Barron's 1100 GRE - English

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• Frugal thrifty
• Distaff side women the
• One's show hand reveal intentions
• Advent coming important event of
• Adversary enemy foe opponent
• Adverse unfavorable
• Advocate support to
• Bizarre fantastic odd
• Bizarre weird
• Condolence expression sympathy of
• Condone pardon excuse
• Aegis protection sponsorship shield
• Conductive leading helpful
• Confidant(e person secrets you tell
• Afflict trouble greatly to
• Affluent wealthy
• Conflagration great fire
• Face confront come to with
• Congenial agreeable sympathetic
• Alacrity quick willingness
• Conjecture guess
• Allay soothe calm
• Conjugal relating marriage connubial to
• Coerce force to
• Blind alley direction leads a
• Bolt blue great surpise a
• Cat's paw person tool dupe
• Feather one's cap proud a
• Flash pan promising start disappointing
• Fly ointment spoils lessens enjoyment
• Lick promise hasty superficial manner
• Pig poke item purchase disappointment
• Pretty kettle fish mess trouble
• Pretty kettle fish messy situation problem
• Ivory tower touch life out
• Red herring diverts attention main issue
• Scared cow person criticized a
• Square peg round hole man wrong job
• Wet blanket spoils fun a
• White elephant costly useless possession
• Achilles heel weak spot
• Ax grind selfish motive backround
• Apple polishing gain favor gifts flattery
• Broad long makes difference as
• Ball trouble behind the eight
• Bitter pill swallow humiliating defeat
• Blow hot cold swing and
• Blue chip highly valuable asset stock property
• Brass tacks real problem situation
• Break ice make start overcoming initial difficulties
• Bring home bacon earn living succeed
• Burn midnight oil study work late night
• Bury hatchet make peace the
• Hook crook cost at any
• Castles air dream wonderful future
• Celebre famous law case controversy
• Chip block son father off
• Cold feet hesitate fear uncertainty
• Cold shoulder disregard ignore to
• Coup de grace finishing stroke
• Crocodile tears insincere
• Draconian code severe set rules
• One's draw horns check anger restrain oneself
• Dyed-in-the-wool set one's ways in
• Fair-weather friends unreliable fail time distress
• Fat fire mischief is the
• Feeling pain drunk no
• Forty winks short nap a
• Pillar post place to from
• Gild lilly praise extravagantly the
• Grain irritate go against the
• Upper hand gain control have
• Hobson's choice to have no
• Hook line sinker completely and
• Missouri skeptic easily convinced i'm
• Bee line straightest shortest route
• Apple pie order neat good condition
• Seventh heaven highest happiness delight
• Arms morpheus asleep in the
• Doldrums bored depressed state in
• Lap gods one's hands the
• Indian summer warm autumn weather
• Ill wind blows good benefits person's misfortune
• Throw gauntlet challenge to down
• Stiff upper lip courage stand trouble
• Pot boiling interest die keep
• Ropes fully acquainted procedures the
• Left holding bag suffer blame
• Sleeping dogs lie avoid stirring hostilities
• Caesar's wife suspicion like above
• Lily-livered cowardly
• Loaded bear prepared for to
• Lock stock barrel completely and
• Gift horse mouth critical present
• Make bricks straw attempt materials
• Hapless unlucky
• Water quality greatest the of
• Beaten track usual ordinary the
• Pins needles edge jumpy on
• Tenter hooks state anxiety on
• Bandwagon joining majority the on
• Carpet scolded on the being
• Dot time on the exactly
• Qui vive alert the on
• Spur moment thinking impulse the
• Blue moon rare occasion a
• Swallow make summer jump conclusions based incomplete evidence
• One's depth situation dificult handle
• Frying pan fire frfom difficult situation worse
• Limb dangerous exposed position a
• Pass buck evade responsibility the
• Philadelphia lawyer outstanding ability a
• Plea bargain agree plead guilty lesser charge avoid
• Put cart horse reverse proper order things backwards
• Pyrrhic victory costly a too
• Red-letter day happiness time rejoicing
• Save face avoid disgrace to
• Skid row disreputable part town inhabited derelicts people
• Sleep postpone decision giving thought
• Sour grapes disparage to something
• One's steal thunder weaken position stating argument person
• Stiff upper lip courageous face trouble
• Stock trade goods tools requisites
• Straight shoulder direct open from
• Swan song final or last
• Swap horses midstream vote candidate running reelection change
• Bull horns face problem directly
• Wind one's sails remove someone's advantage
• Terra firma solid firm land
• Acid test severe the a
• Die cast unchangeable decision made
• Grapevine secret means spreading information
• Lion's share major portion the
• Sum substance heart substantial part
• Sword damocles imminent danger the
• Word flesh devil temptations man sin
• Writing wall event predicts future
• Thick thin spite sorts difficulties
• Thumbs signal rejection down of
• Large confined jail to be
• Fine fettle spirits feeling be
• Cloud temporary disgrace trouble be
• Indolent lazy
• Beard lion visit oppose person grounds
• Break ice make beginning to
• Bring house great enthusiasm to
• Build sand poor base sufficient preparation
• Burn midnight oil study work late
• Carry day win approval majority
• Cool one's heels waiting to
• One's heart good make feel happy
• Draw one's horns cautious to
• Eat humble pie admit error apologize
• Feather one's nest grow rich taking advantage circumstances
• Feather one's nest enrich oneself opportunity
• Flog dead horse continue make issue
• One's high horse act ordinary person
• One's back angry to get
• Sack discharged fired to get
• Wrong side bed bad mood
• Smoke practical result to go
• One's fingertips ready knowledge have
• Hit nail head state guess correctly
• Lay one's cards table talk frankly
• Leave stone unturned make effort one's
• Lionize person make big fuss
• Live fool's paradise happy real basis
• Maintain status quo things to
• Make ends meet manage income
• Make bad bargain change poor situation
• Pay piper bear consequences the
• Play possum fool make asleep dead
• Pour oil troubled waters make peace calm
• Pull one's weight fair share work
• Pull stakes quit place to
• Raise cain make fuss trouble
• Rub person wrong irritate annoy
• Rule roost charge master to
• Sow wild oats lead carefree life
• Spill beans give secret to
• Split hairs make fine distinctions
• Strike iron hot action moment
• Leaf someone's book imitate follow
• Storm make fast impression to
• Peg conceit braggart take a
• French leave permission to take
• One's wing responsible to take
• Tales school reveal harmful secrets
• Throw cold water discourage plan idea
• Throw book give maximum punishment
• Tighten one's belt set bad times poverty
• Tilt windmills fight imaginary enemies
• Toe mark obey stick rule policy
• Twist one's finger tto control completely
• Upset apple cart overturn disturb plan intention
• Whitewash cancel defects give falsely virtuous appearance
• Tongue cheek insincerely in
• Tounge one's cheek sincere in
• Turn tables situation one's advantage
• One's strings bow means achieving aim
• Wire time under the just
• Wash dirty linen public openly discuss private affairs
• One's wear heart sleeve make feelings evident
• Windfall unexpected financial gain
• Wink pretend to at not
• Rhyme reason making sense without
• Woolgathering absentmindedness daydreaming or
• Worth one's weight gold extremely valuable
• Abhor utterly hate to
• Abjure abstain renounce from
• Abortive fruitless failing
• Abound existing great number in
• Abrogate repeal law by
• Abstemious moderate eating drinking in
• Absurd ridiculous
• Access admittance
• Accommodate make fit adjust to
• Accomplice associate crime an in
• Acknowledge admit
• Acme zenith pinnacle peak
• Acost greet to first
• Acrimonious caustic bitter
• Acute severe keen sharp
• Adamant inflexible unyieding
• Adherent supporter backer
• Admonish scold warn to
• Adroit clever
• Alleged supposed reported
• Alleviate lighten make easier
• Allude suggest hint
• Aloof reserved distant apart
• Altruistic unselfish
• Ambiguous undefined vague specific not
• Ameliorate relieve improve
• Amicable friendly
• Amnesty general pardon a
• Amorous full love of
• Analogous comparable similar
• Anathema curse a
• Annals historical records
• Anomaly abnormality irregularity
• Anthropologist person studies mankind's customs
• Antipathy unadorned simple hard
• Antiquated out-of-date obsolete
• Antithesis exact opposite
• Apathy unconcern lack interest of
• Appalled shocked dismayed
• Appellation a name
• Arbiter judge
• Arbitrary based whim on
• Archaic date out of
• Ardent eager passionate
• Array system arrangement
• Artiface strategy trickery
• Artifact hand-made object a
• Artless naive innocent
• Ascend rise to
• Ascertain find discover out about
• Ascetic practices self-denial one who
• Asinine stupid silly
• Asperity bitterness temper of
• Aspirant candidate job for better
• Aspire strive to for
• Asset something of value
• Assiduous busy attentive
• Astute keen shrews
• Atrophy waste away
• Attenuated decreased weakened thinned
• Attest confirm accurate vouch as
• Atypical nonconforming
• Au courant up-to-date
• Audacity daring boldness
• Augment increase enlarge
• Austere hate distaste dislike
• Automation machine behaves person that
• Avarice passion riches greed for
• Aversion opposition strong dislike
• Avid enthusiastic
• Awesome inspiring terror weird
• Badger continually nag to
• Bagatelle trifle a
• Balk refuse move to
• Banal meaningless overuse trivial from
• Barometer instrument measuring change for
• Bedlam uproar confusion
• Begrudge resentful reluctant to be
• Belated delayed late
• Belittle speak unimportant of as
• Belligerent seeking war hostile
• Benevolent charitable kindly
• Bereft deprived of
• Besiege surround to
• Besmirch stain soil dim reputation
• Bias prejudice
• Bigot tolerant ideas one who
• Bigot prejudiced person
• Blase indifferent responsive excitement not
• Blatant disagreeably loud
• Bliss pleasure happiness
• Blunt plain spoken
• Bogus fake counterfeit
• Bona fide genuine
• Brash insolent
• Brigand bandit robber
• Bristle one's hair stand to
• Buff n fan follower enthusiast
• Bulwark protection
• Burgeoned grew flourished
• Cache secret hiding place
• Cacophony harsh sound discord dissonance
• Cajole coax wheedle
• Callous unfeeling
• Callous unfeeling hardened
• Callow inexperienced youthful
• Calumny slander false accusation
• Canard made-up sensational story a
• Candid open honest frank
• Candor honesty frankness
• Insincere meaningless talk cant or
• Capitulate make terms surrender
• Capricious fanciful whimsical
• Carnage slaughter
• Castigate punish chastise
• Catastrophic disastrous
• Caustic stinging
• Celerity rapidity speed
• Cessation pause a
• Chagrin disappointment
• Charisma quality leadership inspiring enthusiasm
• Charlatan fraud pretender
• Chicanery underhandedness trickery
• Chimerical imaginary fantastic
• Clandestine hidden secret
• Cliche commonplace phrase a
• Clique small exclusive group people
• Cogent forceful convincing persuasive
• Cognizant aware
• Comely handsome beautiful
• Commodious spacious large
• Compassion kindness sympathetic feeling
• Compatible well-matched harmonious
• Compensatory serving pay back to
• Complacent self-satisfied
• Complicity partnership wrongdoing in
• Component element part
• Comprehensive thorough
• Compund add to too
• Concoct devise
• Concomitant attending accompanying
• Concur agree
• Condescend lower oneself stoop
• Connoisseur expert
• Connubial related marriage to
• Consternation dread dismay
• Constrict bind limit squeeze
• Construe interpret to
• Consummate perfect complete
• Contemptuous looking down on someone
• Contort twist violently
• Controversial debatable
• Cope match to be a
• Copious plentiful abundant ample
• Corpulent excessively fat fleshy obese
• Corroborate confirm
• Coterie small exclusive group
• Countenance approve tolerate
• Coup revolution overthrow
• Covert secret
• Covet envy wish want
• Crave desire to
• Criterion test model standard
• Cryptic puzzling
• Culminate reach highest point the
• Culpable deserving blame
• Culprit commits crime one who
• Cumbersome burdensome unwieldy
• Cumulative accumulated
• Cupidity greed
• Curry seek favor flattery to
• Cursory hasty not thorough
• Curtail cut short
• Cynic skeptic pessimist
• Dearth lack scarcity
• Debacle collapse ruin
• Debilitate weaken
• Debris ruins fragments
• Decade ten years
• Decadence decay
• Decapitate behead
• Declaim speak loudly
• Decorum correct behavior politeness
• Decrepit worn broken out down
• Deem judge believe to
• Defamatory damaging character false reports
• Degrade lower make contemptible
• Deleterious harmful bad
• Delineation description words sketch in
• Delude fool to
• Deluge flood
• Delve research dig to do
• Demeanor bearing conduct
• Demur object to
• Denote show mean indicate
• Depict portray picture describe clearly
• Deplorable sad pitiable
• Deploy spread battle formation out
• Deprecate express disapproval
• Deride make fun to of
• Derived received source descended from
• Derogatory expressing low opinion a
• Desist cease
• Destitution extreme poverty
• Desultory disconnected random
• Deter discourage hinder
• Detriment hurt damage injury
• Devout sincere religious
• Dexterity physical mental skill or
• Diatribe bitter criticism
• Dilettante knowledge great interest one
• Diminutive small tiny
• Discern recognize
• Disciple follower
• Discreet prudent careful cautious
• Disdain scorn
• Disgruntled displeased unhappy
• Disheveled disorderly clothing hair or
• Dismantle disassemble take apart
• Disparage discredit to
• Disparate different
• Dispersed broken scattered spread up
• Disseminate scatter spread
• Dissent protest differ disagree
• Distraught harassed
• Diversity change variety
• Divulge reveal disclose
• Docile easy manage to
• Doddering trembling shaking age with
• Doleful sad
• Domicile home
• Dormant asleep resting
• Dregs worthless part most
• Drudgery dull difficult work
• Dubious uncertain
• Dulcet sweet melodious ear or
• Dupe easily fooled person an
• Duplicity double-dealing
• Duress force coercion
• Edifice building
• Efficacy power produce effect to
• Effigy likeness a
• Effrontery boldness
• Egotist conceited vain person a
• Egregious outstanding undesirable quality for
• Elapse passs to by
• Elicit extract
• Elucidate make clear to
• Elusive hard grasp to
• Emaciated wasted away
• Embellish adorn
• Eminent outstanding reputation of
• Emissary agent an
• Emit give to off
• Emulate strive equal rival to
• Encomium high praise
• Encumbrance load handicap burden
• Engrossed absorbed
• Enhance make greater to
• Enigma riddle puzzle a
• Ennui boredom
• Entourage followers
• Entreaty plea appeal
• Enunciate utter proclaim to
• Epithet descriptive name
• Epitome person thing represents or
• Equanimity composure eveness mind of
• Equanimity self-control
• Eradicate wipe out
• Erudite scholarly very
• Eruption bursting out
• Escalation intensification
• Eschew keep away from
• Ethics moral philosophy
• Euphemisim direct saying something in
• Evaluate find review the value
• Evanescent momentary passing fleeting
• Eventuate result finally to
• Evince show plainly exhibit
• Exacerbate irritate to
• Excoriate criticize severely
• Excruciating agonizing
• Exhort urge strongly advise
• Exonerate free guilt to from
• Expatriate exile an
• Expedient fit adviseable
• Expedite carry promptly out
• Exploit utilize profit by
• Expunge erase
• Expurgate remove objectionable parts passages
• Extant existing still
• Extinct longer existing no
• Extol praise highly
• Extortion money threats getting by
• Extraneous belonging foreign not
• Extrinsic coming foreign from outside
• Exult rejoice greatly
• Exultation triumphant joy
• Fabricate lie to
• Fabricate make lie to up
• Facade superficial appearance front
• Facet side view person situation
• Facetious humorous comical witty
• Facile easily accomplished attained or
• Factitious artificial sham
• Fallacious misleading false
• Falter hesitate waver stumble
• Fastidious choosy particular
• Fatal disastrous deadly
• Fatuous inane foolish silly
• Feasible uncertain
• Feint pretense sham
• Felicitous happy
• Felon criminal
• Ferment agitation turmoil uproar
• Fervid enthusiastic passionate intense
• Fetish magical object a
• Fetter v hamper chain to
• Fiasco complete failure
• Fiat official order decree an
• Flabbergasted astounded
• Flagrant notorious
• Flamboyant colorful
• Flay scold harshly strip skin
• Fledgling newly developed little known
• Flout show contempt to
• Fluctuate alternate shift
• Pass foist genuine slyly as
• Foment stir instigate up
• Forthwith immediately
• Fortuitous accidental
• Fracas brawl noisy fight
• Fractious quarrelsome
• Frail weak delicate
• Fraught filled
• Fray conflict fight a
• Frenetic frenzied frantic
• Frenzy frantic outburst
• Fretful worrisome
• Fruitless useless
• Frustrate foil
• Fulsome excessive
• Furtive sly
• Futility uselessness
• Galvanize arouse excite activity or
• Gamut range
• Garbled confused mixed up
• Garrulous wordy talkative
• Gaudy showy flashy
• Gaunt haggard thin
• Genocide planned destruction entire people
• Genre form style painting literature
• Germane close relationship in to
• Gesticulate lively gestures to use
• Gist main point essence
• Glean collect gather
• Glib smooth speech of
• Gratuity tip
• Gregarious enjoying company the of
• Grimace facial expression disgust of
• Grotesque fantastic strange bizarre
• Guise mien appearance manner
• Gullible easily fooled
• Gusto zest enjoyment enthusiasm
• Habitat natural environment
• Halcyon calm peaceful
• Harass torment to
• Harbinger forerunner
• Haven place safety of
• Havoc ruin
• Heinous hatefully evil
• Heresy lack faith dissent unbelief
• Heterogeneous dissimilar
• Hirsute hairy
• Histrionics display emotions of
• Hoard accumulate save store up
• Hoax trick a
• Homogenous uniform same
• Hostile angry antagonistic
• Humility modesty meekness humbleness
• Hyperbole exaggerated figure speech of
• Iconoclast attacker beliefs image-breaker of
• Idyllic peaceful simple
• Ignominious disgraceful humiliating
• Ilk kind sort
• Imbibe drink
• Imminent happen about to
• Impeccable faultless
• Impede hinder interfere block
• Imperative necessary
• Imperceptible extremely slight gradual or
• Imperturbable serene steady calm
• Impetuous impulsive
• Impious irreverent lacking respect
• Implacable relentless unappeasable
• Implore beg assistance for
• Importune urgently ask
• Impresario organizer
• Impromptu offhand spur moment of
• Imprudent unwise
• Impunity exemption
• Inadvertent due oversight negligent to
• Inane silly
• Inanimate life without
• Incapacitated disabled
• Inchoate early stage in an
• Incipient jsut starting
• Incisive keen acute
• Inclement stormy harsh
• Incoherent disjointed
• Incompatibility lack harmony of
• Incongruous inconsistent elements having
• Incontrovertible undeniable
• Incredulous skeptical
• Incumbent morally required
• Indict accuse
• Indifference lack concern of
• Indigenous native
• Indigent poverty-stricken
• Indiscriminate carelessly chosen
• Indoctrinate teach principles to certain
• Inebriated intoxicated drunk
• Ineffectual effective not
• Inert powerless move to
• Inevitable unavoidable certain sure
• Inexorable moved persuasion inflexible cannot
• Infallible exempt error from right
• Infamous evil
• Infraction violation
• Ingratiate charm win confidence
• Inherent inborn natural
• Inhibition restraint
• Iniquity wickedness injustice
• Initiate set start going
• Innate natural inborn
• Innocuous mild innocent harmless
• Inordinate excessive
• Insatiable satisfied cannot be
• Insidious treacherous sly seductive
• Integral essential
• Interject interrupt
• Interloper unauthorized person an
• Interminable unending
• Internecine mutually destructive involving conflict group
• Interrogate question
• Intimidate make afraid to
• Intrepid courageous
• Intrinsic inborn natural essential
• Intrinsic inherent within itself
• Introspective one's feelings looking into
• Inundate flood swamp to
• Invalidate deprive legal force cancel
• Invective insulting abusive speech
• Inveigh attack verbally
• Inveterate firmly established habitual
• Inviolable completely protected
• Irascible irritable
• Irate angry
• Irrational absurd unreasonable
• Irrelevant related subject not to
• Place itinerant going from to
• Jaunty sprightly
• Jeopardize endanger
• Jettison throw overboard discard
• Jocose merry humorous
• Jostle push elbow to
• Jubilant high spirits joyful in
• Jurisdiction range authority of
• Side juxtapose place to by
• Labyrinth winding passages
• Laceration rough cut
• Lackluster lacking brightness
• Laconic concise pithy
• Lampoon ridicule
• Landmark adj historic
• Largess liberality gift gratuity
• Lassitude fatigue weariness
• Lassitude weakness weariness
• Latent lying hidden
• Laudable commendable
• Lax careless
• Legerdemain deceptive adroitness sleight hand
• Legion large number
• Lethal deadly
• Lethargic lazy indifferent
• Levity humor lightness disposition of
• Libel degradation writing publishing by
• Liquidation destruction disposal of
• Lithe graceful
• Livid pale
• Loath unwilling
• Loathe despise
• Longevity long duration life of
• Lucrative profitable
• Lugubrious sad very
• Lurid sensational
• Lush luxurious
• Machiavellian principled governed opportunity not
• Magnanimous noble generous
• Maim cripple disable
• Maladjusted disturbed
• Malady disease
• Malevolant ill-disposed ill-intentioned
• Malign slander abuse
• Malignant progressively worse becoming
• Malleable capable formed shaped of
• Malnutrition inadequate diet
• Mammoth huge
• Mandate authoritative command
• Manifest obvious evident
• Manifold many
• Martinet strict disciplinarian
• Masticate chew to
• Mastiff large dog
• Materialism concern possessions with
• Matron mature woman a
• Maudlin sentimental
• Megalomania abnormal desire power for
• Mendacious false lying
• Menial degrading humble
• Mentor tutor counselor coach
• Mercenary greedy motivated desire gain
• Metamorphosis change
• Meticulous careful
• Mien bearing appearance
• Milieu setting environment
• Modify change to
• Mollify appease pacify
• Monolithic massive structure having a
• Moribund point death dying at
• Mortality death
• Mortify humiliate embarrass
• Motivate provoke stimulate inspire
• Mundane earthly
• Munificent generous
• Murky dark obscure
• Myriad countless number
• Nadir lowest point
• Naive unsophisticated unworldly
• Nascent beginning develop exist to
• Nebulous vague clear not
• Nefarious villianous
• Negligible inconsiderable trifling
• Nepotism favoritism relatives towards
• Nettle irritate
• Neurotic nervous disorder having a
• Neutralize counteract
• Nirvana heavenly place
• Noisome unwholesome foul
• Nomadic wandering
• Nominal slight in name only
• Nondescript difficult describe undistinguished to
• Nonentity importance one of no
• Nostalgia yearning past for the
• Nuance shade difference of
• Nullify cancel abolish
• Nurture nourish
• Nutritive nourishing properties having
• Obese fat very
• Obliterate wipe erase out
• Obloquy dishonor disgrace shame
• Obscure unclear unknown lowly
• Obsequious seeking favor
• Obsess preoccupy
• Obsolescence process wearing of out
• Obviate do away with
• Occult supernatural mysterious secret
• Octogenarian person eighty of
• Ominous menacing
• Omnipotent unlimited power authority almighty
• Omnivorous eatting kind food any
• Opprobrium insult scorn
• Opulence wealth
• Originate begin arise
• Ostensible pretend outward seeming
• Ostentatious showy
• Oust eject
• Overt evident open
• Pall dull cease become to
• Palliate relieve curing without
• Paltry importance of little
• Panacea cure-all
• Pandemonium uproar disorder
• Parable moralistic story a
• Paradox seemingly self-contradictory situation
• Paragon model excellence of
• Paramount foremost supreme
• Pariah social outcast
• Paroxysm violent outburst
• Parsimonious miserly
• Passe old-fashioned outmoded
• Pathetic pitiful sad distressing
• Paucity shortage
• Pecuniary financial
• Pedagogue teacher
• Penance atonement sin for
• Penchant strong leaning favor a
• Penitent regretful confessing guilt
• Pensive reflective thoughtful
• Penury poverty
• Percieve understanding to come have
• Peregrination travel n
• Peremptory binding compulsory absolute
• Perfidious false treacherous
• Perfunctory careless
• Permeate spread to through
• Pernicious damaging harmful
• Perpetrate commit
• Perpetuate continue to cause
• Persevere persist
• Perspicacious shrewd
• Pertinent appropriate
• Peruse read carefully
• Perverse contrary
• Pesky annoying
• Phenomenon unusual occurrence
• Phlegmatic calm sluggish
• Phobia strong dislike persistent fear
• Pinnacle peak crown summit
• Pique fit resentment of
• Pittance small amount
• Placard poster
• Plaintiff complaining party law the
• Platitude trite saying
• Plethora overabundance
• Plight predicament
• Poignant painful feelings moving to
• Ponder carefully consider
• Potent intense strong powerful
• Potentate ruler
• Potential possible
• Potpourri mixture melody
• Pragmatic based experience practical on
• Precedent custom model
• Precipitate hasten
• Preclude prevent
• Precocious reaching maturity early
• Prelude introduction
• Premise proposition argument a for
• Premonition forewarning
• Prerogative exclusive power an or
• Prestigious well-known
• Pretext excuse an
• Prevalent general common prevailing
• Prevarication lying deviation truth from
• Privation lack necessities of
• Procrastinate put delay off
• Prodigious enormous extraordinary
• Prodigy phenomenon marvel
• Proffer offer acceptance for
• Profligate wasteful
• Profound intense deep
• Profuse abundant overflowing
• Progeny descendants
• Prognosticate happen future to be
• Prohibition forbidding actions of certain
• Prolific fertile
• Promulgate make public proclaim
• Propagate multiply spread produce
• Propensity bent inclination disposition
• Propinquity nearness time place in
• Propitious favorable
• Propriety correctness suitability
• Proximity nearness
• Prudent cautious wise
• Pugnacious combative
• Puissant powerful
• Pungent sharply stimulating
• Puny weak unimportant
• Qualm twinge conscience of
• Quandary dilemma doubt
• Quarry hunted pursued something or
• Quell crush stop
• Quip joke to
• Rabid furious mad fanatical
• Raconteur skilled storyteller a
• Rail abusive language scold use
• Raiment clothing dress
• Rampant flourishing
• Rash reckless
• Rationalize give reason real use
• Raucous shrill harsh
• Raze destroy
• Realm someone's special field
• Rebuke reprimand reproach criticize
• Recant renounce previous statements
• Recoil draw back
• Recondite obscure hidden
• Redolent fragrant
• Redress wrong to right a
• Refute prove wrong disprove
• Relegate banish assign inferior position
• Remiss negligent careless
• Remote distant
• Renumeration reward
• Repent desire make ammends regret
• Repertoire works artist ready perform
• Replenish restock fill to again
• Replete completely filled with
• Repose state rest of
• Reprehensible blameworthy
• Repress put to down
• Reprimand scold severely to
• Reproach rebuke reprimand
• Repudiate disown refuse accept to
• Repugnant repulsive distasteful
• Repulse drive back
• Reputed believed thought supposed
• Requisite requirement
• Resourceful meet situation able to
• Respite postponement
• Restrictive harsh confining
• Reticent reserved silent
• Reticent uncommunicative
• Retort reply answer
• Retrospect backward looking
• Reverberating reechoing
• Revere admire respect honor
• Revert back go
• Reviled scolded
• Rhetoric exaggerated language use sometimes
• Rife widespread
• Rift opening split an a
• Romp move lively manner in
• Roster list names a of
• Rudimentary basic elementary
• Rue regret
• Ruminate reflect ponder upon
• Rustic unpolished countrified
• Saga heroic story
• Sage wise man philosopher
• Salient outstanding
• Sally sudden rushing forth
• Salubrious wholesome healthful
• Salvation deliverance ruin from
• Sanctimonious hypocritically religious
• Sanction certify endorse
• Sanctuary place protection of
• Sanguine hopeful
• Satiety surfeit excess fullness
• Saturate fill completely up
• Schism split
• Scion descendant
• Scoff mock to
• Scrutinize examine closely
• Scurrilous vulgar indecent language using
• Scurry run quickly
• Sedate sober quiet undisturbed still
• Sedentary largely inactive
• Senile infirm weak result age
• Serenity peaceful repose
• Servile submissive slavish
• Shibboleth slogan pet phrase
• Sinecure soft job
• Singular remarkable uncommon
• Sinister evil
• Site location
• Skirmish small battle
• Slovenly disorderly carelessly
• Sojourn temporary stay
• Solace comfort
• Solicit seek earnestly
• Somber sad gloomy
• Sophistry false reasoning argument or
• Sordid filthy ignoble
• Spate rush flood
• Spew vomit
• Spontaneous spur moment the on
• Sporadic occasional
• Spurious counterfeit false specious
• Squeamish easily shocked
• Stagnant inactive dull motionless
• Staunch firm trusty strong
• Steeped completely soaked to be
• Stentorian loud
• Stereotype conventional custom
• Stigmatize mark disgrace to with
• Stipulate make specific demand a
• Strident rough harsh shrill
• Strife unrest discord
• Stunted held back checked natural growth
• Stupor insensible condition daze
• Stymie hinder to
• Subjugate conquer
• Subservient obsequious servile
• Substantiate ratify confirm
• Subterfuge trick deception a
• Subterranean underground
• Succinct concise brief
• Succulent juicy
• Succumb yield
• Sullen grim ill-humored

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