Vocabulary 6

1 2 3 4 5 6


chaste
Morally pure (especially not having experienced sexual intercourse)

obloquy
calumny, defamation, opprobrium, traducement

chasten
Censure severely

obnoxious
Causing disapproval or protest

chattel
Personal as opposed to real property; any tangible movable property (furniture or domestic animals or a car etc)

obscure
Make less visible or unclear

obsequious
Attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner

cherubic
Having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub

abut
Lie adjacent to another or share a boundary

chic
Elegance by virtue of being fashionable

abyss
A bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)

gratis
Costing nothing

demean
Reduce in worth or character, usually verbally

gregarious
Instinctively or temperamentally seeking and enjoying the company of others

demented
Affected with madness or insanity

grisly
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

demotic
Of or for the common people

grotesque
Distorted and unnatural in shape or size; abnormal and hideous

demure
coy ;Affectedly modest or shy especially in a playful or provocative way

kinky
involving unusual sexual behaviour

snazzy
stylish

pastiche
art collection from different source

barney
noisy argument

blip
slight error

casanova
man noted for love affairs

retrousse
turned up

barrack
jeer

once over
quickly done work

discommode
inconveinience

blithe
casual, carefree

engrave
cut into hard surface

cantabile
lovely music

snooze
nap

objet d’art
small decorative object

galling
annoying

peccadillo
peculiarity

odium
widespread hatred

batrachian
frog

kip
sleep

cahoots
in league with

detour
deviation from correct path

snipe
make critical remarks

masseuse
female massager

object lesson
practical example

disconcert
unsettle

knave
dishonest man

bathos
trite / anticlimax

gallivant
go about looking for fun

Cachet
seal of approval

dicky
weak

entracte
interval between play

blotto
very drunk

one-upmanship
maintaining an advantage over others

savoirfaire
Social skill

salubrious
Promoting health; healthful

savor
The taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth

yammer
Cry loudly, as of animals

schism
Division of a group into opposing factions

yoke
An oppressive power

scintilla
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount

yore
Two items of the same kind, The time that has elapsed

scion
A descendent or heir

zany
A buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect

scoff
flout Showing your contempt by derision

prone
Having a tendency, Lying face downward

prophylactic
Remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease

unassuaged
not gentle

propensity
An inclination to do something

unbridled
Not restrained or controlled

propinquity
The property of being close together

uncouth
Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste

propitiate
Make peace with

unction
Anointing as part of a religious ceremony or healing ritual

propitious
Presenting favourable circumstances; likely to result in or show signs or success

undulate
Move in a wavy pattern or with a rising and falling motion; Stir up (water) so as to form ripples

propound
Put forward, as of an idea

swarthy
Naturally having skin of a dark colour

propriety
Correct or appropriate behaviour

prorogue
Adjourn by royal prerogative; without dissolving the legislative body

flay
Strip the skin off

prosaic
Not fanciful or imaginative

flippancy
Inappropriate levity

proscribe
Command against

florid
Elaborately or excessively ornamented

torpor
A state of motor and mental inactivity with a partial suspension of sensibility

wellspring
an abundant source.

silver-tongued
fluent

unflappable
unperturbed

wholesome
healthful

edgy
being in a tense state

beauteous
beautiful

boobing
goofing / commit a faux pas

grit
fortitude and determination

limpidity
clarity

chesty
arrogant

booming
flourishing

excogitate
come up with a plan

staggers
unsteady gait

inexorable
Not to be placated or appeased, adamant

sunniness
cheerfulness

cerebration
thinking

whim
impulse/caprice/sudden desire

footling
of little importance

mesmerism
suggestion

overriding
paramount/predominant

contrivers
devisers/planners

burthened
burdened

contend
contest/argue

wordsmith
writer

vacillation
hesitation

touchstone
criterion/measure/standard

blockheaded
slow witted

woodenheaded
slow witted

fatheaded
slow witted

cudgel
club used as weapon

fustigate
strike with a cudgel

culvert
drainpipe

curt
terse/short

daylong
all day

dead-heat
tie in a race

darkling
threateningly dark/obscure

delineate
show the outline of

diffidence
lack of self confidence

dissever
split up

distemper
angry and disagreeable mood

distend
dilate

distrain
confiscate

diurnal
active during the day

divagation
deflexion/digression

beset
harass

chivy
harass

encrust
harass

incrust
harass

hassle
harass

swanned
avowed, Move about aimlessly

averred
avowed

bestrew
spread by scattering

befall
happen

bechance
happen

betide
happen

betimes
in good time

bibulous
boozy/drunken

sottish
boozy/drunken

bigamist
person with 2 married partners

brae
hillside

braggart
boaster

crowing
boaster

brag
boaster

cock-a-hoop
boaster

line-shooting
boaster

vapouring
boaster

briddle
curb/check

browbeat
bully

ballyrag
bully

brusque
curt/short

bumper
glass filled to the brim

bungle
mistake

canon
a rule

caprice
sudden desire/impulse/whim

carcass
dead body of animal

carnal
fleshly/sensual/animal

cauterise
burn/become insensitive/callous

censorious
harshly critical

cession
act of ceding

cipher
coded message

circumvent
avoid, Surround so as to force to give up

clement
soft

clothier
cloth merchant

divest
disinvest/deprive/undress

belle
most charming lady

beget
engender/make children

bedight
decorate

bedeck
decorate

bedaub
spread on a surface/besmear

beatitude
state of supreme happiness

gewgaw
cheap showy jewellery

fallal
cheap showy jewellery

barcarole
boating song of venetian gondoliers

bale
large bundle bound for storage/transport

avocation
auxillary activity/hobby

avidity
eagerness/keeness

aver
avow/swear

austere
severly simple/ascetic

auspice
fav omen

auriferous
containing gold

athirst
hungry

assimilate
imbibe/ingest

arrogate
lay claim

arborescent
resembling a tree

arboreal
relating to a tree

apprehend
comprehend

appertain
be a part of

appellate
appeal court

apogee
culmination/climax

antipathy
aversion/distaste

anthropomorphous
humanlike

antemundane
occuring before creation of world

antedate
be earlier in time

annunciation
formal public announcement

anhydrous
without water

anew
again but in a new way

amour
secretive or illicit sexual relantionship

ambrosial
pleasing taste/sweet and fragrant

alluvion
flood

aliment
nourishment

alcove
recess opening off a larger room

alacrity
briskness

aggrieve
cause to feel sorrow

aggress
attack

afoot
underway

adumbrate
outline

admonition
warning

adjuration
appeal

acquiescence
acceptance without protest

achromatic
colorless

accursed
under a curse

anathematise
declare to be evil

abstruse
diff to penetrate

absolution
remission

abrogate
revoke/abolish

abridge
reduce/shorten

aboveboard
honestly/straightforward

abominate
loathe

abjure
forswear/recant/resile

abet
assist

abbot
superior of an abbey of monks

abbess
superior of group of nuns

crockery
tableware collectively

covey
small collection fo pple

countervail
neutralize

semantic
corporeal

trammel
confine/ensnare

agnize
recognise

conk out
die

fizzle out
die

peter out
die

docket
agenda/schedule

enounce
articulate/pronounce

confluence
meeting

forefront
vangaurd

commingle
blend

flapped away
strike away

reverent
showing profound respect

clime
climate

usher out
dismiss

dubieties
doubtful

doppelganger
ghostly double

collegian
college boy

colossus
behemoth/gaint

behemoth
gaint

pabulum
eatable

comestible
eatable

commemoration
remembrance

conduce
contribute

confluent
branch that flows into main stream

comformable
quick to comply

consanguineous
blood-related

conscript
one who is drafted into military

aeonian
everlasting

consummate
everlasting

sodding
everlasting

stark
arrant

contingency
eventuality/possible event

ruthful
contrite/remorseful

zephyr
gentle breeze

wizen-faced
wringly face

wizen
wrinkled

witling
one with little wit

wintry
frigid/frozen/glacial/icy

wherewith
by means of which

wantonness
unconstraint

virtu
love for fine objects for arts

velvetty
smooth and soft

vaudeville
special show with songs and comic acts

vacillate
fluctuate/oscillate

unyoke
unfasten

unhitch
unfasten

unisonant
being in unison

gaurdian
gaurdian

trammel
ensnare/restrain

telltale
Disclosing unintentionally

sylph
slender woman

superadd
addition to the added quantity

subjacent
underlying

subacid
sour in taste

suasion
persuasion

stultify
prove to be of unsound mind

statecraft
diplomacy

squatter
someone who settles on land illegally

spinster
elderly unmarried woman

spinous
having spines

somnolence
very sleepy state.

lecher
man with strong sexual desire

letch
man with strong sexual desire

lech
man with strong sexual desire

satyr
man with strong sexual desire

salience
prominence

ripplet
small wave

retch
barf/chunder

chunder
barf/retch

barf
chunder/retch

rapine
rape

gamey
suggestive of sexual impropriety

racy
suggestive of sexual impropriety

pudgy
short and plump

roly-poly
rotund individual

tight-laced
prudish

straight-laced
prudish

puritanical
prudish

square-toed
prudish

priggish
prudish

prescience
prevision

pall
become less interested

out-and-out
absolute

mulatto
kid of black and white parent

monomania
mania restricted to one thing/idea

molt
exuviate/shed/ecdysis

ecdysis
exuviate/shed/molt

man-trap
catch for trapping trespassers

mallet
A short-handled hammer

intromit
allow to enter

intramural
carried on within the bounda of an institution or community

intestacy
situation of being or dying without a legally valid will

intercessor
negotiator who acts as link b/w parties

incipience
begining to exist or to be apparent

importune
to annoy/beset with insistent or repeated requests

importunate
expressing earnest entreaty

immiscible
unmixable

honorarium
reward

hoard
accumulate

heathenish
person who does not acknowledge your god

hardihood
daring/boldness

hanger-on
someone who persistently follows along

gynecocracy
political system gov by woman

guzzle
drink greedily

gusto
vigorous enjoyment/relish/zest

fungible
trade good

fretful
querulous/fidgety

freethinker
one who believes in science than religious mode of explaining

deist
one who believes in science than religious mode of explaining

foppish
extreme elegance in dress and manner / dandyish

hat
hat

festal
festive

exorbitant
outrageous

exigency
emergency

excrescence
protrusion/hump/gibbosity

evert
turn inside out

evanesce
fade/disappar gradually

espy
spot/descry

ennoble
confer dignity/honor

efficacious
effective

duteous
dutiful

immurement
imprisonment

durance
imprisonment

dun
treat cruelly

dragnet
cordinated measures to apprehend criminal

numen
spirit in a body/place

numinous
Evincing the presence of a deity

simulacrum
effigy

solipsism
self is all needed to know

scrofulous
morally tainted

evocative
remindful/reminiscent

redolent
remindful/reminiscent

concupiscence
desire for sexual intimacy

lubricious
lustful

riparian
situated near water

sophistry
making deliberately wrong argument

pabulums
anything eatable

comestible
anything eatable

detritus
trash

eclectic
selecting from various source

feral
wild

traduce
slander

sotto voce
soft spoken

existential
derived from experience

shoot the breeze
waste time

gipped
cheated

palsy-walsy
friend

palsy
friend

cornerstone
foundation

connoted
express indirectly

spurring
stimulating

larrikin
loud and roudy

contrivances
gadget or arrangement of facts

conflated
mixed together

daimonic
rel to devil

buttonholed
engage in a conversation by holding on to the dress

sub judie
under consideration of judge

extirpate
destroy

endure
put up with somebody unpleasant

tranche
portion

kid glove
tactful

mojordomo
chief butler

mildew
mouldy due to fungus growth

tabernacle
temple

guttersnipe
street urchin/street child

vaudeville
variety show with song and comic acts

blue-pencil
delete

maxim
saying that is widely accepted on merit

thresh out
beat the seed out of the grain

statute
law

enumerate
numbered list

canons
rules

scoop
newspaper report which is exclusive

fad
craze/furure

nix
nothing

vista
panorama

tome
large and scholarly books

concomitant
happens as a consequence

donned
wearing

truism
obvious truth

du jour
available on this day

workaday
routine

murralling
accumulating

hinterland
undeveloped area

stoke
stir up

logjam
disruption due to unusual reasons

featherbedding
bad term for hiring more than req workers

maginot line
thought to be impregnable, but not to be

scylla and charybdis
mythical monster and whirlpool

monopolistic
exclusive control over a commercial activity

obsolescent
becoming obsolete

shrive
confess

shrift
act of confession

thy
your

discretional
available to use as needed

endowment
talent

polymath
person of great and varied learning

carpe diem
enjoy the present

hemmed
fold over and sew together

cesspool
sink

gupshup
chit chat

highbrow
highly cultured and educated

doled out
administered

freeloader
someone who takes advantage of the generosity of others

totems
emblem

gimbaled
supported

corvette
highly manureable warship

loco
mentally irregular

shills
decoy to encourage others to participate in buying

pliant
elastic

ostensible
seeming

caliphate
epoch of extreme muslim dominancy

lumpen
not educated

prop
rigid support

feeble
lacking in force

exorbitant
going beyond limits

vendible
marketable

benignant
benevolent in feeling

preponderant
having superior power and influence

malefactor
one who injures another

posit
to present in an orderly manner

accursed
doomed to evil, misery and misfortune

licit
lawful

somnolent
sleepy

lough
lake

inapt
awkward or slow

intercessor
mediator

impassible
not affected by feelings

dendroid
like a tree

besmear
to smear over an oily substance

chateau
a castle

pagan
worshipper of false god

extraneous
no relation with the subject

ensnare
to trap

supplicate
to beg

contravene
to block

stallion
uncastrated male horse

velvety
marked by lightness and softness

appertain
to be a part of

underhanded
marked by deception

enrapture
to delight extravagantly

reprissible
able to get under control

maleficent
mischevious

polymath
savant, learned person

vendition
act of selling

joggle
sudden irregular shake

distend
expand in every direction

isochronous
giving equal amount of time

detrude
to force down forcibly

forte
strong point

gnash
grind together with teeth

prescient
foreknowing

excrescence
hump

superadd
add in addition to what has been added

tutelar
protective

populace
common people

forswear
to renounce on oath

pentad
number five

braggart
vain boaster

encyclical
for general circulation

frizz
crinkled and fluffy

fitful
spasmodic

purl
whirl

infrequence
rareness

annuity
annual payment

rente
annual payment

valorous
courageous

gusto
keen enjoyment

levee
embankment on the sides of the river

arborescent
having the nature of the tree

bedeck
cover with ornament

sidelong
tending to one side

forfend
to ward off

carrion
dead and putrefying flesh

consanguineous
descented from the same parent/ancestor

statecraft
art of conducting state affairs

hackney
trite by repetition

packrat
collector of odd things

eremitic
characterized by ascetic solitude

lumbered
pounded

monetise
to give legal value to

saddle
burden

One thought on “Vocabulary 6

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out / Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out / Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s