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Vocabulary Words 01

“We shall not be saved without Wisdom;

For Knowledge is Power but only Wisdom is Liberty.”

aberrant: Markedly different from an accepted norm. animadversion: The utterance of criticism or censure.
aberration: Deviation from a right, customary, or animosity: Hatred.
prescribed course. antediluvian: Of or pertaining to the times, things, events
abet: To aid, promote, or encourage the before the great flood in the days of Noah.
commission of (an offense). antidote: Anything that will counteract or remove the
abeyance: A state of suspension or temporary effects of poison, disease, or the like.
inaction. aplomb: Confidence; coolness.
abjure: To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath. apocryphal : Of doubtful authority or authenticity.
ablution: A washing or cleansing, especially of the apogee: The climax.
body. apostate: False.
abrogate: To abolish, repeal. apotheosis: Deification.
abscond: To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the apparition: Ghost.
purpose of escaping arrest.
appease: To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
abstemious: Characterized by self denial or abstinence,
apposite: Appropriate.
as in the use of drink, food.
apprise: To give notice to; to inform.
abstruse: Dealing with matters difficult to be
approbation: Sanction.
understood.
arboreal: Of or pertaining to a tree or trees.
abut: To touch at the end or boundary line.
ardor: Intensity of passion or affection.
accede: To agree.
argot: A specialized vocabulary peculiar to a
acquiesce: To comply; submit.
particular group.
acrid: Harshly pungent or bitter.
arrant: Notoriously bad.
acumen: Quickness of intellectual insight, or
ascetic: Given to severe self-denial and practicing
discernment; keenness of discrimination.
excessive abstinence and devotion.
adage: An old saying.
ascribe: To assign as a quality or attribute.
adamant: Any substance of exceeding hardness or
asperity: Harshness or roughness of temper.
impenetrability.
assiduous: Unceasing; persistent
admonition: Gentle reproof.
assuage: To cause to be less harsh, violent, or severe,
adumbrate: To represent beforehand in outline or by
as excitement, appetite, pain, or disease.
emblem.
astringent: Harsh in disposition or character.
affable: Easy to approach.
astute: Keen in discernment.
aggrandize: To cause to appear greatly.
atonement: Amends, reparation, or expiation made
aggravate: To make heavier, worse, or more
from wrong or injury.
burdensome.
audacious: Fearless.
agile: Able to move or act quickly, physically, or
mentally. augury: Omen
agog: In eager desire. auspicious: Favorable omen
alacrity: Cheerful willingness. austere: Severely simple; unadorned.
alcove: A covered recess connected with or at the autocrat: Any one who claims or wields unrestricted
side of a larger room. or undisputed authority or influence.
alleviate: To make less burdensome or less hard to auxiliary: One who or that which aids or helps,
bear. especially when regarded as subsidiary or
accessory.
aloof: Not in sympathy with or desiring to
associate with others. avarice: Passion for getting and keeping riches.
amalgamate: To mix or blend together in a homogeneous aver: To avouch, justify or prove
body. aversion: A mental condition of fixed opposition to or
ambidextrous: Having the ability of using both hands with dislike of some particular thing.
equal skill or ease. avow: To declare openly.
ambiguous: Having a double meaning. baleful: Malignant.
ameliorate: To relieve, as from pain or hardship banal: Commonplace.
anathema: Anything forbidden, as by social usage. bask: To make warm by genial heat.

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beatify: To make supremely happy. cogent: Appealing strongly to the reason or
bedaub: To smear over, as with something oily or conscience.
sticky. cogitate: Consider carefully and deeply; ponder.
bellicose: Warlike. cognizant: Taking notice.
belligerent: Manifesting a warlike spirit. colloquial: Pertaining or peculiar to common speech as
benefactor: A doer of kindly and charitable acts. distinguished from literary.
benevolence: Any act of kindness or well-doing. collusion: A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
benign: Good and kind of heart. comestible: Fit to be eaten.
berate: To scold severely. commemorate: To serve as a remembrance of.
bewilder: To confuse the perceptions or judgment of. complaisance: Politeness.
blandishment: Flattery intended to persuade. complement: To make complete.
blatant: Noisily or offensively loud or clamorous. comport: To conduct or behave (oneself).
blithe: Joyous. compunction: Remorseful feeling.
boisterous: Unchecked merriment or animal spirits. conceit: Self-flattering opinion.
bolster: To support, as something wrong. conciliatory: Tending to reconcile.
bombast: Inflated or extravagant language, especially concord: Harmony.
on unimportant subjects. concur: To agree.
boorish: Rude. condense: To abridge.
breach: The violation of official duty, lawful right, conflagration: A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest,
or a legal obligation. or the like.
brittle: Fragile. confluence: The place where streams meet.
broach: To mention, for the first time. congeal: To coagulate.
bumptious: Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit. conjoin: To unite.
buoyant: Having the power or tendency to float or connoisseur: A critical judge of art, especially one with
keep afloat. thorough knowledge and sound judgment
burnish: To make brilliant or shining. of art.
cabal: A number of persons secretly united for console: To comfort.
effecting by intrigue some private purpose. conspicuous: Clearly visible.
cacophony: A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound consternation: Panic.
or combination of sounds or tones. constrict: To bind.
cajole: To impose on or dupe by flattering speech. consummate: To bring to completion.
callow: Without experience of the world. contiguous: Touching or joining at the edge or
calumny: Slander. boundary.
candid: Straightforward. contrite: Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin.
cant: To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with contumacious: Rebellious.
affected solemnity. copious: Plenteous.
capacious: Roomy. cornucopia: The horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and
capitulate: To surrender or stipulate terms. prosperity.
captious: Hypercritical. corporeal: Of a material nature; physical.
castigate: To punish. correlate: To put in some relation of connection or
cataract: Opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in correspondence.
complete or partial blindness. corroboration: Confirmation.
caustic: Sarcastic and severe. counterfeit: Made to resemble something else.
censure: To criticize severely; also, an expression of countervail: To offset.
disapproval. covert: Concealed, especially for an evil purpose.
centurion: A captain of a company of one hundred cower: To crouch down tremblingly, as through
infantry in the ancient Roman army. fear or shame.
chagrin: Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, crass: Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as
as at one's failures or errors. opposed to thin or fine.
chary: Careful; wary; cautious. credulous: Easily deceived.
chicanery: The use of trickery to deceive. cupidity: Avarice.
circumlocution: Indirect or roundabout expression. cursory: Rapid and superficial.
coddle: To treat as a baby or an invalid. curtail: To cut off or cut short.
coerce: To force. cynosure: That to which general interest or attention
coeval: Existing during the same period of time; is directed.
also, a contemporary. dearth: Scarcity, as of something customary,
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defer: To delay or put off to some other time. earthenware: Anything made of clay and baked in a kiln
deign: To deem worthy of notice or account. or dried in the sun.
deleterious: Hurtful, morally or physically. ebullient: Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of
delineate: To represent by sketch or diagram. feeling.
deluge: To overwhelm with a flood of water. edacious: Given to eating.
demagogue: An unprincipled politician. edible: Suitable to be eaten.
denizen: Inhabitant. educe: To draw out.
denouement: That part of a play or story in which the effete: Exhausted, as having performed its
mystery is cleared up. functions.
deplete: To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, efficacy: The power to produce an intended effect as
or waste. shown in the production of it.
deposition: Testimony legally taken on interrogatories effrontery: Unblushing impudence.
and reduced to writing, for use as evidence effulgence: Splendor.
in court. egregious: Extreme.
deprave: To render bad, especially morally bad. egress: Any place of exit.
deprecate: To express disapproval or regret for, with elegy: A lyric poem lamenting the dead.
hope for the opposite. elicit: To educe or extract gradually or without
deride: To ridicule. violence.
derision: Ridicule. elucidate: To bring out more clearly the facts
derivative: Coming or acquired from some origin. concerning.
descry: To discern. emaciate: To waste away in flesh.
desiccant: Any remedy which, when applied embellish: To make beautiful or elegant by adding
externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as attractive or ornamental features.
that of wounds. embezzle: To misappropriate secretly.
desuetude: A state of disuse or inactivity. emblazon: To set forth publicly or in glowing terms.
desultory: Not connected with what precedes. encomium: A formal or discriminating expression of
deter: To frighten away. praise.
dexterity: Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in encumbrance: A burdensome and troublesome load.
any physical activity or in any mechanical endemic: Peculiar to some specified country or
work. people.
diaphanous: Transparent. enervate: To render ineffective or inoperative.
diatribe: A bitter or malicious criticism. engender: To produce.
didactic: Pertaining to teaching. engrave: To cut or carve in or upon some surface.
diffidence: Self-distrust. enigma: A riddle.
diffident: Affected or possessed with self-distrust. enmity: Hatred.
dilate: To enlarge in all directions. entangle: To involve in difficulties, confusion, or
dilatory: Tending to cause delay. complications.
disallow: To withhold permission or sanction. entreat: To ask for or request earnestly.
discomfit: To put to confusion. Epicurean: Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to
disconcert: To disturb the composure of. daintiness of appetite.
disconsolate : Hopelessly sad; also, saddening; cheerless. epithet: Word used adjectivally to describe some
quality or attribute of is objects, as in
discountenance: To look upon with disfavor.
"Father Aeneas".
discredit: To injure the reputation of.
epitome: A simplified representation.
discreet: Judicious.
equable: Equal and uniform; also, serene.
disheveled: Disordered; disorderly; untidy.
equanimity: Evenness of mind or temper.
dissemble: To hide by pretending something different.
equanimity : Calmness; composure.
disseminate: To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown.
equilibrium: A state of balance.
dissent: Disagreement.
equivocal: Ambiguous.
dissolution: A breaking up of a union of persons.
equivocate: To use words of double meaning.
distraught: Bewildered.
eradicate: To destroy thoroughly.
divulge: To tell or make known, as something
errant: Roving or wandering, as in search of
previously private or secret.
adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds.
dogmatic: Making statements without argument or
erratic: Irregular.
evidence.
erroneous: Incorrect.
dormant: Being in a state of or resembling sleep.
erudite: Very-learned.
dubious: Doubtful.
eschew: To keep clear of.
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espy: To keep close watch. foppish: Characteristic of one who is unduly
eulogy: A spoken or written laudation of a person's devoted to dress and the niceties of
life or character. manners.
euphonious: Characterized by agreeableness of sound. forbearance: Patient endurance or toleration of offenses.
evanescent: Fleeting. forfeit: To lose possession of through failure to
evince: To make manifest or evident. fulfill some obligation.
evoke: To call or summon forth. forgery: Counterfeiting.
exacerbate: To make more sharp, severe, or virulent. forswear: To renounce upon oath.
exculpate: To relieve of blame. fragile: Easily broken.
exhaustive: Thorough and complete in execution. frantic: Frenzied.
exigency: A critical period or condition. frugal: Economical.
exigency : State of requiring immediate action; also, an fugacious: Fleeting.
urgent situation; also, that which is fulminate: To cause to explode.
required in a fulsome: Offensive from excess of praise or
exorbitant: Going beyond usual and proper limits. commendation.
expatiate: To speak or write at some length. gainsay: To contradict; to deny.
expedient: Contributing to personal advantage. gamut: The whole range or sequence.
expiate: To make satisfaction or amends for. garrulous: Given to constant trivial talking.
explicate: To clear from involvement. germane: Relevant.
expostulate: To discuss. gesticulate: To make gestures or motions, as in
expropriate: To deprive of possession; also, to transfer speaking, or in place of speech.
(another's property) to oneself. glimmer: A faint, wavering, unsteady light.
extant: Still existing and known. gossamer: Flimsy.
extempore: Without studied or special preparation. gourmand: A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
extenuate: To diminish the gravity or importance of. grandiloquent: Speaking in or characterized by a pompous
extinct: Being no longer in existence. or bombastic style.
extinguish: To render extinct. gregarious: Sociable, outgoing
extirpate: To root out; to eradicate. grievous: Creating affliction.
extol: To praise in the highest terms. guile: Duplicity.
extort: To obtain by violence, threats, compulsion, gullible: Credulous.
or the subjection of another to some halcyon: Calm.
necessity. harangue: A tirade.
extraneous: Having no essential relation to a subject. harbinger: One who or that which foreruns and
exuberance: Rich supply. announces the coming of any person or
facetious: Amusing. thing.
facile: Not difficult to do. head: Adv. Precipitately, as in diving.
factious: Turbulent. heinous: Odiously sinful.
fallacious: Illogical. heresy: An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled
beliefs or accepted principles.
fatuous: Idiotic
heterogeneous: Consisting of dissimilar elements or
fawn: A young deer.
ingredients of different kinds.
feint: Any sham, pretense, or deceptive
hirsute: Having a hairy covering.
movement.
hoodwink: To deceive.
felon: A criminal or depraved person.
hospitable: Disposed to treat strangers or guests with
ferocity: Savageness.
generous kindness.
fervid: Intense.
hypocrisy: Extreme insincerity.
fervor: Ardor or intensity of feeling.
iconoclast: An image-breaker.
fidelity: Loyalty.
idiosyncrasy: A mental quality or habit peculiar to an
finesse: Subtle contrivance used to gain a point.
individual.
flamboyant: Characterized by extravagance and in
ignoble: Low in character or purpose.
general by want of good taste.
ignominious: Shameful.
flippant: Having a light, pert, trifling disposition.
illicit: Unlawful.
florid: Flushed with red.
imbroglio: A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling,
flout: To treat with contempt.
perplexity, or strife.
foible: A personal weakness or failing.
imbue : To dye; to instill profoundly.
foment: To nurse to life or activity; to encourage.
immaculate: Without spot or blemish.
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immutable: Unchangeable. insouciant: Nonchalant.
impair: To cause to become less or worse. insurrection: The state of being in active resistance to
impassive: Unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling. authority.
impecunious: Having no money. interdict: Authoritative act of prohibition.
impede: To be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the interim: Time between acts or periods.
way of. intransigent: Not capable of being swayed or diverted
imperative: Obligatory. from a course.
imperious: Insisting on obedience. intrepid: Fearless and bold.
imperturbable: Calm. introspection: The act of observing and analyzing one's
impervious: Impenetrable. own thoughts and feelings.
impetuous: Impulsive. inundate: To fill with an overflowing abundance.
impiety: Irreverence toward God. inure: To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or
exposure.
implacable: Incapable of being pacified.
invalid: One who is disabled by illness or injury.
implicate: To show or prove to be involved in or
concerned invective: An utterance intended to cast censure, or
reproach.
implicit: Implied.
inveigh: To utter vehement censure or invective.
importunate: Urgent in character, request, or demand.
inveterate: Habitual.
importune: To harass with persistent demands or
entreaties. invidious: Showing or feeling envy.
impromptu: Anything done or said on the impulse of invincible: Not to be conquered, subdued, or
the moment. overcome.
improvident: Lacking foresight or thrift. iota: A small or insignificant mark or part.
impugn: To assail with arguments, insinuations, or irascible: Prone to anger.
accusations. irate: Moved to anger.
impute: To attribute. ire: Wrath.
inadvertent: Accidental. irksome: Wearisome.
inane: Silly. itinerant: Wandering.
incessant: Unceasing. itinerate: To wander from place to place.
inchoate: Incipient. jocular: Inclined to joke.
incipient: Initial. jovial: Merry.
incite: To rouse to a particular action. judicious: Prudent.
incongruous: Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion. junta: A council or assembly that deliberates in
inculcate: To teach by frequent repetitions. secret upon the affairs of government.
indelible: That can not be blotted out, effaced, lachrymose: Given to shedding tears.
destroyed, or removed. lackadaisical: Listless.
indigence: Poverty. languid: Relaxed.
indigenous: Native. lascivious: Lustful.
indistinct: Vague. lassitude: Lack of vitality or energy.
indolence: Laziness. latent: Dormant.
indolent: Habitually inactive or idle. laudable: Praiseworthy.
indomitable: Unconquerable. laudatory: Pertaining to, expressing, or containing
indulgent: Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself praise.
or those under one's care. legacy: A bequest.
ineffable: Unutterable. levee: An embankment beside a river or stream or
ineluctable: Impossible to avoid. an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow.
inept: Not fit or suitable. levity: Frivolity.
inexorable: Unrelenting. lexicon: A dictionary.
infuse: To instill, introduce, or inculcate, as libel: Defamation.
principles or qualities. licentious: Wanton.
ingenuous: Candid, frank, or open in character or lien: A legal claim or hold on property, as
quality. security for a debt or charge.
inimical: Adverse. listless: Inattentive.
innocuous: Harmless. lithe: Supple.
inscrutable: Impenetrably mysterious or profound. loquacious: Talkative.
insensible: Imperceptible. lugubrious: Indicating sorrow, often ridiculously.
insinuate: To imply. luminary: One of the heavenly bodies as a source of
insipid: Tasteless. light.

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lustrous: Shining. obstreperous: Boisterous.
malaise: A condition of uneasiness or ill-being. obtrude: To be pushed or to push oneself into undue
malcontent: One who is dissatisfied with the existing prominence.
state of affairs. obtrusive: Tending to be pushed or to push oneself
malevolence: Ill will. into undue prominence.
malign: To speak evil of, especially to do so falsely obviate: To clear away or provide for, as an
and severely. objection or difficulty.
malleable: Pliant. odious: Hateful.
massacre: The unnecessary and indiscriminate killing odium: A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of
of human beings. dislike and disgust.
maudlin: Foolishly and tearfully affectionate. officious: Intermeddling with what is not one's
mawkish: Sickening or insipid. concern.
mellifluous: Sweetly or smoothly flowing. ominous: Portentous.
mendacious: Untrue. onerous: Burdensome or oppressive.
mendicant: A beggar. onus: A burden or responsibility.
meretricious: Alluring by false or gaudy show. opprobrium: The state of being scornfully reproached or
accused of evil.
mesmerize: To hypnotize.
ossify: To convert into bone.
meticulous: Over-cautious.
ostentation: A display dictated by vanity and intended
mettle: Courage.
to invite applause or flattery.
mettlesome: Having courage or spirit.
ostracism: Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in
microcosm: The world or universe on a small scale.
society or politics.
mien: The external appearance or manner of a
ostracize: To exclude from public or private favor.
person.
palate: The roof of the mouth.
mischievous: Fond of tricks.
palatial: Magnificent.
miscreant: A villain.
palliate: To cause to appear less guilty.
miser: A person given to saving and hoarding
palpable: Perceptible by feeling or touch.
unduly.
panacea: A remedy or medicine proposed for or
misnomer: A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
professing to cure all diseases.
moderation: Temperance.
panegyric: A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or
modicum: A small or token amount.
spoken, of a person or of an act.
mollify: To soothe.
panoply: A full set of armor.
molt: To cast off, as hair, feathers, etc.
paragon: A model of excellence.
monomania: The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
Pariah: A member of a degraded class; a social
morbid: Caused by or denoting a diseased or outcast.
unsound condition of body or mind.
paroxysm: A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
mordant: Biting.
parsimonious: Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of
moribund: On the point of dying. money.
morose: Gloomy. partisan: Characterized by or exhibiting undue or
multifarious: Having great diversity or variety. unreasoning devotion to a party.
mundane: Worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial. pathos: The quality in any form of representation
munificent: Extraordinarily generous. that rouses emotion or sympathy.
myriad: A vast indefinite number. paucity: Fewness.
nadir: The lowest point. peccadillo: A small breach of propriety or principle.
nefarious: Wicked in the extreme. pedestrian: One who journeys on foot.
negligent: Apt to omit what ought to be done. pellucid: Translucent.
neophyte: Having the character of a beginner. penchant: A bias in favor of something.
noisome: Very offensive, particularly to the sense of penurious: Excessively sparing in the use of money.
smell. penury: Indigence.
nostrum: Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan peregrination: A wandering.
character. peremptory: Precluding question or appeal.
noxious: Hurtful. perfidy: Treachery.
nugatory: Having no power or force. perfunctory: Half-hearted.
obdurate: Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity. peripatetic: Walking about.
obfuscate: To darken; to obscure. perjury: A solemn assertion of a falsity.
oblique: Slanting; said of lines. permeate: To pervade.
obsequious: Showing a servile readiness to fall in with pernicious: Tending to kill or hurt.
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persiflage: Banter. prosaic: Unimaginative.
perspicacity: Acuteness or discernment. proscribe: To reject, as a teaching or a practice, with
perturbation: Mental excitement or confusion. condemnation or denunciation.
petrify: To convert into a substance of stony protuberant: Bulging.
hardness and character. provident: Anticipating and making ready for future
petulant: Displaying impatience. wants or emergencies.
phlegmatic: Not easily roused to feeling or action. prudence: Caution.
physiognomy: The external appearance merely. puerile: Childish.
pious: Religious. pugnacious: Quarrelsome.
pique: To excite a slight degree of anger in. punctilious: Strictly observant of the rules or forms
placate: To bring from a state of angry or hostile prescribed by law or custom.
feeling to one of patience or friendliness. pungency: The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
platitude: A written or spoken statement that is flat, pusillanimous: Without spirit or bravery.
dull, or commonplace. pyre: A heap of combustibles arranged for
plea: An argument to obtain some desired action. burning a dead body.
plenary: Entire. qualm: A fit of nausea.
plethora: Excess; superabundance. quandary: A puzzling predicament.
plumb: A weight suspended by a line to test the quibble: An utterly trivial distinction or objection.
verticality of something. quiescence: Being quiet, still, or at rest; inactive
plummet: A piece of lead for making soundings, quiescent: Being in a state of repose or inaction.
adjusting walls to the vertical. Quixotic: Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or
poignant: Severely painful or acute to the spirit. extravagant degree.
polyglot: Speaking several tongues. quotidian: Of an everyday character; ordinary.
ponderous: Unusually weighty or forcible. raconteur: A person skilled in telling stories.
portend: To indicate as being about to happen, ramify: To divide or subdivide into branches or
especially by previous signs. subdivisions.
portent: Anything that indicates what is to happen. rapacious: Seize by force, avaricious
precarious: Perilous. raucous: Harsh.
preclude: To prevent. reactionary: Pertaining to, of the nature of, causing, or
precocious: Having the mental faculties prematurely favoring reaction.
developed. rebuff: A peremptory or unexpected rejection of
predominate: To be chief in importance, quantity, or advances or approaches.
degree. recalcitrant: Marked by stubborn resistance.
premature: Coming too soon. recant: To withdraw formally one's belief (in
presage: To foretell. something previously believed or
prescience: Knowledge of events before they take place. maintained).
presumption: That which may be logically assumed to be reciprocity: Equal mutual rights and benefits granted
true until disproved. and enjoyed.
preternatural: Extraordinary. recluse: One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
prevalent: Of wide extent or frequent occurrence. recondite: Incomprehensible to one of ordinary
understanding.
prevaricate: To use ambiguous or evasive language for
the purpose of deceiving or diverting recrudescent: Becoming raw or sore again.
attention. recuperate: To recover.
prim: Stiffly proper. redoubtable: Formidable.
pristine: Primitive. redress: To set right, as a wrong by compensation or
probity: Virtue or integrity tested and confirmed. the punishment of the wrong-doer.
proclivity: A natural inclination. refractory: Not amenable to control.
procrastination: Delay. regale: To give unusual pleasure.
prodigal: One wasteful or extravagant, especially in regicide: The killing of a king or sovereign.
the use of money or property. reiterate: To say or do again and again.
prodigious: Immense. relapse: To suffer a return of a disease after partial
profligacy: Shameless viciousness. recovery.
profligate: Recklessly wasteful remonstrate: To present a verbal or written protest to
those who have power to right or prevent a
profuse: Produced or displayed in overabundance.
wrong.
prolix: Verbose.
renovate: To restore after deterioration, as a building.
propinquity: Nearness.
repast: A meal; figuratively, any refreshment.
propitious: Kindly disposed.

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repel: To force or keep back in a manner, solace: Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
physically or mentally. solvent: Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
repine: To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding. somniferous: Tending to produce sleep.
reprobate: One abandoned to depravity and sin. somnolent: Sleepy.
repudiate: To refuse to have anything to do with. sonorous: Resonant.
repulsive: Grossly offensive. sophistry: Reasoning sound in appearance only,
requisite: Necessary. especially when designedly deceptive.
requite: To repay either good or evil to, as to a soporific: Causing sleep; also, something that causes
person. sleep.
rescind: To make void, as an act, by the enacting sordid: Filthy, morally degraded
authority or a superior authority. specious: Plausible.
resilience: The power of springing back to a former spurious: Not genuine.
position squalid: Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken
resonance: Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic appearance.
vibrations. stanch: To stop the flowing of; to check.
respite: Interval of rest. stigma: A mark of infamy or token of disgrace
restive: Resisting control. attaching to a person as the result of evil-
retinue: The group of people who accompany an doing.
important person during travels. stingy: Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
revere: To regard with worshipful veneration. stolid: Expressing no power of feeling or
reverent: Humble. perceiving.
ribald: Indulging in or manifesting coarse submerge: To place or plunge under water.
indecency or obscenity. subterfuge: Evasion.
risible: Capable of exciting laughter. succinct: Concise.
rotund: Round from fullness or plumpness. sumptuous: Rich and costly.
ruffian: A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow. supercilious: Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
ruminate: To chew over again, as food previously superfluous: Being more than is needed.
swallowed and regurgitated. supernumerary: Superfluous.
sagacious: Able to discern and distinguish with wise supersede: To displace.
perception.
supine: Lying on the back.
salacious: Having strong sexual desires.
supplicate: To beg.
salient: Standing out prominently.
suppress: To prevent from being disclosed or
salubrious: Healthful; promoting health. punished.
salutary: Beneficial. surcharge: An additional amount charged.
sanction: To approve authoritatively. surfeit: To feed to fullness or to satiety.
sanguine: Cheerfully confident; optimistic. susceptibility: A specific capability of feeling or emotion.
sardonic: Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic. sybarite: A luxurious person.
satiate: To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of. sycophant: A servile flatterer, especially of those in
satyr: A very lascivious person. authority or influence.
savor: To perceive by taste or smell. synopsis: A syllabus or summary.
scabbard: The sheath of a sword or similar bladed taciturn: Disinclined to conversation.
weapon. taut: Stretched tight.
scintilla: The faintest ray. temerity: Foolhardy disregard of danger;
scribble: Hasty, careless writing. recklessness.
sedulous: Persevering in effort or endeavor. terse: Pithy.
sequence: The order in which a number or persons, timorous: Lacking courage.
things, or events follow one another in torpid: Dull; sluggish; inactive.
space or time.
torrid: Excessively hot.
severance: Separation.
tortuous: Abounding in irregular bends or turns.
shrewd: Characterized by skill at understanding and
tractable: Easily led or controlled.
profiting by circumstances.
transgress: To break a law.
sinecure: Any position having emoluments with few
transient: One who or that which is only of temporary
or no duties.
existence.
sinuous: Curving in and out.
transitory: Existing for a short time only.
skiff: Usually, a small light boat propelled by
travail: Hard or agonizing labor.
oars.
travesty: A grotesque imitation.
sluggard: A person habitually lazy or idle.
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trepidation: Nervous uncertainty of feeling. venial: That may be pardoned or forgiven, a
trite: Made commonplace by frequent repetition. forgivable sin.
truculence: Ferocity. veracious: Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
truculent: Having the character or the spirit of a veracity: Truthfulness.
savage. verbiage: Use of many words without necessity.
turbid: In a state of turmoil; muddled verbose: Wordy.
turgid: Swollen. verdant: Green with vegetation.
turpitude: Depravity. veritable: Real; true; genuine.
tutelage: The act of training or the state of being vestige: A visible trace, mark, or impression, of
under instruction. something absent, lost, or gone.
tyro: One slightly skilled in or acquainted with vicissitude: A change, especially a complete change, of
any trade or profession. condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
ubiquitous: Being present everywhere. vigilance: Alert and intent mental watchfulness in
ulterior: Not so pertinent as something else to the guarding against danger.
matter spoken of. vigilant: Being on the alert to discover and ward off
umbrage: A sense of injury. danger or insure safety.
unctuous: Oily. virago: Loud talkative women, strong statured
undermine: To subvert in an underhand way. women
undulate: To move like a wave or in waves. virtu: Rare, curious, or beautiful quality.
untoward: Causing annoyance or hindrance. visage: The face, countenance, or look of a person.
upbraid: To reproach as deserving blame. vitiate: To contaminate.
vagary: A sudden desire or action vituperate: To overwhelm with wordy abuse.
vainglory: Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vivify: To endue with life.
vanity. vociferous: Making a loud outcry.
valorous: Courageous. volatile: Changeable.
vapid: Having lost sparkling quality and flavor. voluble: Having great fluency in speaking.
variegated: Having marks or patches of different colors; wean: To transfer (the young) from dependence
also, varied. on mother's milk to another form of
vehement: Very eager or urgent. nourishment.
venal: Mercenary, corrupt. whimsical: Capricious.
veneer: Outside show or elegance. winsome: Attractive.
Zeitgeist: The intellectual and moral tendencies that
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