ARCO'S 250 WORD LIST ARCO 250 WORDS LIST Abeyance - suspended action abrogate - repeal or annul by authority

abstruse - difficult to comprehend, obscure, esoteric, recondite alacrity - eager and cheerful readiness amalgamate - to combine several elements into a whole ambiguous - having two contrary meanings, equivocal ambivalent - characterized by opposite feelings or emotions ameliorate - improve make better anachronism - something out of place i.t.o. its historical or chronological context apochryphal - false, spurious, fallacious apotheosis - deification, glorification to godliness attenuate - make thin, weaken, enervate baneful - causing harm or ruin, sinister, ominous, pernicious, baleful bedizen - to adorn, especially in a cheap and showy manner bilge - bulge; sides of the vessel that curve in to form the bottom (ship) blandishment - flattery, coaxing, enticement broach - bring up, announce, begin to talk about, initiate burnish - to polish rub to a shine cajole - use flattery or deceit to persuade calcify - to change into a hard, stony condition, petrify calumny slander, aspersion capitulate to surrender, give up capricious unpredictable, erratic, changing one?s mind impulsively, whimsical castigate to chastise correct by punishing / severe punishment chastened corrected punished coda passage that concludes a piece of music, finale (analogous to epilogue) codicil an addition to a will, appendix, supplement coeval of the same period, contemporary, coetaneous cognizant being fully aware of conjoin to join together contemn to scorn or despise contentious argumentative, combative, quarrelsome, pugnacious, bellicose contumacious insubordinate, rebellious conundrum a riddle, dilemma, enigma countenance to favor or approve of craven cowardly person, pusillanimous dearth shortage, scarcity, paucity debacle a sudden and violent collapse, sudden disaster demur to hesitate, raise objections denouement an outcome or solution the unraveling of a plot desiccate dehydrate / substance used to absorb moisture desuetude cessation of use disuse desultory aimless haphazard digressing at random detumescence diminishing or lessening of swelling diaphanous transparent gauzy diatribe violent verbal attack, tirade, malediction, obloquy, jeremiad, fulmination diffidence shyness dilatory tending to cause delay, procrastinating dirge hymn of mourning performed as a memorial to a dead person, lament disabuse to set right, undeceive discordant conflicting in sound, disharmonious, dissonant disparage to belittle, denigrate / derogative disparate essentially different, unlike dissemble speak or behave so as to hide something (in mind) dissolute lewd, debauched, degenerate, dissipated, libertine, profligate

divestiture an order to an offending party to rid itself of property doggerel trivial, poorly constructed verse dulcet melodious, harmonious eclectic composed of elements drawn from various sources, compiled efficacy production of a desired result, productive, efficient, effective effluvia outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor effrontery boldness, impudence, arrogance elegy a lament, a melancholy composition, dirge emulate to simulate, imitate ; strive to equality enervate weaken, deprive of strength, attenuate ephemeral brief, fleeting, evanescent epitome summary, abstract, synopsis, prologue / standard example, paradigm equanimity calmness of temperament equipoise equal distribution of weight, equilibrium equivocal having a double meaning, suspicious / try to deceive, prevaricate erudite learned, scholarly excoriate severely criticize exigent urgent / emergency, an urgent situation expatiate to roam wander freely extricable that can be freed fallacious based on error, apocryphal fatuous without sense, foolish, self-satisfaction fawn young deer, try to win somebody?s favour, pander, toady, grovel felicitous apt, suitably expressed well chosen, apropos fervid / vent showing earnest feeling, zealous, vehement flout reject, mock, to go against (tradition), sneer foment put something warm (to lessen pain) ; to stir up public opinion, instigate froward not willing to yield or comply, stubborn, intransigence, intractable fulsome disgusting, offensive due to excessiveness gainsay to deny, to oppose garner to gather and save to store up garrulous too talkative, loquacious, effusive / talkativeness gossamer soft light delicate material, antonym of ponderous gouge tool for cutting grooves in wood gratuitous voluntary, free grouse to complain, grumble hallow to make holy consecrate hapless unlucky hedonism devotion to pleasure of the senses / pleasure seeker / epicurean hermetic sealed by fusion hirsute hairy, shaggy hone stone used for sharpening tools ignominious shameful dishonorable undignified disgraceful impetuous having sudden energy, impulsive, forceful ; haste, precipitous imprecate to invoke or conjure a curse (as an insult), malediction incarcerate to imprison inchoate not yet fully formed, elementary, rudimentary, amorphous ; incipient incursion a raid, a sudden attack indefatigability not easily exhaustible tirelessness indomitable not easily discouraged or subdued ineluctable certain inevitable inimical harmful or unfriendly, antagonistic, dissident innocuous causing no harm insipid without taste or flavor, bland, vapid insolvent unable to pay dept, bankrupt insouciant blithely unconcerned, carefree, indifferent, nonchalant intemperance lack of restraint or moderation; addiction to alcohol intransigent uncompromising, adamant, inexorable / stubbornness, intractability intrepid fearless, brave, undaunted

invective abusive language curses, vituperation inveigh to attack verbally denounce deprecate irascible irritable, easily angered, choleric lachrymose causing tears, tearful laconic rudely abrupt, blunt, brusk, brusque, curt laconic using few words, concise, terse, pithy, compendious, sententious lassitude weariness, tiredness lethargic drowsy, lazy; indifferent lionize treat as a famous person loquacious talkative, garrulous, effusive lugubrious mournful, excessively sad maladroit tactless, clumsy mellifluous sweetly flowing mendicant a beggar misanthrope person who hates mankind mitigate to make less severe or intense, moderate, relieve, palliate, assuage mollify make calmer or quieter, assuage, alleviate motility the power of having the inherent power of motion (eg. Animals, etc) multifarious varied, motley, greatly diversified munificence quality of being extremely generous, magnanimity, largess nadir lowest point on celestial sphere, extreme state of adversity, ant. of zenith nefarious wicked, vile nexus a connection tie or link, alliance noisome offensive disgusting (smell) obdurate hardened and unrepenting stubborn inflexible obfuscate to darken make obscure muddle obsequious too eager to obey or serve obstreperous noisy loud obviate to make unnecessary get rid of occluded blocked up officious too eager or ready to help or offer advice onerous needing effort burdensome opprobrious showing scorn or reproach, contempt ; dishonour, shame, scurrilous ossify to turn, to bone, to settle rigidly into an idea ostentatious vulgar display intended to attract notice and impress others, pretentious paean song of praise or triumph palliate lessen the severity of, assuage, alleviate, mitigate panegyric formal praise, eulogy, encomium, accolade, laurels paradigm a model example or pattern, prototype, epitome pariah an outcast a rejected and despised person paucity scarcity, a lacking of pedagogy the art or profession of training, teaching, instructing; education pellucid transparent, easy to understand peregrination traveling about wandering perfidy treachery, breaking of faith / treacherous, faithless perfunctory done as a duty without care, hastily, cursory petrous like a rock hard stony petulant unreasonably impatient phlegmatic calm sluggish temperament unemotional pillory to punish, hold up to public scorn piquant agreeably pungent, stimulating pique hurt the pride or self-respect stir (curiosity) plethora glut, Extreme excess precipitate hurl or throw violently, fall vertically, sharply, or headlong, precocious premature or advanced development of a child predilection special liking, mental preference proclivity inclination proliferate grow, reproduce by rapid multiplication prolix tiring because too long

propinquity property of being near in time or place; affinity of nature propitiate appease / conciliatory, appeasing, mitigating proselytize convert to another faith or religion, evangelize protuberance part of a thing that protrudes, a bulge pundit pedant authority on a subject pungency sharpness stinging quality quaff drink deeply quiescent at rest, dormant, torpid / state of being passive, motionless raffish low, vulgar, tawdry, garish ramify to be divided or subdivided to branch out rampant flourishing, spreading unchecked, violent and uncontrollable action rapacious greedy (esp for money) recidivism relapse into antisocial or criminal behavior recondite little known, abstruse, obscure, esoteric recreancy cowardice, a cowardly giving up redoubtable formidable causing fear refractory stubborn, unmanageable, recalcitrant, fractious, intractable, froward reprobate person hardened in sin one devoid of decency repudiate disown refuse to accept or pay reticent reserved, untalkative, silent, taciturn, introvert rhetoric art of using language effectively to please or persuade; grandiloquence ribald humorously vulgar and offensive rubric heading, title or category sanguine cheerful, confident, optimistic; inclined to a healthy reddish color(blood) saturnine gloomy, dark, sullen, morose saucy rude, sassy, impudent, impertinent savant person of great learning sedulous persevering, assiduous seminal like a seed, constituting a source, originative sententious short and pithy full of maxims/proverbs shard piece of broken earthenware sinuous winding, undulating, serpentine (snake-like) slake to satisfy, satiate ; allay , assuage sophomore 2nd-year undergrad / self-assured although immature, affected, bombastic soporific producing sleep, somnific, somnolent, slumberous specious illogical of questionable truth or merit, deceptively attractive splenetic bad-tempered, irritable squalor filth, sordidness / foul, filthy stentorian extremely loud and powerful stymie to hinder, obstruct or block sundry various, miscellaneous, separate surreptitious secretive, covert, clandestine, furtive sycophant one who seeks favour through flattery, toady, obsequious, fawn, groveler tacit implied without direct expression / untalkative, silent, reticent tawdry cheap, gaudy, showy, tacky, garish, raffish tenacity firmness, persistence, adhesiveness, tending to hang on tenuous insubstantial, flimsy, weak timorous fearful timid afraid tirade harsh spech, verbal attack, diatribe, philippic, revilement, vilification torpid sleeping, dormant; sluggish, lethargic / mental and physical sluggishness tractable easily controlled or guided transient for a brief time, fleeting, ephemeral trenchant forceful effective vigorous extremely perceptive incisive truculence aggressiveness, ferocity turbid muddy, clouded with sediment ,stirred up, murky ; confused turgid excessively ornate swollen or bloated turpitude wickedness, shamefulness untoward unfortunate inconvenient vapid flavourless, bland, insipid

veracity truthfulness, honesty voluble fluent / fluency verbosity easy use of spoken language zealous fervent, ardent, impassioned / one passionately devoted to cause _________________ Admin, drrajusgre.com