Vocabulary: 'A' Words

Vocabulary Set Study Notes

• Animosity is defined as strong hostility.

A Words

• Apiary is a place dedicated to keeping bees.
• Angelic describes someone exceptionally beautiful, innocent, or kind.
• Antiquate means to become old-fashioned or outdated.
• Afflict means to cause pain or trouble.
• Adulation is excessive admiration or praise.
• Aesthetic refers to a concern with beauty or the exterior of something.
• Apathetic describes a lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
• Asylum is protection granted to people in need of refuge.
• Abhor means to regard with disgust and hatred.
• Accolade is an award granted as a special honor or acknowledgement.
• Anguish is severe mental or physical pain or suffering.
• Analgesic refers to a drug that acts to relieve pain.
• Abjure means to solemnly renounce a belief, cause, or claim.
• Apprehensive means anxious or fearful that something bad will happen.
• Autopsy is an examination to discover the cause of death or find a disease.
• Avaricious means having an extreme greed for wealth or material gain.
• Antagonize means to cause someone to become hostile.
• Allusion is an indirect reference to someone or something.
• Ambiguous means not clear and having more than one obvious meaning.
• Ambivalent means having mixed feelings or ideas about something or someone.
• Allude means to suggest or call attention to indirectly or hint at something.
• Amicable is characterized by friendliness and absence of discord.
• Ambidextrous is the ability to use the right and left hands equally well.
• Antic means grotesque or bizarre.
• Accede is agreeing to a demand/request or assuming an office/position.
• Adverse describes something preventing success or development; harmful or unfavorable.
• Apprise means to inform or tell someone.
• Averse means having a strong dislike of or opposition to something.
• Acetic means of or like vinegar or acetic acid.
• Autocracy is a system of government by one person with absolute power.
• Associate means to connect with something else in one's mind or to be a partner.
• Antechamber is a small room leading to a main one.
• Agrarian is related to cultivated land or the cultivation of land.
• Annunciate means to announce something.
• Akin means of similar character or related by blood.
• Alacrity means brisk and cheerful readiness.
• Align means to place or arrange in a straight line or to support a subject.
• Allegiance is loyalty or commitment to a superior or to a group or cause.
• Altruistic means showing selfless concern for the well-being of others.
• Ameliorate making something bad or unsatisfactory better.
• Alleviate: make suffering or a problem less severe.
• Appellation: a name or title.
• Arbitrary: based on random choice or whim, rather than reason or system.
• Archaic: very old or old-fashioned.
• Appertain: relate to or concerning something.
• Approbate: relate to; concern.
• Arable: land suitable for growing crops.
• Anecdote: a short story about a real incident or person.
• Abundant: existing, having or available in large quantities.
• Assent: express approval or agreement.
• Auricle: a structure resembling an ear or ear lobe.
• Ascent: rising or moving up through the air/a climb to the summit of a mountain.
• Abrasive: showing little concern for the feelings of others; harsh.
• Abominate: detest or loathe someone or something.
• Affable: friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.
• Arduous: involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring.
• Ardent: very enthusiastic or passionate.
• Aspersion: an attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something.
• Askew: not go as planned/not in a straight or level position.
• Adroit: clever or skillful.
• Appease: pacify or placate someone or something by acceding to their demands.
• Assimilate: take in and understand something fully.
• Aggrandize: increase the power, status, or wealth of.
• Amalgamate: combine or unite to form one object.
• Analogous: comparable in certain respects, in a way which makes things clearer.
• Alloy: a metal made by combining two or more metallic elements.
• Abrogate: repeal or do away with a law, right, or formal agreement.
• Asbestos: a highly heat-resistant fibrous silicate mineral.
• Augur: an event or circumstance that can foreshadow a good or bad outcome.
• Acquaintance: someone or something one knows, but not to a high extent.
• Atrocious: horrifyingly wicked.
• Atheist: disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.
• Archetype: a very typical example of a certain person or thing.
• Accentuate: make more noticeable or prominent.
• Abstinence: the practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something.
• Austerity: sternness or severity of manner or attitude/discipline oneself.
• Ambience: the character and atmosphere of a place.
• Anonymous: a person that cannot be identified by name or is unknown.
• Admonish: warn or reprimand someone firmly.
• Acquiesce: accept something reluctantly but without protest.
• Promulgate: promote or make widely known an idea or cause.
• Amenable: open and responsive to suggestions/easily persuaded or controlled.
• Abyss: a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm.
• Abdicate: renounce one's position.
• Acrophobia: extreme or irrational fear of heights.
• Aerophobia: extreme or irrational fear of flying.
• Agoraphobia: extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places.
• Arachnophobia: extreme or irrational fear of spiders.
• Aberration: a departure from what is normal or an anomaly.
• Acrimony: bitterness or ill feeling.
• Antecedent: a thing that existed before or logically precedes another.
• Anarchy: a state of disorder due to absence or non-recognition of authority.
• Acquitted: free someone from a criminal charge by a verdict of not guilty.
• Actuate: cause someone to act in a particular way; motivate.
• Appalled: greatly dismay or horrified.
• Aural: relating to the ear or the sense of hearing.

B Words

• Banal: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.
• Blatant: completely lacking in subtlety; very obvious.
• Bonafide: genuine; real.
• Bumptious: irritatingly self-assertive.
• Bolster: support or strengthen.
• Boisterous: noisy, energetic, and cheerful.
• Bilingual: speaking two languages fluently.
• Bigamy: marrying someone while already married to another person.
• Benevolent: well meaning and kindly.
• Bastion: something strongly maintaining particular principles or activities.
• Barrage: a concentrated artillery bombardment over a wide area.
• Baroque: relating to the European style of art in the 17th and 18th centuries.
• Bulwarks: a defensive wall.
• Brisk: cold, but fresh and invigorating.
• Behoove: it is a duty or responsibility for someone to do something.
• Beckoned: signal for someone to come to or follow them.
• Beguiled: charm or enchant someone, often in a deceptive way.
• Besiege: surround with armed forces aiming to capture something.
• Bellicose: demonstrating aggression and willingness to fight.
• Boycott: withdraw relations with a subject as a punishment or protest.
• Bigot: person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a specific subject.
• Barred: blocked or not allowed to do something.
• Baffling: to be extremely shocking.
• Bombastic: high-sounding but with little meaning; inflated.
• Blight: have a severely detrimental effect on/a thing that damages something.
• Broach: raise a difficult subject for discussion.
• Bane: a cause of great distress or annoyance.
• Bevy: a large group of people or things of a particular kind.
• Bullion: gold or silver in bulk before coining, or valued by weight.
• Brazen: bold and without shame.
• Boor: a rough and bad-mannered person.
• Barque: a sailing ship, typically with three masts.
• Bawl: shout or call out noisily and unrestrainedly/weep or cry noisily.
• Borough: a town or district which is an administrative unit.
• Bloc: a group of countries or political parties who have formed an alliance.
• Brouhaha: a noisy and overexcited reaction or response to something.
• Bereave: be deprived of a close relation or friend through their death.
• Bicameral: having two chambers.
• Bawdy: dealing with sexual matters in a comical way; humorously indecent.
• Bodacious: to be bold.
• Braggart: a person who boasts about their achievements or possessions.
• Brackish: unpleasant or distasteful.
• Barren: a place that is bleak and lifeless/land unable to grow plants.
• Boondoggle: an unnecessary, wasteful, or fraudulent project.
• Balky: awkward; uncooperative.
• Bazaar: a market.
• Bashful: to be shy.
• Bacterial: caused by bacteria.
• Belligerent: to be highly argumentative.
• Bovine: like a cow.
• Baron: an important or powerful person in a specified business or industry.
• Benign: gentle and kindly.

C Words

• Curtail: reduce in extent or quantity; impose a restriction on.
• Carpe diem: make the most of the present and give little thought to the future.
• Colloquial: language used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal.
• Condone: accept or allow something.
• Conformist: a person who conforms to accepted behavior and practices.
• Carte Blanche: complete freedom to act as one wishes.
• Chasm: a deep fissure in the earth's surface.
• Coherent: something that is logical and consistent.
• Clandestine: kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.
• Confidant: a person with whom one entrusts a secret or private matter.
• Compose: write or create (generally music).
• Concurrent: existing, happening, or done at the same time.
• Consecutive: following each other continuously.
• Conjure: cause or make something.
• Clique: a small close-knit group of people.
• Celibacy: the state of abstaining from marriage and sexual relations.
• Connoisseur: an expert or specialist on a specific subject.
• Customary: practices based on customs.
• Callous: showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others.
• Courtesy: the showing of politeness in one's behavior towards others.
• Canvass: a strong, coarse unbleached cloth used as the surface of a painting.
• Culpable: deserving blame.
• Curtsy: a greeting made by bending the knees with one foot in front of the other.
• Consensus: a general agreement.
• Convulsion: a sudden, violent, irregular movement of the body.
• Crevasse: a deep open crack.
• Cerulean: a shade of deep blue.
• Chthonic: dark and mysterious/originating from the underworld.
• Catacomb: an underground cemetery.
• Capricious: given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.
• Coax: gently and persistently persuade someone to do something.
• Catalyst: something that exacerbates a certain situation.
• Cascade: pour downwards rapidly and in large quantities.
• Caprice: a sudden and unaccountable change of mood or behavior.
• Cardinal: of the greatest importance; fundamental.
• Caper: a playful skipping movement.
• Catharsis: releasing, and providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
• Chastise: to criticize someone severely.
• Chide: scold or rebuke.
• Churlish: rude in a mean-spirited and surly way.
• Chivalrous: courteous and gallant, especially towards women.
• Celestial: positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space.
• Congenial: liked on account of having or interests that are similar to one's own.
• Coup: a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.
• Chaperon: accompany and look after or supervise.
• Coxswain: the person who steers a ship's boat
• Collusion: secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy in order to deceive others.
• Cohort: a group of people with a shared characteristic.
• Concede: admit or agree that something is true after first denying or resisting it.
• Conjecture: a conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information.
• Comprehensive: dealing with all or nearly all elements or aspects of something.
• Carcass: a dead body.
• Covenant: an agreement between two or more people to do or not do something.
• Convent: a Christian community of nuns living together under monastic vows.
• Conceited: excessively proud of oneself; vain.
• Cadges: ask for or obtain something that one does not have.
• Caste: hereditary social class of people within a society.
• Celebrant: a person who celebrates something.
• Capitol: the city or town that functions as the administrative center of a country.
• Cygnet: a young swan.
• Calligraphy: decorative handwriting or handwritten lettering.
• Censor: examine something and suppress unacceptable parts of it.
• Cymbal: a musical instrument.
• Cul-de-sac: a street or passage closed at one end.
• Cynical: distrustful of human sincerity or integrity.
• Contemplate: think deeply and at length.
• Clairvoyant: a person who claims to have an ability to see into the future.
• Coerce: persuade someone to do something by using force or threats.
• Concise: giving a lot of information in a few words; brief but comprehensive.
• Cull: reduce the population of a wild animal by selective slaughter.
• Camaraderie: mutual trust and among people who spend a lot of time together.
• Copious: abundant in supply or quantity.
• Clemency: mercy; lenience.
• Clarion: loud and clear.
• Contravene: offend against the prohibition of a law, treaty, or code of conduct.
• Currant: a small dried fruit made from a small seedless variety of grape.
• Carnage: the killing of a large number of people.
• Cache: a collection of items stored in a hidden or inaccessible place.
• Curator: a keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection.
• Culinary: of or for cooking.
• Cloying: excessively sweet or rich, especially to a disgusting or sickening degree.
• Cogent: an argument or case that is clear, logical, and convincing.
• Cosmopolitan: including people from many different countries.
• Crematorium: a place where a dead person's body is cremated.
• Complacent: showing uncritical satisfaction with someone or something.
• Conviction: a formal declaration by the verdict of a jury or judge in a court of law.
• Cringe: bend one's head and body in fear or apprehension
• Covert: not openly acknowledged or displayed.
• Contempt: the feeling that something is worthless or beneath consideration.
• Commuter: a person who travels some distance to work on a regular basis.
• Coarse: rough or harsh in texture or rude/vulgar speech.
• Coalesce: come together to form one mass or whole.
• Canon: a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged.

D Words

• Deviate: depart from an established course.
• Digress: leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing.
• Disparate: essentially different in kind; not able to be compared.
• Disingenuous: pretending to know less about something than one really does.
• Deride: express contempt for; ridicule.
• Derive: obtain something from a specified source.
• Decadent: characterized by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline.
• Devout: totally committed to a cause or belief.
• Disorientate: cause someone to lose their sense of direction.
• Derelict: in a very poor condition as a result of disuse and neglect.
• Despot: a ruler or other person who holds absolute power.
• Dogged: having or showing tenacity and grim persistence.
• Diametric: directly opposed to.
• Discursive: overly wordy or talkative.
• Deficient: not having enough of a specified quality or ingredient.
• Dilapidated: decayed, deteriorated, or fallen into partial ruin.
• Diplomat: a person appointed by a government to conduct official negotiations.
• Disciple: a follower or pupil of a teacher, leader, or philosopher.
• Defective: imperfect or faulty.
• Dolorous: to feel or express great distress.
• Doltish: to behave in a foolish way; unwise.
• Dotage: the period of life in which a person is old and weak.
• Dogmatic: inclined to lay down opinions as undeniably true.
• Deplete: use up the supply or resources of.
• Debacle: a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco.
• Debilitate: make someone very weak and infirm.
• Debonair: confident, stylish, and charming.
• Decorum: behavior in keeping with good taste and propriety.
• Decrepit: worn out or ruined because of age or neglect.
• Deciduous: a tree that sheds its leaves annually.
• Decree: an official order that has the force of law.
• Debris: scattered pieces of rubbish or remains.
• Defiance: open resistance; bold disobedience.
• Deference: polite submission and respect.
• Dilatory: slow to act.
• Dilemma: difficult situation in which each option looks equally bad.
• Dilettante: a person who cultivates interests, without commitment or knowledge.
• Dilute: to make a liquid thinner or less strong by adding water or another liquid.
• Diminished: made smaller or less.
• Dire: extremely serious or urgent.
• Dirge: a lament for the dead, especially one forming part of a funeral rite.
• Disarray: a state of disorganization or untidiness.
• Discord: disagreement between people.
• Diagnosis: the act of identifying a disease from its signs and symptoms.
• Deplored: feel or express strong disapproval of something.
• Deprecate: diminish in value over a period of time.
• Dowsing: a technique for searching for underground water or anything invisible.
• Disparaging: expressing the opinion that something is paltry; derogatory.
• Devilry: expressing the opinion that something is of little worth; derogatory.
• Dermatology: the branch of medicine concerned with skin disorders.
• Drott: An earthmoving machine similar to a bulldozer.
• Defame: damage the good reputation of someone; slander or libel.
• Dearth: a scarcity or lack of something.
• Discreet: careful of one's actions, in order to keep something confidential
• Discrete: individually separate and distinct.
• Docile: ready to accept control or instruction; submissive.
• Despondent: in low spirits from loss of hope or courage.
• Decimate: kill, destroy, or remove a large proportion of.
• Dexterity: Readiness and grace in physical activity or mental skill/quickness.
• Decipher: Convert a text written in code, or a coded signal into normal language.
• Diligent: Having or showing care and conscientiousness in one's work or duties.
• Demure: Reserved, modest, and shy.
• Disheveled: Untidy or dirty.
• Daunting: Seeming difficult to deal with in prospect; intimidating.
• Discernible: Able to be discerned; perceptible.
• Destitute: Extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself.
• Disillusioned: Disappointed in something after finding it not as good as thought.
• Disburse: Expend something.
• Distraught: Very worried and upset.
• Derogatory: Showing a critical or disrespectful attitude.
• Delirious: Unable to think or speak clearly because of mental confusion.
• Duplicity: Deceitful.

E Words

• Esoteric: Understood, or appreciated by only a small number of people.
• Exultation: A feeling of triumphant elation or jubilation; rejoicing.
• Enmity: A feeling of hate.
• Embezzle: Steal or misappropriate money from a place or organization.
• Exhume: Dig out something buried, especially a corpse from the ground.
• Elicit: Evoke or draw out a reaction or answer from someone.
• Eponymous: (of a person) giving their name to something.
• Effeminate: A man having characteristics regarded as typical of a woman.
• Elude: Escape from or avoid a danger, typically in a skillful or cunning way.
• Exemplary: Serving as a desirable model; very good.
• Eyrie: a large nest of an eagle or other bird of prey.
• Elegy: a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.
• Enervate: make someone feel drained of energy or vitality.
• Emulate: match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation.
• Extricate: free someone or something from a constraint or difficulty.
• Extradite: hand over a criminal to the state in which the crime was committed.
• Elegiac: someone or something that's haunting and mournful.
• Erudite: having or showing great knowledge or learning.
• Eldritch: sinister and strange.
• Exuberant: full of energy, excitement, and cheerfulness.
• Eclectic: from various sources; diverse.
• Exasperate: irritate and frustrate someone intensely.
• Exonerate: absolve someone from blame for a fault or wrongdoing.
• Excise: a tax levied on certain goods and commodities.
• Evanesce: pass out of sight, memory, or existence.
• Exacerbate: make a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling worse.
• Expectant: anticipate that something is about to happen.
• Endemic: a disease regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.
• Eminent: a person famous and respected within a particular sphere.
• Emigrant: a person who leaves their own country in order to settle in another.
• Euthanasia: the painless killing of a patient suffering from a painful disease.
• Euphemism: an indirect expression substituted for one considered to be harsh.
• Eccentric: unconventional and slightly strange.
• Ecstasy: an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement.
• Excruciating: intensely painful.
• Envy: a feeling of resentful longing aroused by someone else's possessions.
• Endure: suffer something painful or difficult patiently.
• Encroach: intrude on a person's territory, rights, personal life, etc.
• Expedite: make something happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly.
• Exploit: take advantage of someone or something in order to profit from them.
• Erratic: not even or regular in pattern or movement; unpredictable.
• Effulgent: shining brightly; radiant.
• Eavesdrop: secretly listen to a conversation.
• Exude: discharge or be discharged slowly and steadily.
• Ebullient: cheerful and full of energy.
• Elated: ecstatically happy.
• Edify: instruct or improve someone morally or intellectually.
• Effigy: a sculpture or model of a person.
• Effervescent: a liquid giving off bubbles; fizzy.
• Edifice: building especially : a large or massive structure.
• Exquisite: finely or delicately made or done.
• Eradicate: to remove or destroy utterly.
• Emporium: a large retail store selling a wide variety of goods.
• Equated: consider one thing to be the same as or equivalent to another.
• Equitable: fair and impartial.
• Espionage: the practice of spying or of using spies to obtain information.
• Euphoria: excitement and intense feelings of well-being and happiness.
• Ethereal: extremely delicate and light.
• Equanimity: calmness and composure, especially in a difficult situation.
• Echelon: level of command, authority, or rank.
• Enigma: something hard to understand or explain.
• Extrinsic: not part of the nature of something; coming or operating from outside.
• Extravaganza: an elaborate and spectacular entertainment or production.
• Extrapolate: estimate or conclude something from the known information.
• Ephemeral: lasting for a very short time.
• Envelop: wrap up, cover, or surround completely.
• Exorcise: drive out a supposed evil spirit from a person or place.
• Expanse: a wide continuous area of something.

F Words

• Fastidious: very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.
• Frivolous: carefree and superficial.
• Fluctuate: rise and fall irregularly in number or amount.
• Fraudulent: obtained, or involving deception, especially criminal deception.
• Fiasco: a disaster.
• Festoon: a chain or garland of flowers, leaves, or ribbons, hung as a decoration.
• Feud: a prolonged and bitter quarrel or dispute.
• Fervent: having or displaying a passionate intensity.
• Felicity: intense happiness.
• Facile: done with great ease.
• Fuddy-duddy: a person who is old-fashioned and fussy.
• Frugal: prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful.
• Fratricide: the killing of one's brother or sister.
• Flaunt: display something, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration.
• Fledgling: a young bird that has just fledged.
• Fallible: capable of making mistakes or being wrong.
• Flout: openly disregard or mock or scoff someone.
• Flagitious: a person or their actions criminal; villainous.
• Fiord: a long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between high cliffs.
• Forte: a thing at which someone excels.
• Famished: extremely hungry.
• Fabricate: create something in order to deceive.
• Fallacious: a mistake that comes from too little information or unsound sources.
• Fatuous: silly and pointless.
• Fatigue: extreme tiredness resulting from mental or physical exertion.
• Feasible: capable of being done or carried out.
• Fecundity: the ability to produce an abundance of offspring; fertility.
• Fathomless: unable to be measured or understood; extremely deep.
• Fanatic: filled with excessive and single-minded zeal.
• Fanfare: media attention or elaborate ceremony.
• Farrier: a smith who shoes horses.
• Fissure: a narrow opening or crack
• Flaccid: soft and hanging loosely, especially so as to look or feel unpleasant.
• Flagrant: an action considered wrong conspicuously or obviously offensive.
• Flawless: without any imperfections or defects; perfect.
• Flamboyant: someone known of their exuberance, confidence, and stylishness.
• Flair: a special or instinctive aptitude or ability for doing something well.
• Fortitude: strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger.
• Foist: impose an unwelcome or unnecessary person or thing on.
• Fulminate: express vehement protest.
• Flotsam: people or things that have been rejected or discarded as worthless.
• Flawed: having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection.
• Feign: pretend to be affected by (a feeling, state, or injury).
• Feckless: lacking initiative or strength of character; irresponsible.
• Florid: having a red or flushed complexion/excessively intricate or elaborate.
• Facinorous: atrocious wicked.
• Fervor: intense and passionate feeling.
• Foreboding: a feeling that something bad will happen; fearful apprehension.
• Futile: incapable of producing any useful result; pointless.
• Famine: extreme scarcity of food.
• Frieze: a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration
• Floe: a sheet of floating ice.
• Fluke: an unexpected stroke of good luck.
• Faux: something made to mimic something else.
• Feeble: lacking in strength; weak.
• Foolhardy: recklessly bold or rash.
• Flounder: struggle mentally; show or feel great confusion.
• Fickle: changing your mind easily and often.
• Fiscal: having to do with money.
• Fumigate: disinfect or purify (an area) with the fumes of certain chemicals.
• Flirtatious: romantically teasing,
• Flabbergasted: feeling or showing intense shock, surprise, or wonder.
• Felony: a crime.
• Furtive: something secretive or concealed.
• Flatulence: passing gas from the digestive system out of the back passage.
• Foliage: the aggregate of leaves of one or more plants trees

G Words

• Gregarious: a person fond of company; sociable.
• Garrulous: excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters.
• Gilt: covered thinly with gold leaf or gold paint.
• Globular: globe-shaped; spherical.
• Gnu: a large dark African antelope with a long head.
• Gluttonous: excessively greedy.
• Glutinous: like glue in texture; sticky.
• Gaffe: an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator.
• Guile: sly or cunning intelligence.
• Gauche: unsophisticated and socially awkward.
• Gaiety: the state or quality of being light-hearted or cheerful.
• Gaudy: very brightly coloured and showy.
• Gaunt: lean and haggard, especially because of suffering, hunger, or age.
• Generic: characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific.
• Genial: friendly and cheerful.
• Genteel: characterised by exaggerated or affected politeness.
• Germane: relevant to a subject under consideration.
• Ghastly: causing great horror or fear.
• Gibe: to deride or tease with taunting words.
• Giddy: having a sensation of whirling and a tendency to fall or stagger; dizzy.
• Gingerly: in a careful or cautious manner.
• Gist: the main point or essence of a matter.
• Gloat: dwell on one's success or another's misfortune for malignant pleasure.
• Glower: have an angry or sullen look on one's face; scowl.
• Glum: looking or feeling dejected; morose.
• Glut: looking or feeling dejected; morose.
• Gnarling: to snarl.
• Gossamer: a light, thin, and insubstantial or delicate material or substance.
• Grandeur: splendor and impressiveness, especially of appearance or style.
• Grandiloquent: pompous or extravagant in language and manner.
• Grandiose: impressive in appearance or style, especially pretentiously so.
• Gratify: give someone pleasure or satisfaction.
• Grave: to be extremely serious
• Grimace: to distort one's face in an expression usually of pain, disgust.
• Gripe: complain about something in a persistent, irritating way.
• Grisly: causing horror or disgust.
• Groggy: dazed, weak, or unsteady.
• Gruff: a voice rough and low in pitch.
• Guise: an external appearance to concealing the true nature of something.
• Gullible: easily persuaded to believe something; credulous.
• Gumption: shrewd or spirited initiative and resourcefulness.
• Guileless: devoid of guile; innocent and without deception.
• Gruelling: extremely tiring and demanding.
• Grovel: act in an obsequious way to obtain someone's forgiveness or favour.
• Grim: very serious or gloomy.
• Grievous: something bad, very severe or serious.

H Words

• Humility: the quality of having a modest or low view of one's importance.
• Hyacinth: a plant with strap-like leaves and a spike of bell-shaped flowers.
• Hogwash: nonsense.
• Horrendous: extremely unpleasant, horrifying, or terrible.
• Habitual: done constantly or as a habit.
• Hotchpotch: a confused mixture.
• Halcyon: a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful.
• Hale: strong and healthy.
• Hapless: (a person) unfortunate.
• Harangue: a lengthy and aggressive speech.
• Harbinger: a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of another.
• Harrowing: acutely distressing.
• Hauteur: proud haughtiness of manner.
• Heathen: someone who does not acknowledge the presence of god.
• Heinous: utterly odious or wicked.
• Heresy: belief or opinion contrary to orthodox religious doctrine.
• Hackneyed: overly used.
• Hiatus: pause or break in continuity in a sequence or activity.
• Halcyon: peaceful or restful.
• Hinderance: a thing that provides resistance, delay, or obstruction.
• Hebdomadal: occurring once every seven days.
• Hebetudinous: the state of being dull.
• Hedonistic: characterised by pleasure-seeking, being self-indulgent.
• Hegemonic: wielding power, in charge.
• Hircine: resembling a goat.
• Histrionic: something theatrical or overdramatic.
• Homogeneous: of the same or a similar kind or nature.
• Hone: refine or perfect something over a period of time.
• Hubris: excessive confidence or arrogance.
• Hortative: relating to encouraging speech.
• Heed: pay attention to; take notice of.
• Hubbub: a busy, noisy situation.
• Hierarchy: a system in which members are ranked according to status.

I Words

• Inoculate: treat with a vaccine to produce immunity against a disease.
• Inconceivable: not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally; unbelievable.
• Idiosyncratic: relating to idiosyncrasy; peculiar or individual.
• Idyllic: like an idyll; extremely happy, peaceful, or picturesque.
• Infinitesimal: extremely small.
• Imminent: about to happen.
• Impede: delay or prevent someone or something by obstructing them.
• Incessant: continuing without pause or interruption.
• Inbred: produced by inbreeding.
• Innate: inborn; natural.
• Incite: encourage or stir up.
• Introspect: examination/observation of one's mental and emotional processes.
• Inception: the establishment or starting point of an institution or activity.
• Innocuous: not harmful or offensive.
• Impeccable: in accordance with the highest standards; faultless.
• Incoherent: expressed in an incomprehensible or confusing way; unclear.
• Illude: trick; delude.
• Illicit: forbidden by law, rules, or custom.
• Impudent: not showing due respect for another person; impertinent.
• Insatiable: an appetite or desire impossible to satisfy.
• Insinuate: suggest or hint something in an indirect and unpleasant way.
• Insidious: proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects.
• Incorrigible: (a person or their behaviour) not able to be changed or reformed.
• Intuitive: using what one feels to be true even without conscious reasoning
• Immutable: unchanging over time or unable to be changed.
• Impertinent: not showing proper respect; rude.
• Incarcerate: imprison or confine.
• Inane: lacking sense or meaning; silly.
• Inarticulate: unable to express one's ideas or feelings clearly or easily.
• Inadvertent: not resulting from or achieved through deliberate planning.
• Impute: represent something as being done or possessed by someone.
• Infidelity: the action or state of being unfaithful to a significant other.
• Infringe: actively break the terms of a law, agreement, etc.
• Inherent: existing in something as a permanent or characteristic attribute.
• Intangible: unable to be touched; not having physical presence.
• Irascible: having or showing a tendency to be easily angered.
• Inundate: overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with.
• Impervious: unable to be affected by.
• Inimical: unfriendly; hostile/tending to obstruct or harm.
• Impetuous: acting or done quickly and without thought or care.
• Imperative: of vital importance; crucial.
• Inconspicuous: not clearly visible or attracting attention.
• Intermittent: occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady.