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| 13499171055 | DESPOTISM | the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way. | 0 | |
| 13499171056 | RECTITUDE | moral uprightness; righteousness | 1 | |
| 13499171057 | NASCENT | beginning to exist or develop | 2 | |
| 13499171058 | IMPETUS | a moving force, impulse, stimulus | 3 | |
| 13499171059 | ENGENDER | produce, cause, give rise to | 4 | |
| 13499171060 | VICISSITUDE | a change or variation; ups and downs | 5 | |
| 13499171061 | RENEGE | to fail to honor a commitment; to go back on a promise | 6 | |
| 13499171062 | PROLIFERATE | to reproduce, increase, or spread rapidly | 7 | |
| 13499171063 | GERMANE | relevant, appropriate, apropos, fitting | 8 | |
| 13499171064 | EFFACE | to erase; to rub out | 9 | |
| 13499171065 | EFFUSIVE | emotionally excessive; overly demonstrative | 10 | |
| 13499171066 | COGENT | powerfully convincing | 11 | |
| 13499171067 | GRATIUITOUS | uncalled for, unwarranted | 12 | |
| 13499171068 | VOLITION | will; conscious choice | 13 | |
| 13499171069 | PROXIMITY | nearness, closeness | 14 | |
| 13499171070 | ABSTRUSE | hard to understand because of extreme complexity or abstractness as well as being esoteric | 15 | |
| 13499171071 | INSATIABLE | impossible to satisfy | 16 | |
| 13499171072 | VORACIOUS | exceedingly eager or avid (readers, collectors, etc.) | 17 | |
| 13499171073 | IMPERVIOUS | 1. not permitting passage; impenetrable 2. incapable of being injured, influenced, or affected | 18 | |
| 13499171074 | CAMARADERIE | good-fellowship | 19 | |
| 13499171075 | VANGUARD | the front part of an army; the forefront in any movement, field, activity | 20 | |
| 13499171076 | RELEGATE | assign to a lower position | 21 | |
| 13499171077 | SUBJUGATE | to conquer by force, bring under complete control | 22 | |
| 13499171078 | ICONOCLAST | one who attacks or undermines traditional conventions or institutions | 23 | |
| 13499171079 | DEMOGOGUE | a leader who appeals to citizens' emotions & prejudices to obtain power | 24 | |
| 13499171080 | STATUS QUO | the existing condition or state of affairs | 25 | |
| 13499171081 | ACERBIC | bitter, sharp in taste or temper | 26 | |
| 13499171082 | CRITICAL | finding fault | 27 | |
| 13499171083 | CAUSTIC | (adj.) able to burn or eat away by chemical action; biting, sarcastic | 28 | |
| 13499171084 | GUISE | outward appearance; false appearance | 29 | |
| 13499171085 | SEMBLANCE | a likeness; an outward appearance | 30 | |
| 13499171086 | DISPARAGE | regard or represent as being of little worth | 31 | |
| 13499171087 | PROSCRIBE | to forbid | 32 | |
| 13499171088 | APHORISM | a concise statement of a truth or principle | 33 | |
| 13499171089 | SINE QUA NON | an essential or indispensable element or condition | 34 | |
| 13499171090 | AFFLUENT | rich; prosperous; wealthy | 35 | |
| 13499171091 | ILLUSORY | deceptive; false; misleading | 36 | |
| 13499171092 | DISPARATE | fundamentally different; entirely unlike | 37 | |
| 13499171093 | VINDICATE | clear from hint or charge of wrongdoing; to justify | 38 | |
| 13499171094 | APLOMB | confidence without arrogance | 39 | |
| 13499171095 | AUSPICIOUS | favorable; promising | 40 | |
| 13499171096 | HARANGUE | long, passionate, ranting speech (diatribe) | 41 | |
| 13499171097 | DISSENT | difference of opinion (implies refusal to assent and/or withholding consent) | 42 | |
| 13499171098 | UBIQUITOUS | present, appearing, or found everywhere | 43 | |
| 13499171099 | PARADIGM | model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc. | 44 | |
| 13499171100 | TRAVESTY | a grotesque or grossly inferior imitation (often unintentional) | 45 | |
| 13499171101 | CREDULOUS | too trusting; gullible | 46 | |
| 13499171102 | UNTENABLE | impossible to defend or justify | 47 | |
| 13499171103 | OPULENT | luxurious; grandiose | 48 | |
| 13499171104 | TACIT | understood or implied without being stated | 49 | |
| 13499171105 | COMPUNCTION | a feeling of anxiety caused by regret for doing something wrong or causing pain | 50 | |
| 13499171106 | EXACERBATE | to increase the severity; aggravate | 51 | |
| 13499171107 | AMELIORATE | to make or become better or improve | 52 | |
| 13499171108 | PLACATE | to appease or pacify with concessions | 53 | |
| 13499171109 | ASSUAGE | to make milder; relieve; soothe, calm fears or anger | 54 | |
| 13499171110 | VIABLE | 1. capable of living; 2. useful or effective | 55 | |
| 13499171111 | DENIGRATE | to attack the reputation of; to speak ill of | 56 | |
| 13499171112 | VEHEMENT | strongly emotional; intense or passionate | 57 | |
| 13499171113 | DELINEATE | to portray in words; describe with precision | 58 | |
| 13499171114 | INURED | made tough by habitual exposure | 59 | |
| 13499171115 | SALIENT | prominent; of notable significance | 60 | |
| 13499171116 | EXTOL | to praise, to glorify | 61 | |
| 13499171117 | ENERVATE | to weaken; to reduce in vitality | 62 | |
| 13499171118 | LACONIC | brief and to the point | 63 | |
| 13499171119 | VERBOSE | wordy, long winded | 64 | |
| 13499171120 | CACHET | a mark of distinction; prestige | 65 | |
| 13499171121 | ELICIT | to draw forth, bring out from some source | 66 | |
| 13499171122 | OBSCURE | unclear; not well known; partially hidden; hard to understand | 67 | |
| 13499171123 | VISCERAL | Instinctive rather than rational | 68 | |
| 13499171124 | QUINTESSENTIAL | the most typical; ideal | 69 | |
| 13499171125 | ELUCIDATE | to clarify, explain | 70 | |
| 13499171126 | FIAT | an official order, a decree | 71 | |
| 13499171127 | SACROSCANT | holy; too sacred to attack (often used ironically) | 72 | |
| 13499171128 | WINDFALL | unexpected good fortune | 73 | |
| 13499171129 | ASCETICISM | self-restraint; doctrine that claims self-denial allows one to achieve a higher spiritual state of being | 74 | |
| 13499171218 | OBSTINATE | firmly and unreasonably adhering to one's purpose, opinion | 75 | |
| 13499171219 | OBDURATE | unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; unyielding. | 76 | |
| 13499171220 | INGRATIATE | gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts | 77 | |
| 13499171221 | ESOTERIC | understandable by only an enlightened inner circle | 78 | |
| 13499171130 | REPLETE | full; abundant; filled to the brim | 79 | |
| 13499171131 | RIFE | prevalent; widespread; common (often negative) | 80 | |
| 13499171132 | REPREHENSIBLE | shameful; very bad | 81 | |
| 13499171133 | ENSCONCE | to settle securely or snugly; comfortably | 82 | |
| 13499171134 | ENSHROUD | to cover; conceal; to enclose with a dark cover | 83 | |
| 13499171135 | TEDIUM | dullness; monotony; boredom | 84 | |
| 13499171136 | RESCIND | to take back, repeal | 85 | |
| 13499171137 | REFUTE | to prove incorrect | 86 | |
| 13499171138 | LAMPOON | to ridicule with satire | 87 | |
| 13499171139 | HEDONISM | belief that attainment of pleasure is life's chief aim | 88 | |
| 13499171140 | EPHEMERAL | short-lived; fleeting | 89 | |
| 13499171141 | BOMBASTIC | pompous or pretentious talk or writing | 90 | |
| 13499171142 | OBFUSCATE | to confuse; to bewilder | 91 | |
| 13499171143 | DECORUM | proper behavior, good taste; orderliness | 92 | |
| 13499171144 | DOGGED | persistent, stubbornly determined, refusing to give up | 93 | |
| 13499171145 | CURTAIL | to cut short; end sooner than expected | 94 | |
| 13499171146 | DEGRADE | reduce someone's worth or value; step down to a lower position, rank, social status (suggest humiliation) | 95 | |
| 13499171147 | PRESUMPTUOUS | too forward or bold; overstepping proper bounds | 96 | |
| 13499171148 | PROPENSITY | a natural inclination or tendency | 97 | |
| 13499171149 | PENCHANT | a strong inclination or liking | 98 | |
| 13499171150 | INEPT | unskilled; clumsy; incompetent | 99 | |
| 13499171222 | POSTHUMOUS | occurring after a person's death | 100 | |
| 13499171223 | ONUS | a difficult obligation, task, burden, responsibility | 101 | |
| 13499171224 | PEJORATIVE | having a disparaging or belittling effect | 102 | |
| 13499171225 | IMMUTABLE | unchangeable | 103 | |
| 13499171226 | RECAPITULATE | summarize briefly | 104 | |
| 13499171227 | CAPITULATE | to surrender; to give up resistance | 105 | |
| 13499171228 | PREEMINENT | superior; surpassing; above or before others | 106 | |
| 13499171229 | SARDONIC | mocking; cynical; sneering | 107 | |
| 13499171151 | INNATE | existing from birth, inborn | 108 | |
| 13499171152 | DISILLUSION | to disappoint someone by breaking his or her belief in a false ideal | 109 | |
| 13499171153 | GUILE | treacherous cunning, deceit | 110 | |
| 13499171154 | OSTRACIZE | exclude from a group, banish, send away | 111 | |
| 13499171155 | IMPUGN | to attack as false or questionable | 112 | |
| 13499171156 | IMPUNITY | exemption from punishment | 113 | |
| 13499171157 | MITIGATE | to make milder or softer, to moderate in force or intensity | 114 | |
| 13499171158 | INCESSANT | continuing without pause or interruption (seemingly nonstop) | 115 | |
| 13499171159 | VIS A VIS | in relation to or compared with | 116 | |
| 13499171160 | INSIDIOUS | intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous | 117 | |
| 13499171161 | TUMULTUOUS | disturbance and uproar; raising a great clatter and commotion | 118 | |
| 13499171162 | SUBSTANTIATE | to support with proof or evidence | 119 | |
| 13499171163 | POLEMICAL | controversial; argumentative | 120 | |
| 13499171164 | EGREGIOUS | outstandingly bad | 121 | |
| 13499171165 | LAMBASTE | attack verbally | 122 | |
| 13499171166 | VACUOUS | lacking ideas or intelligence; empty | 123 | |
| 13499171167 | VACILLATE | waver; sway indecisively | 124 | |
| 13499171230 | PARIAH | an outcast; any person or animal that is generally despised or avoided | 125 | |
| 13499171231 | ANTIQUATED | old-fashioned; no longer used | 126 | |
| 13499171232 | PEDESTRIAN | lacking in vitality, imagination, distinction, etc.; commonplace; dull | 127 | |
| 13499171233 | CHARLATAN | a person who pretends or claims to have more knowledge or skill than he or she possesses | 128 | |
| 13499171234 | MASOCHIST | a person who loves experiencing pain, self-imposed or imposed by others | 129 | |
| 13499171235 | SADIST | a person who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain on others | 130 | |
| 13499171236 | MISOGYNIST | a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women | 131 | |
| 13499171237 | INANE | lacking sense, significance; silly | 132 | |
| 13499171168 | AMBIGUOUS | open to more than one interpretation | 133 | |
| 13499171169 | EMPIRICAL | based on observation or experiment | 134 | |
| 13499171170 | ACQUIESCE | accept something reluctantly but without protest | 135 | |
| 13499171171 | CHAGRIN | embarrassed and disappointed | 136 | |
| 13499171172 | BANAL | lacking freshness; cliche; trite | 137 | |
| 13499171173 | RETICENT | not inclined to speak; reserved; reluctant | 138 | |
| 13499171174 | REPUDIATE | reject the validity or authority of | 139 | |
| 13499171175 | INCENDIARY | inflaming; provoking heat or anger | 140 | |
| 13499171176 | BEDLAM | a noisy uproar; a scene of wild confusion | 141 | |
| 13499171177 | AMBIVALENT | simultaneously feeling opposing feelings; uncertain | 142 | |
| 13499171178 | PRETENTIOUS | assumption of dignity or importance, especially when exaggerated or undeserved | 143 | |
| 13499171179 | EQUIVOCATE | use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself | 144 | |
| 13499171180 | ENCAPSULATE | to place in a capsule; to condense or summarize | 145 | |
| 13499171181 | ANACHRONISTIC | out-of-date, not attributed to the correct historical period | 146 | |
| 13499171182 | PRAGMATIC | concerned with practical considerations or values rather than theoretical | 147 | |
| 13499171183 | DISDAIN | considered beneath oneself; not worth of notice or response | 148 | |
| 13499171184 | CORPORAL | relating to or having an effect on the human body | 149 | |
| 13499171238 | PENSIVE | wistfully thoughtful, usually marked by sadness | 150 | |
| 13499171239 | COLLOQUIAL | appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing | 151 | |
| 13499171240 | COLLUSION | a secret agreement between two parties to appear as adversaries as a way to defraud a third party | 152 | |
| 13499171241 | CLANDESTINE | characterized by or done in secrecy for the purpose of deception | 153 | |
| 13499171242 | SURREPTITIOUS | done by stealth; secret actions | 154 | |
| 13499171243 | PERFUNCTORY | performed merely as a routine; going through the motions only | 155 | |
| 13499171244 | MYOPIC | narrow-minded; lack of foresight | 156 | |
| 13499171245 | COMPLACENT | self-satisfied; pleased without awareness of some potential danger or defect | 157 | |
| 13499171185 | VOLATILE | highly unstable; explosive | 158 | |
| 13499171186 | TOUT | to publicly brag, promote | 159 | |
| 13499171187 | MORASS | a wet swampy bog; figuratively, something that traps and confuses | 160 | |
| 13499171188 | OBTUSE | lacking sharpness of intellect | 161 | |
| 13499171189 | PALPABLE | capable of being touched or felt | 162 | |
| 13499171190 | PANACEA | a remedy for all ills; cure-all; an answer to all problems | 163 | |
| 13499171191 | PRISTINE | untouched; original purity | 164 | |
| 13499171192 | MALLEABLE | capable of being changed; easily shaped | 165 | |
| 13499171193 | PARAMOUNT | of chief concern or importance | 166 | |
| 13499171194 | FLIPPANT | lacking proper respect or seriousness | 167 | |
| 13499171195 | PATRONIZE | treat with an apparent kindness that betrays a feeling of superiority | 168 | |
| 13499171196 | DUPLICITOUS | deliberately deceptive | 169 | |
| 13499171197 | SPECIOUS | deceptively attractive; seemingly plausible but fallacious | 170 | |
| 13499171198 | OSTENSIBLE | appearing as such, seemingly | 171 | |
| 13499171199 | TRANSIENT | lasting only a short time, fleeting; one who stays only a short time | 172 | |
| 13499171200 | VERACITY | truthfulness | 173 | |
| 13499171201 | FORTIUITOUS | happening by chance | 174 | |
| 13499171246 | LANGUID | lacking spirit or liveliness | 175 | |
| 13499171247 | COMMENSURATE | corresponding in size or degree or extent | 176 | |
| 13499171248 | DILETTANTE | a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement in a superficial way | 177 | |
| 13499171249 | SORDID | morally base; vile; dirty or filthy | 178 | |
| 13499171250 | ARDUOUS | requiring great exertion; full of hardships | 179 | |
| 13499171251 | APATHETIC | having or showing little or no emotion | 180 | |
| 13499171252 | MINUTIAE | precise details; trifling matters | 181 | |
| 13499171253 | EFFICACY | capacity for producing a desired result | 182 | |
| 13499171254 | CAPRICIOUS | subject to, led by a sudden, odd notion or unpredictable change; erratic | 183 | |
| 13499171255 | CONJECTURE | an untestable proposition | 184 | |
| 13499171256 | EPITOMIZE | serve as a typical example of | 185 | |
| 13499171257 | PARAGON | a model of pattern of excellence; the ideal standard | 186 | |
| 13499171202 | IMPETUOUS | hasty; without due consideration; rash | 187 | |
| 13499171203 | OPAQUE | impossible to see through; preventing the passage of light | 188 | |
| 13499171204 | MORIBUND | close to death; in a dying state | 189 | |
| 13499171205 | CONVOLUTED | twisted, complicated | 190 | |
| 13499171206 | SOPHOMORIC | intellectually immature and overconfident | 191 | |
| 13499171207 | SOPORIFIC | sleep-inducing | 192 | |
| 13499171208 | CLICHE | a worn-out idea or overused expression | 193 | |
| 13499171209 | ABSTRACT | existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence. | 194 | |
| 13499171210 | BUREAUCRATIC | of or relating to unnecessary procedures and red tape | 195 | |
| 13499171211 | MORES | customs, manners, or morals of a particular group | 196 | |
| 13499171212 | TENUOUS | thin; lacking a sound basis, as reasoning; unsubstantiated; weak | 197 | |
| 13499171213 | TENTATIVE | experimental in nature; uncertain, hesitant | 198 | |
| 13499171214 | VERSED | familiar because of experience | 199 | |
| 13499171258 | ALLITERATION | repetition of the same sound within nearby words; most often, repeated initial consonants | 200 | |
| 13499171259 | APOSTROPHE | addresses an abstraction, an inanimate object, or to the someone not present | 201 | |
| 13499171260 | HYPERBOLE | exaggeration for effect | 202 | |
| 13499171261 | MEIOSIS | understatement for effect | 203 | |
| 13499171262 | LITOTES | making an affirmative point by denying its opposite | 204 | |
| 13499171263 | PERSONIFICATION | giving human characteristics to non-human things | 205 | |
| 13499171264 | IRONY (verbal and situational) | reversal of expectations or speaking in such a way as to imply the contrary of what one says | 206 | |
| 13499171265 | SARCASM | a mocking or derogatory statement, usually ironic, directed and intended to hurt another person | 207 | |
| 13499171266 | 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 | |
| 13499171267 | SIMILE | comparing two distinct things by using connective words such as like or as | 209 | |
| 13499171268 | METAPHOR | identify one object or idea with another in one or more aspects via representation or substitution | 210 | |
| 13499171269 | METONYMY | substituting the word in mind with an object closely related to it (White House for President) | 211 | |
| 13499171270 | SYNECDOCHE | a part of something is used to represent the whole of something (all hands on deck) | 212 | |
| 13499171271 | ANAPHORA | repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of two or more lines, clauses, or sentences | 213 | |
| 13499171272 | ANTIMETABOLE | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order (similar to chiasmus) | 214 | |
| 13499171273 | ANTITHESIS | balancing contrasting terms against each other for emphasis | 215 | |
| 13499171274 | ZEUGMA | one word is used to mean two different things simultaneously | 216 | |
| 13499171275 | ANASTROPHE | reversal of word order to make a point | 217 | |
| 13499171276 | ANTECEDENT | the original noun, noun phrase or clause referred to later in the text by other means (pronouns, metaphors, etc.) | 218 | |
| 13499171277 | APPOSITIVE | a noun or noun phrase that further describes a nearby noun or pronoun | 219 | |
| 13499171278 | PHRASE | group of words without a verb (always dependent on other words to make a complete sentence) | 220 | |
| 13499171279 | CLAUSE | group of words with a verb (independent clauses are complete sentences; dependent clause require an independent clause to make a complete sentence) | 221 | |
| 13499171280 | SIMPLE SENTENCE | sentence containing one independent clause | 222 | |
| 13499171281 | COMPOUND SENTENCE | sentence containing multiple independent clauses | 223 | |
| 13499171282 | COMPLEX SENTENCE | sentence containing at least one independent and at least one dependent clause | 224 | |
| 13499171283 | FRAGMENT | incomplete sentence (can be effective depending on the purpose) | 225 | |
| 13499171284 | SUBORDINATION | the use of a conjunction to make the meaning of one clause dependent on another clause | 226 | |
| 13499171285 | PASSIVE VOICE | when the object of the verb is the subject of the sentence. (The homework is read by Sam.) | 227 | |
| 13499171286 | ACTIVE VOICE | when the subject is doing the action. (Sam reads the homework.) | 228 | |
| 13499171215 | ANECDOTE | a short account of a particular incident or event | 229 | |
| 13499171216 | EUPHEMISM | the substitution of a mild, indirect, or vague expression for one thought to be offensive, harsh, or blunt | 230 | |
| 13499171217 | JUXTAPOSITION | placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast | 231 |
