| abacus | frame with balls for calculating | Usage |
| abate | to lessen to subside | Usage |
| abdication | giving up control authority | Usage |
| aberration | straying away from what is normal | Usage |
| abet | help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
| Usage |
| abeyance | suspended action | Usage |
| abhor | to hate to detest | Usage |
| abide | be faithful to endure | Usage |
| abjure | promise or swear to give up | Usage |
| abraded | rubbed off worn away by friction | Usage |
| abrogate | repeal or annul by authority | Usage |
| abscond | to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest) | Usage |
| abstruse | difficult to comprehend obscure | Usage |
| abut | border on | Usage |
| abysmal | bottomless extreme | Usage |
| acarpous | effete no longer fertile worn out | Usage |
| acclaimed | welcomed with shouts and approval | Usage |
| accolade | praise approval | Usage |
| accretion | the growing of separate things into one | Usage |
| accrue | accumulate | Usage |
| acumen | Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment | Usage |
| adamant | kind of stone inflexible | Usage |
| admonitory | containing warning | Usage |
| adorn | add beauty decorate | Usage |
| adulteration | making unpure poorer in quality | Usage |
| affable | polite and friendly | Usage |
| affinity | close connection relationship | Usage |
| aggravate | make worse irritate | Usage |
| agile | active quick-moving | Usage |
| agog | eager/excited | Usage |
| ail | to cause pain, uneasiness, or trouble to. | Usage |
| alacrity | eager and cheerful readiness | Usage |
| alcove | recess/partially enclosed place | Usage |
| ale | fermented alcoholic beverage similar to but heavier than beer | Usage |
| aleck | one who considers himself smarter than others | Usage |
| allegiance | duty support loyalty | Usage |
| alleviate | make (pain) easier to bear | Usage |
| alloy | to debase by mixing with something inferior | Usage |
| aloof | reserved indifferent | Usage |
| amalgamate | mix combine unite societies | Usage |
| ambidextrous | able to use the left hand or the right equally well | Usage |
| ambiguous | doubtful uncertain | Usage |
| ambivalent | having both of two contrary meanings | Usage |
| ambrosial | extremely pleasing to taste | Usage |
| ameliorate | improve make better | Usage |
| amortize | end (a debt) by setting aside money | Usage |
| anguish | severe suffering | Usage |
| animosity | strong dislike | Usage |
| antidote | medicine used against a poison or a disease | Usage |
| antithetical | direct opposing | Usage |
| apartheid | brutal racial discrimination | Usage |
| aplomb | self-confidence | Usage |
| apostate | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions | Usage |
| apotheosis | deification glorification to godliness | Usage |
| appease | make quiet or calm | Usage |
| apprehensive | grasping understanding fear unhappy feeling about future | Usage |
| apprise | give notice to inform | Usage |
| approbation | approval | Usage |
| apropos | appropriate to the situation apt | Usage |
| apt | well-suited quick-witted | Usage |
| arabesque | a complex ornate design | Usage |
| arboreal | of connected with trees | Usage |
| ardor | enthusiasm | Usage |
| arduous | steep difficult ascent laborious | Usage |
| argot | jargon slang | Usage |
| arrant | in the highest degree | Usage |
| arrogance | proud superior manner of behaviour | Usage |
| articulate | speak distinctly connect by joints | Usage |
| ascend | go or come up | Usage |
| ascertain | get to know | Usage |
| ascetic | practicing self-denial austere stark | Usage |
| ascribe | consider to be the origin of or belonging to | Usage |
| aseptic | surgically clean | Usage |
| asperity | roughness harshness ill temper irritability | Usage |
| aspersion | slander | Usage |
| assail | with attack violently | Usage |
| assiduous | diligent hard-working sedulous | Usage |
| assuage | make something (pain desire) less | Usage |
| asterisk | the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters) | Usage |
| astringent | substance that shrinks | Usage |
| astute | clever quick at seeing to get an advantage | Usage |
| atonement | repayment death of Jesus | Usage |
| attenuate | make thin. weaken enervate | Usage |
| attune | bring into harmony | Usage |
| audacious | Bold | Usage |
| augury | omen sign | Usage |
| august | majestic venerable | Usage |
| auspicious | favorable successful prosperous | Usage |
| austere | severely moral and strict simple and plain | Usage |
| auxiliary | helping supporting | Usage |
| aver | affirm assert prove justify | Usage |
| aversion | strong dislike | Usage |
| avid | eager greedy | Usage |
| avow | admit. Declare openly | Usage |
| baleful | harmful ominous causing evil | Usage |
| balk | obstacle purposely to get on the way of | Usage |
| bandy | discuss lightly or glibly; exchange (words) heatedly | Usage |
| baneful | causing harm or ruin pernicious destructive | Usage |
| barrage | artificial obstacle built across a river | Usage |
| barren | not good enough unable to have young ones without value | Usage |
| bask | in enjoy warmth and light | Usage |
| beatify | to bless make happy or ascribe a virtue to | Usage |
| bedizen | to adorn especially in a cheap showy manner | Usage |
| beguile | mislead or delude; cheat; pass time | Usage |
| belabor | beat hard | Usage |
| bellicose | inclined to fighting | Usage |
| belligerent | (person nation) waging war | Usage |
| benefactor | person who has given help | Usage |
| benevolence | wish or activity in doing good | Usage |
| benign | kind and gentle mild (climate) | Usage |
| benison | blessing | Usage |
| bequest | arrangement to give something at death | Usage |
| berate | scold sharply | Usage |
| bereft | rob or dispossess of something (material) | Usage |
| bewilder | puzzle confuse | Usage |
| bigot | stubborn narrow-minded person | Usage |
| bilge | bulge the protuberance of a cask | Usage |
| blandishment | flattery coaxing | Usage |
| blandness | polite manner comforting uninteresting | Usage |
| blasé | bored with pleasure or dissipation | Usage |
| blatant | noisy and rough | Usage |
| blithe | cheerful casual carefree | Usage |
| boggle | To hesitate as if in fear or doubt | Usage |
| bogus | sham counterfeit not genuine | Usage |
| boisterous | loud noisy rough lacking restraint | Usage |
| bolster | give greatly needed support | Usage |
| boorish | crude offensive rude | Usage |
| brash | hasty rush cheeky saucy | Usage |
| brass | yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc) | Usage |
| brazen | made of brass | Usage |
| breach | opening broken place breaking | Usage |
| brittle | easily broken | Usage |
| broach | bring up announce begin to talk about | Usage |
| brook | to tolerate endure | Usage |
| buoyant | able to float light-hearted | Usage |
| burgeon | grow forth send out buds | Usage |
| burnish | to polish rub to a shine | Usage |
| cabal | a scheme or plot a group of plotters | Usage |
| cadge | to beg to get by begging | Usage |
| cajole | use flattery or deceit to persuade | Usage |
| calipers | metal supports attached to the legs measuring instrument | Usage |
| calisthenics | exercises to develop strong bodies | Usage |
| calumny | slander aspersion | Usage |
| candid | frank straight-forward | Usage |
| cant | insincere talk/jargon | Usage |
| cantankerous | bad-tempered/quarrelsome | Usage |
| canvass | discuss thoroughly sort of touting | Usage |
| castigate | to chastise correct by punishing | Usage |
| castigation | severe punishment | Usage |
| catalyst | substance that causes speeding up | Usage |
| caustic | biting sarcastic | Usage |
| cavalcade | a possession | Usage |
| censure | expression of blame or disapproval a rebuke | Usage |
| centurion | leader of a unit of 100 soldiers | Usage |
| chagrin | vexation | Usage |
| chary | cautious wary | Usage |
| chaste | pure | Usage |
| chastened | corrected punished | Usage |
| chastisement | punishment | Usage |
| chauvinist | a blindly devoted patriot | Usage |
| chicanery | legal trickery/false argument | Usage |
| chisel | steel tool for shaping materials | Usage |
| churl | bad-tempered person | Usage |
| churlish | (adj) boorish | Usage |
| clamor | shout complain with a lot of noise | Usage |
| clientele | customers | Usage |
| clinch | come to grips/settle conclusively | Usage |
| cling | to resist separation | Usage |
| clot | half-solid lump formed from liquid | Usage |
| cloture | closing device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting | Usage |
| coagulation | change to a thick and solid state | Usage |
| coalescing | coming together and uniting into one substance | Usage |
| coax | get somebody to do something by kindness
| Usage |
| coda | passage that completes a piece of music | Usage |
| coddle | treat with care and tenderness | Usage |
| coerce | compel to force to make obedient | Usage |
| coeval | of the same period coexisting | Usage |
| cogent | strong convincing | Usage |
| cogitate | think deeply mediate | Usage |
| cognizant | being fully aware of | Usage |
| cohort | a group or band of people | Usage |
| colander | bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water | Usage |
| colloquial | involving or using conversation. | Usage |
| collusion | secret agreement for a deceitful purpose | Usage |
| combustion | process of burning | Usage |
| commemorate | keep the memory of | Usage |
| commodious | having plenty of space for what is needed | Usage |
| commuter | person who travels regularly | Usage |
| complaisance | tending to comply obliging willingness to please | Usage |
| complaisant | trying to please; obliging | Usage |
| compunction | feeling of regret for one's action | Usage |
| conceal | hide keep secret | Usage |
| conceit | over-high opinion of too much pride | Usage |
| conciliatory | reconciling soothing comforting mollifying | Usage |
| concoct | invent, prepare by mixing together | Usage |
| concord | agreement or harmony | Usage |
| concur | agree in opinion happen together | Usage |
| condense | increase in density strength make laconic | Usage |
| condone | forgive | Usage |
| Conduce | To bring about | Usage |
| congeal | make or become stiff and solid | Usage |
| conjoin | to join together | Usage |
| connoisseur | a person with good judgement (e.g.. in art) | Usage |
| connotation | suggestion in addition to | Usage |
| connote | Suggest or imply in addition to the precise, literal meaning | Usage |
| consequential | pompous self important | Usage |
| console | give comfort or sympathy to | Usage |
| conspicuous | easily seen remarkable | Usage |
| consternation | surprise and fear dismay | Usage |
| constrain | compel | Usage |
| constrict | make tight or smaller | Usage |
| consume | get to the end of | Usage |
| consummate | perfect/make perfect/complete | Usage |
| contemn | to scorn or despise | Usage |
| contentious | argumentative pugnacious combative quarrelsome | Usage |
| contiguous | touching neighboring near | Usage |
| contrite | filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing | Usage |
| contumacious | insubordinate rebellious | Usage |
| conundrum | a riddle dilemma enigma | Usage |
| conviction | convincing firm belief | Usage |
| convoke | call together summon | Usage |
| convoluted | complicated coiled twisted | Usage |
| cordial | warm and sincere | Usage |
| cordon | line (of police acting as a guard) | Usage |
| cornucopia | abundant supply | Usage |
| corporeal | physical of or for the body | Usage |
| correlate | have a mutual relation | Usage |
| corroboration | additional strengthening evidence | Usage |
| coruscate | sparkle | Usage |
| countenance | to favor or approve of | Usage |
| counterfeit | forgery | Usage |
| countervail | counterbalance | Usage |
| covert | disguised | Usage |
| covetous | eagerly desirous | Usage |
| cower | crouch shrink back | Usage |
| coy | shy/modest (esp of a girl) | Usage |
| crass | very great (es. stupidity) | Usage |
| cravat | piece of linen worn as a necktie | Usage |
| craven | cowardly | Usage |
| crease | line made by crushing white line on the ground in cricket | Usage |
| credulity | too great a readiness to believe things | Usage |
| credulous | ready to believe things | Usage |
| crush | press lose shape subdue overwhelm | Usage |
| cryptic | secret with a hidden meaning | Usage |
| cumbersome | burdensome heavy and awkward to carry | Usage |
| curmudgeon | bad-tempered person | Usage |
| curriculum | course of study | Usage |
| cursory | quick hurried | Usage |
| curtail | make shorter then was planned | Usage |
| dainty | pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please | Usage |
| dangle | hand or swing loosely | Usage |
| daunt | intimidate make fearful | Usage |
| dawdler | person who is slow waste of time | Usage |
| dearth | shortage | Usage |
| debacle | a breakup overthrow sudden disaster | Usage |
| decorum | propriety properness | Usage |
| decree | order given by authority | Usage |
| decry | disapprove of | Usage |
| defalcate | (v) to embezzle or misappropriate | Usage |
| defer | postpone | Usage |
| deferential | showing respect | Usage |
| defiance | open disobedience or resistance | Usage |
| delineate | to portray depict sketch out | Usage |
| deluge | great flood heavy rush of water | Usage |
| demagogue | person appealing not to reasons | Usage |
| demur | to hesitate raise objections | Usage |
| denigrate | blacken belittle sully defame | Usage |
| denouement | an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot | Usage |
| deplete | use until none remains | Usage |
| deposition | dethronement depositing | Usage |
| deprave | make morally bad corrupt | Usage |
| deprecate | protest against express disapproval of | Usage |
| depredation | plundering | Usage |
| dereliction | deserting and leaving to fall into ruins | Usage |
| derision | ridicule mockery deriding | Usage |
| derivative | unoriginal obtained from another source | Usage |
| derogatory | insulting tending to damage | Usage |
| descry | catch sight of see something in the distance | Usage |
| desiccant | substance used to absorb moisture | Usage |
| desuetude | cessation of use disuse | Usage |
| desultory | aimless haphazard digressing at random | Usage |
| deter | discourage hinder | Usage |
| detraction | slandering verbal attack aspersion | Usage |
| detumescence | diminishing or lessening of swelling | Usage |
| deviance | being different in moral standards (from normal) | Usage |
| dexterity | skill (esp. in handling) | Usage |
| diaphanous | transparent gauzy | Usage |
| diatribe | bitter and violent attack in words | Usage |
| didactic | intended to instruct | Usage |
| diffidence | shyness | Usage |
| dilate | speak comprehensively become wider large | Usage |
| dirge | a song of grief or lamentation | Usage |
| disallow | refuse to allow or accept as a correct | Usage |
| discern | see with an effort but clearly | Usage |
| discomfit | confuse embarrass | Usage |
| disconcert | upset the self-possession of | Usage |
| discountenance | refuse to approve of | Usage |
| discourse | speech lecture | Usage |
| discredit | refuse to believe | Usage |
| discreet | careful/prudent | Usage |
| discrete | individually distinct | Usage |
| disdain | look on with contempt | Usage |
| disencumber | free from encumbrance | Usage |
| disheveled | untidy | Usage |
| disingenuous | sophisticated artful trying to deceive cunning | Usage |
| disinter | dig up from the earth | Usage |
| dislodge | move force from the place occupied | Usage |
| dismal | sad gloomy miserable | Usage |
| disparate | essentially different | Usage |
| disproof | proof to the contrary | Usage |
| disrobe | undress | Usage |
| dissemble | speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind) | Usage |
| disseminate | distribute (esp. ideas) | Usage |
| dissent | have a different opinion refuse to assent | Usage |
| dissolution | disintegration looseness in morals | Usage |
| distrait | distracted | Usage |
| distraught | distracted violently upset in mind | Usage |
| divergence | getting farther apart from a point | Usage |
| divestiture | taking off getting rid of giving up | Usage |
| divulge | make known something secret | Usage |
| doggerel | trivial poorly constructed verse | Usage |
| dogmatic | positive certain arbitrary without room for discussion | Usage |
| doleful | dismal, mourful | Usage |
| dolt | stupid fellow | Usage |
| dormant | in a state of inactivity but awaiting development | Usage |
| dote | show much fondness center one's attention | Usage |
| drawl | slow way of speaking | Usage |
| droll | jesting | Usage |
| drone | male bee person who isn't self-employed | Usage |
| drowsiness | feeling sleepy half asleep | Usage |
| dubious | feeling doubt | Usage |
| dud | no use person something that fails | Usage |
| dulcet | melodious harmonious | Usage |
| dupe | cheat make a fool of | Usage |
| duplicity | deliberate deception | Usage |
| duress | threats to compel somebody
| Usage |
| dwarf | person much smaller the usual size
| Usage |
| dynamo | a generator something that produces electric current | Usage |
| earthenware | dishes made of baked clay | Usage |
| ebullience | exuberance outburst of feeling | Usage |
| ebullient | overflowing with enthusiasm showing excitement | Usage |
| eclat | Great brilliance, as of performance or achievement | Usage |
| ecumenical | representing the whole Christian world | Usage |
| edacious | voracious devouring | Usage |
| eddy | circular or spiral movement (e.g.. of wind) | Usage |
| edible | fit to be eaten/not poisonous | Usage |
| edify | instruct; correct morally | Usage |
| efface | rub or wipe out, obliterate | Usage |
| effete | infertile worn out weak | Usage |
| efficacy | production of a desired result | Usage |
| effluvia | outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor | Usage |
| effrontery | boldness impudence arrogance | Usage |
| egress | way out exit | Usage |
| elaborate | worked out with much care in great detail | Usage |
| elegy | a lament a melancholy composition | Usage |
| elicit | draw out | Usage |
| eloquence | fluent speaking skillful use of language | Usage |
| emaciate | make thin and weak | Usage |
| embellish | make beautiful | Usage |
| embezzle | use in a wrong way for one's own benefit | Usage |
| emote | stir up excite | Usage |
| empirical | relying on experiment | Usage |
| encapsulate | enclose in capsule | Usage |
| encomium | warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric | Usage |
| encumbrance | burden things that get on the way of | Usage |
| endearing | making dear or liked | Usage |
| endeavor | to make an effort, to try very hard | Usage |
| endemic | epidemic | Usage |
| endorse | write one's name on the back of | Usage |
| enduring | lasting | Usage |
| enervate | weaken deprive of strength attenuate | Usage |
| engender | cause produce give rise to | Usage |
| engrave | impress deeply | Usage |
| engrossing | taken up all the time or attention writing in large or formal | Usage |
| engulf | swallow up | Usage |
| enigma | something that is puzzling | Usage |
| enmity | hatred being an enemy | Usage |
| ensconce | To settle (oneself) securely or comfortably | Usage |
| ensign | flag/badge | Usage |
| entangle | put into difficulties | Usage |
| enthral | take the whole attention, enslave | Usage |
| entice | attract, lure | Usage |
| entreat | ask earnestly | Usage |
| enunciate | pronounce (words)/express a theory | Usage |
| enzyme | catalyst | Usage |
| epicurean | devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment) | Usage |
| epiphany | A Christian feast celebrating the manifestation of the divine nature of Jesus to the Gentiles as represented by the Magi. | Usage |
| epistle | letter | Usage |
| epithet | adjective | Usage |
| epitome | brief summary representative example a typical model | Usage |
| equable | steady regular | Usage |
| equanimity | calmness of temperament | Usage |
| equilibrium | state of being balanced | Usage |
| equipoise | equal distribution of weight equilibrium | Usage |
| equivocal | having a double or doubtful meaning suspicious | Usage |
| equivocate | try to deceive by equivocal language | Usage |
| eradicate | get rid of pull up by the roots | Usage |
| erratic | irregular in behaviour or opinion | Usage |
| erudite | learned scholarly | Usage |
| eschew | avoid | Usage |
| esoteric | abstruse intended only for a small circle of | Usage |
| espouse | To take in marriage | Usage |
| eulogy | formal praise panegyric | Usage |
| euphoria | elation state of pleasant excitement | Usage |
| euthanasia | easy and painless death | Usage |
| evasive | tending to evade | Usage |
| evince | to show clearly to indicate | Usage |
| evoke | call up bring out | Usage |
| excoriation | severe criticism | Usage |
| exculpate | to clear from a charge of guilt | Usage |
| exhaustive | complete thorough | Usage |
| exigency | emergency an urgent situation | Usage |
| exoneration | set someone clear (e.g.. from blame)
| Usage |
| exorbitant | much too high or great | Usage |
| expatiate | to roam wander freely | Usage |
| expedient | likely to be useful for a purpose | Usage |
| expiation | ending expiring | Usage |
| exploit | brilliant achievement develop use selfishly | Usage |
| expostulate | argue earnestly to dissuade correct or protest | Usage |
| expurgate | to remove obscenity purify censor | Usage |
| exscind | to cut out cut away | Usage |
| extant | still in existence | Usage |
| extempore | without previous thought or preparation | Usage |
| extenuate | reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partially excuse | Usage |
| extinct | no longer active | Usage |
| extinguish | end the existence of/wipe or put out | Usage |
| extirpate | to destroy exterminate cut out exscind | Usage |
| extol | to praise highly | Usage |
| extort | obtain by threats violence | Usage |
| extralegal | outside the law | Usage |
| extricable | that can be freed | Usage |
| extrovert | cheerful person | Usage |
| exuberance | state of growing vigorously being full of life | Usage |
| facetious | humorous funny jocular | Usage |
| facile | easily done | Usage |
| fagged | too tired | Usage |
| fallacious | based on error | Usage |
| falter | waver/move in an uncertain manner | Usage |
| fatuous | without sense foolish self-satisfaction | Usage |
| fawn | To seek favor or attention by flattery and obsequious | Usage |
| feckless | lacking purpose or vitality ineffective careless | Usage |
| fecund | fertile | Usage |
| feint | pretend | Usage |
| felicitous | apt suitably expressed well chosen apropos | Usage |
| felon | person guilty of murder | Usage |
| feral | Existing in a wild or untamed state | Usage |
| ferment | substance become excited | Usage |
| ferocity | savage cruelty | Usage |
| ferret | discover by searching search | Usage |
| fervid | showing earnest feeling | Usage |
| fervor | warmth of feelings earnestness | Usage |
| fetid | stinking | Usage |
| fetter | to shackle put in chains | Usage |
| feud | bitter quarrel over a long period of time | Usage |
| fidelity | loyalty accuracy | Usage |
| fidget | move restlessly make nervous | Usage |
| figurehead | carved image on the prow of a ship | Usage |
| finesse | delicate way of dealing with a situation | Usage |
| finical | too fussy about food clothing etc. | Usage |
| finicky | finical | Usage |
| fission | splitting or division (esp. of cells) | Usage |
| fixate | stare at | Usage |
| flak | criticism/anti-aircraft guns | Usage |
| flamboyant | brightly colored florid | Usage |
| flaunting | show off complacently | Usage |
| flax | pale yellow (hair) a plant | Usage |
| fledged | able to fly trained experienced | Usage |
| fledgling | an inexperienced person. | Usage |
| fleet | number of ships quick-moving | Usage |
| flimsy | lacking solidarity, strength | Usage |
| flinch | draw move back wince | Usage |
| floe | a sheet of floating ice | Usage |
| flop | fail/move/fall clumsily | Usage |
| florid | very much ornamented naturally red (e.g.. of face) | Usage |
| flout | reject mock to go against (as in going against tradition) | Usage |
| fluke | lucky stroke | Usage |
| fluster | make nervous or confused | Usage |
| foible | defect of character (a person is wrongly proud) | Usage |
| foil | prevent from carrying out contrast | Usage |
| foment | put something warm (to lessen the pain) | Usage |
| foolproof | incapable of failure or error | Usage |
| foppish | like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes | Usage |
| forage | food for horses and cattle | Usage |
| foray | to venture | Usage |
| forbear | refrain from be patient ancestor | Usage |
| forbearance | patience willingness to wait | Usage |
| ford | shallow place in a river (to cross) | Usage |
| forestall | prevent by taking action in advance preempt | Usage |
| forfeit | suffer the loss of something | Usage |
| forge | workshop for the shaping of metal to shape metal lead | Usage |
| forgery | counterfeit | Usage |
| forswear | renounce disallow repudiate | Usage |
| foster | nurture care for | Usage |
| fracas | noisy quarrel | Usage |
| fragile | easily injured broken or destroyed | Usage |
| fragrant | sweet-smelling | Usage |
| frantic | wildly excited with joy pain anxiety | Usage |
| frenetic | frantic frenzied | Usage |
| fret | worry irritation wear away | Usage |
| fringe | edge ornamental border part of hair over the forehead | Usage |
| froward | intractable not willing to yield or comply stubborn | Usage |
| frugal | careful economical | Usage |
| fulmination | bitter protest | Usage |
| fulsome | disgusting offensive due to excessiveness | Usage |
| fustian | bombastic | Usage |
| gainsay | to deny to oppose | Usage |
| gallant | brave,behaves well with women | Usage |
| garble | make unfair selection from facts | Usage |
| garner | to gather and save to store up | Usage |
| garrulous | too talkative | Usage |
| gauche | hence, awkward | Usage |
| gaucherie | socially awkward tactless behavior | Usage |
| germane | relevant pertinent to | Usage |
| gerontocracy | government ruled by old people | Usage |
| gist | the point general sense | Usage |
| glean | gather facts in small quantities | Usage |
| glib | ready and smooth but not sincere | Usage |
| glimmer | weak/unsteady light | Usage |
| gloat | over look at with selfish delight | Usage |
| glut | supply to much fill to excess | Usage |
| gnaw | waste away bite steadily | Usage |
| goad | something urging a person to action | Usage |
| gorge | eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream | Usage |
| gossamer | soft light delicate material | Usage |
| gouge | tool for cutting grooves in wood | Usage |
| gourmand | a person who is devoted to eating and drinking to excess | Usage |
| grandiloquent | using pompous words | Usage |
| grave | serious requiring consideration | Usage |
| graze | touch or scrape lightly in passing | Usage |
| gregarious | living in societies liking the company | Usage |
| grievous | causing grief or pain serious dire grave | Usage |
| grouse | Complain or grumble (verb) | Usage |
| grovel | crawl humble oneself | Usage |
| grumble | to complain | Usage |
| guile | deceit cunning | Usage |
| gullible | easily gulled | Usage |
| gush | burst out suddenly/talk ardently | Usage |
| gust | outburst of feeling sudden rain wind fire etc. | Usage |
| hack | cut roughly hired horse | Usage |
| halcyon | calm and peaceful | Usage |
| hallow | to make holy consecrate | Usage |
| hapless | unlucky | Usage |
| harangue | a long passionate speech | Usage |
| harbinger | One that indicates or foreshadows what is to come; a forerunner. | Usage |
| harrow | to distress create stress or torment | Usage |
| haughty | arrogant conceited | Usage |
| hauteur | haughtiness | Usage |
| heed | attention/give notice to | Usage |
| heinous | odious (of crime) | Usage |
| heresy | belief contrary to what is generally accepted | Usage |
| heretic | recreant, protestant,skeptic | Usage |
| hermetic | sealed by fusion | Usage |
| heterogeneous | made up of different kinds | Usage |
| hew | make by hard work cut (by striking) | Usage |
| highbrow | (person) with superior tastes | Usage |
| hirsute | hairy shaggy | Usage |
| hoax | mischievous trick played to deceive | Usage |
| hoi | polloi the masses the rabble | Usage |
| hollow | not soled with hole | Usage |
| holster | leather case for a pistol | Usage |
| homiletics | act of preaching | Usage |
| hone | stone used for sharpening tools | Usage |
| hoodwink | trick mislead | Usage |
| hospitable | liking to give hospitality | Usage |
| hubris | arrogant pride | Usage |
| hush | make or become silent | Usage |
| husk | worthless outside part of anything | Usage |
| hypocrisy | falsely making oneself appear to be good | Usage |
| iconoclast | person who attacks popular beliefs | Usage |
| idiosyncrasy | personal mannerism | Usage |
| idolatry | excessive admiration of | Usage |
| idyll | a carefree episode or experience | Usage |
| ignoble | dishonorable common undignified | Usage |
| ignominious | shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful | Usage |
| illicit | unlawful forbidden | Usage |
| imbroglio | complicated and embarrassing situation | Usage |
| immaculate | pure faultless | Usage |
| imminent | likely to come or happen soon | Usage |
| immutable | that cannot be changed | Usage |
| impair | worsen diminish in value | Usage |
| impassive | unmoved feeling no sign of passion | Usage |
| impecunious | having little or no money | Usage |
| impede | hinder get in the way of | Usage |
| impediment | something that hinders (e.g. stammer) | Usage |
| impending | imminent being about to happen expected | Usage |
| imperative | urgent essential | Usage |
| imperious | commanding haughty arrogant | Usage |
| impermeable | that cannot be permeated | Usage |
| imperturbable | calm not capable of being excited | Usage |
| impervious | not allowing to pass through (of materials) | Usage |
| imperviousness | haughty arrogant commanding | Usage |
| impetuous | having sudden energy impulsive thrusting ahead forceful | Usage |
| impiety | lack of reverence or dutifulness | Usage |
| implacable | incapable of being placated unpleasable | Usage |
| implicate | to be involved | Usage |
| implicit | implied though not plainly expressed | Usage |
| implosion | collapse bursting inward | Usage |
| importune | beg urgently solicit (of a prostitute) | Usage |
| imprecation | an invocation of evil a curse | Usage |
| impromptu | without preparation | Usage |
| impudent | rash indiscreet | Usage |
| impugned | challenged to be doubted | Usage |
| impute | to attribute to a cause or source ascribe | Usage |
| inadvertent | not paying proper attention | Usage |
| inane | silly senseless | Usage |
| inasmuch | since because | Usage |
| incense | make angry | Usage |
| incessant | Constant | Usage |
| inchoate | not yet fully formed rudimentary elementary | Usage |
| incipient | beginning | Usage |
| incise | engrave make a cut in | Usage |
| incite | stir up rouse | Usage |
| inclined | directing the mind in a certain direction | Usage |
| incongruous | out of place not in harmony or agreement | Usage |
| incorrigibility | cannot be cured or corrected | Usage |
| incredulous | skeptical unwilling to believe | Usage |
| inculcate | fix firmly by repetition | Usage |
| incumbents | official duties | Usage |
| incursion | a raid a sudden attack | Usage |
| indefatigability | not easily exhaustible tirelessness | Usage |
| indelible | that cannot be rubbed out | Usage |
| indigence | poverty | Usage |
| indigenous | native | Usage |
| indistinct | not easily heard seen clearly marked | Usage |
| indolence | laziness | Usage |
| indomitable | not easily discouraged or subdued | Usage |
| indulge | gratify give way to satisfy allow oneself | Usage |
| indulgent | inclined to indulge | Usage |
| ineffable | to great to be described in words | Usage |
| ineluctable | certain inevitable | Usage |
| inept | unskillful said or done at the wrong time | Usage |
| ineptitude | quality of being unskillful | Usage |
| inferno | hell | Usage |
| infuriate | fill with fury or rage | Usage |
| infuse | put pour fill | Usage |
| ingenuous | naive young artless frank honest sincere | Usage |
| ingest | take in by swallowing | Usage |
| inimical | harmful or unfriendly | Usage |
| inimitable | defying imitation unmatchable | Usage |
| innocuous | causing no harm | Usage |
| inquest | Legal or judicial inquiry, especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone.s death | Usage |
| inscrutable | incapable of being discovered or understood | Usage |
| insensible | unconscious unresponsive unaffected | Usage |
| insinuate | suggest unpleasantly make a way for something gently | Usage |
| insipid | without taste or flavor | Usage |
| insouciant | unconcerned carefree | Usage |
| insularity | narrow-mindedness isolated | Usage |
| insurrection | rising of people to open resistance to | Usage |
| interdict | prohibit forbid | Usage |
| interim | as an installment | Usage |
| intersperse | place here and there | Usage |
| intransigence | unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability | Usage |
| intransigent | uncompromising | Usage |
| intrepid | fearless brave undaunted | Usage |
| introspection | examining one's own thoughts and feelings | Usage |
| introvert | one who turns towards himself | Usage |
| inundate | flood cover by overflowing | Usage |
| inured | accustomed to adapted | Usage |
| invective | abusive language curses | Usage |
| inveigh | to attack verbally denounce deprecate | Usage |
| inveterate | deep-rooted. long-established | Usage |
| invincible | too strong to be defeated | Usage |
| involute | complex | Usage |
| irascible | irritable easily angered | Usage |
| irate | angry | Usage |
| ire | anger | Usage |
| irksome | tiresome | Usage |
| irresolute | hesitating undecided | Usage |
| irrevocable | final and unalterable | Usage |
| itinerate | to travel from place to place to peregrinate | Usage |
| jabber | talk excitedly utter rapidly | Usage |
| jagged | notched | Usage |
| jejune | insubstantial/dull/immature | Usage |
| jibe | gibe make fun of | Usage |
| jocular | meant as a joke | Usage |
| judicious | sound in judgment wise | Usage |
| knit | draw together unite firmly | Usage |
| labyrinthine | to entangle the state of affairs | Usage |
| lachrymose | causing tears tearful | Usage |
| lackluster | (of eyes) dull | Usage |
| lament | show feel great sorrow | Usage |
| lampoon | publicly mock or ridicule | Usage |
| lassitude | weariness tiredness | Usage |
| latent | present but not yet active developed or visible | Usage |
| laudatory | expressing or giving praise | Usage |
| lavish | giving or producing freely liberally or generously | Usage |
| legacy | Bequest or inheritance | Usage |
| levee | formal reception/embankment | Usage |
| levity | lack of seriousness | Usage |
| libel | statement that damages reputation | Usage |
| liberality | free giving generosity | Usage |
| libertine | immoral person | Usage |
| lien | legal claim until a debt on it is repaid | Usage |
| limn | paint portray | Usage |
| limp | lacking strength walking unevenly | Usage |
| lionize | treat as a famous person | Usage |
| lithe | bending twisting | Usage |
| livid | Furiously angry, enraged | Usage |
| loll | rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue) | Usage |
| lope | move along with long strides | Usage |
| loquacious | talkative garrulous | Usage |
| lucubrate | write in scholarly fashion | Usage |
| luculent | easily understood lucid clear | Usage |
| lugubrious | mournful excessively sad | Usage |
| lull | become quiet or less active | Usage |
| lumber | move in a clumsy/noisy way | Usage |
| luminary | star light-giving body | Usage |
| lurk | be out of view ready to attack | Usage |
| lustrous | being bright polished | Usage |
| macabre | gruesome suggesting death | Usage |
| macerate | make or become soft by soaking in water | Usage |
| machination | plot scheme (esp. evil) | Usage |
| maladroit | tactless clumsy | Usage |
| malapropism | misuse of a word (for one that resembles it) | Usage |
| malevolence | wishing to do evil | Usage |
| malign | to speak harmful untruths about someone | Usage |
| malinger | to fake illness or injury in order to shirk a duty | Usage |
| malleable | yielding easily shaped moldable adapting | Usage |
| manacle | chains for the hands or feet | Usage |
| massacre | cruel killing of a large number of people | Usage |
| matriculation | be admitted enter a university as a student | Usage |
| maudlin | sentimental in a silly or tearful way | Usage |
| maul | hurt by rough handling | Usage |
| maverick | rebel nonconformist | Usage |
| mellifluous | sweetly flowing | Usage |
| mendacious | lying; habitually dishonest | Usage |
| mendacity | dishonesty | Usage |
| mendicant | a beggar | Usage |
| mercurial | quick changeable in character fleeting | Usage |
| meretricious | attractive on the surface but of little value | Usage |
| mesmerize | hypnotize | Usage |
| meticulous | giving great attention to details | Usage |
| mettle | quality of endurance or courage | Usage |
| mettlesome | courageous high-spirited | Usage |
| middling | fairly good but not very good | Usage |
| mien | demeanor | Usage |
| minatory | menacing threatening | Usage |
| mince | pronounce or speak affectedly euphemize | Usage |
| misanthrope | person who hates mankind | Usage |
| mischievous | harmful causing mischief | Usage |
| miser | person who loves wealth and spends little | Usage |
| misogynist | one who hates women/females | Usage |
| mite | A very small amount, portion, or particle | Usage |
| moderation | quality of being limited not extreme | Usage |
| mollify | make calmer or quieter | Usage |
| molt | moult lose hair feathers before new growing | Usage |
| morbid | diseased unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas) | Usage |
| moribund | in a dying state; near death | Usage |
| morose | ill-tempered unsocial | Usage |
| muffler | cloth worn round the neck/silencer | Usage |
| mulct | aud a person of something | Usage |
| multifarious | varied motley greatly diversified | Usage |
| mundane | worldly as opposed to spiritual commonplace everyday | Usage |
| myriad | very great number | Usage |
| nadir | lowest weakest point | Usage |
| narcissism | Self-love | Usage |
| nascent | coming into existence emerging | Usage |
| nebulous | cloud-like hazy vague indistinct | Usage |
| negligent | taking too little care | Usage |
| neophyte | person who has been converted to a belief | Usage |
| nexus | a connection tie or link | Usage |
| nibble | show some inclination to accept (an offer) | Usage |
| noisome | offensive disgusting (smell) | Usage |
| nonchalant | not having interest | Usage |
| nonplused | greatly surprised | Usage |
| nostrum | a quack remedy an untested cure | Usage |
| noxious | harmful | Usage |
| nugatory | trifling/worthless | Usage |
| obdurate | hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible | Usage |
| obfuscate | to darken make obscure muddle | Usage |
| oblivious | unaware having no memory | Usage |
| obloquy | abusively detractive language sharp criticism vituperation | Usage |
| obsequious | too eager to obey or serve | Usage |
| obstreperous | noisy loud | Usage |
| obtain | to be established accepted or customary | Usage |
| obtrusive | projecting prominent undesirably noticeable | Usage |
| obtuse | blunt/stupid | Usage |
| obviate | to make unnecessary get rid of | Usage |
| occluded | blocked up | Usage |
| odious | repulsive hateful | Usage |
| odium | contempt dislike aversion | Usage |
| odor | smell favor reputation | Usage |
| offhand | Without preparation or forethought | Usage |
| officious | too eager or ready to help offer advice | Usage |
| ominous | threatening | Usage |
| onerous | needing effort burdensome | Usage |
| onus | responsilibilty,burden | Usage |
| opaqueness | dullness/not allowing light to pass through | Usage |
| opprobrious | showing scorn or reproach | Usage |
| orison | prayer | Usage |
| ossify | to turn to bone to settle rigidly into an idea | Usage |
| ostensible | seeming appearing as such professed | Usage |
| ostentation | display to obtain admiration or envy | Usage |
| ostracism | shut out from society refuse to meet talk | Usage |
| overhaul | examine thoroughly to learn about the condition | Usage |
| overweening | presumptuously arrogant overbearing immoderate being a jerk | Usage |
| paean | song of praise or triumph | Usage |
| palate | roof of the mouth sense of taste | Usage |
| palatial | magnificent | Usage |
| palliate | lessen the severity of | Usage |
| palpability | can be felt touched understood | Usage |
| Palpable | Obvious | Usage |
| palpitate | tremble beat rapidly and irregularly | Usage |
| panegyric | formal praise eulogy | Usage |
| paradigm | a model example or pattern | Usage |
| parenthesis | sentence within another one something separated | Usage |
| pariah | an outcast a rejected and despised person | Usage |
| parley | negotiation | Usage |
| parsimonious | too economical miserly | Usage |
| partisan | one-sided committed to a party biased or prejudiced | Usage |
| patron | regular customer person who gives support | Usage |
| paucity | scarcity a lacking of | Usage |
| peccadillo | small sin small weakness in one's character | Usage |
| pedantic | bookish showing off learning | Usage |
| pedestrian | commonplace trite unremarkable | Usage |
| pellucid | transparent easy to understand | Usage |
| penchant | strong inclination a liking | Usage |
| penitent | feeling or showing regret | Usage |
| penurious | poor/stingy | Usage |
| penury | extreme poverty | Usage |
| perch | take up a high position | Usage |
| peregrination | traveling about wandering | Usage |
| peremptory | urgent imperative unchallengeable ending debate | Usage |
| perfidious | treacherous faithless | Usage |
| perfidy | treachery breaking of faith | Usage |
| perfunctory | done as a duty without care | Usage |
| perilous | dangerous | Usage |
| peripatetic | wandering | Usage |
| perish | be destroyed decay | Usage |
| perjury | willful FALSE statement unlawful act | Usage |
| permeate | spread into every part of | Usage |
| pernicious | harmful injurious | Usage |
| perpetrate | be guilty commit (a crime) | Usage |
| personable | pleasing in appearance attractive | Usage |
| perspicacity | quick judging and understanding | Usage |
| pertain | belong as a part have reference | Usage |
| pervade | spread through every part of | Usage |
| pest | destructive thing or a person who is nuisance | Usage |
| petrified | taken away power (to think feel act) | Usage |
| petrify | to make hard rocklike | Usage |
| petrous | like a rock hard stony | Usage |
| petulant | unreasonably impatient | Usage |
| philanthropist | one who loves mankind | Usage |
| philistine | a smug ignorant person one who lacks knowledge | Usage |
| phlegmatic | calm sluggish temperament unemotional | Usage |
| picaresque | involving clever rogues or adventurers | Usage |
| pied | of mixed colors | Usage |
| pileous | Covered with hair | Usage |
| pillage | plunder (especially in war)
| Usage |
| pinch | be too tight take between the thumb and finger | Usage |
| pine | waste away through sorrow or illness | Usage |
| pious | dutiful to parents devoted to religion | Usage |
| piquant | agreeably pungent stimulating | Usage |
| pique | hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity) | Usage |
| pitfall | covered hole as a trap unsuspected danger | Usage |
| pith | essential part force soft liquid substance | Usage |
| pivotal | of great importance (others depend on it) | Usage |
| placate | soothe pacify calm | Usage |
| plaintive | mournful melancholy sorrowful | Usage |
| plaque | flat metal on a wall as a memorial | Usage |
| platitude | a trite or banal statement unoriginality | Usage |
| plea | request | Usage |
| plead | address a court of law as an advocate | Usage |
| plethora | glut | Usage |
| pliant | pliable easily bent shaped or twisted | Usage |
| plod | continue doing something without resting | Usage |
| pluck | pull the feathers off pick (e.g.. flowers) | Usage |
| plumb | get to the root of | Usage |
| plummet | fall plunge steeply | Usage |
| plunge | move quickly suddenly and with force | Usage |
| poignant | deeply moving keen | Usage |
| poncho | large piece of cloth | Usage |
| ponderous | heavy bulky dull | Usage |
| portent | omen marvelous threatening | Usage |
| precarious | uncertain risky dangerous | Usage |
| precepts | rules establishing standards of conduct | Usage |
| preclude | prevent make impossible | Usage |
| precursors | a person or thing that precedes, as in a process or job. | Usage |
| precursory | preliminary anticipating | Usage |
| predilection | special liking mental preference | Usage |
| predominate | have more power than others | Usage |
| preen | tidy/show self-satisfaction | Usage |
| premature | doing or happening something before the right time | Usage |
| preponderance | greatness in number strength weight | Usage |
| presage | warning sign | Usage |
| presentiment | anticipatory fear; premonition | Usage |
| presumption | arrogance | Usage |
| preternatural | not normal or usual | Usage |
| prevalent | common | Usage |
| prevaricate | to equivocate to stray from the truth | Usage |
| prim | neat formal | Usage |
| pristine | primitive unspoiled pure as in earlier times unadulterated | Usage |
| privation | hardship | Usage |
| probity | uprightness incorruptibility principle | Usage |
| proclivity | inclination | Usage |
| procrastination | keeping on putting off | Usage |
| prodigal | wasteful reckless with money | Usage |
| prodigious | enormous wonderful | Usage |
| profane | worldly having contempt for God | Usage |
| profligacy | shameless immorality | Usage |
| profligate | wasteful prodigal licentious extravagant | Usage |
| profundity | depth | Usage |
| profuse | abundant/lavish | Usage |
| proliferate | grow reproduce by rapid multification | Usage |
| prolix | tiring because too long | Usage |
| prone | prostrate inclined to (undesirable things) | Usage |
| propagation | increasing the number spreading extending | Usage |
| propinquity | nearness in time or place affinity of nature | Usage |
| propitiatory | conciliatory appeasing mitigating | Usage |
| propitious | auspicious presenting favorable circumstances | Usage |
| prosaic | everyday mundane commonplace trite pedestrian | Usage |
| proscribe | denounce as dangerous | Usage |
| protracted | prolonged | Usage |
| provident | frugal looking to the future | Usage |
| provisional | of the present time only | Usage |
| provoke | make angry vax | Usage |
| prudence | careful forethought | Usage |
| prudish | easily shocked excessively modest | Usage |
| prune | dried plum silly person | Usage |
| pry | get something inquire too curiously | Usage |
| pucker | wrinkle | Usage |
| puerile | childish | Usage |
| pugnacious | fond of in the habit of fighting | Usage |
| puissance | strength | Usage |
| pulchritude | Physical beauty | Usage |
| punctilious | Meticulous | Usage |
| pundit | pedant authority on a subject | Usage |
| pungency | sharpness stinging quality | Usage |
| punitive | Punishing | Usage |
| purvey | provide supply | Usage |
| pusillanimous | cowardly craven | Usage |
| putrefaction | becoming rotten | Usage |
| pyre | large pile of wood for burning | Usage |
| quack | person dishonestly claiming to something | Usage |
| quaff | drink deeply | Usage |
| quail | lose courage turn frightened | Usage |
| qualm | feeling of doubt temporary feeling of sickness | Usage |
| quandary | state of doubt or perplexity | Usage |
| quell | suppress subdue | Usage |
| quibble | try to avoid by sophistication | Usage |
| quiescence | state of being passive/motionless | Usage |
| quirk | habit or action peculiar to something
| Usage |
| quixotic | fanciful, fantastic, imaginary | Usage |
| quotidian | banal everyday | Usage |
| rabble | mob crowd the lower classes of populace | Usage |
| raconteur | person who tells anecdotes | Usage |
| raffish | low vulgar base tawdry | Usage |
| ramify | to be divided or subdivided to branch out | Usage |
| rancorous | feeling bitterness spitefulness | Usage |
| rant | use extravagant language | Usage |
| rapacious | greedy (esp for money) | Usage |
| rarefy | to make thin to make less dense to purify or refine | Usage |
| rave | act with excessive enthusiasm | Usage |
| reactionary | opposing progress | Usage |
| rebuff | snub | Usage |
| rebus | puzzle in which pictures stand for words | Usage |
| recalcitrant | disobedient | Usage |
| recant | take back as being FALSE give up | Usage |
| recast | cast or fashion anew | Usage |
| recidivism | relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior | Usage |
| reciprocity | granting of privileges in return for similar | Usage |
| recitals | a number of performance of music | Usage |
| recluse | person who lives alone and avoids people | Usage |
| recompense | make payment to reward punish | Usage |
| reconcile | settle a quarrel restore peace | Usage |
| recondite | little known abstruse | Usage |
| recreancy | cowardice a cowardly giving up | Usage |
| recuperate | become strong after illness loss exhaustion | Usage |
| redeem | get back by payment compensate | Usage |
| redoubtable | formidable causing fear | Usage |
| refine | make or become pure cultural | Usage |
| refractory | stubborn unmanageable untractable | Usage |
| refulgent | shining brilliant | Usage |
| regale | to delight or entertain to feast | Usage |
| regicide | crime of killing a king | Usage |
| reiterate | say or do again several times | Usage |
| rejuvenation | becoming young in nature or appearance | Usage |
| relapse | fall back again | Usage |
| reminiscent | suggest something in the past | Usage |
| remonstrate | to protest object | Usage |
| render | deliver provide represent | Usage |
| renovate | restore something to better condition | Usage |
| renowned | celebrated famous | Usage |
| repast | meal | Usage |
| repel | refuse to accept/cause dislike | Usage |
| repine | at be discontented with | Usage |
| reproach | scold upbraid | Usage |
| reprobate | person hardened in sin one devoid of decency | Usage |
| repudiate | disown refuse to accept or pay | Usage |
| repulsive | causing a feeling of disgust | Usage |
| requite | repay give in return | Usage |
| rescind | repeal/annul/cancel | Usage |
| resigned | unresisting submissive | Usage |
| resilience | quality of quickly recovering the original shape | Usage |
| resort | to frequently visit | Usage |
| restive | refusing to move reluctant to be controlled | Usage |
| resuscitation | coming back to consciousness | Usage |
| retard | check hinder | Usage |
| reticence | uncommunicativeness | Usage |
| reticent | reserved untalkative silent taciturn | Usage |
| retinue | following; attendants | Usage |
| retrograde | receding | Usage |
| retrospective | Looking back on past | Usage |
| revere | have deep respect for | Usage |
| reverent | feeling or showing deep respect | Usage |
| riddle | puzzling person or thing | Usage |
| rife | widespread | Usage |
| rift | split crack dissension | Usage |
| rivet | fix take up secure metal pin | Usage |
| roll | call calling of names | Usage |
| rotund | rich and deep plump and round | Usage |
| rubicund | red and healthy | Usage |
| ruddy | reddish, healthy-looking | Usage |
| rueful | dejected | Usage |
| ruffian | violent cruel man | Usage |
| rumple | make rough | Usage |
| sadastic | Cruel | Usage |
| sagacious | having sound judgment perceptive wise like a sage | Usage |
| salacious | obscene | Usage |
| salubrious | healthful | Usage |
| salutary | remedial wholesome causing improvement | Usage |
| salvage | the saving of property from loss | Usage |
| sanctimony | self-righteousness hypocritical with FALSE piety | Usage |
| sanction | approval (by authority) penalty | Usage |
| sanguine | cheerful confident optimistic | Usage |
| sanity | health of mind soundness of judgment | Usage |
| sash | long strip worn round the waist | Usage |
| satiate | satisfy fully | Usage |
| saturnine | gloomy dark sullen morose | Usage |
| savant | person of great learning | Usage |
| savor | taste flavor something | Usage |
| sawdust | tiny bits of wood | Usage |
| scabbard | sheath for the blade | Usage |
| scalding | hot enough to boil | Usage |
| scent | smell (especially pleasant) | Usage |
| scorch | become discolored/dry up/go at high speed | Usage |
| scribble | write hastily | Usage |
| scurvy | mean contemptible | Usage |
| secular | material (not spiritual) living outside monasteries | Usage |
| sedulous | persevering | Usage |
| seminal | like a seed constituting a source originative | Usage |
| sententious | short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs | Usage |
| sequence | succession connected line of | Usage |
| sere | make hard and without feeling | Usage |
| sermon | reproving a person for his faults | Usage |
| serrated | having a toothed edge | Usage |
| serration | having a toothed edge | Usage |
| servile | like a slave lacking independence | Usage |
| sever | break off | Usage |
| severance | severing | Usage |
| shallow | little depth not earnest | Usage |
| shard | A piece of broken pottery | Usage |
| sheath | cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool | Usage |
| shrewd | astute showing sound judgement | Usage |
| shrill | sharp piercing | Usage |
| shun | keep away from avoid | Usage |
| shunned | avoided, kept away from | Usage |
| shunt | send from one track to another lay aside evade discussion | Usage |
| sidestep | step to one side | Usage |
| simper | (give a) silly/self-conscious smile | Usage |
| sinuous | winding undulating serpentine | Usage |
| sketchy | shortly, roughly, quickly | Usage |
| skiff | small boat | Usage |
| skit | short piece of humorous writing | Usage |
| slack | sluggish dull not tight | Usage |
| slake | to assuage to satisfy allay | Usage |
| slate | king of blue-grey stone propose criticize | Usage |
| sluggard | lazy slow-moving person | Usage |
| slur | join sounds/words (indistinct) | Usage |
| smolder | burn slowly without flame | Usage |
| snare | trap | Usage |
| snub | treat with contempt | Usage |
| soar | rise fly high | Usage |
| sober | self-controlled | Usage |
| sobriety | quality or condition of being sober | Usage |
| sobriquet | nickname | Usage |
| sodden | soaked saturated | Usage |
| soggy | heavy with water | Usage |
| solvent | of the power of forming a solution | Usage |
| somatic | of the body | Usage |
| somersault | rolling backward or forward (not sideways) movement | Usage |
| soot | black powder in smoke | Usage |
| sophisticated | complex subtle refined | Usage |
| sophistry | fallacious reasoning faulty logic | Usage |
| sophomoric | self-assured though immature affected bombastic overblown | Usage |
| soporific | producing sleep | Usage |
| sordid | wretched comfortless contemptible | Usage |
| spear | weapon with a metal point on a long shaft | Usage |
| specious | illogical of questionable truth or merit | Usage |
| splenetic | bad-tempered irritable | Usage |
| splice | join (two ends) | Usage |
| sponge | porous rubber for washing live at once expense | Usage |
| sporadic | happening from time to time | Usage |
| spurious | FALSE counterfeit | Usage |
| spurn | have nothing to do reject or refuse | Usage |
| squalid | foul filthy | Usage |
| squander | spend wastefully | Usage |
| squat | crouch/settle without permission | Usage |
| stanch | to stop the flow of a fluid | Usage |
| steeply | rising or falling sharply | Usage |
| stentorian | extremely loud and powerful | Usage |
| stickler | person who insists on importance of something | Usage |
| stifled | suppressed, kept back | Usage |
| stigma | mark of shame or disgrace | Usage |
| stigmatize | describe somebody scornfully
| Usage |
| sting | something sharp | Usage |
| stingy | spending using unwillingly | Usage |
| stint | to be thrifty to set limits | Usage |
| stipple | paint with dots | Usage |
| stipulate | state or put forward as a necessary condition | Usage |
| stolid | showing no emotion impassive | Usage |
| stray | wander lose one's way | Usage |
| streak | long thin move very fast | Usage |
| striated | striped grooved or banded | Usage |
| stride | walk with long steps | Usage |
| strive | to make great efforts, to struggle | Usage |
| strut | a supporting bar | Usage |
| stygian | hence dark gloomy | Usage |
| stymie | to hinder obstruct or block | Usage |
| subdue | overcome bring under control | Usage |
| sublime | extreme astounding | Usage |
| submerge | put under water liquid sink out of sight | Usage |
| suborn | induce by bribery or something to commit perjury | Usage |
| subpoena | written order requiring a person to appear in a low court | Usage |
| substantiation | giving facts to support (statement) | Usage |
| subsume | include under a rule | Usage |
| succor | assistance relief in time of distress | Usage |
| succumb | yield, die | Usage |
| suffice | be enough | Usage |
| suffocate | cause or have difficulty in breathing | Usage |
| sullied | to be stained or discredited | Usage |
| summarily | briefly without delay | Usage |
| sumptuous | magnificent | Usage |
| sundry | various miscellaneous separate | Usage |
| supercilious | disdainful characterized by haughty scorn | Usage |
| superfluous | more then is needed or wanted | Usage |
| superimpose | put something on the top | Usage |
| supersede | take the place of | Usage |
| supine | lying on the back slow to act passive | Usage |
| suppliant | asking humbly beseeching | Usage |
| supplicate | make a humble petition to | Usage |
| suppress | prevent from being known put an end to | Usage |
| surcharge | additional load/charge | Usage |
| surfeit | satiate feed to fulness or to excess | Usage |
| susceptibility | sensitiveness | Usage |
| swerve | change direction suddenly | Usage |
| sycophant | person who flatter to the rich and powerful | Usage |
| synopsis | summary or outline | Usage |
| taciturn | unspoken, silent | Usage |
| tadpole | form of a frog when it leaves the egg | Usage |
| talon | claw of a bird of prey | Usage |
| tamp | tap or drive down by repeated light blows | Usage |
| tamper | interfere with | Usage |
| tangential | suddenly changeable | Usage |
| tarnished | lost brightness | Usage |
| tassel | bunch of threads | Usage |
| taunt | contemptuous reproach hurtful remark | Usage |
| taut | tightly stretched | Usage |
| tautology | a repetition a redundancy | Usage |
| tawdry | cheap gaudy showy tacky | Usage |
| teetotal | oppose to alcohol | Usage |
| telltale | That gives warning or information | Usage |
| temerity | boldness brashness intrepidness | Usage |
| temperance | abstinence from alcohol self-control moderation | Usage |
| temperate | showing self-control | Usage |
| tenacity | firmness persistency adhesiveness tending to hang on | Usage |
| tenuous | insubstantial flimsy weak | Usage |
| tepid | lukewarm | Usage |
| terse | brief and to the point | Usage |
| testiness | witness/evidence | Usage |
| thrift | care economy thriving prosperous | Usage |
| thwart | obstruct/frustrate | Usage |
| timid | shy easily frightened | Usage |
| timorous | fearful timid afraid | Usage |
| toady | obsequious flatterer | Usage |
| tonic | something giving strength or energy | Usage |
| topple | be unsteady and overturn | Usage |
| torment | severe pain or suffering | Usage |
| torpid | dull and slow | Usage |
| torque | twisting force causing rotation | Usage |
| tortuous | devious/not straightforward | Usage |
| tout | To solicit customers, votes, or patronage | Usage |
| tractable | easily controlled or guided | Usage |
| transgress | break go beyond (a limit) | Usage |
| transient | temporary fleeting | Usage |
| transitory | brief | Usage |
| travesty | parody/imitation | Usage |
| treacherous | not to be trusted, perfidious | Usage |
| trenchant | forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive | Usage |
| trencherman | person who eats a lot | Usage |
| trepidation | alarm excited state of mind | Usage |
| trickle | flow in drops | Usage |
| trifling | unimportant | Usage |
| trite | not new | Usage |
| truce | (agreement) stop of fighting for a time | Usage |
| truculence | aggressiveness ferocity | Usage |
| trudge | walk heavily | Usage |
| turbid | muddy having the sediment stirred up | Usage |
| turbulence | being uncontrolled violent | Usage |
| turgid | excessively ornate swollen or bloated | Usage |
| turmoil | trouble disturbance | Usage |
| turpitude | wickedness shamefulness | Usage |
| turquoise | greenish-blue precious stone | Usage |
| tyro | a beginner | Usage |
| ubiquitous | present everywhere | Usage |
| ulterior | situated beyond | Usage |
| umbrage | offense resentment | Usage |
| uncouth | rough awkward | Usage |
| underbid | make a lower bid then somebody else
| Usage |
| undermine | weaken gradually at the base make something under | Usage |
| undulate | to move in wavelike fashion fluctuate | Usage |
| unearth | discover and bring to light | Usage |
| unencumbered | easy-going trifle | Usage |
| unfeigned | not pretended sincere | Usage |
| unscathed | unharmed unhurt | Usage |
| untoward | unfortunate inconvenient | Usage |
| upbraid | scold reproach | Usage |
| urbane | elegant refined in manners | Usage |
| vacillation | being uncertain hesitating | Usage |
| vacuity | idleness | Usage |
| vagary | strange act or idea | Usage |
| vain | without use result conceited | Usage |
| valiant | brave | Usage |
| valorous | brave | Usage |
| vanquish | conquer | Usage |
| variegate | To mark with different shade or colors | Usage |
| veer | change direction | Usage |
| vehemence | forcefulness | Usage |
| venal | ready to do something dishonest | Usage |
| veneer | surface appearance covering the TRUE nature | Usage |
| veneration | regard with deep respect | Usage |
| veracity | truth | Usage |
| verdant | fresh and green | Usage |
| verisimilitude | appearing TRUE or real | Usage |
| veritable | real rightly named | Usage |
| verve | spirit vigor enthusiasm | Usage |
| vestige | trace or sign | Usage |
| vex | annoy distress trouble | Usage |
| vigilance | watchfulness self-appointed group who maintain order | Usage |
| vigilant | member of a vigilance committee | Usage |
| vigorous | strong energetic | Usage |
| vilify | slander say evil things | Usage |
| vindictive | having a desire to revenge | Usage |
| virago | a loud domineering woman a scold or nag | Usage |
| visceral | of the internal organs of the body | Usage |
| viscous | sticky/semi-fluid | Usage |
| vitiate | lower the quality weaken the strength | Usage |
| vitriolic | corrosive; sarcastic | Usage |
| vituperate | curse abuse in words | Usage |
| vivacious | lively high-spirited | Usage |
| volatile | changeable inconstant fickle unstable explosive | Usage |
| volubility | fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language | Usage |
| voluble | fluent | Usage |
| voluptuous | arousing sensual pleasures | Usage |
| waffle | talk vaguely and without much result | Usage |
| waft | scent waving movement carry lightly through | Usage |
| wag | merry person | Usage |
| wan | looking ill, not bright | Usage |
| wanton | unrestrained; willfully malicious; unchaste | Usage |
| warmonger | person who stirs up war | Usage |
| warrant | authority written order guarantee | Usage |
| wean | to turn away (from a habit) | Usage |
| weigh | measure hoe heavy something is | Usage |
| welter | turmoil a bewildering jumble | Usage |
| wend | to go proceed | Usage |
| whimsical | full of odd and fanciful ideas | Usage |
| wile | a trick | Usage |
| wince | show bodily or mental pain | Usage |
| woo | try to win | Usage |
| writ | written order | Usage |
| xenophile (zen-uh-fahyl) | a person who is attracted to foreign peoples cultures | Usage |
| yarn | tale story fibers for knitting | Usage |
| yeoman | man owning small estate; middle-class farmer | Usage |
