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English
Improve English Vocabulary
| Words | Definitions |
|---|---|
| Contrite | Deeply affected with grief and sorrow for having done wrong; humbled |
| Trite | worn out by constant use; no longer having freshness or originality |
| Besotted | drunk |
| Asperity | Roughness; crabbiness; sharpness of temper; disagreeableness |
| Aphorism | a statement of known authorship which expresses a general truth or a moral principle; Memorable summation of author's point |
| Alacrity | cheerfulness, gaity; readiness or promptness to act or serve; cheerful willingness; quickness of thought or action |
| Terse | Free of superfluous words; concise |
| Commensurate | corresponding in amount, magnitude or degree (to be commensurate to something) |
| Sordid | Morally ignoble or base; vile; meanly selfish; self-seeking, run-down, dirty |
| Expiate | to make amends or reparations for |
| Equivocal | uncertain or questionable, open to multiple interpretations, ambiguous |
| Equable | even, serene, not varying or fluctuating much |
| Diffident | lacking self-confidence, shy, showing modest reserve |
| Didactic | works that have the aim of teaching or instructing, especially of moral or ethical ideas |
| Demagogue | Orator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of his audience |
| Credulity | a disposition to believe too readily |
| Corroborate | Establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts |
| Verbose | Characterized by use of many words, wordy |
| Impervious | Not permitting penetration or passage, incapable of being injured or impaired |
| Peruse | To read through with thoroughness or care |
| Reconnaissance | Act of obtaining information about an enemy area; examination or survey |
| Recusant | someone who refuses to conform ot established standards of conduct, refusing to submit to authority |
| Reticent | habitually silent or uncommunicative; indisposed to talk; taciturn |
| Reverie | dreamy thinking; as in daydreaming; especially of agreeable things |
| Riparian | of or relating to the bank of a river or lake |
| Sedulous | working hard and steadily; diligent |
| Slovenly | neglegent of neatness; habitually dirty and unkempt |
| Supernal | high in rank or power; celestial, heavenly |
| Tableau | a graphic scene; a picture |
| Torpid | having lost temporarily all motion; numb; dormant; inactive |
| Transgressions | Violating the law, overstepping a boundary |
| Truculent | fierce; cruel; savage; scathing especially for describing speech |
| Verisimilitude | appearance of being real or true |
| Vespers | evening or eveningtide; an evening prayer |
| Bilk | to cheat or defraud |
| Engender | cause |
| Replete | full |
| Abrogate | cancel; deny; repeal |
| Harbingers | indicators; bringers of warning |
| Plaudit | A statement giving strong praise, an enthusiastic expression of approval. |
| Esconce | to establish firmly in a position |
| Obdurate | Stubborn |
| Tawdry | of little value; gaudy |
| Lachrymose | tearful, sad |
| Abstemious | self-denying, refraining from indulging |
| Blithe | free-spirited, carefree, joyous, merry or gay in disposition |
| Laconic | using few words; brief; to the point |
| Accolade | a tribute, honor, praise. |
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