PROFECTUS INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

Play Group to Matric, Intermediate, O & A Levels

VOCABULARY LIST FOR WORD WALL

BY SENIOR SCHOOL
500 WORDS INALPHABETICAL ORDER

SN WORD MEANING GROUPING

size, amount,
1 abate lessen
location
politics and
2 aberration deviation, not normal
tradition
friends and
3 abhor, abhorrence hatred
enemies
argument and
4 abstruse difficult to understand
language
politics and
5 accost confront
tradition
friends and
6 acrimony bitter animosity
enemies
knowledge and
7 acumen insightfulness
skill
politics and
8 adamant not yielding
tradition
knowledge and
9 adept skillful
skill
knowledge and
10 adroit skillful
skill
11 affected haughty pride
12 alacrity eagerness energy
13 allocate assign, portion size, amount,
 location
14 altruistic, altruism generous money
15 amenable yielding give up?
friends and
16 amiable friendly
enemies
friends and
17 amicable friendly
enemies
18 antediluvian very old time
knowledge and
19 anthropology study of human beings
skill
friends and
20 antipathy dislike
enemies
politics and
21 apathetic, apathy lacking interest
tradition
argument and
22 apt appropriate, inclined
language
23 arcane mysterious, known only by a few truth
politics and
24 ascendancy influence, domination
tradition
one who practices self-denial as a politics and
25 ascetic, asceticism
spiritual discipline tradition
26 aspire strive for give up?
praise and
27 assail belittle
criticism
28 assiduous diligent give up?
29 assuage relieve, appease give up?
size, amount,
30 atrophy waste away
location
size, amount,
31 attenuate weaken, reduce
location
politics and
32 august dignified
tradition
33 aura air, feeling emotions
34 auspicious favorable war and peace
politics and
35 autocrat, autocratic dictator, dictatorial
tradition
politics and
36 automaton a person who acts like a robot
tradition
37 avarice greed money
politics and
38 banal common
tradition
39 barrage bombardment, torrent war and peace
40 belie give a false impression truth
41 belligerent aggressive, warlike war and peace
42 benevolent generous money
43 bequeath hand down (through a will) money
praise and
44 berate scold harshly
criticism
supported by two opposing groups politics and
45 bipartisanship
(political parties) tradition
46 blighted destroyed war and peace
47 bog marsh, swamp science
48 bolster support war and peace
49 bombastic pompous emotions
knowledge and
50 boorish, boorishness crude
skill
51 buoyant cheerful, floating emotions
size, amount,
52 burgeon grow, flourish
location
53 buttress support war and peace
54 byzantine convoluted, complex the senses
cacophonous,
55 discordant sound the senses
cacophony
56 cajole coax argument and
 language
57 callous insensitive emotions
58 cantankerous(ness) irritable emotions
59 capricious fickle emotions
praise and
60 castigate belittle
criticism
61 caustic bitter emotions
praise and
62 censorious harshly critical
criticism
praise and
63 censure scold
criticism
knowledge and
64 cerebral intellectual
skill
65 chagrin mortification pride
66 charlatan swindler truth
praise and
67 chastise belittle
criticism
praise and
68 chide belittle
criticism
knowledge and
69 churlish vulgar, boorish
skill
70 circuitous indirect truth
size, amount,
71 circumscribe restrict
location
72 circumvent escape, avoid war and peace
73 clandestine secretive truth
74 coalesce blend, fuse science
argument and
75 compendious succinct
language
complacency,
76 self-satisfaction, smugness pride
complacent
77 compliant, compliance yielding give up?
78 conciliate, conciliatory compromising, apologizing pride
argument and
79 concur agree
language
80 conflagration large destructive fire war and peace
a place where things merge or flow
81 confluence science
together
friends and
82 congenial pleasant
enemies
knowledge and
83 conscientious careful
skill
praise and
84 consternation dismay
criticism
praise and
85 contempt(uous) disdainful
criticism
praise and
86 contemptible despicable
criticism
87 contentious belligerent, quarrelsome war and peace
88 convivial sociable, lively emotions
size, amount,
89 copious abundant
location
strengthen or support with additional
90 corroborate law and order
evidence
knowledge and
91 cosmopolitan sophisticated, urbane
skill
knowledge and
92 credulity, credulous the trait of trusting others too much
skill
praise and
93 culpable blameworthy
criticism
94 cursory hasty, superficial the senses
95 dauntless courageous give up?
size, amount,
96 dearth scarcity
location
97 debacle failure give up?
98 debilitate(d) weaken(ed) give up?
99 debunk prove wrong give up?
100 decimate destroy war and peace
101 decorum, decorous order, politeness law and order
102 deference, deferential respectful submission, yielding give up?
103 degradation humiliation pride
104 deleterious harmful war and peace
argument and
105 delineate list, explain
language
106 demonstrative openly emotional emotions
107 demure, demurral overly modest pride
108 demystify make clear and comprehensible truth
praise and
109 denigrate belittle
criticism
politics and
110 depose dethrone, remove from power
tradition
111 depravity moral corruption war and peace
praise and
112 deprecate disapprove, belittle
criticism
depreciation,
113 decrease in value money
depreciatory
praise and
114 deride make fun of
criticism
politics and
115 derivative not original
tradition
praise and
116 derogatory, derogate disparaging, belittling
criticism
politics and
117 desecration violate the sacredness of
tradition
118 despondent sad, depressed emotions
politics and
119 despot dictator
tradition
120 destitute poor money
121 deterrent hindrance, impediment give up?
size, amount,
122 devoid lacking
location
knowledge and
123 didactic (often excessively) morally instructive
skill
124 diffident, diffidence shy emotions
size, amount,
125 diffuse spread out
location
argument and
126 digress(ion) stray from the subject at hand
language
127 dilatory tending to waste time time
size, amount,
128 diminutive, diminution extremely small
location
129 dire urgent, dreadful war and peace
knowledge and
130 discern, discerning perceive, perceptive
skill
131 discomfited disappointed, defeated emotions
praise and
132 discount (verb) disregard
criticism
133 disheartening discouraging give up?
134 disillusionment disenchantment, disappointment emotions
135 disingenuous insincere truth
praise and
136 disparage belittle
criticism
137 dispassionate unemotional emotions
138 dispel to drive away or disprove give up?
friends and
139 disputatious quarrelsome
enemies
140 disquiet(ing) (causing) anxiety give up?
141 disseminate scatter widely science
 friends and
142 distaste dislike, aversion
enemies
143 divergent different, conflicting war and peace
144 divisive creating conflict war and peace
145 divulge make known truth
religious, political, or philosophical politics and
146 doctrine
principles or teachings tradition
tending to force one's own opinions on politics and
147 dogmatic
other people tradition
148 dormant inactive energy
149 dupe deceive truth
150 duplicitous, duplicity deliberately deceptive truth
151 ebullient enthusiastic energy
politics and
152 eclectic from diverse sources
tradition
size, amount,
153 efface(ment) erase
location
154 effervesce bubble, fizz science
politics and
155 egalitarian belief in equality
tradition
156 elated, elation joyful emotions
157 elicit bring about science
argument and
158 elucidate clarify
language
159 elude evade war and peace
160 elusive difficulty to catch or define war and peace
161 embitter(ed) make worse war and peace
argument and
162 embroil(ed) involve in an argument or conflict
language
friends and
163 empathetic, empathy compassionate
enemies
 based on observation and experiment (not argument and
164 empiric(al)
theory) language
size, amount,
165 encompass include, surround
location
size, amount,
166 encroaching intrusive
location
167 encumbrance burden war and peace
168 enigma(tic) mystery, mysterious truth
argument and
169 enumerate list
language
170 ephemeral short-lived time
knowledge and
171 epiphany sudden realization
skill
argument and
172 epitome, epitomize representative example
language
173 equanimity calmness energy
174 equitable even-handed law and order
argument and
175 equivocal ambiguous
language
knowledge and
176 erudite, erudition scholarly
skill
knowledge and
177 esoteric understood only by a few
skill
friends and
178 estrange, estrangement alienate, alienation
enemies
praise and
179 eulogy, eulogize praising speech
criticism
180 evoke bring about, stir up emotions
friends and
181 exacting demanding, severe requirements
enemies
size, amount,
182 excavate unearth, dig up
location
183 exemplar representative example argument and
 language
exhibitionist, deliberately behaving a certain way to politics and
184
exhibitionistic attract attention tradition
argument and
185 exhort encourage
language
186 exorbitant too expensive money
argument and
187 expedient useful
language
a report designed to reveal the truth to the
188 exposé truth
public
praise and
189 extol praise
criticism
size, amount,
190 extricate disentangle
location
191 facile superficial, effortless give up?
politics and
192 faction group within a larger group
tradition
193 fallacious deceitful, incorrect truth
194 fallacy false belief truth
politics and
195 fanaticism excessive enthusiasm
tradition
knowledge and
196 fastidious careful
skill
argument and
197 fathom (verb) understand
language
198 felicitous well-suited, happy emotions
knowledge and
199 finesse tact, elegant skill
skill
argument and
200 flagrant evident, obvious
language
201 flippant, flippancy disrespectful pride
argument and
202 florid(ity) flushed, flowery
language
 knowledge and
203 flummox confuse
skill
knowledge and
204 folly foolishness
skill
knowledge and
205 foolhardy recklessly daring
skill
206 forlorn sad emotions
207 fortitude courage emotions
208 fortuitous fortunate, lucky war and peace
209 fraudulent deceitful truth
210 frugal(ity) cheap(ness) money
211 furor commotion, anger emotions
212 furtive sneaky truth
213 futile, futility hopeless give up?
214 gait manner of walking the senses
215 gallant(ry) courageous give up?
size, amount,
216 gargantuan gigantic
location
217 garish tastelessly showy the senses
friends and
218 genial friendly
enemies
size, amount,
219 germinate (cause to) grow
location
220 glutton(ous) someone who eats and drinks too much the senses
knowledge and
221 grandiose pompous, pretentious
skill
politics and
222 hackneyed common
tradition
size, amount,
223 hamper (verb) hinder, restrict
location
224 hardy robust, sturdy energy
225 hasten speed up the progress of time
politics and
226 heresy, heretic belief contrary to the established opinion
tradition
227 histrionic excessively dramatic or emotional emotions
228 hubris arrogance pride
idiosyncracy, politics and
229 unique personal trait, quirky
idiosyncratic tradition
230 idyllic simply tranquil emotions
231 ignominy, ignominious dishonor, humiliation pride
232 illicit illegal law and order
233 impasse obstacle give up?
234 imperious arrogant pride
235 impetuous rash, passionate emotions
236 impudence, impudent disrespectful, insolent pride
knowledge and
237 inane senseless, stupid
skill
incongruity, argument and
238 inappropriateness, discrepancy
incongruous language
239 incredulous, incredulity skeptical truth
240 incriminate accuse someone of a crime law and order
size, amount,
241 incubate develop, grow
location
242 indeterminate left doubtful, inconclusive truth
243 indict(ment) formally accuse of a crime law and order
244 indigenous native to a region science
245 indignant angered (by injustice) law and order
size, amount,
246 indiscriminate unselective, random
location
247 indolent lazy energy
248 indomitable too strong to be defeated give up?
249 induce cause science
250 indulgent lenient law and order
argument and
251 ineffable impossible to express in words
language
knowledge and
252 ineptitude incompetence
skill
253 inert, inertia not moving or active science
knowledge and
254 ingenuous unsophisticated and trusting, naïve
skill
255 inherent intrinsic, natural science
size, amount,
256 inhibit(ing) restrain(ing)
location
size, amount,
257 innate intrinsic, natural
location
size, amount,
258 innocuous harmless
location
argument and
259 innuendo implicit suggestion
language
260 inscrutable mysterious truth
261 insipid dull, boring energy
262 insolence, insolent disrespectful pride
263 instigate provoke, start energy
size, amount,
264 insular(ity) related to or similar to an island
location
265 intrepid courageous give up?
size, amount,
266 inundate flood
location
267 invoke call forth, appeal to energy
268 irate angry emotions
incongruity between what is expected and
269 irony, ironic truth
what actually results
270 irreverent, irreverence disrespectful pride
271 jaded tired, bored emotions
272 jocular cheerful emotions
273 jovial cheerful emotions
274 judicious fair law and order
275 lackadaisical lacking energy, lethargic energy
argument and
276 laconic concise
language
277 laggard lazy person energy
278 languid inactive, dreamy energy
size, amount,
279 latent, latency the state of being not yet evident or active
location
praise and
280 laud, laudatory praise
criticism
281 listless languid, sluggish energy
knowledge and
282 lithe graceful, supple
skill
argument and
283 lucid clear, easily understood
language
284 lucrative profitable money
285 lull short period of calm energy
286 lurid sensational, shocking the senses
287 luxuriant lush, elaborate money
magnanimity,
288 generosity, generous money
magnanimous
289 malleable capable of being shaped, pliable the senses
290 marred scarred war and peace
291 maudlin overly sentimental emotions
292 melancholy bleak emotions
293 mercenary motivated by money money
294 mercurial fickle emotions
295 miserly cheap, stingy money
size, amount,
296 mitigate, mitigator moderate, alleviate
location
size, amount,
297 modicum small amount
location
298 morose depressed emotions
size, amount,
299 motley diverse, heterogeneous
location
300 multifarious many types science
argument and
301 nebulous vague
language
302 nefarious evil war and peace
knowledge and
303 neophyte beginner
skill
304 notoriety, notorious infamous, ill fame pride
praise and
305 noxious poisonous
criticism
argument and
306 nuance subtle difference
language
307 obdurate stubborn pride
308 obstinate (obstinacy) stubborn(ness) pride
friends and
309 officious meddlesome, interfering
enemies
310 onerous difficult, trying give up?
opportunist, a person who takes advantage of
311 pride
opportunistic opportunities, often unethically
312 oracle prophet time
politics and
313 orthodox conservative, traditional
tradition
314 ostensible apparent, seeming truth
knowledge and
315 oversight mistake
skill
 politics and
316 pacifist one who completely opposes violence
tradition
317 pacify soothe, calm energy
knowledge and
318 painstaking careful
skill
319 palliate, palliative relieve pain without curing war and peace
argument and
320 paradigm clear example
language
size, amount,
321 parch make dry
location
friends and
322 parody intentional mockery
enemies
politics and
323 partisan someone with biased beliefs
tradition
financially support, be condescending
324 patronize money
towards
size, amount,
325 paucity scarcity
location
pedant, pedantic, a person who makes a great show of his knowledge and
326
pedantry knowledge skill
327 peevish unpleasant emotions
328 penchant preference emotions
329 penurious cheap, stingy money
330 peremptory bossy, decisive pride
331 perfunctory done routinely with little interest or care emotions
size, amount,
332 peripheral outermost, secondary
location
333 perquisite additional payment, bonus money
334 petulant irritable emotions
philanthropist,
335 someone who supports charity money
philanthropic
politics and
336 piety, pious religious devotion
tradition
337 placate calm someone down energy
338 placid calm energy
malleability, the ability to be shaped or size, amount,
339 plasticity
molded location
340 plausible, plausibility likely true truth
size, amount,
341 plethora, plethoric surplus
location
size, amount,
342 pliable, pliant easily shaped or influenced
location
politics and
343 polemical controversial
tradition
argument and
344 prattle babble
language
345 precarious dangerous, unstable war and peace
346 precipitate outcome science
size, amount,
347 preclude prevent
location
early development in maturity and knowledge and
348 precocious
intelligence skill
349 presumptuous too bold, arrogant pride
350 pretext misleading claim or appearance truth
351 prevaricator liar truth
352 procure get or provide money
size, amount,
353 prodigious huge
location
354 profound, profundity intense, significant emotions
size, amount,
355 profuse, profusion plentiful
location
size, amount,
356 prohibitive, prohibition restrictive
location
proliferate, size, amount,
357 grow, increase
proliferation location
 size, amount,
358 prolific fertile, fruitful
location
argument and
359 pronouncement formal declaration
language
360 propensity inclination, tendency emotions
argument and
361 proponent supporter
language
argument and
362 prosaic lacking imagination, dull
language
363 prospective likely or expected to become time
364 provident prudent, frugal money
knowledge and
365 provincial narrow-minded, unsophisticated
skill
knowledge and
366 punctilious meticulous, attentive to detail
skill
knowledge and
367 pundit a knowledgeable commentator
skill
size, amount,
368 quell suppress, quench
location
knowledge and
369 quixotic foolish
skill
size, amount,
370 rampant unrestrained, growing
location
371 ramshackle poorly constructed the senses
friends and
372 rancor(ous) bitter resentment
enemies
friends and
373 rapport relationship
enemies
374 ratify approve, confirm law and order
375 raucous harsh, rowdy energy
size, amount,
376 ravenous insatiable, having a huge appetite
location
377 raze destroy, demolish war and peace
 size, amount,
378 reap harvest, gather
location
argument and
379 rebuttal defense, counterargument
language
380 recalcitrant stubborn pride
argument and
381 recant reject
language
size, amount,
382 recessive tending to go backward
location
friends and
383 recluse, reclusive hermit
enemies
384 rectify, rectitude put right, correct truth
385 redolent reminiscent, having smell the senses
386 refutation, refute arguing that a claim is false truth
387 regressive tending to return or revert time
size, amount,
388 relegate demote
location
size, amount,
389 relinquish give back
location
politics and
390 renounce reject
tradition
size, amount,
391 repertory collection
location
praise and
392 reprehensible blameworthy
criticism
praise and
393 reprimand belittle
criticism
praise and
394 reproach scold
criticism
argument and
395 repudiate reject
language
396 repugnant offensive, disgusting emotions
397 rescind annull, retract argument and
 language
398 reticent, reticence emotionally reserved emotions
politics and
399 reverent respectful, pious
tradition
(related to) elegant speech/writing, argument and
400 rhetoric(al), rhetorician
elegant speaker/writer language
401 rouse, rousing provoke, excite energy
knowledge and
402 sage wise
skill
403 sanctimonious pretending to be religious, hypocritical truth
404 sanction (verb) formally approve law and order
politics and
405 sanctity holiness
tradition
406 sanguine cheerfully confident, optimistic emotions
size, amount,
407 satiate satisfy fully
location
friends and
408 satire, satirical, satirize sarcastic imitation
enemies
size, amount,
409 saturate flood, soak
location
size, amount,
410 scanty barely sufficient
location
praise and
411 scathing harshly critical
criticism
412 scintillating lively, effervescent energy
size, amount,
413 scope opportunity, range
location
knowledge and
414 scrupulous very careful and precise
skill
argument and
415 scrutinize, scrutiny examine carefully
language
416 self-righteous smug, holier-than-thou pride
417 self-serving selfish pride
418 serendipity luck war and peace
419 servile submissive, subservient give up?
knowledge and
420 shrewd astute, smart
skill
421 shroud hide, obscure the senses
argument and
422 simile comparison
language
praise and
423 slight (verb) insult, snub
criticism
knowledge and
424 slipshod careless, sloppy
skill
425 solace comfort, consolation emotions
expressing care or concern, often too friends and
426 solicitous(ness)
much enemies
427 somber bleak emotions
428 sophistry deceptive reasoning truth
429 spartan simple, self-disciplined war and peace
430 sporadic occurring at irregular intervals time
431 spurious false, inauthentic truth
praise and
432 spurn reject with contempt
criticism
433 squander waste money
434 stagnant, stagnation not moving energy
435 stark(ness) harsh, plain the senses
436 static (adjective) not moving energy
politics and
437 staunch strong and loyal
tradition
438 steadfast not yielding give up?
politics and
439 stock (adjective) standard, hackneyed
tradition
440 strident loud and harsh politics and
 tradition
knowledge and
441 stupefy, stupefaction bewilder
skill
442 subservient yielding give up?
443 substantiate confirm, establish as genuine truth
one who intends to overthrow the politics and
444 subversive
government tradition
445 succulent delicious the senses
446 supercilious arrogant pride
size, amount,
447 superfluous more than necessary
location
politics and
448 supplant to take the place of
tradition
size, amount,
449 surfeit surplus
location
knowledge and
450 susceptible easily influenced or affected
skill
politics and
451 sycophant suck up, flatterer
tradition
argument and
452 tangential digressive, irrelevant
language
size, amount,
453 teem, teeming abundant
location
454 temperamental moody emotions
455 temporize delay, evade time
456 tenacious, tenacity stubborn, determined give up?
457 tenuous insignificant, flimsy give up?
praise and
458 tirade critical speech
criticism
politics and
459 toady suck-up
tradition
460 torpor drowsiness, apathy energy
 politics and
461 totalitarian undemocratic, rigid political control
tradition
praise and
462 tout praise
criticism
knowledge and
463 tractable easily managed or controlled
skill
464 transient lasting for only a short time time
extensive written argument about some argument and
465 treatise
topic language
466 trepidation apprehension emotions
467 tribulation suffering give up?
size, amount,
468 trifling frivolous, unimportant
location
politics and
469 trite common
tradition
470 truculent, truculence aggressive, bad-tempered emotions
size, amount,
471 ubiquitous ever-present, pervasive
location
472 unabashed not embarrassed pride
knowledge and
473 uncanny extraordinary, weird
skill
knowledge and
474 uncouth crude
skill
knowledge and
475 unfathomable incomprehensible, unbelievable
skill
knowledge and
476 ungainly clumsy
skill
477 unruly boisterous, unrestrained energy
friends and
478 unwitting unintentional
enemies
knowledge and
479 urbane elegant, sophisticated
skill
480 usurp seize power without authority politics and
 tradition
size, amount,
481 vacuous, vacuity empty
location
482 vanquish conquer, defeat war and peace
483 vapid dull, uninteresting energy
484 venal(ity) willing to accept bribes money
commanding respect because of age, knowledge and
485 venerable
dignity skill
argument and
486 verbose wordy, long-winded
language
felt indirectly by imagining someone
487 vicarious emotions
else's experiences
488 vigilant watchful, alert war and peace
489 vindicate, vindication clear of blame or suspicion law and order
490 vindictive seeking revenge war and peace
knowledge and
491 virtuoso, virtuosity one with exceptional musical skill
skill
492 virulent poisonous war and peace
size, amount,
493 viscous thick, sticky
location
494 vocation career money
495 vying striving give up?
size, amount,
496 waning lessening
location
497 wayward selfish, stubborn pride
498 wrath anger emotions
knowledge and
499 wry clever or grim sense of humor
skill
politics and
500 zealot fanatic
tradition