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GRE high-freq Vocab
From the Barron's edition and GRE for dummies (over 400 words)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abate | V. subside or moderate |
| Aberrant | Adj. Abnormal or deviant |
| Aberrant | Adj. Abnormal or deviant |
| Aberrant | Adj. Abnormal or deviant |
| Abeyance | N. Suspended action |
| Abeyance | N. Suspended action |
| Abeyance | N. Suspended action |
| Abscond | V. depart secretly and hide |
| Abstemious | Adj. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
| Abstemious | Adj. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
| Abstemious | Adj. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
| Acrid | Adj. sharp; bitterly pungent |
| Acumen | N. mental keenness |
| Admonish | V. warm; reprove |
| Adulterate | V. make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances |
| Aesthetic | Adj. artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful |
| Aggregate | V. Gather; accumulate |
| Alacrity | N. cheerful promptness; eagerness |
| Alleviate | V. relieve |
| Amalgamate | V. combine; unite in one body |
| Ambiguous | Adj. unclear or doubtful in meaning |
| Ambivalence | N. the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes |
| Ameliorate | V. improve |
| Anachronism | N. something or someone misplace in time |
| Analogous | Adj. comparable |
| Anarchy | N. absence of governing body; state of disorder |
| Audacious | bold; daring |
| Austere | Adj. forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented |
| Autonomous | adj. self-governing |
| Aver | v. assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact |
| Banal | Adj. hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality |
| Belie | V. contradict; give false impression |
| Belie | V. contradict; give false impression |
| Arduous | adj. hard; strenuous |
| Artless | Adj. without guile; open and honest |
| Ascetic | Adj. practicing self denial; austere |
| Assiduous | diligent |
| Assuage | to ease or lessen |
| Attenuate | V. to make thinner; weaken or lessen |
| Audacious | bold; daring |
| Austere | Adj. forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented |
| Autonomous | adj. self-governing |
| Aver | v. assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact |
| Banal | Adj. hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality |
| Belie | V. contradict; give false impression |
| Beneficent | Adj. kindly; doing good |
| Bolster | V. support; reinforce |
| Bombastic | Adj. pompous; using inflated language |
| Boorish | Adj. rude; insensitive |
| Burgeon | v. grow forth; send out buds |
| Burnish | V. make shiny by rubbing; polish |
| Buttress | V. support; prop up |
| Cacophonous | adj. discordant; inharmonious |
| Capricious | adj. unpredictable; fickle |
| Castigation | N. punishment; severe criticism |
| Catalyst | N. agent that influences the pace of a chemical rxn while it remains unchanged and unaffected |
| Caustic | Adj. burning; sarcastically biting |
| Chicanery | N. trickery; deception |
| Coagulate | V. thicken; congeal; clot |
| Coda | N. concluding section of a musical or literary composition |
| Cogent | adj. convincing |
| Commensurate | Adj. corresponding in extent, degree, amount, etc. |
| Compendium | V. brief, comprehensive summary |
| Complaisant | adj. trying to please; overly polite; obliging |
| Compliant | adj. yielding; conforming to requirements |
| Conciliatory | adj. reconciling; soothing |
| Condone | v. overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse |
| Confound | v. confuse; puzzle |
| Connoisseur | N. person competent to act as a judge or art, etc. |
| Contention | N. claim; thesis |
| Contentious | adj. quarrelsome |
| Contrite | adj. penitent |
| Conundrum | N. riddle; difficult problem |
| Converge | V. approach; tend to meet; come together |
| Convoluted | Adj. coiled around; involved; intricate |
| Craven | cowardly |
| Daunt | V. intimidate; frighten |
| Decorum | N. propriety; orderliness and good taste |
| Default | N. failure to act |
| Deference | N. courteous regard for another's wish |
| Delineate | v. portray; depict; sketch |
| Denigrate | v. blacken |
| deride | v. ridicule ; make fun of |
| Derivative | adj. unoriginal |
| Desiccate | v. dry up |
| Desultory | adj. aimless; haphazard; digressing at random |
| Deterrent | n. something that discourages; hinderance |
| Diatribe | N. bitter scolding: invective |
| Dichotomy | N. split; branching into two parts |
| Diffidence | N. shyness |
| Diffuse | Adj. wordy; rambling; spread out |
| Digression | N. wandering away from the subject |
| Dirge | N. lament with music |
| Disabuse | V. correct false impression; undeceive |
| Discerning | adj. mentally quick and observant; having insight |
| Discordant | adj. not harmonious; conflicting |
| Discredit | V. defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve |
| Discrepancy | N. lack of consistency; difference |
| Discrete | Adj. separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts |
| Disingenuous | Adj. lacking genuine candor; insincere |
| Disinterested | Adj. unprejudiced |
| Disjointed | Adj. lacking coherence; separated at the joints |
| Dismiss | V. eliminate from consideration; reject |
| Disparage | V. belittle |
| Disparate | Adj. basically different; unrelated |
| Dissemble | V. disguise; pretend |
| Disseminate | V. distribute; spread; scatter |
| Dissolution | N. disintegration; looseness in morals |
| Dissonance | N. discord, opposite of harmony |
| Distend | V. expand; swell out |
| Distill | V. purify; refine; concentrate |
| Diverge | V. vary; go in different directions from the same point |
| Divest | V. strip; deprive |
| Document | V. provide written evidence |
| Dogmatic | Adj. opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal |
| Dormant | Adj. sleeping; lethargic; latent |
| Dupe | N. someone easily fooled |
| Ebullient | Adj. showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm |
| Eclectic | Adj. selective; composed of elements drawn from disparate sources |
| Efficacy | N. power to produce desired effect |
| Effrontery | N. impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness |
| Elegy | N. poem or song expressing lamentation |
| Elicit | V. draw out by discussion |
| Embellish | V. adorn; ornament; enhance as a story |
| Empirical | Adj. based on experience |
| Emulate | V. imitate; rival |
| Endemic | Adj. prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area |
| Enervate | V. weaken |
| Engender | V. cause; produce |
| Enhance | V. increase; improve |
| Ephemeral | Adj short-lived; fleeting |
| Equanimity | N. calmness of temperament; composure |
| Equivocate | V. lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth |
| Erudite | Adj. learned; scholarly |
| Esoteric | Adj. hard to understand; known only to a chosen few |
| Eulogy | N. expression of praise, often during someone's funeral |
| Euphemism | N. mild expression in place of an unpleasant one |
| Exacerbate | V. worsen; embitter |
| Exculpate | V. clear from blame |
| Exigency | N. urgent situation; pressing needs or demands |
| Extrapolation | N. projection; conjecture |
| Facetious | Adj. joking (often inappropriately); humorous |
| Facilitate | V. help bring about; make less difficult |
| Fallacious | Adj. false; misleading |
| Fatuous | adj. brainless; inane; foolish, yet smug |
| Fawning | adj. trying to please by behaving obsequiously, flattering or cringing |
| Felicitous | adj. apt; suitably expressed; well chosen |
| Fervor | N. growing ardor; intensity of feeling |
| Flag | V. droop; grow feeble |
| Fledgling | Adj. inexperienced |
| Admonition | a gentle reproof |
| Amalgamate | to mix or blend together in a homogenous body |
| Ameliorate | To relieve, as from pain or hardship |
| Ascetic | given to severe self-denial; practicing excessive abstinence |
| Assiduous | Persistent, unceasing |
| Astute | Keen; wise |
| Aver | To avouch, justify or prove |
| Banal | Trite; commonplace |
| Blatant | offensively loud |
| Bolster | to support; to reinforce |
| Bombastic | using inflated language; pompous |
| Burgeon | to grow forth; to send out buds |
| Cacophony | a disagreeable, harsh, or discordant sound or tone |
| Chicanery | use of trickery to deceive |
| Coda | concluding section of a musical or literary piece |
| Cognizant | aware; taking notice |
| Colloquial | pertaining to common speech |
| Consternation | panic |
| Contentious | quarrelsome |
| Contrite | penitent |
| Contumacious | Rebellious |
| Craven | cowardly |
| Decorum | orderliness and good taste in manners |
| Deleterious | hurtful, morally or physically |
| Delineate | to represent by sketch or diagram |
| Deride | to ridicule; to make fun of |
| Derision | Ridicule |
| Desultory | Aimless; haphazard |
| Diatribe | Bitter or malicious criticism |
| Didactic | pertaining to teaching |
| Dilatory | causing delay |
| Disconcert | to disturb the composure of |
| Dissemble | to disguise to pretend |
| Dissolution | Breaking up of a union of persons |
| Divest | to strip; to deprive |
| Divulge | to tell or make known, generally of something secret or private |
| Dubious | doubtful |
| Dupe | someone easily fooled |
| Ebullient | showing great enthusiasm or exhilaration |
| Efficacy | power to produce an intended effect |
| Effrontery | Shameless boldness; impudence |
| Egress | Exit |
| Elegy | A poem lamenting the dead |
| Elicit | to extract without violence; to learn through discussion |
| Embellish | to add attractive ornamental features |
| Emulate | Imitate |
| Engender | to produce |
| Enervate | to weaken |
| Ennui | Boredom |
| Ephemeral | Short-lived; fleeting |
| Equanimity | Evenness of mind or temper |
| Equivocal | ambiguous |
| flout | v. reject; mock; show contempt for |
| Foment | v. stir up; instigate |
| Forestall | v. prevent by taking action in advanced |
| Frugality | N. thrift; economy |
| Futile | Adj. useless; hopeless; ineffectual |
| Gainsay | V. deny |
| Garrulous | Adj. Loquacious; wordy; talkative |
| Goad | V. urge on |
| Gouge | V. tear out |
| Grandiloquent | Adj. pompous; bombastic; using high sounding language |
| Gregarious | Adj. sociable |
| Guileless | Adj. without deceit |
| Gullible | Adj. easily deceived |
| Harangue | N. long passionate, and vehement speech |
| Homogeneous | Adj. of the same kind |
| Hyperbole | N. exaggeration; overstatement |
| Iconoclastic | Adj. attacking cherished traditions |
| Idolatry | N. worship of idols; excessive admiration |
| Immutable | Adj. unchangeable |
| Impair | V. injure; hurt |
| Impassive | Adj. without feeling; imperturbable, stoical. |
| Impede | V. hinder; block |
| Impermeable | Adj. impervious; not permitting passage through its substance |
| Imperturbable | Adj. calm; placid |
| Impervious | Adj. impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed |
| Implacable | Adj. incapable of being pacified |
| Implicit | Adj. understood but not stated |
| Implode | V. burst inward |
| Eradicate | to destroy completely |
| Erudite | very learned |
| Eschew | to keep clear of |
| Esoteric | hard to understand; known only by a few |
| Exacerbate | to make more sharp or severe;to make worse |
| Exculpate | to free from blame |
| Exigency | urgent situation |
| Expatiate | To speak or write at some length |
| Extirpate | to root out; to eradicate |
| Facetious | Amusing |
| Fatuous | Idiotic |
| Fallacious | Illogical |
| Fervor | Ardor or intensity of feeling |
| Fledgling | inexperienced |
| Foment | to nurse to life; to encourage |
| Forestall | to prevent by taking action in advanced |
| Frugal | Economical |
| Fulminate | to cause to explode |
| Gainsay | to contradict; to deny |
| Garrulous | trivial talking |
| Germane | Relevant |
| Goad | to urge on |
| Grandiloquent | Pompous; bombastic |
| Gregarious | sociable; outgoing |
| Guileless | Without deceit |
| Halcyon | Calm |
| Harangue | A tirade |
| Harbinger | one who foreruns and announces the coming of a person or thing |
| Heresy | Opinion or doctrine subversive of settled or accepted beliefs |
| Homogeneous | of the same kind |
| Hyperbole | exaggeration or overstatement |
| Iconoclast | an image-breaker |
| Ignominious | Shameful |
| Impecunious | having no money; broke |
| Impede | to hinder; to block |
| Imperious | insisting on obedience |
| Imperturbable | calm |
| Impervious | impenetrable |
| Implicit | implied |
| Importune | to harass with persistent demands |
| Impugn | To assail with arguments or accusations |
| Inadvertently | unintentionally |
| Inane | silly |
| Inchoate | recently begun |
| Indolence | Laziness |
| Ineffable | unutterable |
| Inert | Inactive; lacking power to move |
| Inexorable | unrelenting |
| Innocuous | Harmless |
| Insouciant | nonchalant |
| intrepid | fearless and bold |
| Inure | to harden or toughen by use, exercise or exposure |
| Invidious | showing or feeling envy |
| Irascible | easily angered |
| Itinerant | wandering |
| Laconic | brief and to the point |
| Latent | dormant |
| Laudable | praiseworthy |
| Licentious | Wanton |
| Loquacious | Talkative |
| Lucid | easily understood; clear |
| Magnanimity | Generosity |
| Malingerer | One who feigns illness to escape duty |
| Malleable | Pliant |
| Maverick | rebel; nonconformist |
| Mendacious | untrue |
| Metamorphosis | change of form |
| Meticulous | overcautious |
| Misanthrope | one who hates mankind |
| Mitigate | to lessen in intensity; to appease |
| Modicum | a small amount |
| Mollify | To soothe |
| Mordant | biting |
| Morose | ill-humored; sullen |
| Mundane | worldly |
| Inadvertently | Adv. unintentionally |
| Inchoate | adj. recently begun; rudimentary; elementary |
| Incongruity | N. lack of harmony; absurdity |
| Inconsequential | Adj. insignificant; unimportant |
| incorporate | V. introduce something into a larger whole |
| Indeterminate | adj. uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite |
| Indigence | N. poverty |
| Indolent | Adj. Lazy |
| Inert | Adj. inactive; lacking power to move |
| Ingenuous | Adj. naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated |
| Inherent | firmly established by nature or habit |
| Innocuous | Adj. harmless |
| Insensible | Adj. unconscious; unresponsive |
| Insinuate | V. hint; imply; creep in |
| Insipid | Adj. lacking in flavor; dull |
| Insularity | N. narrow- mindedness; isolation |
| Intractable | Adj. unruly; stubborn; unyielding |
| Intransigence | N. refusal of any compromise; stubbornness |
| Inundate | V. overwhelm;flood; submerge |
| Inured | Adj. accustomed; hardened |
| Invective | N. abuse |
| Irascible | Adj. irritable; easily angered |
| Irresolute | Adj. uncertain how to act; weak |
| Itinerary | N. plan of a trip |
| Laconic- Adj. brief and to the point | |
| Lassitude | N. Languor (lassitude; depression); weariness |
| Latent | Adj. potential but underdeveloped |
| Laud | V. praise |
| Lethargic | Adj. dull; drowsy |
| Levee | N. earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding |
| Levity | N. lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity |
| Log | N. record of a voyage or flight; record of day to day activities |
| Loquacious | Adj. talkative |
| Lucid | Adj. easily understood; clear; intelligible |
| Luminous | Adj. shining; issuing light |
| Magnanimity | N. generosity |
| Malingerer | N. one who feigns illness to escape duty |
| Malleable | Adj. capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable |
| Maverick | N. rebel; nonconformist |
| Mendacious | Adj. lying; habitually dishonest |
| Metamorphosis | N. change of form |
| Meticulous | Adj. excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous |
| Misanthrope | N. one who hates mankind |
| Mitigate | V. appease; moderate |
| Mollify | V. soothe |
| Morose | Adj. ill-humored; sullen; melancholy |
| Mundane | Adj. worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday |
| Negate | V. cancel out; nullify; deny |
| Obdurate | Adj. stubborn |
| Obsequious | Adj. Slavishly attentive; servile; sycophantic |
| Nefarious | extremely wicked |
| Negate | to cancel out; to nullify |
| Neophyte | Beginner |
| Obdurate | Stubborn |
| Obfuscate | to darken |
| Obsequious | servile; ready to serve |
| Obviate | to make unnecessary |
| Odious | hateful |
| Officious | meddlesome |
| Onus | burden |
| Opprobrium | infamy; vilification |
| Oscillate | to waver |
| Ostentation | a display of vanity; showy |
| Palpable | perceptible by feeling or touch |
| Paragon | model of perfection |
| Parsimonious | sparing in spending of money |
| Partisan | one-sided; committed to one party |
| Pathos | Having a quality that rouses emotion or sympathy |
| Paucity | few |
| Penchant | Strong inclination |
| Penurious | Excessively sparing in the use of money; frugal |
| Perennial | Something long lasting |
| Perfidy | Treachery |
| Permeable | penetrable; porous |
| Pernicious | tending to kill or hurt |
| Pervasive | spread throughout |
| Phlegmatic | not easily roused to feeling or emotion |
| Pious | Religious |
| Placate | too soothe; to bring from a hostile state to a calm one |
| Platitude | trite or commonplace statement |
| Plethora | excess; superabundance |
| Porous | full of pores |
| Portend | foretell |
| Pragmatic | practical |
| Precarious | perilous |
| Precipitate | Rash; premature |
| Precocious | Mature at a young age |
| Prescience | knowledge of events before they happen |
| Prevaricate | To use ambiguous language for the purpose of decieving |
| proclivity | natural inclination |
| Prodigious | Immense |
| Profound | deep; not superficial |
| Proliferate | to grow rapidly |
| Propensity | Natural inclination |
| Prudence | caution |
| Pugnacious | Quarrelsome |
| Pungent | stinging; sharp in taste or smell |
| Pusillanimous | Cowardly; fainthearted |
| Qualm | misgivings; uneasy fears |
| Quibble | Minor objection or complaint |
| Quiescence | being quiet or still; inactive |
| Quixotic | idealistic; romantic to a ridiculous degree |
| Recant | to formally withdraw one's belief |
| Recondite | Incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding; profound |
| Redress | to set right by compensation or punishment |
| Reprobate | A sinful and deprave person |
| Repudiate | to refuse to have anything to do with |
| Rescind | to void by enacting authority |
| Respite | Interval of rest |
| Reticent | reserved; inclined to silence |
| Reverent | Respectful |
| Rhetoric | the art of effective communication |
| Rout | to drive out; to stampede |
| Ruminate | to chew over again; to think over |
| Sagacious | wise |
| Salacious | having strong sexual desires |
| Salubrious | Healthful |
| Sanction | to approve |
| Sanguine | Cheerfully confident; optimistic |
| Satiate | To satisfy or fulfill the appetite or desire of |
| Savor | to satisfy fully |
| Secrete | to hide away |
| Sedulous | Persevering in effort or endeavor |
| Seethe | to be disturbed |
| Seminal | influencing future development |
| obviate | V. make unnecessary; get rid of |
| Occlude | V. shut; close |
| Officious | Adj. meddlesome; excessively pushy in offer |
| Onerous | Adj. burdensome |
| Opprobrium | N. infamy; vilification |
| Oscillate | V. vibrate pendulum-like; waver |
| Ostentatious | adj. showy; pretentious |
| Paragon | N. model of perfection |
| Partisan | Adj. one-sided; prejudiced; committed to one party |
| Pathological | Adj. pertaining to disease |
| Paucity | N. scarcity |
| Pedantic | Adj. showing off learning; bookish |
| Penchant | N. strong inclination |
| Penury | N. severe poverty; stinginess |
| Perennial | N. something long-lasting |
| Perfidious | Adj. treacherous; disloyal |
| Perfunctory | Adj. superficial; not thorough; lacking interest, care, etc. |
| Permeable | Adj. penetrable; porous |
| Pervasive | Adj. spread throughout |
| Phlegmatic | Adj. calm; not easily disturbed |
| Piety | N. devoutness |
| Placate | V. pacify; conciliate |
| Plasticity | N. ability to be molded |
| Platitude | N. trite remark; commonplace statement |
| Plethora | excess; overabundance |
| Plummet | v. fall sharply |
| Porous | Full of pores |
| Pragmatic | Adj. practical |
| Preamble | N. introductory statement |
| Precarious | Adj. uncertain; risky |
| Precipitate | Adj. Rash; premature; hasty; sudden |
| Precursor | N. forerunner |
| Presumptuous | Adj. Arrogant; taking liberties |
| Prevaricate | V. lie |
| Pristine | Adj. characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled |
| Probity | N. uprightness; incorruptibility |
| Problematic | Doubtful; unsettled |
| Prodigal | adj. wasteful; reckless with money |
| Profound | adj. deep; not superficial |
| Prohibitive | Adj. tending to prevent or forbid |
| Proliferate | V. to grow rapidly; spread; multiply |
| Propensity | natural inclination |
| Propitiate | v. appease |
| Propriety | N. fitness; correct conduct |
| Proscribe | V. ostracize; banish; outlaw |
| Pungent | Adj. stinging; sharp in taste or smell |
| Qualified | Adj. limited; restricted |
| Quibble | N. minor objection or complaint |
| Quiescent | Adj. at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive |
| Rarefied | Adj. made less dense |
| Recalcitrant | Obstinately stubborn; determined to resist authority; unruly |
| Recant | v. disclaim or disavow; retract previous statement; confess error |
| Recluse | N. hermit; loner |
| Recondite | Adj. Abstruse; profound; secret |
| Refractory | Adj. stubborn; unmanageable |
| Refute | V. disprove |
| Relegate | V. banish to an inferior position |
| Reproach | V. express disapproval or disappointment |
| Reprobate | N. person hardened in sin, devoid of a sense of decency |
| Repudiate | V. disown; disavow |
| Rescind | V. cancel |
| Resolution | N. determination |
| Resolve | N. determination; firmness of purpose |
| Reticent | adj. Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence |
| Reverent | adj. respectful; worshipful |
| Sage | N. a person celebrated for wisdom |
| Salubrious | adj. healthful |
| Sanction | V. approve; ratify |
| Satiate | V. satisfy fully |
| Saturate | V. soak thoroughly |
| Savor | V. enjoy |
| Secrete | V. hide away or cache; produce an release a substance into an organism |
| Shard | N. fragment |
| Skeptic | N. doubter |
| Solicitous | adj. worried, concerned |
| Soporific | adj. sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness |
| Specious | adj. seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading |
| Spectrum | n. colored band produced when light passes through a prism |
| Stigma | N. token of disgrace; brand |
| Stint | V. be thrifty; set limits |
| Stipulate | V. make express conditions, specify |
| Stolid | Adj. dull; impassive |
| Striated | adj. marked with parallel bands; grooved |
| Strut | N. pompous walk |
| Strut | N. supporting bar |
| Subpoena | N. writ summoning a witness to appear |
| Subside | V. settle down; descend; grow quiet |
| Substantiate | V. establish by evidence; verify; support |
| Supersede | V. cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete |
| Supposition | N. hypothesis; surmise |
| Tacit | Adj. understood; not put into words |
| Tangential | Adj. peripheral; only slightly connected; digressing |
| Tenuous | Adj. rare; thin; slim |
| Tirade | N. extended scolding; denunciation; harangue |
| Torpor | N. lethargy' sluggishness |
| Tortuous | adj. winding; full of curves |
| Tractable | adj. docile; easily managed |
| Transgression | N. violation of a law; sin |
| Truculence | N. aggressiveness; ferocity |
| Shard | fragment |
| Shirk | to avoid |
| shoddy | not genuine; inferior |
| Sinuous | curving in and out |
| Skeptic | doubter |
| Skittish | lively; frisky |
| Slander | defamation |
| Sloth | slow-moving |
| Solicitous | worried; concerned |
| Sonorous | resonant |
| Soporific | causing sleep |
| Specious | seemingly reasonable but incorrect |
| Spendthrift | someone who wastes money |
| Spurious | not genuine |
| Stentorian | extremely loud |
| Stigma | a token of disgrace |
| Stint | to be thrifty |
| Stipulate | to make express conditions |
| Stolid | dull; impassive |
| Striated | marked with parallel bands |
| Strut | pompous walk |
| Subterfuge | evasion |
| Supercilious | careless contempt |
| Superfluous | more than what is needed |
| Supersede | to cause to be set back |
| Supine | lying on the back |
| Tacit | understood |
| Taciturn | stern; silent |
| Tangential | digressing |
| Tantamount | equivalent in effect or value |
| Tawdry | cheap |
| Temerity | a foolish disregard of danger |
| Tempestuous | stormy; impassioned |
| Tenacious | holding fast |
| Tenuous | thin; slim |
| Tepid | lukewarm |
| Thrall | slave; bondage |
| Thwart | to frustrate |
| Titillate | to tickle |
| Torpid | dull; sluggish; inactive |
| Tortuous | abounding in irregular bends or turns |
| Tractable | docile |
| Transgression | violation; sin |
| Transmute | change |
| Transparent | easily detected |
| Transpire | to happen, to be revealed |
| Trepidation | nervous feeling; fear |
| Truculence | Ferocity |
| Tutelage | the act of training or being under instruction |
| Tyro | beginner |
| Ubiquitous | being present everywhere |
| Umbrage | sense of injury |
| Unassuaged | unsatisfied; not soothed |
| Uncouth | clumsy; dumb |
| Undermine | to weaken; to sap |
| Unerringly | infallibility |
| Ungainly | awkward; clumsy |
| Unison | complete accord |
| Unruly | disobedient |
| Untenable | indefensible |
| Upbraid | to reproach as deserving blame |
| Vacillate | to waver; to fluctuate |
| Vagabond | wanderer |
| Vainglory | excessive; pretentious |
| Valorous | courageous |
| Vantage | position giving advantage |
| Vapid | having lost quality and flavor; dull; lifeless |
| Variegated | many colored |
| Vehement | forceful |
| Venerate | to look upon with deep respect |
| Veracious | truthful |
| Verbiage | use of many words |
| Verbose | wordy |
| Vicissitude | change of condition or circumstances, generally of fortune |
| Viscous | sticky; gluey |
| Vituperate | overwhelm with wordy abuse |
| Vacillate | V. waver; fluctuate |
| Venerate | V. revere |
| Verbose | Adj. wordy |
| Veracious | Adj. truthful |
| Viscous | Adj. sticky; gluey |
| Vituperative | Adj. abusive; scolding |
| Volatile | adj. changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly |
| Warranted | adj. justified; authorized |
| Wary | Adj. very cautious |
| Welter | N. turmoil; bewildering jumble |
| Whimsical | N. capricious; fanciful |
| Zealot | N. fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal |
| Vociferous | Making a loud outcry |
| Volatile | changeable |
| Warranted | justified |
| Wary | very cautious |
| Welter | turmoil |
| Whimsical | Fanciful |
| Whorl | ring |
| Winsome | attractive |
| Wreak | inflict |
| Writhe | twist in coils |
| Yore | time past |
| Zealot | fanatic |
| Zeitgeist | intellectual and moral tendencies of any age |
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