Theme Based GRE Wordlist:

Good and Bad, Right or Wrong, Proper and Improper:

Beneficent: doing or resulting in good
Blemish: a small mark or flow; spoil the appearance of something
Certitude: a qualification, achievement or quality used to indicate persons suitability for something
Congenial: friendly
Credential: qualification
Deleterious: harmful
Disproportion: a lack of proportion or equality
Errant: straying from the accepted course or standards
Execrable: very bad or unpleasant
Expurgate: remove matter regarded as obscene or unsuitable from a piece of writing
Fallacious: false
Falsify: alter information or evidence so as to mislead
Filth: disgusting dirt; obscene and offensive language or printed material
Impiety: lack of religious respect or reverence
Inclement: (of weather) unpleasantly cold or wet
Incorrigible: unreformable
Libel: the crime of publishing a false statement that defame others
Malignant: virulent, pernicious, and destructive
Malicious: meaning and meant to do harm
Noxious: toxic
Opprobrium: disgrace, dishonor, shame
Raucous: sounding loud and harsh
Seamy: immoral and unpleasant; sordid
Stigma: mark of disgrace (dishonor)
Specious: false but plausible
Superfluous: overabundant
Talisman: an object thought to have powers and to bring good luck
Unerring: always right or accurate
Verisimilitude: the appearance of being true or real

Support, help and aid

Abet: aid, encourage especially of crime
Alienate: estrange, antagonize, isolate, cut off, and turn away
Bank: a stock or supply available for use
Bar: forbid or prevent; except for
Benefactor: patron, sponsor
Blighted: a person regarded with scorn or pity
Bog :( be or get bogged down) be prevent from progressing
Casual: relating to or being a cause
Checker=chequer= chequered: having successful and unsuccessful period
Conducive: helping
Defect: defection; abandon your country or cause in favor of opposing one
Deterrent: hindrance
Dislodge: removed from a fixed position
Facilitate: make easier
Favoritism: the unfair favoring of one person or group at the expense of other
Foster: encourage
Goad: keep annoying or criticizing someone until they react; a thing, that stimulates someone into action
Hamper: obstruct
Impede: hinder
Impersonal: not influenced by personal feelings; lacking human feelings or atmosphere
Inhibit: restrain
Intervene: come between 2 people or things so as to prevent or alter a situation
Invigorating: give strength or energy to
Lionize: treat someone as celebrity
Nemesis: a means of punishment or downfall that is deserved and unavoidable
Occlude: block
Permissive: allowing freedom of behavior, especially in sexual matters
Prop: support or help someone or something that would otherwise fail or fall
Proponent: a person who proposes a theory, plan or project
Trigger: an event that cause something to happen
Vouch: confirm that something is true or accurate; say that someone is who they claim to be or that they are reliable or honest

Interpersonal engagement
Baffle: make someone feel puzzle
Bluster: a talk in a loud or aggressive way with little effect
Brawl: a rough/noisy fight
Concerted: jointly arranged or carried out
Console: comfort
Conciliatory: reconciling, to make calm and content, try to bring the sides in a dispute together
Contempt: the feeling that person or things is worthless or unworthy of respect
Damn: criticize strongly
Diatribe: bitter verbal attack
Discompose: disturb or agitate
Dote: be very fond of someone, ignoring their faults
Fawn :( fawning) try to please someone by flattering them and being too attentive
Fidelity: loyalty
Flout: to show disregard for the laws or rules
Fracas: a noisy disturbance or quarrel
Harry: harass
Hostility: showing or feeling dislike or opposition
Hubbub: a loud confused noise caused by a crowd; a busy, noise situation
Irk: irritate; annoy
Machiavellian: politically crafty, cunning
Minatory: threatening
Mingle: mix together
Mollycoddle: treat someone indulgently or too protectively
Nexus: link
Outwit: defeat or gain an advantage over some by being cleverer than they are
Outstrip: move faster than or overtake; go beyond or better than
Preempt: commander (take action so as to prevent something happening)
Regale: entertain
Shun: avoid or reject
Taunt: a remark made in order to anger, upset or provoke someone
Tryst: meeting, rendezvous
Unrequited :( of love) not returned
Vaunted: brag, say something boastfully
Vex: annoy, irritate
Vindictive: revengeful

Style of talking
Glib: insincere manner
Prate: babble (to talk foolishly and too much)
Slur: speak in an unclear way
Soliloquy: monologue
Spoonerism: a mistake in speech in which the initial sounds or letters of two or more words are accidentally swapped around
Stammer: speak or say with difficulty, repeating the first letters of the word and often pausing

Universities and places of learning

Matriculate: enroll at a college or university
Pedagogy: pertaining to teaching

Poverty and affluence

Destitute: poor
Doggerel: poor verse
Impoverish: make someone poor; make something poor in quality
Indigence: poor
Penury: poverty
Ramshackle: in a very bad condition

Medicine
Acne: a skin condition causing red pimples
Amnesia: loss of memory
Analgesic: pain soother
Anodyne: pain soothing
Canker: a destructive disease of trees and plants, caused by fungus; a condition in animals that causes open sores
Cathartic: purgative, purifying
Contusion: a bruise (discoloration)
Convalescent: recovering from an illness or medical treatment
Convulsion: a sudden, irregular movement of body caused by muscle contracting uncontrollably; uncontrollable laughter
Dispense :( of a chemist) prepare and supply medicine according to a doctor's prescription
Dyslexia: a disorder involving difficulty in learning to read words, letters and others symbols
Dyspeptic: relating to or suffering from indigestion; irritable, bad tempered
Dystrophy: a disorder in which an organ or tissue of the body wastes away
Elixir: a magical poton, especially one supposedly able to make people live forever
Emetic :( of a substance) causing vomiting
Endemic: Peculiar to particular religion
Febrile: having or showing the symptoms of a fever
Gangrene: the death of a body tissues, caused by an obstructed blood supply or by infection
Giddy: having a sensation of spinning around and losing your balance
Hypochondriac: a person who is excessively anxious about their death
Insalubrious: seedy; unwholesome (unhealthy)
Lancet: a small, broad 2 edged knife with a sharp point; used in surgery
Malinger: shirk, neglect, get out, avoid
Nauseate: (Nauseous) make someone feel sick or disgusted
Nostrum: a medicine that is prepared by an unqualified person and is not effective
Panacea: a solution or remedy for all difficulties or disease
Poultice: a soft moist mass traditionally of flour, bran, and herbs put on the skin to reduce inflammation
Psychosis: a mental disorder in which a person's perception of reality is severely distorted
Regimen: a course of medical treatment, diet, or exercise that you follow to improve your health
Salutary: good, wholesome (healthy)
Salubrious: good for your health
Septic: (of a wound or a part of the body) infected with bacteria
Therapeutic: relating to healing of diseases
Unguent: a soft greasy or thick substance used as ointment or for lubrication
Vertigo: dizziness

Music and language

Alliteration: the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of words next to or close to each other
Apothegm: a terse, witty (humorous, amusing) saying
Appellation: title
Argot: specialized vocabulary
Cacophony: dissonance, harsh noise
Cant: insincere speech
Coda: concluding passage
Canto: one of the sections into which some long poems are divided
Chorus: a part of song which is repeated after each verse; a group of singers performing with orchestra; a group of singers or dancers
in a musical or opera
Connotation: an idea or feeling suggested by a word in addition to its main meaning
Conservatoire: a college for study of classic music
Etymology: study of words
Linguistic: study of language
Madrigal: song for several voices without instrumental accompaniment
Metaphor: a word or phrase used in imaginative way to represent or stand for something else
Mode: a set of notes forming a scale and from which melodies and harmonies are constructed
Neologism: newly coined expression
Onomatopoeia: the use of words that sounds similar to noise described
Oratorio: a large scale musical work in a religious theme for orchestra and voices
Orthography: the conventional spelling system of a language
Pastiche: an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist or period
Patios: the local dialect of a religion, especially one with low status in relation to the standard language of the country
Percussion: musical instruments that are played by being struck or shaken
Phi logy: the study of the structure and historical development of a language
Rendition: a performance or version of a dramatic role or a musical work
Repertory: repertoire; the performance by a company of the plays, operas and ballets in its repertoire at its regular short
Simile: figure of speech
Reprise: repetition, especially a piece of music
Usage: the way in which words are used in a language
Verbation: in exactly the same words as were used originally; word for word
Predictions and hypothesis
Bode: be a sign of a good or a bad outcome
Clairvoyant: a person claiming to be able to see into the future or communicate with the dead; able to predict the future
Foreboding: act as an advance warning of something bad
Foreshadow: be a warning or indication of a future event
Ominous: suggesting that something bad is going to happen
Oracular: hard to interpret
Precursor: forerunner (ancestor, antecedent)
Prefigure: be an early sign or version of something
Premonition: warning
Presage: omen
Presentiment: a feeling that something unpleasant is going to happen
Smolder: feel strong and barely hidden anger, lust etc.

Types of communications
Apprise: inform
Approbation: approval
Arbitrate :( of an independent person or body) officially set a dispute
Babble: talk rapidly in a foolish or confused way
Banter :( bantering) friendly teasing between people
Blunt: very frank and direct
Blurt: say suddenly and without thinking
Brag: say something boastfully
Comeback: a quick reply
Contention: strong disagreement
Disclose: make secret or new information known
Divulge: disclose
Elicit: provoke, produce, give rise to, generate
Epilogue: a section at the end of a book or play which comments on what has happened
Expatiate: speak or write at length or in detail about
Gibberish: speech or writing that is meaningless or difficult to understand
Grouse: complaint or grumble
Grumble: complain in a bad-tempered way
Haggle: argue or negotiate with someone about the price of something
Harangue: tirade, scolding speech
Harp: keep talking about something in a boring way
Inarticulate: unable to express your ideas clearly
Overblown: made to seem more important or impressive that is really the case
Prattle: chatter
Querulous: complaining
Rave: talk angrily or without making sense
Reprobate: a person who behave in an immoral way
Repine: fret, worry
Sanction: approval
Spot: notice or recognize someone or something that is difficult to find or that you are searching for
Squabble: a noisy quarrel about an important matter
Suppliant: a person who makes a humble request
Unction: excessive politeness or flattery
Urge: strongly recommend
Whine: a long-pitched complaining cry (or unpleasant sound)

Mind and Memories

Anguish: severe pain or distress
Callous: insensitive
Cognition: the process of obtaining knowledge through thought, experience and senses
Composure: the state of being calm and self controlled
Daze: a state of stunned or bewilderment (confusion)
Distrait: preoccupied, absent minded
Ebullient: exuberant (cheerful, happy)
Effervescence: exuberance, cheerful, enthusiastic
Ennui: boredom
Faze: disturb or unsettle
Fickle: always changing one’s mind
Frenzy: a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behavior
Humor: the quality of being amusing; agree with the wishes of someone so as to keep them happy
Indecisive: not able to make decisions quickly; not settling in an issue
Languor: a pleasurable activity
Momentous: an object kept as reminder
Oblivious: not aware of what is happening around you
Paranoid: unjustified suspicion and mistrust of other people
Psyche: the human soul, mind or spirit
Qualm: sudden feeling of faintness or nausea
Serene: serenity, calm and peaceful
Tedium: the state of being tedious (boredom or dullness)
Temperament: a person's nature in terms of the effect it has on their behavior
Trenchant: incisive, penetrating
Vicarious: experienced in the imagination after watching or reading about another person's actions or feelings

Style of walking
Amble: walk at a leisurely pace
Canter: easy pace
Clamber: climb or move in an awkward way, using the hands and feet
Dapper :( of a man) neat in dress and appearance
Dart: a sudden rapid movement
Dribble :( in a sport) take ball forward with slight touch or (in a basketball) by continuous bouncing
Falter: move or speak hesitantly
Gait: a person's way of walking
Gambol: run or jump about playfully
Hurtle: move at a great speed
Limp: walk with difficulty because of an injured leg of foot
Loiter: stand around without any obvious purposes
Lope: run with a long bounding stride
Lopsided: with one sided lower or smaller than the other
Prance: walk with exaggerated movement
Ramble: walk for pleasure in countryside
Romp: play about roughly and energetically
Scale: climb up or over something high and steep
Slink: move quietly in a secretive way
Slither: move smoothly over a surface with a twisting motion, slide unsteadily on a loose or slippery surface
Sneak: move or talk in a secretive way
Strut: a proud, confident walk
Stumble: walk unsteadily
Swagger: walk or behave in a very confident or arrogant way
Tread: walk in a specified way
Ungainly: Clumsy, awkward, mean, miserly
Veer: change direction suddenly

Convention and protocol

Bearing: the way in which something is related to or influences something
Ceremonious: done in way appropriate to a grand and formal occasion
Convention: practice widely observed in a group: custom; accepted technique or device
Credo: a statement of person's beliefs or aims
Decorum: protocol
Impropriety: behavior that doesn't conform to accepted standards or principles
Mores: the customs and conventions of a community
Primogeniture: the system by which the eldest son inherits all his parents' property
Rubric: protocol; title or heading
Staid: respectable, unadventurous and rather dull
Stringent: (of regulations or requirements) strict and precise, requiring complete obedience
Unseemly: (of a behavior or actions) not proper or appropriate

State of the mind

Abash: humiliate, embarrass
Agog: very eager to hear or see something
Ambivalence: conflicting emotions
Apathy: indifference
Aspire: have ambitions to do or be something
Catharsis: the release of pent-up (unexpressed) emotions
Contrite: apologetic, sorry, remorseful
Cross: a thing that has to be endured (bear), oppose or thwart someone
Discomfit: make uneasy or embarrassed
Disquiet: feeling or worry or unease
Downcast: sad or depressed
Elysian: relating to or like paradise
Embitter: make bitter or resentful
Enervate: weaken
Enliven: make someone more cheerful or lively
Equable: even-tempered
Euphoria: elation, happiness, joy
Evocative: reveal the presence of
Exasperate: irritate
Extant: existing
Exult: show or feel triumphant joy
Fascinate: interest or charm someone greatly
Forlorn: very sad and lonely
Funereal: having the solemn character appropriate to a funeral
Gall: bold and disrespectful or rude behavior
Hackles: makes someone angry
Halcyon: serene (calm and peaceful)
Halting: slow and hesitant
Histrionic: overly dramatic
Imperturbable: calm
Indignation: annoyance caused by what is seen as unfair treatment
Mnemonics: that which aids the memory
Morbid: having an unhealthy interest in death and disease
Niggle: worry or annoy someone or something
Nostalgia: wistful (regretful) longing for a happier or better time in the past
Perceptive: able to understand the true nature of things
Placid: serene, calm, peaceful
Quietude: a state of calmness and quiet
Roil: mix up, whip
Rote: the learning of something by regular repetitions
Sensitize: make sensitive or aware
Sentimental: exaggerated feelings of tenderness, sadness or nostalgia, an opinion or feeling
Shallow: not thinking or thought out seriously
Somber: very solemn or serious
Sprightly :( especially of an old person) lively; energize
Tantrum: an uncontrolled outburst of anger and frustration
Temper: an angry state of mind
Torpid: lethargic, inactive
Tranquil: free from disturbances; calm
Trauma :( traumatic) a deeply distressing experience
Travail: work, drudgery
Turbulent: involving much conflict, disorder or confusion
Turmoil: a state of great disturbance, confusion or uncertainty
Vacillate: waver, hesitate
Wistful: yearning, having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing

Winds, Hills and Water

Airy: spacious and well ventilated; casual, dismissive
Barrage: a barrier placed across a river to control the water level
Billow :( of smoke, cloud or steam) roll outward; fill with air and swell out
Breach: make a hole in; break through; break a rule or agreement
Caulk=calk: a water proof substance used to fill cracks and seal joins
Confluence: the junction of two rivers
Drip: fall or let fall in small drops of liquid
Dys: form bad; difficult
Eddy :( of water, air, etc.)Move in a circular way
Floe: a sheet of floating ice
Ford: a shallow place in a river or stream where it can be crossed
Gale: a very strong wind
Gargoyle: a spout carved on the roof of a building to carry the rain water
Gush: flow in a strong, fast stream
Impervious: impenetrable
Levee: embankment, dam
Levitate: rise and hover in air
Maelstrom: whirlpool
Maneuver: a movement or series of movement requiring skills and care
Meander: roam, ramble, and wander
Milieu: a person's social environment
Navigable: wide and deep enough to be used by boats or ship
Navigate: plan and direct route of ships, aircraft, or other forms of transport
Pestilent: deadly; annoying
Potion: a drink with healing, magical or poisonous power; medicine
Quagmire: difficult situation
Ravine: a deep, narrow gorge with steep sides
Seep :( of a liquid) flow or leak slowly through a substance
Sluice: an artificial channel for carrying off surplus water
Sodden: soaked
Stanch: loyal
Stygian: an underworld river in Greek mythology
Surge: a sudden powerful forward or upward movement; a sudden large temporary increase
Swell: a slow, regular movement of sea in rolling waves that don't break
Trickle: (of a liquid) flow in a small stream
Trough: a channel used to convey a liquid
Turbid: muddy, clouded
Turgid: swollen
Undulating: surge, fluctuate
Vortex: a whirling mass of water or wind (whirlpool, eddy)
Wade: walk through water or mud
Waft: move easily or gently through the air; a gentle movement of air
Wake: a trail of disturbed water or air left by the passage of a ship or aircraft
Whiff: a puff / breath of air or smoke
Winnow: blow air through grain in order to remove the chaff
Wisp: a small thin bunch, strand or amount of something
Wrench: a sudden violent twist or pull

Disposition to something or someone

Abnegation: the giving up of something wanted or valuable
Abstinence: the avoidance of something enjoyable, such as food or alcohol
Affable: friendly
Affinity: fondness
Alacrity: swiftness, a bitter eagerness or enthusiasm
Amicable: friendly and without disagreement
Animus: hate
Apolitical: not interested or involved in politics
Bellicose: warlike, argumentative
Bookish: devoted to reading and study
Capricious: fickle, impulsive, changeable, volatile, mercurial
Captious: fond of finding fault on others
Carefree: free from anxiety or responsibility
Casual: relaxed and unconcerned, lacking care and thought
Chary: cautious
Clamor: noise
Cliché phrase or idea that has been used so often that is no longer interesting or effective
Compunction: remorse (regret)
Conceit: excessive pride in yourself
Contentious: argumentative
Crabbed :( of writing) hard to read; bad tempered
Cursory: hasty and therefore not thorough
Cynical: scornful of the motives of others, doubtful, (of action) done to benefit
Debauchery: indulgence (to allow (yourself) to have or do something as a special pleasure)
Deference: courteously yielding to others
Discerning: observant
Dawdle: more slowly; take your time
Equanimity: composure
Evenhanded: fair and impartial, unbiased
Fanciful: existing only on the imagination
Fatalism: the belief that events are decided in advance by supernatural power and that human have no control over them
Fervid :( fervent) very passionate
Flaunt: display proudly and obviously
Geniality: friendly and cheerful
Gingerly: in a careful or cautious way
Gruff: abrupt or unfriendly in a manner
Homage: honor shown publicly to someone
Humdrum: lacking excitement or variety, dull
Impassive: calm
Impenitent: not feeling shame or regret
Implacable: unwilling to stop being hostile towards someone or something
Indecisive: not able to make decisions quickly; not settling an issue
Indifferent: unconcerned
Indignity: treatment or circumstances that make you feel ashamed or embarrassed
Infantile: childish
Indomitable: invincible, in destructible, in conquerable, unbeatable
Incline: tend or be willing to think or do something
Insouciant: nonchalant, calm
Irascible: irritable
Jollity: the quality of being lively and cheerful
Jovial: cheerful and friendly
Judicious: prudent, wise, sensible, far sighted
Lethargic: drowsy, sluggish
Levity: frivolity, the treatment of a serious matter with humor or lack of respect
Materialism: luxuriate
Morose: sullen and bad tempered
Obsequious: fawning, servile, too obedient or respectful, trying too hard to please someone
Offhand: rudely casual or abrupt in manner, without previous thought
Overweening: arrogant, forward
Partisan: supporter
Penchant: inclination
Perfunctory: careless
Petulant: irritable, peevish
Poise: a calm and confident manner
Predilection: a preference or special liking for something
Presumptuous: assuming
Propensity: inclination; tendency
Prosaic: uninspired, flat
Pushy: too self assertive or ambitious
Recant: retract, withdraw a statement because it is not true, and go back on an agreement or promise (deny)
Reticent: reserved, not revealing your thoughts or feelings readily
Revulsion: a feeling of disgust and horror
Sardonic: scornful, mocking, and satirical
Scrappy: disorganized, untied or incomplete
Sedulous: diligent, showing dedication and great care
Slipshod: careless, thoughtless, or disorganized
Sober: not drunk, solemn and serious
Sobriety: composed
Squeamish: easily disgusted or made to feel sick; having very strong moral views
Stodgy: rather serious and dull ;( of food) heavy and filling
Stolid: impassive
Supercilious: arrogant
Unaccountable: not responsible for or required to explain the outcome of something; unable to be explained
Unwitting: not aware of full facts; unintentional
Vivacious: lively
Wary: guarded
Whimsical: capricious, unusual

Thought and Ideas

Apotheosis: the highest point
Apparent: clearly seen or understood; obvious, seeming real but not necessarily so
Brittle: sharp or artificial
Cerebration: the working of a brain; inking
Codify: organize procedures or rules into a system
Cognizance: knowledge or awareness
Comprehend: fully understand something
Contrive: plan or achieve in a clever or skillful way, manage to do something foolish
Credence: belief
Discretion: prudence, acting with or showing care and thought for the future
Doctrine: set of beliefs or thoughts
Dogma: principle laid by an authority and intended to be accepted without question
Esoteric: known by only one
Fallacy: false belief
Fathom: understand
Germinal: in the earliest stage of development
Iconoclastic: one who rails (bar) against sacred institutions
Inalienable: unable to be taken away or give away
Introspective: self-analysis
Intuition: the ability to understand or know something immediately, without conscious reasoning
Junket: take part in an extravagant trip at public expense
Maxim: a short statement expressing a general truth or rule of behavior
Misapprehension: mistaken belief
Muse: woman who is the inspiration for a creative artist; be absorbed in thoughts; say something to yourself in a thoughtful way
Paradigm: a model
Precept: principle, law
Rapt: completely interested or absorbed in someone or something
Rationale: justification
Reckon: have an opinion about something, think
Recondite: mystic, profound, (of a subject/knowledge) little known
Skeptical: doubtful
Syllogism: a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn from two propositions
Tenet: doctrine, teaching
Vacuous: inane, lacking sense, silly
Verbalize: express in words
Vernacular: common speech
Whim: a sudden desire or change of mind

Scientific Terms
Abortive: failing to achieve the intended result, unsuccessful
Ambience: the character and atmosphere of a place
Androgynous: partly male and partly female
Antipodal: exactly opposite
Axiom: self-evident truth
Autonomy: self-government, freedom of action
Coagulate: thicken
Cohesion: the fact of forming united whole
Correlate: be in or bring into a relationship in which one thing depends on another or vice versa
Convoluted: twisted, complicated
Denotation: denote, be a sign of
Discrete: separate
Effluent: liquid waste or sewage discharge into a river or the sea
Empirical: based on observation or experience rather than theory or logic
Equipoise: the state of balance between different forces or interests
Evanescent: fleeting, very brief
Extrapolation: to form an opinion or to make an estimate about something from k nown facts
Extrinsic: coming from outside; not part of the basic nature of something
Gyroscope: a wheel that spins quickly and is held in a frame that allows it to tilt in any direction
Hermetic: air tight, sealed
Impalpable: unable to be or felt by touch; not easily perceived or understood
Incoherent: hard to understand, unclear; not logical or well organized
Induct: formally admit someone to an organization or establish them in a post
Inductive: using a method of reasoning that draws general conclusions from particular facts or examples
Influx: the arrival or entry of large number of people or thing
Inherent: innate, inborn
Interpolate: insert
Lade: a vein of metal ore in the earth
Metallurgical: the scientific study of the properties, production and purification of metals
Metaphysics: a branch of philosophy that investigates the ultimate nature of reality
Obfuscate: bewilder, muddle
Obsidian: a dark glass like rock, formed when lava solidifies rapidly
Patina: a distinctive surface appearance and texture acquired over time: a soft glow on wooden furniture produced by age and
polishing
Pinion: the outer parts of bird's wings including the flight feathers; tie or hold someone by arms or legs
Plumb: measure
Porous: permeable, spongy
Prototype: a first or earlier form from which other forms are developed or copied
Quicksilver: liquid mercury
Rubric: a heading on a document; a set of instructions or rules
Saturate: soak
Schematic: (of thought, ideas etc.) simplistic and lacking originality
Sextant: navigation tool that determines latitude and longitude
Shard: fragment
Shear: cut or break off something; a strain produced by pressure in structure of substances, so that each layer slides over the next
Simulate: imitate the nature or appearance of; pretend to feel an emotion
Slag: a stony waste left when metal has been separated from ore by smelting or refining
Tangential: peripheral
Torque: a turning or twisting force
Touchstone: a standard by which something is judged
Activities that we engage in
Accost: to approach and speak to someone
Addle: confuse someone
Astringent: causing contraction, severe, harsh, acerbic
Avenge: punish or harm someone in a return for a wrong
Barefaced: done openly and without shame
Braid: threads woven into a decorative band
Bristling :( bristle) react angrily or defensively
Browse: look at goods or written material in a leisurely way

Char: partially burn something so as to blacken the surface

Chare: engrave metal, or a design on a metal
Chore: a routine or boring task, especially a household one
Choreography: the practice of designing dance steps and movements
Collate: collect and combine documents or information; compare sources of information
Contort: twist or bend something out of its normal shape
Dabble: move the hands your feet around gently in water, take part in an activity in a casual way
Daub: smear (spread) carelessly or heavily with a thick substance
Divest: strip, deprive
Douse: wet; extinguish a fire or light
Dowse: search for underground water or minerals
Emulate: Imitate
Feud: a long lasting and bitter dispute
Flay: strip the skin from a body or carcass; whip or beat very harshly; criticize harshly
Fleet: fast and nimble
Flip: turn over or move or throw with a quick, smooth movement, (flip your lid) suddenly become very angry and lose your self-
control
Flit: move quickly and lightly
Gesticulate: gesture dramatically instead of speaking or to emphasize speech
Grate: shred food by rubbing make an unpleasant scrapping sound, have an irritating effect
Gouge: overcharge (cheat, overprice)
Jab: poke (push) roughly or quickly with a sharp or pointed object
Jumble: an untidy collection of things; mix things up in a confused way
Lurk: wait in hiding so as to attack someone or something
Mangle: destroy or severely damage by crushing and twisting; a machine that squeeze wet laundry to remove water
Mash: crush or beat something to soft mass, pulverize, squash; boiled and mashed potatoes
Oust: force out if a job or position of a power
Overturn: turn over and come to rest upside down, abolish or reverse a decision, system etc.
Persevere: continue in a course if action in spite of difficulty or lack of success
Pinch: informal. Steal something
Pore: study or read something with close attention
Precipitous: dangerously high or steep, sudden and considerable
Preen: make yourself look attractive ;( preen yourself) feel very pleased with yourself
Pries: enquire too intrusively into a person's private affairs
Ransack: go hurriedly through a place stealing things and causing damage
Recline: lean or lie back in a relaxed position
Rip: tear or pull forcibly away, move rapidly, (rip something off) steal something
Shackle: a restrain, limit
Skim: move quickly and lightly over or in a surface through air; remove a substance from a liquid surface deal briefly
Smother: suffocating others, make someone overwhelmed by being too protective of them
Snicker: snigger (laugh)
Snip: cut with scissors using small, quick strokes; a small piece that has been cut off
Splice: join pieces of timber, film, ropes or tape at the ends
Squander: waste
Squat: crouch or sit with the knees bent and the heels close to the bottom or thighs
Stipple: mark a surface with many dots; produce a decorative effect on paint or other material by roughening the surfaces when wet
Stratified: form into layers
Strew: scatter untidily over a surface or area
Suckle :( with reference to a baby or young animal) feed from the breast
Swathe: wrap in several layers of fabrics
Thrash: beat someone or something repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip
Tonsure: a circular area on a monks or priests head where the hair is shaved off
Topple: overbalance and fall down, remove a government or leader from power
Vendetta: grudge, feud, a prolonged quarrel with someone
Volition: a person's power to choose freely and make their own decisions
Waver: move quiveringly, flicker, and begin to weaken; flatter, be indecisive

Special Adjective
Acerbic: sharp and direct
Ambiguous: unclear
Analogous: similar
Assiduous: hardworking
Awful: very bad/unpleasant, used for emphasis
Banal: trite (boring because it is not original)
Dingy: gloomy and drop
Disparate: various
Exact: use authority to force payment
Ferocious: savagenly fierce; cruel or violent
Flashy: attractive in a showy or cheap way
Germane: relevant
Gnarled: knobby; rough and twister
Gross: unattractively large, very unpleasant, very obvious and unacceptable, rude or vulgar
Grueling: very tiring and demanding
Headlong: in a rush
Homespun: simple and unsophisticated ;( of clothes or yarn) made at home
Implausible: unlikely
Imprudent: not showing care for the result of an action; rush
Incontrovertible: indisputable
Inextricable: impossible to untangle or separate
Inimitable: impossible to imitate; unique
Irrefutable: impossible to untangle or separate
Irretrievable: not able to be improved or set right
Mangy: having mange (dirty); in poor condition; shabby
Mauve: a pale purple color
Monolithic: large and uniform
Onerous: burdensome
Peremptory: dictatorial, insisting an immediate attention or obedience
Precarious: dangerous, risky
Provisional: arranged for the present, possibly to be changed later
Qualified: limited
Requisite: necessary
Slack: loose, (of business or trade) not busy, careless or lazy
Slick: done or operating in efficient way, self confident but insincere; smooth, wet, and slippery or glossy
Stereotype: an oversimplified idea of the typical characteristic of a person or thing; represent in an oversimplified way
Subjective: based on or influenced by personal opinions
Tacit: understand without being spoken
Tawny: of an orange-brown or yellowish-brown color
Tortuous: full of twists and turns, excessively lengthy and complex
Ulterior: hidden, covert
Unearthly: unnatural or mysterious; unreasonably early or inconvenient
Unobtrusive: not conspicuous or attracting attention
Unprepossessing: not attractive or impressive
Venal: mercenary, for the sake of money
Viable: capable of surviving
Volatile: unstable

Improve or Worsen
Ameliorate: improve
Anneal: strengthen
Burnish: polish, brighten
Denigrate: defame, write or say something that damages one's reputation
Devolve: transfer
Dross: remains
Enhance: improve
Exhilarating: making one feel very happy, animated, or elated; thrilling
Expedite: hasten
Explicate: analyze and develop (an idea or principle) in detail.
Extemporize: improvise
Foment: instigate, make something happen or begin
Fray: fight, battle
Ignominy: offensive
Innocuous: harmless
Insidious: treacherous, not loyal or able to be trusted
Jeopardize: hazard, risk
Maleficent: sinful; immoral
Smudge: a dirty mark or smear
Vitiate: spoil, ruin

Of people:
Aboriginal: indigenous
Adjunct: a person associated with lesser status, rank, authority etc in some duty or service; assistant
Anthropomorphic: (of a god, animal or object) treated as if having a human feeling
Bourgeois: middle class
Buffon: a ridiculous but amusing person
Bust: bankrupt
Caucus: meeting
Cavalcade: a procession or series of vehicles or riders
Censor: an official that examines material to be published and bans anything considered to be offensive
Clipper: the striker of a bell
Clique: a small group
Connoisseur: an expert, gourmet
Coquette: a flirt, behave as if trying to attract someone sexually but without serious intentions
Counterpart: a person that corresponds to another
Craven: cowardly
Crone: an ugly old woman
Curator: a keeper of museum or other collection
Demure: sedate, reserved
Denizen: dweller, an inhabitant or occupant of a place
Deputize: temporary act on behalf of someone
Despot: tyrant, a ruler with total power, especially one who uses it in a cruel way
Dignitary: a high ranking person
Dowdy :( especially of a woman) unfashionable and dull in appearance
Drudge: a person made to do hard; menial or dull work
Dummy: a model of a human being
Erudite: learned
Executioner: an official who executes condemned (criticized) criminals
Expatriate: a person who lives outside their native country
Factotum: handyman, an employee who does all kinds of work
Flighty: unreliable and uninterested in serious things
Forerunner: a person or thing that comes before and influence someone or something else
Gawk: state in a rude or stupid way
Grouch: a person who is often grumpy; a complaint or grumble
Hostage: a person held prisoner in an attempt to make other people give in to a demand
Hothead: a rash or quick tempered person
Impious: not showing respect or reverence
Inamorato: a person's lover
Internecine: mutually destructive
Intimate: allude to
Itinerant: wandering
Jaunty: lively and self confident
Junta: small ruling people
Liberal: tolerant; broadminded
Libertine: roué, rake, a man who behaves in an unprincipled way, especially in sexual matters
Literati: scholarly of learned persons
Luminary: a person who inspires or influences people
Magnanimous: generous, kindhearted
Magnate: a powerful, successful person
Mendicant: beggar
Merger: a person who attacks and robs someone in a place
Miscreant: evildoer
Misogynist: hatred of women
Neophyte: engineer
Officious: forward, obtrusive
Outcast: a person rejected by their society or social group
Paragon: standard of excellence
Poseur: a person who pretends to be what he or she isn't in order to impress
Prodigy: a person with extraordinary ability or talent
Profligate: licentious, prodigal, recklessly extravagant or wasteful, indulging too much in physical pleasures
Pundit: politically acute person
Quorum: majority
Ragamuffin: a person in raged dirty clothes
Rakish: having a dashing, jaunty or slightly disreputable appearance
Regent: a person appointed to rule a state because king or queen is young, or unfit to rule, or is absent
Retinue: a group of advisers or assistants accompanying an important person
Rundown: in a poor or neglected state
Sage: wise person
Savant: a knowledgeable person
Sect: a group of people with different religious beliefs from those of a larger group to which they belong
Sinecure: position with little responsibility
Solicitous: considerate, concerned
Sluggard: a lazy; inactive person
Sociopath: a person with mental disorder showing itself in extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviors
Straggle: to move away or spread out from others in a disorganized way
Suitor: a man who wants to marry a particular woman
Tart: a woman who have many sexual partners; prostitute
Tramp: a homeless person who travels around and lives by begging or doing casual works
Trickster: a person who cheats or deceives someone
Tycoon: a wealthy, powerful person in business or industry
Urchin: a poor child dressed in ragged (worn out) clothes
Vagaboard: a person who has no settled home or job
Veracious: truthfulness
Waif: a homeless and helpless person, especially a child; a persons who appear thin or pale
Ward: a young person under care and control of a guardianship appointed by their parents or court
Yeoman: a man owning a house and a small area of farming land; a servant in a royal or noble household
Zany: amusingly unconventional and individual
Zealot: fanatic, a person who holds extreme or dangerous political or religious opinions

Human body
Carnal: of the flesh or body, related to physical appetite
Hirsute: bearded, hairy
Incarnate: embody, personify
Inchoate: just begin; embryonic
Pallid: pale, sallow
Sanguinary: gory, murderous, involving much bloodshed
Stentorian: loud
Somatic: pertaining to the body
Supine: lying on the back
Visage: facial expression

Large and small, high and low, more and less

Abysmal: deficient
Aloft: up or into the air
Apex: highest point
Bountiful: abundant
Caldron: a large metal cooking pot
Climactic: forming an exciting climax
Colossal: very large
Commensurate: proportionate
Copious: abundant
Dearth: scarcity
Declivity: a downward slope
Dinghy: a small boat
Fallible: capable of making mistakes or being wrong
Grandeur: the quality of being grand and impressive
Grandiloquent: using long or difficult words to impress
Helm: a position of leadership
Insurmountable: too great to be overcome
Lag: a person who has repeatedly been sent to prison
Lilliputian: very small
Meteoric: (of progress or development) very rapid
Microcosm: a thing that represents something much larger
Minuscule: small
Modicum: pittance
Nadir: lowest point
Paucity: scarcity
Pithy: concise
Plenitude: a large amount of something
Plethora: overabundance
Prodigious: marvelous, enormous
Profusion: overabundance
Proliferate: increase rapidly
Prolific: fruitful, productive
Scrap: a small piece or amount of something
Speck: a tiny spot or particle
Substantive: substantial
Surfeit: overabundance
Transcendent: going beyond normal or physical human experience (into a spiritual)
Trifle: a thing of little value or importance, a small amount
Trivia: unimportant details or pieces of something
Understate: describe or represent something as being smaller or less important than it really is
Uproarious: very noisy and lively, very funny
Voluminous: bulky, extensive
Whit: a very small part or amount

Unclassified words
Aegis: that which protects
Bullion: gold or silver in bulk being made into coins
Circuitous: round about
Converge: come together
Dissonance: discord, lacking harmony
Clip: cut out
Clasp: grasp something tightly with your hand
Confound: surprise or bewilder someone, defeat a plan or hope
Celerity: speed of movement
Conversant: familiar with or knowledgeable about
Dump found: greatly astonish someone
Execrate: feel or express great hatred for
Fringe: a boarder of hair or the outer part of something
Halfhearted: without enthusiasm or energy
Hinterland: remote areas; away from coast and major rivers
Impute: charge
Inroad: a gradual entry into or effect on a situation
Knack: a habit or skill of doing something
Lace: add an ingredient to a drink or dish to improve the flavor or to make stranger
Loll: sit, lie or stand in a lazy, relaxed way
Lot: a lot; situations; a plot of land; lottery
Macula: an area of skin discoloration
Noose: a loop with a knot which tightens as rope or wires is pulled, used to hang people or trap animals
Obviate: make unnecessary
Paradox: a person or thing that combines contradictory qualities
Polarize: divide people into 2 sharply contrast group with different opinions; restrict the vibrations of a traverse wave
Podium: a small platform on which a person stands when conducting an orchestra or giving a speech
Pummel: strike repeatedly with fists
Seine: fishing net
Tessellated: decorated with mosaics
Vying: compete eagerly with other people in order to do or achieve something
Willowy: tall and slim; bordered, shaded, or covered by willow (shrub)
Wilt: old fashioned

Law, crime and investigation

Abjure: renounce (reject)
Coroner: an official who holds inquests into violent, sudden, or suspicious death
Covenant: agreement, pact
Cue: a signal or reminder for someone to do something
Debar: officially ban someone from doing something
Demur: take exception
Deport: force a foreigner or immigrants to leave a country
Emancipate: liberate
Exculpate: show or declare that someone is not guilty of wrongdoing
Exonerate: free from blame
Fetter: shackles, chain, bind, tie (up)
Frisk: pass the hands over someone in a search for hidden weapons or drugs; skip or move playfully
Fugitive: a person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding
Impunity: exemption from harm or freedom from punishment or harm
Indemnify: pay money to something
Litigation: legal proceedings
Intrude: come into a place or situation where you are unwelcome or uninvited
Outlaw: a person who has broken the law
Prerogative: a right or privilege belonging to a particular person or group
Reparation: amends, atonement
Repeal: officially cancel a law or act of parliament
Retribution: reprisal, severe punishment in revenge for a wrong or criminal act
Rider: a condition added to an agreement or document
Rusticate: suspended
Sedition: treason, the crime of betraying your country
Statutory: required or permitted by law
Unearth: discover by investigation or searching

Rebelling against something

Adamant: insistent, refusing to change your mind about something
Audacity: boldness, bold and daring actions or behavior, rude or disrespectful behavior
Blatant: open and unashamed
Brazen: bold and shameless
Contumacious: disobedience
Deprecate: belittle, dismiss as an important
Defiance: open refusal to obey
Dissent: disagreement
Fractious: bad tempered, difficult to control
Hegemony: authority, domination
Intractable: unmanageable
Invincible: too powerful to be attacked or dishonored
Irreconcilable: Incompatible; not able to be settled
Negate: cancel
Obdurate: unyielding, stubborn
Reactionary: opposing political or social progress or reform
Recalcitrant: stubborn
Refractory: obstinate, stubbornly refusing to change your mind, hard to deal with
Refute: disprove
Remonstrate: protest
Renegade: a person who deserts and betrays organizations, country born set of principles
Renege: break a promise
Repudiate: disavow, deny any responsibility or support for
Withhold: refuse to give; suppressed or hold back an emotion or reaction

Special verbs:
Abscond: to run away secretly
Assimilate: absorb
Bedraggle: disheveled or untidy
Befuddle: confuse someone
Blanch: make or become white or pale
Bump: a light blow or collision: a swelling on level surface
Bungle: perform a task in a clumsy or unskillful way
Chuckle: laugh quietly or inwardly
Debut: a person's first appearance in a role; perform in a public for the first time
Default: failure
Delineate: draw a line around, describe
Disseminate: distribute
Disport: enjoy yourself in an unrestrained (to keep something under control) way
Doff: remove your hat when greeting someone
Elope: run away secretly in an unconstrained way
Emaciated: underfed, gaunt (to waste away physically)
Emanate: come or spread out from a source; give out
Gainsay: contradict
Glaze: lose brightness and liveliness
Impart: provide information; give a particular quality to
Muddle: confuse someone
Ooze: give a powerful impression of
Reciprocate: respond to an action or emotion with a similar one
Rescind: revoke, officially cancel a decree or decision
Sheathe: put a knife or sword into a sheath; a close fitting coverings or dress
Slacken: made or become less active or intense; make or become less tight
Take off: action of becoming air borne, an act of mimicking someone or something
Unravel: solve a puzzle or mystery, begin to fail or collapse
Wag: move rapidly to and fro

Strength
Aggrandize: exaggerate
Ardor: passion
Behemoth: monster, huge
Chivalrous: (of a man) polite and gallant (brave) towards a women
Contend: struggle
Dauntless: courageous
Domineering: arrogant and overbearing
Efficacy: effectiveness
Effrontery: insolence, rude and disrespectful
Ensconce: settle yourself in a comfortable, safe, or secret place
Fetish: something to which a person is obsessively devoted; a form of sexual desire in which sexual pleasures is gained from an
object or part of the body
Formidable: causing fear or respect through being very large, powerful, or capable
Forte: a thing for which someone has a particular talent
Immutable: unchangeable
Indefatigable: never tiring or stopping
Ingrained: (of habit) firmly (strongly) established and hard to change
Insuperable: insurmountable, too great to be overcome
Intrepid: fearless
Inured: accustom, habituate, and harden
Inviolable: never to be attacked or dishonored
Irrepressible: not able to be restrained
Omnipotent: all powerful
Pluck: courage
Preponderance: predominant
Puissant: strong
Resolution: determination
Restrain: keep someone or something under control within limits
Sturdy: confident and determined
Temerity: boldness, confidence and brave
Unassailable: unable to be attacked, questioned or defeated
Verve: vigor, spirit and style
Willful: deliberate, stubborn and determined

Creation and destruction

Bludgeon: bully (frighten) someone into doing something
Bowdlerize: remove indecent or offensive material from a written work
Burgeon: sprout
Demolition: act of demolishing (pull or knock down a building; thoroughly defeat someone) something
Disjunction: a difference between things expected to be similar
Dismember: tear or cut limbs from a person or animal; divide up a territory or an organization
Emboss: carve or mould a raised design on
Engender: generate
Estranged: no longer friendly or close to someone
Fructify: make or become fruitful
Hatch: form a plot or plan
Incorporate: combine
Quash: put down, suppress
Rubble: rough fragments of stone, brick or concrete
Saboteur: a person who damage or destroy something
Schism: rift, rupture
Scotch: put an end to
Squash: force into a restricted space
Stymie: hinder, thwart
Trample: crush, squash

Increase or decrease
Abridge: shorten
Accretion: grow larger
Aggregate: total, collect
Allay: to assure
Anticlimax: a disappointing end to an exciting series of events
Attenuate: weaken
Chasm: deep crack or opening in earth; a marked difference between people and opinions
Coalesce: combine
Dwindle: gradually become smaller or weaker
Impregnate: saturate with substance; feel with a feeling or quality
Plummet: fall
Relegate: assign to an inferior position
Shrivel: wrinkle and shrink through loss of moisture
Subside: diminish
Superannuated: cause someone to retire with a pension; too old or outdated to be effective or useful

Cheating
Adulterate: contaminate, corrupt
Affected: influence
Betray: be disloyal to country or someone
Canard: hoax, a humorous or cruel trick
Chicanery: trickery
Collusion: conspiracy, a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful
Cozen: deceive someone
Cunning: skill at deceiving people, ingenious or clever
Decoy: person or thing used to mislead or lure someone into a trap
Delusive: false belief or impression about yourself
Despoil: steal valuable possessions from a place
Devious: skilful in using underhand tactics
Dissemble: pretend
Dupe: one who is easily tricked, victim
Equivocate: make intentionally ambiguous
Feint: make a pretend attacking movement in boxing or fencing
Forge: create
Fraudulent: involving the useful of deception to gain money or personal advantage, deceitful or dishonest
Freebooter: a person who behave in an illegal way for their own advantage
Furtive: stealthy, cautious and secretive
Gullible: easily deceived
Hoax: a humorous or cruel trick
Hoodwink: deceive or trick someone
Impostor: an act of pretending to be someone else so as to deceive
Meretricious: appearing attractive but in reality having no value
Mucky: dirty, sordid or indecent
Perfidious: treacherous i.e. disloyal (of a person)
Prevaricate: lie
Ruse: an action intended to deceive or trick someone
Sanctimonious: self-righteous
Swindler: use deception to obtain money or possessions from someone
Wangle: obtain something desired by trickery or persuasion
Wizardry: the art or practice of magic

Conforming to something
Acquiesce: agree passively
Affirmative: a statement or word that shows agreement
Amenable: agreeable
Compliant: submissive (too obedient)
Conformist: a person who behaves or thinks in an expected or conventional way; following accepted standards, conventional
Conformity: the fact of following conventions, rules or laws
Forswear: deny
Jibe: make insulting remarks
Kneel: rest on your knees
Limber: warm up in preparation for exercise or activity; supple; flexible
Servile: slavish, following or copying something without trying to be original
Stipulate: specify, arrange
Submissive: very obedient or passive
Supple: bending and moving easily; flexible
Tractable: docile, manageable

Government
Anarchy: absence of government
Blackball: reject a candidate for membership of a private club; practice of voting against something by placing a black ball in a box
Catechism: a summary of principles of Christian religion in the form of questions and answers, used for teaching
Coalition: agreement
Comity: considerate behavior towards other people
Diadem: a jeweled crown or headband worn as a symbol of royal
Disenfranchise: deprive of right; especially the right to vote
Gerrymander: to divide an area into voting districts in a way that favors a political party
Impolitic: unwise
Magistraterial: having or showing great authority
Magistrate: an official with authority to judge minor legal cases and hold preliminary hearings
Oligarchy: aristocracy, the highest social class, consisting of people with hereditary titles
Plutocracy: wealth person
Potentate: a ruler
Proscribe: prohibit
Secession: the action of withdrawing from a federation or alliance
Subversive: intended to undermine or under throw, especially an established government
Subpoena: a written order instructing someone to attend a court of law
Religion
Agnostic: a person who believes that is not possible to know whether god exists or not
Anathema: curse
Apostasy: the abandonment of a belief or principle
Beatify: sanctify, purify
Bigot :( bigotry) a person with prejudiced views who doesn't tolerate the opinions of other people
Canon: rule
Catholic: universal, sorely
Chapel: a small building or room for Christian worships
Chaplain: a member of clergy attached to a chapel in a private house or an institution, or to a military unit
Defrock: officially remove a Christian priest from their job because of wrong doing
Deify: worship or treat someone as a god
Devout: pious, deeply religious
Exegesis: critical explanation of a written work
Existential: relating to existence
Exorcise: expel
Hallowed: made holy, greatly respected
Homily: sermon (a usually short talk on a religious or moral topic)
Icon: a person or thing seen as a symbol of something
Idolatry: worship of a statue or picture representing a god; extreme admiration or devotion
Incantation: word said as a magic spell or charm
Ineffable: inexpressible
Interdict: prohibit
Monastic: relating to monks or nuns or their communities
Mystic: a person who devotes their time to profound thought so as to become closer to god and reach truths of life
Ordination: the action of ordaining (order someone officially) someone as a priest or minister
Parson: clergyman (people (such as priests) who are the leaders of a religion and who performs religious service)
Piety: devoutness, deeply religious
Pious: devout, holy
Pontifical: of, relating to, or coming from the pope; a book containing the forms for sacraments or rites performed by bishop
Reverent: respectful
Seminary: a training college for priests or rabbis
Theocracy: a system of government in which priests rule in the name of government
Verity: a true principle or belief; truth
Voodoo: a religious insult involving sorcery, possession by spirituals, elements of rituals
Finance and Commerce
Actuary: a person who compiles or analyses statistics in order to calculate insurance risks and premium
Clientele: clients or customers seen as group
Concession; a reduction in price for certain kind of people, the right to use land or other property for a particular purpose, granted
by government, a commercial operation
Corpus: a collection of written works
Emolument: a salary or fee
Exchequer: a royal or national treasury; the account into which public money is paid
Excise: a tax charged on certain goods, such as alcohol
Franchise: a formal permission granted by a government or company to a person or group allowing them to sell a certain products
or services
Gild: wealthy and privileged
Hire long: a person who is willing to do any kind of work provided they are paid
Impecunious: indigent, very poor
Levy: a sum of money raised by a tax, fee or fine
Lucre: money, profit
Pecuniary: relating to money
Reimburse: repay money to a person who has spent or lost it
Remit: send money in payment
Solvent: financially sound
Subsidy: a sum of money given to an industry or business from public funds to help keep the price of a product or service low
Places, spaces and distances
Abade: a house or home
Asylum: place of refuge
Cloister: refugee
Conclave: meeting
Contiguous: adjacent, abutting
Elysian: relating to or like a paradise
Embed: fix firmly
Furrow: a long, narrow trench made in ground by a plow
Grotto: a small cave, especially an artificial one in a park or garden
Hermitage: the home of a hermit (religious person)
Hindmost: furthest back
Juxtapose: to place side by side
Multifarious: diverse, many sided
Pervade: permeate, spread or be present throughout something
Provenance: a record of an ownership of a work of art or an antique
Platitude: trite remark, a remark that has been used too often to be interesting or thoughtful
Recess: a small space set back in a wall or set into a surface; remote or hidden places
Repository: a place or container for storage; a person or thing that is full of information or a particular quality
Ubiquitous: omnipresent, pervasive, presenting, appearing, or found everywhere
Vantage: a place or position giving a good view
Verge: an edge or border

Animals
Bovine: cow like
Bridle: a headgear used to control a horse
Brindle: brownish with streak of other colors
Centaur: a creature with 2 man's head, arms, and upper body and a horse's lower body and legs
Equestrian: relating to horse riding: a person in a horseback
Feline: a cat or other animal of the cat family
Feral: untamed, wild
Granary: a storehouse for grains
Leash: restriction
Low :( of a cow) moo
Menagerie: zoo
Pen: a small enclosure for farm animals
Piebald :( of a horse) having irregular patches of a color
Prehensile :( of an animal's limb or tail) capable of grasping things
Quail: shrink, cower (crouch down/shrink back in fear)
Ram: an adult male sheep
Simian: monkey
Stampede: a sudden panicked rush of a number of horses, cattle etc.
Totem: a natural object or animal believed by a particular society to have spiritual meaning and adopted it as an emblem
Venison: meat from a deer
Vixen: a female fox
Vivisection: the practice of operating on live animals for scientific research
Warble :( of a bird) sing with constantly changing notes
Warren: a network of interconnecting rabbit burrows
Whelp: a puppy; give birth to a baby
Whinny :( of a horse) make a gentle, high pitched neigh
Yoke: a piece of wood fastens over a neck of animals and attached to a plough or cart in order for them to pull it

Personality or behavioral trait

Abstemious: take care to limit your intake of food or alcohol
Altruism: benevolence, generosity, kind
Ambidextrous: able to use the right and left hands equally well
Artless: naive, simple
Ascetic: self-denying
Austere: harsh, Spartan, strict, cold, simple
Authoritarian: in favor of or demanding strict obedience to an authority
Authoritative: true or accurate and so be able to be trusted; expecting or likely to be respected and obeyed
Avarice: greed
Boisterous: noisy
Boorish: vulgar person
Bully: intimidate or frighten someone
Callow: inexperienced
Canny: shrewd (clever), especially in financial matters
Cantankerous: peevish, bad-tempered and uncooperative
Chauvinist: a person who has an extreme or unreasonable belief in the superiority of their country, group, or sex
Churlish: rude or bad tempered
Coy: pretending to be shy or modest
Credulous: believing
Decorum: proper behavior
Desperado: a desperate or reckless criminal
Didactic: instructional
Diffident: shy
Disingenuous: deceptive (misleading, confusing, ambiguous, distorted)
Dogmatic: certain, unchanging in opinion
Eccentric: an unconventional and rather strange person
Effete: worn out, effeminate or affected
Exhibitionist: one who draws attention to himself
Facetious: joking, sarcastic; excessively detailed or elaborate
Fancies: a person who has a special interest in or breeds a particular animal
Finicky=fussy: hard to please; choosy
Fatuous: inane, stupid
Flamboyant: confident and lively in a noticeable way
Flounder: have trouble doing or understanding something
Foolhardy: bold in a reckless (careless) way
Fulsome: excessive, insincere
Gadfly: an annoying person
Garish: unpleasantly bright and showy, lurid
Garrulous: talkative
Gregarious: sociable
Hedonism: the pursuit of pleasure in life
High flown: grand sounding
Hypocritical: deceived, two faced
Iconoclast: one who rails (bar) against sacred institutions
Idiosyncrasy: peculiarity, an unusual or distinctive feature or habit
Imbecile: a stupid person
Impulsive: to act suddenly
Insular: narrow minded
Intransigence: refusing to change your view or behavior
Jocose: playful or humorous
Jocund: cheerful and light hearted
Killjoy: a person who spoils the enjoyment of others by behaving very seriously or disapprovingly
Knotty: very complex; problematic
Levity: light manner or attitude
Loquacious: talkative
Lunatic: a very foolish or mentally ill person
Magnanimity: generous, kind hearted
Malevolent: bad intent, malice, wishing harm to other people
Malinger: shirk, avoid work or duty
Maverick: a rebel
Meek: quiet, gentle and obedient
Megalomania: the false belief that you are very powerful and important
Mendacious: untruth
Meticulous: extremely careful, precise
Naivety: lack of experience, wisdom or judgment
Narcissism: self love
Nihilist: the belief that nothing has any value, especially religious and moral principles
Notoriety: the state of being famous for a bad quality or reputation
Obnoxious: very unpleasant
Odious: despicable, deserving hatred or contempt
Ostentatious: pretentious, trying to impress other people by pretending to be more important better than you actually is
Parsimonious: stingy (extreme unwillingness to spend money)
Percipient: having insight or understanding
Perverse: deliberately choosing to behave in a way that other people find awkward or difficult
Philanthropic: charitable
Phlegmatic: sluggish
Pomposity: affectedly solemn, grand or self important
Poseur: person who affects an attitude to impress others
Pragmatic: practical
Prescient: having the knowledge of event before they happen
Prodigal: wasteful
Pretentious: affected, inflated
Psychosomatic :( of a physical illness) caused by a mental factor such as stress
Punctilious: meticulous, very careful and price
Quixotic: impractical, romantic
Recluse: solitary, avoiding the company of other people
Rectitude: morally correct behavior
Ruthless: having no sympathy or pity; hard and selfish
Sadistic: sexual or general pleasure that is gained from hurting or humiliating other people
Sagacious: having a good judgment; wise
Self indulgence: allowing yourself to have or do things that you like, especially to an excessive extent
Self righteous: certain that you are totally correct or morally superior
Sentient: conscious
Skeptic: one who doubts
Sleazy: immoral or dishonest
Solitude: the state of being alone
Sordid: foul, ignoble
Spoilsport: a person who spoils the pleasure of other people
Spendthrift: a person who spends money in an extravagant, irresponsible way
Stickler: a person who insists on a certain quality or type of behavior
Supplicant: one who asks humbly and earnestly
Teetotal: choosing never to drink alcohol
Thrifty: careful and economical with money
Toady: fawner, sycophant (flatterer)
Touchy: quick to take offense, (of a situation or issue) requiring careful handling
Truculence: aggressive, ferocity
Turncoat: a person where deserts (leave) one party or cause in order to join an opposing one
Underhand: acting or done in a secret or dishonest way
Unfeigned: genuine, sincere
Uxorious: very fond of his wife
Venerable: revered, greatly respected because of age, wisdom or character
Veracity: truthfulness
Veritable: rightly so called (used for emphasis)
Vile: very unpleasant; wicked, morally bad
Virtue: a good or desirable personal quality
Wander last: a strong desire to travel
Witticism: a witty (showing or having the ability to say clever and amusing things) remark
Witless: foolish; stupid

Special noun
Abeyance: postponement
Appurtenances: accessories associated with a particular activity
Aptitude: a natural ability or tendency
Atrocity: a very wicked or cruel act
Beeline: hurry straight to; to go quickly in a direct course
Betoken: be a sign of something
Bid: offer a price for something; say a greeting or farewell; command someone
Brim: projecting edge around the bottom of a hat; the lip of a cup, bowl etc.
Cachet: prestige
Cameo: a piece of jewellery; a short writing; a small part in a play or film for a well known actor
Chip: a thin cut piece of something; microchip; kick or shot (in a football)
Crotchety: irritable
Dichotomy: a division into 2 parts
Dint: by means of
Distinction: noticeable contrast or differences
Earmark: set aside for particular purpose; an identifying feature
Effigy: likeness, mannequin
Epitome: a perfect example of quality or type
Euphemism: genteel expression, a less direct word use to refer to something unpleasant or embarrassing, often so as to avoid offense
Gavel: a small hammer that auctioneer or judge hits a surface to call for attention or order
Groove: a long, narrow cut in a hard material; routine or habit; dance to or play music
Guise: an outward form, appearance, or way of presenting someone or something
Hoard: a secret store of something valuable; collect something over time and store it away
Leeway: the amount if freedom available to you to move or act
Mace: a heavy club; a ceremonial staff; a stinging chemical; a spice
Makeshift: acting as a temporary substitute
Miscellany: mixture of items
Novelty: the quality of being new and unusual
Ordeal: a prolonged painful or horrific experience
Palette: a thin board on which an artist's lay and mixes paints
Purse: money for spending; a sum of money given as a prize in a sporting event
Pretext: excuse
Quintessence: the perfect or most typical example; a refined essence or the extract of a substance
Raffle: a lottery with goods as prizes
Resumption: the action of beginning something again after an interruption
Scab board: a cover for; the blade of a sword or dagger (knife)
Semblance: the way with something looks or seems
Sheaf: a bundle of papers; a bundle of grain stalks tied together after reaping
Slapdash: done too hurriedly and carelessly
Sundry: various
Tenancy: possession of land or property from a tenant (a person who rents land or property from a landlord)
Trident: a 3 pronged spear
Whittle: carve wood by repeatedly cuttings small slices from it; make an object by whittling wood

Taste, smell, hear and see

Acerbic: caustic; sharp and direct (of speech)
Acoustic: relating to sound or hearing; not electrically amplified
Blare: sound loud and harshly
Cacophonous: dissonance, harsh voice
Clangor: a continuous clanging (a loud metallic sound) sound
Darién: loud and clear
Dappled: mark with spots or small patches
Descry: catch, sight of
Diaphanous: sheer, translucent
Discordant: not in harmony or agreement; (of a sound) harsh and unpleasant
Dulcet :( of a sound) sweet and soothing
Effluvium: an unpleasant or harmful smell or discharge
Fetid: stinking, smelling very unpleasant
Flicker: shine or burn unsteadily, appear briefly
Gape: be or become wide open; an open mouthed stare
Gleam: glitter, glimmer, refulgent, shimmer (shine)
Gloss: a shine on a smooth surface
Glossy: shiny and smooth; appearing attractive and stylish
Gustatory: affecting the sense of taste
Hazy: vague or unclear
Heckles: interrupt a public speaker with comments or abuse
Hue and cry: a strong public outcry
Insightful: ability to understand the truth about someone or something
Intangible: not perceptible by touch
Iridescent: showing bright colors that seem to change when seen from different angles
Luscious: having a pleasing rich, sweet taste; pleasing to the senses
Musky: a small smelling substance produced by a type of male deer, used in making perfume
Olfactory: relating to the senses of smell
Opalescent: showing many small points of shifting color
Oversee: supervise someone or something
Putrescent: becoming putrid (decaying or rotting and producing a very unpleasant smell); rotting
Pellucid: transparent
Physiognomy: facial features
Piquant: tart tasting, spicy
Pungent: sharp smell or taste
Rasp: harsh, granting noise; to speak in a way that sounds rough or harsh
Refulgent: shining very brightly
Rumble: a continuous deep sound like a distant thunder
Rustle: make or move with a soft crackling sound
Screech: a loud, harsh cry or sound
Sonic: relating to or using sound waves
Spectrum: range
Staccato: marked by abrupt, clear sounds
Stink: a strong, unpleasant smell
Strident: loud and harsh
Timbre: tonal quality, resonance
Tinge: color something lightly
Tint: a shade of a color; color something brightly
Translucent: Clear, lucid
Uproar: a loud and emotional noise or disturbance
Vapid: vacuous, insipid, lacking interest, intelligence or originality

Shouting and criticizing

Abominate: hate someone or something
Abusive: very offensive and insulting
Admonish: warn gently
Antipathy: repulsion, hatred
Aspersion: slander, make critical remarks about someone's character or reputation
Calumny: slander (the making of false and damaging statements about someone)
Castigate: criticize
Censure: condemn
Chasten: castigate
Chastise: reprimand (scolding) severely
Comeuppance: punishment or fate that someone deserves
Debunk: show that a widely held beliefs is false or exaggerated
Defamation: slander
Deride: ridicule
Derision: scornful ridicule or mockery
Detraction: lessen
Diatribe: long denunciation (a harsh and forceful verbal attack)
Disparage: belittle
Exceptionable: causing disapproval or defense
Excoriate: criticize severely
Fulminate: denounce, menace (express strong protest)
Hurl: shout abuse or insults
Imprecation: curse, inculcate
Insinuate: allude (mention briefly, refer to indirectly)
Invective: verbal insult
Misanthrope: hater of mankind
Mock: tease scornfully; ridicule; imitate someone in an unkind way
Odium: widespread hatred or disgust
Reprehensible: blameworthy
Satire: ridicule
Smear: defame
Stricture: censure, strong disapproval or criticism
Subversive: undermine
Tirade: scolding speech
Truculent: fierce, savage (quick to argue or fight)
Upbraid: scold or criticize
Vilify: defame
Vituperative: abusive

Sex
Amatory: relating to sexual love or desire
Bawdy: dealing with sex in an amazing way
Continence: self-control
Erotic: relating to or causing sexual desire or excitement
Flirt: behave as if trying to attract someone sexually but without serious intentions
Lackluster: lacking in energy or inspiration
Lascivious: lustful (shameless)
Lecher: a lecherous man (showing excessive or offensive sexual desire)
Lewd: crude and offensive in a sexual way
Libido: sexual desire
Lust: strong sexual desire
Platonic: nonsexual
Salacious: licentious (unprincipled in sexual matters)
Satyr: demigod, boatman, a partly divine or less important god or goddess
Sensual: epicure (relating to the senses as a source of pleasure)
Sensuous: appealing to the senses
Voluptuous: having a full, sexually attractive body
Voyeur: a person who gains sexual pleasure from watching other people when they are naked or taking part in sexual activity

Of Practioners
Anthropologist: one who study of human origins, societies and cultures
Apologist: a person who offer an argument in defense of something controversial
Artisan: a skilled worker who makes things by hand
Clown: a comic entertainer in a circus, wearing a traditional costume and exaggerated make up
Courier: a person employed to deliver goods or documents; a person employed to guide and helps a group of tourists
Lexicographer: one who writes dictionary
Obstetrician: a doctor who is trained in obstetrics (branch of medicine and surgery concerned with childbirth)
Optometrist: occupation of measuring eye sight, prescribing lenses, and detecting eye diseases
Psychiatrists: a doctor specializing in the treatment of mental illness
Pugilist: a boxer
Quack: charlatan (a person who falsely claims to have particular skills)
Raconteur: storyteller
Reverend: title or form of address to members of the Christian clergy
Sartorial: pertaining to clothes
Ventriloquist: an entertainer who makes their voices seem to come from a dummy of a person or animal
Vintner: one who makes wine
Virtuoso: highly skilled artist

Journey and movement

Digress: leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing
Embark: go on aboard a ship or aircraft
Expeditious: quick and efficient
Impassable: impossible to travel along or over
Itinerary: route
Jaunt: a short trip for pleasure
Nautical: relating to sailors or navigation; maritime
Peregrination: wandering
Vagrant: a person who has no settled home or job

Satisfaction or lack of it
Complacency :( Complacent) self-satisfied
Complaisant: willing to please people or to accept their behavior without protest
Gloat: be smug or pleased about your own success or another person's misfortune
Gratify: give someone pleasure or satisfaction
Insatiable: gluttonous (impossible to satisfy)
Smug: pleased with yourself in an irritating way

Military
Adjutant: a military officer acting as an administrative assistant to a senior officer
Amazon: a member of a legendary race of female warriors
Conscript: draft, enlistment
Contingent: a group of people with a common feature, forming part of a larger group
Espionage: the practice of spying or of using spies
Hoist: raise by means of ropes and pulley
Implode: collapse violently inwards
Mettle: courage, capacity for bravery
Militia: a military force made up of civilians, used to supplement a regular army in an emergency; a rebel force opposing a regular
army
Propulsion: the action of propelling or driving something forward
Quisling: a person who helps an enemy that has taken control of his or her country
Stockade: a barrier or enclosure formed from upright wooden posts to protect or defend a place
Subaltern: an officer below the rank of captain
Lance: a long weapon with a wooden shaft and a pointed steelhead, formerly used by a people on a horse back

Being skillful
Craft: an activity involving skill in making things by hand
Dexterous: showing skills with hands
Flair: natural ability or talent
Tact: sensitivity and skill in dealing with other people or with difficult issues

Actors, acting and theatre

Mime: use of silent gestures and facial expressions to tell a story or convey a feeling
Mimicry: imitation
Pantomime: a theatrical entertainment involving music, topical jokes and slapstick comedy
Parody: a piece of writing or music that deliberately copies the style of another, in order to be funny or ironical
Spoof: satire; parody
Thespian: actor
Trilogy: a group of 3 related novels, plays or films
Travesty: caricature, farce

Heavenly body
Apogee: the highest point; the point in the orbit of the moon or a satellite at which it is furthest from the earth
Astral: relating to stars; stellar
Aureole: circle of light around the sun or moon
Cataclysm: catastrophe
Celestial: heavenly
Cosmic: relating to the universe
Cosmology: study of universe as a totality; theory of the origin and structure of the universe
Earthly: relating to the earth or human life
Earthy: resembling soil
Ecliptic: the suns apparent circular path among the stars during the year
Lunar: relating to or resembling the moon
Nebula: a cloud of gas or dust in outer space
Sextant: an instrument used for measuring the angular distances between objects, used in navigation and surveying
Sidereal: pertaining to stars
Striated: to stripe
Tremor: a quivering movement that cannot be controlled
Wax :( of a moon) increase in size

Time
Anachronistic: out of historical order
Antediluvian: ancient, obsolete
Antecedent: a thing that occurs or exists before another
Antiquated: outdated, obsolete
Antique: old fashioned or out dated
Apropos: appropriate
Bout: a short period of intense activity or illness
Coeval: having the same age or date of origin; contemporary
Commemorative: acting to honor the memory of an event or person
Concomitant: accompanying, concurrent
Ephemeral: short lived
Flick: make a sharp movement
Hereafter: from now on or at same time in the future; after death
Hoary: old and unoriginal
Improvident: not providing for future needs
Inception: the establishment or starting point of an organization or activity
Interregnum: interval between 2 reign (the time period during which someone or something is the best, or the most important,
powerful etc.)
Linger: be slow or reluctant to leave; spend a longtime over
Nascent: incipient
Obsolescent: becoming obsolete (no longer produced or used; out of date)
Odyssey: journey
Omnipresent: widespread
Opportune: done or happening at an especially convenient
Preternatural: abnormal, an natural
Primordial: existing all from the beginning of time
Recurrent: happening often or repeatedly
Representational: relating to representation
Soothsayer: a person supposed to be able to foresee the future
Sporadic: occurring irregularly
Stint: limit, assignment
Supersede: supplant, take the place of
Synchronous: existing or occurring at the same time
Transient: fleeting, temporary

Exerting influence
Accrue :( of money) be received in regular or increasing amounts
Bewitch: cast a spell over someone; attract and delight someone
Charm: the quality of delighting or fascinating other people
Edify: teach someone something that is educational or morally improving
Enrapture: give someone great pleasure
Exhort: strongly urge
Hypnosis: the practice of causing a person to enter a state of unconsciousness in which they respond very readily to suggestions or
commands
Impinge: encroach, touch
Indoctrinate: make someone accept a set of beliefs without considering any alternatives
Ineluctable: inescapable
Inveigle: lure (attract)
Invoke: cause to experience or participate in an activity or situation
Juggernaut: unstoppable force
Malleable: moldable, tractable
Mesmerize: to hold the attention of someone
Obtrude: become noticeable in an unwelcome way
Trance: a state of paying no attention

Negotiations and arguments

Consequential: following as a result or effect
Hindsight: understanding of a situation or event after it has happened
Impenetrable: impossible to get through or understand
Ploy: a cunning act performed to gain an advantage
Polemic: a controversary
Postulate: supposition, premise
Premise: a statement or idea that forms the basis for a theory, argument, or line of reasoning
Ratiocination: thinking in a reasoning way; reasoning
Resolve: determination
Stalemate: a situation in which further progress by opposing sides seems impossible
Subsume: include or absorb in something else
Untenable: can't be achieved
Wrangle: long and complicated dispute or argument

Shape
Amorphous: shapeless
Barb: a spiteful remark
Behoove: it is right or necessary for someone to do
Blotch: a large irregular remark
Bulge: a round swelling on a flat surface
Concave: curving inward
Convex: curving outward
Circlet: a circular band worn on the head as an ornament
Corrugate: contract into wrinkles or folds; shaped into alternate ridges and grooves
Crinkle: a small crease or wrinkle
Distend: swell
Indentation: a hollow or notch
Indenture: a contract binding one person to work for another for a given period of time
Lank: long, limp and straight
Limn: portray, describe
Plump: rather fat; full and rounded in shape
Prong: each of two or more projecting pointed parts on a fork; each of the separate parts of an attack or arguments
Protrude: stick out beyond or above a surface
Protuberance: bulge (swelling)
Pucker: a wrinkle or small fold
Rotund: rounded and plump
Sinuous: having many curves and turns
Warp: bend or twist out of shape as a result of heat or damp
Wisp: a small thin bunch, strand or amount of something

Mystery and Investigation

Conundrum: a confusing and difficult problem or question; a riddle
Covert: secret
Enigma: a mysterious or puzzling person or thing
Fuddled: not able to think clearly, especially as a result of drinking alcohol
Nonplus: confound (prove a theory or expectation wrong)
Occult: mystical (magical or supernatural powers, practices or phenomenon)
Ravel: untangle something; to become divided into separate threads
Riddle: make many holes in; fill with something undesirable; a puzzling person or thing
Runic: a symbol with mysterious or magical significance
Sly: (of a remark, glance or expression) suggesting secret knowledge

Poets and poetry

Allegory: a story, poem or picture which contains a hidden meaning
Bard: poet
Elegy: a sad poem, especially for someone who has died
Episodic: made up of a series of separate events; occurring at regular intervals
Farfetched: far from reality and therefore unreality
Irony: the expression of meaning through words which normally mean the opposite in order to be humorous or emphasize a point
Metrical: relating to poetic meter; of, relating to, or arranged in a rhythmic pattern of beats
Rhapsody: ecstasy (an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement)

Value of something
Ancillary: providing support to main activities of an organization; additional, extra
Dross: waste; worthless matter
Estimable: meritorious
Extraneous: not essential
Futile: hopeless
Gratuitous; unwarranted, uncalled for
Ignoble: not good or honest; dishonorable
Imperative: vital, pressing
Inconsequential: insignificant; unimportant
Insubstantial: lacking strength and solidity (responsibility or trustability)
Minutiae: trivia (unimportant details or pieces of information)
Mundane: ordinary
Nugatory: useless, worthless
Rarefied: understood by a limited group of people with particular knowledge
Tenuous: thin, unsubstantial
Trifling: unimportant or trivial
Trinket: a small ornament or item of jewellery that is of little value

Insects and reptiles

Apiary: related to bee
Carapace: the hard upper self of a tortoise, lobster or related animal
Piscatorial: relating to fishing
Pterodactyl: a pterosaur (extinct flying reptiles) of late Jurassic period, with a long thin head and neck
Skimp: spend less money or use less of something than is really needed in an attempt to economize
Slough: (of an animal) shed an old skin
Tarantula: a very large hairy spider
Viper: a poisonous snake with large fangs and a patterned body
Virulent: deadly, poisonous
Wiggle: move with short movements up and down and from side to side
Wring: squeeze or twist something to force liquid from it; twist and break animal neck

Praise
Appease: pacify (calm down, soothe)
Blandishment: flatter, grovel (a flattery intended to persuade someone to do something)
Encomium: praise
Eulogy: a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly
Extol: praise highly
Hail: call out someone to attract their attention
Kudos: acclaim
Laud: praise someone highly
Laudatory: commendable (deserves praise)
Paean: a song of praise
Panegyric: praise
Philander: a person who donates money to good
Propitiate: satisfy
Tout: praise, brag
Valedictory: serving as a farewell

Clothing
Bedizen: to dress in a vulgar, showy manner
Broach: an ornament fastened to clothing with a hinged pin and catch
Foppish: a man who is too concerned about his clothes and appearance
Hem: the edge of a piece of cloth or clothing which has been turned under and sewn
Natty: smart and fashionable
Rag: a piece of old cloth
Raiment: clothing
Tatters: an irregularly torn pieces of cloth, paper etc.
Toga: a loose outer garment made of a single piece of cloth
Trappings: the signs or objects associated with a particular situations or role; a horse's ornamental harness

Fear
Aghast: horrified
Aver: declare to be the case
Awe: feeling of great respect mixed with fear
Daunt: make someone feel nervous or discouraged
Dishearten: make someone sadden
Eerie: strange and frightening
Flinch: make a quick, nervous movement as a reaction to fear or pain
Fluster: make someone agitated or confused
Frantic: very agitated as a result of fear or anxiety
Fuss: a display of unnecessary excitement or anxiety
Intimidate: frighten something into doing something
Menace: a dangerous or troublesome person or thing, threaten someone
Pusillanimous: cowardly
Qualms: misgiving
Redoubtable: formidable, steadfast (not changing in attitudes or aims)
Shudder: tremble or shake violently, especially from fear or disgust
Timid :( timidity) not brave or confident
Tremulous: shaking or quivering slightly
Trepidation: fear
Xenophobia: fear of strangers

Humility and ego

Arrogance: having too great a sense of your importance or abilities
Chagrin: embracement (sorrow)
Hubris: excessive pride or show confidence
Humble: having or showing a modest or low opinion of your own importance; not large or special
Overbearing: trying to control people in an unpleasant way
Pique: stout, arouse interest

Transportation
Anchor: a heavy metal object used to moor a ship to the bottom of a sea
Capsize :( of a boat) be over turned in the beater
Chassis: the base frame of a wheeled vehicle such as a car
Cog: a wheel or bar with projections on its edge, which transfer motion by engaging with projections on another wheel or bar
Galley: a low, flat ship with one or more sails and up to 3 banks of oars
Jetsam: unwanted material thrown overboard from a ship and washed shore
Maritime: relating to shipping or other activity taking place at a sea
Regatta: a sporting event consisting of a series of boat or yacht races

Situations
Abject: wretched (very unpleasant or humiliating, completely without pride or dignity)
Adversity: hardship
Brunt: chief impact of something bad
Convivial: sociable, festive
Desperate: completely without hope; done when everything else has failed
Doom: death, destruction or another terrible fate
Drudgery: hard, menial or dull work
Exacerbate: worsen
Exigency: urgency
Formidable: menacing, threatening
Holocaust: the destruction or killing on a mass
Imbroglio: a very confused or complicated situation
Incipient: beginning
Limbo: purgatory; an uncertain period of waiting
Mishap: an unlucky accident
Pitfall: hidden danger or difficulty
Ramify: form parts that branch out
Ramification: consequence
Retroactive :( especially of a law) taking effect from a date in the worst; effective from a particular date in the past
Scuffle: a short, confused fight or struggle
Squalor: the state of being dirty and unpleasant
Standstill: a situation without movement or activity
Tribulation: a cause or state of difficulty or suffering
Tumid: muddy, opaque, in a state of great confusion
Untoward: perverse (a deliberately choosing to behave in a way that other people find awkward or difficult)

Death
Bereave: be deprived of a close relationship or friend through their death
Carnage: the killing of a large number of people
Cremate: dispose of a dead body by burning it to ashes
Defunct: extinct
Dirge: a lament for dead; a mournful song or piece of music
Epitaph: words written in the memory of a person who has died
Euthanasia: mercy-killing, the painless killing of a person who has an incurable disease and who is in an irreversible coma
Gallows: a structure consisting of two uprights and a cross piece, used to hang a person
Gruesome: causing disgust or horror
Lurid: ghastly (causing great horror or fear, deathly pale)
Morgue: a place in which dead bodies are kept
Mortician: an undertaker
Necromancy: sorcery (prediction of the future by supposedly communicating with dead person, witch-craft or black magic)
Posthumous: after death
Regicide: the killing of a king
Strangle: kill or injure someone by squeezing their neck
Terminal: (of a disease) predicted to lead to a person's death

Family
Alimony: financial support for a husband or wife after separation or divorce
Antecedent: a person's ancestors and background
Atavism: exhibiting the characteristics of forefathers
Avuncular: like an uncle
Conjugal: pertaining to marriage
Connubial: relating to marriage; conjugal
Eugenic: science of improving a population by controlled breeding, so as to increase the occurrence of desirable characteristics which
are able to be inherited
Gentry: people of good social position, specifically the class next below the nobility
Misogyny: hatred of women
Nuptial: relating to marriage or wedding
Troth: make a solemn promise to marry someone

Building and structure

Buttress: to support
Capacious: spacious
Carillon: a set of bells sounded from a keyboard or by automatic mechanism
Cornice: a decorative molding round the wall of a room just below the ceiling; a horizontal molded projection crowning a building
or structure
Dormer: a window set vertically into a sloping roof
Latch: a door lock that can be opened from the inside by turning a lever or knob but can only be opened from the outside with a
key
Parquet: flooring composed of wooden blocks arranged in a geometric pattern
Rotunda: a round building or room
Shack: a roughly built hut or cabin
Shad; building for storage
Verdigris: a bright bluish green substance formed on copper or brass by oxidation

Being offbeat ad different

Aberrant: abnormal
Anomalous: abnormal
Apposite: apt (very appropriate)
Bizarre: very strange or unusual
Bohemian: a person who doesn't follow accepted standards of behavior
Creep: a person behaves in an excessively friendly or submissive way to win favor
Desultory: without direction in life
Fluke: a lucky chance occurrence
Fortuitous: lucky
Garble: reproduce a message or transmission in a confused or distorted way
Gaudy: tastelessly bright or showy
Grotesque: comically or repulsively ugly or distorted
Outlandish: bizarre or unfamiliar
Precarious: (of a child) having developed certain abilities or tendencies at an earlier age than usual
Spurious: false, counterfeit
Swerve: abruptly go off from a straight course
Transcendent: going beyond human knowledge and into a spiritual area
Uncanny: mysterious, inexplicable
Welter: confusion, hedge pony

Industry and production

Awl: a small pointed tool used for making hole
Compensatory: redeeming (exchange, convert, trade in, cash in)
Contrivance: a clever device or scheme; the use of skill to create or achieve something
Rig: an apparatus for particular purpose
Sift: put a substance through a siege, examine thoroughly to sort out what is important or useful

Book and publications

Assay: test a metal or ore to establish its quality
Brochure: a magazine containing information about a product or service
Compendium: summary
Document: verify
Litany: list of prayers or complaints or reasons etc.
Monograph: a scholarly written study of a single subject
Preamble: introduction
Synoptic: relating to synopsis (a brief summary or outline)
Tome: large book
Treatise: book, dissertation

Beauty
Adorn: make more attractive or beautiful; decorate
Aesthetic: pleasuring to the scenes, beautiful
Amulet: charm, talisman
Auspicious: favorable
Broach: bring up a topic of conversation
Brocade: a rich fabric (cloth) woven with a raised pattern
Charisma: attractiveness or charm that can inspire admiration or enthusiasm in other people
Collage: artistic composition of materials pasted overall surface; an assemblage of diverse elements
Comely: pleasant to look at
Crochet: a handicraft in which yarn is looped into a fabric of connected stitches by means of a hooked needle
Dainty: delicately small and pretty
Dazzle: impress greatly
Diorama: a model representing a scene with 3 directional figures against a painted background
Embellish: exaggerate, overstate, and amplify
Esthetic: artistic
Figurine: a small statue of human form
Filigree: delicate ornamental work of interlaced gold, silver, or copper wire
Finery: showing clothes or decoration
Fresco: a painting done on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, in which the colors become fixed as the plaster dries
Finesse: skill
Frieze: a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration
Gossamer: thin and flimsy
Mosaic: a picture or pattern produced by fitting together small colored pieces of stone tile or glass
Motley: diverse
Mural: a painting done directly on a wall
Pallet: a straw mattress or makeshift bed; a portable platform on which goods can be moved; stacked or stored
Pristine: pure, unspoiled
Rococo: relating to an architecture i.e. excessively ornate (fancy.ie. decorative)
Shoddy: badly made or done; dishonest or immoral
Singular: unique
Sleek :( of hair or fur) smooth and glossy; having a wealthy and smart appearance
Spangle: a small thin piece of glittering material, used to decorate a garment; a spot of bright color or light
Unsightly: unpleasant to look at; ugly
Variegated: having irregular patches or streaks of a different color or colors

Plants
Arboreal: living in tress; relating to trees
Arboretum: a garden where trees are grown for study and display to the public
Chaff: husks of grain separated from the seed by winnowing or threshing; chopped hay and straw as food for cattle
Fallow: unproductive, unplowed
Florid: having a red or flushed complexion
Germ: a part of animal or plant capable of developing into a new one or part of one
Granulated: in the form of granules
Hull: the outer covering of a fruit or seed; the stalk and cluster of leaves
Kernel: the softer part of nut, seed, or fruit stone
Lush: (of plants) growing thickly and strongly
Palimpsest: a parchment (paper) on which writing has been applied over earlier writing which has been erased
Pendulous: hanging down; drooping
Shaving: a thin strip cut off from a surface
Thresh: separate grain of corn from the rest of the plant
Tundra: a vast, flat, treeless region in which the subsoil is permanently frozen
Vegetation: spend time in a dull and inactive way that involves little mental stimulation
Whorl: a coil of leaves, flowers, or branches encircling a stem

Weakness
Droop: bend or hang downwards; sag down from tiredness or low spirits
Frail :( of a person) weak and delicate; easily damaged or broken
Flaccid: soft and limp
Irresolute: hesitant, uncertain
Lassitude: lethargy (the condition of being tired or lack of energy)
Mealy mouthed: afraid to speak frankly

Intoxication:
Bacchanalian: orgy (something that is done too much and in a wild way)
Carousal: to drink liquor freely and excessively; engage in dissolute behavior
Inebriate: to make drunk: intoxicate
Opiate: a drug that reduces pain and cause sleep; something that causes people to ignore problems and to relax instead of doing
things that need to be done
Stupefy: surprise; to cause someone to become confuse or unable to think clearly

Seasons:
Acclimate: adapt, adjust
Balmy: (of the weather) pleasantly warm
Clime: a climate
Equinox: a day when day and night are the same length
Hibernal: of, relating to, or occurring in winter
Muggy: unpleasantly warm and humid

Apparition:
Apparition: ghost, spirit; vision
Facade: a way of behaving or appearing that gives other people a false idea of your true feelings or situation
Illusive: illusory, based on something that is not true or real
Masquerade: deception
Mirage: illusion

Sleep
Comatose: exhausted
Forty winks: a short sleep, a brief nap
Insomnia: the condition of not being able to sleep
Reverie: daydream; a state in which you are thinking about pleasant things
Somnambulist: an abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (as walking) are performed
Somnolent: tired and ready to fall asleep
Soporific: sleep inducing
Active
Brisk: moving or speaking quickly; done with quickness and energy
Dynamic: always active and changing
Fervor: intensity
Frolic: full of fun
Spry: full of life and energy
Vibrant: having a showing great life, activity and energy

Inert and dull

Dormant: asleep
Drab: colorless; boring
Idle: not working, active, or being used; not having much activity
Indolent: not liking to work or be active
Lackadaisical: feeling or showing lack of interest or enthusiasm

Giving up:
Abdicate: relinquish power or position
Abstention: the act of choosing not to do or have something
Capitulate: surrender
Defeatist: a way of thinking in which a person expects to lose or fail
Defer: put off; delay
Disgorge: to let out or release something
Forfeit: something that is lost or given up as a punishment or because of a rule or law
Forgo (forego): to give up the use or enjoyment of (something)

Assuage:
Assuage: to make (something, such as an unpleasant feeling) less painful, severe, etc.
Commiserate: empathize (express sadness or sympathy)
Conciliate: to make someone friendlier or less angry
Condole: to express sympathetic sorrow; grieve
Mollify: appease (to make (someone) less angry, to calm (someone) down)
Solace: to give comfort in grief or misfortune, console
Succor: help, comfort

Opinion:
Canvass: to ask (the people in an area) what they think about a candidate, project, idea etc
Derogatory: expressing a low opinion of someone or something; showing a lack of respect for someone or something
Friction: disagreement or tension between people or groups of people
Heresy: a belief or opinion that doesn't agree with the official belief or opinion of a particular religion
Heterodox: departing from established doctrines

Pardon:
Absolve: to make someone free from guilt, responsibility etc.
Amnesty: a decision that a group of people won't be punished or that a group of prisoners will be allowed to go free
Clemency: kind or merciful treatment of someone who could be given harsh punishment
Condone: overlook wrong doing
Expiate: atone, say sorry
Spare: to choose not to punish or harm someone
Festivals and celebrations
Bacchanal: a wild party
Gusto: great enjoyment, energy, and enthusiasm
Hilarity: noisy fun or laughter
Jubilation: great happiness or joy
Mirth: happiness and laughter

Nature of action and behavior

Arrogate: to take or claim (something, such as right or a privilege in a way that that is not fair or legal
Backslide: return to former bad ways
Behoove: to be necessary or proper for someone
Cloistered: confined, protected from the problems and concerns of everyday life
Deferential: a way of behaving that shows respect for someone or something
Impair: to make something weaker or worse
Inadvertently: unintentional

Agriculture
Reaper: a person or machine that cuts and collects crops

Study of various subjects

Alchemy: medieval chemical philosophy based on changing metal into gold; a seemingly magical power or process of transmutation
Archeology: the study of material evidence of past human life
Cetology: a branch of zoology concerned with the cetaceans (a mammal that lives in the ocean)
Epistemology: the branch of philosophy dealing with knowledge
Ethnology: a science that deals with the division of human beings into races and their origin, distribution, relations and
characteristics
Geriatric: an old person
Gerontology: the scientific study of old age and of the process of becoming old
Ichthyology: a branch of zoology that deals with fishes

Hot and cold

Choleric: made angry easily
Dank: wet and cold in a way that is unpleasant
Frigid: very cold; not friendly or loving
Glacial: very cold
Parched: very dry especially because of hot weather and no rain
Volley: hail (a form of precipitation or rain)

Rural and urban

Agrarian: of or relating to farms and farming
Bucolic: rustic (of, relating to, suitable for the country life/people)
Environ: encircle, surround
Metropolis: a very large and important city
Outskirts: a part remote from center
Pastoral: of or relating to the countryside or the lives of people who live in the country
Provincial: a person who lives in or comes from a place that is far away from large cities

Others:
Abandon: desert, forsake
Alleviate: lessen, assuage
Analogous: point by point comparison
Arduous: hard
Abscission: the act of cutting; the natural separation of a leaf or other parts of a plant
Accrue: to accumulate, grow by additions
Allure: the power to entice (attract) by charm
Ambrosia: something delicious, the food of god
Arabesque: ornate design featuring intertwined curves; a ballet position in which one leg is extended in back while the other
supports the weight of the body
Arrest: to stop, to seize
Artifacts: item made by human craft
Asperity: severity, harshness, irritability
Cadge: beg
Cardinal: chief
Cogent: well-put, convincing
Concoct: devise, plan, and work out
Conundrum: puzzle, enigma
Carping: to find fault, complain
Catalyst: something that causes change
Codify: to systematize
Complaisant: overly polite; willingness to comply with the wishes of others
Complement: somehow that completed or makes up a whole
Denouement: resolution
Desuetude: disuse
Disinterested: impartial
Disjointed: disconnected, incoherent
Discomfit: to make uneasy; disconcert
Discredit: to dishonor; disgrace
Distill: extract the essential elements
Eclectic: from many sources
Efflorescence: to bloom
Evince: attest, demonstrate
Exclusive: prohibitive
Explicate: explain
Effrontery: shameless, boldness; presumptuous
Enunciate: to pronounce clearly
Essay: to make an attempt; subject to a test
Ethnocentric: based on the attitudes that one's group is superior
Etiology: causes or origins
Eugenics: study of factors that influence the hereditary qualities of the human race and ways to improve those qualities
Evocative: tending to call or mind or produce a relation
Existential: having to do with existence
Expository: explanatory
Extemporaneous: unrehearsed
Extrinsic: not Inherent of essential
Florid: ruddy (very or too fancy)
Founder: sink
Flag: to droop; grow weak
Fledging: beginner, novice
Flourish: an embellishment (decoration) or ornamentation
Forbearance: patience
Forestall: to prevent, delay
Gauche: awkward
Grandiloquent: pompous, bombastic
Guileless: free of cunning or deceit; artless
Guise: outward appearance, false appearance
Homogeneous: uniform
Hieroglyphics: a system of writing in which pictorial symbols represent meanings or sounds; writing or symbols that are difficult to
decipher i.e. decode
Homeostasis: automatic maintenance by an organism in balance with itself
Impair: injure
Inert: inactive
Inflammatory: incendiary
Insipid: flat, dull
Insufferable: unbearable
Igneous: produced by fire; volcanic
Incursion: sudden invasion
Indeterminate: uncertain; indefinite
Ingenuous: naive and trusting; lacking sophistication
Insensible: unconscious, unresponsive
Laconic: brief, terse
Latent: potential
Limpid: transparent, clearly understood
Lucid; clearly understood
Luminous: bright
Labile: likely to change
Lambaste: to trash verbally or physically
Log: record of a voyage; record of daily activities
Metamorphosis: a change in form
Obtuse: stupid
Oscillate: waver
Onomatopoeia: form or use of words that imitate sounds of the actions they refer to
Parody: imitation, ridicule
Perennial: enduring, lasting
Perpetuity: eternity
Perspicacity: discernment, keenness
Phoenix: rebirth
Plaintive: expressing sorrow
Problematic: uncertain
Profound: deep, knowledgeable
Prospective: expected, imminent
Purport: claim to be
Patois: jargon; a regional dialect
Perturb: to disturb greatly, make uneasy or anxious
Placate: soother; pacify
Plasticity: pliability; condition of being able to be shaped or formed
Prehensile: capable of grasping
Primordial: original; existing from the beginning
Quiescent: a cessation of activity
Quibble: to argue over insignificant and irrelevant details
Renounce: disown
Resolute: determined
Riposte: counter thrust (response, reply, return)
Rebus: puzzle in which pictures or symbols represent words
Reverent: expressing deep respect, worshipful
Severance: division
Sullen: sulky, sour
Synthesis: combination
Sinuous: intricate; complex
Striated: marked with thin, narrow graves or channels
Terrestrial: earthly
Terse: concise
Theatrics: histrionics (overly dramatic)
Torpor: lethargy, dormancy, sluggishness
Urbane: refined, worldly
Usury: overcharge
Variance: discrepancy
Verbose: wordy
Vitriolic: scathing (very harsh or severe)
Voracious: hungry
Variegated: varied, marked with different colors
Venerate: to adore, honor, respect