NOVEMBER - High frequency words

1. Burgeon - To put forth new buds, leaves, or greenery; sprout; begin to grow or blossom; grow or develop rapidly; grow or develop rapidly; make or become greater or larger

2. Recluse - A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude; person who does not want social contact; person who lives alone and avoids people

3. Quaint - Charmingly odd, especially in an old-fashioned way; unfamiliar or unusual in character; strange; cleverly made; artful; old-fashioned; strange; odd

4. Happenstance - An unexpected random event

5. Antediluvian - Extremely old and antiquated; out-of-date; prehistoric; belonging to, existing, or occurring in times long past; of, existing, or occurring in a distant period; an antique; something of the time before the great flood in the Bible

6. Inter - To place in a grave or tomb; bury; place (a corpse) in or as if in a grave; to entomb or bury

7. Succumb - To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire; give up or give in; to die; die or surrender; consent reluctantly; be fatally overwhelmed

8. Whiff - A slight, gentle gust of air; a waft; brief, passing odor carried in the air; inhalation, as of air or smoke; be carried in brief gusts; waft; swing at and miss a ball or puck; slight amount or indication; perceive with the olfactory sense; short light gust of air; strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike; utter with a puff of air

9. Gust - A strong, abrupt rush of wind; sudden burst, as of rain or smoke; outburst of emotion; sense of taste; personal taste or inclination; liking; rush, eruption

10. Muse - To be absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation; consider or say thoughtfully; think about, dream; source of an artist's inspiration; reflect deeply on a subject

11. Usury - The practice of lending money and charging the borrower interest, especially at an exorbitant or illegally high rate; excessive or illegally high rate of interest charged on borrowed money; charging of too much interest when lending money

12. Schism - A separation or division into factions; disunion; discord; state of disagreement and disharmony; condition of being divided, as in opinion; interruption in friendly relations

13. Ethereal - Characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; intangible; highly refined; delicate; of the celestial spheres; heavenly; spiritual; so light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film

14. Mitigate - To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate; make less severe or more bearable; check, diminish, lighten

15. Somber - Dark and gloomy; sad, depressing; serious, grave

16. Hegemony - The predominant influence, as of a state, region, or group, over another or others; leadership; strong leadership or dominance of one nation or state over another

17. Prehensile - Adapted for seizing, grasping, or holding, especially by wrapping around an object; having keen intellect; insightful; greedy; grasping

18. Fullering - The groove in the ground surface of the horseshoe. The nail holes are punched in it

19. Tepid - Moderately warm; lukewarm; lacking in emotional warmth or enthusiasm; halfhearted; neither hot nor cold

20. Hoarse - Rough or grating in sound; rough quality of the voice

21. Flay - To strip off the skin or outer covering of; strip of money or goods; fleece; whip or lash; assail with stinging criticism; excoriate; criticize harshly and devastatingly; to scold severely

22. Prostrate - To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration; cause to lie flat; reduce to extreme weakness or incapacitation; overcome; cause to fall, as from a shot or blow: bring down, cut down; flat, horizontal; helpless; tired, worn; fall on knees; submit; overwhelm; wear out; lying prone, or with the head to the ground

23. Vex - To trouble the nerves or peace of mind of, especially by repeated vexations; distress, bother; disturb or annoy; to cause perplexity in; puzzle; to debate or discuss (a question, for example) at length; to toss about or shake up

24. Tarnish - To dull, stain, or discolor; dirty, corrupt; dull the luster of; discolor, especially by exposure to air or dirt; cast aspersions on; sully; condition of being sullied or tainted

25. Sullen - Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky; gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent; sluggish; slow; darkened by clouds

26. Gaunt - Thin and bony; angular; emaciated and haggard; drawn; bleak and desolate; barren; skinny, pale; having little flesh or fat on the body; worn and lean, as from hunger or illness

27. Proselyte - A new convert to a doctrine or religion

28. Virile - Of, relating to, or having the characteristics of an adult male; having or showing masculine spirit, strength, vigor, or power; potent; manly

29. Insipid - Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty; lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull

30. Halcyon - Calm and peaceful; tranquil; prosperous; golden; serene; a fabled bird, identified with the kingfisher, that was supposed to have had the power to calm the wind and the waves while it nested on the sea during the winter solstice

31. Inchoate - In an initial or early stage; incipient; imperfectly formed or developed; undeveloped, beginning; partial; unfinished; begun, but not completed; as in a contract not executed by all the parties; having no distinct shape

32. Enfeeble - To deprive of strength; make feeble; make very weak

33. Indigent - Experiencing want or need; impoverished; needy or destitute person; poor; lacking or deficient

34. Avaunt - Hence; away

35. Fraught - Filled with a specified element or elements; charged; marked by or causing distress; emotional; freight; cargo; marked by distress; filled with or attended with

36. Placidity - The quality or state of being placid; calmness; serenity; a feeling of calmness; a quiet and undisturbed feeling; a disposition free from stress or emotion

37. Dank - Disagreeably damp or humid; clammy; slightly wet; unpleasantly damp or cold

38. Bummer - A great disappointment or regrettable fact; one who begs habitually or for a living; an experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing; a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug; beggar; a loafer or idler; one that depresses, frustrates, or disappoints

39. Swarthy - Having a dark complexion or color; of a complexion tending toward brown or black; dark-complexioned

40. Addle - To muddle; confuse; to become confused; to become rotten, as an egg; to cause to be unclear in mind or intent; mix up or confuse

41. Polemical - Polemic; controversial; disputatious; given to arguing; of or involving dispute or controversy

42. Oaf - A person regarded as stupid or clumsy; large, ungainly, and dull-witted person; person who is clumsy, stupid; awkward person

43. Natatorium - An indoor swimming pool; pool that provides a facility for swimming; building containing a swimming pool; a swimming pool

44. Garner - To gather and store in or as if in a granary; to amass, gather; collect, accumulate; to gather and save or to store up; a granary; collect ripe crops

45. Circumspect - Heedful of circumstances and potential consequences; prudent; trying attentively to avoid danger, risk, or error; cautious, discreet

46. Denude - To divest of covering; make bare; expose (rock strata) by erosion; strip the covering from

47. Galling - Causing extreme irritation or chagrin; vexing;; very upsetting; troubling the nerves or peace of mind, as by repeated vexations

48. Biracial - Of, for, or consisting of members of two races; having parents of two different races

49. Motley - Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous; parti-colored attire of a court jester; mixed, varied; having many colors; variegated; parti-colored

50. Exude - To ooze forth; to discharge or emit (a liquid or gas, for example) gradually; to exhibit in abundance; to flow or leak out or emit something slowly; display, emit

51. Penchant - A definite liking; a strong inclination; fondness, strong liking for or bias in favor of something

52. Preponderance - Superiority in weight, force, importance, or influence; great numbers; supremacy; superiority in power or influence; superiority in numbers or amount; exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight

53. Tine - A branch of a deer's antlers; prong on an implement such as a fork or pitchfork; slender pointed end of an instrument; prong on a fork or pitchfork

54. Prong - A thin, pointed, projecting part; branch; a fork; pierce with or as if with a thin, pointed, projecting part; a pointed projection

55. Tinge - A pale or subdued color; shade of a color, especially a pale or delicate variation; slight amount or indication; hint; affect slightly, as with a contrasting quality

56. Hodgepodge - A mixture of dissimilar ingredients; a jumble; mixture, mess; a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas; collection of various things

57. Recondite - Not easily understood; abstruse; concealed; hidden; mysterious, obscure

58. Tumultuousness - Characterized by tumult; noisy and disorderly; marked by unrest or disturbance; violently disturbed or agitated, as by storms; confused; in an uproar

59. Beleaguered - To harass; beset; surround with troops; besiege; trouble persistently from or as if from all sides; disturb by repeated attacks; surround with hostile troops

60. Malfeasance - Misconduct or wrongdoing, especially by a public official; inappropriate conduct by a public official

61. Abstruse - Difficult to understand; recondite

62. Vindictive - Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; resulting from a desire to hurt; spiteful; hateful, revengeful

63. Perplex - To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt; make confusedly intricate; complicate; confuse, mix up; make unsure of what to do; fill with doubt; confuse or puzzle

64. Nervy - Arrogantly impudent; brazen. Showing or requiring courage and fortitude; bold

65. Cajole - To urge with gentle and repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery; wheedle; attempt to coax; flatter

66. Pelf - Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired

67. Semitic - Of, relating to, or constituting a subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic language group that includes Arabic, Hebrew, Amharic, and Aramaic; of or relating to the Semites or their languages or cultures

68. Toothsome - Delicious; luscious; highly pleasing, especially to the sense of taste

69. Jocundity- The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness; a feeling facetious merriment; state of joyful exuberance

70. Jocund - Feeling cheerful or jolly; sprightly and lighthearted in disposition, character, or quality; characterized by joyful exuberance; full of or showing high-spirited merriment

71. Plethora - A superabundance; an excess; excess of blood in the circulatory system or in one organ or area; condition of going or being beyond what is needed, desired, or appropriate

72. Badinage - Good-natured teasing; a playful repartee; banter; light, playful remarks

73. Mutative - To change into a different form, substance, or state

74. Banter - Good-humored, playful conversation; speak to in a playful or teasing way; exchange mildly teasing remarks; light teasing repartee; be silly or tease one another

75. Talisman - An object marked with magic signs and believed to confer on its bearer supernatural powers or protection; something that apparently has magic power; small object worn or kept for its supposed magical power; something producing apparently magical or miraculous effects

76. Drake - A male duck; mayfly used as fishing bait

77. Reticent - Inclined to keep one's thoughts, feelings, and personal affairs to oneself; restrained or reserved in style; reluctant; unwilling; secretive, quiet; reserved; quiet; not saying much, especially about one's thoughts

78. Flippancy - The state or quality of being flippant

79. Flippant - Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert; talkative; voluble; irreverent; showing inappropriate levity; having a light, pert, trifling disposition

80. Rambunctiousness - Boisterous and disorderly; loud, energetic; noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline

81. Rudimentary - Of or treating the most basic aspects; basic, fundamental; imperfectly or incompletely developed; embryonic; being in the earliest stages of development; incipient

82. Cogent - Appealing to the intellect or powers of reasoning; convincing; effectiveness

83. Succinct - Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse

84. Gadfly - A persistent irritating critic; a nuisance; one that acts as a provocative stimulus; a goad; any of various flies, especially of the family Tabanidae, that bite or annoy livestock and other animals

85. Detrimental - Causing damage or harm; injurious; damaging, disadvantageous

86. Verbiage - An excess of words for the purpose; wordiness; manner in which something is expressed in words; repetition; use of many words to say very little

87. Whimsical - Determined by, arising from, or marked by whim or caprice; erratic in behavior or degree of unpredictability; playful, fanciful; determined by chance or impulse rather than by necessity or reason

88. Ostracize - To exclude from a group; to exclude from normal social or professional activities; to force to leave a country or place by official decree; exile, banish; to put into public disfavor

89. Garrulous - Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative; wordy and rambling; talkative

90. Apostate - One who has abandoned one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause; traitor

91. Profligate - Given over to dissipation; dissolute; wildly extravagant; immoral, corrupt; wasteful; very wicked in character

92. Limp - To walk lamely, especially with irregularity, as if favoring one leg; move or proceed haltingly or unsteadily; not stiff; weak; lopsided or uneven way of walking

93. Augment - To make (something already developed or well under way) greater, as in size, extent, or quantity; make greater; improve; enlarge or make bigger

94. Exude - To ooze forth; to discharge or emit (a liquid or gas, for example) gradually; to exhibit in abundance; to flow or leak out or emit something slowly; display, emit

95. Nonchalance - Casual lack of concern; calmness; trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care

96. Voracious - Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous; very hungry, greedy; eating with greediness or in very large quantities; having an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit

97. Deferential - Marked by or exhibiting deference; respectful, considerate; showing a yielding of judgment

98. Cessation - A bringing or coming to an end; discontinuance of an action or motion

99. Alibi - The statement of being somewhere else when a crime was committed; make an excuse for oneself; explanation offered to avoid blame or justify action; an excuse

100. Hubris - Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance

101. Nadir - The lowest point

102. Extol - To praise highly; exalt; pay tribute or homage to; sing the praises of; praise in the highest terms; to honor (a deity) in religious worship

103. Procrastinate - To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness; postpone or delay needlessly; delay, put off doing

104. Chromatic - Relating to colors or color; relating to chords or harmonies based on nonharmonic tones

105. Teem - To be full of things; abound or swarm; be abundant, full; be overflowing; be or become pregnant; bear young; give birth to

106. Abound - To be great in number or amount; overflowing; existing in abundance

107. Cornucopia - Abundant supply; cone-shaped ornament or receptacle;in Greek mythology, magnificent horn that filled itself with whatever meat or drink its owner requested

108. Labyrinthine - Difficult to understand because of intricacy; of, relating to, resembling, or constituting a labyrinth; complicated

109. Sop - To dip, soak, or drench in a liquid; saturate; piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid; a concession given to mollify or placate; give a conciliatory gift or bribe to; be or become thoroughly soaked or saturated with a liquid; mop so as to leave a semi-dry surface, of floors; something yielded to placate or soothe

110. Apostasy - Abandonment of one's religious faith, a political party, one's principles, or a cause; instance of defecting from or abandoning a cause; defection

111. Disaffected - Resentful and rebellious, especially against authority; alienated, estranged; discontented as toward authority

112. Manumit - To free from slavery or bondage; emancipate; free from slavery or servitude

113. Vile - Very evil; unpleasant; so objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation; heavily soiled; very dirty or unclean; extremely unpleasant to the senses or feelings; having or proceeding from low moral standards; offensive, horrible; loathsome; disgusting

114. Ostentation - Pretentious display meant to impress others; boastful showiness; act or an instance of showing; an exhibition; exhibitionism, flashiness; boastful self-importance or display

115. Esoteric - Beyond the understanding of an average mind; mysterious, obscure; not publicly disclosed; confidential; confined to a small group; intended for or understood by only a particular group; of or relating to that which is known by a restricted number of people

November - High frequency words

1. Insinuation - An artful, indirect, often derogatory hint; the act of gaining acceptance or affection for yourself by persuasive and subtle blandishments; an indirect (and usually malicious) implication
2. Innuendo - An indirect or subtle, usually derogatory implication in expression; an insinuation; an artful, indirect, often derogatory hint; suggestion
3. Tardy - Occurring, arriving, acting, or done after the scheduled, expected, or usual time; late; moving slowly; sluggish
4. Protract - To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong; draw to scale by means of a scale and protractor; plot; extend, draw out
5. Belie - To give a false representation to; misrepresent; to show to be false; contradict; deceive
6. Lubricant - A substance, such as grease or oil, that reduces friction when applied as a surface coating to moving parts; one that helps reduce difficulty or conflict; a substance capable of reducing friction by making surfaces smooth or slippery
7. Predicament - A situation, especially an unpleasant, troublesome, or trying one, from which extrication is difficult; a difficult, often embarrassing situation or condition; the wage of consistency
8. Natatorium - An indoor swimming pool; pool that provides a facility for swimming; building containing a swimming pool; a swimming pool
9. Carouse - To engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking; drink excessively; make merry, often with liquor
10. Sobriety - Gravity in bearing, manner, or treatment; moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or drugs; abstaining from excess; the state of being sober
11. Fretwork - Ornamental work consisting of three-dimensional frets; geometric openwork; design of short bars or lines fitted together
12. Succor - Assistance in time of distress; relief; one that affords assistance or relief; to give assistance to in time of want, difficulty, or distress; give support or assistance
13. Lofty - Of imposing height; elevated in character; exalted; arrogant; haughty; affecting grandness; pompous; exceedingly dignified in form, tone, or style; of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style
14. Porous - Penetrated by pores and open spaces; having holes; absorbent; admitting the passage of gas or liquid through pores or interstices; easily crossed or penetrated
15. Pervasive - Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate; spreading throughout; extending; suffusing
16. Sham - A fraudulent imitation; a display of insincere behavior; to behave affectedly or insincerely or take on a false or misleading appearance of; to assume a false appearance or character; dissemble; a decorative cover made to simulate an article of household linen and used over or in place of it
17. Lassitude - Lack of energy
18. Thin - Make diluted or less dense; transparent, fine; light, slender; diluted; deficient, weak
19. Glib - Marked by ease and fluency of speech or writing that often suggests or stems from insincerity, superficiality, or deceitfulness.
20. Nebulous - Cloudy, misty, or hazy; lacking definite form or limits; vague; liable to more than one interpretation; confused, obscure
21. Caveat - A warning or caution; qualification or explanation; formal notice filed by an interested party with a court or officer, requesting the postponement of a proceeding until the filer is heard; advice to beware, as of a person or thing
22. Profundity - Great depth; depth of intellect, feeling, or meaning; wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas; the quality of being physically deep
23. Ignoble - Not noble in quality, character, or purpose; base or mean; lowly, unworthy; low in character or purpose; dishonorable
24. Maladroit - Marked by a lack of adroitness; inept person; awkward, clumsy; tactless; lacking dexterity and grace in physical movement
25. Deft - Quick and skillful; adroit; agile, clever; quick and neat in action; skillful
26. Flippant - Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert; talkative; voluble; irreverent; having a light, pert, trifling disposition
27. Gravity - High seriousness of manner or bearing; seriousness, importance; natural force of attraction exerted by a celestial body, such as Earth, upon objects at or near its surface, tending to draw them toward the center of the body; dignity of manner
28. Quiescence - The condition of being temporarily inactive; a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction
29. Martinet - A strict disciplinarian, especially in the armed forces; one who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules
30. Trepidation - A state of alarm or dread; apprehension; an involuntary trembling or quivering; anxiety, worry
31. Adept - Clever; well-skilled; very able; highly skilled person; an expert
32. Brazen - Marked by flagrant and insolent audacity; having a loud, usually harsh, resonant sound; made of brass; resembling brass, as in color or strength; to face or undergo with bold self-assurance; brash, unashamed; rude and disrespectful; characterized by or done without shame
33. Precariousness - The quality or condition of being physically unsteady; quality or condition of being erratic and undependable; extreme dangerousness
34. Soporific - Inducing or tending to induce sleep; drowsy; drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic; sleepy; sleep-inducing
35. Wax - Any of various natural, oily or greasy heat-sensitive substances, consisting of hydrocarbons or esters of fatty acids that are insoluble in water but soluble in nonpolar organic solvents; resinous mixture used by shoemakers to rub on thread; phonograph record; to increase gradually in size, number, strength, or intensity; to show a progressively larger illuminated area, as the moon does in passing from new to full; to grow or become as specified
36. Abet - To give support or assistance; assist, help in wrongdoing; approve, encourage, and support (an action or a plan of action); urge and help on
37. Ameliorative - To make or become better; improve; relieve or reduce pain
38. Truncate - To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising; shorten
39. Impervious - Incapable of being penetrated; incapable of being affected; having the capacity to withstand; not allowing to pass through
40. Impromptu - Spoken, performed, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought; unrehearsed, improvised; with little or no preparation; extemporaneously
41. Labyrinth - Something that is intricately and often bewilderingly complex; intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze
42. Languish - To be or become weak or feeble; lose strength or vigor; exist or continue in miserable or disheartening conditions; remain unattended or be neglected; become downcast or pine away in longing; become downcast or pine away in longing
43. Perpetrate - To be responsible for; commit; be responsible for or guilty of (an error or crime); be guilty of doing
44. Predispose - To have an impact on in a certain way; provide an inclination or susceptibility; influence to believe something; settle or dispose of in advance
45. Expropriate - To transfer (another's property) to oneself; to deprive of possession; take quick and forcible possession of; seize
46. Flannel - A soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing; bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body; (usually in the plural) trousers
47. Adulation - Excessive flattery or admiration; excessive, ingratiating praise; overenthusiastic praise; servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise
48. Marble - A metamorphic rock formed by alteration of limestone or dolomite, often irregularly colored by impurities, and used especially in architecture and sculpture; small hard ball, usually of glass, used in children's games; common sense; sanity; healthy mental state
49. Prevaricator - A sham dealer; one who colludes with a defendant in a sham prosecution; one who betrays or abuses a trust; person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
50. Meandering - Rambling; winding
51. Panegyric - A formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment. Elaborate praise or laudation; an encomium
52. Euphemism - The act or an example of substituting a mild, indirect, or vague term for one considered harsh, blunt, or offensive; use or an instance of equivocal language; polite term
53. Garbled - To mix up or distort to such an extent as to make misleading or incomprehensible; to scramble (a signal or message), as by erroneous encoding or faulty transmission; to sort out; cull; mix up, misrepresent; make false by mutilation or addition
54. Comprehend - To take in the meaning, nature, or importance of; grasp; take in as a part; include; fully understand
55. Demur - To express opposition, often by argument; disagree; to delay
56. Vilify - To make vicious and defamatory statements about; criticize very harshly
57. Leaden - Lacking energy and vitality or showing such a lack; boring; gray; sluggish; darkened with overcast; made of or containing lead; made heavy or weighted down with weariness; (of movement) slow and laborious; lacking lightness or liveliness
58. Cognizant - Fully informed; conscious
59. Conjecture - Inference or judgment based on inconclusive or incomplete evidence; guesswork; speculation, assumption; make an uninformed guess
60. Vulgarity - Something, such as an act or expression, that offends good taste or propriety; impoliteness; rudeness; tastelessness; the quality of lacking taste and refinement
61. Manna - Spiritual nourishment of divine origin; something of value that a person receives unexpectedly; dried exudate of certain plants, as that of the Mediterranean ash tree, formerly used as a laxative; sweet granular substance excreted on the leaves of plants by certain insects, especially aphids, and often harvested by ants; in the Bible, the food miraculously provided for the Israelites in the wilderness during their flight from Egypt
62. Quash - To set aside or annul, especially by judicial action; put down or suppress forcibly and completely; bring to an end forcibly as if by imposing a heavy weight: choke off; destroy, defeat; nullify, cancel; put an end to by law or force
63. Vindicate - To clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting arguments or proof; prove one's innocence; clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof; maintain uphold, or defend; show to be right by providing justification or prove
64. Obdurate - Stubborn and unfeeling
65. Jargon - Unintelligible or foolish talk; variety of a language that differs from the standard form; specialized expressions indigenous to a particular field, subject, trade, or subculture; specialized language; dialect; specialized or technical language of a trade, profession, or similar group
66. Implacable - Impossible to placate or appease; firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will; merciless, cruel; incapable of being pleased
67. Luculent - Easily understood; clear or lucid; (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
68. Melancholy - Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom; affected with or marked by depression of the spirits; sad; pensive; thoughtful
69. Malaise - A vague feeling of bodily discomfort, as at the beginning of an illness; general sense of depression or unease; general feeling of discomfort or uneasiness, often the first indication of an infection or other disease
70. Engrossed - Preoccupied; attentive to
71. Sedulous - Persevering and constant in effort or application; assiduous; characterized by steady attention and effort; diligent
72. Perfidious - Not true to duty or obligation; treacherous
73. Retort - To answer back angrily or sharply; reply, especially to answer in a quick, caustic, or witty manner; closed laboratory vessel with an outlet tube, used for distillation, sublimation, or decomposition by heat
74. Repartee - A swift, witty reply; conversation marked by the exchange of witty retorts; pleasant conversation
75. Nepotism - Favoritism shown or patronage granted to relatives, as in business; favor a relative, especially in regard to political office; favoritism
76. Cessation - A bringing or coming to an end; discontinuance of an action or motion
77. Embellish - To make beautiful, as by ornamentation; decorate; add ornamental or fictitious details to; endow with beauty and elegance by way of a notable addition
78. Veneration - Profound respect or reverence; deep respect
79. Accomplice - An associate in wrongdoing, especially one who aids or abets another in a criminal act, either as a principal or an accessory; helper, especially, in committing a crime; person who helps another commit a crime
80. Brevity - The quality or state of being brief in duration; shortness, briefness; concise expression; terseness
81. Chagrin - A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event; displeasure; cause displeasure
82. Ostentatious - Marked by outward, often extravagant display; flashy, showy; overly showy to attract attention; pretentious
83. Tout - To increase or seek to increase the importance or reputation of by favorable publicity; brag about, show off; to solicit or importune; an informer; to obtain and deal in information on racehorses
84. Bereave - To leave desolate or alone, especially by death; take (something valuable or necessary), typically by force; death; loss; deprive through death
85. Schism - A separation or division into factions; disunion; discord; state of disagreement and disharmony; condition of being divided, as in opinion; interruption in friendly relations
86. Inured - To habituate to something undesirable, especially by prolonged subjection; accustom; make familiar through constant practice or use
87. Echelon - A formation of troops in which each unit is positioned successively to the left or right of the rear unit to form an oblique or steplike line; flight formation or arrangement of craft in this manner; subdivision of a military or naval force; level of responsibility or authority in a hierarchy; a rank; a formation of troops, ships, aircraft, or vehicles in parallel rows with the end of each row projecting further than the one in front
88. Detente - A relaxing or easing, as of tension between rivals; policy toward a rival nation or bloc characterized by increased diplomatic, commercial, and cultural contact and a desire to reduce tensions, as through negotiation or talks; easing of strained relations (especially between nations)
89. Haven - A harbor or anchorage; a port; place of refuge or rest; a sanctuary; an inlet providing shelter for ships or boats; a harbor or small port; something that physically protects, especially from danger; to give refuge to
90. Pallid - Having an abnormally pale or wan complexion; lacking intensity of color or luminousness
91. Meddlesome - Inclined to meddle or interfere; intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; interfering
92. Cronyism - Favoritism shown to old friends without regard for their qualifications, as in political appointments to office; favoritism shown to friends and associates (as by appointing them to positions without regard for their qualifications)
93. Anomaly - Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule; one that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify; condition of being abnormal; deviation from normal, usual; aberration or deviation from normal anatomic growth, development, or function
94. Tonic - A medicine that restores or increases vigor; producing or stimulating physical, mental, or emotional vigor; invigorating, refreshing, or restorative agent or influence; first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote; stressed, as a syllable; accented
95. Arcane - Known or understood by only a few; hidden, secret; difficult to explain or understand
96. Potable - A beverage, especially an alcoholic beverage; any liquid that is fit for drinking; fit for drinking
97. Potentate - One who has the power and position to rule over others; a monarch; one who dominates or leads a group or an endeavor; a ruler who is unconstrained by law; who wields great power or sway; leader
98. Dwindle - To become gradually less until little remains; waste away; taper off; become smaller or less; to slowly diminish
99. Venerate - To regard with respect, reverence, or heartfelt deference
100. Ineluctable - Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable; certain; impossible to avoid or evade
101. Pedestrian - A person traveling on foot; a walker; lacking liveliness, charm, or surprise
102. Husky - Hoarse or rough in quality; strongly built; burly; dog of a breed developed in Siberia for pulling sleds and having a dense, variously colored coat; deep, scratchy in sound
103. Supple - Make pliant and flexible, as of leather and skins; gracefully slender; moving and bending with ease; (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable; (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely; bendable; compliant or adaptable
104. Teeter - To move or behave in an unsteady manner; wobble; wobble back and forth; walk unsteadily; move back and forth or from side to side, as if about to fall; vacillate
105. Wit - Mental ability; a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter; judgment; humor; intelligence; ability to perceive and express in an ingeniously humorous manner the relationship between seemingly incongruous or disparate things
106. Numb - Deprived of the power to feel or move normally; benumbed; deadened, insensitive; have no feeling; lacking responsiveness or alertness; render helpless, as by emotion
107. Obfuscate - To render indistinct or dim; darken; to make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand
108. Revelry - Boisterous merrymaking; act of showing joyful satisfaction in an event; joyful, exuberant activity
109. Nefarious - Infamous by way of being extremely wicked; bad, sinful; so objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation
110. Succulent - Full of juice or sap; juicy; having thick, fleshy, water-storing leaves or stems; highly interesting or enjoyable; delectable; juicy, delicious
111. Esoteric - Beyond the understanding of an average mind; mysterious, obscure; not publicly disclosed; confidential; confined to a small group; intended for or understood by only a particular group; of or relating to that which is known by a restricted number of people
112. Intermittent - Stopping and starting at intervals; alternately containing and empty of water; irregular, sporadic; happening or appearing now and then
113. Crouch - To stoop, especially with the knees bent; to press the entire body close to the ground with the limbs bent; bend servilely or timidly; cringe; to bend (the head or knee, for example) low, as in fear or humility; act of bending low with the limbs close to the body
114. Recess - A pause or interval, as from work or duty; interrupt regular activity for a short period; stop action; break, interval in action; any shallow depression in a surface
115. Herculean - Of extraordinary size and power; displaying superhuman strength or power
116. Trifling - Of slight worth or importance; frivolous or idle; insignificant, worthless; contemptibly unimportant; the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working
117. Banquet - Banquet - An elaborate, sumptuous repast; ceremonial dinner honoring a particular guest or occasion; honor at or partake of a banquet; large meal elaborately prepared or served; dinner
118. Sliver - A slender piece cut, split, or broken off; a splinter; small narrow piece, portion, or plot; continuous strand of loose wool, flax, or cotton, ready for drawing and twisting; long, thin piece of food such as meat or cheese, or a thin wedge of pie
119. Slovenly - Untidy, as in dress or appearance; marked by negligence; slipshod; dirty, disordered; sloppy in dress or cleanliness
120. Slouch - To sit, stand, or walk with an awkward, drooping, excessively relaxed posture; slump over; an incompetent person; usually used in negative constructions; walk slovenly
121. Cloven - Split; divided; used of hooves
122. Obsequious - Full of or exhibiting servile compliance; fawning; excessively eager to serve or obey; submissive
123. Volubility - Marked by a ready flow of speech; fluent; turning easily on an axis; rotating; talkative; marked by a ready flow of speech
124. Nihilistic - Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, nihilism
125. Nihilism - Refusal to believe, obey; an extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence; doctrine holding that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated; belief that destruction of existing political or social institutions is necessary for future improvement; delusion, experienced in some mental disorders, that the world or one's mind, body, or self does not exist
126. Nitpick - To be concerned with or find fault with insignificant details; raise unnecessary or trivial objections; be overly critical; criticize minor details
127. Audacious - Daring ;bold
128. Transience - The state or quality of being transient; temporariness; an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying; the attribute of being brief or fleeting
129. Fecklessness - Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective; careless and irresponsible; without purpose; weak or ineffective
130. Idiosyncrasy - Personal mannerism; structural or behavioral characteristic peculiar to an individual or group; physiological or temperamental peculiarity; unusual individual reaction to food or a drug
131. Squat - To sit on one's heels: hunker (down); short and stocky; lower body by bending knees; small or worthless amount; diddlysquat; lair of an animal such as a hare; lift or a weightlifting exercise in which one squats and stands while holding a weighted barbell supported by the back of the shoulders; squatting or crouching posture
132. Meet - To come together face-to-face by arrangement: get together; fitting; come together, convene; connect, join; touch; happen on; perform, carry out
133. Itinerary - A route or proposed route of a journey; account or record of a journey; guidebook for travelers; of or relating to a journey or route; traveling from place to place; itinerant; an established line of travel or access
134. Loquacious - Talkative; garrulous
135. Sass - To talk impudently to; disrespectful speech; back talk; impertinent; an impudent or insolent rejoinder; answer back in an impudent or insolent manner
136. Capitulate - To surrender under specified conditions; come to terms; give up all resistance; acquiesce; to give in from or as if from a gradual loss of strength
137. Divulge - To make known (something private or secret); to proclaim publicly; disclose in a breach of confidence; confess
138. Untactful - Lacking sensitivity and skill in dealing with others; lacking or showing a lack of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
139. Vitiate - To reduce the value or impair the quality of; to corrupt morally; debase; to make ineffective; invalidate
140. Hapless - Luckless; unfortunate; involving or undergoing chance misfortune
141. Transient - Temporary, fleeting, or passing phenomenon. A transient condition is of brief duration; lasting or existing only for a short time; an individual awaiting orders, transport, etc., at a post or station to which he or she is not attached or assigned
142. Pristine - Remaining in a pure state; uncorrupted by civilization. Remaining free from dirt or decay; clean
143. Blemish - To mar or impair by a flaw; imperfection that mars or impairs; a flaw or defect; spoil the soundness or perfection of; something that mars the appearance or causes inadequacy or failure; mark of discredit or disgrace; flaw, disfigure
144. Anvil - A heavy block of iron or steel with a smooth, flat top on which metals are shaped by hammering; fixed jaw in a set of calipers against which an object to be measured is placed; iron block or stand used by blacksmiths to hold metal objects
145. Hardy - Being in robust and sturdy good health; courageous; intrepid; brazenly daring; audacious; capable of surviving unfavorable conditions, such as cold weather or lack of moisture; strong, tough 146. Skank - A rhythmic dance performed to reggae or ska music, characterized by bending forward, raising the knees, and extending the hands; filth; vulgar matter; any substance considered disgustingly foul or unpleasant; a rhythmic dance to reggae music performed by bending forward and extending the hands while bending the knees 147. Generalissimo - The commander in chief of all the armed forces in certain countries; the officer who holds the supreme command 148. Sylphlike - Like a sylph; airy; graceful; moving and bending with ease; a slender graceful woman or girl 149. Droll - Amusingly odd or whimsically comical; amusing, farcical; buffoon; arousing laughter
150. Pedantic - Characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules; bookish, precise; showing off learning
151. Supercilious - Overly convinced of one's own superiority and importance; arrogant, stuck-up
152. Demeanor - The way in which a person behaves; deportment; behavior through which one reveals one's personality; body language; outward manner or conduct
153. Archive - A place or collection containing records, documents, or other materials of historical interest; long-term storage area, often on magnetic tape, for backup copies of files or for files that are no longer in active use; file containing one or more files in compressed format for more efficient storage and transfer; repository for stored memories or information; place where something is deposited for safekeeping; place where old records are stored
154. Inch - A small island; advance slowly; very small degree or amount; move or cause to move slowly or by small degrees; fall, as of rain or snow, sufficient to cover a surface to the depth of one inch; unit of atmospheric pressure that is equal to the pressure exerted by a one-inch column of mercury at the earth's surface at a temperature of 0°C; unit of length in the U.S. Customary and British Imperial systems, equal to ¹/₁₂ of a foot (2.54 centimeters)
155. Execrable - So annoying or detestable as to deserve condemnation; horrible, sickening; deserving of execration; hateful; extremely inferior; very bad
156. Contemptible - Deserving of contempt; despicable; so objectionable as to elicit despisal or deserve condemnation; despicable, shameful
157. Deprecate - To express disapproval of; deplore; belittle; depreciate; have or express an unfavorable opinion of; think, represent, or speak of as small or unimportant; express disapproval of or regret for
158. Hermetic - Completely sealed, especially against the escape or entry of air; impervious to outside interference or influence; having to do with the occult sciences, especially alchemy; magical
159. Scathe - To harm or injure, especially by fire; criticize or denounce severely; excoriate; harm or injury; criticize harshly and devastatingly; act of damaging something or someone
160. Decrepit - Weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use; deteriorated, debilitated; broken down with age; worn out
161. Hasten - To move or act swiftly; cause to hurry; speed up; accelerate
162. Parvenu - A person who has suddenly risen to a higher social and economic class and has not yet gained social acceptance by others in that class; one that has recently acquired wealth or power and is lacking the appropriate manners, dignity, or prestige
163. Meretricious - Attracting attention in a vulgar manner; gaudy, flashy; attractive on the surface but of little value; plausible but false or insincere; specious; relating to prostitutes or prostitution
164. Bucolic - Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic; of or characteristic of shepherds or flocks; pastoral; pastoral poem; farmer or shepherd; a rustic; old-fashioned
165. Reinforcement - The act or process of reinforcing or the state of being reinforced; an event, a circumstance, or a condition that increases the likelihood that a given response will recur in a situation like that in which the reinforcing condition originally occurred; additional personnel or equipment sent to support a military action
166. Cinnamon - A light brown spice made from the inner bark of a tree that grows in the East Indies; of a light reddish brown
167. Lusus naturae - Sport or freak of nature; a deformed or unnatural production; freak of nature; a deformed animal or plant; a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
168. Knocker - A hinged fixture, such as a metal ring or bar, used for knocking on a door; goblin or dwarf said to live under the earth and direct miners to ore by knocking; a person who knocks (as seeking to gain admittance); one who disparages or belittles the worth of something; a device (usually metal and ornamental) attached by a hinge to a door
169. Gong - A rimmed metal disk that produces a loud, sonorous tone when struck with a padded mallet; usually saucer-shaped bell that is struck with a mechanically operated hammer
170. Pestle - A club-shaped, hand-held tool for grinding or mashing substances in a mortar; large bar moved vertically to stamp or pound, as in a press or mill; pound, grind, or mash with or as if with a pestle
171. Dacite - A light gray volcanic rock containing a mixture of plagioclase and other crystalline minerals in glassy silica, similar in appearance to rhyolite; fine-grained volcanic rock with slightly more calcium feldspar than an andesite
172. Distend - To swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure; bulge, swell; dilate; to stretch out
173. Centrifuge - To rotate (something) in a centrifuge or to separate, dehydrate, or test by means of this apparatus; apparatus in which humans or animals are enclosed and which is revolved to simulate the effects of acceleration in a spacecraft; apparatus consisting essentially of a compartment spun about a central axis to separate contained materials of different specific gravities, or to separate colloidal particles suspended in a liquid
174. Arboreal - Relating to or resembling a tree; living in trees; pertaining to trees; of or relating to or formed by trees; inhabiting or frequenting trees; resembling a tree in form and branching structure
175. Deleterious - Having a harmful effect; injurious
176. Sycophant - A servile self-seeker who attempts to win favor by flattering influential people; one who flatters another excessively
177. Quell - To put down forcibly; suppress; pacify; quiet; bring to an end forcibly as if by imposing a heavy weight: choke off; alleviate, calm; defeat, suppress
178. Truculent - Disposed to fight; pugnacious; expressing bitter opposition; scathing; disposed to or exhibiting violence or destructiveness; fierce; belligerent, hateful; defiantly aggressive
179. Purism - Strict observance of or insistence on traditional correctness, especially of language
180. Stench - A strong, foul odor; a stink; a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant
181. Hankering - Strong desire