Vocabulary Building: Mastering Challenging English Words, Exams of Nursing

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Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE Words definitions exam abate - answer ✅✅Reduce, diminish abdicate - answer ✅✅Formally give up the throne (or some other power or responsibility) aberrant - answer ✅✅Abnormal, deviant abhor - answer ✅✅Detest, regard with disgust abjure - answer ✅✅Give up, renounce; repudiate, recant, or shun (especially formally or under oath) abrasive - answer ✅✅Rough, suitable for grinding or polishing (such as sandpaper); causing irritation or annoyance abridge - answer ✅✅Reduce or lessen; shorten by omitting parts throughout while retaining the main idea abstain - answer ✅✅Hold back, refrain (especially from something bad or unhealthy); decline to vote acme - answer ✅✅Summit, peak, highest point activism - answer ✅✅The practice of pursuing political or other goals through vigorous action, often including protests and demonstrations adhere - answer ✅✅Stick (to), such as with glue, or to a plan or belief admonish - answer ✅✅Mildly scold; caution, advise, or remind to do something anomaly - answer ✅✅Deviation from what is common; inconsistency antagonize - answer ✅✅Make hostile or unfriendly apathy - answer ✅✅Not caring; absence of feeling; lack of interest or concern apocryphal - answer ✅✅Of questionable authenticity; false arcane - answer ✅✅Known or understood by only a few; obscure, secret archaic - answer ✅✅Characteristic of an earlier period, ancient, primitive arduous - answer ✅✅Very difficult, strenuous; severe, hard to endure articulate - answer ✅✅Using language in a clear, fluent way (adj); speak distinctly or give clarity to an idea (verb) artifact - answer ✅✅Any object made by humans, especially those from an earlier time, such as those excavated by archaeologists artless - answer ✅✅Free of deceit or craftiness, natural, genuine; lacking skill or knowledge, crude, uncultured ascertain - answer ✅✅Find out with certainty ascetic - answer ✅✅abstinent or austere in lifestyle (adj); a person who leads an austere and simple life without material pleasures, esp. someone who does this for religious reasons assuage - answer ✅✅Make milder, relieve; soothe, pacify, or calm audacious - answer ✅✅Very bold or brave, often in a rude or reckless way; extremely original augment - answer ✅✅Make larger austere - answer ✅✅Severe in manner or appearance; very self-disciplined, ascetic; without luxury or ease; sober or serious autonomous - answer ✅✅Self-governing, independent aver - answer ✅✅Declare or affirm with confidence avid - answer ✅✅Enthusiastic, dedicated, passionate; excessively desirous balk - answer ✅✅Refuse to proceed or to do something base - answer ✅✅Morally low, mean, dishonorable; of little or no value; crude and unrefined; counterfeit belie - answer ✅✅Contradict or misrepresent catalyst - answer ✅✅Causer of change caustic - answer ✅✅Capable of corroding metal or burning the skin; very critical or sarcastic censure - answer ✅✅Strong disapproval or official reprimand (noun); to issue such disapproval or reprimand (verb) chauvinism - answer ✅✅Fanatical patriotism or blind enthusiasm for military glory; undue or biased devotion to any group, cause, etc. chronological - answer ✅✅Arranged in or relating to time order clamor - answer ✅✅Noisy uproar or protest, as from a crowd; a loud, continuous noise clinch - answer ✅✅Make final or settle conclusively; to fasten or hold together coalesce - answer ✅✅Come together, unite; fuse together cogent - answer ✅✅Very convincing, logical commensurate - answer ✅✅The same in size, extent, etc., equivalent; proportional complacent - answer ✅✅Self-satisfied, smug; overly content (and therefore lazy, neglectful, or some other bad quality) complementary - answer ✅✅Completing; fitting together well; filling mutual needs compliant - answer ✅✅Obeying, submissive; following the requirements concede - answer ✅✅Give in, admit, yield; acknowledge reluctantly; grant or give up (such as giving up land after losing a war) conciliatory - answer ✅✅Reconciling, appeasing, attempting to make the peace concur - answer ✅✅Approve, agree condone - answer ✅✅Overlook, tolerate, regard as harmless confer - answer ✅✅Consult, compare views; bestow or give connoisseur - answer ✅✅Expert, especially in the fine arts; person of educated, refined tastes console - answer ✅✅Lessen the suffering or grief of (verb); a control panel, or small table or cabinet (noun) consolidate - answer ✅✅Unite, combine, solidify, make coherent constrict - answer ✅✅Squeeze, compress; restrict the freedom of crafty - answer ✅✅Cunning, skillful in deception or underhanded schemes craven - answer ✅✅Very cowardly, lacking courage credibility - answer ✅✅Believability, trustworthiness credulous - answer ✅✅Gullible; prone to believing or trusting too easily or without enough evidence crescendo - answer ✅✅Steady increase in force, intensity, or the loudness of a musical passage; a climactic moment or peak culminate - answer ✅✅Reach the highest point or final stage cynical - answer ✅✅Thinking the worst of others' motivations; bitterly pessimistic daunt - answer ✅✅Discourage, dishearten, lessen the courage of debase - answer ✅✅Degrade; lower in quality, value, rank, etc.; lower in moral quality debunk - answer ✅✅Expose, ridicule, or disprove false or exaggerated claims decorous - answer ✅✅Behaving with propriety and good taste; polite deem - answer ✅✅Judge; consider deface - answer ✅✅Vandalize, mar the appearance of default - answer ✅✅Failure to act, neglect (noun); fail to fulfill an obligation, especially a financial one (verb) deference - answer ✅✅Respectful submission; yielding to the authority or opinion of another deflect - answer ✅✅Cause to curve; turn aside, esp. from a straight course; avoid deleterious - answer ✅✅Harmful, unhealthful delineate - answer ✅✅Mark the outline of; sketch; describe in detail denigrate - answer ✅✅Belittle, attack the reputation of denote - answer ✅✅Be a name or symbol for deride - answer ✅✅Mock, scoff at, laugh at contemptuously derivative - answer ✅✅Derived from something else; not original desiccate - answer ✅✅Thoroughly dried up, dehydrated dispassionate - answer ✅✅Unbiased, not having a selfish or personal motivation; calm, lacking emotion dispatch - answer ✅✅Speed, promptness; send off or deal with in a speedy way disperse - answer ✅✅Scatter, spread widely, cause to vanish disposition - answer ✅✅A person's general or natural mood; tendency disquieting - answer ✅✅Disturbing, causing anxiety disseminate - answer ✅✅Scatter, spread about, broadcast dissent - answer ✅✅Disagree or take an opposing view, esp. in relation to a formal body such as a government, political party, or church; such a view dissonance - answer ✅✅Harsh, inharmonious sound; cacophony; disagreement distill - answer ✅✅Purify; extract the essential elements of diverge - answer ✅✅Differ, deviate; branch off or turn aside, as from a path divest - answer ✅✅Deprive or strip of a rank, title, etc., or of clothing or gear; to sell off holdings (opposite of invest) divine - answer ✅✅Discover through divination or supernatural means; perceive by insight document - answer ✅✅Support with evidence, cite sources in a detailed way, create documentary evidence of dogma - answer ✅✅A system of principles laid down by an authority; established belief dormant - answer ✅✅Asleep, inactive, on a break dubious - answer ✅✅Doubtful, questionable, suspect e.g. - answer ✅✅For example, such as eccentric - answer ✅✅Peculiar, odd, deviating from the norm esp. in a whimsical way eclectic - answer ✅✅Selecting the best of everything or from many diverse sources eclipse - answer ✅✅The obscuring of one thing by another, such as the sun by the moon or a person by a more famous or talented person (noun); to obscure, darken, make less important (verb) efficacy - answer ✅✅The quality of being able to produce the intended effect egalitarian - answer ✅✅Related to belief in the equality of all people, esp. in political, economic, or social spheres ephemeral - answer ✅✅Lasting only a short time, fleeting equitable - answer ✅✅Fair, equal, just erratic - answer ✅✅Inconsistent, wandering, having no fixed course erroneous - answer ✅✅Mistaken, in error; improper, morally incorrect erudite - answer ✅✅Scholarly, knowledgeable; possessing deep, often systematic, knowledge eschew - answer ✅✅Shun, avoid, abstain from esoteric - answer ✅✅Understood by or intended for only a few; secret estimable - answer ✅✅Worthy of esteem, admirable; able to be estimated eulogy - answer ✅✅Speech of praise or written work of praise, esp. a speech given at a funeral exacerbate - answer ✅✅Make worse (more violent, severe, etc.), inflame; irritate or embitter (a person) exacting - answer ✅✅Very severe in making demands; requiring precise attention exculpate - answer ✅✅Clear from guilt or blame exhaustive - answer ✅✅Comprehensive, thorough, exhausting a topic or subject, accounting for all possibilities; draining, tending to exhaust explicit - answer ✅✅Direct, clear, fully revealed; clearly depicting sex or nudity exponent - answer ✅✅Person who expounds or explains; champion, advocate, or representative extraneous - answer ✅✅Irrelevant; foreign, coming from without, not belonging extrapolate - answer ✅✅Conjecture about an unknown by projecting information about something known; predict by projecting past experience facetious - answer ✅✅Joking, humorous, esp. inappropriately; not serious, concerned with frivolous things facilitate - answer ✅✅Make easier, help the progress of fallacious - answer ✅✅Containing a fallacy, or mistake in logic; logically unsound; deceptive fanatical - answer ✅✅Excessively devoted, enthusiastic, or zealous in an uncritical way fanciful - answer ✅✅Whimsical, capricious; imaginary; freely imaginative rather than based on reason or reality futile - answer ✅✅Producing no useful result, ineffective; trivial or unimportant gainsay - answer ✅✅Declare false, deny; oppose garrulous - answer ✅✅Talkative, wordy, rambling gauche - answer ✅✅Tactless, lacking social grace, awkward, crude gawky - answer ✅✅Physically awkward (esp. of a tall, skinny person, often used to describe teenagers) germane - answer ✅✅Relevant and appropriate, on- topic gist - answer ✅✅Main idea, essence glib - answer ✅✅Fluent and easy in a way that suggests superficiality or insincerity goosebumps - answer ✅✅The "bumps" created by hairs standing up on the skin in response to cold, fear, etc. gradation - answer ✅✅A progression, a process taking place gradually, in stages; one of these stages gregarious - answer ✅✅Sociable, pertaining to a flock or crowd guile - answer ✅✅Clever deceit, cunning, craftiness hackneyed - answer ✅✅So commonplace as to be stale; not fresh or original hardy - answer ✅✅Bold, brave, capable of withstanding hardship, fatigue, cold, etc. haven - answer ✅✅Harbor or port; refuge, safe place hearken - answer ✅✅Listen, pay attention to hedonist - answer ✅✅Person devoted to pleasure heterogeneous - answer ✅✅Different in type, incongruous; composed of different types of elements hierarchy - answer ✅✅A ranked series; a classification of people according to rank, ability, etc.; a ruling body hodgepodge - answer ✅✅Mixture of different kinds of things, jumble homogeneous - answer ✅✅Of the same kind; uniform throughout hyberbole - answer ✅✅Deliberate exaggeration for effect idiosyncrasy - answer ✅✅Characteristic or habit peculiar to an individual; peculiar quality, quirk inconsequential - answer ✅✅Insignificant, unimportant; illogical incorporate - answer ✅✅Combine, unite; form a legal corporation; embody, give physical form to indeterminate - answer ✅✅Not fixed or determined, indefinite; vague indifferent - answer ✅✅Not caring, having no interest; unbiased, impartial inform - answer ✅✅Inspire, animate; give substance, essence, or context to; be the characteristic quality of ingenuous - answer ✅✅Genuine, sincere, not holding back; naive ingrained - answer ✅✅Deep-rooted, forming part of the very essence; worked into the fiber inherent - answer ✅✅Existing as a permanent, essential quality; intrinsic innocuous - answer ✅✅Harmless, inoffensive intelligible - answer ✅✅Able to be understood, clear intractable - answer ✅✅Difficult to control, manage, or manipulate; hard to cure; stubborn intrepid - answer ✅✅Fearless, brave, enduring in the face of adversity intrinsic - answer ✅✅Belonging to the essential nature of a thing jargon - answer ✅✅Vocabulary specific to a group or occupation; convoluted or unintelligible language jocular - answer ✅✅Joking or given to joking all the time; jolly, playful judicious - answer ✅✅Using good judgment; wise, sensible juncture - answer ✅✅Critical point in time, such as a crisis or a time when a decision is necessary; a place where two things are joined together keen - answer ✅✅Sharp, piercing; very perceptive or mentally sharp; intense (of a feeling) kudos - answer ✅✅Praise, honor, congratulations lackluster - answer ✅✅Not shiny; dull, mediocre; lacking brilliance or vitality laconic - answer ✅✅Using few words, concise lament - answer ✅✅Mourn; express grief, sorrow, or regret (verb); an expression of grief, esp. as a song or poem (noun) lampoon - answer ✅✅A harsh satire (noun); ridicule or satirize (verb) lucid - answer ✅✅Clear, easy to understand; rational, sane lull - answer ✅✅Soothe or cause to fall asleep (as in a lullaby); quiet down; make to feel secure, sometimes falsely (verb); a period of calm or quiet (noun) makeshift - answer ✅✅A temporary, often improvised, substitute (noun); improvised for temporary use (adj) malleable - answer ✅✅Able to be bent, shaped, or adapted maverick - answer ✅✅Rebel, individualist, dissenter mendacious - answer ✅✅Lying, habitually dishonest mercurial - answer ✅✅Quickly and unpredictably changing moods; fickle, flighty metamorphosis - answer ✅✅A complete change or transformation (in biology, a change such as a caterpillar becoming a pupa and then a butterfly) meticulous - answer ✅✅Taking extreme care in regards to details; precise, fussy mitigate - answer ✅✅Make less severe; lessen or moderate (damage, grief, pain, etc.) modest - answer ✅✅Humble; simple rather than showy; decent (esp. "covering up" in terms of dress); small, limited mollify - answer ✅✅Calm or soothe (an angry person); lessen or soften monotony - answer ✅✅Sameness or repetitiousness to the point of being boring; lack of variation, uniformity, esp. repetition in sound moreover - answer ✅✅Besides; in addition to what was just stated mores - answer ✅✅Customs, manners, or morals of a particular group mundane - answer ✅✅Common, ordinary, everyday naïve - answer ✅✅Simple and unsophisticated, unsuspecting, lacking worldly experience and critical judgment nascent - answer ✅✅Coming into existence, still developing negate - answer ✅✅Deny or refute; make void or cause to be ineffective net - answer ✅✅Remaining after expenses or other factors have been deducted; ultimate (adj); to bring in as profit, or to catch as in a net (verb) nevertheless or nonetheless - answer ✅✅However, even so, despite that optimal - answer ✅✅Best, most desirable or favorable optimum - answer ✅✅most favorable condition or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances orthodox - answer ✅✅Adhering to a traditional, established faith, or to anything customary or commonly accepted oscillate - answer ✅✅Swing back and forth; waver, change one's mind outstrip - answer ✅✅Surpass, exceed; be larger or better than; leave behind overshadow - answer ✅✅Cast a shadow over, darken; dominate, make to seem less important paradigm - answer ✅✅Model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc. paradox - answer ✅✅Contradiction, or seeming contradiction that is actually true pariah - answer ✅✅Social outcast, untouchable partial - answer ✅✅Biased, prejudiced, favoring one over others; having a special liking for something or someone (usually partial to) partisan - answer ✅✅Devoted to a particular group, cause, etc. (adj.); fervent supporter of a group, party, idea, etc.; guerilla fighter (noun) patent - answer ✅✅Obvious, apparent, plain to see (adj); a letter from a government guaranteeing an inventor the rights to his or her invention (noun) pathological - answer ✅✅Relating to or caused by disease; relating to compulsive bad behavior patronizing - answer ✅✅Condescending, having a superior manner, treating as an inferior paucity - answer ✅✅Scarcity, the state of being small in number peccadillo - answer ✅✅Small sin or fault pedestrian - answer ✅✅Ordinary, dull, commonplace penchant - answer ✅✅Liking or inclination (usually penchant for) perfidious - answer ✅✅Disloyal, treacherous, violating one's trust peripheral - answer ✅✅Relating to or making up an outer boundary or region; not of primary importance, fringe permeate - answer ✅✅Spread or penetrate throughout pervasive - answer ✅✅Tending to spread throughout precarious - answer ✅✅Unstable, insecure, dangerous precursor - answer ✅✅Something that comes before, esp. something that also announces or suggests something on its way predisposed - answer ✅✅Having an inclination or tendency beforehand; susceptible pre-empt - answer ✅✅Prevent; take the place of, supplant; take before someone else can presumptive - answer ✅✅Based on inference or assumption; providing reasonable grounds for belief presumptuous - answer ✅✅Too bold or forward; going beyond that which is proper pretentious - answer ✅✅Claiming or demanding a position of importance or dignity, esp. when unjustified; showing off, creating a deceptive, false show of worth principled - answer ✅✅Having high moral standards pristine - answer ✅✅In an original, pure state; uncorrupted probity - answer ✅✅Honesty, integrity prodigal - answer ✅✅Wasteful, extravagant; giving abundantly, lavish prodigious - answer ✅✅Extraordinarily large, impressive, etc. profligate - answer ✅✅Completely and shamelessly immoral, or extremely wasteful profound - answer ✅✅Very insightful, penetrating deeply into a subject; pervasive, intense, "down to the very bottom"; at the very bottom profuse - answer ✅✅Abundant, extravagant, giving or given freely prohibitive - answer ✅✅Tending to forbid something, or serving to prevent something proliferate - answer ✅✅Increase or spread rapidly or excessively prologue - answer ✅✅Introductory part to a book, play, etc. pronounced - answer ✅✅Distinct, strong, clearly indicated propriety - answer ✅✅Conforming to good manners or appropriate behavior; justness prosaic - answer ✅✅Dull, ordinary proscribe - answer ✅✅Prohibit, outlaw; denounce; exile or banish prospective - answer ✅✅Potential, in the future requite - answer ✅✅Reciprocate, repay, or revenge rescind - answer ✅✅Annul, repeal, make void resolution - answer ✅✅The quality of being firmly determined; resolving to do something; a formal judgment, esp. decided by a vote resolve - answer ✅✅Find a solution to; firmly decide to do something; decide by formal vote (verb); firmness of purpose (noun) respectively - answer ✅✅In the order given restive - answer ✅✅Impatient or uneasy under the control of another; resisting being controlled reticent - answer ✅✅Not talking much; private (of a person), restrained, reserved retrospective - answer ✅✅Looking to the past or backward; applying to the past, retroactive (adj); an art exhibit of an artist's work over a long period of time (noun) reverent - answer ✅✅Feeling or expressing very deep respect and awe rhetoric - answer ✅✅The art or study of persuasion through speaking or writing; language that is elaborate or pretentious but actually empty, meaning little rife - answer ✅✅Happening frequently, abundant, currently being reported rudimentary - answer ✅✅Elementary, relating to the basics; undeveloped, primitive rustic - answer ✅✅Relating to country life, unsophisticated; primitive; made of rough wood (adj); a rural or uncultured person (noun) sacrosanct - answer ✅✅Sacred, inviolable, not to be trespassed on or violated; above any criticism sagacious - answer ✅✅Wise; showing good judgment and foresight salubrious - answer ✅✅Healthful, promoting health sanction - answer ✅✅Permission or approval, something that gives support or authority to something else (noun); to allow, confirm, ratify (verb); OR a legal action by one or more countries against another country to get it to comply (noun); to place sanctions or penalties on (verb) sanguine - answer ✅✅Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful; reddish, ruddy (as in rosy-red cheeks indicting health or vitality) sap - answer ✅✅The inner fluid of a plant or any essential body fluid; energy, vitality; a person taken advantage of (noun); undermine, weaken, tire out (verb) satiate or sate - answer ✅✅To fully satisfy; to go beyond satisfying to the point of excess (possibly inducing disgust, tiredness, etc.) sound - answer ✅✅Measure the depth of (usually of water) as with a sounding line; penetrate and discover the meaning of, understand (usually as sound the depths) spartan - answer ✅✅Very disciplined and stern; frugal, living simply, austere; suggestive of the ancient Spartans spate - answer ✅✅Sudden outpouring or rush; flood spearhead - answer ✅✅Be the leader of specious - answer ✅✅Seemingly true but actually false; deceptively attractive spectrum - answer ✅✅A broad range of nevertheless related qualities or ideas, esp. those that overlap to create a continuous series (as in a color spectrum, where each color blends into the next in a continuous way) speculate - answer ✅✅Contemplate; make a guess or educated guess about; engage in a risky business transaction, gamble sporadic - answer ✅✅Occasional, happening irregularly or in scattered locations sportive - answer ✅✅Playful, merry, joking around, done "in sport" (rather than intended seriously) standing - answer ✅✅Status, rank, reputation (noun); existing indefinitely, not movable (adj) stark - answer ✅✅Complete, total, utter; harsh or grim; extremely simple, severe, blunt, or plain static - answer ✅✅Fixed, not moving or changing, lacking vitality status quo - answer ✅✅Existing state or condition stingy - answer ✅✅Not generous with money, reluctant to spend or give stoic or stoical - answer ✅✅Indifferent to pleasure or pain, enduring without complaint; person indifferent to pleasure or pain (noun) stolid - answer ✅✅Unemotional, showing little emotion, not easily moved stymie or stymy - answer ✅✅Block, hinder, or thwart (verb); an obstacle (noun) subjective - answer ✅✅Existing in the mind or relating to one's own thoughts, opinions, emotions, etc.; personal, individual, based on feelings subside - answer ✅✅Sink, settle down, become less active; return to a normal level substantiate - answer ✅✅Support with evidence or proof; give a material existence to succeeding - answer ✅✅Coming after or following torpor - answer ✅✅Sluggishness, lethargy, or apathy; a period of inactivity torrid - answer ✅✅Very hot, parching, burning; passionate tractable - answer ✅✅Easily controlled or managed, docile; easily shaped or molded transitory - answer ✅✅Temporary, short-lived, not lasting trifling - answer ✅✅Trivial, not very important; so small as to be unimportant; frivolous, shallow trite - answer ✅✅Lacking freshness and originality, lacking effectiveness due to overuse, cliché ubiquitous - answer ✅✅Existing everywhere at the same time undermine - answer ✅✅Weaken, cause to collapse by digging away at the foundation (of a building or an argument); injure or attack in a secretive or underhanded way underscore - answer ✅✅Emphasize (or, literally, to underline text) unearth - answer ✅✅Dig up, uncover, expose unequivocal - answer ✅✅Unambiguous, clear, absolute; having only one possible meaning unprecedented - answer ✅✅Never before known or seen, without having happened previously unseemly - answer ✅✅Improper, inappropriate, against the rules of taste or politeness vacillate - answer ✅✅Waver in one's mind or opinions, be indecisive venerate - answer ✅✅Revere, regard with deep respect and awe veracity - answer ✅✅Truthfulness, accuracy; habitual adherence to the truth verbose - answer ✅✅Wordy viable - answer ✅✅Capable of living (or growing, developing, etc.); practical, workable vintage - answer ✅✅Related to items of high quality from a previous era, old-fashioned, antique (adj); the wine of a particular year (noun) virtual - answer ✅✅Existing only in the mind or by means of a computer network; existing in results or in essence but not officially or in name vituperate - answer ✅✅Verbally abuse, rebuke or criticize harshly accede - answer ✅✅Agree, give consent; assume power (usually as "accede to") accretion - answer ✅✅Gradual increase; an added part or addition acerbic - answer ✅✅Sour; harsh or severe acidulous - answer ✅✅Slightly acid or sour; sharp or caustic acumen - answer ✅✅Keen, quick, accurate insight or judgment adulterate - answer ✅✅Make impure by adding inappropriate or inferior ingredients adumbrate - answer ✅✅Give a rough outline of; foreshadow; reveal only partially; obscure aerie - answer ✅✅Dwelling or fortress built on a high place; the nest of a bird of prey, such as an eagle or hawk, built on a mountain or cliff albeit - answer ✅✅Although, even though aloof - answer ✅✅Distant physically or emotionally; reserved; indifferent amalgamate - answer ✅✅Blend, merge, or unite ameliorate - answer ✅✅Improve; make better or more bearable amortize - answer ✅✅Gradually pay off a debt, or gradually write off an asset anachronism - answer ✅✅Something that is not in its correct historical time; a mistake in chronology, such as by assigning a person or event to the wrong time period analgesia - answer ✅✅Pain relief; inability to feel pain annul - answer ✅✅Make void or null, cancel, abolish (usually of laws or other established rules) anodyne - answer ✅✅Medicine that relieves pain (noun); soothing, relieving pain (adj) antedate - answer ✅✅Be older than, precede in time; assign to an earlier date antithetical - answer ✅✅Directly opposed, opposite; involving antithesis (the rhetorical act of placing two phrases opposite one another for contrast, as in love me or hate me) apostate - answer ✅✅Person who deserts a party, cause, religion, etc. apostle - answer ✅✅Pioneer of a reform movement (originally, an early follower of Jesus) apposite - answer ✅✅Highly appropriate, suitable, or relevant avarice - answer ✅✅Insatiable greed; a miserly desire to hoard wealth axiom - answer ✅✅Self-evident truth requiring no proof; universally or generally accepted principle balloon - answer ✅✅Swell or puff out; increase rapidly banal - answer ✅✅Lacking freshness and originality; cliché bane - answer ✅✅Something that ruins or spoils baying - answer ✅✅Howling in a deep way, like a dog or wolf beneficent - answer ✅✅Doing good bent - answer ✅✅Personal inclination or tendency besiege - answer ✅✅Attack, overwhelm, crowd in on or surround bevy - answer ✅✅Group of birds or other animals that stay close together; any large group bifurcate - answer ✅✅To fork into two branches or divide into two halves bilk - answer ✅✅Cheat or defraud blight - answer ✅✅Disease that kills plants rapidly, or any cause of decay or destruction (noun); ruin or cause to wither (verb) blithe - answer ✅✅Joyous, merry; excessively carefree (so as to ignore more important concerns) bombastic - answer ✅✅(Of speech or writing) far too showy or dramatic than is appropriate; pretentious bonhomie - answer ✅✅Friendliness, open and simple good heartedness brandish - answer ✅✅Shake, wave, or flourish, as a weapon brook - answer ✅✅Suffer or tolerate bucolic - answer ✅✅Pertaining to shepherds; suggesting a peaceful and pleasant view of rural life burnish - answer ✅✅Polish, make smooth and lustrous calumny - answer ✅✅Malicious lie intended to hurt someone's reputation; the act of telling such lies canard - answer ✅✅Rumor, a false or baseless story cardinal - answer ✅✅Chief, most important catholic - answer ✅✅Universal, broad-minded chicanery - answer ✅✅Trickery, deception by knowingly false arguments contumacious - answer ✅✅Rebellious; stubbornly disobedient convoke - answer ✅✅Call together, as to a meeting cosset - answer ✅✅Treat as a pet, pamper coterie - answer ✅✅Close or exclusive group, clique cupidity - answer ✅✅Greed, great or excessive desire curmudgeon - answer ✅✅Bad-tempered, difficult person; grouch declaim - answer ✅✅Speak in an impassioned, pompous, or oratorical manner; give a formal speech declivity - answer ✅✅Downward slope delimit - answer ✅✅Fix, mark, or define the boundaries of demagogue - answer ✅✅A leader who lies and gains power by arousing the passions and especially prejudices of the people demur - answer ✅✅Show reluctance or object, especially for moral reasons desultory - answer ✅✅Lacking consistency or order, disconnected, sporadic; going off topic diaphanous - answer ✅✅Very sheer, fine, translucent dichotomy - answer ✅✅Division into two parts or into two contradictory groups dictum - answer ✅✅Formal or authoritative pronouncement; saying or proverb diffident - answer ✅✅Lacking confidence, shy diffuse - answer ✅✅Spread widely, disseminate (verb); dispersed, widely spread out, or wordy and going off-topic (adj) dilate - answer ✅✅To become wider or make wider, cause to expand; to speak or write at length, elaborate upon dilatory - answer ✅✅Slow, late; procrastinating or stalling for time dilettante - answer ✅✅Person who takes up an art or activity for amusement only or in a superficial way dirge - answer ✅✅A funeral or mourning song or poem discomfiting - answer ✅✅Disconcerting, confusing, frustrating discordant - answer ✅✅Harsh or inharmonious in sound; disagreeing, incongruous dyspeptic - answer ✅✅Grumpy, pessimistic, irritable; suffering from dyspepsia (indigestion) ebullient - answer ✅✅Very enthusiastic, lively, excited; bubbling as though being boiled echelon - answer ✅✅A level, rank or grade; the people at that level edify - answer ✅✅Uplift, enlighten, instruct or improve in a spiritual or moral way effigy - answer ✅✅Representation or image of a person, esp. a crude facsimile used to mock a hated person effrontery - answer ✅✅Shameless boldness egress - answer ✅✅An exit or the action of exiting elegy - answer ✅✅Song or poem of sorrow, esp. for a deceased person emaciate - answer ✅✅Make abnormally thin, cause to physically waste away encomium - answer ✅✅Warm, glowing praise, esp. a formal expression of praise endemic - answer ✅✅Native, local; natural, specific to, or confined to a particular place engender - answer ✅✅Produce, give rise to, cause to exist; procreate epicure - answer ✅✅Person with cultivated, refined tastes, esp. in food and wine equanimity - answer ✅✅Composure, evenness of mind; mental or emotional stability, esp. under stress equivocate - answer ✅✅Use unclear language to deceive or avoid committing to a position ersatz - answer ✅✅Artificial, synthetic; being an inferior substitute erstwhile - answer ✅✅Former, previous (adj); in the past, formerly (adv) ethos - answer ✅✅The character, personality, or moral values specific to a person, group, time period, etc. euphemism - answer ✅✅Substitution of a mild, inoffensive, or indirect expression for one that is considered offensive or too direct euphony - answer ✅✅Pleasing or sweet sound, especially as formed by a harmonious use of words exigent - answer ✅✅Requiring immediate attention, action, or aid; excessively demanding exonerate - answer ✅✅Clear from blame or accusation; free from a responsibility flout - answer ✅✅Treat with disdain, contempt, or scorn (usually of rules) fluke - answer ✅✅Stroke of luck, something accidentally successful forage - answer ✅✅Wander in search of; rummage, hunt, make a raid ford - answer ✅✅Place where a river or similar body of water is shallow enough to walk or ride a vehicle across (noun); to cross at such a place (verb) forestall - answer ✅✅Delay, hinder, prevent by taking action beforehand fortuitous - answer ✅✅Happening by chance; lucky fracas - answer ✅✅Noisy disturbance or fight; brawl fractious - answer ✅✅Unruly, troublemaking; irritable frenetic - answer ✅✅Wildly excited, frantic, distracted fulminate - answer ✅✅Explode, detonate; attack verbally in a vehement, thunderous way furtive - answer ✅✅Done secretly; stealthy, sly, shifty gambol - answer ✅✅Frolic; skip or leap playfully garner - answer ✅✅Gather and store; amass, collect gestation - answer ✅✅Pregnancy; the period from conception until birth of an animal or (metaphorically) of an idea or plan glacial - answer ✅✅Pertaining to glaciers; cold, icy, slow, unsympathetic glower - answer ✅✅Stare in an angry, sullen way goad - answer ✅✅Urge on (as cattle) with a pointed or electrically charged stick; spur on, stimulate, encourage gouge - answer ✅✅Scooping or digging tool, like a chisel, or a hole made with such a tool (noun); cut or scoop out; force out a person's eye with one's thumb; swindle, extort money from (verb) graft - answer ✅✅Insert part of a plant into another plant, where it continues to grow; join living tissue (such as skin) to part of the body where it will continue to live and grow; attach as if by grafting (verb); the part so grafted (as in a graft of skin); the act of acquiring money or other benefits through illegal means, esp. by abusing one's power (noun) grandiloquent - answer ✅✅Relating to lofty speech, esp. to the point of being pompous, overblown, bombastic grandstand - answer ✅✅Perform showily in an attempt to impress onlookers hoary - answer ✅✅Very old, gray or white as from old age homage - answer ✅✅Honor or respect demonstrated publicly hoodwink - answer ✅✅Trick, deceive hotly - answer ✅✅In an intense, fiery, or heated way husband - answer ✅✅Manage prudently, sparingly, or economically; conserve iconoclast - answer ✅✅Attacker of cherished beliefs or institutions idolatry - answer ✅✅Idol worship; excessive or unthinking devotion or adoration idyllic - answer ✅✅Presenting a positive, peaceful view of rural life (as poetry or prose); pleasant in a natural, simple way ignoble - answer ✅✅Not noble; having mean, base, low motives; low quality imbue - answer ✅✅Permeate or saturate, as dye in a fabric; influence throughout immutable - answer ✅✅Unchangeable impasse - answer ✅✅Position or road from which there is no escape; deadlock impassive - answer ✅✅Not having or not showing physical feeling or emotion impecunious - answer ✅✅Poor, without money imperious - answer ✅✅Commanding, domineering; acting like a high-ranking person; urgent impermeable - answer ✅✅Impassable, not allowing passage through (such as by a liquid) imperturbable - answer ✅✅Calm, not able to be upset or agitated impervious - answer ✅✅Impenetrable, not able to be harmed or emotionally disturbed impetuous - answer ✅✅Passionately impulsive, marked by sudden, hasty emotion; forceful, violent impious - answer ✅✅Not religious, lacking reverence, ungodly implacable - answer ✅✅Not able to be appeased, calmed, or satisfied imprecation - answer ✅✅Curse; prayer for harm to come to someone impugn - answer ✅✅Attack the truth or integrity of impute - answer ✅✅Credit, attribute; lay blame or responsibility for (sometimes falsely)