ABANDON:  ABSURD:  ACTUATE: 

n. Syn. relinquish a. Syn. ridiculous; foolish v. Syn. motivate; activate

lacking restraint or control; preposterous; ridiculously put into motion or action;
feeling of extreme emotional incongruous or unreasonable; activate
intensity; unbounded enthusiasm foolish
ABATE:  ABUNDANT:  ACUTE: 
v. Syn. subside; decrease; lessen a. Syn. plentiful a. Syn. keen; sharp
subside; decrease; become less plentiful; possessing riches or quickly perceptive; keen; having a
in amount or intensity resources sharp point or tip; extremely
sharp or severe
ABBREVIATION:  ABYSS:  ADAMANT: 
n. n. Syn. chasm a. Syn. inflexible
shortening something by omitting enormous chasm; vast bottomless extremely hard; inflexible;
parts of it pit; any deep, immeasurable stubbornly unyielding
space; hell
ABDUCT:  ACCESSIBLE:  ADAPT: 
v. a. Syn. obtainable; approachable v. Syn. alter; modify
carry off by force; kidnap easily approached or entered; make fit for; change to suit a
obtainable; easy to talk to or get new purpose
along with
ABHOR:  ACCLAIM:  ADEPT: 
v. Syn. detest; hate v. Syn. applaud a. Syn. competent; proficient
fill with horror and loathing; applaud; announce with great expert at; very skilled; having or
horrify; hate approval showing knowledge and skill and
aptitude
ABJECT:  ACCOMPLICE:  ADEQUATE: 
a. Syn. wretched n. Syn. associate a. Syn. sufficient; enough
being of the most miserable kind; partner in crime; associate in sufficient; enough to meet a
wretched; lacking pride; brought wrongdoing purpose
low in condition or status
ABOLISH:  ACCURATE:  ADHERE: 
v. Syn. cancel; annul a. Syn. precise; correct v. Syn. stick; bond
cancel; put an end to; destroy capable of providing a correct stick fast; stick to firmly; be
completely reading or measurement; compatible or in accordance with
performing with care and precision
ABORT:  ACCUSE:  ADJACENT: 
v. Syn. failure; terminate v. Syn. blame; condemn a. Syn. adjoining; neighboring
stop; terminate before blame; condemn adjoining; neighboring; close to;
completion; terminate a lying near
pregnancy
ABRUPT:  ACID:  ADMONISH: 
a. Syn. sudden; unforeseen n. v. Syn. warn; reprove
broken off; very steep; having sour; water-soluble compounds warn; counsel someone against
sudden transitions from one having a sour taste; quality of something to be avoided
subject to another being sarcastic, bitter, or scornful
ABSOLVE:  ACQUAINT:  ADORN: 
v. Syn. release; liberate; exempt v. Syn. inform v. Syn. decorate
let off hook; relieve of inform about; cause to come to enhance or decorate with or as if
requirement or obligation know personally; make familiar with ornaments

ABSTAIN:  ACQUIESCE:  ADVENT: 

v. Syn. refrain v. Syn. assent n. Syn. arrival
refrain; hold oneself back assent; agree without protesting coming or arrival, especially of
voluntarily from an action or something extremely important
practice
ABSTRUSE:  ACRID:  ADVERSE: 
a. Syn. obscure; profound a. Syn. sharp; bitter a. Syn. unfavorable; hostile
obscure; profound; difficult to unpleasantly sharp or bitter to in opposing direction; harmful or
understand. taste or smell; bitterly pungent unfavorable; acting or serving to
oppose
ADVOCATE:  agricultural or rural matters AMBIGUOUS: 
v. Syn. urge; support AILMENT:  a.
speak, plead, or argue in favour n. Syn. sickness; illness; unclear or doubtful in meaning
of; plead for; push for something affliction
sickness; illness; affliction
AFFABLE:  AMBIVALENCE: 
a. AKIN:  n.
easily approachable; warmly a. Syn. related; similar state of having contradictory or
friendly of the same kin; related by blood conflicting emotional attitudes,
such as love and hate
AFFECT:  AMBIVALENT: 
v. ALLEGIANCE:  a. Syn. mixed; contradictory
have an emotional or cognitive n. Syn. loyalty; fidelity mixed; experiencing or
impact upon loyalty to a nation, sovereign, or expressing opposing or
cause; fidelity to any person or contradictory feelings
AFFILIATE:  thing; devotion AMENABLE: 
v. Syn. associate; incorporate ALLEVIATE:  a. Syn. responsible; accountable
associate; incorporate v. Syn. relieve; moderate; reduce responsive to advice or suggestion;
provide physical relief, as from responsible to higher authority;
pain; make easier; remove in part willing to comply with; agreeable
AFFINITY:  AMIABLE: 
n. Syn. kinship ALLOCATE:  a. Syn. agreeable; lovable
natural attraction, liking, or v. Syn. assign good-natured and likable; lovable;
feeling of kinship; relationship by assign; distribute according to warmly friendly
marriage plan
AFFLICTION:  AMICABLE: 
n. Syn. calamity; distress; ALLOT:  a. Syn. friendly
misfortune; pain v. Syn. distribute exhibiting friendliness or
cause or condition of pain, parcel out in parts or portions; goodwill; not quarrelsome
suffering, or distress distribute to each individual
AFFLUENT:  concerned; assign as a share or lot
AMNESIA: 
a. ALLUDE: 
n.
having an abundant supply of v. Syn. imply; refer
partial or total loss of memory,
money or possessions of value refer casually or indirectly, or by
usually resulting from shock or
suggestion
illness
AGGRAVATE:  AMNESTY: 
v. Syn. worsen; exacerbate ALOFT:  n. Syn. pardon; forgiveness
worsen; make worse or more ad. Syn. upward general pardon granted by
troublesome in or into a high place; high or government, especially for
higher up political offenses
AGGREGATE:  AMPHITHEATER: 
v. Syn. gather; accumulate ALOOF:  n.
gather into a mass, sum, or a. Syn. apart; distant oval building with tiers of seats
whole; amount to apart; remote in manner; distant from central open space or arena
physically or emotionally;
AGILE:  reserved and remote ANALOGOUS: 
a. Syn. nimble; brisk ALTERNATIVE:  a. Syn. comparable
moving quickly and lightly; a. comparable; similar or alike
mentally quick one of two or more things, ideas
or courses of action that may be
AGITATE:  used; option; choice ANECDOTE: 
v. Syn. disturb AMAZING:  n. Syn. episode; story
cause to move with violence or a. Syn. awesome; astounding; short account of amusing or
sudden force; upset; disturb surprising interesting event; short narrative;
awesome; astounding; surprising secret story of history or biography

AGRARIAN:  ANNEX: 
a. v. Syn. attach
pertaining to land or its append or attach; take
cultivation; relating to possession of; incorporate into
an existing political unit
ANNUAL: 
a.
occurring or payable every year
ANONYMOUS: 
a. Syn. unknown; nameless
having no name; having unknown
or unacknowledged name
ANTAGONISM: 
n. Syn. hostility; enmity
active resistance; condition of
being an opposing principle,
force, or factor
ANTAGONIST: 
n.
one who contends with another,
especially in combat; an
adversary; opponent
ANTEDATE: 
v.
be earlier in time; go back
further
ANTICIPATE:  understand
v. Syn. expect; predict
act in advance of; deal with
ahead of time; predict
ANTIQUE:  resemble
n. Syn. relic; curio
any furniture old and valuable;
out of fashion
ANXIOUS:  greatly
a. Syn. eager; keen; worried
eager; keen; worried; uneasy and
apprehensive about an uncertain
event or matter
APATHY:  support trees or plants
n. Syn. indifference
lack of caring; indifference
APPARENT:  plant, spice, or food
a. Syn. visible
capable of being seen, or easily
seen; open to view; visible to eye
APPEALING:  toward others
a. Syn. attractive; charming
attractive; charming
APPEASE: 
v. Syn. relieve; pacify
bring peace, quiet, or calm to;
satisfy or relieve
APPLAUD:  ASCERTAIN: 
v. Syn. clap; acclaim v. Syn. discover; insure
acclaim; express approval, find out for certain; discover
especially by clapping the hands with certainty; make sure of
APPRAISE:  ASSAIL: 
v. Syn. evaluate v. Syn. assault
estimate value of; evaluate, assault; attack with or as if with
especially in official capacity violent blows
APPRISE:  ASSAULT: 
v. Syn. inform n. Syn. attack; onslaught
inform; give notice to; make attack; onslaught
aware
APPROBATION:  ASSERT: 
n. Syn. approval v. Syn. declare
expression of warm approval; declare or state with confidence;
praise put oneself forward boldly
APT:  ASSIDUOUS: 
a. Syn. appropriate; suitable a. Syn. diligent; persistent
likely; exactly suitable; constant in application or
appropriate; quick to learn or attention; diligent; unceasing or
persistent
ARABLE:  ASSIMILATE: 
a. v. Syn. absorb
fit for growing crops, as by incorporate and absorb into
plowing mind; make similar; cause to
ARDUOUS:  ASTONISHING: 
a. Syn. hard; strenuous a. Syn. astounding; miraculous
demanding great effort or labor; very wonderful; of a nature to
difficult excite astonishment; surprising
ARID:  ASTUTE: 
a. Syn. dry; barren a. Syn. shrewd
dry; lacking moisture, especially wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp
having insufficient rainfall to intelligence
AROMA:  ATONE: 
n. Syn. fragrance; scent v.
fragrance; scent; pleasant make amends, as for sin or fault;
characteristic odor, as of a pay for; turn away from sin
ARROGANT:  ATROCITY: 
a. Syn. overbearing; lofty n.
arising from feeling or brutal deed; atrocious condition,
assumption of one's superiority quality, or behavior;
monstrousness
ARTICULATE:  ATTAIN: 
a. Syn. effective; distinct v. Syn. gain
expressing oneself easily in clear achieve or accomplish; gain
and effective language
ARTIFICIAL:  ATTRIBUTE: 
a. Syn. unreal n. Syn. trait
made by humans; produced essential quality; reputation;
rather than natural.
honor conflicting emotional attitudes, or unacknowledged name
such as love and hate
AUDACIOUS:  AMBIVALENT:  ANTAGONISM: 
a. Syn. brave; bold a. Syn. mixed; contradictory n. Syn. hostility; enmity
fearlessly, often recklessly mixed; experiencing or active resistance; condition of
daring; bold expressing opposing or being an opposing principle,
contradictory feelings force, or factor
AUDITORY:  AMENABLE:  ANTAGONIST: 
a. a. Syn. responsible; accountable n.
of or relating to hearing, the responsive to advice or suggestion; one who contends with another,
organs of hearing, or the sense responsible to higher authority; especially in combat; an
willing to comply with; agreeable adversary; opponent
of hearing
AUGMENT:  AMIABLE:  ANTEDATE: 
v. Syn. increase a. Syn. agreeable; lovable v.
make greater, as in size, extent, good-natured and likable; lovable; be earlier in time; go back
or quantity warmly friendly further

AUGUST:  AMICABLE:  ANTICIPATE: 

a. Syn. impressive; majestic; a. Syn. friendly v. Syn. expect; predict
grand exhibiting friendliness or act in advance of; deal with
impressive; majestic; inspiring goodwill; not quarrelsome ahead of time; predict
awe or admiration
AUSTERE:  AMNESIA:  ANTIQUE: 
a. n. n. Syn. relic; curio
strict or severe in discipline; partial or total loss of memory, any furniture old and valuable;
severely simple and usually resulting from shock or out of fashion
unornamented illness
AUTHENTIC:  AMNESTY:  ANXIOUS: 
a. Syn. genuine; real; valid; n. Syn. pardon; forgiveness a. Syn. eager; keen; worried
trustworthy general pardon granted by eager; keen; worried; uneasy and
not counterfeit or copied; valid; government, especially for apprehensive about an uncertain
trustworthy political offenses event or matter
AUTHORIZE:  AMPHITHEATER:  APATHY: 
v. Syn. empower; sanction n. n. Syn. indifference
empower; give permission for; oval building with tiers of seats lack of caring; indifference
sanction from central open space or arena

AUTOMATON:  ANALOGOUS:  APPARENT: 

n. a. Syn. comparable a. Syn. visible
mechanism that imitates actions comparable; similar or alike capable of being seen, or easily
of humans seen; open to view; visible to eye

ALTERNATIVE:  ANECDOTE:  APPEALING: 

a. n. Syn. episode; story a. Syn. attractive; charming
one of two or more things, ideas short account of amusing or attractive; charming
interesting event; short narrative;
or courses of action that may be
secret story of history or biography
used; option; choice
AMAZING:  ANNEX:  APPEASE: 
a. Syn. awesome; astounding; v. Syn. attach v. Syn. relieve; pacify
surprising append or attach; take bring peace, quiet, or calm to;
awesome; astounding; surprising possession of; incorporate into satisfy or relieve
an existing political unit
AMBIGUOUS:  ANNUAL:  APPLAUD: 
a. a. v. Syn. clap; acclaim
unclear or doubtful in meaning occurring or payable every year acclaim; express approval,
especially by clapping the hands

AMBIVALENCE:  ANONYMOUS:  APPRAISE: 

n. a. Syn. unknown; nameless v. Syn. evaluate
state of having contradictory or having no name; having unknown estimate value of; evaluate,
especially in official capacity violent blows of or relating to hearing, the
organs of hearing, or the sense
APPRISE:  ASSAULT:  of hearing
v. Syn. inform n. Syn. attack; onslaught AUGMENT: 
inform; give notice to; make attack; onslaught v. Syn. increase
aware make greater, as in size, extent,
or quantity
APPROBATION:  ASSERT: 
n. Syn. approval v. Syn. declare AUGUST: 
expression of warm approval; declare or state with confidence; a. Syn. impressive; majestic;
praise put oneself forward boldly grand
impressive; majestic; inspiring
APT:  ASSIDUOUS:  awe or admiration
a. Syn. appropriate; suitable a. Syn. diligent; persistent AUSTERE: 
likely; exactly suitable; constant in application or a.
appropriate; quick to learn or attention; diligent; unceasing or strict or severe in discipline;
understand persistent severely simple and
ARABLE:  ASSIMILATE:  unornamented
a. v. Syn. absorb AUTHENTIC: 
fit for growing crops, as by incorporate and absorb into a. Syn. genuine; real; valid;
plowing mind; make similar; cause to trustworthy
resemble not counterfeit or copied; valid;
ARDUOUS:  ASTONISHING:  trustworthy
a. Syn. hard; strenuous a. Syn. astounding; miraculous AUTHORIZE: 
demanding great effort or labor; very wonderful; of a nature to v. Syn. empower; sanction
difficult excite astonishment; surprising empower; give permission for;
greatly sanction
ARID:  ASTUTE: 
a. Syn. dry; barren a. Syn. shrewd AUTOMATON: 
dry; lacking moisture, especially wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp n.
having insufficient rainfall to intelligence mechanism that imitates actions
support trees or plants of humans
AROMA:  ATONE: 
n. Syn. fragrance; scent v. AUTONOMY: 
fragrance; scent; pleasant make amends, as for sin or fault; n. Syn. independence; liberty
characteristic odor, as of a pay for; turn away from sin independence; self-government
plant, spice, or food or the right of self-government;
ARROGANT:  ATROCITY:  self-determination
a. Syn. overbearing; lofty n. AVALANCHE: 
arising from feeling or brutal deed; atrocious condition, n.
assumption of one's superiority quality, or behavior; great mass of falling snow and
toward others monstrousness ice
ARTICULATE:  ATTAIN: 
a. Syn. effective; distinct v. Syn. gain AVARICE: 
expressing oneself easily in clear achieve or accomplish; gain n.
and effective language greediness for wealth; insatiable
desire of gain
ARTIFICIAL:  ATTRIBUTE: 
a. Syn. unreal n. Syn. trait AVER: 
made by humans; produced essential quality; reputation; v. Syn. affirm
rather than natural. honor declare to be true; affirm

ASCERTAIN:  AUDACIOUS: 
v. Syn. discover; insure a. Syn. brave; bold AVERSION: 
find out for certain; discover fearlessly, often recklessly n. Syn. disgust
with certainty; make sure of daring; bold firm dislike; turning away;
avoidance of a thing, situation, or
ASSAIL:  AUDITORY:  behavior because of dislike
v. Syn. assault a. AVERT: 
assault; attack with or as if with v. Syn. prevent
prevent; turn or cause to turn a counter where you can obtain person entitled to benefits or
off or away food or drink; cafe; strip; stick proceeds of an insurance policy
or will
AVIATOR:  BARE:  BENEFIT: 
n. a. Syn. naked; nude n. Syn. welfare; gain
someone who operates an lacking the usual or appropriate advantage; something that aids
aircraft covering or clothing or promotes well-being ; welfare;
gain
AVID:  BARREN:  BENEVOLENT: 
a. Syn. greedy a. Syn. desolate a. Syn. generous; charitable
greedy; eager for; marked by desolate; fruitless and generous in providing aid to
keen interest and enthusiasm unproductive; lacking others; charitable

AVOID:  BARTER:  BEQUEATH: 

v. Syn. shun; prevent v. Syn. trade; exchange v.
shield away from; prevent trade goods or services without leave to someone by a will; hand
the exchange of money down

AWKWARD:  BASHFUL:  BESIEGE: 

a. Syn. clumsy; inept a. v.
difficult to handle or manage abashed; daunted; very modest, or surround with armed forces;
modest excess; constitutionally harass with requests
disposed to shrink from public notice

BACCHANALIAN:  BEAD:  BESTOW: 

a.
drunken; relating to reveling and
drunkenness
BACHELOR:  BEAM:  BETRAY:
n.
unmarried men; the first or lowest
academic degree conferred by
universities and colleges
n. Syn. pearl; drops; droplet v. Syn. present
small piece of material, such as give as gift; present
glass, plastic, or wood, that is
pierced for stringing
 
n. Syn. rafter; brace v. Syn. reveal
ray of light; long piece of metal or
be unfaithful; reveal
wood; long piece fixed or movable in
unconsciously or unwillingly
structure, machine, or tool

BAFFLE:  BEAR:  BEVERAGE: 

v. Syn. frustrate; perplex
frustrate as by confusing or
perplexing; impede force or
movement of
BALD:  BECKON:  BIAS:
a. Syn. hairless
hairless; lacking a natural or
usual covering
v. Syn. support; sustain
support; sustain; carry; have;
yield; give birth; hold up or
support
v.
signal or summon, as by nodding
or waving; attract because of
inviting or enticing appearance
n. Syn. refreshment
liquids for drinking, usually
excluding water; refreshment
n. Syn. prejudice; preference
preference or inclination, especially
one that inhibits impartial judgment;
influence in unfair way

BALMY:  BELLICOSE:  BICKER: 

a. Syn. mild; fragrant a. Syn. warlike; belligerent v. Syn. quarrel; argue
mild and pleasant; fragrant warlike or hostile in manner or engage in a petty, bad-tempered
temperament; showing or having quarrel
impulse to be combative
BAN:  BELLIGERENT:  BILATERAL: 
n. Syn. Prohibition a. Syn. quarrelsome; aggressive a. Syn. mutual; lateral
official prohibition; decree that inclined or eager to fight; two-sided; mutual
prohibits something aggressive

BANKRUPT:  BENEFICIAL:  BIOGRAPHY: 

a. a. Syn. helpful; useful n.
penniless, without any money; helpful; tending to promote an account of the series of
financially ruined physical well-being events making up a person's life;
accounts of people's life
BAR:  BENEFICIARY:  BLAND: 
n. Syn. caf‚ n. a. Syn. soothing; mild; agreeable
lacking stimulating or mild; n. Syn. link; tie; connection BRUTAL: 
agreeable link; connection; uniting force or a.
tie; binding agreement; duty like a brute; savage; cruel;
BLATANT:  inhuman; merciless
a. Syn. flagrant BOOM: 
flagrant; conspicuously obvious; n. Syn. bonanza; prosperity BULKY: 
loudly offensive bonanza; prosperity; prosper; a. Syn. cumbersome; unwieldy;
expand; flourish clumsy
BLEND:  of large size for its weight
n. Syn. combination; mixture BRACE: 
combination; mixture; forming n. BURROW: 
uniform mixture something which holds anything n. Syn. tunnel; den
tightly or supports it firmly, as tunnel; hole in the ground made
BLIZZARD:  bandage, cord, or rod; by an animal for shelter; dig;
n. BREAKTHROUGH:  move through by or as by digging
snowstorm; storm n. BUTTRESS: 
act of overcoming or penetrating v. Syn. support
an obstacle or restriction support physically; prop up;
BLOOM:  support something or someone by
n. Syn. flower; blossom BREATHTAKING:  supplying evidence
flower; blossom; best time of a. Syn. stunning; awesome CAJOLE: 
youth; period of greatest very surprising or shocking v.
prosperity or productivity influence or urge by gentle
BLUFF:  urging or flattering
n. Syn. deception BREED: 
pretense of strength; mislead or v. Syn. raise; hatch; mate CALAMITY: 
deceive raise; produce offspring; give n. Syn. disaster; misery
birth to or hatch; mate event that brings terrible loss,
BLUNDER:  lasting distress, or severe
n. Syn. error BREEZE:  affliction; disaster; misery
serious mistake typically caused n. Syn. light wind CALM: 
by ignorance or confusion light current of air; gentle wind; a. Syn. placid; quiet; tranquil
progress swiftly and effortlessly freedom from motion, agitation,
or disturbance; tranquility;
BLUNT: 
BRILLIANT:  stillness; quiet; serenity
a. Syn. insensitive
having a dull edge or end; not a. CAMOUFLAGE: 
sharp; lacking in feeling; full of light; shining; bright; v. Syn. disguise; conceal
insensitive sharp and clear in tone exploit natural surroundings to
disguise something; conceal
BOLD: 
a. Syn. brave; daring; intrepid; BRISK: 
impudent a. Syn. energetic; swift CANVASS: 
brave; daring; intrepid; impudent marked by speed, liveliness, and v.
vigor; energetic; swift; keen or determine votes; examine
BOLSTER:  sharp in speech or manner carefully or discuss thoroughly;
v. Syn. support; reinforce BRITTLE:  scrutinize
support or prop up with or as if a. CAPABLE: 
with a long narrow pillow or easily broken; having little a. Syn. competent
cushion elasticity having the ability required for a
BOND:  specific task
n. Syn. link; tie; connection BROACH: 
link; connection; uniting force or v. Syn. introduce; announce CAPTIVATE: 
tie; binding agreement; duty introduce; bring up for v. Syn. charm; enthrall; capture
discussion or debate; announce charm; enthrall; seize by force,
BOLSTER:  as an enemy in war, or anything
v. Syn. support; reinforce BROCHURE:  belonging to enemy
support or prop up with or as if n. Syn. pamphlet CARICATURE: 
with a long narrow pillow or pamphlet; small book usually n. Syn. distortion; burlesque
cushion having paper cover representation that is
BOND:  deliberately exaggerated to
produce a comic effect
CARNAGE:  CENSUS:  CLASH: 
n. n. v.
destruction of life; savage and official examination of the make noise by striking against
excessive killing of many people details of a country's population something; dash noisily together;
meet in opposition
CARVE:  CENTENNIAL:  CLASSIFY: 
v. Syn. cut; sculpt a. v.
cut; sculpt of hundredth anniversary; lasting declare unavailable, as for
or aged a hundred years security reasons; arrange or
order by classes or categories
CAST:  CHAOS:  CLICHE: 
v. n. Syn. disorder n.
assign the roles of; choose at disorder; condition or place of obvious remark; overused
random great disorder or confusion; expression or idea
disorderly mass
CASUAL:  CHASM:  CLING: 
a. Syn. informal; purposeless; n. v. Syn. stick
deep opening in the earth hold fast or adhere to something;
unplanned
surface stick together and resist separation;
informal; purposeless; occurring
remain emotionally
by chance
CATACLYSM:  CHERISH:  CLUMSY: 
n. Syn. deluge v. Syn. harbor; treasure; value a. Syn. awkward; inept
an event resulting in great loss harbor; treasure; treat with awkward; showing lack of skill or
and misfortune; deluge or affection and tenderness; hold aptitude
overflowing of water dear
CATASTROPHE:  CHICANERY:  COALESCENCE: 
n. Syn. calamity; disaster n. Syn. trickery; deception n.
calamity; disaster; state of mean or unfair artifice to union of diverse things into one
extreme ruin and misfortune obscure truth; deception by body or form or group; growing
trickery or sophistry together of parts
CAUSTIC:  CHIDE:  COALITION: 
a. v. Syn. scold n. Syn. partnership; league; union
capable of burning, corroding, scold mildly so as to correct or partnership; league; state of
dissolving, or eating away by improve; express disapproval being combined into one body
chemical action
CAUTIOUS:  CHILLY:  COAX: 
a. Syn. conservative; careful a. Syn. cold v. Syn. persuade; cajole
conservative; careful cold persuade or try to persuade by
pleading or flattery; move to or
adjust toward a desired end
CAVITY:  CHOP:  COHERENT: 
n. Syn. hole; cavern v. Syn. cut; hew a. Syn. adhesive; cohesive sticking
hew; cut by striking with a heavy together ; logical; sound; capable of
hole; cavern; hollow area within
thinking and expressing yourself in a
the body sharp tool, such as an ax
clear and consistent manner

CHUBBY:  COIN: 
CELEBRATED: 
a. Syn. plump; fat v. Syn. create; invent
a. Syn. famous
of a person, slightly overweight, make pieces of money from
famous; well-known; having
somewhat fat and hence soft; metal; invent or fabricate
illustrious past
rounded and plump
CITE:  COLLABORATE: 
CENSOR: 
n. v. Syn. quote v. Syn. cooperate
overseer of morals; official quote; adduce as an instance work together, especially in a
responsible for removal of joint intellectual effort
objectionable or sensitive content

CENSURE:  CLANDESTINE:  COLOSSAL: 

v. Syn. blame; criticize a. Syn. secret a. Syn. huge
expression of strong disapproval secret; conducted with or of extraordinary size; huge;
or harsh criticism; blame marked by hidden aims or gigantic
methods
COMMENCE:  COMPREHENSIBLE:  CONFER: 
v. Syn. originate; start; begin a. Syn. understandable v.
have a beginning or origin; understandable; readily bestow; present; have a
originate; start; begin comprehended or understood; conference in order to talk
intelligible something over
COMMERCE:  COMPREHENSIVE:  CONFIDENTIAL: 
n. Syn. trade; business a. Syn. thorough; inclusive a.
trade; business; intellectual thorough; including all or treated with confidence; trusted
exchange or social interaction everything; broad in scope in; trustworthy; secret

COMMITMENT:  COMPRISE:  CONFIGURATION: 

n. v. Syn. include n.
pledge, undertaking; act of include; consist of; be composed arrangement of parts or
binding yourself to a course of of elements; outline
action
COMMODITY:  COMPULSORY:  CONFISCATE: 
n. Syn. goods a. Syn. mandatory; obligatory v.
goods; article of trade; mandatory; obligatory; required seize as forfeited to the public
advantage; benefit. by rule treasury; appropriate to the
public use
COMPACT:  CONCEDE:  CONFLICT: 
a. Syn. compressed; condensed; concise v. Syn. admit; yield n. Syn. fight; struggle
closely and firmly united or packed fight; struggle; incompatibility of
admit; yield; give up physical
together; briefly giving gist of
control of another dates or events
something

CONCERTED:  CONFORM: 
COMPEL: 
a. v.
v.
planned or accomplished comply with; follow; fit; meet
force; coerce; necessitate or
pressure by force together; combined

CONCISE:  CONGENIAL: 
COMPETENT: 
a. Syn. succinct; terse a. Syn. compatible
a. Syn. capable; adept
brief and compact; expressing compatible
capable; adept
much in few words

CONCOCT:  CONGESTION: 
COMPILE: 
v. Syn. assemble; gather; accumulate v. n. Syn. overcrowding
put together or compose from digest; convert into nourishment act of gathering or heaping
materials gathered from several by the organs of nutrition. together or forming a mass
sources
COMPLEMENT:  CONCORD:  CONGLOMERATE: 
v. Syn. complete; consummate n. Syn. agreement n. Syn. assortment
complete; consummate; make corporation made up of different
agreement of opinions; companies in diversified fields; composing
perfect harmonious state of things of heterogeneous elements gathered into
a mass
COMPLIMENT:  CONCRETE:  CONGREGATE: 
n. Syn. praise; commendation n. Syn. cement v.
praise; commendation; say solid mass; covering with cement; hard, assemble; convene; gather
something to someone that strong construction material consisting
of sand, conglomerate , and gravel
expresses praise
COMPLY:  CONCURRENT:  CONJECTURE: 
v. a. Syn. simultaneous; coincident v.
yield assent; accord; agree, or simultaneous; coincident; believe especially on uncertain or
acquiesce; adapt one's self; occurring or operating at the tentative grounds
fulfill; accomplish same time
COMPONENT:  CONDEMN:  CONSECUTIVE: 
n. Syn. element; ingredient v. Syn. blame; denounce a. Syn. successive; sequential
element; ingredient; abstract blame; denounce; express strong following one after another
part of something disapproval of without interruption; sequential
CONSISTENT:  COPIOUS:  CRUCIAL: 
a. Syn. uniform; regular a. Syn. plentiful a.
being in agreement with itself; plentiful; containing plenty; of extreme importance; vital to
coherent; regular affording ample supply the resolution of a crisis; of the
greatest importance
CONSPICUOUS:  CORDIAL:  CRUDE: 
a. Syn. noticeable; prominent a. Syn. gracious a.
noticeable; prominent; easy to gracious; showing warm and being in an unrefined or natural
notice; obvious friendliness state; raw; lacking tact or taste;
blunt or offensive
CONTAMINATE:  CORPOREAL:  CRYPTIC: 
v. Syn. taint; pollute; defile a. Syn. bodily; material a.
make impure or unclean by bodily; of a material nature; having hidden meaning;
contact or mixture; pollute; tangible mystifying; using code or cipher
defile
CONTEMPLATE:  CORPULENT:  CULTIVATE: 
v. Syn. ponder; meditate v. Syn. farm; domesticate; nurture;
a. Syn. fat
teach improve and prepare, as by
look at attentively and very fat; large in body;
plowing or fertilizing, for raising
thoughtfully; observe deep in overweight crops; promote the growth of
thought
CONTEMPT:  CUMBERSOME: 
CORROBORATE: 
n. Syn. disgrace a. Syn. heavy
v. Syn. confirm; support
state of being despised or heavy; difficult to handle
establish or strengthen as with
dishonored; disgrace; disobedience because of weight or bulk
new evidence or facts; support
to, or open disrespect of
with evidence
CONTENTION:  COURTEOUS:  CUMULATIVE: 
n. Syn. controversy a. Syn. polite a.
competing as for profit or prize exhibiting courtesy and increasing by successive addition
politeness; showing regard or
thought for others
CONTRIVE:  COVERT:  CURB: 
v. a. v.
form by an exercise of ingenuity; secretive, not openly shown bend or curve; guide and manage,
devise; invent; design or restrain

CONTROVERSIAL:  COZY:  CURIOUS: 

a. Syn. controvertible; disputable
controvertible; disputable
a. Syn. comfortable; relaxing
comfortable; relaxing
a. Syn. inquisitive
difficult to please or satisfy; careful or
anxious to learn; eager for knowledge;
given to research or inquiry

CONTROVERSY:  CURT: 
CRAVE: 
n. Syn. contention; argument a.
v. Syn. beseech; implore
contentious speech act; having been shortened; effectively
ask with earnestness or cut short; rudely brief or abrupt, as
argument importunity; ask with submission in speech or manner
or humility; beg
CONVENIENT:  CURTAIL: 
CREASE: 
a. Syn. handy; suitable; near; v. Syn. shorten; reduce
n.
accessible cut short or reduce; cut off end
a line or long thin mark made by
suited or favorable to one's comfort, or tail, or any part
purpose, or needs:; near; accessible
folding or doubling

CONVEY:  DAMP: 
CROOKED: 
v. a. Syn. humid; moist; wet
a. Syn. curved
carry from one place to another; humid; moist; slightly wet
having or marked by bends or
bear or transport
angles; not straight or aligned;
curved
CONVICTION:  DANGLE: 
CROUCH: 
n. Syn. assurance; confidence v.
v.
judgment that someone is guilty bend down; stoop low; lie close to the hang loosely, or with a swinging
of crime; strongly held belief ground with the legs bent, as an animal or jerking motion; swing, as
when waiting for prey, or in fear something suspended loosely
DARING: 
a. Syn. bold; brave DEDICATE:  DEJECTED: 
bold; brave v. a.
set apart for a deity or for being in low spirits; depressed
special purposes; devote;
DAUNT:  consecrate
v. Syn. intimidate; frighten; DEEM:  DELIBERATE: 
dismay v. v. Syn. consider; ponder
frighten; abate the courage of; decide; judge; sentence; consider; think about carefully;
discourage condemn weigh
DAZZLING: 
a. Syn. bright; brilliant DEFAME:  DELICATE: 
bright; brilliant v. a. Syn. fragile; vulnerable
harm someone's reputation; pleasing to the senses, especially
degrade; bring into disrepute; in a subtle way; easily hurt; very
DECADENT:  make infamous subtle in difference
a. Syn. self-indulgent; depraved DEFECT:  DELUGE: 
self-indulgent; moral decay v. n. Syn. flood; rush
abandon or turn against; cease or great flood; heavy downpour; any
change one's loyalty overflowing of water
DECAY: 
v. Syn. decompose; rot DEFECTIVE:  DELUSION: 
decompose; break sown; a. n.
disintegration; rottenness; having a defect; faulty; false belief; mistaken or
decline; worsen; decadence imperfect; incomplete; lacking unfounded opinion
DECEIT: 
n. DEFER:  DEMISE: 
attempt or disposition to deceive or lead
v. Syn. delay; postpone n. Syn. death
into error; any declaration or practice,
which misleads another, or causes to delay till later; put off; hold end of existence or activity;
believe what is false back to a later time termination
DECEPTION: 
n. DEFICIENT:  DEMOLISH: 
act of deceiving a. Syn. inadequate v. Syn. raze; destroy; devastate
inadequate; lacking an essential raze; destroy; do away with
quality or element completely; put an end to
DECIPHER: 
v. DEFINITIVE:  DENOTE: 
convert code into ordinary a. Syn. final; complete v. Syn. signify; indicate; show
language; read with difficulty final; complete; precisely defined indicate; signify directly; refer
or explicit to specifically
DECLARE: 
v. Syn. announce DEFRAUD:  DENOUNCE: 
state clearly; make known v. v. Syn. condemn; criticize;
formally or officially deprive of some right, interest, announce
or property, by a deceitful condemn openly; criticize; make
DECLIVITY:  device known in formal manner
n. DEGENERATE:  DENSE: 
downward slope, as of a hill v. Syn. deteriorate a. Syn. thick; compact
become worse; decline; fall thick; crowded closely together;
compact
DECOMPOSE: 
v. Syn. decay DEHYDRATE:  DEPRESS: 
decay v. Syn. dry; desiccate v. Syn. lower
remove water from; dry out; lower in spirits; press down
lose water or bodily fluids
DECORATE: 
v. Syn. adorn; embellish DEITY:  DEPRIVE: 
adorn; embellish n. Syn. god; divinity v.
god; divinity; supernatural deny; take away
things
 injurious immerse for baptism; wet, as if by
immersing; moisten; appear to move
downward
DERELICT:  DEVIATE:  DISCARD: 
a. Syn. abandoned; negligent v. Syn. depart; diverge v.
left and abandoned; negligent in turn away from a principle, norm; throw out something from one's
performing a duty depart; diverge hand; get rid of

DERIDE:  DEVICE:  DISCERN: 

v. Syn. ridicule n. Syn. instrument v. Syn. detect; perceive
ridicule; make fun of; laugh at technique or means; instrument; detect; perceive
with contempt machine used to perform one or
more relatively simple tasks
DESCRY:  DEVISE:  DISCIPLINE: 
v. Syn. detect v. Syn. invent; plan n. Syn. training
catch sight of; discover by form, plan, or arrange in the trait of being well behaved ; act
careful observation or scrutiny mind; transmit or give by will of punishing ; system of rules of
conduct or method of practice
DESECRATE:  DEVOID:  DISCLOSE: 
v. a. Syn. barren; empty v.
violate with violence, especially completely lacking; barren or unclose; open; remove a cover or
to sacred place empty envelope from; lay open or
expose to view
DESERTED:  DEXTEROUS:  DISCORD: 
a. Syn. abandoned a. Syn. skillful n. Syn. conflict
remote from civilization; left skillful in the use of the hands; conflict; lack of agreement
desolate or empty; abandoned having mental skill among persons, groups, or things

DESICCATE:  DIGRESS:  DISCREPANCY: 

v. v. n. Syn. difference
dry up thoroughly; make dry, turn aside, especially from main lack of consistency; difference
dull, or lifeless; preserve foods subject in writing or speaking
by removing the moisture
DESIST:  DILIGENT:  DISDAIN: 
v. a. Syn. assiduous; industrious v. Syn. despise
cease to proceed or act; stop; assiduous; industrious; hard- view with scorn or contempt; feel
forbear working with aversion

DESOLATE:  DILUTE:  DISMAL: 

a. Syn. unpopulated; deserted v. Syn. weaken; attenuate a. Syn. dreary; gloomy
unpopulated; providing no shelter weaken; make thinner or less causing gloom or depression;
or sustenance; devoid of concentrated by adding a liquid dreary; somber; melancholy
inhabitants such as water
DESULTORY:  DIM:  DISMAY: 
a. Syn. aimless; haphazard a. Syn. weak; faint v. Syn. discourage; frighten
aimless; haphazard; at random; emitting only a small amount of destroy courage or resolution by
not connected with subject light; lacking in brightness exciting dread; cause to lose
enthusiasm
DETECT:  DIMENSION:  DISPARITY: 
v. Syn. feel; discover the presence n. Syn. measure; size n. Syn. difference
of; discern; sense; identify measure of spatial extent, difference; condition or fact of
feel; discover the presence of; especially width, height, or being unequal, as in age, rank, or
identify length; size; aspect; element degree
DETERIORATE:  DINGY:  DISPERSE: 
v. Syn. decline a. Syn. rusty; dull v. Syn. scatter
become worse; decline darkened with smoke and grime; move away from each other;
dirty or discolored cause to separate; cause to
become widely known
DETRIMENTAL:  DIP: 
a. Syn. harmful; damaging v.
insert into a fluid and withdraw again;
causing damage or harm;
DISPOSITION:  of abnormally low rainfall
n. Syn. temperament; nature; tendency DOLEFUL: 
natural or acquired habit with
a. Syn. sorrowful; sad DROWSY: 
tendency; act or means of getting rid
of something sorrowful; filled with or a. Syn. sleepy; soporific; ;
expressing grief; mournful sluggish
DISPUTE:  dull with sleepiness; showing lack
n. Syn. argument; debate DOMINATE:  of attention
argument; angry altercation; v. Syn. monopolize; command; DUBIOUS: 
quarrel; verbal controversy; rule a. Syn. questionable
debate monopolize; command; rule; questionable; filled with doubt
DISSEMINATE:  prevail; be prevalent in
v. Syn. distribute; spread DONATE: 
distribute; spread; scatter like v. Syn. grant; contribute DULL: 
seeds grant; present as a gift to a fund a. Syn. blunt; unsharpened; stupid;
or cause; contribute obtuse
DISSOLVE:  lacking responsiveness or alertness;
v. intellectually weak or obtuse
DOT: 
melt; liquefy; cause to pass into n. DUMBFOUND: 
solution; cause to disappear or the shorter of two telegraphic v. Syn. astonish; surprise
vanish signals used in Morse code; very fill with astonishment and
DISTINCT:  small circular shape perplexity; confound
a. Syn. definite; separate; DOZE: 
different v. DUNCE: 
definite; separate; different slumber; sleep lightly; be in dull n.
or stupefied condition, as if half backward in book learning; child
DISTINGUISHED:  asleep; be drowsy or other person dull or weak in
a. Syn. prominent; celebrated; eminent intellect; dullard or dolt
DRAIN: 
prominent; celebrated, well-known or
eminent because of past achievements
n. DURABLE: 
draw out; flow out; waste a. Syn. lasting; enduring
lasting; long-lasting; enduring
DISTRACT: 
v. Syn. disturb; divert DRASTIC: 
cause to turn away from original a. Syn. radical; severe DWELL: 
focus; pull in conflicting radical; taking effect violently or v. Syn. reside; inhabit
emotional directions; unsettle rapidly live as a resident; exist in a given
DIVERGE:  place or state
v. Syn. vary DRAWBACK: 
vary; go in different directions n. DWELLING: 
from the same point disadvantage or inconvenience; n. Syn. residence; house
shortcoming; refund or remittance, residence; place to live in; abode
such as a discount on duties or taxes
DIVULGE: 
v. Syn. reveal DREARY: 
reveal; make known to public a. Syn. gloomy; dismal DWINDLE: 
gloomy; dismal; dark, colorless, v. Syn. shrink; reduce
or cheerless shrink; reduce in size; become
DOCILE:  less
a. Syn. obedient DRENCH: 
obedient; ready and willing to be v. DYNAMIC: 
taught; easily managed or wet through and through; soak; a. Syn. energetic
handled put potion down throat of; steep energetic; vigorously active
DODGE:  in moisture; wet thoroughly
v. DRIP: 
avoid a blow by moving or n. ECLIPSE: 
shifting quickly aside; shifty or process of falling in drops; liquid or v. Syn. surpass
ingenious trick moisture that falls in drops; sound darken; exceed in importance;
made by liquid falling in drops outweigh
DOGGED: 
a. Syn. determined; stubborn DROUGHT: 
determined; stubbornly n. Syn. aridity ECOLOGY: 
persevering; unyielding dry period; aridity; long period n.
science of the relationships
between organisms and their make clear or plain, especially by a.
environments explanation; clarify having the power to enchant;
EDIBLE:  charming
a. Syn. eatable ELUDE: 
eatable; substance that can be v. ENCOMIUM: 
used as food avoid cleverly; escape perception n. Syn. tribute
of high praise; formal expression of
EDIFICE:  praise; tribute
n. Syn. skyscraper EMANATE: 
building, especially one of imposing v. ENCOUNTER: 
appearance or size; a structure come or send forth from a v. Syn. face; confront; meet
that has a roof and walls
source, used chiefly of intangible face; confront; meet, especially
EERIE:  thing, as light unexpectedly; come upon
a. Syn. weird EMANCIPATE: 
suggestive of the supernatural; v. Syn. liberate; free; release ENDEAVOR: 
mysterious free from bondage, oppression, v. Syn. seek; try; attempt
or restraint; liberate attempt by employing effort
EFFACE: 
v. Syn. erase EMBED: 
rub or wipe out; make indistinct v. Syn. enclose ENDORSE: 
as if by rubbing enclose; place in something; fix v. Syn. approve; support
firmly in surrounding mass acknowledge by signing a bill,
ELABORATE:  draft, or other instrument;
a. Syn. detailed; complicated EMBLEM:  approve; support
marked by complexity and n. Syn. symbol; sign ENGENDER: 
richness of detail; done with symbol; sign; distinctive badge, v. Syn. cause; produce
care and in minute detail design, or device cause; bring into existence; give
ELASTICITY:  rise to
n. EMBOSS: 
tendency of a body to return to v. ENHANCE: 
its original shape after it has mold or carve in relief; decorate v. Syn. increase; improve
been stretched or compressed with or as if with a raised design make better or more attractive;
ELDERLY:  increase; improve
a. EMINENT: 
somewhat old; advanced beyond a. Syn. prominent; high; lofty ENIGMA: 
middle age standing out above other things; n. Syn. puzzle; mystery
high in rank, office, or worth puzzle; difficult problem
ELEGANT: 
a. Syn. refined; exquisite EMIT: 
refined and tasteful in v. ENLIST: 
appearance or behavior or style give off; send out; give out as v.
sound enter on a list; enroll; register;
ELEVATE:  engage for military or naval
v. Syn. raise; heave EMULATE:  service
raise; give a promotion to or v. Syn. imitate; rival ENMITY: 
assign to a higher position be a match or counterpart for; n. Syn. hatred; discord
eager to equal or excel ill will; hatred; quality or state of
ELICIT:  being hostile
v. Syn. provoke ENAMORED: 
draw out; bring forth or to light; a. ENNUI: 
generate or provoke as response totally in love; marked by foolish n.
or answer or unreasoning fondness feeling of being bored by
ELIGIBLE:  something tedious
a. Syn. entitled; qualified; ENCHANT: 
suitable v. ENSUE: 
qualified; desirable and worthy charm by sorcery; get control of v. Syn. follow
of choice, especially for by magical words and rites pursue; follow or come
marriage afterward; follow as a
ELUCIDATE:  ENCHANTING:  consequence
v. Syn. explain; enlighten
ENTHRALL: 
v. Syn. capture; enslave
capture; attract and hold by
charm, beauty, or excellence;
hold in bondage or subjection
ENTICE: 
v. Syn. lure; attract; tempt
attract by arousing hope or
desire
ENUMERATE: 
v.
list each one; mention one by one
ENUNCIATE:  effort, or attention
v. Syn. pronounce; articulate
speak distinctly; state or set forth
precisely or systematically;
pronounce; articulate
ENVISAGE:  composition on a single subject
v.
look in the face of; apprehend;
consider or regard in a certain
way
EPHEMERAL: 
a.
short-lived; enduring a very
short time
EPITAPH: 
n.
inscription on tombstone in
memory
EPITHET:  musical composition
n.
word or phrase characteristically
used to describe a person or
thing
EQUITABLE: 
a. Syn. fair; impartial
marked by or having equity; just
and impartial
EQUIVOCAL: 
a. Syn. ambiguous
open to two or more
interpretations and often
intended to mislead
ERADICATE: 
v. Syn. completely destroy;
eliminate; exterminate
completely destroy; eliminate;
exterminate
ERECT: 
v. Syn. construct; stand
construct; stand; set up
ESCALATE:  EVOLVE: 
v. Syn. rise v. Syn. develop; grow
rise; increase in extent or develop; grow
intensity
ESCHEW:  EXACERBATE: 
v. Syn. avoid; escape v. Syn. worsen; embitter
avoid; refuse to use or increase severity, violence, or
participate in; stand aloof from bitterness of; aggravate
ESPOUSE:  EXACTING: 
v. Syn. adopt; support a. Syn. rigorous; burdensome
take in marriage; marry; give making severe demands;
one's loyalty or support to; adopt rigorous; requiring great care,
ESSAY:  EXALT: 
n. Syn. trial; attempt v. Syn. praise
effort made for performance of raise in rank or dignity; praise
anything; short literary
ESSENTIAL:  EXCAVATE: 
a. Syn. necessary; critical; vital; v. Syn. unearth
indispensable; fundamental
unearth; dig out; make a hole in;
necessary; critical; vital; constituting or
being part of the essence of something hollow out
ESTATE:  EXCEED: 
n. Syn. property v.
extensive landed property; go beyond; be or do something to
everything you own; all of your a greater degree
assets
ESTEEM:  EXCERPT: 
v. Syn. respect; prize; regard n.
regard with respect; favorable passage or segment taken from a
regard longer work, such as literary or
EULOGY:  EXCURSION: 
n. n. Syn. trip; journey
expression of praise, often on trip; usually short journey made
the occasion of someone's death for pleasure
EVACUATE:  EXECUTE: 
v. v.
make empty; empty out; remove put into effect; carry out the
contents of legalities of
EVADE: 
EXHAUSTIVE: 
v.
a. Syn. thorough; comprehensive
get away from by artifice;
treating all parts or aspects
escape by dexterity; avoid giving
without omission; comprehensive
a direct answer to
EVANESCENT: 
EXHILARATING: 
a. Syn. fleeting; vanishing
a.
fleeting; vanishing or likely to
invigorating and refreshing;
vanish like vapor
cheering; making lively and joyful
EVENHANDED: 
EXHORTATION: 
a. Syn. impartial; fair
n.
impartial; fair; rightly balanced; act of practice of exhorting; act of
equitable inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to
that which is good; language intended to outside transportation charge; a paying
incite and encourage
passenger
EXPENDABLE: 
EXTRAVAGANT:  FASTEN: 
a.
a. v. Syn. attach; affix
not essential or mandatory in order
wandering beyond one's bounds; attach; affix
to achieve a goal; not reusable;
suitable to be expended
exceeding due bounds; wild;
excessive; unrestrained
EXPIRE: 
FACET:  FATAL: 
v. Syn. end
n. Syn. side a.
come to an end; terminate; lose
small, smooth, flat surface, as on causing death
validity; breathe one's last
a bone or tooth; side; a smooth
breath; die
surface
EXPIRE: 
FACILE:  FATIGUE: 
v. Syn. end
a. Syn. easy n. Syn. weariness; exhaustion
come to an end; terminate; lose
done or achieved with little physical or mental weariness;
validity; breathe one's last
effort or difficulty; ready or exhaustion
breath; die
fluent
EXPLICIT: 
FACILITATE:  FEASIBLE: 
a. Syn. definite; outspoken
v. Syn. promote; expedite a. Syn. practical; possible;
precisely and clearly expressed;
help bring about; make less suitable
definite; outspoken
difficult capable of being accomplished or
EXPLOIT:  brought about
FACILITY:  FEAT: 
v.
n. Syn. equipment; device n. Syn. achievement;
make use of, sometimes unjustly
service, space, and equipment accomplishment
provided for a particular purpose achievement; accomplishment
EXPLORE: 
FADE:  FEE: 
v. Syn. investigate
v. Syn. disappear; die out v.
investigate systematically;
disappear; die out; lose color; give a tip beyond the agreed-on
examine; search
lose freshness compensation

EXPOSE: 
FAINT:  FEEBLE: 
v. Syn. exhibit; show; display
a. Syn. dim; feeble; weak a. Syn. weak; frail
set forth; set out to public view
lacking strength or vigor ; weak lacking vigor, force, or
effectiveness; faint; frail

EXPUNGE: 
v. Syn. cancel; remove
cancel; remove; erase or strike
out
EXTENSIVE: 
a. Syn. widespread; wide
widespread; far-reaching; wide
EXTOL:  FAMINE:  FEROCIOUS:
v. Syn. praise; glorify
praise highly; glorify; celebrate
FAKE:  FEIGN: 
n. Syn. imitation; counterfeit; v. Syn. pretend; disguise; conceal
false make false appearance of;
imitation; counterfeit; having a disguise; conceal; invent or
false or misleading appearance imagine
FALTER:  FELICITY: 
v. Syn. hesitate n. Syn. happiness
be unsteady in purpose or action, great happiness; pleasing and
as from loss of courage or appropriate manner or style
confidence
 
n. Syn. starvation a.
shortage of food; starvation fierce; savage; wild; indicating
cruelty

EXTRACT: 
FANCY:  FERTILE: 
v. Syn. derive; remove; squeeze
n. Syn. notion; imagine; whim a. Syn. rich; fruitful
draw or pull out, usually with some
force or effort; remove; get despite capricious notion; something rich; fruitful; inventive; creative;
difficulties or obstacles many people believe that is false intellectually productive
EXTRANEOUS: 
FARE:  FERVENT: 
a.
n. a.
not essential; coming from
food and drink; diet;
extremely hot; sincerely or
intensely felt
FICKLE:  FLUCTUATE:
a. Syn. changeable; faithless
not fixed or firm; liable to
change; unstable; of a
changeable mind
FIDELITY:  FOGGY:
n. Syn. loyalty
faithfulness to obligations,
duties, or observances
FINANCE:  FOLD:
n. Syn. fund
management of money and credit
and banking and investments;
subsidizing; fund
FINITE:  FOREGO:  deceive
a.
having a limit; limited in quantity,
degree, or capacity; bounded
FITTING:  FOREMOST:  fraud
n.
small accessory to a larger system;
small detachable part for a machine
or apparatus; act of trying on clothe
FLAGRANT:  FORESTALL:  violent emotion
a.
obvious and offensive, blatant,
scandalous; flaming into notice
FLAW:  FORLORN:  attaining fulfillment
n.
crack or breach; gap or fissure;
defect; fault; sudden burst of
noise and disorder
FLEE: 
v.
run away, as from danger or evil;
avoid in alarmed or cowardly
manner
FLEXIBLE: 
a. Syn. pliant; elastic; docile
pliant; elastic; capable of being
bent or flexed; pliable
FLIMSY: 
a.
weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain;
without strength or solidity
FLIP: 
v.
go mad, go crazy; turn upside
down, or throw so as to reverse;
toss with a sharp movement
FLORID: 
a. Syn. ruddy; reddish
reddish; elaborately or
excessively ornamented
v. Syn. waver; shift
rise and fall in or as if in waves;
shift; vary irregularly
a.
obscured by fog; indistinct or
hazy in outline
v.
make something double; bend or
lay so that one part covers the
other
v. Syn. precede
precede; go ahead of; go
forward; go on
a. Syn. leading; main; primary
leading; main; primary; first in
time or place
v. Syn. prevent
prevent by taking action in
advance
a. Syn. wretched
sad and lonely; wretched;
abandoned or left behind
FORMATIVE: 
a. Syn. developing
developing; forming; capable of
forming or molding
FOUL: 
n. Syn. disgusting; filthy
act that violates of the rules of
a sport
FRAGILE: 
a. Syn. delicate; brittle; weak
easy to destroy, delicate, not
strong
FRAGMENT: 
n. Syn. piece; fraction
small part broken off or
detached; fraction
FRAGRANT: 
a. Syn. aromatic; odorous
pleasant-smelling; odorous
FRAIL: 
a. Syn. weak
physically weak; easily broken
FRAMEWORK: 
n. Syn. structure; skeleton
fundamental structure, as for a
written work; skeleton
FRAUD: 
n.
getting money by lying or
cheating; something intended to
FRAUDULENT: 
a. Syn. cheating; deceitful
cheating; deceitful; planning or
using fraud; given to practice of
FRENETIC: 
a. Syn. crazy; wild
excessively agitated;
transported with rage or other
FRUSTRATE: 
v. Syn. thwart; defeat
make null; bring to nothing;
prevent from taking effect or
FUGITIVE: 
a.
lasting only a short time;
fleeting; elusive
FUNDAMENTAL: 
a. Syn. primary; essential
relating to foundation or base;
elementary; primary; essential
FUSE: 
v. Syn. combine; blend
combine; blend; become plastic
or fluid or liquefied from heat
FUSION: 
n. Syn. union; coalition
union; act of melting together by
heat
FUTILE: 
a. Syn. useless; vain; ineffectual
useless; having no useful result;
vain
GAINSAY:  GLITTER:  GRAZE: 
v. Syn. deny n. v. Syn. feed
speak against; contradict; oppose bright, sparkling light; brilliant scrape gently; feed on growing
in words; deny or declare not to and showy luster; brilliancy grasses and herbage
be true
GALE:  GLORIFY:  GREGARIOUS: 
n. Syn. windstorm v. Syn. beautify a. Syn. sociable
very strong wind; gust of wind; cause to seem more splendid; sociable; seeking and enjoying
emotional outburst as laughter beautify the company of others
or tears
GAP:  GLOSSY:  GRIM: 
n. Syn. opening; crevice a. a.
opening through mountains; pass; smooth and shining; reflecting unrelenting; rigid; dismal and
conspicuous difference or luster from smooth or polished gloomy; cold and forbidding
imbalance surface; plausible
GARRULOUS:  GOAD:  GRIP: 
a. Syn. wordy; talkative v. n. Syn. clutch; grasp
talking much and repetition of urge with a long pointed stick; hold fast or firmly; seize as in a
unimportant or trivial details give heart or courage to wrestling match

GAUDY:  GORGEOUS:  GROSS: 

a. Syn. flashy a. Syn. beautiful; magnificent a.
very showy or ornamented, dazzlingly beautiful; magnificent of huge size; excessively large;
especially when excessive, or in a coarse; rough; not fine or
tasteless or vulgar manner delicate
GENIAL:  GRAB:  GRUELING: 
a. Syn. friendly; cordial v. Syn. grasp; snatch; capture a. Syn. exhausting
friendly; cordial; having a take or grasp suddenly; snatch; by effort to the point of
pleasant or friendly disposition capture exhaustion, especially physical
or manner effort
GENTLE:  GRACE:  GRUMBLE: 
a. n. Syn. elegance v.
well-born; of a good family or elegance and beauty of utter or emit low dull rumbling
respectable birth; mild; meek; movement or expression; short sounds
bland; amiable; tender prayer of thanks before a meal
GENUINE:  GRAPHIC:  GUILE: 
a. Syn. authentic; real; true a. Syn. vivid; explicit n. Syn. deceit; duplicity; wiliness;
authentic; real; true represented by graph; described cunning
in vivid detail; clearly outlined skillful deceit; disposition to deceive
or cheat; disguise cunningly

GERMANE:  GRASP:  GULLIBLE: 

a. Syn. pertinent; relevant v. Syn. seize; grip; hold a.
related to the topic being grip; take hold of or seize firmly easily deceived or cheated;
discussed or considered; with or as if with the hand easily tricked because of being
appropriate or fitting; relevant too trusting
GERMINATE:  GRATUITOUS:  GUSTO: 
v. Syn. sprout a. n. Syn. enjoyment; enthusiasm;
cause to sprout or grow; come given freely; unwarranted; zest
into existence granted without recompense; nice or keen appreciation or
unearned enjoyment; enthusiasm
GHASTLY:  GRAVE:  HAGGLE: 
a. Syn. horrible n. v. Syn. bargain
horrible; inspiring shock; place for the burial; death or argue about prices; bargain, as
extremely unpleasant or bad extinction over the price of something

GLISTEN:  GRAVITY:  HAMPER: 

v.
sparkle or shine, especially shine with
a mild, subdued, and fitful luster;
emit a soft, scintillating light; gleam
n. Syn. seriousness v. Syn. obstruct
seriousness; solemn and dignified put at disadvantage; prevent
feeling; natural force between progress or free movement of
two massive bodies
HANDY:  HEDONIST:  HOSPITABLE: 
a. Syn. convenient; close n. a. Syn. generous; receptive
convenient; close one who believes that pleasure is disposed to treat guests with
the sole aim in life warmth and generosity;
receptive
HAPHAZARD:  HEED:  HOSPITALITY: 
a. Syn. random v. Syn. consider n.
act or practice of one who is
not thorough, constant or pay attention to; listen to and
hospitable; reception and
consistent; by chance consider entertainment of strangers or guests
without reward
HARANGUE:  HEIGHTEN:  HOSTAGE: 
n. v. Syn. enhance; hoist; boost n.
noisy speech; speech or piece of enhance; hoist; raise or increase prisoner who is held by one party
writing with strong feeling or the quantity or degree of; to insure that another party will
expression intensify meet specified terms
HARASS:  HERALD:  HOSTILE: 
v. Syn. hound; badger; pester; n. Syn. announce; proclaim a. Syn. unfriendly; antagonistic
plague proclaim; announces important unfriendly; showing the
irritate or torment persistently; news; messenger disposition of an enemy
wear out; exhaust
HARMONY:  HERETIC:  HUB: 
n. Syn. compatibility n. n. Syn. core
compatibility in opinion and one who holds to a heresy; one who core port; nucleus; heart; center
action; an agreeable sound believes some doctrine contrary to
the established faith or prevailing
property
religion
HARNESS:  HUE: 
HETEROGENEOUS: 
n. Syn. utilize n. Syn. color; aspect
a. Syn. dissimilar; mixed
stable gear consisting of an color; appearance; particular
consisting of dissimilar elements
arrangement to an animal so that it gradation of color
can be attached to and pull a cart
or parts; completely different

HARSH:  HUMILIATE: 
HILARIOUS: 
a. Syn. rough; coarse; acid v. Syn. embarrass; shame
a. Syn. mirthful; merry
rough; coarse; severe; cause to feel shame; hurt the
by or causing great merriment or
unpleasantly stern pride of
happiness; gay or merry

HASTY:  HURL: 
HINDER: 
a. Syn. fast; impetuous v. Syn. throw; cast; toss
v. Syn. stunt; inhibit; hamper;
easily angered; irritable; made throw with great force; cast;
impede
too quickly to be accurate or toss
put at a disadvantage; tie up;
wise
hamper; prevent the progress
HAUL:  HYPERBOLE: 
HOAX: 
v. Syn. transport; drag n. Syn. exaggeration; overstatement
n. Syn. trick
draw slowly or heavily; pull or figure of speech in which
act intended to deceive or trick; exaggeration is used for emphasis;
drag forcibly; shift direction
practical joke overstatement

HAVOC:  HYPOCRITE: 
HOIST: 
n. n. Syn. cheat
v.
wide and general destruction; one who puts on a false
raise; lift; elevate; raise to one's
devastation; waste appearance of virtue; one who
mouth in order to drink
pretends to hold beliefs
HAZARDOUS:  IDEAL: 
HOLOCAUST: 
a. Syn. dangerous a.
n. existing in idea or thought; conception;
dangerous; reckless; daring;
great destruction resulting in the intellectual; mental; imaginary standard
inclined to run risks extensive loss of life, especially by of excellence; fit for a model; faultless
fire; massive slaughter
HECTOR:  HOMOGENEOUS:  IDIOSYNCRASY: 
v. a. Syn. uniform; similar n.
behave like a bully; swagger; of the same or similar nature or behavioral attribute that is
intimidate or dominate in a kind distinctive and peculiar to an
blustering way individual
IDLE:  IMPARTIAL:  INCENSE: 
a. a. Syn. fair v. Syn. enrage; infuriate
useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; not biased; fair; showing lack of enrage; infuriate; cause to be
thoughtless; given rest and ease; favoritism extremely angry
avoiding work or employment; lazy

ILLITERATE:  IMPECUNIOUS:  INCENTIVE: 

a. a. Syn. poor n. Syn. spur; motive
uncultured; uneducated; not able without money; poor; penniless something, such as the fear of
to read or write punishment or the expectation
of reward
ILLUSION:  IMPEDIMENT:  INCESSANT: 
n. Syn. misconception n. Syn. hindrance; obstacle a. Syn. continual
misleading vision; being deceived any structure that makes uninterrupted; unceasing;
by a false perception or belief progress difficult; stumbling- continuing without interruption
block
ILLUSTRATE:  IMPEL:  INCIPIENT: 
v. Syn. represent; demonstrate; depict v. Syn. propel a. Syn. beginning
represent; demonstrate; depict; clarify,
drive or force onward; drive beginning to exist or appear; in
as by use of examples or comparisons
forward; urge to action through an early stage
moral pressure
IMAGINARY:  IMPENDING:  INCISE: 
a. Syn. unreal; fanciful; visionary a. Syn. imminent; approaching v. Syn. cut; carve
having existence only in the close in time; about to occur; cut; carve
imagination; fanciful; visionary approaching

IMBIBE:  IMPERCEPTIBLE:  INCOGNITO: 

v. Syn. drink; absorb a. Syn. unnoticeable; a.
drink in; absorb or take in as if undetectable with one's identity disguised or
by drinking impossible or difficult to concealed; in disguise; in an assumed
character, or under an assumed title
perceive by the mind or senses
IMMENSE:  IMPLEMENT:  INCOMPATIBLE: 
a. Syn. enormous; colossal; v. Syn. execute; perform a. Syn. inharmonious; incongruous
boundless put into effect; supply with tools inharmonious; impossible to
enormous; boundless; so great as coexist; not easy to combine
to be beyond measurement harmoniously
IMMINENT:  IMPOSE:  INCONGRUOUS: 
a. Syn. impending v. Syn. demand; force; inflict a. Syn. incompatible; discordant
near at hand; close in time; about demand; force; compel to behave not fitting; lacking in harmony or
to occur in a certain way compatibility

IMMORTAL:  IMPROMPTU:  INCREMENT: 

a. a. Syn. extemporaneous n. Syn. increase
not mortal; exempt from liability without previous preparation process of increasing in number,
to die; undying; imperishable; size, quantity, or extent
lasting forever
IMMUNE:  IMPROVISE:  INCRIMINATE: 
a. Syn. exempt; resistant v. Syn. extemporize v. Syn. accuse
resistant to; free or exempt compose, perform, or do accuse of a crime or other
from; not subject to something with little or no wrongful act; suggest that
preparation someone is guilty
IMMUTABLE:  IMPUTE:  INCUMBENT: 
a. Syn. unchangeable v. a. Syn. obligatory
unable to be changed without lay responsibility or blame for, imposed as an obligation or duty;
exception; not mutable often unjustly currently holding an office

IMPAIR:  INCANDESCENT:  INDICT: 

v. Syn. injure; hurt a. v. Syn. charge
injure or hurt; become worse; strikingly bright; shining with charge; accuse formally of a
affect negatively intense heat; emitting light as crime
result of being heated
INDIFFERENT:  INFRINGE:  INNOCUOUS: 
a. Syn. apathetic; average v. a. Syn. harmless
having no particular interest or act contrary to, as a law, right, having no adverse effect;
concern; being neither good nor or obligation; annul or hinder harmless
bad
INDIGENOUS:  INFURIATE:  INNOVATIVE: 
a. Syn. native; original v. Syn. enrage; anger a. Syn. novel
native; originating where it is enrage; make furious or mad with marked by or given to
found anger innovations; introducing a change

INDIGENT:  INGENIOUS:  INOPPORTUNE: 

a. Syn. poor; destitute a. Syn. clever; resourceful a. Syn. untimely
poor; experiencing want or need; clever; having inventive or untimely; poorly chosen;
impoverished cunning mind inconvenient; unseasonable;
unsuitable
INDIGNANT:  INGENUOUS:  INORDINATE: 
a. a. Syn. young; unsophisticated a. Syn. unrestrained; excessive
affected with indignation; wrathful; naive and trusting; young; exceeding reasonable limits;
passionate; irate; feeling wrath by unsophisticated excessive; not regulated;
unworthy or unjust treatment
disorderly
INDISCRIMINATE:  INGREDIENT:  INROAD: 
a. n. Syn. component; element n.
entrance of an enemy into a country with
choosing at random; not marked element in a mixture or
purposes of hostility; sudden or desultory
by fine distinctions compound incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment

INHABIT:  INSINUATE: 
INDISPENSABLE: 
v. v. Syn. hint; imply; suggest
a. Syn. essential; requisite
live in; occupy; reside in hint; suggest; introduce by
essential; requisite; impossible to
subtle and artful means
be omitted or remitted

INHERENT:  INSIPID: 
INDUCE: 
a. Syn. intrinsic; natural a. Syn. dull
v. Syn. persuade
firmly established by nature or lacking flavor or zest; not tasty;
persuade; bring about; reason or
habit dull
establish by induction

INEPT: 
a. Syn. inappropriate; incompetent
lacking of judgment, sense, or
reason; unsuited; inappropriate;
foolish
INEVITABLE:  INSOLVENT:
a. Syn. unavoidable
unavoidable; incapable of being
avoided or prevented
INFAMOUS:  INSPIRE:
a. Syn. notorious; heinous
notoriously bad; having
exceedingly bad reputation
INHIBIT:  INSOLENT: 
v. Syn. restrain; prevent a.
restrain; prevent or forbid; hold strange; unusual; haughty or
back brutal in behavior or language;
grossly rude or disrespectful
 
INIMICAL: 
a. Syn. bankrupt
a. Syn. unfriendly; hostile;
bankrupt; unable to repay one's
harmful; detrimental
debts
unfriendly; hostile; harmful;
detrimental
 
INITIAL: 
v. Syn. encourage; inspirit
a. Syn. preliminary
encourage; inspirit; fire the
early; preliminary; occurring at
imagination of
the beginning

INFINITE:  INSTANTANEOUS: 
INJURIOUS: 
a. a. Syn. instant; immediate
a. Syn. harmful
unlimited or boundless, in time or instant; immediate; occurring
harmful; tending to injure or
space; without limit in power, with no delay
impair; abusive; insulting
capacity, knowledge, or excellence

INFINITESIMAL:  INSTIGATE: 
INNATE: 
a. v. Syn. urge; incite; provoke
a. Syn. inborn; inherent
very small; immeasurably or goad or urge forward; provoke;
possessed at birth; inborn
incalculably minute incite
INSULT:  INTREPID:  IRREVOCABLE: 
v. Syn. offend; affront a. Syn. fearless; brave a. Syn. unalterable; irreversible
offend; affront; treat, mention, fearless; indicating or springing unalterable; irreversible;
or speak to rudely from courage impossible to retract or revoke

INSURRECTION:  INTRICATE:  IRRITABLE: 

n. Syn. rebellion; uprising a. Syn. complex; elaborate; a. Syn. grouchy; touchy
rebellion; uprising; rising against tangled easily annoyed; abnormally
civil or political authority complex; elaborate; having many sensitive to a stimulus
complexly arranged elements
INTACT:  INTRIGUE:  ITINERANT: 
a. Syn. unaltered; integrated; v. Syn. fascinate; captivate a. Syn. wandering; traveling
whole captivate; cause to be interested wandering; traveling place to
undamaged in any way; or curious; plot for: scheme for place, especially to perform work
integrated; whole or duty
INTEGRAL:  INTRUDE:  JAGGED: 
a. Syn. complete; entire v. Syn. trespass a.
essential or necessary for trespass; enter as an uninvited unevenly cut; having the texture
completeness; entire person of something so cut; having a
rough quality
INTELLIGIBLE:  INVALUABLE:  JEOPARDY: 
a. Syn. understandable; a. n.
comprehensible valuable under estimation; exposure to death, loss, or
understandable; clear to the inestimable; priceless injury; hazard; risk of loss or
mind injury
INTENSE:  INVENTORY:  JOLLY: 
a. Syn. extreme; acute n. v.
extreme; acute; in an extreme check list; a collection of be joyous, merry, and mirthful;
degree resources excite mirth and gayety; keep
amused or diverted
INTERIM:  INVETERATE:  JOLT: 
n. Syn. temporary a. Syn. habitual n. Syn. bounce; shake
time between one event, process; deep-rooted; firmly and long sudden jerking, as from a heavy
interval of time established; habitual blow; sudden, strong feeling of
surprise or disappointment
INTERMINABLE:  INVINCIBLE:  JOVIAL: 
a. Syn. endless; tedious; continual a. Syn. unconquerable a. Syn. merry
being or seeming to be without incapable of being overcome or good-natured; marked by good
an end; endless; tedious; defeated; unconquerable cheer; cheerful and good-
continual humored
INTERVENE:  INVITING:  JUDICIOUS: 
v. a. Syn. attractive; tempting a. Syn. wise; prudent
get involved; come, appear, or lie attractive; tempting exhibiting good judgment or
between two things sound thinking; prudent

INTIMATE:  INVOLUNTARY:  JUNCTURE: 

v. Syn. hint; suggest a. n. Syn. crisis
give to understand; imply as a acting or done without or against point in time, especially a critical
possibility; make known subtly one's will point; joining point
and indirectly
INTIMIDATE:  IRATE:  JUVENILE: 
v. Syn. frighten a. Syn. angry n. Syn. youth; young
frighten; make timid; fill with feeling or showing extreme youth; adolescent; not fully
fear anger; enraged grown or developed

INTRACTABLE:  IRREVERSIBLE:  KEEN: 

a. Syn. unruly; stubborn; a. a. Syn. acute; incisive
unyielding impossible to reverse or be acute; incisive; sharp ; express
difficult to manage or govern; reversed grief verbally
stubborn; unyielding
KNACK:  LEAFLET:  LINK: 
n. Syn. art n. v.
clever, expedient way of doing small leaf; leaf like organ or part be or become joined or united;
something; specific talent, especially connect, fasten, or put together
one difficult to explain or teach
two or more pieces
LAG:  LEGENDARY:  LOATHSOME: 
v. Syn. delay; drag a. Syn. mythical; fabled a. Syn. repulsive; disgusting;
delay; drag; the act of slowing mythical; fabled; extremely well abhorrent
down or falling behind known; famous or renowned highly offensive; arousing
aversion or disgust
LAGGARD:  LEGITIMATE:  LOCATE: 
a. Syn. slow; sluggish a. v. Syn. find; monitor; settle
slow; sluggish; wasting time accordant with law; lawful; based find; monitor; settle; determine
on logical reasoning; reasonable or specify the position or limits

LANDSCAPE:  LENIENT:  LOCOMOTION: 

n. Syn. scenery a. n. Syn. movement; motion
scenery; expanse of scenery that relaxing; emollient; softening self-propelled movement; power
can be seen in a single view or ability to move

LANDSLIDE:  LETHAL:  LOFTY: 

n. a. Syn. deadly; fatal a.
slide of a large mass of dirt and deadly; causing or capable of high, tall, having great height;
rock down a mountain or cliff; causing death idealistic, implying over-optimism
overwhelming electoral victory
LANGUID:  LETHARGIC:  LOOM: 
a. Syn. weak; sluggish a. Syn. drowsy; dull v. Syn. appear; emerge
lacking energy or vitality; weak; drowsy; dull; indifferent or appear or take shape, usually in
sluggish; lacking spirit or apathetic enlarged or distorted form
liveliness
LAPSE:  LEVITY:  LUCID: 
n. n. Syn. lightness a. Syn. clear; intelligible
gliding, slipping, or gradual falling;
lack of seriousness; lightness of easily understood; clear;
unobserved or imperceptible
manner or speech, especially intelligible
progress; slip or error; failing in duty
when inappropriate
LASSITUDE:  LEWD:  LUCRATIVE: 
n. Syn. languor; weariness a. Syn. lustful a. Syn. profitable
state or feeling of weariness, lustful; indecent; suggestive of profitable; producing good profit
diminished energy, or or tending to moral looseness
listlessness
LATENT:  LIABLE:  LUGUBRIOUS: 
a. Syn. dormant; hidden v. Syn. responsible; answerable a. Syn. mournful
present or potential but not bound or obliged in law or equity mournful, dismal, or gloomy,
evident or active; dormant;
especially to exaggerated degree
hidden
LAUD:  LIAISON:  LULL: 
v. Syn. praise n. n.
give praise to; glorify; celebrate close relationship, connection, or moment of calm; a period of calm
or honor link; secret love affair weather; temporary quiet and
rest
LAVISH:  LICENTIOUS:  LULLABY: 
a. Syn. liberal; profuse a. Syn. amoral; unrestrained n.
liberal; wasteful; excessive amoral; unrestrained; lacking song to quiet babes or lull them
spending moral discipline or ignoring legal to sleep
restraint
LAX:  LINGER:  LUMBER: 
a. Syn. loose v. Syn. dawdle v.
loose and not easily controlled; be slow in leaving; continue or move heavily or clumsily; cut
lacking in rigor or strictness persist; stay down timber of
LUMINOUS:  MALADY:  MATURE: 
a. Syn. shining n. Syn. illness v.
shining; emitting light, especially disease, disorder, or ailment; develop and reach maturity; grow
emitting self-generated light unwholesome condition old or older

LUNATIC:  MALEDICTION:  MAXIM: 

a. n. Syn. curse n. Syn. proverb
insane; mad; wildly or giddily curse; evil speaking; utterance of proverb; formulation of
foolish curse or execration fundamental principle or general
truth
LURE:  MALICE:  MEAGER: 
v. Syn. attract; entice n. a. Syn. scanty; inadequate;
bait; charm; attract enmity of heart; malevolence; ill feeble
will; spirit delighting in harm or deficient in quantity, fullness, or
misfortune to another extent; inadequate; feeble
LURID:  MALIGN:  MEDDLE: 
a. Syn. sensational; ghastly v. Syn. defame v.
mix; mingle; interfere or busy one's self
causing shock or horror; speak evil of; bad-mouth; defame
improperly with another's affairs,
gruesome specifically, to handle or disturb another's
property without permission
LURK:  MALIGNANT:  MEDIATE: 
v. a. Syn. injurious v. Syn. negotiate
stealthily lie in waiting; exist injurious; tending to cause death; resolve or settle differences by
unperceived disposed to do evil working with all conflicting
parties
LUSTER:  MANDATORY:  MEEK: 
n. Syn. shine; gloss a. Syn. obligatory a. Syn. spiritless; gentle
shine, polish or sparkle; soft obligatory; required or quiet and obedient; showing
reflected light commanded by authority patience and humility

LUSTROUS:  MANIFEST:  MEMORABLE: 

a. Syn. shining a. Syn. evident; visible; obvious; a. Syn. unforgettable
giving out or shedding light, as apparent unforgettable; worthy to be
sun or fire; reflecting light; clearly apparent to remembered; very important or
having brilliant surface understanding; obvious remarkable
LUXURIOUS:  MAR:  MENACE: 
a. Syn. sumptuous; lavish v. n. Syn. danger
danger; a threat or the act of
rich and superior in quality; spoil or damage; impair the
threatening; something that is a source
lavish soundness, perfection, or of danger; threaten; intimidate
integrity of
MAGNIFICENT:  MARITIME:  MEND: 
a. Syn. gorgeous; lavish a. Syn. nautical v. Syn. repair; improve
grand or noble in thought or relating to, or adjacent to the make repairs or restoration to;
deed; outstanding of its kind sea; nautical fix; improve

MAGNIFY:  MARKED:  MERCURIAL: 

v. Syn. intensify; increase; a. Syn. noticeable a. Syn. capricious
enlarge noticeable or pronounced; having capricious; liable to sudden
intensify; increase; make greater one or more distinguishing marks unpredictable change; quick and
in size; enlarge changeable in temperament
MAGNITUDE:  MASSACRE:  MERGE: 
n. Syn. greatness; extent n. v. Syn. combine; unite
extent; greatness of rank, size, killing of a considerable number of combine; unite
or position human beings under circumstances of
atrocity or cruelty

MAKEUP:  MASTERPIECE:  MESMERIZE: 

n. Syn. composition; structure n. v. Syn. hypnotize
composition; structure; the way chief excellence or great talent; hypnotize; attract strongly, as if
in which someone or something is outstanding work of art or craft with magnet; bring into a state
composed of mesmeric sleep
METEOR:  MONITOR:  NAUSEA: 
n. v. Syn. observe; watch; locate n.
any of the small solid observe; watch; keep an eye on feeling of sickness in stomach by
extraterrestrial bodies that hits an urge to vomit; strong
the earth's atmosphere aversion; disgust
METICULOUS:  MONOTONOUS:  NEGLECT: 
a. Syn. scrupulous; cautious a. Syn. boring; dull v. Syn. disregard; ignore
excessively careful; marked by boring; dull; tediously repetitious disregard; ignore; pay little or no
extreme care in treatment of or lacking in variety attention to
details
MINGLE:  MONUMENTAL:  NEGLIGIBLE: 
v. a. Syn. massive a. Syn. insignificant; tiny
be all mixed up or jumbled massive; taking a great amount so small, trifling, or unimportant
together of time and effort to complete; that it may be easily disregarded
in manner of a monument
MINUSCULE:  MORALE:  NIBBLE: 
a. Syn. tiny; small n. Syn. confidence; spirit; mood v.
very small; tiny; lowercase letter confidence; mood or spirit of a bite by little at a time; seize
group that makes the members gently with the mouth; eat slowly
wants the group to succeed or in small bits
MINUTE:  MORBID:  NIMBLE: 
a. Syn. tiny a. Syn. moody; pathological; diseased a.
extremely small; short note caused by disease; pathological or light and quick in motion; moving
diseased; unhealthy or unwholesome with ease and celerity; lively;
swift
MIRTH:  MORTIFY:  NOCTURNAL: 
n. Syn. merriment; pleasure; joy v. Syn. humiliate a. Syn. nightly
gladness and gaiety, especially cause to experience shame or of or relating to or occurring in
when expressed by laughter humiliation; embarrass the night; most active at night

MISAPPROPRIATE:  MOURNFUL:  NOTABLE: 

v. a. Syn. sorrowful; sad; gloomy a. Syn. conspicuous; distinguished
appropriate wrongly; use for feeling or expressing sorrow or worthy of note or notice;
wrong purpose; embezzle grief; sad; gloomy remarkable; important

MISDEMEANOR:  MUNDANE:  NOTIFY: 

n. Syn. fault a. Syn. worldly; earthly; secular v. Syn. declare; publish
belonging to this earth or world; not
minor crime; ill behavior; evil make known; give notice to;
ideal or heavenly; concerned with
conduct; misdeed inform by notice
commonplaces; ordinary

MISREPRESENT:  MURKY:  NOTION: 

v. a. Syn. vague n. Syn. idea; conception
give false or incorrect impression, dark and gloomy; thick with fog; general or universal conception;
often deliberately; serve vague belief or opinion
unsatisfactorily as representative

MOCK:  MUTE:  NOTORIOUS: 

v. Syn. ridicule; mimic; disappoint
treat with ridicule or contempt;
mimic; frustrate hopes of
a.
a. Syn. disreputable; infamous
refraining from producing speech or
disreputable; known widely and
vocal sound; unable to speak;
usually unfavorably; infamous
expressed without speech; unspoken

MODERATE:  MYSTERIOUS:  NOVEL: 

a. Syn. temperate; gentle; mild a. a. Syn. original; innovative
temperate; gentle; mild; make beyond ordinary understanding previously unknown; strikingly
less fast or intense ; preside new, unusual, or different; young
over
MOLEST:  MYTHICAL:  NOVICE: 
v. a. Syn. legendary; fictitious n. Syn. beginner
trouble; disturb; render uneasy; legendary; fictitious; existing in beginner; person new to a field
interfere with; vex myth or activity
NOXIOUS:  OBTRUDE:  ORNAMENTAL: 
a. Syn. harmful v. a. Syn. decorative; embellishing
harmful to living things; injurious push oneself or one's ideas decorative; any plant grown for
to health forward or intrude; stick out or its beauty or ornamental value
extrude
OBESE:  OBVIOUS:  OSTRACIZE: 
a. Syn. fat a. Syn. evident; apparent v. Syn. ban
extremely fat; grossly exposed; easily discovered; plain exclude from community or
overweight group; banish by popular vote

OBITUARY:  ODD:  OUTGOING: 

n. a. Syn. bizarre; strange; unusual a. Syn. sociable; extroverted
death notice; list of dead not easily explained; beyond sociable; going out or away;
from the usual or expected; not departing
divisible by two
OBJECTIVE:  ODOR:  OUTLET: 
a. Syn. fair n. Syn. scent; smell n. Syn. channel
not influenced by emotions; scent; property or quality of a thing an opening that permits escape
having actual existence or reality that affects, stimulates, or is or release; activity that releases
perceived by the sense of smell
creative energy or emotion
OBLIQUE:  OFFHAND:  OUTLOOK: 
a. Syn. inclined ad. n. Syn. viewpoint; standpoint
having slanting or sloping without planning or thinking prospect; view; belief about the
direction, course, or position; ahead; right away; immediately future ; act of looking
inclined
OBLIVIOUS:  OFFSPRING:  OUTRAGE: 
a. Syn. forgetful n. Syn. descendant n. Syn. atrocity; barbarity
inattentive or unmindful; lacking descendant act of extreme violence or
all memory; forgetful viciousness; offense

OBLONG:  OMEN:  OUTSKIRT: 

n.
a. n. Syn. fringe
any indication or action regarded as a
having greater length than part or region remote from a
foreshowing; phenomenon supposed
breadth, especially when to portend good or evil
central district, as of a city or
rectangular town; fringe; outer border
OBSCENE:  OMINOUS:  OUTSTANDING: 
n. a. Syn. threatening a.
offensive to accepted standards threatening; foreshadowing evil distinguished from others in
of decency or modesty; or tragic developments excellence
repulsive; disgusting
OBSCURE:  OOZE:  OVERALL: 
v. Syn. darken; hide; block v. Syn. flow a. Syn. general; comprehensive
darken; make dim or indistinct; be any thick messy substance; general; comprehensive; from
conceal in obscurity pass gradually; progress slowly one end to the other; including
but steadily everything
OBSEQUIOUS:  OPPORTUNE:  OVERCAST: 
a. a. Syn. timely a.
slavishly attentive; attempting to timely; just in time; suited or covered or obscured, as with
win favor from influential people right for a particular purpose clouds or mist; gloomy;
by flattery melancholy
OBSOLETE:  ORBIT:  OVERCOME: 
a. Syn. outmoded; antiquated n. Syn. path; circle v. Syn. defeat
no longer useful; outmoded; path; circle; move in an orbit; defeat another in competition or
antiquated encircle conflict; conquer; prevail over

OBSTINATE:  ORDEAL:  OVERDUE: 

a. Syn. stubborn n. Syn. trial a. Syn. late; delayed
stubbornly adhering to an severe trial; form of trial to past due; not paid at the
attitude or opinion; hard to determine guilt or innocence; scheduled time; late; delayed
control or treat difficult or painful experience
OVERLOOK:  PAINSTAKING:  PERCEPTIBLE: 
v. Syn. ignore; disregard a. a.
ignore; disregard; fail to notice ; extremely careful and diligent capable of being perceived;
watch over work or effort; taking of pains cognizable; discernible;
perceivable
OVERRIDE:  PALE:  PERCH: 
v. a. n.
ride over or across; ride upon; not ruddy; dusky white; pallid; a place high up; an elevated place
trample down. not bright or brilliant serving as a seat

OVERRUN:  PALTRY:  PERENNIAL: 

v. a. Syn. insignificant; petty; trivial n.
run or extend beyond normal or insignificant; lacking in lasting indefinitely long time;
desired limit; overflow importance or worth; worthless suggesting self-renewal; remaining
active throughout all the time

OVERSEE:  PANACEA:  PERFORATE: 

v. n. v. Syn. pierce
supervise; manage; watch over remedy for all diseases, evils, or pierce, punch, or bore hole or
and direct; examine or inspect difficulties; a cure-all holes in; penetrate

OVERSIGHT:  PANIC:  PERIL: 

n. Syn. danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy
n. Syn. omission; inattention n. Syn. alarm; fear
danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy;
unintentional omission or sudden mass fear and anxiety
exposure of person or property to
mistake; watchful care or injury, loss, or destruction
management; supervision
OVERT:  PARTICLE:  PERILOUS: 
a. n. Syn. speck; grain a.
open to view; not secret or a tiny piece of anything full of, attended with, or
hidden involving peril; dangerous;
hazardous
OVERTAKE:  PATH:  PERIODIC: 
v. n. Syn. orbit; roadway a. Syn. repeated; recurrent
come up with in a course, pursuit,
way; footway; course or track; repeated; recurring at intervals
progress, or motion; catch up with; come
route; passage of time
upon from behind; capture; overcome

OVERWHELM:  PATRONAGE:  PERMEATE: 

v. n. Syn. sponsorship; support v. Syn. spread
defeat; cover completely or make
sponsorship; support; state of spread or flow throughout;
imperceptible; overcome by superior force
being a sponsor pervade
; charge someone with too many tasks

PACE:  PECULIAR:  PERNICIOUS: 

n. Syn. step a. Syn. special; characteristic a. Syn. deadly
single movement from one foot special; characteristic; unusual; very destructive; tending to
to the other in walking; slow gait; odd; bizarre cause death or serious injury;
step deadly
PACIFIST:  PEDANTIC:  PERPETUAL: 
n. Syn. antimilitarist a. Syn. bookish a. Syn. continual
one opposed to force; marked by narrow focus on or everlasting; continuing without
antimilitarist display of learning, especially interruption
formal rules and trivial points
PACIFY:  PENETRATE:  PERPLEXING: 
v. Syn. soothe; subdue v. Syn. pierce; permeate a. Syn. puzzling; baffling;
ease anger or agitation of; make pierce; go through; permeate complicated
calm or quiet; end war or violence puzzling; lacking clarity of
meaning; complicated
PACT:  PERCEIVE:  PERSECUTE: 
n. Syn. agreement; treaty v. Syn. sense; detect v.
written agreement between two become aware of through the pursue in a manner to injure,
states or sovereigns; treaty grieve, or afflict; beset with
senses; detect
cruelty or malignity; harass; annoy
PERTAIN:  POISE:  PRECIOUS: 
v. v. a. Syn. valued; valuable
belong; have connection with, or be balanced or held in of high worth or cost
dependence on suspension; hover; carry or hold
in equilibrium; balance
PERTINENT:  POKY:  PRECIPITATION: 
a. Syn. relevant a. n.
having precise or logical confined; cramped. unexpected acceleration or
relevance; pertaining or relating hastening; the quantity of water
falling to earth
PERVADE:  PONDER:  PRECISE: 
v. v. a. Syn. exact; accurate
pass or flow through, as an weigh; weigh in the mind; view exact; clearly expressed;
aperture; permeate; pass or spread with deliberation; examine accurate or correct
through the whole extent of carefully; consider attentively
PETULANT:  PORTION:  PREDICAMENT: 
a. Syn. irritable n. Syn. part; section; segment n. Syn. dilemma; plight
easily irritated or annoyed; section or quantity within a tricky or dangerous situation;
unreasonably irritable or ill- larger thing; a part of a whole dilemma; troublesome
tempered
PIERCE:  PORTRAY:  PREFACE: 
v. Syn. penetrate; perforate v. Syn. depict; describe; draw n.
penetrate; make a hole into depict; describe; draw something spoken as introductory to
a discourse, or written as
introductory to a book or essay

PILLAGE:  POSTHUMOUS:  PREROGATIVE: 

v. Syn. plunder a. n. Syn. privilege
rob of goods by force, especially after death, as of child born privilege; unquestionable right;
in time of war; plunder; take as after father's death or book exclusive power to command
spoils published after author's death
PLACATE:  POSTPONE:  PRESAGE: 
v. Syn. pacify; conciliate v. Syn. delay; defer v. Syn. foretell
appease or pacify; bring peace to hold back to a later time; delay; foretell or predict; indicate or
defer warn of in advance

PLACID:  POTENT:  PRESCRIBE: 

a. Syn. peaceful; calm a. Syn. powerful v. Syn. dictate; guide
peaceful; tranquil; calm or quiet powerful; having power to dictate; guide; advise the use of;
influence or convince; having assert a right; claim
great control or authority
PLAGUE:  POUNCE:  PRESUMPTUOUS: 
n. v.
a. Syn. overconfident
epidemic disease with a high attacks suddenly; seize something swiftly
and eagerly; leap into the air intending to overconfident; going beyond
death rate; annoyance seize someone or something what is right or proper;
excessively forward
PLAUSIBLE:  PREACH:  PRETENSE: 
a. Syn. believable; credible v. Syn. advocate; sermonize n.
likely but not certain to be or advocate; speak, plead; argue in act of giving a false appearance;
become true or real favor of imaginative intellectual play

PLEAD:  PRECARIOUS:  PRETEXT: 

v. a. Syn. uncertain; risky n. Syn. excuse
appeal or request earnestly; uncertain; risky; dangerously excuse; something serving to
enter a plea; offer as an excuse lacking in security or stability conceal plans; fictitious reason

PLETHORA:  PRECEPT:  PREVAIL: 

n. Syn. excess; overabundance n. v. Syn. induce; ; triumph
excess; over-fullness in any rule or principle prescribing induce; be greater in strength or
respect; superabundance particular action or conduct; influence; triumph; win out
authorized direction or order
PREVALENT:  PROLONG:  PRUDENT: 
a. Syn. widespread v. Syn. lengthen a. Syn. cautious; careful
widespread; widely or commonly make longer; draw out; lengthen cautious; careful in regard to
occurring, existing, accepted one's own interests

PRIOR:  PROMINENT:  PSEUDONYM: 

a. Syn. former; antecedent; a. Syn. conspicuous; notable n.
anterior; previous conspicuous; immediately pen name; fictitious name used
preceding in the order of time; noticeable; sticking out; widely when someone performs a
former; previous known particular social role
PROBE:  PROMISCUOUS:  PULVERIZE: 
v. Syn. detect; investigate; a. v.
having casual sexual relations frequently
search pound, crush, or grind to powder
with different partners; irregular, casual
explore with tools; investigate; and unrestrained in sexual behavior or dust
search
PROCLAIM:  PROMPT:  PUNGENT: 
v. Syn. declare; announce v. Syn. cause; remind; ; inspire a. Syn. stinging; caustic
declare; announce move to act; incite; give rise to; stinging; sharp in taste or smell;
assist with a reminder caustic

PROCURE:  PRONOUNCED:  PURSUE: 

v. a. Syn. clear; distinct v.
bring into possession; cause to clear; distinct; strongly marked; follow in; go in search of or hunt
accrue to, or to come into easily noticeable; spoken; voiced for
possession of; cause to come
PRODIGAL:  PROPRIETY:  PUZZLING: 
a. Syn. wasteful n. Syn. fitness; appropriateness a. Syn. perplexing; confusing
wasteful; reckless with money fitness; correct conduct; quality lacking clarity of meaning;
of being proper; appropriateness confusing

PRODIGIOUS:  PROSCRIBE:  QUANDARY:

a. Syn. marvelous; enormous v. Syn. banish; outlaw n. Syn. dilemma; predicament;
impressively great in size, force, command against; banish; outlaw perplexity
or extent; enormous dilemma; state of uncertainty or
perplexity
PROFANE:  PROSPER:  QUENCH:
v. Syn. violate; desecrate; abuse v. v. Syn. extinguish
violate; put to improper, flourish; thrive; gain in wealth; put out a fire; extinguish; put an
unworthy, or degrading use; grow stronger end to; destroy
abuse
PROFOUND:  PROTAGONIST:  QUERY:
a. Syn. deep; complete n. n. Syn. inquiry; question
principal character in a work of
deep; not superficial; far- inquiry; doubt in the mind; mental
fiction; main character in a drama;
reaching reservation
leader of a cause; champion

PROFUSE:  PROVENANCE:  QUEST:

a. n. n. Syn. search; expedition
in great quantity or abundance; place of origin; source; act of searching for something
bountiful; exceedingly liberal provenience

PROLIFERATE:  PROVISIONAL:  QUOTE:

v. a. Syn. tentative; temporary v.
grow rapidly; propagate; temporary; provided for present cite or repeat a passage from;
reproduce need only repeat or copy the words of
another
PROLIFIC:  PROVOKE:  RADIANT:
a. Syn. productive; fruitful v. Syn. irritate; cause; evoke a. Syn. ablaze; brilliant;
producing offspring or fruit in stir to anger; give rise to; stir to delighted
great abundance; fertile action or feeling brilliant; delighted
RADICAL:
a. Syn. drastic; extreme
drastic; extreme; arising from or
going to a root or source; basic
RAGGED:
a. Syn. torn; worn
torn; worn; having an irregular
surface or edge; uneven or
jagged in outline
RAID:
n. Syn. invasion; attack
search without warning; surprise
attack by a small armed force
RANDOM:
a. Syn. haphazard; chance
without definite purpose, plan, or
aim; having no specific pattern
RANGE:
n. Syn. limit
limits within which something can
be effective; variety of
different things or activities
RATION:
n. Syn. allotment; allowance;
portion
allotment; allowance; portion;
allot; distribute in rations
RAW:
a.
in the natural unprocessed condition;
cruel and unfair; uncooked; untrained
and inexperienced
RAZE:
v. Syn. demolish; ruin
destroy completely; scrape or
shave off
REBELLION:
n.
organized opposition to authority
RECEDE:
v.
move back; retreat; withdraw a
claim or pretension
RECEPTION:
n. Syn. receipt
act of receiving; manner in which
something is greeted
RECESS:
n.
withdrawing or retiring; moving
back; retreat; state of being
withdrawn; seclusion
RECIPROCAL:
a. Syn. mutual; exchangeable; interacting
concerning each of two or more persons or
things; exchangeable; interacting
RECKLESS:
a. Syn. irresponsible; careless
headstrong; rash; indifferent to
or disregardful of consequences
RECLAIM:
v. Syn. rehabilitate; rejuvenate
bring into or return to a suitable
condition for use; claim back;
make useful again
RECONCILE:
v. Syn. adapt; settle; resolve
correct inconsistencies; become
friendly after a quarrel; become
compatible or consistent
RECOUNT:
v. Syn. narrate; depict; describe
narrate or tell; count over again
RECRIMINATION:
n. Syn. countercharge
countercharge; counter or mutual
accusation; accusation brought by
the accused against the accuser
RECRUIT:
v. Syn. enlist; enroll
enlist; register formally as a
participant; engage for military
service
RECURRING:
a. Syn. repeated; recurrent;
repetitious
repeated; Returning again;
repetitious
REDEEM:
v.
purchase back; regain possession of by
payment; ransom or rescue from
captivity; pay penalty; make amends for
REDOUBTABLE:
a. Syn. formidable
formidable; arousing fear or awe;
worthy of respect or honor
REFINE:
v. Syn. purify
purify; make more precise;
improve
REFUTE:
v. Syn. disprove
disprove; prove to be false or
incorrect
REHABILITATE:
v. Syn. restore; recover
restore to proper condition; help
to re-adapt, as to former state
of health or good repute
REHEARSE:
v. Syn. practice; drill
practice; drill; engage in
preparation for a public
performance
REIGN:
n. Syn. sovereignty; rule; control
sovereignty; rule; dominance or
widespread influence
REIMBURSE:
v. Syn. repay; refund; indemnify
pay back for some expense
incurred
REITERATE:
v.
say, state, or perform again or
repeatedly
REJOICE:
v.
feel joy; experience gladness in a
high degree; have pleasurable
satisfaction; be delighted; enjoy
REJOICING:
a.
of rejoice; feeling and expression of
joy and gladness; procedure
expressive of joy; festivity
RELEASE:
v. Syn. liberate; freedom
give off; liberate; grant freedom
to; make something available
RELEGATE:
v. Syn. delegate; assign
assign to obscure place, position,
or condition; delegate; assign
RELIABLE:
a. Syn. dependable; trustworthy
worthy of being depended on;
trustworthy
RELINQUISH:
v. Syn. yield; abandon; surrender;
waive
give up something with reluctance;
retire from; give up or abandon
RELISH:
v. Syn. enjoy
take keen or zestful pleasure in;
enjoy the flavor of; give spice or
flavor to
REMEDY: REPROBATE: RESURRECTION:
n. Syn. drug n. n.
a medicine or therapy; ; cure; fix; person hardened in sin; person rising again; resumption of vigor;
repair; provide relief for without moral scruples act of rising from the dead or
returning to life
REMINISCE: REPRODUCE: RETALIATE:
v. v. v.
recollect and tell of past experiences or do something harmful or negative to get
have offspring or young;
events; talk or write about memories of revenge for some harm; fight back or
the past, especially pleasant memories duplicate; make a copy respond in kind to an injury or affront

REMIT: REPROVE: RETICENT:

v. a.
v. Syn. censure; rebuke
send back; give up; surrender; resign; inclined to keep silent; reserved;
voice or convey disapproval of;
restore; transmit or send, especially
rebuke; find fault with uncommunicative.
as money in payment of a demand

REMNANT: REPUGNANCE: RETRACT:

n. Syn. remainder; relic n. v. Syn. withdraw; recede
remainder; small part or portion extreme dislike or aversion; withdraw; take back; draw back
that remains after the main part opposition; conflict; resistance, or in
no longer exists in a physical sense
RENDER: REPUTE: RETREAT:
v. Syn. deliver; provide; represent v. n. Syn. receding
deliver;give or make available; ascribe a particular fact or receding; pull back or move away or
provide; represent in a drawing or backward; withdrawal of troops to
characteristic to; consider;
painting a more favorable position
suppose
RENOUNCE: RESCIND: RETRIEVE:
v. Syn. abandon; disown; v. Syn. cancel; annul; repeal v. Syn. recover; regain
relinquish cancel; make void; repeal or annul recover; find and bring in; get
abandon; disown; turn away from; back
give up
REOWNED: RESENT: REVEAL:
a. v. Syn. begrudge v. Syn. expose; uncover
famous; celebrated for great feel bitter; consider as injury or make known; disclose or show
achievements, for distinguished affront; be in angry
qualities
REPEAL: RESERVED: REVERE:
v. Syn. revoke; annul a. Syn. silent v. Syn. worship; venerate; honor
revoke or annul, especially by held in reserve; kept back or set worship; regard with feelings of
official or formal act aside; marked by self-restraint respect or honor
and reticence
REPEL: RESIDUAL: REVOKE:
v. Syn. disgust; reject; refuse a. Syn. remaining; surplus v. Syn. cancel; retract; void; annul
force or drive back; disgust; remaining as a residue; surplus void or annul by recalling,
offer resistance to; fight against withdrawing, or reversing; cancel;
retract
REPERCUSSION: RESOLUTE: RIDDLE:
n. Syn. rebound; reverberation; reaction
a. Syn. firm; determined; decided v. Syn. permeate; spread
often indirect effect or result that is
produced by an event or action; reflection, firm, unyielding, or determined; pierce with numerous holes;
especially of sound having decided purpose perforate; permeate or spread
throughout
REPLENISH: RESTLESS: RIGID:
v. Syn. refill; restock a. a. Syn. stiff; strict
fill or make complete again; add a never resting; unquiet; uneasy; stiff and unyielding; strict; hard
new stock or supply to continually moving; eager for and unbending; not flexible
change; discontented
REPROACH: RESUME: RIGOR:
v. Syn. admonish v. n. Syn. severity
express disapproval or give a summary; return to a strictness or severity, as in
disappointment; bring shame previous location or condition temperament, action, or judgment;
upon; disgrace something hard to endure
RIP:
v. Syn. tear; rend
tear or be torn violently;
criticize or abuse strongly and
violently
RIPE:
a. Syn. ready; mature
ready; fully developed; mature
RISKY:
a. Syn. hazardous; dangerous
involving risk or danger;
hazardous
ROAM:
v. Syn. wander; ramble; stroll
wander; ramble; stroll
ROTUNDITY:
n.
roundness; rounded fullness;
integral entireness
ROUGH:
a. Syn. coarse; harsh
not perfected; having or caused
by an irregular surface
ROUTE:
n. Syn. way
way for travel or transportation
RUDIMENTARY:
a. Syn. elementary; crude; incipient
relating to basic facts or principles;
being in the earliest stages of
development; incipient
RUGGED:
a. Syn. uneven; rough
uneven; rough; very difficult
RUMMAGE:
v. Syn. ransack
make an energetic, usually hasty
search
RURAL:
a. Syn. country; rustic
country; relating to rural areas
RUTHLESS:
a. Syn. pitiless; cruel
pitiless; cruel; having no
compassion or pity; merciless
SALVAGE:
v. Syn. rescue
save from loss or destruction;
rescue of a ship; save for
further use
SANCTION:
v. Syn. approve; ratify
give authorization or approval to
something; penalize a state, especially
for violating international law
SANCTUARY:
n. Syn. refuge; shelter; shrine
place of refuge or asylum; shrine;
holy place, such as a church,
temple, or mosque
SANGUINE:
a. Syn. cheerful; hopeful; ruddy
cheerfully confident; optimistic;
of healthy reddish color; ruddy
SATURATE:
v. Syn. soak
soak, fill, or load to capacity; cause
to unite with the greatest possible
amount of another substance
SCALE:
v. Syn. ascend; weigh
climb up or over; alter according
to a standard; estimate or
measure; remove in layers
SCAN:
v. Syn. survey; scrutinize
make a wide, sweeping search of;
examine
SCANT:
a.
scarcely sufficient; less than is
wanted for the purpose; not
enough
SCARCE:
a. Syn. rare; limited
hard to find; absent or rare;
limited
SCATTER:
v. Syn. sprinkle; disseminate; spread
sprinkle; disseminate; cause to
separate and go in different
directions
SCENT:
n. Syn. odor; fragrance; perfume
distinctive odor that is pleasant;
fragrance; perfume
SCHOLARLY:
a. Syn. academic; scientific
academic; scientific;
characteristic of scholars or
scholarship
SCOPE:
n. Syn. range; extent; bound
range of one's perceptions,
thoughts, or actions; extent;
bound
SCORCH:
v.
burn superficially; parch, or
shrivel, the surface of, by heat;
affect painfully with heat; burn
SCORN:
n.
extreme and lofty contempt; haughty
disregard; expression of mockery,
derision, contempt, or disdain
SCRAP:
n. Syn. piece; fragment
small piece or bit; fragment;
fragment; leftover bits of food;
remnant
SCRIBBLE:
v.
write or draw carelessly and in a
hurry; doodle; meaningless marks
and lines
SCRUPULOUS:
a. Syn. conscientious; meticulous; cautious
exactly and carefully conducted; by
extreme care and great effort; cautious
SCRUTINIZE:
v.
examine closely and critically
SEASONED:
a. Syn. experienced
experienced, especially in terms
of a profession or a hobby; aged
or processed
SECLUDED:
a.
removed or remote from others;
solitary; hidden or isolated
SEDITION:
n. Syn. insubordination
resistance to authority;
insubordination or rebellion
SEEMLY:
a. Syn. proper; appropriate
proper; appropriate; of pleasing
appearance; handsome
SENSATIONAL:
a. Syn. spectacular; exciting;
exceptional
arousing or intended to arouse strong
curiosity, interest, or reaction
SENTINEL:
n. Syn. sentry; lookout
one that keeps guard; soldier
stationed as a guard
SHRINK: SLACK:
v. Syn. contract; compress n.
area of still water; lack of tension; cord,
become smaller or draw
rope, or cable that is hanging loosely;
together; compress unused capacity; casual trousers

SEQUESTER: SHUN: SLANDER:

v. Syn. isolate; segregate; v. Syn. escape; avoid n. Syn. defamation
seclude avoid deliberately; keep away defamation; false and malicious
isolate; retire from public life; from statement or report about
segregate; seclude someone
SERENE: SHY: SLENDER:
a. a. Syn. timid; bashful a. Syn. slim; thin
completely clear and fine timid; bashful; easily startled; having little width in proportion
distrustful to height or length; long and thin

SEVER: SIGNIFICANT: SLIM:

v. Syn. cut; separate a. Syn. noteworthy; important a.
cut off from a whole; set or keep fairly large; important in effect small in quantity; being of
apart; divide or separate or meaning delicate or slender build

SHABBY: SIGNIFY: SLUGGISH:

a. v. Syn. denote; mean; indicate a. Syn. slow; lazy
torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; denote; mean; indicate lazy; with little movement; very
ragged slow

SHATTER: SIMULATE: SMOLDER:

v. Syn. destroy; break up v. Syn. feign; imitate v.
destroy; break up; break into make a pretence of; reproduce burn without flame; be liable to
many pieces someone's behavior or looks break out at any moment

SHEER: SIMULTANEOUS: SNARE:

a. Syn. absolute; pure a. n.
very thin or transparent; very existing, happening, or done at trap; gin; anything by which one
steep; absolute or pure the same time is entangled and brought into
trouble
SHIMMER: SINGULAR: SOAK:
v. Syn. flash a. Syn. unique; extraordinary; v.
shine with a weak or fitful light; odd cause or suffer to lie in a fluid;
glimmer intermittently unique; extraordinary; being only absorb; drain; drink
one intemperately or gluttonously
SHIVER: SIP: SOJOURN:
v. v. n.
shake with or as if with cold; drink or imbibe in small quantities; take temporary stay; brief period of
in with lips in small quantities, as liquid;
tremble; break into fragments or residence; place of temporary
draw into the mouth; suck up
splinters stay
SHRED: SKEPTICAL: SOLACE:
n. a. n. Syn. consolation
a small amount; a long, narrow piece marked by or given to doubt; comfort or relieve in sorrow,
cut or torn off; long irregular strip questioning misfortune, or distress
that is cut or torn off

SHREWD: SKETCH: SOLICIT:

a. Syn. clever; astute
clever; characterized by keen
awareness, sharp intelligence
SHRILL:
a.
acute; sharp; piercing; having or
emitting a sharp, piercing tone or
sound
v. Syn. outline; draft v. Syn. seek
draw or describe briefly; give request earnestly; seek to obtain
the main points; summary of by persuasion or formal
application
SKETCHY: SOMBER:
a. a. Syn. gloomy; dark
containing only an outline or gloomy; depressing or grave; dull
rough form; being in the manner or dark in color
of a sketch; incomplete
SOPHISTICATED: SPIN: STABLE:
a. Syn. complex; complicated v. Syn. whirl a. Syn. fixed; steadfast;
wide-ranging knowledge; complex; turn round rapidly; move round constant
intellectually appealing rapidly; move swiftly not easily moved or disturbed

SOPHISTRY: SPLASH: STAGNANT:

n.
argument for exercise merely;
plausible but misleading argument;
art or process of reasoning; logic
SORT:
n.
kind or species; a class of;
SOUND:
n.
sensation perceived by the ear;
distinctive noise; long narrow
inlet
SOVEREIGN:
a. Syn. excellent; independent
having supreme rank or power;
self- governing; excellent;
independent
SPAN:
n. Syn. duration; distance
duration; distance; cover; extent
or measure of space between two
points
SPARTAN:
a.
avoiding luxury and comfort;
sternly disciplined
v.
cause fluid to scatter in flying
masses; strike and dash about, as
water, mud
SPLENDID:
a. Syn. magnificent; brilliant
shining; very bright; magnificent;
brilliant
SPLICE:
v. Syn. unite
fasten together; join at the
ends; join by interweaving
strands
SPOIL:
v. Syn. mar; rot; decay
go bad; rot; decay; become unfit
for consumption or use
SPORADIC:
a.
occurring at irregular intervals;
having no pattern or order in
time
SPOT:
n. Syn. location; place; site
location; place; site; pinpoint;
mark to allow easy recognition
a. Syn. motionless; stale; dull
not moving or flowing; lacking
vitality or briskness; stale; dull
STAIN:
n. Syn. blemish; flaw
soiled or discolored; symbol of
disgrace or infamy; natural spot of a
color different from the ground
STALE:
a.
having lost freshness; lacking
originality or spontaneity
STALL:
n.
small area set off by walls for
special use; booth
STATELY:
a. Syn. majestic; palatial;
dignified
majestic; impressive, as in size or
proportions
STATIONARY:
a. Syn. fixed; immobile; static
fixed; immobile; static; not
capable of being moved

SPAWN: SPOUSE: STEEP:

v. Syn. generate; breed
lay eggs; produce offspring in
large numbers
SPECIFIC:
a. Syn. particular; definite
stated explicitly or in detail;
definite
SPECIMEN:
n. Syn. model; sample
model; sample; an example
regarded as typical of its class
SPECTACULAR:
a. Syn. fascinating; grand
impressive or sensational;
lavishly produced performance;
grand
SPELL:
v.
name or write in order the
letters constituting; add up to;
signify
n. v. Syn. soak; saturate
man or woman engaged or joined soak; make thoroughly wet
in wedlock; married person,
husband or wife
SPROUT: STERN:
v. Syn. germinate a. Syn. severe; relentless
have new growth of a plant such hard, harsh, or severe in manner
as a new branch or a bud; shoot or character; firm or unyielding
up
SPUR: STOIC:
v. Syn. stimulate; urge a. Syn. impassive
urge a horse; incite or stimulate; indifferent to or unaffected by
ride quickly by spurring a horse; joy, grief, pleasure, or pain
proceed in haste
SPURIOUS: STOUT:
a. Syn. false; counterfeit; a. Syn. sturdy; stocky
forged; illogical dependable; stocky; euphemisms
false; counterfeit; forged; for fat
illogical
SQUANDER: STRENUOUS:
v. Syn. waste a.
spend wastefully; fail to take arduous; intense; performed with
advantage of; lose a chance for much energy or force;
STRETCH:
v. Syn. extend
extend; pull in opposite
directions; lie down comfortably
STRIFE:
n.
act of striving; earnest endeavor; exertion
or contention for superiority; contest of
emulation, either by intellectual or physical
efforts
STRIVE:
v. Syn. endeavor; struggle
endeavor; struggle or fight
forcefully; exert much effort or
energy
SUBSIDIARY: SUPPLICATE:
a. Syn. subordinate; secondary v. Syn. beseech
subordinate; secondary; serving ask for humbly or earnestly, as
to assist or supplement by praying; make humble, earnest
petition; beg
SUBSTANTIAL: SURFEIT:
a. Syn. solid; strong; material v.
fairly large; in essentials; eat until excessively full; be
material; true or real; not more than full; feed someone to
imaginary; solidly built excess
SUBTERRANEAN: SURGE:
a. Syn. hidden; secret; underground n. Syn. outburst; eruption
hidden; secret; situated or operating outburst; roll or be tossed about
beneath the earth's surface; on waves, as a boat
underground

STUBBORN: SUBTLE: SURLY:

a. Syn. headstrong; obstinate; tenacious a. Syn. slight; delicate a. Syn. rude; ominous; gloomy; dismal
unreasonably, often perversely slight; be difficult to detect or rude; sullenly ill humored; gloomy;
unyielding; persistent; difficult to treat threatening, as of weather conditions
grasp by the mind

STUMBLE: SUCCUMB: SURMISE:

v. Syn. fall v. Syn. yield; die v. Syn. guess
miss a step and fall or nearly fall; submit to an overpowering force; guess; infer something without
walk unsteadily yield to an overwhelming desire; sufficiently conclusive evidence
give up or give in
STUN: SULLEN: SURPASS:
v. Syn. amaze; shock a. v. Syn. exceed
surprise greatly; amaze; make lonely; solitary; desolate; gloomy; be or go beyond, as in degree or
senseless or dizzy by or as if by dismal; affected with ill humor quality; exceed
a blow
STUPENDOUS: SUMMIT: SUSCEPTIBLE:
a. n. Syn. peak; acme; zenith a. Syn. impressionable
astonishing; wonderful; amazing, utmost height; highest point of a easily influenced; having little
especially, astonishing in mountain resistance, as to a disease;
magnitude or elevation receptive to
STURDY: SUNDRY: SUSPEND:
a. Syn. robust; strong; a. v. Syn. hang; append
substantial; firm various; miscellaneous; separate; hang freely; postpone; delay
robust; strong; substantially distinct; diverse
made or constructed
SUBLIME: SUPERB: SWAY:
a. Syn. utter; supreme; impressive a. Syn. excellent; wonderful v. Syn. swing
of high spiritual, moral, or of unusually high quality; swing; move back and forth or
intellectual worth; characterized by
excellent; wonderful sideways; win approval or support
nobility; majestic
for; convince
SUBMERGE: SUPERFICIAL: SWEEPING:
v. Syn. sink; immerse a. Syn. trivial a. Syn. extensive; comprehensive
sink; immerse; put under water trivial; of little substance; extensive; having wide-ranging
involving a surface only influence or effect

SUBSEQUENT: SUPPLANT: SWIFT:

a. Syn. following v. Syn. replace; usurp a. Syn. quick; rapid; nimble
following in time or order; replace; usurp; displace and quick; moving or capable of
succeeding; later substitute for another moving with great speed

SUBSIDE: SUPPLE: SYNTHESIZE:

v. Syn. appease; mitigate a. Syn. flexible; pliant v. Syn. integrate; compose;
settle down; sink to a lower level flexible; moving and bending with combine
or form depression; wear off or ease integrate; compose; combine so as
die down to form a new, complex product
TACTITURN: TAUNT: THAW:
a. Syn. silent v. v. Syn. melt; defrost
silent or reserved in speech; reproach in a mocking, insulting, or melt, such as snow and ice;
saying little; not inclined to speak contemptuous manner; make fun of , defrost; warm weather following
often in an aggressive manner
or converse a freeze
TAUTOLOGY:
TACT: THERMAL:
n.
n. a.
unnecessary repetition,
sense of touch; feeling; stroke in relating to or caused by heat;
especially for same sense in
beating time; sensitive mental designed to help retain heat
different words ; redundancy
touch; peculiar skill or faculty
TAWDRY:
TACTIC: THOROUGH:
a. Syn. gaudy
n. Syn. tactical a. Syn. profound; complete
cheap in nature or appearance;
plan for attaining a particular accurate or careful; complete
tastelessly showy; shameful or
goal; action calculated to achieve
indecent
some end
TEASE: THRIFTY:
TAINT:
v. a. Syn. economical
v. Syn. contaminate; corrupt
tear into pieces; raise the fibers careful about money; economical
contaminate; cause to lose purity;
of
affect with or as if with a
disease; corrupt morally
TEDIOUS: THRIVE:
TAME:
a. Syn. boring; wearisome v. Syn. prosper; flourish
a.
tiresome by reason of length, make steady progress; prosper;
domesticated; very restrained or
slowness, or dullness; progressing flourish
quiet; make less strong or
very slowly
intense; soften
TEMPERATE: THWART:
TAMPER:
a. Syn. restrained v. Syn. frustrate
v.
restrained; self-controlled; hinder or prevent of ; frustrate
interfere in a harmful manner;
moderate in degree or quality
alter improperly

TEMPTING: TILT:
TANGLE:
a. Syn. attractive; alluring; n. Syn. slant; lean
n.
uniting or knitting together confusedly; appealing slight but noticeable partiality;
knot of threads, or other thing, united attractive; appealing line or surface that departs from
confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be
the vertical
easily disengaged
TENDER: TIMID:
TANTALIZE:
v. Syn. offer; extend a. Syn. shy; craven
v. Syn. tease
tease; torture with disappointment; offer formally; extend; propose a shy; craven; lacking self-
bait someone by showing something payment confidence; shy
desirable but leaving them unsatisfied

TENOR: TINT:
TANTAMOUNT:
n. n. Syn. tinge; color
a.
continuous, unwavering course; color; dye with a color
equivalent in effect or value
exact meaning or actual wording
of a document
TENTATIVE: TOIL:
TARDY:
a. Syn. hesitant; experimental n.
a. Syn. late; delayed; slow
hesitant; not fully worked out or exhausting labor or effort; any
late; delayed; moving slowly
developed; experimental; not thread, web, or string spread for
definite or positive taking prey
TEPID: TOLERANT:
TARNISH: a. Syn. permissive; open-minded; easy-
a. Syn. lukewarm
v. Syn. discoloration; stain going
moderately warm; lacking in
make dirty or spotty; stain; dull showing respect for the rights of
emotional warmth or enthusiasm; others; open-minded; showing capacity
the luster of; discolor, especially
halfhearted for endurance
by exposure to air or dirt
TETHER: TORPID:
TART:
v. a.
n.
tie with rope; fasten or restrict having lost motion, or the power
a species of small open pie, or
with rope or chain of exertion and feeling; numb;
piece of pastry, containing jelly
benumbed
or conserve; a sort of fruit pie
TORRENT: TRAVERSE: TURBULENT:
n. Syn. flood v. a. Syn. violent; tempestuous;
rushing stream; flood; heavy go through or across, often furious
downpour under difficult conditions characterized by unrest or
disorder
TORTURE: TREACHEROUS: TURMOIL:
n. a. Syn. dangerous; risky n. Syn. commotion
extreme pain; anguish of body or dangerous; dangerously unstable state of extreme confusion or
mind and unpredictable; disloyal; agitation; commotion or tumult
tending to betray
TOUPEE: TREMENDOUS: TWINKLE:
n. a. Syn. huge; enormous; gigantic; v.
partial wig or hairpiece worn to terrible open and shut the eye rapidly;
cover a bald spot huge; capable of making one blink; wink
tremble; terrible
TOW: TREMOR: TYRO:
v. Syn. pull; drag n. Syn. trembling n. Syn. beginner; novice
draw or pull behind by a chain or shaking or vibrating movement; beginner in learning something;
line slight quiver novice

TOWERING: TREPIDATION: ULTIMATE:

a. Syn. lofty; high; outstanding n. Syn. fear; apprehension a. Syn. final; fundamental; extreme
high; outstanding; very great or state of alarm or dread; nervous final; being the last or concluding;
intense apprehension; involuntary fundamental; elemental; extreme

trembling or quivering
TOXIC: TRIBUNAL: UNBEARABLE:
a. Syn. poisonous n. a. Syn. unendurable; intolerable
poisonous; caused by a toxin or seat of a judge; bench on which a unendurable; so unpleasant,
other poison judge and his associates sit for distasteful, or painful as to be
administering justice; court or forum intolerable
TRAIT: TRICKLE: UNCANNY:
a. Syn. strange; mysterious; eerie;
n. Syn. quality; attribute; v. Syn. dribble; drip
weird
characteristic flow in drops; run or flow slowly; strange; mysterious; peculiarly
quality; attribute; distinguishing drip unsettling, as if of supernatural origin
feature; slight degree or amount or nature
TRAJECTORY: TRIGGER: UNCOUTH:
n. Syn. path v. Syn. initiate; start a.
path of other moving body cause something happen; set off lacking refinement or cultivation
through space; chosen or taken or taste
course
TRANQUILITY: TRIUMPH: UNDERGO:
n. n. Syn. victory v. Syn. experience; suffer
a state of peace and quiet victory; win; expressing great joy experience; suffer; pass through

TRANSMUTE: TRIVIAL: UNDERLYING:

v. Syn. convert; transform
change from one form, nature,
substance, or state into another;
transform
TRANSPARENT:
a. Syn. airy; obvious
easily detected; permitting light
to pass through freely
TRANSPOSE:
v.
substitute one for the other of;
reverse or transfer order or
place of; interchange
a. Syn. unimportant; trifling;
commonplace
unimportant; of little significance
or value; ordinary; commonplace
TUG:
v.
pull or draw with great effort;
draw along with continued
exertion; haul along; tow
TUMBLE:
v.
fall down, as if collapsing
a. Syn. fundamental; implicit
lying under or beneath
something; basic; implicit; taking
precedence; prior
UNDERSCORE:
v. Syn. emphasize
draw a mark or line under;
emphasize; stress
UNDERTAKE:
v. Syn. embark; assume
take on; embark on; assume
UNGAINLY: URGENT:
a. Syn. awkward a. Syn. pressing; compelling;
awkward; lacking grace in immediate
movement or posture pressing; compelling immediate
action or attention
UNIFORM: USURP:
n. v. Syn. appropriate
consistent; standardized; seize and hold power or rights of
clothing of a particular group another by force or without legal
authority
UNILATERAL: UTENSIL:
a. n.
being on one side only; affecting instrument, implement, or
but one side; one-sided. container for practical use,
especially in kitchen or laboratory
UNIQUE: UTTER:
a. Syn. alone; single; sole v. Syn. speak; express
without an equal; being the only speak; express; send forth with
one of its kind the voice
UNIVERSAL: VACANT:
a. Syn. comprehensive; general; a. Syn. empty; uninhabited
worldwide void of thought or knowledge;
affecting all; general; present
without an occupant or incumbent
everywhere; relating to the entire
world or all within the world; worldwide
UNRULY: VAGUOUS:
a. Syn. disobedient; lawless a. Syn. empty; inane
difficult or impossible to empty; showing lack of thought
discipline, control, or rule; not or intelligence; vacant
according to rule; irregularly
UNSCATHED: VAGUE:
a. Syn. unharmed a. Syn. imprecise; obscure;
not harmed or damaged in any indistinct
way; untouched imprecise; indistinct; not clearly
expressed; inexplicit
UPHEAVAL: VAIN:
n. Syn. disturbance; outburst a.
violent disturbance; sudden, having no real substance, value,
violent disruption or upset or importance; empty; void;
worthless; unsatisfying
UPHOLD: VALEDICTORY:
a.
v. Syn. support; preserve;
of speech given in farewell, especially
maintain
one delivered by an outstanding
support; preserve; hold aloft; member of graduating class
raise
VALIANT:
UPKEEP:
a.
n.
vigorous in body; strong;
act of keeping up, or maintaining;
powerful; performed with valor
maintenance
or bravery; heroic
VALID:
UPTIGHT:
a. Syn. sound; true
a.
logically convincing; sound; legally
being in a tense state;
acceptable; well grounded
excessively concerned with rules
and order
VANGUARD:
URGE:
n. Syn. forerunner
v. Syn. entreat; advocate
advance forces; leading units at
force in an indicated direction;
front of army or fleet; persons at
stimulate; excite
forefront of any group or movement
VANISH:
v. Syn. disappear
disappear; pass out of sight,
especially quickly; die out
VANITY:
n.
quality or state of being vain;
emptiness; feelings of excessive
pride; conceit
VARIABLE:
n. Syn. factor
factor; something that is likely
to vary; changeable; inconstant
VARIATION:
n. Syn. change; selection;
deviation
act of changing or altering
VAST:
a. Syn. large; broad; extensive
large; broad; extensive; very
great in size, number, amount, or
quantity
VEIN:
n.
blood vessel that carries blood
VENERATE:
v.
treat with great respect and
deference; consider hallowed or
be in awe of
VENOMOUS:
a. Syn. poisonous; noxious
poisonous; secreting and
transmitting venom; marked by
deep ill will; deliberately harmful
VENTURESOME:
a. Syn. bold
willing to try new things and take
risks; bold
VENUE:
n. Syn. place; locality
scene of any event or action; locality
where a crime is committed or a
cause of action occurs
VERBOSE:
a. Syn. wordy
wordy; using or containing a great
and usually an excessive number
of words
VERGE:
n. Syn. border; edge
extreme edge or margin; border;
enclosing boundary; space
enclosed by such a boundary
VERTIFY:
v. Syn. confirm; prove
confirm; prove the truth of by
presentation of evidence or
testimony
VERSATILE:
a. Syn. flexible; pliable
having many talents; capable of
working in many fields
VESSEL:
n. Syn. craft; ship
craft; ship; container for liquids
VIVID: WAN:
a. Syn. bright; lively a. Syn. pallid
bright; lively; graphic; having having a pale or sickly color;
striking color unnaturally pale, as from physical
or emotional distress
VOGUE: WANDER:
n. v.
popular fashion; current state or move about without a definite
style of general acceptance and destination or purpose; range
use about; stroll; go away; depart
VOLATILE: WANE:
a. Syn. changeable; explosive; fickle v. Syn. decline; dwindle
tending to vary often or widely, as in decrease in size or strength;
price; inconstant or fickle; tending to draw gradually to an end
violence

VEX: VOLUPTUOUS: WARD:

v. Syn. annoy; distress
annoy; disturb, especially by
minor irritations; be a mystery or
bewildering to
VIABLE:
a. Syn. feasible; practicable
practical or workable; capable of
maintaining life; capable of
continuing effectiveness
VICINITY:
n.
state of being near in space or
relationship; proximity
VIE:
v. Syn. contend; compete; rival
strive for victory or superiority;
contend; compete
a. n.
giving pleasure or satisfaction of guard; defender; protector;
the senses; having strong sexual state under guard; division of a
appeal county; division of a hospital
VOMIT: WARE:
v. n.
articles of merchandise; style or
throw up; eject from stomach
class of manufactures; especially, in
through mouth; disgorge the plural, goods; commodities;
merchandise
VOW: WARP:
n. Syn. promise n.
solemn promise made to God; rope used in moving a vessel, usually with
promise of fidelity; pledge of
one end attached to an anchor or other
fixed object; towing line; state of being
love or affection twisted or bent out of shape
VULNERABLE: WARY:
a. Syn. defenseless; susceptible a. Syn. cautious
susceptible to wounds; capable of very cautious; on guard; watchful
being wounded or hurt

VIGILANCE: WADE: WAXY:

n. Syn. watchfulness; alertness; caution
watchfulness; wakefulness; process of
paying close and continuous attention
VIGOROUS:
a. Syn. robust; strong; energetic
robust; strong; energetic, and
active in mind or body
VINDICATE:
v. Syn. exonerate
clear from blame; exonerate;
maintain, uphold, or defend
v. Syn. paddle a. Syn. pallid; smooth
paddle; walk through relatively paleness; smooth and lustrous;
shallow water consisting of, abounding in, or
covered with wax
WAG: WEARY:
v. a. Syn. tired; exhausted;
move one way and the other with fatigued
quick turns; shake to and fro; move in
tired; exhausted; physically or
vibrating; cause to vibrate
mentally fatigued
WAGE: WHOLESOME:
v.
a. Syn. healthful; beneficial
hazard on the event of a contest; stake;
engage in, as a contest; adventure, or lay conducive to sound health or
out, for hire or reward; hire; employ well-being; beneficial

VISCERAL: WAIL: WICKED:

a.
felt in one's inner organs; obtained
through intuition rather than from
reasoning or observation
VITAL:
a. Syn. critical; animated
full of life; animated; necessary
to continued existence; living or
breathing
v.
grieve or protest loudly and
bitterly; express sorrow by a
mournful vocal sound; moan; cry
WALKOUT:
n. Syn. strike
strike; act of leaving or quitting a
meeting, company, or organization,
especially as a sign of protest
a. Syn. sinful; immoral; profligate
evil in principle or practice;
contrary to moral or divine law;
addicted to vice or sin
WIDESPREAD:
a.
spread or scattered over a
considerable extent; occurring or
accepted widely
WILE: ZENITH:
n. n. Syn. summit
trick or stratagem practiced for point directly overhead in sky;
deception summit

WILY: ZONE:
a. Syn. cunning; artful n. Syn. region; district
cunning; full of tricks; skill in region; portion of the surface of
deception a sphere;

WINSOME:
a. Syn. agreeable; gracious;
engaging
agreeable; gracious; charming,
often in childlike or naive way
WITHDRAW:
v. Syn. retreat; depart
remove from; pull back; break
from gathering; retreat; depart

WITHER:
v. Syn. shrivel; decay
shrivel; decay; lose freshness,
vigor, or vitality; loss of moisture

WITHHOLD:
v. Syn. keep; restrain
refuse to give; refrain from
giving, granting, or permitting;
deduct from employee's salary
WITHSTAND:
v. Syn. oppose
stand up against; successfully
resist; oppose with force or
resolution
WOE:
n. Syn. affliction; regret
deep, inconsolable grief;
affliction; suffering; deep
distress or misery, as from grief
WRINKLE:
n. Syn. furrow; crease
a minor difficulty; a slight
depression in the smoothness of
a surface
YEARN:
v.
pain; grieve; vex; be pained or
distressed; feel deep pity,
sympathy, or tenderness
YIELD:
v. Syn. surrender; concede
give in; surrender; give forth a
natural product; be productive

ZEALOUS:
a. Syn. enthusiastic; fervent
enthusiastic; filled with or
motivated by zeal