GROUP 1-10 Synonyms GROUP 10-20 Synonyms

austere
strict / simplicity, avoidance boorish rude or lacking good
ascetic
of luxury churlish manners
spartan
deify eccentric
deviating from conventional
canonize quirky
treat like god behavior/ unusually
---------- anomalous
endearing
venerate idiosyncratic
loquacious
talkative/ using an
garrulous cursory
excessive amount of words; without any effort
verbose perfunctory
long-winded
prolix
placate
ameliorate
assuage
mitigate
alleviate
decrease negative invigorate bring vigour or enthusiasm /
appease
feeling/calm someone down galvanize inspire or stir up action
conciliatory
temper
mollify
allay
palliate
taciturn
speaking little/ keeping to didactic educational/uplift through
reticent
oneself/ shy edify knowledge, to teach
diffident
pugnacious
truculent ready to fight/ combative,
advocate
belligerent confrontational
bolster support
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corraborate
fractious easily angered and irritated
iracible
insipid
vapid
banal
impede
humdrum
flavourless/uninteresting/un stifle
prosaic
original/dull/boring/unimagi foil
mundane hinder progress/ prevent
native thwart
pedestrian something from occuring
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ennui
to make a banal remark forestall
hackneyed
preclude
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platitude
trite
brazen
insolent
shameless/ boldly discernable able to be recognised /
impertinent
disrespectful or rude conspicuous easily noticed
impudent
irreverent
castigate
diatribe
censure
decry
predilection
assail
partiality
admonish scold harshly/verbal abuse/ preference or bias towards
proclivity
reproach express critisism or inclination towards
propencity
upbraid
penchant
harangue
denigrate
opprobrium
lambaste
clear/transparent, easy to
lucid
convoluted understand / transparent in
difficult to understand/ limpid
opaque meaning
unclear/ overly complex, pellucid
byzantine ----------------------------
intricate ----------
serpentine not hidden, open and
overt
observable
ingenuous
artless
naïve/ lacking
callow
experience/innocent and deft
jejune
unsuspecting adroit skillful
guileless
----------------- proficient
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beginner/novice
neophyte
tyro
abate decrease in intensity (-ve
---------- feeling in case of alleviate)
erudite someone who has extensive
alleviate --------------------------------
polymath knowledge
---------- decrease in power /
wane intensity
bucolic
clandestine
tranquil
covert
placid calm secretive (eg glances)
furtive
-------------
surreptitious
equanimity
burgeon skyrocket/grow/multiply
proliferate -------------------------------- tolerate or endure
brook
abound fertile or highly something/ accept permit
countenance
--------- productive/flourishing something
fecund /prolific
relinquish
give up a right or
cogent forsake
persuasive and clear possession/ abandon or give
compelling jettison
up
deference
venerate
reverence respectful
obeisance -------------- apathy
little enthusiasm or interest,
august submissive to authority / tepid
lukewarm
eminent obedient to authority, desultory
------------ inferior
obsequious
subservient
ephemeral
transient
evanescent shortlasting/fading away patent clear, obvious/ open and
momentary quickly overt observable
transitory

antipathy
animus hatred/hostility/ strong
inimical dislike
fervid
--------- --------- excessively energetic or
zealous
malign harmful/having harmful eager/intense enthusiasm
fervor
deleterious effect/ causing harm in
pernicious subtle way
noxious
obsolete
no longer useful/wrong inveterate
outmoded
time or era entrenched deep-rooted or long-
anachronistic
----------------------------------- innate established/ firmly ingrained
archaic
occur before something in indelible and unlikely to change
----------------
time congenital
antedate
pedantic
punctilious
scrupulous
concerned with conformity to truth or
sedulous
details(pedantic has a -ve veracity accuracy / (used to
meticulous
connotation) / attention to veritable emphasize something) true;
fastidious
detail genuine
captious
painstaking
exacting
heterogeneou happening at a fortunate or
providential
s different/contrasting opportune time / causing
feliticious
disparate delight or satisfaction
recondite
magnanimous
arcane difficult to understand or
largesse generosity/ willing to donate
esoteric comprehend
munificent money and resources/ more
enigmatic (academically), secret/
altruistic generous
inscrutable mysterious
abstruse
hesitation or raise
homogeneous demur
similar/comparable objection/ difference of
analogous dissent
opinion or disagreement
belie mask true feelings
crude
dissemble ----------------------
rudimentary
----------------- dishonesty
basal in early stages of
mendacity ---------------------------
embryonic development
--------------- being deceptive, 2
incipient
duplicitious sided/pretend to be sincere
inchoate
disingeneous or straigtforward
quandary
pertinacious stubbornly holding onto a
predicament
dogged belief / unwillingness to challenging situation
conundrum
resolute give up/ dedicated
plight
spurious
specious not bridle
fallacious genuine/bogus/misleading/ truncate limit or restrict
sham false circumscribe
ersatz
ire
undermine wrath
undermine/weaken angry
subvert vexation
incensed

timorous /lacking confidence/ lacking

craven bravery
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diffident shy

fortuitous
cacophonous
providential
clamorous happening by lucky chance/
extremely loud/noisy serendipitous
clangor fortunate
fluky
raucous
propitious
unscrupulous
base
audacious
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intrepid bold/ fearless/brave lacking moral principals
turpitude
mettlesome
debauchery
iniquity
plastic
malleable felxible/capable of being pious deeply devout/pledge ones
ductile molded staunch alliance to something
pliant
considering oneself morally
prescient posessing foresight/ can sanctimonious
superior / making a show of
prophetic predict future pious
one's own virtue
 stalwart
steadfast
resolute
staunch
headstrong
tendentious
prejudiced / biased wayward determined/ resolute
chauvinistic
obstinate
wilful
plucky
mettlesome
spirited
prodigal peripheral
extravagant tangential
spendthrift excessive /wasteful/ extraneous only superficially
profligate excessive indulgence/ lavish auxillary relevant/lacking importance
decadent trival
baroque trifling
excessively visionary/
quixotic
unfeasible/ hwai kile fervent full of passion and
fanciful
banana/ based on an ardent enthusiasm
illusory
illusion
rigidly sticking to theoretical
accentuate giving emphasis to dogmatic
ideas, rather than being
underscore something/ highlighting doctrinaire
practical
congenial lampoon
friendly/ jovial nature satirize or poke fun at
convivial deride

wheedle
inveigle persuade someone to do
benign
harmless cajole something using flattery or
innocuous
-------- being obsequious
adulator

plaintive
ubiquitous present everywhere at once
despondent
omnipresent -----------------------------------
lugubrious sad
------------- spreading quickly and in
doleful
pervasive great numbers
woebegone
surpass
palpable
outstrip
conspicuous easily noticeable do better than
eclipse
discernible
upstage
panache
flamboyant stylish, confident / showy/
ostentatious designed to impress/ costly
Bombastic
opulent and luxurious
turgid speaking more, doing less
affectation ---------------------------------
glib
--------------- complicated or too many
florid details

indolent
---------- imperious
someone who is lazy
soporific impertinent
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somnolent pomposity
soothing / makes you want arrogant
lethargic presumptuous
to sleep /drowsy / sluggish
languid officious
and tired
torpor lofty
quiescent

vivacious
boisterous
impertinant not important / lacking ebullient
energetic and cheerful
irreverent seriousness, respect jaunty
sanguine
bullish

rhetoric
profundity great wisdom, sound
diction
sagacious judgement/ wise in decision well spoken/written
oratory
prudent making
articulate
yield
chicanery deception / sneaky,
capitulate surrender
skullduggery dishonest
accede
ostensible
sophistry
frivolous not serious / low in value or
casuistry
trivial of minor significance / appearing true but not so
fallacy
trifling lacking importance
delusion
purport
flustered
befuddled
circumspect
cautious confound confused
wary
flummoxed
nonplussed
polarity different poles/split into 2
dichotomy contrasting parts
rash or hasty in
impetuous
action/done quickly or
precipitate
suddenly
avaricious
mercenary
greedy / motivated by
rapacious
desire to money or material
miserly
gain/ reluctant to spend or
parsimonious
share
acquisitive
stingy

caustic
acerbic
astringent bitter / biting or sharply
mordant critical in thought or
scathing expression/ sharp or harsh
virulent demeanor/ hostile
acrimonious
trenchant
repudiate
reject or refuse / reject
dissent
strongly / intentionally
abjure
avoid or abstain from/
eschew
refrain from doing
forbear
something
renounce

equivocal avoid taking a stance/

evasive avoiding confrontation/
prevaricate evade or dodge the truth

insular
narrow minded / short
myopic
sighted / narrow in
provincial
perspective
parochial

salubrious promoting health or well-

salutary being / beneficial/pleasant

fickle
quick to change
mercurial
opinion/mood
capricious