Sophia's Advanced English Vocabulary for Native Speakers

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• Agon conflict 
• Hyetal related rain to
• Judder shake vibrate force  and
• Potentate  possesses great power ruler
• Stela  upright stone 
• Cognoscenti  people superior knowledge field esp art literature
• Syncretism attempted reconciliation principles  of
• Aegis  protection backing support organization 
• Depredation attacking plundering  or
• Harried  strained harassed  or
• Vernal related spring  to
• Vagary  inexplicable change behavior weather etc. 
• Pablum  bland unintellectual fare  or
• Phalanx  body officers moving formation  bone finger toe
• Soporific  causing sleep
• Doggerel  burlesque  rude cruel poor
• Lechery unrestrained sexual indulgence 
• Concupiscent  lustful sensual
• Perfidious  faithless
• Lingam masculine gender
• Yoni female genitalia 
• Propitiate appease
• Lares roman spirits watch community belong 
• Prehensile grasping
• Thruway major road highway  or
• Mossback conservative person  a very
• Welter  move turbulent fashion  in
• Nosegay small bunch flowers  of
• Munition military weapons ammo  and
• Scrimshaw adorn materials carved colored designs 
• Cambric lightweight linen cotton fabric 
• Polack polish person
• Pinguid  fat oily or
• Bedizen adorn showy tasteless manner
• Prevaricate  speak falsely misleadingly  or
• Payola secret private payment exchange promotion product service
• Mortise deep recess cut wood 
• Adz  axlike tool dressing timbers
• Bambino small kid baby or
• Demotic  relating common people popular 
• Propitious  presenting favorable conditions 
• Solecism unstandard grammar  breach good manners etiquette
• Catachresis  mixed strained usage words error rhetorical effect 
• Impute  attribute ascribe  or
• Locule number small separate cavities 
• Lissome agile flexible  or
• Scry  fortell future crystal ball  or means divination 
• Truculent  quick fight  to
• Pressor resulting increase blood pressure 
• Labile easily alterable 
• Concomitant  occurring time at the
• Burke murder smothering  by
• Diktat order decree imposed popular consent 
• Houri beautiful young woman esp companion virgins islam 
• Footling trivial irritating  and
• Hangdog shamefaced
• Thaumaturgy  capability magician saint work miracles 
• Cadge  obtain isn’t strictly entitled 
• Vituperation  verbal abuse castigation  or
• Galumph move clumsily  along
• Microtome machine cut thin sections
• Anthropogenic  caused people by
• Altricial species young immobile hairless helpless 
• Epontic biological community underside sea ice 
• Hydrophone underwater microphone 
• Haulout seal behavior leave water giving birth resting
• Myrmecophagic  chiefly feeding ants termites 
• Polynya area open water surrounded ice 
• Sassat group whales surrounded ice escape 
• Ulu crescent shaped skinning knife 
• Pectulate steal public funds embezzle 
• Myasis maggot infection 
• Rusk dry biscuit baked bread
• Promontory high pioint land rock projecting sea water
• Penumbra shadowy indefinite marginal area
• Fascia band fillet binding hair
• Garret attic small wretched an
• Aniline colorless oily slightly soluble liquid production dyes
• Paean song praise  of
• Woolgathering idle daydreaming
• Arrant utter
• Krummholz forest stunted trees timber line mountain
• Suppurate  discharge pus  to
• Intransigent  refusing compromise inflexible  to
• Vizier  high ranking official muslim nations 
• Neoplasm uncontrolled tissue growth tumor
• Dropsy edema
• Catarrh  inflammation mucous membrane accompanied excessive secretions 
• Gibbet  gallows projecting arm top 
• Comforter quilt  hap cover or
• Priori general law instance latin
• Vesicant producing blister a or
• Etiolate weak drain color to
• Vestment garment a
• Munificent extremely liberal giving generous
• Frowzy ill smelling musty dirty untidy slovenly
• Susurrus whispering murmuring rustling or
• Flyspeck speck stain excrement fly
• Semaphore apparatus conveying information means visual signals light
• Shoal school fish large number persons things
• Sylph slender graceful woman girl
• Peccadillo minor sin offense a
• Short piece drapery valance curtain hung canopy frame
• Wimple headdress worn nuns the
• Shanghai enroll obtain cew ship unscrupulous means
• Primipara woman giving birth time
• Group cabal small secret plotters authority plots intrigues
• Geep offspring goat sheep a
• Shoat offspring goat sheep a
• Hireling person works pay menial boring job
• Ipso facto fact nature deed
• Sententious righteous extreme moralizing abounding pithy aphorisms maxims
• Temerity reckless boldness rashness or
• Procuress woman procures prostitutes a
• Spackle brand quick drying plasterlike material patching plasterwork
• Kaffiyeh arab headdress men for
• Assay examine/analyze to
• Immanent inherhent remaining within
• Askance suspicion/mistrust disapproval looked offer side glance obliquely
• Corona white colored circle set concentric light luminous
• Harlequin buffoon small snakes bright diamond-pattern scales fancifully
• Contiguous touching close contact in
• Etiology study diseases generally of
• One's diffident lacking confidience worth restrained/reserved conduct manner
• Dumbwaiter small elevator carry things food dishes floors
• Prosy prosaic dull
• Apotheosis elevation person rank god ideal example/epitome
• Desultory random unconnected main subject lacking consistency/visible order
• Unctuous oily greasy characterized excessive piousness moralistic fevor
• Serried pressed compacted together
• Mendacity one's tendency lie instance lying falsehood
• Hoary gray white age or
• Inchoate begun incipient just
• Ecomium formal expression high praise
• Jeremiad prolonged lamentation mournful complaint
• Carbonaceous carbon of like or
• Ineluctable impossible evade to
• Watershed important point division transition phases conditions
• Lariat long noosed rope catch livestock
• Redound good bad effect result advantage disadvantage person
• Tope drink liquor habitually excess
• Roughage coarse rough food livestock
• Protean changeable shape form in
• Fungible freely exchangeable replaceable goods
• Benighted intellectually morally ignorant or
• Faustian characterized spiritaual dissatisfaction torment possessed hunger knowledge
• Alluvium deposit sand mud formed flowing water  sedimentary
• Chamois medium grayish yellow color
• Blandishment meant coax entice action speech
• Obstreperous resisting control restraint unruly
• Anomie state condition individuals society characterized breakdown absence
• Exegesis critical explanation interpretation text part esp bible
• Croesus rich man a very
• Paseo slow leisurely walk stroll 
• Ergophobia  fear work  a of
• Madeleine triggers nostalgia  something that
• Aliyah immigration jews israel  act proceeding table reading
• Goridan intricate  very
• Schmutz unidentifiable gunk 
• Bris circumcision male child  the
• Bimah platform synagogue holding reading table chanting parts
• Thewless weak timid 
• Busticate break pieces  to into

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