Essential Vocabulary: Advanced English Words

Mastering Advanced English Vocabulary

Enhance your communication and writing skills with this curated list of essential advanced English words and their precise definitions.

Aberration

A state or condition markedly different from the norm.

Abeyance

A temporary suspension of an activity; a state of being put aside for further action.

Adjudge

To award or bestow by formal decision.

Affront

An open, intentional insult.

Anarchy

The absence of government or law; political disorder.

Artifice

A skillful or ingenious device; a clever trick; a clever skill; trickery.

Augury

An event that is experienced as indicating important things to come.

Cadaverous

Pale, gaunt, resembling a corpse.

Cajole

To persuade by pleasant words; to coax with flattery and insincere talk; to wheedle.

Calumny

An attack on a person's good name.

Candor

The quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech.

Capitulate

To surrender under agreed conditions.

Chastise

To punish; to criticize severely; to scold.

Chicanery

The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them).

Civility

Politeness; courtesy; a polite action.

Commodious

Roomy; spacious.

Configuration

Any spatial attributes.

Connoisseur

Someone who is an expert in some field, especially in art or in matters of taste.

Consign

To give, transfer, or deliver, as if by signing over; to hand over; to commit.

Contingency

An eventuality; a possible event, occurrence, or result.

Corroborate

To establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts.

Dearth

A lack, scarcity, inadequate supply; a famine.

Deduce

To draw a conclusion from given facts.

Demagogue

A leader who stirs up people by appealing to their emotions; a rabble-rouser.

Deplore

To feel very sorry about; to regret deeply; to lament; to disapprove of.

Detriment

Damage; harm; injury; anything that causes damage or injury.

Discrepancy

An inconsistency; a contradiction; a difference.

Dissent

A difference of opinion.

Diurnal

Having a daily cycle or occurring every day.

Elocution

The art of public speaking.

Emanate

To issue from; to originate from.

Ethnology

The branch of anthropology that deals with recent societies or language groups, their distribution, characteristics, and cultures.

Exhilaration

High spirits; invigoration; excitement.

Extant

Still in existence.

Extricate

To release from an entanglement or a difficulty; to set free.

Foible

A minor weakness or fault; a minor but persistent personal failing; a shortcoming.

Germane

Pertinent; to the point; truly relevant.

Gregarious

Outgoing; sociable.

Guffaw

A loud burst of laughter.

Harbinger

To announce; to indicate what will follow. Also, a forerunner or a herald.

Herculean

Displaying superhuman strength or power.

Homogeneous

Of the same kind or nature; composed of similar or identical parts.