• 1. Aberration – straying away from what is normal
  
• 2. Abeyance - suspended action
  
• 3. Abhor - to hate, to detest
  
• 4. Abide - be faithful to; endure
  
• 5. Abjure - promise or swear, to give up
  
• 6. Abet - help/encourage somebody (in doing wrong)
  
• 7. Abraded - rubbed off, worn away by friction
  
• 8. Abrasion - rubbing, scraping, wearing off
  
• 9. Abrogate - repeal or annul by authority
  
• 10. Abscond - to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
  
• 11. Abstruse - difficult to comprehend; obscure
  
• 12. Abundant - plentiful
  
• 13. Abut - border on
  
• 14. Abysmal - bottomless, extreme
  
• 15. Acarpous - effete, no longer fertile, worn out
  
• 16. Accentuate - give more force or attention to
  
• 17. Acclaimed - welcomed with shouts and approval
  
• 18. Accolade - praise, approval
  
• 19. Accretion - the growing of separate things into one
  
• 20. Acquiesce in - agree (without protest)
  
• 21. Acquisition - something acquired, acquiring
  
• 22. Adamant - kind of stone; inflexible
  
• 23. Adhere - remain faithful, stick fast to
  
• 24. Adhesion - adhering, support
  
• 25. Adjacent - lying near, next
  
• 26. Admonitory - containing warning
  
• 27. Adorn - add beauty; decorate
  
• 28. Adulteration - making unpure, poorer in quality
  
• 29. Affable - polite and friendly
  
• 30. Affinity - close connection, relationship
  
• 31. Aggravate - make worse; irritate
  
• 32. Agile - active, quick-moving
  
• 33. Agog - eager/excited
  
• 34. Ail - trouble; be ill
  
• 35. Alacrity - eager and cheerful readiness
  
• 36. Alcove - recess/partially enclosed place
  
• 37. Alienate - estrange
  
• 38. Allegiance - duty, support, loyalty
  
• 39. Alleviate - make (pain) easier to bear
  
• 40. Alloy - to debase by mixing with something inferior
  
• 41. Aloof - reserved, indifferent
  
• 42. Amalgamate - mix, combine, unite societies
  
• 43. Ambidextrous - able to use the left hand or the right equally well
  
• 44. Ambiguous - doubtful, uncertain
  
• 45. Ambivalent - having both of two contrary meanings
  
• 46. Ameliorate - improve, make better
  
• 47. Amendment - improving
  
• 48. Amicable - friendly
  
• 49. Amortize - end (a debt) by setting aside money
  
• 50. Amplify - make large or fuller, increase the strength
  
• 51. Anguish - severe suffering
  
• 52. Animosity - strong dislike
  
• 53. Annul - put an end to
  
• 54. Anticlimax - sudden fall
  
• 55. Antidote - medicine used against a poison or a disease
  
• 56. Antithetical - direct opposing
  
• 57. Apartheid - brutal racial discrimination
  
• 58. Apathetic - indifference
  
• 59. Aplomb - self-confidence
  
• 60. Apostate - one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
  
• 61. Apotheosis - deification, glorification to godliness
  
• 62. Appease - make quiet or calm
  
• 63. Apprehensive - grasping, understanding; fear, unhappy feeling about future
  
• 64. Apprise - give notice to, inform
  
• 65. Approbation - approval
  
• 66. Appropriate - take for one's own use, acquire, set aside
  
• 67. Apropos - appropriate to the situation; apt
  
• 68. Apt - well-suited, quick-witted
  
• 69. Arabesque - whimsical
  
• 70. Arbitrate - decide by arbitration
  
• 71. Arboreal - of connected with trees
  
• 72. Ardently - with full of ardor
  
• 73. Ardor - enthusiasm
  
• 74. Arduous - steep, difficult ascent; laborious
  
• 75. Argot - jargon, slang
  
• 76. Arrant - in the highest degree
  
• 77. Arrogance - proud, superior manner of behaviour
  
• 78. Articulate - speak distinctly, connect by joints
  
• 79. Ascend - go or come up
  
• 80. Ascent - the act of ascending
  
• 81. Ascertain - get to know
  
• 82. Ascetic - practicing self-denial, austere, stark
  
• 83. Ascribe - consider to be the origin of or belonging to
  
• 84. Aseptic - surgically clean
  
• 85. Asperity - roughness, harshness, ill temper, irritability
  
• 86. Aspersion - slander
  
• 87. Assail with - attack violently
  
• 88. Asset - valuable quality, something that has money value
  
• 89. Assiduous - diligent, hard-working, sedulous
  
• 90. Assuage - make something (pain, desire) less
  
• 91. Assumption - something supposed but not proved
  
• 92. Asterisk - the mark * (e.g.. omitted letters)
  
• 93. Astringent - substance that shrinks
  
• 94. Astute - clever; quick at seeing to get an advantage
  
• 95. Atonement - repayment; death of Jesus
  
• 96. Attenuate - make thin. weaken, enervate
  
• 97. Attune - bring into harmony
  
• 98. Audacious - daring, foolishly bold, impudent
  
• 99. Augury - omen, sign
  
• 100. August - majestic, venerable
  
• 101. Auspice - protection or support, patronage
  
• 102. Auspicious - favorable, successful, prosperous
  
• 103. Austere - severely moral and strict; simple and plain
  
• 104. Auxiliary - helping, supporting
  
• 105. Aver - affirm, assert, prove, justify
  
• 106. Aversion - strong dislike
  
• 107. Avid - eager, greedy
  
• 108. Avow - admit. Declare openly
  
• 109. Babble - talk in a way that is difficult to understand
  
• 110. Baleful - harmful, ominous, causing evil
  
• 111. Balk - obstacle; purposely to get on the way of
  
• 112. Balloon - swell out like balloon
  
• 113. Balm - sweet-smelling oil; consolation
  
• 114. Banal - uninteresting
  
• 115. Band - flat, thin strip of material; range of frequencies
  
• 116. Bane - cause of injury, poison, source of harm
  
• 117. Baneful - causing harm or ruin, pernicious, destructive
  
• 118. Barrage - artificial obstacle built across a river
  
• 119. Barren - not good enough, unable to have young ones, without value
  
• 120. Bask in - enjoy warmth and light
  
• 121. Bazaar - market
  
• 122. Be irreconcilable - cannot be brought into harmony
  
• 123. Beatify - to bless, make happy, or ascribe a virtue to
  
• 124. Bedizen - to adorn, especially in a cheap, showy manner
  
• 125. Belabor - beat hard
  
• 126. Belie - contradict, give a false impression
  
• 127. Belittle - cause to seem unimportant
  
• 128. Bellicose - belligerent, pugnacious, warlike
  
• 129. Belligerent - (person, nation) waging war
  
• 130. Belligerently - waging war
  
• 131. Bend - cause something to be out of a straight line
  
• 132. Benefactor - person who has given help
  
• 133. Benevolence - wish or activity in doing good
  
• 134. Benign - kind and gentle; mild (climate)
  
• 135. Bequest - arrangement to give something at death
  
• 136. Berate - scold sharply
  
• 137. Bereft - rob or dispossess of something (material)
  
• 138. Bewilder - puzzle, confuse
  
• 139. Biased - prejudice
  
• 140. Bigot - stubborn, narrow-minded person
  
• 141. Bilge - bulge, the protuberance of a cask
  
• 142. Blandishment - flattery, coaxing
  
• 143. Blandness - polite manner, comforting, uninteresting
  
• 144. Blatant - noisy and rough
  
• 145. Blithe - gay and joyous
  
• 146. Blueprint – plan, scheme, photographic print
  
• 147. Blunt - plain, not troubling to be polite
  
• 148. Boggle - be alarmed, hesitate, amazed
  
• 149. Bogus - sham, counterfeit, not genuine
  
• 150. Boisterous - loud, noisy, rough, lacking restraint
  
• 151. Bolster - give greatly needed support
  
• 152. Boor - ill-mannered person
  
• 153. Boorish - crude, offensive, rude
  
• 154. Braid - strands of hair woven together, something edging sloth
  
• 155. Brash - hasty, rush; cheeky, saucy
  
• 156. Brass - yellow metal (mixing copper and zinc)
  
• 157. Brazen - made of brass
  
• 158. Breach - opening broken place, breaking
  
• 159. Brigant - brigand, bandit
  
• 160. Brisk - active, lively
  
• 161. Brisket - breast of an animal
  
• 162. Brittle - easily broken
  
• 163. Broach - bring up, announce, begin to talk about
  
• 164. Brook - to tolerate, endure
  
• 165. Buoyant - able to float; light-hearted
  
• 166. Burgeon - grow forth, send out buds
  
• 167. Burnish - to polish, rub to a shine
  
• 168. Bust - run out of money
  
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• 169. Cabal - a scheme or plot, a group of plotters
  
• 170. Cadge - to beg, to get by begging
  
• 171. Cajolers - flattery or deceit to persuade
  
• 172. Calf - young of the domestic cow
  
• 173. Calipers - metal supports attached to the legs, measuring instrument
  
• 174. Calumniate - to slander, present false accusal
  
• 175. Calumny - slander, aspersion
  
• 176. Candid - frank straight-forward
  
• 177. Cantankerous - bad-tempered/quarrelsome
  
• 178. Cantin - sincere talk/jargon
  
• 179. Canvass - discuss thoroughly; sort of touting
  
• 180. Capricious - fickle, whimsical, given to change, unpredictable
  
• 181. Castigate - to chastise, correct by punishing
  
• 182. Castigation - severe punishment
  
• 183. Casual - happening by chance, careless
  
• 184. Catalyst - substance that causes speeding up
  
• 185. Caustic - biting, sarcastic
  
• 186. Censure - expression of blame or disapproval; a rebuke
  
• 187. Census - official counting of the population
  
• 188. Centurion - leader of a unit of 100 soldiers
  
• 189. Chary - cautious, wary
  
• 190. Chastened - corrected, punished
  
• 191. Chastisement - punishment
  
• 192. Chauvinist – a blindly devoted patriot
  
• 193. Chicanery - legal trickery/false argument
  
• 194. Chisel - steel tool for shaping materials
  
• 195. Churl - bad-tempered person
  
• 196. Cite - give as an example
  
• 197. Clamor - shout complain with a lot of noise
  
• 198. Cleanse - make pure, thoroughly clean
  
• 199. Clientele - customers
  
• 200. Clinch - come to grips/settle conclusively
  
• 201. Cling - to resist separation
  
• 202. Clot - half-solid lump formed from liquid
  
• 203. Cloture - closing, device (in Parliament) to end a debate by voting
  
• 204. Coalescing - coming together and uniting into one substance
  
• 205. Coax - get somebody to do something by kindness
  
• 206. Coda - passage that completes a piece of music
  
• 207. Coddle - treat with care and tenderness
  
• 208. Coerce - compel to force to make obedient
  
• 209. Coeval - of the same period, coexisting
  
• 210. Cogent – strong convincing
  
• 211. Cogitate – think deeply, mediate
  
• 212. Cognition - knowing, awareness (emotionless)
  
• 213. Cognizant – being fully aware of
  
• 214. Coherent – sticking together
  
• 215. Colander - bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
  
• 216. Collaborate - work in partnership
  
• 217. Collusion - secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
  
• 218. Combustion - process of burning
  
• 219. Commemorate - keep the memory of
  
• 220. Commend - praise
  
• 221. Commendable - worthy of praise
  
• 222. Commingle - mingle together
  
• 223. Commodious - having plenty of space for what is needed
  
• 224. Commuter - person who travels regularly
  
• 225. Complacently – with self-satisfaction
  
• 226. Complaisance - tending to comply, obliging, willingness to please
  
• 227. Comply - act in accordance
  
• 228. Compound - mix or combine
  
• 229. Comprise - be composed of
  
• 230. Compunction - feeling of regret for one's action
  
• 231. Conceal - hide, keep secret
  
• 232. Conceit - over-high opinion of, too much pride
  
• 233. Conciliatory - reconciling, soothing, comforting, mollifying
  
• 234. Concord - agreement or harmony
  
• 235. Concur - agree in opinion, happen together
  
• 236. Condense - increase in density, strength, make laconic
  
• 237. Condone - forgive
  
• 238. Congeal - make or become stiff and solid
  
• 239. Conjoin – to join together
  
• 240. Connoisseur - a person with good judgment (e.g.. in art)
  
• 241. Connotation - suggestion in addition to
  
• 242. Consent - give agreement or permission
  
• 243. Consequential - pompous, self important
  
• 244. Consolation - consoling or being consoled
  
• 245. Console - give comfort or sympathy to
  
• 246. Conspicuous - easily seen; remarkable
  
• 247. Consternation - surprise and fear, dismay
  
• 248. Constrain - compel
  
• 249. Constrict - make tight or smaller
  
• 250. Consume - get to the end of
  
• 251. Consummate - perfect/make perfect/complete
  
• 252. Contemn - to scorn or despise
  
• 253. Contentious - argumentative, pugnacious, combative, quarrelsome
  
• 254. Contiguous - touching, neighboring, near
  
• 255. Contrite - filled with deep sorrow for wrongdoing
  
• 256. Contumacious - insubordinate, rebellious
  
• 257. Conundrum - a riddle, dilemma, enigma
  
• 258. Conviction - convincing; firm belief
  
• 259. Convoke - call together, summon
  
• 260. Convoluted - complicated; coiled, twisted
  
• 261. Cord - twisted strands
  
• 262. Cordial - warm and sincere
  
• 263. Cordon – line of police acting as a guard
  
• 264. Cornucopia - abundant supply
  
• 265. Corporeal - physical; of or for the body
  
• 266. Correlate - have a mutual relation
  
• 267. Corroboration - additional, strengthening evidence
  
• 268. Countenance to - favor or approve of
  
• 269. Counterfeit - forgery
  
• 270. Countervail - counterbalance
  
• 271. Covert - disguised
  
• 272. Covetous - eagerly desirous
  
• 273. Cower - crouch; shrink back
  
• 274. Coy – shy/modest (esp of a girl)
  
• 275. Crass - very great (es. stupidity)
  
• 276. Cravat - piece of linen worn as a necktie
  
• 277. Craven – cowardly
  
• 278. Crease - line made by crushing; white line on the ground in cricket
  
• 279. Credulity - too great a readiness to believe things
  
• 280. Credulous - ready to believe things
  
• 281. Crush - press, lose shape, subdue, overwhelm
  
• 282. Cryptic - secret, with a hidden meaning
  
• 283. Cumbersome - burdensome, heavy and awkward to carry
  
• 284. Curmudgeon - bad-tempered person
  
• 285. Curriculum - course of study
  
• 286. Cursory - quick, hurried
  
• 287. Curtail - make shorter then was planned
  
• 288. Cynic - person who see no good in anything
  
• 289.
  
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• 290. Dainty - pretty/delicate(food)/difficult to please
  
• 291. Dart - quick movement; missile in darts
  
• 292. Daunt - intimidate, make fearful
  
• 293. Dawdler - person who is slow; waste of time
  
• 294. Dearth - shortage
  
• 295. Debacle - a breakup, overthrow, sudden disaster
  
• 296. Decorous - polite, decent
  
• 297. Decorum - propriety, properness
  
• 298. Decree - order given by authority
  
• 299. Decry - disapprove of
  
• 300. Defer - postpone; give way (to show respect)
  
• 301. Deference - respect
  
• 302. Deferential - showing respect
  
• 303. Defiance - open disobedience or resistance
  
• 304. Deflect - turn aside
  
• 305. Defy - resist openly
  
• 306. Degrade - reduce in rank or status
  
• 307. Delineate - to portray, depict, sketch out
  
• 308. Deluge - great flood, heavy rush of water
  
• 309. Delusion - false belief
  
• 310. Demagogue - person appealing not to reasons
  
• 311. Demur - to hesitate, raise objections
  
• 312. Denigrate - blacken, belittle, sully, defame
  
• 313. Denouement - an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot
  
• 314. Denounce - give information against
  
• 315. Dent - hollow, depression mad by a blow
  
• 316. Deplete - use until none remains
  
• 317. Deposition - dethronement, depositing
  
• 318. Deprave - make morally bad; corrupt
  
• 319. Deprecate - protest against, express disapproval of
  
• 320. Dereliction - deserting and leaving to fall into ruins
  
• 321. Derision - ridicule, mockery, deriding
  
• 322. Derivative - unoriginal, obtained from another source
  
• 323. Derogatory - insulting; tending to damage
  
• 324. Descry - catch sight of, see something in the distance
  
• 325. Desiccant - substance used to absorb moisture
  
• 326. Desiccate - dry out all the moisture
  
• 327. Desuetude - cessation of use; disuse
  
• 328. Desultory - aimless, haphazard, digressing at random
  
• 329. Detach - separate
  
• 330. Deter - discourage, hinder
  
• 331. Detraction - slandering, verbal attack, aspersion
  
• 332. Detumescence - diminishing or lessening of swelling
  
• 333. Deviance - being different in moral standards (from normal)
  
• 334. Dexterity - skill (esp. in handling)
  
• 335. Dexterous - clever, skillful with hands
  
• 336. Diaphanous - transparent, gauzy
  
• 337. Diatribe - bitter and violent attack in words
  
• 338. Dictate - order
  
• 339. Diffidence - shyness
  
• 340. Diffident - lacking in self-confidence
  
• 341. Dilate - speak comprehensively, become wider, large
  
• 342. Dilatory - causing delay, procrastinating
  
• 343. Din - loud noise that continues
  
• 344. Disabuse - to undeceive, correct a false impression
  
• 345. Disallow - refuse to allow or accept as a correct
  
• 346. Discern - see with an effort but clearly
  
• 347. Discomfit - to defeat, put down
  
• 348. Disconcert - upset the self-possession of
  
• 349. Discountenance - refuse to approve of
  
• 350. Discourse - speech, lecture,
  
• 351. Discredit - refuse to believe
  
• 352. Discreet - careful/prudent
  
• 353. Discrete - individually distinct
  
• 354. Disdain - look on with contempt
  
• 355. Disencumber - free from encumbrance
  
• E
  
• 356. Encumbrance - burden; things that get on the way of
  
• 357. Endearing - making dear or liked
  
• 358. Endemic - epidemic
  
• 359. Endorse - write one's name on the back of
  
• 360. Enduring - lasting
  
• 361. Enervate - weaken, deprive of strength, attenuate
  
• 362. Engender - cause, produce, give rise to
  
• 363. Engrave - impress deeply
  
• 364. Engrossing - taken up all the time or attention; writing in large or formal
  
• 365. Engulf - swallow up
  
• 366. Enigma - something that is puzzling
  
• 367. Enmity - hatred; being an enemy
  
• 368. Enormity - excessive wickedness; evilness
  
• 369. Enormousness - great size
  
• 370. Ensign - flag/badge
  
• 371. Entangle - put into difficulties
  
• 372. Enthral - please greatly/enslave (fig)
  
• 373. Entice - tempt or persuade
  
• 374. Entreat - ask earnestly
  
• 375. Enunciate - pronounce (words)/express a theory
  
• 376. Enzyme - catalyst
  
• 377. Epicure – food lover, a connoisseur of food
  
• 378. Epicurean - devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
  
• 379. Epistle – letter
  
• 380. Epithet – adjective
  
• 381. Epitome - brief summary; representative example; a typical model
  
• 382. Equable - steady, regular
  
• 383. Equanimity - calmness of temperament
  
• 384. Equilibrium - state of being balanced
  
• 385. Equipoise - equal distribution of weight; equilibrium
  
• 386. Equivocal - having a double or doubtful meaning; suspicious
  
• 387. Equivocate - try to deceive by equivocal language
  
• 388. Eradicate - get rid of; pull up by the roots
  
• 389. Erasure – erasing, removing all traces
  
• 390. Erode - wear away, eat into
  
• 391. Erratic - irregular in behaviour or opinion
  
• 392. Erudite - learned, scholarly
  
• 393. Escalate - increase, develop
  
• 394. Eschew - avoid
  
• 395. Esoteric - abstruse; intended only for a small circle of
  
• 396. Espouse - marry; give one's support to
  
• 397. Eulogy - formal praise; panegyric
  
• 398. Euphoria - elation; state of pleasant excitement
  
• 399. Euthanasia - easy and painless death
  
• 400. Evaluating - finding out the value
  
• 401. Evaporate - change into vapor, disappear, die
  
• 402. Evasive - tending to evade
  
• 403. Evince - to show clearly, to indicate
  
• 404. Evoke - call up, bring out
  
• 405. Evolve - unfold, develop naturally and gradually
  
• 406. Excoriate - to flay, stip off the skin; to denounce sharply
  
• 407. Excoriation - severe criticism
  
• 408. Exculpate - to clear from a charge of guilt
  
• 409. Exert - thrust out, push forth
  
• 410. Exertion - instance of exerting
  
• 411. Exhaustive - complete, thorough
  
• 412. Exigency - emergency, an urgent situation
  
• 413. Exonerate - free; clear
  
• 414. Exoneration - set somebody clear, free (e.g.. from blame)
  
• 415. Exorbitant - much too high or great
  
• 416. Expatiate - to roam, wander freely
  
• 417. Expedient - likely to be useful for a purpose
  
• 418. Expiation - ending; expiring
  
• 419. Exploit – brilliant achievement; develop; use selfishly
  
• 420. Expostulate - argue earnestly to dissuade, correct, or protest
  
• 421. Expurgate - to remove obscenity, purify, censor
  
• 422. Exscind - to cut out, cut away
  
• 423. Extant - still in existence
  
• 424. Extempore - without previous thought or preparation
  
• 425. Extensive - far-reaching
  
• 426. Extenuate - reduce the strength of, lessen seriousness, partially excuse
  
• 427. Extinct - no longer active
  
• 428. Extinguish - end the existence of/wipe or put out
  
• 429. Extirpate - to destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind
  
• 430. Extol - praise highly
  
• 431. Extort - obtain by threats, violence
  
• 432. Extralegal - outside the law
  
• 433. Extricable – that can be freed
  
• 434. Extrovert - cheerful person
  
• 435. Exuberance - state of growing vigorously; being full of life
  
• 436.
  
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• 437. Facetious - humorous, funny, jocular
  
• 438. Facile - easily done
  
• 439. Facilitate - make easy (e.g.. a process of smth)
  
• 440. Fallacious - based on error
  
• 441. Fallacy - false or mistaken belief
  
• 442. Falter - waver/move in an uncertain manner
  
• 443. Fatuous - without sense, foolish self-satisfaction
  
• 444. Faucet - device for controlling the outflow of a liquid
  
• 445. Fawn - young deer, try to win somebody's favor
  
• 446. Feckless - lacking purpose or vitality; ineffective; careless
  
• 447. Fecund - fertile
  
• 448. Feint - pretend
  
• 449. Felicitous - apt; suitably expressed, well chosen, apropos
  
• 450. Felon - person guilty of murder
  
• 451. Ferment - substance; become excited
  
• 452. Ferocity - savage cruelty
  
• 453. Ferret - discover by searching; search
  
• 454. Fertile - producing much, full of ideas
  
• 455. Fertilize - make fertile or productive
  
• 456. Fervid - showing earnest feeling
  
• 457. Fervor - warmth of feelings; earnestness
  
• 458. Fetid - stinking
  
• 459. Fetter - to shackle, put in chains
  
• 460. Feud - bitter quarrel over a long period of time
  
• 461. Fidelity - loyalty, accuracy
  
• 462. Fidget - move restlessly, make nervous
  
• 463. Figurehead – carved image on the prow of a ship
  
• 464. Finesse - delicate way of dealing with a situation
  
• 465. Finical - too fussy about food, clothing, etc.
  
• 466. Finicky - finical
  
• 467. Finite - limited, having bounds
  
• 468. Fission - splitting or division (esp. of cells)
  
• 469. Fix at - stare at
  
• 470. Flak - criticism/anti-aircraft guns
  
• 471. Flamboyant - brightly colored, florid
  
• 472. Flammable - having tendency to burst into flames
  
• 473. Flaunting - show off complacently
  
• 474. Flaw - crack, lessen value
  
• 475. Flax - pale yellow (hair); a plant
  
• 476. Fledged - able to fly, trained, experienced
  
• 477. Fleet – number of ships, quick-moving
  
• 478. Fleeting - passing quickly
  
• 479. Flexibility - easily bent without braking
  
• 480. Flinch - draw, move back, wince
  
• 481. Flop - fail/move/fall clumsily
  
• 482. Florid - very much ornamented; naturally red (e.g.. of face)
  
• 483. Floridness - ruddiness; heavily decorated; ornateness
  
• 484. Flout - reject, mock, to go against (as in going against tradition)
  
• 485. Fluke - lucky stroke
  
• 486. Fluster – make nervous or confused
  
• 487. Foible - defect of character (a person is wrongly proud)
  
• 488. Foil - prevent from carrying out; contrast
  
• 489. Foment - put something warm (to lessen the pain)
  
• 490. Foolproof - incapable of failure or error
  
• 491. Foppish - like a man who pays too much attention to his clothes
  
• 492. Forage - food for horses and cattle
  
• 493. Forbear - refrain from, be patient; ancestor
  
• 494. Forbearance - patience, willingness to wait
  
• 495. Ford - shallow place in a river (to cross)
  
• 496. Forestall - prevent by taking action in advance, preempt
  
• 497. Forethought - foresight, planned in advance
  
• 498. Forfeit – suffer the loss of something
  
• 499. Forge - workshop for the shaping of metal; to shape metal; lead
  
• 500. Forgery - counterfeit
  
• 501. Forswear - renounce, disallow, repudiate
  
• 502. Fortify - strengthen
  
• 503. Fortuitous - happening by chance
  
• 504. Foster - nurture, care for
  
• 505. Fracas – noisy quarrel
  
• 506. Fragile - easily injured, broken or destroyed
  
• 507. Fragrant - sweet-smelling
  
• 508. Franchise - special right given by authority
  
• 509. Frantic - wildly excited with joy, pain, anxiety
  
• 510. Frenetic - frantic, frenzied
  
• 511. Fret - worry; irritation; wear away
  
• 512. Friction - the rubbing of one thing against another, difference of opinion
  
• 513. Fringe - edge; ornamental border; part of hair over the forehead
  
• 514. Froward - intractable, not willing to yield or comply, stubborn
  
• 515. Frugal - careful, economical
  
• 516. Fulminate - berate, vituperate, to thunder out, to explode
  
• 517. Fulmination - bitter protest
  
• 518. Fulsome - disgusting, offensive due to excessiveness
  
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• 519. Gainsay - to deny, declare false, to oppose
  
• 520. Gambol - quick, playful jumping
  
• 521. Garble - make unfair selection from facts
  
• 522. Garment - article of clothing
  
• 523. Garner - to gather and save; to store up
  
• 524. Garrulity - talkativeness
  
• 525. Garrulous – too talkative
  
• 526. Gaucherie - socially awkward, tactless behavior
  
• 527. Germane - relevant; pertinent to
  
• 528. Gist - the point, general sense
  
• 529. Glean - gather facts in small quantities
  
• 530. Glib - ready and smooth but not sincere
  
• 531. Glimmer - weak/unsteady light
  
• 532. Gloat - over look at with selfish delight
  
• 533. Glut - supply to much, fill to excess
  
• 534. Gnaw - waste away; bite steadily
  
• 535. Goad - something urging a person to action
  
• 536. Gorge - eat greedily/narrow opening with a stream
  
• 537. Gossamer - soft light, delicate material
  
• 538. Gouge - tool for cutting grooves in wood
  
• 539. Grace – favor
  
• 540. Grandiloquent - using pompous words
  
• 541. Grave - serious, requiring consideration
  
• 542. Graze - touch or scrape lightly in passing
  
• 543. Gregarious - living in societies; liking the company
  
• 544. Grievance - cause for complaint or protest
  
• 545. Grievous - causing grief or pain; serious, dire, grave
  
• 546. Grimace - twisted expression of a face
  
• 547. Grind - crush, polish
  
• 548. Grooves - long channel in the surface, habitual way of living
  
• 549. Grovel - crawl, humble oneself
  
• 550. Guile - deceit, cunning
  
• 551. Guileless - straight-forward, candid
  
• 552. Gull - cheat, deceive
  
• 553. Gullible - easily gulled
  
• 554. Gush - burst out suddenly/talk ardently
  
• 555. Gust - outburst of feeling; sudden rain, wind, fire, etc.
  
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• 556. Hack - cut roughly; hired horse
  
• 557. Halcyon - calm and peaceful
  
• 558. Hallow - to make holy; consecrate
  
• 559. Hamper - basket with a lid, prevent free movement or activity
  
• 560. Hapless - unlucky, unfortunate
  
• 561. Harangue - a long, passionate speech
  
• 562. Harbinger - something or somebody that foretells the coming
  
• 563. Harrow - to distress, create stress or torment
  
• 564. Harsh - rough, cruel, stern
  
• 565. Haughty - arrogant; conceited
  
• 566. Haven – harbor, safety place
  
• 567. Heed - attention/give notice to
  
• 568. Heinous - odious (of crime)
  
• 569. Heresy - belief contrary to what is generally accepted
  
• 570. Hermetic - sealed by fusion
  
• 571. Heterogeneous - made up of different kinds
  
• 572. Hew - make by hard work; cut (by striking)
  
• 573. Highbrow - (person) with superior tastes
  
• 574. Hirsute - hairy, shaggy
  
• 575. Hoax - mischievous trick played on somebody for a joke
  
• 576. Hoipolloi - the masses; the rabble
  
• 577. Hollow - not soled, with hole
  
• 578. Holster - leather case for a pistol
  
• 579. Homiletics - act of preaching
  
• 580. Hone - stone used for sharpening tools
  
• 581. Hoodwink - trick, mislead
  
• 582. Hospitable - liking to give hospitality
  
• 583. Hubris - arrogant pride
  
• 584. Hurdle - light frame, fence to be jumped over
  
• 585. Hush - make or become silent
  
• 586. Husk - worthless outside part of anything
  
• 587. Hypocrisy - falsely making oneself appear to be good
  
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• 588. Iconoclast - person who attacks popular beliefs
  
• 589. Iconoclastic - attacking cherished beliefs
  
• 590. Idiosyncrasy - personal mannerism
  
• 591. Idolatrous - worshipping idols \
  
• 592. Idolatry - excessive admiration of
  
• 593. Ignoble - dishonorable, common, undignified
  
• 594. Ignominious - shameful, dishonorable, undignified, disgraceful
  
• 595. Illicit - unlawful, forbidden
  
• 596. Illusory - deceptive; an illusion
  
• 597. Imbroglio - complicated and embarrassing situation
  
• 598. Immaculate - pure, faultless
  
• 599. Immerse - absorb; put under the surface of
  
• 600. Imminent - likely to come or happen soon
  
• 601. Immutable - that cannot be changed
  
• 602. Impair - worsen, diminish in value
  
• 603. Impaired - damaged, weakened
  
• 604. Impassive - unmoved; feeling no sign of passion
  
• 605. Impecunious - having little or no money
  
• 606. Impede - hinder; get in the way of
  
• 607. Impediment - something that hinders (e.g. stammer)
  
• 608. Impending - imminent, being about to happen, expected
  
• 609. Imperative - urgent, essential
  
• 610. Imperious - commanding, haughty, arrogant
  
• 611. Impermeable – that cannot be permeated
  
• 612. Imperturbable - calm; not capable of being excited
  
• 613. Impervious - not allowing to pass through (of materials)
  
• 614. Imperviousness - arrogance, commanding presence, over bearingness
  
• 615. Impetuous - having sudden energy, impulsive, thrusting ahead, forceful
  
• 616. Impiety - lack of reverence or dutifulness
  
• 617. Implacable - incapable of being placated, unpleasable
  
• 618. Implausibility – incredibility
  
• 619. Implicate - show that somebody has a share
  
• 620. Implicit - implied though not plainly expressed
  
• 621. Implosion - collapse; bursting inward
  
• 622. Imply - make a suggestion
  
• 623. Importune - beg urgently; solicit (of a prostitute)
  
• 624. Imprecation - an invocation of evil; a curse
  
• 625. Impromptu - without preparation
  
• 626. Impudence - being rash, indiscreet
  
• 627. Impudent - rash, indiscreet
  
• 628. Impugned - challenged, to be doubted
  
• 629. Impute - to attribute to a cause or source, ascribe
  
• 630. Inadvertent - done thoughtlessly
  
• 631. Inane - silly, senseless
  
• 632. Inasmuch - since, because
  
• 633. Incense - make angry
  
• 634. Incessant - often repeated, continual
  
• 635. Inchoate -not yet fully formed, rudimentary, elementary
  
• 636. Incipient - beginning
  
• 637. Incise - engrave, make a cut in
  
• 638. Incite – stir up, rouse
  
• 639. Inclined - directing the mind in a certain direction
  
• 640. Incoherently - not consistently, unclearly
  
• 641. Incongruous - out of place, not in harmony or agreement
  
• 642. Incorrigibility - cannot be cured or corrected
  
• 643. Incredulous - skeptical, unwilling to believe
  
• 644. Inculcate - fix firmly by repetition
  
• 645. Incumbents - official duties
  
• 646. Incursion - a raid, a sudden attack
  
• 647. Indefatigability - not easily exhaustible; tirelessness
  
• 648. Indelible - that cannot be rubbed out
  
• 649. Indelicate - immodest; lacking in refinement
  
• 650. Indigence - poverty
  
• 651. Indigenous - native
  
• 652. Indistinct - not easily heard, seen, clearly marked
  
• 653. Indolence - laziness
  
• 654. Indomitable - not easily discouraged or subdued
  
• 655. Indulge - gratify, give way to, satisfy; allow oneself
  
• 656. Indulgent - inclined to indulge
  
• 657. Ineffable – to great to be described in words
  
• 658. Ineluctable - certain, inevitable
  
• 659. Inept - unskillful; said or done at the wrong time
  
• 660. Ineptitude - quality of being unskillful
  
• 661. Inferno - hell
  
• 662. Infertile - not fertile, barren
  
• 663. Inflame - become red, angry
  
• 664. Inflammatory - tending to inflame
  
• 665. Infuriate - fill with fury or rage
  
• 666. Infuse - put, pour, fill
  
• 667. Ingenuous - naive, young, artless, frank, honest, sincere
  
• 668. Ingest - take in by swallowing
  
• 669. Inherent - existing as a natural part
  
• 670. Inhibit - hinder, restrain
  
• 671. Inimical - harmful or friendly
  
• 672. Inimitable - defying imitation, unmatchable
  
• 673. Innocuous - causing no harm
  
• 674. Inscrutable - incapable of being discovered or understood
  
• 675. Insensible - unconscious, unresponsive, unaffected
  
• 676. Insinuate - suggest unpleasantly; make a way for something gently
  
• 677. Insipid -without taste or flavor
  
• 678. Insouciant - unconcerned, carefree
  
• 679. Insularity - narrow-mindedness, isolated
  
• 680. Insurrection - rising of people to open resistance to
  
• 681. Interdict - prohibit, forbid
  
• 682. Interim - as an installment
  
• 683. Intersperse - place here and there
  
• 684. Intervene - come between; interfere to change the result
  
• 685. Intractable - unruly, refractory, stubborn
  
• 686. Intransigence - unwillingness to compromise, stubbornness, intractability
  
• 687. Intransigent - uncompromising
  
• 688. Intrepid – fearless, brave, undaunted
  
• 689. Introspection - examining one's own thoughts and feelings
  
• 690. Inundate - flood; cover by overflowing
  
• 691. Inured - accustomed to, adapted
  
• 692. Invective - abusive language, curses
  
• 693. Inveigh - to attack verbally, denounce, deprecate
  
• 694. Inveterate - deep-rooted. long-established
  
• 695. Invincible - too strong to be defeated
  
• 696. Involute - complex
  
• 697. Irascible - irritable, easily angered
  
• 698. Irate - angry
  
• 699. Ire - anger
  
• 700. Irksome – tiresome
  
• 701. Irrelevant - not relevant, not connected
  
• 702. Irresolute - hesitating; undecided
  
• 703. Irrevocable - final and unalterable
  
• 704. Itinerary - plan for a journey, details or records of a route
  
• 705. Itinerate - to travel from place to place, to peregrinate
  
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• 706. Jabber -talk excitedly; utter rapidly
  
• 707. Jeopardize - put in danger
  
• 708. Jibe - gibe, make fun of
  
• 709. Jocular - meant as a joke
  
• 710. Judicious - sound in judgment; wise
  
• K
  
• 711. Knit - draw together, unite firmly
  
• L
  
• 712. Labyrinthine - to entangle the state of affairs
  
• 713. Lachrymose - causing tears, tearful
  
• 714. Lackluster - (of eyes) dull, without bright
  
• 715. Laconic - brief, to the point, terse
  
• 716. Lag - go too slow
  
• 717. Lament - show, feel great sorrow
  
• 718. Lassitude - weariness, tiredness
  
• 719. Latent - present but not yet active, developed or visible
  
• 720. Laudatory - expressing or giving praise
  
• 721. Lavish - giving or producing freely, liberally or generously
  
• 722. Leakage - the process of leaking
  
• 723. Legacy - something handed down from ancestors
  
• 724. Levee - formal reception/embankment
  
• 725. Levity - lack of seriousness
  
• 726. Libel - statement that damages reputation
  
• 727. Liberality - free giving; generosity
  
• 728. Libertine - immoral person
  
• 729. Lien - legal claim until a debt on it is repaid
  
• 730. Limn - paint, portray
  
• 731. Limp - lacking strength, walking unevenly
  
• 732. Lionize - treat as a famous person
  
• 733. Lithe - bending, twisting
  
• 734. Loll - rest, to sit or stand in a lazy way; hang (dog's tongue)
  
• 735. Lope - move along with long strides
  
• 736. Loquacious - talkative, garrulous
  
• 737. Lubricant - substance that makes work easier
  
• 738. Lubricate - put oil to make work easily
  
• 739. Lubricious - lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery
  
• 740. Lucubrate - write in scholarly fashion
  
• 741. Luculent - easily understood, lucid, clear
  
• 742. Lugubrious - mournful, excessively sad
  
• 743. Lull - become quiet or less active
  
• 744. Lumber - move in a clumsy/noisy way
  
• 745. Luminary - star, light-giving body
  
• 746. Lurk - be out of view ready to attack
  
• 747. Lustrous - being bright, polished
  
• M
  
• 748. Macabre - gruesome, suggesting death
  
• 749. Macerate - make or become soft by soaking in water
  
• 750. Machination - plot, scheme (esp. evil)
  
• 751. Maladroit - tactless, clumsy
  
• 752. Malapropism - misuse of a word (for one that resembles it)
  
• 753. Malevolence - wishing to do evil
  
• 754. Malign - injurious, speak ill of somebody, tell lie
  
• 755. Malinger - to fake illness or injury, in order to shirk a duty
  
• 756. Malleable - yielding; easily shaped; moldable; adapting
  
• 757. Manacle - chains for the hands or feet
  
• 758. Martial - brave, of associated with war
  
• 759. Massacre - cruel killing of a large number of people
  
• 760. Matriculation - be admitted, enter a university as a student
  
• 761. Mature - come to full development, to a state ready for use
  
• 762. Maudlin - sentimental in a silly or tearful way
  
• 763. Maul - hurt by rough handling
  
• 764. Maverick – rebel, nonconformist
  
• 765. Mellifluous - sweetly flowing
  
• 766. Mendacious - false
  
• 767. Mendacity - dishonesty
  
• 768. Mendicant - a beggar
  
• 769. Mercurial - quick, changeable in character, fleeting
  
• 770. Meretricious - attractive on the surface but of little value
  
• 771. Mesmerize - hypnotize
  
• 772. Meticulous - giving great attention to details
  
• 773. Mettle - quality of endurance or courage
  
• 774. Mettlesome - courageous, high-spirited
  
• 775. Middling -fairly good but not very good
  
• 776. Minatory - menacing, threatening
  
• 777. Mince - pronounce or speak affectedly, euphemize
  
• 778. Misanthrope - person who hates mankind
  
• 779. Mischievous - harmful, causing mischief
  
• 780. Miser - person who loves wealth and spends little
  
• 781. Misogynist - one who hates women/females
  
• 782. Missile - something that is thrown or shot
  
• 783. Mitigate - make less severe or painful
  
• 784. Moderation - quality of being limited, not extreme
  
• 785. Mollify - make calmer or quieter
  
• 786. Molt - moult, lose hair, feathers before new growing
  
• 787. Morbid - diseased, unhealthy (e.g.. about ideas)
  
• 788. Morose - ill-tempered, unsociable
  
• 789. Mortuary - place where dead bodies are taken to be kept until burial
  
• 790. Muffler - cloth worn round the neck/silencer
  
• 791. Multifarious - varied, motley, greatly diversified
  
• 792. Mundane - worldly as opposed to spiritual; commonplace, everyday
  
• 793. Myriad - very great number
  
• N
  
• 794. Nadir -lowest, weakest point
  
• 795. Nascent - coming into existence, emerging
  
• 796. Nebulous - cloud-like; hazy; vague; indistinct
  
• 797. Negligent - taking too little care
  
• 798. Neophyte - person who has been converted to a belief
  
• 799. Nexus - a connection, tie, or link
  
• 800. Nibble - show some inclination to accept (an offer)
  
• 801. Nice - precise, sensitive to subtleness
  
• 802. Noisome - offensive, disgusting (smell)
  
• 803. Nonchalant - not having interest
  
• 804. Nonplused - greatly surprised
  
• 805. Nostrum - a quack remedy, an untested cure
  
• 806. Notion - nominal, token
  
• 807. Noxious - harmful
  
• 808. Nugatory – trifling/worthless
  
• 809. Nullify - make void and null
  
• 810. Numb – without ability to feel or move
  
• 811. Numbness - without ability to move a finger
  
• O
  
• 812. Obdurate - hardened and unrepenting; stubborn, inflexible
  
• 813. Obfuscate - to darken, make obscure, muddle
  
• 814. Oblivious - unaware, having no memory
  
• 815. Obloquy - abusively detractive language, sharp criticism, vituperation
  
• 816. Obsequious - too eager to obey or serve
  
• 817. Obsolete - no longer used
  
• 818. Obstreperous - noisy, loud
  
• 819. Obtain - to be established, accepted, or customary
  
• 820. Obtrusive - projecting, prominent, undesirably noticeable
  
• 821. Obtuse - blunt/stupid
  
• 822. Obviate – to make unnecessary, get rid of
  
• 823. Occluded - blocked up
  
• 824. Occult - hidden, concealed, beyond comprehension
  
• 825. Odious - repulsive, hateful
  
• 826. Odium - contempt, dislike, aversion
  
• 827. Odor - smell; favor; reputation
  
• 828. Officious - too eager or ready to help, offer advice
  
• 829. Ominous - threatening
  
• 830. Opaqueness - dullness/not allowing light to pass through
  
• 831. Opprobrious - showing scorn or reproach
  
• 832. Ossify - to turn to bone; to settle rigidly into an idea
  
• 833. Ostensible - seeming, appearing as such, professed
  
• 834. Ostentation - display to obtain admiration or envy
  
• 835. Ostentatious - fond of showing ostentation
  
• 836. Ostracism - shut out from society, refuse to meet, talk
  
• 837. Ostrich - fast-running bird unable to fly
  
• 838. Outset - start
  
• 839. Overhaul - examine thoroughly to learn about the condition
  
• 840. Overweening - presumptuously arrogant, overbearing, immoderate, being a jerk
  
• 841. Overwhelm - weigh down, submerge
  
• P
  
• 842. Paean - song of praise or triumph
  
• 843. Palate - roof of the mouth; sense of taste
  
• 844. Palatial - magnificent
  
• 845. Palliate - to make something appear less serious, to alleviate, to gloss over
  
• 846. Palpability - can be felt, touched, understood
  
• 847. Palpitate - tremble, beat rapidly and irregularly
  
• 848. Pan - flat/zoom
  
• 849. Panegyric - formal praise, eulogy
  
• 850. Paradigm - a model, example, or pattern
  
• 851. Parenthesis - sentence within another one, something separated
  
• 852. Pariah - an outcast, a rejected and despised person
  
• 853. Parsimonious - too economical, miserly
  
• 854. Partisan - one-sided, committed to a party, biased or prejudiced
  
• 855. Patron - regular customer; person who gives support
  
• 856. Paucity - scarcity, a lacking of
  
• 857. Peccadillo - small sin; small weakness in one's character
  
• 858. Pedantic - bookish, showing off learning
  
• 859. Pedestrian - commonplace, trite, unremarkable
  
• 860. Pellucid - transparent, easy to understand
  
• 861. Penchant - strong inclination, a liking
  
• 862. Penitent - feeling or showing regret
  
• 863. Penurious - poor/stingy
  
• 864. Penury - extreme poverty
  
• 865. Peregrination - traveling about, wandering
  
• 866. Peremptory - urgent, imperative, unchallengeable, ending debate
  
• 867. Perennial - lasting for a long time (e.g.. a year)
  
• 868. Perfidious - treacherous, faithless
  
• 869. Perfidy - treachery; breaking of faith
  
• 870. Perfunctory - done as a duty without care
  
• 871. Perilous - dangerous
  
• 872. Peripatetic - wandering
  
• 873. Perish - be destroyed; decay
  
• 874. Perjury - willful false statement, unlawful act
  
• 875. Permeate - spread into every part of
  
• 876. Pernicious - harmful, injurious
  
• 877. Perpetrate - be guilty; commit (a crime)
  
• 878. Persevere - keep on steadily, continue
  
• 879. Personable - pleasing in appearance, attractive
  
• 880. Perspicacity - quick judging and understanding
  
• 881. Pertain - belong as a part, have reference
  
• 882. Pest - destructive thing or a person who is nuisance
  
• 883. Petrified - taken away power (to think, feel, act)
  
• 884. Petrify - to make hard, rocklike
  
• 885. Petrous - like a rock, hard, stony
  
• 886. Petulant - unreasonably impatient
  
• 887. Philistine - a smug ignorant person; one who lacks knowledge
  
• 888. Phlegmatic - calm, sluggish temperament; unemotional
  
• 889. Picaresque - involving clever rogues or adventurers
  
• 890. Pied - of mixed colors
  
• 891. Pinch - be too tight, take between the thumb and finger
  
• 892. Pine - waste away through sorrow or illness
  
• 893. Pious - dutiful to parents; devoted to religion
  
• 894. Piquant - agreeably pungent, stimulating
  
• 895. Pique - hurt the pride or self-respect, stir (curiosity)
  
• 896. Pitfall - covered hole as a trap, unsuspected danger
  
• 897. Pith - essential part, force, soft liquid substance
  
• 898. Pivotal - of great importance (others depend on it)
  
• 899. Placate - soothe, pacify, calm
  
• 900. Plaintive - mournful, melancholy, sorrowful
  
• 901. Plaque - flat metal on a wall as a memorial
  
• 902. Platitude - a trite or banal statement; unoriginality
  
• 903. Plea - request
  
• 904. Plead - address a court of law as an advocate
  
• 905. Plethora – glut
  
• 906. Pliant - pliable, easily bent, shaped or twisted
  
• 907. Plod - continue doing something without resting
  
• 908. Pluck - pull the feathers off, pick (e.g.. flowers)
  
• 909. Plumb - get to the root of
  
• 910. Plummet - fall, plunge, steeply
  
• 911. Plunge - move quickly, suddenly and with force
  
• 912. Poignant - deeply moving; keen
  
• 913. Poise - be ready, be balanced, self-possession
  
• 914. Polemical - controversial, argued
  
• 915. Poncho - large piece of cloth
  
• 916. Ponderous - heavy, bulky, dull
  
• 917. Portent - omen; marvelous; threatening
  
• 918. Poseur - someone taking on airs to impress others; a phony
  
• 919. Posture - state, attitude; adopt a vain
  
• 920. Poverty - state of being poor
  
• 921. Pragmatic - practical, favoring utility
  
• 922. Precarious - uncertain, risky, dangerous
  
• 923. Precept - moral instruction
  
• 924. Precepts - rules establishing standards of conduct
  
• 925. Precipitate - throw something violently down from a height
  
• 926. Preclude - prevent, make impossible
  
• 927. Precursory - preliminary, anticipating
  
• 928. Predilection - special liking, mental preference
  
• 929. Predominate - have more power than others
  
• 930. Preempt - obtain by preemption or in advance
  
• 931. Preen - tidy/show self-satisfaction
  
• 932. Premature - doing or happening something before the right time
  
• 933. Preponderance - greatness in number, strength, weight
  
• 934. Presage - warning sign
  
• 935. Presumption - arrogance
  
• 936. Preternatural - not normal or usual
  
• 937. Prevalent - common
  
• 938. Prevaricate - to equivocate, to stray from the truth
  
• 939. Prim - neat; formal
  
• 940. Pristine - primitive, unspoiled, pure, as in earlier times unadulterated
  
• 941. Probity - uprightness, incorruptibility, principle
  
• 942. Proclivity - inclination
  
• 943. Procrast - ination keeping on putting off
  
• 944. Prodigal - wasteful, reckless with money
  
• 945. Prodigious - enormous, wonderful
  
• 946. Profane - worldly, having contempt for God
  
• 947. Profligacy - shameless immorality
  
• 948. Profligate - wasteful, prodigal, licentious, extravagant
  
• 949. Profundity - depth
  
• 950. Profuse - abundant/lavish
  
• 951. Proliferate - grow, reproduce by rapid multiplication
  
• 952. Prolix - tiring because too long
  
• 953. Prone - prostrate; inclined to (undesirable things)
  
• 954. Propagation - increasing the number, spreading, extending
  
• 955. Propinquity - nearness in time or place, affinity of nature
  
• 956. Propitiate - do something to take away the anger of
  
• 957. Propitiatory - conciliatory, appeasing, mitigating
  
• 958. Propitious - auspicious, presenting favorable circumstances
  
• 959. Prosaic - everyday, mundane, commonplace, trite, pedestrian
  
• 960. Proscribe - denounce as dangerous
  
• 961. Protracted – prolonged
  
• 962. Provident - frugal; looking to the future
  
• 963. Provisional - of the present time only
  
• 964. Provoke - make angry; vax
  
• 965. Prudence - careful forethought
  
• 966. Prudish - easily shocked, excessively modest
  
• 967. Prune - dried plum, silly person
  
• 968. Pry - get smth; inquire too curiously
  
• 969. Pucker - wrinkle
  
• 970. Pugnacious - fond of, in the habit of fighting
  
• 971. Puissance - strength
  
• 972. Punch - strike with the fist; tool for cutting holes; alc. drink
  
• 973. Punctilious – precise, paying attention to trivialities
  
• 974. Pundit - pedant, authority on a subject
  
• 975. Pungency - sharpness; stinging quality
  
• 976. Purvey - provide, supply
  
• 977. Pusillanimous – cowardly, craven
  
• 978. Putrefaction - becoming rotten
  
• 979. Pyre - large pile of wood for burning
  
• Q
  
• 980. Quack - person dishonestly claiming to smth
  
• 981. Quaff - drink deeply
  
• 982. Quail - lose courage, turn frightened
  
• 983. Qualm - feeling of doubt, temporary feeling of sickness
  
• 984. Quandary - state of doubt or perplexity
  
• 985. Quell - suppress, subdue
  
• 986. Quibble - try to avoid by sophistication
  
• 987. Quiescence - state of being passive/motionless
  
• 988. Quiescent - at rest, dormant, torpid
  
• 989. Quirk - habit or action peculiar to somebody or smth
  
• 990. Quixotic - generous, unselfish
  
• 991. Quotidian - banal; everyday
  
• R
  
• 992. Rabble -mob, crowd; the lower classes of populace
  
• 993. Raconteur - person who tells anecdotes
  
• 994. Radiant - bright, shining
  
• 995. Raffish - low, vulgar, base, tawdry
  
• 996. Rail at - find fault, utter reproaches
  
• 997. Ramify - to be divided or subdivided; to branch
  
• 998. Rancorous - feeling bitterness, spitefulness
  
• 999. Rant - use extravagant language
  
• 1000. Rapacious - greedy (especially for money)
  
• 1001. Rarefy - to make thin, to make less dense, to purify or refine
  
• 1002. Rave - act with excessive enthusiasm
  
• 1003. Reactionary - opposing progress
  
• 1004. Rebuff - snub
  
• 1005. Recalcitrant - disobedient
  
• 1006. Recant - take back as being false; give up
  
• 1007. Recast - cast or fashion anew
  
• 1008. Recidivism - relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior
  
• 1009. Reciprocity - granting of privileges in return for similar
  
• 1010. Recital - performance of music
  
• 1011. Recluse - person who lives alone and avoids people
  
• 1012. Recompense - make payment to; reward, punish
  
• 1013. Reconcile - settle a quarrel; restore peace
  
• 1014. Recondite - little known; abstruse
  
• 1015. Recourse - something turned to for help
  
• 1016. Recreancy - cowardice, a cowardly giving up
  
• 1017. Recuperate - become strong after illness, loss, exhaustion
  
• 1018. Redeem - get back by payment; compensate
  
• 1019. Redemptive - serving to redeem
  
• 1020. Redoubtable - formidable, causing fear
  
• 1021. Refine - make or become pure, cultural
  
• 1022. Refractory - stubborn, unmanageable, intractable
  
• 1023. Refulgent - shining, brilliant
  
• 1024. Regale - to delight or entertain; to feast
  
• 1025. Regicide - crime of killing a king
  
• 1026. Reiterate - say or do again several times
  
• 1027. Rejuvenation - becoming young in nature or appearance
  
• 1028. Relapse -fall back again
  
• 1029. Relinquish - give up
  
• 1030. Reluctant - unwilling or disinclined
  
• 1031. Remonstrate - to protest, object
  
• 1032. Render - deliver, provide, represent
  
• 1033. Renovate - restore something to better condition
  
• 1034. Renowned - celebrated, famous
  
• 1035. Rent - regular payment for the use of smth, division or split
  
• 1036. Repast - meal
  
• 1037. Repel - refuse to accept/cause dislike
  
• 1038. Repine at – be discontented with
  
• 1039. Reproach - scold, upbraid
  
• 1040. Reprobate - person hardened in sin; one devoid of decency
  
• 1041. Repudiate - disown, refuse to accept or pay
  
• 1042. Repulsive - causing a feeling of disgust
  
• 1043. Requite - repay, give in return
  
• 1044. Rescind - repeal/annul/cancel
  
• 1045. Resigned - unresisting, submissive
  
• 1046. Resilience - quality of quickly recovering the original shape
  
• 1047. Resolve - determine
  
• 1048. Resort to - frequently visit
  
• 1049. Restive - refusing to move; reluctant to be controlled
  
• 1050. Resurrect - bring back into use
  
• 1051. Resuscitation - coming back to consciousness
  
• 1052. Retard - check, hinder
  
• 1053. Reticent - reserved, untalkative, silent, taciturn
  
• 1054. Revere - have deep respect for
  
• 1055. Reverent - feeling or showing deep respect
  
• 1056. Riddle - puzzling person or thing
  
• 1057. Rift - split, crack, dissension
  
• 1058. Rivet - fix, take up, secure; metal pin
  
• 1059. Roll call - calling of names
  
• 1060. Rope - thick strong cord made by twisting
  
• 1061. Rotund - rich and deep; plump and round
  
• 1062. Rubric - heading, title, or category
  
• 1063. Ruffian - violent, cruel man
  
• 1064. Rumple - make rough
  
• 1065. Sagacious - having sound judgment; perceptive, wise; like a sage
  
• 1066. Salacious - obscene
  
• 1067. Salient - prominent, protruding, conspicuous, highly relevant
  
• 1068. Salubrious - healthful
  
• 1069. Salutary - remedial, wholesome, causing improvement
  
• 1070. Sanctimony - Self-righteousness, hypocritical, with false piety
  
• 1071. Sanction - approval (by authority); penalty
  
• 1072. Sanguine - cheerful, confident, optimistic
  
• 1073. Sanity - health of mind; soundness of judgement
  
• 1074. Sap - weaken
  
• 1075. Sash - long strip worn round the waist
  
• 1076. Sate - satiate
  
• 1077. Satiate - satisfy fully
  
• 1078. Saturnine - gloomy, dark, sullen, morose
  
• 1079. Savant - person of great learning
  
• 1080. Savor - taste, flavor smth
  
• 1081. Sawdust - tiny bits of wood
  
• 1082. Scabbards - heath for the blade
  
• 1083. Scent - smell (especially pleasant)
  
• 1084. Scorch - become discolored/dry up/go at high speed
  
• 1085. Scribble - write hastily
  
• 1086. Scurvy - mean, contemptible
  
• 1087. Seal - piece of wax, lead, etc stamped on the document
  
• 1088. Secular - material (not spiritual); living outside monasteries
  
• 1089. Sedulous - persevering
  
• 1090. Seminal - like a seed; constituting a source, originative
  
• 1091. Sententious - short and pithy, full of maxims/proverbs
  
• 1092. Sequence - succession, connected line of
  
• 1093. Sere - make hard and without feeling/mouldy flower.
  
• 1094. Sermon - reproving a person for his faults
  
• 1095. Serrated - having a toothed edge
  
• 1096. Serration - having a toothed edge
  
• 1097. Servile - like a slave, lacking independence
  
• 1098. Sever - break off
  
• 1099. Severance - severing
  
• 1100. Shaft - arrow or spear, something long and narrow
  
• 1101. Shallow - little depth; not earnest
  
• 1102. Shard - piece of broken earthenware
  
• 1103. Sheath - cover for the blade of a weapon or a tool
  
• 1104. Shove - push
  
• 1105. Shrewd - astute; showing sound judgement
  
• 1106. Shrill - sharp, piercing
  
• 1107. Shun - keep away from; avoid
  
• 1108. Shunt - send from one track to another; lay aside; evade discussion
  
• 1109. Sidestep - step to one side
  
• 1110. Simper - (give a) silly/self-conscious smile
  
• 1111. Sinuous - winding, undulating, serpentine
  
• 1112. Skiff - small boat
  
• 1113. Skit - short piece of humorous writing
  
• 1114. Slack - sluggish; dull; not tight
  
• 1115. Slake - to assuage, to satisfy, allay
  
• 1116. Slate - king of blue-grey stone; propose; criticize
  
• 1117. Sluggard - lazy, slow-moving person
  
• 1118. Slur - join sounds/words (indistinct)

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