English Vocabulary

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• Replete adj filled with something
• Hubris n excessive pride self-confidence arrogance
• Dichotomy n division contrast things represented opposed
• Epithet n descriptive phrase expressing quality regarded characteristic
• Circumspect adj wary unwilling risks
• Heuristic adj enabling person discover learn themselves 
• Diffident adj modest shy lack self-confidence
• Cauterize v burn skin flesh wound heated instrument
• Multiplicity n large number variety
• Ennui n listlessness dissatisfaction arising lack occupation excitement
• Insidious adj proceeding gradual subtle harmful effects treacherous
• Prodigal adj spending money resources freely recklessly wastefully
• Sedentary adj characterized sitting physical excercise inactive
• Incongruous adj harmony keeping surroundings aspects place
• Systemic adj relating system esp opposed part
• Specious adj false truth genuineness
• Quid pro quo n received
• Diminution n act process instance diminishing
• Portentous adj feeling evil foreboding
• Ebullient adj characterized ebullience showing liveliness enthusiasm
• Avarice n excessive insatiable desire wealth gain
• Raison d'etre n reason existence
• Anachronism n person thing chronologically place
• Double entendre n word expression capable interpretations
• Auspicious adj conducive success favorable
• Psychosomatic adj relating disorder physical symptoms originating mental
• Autodidact n self-taught person a
• Egregious adj conspicuous esp conspicuously bad
• Amortize transitive verb pay gradually
• Apostasy n renunciation religious faith
• Supercilious adj coolly patronizingly haughty
• Unmitigated adj)  lessened <sufferings hope early relief> stated
• Obligate carnivore n true depend nutrients found animal
• Etiology  (noun cause,origin specifically disease abnormal condition
• Esoteric adj designed understood specially initiated requiring exhibiting
• Polemic n aggressive attack refutation opinions principles another 
• Anathema n intensely disliked loathed predicate nominative <this
• Profligate adj wildly extravagent completely dissipation licentiousness
• Corpulent adj large bulky body
• Accretion n process growth enlargement gradual buildup
• Pedagogy n art science profession teaching
• Desultory e.g adj marked lack definite plan regularity
• Obtuse adj difficult understand clear precise
• Potentate n monarch ruler a
• Punctilious adj showing great attention detail
• Loquacious adj tending talk great deal talkative
• Priapism n persistent painful erection penis
• Banal adj lacking originality obvious boring
• Chauvinist n prejudiced favor group belongs
• Dither v act confusedly clear purpose
• Guile n trickery deceit
• Capricious adj sudden unaccountable mood behavior
• Mirth n amusement esp expressed laughter
• Nebulous adj form cloud hazy
• Reprobate n unprincipled person humorously affectionately
• Neophyte n novice beginner a
• Bellicose adj demonstrating aggression willingness fight
• Capacious adj lot space inside roomy
• Exogenous adj relating developing external factors
• Obstreperous adj noisy difficult control
• Faction n small organized dissenting group larger esp
• Lavish adj extremely generous extravagant
• Apocryphal adj story statement doubtful authenticity widely circulated
• Cloying adj sickly sweet excessive
• Idiomatic adj denoting expressions natural native speaker
• Exculpate v show declare guilty wrongdoing
• Rapacious adj aggressively greedy grasping
• Paradigm n typical pattern model
• Cogent adj clear logical convincing
• Elegy n sorrowful poem speech
• Conviviality n quality friendly lively friendliness
• Assiduous adj showing great care perseverance
• Prosaic adj style diction prose lacking poetic beauty
• Endogenous adj internal origin having
• Jocose adj playful humorous or
• Officious adj helpful meddlesome too
• Tendentious adj expressing intending promote point view esp
• Canonical adj standard archetypal typical
• Inexorable adj stopped changed not
• Capitulation n action surrendering ceasing resist opponent demand
• Intractable adj hard control deal
• Dilettante n person cultivates area interest arts real
• Iniquity n sin evil act
• Posit v assume real conceded propose explanation
• Approbation n approval praise or
• Recalcitrant adj obstinately uncooperative attitude authority discipline
• Necropolis n city dead of
• Alacrity n brisk cheerful readiness
• Chimera n illusion fabrication mind esp unrealizable dream
• Chagrin n distress embarrassment failed humiliated
• Person guided materialism disdainful intellectual artistic philistine n
• Incredulous adj unable unwilling or
• Ignominious adj deserving causing public disgrace shame
• Exigency n urgent demand an
• Impudent adj showing due respect person
• Sundry adj kinds of various
• Paroxysm n sudden attack violent expression emotion activity
• Human person dislikes kind avoids society misanthrope
• Salubrious adj health-giving healthy
• Acolyte n person assisting celebrant religious service procession
• Tawdry adj showy cheap poor quality
• Feign v pretend affected to
• Tremulous adj 1)timid nervous shaking quivering slightly
• Sardonic adj grimly mocking cynical
• Conundrum n confusing difficult problem question
• Propitious adj giving indicating good chance success favorable
• Abscond v leave hurriedly secretly typically avoid detection
• Adjunct n thing added supplementary essential part
• Soporific adj tending induce drowsiness sleep
• Corporeal adj relating person's body esp opposed spirit
• Austere adj severe strict manner attitude appearance
• Fatuous adj silly pointless and
• Vicissitude n change circumstances fortune typically unwelcome unpleasant
• Obdurate adj stubbornly refusing change one's opinion action
• Rapine n violent seizure someone's property
• Intrepid adj feeling fear brave bold
• Vivacious adj attractively lively animated esp woman
• Equanimity n mental calmness composure evenness temper
• Ardent adj enthusiastic passionate or
• Fallacious adj based mistaken belief
• Sophistry n fallacious arguments esp intention deceiving
• Panacea n solution remedy difficulties diseases
• Enmity n state feeling actively opposed hostile
• Conflagration n extensive fire destroys great deal land
• Taciturn adj reserved uncommunicative speech
• Attrition n action process gradually reducing strength effectiveness
• Acuity n sharpness keenness thought vision hearing
• Mendicant n beggar a
• Apoplexy n unconscious incapacity resulting cerebral hemorrhage stroke
• Insouciant adj showing casual lack concern indifferent
• Encomium n speech piece writing praises highly
• Invidious adj action situation arouse incur resentment anger
• Adroit adj clever skillful hands mind
• Visceral adj relating deep feelings intellect
• Intransigent adj unwilling refusing change one's views agree
• Misbegotten adj badly conceived designed planned
• Denoting expressions natural native speaker idiomatic adj
• Insipid adj lacking flavor
• Bespoke adj goods clothing made order
• Pecuniary adj relating consisting money
• Expatiate v speak write length detail
• Fastidious adj attentive concerned accuracy detail
• Diurnal adj day of or
• Parsimonious adj unwilling spend money resources stingy frugal
• Petulant adj childishly sulky bad tempered
• Deceitfulness untrustworthiness n perfidy
• Calumny n making false defamatory statements order damage
• Parochial adj limited narrow outlook scope
• Appurtenance n accessory item activity style living
• Nepotism n practice power influence favoring relatives friends
• Forlorn adj pitifully sad abandoned lonely
• Denigrate v criticize unfairly
• Fallow n dormant unused
• Phalanx n body troops police officers standing moving
• Showing great care perseverance assiduous
• Nascent adj process organization coming existence beginning display
• Sycophant n person acts obsequiously order gain advantage
• Voluble adj speaking spoken incessantly fluently
• Reticent adj revealing one's thoughts feelings readily
• Paucity n presence small insufficient quantities amounts scarcity
• Transient adj lasting short time impermanent
• Caveat n warning specific stipulations conditions limitations
• Ineluctable adj unable resisted avoided inescapable
• Humor levity n frivolity treatment matter manner lacking
• Solipsism n view theory exist
• Effusive adj expressing feelings gratitude pleasure approval unrestrained
• Extirpation n local extinction condition species ceases exist
• Lugubrious adj sounding sad dismal
• Abstruse adj difficult understand obscure
• Missive n written note letter
• Opine v express opinion to
• Palliate v make disease symptoms severe unpleasant removing
• Sultry adj person woman attractive suggests passionate nature
• Verisimilitide n appearance true real
• Analogous adj comparable respects typically makes clearer nature
• Uncouth adj lacking good manners refinement grace
• Cogitate v deeply meditate reflect
• Turgid adj swollen distended congested language style tediously
• Churlish adj rude mean-spirited surly
• Surly adj bad-tempered unfriendly and
• Promulgate v promote make widely idea
• Droll adj curious unusual provokes dry amusement
• Forestall v prevent delay to
• Lacking good manners refinement grace uncouth
• Vouchsafe v give grant gracious condescending manner reveal
• Gauche adj lacking ease grace unsophisticated socially awkward
• Lionize v treat celebrity to
• Acrimonious adj typically speech debate angry bitter
• Unwilling refusing change one's views agree intransigent
• Congenital adj disease physical abnormality present birth
• Stalwart adj loyal reliable hardworking
• Scrupulous adj person process diligent extremely attentive details
• Priggish adj righteously moralistic superior
• Arcane adj understood mysterious secret
• Comely adj pleasant attractive to
• Demagogue n political leader seeks support appealing popular
• Explicate v analyze develop idea principle detail
• Pusillanimous adj cowardly courage without
• Pernicious adj harmful effect gradual subtle
• Putative adj generally considered reputed
• Disconsolate adj consolation comfort unhappy
• Pinnacle n lofty peak highest culminating point success
• Immolate v 1)to sacrifice destroy fire
• Ambiente n surrounding atmosphere
• Apogee n highest point development climax culmination
• Iconoclast n person attacks cherished beliefs institutions
• Lascivious adj feeling revealing overt offensive sexual desire
• Invective n insulting abusive highly critical language
• Trope n figurative metaphorical word expression
• Surfeit n excessive amount an
• Dissolute adj lax morals in
• Credulity n tendency ready real true
• Punitive adj inflicting intended punishment
• Indelible adj forgotten removed not
• Implacable adj unable placated to
• Importunate adj persistent point annoyance intrusion
• Supine adj person lying face upward
• Excise n tax things made sold country
• Suffrage n vote political elections
• Platitude n remark statement moral content interesting thoughtful
• Clemency n disposition merciful moderate severity punishment due
• Modicum n small quantity thing considered desirable valuable
• Riposte n quick clever reply insult criticism
• Isomorphic adj similar form relations
• Confabulate v psychiatry fabricate imaginary experiences compensation loss
• Incipient adj initial stage beginning happen develop
• Tableau n group models motionless figures representing scene
• Germane adj relevant subject consideration
• Abnegation n act renouncing rejecting
• Malefaction n evil deed crime wrongdoing
• Beget v give rise bring
• Forgo v omit decline refrain
• Largesse n generosity bestowing money gifts
• Felonious adj related involved crime
• Hale adj strong healthy and
• Stolid adj person calm dependable showing emotion animation
• Sanguine adj optimistic positive apparently bad difficult situation
• Corrigible adj capable corrected rectified reformed
• Amalgamate v combine unite form organization structure
• Seminal adj work event moment figure strongly influencing
• Peremptory adj person's manner actions insisting attention obedience
• Ambulatory adj relating adapted walking
• Castigate v reprimand severely
• Expostulate v express strong disapproval disagreement
• Propinquity n state close proximity
• Inscrutable adj impossible understand interpret
• Truculent adj eager quick argue fight aggressively defiant
• Eponymous adj person giving of
• Courtesan n prostitute wealthy upper class clients
• Evanescent adj passing sight memory existence quickly fading
• Disquisition n long elaborate essay discussion subject
• Impetuous adj acting quickly thought care
• Sententious adj moralizing pompous affected manner
• Indolent adj wanting avoid activity exertion lazy
• Egress n action leaving place
• Ontology n branch metaphysics dealing nature
• Didactic adj intended teach moral instruction ulterior motive
• Salient adj noticeable important most
• Indignant adj feeling showing anger annoyance perceived unfair
• Mordant adj humor showing sharp critical quality biting
• Imputation n attributing actions source
• Proffer v hold acceptance offer
• Protracted adj lasting long time longer expected usual
• Cadre n small group people specially trained purpose
• Opprobrium n harsh criticism censure
• Vivisection n practice performing operations live animals purpose
• Restitution n restoration lost stolen proper owner
• Peripatetic adj traveling place working based short periods
• Spurious adj purports false fake
• Swarthy adj dark-skinned
• Form constellate v cluster group gather
• Ballast n heavy material low vessel improve stability
• Temerity n excessive confidence boldness audacity
• Dissemble v conceal one's true motives feelings beliefs
• Equivocate v ambiguous language conceal truth avoid committing
• Irremediable adj impossible cure put
• Prorate v allocate distribute assess proportionally
• Infallible adj incapable making mistakes wrong
• Interminable adj endless hyperbolically often
• Ecumenical adj representing number christian churches
• Sinecure n position requiring work giving holder status
• Perspicacious adj ready insight understanding things
• Acerbic adj comment style speaking sharp forthright
• Jurisprudence n theory philosophy law
• Lurid adj vivid color create unpleasantly harsh unnatural
• Strident adj loud harsh grating
• Dolorous adj feeling expressing great sorrow distress
• Foment v instigate stir undesirable violent sentiment action
• Consummate adj showing high degree skill flair complete
• Inculcate v instill attitude idea habit persistent instruction
• Anodyne adj provoke dissent offense inoffensive deliberately
• Anodyne n painkilling drug medicine
• Revealing one's thoughts feelings readily reticent adj
• Emphatic adj showing giving emphasis expressing forcibly
• Prolific adj producing fruit foliage offspring present large
• Pithy adj language style concise forcefully expressive
• Patina n green brown film surface bronze similar
• Proscribe v forbid law especially
• Piquant adj pleasantly sharp taste appetizing flavor
• Primeval adj resembling earliest ages history world
• Parlay v turn initial stake winnings previous bet
• Desiderata plural n things wanted needed
• Oblique adj parallel angle implied line slanting
• Mettlesome adj person animal full spirit courage
• Fungible adj replace replaced identical item mutually interchangeable
• Inimical adj tending obstruct harm unfriendly hostile
• Fillip n acts stimulus boost activity
• Querulous adj complaining petulant whining manner
• Vituperative adj bitter abusive and
• Aegis n protection backing support person organization
• Glib adj fluent voluble insincere shallow
• Munificent adj gift sum money larger generous usual
• Undermine v lessen effectiveness power ability gradually insidiously
• Reproof n expression blame disapproval
• Euphonious adj sound speech pleasing ear
• Irascible adj showing tendency easily angered
• Solvent adj assets excess liabilities pay one's debts
• Laggard n person makes slow progress falls
• Expiation n act making amends reparation guilt wrongdoing
• Contemporaneous adj existing occurring period time
• Imperious adj assuming power authority justification arrogant domineering
• Dereliction n shameful failure fulfill one's obligations
• Irresolute adj showing feeling hesitancy uncertain
• Mendacity n untruthfulness
• Febrile adj showing symptoms fever
• Exempt adj free obligation liability imposed
• Gerrymander v manipulate boundaries electoral constituency favor party
• Patois n dialect common people region jargon informal
• Perfunctory adj action gesture carried minimum effort reflection
• Inimitable adj good unusual impossible copy unique
• Remit v send money payment gift
• Catechism n summary principles christian religion form questions
• Impound v seize legal custody infringement law regulation
• Benignant adj kind benevolent and
• Disputation n debate argument or
• Simulacrum n image representation or
• Proselytize v advocate promote belief action
• Matriculate v enrolled college university
• Mortal socrates syllogism kind logical argument applies deductive
• Practice power influence favoring relatives friends giving jobs
• Moniker n a name
• Commiseration n sympathy sorrow misfortunes compassion
• Furtively adv attempts avoid notice attention secretly
• Garrulous adj excessively talkative trivial matters
• Scion n descendant notable family
• Histrionic adj overly theatrical melodramatic character style
• Reconnoiter v make military observation
• Retrenchment n reduction costs spending response economic difficulty
• Trite adj overused import lacking originality freshness
• Sedulous adj showing dedication diligence
• Licentious adj promiscuous unprincipled sexual matters
• Cupidity n greed money possessions
• Scruple n feeling doubt hesitation regard morality action
• Prolixity n state quality unnecessarily tediously wordy
• Foible n minor weakness eccentricity someone's character
• Concupiscence n strong sexual desire lust
• Hypnagogic adj relating state falling asleep
• Proximate adj closest relationship of
• Dubious adj hesitating doubting relied suspect
• Impecunious adj money having little
• Limpid adj free darkens completely clear
• Recondite adj abstruse little known
• Acute adj present experienced severe intense degree showing
• Quixotic adj exceedingly idealistic unrealistic impractical
• Bilious adj affected nausea vomiting spiteful bad tempered
• Atavism n tendency revert ancient ancestral
• Interdiction n action prohibiting forbidding
• Jaunty adj expressing lively cheerful confident manner
• Subject discursive adj digressing from
• Extemporaneous adj spoken preparation or
• Asperity n harshness tone manner
• Casuistry n clever unsound reasoning sophistry
• Truancy n action staying school good reason absenteeism
• Moribund adj point death at
• Quiescence n inactivity dormancy or
• Plutocrat n person power derives wealth
• Plenipotentiary n person diplomat invested full power independent
• Propitiation n action appeasing god spirit person
• Intemperate adj showing lack control
• Abject adj bad experienced present maximum degree
• Zeitgeist n defining spirit mood period history shown
• Voluptuary n person devoted luxury sensual pleasure
• Impertinent adj showing proper respect rude
• Solicitude n care concern or
• Termagant n harsh-tempered overbearing woman
• Pique n feeling irritation resentment resulting slight one's
• Venal adj showing motivated susceptibility bribery
• Irreverent adj showing lack respect people things generally
• Intended understood small number people specialized knowledge interest
• Lack inanition n exhaustion caused nourishment mental spiritual
• Augur v event circumstance portend good bad outcome
• Imprudent adj showing care consequences action rash
• Urbane adj person courteous refined manner
• Garish adj obtrusively bright showy lurid
• Overused import lacking originality freshness trite adj
• Abrogate v repeal law formal agreement
• Apoplectic adj overcome anger extremely indignant
• Mercurial adj subject sudden unpredictable mood mind
• Portend v sign warning momentous calamitous happen
• Compunction n feeling guilt moral scruple prevents bad
• Pertinent adj relevant applicable matter
• Bombast n high-sounding language meaning impress people
• Branch zoology concerned study insects entomology
• Statute n written law passed legislative body
• Unequivocal adj leaving doubt unambiguous
• Succor n assistance support times hardship distress

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