O Level English Vocabulary Set

Words meanings
1. Abjure give up something
2. Abstemious self denying

3. Accentuate draw attention to

4. Acumen awareness
5. Ameliorate improve
6. Alleviate improve
7. Auspicious favourable
8. Austere strict
9. Bellicose aggressive
10. Cadaverous corpse like
11. Churlish rude
12. Circumnavigate go around
13. Diffident reluctant
14. Epiphany sudden realisation
15. Exacerbate make worse
16. Facetious flippant
17. Fatuous pointless
18. Feckless irresponsible
19. Gauche clumsy
20. Germane relevant
21. Gesticulate arm movements
22. Gregarious outgoing
23. Incognito undercover
24. Incontrovertible undeniable
25. Irony sarcasm
26. Kowtow pay homage to
27. laissez faire leave alone
28. lexicon dictionary
29. loquacious talkative
30. malefactor wrongdoer
31. antithesis opposite
32. euphuistic eloquent language
33. atavistic ancestral
34. perennial eternal
35. imperious commanding
36. achingly extremely
37. cordillera system of mountain ranges
38. palmistry fortune telling
39. introspection self observation
40. methodical systematic
41. mitigate limit
42. nomenclature terminology
43. noxious toxic
44. obsequious submissive
45. oblivious clueless
46. pecuniary financial
47. plagiarize copy illegally
48. precipice vertical rock face
49. precipitous dangerously high
50. raucous loud
51. reciprocal return
52. regimented organized
53. sanguine positive
54. seethe full of unexpressed anger
55. soliloquy monologue
56. soporific sleep inducing
57. subjugate conquer
58. supercilious arrogant
59. tirade rant
60. tempestuous turbulent
61. usurp overthrow
62. vacuous mindless
63. valiant brave
64. vehement heated, passionate
65. writhe squirm
66. xenophobia fear of foreigners
67. orgulous proud, arrogant
68. haughty vain
69. valetudinarian overly concerned about your health
70. detritus residue, remains
71. pettifogging scrutinizing petty details
72. incredulous sceptical
73. circumambulate walk around
74. throng crowd
75. mercurial witty, lively
76. felicitous fortunate
77. epitome pinnacle
78. nepotism favouring relatives