Group 1
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| abate | reduce in amount, degree or severity |
| abdicate | renounce or relinquish a throne |
| aberrant | abnormal or deviant |
| abeyance | suspended action |
| abject | utterly hopeless, humiliating or wretched |
| abjure | renounce on oath |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| ablution | act of cleansing |
| abrogate | abolish by formal means |
| abscond | depart secretly and hide |
| abstemious | sparing in eating and drinking; temperate |
| abstruse | hard to understand; secret, hidden |
| accretion | an increase by natural growth |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| acerbic | sour or astringent in taste, harsh in temper |
| acquiesce | comply, give in |
| acrid | sharp or biting to the taste or smell |
| acrimonious | caustic, stinging or bitter in nature |
| adjoin | be close or in contact with |
| adjure | beg or command |
Group 2
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| admonish | counsel against something; caution; warn; reprove |
| adulterate | make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances |
| adventitious | accidental |
| aesthetic | artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful |
| affable | friendly, courteous |
| aggrandize | increase in power, influence and reputation |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| aggregate | gather; accumulate |
| alacrity | cheerful promptness; eagerness |
| alleviate | relieve |
| altruist | a person unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others |
| amalgamate | combine; unite in one body |
| amatory | of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| ambiguous | unclear or doubtful in meaning |
| ambivalence | the state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes |
| ameliorate | make better; to improve |
| amity | friendship; peaceful harmony |
| anachronism | something or someone misplaced in time; an obsolete or archaic form |
| analogous | comparable |
Group 3
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| anarchy | absence of governing body; state of disorder |
| androgen | any substance that promotes masculine characteristics |
| androgynous | being both male and female |
| animus | hostile feeling or attitude |
| anomalous | abnormal; irregular |
| antipathy | aversion; dislike |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| apartheid | any system or caste that separates people according to race |
| apathy | lack of interest or emotion; uncaring; indifference |
| apogee | the highest or most distant point |
| apostasy | renunciation of one's previous loyalty; a total desertion of one's religion, principles, cause, etc. |
| apotheosis | glorification, glorified ideal |
| appease | pacify or soothe; relieve |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| apprise | inform |
| approbation | approval; praise, consideration |
| appropriate | acquire; take possession of for one's own use |
| arduous | hard; strenuous |
| arrogate | claim unwarrantably or presumptuously |
| artless | without guile; open and honest |
Group 4
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| ascetic | practicing self-denial; austere |
| assiduous | diligent, persistent, hardworking |
| assuage | make less severe; ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) |
| atrophy | waste away; wither or deteriorate; the wasting away of body tissue |
| attenuate | make thinner |
| audacious | daring; bold |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| austere | forbiddingly stern in appearance; severely simple and unornamented |
| autonomous | self-governing; independent |
| aver | assert confidently or declare; as used in law, state formally as a fact |
| avocation | something one does in addition to a principle occupation |
| banal | boring; commonplace; trite; lacking originality; clichéd; hackneyed |
| belie | contradict; give a false impression |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| belligerent | warlike, given to waging war |
| bemoan | express pity for |
| beneficent | kindly; doing good |
| benevolent | desiring to do good to others |
| benign | having a kindly disposition |
| bilateral | pertaining to or affecting two or both sides |
Group 5
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| bolster | support; reinforce |
| bombastic | pompous in speech and manner ; using inflated language |
| boorish | rude; insensitive |
| burgeon | grow forth; send out buds |
| burnish | make shiny by rubbing; polish |
| buttress | support; prop up |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| capitulate | surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms |
| capricious | unpredictable; fickle; changing one's mind quickly and often |
| castigate | punish or criticize harshly |
| catalyst | agent that increases the rate of a chemical action; person or thing that causes action |
| caustic | burning; sarcastically biting |
| chicanery | trickery; deception by means of craft or guile |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| circuitous | roundabout, indirect |
| circumambulate | walk about or around |
| circumscribe | draw a line around |
| circumspect | watchful and discreet |
| coagulate | thicken; congeal; clot |
| coda | concluding section of a musical or literary composition; something that summarizes or concludes |
Group 6
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| cogent | convincing and well reasoned |
| commensurate | corresponding in extent, degree, etc.; proportionate |
| compendium | brief, comprehensive summary |
| complacent | self-satisfied, unconcerned |
| complaisant | trying to please; overly polite; obliging |
| compliant | yielding; conforming to requirements |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| compunction | a feeling of uneasiness for doing wrong |
| concentric | having a common center |
| conciliate | placate, win over |
| conciliatory | reconciling; soothing |
| condone | overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse |
| conflagration | a large destructive fire |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| confluence | merging into one |
| confound | confuse; puzzle |
| congenital | existing or as such from birth |
| connoisseur | person competent to act as a judge of art; a lover of art |
| contention | claim; thesis |
| contentious | quarrelsome |
Group 7
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| contravene | come into conflict with |
| contrite | feeling regret and sorrow for one's sins or offenses; penitent |
| conundrum | riddle; difficult problem |
| convalescent | recovering from illness |
| converge | approach; tend to meet; come together |
| convoke | call together |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| convoluted | intricate and complicated |
| corroborate | provide supporting evidence |
| craven | cowardly |
| credulous | too trusting; gullible |
| cursory | going rapidly over something; hasty; superficial |
| daunt | intimidate; frighten |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| decadent | decaying; deteriorating |
| decorum | propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners |
| default | failure to act |
| deference | respect; courteous regard for another's wishes |
| deferential | respectful; to yield judgment to |
| deign | think fit or in accordance with one's dignity |
Group 8
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| delineate | portray; depict; sketch |
| delude | mislead the mind of judgment of, deceive |
| denigrate | blacken |
| deride | ridicule; make fun of |
| derision | contemptuous or jeering laughter; ridicule. |
| derivative | unoriginal; obtained from another source |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| desiccate | dry out thoroughly |
| desultory | aimless; haphazard; digressing at random |
| deterrent | something that discourages; hindrance |
| diatribe | bitter scolding; invective |
| dichotomy | split; branching into two parts (especially contradictory ones) |
| diffident | lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid. |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| diffuse | spread widely or thinly |
| digression | wandering away from the subject |
| dilatory | inclined to delay or procrastinate |
| dilettante | someone with an amateurish and superficial interest in a topic |
| dirge | lament with music |
| disabuse | correct a false impression; to set right; |
Group 9
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| discerning | mentally quick and observant; having insight |
| discordant | not harmonious; conflicting |
| discredit | defame; destroy confidence in; disbelieve |
| discrepancy | lack of consistency; difference |
| discrete | separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts |
| disingenuous | lacking genuine candor; insincere |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| disinterested | unprejudiced |
| disjointed | lacking coherence; separated at the joints |
| dismiss | eliminate from consideration; reject |
| disparage | belittle |
| disparate | fundamentally distinct or different in kind; entirely dissimilar |
| disport | divert or amuse oneself |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| disquiet | a lack of calm or peace |
| dissemble | disguise; pretend; to disguise one's real intentions or character |
| disseminate | distribute; spread widely; scatter (like seeds) |
| dissolution | disintegration; looseness in morals |
| dissonance | discord; opposite of harmony |
| distend | expand by stretching; swell out |
Group 10
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| distill | purify; refine; concentrate |
| diverge | vary; go in different directions from the same point |
| divest | strip; deprive |
| doctrine | a principle or body of principles presented for acceptance or belief; dogma |
| document | provide written evidence |
| dogma | a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| dogmatic | opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal |
| doleful | sorrowful, mournful |
| dormant | sleeping; lethargic; latent |
| dour | sullen, gloomy |
| dupe | deceive; a person who is easily deceived |
| duplicity | deceitfulness in speech or conduct; double-dealing |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| dystrophy | faulty or inadequate nutrition or development |
| ebullient | showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm |
| eclectic | selective; composed of elements from a variety of sources |
| efficacy | effectiveness ; power to produce desired effect |
| effigy | a dummy; a likeness or image, especially of a person. |
| effluence | flowing out of |
Group 11
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| effrontery | impudence; shameless boldness; sheer nerve; presumptuousness |
| elegy | a sorrowful poem or speech |
| elicit | draw out by discussion |
| elocution | art of clear and expressive speaking |
| embellish | adorn; ornament; enhance, as a story |
| empathy | the identification with the feelings or thoughts of others |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| empirical | based on experience |
| emulate | imitate; rival |
| endemic | prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country |
| enervate | weaken; to reduce in strength |
| engender | produce, cause or bring about |
| enhance | increase; improve |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| enigma | a puzzle; a mystery |
| ephemeral | short-lived; fleeting |
| epigram | a witty or pointed saying tersely expressed |
| epithet | a word or phrase characteristically used to characterize a person or thing |
| equanimity | calmness of temperament; composure |
| equivocate | lie; mislead; attempt to conceal the truth |
| erudite | learned, scholarly, bookish |
Group 12
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| esoteric | hard to understand; known only to the chosen few |
| estimable | admirable |
| eugenics | improvement of qualities of race by control of inherited characteristics |
| eulogy | expression of praise, often on the occasion of someone's death |
| euphemism | an inoffensive expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive |
| euphony | pleasantness of sound |
| exacerbate | worsen; to increase bitterness or violence |
| Word (memorize) | Meaning (memorize) |
|---|
| exculpate | clear from blame; prove innocent |
| execrable | abominable |
| exigency | urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention |
| exigent | urgent; requiring immediate action |
| expound | set forth in detail |
| extrapolation | projection; conjecture |
| exult | show or feel triumphant joy |
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