humiliation; degradation rough; coarse; harsh yellow bold words are those that numerous sources have identified as words to know for the SAT

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1 word Abasement Abhor Abrasive Abridge Abrogate Absolution Abstain Abstemious Abstemious Abstruse Accessible Acclaim Accolade Acoustics Acquiesce Acrid Acrid Acrophobia Acuity Acute Adamant Adamant Adept Adroit Adulate Adulation Adversary Adversity Adversity Advocate Advocate Aesthetic Aesthetic Aesthetic Affable definition humiliation; degradation hate rough; coarse; harsh shorten cancel; deny; repeal forgiveness; pardon; release desist; go without; withdraw holding back from eating or drinking too much self denying; refraining from indulging difficult to understand; obscure available; ready for use to express strong approval or praise; hail tribute; honor; praise the quality of sound, pertaining to how it is heard based on the quality and structure of the room to agree to; give in to sharp; pungent (used of smells and tastes) bitter, harsh fear of heights sharpness (mental or visual) keen-minded; sharp unwilling to bend; unyielding forceful; inflexible Very skilled, able, or proficient. skilful to praise or flatter too greatly; fawn over strong admiration; worship an opponent great trouble or difficulty hardship One who acts in support or defense of a person or cause. support Pertaining to what is considered beautiful or tasteful. concerning art or beauty having to do with artistic beauty easy to talk to; easy to approach, friendly; kind; amiable yellow bold words are those that numerous sources have identified as words to know for the SAT

2 Affable Aggregate Alacrity Alchemy Alibi Alimentary Allay Allay Alleviate Alleviate Allusion Aloof Aloof Altruism Altruistic Amass Ambiguity Ambiguous Ambiguous Ambivalence Ambivalent Ambulatory Ameliorate Ameliorate Amelioration Amiable Amiable Amicable Amity Amorphous Ample Anachronism Analgesic Analogous Anarchy Anecdote friendly; social; easygoing a sum total or mixture eagerness; enthusiasm; quickness medieval chemistry; attempt to change base metal into gold an excuse that shows someone was not at a crime scene relating to food and nourishment to lessen fear; to calm; to relieve pain to lessen to lessen pain or tension make less severe an indirect reference, often to literature distant; detached; cold uninterested; showing no concern; emotionally removed or distant putting others first; being self-sacrificing showing an unselfish concern for others accumulate uncertainty; vagueness unclear in meaning; can be interpreted in different ways hard to understand; unclear; open to more than one interpretation lack of clarity; wavering; being undecided having conflicting feelings or opinions about something; unsure able to walk around (used of hospital patients) to make better; to lessen pain, difficulty, or tension make better improvement friendly friendly, kind showing goodwill; peaceable friendship lacking in shape abundant; plentiful; enough or more than enough Something out of its correct chronological or historical order. medicine to combat pain comparable chaos; lack of government A short account of an interesting or humorous, often biographical, incident.

3 Anecdote Animosity Animosity Annex Annex Anomaly Antagonism Antagonism Antagonistic Antediluvian Antediluvian Anthology Anthropocentrism Antidote Antiquated Antiquated Antiquity Apathetic Apathetic Apathy Apocryphal Appease Appease Apprehensive Apprehensive Arable Arbitrary Arcane Archaic Archaic Archetype Archives Ardent Arid Arrogance Arrogant a brief amusing story hatred; ill will hatred; antagonism a building which is an addition to an existing building take possession of; seize; capture something which does not fit in a pattern; irregularity hatred or hostility hostility; strong opposition opposed; hostile; aggressive very, very old; antiquated outdated; prehistoric; very old-fashioned a book which is a collection of poems or stories putting man at the center of one's philosophy something that relieves or prevents; a remedy that counteracts the effects of poison outdated; old fashioned very old and no longer in use; obsolete ancient times indifferent; uninterested; lethargic indifferent; showing no care, interest, or concern; lacking emotion lack of interest or emotion of doubtful origin pacify; soothe; calm down; make peace with to make tranquil or quiet, especially by giving into demands; to pacify Uneasy, anxious, or fearful about the future; quick to understand or learn. worried; fearful can be cultivated random; for no definite reason obscure; known only to a few people ancient; outdated; old fashioned old; from a much earlier time; antiquated classic example of collections of old records; place of storage of old documents full of passion and emotion dry, lacking water An offensive display of self-importance or superiority; overbearing pride. overbearing; proud; haughty

4 Articulate Artifice Artisan Artisan Ascetic Ascetic Ascetic Aspire Assiduous Assuage Assuage Astute Astute Asylum Atheist Atheistic Atrophy Attenuate Audacious Augment Auspicious Austere Austere Autonomous Avarice Aversion Aviary Avid Balk Banal Banal Banality Baneful Bellicose Belligerent Benevolent clear; lucid; eloquent deception; trickery craftsman a person who is skillful with his or her hands without luxuries; severely simple a person who refrains from indulging in earthly pleasures a person who refrains from indulging in earthly pleasures to work toward or to have a goal thorough; diligent to alleviate; to lessen pain or conflict; pacify to calm perceptive; sharp-witted sharp-minded; very clear place of refuge or safety person who does not believe in God without a belief in any god waste away from lack of use weaken very bold increase; make bigger favorable; promising to turn out well having great economy; showing self-control when it comes to foregoing luxuries, frills; stern in manner severely plain independent greed a dislike of an enclosed space for birds showing enthusiasm; ardent hinder and prevent; hesitate over dull or stale because of overuse; trite; hackneyed common; dull ordinariness; dullness causing ruin; harmful; pernicious of a quarrelsome nature; eager to fight; warlike; belligerent taking part in war or fighting ready to fight giving freely and easily to others; charitable

5 Berate Bigot Bilk Billowing Blasphemy Blatant Blighted Blithe Blunderbuss Bolster Bolster Bombast Boorish Boorish Bourgeois Braggart Braggart Brawny Brevity Brevity Brevity Bristle Broach Brusque Bulwark Bureaucracy Burgeon Burnish Buttress Byline Cacophony Cacophony Cajole Caldron Callow Candid to rebuke or scold in a harsh tone narrow-minded, prejudiced person cheat; defraud swelling; fluttering; waving speech which offends religious sentiments obvious damaged; destroyed; ruined free-spirited; carefree 1. ancient weapon (type of gun); 2. a clumsy person support; prop up to support; to strengthen arrogant, pompous language Crude, coarse, and clumsy in behavior; churlish, oafish, insensitive. ill-mannered middle class on who boasts a great deal someone who boasts muscular The quality of being brief in time or duration; concise expression. briefness or conciseness in speech or writing being brief to show irritation start to discuss; approach blunt; abrupt fortification; barricade; wall officialdom grow; flourish; put forth new shoots polish strengthen; support the line that tells you who wrote an article discordant loud noises lack of harmony; loud and unpleasant noise; a racket coax huge cooking pot immature frank; honest

6 Candor Candor Cantankerous Cantankerous Capacious Capitulate Captious Carping Cartographer Castigate Castigate Catharsis Cathartic Caucus Caustic Cavalcade Celerity Censorious Censure Censure Censure Cerebral Certitude Charlatan Charlatan Chary Chary Chastise Chastises Chicanery Chimerical Choleric Chronicler Circuitous Circumlocution Circumlocution frankness; openness honesty, sincerity bad-tempered; quarrelsome bad-tempered; quarrelsome spacious surrender; give in to made for the sake of quarreling; quibbling constant criticism person who makes maps to scold or punish severely scold strongly purging of pent-up emotions Delivering catharsis; emotionally purging. type of private political meeting burning procession of vehicles speed disapproving; critical To express disapproval in a strong or vehement fashion; to criticize or blame. to criticize strongly blame intellectual certainty trickster who claims knowledge he doesn't have a fraud; a quack or imposter wary of; cautious about; reluctant to give cautious; wary to punish or scold harshly punishes trickery changeable; unstable easily angered person who records historical information indirect speaking in circles; roundabout speech using too many words; long-windedness

7 Circumscribe Circumspect Circumspect Circumvent Cite Clairvoyant Clamor Clamor Clandestine Clandestine Clemency Cliché Cliché Clientele Coalesce Coalesce Coalesce Coddle Coercion Cogent Cogitate Collage Collate Colloquial Colloquial Collusion Commandeer Commendable Complacent Complacent Complementary Compliant Compliant Concatenate Concatenation Conciliate limit cautious; considering all sides careful and cautious before acting avoid To quote as an authority or example; to mention in support or confirmation. psychic; mystic shout; scream unpleasant sound; noise secret; covert; stealthy hidden, secret, concealed mercy overused expression; something unoriginal an idea or expression that has become stale due to overuse customers come together; merge to have different opinions join together; fuse; converge to come together pamper; fuss over; indulge force lucid; well argued think over something; ponder picture made from fragments of other pictures arrange in order pertaining to common everyday speech; conversational local and informal (used of language) plotting and planning take possession of Worthy of great praise or approval. self-satisfied; smug self-satisfied; smug serving to complete another easy to control; submissive yielding, submissive link together linking into chains to bring together; end a dispute

8 Conciliate Conciliatory Concise Concise Condescend Conflagration Confounding Congenial Conscientious Consensus Consummate Contemporary Contemptuous Contentious Convalesce Convivial Copious Cordial Counterfeit Covert Covert Cower Credible Creditable Credulous Crepuscular Cringe Cryptic Cryptic Culinary Cursory Curtail Cynical Cynical Debacle Debility to win a person over through special considerations or persuasive methods Attempting to regain goodwill through pleasantness; accommodating. using few words in speaking and writing stated in few words talk down to a huge fire, an inferno puzzling; baffling compatible; having kindred needs or tastes; sympathetic relating to doing what one knows is right; scrupulous Majority of opinion among a group; general agreement or accord. Complete or perfect in every respect; supremely skilled. modern, new; relating to the same time period lacking respect; scornful quarrelsome; belligerent to recover from an illness sociable, outgoing in a festive way, especially when pertaining to eating and drinking; fond of good company abundant; much; plentiful warm and friendly; amiable fake; false hidden; undercover secret, hidden recoil in fear or servility; shrink away from believable praiseworthy gullible; ready to believe anything active at dawn and dusk recoil; flinch; shy away puzzling; enigmatic hidden; hard to understand; mysterious; obscure having to do with cooking, preparing meals Performed hastily and without attention to detail; superficial. cut short believing that people act only out of selfish motives believing that all others are motivated by self-interest a failure or breakdown; a collapse that is often nonsensical weakness; incapacity

9 Debunk Debunking Decathlon Decorum Decoy Deference Defiant Defoliate Defunct Degradation Delectable Deleterious Deleterious Deliberate Delineation Delusion Demur Denounce Depict Deplete Deplore Depravity Deprecate Deprecate Deride Deride Derivative Derogatory Desecrate Desecration Desist Despondent Destitution Detached Deter Deteriorate to prove wrong or false exposing false claims or myths an athletic competition with ten events dignified, correct behavior [decorous (a)] lure; trap; trick respect Boldly resisting authority or an opposing force; challenging. cause leaves to fall off no longer in existence deprivation; poverty; debasement delicious harmful harmful to one s health or overall welfare; pernicious to think over deeply demarcation; explanation; definition; outlining a false opinion or belief hesitate; refuse condemn; speak out against To represent or characterize in words, pictures, or sculpture. use up; lessen regret moral corruption to show mild disapproval criticize; denounce; to show mild disapproval To laugh at in scorn or treat with contempt; to ridicule. ridicule; make fun of; mock unoriginal; taken from something already existing uncomplimentary to damage or pollute a holy place spoiling something holy stop; discontinue; cease having no hope; miserable hardship; poverty; misery aloof; indifferent put off; prevent worsen; decline

10 Detrimental Detrimental Devious Devoured Dexterous Dichotomy Didactic Diffident Diffuse Digress Digress Dike Dilatory Dilemma Dilettante Diligent Din Diorama Dirge Disapprobation Discern Discerning Discord Discordancy Discordant Discrepancy Discrepancy Discriminate Discursiveness Disdain Disdainful Disinterested Disparage Disparage Disparity Disparity harmful harmful dishonest or deceptive greedily eaten/consumed skilful with hands a division into two parts intended to teach; instructive lacking confidence spread out, not concise; wordy wander off the subject to wander off from the subject or topic spoken about dam; embankment slow; falling behind with one's work puzzling situation person who dabbles in a subject without serious study hard-working ongoing loud sound; noise model of a scene mournful song disapproval to distinguish one thing from another able to judge people and situations clearly disagreement cacophony; harshness; jarring lacking harmony or agreement something which does not match up; inconsistency a difference to make a clear distinction; see the difference long windedness; indirectness contempt; strong dislike full of bitter scorn and pride; aloof unbiased To speak of with disrespect; to belittle or depreciate. criticize; belittle Lack of equality or similarity; difference. an inequality

11 Dispassionate Disputatious Disseminating Diurnal Diva Divert Docile Dogged Dogmatic Dolt Dotard Drawl Drivel Droll Drone Dubious Dupe Dynamic Ebullient Ebullient Eccentric Eclectic Eclectic Effervescent Egotistical Elaborate Eloquence Eloquent Elucidate Emaciated Embody Enfranchise Engender Enhance Enigma Enigma neutral; objective likely to dispute or argue circulating; broadcasting; spreading (information) active in daytime a highly skilled singer, usually an opera singer 1. entertain; 2. distract; 3. cause a detour gentle and easily lead stubborn; determined having stubbornly held opinions stupid person foolish old man speak slowly with words running together nonsense dryly amusing 1. monotonous noise (n); 2. to speak with no emotion (v); 3.male bee doubtful to fool someone lively; vibrant; energetic very lively; cheerful; jovial; happy filled with a bubbly excitement, as if boiling over with excitement unusual; quirky; odd Selecting, employing, or comprising individual elements from a wide variety of sources. taken from many different sources lively; full of uplifted spirit; vivacious excessively self-absorbed; very conceited Planned or executed with great care and attention; painstaking. artful ease with speaking; speech that can impact people s feelings Characterized by clear, powerful, and persuasive speech. To make lucid or clear; to explain. very, very thin due to lack of adequate food To represent in bodily, material, or tangible form give voting rights cause improve; make better or clearer puzzle; mystery a riddle or mystery; a puzzling or baffling matter or person

12 Ensconce Enshroud Enunciation Envenom Ephemeral Ephemeral Epicure Epicurean Epistle Epistolary Epitomized Equitable Equivocate Err Erratic Erratic Erudite Esoteric Espouse Esteem Ethical Etymology Eulogize Eulogy Euphemism Euphony Euphony Evacuate Evanescent Exacerbate Exacting Exalt Exasperated Exceptionable Excerpt Exculpate establish firmly in a position cover clear pronunciation; accent; articulation to cause bitterness and bad feeling lasting a short time; fleeting short-lived someone who appreciates good food and drink having to do with relishing the pleasure of eating and drinking (n. epicure) a letter (form of communication) concerned with letters; through correspondence typified; characterized; personified Characterized by fairness and impartiality; just or reasonable. speak ambiguously; avoid telling the truth make a mistake Having no fixed or regular course; wandering; lacking consistency. wandering; irregular wise due to much reading and studying; scholarly obscure and difficult to understand promote; take up; support to value highly; to have great regard for Being in accordance with the rules or standards for right conduct or practice. the study of word origins to praise, as in a eulogy; to say good things about praise a polite phrase to cover something unpleasant pleasant sounds pleasing sound vacate; empty; abandon vanishing quickly; fleeting make worse requiring a great deal of care or effort; painstaking to praise or glorify; to lift up in status, dignity, power frustrated; annoyed very bad (something which we should object to) a portion of a text or musical piece that is taken, or extracted, from the whole free someone from blame; pardon; acquit

13 Execrable Exegesis Exemplary Exemplary Exemplify Exhaustive Exonerates Exorcism Expatriate Expedient Expedite Exposition Extol Extol Extradite Extraneous Extraneous Extrapolate Extrinsic Exuberant Fallacious Falter Fanatical Fanatical Fanaticism Fastidious Fastidious Fatuous Fawning Feasible Fecund Felicitous Felicitous Fervent Fervor Fickle very, very bad scholarly explanation or interpretation Worthy of imitation; estimable; praiseworthy. outstandingly good; setting a fine example to serve as a good example complete and thorough acquits; absolves; removes blame getting free/rid of; eliminating (especially demons) refugee; emigrant; someone living away from his own country convenient; practical make faster clear explanation praise to praise highly; laud deport from one country back to the home country irrelevant not necessary; not an essential part; not relevant extend; predict on the basis of known data irrelevant; on the outside overflowing with vitality and good spirits false; untrue hesitate; waver obsessive; fixated full of great enthusiasm or devotion passion; excessive devotion overly particular; finicky very attentive to detail; fussy; meticulous silly; foolish gaining the favor of another by acting overly kind or by flattery possible and practicable fertile Well-suited for the occasion, appropriate; marked by good fortune. apt filled with passion or intensity passion; enthusiasm unpredictable; whimsical; easily swayed

14 Finesse Fitful Flagrant Flamboyant Flaunt Fleeting Flippant Florid Flout Flustered Fly-By-Night Forensic Fortitude Fortuitous Foster Fractious Fraudulent Frivolous Frivolous Frugal Frugal Furrow Furtive Furtive Futile Galleon Gambol Garble Garish Garner Garrulous Garrulous Gaunt Gingerly Glacial Glutton skill not continuous; stopping and starting clearly wrong showy; ornate show off; display in a showy manner short-lived making jokes about serious matters Reddish or rosy; excessively ornate or flowery defy; reject worked-up; not calm unreliable; disreputable concerned with argument or debate (esp. for legal evidence) bravery happening by chance To promote the growth or development of; cultivate; nurture. irritable; difficult to control fake; false not serious not having substance or s sense of importance or seriousness; silly; trivial; trifling economical; not wasting anything careful with money; thrifty; not costly groove hidden and secret, sneaky sneaky useless; hopeless ancient type of sailing ship frolic; leap; bound distort; confuse; muddle gaudy gather; collect talkative talkative; loquacious emaciated; bony and angular very carefully very, very cold or very, very slow moving ( in both cases, like a glacier) one who overindulges in food and drink

15 Grandiloquent Gratify Gregarious Hackneyed Hamper Hamper Hangar Harangue Harbingers Hardy Hasten Haughtiness Haughty Headstrong Hedonism Hedonist Hedonist Heed Heedful Heresy Hiatus Hidebound Hidebound Hieroglyphics Hinder Histrionic Hoary Holistic Homogeneous Hone Hyperbole Hypochondriac Hypocritical Iconoclast Idiosyncrasy Idiosyncrasy using big and fancy words when speaking for the purpose of impressing others to please or indulge sociable, outgoing made commonplace by overuse; trite hinder; obstruct to hinder; to prevent something from happening storage area (like garage) for a plane noisy, attacking speech indicators; bringers of warnings healthy and strong; robust hurry; accelerate; rush arrogance; pride having a great pride in oneself and dislike for others stubborn; willful self indulgence; pleasure-seeking a pleasure seeker a person who lives for pleasure listen to paying careful attention to against orthodox opinion interruption; pause rigid in opinions strongly-opinionated; narrow-mindedly stubborn 1. picture writing; 2. writing which is difficult to read or enigmatic obstruct theatrical; exaggerated old Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of parts. of the same kind; alike; uniform sharpen; increase; whet grossly exaggerated speech a person obsessed with health; having imaginary illnesses insincere person who opposes orthodoxy A habit, mannerism, or characteristic that is peculiar to an individual. a personal peculiarity; something unique to an individual

16 Ignominious Ignominy Illuminate Illusion Illusory Immoderate Immutable Impartial Impassioned Impassive Impecunious Impious Impoverished Impromptu Imprudent Impudent Impugn Inadvertent Incantation Incarceration Inception Inception Incessant Incidental Incipient Incisive Inclination Incoherent Incongruous Inconsequential Inconsequential Inconspicuous Inconspicuous Indelible Indifferent Indifferent shameful shame [ignominious (a) = shameful] to light up or make clear something unreal that gives the appearance of being real deceptive; false; misleading excessive; extreme unchanging; permanent unbiased; neutral filled with passionate emotion lacking emotion or drive having no money wicked; profane destitute; poor unrehearsed; spontaneous careless; rash rude; disrespectful to oppose or attack someone or something as false or refutable not intentional chant; invocation; prayer putting in prison the start, the beginning of something the beginning; the earliest stage without stopping less important; minor just beginning sharp; keen tendency; a leaning toward not clear not fitting in; out of place unimportant; insignificant; negligible irrelevant; of no significance; unimportant not easily seen; subtle; not noticeable hardly noticeable cannot be wiped out 1. neutral; 2. not outstanding apathetic; showing little or no concern or care

17 Indigenous Indigenous Indigent Indignant Indolence Indolent Inductee Indulgent Inebriation Ineffable Ineffable Inept Inertia Inevitable Inexorable Inexpedient Infallible Infamous Infer Ingenious Ingénue Ingrate Inimical Iniquitous Innate Innocuous Innovate Innovation Inscrutable Insentient Insipid Insipid Insolent Instigate Instigator Insuperable native to a particular area native poor; impoverished angry laziness lazy; not wanting to do any work novice; beginner pampering; satisfying desires drunkenness; intoxication Defying expression or description; inexpressible. cannot be expressed in words incompetent; unskilled; useless inactivity; lethargy cannot be avoided relentless not advisable perfect; flawless; cannot make mistakes famous for something bad deduce; conclude very clever or inventive naïve, unsophisticated person ungrateful person hostile showing a lack of fairness; wicked; vicious inherited; inborn harmless; inoffensive create; introduce something new something new mysterious; impenetrable unfeeling dull; bland; boring lacking flavor or taste; unexciting boldly disrespectful in speech or behavior; rude to start; provoke troublemaker; person who entices others to do something unable to be overcome

18 Insurgent Integrity Intemperate Interminable Intermittent Intimate Intimidate Intractable Intransigence Intransigent Intrepid Intrepid Inveterate Invidious Irrelevant Irreverent Itinerant Jocular Judicious Kindle Knotty Labyrinth Labyrinth Labyrinthine Laceration Lachrymose Lackluster Lackluster Laconic Laconic Lament Lamentation Lampoon Lance Languid Languish a rebel holding firmly to values, such as honesty; completeness Given to or characterized by excessive indulgence; not moderate never-ending sporadic; irregular to suggest; to hint at to frighten; to hint at stubborn; hard to manage stubbornness stubborn; unyielding brave fearless habitual arousing envy not relating to the matter at hand Showing lack of due respect; impertinent; satirical. wandering about; tending to move around, travel liking to be with people, joke around with them and have fun showing wisdom in judging people and situations to start a fire complex; difficult to solve a maze a maze from which it is very hard to extricate (free) oneself complicated; highly convoluted a cut tearful; sad dull; monotonous; bland lacking vitality, energy, or brightness; boring using few words; brief; to the point using few words in speech To feel or express grief or regret; to mourn for. expression of regret or sorrow ridicule; spoof spear; spike; javelin tired; slow decay; fade away; get weaker

19 Languor Larceny Largess Largess Lassitude Laud Laud Laudatory Lavish Lavish Lavish Lax Legend Legion Lethargic Lethargic Levity Levity Libertarian Linger Liniment Listless Lithe Lithe Livid Lobbyist Lofty Lofty Longevity Loquacious Loquacious Lucid Lucid Ludicrous Lukewarm Lummox weak or lifeless feeling theft; robbery; stealing generous giving generosity a tired feeling, usually resulting from depression or too much work praise to praise; extol Containing or expressing praise generous in giving to others or in spending money on a grand scale; wasteful abundant; in excess careless; not strict 1. key to map; 2. myth or story in large numbers tired; without energy having little or no energy lightheartedness; gaiety; carefree disposition, particularly when not appropriate flippancy; joking about serious matters someone who opposes tyranny to hang around; to stay soothing lotion lacking interest in something, usually because of illness, fatigue, or general sadness; spiritless flexible; supple nimble and flexible very angry person who tries to persuade someone to support a particular cause snooty; arrogant; haughty very high; towering; grand or noble long life very talkative; liking to talk; garrulous talkative Clear; rational; sane; easily understood clear ridiculous; silly 1. unenthusiastic; 2. neither hot nor cold clumsy person

20 Luscious Lynch Machinations Maelstrom Magnanimous Magnanimous Magnanimous Magnate Maladroit Malady Malediction Malefactor Malicious Malinger Malingerer Malleable Mallet Manipulatable Marred Marshal Marsupial Martinet Masochist Matriarchy Maverick Meager Meander Mediate Mellifluous Mellow Menagerie Mendacious Mercenary Mercenary Mercurial Merge juicy; moist; succulent assassinate; kill; illegal hanging plots and plans whirlpool; storm in the ocean Generous in forgiving; unselfish; free of resentment generous in overlooking insult or injury by others; rising above pettiness generous; big-hearted powerful businessman clumsy; unskillful illness a curse a wrong-doer intending to hurt of harm another; spiteful deliberately avoid work; shirk person who deliberately tries to avoid work flexible; can be shaped 1. wooden hammer; 2. stick used for polo influencable; controllable damaged; spoiled to gather together pouched mammal (like a kangaroo) person who believes in strict discipline person who intentionally inflicts pain on himself society governed by women a loner in short supply wander from side to side to act as a go-between in settling conflicts or disputes between people or opposing sides sweet and smooth sounding soft; melodious; ripe collection of animals given to lying concerned only with money greedy for self-gain; thinking only of money-making volatile; changeable come together

21 Metaphorically Meticulous Meticulous Mettle Milieu Mire Misanthrope Misanthrope Miserly Misnomer Misogynist Misrepresentation Mitigate Mitigate Mock Mock Modicum Mollify Momentous Monotonous Moratorium Moribund Mundane Mundane Munificent Myriad Naïve Narcissist Nefarious Nefarious Negligible Nomadic Nonchalant Nostalgia Novel Novel symbolically; figuratively very careful; painstaking very careful; fussy; finicky courage; bravery; valor environment swamp; muddy ground hater of the rest of mankind someone who dislikes all people careful with how money is spent; thrifty wrong name hater of women deliberately deceiving lessen; make less severe to make or become less severe; to lesson pain or damage To ridicule; to imitate or mimic; to defy to make fun of; to imitate small amount to pacify, soothe, or appease; to make less severe or violent very important dull; unvarying temporary prohibition or halt to activity on the point of death Common or ordinary; pertaining to the world, secular commonplace; ordinary very generous countless; a very large number Unaffected; unsophisticated; inexperienced; having an unaffected style. having to do with extreme self-adoration; person who feels superior to everyone Wicked; infamous; villainous very mean and wicked able of likely to be neglected or bypassed due to smallness or lack of importance wandering casual and indifferent; not showing any great concern or worry about anything A longing for a former place or time; something that displays nostalgia New; different new

22 Noxious Nuance Nullify Nurture Nuzzle Obdurate Obdurate Obfuscate Objective Oblique Obliterate Oblivious Obscure Obscure Obscured Obsequious Obsequious Obsession Obsolete Obsolete Obstinate Obstinate Obstreperous Obtuse Obtuse Obviate Odious Odious Officious Ogle Olfactory Ominous Ominous Ominous Omnipotent Omniscient harmful; poisonous; lethal something subtle; a fine shade of meaning to counter; make unimportant to care for, to nourish cuddle; snuggle stubborn resistant to persuasion or softening; stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing deliberately make something difficult to understand unbiased; not subjective indirect; slanting destroy; demolish; eradicate totally unaware difficult to understand; partially hidden hard to understand; abstract hidden; covered; buried servile; submissive obeying or performing a service for someone in an overly attentive manner a dominating concern no longer valid old; outdated, as in no longer in use Stubborn; inflexible; not easily overcome stubborn; inflexible noisy and boisterous mentally dull stupid; not clear or precise avoid; make unnecessary hateful loathsome; evil; revolting in a disgusting way domineering; intrusive; meddlesome stare at; observe in an obvious manner concerned with the sense of smell threatening pertaining to an evil omen; foreboding related to feeling that something bad or evil is bound to happen; foreboding all-powerful all-knowing

23 Onerous Onus Opaque Opportunist Opulent Ordain Ornate Orthodox Ossify Ostentatious Ostentatious Oust Overt Overwrought Pacify Palatable Palatable Palisade Palliative Pallid Palpable Panacea Panegyrize Paradigm Paradox Paragon Paramount Parasite Parched Pariah Pariah Parity Parochial Parody Parry Parsimonious burdensome; hard to undertake burden does not let light through a person who seeks self-gain, even at the expense of others, without regard to values or moral principles wealthy; rich; magnificent 1. destine; 2. confer holy orders on a priest highly decorated conventional 1. turn to bone; 2. become fixed and rigid showy having to do with showing off; pretentious push out of a position obvious; not hidden worked up; in an emotional state to calm; to make peaceful; to restore to a tranquil state pleasing to the taste buds good to eat; agreeable fence made of posts a remedy that improves but doesn't cure pale easily felt; easily perceived remedy for all ills to praise a person or event in a formal speech or in writing; to praise highly 1. example; 2. model; 3. way of looking at things apparently contradictory statement a perfect example of supreme importance 1. scrounger; 2. animal which takes digested food from another dried up an outcast from society a social outcast equality narrow-minded; concerned only with local matters a mockery; imitation for ridicule; spoof ward off; avoid economical; frugal; thrifty

24 Parsimonious Parsimony Partisan Partisan Pathos Patron Patronize Paucity Peccadillo Pedant Pedestrian Peerless Pejorative Pellucid Pensive Penurious Penury Perceptive Percipient Perdition Peremptory Perfidy Perfunctory Peripatetic Peripatetic Peripheral Peripheral Perjury Pernicious Pernicious Perspicacious Pessimistic Petty Philanthropic Phlegmatic Pitfall overly thrifty or miserly stinginess; frugality; cost-cutting Devoted to or biased in support of a party, group, or cause biased; one-sided; committed to one group evoking sadness or pity one who give support (usually financial) condescend to; behave in an arrogant manner towards shortage minor weakness; trivial offence person who insists on strict adherence to rules or narrow learning common; mundane; banal without equal derogatory transparently clear in a thoughtful mood; thinking deeply stingy; relating to great poverty, destitution poverty observant perceptive; insightful damnation in a commanding manner treachery superficial; cursory nomadic; moving from place to place moving or walking about; itinerant on the edge; not important only marginally connected to what is truly important; minor or incidental; relating to the field of vision telling lies under oath destructive; harmful very destructive or harmful, usually in an inconspicuous and relentless way using wise judgment; sharp-minded Gloomy; having a negative outlook; expecting the worst minor or trivial; small in quantity showing a desire to help others by giving gifts; charitable; humane hard to get excited or emotional; calm an unseen danger, risk, or drawback

25 Pithy Placate Placid Plagiarism Plaintiff Platitude Plaudit Plausible Plethora Plethora Pliable Plumage Plummet Podium Poignant Poised Polemical Polemical Ponderable Ponderous Ponderous Pontificate Portend Portent Poseur Posterity Posthumous Postulate Potable Potent Pragmatic Pragmatic Pragmatist Prattle Preamble Precarious brief and full of meaning and substance; concise to make calm; to soothe calm; peaceful taking credit for someone else's writing or ideas petitioner (in court of law) quality of being dull; an obvious remark uttered as if it were original statement giving strong praise can be believed; reasonable an excess excess; abundance flexible; not stubborn feathers of a bird fall suddenly and steeply raised platform deeply moving; strongly affecting the emotions calm; collected; self-possessed inclined to argue or debate; controversial causing debate or argument important enough to require a lot of thought weighty; slow and heavy very heavy or bulky; dull or lifeless speak pompously or dogmatically foretell a warning sign; omen someone who puts on an act future generations after death hypothesize; propose suitable for drinking powerful; compelling; strong Practical; dealing with actual facts or occurrences practical practical person; one who is concerned with usefulness to speak on and on in a senseless and silly manner; to talk foolishly introductory material unstable; risky

26 Precarious Precedent Precept Precinct Precipice Precipitous Preclude Precocious Predator Predecessor Predicament Preeminent Prerogative Prescient Presentiment Presumptuous Presumptuous Pretentious Pretentious Prevaricate Pristine Proclivity Procrastinate Prodigal Prodigal Prodigious Profane Profanity Profound Profundity Profuse Proletarian Prolific Proponents Prosaic Prosaic dangerous or risky; uncertain a previous occurrence used as a guide guiding principle district of a city steep slope done in a hurry prevent or make impossible developing early one who takes advantage of another, exploits or feeds on another; a strong adversary or rival one who came before dilemma; difficult situation famous; outstanding right or privilege having fore-knowledge a feeling that something might happen assuming too much; arrogant too forward or bold; overstepping proper bounds pompous; self-important claiming or pretending increased importance; ostentatious; affectedly grand speak misleadingly and evasively unspoiled tendency towards delay; put off wasteful; extravagant wasteful; lavish very large unholy swearing; cursing having deep meaning depth abundant; more than enough member of the working class producing a lot promoters; supporters Commonplace; dull; lacking in imagination dull; commonplace

27 Prosaic Proscribe Prosody Prostration Protagonist Protean Protégé Protocol Provincial Proximity Prudent Prudent Puerile Pugnacious Punctilious Purloin Pusillanimous Pyromania Quaff Quagmire Quaint Quandary Quandary Quarantine Quarry Quell Quell Querulous Querulous Quiescent Quirk Raconteur Ramble Rancorous Rant Raucous dull; boring; ordinary forbid study of versification 1. lying face down; 2. be overcome with extreme weakness main character in film, book, play etc. changeable person under protection of, or guided by another procedure; code of behavior unsophisticated; narrow-minded nearness cautious; wise careful, cautious, and wise childish eager to fight; belligerent paying attention to small details steal cowardly compulsion to start fires drink down quickly marsh; bog picturesque dilemma; puzzle a dilemma; a confusing or puzzling situation isolation to prevent the spread of disease 1. something that is hunted; 2. mine for stone To suppress; to put an end to; to pacify to pacify; to subdue; to quiet down always complaining whining; complaining quiet; still; inactive oddity a skillful storyteller wander aimlessly deeply hateful or spiteful; malicious to talk very loudly, even wildly coarse-sounding; loud and unruly

28 Ravenous Raze Rebuff Rebuke Recalcitrant Recount Refute Relic Remote Remuneration Renown Replete Replete Reprehensible Reprieve Reprove Repudiate Rescind Resignation Resolution Resolve Resonant Respite Respite Resplendent Restorative Retention Reticent Reticent Retraction Revere Revere Rhetorical Rhetorical Riddled Rife very hungry to tear down; to destroy to snub; to bluntly refuse to reprimand or scold sharply stubborn; disobedient; defiant to tell a story To prove to be false; to prove a person to be in error; to deny a custom or object that has been around for a very, very long time emotionally distant and disinterested; aloof; uninvolved; distant, far away payment for work done fame full filled-up; overflowing shameful; very bad a respite; postponement of a sentence to speak to in a disapproving manner; to scold shun; eschew retract; repeal acceptance of fate determination firmness, determination echoing a break; intermission period of inactivity; a lull shining; glowing a tonic preservation; withholding not talking much; reserved restrained; holding something back; uncommunicative withdrawal; cancellation of a statement worship to regard highly with love an respect Used for style or effect only; having to do with rhetoric; bombastic relating to speech that is used to persuade or have some effect; insincere in expression full of (usually full of holes) common

29 Rigor Rigor Robust Rotund Ruminate Ruse Saccharin Sacrosanct Sagacious Sagacious Sage Salacious Sallow Salubrious Salutary Sanctimonious Sanction Sanguinary Sanguine Sanguine Sardonic Saturate Savant Savory Savvy Scale Scapegoat Scrupulous Scrupulous Scrutinize Scrutinize Scuttle Sedentary Seminary Sensuous Sentinel thoroughness harshness, severity strong; healthy; tough round think over something; ponder trick; stratagem falsely sweet very holy; inviolable wise wise a wise person lecherous; erotic yellowish health-giving something which teaches you a lesson; beneficial hypocritically holy give approval to bloodthirsty; bloody Optimistic, hopeful or confident; reddish. optimistic; cheerful mocking to wet or soak completely; to totally fill up person with knowledge tasty or good smelling smart; informed to climb person on whom blame is placed for faults of others careful; diligent; painstaking showing great care and honesty, based on personal belief of what is right and proper examine carefully to read or look at very closely and carefully sink having to do with sitting around a lot an institution in which priests are trained appealing to the senses guard; sentry

30 Sequester Serendipity Serene Serrated Servile Servile Shrewd Skeptic Skeptical Skirmish Slavish Sluggard Sluggish Sly Smelt Smorgasbord Solace Solicit Solicitous Somber Somnambulist Soothsayer Sophomoric Soporific Soporific Sparse Specious Speckled Speculate Sporadic Spurious Spurious Squander Stagnant Stagnant Staid isolate fortunate coincidence; unsought discovery calm; peaceful jagged; saw-like overly submissive; groveling slave-like; very humble and submissive insightful; clever a person who doubts doubting; not gullible minor battle slave-like; overly humble; involving very hard work slow-moving; lethargic person slow and lazy underhanded, furtive refine an ore a Swedish buffet of cold dishes comfort for grief to ask for; seek Anxious or concerned; careful; eager Dark; dimly lit; gloomy or depressing sleepwalker fortuneteller juvenile; immature inducing sleep sleep-inducing; sleepy spare; bare; meager false; untrue spotted; freckled; dotted To think or reflect; to conjecture not continuous; intermittent false; untrue false; counterfeit; lacking logic to spend money (or time) in a wasteful, uncaring fashion still; not moving lacking movement or energy dull; sober; serious

31 Stanza Staunch Stealthy Stereotype Stevedore Stifle Stoic Stoical Stoke Stolid Stratagem Strident Strident Submissive Subordinate Subservient Succinct Supercilious Superficial Superfluous Superfluous Surfeit Surpass Surreptitious Swagger Sycophant Taciturn Talisman Tangent Tangible Tardy Tawdry Tedium Temper Tenacious Tenacious section of a poem loyal; faithful; dependable secretive, sly fixed image dockworker suppress known for fortitude; indifferent to pleasure or pain lacking emotion or not showing any emotion add fuel to; strengthen impassive; dull; indifferent plot; plan; trick loud and harsh shrill; high-pitched voluntarily obeying another; humble inferior; lower in rank or status obedient; obsequious clearly and briefly stated; concise looking down on others; proud and scornful lacking in depth or importance; on the surface More than sufficient; extra; unnecessary or needless overabundant; more than is needed; unnecessary an oversupply to be better than; to excel done or made in a secret, stealthy way to walk around in a proud, showy manner; to boast in a loud manner a self-server who tries to gain the favor of others through the use of flattery or by being overattentive silent; sparing of words; close-mouthed lucky charm going off the main subject can be touched slow; late; overdue; delayed of little value; gaudy boredom to moderate; soften Persistent or stubborn; holding fast; holding together; sticky or adhesive stubborn; resolute; holding firm to a purpose

32 Tentative Tentative Tenuous Terse Terse Therapeutic Thrifty Thrive Thwart Timorous Tirade Titter Toady Tome Torpid Torpid Torpor Totter Tractable Tranquil Tranquility Transcribe Transgress Transient Transient Transitory Traverse Trepidation Trifling Trinket Trite Trite Trivial Trivial Truant Truncate not certain hesitant; not definite flimsy; not solid using only the words that are needed to make the point; very concise concise; to the point medicinal; curative showing care with how money and resources are spent or used; miserly to grow strong; to flourish prevent; frustrate cowardly; fearful stream of verbal abuse giggle quietly a flatterer; a sycophant large book inactive; lazy; stagnant lacking energy; relating to inactivity; feeling sluggish dormancy; sluggishness; inactivity walk unsteadily obedient; dutiful; polite peaceful peacefulness; calmness copy go astray; disobey; commit a sin short-lived; ephemeral lasting for only a short time; temporary fleeting to move across fear lacking significance; unimportant something of little value; knick-knack unoriginal and stale due to overuse unoriginal; dull unimportant unimportant; trifling; ordinary shirker; someone absent without permission cut short

33 Tumult Turbulence Turmoil Turpitude Tyro Ubiquitous Unalloyed Unctuous Undermined Underscore Unequivocal Unfetter Unfrock Uniformity Unobtrusive Unprecedented Unprecedented Unscathed Unwavering Unwitting Unyielding Upbraid Upbraid Uproarious Upshot Urbane Usurp Utilitarian Utopian Vacillate Vacuous Vagrant Vapid Vapid Vaporize Variegated uproar; noise great unrest; turmoil or disorder a very puzzling scenario or situation; tumult depravity novice; beginner found everywhere; omnipresent undiluted; total oily; using excessive flattery damaged; attacked emphasize clear; obvious set free to remove a priest from his position sameness inconspicuous; not easily noticed never having happened before novel; unparalleled unharmed; intact; without a scratch firm and determined not deliberate; unconscious stubborn; inflexible scold; tell off; reprimand to chide; to scold bitterly hilarious; hysterical; very funny outcome sophisticated; suave take someone's position (usually by force) useful a believer in an ideal world waver; hesitate empty; silly; meaningless person wandering without a home dull; uninspiring lacking freshness and zest; flat; stale to turn to vapor, foam, or mist multicolored; speckled

34 Vehemence Vehement Venal Veneer Venerate Venerate Venerate Venial Veracity Verbose Verbose Verbosity Vertigo Vestigial Vibrant Vigilant Vignette Vilification Vilify Vindicate Vindicate Virtuoso Virtuoso Virulent Virulent Vital Vitriolic Vivacity Vivify Vociferous Vociferous Volatile Voluble Voracious Wary Whimsical violence; fervor; forcefulness forceful corrupt; can be bribed surface coating To regard or treat with reverence revere; worship to feel of show deep respect for, especially due to age or tradition; to honor minor; unimportant truthfulness using too many words; wordy; long-winded talkative; long-winded; rambling using too many words dizziness not developed lively; full of vitality carefully alert and watchful small sketch blackening someone's name to slander or defame someone s name To clear of accusation or suspicion; to defend, maintain, or avenge prove right; remove blame an accomplished musician a highly skilled performer, usually a musical performer dangerous; harmful extremely poisonous; deadly; full of spiteful hatred essential; alive; important corrosive; strongly attacking liveliness; animation enliven noisy; loud in speech loud and noisy regarding one s own voice, especially shouting; demandingly clamorous explosive or changing very quickly talking a great deal with ease; glib greedy; gluttonous; ravenous; insatiable cautious, careful fanciful

35 Willful Zealous Zealous stubborn Filled with or motivated by zeal; enthusiastic filled with enthusiasm; fervent