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GRE Word List 2011
GRE Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ABATE | TO LESSON IN INTENSITY OR DEGREE |
| ABBERANT | DEVIATING FROM THE NORM |
| ABJURE | TO RENOUNCE OR REJECT SOLEMNLY; TO RECANT; TO AVOID |
| ABROGATE | TO ABOLISH OR ANNUL BY AUTHORITY; PUT DOWN |
| ABSCISSION | ACT OF CUTTING OFF OR REMOVING |
| ABSCOND | TO DEPART CLANDESTINELY; TO STEAL OFF AND HIDE |
| ABSTAIN | TO REFRAIN FROM AN ACTIVITY |
| ABSTEMIOUS | TO CONSUME IN MODERATION, PARTICULARLY WHERE GOOD AND DRINK IS CONCERNED |
| ACERBIC | having a sour or bitter taste or character |
| ACUMEN | quick |
| ADMONISH | to reprove; to express warning or disapproval |
| ACCOLADE | an expression of praise an award |
| ADRIOT | adept |
| ADULATION | excessive praise; intense adoration |
| ADULTERATE | to reduce purity by combingin with inferior ingredients |
| ADUMBRATE | to foreshadow vaguely |
| AESTHETIC | dealing with |
| AGGRANDIZE | to increase in intensity |
| ALACRITY | eager and enthusiastic willingness |
| ALCHEMY | a medieval science aimed at transmutation of metals |
| ALLOY | to commingle; to debase by mixing with something inferior |
| AMALGAMATE | to combine several elements into a whole |
| AMELIORATE | to make better or more tolerable |
| AMENABLE | agreeable; responsive to suggestion |
| ANACHRONISM | something or someone out of place in terms of historical or chronological context |
| ANATHEMA | a solemn or ecclesiastical (religious) curse; accursed or thoroughly loathed person or thing |
| ANODYNE | soothing |
| ANOMALY | deviation from the normal order |
| ANTIPATHY | aversion |
| ANTITHETICAL | diametrically opposed |
| APOCRYPHAL | of dubious authenticity or origin; spurious |
| APOGEE | farthest or highest point; culmination; zenith |
| APOSTATE | one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions |
| APOTHEOSIS | deification |
| APPOSITE | appropriate |
| APPRISE | give notice to |
| APPROBATION | an expression of approval or praise |
| APPROPRIATE | to take for one's own use |
| ARABESQUE | complex |
| ARCANE | mysterious |
| ARCHAIC | outdated; associated with an earlier |
| ARDUOUS | strenuous |
| ARRANT | impudent; in every way |
| ARREST | to suspend; to engage |
| ARTLESS | completely without guile; natural |
| ASCETIC | one who practices rigid self-denail |
| ASPERITY | severity |
| ASPERSION | an act of defamation or maligning |
| ASSIDUOUS | diligent |
| ASSUAGE | to ease or lessen; to appease or pacify |
| ASTRINGENT | having a tightening effect on living tissue; hars; severe |
| ATTENUATE | to rarefy |
| AUDACIOUS | daring and fearless; recklessly bold |
| AUGURY | omen |
| AUGUST | majestic |
| AUSPICE | protection or support |
| AUSPICIOUS | favorable |
| AUSTERE | without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic |
| AVARICE | greed |
| AVER | to state as a fact; to confirm or support |
| AXIOM | a universally recognized principle; a generally accepted or common saying |
| AXIOMATIC | taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth |
| BALEFUL | sinister |
| BANE | cause of injury |
| BEATIFY | to bless |
| BEDIZEN | to adorn |
| BELIE | to give a false impression of |
| BELLICOSE | belligerent |
| BENT | leaning |
| BLANDISH | to coax with flattery |
| BLITHE | carefree |
| BOISTEROUS | loud |
| BOLSTER | to provide support or reinforcement |
| BOMBASTIC | pompous; grandiloquent |
| BOOR | a rude or insensitive person; lout; yokel |
| BROACH | bring up |
| BROOK | to tolerate |
| BUCOLIC | rustic and pastoral; characteristic of rural areas and their inhabitants |
| BURGEON | to grow rapidly or flourish |
| BURNISH | to polish |
| BYZANTINE | labrynthine |
| CACOPHONY | harsh |
| CADGE | to sponge |
| CAJOLE | to inveigle |
| CALUMNIATE | to slander |
| CANON | an established set of principles or code of laws |
| CAPRICIOUS | inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable |
| CARDINAL | of basic importance or consequence; primary |
| CARET | an inserion mark (^) used by editors and proofreaders |
| CASTIGATION | sever criticism or punishment |
| CATALYST | a substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing; a person or thing that causes change |
| CAUSTIC | burning or stinging; causing corrosion |
| CENSURE | to criticize severely; to officially rebuke |
| CHARY | wary; cautious; sparing |
| CHASTEN | to chastise or correct; subdue |
| CHAUVINIST | one blindly devoted to a group of which one is a member |
| CHICANERY | trickery or subterfuge |
| CHIMERA | an illusion; originally |
| CHURLISH | boorish |
| COALESCE | to come together; to fuse or unite |
| CODA | concluding section to a musical or literary piece |
| COGENT | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason; convincing |
| COLOR | to change as if by dyeing |
| COMMENSURATE | matching |
| COMPLAISANCE | the willingness to comply with the wishes of others |
| CONNOISSEUR | an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert |
| CONSEQUENTIAL | pompous |
| CONTEMN | to scorn or despise |
| CONTENTIOUS | argumentative; quarrelsome; causing controversy or disagreement |
| CONTIGUOUS | sharing a border; touching; adjacent |
| CONTRITE | regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness |
| CONVENTION | a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude |
| CONVOLUTED | complex or complicated |
| CORRIGIBLE | capable of being set right |
| COUNTENANCE | to approve of or tolerate |
| COZEN | to deceive |
| CRAVEN | contemptibly fainthearted |
| CREDULOUS | tending to believe too readily; gullible |
| CULPABLE | deserving blame |
| CYNICISM | an attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness |
| DAMP | to diminish the intensity or check something |
| DAUNT | to intimidate or dismay |
| DEARTH | smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; lack |
| DEBACLE | rout |
| DECORUM | politeness or appropriateness of conduct or behavior |
| DEMUR | to question or oppose |
| DENIGRATE | blacken |
| DENOUEMENT | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
| DEPRECATE | to disparage or belittle |
| DEPREDATE | to plunder |
| DERISION | scorn |
| DERIVATIVE | unoriginal |
| DESICCATE | to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
| DESUETUDE | disuse |
| DESULTORY | random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
| DETRACTION | slandering |
| DIAPHANOUS | transparent |
| DIATRIBE | a harsh denunciation |
| DIDACTIC | intended to teach or instruct |
| DIE | a tool used for shaping |
| DIFFIDENT | reserved |
| DENIGRATE | blacken |
| DENOUEMENT | an outcome or solution; the unraveling of a plot |
| DEPRECATE | to disparage or belittle |
| DEPREDATE | to plunder |
| DERISION | scorn |
| DERIVATIVE | unoriginal |
| DESICCATE | to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull |
| DESUETUDE | disuse |
| DESULTORY | random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose |
| DETRACTION | slandering |
| DIAPHANOUS | transparent |
| DIATRIBE | a harsh denunciation |
| DIDACTIC | intended to teach or instruct |
| DIE | a tool used for shaping |
| DIFFIDENT | reserved |
| DIGRESS | to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent |
| DILATORY | causing delay |
| DILETTANTE | one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge |
| DIN | loud sustained noise |
| DISABUSE | to undeceive; to set right |
| DISCOMFIT | to defeat |
| DISCORDANT | conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound |
| DISCRETION | cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions |
| DISINTERESTED | free from self-interest; unbiased |
| DISPARAGE | to slight or belittle |
| DISPARATE | fundamentally distinct or dissimilar |
| DISSEMBLE | to disguise or conceal; to mislead |
| DISSOLUTION | disintegration |
| DISTRAIT | distracted; absent-minded |
| DIVULGE | to disclose something secret |
| DOGGEREL | trivial |
| DOGMATIC | authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles |
| DROSS | slag |
| DULCET | melodious |
| DYNAMO | generator; forceful |
| EBULLIENCE | the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings |
| ECCENTRIC | departing from norms or conventions |
| ECLECTIC | composed of elements drawn from various sources |
| EDIFYING | enlightening |
| EFFRONTERY | extreme boldness; presumptuousness |
| EFFUSIVE | gushing; excessively demonstrative |
| EGRESS | exit |
| ELEGY | a mournful poem |
| ELOQUENT | well-spoken; expressive; articulate |
| EMOLLIENT | soothing |
| EMPIRICAL | based on observation or experiment |
| ENCOMIUM | glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric |
| ENDEMIC | characteristic of or often found in a particular locality |
| ENERVATE | to weaken; to reduce in vitality |
| ENGENDER | to cause |
| ENIGMATIC | mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand |
| ENNUI | dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy |
| ENORMITY | excessive wickedness; evilness |
| EPHEMERAL | brief; fleeting |
| EPICURE | one devoted to sensual pleasure |
| EPISODIC | loosely connected |
| EPITHET | disparaging word or phrase |
| EPITOME | embodiment; quinessence |
| EQUANIMITY | composure |
| EQUIVOCATE | to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent |
| ERRANT | traveling |
| ERUDITE | very learned; scholarly |
| ESCHEW | to shun or avoid |
| ESOTERIC | intended for or understood by a small; specific group |
| ESSAY | to test or try; attempt; experiment |
| ESTIMABLE | worthy; formidable |
| EULOGY | a speech honoring the dead |
| EVANESCENT | tending to disappear like vapor; vanishing |
| EVINCE | to show clearly; to indicate |
| EXACERBATE | to make worse or more severe |
| EXACT | to demand |
| EXCORIATE | to censure scathingly; to upbraid |
| EXCULPATE | exonerate; to clear of blame |
| EXEMPLAR | typical or standard specimen; paradigm; model |
| EXHORT | to incite; to make urgent appeal |
| EXIGENT | urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention |
| EXONERATE | to remove blame |
| EXPATIATE | discuss or write about at length; to range freely |
| EXPIATE | to atone or make amends for |
| EXPURGATE | to remove obscenity; purify; censor |
| EXTANT | existing; not destroyed or lost |
| EXTEMPORANEOUS | improvised; done without preparation |
| EXTIRPATE | to destroy; exterminate; cut out; pull out by the roots |
| FACETIOUS | playful; humorous; not serious |
| FALLACY | an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief |
| FALLOW | untilled; inactive; dormant |
| FATUOUS | silly; inanely foolish |
| FAWN | to flatter or praise excessively |
| FECKLESS | ineffectual; irresponsible |
| FELICITOUS | apt; suitably expressed; well chosen; apropos; delightful |
| FELL | a barren or stony hill; an animal's hide |
| FERVENT | greatly emotional or zealous |
| FETID | stinking; having a heavy bad smell |
| FETTER | to shackle; put in chains; restrain |
| FILIBUSTER | intentional obstruction; usually using prolonged speechmaking to delay legislative action |
| FILIGREE | an ornamental work; especially of delicate lacelike patterns; resembling such a pattern |
| FLAG | to sag or droop; to become spiritless; to decline |
| FLIP | sarcastic; impertinent |
| FLORID | flushed with color; ruddy; ornate |
| FLOUT | to demonstrate contempt for |
| FOMENT | to stir up; incite; rouse |
| FORBEARANCE | patience; willingness to wait |
| FORD | to wade across the shallow part of a river or stream |
| FORESTALL | to act in a way to hinder; exclude or prevent an action; to circumvent or thwart |
| FORSWEAR | to renounce; disallow; repudiate |
| FORTUITOUS | happening by fortunate accident or chance |
| FRACAS | noisy fight or quarrel; brawl |
| FRACTIOUS | quarrelsome; rebellious; unruly; cranky |
| FROWARD | intractable; not willing to yield or comply; stubbornly disobedient |
| FULMINATE | to attack loudly or denounce |
| FURTIVE | marked by stealth; covert; surreptitious |
| GAINSAY | to deny; dispute; contradict; oppose |
| GAMBOL | to skip about playfully;k frolic |
| GARNER | to gather and save; store up; acquire |
| GARRULOUS | pointlessly talkative; talking too much |
| GAUCHE | crude; awkward; tasteless |
| GERMANE | relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter |
| GLIB | marked by ease or informality; nonchalant; lacking in depth; superficial |
| GOSSAMER | delicate; insubstantial or tenuous; insincere |
| GRANDILOQUENCE | pompous speech or expression |
| GREGARIOUS | sociable; outgoing; enjoying the company of other people |
| GROUSE | to complain or grumble |
| GUILE | trickery; duplicity; cunning |
| GUY | a rope or cord attached to something as a brace or guide |
| HACKNEYED | rendered trite or commonplace by frequent usage |
| HALCYON | calm and peaceful; prosperous |
| HARANGUE | to deliver a loud; pompous speech or tirade |
| HARROW | to distress; create stress or torment |
| HEDONISM | devotion to pleasurable pursuits; especially pleasures of the senses |
| HEGEMONY | the consistent dominance or influence of one group; state; or ideology over others |
| HERETICAL | violating accepted dogma or convention; unorthodox |
| HERMETIC | airtight; impervious to outside influence |
| HETERODOX | unorthodox; heretical; iconoclastic |
| HIRSUTE | hairy; shaggy |
| HOMILY | a sermon or morally instructive lecture; a platitude |
| HUBRIS | arrogant presumption or pride |
| HYPERBOLE | an exaggerated statement; often used as a figure of speech |
| ICONOCLAST | one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions |
| IDOLATROUS | given to intense or excessive devotion to something |
| IDYLL | a carefree; light-hearted pastoral or romantic episode or experience; a literary or musical piece describing such |
| IGNOMINIOUS | shameful; dishonorable; ignoble; undignified; disgraceful |
| IMBROGLIO | difficult or embarrassing situation |
| IMMINENT | about to happen; impending |
| IMMUTABLE | not capable of change |
| IMPASSIVE | revealing no emotion or sensibility |
| IMPECUNIOUS | lacking funds; without money |
| IMPERIOUS | commanding; masterful; arrogant; domineering; haughty |
| IMPERTURBABLE | marked by extreme calm; impassivity and steadiness |
| IMPETUOUS | hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement |
| IMPLACABLE | not capable of being appeased or significantly changed |
| IMPORTUNE | to ask incessantly; beg; nag |
| IMPUGN | attack or assail verbally; censure; execrate; deny |
| IMPUNITY | immunity from punishment; penalty or harm |
| IMPUTE | to attribute to a cause or source; ascribe; assign as a characteristic |
| INCHOATE | in an initial stage; not fully formed |
| INCIPIENT | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| INDEFATIGABLE | not easily exhaustible; tireless; dogged |
| INDIFFERENT | having no interest or concern; apathetic; showing no bias or prejudice |
| INDOLENT | lazy; listless; torpid |
| INELUCTABLE | certain; inevitable |
| INERT | unmoving; lethargic; sluggish; not reactive chemically |
| INFELICITOUS | unfortunate; inappropriate |
| INGENUOUS | artless; frank and candid; lacking in sophistication |
| INHERENT | ingrained within one's nature; intrinsic; firmly established; essential |
| INIMICAL | damaging; harmful; injurious; hostile; unfriendly |
| INIMITABLE | one of a kind; peerless |
| INIQUITY | wickedness; gross injustice |
| INNERVATE | to supply with nerves; energize |
| INNOCUOUS | harmless; causing no damage |
| INSCRUTABLE | incapable of being discovered or understood |
| INSENSIBLE | unconscious; unresponsive; unaware; unaffected; numb |
| INSIPID | without taste or flavor; lacking in spirit; dull |
| INSOUCIANT | unconcerned; carefree; nonchalant |
| INSULAR | parochial; narrow-minded; like an island |
| INTERDICT | prohibit; forbid; ban; halt |
| INTIMATE | to imply; suggest or insinuate |
| INTRACTABLE | not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate |
| INTRANSIGENT | refusing to compromise |
| INTREPID | steadfast; courageous |
| INURED | accustomed to accepting something undesirable |
| INVEIGH | to attack verbally; denounce; deprecate |
| INVEIGLE | to obtain by deception or flattery |
| INVETERATE | deep rooted; ingrained; habitual |
| IRASCIBLE | easily angered; prone to temperamental outbursts |
| ITINERATE | to travel from place to place |
| JEJUNE | vapid; uninteresting; childish; immature; lacking nutrition |
| JIBE | to agree; to be in accord |
| JOCOSE | given to joking; humorous |
| jocund | means high-spirited |
| Jocularity | fun characterized by humor. |
| KINETIC | having to do with motion; lively; active |
| LABILE | readily open to change; unstable |
| LACHRYMOSE | causing tears; tearful; showing sorrow |
| LACONIC | using few words; terse |
| LASSITUDE | listlessness; languor; weariness |
| LAUD | to praise highly |
| LAVISH | extravagant |
| LETHARGIC | characterized by lethargy or sluggishness |
| LIBERTINE | someone unrestrained by morality or convention or leading a dissolute life |
| LIMN | to draw; outline in detail |
| LIMPID | transparent; serene;clear and simple in style;troubled |
| LIST | to tilt or lean to one side |
| LOQUACIOUS | extremely talkative |
| LUCID | intelligible; sound;clear |
| LUMBER | to move heavily and clumsily or with a rumbling sound |
| LUMINOUS | characterized by brightness and the emission of light; enlightened; clear |
| MAGNANIMITY | the quality of being generously noble in mind and heart; especially in forgiving |
| MALEVOLENT | having or showing often vicious ill will; spite; or hatred |
| MALINGER | to feign illness so as to avoid work |
| MALLEABLE | capable of being shaped or formed; easily influenced |
| MARTIAL | associated with war and the armed forces |
| MARTINET | a rigid disciplinarian |
| MAUNDER | to talk or move aimlessly; mutter |
| MAVERICK | an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party |
| Maverick | unbranded animal such as a cow. |
| MELANCHOLY | tending toward sadness |
| MELLIFLUOUS | sweetly flowing; usually used to describe words or sounds |
| MENDACITY | the condition of being untruthful; dishonesty |
| Mendacious | false; untruthful. |
| MENDICANT | a beggar; supplicant |
| MERCURIAL | characterized by rapid and unpredictable change in mood |
| MERETRICIOUS | tawdry; pretentious; attractive but false; showy; having to do with prostitution |
| METICULOUS | characterized by extreme care and precision; attentive to detail |
| METTLESOME | courageous; high-spirited |
| meddlesome | inclined to interfere |
| nettlesome | meaning prickly or difficult. |
| MILITATE | to have weight or bearing on; to argue (against) |
| Militate | arguing for; though it usually used to mean arguing against. |
| MILK | to exploit; to squeeze every last ounce of |
| MINATORY | menacing; threatening |
| MINCE | pronounce or speak affectedly or too carefully; euphemize; take tiny steps; tiptoe |
| MISANTHROPE | one who hates humankind |
| Misanthropic | "hating humankind." |
| MISOGYNIST | one who hates women |
| MITIGATE | to make or become less severe or intense; moderate |
| Unmitigated | absolute or unrelieved. |
| MOLLIFY | to calm or soothe; reduce in emotional intensity |
| MONOTONY | tedious lack of variety or change |
| MOROSE | sad; sullen; melancholy |
| MULTIFACETED | having many aspects ( having many faces) |
| MULTIFARIOUS | varied; motley; greatly diversified |
| MUNDANE | of the world; typical of or concerned with the ordinary |
| NADIR | low point; perigee |
| NASCENT | coming into being; in early developmental stages |
| NATTY | trimly neat and tidy; dapper |
| NEBULOUS | vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form |
| nebula | dealing with cloudiness and diffuse particles or body of interstellar dust or gas. |
| NEOLOGISM | a new word; expression or usage; the creation or use of new words or senses |
| NEOPHYTE | a recent convert; a beginner; novice |
| NEXUS | a connection; tie or link; center or focus |
| NICE | exacting; extremely or even excessively precise; done with delicacy or skill |
| NOISOME | offensive; especially to one's sense of smell; fetid |
| NONPLUSSED | baffled; in a quandary; at a loss for what to say; do or think |
| NOSTRUM | cure-all; placebo; questionable remedy |
| NOXIOUS | harmful; injurious |
| OBDURATE | unyielding; hardhearted; inflexible |
| OBEISANCE | gesture that expresses deference; such as a bow or curtsy |
| OBFUSCATE | to deliberately obscure; to make confusing |
| obfuscation | something that causes confusion |
| OBSEQUIOUS | exhibiting a fawning attentiveness; subservient |
| OBSTINATE | stubborn; hardheaded; uncompromising |
| OBSTREPEROUS | noisy; loudly stubborn; boisterous |
| OBTAIN | to be established; accepted; or customary; prevail |
| OBTUSE | lacking sharpness of intellect |
| OBVIATE | to anticipate and make unnecessary |
| OCCLUDE | to obstruct or block |
| OCCULT | hidden |
| Occult | to hide. |
| ODIOUS | hateful; arousing strong feelings of dislike |
| OFFICIOUS | meddlesome |
| ONEROUS | troubling |
| OPAQUE | impermeable by light; dense in mind |
| OPPROBRIUM | disgrace |
| OSCILLATION | the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady |
| Oscillate | to move back and forth between two ideas or positions. |
| OSSIFIED | changed into bone; made rigidly conventional and unreceptive to change |
| OSTENSIBLE | seeming |
| OSTENTATIOUS | characterized by or given to pretentiousness |
| OVERWEENING | presumptuously arrogant |
| PAEAN | a song or expression of praise and thanksgiving |
| PALLIATE | to make something appear less serious |
| PANDEMIC | widespread; occurring over a large area or affecting an unusually large percentage of the population |
| PANEGYRIC | formal expression of praise |
| PARADIGM | n something that serves as a model |
| PARADOX | n a contradiction; a seemingly self-contradictory statement that seems true nonetheless |
| PARAGON | something regarded as a model of excellence or perfection in some way; a standard by which a certain characteristic is judged. |
| PARIAH | an outcast |
| PARODY | a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect |
| PARRY | to block |
| PARSIMONIOUS | cheap |
| PARTISAN | one-sided |
| Partisan | supporter |
| PAUCITY | scarcity |
| PECCADILLO | a slight offense |
| PEDAGOGY | the art or profession of training |
| PEDANTIC | ostentatious display of learning |
| PEDESTRIAN | commonplace |
| PENCHANT | strong inclination |
| PENURIOUS | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
| Penury | extreme poverty |
| PEREMPTORY | admitting of no contradiction |
| PERENNIAL | recurrent through the year or many years |
| Perennials | plants that live for more than one year. |
| PERFIDY | intentional breach of faith |
| PERFUNCTORY | cursory |
| PERIPATETIC | itinerant |
| PERNICIOUS | extremely harmful |
| PERSONABLE | adj pleasing in appearance |
| PERSPICACIOUS | acutely perceptive |
| PERUSE | to examine with great care |
| PERVADE | to permeate throughout |
| Pervasive | having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout. |
| PETROUS | like a rock |
| Petrify | to make hard or rocklike |
| PETULANT | impatient |
| PHILANTHROPIC | humanitarian; benevolent; "man-loving"—man meaning humankind. |
| PHILISTINE | a crass individual guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values |
| PHLEGMATIC | calm |
| PICARESQUE | involving clever rogues or adventurers |
| PIED | multi-colored |
| PILLORY | to punish |
| PINE | to yearn intensely |
| PIOUS | extremely reverent or devout |
| Piety | the state of being pious. |
| PIQUANT | agreeably pungent |
| PIQUE | resentment |
| PIRATE | to use or reproduce illegally |
| PITH | the essential or central part |
| Pithy | precise and brief. |
| PLACATE | to appease |
| PLAINTIVE | mournful |
| PLANGENT | pounding |
| PLASTIC | moldable |
| PLATITUDE | a superficial or trite remark |
| PLETHORA | an overabundance |
| PLUCK | courage |
| PLUMB | to measure the depth (as with a plumb line) |
| PLUMMET | to plunge or drop straight down |
| POIGNANT | distressing |
| POLEMICAL | controversial |
| Polemics | the art or practice of controversy and argumentation. |
| PRAGMATIC | practical rather than idealistic |
| Pragmatist | one who is practical. |
| PRATE | chatter |
| PRATTLE | to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
| PRECARIOUS | uncertain |
| PRECEPT | rule establishing standards of conduct |
| PRECIPITATE | acting with excessive haste or impulse |
| PRECURSOR | something that precedes and indicates or announces another |
| PREDILECTION | n a disposition in favor of something |
| PREEMPT | to replace |
| Preemption | prior appropriation of or claim to something |
| PREEN | to dress up |
| PRESCIENCE | knowing of events prior to their occurring |
| PRESUMPTUOUS | overstepping bounds |
| PREVARICATE | to deliberately avoid the truth |
| PRISTINE | pure |
| PRIZE | to pry |
| PROBITY | adherence to highest principles |
| PROCLIVITY | a natural predisposition or inclination |
| PRODIGAL | recklessly wasteful |
| PRODIGIOUS | abundant in size |
| PROFLIGATE | excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
| PROFUSE | given or coming forth abundantly |
| Profusion | abundance or extravagance. |
| PROLIFIC | producing large volumes or amounts |
| Proliferate | to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly. |
| Proliferation | the act of increasing quickly. |
| PROLIX | long-winded |
| PROPENSITY | a natural inclination or tendency |
| PROPINQUITY | nearness in time or place |
| PROPITIATE | to appease or pacify |
| propitiatory | to propitiate. |
| PROPITIOUS | auspicious |
| PROPRIETY | appropriateness; conformity with standards of acceptable behavior |
| proprietary | associated with ownership. |
| PROSAIC | dull |
| PROSCRIBE | to outlaw or prohibit |
| Proscription | the act of outlawing something; to outlaw or banish people or pass sentence of death. |
| PROVIDENT | frugal |
| Providential | happening as if from divine intervention. |
| PUERILE | childish |
| PUGNACIOUS | contentious |
| PUNCTILIOUS | precise |
| PUNDIT | an authority on a subject |
| PUNGENT | characterized by a strong |
| PUSILLANIMOUS | cowardly |
| PUTREFY | to rot |
| QUAFF | to drink deeply |
| QUAIL | to shrink back in fear |
| QUALIFY | to limit |
| QUALMS | misgivings |
| QUERIES | questions |
| QUERULOUS | prone to complaining or grumbling |
| QUIESCENCE | stillness |
| Quiescent | inactive |
| QUOTIDIAN | occurring or recurring daily |
| RAIL | to complain about bitterly |
| RAMIFY | to be divided or subdivided |
| SANCTIMONY | self-righteousness |
| Sanctimonious | hypocritically pretending to be pious or being excessively pious. |
| SANCTION | authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance |
| Sanction | meant to encourage or approve |
| SANGUINE | cheerful |
| SAP | to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
| Sap | a gullible person |
| sap | a blackjack (a short |
| SATIATE | v to overindulge |
| SATIRE | a literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or derision |
| SATURNINE | gloomy |
| SCURVY | contemptible |
| SEDULOUS | diligent |
| SEINE | a large net hung out and dragged in to catch fish |
| Seine | to fish using a seine |
| SERE | withered |
| SEMINAL | like a seed |
| SHARD | a piece of broken pottery or glass |
| SIMPER | to smirk |
| SINECURE | position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income |
| SINGULAR | exceptional |
| SINUOUS | winding |
| SLAKE | to satisfy |
| SODDEN | soaked or drenched |
| SOLDER | to weld |
| SOLICITOUS | concerned and attentive |
| SOLVENT | able to meet financial obligations |
| SOPHISTRY | fallacious reasoning; plausible but faulty logic |
| SOPHOMORIC | exhibiting immaturity |
| SOPORIFIC | causing drowsiness |
| SORDID | characterized by filth |
| SPARSE | thin |
| SPECIOUS | seeming true |
| SPENDTHRIFT | (SPEND thrift) n one who spends money wastefully |
| SPLENETIC | bad-tempered |
| SPORADIC | occurring only occasionally |
| SPURIOUS | lacking authenticity or validity |
| SQUALID | sordid |
| Squalor | wretched or filthy condition. |
| SQUANDER | to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
| STANCH | to stop the flow of a fluid |
| STATIC | not moving |
| STEEP | to saturate or completely soak |
| STENTORIAN | extremely loud and powerful |
| STINT | to restrain |
| Unstinting | bestowed liberally |
| Stint | a length of time spent in a specific way |
| STOIC | indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain |
| STOLID | calm |
| STRIATED | striped |
| STRUT | a structural support used to brace a framework |
| Strut | to brace or support. |
| STUPEFY | to stun |
| STYMIE | to block |
| SUBPOENA | a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
| SUBTLE | not obvious |
| SUCCINCT | brief |
| SUCCOR | assistance |
| SUNDRY | various |
| SUPERCILIOUS | disdainful |
| SUPERFLUOUS | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
| SUPINE | inactive |
| prone | lying face down. |
| SUPPLANT | to take the place of |
| SUPPLIANT | asking humbly |
| SUPPLICANT | beggar |
| SURFEIT | to feed or supply in excess |
| Surfeit | excess |
| SYCOPHANT | someone who tries to flatter or please for personal gain |
| SYNTHESIS | the combination of parts to make a whole |
| TABLE | to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
| TACITURN | not talkative |
| Tacit | implied or not directly stated. |
| TALISMAN | something believed to have magic power or bestow good luck |
| TAMP | to plug |
| TAUTOLOGY | a repetition |
| TAWDRY | cheap |
| TENACITY | the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued |
| Tenacious | stubborn |
| TENDENTIOUS | biased |
| TENDER | to offer formally |
| TENUOUS | having little substance or strength |
| TERSE | brief and concise in wording |
| TIMOROUS | timid |
| TIRADE | a long and extremely critical speech |
| TOADY | sycophant |
| TORPID | lethargic |
| TORQUE | a force that causes rotation |
| TORRID | scorching |
| TORTUOUS | winding |
| TOUT | to publicly praise or promote |
| TRACTABLE | docile |
| Intractable | unruly. |
| TRANSIENT | fleeting |
| Transience | the state of being transient. |
| TRAVESTY | mockery |
| travesty | to imitate in such a way as to ridicule. |
| OBTAIN | to be established;accepted;or customary;prevail |
| OBTUSE | lacking sharpness of intellect;not clear or precise in thought or expression; dull |
| OBVIATE | to anticipate and make unnecessary |
| OCCLUDE | to obstruct or block |
| OCCULT | hidden;concealed;beyond comprehension |
| Occult | to hide. |
| ODIOUS | hateful; arousing strong feelings of dislike |
| OFFICIOUS | meddlesome;pushy in offering one's services where they are unwanted |
| ONEROUS | troubling;burdensome |
| OPAQUE | impermeable by light; dense in mind |
| OPPROBRIUM | disgrace;contempt;scorn |
| OSCILLATION | the act or state of swinging back and forth with a steady;uninterrupted rhythm |
| Oscillate | to move back and forth between two ideas or positions. |
| OSSIFIED | changed into bone; made rigidly conventional and unreceptive to change |
| OSTENSIBLE | seeming |
| OSTENTATIOUS | characterized by or given to pretentiousness |
| OVERWEENING | presumptuously arrogant |
| PAEAN | a song or expression of praise and thanksgiving |
| PALLIATE | to make something appear less serious |
| PANDEMIC | widespread; occurring over a large area or affecting an unusually large percentage of the population |
| PANEGYRIC | formal expression of praise |
| PARADIGM | n something that serves as a model |
| PARADOX | n a contradiction; a seemingly self-contradictory statement that seems true nonetheless |
| PARAGON | something regarded as a model of excellence or perfection in some way; a standard by which a certain characteristic is judged. |
| PARIAH | an outcast; a rejected and despised person |
| PARODY | a humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect; especially in literature and art; also something so bad as to be potentially mistaken for an intentional mockery |
| PARRY | to block; evade or ward off; as a blow |
| PARSIMONIOUS | cheap; miserly |
| PARTISAN | one-sided; committed to a party; biased or prejudiced |
| Partisan | supporter; adherent. |
| PAUCITY | scarcity; a lacking of |
| PECCADILLO | a slight offense; literally |
| PEDAGOGY | the art or profession of training; teaching; or instructing |
| PEDANTIC | ostentatious display of learning; excessive attention to minutiae and formal rules; unimaginative |
| PEDESTRIAN | commonplace; trite; unremarkable |
| PENCHANT | strong inclination; a liking |
| PENURIOUS | penny-pinching; excessively thrifty; ungenerous |
| Penury | extreme poverty; destitution or lack of resources. |
| PEREMPTORY | admitting of no contradiction; putting an end to further debate; haughty; imperious |
| PERENNIAL | recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly |
| Perennials | plants that live for more than one year. |
| PERFIDY | intentional breach of faith; treachery |
| PERFUNCTORY | cursory; done without care or interest |
| PERIPATETIC | itinerant; traveling; nomadic |
| PERNICIOUS | extremely harmful; potentially causing death |
| PERSONABLE | adj pleasing in appearance; attractive |
| PERSPICACIOUS | acutely perceptive; having keen discernment; great acumen |
| PERUSE | to examine with great care |
| PERVADE | to permeate throughout |
| Pervasive | having the tendency to permeate or spread throughout. |
| PETROUS | like a rock; hard; stony |
| Petrify | to make hard or rocklike; or to paralyze with fear. |
| PETULANT | impatient; irritable |
| PHILANTHROPIC | humanitarian; benevolent; "man-loving"—man meaning humankind. |
| PHILISTINE | a crass individual guided by material rather than intellectual or artistic values |
| PHLEGMATIC | calm; sluggish; unemotional; stoic |
| PICARESQUE | involving clever rogues or adventurers |
| PIED | multi-colored; usually in blotches |
| PILLORY | to punish; hold up to public scorn |
| PINE | to yearn intensely; to languish; to lose vigor |
| PIOUS | extremely reverent or devout |
| Piety | the state of being pious. |
| PIQUANT | agreeably pungent; spicy; stimulating |
| PIQUE | resentment; feeling of irritation due to hurt pride |
| PIRATE | to use or reproduce illegally |
| PITH | the essential or central part |
| Pithy | precise and brief. |
| PLACATE | to appease; to calm by making concessions; mollify |
| PLAINTIVE | mournful; melancholy; sorrowful |
| PLANGENT | pounding; thundering; resounding |
| PLASTIC | moldable; pliable; not rigid |
| PLATITUDE | a superficial or trite remark; especially one offered as meaningful |
| PLETHORA | an overabundance; a surplus |
| PLUCK | courage; spunk; fortitude |
| PLUMB | to measure the depth (as with a plumb line); to examine critically |
| PLUMMET | to plunge or drop straight down |
| POIGNANT | distressing; pertinent; touching; stimulating; emotional |
| POLEMICAL | controversial; argumentative |
| Polemics | the art or practice of controversy and argumentation. |
| PRAGMATIC | practical rather than idealistic |
| Pragmatist | one who is practical. |
| PRATE | chatter; babble |
| PRATTLE | to babble meaninglessly; to talk in an empty and idle manner |
| PRECARIOUS | uncertain; risky; dangerous |
| PRECEPT | rule establishing standards of conduct; a doctrine that is taught |
| PRECIPITATE | acting with excessive haste or impulse |
| PRECURSOR | something that precedes and indicates or announces another |
| PREDILECTION | n a disposition in favor of something; preference |
| PREEMPT | to replace; to supersede; to appropriate |
| Preemption | prior appropriation of or claim to something |
| PREEN | to dress up; primp; groom oneself with elaborate care in animals; to clean fur or feathers |
| PRESCIENCE | knowing of events prior to their occurring |
| PRESUMPTUOUS | overstepping bounds; as of propriety or courtesy; taking liberties |
| PREVARICATE | to deliberately avoid the truth; mislead |
| PRISTINE | pure; uncorrupted; clean |
| PRIZE | to pry; press or force with a lever |
| PROBITY | adherence to highest principles; uprightness |
| PROCLIVITY | a natural predisposition or inclination |
| PRODIGAL | recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish |
| PRODIGIOUS | abundant in size; force; or extent; extraordinary |
| PROFLIGATE | excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant |
| PROFUSE | given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant |
| Profusion | abundance or extravagance. |
| PROLIFIC | producing large volumes or amounts; productive |
| Proliferate | to grow or increase swiftly and abundantly. |
| Proliferation | the act of increasing quickly. |
| PROLIX | long-winded; verbose |
| PROPENSITY | a natural inclination or tendency; penchant |
| PROPINQUITY | nearness in time or place; affinity of nature; kinship |
| PROPITIATE | to appease or pacify |
| propitiatory | to propitiate. |
| PROPITIOUS | auspicious; favorable |
| PROPRIETY | appropriateness; conformity with standards of acceptable behavior |
| proprietary | associated with ownership. |
| PROSAIC | dull; unimaginative |
| PROSCRIBE | to outlaw or prohibit |
| Proscription | the act of outlawing something; to outlaw or banish people or pass sentence of death. |
| PROVIDENT | frugal; looking to the future |
| Providential | happening as if from divine intervention. |
| PUERILE | childish; immature |
| PUGNACIOUS | contentious; quarrelsome; given to fighting; belligerent |
| PUNCTILIOUS | precise; paying attention to trivialities;especially in regard to etiquette |
| PUNDIT | an authority on a subject;one who gives opinions |
| PUNGENT | characterized by a strong sharp smell or taste;penetrating to the point |
| PUSILLANIMOUS | cowardly; craven |
| PUTREFY | to rot; decay and give off a foul odor; become gangrenous |
| QUAFF | to drink deeply |
| QUAIL | to shrink back in fear; lose courage |
| QUALIFY | to limit |
| QUALMS | misgivings; reservations; causes for hesitancy |
| QUERIES | questions; inquiries; reservations |
| QUERULOUS | prone to complaining or grumbling; quarrelsome |
| QUIESCENCE | stillness; motionlessness; quality of being at rest |
| Quiescent | inactive; latent; causing no trouble; being at rest. |
| QUOTIDIAN | occurring or recurring daily; commonplace |
| RAIL | to complain about bitterly |
| RAMIFY | to be divided or subdivided; branch out |
| Ramifications | developments or consequences growing out of something. |
| RANCOROUS | characterized by bitter; long-lasting resentment |
| Rancor | bitter; long-lasting resentment itself. |
| RAPACIOUS | voracious; greedy; plundering; subsisting on prey |
| Rapacity | avarice; or the practice of extorting or exacting by injustice. |
| RAREFY | to make or become thin; less dense |
| REBUS | riddle; a representation of words by pictures or symbols that sound like the words |
| RECALCITRANT | obstinately defiant of authority or guidance; difficult to manage |
| RECANT | to retract; especially a previously held belief |
| RECAPITULATE | to summarize; to repeat concisely |
| RECONDITE | hidden; concealed; difficult to understand; obscure |
| RECONNOITER | to engage in reconnaissance; make a preliminary inspection of |
| RECUMBENT | leaning; resting; prone |
| REDOLENT | fragrant; suggestive or evocative |
| REDOUBTABLE | awe-inspiring; worthy of honor |
| REFULGENT | radiant; shiny; brilliant |
| REFUTE | to disprove; successfully argue against |
| REGALE | to delight or entertain; feast |
| RELEGATE | to forcibly assign; especially to a lower place or position |
| REMONSTRATE | to protest; object |
| RENEGE | to fail to honor a commitment; go back on a promise |
| RENT | torn; split apart; pierced as by a sound |
| Rent | a tear or breach. |
| REPINE | to feel or express dejection or discontent; long for |
| REPUDIATE | to refuse to have anything to do with; disown |
| RESCIND | to invalidate; repeal; retract |
| RESOLUTE | adamant; steadfast; determined |
| Irresolute | the opposite of resolute. |
| RETICENT | quiet; reserved; reluctant to express thoughts and feelings |
| REVERENT | marked by; feeling; or expressing a feeling of profound awe and respect |
| Reverence | strong feeling of awe or respect |
| irreverence | lack of awe or respect. |
| RHETORIC | the art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion |
| Rhetoric | pretentious or insincere language. |
| Rhetorical | used for persuasive effect |
| rhetorical question | question to create an effect and not to get a real answer. |
| RISIBLE | hilarious; provoking laughter |
| risible | people who are inclined to be amused. |
| RUBRIC | authoritative rule; heading; title; or category |
| Rubric | reddish or written in red; and the meanings are actually related. |
| RUE | regret; feel remorse |
| Rueful | expressing sorrow. |
| SAGACIOUS | having sound judgment; perceptive; wise |
| SALACIOUS | appealing to or causing sexual desire; bawdy |
| SALIENT | prominent; protruding; conspicuous; highly relevant |
| SALUBRIOUS | adj promoting health or well-being |
| SALUTARY | remedial; wholesome; causing improvement |
| SANCTIMONY | self-righteousness; pretended piety |
| Sanctimonious | hypocritically pretending to be pious or being excessively pious. |
| SANCTION | authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance |
| Sanction | meant to encourage or approve; but it has recently come to mean to punish as well. |
| SANGUINE | cheerful; confident; optimistic |
| SAP | to enervate or weaken the vitality of |
| Sap | a gullible person; a fool. |
| sap | a blackjack |
| SATIATE | to overindulge; satisfy to excess |
| SATIRE | a literary work that ridicules or criticizes human vice through humor or derision |
| SATURNINE | gloomy; dark; sullen; morose |
| SCURVY | contemptible; despicable |
| SEDULOUS | diligent; persistent; hard-working |
| SEINE | a large net hung out and dragged in to catch fish |
| Seine | to fish using a seine |
| SERE | withered; arid |
| SEMINAL | like a seed; constituting a source; originative |
| SHARD | a piece of broken pottery or glass; any small piece or part |
| SIMPER | to smirk; to say something with a silly; coy smile |
| SINECURE | position requiring little or no work and usually providing an income |
| SINGULAR | exceptional; unusual; odd |
| SINUOUS | winding; curving; moving lithely; devious |
| SLAKE | to satisfy; quench; lessen the intensity of |
| SODDEN | soaked or drenched; unimaginative |
| SOLDER | to weld; fuse or join; as with a soldering gun |
| SOLICITOUS | concerned and attentive; eager |
| SOLVENT | able to meet financial obligations |
| SOPHISTRY | fallacious reasoning; plausible but faulty logic |
| SOPHOMORIC | exhibiting immaturity; lack of judgment; pretentious |
| SOPORIFIC | causing drowsiness; tending to induce sleep |
| SORDID | characterized by filth; grime; or squalor; foul |
| SPARSE | thin; not dense; arranged at widely spaced intervals |
| SPECIOUS | seeming true; but actually false; misleadingly attractive |
| SPENDTHRIFT | (SPEND thrift) n one who spends money wastefully |
| SPLENETIC | bad-tempered; irritable |
| SPORADIC | occurring only occasionally; or in scattered instances |
| SPURIOUS | lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit |
| SQUALID | sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect |
| Squalor | wretched or filthy condition. |
| SQUANDER | to waste by spending or using irresponsibly |
| STANCH | to stop the flow of a fluid |
| STATIC | not moving; active or in motion; at rest |
| STEEP | to saturate or completely soak |
| STENTORIAN | extremely loud and powerful |
| STINT | to restrain; be sparing or frugal |
| Unstinting | bestowed liberally; respectively. |
| Stint | a length of time spent in a specific way |
| STOIC | indifferent to or unaffected by pleasure or pain; steadfast |
| STOLID | calm; impassive; show little animation or emotion. |
| STRIATED | striped; grooved; or banded |
| STRUT | a structural support used to brace a framework |
| Strut | to brace or support. |
| STUPEFY | to stun; baffle; or amaze |
| STYMIE | to block; thwart |
| SUBPOENA | a court order requiring appearance and/or testimony |
| SUBTLE | not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern; crafty or sly |
| SUCCINCT | brief; concise |
| SUCCOR | assistance; relief in time of distress |
| SUNDRY | various; miscellaneous; separate |
| SUPERCILIOUS | disdainful; arrogant; haughty; characterized by haughty scorn |
| SUPERFLUOUS | exceeding what is sufficient or necessary |
| SUPINE | inactive; lying on one's back face up; apathetic; mentally or morally slack |
| prone | lying face down. |
| SUPPLANT | to take the place of; supersede |
| SUPPLIANT | asking humbly; beseeching |
| SUPPLICANT | beggar; one who prays or begs for something; suppliant |
| SURFEIT | to feed or supply in excess |
| Surfeit | excess; overindulgence. |
| SYCOPHANT | someone who tries to flatter or please for personal gain; parasite |
| SYNTHESIS | the combination of parts to make a whole |
| TABLE | to remove (as a parliamentary motion) from consideration |
| TACITURN | not talkative; silent |
| Tacit | implied or not directly stated. |
| TALISMAN | something believed to have magic power or bestow good luck |
| TAMP | to plug; to drive in or down by a series of blows |
| TAUTOLOGY | a repetition; a redundancy; a circular argument |
| TAWDRY | cheap; gaudy; showy; tacky; indecent |
| TENACITY | the quality of adherence or persistence to something valued |
| Tenacious | stubborn; refusing to give up or let go of something. |
| TENDENTIOUS | biased; showing marked tendencies |
| TENDER | to offer formally |
| TENUOUS | having little substance or strength; flimsy; weak |
| TERSE | brief and concise in wording |
| TIMOROUS | timid; fearful; diffident |
| TIRADE | a long and extremely critical speech; harsh denunciation |
| TOADY | sycophant; flatterer; yes-man. |
| TORPID | lethargic; sluggish; dormant |
| TORQUE | a force that causes rotation |
| TORRID | scorching; ardent; passionate; hurried |
| TORTUOUS | winding; twisting; excessively complicated |
| TOUT | to publicly praise or promote |
| TRACTABLE | docile; obedient; easily led |
| Intractable | unruly. |
| TRANSIENT | fleeting; passing quickly; brief |
| Transience | the state of being transient. |
| TRAVESTY | mockery; caricature; parody |
| travesty | to imitate in such a way as to ridicule. |
| TRENCHANT | sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating; biting; clear cut |
| TRUCULENT | fierce; scathing; eager to fight |
| TUMID | swollen |
| TURBID | muddy; having sediment stirred up; clouded to the point of being opaque; in a state of turmoil |
| TURGID | swollen; bloated; pompous; excessively ornate; tumid |
| TURPITUDE | depravity; baseness |
| TYRO | novice; beginner in learning |
| UBIQUITOUS | existing everywhere at the same time; constantly encountered; widespread |
| Ubiquity | the state of being everywhere at the same time. |
| UMBRAGE | offense; resentment |
| UNDULATE | to move in wavelike fashion; fluctuate |
| Undulations | the motions something makes when it undulates. |
| UNFEIGNED | genuine; not false or hypocritical |
| UNTENABLE | indefensible; not viable; uninhabitable |
| UNTOWARD | troublesome; unruly; unseemly; adverse |
| UPBRAID | to scold; censure; rebuke; chastise |
| upbraiding | a severe scolding. |
| URBANE | sophisticated; refined; elegant |
| USURY | charging an exorbitant or illegal rate of interest |
| VACILLATE | to waver indecisively between one course of action or opinion and another; sway from one side to the other |
| VARIEGATED | multicolored; characterized by a variety of patches of different color |
| VAUNT | to brag or boast |
| VENAL | capable of being bought or bribed; mercenary |
| Venality | the use of position for personal gain. |
| VENERATE | to revere |
| Veneration | respect or reverence. |
| VERACITY | truthfulness; honesty |
| VERISIMILITUDE | appearing true or real |
| VERITABLE | authentic; real; genuine |
| VEXATION | annoyance; irritation; the act of causing irritation or the state of being irritated |
| vex | to annoy or puzzle. |
| VIGILANT | alertly watchful |
| VILIFY | to defame; characterize harshly |
| VIRULENT | extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic |
| VISCOUS | thick; sticky |
| Viscosity | the state of being viscous. |
| VITIATE | to reduce the value of; debase; spoil; make ineffective |
| VITUPERATE | to use harsh condemnatory language; abuse or censure severely |
| VOLATILE | readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive |
| VORACIOUS | having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; ravenous |
| WAFT | a light breeze; a puff |
| Waft | to send floating through the air or over water. |
| WAVER | to move to and fro; to sway; to be unsettled in opinion |
| WELTER | to writhe; to toss about; to be in turmoil |
| Welter | a state of turmoil or chaotic jumble. |
| WEND | to go; proceed; walk |
| WHET | to sharpen or stimulate |
| WHIMSICAL | imaginative; unpredictable |
| ZEALOUS | fervent;ardent;impassioned |
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