Kaplan Top 200
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- abate
- to reduce in amount, degree, or severity
- abscond
- to leave secretly
- abstain
- to choose not to do something
- abyss
- an extremely deep hole
- adulterate
- to make impure
- advocate
- to speak in favor of
- aesthetic
- concerning the appreciation of beauty
- aggrandize
- to increase in power influence and reputation
- alleviate
- to make more bearable
- amalgamate
- to combine, to mix together
- amalgam
- a mixture, especially of two metals
- ambiguous
- doubtful or uncertain, able to be interpreted several ways
- ameliorate
- to make better, to improve
- anachronism
- something out of place in time
- analogous
- similar or alike in some way, equivalent to
- anomaly
- deviation from what is normal
- antagonize
- to annoy or provoke to anger
- antipathy
- extreme dislike
- apathy
- lack of interest or emotion
- arbitrate
- to judge a dispute between two opposing parties
- archaic
- ancient, old fashioned
- ardor
- intesne and passionate feeling
- articulate
- able to speak clearly and expressively
- assuage
- to make something unpleasant less severe
- attenuate
- to reduce in force or degree, to weaken
- audacious
- fearless and daring
- austere
- severe or stern in appearance, undecorated
- banal
- predictable, boring
- bolster
- to support, to prop up
- bombastic
- pompous in speech and manner
- cacophony
- harsh jarring noise
- candid
- impartial and honest in speech
- capricious
- changin one's mind quickly and often. syn. mercurial
- castigate
- to punish or criticize harshly
- catalys
- something that brings about a change in something else
- caustic
- biting in wit
- chaos
- great disorder or conufsion
- chauvinist
- someone prjudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
- chicanery
- deception by means of craft or guile
- cogent
- convincing and well reasoned
- condone
- to overlook, pardon or disregard
- convoluted
- intricate and complicated
- corroborate
- provide supporting evidence
- credulous
- too trusting, gullible
- crescendo
- steadily increasing volume or force
- decorum
- approrateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
- deference
- respect, courtesy
- deride
- speak of or treat with contempt
- derisive
- in a mocking manner
- dessicate
- to dry out thoroughly
- desultory
- jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
- diatribe
- an abusive condemnatory speech
- diffident
- lacking self confidence
- dilate
- to make large, to expand
- dilatory
- intended to delay
- dilettante
- someone with an amatuerish and superficial interest in topic
- dirge
- a funeral hymm or mounful speech
- disabuse
- to set right, free from error
- discern
- to perceive, to recognize
- disparate
- fundamentally different, entierely unlike
- dissemble
- to present a false appearance, to disguise one's real intentions or character
- dissonance
- a harsh and disagreeable combination often of sounds
- dogma
- a firmly held opinion, often a religious belief
- dogmatic
- dictatorial in one's opinions
- dupe
- to deceive, a person who is easily decieved
- eclectic
- selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
- efficacy
- effectiveness
- elegy
- sorrowful poem or speech
- eloquent
- persuasive and moving, especially in speech
- emulate
- to copy
- enervate
- to reduce in strength, to weaken
- engender
- to produce, cause or bring about. syn. beget, generate
- enigma
- puzzle mystery
- enumerate
- to count, list or itemize
- ephemeral
- lasting a short time, fleeting
- equivocate
- use epxressions of double meaning in order to mislead
- erratic
- wandering and unpreductable
- erudite
- learned scholarly
- esoteric
- known or understood by only a few
- estimable
- admirable; esteem, high reagard
- eulogy
- speech in praise of someone
- euphemism
- use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distatsteful one
- exacerbate
- to make worse
- excuplate
- clear from blate, prove innocent
- exigent
- urgent, requiiring immediate attention.
- exonerate
- clear of blame
- explicit
- clearly satated or shown, forthright in expression
- fanatical
- acting exceesively enthusiastica, filled with extreme, unquestioned devotion
- fawn
- to grovel. syn: to pander
- fervid
- intensely emotional, feverish
- florid
- excessively decorated, or embellished
- foment
- to arouse or incite
- frugality
- tendency to be thrifty or cheap
- garrulous
- tending to talk a lot. syn. loquacious
- gregacious
- outgoing sociable
- guile
- deceit or trickery
- gullible
- easily deceived
- homogenous
- of a similar kind
- iconoclast
- one who opposes established beliefs, customs and insitutions
- imperturbable
- not capable of being disturbed