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1 Abjure renounce
2 Abode home
3 Addled confused
4 Affable friendly
5 Aloof reserved
6 Anarchist someone who promotes chaos
7 Antithesis opposite
8 Avarice greed
9 Boon gift
10 Chide scold
11 Contort twist
12 Contour outline
13 Colossal gigantic
14 Crude crass
15 Denigrate unfairly criticize
16 Deviation departing from an accepted standard
17 Discard reject
18 Dubious doubtful
19 Employ use
20 Equivocator someone who is unclear or does not give a direct response
21 Exalt elevate
22 Fallacy error
23 Foe enemy
24 Foible weakness
25 Fraction piece
26 Gaunt very thin from disease or hunger
27 Hackneyed repeated too often; overused
28 Hearty cheerful, loud, and wholesome
29 Herald announcer
30 Immaculate flawless
31 Indefatigable tireless
32 Infuriate to anger or enrage
33 Innocuous harmless
34 Inundate overwhelm or flood
35 Malicious spiteful
36 Meddlesome nosy
37 Nick a small scratch (noun) or to steal (verb)
38 Overbearing unpleasantly dominant
39 Pragmatist someone who promotes practical considerations
40 Somnolent sleepy
41 Steadfast determined, loyal, and consistent
42 Stern strict
43 Tact consideration and sensitivity in dealing with other people
44 Terrain land
45 Truculent quick to argue
46 Toxic poisonous
47 Venture daring journey or undertaking
48 Zealot a person who is uncompromising in their (usually religious) beliefs
49 Zest great enthusiasm or the peel of a citrus fruit
50 Zoological relating to animals
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VOCABULARY – LIST 2
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1 Acumen insight
2 Bestride straddle
3 Bridge structure over water; part of a ship from which the captain directs
4 Caboose rail carriage; rail car
5 Callow unfeeling
6 Castigate criticize
7 Catastrophe disaster
8 Citation quotation
9 Console comfort
10 Corroborate confirm
11 Covert secret
12 Cower crouch down in fear
13 Cultivate prepare; fertilize
14 Cumbersome difficult to carry or use; unwieldy
15 Dastardly wicked
16 Devious deceitful
17 Disinclined reluctant
18 Duress threat; violence; pressure
19 Edifice building
20 Encumber burden
21 Equilibrium balance
22 Flamboyant showy
23 Frank honest
24 Hubbub uproar
25 Idiosyncrasy peculiarity
26 Impartial neutral
27 Instigate stir up
28 Labyrinth maze
29 Lucid expressed clearly; easy to understand
30 Lull a temporary period of calm (noun); calm (verb)
31 Maven expert
32 Misgiving a feeling of doubt
33 Moreish palatable
34 Mortgage a type of loan usually to purchase a home
35 Muse a person or source of inspiration for an artist
36 Peddler someone who sells illegal goods; someone who sells small items
37 Plaintiff a person who brings a case against another person in a court of law
38 Predicament quandary
39 Qualm problem
40 Revenue income
41 Ruminate ponder
42 Sublime grandeur
43 Tentative provisional
44 Terrace patio
45 Transgression violation
46 Troubadour a person who sings lyrical poems
47 Venerate regard with great respect; revere
48 Yoke collar or harness (noun); strangle (verb)
49 Yuletide Christmas
50 Zenith the highest point
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VOCABULARY – LIST 3
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1 Antediluvian old-fashioned
2 Apparatus device
3 Ardor passion
4 Benevolence kindness
5 Blatant obvious
6 Beget cause or create
7 Cacophony a harsh discordant mixture of sounds
8 Chaff waste
9 Collegial college-like, shared, and generally atmosphere
10 Concur agree
11 Condescending patronizing
12 Conflagration fire
13 Contemporary modern
14 Credulous gullible
15 Deter discourage
16 Dormant inactive
17 Dormitory a university or college hall of residence
18 Elation happiness
19 Elucidate make clear
20 Epic a long poem
21 Epoxy glue
22 Exuberant lively
23 Forethought precaution
24 Haiku a poem consisting of three lines
25 Haughty arrogant
26 Hoax falsification
27 Incite rouse
28 Irate angry
29 Jovial happy
30 Lexicon dictionary
31 Lugubrious dismal
32 Malice spite
33 Mendicant beggar
34 Minutiae trivial details
35 Nadir the lowest point
36 Oath vow
37 Ostracize exclude
38 Peregrination journey
39 Pernicious harmful
40 Peruse read
41 Prehensile grasping
42 Raze tear down
43 Repugnant offensive
44 Sanguine optimistic
45 Smite strike
46 Taciturn silent
47 Tardy late
48 Ubiquitous found everywhere
49 Wan pale
50 Zenith summit
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VOCABULARY – LIST 4
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1 Ablution humorous term for washing oneself
2 Abhor detest
3 Acute severe
4 Antagonize make an enemy
5 Apathetic indifferent
6 Applicable appropriate
7 Apprehend arrest
8 Aspire dream
9 Assent approve
10 Baptism a religious act associated with Catholic Christianity
11 Barbell a type of weight used for lifting
12 Blithe showing casual indifference
13 Bore a boring person (noun); drill and make a hole (verb)
14 Brand mark
15 Circumspect cautious
16 Coronation the ceremony of crowning a new king
17 Crude unrefined
18 Deduce conclude
19 Demean degrade
20 Demote downgrade
21 Denounce publicly condemn
22 Diploma a certificate for successfully passing an educational course
23 Docile compliant, obedient, and submissive
24 Evade escape
25 Frivolous silly
26 Frolic cavort
27 Heedless reckless
28 Hoist raise
29 Hoodwink trick
30 Humility modesty
31 Idle lazy
32 Insipid dull
33 Irascible grumpy
34 Juvenile young
35 Livid furious
36 Loathe hate
37 Onerous exceedingly difficult
38 Partridge a type of bird
39 Regeneration restoration
40 Regimen plan
41 Remote faraway
42 Rendition version
43 Skulk cry
44 Spruce clean and tidy
45 Trounce rout
46 Unkempt untidy or disheveled appearance
47 Verbose wordy
48 Vivacious lively
49 Voracious insatiable
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