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Abase |
Degrade or humble; to lower in rank, status, or esteem |
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Abate |
reduce, diminish |
| 3 |
Abdicate |
Formally give up the throne (or some other power or responsibility) |
| 4 |
Aberrant |
abnormal, deviant |
| 5 |
Abeyance |
Temporary suspension, inactivity |
| 6 |
Abhor |
Detest, regard with disgust |
| 7 |
Abjure |
Give up, renounce; repudiate, recant, or shun (especially formally or under oath) |
| 8 |
Abrasive |
Rough, suitable for grinding or polishing (such as sandpaper); causing irritation or annoyance |
| 9 |
Abreast |
Side-by-side. The more common "abreast of" means keeping up with, staying aware of, or remaining equal in progress with. |
| 10 |
Abridge |
Reduce or lesson; shorten by omitting parts throughout while retaining the main idea |
| 11 |
Abscission |
Cutting off; sudden termination; the separation of leaves, petals, or other parts from a plant or animal |
| 12 |
Abscond |
Depart suddenly and secretively |
| 13 |
Abstain |
Hold back, refrain (especially from something bad or unhealthy) ; decline to vote |
| 14 |
Abyss |
A deep and vast space or cavity; anything profound or infinite |
| 15 |
Accede |
Agree, give consent; assume power (usually as "accede to") |
| 16 |
Accretion |
Gradual increase; an added part or addition |
| 17 |
Acerbic |
Sour; harsh or severe |
| 18 |
Acidulous |
Slightly acid or sour; sharp or caustic |
| 19 |
Acme |
Summit, peak, highest point |
| 20 |
Activism |
The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations |
| 21 |
Acumen |
Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment |
| 22 |
Adhere |
Stick (to), such as with glue, or to a plan or belief |
| 23 |
Admonish |
Mildly scorn; caution, advise, or remind to do something |
| 24 |
Adulterate |
Make impure by adding inappropriate or inferior ingredients |
| 25 |
Adumbrate |
Give a rough outline of; foreshadow; reveal only partially; obscure |
| 26 |
Adverse |
Opposing, harmful |
| 27 |
Advocate |
Speak or argue in favor of (verb); a person who pleads for a cause or on behalf of another person (noun) |
| 28 |
Aerie |
Dwelling or fortress built on a high place; the nest of a bird of prey, such as an eagle or hawk, built on a mountain or cliff |
| 29 |
Aesthetic |
Concerning the appreciation of beauty or good taste, pertaining to the science of what is beautiful (adj); a sense of beauty and taste of a particular time and place (noun) |
| 30 |
Affable |
Warm, friendly, pleasant, approachable |
| 31 |
Affectation |
Fake behavior (such as in speech or dress) adopted to give a certain impression |
| 32 |
Aggrandize |
Make greater; exaggerate |
| 33 |
Aggregate |
Gather together, amount to (verb); constituting a whole made up of constituent parts (adj) |
| 34 |
Alacrity |
Cheerful or speedy willingness |
| 35 |
Alacrity |
liveliness and eagerness |
| 36 |
Albeit |
Although, even though |
| 37 |
Alienate |
Cause to become unfriendly, hostile, or distant |
| 38 |
Alleviate |
Lessen, make easier to endure |
| 39 |
Aloof |
Distant physically or emotionally; reserved; indifferent |
| 40 |
Amalgamate |
Blend, merge, or unite |
| 41 |
Ambiguous |
Not clear, hard to understand, open to having several meanings or interpretations |
| 42 |
Ambivalent |
Uncertain; unable to decide, or wanting to do two contradictory things at once |
| 43 |
Ambivalent |
characterized by a mixture of opposite feelings or attitudes |
| 44 |
Ameliorate |
Improve; make better or more bearable |
| 45 |
Amortize |
Gradually pay off a debt, or gradually write off an asset |
| 46 |
Anachronism |
Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period |
| 47 |
Analgesia |
Pain relief; inability to feel pain |
| 48 |
Analogous |
Comparable, corresponding in some particular way (making good analogy) |
| 49 |
Anarchy |
Absence of law or government; chaos, disorder |
| 50 |
Annul |
Make void or null, cancel, abolish (usually of laws or other established rules) |
| 51 |
Anodyne |
Medicine that relieves pain (noun); soothing, relieving pain (adj) |
| 52 |
Anoint |
Rub or sprinkle oil on, make sacred, such as by a ceremony that includes applying oil to someone |
| 53 |
Anomaly |
Deviation from what is common; inconsistency |
| 54 |
Antagonize |
Make hostile or unfriendly |
| 55 |
Antedate |
Be older than, precede in time; assign to an earlier date |
| 56 |
Antipathy |
Deep dislike, aversion, or repugnance, sometimes without reason |
| 57 |
Antithetical |
Directly opposed, opposite; involving antithesis (the rhetorical act of placing two phrases opposite one another for contrast, as in love me or hate me) |
| 58 |
Apathy |
Not caring; absence of feeling; lack of interest or concern |
| 59 |
Apocryphal |
of questionable authenticity; false |
| 60 |
Apostate |
Person who deserts a party, cause, religion, etc. |
| 61 |
Apostle |
Pioneer of a reform movement (originally, an early follower of Jesus) |
| 62 |
Appease |
Pacify, satisfy, relieve; concede to belligerent demands, sometimes at the expense of principles |
| 63 |
Apposite |
Highly appropriate, suitable, or relevant |
| 64 |
Appreciable |
Enough to be perceived, considerable |
| 65 |
Apprise |
Inform, give notice to |
| 66 |
Approbation |
Praise or approval, especially formal approval |
| 67 |
Appropriate |
Set aside or authorize (such as money) for a particular purpose; take for one |
| 68 |
Arbiter |
Judge, umpire, person empowered to decide matters at hand |
| 69 |
Arbitrary |
Based entirely on one |
| 70 |
Arcane |
Known or understood by only a few; obscure, secret |
| 71 |
Arch |
(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension |
| 72 |
Archaic |
Characteristic of an earlier period, ancient, primitive |
| 73 |
Ardent |
Very passionate, devoted, or enthusiastic |
| 74 |
Arduous |
Very difficult, strenuous; severe, hard to endure |
| 75 |
Arrogate |
Claim or take presumptuously or without the right to do so |
| 76 |
Artful |
slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky |
| 77 |
Articulate |
Using language in a clear fluent way (adj); speak distinctly or give clarity to an idea (verb) |
| 78 |
Artifact |
Any object made by humans, especially those from an earlier time, such as those excavated by archaeologists |
| 79 |
Artless |
Free of deceit or craftiness, natural, genuine; lacking skill or knowledge, crude, uncultured |
| 80 |
Ascertain |
Find out with certainty |
| 81 |
Ascetic |
Abstinent or austere in lifestyle (adj); a person who leads an austere and simple life without material pleasures, esp. someone who does this for religious reasons |
| 82 |
Ascribe |
Assign or credit to a certain cause or source |
| 83 |
Aseptic |
Free from germs |
| 84 |
Asperity |
Rigor, severity; harshness or sharpness of tone; roughness of surface |
| 85 |
Aspersions |
Damaging remarks, defamation, slander |
| 86 |
Assail |
Attack violently, assault |
| 87 |
Assiduous |
Persevering, diligent, constant |
| 88 |
Assuage |
Make milder, relieve, soothe, pacify, or calm |
| 89 |
Attenuate |
Weaken or thin out |
| 90 |
Attuned |
In harmony; in sympathetic relationship |
| 91 |
Audacious |
Very bold or brave, often in a rude or reckless way; extremely original |
| 92 |
Augment |
Make larger |
| 93 |
Augury |
Telling the future, such as through supernatural means |
| 94 |
August |
Venerable, majestic; inspiring admiration |
| 95 |
Auspicious |
favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
| 96 |
Austere |
Severe in manner or appearance; very self-disciplined, ascetic; without luxury or ease; sober or serious |
| 97 |
Autonomous |
Self-governing, independent |
| 98 |
Avarice |
Insatiable greed; a miserly desire to hoard wealth |
| 99 |
Aver |
Declare or affirm with confidence |
| 100 |
Avid |
Enthusiastic, dedicated, passionate; excessively desirous |
| 101 |
Axiom |
Self-evident truth requiring no proof; universally or generally accepted principle |
| 102 |
Base |
not adhering to ethical or moral principles |
| 103 |
Becoming |
attractive; suitable; pleasing to the eye |
| 104 |
Beg |
to evade a question, to invite an obvious question, to ask a question in itself makes unwarranted assumptions |
| 105 |
Benighted |
lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture |
| 106 |
Bleak |
offering little or no hope |
| 107 |
Blinkered |
To have a limited outlook or understanding, Narrow-minded |
| 108 |
Candid |
openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness |
| 109 |
Check |
the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess |
| 110 |
Checkered |
Marked by periods of varied fortune or discreditable incidents |
| 111 |
Contentious |
quarrelsome, inclined to argue |
| 112 |
Contrite |
feeling regret or remorse for a fault or offence |
| 113 |
Disparate |
fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind |
| 114 |
Egregious |
conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible, stand out in a bad way |
| 115 |
Enervate |
weaken mentally or morally |
| 116 |
Equivocate |
be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information |
| 117 |
Erratic |
likely to perform unpredictably |
| 118 |
Expansive |
friendly and open and willing to talk |
| 119 |
Extant |
still in existence |
| 120 |
fact; factual |
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| 121 |
Fell |
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering |
| 122 |
Fleece |
to deceive |
| 123 |
Flush |
redden; blush; flow suddenly and abundantly; wash out by a rapid brief flow of water; N: reddish tinge; blush; brief rush; rush of strong feeling; Ex. flush of pride; ADJ: having surfaces in the same plane; even; blushing |
| 124 |
Galvanize |
to stimulate to action |
| 125 |
Hedge |
minimize loss or risk |
| 126 |
Imbibe |
to drink; to take in, absorb |
| 127 |
Innocuous |
harmless, producing no injury |
| 128 |
Intimate |
to imply, suggest, or insinuate |
| 129 |
Inundate |
fill quickly beyond capacity |
| 130 |
involved |
Complicated, and difficult to comprehend |
| 131 |
Laconic |
concise, using few words |
| 132 |
Maintain |
state or assert |
| 133 |
Moment |
having important effects or influence, significant |
| 134 |
Paucity |
an inadequate quantity, scarcity |
| 135 |
Profuse |
very abundant; given or flowing freely |
| 136 |
Prosaic |
dull and unimaginative; matterof- |
| 137 |
Pugnacious |
ready and able to resort to force or violence, aggressive |
| 138 |
Qualify |
To modify, limit, or restrict, as by giving exceptions |
| 139 |
Raft |
(often followed by |
| 140 |
Retiring |
shy and reserved; modest |
| 141 |
Scintillating |
brilliantly clever |
| 142 |
Sedulous |
diligent; persistent; hard-working |
| 143 |
Start |
move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm |
| 144 |
Stem |
limit or stop the flow or growth of somthing |
| 145 |
Telling |
powerfully persuasive, significant and stands out |
| 146 |
Tender |
offer or present for acceptance |
| 147 |
Veracity |
truthfulness |
| 148 |
Wanting |
Lacking or absent; Deficient in some way |
| 149 |
Wax |
increase in phase |
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