LAE VOCABULARY

FLASH CARDS
Flash Cards 433 - 540
RENEGADE
Word No. 433

MEANING
A deserter from one faith, cause, principle, or party for another
An individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior
Having deserted a faith, cause, or religion for a hostile one
Having rejected tradition: unconventional
SYNONYM
Apostate, defector, deserter, recreant
ANTONYM
loyalist
REPROBATE
Word No. 434

MEANING
To condemn strongly as unworthy, unacceptable or evil <reprobating
the laxity of age>
To foreordain to damnation
To refuse to accept: reject
Rejected as worthless or not standing a test
SYNONYM
Debased, debauched decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized,
depraved, dissipated, dissolute, jackleg, libertine, loose, perverse,
perverted, rakehell, rakish, corrupt, sick, unclean, unwholesome,
warped
ANTONYM
Pure, uncorrupt, uncorrupted
REQUIEM
Word No. 435

MEANING
A mass for the dead
A solemn chant (as a dirge) for the repose of the dead
Something that resembles a solemn chant
A musical setting of the mass for the dead
A musical composition in honor of the dead
SYNONYM
Dirge, elegy, lament, threnody
ANTONYM

RESOLUTE
Word No. 436

MEANING
Marked by firm determination: resolved <a resolute character>
Bold, steady <a resolute gaze>
SYNONYM
Bent (on or upon), bound, decisive, do-or-die, firm, hell-bent (on or
upon), intent, out, purposeful, determined, resolved, set, single-
minded
ANTONYM
Faltering, hesitant, indecisive, irresolute, undetermined,
unresolved, vacillating, wavering, weak-kneed
RESTIVE
Word No. 437

MEANING
Stubbornly resisting control: balky
Marked by impatience or uneasiness: fidgety
SYNONYM
Balky, contrary, contumacious, defiant, froward, incompliant,
insubordinate, intractable, obstreperous, rebel, rebellious,
recalcitrant, recusant, refractory, disobedient, ungovernable, unruly,
untoward, wayward, willful (or wilful)
ANTONYM
Amenable, biddable, compliant, conformable, docile, obedient, ruly,
submissive, tractable
RESCUSCITATE
Word No. 438

MEANING
To revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness; also
revitalize
SYNONYM
Freshen, recharge, recreate, refresh, refreshen, regenerate,
rejuvenate, repair, restore, renew, revitalize, revive, revivify
ANTONYM
RETICENT
Word No. 439

MEANING
Inclined to be silent or uncommunicative in speech: reserved
Restrained in expression, presentation or appearance
Reluctant
SYNONYM
Close, closemouthed, dark, secretive, tight-mouthed,
uncommunicative
ANTONYM
Communicative, open
RETRACT
Word No. 440

MEANING
To draw back or in <cats retract their claws>
Take back, withdraw <retract a confession>
Disavow
To draw or pull back
To recant or disavow something
SYNONYM
Abnegate, forswear (also foreswear), recant, renege, renounce,
repeal, repudiate, abjure, take back, unsay, withdraw
ANTONYM
Adhere (to)
RIFE
Word No. 441

MEANING
Prevalent especially to an increasing degree <suspicion and cruelty
were rife W. E. B. DuBois>
Abundant, common
Copiously supplied: abounding usually used with with <rife with
rumors>
SYNONYM
Abounding, abundant, awash, flush, fraught, lousy, replete,
swarming, teeming, thick, thronging
ANTONYM

RIFT
Word No. 442

MEANING
Fissure, crevasse
Fault
A clear space or interval
Breach, estrangement
SYNONYM
Check, chink, cleft, cranny, crevice, fissure, crack, split
ANTONYM
RIVETING
Word No. 443

MEANING
Having the power to fix the attention: engrossing, fascinating <a
riveting story>
SYNONYM
Absorbing, arresting, consuming, engaging, engrossing,
enthralling, fascinating, gripping, immersing, intriguing, involving,
interesting
ANTONYM
Boring, drab, dry, dull, heavy, monotonous, tedious, uninteresting
RUDIMENTARY
Word No. 444

MEANING
Consisting in first principles: fundamental <had only a rudimentary
formal education D. J. Boorstin>
Of a primitive kind <the equipment of these past empire-builders
was rudimentary A. J. Toynbee>
Very imperfectly developed or represented only by a vestige <the
rudimentary tail of a hyrax>
SYNONYM
Crude, low, rude, primitive
ANTONYM
Advanced, developed, evolved, high, higher, late
RUNIC
Word No. 445

MEANING
Any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by
Germanic peoples from about the 3
rd
to the 13
th
centuries
Mystery, magic
A Finnish or Old Norse poem
Poem, song
SYNONYM
Lyric, poem, song, verse
ANTONYM
SALIENT
Word No. 446

MEANING
Moving by leaps or springs: jumping
Jetting upward <a salient fountain>
Projecting beyond a line, surface, or level
Standing out conspicuously: prominent; especially: of notable
significance <similar to Prohibition, but there are a couple of salient
differences Tony Gibbs>
SYNONYM
Noticeable, arresting, bodacious, bold, brilliant, catchy, commanding,
conspicuous, dramatic, emphatic, eye-catching, flamboyant, grabby,
kenspeckle [chiefly Scottish], marked, noisy, prominent, pronounced,
remarkable, showy, splashy, striking
ANTONYM
Inconspicuous, unemphatic, unflamboyant, unnoticeable, unobtrusive,
unremarkable, unshowy
SAUNTER
Word No. 447

MEANING
To walk about in an idle or leisurely manner: stroll <sauntered
slowly down the street>
SYNONYM
Amble, perambulate, ramble, hike, tramp, tromp
ANTONYM
SCRUPLE
Word No. 448

MEANING
A unit of capacity equal to 1/24 Apothecaries ounce
A minute part or quantity: iota
An ethical consideration or principle that inhibits action
The quality or state of being scrupulous
Mental reservation
To show reluctance on grounds of conscience: hesitate
SYNONYM
Qualm, compunction, misgiving
ANTONYM
SECLUDED
Word No. 449

MEANING
Screened or hidden from view: sequestered <a secluded valley>
Living in seclusion: solitary <secluded monks
SYNONYM
Cloistered, covert, hidden, isolated, quiet, remote, retired secret,
sheltered
ANTONYM
SECRETE
Word No. 450

MEANING
To form and give off (a secretion)
To deposit or conceal in a hiding place
To appropriate secretly: absract
SYNONYM
Caching, hiding, concealment, stashing
ANTONYM
Display, exhibition, exposure, parading, showing
SEINE
Word No. 451

MEANING
A large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that
hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish
when its ends are pulled together or are draw ashore
SYNONYM
ANTONYM

SEMINAL
Word No. 452

MEANING
Of, relating to, or consisting of seed or semen
Containing or contributing the seeds of later development: creative,
original <a seminal book>
SYNONYM
Archetype, prototype
ANTONYM
SEQUENTIAL
Word No. 453

MEANING
Of, relating to, or arranged in a sequence: serial <sequential file
systems>
Following in sequence
Relating to or based on a method of testing a statistical hypothesis that
involves examination of a sequence of samples for each of which the
decision is made to accept or reject the hypothesis or to continue
sampling
SYNONYM
Back-to-back, sequent, consecutive, straight, succeeding,
successional, successive
ANTONYM
Inconsecutive, inconsequent, nonconsecutive, nonsequential
SERVILE
Word No. 454

MEANING
Of or befitting a slave or a menial position
Meanly or cravenly submissive: abject
SYNONYM
Base, humble, menial, abject, slavish
ANTONYM
SEVER
Word No. 455

MEANING
To put or keep apart: divide; especially: to remove (as a part) by or
as if by cutting
To become separated
SYNONYM
Break up, decouple, disassociate, disconnect, disjoin, disjoint,
dissever, dissociate, disunite, divide, divorce, part, ramify, resolve,
separate, split, sunder, uncouple, unlink, unyoke
ANTONYM
Join, link, unify, unite




SHARD
Word No. 456

MEANING
A piece or fragment of a brittle substance <shards of glass>;
broadly: a small piece or part: scrap < little shards of time and
space recorded by the cameras lens Rosalind Krauss>
Shell, scale; especially: elytron
Fragments of pottery vessels found on sites and in refuse deposits
where pottery-making peoples have lived
Highly angular curved glass fragments of tuffaceous sediments
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
SHIRK
Word No. 457

MEANING
To go stealthily: sneak
To evade the performance of an obligation
Avoid, evade <shirk ones duty>
SYNONYM
Avoid, dodge, duck, elude, eschew, evade, finesse, get around,
scape, shake, escape, shuffle (out of), shun, weasel (out of)
ANTONYM
Attend (to), remember
SIMULATE
Word No. 458

MEANING
To give or assume the appearance or effect of often with the intent
to deceive: imitate
To make a simulation of (as a physical system)
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
SLUGGARD
Word No. 459

MEANING
A habitually lazy person
SYNONYM
Couch potato, deadbeat, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout, loafer,
lotus-eater, slouch, slug, slugabed, lazybones
ANTONYM
Doer, go-ahead, go-getter, hummer, hustler, rustler, self-starter
SOJOURN
Word No. 460

MEANING
A temporary stay <a sojourn in the country>
To stay as a temporary resident: stop
SYNONYM
Visit, stay tarry
ANTONYM
SOLICITUDE
Word No. 461

MEANING
The state of being concerned and anxious
Attentive care and protectiveness; also: an attitude of earnest
concern or attention <expressed solicitude for his health>
A cause of care or concern usually used in plural
SYNONYM
Agita, agitation, anxiousness, apprehension, apprehensiveness,
care, concern, concernment, disquiet, disquietude, fear, nervosity,
nervousness, perturbation, anxiety, sweat, unease, uneasiness,
worry
ANTONYM
Unconcern
SPECIOUS
Word No. 462

MEANING
Obsolete: showy
Having deceptive attraction or allure
Having a false look of truth or genuineness: sophistic <specious
reasoning>
SYNONYM
Beguiling, deceitful, deceiving, deluding, delusive, delusory,
fallacious, false, misleading, deceptive
ANTONYM
Aboveboard, forthright, nondeceptive, straightforward
SPECTRUM
Word No. 463

MEANING
A continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by
passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in
order
Any various continua that resemble a color spectrum in consisting of an
ordered arrangement by a particular characteristic (as frequency or energy): as
(1): electromagnetic spectrum (2): radio spectrum (3): the range of frequencies
of sound waves (4): mass spectrum
The representation (as a plot) of a spectrum
The continuous sequence or range <a wide spectrum of interests> <opposite
ends of the political spectrum>
Kinds of organisms associated with a particular situation (as an environment)
A range of effectiveness against pathogenic organisms <an antibiotic with a
broad spectrum>
SYNONYM
Diapason, gamut, scale, range, spread, stretch
ANTONYM


SPORADIC
Word No. 464

MEANING
Occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances
<sporadic protests> <a sporadic disease>
SYNONYM
Aperiodic, casual, catchy, choppy, discontinuous, episodic (also
episodical), erratic, intermittent, irregular, occasional, spasmodic,
spastic, fitful, spotty, unsteady
ANTONYM
Constant, continous, habitual, periodic, regular, repeated, steady
SPURIOUS
Word No. 433

MEANING
Of illegitimate birth: bastard
Outwardly similar or corresponding to something without having its
genuine qualities: false <the spurious eminence of the pop
celebrity>
Of falsified or erroneously attributed origin: forged
Of a deceitful nature or quality <spurious excuses>
SYNONYM
Bogus, fake, false, forged, inauthentic, phony (also phoney), queer,
sham, snide, counterfeit, unauthentic
ANTONYM
Authentic, bona fide, genuine, real, unfaked
STAGNANT
Word No. 466

MEANING
Not flowing in a current or stream <stagnant water>
Stale <long disuse had made the air stagnant and foul Bram
Stoker>
Not advancing or developing <a stagnant economy>
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
STARK
Word No. 467

MEANING
Rigid in or as if in death
Rigidly conforming (as to a pattern or doctrine): absolute <stark discipline>
Archaic: strong, robust
Utter, sheer <stark nonsense>
Barren, desolate
Having few or no ornaments: bare <a stark white room>
Harsh, blunt <the stark realities of death
Sharply delineated <a stark contrast>
SYNONYM
Austere, dour, fierce, flinty, forbidding, gruff, intimidating, lowering (also
louring), rough, rugged, severe, grim, steely, stern, ungentle
ANTONYM
Benign, benignant, gentle, mild, nonintimidating, tender
STASIS
Word No. 468

MEANING
A slowing or stoppage of the normal flow of a bodily fluid or semifluid
Slowing of the current of circulating blood
Reduced motility of the intestines with retention of feces
A state of static balance or equilibrium: stagnation
A state or period of stability during which little or no evolutionary
change in a lineage occurs
SYNONYM
Counterpoise, equilibration, equilibrium, equipoise, poise, balance
ANTONYM
Disequilibration, disequilibrium, imbalance, nonequilibrium, unbalance
STEREOTYPE
Word No. 469

MEANING
To make a stereotype from
To repeat without variation: make hackneyed
To develop a mental stereotype about
A plate cast from a printing surface
Something conforming to a fixed or general pattern; especially: a
standardized mental picture that is held in common by members of
a group and that represents an oversimplified opinion, prejudiced
attitude, or uncritical judgment
SYNONYM
Concept, conception, generality, notion, generalization
ANTONYM
STIPPLE
Word No. 470
MEANING
To engrave by means of dots and flicks
To make by small short touches (as of paint or ink) that together
produce an even or softly graded shadow
To apply (as paint) by repeated small touches
Speckle, fleck
Production of gradation of light and shade in graphic art by stippling
small points, larger dots or longer strokes; also: an effect produced
in this way
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
STRATA
Word No. 471

MEANING
A bed or layer artificially made
A sheetlike mass of sedimentary rock or earth one kind lying between beds of
other kinds
A region of the sear or atmosphere that is analogous to a stratum of the earth
A layer of tissue <deep stratum of the skin>
A layer in which archaeological material (as artifacts, skeleton, and dwelling
remains) is found on excavation
A part of a historical or sociological series representing a period or a stage of
development
A socioeconomic level of society comprising persons of the same or similar
status especially with regard to education or culture
One of a series of layers, levels or gradations in an ordered system <strata of
thought>
A statistical subpopulation
SYNONYM
Caste, estate, folk, gentry, order, class
ANTONYM
STRIATE
Word No. 472

MEANING
To mark with striations or striae
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
SUBJECTIVE
Word No. 433

MEANING
Of, relating to, or constituting a subject
Obsolete: of, relating to, or characteristic of one that is a subject ; especially in lack of freedom of
action or in submissiveness
Being or relating to a grammatical subject; especially: nominative
Of or relating to the essential being of that which has substance, qualities, attributes, or relations
Characteristic of or belonging to reality as perceived rather than as independent of mind:
phenomenal
Relating to or being experience or knowledge as conditioned by personal mental characteristics
or states
Peculiar to a particular individual: personal <subjective judgments
Modified or affected by personal views, experience, or background <a subjective account of the
incident>
Arising from conditions within the brain or sense organs and not directly caused by external
stimuli <subjective sensations>
Arising out of or identified by means of ones perception of ones own states and processes <a
subjective symptom of disease>
Lacking in reality or substance: illusory
SYNONYM
Idiomatic, individualized, particular, patented, peculiar, personal, personalized, private, privy,
separate, singular, individual, unique
ANTONYM
General, generic, popular, public, shared, universa;l
SUBORDINATE
Word No. 433

MEANING
Placed in or occupying a lower class, rank, or position: inferior <a subordinate
officer>
Submissive to or controlled by authority
Of relating to, or constituting a clause that functions as a noun, adjective, or
adverb
Subordinating
One who stands in order or rank below another: one that is subordinate
To make subject or subservient
To treat as of less value or importance <stylist whose crystalline prose
subordinates content to form Susan Heath>
SYNONYM
Inferior, junior, less, lower, minor, smaller, lesser
ANTONYM
Greater, higher, major, more, primary, prime, senior, superior, superordinate
SUCCINCT
Word No. 475

MEANING
Being girded
Close-fitting
Marked by compact precise expression without wasted words <a
succinct description>
SYNONYM
Concise, aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact,
compendious, crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic,
laconic, monosyllabic, pithy, sentenious, concise, monosyllabic,
pithy, sententious, concise, summary, telegraphic, terse, thumbnail
ANTONYM
Circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling,
verbose, windy, wordy
SUPERFLUITY
Word No. 476

MEANING
Excess, oversupply
Something unnecessary or superfluous
Immoderate and especially luxurious living, habits or desires
SYNONYM
Amenity, comfort, extra, frill, indulgence, luxury
ANTONYM
Basic, essential, fundamental, must, necessity, requirement
SUPERFLUOUS
Word No. 477

MEANING
Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary: extra
Not needed: unnecessary
Obsolete: marked by wastefulness: extravagant
SYNONYM
Excess, extra, redundant, supererogatory, spare, supernumenary,
surplus
ANTONYM
SUPERSEDE
Word No. 478

MEANING
To cause to be set aside
To force out of use as inferior
To take the place or position of
To displace in favor of another
SYNONYM
Replace
ANTONYM
SUPPRESS
Word No. 479

MEANING
To put down by authority or force: subdue <suppress a riot>
To keep from public knowledge: as
To keep secret
To stop or prohibit the publication or revelation of <suppress the test results
To exclude from consciousness
To keep from giving vent to: check <suppressed her anger>
Obsolete: to press down
To restrain from usual course or action <suppress a cough>
To inhibit the growth or development of
To inhibit the genetic expression of <suppress a mutation>
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
SURLY
Word No. 480

MEANING
Menacing or threatening in appearance <surly weather>
Obsolete: arrogant, imperious
Irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner: crabbed
SYNONYM
Glum, mopey, pouting, pouty, sullen, sulky
ANTONYM
Amiable, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered
SUSCEPTIBLE
Word No. 481

MEANING
Capable of submitting to an action, process, or operation <a theory
susceptible to proof>
Open, subject, or unresistant to some stimulus, influence, or
agency <susceptible to pneumonia>
Impressionable, responsive <a susceptible mind>
SYNONYM
Endangered, exposed, open, sensitive, subject (to), liable,
vulnerable
ANTONYM
Insusceptible, invulnerable, unexposed, unsusceptible
SYLVAN
Word No. 482

MEANING
One that frequents groves or woods
Living or located in the woods or forest
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the woods or forest
Made, shaped, or formed of woods or trees
Abounding in woods, groves, or trees: wooded
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
SYNCHRONOUS
Word No. 484

MEANING
Happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time
Recurring or operating at exactly the same periods
Involving or indicating synchronism
Having the same period; also: having the same period and phase
Geostationary
Of, used in, or being digital communication (as between computers) in which a
common timing signal is established that dictates when individual bits can be
transmitted and which allows for very high rates of data transfer
SYNONYM
Coetaneous, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coextensive, coincident,
coincidental, concurrent, contemporaneous, coterminous, simultaneous,
synchronic, contemporary
ANTONYM
Asynchronous, noncontemporary, nonsimultaneous, nonsynchronous
SYNTHESIS
Word No. 484

MEANING
The composition or combination of parts or elements so as to form a whole
The production of a substance by the union of chemical elements, groups, or
simpler compounds or by the degradation of a complex compound
The combining of often diverse conceptions into a coherent whole; also: the
complex so formed
Deductive reasoning
The dialectic combination of thesis and antithesis into a higher stage of truth
The frequent and systematic use of inflected forms as characteristic device of a
language
SYNONYM
Admixture, alloy, amalgam, amalgamation, cocktail, combination, composite,
compound, conflation, emulsion, fusion, intermixture, meld, mix, mixture, blend
ANTONYM
TABLEAU
Word No. 480

MEANING
A graphic description or representation: picture <winsome tableaux
of old-fashioned literary days J.D. Hart>
A striking or artistic grouping: arrangement, scene
A depiction of a scene usually presented on a stage by silent and
motionless costumed participants
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
TACIT
Word No. 486

MEANING
Expressed or carried on without words or speech <the blush was a
tacit answer Bram Stoker>
Implied or indicated (as by an act or by silence) but not actually
expressed <tacit consent> <tacit admission of guilt>
SYNONYM
Implied, implicit, unexpressed, unspoken, unvoiced, wordless
ANTONYM
Explicit, express, expressed, spoken, stated, voiced
TANGENTIAL
Word No. 487

MEANING
Of, relating to, or of the nature of a tangent
Acting along or lying in a tangent <tangential forces>
Divergent, digressive
Touching lightly: incidental, peripheral <tangential involvement>;
also: of little relevance <arguments tangential to the main point>
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
TANTALIZE
Word No. 488

MEANING
To tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to
the view but continually keeping it out of reach
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
TAPESTRY
Word No. 489

MEANING
A heavy hand woven reversible textile used for hangings, curtains,
and upholstery and characterized by complicated pictorial designs
A nonreversible imitation of tapestry used chiefly for upholstery
Embroidery on canvas resembling woven tapestry <needlepoint
tapestry>
Something resembling tapestry (as in complexity or richness of
design) <natures rich tapestry>
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
TAWDRY
Word No. 490

MEANING
Cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality; also: ignoble <a tawdry
attempt to smear his opponent>
Ostentatiously or tastelessly ornamented
Marked by extravagance or tasteless showiness: outlandish
<gaudy lies> <gaudy claims>; also exceptional <a gaudy batting
average>
SYNONYM
Gaudy, flamboyant, flaring, garish, glitzy, loud, noisy, ostentatious,
razzle-dazzle, splashy, swank (or swanky)
ANTONYM
Conservative, quiet, understated, unflamboyant, unflashy
TEMPERAMENT
Word No. 491

MEANING
A constitution of a substance, body, or organism with respect to the
mixture or balance of its elements, qualities, or parts: makeup
Climate, temperature
The peculiar or distinguishing mental or physical character determined by
the relative proportions of the humors according to medieval physiology
Characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response <a
nervous temperament>
Extremely high sensibility; especially: excessive sensitiveness or
irritability
The act or process of tempering or modifying: adjustment, compromise
The slight modification of acoustically pure intervals in tuning a musical
instrument; especially: modification that produces a set of 12 equally
spaced tones in the octave
SYNONYM
Grain, nature, temper, disposition
ANTONYM
TENTATIVE
Word No. 492

MEANING
Not fully worked out or developed <tentative plans>
Hesitant, uncertain <a tentative smile>
SYNONYM
Conditional, contingent (on or upon), subject (to), dependent
ANTONYM
Independent, unconditional
TENUOUS
Word No. 493

MEANING
Not dense: rare <a tenuous fluid>
Not thick: slender <a tenuous rope>
Having little substance or strength: flimsy, weak <tenuous
influences>
Shaky <tenuous reasons>
SYNONYM
Thin, bony (also boney), fatless, lean, lithe, skinny, slender, slim,
spare, svelte
ANTONYM
Chubby, corpulent, fat, gross, obese, overweight, plump, portly,
rotund, tubby
TEPID
Word No. 494

MEANING
Moderately warm: lukewarm <a tepid bath>
Lacking in passion, force, or zest <tepid poetry>
Marked by an absence of enthusiasm or conviction <a tepid
interest> <a tepid response>
SYNONYM
Halfhearted, lukewarm, uneager, unenthusiastic
ANTONYM
Eager, enthusiastic, hearty, keen, passionate, warm, wholhearted
TERSE
Word No. 495

MEANING
Smoothly elegant: polished
Using few words: devoid of superfluity <a terse summary>; also:
short, brusque <dismissed me with a terse no>
SYNONYM
Aphoristic, apothegmatic, brief, capsule, compact, compendious,
crisp, curt, elliptical (or elliptic), epigrammatic, laconic,
monosyllabic, pithy, sententious, succinct, summary, telegraphic,
concise, thumbnail
ANTONYM
Circuitous, circumlocutory, diffuse, long-winded, prolix, rambling,
verbose, windy, wordy
THWART
Word No. 496

MEANING
To run counter to so as to effectively oppose or baffle: contravene
To oppose successfully: defeat the hopes or aspirations of
To pass through or across
Situated or placed across something else
SYNONYM
Frustrate, foil, baffle, balk
ANTONYM
TIMOROUS
Word No. 497

MEANING
Of a timid disposition: fearful <reproached myself with being so
timorous and cautious Daniel Defoe>
Expressing or suggesting timidity <proceed with doubtful and
timorous steps Edward Gibbon>
SYNONYM
Fainthearted, fearful, fearsome, mousy (or mousey), scary, skittish,
timid, shy, tremulous
ANTONYM
Adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, daring, dashing,
gutsy, hardy, venturesome, venturous
TIRADE
Word No. 498

MEANING
A protracted speech usually marked by intemperate, vituperative or
harshly censorious language
SYNONYM
Diatribe, harangue, jeremiad, philippic, rant
ANTONYM
TOADY
Word No. 499

MEANING
One who flatters in the hope of gaining favors: sycophant
SYNONYM
Apple-polisher, bootlicker, brownnoser, fawner, flunky (also flunkey
or flunkie), lickspittle, suck-up, sycophant
ANTONYM
TORQUE
Word No. 500

MEANING
A usually metal collar or neck chain worn by the ancient Gauls,
Germans and Britons
A force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion <an
automobile engine delivers torque to the drive shaft>; also: a
measure of the effectiveness of such a force that consists of the
product of the force and the perpendicular distance fro the line of
action of the force to the axis of rotation
A turning or twisting force
To impart torque to: to cause to twist (as about an axis)
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
TORTUOUS
Word No. 501

MEANING
Marked by repeated twists, bends, or turns: winding <a tortuous
path>
Marked by devious or indirect tactics: crooked, tricky <a tortuous
conspiracy>
Circuitous, involved <the tortuous jargon of legal forms>
SYNONYM
Bending, crazy, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, devious,
serpentine, sinuous, crooked, twisted, twisting, winding, windy
ANTONYM
Straight, straightaway
TOUT
Word No. 502

MEANING
To spy on: watch
British: to spy out information about (as a racing stable or horse)
To give tips or solicit bets on (a racehorse)
To solicit, peddle, or persuade importunately <not meant to tout you off to the
movie Russell Baker>
To make much of: promote, talk up <touted as the summers blockbuster
movie> <the colleges much touted womens studies program>
To solicit patronage
Chiefly British: to spy on racehorses in training to gain information for betting
To give a tip or solicit bets on a racehorse
SYNONYM
Ballyhoo, blow up, crack up, cry up, glorify, trumpet, tub-thump
ANTONYM
Knock, pan, slam
TRANSCENDENTAL
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MEANING
Transcendent
Supernatural
Abstruse, abstract
Of or relating to transcendentalism
Incapable of being the root of an algebraic equation with rational coefficients <pi
is a transcendental number>
Being, involving, or representing a function (as sin x, log x, e raised to x) that
cannot be expressed by a finite number of algebraic operations <transcendental
curves>
In Kantian philosophy: of or relating to experience as determined by the minds
makeup
Transcending experience but not human knowledge
SYNONYM
Metaphysical, otherworldly, paranormal, preternatural, transcendent,
supernatural, unearthly
ANTONYM
natural
TRANSPOSE
Word No. 504

MEANING
To change in form or nature: transform
To render into another language, style or manner of expression: translate
To transfer from one place or period to another: shift
To change the relative place or normal order of: alter the sequence of
<transpose letters to change the spelling>
To write or perform (a musical composition) in a different key
To bring (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other with
change of sign
A matrix formed from another matrix by interchanging the rows and columns
SYNONYM
reverse
ANTONYM
TRAVESTY
Word No. 505

MEANING
To make a travesty of: parody
A burlesque translation or literary or artistic imitation usually
grotesquely incongruous in style, treatment, or subject matter
A debased, distorted, or grossly inferior imitation <a travesty of
justice>
SYNONYM
Caricature, cartoon, farce, joke, parody, sham, mockery
ANTONYM
Meiosis, understatement
TRITE
Word No. 506

MEANING
Hackneyed or boring form much use: not fresh or original
SYNONYM
Banal, clich, cliched, cobwebby, commonplace, hack, hackney,
hackneyed, moth-eaten, musty, obligatory, shopworn, stereotyped,
threadbare, timeworn, tired, stale, well-worn
ANTONYM
Fresh, new, novel, original, uncliched, unhackneyed
TRIVIAL
Word No. 507

MEANING
Commonplace, ordinary
Of little worth or importance <a trivial objection> <trivial problems>
Relating to or being the mathematically simplest case; specifically:
characterized by having all variables equal to zero <a trivial solution to
a linear equation>
SYNONYM
Fiddling, foolish, frivolous, incidental, inconsequential, inconsiderable,
insignificant, little, Mickey Mouse, minor, minute, negligible, nugatory,
slight, small, small-fry, trifling, unimportant
ANTONYM
Big, consequential, eventful, important, major, material, meaningful,
momentous, significant, substantial, unfrivolous, weighty
TROUPE
Word No. 508

MEANING
Company, troop; especially: a group of theatrical performers
SYNONYM
Troop, company
ANTONYM
TRUCULENT
Word No. 509

MEANING
Feeling or displaying ferocity: cruel, savage
Deadly, destructive
Scathingly harsh: vitriolic <truculent criticism>
Aggressively self-assertive: belligerent
SYNONYM
Aggressive, agonistic, argumentative, assaultive, bellicose, brawly,
chippy, combative, confrontational, contentious, discordant,
disputatious, feisty, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome,
scrappy, belligerent, warlike
ANTONYM
Nonaggressive, nonbelligerent, pacific, peaceable, peaceful,
unbelligerent, uncombative, uncontentious
TRYST
Word No. 510

MEANING
An agreement (as between lovers) to meet
An appointed meeting or meeting place
SYNONYM
Appointment, assignation, date, rendezvous, engagement
ANTONYM
TURBID
Word No. 511

MEANING
Thick or opaque with or as if with roiled sediment <a turbid stream>
Heavy with smoke or mist
Deficient in clarity or purity: foul, muddy <turbid depths of
degradation and misery C.I. Glicksberg>
Characterized by or producing obscurity (as of mind or emotions)
<an emotionally turbid response>
SYNONYM
Muddy, riley, roiled, cloudy
ANTONYM
Clear, crystal clear, crystalline
TYRO
Word No. 512

MEANING
Usage: often attributive
A beginner in learning: novice
SYNONYM
Abecedarian, amateur, apprentice, babe, colt, cub, fledgling,
freshman, greenhorn, neophyte, newbie, newcomer, novice,
novitiate, punk, recruit, rook, rookie, tenderfoot, beginner, virgin
ANTONYM
Old hand, old-timer, vet, veteran
UBIQUITOUS
Word No. 513

MEANING
Existing or being everywhere at the same time: constantly
encountered: widespread <a ubiquitous fashion>
SYNONYM
Common or garden [chiefly British], commonplace, everyday,
familiar, frequent, garden-variety, household, ordinary, quotidian,
routine, common, usual
ANTONYM
Extraordinary, infrequent, rare, seldom, uncommon, unfamiliar,
unusual
UNASSAILABLE
Word No. 514

MEANING
Not assailable: not liable to doubt, attack or question <unassailable
argument> <an unassailable alibi>
SYNONYM
Hallowed, holy, inviolable, sacrosanct, sacred, untouchable
ANTONYM
UNEQUIVOCAL
Word No. 515

MEANING
Leaving no doubt: clear, unambiguous
Unquestionable <production of unequivocal masterpieces Carole
Cook>
SYNONYM
Apparent, bald, bald-faced, barefaced, bright-line, broad, clear-cut,
crystal clear, decided, distinct, evident, lucid, luculent, luminous,
manifest, non-ambiguous, obvious, open-and-shut, palpable, patent
pellucid, perspicuous, plain, ringing, straightforward, transparent,
unambiguous, unambivalent, clear, unmistakable
ANTONYM
Ambiguous, clouded, cryptic, dark, enigmatic (also enigmatical),
equivocal, indistinct, mysterious, nonobvious, obfuscated, obscure,
unapparent, unclarified, unclear, unclouded
UNKEMPT
Word No. 516

MEANING
Not combed <unkempt hair>
Deficient in order or neatness <unkempt individuals> <unkempt
hotel rooms>; also: rough, unpolished <unkempt prose>
SYNONYM
Chaotic, cluttered, confused, disarranged, disarrayed, disheveled
(or dishevelled), disordered, disorderly, higgledy-piggledy, hugger-
mugger, jumbled, littered, messed, muddled, mussed, mussy, pell-
mell, rumpled, sloppy, topsy-turvy, tousled, tumbled, messy, untidy,
upside-down
ANTONYM
Bandbox, crisp, kempt, neat, neatened, ordered, orderly, organized,
shipshape, snug, tidied, tidy, trim, uncluttered, well-ordered
UNPREPOSSESSING
Word No. 517

MEANING
Archaic: not creating prejudice
Not tending to create a favorable impression: unattractive
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
UNSCRUPULOUS
Word No. 518

MEANING
Not scrupulous: unprincipled
SYNONYM
Cutthroat, immoral, Machiavellian, unconscionable, unethical,
unprincipled
ANTONYM
Ethical, moral, principled, scrupulous
URBANE
Word No. 519

MEANING
Notably polite or polished in manner
SYNONYM
Debonair, smooth sophisticated, svelte, suave
ANTONYM
Boorish, churlish, classless, clownish, loutish, uncouth
VANQUISH
Word No. 520

MEANING
To overcome in battle: subdue completely
To defeat in conflict or contest
To gain mastery over (an emotion, passion, or temptation)
<vanquish your fear>
SYNONYM
Conquer, dominate, overpower, pacify, subdue, subject, subjugate,
subordinate, vanquish
ANTONYM
Lose (to)
VAPID
Word No. 521

MEANING
Lacking liveliness, tang, briskness, or force: flat, dull <a gossipy,
vapid woman, obsessed by her own elegance R.F. Delderfield>
<London was not all vapid dissipation V.S. Pritchett>
SYNONYM
Insipid, dead, flat, flavorless, savorless, tasteless, unsavory
ANTONYM
Flavorful, flavorsome, sapid, savory (also savoury), tasteful, tasty
VARIANCE
Word No. 522

MEANING
The fact, quality, or state of being variable or variant: difference, variation
<yearly variance in crops>
The fact or state of being in disagreement: dissension, dispute
A disagreement between two parts of the same legal proceeding that must be
consonant
A license to do some act contrary to the usual rule <a zoning variance>
The square of the standard deviation
SYNONYM
Conflict, disaccord, discordance, discordancy, disharmony, dissension (also
dissention), dissent, dissidence, dissonance, disunion, disunity, division,
friction, infighting, inharmony, schism, strife, discord, war, warfare
ANTONYM
Accord, agreement, concord, concordance, harmony, peace
VERACITY
Word No. 523

MEANING
Devotion to the truth: truthfulness
Power of conveying or perceiving truth
Conformity with truth or fact: accuracy
Something true <makes lies sound like veracities>
SYNONYM
Integrity, probity, truthfulness, honesty, verity
ANTONYM
Deceit, deceitfulness, dishonesty, lying, mendaciousness,
mendacity, untruthfulness
VERBIAGE
Word No. 524

MEANING
A profusion of words usually of little or obscure content <such a
tangled maze of evasive verbiage as a typical party platform
Marcia Davenport>
Manner of expressing oneself in words: diction <sportswriters
guarded their verbiage so jealously R.A. Sokolov>
SYNONYM
Circumlocution, diffuseness, diffusion, garrulity, garrulousness,
logorrhea, long-windedness, periphrasis, prolixity, redundancy,
verbalism, verboseness, verbosity, windiness, wordage, wordiness
ANTONYM
VERNACULAR
Word No. 525

MEANING
Using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary,
cultured, or foreign language
Of, relating to, or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region,
or country
Of, relating to, or being the normal spoken form of a language
Applied to a plant or animal in the common native speech distinguished from
the Latin nomenclature of scientific classification <the vernacular name>
Of, relating to, or characteristic of a period, place, or group; especially: of,
relating to, or being the common building style of a period or place
<vernacular architecture>
A vernacular language, expression, or mode of expression: an expression or
mode of expression that occurs in ordinary speech rather than formal writing
The mode of expression of a group or class
SYNONYM
Conversational, informal, nonformal, nonliterary, unbookish, unliterary,
colloquial, vulgar
ANTONYM
Bookish, formal, learned, literary
VESTIGE
Word No. 526

MEANING
A trace, mark, or visible sign left by something (as an ancient city or
a condition or practice) vanished or lost: smallest quantity or trance
Footprint
A bodily part or organ that is small and degenerate or imperfectly
developed in comparison to one more fully developed in an earlier
stage of the individual, in a past generation, or in closely related
forms
SYNONYM
Trace, echo, ghost, relic, shadow
ANTONYM
VIABLE
Word No. 527

MEANING
Capable of living, especially: having attained such form and
development as to be normally capable of surviving outside the
mothers womb <a viable fetus>
Capable of growing or developing <viable seeds> <viable eggs>
Capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately <viable
alternatives>
Capable of existence and development as an independent unit <the
colony is now a viable state>
Having a reasonable chance of succeeding <a viable candidate>
Financially sustainable <a viable enterprise>
SYNONYM
Achievable, attainable, doable, feasible, practicable, realizable,
possible, workable
ANTONYM
Hopeless, impossible, impracticable, infeasible, nonviable,
unattainable, undoable, unfeasible, unrealizable, unviable,
unworkable
VIE
Word No. 528

MEANING
Archaic: wager, hazard; also: to exchange in rivalry: match
To strive for superiority: contend, compete
SYNONYM
Battle, contend, face off, fight, race, rival, compete
ANTONYM
VIGILANT
Word No. 529

MEANING
Alertly watchful especially to avoid danger
SYNONYM
Argus-eyed, attentive, awake, observant, open-eyed, tenty (also
tentie) [Scottish], alert, watchful, wide-awake
ANTONYM
Asleep
VILIFY
Word No. 530

MEANING
To lower in estimation or importance
To utter slanderous and abusive statements against: defame
SYNONYM
Malign, bad [slang], bitchy, catty, cruel, despiteful, malevolent,
malicious, hateful, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, vicious, virulent
ANTONYM
Benevolent, benign, benignant, loving, unmalicious
VIM
Word No. 531

MEANING
Robust energy and enthusiasm
SYNONYM
Beans, bounce, brio, dash, drive, dynamism, energy, esprit, gas,
get-up-and-go, ginger, go, gusto, hardihood, juice, life, moxie,
oomph, pep, punch, sap, snap, starch, verve, vigor, vinegar, vitality,
zing, zip
ANTONYM
Lethargy, listlessness, sluggishness, torpidity
VINDICTIVE
Word No. 532

MEANING
Disposed to seek revenge: vengeful
Intended for or involving revenge
Intended to cause anguish or hurt: spiteful
SYNONYM
Revengeful, vengeful
ANTONYM
VISCOUS
Word No. 533

MEANING
Viscid
Having or characterized by viscosity <viscous lava>
SYNONYM
Ropy (also ropey), syrupy, viscid, thick
ANTONYM
Runny, soupy, thin, watery
VITUPERATE
Word No. 534

MEANING
To abuse or censure severely or abusively: berate
To use harsh condemnatory language
SYNONYM
Abuse, assail, bash, belabor, blast, castigate, excoriate, jump (on),
lambaste (or lambast), potshot, savage, scathe, slam, trash, attack
ANTONYM
VIVACIOUS
Word No. 535

MEANING
Lively in temper, conduct, or spirit: sprightly
SYNONYM
Lively, active, airy, animate, animated, bouncing, brisk, energetic,
frisky, gay, jaunty, jazzy, kinetic, mettlesome, peppy, perky, pert,
pizzazzy (or pizazzy), racy, snappy, spanking, sparky, spirited,
sprightly, springy, vital, lively, zippy
ANTONYM
Dead, inactive, inanimate, lackadaisical, languid, languishin,
languorous, leaden, lifeless, limp, listless, spiritless, vapid
VOLATILE
Word No. 536

MEANING
Readily vaporizable at a relatively low temperature
Flying or having the power to fly
Lighthearted, lively
Easily aroused <volatile suspicions>
Tending to erupt into violence: explosive <a volatile temper>
Unable to hold the attention fixed because of an inherent lightness or
fickleness of disposition
Characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change <a volatile
market>
Difficult to capture or hold permanently: evanescent, transitory
SYNONYM
Capricious, changeable, changeful, flickery, fluctuating, fluid,
inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, mutable, skittish, temperamental,
uncertain, unpredictable, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, fickle
ANTONYM
Certain, changeless, constant, immutable, invariable, predictable,
settled, stable, stationary, steady, unchangeable, unchanging,
unvarying
VOLUBLE
Word No. 537

MEANING
Easily rolling or turning: rotating
Characterized by ready or rapid speech: glib, fluent
SYNONYM
Talkative, blabby, chatty, conversational, gabby, garrulous,
loquacious, motor mouthed, mouthy, talky
ANTONYM
Closemouthed, laconic, reserved, reticent, taciturn, tight-lipped,
uncommunicative
WELTER
Word No. 538

MEANING
Writhe, toss; also: wallow
To rise and fall or toss about in or with waves
To become deeply sunk, soaked, or involved
To be in turmoil
A state of wild disorder: turmoil
A chaotic mass or jumble <a bewildering welter of data>
SYNONYM
ANTONYM
WHIMSY
Word No. 539

MEANING
Whim, caprice
The quality or state of being whimsical or fanciful <the designers
new line showed a touch of whimsy>
A fanciful or fantastic device, object, or creation especially in writing
or art
SYNONYM
Bee, caprice, crank, fancy, freak, humor, kink, maggot, megrim,
notion, vagary, vagrancy, whim (also whimsey)
ANTONYM
ZEALOT
Word No. 540

MEANING
Capitalized: a member of a fanatical sect arising in Judea during
the first century A.D. and militantly opposing the Roman domination
of Palestine
A zealous person; especially: a fanatical partisan <a religious
zealot>
SYNONYM
Crusader, fanatic, ideologue (also idealogue), militant, partisan
(also partizan), red hot, true believer
ANTONYM
Nonmilitant