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Accolade praise
Allusion indirect reference
Ambivalence uncertainty; having 'mixed' feelings
Ambivalent unable to decide
Analogy comparison
Anecdote short account of something interesting; story
Anomalous odd; not fitting the pattern
Apparition ghost; something that 'appears'
Aspersion negative feeling; damaging remark
Belligerence aggression
Bombastic too elaborate; exaggerated
Candid truthful
Capricious changeable; fickle
Cherished cared for; firmly-held
Cliché over-used expression
Conception 1. idea; view. 2. beginning of pregnancy
Convoluted complicated or long-winded
Credence belief
Cryptic hidden
Currency 1. widespread acceptance, 2. money
Decorous good and correct (used of behavior)
Denunciation act of speaking out against
Derailed thrown off course
Derivative unoriginal
Despotic acting like a tyrant
Detritus rubbish
Diaphanous very thin and transparent
Dictum often-used saying
Dilettante person who dabbles in the arts
Disdained showed contempt for
Dispassionate unbiased; fair
Dowager an elderly woman of elevate social status
Dubious doubtful
Egalitarian equal; believer in equality
Elicit draw out (used mainly for information or feelings)
Elliptical 1. shaped like an ellipse, 2. indirect
Epitomizes acts as a typical example of
Equivocate speak ambiguously/vaguely
Evasiveness trying to avoid something
Explicitly very clear; nothing hidden
Foraging searching for food
Hypothetical based on guesswork; not proven
Iconoclast person who goes against accepted authority
Idiosyncratic quirky; unique to an individual
Imponderable cannot be understood
Indecorous not well-behaved; lacking in dignity
Indigence extreme poverty
Inept clumsy
Inherent inbuilt; genetic
Intricate complicated
Irrefutable cannot be proved wrong
Jingoism using words to stir up exaggerated patriotism
Jubilant joyful
Judicious fair and equal
Lament express regret over something
Loquacious talkative; using too many words
Mendicancy begging
Metaphorical not literal; figurative
Milieu environment; surroundings
Mitigated made less severe
Nascent just begun; in an early stage of development
Nostalgia longing for the past
Obtrusive easily seen
Orthographical concerned with writing and spelling
Ossified become fixed and rigid
Ostentatious showy
Palpable can be felt
Pastoral1. concerned with the countryside, 2. concerned with the care a pastor gives to someone
Pedestrian 1. boring (adj), 2. person who walks (n)
Perfidy treachery; betrayal
Profligacy wasteful and immoral behavior
Prohibitive very expensive
Prudence wisdom; caution
Pugnacious aggressive
Purveyor one who sells something or causes something to spread
Resonance echo
Respite break (from work etc.)
Resurgence revival
Sparse thin; not thick
Stringent strict
Succumbing giving in to; falling under the influence of
Supercilious arrogant
Tenacity firmness of purpose
Transcend go beyond a limit
Variegated multicolored
Venerable worthy of respect
Viable workable; able to live or grow
Visceral concerned with the 'guts'; physical rather than mental
Ambivalent undecided; having 'mixed' feelings
Apathy lack of energy or interest
Autonomy self-government
Benevolent kindly
Blanched turned pale
Bolster give support to
Bucolic concerned with the countryside and farming
Callous cruel and unfeeling
Cantankerous bad tempered
Capricious changeable; fickle
Chicanery trickery; attempt to deceive
Churlish ill-mannered
Cohesive forming a whole; 'sticking' together
Concur agree
Cryptic hidden; obscure
Decimation extensive destruction
Deft skillful
Delinquency wrong-doing
Depravity moral corruption
Desolate lonely; devoid of life; feeling very sad and hopeless
Devoid of empty of
Didactic intending to teach or give instructions
Disingenuous crafty
Dispassionate unbiased
Disposition tendency; personality
Dissent disagreement
Effusive overly expressive of emotions; 'gushing'
Endorse support
Enigma puzzle
Enumerate count out; list
Ephemeral short-lived
Erroneous wrong
Erudition great knowledge or learning
Esoteric obscure
Fabrication something made up; untrue
Facetious cheeky; not to be taken seriously
Factions sides in a dispute; groups with common interests
Flotsam floating rubbish
Fostered encouraged
Hackneyed stale and over-used
Harbored held [as in 'harbored and idea']
Hodgepodge strange mixture
Hypothetical not proven; based on guesswork
Impetuous impulsive
Implacable cannot be appeased; relentless
Impugned challenged; attacked in words
Incorrigible cannot be corrected (of behavior)
Indigenous native to a particular place
Ineffable cannot be expressed in words
Irascible easily angered
Ironic unexpected
Lament express regret
Languid having no energy or interest
Lassitude lack of energy
Lugubrious mournful; very sad
Mercurial rapidly changing
Misnomer wrong name for something
Mollified calmed; pacified
Multifaceted having many aspects
Mundane dull; ordinary
Nostalgic longing for the past
Obtrusive easily seen; 'sticking out'
Omnipotent all powerful
Pedagogy science of teaching
Phlegmatic calm
Plausible believable
Precursor fore-runner; earlier version
Preeminence fame; top position
Pretentious putting on an act
Prognosis outlook
Prolific producing a lot
Provocative provoking
Raiment clothes; garments
Reciprocate pay back
Reconcile bring disputing side together again
Remiss wrong
Remonstrance criticism
Resilient able to spring back; strong
Retrenchment reducing staff or forces; conserving resources
Robust firm and strong
Skeptical doubtful
Skewed distorted; bent
Stringent strict
Subtle not obvious
Succinct clear, short and well-expressed
Sundry miscellaneous
Sustenance support; food
Tenable can be held (of an opinion, for example)
Tenuous shaky; not firm
Torrid hot and steamy
Undermine attempt to overthrow; weaken
Underscore emphasize
Unequivocal clear; cannot be misunderstood
Vector carrier (of disease, for example)
Verbose wordy
Whimsical fickle; changeable
Wistful full of sadness and longing
Abashed ashamed or sorry
Allusion indirect reference
Ambivalent undecided; unclear
Analogy comparison
Anecdote short account/story
Annihilated wiped out
Anomalies oddities; things that don't fit the pattern
Antipodes places on opposite sides of the globe
Apprehension worry; nervousness
Arduous hard and difficult
Articulate (adj.) able to express something well in words
Assuage to make less
Auspicious fortunate; indicative of a successful outcome
Avuncular acting like an uncle; kindly
Axiom something that is taken to be true; basic idea that can't be questioned
Banal dull; unoriginal
Bellicose aggressive
Benign kindly
Bereft of without; deprived of
Bifurcation division into two
Blatantly obviously
Cacophonous very noisy; unpleasant sounding
Cantankerous irritable and difficult to please
Captivating fascinating
Chided scolded
Clairvoyant able to see into the future/another dimension
Coddled over-protected; kept warm
Comely attractive
Complacent smug; over-confident
Conducive to suitable for; leading to
Convivial sociable and friendly
Cornucopia literally a horn filled with fruits etc; symbol of plenty
Cosmopolitan composed of varied nationalities
Counterfeiter faker; someone who makes fake money, for example
Decipher decode; work out meaning
Deferential showing respect
Deterrent something that puts one off; a preventive
Dichotomies divisions into two parts
Diffident shy; hesitant
Digression going off the point
Discriminating1. able to make fine distinctions between; having good taste, 2. favoring one side/group and acting against another
Docile placid; easily lead
Elite the upper levels in a society; the privileged ones
Equitable fair and equal
Equivocal ambiguous; something that can be interpreted in more than one way
Exhilarating exciting
Fathom 1. (v) work out; understand, 2. (n) measure of depth
Fervent passionate
Filial concerned with the relationship between child and parent
Foreboding sense of doom
Funerary concerned with funerals
Galvanized 1. stirred into action; stimulated, 2. coated with zinc
Grandiose exaggerated; too great; on a grand scale
Haughty arrogant
Hilarious very funny
Hyperbole over-exaggeration
Impetuous impulsive
Indecipherable cannot be decoded; cannot be worked out
Irresolute lacking firmness; inability to decide or commit
Levity lack of seriousness; humor
Loquacious talkative
Mediocre average
Mellifluous pleasant-sounding
Metaphor figurative speech; using implied comparisons
Miscreants wrong-doers
Mitigated made less severe
Naive unsophisticated; simple and inexperienced
Nonchalant assuming an appearance of not caring; indifferent
Obliterated wiped out
Ousted pushed out of a position
Pacifists people who oppose war
Panacea remedy for all ills
Paradoxically counter to what one would think; contradictory
Personification 1. attributing human qualities to something non-human, 2. acting as an example of
Perusal careful reading
Placid calm and peaceful
Presumptuous assuming too much; arrogant
Profiteer someone who seeks to make unjustified profits
Propagandist someone who spreads ideas
Proximity closeness
Qualification something added to modify an opinion
Reconcile bring disputing sides together; overcome bad feeling
Respite break from work etc.
Reticent shy; unwilling to reveal information
Reverential showing respect
Revisionists people who revise; anti-revolutionaries
Sanctimonious hypocritically holy; making a pretense of religious feeling
Stoic brave; able to tolerate whatever life throws at you
Symbiotic mutually advantageous; close relationship
Syncopated with strongly accented rhythm
Tacit unspoken; understood even thought not expressed in words
Taunted teased; mocked
Temperate mild; moderate
Understatement making something seem less important than it is
Unqualified without hesitation; complete and total
Unrelenting never giving up; non-stop
Unwarranted unjustified
Watershed 1. area between two river basins, 2. turning point
Advocate support
Ambiguous vague
Animosity hostility; hatred
Boorishness rudeness; ill-mannered behavior
Censure blame; criticize
Concord agreement
Conflagration big fire
Consecrated dedicated; made holy
Consummate supremely good
Contagious passed on through touch; infectious
Cursory superficial
Dalliance non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something
Deleterious harmful
Disparaging critical
Dubious doubtful
Equitable fair and equal
Eulogy praise
Fastidious very fussy; excessively concerned (esp. about cleanliness)
Fidelity faithfulness; loyalty
Formidable inspiring awe
Futile useless; waste of time and effort
Futility uselessness
Holistic whole; entire (Holistic viewpoint = seeing things as a whole)
Idiosyncratic quirky; eccentric; unique to an individual
Ineffable can’t be expressed in words
Infelicity unsuitability; inappropriateness
Integrity honor; honesty
Intermittent on and off; not continuous
Judicious fair; wise
Legitimate to make legal; give approval to
Mercenary seeking money above all else
Meticulous thorough; taking care of details
Petulant sulky
Polarized divided into two extremes
Pragmatism practicality
Presumptive presumed
Propensity tendency; leaning’ predilection
Prosaic ordinary
Quelled suppressed
Regressive moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)
Remiss neglectful
Rhetoric persuasive language
Sedulous thorough; eager
Sermonized gave moral lecture
Shroud 1. a cover for dead body, 2. to cover
Steadfastness loyalty; firmness of purpose
Temporize put off; procrastinate
Treacly too sweet; over sentimental
Vacillated wavered; hesitated
Vindication proving right
Vindictive seeking revenge
Abstruse difficult to comprehend
Acumen sharpness of mind
Adroit skilful / skillful
Anachronistic out of normal time range
Arcane obscure; known only to few people
Autonomy self-government
Belittlers people who criticize/disparage
Byzantine excessive; decadent
Consecration dedication
Corollary consequence; inference
Curtail cut short
Debunkers people who expose/throw out old ideas
Devious cunning
Didactic intending to preach or teach
Effacement wiping out; (self-effacement = excessive modesty)
Egotistical selfish
Embodiment living example of
Epitome essence; typical example or symbol of
Esoteric obscure
Extrapolated predicted on the basis of existing data; extended
Foster encourage
Inane silly
Incoherence lack of clarity
Inconspicuous not easily seen
Indiscriminate without thought; random; careless
Ingenuous naïve
Insolence lack of respect; rudeness
Insurrectionists rebels
Intemperance lack of moderation
Irreverence lack of respect
Jeopardize put at risk
Lackadaisical lazy; careless; lax
Lucid clear
Magnanimity generosity (of spirit)
Multifarious having many aspects
Nefarious infamous
Onerous burdensome
Opportunism grabbing opportunities; seeking unprincipled advantage
Ornate highly decorated
Precursor forerunner
Proponents supporters
Resolute firm of purpose
Sanctity holiness
Seditious causing division or rebellion
Slipshod careless; untidy
Solicitousness expressing care/concern
Sophistry devious logic
Substantiate give supporting evidence
Subversive intending to overthrow
Sustain support
Tenacious holding firmly to idea or purpose
Volatile 1. evaporates easily, 2. easily angered; emotional
Adroit skilful / skillful (Maladroit = clumsy)
Agnostic unsure of the existence of god
Ameliorating making better
Arboreal living in trees
Ascertain find out; make sure
Barrage bombardment; stream (of abuse etc.)
Belabor over-emphasizing
Brevity briefness
Cacophony noise; din
Censured blamed
Circumvent avoid
Coerced forced
Condoning tolerating
Congenial friendly; sociable; suitable
Demagogues mob leaders; agitators
Disparaged criticized
Docile tame; subservient
Eclectic taking things from different sources
Elitist favoring top group; snob
Elusive difficult to pin down
Empiric found by experiment/practice
Endorsed supported
Envisioning imagining, predicting
Extolled praised
Foster support; encourage
Furtiveness secretiveness
Gluttonous greedy
Indictment charge; legal accusation
Indigenous native to a locality
Irreproachable cannot be criticized. (Reproach = criticize)
Knack trick; skill
Libelous open to prosecution for libel (Libel = written slander)
Naiveté innocence; lack of worldliness
Nihilism belief in nothing; anarchy
Paucity shortage
Penchant tendency; leaning toward
Perquisites ‘perks’
Phobic fearful
Pilfer steal
Pliant flexible
Predilection liking for; penchant
Presumption assuming too much
Profundity depth (of ideas)
Quixotic idealistic; impractical
Reclusive avoiding other people; solitary
Rehash revamp hurriedly/carelessly
Repertoire range; set of skills
Repertory story; stock; repertoire
Reprehensible very bad
Sarcasm sneering, bitter remarks; ironic or taunting
Supple flexible; pliant; lithe
Temperamental volatile; changeable
Transitory shot-lived
Tribulations troubles
Unwitting not deliberate
Venality corruption
Vulnerable open to attack; susceptible
Aberration deviation; abnormality
Abstruse difficult to comprehend
Affability friendliness; cordiality
Affluence wealth and status
Alleviation making less severe
Amalgamation mixture or joining of different components
Amassed accumulated
Arcane esoteric
Augmenting increasing in size or number
Belied contradicted
Benevolent kindly
Callous cruel and unfeeling
Candid truthful; honest
Coalition a union of two parts
Concordance agreement
Conflagration big fire
Copious in large amounts
Dearth shortage
Debacle disaster
Disarming charming; unthreatening
Disillusioned freed from wrong ideas
Disparaging criticizing
Embellished decorated
Empathetic understanding in an insightful way
Encompassed included; surrounded
Endorsement support; approval
Entourage group of followers; retinue
Equanimity peace of mind; balance; calm
Eradicating wiping out; destroying
Esoteric obscure
Exacerbated made worse
Excised cut out
Exotic strange; foreign
Faction section; group with common interests
Finagle wheedle; wangle; trick
Grating harsh; rasping
Gratuitous free; unwarranted
Hackneyed commonplace; over-used
Insightful perceptive
Insolence rudeness
Intrigued interested and curious
Intuition sixth sense; ‘gut feeling’
Languid lacking energy; weak
Lobby 1. to try to persuade, 2. entrance hall
Lucid clear
Marred spoiled; ruined
Meager small; scanty
Monotonous dull; repetitive
Motley varied; miscellaneous
Opting choosing
Overhaul renovate
Preclude prevent
Precursors forerunners
Purportedly apparently claiming
Ratify give official approval to
Resilience strength; ability to withstand
Retraction removal; ‘taking back’
Sporadic intermittent; on and off
Spurned shunned; rejected
Substantiated backed up; given supporting evidence
Supplant replace
Truculence stubbornness
Unequivocal certain; cannot be disputed
Voluminous large; bulky; extensive
Winnow sift; separate good from bad
Alacrity speed and eagerness
Amiable friendly; lovable
Apathetic lacking energy or interest
Bypasses avoids; finds a way around
Capricious whimsical; changeable
Censures blames
Conciliatory seeking compromise
Convergence coming together
Cumulative building up
Deferment putting off
Deliberation careful thought
Delineates outlines
Derelict rundown; abandoned
Discrepancy inconsistency
Embittered full of bitter feelings
Encroaching trespassing
Eradicate wipe out
Exacerbates makes worse
Exasperation frustration and annoyance
Exorbitant excessive
Flabbergasted shocked; speechless
Foil for person that shows another to advantage
Frugal economical
Glacial icy; unfriendly
Grimy dirty
Inconsequential unimportant
Indiscernible not easy to see
Infusion influx
Integrity honesty
Jaded tired; bored
Juxtaposition placing two thing nest to each other
Lithe flexible
Miffed annoyed
Mitigator moderator
Modicum tiny amount
Negate wipe out
Nondescript having no special qualities; ordinary
Penurious miserly
Phlegmatic calm; imperturbable
Razing cutting down
Recrimination blame
Reprieve let off (at least temporarily)
Rousing stirring
Salvageable can be saved
Scouring cleaning thoroughly; thorough searching
Secluded lonely; isolated
Solace comfort
Squelch suppress; crush
Stifling suppressing
Surfeit excess
Tangential off the point; irrelevant
Temper moderate
Tremulous hesitant
Unyielding not giving up
Vigilant wary; watchful
Waning declining
Warped twisted; distorted
Wary cautious
Wrath anger
Alleviate make less severe
Amalgam mixture
Astute wise; mentally sharp
Autonomous self-governing
Belied contradicted
Callousness cruelty; unfeeling behavior
Circumstantial accidental; indirect (as in circumstantial evidence)
Corroborated supported; given supporting evidence
Credulity belief
Debilitated weakened
Deliberation careful thought
Denuded stripped
Derided mocked
Despoiled spoiled
Dilatory slow; sluggish
Dispatch speed and eagerness
Empathetic exhibiting deep emotional understanding
Eradicate wipe out
Estrangement separation
Expeditious speedy
Extant still in existence
Flag 1. to lose energy, 2. to signal
Foundered sank
Fraudulent crooked; intending to cheat
Hubris excessive pride
Idiosyncratic eccentric
Impetuosity impulsiveness
Impudent cheeky
Indomitable unshakeable; fearless
Innocuous harmless
Insolvent bankrupt
Irresolute lacking firmness of purpose; hesitant
Irreverent lacking respect
Manipulative deceptive; skilful at handling people
Morbidity concern with death and disease
Myopic short-sighted (literal or metaphoric)
Occlusion shutting out
Officious interfering
Peevishness childish sullenness; irritability
Placid peaceful
Prudent wise; cautious
Punctilious meticulous
Rambunctious boisterous
Rancor bitterness and bad feeling
Scrutinize examine carefully
Scuttled sunk
Sedate calm; placid
Serene peaceful
Squander waste
Validated proved right
Valor bravery
Vulnerable open to attack; susceptible
Adroitness skill
Altruism self-sacrifice
Arbitration mediating between disputing sides
Archaic old-fashioned
Aural through the sense of hearing
Cognitions mental knowledge
Discernment judgment;
Disingenuous crafty
Distension swelling
Egotists selfish people
Emancipators those who set others free
Enigmas puzzles
Erudition learning; scholarly knowledge
Exemplars excellent examples of
Exonerated proved not guilty
Extirpation destruction
Fawning groveling; ‘sucking up’ to people
Finesse skill
Fitful intermittent; on and off; not continuous
Gestures signals
Hilarity great laughter
Husbandry careful management of resources
Ignominy shame
Ineptitude lack of ability
Insipid flavorless; bland
Intuitions gut feelings
Invocation prayer
Irony something unexpected; use of words to convey opposite meaning
Lackadaisical lazy
Lamentable regrettable
Mandate permission
Manifesto statement of values
Modicum tiny amount
Notoriety infamy
Obsequious groveling
Opulence lavish display of wealth
Pathos sadness; stirring the emotions
Plaudits praise
Prospectus brochure
Raze knock down
Rectitude uprightness
Reprimanded scolded
Rudimentary elementary; basic
Sarcasm mockery
Soporific sleep-inducing
Stipulated insisted
Tactile through the sense of touch
Tenacity firmness of purpose
Versatility ability to do many things
Vicarious experienced indirectly; at secondhand
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