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ANKUL SIR ENGLISH CLASSES

English for Everyone and Everyt hing (500 WORDS)

ACRIMONIOUS: Sharp or harsh in language or temper,


Synonym Set - I caustic, acerb, pungent, tart, mordant, acrid; (noun)
asperity.

Antonyms: suave, affable,


ABANDON: To give up completely, relinquish, forgo,
forsake
ACUMEN: Keenness of mind or insight, perspicacity,
ABASH: To lose self-confidence; to confuse, put to shame, discernment, perception. Antonym: obtuseness.
fluster, disconcert, discomfit, discompose.
ADMONISH (noun: ADMONITION): To warn or find fault
Antonym: (adj.) self-possessed gently, chide, caution, reprimand, reprehend, reproach.

ABDICATE: To give up claim to, renounce, abandon, ADVERSARY: (adj.: ADVERSE): An opponent, antagonist.
relinquish Antonyms: cohort, confederate, ally, accomplice.

ABET: To encourage or support, spur, incite. ADVERSITY: Misfortune, affliction, mischance, reverses.
Antonym: deter
AESTHETIC: Pertaining to the beautiful, interested in
ABRIDGE: To shorten, curtail, diminish, retrench. aesthetic values rather than in purely practical affairs.

Antonyms: protract, elongate, amplify AFFABLE: Sociable, courteous, and agreeable, civil,
complaisant, benign, gracious, genial, urbane, cordial.
ABROGATE: To abolish or render, void, annul, nullify, Antonyms: curt, brusque, rude, boorish, surly.
rescind, void.
AFFLUENT: Prosperous, flourishing; copious, opulent,
ABSTEMIOUS: Moderate in the use of food or drink, profuse.
temperate
Antonyms: destitute, impecunious.
ACADEMIC: Pertaining to school; theoretical academic
interests; an academic discussion, with no practical AGGRESSIVE (noun: AGGRESSION. an unprovoked attack):
implications. Synonym: scholastic self-assertive; attacking, offensive, bumptious, officious,
obtrusive.
ACCEDE: To agree to, assent. Antonyms: meek, humble, retiring, diffident.
Antonym: demur
ALACRITY: Eagerness; cheerful promptness, celerity,
ACCELERATE: - To quicken, speed tip, expedite (adj. briskness, energy, animation.
expeditious). Antonyms: apathy, nonchalance, sluggishness, lethargy,
Antonym: retard. phlegmatism.

ACCOLADE: An award or salute, tribute, ovation ALIENATE: To estrange.

ACCORD: Agreement or harmony, concord, concurrence. ALLAY: To calm; to lessen in severity, appease, alleviate,
Antonyms: dissension, discord pacify, assuage, abate, mitigate, propitiate, mollify,
placate. Antonyms: intensify, aggravate.
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Antonyms: zeal, animation.
ALLUDE (noun: ALLUSION): To refer to indirectly,
insinuate, intimate, imply. APPREHENSIVE (verb: APPREHEND): Fearful, Being
unprepared.
Antonyms: refer, cite.

APPRISE: To inform.
ALLURE: To tempt by flattery or an attractive offer, lure,
decoy, inveigle, entice, seduce, wheedle, beguile, cajole.
Antonym: repel. APPROBATION: Approval; praise, sanction,
commendation. Antonym: disapprobation.
AMBIGUOUS: Uncertain, vague, capable of being inter,
hazy, obscure, equivocal, dubious, nebulous. APT (noun: APTITUDE, APTNESS): ((1) Likely; inclined or
disposed, prone. (2) Fit, suitable, appropriate, felicitous.
Antonyms: explicit, unquestionable.
(3) Skillful, expert, deft, dexterous, adept.

AMENABLE: Obedient; willing to submit, tractable, docile, Antonym: inept.


responsive. Antonyms: intractable, refractory,
recalcitrant. ARBITER: A person who has authority to decide matters in
dispute, mediator, arbitrator
AMIABLE: Good-natured; friendly, complaisant.
ARCHETYPE: An original pattern, prototype. Antonyms:
ANACHRONISM: A thing placed or occurring out of its Stereotype, facsimile, replica.
normal time
ARID: Dry; barren

ANALOGY (adj.: ANALOGOUS): A relation between two Antonyms: arable, fertile.


things shown in the resemblance not of the things
themselves but of their characteristics, correspondence, ARISTOCRACY: Government by the best people; a
affinity. privileged class, oligarchy. Antonym: democracy.

Antonym: anomaly (a deviation from the general rule).


ARMISTICE: A temporary suspension of hostilities, truce

ANARCHY: State of confusion or lawlessness, chaos,


ARTFUL: Sly; crafty, cunning, wily, adroit, ingenious,
pandemonium.
guileful. Antonyms: guileless, ingenuous, artless.

ANIMUS: A feeling of hatred, enmity, rancor,


ARTICULATE (verb): To speak clearly or distinctly, (adj.):
malevolence, animosity. Antonym: amity.
Capable of speech; distinct, clear

ANNALS: Historical records.


ASCETIC: Rigorously self-denying, austere, abstinent.
ANONYMOUS: Of unknown authorship Antonyms: wanton, self-indulgent.

ANTHOLOGY: A collection of choice literary works. ASKANCE: With distrust

ANTITHESIS (adj.: ANTITHETICAL): Contrast; the direct


ASSEVERATE : To declare positively; to confirm, assert,
opposite.
avouch, aver, avow, allege.

APATHY (adj.: APATHETIC): Lack of feeling, emotion, or Antonyms: gainsay, controvert, recant, rescind, abjure,
interest, torpor, lethargy, sluggishness, listlessness, disavow.
languor, lassitude, dispassion; (verb) languish.

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ASSIDUOUS: Industrious, sedulous, attentive, diligent,
indefatigable. BELLICOSE; Inclined to quarrel; warlike, pugnacious,
contentious, disputatious. Antonyms: pacific, conciliatory.
Antonyms: indolent, slothful.

BELLIGERENT: Engaged in war


ASYLUM: A place offering shelter and retreat, sanctuary,
refuge.

BENEVOLENT: Kindly; charitable, benign, benignant,


ATHEIST: One who denies that God exists, infidel,
gracious, magnanimous.
agnostic, skeptic.
Antonyms: malevolent, malignant.
ATTRIBUTE (verb): Assign, ascribe (noun): An inherent
quality BEREAVE : To deprive or leave desolate by loss.

AUGMENT: To increase or enlarge, enhance, amplify.


BESMIRCH: To soil or dirty, stilly, defile, smirch, bespatter.
Antonyms: abate, curtail.

BIASED: Prejudiced, bigoted, arbitrary, partial, partisan.


AUSPICIOUS: Indicating a happy outcome, propitious,
Antonyms: disinterested, equitable.
fortunate.

Antonyms: ominous, foreboding. BIBLIOPHILE: A lover of books - The bibliophile fingered


the old book fondly. Antonym: bibliophobe.
AUTHENTIC: Genuine, veritable, bona fide.

Antonyms: apocryphal, counterfeit, spurious, bogus.


BIZARRE: Queer; unusual in appearance, odd, fantastic,
grotesque, eccentric.
AUTOCRATIC: Despotic, tyrannical. Antonym: benevolent.

AVARICE: Excessive greed, covetousness, cupidity, avidity.


BLAND: Gentle; polite; agreeable, mild, suave (affable or
Antonym: magnanimity.
persuasive in manner), soothing, non-irritating.
AWRY: Unsymmetrical; not straight, askew. Antonyms: piquant, tart, racy, caustic, acrid, pungent.

BANAL: Lacking in freshness, originality, or vigor-bored by BLANDISHMENT: A flattering speech or act.


his banal remarks, commonplace, hackneyed, prosaic,
trite, stereotyped, vapid. BLEMISH (verb): To scar or spoil (noun): A disfigurement,
defect - a character without a blemish.
Antonyms: racy, original, vivid.

BLIGHT: To ruin or decay, wither, blast


BANEFUL (noun: BANE: poison; source of harm):
Destructive, poisonous, deleterious, pernicious, virulent,
noxious, toxic.
BLITHE: Gay and light, jocund, merry, joyous.
Antonym: beneficent.
Antonyms: dejected, forlorn, abject.
BANTER: Good-natured teasing or ridicule, raillery, chaff

BATON: A stick or staff. BOG: A swamp, morass, fen, quagmire, mire.

BELIE: To give a false idea of, misrepresent

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BOMBASTIC (noun: BOMBAST): High-sounding; CANTANKEROUS: Ill-natured; quarrelsome, petulant,
pretentious in language, ranting, pompous, fustian. peevish, contentious, pugnacious, testy, choleric, fretful.
Antonyms: amiable, affable, equable.

BOORISH: Unrefined in speech or manners, churlish,


uncouth, uncultured, crass. CAPRICIOUS: Inclined, through some whim or fancy
change the mind, purpose, or actions suddenly, fickle,
Antonym: suave.
fitful, changeable, erratic, inconstant, crotchety,
whimsical, mercurial.

BUCOLIC: Pertaining to the country, pastoral, rustic, rural. Antonyms: steadfast, constant, even-tempered.

BUFFOON: A clown, harlequin.


CAPTIOUS: Quick to find fault about trifles, hypercritical,
carping, caviling, censorious.
BULWARK: (1) An embankment used as a fortification,
rampart. 2) A person, idea, or object serving as a CARICATURE: A picture or other description of a person
protection which exaggerates ludicrously one or more of his
distinctive features.
BUMPTIOUS: Obnoxiously conceited or self-assertive ,
aggressive, arrogant, contumelious, overbearing. CASTIGATE: To punish or criticize severely, reprove,
upbraid, reprehend, censure, reprimand, chasten.
CABAL: A small group of persons engaged in plotting, Antonyms: commend, eulogize, laud.
junto, faction.

CACOPHONOUS: Unharmonious sounding, dissonant, CELESTIAL: Pertaining to the sky; heavenly, ethereal;
discordant, blatant, strident, raucous. (noun) firmament.

Antonyms: mellifluous, euphonious, dulcet.


CHAUVINIST. An extreme patriot, jingoist.
CADAVEROUS: Corpselike; hence, haggard, pale, ghastly,
gaunt, pallid (noun: pallor), wan, ashen. CHICANERY: Trickery, deception, duplicity, craft,
Antonyms: rubicund, florid. stratagem, wile, subterfuge.

CALLOUS: Unfeeling or insensitive, insensible, obdurate. CHRONIC: Continuing a long time; habitual, persistent,
unremitting, inveterate, incessant, constant.

Antonyms: intermittent, sporadic, infrequent.


CALUMNIATE: To accuse falsely or maliciously in order to
injure another's reputation; slander, asperse, vilify,
defame, scandalize. CIRCUMSPECT: Cautious, prudent, vigilant, discreet, wary.
Antonyms: rash, indiscreet, reckless, precipitate,
CANDID (noun: CANDOR): Frank, outspoken; impartial a foolhardy, temerarious, headstrong.
candid reply that could hardly be more forthright, artless,
ingenuous, unbiased. Antonyms: guileful, evasive.
CIRCUMVENT: To gain an advantage by the use of trick to
evade by the use of deception; to go around, thwart,
balk, outwit, delude.

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CIVIL: (1) Of or having to do with citizens or the state 2) COMPENSATION: Payment for services, stipend,
Polite, courteous, respectful, gracious. remuneration, recompense, emolument.

CLAMOROUS: Loud and noisy, vociferous, obstreperous, COMPLACENT: Self-satisfied, smug.


blatant, raucous, strident. Antonyms: muted, quiet.

COMPUNCTION: Regret for wrongdoing, contrition,


CLANDESTINE: Secret; stealthy, furtive, covert, penitence, atonement, remorse, qualm.
surreptitious.

Antonyms: overt, manifest, above-board.


CONCEDE: To yield; to admit as true; to grant, acquiesce,
capitulate.

CLEMENT: Merciful; gentle, compassionate, forbearing.


Antonyms: relentless, ruthless.
CONDIGN: Well-deserved (applied chiefly to punishment)
- received condign punishment for his crime.
COALITION (verb: COALESCE): Alliance; merging of various
units into one unit, amalgamation, consolidation, fusion.

CONDOLE (noun: CONDOLENCE): To express sympathy


with another in sorrow, pain, or misfortune,
COERCION: Compelling a person by physical force or
commiserate, show compassion, solace.
other means to do something against his will, constraint,
restraint, impelling.

CONDONE: To forgive or overlook (an offense),


extenuate, palliate, mitigate, gloss.
COGENT: Having the force to compel, usually by
appealing to reason, persuasive.

CONFEDERATE (noun): A person allied with others for a


special purpose (frequently a bad one), collaborator,
COLLUSION: Working together secretly for an evil
accomplice. (adj.): United or allied in a conspiracy.
purpose, collaboration, conspiracy, conniving,
machination.
CONGENIAL: ((1) Possessing similar interests and tastes;
able to get on well with others, compatible. (2)
COMMODIOUS: Roomy, spacious, capacious, ample.
Agreeable.

CONJECTURE: To guess, surmise, presume.


COMPATIBLE: Harmonious; able, to get along together
parted company because they were not compatible,
CONSECRATE: ((1) To set apart as sacred, hallow, sanctify.
congruous, consistent.
Antonym: desecrate. (2) To devote or dedicate to some
Antonyms: incongruous, discordant, incompatible.
aim

CONSENSUS. General agreement, accord.


COMPENDIUM (adj.: COMPENDIOUS): A brief summary of
the main ideas of a larger work, synopsis, digest, precis,
CONSTERNATION: Amazement; lack of courage caused by
abstract, epitome.
fearful prospect, dismay, bewilderment.

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Antonym: incredible.
Synonym Set - II
CREDITABLE: Deserving or reflecting Credit or honor,
CONSTRUE (noun: CONSTRUCTION): To interpret, explain praiseworthy, meritorious, commendable.
the sense of, or analyze. Antonyms: discreditable, infamous, opprobrious,
ignominious.
CONSUMMATE (adj.): Perfect or highly accomplished - CREDULOUS: Inclined to believe anything; easily imposed
achieved with consummate skill. upon, gullible.
Antonyms: botched. bungled, inept (verb): To complete, Antonyms: incredulous, skeptical.
bring to perfection.
CRINGE: To shrink in fear cower, flinch, fawn, truckle,
CONTEMPTUOUS: Expressive of contempt (an emotion wince.
involving anger and disgust), supercilious, scornful,
disdainful, contumelious. CRUCIAL: Decisive or critical; difficult

CONVIVIAL: Festive; gay, jovial, jocund, mirthful.

Antonyms: lugubrious, dolorous, mirthless. CRYPTIC : Containing hidden meaning, occult, enigmatic.

Antonyms: palpable, manifest.


COPIOUS: Plentiful, profuse, bountiful, abundant.
Antonyms: meager, scant. CULPABLE: Deserving blame or censure, censurable,
reprehensible.
CORPULENT: Fat, obese, portly. Antonyms: gaunt, lank,
emaciated, peaked. CUMBROUS: Burdensome and clumsy, cumbersome,
unwieldy, bulk.
COSMOPOLITAN (noun): One who is at home in all
countries, Catholic. Antonyms: parochial, provincial.
CURB: To control, check, or restrain, repress, subdue.
COTERIE: A group of people joined by common interests a
coterie of select friend, clique. CURSORY: Hurried; hence, superficial.

COUNTENANCE (noun): A face, visage. (verb): To approve, Antonyms: painstaking, meticulous.


sanction.

CRASS: Coarse and stupid, gross. CURT: Rudely abrupt, blunt, brusque, bluff.

Antonyms: affable, civil.


CRAVEN (noun): Coward, Poltroon. (adj.): Cowardly,
pusillanimous, dastardly.
CYNICAL: Sneeringly distrustful of the good motives or
Antonyms: stalwart, intrepid, valiant, stout-hearted. conduct of others, sarcastic, surly.

CREDENCE: Trust or belief - gave little credence to the DEARTH: Scarcity - a dearth of news, brought about by
rumor. Synonym: conviction. censorship.

Antonym: skepticism. Antonyms: plethora, abundance.

CREDIBLE: Worthy of belief, true to life. DEFERENCE: Submitting to the wishes or judgment of
another, respect, complaisance, veneration.

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Antonym : recalcitrance. Antonyms: enhance, magnify, extol, laud, eulogize.

DEITY: A god -The sun was a deity to ancient peoples. DEVASTATION: Widespread ruin, destruction, desolation.
Synonym: divinity.
DEVIOUS: ((1) Winding; indirect, circuitous. (2) Straying
DELECTABLE: Very pleasing - a delectable meal, tastefully from the right course, crooked, erring.
prepared.
DEVOID: Lacking in; not possessing, destitute.

Antonyms: abounding, prevalent.


DELETE : To erase or cancel, take out or remove, expunge,
censor, efface, eradicate.
DEVOUT: Devoted to religious observances, pious,
religious. Antonym impious.
DELINEATE: To sketch or portray.
DICTUM: Art authoritative statement; a saying.
DELINQUENT (noun): An offender, (adj.): Failing to fulfill
an obligation, derelict.
DIDACTIC: Designed to teach, imparting a lesson,
pedagogical.
DELUGE: A great flood; downpour.

DIFFIDENT: Lacking in self-confidence, shy, timid,


DEMAGOGUE: A leader who tries to stir the passions of
reserved, reticent, retiring.
people for his own purposes.
Antonyms: forward, aggressive.
DEMEANOR: Behavior; bearing, deportment, mien.
DILEMMA: A situation calling for a choice between two
DEMURE: Affectedly or falsely modest or prim; serious equally difficult alternatives; hence, a difficult or
demure as a Victorian maiden, sedate, staid, decorous, perplexing situation, predicament, quandary, plight.
prudish, coy.
DILETTANTE : One who dabbles in the fine arts for
Antonyms: immodest, frivolous.
amusement only and without concentrated study,
amateur, connoisseur.
DENOUNCE (noun: DENUNCIATION): To speak against,
stigmatize, censure, reprehend, castigate
DISCONCERT: To confuse; to embarrass, perturb,
Antonyms: laud, eulogize. discomfit, discompose, abash, disquiet, fluster.

DEPLETE: To empty or to use up, exhaust, drain. DISCONSOLATE: Depressed; without hope or possibility of
Antonyms: replenish; (adj.) replete. consolation, inconsolable, dejected.

Antonyms: blithesome, carefree.


DEPLORE: To express sorrow or grief over, lament, decry,
grieve.
DISCOURSE: To converse or talk; to discuss.

DEPRAVED: Of low morals; corrupt, debased, wicked,


vicious, perverted.
DISCRETE: Separate - two discrete issues, totally
unrelated.
DEPRECATE: To plead or argue against a certain course of
action, remonstrate, protest, decry, expostulate.
DISCURSIVE: Rambling from one subject to another,
Antonym: sanction. desultory, digressive.

DEPRECIATE: To belittle or speak slightingly of, disparage, DISPARITY (adj.: DISPARATE): Inequality; difference in
derogate (adj. derogatory). image, quantity, character, or rank.

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EGOTISTIC: Conceited, egocentric, vain. Antonym:
DISPASSIONATE: Free from feeling or partiality, palm, altruistic.
impartial. Antonym partial.
EGREGIOUS: Outstandingly bad an egregious mistake with
DISPATCH (verb): To do speedily; to send off, expedite. serious implications.
(noun): A speedy performance; the sending off of
EJACULATE: To exclaim or utter suddenly.
something , celerity, alacrity.

ELICIT: To draw out, evoke, extract, extort.


DISPEL: To drive away; to scatter, dissipate, disperse,
diffuse.
ELUCIDATE: To make clear; to explain, clarify.

DISSENT (noun: DISSENSION): To disagree; to differ in EMISSARY: A person sent on an errand or mission.
opinion, rejecting compromise.
DISSOLUTE : Living loosely; unrestrained in conduct or
morals, debauched, dissipated, profligate. ENGENDER: To cause, produce, or stir up.

DISTRAUGHT: Mentally distressed; distracted, harassed.


ENNUI: Boredom; weariness of mind.
DIVERSE : (verb: DIVERSIFY; noun: DIVISIBILITY): Varied;
different, multifarious.
ENSUE: To follow or result.
DIVERTING: Entertaining.

DIVULGE: To make public or reveal, disclose, impart. ENTREAT: To beg earnestly, solicit, supplicate, beseech,
implore, importune; (adj.) importunate, mendicant,
DOGMATIC: Positive in expressing an opinion; asserting suppliant
an opinion as though it were an undisputed fact,
overbearing, opinionated, peremptory, dictatorial. EPHEMERAL: Very short-lived, fleeting, transitory,
transient, evanescent.
DOLOROUS: Sorrowful; mournful, doleful, lugubrious, Antonym: eternal
grievous.

Antonyms: jocund, blithe, mirthful. EPICUREAN (noun): A person devoted to luxurious living
and pleasure, (adj.): Pleasure-loving.
DYNAMIC: Forceful, energetic. Antonyms: static, inert,
dormant, torpid, sluggish, quiescent. EPIGRAM: A brief pointed saying, maxim proverb, adage.

ECCLESIASTIC (adj.): Pertaining to the clergy or the church EPITAPH : A tombstone inscription.

Antonyms: secular, lay. (noun): A clergyman. EPITHET: A phrase that describes a quality (good or bad)
in a person or thing, characterization, appellation
EDICT: A public command or proclamation issued by an
authority, decree. EQUANIMITY (adj.: EQUABLE): Evenness of temper or
mind, serenity, composure, imperturbability, aplomb.
EDIFY: To instruct or uplift, particularly in morals or
religion. ERR (noun: ERRATUM): To be mistaken or go, stray,
blunder.
EFFETE: No longer productive; hence, lacking in or, worn
out. ERRATIC: Irresponsible, eccentric; lacking a fixed purpose
erratic behavior, reflecting his queer ideas.

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ERUDITE: Learned - an erudite person, an editor of many exterminate, efface, obliterate.
books. Synonyms: scholarly, knowing.
EXTRANEOUS. Not essential; foreign; irrelevant, extrinsic,
ESOTERIC: Understood by only a select few, abstruse, adventitious.
recondite.
Antonyms: germane, intrinsic, inherent, relevant,
pertinent.
EXCEPTIONABLE: Objectionable, questionable,
reprehensible, censurable.
EXULTATION: Great rejoicing, jubilation.
Antonym: laudable.
FACADE: Front or face, especially of a building.
EXCULPATE: To free from blame, vindicate, exonerate,
absolve, acquit. FACETIOUS: Given to joking or inappropriate gaiety; said
in fun, jocose, droll, flippant, frivolous.
Antonyms: arraign, indict, inculpate.
Antonyms: solemn, grave, saturnine.
EXEMPLARY (noun: EXEMPLAR): Serving as a model;
commendable, illustrative, typical; praiseworthy, FALLACIOUS (noun: FALLACY): Unsound; misleading;
laudable. deceptive.

FALLIBLE: Liable to make mistakes or be deceived.


EXODUS: Departure, emigration.
Antonyms: infallible, unerring.
EXOTIC: Strange and foreign.
FATHOM: To penetrate and understand.
EXPATIATE: To speak or write at great length, dilate.
FATUOUS: Foolish; silly, inane, vacuous, puerile.
EXPATRIATE (verb): To banish or exile; to withdraw from
Antonyms: judicious, sagacious, sage.
one's country, (noun): An expatriated person.

FEALTY: Faithfulness, allegiance, constancy, fidelity.


EXPEDIENT (adj.): Convenient in helping to attain some
Antonyms: disloyalty, infidelity, treachery.
purpose, opportune, seasonable. (noun): A means to
accomplish something.
FEASIBLE: Workable - a feasible plan, proved practical by -
previous experience.
EXPLOIT (verb): To use for one's selfish purpose, (noun): A
brilliant deed. Antonym: impracticable.

EXPOUND (noun: EXPOSITION): To set forth in detail; to FEIGN (noun: FEINT): To pretend, dissemble, sham,
explain. dissimulate, affect.

EXPURGATE: To purify (usually a piece of writing) of FELICITY (adj.: FELICITOUS): (1) A state of happiness, bliss.
offensive material, purge, delete. (2) A high ability.

EXTEMPORANEOUS: Done or spoken on the spur of the FERVID: Spirited; ardent, perfervid, impassioned, zealous,
moment or without preparation, impromptu, offhand. fervent, vehement.

EXTINCT: No longer existing or active, defunct. FESTOON (noun): A garland of flowers, leaves, etc. hung
between two points, (verb): To hang with festoons.
Antonym: extant.

FETISH: (1) Something that is believed to have magical


EXTIRPATE: To root out, destroy totally, eradicate,
powers, charm, talisman, amulet. (2) An object of
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unreasoning devotion and worship. GESTICULATE: To make gestures, or indicate feelings by.
motions.
FIASCO: A ludicrous and complete failure, debacle.

FICTITIOUS: Unreal; made-up, fabricated.


Synonym Set - III
FLACCID: Lacking firmness - muscles grown flaccid after
the illness. Synonyms: flabby, limp.
GHASTLY: Horrible, deathlike, gruesome, grisly, pallid,
FLAGRANT: Outstandingly bad, glaring, scandalous, macabre, grim, lurid.
notorious, conspicuous, gross.
GIBE (variant spelling: JIBE): To laugh at; to utter with
FLAMBOYANT: Elaborately showy, florid, ornate, scorn, mock, sneer, jeer, scoff, flout, deride (adj.:
resplendent, embellished, garish, gaudy, gorgeous, derisive), rail, taunt.
rococo. Antonym: somber.
GLIB : Smooth-spoken, fluent.
FLAUNT: Display or wave boastfully.
FLEETING: Passing swiftly, transitory, fugitive. GLUTTONOUS (noun. GLUTTON; verb: GLUT): Inclined to
cat to excess, voracious, intemperate.
FLUCTUATE : To waver from one course to another; to
vary irregularly, oscillate, vacillate, undulate, sway. GOSSAMER (noun): A very thin gauzelike fabric or
structure. (adj.): Thin and light, diaphanous, flimsy,
FORBEAR (noun: FORBEARANCE): To exercise self control; gauzelike Antonyms: substantial, ponderous.
to keep from, restrain, abstain.
GREGARIOUS: Habitually fond of associating in a company
FORENSIC: Pertaining to public discussion or law courts, or herd.
rhetorical, oratorical.
Antonyms: lone, aloof.

FORTUITOUS: Accidental, casual, incidental, adventitious,


GRIMACE: A distortion of the face to express an attitude
random.
or feeling.

FRACAS: A disorderly quarrel, brawl, altercation, fray,


HAIL: To greet - The crowd hailed the returning hero,
wrangle, imbroglio.
accost, salute.

FRUSTRATE: To prevent (the attainment of an object); to


HARANGUE (verb): To deliver a long. noisy speech, rant,
defeat or render ineffectual, balk, thwart, foil, baffle,
declaim. (noun): A loud, tiresome speech, tirade.
obstruct, discomfit.

Antonym: abet. HARBINGER, A forerunner; ail announcer, precursor,


herald.
FULSOME: Disgustingly excessive.
HAUGHTY: Proud; looking down with contempt on others.
GARNISH: To trim or decorate, adorn, deck.
HEEDLESS: Thoughtless; taking little care, inadvertent,
GENEALOGY: A record of a person's or a family's rash, incautious.
ancestors or relatives, lineage.
Antonyms: prudent, circumspect, mindful, wary.

GENESIS: Origin, inception.


HEINOUS: Wicked; hateful, atrocious, outrageous,
monstrous, odious, nefarious, abominable.
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IMPECCABLE: Faultless, consummate, irreproachable,
HERESY: An opinion held in opposition to the traditional unerring, infallible.
view, heterodoxy. Antonym: orthodoxy.
Antonyms: culpable, fallible.

HIATUS: A gap or vacancy; break, breach.


IMPERVIOUS: Incapable of being penetrate,
impermeable, impenetrable.
HISTRIONIC: Pertaining to the theater; designed for show,
dramatic, theatrical. Antonyms: permeable, pervasive.

IMPLACABLE: Incapable of being soothed, made peaceful,


HOAX (noun): A trick or deception; a practical joke,
or forgiving, unrelenting, inexorable, unappeasable.
canard. (verb): To play a trick on; to deceive.
Antonyms: placable, forbearing.

HOMONYM: Two words having the same sound but


IMPLICIT: (1) Implied but not clearly expressed. (2)
different meanings.
Unquestioning, tacit, implied.

HOVEL: A dirty or wretched dwelling. Antonym: explicit.

HYPERBOLE: Extravagant exaggeration for effect, IMPORT (noun): Meaning; significance or importance,
overstatement. purport, moment, consequence.

Antonym: understatement.
IMPOSTOR (noun: IMPOSTURE): One who pretends to be
what he is not unmasked as an impostor, quack,
HYPOTHESIS: An assumption made for the sake of
mountebank, charlatan, bogus, fraud.
argument, supposition.

IMPRECATION: A curse, execration, malediction,


IDIOSYNCRASY: A. personal peculiarity, eccentricity,
anathema. Antonyms: benediction, benison.
foible, mannerism, crotchet, aberration, quirk, singularity.

IMPREGNABLE: Unconquerable, invincible.


IGNOMINIOUS (noun: IGNOMINY): Incurring public
disgrace, infamous, degrading, opprobrious, odious. Antonym: vulnerable.

Antonyms: illustrious, renowned, preeminent.


IMPROPRIETY: Improper act, manners, or expression,
indecency, indecorum.
IMMACULATE: Spotless; pure, undefiled, unsullied,
unblemished, untarnished. Antonym: amenity.

Antonyms: defiled, sullied, blemished.


IMPROVIDENT: Lacking in thrift; not providing for future
needs, prodigal, shiftless.
IMMINENT: Likely to occur soon, impending.

IMPUGN: To attack or criticize as false; to call in question


IMMUNE (verb: IMMUNIZE): Exempt from; protected
- impugned his honesty.
from, unsusceptible.

INCARCERATE: To imprison, intern, immure. Antonyms:


IMPALE : To pierce through with a pointed instrument.
emancipate, enfranchise.

IMPEACH: (1) To accuse (a public official) of wrongdoing ,


INCISIVE: Cutting, penetrating, sarcastic, mordant,
arraign. (2) To cast discredit upon, call in question,
trenchant, acute.
discredit.

INCOGNITO. With one's identity.

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understanding, unfathomable, cryptic, enigmatic.
INCONTROVERTIBLE: Indisputable, irrefutable,
indubitable. INSIDIOUS: Working secretly or slyly, wily, crafty, furtive,
treacherous, artful, guileful perfidious.
INCREMENT: An increase, accrual.
INSTIGATE: To stir tip, foment, incite.
INCUMBENT (noun): An officeholder. (adj.): Obligatory,
mandatory, imperative. INTEGRITY: Honesty, moral soundness, probity,
uprightness, incorruptibility.
INDEFATIGABLE: Untiring, unflagging, unremitting,
persevering. INVEIGH (noun-. INVECTIVE): To speak angrily or bitterly,
rail, denounce, fulminate, vituperate.
INDIGENOUS: Native, innate, inborn.
IRASCIBLE: Easily angered, choleric, petulant, testy,
INDOOMITABLE : Stubborn in determination not to be peevish, splenetic, touchy.
subdued, insuperable, irrepressible, invincible, unyielding.
Antonyms: placid, equable.
Antonyms: tractable, amenable, docile, submissive.

IRE: Anger, resentment; (adj.) irate, incensed.


INFERENCE: A conclusion reached by reasoning from data
or premises, deduction, implication.
IRKSOME: Tedious, monotonous.

INGENIOUS: Demonstrating originality, skill, or


ITINERANT: Traveling about; wandering, nomadic.
resourcefulness, dexterous, inventive, adroit.

Antonyms: maladroit, gauche. JARGON: Confused, unintelligible, meaningless talk;


special vocabulary used only by members of a group or
INGENUOUS: Simple and straightforward; concealing trade, gibberish, argot, cant.
nothing, unsophisticated, naive, candid.
JAUNTY: Having an air of easy carelessness or liveliness,
Antonym: sophisticated.
sprightly, airy, gay, nonchalant, debonair.

INGRATIATE: To win another's favor or good opinion tried Antonyms: somber, staid.
to ingratiate himself with the politician.
JEOPARDY: Danger, hazard, peril.
INHIBIT: To check or hinder, restrain, curb.
JETTISON: To throw overboard (as cargo); to throw off (as
Antonym: promote.
a burden or something in the way )- jettisoned their old
candidate as a political liability.
INNOCUOUS: Harmless; inoffensive.

JUDICIOUS: Wise; using or exhibiting good judgment,


INNUENDO: An indirect reference or suggestion
discreet, politic, discerning.
(frequently derogatory), (verb) intimate, insinuate.

KALEIDOSCOPIC: Constantly changing or varying in


INORDINATE : Excessive, immoderate, intemperate,
pattern or scenes.
extravagant.

KEN: Range of sight or understanding, insight.


INSATIABLE : Unable to be satisfied, unappeasable,
unquenchable, insatiate.
LABYRINTH (adj.: LABYRINTHINE): A structure or intricate
passage out of which it is difficult to find one's way (also
INSCRUTABLE: Incapable of interpretation or
applied to spiritual and intellectual complexities), maze.
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LACHRYMOSE: Causing or given to shedding tears.
MEANDER: To walk about (or talk) aimlessly; to wind
LACONIC : Saying much in few words, concise, pithy, terse, about (as a stream), ramble.
succinct, taciturn, reticent.
MEDIOCRE: Average in quality, a mediocre performance,
Antonyms: verbose, prolix, redundant, diffuse,
unworthy of his talents.
tautological, turgid, garrulous, voluble.

MERCENARY: Acting solely from a consideration of


LARCENY: Theft.
reward or profit, venal.

LATENT: Hidden; present but not fully developed,


MERETRICIOUS: Attracting in a false, cheap, or showy
dormant, quiescent, covert, potential.
manner, tawdry, specious.
Antonyms: apparent, patent.
METICULOUS: Fussy about minute details, fastidious,
LAVISH: (1) Profuse or generous, ample, superabundant. punctilious, over scrupulous, finical, methodical.
(2) Given to extravagance, prodigal, munificent,
Antonyms: desultory, perfunctory, slovenly.
magnanimous. Antonyms: parsimonious, niggardly, frugal,
penurious. METTLE (adj.: METTLESOME: high-spirited ): Disposition;
LETHAL: Deadly - a lethal weapon, mortal, fatal. spirit; courage, Idiom: to be on one's mettle (meaning,
“ready to do one's best”), temperament, ardor.
LONGEVITY: Prolonged duration of life.
MICROCOSM: A little world, or a universe in miniature
LOW : To bellow softly like cattle, moo. this village, a microcosm of the great outside world.

Antonym macrocosm (world on a large scale).


LUCID: Clear; transparent; easily understood, pellucid,
perspicuous, intelligible, limpid, luminous, translucent.
MIMIC: To make fun of or copy by imitating.
Antonyms: abstruse, obscure.

MISANTHROPIC (noun: MISANTHROPE): Hating or


LUDICROUS: Ridiculous; producing laughter, mirthful,
distrusting mankind, philanthropic, altruistic.
droll, comical, absurd.

Antonyms: doleful, lugubrious, dismal. MISNOMER: A name or term that describes wrongly.

LUMINARY: An eminent person; a celestial body. MONOLOGUE : A speech by one person, soliloquy.
Antonyms: colloquy (adj. colloquial): conversation
MACHIAVELLIAN: Sacrificing moral principles in order to between two or more persons; dialogue: conversation
attain power; politically cunning; crafty, unscrupulous. between two persons.

MALICIOUS (noun: MALICE): Bearing, or acting with, MOROSE: Gloomy; ill-humored, sulky, crabbed, sullen,
deliberate ill-will or spite, rancorous, malignant, splenetic, saturnine.
malevolent, virulent, vindictive.
Antonyms: blithe, genial.
Antonym: benign.
MOTLEY: Of various colors; of mixed ingredients,
MASQUERADE (verb): To assume a deceptive appearance checkered (referring to a varied career), piebald,
or character, dissemble, feign. (noun): A disguise; a group variegated, diverse, heterogeneous.
of people in disguise or fancy costumes.
Antonym: homogeneous.

MAUDLIN: Sentimental to the point of tears, mawkish,


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blotched, dappled. passion), monomania.

MUNDANE : Of, or pertaining to, the world, as contrasted OBSOLETE: No longer in use, archaic, antiquated.
with the spirit, earthly, terrestrial, secular, temporal.
OBTRUSIVE (verb: OBTRUDE): Thrusting oneself or itself
MURKY: Dark; cloudy, dismal, tenebrous, fuliginous. into undue prominence, intrusive, aggressive.
Antonyms: resplendent, glowing, lustrous, luminous,
fulgent, coruscating. OBVIATE: To prevent, dispose of, or make unnecessary by
appropriate actions, preclude, forestall.
MUTABLE: Given to frequent change in nature, mood, or
form, vacillating, fickle, inconstant, fitful, mercurial, OMNIPOTENT: All-powerful - an omnipotent despot.
wavering, capricious.
ONUS: Burden; duty; obligation.
Antonyms: constant, steady.

OSTENSIBLE: Apparent; pretended, professed, plausible


MYRIAD: Innumerable.
(that is, appearing true, reasonable, or fair), specious.

NAUTICAL: Pertaining to ships or navigation, marine,


OSTRACIZE: To banish; to exclude from public favor or
naval, maritime.
privileges, outlaw.

NETTLE : To irritate or provoke, vex, pique, goad.


PANACEA: A remedy for all ills, nostrum.

NOCTURNAL: Pertaining to, or occurring in, the night.


PANEGYRIC: A speech or writing of extravagant praise,
Antonym: diurnal. eulogy, adulation, tribute, laudation (adj. laudatory),
encomium.
NOISOME: Foul-smelling; harmful, malodorous, fetid,
Antonyms: censure, disparagement, derogation,
disgusting; noxious, deleterious.
castigation, depreciation.
Antonym: salubrious.
PARADOX: A self -contradictory statement; something
NONCHALANT: Unmoved or indifferent; casual, apathetic. 'that appears to be absurd and yet may be true, anomaly.
Antonyms: enthusiastic, zealous.
PARAPHRASE: To restate the meaning of a passage in
NOSTALGIA: Homesickness. other words.

NOTRIOUS: Widely known (in a bad sense). PARODY (noun): A humorous imitation of an author's
style and mannerisms, burlesque. (verb): To write a
NOVICE: A beginner, tyro, neophyte. Antonym: virtuoso. parody, Mimic.

OBDURATE: Hard-hearted; stubborn, adamant, PECCADILLO: A petty fault, frailty, foible, flaw, blemish.
unyielding, inflexible.
PECUNIARY: Pertaining to money, financial, fiscal,
Antonyms: submissive, docile, compliant.
monetary.

OBLIVIOUS (noun: OBLIVION): Forgetful; absent-minded ,


unmindful, heedless, abstracted.
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OBSESSION: A persistent feeling, idea, activity, etc., which PEDANT (adj.: PEDANTIC): One who proudly shows off his
dominates a person; the state of being exclusively
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learning or who overrates his knowledge. PREROGATIVE: A privilege or power attaching to a
position, license.
PENSIVE: Sadly thoughtful, reflective, meditative,
contemplative, musing. PRESTIGE : Esteem or influence accorded for recognized
achievements or reputation, distinction.
PEREMPTORY: Positive in expressing an opinion, decisive,
resolute, imperious, positive, dogmatic. PRESUMPTION: (1) Something taken for granted - acted
on a reasonable presumption. (2) Going beyond proper
Antonyms: indecisive, tentative.
bounds; impudent boldness, effrontery, forwardness,
arrogance.
PERTINACIOUS: Clinging doggedly to an opinion or
purpose, obdurate, tenacious, persistent, persevering,
PREVARICATE: To disguise or conceal the truth to lie,
intractable, inflexible.
quibble, equivocate; (adj.) mendacious.

PERUSE : To read carefully. Antonyms: (noun) veracity, verity; (adj.) forthright.

PROCRASTINATE: To postpone or put off to another time,


PERVERSE: Willfully bent on doing the wrong thing,
defer, delay.
headstrong, forward, refractory, wayward, fractious.
PETRIFY: To paralyze with horror, fear, or surprise,
PROGNOSTICATE (noun: PROGNOSIS): To forecast,
stupefy, stun, bewilder, amaze.
presage, portend, augur, forebode.

PLAGIARISM. Adopting and reproducing, without


PROLETARIAT: The wage-earning class.
acknowledgment, the writings or ideas of another and
passing them off as one's own.
PROMONTORY: A cliff, headland, precipice.

PLATITUDE: A dull and commonplace remark, bromide,


PROMULGATE: To publish or proclaim; to spread abroad,
truism, axiom.
disseminate.

PLEBEIAN: Pertaining to the common people; hence,


PROTUBERANT: Bulging or swelling out - a protuberant
common or vulgar, patrician, aristocratic.
jaw. Antonyms: receding, recessive.

PLEBISCITE. A direct vote by the people.


PROVISIONAL: Temporary; for the time being, tentative.

POIGNANT: (1) Gripping and moving the feelings PROXIMITY : Nearness, propinquity, vicinity.
powerfully - a poignant grief. (2) Piercing, biting, pointed -
Antonym : remoteness.
a poignant cry; poignant wit.

PSEUDONYM: A false name assumed by a writer, alias,


PONDEROUS: Very heavy; clumsy; dull - a ponderous
pen name, nom de plume.
speech, extremely boring.
PRECARIOUS: Uncertain or risky - earning a precarious
PUNITIVE: Inflicting, or concerned with, punishment.
livelihood, providing no luxuries.

QUASH: To crush; to render void, suppress, extinguish,


PRECIPITOUS: (1) Very steep - a precipitous cliff. (2)
quell; annul.
Descending rapidly.

QUERULOUS: Given to fault-finding and complaining ,


PRELUDE: An introduction, forerunner, or preliminary
fretful, whining, captious, carping, peevish, petulant.
step, preface, prologue, preamble.
Antonym: affable.
Antonym: epilogue.
QUIXOTIC : Extravagantly romantic or idealistic; highly
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RETRIBUTION: The reward or punishment exacted for an
RACONTEUR: A skilled storyteller. injury, wickedness, or other action, requital, nemesis.

RADICAL (noun): One who advocates extreme basic RETRIEVE: (1) To make good. (2) To recover. (3) To
changes. (adj.): Thorough, extreme. restore.

Antonym (noun and adj.): conservative. REVERBERATE: To echo, resound.

RAMIFICATION: A branching; sub-division. RUDIMENTARY: In an early stage of development,


incipient.
RAZE: To tear down completely, level. RUE (adj.: RUEFUL): To be sorry for, regret, repent.
Antonym: rear.
SACROSANCT: Very holy, consecrated, inviolable,
hallowed.
RECAPITULATE : To restate in a brief, concise form; to sum
up.
SAGACIOUS (noun: SAGACITY): Wise; shrewd,
perspicacious, astute, sapient, discerning, sage.
RECIPROCAL: Mutual; done in return for something
received.
SALLOW: Sick, pallid.
RECUMBENT: Lying down; leaning back or down.
Antonyms: rubicund, ruddy, florid.
REDOLENT: (1) Fragrant, aromatic. (2) Reminiscent of.
SALLY : (verb): To rush forth suddenly. (noun): A Witty
REDOUBTABLE: Commanding fear or respect, formidable. remark, quip, banter.

SANCTIMONIOUS: Pretending to be religious.


REFUTE: To prove incorrect or false, rebut, confute. SANGUINARY: Bloody, gory.

Antonyms: substantiate, confirm, corroborate.


SANGUINE : Of a hopeful disposition; blood-red in color,
buoyant, ardent.
REITERATE : Repeat (several times).
SARTORIAL: Pertaining to a tailor or clothes.
REMUNERATIVE: Profitable, lucrative, gainful.
SATELLITE: (1) An attentive or flattering follower, lackey,
RENEGADE: One who forsakes political or party principles
toady, disciple, adherent; adj., fawning, obsequious,
or his religious faith, turncoat, apostate, recreant, traitor.
partisan. (2) A country influenced or controlled by
another. (3) A body (natural or artificial) which revolves
REPRISAL: Injury inflicted in turn for one received,
around a larger body, generally a planet.
retaliation.
SCINTILLA: A trace; a particle, iota; vestige.
RESENTMENT: Feeling of displeasure or indignation
resulting from mistreatment or abuse, umbrage,
SCOURGE (verb): To punish severely; to afflict; to whip,
dudgeon, animosity.
excoriate, flay. (noun). A whip or other means of
punishment; a cause of affliction, tribulation.
RESILIENT: Elastic; light-hearted; possessing power of
recovery, flexible, pliable, supple, limber.
SCRUTINIZE: To examine carefully.

RESPITE: (1) Temporary deferment or cessation of work


SHIBBOLETH: A party slogan.
or pain, surcease. (2) A temporary delay in the execution
of -a sentence, reprieve.
SIMPER (verb): To smile in a silly or affected way
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or silly smile, (verb and noun) smirk.
TANTAMOUNT: Equivalent.
SINECURE: Employment entailing little or no responsibility
or labor. TAUNT (verb). To reproach with contempt, mock, twit,
gibe, sneer, deride. (noun): An insulting, jeering, or bitter
SINISTER: Threatening or showing evil; dishonest.
remark.
SLEAZY: Flimsy and cheap, unsubstantial.

TEEMING: In abundance, fertile, highly productive,


SLOVENLY: Untidy, slipshod, slatternly, frowzy.
swarming, fruitful, fecund, abounding.

SOPORIFIC: Tending to induce sleep. TEMERITY: Unwise or reckless boldness, audacity,


presumptuousness, effrontery, rashness; (adj.)
temerarious, foolhardy, venturesome.
SORDID: Mean and base; filthy, degraded, vile, ignoble.
Antonyms: prudence, circumspection, wariness.
SOVEREIGN: Supreme m power and authority;
TEMPORAL: Worldly, as opposed to spiritual; existing for
independent of the control of any other government,
a time only, mundane, secular, civil.
autonomous, imperial, majestic, paramount.

TEMPORIZE: To delay or refuse to commit oneself in


SPORADIC: Occurring singly, at irregular intervals;
scattered. order to gain time, equivocate.

TENET: A principle of belief held as true, creed, doctrine,


SPURN: To refuse or reject with contempt, repel, snub.
dogma.
STOIC: Indifferent, calm in bearing pain or pleasure;
TENUOUS: Slender; not substantial; of slight importance.
practising remarkable self-control over emotions, stolid,
impassive.
TRANQUIL: Calm; peaceful, placid, serene.
STRINGENT: Strict; compelling, constraining stringent Antonyms: perturbed, ruffled, turbulent.
regulations; stringent requirements, exacting, rigid.
Antonym: lax. TRANSGRESS: To break a law or command; to violate a
moral principle; to overstep a moral bound or limit.
STUPENDOUS: Amazing by, virtue of its immense size,
force, or any quality in exceptional degree, astounding, TREMULOUS: Trembling, quivering.
prodigious, monstrous, marvelous, colossal, awful.
TRIVIAL: Of little - importance.
SUCCULENT: juicy.
Antonyms: gross, momentous.
Antonyms: desiccated, vapid.
TRUCULENT (noun: TRUCULENCE): Cruel, fierce; harsh;
SULTRY: Close, hot, and moist - sultry tropical weather. threatening or intimidating savagely.

SUPINE: (1) Lying flat on the back. TURGID: (1) Swollen, inflated, bloated, distended. (2)
Antonym: erect. Using big or high-sounding words pompous, bombastic,
prolix.
(2) Inert, inactive, averse to taking action, listless, torpid.
UBIQUITOUS: Existing everywhere, omnipresent,
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Antonym: perfunctory.
UNTENABLE: Incapable of being defended or held.
ZENITH : The highest point, acme, apex, culmination,
summit.
UTILITARIAN (adj.): Materially or practically useful.
Antonym: nadir.
VANQUISH: To subdue or conquer.

VAUNT: To boast, brag (noun: braggadocio, braggart),


proclaim.

VENEER: A superficial appearance or show designed to


impress one with superiority, gloss.

VENERABLE: Deserving respect or reverence because of


age.

VERNAL: Pertaining to spring.

Antonym: hibernal (wintry).

VERSATILE: Able to do many things skillfully.

VICARIOUS: Taking the place of another; felt, received, or


done in place of another.

VICISSITUDE: A change from one condition to another,


often unexpected.

VIRAGO: A scolding or ill-tempered woman, shrew,


termagant, vixen.

VITUPERATE (noun: VITUPERATION; adj.: VITUPERATIVE):


To scold or blame loudly, find fault with in abusive
language, berate, revile.

WAIVE: To give up (privileges, etc.); to do without -


waived his rights to the property. Synonyms: relinquish,
forgo, forsake.

WHIM (adj.: WHIMSICAL): A sudden notion or passing


fancy, caprice, vagary, crotchet.

WRITHE: To twist about (usually with pain), contort,


squirm.

ZEALOUS (noun: ZEALOT: fanatic): Full of enthusiasm or


eagerness.

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