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Yeoman (n) a person who is unrestricted

Zealot (n) One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner
Zephyr (n) Any soft, gentle wind
Zenith (n) Peak

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Wane (v) To diminish in size and brilliancy

Wantonness (n) Recklessness
Weal (n)-Well-being
Wee (adj.) Very small
Whet (v) To make more keen or eager
Winsome (adj.) Attractive
Wrangle (v) To maintain by noisy argument or dispute

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Winsome attractive
Wan tired, pale
Wanton harmful, damaging; wasteful
Warble sing pleasantly
Weary very tired
Whammy unpleasant, difficult situation
Wheezy unable to breathe
Whimsical- unusual, playful, unpredictable
Wistful rather sad
Withered thin and old
Wry twisted, dry and mocking
Waspish critical and sharp
Withering very critical, insulting
Whet-increased, sharpen
Waft move gently
Waif- thin
Warren an area of narrow streets
Wary-cautious
Willowy-tall, thin, graceful
Wily-clever, tricky
Wiry thin but strong
Wispy-thin, faint
Wobbly- weak
Writhe twist, turn

1. Vacillate (v) To waver

2. Vacuous (adj.) Empty
3. Vagrant (n) An idle wanderer
4. Vainglory {n) Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity
5. Valediction (n) -A bidding farewell
6. Valorous (adj.) Courageous
7. Vapid (adj.) Having lost sparkling quality and flavor
8. Vassal (n) A slave or bondman
9. Vaudeville (n) A variety show
10. Venal (adj.) Mercenary, corrupt
11. Veneer {n) Outside show or elegance
12. Venerable {adj.) Meriting or commanding high esteem
13. Veracity (n) Truthfulness
14. Verbatim (adv.) Word for word
15. Verbiage (n) Use of many words without necessity
16. Verbose (adj.) Wordy
17. Verily (adv.)-In truth
18. Vicarious (adj.) Suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another
19. Vicissitude (n) A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune
20. Vie (v) To contend
21. Vincible (adj.) Conquerable
22. Virulent (adj.) Exceedingly noxious or deleterious
23. Vivify (v) To endue with life
24. Vociferation (n) The quality of making a clamor
25. Votary (adj.) Consecrated by a vow or promise
26. Votive (adj.) Dedicated by a vow
1. Verve lively and forceful
2. Vivacious lively, exciting,
3. Voluptuous attractive; pleasant
4. Venomous bitter, angry; poisonous
5. Vagary unexpected change
6. Vapid-dull, uninteresting
7. Vegetative unable to know, think, speak or
Improve
8. Veiled disguised
9. Vindictive upsetting, troublesome
10. Virulent extremely bitter, hostile, dangerous
11. Vitriolic bitter, painful, distressing
12. Vituperative insulting, hateful
13. Vaunted undeserved
14. Verisimilitude quality of looking true, real
15. Veritable rightly named, real
16. Vestigial more important
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Vintage best, most typical

Virile very strong, forceful
Vanguard involved
Vanquish defeat completely

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Veer-move in a direction
Vehement- very strong feeling, opinion
Vertiginous very high, steep
Volition power to take decision

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Ubiquitous (adj.) Being present everywhere

Umbrage (n) A sense of injury
Unbridled (adj.) Being without restraint.
Unconscionable (adj.) Ridiculously or unjustly excessive
Univalence (n) Monovalency

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Unyoke (v) To separate

Urbanity (n) Refined or elegant courtesy
Usurious (adj.) Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned

1. Ultramarine bright looking

2. Uncluttered simple
3. Untrammeled unrestricted, free
4. Unbecoming unattractive; unsuitable
5. Uncanny unnatural strange
6. Uncouth rude, noisy, unpleasant
7. Unfathomable- very strange or complicated
8. Unhinged wild and uncontrollable
9. Unsavory- unpleasant, unacceptable
10. Unscrupulous dishonest, immoral
11. Untoward unfortunate, unexpected
12. Upheaval trouble, confusion
13. Uproarious noisy
14. Umbrage offend
15. Unpalatable unpleasant
16. Ubiquitous omnipresent
17. Unassailable undisturbed, not easily
destroyable
18. Uncorroborated lack of information,
evidence
19. Unglued separated and attached
20. Unheralded unrecognized
21. Unobtrusive not easily noticed
22. Unruffled- unaffected
23. Unscathed unaffected, not injured or
harmed
24. Unsullied unspoiled
25. Unbridled- uncontrolled
26. Unctuous insincere
27. Unrelenting continuous
28. Unwieldy- immovable
29. Upend- turn upside down

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Tacit (adj.) Understood

Taciturn (adj.) Disinclined to conversation
Tangent (adj.) Touching
Tantalize (v) To tease
Temerity (n) Recklessness
Tenet (n) Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true
Tenor (n) A settled course or manner of progress
Termagant (adj.) Violently abusive and quarrelsome
Terse (adj} Pithy
Timorous {adj.) Lacking courage
Tirade (n) Harangue
Torpor (n)- Apathy
Tortuous (adj.) Wrongful
Travail (n) Hard or agonizing labor
Turpitude (n) Depravity

1. Tangy sharp and bitter

2. Tart tasteful, sharp
3. Tepid slightly warm
4. Tautological- verbose
5. Tawdry cheap; unpleasant; immoral
6. Tawny pale
7. Tempestuous violent, angry
8. Thuggish rough, violent
9. Torrid extremely hot and dry, burning
10. Tortuous very long, complicated
11. Traitorous dangerous, harmful
12. Turpitude very immoral behavior
13. Tactile tending to touch others while talking
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14. Tangled- confused, complicated
15. Tattered damaged, torn
16. Tauten become stiff
17. Tacit unwilling
18. Taciturn unfriendly
19. Taunt insult
20. Tedium frustration, boredom
21. Temerity- annoyance, dislike
22. Terse unfriendly
23. Truculent- bad-tempered, aggressive
24. Talisman an object having magical powers
25. Tangential -indirectly connected, concerned
26. Tantamount-incomparable
27. Tectonic relating to earth
28. Temporal ordinary, irreligious
29. Titanic very important, powerful
30. Trenchant- very clear, effective, forceful
31. Truncated abridged, shortened
32. Tamp press
33. Tardy-later than expected
34. Tenacious determined
35. Tenuous very uncertain, weak
36. Thrush beat to separate
37. Timorous frightened, nervous
38. Titular- important
39. Torpid-lazy, sleepy, inactive
40. Tremulous upset, afraid, uncertain
41. Tumultuous confused

1. Fear of air
AEROPHOBIA
2. Fear of height
ACROPHOBIA
3. Fear of open space AGORAPHOBIA
4. Fear of cats
AILUROPHOBIA
5. Fear of boys/men
ANDROPHOBIA
6. Fear of English
ANGLOPHOBIA
7. Fear of pain
ALGOPHOBIA
8. Fear of flower
ANTHOPHOBIA
9. Fear of lightening
ASTRAPHOBIA
10. Fear of knives
AICHMOPHOBIA
11. Fear of solitude
AUTOPHOBIA, MONOPHOBIA
12. Fear of sounds
ACOUSTICOPHOBIA
13. Fear of spiders
ARACHNEOPHOBIA
14. Fear of wind
ANEMOPHOBIA
15. Fear of failure
ATYCHIPHOBIA
16. Fear of being forgotten
ATHAZAGORAPHOBIA
17. Fear of atomic explosion ATOMOSOPHOBIA
18. Fear of flutes
AULOPHOBIA
19. Fear of gold
AUROPHOBIA
20. Fear of being dirty AUTOMYSOPHOBIA
21. Fear of flying
AVIOPHOBIA
22. Fear of bacteria
BACTEREOPHOBIA
23. Fear of thunder
BRONTOPHOBIA
24. Fear of depths
BATHOPHOBIA
25. Fear of frogs
BATRACHOPHOBIA

Fear of needles
BELONEPHOBIA
Fear of plants
BOTANOPHOBIA
Fear of walking
BASIPHOBIA
Fear of body smells BROMIDROPHOBIA
Fear of missiles BALUSTOPHOBIA
Fear of gravity
BAROPHOBIA
Fear of stairs
BATHMOPHOBIA
Fear of books
BIBLIOPHOBIA
Fear of toads
BUFONOPHOBIA
Fear of closed space CLAUSTROPHOBIA
Fear of going to bed CLINOPHOBIA
Fear of dogs
CYNOPHOBIA
Fear of beauty
CALLOPHOBIA
Fear of colours
CHROMOPHOBIA
Fear of faces
COPROPHOBIA
Fear of food
CIBOPHOBIA
Fear of hands
CHIROPHOBIA
Fear of snow
CHIONOPHOBIA
Fear of stairs
CLIMACOPHOBIA
Fear of time
CHRONOPHOBIA
Fear of ugliness CACOPHOBIA
Fear of newness
CAINOTOPHOBIA
Fear of beautiful women CALIBYNAEPHOBIA
Fear of cancer
CARCINOPHOBIA
Fear of meat
CAMOPHOBIA

Fear of sitting
CATHISOPHOBIA
Fear of mirrors
CATAPTROPHOBIA
Fear of snow
CHIONOPHOBIA
Fear of dancing
CHOREOPHOBIA
Fear of wealth
CHREMATOPHOBIA
Fear of colours
CHROMOPHOBIA
Fear of crowd
DEMOPHOBIA, OCHLOPHOBIA
Fear of liquor
DIPSOPHOBIA
Fear of crossing roads DROMOPHOBIA
Fear of skin
DERMATOPHOBIA
Fear of insects
ENTOMOPHOBIA
Fear of red
ERYTHROPHOBIA
Fear of stillness EREMIOPHOBIA
Fear of vomiting EMETOPHOBIA
Fear of work
EGROPHOBIA
Fear of horses
ESUINOPHOBIA
Fear of French
GALLOPHOBIA
Fear of women
GYNOPHOBIA
Fear of birth
GENOPHOBIA
Fear of knowledge GNOISOPHOBIA
Fear of marriage GAMOPHOBIA
Fear of old age
GERAPHOBIA
Fear of old men
GERONTOPHOBIA
Fear of taste
GEUMOPHOBIA
Fear of writing
GRAPHOPHOBIA
Fear of knowledge ARACHNOPHOBIA
Fear of marriage GAMOPHOBIA
Fear of old age
GERAPHOBIA
Fear of old men
GERONTOPHOBIA
Fear of taste
GEUMOPHOBIA
Fear of writing
GRAPHOPHOBIA
Fear of water
HYDROPHOBIA
Fear of blood
HAEMATOPHOBIA
Fear of fog
HOMICHLOPHOBIA
Fear of pleasure HEDENOPHOBIA
Fear of robbers
HARPAXOPHOBIA
Fear of sleep
HYPNOPHOBIA
Fear of sunlight HELIOPHOBIA
Fear of travel
HODOPHOBIA
Fear of fish
ICHTHYOPHOBIA
Fear of healing
IATROPHOBIA
Fear of doctors
IATROPHOBIA
Fear of emptiness KENOPHOBIA
Fear of motion
KINESOPHOBIA
Fear of stealing KLEPTOPHOBIA
Fear of speech
LOGOPHOBIA

Fear of madness
MANIAPHOBIA
Fear of loneliness MONOPHOBIA
Fear of dirt/germs MYSOPHOBIA
Fear of large things MEGALOPHOBIA
Fear of mice
MUSOPHOBIA
Fear of motherhood METROPHOBIA
Fear of small things MICROPHOBIA
Fear of corpses / death NECROPHOBIA
Fear of numbers
NUMEROPHOBIA
Fear of night/darkness NYCTOPHOBIA
Fear of change
NEOPHOBIA
Fear of crowd
OCHLOPHOBIA
Fear of snakes
OPHIDIOPHOBIA
Fear of eyes
OPTHALMOPHOBIA
Fear of odour
OSMOPHOBIA
Fear of rain
OMBROPHOBIA
Fear of teeth
ODONTOPHOBIA
Fear of fear
PHOBOPHOBIA
Fear of speaking aloud PHONOPHOBIA
Fear of light
PHOTOPHOBIA
Fear of fire
PYROPHOBIA
Fear of children PAEDOPHOBIA
Fear of disease
PATHOPHOBIA
Fear of everything PANTOPHOBIA
Fear of feet
PODOPHOBIA
Fear of ghosts
PHASMOPHOBIA
Fear of medicine PHARMACOPHOBIA
Fear of poverty
PENIOPHOBIA
Fear of punishment POINOPHOBI
Fear of rivers
POTAMOPHOBIA
Fear of sinning
PECCATOPHOBIA
Fear of thinking PHRONEMOPHOBIA
Fear of Russians RUSSOPHOBIA
Fear of burglars SCELEROPHOBIA
Fear of hell
STYGIOPHOBIA
Fear of mirrors
SPECTROPHOBIA
Fear of watching SCOPTOPHOBIA
Fear of togetherness SYNOPHOBIA
Fear of strength STHENOPHOBIA
Fear of stars
SIDEOPHOBIA
Fear of speed
TACHOPHOBIA
Fear of seas
THALASSOPHOBIA
Fear of number 13 TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA
Fear of death
THANATOPHOBIA
Fear of tape worms TAENIAPHOBIA
Fear of poison
TOXICOPHOBIA
Fear of heat
THERMOPHOBIA
Fear of hair
TRICHOPHOBIA
Fear of foreigners XENOPHOBIA
Fear of animals
ZOOPHOBIA

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Abase (v} To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade.

Abdicate (v) To give up (royal power or the like).
Aberration (n) Deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course.
Abet (v) To aid, promote, or encourage the commission of (an offense).
Abhorrent (adj.) Very repugnant; hateful.
Abject (adj.} Sink to a very low condition.
Abjure (v) To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
Abnegate (v) To renounce (a right or privilege).
Abominable (adj.) Very hateful.
Abrasion (n) That which is rubbed off.
Abrogate (v) To abolish, repeat
Absolve (v) To free from sin of its penalties.
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Abstruse (adj.) Difficult to understand.
Abut (v) To touch at the end or boundary line.
Abyss (n) Bottomless gulf.
Accede (v) To agree.
Accomplice (n) An associate in wrong-doing.
Accost (v) To speak to.

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Acerbity (n) Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
Achromatic (adj.) Colorless.
Acoustic (adj.) Pertaining to the act or sense of hearing.
Acquiescence (n) Passive consent.
Acreage(n)- Land, estate
Acrid (adj.) Harshly pungent or bitter,
Acrimonious (adj.) Full of bitterness.
Addle (v) To make inefficient or worthless; muddle.
Adduce (v) To bring forward or name for consideration,
Adjuration (n) A vehement appeal.
Adjutant (adj.) Auxiliary.
Adroit (adj.) Having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers.
Adumbrate (v) To represent beforehand in outline or by emblem.
Advert (v) -To refer incidentally.
Affable (adj.) Easy to approach.
Affluence (n) A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
Affront (n) An open insult or indignity.
Agglomerate (v) To pile or heap together.
Aggrandize (v) To cause to appear greatly.
Aggressive (adj.) self assertive, forceful.
Aghast (adj.) Struck with terror and amazement.

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Badger (v) - To pester.

Baleful (adj.) - Malignant.
Befog (v) - To confuse.
Belie (v) - To misrepresent.
Belligerent (adj.) - Manifesting a warlike spirit.
Benevolence (n) - Any act of kindness or well-doing.

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Benign (adj.) - Good and Kind at heart.

Benison (n) - Blessing.
Bereave (v) - To make desolate with loneliness and grief.
Beseech (v) - To implore.
Blas (adj.) - Sated with pleasure.
Browbeat (v) To overwhelm, or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty, or rude address or manner.
Bulwark (n) - Anything that gives security or defense.
Bumptious (adj.) - Full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit.
1. Cabalism (n) Superstitious devotion to ones religion
2. Cacophony (n) A disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones
3. Caitiff (adj.)-Cowardly
4. Cajole (v) To impose on or dupe by flattering speech
5. Callosity (n) The state of being hard and insensible
6. Callow (adj.) Without experience of the world
7. Calumny (n) Slander
8. Candid (adj.) Straightforward
9. Candor (n) The quality of frankness or outspokenness
10. Canon (n) -Any rule or law
11. Caprice (n) A whim
12. Captious (adj.) Hypercritical
13. Carnage (n) Massacre
14. Castigate (v) To punish
15. Catastrophe (n) Any great and sudden misfortune or calamity
16. Caustic (adj.) Sarcastic and sever
17. Chagrin (n) Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at ones failures or errors
18. Choleric (adj.) Easily provoked to anger
19. Clairvoyance (n) Intuitive sagacity or perception
20. Clamorous (adj.) Urgent in complaint or demand
21. Clandestine (adj) Surreptitious
22. Clement (adj.) Compassionate
23. Cognizant (adj.) Taking notice
24. Complacent (adj.) Pleased or satisfied with oneself
25. Complaisant (adj.) Agreeable
26. Compunction (n) Remorseful feeling
27. Conciliate (v) To obtain the friendship of
28. Condescend (v) To come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors
29. Conducive (adj.) Contributing to an end
30. Confidant (n) One to whom secrets are entrusted
31. Confiscate (v) To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury
32. Conformable (adj.) Harmonious
33. Congenial (adj.) Having kindred character or tastes
34. Conjecture (n) A guess
35. Connive (v) To be in collusion
36. Consign (v) To entrust
37. Contiguity (n) Proximity
38. Contingent (adj.) Not predictable
39. Contrite (adj.) Broken in spirit because of a sense of sin
40. Contumacious (adj.) Rebellious
41. Convalesce (v) To recover after a sickness.
42. Convivial (adj.) Devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking
43. Copious (adj.) Plenteous
44. Corrigible (adj.) Capable of reformation
45. Culpable (adj.) Guilty
46. Cynical (adj.) Exhibiting moral skepticism.

1. Darkling (adv.) Blindly

2. Dastard (n) A base coward.
3. Debonair (adj.) Having gentle or courteous bearing or manner
4. Decipher (v) To find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible
5. Decoy (n) Anything that allures, or is intended to allure into danger or temptation
6. Defray (v) To make payment for
7. Deify (v) To regard or worship as a God
8. Deign (v) To deem worthy of notice or account
9. Deist (n) One who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation
10. Delectable (adj.) Delightful to the taste or to the senses
11. Deliquesce (v) To dissolve gradually, and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air
12. Delirious (adj.) Raving
13. Delude (v) To mislead the mind or judgment of
14. Demeanor (n) Deportment
15. Denizen (n) Inhabitant
16. Denunciation (n) The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment
17. Deplorable (adj.) Contemptible
18. Deprave (v) To render bad, especially morally bad
19. Deprecate (v) To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite
20. Derelict (adj.) Neglectful of obligation
21. Derisible (adj.) Open to ridicule
22. Descry (v) To discern
23. Desperado (n) One without regard for law or life
24. Despicable (adj.) Contemptible
25. Despotism (n) Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part
26. Destitute (adj.) Poverty-stricken
27. Desultory (adj.) Not connected with what precedes
28. Detriment (n) Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss
29. Detrude (v) To push down forcibly
30. Devious (adj.) Out of the common or regular track
31. Dexterity (n) Readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work
32. Diatribe (n) A bitter or malicious criticism
33. Dictum (n) A positive utterance
34. Didactic (adj.) Pertaining to teaching
35. Diffidence (n) Self-distrust
36. Dilapidated (adj.) Fallen into decay or partial ruin
37. Diligence (n) Careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken
38. Disavowal (n) Denial
39. Discernible (adj.) Perceivable
40. discreet (adj.) Judicious
41. Discursive (adj.) Passing from one subject to another
42. Disparage (v) To regard or speak slightingly
43. Dissentient (n) One who disagrees
44. Dissentious (adj.) Contentious
45. Distraught (adj.) Bewildered
46. Diurnal (adj.) Daily
47. Docile (adj.) Easy to manage
48. Dogmatic (adj.) Making statements without argument or evidence
49. Dolor (n) Lamentation
50. Dilettante (n) A superficial amateur

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Ebullient (adj.) Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling

Eccentric (adj.) Peculiar
Educe (v) To draw out
Efface (v) To obliterate
Effectual (adj.) Efficient
Effeminacy (n) Womanishness
Effete (adj.) Exhausted, as having performed its functions
Effulgence (n) Splendor
Effuse (v) To pour forth
Egoist (n) One who advocates or practices egoism
Egotist (n) One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences
Egregious (adj.) Extreme
Egress (n) Any place of exit
Elucidate (v) To bring out more clearly the facts concerning
Elusion (n) Evasion
Emaciate (v) To waste away in flesh
Emanate (v) To flow forth or proceed, as from some source
Emancipate (v) To release from bondage
Embargo (n) Authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade
Embezzle (v) To misappropriate secretly
Emulate (v) To imitate with intent to equal or surpass
Encumber (v) To impede with obstacles
Ensnare (v) To entrap
Entwine (v) To interweave
Epicure (n) One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking
Epiphany (n) Any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity
Epitaph (n) An inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead
Epitome (n) A simplified representation
Epoch (n) An interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events
Eschew (v) To keep clear of
Esquire (n) A title of dignity, office, or courtesy
Eulogy (n) A spoken or written laudation of a persons life or character
Euphemism (n) A figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted
Eureka (Greek Expression) I have found it.
Evanescent (adj.) Fleeting
Exacerbate (v) To make more sharp, severe, or virulent
Excruciate (v) To inflict severe pain or agony upon
Exegesis (n) Biblical exposition or interpretation
Exigency (n) A critical period or condition
Exodus (n) A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people
Exonerate (v) To relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame
Exorbitance (n) Extravagance or enormity
Exotic (adj.) Foreign
Expatriate (v) To drive from ones own country
Expediency (n) Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case
Expedient (adj.) Contributing to personal advantage
Expiate (v) To make satisfaction or amends for
Explicate (v) To clear from involvement
Expostulate (v) To discuss
Extenuate (v) To diminish the gravity or importance of
Extol (v) To praise in the highest terms
Extricate (v) Disentangle
Extrude (v) To drive out or away
Exuberance (n) Rich supply
Facetious (adj.) Amusing
Facile (adj.) Not difficult to do
Factious (adj.)-Turbulent
Fallacious (adj.) Illogical
Fallible (adj.) Capable of erring
Fastidious (adj.) Hard to please
Fatuous (adj.) Idiotic
Fealty (n) Loyalty
Felicity (n) A state of well-founded happiness
Fervent (adj.) Ardent in feeling
Fervid (adj.) Intense
Festal (adj.) Joyous
Fiasco (n) A complete or humiliating failure
Flagrant (adj.) Openly scandalous
Flamboyant (adj.) Characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste
Flippant (adj.) Having a light, pert, trifling disposition
Foppish (adj.) Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners
Fraudulent (adj.) Counterfeit
Fresco (n) The art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings
Frivolous (adj.) Trivial
Frugal (adj.) Economical
Fugacious (adj.) Fleeting
Furtive (adj.) Stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief
Gamut (n) The whole range or sequence
Garrulous (adj.): Given to constant trivial talking
Genesis (n) Creation
Geniality (n) Warmth and kindliness of disposition
Gibe (v) To utter taunts or reproaches
Gourmand (n) A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table
Grimace (n) A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc
Grisly (adj.) Fear-inspiring
Gumption (n) Common sense

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Iconoclast (n) An image-breaker

Ignominious (adj.) shameful
Imbroglio (n) A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife
Imbue (v) To wet or moisten
Immaculate (adj.) Without spot or blemish
Immutable (adj.) Unchangeable
Impalpable (adj.) Imperceptible to the touch
Impeccable (adj.) Blameless
Impecunious (adj.) Having no money
Impede (v) To be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of

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Impend (v) To be imminent

Imperative (adj.) Obligatory
Imperceptible (adj.) Indiscernible
Imperil (v) To endanger
Imperious (adj.) Insisting on obedience
Impertinence (n) Rudeness
Imperturbable (adj.) Calm
Impervious (adj.) Impenetrable
Impetuosity (n) Rashness
Impute (v) To attribute
Inane (adj.) Silly
Incarcerate (v) To imprison
Incipient (n) Beginning
Incongruous (adj.) Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion
Indigenous (adj.) Native
Indigent (adj.)-Poor
Indignant (adj.) Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness
Indispensable (adj.) Necessary or requisite for the purpose
Indolence (n) Laziness
Inebriate (v) To intoxicate
Ineffable (adj.) Unutterable
Infidel (n) One who denies the existence of God
Ingenious (adj.) Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement
Ingenuous (adj.) Candid, frank, or open in character or quality
Ingratiate (v) To win confidence or good graces for oneself
Inherent (adj.)-Intrinsic
Inimical (adj.) Adverse
Iniquity (n) Gross injustice
Injunction (n) Mandate
Inkling (n)- A hint
Innocuous (adj.) Harmless
Innuendo (n) Insinuation
Inopportune (adj.) Unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time
Inquisitive (adj.) Given to questioning, especially out of curiosity
Insatiable (adj.) That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably
Inscrutable (adj.) Impenetrably mysterious or profound
Insentient (adj.) Lacking the power of feeling or perceiving
Insidious (adj.) Working ill by slow and stealthy means
Insinuate (v) To imply
Insolent (adj.) Impudent
Interpolation (n) -Verbal interference
Intimidate (v) To cause to become frightened
Intrepid (adj.) Fearless and bold
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Invective (n) An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach.
Inveterate (adj.) Habitual
Invidious (adj.) Showing envy or feeling envious
Inviolable (adj.) Incapable of being injured or disturbed
Involution (n) Complication
Irascible (adj.) Prone to anger
Irrefragable (adj.) That can not be refuted or disproved
Itinerant (adj.) Wandering

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Jeopardize (v) To imperil.

Jocose (adj.) Done or made in jest.
Juvenile (adj.) Characteristic of youth.
Juxtapose (v) To place close together
Juggernaut (n): an irresistible crushing force

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Jamboree(n) a late night party

Killjoy (n) A person who spoils or questions the enjoyment of others

Kirk (n) A Scottish Church
Knobbly (adj) hard and lumpy
Kernel (n) EssenceKitsch showy

Kilter-good condition
Kip- Sleep
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Lacerate (v) To tear rudely or raggedly

Lackadaisical (adj.) Listless
Laggard (adj.) Falling behind
Languid (adj.) Relaxed
Languor (n) Lassitude of body or depression
Lascivious (adj.) Lustful
Laxative (adj.) Having power to open or loosen the bowels
Libel (n) Defamation
Licentious (adj.) Wanton
Licit (adj.) Lawful
Lithe (adj.)-Supple
loquacious (adj.) Talkative
Lucid (adj.) Mentally sound
Lucrative (adj.) Highly profitable
Ludicrous (adj.) Laughable
Lurid (adj.) Ghastly and sensational
Malediction (n) The calling down of a curse or curses
Malefactor (n) One who injures another
Maleficent (adj.) Mischievous
Malevolence (n) III will
Malleable (adj.)-Pliant
Manumit (v) To set free from bondage
Maudlin (adj.) Foolishly and tearfully affectionate
Mawkish (adj.) Sickening or insipid
Meliorate (v) To make better or improve, as in quality, social or physical condition
Mellifluous (adj.) Sweetly or smoothly flowing
Mendacious (adj.) Untrue
Mendicant (n) A beggar
Mete (v) To apportion
Muffle (v) To deaden the sound of
Munificent (adj.) Extraordinarily generous
Nefarious (adj.) Wicked to the extreme.
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1. Obdurate (adj.) Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity

2. Obliterate (v) To cause to disappear
3. Obnoxious (adj.) Detestable
4. Obsequious (adj.) Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another
5. Obsolescent (adj.) Passing out of use, as a word
6. Obstinacy (n) Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have ones own way
7. Obstreperous (adj.) Boisterous
8. Odious (adj.) Hateful
9. Ominous (adj.) Portentous.
10. Onerous (adj.) Burdensome or oppressive
11. Onus (n) A burden or responsibility
12. Ostentation (n) A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery
13. Ostracism (n) Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics
14. Outlandish (adj.) Of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action
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Pagan (n) A worshiper of false gods

Palatial (adj.) Magnificent
Palliate (v) To cause to appear less guilty
Palpable (n) perceptible by feeling or touch
Panacea (n) A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases
Pandemic (adj.) Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease
Pandemonium (n) A fiendish or riotous uproar.
Parity (n) Equality, as of condition or rank
Parsimonious (adj.) Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money
Patter (v) To mumble something over and over
Paucity (n) Fewness
Pecuniary (adj.) Consisting of money
Peevish (adj.) Petulant, (irritable)
Pellucid (adj.} Translucent
Penchant (n) A bias in favor of something
Penitence (n) Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone
Penurious (adj.) Excessively sparing in the use of money
Percolate (v)-To filter
Perfidy (n) Treachery
Perfunctory (adj.) Half-hearted
Perjure (v) To swear falsely to
Pernicious (adj.) Tending to kill or hurt
Persiflage (n) Banter
Perspicuous (adj.) Lucid
Phlegmatic (adj.) Not easily roused to feeling or action
Picayune (adj.) Of small value
Pique (v) To excite a slight degree of anger in
Placate (v) To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness
Plagiarism (n) The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as ones own
Plenitude (n) Abundance
Poignant (adj.) Severely painful or acute to the spirit
Prattle (v) To utter in simple or childish talk
Precarious (adj.) Perilous
Preclude (v) To prevent
Preponderate (v) To exceed in influence or power
Preposterous (adj.) Utterly ridiculous or absurd
Prerogative (adj.) Having superior rank or precedence
Prevaricate (v) To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention
Priggish (adj.) Conceited
Prodigious (adj.) Extraordinary
Puerile (adj.) Childish
Pugnacious (adj.) Quarrelsome
Qualm (n) A fit of nausea
Quandary (n) A puzzling predicament
Querulous (adj.) Habitually complaining
Quintessence (n) The most essential part of anything

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Quisling a person who helps an enemy

Queasy rather ill
Quibble argue
Quiescent inactive
Queer-strange
Querulous complaining
Quixotic imaginative, unrealistic
Quotidian basic; usual
Raillery (n) Good-humored satire
Rancor (n) Malice
Rankle (v) To produce irritation or festering
Raucous (adj.) Harsh
Recuperate (v) To recover
Refragable (adj.) Capable of being refuted
Reliant (adj.) Having confidence
Relinquish (v) To give up using or having
Rendezvous (n) A prearranged place of meeting
Reprehend (v) To find fault with
Reprieve (v) To grant a respite from punishment to
Repudiate (v) To refuse to have anything to do with
Repugnance (n) Thorough dislike
Rescind (v) To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority
Resplendent (adj.) Very bright
Reticent (adj.) Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance
Revile (v) To heap approach or abuse upon
Rife (adj.) Abundant
Rigmarole (n) Nonsense
Rote (n) Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention
Rue (v) To regret extremely

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Sagacious (adj.) Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception

Sapient (adj.) Possessing wisdom
Sardonic (adj.) Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic
Satyr (n) A very lascivious person

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Savor (v) To perceive by taste or smell

Scintilla (n) The faintest ray
Scrupulous (adj.) Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong
Scurrilous (adj.) Grossly indecent
Sedate (adj.) Even-tempered
Seethe (v) To be violently excited or agitated
Sequacious (adj.) Ready to be led
Skirmish (n) Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies
Sleight (n) A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation
Sophism (n) A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
Sophistical (adj.) Fallacious
Sordid (adj.) Of degraded character or nature
Specious (adj.) Plausible
Staid (adj.) Of a steady and sober character
Stealth (n) A concealed manner of acting
Sterling (adj.) Genuine
Stifle (v) To smother
Stolid (adj.) Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving
Stupor (n) Profound lethargy
Suasion (n) The act of persuading
Suave (adj.) Smooth and pleasant in manner
Suffrage (n) The right or privilege of voting
Supercilious (adj.) Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt
Supernumerary (adj.) Superfluous
Supplicant (n) One who asks humbly and earnestly
Sybarite (n) A luxurious person
Sycophant (n) A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence