This will be updated as I add more words to the list
A
Arabesque: a complex ornate design
Ardor: enthusiasm
Abrogate: repeal or annul by authority
Amalgamate: mix; combine; unite societies
Audacious: bold
Acumen: keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment
Appease: make quiet or calm
Apt: well-suited; quick-witted
Accolade: praise; approval
Abscond: to go away suddenly (to avoid arrest)
Ameliorate: improve; to make better
Abysmal: extreme bad
Ambivalent: having both of two contrary meanings
Abstruse: difficult to comprehend; obscure
Antemeridian: occurring before noon
Anecdata: anedotal evidence based on personal observations or opinions,random investigations, etc. but presented as fact
Apprise: inform or tell
Ascribe: attribute something to
Arboreal: of connected with trees
Abasement: the action or fact of abasing or being abased; humiliation or degradation
Abate: become less intense or widespread
Adept: very skilled or proficient at something
Agog: very eager or curious to hear or see something
Altruism: the belief in or practice of selfless concern for the well-being of others
Arbiter: a person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter
Abut: border on
Ascetic: practicing self-denial, austere, stark
August: majestic, venerable
Apartheid: brutal racial discrimination
Anecdata: anecdotal evidence based on personal observations or opinions, random investigations, etc.but presented as fact
Ascertain: get to know
Assuage: make something less
Apotheosis: deification, glorification to godliness
Abeyance: suspended action
Abet: help/encourage somebody
Alacrity: eager and cheerfulness, readiness
Admonitory: containing warning
Acolyte: person assisting the celebrant in a religious serviceorprocession
Ambrosial: extremely pleasing to taste
B
Braggart: boastful
Benefactor: someone who has given help
Brontide: a rumbling noise heard occasionally in some parts of the world, probably caused by seismic activity
Bacciferous: bearing or producing berries
Booklore: facts and information about books, especially about authors and circumstances of publication
Boorish: crude, rude
Barrage: a concentrated outpouring, as of questions or blows
Bucolic: relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country like
Blithe: showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper
Baleful: harmful, ominous, causing evil
Broach: bring up, announce, begin to talk about
Burgeon: grow forth, send outbuds
Bequest: arrangement to give something at death
Banal: repeated too often; over familiar through overuse
Beatify: to bless, make happy or ascribe a virtue to
C
Chaste: pure
Cantankerous: bad-tempered,quarrelsome
Chicanery: legal trickery, false argument
Conduce: to bring about
Connote: Suggest or imply in addition to the precise, literal meaning
Complaisant: trying to please; obliging
Capricious: given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior
Circumspect: wary and unwilling to take risks
Coalesce: come together and form one mass or whole
Credulous: having or showing too great a readiness to believe things
Cacophony: a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds
Coda: a concluding event, remark or section
Curmudgeon: bad-tempered person
Conspicuous: easily seen, remarkable
Collusion: secret agreement for a deceitful purpose
Craven: cowardly
Congeal: make or become stiff and solid
Calipers: metal supports attached to the legs measuring device (instrument)
Colander: bowl-shaped vessel with many holes used to drain off water
Commodious: having plenty of space for what is needed
Coeval: of the same period, coexisting
D
Disheveled: untidy
Dissent: have a different opinion, refuse to assent
Dullard: a stupid, insensitive person
Disneyfy: to create or alter in a simplified,sentimentalized or contrived form or manner
Dictum: short statement that expresses a general truth or principle
Depravity: moral corruption; wickedness
Diatribe: a forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something
Demur: raise doubts or objections or show reluctance
Deign: do something that one considers to be beneath one's dignity
Doff: remove
Droll: curious or unusual in a way that provokes dry amusement
Discountenance: refuse to approve of
Delineate: to portray, depict, sketch out
Deluge: great flood, heavy rush of water
Dilettante: a lover of an art or science
Discourse: speech, lecture
Dynamo: a generator, something that produces electrical current
Decorum: propriety, properness
Decry: disapprove of
Dubious: feeling doubt
E
Enmity: hatred being an enemy
Excogitate: to think out; devise; invent
Epithet: an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing; a term of abuse
Epistemology: theory of knowledge, especially with regard to its methods, validity, and scope
Effigy: a sculpture or model of a person
Eddy: move in a circular way
Echelon: a level or rank in an organization, a profession or society
Ephemeral: lasting for a very short time
Ethos: characteristic spirit of a culture, era or community
Evince: to show clearly, to indicate
Epicurean: devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment)
Expostulate: argue earnestly to dissuade, correct, or protest
Emote: stir up, excite
Eschew: avoid
Engender: cause, produce, give rise to
Enervate: weaken, deprive of strength, attenuate
Ebullience: exuberance outburst of feeling
Emaciate: make thin and weak
Exoneration: set something clear
F
Frenetic: frantic, frenzied
Feral: existing in a wild or untamed state
Flubdub: pretentious nonsense or show; airs
Foible: a minor weakness or eccentricity in someone's character
Flout: openly disregard
Fetid: smelling extremely unpleasant
Facetious: treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor
Fortuitous: happening by a lucky chance
Fatuous: without sense, foolish, self-satisfaction
Figurehead: carved image on the prow of a ship
Finical: too fussy about food, clothing, etc
Fagged: too tired
Fervor: warmth of feelings, earnestness
Fetid: stinking
Festoon: a decorative chain or strip hanging between 2 points
Fracas: noisy; quarrel
G
Gait: total rejection of all religious and moral beliefs
Gallant: brave,behaves well with women
Garrulous: excessive talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner, especially about trivial matters
Grouse: complain pettily, grumble
Gossamer: used to refer to something very light, thing, and insubstantial or delicate
Goad: provoke or annoy so as to stimulate some action or reaction
Galvanize: shock or excite, typically into taking action
Gaucherie: socially awkward, tactless behavior
Grovel: crawl, humble oneself
Gauche: hence, awkward
Glut: supply too much, fill to excess
Garboil
H
Husk: worthless, outside part of anything
Harbinger: one that indicates or foreshadows what is to come, a forerunner
Hegemony: predominance
Heinous: odious
I
Irresolute: hesitating, undecided
Impiety: lack of reverence or dutifulness
Introspection: examining one's own thoughts or feelings
Inquest: legal or judicial inquiry, especially before a jury and especially made by a coroner into the cause of someone.s death
Inscope: the unique essence or inner nature of a person, place, thing or event,especially depicted in poetry or a work of art
Ignoble: not noble, inferior
Irascible: having or showing a tendency to be easily angered
Inquest: a judicial inquiry to ascertain the facts
Inculcate: instill by persistent instruction
Impasse: a situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement
Ingrate: an ungrateful person
Irksome: tiresome
Inadvertent: not paying proper attention
Intrepid: fearless, brave, undaunted
Insurrection: rising of people to open resistance to
Intransigence: unwillingness to compromise stubbornness intractability
Inimitable: defying, imitation, unmatchable
Incite: stir up, rouse
J
Jejune: insubstantial, dull, immature
Jibe: gibe, make fun of
Jocular: meant as a joke
K
Kibosh: block, halt, stop
L
Lackluster: dull
Loll: rest to sit or stand in a lazy way hang (dog's tongue)
Lambaste: attack verbally
Lateritious: of the color of brick; brick-red
Largesse: generosity in bestowing money or gifts upon others
Laconic: using very few words
Levity: lack of seriousness
Lachrymose: causing tears, tearful
Lassitude: weariness, tiredness
Lionize: treat as a famous person
Lope: move along with long strides
Limpid: clear and accessible or melodious
M
Mephitic: poisonous, noxious
Moribund: in a dying state, near death
Mulitfarious: having many different parts, elements, forms, etc; numerous and varied; greatly diverse or manifold
Mushyhead: inadequately throughout; having vague, unsubstantiated, or unrealistic ideas or opinions
Mar: impair the quality or appearance of
Mince: use polite or moderate expressions to indicate diapproval
Macabre: gruesome, suggesting death
Mellifluous: sweetly flowing
Myriad: very great number
N
Neophyte: person who has been converted to a belief
Nihilism: total rejection of all religious and moral beliefs
Neatnik: person who is extremely neat about surroundings, appearance, etc
Nebulous: cloud-like, hazy, vague, indistinct
Noisome: offensive, disgusting smell
Nadir: lowest, weakest point
O
Overwrought: too elaborate or complicated in design or construction
Obviate: to make unnecessary, get rid of
Ostentation: display to obtain admiration or envy
Overweening: presumptuously, arrogant, overbearing
P
Pious: dutiful to parents, devoted to religion
Paradigm: a model example or pattern
Presentiment: anticipatory fear; premonition
Precarious: uncertain, risky, dangerous
Pine: miss and and long for the return of
Pastiche: work which imitate
Perfunctory: done as a duty, without care
Prodigious: enormous, wonderful
Palatial: magnificent
Presage: warning sign
Prodigal: wasteful, reckless with money
Provident: frugal, looking into the future
Preen: tidy/showing self-satisfaction
Puerile: childish
Preternatural: not normal or usual
Prim: neat; formal
Putrefaction: becoming rotten
Pariah: an outcast, a rejected and despised person
Pulchritude: physical beauty
Pusillanimous: cowardly, craven
Pleonasm
Q
R
Reticence: state of being reticent, or reserved, especially with regard to speaking freely; restraint
Ruffian: violent, cruel man
Rarefy: to make thin, to make less dense, to purify or refine
Regale: to delight or entertain to feast
Ruminate:think deeply about something
Reproach: scold, upbraid
Rancorous: feeling bitterness, spitefulness
Rife: widespread
Requite: repay, given in return
Rapacious: greed (for money)
Ruddy: reddish, healthy-looking
Rotund: rich and deep, plump and round
S
Superfluous: more than is needed or wanted
Sadistic: cruel
Satiate: satisfy fully
Schlimazel: an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck
Syncopation: a displacement of the beat of accents in so that the strong beats become and vice versa
Stymie: to hinder, obstruct or block
Squalid: foul, filthy
Sullied: to be stained or discredited
Sophomoric:being immature
Sumptuous: magnificent
Savant: person of great learning
Splice: join
Sycophant: person who flatter to the rich and powerful
Superfluous: more than is needed or wanted
Serendipity
T
Tawdry: cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky
Telltale: that give warning or information
Tepid: lukewarm
Trudge: walk heavily
Tractable: easily controlled or guided
Timorous: fearful, timid, afraid
Terse: sparing in use of words
Torrid: full of difficulty or tribulation
Temerity: boldness, brashness, intrepidness
U
Undulate: to move in wavelike fashion, fluctuate
Ubiquitous: present everywhere
V
Veer: change direction
Vivacious: lively high-spirited
Vapid: offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging: bland
Vilify: speak or write about in abusively disparaging manner
Verve: spirit, vigor, enthusiasm
Vacillation: being uncertain, hesitating
W
Writ: written order
Waffle: lengthy, but trivial or useless talk or writing
Wanton: deliberate and unprovoked
Wan: looking ill, not bright
Wile: a trick
X
Xenophile: someone who's attract to foreign people's culture
Y
Yeoman: man owning small estate; middle-class farmer
Z
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