Kaplan’s Word Groups

WORD LIST

Abbreviated Beginner / Amateur Platitude

Prosaic
Abridge Dilettante Quotidian
Compendium Fledgling Trite
Cursory Neophyte
Curtail Novitiate Carousal
Syllabus Proselyte
Synopsis Tyro Bacchanalian
Terse Debauchery
Beginning / Young Depraved
Act quickly Dissipated
Burgeoning Iniquity
Apace Callow Libertine
Abrupt Engender Libidinous
Headlong Inchoate Licentious
Impetuous Incipient Reprobate
Precipitate Nascent Ribald
Salacious
Assist Biting (As in wit or Sordid
Temperament)
Abet Changing quickly
Advocate Acerbic
Ancillary Acidulous Capricious
Bolster Acrimonious Mercurial
Corroborate Asperity Volatile
Countenance Caustic
Espouse Mordacious Copy
Mainstay Mordant
Munificent Trenchant Counterpart
Proponent Emulate
Stalwart Bold Facsimile
Sustenance Factitious
Audacious Paradigm
Bad mood Courageous Precursor
Dauntless Quintessence
Bilious Simulated
Dudgeon Boring Vicarious
Irascible
Pettish Banal Criticize / Criticism
Petulant Fatuous
Pique Hackneyed Aspersion
Querulous Insipid Belittle
Umbrage Mundane Berate
Waspish Pedestrian Calumny

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Castigate Spartan Evident

Decry Stoic Limpid
Defamation Temperate Lucid
Denounce Pellucid
Deride / derisive Dictatorial
Diatribe Eccentric / dissimilar
Disparage Authoritarian
Excoriate Despotic Aberrant
Gainsay Dogmatic Anachronism
Harangue Hegemonic Anomalous
Impugn Imperious Iconoclast
Inveigh Peremptory Discrete
Lambaste Tyrannical Eclectic
Objurgate Esoteric
Obloquy Difficult to understand
Opprobrium Embarrass
Pillory Abstruse
Rebuke Ambiguous Abash
Remonstrate Arcane Chagrin
Reprehend Bemusing Compunction
Reprove Cryptic Contrition
Revile Enigmatic Diffidence
Tirade Esoteric Expiate
Vituperate Inscrutable Foible
Obscure Gaucherie
Death / Mourning Opaque Rue
Paradoxical
Bereave Perplexing Equal
Cadaver Recondite
Defunct Turbid Equitable
Demise Equity
Dolorous Disgusting / offensive Tantamount
Elegy
Knell Defile Falsehood
Lament Fetid
Macabre Invidious Apocryphal
Moribund Noisome Canard
Obsequies Odious Chicanery
Sepulchral Putrid Dissemble
Wraith Rebarbative Duplicity
Equivocate
Denying of self Easy to understand Erroneous
Ersatz
Abnegate Articulate Fallacious
Abstain Cogent Feigned
Ascetic Eloquent Guile

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Mendacious / mendacity Levity Fell

Perfidy Ludicrous Malevolent
Prevaricate Raillery Mordant
Specious Riposte Sardonic
Spurious Simper Scathing
Truculent
Family Gaps / Openings Vitriolic
Vituperation
Conjugal Abatement
Consanguine Aperture Harmful
Distaff Fissure
Endogamous Hiatus Baleful
Filial Interregnum Baneful
Fratricide Interstice Deleterious
Progenitor Lull Inimical
Scion Orifice Injurious
Rent Insidious
Favoring / Not Respite Minatory
Impartial Rift Perfidious
Pernicious
Ardor / ardent Generous / Kind
Doctrinaire Harsh-sounding
Fervid Altruistic
Partisan Beneficent Cacophony
Tendentious Clement Din
Zealot Largess Dissonant
Magnanimous Raucous
Forgive Munificent Strident
Philanthropic
Absolve Unstinting Hatred
Acquit
Exculpate Greedy Abhorrence
Exonerate Anathema
Expiate Avaricious Antagonism
Palliate Covetous Antipathy
Redress Mercenary Detestation
Vindicate Miserly Enmity
Penurious Loathing
Funny Rapacious Malice
Venal Odium
Chortle Rancor
Droll Hardhearted
Facetious Healthy
Flippant Asperity Beneficial
Gibe Baleful Salubrious
Jocular Dour Salutary

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Lazy / Sluggish Not a straight line

Hesitate
Indolent Askance
Dither Inert Awry
Oscillate Lackadaisical Careen
Teeter Languid Carom
Vacillate Lassitude Circuitous
Waver Lethargic Circumvent
Phlegmatic Gyrate
Hostile Quiescent Labyrinth
Slothful Meander
Antithetic Torpid Oblique
Churlish Serrated
Curmudgeon Luck Sidle
Irascible Sinuous
Malevolent Adventitious Undulating
Misanthropic Amulet Vortex
Truculent Auspicious
Vindictive Fortuitous Overblown / Wordy
Kismet
Innocent / Optimum Bombastic
Inexperienced Portentous Circumlocution
Propitiate Garrulous
Credulous Propitious Grandiloquent
Gullible Providential Loquacious
Ingenuous Talisman Periphrastic
Naïve Prolix
Novitiate Nag Rhetoric
Tyro Turgid
Admonish Verbose
Insincere Cavil
Belabor Pacify / Satisfy
Disingenuous Enjoin
Dissemble Exhort Ameliorate
Fulsome Harangue Appease
Ostensible Hector Assuage
Unctuous Martinet Defer
Remonstrate Mitigate
Investigate Reproof Mollify
Placate
Appraise Nasty Propitiate
Ascertain Satiate
Assay Fetid Slake
Decry Noisome Sooth
Peruse Noxious

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Pleasant-sounding Smart / learned Time / Order /

Duration
Euphonious Astute
Harmonious Canny Anachronism
Melodious Erudite Antecede
Sonorous Perspicacious Antedate
Anterior
Poor Sorrow Archaic
Diurnal
Destitute Disconsolate Eon
Esurient Doleful Ephemeral
Impecunious Dolor Epoch
Indigent Elegiac Fortnight
Forlorn Millennium
Praise Lament Penultimate
Lugubrious Synchronous
Acclaim Melancholy Temporal
Accolade Morose
Aggrandize Plaintive Timid / Timidity
Encomium Threnody
Eulogize Craven
Extol Stubborn Diffident
Fawn Pusillanimous
Laud / laudatory Implacable Recreant
Venerate / veneration Inexorable Timorous
Intractable Trepidation
Predict Intransigent
Obdurate Truth
Augur Obstinate
Auspice Recalcitrant Candor / Candid
Fey Refractory Fealty
Harbinger Renitent Frankness
Portentous Untoward Indisputable
Presage Vexing Indubitable
Prescient Legitimate
Prognosticate Terse Probity
Sincere
Prevent / Obstruct Compendious Veracious
Discomfort Curt Verity
Encumber Laconic
Fetter Pithy Unusual
Forfend Succinct
Hinder Taciturn Aberration
Impede Anomaly
Inhibit Iconoclast
Occlude Idiosyncrasy

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Walking about Weaken Platitude

Sententious
Ambulatory Adulterate Truism
Itinerant Enervate
Peripatetic Exacerbate Withdrawal / Retreat
Inhibit
Wandering Obviate Abeyance
Stultify Abjure
Discursive Undermine Abnegation
Expatiate Vitiate Abortive
Forage Abrogate
Itinerant Wisdom Decamp
Peregrination Demur
Peripatetic Adage Recant
Sojourn Aphorism Recidivism
Apothegm Remission
Axiom Renege
Bromide Rescind
Dictum Retrograde
Epigram