Download Vocabulary Mastery: Exploring Challenging English Words and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! 500+ Practice GRE Vocabulary Words questions and answers abase - answer ✅✅(v.) to humiliate, cause to feel shame; (v.) to hurt the pride of abash - answer ✅✅(v.) to embarrass; to cause to be embarrassed abate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make less active or intense; (v.) to become less in intensity abdicate - answer ✅✅(v.) to give up power aberration - answer ✅✅(n.) an aberrant state or condition; (n.) a disorder in a person's mental state; an optical phenomenon which results from the failure of a mirror or lens to produce a good image abet - answer ✅✅(v.) to assist or encourage, , often in the case of wrongdoing; (v.) to support, uphold, or maintain; (v.) to contribute to the commission of an offense abeyance - answer ✅✅(n.) a temporary suspension or cessation; (n.) a temporary suppression abhor - answer ✅✅(v.) to find repugnant, or to shrink back with dislike or horror abjure - answer ✅✅(v.) to reject something; (v.) to retract an oath; (v.) to recant aboriginal - answer ✅✅(n.) an original inhabitant of any land; (n.) an animal or plant native to the region abortive - answer ✅✅(adj.) failing to accomplish an original intent or goal; (adj.) imperfectly formed or developed; (n.) something that is born prematurely; (adj.) made from the skin of a still-born animal acquiescent - answer ✅✅(adj.) willing to carry out someone else's orders or wishes without any protest or dissent; (adj.) submissive actuate - answer ✅✅(v.) to trigger a reaction or to move and incite to action; (v.) to carry out or perform adapt - answer ✅✅(v.) to modify or change to suit a new purpose or conditions; (v.) to conform one's own self to new conditions or a new environment addiction - answer ✅✅(n.) a situation in which someone is dependent on something that is physiologically and/or psychologically habit forming, particularly in relation to alcohol or drugs adhere - answer ✅✅(v.) to be in accordance with or compatible with; to carry out a plan without deviation; (v.) to come into close contact with; to be a devoted supporter or follower, in a religious sense adipose - answer ✅✅(adj.) composed of animal fat admonish - answer ✅✅(v.) to counsel in relation to one's negative behavior; (v.) to warn against strongly; (v.) to take to task adulterate - answer ✅✅(adj.) mixed with impurities; (v.) to corrupt or debase by adding a foreign substance adumbration - answer ✅✅(n.) a rough summary of the main aspects of an argument or theory; providing vague indications of something in advance adversity - answer ✅✅(n.) a state of affliction or misfortune; extreme challenge or hardship; (n.) a stroke of excessively bad fortune advert - answer ✅✅(v.) to give heed to; (v.) to make a subversive or overt reference to advocate: (n.) a person who stands for and/or pleads for a cause, idea or person; (n.) a lawyer who pleads a case in a court of law; (v.) to push for or recommend something; (v.) to argue in favor of aerie - answer ✅✅(n.) a lofty nest of a bird of prey, such as an eagle or hawk; (n.) a habitation of high altitude aesthetic - answer ✅✅(adj.) relating to beauty or good taste; (n.) a specialty in philosophy that relates to what is beautiful and how humans respond to art and beauty in the world affable - answer ✅✅(adj.) exemplifying warmth and friendliness; (adj.) gracious and mild affected - answer ✅✅(adj.) acted on or influenced; (adj.) experiencing an emotional impact aggrandize - answer ✅✅(v.) to add details to; to increase in power; (v.) to make something appear exceedingly great or exalted affiliation - answer ✅✅(n.) association in or with a professional or societal group; (n.) connection in terms of descent (from birth) affinity - answer ✅✅(n.) the force which attracts atoms and binds them together in the formation of a molecule; (n.) a close connection marked by shared interests or similarities; an intrinsic resemblance between persons and/or things; a natural attraction to or feeling of kinship for; (adj.) kinship by marriage or adoption affray - answer ✅✅(n.) a noisy fight or quarrel; the act of disturbing someone; fear or fright agape - answer ✅✅(adj.) with the mouth wide open due to wonder or awe; (n.) a religious meal shared as a sign of fellowship, love, and respect aggregate - answer ✅✅(n.) gathered or having a tendency to gather in a mass or whole; (n.) the whole amount; (v.) to gather in a mass or whole amnesia - answer ✅✅(n.) a partial or total loss of memory amnesty - answer ✅✅(n.) a period during which criminals are exempt from punishment; (n.) a warrant that grants release from a previously meted out punishment; (v.) the official act of liberating someone, in a legal sense; to grant a pardon amortize - answer ✅✅(v.) to gradually liquidate; to clear off or extinguish, particularly in relation to a debt amuck - answer ✅✅(adj.) in a murderous tumult; wildly or without self-control amulet - answer ✅✅(n.) a piece of jewelry thought to protect an individual against evil anachronism - answer ✅✅(n.) something located during a time when it could not have actually existed or occurred; (n.) an artifact that belongs to a different time period; (n.) a person displaced in time analgesia - answer ✅✅(n.) the absence of the sense of pain, but with consciousness still in tact analogy - answer ✅✅(n.) an insinuation that if things agree in one respect, they agree in others; (n.) a comparison drawn to show similarities anarchy - answer ✅✅(n.) a state of disorder and lawlessness, resulting from a lack of or failure in government anesthetic - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by a lack of sensibility; (n.) a drug that temporarily causes loss of bodily sensations animus - answer ✅✅(n.) a feeling of ill-will that arouses hostility or animosity relieve annul - answer ✅✅(v.) to declare void or invalid, particularly in the case of a marriage, law or contract; (v.) to eliminate the existence of antagonism - answer ✅✅(n.) hostility that results in conflict, resistance or opposition; (n.) the condition of being an opposing force or factor in a situation or system antipathy - answer ✅✅(n.) a strong feeling of hostility or dislike apex - answer ✅✅(n.) the highest point of something, particularly in the case of a triangle, cone or pyramid aplomb - answer ✅✅(n.) poise (n.) self-confidence apocalyptic - answer ✅✅(adj.) relating to the apocalypse; involving or implying doom and ultimate devastation; (adj.) of a prophetic nature दैवी साहित्य apostate - answer ✅✅(n.) a person who has abandoned his or her political party, religion, or cause appease - answer ✅✅(v.) to bring pacification or peace to someone who is upset or contentious; (v.) to satisfy or relieve appellation: (n.) a formal name or title; (n.) the act of naming (officially) apprehend - answer ✅✅(v.) to arrest or take an individual into custody; (v.) to mentally grasp a concept or principle apprehensive - answer ✅✅(adj.) anxious or fearful about the future; (adj.) capable of understanding concepts quickly aptitude - answer ✅✅(n.) an aptitude for learning; a talent; (n.) quickness in understanding, intelligence archives - answer ✅✅(n.) a collection of records, particularly related to the history of records of an institution atrocity - answer ✅✅(n.) a behavior, event or incident that is characterized by cruelty and wickedness; (n.) an act of extreme cruelty कू्ररता attrition - answer ✅✅(n.) a constant wearing down caused by friction; (n.) a gradual decrease in strength, due to consistent stressful conditions; a gradual reduction in membership or personnel; (n.) repentance for a sin, motivated by the fear of God and punishment augment - answer ✅✅(v.) to make something larger in size or quantity augury - answer ✅✅(n.) the art of foretelling the future by means of various sings; (n.) an omen from which the future if foretold auspicious: (adj.) related to positive and favorable circumstances; (adj.) marked by success and prosperity austere - answer ✅✅(adj.) stern, in terms of character or disposition; (adj.) strict or severe in discipline; lacking adornment or decoration autonomous: (adj.) not controlled by other individuals or organizations; (adj.) independent in mind and judgment avatar - answer ✅✅(n.) the animal or human incarnation of a Hindu deity, particularly Vishnu; (n.) an embodiment of a quality or concept; a temporary manifestation of an ongoing entity aver - answer ✅✅(v.) to officially assert as a fact; (v.) to justify, qualify or prove avouch - answer ✅✅(v.) to attest to or declare the validity of; (v.) to confirm; to accept responsibility for an action; to confess avow - answer ✅✅(v.) to openly acknowledge; (v.) to positive and undoubtedly profess axiom - answer ✅✅(n.) a universally recognized truth; (n.) a seemingly self-evident principle baffle - answer ✅✅(v.) to frustrate someone, by perplexing or confusing them; (v.) to impede the force or movement of baleful - answer ✅✅(adj.) harmful, threatening or deadly baneful - answer ✅✅(adj.) causing distress, death or ruin barrage - answer ✅✅(n.) a prolonged attack of words or blows; a curtain of (military) artillery fire to prevent enemy forces from moving or to make way for one's own forces; (n.) a man-made barrier in a stream or river batten - answer ✅✅(n.) a sawed strip of wood or flooring; (trans. verb) to fasten canvas over the hatches, especially in preparation for a storm; (v.) to grow fat bauble - answer ✅✅(n.) a decorative or showy but worthless object beguile - answer ✅✅(v.) to mislead by trickery or deception beholden - answer ✅✅(adj.) obliged to feel grateful for or owing thanks beleaguer - answer ✅✅(v.) to besiege by encircling; to harass or beset with difficulties belittle - answer ✅✅(v.) to make someone feel little or less important, to slight someone benevolent - answer ✅✅(adj.) doing or intending to do good burlesque - answer ✅✅(n.) any comic or satirical imitation (for example) in the form of writing, theater or a parody, intending to mock; (adj.) bawdy burnish - answer ✅✅(v.) to polish or to make shiny cabal - answer ✅✅(n.) a group of plotters or intriguers with conspiratorial intentions; (n.) a secret scheme or plot cache - answer ✅✅(n.) a hiding place, especially in the ground for ammunition, food or treasures; (n.) anything so hidden; (v.) to put in a cache caliber - answer ✅✅(n.) degree of capacity or competence calumniate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make false and malicious statements about candor - answer ✅✅(n.) the state or quality of being open, honest, straightforward, open and sincere in communication; (n.) freedom from bias canter - answer ✅✅(n.) an easy-going gallop; (v.) to move or ride at a canter capitulate - answer ✅✅(v.) to surrender often after negotiation of terms captious - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by a disposition to find out and point trivial faults; (adj.) intended to entrap or confuse carnage - answer ✅✅(n.) the slaughter of numerous people; (n.) those slain in battle carping - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by trivial fault-finding caste - answer ✅✅(n.) any of the social or subclasses of traditional Hindu society, such as the Brahman or Sudra castes; a social class distinct from others and characterized by hereditary rank, profession or wealth; (n.) a social position conferred on someone based on a system of castes cataclysm - answer ✅✅(n.) any violent upheaval, particularly of a political or social nature; (n.) an extensive flood catalyst - answer ✅✅(n.) (in chemistry), a substance that causes a chemical reaction without itself being affected; (n.) a person or thing that brings about or precipitates change; (n.) a person or event that precipitates a process or change cathartic - answer ✅✅(adj.) physically or emotionally purging in nature; (adj.) therapeutic Catholic - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or pertaining to the Catholic church; a member of the Catholic church; (adj.) of a broad, liberal or comprehensive scope cavil - answer ✅✅(v.) to raise trivial objections; (n.) a trivial or annoying objection celibate - answer ✅✅(n.) one who abstains from sexual relations with others; (n.) an individual who remains unmarried centrifugal - answer ✅✅(adj.) moving or directed outward from the center; (n.) a rotating, perforated drum that holds materials to be separated in a machine centripetal - answer ✅✅(adj.) moving or directed toward an axis or center; (adj.) tending or directed toward centralization cessation - answer ✅✅(n.) a temporary discontinuance chameleon - answer ✅✅(n.) any of the Old World lizards which can change color; (n.) a changeable or inconstant person collaborate - answer ✅✅(v.) to work together or cooperate; (v.) join forces colloquial - answer ✅✅(adj.) characteristic of ordinary conversation, rather than formal speech or writing comatose - answer ✅✅(adj.) of, related to or in a coma; (adj.) characterized by lethargy commensurate - answer ✅✅(adj.) of the same extent or duration; corresponding in size or degree, proportionate; (adj.) measurable by a common standard compatible - answer ✅✅(adj.) capable of existing harmoniously; (adj.) capable of integration with other elements in a system without any additional required modifications compendium - answer ✅✅(n.) a complete, short summary; (n.) a list or collection of various items complement - answer ✅✅(n.) something that completes or makes something else whole; (n.) a quantity that completes anything; (n.) either of two parts, needed to complete the whole compliment - answer ✅✅(n.) an expression of praise (v.) to give someone praise or accolades compliant - answer ✅✅(adj.) disposed or willing to comply conciliate - answer ✅✅(v.) to overcome the mistrust of; (v.) to regain or attempt to regain friendship; (v.) to attempt to reconcile concomitant - answer ✅✅(adj.) existing or occurring with something else congeal - answer ✅✅(v.) to solidify or jell by freezing; coagulate conjecture - answer ✅✅(n.) the expression of or formulation of a theory without sufficient evidence or proof; (v.) to guess or formulate a theory without sufficient evidence or proof connotation - answer ✅✅(n.) an idea or meaning suggested or associated with a word or thing; (n.) the set of associations implied by a word, in addition to its implicit meaning contentious - answer ✅✅(adj.) tending to cause argument or strife; (adj.) characterized by argument or controversy controvert - answer ✅✅(v.) to be resistant to, to raise arguments against, to oppose contumacious - answer ✅✅(adj.) willfully obstinate or stubbornly disobedient; (adj.) insubordinate conveyance - answer ✅✅(n.) the act of conveying or transmission copious - answer ✅✅(adj.) large in quantity or number; (adj.) having or yielding a plentiful supply; (adj.) exhibiting abundance corporeal - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or relating to the body; (adj.) of a material nature corpulent - answer ✅✅(adj.) large or bulky in body countermand - answer ✅✅(v.) to cancel or reverse an order or transmission previously issued; (n.) cancellation of an order or command cower - answer ✅✅(v.) to cringe, crouch or curl up in fear, to show fear defile - answer ✅✅(v.) to make foul, dirty or unclean; (v.) to violate the chastity of; (v.) to make impure or defile deign - answer ✅✅(intr. v.) to deem something inappropriate to one's dignity (tr. verb) condescend; (v.) give or grant demean - answer ✅✅(v.) to degrade, particularly in terms of social status or dignity demotic - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or relating to the common people of a given area or region denizen - answer ✅✅(n.) an inhabitant or resident; (n.) someone who frequents a given place denotation - answer ✅✅(n.) the act of denoting, that which gives an indication of or points to something, like a. symbol or sign; (n.) the most specific meaning of a given word deplete - answer ✅✅(v.) to reduce or eliminate in supply deprecatory - answer ✅✅(adj.) expressing criticism or disapproval of; (adj.) uncomplimentary depreciate - answer ✅✅(v.) to reduce the value or price of deride - answer ✅✅(v.) to laugh at in a contemptuous or scornful manner descry - answer ✅✅(v.) to see something by looking carefully at it, to discover or perceive desecrate - answer ✅✅(v.) to violate the sacredness of a given object or place desultory - answer ✅✅(adj.) not having any set plan; (adj.) moving or jumping about from one subject to the next dexterous - answer ✅✅(adj.) skillful with the use of one's hands; (adj.) having mental skill diatribe - answer ✅✅(n.) a bitter, sharp or abusive attack or criticism dichotomy - answer ✅✅(n.) division into two part or regions digress - answer ✅✅(v.) to stray away from the main subject, particularly in writing or speech dilettante - answer ✅✅(n.) a dabbler in an art or particular field of knowledge, for the sole sake of amusement dire - answer ✅✅(adj.) causing or involving fright and suffering; (adj.) urgent and desperate disabuse - answer ✅✅(v.) to free from a falsehood or misconception disheveled - answer ✅✅(adj.) in disorder; (adj.) unkempt; (adj.) disarranged disparage - answer ✅✅(v.) to speak of in a disrespectful or condescending way; (v.) to reduce in respect or rank dispirited - answer ✅✅(adj.) in low spirits; (adj.) lacking enthusiasm dissipate - answer ✅✅(v.) to drive away or disperse; (v.) to bring about the loss of energy dissolute - answer ✅✅(adj.) lacking in moral restraint egress - answer ✅✅(n.) the act of coming or going out; (n.) the right to leave or go out; (n.) a path or opening for the purposes of going out (v.) to go out elucidate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make lucid or clear, to throw light upon; (v.) to explain or provide clarification elusive: (adj.) tending to elude capture, comprehension or perception; (adj.) difficult to define or describe emancipate - answer ✅✅(v.) to free from oppression or restraint; (v.) (as a legal term) to release a child from the control of parents or a. guardian embellish - answer ✅✅(v.) to make beautiful by ornamentation; (v.) to decorate; (v.) to add false and fictitious detail to emend - answer ✅✅(v.) to edit or change a text; (v.) to correct, or free from faults or errors eminent - answer ✅✅(adj.) of high rank in station or quality; (adj.) outstanding in character or performance; (adj.) towering or standing above others emollient - answer ✅✅(adj.) softening and soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh or abrasive enamored - answer ✅✅(adj.) inspired by love; captivated; (adj.) marked by foolish or unreasoning fondness encroach - answer ✅✅(v.) to advance beyond proper, established or usual limits; (v.) to trespass upon the domain, property or rights of another individual or organization endue - answer ✅✅(v.) to gift or provide with a quality or trait; (v.) to put on (a piece of clothing) engross - answer ✅✅(v.) to exclusively occupy; (v.) absorb; (v.) to acquire most or all of a commodity or market enhance - answer ✅✅(v.) to make greater in beauty, effectiveness or value; (v.) to provide with improved or enhanced features ennui - answer ✅✅(n.) listlessness and dissatisfaction; (n.) boredom enthrall - answer ✅✅(v.) to captivate or interest; (v.) to enslave entity - answer ✅✅(n.) something that exists as a particular unit; (n.) the fact of existence, being; (n.) the existence of something considered separate from its properties ephemeral: (adj.) lasting a very short time; transitory; (adj.) lasting only one day epilogue - answer ✅✅(n.) a short poem or speech directed to the audience, given at the end of a play; (n.) the performer who delivers such a poem or speech; a short addition or concluding section at the end of a literary work epitaph - answer ✅✅(n.) an inscription on a monument or tombstone in memory of the person buried there within; (n.) a commemoration for someone who has died equable - answer ✅✅(adj.) free from many changes or variations; (adj.) uniform equanimity - answer ✅✅(n.) the quality of being calm, composed, even-tempered and stable errant - answer ✅✅(adj.) roving; (adj.) straying from the appropriate course of action or standards eschew - answer ✅✅(v.) to abstain or keep away from; (v.) to shun or avoid extrinsic - answer ✅✅(adj.) not essential or inherent qualities; (adj.) outward or external exude - answer ✅✅(v.) to discharge or emit; (v.) to exhibit fabricate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make up or create; (v.) to concoct in an effort to deceive someone facile - answer ✅✅(adj.) easily accomplished or attained; (adj.) expressing yourself readily or clearly fain - answer ✅✅(adv.) gladly, willingly; (adj.) content, willing; (v.) to wish or desire fastidious: (adj.) displaying careful attention to detail; (adj.) difficult to please; (adj.) excessively meticulous faux pas - answer ✅✅(n.) a mistake, blunder or indiscretion fawn - answer ✅✅(v.) to flatter or grovel, (v.) to seek notice or favor fecundity - answer ✅✅(n.) fruitfulness or fertility, the capacity of plentiful production feign - answer ✅✅(v.) to invent or represent fictitiously; (v.) to imitate deceptively fete - answer ✅✅(n.) a day of celebration or holiday; (n.) a festival fiasco - answer ✅✅(n.) a complete and utter failure fiat - answer ✅✅(n.) a capricious order or decree, an authoritative sanction fiduciary - answer ✅✅(n.) a person to whom property and/or property is entrusted figment - answer ✅✅(n.) something that is fabricated or made up finesse - answer ✅✅(n.) delicacy and/or refinement in performance; skillful and tactful diplomacy finicky - answer ✅✅(adj.) choosy, difficult to please flaccid - answer ✅✅(adj.) soft and limp; weak flamboyant - answer ✅✅(adj.) strikingly bold or showy, flashy; (adj.) ornate fledgling - answer ✅✅(n.) a newborn bird that recently acquired its feathers; (n.) an inexperienced person fluctuation - answer ✅✅(n.) continual change from one point to another, particularly related to a pitch or tone in one's voice fluency - answer ✅✅(n.) spoken or written with ease, particularly as related to a language; (adj.) easy and graceful; flowing foible - answer ✅✅(n.) a defect, flaw or weakness in a character foist - answer ✅✅(v.) to force another to accept especially by stealth or deceit forbearance - answer ✅✅(n.) tolerance in the face of challenge; (n.) patience forte - answer ✅✅(n.) a strong point or skill in which one excels; (n.) the stronger part of a sword blade germane - answer ✅✅(adj.) connected and relevant gestate - answer ✅✅(v.) to carry life from the point of conception to birth; (v.) to conceive and/or develop in the mind gesticulation - answer ✅✅(n.) a vigorous motion or gesture glib - answer ✅✅(adj.) lacking intellectual depth or capacity; (adj.) possessing only superficial plausibility; (adj.) persuasive in speech gloaming - answer ✅✅(n.) the time of day that immediately follows the sunset glut - answer ✅✅(v.) to fill (usually with food) beyond capacity; (v.) to flood (a market) with a plethora of goods to cause supply to exceed demand glutinous - answer ✅✅(adj.) having sticky and adhesive properties goad - answer ✅✅(n.) a long stick with a pointed end, used for prodding animals; (n.) a stimulus or means of urging gorge - answer ✅✅(n.) a deep ravine (usually with a river passing through it); to overeat gourmand - answer ✅✅(n.) a lover of food gratuity: (n.) money paid which exceeds the amount due, such as in to a waitress or bellhop hazardous - answer ✅✅(adj.) risky; (adj.) dependent on chance heinous - answer ✅✅(adj.) atrocious, utterly reprehensible heresy - answer ✅✅(n.) an opinion or doctrine that is at odds with what is considered orthodox for a given situation or Institution, particularly in relation to religion hierarchy - answer ✅✅(n.) a system that involves ranking persons or groups of people above one another; (n.) an organized, governing body hirsute - answer ✅✅(adj.) covered with hair; (adj.) furry hoodwink - answer ✅✅(v.) to deceive or trick holster - answer ✅✅(n.) a leather or fabric case that is used for the purposes of holding a firearm in place; (n.) a case for carrying a small item hortatory - answer ✅✅(n.) urging toward a certain choice of behavior or action hubbub - answer ✅✅(n.) loud noise; (n.) confusion humane - answer ✅✅(n.) characterized by sympathy and caring for people; (adj.) relating to human studies hummock - answer ✅✅(n.) a hill or mound hyperbole - answer ✅✅(n.) an intentional exaggeration and/or embellishment regarding facts or circumstances; (n.) an overstatement hypothecate - answer ✅✅(v.) to pledge to a given creditor without offering any form of security, as in a mortgage hypothetical - answer ✅✅(adj.) speculative and theoretical in nature; unconfirmed idiosyncrasy - answer ✅✅(n.) a peculiarity or quirk in one's given disposition or behavior imputation - answer ✅✅(n.) a charge or accusation; (n.) an insinuation inane - answer ✅✅(adj.) lacking sense or sincere significance absurd; (adj.) immature incessant - answer ✅✅(adj.) continuing without interruption(s); (adj.) ; constant, ceaseless incontinent - answer ✅✅(adj.) uncontrolled and/or unrestrained, particularly in bodily function incontrovertible - answer ✅✅(adj.) not open for dispute or question; (adj.) irrefutable incredulous - answer ✅✅(adj.) skeptical and disbelieving; (adj.) dubious inculcate - answer ✅✅(v.) to instill by means of earnest and persistent repetition indict - answer ✅✅(v.) to officially charge or accuse, particularly in a court of law inept - answer ✅✅(adj.) unskilled and incompetent inertia - answer ✅✅(n.) inactivity- specifically in regards to motion inference - answer ✅✅(n.) a deduction or supposition about someone or something not arrived at through purely logical means infraction - answer ✅✅(n.) a violation or breech of a rule or contract iniquitous - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by wickedness and/or injustice; (adj.) sinful, immoral innuendo - answer ✅✅(n.) a subtle suggestion or implication inordinate - answer ✅✅(adj.) excessive and unwarranted; (adj.) overwhelming insidious - answer ✅✅(adj.) sinister and dangerous intrepid - answer ✅✅(adj.) courageous, fearless and brave intrinsic - answer ✅✅(adj.) essential to the nature of someone or something inundate - answer ✅✅(v.) to flood or overwhelm in an excessive manner irreparable - answer ✅✅(adj.) permanent (damage) beyond repair iterate - answer ✅✅(v.) to utter repeatedly, or in repetition jaundiced - answer ✅✅(adj.) affected with or colored by jaundice; (adj.) cynical, jaded; (adj.) full of prejudice jejune - answer ✅✅(adj.) unsophisticated and sophomoric; (adj.) elementary jeopardy - answer ✅✅(n.) risk of death, loss, harm or injury; (n.) danger jettison - answer ✅✅(v.) to cast objects overboard in an effort to improve the stability of a moving object; (v.) to throw off something burdensome jocose - answer ✅✅(adj.) given to joking and humor lucent - answer ✅✅(adj.) clear; semi-transparent; (adj.) transparent lucid - answer ✅✅(adj.) clear and cogent; (adj.) articulate and well- spoken; (adj.) rational, cool-headed lugubrious - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by sadness; (adj.) mournful, dismal luminous: (adj.) radiating or reflecting light, shining; (adj.) brilliant luster - answer ✅✅(adj.) the state or quality of reflecting light, shine; (adj.) radiance of beauty machinate - answer ✅✅(v.) to contrive or plot; (v.) to conspire malediction - answer ✅✅(n.) a curse; (n.) the uttering of a curse malefactor - answer ✅✅(n.) a person who violates the law; (n.) reprobate malignant - answer ✅✅(adj.) evil and spiteful, showing ill-will and/or hatred towards others malingerer - answer ✅✅(v.) to feign illness, particularly in an effort to avoid duty or work masticate - answer ✅✅(v.) to chew; (v.) to reduce to a pulp by squashing or compressing mediocre - answer ✅✅(adj.) of moderate or ordinary quality mellifluous - answer ✅✅(adj.) smoothly flowing; (adj.) sweetened with honey menial - answer ✅✅(adj.) lowly and degrading, particularly in relation to work; (adj.) servile and submissive mettle - answer ✅✅(adj.) courage, fortitude minion - answer ✅✅(n.) a subordinate or underling misgivings - answer ✅✅(n.) doubts, uncertainties, reservations mishap - answer ✅✅(n.) an accident, calamity or disaster of an accidental nature modish - answer ✅✅(adj.) stylish, trendy morbid - answer ✅✅(adj.) implying an unhealthy state, attitude or interest in death; (adj.) gruesome, grisly mordant - answer ✅✅(adj.) caustic or sarcastic; (adj.) corrosive morose - answer ✅✅(adj.) melancholy, gloomy mulct - answer ✅✅(v.) to defraud or deprive someone of something munificent - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by generosity mutable - answer ✅✅(adj.) able to be adapted or changed; (adj.) capricious myriad - answer ✅✅(n.) an indefinite or unlimited number of person or things; (n.) ten thousand nadir - answer ✅✅(n.) a low point or "rock bottom, in terms of adversity or despair nauseate - answer ✅✅(v.) to sicken or disgust offal - answer ✅✅(n.) the parts of a butchered animal considered inedible for human beings; (n.) rubbish, garbage olfactory: (adj.) relating to the sense of smell omniscient - answer ✅✅(adj.) having complete and unlimited knowledge, awareness and understanding omnivorous - answer ✅✅(adj.) eating both animal and plant based foods onus - answer ✅✅(n.) a burdensome responsibility; burden of proof opportunist - answer ✅✅(n.) one who seized prospective opportunities; (n.) pioneer, trailblazer opprobrious - answer ✅✅(adj.) expressing of disdainful reproach; (adj.) conduct that yields disgrace or infamy ostensible - answer ✅✅(adj.) apparent and inconspicuous pacify - answer ✅✅(v.) to bring about or restore a peaceful state of mind; (v.) to appease; (v.) to subdue into submission, particularly by the use of military force palliate - answer ✅✅(v.) to relieve or lessen; (v.) to mitigate paltry - answer ✅✅(adj.) measly; (adj.) wretched (नीच) (Tag: Hindi pal means moment in hindi,its very small...so can b neglected when we r wasting hrs on facebook:)) panacea - answer ✅✅(n.) a remedy for all ailments, illnesses or disease; (n.) an answer or solution for all problems(राम - बाण ,IS WORD sound like pan of asia,which suggest remedy for all problems occuring in asia.) panoply - answer ✅✅(n.) a diverse range or display; (n.) a whole suit of armor; (n.) ceremonial attire(ठाट - बाट, रक्षा) paradox - answer ✅✅(n.) a statement or circumstance which seems intrinsically self-contradictory; (n.) any person thing or circumstance which displays an inherently contradictory nature paragon - answer ✅✅(n.) a model or archetype of excellence; (v.) to compare pariah - answer ✅✅(n.) an outcast; (n.) a person or animal that is overtly avoided parsimonious - answer ✅✅(adj.) excessively thrifty and economical; (adj.) cheap(हकफायती) (Tag: English a person who is not willing to spend money from his purse - Purse = MY money!) pathos - answer ✅✅(n.) that which invokes and arouses feelings of awe, pity or sorry; (n.) the feeling of pity and arousal peculation - answer ✅✅(n.) the fraudulent misuse of funds or property entrusted to you but not owned by you; (n.) embezzlement pecuniary: (adj.) of or relating to money ((Tag: hindi) pecu(paise) +la(leke)+ation(station) , i.e. , paise leke station bhaag jaana) penance - answer ✅✅(n.) a punishment to atone for a sin; an atonement (पछतावा 'penance' can be read as 'pain on us' what we take as a punishment on ourself for our sins.) perfunctory: (adj.) performed out of routine or duty; (adj.) lacking genuine or sincere interest (PARAI(other's)+FACTORY - if you are told to take care of somebody else's factory, you would casually care about it) perjury - answer ✅✅(n.) the intentional giving of false statements while under sworn oath in a court of law (झठूी गवािी) (per(phir)+jury -> jury ke saamne saach batt sy phir jana) perspicacious - answer ✅✅(adj.) having acute mental perception and understanding (तीक्ष्ण - बुस्ि,भेदक) probity - answer ✅✅(n.) integrity and honor; (n.) decency (ईमानदारी) ( basically this word is taken from latin probus..means honesty) prodigal - answer ✅✅(adj.) lavish and wasteful; (adj.) uncontrolled promulgate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make known, particularly one's opinions or theories; (v.) to publicize; (v.) to publicly teach a doctrine or creed (Prom (promote)+ul+gate. So promoting something out of the gate, i.e. to make known by opening the gate (or opening declaration) to everyone out there.)) propensity - answer ✅✅(n.) a tendency or inclination toward something; (n.) a predisposition propound - answer ✅✅(v.) to put forward or offer; (v.) to propose or promote prototype - answer ✅✅(n.) an example or mode; (n.) a trial product provoke - answer ✅✅(v.) to aggravate, incite or irritate; (v.) to cause or bring about puerile - answer ✅✅(adj.) childish and immature pugnacious - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by an aggressive and contentious nature punctilious - answer ✅✅(adj.) meticulous and scrupulous in nature; (adj.) socially correct and proper purport - answer ✅✅(v.) to assert, claim or declare; to imply or suggest; (n.) significance, importance putrid - answer ✅✅(adj.) in a state of decay or decomposition; (adj.) rotten; (adj.) rank quagmire - answer ✅✅(n.) a situation or predicament from which disentanglement proves difficult; (n.) a swamp or marsh (दिदि) quay - answer ✅✅(n.) a dock or pier constructed along the edge of a body of water queasy - answer ✅✅(adj.) inclined to or experiencing nausea quiescent - answer ✅✅(adj.) at rest; (adj.) inactive quietude - answer ✅✅(n.) tranquility and stillness; (n.) peacefulness quixotic - answer ✅✅(adj.) idealistic in an unrealistic manner, (adj.) dreamy ramification - answer ✅✅(n.) a development, consequence or outcome that results from a problem rancid - answer ✅✅(adj.) sour, rotten (ran+cid..ran(rank)+cid(acid)...rank means bad smell..and a acid which smell bad) raucous - answer ✅✅(adj.) harsh and strident; wild, (adj.) boisterous ravage - answer ✅✅(v.) to devastate and destroy;( नाश करना) (v.) to plunder and ransack ( िूट) recapitulate: (v.) to repeat in a concise and succinct manner; (v.) to summarize or reiterate recession - answer ✅✅(n.) a depression or decline rustic - answer ✅✅(adj.) rural, country; pastoral sacrilegious - answer ✅✅(adj.) expressing of irreverence toward what is held sacred sagacious - answer ✅✅(adj.) showing keen discernment and exemplary judgment salient - answer ✅✅(adj.) prominent, markedly conspicuous salubrious - answer ✅✅(adj.) favorable to and fostering of body and/or mind health salutary - answer ✅✅(adj.) beneficial, constructive sangfroid - answer ✅✅(n.) coolness and composure, especially amidst trying and challenging circumstances sanguine - answer ✅✅(adj.) confident and optimistic, upbeat sardonic - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by a scornful and derisive attitude or nature satiate - answer ✅✅(v.) to supply in excess, (v.) to more than fully satisfy ( I SAT & ATE till I was full) scrupulous - answer ✅✅(adj.) characterized by a conscientious and meticulous nature seethe - answer ✅✅(v.) to churn, boil; (v.) to fume or boil with rage; (v.) to teem, swarm sequester - answer ✅✅(v.) to remove or withdraw into solitude; (v.) to remove or separate serrated - answer ✅✅(adj.) possessing a jagged or saw-like edge shoal - answer ✅✅(n.) a place in which a body of water is shallow; any large number of people or things (v.) to cause to become shallow simulate - answer ✅✅(v.) to create a model, representation or recreation of skeptic - answer ✅✅(n.) one characterized by a cynical and doubting nature skimp - answer ✅✅(v.) to sparingly withhold slander - answer ✅✅(n.) defamation; words falsely spoken that damage someone's reputation sloth - answer ✅✅(n.) laziness and apathy, a disinclination toward work slough - answer ✅✅(n.) the out layer of the skin; (v.) to shed or cast off smattering - answer ✅✅(n.) a superficial knowledge of something somatic - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or related to the body, physical sophomoric - answer ✅✅(adj.) immature or overconfident and conceited spate: (n.) a sudden outpouring or overwhelm specious - answer ✅✅(adj.) false, bogus squalid - answer ✅✅(adj.) unclean to the degree of filth; (adj.) seedy or immoral squander - answer ✅✅(v.) to waste or throw away tantalize - answer ✅✅(v.) to torment and/or torture ; (v.) to excite or entice tantamount - answer ✅✅(adj.) equivalent in value and/or force taut - answer ✅✅(adj.) tight, rigid and staff; (adj.) tense, worried tedium - answer ✅✅(n.) the quality or state of being worrisome temporal - answer ✅✅(adj.) chronological and sequential; (adj.) earthly and secular tenebrous - answer ✅✅(adj.) dark or gloomy tenet - answer ✅✅(n.) an opinion, principle or doctrine tepid - answer ✅✅(adj.) lukewarm, halfhearted; moderate terrestrial - answer ✅✅(adj.) earthly and worldly testy - answer ✅✅(adj.) bad-tempered, crotchety, touchy throes - answer ✅✅(n.) a violent spasm or pain; (n.) a condition of agonizing struggle timidity - answer ✅✅(adj.) lacking in self-assurance or courage; (n.) nervousness and apprehensiveness timorous - answer ✅✅(adj.) fearful titillate - answer ✅✅(v.) to excite or arouse; (v.) to tickle by lightly stroking tome: (v.) a book or volume toxic - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or relating to a poisonous and potentially lethal nature translucent - answer ✅✅(adj.) transparent; (adj.) easily understood travail - answer ✅✅(n.) a painfully difficult and burdensome work trek - answer ✅✅(v.) to make a slow and steady journey; (n.) a hike or walk trepidation - answer ✅✅(n.) fear, apprehension; disquiet troth - answer ✅✅(n.) faithfulness and fidelity; (n.) truth or verity truncate - answer ✅✅(adj.) terminating abruptly by having an end or cut off point; (v.) to approximate by ignoring all terms aside from an elect one; to shorten or abbreviate turbid - answer ✅✅(adj.) muddy due to sediment or foreign particles; (adj.) heavy, dark or dense; (adj.) in a state of turmoil turpitude - answer ✅✅(n.) vile and baseless depravity; (n.) a base act ubiquitous - answer ✅✅(adj.) existing or being everywhere at the same time; (adj.) omnipresent umbrage - answer ✅✅(n.) a feeling of anger, usually caused by offense; (n.) indignation unanimity - answer ✅✅(adj.) complete agreement and accord uncanny - answer ✅✅(adj.) unsettling in an eerie and mysterious way; (adj.) mysterious, creepy vestige - answer ✅✅(n.) a trace, mark or indication; (n.) evidence viable - answer ✅✅(adj.) capable of life and development; (adj.) feasible and practical victuals - answer ✅✅(n.) food supplies (fit for human consumption) vindictive - answer ✅✅(adj.) malicious, bitter, mean or cruel vitiate - answer ✅✅(v.) to impair or reduce the quality of vivacious - answer ✅✅(adj.) lively and full of spiritedness volition - answer ✅✅(n.) the act of making a willful and conscious decision; (n.) a conscious choice; (n.) the will vouchsafe - answer ✅✅(v.) to grant in a condescending method wane - answer ✅✅(v.) to decrease in strength or intensity; to draw to a close; (n.) a gradual decrease or decline; the waning of the moon wanton - answer ✅✅(adj.) willful and unprovoked; (adj.) immoral; (adj.) merciless; (adj.) excessively (adj.) unrestrained; (adj.) playful; (adj.) spoiled welkin - answer ✅✅(n.) sky welter - answer ✅✅(v.) to heave, roll or toss; to lie bathed in; (n.) a flurry or muddle whorl - answer ✅✅(v.) to spiral or twist witticism - answer ✅✅(n.) a witty remark or message wraith - answer ✅✅(n.) an apparition or phantom wreak - answer ✅✅(v.) to inflict vengeance upon a person; (v.) to punish; (v.) to vent; (v.) to bring about( wreak sounds like break..so if you break somebody head...you will definately be inflicted some punishment) xenophobe - answer ✅✅(n.) a person who is afraid of foreigners and their customs yank - answer ✅✅(v.) to abruptly pull with a strong movement; (v.) to jerk yelp - answer ✅✅(v.) to utter a quick and sharp cry, as a result of pain zeal - answer ✅✅(n.) passion for a person, cause or desire; (n.) fervor zenith - answer ✅✅(n.) a peak or summit; (n.) the highest point or station