Wordly Wise Lists Flashcards
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46067201 | ACETIC | of vinegar | |
46067202 | CLANDESTINE | secret | |
46067203 | COSMIC | -of the universe -vast | |
46067204 | DEVOLVE | transfer | |
46067205 | EFFETE | weak | |
46067206 | ENSEMBLE | -matched outfit of clothing -working closely together -group of musicians | |
46067207 | EXHUME | -dig up -revive | |
46067208 | FUSILLADE | firing of shots | |
46067209 | INFRACTION | breaking of a rule | |
46067210 | LAPIDARY | cutter of precious stones | |
46067211 | MACE | -ceremonial staff -spiked war club -powdered nutmeg husks | |
46067212 | MERETRICIOUS | cheaply showy | |
46067213 | OPULENT | luxurious | |
46067214 | PAREGORIC | pain-killing drug | |
46067215 | REFRACTORY | -unruly -unresponsive to treatment | |
46067216 | TACTILE | from the sense of touch | |
46067217 | TOCSIN | alarm bell | |
46067218 | TRIBULATION | suffering | |
46067219 | ASCETIC | rigorously self-denying | |
46067220 | EX- | out | |
46067221 | DE- | down | |
46067222 | FRACT | break | |
46067223 | LAPIS | stone | |
46067224 | ANIMALCULE | microscopic life form | |
46067225 | COLLLATERAL | -security for a loan -supporting -of a separate line of descent | |
46067226 | DEFRAY | pay | |
46067227 | DISCONSOLATE | very sad | |
46067228 | EMERITUS | who has retired but keeps his or her rank | |
46067229 | EQUABLE | unchanging;steady;even | |
46067230 | FOMENT | stir up | |
46067231 | IMPEACH | -charge with a crime -raise doubts concerning | |
46067232 | INSIPID | -tasteless -uninspiring | |
46067233 | LARIAT | rope used to catch cattle and horses | |
46067234 | MAESTRO | master musician | |
46067235 | METEORIC | -swift -of shooting stars | |
46067236 | OSCILLATE | swing back and forth | |
46067237 | PAROLE | early release from prison | |
46067238 | RHEUMY | watering | |
46067239 | TEMPORIZE | -stall for time -act merely to suit the immediate moment | |
46067240 | TRAJECTORY | curved path | |
46067241 | VIBRANT | -energetic -rich -quivering | |
46067242 | TRANS- | across | |
46067243 | TEMPUS | time | |
46067244 | JACERE | throw | |
46067245 | ASPHYXIATE | make unconscious by cutting off the supply of oxygen | |
46067246 | CORNUCOPIA | -horn of plenty -inexhaustible supply | |
46067247 | DESIST | stop | |
46067248 | EFFEMINATE | woman-like | |
46067249 | EMPATHY | a feeling of sharing another's emotions or experiences | |
46067250 | EVANESCENT | -fleeting -delicate | |
46067251 | FRIEZE | ornamental band on a wall | |
46067252 | INDITE | -write -compse; to set down on paper | |
46067253 | ITIENERARY | planned route | |
46067254 | LIEN | legal claim to a debtor's poperty | |
46067255 | MAXIM | concisely-stated rule of conduct | |
46067256 | MOTIF | theme | |
46067257 | PALFREY | riding horse | |
46067258 | PHALANX | massed group | |
46067259 | SVELTE | -gracefully slender -sophisticated | |
46067260 | TERTIARY | third in importance | |
46067261 | TRENCHANT | vigorously expressive | |
46067262 | COPIA | plenty | |
46067263 | ABORTIVE | unsuccessful | |
46067264 | ANOMALOUS | -irregular | |
46067265 | CAPTIOUS | -unduly critical -argumentative | |
46067266 | CAUDJUTOR | assistant | |
46067267 | DISJOINTED | disconnected; tending to belittle | |
46067268 | EDUCE | arrive at; to draw forth or bring out | |
46067269 | EMPIRICAL | based on observation | |
46067270 | EXCULPATE | free from blame | |
46067271 | FIRMAMENT | dome of the sky | |
46067272 | IRIDESCENT | of changing colors | |
46067273 | MACERATE | -soften in a liquid -wasted away | |
46067274 | MORES (only in a plural form) | customs; folkways accepted without question embody the fundamental moral views of a group | |
46067275 | NORM | standard applied | |
46067276 | OPTIMUM | most favorable | |
46067277 | PROBITY | honesty | |
46067278 | ROSTRUM | platform used for speechmaking | |
46067279 | TURPITUDE | vileness of conduct | |
46067280 | ACCOLADE | award of merit | |
46067281 | ANTIPATHY | dislike | |
46067282 | CARMINE | red | |
46067283 | COALESCE | come together | |
46067284 | DISSIMULATE | hide one's true feelings | |
46067285 | EGOTISM | having too high an opinion of oneself | |
46067286 | ERUPT | -burst forth -skin rash | |
46067287 | FELICITOUS | -pleasingly appropriate -delightful | |
46067288 | INFLECT | -change the pitch of -change the form of | |
46067289 | JURSIT | expert on law | |
46067290 | MEANDER | -winds back and forth -saunter | |
46067291 | NEMESIS | -revenging agent -just punishment | |
46067292 | NOVITIATE | probationary period in a religious order | |
46067293 | OUTMODED | outdated | |
46067294 | PROTOCOL | -diplomatic etiquette -original draft of document | |
46067295 | SEPCIOUS | seemingly true but actually false | |
46067296 | VERNACULAR | everyday speech | |
46067297 | E- | out | |
46067298 | NOVOUS | new | |
46067299 | RUMPERE | break | |
46067300 | AGENDA | list of things to be done at a meeting | |
46067301 | APOPLECTIC | paralysed from a burst blood vesel in the brain | |
46067302 | CIRCUMSPECT | cautious | |
46067303 | DENUDE | strip everything from | |
46067304 | DOTE | be overly proud of | |
46067305 | DOTAGE | foolish old age | |
46067306 | EMOTE | express emotions dramatically | |
46067307 | EXACERBATE | worsen | |
46067308 | FEY | -playful -of impending death | |
46067309 | INSATIABLE | always wnating more | |
46067310 | LAITY | religous group apart from its clergy | |
46067311 | MORDANT | -biting -chemical that makes a dye permanent | |
46067312 | NEUTER | neither male nor female | |
46067313 | OPPROBRIUM | disgrace | |
46067314 | PRECIPITOUS | steep | |
46067315 | REINSTATE | restor to a former position | |
46067316 | THROES | violent anguish | |
46067317 | VICISSITUDES | changes of fortune | |
46067318 | AMBULATORY | able to walk | |
46067319 | CIRCUMVENT | outwit | |
46482381 | CUCKOLD | man whose wife is unfaithful | |
46482382 | DIDACTIC | that instructs us | |
46482383 | EFFRONTERY | -impudence; shameless boldness | |
46482384 | ETHEREAL | -delicate -light and airy | |
46482385 | EXIGENCIES | -pressing needs -urgency | |
46482386 | GARGOYLE | grotesquely carved figure | |
46482387 | HIRSUTE | hairy | |
46482388 | INCANTATION | formula of magic words | |
46482389 | MALFEASANCE | wrongdoing by a public official | |
46482390 | NAIAD | water nymph | |
46482391 | PONTIFICATE | speak in a pompous manner | |
46482392 | PYROMANIAC | person with a compulsion to start fires | |
46482393 | SAPIENT | wise | |
46482394 | TECHNQUE | method | |
68784315 | APOTHECARY | druggist | |
68784316 | COLLOQUIAL | of everyday speech | |
68784317 | CURATE | assistant to a senior officer | |
68784318 | DISSEMBLE | hide one's true feelings | |
68784319 | EPILOGUE | concluding speech in a play | |
68784320 | EVISCERATE | remove the entrails from | |
68784321 | EXORCISE | drive out | |
68784322 | GENEALOGY | the study of family descent | |
68784323 | IMPECUNIOUS | without money | |
68784324 | LAVE | wash | |
68784325 | MERINO | a sheep with long, silky wool | |
68784326 | PANEGYRIC | formal speech of praise | |
68784327 | POTENTATE | powerful ruler | |
68784328 | RECANT | publicly repudiate one's beliefs | |
68784329 | SCION | #1 descendant, #2 bud used for grafting | |
68784330 | TEMERITY | rashness | |
68784331 | CATHOLIC | #1. broad in scope #2. universal | |
68784332 | CORRELATE | bring together | |
68784333 | DEDUCE | figure out | |
68784334 | DURANCE | imprisonment | |
68784335 | EQUIVOCAL | #1 hesitant #2 doubtful | |
68784336 | EXCRESCENCE | outgrowth | |
68784337 | HALCYON | peaceful | |
68784338 | INANIMATE | #1 lacking life #2 dull | |
68784339 | LUNAR | of the moon | |
68784340 | MISDEMEANOR | minor crime | |
68784341 | PARSON | clergyman | |
68784342 | PULSATE | throb | |
68784343 | ROE | #1 fish's eggs #2 European deer | |
68784344 | SYMPOSIUM | conference for discussing some subject | |
68784345 | VENIRE | panel from which jurors are selected | |
68784346 | ACCOUTER | equip | |
68784347 | AXIOM | a universally accepted truth | |
68784348 | BEREFT | #1 deprived #2 left lonely by some loss | |
68784349 | CORTEGE | #1 train of attendants #2 processio of mourners | |
68784350 | DISDAIN | scorn | |
68789917 | GRATUITOUS | #1 free #2 uncalled for | |
68789918 | INVEIGLE | lure | |
68789919 | MAGNILOQUENT | pompusly boastful | |
68789920 | PERORATION | final part of a speech | |
68789921 | SACRILEGE | disrespect for what is sacred | |
68789922 | SUFFUSE | spread over | |
68789923 | UNIMPEACHABLE | blameless | |
68789924 | VERDANT | green | |
68789925 | AFFINITY | #1 attraction #2 relationship | |
68789926 | BACCHANLIAN | wild and drunken | |
68789927 | BLASPHEMOUS | showing irreverence for God | |
68789928 | DECENNIAL | occurring every 10 years | |
68789929 | EXPATIATE | speak at great length | |
68789930 | HOMOGENEOUS | the same throughout | |
68789931 | INTERCEDE | plead in behalf of another, mediate | |
68789932 | MALAPROPISM | humorous misuse of words | |
68789933 | MAUDLIN | foolishly sentimental | |
68789934 | NUGATORY | worthless | |
68789935 | PANTHEON | group of persons most esteemed | |
68789936 | PLETHORA | excess | |
68789937 | SMELT | #1 purify by melting #2 small,silvery fish | |
68789938 | UPBRAID | scold | |
68789939 | ASPERITY | sharpness of temper | |
68789940 | CONCLAVE | private meeting | |
68789941 | DEPOSE | remove | |
68789942 | DEPOSTION | sworn statement | |
68789943 | FUSELAGE | body of an airplane | |
68789944 | INFLUX | mass arrival | |
68789945 | LACONIC | concise | |
68789946 | MACHIAVELLIAN | cunning and decietful | |
68789947 | MARSUPIAL | having pouches for carrying the young | |
68789948 | MELEE | brawl | |
68789949 | NULLIFY | make valueless | |
68789950 | PAPAL | of a pope | |
68789951 | PSYCHOSIS | severe mental illness | |
68789952 | STERLING | #1 British currency, money #2 excellent # | |
68789953 | SYNOPSIS | summary | |
68789954 | ZENITH | #1 highest point #2 point in the sky directly above | |
68939938 | ACOLYTE | #1 follower #2 altar boy | |
68939939 | ATAVISM | reverting back to the traits of one's ancestor's | |
68939940 | BEDIZEN | gaudily adorn | |
68939941 | CANTO | division of a poem | |
68939942 | CREVICE | narrow crack | |
68939943 | DEIFY | treat as godlike | |
68939944 | DUCTILE | #1 capable of being drawn into wire | |
68939945 | ENNOBLING | uplifting | |
68939946 | GUBERNATORIAL | for state government | |
68939947 | LIONIZE | treat as celebrity | |
68939948 | MORATORIUM | #1 legally-granted delay in the payment of debts #2 suspension of activity | |
68939949 | OBITUARY | notice of a person's death | |
68939950 | PROGNOSTICATE | predict | |
68939951 | RACONTEUR | #1 storyteller #2 pleasure-loving person | |
68939952 | UNWONTED | unaccustomed | |
68939953 | AGUE | fever | |
68939954 | BANAL | trite | |
68939955 | BOON | #1 welcome benefit #2 request #3 close | |
68939956 | CLAIRVOYANT | supposedly able to perceive things not ordinarily present to the senses | |
68939957 | CYST | small, pouchlike growth | |
68939958 | DEMAGOGUE | rabble-rouser | |
68939959 | EGOISM | the belief in the all-importance of oneself | |
68939960 | EXIGUOUS | scanty | |
68939961 | GLOAMING | twilight;dusk | |
68939962 | IMPROPRIETY | improper act | |
68939963 | LUPINE | wolflike | |
68939964 | NARCOTIC | drug | |
68939965 | PROPOUND | propose | |
68939966 | RAPPROCHEMENT | establishment of friendly relations | |
68939967 | ANOINT | #1 pour oil on #2 make holy bu putting oil on | |
68939968 | BANEFUL | ruinos | |
68939969 | BRIER | #1 thorny bush #2 made from the root of a European shrub | |
68939970 | COGNATE | related | |
68939971 | DEEM | believe | |
68939972 | DIPSOMANIAC | alcoholic | |
68939973 | EMISSARY | agent | |
68939974 | EXTRADITE | hand over to the power of another state | |
68939975 | GOSSAMER | filmy cobweb strands | |
68939976 | INCOMMUNICADO | without being able to get in touch with others | |
68939977 | MENDACITY | lying | |
68939978 | NOVENA | nine-day period of prayer | |
68939979 | POLYGAMIST | person with more than one wife or husband | |
68939980 | QUIP | witty remark | |
68939981 | STELLAR | #1 of the stars #2 of a celebrated persformer | |
68939982 | TROUSSEAU | bride's outfit | |
68939983 | ANTERIOR | #1 front #2 earlier | |
68939984 | BLANDISHMENTS | flattering remarks | |
68939985 | CLIMACTERIC | turning point | |
68939986 | CONJUGAL | marital | |
68939987 | DEPREDATIONS | #1 acts of robbery and violence #2 physical harm | |
68939988 | EMPYREAN | heavens | |
68939989 | EXPIATE | make amends | |
68939990 | INVIOLATE | #1 free from harm #2 unbroken | |
68939991 | LATTICE | crisscrossed strips | |
68939992 | LEVIATHAN | huge creature | |
68939993 | OBJURGATE | rebuke | |
68939994 | PANACEA | cure for all | |
68939995 | PREPONDERATE | exceed in influence | |
68939996 | REFUTATION | proof of error | |
68939997 | SPOLIATION | destruction | |
68939998 | VERBOSE | wordy | |
68939999 | ASSEVERATE | solemnly declare | |
68940000 | CARAPACE | upper shell | |
68940001 | CLIQUE | small, exclusive group | |
68940002 | CONNUBIAL | conjugal | |
68940003 | DOCTRINE | teachings | |
68940004 | EPIDEMIC | #1 wide-spread disease #2 excessibely prevalent | |
68940005 | INITIAL | frist | |
68940006 | JURISICATION | legal authority | |
68940007 | LAYETTE | set of clothes | |
68940008 | NEGOTIATE | #1 settle the terms of #2 get around #3 transferable | |
68940009 | OBVIATE | make unnecessary | |
68940010 | PASSE | out-of-date | |
68940011 | RECIPROCATE | #1 return in kind or degree #2 fixed | |
68940012 | REPINE | feel discontent | |
68940013 | TITIAN | reddish-yellow | |
68940014 | VIAL | small,glass medicine bottle | |
68940015 | BEATIFIC | blissful | |
68940016 | CLAUSTROPHOBIA | fear of enclosed spaces | |
68940017 | CONCOMITANT | accompanying | |
68940018 | COROLLARY | propostition logically following | |
68940019 | DOLOROUS | mournful | |
68940020 | ERSATZ | substitute | |
68940021 | INNUENDO | veiled, disparaging remark | |
68940022 | LACTEAL | milky | |
68940023 | LEAVAN | #1 cause of rise #2 modify the tone of | |
68940024 | NOCTURNE | musical piece suggesting night | |
68940025 | OPTION | right to buy or sell | |
68940026 | PHELGMATIC | undemonstrative | |
68940027 | RECONNAISSANCE | exploratory military survey | |
68940028 | SEISMIC | earthquake | |
68940029 | TONSURE | shaved head | |
68940030 | VIVIPAROUS | bearing live young | |
68940031 | ACCRUE | be added periodically | |
68940032 | BREVITY | shortness | |
68940033 | CELERITY | speed | |
68940034 | COMPOSURE | self-control | |
68940035 | COTERIE | intimate group of followers | |
68940036 | DISSECT | carefully cut apart | |
68940037 | FATALISM | belief that events are not under man's own control | |
68940038 | FULGENT | dazzling | |
68940039 | GELID | icy | |
68940040 | IMBECILE | feebleminded person | |
68940041 | KAYAK | Eskimo canoe | |
68940042 | MISCEGENATION | marriage between people of different races | |
68940043 | OVERWEENING | undue | |
68940044 | PROMULGATE | proclaim | |
68940045 | SACHET | small bag | |
68940046 | STRIDENT | shrill | |
68940047 | VORTEX | whirlpool | |
68940048 | AMORPHOUS | #1 shapeless #2 noncrystalline | |
68940049 | BROMIDE | #1 sedative #2 commonplace expression | |
68940050 | CELIBATE | chaste | |
68940051 | CONSANGUINITY | kinship | |
68940052 | CRUSTACEAN | hard-shelled sea creature | |
68940053 | EMBRASURE | recessed window opening | |
68940054 | FIORD | narrow inlet of the sea | |
68940055 | FUMIGATE | destroy pests in | |
68940056 | GENERATE | produce | |
68940057 | IMPORTUNE | beg earnestly | |
68940058 | MARINATE | season by steeping | |
68940059 | PROTUBERANT | bulging outward | |
68940060 | SEXTON | caretaker of church | |
68940061 | WALLOW | #1 roll about #2 indulge oneself | |
68940062 | BIENNIAL | every two years | |
68940063 | CAUCUS | private political meeting | |
68940064 | COMPOSITE | formed of separate parts | |
68940065 | CONTIGUOUS | adjoining | |
68940066 | DIAPHONOUS | sheer | |
68940067 | EPIDERMIS | skin | |
68940068 | FRUCTIFY | bear fruit | |
68940069 | FUSTIAN | pompous | |
68940070 | GENTRY | persons of high social standing | |
68940071 | INGENUE | role of a naive girl | |
68940072 | MIEN | manner | |
68940073 | OSTENSIBLE | apparent | |
68940074 | PHYSIOGNOMY | face | |
68940075 | PROGNOSIS | prediction | |
68940076 | SHROUD | sheet wrapping a dead body | |
68940077 | SHROUD | conceal | |
68940078 | UKASE | decree | |
68940079 | ABATTOIR | slaughterhouse | |
68940080 | ABUT | adjoin | |
68940081 | AGGRIEVED | offended | |
68940082 | ASPERSION | slanderous remark | |
68940083 | CARDIAC | heart | |
68940084 | DECANT | pour | |
68940085 | DICHOTOMY | division into two parts | |
68940086 | FRANGIBLE | easilybroken | |
68940087 | IMBUE | fill | |
68940088 | MILLENIUM | #1 thousand years #2 period of perfect happiness | |
68940089 | PREROGATIVE | right | |
68944855 | REPARTEE | quick-witted reply | |
68944856 | ROTUND | round | |
68944857 | SEBACEOUS | fatty | |
68944858 | SUNDRY | various | |
68944859 | TERMAGANT | quarrelsome woman | |
68944860 | ABSTRUSE | hard to understand | |
68944861 | ANTIQUARY | collector of relics of the past | |
68944862 | AUSPICES | patronage | |
68944863 | CONGRUENCE | fitting together | |
68944864 | DEWLAP | fold of skin under the neck | |
68944865 | DISHABILLE | being partially dressed | |
68944866 | MADRIGAL | song fo rseveral voices | |
68944867 | NONPAREIL | one whose greatness is unequaled | |
68944868 | OCCIDENT | Western countries | |
68944869 | PANDEMIC | widespread | |
68944870 | QUIZZICAL | humorously-question | |
68944871 | RESURRECT | #1 restore life #2 bring back | |
68944872 | RUDIMENTARY | undeveloped | |
68944873 | SOLECISM | speech error | |
68944874 | SURCEASE | stopping | |
68944875 | VENERATE | deeply respect | |
68944876 | CADNECE | rhythmic beat | |
68944877 | CONSUMMATE | #1 complete #2 perfect | |
68944878 | DIADEM | crown | |
68944879 | IMBROGLIO | confused situation | |
68944880 | MARQUETRY | decorative inlaid woodwork | |
68944881 | NOTARY | official able to certify documents | |
68944882 | OBLATE | flattened at the poles | |
68944883 | ORDINAL | expressing order in a series | |
68944884 | PLACATE | pacify | |
68944885 | REGENERATION | #1 spiritual rebirth #2 rebirth | |
68944886 | RIFT | crack | |
68944887 | RUMINATE | #1 chew the cud #2 meditate | |
68944888 | STRATAGEM | scheme | |
68944889 | TEMPERAMENT | clash between armies | |
68944890 | VERTIGO | dizziness | |
69187671 | ANALGESIC | pain-killing drug | |
69187672 | ATTRITION | a gradual wearing down | |
69187673 | CEREBRAL | #1 brain #2 intellectual | |
69187674 | CONTUMELY | insulting language | |
69187675 | DEMULCENT | soothing | |
69187676 | ECOLOGY | the study of the relationship between libing things and their environment | |
69187677 | ENCLAVE | area enclosed by foreign territory | |
69187678 | EPITOME | ideal expression of | |
69187679 | GRANDIOSE | pretentiously exaggerated | |
69187680 | MESMERIZE | hypnotize | |
69187681 | QUEUE | #1 line of persons waiting #2 pigtail | |
69187682 | RISQUE | improper | |
69187683 | ANTEDILUVIAN | old-fashioned | |
69187684 | AVOUCH | declare positively | |
69187685 | CHAUVINIST | fanatically patriotic person | |
69187686 | DEBAUCHED | corrupted | |
69187687 | DISSONANCE | lack of harmony | |
69187688 | EFFIGY | #1 likeness #2 stuffed dummy | |
69187689 | ENDEMIC | restricted to a particular area | |
69187690 | FAKIR | Muslim holy man | |
69187691 | HABILIMENTS | garb | |
69187692 | LEVITATION | apparent raising into the air | |
69187693 | MILLINER | seller of women's hats | |
69187694 | PRECIPITATE | #1 bring about too soon #2 separate from a liquid #3 rash | |
69187695 | QUILL | #1 feather #2 spine #3 pen | |
69187696 | SONIC | sound | |
69187697 | THRENODY | song of lamenation | |
69187698 | WINSOME | pleasant | |
69187699 | ARGOSY | #1 heavily-laden merchant ship #2 rich store | |
69187700 | COMPLIANT | submissive | |
69187701 | DELIQUESCE | become liquid through absorbing water | |
69187702 | DROSS | impurities | |
69187703 | ELIDE | #1 strike out #2 slur over | |
69187704 | ENTITY | thing that exists | |
69187705 | GENTILITY | refinement | |
69187706 | HERITAGE | tradition | |
69187707 | LISTLESS | lacking in vigor | |
69187708 | ORNITHOLOGY | the study of birds | |
69187709 | PROLETARIAT | industrial working class | |
69187710 | QUIXOCTIC | idealistic but impractical | |
69187711 | STOICAL | indifferent to pain or pleasure | |
69187712 | VACUOUS | #1 stupid #2 empty | |
69190608 | AGGREGATE | total amount | |
69190609 | CLEMENT | mild | |
69190610 | CLEMENCY | mercy | |
69190611 | CONGEAL | #1 thicken #2 become solid | |
69190612 | DEFECT | #1 fault #2 switch sides | |
69190613 | DISSEMINATE | spread | |
69190614 | ENRAPTURE | delight | |
69190615 | FEBRILE | feverish | |
69190616 | HEDONISM | belief that pleasure is the greatest good | |
69190617 | INCARNATE | in bodily form | |
69190618 | INTONE | say in monotone | |
69190619 | NECROMANCY | the foretelling of the future by communication with the dead | |
69190620 | PARAPLEGIA | paralysis of the lower part o fthe body | |
69190621 | POLEMICS | disputes | |
69190622 | RAMIFICATIONS | far-reaching consequences | |
69190623 | SOPHISTRY | clever but misleading reasoning |