Hard English Vocabulary

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• Succedaneum road suk-si-day-nee-uhm noun substitute latin succedere succeed
• Droll /drōl adjective amusing odd dignified presence decorated droll
• Side athwart uh-thwart adverb preposition thwart norse thvert
• Margaritaceous margarita meaning mar-guhr-i-tay-shuhs adjective pearly latin greek
• Proceleusmatic pros-uh-loos-mat-ik adjective inciting exhorting inspiring noun metrical
• Balsamic made bal-sam-ik adjective fragrant soothing healing relating
• Procellous pro-sel-uhs adjective stormy sea latin procellosus procella
• Aphotic ay-fo-tik adjective lightless sunlight greek phot light
• Sederunt prolonged word monday suh-deer-unt noun sitting discussion
• Cathexis meaning word holding scientific greek psychological film
• Latin campestral adjective open scamper campus meaning military
• Lachrymal lak-ruh-muhl adjective relating inducing tears latin lacrima
• Bursiform buhr-suh-form adjective shaped pouch sac latin bursa
• Aperçus ˌa-per-sue plural noun a brief summary sketch outline
• Septentrional latin sep-ten-tree-uh-nuhl adjective northern septentriones literally ploughing
• Secret latin connive pretend word kuh-nyve  verb ignorance
• English describe people nobbiest nobby nah-bee adjective cleverly
• Memory hypermnesia s word hye-perm-nee-zhee-uh noun abnormally vivid
• Columbine kol-uh m-bahyn bin adjective dove dovelike dove-colored middle
• Tutelary noun tutelarius tutela too-tuh-lair-ee adjective guardianship person
• Adumbrate adumbrate  \a-dem-brate transitive verb foreshadow vaguely intimate suggest
• Southern south meridional france parts europe north big
• Xerophyte zeer-uh-fyt noun plant adapted growing dry desert
• Alteration older whippersnapper hwip-uhr-snap-uhr wip noun person regarded
• Princox prin-koks noun conceited person coxcomb princock uncertain
• Conversazione kon-vuhr-sayt-see-o-nee kahn nay noun formal gathering conversation
• Chinese tip cumshaw kum-shaw noun gift amoy/xiamen dialect
• Nudiustertian relating noo-dee-uhs-tur-shuhn nyoo adjective day yesterday latin
• Overween oh-ver-ween verb archaic.  conceited arrogant i share
• Aurorean o-ror-ee-uhn o-rohr adjective belonging dawn latin aurora
• Cenobite religious sen-uh-byt noun member order living monastic
• Molon labe mo-lone lah-veh μολων λαβε phrase means
• Xanthippe nagging woman socrates xantippe zan-thip-ee tip noun
• Implacable im-plak-uh-buhl play-kuh adjective impossible pacify appease latin
• Impetuous rush taylor im-pech-oo-uhs adjective marked impulsiveness impatience
• Paresthesia paraesthesia par-uhs-thee-zhuh zhee noun sensation pricking tingling
• Filipendulous fi-li-pen-juh-luhs pen-dyoo adjective hanging thread latin filum
• Chuffed english chuff i chuft adjective pleased satisfied
• Fetters fet-er noun a chain shackle feet 2. usually confines
• Impudent im-pyuh-duhnt adjective marked offensive boldness latin im
• Hent hand lady nights verb seize ancient word
• Fleer verb grin laugh coarsely mockingly mock deride
• Proscribe political parties pro-skryb verb tr forbid law
• Prepossessing pree-puh-zes-ing adjective creating favorable impression attractive pre
• Profligate prof-li-git gayt adjective recklessly extravagant wasteful dissipation
• Pignus hear pig-nuhs plural pignora noun pledge held
• Epigamic big change ep-i-gam-ik adjective relating trait behavior
• Pigsney pigz-nee noun sweetheart eye small middle english
• Epigeal ep-i-jee-uhl adjective living close ground plants greek
• Misology mi-sol-uh-jee noun hatred logic reason greek miso
• Mainour mey-ner noun stolen article found person thief
• Gnathic jaw nath-ik adjective relating greek gnathos ultimately
• Kinchin kin-chin noun child derived german kindchen diminutive
• Shade umbratile um-bra-tile reclusive person staying indoors.  also umbratic: of
• Discharge debt quittance kwit-ns noun recompense requital obligation
• Tensile ten-suhl adjective capable stretched drawn ductile pertaining
• Officious traffic o-fish-uhs adjective excessively eager offering unwanted
• Zakuska zuh-koos-kuh noun hors d'oeuvre tractvanna oleg stock
• Sprezzatura spret-sah-toor-uh noun giving appearance effortlessly effortless grace
• Homologous structure huh-mol-uh-guhs hoh adjective exhibiting degree correspondence
• Yare yair adjective easily maneuverable nimble.  ready prepared
• Rialto venice ree-al-toh noun exchange mart mercantile quarter
• Strumpet struhm-pit noun prostitute harlot middle english
• Daven i dah-vuhn verb pray entered english mid-nineteenth
• I gaumless gawm-lis adjective lacking vitality intelligence stupid
• Discursive dis-kuhr-siv adjective jumping topic rambling proceeding logically
• Codicil kod-uh-suhl noun supplement appendix addition explanation modification
• Malapert mal-uh-puhrt adjective boldly disrespectful french mal bad
• Mens rea menz ree-uh noun criminal intent latin
• Soigné care describe fashion swahn-yey fr swa-nyey adjective
• Advance king's imprest im-prest noun money loan law
• Purgation cleansing pur-gay-shen noun purification ritual violence morbid
• Snap fingertip fillip fil-ip noun stimulus made pressing
• Banausic buh-naw-sik zik adjective mechanical utilitarian routine opposed
• Equivocate i-kwiv-uh-kayt verb intr vague ambiguous order mislead
• Preterition passing english sense pret-uh-rish-uhn noun act omission
• Palatine relating latin earliest documented gardens direct pal-uh-tyn
• Meaning battology buh-tol-uh-jee noun wearisome repetition words speaking
• Trachle trah-khuh noun exhausting effort walking working exhausted
• Agrement ah-gray-mahnt mahn final syllable nasal noun formal
• Birdlime buhrd-lym verb tr ensnare noun sticky substance
• Orgulous or-gyuh-luhs adjective haughty french orguill pride earliest
• Mensal latin earliest documented  john men-suhl adjective monthly
• Makebate mayk-bayt noun incites quarrels make english macian
• Fustilarian fuhs-tuh-lar-ee-uhn fustilugs fus-ti-lugs noun fat slovenly person
• Mumpsimus networking mump-suh-muhs noun view stubbornly held spite
• Scabrous word skab-ruhs adjective full difficulties rough surface
• Olid o-lid adjective foul-smelling latin olere smell gave
• French apposite dispositive dih-spoz-i-tiv adjective relating bringing settlement
• I sook rhymes book noun timid cowardly person
• Lucubrate work midnight hours loo-kyoo-brayt verb intr study
• Acarpous ay-kahr-puhs adjective producing fruit sterile.  greek akarpos
• Impolitic meaning im-pol-i-tik adjective politic expedient judicious combines
• Holograph letter mr hol-uh-graf grahf hoh-luh adjective wholly
• Bemused english bih-myoozd adjective bewildered confused lost thought
• Lacerate tear lacerated las-uh-reyt verb roughly mangle barbed
• Doggerel i found man left daw-ger-uhl dog-er adjective
• Bedraggle dylan thomas bih-drag-uhl verb make limp soiled
• Greek procrustes pro-krus-teez noun person imposing conformity concern
• Od hypothetical mesmerism reichenbach ohd noun force held
• Anatopism uh-nat-uh-piz-ehm noun error placing proper place erroneously
• Tangled elflock elf-lok noun lock hair mass supposedly
• Beat lammed guy lam verb thrash strike finds
• Prolepsis prolepsis word anticipation hot representation event pro-lep-sis
• Days corsair cassique kawr-sair noun pirate barbary coast
• Dissilient bursting dih-sil-ee-uhnt adjective open dissilent latin word
• Kabuki form japanese drama man kah-boo-kee includes highly
• Passu pari equal meant world pah-ree pahs-soo eng
• Syncope greek sing-kuh-pee noun shortening word omission sounds
• Serotinal word fire si-rot-n-l ser-uh-tahyn-l adjective pertaining occurring
• Clothes habiliments toad huh-bil-uh-muhnt noun clothing b worn
• Interlocutor in-tuhr-lok-yuh-tuhr yoo noun takes part conversation dialogue
• Putrescent putrefaction  /pyoo-tres-uhnt adjective putrid undergoing pertaining latin
• Anfractuous an-frak-choo-uhs adjective characterized windings turnings sinuous circuitous
• Lapsus linguae slip lap-suhs ling-gwee lahp-soos ling-gwy noun
• Shrift short confession absolution english comeback noun priest
• Annulate ringlike an-yuh-lit leyt adjective rings bands formed
• Relating group sclerotic skluh-rot-ik adjective hard rigid slow
• Tumid too-mid tyoo adjective swollen bulging pompous bombastic
• Chattel article property chat-l noun law movable personal
• Ludicrous word ludic falstaffian fal-staf-ee-uhn adjective fat jolly
• Town obsequy william faces represented ob-si-kwee noun funeral
• Schmo i schmoe shmo noun stupid boring obnoxious
• Subjoin add suhb-join verb end written append place
• Antitype an-ti-tahyp noun foreshadowed type symbol testament event
• Thy maugre maw-ger preposition spite notwithstanding middle french
• Amaranthine deep am-uh-ran-thin thyn adjective unfading everlasting purple-red
• Disprize dis-pryz verb tr disdain scorn french desprisier
• Jocose joh-kohs juh adjective characterized joking jesting humorous
• Pratfall prat-fawl noun humiliating failure blunder defeat literally
• Ochlophobia ok-luh-foh-bee-uh noun psychiatry abnormal fear crowds entered
• Paribus ceteris things relation ceterus latin phrase meaning
• Blandish blan-dish verb coax flattery latin blandiri flatter
• Poultice i pohl-tis noun soft moist mass cloth
• Colligate kol-i-gayt verb bind group latin colligare ligare
• Advent coming capital letter initial christ world christmas
• Oeillade laura œ-yad noun amorous glance ogle entered
• Onanism oh-nuh-niz-uhm noun masturbation withdrawal penis sexual intercourse
• Delitescent power del-i-tes-uhnt adjective concealed hidden latent latin
• Ruck crease corolla ruk noun large mass ordinary
• Echt ekht adjective real authentic genuine entered english
• Position stellenbosch mr ste-len-bosh verb tr relegate incompetent
• Identity leisure idem ahy-dem id-em pronoun previously mentioned
• Boîte entered means bwaht fr bwat noun nightclub
• Boffin brilliant bof-in noun scientist technical expert arose
• Run low clouds scud skud verb intr move
• Inglenook drew ing-guhl-nook noun corner nook fireplace obscure
• Whet english verb object whet·ted whet·ting sharpen knife
• Canker kang-kuhr noun source corruption decay ulcerous sores
• August aw-guhst adjective venerable eminent personage inspiring reverence
• Bestiary bes-chee-er-ee bees noun collection moralized fables written
• Acedia god one's refusal uh-see-dee-uh noun apathy boredom
• Magic palm palmer pilgrim  michael pah-muhr noun itinerant
• Gallivant galavant gal-uh-vant verb intr roam search pleasure
• Scrutate skru-tayt verb tr investigate latin scrutari examine
• Claptrap klap-trap noun pretentious insincere empty language speeches
• Fool coxcomb i coxcomb \koks-kohm noun conceited foolish dandy
• Basilic named large vein buh-sil-ik zil adjective kingly
• Ambage am-bij noun ambiguity circumlocution middle english equivocation
• Passe-partout true pas-pahr-too noun master key enables unrestricted
• Prelusive essays pri-loo-siv adjective introductory rooted latin word
• Portia por-shuh shee-uh noun female lawyer heroine shakespeare's
• Anagnorisis greek an-ag-nawr-uh-sis nohr-\  noun  ancient tragedy critical
• Quiff origin earliest documented kuif noun tuft hair
• Bole reddish color earliest documented bohl noun trunk
• Ananias dead an-uh-ny-uhs noun liar wife sapphira struck
• Caprine kap-rahyn rin adjective pertaining goats derived latin
• Ophelian o-fee-lee-uhn adjective displaying madness suicidal tendencies similar
• Polonian shakespeare's earliest documented oft man time po-lo-nee-uhn
• Noesis no-ee-sis noun cognition perception exercise reason greek
• Peregrine salisbury cathedral per-i-grin green grahyn adjective foreign
• Strident harsh make strident \strahyd-nt adjective making sound grating
• Peregrine salisbury cathedral noun foreign alien coming abroad
• Nuns reproof ri-proof noun disapproval blame french reprover
• Camarilla kam-uh-ril-uh spanish kah-mah-ree-yah noun group confidential scheming
• A person flouts scofflaw \skawf-law skof noun law fails pay
• Person favor toady toh-dee noun flatters gain verb
• Rident evening rahyd-nt\  adjective laughing smiling cheerful english
• Proem pro-uhm em noun introduction preface preamble french
• Crawl ants formicate for-mi-kayt verb intr swarm latin
• Rounceval big rouncival roun-si-vuhl adjective strong noun large
• Pabulum simplistic pab-yuh-luhm noun bland intellectual fare insipid
• Restive remain word means unable res-tiv adjective restless
• Inveigle in-vay-guhl vee verb tr persuade deception flattery
• Prorogue pro-rohg verb tr discontinue session parliament defer
• John reprove ri-proov verb tr reprimand censure latin
• Degust taste di-guhst verb tr savor appreciatively latin
• Consonance sound kon-suh-nuhns noun agreement accord combination pleasing
• Scaramouch skar-uh-mouch moosh noun lowercase rascal scamp.  stock
• Verb vouchsafe vouch-sayf tr grant give favor intr
• Calvous tyranny kal-vuhs adjective lacking hair head bald
• Cogens jus international non-applicability law legal including lus
• Erga omnes obligations contract term property enforced international
• Macher mahkh-uhr noun person influence things self-important overbearing
• Lubricious loo-brish-uhs adjective lecherous salacious shifty tricky smooth
• Refection ri-fek-shuhn noun refreshment food drink light meal
• Wonted won-tid adjective usual accustomed middle english woned
• Gleichschaltung part glyk-shalt-toong noun forced standardization political economic
• Cordate kor-dayt adjective heart-shaped latin cor heart ultimately
• Scandent skan-duhnt adjective climbing ascending latin scandere climb
• Verb bask sun latin apricate ap-ri-kayt intr.:  tr
• Ascesis uh-sees-is noun practice severe self-discipline self-control spelled
• Senary sen-uh-ree adjective relating number sixth rank parts
• Scurvy bleeding skuhr-vee adjective contemptible noun disease caused
• Gethsemane geth-sem-uh-nee noun instance place suffering testament garden
• Exordium oed ig/eg-zor-dee-uhm ik-sor-l noun beginning introductory part
• Preternatural pree/pri-tuhr-nach-uh-ruhl adjective natural normal latin praeter past
• Parastatal power par-uh-stayt-l noun company agency owned wholly
• Apotropaic intended ward evil ap-uh-truh-pey-ik adjective greek apotropaios
• Expectorate ik-spek-tuh-rayt verb tr intr spit eject coughing
• Placentious pla-sen-shus adjective pleasing inclined latin placentia pleasantness
• Autochthon o-tok-thun noun native aborigine rock formed originating
• Festinate verb fes-tuh-nayt adjective nayt nit tr intr
• Planet saturnine sat-uhr-nyn adjective sluggish gloomy cold latin
• Ichor petrichor greek smell vellichor flow veins gods
• French ensorcell latin en-sawr-sel verb bewitch enchant middle
• Expurgate ek-spuhr-gayt verb remove parts considered objectionable latin
• Lissom london uk lissome lis-uhm]  adjective agile graceful
• Lithe english lahyth]  adjective lither lithest bending readily
• Ascetic severe self-discipline self-denial uh-set-ik adjective practicing noun
• Hermeneutic greek hur-muh-noo-tik nyoo adjective interpretive explanatory hermeneutikos
• Astringent uh-strin-juhnt adjective contracting constricting caustic pungent stern
• Heimisch heimish haimish hay-mish hy adjective homey unpretentious
• Verb intr devolved devolve di-volv tr transfer passed
• Fastuous fas-choo-uhs adjective haughty arrogant pretentious latin fastuosus
• I spaniel span-yuhl noun submissive fawning person breeds
• Turbid confused tuhr-bid adjective unclear opaque dark dense
• Year end month shofar blown rosh hashanah yom
• Morganatic marriage morning royal inferior partner word latin
• Church adjective england recusant attend services reck-yuh-zunt refusing
• Álamo spanish public promenade poplar trees speakers alameda
• Eristic adjective characterized noun arguments art means word
• Lord christmas misrule presided lord-uv-mis-rool noun master revels
• Fundamentals subject latin accidence ak-si-dens noun branch grammar
• Word pastiche concurring literary french pasticcio opinion pass-teesh
• Couloir steep gorges ski kool-wahr noun mountainside entered
• Resipiscent i re-si-pis-uhnt adjective returned saner mind latin
• Haboob huh-boob noun violent dust storm sandstorm sudan
• Aposematic ap-uh-suh-mat-ik adjective serving warning alarm greek apo
• Athenaeum ath-uh-nee-um noun library reading room literary scientific
• Hesternal relating heh-ster-nuhl adjective yesterday latin hesternus nudiustertian
• Sipid taste sip-id adjective pleasing flavor back formation
• Connate kon-ayt ko-nayt adjective congenial congenital latin connasci
• Stygian river styx greek stij-ee-uhn adjective dark gloomy
• Maven may-vuhn noun expert connoisseur enthusiast yiddish meyvn
• Manna man-uh noun unexpected benefit advantage latin greek
• Gehenna place valley hinnom gi-hen-uh noun hell extreme
• Micturate urinate mik-chuh-rayt mik-tuh verb intr latin micturire
• Masticate thy jun mas-ti-kayt verb tr intr chew
• Saturnalia time sat-uhr-nay-lee-uh noun unrestrained revelry latin relating
• Venery earliest documented venus franklin hunting ven-uh-ree noun
• Lorelei lor-uh-ly noun dangerously seductive woman german legend
• Circe part sur-see noun irresistibly charming woman enchantress
• Mata hari stage malay ma-tuh har-ee mat-uh noun
• Threnody jul thren-uh-dee noun song lamentation dead greek
• Pallium pall cloth pawl noun a cloth velvet spreading
• Beleaguer blue bi-lee-guhr verb tr surround troops beset
• Lothario lo-thar-ee-o noun man indiscriminately seduces women word
• Doryphore dor-uh-for noun pedantic persistent critic french colorado
• Winkle wing-kuhl noun periwinkle mollusks spiral shell verb
• Bathos space real bay-thas thos noun abrupt descent
• Kenning describe norse earliest english ken-ing noun figurative
• Guff guf noun nonsense insolent talk imitative earliest
• I greedy gannet gan-it noun large seabird catching
• Olla olio oh-lee-oh noun miscellaneous collection things variety
• Obstinance noun trait difficult handle overcome resolute adherence
• Toenadering south too-nah-duhr-ing noun establishing reestablishing cordial relations
• Sooterkin dutch dark soo-tuhr-kin noun sweetheart mistress afterbirth
• Gold solidus sol-i-dus noun slash a gold coin issued
• Anodyne anodynos an-uh-dyn adjective relieving pain soothing bland
• Adventious ad-ven-shuhs adjective coming inherent native happening chance
• Gramarye gram-uh-ree noun occult learning magic french gramaire
• Skookum skoo-kuhm adjective powerful first-rate impressive chinook jargon
• Viridity vi-rid-i-tee noun quality state green.  youthful innocence
• Quoz it’s variant word quiz kwaz noun odd
• Vidimus philip vai-di-muhs noun attested copy document official
• Lord’s paternoster words prayer pay-tuhr nos-tuhr pah pat
• Mittimus mit-uh-muhs noun official order commit prison latin
• Song gaudeamus official gau-di-ahm-uhs noun convivial gathering merry-making
• Debenture latin di-ben-chuhr noun certificate acknowledging debt debentur
• Fissiparous fi-sip-uh-ruhs adjective tending break parts reproducing biological
• Peradventure time english french chance aventure event sense
• Selcouth sel-kooth adjective strange unusual marvelous middle english
• Autolycan trickery o-tol-uh-kuhn adjective characterized thievery autolycus son
• Alar relating ay-luhr adjective wings wing-shaped armpit latin
• De luis góngora y eyes gongorism gong-uh-riz-uhm noun
• Lutestring loot-string noun glossy silk fabric lute string
• Brig auld mense mens noun propriety decorum verb
• Nuncupative witnesses wills nun-kyoo-pay-tiv adjective spoken written oral
• Fecund fruitful offspring fertile producing results power slugs
• Pollyanna matter require pol-ee-an-uh noun naively cheerful optimistic
• Cassandra believed trojan kuh-sand-ruh noun prophesies disaster warnings
• Penny-wise good small sums matters phrase pound-foolish
• Meaning malison latin mal-uh-sun noun curse malediction hanging
• Blousy blowsy blowzy blou-zee adjective coarsely ruddy complexion
• Mawkish weak sickly english mawke means maw-kish adjective
• Uxorious \ək-ˈsȯr-ē-əs ˌəg-ˈzȯr adjective excessively fond submissive wife latin
• Obambulate o-bam-byuh-layt verb intr walk latin ob ambulare
• Sequacious inclined follow meaning sih-kway-shus adjective intellectually servile
• Maieutic ideas method bringing thought midwife may-yoo-tik adjective
• Vegete vuh-jeet adjective lively active vigorous latin vegere
• Emulous imitate em-yuh-luhs adjective eager equal surpass jealous
• Cautelous kot-uh-luhs adjective cautious crafty french cauteleux cunning
• Boeotian bee-o-shuhn adjective relating boeotia citizens dull boorish
• Jericho place beards jer-i-ko noun unspecified concealment phrase
• Word pertinacious tenacious per-tuh-nay-shus adjective adhering resolutely opinion
• Tartar violent tatar people tahr-ter noun capitalized irritable
• Gradually immunity poison taking doses vi's tolerance mithridatism
• Coffee kaffee klatsch kaffeeklatsch kah-fee-klach noun informal social
• Anathematize uh-nath-uh-muh-tyze verb pronounce ecclesiastical ban curse excommunicated
• Amok uh-muck uh-mock adverb murderously frenzied state violently
• Cerulean suh-roo-lee-un adjective resembling blue sky
• Adamantine adamas adamant ad-uh-man-teen ad-uh-man-tine adjective rigidly firm
• Meaning aesopian ee-soh-pee-un ee-sah-pee-un adjective relating characteristic aesop
• Aerie air-ee eer-ee noun nest bird cliff mountaintop
• Ease affable a-fuh-bul adjective pleasant talking characterized friendliness
• Adulate fawn ad-juh-layt ad-yuh-layt verb flatter admire slavishly
• Abide uh-byde verb  tolerate 2.  to accept objection 3.  a
• Bildungsroman moral psychological main meaning years term bil-doongs-roh-mahn
• Caparison kuh-pair-uh-sun noun ornamental covering horse b decorative
• Anneal uh-neal verb heat cool steel glass make
• Arcadia ahr-kay-dee-uh noun region scene simple pleasure quiet
• Ancilla an-sil-luh noun aid achieving mastering difficult
• Chthonic thah-nik adjective relating underworld greek chthon earth
• Argy-bargy ahr-jee-bahr-jee ahr-ghee-bahr-ghee noun lively discussion argument dispute
• Aspersion asperse verb holy reports shakespeare's means word
• Chockablock chah-kuh-blahk adjective brought close full
• Brigadoon village cooperstown brih-guh-doon noun place idyllic unaffected
• Auriferous aw-rih-fuh-russ adjective gold containing
• Colonel puerto rico blimp ker-nul-blimp noun pompous reactionary
• Omens augur aw-gur verb transitive foretell give promise
• Circumspect ser-kum-spekt adjective careful circumstances consequences prudent middle
• Catachresis kat-uh-kree-suss noun misuse words forced paradoxical figure
• Clean augean augeas stables aw-jee-un adjective extremely difficult
• Bluestocking bloo-stock-ing noun a woman considerable scholarly literary intellectual
• Borne born adjective transported transmitted combination
• Bowdlerize bowdler edited bohd-luh-ryze bowd-luh-ryze ow cow verb
• Callow kal-oh adjective inexperienced immature english calu bald
• Baleful bail-ful adjective deadly pernicious influence foreboding evil
• Appreciable uh-pree-shuh-bull uh-prih-shuh-bull adjective capable perceived measured
• Engender in-jen-der en-jen-der verb beget procreate exist develop
• One's dissemble implies suggests means hiding latin dih-sem-bul
• Croesus kree-suss noun rich man
• Dudgeon high connection meaning term dagger state duh-jun
• Contretemps kahn-truh-tahn kone-truh-tahn noun inopportune embarrassing occurrence situation
• Diaphanous dye-af-uh-nuhss adjective transparent light delicate vague hazy. 
• Descry dih-skrye verb catch sight find discover
• Eldritch el-drich adjective weird eerie
• I dilettante half dih-luh-tahnt dih-luh-tant noun takes activity
• Delectation dee-leck-tay-shun dih-leck-tay-shun noun delight enjoyment
• Epic demotic popular di-mah-tik adjective common greek demotikos
• Demarche diplomatic day-mahrsh dih-mahrsh noun action petition protest
• Distrait dih-stray final t silent adjective inattentive preoccupied
• Convivial kun-viv-ee-ul adjective relating occupied fond feasting drinking
• Didactic teach dye-dak-tik adjective intended moral instruction ulterior
• Official expenditures comptroller kun-troh-ler kahmp-troh-ler noun royal-household examines
• Dolorous doh-luh-russ dah-luh-russ adjective causing marked expressing misery
• Edacious ih-day-shuss adjective devouring voracious latin edere eat
• English word spelling pronunciation doughty dow-tee adjective marked
• Conurbation area land kah-ner-bay-shun noun large urban involving
• Emote word matter ih-moht verb give expression emotion
• Marked complaisant kuhm-play-sunt kuhm-play-zunt adjective inclination oblige courteous
• Enjoinder en-join-der in-join-der noun command interdiction prohibition injunction
• English gainsay middle gayn-say verb oppose contradict trouble
• Grand guignol grahn-gheen-yawl noun dramatic entertainment featuring gruesome
• Furtive fer-tiv adjective surreptitious b sly stolen
• Fulgent ful-jint adjective dazzlingly bright radiant
• Pelagic puh-laj-ik adjective relating open sea oceanic
• Fulminate full-muh-nayt verb utter send denunciation 2. to explode
• Grub street literary place world london hack called
• Cathedra office position church cathedral term eks-kuh-thee-druh adjective
• Götterdämmerung destruction german ring ragnarök end guh(r)-tuhr-deh-muh-rung guh(r)-turh-da-muh-rung
• Hastilude hass-tuh-lood noun medieval joust spear play
• Meaning gravamen part latin adjective legal gruh-vay-mun noun
• Eupeptic yoo-pep-tik adjective relating good digestion cheerful optimistic
• Word fulsome positive century sense full-sum adjective effusive
• Gruntle grun-tul verb put good humor
• Foursquare for-skwair adjective firm unyielding frank forthright square
• Shape sense hew log vice hyoo verb cut
• Hierophant hye-ruh-fant hye-eh-ruh-funt noun priest ancient greece commentator
• Expiate eks-pee-ate verb extinguish guilt incurred make amends
• Parte company eks-par-tee adverb adjective involving side only. 
• Henotheism god word religious belief worship lind american
• Forebear for-bair noun ancestor forefather precursor plural
• Request importune im-pawr-toon im-pawr-tyoon im-pawr-chuhn verb repeatedly annoyingly
• Longueur long-gur noun long dull passage work literature
• Pet hypocorism hye-pah-kuh-rih-zum hye-puh-kor-ih-zum noun names greek hypokorisma
• Hyperborean hye-per-bor-ee-un hye-per-buh-ree-un adjective relating extreme northern region
• Ingenuous in-jen-yu-wus adjective free reserve restraint dissimulation candid
• Kibosh put kye-bahsh kih-bahsh noun informal nonsense idiom
• Nyctalopia nik-tuh-loh-pee-uh noun night blindness
• Marplot plan word plot mahr-plaht noun frustrates ruins
• Enclose latin means meaning immure ih-myoor verb walls
• Ignominy ig-nuh-min-ee ig-nom-uh-nee noun public disgrace.  disgraceful quality
• Infix in-fiks transitive verb implant impress
• Ineffable ih-neh-fuh-bul adjective indescribable b unspeakable uttered taboo
• Majordomo may-juhr-doh-moh noun head steward large household palace
• Jitney jit-nee noun small bus serves regular route
• Hors de combat or-duh-kohn-bah adjective adverb disabled
• Impresario manager im-pruh-sahr-ee-oh noun organizer promoter public entertainments
• Irascible ir-rass-uh-bull adjective marked hot temper easily provoked
• Hypothecate pledge security put buy city hye-pah-thuh-kayt verb
• Kerfuffle ker-fuh-ful noun chiefly british disturbance fuss
• Muckety-muck muh-kuh-tee-muck noun important arrogant person
• Palooka puh-loo-kuh noun inexperienced incompetent boxer oaf lout
• Argument sophistry sah-fuh-stree noun subtly deceptive reasoning argumentation
• Hortative adjective meaning noun hor-tuh-tihv giving exhortation serving
• Ingratiate in-gray-shee-ayt verb gain favor favorable acceptance deliberate
• Mulct mulkt verb punish fine defraud money swindle
• Objurgation ahb-jer-gay-shun noun harsh rebuke
• Palimpsest writing pal-ump-sest puh-limp-sest noun material parchment tablet
• Orchidaceous latin or-kuh-day-shuss adjective relating orchids showy ostentatious
• Nudnik kerry's president nood-nik noun boring pest yiddish
• Penury pen-yuh-ree noun severe lack resources money extreme
• Orotund voice root or-uh-tund ahr-uh-tund adjective strong clear
• Pathos pay-thohss pa-thohss noun element experience artistic representation
• Philippic fuh-lih-pik noun bitter condemnation speech greek philippikos
• Times pellucid puh-loo-sid adjective admitting maximum passage light
• Obverse ahb-verss noun side coin currency note bearing
• Nugatory noo-guh-tor-ee adjective trifling inconsequential force inoperative
• Nictitate verb developed latin nik-tuh-tayt wink happen blink
• Pied-a-terre pee-ayd-uh-tair pee-ayd-ah-tair noun temporary lodging
• Perspicuous per-spih-kyuh-wus adjective expressed easy understand.  latin perspicuus
• Nonage nah-nij noh-nij noun minority period youth b
• Peccant peh-kint adjective guilty moral offense sinning violating
• Moxie mahk-see noun energy pep courage determination know-how
• Moral latin rectitudinous rek-tih-too-din-uss rek-tih-tood-nuss adjective characterized straightness
• Solicitous suh-lih-suh-tuhs suh-lihs-tuhs adjective apprehensive meticulously careful full
• Prehensile french pree-hen-sul pree-hen-sile adjective capable seizing grasping
• Quotidian kwoh-tid-ee-un adjective occurring day commonplace ordinary
• Superannuated soo-per-an-yuh-wayt-id adjective retired age infirmity work service
• Straight rectilinear reck-tuh-lin-ee-er adjective moving forming line characterized
• Riot act rye-ut-akt noun vigorous reprimand warning phrase
• Spumescent spyoo-meh-sunt adjective frothy foamy
• Pictures rebus ree-bus noun representation syllables words means
• Solon soh-lun soh-lahn noun wise skillful lawgiver member
• Spunk spuhnk noun woody tinder mettle pluck spirit
• Rodomontade orlando conn showman rah-duh-mun-tayd rah-duh-mun-tahd noun pretentious
• Sapient say-pee-unt sap-ee-unt adjective possessing expressing great sagacity
• Closing postlude pohst-lood oo food noun piece music
• Precipitate pri-sip-i-teyt tit adjective sense falling flowing rushing
• Act required church good supererogation soo-per-eh-ruh-gay-shun noun performing
• Verb color opaque scumble word skum-bul make painting
• Pilgarlic looked presidential pil-gar-lik noun bald-headed person man
• Story humorous shaggy-dog impresses teller hearer boring similar
• Sui generis soo-eye-jen-uh-rus soo-ee-jen-uh-rus adjective kind unique latin
• Sophomoric sahf-mor-ik adjective conceited overconfident knowledge poorly informed
• Sternutation ster-nyuh-tay-shun noun act fact noise sneezing latin
• Voracity vor-rass-uh-tee vuh-rass-uh-tee noun quality state ravenous insatiable
• Mental torpor tor-per noun spiritual apathy state motor
• Turpitude tur-puh-tood tur-puh-tyood noun inherent baseness depravity base
• Xanthic zan-thik adjective relating tending yellow color
• Syrup treacle tree-kuhl noun medicinal compound wide remedy
• Vulpine vul-pyne adjective relating resembling fox foxy crafty
• Instrument trammel tram-ul noun limits hinders fishing net
• Swivet time state american swiv-it noun extreme agitation
• Veld velt felt noun open grassland southern africa
• Weltschmerz velt-shmairts noun world weariness pessimism apathy sadness
• Waggish wag wag-ish adjective displaying good-humored mischief humorous
• Toothsome sense tooth meaning taste feb rock tooth-sum
• Yawp verb make raucous noise squawk clamor complain
• Taphephobia taf-ee-foh-bee-uh noun fear buried alive
• Tchotchke chahch-kuh noun knickknack trinket
• Thaumaturgy performance magic meaning miracles thaw-muh-tur-jee noun specifically
• Transpontine south transs-pahn-tyne adjective bridge situated side thames
• Vespertine vess-per-tyne adjective relating occurring evening active flowering
• Tocsin tahk-sun noun alarm bell warning signal middle
• Vulnerary vuhl-nuh-rehr-ee adjective healing wounds
• Wheedle hwee-dull wee-dull verb obtain influence flattery coaxing
• Surly sur-lee adjective irritably sullen churlish mood manner
• Thrasonical word thray-sah-nih-kul thruh-sah-nih-kul adjective bragging boastful.  thraso
• Time latin temporize tem-puh-rize verb act suit situation
• Offers kibitzer kih-bit-ser noun unwanted advice comment card
• Autochthonous english adjective region meaning aw-tahk-thuh-nuss indigenous native
• Hamlet posy i nosegay nohz-gay noun small bunch
• Sacerdotal sass-er-doh-tul sak-er-doh-tul adjective priestly religious belief priests
• Inspissate in-spih-sayt in-spuh-sayt verb thicken condense latin inspissare
• Feckless fek-luss adjective weak ineffective worthless irresponsible
• Yule yool noun feast nativity jesus christ christmas
• Smarmy call smahr-mee adjective hypocritically complacently effusively earnest
• Omnium-gatherum ahm-nee-um-ga-thuh-rum noun miscellaneous collection things persons
• Biting mordacious mor-day-shuss adjective sharp manner style caustic
• Diagonal oblique catercorner kat-ee-kor-ner kat-uh-kor-ner adverb adjective position
• Bon vivant good bahn-vee-vahnt bohn-vee-vahn noun enjoys things
• Contemn kun-tem verb treat contempt despise middle english
• Cockaigne land luxury french word english early kah-kayn
• Quondam kwahn-dum kwahn-dam adjective onetime latin earliest documented
• Quality state rectitude rek-tuh-tood noun straight moral integrity
• Latin longanimity long-guh-nih-muh-tee noun calmness face suffering adversity
• Indefeasible in-dih-fee-zuh-bul adjective capable annulled voided undone
• Celerity suh-lair-uh-tee noun rapidity motion action quickness swiftness
• Change pterodactyl study peripeteia peh-ruh-puh-tee-uh peh-ruh-puh-tye-uh noun sudden
• Edulcorate ih-dul-kuh-rayt verb free harshness attitude soften
• Obloquy ob-luh-kwee noun censure abusive language expressed disgrace
• Desideratum groups street inclined moscow dih-sid-uh-ray-tum rah noun
• Uxorial uk-sor-ee-ul ug-zor-ee-ul adjective pertaining wife typical befitting
• Groundling ground-ling noun spectator stood pit elizabethan theater
• Unctuous ungk-choo-us adjective texture unguent ointment oily greasy
• Impudicity im-pyoo-dih-suh-tee noun lack modesty
• Indagate in-duh-gayt verb investigate to
• Pangloss meaning panglossian pan-gloss-ee-un adjective excessively optimistic dr
• Desuetude des-wih-tood tyood noun state disuse latin de
• Nescience nesh-uhn(t)s nesh-ee-uhn(t)s noun ignorance latin ne scire
• Kakistocracy kak-uh-stah-kruh-see noun government worst
• Puissant pwih-sunt pyoo-uh-sunt adjective potent french latin posse
• Wander divagate dye-vuh-gayt dih-vuh-gayt verb digress.  latin divagatus
• Voluble vol-yuh-buhl adjective characterized ready flow speech easily
• Middle duncan smith's degringolade day-gran-guh-lahd noun rapid decline
• Namby-pamby nam-bee-pam-bee adjective lacking character substance insipid weak
• Truckle truh-kul verb submit yield obsequiously tamely unreasonable
• Adjuvant aj-uh-vunt adjective serving aid contribute auxiliary assisting
• Frisson latin french free-sohn noun sudden moment excitement
• Curse malediction mal-uh-dik-shun noun execration middle english maladicte
• Latin farrago fuh-rah-go fuh-ray-go noun plural confused mixture
• Logorrhea law-guh-ree-uh noun excessive flow words incoherent greek
• Mellifluous flowing latin root villains muh-lif-loo-us adjective honey
• Videlicet vi-del-uh-sit vih-day-lih-ket adverb commonly abbreviated
• Forlorn fur-lorn adjective sad lonely deserted abandoned lost
• Ineluctable adjective luctari struggle word in-ih-luck-tuh-buhl inevitable drama
• Traduce truh-doos dyoos transitive verb falsely represent blamable
• Evanescent ev-uh-nes-unt adjective liable vanish pass vapor fleeting
• Contravene kon-truh-veen transitive verb act counter violate oppose
• Showy furbelow fur-buh-low noun pleated gathered flounce woman's
• Susurration soo-suh-ray-shun noun whispering sound soft murmur susurrus  comes  from  the  latin  susurrus,  "a  murmuring
• Gelid jel-id adjective extremely cold icy
• Noun volte-face english italian meaning vawlt-fahss about-face reversal
• Extempore ik-stem-puh-ree adverb impulsively spur moment adjective performed
• Position paid latin earliest souls church sinecures sine
• Words prolix pro-liks adjective tediously wordy.  latin prolixus
• Perforce pur-fors adverb necessity force circumstance
• Tyro ty-roh noun beginner learning novice
• Philomath fil-uh-math noun lover learning greek fond philo
• Temerarious tem-uh-rair-ee-us adjective recklessly presumptuously daring rash
• Roister roy-stur intransitive verb engage boisterous merrymaking revel
• Seriatim sir-ee-ay-tim at-im adverb series
• Mien meen noun appearance bearing demeanor shortened form
• Detritus dih-try-tuhs noun plural loose material worn rocks
• Legendary ant myrmidons mur-muh-don dun noun loyal follower
• Unguent ung-gwuhnt noun salve sores burns ointment
• Pusillanimous pyoo-suh-lan-uh-muhs adjective lacking courage timid latin pusillus
• Potion philter fil-tur noun love charm believed magic
• Flummery flum-uh-ree noun sweet dishes made milk eggs
• Enjoin join building group en-join transitive verb order
• Bibulous bib-yuh-luhs adjective related drinking alcohol readily absorbing
• Affray uh-fray noun tumultuous assault quarrel brawl
• Excrescence ik-skress-uhn(t)s noun abnormal growing disfiguring unwanted mark
• Soi-disant swah-dee-zahn adjective self-styled so-called french soi oneself
• Refractory resistant rih-frak-tuh-ree adjective hard manage stubborn usual
• Praise paeans pee-uhn noun joyous song triumph thanksgiving
• Tintinnabulation tin-tih-nab-yuh-lay-shuhn noun tinkling sound bell
• Repletion rih-plee-shun noun condition completely filled satisfied french
• Noun word gambol verb frolic skipping leaping english
• Perorate pear-uh-rayt intransitive verb conclude sum long discourse
• Redound overflow rih-downd intransitive verb contribute someone's credit
• Asseverate declare uh-sev-uh-rayt transitive verb affirm positively earnestly
• Prink pringk transitive verb dress deck show
• Bilious bil-yuhs adjective pertaining bile gastric distress peevish
• Foofaraw foo-fuh-raw noun excessive flashy ornamentation decoration fuss
• Faineant french present fay-nay-awn adjective do-nothing idler fainéant
• Greek word latin bombinate bom-buh-nayt intransitive verb make
• Pleonasm plee-uh-naz-uhm noun words express idea redundancy latin
• Foundling fownd-ling noun deserted abandoned infant child found
• Bedizen bih-dy-zuhn transitive verb dress adorn gaudy manner
• Nimiety nih-my-uh-tee noun excess redundancy latin nimius ultimately
• Hebetude mental dullness word latin heb-uh-tood tyood noun
• Idyll eye-dl noun simple descriptive work poetry prose
• Disquisition dis-kwuh-zish-uhn noun formal discourse subject
• Gallimaufry gal-uh-maw-free noun hodgepodge jumble.  middle french galimafree
• Dulcet duhl-sit adjective melodious harmonious generally pleasing soothing
• Delay demur dih-mur intransitive verb object exception noun
• Empyrean em-pie-ree-un peer-ee noun highest heaven supposed ancients
• Special popinjay pop-in-jay noun vain talkative person french
• Benison ben-uh-suhn zuhn noun blessing benediction
• Disport dis-port verb divert amuse oneself display sportive
• Troglodyte trog-luh-dyt noun member primitive people lived caves
• Embonpoint ahn-bohn-pwan noun plumpness person stoutness
• Title expectation temporary yawn state property abeyance uh-bay-uhn(t)s
• Feel express long longing repine element sense poena
• Ludic word loo-dik adjective playful fun means created
• Subvention sub-ven-shun noun provision assistance financial support as  a
• Tatterdemalion tat-ur-dih-mail-yuhn may-lee-uhn noun person dressed tattered ragged
• Girl gamine gam-een noun wanders streets urchin playfully
• Recherche ruh-sher-shay adjective uncommon exotic rare exquisite choice
• Arcanum ar-kay-nuhm noun plural arcana secret mystery specialized
• Ken range sight noun perception understanding knowledge vision
• Verb hector hek-tur noun bully transitive intimidate harass
• Deracinate dee-ras-uh-nayt transitive verb pluck roots uproot extirpate
• Plaintive plain-tiv adjective expressive sorrow melancholy mournful sad
• Literary work greek word ancient olympics conflict characters
• Pablum pab-luhm noun communication trite insipid simplistic
• Remonstrate rih-mahn-strayt reh-mun-strayt intransitive verb reason plead protest
• Clerisy latin greek kler-uh-see noun educated class intelligentsia
• Make i etiolate weak etiolated ee-tee-uh-late transitive verb
• Debouch narrow latin oil dih-bowch boosh verb intr
• Ivanisevic maunder mon-dur intransitive verb talk incoherently speak
• Imprecation im-prih-kay-shun noun act imprecating invoking evil curse
• Vade mecum vay-dee-mee-kuhm vah-dee-may noun book ready reference
• Skulduggery skullduggery skul-dug-uh-ree noun underhand dealing trickery bribery
• Billet bil-it noun lodging soldiers official order directing
• Latin verb redact rih-dakt transitive draw frame proclamation
• Cavort kuh-vort intransitive verb bound prance high-spirited festive
• Epicene ep-uh-seen adjective characteristics sexes effeminate unmasculine noun
• Concinnity kuhn-sin-uh-tee noun internal harmony parts studied elegance
• Arrant word ar-unt adjective notoriously extreme complete spelling
• Casual dishabille dis-uh-beel noun state carelessly partially dressed
• Senescent grow meaning guess sih-nes-uhnt adjective growing aging
• Latin frangible york fran-juh-buhl adjective readily broken breakable
• Interlard in-tur-lard transitive verb insert mix mingle introduce
• Gadabout zelda gad-uh-bout noun roams search amusement gad
• Riposte quick response rih-post noun thrust parrying opponent's
• Manse man(t)s noun large imposing residence clergyman presbyterian
• Sear sere seer adjective dry withered variant spelling
• Louche loosh adjective questionable character dubious disreputable.  french
• Redolent red-uh-lunt adjective fragrant smelling suggestive reminiscent french
• Blackguard blag-urg noun rude unscrupulous person scoundrel foul
• Rivulet riv-yuh-lut noun small stream brook streamlet
• Vatic vat-ik adjective prophetic oracular latin vates prophet
• Dotage doh-tij noun deterioration mental faculties senility venerable
• Cudgel kuh-juhl noun short heavy stick weapon club
• Irenic greek eye-ren-ik ree-nik adjective promoting peace conciliation
• Eremite boyfriend salinger er-uh-myt noun hermit religious recluse
• Fop noun man overly concerned vain dress appearance
• Act offering oblation uh-blay-shun noun worship deity capitalized
• Felicitous fuh-lis-uh-tuhs adjective apt.  pleasing latin felix happy
• Ne ultra nee-plus-ul-truh nay noun pinnacle ultimate profound
• Bloviate bloh-vee-ayt intransitive verb speak write length pompous
• Rebarbative beard war ree-bar-buh-tiv adjective irritating repellent french
• Abattoir ab-uh-twahr noun slaughterhouse a
• Pervicacious pur-vih-kay-shus adjective stubborn obstinate latin pervicax earliest
• Solecism university sah-luh-siz-um noun nonstandard ungrammatical usage unflammable
• Slugabed sluhg-uh-bed noun stays bed late hour sluggard
• Repast rih-past noun food meal
• Spoonerism spoo-nuh-riz-uhm noun transposition initial sounds pair words
• Cormorant french kor-mur-unt muh-rant noun seabirds family phalacrocoracidae
• Ponere meaning verb put prefix place merchants apposite
• Means propinquity proximity root proximus propinquus english sense
• Badinage bad-n-ahzh noun light playful talk banter
• Subfusc sub-fuhsk adjective dark dull color drab dusky
• Jocund jock-uhnd joh-kuhnd adjective full expressing high-spirited merriment
• Ambit am-bit noun scope range limit boundary latin
• Wassail drink verb house health christmas wah-sul wah-sayl
• Doff dof transitive verb article clothing tip remove
• Irrefragable latin issues ir-ref-ruh-guh-buhl adjective impossible refute dispute
• Russian lugubrious lu-goo-bree-uhs gyoo adjective mournful dismal exaggerated
• Bindle stiff bin-dul-stiff noun hobo carries clothes bedding
• Bouleversement chapters indigo prime minister blair promised bool-vair-suh-mawn
• Ukase proclamation force law russian yoo-kays kayz noun
• Rapport ra-por ruh noun relation characterized sympathetic understanding
• Wayworn way-worn adjective wearied traveling
• Gewgaw g(y)oo-gaw noun showy trifle trinket bauble
• Atelier at-l-yay noun workshop studio
• Vim noun power energy vigor latin vis strength
• Parlous par-luhs adjective hazardous
• Quiddity latin synonym sense quis kwid-ih-tee noun distinctive
• Descant des-kant verb talk tediously sing play noun
• Rictus rik-tuhs noun gape mouth birds gaping grin
• Fetid fet-id fee-tid adjective heavily offensive smell
• Trivial verb raise frivolous cavil kav-uhl intransitive objections
• Sleepy glaucous glaw-kus adjective pale yellow-green color b
• Conscience guilty compunction sting prick compungere kuhm-puhnk-shuhn noun
• Pule pyool intransitive verb whimper whine
• Capon kay-pon noun male chicken castrated young improve
• Venal bribery latin medici vee-nuhl adjective capable bought
• Soft low sighing rustling sough sau suhf intransitive
• Impassible im-pass-uh-bul adjective unfeeling showing feeling good bad
• Gaucherie goh-shuh-ree noun lack tact grace instance french
• Osculate ahss-kyuh-layt verb kiss latin noun osculum meaning
• Quidnunc kwid-nungk noun nosy gossipy person latin quid
• English gloaming good word verb meaning gloh-ming noun
• Year's hogmanay hog-muh-nay noun scotland eve children singing
• Obdurate ob-duh-rit dyuh adjective stubborn easily moved hard-hearted
• Macédoine salad dessert art mass-uh-dwahn noun confused mixture
• Mollycoddle mah-lee-kah-dul verb treat excessive absurd degree indulgence
• Lycanthropy lye-kan-thruh-pee noun delusion wolf assumption form characteristics
• Inhere in-heer verb inherent fixed element attribute
• Encomium en-koh-mee-um noun glowing praise.  latin greek enkomion
• Natant nay-tunt adjective swimming floating water
• Rugose roo-gohss adjective full wrinkles veinlets sunken spaces
• Handsel han-sul noun gift express good wishes beginning
• Blench verb flinch
• Mr limn lim verb portray words draw paint
• Crural krur-ul adjective relating leg femor latin crus
• Vitiate vish-ee-ayt verb impair spoil effectiveness corrupt latin
• Baroque buh-rohk adjective capitalized relating style art music
• Spindrift spin-drift noun sea spray blown waves gale
• Terreplein tair-uh-playn noun level space parapet rampart guns
• Delate dih-layt verb report offense denounce accuse latin
• Pukka puck-uh adjective genuine authentic first-class
• Plumply plump-lee adverb wholehearted manner hesitation circumlocution forthrightly
• Soupçon soop-sawng final ng pronounced vowel nasalized noun
• Sockdolager booth fired shot i sock-dah-lih-jer noun settles
• Fatuous fatch-oo-us adjective complacently inanely foolish silly
• Musical meaning philosophical latin quodlibet theological joanna kwahd-luh-bet
• Pink verb perforate ornamental pattern  b cut saw-toothed edge
• Intestate in-tess-tayt adjective made valid disposed
• Informal essay french word causerie kohz-ree noun conversation
• Cast slough sluff verb crumble slowly fall rid
• Ennead en-ee-ad noun group greek enneas
• Marmoreal marble marh-mor-ee-ul adjective relating suggestive statue coldness
• Comminute kah-muh-noot verb reduce minute particles pulverize
• Bibelot bee-buh-loh noun small household ornament decorative object
• Holus-bolus hoh-lus-boh-lus adverb all at
• Daedal dee-dul adjective skillful artistic  b intricate adorned things
• Jacquerie peasant term zhah-kuh-ree noun revolt insurrection nobility
• Defile dih-fyle verb march line
• Eleemosynary thanksgiving dinner el-ih-mah-suh-nair-ee adjective relating charity.  latin
• Empyreal seventh relating highest pure heavens em-pye-ree-ul adjective
• Qua institutions kwah preposition capacity character latin qui
• Turn animadversion an-uh-mad-ver-zhun noun act criticizing unfavorable comment
• Early canicular kuh-nik-yuh-ler adjective relating dog days period
• Hair trichology trih-kah-luh-jee noun study treatment disorders greek: tricho
• Chorography kuh-rah-gruh-fee noun art describing mapping region district
• Florilegium flor-uh-lee-jee-um noun volume writings anthology neo-latin equivalent
• Expatiate ek-spay-shee-ayt verb move freely wander speak write
• Sparge spahrj verb sprinkle bespatter spray agitate liquid
• Philoprogenitive fill-uh-proh-jen-uh-tiv adjective tending produce offspring prolific relating
• Tantivy tan-tiv-ee adverb headlong dash gallop obscure origin
• Jackleg jack-leg adjective unprofessional quality ethics amateur makeshift
• Skosh rate skohsh noun small amount japanese sukoshi
• Pachydermatous pack-ih-der-muh-tuss adjective relating pachyderms thick thickened.  b callous
• Bardolater bar-dah-luh-ter noun person idolizes shakespeare
• Brachiate hold branch bray-kee-ayt verb progress swinging arms
• Usufruct yoo-zuh-frukt noun enjoy another's property destroying latin
• Cloying kloy-ing adjective disgusting distasteful reason excess excessively
• Sense zeugma zoog-muh noun word modify applies makes
• Skimble-skamble adjective rambling confused senseless
• Founder foun-der verb make disabled lame collapse sink
• Chef-d'oeuvre chef shay-doo-vruh noun masterpiece french chief oeuvre
• Roman clef à term roh-mahn-ah-klay noun depicts famous
• Smoot smite occiput ahk-sih-put noun back part head
• Effrontery ih-frun-tuh-ree noun shameless boldness presumptuousness french effronterie
• Higgledy-piggledy hig-ul-dee-pig-ul-dee adverb confused disordered random manner unknown
• Deterge dih-turj verb cleanse to
• Tenebrous ten-uh-brus adjective shut light dark murky hard
• Staff growing malinger muh-ling-gur verb feign illness order
• Form eclogue pastoral greek poet rural eck-log noun
• Obnubilate ahb-noo-buh-layt verb cloud obscure darken latin obnubilare
• Manumit man-yuh-mit verb release slavery
• Carrefour kair-uh-foor noun crossroads square plaza
• Deasil dee-zil adverb clockwise
• Bludge bluj verb chiefly australia zealand avoid work
• Whinge winj verb complain fretfully whine
• Otiose oh-shee-ohss adjective futile idle functionless otium leisure
• Oneiric oh-nye-rik adjective relating dreams dreamy greek oneiros
• Gadzookery gad-zoo-kuh-ree noun british archaisms historical
• Chirography kye-rah-gruh-fee noun handwriting penmanship calligraphy greeks combining
• Inveterate friends in-vet-uh-rut adjective firmly established habitual middle
• Sententious full sen-ten-shus adjective pithy expressions pompous moralizing
• Maecenas patron mih-see-nus noun generous literature art gaius
• Argosy large merchant bit ahr-guh-see noun ship rich
• Eidetic eye-det-ik adjective marked involving extraordinarily accurate vivid
• Piebald pye-bawld adjective colors spotted blotched black white
• Slaked slake slayk verb allay thirst desire wrath
• Sobriquet soh-brih-kay noun descriptive epithet nickname
• Lickerish lik-uh-rish adjective lascivious lecherous greedy desirous middle
• Withy with-ee noun willow pliable twigs furniture basketry
• Forest called property land royal anglo-french purlieu perl-yoo
• Epistemic ep-uh-stee-mik adjective relating knowledge knowing cognitive
• Edentulous ee-den-chuh-luss adjective teeth toothless latin edentulus e
• Sciolism sye-uh-liz-um noun superficial show learning
• Recrudescence ree-kroo-dess-uns noun outbreak period abatement inactivity renewal
• Eyas falcon eye-us noun unfledged bird specifically nestling
• Blarney cares blar-nee noun skillful flattery blandishment nonsense
• Purfle pur-ful verb ornament border edges
• Anathema person thing uh-nath-uh-muh noun plural mas detested
• Predilection pred-l-ek-shuhn noun established preference bach
• Market buyers oligopsony ah-luh-gahp-suh-nee noun situation exerts disproportionate
• Incarnadine in-kahr-nuh-dyne adjective flesh-colored blood-red noun color verb
• Fugleman atlantic fyoo-gul-mun noun leads group company party
• Gadarene demons financial gad-uh-reen adjective headlong rash town
• Tax danegeld dayn-gheld noun capitalized annual believed imposed
• Kvell dared kvel verb feel proud beam gloat
• Misprision mis-prizh-un noun neglect wrong performance official duty
• Sense touch english psychological haptic hap-tik adjective relating
• Bumptious blend bump turkey bump-shus adjective  self-assertive obnoxious
• Metronome met-ruh-nohm noun instrument designed mark exact time
• Spavined bad spav-ind adjective affected spavin horse disease
• Mau-mau mow-mow ow cow verb intimidate official hostile
• Prevenient prih-veen-yunt adjective coming anticipatory preventive latin praevenient
• Alembic alive uh-lem-bik noun apparatus distilling substances refines
• Bad litotes faint praise lye-tuh-teez noun understatement affirmative
• Mansuetude man-swih-tood noun quality state gentle meekness tameness
• Subreption sub-rep-shun noun deliberate misrepresentation inference drawn
• Titivate tih-tuh-vayt verb make smarter spruce decorate earlier
• Semelparous seh-mel-puh-rus adjective reproducing breeding lifetime
• Deglutition dee-gloo-tish-un noun act process swallowing
• Velleity vuh-lee-uh-tee noun volition i.e faintest latin velle
• Luftmensch looft-mensh oo foot noun impractical dreamer yiddish
• Omphalos omphaloskepsis om-fuh-lo-skep-sis noun navel irish science ahm-fuh-lahss
• Sericeous suh-rish-us adjective silky
• Contumely godot kahn-too-muh-lee noun contemptuous insulting treatment arising
• Apodictic ap-uh-dik-tik adjective demonstrably true latin apodicticus greek
• Shank's mare shanks-mair noun one's legs
• Neoteric nee-uh-tair-ik adjective recent modern late latin neotericus
• Cliometrics klye-uh-met-riks noun plural singular construction application methods
• Pogonip pah-guh-nip noun dense winter fog frozen particles
• Afflatus uh-flay-tus noun divinely power insight inspiration
• Kith sense word noun familiar friends neighbors relatives
• Soporific kapil sah-puh-riff-ik adjective inducing tending induce sleep. 
• Locofoco loh-kuh-foh-koh noun member radical group york democrats
• West wind favonian adjective notus eurus latin fuh-voh-nee-un
• Lares penates household gods roman new-age lair-eez-end-puh-nay-teez noun
• Anent president mr salinas uh-nent preposition middle english
• Lenitive len-uh-tiv adjective alleviating pain harshness soothing
• Violent sudden williwaw will-ih-waw noun gust cold land
• Commove kuh-moov verb move violently agitate rouse intense
• Suit armor panoply pan-uh-plee noun wide-ranging array resources
• Manqué mahng-kay ng pronounced preceding vowel nasalized adjective
• Fata morgana fah-tuh-mor-gah-nuh noun mirage
• Reward latin guerdon gur-dun noun recompense verb tr
• Warison wair-uh-sun noun bugle call attack
• Tiles roof imbricate im-brih-kit keyt adjective overlapping edges
• Argentiferous ar-jun-tiff-uh-rus adjective silver containing
• Pasquinade posted rome sculpture pass-kwuh-nayd noun satire lampoon
• Execrate ek-si-kreyt verb detest denounce curse.  latin execrari
• Defenestration dee-fen-uh-strey-shuhn noun throwing person thing window swift
• Numeraire noo-muh-rair noun basic standard values measured gold
• Plaisance pleasance plez-uhns noun place laid pleasure garden
• Chapfallen chap-faw-lun adjective lower jaw hanging loosely cast
• Deliquesce del-i-kwes verb liquid absorbing moisture air salts
• Adscititious ad-si-tish-uhs adjective derived external additional latin adscitus
• Imprecate im-pri-kayt verb tr invoke evil curse latin
• Salmagundi sal-muh-guhn-dee noun heterogeneous mixture mixed salad ingredients
• Mantic man-tik adjective relating divination greek mantikos mantis
• Reticence ret-uh-suhnt adjective disposed silent speak freely reserved
• Excursive ik-skur-siv adjective tending wander rambling latin excurrere
• Factotum fak-toh-tuhm noun servant low-level employee tasked things
• Lurid loor-id adjective gruesome horrible revolting details accident
• Pertaining equinoctial ee-kwuh-nok-shuhl adjective equinox equality day night
• Base plinth noun architecture slablike member beneath column
• Friend excelsior wood motto york state ik-sel-see-er noun
• Noun god sylvan adjective woods deity sylva english
• Food verb victuals vit-l vittle noun supplies provisions
• Nihilarian nih-i-lar-ee-uhn noun useless work latin nihil find
• Acnestis reach collective ak-nees-tis noun part body scratch
• Gimcrack showy kickshaw century jim-krak noun cheap adjective
• Lentiginous len-tij-uh-nuhs adjective covered freckles latin lentiginosus freckled
• Sense nimrod hunter bugs bunny nim-rahd noun descendant
• Shut extirpate ek-ster-peyt ik-stur-peyt transitive verb destroy completely
• Denouement story dey-noo-mahn noun final resolution plot complex
• Histrionic latin his-tree-on-ik adjective pertaining actors acting theater
• Moue french moo plural  moues noun pout grimace. 
• Verb shark killed depredate dep-ruh-dayt lay waste plunder
• Anomie anomy an-uh-mee noun social instability alienation caused
• Bereft verb past participle bereaved  (greatly saddened deprived
• Place peyton inhabitants sordid secrets
• Und sturm movement drang term english late literary
• Lese majesty leez maj-uh-stee noun offense sovereign power
• Prude wise prood noun person overly concerned propriety
• Futtock fuht-uhk noun curved timbers forms rib frame
• Horologe hawr-uh-lohj noun device clock sundial telling time
• Canaille french rabble dog kuh-nye noun common people
• Paramour pah-uh-moor noun lover adulterous relationship
• Word agrees meaning sentences syllepsis cross style syllepsis
• Diathesis dahy-ath-uh-sis noun pathology constitutional predisposition tendency disease
• Small nubbin nuhb-in noun lump stunted piece stub
• Dyadic dahy-ad-ik adjective twofold relating dyad
• Valence vay-luhns noun capacity unite react interact psychology
• Sibilant sib-uh-luhnt adjective hissing sound s sh
• Beatific bee-uh-tiff-ik adjective possessing imparting state utmost bliss
• Probity proh-bi-tee noun integrity uprightness honesty
• Termagant overbearing tur-muh-guhnt noun quarrelsome woman.  french tervagant
• Desultory latin adjective thing horse jumps derived conversation
• Satyriasis sey-tuh-rahy-uh-sis a.k.a don juanism noun psychiatry syndrome
• Apostasy uh-pos-tuh-see noun total desertion departure one's religion
• Numinous noo-muh-nuhs adjective supernatural mysterious awe-inspiring latin numen
• Noun person platform mountebank order graham bothwell's book
• Embouchure ahm-boo-shoor noun mouth river music mouthpiece woodwind
• Munchausen syndrome noun psychological disorder characterized feigning symptoms
• Cothurnal tragic koh-thur-nuhl adjective related tragedy acting.  latin
• Foal fohl noun young horse mule related animal
• Puerile burqa wear pyur-ul adjective immature silly childish
• Virago vi-rah-goh rey noun loud-voiced ill-tempered scolding woman
• Harridan hahr-i-dn noun scolding vicious woman hag shrew
• Schnorrer shnor-uhr noun habitually takes advantage generosity air
• Buskin worn thick-soled ancient tragic comic bus-kin noun
• Atomy at-uh-mee noun skeleton word anatomy latin anatomia
• Priapean prie-uh-pee-uhn adjective priapric phallic relating overly concerned
• Hadal regions netherworld hayd-l adjective relating deepest ocean
• Stick-in-the-mud lacks initiative imagination enthusiasm
• Benthos sea ben-thos noun collection organisms living lake
• Firth furth noun scots long narrow inlet sea
• Thalassic greek thuh-las-ik adjective relating seas oceans smaller
• Bathypelagic bath-uh-puh-laj-ik adjective relating living depths ocean meters
• Venial vee-nee-uhl adjective easily excused wrong sin opposed
• Open driver's automobile brougham broom broo-uhm broam broa-uhm
• Syzygy siz-uh-jee noun astronomy configuration sun moon earth
• True real verisimilitude ver-uh-si-mil-i-tood tyood noun quality appearing
• Tetchy techy tech-ee adjective peevish testy
• Tawdry taw-dree adjective finery trappings gaudy showy cheap
• Crapehanger krayp-hang-guhr noun gloomy person pessimist hung black
• Losel loa-zuhl loo loz-uhl noun worthless middle english
• Adjective meshuga meshugga muh-shoog-uh crazy stupid meshuggener yiddish
• Nebbish neb-ish noun timid meek ineffectual person yiddish
• Epigone ep-i-goan noun mediocre imitator follower important artist
• Endogamy social greek en-dog-uh-mee noun practice marriage specific
• Greek aphelion uh-fee-lee-uhn uh-feel-yuhn noun point orbit celestial
• Welkin wel-kin noun sky heaven english wolcen cloud
• Beauty modern art share senses aesthete esthete es-theet
• Allogeneic marrow al-uh-je-nee-ik allogenic jen-ik adjective genetically belonging
• Settlements city greek doxiadis ekistics i-kis-tiks noun science
• Booboisie boo-bwa-zee noun segment general public composed uneducated
• Meiosis understatement greek school my-o-sis noun genetics process
• Zugzwang tsook-tsvahng noun position forced make undesirable move
• Meaning suborn verb induce secretly subornare mar suh-born
• Meaning adjure implies feeding uh-joor transitive verb command
• Eustress noun stress deemed healthful giving feeling fulfillment
• Hibernian ireland latin hie-bur-nee-uhn adjective pertaining characteristic inhabitants
• Cambridge relating england massachusetts university cantabrigian kant-uh-brij-eeuh-n adjective
• Earth life tellurian te-loor-ee-uhn adjective relating inhabiting noun
• Hypostatize hi-pos-tuh-tahyz transitive verb treat regard concept idea
• Meme meem noun cultural item transmitted repetition manner
• Abstinence alcoholic partly total preston teetotal tee-tot-l adjective
• Mondegreen word mishearing line i chance mon-di-green noun
• Borborygmus bor-buh-rig-muhs noun rumbling noise caused movement gas
• Fat steatopygia stee-at-uh-pij-ee-uh noun extreme accumulation buttocks steato
• Vomit belch eructate eruct i-ruk-tayt verb expel gases
• Megillah meh-gil-uh noun long tedious account yiddish megile
• Olla podrida cookbooks ol-uh puh-dree-duh po-three-thah noun stew
• Noun satori suh-tor-ee sudden enlightenment japanese derivative verb
• Precatory expressing giving legal provision hymn prek-uh-tor-ee adjective
• Discalced dis-kalst adjective shoes latin dis calceare fit
• Juvenescent joo-veh-nes-ent adjective young youthful latin iuvenescens iuvenescent
• Gerent jir-ent noun rules manages latin gerens present
• Pettifogger pet-ee-foguhr fo-guhr noun petty quibbling unscrupulous lawyer
• Dotard doe-tuhrd noun person dotage deterioration mental faculties
• Raffish philip raf-ish adjective cheaply showily vulgar appearance
• Young verb give birth whelp hwelp welp noun
• Young gosling goz-ling noun goose naive inexperienced person
• Hare leveret lev-uhr-it noun young year middle english
• Pollywog pol-ee-wog noun limbless aquatic larva frog toad
• Cygnet sig-nit noun young swan middle english cignet
• Goddess junoesque joo-noe-esk adjective stately bearing imposing beauty
• Staff aesculapian es-kyuh-lay-pee-ehn adjective relating medicine noun doctor
• Pandora's box pan-dor-uhz boks noun source unforeseen troubles
• Pin bolt gun hinges pintle pin-tl noun part
• Ear tragus tray-guhs noun plural tragi gi ji
• Metal grommet grom-it grummet grum noun reinforced eyelet
• Upper philtrum fil-truhm noun vertical groove lip greek
• Latin diminutive aglet ag-lit noun tag metal sheath
• Parnassus parnassian latin greek french pahr-nas-ee-uhn adjective relating
• Topos toh-pohs plural topoi noun traditional theme motif
• Hamartia ha-mar-tee-uh noun tragic flaw greek hamartanein miss
• Limnology lim-nol-uh-jee noun study bodies fresh water lakes
• Isohyet eye-soh-high-it noun line drawn map connecting points
• Leader greek coryphaeus kohr-uh-fee-uhs plural coryphaei fee-eye noun
• Latin primogenitor pry-moe-jen-i-tuhr noun earliest ancestor forefather late
• Progenitor pro-jen-i-tuhr noun direct ancestor originator line descent
• Related side mother's term enate ee-nayt i-nayt noun
• Puce color french flea pyoos noun dark red
• Versicolor vur-si-kul-uhr adjective variety colors variegated changing iridescent
• Tawny taw-nee noun light brown brownish orange middle
• Testaceous teh-stay-shuhs adjective shell reddish brown color bricks
• Interdigitate in-ter-dij-uh-tayt verb interlocked fingers folded hands
• Noetic meaning science adjective based noun noh-et-ik relating
• Asperity ah-sper-i-tee noun harshness roughness french latin asper
• Obscurantism kirkpatrick uhb-skyoor-uhn-tiz-uhm ob-skyoo-ran-tiz-uhm noun opposition spread knowledge
• Bishop sedulous sej-uh-luhs adjective involving great care effort
• Quinquagenarian person fifties kwing-kwuh-juh-nar-ee-uhn noun years adjective characteristic
• Raised googolplex goo-gol-pleks noun number power googol written
• Latin ten thirty decuple dek-yuh-puhl adjective times great
• Sexagesimal sek-suh-jes-uh-muhl adjective relating based number latin sexagesimus
• Lustrum luhs-truhm noun also,   luster british,   lustre   a
• Years vicennial vahy-sen-ee-uh adjective occurring
• Epic epopee ep-uh-pee noun poetry poem greek epopoiia
• Trope figure perpetual arab rhymes scope noun figurative
• Macaronic mak-ah-ron-ik adjective involving mixture languages latin macaronicus
• Rich called antonomasia an-toh-noh-may-zhuh noun epithet title proper
• Decree law decretal dih-kreet-l adjective pertaining nature noun
• Fool kiss chiasmus country ki-az-muhs noun reverse order
• Mae west noun inflatable vestlike life preserver american
• Fardel fahr-dl noun pack bundle burden middle english
• Supernal soo-pur-nuhl adjective celestial heavenly coming sky high
• Aleatory sounds john concerto ay-lee-uh-tor-ee tohr-ee adjective dependent
• Nisei nee-say noun person born america parents emigrated
• Flower tuan cut roots put ikebana ee-ke-bah-nah ik-uh
• Lodestar loadstar load-stahr noun star polaris point reference
• Theomachy thee-om-eh-kee noun strife battle gods homeric poems
• Talion death deterrence people tal-ee-uhn noun punishment identical
• Choice offered horse hobson's customers stable good ford
• Apothegm apophthegm ap-uh-them noun short witty instructive rare
• Job's console comforter johbz kum-fuhr-tuhr noun person fails
• Expediency ped ek-spee-dee-uhn-see noun consideration advantageous easy quality
• Lavaliere de la lav-uh-lir lavalliere la-va-lyar noun pendant
• Tar baby rabbit brer tahr bay-bee noun avoided
• Bacchant buh-kant kahnt bak-uhnt noun plural bacchantes priest
• Surcease suhr-sees noun stoppage temporary verb bring end
• Common latin english colubrine kahl-yuh-bryne adjective snakelike animal
• Hoosegow spanish feb hoos-gou noun jail juzgado court
• Mrs grundy prudish actions english miss-uz-grun-dee noun marked
• Forsaken fawr-sey-kuhn verb pp forsake abandon/desert give renounce
• Phlegmatic phlegm israelis fleg-mat-ik adjective sluggish temperament apathetic
• Coeval koh-ee-vul adjective equal age antiquity duration
• Oligopoly ol-i-gop-uh-lee noun market condition sellers
• Theogony thee-og-uh-nee noun origin gods account
• British rule raj rahj noun capitalized indian subcontinent
• Annie oakley card an-ee ohk-lee noun free ticket
• Panjandrum word actor pan-jan-druhm noun important self-important person
• Diffident dif-i-duhnt adjective lacking confidence one's ability worth
• Effulgence ih-full-junss noun radiant splendor brilliance derives latin

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