Comprehensive Glossary of Important English Words

Essential Vocabulary List

• Impute: To attribute an action to a particular person or group.
• Incompatible: Opposed in nature; not able to live or work together.
• Inconsequential: Unimportant; trivial.
• Inevitable: Certain; unavoidable.
• Integrity: Decency, honesty, wholeness.
• Intrepid: Fearless, adventurous.
• Intuitive: Instinctive, untaught.
• Jubilation: Joy, celebration, exultation.
• Lobbyist: A person who seeks to influence political events.
• Longevity: Long life.
• Mundane: Ordinary, commonplace.
• Nonchalant: Calm, casual, seeming unexcited.
• Novice: Apprentice, beginner.
• Opulent: Wealthy.
• Orator: Lecturer, speaker.
• Ostentatious: Showy, displaying wealth.
• Parched: Dried up, shriveled.
• Perfidious: Faithless, disloyal, untrustworthy.
• Precocious: Unusually advanced or talented at an early age.
• Pretentious: Pretending to be important, intelligent, or cultured.
• Procrastinate: To unnecessarily delay, postpone, or put off.
• Prosaic: Relating to prose; dull, commonplace.
• Prosperity: Wealth or success.
• Provocative: Tending to provoke a response (e.g., anger or disagreement).
• Prudent: Careful, cautious.
• Querulous: Complaining, irritable.
• Rancorous: Bitter, hateful.
• Reclusive: Preferring to live in isolation.
• Reconciliation: The act of agreement after a quarrel; the resolution of a dispute.
• Renovation: Repair; making something new again.
• Resilient: Quick to recover; able to bounce back.
• Restrained: Controlled, repressed, restricted.
• Reverence: Worship, profound respect.
• Sagacity: Wisdom.
• Scrutinize: To observe carefully.
• Spontaneity: Action; unplanned events.
• Spurious: Lacking authenticity; false.
• Submissive: Tending to meekness; to submit to the will of others.
• Substantiate: To verify, confirm, or provide supporting evidence.
• Subtle: Hard to detect or describe; perceptive.
• Superficial: Shallow, lacking in depth.
• Superfluous: Extra, more than enough, redundant.
• Suppress: To end an activity (e.g., to prevent the dissemination of information).
• Surreptitious: Secret, stealthy.
• Tactful: Considerate, skillful in acting to avoid offense to others.
• Tenacious: Determined, keeping a firm grip on.
• Transient: Temporary, short-lived, fleeting.
• Venerable: Respected because of age.
• Vindicate: To clear from blame or suspicion.
• Wary: Careful, cautious.