Elevate Your Vocabulary: A Guide to Expressive Words

Elevate Your Vocabulary

Ineffable - Beyond description; too great or extreme to be expressed or described in words.

Cromulent - Acceptable or adequate.

Nescient - Lacking knowledge; ignorant.

Déjà vu - The feeling that one has seen or experienced something before.

Sad-lugubrious - Excessively mournful.

Saturnine - Gloomy or taciturn.

Foudroyant-dazzling - Stunningly brilliant.

Ossified - Become fixed and rigid.

Faux - False; not genuine.

Indelible - Long-lasting; cannot be erased.

Imbroglio - A complicated situation.

Unrelenting - Not giving up; persistent.

Coup de foudre - Love at first sight.

Succumb - Give in to.

Nefarious - Wicked; despicable.

Stoic - Able to tolerate hardship without complaint.

Cachinnate - To laugh loudly.

En route - On the way.

Myriad - A great number.

Sempiternal - Eternal.

Aeonian - Everlasting.

Evanescent - Vanishing quickly.

Crème de la crème - The best of the best.

Derelict - Abandoned; run down.

Nadir - The lowest point.

Zenith - The highest point.

Dearth - A shortage.

Cumulate - To build up.

Indolent - Lazy.

Halcyon - Happy; peaceful.

Enmity - Hatred; hostility.

Fabricate - To make up.

Forsake - To give up.

Miffed - Annoyed.

Repudiate - To reject.

Vex - To annoy.

Anomaly - Something that deviates from what is standard, normal, or expected.

Grandiose - Excessively grand or ambitious.

Mediocre - Average.

Obliterate - To wipe out; annihilate.

Elysium - Paradise.

Panacea - A solution to everything.

Futile - Useless.

Naivete - Innocence.

Timorous - Cowardly.

Totter - To walk unsteadily.

Deleterious - Harmful.

Tranquil - Calm; placid.

Desolate - Lonely.

Blighted - Damaged.

Arrogance - Haughtiness.

Ephemeral - Short-lived.

Hiatus - An interruption.

Resplendent - Glowing; shining.

Languish - To get weaker.

Abhor - To hate.

Noxious - Poisonous.

Concur - To agree.

Knotty - Complex.

Enigma - A mystery; cryptic.

Blatant - Obvious.

Altruistic - Selfless.

Exiguous - Small; scanty.

Trendy - À la mode.

Redundant - Unnecessary; superfluous.

Inane - Foolish; asinine.

Innate - Genius.

Propinquity - Similar; facsimile.

Acknowledge - Agnise.

Quotidian - Daily routines.

Jubilant - Happy; joie de vivre.

Aquiver - Quivering; trembling.

Mellifluous - Pleasant, sweet, and smooth sound.

Petrichor - Pleasant, earthly smell after a rain.

Egress - To leave a place.

Fait accompli - Something that has already happened and cannot be changed.

Audacious - Bold.

Efface - To erase; expunge.

Alacrity - Eagerness.

Callous - Cold; unfeeling.

Coerce - To force someone into doing something.

Apparition - A ghost.

Dulcet - Sweet; sugary.

Ingénue - A naive young woman.

Stringent - Strict.

Unorthodox - Different from what is usually done.

Itinerary - A list of places you'll be going.

Lynchpin - A person or thing that holds something together.

Tryst - A secret meeting by lovers.

Tantalizing - A quality that arouses desire.

Deliquesce - To dissolve.

Hither and thither - Here and there.

Derivation - Origin of something.

Tenacious - Firm; strong.

Knap - To steal.

Comestible - Edible.

Starrify - To decorate with stars.