Vocabulary Quiz: Advanced Words

Vocabulary

• Adroit: skillful
• Alacrity: cheerful willingness; eagerness
• Allay: to soothe; to make more bearable
• Ameliorate: to improve a bad situation
• Amorphous: shapeless
• Antipathy: hatred; aversion; dislike
• Assuage: to ease, pacify
• Audacity: boldness
• Bawdy: obscene; coarse; humorous
• Beguile: to trick
• Berate: to scold severely
• Blandishment: flattery
• Bombastic: wordy or pompous in writing or speech
• Bucolic: pastoral; typical of farms and rural life
• Burgeon: to grow; flourish

More Vocabulary

• Cacophonous: bad sounding; antonym - euphonious
• Calumny: slander; defamation
• Capacious: spacious
• Capricious: unpredictable; following whim
• Castigate: to punish
• Caustic: burning; characterized by a bitter wit
• Ciliated: having tiny hairs
• Cogent: clear; logical; well thought out
• Cognizant: fully informed and aware; conscious
• Commensurate: equal; proportional
• Congenital: existing at birth
• Conjugal: pertaining to marriage

Even More Vocabulary

• Contrition: remorse; repentance; guilt and regret felt because of wrong doing
• Corpulent: obese; having a fat body
• Corroborate: to testify in agreement
• Covert: concealed
• Credulity: gullibility
• Cull: to select; to weed out
• Dearth: scarcity
• Desultory: aimless; disconnected; rambling
• Diaphanous: translucent; gossamer

The Rest of the Vocabulary

• Discord: lack of harmony
• Disparage: to belittle; reduce in esteem
• Ebullient: bubbly; overflowing with enthusiasm
• Edify: to enlighten; educate
• Efface: to rub out
• Emaciated: excessively thin; weak
• Emulate: to imitate closely
• Equivocal: capable of two interpretations; ambiguous
• Erudite: scholarly
• Eschew: to avoid, shun
• Exigent: urgent, requiring immediate attention
• Ethereal: not of the material world
• Facetious: said in jest

The Final Set of Vocabulary

• Fallacious: false, wrong, incorrect
• Fecund: fertile
• Fetid: smelly
• Flagrant: deliberately conspicuous; glaring
• Foible: weakness, flaw
• Foment: to stir up; agitate
• Frenetic: frenzied; frantic
• Fulminate: to explode; roar; denounce loudly
• Garrulous: very talkative; loquacious
• Germane: relevant; appropriate
• Gossamer: light, delicate or insubstantial
• Haggard: unruly; wild; wasted; worn
• Harangue: mean, nasty, angry speech
• Harbinger: forerunner; something that signals the approach of something
• Hedonism: the philosophy of doing whatever gives you pleasure regardless of anyone else
• Heinous: grossly wicked; vile; odious
• Iconoclast: destroyer of tradition
• Ignominy: dishonor; disgrace
• Imbue: to make wet; saturate; to inspire
• Imperious: domineering
• Impropriety: not proper; not displaying propriety
• Impugn: to attack as false
• Incessant: nonstop; ceaseless
• Indolence: laziness
• Inept: incompetent
• Ingenious: original; resourceful
• Ingenuous: showing childlike simplicity; innocent
• Insatiable: impossible to satisfy
• Inscrutable: enigmatic; hard to understand
• Insidious: working or spreading stealthily; sneaky, to do something bad