplʌmɪt] Fall sharply
 The bird has a circular display flight followed by an earthward plummet.
 Shareholders saw their holdings plummet in value soon after the launch.
409. 33.
Porous Full of pores || Like a sieve
 Some rocks are more porous than others.
 He ran through a porous home defense to score easily.
410. 34.
portentous Prophetic || Predictive

411. 35.
 Pragmatic Practical (as opposed to idealistic) || concerned with the
practical worth or impact of something
 This is a program that any pragmatic Centre-right government could be proud of.
 But for all his intellectual gifts, his kingship was essentially pragmatic.
412. 36.
Preamble Introductory statement
 He could tell that what she said was by way of a preamble.
 I gave him the bad news without preamble.
413. 37.
Precarious [prɪˈkɛːrɪəs] Uncertain || Risky || Tenuous
 He made a precarious living as a painter.
 They were living a precarious existence on the streets.
 The museum's finances are precarious.
414. 38. Precipitate adj. [prɪ
Rash || Premature || Hasty || Sudden
ˈsɪpɪteɪt]
 I must apologize for my staff—their actions were precipitate.
 But most borrowers will lose substantially by taking this kind of precipitate action.
415. 39.
Precursor [prɪˈkəːsə] Forerunner
 The agreement is seen as a precursor to talks.
 A three-stringed precursor of the violin.
 The pre-meal selection of chutneys is a precursor of the sharp flavors to come
416. 40.
Presentiment Premonition || Foreboding || Intuition
 Immediately she had shut her eyes sensing some peculiar presentiment.
 A presentiment of disaster.
417. 41. Presumptuous [prɪ Arrogant || Imperious || Haughty || Supercilious ||
ˈzʌm(p)tʃʊəs] Taking liberties || Domineering
 It was a nice idea but always a tad presumptuous.
 Call this presumptuous arrogance or call it faith in our selves.
 I hope I won't be considered presumptuous if I offer some advice.
 They exude a true gothic sense of imperious detachment.
 The awkward driving position feels lofty and imperious.
 She gave him a haughty look and turned away.
 He gave us a look of haughty disdain.
 She's also married to a supercilious English barrister.
418. 42.  Prevaricate [prɪ
Lie
ˈvarɪkeɪt]
 She saw no reason to prevaricate.
 After months of prevarication, the political decision had at last been made.
419. 43.
Pristine Characteristic of earlier times || Primitive || Unspoiled
 His face and once pristine white school shirt were drenched in blood.
 A pristine white shirt.
 It was a pristine vintage car.
420. 44.
Probity Uprightness || Incorruptibility
 They should always behave with probity and integrity.
 We need to apply the same standards of probity and integrity to all employees.
421. 45. Irresponsible || Wasteful || Recklessly extravagant
 Profligate
 Prodigal
 He is a drunkard and a profligate.
 He succumbed to drink and a profligate lifestyle.
 This is the perfect time for the prodigal daughter to return to her roots.
 This is the homecoming, the return of the prodigal sons to the family fold.
422. 46.
 Profound Deep || Not superficial || complete
 Over the long term, they will make a far more profound impact.
 Then I realized I wouldn't have any profound thoughts.
423. 47.
Prohibitive Tending to prevent the purchase or use of something ||
Inclined to prevent or forbid
 People who would like to move south find the cost of housing there prohibitive.
 It is not selling well because of its prohibitive £2,500 price tag.
424. 48.
 Prolific Productive || Creative
 He doesn't do fiction, of course, but he is mighty prolific.
 This film launched her prolific screen career.
 He was one of the most prolific natural goal scorers the game has ever seen.
425. 49.
Prolixity Verbosity

426. 50. Propensity [prə(ʊ)

Natural inclination
ˈpɛnsɪti]
 The government has long since given up trying to reduce the propensity to commit crime.
 It is better to look for those tulips with a natural propensity for repeat performance.
427. 51.
Propitiate [prəˈpɪʃɪeɪt] Appease
 The pagans thought it was important to propitiate the gods with sacrifices.
 Plotinus and Porphyry felt reserve towards participation in sacrifices to propitiate the
spirits.
428. 52.
Propriety [prəˈprʌɪəti] Fitness || Correct conduct
 He always behaved with the utmost propriety.
 They questioned the propriety of certain investments made by the council.
429. 53.
 Prosaic Dull || Unimaginative || Humdrum || Pedestrian ||
Mundane
 There’s probably a more prosaic explanation of how it got its name.
 Prosaic language can't convey the experience.
 The truth is more prosaic, but also more disturbing.
 An escape from the humdrum of his life.
 You get fed up with the humdrum routine of your daily job.
 A rather pedestrian book.
 I lead a pretty mundane sort of life.

430. 54. Proscribe [prə(ʊ)
Ostracize || Banish || Outlaw || Ban
ˈskrʌɪb]
 The bill contains broad proscriptions on land and water pollution.
 A proscription on indoor smoking was passed by voters last fall.
431. 55.
Protean Versatile || Adaptable
 It is difficult to comprehend the whole of this protean subject.
 Protean thinkers who scan the horizons of work and society.
432. 56.  Provident/
Planning ahead
Providential
 She had learned to be provident.
 She was a discreet, sober, provident woman, and with great patience endured many
afflictions.
433. 57.
Prudent Wise || Showing care and thought
It is prudent to book well in advance.
The action demanded by the ministerial task force is both sensible and prudent.
434. 58.
Punctilious Overly precise || Accurate
 I'm not very punctilious about putting links in my blog.
 He was punctilious in providing every amenity for his guests.
435. 59. Pungent
Stinging || Sharp in taste or smell || Caustic
[ˈpʌn(d)ʒ(ə)nt]
 The next thing was a pungent smell of burning plastic.
 I could smell the pungent flavors coming from the kitchen.
436. 60.
Pundit Expert || Adviser

Q
No. WORD MEANING
437. 1.
Qualified Limited || Restricted a statement
 The press secretary later qualified the president's remarks by saying he hadn't been aware
of all of the facts.
438. 2.
Quandary Uncertainty || Dilemma
 I'm in a quandary about whether to take the job
 Their descendants have been left in a quandary.
 Kate was in a quandary.
439. 3.
Quibble [ˈkwɪbl] Minor objection or complaint
 She still has one minor quibble about the trip.
 The only quibble about this book is the price.
 They refunded the money without a quibble.
440. 4.
Quiescent [kwɪˈɛsnt] At rest || Dormant || Temporarily inactive
 Strikes were headed by groups of workers who had previously been quiescent.
441. 5.
Quip Witty remark
 His quip fell completely flat.
 They’re scholarly people who can quip in Latin.
 Peter ate heartily with a quip about being a condemned man.
442. 6.
Quixotic Impracticable || Unrealistic
 Now that he wants to rejoin society no goal seems more quixotic and hopeless.
 As quixotic ventures go, the symphony has turned out well.
 R
No. WORD MEANING
443. 1.
Rapprochement Reconciliation
 He believed in a rapprochement between the religions.
 A rapprochement with Libya had to take place on US terms, however.
444. 2.
Rarefied [ˈrɛːrɪfʌɪd] Made less dense (of a gas)
 That is more rarefied than the near vacuum in a television cathode ray tube.
 Every ounce carried counts triple when you're trudging uphill in rarefied air.
445. 3. Disclaim or disavow || Retract a previous statement ||
Recant [rɪˈkant]
Openly confess error
 Heretics were burned if they would not recant.
 He is getting crosser and crosser with Sir John for failing to recant.
 He was forced by the Inquisition to recant this belief.
446. 4.
Recluse [rɪˈkluːs] Hermit || Loner
 He’s a bit of a recluse.
 She has turned into a virtual recluse.
 She was an elderly recluse.
447. 5.
Recondite Abstruse || Profound || Secret || Incomprehensible
 The book is full of recondite information.
 Such recondite periphrasis brought its own reward.
 His accompanying text may not answer every question on this recondite subject.
 The abstruse imagery of his work has produced a large corpus of diverging
interpretations.
 No financial statement was too intricate for her, and no contract too abstruse.
448. 6.
Recrimination Mutual attacks || Counterattack || Retaliation
 There was a period of bitter recrimination.
 They indulged in mutual recrimination.
449. 7.
Redress Correct unfairness

450. 8. Unnecessary || Not required

 Redundant
 Superfluous
 Many of the old skills had become redundant.
 There were no redundant words in the article.
 It's tasteless and superfluous, but not clichéd.
 use it to remove superfluous hair.
451. 9. Refute Disprove
 This is a claim that is easy to refute.
 His voice challenging his audience to rise and refute him.
 It is for the defense to search for evidence to refute the accusation's charges.
452. 10.
Relegate Banish to an inferior position || Delegate || Assign
 He has been relegated to a post at the fringes of the diplomatic service.
 He relegates the less pleasant tasks to his assistant.
453. 11.
Remonstrate Forcefully protest

454. 12.
Replete Fully stocked
 I went out into the sun-drenched streets again, replete and relaxed.
 The book is replete with historical references.
455. 13.
Reprisal Retaliation action
 Enemy officers suffered harsh reprisals.
 The allies threatened economic reprisals against the invading country.
456. 14.
Reproach [rɪˈprəʊtʃ] Express disapproval or disappointment
 She gave me a look of reproach.
 I let it go without reproach.
 The hint of reproach in ‘omission’ may not be quite fair to either of us.
457. 15.
Reprobate [ˈrɛprəbeɪt] Person hardened in sin || Devoid of a sense of decency
 Feeling every bit the reprobate she let herself into the flat.
 I will separate the elect from the reprobate, as light from darkness.
458. 16.
Repudiate [rɪˈpjuːdɪeɪt] Deny as untrue || Disown || disavow
 Breach of a condition gives the other party the right to repudiate a contract.
 The modernist belief that modern art should repudiate the past has been jettisoned.
 I will continue to repudiate that accusation.
459. 17.
Rescind [rɪˈsɪnd] Cancel officially
 The navy rescinded its ban on women sailors.
 The company later rescinded its offer/decision.
460. 18.
Resolution Determination
461. 19.
Resolve Determination || Firmness of purpose
462. 20.
Respite Break || Rest || Pause from work
 A brief respite from the heat.
 They longed for a moment of respite.
463. 21. Retract Take back a statement
 He should retract his allegation if he cannot substantiate it.
 The parish council was forced to retract a previous resolution.
464. 22.
Reverent Respectful || Worshipful
 I don't think Strauss wrote for such a po-faced, reverent audience.
 He knelt in a reverent attitude.
 They maintained a reverent silence.
465. 23.
Ribald Comically vulgar
 They could hear the sound of ribald laughter.
 As they drank more and more, the ribald comments started to get out of hand.
 He was delighted at the ribald laughter that greeted his witticism.
466. 24.
Robust Tough || Strong || Sturdy
 He took quite a robust view of my case.
 I need a robust plant that will withstand strong winds.
 He’s a robust, healthy little boy.

S
No. WORD MEANING
467. 1.
Sage Wise || Learned || Clever || Intelligent || Person
celebrated for wisdom
 I asked a sage on the news desk.
 I'm not much of a sage, I'm afraid.
468. 2. Salubrious [sə
Healthful || High-class || Expensive
ˈl(j)uːbrɪəs]
 This isn't a very salubrious environment to bring up children in.
 He soon found himself walking through one of the less salubrious areas of the city.
 An over-priced flat in a none too salubrious area.
469. 3.
Sanction Approve || Ratify
 We cannot sanction these killings.
 He appealed to the bishop for his sanction.
 The ultimate sanction against him will be closure of the restaurant.
470. 4.
Sanctimonious Holier-than-thou || Self-righteous
 I wish she'd stop being so sanctimonious.
471. 5.
Sangfroid Poise under pressure

472. 6.
 Sanguine Cheerful || Hopeful
 The committee takes a more sanguine view.
 He is sanguine about prospects for the global economy.
473. 7.
Satiate Satisfy fully
 The dinner was enough to satiate the gourmets.
 The festival offers enough choice to satiate most appetites.
474. 8.
Saturate Soak thoroughly
 Water the plants but do not saturate them.
 Japan's electronics industry began to saturate the world markets.
475. 9.
Sartorial Relating to cloths
 The girls give their reactions to their fellow guests' sartorial style.
 I've dressed up a bit in deference to Evans's sartorial elegance.
476. 10.
Savor Enjoy || Have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality
 They savored every last morsel of food.
 She was just savoring the moment.
 The team is still savoring its victory.
477. 11.
Schadenfreude Joy in others’ suffering

478. 12.
Scintillating Brilliant
 The audience loved his scintillating wit.
 The team produced a scintillating second-half performance.
479. 13. Excessively careful || Painstaking ||
 Scrupulous
 Meticulous
 The research has been carried out with scrupulous attention to detail.
 A less scrupulous person would have pocketed the money.
 The book is the result of years of meticulous work.
 The designs are hand-glazed with meticulous care.
480. 14.
Secrete Hide away or cache || Produce and release a substance
into an organism
481. 15.
Self-effacing Modest || Not making oneself noticeable
 Her manner was self-effacing, gracious, and polite.
 Here as in the first movement, the players' modesty is almost self-effacing.
482. 16.
Serendipity Luck
 A fortunate stroke of serendipity.
483. 17.
Shard Piece || Fragment || Generally of pottery
 Some memories stick in the brain like shards of glass.
 Inside, the floor is strewn with rubble and shards of glass.
484. 18. Simulacrum Unsatisfactory imitation or substitute
485. 19.
Sinecure Easy job

486. 20.
Skeptic Doubter || Person who suspends judgment until having
examined evidence supporting a point of view
 Skeptics have pointed out flaws in the researchers' methods.
 You can believe in ghosts if you like, but I'm still a skeptic.
 He is a skeptic and a cynic.
487. 21.
Smattering Small amount of knowledge

488. 22.
Snide Mocking in an indirect way
 I'm fed up of your snide remarks about my work.
 What he said was a snide dig at her behavior.
489. 23.
Snub Humiliate || Treat disrespectfully
 I love your snub-nosed face.
 They had four snub-nosed children.
490. 24.
Solicitous [səˈlɪsɪtəs] Worried || Concerned
 She was always solicitous about the welfare of her students.
 He was solicitous to cultivate her mamma's good opinion.
491. 25.  Soporific [sɒpə
Sleep-causing || Marked by sleepiness
ˈrɪfɪk]
 I find it very soporific watching late-night films.
 The motion of the train had a somewhat soporific effect.
492. 26.
Sordid Morally questionable

Seemingly reasonable but incorrect || Misleading (often

493. 27.
Specious intentionally) ||
 Plausible
 Something that is specious seems to exist or be true, but is not real or true.
 It is unlikely that the Duke was convinced by such specious arguments.
 His story seemed quite plausible.
494. 28. Colored band produced when a beam of light passes
Spectrum
through a prism
 I felt as if I'd been through the whole spectrum of emotions.
 Self-help books are covering a broader and broader spectrum.
 I have read a wide spectrum of theories and history, ranging from Marx to Mises.
 Their music covers a broad spectrum of styles.
495. 29.  Sporadic [spə
Occasional || Occurring irregularly
ˈradɪk]
 The situation is easing, although sporadic fresh outbreaks are still occurring.
 There are still sporadic outbreaks of violence in the town.
496. 30.
Stalwart Dependable || Loyal
 They have always been stalwart allies of the US.
 He is one of the party's most stalwart supporters.
 He remained a stalwart supporter of the cause.
 The country is a stalwart defender of free speech and democracy.
497. 31.
Stem Limit growth
498. 32.
Stigma Token of disgrace || Brand
 In this society, a stigma attaches to being unmarried.
 They all found it hard to shake the stigma of failure.
499. 33.
Stint v. Be thrifty || Set limits
 He doesn't stint on wining and dining.
 She’s finishing her stint with accounts.
 Know what you are trying to achieve and don't stint on the preparation.
500. 34.
Stipulate[ˈstɪpjʊleɪt] Make express conditions || Specify
 She agreed to buy the car, but stipulated racing tires and a turbo-powered engine.
 The law stipulates that new cars must have seat belts for the driver and every passenger.
501. 35.
Striated [strʌɪˈeɪtɪd] Marked with parallel bands || Grooved
 A striated rock surface.
 An expensively outfitted kitchen with striated wood cabinets.
502. 36.
Strut [strʌt] Pompous walk
 The children began to strut around.
503. 37.
Strut [strʌt] Supporting bar
504. 38.
Subpoena [səˈpiːnə] Write summoning a witness to appear
 The police served a subpoena on me.
 The committee has the power to subpoena witnesses.
505. 39.
Subside Settle down || Descend || Grow quiet
 In fact the whole house is beginning to subside.
 There is no danger that the building will subside.
506. 40. Substantiate [səb
Establish by evidence || Verify || Support
ˈstanʃɪeɪt]
 They had found nothing to substantiate the allegations.
 They have failed to produce evidence to substantiate the reason for refusal of the
application.
507. 41.
Subterfuge Deceit || Guile || Fraud
 She managed to get in by a clever subterfuge.
 He had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions.
508. 42.
Sullen Bad-tempered and sulky || Brooding
 A sullen sunless sky.
 She looked very sullen.
509. 43.
Supersede [suːpəˈsiːd] Cause to be set aside || Replace || Make obsolete
 This edition supersedes the previous one.
 Former stars were being superseded by younger actors.
510. 44. Supposition [ˌsʌpə
Belief || Hypothesis || Surmise
ˈzɪʃn]
 The police are working on the supposition that he has left the country.
 The report is based on supposition.
511. 45.
Sycophant Creep || Flatterer
 The Prime Minister is surrounded by sycophants.
 The office is a menagerie of egotists and sycophants.

T
No. WORD MEANING
512. 1.
Tacit [ˈtasɪt] Understood || Not put into words
 Your silence may be taken to mean tacit agreement.
 The question was a tacit admission that a mistake had indeed been made.
 There was a tacit agreement that he would pay off the loan.
513. 2. Uncommunicative || Quiet ||
 Taciturn
 Reticent
 She has always been rather taciturn.
 After such gatherings she would be taciturn and morose.
 He was reticent about his intentions.
 Unfortunately the book is also reticent; it is remarkable for what is not included.
 She was extremely reticent about her personal affairs.
514. 3. Tangential [tan Irrelevant || Moot || Peripheral || Only slightly
ˈdʒɛn(t)ʃl] connected || Digressing
 Too much time was spent discussing tangential issues.
 Their romance is tangential to the book's main plot.
 Whether they had been successful or not was a moot point.
 Whether it would be advisable, is a moot point.
515. 4.
Tawdry Cheap || Showy
 It’s a rather tawdry shop selling cheap furniture.
 The inquest has turned into a tawdry spectacle.
 She was wearing tawdry jewelry.
516. 5.
Tempered Moderated in effect
 The wide-eyed optimism of her youth was now tempered after she had worked many
years in the criminal justice system.
517. 6.
Tendentious Controversial point of view

518. 7.
Tenuous [ˈtɛnjʊəs] Thin || Rare || Slim
 The dictator has managed to retain his tenuous hold on power.
 His philosophy has a tenuous connection with Plato.
 The police have only found a tenuous connection between the two robberies.
519. 8.
Timorous Shy
 Diane was not a timorous woman, but neither had her parents raised her to be foolhardy.
Extended scolding || Vituperative || Diatribe ||
520. 9.
Tirade [tʌɪˈreɪd] Denunciation || Harangue || A long, angry speech of
criticism or accusation.
 His boss launch into a tirade against him.
 The receptionist was subject to a tirade of abuse from the angry customer.
521. 10.
Tortuous [ˈtɔːtʃʊəs] Twisting || Winding || Full of curves
 The route is remote and tortuous.
 Bandarban routes are tortuous.
 He was as tortuous and convoluted as a monkey puzzle tree.
522. 11.
Tout Advertise strongly
 Never buy tickets from a tout.
 When banks tout for your business, they make all kinds of attractive offers.
 Tout for business in the local area.
523. 12.
Tractable Easily managed || Controllable ||
 Docile
 She has always been tractable and obedient, even as a child.
 Cows are known for their docile nature.
 A cheap and docile workforce.
524. 13. Transgression [trɑːnz
Wrong || Violation of a law || Sin
ˈɡrɛʃn]
 He has exaggerated and transgressed the limits of the acceptable.
 Anna, as she entered the studio, had a sudden sense of transgression.
Truculence
525. 14. Aggressiveness || Cruel || Savagely brutal || Barbarous
[Truk:yuh:luhns]
[Hitler] || Ferocity
 His good mood gradually gave way to truculence when she didn't pay him any attention.
 His truculence was irritating me.
526. 15.  Tumult/
Tumultuous Chaos || Confusion || Turmoil || Welter || Melee
 In the tumult, I lost my hat and briefcase.
 The whole neighborhood was in a state of fear and tumult.
 There is a welter of information on the subject.
 Mother told her son not to welter in pleasure and idleness.
 Several people were hurt in the melee.

U
No. WORD MEANING
527. 1.
Urbane Sophisticated
 She was charmed by his urbane wit.
 Urbane wit was the mark of taste and cultivation.
528. 2.
Unconscionable Unreasonable
 Shareholders have had to wait an unconscionable time for the facts to be established.
 The unconscionable conduct of his son.
529. 3.
Unflappable Cool under pressure
 His unflappable dispassionate calm is an end in itself.
 I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic circumstances.
 Self-contained, unflappable common sense.
530. 4.
Unprecedented Never done before
 The scale of change is unprecedented.
 The situation is quite unprecedented in modern times.
531. 5.
Unprepossessing Unremarkable
 He was unprepossessing in appearance, and suffered from a club foot.
 I met his wife, a rather unprepossessing woman.
532. 6.
Unscrupulous Unethical
 Unscrupulous landlords might be tempted to harass existing tenants.
 He’s completely unscrupulous.
533. 7.
Untenable Indefensible || Faulty
 Clearly this is an untenable situation from our point of view.
 Their forecasts are now untenable.
 It sounds like an untenable situation, but he remains upbeat.

V
No. WORD MEANING
534. 1.
 Vacillate [ˈvasɪleɪt] Waver || Fluctuate || Unable to decide
 There were some doubts and vacillations on this issue within the party.
 She accused him of vacillation and weakness.
535. 2.
Vacuous Lacking intelligence

536. 3.
Vanquish Defeat thoroughly
 He vanquished all his fears.
537. 4.
Vie Compete for
 She was surrounded by men all vying for her attention.
 The boys would vie with each other to impress her.
538. 5.
Vehement Intensely emotional || Passionate
 Fervid
 Her voice was low but vehement.
 I took a vehement dislike to him.
 His fervid protestations of love.
 Combined with fervid Methodism, you've got ruthless certainty.
539. 6.
Veneer Disguising layer
 In their pride they hid their sins behind a veneer of respectability.
540. 7.  Venerate
Respect || Revere
[ˈvɛnəreɪt]
 A writer venerated by generations of admirers.
 She is venerated as a saint.
541. 8.
Veracious [vɪˈreɪʃəs] Truthful || Accurate
 And it is because of the meeting that this veracious story is written.
542. 9.
Verisimilitude The appearance of being true or real.
 Graphics are to games what verisimilitude is to a novel.
 The detail gives the novel some verisimilitude.
543. 10.
Viable Practical || Workable
 Most clones can produce thousands of viable seeds.
 A viable plan for an alternative would be part of the proposed project.
544. 11. Vicarious Not lived directly
 The public vicariously live out their own repressed criminality.
545. 12.
Virago A domineering, violent, or bad-tempered woman

546. 13.
Viscous Sticky || Gluey
 As it cools, the liquid becomes more viscous.
 Theory predicts that the quantum vacuum behaves in some ways like a viscous fluid.
547. 14.
Vitriolic Harsh in ton
 This simply will not do, given the play's premises and vitriolic criticism of capitalism.
 Vitriolic attacks on the politicians.
Vituperative/
548. 15.
Vituperate – adj [vʌɪ Abusive || Scolding || Tirade || Diatribe
ˈtjuːp(ə)rətɪv]
 Miss Snowden yesterday launched a vituperative attack on her ex-boss and former lover.
 The strong, even vituperative responses to the post surprised me.
549. 16.
Volatile Changeable || Explosive || Evaporation rapidly
 My boss has a volatile temper.
 Uncertainty has made stock prices very volatile.
 Volatile oils are captured and used in perfume manufacture.
550. 17.
Voracious Very hungry
 She’s a voracious reader.
 That child has a voracious appetite!

W
No. WORD MEANING
551. 1.
Wanting Lacking || Deficient || Inadequate
 His service was shown to be wanting.
 The law is wanting in that respect.
 He was found wanting as a father and husband.
552. 2.
Warranted Justified || Authorized
 The prosecutors say that they aggressively seek the death penalty when it is warranted.
553. 3.
Wary [ˈwɛːri] Chary || Very cautious || Careful
 She kept a wary eye on her handbag.
 Be wary of emails from people you don't know.
 She had been chary of telling the whole truth.
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No. WORD MEANING
554. 1. Zealot [ˈzɛlot] Extremist || Fanatic || Enthusiast || Person who shows
[Hitler] excessive zeal || Fervency
 When he speaks about unemployment, the fire that appears in his eyes would delight the
greatest zealot in the world.
 He is a zealot, but fortunately he does not have an army of zealots to lead.