Most Important Vocabulary
- Abeyance : suspended action
- Abet : help/encourage somebody
- Abysmal : bottomless, extreme
- Acarpous : effete, no longer fertile
- Accentuate : give more force or attention to
- Affinity : close connection, relationship
- Affable : polite and friendly
- Agog : eager/excited
- Adulteration : making unpure
- Adhere : remain faithful, stick fast to
- Amplify : make large or fuller, increase the
strength
- Apostate : one who abandons long-held religious or
political convictions
- Apotheosis : deification,
glorification to godliness
- Arabesque : whimsical
- Arbitrate : decide
by arbitration
- Astute : clever;
quick at seeing to get an advantage
- Atonement : repayment; death of Jesus
- Attenuate : make thin. weaken, enervate
- Attune : bring into harmony
- Avid : eager, greedy
- Balk : obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
- Balloon : swell
out like balloon
- Balm : sweet-smelling oil; consolation
- Banal : uninteresting
- Band : flat
- Baneful : causing harm or ruin, pernicious
- Beatify : to bless, make happy
- Bewilder : puzzle, confuse
- Biased : rejudice
- Bigot : stubborn, narrow-minded person
- Bilge : bulge, the protuberance of a cask
- Blandishment : flattery, coaxing
- Blandness : polite manner, comforting, uninteresting
- Brisk : active, lively
- Brisket : breast of an animal
- Brittle : easily broken
- Broach : bring up, announce, begin to talk about
- Brook : to
tolerate, endure
- Buoyant : able to float; light-hearted
- Burgeon : grow forth, send out buds
- Burnish : to polish, rub to a shine
- Bust : un out of money
- Calf : young
of the domestic cow
- Calipers : metal
supports attached to the legs, measuring instrument
- Calumniate : to
slander, present false accusal
- Calumny : slander,
aspersion
- Candid : frank
straight-forward
- Cantankerous : bad-tempered/quarrelsome
- Cantin : sincere
talk/jargon
- anvass : discuss
thoroughly; sort of touting
- Cleanse : make pure, thoroughly clean
- Clientele : customers
200. Clinch - come to grips/settle conclusively
- Cling : to
resist separation
- Clot : half-solid lump formed from liquid
- Cloture : closing,
device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
- Coalescing : coming
together and uniting into one substance
- Coax : get
somebody to do something by kindness
- Coda : passage
that completes a piece of music
- Coddle : treat
with care and tenderness
- Coerce : compel
to force to make obedient
- Coeval : of
the same period, coexisting
- Cogent : strong convincing
- Cogitate : think deeply, mediate
- Cognition : knowing, awareness (emotionless)
- Cognizant :
being fully aware of
- Coherent : sticking
together
- Colander : bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used
to drain off water
- Collaborate : work in partnership
- Curriculum : course of study
- Cursory : quick,
hurried
- Curtail : make shorter then was planned
- Cynic : person who see no good in anything
- Covert : disguised
- Covetous : eagerly
desirous
- Cower : crouch; shrink back
- Coy : shy/modest (esp of a girl)
- Cras : very great (es. stupidity)
- Cravat : piece of linen worn as a necktie
- Craven :
cowardly
- Cynic : person who see no good in anything
- Dart : quick
movement; missile in darts
- Daunt : intimidate, make fearful
- Dawdler :
person who is slow; waste of time
- Dearth :
shortage
- Debacle : a
breakup, overthrow, sudden disaster
- Decorous : polite,
decent
- Disconcert : upset
the self-possession of
- Discountenance : refuse
to approve of
- Discourse : speech,
lecture,
- Discredit : refuse to believe
- Discreet : careful/prudent
- Discrete : individually
distinct
- Disdain : look
on with contempt
- Disencumber : free
from encumbrance
- Endearing : making
dear or liked
- Endemic : epidemic
- Endorse : write one's name on the back of
- Enduring : lasting
- Enervate : weaken,
deprive of strength, attenuate
- Engender : cause, produce, give rise to
- Engrave : impress deeply
- Extinct : no
longer active
- Extinguish : end
the existence of/wipe or put out
- Extirpate : to
destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind
- Extol : praise
highly
- Extort : obtain
by threats, violence
- Extralegal : outside
the law
- Extricable : that
can be freed
- Extrovert : cheerful
person
- Facilitate : make
easy (e.g.. a process of smth)
- Fallacious : based
on error
- Fallacy : false or mistaken belief
- Falter : waver/move in an uncertain manner
- Fatuous : without sense, foolish self-satisfaction
- Faucet :
device for controlling the
outflow of a liquid
- Fawn : young deer, try to win somebody's favor
- Feckless : lacking purpose or vitality; ineffective;
careless
- Fecund : fertile
- Feint : pretend
- Ferret : discover
by searching; search
- Fertile : producing much, full of ideas
- Fertilize : make fertile or productive
- Fervid : showing
earnest feeling
- Foster : nurture, care for
- Fracas : noisy quarrel
- Fragile : easily injured, broken or destroyed
- Fragrant : sweet-smelling
- Franchise : special
right given by authority
- Frantic : wildly excited with joy, pain, anxiety
- Frenetic : frantic, frenzied
- Fret : worry;
irritation; wear away
- Gainsay : to deny, declare false, to oppose
- Gambol : quick, playful jumping
- Garble : make unfair selection from facts
- Garment : article
of clothing
- Garner : to
gather and save; to store up
- Garrulity : talkativeness
- Garrulous :
too talkative
- Gaucherie : socially
awkward, tactless behavior
- Germane : relevant;
pertinent to
- Gist : the point, general sense
- Glean : gather facts in small quantities
- Hack : cut
roughly; hired horse
- Halcyon : calm and peaceful
- Hallow : to make holy; consecrate
- Hamper : basket with a lid, prevent free movement
or activity
- Hapless : unlucky, unfortunate
- Harangue : a
long, passionate speech
- Harbinger : something
or somebody that foretells the coming
- Harrow : to distress, create stress or torment
- Harsh : rough, cruel, stern
- Haughty : farrogant; conceited
- Haven : harbor, safety place
- Heed :
attention/give notice to
- Heinous : odious
(of crime)
- Heresy : belief
contrary to what is generally accepted
- Hermetic : sealed
by fusion
- Heterogeneous : made up of different kinds
- Iconoclast : person who attacks popular beliefs
- Iconoclastic : attacking
cherished beliefs
- Idiosyncrasy : personal mannerism
- Idolatrous : worshipping idols \
- Incursion : a
raid, a sudden attack
- Indefatigability : not
easily exhaustible; tirelessness
- Indelible : that cannot be rubbed out
- Indelicate : immodest; lacking in refinement
- Indigence : poverty
- Indigenous : native
- Irate : angry
- Ire : anger
- Irksome : tiresome
- Irrelevant : not relevant, not connected
- Jabber : talk
excitedly; utter rapidly
- Jeopardize : put in danger
- Jibe : gibe, make fun of
- Jocular : meant as a joke
- Judicious : sound in judgment; wise
- Knit : draw
together, unite firmly
- Lag : go too slow
- Lament : show, feel great sorrow
- Lassitude : weariness, tiredness
- Latent : present but not yet active, developed or
visible
- Laudatory : expressing
or giving praise
- Lavish : giving or producing freely, liberally or
generously
- Leakage : the
process of leaking
- Legacy : something
handed down from ancestors
- Levee : formal reception/embankment
- Levity : lack of seriousness
- Libel : statement that damages reputation
- Lull : become
quiet or less active
- Lumber :
move in a clumsy/noisy way
- Luminary : star,
light-giving body
- Lurk : be
out of view ready to attack
- Lustrous : being bright, polished
- Maladroit : tactless, clumsy
- Malapropism : misuse of a word (for one that resembles
it)
- Malevolence : wishing
to do evil
- Malign :
injurious, speak ill of somebody, tell lie
- Malinger :
to fake illness or injury, in order to shirk a duty
- Malleable : yielding; easily shaped; moldable;
adapting
- Manacle : chains
for the hands or feet
- Martial : brave,
of associated with war
- Massacre : cruel killing of a large number of
people
- Matriculation : be admitted, enter a university as a
student
- Mature : come
to full development, to a state ready for use
- Mortuary :
place where dead bodies are taken to be kept until burial
- Muffler :
cloth worn round the
neck/silencer
- Multifarious : varied, motley, greatly diversified
- Mundane :
worldly as opposed to spiritual; commonplace, everyday
- Myriad :
very great number
- Nascent :
coming into existence, emerging
- Nebulous : cloud-like;
hazy; vague; indistinct
- Negligent : taking too little care
- Neophyte : person
who has been converted to a belief
- Nexus : a
connection, tie, or link
- Nibble : show some inclination to accept (an
offer)
- Nice : precise, sensitive to subtleness
- Noisome : offensive, disgusting (smell)
- Nonchalant : not having interest
- Nonplused : greatly surprised
- Nostrum : a
quack remedy, an u
- Nullify : make
void and null
- Numb :
without ability to feel or
move
- Numbness : without ability to move a finger O
- Obsequious :
too eager to obey or serve
- Obsolete : no longer used
- Obstreperous : noisy, loud
- Obtain : to be established, accepted, or customary
- Ossify : to
turn to bone; to settle rigidly into an idea
- Ostensible : seeming,
appearing as such, professed
- Ostentation : display to obtain admiration or envy
- Ostentatious :
fond of showing ostentation
- Ostracism : shut out from society, refuse to meet,
talk
- Ostrich :
fast-running bird unable to
fly
- Outset : start
- . Palpability : can
be felt, touched, understood
- Palpitate : tremble, beat rapidly and irregularly
- Pan : flat/zoom
- Panegyric : formal praise, eulogy
- Paradigm : a
model, example, or pattern
- Parenthesis :
sentence within another one,
something separated
- Pariah : an
outcast, a rejected and despised person
- Petrify : to
make hard, rocklike
- Petrous : like a rock, hard, stony
- Petulant : unreasonably
impatient
- Philistine :
a smug ignorant person; one
who lacks knowledge
- Phlegmatic : calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional
- Picaresque : involving clever rogues or adventurers
- Pied :
of mixed colors
- Purvey :
provide, supply
- Pusillanimous :
cowardly, craven
- Putrefaction : becoming rotten
- Pyre : large
pile of wood for burning
- Prudish : easily shocked, excessively modest
- Prune : dried plum, silly person
- Pry : get smth; inquire too curiously
- Pucker : wrinkle
- Quack : person dishonestly claiming to smth
- Quaff :
drink deeply
- Quail - lose courage, turn
frightened
- Qualm : feeling of doubt, temporary feeling of
sickness
- Quandary : state of doubt or perplexity
- Quell : suppress, subdue
- Quibble :
try to avoid by
sophistication
- Quiescence : state
of being passive/motionless
- Quiescent : at
rest, dormant, torpid
- Quirk : habit or action peculiar to somebody
or smth
- Quixotic : generous, unselfish 991. Quotidian -
banal; everyday R
- Rancorous : feeling bitterness, spitefulness
- Rant :
use extravagant language
- Rapacious :
greedy (especially for
money)
- Rarefy : to make thin, to make less dense,
- Reactionary :
opposing progress
- Rebuff : snub
- Recalcitrant :
disobedient
- Recant : take
back as being false; give up
- Recast : cast or fashion anew
- Recidivism : relapse
into antisocial or criminal behavior
- Reciprocity : granting of privileges in return for
similar
- Recital : performance of music
- Recluse : person who lives alone and avoids people
- Reluctant : unwilling or disinclined
- Remonstrate : to protest, object
- Render :
deliver, provide, represent
- Renovate :
restore something to better
condition
- Renowned :
celebrated, famous
- Rent :
regular payment for the use of smth
- Rift : split, crack, dissension
- Rivet :
fix, take up, secure; metal pin
- Roll call : calling of names
- Rope :
thick strong cord made by
twisting
- Rotund : rich and deep; plump and round
- Rubric : heading, title, or category
- Ruffian :
violent, cruel man
- Rumple : make
rough
- Salacious : obscene
- Salient : prominent,
protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant
- Salubrious : healthful
- Salutary : remedial,
wholesome, causing improvement
- Sanctimony :
Self-righteousness,
hypocritical, with false piety
- . Sidestep : step to one side
- Simper : (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
- Sinuous : winding, undulating, serpentine
- Skiff :
small boat
- Skit : short
piece of humorous writing
- Slack : sluggish; dull; not tight
- Slake : to assuage, to satisfy, allay
- Slate : king of blue-grey stone; propose;
criticize
- Sluggard : lazy,
slow-moving person
- Slur :
join sounds/words (indistinct)
- Tractable :
Easy to deal
- Transient : Fleeting
- Tranquil : Quite and peace
- Trepidation : Fear
- Urbane : Wise
- Vocus :
stupid
- Volatile : changing easily, suddenly
- Vow :
a formal and serious promise
- Wray :
Cautions
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