Vocabularies
Vocabularies
idyll a written piece of work describing a peaceful rural scene igneous having the nature of fire; volcanic ignoble not noble; of ordinary/low character, aims immaculate perfectly clean, pure impasse a situation that has no solution or escape imperturbable calm, not easily exited impiety irreverence toward God imprecate to pray for evil, to invoke a curse impromptu w/o preparation imputation to charge indelible that which cannot be erased indemnify to compensate for damage or loss sustained ineluctable inevitable intercede to plead on behalf of another, mediate jaded worn-out jester a person employed to amuse jettison to throw overboard goods to reduce weight jocund happy, cheerful, gay ken understanding, knowledge; to recognize kith relatives and acquaintances knavery a dishonest act lambaste to scold or beat harshly lambent flickering lascivious indecent, immoral, involes lust lecherous impure in thought and act lewd lustful, wicked liaison connection, link libertine one who indulges in his desires w/o restraint ligneous having the composition of wood livid having a discolored, bluish appearance caused by a bruise lustrous bright, radiant, shining luxuriant to grow with energy and in great abundance macerate to soften by steeping in liquid maculate impure, spotted mar damage menagerie a collection of wild or unusual animals meretricious deceptive beauty mesmerize hypnotize mimicry imitation minatory threatening mire to get stuck in wet soggy ground miscreant evil person, villain mite very small amount of money moot subject to change; open for discussion/debate
mordant motility muse nautical nexus nostrum nugatory oaf obeisance objurgate
cutting, sarcastic spontaneous motion to think or speak meditatively relating to the sea a connection a questionable remedy for difficulties trifling, futile a clumsy, dumb person a gesture of respect or reverence to scold vehemently censure, blame, or abusive language aimed at a person or thing, esp. by numerous obloquy persons or by the general public obtrude to force one's idea upon another odium a hate oligarchy form of government in which a samll exclusive group holds power opalescent iridescent opprobrious abusive ossify to turn to bone, to harden oust drive out, eject paean a song of praise or triumph pagan polytheistic palatial large and ornate, like a palace palindrome a word or phrase which reads the same backwards and forwards parapet a wall for protection paraphernalia equipment; accessories parse to separate into parts and describe the function of each pavilion a light, usually open building used for shelter, concerts, exhibits peremptory leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal perjury the practice of lying perquisite extra payment, tip pied colored, blotched together pinioned bound fast pique resentment at being slighted, to provoke plaintive being mournful or sad platonic idealistic or impractical; not amorous pommel a knob, as on the hilt of a sword; infront of saddle prate to talk foolishly, chatter coming before prefatory
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Print List Print Cards Export Combine Terms Definitions elective option, choice scowl grimace, frown ferocity fury, rage propel thrust, push linger dawdle, loiter, delay sly furtive, stealthy, cunning conviction principle, stance, belief gloat boast, revel, glory sophisticate worldly-wise, urbane, d experienced trudge traipse, plod
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Print List Print Cards Export Combine Terms Definitions admonish warn, call on the carpet circumspect wary, prudent, guarded commandee take over, requisition, expropriate r cumbersome unwieldly, ponderous deadlock standoff, stalemate, impasse debris rubble, detritus, flotsam and jetsam diffuse disperse; rambling, verbose, prolix dilemma predicament, quandary, pickle, bind efface blot out, erase, obliterate, expunge jumble, mess up; confusion, muddle disorder opinionated obstinate, pigheaded, inflexible perennial enduring, recurring predispose make susceptible to relinquish surrender, abandon salvage rescue, recover, retrieve, reclaim spasmodic irregular, occasional spurious false, counterfeit, fraudulent, bogus unbridled unrestrained, unchecked
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giddy Synonyms: lightheaded, faint giddy Antonyms: steady, sensible impregnable Synonyms: invulnerable, impenetrable impregnable Antonyms: vulnerable, shaky disconsolate Synonyms: sad, downcast disconsolate Antonyms: cheerful, happy trenchant Synonyms: penetrating, sharp trenchant Antonyms: vague, indefinite larceny Synonyms: stealing, robbery consternation Synonyms: distress, perturbation consternation Antonyms: satisfaction, contentment imbrue Synonyms: bloody, ensanguine interlocutor Synonyms: interrogator, interviewer rimy Synonyms: frozen, glacial rimy Antonyms: hot, warm imprecation Synonyms: malediction, hex imprecation Antonyms: compliment, praise conciliatory Synonyms: appeasing, peacemaking conciliatory Antonyms: antagonistic, fighting contumaciou Synonyms: headstrong, obstinate s contumaciou Antonyms: obedient, subordinate s expectorate Synonyms: spew, expel saliva contempt Synonyms: scorn, disdain contempt Antonyms: respect, admiration insolent Synonyms: impertinent, cheeky, impolite insolent Antonyms: polite, respectful Synonyms: reserved, withdrawn, reticent uncommunicative reticent Antonyms: unrestrained, communicative felicitious Synonyms: fitting, suitable felicitious Antonyms: inappropriate, improper toady Synonyms: sycophant, brown-noser, flatterer
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Abjure recant Abrogate revoke Abstemious ascetic Acumen discernment Auspicious propitious Belie misrepresent Bellicose pugnacious Bowdlerize expurgate Chicanery subterfuge Churlish boorish Circumlocution rambling Deciduous ephemeral Deleterious injurious Diffident unassertive Evanescent fleeting Expurgate censor Facetious flippant Fatuous asinine Feckless carefree Fiduciary trustee Gauche uncouth Hegemony dominion Hemoglobin plasma Homogeneous comparable Hubris haughtiness Impeach inculpate Incognito disguised Incontrovertibl indisputable e Inculcate instill Interpolate append Jejune insipid Kowtow grovel lexicon dictionary loquacious garrulous lugubrious melancholy metamorphosis transfiguration moiety subdivision nomenclature lexicon notarize authenticate obsequious sycophantic paradigm archetype paradigm matrix parameter criterion pecuniary fiscal plagiarize pilfer
precipitous recapitulate reciprocal reparation reparation sanguine sanguine subjugate supercilious taxonomy tectonic tempestuous unctuous usurp vacuous vehement Vortex Vortex wrought xenophobe Yeoman
abrupt reiterate complementar y recompense remuneration buoyant ruddy vanquish imperious catalog skeletal blustery smarmy supplant inane fervent eddy gyre rendered bigot subordinate
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Print List Print Cards Export Combine Terms Definitions doctrine belief furtive sly inheritance; heritage birthright recompos to restore calmness e
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Print List Print Cards Export Combine Terms Definitions hired hand; freelancer, soldier of fortune, condottiere greedy, avaricious, acquisitive, mercenary grasping, rapacious
arguable, disputable; questionable, doubtful; broach, raise, pose, put forward marsh, fen, quagmire polychrome, polychromatic, piebald; variegated, heterogeneous, miscellaneous earthly, terrestrial; secular, temporal; material, physical; ordinary, prosaic, routine, mundane commnplace, banal myriad multitudinous, multifarious, manifold, infinite narcissisti egotistic, egoistic, egomaniacal, self-centered, conceited, vain c nomadic itinerant, migratory, peripatetic nominal titular; token, symbolic; trifling, inconsequential yearning, pining, hankering; wistfulness,sadness, sentimentality, sorrow, regret; nostalgia lonesomeness postulant; neophyte, tyro, fledgling, trainee, rookie, probationer, greenhorn, novice tenderfoot nuance subtlety, nicety, overtone, gradation, refinement, delicacy nebulous amorphous, opaque, shapeless, fuzzy, indefinite negligible insignificant, inconsequential, trivial, piddling, trifling, nugatory nepotism partisanship, bias, partiality, patronage
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Print List Terms adjacent alight barren disrupt dynasty foretaste germinat e humdrum Print Cards Export Combine Definitions next to, along side to dismount, descend, to land unproductive, sterile, desolate to upset, disturb a ruling house, regime a preview, anticipation to sprout, shoot up, grow
monotonous, uneventful, boring hurtle to speed, fly, race, catapult insinuate to hint at, imply
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abridge adherent altercatio n cherubic condone dissent eminent exorcise fabricate irate marauder obesity pauper pilfer rift semblanc e terminate trite usurp surmount
shorten, condense, abbreviate disciple quarrel, dispute, squabble angelic, seraphic, beatific ignore, wink at, turn a blind eye to differ, dispute illustrious, renowned expel, dispel put together, devise, contrive, concoct incensed, infuriated, enraged, livid looter, pirate, freebooter serious overweight, extreme corpulence destitute person filch, rob, swipe, purloin crack, fissure, gap, cleft appearance, air, aura, veneer, facade conclude, finish, discontinue banal, hackneyed, corny seize illegally, commandeer, supplant conquer, triumph over
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Print List Print Cards Export Combine Terms Definitions anonymou nameless, unknown s browse to skim, scan; to graze dupe to fool, mislead, delude dynamic energetic, vigorous eradicate to destroy, wipe out, root out frustrate to disappoint, baffle, to thwart grim stern, dreadful, ferocious inimitable matchless, incomparable makeshift temporary, substitute, flimsy marginal borderline, minimal pending undecided, awaiting prescribe to order, specify, recommend preview an advance, a foretaste prominent standing out, conspicuous
picturesque; peculiar, strange hesitant, unwilling to economize, pinch pennies a trap, pitfall, catch highest, maximum. greatest, utmost supreme vengeance revenge, retaliation
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Print List Print Cards Export Combine Terms Definitions Amnesty none Autonom home rule y Axiomatic taken for granted Blazon broadcast, trumpet Caveat admonition, word of the wise Equitable right, reasonable, evenhanded Extricate disentangle, extract, disengage Filch pilfer, purloin, swipe Flout scoff at, sneer at, snicker at, scorn Fractious refractory, recalcitrant, peevish Precept principle, maxim Salutary salubrous, curative Scathing searing, harsh, ferocious, savage Scourge (v.) flog, beat; (n.) bane, plague, pestilence Sepulchra doleful, lugubrious, mortuary l Soporific (n.) narcotic, anesthetic Straitlace highly conventional, overly strict, stuffy d (adj.) impermanent, ephemeral, Transient evanescent Unwieldy cumbersome, bulky, clumsy, impractical Vapid insipid, lifeless, colorless
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accost animadversio n avid brackish celerity devious gambit halcyon histrionic incendiary maelstrom myopic overt propriety sacrilege summarily supplicant talisman undulate
buttonhole, approach, confront rebuke, reproof keen, enthusiastic, grasping briny, saline promptness, alacrity, speed roundabout, indirect, tricky, sly, artful ploy, stratagem, ruse, maneuver tranquil, serene, placid, palmy affected, stagy inflammatory, provocative, firebrand vortex, chaos, turbulence, tumult shortsighted clear, obvious, manifest, patent fitness, correctness, decorum desecration, profanation, defilement promptly, peremptorily, abruptly petitioner, suitor amulet, charm ripple, fluctuate, rise and fall
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Print List Print Cards Export Combine Terms Definitions atrophy degeneration, deterioration; wither bastion citadel, rampart, bulwark, parapet concord disagreement, strife, discord consummate masterful; clinch, conclude disarray disorganization; dishevel, mess up exigency requirement, crisis flotsam floating wreckage frenetic frantic, overwrought glean collect, cull, pick up grouse gripe, kvetch, bellyache incarcerate intern, immure incumbent mandatory, necessary jocular waggish, facetious, droll, witty ludicrous risible, preposterous acrimonious, acidulous, sardonic, mordant scathing nettle peeve, annoy, incense, gal, irk
monetary, financial crave, lily-livered prone, prostrate, supine, inactive ruse, trick, ploy, subterfuge
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Print List Print Cards Export Combine Terms Definitions adjourn postpone, suspend, discontinue alien exotic, unfamiliar comely good-looking, attractive, bonny compensat pay back, reimburse, recompense e dissipated, debauched, immoral, dissolute corrupt erratic irregular, inconsistent, unpredictable expulsion ejection, ouster, eviction feint trick, ruse, subterfuge, dodge, bluff fodder feed, provender fortify reinforce, shore up illegible unreadable, indecipherable, scribbled jeer laugh at, mock, taunt lucrative gainful, moneymaking mediocre run-of-the-mill proliferate multiply, mushroom, burgeon subjugate subdue, vanquish, master sully pollute, taint, smear tantalize tempt, lead on, make one's mouth water terse concise, succinct, crisp, short and sweet unflinching resolute, steadfast, unwavering
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Print List Print Cards Export Combine Terms Definitions bedlam chaos bigotry discrimination bigot racist
dialect local vocabulary dilapidated neglected diplomatic tactful skillful diplomacy negotiation discreet careful emcee host enthrall captivate extraneous irrelevant filial familial grovel beg hierarchy ranking immodest inappropriate indignity humiliation infatuation foolish love laborious strenuous listless languid martyr sufferer monstrosity freak ominous eerie predominan prevailing t solace comfort in sorrow tenement slum vigilant watchful