word endings ·ly=adverb,
word endings ·ness=noun
abeyance-noun- suspension, temporarily set aside
abiotic-noun- non living
abjure -verb- to renounce under oath
ablate -noun- to remove by erosion
ablative -noun- relating to grammar
abrogate -verb -annul by force of law
acerbic- adj -sour, harsh, severe
acicular- adj- having the shape of a needle
acolyte- noun- follower
amphigory- noun- nonsense verse
anneal- verb- heating (glass or metal) and slow cooling
anon- adv- soon, at once
antipodes- noun -exact opposites
apodiotic -adj.- demonstrably true
apostasy -noun- Abandonment of one's religious faith
apotheoses -noun- Exaltation to divine rank or stature
assonance -noun- partial agreement
avatar -noun- incarnation of a deity in human form
avaunt -adv- hence; away
aver -verb -to declare true
avulse -v tr.- to separate, cut or tear off
baccate -adj- resembling a berry
banausic -adjective- --blue collar used pejoratively;
bane -noun- Fatal injury or ruin, poison
bathos -noun- insincere pathos
bedizen -verb tr.- To ornament or dress in a showy or gaudy
benison -noun- benediction
blandish -verb tr.- To coax
bloviate -verb- : to speak or write verbosely and windily
bouquiniste -noun- dealer in second hand books
bowdlerize -v tr.- to expunge
cabbage -verb- FILCH, steal
cadge -verb- to beg or get by begging
callipygian -adj- beautifully proportioned buttocks
calumniate -verb- malign
captious -adj.- excessively critical
catawampus -adj- cater-corner, askew
cerulean -adjective- resembling the blue of the sky
cephalalgia -noun- headache
chary adj. -risk- adverse
choleric -adj.- bilious, bad temper, cranky
clerisy -noun- intelligentsia
coeval -adj- existing during the same period
colporteur -noun- a peddler of religious books
continence -noun- opposite of incontinent, constraint; moderation
contumacious -adj- Resisting boldly; openly disobedient
corpus delicti -noun- body of the victim
coterminous -adj- same or coincident boundaries
craven -adj- abject fear; cowardly
decorticate -adj- remove the surface layer
denouement -noun- clarification of a dramatic or
narrative plot desuetude -noun- A state of disuse or inactivity.
desultory -adj-- Without purpose or direction
detumescence -noun- lessen swelling
dialectic -noun- logical argument
din -noun- noise
dint -noun- force
disparate -adj- entirely different in kind
disseise -verb- : to deprive wrongfully of seisin : dispossess
dissemble -verb- disguise or conceal
distend -verb- swell out or expand
dross -noun- scummy waste
drub -adj.- to beat to the ground harshly with an object
ebullience -noun- Zestful enthusiasm.
echolalia -noun- involuntary repetition of words
ectropy -n- the opposite of entropy: increasing order
edacious -adj- devoring, voracious consuming
effloresce -verb- to bloom
effulgence -noun- radiant splendor, brilliance
elide -v tr.- To omit or slur over
emend -vt- to edit or change a text.
emesis -noun- an act of vomiting
enjoined -verb -forbid prohibit
eolian -adjective- or eroded by the wind
erstwhile -adverb- formerly
eschatology -noun- study of life after death
escheat -noun- real property taken by the state government
ethos -noun- fundamental spirit of a culture
eupeptic -adj- relating to, or having good digestion CHEERFUL, OPTIMISTIC
evince -noun- to display, reveal
excoriate -verb- wear off skin or to censure scathingly
execration -verb- cursing, to wish evil on someone
exscind -v tr- to cut out or excise
exsiccate -verb- to cause to dry up
extempore -adj.- spur of the moment
facetious -adj.- in a joking manner
fallow -adj- Characterized by inactivity
fawn -adj.- seek favors by whining
feckless -adj- lacking purpose or vitality, feeble or ineffective
fledge -verb- cover with feathers, take care of young bird
flummox -verb- confuse
foist -v. t- interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit)
forsworn -verb- renounce an oath
freshet -noun- sudden overflowing of a stream due to rainfall
fugacious -adjective- disappearing before the usual time
fulminate -adj.- thunderous verbal attack
fusty -adjective- saturated with dust and stale odors : musty
gest -noun- adventure or tale
gibbous -adj- having a hump or more than half less than full
glower -verb- to look or stare angrily or sullenly
gratulant -adj.- express joy, expressing gratification
guffaw -noun- a loud or boisterous burst of laughter
harry -verb- to torment by or as if by constant attack
hoary -adj- Very old, stale
imbibe -verb- to drink
immolate -v tr- to kill as a sacrifice
incondite -adj.- badly constructed
indolent -adj- Disinclined to exert oneself; habitually lazy
ineffable -adj- incapable of being expressed
ineluctable -adj- Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable:
inextirpable -adj- impossible to eradicate
inextremis -noun- near death
ingenuous -adj.- naive, artless
inimical -noun- enemy
Irenic -a.-designed to promote peace; pacific; conciliatory
irredentism -noun- two nations cultural and ethnically related, Hitler
irrefragable -adj- impossible to refute
izzat -noun- personal dignity of honor
jaunty -ADJ- gentil sprightly in manner or appearance : LIVELY
kwanza -noun- African Christmas
labile -adj- unstable likely to undergo change
largesse -noun- gift
legerdemain -noun- slight of hand, adroitness
libidinous -adj- libido, lustful desires
limacine -adj- resembling a slug
limpid -adjective- : transparent b : clear and simple in style
lissome -adj- easily flexed, nimble
lithe -adj- Marked by effortless grace: a lithe ballet
lurid -adj.- gruesome
macedoine -noun- a confused mixture
maculate -v tr.- to spot, blemish or pollute
malaise -adj- feeling of weakness
meliorism -noun- humans can aid in the betterment of the world
manumitted -v- the act of setting free a slave.
mentation -n- the process of thinking (carefully)
meretricious -adj- alluring by false showy charm
minion -noun- servile follower
morass -noun- marsh, swamp
mordant -adj- caustic or sarcastic
motility -noun- inherent power of motion
multifarious -adj- great variety or diversity
muse -verb- to be absorbed in ones thought
mythomania -noun- propensity for lying or exaggerating
neoteric -adj- recent in origin; modern
nescience -noun- ignorance, no science
niggardly -adj- petty in giving or spending
non compos mentis noun not of sound mind
non sequitur -adj.- is not logical
non troppo -noun- moderate pace
nutation -noun- the act of nodding the head
obfuscate -verb- to obscure, to muddle
obnubilate -verb- : becloud" obscure
obstreperous -adj- -noisy, vociferous
obviate -verb- make unnecessary (as an action)
odalisque -noun- a female slave
oenophile -noun- connoisseur of wine
omphaloskepsis -noun- contemplation of one's navel
orgulous -adjective- : proud
palliate -adj- to make something less serious
pellucid -adj- transparent, easily under stood
peregrination -noun- the act of traveling from one country to another
perfidious -adj- treachery
perorate -verb- To speak at great length
perspicacious -adj- keen, clear sighted
petrous -adj-- like a rock
phrenology -noun- skull size related to
intelligence piebald -adj- spotted or incongruent parts
pillory -verb- to punish
piquant -adj- agreeably pungent, spicy
pique -noun- resentment at being slighted
plaintive -adj.-- complaining
pliant -adj- pliable, Yielding readily to influence
plumply -adv- without hesitation
preprandial -adj- suitable before dinner
prevaricate -verb- : to deviate from the truth : equivocate
primogeniture -noun- first born
procrustean -adj- disregard for individual differences
profligate -adj- given up to dissipation and licentiousness
prolix -adj- long and wordy
propinquity -noun- nearness in time, place or relationship
propitiatory -adj- having the power to make atonement
prosaic -adj.- unimaginative qualities
proscribe -verb- To banish or outlaw
puerile
-adj-
JUVENILE, CHILDISH, SILLY
putative -adjective- : commonly accepted
or supposed
quondam -adj- That once was; former:
raffish -adj- tawdry, dissolute
rakish -adj- having a trim streamlined
appearance
ramify -verb- to divide or subdivide, to branch
rankle -verb- persistent irritation
raptorial -adj- greedy, Latin one who seizes
from rapere
ratiocination -noun- process of reasoning
recalcitrant -adj- defiance of authority or
guidance
recreancy -noun- cowardly giving up
recrudescence -noun a new outbreak after a period
of abatement
redolent -adj.- emitting an aromatic
fragrance
redoubtable -adj- formidable; to be feared or
dreaded
redoubtable -adj- to be feared; formidable
reprobate -noun- a depraved, vicious person
ribald -adj- crude humor
ruderal -adj- growing in rubbish or waste
rutilant -adj- bright red
sardonic -adj.- sarcastic mocking
sedulous -adj- diligent
sempiternal -adjective- of never-ending
duration : eternal
senescent -adj- growing old
sentencious -adj- short and pithy, trite
shrive -verb- to free from guilt
simon pure -adj- hypocritically pure
sine qua non -adj.- an essential ingredient
sinuous -adj- winding, serpentine, undulating
slake -verb- to satisfy, to allay, to assuage
slenetic -adj- bad temper, irritable
solecism -noun- ungrammatical combination of words, a minor blunder in speech
solipsism -noun- a theory holding that the self is the only existent thing
somatic -noun- corporeal
sophism -noun- plausible but fallacious argument
sophomoric -adj- self assured but immature
sough -verb- to make murmuring or rustling
sound
staid -adj- steady
stentorian -adj- extremely loud or powerful
sunder -verb- to break apart into separate parts
supercilious -adj- Feeling or showing haughty
disdain
supernal -adj.- celestial; heavenly
tacit -adj- silent
tawdry -adj- cheap, gaudy
temerity -noun-- disregard of danger
tenebrous -adj.- dark or grayish
thaumaturgy -noun- : the performance of
miracles
toady -adj.- sycophant
torpid -adj- lethargic
torrid -adj.- hot and parching
truckle -verb- behave like a lowly servant
tumid -adj- swollen, bulging, turgid
turbid -adj- muddy water
turgid -adj- Swollen, bloated, inflated
turpitude -noun- Depravity; baseness
Umbrage -n- umbra a shadow. Jealousy of another,suspicion of injury
or wrong; offense; resentment.
untorward -adj- perverse, unruly, unseemly
upbraid -verb- To scold
verve -noun- energy, vivacity, vitality
vespertine -adj- occurring in the evening
vitiate -v tr- reduce the value of or impair the
quality
vituperate -verb- criticize harshly or
abusively; berate
volplane -verb- to glide in or as if in an
airplane
voluble -adj- talking with ease
vulpine -adj- fox like
wheedle -verb tr- persuade or attempt to
persuade by
flattery
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