1. aberration 16.

having an abundant supply

17. accretion of money or possessions of
a state or condition value
markedly different from the an increase by natural
norm growth or addition 32.
33. aggrandize
2. 18.
3. abjure 19. acumen add details to

formally reject or disavow shrewdness shown by keen 34.

a formerly held belief insight
35. alacrity

4. 20. liveliness and eagerness

5. abnegation 21. adamant

the denial and rejection of

36.
impervious to pleas,
a doctrine or belief persuasion, requests, reason
37. alias

a name that has been

6. 22. assumed temporarily
7. abrogate 23. admonish

revoke formally
38.
scold or reprimand; take to
task
39. ambivalent

8. uncertain or unable to
9. abscond 24. decide about what course to
25. adumbrate follow
run away, often taking
something or somebody along describe roughly or give 40.
the main points or summary of
41. amenable
10.
11. abstruse 26. disposed or willing to
27. adverse comply
difficult to penetrate
in an opposing direction 42.
12. 43. amorphous
13. accede 28.
29. advocate having no definite form or
yield to another's wish or distinct shape
opinion a person who pleads for a
person, cause, or idea 44.
14. 45. anachronistic
15. accost 30.
31. affluent chronologically misplaced
speak to someone
46. official approval 76.
47. anathema 77. assiduous
62.
a formal ecclesiastical marked by care and
curse accompanied by
63. arbitrary persistent effort
excommunication
based on or subject to
individual discretion or 78.
48. preference 79. atrophy
49. annex
64. a decrease in size of an
attach to organ caused by disease or
65. arboreal disuse

50. of or relating to or formed

51. antediluvian by trees 80.
81. bane
of or relating to the period 66.
before the biblical flood something causing misery
67. arcane or death

52. requiring secret or

53. antiseptic mysterious knowledge 82.
83. bashful
thoroughly clean and free 68.
of disease-causing organisms self-consciously timid
69. archetypal

54. of an original type after 84.

55. apathetic which other things are 85. beguile
patterned
showing little or no influence by slyness
emotion or animation 70.
71. arrogate 86.
56. 87. bereft
57. antithesis seize and take control
without authority
sorrowful through loss or
exact opposite deprivation
72.
58. 73. ascetic 88.
59. apocryphal 89. blandishment
someone who practices
self denial as a spiritual
being of questionable flattery intended to
discipline
authenticity persuade

60. 74. 90.

61. approbation 75. aspersion 91. bilk
a disparaging remark
 cheat somebody out of 107. carouse utter or proclaim
what is due, especially money insistently and noisily
engage in boisterous,
drunken merrymaking
92. 122.
93. bombastic 123. cleave
108.
ostentatiously lofty in style 109. carp separate or cut with a tool,
such as a sharp instrument
any of various freshwater
94. fish of the family Cyprinidae
95. cajole 124.
125. cobbler
influence or urge by gentle 110.
urging, caressing, or flattering 111. caucus a person who makes or
repairs shoes
meet to select a candidate
96. or promote a policy
97. callous 126.
127. cogent
emotionally hardened 112.
113. cavort powerfully persuasive

98. play boisterously

99. calumny 128.
129. cognizant
a false accusation of an 114.
offense 115. circumlocution having or showing
knowledge or understanding
an indirect way of or realization
100. expressing something
101. camaraderie
130.
the quality of affording 116. 131. commensurate
easy familiarity and sociability 117. circumscribe
corresponding in size or
draw a geometric figure degree or extent
102. around another figure
103. candor
132.
the quality of being honest 118. 133. complement
and straightforward 119. circumvent
something added to
surround so as to force to embellish or make perfect
104. give up
105. capitulate
134.
surrender under agreed 120. 135. compunction
conditions 121. clamor
a feeling of deep regret,
usually for some misdeed
106.
136. 151. construe wish, long, or crave for
137. concomitant
make sense of; assign a
meaning to
166.
following or
accompanying as a
167. cupidity
consequence
152. extreme greed for material
153. contusion wealth
138.
139. conduit an injury in which the skin
is not broken
168.
a passage through which
169. dearth
water or electric wires can
pass 154. an insufficient quantity or
155. contrite number

140. feeling or expressing pain

141. conflagration or sorrow for sins or offenses
170.
171. debacle
a very intense and
uncontrolled fire 156. a sudden and violent
157. contentious collapse

142. showing an inclination to

143. congruity disagree
172.
173. debauch
the quality of agreeing; being
suitable and appropriate 158. a wild gathering involving
159. contravene excessive drinking

144. go against, as of rules and

145. connive laws
174.
175. debunk
form intrigues (for) in an
underhand manner 160. expose while ridiculing
161. convivial

146. occupied with or fond of

176.
147. consign the pleasures of good 177. defunct
company
give over to another for no longer in force or use;
care or safekeeping inactive
162.
163. corpulence
148. 178.
149. constituent the property of excessive 179. demagogue
fatness
one of the individual parts a leader who seeks support
making up a composite entity by appealing to popular
164. passions
165. covet
150.
180. cause to lose one's 210.
181. denigrate composure 211. duress

charge falsely or with 196. compulsory force or threat

malicious intent
197. disparate
212.
182. fundamentally different or 213. eclectic
183. derivative distinct in quality or kind
selecting what seems best
a compound obtained from 198. of various styles or ideas
another compound
199. dispel
214.
184. to cause to separate and go 215. edict
185. despot in different directions
a formal or authoritative
a cruel and oppressive 200. proclamation
dictator
201. disrepute
216.
186. the state of being held in 217. ebullient
187. diaphanous low esteem
joyously unrestrained
so thin as to transmit light 202.
203. divisive 218.
188. 219. egregious
189. didactic dissenting with the
majority opinion
conspicuously and
instructive, especially outrageously bad or
excessively 204. reprehensible
205. dogmatic
190. 220.
191. dirge pertaining to a code of 221. elegy
beliefs accepted as
authoritative
a song or hymn of a mournful poem; a lament
mourning as a memorial to a for the dead
dead person 206.
207. dour 222.
192. 223. elicit
193. disaffected showing a brooding ill
humor
call forth, as an emotion,
discontented as toward feeling, or response
authority 208.
209. duplicity 224.
194. 225. embezzlement
195. discomfit acting in bad faith
 the fraudulent 240. make worse
appropriation of funds or 241. ephemeral
property
256.
anything short-lived, as an
insect that lives only for a day
257. exhort
226.
227. emend spur on or encourage
242. especially by cheers and
make corrections to 243. epistolary shouts

228. written in the form of 258.

letters or correspondence
229. emollient 259. execrable

a substance with a 244. unequivocally detestable

soothing effect when applied 245. equanimity
to the skin
260.
steadiness of mind under
stress
261. exigent
230.
231. empirical demanding immediate
246. attention
derived from experiment 247. equivocal
and observation rather than
theory 262.
open to two or more
interpretations
263. expedient

232. appropriate to a purpose

233. emulate 248.
249. espouse
strive to equal or match, 264.
especially by imitating
choose and follow a
265. expiate
theory, idea, policy, etc.
make amends for
234.
235. enervate 250.
251. evanescent 266.
weaken mentally or 267. expunge
morally
tending to vanish like
vapor remove by erasing or
crossing out or as if by
236. drawing a line
237. enfranchise 252.
253. evince
grant freedom to, as from 268.
slavery or servitude
give expression to
269. extraneous

not belonging to that in

238. 254. which it is contained
239. engender
255. exacerbate

call forth 270.

271. extol hinder or prevent, as an unfortunate and deserving
effort, plan, or desire pity
praise, glorify, or honor
286. 302.
272. 287. forbearance 303. hegemony
273. extant
good-natured tolerance of the dominance or
still in existence; not delay or incompetence leadership of one social group
extinct or destroyed or lost over others

288.
274. 289. fortuitous 304.
275. expurgate 305. heterogenous
occurring by happy chance
edit by omitting or consisting of elements that are
modifying parts considered not of the same kind
indelicate
290.
291. fractious
306.
276. easily irritated or annoyed 307. iconoclast
277. fallacious
someone who attacks
containing or based on
292. cherished ideas or institutions
incorrect reasoning 293. garrulous

full of trivial conversation 308.

278. 309. idiosyncratic
279. fatuous
294. peculiar to the individual
devoid of intelligence 295. gourmand

a person who is devoted to 310.

280. eating and drinking to excess 311. impecunious
281. fetter
not having enough money
a shackle for the ankles or
296. to pay for necessities
feet 297. grandiloquent

lofty in style 312.

282. 313. impetuous
283. flagrant
298. characterized by undue
conspicuously and 299. gratuitous haste and lack of thought
outrageously bad or
reprehensible unnecessary and
unwarranted 314.
315. impinge
284.
285. foil 300. infringe upon
301. hapless
316. a judicial remedy to cause to accept or become
317. impute prohibit a party from doing hardened to
something
attribute or credit to 346.
332. 347. invective
318. 333. inoculate
319. inane abusive language used to
inject or treat with the express blame or censure
germ of a disease to render
devoid of intelligence
immune
348.
320. 349. intransigent
334.
321. inchoate
335. insidious impervious to pleas,
persuasion, requests, or reason
only partly in existence;
working or spreading in a
imperfectly formed
hidden and usually injurious
way 350.
322. 351. inveterate
323. incontrovertible 336. habitual
337. instigate
impossible to deny or
disprove 352.
provoke or stir up
353. irreverence
324.
338. a mental attitude showing
325. incumbent
339. insurgent lack of due respect
necessary as a duty or
in opposition to a civil
responsibility; morally 354.
authority or government
binding
355. knell

326. 340. the sound of a bell rung

327. inexorable
341. interlocutor slowly to announce a death

a person who takes part in

not to be placated or 356.
a conversation
appeased or moved by
entreaty
357. laconic

342. brief and to the point

328. 343. intimation
329. inimical
a slight suggestion or 358.
not friendly
vague understanding 359. largesse

liberality in bestowing
330. 344. gifts
331. injunction
345. inure

360.
361. legerdemain someone who exhibits 390.
independence in thought and 391. multifarious
an illusory feat action
having many aspects
362. 376.
363. libertarian 377. mawkish 392.
393. nadir
an advocate of freedom of effusively or insincerely
thought and speech emotional
the lowest point of
anything
364. 378.
365. licentious 379. maxim 394.
395. negligent
lacking moral discipline a saying that is widely
accepted on its own merits
characterized by undue
lack of attention or concern
366.
367. linchpin
380.
381. mendacious 396.
a central cohesive source 397. neophyte
of support and stability given to lying
any new participant in
382. some activity
368.
369. litigant 383. modicum
398.
(law) a party to a lawsuit; a small or moderate or 399. noisome
someone involved in litigation token amount
offensively malodorous
370. 384.
371. maelstrom 385. morass 400.
401. noxious
a powerful circular current a soft wet area of low-
of water lying land that sinks underfoot
injurious to physical or
mental health
372. 386.
373. maudlin 387. mores 402.
403. obdurate
effusively or insincerely the conventions
emotional embodying the fundamental
stubbornly persistent in
values of a group
wrongdoing
374.
375. maverick
388. 404.
389. munificent
405. obfuscate

very generous
make obscure or unclear
406. a standard or typical 437. pert
407. obstreperous example
characterized by a lightly
noisily and stubbornly exuberant quality
422.
defiant
423. pariah
438.
408. a person who is rejected 439. pernicious
409. officious from society or home
exceedingly harmful
intrusive in a meddling or 424.
offensive manner
425. partisan 440.
441. pertinacious
410. a fervent and even militant
411. onerous proponent of something stubbornly unyielding

not easily borne; wearing 426. 442.

427. paucity 443. phlegmatic
412.
413. ostensible an insufficient quantity or showing little emotion
number
appearing as such but not
necessarily so 444.
428. 445. philanthropic
429. pejorative
414. of or relating to charitable
415. ostracism expressing disapproval giving

the act of excluding 430.

someone from society by 446.
general consent
431. pellucid 447. pithy

transparently clear; easily concise and full of

416. understandable meaning
417. palliate
432. 448.
lessen or to try to lessen
the seriousness or extent of
433. penchant 449. platitude

a strong liking a trite or obvious remark

418.
419. panacea
434. 450.
hypothetical remedy for all
435. penurious 451. plaudit
ills or diseases
excessively unwilling to enthusiastic approval
spend
420.
421. paradigm 452.
436.
453. plenitude 468. 484.
469. probity 485. pugnacious
a full supply
complete and confirmed tough and callous by virtue
integrity of experience
454.
455. plethora
470. 486.
extreme excess 471. proclivity 487. pulchritude

a natural inclination physical beauty, especially

456. of a woman
457. portent
472.
a sign of something about 473. profligate 488.
to happen 489. punctilious
unrestrained by convention
or morality marked by precise
458. accordance with details
459. potentate
474.
a ruler who is 475. promulgate 490.
unconstrained by law 491. quaint
state or announce
attractively old-fashioned
460.
461. preclude 476.
477. proscribe 492.
make impossible, 493. quixotic
especially beforehand command against
not sensible about practical
matters
462. 478.
463. predilection 479. protean
494.
a predisposition in favor of taking on different forms 495. quandary
something
state of uncertainty in a
480. choice between unfavorable
464. 481. prurient options
465. preponderance
characterized by lust
exceeding in heaviness; 496.
having greater weight 497. recalcitrant
482.
483. puerile stubbornly resistant to
466. authority or control
467. presage displaying or suggesting a
lack of maturity
a foreboding about what is 498.
about to happen 499. redoubtable
 inspiring fear excessively or 530.
hypocritically pious 531. spurious
500.
516. plausible but false
501. relegate
517. sanguine
assign to a lower position 532.
confidently optimistic and 533. staid
cheerful
502.
characterized by dignity
503. remiss
and propriety
518.
failing in what duty 519. scurrilous
requires 534.
expressing offensive 535. stolid
reproach
504.
having or revealing little
505. reprieve
emotion or sensibility
520.
postpone the punishment 521. semaphore
of a convicted criminal 536.
an apparatus for visual 537. subjugate
signaling
506.
make subservient; force to
507. reprobate
submit or subdue
522.
a person without moral 523. serendipity
scruples 538.
good luck in making 539. surfeit
unexpected and fortunate
508. discoveries
indulge (one's appetite) to
509. rescind
satiety

cancel officially 524.

525. sobriety 540.
541. surreptitious
510. the state of being sober
511. requisition and not intoxicated by alcohol
marked by quiet and
caution and secrecy
an authoritative request or
demand 526.
527. solicitous 542.
543. swarthy
512. full of anxiety and concern
513. rife
naturally having skin of a
528. dark color
excessively abundant
529. solipsism
544.
514. the philosophical theory 545. tangential
515. sanctimonious that the self is all that exists
 of superficial relevance if 560. 576.
any 561. turpitude 577. vilify

546. a corrupt or depraved or spread negative

degenerate act or practice information about
547. tome

a large and scholarly book 562. 578.

563. ubiquitous 579. virtuoso
548.
being present everywhere someone who is dazzlingly
549. toady
at once skilled in any field

a person who tries to

please someone to gain an 564. 580.
advantage 565. umbrage 581. vitriolic

550. a feeling of anger caused harsh, bitter, or malicious

by being offended in tone
551. torpid

in a condition of biological 566. 582.

rest or suspended animation 567. upbraid 583. vituperate

552. express criticism towards spread negative

information about
553. travesty
568.
a composition that imitates 569. utilitarian 584.
or misrepresents a style 585. vociferous
having a useful function
554. conspicuously and
offensively loud
555. trenchant 570.
571. veracity
having keenness and 586.
forcefulness and penetration in 587. wanton
unwillingness to tell lies
thought
a lewd or lascivious person
572.
556.
573. vestige
557. trite 588.
an indication that 589. winsome
repeated too often;
something has been present
overfamiliar through overuse
charming in a childlike or
naive way
574.
558.
575. vicissitude
559. truculent 590.
a variation in 591. yoke
defiantly aggressive
circumstances or fortune
 join with stable gear, as 594. 597. tirade
two draft animals 595. wily
a speech of violent
marked by skill in denunciation
592.
deception
593. zephyr
598.
a slight wind 596.