GRE WORDS

To annoy or provoke to anger

Syn: clash, conflict, incite, irritate, oppose, pester, provoke, vex

To reduce in force or degree; weaken

Syn: debilitate, devitalize, dilute, enervate, enfeeble, rarefy, sap, thin, undermine, undo, unnerve, water, weaken

Predictable, cliche'd, boring

Syn: bland, bromidic, cliche'd, commonplace, fatuous, hackneyed, innocuous, insipid, jejune, musty, platitudinous, prosaic, quotidian, shopworn, stale, stereotypic, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, vapid, worn-out

Onament worn as a charm against evil spirits

Syn: fetish, talisman

To increase in power, influence, and reputation

Syn: amplify, apotheosize, augment, dignify, elevate, enlarge, ennoble, exalt, glorify, magnify, swell, uplift, wax

To grow together to form a single whole

Syn: amalgamate, blend, condese, consolidate, fuse, unite

Strongbox, large chest for money

Syn: treasury, chest, exchequer, war chest

Convincing and well-reasoned

Syn: Convincing, persuasive, solid, sound, telling, valid

Collaboration, complicity, conspiracy

Syn: Connivance, intrigue, machination

Pompous in speech and manner

Syn: Bloated, declamatory, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high-flown, magniloquent, orotund, pretentious, rhetorical, self-important

To divide into two parts

Syn: bisect

Group

Syn: Band, bunch, gang, pack, troop

Bell tower, room in which a bell is hung

Syn: Spire, steeple

Premise, postulate, self-evident truth

Syn: Adage, apothegm, aphorism, maxim, rule

To support, prop-up

Syn: Brace, buttress, crutch, prop, stay, support, sustain, underpinning, uphold

To choose not to do something

Syn: Forbear, refrain, with hold

To make more bearable

Syn: Allay, assuage, comfort, ease, lessen, lighten, mitigate, palliate, relieve

Rebellious

Syn: Factious, insubordinate, insurgent, mutinous, seditious

A false and malicious accusation, misrepresentation

Syn: Defamation, libel, slander

Of questionable authority or authenticity

Syn: Disputed, doubtful, fictitious, fraudulent

Changing one's mind quickly and often

Syn: Arbitrary, chance, changeable, erratic, fickle, inconstant, mercurial, random, whimsical, willful

Cranky person, usually old

Syn: Crab, coot, grouch

To support with evidence

Syn: Authenticate, back, buttress, confirm, substantiate, validate, verify

To pamper, treat with great care

Syn: Cater to, cuddle, dandle, fondle, love, pamper, pet, spoil

To make better, to improve

Syn: Amend, better, improve, pacify, upgrade

Intense and passionate feeling

Syn: Devotion, enthusiasm, fervency, fervidity, fervidness, fervor, fire, passion, zeal, zealousness

Ancient, old-fashioned

Syn: Ancient, antediluvian, antique, archaic, bygone, dated, dowdy, fusty, obsolete, outdated, outmoded, passe', prehistoric, stale, superannuated, superseded, vintage

Fearless and daring

Syn: Adventuresome, aggressive, assertive, bold, brave, courageous, dauntless, doughty, gallant, game, heroic, intrepid, mettlesome, plucky, stout, stouthearted, unafraid, undaunted, valiant, valorous, venturesome, venturous

To judge a dispute between two opposing parties

Syn: Adjudge, adjudicate, determine, intermediate, intervene, judge, moderate, referee, rule

Deviating from what is normal or expected

Syn: Abnormal, anomalous, deviant, divergent, errant, irregular

To humble, disgrace

Syn: Demean, humiliate

Greed, strong desire

Syn: Avarice, covetousness, rapacity

To reject, abandon formally

Syn: Forswear, recall, recant, retract, take back

Something that calms or soothes pain

Syn: Narcotic, nepenthe, opiate

To diminish by installment payments

Syn: Conviviality

To combine, to mix together

Syn: Admix, blend, coalesce, combine, commingle, commix, compound, fuse, intermingle, intermix, merge, mingle, mix, unite

To give up a position, right, or power

Syn: Cede, relinquish, resign, quit, yield

To polish

Syn: Buff, luster, scour

A secret group seeking to overturn something

Syn: Camp, circle, clan, clique, coterie, in-group, mafia, mob, ring

Speed or quickness

Syn: Celerity, dispatch, haste, swiftness

To leave secretly

Syn: Decamp, escapre, flee

To speak in favor of

Syn: Back, champion, support

Something that brings about a change in something else

Syn: Accelerator, goad, impetus, impulse, incentive, motivation, spur, stimulant

Intricate and complicated

Syn: Byzantine, complex, elaborate, intricate, knotty, labyrinthine, perplexing, tangled

Lack of interest or emotion

Syn: Coolness, disinterest, disregard, impassivity, indifference, insensibility, lassitude, lethargy, listlessness, phlegm, stolidity, unconcern, unresponsiveness

Dignified, grandiose

Syn: Admirable, awesome, grand, majestic

Deeply sorrowful and repentant for a wrong

Syn: Apologetic, regretful, remorseful

A person with expert knowledge or discriminating taste

Syn: Authority, epicure, expert, gastronome, gourmet

To overlook, pardon, or disregard

Syn: Exculpate, excuse, pardon, remit

Someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs

Syn: Biased, colored, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudicial, prepossessed, tendentious

Deception by means of craft or guile

Syn: Artifice, conniving, craftiness, deception, deviousness, misrepresentation, pettifoggery, shadiness, sneakiness, sophistry, subterfuge, underhandedness

To make something unpleasant less severe

Syn: Allay, alleviate, appease, comfort, conciliate, ease, lighten, mitigate, mollify, pacify, palliate, placate, propitiate, relieve, soothe, sweeten

Prophecy, prediction of events

Syn: Auspices, harbringer, omen, portent, presage

Approval and praise

Syn: Acclaim, adulation, applause, commendation, compliments, exalt, extol, hail, kudos, praise

One who renounces a religious faith

Syn: Defector, deserter, traitor

Determined by chance or impulse

Syn: Changeable, erratic, indiscriminate, random, wayward

Harsh, jarring noise

Syn: Chaos, clamor, din, discord, disharmony, noise

To punish or criticize harshly

Syn: Admonish, chastise, chide, rebuke, reprimand, reproach, reprove, scold, tax, upbraid

Able to speak clearly and expressively

Syn: Eloquent, expressive, fluent, lucid, silver-tounged, smooth-spoken

To afflict, destroy

Syn: Damage, plague

Good-natured geniality, atmosphere of good cheer

Impartial and honest in speech

Syn: Direct, forthright, frank, honest, open, sincere, straight, straightforward, undisguised

To make impure

Syn: Debase, doctor, load

Science or art of making maps

Syn: Charting, surveying, topography

Deviation from what is normal

Syn: Aberrant, aberration, abnormality, deviance, deviation, irregularity, preternaturalness

Severe or stern in appearance, undecorated

Syn: Bleak, dour, grim, hard, harsh, severe

Lacking courage

Syn: Fainthearted, spineless, timid

Something out of place in time

Syn: Archaism, incongruity

Downward slope

Syn: Decline, descent, grade, slant, tilt

Proper, tasteful, socially correct

Syn: Appropiate, comme it faut, courteous, polite

Temporary suppression or suspension

Syn: Deferral, delay, dormancy, postponement, remission

An extremely deep hole

Syn: Chasm, void

Universal, broad and comprehensive

Syn: Extensive, general

A lessening of pain without loss of consciousness

To attack, assault

Syn: Beset, strike, storm

A growth in size, an increase in amount

Syn: Accumulation, buildup

Moderate appetite

Syn: Abstinent, continent, self-restraining, sober, temperate

Sour in taste or manner

Syn: Acerbice, acetous, biting, piquant, pungent, tart

To cheat, defraud

Syn: Beat, diddle, gyp, overreach

Joyful, cheerful, or without appropriate thought

Syn: Carefree, lighthearted, merry

Biting in wit

Syn: Acerbic, biting, mordant, trenchant

To claim without justification, to claim for oneself without right

Syn: Appropiate, presume, take

Sickly sweet, excessive

Syn: Excessive, fulsome

Cautious, aware of potential consequences

Syn: Alert, cautious, heedful, mindful, prudent, solicitous, vigilant, wary

To grow and flourish

Syn: Bloom, prosper, thrive

Extreme dislike

Syn: Abhorrence, animosity, animus, antagonism, aversion, dislike, enmity, hatred, hostility, loathing, repellence, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion

Great disorder or confused situation

Syn: Clutter, confusion, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, jumble, mess, muddle, scramble, snarl, topsy-turviness, turmoil

To reduce in amount, degree, or severity

Syn: Ebb, lapse, let up, moderate, relent, slacken, subside, wane

Crude person, one lacking manners or taste

Syn: Clod, lout, oaf, vulgarian, yahoo

Young woman making debut in high society

Syn: Lady, maiden

Too trusting, gullible

Syn: Naive, susceptible, trusting

A lie

Syn: Falsehood, falsity, fib, misrepresentation, prevarication, tale, untruth

Steadily increasing in volume or force

Syn: Acme, capstone, climax, crest, culmen, culmination, meridian, peak

Appropriateness of behavior or conduct, propriety

Syn: Correctness, decency, etiquette, manners, mores, propriety, seemliness

An intimate group of person with similar purpose

Syn: Clique, set

Doubtful or uncertain, can be interpreted several ways

Syn: Cloudy, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, indeterminate, nebulous, obscure, unclear, vague

Phony, artificial

Syn: Insincere, pretentious, put-on

A nest built high in the air, an elevated, often secluded, dwelling

Syn: Perch, stronghold

Similar or alike in some way, equivalent to

Syn: Comparable, corresponding, homogeneous, parallel, similar

Highest point, summit, the highest level or degree attainable

Syn: Apex, peak, summit

Concerning the appreciation of beauty

To mar the apperance of, vandalize

Syn: Disfigure, impair, spoil

Respect, courtesy

Syn: Homage, honor, obeisance, reverence, veneration

Subtly or unexpectedly harmful

Syn: Adverse, inimical, injurious, hurtful

A leader or rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice

Syn: Agitator, inciter, instigator

To express doubts or objections

Syn: Dissent, expostulate, kick, protest, remonstrate

To speak of or treat with contempt, to mock

Syn: Gibe, jeer, mock, ridicule, scoff, sneer, taunt

To dry out thoroughly

Syn: Dehydrate, dry, parch

Jumping from one thing to another, disconnected

Syn: Aimless, erratic, haphazard, indiscriminate, objectless, purposeless, random, stray, unconsidered, unplanned

Allowing light to show through, delicate

Syn: Gauzy, sheer, tenuous, translucent, transparent

An abusive, condemnatory speech

Syn: Fulmination, harangue, invective, jeremiad, malediction, obloquy, tirade

Authoritative statement

Syn: Adage, apothegm, aphorism, decree, edict

Lacking self-confident

Syn: Backward, bashful, coy, demure, modest, retiring, self-effacing, shy, timid

To make larger, expand

Syn: Amplify, develop, elaborate, enlarge, expatiate

Intended to delay

Syn: Dragging, flagging, laggard, lagging, slow, slow-footed, slow-going, slow-paced, tardy

Someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic

Syn: Amateur, dabble, superficial, tyro

A funeral hymn or mournful speech

Syn: Elegy, lament

To set right, free from error

Syn: Correct, undeceive

To perceive or recognize

Syn: Catch, descry, detect, differentiate, discriminate, distinguish, espy, glimpse, know, separate, spot, spy, tell

Fundamentally different, entirely unlike

Syn: Different, dissimilar, divergent, diverse, variant, various

To present a false appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character

Syn: Act, affect camouflage, cloak, counterfeit, cover up, disguise, dissimulate, fake, feign, mask, masquerade, pose, pretend, put on, sham

A harsh and disagreeable combination especially of sounds

Syn: Clash, contention, discord, dissension, dissent, dissidence, friction, strife, variance

The female branch of a family

Syn: Maternal

To swell, inflate, or bloat

Syn: Broaden, bulge

To act confusedly or without clear purpose

Syn: Falter, hesitate, vacillate, waffle, waver

Existing during the day

Syn: Daylight, daytime

To foretell or know by inspiration

Syn: Auger, foresee, intuit, predict, presage

Rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality, dogmatic

Syn: Dictatorial, inflexible

A firmly held opinion, especially a religious belief

Syn: Creed, doctrines, teaching, tenet

Dictatorial in one's opinions

Syn: Authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, doctrinaire, domineering, imperious, magisterial, masterful, overbearing, peremptory

Amusing in a wry, subtle way

Syn: Comic, entertaining, funny, risible, witty

To deceive, a person who is easily deceived

Syn: Beguile, betray, bluff, cozen, deceive, delude, fool, hoodwink, humbug, mislead, take in trick

Suffering from indigestion, gloomy and irritable

Syn: Acerbic, melancholy, morose, solemn, sour

Exhilarated, full of enthusiasm and high spirits

Syn: Ardent, avid, bubbly, zestful

Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources

Syn: Broad, catholic, selective

To instruct morally and spiritually

Syn: Educate, enlighten, guide, teach

Effectiveness

Syn: Dynamism, efficiency, force, power, productiveness, proficiency, strength, vigor

Stuffed doll, likeness of a person

Syn: Dummy, figure, image

Impudent boldness, audacity

Syn: Brashness, gall, nerve, presumption, temerity

A sorrowful poem or speech

Syn: Dirge, lament

Persuasive and moving, especially in speech

Syn: Articulate, expressive, fluent, meaningful, significant, smooth-spoken

To add ornamental or fictitious details

Syn: Adorn, bedeck, elaborate, embroider, enhance, exaggerate

To copy, to try to equal or excel

Syn: Ape, imitate, simulate

Warm praise

Syn: Citation, eulogy, panegyric, salutation, tribute

Belonging to a particular area, inherent

Syn: Indigenous, local, native

To reduce in strength

Syn: Debilitate, enfeeble, sap, weaken

To produce, cause, or bring about

Syn: Beget, generate, procreate, proliferate, reproduce, spawn

A puzzle, a mystery

Syn: Conundrum, perplexity

To count, list, or itemize

Syn: Catalog, index, tabulate

Lasting a short time

Syn: Evancescent, fleeting, momentary, transient

Person with refined taste in food and wine

Syn: Bon vivant, connoisseur, gastronome, gastronomist, gourmand, gourmet

To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead

Syn: Ambiguous, evasive, waffling

Wandering and unpredictable

Syn: Capricious, inconstant, irresolute, whimsical

Fake

Syn: Artificial, dummy, false, imitation, mock, sham, simulated, spurious, substitute

Learned, scholarly, bookish

Syn: Learned, scholastic, wise

To shun, to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful)

Syn: Avoid, bilk, elude, escape, evade, shun, shy

Known or understood only by a few

Syn: Abstruse, arcane, obscure

Admirable

Syn: Commendable, creditable, honorable, laudable, meritorious, praiseworthy, respectable, venerable, worthy

Beliefs or character of a group

Syn: Culture, ethic, philosophy

Speech in praise of someone

Syn: Commend, extol, laud

Use of an inoffensive word or phrae in place of a more distasteful one

Syn: Nice-nellyism

Pleasant, harmonious sound

Syn: Harmony, melody, music, sweetness

To make worse

Syn: Aggravate, annoy, intensify, irritate, provoke

To clear from blame, prove innocent

Syn: Absolve, acquit, clear, exonerate, vindicate

Urgent, requiring immediate action

Syn: Critical, imperative, needed, urgent

To clear of blame

Syn: Absolve, acquit, exculpate, vindicate

Clearly stated or shown, forthright in expression

Syn: Candid, clear-cut, definite, definitive, express, frank, specific, straightforward, unabiguous, unequivocal

One who champions or advocates

Syn: Representative, supporter

To censor

Syn: Bowdlerize, cut, sanitize

Dormant, unused

Syn: Idle, inactive, unseeded

Acting excessively enthusiastic, filled with extreme, unquestionable devotion

Syn: Extremist, fiery, frenzied, zealous

Stupid, foolishly self-satisfied

Syn: Absurd, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous, silly

To grovel

Syn: Bootlick, pander, toady

Fertile, fruitful, productive

Syn: Flourishing, prolific

Intensely emotional, feverish

Syn: Burning, impassioned, passionate, vehement, zealous

Foul-smelling, putrid

Syn: Funky, malodorous, noisome, rank, stinky

To decline in vigor, strength, or interest

Syn: dwindle, ebb, slacken, subside, wane

Excessively decorated or embellished

Syn: Baroque, elaborate, flamboyant, ornate, ostentatious, rococo

To arouse or incite

Syn: Agitate, impassion, inflame, instigate, kindle

To cross a body of water by wading

Syn: Traverse, wade

To prevent or delay, anticipate

Syn: Avert, deter, hinder, obviate, preclude

Happening by chance, fortunate

Syn: Chance, fortunate, haphazard, lucky, propitious, prosperous

Unruly, rebellious

Syn: Contentious, cranky, peevish, quarrelsome

Frantic, frenzied

Syn: Corybantic, delirious, feverish, mad, rabid, wild

Tending to be thrifty or cheap

Syn: Economical, parsimony, prudence, sparing

Secret, stealthy

Syn: Clandestine, covert, shfty, surreptitious, underhand

To dance or skip around playfully

Syn: Caper, cavort, frisk, frolic, rollick, romp

To gather and store

Syn: Amass, acquire, glean, harvest, reap

tending to talk a lot

Syn: Effusive, loquacious

Growth process from conception to birth

Syn: Development, gravidity, pregnancy

Fluent in an insincere manner, offhand, casual

Syn: Easy, superficial

To glare or stare angrily and intensely

Syn: Frown, lower, scowl

Process occuring by regular degrees or stages, variation in color

Syn: Nuance, shade, step, subtlety

Outgoing, sociable

Syn: Affable, communicative, congenial, sociable

Causing grief or sorrow, serious and distressing

Syn: Dire, dolorous, grave, mournful

To humble oneself in a demeaning way

Syn: Bootlick, cringe, fawn, kowtow, taody

Deceit, trickery

Syn: Artifice, chicanery, connivery, duplicity

Easily deceived

Syn: Credulous, exploitable, naive

Unfortunate, having bad luck

Syn: Ill-fated, ill-starred, jinxed, luckless, unlucky

The domination of one state or group over its allies

Syn: Authority, power

Tightly sealed

Syn: Airtight, impervious, watertight

Composed of unlike parts, different, diverse

Syn: Assorted, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, varied

Very old, whitish or gray from age

Syn: Ancient, antediluvian, antique, venerable, vintage

of a similar kind

Syn: Consistent, standardized, uniform, unvarrying

To manage economically, to use sparingly

Syn: Conserve

Purposeful exaggeration for effect

Syn: Embellishment, inflation, magnification

One who opposes established beliefs, customs, and institutions

Syn: Maverick, nonconformist, rebel, revolutionary

Peculiarity of temperament, eccentricity

Syn: Humor, oddity, quirk

Having low moral standards, not noblein character, mean

Syn: Lowly, vulgar

To infuse, dye, wet, or moisten

Syn: Charge, freight, impregnate, permeate, pervade

Blocked path, dilemma with no solution

Syn: cul-de-sac, deadlock, stalemate

Poor, having no money

Syn: Destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, penniless

Not capable of being disturbed

Syn: Composed, dispassionate, impassive, serene, stoical

Impossible to penetrate, incapable of being affected

Syn: Impregnable, resistant

Quick to act without thinking

Syn: Impulsive, precipitate, rash, reckless, spontaneous

Not devout in religion

Syn: Immoral, irreverent, profane

Unable to be calmed down or made peaceful

Syn: Inexorable, intransigent, irreconcilable, relentless, remorseless, unforgiving, unrelenting

A curse

Syn: Damnation

To call into question, to attack verbally

Syn: Challenge, dispute

Blood-red in color

Syn: Reddened, ruby, ruddy

Not fully formed, disorganized

Syn: Amorphous, incoherent, incomplete, unorganized

To teach, impress in the mind

Syn: Implant, indoctrinate, instill, preach

Habitually lazy or idle

Syn: Faineant, languid, lethargic, slothful, sluggish

Inflexible, unyielding

Syn: Adamant, relentless, obdurate

Showing innocence or childlike simplicity

Syn: Artless, guileless, innocent, naive, simple, unaffected

Ungrateful person

Syn: Cad, churl

To gain favor with another by deliberate effort; to seek to please somebody so as to gain an advantage

Syn: Curry favor, flatter

Hostile, unfriendly

Syn: Adverse, antagonistic, dissident, recalcitrant

Sin, evil act

Syn: enormity, immorality, injustice, vice, wickedness

Harmless

Syn: Benign, harmless, inoffensive, insipid

An investigation, an inquiry

Syn: Probe, quest, research

Lacking interest or flavor

Syn: Banal, bland, dull, stale, vapid

Rebellion

Syn: Mutiny, revolt, revolution, uprising

To burry

Syn: Entomb, inhume, sepulcher, sepulture, tomb

Period between reigns

Syn: Interval

Not easily managed or manipulated

Syn: Stubborn, unruly

Uncompromising, refusing to be reconciled

Syn: Implacable, inexorable, irreconcilable, obdurate, obstinate, remorseless, rigid, unbending, unrelenting, unyielding

Fearless, resolutely courageous

Syn: Brave

To overwhelm, to cover with water

Syn: Deluge, drown, engulf, flood, submerge

To harden, accustom, become used to

Syn: Condition, familiarize, habituate

Abusive language

Syn: denunciation, revilement, vituperation

Ceremony conferring authority

Syn: Inaugural, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation

Envious, obnoxious, or offensive; likely to promote ill-will

Syn: Discriminatory, insulting, jaundiced, resentful

Easily made angry

Syn: Cantankerous, irritable, ornery, testy

Wandering from place to place, unsettled

Syn: Nomadic, vagrant

Nonsensical talk, specialized language

Syn: Argot, cant, dialect, idiom, slang

To discard, to get rid of as unnecessary or encumbering

Syn: Dump, eject

Belligerent support of one's country

Syn: Chauvanism, nationalism

Playful, humorous

Syn: amusing, comical

Sensible, showing good judgment

Syn: Circumspect, prudent, sagacious, sapient

Point of time, especially where two things are joined

Syn: Confluence, convergence, crisis, crossroads, moment

Having a sharp edge, intellectually sharp, perceptive

Syn: Acute, canny, quick

To set fire to or ignite; excite or inspire

Syn: Arouse, awaken, light, spark

Relating to motion, characterized by movement

Syn: Active, dynamic, mobile

Sound of a funeral bell, omen of death or failure

Syn: Chime, peal, toll

Fame, glory, or honor

Syn: Acclaim, accolade, encomium, homage, praise

Tearful

Syn: Teary, weeping

Using few words

Syn: Concise, curt, pithy, taciturn, terse

To express sorrow, to grieve

Syn: Bewail, deplore, grieve, mourn

To ridicule with satire

Syn: Tease

Lacking energy, indifferent, slow

Syn: Faineant, lackadaisical, listless, sluggish, weak

Relating to precious stones or the art of cutting them

theft of property

Syn: Burglary, robbery, stealing

Generous giving (as of money) to others who may seem inferior

Syn: Benevolence, boon, compliment, favor, present

A state of diminished energy

Syn: Debilitation, enervation, fatigue, languor, listlessness, tiredness, weariness

Potential that is not readily apparent

Syn: Concealed, dormant, inert, potential, quiescent

To give praise, to glorify

Syn: Acclaim, applaud, commend, compliment, exalt, extol, hail, praise

Extremely generous or extravagant, giving unsparingly

Syn: Bestow, confer, extravagant, exuberant, luxuriant, opulent, prodigal, profuse, superabundant

Suspicious

Syn: Distrutful, guarded, wary

Trickery

Syn: Chicanery, conjuring

A free thinker, usually used disparagingly, one without moral restrait

Syn: hedonist

Immoral, unrestrained by society

Syn: Lewd, wanton

Clear, transparent

Syn: Lucid, pellucid, serene

To treat as a celebrity

Syn: feast, honor, ply, regale

Easily flexed, limber, agile

Syn: Graceful, lithe, supple

Lacking energy and enthusiasm

Syn: Faineant, indolent, languid, lethargic, sluggish

Discolored from a bruise, pale, reddened with anger

Syn: Ashen, black-and-blue, furious, pallid

Talkative

Syn: effusive, garrulous, verbose

Clear and easily understood

Syn: Clear, coherent, explicit, intelligle, limpid

Sorrowful, mournful, dismal

Syn: funereal, gloomy, melancholy, somber, woeful

To move slowly and awkwardly

Syn: galumph, hulk, lurch, stumble

Bright, brilliant, glowing

Syn: Incandescent, lucent, lustrous, radiant, resplendent

Plot or scheme

Syn: Cabal, conspiracy, design, intrigue

Whirlpool, turmoil, agitated state of mind

Syn: Charybdis, eddy, turbulence

Powerful or influential person

Syn: Dignitary, luminary, nabob, potentate, tycoon

A curse, a wish of evil upon another

Syn: Anathema, imprecation

To evade responsibility by pretending to be ill

Syn: Shirk, slack

Capable of being shaped

Syn: Adaptable, ductile, plastic, pliable, pliant

Artificial or stilted in character

Syn: Affected, unnatural

To damage or deface, spoil

Syn: Blemish, disfigure, impair, injure, scar

Strict disciplinarian, one who rigidly follows rules

Syn: Dictator, stickler, tyrant

Overly sentimental

Syn: Bathetic, mawkish, saccharine, weepy

Dishonest

Syn: Deceitful, false, lying, untruthful

Beggar

Syn: Panhandler, pauper

Quick, shrewd, and unpredictable

Syn: Clever, crafty, volatile, whimsical

Gaudy, falsely attractive

Syn: Flashy, insincere, loud, specious, tawdry

Figure of speech comparing two different things

Syn: Allegory, analogy, simile, symbol

Acting in an indifferent or slow, sluggish manner

Syn: Apathetic, lackadaisical, languid, listless, torpid

An inappropriate lack of seriousness; overly casual

Syn: Amusement, humor

Tolerant or broad-minded, generous or lavish

Syn: Bounteous, latitudinarian, munificent, permissive, progressive

Extremely careful; fastidious, painstaking

Syn: Finicky, fussy, picky, precise, punctilious, scrupulous

To operate against; work against

Syn: Influence, affect, change

Frivolity, gaiety, laughter

Syn: Glee, hilarity, jollity, merriment

A person who dislikes others

Syn: Curmudgeon

A written note or letter

Syn: Message

To soften; To lessen

Syn: Allay, alleviate, assuage, ease, lighten, moderate, mollify, palliate, temper

To calm or make less severe

Syn: Appease, assuage, conciliate, pacify

To shed hair, skin, or an outer layer periodically

Syn: Cast, defoliate, desquamate

Extremely plain or secluded, as in a monestary

Syn: Austere, contemplative, disciplined, regimented, self-abnegating

No variation, tediously the same

Syn: Drone, tedium

Fixed customs or manners; moral attitudes

Syn: Conventions, practices

Diverse

Syn: Assorted, indiscriminate, heterogeneous, legion, motley, multifold, multiform, multiplex, populous, varid

Lacking foresight, having a narrow view or short-range perspective

Syn: Short-sighted, unthinking

Lowest point

Syn: Bottom, depth, pit

Lacking sophistication or experience

Syn: Artless, credulous, guileless, ingenuous, simple, unaffected, unsophisticated

Starting to develop, coming into existence

Syn: Embryonic, emerging, inchoate, incipient

New word or expression

Syn: Slang, slip-of-the-tongue

Novice, beginner

Syn: Apprentice, greenhorn, tyro

To irritate

Syn: Annoy, vex

Stinking, putrid

Syn: Disgusting, foul, malodorous

Existing in name only, negligible

Syn: Minimal, titular

A subtle expression of meaning or quality

Syn: Gradation, subtlety, tone

Coin collecting

Hardened in feeling, resistant to persuasion

Syn: Inflexible, intransigent, recalcitrant, tenacious, unyielding

Indirect or evasive, misleading or devious

Syn: Glancing, slanted, tangential

Overly submissive and eager to please

Syn: Compliant, deferential, servile, subservient

Stubborn, unyielding

Syn: Intransigent, mulish, persistent, pertinaicous, tenacious

To prevent; to make unnecessary

Syn: Forestall, preclude, prohibit

To stop up; prevent the passage of

Syn: Barricade, block, close, obstruct

Too helpful; meddlesome

Syn: Eager, unwanted, intrusive

Troublesome and oppresive; burdensome

Syn: Arduous, backbreaking, cumbersome, difficult, exacting, formidable, hard, laborious, oppressive, rigorous, taxing, trying

Impossible to see through, preventing the passage of light

Syn: Obscure

To express an opinion

Syn: Point out, voice

Public disgrace

Syn: Discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, ignominy, infamy, obloquy, shame

Pompous

Syn: Aureate, bombastic, declamatory, euphuistic, flowery, grandiloquent, magniloquent, oratorical, overblown, sonorous

To change into bone; to become hardened or set in a rigidly conventional pattern

Apparent

Syn: Represented, supposed, surface

Excessive showiness

Syn: Conspicuousness, flashiness, pretentiousness, showiness

Agitated; overdone

Syn: Elaborate, excited, nervous, ornate

Relating to a palace; magnificent

Syn: Grand, stately

To make less serious, ease

Syn: Alleviate, assuage, extenuate, mitigate

Lacking color or liveliness

Syn: Ashen, blanched, ghostly, pale, wan

Flamboyance or dash in style and actions; verve

Syn: flair

Elaborate praise, formal hymn of praise

Syn: Compliment, homage

Impressive array

Syn: Array, display, fanfare, parade, pomp, shine, show

A contradiction or dilemma

Syn: Ambiguity, incongruity

Model of excellence or perfection

Syn: Apotheosis, ideal, quintessence, standard

To trim off excess, reduce

Syn: Clip, peel

An outcast

Syn: Castaway, derelict, leper, offscouring, untouchable

Discussion, usually between enemies

Syn: Debate, dialogue, negotiations, talks

To ward off or deflect, especially by a quick-witted answer

Syn: Avoid, evade, repel

Piece of literature or music imitating other works

Syn: Medley, spoof

Causing disease

Syn: infecting, noxious

Minor sin or offense

Syn: Failing, fault, lapse, misstep

Someone who shows off learning

Syn: Doctrinaire, nit-picker, pedagogue, scholar, schoolmaster, sophist

Having bad connotations, disparaging

Syn: Belittling, dismissive, insulting

An oppressive lack of resources (as money); severe poverty

Syn: Destitution, impoverishment

To wander from place to place, to travel, especially on foot

Syn: Journey, traverse, trek

Willing to betray one's trust

Syn: Disloyal, faithless, traitorous, treacherous

Done in a routine way, indiffirent

Syn: Apathetic, automatic, mechanical

Wandering from place to place, especially on foot

Syn: Itinerant, nomadic, wayfaring

To penetrate

Syn: Imbue, infuse, pervade, suffuse

Shrewd, astute, or keen-witted

Syn: Insightful, intelligent, sagacious

To be present throughout, to permeate

Syn: Imbue, infuse, penetrate, suffuse

A compact or close-knit body of people, animals, or things

Syn: Legion, mass

Charity, a desire or effort to promote goodness

Syn: Altruism, humanitarianism

A person who is guided by materialism and is disdainful of intellectual or artistic values

Syn: Boor, bourgeois, capitalist, clown, lout, materialist, vulgarian

Calm and unemotional in temperament

Syn: Apathetic, calm, emotionless, impassive, indiffirent, passionless, unemotional

Profound or substantial yet concise, succinct, and to the point

Syn: Brief, compact, laconic, terse

To soothe or pacify

Syn: Appease, conciliate, mollify

Able to be molded, altered, or bent

Syn: adaptable, ductile, malleable, pliant

Crude or coarse, characteristic of commoners

Syn: Conventional, unrefined

Excess

Syn: Glut, overabundance, superfluity, surfeit

Courageous; spunky

Syn: Brave, bold, gutsy

Controversy, argument, verbal attack

Syn: Denunciation, refutation

Shrewd and practical in managing or dealing with things, diplomatic

Syn: Tactful

A speaker of many languages

To assume as real or conceded, propose as an explanation

Syn: Suggest

A monarch or ruler with great power

Syn: Dominator, leader

Practical, as opposed to idealistic

Syn: rational, realistic

Meaningless, foolish talk

Syn: Babble, blather, chatter, drivel, gibberish

To throw violently or bring about abruptly, lacking deliberation

Syn: Abrupt, hasty, headlong, hurried, ill-considered, impetuous, impulsive, prompt, rash, reckless, sudden

Short summary of facts

Syn: Summary

Having foresight

Syn: Augural, divinatory, mantic, oracular, premonitory

To lie or deviate from the truth

Syn: Equivocate, lie, perjure

Fresh and clean, uncorrupted

Syn: Innocent, undamaged

Complete honesty and integrity

Syn: Integrity, morality, rectitude, uprightness, virtue

A natural inclination or predisposition

Syn: Bias, leaning, partiality, penchant, predilection, prejudice, propensity

Lavish, wasteful

Syn: Extravagant, profligate, spendthrift

Corrupt, degenerate

Syn: Dissolute, extravagant, improvident, prodigal, wasteful

To increase in number quickly

Syn: Breed, multiply, procreate, propagate, reproduce, spawn

To conciliate, to appease

Syn: Mollify, pacify, placate

The quality of behaving in a proper manner, obeying rules and customs

Syn: Appropriateness, decency, decorum, modesty

Wisdom, caution, or restraint

Syn: Astuteness, circumspection, discretion, frugality, judiciousness, providence, thrift

Childish, immature, or silly

Syn: Infantile, jejune, juvenile

Boxing

Syn: Fighting, sparring

Beauty

Syn: Comeliness, gorgeousness, handsomeness, loveliness, prettiness

Sharp and irritating to the senses

Syn: Acrid, caustic, piquant, poignant, stinging

Cowardly, without courage

Syn: Cowardly, timid

Inclined to complain, irritable

Syn: Peevish, puling, sniveling, whiny

Motionless

Syn: Dormant, latent

Overly idealistic, impractical

Syn: Capricious, impulsive, romantic, unrealistic

Occuring daily, commonplace

Syn: Everyday, normal, usual

Witty, skillful storyteller

Syn: Anecdotalist, monologist

To make thinner or sparser

Syn: Attenuate, thin

Relief from wrong or injury

Syn: Amends, indemnity, quittance, reparation, restitution

Response

Syn: Retort, riposte

Meal or mealtime

Syn: Banquet, feast

Abundantly supplied, complete

Syn: Abounding, full

Relaxation, leisure

Syn: Calmness, tranquility

To reject the validity of

Syn: Deny, disavow, disclaim, disown, renounce

To return or repay

Syn: Compensate, reciprocate

Impatient, uneasy, or restless

Syn: Agitated, anxious, fretful

Silent, reserved

Syn: cool, introverted, laconic, standoffish, taciturn, undemonstrative

Effective writing or speaking

Syn: Eloquence, oratory

Humorous in a vulgar way

Syn: Coarse, gross, indelicate, lewd, obscene

Very highly ornamented, relating to an 18th century artistic style of elaborate ornamentation

Syn: intricate, ornate

Rural

Syn: Bucolic, pastoral

Extremely sacred, beyond criticism

Syn: Holy, inviolable, off-limits

Shrewd, wise

Syn: Astute, judicious, perspicacious, sage, wise

Prominent; of notable significance

Syn: Marked, noticeable, outstanding

Healthful

Syn: Bracing, curative, medicinal, therapeutic, tonic

Ruddy, cheerfully optimistic

Syn: Confident, hopeful, positive, rosy, rubicund

Cynical, scornfully mocking

Syn: acerbic, caustic, sarcastic, satirical, snide

To satisfy fully or overindulge

Syn: Cloy, glut, gorge, surfeit

Trace amount

Syn: Atom, iota, mote, spark, speck

Behavior that promotes rebellion or civil disorder against the state

Syn: Conspiracy, insurrection

Aware, conscious, able to perceive

Syn: feeling, intelligent, thinking

Angelic, sweet

Syn: Cherubic, heavenly

A well-paying job or office that requires little or no work

The corrupt mayor made sure to set up all his relatives in sinecures within the administration

To calm down or moderate

Syn: Moderate, quench, satisfy

Nickname

Syn: Alias, pseudonym

Grammatical mistake, blunder in speech

Syn: Blooper, faux pas, vulgarism

Causing sleep or lethargy

Syn: Hypnotic, narcotic, slumberous, somnolent

Highly self-disciplined, frugal, austere

Syn: Restrained, simple

Deceptively attractive, seemingly plausible but fallacious

Syn: Illusory, ostensible, plausible, sophistic, spurious

Frolicsome, playful

Syn: Frisky, merry

A state of static balance or equilibrium, stagnation

Syn: Inertia, standstill

Extremely loud

Syn: Clamorous, noisy

A mark of shame or discredit

Syn: Blemish, blot, opprobrium, stain, taint

Unemotional, lacking sensivity

Syn: Apathetic, impassive, indifferent, phlegmatic, stoic, unconcerned

Trick designed to receive an enemy

Syn: Artifice, feint, maneuver, ruse, wile

Lofty or grand

Syn: August, exalted, glorious, grand, magnificent, majestic, noble, resplendent, superb

To tarnish, taint

Syn: Besmirch, defile

To replace (another) by force; to take the place of

Syn: Displace, supersede

Excessive amount

Syn: Glut, plethora, repletion, superfluity, surplus

Rude and bad-tempered

Syn: Gruff, grumpy, testy

A person devoted to pleasure and luxury

Syn: Hedonist, sensualist

A self-serving flatterer, yes-man

Syn: Bootlicker, fawner, lickspittle, toady

Cooperation, mutual helpfulness

Syn: Association, interdependence

Temporary irregularity in musical rhythm

Done without using words

Syn: Implicit, implied, undeclared, unsaid, unuttered

Silent, not talkative

Syn: Laconic, reticent

Claw of an animal, especially a bird of prey

Syn: claw, nail

Disgressing, diverting

Syn: Digressive, extraneous, inconsequential, irrelevant, peripheral

Gaudy, cheap, or showy

Syn: Flashy, loud, meretricious

Earthly, down-to-earth, commonplace

Syn: Earthbound, mundane, sublunary, tellurian, terrene

Long, harsh speech or verbal attack

Syn: Diatribe, fulmination, harangue, obloquy, revilement, vilification

One who flatters in the hope of gaining favors

Syn: Parasite, sycophant

Usually large and academic book

Syn: Codex, volume

Extreme mental and physical sluggishness

Syn: apathy, languor

Temporary; lasting a brief time

Syn: Ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, impermanent, momentary

Acute, sharp, or incisive, forceful, effective

Syn: Biting, caustic, cutting, keen

Swollen as from a fluid, bloated

Syn: Distended

Beginner, novice

Syn: Apprectice, fledgling, greenhorn, neophyte, tenderfoot

Offense, resentment

Syn: Asperity, dudgeon, ire, pique, rancor

Unscrupulous; shockingly unfair or unjust

Syn: Dishonorable, indefensible

Absolute; certain

Syn: Categorical, clear, explicit, express, unambiguous

To fluctuate between choices

Syn: Dither, falter, fluctuate, oscillate, vascillate

Someone passionately devoted to a cause

Syn: enthusiast, fanatic, militant, radical

Passion, excitement

Syn: Ardency, fervor, fire, passion

To join together

Syn: Bind, harness, pair

A fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers

Syn: Bigotry, chauvinism, prejudice

Vitality and energy

Syn: Force, power

A change or variation, ups and downs

Syn: inconstancy, mutability

Thick and adhesive, like a slow-flowing fluid

Syn: Gelatinous, glutinous, thick

To abuse verbally, berate

Syn: Castigate, reproach, scold

Easily aroused or changeable, lively or explosive

Syn: Capricious, erratic, fickle, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental

Talkative, speaking easily, glib

Syn: Loquacious, verbose

Sickly pale

Syn: Ashen, sickly

Undisciplined, unrestrained, reckless

Syn: Capricious, lewd, licentious

To teach, impress in the mind

Syn: Implant, indoctrinate, instill, preach

Lightly acting in a fanciful or capricious manner; unpredictable

Syn: Capricious, erratic, flippant, frivolous

Clever, deceptive

Syn: Crafty, cunning, tricky

Charming; happily engaging

Syn: Attractive, delightful

Shriveled, withered, wrinkled

Syn: Atrophied, desiccated, gnarled, wasted

A ghost or specter; a ghost of a living person seen just before his or her death

Syn: Apparition, bogeyman, phantasm, shade, spirit

The point of culmination peak

Syn: Acme, pinnacle

A gentle breeze, something airy or unsubstantial

Syn: Breath; draft

To scold sharply

syn: Berate, chide, rebuke, reproach, tax

The practice of lending money at exorbitant rates

Syn: Loan-sharking

To physically sway or to be indecisive

Syn: Dither, falter, fluctuate, oscillate, waver

Varied, marked with different colors

Syn: Diversified

Respected because of age

Syn: Distinguished, elderly, respectable

To respect deeply

Syn: Adore, honor, idolize, revere

Filed with truth and accuracy

Syn: Candor, exactitude, fidelity, probity

Wordy

Syn: Long-winded, loquacious, prolix, superfluous

Green with vegetation, inexperienced

Syn: Grassy, leafy, wooded

Related to springs, fresh

Syn: Springlike, youthful

A trace, remnant

Syn: relic, remains, sign

To annoy, irritate, puzzle, confuse

Syn: Annoy, bother, chafe, exasperate, irk, nettle, peeve, provoke