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abate to
lessen;
abdication giving
up
aberration straying
away
abeyance suspended
action
abhor to
hate;
abide be
faithful;
abjure promise
or
abrogate repeal
or
abscond to
go
abstemious restraint,
especially
abstruse difficult
to
abut border
on
abysmal bottomless;
extreme
acarpous effete;
no
acclaimed welcomed
with
accolade praise;
approval
accretion the
growing
adamant kind
of
addle to
become
adduce to
offer
adjudicate to
settle
adjunct something
added;
adjure to
beg
admonitory containing
warning
adorn add
beauty;
adulteration making
unpure,
adumbrate to
suggest
adventitious coming
from
affable polite
and
affinity close
connection
aggravate make
worse;
agile active;
quick-moving
agog eager;
excited
ail trouble;
be
alacrity eager
and
alcove recess;
partially
allegiance duty;
support;
alleviate make
(pain)
alloy to
debase
aloof reserved;
indifferent
altercate to
dispute
amalgamate mix,
combine,
ambidextrous able
to
ambiguous doubtful;
uncertain
ambivalent having
both
amble leisurely
walk
ameliorate improve;
make
amortize end
(a
anathema something
loathed;
anguish severe
suffering
animosity strong
dislike
antebellum existing
before
antediluvian made
a
anthropomorphic having
human
antidote medicine
used
antithetical direct
opposing
apartheid brutal
racial
aphasia loss
of
aphorism concise
statement
aplomb self-confidence
apostasy renunciation
of
apostate one
who
apotheosis deification;
glorification
appease make
quiet
appellation identifying
name
apprehensive grasping;
understanding;
apprise give
notice;
approbation approval
apropos appropriate
to
apt well-suited;
quick-witted
arabesque a
complex
arboreal of
connected
ardor enthusiasm
arduous steep;
difficult;
argot jargon;
slang
arrant in
the
arrogance proud
superior
articulate speak
distinctly;
ascend go
or
ascertain get
to
ascribe consider
to
aseptic surgically
clean
ashen deadly
pale
asperity roughness;
harshness;
aspersion slander
assiduous diligent;
hard-working;
assuage make
smth
asterisk the
mark
astringent substance
that
astute clever,
quick
atelier artist's
workroom
atonement repayment
death
attenuate make
thin;
attune bring
into
audacious daring;
foolishly
augury omen;
sign
august majestic;
venerable
auspicious favorable;
successful;
austere severely
moral
auxiliary helping;
supporting
aver affirm;
assert;
aversion strong;
dislike
avid eager;
greedy
avow admit;
declare
bait to
persecute
baleful harmful;
ominous;
balk obstacle;
purposely
baneful causing
harm
barrage artificial;
obstacle
barren not
good
bask enjoy
warmth
beatify to
bless;
bedizen to
adorn,
belabor beat
hard
bellicose belligerent;
pugnacious;
belligerent (person,
nation)
benediction something
that
benefactor person
who
benevolence wish
or
benign kind
and
bequest arrangement
to
berate scold
sharply
bereft rob
or
bewilder puzzle;
confuse
bigot stubborn;
narrow-minded
bilge bulge
the
bilk to
cheat
blandishment flattery
coaxing
blandness polite
manner;
blatant noisy
and
blithe cheerful;
casual;
bluster to
talk
bogus sham;
counterfeit;
boisterous loud;
noisy;
bolster give
greatly
boorish crude;
offensive;
brash hasty;
rush;
brass yellow
metal
brazen made
of
breach opening;
broken
brittle easily
broken
broach bring
up;
brook to
tolerate,
buoyant able
to
burgeon grow
forth;
burnish to
polish,
cabal a
scheme
cacophony harsh
sound
cadence rhythmic
modulation
cadge to
beg;
cajole use
flattery
calumny slander;
aspersion
candid frank;
straight-forward
cant insincere
talk
cantankerous bad-tempered;
quarrelsome
canvass discuss
thoroughly;
carouse to
drink
carp to
find
carte
blanche full
castigation severe
punishment
catalyst substance
that
catholic comprehensive;
universal
caustic biting;
sarcastic
cavil to
raise
cede/cession to
surrender
celerity rapidity
of
censure expression
of
centurion leader
of
chaff to
tease
charlatan quack
or
chary cautious;
wary
chastisement punishment
chauvinist a
blindly
chicanery legal
trickery;
chimera illusion
or
chisel steel
tool
chivy to
tease
choleric irritable;
bad-tempered
chromatic of
color
churl bad-tempered
person
chutzpah nerve;
gall
circumscribe to
draw
clamor shout;
complain
clerical of
the
clientele customers
clinch come
to
cling to
resist
clot half-solid
lump
cloture closing
device
coagulation change
to
coalescing coming
together
coax get
smb
coda passage
that
coddle treat
with
coerce compel
to
coeval of
the
cogent strong;
convincing
cogitate think
deeply;
cognizant being
fully
collusion secret
agreement
combustion process
of
commemorate keep
the
commodious having
plenty
commuter person
who
complaisance tending
to
compunction feeling
of
conceal hide;
keep
conceited having
an
conciliatory reconciling;
soothing;
concord agreement
or
concur agree
in
condense increase
in
condone forgive
congeal make
or
congenital existing
from
conjoin to
join
connoisseur a
person
connotation suggestion
in
console give
comfort
conspicuous easily
seen;
consternation surprise
and
constrain compel
constrict make
tight
consume get
to
consummate perfect;
make
contemn to
scorn
contentious argumentative;
pugnacious;
contiguous touching;
neighboring
contrite filled
with
contumacious insubordinate;
rebellious
conundrum a
riddle;
convalesce to
recover
conviction firm
belief
convivial fond
of
convoke call
together;
convoluted complicated;
coiled;
cordial warm
and
cordon line
(of
cornucopia abundant
supply
corporeal physical
of
corpulent having
a
correlate have
a
corroboration additional
strengthening
countenance to
favor
counterfeit forgery
countervail counterbalance
covert disguised
covetous eagerly
desirous
cower crouch;
shrink
coy shy,
modest
cozen to
cheat
crass very
great
cravat piece
of
craven cowardly
crease line
made
credulous ready
to
cringe to
behave
crotchet highly
individual
cryptic secret;
with
cumbersome burdensome;
heavy
cupidity greed;
lust
curmudgeon bad-tempered
person
curriculum course
of
cursory quick
hurried
curtail make
shorter
dainty pretty,
delicate
daunt intimidate;
make
dawdler person
who
dearth shortage
debacle a
breakup;
declaim/declamation to
speak
declivity downward
inclination
decorum propriety;
properness
decree order
given
decry disapprove
of
deferential showing
respect
defiance open
disobedience
deign to
condescend;
delineate to
portray,
deluge great
flood;
demagogue person
appealing
demur to
hesitate;
denigrate blacken;
belittle;
denouement an
outcome
deplete use
until
deposition dethronement;
depositing
deprave make
morally
deprecate protest
against;
dereliction deserting
and
derision ridicule;
mockery;
derivative unoriginal;
obtained
derogatory insulting;
tending
descry catch
sight
desiccant substance
used
desuetude cessation
of
desultory aimless;
haphazard;
deter discourage;
hinder
detraction slandering;
verbal
detumescence diminishing
or
deviance being
different
dexterity skill
(esp.
diaphanous transparent;
gauzy
diatribe bitter
and
didactic intended
to
diffidence shyness
dilate speak
comprehensively;
dilatory intended
to
disabuse to
free
disallow refuse
to
discern see
with
discomfit confuse;
embarrass
discompose to
destroy
disconcert upset
the
disconsolate cheerless;
dejected
discountenance refuse
to
discourse speech
lecture
discredit refuse
to
discreet careful,
prudent
discrete individually
distinct
disdain look
on
disencumber free
from
disheveled untidy
disingenuous sophisticated;
artful;
disinter dig
up
dislodge move
force
dismal sad;
gloomy;
disparate essentially
different
disproof proof
to
disquiet to
take
dissemble speak
or
disseminate distribute
(esp.
dissent have
a
dissipate to
be
dissolute marked
by
dissolution disintegration;
looseness
distraught distracted
violently;
divergence getting
farther
divestiture taking
off;
divulge make
known
doggerel trivial,
poorly
dogmatic positive;
certain;
dolorous marked
by
dolt stupid
fellow
dormant in
a
dote show
much
drawl slow
way
droll jesting
drone male
bee;
drowsiness feeling
sleepy;
drudge to
do
dubious feeling
doubt
dud no
use
dulcet melodious;
harmonious
dupe cheat;
make
duplicity deliberate
deception
duress threats
to
dwarf person
or
dynamo a
generator;
earthenware dishes
made
ebullience exuberance;
outburst
ebullient overflowing
with
ecumenical representing
the
edacious voracious;
devouring
eddy circular
or
edible fit
to
efface to
make
effete infertile;
worn
efficacy production
of
effluvia outflow
in
effrontery boldness;
impudence;
egress way
out;
elaborate worked
out
elegy a
lament;
elicit draw
out
eloquence fluent
speaking;
emaciate make
thin
embellish make
beautiful
embezzle use
in
emollient soothing
to
emote stir
up;
empirical relying
on
encapsulate enclose
in
encomium warm
or
encumbrance burden
things
endearing making
dear
endorse write
one's
enduring lasting
enervate weaken;
deprive
engrave impress
deeply
engrossing taken
up
engulf swallow
up
enigma smth
that
enmity hatred;
being
ensign flag;
badge
entangle put
into
enthral please
greatly;
entice tempt
or
entreat ask
earnestly
enunciate pronounce
(words);
enzyme catalyst
epicurean devoted
to
epigram terse
or
epistle letter
epithet adjective
epitome brief
summary;
equable steady;
regular
equanimity calmness
of
equilibrium state
of
equipoise equal
distribution
equivocal having
a
equivocate try
to
eradicate get
rid
erratic irregular
in
erudite learned
scholarly
eschew avoid
esoteric abstruse;
intended
espouse marry;
give
eulogy formal
praise;
euphoria elation
state
euthanasia easy
and
evasive tending
to
evince to
show
evoke call
up;
exacerbate to
make
excoriation severe
criticism
exculpate to
clear
execrate to
denounce;
exhaustive complete;
thorough
exigency emergency
an
exoneration set
smb
exorbitant much
too
expatiate to
roam;
expedient likely
to
expiation ending;
expiring
exploit brilliant
achievement;
expostulate argue
earnestly;
expurgate to
remove
exscind to
cut
extant still
in
extempore without
previous
extenuate reduce
the
extinct no
longer
extinguish end
the
extirpate to
destroy;
extol praise
highly
extort obtain
by
extralegal outside
the
extraneous extrinsic;
not
extricable that
can
extrovert cheerful
person
exuberance state
of
facetious humorous;
funny;
facile easily
done
fallacious based
on
falter waver;
move
fatuous without
sense;
fawn young
deer;
feckless lacking
purpose
fecund fertile
feint pretend
felicitous apt;
suitably
felon person
guilty
ferment substance;
become
ferocity savage
cruelty
ferret discover
by
fervid showing
earnest
fervor warmth
of
fetid stinking
fetter to
shackle;
feud bitter
quarrel
fidelity loyalty;
accuracy
fidget move
restlessly;
figurehead carved
image
finesse delicate
way
finical too
fussy
finicky finical
fission splitting
or
fixate stare
at
flak criticism;
anti-aircraft
flamboyant brightly
colored;
flaunting show
off
flax pale;
yellow
flay to
skin;
fledged able
to
fleet number
of
flinch draw;
move
flop fail;
move;
florid very
much
flounder to
struggle
flout reject,
mock;
fluke lucky
stroke
fluster make
nervous
foible defect
of
foil prevent
from
foment put
smth
foolproof incapable;
of
foppish like
a
forage food
for
forbear refrain
from;
forbearance patience;
willingness
ford shallow
place
forebode to
foretell
forensic belonging
to
forestall prevent
by
foretoken premonitory
sign
forfeit suffer
the
forge workshop
for
forgery counterfeit
forswear renounce;
disallow;
foster nurture;
care
fracas noisy
quarrel
fractious quarrelsome;
irritable
fragile easily
injured,
fragrant sweet-smelling
frantic wildly
excited
frenetic frantic,
frenzied
fret worry;
irritation;
fringe edge;
ornamental
froward intractable;
not
frugal careful;
economical
fulmination bitter
protest
fulsome disgusting;
offensive
fusty musty;
rigidly
gainsay to
deny;
garble make
unfair
garment article
of
garner to
gather
garrulity talkativeness
garrulous too
talkative
gaucherie socially
awkward,
germane relevant
pertinent
gist the
point;
glean gather
facts
glib ready
and
glimmer weak,
unsteady
gloat look
at
glut supply
too
gnaw waste
away;
gnomic characterized
by
goad smth
urging
gorge eat
greedily;
gossamer soft
light;
gouge tool
for
grandiloquent using
pompous
grave serious;
requiring
graze touch
or
gregarious living
in
grievous causing
grief
grovel crawl;
humble
guile deceit;
cunning
gullible easily
gulled
gush burst
out
gust outburst
of
hack cut
roughly;
halcyon calm
and
hallow to
make
harangue a
long
harbinger smth
or
hardihood resolute;
courage
harrow to
distress;
haughty arrogant;
conceited
heckle to
harass
hector to
bully
heed attention;
give
heinous odious
(of
heresy belief
contrary
hermetic sealed
by
heterogeneous made
up
hew make
by
highbrow (person)
with
hirsute hairy;
shaggy
hoax mischievous
trick
holster leather
case
homiletics act
of
hone stone
used
honorific conferring
or
hoodwink trick;
mislead
hospitable liking;
to
hubbub noise;
confusion
hubris arrogant
pride
hush make
or
husk worthless
outside
hyperbole extravagant
exaggeration
hypocrisy falsely
making
iconoclast person
who
idiosyncrasy personal
mannerism
idolatry excessive
admiration
idyll a
carefree
ignoble dishonorable;
common;
ignominious shameful;
dishonorable;
illicit unlawful;
forbidden
imbroglio complicated
and
immaculate pure
faultless
imminent likely
to
immutable that
cannot
impair worsen;
diminish
impassioned filled
with
impassive unmoved
feeling;
impeach to
accuse;
impecunious having
little
impede hinder;
get
impending imminent;
being
imperative urgent;
essential
imperious commanding;
haughty;
impermeable that
cannot
impertinent given
to
imperturbable calm;
not
impervious not
allowing
imperviousness haughty;
arrogant;
impetuous having
sudden
impiety lack
of
implacable incapable
of
implicate show
that
implicit implied
though
implosion collapse;
bursting
importune beg
urgently;
imprecation an
invocation
impromptu without
preparation
impudent rash
indiscreet
impugned challenged;
to
impunity exemption
from
impute to
attribute;
inadvertent not
paying
inane silly
senseless
inasmuch since;
because
incandescent white,
glowing
incarcerate to
put
incense make
angry
incessant often
repeated;
inchoate not
yet
incipient beginning
incise engrave;
make
incite stir
up;
incongruous out
of
incorrigibility cannot
be
incredulous skeptical;
unwilling
inculcate fix
firmly
incumbents official
duties
incursion a
raid;
indefatigability not
easily
indelible that
cannot
indigence poverty
indigenous native
indistinct not
easily
indolence laziness
indomitable not
easily
indubitable too
evident
indulge gratify;
give
indulgent inclined
to
ineffable too
great
ineluctable certain;
inevitable
inept unskillful;
said
ineptitude quality
of
inferno hell
infuriate fill
with
infuse put;
pour;
ingenuous naïve;
young;
ingest take
in
ingress the
act
inimical harmful
or
inimitable defying
imitation;
innocuous causing
no
inordinate exceeding
reasonable
inscrutable incapable
of
insensible unconscious;
unresponsive;
insinuate suggest
unpleasantly;
insipid without
taste
insolvent unable
to
insouciant unconcerned;
carefree
insularity narrow-mindedness;
isolated
insuperable incapable
of
insurrection rising
of
inter to
entomb
interdict prohibit;
forbid
interim as
an
interloper to
encroach;
interpose to
come
interregnum lapse
in
intersperse place
here
intimate to
announce;
intractable not
easily
intransigence unwillingness
to
intransigent uncompromising
intrepid fearless;
brave;
introspection examining
one's
inundate flood;
cover
inured accustomed
to
invective abusive
language;
inveigh to
attack
inveterate deep-rooted;
long-established
invidious of
an
invincible too
strong
involute complex
irascible irritable;
easily
irate angry
ire anger
irksome tiresome
irresolute hesitating;
undecided
irrevocable final
and
itinerate to
travel
jabber talk
excitedly;
jejune lacking
nutritive
jettison to
get
jibe gibe;
make
jocular meant
as
judicious sound
in
knit draw
together;
labyrinthine to
entangle;
lachrymose causing
tears;
lackluster (of
eyes)
lament show,
feel
lassitude weariness;
tiredness
latent present
but
laudatory expressing
or
lavish giving
or
legacy smth
handed
levee formal
reception;
levity lack
of
libel statement
that
liberality free
giving;
libertine immoral
person
licentious lacking
legal
lien legal
claim
limn paint;
portray
limp lacking
strength;
limpid transparent;
absolutely
lionize treat
as
listless characterized
by
lithe bending
twisting
loll rest
to
lope move
along
loquacious talkative;
garrulous
lucubrate write
in
luculent easily
understood;
lugubrious mournful
excessively;
lull become
quiet
lumber move
in
luminary star;
light-giving
lurk be
out
lustrous being
bright,
macabre gruesome;
suggesting
macerate make
or
machination plot,
scheme
maelstrom powerful;
violent
maladroit tactless;
clumsy
malapropism misuse
of
malediction curse;
execration
malefaction evil
deed;
malevolence wishing
to
malign injurious;
speak
malinger to
fake
malleable yielding
easily;
manacle chains
for
massacre cruel
killing
matriculation be
admitted
maudlin sentimental
in
maul hurt
by
maverick rebel;
nonconformist
mawkish sickly
or
mellifluous sweetly
flowing
mendacity dishonesty
mendicant a
beggar
mercurial quick,
changeable
meretricious attractive
on
mesmerize hypnotize
meticulous giving
great
mettle quality
of
mettlesome courageous;
high-spirited
miasma vaporous
exhalation
middling fairly
good
minatory menacing;
threatening
mince pronounce
or
misanthrope person
who
mischievous harmful;
causing
miscreant heretical;
villainous
miser person
who
misogynist one
who
moderation quality
of
mollify make
calmer
molt moult;
lose
monomania excessive
concentration
morbid diseased
unhealthy
mordant biting
and
morose ill-tempered
unsocial
mottle surface
having
muffler cloth
worn
mulish unreasonably
and
multifarious varied;
motley;
mundane worldly
as
munificent characterized
by
myriad very
great
nadir lowest,
weakest
nascent coming
into
nebulous cloud-like;
hazy;
negligent taking
too
neophyte person
who
nervy bold
or
nexus a
connection,
nibble show
some
noisome offensive
disgusting
nonchalant not
having
nonplused greatly
surprised
nostrum a
quack,
novitiate period
of
noxious harmful
nugatory trifling;
worthless
obdurate hardened
and
obfuscate to
darken;
oblivious unaware;
having
obloquy abusively
detractive
obnoxious odiously
or
obsequious too
eager
obstreperous noisy;
loud
obtain to
be
obtrusive projecting;
prominent;
obtuse blunt;
stupid
obviate to
make
occluded blocked
up
odious repulsive;
hateful
odium contempt;
dislike;
odor smell;
favor;
offal waste
or
officious too
eager
ominous threatening
onerous needing
effort;
opaqueness dullness;
not
opprobrious showing
scorn
orotund sonorous;
bombastic
ossify to
turn
ostensible seeming;
appearing
ostentation display
to
ostracism shut
out
overhaul examine
thoroughly;
overweening presumptuously
arrogant;
paean song
of
palate roof
of
palatial magnificent
palliate lessen
the
palpability can
be
palpitate tremble;
beat
panegyric formal
praise;
panoply smth
forming
paradigm a
model;
parasol umbrella
used
pariah an
outcast;
parsimonious too
economical;
partisan one-sided;
committed
pathos emotion
of
patron regular
customer;
paucity scarcity
a
peccadillo small
sin;
pedantic bookish;
showing
pedestrian commonplace;
trite;
peevish bad-tempered;
irritable
pellucid transparent;
easy
penchant strong
inclination;
penitent feeling
or
penurious poor;
stingy
penury extreme
poverty
perambulate to
travel
percipient capable
of
peregrination traveling
about;
peremptory urgent;
imperative
perfidious treacherous;
faithless
perfunctory done
as
perilous dangerous
peripatetic wandering
perish be
destroyed
permeate spread
into
pernicious harmful;
injurious
perpetrate be
guilty;
perquisite gratuity
or
personable pleasing
in
perspicacity quick
judging
pertain belong
as
pertinacious stubbornly
unyielding
pest destructive
thing
petrified taken
away
petrify to
make
petrous like
a
petulant unreasonably
impatient
philistine a
smug
phlegmatic calm
sluggish
picaresque involving
clever
pied of
mixed
pinch be
too
pine waste
away
pious dutiful
to
piquant agreeably
pungent;
pique hurt
the
pitfall covered
hole
pith essential
part;
pivotal of
great
placate soothe;
pacify;
placid serenely
free
plaintive mournful
melancholy;
plaque flat
metal
platitude a
trite
plea request
plead address
a
plethora glut
pliant pliable;
easily
plod continue
doing
pluck pull
the
plumb get
to
plummet fall;
plunge
plunge move
quickly,
poignant deeply
moving;
polemic aggressive
attack
poncho large
piece
ponderous heavy;
bulky;
portent omen;
marvelous;
posit to
postulate;
postulate to
claim;
potentate ruler;
one
prate to
talk
prattle to
prate;
precarious uncertain;
risky;
precepts rules
establishing
precis concise
summary
preclude prevent;
make
precursory preliminary;
anticipating
predilection special
liking;
predominate have
more
preen tidy;
show
premature doing
or
preponderance greatness
in
presage warning
sign
presumption arrogance
preternatural not
normal
prevalent common
prevaricate to
equivocate;
prim neat
formal
primp to
dress
pristine primitive;
unspoiled;
probity uprightness;
incorruptibility
proclivity inclination
procrastination keeping
on
prodigal wasteful;
reckless
prodigious enormous;
wonderful
prodigy portentous
event;
profane worldly;
having
profligacy shameless
immorality
profligate wasteful;
prodigal;
profundity depth
profuse abundant;
lavish
progeny/progenitor descendants;
children
prognosticate to
foretell
proliferate grow,
reproduce
prolix tiring
because
prone prostrate;
inclined
propagation increasing
the
propinquity nearness
in
propitiatory conciliatory;
appeasing;
propitious auspicious;
presenting
prosaic everyday;
mundane;
proscribe denounce
as
protean displaying
great
protracted prolonged
provident frugal;
looking
provisional of
the
provoke make
angry
prudence careful;
forethought
prudish easily
shocked;
prune dried
plum;
pry inquire
too
pucker wrinkle
pugnacious fond
of,
puissance strength
pulchritude physical
beauty
pummel to
pound
punctilious precise;
paying
pundit pedant;
authority
pungency sharpness;
stinging
pungent marked
by
punitive inflicting,
involving
purvey provide
supply
pusillanimous cowardly;
craven
putative commonly
accepted
putrefaction becoming
rotten
pyre large
pile
quack person
dishonestly
quaff drink
deeply
quail lose
courage;
qualm feeling
of
quandary state
of
quell suppress;
subdue
querulous habitually
complaining
quibble try
to
quiescence state
of
quiescent at
rest;
quirk habit
or
quixotic generous;
unselfish
quotidian banal;
everyday
rabble mob;
crowd;
raconteur person
who
racy full
of
raffish low;
vulgar
ragamuffin ragged;
often
rake dissolute
person;
ramble to
move
ramify to
be
rancorous feeling
bitterness;
rant use
extravagant
rapacious greedy
(esp.
rarefy to
make
ratify to
approve
rave act
with
reactionary opposing
progress
rebuff snub
recalcitrant disobedient
recant take
back
recast cast
or
recidivism relapse
into
reciprocity granting
of
recitals a
number
recluse person
who
recompense make
payment
reconcile settle
a
recondite little
known;
recourse turning
to
recreancy cowardice;
cowardly
recreant coward;
apostate
rectitude the
quality
recuperate become
strong
redeem get
back
redoubtable formidable;
causing
refine make
or
refractory stubborn;
unmanageable;
refulgent shining;
brilliant
regale to
delight
regicide crime
of
reiterate say
or
rejuvenation becoming
young
relapse fall
back
remonstrate to
protest,
renaissance rebirth
or
renascent rising
again
render deliver;
provide;
renegade deserter;
unconventional
renege to
deny;
renovate restore
smth
renowned celebrated;
famous
repast meal
repel refuse
to
reprisal recurrence,
renewal
reproach scold;
upbraid
reprobate person
hardened
repudiate disown;
refuse
repulsive causing
a
requiem mass
for
requite repay;
give
rescind repeal;
annul;
resigned unresisting;
submissive
resilience quality
of
resort to
frequently
restive refusing
to
resuscitation coming
back
retard check;
hinder
reticent reserved;
untalkative
retrograde tending
toward
revere have
deep
reverent feeling
or
ribald crude;
characterized
riddle puzzling
person
rift split;
crack;
rivet fix;
take
roll call;
calling
rotund rich
and
ruffian violent
cruel
rumple make
rough
sacrosanct most
sacred
sagacious having
sound
salacious obscene
sallow of
a
salubrious healthful
salutary remedial;
causing
sanctimony self-righteousness;
hypocritical
sanction approval
(by
sanguine cheerful;
confident;
sanity health
of
sardonic disdainfully
or
sash long
strip
satiate satisfy
fully
saturnine gloomy;
dark;
savant person
of
savor taste
flavor
sawdust tiny
bits
scabbard sheath
for
scent smell
(esp.
scorch become
discolored;
scribble write
hastily
scruple minute
part
scrupulous having
moral
scurrilous given
to
scurvy mean;
contemptible
secede/secession to
withdraw
secular material
(not
sedulous persevering
seminal like
a
sententious short
and
sequence succession;
connected
sere make
hard
serendipity phenomenon
of
sermon reproving
a
serrated having
a
servile like
a
sever break
off
severance severing
shallow little
depth;
shard piece
of
sheath cover
for
shiftless lacking
in
shrew ill-tempered,
scolding
shrewd astute;
showing
shrill sharp;
piercing
shun keep
away
shunt send
from
sidestep step
to
simper (give
a)
sinew power;
chief
sinuous winding,
undulating,
skiff small
boat
skit short
piece
slack sluggish,
dull,
slake to
assuage
slate king
of
sluggard lazy
slow-moving
slur join
sounds,
smolder burn
slowly
snare trap
snub treat
with
soar rise;
fly
sober self-controlled
sobriety quality
or
sodden soaked;
saturated
soggy heavy
with
solvent of
the
somatic of
the
somnolent likely
to
soot black
powder
sophisticated complex;
subtle;
sophistry fallacious
reasoning;
sophomoric self-assured
though
soporific producing
sleep
sordid wretched;
comfortless
specious illogical
of
sphinx enigmatic
or
spleen feelings
of
splenetic bad-tempered;
irritable
splice join
(two
sponge porous
rubber
spurious counterfeit
spurn have
nothing
squalid foul;
filthy
squander spend
wastefully
squat crouch;
settle
stanch to
stop
steeply rising
or
stentorian extremely
loud
stickler person
who
stigma mark
of
stigmatize describe
smb
sting smth
sharp
stingy spending,
using
stint to
be
stipple paint
with
stipulate state
or
stolid showing
no
stray wander;
lose
streak long;
thin;
striated striped;
grooved
stricture something
that
stride walk
with
strident characterized
by
strut a
supporting
stultify to
cause
stygian dark,
gloomy
stymie to
hinder,
subdue overcome,
bring
subjugate to
conquer;
sublime extreme,
astounding
submerge put
under
suborn induce
by
subpoena written
order
substantiation giving
facts
subsume include
under
succor assistance
relief
suffice be
enough
suffocate cause
or
suffrage short
prayer
sullied to
be
summarily briefly;
without
summary done
without
sumptuous magnificent
sundry various;
miscellaneous;
superannuate to
become
supercilious disdainful;
characterized
superfluous more
then
superimpose put
smth
supersede take
the
supine lying
on
suppliant asking
humbly;
supplicate make
a
suppress prevent
from
surcharge additional
load;
surfeit satiate;
feed
susceptibility sensitiveness
swerve change
direction
sycophant person
who
syncopated abbreviated;
stressing
synopsis summary
or
taciturn untalkative
silent
tactile perceptible
by
tadpole form
of
talon claw
of
tamp tap
or
tamper interfere
with
tangential suddenly
changeable
tarnished lost
brightness
tassel bunch
of
taunt contemptuous
reproach;
taut tightly
stretched
tautology a
repetition,
tawdry cheap;
gaudy;
teetotal oppose
to
temerity boldness;
brashness;
temperance abstinence
from
temperate showing
self-control
tenacity firmness;
persistency
tenuous insubstantial
flimsy
tepid lukewarm
terse brief
and
testiness witness;
evidence
threadbare exhausted
of
thrift care;
economy;
thwart obstruct;
frustrate
timid shy;
easily
timorous fearful;
timid
toady obsequious
flatterer
tonic smth
giving
topple be
unsteady
torment severe
pain
torpid sleeping;
sluggish;
torque twisting
force
tortuous devious;
not
tout person
who
tractable easily
controlled
traduce to
malign;
transgress break;
go
transient temporary;
fleeting
transitory brief
travesty parody;
imitation
tremulous characterized
by
trenchant forceful;
effective;
trepidation alarm;
excited
trickle flow
in
trifling unimportant
trite not
new
truce (agreement)
stop
truckle to
act
truculence aggressiveness;
ferocity
trudge walk
heavily
turbid muddy;
having
turbulence being
uncontrolled;
turgid excessively
ornate;
turmoil trouble;
disturbance
turmoil state
of
turpitude wickedness;
shamefulness
turquoise greenish-blue
precious
tyro tiro;
beginner
ubiquitous present
everywhere
ulterior situated
beyond
umbrage offense;
resentment
uncouth rough;
awkward
underbid make
a
undermine weaken
gradually
undulate to
move
unearth discover
and
unencumbered easy-going;
trifle
unexceptionable not
open
unfeigned not
pretended;
unscathed unharmed;
unhurt
unseemly inappropriate;
indecorous
untoward unfortunate;
inconvenient
upbraid scold;
reproach
urbane elegant;
refined
vacillation being
uncertain;
vagary strange
act
vain without
use,
valedictory of
an
valiant brave
valorous brave
vanquish conquer
vaunt to
boast
veer change
direction
venal ready
to
veneer surface
appearance
veneration regard
with
veracity truth
verdant fresh
and
verisimilitude appearing
true
veritable real;
rightly
verve spirit;
vigor;
vestige trace
or
vex annoy;
distress;
vigilance watchfulness;
self-appointed
vigilant member
of
vigorous strong;
energetic
vilify slander;
say
vindicate to
free
vindictive having
a
viraginous of
a
virago a
loud
visceral of
the
viscous sticky;
semi-fluid
vitiate lower
the
vituperate curse;
abuse
vivacious lively;
high-spirited
volatile changeable;
inconstant
volition power
of
volubility fluency;
verbosity;
voluble fluent
voluptuous full
of
vouchsafe to
grant
waffle talk
vaguely
waft scent;
waving
wag merry
person
warmonger person
who
warrant authority;
written
wean to
turn
welter turmoil;
a
wend to
go,
wheedle to
influence
whimsical full
of
wince show
bodily
woo try
to
wrangle to
dispute
writ written
order
yarn tale,
story,
abate to
lessen;
abdication giving
up
aberration straying
away
abeyance suspended
action
abhor to
hate;
abide be
faithful;
abjure promise
or
abrogate repeal
or
abscond to
go
abstemious restraint,
especially
abstruse difficult
to
abut border
on
abysmal bottomless;
extreme
acarpous effete;
no
acclaimed welcomed
with
accolade praise;
approval
accretion the
growing
adamant kind
of
addle to
become
adduce to
offer
adjudicate to
settle
adjunct something
added;
adjure to
beg
admonitory containing
warning
adorn add
beauty;
adulteration making
unpure,
adumbrate to
suggest
adventitious coming
from
affable polite
and
affinity close
connection
aggravate make
worse;
agile active;
quick-moving
agog eager;
excited
ail trouble;
be
alacrity eager
and
alcove recess;
partially
allegiance duty;
support;
alleviate make
(pain)
alloy to
debase
aloof reserved;
indifferent
altercate to
dispute
amalgamate mix,
combine,
ambidextrous able
to
ambiguous doubtful;
uncertain
ambivalent having
both
amble leisurely
walk
ameliorate improve;
make
amortize end
(a
anathema something
loathed;
anguish severe
suffering
animosity strong
dislike
antebellum existing
before
antediluvian made
a
anthropomorphic having
human
antidote medicine
used
antithetical direct
opposing
apartheid brutal
racial
aphasia loss
of
aphorism concise
statement
aplomb self-confidence
apostasy renunciation
of
apostate one
who
apotheosis deification;
glorification
appease make
quiet
appellation identifying
name
apprehensive grasping;
understanding;
apprise give
notice;
approbation approval
apropos appropriate
to
apt well-suited;
quick-witted
arabesque a
complex
arboreal of
connected
ardor enthusiasm
arduous steep;
difficult;
argot jargon;
slang
arrant in
the
arrogance proud
superior
articulate speak
distinctly;
ascend go
or
ascertain get
to
ascribe consider
to
aseptic surgically
clean
ashen deadly
pale
asperity roughness;
harshness;
aspersion slander
assiduous diligent;
hard-working;
assuage make
smth
asterisk the
mark
astringent substance
that
astute clever,
quick
atelier artist's
workroom
atonement repayment
death
attenuate make
thin;
attune bring
into
audacious daring;
foolishly
augury omen;
sign
august majestic;
venerable
auspicious favorable;
successful;
austere severely
moral
auxiliary helping;
supporting
aver affirm;
assert;
aversion strong;
dislike
avid eager;
greedy
avow admit;
declare
bait to
persecute
baleful harmful;
ominous;
balk obstacle;
purposely
baneful causing
harm
barrage artificial;
obstacle
barren not
good
bask enjoy
warmth
beatify to
bless;
bedizen to
adorn,
belabor beat
hard
bellicose belligerent;
pugnacious;
belligerent (person,
nation)
benediction something
that
benefactor person
who
benevolence wish
or
benign kind
and
bequest arrangement
to
berate scold
sharply
bereft rob
or
bewilder puzzle;
confuse
bigot stubborn;
narrow-minded
bilge bulge
the
bilk to
cheat
blandishment flattery
coaxing
blandness polite
manner;
blatant noisy
and
blithe cheerful;
casual;
bluster to
talk
bogus sham;
counterfeit;
boisterous loud;
noisy;
bolster give
greatly
boorish crude;
offensive;
brash hasty;
rush;
brass yellow
metal
brazen made
of
breach opening;
broken
brittle easily
broken
broach bring
up;
brook to
tolerate,
buoyant able
to
burgeon grow
forth;
burnish to
polish,
cabal a
scheme
cacophony harsh
sound
cadence rhythmic
modulation
cadge to
beg;
cajole use
flattery
calumny slander;
aspersion
candid frank;
straight-forward
cant insincere
talk
cantankerous bad-tempered;
quarrelsome
canvass discuss
thoroughly;
carouse to
drink
carp to
find
carte
blanche full
castigation severe
punishment
catalyst substance
that
catholic comprehensive;
universal
caustic biting;
sarcastic
cavil to
raise
cede/cession to
surrender
celerity rapidity
of
censure expression
of
centurion leader
of
chaff to
tease
charlatan quack
or
chary cautious;
wary
chastisement punishment
chauvinist a
blindly
chicanery legal
trickery;
chimera illusion
or
chisel steel
tool
chivy to
tease
choleric irritable;
bad-tempered
chromatic of
color
churl bad-tempered
person
chutzpah nerve;
gall
circumscribe to
draw
clamor shout;
complain
clerical of
the
clientele customers
clinch come
to
cling to
resist
clot half-solid
lump
cloture closing
device
coagulation change
to
coalescing coming
together
coax get
smb
coda passage
that
coddle treat
with
coerce compel
to
coeval of
the
cogent strong;
convincing
cogitate think
deeply;
cognizant being
fully
collusion secret
agreement
combustion process
of
commemorate keep
the
commodious having
plenty
commuter person
who
complaisance tending
to
compunction feeling
of
conceal hide;
keep
conceited having
an
conciliatory reconciling;
soothing;
concord agreement
or
concur agree
in
condense increase
in
condone forgive
congeal make
or
congenital existing
from
conjoin to
join
connoisseur a
person
connotation suggestion
in
console give
comfort
conspicuous easily
seen;
consternation surprise
and
constrain compel
constrict make
tight
consume get
to
consummate perfect;
make
contemn to
scorn
contentious argumentative;
pugnacious;
contiguous touching;
neighboring
contrite filled
with
contumacious insubordinate;
rebellious
conundrum a
riddle;
convalesce to
recover
conviction firm
belief
convivial fond
of
convoke call
together;
convoluted complicated;
coiled;
cordial warm
and
cordon line
(of
cornucopia abundant
supply
corporeal physical
of
corpulent having
a
correlate have
a
corroboration additional
strengthening
countenance to
favor
counterfeit forgery
countervail counterbalance
covert disguised
covetous eagerly
desirous
cower crouch;
shrink
coy shy,
modest
cozen to
cheat
crass very
great
cravat piece
of
craven cowardly
crease line
made
credulous ready
to
cringe to
behave
crotchet highly
individual
cryptic secret;
with
cumbersome burdensome;
heavy
cupidity greed;
lust
curmudgeon bad-tempered
person
curriculum course
of
cursory quick
hurried
curtail make
shorter
dainty pretty,
delicate
daunt intimidate;
make
dawdler person
who
dearth shortage
debacle a
breakup;
declaim/declamation to
speak
declivity downward
inclination
decorum propriety;
properness
decree order
given
decry disapprove
of
deferential showing
respect
defiance open
disobedience
deign to
condescend;
delineate to
portray,
deluge great
flood;
demagogue person
appealing
demur to
hesitate;
denigrate blacken;
belittle;
denouement an
outcome
deplete use
until
deposition dethronement;
depositing
deprave make
morally
deprecate protest
against;
dereliction deserting
and
derision ridicule;
mockery;
derivative unoriginal;
obtained
derogatory insulting;
tending
descry catch
sight
desiccant substance
used
desuetude cessation
of
desultory aimless;
haphazard;
deter discourage;
hinder
detraction slandering;
verbal
detumescence diminishing
or
deviance being
different
dexterity skill
(esp.
diaphanous transparent;
gauzy
diatribe bitter
and
didactic intended
to
diffidence shyness
dilate speak
comprehensively;
dilatory intended
to
disabuse to
free
disallow refuse
to
discern see
with
discomfit confuse;
embarrass
discompose to
destroy
disconcert upset
the
disconsolate cheerless;
dejected
discountenance refuse
to
discourse speech
lecture
discredit refuse
to
discreet careful,
prudent
discrete individually
distinct
disdain look
on
disencumber free
from
disheveled untidy
disingenuous sophisticated;
artful;
disinter dig
up
dislodge move
force
dismal sad;
gloomy;
disparate essentially
different
disproof proof
to
disquiet to
take
dissemble speak
or
disseminate distribute
(esp.
dissent have
a
dissipate to
be
dissolute marked
by
dissolution disintegration;
looseness
distraught distracted
violently;
divergence getting
farther
divestiture taking
off;
divulge make
known
doggerel trivial,
poorly
dogmatic positive;
certain;
dolorous marked
by
dolt stupid
fellow
dormant in
a
dote show
much
drawl slow
way
droll jesting
drone male
bee;
drowsiness feeling
sleepy;
drudge to
do
dubious feeling
doubt
dud no
use
dulcet melodious;
harmonious
dupe cheat;
make
duplicity deliberate
deception
duress threats
to
dwarf person
or
dynamo a
generator;
earthenware dishes
made
ebullience exuberance;
outburst
ebullient overflowing
with
ecumenical representing
the
edacious voracious;
devouring
eddy circular
or
edible fit
to
efface to
make
effete infertile;
worn
efficacy production
of
effluvia outflow
in
effrontery boldness;
impudence;
egress way
out;
elaborate worked
out
elegy a
lament;
elicit draw
out
eloquence fluent
speaking;
emaciate make
thin
embellish make
beautiful
embezzle use
in
emollient soothing
to
emote stir
up;
empirical relying
on
encapsulate enclose
in
encomium warm
or
encumbrance burden
things
endearing making
dear
endorse write
one's
enduring lasting
enervate weaken;
deprive
engrave impress
deeply
engrossing taken
up
engulf swallow
up
enigma smth
that
enmity hatred;
being
ensign flag;
badge
entangle put
into
enthral please
greatly;
entice tempt
or
entreat ask
earnestly
enunciate pronounce
(words);
enzyme catalyst
epicurean devoted
to
epigram terse
or
epistle letter
epithet adjective
epitome brief
summary;
equable steady;
regular
equanimity calmness
of
equilibrium state
of
equipoise equal
distribution
equivocal having
a
equivocate try
to
eradicate get
rid
erratic irregular
in
erudite learned
scholarly
eschew avoid
esoteric abstruse;
intended
espouse marry;
give
eulogy formal
praise;
euphoria elation
state
euthanasia easy
and
evasive tending
to
evince to
show
evoke call
up;
exacerbate to
make
excoriation severe
criticism
exculpate to
clear
execrate to
denounce;
exhaustive complete;
thorough
exigency emergency
an
exoneration set
smb
exorbitant much
too
expatiate to
roam;
expedient likely
to
expiation ending;
expiring
exploit brilliant
achievement;
expostulate argue
earnestly;
expurgate to
remove
exscind to
cut
extant still
in
extempore without
previous
extenuate reduce
the
extinct no
longer
extinguish end
the
extirpate to
destroy;
extol praise
highly
extort obtain
by
extralegal outside
the
extraneous extrinsic;
not
extricable that
can
extrovert cheerful
person
exuberance state
of
facetious humorous;
funny;
facile easily
done
fallacious based
on
falter waver;
move
fatuous without
sense;
fawn young
deer;
feckless lacking
purpose
fecund fertile
feint pretend
felicitous apt;
suitably
felon person
guilty
ferment substance;
become
ferocity savage
cruelty
ferret discover
by
fervid showing
earnest
fervor warmth
of
fetid stinking
fetter to
shackle;
feud bitter
quarrel
fidelity loyalty;
accuracy
fidget move
restlessly;
figurehead carved
image
finesse delicate
way
finical too
fussy
finicky finical
fission splitting
or
fixate stare
at
flak criticism;
anti-aircraft
flamboyant brightly
colored;
flaunting show
off
flax pale;
yellow
flay to
skin;
fledged able
to
fleet number
of
flinch draw;
move
flop fail;
move;
florid very
much
flounder to
struggle
flout reject,
mock;
fluke lucky
stroke
fluster make
nervous
foible defect
of
foil prevent
from
foment put
smth
foolproof incapable;
of
foppish like
a
forage food
for
forbear refrain
from;
forbearance patience;
willingness
ford shallow
place
forebode to
foretell
forensic belonging
to
forestall prevent
by
foretoken premonitory
sign
forfeit suffer
the
forge workshop
for
forgery counterfeit
forswear renounce;
disallow;
foster nurture;
care
fracas noisy
quarrel
fractious quarrelsome;
irritable
fragile easily
injured,
fragrant sweet-smelling
frantic wildly
excited
frenetic frantic,
frenzied
fret worry;
irritation;
fringe edge;
ornamental
froward intractable;
not
frugal careful;
economical
fulmination bitter
protest
fulsome disgusting;
offensive
fusty musty;
rigidly
gainsay to
deny;
garble make
unfair
garment article
of
garner to
gather
garrulity talkativeness
garrulous too
talkative
gaucherie socially
awkward,
germane relevant
pertinent
gist the
point;
glean gather
facts
glib ready
and
glimmer weak,
unsteady
gloat look
at
glut supply
too
gnaw waste
away;
gnomic characterized
by
goad smth
urging
gorge eat
greedily;
gossamer soft
light;
gouge tool
for
grandiloquent using
pompous
grave serious;
requiring
graze touch
or
gregarious living
in
grievous causing
grief
grovel crawl;
humble
guile deceit;
cunning
gullible easily
gulled
gush burst
out
gust outburst
of
hack cut
roughly;
halcyon calm
and
hallow to
make
harangue a
long
harbinger smth
or
hardihood resolute;
courage
harrow to
distress;
haughty arrogant;
conceited
heckle to
harass
hector to
bully
heed attention;
give
heinous odious
(of
heresy belief
contrary
hermetic sealed
by
heterogeneous made
up
hew make
by
highbrow (person)
with
hirsute hairy;
shaggy
hoax mischievous
trick
holster leather
case
homiletics act
of
hone stone
used
honorific conferring
or
hoodwink trick;
mislead
hospitable liking;
to
hubbub noise;
confusion
hubris arrogant
pride
hush make
or
husk worthless
outside
hyperbole extravagant
exaggeration
hypocrisy falsely
making
iconoclast person
who
idiosyncrasy personal
mannerism
idolatry excessive
admiration
idyll a
carefree
ignoble dishonorable;
common;
ignominious shameful;
dishonorable;
illicit unlawful;
forbidden
imbroglio complicated
and
immaculate pure
faultless
imminent likely
to
immutable that
cannot
impair worsen;
diminish
impassioned filled
with
impassive unmoved
feeling;
impeach to
accuse;
impecunious having
little
impede hinder;
get
impending imminent;
being
imperative urgent;
essential
imperious commanding;
haughty;
impermeable that
cannot
impertinent given
to
imperturbable calm;
not
impervious not
allowing
imperviousness haughty;
arrogant;
impetuous having
sudden
impiety lack
of
implacable incapable
of
implicate show
that
implicit implied
though
implosion collapse;
bursting
importune beg
urgently;
imprecation an
invocation
impromptu without
preparation
impudent rash
indiscreet
impugned challenged;
to
impunity exemption
from
impute to
attribute;
inadvertent not
paying
inane silly
senseless
inasmuch since;
because
incandescent white,
glowing
incarcerate to
put
incense make
angry
incessant often
repeated;
inchoate not
yet
incipient beginning
incise engrave;
make
incite stir
up;
incongruous out
of
incorrigibility cannot
be
incredulous skeptical;
unwilling
inculcate fix
firmly
incumbents official
duties
incursion a
raid;
indefatigability not
easily
indelible that
cannot
indigence poverty
indigenous native
indistinct not
easily
indolence laziness
indomitable not
easily
indubitable too
evident
indulge gratify;
give
indulgent inclined
to
ineffable too
great
ineluctable certain;
inevitable
inept unskillful;
said
ineptitude quality
of
inferno hell
infuriate fill
with
infuse put;
pour;
ingenuous naïve;
young;
ingest take
in
ingress the
act
inimical harmful
or
inimitable defying
imitation;
innocuous causing
no
inordinate exceeding
reasonable
inscrutable incapable
of
insensible unconscious;
unresponsive;
insinuate suggest
unpleasantly;
insipid without
taste
insolvent unable
to
insouciant unconcerned;
carefree
insularity narrow-mindedness;
isolated
insuperable incapable
of
insurrection rising
of
inter to
entomb
interdict prohibit;
forbid
interim as
an
interloper to
encroach;
interpose to
come
interregnum lapse
in
intersperse place
here
intimate to
announce;
intractable not
easily
intransigence unwillingness
to
intransigent uncompromising
intrepid fearless;
brave;
introspection examining
one's
inundate flood;
cover
inured accustomed
to
invective abusive
language;
inveigh to
attack
inveterate deep-rooted;
long-established
invidious of
an
invincible too
strong
involute complex
irascible irritable;
easily
irate angry
ire anger
irksome tiresome
irresolute hesitating;
undecided
irrevocable final
and
itinerate to
travel
jabber talk
excitedly;
jejune lacking
nutritive
jettison to
get
jibe gibe;
make
jocular meant
as
judicious sound
in
knit draw
together;
labyrinthine to
entangle;
lachrymose causing
tears;
lackluster (of
eyes)
lament show,
feel
lassitude weariness;
tiredness
latent present
but
laudatory expressing
or
lavish giving
or
legacy smth
handed
levee formal
reception;
levity lack
of
libel statement
that
liberality free
giving;
libertine immoral
person
licentious lacking
legal
lien legal
claim
limn paint;
portray
limp lacking
strength;
limpid transparent;
absolutely
lionize treat
as
listless characterized
by
lithe bending
twisting
loll rest
to
lope move
along
loquacious talkative;
garrulous
lucubrate write
in
luculent easily
understood;
lugubrious mournful
excessively;
lull become
quiet
lumber move
in
luminary star;
light-giving
lurk be
out
lustrous being
bright,
macabre gruesome;
suggesting
macerate make
or
machination plot,
scheme
maelstrom powerful;
violent
maladroit tactless;
clumsy
malapropism misuse
of
malediction curse;
execration
malefaction evil
deed;
malevolence wishing
to
malign injurious;
speak
malinger to
fake
malleable yielding
easily;
manacle chains
for
massacre cruel
killing
matriculation be
admitted
maudlin sentimental
in
maul hurt
by
maverick rebel;
nonconformist
mawkish sickly
or
mellifluous sweetly
flowing
mendacity dishonesty
mendicant a
beggar
mercurial quick,
changeable
meretricious attractive
on
mesmerize hypnotize
meticulous giving
great
mettle quality
of
mettlesome courageous;
high-spirited
miasma vaporous
exhalation
middling fairly
good
minatory menacing;
threatening
mince pronounce
or
misanthrope person
who
mischievous harmful;
causing
miscreant heretical;
villainous
miser person
who
misogynist one
who
moderation quality
of
mollify make
calmer
molt moult;
lose
monomania excessive
concentration
morbid diseased
unhealthy
mordant biting
and
morose ill-tempered
unsocial
mottle surface
having
muffler cloth
worn
mulish unreasonably
and
multifarious varied;
motley;
mundane worldly
as
munificent characterized
by
myriad very
great
nadir lowest,
weakest
nascent coming
into
nebulous cloud-like;
hazy;
negligent taking
too
neophyte person
who
nervy bold
or
nexus a
connection,
nibble show
some
noisome offensive
disgusting
nonchalant not
having
nonplused greatly
surprised
nostrum a
quack,
novitiate period
of
noxious harmful
nugatory trifling;
worthless
obdurate hardened
and
obfuscate to
darken;
oblivious unaware;
having
obloquy abusively
detractive
obnoxious odiously
or
obsequious too
eager
obstreperous noisy;
loud
obtain to
be
obtrusive projecting;
prominent;
obtuse blunt;
stupid
obviate to
make
occluded blocked
up
odious repulsive;
hateful
odium contempt;
dislike;
odor smell;
favor;
offal waste
or
officious too
eager
ominous threatening
onerous needing
effort;
opaqueness dullness;
not
opprobrious showing
scorn
orotund sonorous;
bombastic
ossify to
turn
ostensible seeming;
appearing
ostentation display
to
ostracism shut
out
overhaul examine
thoroughly;
overweening presumptuously
arrogant;
paean song
of
palate roof
of
palatial magnificent
palliate lessen
the
palpability can
be
palpitate tremble;
beat
panegyric formal
praise;
panoply smth
forming
paradigm a
model;
parasol umbrella
used
pariah an
outcast;
parsimonious too
economical;
partisan one-sided;
committed
pathos emotion
of
patron regular
customer;
paucity scarcity
a
peccadillo small
sin;
pedantic bookish;
showing
pedestrian commonplace;
trite;
peevish bad-tempered;
irritable
pellucid transparent;
easy
penchant strong
inclination;
penitent feeling
or
penurious poor;
stingy
penury extreme
poverty
perambulate to
travel
percipient capable
of
peregrination traveling
about;
peremptory urgent;
imperative
perfidious treacherous;
faithless
perfunctory done
as
perilous dangerous
peripatetic wandering
perish be
destroyed
permeate spread
into
pernicious harmful;
injurious
perpetrate be
guilty;
perquisite gratuity
or
personable pleasing
in
perspicacity quick
judging
pertain belong
as
pertinacious stubbornly
unyielding
pest destructive
thing
petrified taken
away
petrify to
make
petrous like
a
petulant unreasonably
impatient
philistine a
smug
phlegmatic calm
sluggish
picaresque involving
clever
pied of
mixed
pinch be
too
pine waste
away
pious dutiful
to
piquant agreeably
pungent;
pique hurt
the
pitfall covered
hole
pith essential
part;
pivotal of
great
placate soothe;
pacify;
placid serenely
free
plaintive mournful
melancholy;
plaque flat
metal
platitude a
trite
plea request
plead address
a
plethora glut
pliant pliable;
easily
plod continue
doing
pluck pull
the
plumb get
to
plummet fall;
plunge
plunge move
quickly,
poignant deeply
moving;
polemic aggressive
attack
poncho large
piece
ponderous heavy;
bulky;
portent omen;
marvelous;
posit to
postulate;
postulate to
claim;
potentate ruler;
one
prate to
talk
prattle to
prate;
precarious uncertain;
risky;
precepts rules
establishing
precis concise
summary
preclude prevent;
make
precursory preliminary;
anticipating
predilection special
liking;
predominate have
more
preen tidy;
show
premature doing
or
preponderance greatness
in
presage warning
sign
presumption arrogance
preternatural not
normal
prevalent common
prevaricate to
equivocate;
prim neat
formal
primp to
dress
pristine primitive;
unspoiled;
probity uprightness;
incorruptibility
proclivity inclination
procrastination keeping
on
prodigal wasteful;
reckless
prodigious enormous;
wonderful
prodigy portentous
event;
profane worldly;
having
profligacy shameless
immorality
profligate wasteful;
prodigal;
profundity depth
profuse abundant;
lavish
progeny/progenitor descendants;
children
prognosticate to
foretell
proliferate grow,
reproduce
prolix tiring
because
prone prostrate;
inclined
propagation increasing
the
propinquity nearness
in
propitiatory conciliatory;
appeasing;
propitious auspicious;
presenting
prosaic everyday;
mundane;
proscribe denounce
as
protean displaying
great
protracted prolonged
provident frugal;
looking
provisional of
the
provoke make
angry
prudence careful;
forethought
prudish easily
shocked;
prune dried
plum;
pry inquire
too
pucker wrinkle
pugnacious fond
of,
puissance strength
pulchritude physical
beauty
pummel to
pound
punctilious precise;
paying
pundit pedant;
authority
pungency sharpness;
stinging
pungent marked
by
punitive inflicting,
involving
purvey provide
supply
pusillanimous cowardly;
craven
putative commonly
accepted
putrefaction becoming
rotten
pyre large
pile
quack person
dishonestly
quaff drink
deeply
quail lose
courage;
qualm feeling
of
quandary state
of
quell suppress;
subdue
querulous habitually
complaining
quibble try
to
quiescence state
of
quiescent at
rest;
quirk habit
or
quixotic generous;
unselfish
quotidian banal;
everyday
rabble mob;
crowd;
raconteur person
who
racy full
of
raffish low;
vulgar
ragamuffin ragged;
often
rake dissolute
person;
ramble to
move
ramify to
be
rancorous feeling
bitterness;
rant use
extravagant
rapacious greedy
(esp.
rarefy to
make
ratify to
approve
rave act
with
reactionary opposing
progress
rebuff snub
recalcitrant disobedient
recant take
back
recast cast
or
recidivism relapse
into
reciprocity granting
of
recitals a
number
recluse person
who
recompense make
payment
reconcile settle
a
recondite little
known;
recourse turning
to
recreancy cowardice;
cowardly
recreant coward;
apostate
rectitude the
quality
recuperate become
strong
redeem get
back
redoubtable formidable;
causing
refine make
or
refractory stubborn;
unmanageable;
refulgent shining;
brilliant
regale to
delight
regicide crime
of
reiterate say
or
rejuvenation becoming
young
relapse fall
back
remonstrate to
protest,
renaissance rebirth
or
renascent rising
again
render deliver;
provide;
renegade deserter;
unconventional
renege to
deny;
renovate restore
smth
renowned celebrated;
famous
repast meal
repel refuse
to
reprisal recurrence,
renewal
reproach scold;
upbraid
reprobate person
hardened
repudiate disown;
refuse
repulsive causing
a
requiem mass
for
requite repay;
give
rescind repeal;
annul;
resigned unresisting;
submissive
resilience quality
of
resort to
frequently
restive refusing
to
resuscitation coming
back
retard check;
hinder
reticent reserved;
untalkative
retrograde tending
toward
revere have
deep
reverent feeling
or
ribald crude;
characterized
riddle puzzling
person
rift split;
crack;
rivet fix;
take
roll call;
calling
rotund rich
and
ruffian violent
cruel
rumple make
rough
sacrosanct most
sacred
sagacious having
sound
salacious obscene
sallow of
a
salubrious healthful
salutary remedial;
causing
sanctimony self-righteousness;
hypocritical
sanction approval
(by
sanguine cheerful;
confident;
sanity health
of
sardonic disdainfully
or
sash long
strip
satiate satisfy
fully
saturnine gloomy;
dark;
savant person
of
savor taste
flavor
sawdust tiny
bits
scabbard sheath
for
scent smell
(esp.
scorch become
discolored;
scribble write
hastily
scruple minute
part
scrupulous having
moral
scurrilous given
to
scurvy mean;
contemptible
secede/secession to
withdraw
secular material
(not
sedulous persevering
seminal like
a
sententious short
and
sequence succession;
connected
sere make
hard
serendipity phenomenon
of
sermon reproving
a
serrated having
a
servile like
a
sever break
off
severance severing
shallow little
depth;
shard piece
of
sheath cover
for
shiftless lacking
in
shrew ill-tempered,
scolding
shrewd astute;
showing
shrill sharp;
piercing
shun keep
away
shunt send
from
sidestep step
to
simper (give
a)
sinew power;
chief
sinuous winding,
undulating,
skiff small
boat
skit short
piece
slack sluggish,
dull,
slake to
assuage
slate king
of
sluggard lazy
slow-moving
slur join
sounds,
smolder burn
slowly
snare trap
snub treat
with
soar rise;
fly
sober self-controlled
sobriety quality
or
sodden soaked;
saturated
soggy heavy
with
solvent of
the
somatic of
the
somnolent likely
to
soot black
powder
sophisticated complex;
subtle;
sophistry fallacious
reasoning;
sophomoric self-assured
though
soporific producing
sleep
sordid wretched;
comfortless
specious illogical
of
sphinx enigmatic
or
spleen feelings
of
splenetic bad-tempered;
irritable
splice join
(two
sponge porous
rubber
spurious counterfeit
spurn have
nothing
squalid foul;
filthy
squander spend
wastefully
squat crouch;
settle
stanch to
stop
steeply rising
or
stentorian extremely
loud
stickler person
who
stigma mark
of
stigmatize describe
smb
sting smth
sharp
stingy spending,
using
stint to
be
stipple paint
with
stipulate state
or
stolid showing
no
stray wander;
lose
streak long;
thin;
striated striped;
grooved
stricture something
that
stride walk
with
strident characterized
by
strut a
supporting
stultify to
cause
stygian dark,
gloomy
stymie to
hinder,
subdue overcome,
bring
subjugate to
conquer;
sublime extreme,
astounding
submerge put
under
suborn induce
by
subpoena written
order
substantiation giving
facts
subsume include
under
succor assistance
relief
suffice be
enough
suffocate cause
or
suffrage short
prayer
sullied to
be
summarily briefly;
without
summary done
without
sumptuous magnificent
sundry various;
miscellaneous;
superannuate to
become
supercilious disdainful;
characterized
superfluous more
then
superimpose put
smth
supersede take
the
supine lying
on
suppliant asking
humbly;
supplicate make
a
suppress prevent
from
surcharge additional
load;
surfeit satiate;
feed
susceptibility sensitiveness
swerve change
direction
sycophant person
who
syncopated abbreviated;
stressing
synopsis summary
or
taciturn untalkative
silent
tactile perceptible
by
tadpole form
of
talon claw
of
tamp tap
or
tamper interfere
with
tangential suddenly
changeable
tarnished lost
brightness
tassel bunch
of
taunt contemptuous
reproach;
taut tightly
stretched
tautology a
repetition,
tawdry cheap;
gaudy;
teetotal oppose
to
temerity boldness;
brashness;
temperance abstinence
from
temperate showing
self-control
tenacity firmness;
persistency
tenuous insubstantial
flimsy
tepid lukewarm
terse brief
and
testiness witness;
evidence
threadbare exhausted
of
thrift care;
economy;
thwart obstruct;
frustrate
timid shy;
easily
timorous fearful;
timid
toady obsequious
flatterer
tonic smth
giving
topple be
unsteady
torment severe
pain
torpid sleeping;
sluggish;
torque twisting
force
tortuous devious;
not
tout person
who
tractable easily
controlled
traduce to
malign;
transgress break;
go
transient temporary;
fleeting
transitory brief
travesty parody;
imitation
tremulous characterized
by
trenchant forceful;
effective;
trepidation alarm;
excited
trickle flow
in
trifling unimportant
trite not
new
truce (agreement)
stop
truckle to
act
truculence aggressiveness;
ferocity
trudge walk
heavily
turbid muddy;
having
turbulence being
uncontrolled;
turgid excessively
ornate;
turmoil trouble;
disturbance
turmoil state
of
turpitude wickedness;
shamefulness
turquoise greenish-blue
precious
tyro tiro;
beginner
ubiquitous present
everywhere
ulterior situated
beyond
umbrage offense;
resentment
uncouth rough;
awkward
underbid make
a
undermine weaken
gradually
undulate to
move
unearth discover
and
unencumbered easy-going;
trifle
unexceptionable not
open
unfeigned not
pretended;
unscathed unharmed;
unhurt
unseemly inappropriate;
indecorous
untoward unfortunate;
inconvenient
upbraid scold;
reproach
urbane elegant;
refined
vacillation being
uncertain;
vagary strange
act
vain without
use,
valedictory of
an
valiant brave
valorous brave
vanquish conquer
vaunt to
boast
veer change
direction
venal ready
to
veneer surface
appearance
veneration regard
with
veracity truth
verdant fresh
and
verisimilitude appearing
true
veritable real;
rightly
verve spirit;
vigor;
vestige trace
or
vex annoy;
distress;
vigilance watchfulness;
self-appointed
vigilant member
of
vigorous strong;
energetic
vilify slander;
say
vindicate to
free
vindictive having
a
viraginous of
a
virago a
loud
visceral of
the
viscous sticky;
semi-fluid
vitiate lower
the
vituperate curse;
abuse
vivacious lively;
high-spirited
volatile changeable;
inconstant
volition power
of
volubility fluency;
verbosity;
voluble fluent
voluptuous full
of
vouchsafe to
grant
waffle talk
vaguely
waft scent;
waving
wag merry
person
warmonger person
who
warrant authority;
written
wean to
turn
welter turmoil;
a
wend to
go,
wheedle to
influence
whimsical full
of
wince show
bodily
woo try
to
wrangle to
dispute
writ written
order
yarn tale,
story,