English Advanced Vocabulary

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• Factotum noun hired variety jobs jack-of-all-trades tessa office
• Travelers he’d procrustean adjective tending produce conformity arbitrary
• Mountebank noun flamboyant swindler flimflammer claims expert italian phrase
• Factitious made message adj manufactured natural sense contrived
• Ersatz adj describes inferior substitute world war ii
• Skulduggery n devous deceitful behavior underhanded dealings
• Hornswoggle v swindle cheat dupe fun synonyms bamboozle
• Gadfly persistently annoying person questions critiques pesters insect
• Querulous complaining adj full complaints annoyed describe person
• Maudlin mary adj foolishly tearfully weakly sentimental overly
• Mawkish adj excessively objectionably sentimental synonym maudlin important distinction
• Treacle sweet syrup n cloying sickly-sweet speech sentiment
• Scabrous related indecent latin adj scabby blotchy scaly
• Fulsome adj excessively insincerely lavish abundant
• Donnybrook fair synonyms free-for-all brawl scene disorder uproar
• Contumacious adj stubbornly disobedient rebellious authority willfully obstinate
• Rapacious greedy adj aggressively excessively grasping predatory doesn’t
• Treat mollycoddle v overindulge excessive attention point spoiling
• Toothsome (adjective delicious sexually attactive
• Malefactor n criminal person violates law
• Public malfeasance n illegal harmful act committed official
• Circumspect adjective)  cautious prudent.  combination circum spect remember
• Specious meaning argument surface latin adjective)  ring truth
• Spurious argument false.  specious adjective)  genuine authentic true
• Apocryphal adjective doubtful dubious authenticity false.  word emphasize
• Word political machinations noun intrigues plots crafty schemes
• Noisome disgusting adjective offensive point arousing disgust foul
• Imbroglio state word means related noun great confusion
• Bunk noun foolish untrue talk nonsense
• Root bellicose aggressively shares bell adjective warlike pugnacious
• Truculent adjective cruel savage brutal fierce disposed fighting
• Halcyon times adjective tranquil calm peaceful refer happy
• Quiescent adjective tranquilly rest inactive quiet motionless. 
• Propitiate verb appease make favorably inclined regain favor
• Castigate verb punish rebuke criticize severely.  castigate someone casting
• Captious adjective fault finding hypercritical difficult
• Circumlocution noun evasive long-winded rambling indirect speech. 
• Malediction noun curse evil talk slander
• Malcontent noun person chronically dissatisfied.  great synonym complainer
• Malaise noun vague indefinite feeling unease discomfort.  economic
• Maladroit adjective awkward clumsy tactless bungling
• Malinger verb fake exaggerate illness avoid work
• Venal adjective open corruption capable bought bribery derived
• Insidious adjective intended entrap ensnare beguile stealthily treacherous
• Invidious adjective creating ill envy causing resentment unfairly
• Turpitude noun baseness depravity debauchery acts of  moral
• Nascent latin root birth include adjective emerging developing
• Inchoate beginning nascent idea software application wasn’t completely thought
• Callow don’t adjective immature inexperienced lacking adult sophistication
• Dilettante noun dabbler arts field knowledge pejorative sense
• Tyro beginner noun novice legendary fly-fishing guide's expert
• Ingénue noun innocent naïve girl young woman stock
• Puerile adjective juvenile childishly silly foolish sitting a whoopee
• Moribund latin adjective approaching death coming end longer
• Fear xenophobia noun unreasonable hatred foreigners strangers that which
• Open agoraphobia noun abnormal fear public spaces ancient
• Glossophobia noun unreasonable fear speaking public gloss glot
• Acrophobia noun abnormal fear heights greek akros meaning
• Oenophile noun connoisseur lover wine
• Philatelist noun person studies collects stamps
• Canoodle verb kiss cuddle pet caress fondle coax
• Misanthrope noun hates distrusts people
• Unctuous smarmy adjective characterized affected exaggerated insincere earnestness
• Déshabille noun state dressed casual careless disheveled and disorderly
• Prescient adjective perceiving significance events happen warning historians
• Manumit latin verb release slavery servitude roots man
• Execrate denunciation damn curse anathematize latin meaning verb
• Insipid lacking adjective bland flavor interesting exciting stimulating
• Vapid dullness zest spirit emphasize due lack insipid
• Prosaic adjective dull lacking imagination matter-of-fact commonplace everyday
• Quotidian adjective daily customary ordinary usual describes mundane
• Hoi polloi noun ordinary masses common people transliteration
• Banal adjective lacking freshness originality trite commonplace ordinary
• Bromide trite noun platitude originally referred sedative specifically
• Class patrician plebeian noun/adjective noun refined upbringing manners
• Nonpareil equal adjective peer 15th-century french words meaning “not
• Sisyphean adjective endlessly laborious futile word greek myth
• Sword damocles imminent noun phrase constant peril impending
• Gordian knot noun phrase exceedingly complicated intricate problem
• Mercurial adjective liable sudden unpredictable change volatile erratic
• Saturnalia noun celebration marked unrestrained revelry promiscuity and excessive
• Saturnine gloomy adjective melancholy sluggish person manner temperament
• Promethean adjective daringly original creative boldly inventive scientist
• Supercilious haughty arrogant adjective feeling showing disdain displaying
• Bumptious adjective pushy offensively loudly self-assertive cocky describes
• Hubris noun excessive pride self-confidence arrogance
• Speech bombastic language writing prose latin inflated orotund
• Bloviate talk verb pompously great length pompous boastful
• Sycophant noun servile self-seeking flatterer english includes wonderfully
• Obsequious root adjective servile fawning overly deferential latin
• Wheedle verb attempt persuade beguiling flattery smooth talking
• Blandishment noun flattery designed persuade listener
• Palaver noun profuse idle chit-chat chatter empty talk
• Adumbrate outline verb give sketchy suggest disclose partially
• Dogmatic adjective characterized authoritative arrogant assertion unproven ideas
• Pontificate verb speak express opinions pompous dogmatic
• Greek meaning apostate word verb noun abandons religion
• Agitprop political propaganda audience noun delivered art music
• Perfidious limits adjective treacherous disloyal deceitful soldier switched
• Equivocal adjective open interpretations intent mislead to be purposely
• Dissemble verb disguise conceal false appearance related english
• Laconic adjective words terse succinct taciturn concise
• Pithy language arguments adjective short terse meaningful laconic
• Obloquy abuse noun harshly critical speech verbal disgrace
• Foment verb stir incite rouse provoke inflame encourage
• Fulminate verb issue thunderous verbal attack vehemently denounce
• Bitter verbal invective noun refers vehement led harangue
• Vilify verb attack someone’s reputation strong abusive criticism
• Calumny noun false accusation maliciously intended destroy someone’s
• Bowdlerize verb change text removing modifying parts offend
• Maunder verb talk aimlessly incoherently synonyms include babble
• Pillory noun expose public ridicule abuse scorn criticize
• Jeremiad bitter noun long lamentation complaint lament scolding
• Badinage word refers riposte noun light playful banter
• Panegyric formal speech noun elaborate praise specifically writing
• Paean hymn writing expresses praise noun joyous song
• Claptrap noun pretentious nonsense insincere speech english synonyms
• Pablum intellectual pap noun trite insipid simplistic writing
• Draconian adjective exceedingly harsh severe cruel
• Quixotic adjective romantically impractical impulsive
• Election districts gerrymander noun/verb noun act dividing give
• Quisling noun traitor aids invading and/or occupying enemy
• Bedlam noun place situation noisy uproar confusion
• Luddite noun opposes introduction technological change
• Billingsgate noun foul coarse abusive language
• Malapropism noun ridiculous humorous misuse words that sound similar
• Induction noun process inferring general principles individual facts
• Deduction noun process reasoning conclusion necessarily from the stated
• Exegesis noun explanation critical interpretation bible another religious text
• Perspicacious adjective showing keen mental perception synonyms related
• Didactic pedantic adjective inclined teach moralize excessively carries
• Philistine noun person uninterested intellectual pursuits indifferent or hostile
• Erudite rough adjective learned scholarly characterized deep extensive
• Recondite adjective difficult understand erudite scholarly may be
• Esoteric adjective understood select group
• Sedulous adjective diligent application pursuit persevering; constant effort synonyms
• Facile adjective achieved effort difficulty easy performed effortless
• Alacrity noun quick cheerful readiness eagerness synonyms include
• Indolent adjective habitually lazy slow tending avoid exertion
• Torpor noun sluggishness state mental physical inactivity lethargy
• Torpid adjective slow sluggish lethargic dull benumbed torpor
• Turbid root thick adjective muddy opaque sediment obscured
• Turgid adjective swollen distended puffy refer physical swollenness
• Schism noun division members group opposing factions because of
• Diaspora noun movement migration scattering people an established ancestral
• Lacuna refer ancient text noun gap hole missing
• Mouth maw noun throat gullet animal carnivorous english
• Cleave verb split divide cutting stick closely cling
• Concatenation noun series things linked
• Cabal secret noun small group people secretly working
• Coterie exclusive noun small select group people associate
• Denude verb lay bare strip make nude constant
• Abdicate verb renounce relinquish throne power responsibility to speak
• Abnegate verb deny renounce relinquish power you’re hear
• Ablution part noun washing one’s body religious ritual
• Antediluvian adjective relating period biblical flood old-fashioned date
• Absquatulate verb flee abscond returned campsite realized that the
• Nihilism noun belief a in
• Solipsism noun philosophy valid reason believing that anything exists
• Protean adjective forms things versatile
• Splenetic adjective bad-tempered irritable spiteful word related spleen
• Fractious meaning adjective unruly hard manage rebellious close
• Asperity noun roughness harshness surface sound climate condition
• Importune verb harass repeated requests demand insistently
• Phlegmatic adjective showing emotion easily excited action means
• Phlegmatic stoic adjective seemingly indifferent unaffected joy grief
• Stolid adjective expressing sensibility unemotional implies heavy dull
• Inure verb accustomed undesirable hardship difficulty pain toughen
• Intrepid meaning adjective resolutely fearless dauntless latin trepidus
• Fortitude noun mental emotional strength facing difficulty adversity
• Moxie noun ability face difficulty spirit courage aggressive
• Temerity noun reckless boldness rashness foolhardy disregard danger
• Chutzpah include noun personal confidence courage shameless audacity
• Bravado display noun pretentious swaggering courage intended impress
• Braggadocio noun braggart empty arrogant boasting knight boastfull
• Timorous adjective fearful timid latin verb timeo meaning
• Craven adjective cowardly abjectly afraid spineless chickenhearted. craven politicians
• Pusillanimous adjective cowardly lacking courage resolution fainthearted
• Parricide noun murder parent close relative english words
• Caesura noun break pause prosody—the study poetic meter—and
• Vivisection noun cutting operation living animal scientific research
• Desuetude state latin meaning noun disuse inactivity you’ll
• Perdition noun loss soul eternal damnation hell utter
• Extirpate verb pull roots destroy completely wipe meaning “out,” 
• Abrogate abrogating verb abolish formal authoritative action annul
• De end fin siècle noun phrase century siècle can
• Choice hobson’s noun phrase absence real alternative
• Stultify verb lose interest feel dull alert render
• Frisson noun pleasurable sensation fright english 1700s french
• Detritus health noun disintegrated eroded matter debris battle
• Shibboleth noun test word phrase custom distinguish group
• Argot noun specialized language characteristic group people
• Dialect noun variety language region social class
• Vernacular noun form language spoken common people opposed
• Jargon noun unintelligible meaningless speech
• Lingua franca noun common language speakers communicate
• Discursive adjective rambling topic aimless digressive word latin
• Sobriquet noun nickname humorous affectionate
• Sesquipedalian long adjective overuse words ponderous polysyllabic latin
• Somniloquy noun sleep talking
• Homophone noun words sound spelled differently and meanings
• Homograph noun words spelled different pronunciations meanings
• Homonym noun words spelled pronounced but carry meanings
• Eponym noun word derived person’s
• Toponym noun place-name word named place
• Acronym noun word abbreviation formed initial letters the successive
• Word portmanteau noun blended parts existing
• Word clipped noun shortened change meaning
• Virulent adjective extremely infectious malignant poisonous deadly bitterly
• Pernicious adjective exceedingly harmful destructive deadly
• Mordant caustic intent bite adjective bitingly sarcastic someone who
• Piquant agreeably word adjective pungent sharp taste flavor
• Officious adjective marked excessive aggressive eagerness offering unwanted advice
• Salubrious adjective conducive favorable health well-being wholesome
• Salutary adjective producing beneficial effect remedial
• Avuncular adjective uncle resembling friendly helpful kind patient
• Exiguous inadequate adjective excessively scanty meager synonyms include
• Diminuendo noun decrease loudness intensity
• Lilliputian adjective small diminutive trivial petty
• Brobdingnagian adjective immense enormous
• Magnum opus noun artist’s greatest work
• Commodious adjective comfortably conveniently spacious roomy
• Capacious adjective capable great deal spacious roomy
• Juggernaut noun overwhelming unstoppable force smashes path
• Truckle verb submit servile submissive fawn curry favor
• Tendentious adjective marked favoring point view showing definite
• Tintinnabulation noun ringing tinkling jingling sound bells tiny
• Susurration noun indistinct whispering rustling sound murmur
• Harrumph verb make pretentious show clearing one’s throat
• Trenchant adjective forceful clear penetrating keen incisive
• Schadenfreude noun satisfaction pleasure malicious joy else’s misfortune
• Zeitgeist noun spirit attitude general outlook specific period
• Weltschmerz noun sadness evils world
• Éminence grise noun powerful decision maker advisor operates
• Issue mugwump noun person politician unable make her mind
• Bête noire noun person thing disliked dreaded avoided
• Living close doppelgänger noun ghostly double person haunts
• Mot juste noun exact word expression situation
• Insouciant adjective free concern worry anxiety carefree nonchalant
• Gestalt noun pattern possessing qualities merely as sum parts
• Cachet noun superior status privilege the university campus wearing
• Agent provocateur noun secret hired incite suspected persons
• Sangfroid noun coolness composure circumstances
• Small gift lagniappe noun storeowner customer extra benefit
• Sockdolager noun strong decisive final blow finisher outstanding
• Peckish adjective hungry irritable touchy
• Evanescent adjective fleeting short duration vanishing vanish fragile
• Feckless adjective weak ineffective worthless lazy irresponsible
• Profligate wildly extravagant grossly self-indulgent behavior
• Person meme noun idea behavior style usage spreads
• Quark noun elementary subatomic particle proposed fundamental unit of
• Muggle noun person lacks skill knowledge subject someone who
• Place berth noun ship's allotted wharf dock or 
• Panacea n solution remedy difficulties diseases corporate ills
• Impetuous adjective acting quickly thought care impulsive reckless
• Scullion noun servant assigned menial kitchen tasks

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