Vocabulary Building: Mastering Advanced English Words

Mastering Advanced English Vocabulary

Acquisitive - greedy / Acquit - find not guilty / Adduce - bring as proof / Allegiance - loyalty / Allot - assign / Altercation - heated fight / Anathema - something loathed / Anterior - situated in front / Annex - to add / Apparition - ghostly object / Appellation - a name / Apprise - inform / Armistice - truce / Arraign - to accuse / Arrant - bad (arrant fool) / Arrears - state of being in debt / Articulate - pronounce clearly / Ascribe - determine with certainty / Aspersion - slandering remark / Assail - attack vigorously / Astringent - severe / Atone - make amends / Augur - to be an omen / Auspices - support / Aversion - dislike / Barrage - concentrated attack / Bauble - inexpensive ornament / Behest - command / Botch - ruin with clumsy / Bracing - invigorating / Brandish - wave threateningly / Brazen - bold / Brusque - blunt / Calumny - slander / Callous - insensitive / Cardinal - most important / Careen - lean to one side / Cavil - raise trivial objections / Chaste - pure, sex X / Chortle - chuckle with glee / Citadel - fortress / Cogitate - ponder / Compunction - remorse / Concede - acknowledge as true / Confound - to amaze / Conjugal - marriage / Connive - conspire / Conspicuous - easily seen / Consternation - sudden confusion / Contempt - disgrace / Conversant - familiar / Conviction - strong belief / Cordial - sincere / Coterie - circle / Cull - pick among many / Curb - restrain / Curmudgeon - grumpy person / Debase - to lower in quality or value / Debunk - to expose the nonsense of / Decree - an official order / Decry - to put down / Deem - to judge, consider / Deficit - a shortage, especially of money / Defile - to make filthy or foul / Deft - skillful / Defunct - no longer in effect or existence / Degrade - to lower in dignity or status / Deign - to condescend / Deity - a god or goddess / Dejected - depressed / Delectable - delightful / Delinquent - neglecting a duty or law / Delve - to search or study intensively / Demeanor - behavior / Demise - death / Demography - the statistical study of characteristics of populations / Demur - to object; to take exception / Demure - shy; reserved / Denomination - a classification; a category name / Denote - to signify / Denounce - condemn / Depict - to portray, especially in a picture / Deplete - to decrease the supply of; to exhaust / Deplore - to regret; to condemn / Deploy - to station soldiers or armaments strategically / Depose - to remove from office or position of power / Depredate - to prey upon; to plunder