Abate Aberrant Abeyance Abjure Abscond Abstain Abstemious Abyss Accolade Acerbic Acumen Admonish Adulation Adulterate Adumbrate

Advocate Aesthetic Aggrandize Aggregate Alacrity Alleviate Alloy Amalgamate Ambiguous Ambivalence

Subside or moderate Abnormal or deviant Suspended action

To renounce or reject solemnly; to recant; to avoid

Depart secretly and hide To choose not to do something Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate An extremely deep hole

An expression of praise Having a sour or bitter taste or character Quick, keen, or accurate knowledge or insight
Warn; reprove

Excessive praise; intense adoration

Make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances

To foreshadow vaguely or intimate; to suggest or outline sketchily; to obscure or overshadow

To speak in favor of Artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful To increase in power, influence and reputation Gather; accumulate Cheerful promptness; eagerness Relieve

To commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior

Combine; unite in one body Unclear or doubtful in meaning The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes

Ameliorate Amenable Anachronism Analogous Anarchy Anathema Anodyne Anomalous Antagonize Antipathy Apathy Apogee Apostate Apotheosis Appease Apprise Approbation Appropriate Arbitrate Archaic Ardor Arduous Arrest Articulate

Improve

Agreeable; responsive to suggestion

Something or someone misplaced in time Comparable Absence of governing body; state of disorder

A solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing Soothing, something that assuages or allays pain or comforts
Abnormal; irregular To annoy or provoke anger Aversion; dislike Lack of caring; indifference

Farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith One who abandons long held religious or political convictions Deification, glorification to godliness, an exhalted example, a model of excellence or perfection
Pacify or soothe; relieve Inform Approval Acquire; take possession of for one's own use To judge a dispute between two opposing parties Ancient; old-fashioned Intense and passionate feeling Hard; strenuous

To suspend; to engage; to hold one's attention

Able to speak clearly and expressively

Artless Ascetic Asperity Asseverate Assiduous Assuage Attenuate Audacious Augury August Austere Avarice Aver Axiom Banal Belie Bellicose Beneficent Bent Bolster Bombastic Boorish Broach Brook Bucolic

Without guile; open and honest Practicing self-denial; austere

Severity, rigor, roughness, harshness, acrimony, irritability To aver, allege, assert

Diligent Ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) Make thinner; weaken or lessen (in density, force, degree) Daring; bold

Omen, portent Majestic; venerable

Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented

Greed, esp. For wealth

Assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact

A universally recognized principle

Hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality Contradict; give a false impression

Belligerent, pugnacious, warlike

Kindly; doing good

Leaning; inclination; proclivity; tendency

Support; reinforce Pompous; using inflated language Rude; insensitive

To bring up or announce; to begin to talk about To tolerate, endure, or countenance Rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants

Burgeon Burnish Buttress Cacophonous Calumniate Candid Canonical Capricious Captious Cardinal Castigation Catalyst Caustic Cavil Celerity Chaos Chary Chauvinist Chicanery Chimera Coagulate Coda Cogent Commensurate

Grow forth; send out buds Make shiny by rubbing; polish Support; prop up Discordant; inharmonious

To slander, make a false accusation

Impartial and honest in speech

Following or in agreement with accepted, traditional standards

Unpredictable; fickle

Disposed to point out trivial faults; calculated to confuse or entrap in argument Of great importance
Punishment; severe criticism Agent that stimulates or precipitates a reaction, development, or change Burning; sarcastically biting

To find fault without good reason Speed, alacrity (think accelerate)

Great disorder and confusion

Wary; cautious; sparing

Someone prejudiced in favor of a group which he or she belongs Trickery; deception

An illusion; originally a fire-breathing she-monster

Thicken; congeal; clot Concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that summarizes Convincing Corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc.; proportionate

Compendium Complaisant Compliant Conciliatory Condone Confound Connoisseur Contention Contentious Contentious Contrite Contumacious Conundrum Converge Convoluted Corroborate Craven Credulous Crescendo Culpable Daunt Dearth Debacle Decorum Default

Brief, comprehensive summary Trying to please; overly polite; obliging Yielding; conforming to requirements Reconciling; soothing Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse Confuse; puzzle Person competent to act as a judge of art, etc.; a lover of an art Claim; thesis Quarrelsome

Argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement

Penitent, seeking forgiveness

Insubordinate, rebellious
Riddle; difficult problem Approach; tend to meet; come together Coiled around; involved; intricate To provide supporting evidence Cowardly Too trusting; gullible Steadily increasing volume or force

Deserving blame
Intimidate; frighten

Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack Rout, fiasco, complete failure

Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners Failure to act

Deference Delineate Demur Denigrate Denouement Deride Derivative Descry Desiccate Desuetude Desultory Deterrent Diaphanous Diatribe Dichotomy Didactic Die Diffidence Diffuse Digression Dilate Dilatory Dilettante Dirge Disabuse

Courteous regard for another's wish Portray; depict; sketch

To question or oppose
Blacken

An outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot

Ridicule; make fun of Unoriginal; obtained from another source

To discriminate or discern
Dry up

Disuse
Aimless; haphazard; digressing at random Something that discourages; hindrance

Transparent, gauzy
Bitter scolding; invective Split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones)

Intended to teach or instruct A part of a machine that punches shaped holes or cuts
Shyness Wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas) Wandering away from the subject To make larger; expand Intended to delay Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic Lament with music Correct a false impression; undeceive

Discerning Discordant Discredit Discrepancy Discrete Discretion Disingenuous Disinterested Disjointed Dismiss Disparage Disparate Dissemble Disseminate Dissolution Dissonance Distend Distill Diverge Divest Document Dogmatic Dormant Dupe Ebullient

Mentally quick and observant; having insight Not harmonious; conflicting Defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve Lack of consistency; difference Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts

Cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

Lacking genuine candor; insincere Unprejudiced Lacking coherence Eliminate from consideration; reject Belittle Basically different; unrelated Disguise; pretend Distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds) Disintegration; looseness in morals Discord; opposite of harmony Expand; swell out Purify; refine; concentrate Vary; go in different directions from the same point Strip; deprive Provide written evidence Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal Sleeping; lethargic; latent Someone easily fooled Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm

Eccentric Eclectic Efficacy Effrontery Elegy Elicit Eloquent Embellish Emollient Empirical Emulate Encomium Endemic Enervate Engender Enhance Enigma Enumerate Ephemeral Equanimity Equivocate Erratic Erudite Eschew Esoteric

Departing from norms or conventions

Selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources Power to produce desired effect Impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness Poem or song expressing lamentation Draw out by discussion Persuasive and moving, especially in speech Adorn; ornament; enhance, as a story

Soothing, esp. To the skin; making less harsh

Base on experience Imitate; rival

Glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

Prevailing among a specific group of people or an area Weaken Cause; produce Increase; improve A puzzle; a mystery To count, list or itemize Short-lived; fleeting Calmness of temperament; composure Lie, mislead; attempt to conceal the truth Wandering and unpredictable Learned; scholarly

To shun or avoid
Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few

Essay Estimable Eulogy Euphemism Evanescent Exacerbate Exact Excoriate Exculpate Execrate Exegesis Exigency Exonerate Expiate Explicit Extemporaneous Extirpate Extrapolation Facetious Facilitate Fallacious Fanatical Fatuous Fawning Felicitous

To test or try; to attempt or experiment

Admirable Expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death Mild expression in place of an unpleasant one

Tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing

Worsen; embitter

To demand, call for, require or take To censure scathingly, to upbraid

Clear from blame

Denounce, feel loathing for, curse, declare to be evil Critical examination, explication
Urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention To clear of blame

To atone or make amends for

Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression

Improvised; done without preparation To destroy, exterminate, cut out, exscind

Projection; superfluous Joking (often inappropriately); humorous Help bring about; make less difficult False; misleading Acting excessively enthusiastic; filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion Brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug Trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering or cringing Apt; suitably expressed; well chosen

Fervor Flag Fledgling Flip Florid Flout Foment Ford Forestall Fortuitous Fractious Frugality Fulminate Furtive Futile Gainsay Garrulous Germane Glib Goad Gouge Grandiloquent Gregarious Grouse Guileless

Glowing ardor; intensity of feeling Droop; grow feeble Inexperienced

Sarcastic, impertinent
Excessively decorated or embellished Reject; mock; show contempt for Stir up; instigate

To wade across the shallow part of a river or stream

Prevent by taking action in advance

Happening by fortunate accident or chance Quarrelsome, rebellious, unruly, refractory, irritable

Thrift; economy

To loudly attack or denounce Marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious

Useless; hopeless; ineffectual Deny Loquacious; wordy; talkative

Relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter Marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial
Urge on Overcharge Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language Sociable

To complain or grumble
Without deceit

Gullible Guy Hackneyed Halcyon Harangue Hedonism Hegemony Heretical Heterodox Homogenous Hubris Hyperbole Iconoclast Idolatrous Idolatry Imbroglio Imminent Immutable Impair Impassive Impecunious Impede Impermeable Imperturbable Impervious

Easily deceived

A cord or cable used to steady or guide some-thing Rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage Calm and peaceful
Long, passionate, and vehement speech

Devotion to pleasurable pursuits, esp. To the pleasures of the senses The consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others Violating accepted dogma or convention Unorthodox, heretical, iconoclastic
Of the same kind

Arrogant presumption or pride

Exaggeration; overstatement Attacking cherished traditions

Given to intense or excessive devotion to something

Worship of idols; excessive admiration

Difficult or embarrassing situation About to happen; impending

Unchangeable Injure; hurt Without feeling; imperturbable; stoical

Lacking funds; without money

Hinder, block Impervious; not permitting passage through its substance Calm; placid Impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed

Impetuous Implacable Implicit Implode Impunity Inadvertently Inchoate Incipient Incongruity Inconsequential Incorporate Indefatigable Indeterminate Indifferent Indigence Indolent Ineluctable Inert Infelicitous Ingenuous Inherent Inimical Inimitable Innocuous Insensible

Quick to act without thinking Incapable of being pacified Understood but not stated Burst inward

Immunity from punishment or penalty

Unintentionally; by oversight; carelessly Recently begun; rudimentary; elementary

Beginning to come into being or to become apparent

Lack of harmony; absurdity Insignificant; unimportant Introduce something into a larger whole; combine; unite

Not easily exhaustible; tireless; dogged

Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite

Having no interest or concern; showing no bias or prejudice

Poverty Lazy

Certain; inevitable
Inactive; lacking power to move

Unfortunate; inappropriate
Naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated Firmly established by nature or habit Hostile, unfriendly

One of a kind; peerless

Harmless Unconscious; unresponsive

Insinuate Insipid Insouciant Insularity Intimate Intractable Intransigence Intrepid Inundate Inured Invective Inveigle Inveterate Irascible Irresolute Itinerary Jejune Laconic Lament Lassitude Latent Laud Lavish Lethargic Levee

Hint; imply; creep in Lacking in flavor; dull

Unconcerned, carefree, heedless

Narrow-mindedness; isolation

To imply, suggest, or insinuate

Unruly; stubborn; unyielding Refusal of any compromise; stubbornness

Steadfast and courageous

Overwhelm; flood; submerge Accustomed; hardened Abuse

To obtain by deception or flattery Deep rooted, ingrained, habitual

Irritable; easily angered Uncertain how to act; weak Plan of a trip

Vapid, uninteresting, nugatory, childish, immature, puerile

Brief and to the point To express sorrow; to grieve Languor; weariness Potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden Praise To give unsparingly; extremely generous or extravagant Drowsy; dull Earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding

Levity List Log Loquacious Lubricious Lucid Lumber Luminous Magnanimity Malevolent Malingerer Malleable Maverick Mendacious Mendicant Mercurial Meretricious Metamorphosis Metaphor Meticulous Milk Minatory Mince Misanthrope Mitigate

Lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity

To tilt or lean to one side

Record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities Talkative

Lewd, wanton, greasy, slippery

Easily understood; clear; intelligible

To move heavily and clumsily

Shining; issuing light Generosity

Having or showing often vicious ill-will, spite, or hatred

One who feigns illness to escape duty Capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable Rebel; nonconformist Lying; habitually dishonest

A beggar, supplicant Characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood Cheap, gaudy, tawdry, flashy, showy; attracting by false show
Change of form A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol Excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous

To exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of Menacing, threatening To pronounce or speak affectedly; to speak too carefully; also, to take tiny steps or tiptoe
One who hates mankind Lessen in intensity; moderate; appease

Mollify Monotony Morose Mundane Nadir Negate Neophyte Nice Nonplussed Obdurate Obfuscate Obsequious Obstinate Obstreperous Obtain Obviate Occlude Occult Odious Officious Onerous Opaque Opprobrium Oscillate Ossified

Soothe Lack of variation Ill-humored; sullen; melancholy Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday

Low point, perigee

Cancel out; nullify; deny Recent convert; beginner

Exacting; fastidious; extremely, even excessively, precise Baffled, bewildered, at a loss for what to do or think
Stubborn

To deliberately obscure; to make confusing

Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic Stubborn, unyielding

Noisily and stubbornly defiant, aggressively boisterous To be established, accepted, or customary

Make unnecessary; get rid of Shut; close

Hidden; concealed; beyond comprehension Evoking intense aversion or dislike

Meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services Burdensome Impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light Infamy; vilification Vibrate pendulum like; waver

Tending to become more rigid, conventional, sterile, and reactionary with age; literally, turned into bone

Ostentatious Paean Palliate Panegyric Paradox Paragon Parsimonious Partisan Pathological Paucity Pedagogy Pedantic Pedantic Pedestrian Pellucid Penchant Penurious Penury Perennial Perfidious Perfunctory Permeable Pernicious Peroration

Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention

A song or hymn of praise and thanksgiving To make something seem less serious, to gloss over, to make less severe or intense Formal praise, eulogy, encomium
A contradiction of dilemma Model of perfection

Cheap, miserly
One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party Pertaining to disease Scarcity

The art or profession of training, teaching, or instructing

Showing off learning; bookish

The parading of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules Commonplace; trite; unremarkable; quotidian Transparent, easy to understand, limpid
Strong inclination; liking

Penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous

Severe poverty; stinginess Something long-lasting Treacherous; disloyal Superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm Penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through

Extremely harmful; potentially causing death The concluding part of a speech; flowery, rhetorical speech

Perspicacious Peruse Pervasive Philanthropy Phlegmatic Pied Piety Pious Pirate Pith Pithy Placate Plangent Plasticity Platitude Plethora Plummet Polemical Porous Pragmatic Preamble Precarious Precipitate Precursor Predilection

Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment To examine with great care

Spread throughout Charity; a desire or effort to promote goodness Calm; not easily disturbed

Multicolored, usually in blotches or patches

Devoutness; reverence for God

Extremely reverent or devout; showing strong religious devotion To illegally use or reproduce The essential or central part Precise and brief
Pacify; conciliate

Pounding, thundering, resounding

Ability to be molded Trite remark; a superficial remark, esp. One offered as meaningful Excess; overabundance Fall sharply

Controversial; argumentative
Full of pores; like a sieve Practical (as opposed to idealistic) Introductory statement Uncertain; risky Rash; premature; hasty; sudden Forerunner; harbinger

A disposition in favor of something; preference

Preen Presumptuous Prevaricate Pristine Prize Probity Problematic Prodigal Profound Profuse Prohibitive Proliferate Prolix Propensity Propitiate Propitiate Propriety Proscribe Prudence Puerile Puissance Pungent Pusillanimous Putrefy Quaff

To dress up; to primp; to groom oneself with elaborate care

Arrogant; taking liberties Lie Characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled

To pry; to press or force with a lever; something taken by force; spoils

Uprightness; incorruptibility Doubtful; unsettled; questionable; perplexing Wasteful; reckless with money Deep; not superficial; complete

Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant

Inclined to prevent or forbid Grow rapidly; spread; multiply

Long-winded, verbose
Natural inclination Appease

To appease, to conciliate
Fitness; correct conduct Ostracize; banish; outlaw Wisdom, caution, or restraint

Childish, immature, jejune, nugatory Power, strength

Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic

Cowardly, craven To rot; to decay and give off a foul odor To drink deeply

Quail Qualified Qualify Qualms Queries Querulous Quibble Quiescent Rail Rancorous Rarefied Recalcitrant Recant Recluse Recondite Redoubtable Refractory Refute Relegate Remonstrate Rent Reproach Reprobate Repudiate Rescind

To lose courage; to become frightened

Limited; restricted

To limit Misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy Questions; inquiries; doubts in the mind; reservations Prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome
Minor objection or complaint At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive

To complain about bitterly Characterized by bitter, long-lasting resentment

Made less dense (of a gas) Obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly Disclaim or disavow; retract a previous statement; openly confess error Hermit; loner Abstruse; profound; secret

Awe-inspiring; worthy of honor

Stubborn; unmanageable Disprove Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign

To protest, object Torn, past of rend; an opening or tear caused by such

Express disapproval or disappointment Person hardened by sin, devoid of a sense of decency Disown; disavow Cancel

Resolution Resolve Reticent Reverent Rhetoric Sage Salacious Salubrious Salutary Sanction Sanction Sanguine Sap Satiate Satire Saturate Saturnine Savor Scurvy Secrete Sedulous Sententious Shard Singular

Determination Determination; firmness of purpose Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence Respectful; worshipful Effective writing or speaking Person celebrated for wisdom

Lustful, lascivious, bawdy

Healthful

Remedial, wholesome, causing improvement

Approve; ratify

Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance Cheerful, optimistic, confident To enervate or weaken the vitality of
Satisfy fully

A literary work that ridicules or criticizes a human vice through humor or derision
Soak thoroughly

Gloomy, dark, sullen, morose

Enjoy; have a distinctive flavor, smell, or quality

Contemptible; despicable
Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism

Diligent; persistent; hard-working Aphoristic or moralistic; epigrammatic; tending to moralize excessively

Fragment; generally of pottery

Exceptional; unusual; odd

Solicitous Solvent Soporific Sordid Specious Spectrum Sporadic Spurious Squalid Squander Steep Stentorian Stigma Stint Stipulate Stoic Stolid Striated Strut Strut Stygian Stymie Sublime Subpoena Subside

Worried, concerned

Able to meet financial obligations; able to dissolve another substance

Sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness

Characterized by filth, grime, or squalor; foul

Seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional) Colored band produced when a beam of light passes through a prism Occurring irregularly

Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect To waste by spending or using irresponsibly To saturate or completely soak Extremely loud and powerful
Token of disgrace; brand Be thrifty; set limits Make express conditions, specify

Indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast

Dull; impassive Marked with parallel bands; grooved Pompous walk Supporting bar

Gloomy, dark To block; thwart

Lofty or grand Writ summoning a witness to appear Settle down; descend; grow quiet

Substantiate Succinct Superfluous Supersede Supplant Supposition Surfeit Sycophant Synthesis Table Tacit Taciturn Tangential Tenacity Tendentious Tender Tenuous Timorous Tirade Torpor Tortuous Tractable Transgression Transient Transitory

Establish by evidence; verify; support

Brief; concise Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary

Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete

To take the place of; supersede

Hypothesis; surmise

Excess; overindulgence Toady, servile, self-seeking flatterer; parasite The combination of parts to make a whole To remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration
Understood; not put into words Silent, not talkative Peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing

The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued Biased; showing marked tendencies To proffer or offer; to give
Thin; rare; slim

Timid, fearful, diffident

Extended scolding; denunciation; harangue Lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy Winding; full of curves Docile; easily managed Violation of a law; sin

Fleeting; passing quickly; brief

Temporary, lasting a brief time

Truculence Tyro Ubiquitous Urbane Vacillate Venerate Veracious Verbose Vex Vilify Virulent Viscous Vitiate Vituperative Volatile Voluble Waffle Wag Warranted Wary Waver Welter Whimsical Zealot

Aggressiveness; ferocity

Novice, greenhorn, rank amateur Existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread Sophisticated; refined; elegant
Waver; fluctuate Revere Truthful Wordy To annoy

To defame; to characterize harshly Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic

Sticky, gluey

To corrupt, debase, spoil, make ineffective

Abusive; scolding Changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly

Fluent, verbal, having easy use of spoken language To equivocate; to change one's position Wit; joker
Justified; authorized Very cautious To fluctuate between choices Turmoil; bewildering jumble Capricious; fanciful Fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal