SENTENCE REPLACEMENT SAT PRACTICE

SAT MATH LESS-MORE-LESS THAN EQUAL TO-MORE THAN EQUAL TO

SAT MATH ARITHMETIC

COMPLEMENTARY-SUPPLEMENTARY ANGLES

Two Angles are Complementary if they add up to 90 degrees 
(a Right Angle).






Two Angles are Supplementary if they add up to 180 degrees

MATH SAT PYTHAGOREAN THEORUM

A corollary of the Pythagorean theorem's converse is a simple means of determining whether a triangle is right, obtuse, or acute, as follows. Where c is chosen to be the longest of the three sides anda + b > c (otherwise there is no triangle according to the triangle inequality). The following statements apply:^[28]

• If a² + b² = c², then the triangle is right.
• If a² + b² > c², then the triangle is acute.
• If a² + b² < c², then the triangle is obtuse.

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W-Z

waif n. A homeless, neglected wanderer.
waive v. To relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim.
wampum n. Beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency.
wane v. To diminish in size and brilliancy.
wantonness n. Recklessness.
weal n. Well-being.
wean v. To transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment.
wearisome adj. Fatiguing.
wherewith n. The necessary means or resources.
whet v. To make more keen or eager.
whimsical adj. Capricious.
wholly adv. Completely.
wile n. An act or a means of cunning deception.
winsome adj. Attractive.
wintry adj. Lacking warmth of manner.
wiry adj. Thin, but tough and sinewy.
witticism n. A witty, brilliant, or original saying or sentiment.
wittingly adv. With knowledge and by design.
wizen v. To become or cause to become withered or dry.
wizen-faced adj. Having a shriveled face.
wrangle v. To maintain by noisy argument or dispute.
wrest v. To pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing.
wry adj. Deviating from that which is proper or right.
zealot n. One who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner.
zeitgeist n. The intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch.
zenith n. The culminating-point of prosperity, influence, or greatness.
zephyr n. Any soft, gentle wind.

V

vacillate v. To waver.
vacuous adj. Empty.
vagabond n. A wanderer.
vagrant n. An idle wanderer.
vainglory n. Excessive, pretentious, and demonstrative vanity.
vale n. Level or low land between hills.
valediction n. A bidding farewell.
valedictorian n. Student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution.
valedictory n. A parting address.
valorous adj. Courageous.
vaudeville n. A variety show.
vehement adj. Very eager or urgent.
venal adj. Mercenary, corrupt.
vendition n. The act of selling.
veneer n. Outside show or elegance.
venerable adj. Meriting or commanding high esteem.
venerate v. To cherish reverentially.
venial adj. That may be pardoned or forgiven, a forgivable sin.
venison n. The flesh of deer.
venous adj. Of, pertaining to, or contained or carried in a vein or veins.
veracious adj. Habitually disposed to speak the truth.
veracity n. Truthfulness.
verily adv. In truth.
verity n. Truth.
vermin n. A noxious or troublesome animal.
vernacular n. The language of one's country.
vernal adj. Belonging to or suggestive of the spring.
versatile adj. Having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects.
vestige n. A visible trace, mark, or impression, of something absent, lost, or gone.
viceroy n. A ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province.
vicissitude n. A change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune.
vie v. To contend.
vigilant adj. Being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety.
vignette n. A picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually.
vincible adj. Conquerable.
vindicatory adj. Punitive.
vindicative adj. Revengeful.
violoncello n. A stringed instrument held between the player's knees.
virulence n. Extreme poisonousness.
visage n. The face, countenance, or look of a person.
viscount n. In England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage.
vitality n. The state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance.
vitalize v. To endow with life or energy.
vitiate v. To contaminate.
vituperable adj. Deserving of censure.
vivisection n. The dissection of a living animal.
vociferance n. The quality of making a clamor.
vociferate v. To utter with a loud and vehement voice.
vociferous adj. Making a loud outcry.
volant adj. Flying or able to fly.
volatile adj. Changeable.
volition n. An act or exercise of will.
volitive adj. Exercising the will.
voluble adj. Having great fluency in speaking.
votary adj. Consecrated by a vow or promise.
votive adj. Dedicated by a vow.

U

ubiquitous adj. Being present everywhere.
ulterior adj. Not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of.
ultimatum n. A final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions.
ultramundane adj. Pertaining to supernatural things or to another life.
ultramontane adj. Beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side).
umbrage n. A sense of injury.
unaccountable adj. Inexplicable.
unavoidable adj. Inevitable.
unbecoming adj. Unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings.
unbiased adj. Impartial, as judgment.
unbridled adj. Being without restraint.
unctuous adj. Oily.
underling n. A subordinate.
undermine v. To subvert in an underhand way.
underrate v. To undervalue.
understate v. To fail to put strongly enough, as a case.
undulate v. To move like a wave or in waves.
undulous adj. Resembling waves.
ungainly adj. Clumsy.
unguent n. Any ointment or lubricant for local application.
unicellular adj. Consisting of a single cell.
univalence n. Monovalency.
unison n. A condition of perfect agreement and accord.
unisonant adj. Being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord.
unsettle v. To put into confusion.
untoward adj. Causing annoyance or hindrance.
unwieldy adj. Moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape.
unyoke v. To separate.
upbraid v. To reproach as deserving blame.
upheaval n. Overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition.
upheave v. To raise or lift with effort.
uppermost adj. First in order of precedence.
uproarious adj. Noisy.
uproot v. To eradicate.
upturn v. To throw into confusion.
urchin n. A roguish, mischievous boy.
usurious adj. Taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned.
usurp v. To take possession of by force.
usury n. The demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law.
utilitarianism n. The ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency.
utmost n. The greatest possible extent.

T

tacit adj. Understood.
taciturn adj. Disinclined to conversation.
tannery n. A place where leather is tanned.
tantamount adj. Having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import.
taut adj. Stretched tight.
teem v. To be full to overflowing.
temerity n. Recklessness.
tempter n. An allurer or enticer to evil.
tenant n. An occupant.
tenet n. Any opinion, principle, dogma, or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true.
tenor n. A settled course or manner of progress.
tentative adj. Done as an experiment.
tenure n. The term during which a thing is held.
termagant adj. Violently abusive and quarrelsome.
terminal adj. Pertaining to or creative of a boundary, limit.
terminus n. The final point or goal.
terse adj. Pithy.
thoroughfare n. A public street or road.
thrall n. One controlled by an appetite or a passion.
tilth n. Cultivation.
timbre n. The quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch.
timorous adj. Lacking courage.
tincture n. A solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine.
tirade n. Harangue.
topography n. The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy.
torpor n. Apathy.
torrid adj. Excessively hot.
tortious adj. Wrongful.
tractable adj. Easily led or controlled.
trajectory n. The path described by a projectile moving under given forces.
trammel n. An impediment.
transalpine adj. Situated on the other side of the Alps.
transact v. To do business.
transatlantic adj. Situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic.
transcend v. To surpass.
transcendent adj. Surpassing.
transcontinental adj. Extending or passing across a continent.
transience n. Something that is of short duration.
transient n. One who or that which is only of temporary existence.
transitory adj. Existing for a short time only.
translucence n. The property or state of allowing the passage of light.
transmute v. To change in nature, substance, or form.
transparent adj. Easy to see through or understand.
travail n. Hard or agonizing labor.
travesty n. A grotesque imitation.
treatise n. An elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts.
trebly adv. Triply.
trenchant adj. Cutting deeply and quickly.
trepidation n. Nervous uncertainty of feeling.
trestle n. An open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge.
tribune n. Any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper.
triennial adj. Taking place every third year.
trinity n. A threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance.
trite adj. Made commonplace by frequent repetition.
triumvir n. One of three men united coordinately in public office or authority.
turgid adj. Swollen.
turpitude n. Depravity.
tutelage n. The act of training or the state of being under instruction.
tutelar adj. Protective.
twinge n. A darting momentary local pain.
tyrannical adj. Despotic.
tyro n. One slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession.

S

sacrificial adj. Offering or offered as an atonement for sin.
sacrilege n. The act of violating or profaning anything sacred.
sacrilegious adj. Impious.
sagacious adj. Able to discern and distinguish with wise perception.
salacious adj. Having strong sexual desires.
salience n. The condition of standing out distinctly.
salient adj. Standing out prominently.
salutary adj. Beneficial.
salutatory n. The opening oration at the commencement in American colleges.
salvage n. Any act of saving property.
salvo n. A salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer.
sanctimonious adj. Making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety.
sanction v. To approve authoritatively.
sanctity n. Holiness.
sanguinary adj. Bloody.
sanguine adj. Having the color of blood.
sanguineous adj. Consisting of blood.
sapid adj. Affecting the sense of taste.
sapience n. Deep wisdom or knowledge.
sapient adj. Possessing wisdom.
sapiential adj. Possessing wisdom.
saponaceous adj. Having the nature or quality of soap.
sardonic adj. Scornfully or bitterly sarcastic.
satiate v. To satisfy fully the appetite or desire of.
satire n. The employment of sarcasm, irony, or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices.
satiric adj. Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
satirize v. To treat with sarcasm or derisive wit.
satyr n. A very lascivious person.
scabbard n. The sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon.
scintilla n. The faintest ray.
scintillate v. To emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light.
scribe n. One who writes or is skilled in writing.
scruple n. Doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty.
scrupulous adj. Cautious in action for fear of doing wrong.
scurrilous adj. Grossly indecent or vulgar.
scuttle v. To sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom.
seance n. A meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits.
sear v. To burn on the surface.
sebaceous adj. Pertaining to or appearing like fat.
secant adj. Cutting, especially into two parts.
secede v. To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
secession n. Voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies.
sedate adj. Even-tempered.
sedentary adj. Involving or requiring much sitting.
sediment n. Matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid.
sedition n. Conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
seditious adj. Promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state.
sedulous adj. Persevering in effort or endeavor.
seer n. A prophet.
seethe v. To be violently excited or agitated.
seignior n. A title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir.
semblance n. Outward appearance.
semiconscious adj. Partially conscious.
seminar n. Any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher.
seminary n. A special school, as of theology or pedagogics.
sensorium n. The sensory apparatus.
sentinel n. Any guard or watch stationed for protection.
separable adj. Capable of being disjoined or divided.
separatist n. A seceder.
septennial adj. Recurring every seven years.
sepulcher n. A burial-place.
sequacious adj. Ready to be led.
sequester v. To cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life.
sequestrate v. To confiscate.
servitude n. Slavery.
shiftless adj. Wanting in resource, energy, or executive ability.
shrinkage n. A contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension.
shrivel v. To draw or be drawn into wrinkles.
sibilant adj. Made with a hissing sound.
sibilate v. To give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s.
sidelong adj. Inclining or tending to one side.
sidereal adj. Pertaining to stars or constellations.
siege n. A beleaguerment.
similitude n. Similarity.
simultaneous adj. Occurring, done, or existing at the same time.
sinecure n. Any position having emoluments with few or no duties.
sinuosity n. The quality of curving in and out.
sinuous adj. Curving in and out.
siren n. A sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla.
sirocco n. hot winds from Africa.
skeptic n. One who doubts any statements.
skiff n. Usually, a small light boat propelled by oars.
skirmish n. Desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies.
sleight n. A trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation.
sluggard n. A person habitually lazy or idle.
solace n. Comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity.
solder n. A fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins.
solecism n. Any violation of established rules or customs.
solicitor n. One who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney.
solicitude n. Uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety, or fear.
solvent adj. Having sufficient funds to pay all debts.
somber adj. Gloomy.
somniferous adj. Tending to produce sleep.
somnolence n. Oppressive drowsiness.
somnolent adj. Sleepy.
sonata n. An instrumental composition.
sonnet n. A poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases.
sonorous adj. Resonant.
soothsayer n. One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
sophism n. A false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive
sophistical adj. Fallacious.
sophistry n. Reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive.
sordid adj. Of degraded character or nature.
sparse adj. Thinly diffused.
spasmodic adj. Convulsive.
specie n. A coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal.
specious adj. Plausible.
spectator n. One who beholds or looks on.
specter n. Apparition.
spectrum n. An image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy.
speculate v. To pursue inquiries and form conjectures.
speculator n. One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit.
spinster n. A woman who has never been married.
spontaneous adj. Arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause.
sprightly adj. Vivacious.
spurious adj. Not genuine.
squabble v. To quarrel.
squalid adj. Having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance.
squatter n. One who settles on land without permission or right.
stagnant adj. Not flowing: said of water, as in a pool.
stagnate v. To become dull or inert.
stagnation n. The condition of not flowing or not changing.
stagy adj. Having a theatrical manner.
staid adj. Of a steady and sober character.
stanchion n. A vertical bar, or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall.
statecraft n. The art of conducting state affairs.
statistician n. One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
statuesque adj. Having the grace, pose, or quietude of a statue.
statuette n. A figurine.
statute n. Any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law.
steppe n. One of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia.
sterling adj. Genuine.
stigma n. A mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing.
stiletto n. A small dagger.
stimulus n. Incentive.
stingy adj. Cheap, unwilling to spend money.
stipend n. A definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance.
Stoicism n. The principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure.
stolid adj. Expressing no power of feeling or perceiving.
stratagem n. Any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage.
stratum n. A natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material.
streamlet n. Rivulet.
stringency n. Strictness.
stringent adj. Rigid.
stripling n. A mere youth.
stultify v. To give an appearance of foolishness to.
stupendous adj. Of prodigious size, bulk, or degree.
stupor n. Profound lethargy.
suasion n. The act of persuading.
subacid adj. Somewhat sharp or biting.
subconscious adj. Being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception.
subjection n. The act of bringing into a state of submission.
subjugate v. To conquer.
subliminal adj. Being beneath the threshold of consciousness.
sublingual adj. Situated beneath the tongue.
submittal n. The act of submitting.
subordinate adj. Belonging to an inferior order in a classification.
subsequent adj. Following in time.
subservience n. The quality, character, or condition of being servilely following another's behests.
subservient adj. Servilely following another's behests.
subsist v. To be maintained or sustained.
subsistence n. Sustenance.
subtend v. To extend opposite to.
subterfuge n. Evasion.
subterranean adj. Situated or occurring below the surface of the earth.
subtle adj. Discriminating.
subtrahend n. That which is to be subtracted.
subversion n. An overthrow, as from the foundation.
subvert v. To bring to ruin.
succinct adj. Concise.
succumb v. To cease to resist.
sufferance n. Toleration.
suffuse v. To cover or fill the surface of.
sumptuous adj. Rich and costly.
superabundance n. An excessive amount.
superadd v. To add in addition to what has been added.
superannuate v. To become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service.
supercilious adj. Exhibiting haughty and careless contempt.
superfluity n. That part of anything that is in excess of what is needed.
superfluous adj. Being more than is needed.
superintendence n. Direction and management.
superintendent n. One who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement.
supernumerary adj. Superfluous.
supersede v. To displace.
supine adj. Lying on the back.
supplant v. To take the place of.
supplementary adj. Being an addition to.
supplicant n. One who asks humbly and earnestly.
supplicate v. To beg.
supposition n. Conjecture.
suppress v. To prevent from being disclosed or punished.
suppressible adj. Capable of being suppressed.
suppression n. A forcible putting or keeping down.
supramundane adj. Supernatural.
surcharge n. An additional amount charged.
surety n. Security for payment or performance.
surfeit v. To feed to fullness or to satiety.
surmount v. To overcome by force of will.
surreptitious adj. Clandestine.
surrogate n. One who or that which is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another.
surveyor n. A land-measurer.
sustenance n. Food.
swarthy adj. Having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion.
Sybarite n. A luxurious person.
sycophant n. A servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence.
sylph n. A slender, graceful young woman or girl.
symphonic adj. Characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
symphonious adj. Marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds.
synchronism n. Simultaneousness.
syndicate n. An association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise.
syneresis n. The coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever.
synod n. An ecclesiastical council.

R

radix n. That from or on which something is developed.
raillery n. Good-humored satire.
ramify v. To divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions.
ramose adj. Branch-like.
rampant adj. Growing, climbing, or running without check or restraint.
rampart n. A bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry.
rancor n. Malice.
rankle v. To produce irritation or festering.
rapacious adj. Disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods.
rapine n. The act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war.
rapt adj. Enraptured.
raptorial adj. Seizing and devouring living prey.
ration v. To provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food.
rationalism n. The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
raucous adj. Harsh.
ravine n. A deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water.
rebuff n. A peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches.
rebut v. To oppose by argument or a sufficient answer.
recant v. To withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained).
recapitulate v. To repeat again the principal points of.
recede v. To move back or away.
receptive adj. Having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions.
recessive adj. Having a tendency to go back.
recidivist n. A confirmed criminal.
reciprocal adj. Mutually interchangeable or convertible.
reciprocate v. To give and take mutually.
reciprocity n. Equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed.
recitation n. The act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory.
reck v. To have a care or thought for.
recluse n. One who lives in retirement or seclusion.
reclusory n. A hermitage.
recognizance n. An acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act.
recoil v. To start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread.
reconcilable adj. Capable of being adjusted or harmonized.
reconnoiter v. To make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying, or geological purposes.
recourse n. Resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble.
recreant n. A cowardly or faithless person.
recrudescence n. The state of becoming raw or sore again.
recrudescent adj. Becoming raw or sore again.
rectify v. To correct.
rectitude n. The quality of being upright in principles and conduct.
recur v. To happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals.
redemption n. The recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt.
redolent adj. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
redolence n. Smelling sweet and agreeable.
redoubtable adj. Formidable.
redound n. Rebound.
reducible adj. That may be reduced.
redundance n. Excess.
redundant adj. Constituting an excess.
reestablish v. To restore.
refinery n. A place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified.
refract v. To bend or turn from a direct course.
refractory adj. Not amenable to control.
refragable adj. Capable of being refuted.
refringency n. Power to refract.
refringent adj. Having the power to refract.
refute v. To prove to be wrong.
regale v. To give unusual pleasure.
regalia n. pl. The emblems of royalty.
regent n. One who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler.
regicide n. The killing of a king or sovereign.
regime n. Particular conduct or administration of affairs.
regimen n. A systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits.
regiment n. A body of soldiers.
regnant adj. Exercising royal authority in one's own right.
regress v. To return to a former place or condition.
reimburse v. To pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended.
reinstate v. To restore to a former state, station, or authority.
reiterate v. To say or do again and again.
relegate v. To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
relent v. To yield.
relinquish v. To give up using or having.
reliquary n. A casket, coffer, or repository in which relics are kept.
reluctant adj. Unwilling.
remiss adj. Negligent.
remission n. Temporary diminution of a disease.
remunerate v. To pay or pay for.
remuneration n. Compensation.
rendezvous n. A prearranged place of meeting.
rendition n. Interpretation.
renovate v. To restore after deterioration, as a building.
repartee n. A ready, witty, or apt reply.
repertory n. A place where things are stored or gathered together.
repine v. To indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding.
replete adj. Full to the uttermost.
repository n. A place in which goods are stored.
reprehend v. To find fault with.
reprehensible adj. Censurable.
reprehension n. Expression of blame.
repress v. To keep under restraint or control.
reprieve v. To grant a respite from punishment to.
reprimand v. To chide or rebuke for a fault.
reprisal n. Any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy.
reprobate n. One abandoned to depravity and sin.
repugnance n. Thorough dislike.
repugnant adj. Offensive to taste and feeling.
repute v. To hold in general opinion.
requiem n. A solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead.
requisite adj. Necessary.
requital n. Adequate return for good or ill.
requite v. To repay either good or evil to, as to a person.
rescind v. To make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority.
reseat v. To place in position of office again.
reservoir n. A receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept.
residue n. A remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated.
resilience n. The power of springing back to a former position
resilient adj. Having the quality of springing back to a former position.
resistive adj. Having or exercising the power of resistance.
resistless powerless
resonance adj. Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
resonate v. To have or produce resonance.
respite n. Interval of rest.
resplendent adj. Very bright.
restitution n. Restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs.
resumption n. The act of taking back, or taking again.
resurgent adj. Surging back or again.
resuscitate v. To restore from apparent death.
retaliate v. To repay evil with a similar evil.
retch v. To make an effort to vomit.
retention n. The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession.
reticence n. The quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
reticent adj. Habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance.
retinue n. The body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance.
retrench v. To cut down or reduce in extent or quantity.
retrograde v. To cause to deteriorate or to move backward.
retrogression n. A going or moving backward or in a reverse direction.
retrospect n. A view or contemplation of something past.
retrospective adj. Looking back on the past.
revelation n. A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
revere v. To regard with worshipful veneration.
reverent adj. Humble.
reversion n. A return to or toward some former state or condition.
revile v. To heap approach or abuse upon.
revocation n. Repeal.
revoke v. To rescind.
rhapsody n. Rapt or rapturous utterance.
rhetoric n. The art of discourse.
rhetorician n. A showy writer or speaker.
ribald adj. Indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity.
rife adj. Abundant.
righteousness n. Rectitude.
rigmarole n. Nonsense.
rigor n. Inflexibility.
rigorous adj. Uncompromising.
risible adj. capable of exciting laughter.
rivulet n. A small stream or brook.
rondo n. A musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times.
rookery n. A place where crows congregate to breed.
rotary adj. Turning around its axis, like a wheel, or so constructed as to turn thus.
rote n. Repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention.
rotund adj. Round from fullness or plumpness.
rudimentary adj. Being in an initial, early, or incomplete stage of development.
rue v. To regret extremely.
ruffian adj. A lawless or recklessly brutal fellow.
ruminant adj. Chewing the cud.
ruminate v. To chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated.
rupture v. To separate the parts of by violence.
rustic adj. Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
ruth n. Sorrow for another's misery.

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quadrate v. To divide into quarters.
qualm n. A fit of nausea.
quandary n. A puzzling predicament.
quantity n. Magnitude.
quartet n. A composition for four voices or four instruments.
quarto n. An eight-page newspaper of any size.
quay n. A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
queue n. A file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance.
quiescence n. Quiet.
quiescent adj. Being in a state of repose or inaction.
quietus n. A silencing, suppressing, or ending.
quintessence n. The most essential part of anything.
quintet n. Musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments.
Quixotic adj. Chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree.

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pacify v. To bring into a peaceful state.
pact n. A covenant.
palatial adj. Magnificent.
paleontology n. The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
palinode n. A retraction.
pall v. To make dull by satiety.
palliate v. To cause to appear less guilty.
pallid adj. Of a pale or wan appearance.
palpable n. perceptible by feeling or touch.
paly adj. Lacking color or brilliancy.
pamphleteer v. To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
panacea n. A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
pandemonium n. A fiendish or riotous uproar.
panegyric n. A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
panoply n. A full set of armor.
panorama n. A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
pantheism n. The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
Pantheon n. A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
pantomime n. Sign-language.
pantoscope n. A very wide-angled photographic lens.
papacy n. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
paradox n. A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
paramour n. One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
paraphernalia n. Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
pare v. To cut, shave, or remove (the outside) from anything.
Pariah n. A member of a degraded class; a social outcast.
parity n. Equality, as of condition or rank.
parlance n. Mode of speech.
parley v. To converse in.
paroxysm n. A sudden outburst of any kind of activity.
parricide n. The murder of a parent.
parse v. To describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word.
parsimonious adj. Unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money.
partition n. That which separates anything into distinct parts.
pastoral adj. Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
pathos n. The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
patriarch n. The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
patrician adj. Of senatorial or noble rank.
patrimony n. An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
paucity n. Fewness.
pauper n. One without means of support.
pauperism n. Dependence on charity.
peccable adj. Capable of sinning.
peccadillo n. A small breach of propriety or principle.
peccant adj. Guilty.
pectoral adj. Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
pecuniary adj. Consisting of money.
pedagogics n. The science and art of teaching.
pedagogue n. A schoolmaster.
pedagogy n. The science and art of teaching
pedant n. A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
peddle v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
pedestal n. A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
pediatrics n. The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood.
peddler n. One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
peerage n. The nobility.
peerless adj. Of unequaled excellence or worth.
pellucid adj. Translucent.
penchant n. A bias in favor of something.
pendulous adj. Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
pendulum n. A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock.
peninsular adj. Pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
penitence n. Sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
penitential adj. Pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone.
pennant n. A small flag.
pension n. A periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her.
pentad n. The number five.
pentahedron n. A solid bounded by five plane faces.
pentathlon n. The contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants.
penultimate adj. A syllable or member of a series that is last but one.
penurious adj. Excessively sparing in the use of money.
penury n. Indigence.
perambulate v. To walk about.
perceptible adj. Cognizable.
percipience n. The act of perceiving.
percolate v. To filter.
percolator n. A filter.
peremptory adj. Precluding question or appeal.
perennial adj. Continuing though the year or through many years.
perforate v. To make a hole or holes through.
perfunctory adj. Half-hearted.
perigee n. The point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth.
peripatetic adj. Walking about.
perjure v. To swear falsely to.
perjury n. A solemn assertion of a falsity.
permanence n. A continuance in the same state, or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature.
permanent adj. Durable.
permeate v. To pervade.
permissible adj. That may be allowed.
permutation n. Reciprocal change, different ordering of same items.
pernicious adj. Tending to kill or hurt.
perpetuate v. To preserve from extinction or oblivion.
perquisite n. Any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages.
persiflage n. Banter.
perspicacious adj. Astute.
perspicacity n. Acuteness or discernment.
perspicuous adj. Lucid.
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pertinacious adj. Persistent or unyielding.
pertinacity n. Unyielding adherence.
pertinent adj. Relevant.
perturb v. To disturb greatly.
perturbation n. Mental excitement or confusion.
perusal n. The act of reading carefully or thoughtfully.
pervade v. To pass or spread through every part.
pervasion n. The state of spreading through every part.
pervasive adj. Thoroughly penetrating or permeating.
perverse adj. Unreasonable.
perversion n. Diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose.
perversity n. Wickedness.
pervious adj. Admitting the entrance or passage of another substance.
pestilence n. A raging epidemic.
pestilent adj. Having a malign influence or effect.
pestilential adj. having the nature of or breeding pestilence.
peter v. To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
pharmacopoeia n. A book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists.
philander v. To play at courtship with a woman.
philanthropic adj. Benevolent.
philanthropist n. One who endeavors to help his fellow men.
philanthropy n. Active humanitarianism.
philately n. The study and collection of stamps.
philharmonic adj. Fond of music.
philogynist n. One who is fond of women.
philologist n. An expert in linguistics.
philology n. The study of language in connection with history and literature.
philosophize v. To seek ultimate causes and principles.
phlegmatic adj. Not easily roused to feeling or action.
phonetic adj. Representing articulate sounds or speech.
phonic adj. Pertaining to the nature of sound.
phonogram n. A graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound.
phonology n. The science of human vocal sounds.
phosphorescence n. The property of emitting light.
photoelectric adj. Pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity.
photometer n. Any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights.
photometry n. The art of measuring the intensity of light.
physicist n. A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
physiocracy n. The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
physiognomy n. The external appearance merely.
physiography n. Description of nature.
physiology n. The science of organic functions.
picayune adj. Of small value.
piecemeal adv. Gradually.
pious adj. Religious.
pique v. To excite a slight degree of anger in.
piteous adj. Compassionate.
pitiable adj. Contemptible.
pitiless adj. Hard-hearted.
pittance n. Any small portion or meager allowance.
placate v. To bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness.
placid adj. Serene.
plagiarism n. The stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own.
planisphere n. A polar projection of the heavens on a chart.
platitude n. A written or spoken statement that is flat, dull, or commonplace.
plaudit n. An expression of applause.
plausible adj. Seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt.
plebeian adj. Common.
plenary adj. Entire.
plenipotentiary n. A person fully empowered to transact any business.
plumb n. A weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something.
plummet n. A piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical.
pluperfect adj. Expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action.
plutocracy n. A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
pneumatic adj. Pertaining to or consisting of air or gas.
poetaster n. An inferior poet.
poignancy n. Severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief.
poignant adj. Severely painful or acute to the spirit.
polar adj. Pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth.
polemics n. The art of controversy or disputation.
polyglot adj. Speaking several tongues.
polyhedron n. A solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four.
polytechnic adj. Pertaining to, embracing, or practicing many arts.
pommel v. To beat with something thick or bulky.
pomposity n. The quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
pompous adj. Marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner.
ponderous adj. Unusually weighty or forcible.
pontiff n. The Pope.
portend v. To indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs.
portent n. Anything that indicates what is to happen.
posit v. To present in an orderly manner.
postdate v. To make the date of any writing later than the real date.
posterior n. The hinder part.
postgraduate adj. Pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree.
potency n. Power.
potentate n. One possessed of great power or sway.
potential n. Anything that may be possible.
prate v. To talk about vainly or foolishly.
prattle v. To utter in simple or childish talk.
preamble n. A statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows.
precarious adj. Perilous.
precedential adj. Of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule.
precipice n. A high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff.
precision n. Accuracy of limitation, definition, or adjustment.
precursor n. A forerunner or herald.
predatory adj. Prone to pillaging.
predecessor n. An incumbent of a given office previous to another.
predicament n. A difficult, trying situation or plight.
predicate v. To state as belonging to something.
preeminence n. Special eminence.
preempt v. To secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land.
preemption n. The right or act of purchasing before others.
preface n. A brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book.
prefatory adj. Pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book.
preferment n. Preference.
prehensible adj. Capable of being grasped.
prehensile adj. Adapted for grasping or holding.
prehension n. The act of laying hold of or grasping.
prelacy n. A system of church government.
prelate n. One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
premier adj. First in rank or position.
premise n. A judgment as a conclusion.
premonition n. Foreboding.
preordain v. To foreordain.
preponderant adj. Prevalent.
preponderate v. To exceed in influence or power.
presage v. To foretell.
prescience n. Knowledge of events before they take place.
prescriptible adj. Derived from authoritative direction.
prescription n. An authoritative direction.
presentient adj. Perceiving or feeling beforehand.
presentiment n. Foreboding.
presentment n. Semblance.
pretension n. A bold or presumptuous assertion.
pretentious adj. Marked by pretense, conceit, or display.
preternatural adj. Extraordinary.
prevalent adj. Of wide extent or frequent occurrence.
prevaricate v. To use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention.
prevention n. Thwarting.
priggish adj. Conceited.
primer n. An elementary reading-book for children.
privateer n. A vessel owned and officered by private persons, but carrying on maritime war.
privity n. Knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter.
privy adj. Participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction.
probate adj. Relating to making proof, as of a will.
proctor n. An agent acting for another.
prodigal n. One wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property.
prodigious adj. Immense.
proffer v. To offer to another for acceptance.
profiteer n. One who profits.
profligacy n. Shameless viciousness.
profligate adj. Abandoned to vice.
progeny n. Offspring.
proletarian n. A person of the lowest or poorest class.
prolific adj. Producing offspring or fruit.
prolix adj. Verbose. (A LOT OF WORDS)
promenade v. To walk for amusement or exercise.
prominence n. The quality of being noticeable or distinguished.
promissory adj. Expressing an engagement to pay.
promontory n. A high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea.
promoter n. A furtherer, forwarder, or encourager.
promulgate v. To proclaim.
propagate v. To spread abroad or from person to person.
propel v. To drive or urge forward.
propellant adj. Propelling.
propeller n. One who or that which propels.
prophesy v. To predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance.
propitious adj. Kindly disposed.
proportionate adj. Being in proportion.
propriety n. Accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles.
propulsion n. A driving onward or forward.
prosaic adj. Unimaginative.
proscenium n. That part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra.
proscription n. Any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege.
proselyte n. One who has been won over from one religious belief to another.
prosody n. The science of poetical forms.
prospector n. One who makes exploration, search, or examination, especially for minerals.
prospectus n. A paper or pamphlet containing information of a proposed undertaking.
prostrate adj. Lying prone, or with the head to the ground.
protege n. One specially cared for and favored by another usually older person.
protomartyr n. The earliest victim in any cause.
protoplasm n. The substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell.
protract v. To prolong.
protrude v. To push out or thrust forth.
protrusion n. The act of protruding.
protuberance n. Something that swells out from a surrounding surface.
protuberant adj. Bulging.
protuberate v. To swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface.
provincial adj. Uncultured in thought and manner.
proviso n. A clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional.
provocation n. An action or mode of conduct that excites resentment.
prowess n. Strength, skill, and intrepidity in battle.
proxy n. A person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter.
prudery n. An undue display of modesty or delicacy.
prurient adj. Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
pseudapostle n. A pretended or false apostle.
puerile adj. Childish.
pugnacious adj. Quarrelsome.
puissant adj. Possessing strength.
pulmonary adj. Pertaining to the lungs.
punctilious adj. Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
pungent adj. Affecting the sense of smell.
pungency n. The quality of affecting the sense of smell.
pupilage n. The state or period of being a student.
purl v. To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
purloin v. To steal.
purport n. Intent.
purveyor n. one who supplies
pusillanimous adj. Without spirit or bravery.
putrescent adj. Undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors.
pyre n. A heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body.
pyx n. A vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved.

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oakum n. Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope.
obdurate adj. Impassive to feelings of humanity or pity.
obelisk n. A square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative.
obituary adj. A published notice of a death.
obligate v. To hold to the fulfillment of duty.
obligatory adj. Binding in law or conscience.
oblique adj. Slanting; said of lines.
obsequies n. Funeral rites.
obsequious adj. Showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another.
obsolescence n. The condition or process of gradually falling into disuse.
obsolescent adj. Passing out of use, as a word.
obstetrician n. A practitioner of midwifery.
obstetrics n. The branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy.
obstinacy n. Stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way.
obstreperous adj. Boisterous.
obstruct v. To fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part.
obstruction n. Hindrance.
obtrude v. To be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
obtrusive adj. Tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence.
obvert v. To turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object.
obviate v. To clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty.
Occident n. The countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions.
occlude v. To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
octave n. A note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other.
octavo n. A book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves.
octogenarian adj. A person of between eighty and ninety years.
oculist n. One versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye.
ode n. The form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung.
odious adj. Hateful.
odium n. A feeling of extreme repugnance, or of dislike and disgust.
officiate v. To act as an officer or leader.
olfactory adj. of or pertaining to the sense of smell.
omnipotence n. Unlimited and universal power.
Omnipotent adj. Possessed of unlimited and universal power.
omniscient adj. Characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge.
onerous adj. Burdensome or oppressive.
onrush n. Onset.
onus n. A burden or responsibility.
opalescence n. The property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints.
operetta n. A humorous play in dialogue and music, of more than one act.
opprobrium n. The state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil.
optic n. Pertaining to the eye or vision.
optician n. One who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses.
optics n. The science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight.
optometry n. Measurement of the powers of vision.
opulence n. Affluence.
opulent adj. Wealthy.
orate v. To deliver an elaborate or formal public speech.
oration n. An elaborate or formal public speech.
oratorio n. A composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures.
oratory n. The art of public speaking.
ordinal n. That form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third.
ordination n. A consecration to the ministry.
ordnance n. A general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war.
orthodox adj. Holding the commonly accepted faith.
orthodoxy n. Acceptance of the common faith.
orthogonal adj. Having or determined by right angles.
orthopedic adj. Relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity
orthopedist n. One who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity
oscillate v. To swing back and forth.
osculate v. To kiss.
ossify v. to convert into bone.
ostentation n. A display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery.
oust v. To eject.
outrigger n. A part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support.
overstride v. To step beyond.

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naphtha n. A light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints.
negligee n. A loose gown worn by women.
nestle v. To adjust cozily in snug quarters.
nettle v. To excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in.
nihilist n. An advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known.
nit n. The egg of a louse or some other insect.
nomad adj. Having no fixed abode.
nomic adj. Usual or customary.
nonentity n. A person or thing of little or no account.
nonpareil n. One who or that which is of unequaled excellence.
norm n. A model
nostrum n. Any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character.
noxious adj. Hurtful.
nuance n. A slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind.
nugatory adj. Having no power or force.
nuptial adj. Of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony.

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macadamize v. To cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone.
macrocosm n. The whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related.
magnanimous adj. Generous in treating or judging others.
malady n. Any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one.
mandate n. A command.
manumission n. Emancipation.
manumit v. To set free from bondage.
matinee n. An entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime.
maudlin adj. Foolishly and tearfully affectionate.
maxim n. A principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide.
mealy-mouthed adj. Afraid to express facts or opinions plainly.
meander v. To wind and turn while proceeding in a course.
mellifluous adj. Sweetly or smoothly flowing.
menagerie n. A collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition.
mendacious adj. Untrue.
mendicant n. A beggar.
meretricious adj. Alluring by false or gaudy show.
messieurs n. pl. Gentlemen.
mete v. To apportion.
metempsychosis n. Transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast.
meticulous adj. Over-cautious.
metonymy n. A figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes.
mettle n. Courage.
microcosm n. The world or universe on a small scale.
mien n. The external appearance or manner of a person.
migratory adj. Wandering.
militate v. To have weight or influence (in determining a question).
millet n. A grass cultivated for forage and cereal.
ministration n. Any religious ceremonial.
minutia n. A small or unimportant particular or detail.
misanthropic adj. Hating mankind.
miscreant n. A villain.
miser n. A person given to saving and hoarding unduly.
misnomer n. A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
missal n. The book containing the service for the celebration of mass.
missive n. A message in writing.
miter n. The junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle.
mitigate v. To make milder or more endurable.
mnemonics n. A system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances.
moat n. A ditch on the outside of a fortress wall.
mobocracy n. Lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace.
moccasin n. A foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin.
momentous adj. Very significant.
monition n. Friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof.
monitory n. Admonition or warning.
monolith n. Any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece.
monomania n. The unreasonable pursuit of one idea.
morale n. A state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like.
moratorium n. An emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily.
mordacious adj. Biting or giving to biting.
mordant adj. Biting.
morose adj. Gloomy.
mulatto n. The offspring of a white person and a black person.
muleteer n. A mule-driver.
muster n. An assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off.
myriad n. A vast indefinite number.

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lacerate v. To tear rudely or raggedly.
lackadaisical adj. Listless.
languid adj. Relaxed.
languor n. Lassitude of body or depression.
lapse n. A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
latent adj. Dormant.
lateral adj. Directed toward the side.
lattice n. Openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars.
laud v. To praise in words or song.
laureate adj. Crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction.
lea n. A field.
leaven v. To make light by fermentation, as dough.
leeward n. That side or direction toward which the wind blows.
levity n. Frivolity.
lexicographer n. One who makes dictionaries.
lexicon n. A dictionary.
liberate v. To set free or release from bondage.
licentious adj. Wanton.
liege adj. Sovereign.
lien n. A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge.
lieu n. Stead.
ligament n. That which binds objects together.
ligature n. Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
ligneous adj. Having the texture of appearance of wood.
liner n. A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.
liniment n. A liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc.
liquidate v. To deliver the amount or value of.
lithe adj. Supple.
lithograph n. A print made by printing from stone.
litigant n. A party to a lawsuit.
littoral adj. Of, pertaining to, or living on a shore.
liturgy n. A ritual.
livid adj. Black-and-blue, as contused flesh.
lode n. A somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein.
lodgment n. The act of furnishing with temporary quarters.
loquacious adj. Talkative.
lough n. A lake or loch.
louse n. A small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals.
lucid adj. Mentally sound.
lucrative adj. Highly profitable.
luminary n. One of the heavenly bodies as a source of light.
lunacy n. Mental unsoundness.
luxuriance n. Excessive or superfluous growth or quantity.
lyre n. One of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class.

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jaundice n. A morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin.
Jingo n. One of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy.
jocose adj. Done or made in jest.
jocular adj. Inclined to joke.
joggle n. A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
jovial adj. Merry.
judicature n. Distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment.
jugular adj. Pertaining to the throat.
junction n. The condition of being joined.
juncture n. An articulation, joint, or seam.
junta n. A council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government.
jurisprudence n. The science of rights in accordance with positive law.
joust v. To engage in a tilt with lances on horseback.
justification n. Vindication.
juxtapose v. To place close together.

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ichthyosaurs n. A fossil reptile.
icily adv. Frigidly.
iconoclast n. An image-breaker.
idiom n. A use of words peculiar to a particular language.
idiosyncrasy n. A mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual.
ignominious adj. Shameful.
illusive adj. Deceptive.
illusory adj. Deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance.
imbibe v. To drink or take in.
imbroglio n. A misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity, or strife.
imbrue v. To wet or moisten.
immaculate adj. Without spot or blemish.
imminence n. Impending evil or danger.
imminent adj. Dangerous and close at hand.
immiscible adj. Separating, as oil and water..
immutable adj. Unchangeable.
impalpable adj. Imperceptible to the touch.
impeccable adj. Blameless.
impecunious adj. Having no money.
impend v. To be imminent.
imperative adj. Obligatory.
imperceptible adj. Indiscernible.
imperious adj. Insisting on obedience.
impertinence n. Rudeness.
imperturbable adj. Calm.
impervious adj. Impenetrable.
impetuosity n. Rashness.
impetuous adj. Impulsive.
impetus n. Any impulse or incentive.
impiety n. Irreverence toward God.
impious adj. Characterized by irreverence or irreligion.
implausible adj. Not plausible.
implicate v. To show or prove to be involved in or concerned
impolitic adj. Inexpedient.
importation n. The act or practice of bringing from one country into another.
importunate adj. Urgent in character, request, or demand.
importune v. To harass with persistent demands or entreaties.
impotent adj. Destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual.
impracticable adj. Not feasible.
impregnable adj. That can not be taken by assault.
impromptu n. Anything done or said on the impulse of the moment.
impropriety n. The state or quality of being unfit, unseemly, or inappropriate.
improvident adj. Lacking foresight or thrift.
improvise v. To do anything extemporaneously or offhand.
impugn v. To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations.
impulsion n. Impetus.
impulsive adj. Unpremeditated.
impunity n. Freedom from punishment.
impute v. To attribute.
inadvertent adj. Accidental.
inarticulate adj. Speechless.
incandescence n. The state of being white or glowing with heat.
incandescent adj. White or glowing with heat.
incapacitate v. To deprive of power, capacity, competency, or qualification.
incarcerate v. To imprison.
incendiary n. Chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively.
inception n. The beginning.
incessant adj. Unceasing.
inchmeal adv. Piecemeal.
inchoate adj. Incipient.
inchoative n. That which begins, or expresses beginning.
incipience n. Beginning.
incipient adj. Initial.
incisor n. A front or cutting tooth.
incite v. To rouse to a particular action.
incoherence n. Want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc.
inconceivable adj. Incomprehensible.
incongruous adj. Unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion.
inconsistent adj. Contradictory.
indelible adj. That can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed, or removed.
indicant adj. That which points out.
indicator n. One who or that which points out.
indigence n. Poverty.
indigent adj. Poor.
indignant adj. Having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness.
indiscernible adj. Not perceptible.
indiscriminate adj. Promiscuous.
indispensable adj. Necessary or requisite for the purpose.
indolence n. Laziness.
induct v. To bring in.
indulgence n. The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another.
inebriate v. To intoxicate.
ineffable adj. Unutterable.
inept adj. Not fit or suitable.
inert adj. Inanimate.
inestimable adj. Above price.
inevitable adj. Unavoidable.
inexorable adj. Unrelenting.
inexpedient adj. Unadvisable.
inexplicable adj. Such as can not be made plain.
infallible adj. Exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement.
infirm adj. Lacking in bodily or mental strength.
infirmity n. A physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw.
influx n. Infusion.
infringe v. To trespass upon.
ingenious adj. Evincing skill, originality, or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement.
ingenuity n. Cleverness in contriving, combining, or originating.
ingenuous adj. Candid, frank, or open in character or quality.
ingraft v. To set or implant deeply and firmly.
ingratiate v. To win confidence or good graces for oneself.
inherence n. The state of being permanently existing in something.
inherent adj. Intrinsic.
inhume v. To place in the earth, as a dead body.
inimical adj. Adverse.
iniquity n. Gross wrong or injustice.
injunction n. Mandate.
inkling n. A hint.
inland adj. Remote from the sea.
inmost adj. Deepest within.
innocuous adj. Harmless.
innovate v. To introduce or strive to introduce new things.
innuendo n. Insinuation.
innumerable adj. Countless.
inopportune adj. Unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time.
inquisition n. A court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics.
inquisitive adj. Given to questioning, especially out of curiosity.
inquisitor n. One who makes an investigation.
inroad n. Forcible encroachment or trespass.
insatiable adj. That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably.
inscrutable adj. Impenetrably mysterious or profound.
insensible adj. Imperceptible.
insentient adj. Lacking the power of feeling or perceiving.
insidious adj. Working ill by slow and stealthy means.
insight n. Intellectual discernment.
insinuate v. To imply.
insipid adj. Tasteless.
instantaneous adj. Done without perceptible lapse of time.
instigate v. To provoke.
instigator n. One who incites to evil.
instill v. To infuse.
instructive adj. Conveying knowledge.
insufficiency n. Inadequacy.
insular adj. Pertaining to an island.
insulate v. To place in a detached state or situation.
insuperable adj. Invincible.
insuppressible adj. Incapable of being concealed.
insurgence n. Uprising.
insurgent n. One who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place.
insurrection n. The state of being in active resistance to authority.
intangible adj. Not perceptible to the touch.
integrity n. Uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle.
intemperance n. Immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites.
intension n. The act of stringing or stretching, or state of being strained.
intention n. That upon which the mind is set.
interact v. To act reciprocally.
intercede v. To mediate between persons.
intercept v. To interrupt the course of.
intercession n. Entreaty in behalf of others.
intercessor n. A mediator.
interdict n. Authoritative act of prohibition.
interim n. Time between acts or periods.
interlocutor n. One who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion.
intermediate adj. Being in a middle place or degree or between extremes.
interminable adj. Having no limit or end.
intermit v. To cause to cease temporarily.
intermittent adj. A temporary discontinuance.
interpolation n. Verbal interference.
interpose v. To come between other things or persons.
interrogate v. To examine formally by questioning.
interrogative adj. Having the nature or form of a question.
interrogatory n. A question or inquiry.
intervale n. A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river.
intestacy n. The condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will.
intestate adj. Not having made a valid will.
intracellular adj. Occurring or situated within a cell.
intramural adj. Situated within the walls of a city.
intricacy n. Perplexity.
intricate adj. Difficult to follow or understand.
intrinsic adj. Inherent.
introductory adj. Preliminary.
introgression n. Entrance.
intromit v. To insert.
introspection n. The act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings.
introversion n. The act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally.
inundate v. To fill with an overflowing abundance.
inundation n. Flood.
inure v. To harden or toughen by use, exercise, or exposure.
invariable adj. Unchangeable.
invective n. An utterance intended to cast censure, or reproach.
inveigh v. To utter vehement censure or invective.
inventive adj. Quick at contrivance.
inverse adj. Contrary in tendency or direction.
inversion n. Change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first.
investor n. One who invests money.
inveterate adj. Habitual.
invidious adj. Showing or feeling envy.
invoke v. To call on for assistance or protection.
involution n. Complication.
inwardly adv. With no outward manifestation.
iota n. A small or insignificant mark or part.
irascible adj. Prone to anger.
irate adj. Moved to anger.
ire n. Wrath.
iridescence n. A many-colored appearance.
iridescent adj. Exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light.
irradiance n. Luster.
irradiate v. To render clear and intelligible.
irrefragable adj. That can not be refuted or disproved.
irrefrangible adj. That can not be broken or violated.
irrepressible adj. That can not be restrained or kept down.
irreverence n. The quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
irreverent adj. Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
irreverential adj. Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
irrigant adj. Serving to water lands by artificial means.
irrigate v. To water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means.
irritancy n. The quality of producing vexation.
irritant n. A mechanical, chemical, or pathological agent of inflammation, pain, or tension.
irruption n. Sudden invasion.
islet n. A little island.
isochronous adj. Relating to or denoting equal intervals of time.
itinerant adj. Wandering.
itinerary n. A detailed account or diary of a journey.
itinerate v. To wander from place to place.

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habitude n. Customary relation or association.
halcyon adj. Calm.
hale adj. Of sound and vigorous health.
hanger-on n. A parasite.
harangue n. A tirade.
harbinger n. One who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing.
hardihood n. Foolish daring.
henpeck v. To worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances.
heptarchy n. A group of seven governments.
herbarium n. A collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study.
heterodox adj. At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion.
heterogeneity n. Unlikeness of constituent parts.
heterogeneous adj. Consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds.
hillock n. A small hill or mound.
hindmost adj. Farthest from the front.
hindrance n. An obstacle.
hirsute adj. Having a hairy covering.
homage n. Reverential regard or worship.
homogeneity n. Congruity of the members or elements or parts.
homogeneous adj. Made up of similar parts or elements.
homophone n. A word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another.
hoodwink v. To deceive.
horde n. A gathered multitude of human beings.
huckster n. One who retails small wares.
humbug n. Anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead.
hussar n. A light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine.
hydra n. The seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules.

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.gait n. Carriage of the body in going.
gallant adj. Possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit.
galvanic adj. Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action.
galvanism n. Current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action.
galvanize v. To imbue with life or animation.
gambol n. Playful leaping or frisking.
gamut n. The whole range or sequence.
garnish v. In cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment.
garrison n. The military force stationed in a fort, town, or other place for its defense.
garrote v. To execute by strangling.
garrulous adj. Given to constant trivial talking.
gastronomy n. The art of preparing and serving appetizing food.
gendarme n. In continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer.
geniality n. Warmth and kindliness of disposition.
genteel adj. Well-bred or refined.
gentile adj. Belonging to a people not Jewish.
germane adj. Relevant.
germinate v. To begin to develop into an embryo or higher form.
gestation n. Pregnancy.
gesticulate v. To make gestures or motions, as in speaking, or in place of speech.
gibe v. To utter taunts or reproaches.
giddy adj. Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head.
gladden v. To make joyous.
glazier n. One who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows.
glimmer n. A faint, wavering, unsteady light.
globose adj. Spherical.
glutinous adj. Sticky.
Gordian knot n. Any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners.
gourmand n. A connoisseur in the delicacies of the table.
gossamer adj. Flimsy.
grandiloquent adj. Speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style.
grandiose adj. Having an imposing style or effect.
grantor n. The maker of a deed.
gratuitous adj. Voluntarily.
gregarious adj. Not habitually solitary or living alone.
grenadier n. A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature.
grievous adj. Creating affliction.
grindstone n. A flat circular stone, used for sharpening tools.
grisly adj. Fear-inspiring.
grotto n. A small cavern.
guile n. Duplicity.
guileless adj. Frank.
guinea n. An English monetary unit.
guise n. The external appearance as produced by garb or costume.
gumption n. Common sense.
guy n. Stay-rope.
gyrate v. To revolve.
gyroscope n. An instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation.