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List 1-10 Vocabulary

English vocab words.

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To give up or renounce(authority, duties, office) abdicate
A person who leads an austerely simple life especially one who obtains from the normal pleasures of life ascetic
Pertaining to a married life conjugal
Dry out or to get dried out desiccate
Lacking in vigor or energy; degenerate; decadent effete
An agreeable sound euphony
An amount by which something increases increment
Possessing or showing great wealth; characterized by rich abundance opulent
To make favorably inclined; to appease propitiate
To give or feel in return reciprocate
Promoting good health salutary
To let someone retire; to set aside, or get rid of because it is out of date superannuate
Protection, support, sponsorship aegis
Changeable,erratic, subject to whim capricious
Believable credible
Inequality,difference disparity
Hugeness or horribleness enormity
By chance fortuitous
Group of people belonging to a church that are not priests or ministers laity
Direct vote by voters plebiscite
Play on words pun
Something left over residual
Having or producing a deep, rich, full sound sonorous
Willing to sell one's influence or open to bribes venal
Temporary in activity or cessation or suspension abeyance
To credit or sign or attribute ascribe
Close blood relationship consanguinity
To stop doing something desist
To evict or throw out eject
Vanishing, fleeting, lasting only a moment evanescent
To implant by repeated statement or admonition inculcate
Formal or elaborate praise panegyric
Presenting favorable conditions propitious
Repetitive redundant
Cheerful and optimistic sanguine
Secret, stealthy,sneaky surreptitious
Having to do with beauty aesthetic
Disaster or a violent upheaval cataclysm
Gullible credulous
Disagreement To disagree or differ in opinion dissent
Study of insects entomology
Not serious or not important frivolous
A satire To make fun of lampoon
Shrewd or prudent in practical matters, tactful, diplomatic politic
Super careful to be correct punctilious
Reparation, undoing the damage done restitution
Going out to attack sortie
To check the truth of verify
To run away, especially to escape the law. abscond
Harshness or roughness asperity
To go against the law or public opinion contravene
To become worse or less valuable deteriorate
Having or showing good taste, refinement, beauty elegant
To call forth or to produce evoke
Placing someone into an office for group Process of reasoning from the individual case to the general induction
Living at the expense others parasitic
Supporter of a cause or idea proponent
To entertain lavishly regale
Bitter, sarcastic, scornful sardonic
To make happen at the same time synchronize
To put fear, doubt, etc. to rest or to lessen, relieve allay
To make little, picky objections A little picky objection cavil
Mysterious, puzzling, secret cryptic
Active or happening during the day diurnal
Physical surrounding, social and cultural forces environment
Without apparent reason gratuitous
Chatty, talkative loquacious
A preference or tending to think favorably of predilection
Purpose or intention To claim to be, to profess to be, to appear to be purport
Operative with respect to the past retroactive
Apparently good or right though lacking real Marriott specious
The common language of an area Having to do with the common language vernacular
To give consent or approval accede
Patronage, support, sponsorship auspices
To plan cleverly, to devise, or invent contrive
A loss,damage, or disadvantage detriment
The best of the best Most choice, representing the best elite
Kind of tax To cut out excise
Artless, innocent, naive ingenuous
A sponsor Regular customer patron
Denounce it, to forbid it, to banish a person proscribe
A program of diet and exercise regimen
Person or group made to bear the blame for others and suffer in their place scapegoat
Group of people or organizations that gets together for a big project To sell a piece of media to various outlets syndicate
Without form, shapeless amorphous
Trickery or deceive chicanery
Proper speech, dress, or behavior decorum
To disclose or reveal something private, secret, or previously unknown divulge
Something that lasts a very short time ephemeral
Lacking variety, boring, dull,same thing humdrum
A world in miniature (a small version of a society) microcosm
Knowing things before they happen prescience
Cowardly pusillanimous
A contemplation of the past or a survey of the past retrospect
A conventional, formulaic, and over simplified image or idea To make an oversimplified image stereotype
Very poisonous Highly infectious, deathly virulent
An item or group of items that complete an outfit A person who assists another in crime accessory
Severity, harshness, asceticism austerity
Familiar with a subject conversant
Completely lacking devoid
Potion or cure all elixir
To urge, advise, or caution earnestly exhort
Sin or wickedness iniquity
Deliberately faithless or treacherous, deceitful perfidious
Future, likely, potential prospective
Abatement or lessening or forgiveness or a period of time in which they symptoms of a disease do not appear remission
A division or disunion schism
Reckless boldness temerity
A feeling of dislike or aversion antipathy
Imaginary, highly unrealistic chimerical
A subtraction, something that is deducted, a process of reasoning in which a conclusion follows from the premises presented deduction
Bad poetry doggerel
Having luxurious tastes or habits especially in eating and drinking epicurean
An obvious or intentional exaggeration hyperbole
A moderate or small amount modicum
Unwarranted or impertinently bold or forward presumptuous
Complaining querulous
Something that is revealed, disclosed revelation
A payment to a student or a teacher or professor salary stipend
To make faulty or to spoil or to weaken the effectiveness of vitiate
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