Most Frequently Asked List of Words and Their Synonyms for Competitive Exams- 2020 & Onwards

Most Frequently Asked 

List of  Words and Their Synonyms 

for Competitive Exams- 

2020 & Onwards

473 Alphabetical

 Words and Their Synonyms
for Competitive Exams- 

2020 & Onwards

1.      Abandon: abdicate, abjure, desert, drop, evacuate, forsake, forswear, leave, quit, relinquish, yield, cede, forgo, give up, let go, renounce, resign, surrender, vacate, waive.

2.      Abase: depress, drop, lower, reduce, sink, debase, degrade, disgrace, humble, humiliate.

3.      Abash: affront, bewilder, confound, confuse, dash, discompose, disconcert, embarrass, humiliate, humble, shame, snub.

4.      Abate: diminish, decrease, lessen, lower, moderate, reduce, relax, remove, slacken, allow, bate, deduct, mitigate, rebate, remit, allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, blunt, calm, compose, dull, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, qualify, quiet, quell, soften, soothe, tranquillize.

5.      Abbreviation: abridgment, compression, condensation, contraction, curtailment, cutting, reduction, shortening.

6.      Aberrant: deviating, devious, divergent, diverging, erratic, rambling, wandering, abnormal, anomalistic, anomalous, disconnected, eccentric, exceptional, inconsequent, peculiar, irregular, preternatural, singular, strange, unnatural, unusual.

7.      Abhor: abominate, detest, dislike intensely, execrate, hate, loathe, nauseate, view with horror.

8.      Abolish: abrogate, annul, cancel, eliminate, invalidate, nullify, quash, repeal, rescind, revoke, annihilate, destroy, end, eradicate, extirpate, extinguish, obliterate, overthrown, suppress, terminate.

9.      Abominable: accursed, contemptible, cursed, damnable, detestable, execrable, hellish, horrid, nefarious, odious, abhorrent, disgusting, foul, hateful, loathsome, nauseous, obnoxious, shocking, revolting, repugnant, repulsive, shabby, vile, wretched.

10.  Aboriginal:autochthonal, autochthonous, first, indigenous, native, original, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, pristine.

11.  Abortive: immature, incomplete, rudimental, rudimentary, stunted, untimely, futile, fruitless, idle, ineffectual, inoperative, nugatory, profitless, unavailing, unsuccessful, useless, vain.

12.  Abrupt: broken, craggy, jagged, rough, rugged, acclivous, acclivitous, precipitous, steep, hasty, ill-timed, precipitate, sudden, unanticipated, unexpected, blunt, brusque, curt, discourteous, cramped, harsh, jerky, stiff.

13.  Absurd: egregious, fantastic, foolish, incongruous, ill-advised, ill-judged, irrational, ludicrous, nonsensical, nugatory, preposterous, ridiculous, self-annulling, senseless, silly, stupid, unreasonable.

14.  Abundant: abounding, ample, bountiful, copious, exuberant, flowing, full, good, large, lavish, rich, liberal, much, overflowing, plentiful, plenteous, replete, teeming, thick.

15.  Accentuate: accent, emphasize, mark, point up, punctuate, stress, highlight, overemphasize, overstress, underline, underscore.

16.  Accomplice: abettor, accessory, ally, assistant, associate, confederate, partner.

17.  Acerbity: acidity, acridity, acridness, astringency, bitterness, roughness, sourness, tartness, acrimony, bitterness, harshness, severity, venom.

18.  Acme: apex, climax, height, peak, pinnacle, summit, top, vertex, zenith.

19.  Acquiesce:bow, comply, consent, give way, rest, submit, yield, agree, assent, concur, consent.

20.  Acquit: absolve, clear, discharge, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, forgive, liberate, pardon, pay, quit, release, set free, settle.
21.  Actuate: impel, incite, induce, instigate, move, persuade, prompt.
22.  Acumen: acuteness, astuteness, discernment, ingenuity, keenness, penetration, sagacity, sharpness, shrewdness.
23.  Adhesive:clinging, sticking, glutinous, gummy, sticky, tenacious, viscous,*n  binder, cement, glue, paste
24.  Adjourn: defer, delay, postpone, procrastinate, close, dissolve, end, interrupt, prorogue, suspend.
25.  Adjure: beg, beseech, entreat, pray, supplicate.
26.  Admonish: censure, rebuke, reprove, advise, caution, counsel, enjoin, forewarn. Warn: acquaint, apprise, inform, instruct, notify, remind.
27.  Adroit: dexterous, expert, handy, ingenious, ready, skilful.
28.  Adulterate: alloy, contaminate, corrupt, debase, deteriorate, vitiate.
29.  Adversary: antagonist, enemy, foe, opponent.
30.  Adversity: affliction, calamity, disaster, distress, misery, misfortune, sorrow, suffering, woe.
31.  Aesthetic: appropriate, beautiful, tasteful.
32.  Affectation: affectedness, airs, artificiality, foppery, pretension, simulation.
33.  Affinity: connection, propinquity, relationship, analogy, attraction, correspondence, likeness, relation, resemblance, similarity, sympathy.
34.  Affluent: abounding, abundant, bounteous, plenteous, moneyed, opulent, rich, wealthy.
35.  Affront: abuse, insult, outrage, annoy, chafe, displease, fret, irritate, offend, pique, provoke, vex, *n abuse, contumely, insult, outrage, vexation, wrong.
36.  Agglomeration: accumulation, aggregation, conglomeration, heap, lump, pile.
37.  Aggrandize: advance, dignify, elevate, enrich, exalt, promote.
38.  Aggravate: heighten, increase, worsen, color, exaggerate, magnify, overstate, enrage, irritate, provoke, tease.
39.  Agile: active, alert, brisk, lively, nimble, prompt, smart, ready.
40.  Allegiance: duty, homage, fealty, fidelity, loyalty, obligation.
41.  Alleviate: assuage, lighten, mitigate, mollify, moderate, quell, quit, quieten, soften, soothe.
42.  Alliance: affinity, intermarriage, relation, coalition, combination, confederacy, league, treaty, union, affiliation, connection, relationship, similarity.
43.  Allude: attract, beguile, cajole, coax, entice, lure, persuade, seduce, tempt. *n appeal, attraction, lure, temptation.
44.  Altercation: bickering, contention, controversy, dispute, dissension, strife, wrangling.
45.  Amateur: dilettante, nonprofessional.
46.  Ambiguous: dubious, doubtful, enigmatic, equivocal, uncertain, indefinite, indistinct, obscure, vague.
47.  Ameliorate: amend, benefit, better, elevate, improve, and mend.
48.  Amenity: agreeableness, mildness, pleasantness, softness, affability, civility, courtesy, geniality, graciousness, urbanity.
49.  Amiable: attractive, benign, charming, geniality, graciousness, urbanity.
50.  Amicable: amiable, cordial, friendly, harmonious, kind, pleasant, pleasing, sweet, winning, winsome.
51.  Amnesty: absolution, condonation, dispensation, forgiveness, oblivion.
52.  Amorous:ardent, enamoured, fond, longing, loving, passionate, tender, erotic, impassioned.
53.  Amorphous:formless, irregular, shapeless, unshapen, non-crystalline, longing, loving, passionate, tender, erotic, impassioned.
54.  Ample: broad, capacious, extended, extensive, great, large, roomy, spacious, abounding, abundant, copious, generous, liberal, plentiful, diffusive, unrestricted.
55.  Anguish: agony, distress, grief, pang, rack, torment, torture.
56.  Animosity: bitterness, enmity, grudge, hatred, hostility, rancor, rankling, spleen, virulence.
57.  Annihilate: abolish, annul, destroy, dissolve, exterminate, extinguish, kill, obliterate, raze, ruin.
58.  Antipathy: abhorrence, aversion, disgust, detestation, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, repugnance.
59.  Apathetic: cold, dull, impassive, inert, listless, obtuse, passionless, sluggish, torpid, unfeeling.
60.  Aphorism: adage, apothegm, by word, maxim, proverb, saw, saying.
61.  Apposite: fit, germane, pertinent, relevant, suitable, pertinent.
62.  Ardent: burning, fiery, hot, eager, earnest, fervent, impassioned, keen, passionate, warm, zealous.
63.  Arid: barren, dry, parched, sterile, unfertile, dry, dull, jejune, pointless, uninteresting.
64.  Artful: crafty, cunning, disingenuous, insincere, sly, tricky, wily.
65.  Asperity:ruggedness, roughness, unevenness, acrimony, causticity, corrosiveness, sharpness, sourness, tartness, acerbity, bitterness, churlishness, harshness, sternness, sullenness, severity, virulence.
66.  Assiduous:active, busy, careful, constant, diligent, devoted, indefatigable, industrious, sedulous, unremitting, untiring.
67.  Assuage: allay, alleviate, appease, calm, ease, lessen, mitigate, moderate, mollify, pacify, quell, relieve, soothe, tranquillize.
68.  Astute:acute, cunning, deep, discerning, ingenious, intelligent, penetrating, perspicacious, quick, sagacious, sharp, shrewd.
69.  Augury: predication, prognostication, prophecy, soothsaying, auspice, forerunner, harbinger, herald, omen, precursor, portent, sign.
70.  Austere: ascetic, difficult, format, hard, harsh, morose, relentless, rigid, rigorous, severe, stern, stiff, strict, uncompromising, unrelenting.
71.  Avaricious: grasping, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious.

1.     

B

Baneful: poisonous, venomous, deadly, destructive, hurtful, mischievous, noxious, pernicious.
2.      Banter: chaff, deride, jeer, joke, mock, quiz, rally, ridicule, *n badinage, chaff, derision, jesting, joking, mockery, quizzing, raillery, ridicule.
3.      Benign: amiable, amicable, beneficent, benevolent, complaisant, friendly, gentle, good, gracious, humane, kind, kindly, obliging.
4.      Beseech: conjure, entreat, implore, importune, petition, supplicate, ask, beg, crave, solicit.
5.      Besiege:beset, blockade, encircle, encompass, environ, invest, surround.
6.      Bigoted: dogmatic, hidebound, intolerant, obstinate, narrow-minded, opinionated, prejudiced.
7.      Blasphemy: impiousness, sacrilege, cursing, profanity, swearing.
8.      Blemish: blur, injure, mar, spot, stain, sully, taint, tarnish, asperse, calumniate, defame, malign, revile, slander, traduce, vilify, *n blot, blur, defect, disfigurement, fault, flaw, imperfection, soil, speck, spot, stain, tarnish, disgrace, dishonor, reproach, stain, taint.
9.      Blithe: airy, animated, blithesome, buoyant, cheerful, debonair, elated, happy, jocund, joyful, joyous, lively, mirthful, sprightly, vivacious.
10.  Boisterous:loud, roaring, stormy, clamouring, loud, noisy, obstreperous, tumultuous.
11.  Bonny: beautiful, handsome, fair, fine, pretty, airy, blithe, buoyant, buxom, cheerful, jolly, joyous, merry, playful, sporty, sprightly, winsome
12.  Boorish:awkward, bearish, clownish, course, gruff, ill-bred, loutish, lubberly, rude, rustic, uncivilized, uncouth, uneducated.
13.  Brawny:athletic, lusty, muscular, powerful, robust, sinewy, stalwart, strapping, strong, sturdy.
14.  Brevity: briefness, compression, conciseness, curtness, pithiness, shortness, terseness, transiency

C

 
1.      Calamity: adversity, affliction, blow, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, distress, downfall, evil, hardship, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, ruin, stroke, trail, visitation.
2.      Candid: fair, impartial, just, unbiased, unprejudiced, artless, frank, free, guileless, honest, honorable, ingenuous, naïve, open, plain, sincere, straightforward.
3.      Capricious: changeable, crotchety, fanciful, fantastical, fickle, fitful, freakish, humoursome, odd, puckish, queer, uncertain, variable, wayward, whimsical.
4.      Caricature:burlesque, parody, send-up, take off, travesty. *n burlesque, farce, ludicrous, parody, representation, takeoff, travesty.
5.      Carnage: bloodshed, butchery, havoc, massacre, murder, slaughter.
6.      Charlatan: cheat, empire, imposter, mountebank, pretender, quack.
7.      Chicanery: chicane, deception, duplicity, intrigue, intriguing, sophistication, sophistry, stratagems, tergiversation, trickery, while, wire-pulling.
8.      Chide: admonish, blame, censure, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, scold, unbraid, chafe, clamour, fret, fume, scold.
9.      Chivalrous:adventurous, bold, brave, chivalric, gallant, knightly, valiant, warlike, gallant, generous, high-minded, magnanimous.
10.  Chuckle: crow, exult, giggle, laughter, snigger, titter. *n giggle, laughter, snigger, titter.
11.  Clandestine: connected, convert, fraudulent, furtive, hidden, private, secret, sly, stealthy, surreptitious, underhand.
12.  Clatter: clash, rattle, babble, clack, gabble, jabber, prate, prattle, *n clattering, clutter, rattling.
13.  Clemency: mildness, softness, compassion, fellow- feeling, forgivingness, gentleness, kindness, lenience, mildness, tenderness.
14.  Coalition: alliance, association, combination, compact, confederacy, confederation, conjunction, conspiracy, co-partnership, federation, league, union.
15.  Coax: allure, beguile, cajole, cog, entice, flatter, persuade, soothe, wheedle.
16.  Coercion: check, curb, repression, restraint, compulsion, constraint, force.
17.  Coherent: adherent, connected, united, congruous, consist, intelligible, logical.
18.  Combative: belligerent, contentious, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome.
19.  Comity: affability, amenity, civility, courtesy, politeness, suavity, urbanity.
20.  Commendation: approbation, approval, good, opinion, recommendation, praise, encomium, eulogy, panegyric.
21.  Commiseration: compassion, pitying, condolence, pity, sympathy.
22.  Compatible: accordant, agreeable to, congruous, consistent, consonant, reconcilable, suitable.
23.  Compendious:abbreviated, abridged, brief, compressive, concise, short, succinct, summary.
24.  Complacent:contented, gratified, pleased, satisfied, affable, civil, complaisant, courteous, easy, gracious, grateful, obliging, polite, urbane.
25.  Composure: calmness, coolness, equanimity, placidity, sedateness, quite, self- possession, serenity, tranquility.
26.  Confound: confuse, baffle, bewilder, embarrass, flurry, mystify, nonplus, perplex, pose, amaze, astonish, astound, dumfound, paralyse, petrify, startle, stun, stupefy, surprise, annihilate, demolish, destroy, overthrow, over-whelm, ruin, abash, confuse, discompose, disconcert, mortify, shame.
27.  Congenial: kindred, similar, sympathetic, adapted, agreeable, natural, suitable, suited, agreeable, favorable, genial.
28.  Connoisseur: critic, expert, virtuoso.
29.  Conscientious: careful, exact, fair, faithful, high-principled, honest, honorable, incorruptible, just, scrupulous, straight forward, uncorrupt, upright.
30.  Conspicuous: apparent, clear, discernible, glaring, manifest, noticeable, perceptible, plain, striking, visible, celebrated, distinguished, eminent, famed, famous, illustrious, marked, noted, outstanding, pre-eminent, prominent, remarkable, signal.
31.  Construe: analyse, explain, expound, interpret, parse, render, translate.
32.  Contagious: catching, epidermis, infectious, deadly, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous.
33.  Contamination: contaminating, defilement, defiling, polluting, pollution, abomination, defilement, impurity, foulness, infection, pollution, stain, taint, uncleanness.
34.  Contemplate: behold, gaze, upon, observe, survey, consider, dwell on, meditate on, muse on, ponder, reflect upon, study, survey, think about, design, intend, mean, plan, purpose.
35.  Contemptible: abject, base, despicable, insolent, insulting, low, mean, paltry, pitiful, scurvy, sorry, supercilious.
36.  Corpulent:big, burly, fat, fleshy, large, lusty, obese, plump, portly, pursy, rotund, stout.
37.  Corrosive: acrid, biting, consuming, cathartic, caustic, corroding, eroding, erosive, violent, consuming, gnawing, mordant, wasting, wearing, blighting, cankerous, carking, embittering, envenoming, poisoning.
38.  Covetous: acquisitive, avaricious, closefisted, grasping, greedy, miserly, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, rapacious.
39.  Coy: backward, bashful, demure, diffident, distant, modest, reserved, retiring, sefl- effacing, shirking, shy, timid.
40.  Culpable: blamable, blameworthy, censurable, faulty, guilty, reprehensible, sinful, transgressive, wrong.
41.  Cumbersome: burdensome, clumsy, cumbrous, embarrassing, heavy, inconvenient, oppressive, troublesome, unmanageable, unwieldy, vexatious.
42.  Cursory: brief, careless, desultory, hasty, passing, rapid, slight, summary, superficial, transient, transitory.1.      Dainty: delicate, delicious, luscious, nice, palatable, savoury, tender, toothsome: beautiful, charming, choice, delicate, elegant, exquisite, fine, neat, fastidious, finical, finicky, over-nice, particular, scrupulous, squeamish, *n delicacy, tibit, treat.
2.      Decipher: explain, expound, interpret, reveal, solve, unfold, unravel, read.
3.      Decry: abuse, belittle, blame, condemn, denounce, depreciate, detract, discredit, disparage, run down, traduce, underrate, undervalue.
4.      Defer: adjourn, delay, pigeonhole, procrastinate, postpone, prorogue, protract, shelve, table.
5.      Deference: esteem, homage, honour, obeisance, regard, respect, reverence, veneration, complaisance, consideration, obedience, submission.
6.      Defile: dirty, foul, soil, stain, tarnish, contaminate, debase, poison, pollute, sully, taint, vitiate, corrupt, debouch, deflower, ravish, seduce, violate.
7.      Deify: apotheosize, idolize, glorify, revere, elevate, ennoble, exalt.
8.      Delineate:design, draw, figure, paint, sketch, trace, depict, describe, picture, portray.
9.      Delirious: crazy, demented, deranged, frantic, frenzied, light-headed, mad, insane, raving, wandering.
10.  Demolish:annihilate, destroy, dismantle, level, over-throw, overturn, pulverize, raze, ruin.
11.  Depraved: abandoned, corrupt, corrupted, debased, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, evil, graceless, hardened, immoral, lascivious, lewd, licentious, lost, prevented, profligate, reprobate, shameless, sinful, vicious, wicked.
12.  Derision: contempt, disrespect, insult, laughter, mockery, ridicules, scorn.
13.  Despondency: blues, dejection, depression, discouragement, gloom, hopelessness, melancholy.
14.  Despotic:absolute, arrogant, autocratic, dictatorial, imperious, arbitrary, oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous.
15.  Deterioration: corruption, debasement, degradation, depravation, vitiation, perversion, caducity, decadence, degeneration, impairment.
16.  Detestable: abhorred, abominable, accursed, cursed, damnable, execrable, hateful, odious, disgusting, loathsome, nauseating, offensive, repulsive, sickening, vile.
17.  Detrimental: baleful, deleterious, destructive, harmful, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, pernicious, prejudicial.
18.  Dexterity: ability, address, adroitness, aptitude, aptness, art, cleverness, expertness, facility, knack, quickness, readiness, facility, skillfulness, skill, tact.
19.  Dexterous ,dextrous: able, adept, adroit, apt, deft, clever, expert, facile, handy, nimble, fingered, quick, ready, skilful.
20.  Diffident: distrustful, doubtful, hesitant, hesitating, reluctant, bashful, modest, over-modest, sheepish, shy, timid.
21.  Digression: departure, deviation, divergence, episode, excursus.
22.  Dilemma difficulty, fix, plight, predicament, problem, quandary, strait.
23.  Discernible: detectable, discoverable, perceptible.
24.  Discreet: careful, cautious, circumspect, considerate, discerning, heedful, judicious, prudent, sagacious, wary, wise.
25.  Discrete: discontinues, disjunct, distinct, separate, disjunctive.
26.  Dismay: affright, alarm, appal, daunt, discourage, dishearten, frighten, horrify, intimidate, paralyse, scare, terrify, *n affright, alarm, consternation, fear, fright, horror, terror.
27.  Disparage:belittle, decry, depreciate, derogate from, detract from, doubt, question, run down, underestimate, underpraises, underrate, undervalue, asperse, defame, inveigh against, reflect on, reproach, slur, speak ill of, traduce, vilify.
28.  Dissipate:dispel, disperse, scatter, consume, expend, lavish, spend, squander, waste, disappear, vanish.
29.  Divulge: communicate, declare, disclose, discover, exhibit, expose, impart, proclaim, promulgate, publish, reveal, tell, uncover.
30.  Docile: amenable, obedient, pliant, teachable, tractable, yielding.
31.  Dogmatic: authoritative, categorical, formal, settled, arrogant, confident, dictatorial, imperious, magisterial, opinionated, oracular, overbearing, peremptory, positive, doctrinal.
32.  Doleful: lugubrious, melancholy, piteous, rueful, sad, somber, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful, cheerless, dark, dismal, dolorous, dreary, gloomy.
33.  Dreary: cheerless, chilling, comfortless, dark, depressing, dismal, drear, gloomy, lonely, lonesome, sad, solitary, sorrowful, boring, dull, monotonous, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, wearisome.
34.  Dwindle: decrease, diminish, lessen, shrink, decay, decline, deteriorate, pine.






1.      Eccentric:

E

decentred, parabolic, aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, cranky, erratic, fantastic, irregular, odd, outlandish, peculiar, singular, strange, uncommon, unnatural, wayward, whimsical *n crank, curiosity.
2.      Efface: blot, blot out, cancel, delete, destroy, erase, expunge, obliterate, remove, sponge.
3.      Egregious:conspicuous, enormous, extraordinary, flagrant, great, gross, huge, monstrous, outrageous, prodigious, remarkable, tremendous.
4.      Embellish: adorn, beautify, bedeck, deck, decorate, emblazon, enhance, enrich, garnish, grace, ornament.
5.      Embryo: beginning, germ, nucleus, root, rudiment.
6.      Eminent: elevated, high, lofty, celebrated, conspicuous, distinguished, exalted, famous, illustrious, notable, prominent, remarkable, renowned.
7.      Enthusiasm:ecstasy, exaltation, fanaticism, ardour, earnestness, devotion, eagerness, fervor, passion, warmth, zeal.
8.      Enunciate: articulate, declare, proclaim, promulgate, pronounce, propound, publish, say, speak, utter.
9.      Eulogize: applaud, commend, extol, laud, magnify, praise.
10.  Evanescence: disappearance, evanishing, evanishment, vanishing, transience, transitoriness,
11.  Exasperate:affront, anger, chafe, enrage, incense, irritate, nettle, offend, provoke, vex, aggravate, exacerbate, inflame, rouse.
12.  Explicit: absolute, categorical, clear, definite, determinate, exact, express, plain, positive, precise, unambiguous, unequivocal, unreserved.
13.  Extravagant: excessive, exorbitant, inordinate, preposterous, unreasonable, absurd, foolish, irregular, wild, lavish, prodigal, profuse, spendthrift.
14.  Exuberant:abounding, abundant, copious, fertile, flowing, luxuriant, prolific, rich, excessive, lavish, overabundant, overflowing, over-luxuriant, profuse, rank, redundant, super abounding, superabundant, wanton.
15.  Exultation: delight, elation, joy, jubilation, transport, triumph.


1.     

F

Facetious: amusing, comical, droll, funny, humorous, jocose, jocular, pleasant, waggish, witty, entertaining, gay, lively, merry, sportive, sprightly.
2.      Facsimile: copy, duplicate, fax, reproduction.
3.      Fallacious: absurd, deceptive, deceiveing, delusive, disappointing, erroneous, false, illusive, illusory, misleading, paralogistic, sophitistical, worthless.
4.      Falter: halt, hestiate, lisp, quaver, stammer, stutter, fail, stagger, stumble, totter, tremble, waver, dodder.
5.      Fastitious: critical, dainty, delicate, diffcult, exquisite, finical, hypercritical, meticuluous, overdelicate, overnice, particular, precise, precious, punctilious, queasy, sqeamish.
6.      Ferment: agitate, excite, heat, boil, brew, bubble, concoct, seeth, *n barm, leaven, yeast, agitation, commotion, fever, glow, heat, tummult.
7.      Fercious: feral, fierce, rapacious, ravenous, savage, untanmed, wild, barbarous, bloody, bloodthirty, brual, cruel, fell, inhuman, marciless, murderous, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, sanguinary, trunclent, vandalistic, violent.
8.      Fervour: heat, warmth, animation, ardour, eagrness, earenstness, excitement, fervancy, intensity, vehemence, zeal.
9.      Fiasco: failure, fizzle.
10.  Fiduciary: confident, fiducial, firm, steadfast, trustful, undoubting, unwavering, reliable, trustwothy, *n depositaty, trustee.
11.  Flagrant: burning, flamming, glowing, raging, crying, enomorous, flagitious, glaring, monstrous, outrageous, shameful, wanton, wicked.
12.  Flippant: fluent, glib, talkative, voluble, bold, forward, frivolous, glib, impertinent, inconsiderate, irreverent, malapert, saucy, triflings.
13.  Flurry: agitate, confuse, disconcert, distrub, excite, fluster, hurry, perturb, *n gust, flaw, squall, agitation, bustle, commotion, confussion, distrubance, excitement, flutter, haste, hurry, hurry- scurry, perturbation.
14.  Formidable: appalling, dangerous, difficult, dreadful, fearful, frightful, horible, menacing, redoubtable, shocking, terrible, terrfic, threatening, tremendous.
15.  Frailty: feebleness, frailness, infirmity, weakness, blemish, defect, failing, fault, foible, imperfection, peccability, shortcoming.
16.  Frivolous: childish, empty, flighty, flimsy, flippant, foolish, giddy, idle, light, patry, petty, purile, silly, trashy, trifling, trivial, unimportant, vain, wothless.
17.  Futility: frivoluousness, triviality, bootlessness, fruitlessness, uselessness, vanity, wothlessness.

	G

 

1.      Gammon: bamboozle, beguile, cheat, circumvent, deceive, delude, dupe, gull, hoax, humbug, inveigle, mislead, over-reach, outwit, *n bosh, hoax, humbug, imposition, non-sense.
2.      Garnish: adorn, beautify, bedeck, decorate, deck, embellish, grace, ornament, prank, trim, *n decoration, enhancement, ornament, trimming.
3.      Garrulous: babbling, loquacious, parting, prattling, talkative.
4.      Genteel: aristocratic, courteous, gentlemanly, lady-like, polished, polite, refined, well-bred, elegant, fashionable, graceful, stylish.
5.      Grid:Belt, girdle, begird, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, environ, surround, brace, support, *n band, belt, cincture, girdle, girth, sash, waistband.
6.      Grimace: frown, scowl, smirk, sneer.
7.      Grotesque: bizarre, extravagant, fanciful, fantastic, incongruous, odd, strange, unnatural, whimsical, wild, absurd, antic, burlesque, ludicrous, ridiculous.

	H

 


1.      Haggard: intractable, refectory, unruly, untamed, wild, wayward, careworn, emaciated, quant, ghastly, lank, lean, meagre, raw, spare, thin, wasted, worn.
2.      Hallucination: blunder, error, fallacy, mistake, aberration, delusion, illusion, phantasm, phantasy, self-deception, vision.
3.      Hazardous: dangerous, insecure, perilous, precarious, risky, uncertain, unsafe.
4.      Helter-skelter: disorderly, headlong, irregular, pell-mell, precipitate, confusedly, hastily, higgledy-piggledy, precipitately, wildly.
5.      Herculean: able-bodied, athletic, brawny, mighty, muscular, powerful, puissant, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, vigorous, dangerous, difficult, hard, laborious, perilous, toilsome, troublesome, colossal, cyclopean, gigantic, great, large, strapping.
6.      Heterogeneous: contrasted, contrary, different, dissimilar, diverse, incongruous, indiscriminate, miscellaneous, mixed, opposed, unhomogeneous, unlike.
7.      Higgledy-piggledy: chaotic, confused, disorderly, jumped, confusedly, in disorder, helter-skelter, pell-mell.
8.      Hilarious:boisterous, cheerful, comical, convivial, riotous, uproarious, jovial, joyful, merry, mirthful, noisy.
9.      Horrid:alarming, awful, bristling, dire, dreadful, fearful, frightful, harrowing, hideous, horrible, horrific, horrifying, rough, terrible, terrific, abominable, disagreeable, disgusting, odious, offensive, repulsive, revolting, shocking, unpleasant, vile.
10.  Hypocrite: deceiver, dissembler, impostor, pretender.
11.  Hypothetical: assumed, imaginary, supposed, theoretical.

I

 
1.      Idiosyncrasy: caprice, eccentricity, fad, peculiarity, singularity.
2.      Ignominy: abasement, contempt, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, disrepute, infamy, obloquy, odium, opprobrium, scandal, shame.
3.      Illustrious: bright, brilliant, glorious, radiant, splendid, celebrated, conspicuous, distinguished eminent, famed, famous, noble, noted, remarkable, renowned, signal.
4.      Imbue: color, dye, stain, tincture, tinge, tint, bathe, impregnate, infuse, inoculate, permeate, pervade, provide, saturate, steep.
5.      Immodesty: coarseness, grossness, indecorum, indelicacy, shamelessness, impurity, lewdness, obscenity, smuttiness, unchastity, boldness, brass, forwardness, impatience.
6.      Immunity: exemption, exoneration, freedom, release, charter, franchise, liberty, license, prerogative, privilege, right.
7.      Impalpable: attenuated, delicate, fine, intangible, imperceptible, inapprehensible, incorporeal, indistinct, shadowy, unsubstantial.
8.      Impassable: blocked, closed, impenetrable, impermeable, impervious, inaccessible, pathless, unattainable, unnavigable, unreachable.
9.      Impenitent: hardened, hard-hearted, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, recusant, relentless, seared, stubborn, uncontrite, unconverted, unrepentant.
10.  Imperceptible: inaudible, indiscernible, indistinguishable, invisible, fine, impalpable, inappreciable, gradual, minute.
11.  Imperious: arrogant, authoritative, commanding, compelling, despotic, dictatorial, domineering, haughty, imperative, lordly, magisterial, overbearing, tyrannical, urgent, compelling.
12.  Impetuous: ardent, boisterous, brash, breakneck, fierce, fiery, furious, hasty, headlong, hot, hot-headed, impulsive, overzealous, passionate, precipitate, vehement, violent.
13.  Implacable: deadly, inexorable, merciless, pitiless, rancorous, relentless, unappeasable, unforgiving, propitiating unrelenting.
14.  Impromptu: extempore, improvised, offhand, spontaneous, unpremeditated, unprepared, unrehearsed, extemporarily, extempore, offhand, ad-lib.
15.  Impudent: bold, bold-faced, brazen, brazen-faced, cool, flippant, forward, immodest, impertinent, insolent, insulting, pert, presumptuous, rude, saucy, shameless.
16.  Incongruous:absurd, contradictory, contrary, disagreeing, discrepanot, inappropriate, incoherent, incompatible, inconsistent, inharmonious, unfit, unsuitable.
17.  Indefatigable: assiduous, never-tiring, preserving, persistent, sedulous, tireless, unflagging, unremitting, unwearied.
18.  Indigenous:aboriginal, home-grown, inborn, inherent, native.
19.  Indignant: angry, exasperated, incensed, irate, ireful, provoked, roused, wrathful, wroth.
20.  Ineffectual: abortive, bootless, fruitless, futile, inadequate, inefficacious, ineffective, inoperative, useless, unavailing, vain, feeble, inefficient, powerless, impotent, weak.
21.  Inflorescence: blooming, blossoming, flowering.
22.  Ingenious:able, adroit, artful, bright, clever, fertile, gifted, inventive, ready, sagacious, shrewd, witty.
23.  Iniquitous: atrocious, criminal, flagitious, heinous, inequitable, nefarious, sinful, wicked, wrong, unfair, unjust, unrighteous.
24.  Insatiable: greedy, rapacious, voracious, insatiate, unappeasable.
25.  Insidious: creeping, deceptive, gradual, secretive, arch, artful, crafty, crooked, cunning, deceitful, designing, diplomatic, foxy, guileful, intriguing, Machiavellian, sly, sneaky, subtle, treacherous, trickish, tricky, wily.
26.  Irrefutable: impregnable, incontestable, incontrovertible, indisputable, invincible, irrefragable, irresistible, unanswerable, unassailable, undeniable.
27.  Itching: craving, longing, importunate craving, desire, appetite, hankering.

	J

 

1.      Jaundiced:biased, envious, prejudiced. 
2.      Jeopardy:danger, hazard, peril, risk, venture.
3.      Juvenile: childish, immature, puerile, young, youthful *n boy, child, girl, youth.

K

 
1.     

L

Knave: caitiff, cheat, miscreant, rascal, rogue, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel.

1.      Labyrinth: entanglement, intricacy, maze, perplexity, windings.
2.      Languid: drooping, exhausted, faint, feeble, flagging, languishing, pining, weak, dull, heartless, heavy, inactive, listless, lukewarm, slow, sluggish, spiritless, torpid.
3.      Languor: debility, faintness, feebleness, languidness, languishment, weakness, apathy, ennui, heartlessness, heaviness, lethargy, listlessness, torpidness, torpor, weariness.
4.      Lassitude:dullness, exhaustion, fatigue, languor, languidness, prostration, tiredness, weariness.
5.      Lethargy: apathy, coma, drowsiness, dullness, hypnotism, inactiveness, inactivity, inertia, sleepiness, sluggishness, stupefaction, stupidity, stupor, torpor.
6.      Limpid: bright, clear, crystal, crystalline, lucid, pellucid, pure, translucent, transparent.
7.      Litigation: contending, contest, disputing, lawsuit.
8.      Luminous: effulgent, incandescent, radiant, refulgent, resplendent, shining, bright, brilliant, clear, lucid, lucent, perspicuous, plain.

	M

 

1. Magnanimity: chivalry, disinterestedness, forbearance, high-mindedness, generosity, nobility.
2. Malady: affliction, ailment, complaint, disease, disorder, illness, indisposition, sickness.
3. Malignant: bitter, envious, hostile, inimical, malevolent, malicious, malign, spiteful, rancorous, resentful, virulent, heinous, pernicious, ill-boding, unfavorable, unpropitious, dangerous, fatal.
4. Mammoth: colossal, enormous, gigantic, huge, immense, vast.
5. Manoeuvre:contrive, fitness, intrigue, manage, plan, plot, scheme, *n evolution, exercise, movement, operation, artifice, finesse, intrigue, plan, plot, ruse, scheme, stratagem, trick.
6. Massacre: annihilate, butcher, exterminate, kill, murder, slaughter, slay. * n annihilation, butchery, carnage, extermination, killing, murder, pogrom, slaughter.
7. Melancholy: blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, desponding, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, down, down cast, downhearted, gloomy, glum, hypochondriac, low-spirited, lugubrious, moody, mopish, sad, somber, sorrowful, unhappy, afflictive, calamitous, unfortunate, unlucky, dark, gloomy, grave, quiet, *n blues, dejection, depression, despondency, dismals, dumps, gloom, gloominess, hypochondria, sadness, vapours.
8. Mentor: adviser, counsellor, guide, instructor, monitor.
9. Miniature: bantam, diminutive, little, small, tiny.
10.  Mockery: contumely, counterfeit, deception, derision, imitation, jeering, mimicry, ridicule, scoffing, scorn, sham, travesty.
11.  Modesty: bashfulness, coyness, diffidence, humility, meekness, propriety, prudishness, reserve, shyness, unobtrusiveness, chastity, purity, virtue, decency, moderation.
12.  Mollify: soften, appease, calm, compose, pacify, quite, soothe, tranquillize, abate, allay, assuage, blunt, dull, ease, lessen, mitigate, moderate, relieve, temper, qualify, tone down.
13.  Monotony: boredom, dullness, sameness, tedium, tiresomeness, uniformity, wearisomeness.
14.  Monstrous: abnormal, preternatural, prodigious, unnatural, colossal, enormous, extraordinary, huge, immense, stupendous, vast, marvelous, strange, wonderful, bad, base, dreadful, flagrant, frightful, hateful, hideous, horrible, shocking, terrible.
15.  Mundane: earthly, secular, sublunary, temporal, terrene, terrestrial, worldly.
16.  Mutiny: rebel, revolt, rise, resist, *n insubordination, insurrection, rebellion, revolt, revolution, riot, rising, sedition, uprising.
17.  Myth:fable, legend, tradition, allegory, fiction, invention, parable, story, falsehood, fancy, figment, lie, untruth.
1.

N

Necromancy: conjuration, divination, enchantment, magic, sorcery, witchcraft, wizardry.
2. Niggardly: avaricious, close, closefisted, illiberal, mean, mercenary, miserly, parsimonious, penurious, skinflint, sordid, stingy.
3. Nimble:active, agile, alert, brisk, lively, prompt, quick, speedy, sprightly, spry, swift, tripping.
4. Notoriety:celebrity, fame, figure, name, note, publicity, reputation, repute, vogue.
5. Nullify: abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, incalidate, negate, quash, repeal, revoke.
6. Nymph: damsel, dryad, lass, girl, maid, maiden, naiad.

O

1.      Obnoxious: blameworthy, censurable, faulty, repressible, hateful, objectionable, obscene, odious, offensive, repellent, repugnant, repulsive, unpleasant, unpleasing.
2.      Obsolete: ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, disused, neglected, old, old-fashioned, obsolescent, out-of-date, past, passé, unfashionable.
3.      Obtrusive: forward, interfering, intrusive, meddling, officious.
4.      Onerous: burdensome, difficult, hard, heavy, laborious, oppressive, responsible, weighty.
5.      Opulence: affluence, fortune, independence, selection.

P

 
1.      Pacify: appease, conciliate, harmonize, tranquillize, allay, appease, assuage, calm, compose, hush, lay, lull, moderate, mollify, placate, propitiate, quell, quiet, smooth, soften, soothe, still.
2.      Palatable: acceptable, agreeable, appetizing, delicate, delicious, enjoyable, flavourful, flavoursome, gustative, gustatory, luscious, nice, pleasant, pleasing, savoury, relish able, tasteful, tasty, toothsome.
3.      Palliate: cloak, conceal, cover, excuse, extenuate, hide, gloss, lessen, abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, blunt, diminish, dull, ease, mitigate, moderate, mollify, quell, quiet, relieve, soften, soothe, still
4.      Parson: churchman, clergyman, divine, ecclesiastic, incumbent, minister, pastor, priest, rector.
5.      Partisan: biased, factional, interested, partial, prejudiced, *n adherent, backer, champion, disciple, follower, supporter, votary, baton, halberd, pike, quarterstaff, truncheon, staff.
6.      Passable: admissible, allowable, mediocre, middling, moderate, ordinary, soso, tolerable, acceptable, current, receivable, navigable, traversable.
7.      Paucity: deficiency, exiguity, insufficiency, lack, poverty, rarity, shortage.
8.      Pedigree: purebred, thoroughbred, *n ancestry, breed, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, house, line, lineage, race, stock, strain.
9.      Perennial: ceaseless, constant, continual, deathless, enduring, immortal, imperishable, lasting, never-failing, permanent, perpetual, unceasing, undying, unfailing, uninterrupted.
10.  Perfidious: deceitful, dishonest, disloyal, double-faced, faithless, false, false-hearted, traitorous, treacherous, unfaithful, untrustworthy, venal.
11.  Perfunctory: careless, formal, headless, indifferent, mechanical, negligent, reckless, slight, slovenly, thoughtless, unmindful.
12.  Pernicious: baleful, baneful, damaging, deadly, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, disadvantageous, fatal, harmful, hurtful, injurious, malign, mischievous, noisome, noxious, prejudicial, ruinous, evil-hearted, malevolent, malicious, malignant, mischief-making, wicked.
13.  Perseverance: constancy, continuance, doggedness, indefatigableness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, resolution, steadfastness, steadiness, tenacity.
14.  Perspicacious: keen-sighted, quick-sighted, acute, sharp-sighted, clever, discerning, keen, penetrating, sagacious, sharp-witted, shrewd.
15.  Pessimistic: cynical, dark, dejected, depressed, despondent, downhearted, gloomy, glum, melancholy, melancholic, morose, sad.
16.  Piteous: affecting, distressing, doleful, grievous, mournful, pathetic, rueful, sorrowful, woeful, deplorable, lamentable, miserable, pitiable, wretched, compassionate, tender.
17.  Placid: calm, collected, composed, cool, equable, gentle, peaceful, quiet, serene, tranquil, undisturbed, unexcitable, unmoved, unruffled, halcyon, mild, serene.
18.  Plausible: believable, credible, probable, reasonable, bland, fair-spoken, glib, smooth, suave.
19.  Plethora: fullness, plentitude, repletion, excess, redundancy, superabundance, superfluity, surfeit.
20.  Poignant: bitter, intense, penetrating, pierce, severe, sharp, acrid, biting, mordacious, piquant, prickling, pungent, sharp, stinging, caustic, irritating, keen, mordant, pointed, satirical, severe.
21.  Point-blank: categorical, direct, downright, explicit, express, plain, straight, categorically, directly, flush, full, plainly, right, straight.
22.  Politic: civic, civil, political, astute, discreet, judicious, long-headed, noncommittal, provident, prudent, prudential, sagacious, wary, wise, artful, crafty, cunning, diplomatic, expedient, foxy, ingenious, intriguing, Machiavellian, shrewd, skilful, sly, subtle, strategic, timeserving, unscrupulous, wily, well-adopted, well-derived.
23.  Ponderous: bulky, heavy, massive, weighty, dull, labored, slow-moving, important, momentous, forcible, mighty
24.  Pragmatic: impertinent, intermeddling, interfering, intrusive, meddlesome, meddling, obstructive, officious, over-busy, earthy, hard-headed, matter-of-fact, practical, pragmatical, realistic, sensible, stolid.
25.  Preamble: foreword, introduction, preface, prelude, prologue.
26.  Precarious: critical, doubtful, dubious, equivocal, hazardous, insecure, perilous, unassured, riskful, risky, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady.
27.  Pre-eminent: chief, conspicuous, consummate, controlling, distinguished, excellent, excelling, paramount, peerless, predominant, renowned, superior, supreme, surpassing, transcendent, un-equaled.
28.  Prejudiced: biased, bigoted, influenced, one-sided, partial, partisan, unfair.
29.  Preposterous: absurd, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, foolish, improper, irrational, monstrous, nonsensical, perverted, ridiculous, unfit, unreasonable, wrong.
30.  Prodigal: abundant, dissipated, excessive, extravagant, generous, improvident, lavish, profuse, reckless, squandering, thriftless, unthrifty, wasteful *n spend, thrift, squanderer, waster, wastrel.
31.  Profane:defile, desecrate, pollute, violate, abuse, debase, * blasphemous, godless, heathen, idolatrous, impious, impure, pagan, secular, temporal, unconsecrated, unhallowed, unholy, unsanctified, worldly, unspiritual, impure, polluted, unholy.
32.  Profusion: abundance, bounty, copiousness, excess, exuberance, extravagance, lavishness, prodigality, profuseness, perabuundance, waste.
33.  Progeny: breed, children, descendants, family, issue, lineage, offshoot, offspring, posterity, race, scion, stack, young.
34.  Proscribe: banish, doom, exile, expel, ostracize, outlaw, exclude, forbid, interdict, prohibit, censure, condemn, curse, denounce, reject.
35.  Prostrate: demolish, destroy, fell, level, overthrow, overturn, ruin, depress, exhaust, overcome, reduce, fallen, prostrated, prone, recumbent, supine, helpless, powerless.
36.  Proximity: adjacency, contiguity, nearness, neighborhood, propinquity, vicinage, vicinity.
37.  Prudence: carefulness, caution, circumspection, commonsense, considerateness, discretion, forecast, foresight, judgment, judiciousness, policy, providence, sense, tact, wariness, wisdom.
38.  Pugnacious: belligerent, bellicose, contentious, fighting, irascible, irritable, petulant, quarrelsome.
39.  Purge: cleanse, clear, purify, clarify, defecate, evacuate, deterge, scour, absolve, pardon, shrive, *n elimination, eradication, expulsion, removal, suppression, cathartic, emetic, enema, laxative, physic.
40.  Purport: allege, assert, claim, maintain, pretend, profuse, denote, express, imply, indicate, mean, signify, suggest, *n bearing, current, design, drift, gist, important, intent, meaning, scope, sense, significance, signification, sprit, tendency, tenor.
41.  Pygmy: diminutive, dwarf, dwarfish, Lilliputian, little, midget, stunted, tiny, *n dwarf, Lilliputian, midget.

Q

 
1.      Quaint: antiquated, antique, archaic, curious, droll, extraordinary, fanciful, odd, old-fashioned, queer, singular, uncommon, unique, unusual, affected, fantastic, far-fetched, whimsical, artful, ingenious.
2.      Qualm: agony, pang, throe, nausea, queasiness, twinge,
3.      Queer: botch, harm, impair, mar, spoil, curious, droll, extraordinary, fantastic, odd, peculiar, quaint, singular, strange, uncommon, unusual, whimsical, gay, homosexual.

R

 
1.      Radical: constitutional, deep-seated, essential, fundamental, ingrained, inherent, innate, native, natural, organic, original, uncompromising, primitive, simple, uncompounded, underived, complete, entire, extreme, fantastic, insurgent, perfect, rebellious, thorough, total, *n etymon, radix, root, fanatic, revolutionary.
2.      Ramble: digress, maunder, range, roam, rove, saunter, straggle, stray, stroll, wander, *n excursion, rambling, roving, tour, trip, stroll, wandering.
3.      Rancorous: bitter, implacable, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, resentful, spiteful, vindictive, virulent.
4.      Rapacious:predacious, preying, raptorial, avaricious, grasping, greedy, ravenous, voracious.
5.      Ratify: confirm, corroborate, endorse, establish, seal, settle, substantiate, approve, bind, consent, sanction.
6.      Ravenous: devouring, ferocious, gluttonous, greedy, insatiable, omnivorous, ravening, rapacious.
7.      Raving: delirious, deranged, distracted, frantic, frenzied, furious, infuriated, mad, phrenetic, raging , *n delirium, frenzy, fury, madness, rage.
8.      Recluse: anchoritic, anchoritical, cloistered, eremitical, eremitic, hermitic, hermitical, reclusive, solitary, *n anchorite, ascetic, eremite, hermit, monk, solitary.
9.      Rectify: adjust, amend, better, correct, emend, improve, mend, redress, reform, regulate, straighten.
10.  Redemption: buying, compensation, recovery, repurchase, retrieval, deliverance, liberation, ransom, release, rescue, salvation, discharge, fulfillment, performance.
11.  Redundant: copious, excessive, exuberant, fulsome, inordinate, lavish, needless, overflowing, overmuch, plentiful, prodigal, superabundant, replace, superfluous, unnecessary, useless, diffuse, periphrastic, pleonastic, tautological, verbose, wordy.
12.  Relinquish: abandon, desert, forsake, forswear, leave, quit, renounce, resign, vacate, abdicate, cede, forbear, forgo, give up, surrender, yield.
13.  Reluctance: aversion, backwardness, disinclination, dislike, loathing, repugnance, unwillingness.
14.  Reminiscence: memory, recollection, remembrance, retrospective.
15.  Repeal: abolish, annul, cancel, recall, rescind, reverse, revoke, *n abolition, abrogation, annulment, cancellation, rescission, reversal, revocation.
16.  Reprimand: admonish, blame, censure, chide, rebuke, reprehend, reproach, reprove, upbraid, *n admonition, blame, censure, rebuke, reprehension, reproach, reprobation, reproof, reprove.
17.  Repugnant: incompatible, inconsistent, irreconcilable, adverse, antagonistic, contrary, hostile, inimical, opposed, opposing, unfavourable, detestable, distasteful, offensive, repellent, repulsive.
18.  Rescind: abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, countermand, quash, recall, repeal, reverse, revoke, vacate, void.
19.  Resentful: angry, bitter, choleric, huffy, hurt, irascible, irritable, malignant, revengeful, sore, touchy.
20.  Residue: leavings, remainder, remains, remnant, residuum, rest, excess, over-plus, surplus.
21.  Retrench:clip, curtail, cut, delete, dock, lop, mutilate, pare, prune, abridge, decrease, diminish, lessen, confine, limit, economize, encroach.
22.  Retrieve: recall, recover, recoup, recruit, re-establish, regain, repair, restore.
23.  Retrospect: recollection, re-examination, reminiscence, re-survey, review, survey.
24.  Revere: adore, esteem, hallow, honour, reverence, venerate, worship.
25.  Revoke: abolish, abrogate, annul, cancel, countermand, invalidate, quash, recall, recant, repeal, repudiate, rescind, retract.
26.  Revulsion: abstraction, shrinking, withdrawal, change, reaction, reversal, transition, abhorrence, disgust, loathing, repugnance.
27.  Riotous:boisterous, luxurious, merry, revelling, unrestrained, wanton, disorderly, insubordinate, lawless, mutinous, rebellious, turbulent, ungovernable, unruly, violent.
28.  Rogue: beggar, vagabond, vagrant, caitiff, cheat, knave, rascal, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, sharper, swindler, trickster, villain.
29.  Rubbish; debris, detritus, fragments, refuse, ruins, waste, dregs, dross, garbage, litter, lumber, scoria, scum, sweepings, trash, trumpery.
30.  Rudimentary: elementary, embryonic, fundamental, initial, primary, rudimental, undeveloped.
31.  Ruffian: bully, caitiff, cutthroat, hoodlum, miscreant, monster, murderer, rascal, robber, roisterer, rowdy, scoundrel, villain, wretch.
32.  Rugged: austere, bristly, coarse, crabbed, craggy, hard, hardly, irregular, ragged, robust, rough, rude, scraggy, severe, seamed, shaggy, uneven, unkempt, wrinkled, boisterous, inclement, stormy, tempestuous, tumultuous, turbulent, violent, grating, harsh, inharmonious, unmusical, scabrous.
33.  Rupture: break, burst, fracture, sever, spilt, *n breach, break, burst, disruption, fracture, spilt, contention, faction, feud, hostility, quarrel, schism.
34.  Ruthless: barbarous, cruel, fell, ferocious, hardhearted, inexorable, inhuman, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unsparing.










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S

Sacrilegious: desecrating, impious, irreverent, profane.
2.      Sagacity: acuteness, astuteness, discrenment, ingenunity, insight, penetration, perspicacity, quickness, readiness, sense, sharpness, shrewdness, wisdom.
3.      Salutary: healthy, heathful, helpful, safe, salubrious, wholesome, advantageous, beneficial, good, profitable, serviceable, useful.
4.      Sanguinary: bloody, gory, murerous, barbarous, bloodthirsty, cruel, fell, pitiless, savage, ruthless.
5.      Sanguine: crimson, florid, red, animated, ardent, cheerful, lively, warm, buoyant, confident, enthusiastic, hopeful, optimistic, full-blooded.
6.      Sardonic: bitter, derisive, ironical, malevolent, malicious, malignant, sarcastic.
7.      Scandalous: defamatory, libelous, opprobrious, slanderous, atrocious, disgraceful, disreputable, infamous, inglorious, ignominious, odious, shameful.
8.      Scanty: insufficient, meagre, narrow, scant, small, hardly, scarce, short, slender, niggardly, parsimonious, penurious, scrimpy, skimpy, sparing.
9.      Sceptic: doubter, freethinker, questioner, unbeliever.
10.  Scoundrel: cheat, knave, miscreant, rascal, reproduce, rogue, scamp, swindler, trickster, villain.
11.  Scruple: boggle, demur, falter, hesitate, object, pause, stickle, waver, *n delicacy, hesitancy, hesitation, nicety, perplexity, qualm.
12.  Scrupulous: conscientious, fastidious, nice, precise, punctilious, rigorous, strict, careful, cautious, circumspect, exact,  vigilant.
13.  Seamy: disreputable, nasty, seedy, sordid, unpleasant.
14.  Sedative: allaying, anodyne, assuasive, balmy, calming, composing, demulcent, lenient, lenitive, soothing, tranquilizing, *n anaesthetic, anodyne, hypnotic, narcotic, opiate.
15.  Seductive: alluring, attractive, enticing, tempting.
16.  Serenity: calm, calmness, collectedness, composure, coolness, imperturbability, peace, peacefulness, quiescence, sedateness, tranquility, brightness, calmness, clearness, fairness, peace, quietness, stillness.
17.  Shabby: faded, mean, poor, ragged, seedy, threadbare, worn, worn-out, beggarly, mean, paltry, penurious, stingy, ungentlemanly, unhandsome.
18.  Shaggy: quake, quaver, quiver, shiver, shudder, totter, tremble, agitate, convulse, jar, jolt, stagger, daunt, frighten, intimate, endanger, move, put away, remove, throw off, *n agitation, concussion, flutter, jar, jolt, quaking, shaking, shivering, shock, trembling, tremor.
19.  Shrewd: arch, artful, astute, crafty, cunning, Machiavellian, sly, subtle, wily, acute, canny, discerning, discriminating, ingenious, keen, knowing, penetrating, sagacious, sharp, sharp-sighted.
20.  Shun: avoid, elude, eschew, escape, evade, get, clear of,
21.  Sinew:ligament, tendon, brawn, muscle, nerve, strength.
22.  Sinister:baleful, injurious, untoward, boding, ill, inauspicious, ominous, unlucky, left, on the left hand.
23.  Slanderous: calumnious, defamatory, false, libelous, malicious, maligning.
24.  Slothful: dronish, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, lazy, lumpish, slack, sluggish, supine, torpid.
25.  Sluggish: dronish, drowsy, idle, inactive, indolent, inert, languid, lazy, listless, lumpish, phlegmatic, slothful, torpid, slow, dull, stupid, supine, tame.
26.  Slumberous: drowsy, sleepy, somniferous, somnific, soporific.
27.  Smudge: besmear, blacken, blur, smear, smut, smutch, soil, spot, stain, *n blur, blot, smear, smut, spot, stain.
28.  Solitude: isolation, loneliness, privacy, recluseness, retriedness, retirement, seclusion, solitariness, desert, waste, wilderness.
29.  Somber: cloudy, dark, dismal, dull, dusky, gloomy, murky, overcast, rayless, shady, sombrous, sunless, doleful, funereal, grave, lugubrious, melancholy, mournful, sad, sober.
30.  Sonorous: full-toned, resonant, resounding, ringing, sounding, high-sounding, loud.
31.  Sordid: base, degraded, low, mean, vile, avaricious, close-fisted, covetous, illiberal, miserly, niggardly, penurious, stingy, ungenerous.
32.  Spartan: bold, brave, chivalric, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, hardy, heroic, intrepid, lion-hearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous, austere, exacting, hard, severe, tough, unsparing, enduring, long-suffering, self-controlled, stoic.
33.  Splinter: rend, shiver, sliver, split *n fragment, piece.
34.  Spontaneous: free, gratuitous, impulsive, improvised, instinctive, self-acting, self-moving, unbidden, uncompelled, unconstrained, voluntary.
35.  Spout: gush, get, pourout, spirit, spurt, squirt, declaim, mouth, speak, utter, *n conduit, tube, beak, nose, nozzle, waterspout.
36.  Squabble: brawl, fight, quarrel, scuffle, struggle, wrangle, altercate, bicker, contend, dispute, jangle, *n brawl, dispute, fight, quarrel, rumpus, scrimmage.
37.  Squander: dissipate, expend, lavish, lose, misuse, scatter, spend, throwaway, waste.
38.  Squash: crush, mash.
39.  Startling;abrupt, alarming, astonishing, shocking, sudden, surprising, unexpected, unforeseen, unheard of.
40.  Stationary: fixed, motionless, permanent, quiescent, stable, standing, still.
41.  Statuary: carving, sculpture, statues.
42.  Staunch:firm, sound, stout,strong, constant, faithful, firm, hearty, loyal, resolute, stable, steadfast, steady, strong, trustworthy, trusty, unwavering, zealous.
43.  Stoicism: apathy, coldness, coolness, impassivity, indifference, insensibility, nonchalance, phlegm.
44.  Stout: able-bodied, athletic, brawny, lusty, robust, sinewy, stalwart, strong, sturdy, vigorous, courageous, hardy, indomitable, stouthearted, contumacious, obstinate, proud, resolute, stubborn, compact, firm, solid, staunch, bouncing, bulky, burly, chubby, corpulent, fat, heavy, jolly, large, obese, plump, portly, stocky, strapping, thickset.
45.  Stubborn: contumacious, dogged, headstrong, heady, inflexible, intractable, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, perverse, positive, refractory, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly, unyielding, willful, constant, enduring, firm, hardy, persevering, persistent, steady, stoical, uncomplaining, unremitting, firm, hard, inflexible, stiff, strong, tough, unpliant, studied.
46.  Stupendous: amazing, astonishing, astounding, marvelous, overwhelming, surprising, wonderful, enormous, huge, immense, monstrous, prodigious, towering, tremendous, vast.
47.  Subjugate: conquer, enslave, enthrall, master, overcome, overpower, overthrow, subdue, subject, vanquish.
48.  Subterfuge: artifice, evasion, excuse, expedient, mask, pretence, pretext, quirk, shift, shuffle, sophistry, trick.
49.  Succulent: juicy, luscious, lush, nutritive, sappy.
50.  Sullen: cross, crusty, glum, grumpy, ill-tempered, moody, morose, sore, sour, sulky, cheerless, cloudy, dark, depressing, dismal, foreboding, funereal, gloomy, lowering, melancholy, mournful, somber, dull, heavy, slow, sluggish, intractable, obstinate, perverse, refractory, srubborn, vexatious, baleful, evil, inauspicious, malign, malignant, sinister, unlucky, unpropitious.
51.  Susceptible: capable, excitable, impressible, impressionable, inclined, predisposed, receptive, sensitive.
52.  Sustenance: maintenance, subsistence, support, aliment, bread, food, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, provisions, supplies, victuals.

	T

 

1.      Taint: imbue, impregnate, contaminate, corrupt, defile, inflect, mildew, pollute, poison, spoil, touch, blot, stain, sully, tarnish *n stain, tincture, tinge, touch, contamination, corruption, defilement, depravation, infection, pollution, blemish, defect, fault, flaw, spot.
2.      Tarnish: blemish, deface, defame, dim, discolour, dull, slur, smear, soil, stain, sully, *n blemish, blot, soiling, spot, stain.
3.      Tempest: cyclone, gale, hurricane, squall, storm, tornado, commotion, disturbance, excitement, perturbation, tumult, turmoil.
4.      Temporal: civil, lay, mundane, political, profuse, secular, terrestrial, worldly, brief, ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, momentary, short-lived, temporal, transient, transitory.
5.      Tenacious: retentive, unforgettable, adhesive, clinging, cohesive, firm, glutinous, gummy, resisting, retentive, sticky, strong, tough, unyielding, viscous, dogged, fast, obstinate, opinionated, opinionative, pertinacious, persistent, resolute, stubborn, unwavering.
6.      Terrestrial: earthy, mundane, sub astral, sub celestial, sublunary, tellurian, worldly, *n earthling, human.
7.      Testimony: affirmation, attestation, confession, confirmation, corroboration, declaration, deposition, profession, evidence, proof, witness.
8.      Titanic: colossal, Cyclopean, enormous, gigantic, herculean, prodigious, stupendous, vast.
9.      Torpid: benumbed, lethargic, motionless, numb, apathetic, dormant, dull, inactive, indolent, inert, listless, sleepy, slothful, sluggish, stupid.
10.  Translucent: diaphanous, hyaline, pellucid, semi-opaque, semi-transparent.
11.  Traverse: contravene, counteract, defeat, frustrate, obstruct, oppose, thwart, ford, pass, play, range.
12.  Tremulous: afraid, fearful, quavering, shaking, shaky, shivering, timid, trembling, vibrating.
13.  Trivial:frivolous, gimcrack, immaterial, inconsiderable, insignificant, light, little, nugatory, paltry, petty, small, slight, slim, trifling, trumpery, unimportant.
14.  Truculent: barbarous, bloodthirsty, ferocious, fierce, savage, cruel, malevolent, relentless, destructive, deadly, fatal, ruthless.
15.  Tumult:affray, agitation, altercation, bluster, brawl, disturbance, ferment, flurry, feud, fracas, fray, fuss, hubbub, huddle, hurly-burly, melee, noise, perturbation, pother, quarrel, racket, riot, row, squabble, stir, turbulence, turmoil, uproar.

	U

 


1.      Ubiquitous: omnipresent, present, universal.
2.      Unanimous: agreeing, concordant, harmonious, like-minded, solid, united.
3.      Uncongenial: antagonistic, discordant, displeasing, ill-assorted, incompatible, inharmonious, mismatched, unsuited, unsympathetic.
4.      Undaunted: bold, brave, courageous, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, plucky, resolute, undismayed.
5.      Unequivocal: absolute, certain, clear, evident, incontestable, indubitable, positive, explicit, unambiguous, unmistakable.
6.      Unflinching: firm, resolute, steady, unshrinking.
7.      Unruffled: calm, peaceful, placid, quiet, serene, smooth, still, tranquil, collected, composed, cool, imperturbable, peaceful, philosophical, placid, tranquil, undisturbed, unexcited, unmoved.
8.      Unsusceptible: apathetic, cold, impassive, insusceptible, phlegmatic, stoical, unimpressible, unimpressionable,
9.      Unwieldy: bulky, clumsy, cumbersome, cumbrous, elephantine, heavy, hulking, large, massy, ponderous, unmanageable, weighty.

V

 


1.      Vagabond: footloose, idle, meandering, rambling, roving, roaming, strolling, vagrant, wandering, *n beggar, castaway, landloper, loafer, lounger, nomad, out-caste, tramp, vagrant, wanderer.
2.      Vague. Ambiguous, confused, dim, doubtful, indefinite, ill-defined, indistinct, lax, loose, obscure, uncertain, undermined, unfixed, unsettled.
3.      Vain: baseless, delusive, dreamy, empty, false, imaginary, shadowy, suppositional, unsubstantial, unreal, void, abortive, bootless, fruitless, futile, ineffectual, nugatory, profitless, unavailing, unprofitable, trivial, unessential, unimportant, unsatisfactory, unsatisfying, useless, vapid, worthless, arrogant, conceited, egotistical, flushed, high, inflated, opinionated, ostentatious, overweening, proud, self-confident, self-opinionated, vainglorious, gaudy, glittering, gorgeous, showy.
4.      Valediction:adieu, farewell, goodbye, leave-taking.  
5.      Valiant: bold, brave, chivalrous, courageous, daring, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, heroic, intrepid, lion-hearted, redoubtable, Spartan, valorous, undaunted.
6.      Valid: binding, cogent, conclusive, efficacious, efficient, good, grave, important, just, logical, powerful, solid, sound, strong, substantial, sufficient, weighty.
7.      Valorous: bold, brave, courage, dauntless, doughty, intrepid, stout.
8.      Vandal: barbarian, destroyer, savage.
9.      Vanish: disappear, dissolve, fade, melt.
10.  Varnish: enamel, glaze, japan, lacquer, adorn, decorate, embellish, garnish, gild, polish, disguise, excuse, extenuate, gloss, over, palliate, *n enamel, lacquer, stain, cover, extenuation, gloss.
11.  Vehement: furious, high, hot, impetuous, passionate, rampant, violent, ardent, burning, eager, earnest, enthusiastic, fervid, fiery, keen, passionate, sanguine, zealous, forcible, mighty, powerful, strong.
12.  Vengeance: retaliation, retribution, revenge.
13.  Veracious: reliable, straightforward, true, trustworthy, truthful, credible, genuine, honest, unfeigned.
14.  Veracity: accuracy, candour, correctness, credibility, exactness, fidelity, frankness, honesty, ingeniousness, probity, sincerity, trueness, truth, truthfulness.
15.  Verbose: diffusive, long-winded, loquacious, talkative, wordy.
16.  Verdict:answer, decision, finding, judgment, opinion, sentence.
17.  Versatile: capricious, changeable, erratic, mobile, variable, fickle, inconstant, mercurial, unsteady, adaptable, protean, plastic, varied.
18.  Vexed: afflicted, agitated, annoyed, bothered, disquieted, harassed, irritated, perplexed, plagued, provoked, troubled, worried.
19.  Vicious: abandoned, atrocious, bad, corrupt, degenerate, demoralized, depraved, devilish, diabolical, evil, flagrant, hellish, immoral, iniquitous, mischievous, profligate, shameless, sinful, unprincipled, wicked, malicious, spiteful, venomous, foul, impure, debased, faulty, contrary, refactory.
20.  Victuals: comestible, eatables, fare, food, meat. Provisions, repast, sustenance.
21.  Vigorous: lusty, powerful, strong, active, alert, cordial, energetic, forcible, strenuous, vehement, vivid, virile, brisk, hale, hardy, robust, sound, sturdy, healthy, fresh, flourishing, bold, emphatic, impassioned, lively, nervous, piquant, pointed, severe, sparking, spirited, trenchant.
22.  Vindicate: defend, justify, uphold, advocate, avenge, assert, maintain, right, support.
23.  Vindictive:avenging, grudgeful, implacable, malevolent, malicious, malignant, retaliative, revengeful, spiteful, unforgiving, unrelenting, vengeful.
24.  Virulent: deadly, malignant, poisonous, toxic, venomous, acrid, acrimonious, bitter, caustic,
25.  Vivid: active, animated, bright, brilliant, clear, intense, fresh, lively, lucid, quick, sprightly, strong, expensive, graphic, striking, telling.
26.  Void: clear, eject, emit, empty, evacuate, clear, destitute, devoid, free, lacking, wanting, without, inept, ineffectual, invalid, nugatory, null, imaginary, unreal, vain, *n abyss, chasm, emptiness, hole, vacuum.
27.  Vulnerable:accessible, assailable, defenseless, exposed, weak.

W

 

1.      Wanton: caper, disport, frisk, frolic, play, revel, romp, sport, dally, flirt, toy, trifle, free, loose, unchecked, unrestrained, wandering, abounding, exuberant, luxuriant, overgrown, rampant, airy, capricious, coltish, frisky, playful, skittish, supportive, dissolute, irregular, licentious, loose, carnal, immoral, incontinent, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, light, lustful, prurient, salacious, unchaste, careless, graduation, groundless, heedless, inconsiderate, needless, perverse, reckless, wayward, wilful, *n baggage, flirt, harlot, light-o’-love, prostitute, rake, roué, slut, whore.
2.      Whimsical:capricious, crotchety, eccentric, erratic, fanciful, frolicsome, odd, peculiar, quaint, singular.
3.      Wield:brandish, flourish, handle, manipulate, ply, work, control, manage sway, use.
4.      Wistful: contemplative, engrossed, meditative, musing, pensive, reflective, thoughtful, desirous, eager, earnest, longing.
5.      Wizard: charmer, diviner, conjure, enchanter, magician, necromancer, seer, soothsayer, sorcerer.
6.      Woe: affliction, agony, anguish, bitterness, depression, distress, dole, grief, heartache, melancholy, misery, sorrow, torture, tribulation, trouble, unhappiness, wretchedness,
7.      Wont: accustomed, customary, familiar, habitual, ordinary, usual, *n custom, habit, practice, rule, usage.
8.      Wraith: apparition, ghost, phantom, spectre, vision.
9.      Wrangle: argue, bicker, brawl, cavil, dispute, jangle, jar, quarrel, squabble, spar, spat, *n altercation, argument, bickering, brawl, contest, controversy, jar, quarrel, squabble.
10.  Wrath: anger, choler, exasperation, fury, heat, resentment, indignation, ire, irritation, offence, passion, rage.
11.  Wrench: distort, prevent, twist, wrest, wring, sprain, strain, extort, extract. *n twist, wring, sprain, strain, monkey, wrench, spanner.

XYZ

 
1.      Xylographer: wood engraver.
2.      Yearn: crave desire, hanker after, long for.
3.      Zeal: alacrity, ardour, cordiality, devotedness, devotion, earnestness, eagerness, energy, enthusiasm, fervour, glow, heartiness, intensity, jealousness, passion, soul, spirit, warmth.