English Vocab (Toefl)
English Vocab (Toefl)
English Vocab (Toefl)
AGRARIAN: ANNEX:
a. v. Syn. attach
pertaining to land or its append or attach; take
cultivation; relating to possession of; incorporate into
an existing political unit
ANNUAL:
a. APPLAUD: ASCERTAIN:
occurring or payable every year v. Syn. clap; acclaim v. Syn. discover; insure
acclaim; express approval, find out for certain; discover
especially by clapping the hands with certainty; make sure of
ANONYMOUS:
a. Syn. unknown; nameless APPRAISE: ASSAIL:
having no name; having unknown v. Syn. evaluate v. Syn. assault
or unacknowledged name estimate value of; evaluate, assault; attack with or as if with
especially in official capacity violent blows
ANTAGONISM:
n. Syn. hostility; enmity APPRISE: ASSAULT:
active resistance; condition of v. Syn. inform n. Syn. attack; onslaught
being an opposing principle, inform; give notice to; make attack; onslaught
force, or factor aware
ANTAGONIST:
n. APPROBATION: ASSERT:
one who contends with another, n. Syn. approval v. Syn. declare
especially in combat; an expression of warm approval; declare or state with confidence;
adversary; opponent praise put oneself forward boldly
ANTEDATE:
v. APT: ASSIDUOUS:
be earlier in time; go back a. Syn. appropriate; suitable a. Syn. diligent; persistent
further likely; exactly suitable; constant in application or
appropriate; quick to learn or attention; diligent; unceasing or
ANTICIPATE: understand persistent
v. Syn. expect; predict ARABLE: ASSIMILATE:
act in advance of; deal with a. v. Syn. absorb
ahead of time; predict fit for growing crops, as by incorporate and absorb into
plowing mind; make similar; cause to
ANTIQUE: resemble
n. Syn. relic; curio ARDUOUS: ASTONISHING:
any furniture old and valuable; a. Syn. hard; strenuous a. Syn. astounding; miraculous
out of fashion demanding great effort or labor; very wonderful; of a nature to
difficult excite astonishment; surprising
ANXIOUS: greatly
a. Syn. eager; keen; worried ARID: ASTUTE:
eager; keen; worried; uneasy and a. Syn. dry; barren a. Syn. shrewd
apprehensive about an uncertain dry; lacking moisture, especially wise or keen; shrewd; with sharp
event or matter having insufficient rainfall to intelligence
APATHY: support trees or plants
n. Syn. indifference AROMA: ATONE:
lack of caring; indifference n. Syn. fragrance; scent v.
fragrance; scent; pleasant make amends, as for sin or fault;
characteristic odor, as of a pay for; turn away from sin
APPARENT: plant, spice, or food
a. Syn. visible ARROGANT: ATROCITY:
capable of being seen, or easily a. Syn. overbearing; lofty n.
seen; open to view; visible to eye arising from feeling or brutal deed; atrocious condition,
assumption of one's superiority quality, or behavior;
APPEALING: toward others monstrousness
a. Syn. attractive; charming ARTICULATE: ATTAIN:
attractive; charming a. Syn. effective; distinct v. Syn. gain
expressing oneself easily in clear achieve or accomplish; gain
and effective language
APPEASE:
v. Syn. relieve; pacify ARTIFICIAL: ATTRIBUTE:
bring peace, quiet, or calm to; a. Syn. unreal n. Syn. trait
satisfy or relieve made by humans; produced essential quality; reputation;
rather than natural.
honor conflicting emotional attitudes, or unacknowledged name
such as love and hate
AUDACIOUS: AMBIVALENT: ANTAGONISM:
a. Syn. brave; bold a. Syn. mixed; contradictory n. Syn. hostility; enmity
fearlessly, often recklessly mixed; experiencing or active resistance; condition of
daring; bold expressing opposing or being an opposing principle,
contradictory feelings force, or factor
AUDITORY: AMENABLE: ANTAGONIST:
a. a. Syn. responsible; accountable n.
of or relating to hearing, the responsive to advice or suggestion; one who contends with another,
organs of hearing, or the sense responsible to higher authority; especially in combat; an
willing to comply with; agreeable adversary; opponent
of hearing
AUGMENT: AMIABLE: ANTEDATE:
v. Syn. increase a. Syn. agreeable; lovable v.
make greater, as in size, extent, good-natured and likable; lovable; be earlier in time; go back
or quantity warmly friendly further
ASCERTAIN: AUDACIOUS:
v. Syn. discover; insure a. Syn. brave; bold AVERSION:
find out for certain; discover fearlessly, often recklessly n. Syn. disgust
with certainty; make sure of daring; bold firm dislike; turning away;
avoidance of a thing, situation, or
ASSAIL: AUDITORY: behavior because of dislike
v. Syn. assault a. AVERT:
assault; attack with or as if with v. Syn. prevent
prevent; turn or cause to turn a counter where you can obtain person entitled to benefits or
off or away food or drink; cafe; strip; stick proceeds of an insurance policy
or will
AVIATOR: BARE: BENEFIT:
n. a. Syn. naked; nude n. Syn. welfare; gain
someone who operates an lacking the usual or appropriate advantage; something that aids
aircraft covering or clothing or promotes well-being ; welfare;
gain
AVID: BARREN: BENEVOLENT:
a. Syn. greedy a. Syn. desolate a. Syn. generous; charitable
greedy; eager for; marked by desolate; fruitless and generous in providing aid to
keen interest and enthusiasm unproductive; lacking others; charitable
CHUBBY: COIN:
CELEBRATED:
a. Syn. plump; fat v. Syn. create; invent
a. Syn. famous
of a person, slightly overweight, make pieces of money from
famous; well-known; having
somewhat fat and hence soft; metal; invent or fabricate
illustrious past
rounded and plump
CITE: COLLABORATE:
CENSOR:
n. v. Syn. quote v. Syn. cooperate
overseer of morals; official quote; adduce as an instance work together, especially in a
responsible for removal of joint intellectual effort
objectionable or sensitive content
CONCERTED: CONFORM:
COMPEL:
a. v.
v.
planned or accomplished comply with; follow; fit; meet
force; coerce; necessitate or
pressure by force together; combined
CONCISE: CONGENIAL:
COMPETENT:
a. Syn. succinct; terse a. Syn. compatible
a. Syn. capable; adept
brief and compact; expressing compatible
capable; adept
much in few words
CONCOCT: CONGESTION:
COMPILE:
v. Syn. assemble; gather; accumulate v. n. Syn. overcrowding
put together or compose from digest; convert into nourishment act of gathering or heaping
materials gathered from several by the organs of nutrition. together or forming a mass
sources
COMPLEMENT: CONCORD: CONGLOMERATE:
v. Syn. complete; consummate n. Syn. agreement n. Syn. assortment
complete; consummate; make corporation made up of different
agreement of opinions; companies in diversified fields; composing
perfect harmonious state of things of heterogeneous elements gathered into
a mass
COMPLIMENT: CONCRETE: CONGREGATE:
n. Syn. praise; commendation n. Syn. cement v.
praise; commendation; say solid mass; covering with cement; hard, assemble; convene; gather
something to someone that strong construction material consisting
of sand, conglomerate , and gravel
expresses praise
COMPLY: CONCURRENT: CONJECTURE:
v. a. Syn. simultaneous; coincident v.
yield assent; accord; agree, or simultaneous; coincident; believe especially on uncertain or
acquiesce; adapt one's self; occurring or operating at the tentative grounds
fulfill; accomplish same time
COMPONENT: CONDEMN: CONSECUTIVE:
n. Syn. element; ingredient v. Syn. blame; denounce a. Syn. successive; sequential
element; ingredient; abstract blame; denounce; express strong following one after another
part of something disapproval of without interruption; sequential
CONSISTENT: COPIOUS: CRUCIAL:
a. Syn. uniform; regular a. Syn. plentiful a.
being in agreement with itself; plentiful; containing plenty; of extreme importance; vital to
coherent; regular affording ample supply the resolution of a crisis; of the
greatest importance
CONSPICUOUS: CORDIAL: CRUDE:
a. Syn. noticeable; prominent a. Syn. gracious a.
noticeable; prominent; easy to gracious; showing warm and being in an unrefined or natural
notice; obvious friendliness state; raw; lacking tact or taste;
blunt or offensive
CONTAMINATE: CORPOREAL: CRYPTIC:
v. Syn. taint; pollute; defile a. Syn. bodily; material a.
make impure or unclean by bodily; of a material nature; having hidden meaning;
contact or mixture; pollute; tangible mystifying; using code or cipher
defile
CONTEMPLATE: CORPULENT: CULTIVATE:
v. Syn. ponder; meditate v. Syn. farm; domesticate; nurture;
a. Syn. fat
teach improve and prepare, as by
look at attentively and very fat; large in body;
plowing or fertilizing, for raising
thoughtfully; observe deep in overweight crops; promote the growth of
thought
CONTEMPT: CUMBERSOME:
CORROBORATE:
n. Syn. disgrace a. Syn. heavy
v. Syn. confirm; support
state of being despised or heavy; difficult to handle
establish or strengthen as with
dishonored; disgrace; disobedience because of weight or bulk
new evidence or facts; support
to, or open disrespect of
with evidence
CONTENTION: COURTEOUS: CUMULATIVE:
n. Syn. controversy a. Syn. polite a.
competing as for profit or prize exhibiting courtesy and increasing by successive addition
politeness; showing regard or
thought for others
CONTRIVE: COVERT: CURB:
v. a. v.
form by an exercise of ingenuity; secretive, not openly shown bend or curve; guide and manage,
devise; invent; design or restrain
CONTROVERSY: CURT:
CRAVE:
n. Syn. contention; argument a.
v. Syn. beseech; implore
contentious speech act; having been shortened; effectively
ask with earnestness or cut short; rudely brief or abrupt, as
argument importunity; ask with submission in speech or manner
or humility; beg
CONVENIENT: CURTAIL:
CREASE:
a. Syn. handy; suitable; near; v. Syn. shorten; reduce
n.
accessible cut short or reduce; cut off end
a line or long thin mark made by
suited or favorable to one's comfort, or tail, or any part
purpose, or needs:; near; accessible
folding or doubling
CONVEY: DAMP:
CROOKED:
v. a. Syn. humid; moist; wet
a. Syn. curved
carry from one place to another; humid; moist; slightly wet
having or marked by bends or
bear or transport
angles; not straight or aligned;
curved
CONVICTION: DANGLE:
CROUCH:
n. Syn. assurance; confidence v.
v.
judgment that someone is guilty bend down; stoop low; lie close to the hang loosely, or with a swinging
of crime; strongly held belief ground with the legs bent, as an animal or jerking motion; swing, as
when waiting for prey, or in fear something suspended loosely
DARING:
a. Syn. bold; brave DEDICATE: DEJECTED:
bold; brave v. a.
set apart for a deity or for being in low spirits; depressed
special purposes; devote;
DAUNT: consecrate
v. Syn. intimidate; frighten; DEEM: DELIBERATE:
dismay v. v. Syn. consider; ponder
frighten; abate the courage of; decide; judge; sentence; consider; think about carefully;
discourage condemn weigh
DAZZLING:
a. Syn. bright; brilliant DEFAME: DELICATE:
bright; brilliant v. a. Syn. fragile; vulnerable
harm someone's reputation; pleasing to the senses, especially
degrade; bring into disrepute; in a subtle way; easily hurt; very
DECADENT: make infamous subtle in difference
a. Syn. self-indulgent; depraved DEFECT: DELUGE:
self-indulgent; moral decay v. n. Syn. flood; rush
abandon or turn against; cease or great flood; heavy downpour; any
change one's loyalty overflowing of water
DECAY:
v. Syn. decompose; rot DEFECTIVE: DELUSION:
decompose; break sown; a. n.
disintegration; rottenness; having a defect; faulty; false belief; mistaken or
decline; worsen; decadence imperfect; incomplete; lacking unfounded opinion
DECEIT:
n. DEFER: DEMISE:
attempt or disposition to deceive or lead
v. Syn. delay; postpone n. Syn. death
into error; any declaration or practice,
which misleads another, or causes to delay till later; put off; hold end of existence or activity;
believe what is false back to a later time termination
DECEPTION:
n. DEFICIENT: DEMOLISH:
act of deceiving a. Syn. inadequate v. Syn. raze; destroy; devastate
inadequate; lacking an essential raze; destroy; do away with
quality or element completely; put an end to
DECIPHER:
v. DEFINITIVE: DENOTE:
convert code into ordinary a. Syn. final; complete v. Syn. signify; indicate; show
language; read with difficulty final; complete; precisely defined indicate; signify directly; refer
or explicit to specifically
DECLARE:
v. Syn. announce DEFRAUD: DENOUNCE:
state clearly; make known v. v. Syn. condemn; criticize;
formally or officially deprive of some right, interest, announce
or property, by a deceitful condemn openly; criticize; make
DECLIVITY: device known in formal manner
n. DEGENERATE: DENSE:
downward slope, as of a hill v. Syn. deteriorate a. Syn. thick; compact
become worse; decline; fall thick; crowded closely together;
compact
DECOMPOSE:
v. Syn. decay DEHYDRATE: DEPRESS:
decay v. Syn. dry; desiccate v. Syn. lower
remove water from; dry out; lower in spirits; press down
lose water or bodily fluids
DECORATE:
v. Syn. adorn; embellish DEITY: DEPRIVE:
adorn; embellish n. Syn. god; divinity v.
god; divinity; supernatural deny; take away
things
injurious immerse for baptism; wet, as if by
immersing; moisten; appear to move
downward
DERELICT: DEVIATE: DISCARD:
a. Syn. abandoned; negligent v. Syn. depart; diverge v.
left and abandoned; negligent in turn away from a principle, norm; throw out something from one's
performing a duty depart; diverge hand; get rid of
EXPOSE:
FAINT: FEEBLE:
v. Syn. exhibit; show; display
a. Syn. dim; feeble; weak a. Syn. weak; frail
set forth; set out to public view
lacking strength or vigor ; weak lacking vigor, force, or
effectiveness; faint; frail
EXPUNGE:
FAKE: FEIGN:
v. Syn. cancel; remove
n. Syn. imitation; counterfeit; v. Syn. pretend; disguise; conceal
cancel; remove; erase or strike
false make false appearance of;
out
imitation; counterfeit; having a disguise; conceal; invent or
false or misleading appearance imagine
EXTENSIVE:
FALTER: FELICITY:
a. Syn. widespread; wide
v. Syn. hesitate n. Syn. happiness
widespread; far-reaching; wide
be unsteady in purpose or action, great happiness; pleasing and
as from loss of courage or appropriate manner or style
confidence
EXTOL: FAMINE: FEROCIOUS:
v. Syn. praise; glorify n. Syn. starvation a.
praise highly; glorify; celebrate shortage of food; starvation fierce; savage; wild; indicating
cruelty
EXTRACT:
FANCY: FERTILE:
v. Syn. derive; remove; squeeze
n. Syn. notion; imagine; whim a. Syn. rich; fruitful
draw or pull out, usually with some
force or effort; remove; get despite capricious notion; something rich; fruitful; inventive; creative;
difficulties or obstacles many people believe that is false intellectually productive
EXTRANEOUS:
FARE: FERVENT:
a.
n. a.
not essential; coming from
food and drink; diet;
extremely hot; sincerely or reddish; elaborately or a. Syn. aromatic; odorous
intensely felt excessively ornamented pleasant-smelling; odorous
FICKLE: FLUCTUATE:
a. Syn. changeable; faithless v. Syn. waver; shift FRAIL:
not fixed or firm; liable to rise and fall in or as if in waves; a. Syn. weak
change; unstable; of a shift; vary irregularly physically weak; easily broken
changeable mind
FIDELITY: FOGGY:
n. Syn. loyalty a. FRAMEWORK:
faithfulness to obligations, obscured by fog; indistinct or n. Syn. structure; skeleton
duties, or observances hazy in outline fundamental structure, as for a
written work; skeleton
FINANCE: FOLD:
n. Syn. fund v. FRAUD:
management of money and credit make something double; bend or n.
and banking and investments; lay so that one part covers the getting money by lying or
subsidizing; fund other cheating; something intended to
FINITE: FOREGO: deceive
a. v. Syn. precede FRAUDULENT:
having a limit; limited in quantity, precede; go ahead of; go a. Syn. cheating; deceitful
degree, or capacity; bounded forward; go on cheating; deceitful; planning or
using fraud; given to practice of
FITTING: FOREMOST: fraud
n. a. Syn. leading; main; primary FRENETIC:
small accessory to a larger system; leading; main; primary; first in a. Syn. crazy; wild
small detachable part for a machine
time or place excessively agitated;
or apparatus; act of trying on clothe
transported with rage or other
FLAGRANT: FORESTALL: violent emotion
a. v. Syn. prevent FRUSTRATE:
obvious and offensive, blatant, prevent by taking action in v. Syn. thwart; defeat
scandalous; flaming into notice advance make null; bring to nothing;
prevent from taking effect or
FLAW: FORLORN: attaining fulfillment
n. a. Syn. wretched FUGITIVE:
crack or breach; gap or fissure; sad and lonely; wretched; a.
defect; fault; sudden burst of abandoned or left behind lasting only a short time;
noise and disorder fleeting; elusive
FLEE:
FORMATIVE:
v. FUNDAMENTAL:
a. Syn. developing
run away, as from danger or evil; a. Syn. primary; essential
developing; forming; capable of
avoid in alarmed or cowardly relating to foundation or base;
forming or molding
manner elementary; primary; essential
FLEXIBLE:
FOUL:
a. Syn. pliant; elastic; docile
n. Syn. disgusting; filthy FUSE:
pliant; elastic; capable of being
act that violates of the rules of v. Syn. combine; blend
bent or flexed; pliable
a sport combine; blend; become plastic
or fluid or liquefied from heat
FLIMSY:
FRAGILE:
a.
a. Syn. delicate; brittle; weak FUSION:
weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain;
easy to destroy, delicate, not n. Syn. union; coalition
without strength or solidity
strong union; act of melting together by
heat
FLIP:
FRAGMENT:
v.
n. Syn. piece; fraction FUTILE:
go mad, go crazy; turn upside
small part broken off or a. Syn. useless; vain; ineffectual
down, or throw so as to reverse;
detached; fraction useless; having no useful result;
toss with a sharp movement
vain
FLORID:
a. Syn. ruddy; reddish FRAGRANT:
GAINSAY: GLITTER: GRAZE:
v. Syn. deny n. v. Syn. feed
speak against; contradict; oppose bright, sparkling light; brilliant scrape gently; feed on growing
in words; deny or declare not to and showy luster; brilliancy grasses and herbage
be true
GALE: GLORIFY: GREGARIOUS:
n. Syn. windstorm v. Syn. beautify a. Syn. sociable
very strong wind; gust of wind; cause to seem more splendid; sociable; seeking and enjoying
emotional outburst as laughter beautify the company of others
or tears
GAP: GLOSSY: GRIM:
n. Syn. opening; crevice a. a.
opening through mountains; pass; smooth and shining; reflecting unrelenting; rigid; dismal and
conspicuous difference or luster from smooth or polished gloomy; cold and forbidding
imbalance surface; plausible
GARRULOUS: GOAD: GRIP:
a. Syn. wordy; talkative v. n. Syn. clutch; grasp
talking much and repetition of urge with a long pointed stick; hold fast or firmly; seize as in a
unimportant or trivial details give heart or courage to wrestling match
HARSH: HUMILIATE:
HILARIOUS:
a. Syn. rough; coarse; acid v. Syn. embarrass; shame
a. Syn. mirthful; merry
rough; coarse; severe; cause to feel shame; hurt the
by or causing great merriment or
unpleasantly stern pride of
happiness; gay or merry
HASTY: HURL:
HINDER:
a. Syn. fast; impetuous v. Syn. throw; cast; toss
v. Syn. stunt; inhibit; hamper;
easily angered; irritable; made throw with great force; cast;
impede
too quickly to be accurate or toss
put at a disadvantage; tie up;
wise
hamper; prevent the progress
HAUL: HYPERBOLE:
HOAX:
v. Syn. transport; drag n. Syn. exaggeration; overstatement
n. Syn. trick
draw slowly or heavily; pull or figure of speech in which
act intended to deceive or trick; exaggeration is used for emphasis;
drag forcibly; shift direction
practical joke overstatement
HAVOC: HYPOCRITE:
HOIST:
n. n. Syn. cheat
v.
wide and general destruction; one who puts on a false
raise; lift; elevate; raise to one's
devastation; waste appearance of virtue; one who
mouth in order to drink
pretends to hold beliefs
HAZARDOUS: IDEAL:
HOLOCAUST:
a. Syn. dangerous a.
n. existing in idea or thought; conception;
dangerous; reckless; daring;
great destruction resulting in the intellectual; mental; imaginary standard
inclined to run risks extensive loss of life, especially by of excellence; fit for a model; faultless
fire; massive slaughter
HECTOR: HOMOGENEOUS: IDIOSYNCRASY:
v. a. Syn. uniform; similar n.
behave like a bully; swagger; of the same or similar nature or behavioral attribute that is
intimidate or dominate in a kind distinctive and peculiar to an
blustering way individual
IDLE: IMPARTIAL: INCENSE:
a. a. Syn. fair v. Syn. enrage; infuriate
useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; not biased; fair; showing lack of enrage; infuriate; cause to be
thoughtless; given rest and ease; favoritism extremely angry
avoiding work or employment; lazy
INHABIT: INSINUATE:
INDISPENSABLE:
v. v. Syn. hint; imply; suggest
a. Syn. essential; requisite
live in; occupy; reside in hint; suggest; introduce by
essential; requisite; impossible to
subtle and artful means
be omitted or remitted
INHERENT: INSIPID:
INDUCE:
a. Syn. intrinsic; natural a. Syn. dull
v. Syn. persuade
firmly established by nature or lacking flavor or zest; not tasty;
persuade; bring about; reason or
habit dull
establish by induction
INHIBIT: INSOLENT:
INEPT:
a. Syn. inappropriate; incompetent v. Syn. restrain; prevent a.
lacking of judgment, sense, or restrain; prevent or forbid; hold strange; unusual; haughty or
reason; unsuited; inappropriate; back brutal in behavior or language;
foolish grossly rude or disrespectful
INEVITABLE: INSOLVENT:
INIMICAL:
a. Syn. unavoidable a. Syn. bankrupt
a. Syn. unfriendly; hostile;
unavoidable; incapable of being bankrupt; unable to repay one's
harmful; detrimental
avoided or prevented debts
unfriendly; hostile; harmful;
detrimental
INFAMOUS: INSPIRE:
INITIAL:
a. Syn. notorious; heinous v. Syn. encourage; inspirit
a. Syn. preliminary
notoriously bad; having encourage; inspirit; fire the
early; preliminary; occurring at
exceedingly bad reputation imagination of
the beginning
INFINITE: INSTANTANEOUS:
INJURIOUS:
a. a. Syn. instant; immediate
a. Syn. harmful
unlimited or boundless, in time or instant; immediate; occurring
harmful; tending to injure or
space; without limit in power, with no delay
impair; abusive; insulting
capacity, knowledge, or excellence
INFINITESIMAL: INSTIGATE:
INNATE:
a. v. Syn. urge; incite; provoke
a. Syn. inborn; inherent
very small; immeasurably or goad or urge forward; provoke;
possessed at birth; inborn
incalculably minute incite
INSULT: INTREPID: IRREVOCABLE:
v. Syn. offend; affront a. Syn. fearless; brave a. Syn. unalterable; irreversible
offend; affront; treat, mention, fearless; indicating or springing unalterable; irreversible;
or speak to rudely from courage impossible to retract or revoke
REDOUBTABLE:
RECEDE: RELIABLE:
a. Syn. formidable
v. a. Syn. dependable; trustworthy
formidable; arousing fear or awe;
move back; retreat; withdraw a worthy of being depended on;
worthy of respect or honor
claim or pretension trustworthy
REFINE:
RECEPTION: RELINQUISH:
v. Syn. purify v. Syn. yield; abandon; surrender;
n. Syn. receipt
purify; make more precise; waive
act of receiving; manner in which
improve give up something with reluctance;
something is greeted
retire from; give up or abandon
REFUTE: RELISH:
RECESS:
v. Syn. disprove v. Syn. enjoy
n.
disprove; prove to be false or take keen or zestful pleasure in;
withdrawing or retiring; moving
incorrect enjoy the flavor of; give spice or
back; retreat; state of being
withdrawn; seclusion flavor to
REMEDY: REPROBATE: RESURRECTION:
n. Syn. drug n. n.
a medicine or therapy; ; cure; fix; person hardened in sin; person rising again; resumption of vigor;
repair; provide relief for without moral scruples act of rising from the dead or
returning to life
REMINISCE: REPRODUCE: RETALIATE:
v. v. v.
recollect and tell of past experiences or do something harmful or negative to get
have offspring or young;
events; talk or write about memories of revenge for some harm; fight back or
the past, especially pleasant memories duplicate; make a copy respond in kind to an injury or affront
SCANT: SEASONED:
RUDIMENTARY:
a. a. Syn. experienced
a. Syn. elementary; crude; incipient
scarcely sufficient; less than is experienced, especially in terms
relating to basic facts or principles;
being in the earliest stages of wanted for the purpose; not of a profession or a hobby; aged
development; incipient enough or processed
SCARCE: SECLUDED:
RUGGED:
a. Syn. rare; limited a.
a. Syn. uneven; rough
hard to find; absent or rare; removed or remote from others;
uneven; rough; very difficult
limited solitary; hidden or isolated
SCATTER: SEDITION:
RUMMAGE:
v. Syn. sprinkle; disseminate; spread n. Syn. insubordination
v. Syn. ransack sprinkle; disseminate; cause to resistance to authority;
make an energetic, usually hasty separate and go in different
insubordination or rebellion
search directions
SCENT: SEEMLY:
RURAL: n. Syn. odor; fragrance; perfume a. Syn. proper; appropriate
a. Syn. country; rustic distinctive odor that is pleasant; proper; appropriate; of pleasing
country; relating to rural areas fragrance; perfume appearance; handsome
SCHOLARLY: SENSATIONAL:
RUTHLESS: a. Syn. academic; scientific a. Syn. spectacular; exciting;
a. Syn. pitiless; cruel academic; scientific; exceptional
pitiless; cruel; having no characteristic of scholars or arousing or intended to arouse strong
compassion or pity; merciless scholarship curiosity, interest, or reaction
SENTINEL: SHRINK: SLACK:
n. Syn. sentry; lookout v. Syn. contract; compress n.
area of still water; lack of tension; cord,
one that keeps guard; soldier become smaller or draw
rope, or cable that is hanging loosely;
stationed as a guard together; compress unused capacity; casual trousers
TEMPTING: TILT:
TANGLE:
a. Syn. attractive; alluring; n. Syn. slant; lean
n.
uniting or knitting together confusedly; appealing slight but noticeable partiality;
knot of threads, or other thing, united attractive; appealing line or surface that departs from
confusedly, or so interwoven as not to be
the vertical
easily disengaged
TENDER: TIMID:
TANTALIZE:
v. Syn. offer; extend a. Syn. shy; craven
v. Syn. tease
tease; torture with disappointment; offer formally; extend; propose a shy; craven; lacking self-
bait someone by showing something payment confidence; shy
desirable but leaving them unsatisfied
TENOR: TINT:
TANTAMOUNT:
n. n. Syn. tinge; color
a.
continuous, unwavering course; color; dye with a color
equivalent in effect or value
exact meaning or actual wording
of a document
TENTATIVE: TOIL:
TARDY:
a. Syn. hesitant; experimental n.
a. Syn. late; delayed; slow
hesitant; not fully worked out or exhausting labor or effort; any
late; delayed; moving slowly
developed; experimental; not thread, web, or string spread for
definite or positive taking prey
TEPID: TOLERANT:
TARNISH: a. Syn. permissive; open-minded; easy-
a. Syn. lukewarm
v. Syn. discoloration; stain going
moderately warm; lacking in
make dirty or spotty; stain; dull showing respect for the rights of
emotional warmth or enthusiasm; others; open-minded; showing capacity
the luster of; discolor, especially
halfhearted for endurance
by exposure to air or dirt
TETHER: TORPID:
TART:
v. a.
n.
tie with rope; fasten or restrict having lost motion, or the power
a species of small open pie, or
with rope or chain of exertion and feeling; numb;
piece of pastry, containing jelly
benumbed
or conserve; a sort of fruit pie
TORRENT: TRAVERSE: TURBULENT:
n. Syn. flood v. a. Syn. violent; tempestuous;
rushing stream; flood; heavy go through or across, often furious
downpour under difficult conditions characterized by unrest or
disorder
TORTURE: TREACHEROUS: TURMOIL:
n. a. Syn. dangerous; risky n. Syn. commotion
extreme pain; anguish of body or dangerous; dangerously unstable state of extreme confusion or
mind and unpredictable; disloyal; agitation; commotion or tumult
tending to betray
TOUPEE: TREMENDOUS: TWINKLE:
n. a. Syn. huge; enormous; gigantic; v.
partial wig or hairpiece worn to terrible open and shut the eye rapidly;
cover a bald spot huge; capable of making one blink; wink
tremble; terrible
TOW: TREMOR: TYRO:
v. Syn. pull; drag n. Syn. trembling n. Syn. beginner; novice
draw or pull behind by a chain or shaking or vibrating movement; beginner in learning something;
line slight quiver novice
trembling or quivering
TOXIC: TRIBUNAL: UNBEARABLE:
a. Syn. poisonous n. a. Syn. unendurable; intolerable
poisonous; caused by a toxin or seat of a judge; bench on which a unendurable; so unpleasant,
other poison judge and his associates sit for distasteful, or painful as to be
administering justice; court or forum intolerable
TRAIT: TRICKLE: UNCANNY:
a. Syn. strange; mysterious; eerie;
n. Syn. quality; attribute; v. Syn. dribble; drip
weird
characteristic flow in drops; run or flow slowly; strange; mysterious; peculiarly
quality; attribute; distinguishing drip unsettling, as if of supernatural origin
feature; slight degree or amount or nature
TRAJECTORY: TRIGGER: UNCOUTH:
n. Syn. path v. Syn. initiate; start a.
path of other moving body cause something happen; set off lacking refinement or cultivation
through space; chosen or taken or taste
course
TRANQUILITY: TRIUMPH: UNDERGO:
n. n. Syn. victory v. Syn. experience; suffer
a state of peace and quiet victory; win; expressing great joy experience; suffer; pass through
WILY: ZONE:
a. Syn. cunning; artful n. Syn. region; district
cunning; full of tricks; skill in region; portion of the surface of
deception a sphere;
WINSOME:
a. Syn. agreeable; gracious;
engaging
agreeable; gracious; charming,
often in childlike or naive way
WITHDRAW:
v. Syn. retreat; depart
remove from; pull back; break
from gathering; retreat; depart
WITHER:
v. Syn. shrivel; decay
shrivel; decay; lose freshness,
vigor, or vitality; loss of moisture
WITHHOLD:
v. Syn. keep; restrain
refuse to give; refrain from
giving, granting, or permitting;
deduct from employee's salary
WITHSTAND:
v. Syn. oppose
stand up against; successfully
resist; oppose with force or
resolution
WOE:
n. Syn. affliction; regret
deep, inconsolable grief;
affliction; suffering; deep
distress or misery, as from grief
WRINKLE:
n. Syn. furrow; crease
a minor difficulty; a slight
depression in the smoothness of
a surface
YEARN:
v.
pain; grieve; vex; be pained or
distressed; feel deep pity,
sympathy, or tenderness
YIELD:
v. Syn. surrender; concede
give in; surrender; give forth a
natural product; be productive
ZEALOUS:
a. Syn. enthusiastic; fervent
enthusiastic; filled with or
motivated by zeal