April - High frequency words

1. 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
2. Accost - To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request; approach for conversation or solicitation; suddenly approach another to speak; to meet face-to-face, especially defiantly
3. Illicit - Not sanctioned by custom or law; unlawful; improperly formed; ungrammatical; not legal; forbidden; forbidden
4. Conciliatory - Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating; placid, yielding
5. Misdemeanor - A misdeed; breaking of the law that is less serious than a felony; minor crime, punishable by a fine or a light jail term
6. Drawl - To speak with lengthened or drawn-out vowels; lengthen, draw out; a slow speech pattern with prolonged vowels; in particular, draw out the vowels
7. Fathomless - Too obscure or complicated to be understood; bottomless; of meaning; not capable of being penetrated
8. Puissant - Having or able to exert great power; powerful
9. Folly - A lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight; an act or instance of foolishness: regretted the follies of his youth
10. Nebulous - Cloudy, misty, or hazy; lacking definite form or limits; vague; liable to more than one interpretation; confused, obscure
11. Inept - Unskillful; or not fit or suitable; clumsy, unskilled; incompetent; not suitable; improper
12. 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
13. Embezzling - To take (money, for example) for one's own use in violation of a trust; steal money, often from employer; steal what was entrusted to one's care
14. Accolade - An expression of approval; praise; special acknowledgment; an award; ceremonial embrace, as of greeting or salutation; ceremonial bestowal of knighthood; recognition; ornamental treatment, used over an arch, a door, or a window, composed of two curves meeting in the middle; often a richly decorated molding; approval
15. Frugal - Practicing or marked by economy, as in the expenditure of money or the use of material resources; costing little; inexpensive; economical; very careful with money
16. Rebuff - A blunt or abrupt repulse or refusal, as to an offer; check or an abrupt setback to progress or action; unkind refusal or rejection; snub; turning away; ignoring
17. Succinct - Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse
18. Barren - Unable to produce anything; sparse, unable to support growth; unprofitable
19. Ponderous - Having great weight; unwieldy from weight or bulk; lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull; dreary, tedious; heavy, cumbersome
20. Ravenous - Extremely hungry; voracious; rapacious; predatory; greedy for gratification; very hungry; desirous; greedy
21. Imbue - To inspire or influence thoroughly; pervade; to permeate or saturate; to stain or dye deeply; to cause to be filled, as with a particular mood or tone; infuse, saturate
22. Gainsay - To declare false; deny; to oppose, especially by contradiction; refuse to admit the truth, reality, value, or worth of
23. Philanthropist - One who practices philanthropy; one who loves mankind, and seeks to promote the good of others; rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket
24. Adamant - Impervious to pleas, appeals, or reason; stubbornly unyielding; stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness; extremely hard substance; hard like rock; unyielding; mineral frequently found beneath a corset. soluble in solicitate of gold; unbreakable
25. Maverick - An unbranded range animal, especially a calf that has become separated from its mother, traditionally considered the property of the first person who brands it; one that refuses to abide by the dictates of or resists adherence to a group; a dissenter; being independent in thought and action or exhibiting such independence; radical
26. Doggerel - Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature; crude and comic verse
27. Forthright - Direct and without evasion; straightforward; directly and frankly; manifesting honesty and directness, especially speech
28. Camouflage - To use protective coloring or garments for concealment; disguise, cover; conceal by the use of disguise or by protective coloring or garments that blend in with the surrounding environment
29. Ingratiate - To bring (oneself, for example) into the favor or good graces of another, especially by deliberate effort; get on the good side of someone; win confidence or good graces for oneself; gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
30. Sonnet - A 14-line verse form usually having one of several conventional rhyme schemes
31. Gullible - Easily deceived or duped; easily imposed on or tricked; naive, trusting
32. Disgruntled - To put in a bad mood; unhappy; critical; in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
33. Entice - To attract by arousing hope or desire; lure; tempt or persuade
34. Desultory - Having no set plan; haphazard or random; moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected; without aim, purpose, or intent; marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another
35. Vivid - Perceived as bright and distinct; brilliant; having intensely bright colors; having a very high degree of saturation; presented in clear and striking manner; felt with the freshness of immediate experience; active in forming lifelike images
36. Trifle - Something of small importance; very small amount; waste; dessert typically consisting of plain or sponge cake soaked in sherry, rum, or brandy and topped with layers of jam or jelly, custard, and whipped cream; deal with something as if it were of little significance or value; act, perform, or speak with little seriousness or purpose; jest
37. Bestow - To present as a gift or honor; give, allot; to store or house; to provide with often temporary lodging; give formally or officially
38. Narcissist - A conceited, self-centered person; someone in love with themselves
39. Stolid - Having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; impassive; apathetic, stupid; without emotion or interest
40. Fretwork - Ornamental work consisting of three-dimensional frets; geometric openwork; design of short bars or lines fitted together
41. Luculent - Easily understood; clear or lucid; (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
42. Candid - Free from prejudice; impartial; characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward; unposed informal photograph; not posed or rehearsed; manifesting honesty and directness, especially in speech; honest
43. 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
44. Obeisance - A gesture or movement of the body, such as a curtsy, that expresses deference or homage; great respect or high public esteem accorded as a right or as due; salutation, curtsy
45. Summit - The highest point or part; the top; highest level or degree that can be attained; highest level, as of government officials; conference or meeting of high-level leaders, usually called to shape a program of action; top, crowning point
46. Exanimate - Lifeless; dead; to deprive of life or spirit; destitute of animation; spiritless; disheartened; deprive of animation or of life; deprived of life
47. Paucity - Smallness of number; fewness; lack, scarcity; condition or fact of being deficient
48. Cognizant - Fully informed; conscious
49. Agitate - To cause to move with violence or sudden force; upset; disturb; arouse interest; stir up public interest in a cause; disturb, trouble someone; shake (physically)
50. Countenance - Appearance, especially the expression of the face; face or facial features; look or expression indicative of encouragement or of moral support; give sanction or support to; tolerate or approve; disposition of the facial features that conveys meaning, feeling, or mood
51. Clairvoyant - Having the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses; person, such as a medium, possessing the supposed power of clairvoyance; person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead; person who has the power to see or know things that are not present to the senses; perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses; foreseeing the future
52. Vehement - Characterized by forcefulness of expression or intensity of emotion or conviction; fervid
53. Pervasive - Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate; spreading throughout; extending; suffusing
54. Diaphanous - So light and insubstantial as to resemble air or a thin film; fine, see-through
55. Intimidate - To make timid; fill with fear; to coerce or inhibit by or as if by threats; frighten, threaten
56. Scrutiny - A close, careful examination or study; close observation; surveillance
57. Impervious - Incapable of being penetrated; incapable of being affected; having the capacity to withstand; not allowing to pass through
58. Drake - A male duck; mayfly used as fishing bait
59. Lax - Lacking in rigor, strictness, or firmness; not taut, firm, or compact; slack; not strict
60. Misdemeanor - A misdeed; breaking of the law that is less serious than a felony; minor crime, punishable by a fine or a light jail term
61. Lull - To make or become calm; pause, calm; ease off; to cause to sleep or rest
62. Conciliatory - Tending to conciliate; pacific; mollifying; propitiating; placid, yielding
63. Convoluted - Having numerous overlapping coils or folds; intricate; complicated; coiled; twisted
64. Repudiate - To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; reject; turn one's back on; disown
65. Surreptitious - Obtained, done, or made by clandestine or stealthy means; sneaky, secret; trickily secret; conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
66. Peremptory - Urgent; imperative; overbearing, authoritative; tending to dictate; offensively self-assured; dictatorial; having the nature of or expressing a command; urgent; not allowing contradiction or refusal; imperative; putting an end to all debate or action
67. Penurious - Unwilling to spend money; stingy; yielding little; barren; poverty-stricken; destitute; mean; poor; ungenerously or pettily reluctant to spend money
68. Ballad - A song/ poem that tells a story; narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain
69. 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
70. Salve - An analgesic or medicinal ointment; ointment that soothes or cools wounds; something that soothes or heals; a balm; flattery or commendation; ease the distress or agitation of; assuage
71. Mosaic - A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface; viral disease of plants, resulting in light and dark areas in the leaves, which often become shriveled and dwarfed; photosensitive surface, as in the iconoscope of a television camera
72. Crotchety - Capriciously stubborn or eccentric; perverse; having a difficult and contrary disposition; irritable, often due to old age
73. Hankering - Strong desire
74. Foolhardy - Unwisely bold or venturesome; rash; characterized by unthinking boldness and haste; impetuous, rash; adventurous or bold but lacking in good sense
75. Importune - To beset with insistent or repeated requests; entreat pressingly; annoy; vex; beg persistently and urgently
76. Dart - A sudden rapid movement; a small light pointed missile
77. Exacerbate - To increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate; infuriate; make more sharp, severe, or virulent
78. Befriend - To behave as a friend to; make social acquaintance; support
79. Stygian - Gloomy and dark; infernal; hellish
80. Enervate - To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality; deprived of strength; debilitated; lessen or deplete the nerve, energy, or strength of; lack of nervous energy
81. Vitiate - To reduce the value or impair the quality of; to corrupt morally; debase; to make ineffective; invalidate
82. Solace - Comfort in sorrow, misfortune, or distress; consolation; comfort, cheer, or console, as in trouble or sorrow; allay or assuage; comfort, peace
83. Pitfall - An unapparent source of trouble or danger; a hidden hazard; concealed hole in the ground that serves as a trap; hazard, trap
84. Intermittent - Stopping and starting at intervals; alternately containing and empty of water; irregular, sporadic; happening or appearing now and then
85. Vindicated - Show to be right by providing justification or prove; maintain uphold, or defend; clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof; prove one's innocence; exact revenge for; avenge
86. Regimen - A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits; strictly regulated scheme of diet, exercise, or other activity designed to achieve certain ends; regulated system, as of diet, therapy, or exercise, intended to promote health or achieve another beneficial effect; course of intense physical training; systematic procedure of a natural phenomenon or process; governmental rule or control
87. Pulchritude - Great physical beauty and appeal; physical beauty (especially of a woman)
88. 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
89. Connive - To cooperate secretly in an illegal or wrongful action; collude; to scheme; plot; to feign ignorance of or fail to take measures against a wrong, thus implying tacit encouragement or consent; to be blissfully ignorant; to be tolerant of wrong-doing
90. Encipher - To put (a message, for example) into cipher; convert plain text into unintelligible form by means of a cipher system
91. Scathed - To harm or injure, especially by fire; to criticize or denounce severely; excoriate; the act of damaging something or someone; criticize harshly and devastatingly
92. Soporific - Inducing or tending to induce sleep; drowsy; drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic; sleepy; sleep-inducing
93. Cameo - To make into or like a gem or shell carved in relief; to portray in sharp, delicate relief, as in a literary composition
94. Testy - Irritated, impatient, or exasperated; peevish; touchy; easily annoyed
95. Labyrinthine - Difficult to understand because of intricacy; of, relating to, resembling, or constituting a labyrinth; complicated
96. Limpid - Admitting light so that objects beyond can be seen; characterized by transparent clearness; calm and untroubled; serene; clear; comprehensible
97. Exinanite - To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble
98. Didactic - Intended to teach a moral lesson; inclined to teach or moralize excessively
99. Prodigal - Rashly or wastefully extravagant; giving or given in abundance; lavish or profuse; wasteful; a recklessly extravagant consumer
100. Recant - To make a formal retraction or disavowal of (a statement or belief to which one has previously committed oneself); make a formal retraction or disavowal of a previously held statement or belief; to disavow (something previously written or said) irrevocably and usually formally; take back something said; to take back formally an opinion or belief
101. Noxious - Harmful to the mind or morals; corrupting; injurious to health
102. Meandering - Rambling; winding
103. Mulish - Stubborn and intractable; recalcitrant; unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
104. 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
105. 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
106. Fling - To throw with violence; throw (oneself) into an activity with abandon and energy; usually brief attempt or effort; period of uncontrolled self-indulgence
107. Pacify - To ease the anger or agitation of; to end war, fighting, or violence in; establish peace in; appease
108. Comprehensive - So large in scope or content as to include much; full; including everything; inclusive; covering a wide scope
109. Elucidate - To make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify; give an explanation that serves to clarify; make clear or clearer; explain in detail; make the facts more clear; explain
110. Dire - Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous; urgent; desperate; terrible, ominous; urgent; crucial
111. Substantiate - To support with proof or evidence; verify; give material form to; embody; make firm or solid; give substance to; make real or actual
112. Timeworn - Showing the effects of long use or wear; used too often; trite; repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse; without freshness or appeal because of overuse; belonging to, existing, or occurring in times long past
113. Failsafe - Guaranteed not to fail; eliminating danger by compensating automatically for a failure or malfunction; acting to discontinue a military attack on the occurrence of any of various predetermined conditions
114. Serendipitous - The faculty of making fortunate discoveries by accident; fact or occurrence of such discoveries; instance of making such a discovery
115. Endeavor - To try hard; attempt to achieve something; work with a set or specified goal or purpose; conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt; enterprise
116. Contrite - Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses, feeling regret for a fault or offence
117. Malleable - Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure; tractable; able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable; pliable; flexible
118. Puckish - Mischievous; impish; naughtily or annoyingly playful
119. Teetotaler - One who abstains completely from alcoholic beverages; a total abstainer; practice of refraining from use of alcoholic liquors
120. Disdain
121. Caustic - Capable of burning, corroding, dissolving, or eating away by chemical action; so sharp as to cause mental pain; burning, corrosive; sarcastic; destroying living tissue by chemical burning action; enveloping surface formed by light rays reflecting or refracting from a curved surface, especially one with spherical aberration; causing a burning or stinging sensation, as from intense emotion
122. Tortuous - Full of plot twists
123. Luculent - Easily understood; clear or lucid; (of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
124. Stalwart - Capable of exerting considerable effort or of withstanding considerable stress or hardship; strong, valiant; brave and resolute; who is physically and morally strong; who steadfastly supports an organization or cause; stout
125. Alluring - Attractive; enticing; highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire; that allures; attracting; charming; tempting; tending to seduce
126. Perturbation - The state of being perturbed; agitation; small change in a physical system; state of discomposure; upset, unsettle
127. Recommit - To refer (proposed legislation, for example) to a committee again; commit again
128. Derision - Tending to make or become worse; disparaging or belittling word or expression; tending to demean or belittle; negative
129. Overhaul - To examine or go over carefully for needed repairs; dismantle in order to make repairs; make extensive renovations or revisions on; renovate; catch up with; overtake;restore to proper condition or functioning
130. Lampoon - A written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution; light, good-humored satire; a work, as a novel or play, that exposes folly by the use of humor or irony; ridicule, make fun of
131. Articulate - To speak clearly and distinctly; say clearly, coherently; connect; form a joint; be jointed; characterized by the use of clear, expressive language
132. Harbor - A safe place for ships to end a journey or stay over; sheltered part of a body of water deep enough to provide anchorage for ships; place of shelter; a refuge; provide with often temporary lodging; hold in imagination; hide, protect; place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs
133. Choir - An organized company of singers, especially one performing church music or singing in a church

March - High frequency words

1. 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
2. Brevity - The quality or state of being brief in duration; shortness, briefness; concise expression; terseness
3. Ineluctable - Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable; certain; impossible to avoid or evade
4. Diatribe - A long, violent, or blustering speech, usually of censure or denunciation; harangue, criticism; bitter or angry attack in speech or writing
5. Discordant - Not being in accord; conflicting; disagreeable in sound; harsh or dissonant; not in harmony; conflicting; made up of parts or qualities that are disparate or otherwise markedly lacking in consistency
6. Pernicious - Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly; causing great harm; destructive; evil; wicked; bad, hurtful; harmful; having the capability or effect of damaging irreparably; injurious
7. Exonerate - To free from blame; free from a responsibility, obligation, or task; excuse, clear of responsibility or blame
8. Oblivious - Lacking all memory; forgetful; lacking conscious awareness; unmindful; unable to remember; unaware, ignorant
9. Fatuous - The quality or condition of being stupid; stupid act, remark, or idea; foolishness; lack of intelligence; a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience; a stupid mistake
10. Candid - Free from prejudice; impartial; characterized by openness and sincerity of expression; unreservedly straightforward; unposed informal photograph; not posed or rehearsed; manifesting honesty and directness, especially in speech; honest
11. Gully - A deep ditch or channel cut in the earth by running water after a prolonged downpour; to wear a deep ditch or channel in; deep ditch cut by running water
12. Didactic - Intended to teach a moral lesson; inclined to teach or moralize excessively
13. Vapid - Lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull; lacking taste, zest, or flavor; flat; uninteresting
14. Skullduggery - Crafty deception or trickery or an instance of it; verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
15. Revel - To take great pleasure or delight; engage in uproarious festivities; make merry; boisterous festivity or celebration; merrymaking; unrestrained merrymaking; be ecstatic with joy
16. Torpor - A state of mental or physical inactivity or insensibility; apathy; dormant, inactive state of a hibernating or estivating animal; deficiency in mental and physical alertness and activity; lethargy; dullness
17. Occluded - To cause to become closed; obstruct; prevent the passage of; absorb or adsorb and retain; force (air) upward from the earth's surface, as when a cold front overtakes and undercuts a warm front; bring together (the upper and lower teeth) in proper alignment for chewing; close so that the cusps fit together; block, prevent
18. Cession - A ceding or surrendering, as of territory to another country by treaty; something, such as territory, that is ceded; surrender of possessions or rights to others
19. Contrite - Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses, feeling regret for a fault or offence
20. Obscured - Lying beyond what is obvious or avowed; cloudy, shadowy; not easily understood; unclear; out-of-the-way, little-known; conceal, hide; hard to see or understand
21. Congeal - To solidify by or as if by freezing; coagulate; jell; cause to solidify or coagulate or to undergo a process likened to solidification or coagulation
22. Rant - To speak or write in an angry or violent manner; rave; utter or express with violence or extravagance; speak in a loud, pompous, or prolonged manner; pretentious, pompous speech or writing; yelling, raving; speech or piece of writing that incites anger or violence
23. Saboteur - Someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks; a member of a clandestine subversive organization who tries to help a potential invader
24. Inveterate - Firmly and long established; deep-rooted; persisting in an ingrained habit; habitual; long-standing, established; confirmed and chronic; long-established and difficult to cure; habitual
25. Pore - To read or study carefully and attentively; gaze intently; stare; meditate deeply; ponder; minute opening in tissue, as in the skin of an animal, serving as an outlet for perspiration, or in a plant leaf or stem, serving as a means of absorption and transpiration; space in rock, soil, or unconsolidated sediment that is not occupied by mineral matter and that allows the passage or absorption of fluids; tiny opening in the outer surface of a plant or animal through which sweat, air, or water may pass
26. Playwright - One who writes plays; a dramatist; person who creates scripts for live performances
27. Squall - To scream or cry loudly and harshly; brief sudden violent windstorm, often accompanied by rain or snow; short, violent storm
28. Impeachable - Capable of being impeached
29. Resilience - The ability to recover quickly from illness, change, or misfortune; buoyancy; property of a material that enables it to resume its original shape or position after being bent, stretched, or compressed; elasticity; flexibility; strength of character
30. 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
31. Smirk - To smile in an affected, often offensively self-satisfied manner; affected, often offensively self-satisfied smile; smile in an affected, knowing way; smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure; smile affectedly or derisively
32. Refractory - Obstinately resistant to authority or control; difficult to melt or work; resistant to heat; resistant to treatment; material that has a high melting point; obstinate; resisting control or authority.; capable of enduring high temperatures
33. Natty - Neat, trim, and smart; dapper; stylish; marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; marked by smartness in dress and manners
34. Artlessness - The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity
35. Ingratiate - To bring (oneself, for example) into the favor or good graces of another, especially by deliberate effort; get on the good side of someone; win confidence or good graces for oneself; gain favor with somebody by deliberate efforts
36. Win-over - Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something; persuade, gain one's support
37. Pattern - A plan or model used as a guide for making things; the arrangement of parts or things; arrangement, order; design, motif; copy, imitate; systematic arrangement and design
38. Random - Having no clear plan; having an equal chance of occurring; haphazard, chance; having no particular pattern, purpose, organization, or structure
39. Grueling - Physically or mentally demanding to the point of exhaustion; difficult, taxing
40. Satiate - To satisfy to the full or to excess; stuff, satisfy
41. Mishap - Bad luck; an unfortunate accident; unexpected and usually undesirable event; an instance of misfortune; unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate
42. Stricture - A restraint, limit, or restriction; adverse remark or criticism; censure; abnormal narrowing of a duct or passage; adverse criticism
43. Cameo - To make into or like a gem or shell carved in relief; to portray in sharp, delicate relief, as in a literary composition
44. Imprudent - Unwise or indiscreet; not prudent; without much thought; foolish; not careful; rash or heedless
45. Ascetic - A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion; austere; abstainer; practicing abstinence and devotion; usually a spiritual practice
46. Drench - To get something totally wet; wet thoroughly; provide with something in great abundance; surfeit; large dose of liquid medicine, especially one administered to an animal by pouring down the throat
47. Persnickety - Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious; snobbish; pretentious; fussy, particular; used colloquially of one who is overly conceited or arrogant; characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details
48. 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
49. Roil - To make (a liquid) muddy or cloudy by stirring up sediment; displease or disturb; vex; be in a state of turbulence or agitation; make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
50. Quisling - A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country; someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
51. Morbid - Of, relating to, or caused by disease; pathological or diseased; psychologically unhealthy or unwholesome; characterized by preoccupation with unwholesome thoughts or feelings; gruesome; grisly; gloomy, nasty, sickly; diseased
52. Hale - Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; welfare; pull; to drag; to haul; draw slowly or heavily; to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectualmeans; exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health
53. Stoical - Indifference to pleasure or pain; impassiveness
54. Gregarious - Seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable; polite, easygoing, and friendly
55. Crutch - A means or device that keeps something erect, stable, or secure; a support used under the arm by an injured person to help in walking; a staff or support used by the physically injured or disabled as an aid in walking, usually designed to fit under the armpit and often used in pairs
56. Priggish - Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form; exaggeratedly proper; conceited; pragmatical
57. Labyrinthine - Difficult to understand because of intricacy; of, relating to, resembling, or constituting a labyrinth; complicated
58. Intrigue - A secret or underhand scheme; a plot; arouse curiosity
59. Inexplicable - Difficult or impossible to explain or account for; beyond comprehension, explanation; which cannot be explained or understood
60. Pliant - Capable of being influenced or formed; able to adjust readily to different conditions; capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking; capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
61. Commotion - A condition of turbulent motion; clamor, uproar; noisy confusion; disorder
62. Parsimonious - Excessively sparing or frugal; penny-pinching; too economical; stingy
63. Hidebound - Stubbornly prejudiced, narrow-minded, or inflexible; having abnormally dry, stiff skin that adheres closely to the underlying flesh; not tolerant of the beliefs or opinions of others
64. Articulate - To speak clearly and distinctly; say clearly, coherently; connect; form a joint; be jointed; characterized by the use of clear, expressive language
65. Chatter - To make quick noises that sound like speech or to talk foolishly without stopping; speak fast and non-stop; talk rapidly, incessantly, and on trivial subjects; jabber
66. Flit - A sudden quick movement; (British) a secret move (to avoid paying debts); move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart; move quickly, lightly, and irregularly like a bird in flight
67. Emancipate - The state of not being in confinement or servitude; action or process of setting free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions; action or process of delivering from slavery
68. 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
69. Obscure - To make dim or indistinct; cut off from sight: block; deficient in brightness; far from centers of human population; liable to more than one interpretation; not known or not widely known by name; of undistinguished or humble station or reputation
70. Gainsay - To declare false; deny; to oppose, especially by contradiction; refuse to admit the truth, reality, value, or worth of
71. Adhere - To stick fast by or as if by suction or glue; remain devoted to or be in support of something; carry out a plan, scheme, or operation without deviation; conform or follow exactly; stick or stay attached
72. Adjudicator - A person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes
73. Sanctum - A sacred or holy place; private place where one is free from intrusion
74. Hoary - Gray or white with or as if with age; covered with grayish hair or pubescence; old as to inspire veneration; ancient; elderly; trite
75. Referee - One to whom something is referred, especially for settlement, decision, or an opinion as to the thing's quality
76. Halfhearted - Exhibiting or feeling little interest, enthusiasm, or heart; uninspired
77. Yoke - A frame that fits around the neck of a pair of oxen; being under the control of others as in slavery; bond together; join; two items of the same kind together; state of subjugation to an owner or master; bring or come together into a united whole; bar used with a double harness to connect the collar of each horse to the pole of a wagon or coach; crossbar on a ship's rudder to which the steering cables are connected; clamp or vise that holds a machine part in place or controls its movement or that holds two such parts together; piece of a garment that is closely fitted, either around the neck and shoulders or at the hips, and from which an unfitted or gathered part of the garment is hung; series of two or more magnetic recording heads fastened securely together for playing or recording on more than one track simultaneously
78. Dissolvable - Capable of being dissolved, or separated into component parts; capable of being liquefied; soluble
79. Harebrained - Foolish; flighty; stupid, unthinking; senseless as to be laughable; very foolish
80. 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
81. Ballad - A song/ poem that tells a story; narrative poem, often of folk origin and intended to be sung, consisting of simple stanzas and usually having a refrain
82. Shirk - To avoid or neglect (a duty or responsibility); avoid, get out of responsibility
83. Supercilious - Overly convinced of one's own superiority and importance; arrogant, stuck-up
84. Gratuitous - Costing nothing; not required, necessary, or warranted by the circumstances of the case; not necessary; free
85. Hankering - Strong desire
86. Indolent - Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy; causing little or no pain; slow to heal, grow, or develop; inactive
87. Ponderous - Having great weight; unwieldy from weight or bulk; lacking grace or fluency; labored and dull; dreary, tedious; heavy, cumbersome
88. Patulousness - Spread widely apart; open; distended; spreading or expanded
89. Stoic - Indifference to pleasure or pain; impassiveness; someone who is seemingly indifferent to emotions; seeming unaffected by pleasure or pain; impassive
90. Endeavor - To try hard; attempt to achieve something; work with a set or specified goal or purpose; conscientious or concerted effort toward an end; an earnest attempt; enterprise
91. Lag - To fail to keep up a pace; straggle; cause to hang back or fall behind; condition of slowness or retardation; interval between events or phenomena considered together; strip, as of wood, that forms a part of the covering for a cylindrical object; barrel stave; to send to prison; to arrest; convict
92. Mosaic - A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface; viral disease of plants, resulting in light and dark areas in the leaves, which often become shriveled and dwarfed; photosensitive surface, as in the iconoscope of a television camera
93. Fledgling - A young bird that has recently acquired its flight feathers; young or inexperienced person; beginner in activity; any new participant in some activity
94. Trite - Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition; hackneyed; without freshness or appeal because of overuse;silly, commonplace
95. Sedulous - Persevering and constant in effort or application; assiduous; characterized by steady attention and effort; diligent
96. Analgesic - A medication that reduces or eliminates pain
97. Mollify - To calm in temper or feeling; soothe; lessen in intensity; temper; reduce the rigidity of; soften; ease the anger or agitation of; ause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
98. Squalid - Dirty and wretched, as from poverty or lack of care; morally repulsive; sordid; poor, run-down; dirty from neglect or poverty
99. Excoriate - To tear or wear off the skin of; abrade; censure strongly; denounce; make (the skin) raw by or as if by friction; criticize harshly and devastatingly; criticize very severely
100. Fretwork - Ornamental work consisting of three-dimensional frets; geometric openwork; design of short bars or lines fitted together
101. Proofread - To read (copy or proof) in order to find errors and mark correction; to read copy or proof for purposes of error detection and correction
102. Obdurate - Stubborn and unfeeling
103. Patent - A document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention; clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment; unconcealed, conspicuous; easily seen through due to a lack of subtlety; readily seen, perceived, or understood; invent, originate, or be the proprietor of (an idea, for example); grant made by a government that confers on an individual fee-simple title to public lands
104. Abstruse - Difficult to understand; recondite; difficult to understand
105. Imperceptible - Impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses; subtle, slight, or gradual as to be barely perceptible; hard to sense; faint
106. Callow - Lacking adult maturity or experience; immature
107. Voracious - Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food; ravenous; having or marked by an insatiable appetite for an activity or pursuit; greedy; very hungry; eating with greediness or in very large quantities
108. 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
109. Alias - An assumed name; false name; false signal in telecommunication links from beats between signal frequency and sampling frequency
110. Pseudonym - A fictitious name, especially a pen name; false name; name used by a writer or other person in place of the real name
111. Xenophobia - An irrational fear of foreigners or strangers
112. Audacious - Daring ;bold
113. Perplex - To confuse or trouble with uncertainty or doubt; make confusedly intricate; complicate; make unsure of what to do; fill with doubt; confuse or puzzle; mix up
114. Proximate - Very near or next, as in space, time, or order; about to occur at any moment; approximate
115. Swindle - To cheat or defraud of money or property; obtain by fraudulent means; practice fraud as a means of obtaining money or property;
116. Proselytize - To induce someone to convert to one's own religious faith; induce someone to join one's own political party or to espouse one's doctrine; convert (a person) from one belief, doctrine, cause, or faith to another; convert to another faith or religion
117. Shroud - The cloth used to cover a body that is being buried; cloth used to wrap a body for burial; a winding sheet; something that conceals, protects, or screens; similar supporting line for a smokestack or comparable structure; one of the ropes connecting the harness and canopy of a parachute
118. Taint - To affect with or as if with a disease; contamination, corruption; dirty, contaminate; ruin; touch or affect slightly with something bad; mark of discredit or disgrace
119. Cessation - A bringing or coming to an end; discontinuance of an action or motion
120. Antiquity - Ancient times, especially the times preceding the Middle Ages; distant past; oldness; people, especially the writers and artisans, of ancient times; quality of being old or ancient; considerable age; something, such as an object or a relic, belonging to or dating from ancient times
121. Inept - Unskillful; or not fit or suitable; clumsy, unskilled; incompetent; not suitable; improper
122. Euphonious - Pleasing or agreeable to the ear; resembling or having the effect of music, especially pleasing music; (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident
123. Skeptic - One who instinctively or habitually doubts, questions, or disagrees with assertions or generally accepted conclusions; person who is leery, unbelieving; who habitually or instinctively doubts or questions
124. Havoc - Widespread destruction; devastation; disorder or chaos; chaotic situation; great damage or destruction; rob of goods by force, especially in time of war
125. Vestige - A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more; a trace of something absent, lost, or vanished; the remnant of a structure that functioned in a previous stage of species or individual development
126. Paten - A plate or shallow dish, especially an artifact from an ancient civilization; thin disk of or resembling metal
127. 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
128. Callous - Emotionally hardened; unfeeling; having calluses; toughened; completely lacking in compassion; cruel, insensitive; without regard for the feelings or sufferings of others
129. Cherish - To treat with affection and tenderness; hold dear; keep fondly in mind; entertain; care about deeply; treat with love and take good care of
130. Gullible - Easily deceived or duped; easily imposed on or tricked; naive, trusting
131. Arabesque - A ballet position in which the dancer bends forward while standing on one straight leg with the arm extended forward and the other arm and leg extended backward; complex, ornate design of intertwined floral, foliate, and geometric figures; ornate, whimsical composition especially for piano; intricate or elaborate pattern or design
132. Saturnine - Having or marked by a tendency to be bitter or sardonic; melancholy or sullen; gloomy; broodingly and sullenly unhappy; having the temperament of one born under the supposed astrological influence of Saturn
133. Sullen - Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky; gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent; sluggish; slow; brooding, upset; showing a brooding ill humor; darkened by clouds
134. Hedonist - A person devoted to pleasure and luxury
135. Delinquent - Failing to do what law or duty requires; overdue in payment; person who neglects or fails to do what law or duty requires; criminal; irresponsible, defaulting
136. Machiavellian - Suggestive of or characterized by expediency, deceit, and cunning; belief that a ruler can use any means to stay in power; relating to trickery or dishonesty; of or relating to Machiavellianism
137. Machiavellianism - The political doctrine of Machiavelli: any means (however unscrupulous) can be used by a ruler in order to create and maintain his autocratic government
138. Despondent - Feeling or expressing despondency; dejected; depressed; without or almost without hope
139. Yapping - To bark sharply or shrilly; yelp; talk noisily or stupidly; jabber; stupid, crude, or loud person; informal terms for the mouth; shrill, short cry
140. Qurush - 20 qurush equal 1 riyal in Saudi Arabia; a former coin and fractional monetary unit of several Middle Eastern and North African countries
141. Plaudit - Enthusiastic expression of praise or approval; expression of warm approval; enthusiastic approval; expression of clapping; approval expressed by clapping
142. Malleable - Capable of being shaped or formed, as by hammering or pressure; tractable; able to adjust to changing circumstances; adaptable; pliable; flexible
143. Surrogate - One that takes the place of another; a substitute; person or animal that functions as a substitute for another, as in a social or family role; figure of authority who takes the place of the father or mother in a person's unconscious or emotional life; judge in New York and some other states having jurisdiction over the probate of wills and the settlement of estates
144. Barbiturate - Any of a group of barbituric acid derivatives that act as central nervous system depressants and are used as sedatives or hypnotics; medicines that act on the central nervous system and cause drowsiness and can control seizures
145. Inane - One that lacks sense or substance; stupid

February - High frequency words

1. 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
2. Elucidate - To make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify; give an explanation that serves to clarify; make clear or clearer; explain in detail; make the facts more clear; explain
3. Rococo - A style of art, especially architecture and decorative art, that originated in France in the early 18th century and is marked by elaborate ornamentation, as with a profusion of scrolls, foliage, and animal forms; very ornate style of speech or writing; ornate; immoderately elaborate or complicated
4. Masonry - Stonework or brickwork; art of shaping, arranging, and uniting stone, brick, building blocks, etc., to form walls and other parts of a building
5. Laconic - Using or marked by the use of few words; terse or concise; short, to the point
6. Addendum - Something added or to be added, especially a supplement to a book; something included at a later date
7. Affront - To insult intentionally, especially openly; insult or involve in entanglement
8. Deference - Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion, wishes, or judgment of another; courteous respect; attention; homage; obedience, compliance; courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard; a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others; courteous regard for people's feelings
9. Silhouette - A drawing consisting of the outline of something, especially a human profile, filled in with a solid color; outline that appears dark against a light background; outline
10. Protract - To draw out or lengthen in time; prolong; draw to scale by means of a scale and protractor; plot; extend, draw out
11. Camouflage - To use protective coloring or garments for concealment; disguise, cover; conceal by the use of disguise or by protective coloring or garments that blend in with the surrounding environment
12. Desultory - Having no set plan; haphazard or random; moving or jumping from one thing to another; disconnected; without aim, purpose, or intent; marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another
13. Mundane - Of, relating to, or typical of this world; secular; relating to, characteristic of, or concerned with commonplaces; ordinary; commonplace; person who is not in science fiction fandom; person who is not in the computer industry
14. Commotion - A condition of turbulent motion; clamor, uproar; noisy confusion; disorder
15. 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
16. Downpour - A heavy fall of rain; abundant, usually overwhelming flow or fall, as of a river or rain: alluvion, cataclysm; tremendous pouring of rain
17. Cacophonous - Having a harsh, unpleasant sound; discordant; characterized by unpleasant discordance of sound; harsh sounding
18. Paean - A song of joyful praise or exultation; fervent expression of joy or praise; ancient Greek hymn of thanksgiving or invocation, especially to Apollo; song of triumph, praise, or joy
19. Scant - Just sufficient; limit in quality or quantity; supply sparingly, with a meager allowance; work hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially; less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
20. Rile - To stir to anger; to stir up (liquid); roil; to trouble the nerves or peace of mind of, especially by repeated vexations; anger, upset; cause annoyance in; disturb, esp. by minor irritations; make turbid by stirring up the sediments of
21. Riveting - Wholly absorbing or engrossing one's attention; fascinating; capable of arousing and holding the attention
22. Lode - The metalliferous ore that fills a fissure in a rock formation; vein of mineral ore deposited between clearly demarcated layers of rock; rich source or supply; a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
23. Appease - To bring peace, quiet, or calm to; soothe; satisfy, pacify
24. Assailant - A person who attacks another; murderer or attacker; one who starts a hostile action
25. Amicable - Characterized by or exhibiting friendliness or goodwill; friendly
26. Blasphemy - A contemptuous or profane act, utterance, or writing concerning God or a sacred entity; act of claiming for oneself the attributes and rights of God; irreverent or impious act, attitude, or utterance in regard to something considered inviolable or sacrosanct; irreverence; great disrespect shown towards sacred things
27. Meek - Showing patience and humility; gentle; very shy; compliant; humble and mild
28. Chord - The simultaneous sounding of two or more notes
29. Penitent - Feeling or expressing remorse for one's misdeeds or sins; person performing penance under the direction of a confessor; shamed, sorrowful; undergoing or awaiting punishment
30. Remorseful - Feeling or expressing regret for one's sins or misdeeds; guilty, ashamed
31. Apocryphal - Of questionable authorship or authenticity; erroneous; fictitious; questionable; fake; of questionable authenticity
32. Rancor - Bitter, long-lasting resentment; deep-seated ill will
33. Nugatory - Of little or no importance; trifling. having no force; invalid
34. Gargoyle - A roof spout in the form of a grotesque or fantastic creature projecting from a gutter to carry rainwater clear of the wall; a grotesque ornamental figure or projection; person of bizarre or grotesque appearance; decoration on a building in the form of a strange, imaginary creature
35. Trenchant - Forceful, effective, and vigorous; caustic; cutting; distinct; clear-cut; possessing or displaying perceptions of great accuracy and sensitivity; sarcastic, scathing; having keenness and forcefulness and penetration in thought, expression, or intellect
36. Spat - An oyster or similar bivalve mollusk in the larval stage, especially when it settles to the bottom and begins to develop a shell; spawn of an oyster or a similar mollusk; cloth or leather gaiter covering the shoe upper and the ankle and fastening under the shoe with a strap. Often used in the plural; brief quarrel; a slap or smack; spattering sound, as of raindrops; discussion, often heated, in which a difference of opinion is expressed; protective covering (usually stainless steel) at the bottom of a doorframe to prevent or minimize damage in this area; past tense of spit
37. Insipid - Lacking flavor or zest; not tasty; lacking qualities that excite, stimulate, or interest; dull
38. Inconspicuous - Not readily noticeable
39. Awry - In a position that is turned or twisted toward one side; askew; away from the correct course; amiss
40. Quisling - A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country; someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force
41. Exorbitant - Exceeding all bounds, as of custom or fairness; extravagant, excessive; going beyond usual and proper limits
42. Placate - To allay the anger of, especially by making concessions; appease; ease the anger or agitation of; soothe, pacify; calm down and make less hostile or angry
43. Egalitarian - Affirming, promoting, or characterized by belief in equal political, economic, social, and civil rights for all people
44. Morose - Sullenly melancholy; gloomy; very depressed, pessimistic; gloomy in attitude
45. Articulate - To speak clearly and distinctly; say clearly, coherently; connect; form a joint; be jointed; characterized by the use of clear, expressive language
46. Taciturn - Disinclined to speak. or inclined to silence; untalkative
47. Imbue - To inspire or influence thoroughly; pervade; to permeate or saturate; to stain or dye deeply; to cause to be filled, as with a particular mood or tone; infuse, saturate
48. Obeisance - A gesture or movement of the body, such as a curtsy, that expresses deference or homage; great respect or high public esteem accorded as a right or as due; salutation, curtsy
49. Servile - The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household; bondage; state of subjugation to an owner or master
50. Saga - Epic tale, long story; a long detailed report
51. Priggish - Marked by excessive concern for propriety and good form; exaggeratedly proper; conceited; pragmatical
52. Avarice - Immoderate desire for wealth; cupidity; excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves; extreme greed; greed or passion for money or riches
53. Temerity - Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness; nerve, audacity; rash or presumptuous daring
54. Mulish - Stubborn and intractable; recalcitrant; unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
55. Glacier - A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting and sublimation
56. Repudiate - To refuse to recognize or acknowledge; reject; turn one's back on; disown
57. Stoical - Indifference to pleasure or pain; impassiveness
58. Indelible - Impossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent; unable to be forgotten; memorable; indestructible; cannot be removed, washed away or erased
59. Succinct - Characterized by clear, precise expression in few words; concise and terse
60. Emulate - To take as a model or make conform to a model; to strive against (others) for victory; to imitate with intent to learn; strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation; compete with successfully; approach or attain equality with; ambitious; emulous
61. Ostentatious - Marked by outward, often extravagant display; flashy, showy; overly showy to attract attention; pretentious
62. Veer - To change direction; turn aside sharply from a straight course; swerve; change the course of a ship by turning the stern to the wind while advancing to windward; wear ship; let out or release (a line or an anchor train)
63. Chronic - Of long duration; incessant, never-ending; going on for a long time or coming back again and again; subject to a disease or habit for a long time;
64. Enervate - To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality; deprived of strength; debilitated; lessen or deplete the nerve, energy, or strength of; lack of nervous energy
65. Soporific - Inducing or tending to induce sleep; drowsy; drug or other substance that induces sleep; a hypnotic; sleepy; sleep-inducing
66. Imprudent - Unwise or indiscreet; not prudent; without much thought; foolish; not careful; rash or heedless
67. Agape - In a state of wonder or amazement, as with the mouth wide open; wide open; love as revealed in Jesus, seen as spiritual and selfless and a model for humanity
68. Laud - Praise; glorification; acclaim; hymn or song of praise
69. Canard - An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story; short winglike control surface projecting from the fuselage of an aircraft, such as a space shuttle, mounted forward of the main wing and serving as a horizontal stabilizer; aircraft whose horizontal stabilizing surfaces are forward of the main wing; untrue declaration; a false or unfounded report or story
70. Ephemeral - Lasting for a markedly brief time
71. Integrate - To make into a whole by joining a system of parts; mix, merge; combine and adapt in order to attain a particular effect; open to all people regardless of race
72. Obfuscate - To render indistinct or dim; darken; to make so confused or opaque as to be difficult to perceive or understand
73. Chagrin - A keen feeling of mental unease, as of annoyance or embarrassment, caused by failure, disappointment, or a disconcerting event; displeasure; cause displeasure
74. Refute - To prove to be false or erroneous; overthrow by argument or proof; to deny the accuracy or truth of; prove false; discredit
75. Intermittent - Stopping and starting at intervals; alternately containing and empty of water; irregular, sporadic; happening or appearing now and then
76. Sulky - Sullenly aloof or withdrawn; gloomy; dismal; light, open two-wheeled vehicle accommodating only the driver and drawn by one horse, used especially in harness racing; broodingly and sullenly unhappy
77. Proofread - To read (copy or proof) in order to find errors and mark correction; to read copy or proof for purposes of error detection and correction
78. Collaborate - To work together, especially in a joint intellectual effort; cooperate treasonably, as with an enemy occupation force in one's country; work together; labor or cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits
79. Intriguing - To engage in secret or underhand schemes; plot; effect by secret scheming or plotting; arouse the interest or curiosity of; arouse curiosity; plot or scheme, usually complicated and secretive
80. Complaisance - Agreeableness; disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
81. Prudent - Careful in a sensible way; wise, sensible in action and thought; wise in handling practical matters; exercising good judgment or common sense
82. Procrastinate - To put off doing something, especially out of habitual carelessness or laziness; postpone or delay needlessly; delay, put off doing
83. Peremptory - Urgent; imperative; overbearing, authoritative; tending to dictate; offensively self-assured; dictatorial; having the nature of or expressing a command; urgent; not allowing contradiction or refusal; imperative; putting an end to all debate or action
84. 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
85. Din - A jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds; stun with deafening noise; instill by wearying repetition; sounds or a sound, especially when loud, confused, or disagreeable; uproar
86. Exponent - One that speaks for, represents, or advocates; one that expounds or interprets; expository; explanatory; advocate
87. Wary - On guard; watchful; characterized by caution; vigilantly attentive; trying attentively to avoid danger, risk, or error; careful, cautious; openly distrustful and unwilling to confide
88. Infuriate - To make furious, enrage; make very angry
89. Qurush - 20 qurush equal 1 riyal in Saudi Arabia; a former coin and fractional monetary unit of several Middle Eastern and North African countries
90. Doggerel - Crudely or irregularly fashioned verse, often of a humorous or burlesque nature; crude and comic verse
91. Trite - Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition; hackneyed; without freshness or appeal because of overuse;silly, commonplace
92. Inert - Unable to move or act; not moving; lifeless; not readily reactive with other elements; forming few or no chemical compounds; without the ability to act, move, change, or resist
93. Concord - Harmonious mutual understanding; formal, usually written settlement between nations; pleasing agreement, as of musical sounds; agreement, treaty; unity, harmony
94. Vulnerable - That which can be hurt, destroyed or attacked; open to attack; susceptible to physical or emotional injury; assailable; liable to succumb, as to persuasion or temptation; open to attack and capture because of a lack of protection
95. Spurious - Lacking authenticity or validity in essence or origin; not genuine; false; of illegitimate birth; similar in appearance but unlike in structure or function; counterfeit, fake; fraudulently or deceptively imitative
96. Paralyze - To deprive of the power to move or feel in a part of the body; make powerless and unable to function; cause to be paralyzed and immobile; impair the progress or functioning of; make inoperative or powerless
97. Indispensable - Not to be dispensed with; essential; obligatory; unavoidable; necessary
98. Harangue - A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before a gathering; speech or piece of writing characterized by strong feeling or expression; a tirade; long, violent, or blustering speech, usually of censure or denunciation; speak in a loud, pompous, or prolonged manner; lecture; long passionate speech
99. Mollify - To calm in temper or feeling; soothe; lessen in intensity; temper; reduce the rigidity of; soften; ease the anger or agitation of; ause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate
100. Encomium - Warm, glowing praise; formal expression of praise; a tribute
101. Impervious - Incapable of being penetrated; incapable of being affected; having the capacity to withstand; not allowing to pass through
102. Limpid - Admitting light so that objects beyond can be seen; characterized by transparent clearness; calm and untroubled; serene; clear; comprehensible
103. Commodious - Spacious; roomy; Archaic. suitable; handy
104. Charade - A readily perceived pretense; a travesty; presentation of something false as true; a game in which words or phrases are represented in pantomime, sometimes syllable by syllable, until they are guessed by the other players; episode in this game or a word or phrase so represented
105. Exalt - To raise in rank, character, or status; elevate; glorify, praise, or honor; increase the effect or intensity of; heighten; fill with sublime emotion; elate; promote, praise
106. Teem - To be full of things; abound or swarm; to be or become pregnant; bear young; give birth to; be abundantly filled or richly supplied
107. 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
108. Lexicographer - One who writes, compiles, or edits a dictionary; person who writes dictionaries; a compiler or writer of a dictionary; a student of the lexical component of language
109. Resilient - Marked by the ability to recover readily, as from misfortune; capable of returning to an original shape or position, as after having been compressed; bouncy, flexible; having the quality of springing back to a former position. Also: Able to recover quickly from sickness or difficulty; sturdy
110. Retrieve - To get back; regain; bring back again; revive or restore; rectify the unfavorable consequences of; remedy; recall to mind; remember
111. Musk - A greasy secretion with a powerful odor, produced in a glandular sac beneath the skin of the abdomen of the male musk deer and used in the manufacture of perfumes; the scent of musk
112. 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
113. Rotundity - Rounded in figure; plump; having a full, rich sound; sonorous; having or producing a full, deep, or rich sound; well-rounded and full in form
114. Murk - Partial or total darkness; gloom; thick, heavy atmospheric condition offering reduced visibility because of the presence of suspended particles; an atmosphere in which visibility is reduced because of a cloud of some substance; make dark, dim, or gloomy
115. Clairvoyant - Having the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses; person, such as a medium, possessing the supposed power of clairvoyance; person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead; person who has the power to see or know things that are not present to the senses; perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses; foreseeing the future
116. Pervasive - Having the quality or tendency to pervade or permeate; spreading throughout; extending; suffusing
117. Lackluster - Lacking brightness, luster, or vitality; dull; lacking brilliance or vitality
118. 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
119. Deplore - To feel or express strong disapproval of; feel or express sorrow for; regret; condemn
120. Gratuitous - Costing nothing; not required, necessary, or warranted by the circumstances of the case; not necessary; free
121. Ignominy - Great personal dishonor or humiliation; shameful or disgraceful action, conduct, or character; loss of or damage to one's reputation; shame
122. 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
123. Encipher - To put (a message, for example) into cipher; convert plain text into unintelligible form by means of a cipher system
124. Candy - A rich sweet confection made with sugar and often flavored or combined with fruits or nuts; make superficially more acceptable or appealing; rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nuts; coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze
125. 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
126. Fretwork - Ornamental work consisting of three-dimensional frets; geometric openwork; design of short bars or lines fitted together
127. Mirth - Gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter; state of joyful exuberance; great joy; joyfulness with laughter
128. Equivocation - Intentionally vague or ambiguous; falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth; expression or term liable to more than one interpretation; use or an instance of equivocal language
129. Flounder - To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance
130. Impecunious - Lacking money; penniless
131. Revere - To regard with reverence, or profound respect and affection, mingled with awe orfear; to venerate; to reverence; to honor in estimation; a lapel on a woman''s garment; turned back to show the reverse side; love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of
132. Gainsay - To declare false; deny; to oppose, especially by contradiction; refuse to admit the truth, reality, value, or worth of
133. Bestow - To present as a gift or honor; give, allot; to store or house; to provide with often temporary lodging; give formally or officially
134. Legerdemain - A show of skill or deceitful cleverness; the use of skillful tricks and deceptions to produce entertainingly baffling effects
135. Expatiate - To speak or write at length; wander freely; express at greater length or in greater detail; speak or write in great detail
136. Caulk - To make watertight or airtight by filling or sealing; make (a boat) watertight by packing seams with a waterproof material, such as oakum or pitch; to fill in (cracks) with paste or some other material ; a kind of sealing material that is used to form a hard coating on a porous surface (as a coat of paint or varnish used to size a surface); make tight; secure against leakage
137. Puissant - Having or able to exert great power; powerful
138. Panegyric - A formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment. Elaborate praise or laudation; an encomium
139. Forthright - Direct and without evasion; straightforward; directly and frankly; manifesting honesty and directness, especially speech
140. Scurrilous - Given to the use of vulgar, coarse, or abusive language; foul-mouthed; expressed in vulgar, coarse, and abusive language; untrue or unfair, insulting, and designed to damage a person's reputation; expressing offensive reproach
141. Timid - Lacking self-confidence; shy; fearful and hesitant; easily frightened; nervous
142. Skimp - To deal with hastily, carelessly, or with poor material; be stingy or very thrifty; scanty; be cheap or frugal about; give barely enough or not enough attention, funds or effort
143. Pittance - A meager monetary allowance, wage, or remuneration; very small amount; a very small amount of money
144. Irrepressible - Difficult or impossible to control or restrain; effervescent, vivacious; impossible to repress or control
145. Hapless - Luckless; unfortunate; involving or undergoing chance misfortune
146. Nuance - A subtle or slight degree of difference, as in meaning, feeling, or tone; a gradation; expression or appreciation of subtle shades of meaning, feeling, or tone; slight difference; shading; slight variation between nearly identical entities
147. Annul - To make or declare void or invalid, as a marriage or a law; nullify; obliterate the effect or existence of; void an agreement; put an end to, especially formally and with authority; remove or invalidate by or as if by running a line through or wiping clean
148. Contumacious - Obstinately disobedient or rebellious; insubordinate; headstrong, obstinate; wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient; rebellious
149. Salubrious - Conducive or favorable to health or well-being; promoting good health; health-giving
150. Ruminative - Inclined to, or engaged in, rumination or meditation; persistently or morbidly thoughtful
151. Camaraderie - Goodwill and lighthearted rapport between or among friends; comradeship; quality of easy familiarity and sociability
152. Bilious - Bitterness of temper; ill humor; irascibility; bitter, alkaline, brownish-yellow or greenish-yellow fluid that is secreted by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, and discharged into the duodenum and aids in the emulsification, digestion, and absorption of fats; Either of two bodily humors, black bile or yellow bile, in ancient and medieval physiology
153. Grouch - A habitually complaining or irritable person; a grumbling or sulky mood; complaint; a grudge
154. Pedant - One who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules; who exhibits one's learning or scholarship ostentatiously; schoolmaster; a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
155. Inept - Unskillful; or not fit or suitable; clumsy, unskilled; incompetent; not suitable; improper
156. Whet - To sharpen (a knife, for example); hone; make more keen; stimulate; sharpen; arouse; excite
157. Debacle - A sudden, disastrous collapse, downfall, or defeat; a rout; total, often ludicrous failure; breaking up of ice in a river; violent flood; catastrophe; a sudden and violent collapse; flooding caused by a tumultuous breakup of ice in a river during the spring or summer; a sound defeat; abrupt disastrous failure
158. Cacophony - Jarring, discordant sound; dissonance; use of harsh or discordant sounds in literary composition, as for poetic effect
159. Rebuff - A blunt or abrupt repulse or refusal, as to an offer; check or an abrupt setback to progress or action; unkind refusal or rejection; snub; turning away; ignoring
160. Lull - To make or become calm; pause, calm; ease off; to cause to sleep or rest
161. Excoriate - To tear or wear off the skin of; abrade; censure strongly; denounce; make (the skin) raw by or as if by friction; criticize harshly and devastatingly; criticize very severely
162. Rescind - To make void; repeal or annul; declare void; take back or remove
163. Tantalizing - Enticingly in sight, yet often out of reach; arousing desire or expectation for something unattainable or mockingly out of reach; very pleasantly inviting