abate(v) - die away; let up; slack; slack off;become less in amount or intensity;
#2 (v) - slack; slake;make less active or intense;
aberration(n) - distortion; optical aberration;an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image;
#2 (n) - a disorder in one's mental state;
#3 (n) - aberrance; aberrancy; deviance;a state or condition markedly different from the norm;
abeyance(n) - suspension;temporary cessation or suspension;
abject(adj sat) - showing humiliation or submissiveness;
#2 (adj sat) - low; low-down; miserable; scummy; scurvy;of the most contemptible kind;
#3 (adj sat) - most unfortunate or miserable;
#4 (adj sat) - unhopeful;showing utter resignation or hopelessness;
abrogate(v) - revoke formally;
abscond(v) - absquatulate; bolt; decamp; go off; make off; run off;run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along;
absolve(v) - free; justify;let off the hook;
#2 (v) - shrive;grant remission of a sin to;
abstain(v) - desist; refrain;choose not to consume;
#2 (v) - refrain from voting;
accolade(n) - award; honor; honour; laurels;a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction;
accretion(n) - an increase in a beneficiary's share in an estate (as when a co-beneficiary dies or fails to meet some condition or rejects the inheritance);
#2 (n) - accumulation;an increase by natural growth or addition;
#3 (n) - an increase in land resulting from alluvial deposits or waterborne sediment;
#4 (n) - growth by addition as by the adhesion of parts or particles;
#5 (n) - the formation of a celestial object by the effect of gravity pulling together surrounding objects and gases;
#6 (n) - something contributing to growth or increase;
acrid(adj sat) - acerb; acerbic; acid; bitter; blistering; caustic; sulfurous; sulphurous; virulent; vitriolic;harsh or corrosive in tone;
#2 (adj sat) - pungent;strong and sharp;
acumen(n) - insightfulness;shrewdness shown by keen insight;
#2 (n) - a tapering point;
adamant(n) - diamond;very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem;
#2 (adj sat) - adamantine; inexorable; intransigent;impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason;
adroit(adj) - quick or skillful or adept in action or thought;
adulation(n) - servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise;
affinity(n) - a natural attraction or feeling of kinship;
#2 (n) - inherent resemblance between persons or things;
#3 (n) - chemical attraction;the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule;
#4 (n) - the attraction between an antigen and an antibody;
#5 (n) - kinship;a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character;
#6 (n) - phylogenetic relation;state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts;
#7 (n) - kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship;
alacrity(n) - briskness; smartness;liveliness and eagerness;
amalgamate(v) - commix; mingle; mix; unify;to bring or combine together or with something else;
#2 (adj sat) - amalgamated; coalesced; consolidated; fused;joined together into a whole;
ameliorate(v) - better; improve; meliorate;get better;
#2 (v) - amend; better; improve; meliorate;to make better;
amenable(adj sat) - conformable;disposed or willing to comply;
#2 (adj sat) - liable to answer to a higher authority;
#3 (adj sat) - open to being acted upon in a certain way;
#4 (adj sat) - tractable;readily reacting to suggestions and influences;
amiable(adj sat) - affable; cordial; genial;diffusing warmth and friendliness;
#2 (adj sat) - good-humored; good-humoured;disposed to please;
amicable(adj) - characterized by friendship and good will;
amorphous(adj sat) - uncrystallised; uncrystallized;without real or apparent crystalline form;
#2 (adj sat) - unstructured;lacking the system or structure characteristic of living bodies;
#3 (adj sat) - formless; shapeless;having no definite form or distinct shape;
anarchy(n) - lawlessness;a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government);
anecdote(n) - short account of an incident (especially a biographical one);
animosity(n) - animus; bad blood;a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility;
antagonism(n) - interference in or inhibition of the physiological action of a chemical substance by another having a similar structure;
#2 (n) - an actively expressed feeling of dislike and hostility;
#3 (n) - the relation between opposing principles or forces or factors;
#4 (n) - enmity; hostility;a state of deep-seated ill-will;
apathy(n) - indifference; numbness; spiritlessness;the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally;
#2 (n) - an absence of emotion or enthusiasm;
apocryphal(adj sat) - being of questionable authenticity;
#2 (adj) - of or belonging to the Apocrypha;
appease(v) - propitiate;make peace with;
#2 (v) - quell; stay;overcome or allay;
#3 (v) - assuage; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify; placate;cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
approbation(n) - official recognition or approval;
#2 (n) - official approval;
arbitrary(adj) - based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice;
arboreal(adj) - arboreous; tree-living;inhabiting or frequenting trees;
#2 (adj sat) - arboreous; arborescent; arboresque; arboriform; dendriform; dendroid; dendroidal; treelike; tree-shaped;resembling a tree in form and branching structure;
#3 (adj) - arborary; arborical; arborous;of or relating to or formed by trees;
arduous(adj sat) - difficult to accomplish; demanding considerable mental effort and skill;
#2 (adj sat) - backbreaking; grueling; gruelling; hard; heavy; laborious; operose; punishing; toilsome;characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort;
#3 (adj sat) - straining; strenuous;taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance;
ascetic(n) - abstainer;someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline;
#2 (adj sat) - ascetical; austere; spartan;practicing great self-denial;
#3 (adj) - ascetical;pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline;
asperity(n) - sharpness;harshness of manner;
#2 (n) - grimness; hardship; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity;something hard to endure;
assuage(v) - alleviate; palliate; relieve;provide physical relief, as from pain;
#2 (v) - allay; quench; slake;satisfy (thirst);
#3 (v) - appease; conciliate; gentle; gruntle; lenify; mollify; pacify; placate;cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of;
astute(adj sat) - sharp; shrewd;marked by practical hardheaded intelligence;
audacious(adj sat) - daring; venturesome; venturous;disposed to venture or take risks;
#2 (adj sat) - bald-faced; barefaced; bodacious; brassy; brazen; brazen-faced; insolent;unrestrained by convention or propriety;
#3 (adj sat) - brave; dauntless; fearless; hardy; intrepid; unfearing;invulnerable to fear or intimidation;
auspicious(adj) - auguring favorable circumstances and good luck;
austere(adj sat) - ascetic; ascetical; spartan;practicing great self-denial;
#2 (adj sat) - stern;of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect;
#3 (adj sat) - severe; stark; stern;severely simple;
aver(v) - affirm; assert; avow; swan; swear; verify;to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true;
#2 (v) - allege; say;report or maintain;
aversion(n) - averting;the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away;
#2 (n) - antipathy; distaste;a feeling of intense dislike;
balk(n) - an illegal pitching motion while runners are on base;
#2 (n) - baulk; rafter;one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof;
#3 (n) - baulk; check; deterrent; handicap; hinderance; hindrance; impediment;something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress;
#4 (n) - baulk;the area on a billiard table behind the balkline;
#5 (v) - baulk; jib; resist;refuse to comply;
banal(adj sat) - commonplace; hackneyed; old-hat; shopworn; stock; threadbare; timeworn; tired; trite; well-worn;repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
bellicose(adj sat) - battleful; combative;having or showing a ready disposition to fight;
belligerent(n) - battler; combatant; fighter; scrapper;someone who fights (or is fighting);
#2 (adj sat) - aggressive;characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight;
#3 (adj sat) - militant; war-ridden; warring;engaged in war;
benefactor(n) - helper;a person who helps people or institutions (especially with financial help);
benevolent(adj sat) - beneficent; eleemosynary; philanthropic;generous in assistance to the poor;
#2 (adj sat) - freehearted;generous in providing aid to others;
#3 (adj sat) - charitable; good-hearted; kindly; large-hearted; openhearted; sympathetic;showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity;
#4 (adj) - intending or showing kindness;
benign(adj) - benignant;pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence;
#2 (adj sat) - kindness of disposition or manner;
#3 (adj) - not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor);
blatant(adj sat) - clamant; clamorous; strident; vociferous;conspicuously and offensively loud; given to vehement outcry;
#2 (adj sat) - blazing; conspicuous;without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious;
blithe(adj sat) - blithesome; lighthearted; light-hearted; lightsome;carefree and happy and lighthearted;
#2 (adj sat) - lacking or showing a lack of due concern;
boisterous(adj sat) - fierce; rough;violently agitated and turbulent;
#2 (adj sat) - rambunctious; robustious; rumbustious; unruly;noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline;
#3 (adj sat) - knockabout;full of rough and exuberant animal spirits;
bolster(n) - long pillow;a pillow that is often put across a bed underneath the regular pillows;
#2 (v) - bolster up;support and strengthen;
#3 (v) - pad;add padding to;
#4 (v) - prop up with a pillow or bolster;
boorish(adj sat) - loutish; neandertal; neanderthal; oafish; swinish;ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance;
broach(n) - breastpin; brooch;a decorative pin worn by women;
#2 (v) - initiate;bring up a topic for discussion;
brusque(adj sat) - brusk; curt; short;marked by rude or peremptory shortness;
burgeon(v) - grow and flourish;
burnish(n) - gloss; glossiness; polish;the property of being smooth and shiny;
#2 (v) - buff; furbish;polish and make shiny;
calumny(n) - aspersion; defamation; denigration; slander;an abusive attack on a person's character or good name;
#2 (n) - calumniation; defamation; hatchet job; obloquy; traducement;a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions;
cantankerous(adj sat) - crotchety; ornery;having a difficult and contrary disposition;
#2 (adj sat) - bloody-minded;stubbornly obstructive and unwilling to cooperate;
capricious(adj sat) - impulsive; whimsical;determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason;
#2 (adj sat) - freakish;changeable;
caricature(n) - imitation; impersonation;a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect;
#2 (v) - ape;represent in or produce a caricature of;
censure(n) - animadversion;harsh criticism or disapproval;
#2 (n) - exclusion; excommunication;the state of being excommunicated;
#3 (v) - criminate; reprimand;rebuke formally;
circuitous(adj sat) - devious; roundabout;deviating from a straight course;
#2 (adj sat) - roundabout;marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct;
circumlocution(n) - indirect expression;an indirect way of expressing something;
#2 (n) - ambage; periphrasis;a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things;
clairvoyant(n) - someone who has the power of clairvoyance;
#2 (adj sat) - precognitive; second-sighted;foreseeing the future;
#3 (adj sat) - perceiving things beyond the natural range of the senses;
clandestine(adj sat) - cloak-and-dagger; hole-and-corner; hugger-mugger; hush-hush; secret; surreptitious; undercover; underground;conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods;
cliche(n) - banality; bromide; commonplace; platitude;a trite or obvious remark;
coalesce(v) - blend; combine; commingle; conflate; flux; fuse; immix; meld; merge; mix;mix together different elements;
#2 (v) - fuse or cause to grow together;
coerce(v) - force; hale; pressure; squeeze;to cause to do through pressure or necessity, by physical, moral or intellectual means :;
cogent(adj sat) - telling; weighty;powerfully persuasive;
cognizant(adj) - aware; cognisant;having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception;
collusion(n) - secret agreement;
#2 (n) - connivance;agreement on a secret plot;
commodious(adj) - convenient;large and roomy (`convenient' is archaic in this sense);
compunction(n) - remorse; self-reproach;a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed);
concede(v) - grant; yield;be willing to concede;
#2 (v) - confess; profess;admit (to a wrongdoing);
#3 (v) - acknowledge defeat;
#4 (v) - cede; grant; yield;give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another;
conciliatory(adj) - conciliative;intended to placate;
#2 (adj) - compromising; flexible;making or willing to make concessions;
confound(v) - confuse;mistake one thing for another;
#2 (v) - bedevil; befuddle; confuse; discombobulate; fox; fuddle; throw;be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly;
congeal(v) - jell; set;become gelatinous;
congenial(adj sat) - capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted;
#2 (adj) - suitable to your needs;
connoisseur(n) - cognoscente;an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts;
contentious(adj sat) - involving or likely to cause controversy;
#2 (adj sat) - combative; disputatious; disputative; litigious;inclined or showing an inclination to dispute or disagree, even to engage in law suits;
contiguous(adj sat) - immediate;very close or connected in space or time;
#2 (adj sat) - adjacent; conterminous; neighboring;having a common boundary or edge; abutting; touching;
#3 (adj sat) - conterminous;connecting without a break; within a common boundary;
contrite(adj sat) - remorseful; rueful; ruthful;feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses;
contumacious(adj sat) - wilfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient;
contusion(n) - the action of bruising;
#2 (n) - bruise;an injury that doesn't break the skin but results in some discoloration;
conundrum(n) - brain-teaser; enigma; riddle;a difficult problem;
convivial(adj sat) - good-time;occupied with or fond of the pleasures of good company;
copious(adj sat) - ample; plenteous; plentiful; rich;affording an abundant supply;
#2 (adj sat) - voluminous;large in number or quantity (especially of discourse);
corroborate(v) - affirm; confirm; substantiate; support; sustain;establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts;
#2 (v) - validate;give evidence for;
#3 (v) - bear out; support; underpin;support with evidence or authority or make more certain or confirm;
counterfeit(n) - forgery;a copy that is represented as the original;
#2 (v) - fake; forge;make a copy of with the intent to deceive;
#3 (adj) - imitative;not genuine; imitating something superior;
credulity(n) - tendency to believe readily;
credulous(adj) - disposed to believe on little evidence;
#2 (adj sat) - showing a lack of judgment or experience;
curtail(v) - curb; cut back; restrict;place restrictions on;
#2 (v) - clip; cut short;terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent;
cynical(adj sat) - misanthropic; misanthropical;believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others;
decorum(n) - decorousness;propriety in manners and conduct;
deleterious(adj sat) - hurtful; injurious;harmful to living things;
delineate(v) - describe in vivid detail;
#2 (v) - describe; draw; line; trace;make a mark or lines on a surface;
#3 (v) - limn; outline;trace the shape of;
#4 (v) - define; delimit; delimitate; specify;determine the essential quality of;
#5 (v) - define;show the form or outline of;
#6 (adj) - delineated; represented;represented accurately or precisely;
deluge(n) - alluvion; flood; inundation;the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land;
#2 (n) - cloudburst; downpour; pelter; soaker; torrent; waterspout;a heavy rain;
#3 (n) - flood; inundation; torrent;an overwhelming number or amount;
#4 (v) - inundate; submerge;fill or cover completely, usually with water;
#5 (v) - flood out; overwhelm;charge someone with too many tasks;
#6 (v) - flood; inundate; swamp;fill quickly beyond capacity; as with a liquid;
demagogue(n) - demagog; rabble-rouser;a political leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices;
demur(n) - demurral; demurrer;a formal objection to an opponent's pleadings;
#2 (v) - except;take exception to;
#3 (v) - enter a demurrer;
deplete(v) - consume; eat; eat up; exhaust; run through; use up; wipe out;use up (resources or materials);
deprecate(v) - depreciate; vilipend;belittle;
#2 (v) - express strong disapproval of; deplore;
deride(v) - treat or speak of with contempt;
derivative(n) - derived function; differential; differential coefficient; first derivative;the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx;
#2 (n) - a word that is derived from another word;
#3 (n) - derivative instrument;a financial instrument whose value is based on another security;
#4 (n) - a compound obtained from, or regarded as derived from, another compound;
#5 (adj sat) - resulting from or employing derivation;
despondent(adj sat) - heartsick;without or almost without hope;
desultory(adj sat) - marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another;
deter(v) - dissuade;turn away from by persuasion;
#2 (v) - discourage;try to prevent; show opposition to;
devious(adj sat) - circuitous; roundabout;deviating from a straight course;
#2 (adj sat) - oblique;indirect in departing from the accepted or proper way; misleading;
#3 (adj sat) - shifty;characterized by insincerity or deceit; evasive;
diffidence(n) - self-distrust; self-doubt;lack of self-confidence;
discreet(adj) - marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint;
#2 (adj sat) - circumspect;heedful of potential consequences;
#3 (adj sat) - discerning;unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic;
discrete(adj sat) - distinct;constituting a separate entity or part;
disingenuous(adj) - artful;not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness;
disinterested(adj sat) - unaffected by self-interest;
disparate(adj sat) - including markedly dissimilar elements;
#2 (adj sat) - fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind;
disseminate(v) - broadcast; circularise; circularize; circulate; diffuse; disperse; distribute; pass around; propagate; spread;cause to become widely known;
dissent(n) - objection; protest;the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent;
#2 (n) - a difference of opinion;
#3 (n) - the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority;
#4 (v) - withhold assent;
#5 (v) - differ; disagree; take issue;be of different opinions;
#6 (v) - protest; resist;express opposition through action or words;
docile(adj) - willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed;
#2 (adj sat) - gentle;easily handled or managed;
#3 (adj sat) - teachable;ready and willing to be taught;
dormant(adj sat) - abeyant;inactive but capable of becoming active;
#2 (adj) - inactive;not erupting and not extinct;
#3 (adj sat) - hibernating; torpid;in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation;
#4 (adj sat) - sleeping;lying with head on paws as if sleeping;
eclectic(n) - eclecticist;someone who selects according to the eclectic method;
#2 (adj sat) - selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas;
efficacy(n) - efficaciousness;capacity or power to produce a desired effect;
effrontery(n) - assumption; presumption; presumptuousness;audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to;
elegy(n) - lament;a mournful poem; a lament for the dead;
elucidate(v) - clear; clear up; crystalise; crystalize; crystallise; crystallize; enlighten; illuminate; shed light on; sort out; straighten out;make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear;
#2 (v) - clarify; clear up;make clear and (more) comprehensible;
empathy(n) - understanding and entering into another's feelings;
emulate(v) - compete with successfully; approach or reach equality with;
#2 (v) - imitate the function of (another system), as by modifying the hardware or the software;
#3 (v) - strive to equal or match, especially by imitating;
enfranchise(v) - grant voting rights;
#2 (v) - affranchise;grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude;
epitome(n) - image; paradigm; prototype;a standard or typical example;
#2 (n) - a brief abstract (as of an article or book);
equanimity(n) - calm; calmness; composure;steadiness of mind under stress;
equivocal(adj sat) - uncertain as a sign or indication;
#2 (adj) - ambiguous;open to two or more interpretations; or of uncertain nature or significance; or (often) intended to mislead;
#3 (adj sat) - open to question;
equivocate(v) - beat around the bush; palter; prevaricate; tergiversate;be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information;
erratic(adj sat) - fickle; mercurial; quicksilver;liable to sudden unpredictable change;
#2 (adj sat) - temperamental;likely to perform unpredictably;
#3 (adj sat) - planetary; wandering;having no fixed course;
erudite(adj sat) - learned;having or showing profound knowledge;
eschew(v) - shun;avoid and stay away from deliberately; stay clear of;
esoteric(adj) - confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle;
espouse(v) - adopt; embrace; sweep up;take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own;
#2 (v) - adopt; follow;choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans;
#3 (v) - conjoin; get hitched with; get married; hook up with; marry; wed;take in marriage;
evanescent(adj sat) - tending to vanish like vapor;
exculpate(v) - acquit; assoil; clear; discharge; exonerate;pronounce not guilty of criminal charges;
expedient(n) - a means to an end; not necessarily a principled or ethical one;
#2 (adj) - serving to promote your interest;
#3 (adj sat) - appropriate to a purpose; practical;
extant(adj) - still in existence; not extinct or destroyed or lost;
extraneous(adj sat) - external; outside;coming from the outside;
#2 (adj sat) - not essential;
#3 (adj sat) - immaterial; impertinent; orthogonal;not pertinent to the matter under consideration;
#4 (adj sat) - foreign;not belonging to that in which it is contained; introduced from an outside source;
extricate(v) - disencumber; disentangle; untangle;release from entanglement of difficulty;
facetious(adj sat) - bantering; tongue-in-cheek;cleverly amusing in tone;
facile(adj sat) - eloquent; fluent; silver; silver-tongued; smooth-spoken;expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively;
#2 (adj sat) - performing adroitly and without effort;
#3 (adj sat) - arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth;
fastidious(adj) - giving careful attention to detail; hard to please; excessively concerned with cleanliness;
#2 (adj) - exacting;having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures;
fecund(adj sat) - capable of producing offspring or vegetation;
#2 (adj sat) - fertile; prolific;intellectually productive;
felicitous(adj) - exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style;
#2 (adj sat) - happy;marked by good fortune;
fetter(n) - hobble;a shackle for the ankles or feet;
#2 (v) - shackle;restrain with fetters;
fickle(adj sat) - erratic; mercurial; quicksilver;liable to sudden unpredictable change;
#2 (adj sat) - volatile;marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments;
fidelity(n) - accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal;
#2 (n) - faithfulness;the quality of being faithful;
finesse(n) - delicacy; diplomacy; discreetness;subtly skillful handling of a situation;
flamboyant(n) - delonix regia; flame tree; peacock flower; poinciana regia; royal poinciana;showy tropical tree or shrub native to Madagascar; widely planted in tropical regions for its immense racemes of scarlet and orange flowers; sometimes placed in genus Poinciana;
#2 (adj sat) - aureate; florid;elaborately or excessively ornamented;
#3 (adj sat) - showy; splashy;marked by ostentation but often tasteless;
flaunt(n) - the act of displaying something ostentatiously;
#2 (v) - flash; ostentate; show off; swank;display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously;
florid(adj sat) - rubicund; ruddy; sanguine;inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life;
#2 (adj sat) - aureate; flamboyant;elaborately or excessively ornamented;
foible(n) - the weaker part of a sword's blade from the forte to the tip;
#2 (n) - idiosyncrasy; mannerism;a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual;
forestall(v) - forbid; foreclose; preclude; prevent;keep from happening or arising; make impossible;
#2 (v) - anticipate; counter; foresee;act in advance of; deal with ahead of time;
frenetic(adj sat) - frantic; frenzied; phrenetic;excessively agitated; distraught with fear or other violent emotion;
garrulous(adj sat) - chatty; gabby; loquacious; talkative; talky;full of trivial conversation;
germane(adj sat) - relevant and appropriate;
gist(n) - center; centre; core; essence; heart; heart and soul; inwardness; kernel; marrow; meat; nitty-gritty; nub; pith; substance; sum;the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience;
#2 (n) - burden; core; effect; essence;the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work;
gossamer(n) - cobweb;filaments from a web that was spun by a spider;
#2 (n) - a gauze fabric with an extremely fine texture;
#3 (adj sat) - ethereal;characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy;
#4 (adj sat) - cobwebby; diaphanous; filmy; gauze-like; gauzy; see-through; sheer; transparent; vaporous; vapourous;so thin as to transmit light;
grandiose(adj sat) - impressive because of unnecessary largeness or grandeur; used to show disapproval;
#2 (adj sat) - hifalutin; highfalutin; highfaluting; hoity-toity; la-di-da;affectedly genteel;
gratuitous(adj sat) - without cause;
#2 (adj sat) - needless; uncalled-for;unnecessary and unwarranted;
#3 (adj sat) - complimentary; costless; free; gratis;costing nothing;
guile(n) - chicane; chicanery; shenanigan; trickery; wile;the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them);
#2 (n) - craftiness; deceitfulness;the quality of being crafty;
#3 (n) - craft; craftiness; cunning; foxiness; slyness; wiliness;shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception;
gullible(adj sat) - easily tricked because of being too trusting;
#2 (adj sat) - fleeceable; green;naive and easily deceived or tricked;
hapless(adj sat) - miserable; misfortunate; pathetic; piteous; pitiable; pitiful; poor; wretched;deserving or inciting pity;
harangue(n) - rant; ranting;a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion;
#2 (v) - deliver a harangue to; address forcefully;
harbinger(n) - forerunner; herald; precursor; predecessor;something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone;
#2 (v) - announce; annunciate; foretell; herald;foreshadow or presage;
hedonist(n) - pagan; pleasure seeker;someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures;
heresy(n) - unorthodoxy;a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion;
#2 (n) - heterodoxy; unorthodoxy;any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position;
heterogeneous(adj) - heterogenous;originating outside the body;
#2 (adj) - heterogenous;consisting of elements that are not of the same kind or nature;
hiatus(n) - foramen;a natural opening or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure;
#2 (n) - a missing piece (as a gap in a manuscript);
#3 (n) - abatement; reprieve; respite; suspension;an interruption in the intensity or amount of something;
hubris(n) - overbearing pride or presumption;
iconoclast(n) - someone who attacks cherished ideas or traditional institutions;
#2 (n) - image breaker;a destroyer of images used in religious worship;
illicit(adj sat) - illegitimate; outlaw; outlawed; unlawful;contrary to or forbidden by law;
#2 (adj) - contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention;
immaculate(adj sat) - speckless; spic; spic-and-span; spick; spick-and-span; spotless;completely neat and clean;
#2 (adj sat) - faultless; impeccable;without fault or error;
#3 (adj sat) - undefiled;free from stain or blemish;
imperious(adj sat) - disdainful; haughty; lordly; overbearing; prideful; sniffy; supercilious; swaggering;having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy;
impervious(adj) - imperviable;not admitting of passage or capable of being affected;
impetuous(adj sat) - brainish; hotheaded; impulsive; madcap; tearaway;characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation;
#2 (adj sat) - marked by violent force;
implacable(adj) - incapable of being placated;
impudent(adj sat) - fresh; impertinent; overbold; sassy; saucy; smart; wise;improperly forward or bold;
#2 (adj sat) - flip; insolent; snotty-nosed;marked by casual disrespect;
impugn(v) - attack as false or wrong;
impute(v) - ascribe; assign; attribute;attribute or credit to;
#2 (v) - attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source;
incessant(adj sat) - ceaseless; constant; never-ending; perpetual; unceasing; unremitting;uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing;
inchoate(adj sat) - incipient;only partly in existence; imperfectly formed;
incisive(adj sat) - suitable for cutting or piercing;
#2 (adj sat) - acute; discriminating; keen; knifelike; penetrating; penetrative; piercing; sharp;having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions;
incongruous(adj) - lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness;
inconsequential(adj sat) - inconsequent;lacking worth or importance;
#2 (adj sat) - not following logically as a consequence;
incorrigible(adj) - impervious to correction by punishment;
indigence(n) - need; pauperism; pauperization; penury;a state of extreme poverty or destitution;
indigent(adj sat) - destitute; impoverished; necessitous; needy; poverty-stricken;poor enough to need help from others;
indolent(adj sat) - slow to heal or develop and usually painless;
#2 (adj sat) - faineant; lazy; otiose; slothful; work-shy;disinclined to work or exertion;
indomitable(adj sat) - never-say-die; unsubduable;impossible to subdue;
indulgent(adj sat) - being favorably inclined;
#2 (adj) - characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone;
#3 (adj sat) - lenient; soft;tolerant or lenient;
ineffable(adj sat) - indefinable; indescribable; unspeakable; untellable; unutterable;defying expression or description;
#2 (adj sat) - unnameable; unspeakable; unutterable;too sacred to be uttered;
inexorable(adj sat) - adamant; adamantine; intransigent;impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason;
#2 (adj sat) - grim; relentless; stern; unappeasable; unforgiving; unrelenting;not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
ingenuous(adj) - artless;characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious;
#2 (adj sat) - innocent;lacking in sophistication or worldliness;
injunction(n) - cease and desist order; enjoining; enjoinment;a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity;
#2 (n) - a formal command or admonition;
insatiable(adj) - insatiate; unsatiable;impossible to satisfy;
insipid(adj sat) - jejune;lacking interest or significance or impact;
#2 (adj sat) - bland; flat; flavorless; flavourless; savorless; savourless; vapid;lacking taste or flavor or tang;
instigate(v) - inspire; prompt;serve as the inciting cause of;
#2 (v) - incite; set off; stir up;provoke or stir up;
inveterate(adj sat) - chronic;habitual;
#2 (adv) - chronically;in a habitual and longstanding manner;
irrevocable(adj) - irrevokable;incapable of being retracted or revoked;
judicious(adj sat) - heady; wise;marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters;
juxtapose(v) - place side by side;
labyrinth(n) - maze;complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost;
#2 (n) - inner ear; internal ear;a complex system of interconnecting cavities; concerned with hearing and equilibrium;
lachrymose(adj sat) - dolorous; dolourous; tearful; weeping;showing sorrow;
laconic(adj sat) - crisp; curt; terse;brief and to the point; effectively cut short;
larceny(n) - stealing; theft; thievery; thieving;the act of taking something from someone unlawfully;
largess(n) - largesse; magnanimity; munificence; openhandedness;liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit;
#2 (n) - largesse;a gift or money given (as for service or out of benevolence); usually given ostentatiously;
lassitude(n) - inanition; lethargy; slackness;weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy;
#2 (n) - languor; listlessness;a feeling of lack of interest or energy;
#3 (n) - lethargy; sluggishness;a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness);
lethargic(adj) - unenrgetic;deficient in alertness or activity;
levity(n) - a manner lacking seriousness;
#2 (n) - feeling an inappropriate lack of seriousness;
libel(n) - the written statement of a plaintiff explaining the cause of action (the defamation) and any relief he seeks;
#2 (n) - a false and malicious publication printed for the purpose of defaming a living person;
#3 (v) - print slanderous statements against;
lithe(adj sat) - lissom; lissome; lithesome; slender; supple; svelte; sylphlike;moving and bending with ease;
lugubrious(adj sat) - excessively mournful;
malevolent(adj sat) - evil; malefic; malign;having or exerting a malignant influence;
#2 (adj sat) - wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred;
malleable(adj sat) - ductile; pliable; pliant; tensile; tractile;capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out;
#2 (adj sat) - ductile;easily influenced;
mandate(n) - the commission that is given to a government and its policies through an electoral victory;
#2 (n) - authorisation; authorization;a document giving an official instruction or command;
#3 (n) - mandatory;a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves;
#4 (v) - assign authority to;
#5 (v) - make mandatory;
#6 (v) - assign under a mandate;
mandatory(n) - mandate;a territory surrendered by Turkey or Germany after World War I and put under the tutelage of some other European power until they are able to stand by themselves;
#2 (n) - mandatary;the recipient of a mandate;
#3 (adj sat) - compulsory; required;required by rule;
maverick(n) - an unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it;
#2 (n) - rebel;someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action;
#3 (adj sat) - irregular; unorthodox;independent in behavior or thought;
maxim(n) - axiom;a saying that is widely accepted on its own merits;
#2 (n) - sir hiram stevens maxim;English inventor (born in the United States) who invented the Maxim gun that was used in World War I (1840-1916);
mercurial(adj sat) - erratic; fickle; quicksilver;liable to sudden unpredictable change;
#2 (adj) - relating to or containing or caused by mercury;
#3 (adj) - relating to or having characteristics (eloquence, shrewdness, swiftness, thievishness) attributed to the god Mercury;
#4 (adj) - relating to or under the (astrological) influence of the planet Mercury;
misanthrope(n) - misanthropist;someone who dislikes people in general;
multifarious(adj sat) - many-sided; miscellaneous; multifaceted;having many aspects;
munificent(adj sat) - lavish; overgenerous; too-generous; unsparing; unstinted; unstinting;very generous;
nascent(adj) - being born or beginning;
noisome(adj sat) - fetid; foetid; foul; foul-smelling; funky; ill-scented; smelly; stinking;offensively malodorous;
#2 (adj sat) - loathsome; nauseating; nauseous; offensive; queasy; sickening; vile;causing or able to cause nausea;
noxious(adj) - injurious to physical or mental health;
nuance(n) - nicety; refinement; shade; subtlety;a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude;
obdurate(adj sat) - flint; flinty; granitic; stony;showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings;
#2 (adj sat) - cussed; obstinate; unrepentant;stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing;
obfuscate(v) - make obscure or unclear;
oblivious(adj sat) - forgetful;failing to keep in mind;
#2 (adj sat) - unmindful;lacking conscious awareness of;
obsequious(adj sat) - attentive in an ingratiating or servile manner;
#2 (adj sat) - bootlicking; fawning; sycophantic; toadyish;attempting to win favor from influential people by flattery;
obstreperous(adj sat) - boisterously and noisily aggressive;
#2 (adj sat) - noisily and stubbornly defiant;
obtuse(adj sat) - dense; dim; dull; dumb; slow;slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity;
#2 (adj sat) - purblind;lacking in insight or discernment;
#3 (adj) - of an angle; between 90 and 180 degrees;
#4 (adj sat) - rounded at the apex;
onerous(adj sat) - burdensome; taxing;not easily borne; wearing;
orthodox(adj) - adhering to what is commonly accepted;
#2 (adj) - jewish-orthodox;of or pertaining to or characteristic of Judaism;
#3 (adj) - eastern orthodox; greek orthodox; russian orthodox;of or relating to or characteristic of the Eastern Orthodox Church;
palpable(adj) - tangible;capable of being perceived; especially capable of being handled or touched or felt;
#2 (adj sat) - can be felt by palpation;
panacea(n) - catholicon; cure-all; nostrum;hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists;
#2 (n) - the goddess of healing; daughter of Aesculapius and sister of Hygeia;
paradigm(n) - epitome; image; prototype;a standard or typical example;
#2 (n) - the generally accepted perspective of a particular discipline at a given time;
#3 (n) - substitution class;the class of all items that can be substituted into the same position (or slot) in a grammatical sentence (are in paradigmatic relation with one another);
#4 (n) - systematic arrangement of all the inflected forms of a word;
paragon(n) - beau ideal; idol; perfection;an ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept;
#2 (n) - apotheosis; ideal; nonesuch; nonpareil; nonsuch; saint;model of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal;
pariah(n) - castaway; ishmael; outcast;a person who is rejected (from society or home);
partisan(n) - partizan;a pike with a long tapering double-edged blade with lateral projections; 16th and 17th centuries;
#2 (n) - enthusiast; partizan;an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity;
#3 (n) - drumbeater; zealot;a fervent and even militant proponent of something;
#4 (adj) - partizan;devoted to a cause or party;
patronize(v) - keep going; patronage; patronise; support;be a regular customer or client of;
#2 (v) - condescend; patronise;treat condescendingly;
#3 (v) - patronise; sponsor;assume sponsorship of;
#4 (v) - buy at; frequent; patronise; shop; shop at; sponsor;do one's shopping at; do business with; be a customer or client of;
paucity(n) - dearth;an insufficient quantity or number;
peccadillo(n) - indiscretion;a petty misdeed;
pedantic(adj sat) - academic; donnish;marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects;
pellucid(adj sat) - crystal clear; limpid; lucid; luculent; perspicuous;transparently clear; easily understandable;
#2 (adj sat) - crystal clear; crystalline; limpid; lucid; transparent;transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity;
penitent(n) - a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor);
#2 (adj) - repentant;feeling or expressing remorse for misdeeds;
penurious(adj sat) - parsimonious;excessively unwilling to spend;
#2 (adj sat) - hard up; impecunious; in straitened circumstances; penniless; pinched;not having enough money to pay for necessities;
peremptory(adj sat) - putting an end to all debate or action;
#2 (adj sat) - not allowing contradiction or refusal;
#3 (adj sat) - autocratic; bossy; dominating; high-and-mighty; magisterial;offensively self-assured or given to exercising usually unwarranted power;
perfidious(adj sat) - punic; treacherous;tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans;
perfidy(n) - betrayal; treachery; treason;an act of deliberate betrayal;
#2 (n) - perfidiousness; treachery;betrayal of a trust;
perfunctory(adj sat) - casual; cursory; passing;hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough;
#2 (adj sat) - pro forma;as a formality only;
peripatetic(n) - aristotelean; aristotelian;a follower of Aristotle or an adherent of Aristotelianism;
#2 (n) - a person who walks from place to place;
#3 (adj sat) - wayfaring;traveling especially on foot;
#4 (adj) - aristotelean; aristotelian; aristotelic;of or relating to Aristotle or his philosophy;
perjury(n) - bearing false witness; lying under oath;criminal offense of making false statements under oath;
pernicious(adj sat) - insidious; subtle;working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way;
#2 (adj sat) - baneful; deadly; pestilent;exceedingly harmful;
perspicacity(n) - judgement; judgment; sound judgement; sound judgment;the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions;
#2 (n) - astuteness; perspicaciousness; shrewdness;intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings);
pervasive(adj sat) - permeant; permeating; permeative;spreading or spread throughout;
petrify(v) - cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned;
#2 (v) - ossify; rigidify;make rigid and set into a conventional pattern;
#3 (v) - lapidify;change into stone;
philistine(n) - a member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century BC;
#2 (n) - anti-intellectual; lowbrow;a person who is uninterested in intellectual pursuits;
#3 (adj sat) - anti-intellectual;smug and ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values;
#4 (adj) - of or relating to ancient Philistia or its culture or its people;
phlegmatic(adj sat) - phlegmatical;showing little emotion;
pique(n) - tightly woven fabric with raised cords;
#2 (n) - irritation; temper;a sudden outburst of anger;
#3 (v) - offend;cause to feel resentment or indignation;
placid(adj sat) - quiet; smooth; still; tranquil; unruffled;free from disturbance by heavy waves;
#2 (adj sat) - equable; even-tempered; good-tempered;not easily irritated;
plethora(n) - embarrassment; overplus; superfluity;extreme excess;
pliable(adj sat) - bendable; pliant; waxy;capable of being bent or flexed or twisted without breaking;
#2 (adj sat) - elastic; flexible; pliant;able to adjust readily to different conditions;
#3 (adj sat) - ductile; malleable; pliant; tensile; tractile;capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out;
#4 (adj sat) - fictile;susceptible to being led or directed;
plummet(n) - plumb; plumb bob;the metal bob of a plumb line;
#2 (v) - plump;drop sharply;
poignant(adj sat) - affecting; touching;arousing affect;
#2 (adj sat) - keenly distressing to the mind or feelings;
ponderous(adj sat) - having great mass and weight and unwieldiness;
#2 (adj sat) - heavy; lumbering;slow and laborious because of weight;
#3 (adj sat) - labored and dull;
precarious(adj sat) - unstable;affording no ease or reassurance;
#2 (adj sat) - parlous; perilous; touch-and-go;fraught with danger;
#3 (adj sat) - shaky;not secure; beset with difficulties;
precept(n) - commandment; teaching;a doctrine that is taught;
#2 (n) - principle;rule of personal conduct;
preclude(v) - forbid; foreclose; forestall; prevent;keep from happening or arising; make impossible;
#2 (v) - close out; rule out;make impossible, especially beforehand;
predilection(n) - orientation; preference;a predisposition in favor of something;
#2 (n) - penchant; preference; taste;a strong liking;
preponderance(n) - exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight;
#2 (n) - prevalence;a superiority in numbers or amount;
#3 (n) - superiority in power or influence;
presumptuous(adj sat) - assuming; assumptive;excessively forward;
pristine(adj sat) - immaculately clean and unused;
#2 (adj sat) - completely free from dirt or contamination;
probity(n) - complete and confirmed integrity; having strong moral principles;
prodigious(adj sat) - colossal; stupendous;so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe;
#2 (adj sat) - exceeding; exceptional; olympian; surpassing;far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree;
#3 (adj sat) - portentous;of momentous or ominous significance;
profligate(n) - prodigal; squanderer;a recklessly extravagant consumer;
#2 (n) - blood; rake; rakehell; rip; roue;a dissolute man in fashionable society;
#3 (adj sat) - debauched; degenerate; degraded; dissipated; dissolute; fast; libertine; riotous;unrestrained by convention or morality;
#4 (adj sat) - extravagant; prodigal; spendthrift;recklessly wasteful;
proliferate(v) - cause to grow or increase rapidly;
#2 (v) - grow rapidly;
prolific(adj sat) - fertile;bearing in abundance especially offspring;
#2 (adj sat) - fecund; fertile;intellectually productive;
propensity(n) - aptness;a disposition to behave in a certain way;
#2 (n) - leaning; proclivity;a natural inclination;
#3 (n) - leaning; tendency;an inclination to do something;
prosaic(adj sat) - commonplace; humdrum; unglamorous; unglamourous;not challenging; dull and lacking excitement;
#2 (adj sat) - earthbound; pedestrian; prosy;lacking wit or imagination;
#3 (adj sat) - matter-of-fact;not fanciful or imaginative;
protean(adj sat) - taking on different forms;
puerile(adj sat) - adolescent; jejune; juvenile;displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity;
#2 (adj) - of or characteristic of a child;
pugnacious(adj sat) - rough;ready and able to resort to force or violence;
#2 (adj sat) - hard-bitten; hard-boiled;tough and callous by virtue of experience;
punctilious(adj sat) - meticulous;marked by precise accordance with details;
quell(v) - quench; squelch;suppress or crush completely;
#2 (v) - appease; stay;overcome or allay;
querulous(adj sat) - fretful; whiney; whiny;habitually complaining;
quibble(n) - cavil; quiddity;an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections;
#2 (v) - bicker; brabble; niggle; pettifog; squabble;argue over petty things;
#3 (v) - evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections;
quixotic(adj sat) - romantic; wild-eyed;not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic;
quotidian(adj sat) - everyday; mundane; routine; unremarkable; workaday;found in the ordinary course of events;
raconteur(n) - anecdotist;a person skilled in telling anecdotes;
rancor(n) - bitterness; gall; rancour; resentment;a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will;
raucous(adj sat) - strident;unpleasantly loud and harsh;
#2 (adj sat) - rowdy;disturbing the public peace; loud and rough;
recalcitrant(adj sat) - marked by stubborn resistance to authority;
#2 (adj sat) - fractious; refractory;stubbornly resistant to authority or control;
reclusive(adj sat) - cloistered; secluded; sequestered;providing privacy or seclusion;
#2 (adj sat) - recluse; withdrawn;withdrawn from society; seeking solitude;
recondite(adj sat) - abstruse; deep;difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge;
rectitude(n) - uprightness;righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest;
redoubtable(adj sat) - formidable; unnerving;inspiring fear;
#2 (adj sat) - worthy of respect or honor;
regale(v) - treat;provide with choice or abundant food or drink;
reiterate(v) - ingeminate; iterate; repeat; restate; retell;to say, state, or perform again;
relegate(v) - classify;assign to a class or kind;
#2 (v) - break; bump; demote; kick downstairs;assign to a lower position; reduce in rank;
#3 (v) - banish; bar;expel, as if by official decree;
#4 (v) - pass on; submit;refer to another person for decision or judgment;
relish(n) - flavor; flavour; nip; sapidity; savor; savour; smack; tang;the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth;
#2 (n) - gusto; zest; zestfulness;vigorous and enthusiastic enjoyment;
#3 (n) - spicy or savory condiment;
#4 (v) - bask; enjoy; savor; savour;derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in;
reprehensible(adj sat) - condemnable; criminal; deplorable; vicious;bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure;
repudiate(v) - refuse to acknowledge, ratify, or recognize as valid;
#2 (v) - disown; renounce;cast off;
#3 (v) - reject as untrue, unfounded, or unjust;
#4 (v) - refuse to recognize or pay;
resilient(adj sat) - bouncy; live; lively; springy;elastic; rebounds readily;
#2 (adj sat) - recovering readily from adversity, depression, or the like;
respite(n) - break; recess; time out;a pause from doing something (as work);
#2 (n) - reprieve;the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment;
#3 (n) - abatement; hiatus; reprieve; suspension;an interruption in the intensity or amount of something;
#4 (n) - reprieve;a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort;
#5 (n) - relief; rest; rest period;a pause for relaxation;
#6 (v) - reprieve;postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution;
resplendent(adj sat) - glorious; splendid; splendiferous;having great beauty and splendor;
revoke(n) - renege;the mistake of not following suit when able to do so;
#2 (v) - annul; countermand; lift; overturn; repeal; rescind; reverse; vacate;cancel officially;
#3 (v) - fail to follow suit when able and required to do so;
rife(adj sat) - overabundant; plethoric;excessively abundant;
#2 (adj sat) - dominant; predominant; prevailing; prevalent;most frequent or common;
rudimentary(adj sat) - being in the earliest stages of development;
#2 (adj sat) - vestigial;not fully developed in mature animals;
#3 (adj sat) - fundamental; underlying;being or involving basic facts or principles;
ruminate(v) - chew over; contemplate; excogitate; meditate; mull; mull over; muse; ponder; reflect; speculate; think over;reflect deeply on a subject;
#2 (v) - chew the cuds;
sagacious(adj sat) - skillful in statecraft or management;
#2 (adj sat) - perspicacious; sapient;acutely insightful and wise;
salutary(adj sat) - good;tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health;
sanctimonious(adj sat) - holier-than-thou; pharisaic; pharisaical; pietistic; pietistical; self-righteous;excessively or hypocritically pious;
savor(n) - flavor; flavour; nip; relish; sapidity; savour; smack; tang;the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth;
#2 (v) - bask; enjoy; relish; savour;derive or receive pleasure from; get enjoyment from; take pleasure in;
#3 (v) - savour;taste appreciatively;
#4 (v) - savour;give taste to;
#5 (v) - savour; taste;have flavor; taste of something;
seminal(adj sat) - germinal; originative;containing seeds of later development;
#2 (adj) - pertaining to or containing or consisting of semen;
servile(adj) - submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior;
#2 (adj sat) - relating to or involving slaves or appropriate for slaves or servants;
sinuous(adj sat) - sinuate; wiggly;curved or curving in and out;
somnolent(adj sat) - slumberous; slumbery; slumbrous;inclined to or marked by drowsiness;
sophomoric(adj) - overconfident but immature;
sordid(adj sat) - meanly avaricious and mercenary;
#2 (adj sat) - flyblown; squalid;foul and run-down and repulsive;
#3 (adj sat) - dirty;unethical or dishonest;
#4 (adj sat) - seamy; seedy; sleazy; squalid;morally degraded;
spurious(adj sat) - inauthentic; unauthentic;intended to deceive;
#2 (adj sat) - bastardly; misbegot; misbegotten;born out of wedlock;
#3 (adj sat) - specious;plausible but false;
squander(v) - consume; ware; waste;spend extravagantly;
#2 (v) - blow; waste;spend thoughtlessly; throw away;
sublime(v) - sublimate;vaporize and then condense right back again;
#2 (v) - sublimate;change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting;
#3 (adj sat) - lifted up or set high;
#4 (adj sat) - empyreal; empyrean;inspiring awe;
#5 (adj sat) - elevated; exalted; grand; high-flown; high-minded; idealistic; lofty; noble-minded; rarefied; rarified;of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style;
#6 (adj sat) - reverend;worthy of adoration or reverence;
succinct(adj sat) - compact; compendious; summary;briefly giving the gist of something;
surfeit(n) - repletion;eating until excessively full;
#2 (n) - glut; oversupply;the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall;
#3 (n) - excess; overabundance;the state of being more than full;
#4 (v) - indulge (one's appetite) to satiety;
#5 (v) - cloy;supply or feed to surfeit;
tantamount(adj sat) - equivalent;being essentially equal to something;
temerity(n) - audaciousness; audacity;fearless daring;
thwart(n) - cross thwart;a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat;
#2 (v) - baffle; bilk; cross; foil; frustrate; queer; scotch; spoil;hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of;
timorous(adj sat) - fearful; trepid;timid by nature or revealing timidity;
tortuous(adj sat) - not straightforward;
#2 (adj sat) - byzantine; convoluted; involved; knotty; tangled;highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious;
#3 (adj sat) - twisting; twisty; voluminous; winding;marked by repeated turns and bends;
tractable(adj sat) - amenable;readily reacting to suggestions and influences;
#2 (adj) - manipulable;easily managed (controlled or taught or molded);
transgress(v) - overstep; trespass;pass beyond (limits or boundaries);
#2 (v) - sin; trespass;commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law;
#3 (v) - breach; break; go against; infract; offend; violate;act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises;
#4 (v) - spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline;
ubiquitous(adj sat) - omnipresent;being present everywhere at once;
umbrage(n) - offence; offense;a feeling of anger caused by being offended;
untoward(adj sat) - adverse; inauspicious;contrary to your interests or welfare;
#2 (adj sat) - indecent; indecorous; unbecoming; uncomely; unseemly;not in keeping with accepted standards of what is right or proper in polite society;
upbraid(v) - reproach;express criticism towards;
urbane(adj sat) - polished; refined; svelte;showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience;
usurp(v) - arrogate; assume; seize; take over;seize and take control without authority and possibly with force; take as one's right or possession;
#2 (v) - take the place of;
vacillate(v) - fluctuate; waver;move or sway in a rising and falling or wavelike pattern;
#2 (v) - hover; oscillate; vibrate;be undecided about something; waver between conflicting positions or courses of action;
vacuous(adj sat) - blank;void of expression;
#2 (adj sat) - devoid of matter;
#3 (adj sat) - empty; hollow;devoid of significance or point;
#4 (adj sat) - asinine; fatuous; inane; mindless;devoid of intelligence;
vapid(adj sat) - lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest;
#2 (adj sat) - bland; flat; flavorless; flavourless; insipid; savorless; savourless;lacking taste or flavor or tang;
venal(adj sat) - bribable; corruptible; dishonest; purchasable;capable of being corrupted;
veneer(n) - facing;an ornamental coating to a building;
#2 (n) - veneering;coating consisting of a thin layer of superior wood glued to a base of inferior wood;
#3 (v) - cover with veneer;
venerate(v) - fear; revere; reverence;regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of;
veracity(n) - unwillingness to tell lies;
vestige(n) - shadow; tincture; trace;an indication that something has been present;
vindicate(v) - justify;show to be right by providing justification or proof;
#2 (v) - clear of accusation, blame, suspicion, or doubt with supporting proof;
#3 (v) - maintain, uphold, or defend;
vindictive(adj sat) - despiteful; spiteful;showing malicious ill will and a desire to hurt; motivated by spite;
#2 (adj sat) - revengeful; vengeful;disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge;
virtuoso(n) - ace; adept; champion; genius; hotshot; maven; mavin; sensation; star; superstar; whiz; whizz; wiz; wizard;someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field;
#2 (n) - a musician who is a consummate master of technique and artistry;
#3 (adj sat) - consummate; masterful; masterly;having or revealing supreme mastery or skill;
virulent(adj) - infectious; having the ability to cause disease;
#2 (adj sat) - acerb; acerbic; acid; acrid; bitter; blistering; caustic; sulfurous; sulphurous; vitriolic;harsh or corrosive in tone;
#3 (adj sat) - deadly; venomous;extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom;
volatile(n) - a volatile substance; a substance that changes readily from solid or liquid to a vapor;
#2 (adj sat) - tending to vary often or widely;
#3 (adj sat) - fickle;marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments;
#4 (adj sat) - explosive;liable to lead to sudden change or violence;
#5 (adj) - evaporating readily at normal temperatures and pressures;
wane(n) - ebb; ebbing;a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number);
#2 (v) - decline; go down;grow smaller;
#3 (v) - decrease in phase;
#4 (v) - become smaller;