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Abate | The reduce in amount, degree or severity | |
Abscond | To leave secretly | |
Abstain | To choose not to do something | |
Abyss | Extremely deep hole | |
Adulterate | To make impure | |
Advocate | to speak in favor of | |
Aesthetic | concerning the appreciation of beauty | |
Aggrandize | to increase in power, influence and reputation | |
Alleviate | to make more bearable | |
Amalgamate | to combine or mix together | |
Ambiguous | Doubtful or unceratin, able to be interpreted in several ways | |
Ameliorate | To make better, to improve | |
Anachronism | Something out of place in time | |
Analogous | Similar or alike in some way, equivalent to | |
Anomaly | Deviation from what is normal | |
Antagonize | To annoy or provoke to anger | |
Antipathy | Extreme dislike | |
Apathy | Lack of interest or emotion | |
Arbitrate | To judge a dispute between two opposing parties | |
Archaic | Ancient or old-fashioned | |
Ardor | Intense and passionate feeling | |
Articulate | Able to speak clearly and expressively | |
Assuage | To make something unpleasant less severe | |
Attenuate | To reduce in force or degree, weaken | |
Audacious | Fearless and daring | |
Austere | Severe or stern in appearance, undecorate | |
Banal | Predictable, cliched, boring | |
Bolster | To support, to prop up | |
Bombastic | Pompous in speech and manner | |
Cacophony | Harsh, jarring noise | |
Candid | Impartial and honest in speech | |
Capricious | Changing one's mind quickly and often | |
Castigate | To punish or criticize harshly | |
Catalyst | Something that brings about a change in something else | |
Caustic | Biting in wit | |
Chaos | Great disorder or confusion | |
Chauvinist | Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs | |
Chicanery | Deception by means of craft or guile | |
Cogent | Convincing and well reasoned | |
Condone | to overlook, pardon or disregard | |
Convoluted | Intricate and complicated | |
Corroborate | To provide supporting evidence | |
Credulous | Too trusting, gullible | |
Crescendo | Steadily increasing volume or force | |
Decorum | Appropraiteness of behavior or conduct, propriety | |
Deference | Respect, Courtesy | |
Deride | To speak of or threat with contempt, to mock | |
Desiccate | To dry out thoroughly | |
Desultory | Jumping from one thing to another, disconnected | |
Diatribe | An abusive, condemnatory speech | |
Diffident | Lacking self-confidence | |
Dilate | to expand, to make larger | |
Dilatory | Intended to delay | |
Dilettante | Someone with an amaterurish and superficial interest in a topic | |
Dirge | Funeral hymn or mournful speech | |
Disabuse | To set right, to free from error | |
Discern | To perceive or recognize | |
Disparate | Fundamentally different, extremely unlike | |
Dissemble | To present a false appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character | |
Dissonance | A harsh or disagreeable combination, of ten of sounds | |
Dogma | a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief | |
Dogmatic | Dictatorial in ones opinions | |
Dupe | To deceive , a person who is easily deceived | |
Eclectic | Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources | |
Efficacy | Effectiveness | |
Elegy | Sorrowful poem or speech | |
Eloquent | Persuasive or moving especially in speech | |
Emulate | To copy, to tryp to equal or excel | |
Enervate | To reduce in strength | |
Engender | To produce, cause, to bring about | |
Enigma | A puzzle or mystery | |
Enumerate | To count, list or itemize | |
Ephemeral | Lasting a short time | |
Equivocate | To use expressions of double meanings in order to mislead | |
Erratic | Wandering and unpredictable | |
Erudite | learned, scholarly, bookish | |
Esoteric | Known or understood by only a few | |
Estimable | Admirable | |
Eulogy | Speech in praise of someone | |
Euphemism | Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one | |
Exacerbate | to make worse | |
Exculpate | To clear from blame, prove innocent | |
Exigent | Urgent, requiring immediate action | |
Exonerate | To clear of blame | |
Explicit | Clearly stated or shown, forthright in expression | |
Fanatical | Acting excessively enthusiastic, filled with extreme unquestioned devotion | |
Fawn | to grovel | |
Fervid | Intesnsely emotional, feverish | |
Florid | Excessively decorated or embellished | |
Foment | To arouse or incite | |
Frugality | A tendency to be thrify or cheap | |
Garrulous | Tending to talk a lot | |
Gregarious | Outgoing, sociable | |
Guile | Deceit or trickery | |
Gullible | Easily deceived | |
Homogeneous | Of a similar kind | |
Iconoclast | One who opposes established beliefs, customs and institutions | |
Impeturbable | Not capable of being disturbed | |
Impervious | Impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected | |
Impetuous | Quick to act without thinking | |
Implacable | Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful | |
Inchoate | Not fully formed, disorganized | |
Ingenuous | Showing innocence or childlike simplicity | |
Inimical | Hostile, unfriendly | |
Innocuous | Harmless | |
Insipid | Lacking interest or flavor | |
Intransigent | Uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled | |
Inundate | To overwhelm, to cover with water | |
Inrascible | Easily made angry | |
Laconic | Using few words | |
Lament | To express sorrow, to grieve | |
Laud | To give praise, glorify | |
Lavish | To give unsparingly, extremely generous or extravagent | |
Lethargic | Acting in an indifferent or slow sluggish manner | |
Loquacious | Talkative | |
Lucid | Clear and easily understood | |
Luminious | Bright, brilliant, glowing | |
Malinger | To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill | |
Malleable | Capable of being shaped | |
Metaphor | A figure of speech comparing two different things, symbol | |
Meticulous | Extremely careful, about details | |
Misanthrope | A person who dislikes others | |
Mitigate | To soften, to lessen | |
Mollify | To calm or make less severe | |
Monotony | Lack of variation | |
Naive | Lacking sophistication or experience | |
Obdurate | Hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion | |
Obsequious | Overly submissive and eager to please | |
Obstinate | Stubborn, unyielding | |
Obviate | To prevent, to make unnecessary | |
Occlude | To stop up, to prevent the passage of | |
Onerous | Troublesome and oppressing, burdensom | |
Opaque | Impossible to see through, preventing the passage of light | |
Opprobrium | Public disgrace | |
Ostentation | Excessive showiness | |
Paradox | A contradicion or dilemma | |
Paragon | Model of excellence or perfection | |
Pedant | Someone who shows off learning | |
Perfidious | Willing to betray one's trust | |
Perfunctory | Done in a routine way, indifferent | |
Permeate | To penetrate | |
Philanthropy | Charity, a desire or effort to promote goodness | |
Placate | To soothe or pacify | |
Plastic | Able to be molded, altered, bent | |
Plethora | Excess | |
Pragmatic | Practical as opposed to idealistic | |
Precipitate | To throw violently or bring about abruptly, lacking differentiation | |
Prevaricate | To lie, deviate from the truth | |
Pristine | Fresh and clean, uncorrupted | |
Prodigal | Lavish, wasteful | |
Proliferate | To increase in number quickly | |
Propitiate | To conciliate, to appease | |
Propriety | To correct behavior, obedience to rules and customs | |
Prudence | Wisdom, caution, restraint | |
Pungent | Sharp and irritating to the senses | |
Quiescent | Motionless | |
Rarefy | To make thinner or sparser | |
Repudiate | To reject the validity of | |
Reticient | Silent, reserved | |
Rhetoric | Effective writing or speaking | |
Satiate | To satisfy fully or overindulge | |
Soporific | Causing sleep or lethargy | |
Specious | Deceptively attractive, seemingly plausible but fallacious | |
Stigma | A mark of shame or discredit | |
Stolid | Unemotional, lacking sensitivity | |
Sublime | Lofty or grand | |
Tacit | Done without using words | |
Taciturn | Silent, not talkative | |
Tirade | Long, harsh speech or verbal attack | |
Torpor | Extreme mental and physical sluggishness | |
Transitory | Temporary, lasting brief time | |
Vacillate | To sway physically, be indecisive | |
Venerate | To respect deeply | |
Veracity | Filled with truth and accuracy | |
Verbose | Wordy | |
Vex | To annoy | |
Volatile | Easily aroused or changeable, lively or explosive | |
Waver | To fluctuate between choices | |
Whimsical | Acting in a fanciful or capricious manner, unpredictable | |
Zeal | Passion, excitement |
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