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| 6649557659 | GUISE | general external appearance | 0 | |
| 6649557660 | SEMBLANCE | an assumed or unreal appearance | 1 | |
| 6649557661 | DISPARAGE | to speak of or treat slightingly | 2 | |
| 6649557662 | PROSCRIBE | to denounce or condemn (a thing) as dangerous or harmful; banish exile | 3 | |
| 6649557663 | ENCAPSULATE | to summarize or condense | 4 | |
| 6649557664 | APHORISM | a short pithy instructive saying | 5 | |
| 6649557665 | SINE QUA NON | an indispensable condition, element, or factor | 6 | |
| 6649557666 | QUINTESSENTIAL | of the pure and essential essence of something; representing the perfect example of a class or quality | 7 | |
| 6649557667 | ILLUSORY | causing illusion; deceptive; misleading | 8 | |
| 6649557668 | DISPARATE | fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind | 9 | |
| 6649557669 | VINDICATE | to clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof | 10 | |
| 6649557670 | APLOMB | confidence and composure under strain without arrogance | 11 | |
| 6649557671 | AUSPICIOUS | promising success; favorable | 12 | |
| 6649557672 | APODICTIC | incontestable because of having been proved | 13 | |
| 6649557673 | UNTENABLE | incapable of being defended or justified | 14 | |
| 6649557674 | DISSENT | to differ in sentiment from the majority | 15 | |
| 6649557675 | UBIQUITOUS | being present everywhere at once | 16 | |
| 6649557676 | PARADIGM | a cognitive framework shared by members of any discipline or group (the company's business paradigm) | 17 | |
| 6649557677 | TRAVESTY | any grotesque or debased likeness or imitation (a travesty of justice) | 18 | |
| 6649557678 | CREDULOUS | willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence | 19 | |
| 6649557679 | COMPUNCTION | a feeling of anxiety caused by regret for doing something wrong or causing pain | 20 | |
| 6649557680 | EXACERBATE | to increase the severity; aggravate | 21 | |
| 6649557681 | AMELIORATE | to make or become better or improve | 22 | |
| 6649557682 | PLACATE | to appease or pacify with concessions | 23 | |
| 6649557683 | ASSUAGE | to make milder; relieve; soothe, calm fears or anger | 24 | |
| 6649557684 | NEFARIOUS | extremely wicked | 25 | |
| 6649557685 | VIABLE | 1. capable of living; 2. useful or effective | 26 | |
| 6649557686 | DENIGRATE | to speak damagingly of; criticize in a derogatory manner | 27 | |
| 6649557687 | EXCULPATE | to clear from a charge of guilt or fault | 28 | |
| 6649557688 | VEHEMENT | strongly emotional; intense or passionate | 29 | |
| 6649557689 | DISINGENUOUS | NOT straightforward or candid | 30 | |
| 6649557690 | INGENUOUS | free from reserve; candid; sincere | 31 | |
| 6649557691 | CHAGRIN | feelings of disappointment and embarassment | 32 | |
| 6649557692 | REPUDIATE | to reject as having any authority (to repudiate a claim) | 33 | |
| 6649557693 | DELINEATE | to portray in words; describe with precision | 34 | |
| 6649557694 | EMPIRICAL | derived from experiment and observation rather than theory | 35 | |
| 6649557695 | INURED | made tough by habitual exposure | 36 | |
| 6649557696 | FALLOW | plowed and left unseeded; not in use | 37 | |
| 6649557697 | SALIENT | prominent or conspicuous (salient traits) | 38 | |
| 6649557698 | EXTOL | praise, glorify, or honor | 39 | |
| 6649557699 | AMBIGUOUS | open to two or more interpretations | 40 | |
| 6649557700 | GUILE | crafty or artful deception; duplicity | 41 | |
| 6649557701 | OSTRACIZE | to exclude, by general consent, from society, friendship, conversation, etc. | 42 | |
| 6649557702 | CACHET | superior status; prestige of a position or a university; a distinguishing mark or feature (Ivy League schools have their own cachet) | 43 | |
| 6649557703 | IMPUGN | challenge as false or wrong | 44 | |
| 6649557704 | IMPUNITY | exemption from punishment or loss | 45 | |
| 6649557705 | EXTENUATE | to lessen or try to lessen the seriousness of a situation | 46 | |
| 6649557706 | MITIGATE | to make less severe | 47 | |
| 6649557707 | INCESSANT | occurring so frequently as to seem ceaseless or uninterrupted | 48 | |
| 6649557708 | VIS A VIS | 1. face to face 2. in relation to; compared with | 49 | |
| 6649557709 | INSIDIOUS | intended to entrap | 50 | |
| 6649557710 | TUMULTUOUS | disorderly or noisy (a tumultuous crowd of students) | 51 | |
| 6649557711 | SUBSTANTIATE | to establish by proof or competent evidence | 52 | |
| 6649557712 | POLEMICAL | controversial; highly debated | 53 | |
| 6649557713 | CONVALESCENCE | gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | 54 | |
| 6649557714 | EGREGIOUS | conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible | 55 | |
| 6649557715 | CAUSTIC | severely critical or sarcastic | 56 | |
| 6649557716 | ACERBIC | sour; harsh or severe, in temper or expression | 57 | |
| 6649557717 | LAMBASTE | to reprimand or berate harshly | 58 | |
| 6649557718 | HARANGUE | a long, intense scolding or attack | 59 | |
| 6649557719 | APPROBATION | official recognition or approval | 60 | |
| 6649557720 | REPLETE | abundantly supplied or provided | 61 | |
| 6649557721 | RIFE | frequent occurrence; in widespread existence, activity, or use | 62 | |
| 6649557722 | REPREHENSIBLE | deserving severe rebuke or censure | 63 | |
| 6649557723 | ENSCONCE | to settle or hide securely or snugly (in an armchair, corner, closet etc.) | 64 | |
| 6649557724 | ENSHROUD | to cover or hide; conceal | 65 | |
| 6649557725 | TEDIUM | the state of being wearisome; irksomeness | 66 | |
| 6649557726 | RESCIND | to invalidate; revoke; repeal | 67 | |
| 6649557727 | REFUTE | to prove to be false | 68 | |
| 6649557728 | LAMPOON | a sharp satire or criticism directed against an individual or institution | 69 | |
| 6649557729 | HEDONISM | a system that evaluates the pursuit of pleasure as the highest good | 70 | |
| 6649557730 | TENUOUS | thin or slender; lacking a sound basis as reasoning | 71 | |
| 6649557731 | BOMBAST | speech too pompous for an occasion | 72 | |
| 6649557732 | CURTAIL | to cut short | 73 | |
| 6649557733 | OBSCURE | not clear or plain; vague, or uncertain | 74 | |
| 6649557734 | OBFUSCATE | to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy | 75 | |
| 6649557735 | DECORUM | propriety in manners and conduct | 76 | |
| 6649557736 | OBSTINATE | firmly and unreasonably adhering to one's purpose, opinion | 77 | |
| 6649557737 | OBDURATE | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; unyielding. | 78 | |
| 6649557738 | UNCTUOUS | unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; oily | 79 | |
| 6649557739 | INGRATIATE | gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts | 80 | |
| 6649557740 | EQUIVOCATE | to use unclear expressions usually to avoid commitment or to mislead | 81 | |
| 6649557741 | RETICENT | intentionally silent; reserved | 82 | |
| 6649557742 | ACCOLADE | any award, honor, or laudatory notice | 83 | |
| 6649557743 | PORTEND (verb) | to indicate in advance | 84 | |
| 6649557744 | PORTENT (noun) | an indication or omen of something about to happen | 85 | |
| 6649557745 | ESOTERIC | understandable by only an enlightened inner circle | 86 | |
| 6649557746 | TORPID | sluggish inactivity; lethargic indifference | 87 | |
| 6649557747 | ABASE | to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation (suggests loss of prestige or dignity) | 88 | |
| 6649557748 | DEGRADE | to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation, or estimation (suggests humiliation) | 89 | |
| 6649557749 | POSTHUMOUS | occurring after a person's death | 90 | |
| 6649557750 | POSTULATE | to assume without proof, or as self-evident | 91 | |
| 6649557751 | ICONOCLAST | a person who attacks and seeks to overthrow popular ideas or institutions | 92 | |
| 6649557752 | ONUS | a difficult obligation, task, burden, responsibility | 93 | |
| 6649557753 | DEPRECATE | to verbally disapprove of | 94 | |
| 6649557754 | PEJORATIVE | having a disparaging or belittling effect | 95 | |
| 6649557755 | IMMUTABLE | unchangeable | 96 | |
| 6649557756 | OPULENT | wealthy or affluent | 97 | |
| 6649557757 | PRECIPITOUS | extremely or impassably steep | 98 | |
| 6649557758 | MAELSTROM | 1. a powerful or violent whirlpool 2. disordered state of affairs | 99 | |
| 6649557759 | RECAPITULATE | summarize briefly | 100 | |
| 6649557760 | CAPITULATE | to surrender; to give up resistance | 101 | |
| 6649557761 | ACQUIESCE | submit or comply silently or without protest | 102 | |
| 6649557762 | PREEMINENT | superior; surpassing; above or before others | 103 | |
| 6649557763 | SARDONIC | mocking; cynical; sneering | 104 | |
| 6649557764 | PRETENTIOUS | assumption of dignity or importance, usually when exaggerated or underserved | 105 | |
| 6649557765 | OSTENTATIOUS | showy in an attempt to impress others | 106 | |
| 6649557766 | PRESUMPTUOUS | unwarrantedly or impertinently bold; forward | 107 | |
| 6649557767 | PROPENSITY | a natural inclination or tendency | 108 | |
| 6649557768 | PENCHANT | a strong inclination or tendency | 109 | |
| 6649557769 | PALPABLE | plainly seen, heard; capable of being touched or felt | 110 | |
| 6649557770 | PANACEA | a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all; usually used negatively | 111 | |
| 6649557771 | PRISTINE | having its original purity; uncorrupted or unsullied. | 112 | |
| 6649557772 | MALLEABLE | capable of being shaped or bent | 113 | |
| 6649557773 | PARAMOUNT | chief in importance or impact; supreme | 114 | |
| 6649557774 | UPSHOT | the final issue, the conclusion, or the result | 115 | |
| 6649557775 | PARIAH | an outcast; any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided | 116 | |
| 6649557776 | ANTIQUATED | old-fashioned; no longer used | 117 | |
| 6649557777 | INEPT | without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment | 118 | |
| 6649557778 | PEDESTRIAN | lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; dull | 119 | |
| 6649557779 | CHARLATAN | a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses | 120 | |
| 6649557780 | POSEUR | a person who attempts to impress others by pretending to be someone they're not | 121 | |
| 6649557781 | MASOCHIST | a person who loves experiencing pain, self-imposed or imposed by others | 122 | |
| 6649557782 | SADIST | a person who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others | 123 | |
| 6649557783 | MISOGYNIST | a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women | 124 | |
| 6649557784 | SYCOPHANT | a self-seeking, servile flatterer | 125 | |
| 6649557785 | VACUOUS | empty; lacking intelligence | 126 | |
| 6649557786 | INANE | lacking sense, significance; silly | 127 | |
| 6649557787 | RELEGATE | to assign or send to an inferior position, place, or condition | 128 | |
| 6649557788 | SUBJUGATE | to bring under complete control; conquer; master | 129 | |
| 6649557789 | FLIPPANT | frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness | 130 | |
| 6649557790 | PATRONIZE | to behave in an offensively condescending manner toward someone | 131 | |
| 6649557791 | DUPLICITOUS | deceitfulness in speech or conduct (speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter) | 132 | |
| 6649557792 | SPECIOUS | seemingly true, but actually false | 133 | |
| 6649557793 | OSTENSIBLE | outwardly appearing as such; pretended | 134 | |
| 6649557794 | VENERATE | to regard or treat with reverence | 135 | |
| 6649557795 | VERACITY | correctness or accuracy | 136 | |
| 6649557796 | FORTUITOUS | happening or produced by chance; accidental; lucky | 137 | |
| 6649557797 | DEFUNCT | ceased to exist or live | 138 | |
| 6649557798 | INCENDIARY | 1. capable of arousing strife, sedition 2. causing fire | 139 | |
| 6649557799 | PENSIVE | wistfully thoughtful, usually marked by sadness | 140 | |
| 6649557800 | COLLOQUIAL | appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 141 | |
| 6649557801 | COLLUSION | a secret agreement between two parties to appear as adversaries as a way to defraud a third party | 142 | |
| 6649557802 | CLANDESTINE | characterized by or done in secrecy for the purpose of deception | 143 | |
| 6649557803 | SURREPTITIOUS | done by stealth; secret actions | 144 | |
| 6649557804 | PERFUNCTORY | performed merely as a routine; going through the motions only | 145 | |
| 6649557805 | MYOPIC | narrow-minded; lack of foresight | 146 | |
| 6649557806 | COMPLACENT | self-satisfied; pleased without awareness of some potential danger or defect | 147 | |
| 6649557807 | VOLATILE | tending or threatening to break out into open violence; explosive | 148 | |
| 6649557808 | ENDEMIC | regularly found among a particular people or in a certain area | 149 | |
| 6649557809 | GERMANE | closely or significantly related; relevant | 150 | |
| 6649557810 | EFFACE | to rub out; erase; to make inconspicuous | 151 | |
| 6649557811 | EFFUSIVE | unduly demonstrative; pouring out; overflowing | 152 | |
| 6649557812 | LACONIC | expressing much in few words; concise | 153 | |
| 6649557813 | VERBOSE | using many or too many words | 154 | |
| 6649557814 | COGENT | convincing or believable by virtue of clear or incisive presentation | 155 | |
| 6649557815 | GRATUITOUS | free; being without apparent reason, cause or justification | 156 | |
| 6649557816 | ELUCIDATE | to make clear; explain | 157 | |
| 6649557817 | VOLITION | a choice or decision made by one's own will | 158 | |
| 6649557818 | PROXIMITY | the property of being close together | 159 | |
| 6649557819 | HACKNEYED | commonplace; the constant use of a phrase or word which dulls its significance or force | 160 | |
| 6649557820 | DESPOTISM | the rule of someone with absolute authority, power, and control; tyranny | 161 | |
| 6649557821 | RECTITUDE | rightness of principle or conduct; moral virtue | 162 | |
| 6649557822 | NASCENT | beginning to exist or develop | 163 | |
| 6649557823 | IMPETUS | stimulus; the force that sets something in motion | 164 | |
| 6649557824 | ENGENDER | to produce, cause, or give rise to | 165 | |
| 6649557825 | VICISSITUDE | a change or variation occurring in the course of something (vicissitude of fortune, vicissitude of seasons) | 166 | |
| 6649557826 | RENEGE | fail to fulfill a promise or obligation | 167 | |
| 6649557827 | PROLIFERATE | to grow or produce by multiplication of parts (cell division); spread rapidly | 168 | |
| 6649557828 | ENERVATE | to weaken; deprive of force or strength | 169 | |
| 6649557829 | LANGUID | lacking spirit or liveliness | 170 | |
| 6649557830 | COMMENSURATE | corresponding in size or degree or extent | 171 | |
| 6649557831 | NOVICE | someone new to a field or activity | 172 | |
| 6649557832 | DILETTANTE | a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement in a superficial way | 173 | |
| 6649557833 | SORDID | morally base; vile; dirty or filthy | 174 | |
| 6649557834 | EXIGENCY | a case or situation that demands prompt action or remedy | 175 | |
| 6649557835 | ARDUOUS | requiring great exertion; full of hardships | 176 | |
| 6649557836 | APATHETIC | having or showing little or no emotion | 177 | |
| 6649557837 | MINUTIAE | precise details; trifling matters | 178 | |
| 6649557838 | PURCHASE | a firm foothold, grasp etc, as for climbing or levering something | 179 | |
| 6649557839 | EFFICACY | capacity for producing a desired result | 180 | |
| 6649557840 | CAPRICIOUS | subject to, led by a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic | 181 | |
| 6649557841 | SUPPOSITION | an idea or theory believed to be true without proof. | 182 | |
| 6649557842 | CONJECTURE | an un-testable proposition | 183 | |
| 6649557843 | DIATRIBE | a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism | 184 | |
| 6649557844 | ABSTRUSE | hard to understand because of extreme complexity or abstractness as well as being esoteric | 185 | |
| 6649557845 | INSATIABLE | impossible to satisfy | 186 | |
| 6649557846 | VORACIOUS | exceedingly eager or avid (readers, collectors, etc.) | 187 | |
| 6649557847 | IMPERVIOUS | 1. not permitting passage; impenetrable 2. incapable of being injured, influenced, or affected | 188 | |
| 6649557848 | CAMARADERIE | good-fellowship | 189 | |
| 6649557849 | ACUITY | sharpness; keenness (vision, mind, etc.) | 190 | |
| 6649557850 | OBTUSE | not quick or alert in perception or intellect; dull | 191 | |
| 6649557851 | FLOUT | to scoff at, mock, scorn | 192 | |
| 6649557852 | TOUT | to describe or advertise boastfully; praise extravagantly | 193 | |
| 6649557853 | MORASS | a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot (usually used figuratively) | 194 | |
| 6649557854 | EPITOMIZE | serve as a typical example of | 195 | |
| 6649557855 | PARAGON | a model of pattern of excellence; the ideal standard | 196 | |
| 6649557856 | VACILLATE | to waver in mind or opinion | 197 | |
| 6649557857 | WINDFALL | a sudden good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | 198 | |
| 6649557858 | VANGUARD | the front part of an army; the forefront in any movement, field, activity | 199 | |
| 6649557859 | ALLITERATION | repetition of the same sound within nearby words; most often, repeated initial consonants | 200 | |
| 6649557860 | APOSTROPHE | addresses an abstraction, an inanimate object, or to the someone not present | 201 | |
| 6649557861 | HYPERBOLE | exaggeration for effect | 202 | |
| 6649557862 | MEIOSIS | understatement for effect | 203 | |
| 6649557863 | LITOTES | making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 204 | |
| 6649557864 | PERSONIFICATION | giving human characteristics to non-human things | 205 | |
| 6649557865 | IRONY (verbal and situational) | reversal of expectations or speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says | 206 | |
| 6649557866 | SARCASM | a mocking or derogatory statement, usually ironic, directed and intended to hurt another person | 207 | |
| 6649557867 | SATIRE | literary genre that uses irony, wit and sometimes sarcasm to expose humanity's vices and foibles, giving impetus to change or reform through ridicule | 208 | |
| 6649557868 | SIMILE | comparing two distinct things by using connective words such as like or as | 209 | |
| 6649557869 | METAPHOR | identify one object or idea with another in one or more aspects via representation or substitution | 210 | |
| 6649557870 | METONYMY | substituting the word in mind with an object closely related to it (White House for President) | 211 | |
| 6649557871 | SYNECDOCHE | a part of something is used to represent the whole of something (all hands on deck) | 212 | |
| 6649557872 | ANAPHORA | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences | 213 | |
| 6649557873 | ANTIMETABOLE | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order (similar to chiasmus) | 214 | |
| 6649557874 | ANTITHESIS | balancing contrasting terms against each other for emphasis | 215 | |
| 6649557875 | ZEUGMA | one word is used to mean two different things simultaneously | 216 | |
| 6649557876 | ANASTROPHE | reversal of word order to make a point | 217 | |
| 6649557877 | ANTECEDENT | the original noun, noun phrase or clause referred to later in the text by other means (pronouns, metaphors, etc.) | 218 | |
| 6649557878 | APPOSITIVE | a noun or noun phrase that further describes a nearby noun or pronoun | 219 | |
| 6649557879 | PHRASE | group of words without a verb (always dependent on other words to make a complete sentence) | 220 | |
| 6649557880 | CLAUSE | group of words with a verb (independent clauses are complete sentences; dependent clause require an independent clause to make a complete sentence) | 221 | |
| 6649557881 | SIMPLE SENTENCE | sentence containing one independent clause | 222 | |
| 6649557882 | COMPOUND SENTENCE | sentence containing multiple independent clauses | 223 | |
| 6649557883 | COMPLEX SENTENCE | sentence containing at least one independent and at least one dependent clause | 224 | |
| 6649557884 | FRAGMENT | incomplete sentence (can be effective depending on the purpose) | 225 | |
| 6649557885 | SUBORDINATION | the use of a conjunction to make the meaning of one clause dependent on another clause | 226 | |
| 6649557886 | PASSIVE VOICE | when the object of the verb is the subject of the sentence. (The homework is read by Sam.) | 227 | |
| 6649557887 | ACTIVE VOICE | when the subject is doing the action. (Sam reads the homework.) | 228 |
